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
