I said goodbye to everyone, twice to Ayumi, Yuka and Eri and I promised to call them as soon as I got settled in. I didn't get a chance to talk to Hojo because the usual flock of girls were surrounding him but he did manage it wave before I left.
I reached my house shortly after and saw Sota, my mom and grandpa on the front yard.
Sota was trying to balance a basketball on one finger like I always did but it fell and he chased after it.
My mom was holding back tears and my grandpa was rubbing her back and saying something I couldn't hear.
I got out of my car and walked towards them. My mom blinked back her tears when she saw me approaching.
"Good you're here now we can get this show on the road. Sota who are you going to ride with?"
"Kagome" he said as he walked towards my car and got in. I got in my car and pulled out of my drive way. I looked at my old life one more time before I turned off of my street towards the airport.
We were riding first class I guess that's my grandpa's way of trying to make things right.
I pulled out my ipod. I had 9.705 songs to choose from. I scrolled through and picked Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap.
I closed my eyes and sung along to the words.
Where are we?
What the hell is going on?
the dust has only just begun to fall
crop circles in the carpet
sinking feeling
spin me round again
and rub my eyes,
this can't be happening
when busy streets a mess with people
would stop to hold their heads - heavy
hide and seek
trains and sewing machines
all those years
they were here first
oily marks appear on walls
where pleasure moments hung before the takeover,
the sweeping insensitivity of this still life
hide and seek
trains and sewing machines (oh, you won't catch me around here)
blood and tears (hearts)
they were here first
Mmmm whacha say,
Mmmm that you only meant well?
well of course you did
Mmmm whacha say,
Mmmm that its all for the best?
of course it is
Mmmm whacha say?
Mmmm that it's just what we need
you decided this
whacha say?
Mmmm what did she say?
ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs
speak no feeling no i don't believe you
you don't care a bit,
you don't care a bit
(hide and seek)
ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs
(hide and seek)
speak no feeling no i don't believe you
you don't care a bit,
you don't care a (you don't care a) bit
(hide and seek)
oh no, you don't care a bit
oh no, you don't care a bit
(hide and seek)
oh no, you don't care a bit
you don't care a bit
you don't care a bit
I opened my eyes when the song finished and saw a lady flight attendant staring at me.
"I'm sorry, it just that you sing so beautifully. Anyway I came to ask if you'd like anything."
"No I'm fine thank you." I put my head phones back on and closed my eyes. It wasn't the first time that I had been told I had a nice voice but I didn't hear it so I just ignored the compliments.
Sota tapped my arm, I opened my eyes and he was waiting for me to take off the head phones.
"What?" I asked once they were off.
"Don't you want to know how it went with Brock today?"
"Oh yeah sure go head."
"Well I walked up to him and told him that he's a jerk and he's lucky I was moving otherwise I would I kick his butt everyday till school was over."
I looked at Sota it must be hard for him our dad died when he was just 8 I wonder if he was a hard time remembering him. It's only been three years since but I think his memory of him was fading. My mom said he's the spitting image of dad as a kid.
"So then Hitomi kissed me on the cheek and I walked her to her car."
I realized that I missed the whole story but managed to say "wow" and smile.
It seemed enough for Sota because he sat back in his seat. I put my head phones back on and fell asleep.
"Kagome wake up." Sota was shaking me.
"What" I asked.
"We're in Tokyo, come on grab your bag." I stood up and grabbed my bag and followed my mom and grandpa off the plane.
We went to baggage claim and got our other bags and made our way out of the airport.
"Mom what about the cars?" I asked as my mom hailed two taxis.
"You're grandpa and I will come back to get them"
I got into a taxi with Sota and my mom and grandpa took the other.
Sota's eyes were wide as he looked around, mine were probably the same.
Tokyo looked so much different from home.
We past a huge park and I saw people running through it and I figured I would do the same.
I used to run all the time back home, give me an empty road and my ipod and I call it heaven.
We pulled into a gated community and my mouth dropped. The houses in this community were huge. Our old house could fit on their front yards alone.
The cab stopped in front of a huge house, my mom and grandpa got out of their cab so Sota and I did the same thing.
My cabbies put our bags on the front porch and grandpa paid them.
"So what do you think?" My grandpa asked.
We were all in shock. It was a huge two story house, the yard look like a football field.
"It's HUGE!" Sota said. He ran up to the door and tried to unlock it.
"Grandpa, do you have the key?"
"Yup right here" He said and unlocked the door.
Sota bolted up the stairs while the rest of us got the bags I dropped my bags at the door and ran up the stairs.
I walked to the room closest to the stairs. I opened the door slowly and walked inside.
The room was so small; I didn't expect that from such a big house.
I walked towards some doors that I guess to be the closet but boy was I wrong.
I had earlier been in the closet now I was in to room that was huge. It had French doors that lead out onto a balcony; it had a nice view of the park.
I was looking into my bathroom when I heard Sota call me.
"Wow Kagome your room is nice" he said. "It kinda looks like mine but I don't have a balcony or that closet sitting/room thing."
"Yeah, did mom and grandpa leave yet?" I asked as I walked out of my room down the stairs.
"Yeah they said they'd be back soon, like 15 minutes." I picked up my bags and went back up the stairs.
I changed into a white tank top, black basket ball shorts and white running shoes. I put my raven hair into a ponytail. I secured my ipod on my arm and waited for my mom to come back with my car.
It didn't take very long; they returned five minutes after I finished getting ready. I told them I would be home soon and left.
I climbed into my car and turned on the radio that was the first thing I always did. Then I put on my seat belt and back out of the drive way.
I found only commercials which bothered me, so I popped in a cd. It was classical music by Yanni.
I made it to the park in fairly good time; I parked my car and started on the same path I had seen other people on earlier.
I turned on my ipod and ran looked through my playlist, I picked Eminem. Rap is best for running, Eminem is my favorite.
I ran past a lot of people, faces came and went before long I realized I was alone. The path disappeared from underneath my feet. Small branches continued to hit my face I finally saw a gap between trees and decided to cut through.
I burst through almost knocking three people over. Two guys and a girl. The girl had her brown hair pulled back into a ponytail. She was wearing a pink shirt and a mini skirt.
One boy had his black hair pulled into a small ponytail. He was wearing a black and purple shirt, basket ball shorts and black sneakers.
The other boy was breath taking. His silver hair fell unto his shoulders and dog ears perched on the top of his head. He was wearing a red shirt and basketball shorts with white sneakers.
I managed to turn at the last second and dodge hitting them. But before I continued running the sliver haired boy flashed a dazzling smile it wasn't towards me but a fourth girl approaching them.
The girl and other boys groaned and walked away without saying goodbye.
The girl kissed the silver-haired boy. I made my way to my car and saw the sliver-haired boy again walking with the dark haired girl
I couldn't get his smile out of my head.
I got home and went to my room. My bed was there and I jumped onto it.
I pulled out my cell phone and called Ayumi.
"So how do you like the new house?"
"Its really big like, Shikon's Gym and cafeteria combined big" I said as I changed into my pj's.
"So any interesting demons?"
"Well it was my first day but I did see a cute one I think with dog ears." I said as I lay back down on my bed.
"A cute demon? With dog ears" Ayumi asked.
"Yeah" I yawned. "I'm kinda tired can I call you tomorrow."
"Yeah ok."
"Tell the girls I said hi ok, bye"
"Bye Kags we're missing you already."
I smiled and hung up the phone. I turned on my radio and feel asleep soon after.
Dreaming of the sliver-haired dog demon.