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Awaken
By Sunflowerobi
Chapter 1: First Awakening: Dangers Approaching
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Where am I?? Who am I?? What's going on?!

"...Kagome...Kagome..." A voice to my right called out gently.

I opened my eyes to see a dark shadow -- a shadow with long hair and dog ears on top of his head.

"Wh-who...?" was all I can muster with my sore throat as I tried to sit up.

"Kagome, it's me, Inuyasha."

"I-Inuyasha?" What a strange name, but at the same time so familiar and comforting.

"Yes, it is me. Now, Kagome, we must discuss the problems at hand. Dangers are approaching, we must do something about it. Hurry and wake up, Kagome; the future depends on us." Us?

"I...What about you, Inuyasha?" I had to be quick on my last question, for he, or was it I, was fading fast.

"I'll be there when it's time..." I could faintly see his smile as he faded into nothing.

I shivered, though there isn't any hint of breeze in this -- this black, lonely void. Tears stung my eyes as I hugged myself, trying in vain to contain the only warmth within me.

Where am I?? Who am I?? What's going on?! Is anyone out there?! Please answer me! Please, please, please...

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*groan* The light was too bright this morning. Why can't I have a good sleep at all?! This is so not fair...

That's right. It's all his fault. It's all his- wait, maybe not. It's all that stupid centipede's fault for pulling me down that dumb, dumb well.

I opened my eyes to an unfamiliar place. I can tell this is a girl's room. Not because there's girly stuff around, mind you, it's just an instinct of mine. Everything's position in this room is similar to my own back in my own bedroom.

*sigh* How did I get in this room, anyway? I wracked [figuratively] my brain for an explanation, but all I can remember is... Inuyasha dying? and myself fainting from exhaustion? It's so weird, since it doesn't match with my present condition. I mean, how can I fainted at Sengoku Jidai, and the next moment I woke up I'm here, the modern time? Unless someone can transport me back here, and nobody can do that since none of them can pass through the well besides myself and Inuyasha. AND how did i ended up HERE of all places?! Everything's in a confusing mess. All I can do right now is laying in whoever's bed, trying to sort everything out, in the meanwhile killing myself.

*knock, knock* A knock can be heard on the door.

"Akane-chan!! Akane-chan, wake up!! You'll be late for school!!" A gentle, mother-like voice called out from outside the door. The voice was soothing to my headache, yet different from my kind okaa-san at home. However, what the voice said struck my mind. School? That reminds of my ojii-chan's pathetic excuses. I almost laugh at that. And who's this Akane-person she's suppose to talk to? Is it HER bed I'm sleeping in? Once again, all those thoughts hit my poor brain unmercifully.

"Akane-chan? Are you up?" That soothing voice called out again, making all my trouble-some thoughts going away. "Akane-chan? If you don't reply, I'm gonna come in, okay?"

The clock over my head clicked one second. Two second. Three sec-

"I'm coming in whether you like it or not, Akane-chan!!" A hint of worry attached itself to her voice.

Something stirred next to me in the bed and I looked down in my position. I saw a little, cute black piglet snuggling against me.

*click* With a click, the door was opened, and in peek in a girl about 19 years old. She smiled at me.

"Come on, Akane-chan. You don't want to be late to school." She walked in and sat down beside me on the bed. The bed sagged a bit of her weight.

She's pretty, I decided. But, who's she...?

...Kasumi...your eldest sister...

Huh? Where did that thought came from??

Oh, well. I suppose I can trust the ...'voice' within me. I just KNOW that I can trust it. I don't know how or why, though.

"...n...I don't feel good today, Kasumi-chan..." Muster all the strength within me, I spoke with a sore throat.

Sore throat... Sore throat...

I know that sore throat is common, but, for some reason, something 'clicked' in my mind, something I can't quite place my finger on...

She had a thoughtful expression before she spoke. "Hmm...I can see why...Your face is slightly flushed...Perhaps you caught a cold or fever?"

"I...I don't know..." Truly I don't know, really. And my body's sore, too.

Sore throat... Sore body...

I don't know why, but my condition now feels somewhat familiar. I don't know why, but it just does...

"Well, you'll stay in bed until 8:30, okay?"

"TILL NIGHT?!" I practically screamed.

"No, no. It's 6:50am right now, you just need to stay until 8:30am, okay? It will only be an hour and 40 minutes." Smiling still, she explained to me what I misunderstood.

"Al-alright..." Turning away from her, I snuggled deeper into the warmth of the bed. Fatigue taking over me, I went into another slumber...

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END OF CHAPTER 1: FIRST AWAKENING: DANGERS APPROACHING