A Wolf's Only Wish A Wolf's Only Wish
-What Now?-
Kagome continued to cry and cry at the bottom of the well. Her loud sniffling sobs echoed through out the shrine.
'How could I be so stupid to trust a demon! A demon! Have I lost my mind? How could I even consider liking him? He's a monster! Toying with my emotions to steal a jewel!'
"Hello is anybody in here?"
Kagome looked up and saw her grandfather "Grandpa?"
"Kagome how did you get down there?" he asked.
Kagome jumped to her feet and started climbing up the ladder in the well. She ran into her grandfather's arms bursting into tears again.
"Its really you! Oh grandpa! I t was horrible!"
"It's alright dear. You're home now." He said gently running his fingers through her hair.
Souta had just arrived at the scene "Sis!… what on earth are you wearing?" he stared weirdly at his sister who was dressed in strange armor, furs, and a book bag.
"Souta! Go get your mother." Their grandfather scolded. Souta nodded and ran off.
"Come on. Let's go inside, you'll feel better." Grandfather said as he struggled to help Kagome stand up straight while she clung onto his torso.
They finally made it to the back door of the house when suddenly the door slid open so fast it almost broke off its hinges. (I don't think shoji doors have hinges but w/e LOL)
"KAGOME!" her mother cried and tackled her daughter in an embrace.
"Oh my only daughter! You are alright, thank god."
Kagome was enjoying being in her mother's arms again, that was until her mother's relief turned into rage.
"Where have you been?" she growled and pulled Kagome inside the house by her ear.
"Ow, ow, ow!"
Kagome's mother pushed her onto a couch and put her hands on her hips glaring down at her oddly dressed daughter before she started a rant "Do you know how worried I was? I filed a missing person report and the police have been searching for you ever since! I thought you were dead! I was planning your funeral and calling the insurance companies as we speak, and don't even get me started on your nosy school!"
Kagome started crying hysterically again "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"Try me?" Ms. Higurashi said putting her hands on her hips again.
"A demon dragged me down the well, to like the feudal era and… and a wolf demon guy kidnapped me asking me to help his tribe from some birds-"
"Yeah your right Kagome I don't believe you." Ms. Higurashi interrupted getting angrier after every word that escaped her daughter's mouth.
"But ma-"
Kagome's mother slapped her hard across the face "Don't you dare lie to me Kagome Higurashi I am no fool!"
"I'm not lying!" Kagome sobbed as she held her stinging cheek.
"Go up stairs! I can't even look at you any more! First, you run off to go do god knows what with god knows whom! You don't even call, not even once! And now you have the audacity to come back and lie to me! I never heard such ludicrous!"
"Oh ma-" Kagome hiccupped.
"Go to your room!"
Kagome pushed by everyone and ran upstairs to her room slamming the door and locking it.
'Great just what I needed.' She sarcastically thought and fell on her bed crying on her pillow. 'This is all your fault Koga!' was the last thing she thought before falling asleep.
-
"Hey Koga! Why you so down? Miss that Kagome girl already huh?" a wolf demon asked.
"I have no idea what happened to her…" the wolf prince sadly admitted.
"Huh? What do you mean Koga?" Ginta asked.
"She's gone…"
"What do you mean gone? She better not be hurt." Hakkaku piped up.
"She just disappeared…"
"How?" all the wolf demons asked in unison.
Koga shrugged getting frustrated with all the questions "I don't know… the fell down a well, there were all these bright lights, and when I went down after her she was gone."
"Oh really… then explain why you have the Shikon Jewel in your hand?" Hakkaku asked pointing an accusing finger.
Koga glared at his lieutenant "I am your leader I don't need to explain anything to you."
"A person can't just disappear. You probably grabbed the jewel when you pushed her down that well. You never really liked her since she was human anyways. All you wanted was the jewel!"
Koga grabbed Hakkaku by the neck "Watch you mouth! I would never do that to Kagome, even if I didn't like her I wouldn't stoop that low to gain power… Your lucky you're my best friend or else you'd be dead by now."
Hakkaku looked away "Fine!"
Koga stood up and looked around at everybody who was staring "Anybody else wanna' say sumthin' to me?"
"No, no Koga we have nothing to say." Ginta sweat dropped.
"Good." Koga snorted "Everybody get to work."
-A Few Days Later-
Kagome walked downstairs and saw her mother watching the morning news. Ever since the incident of Kagome's arrival her mother had been giving her the silent treatment.
'No breakfast… again.'
"Bye mom…" Kagome said to her mother even though she didn't even look back.
Ms. Higurashi gave a tired gave a tired sigh as she heard Kagome close the door on her way out.
Kagome slowly walked down the streets looking up at the sky 'What now? Mom is pissed off at me, my brother thinks I'm crazy, I think grandpa is avoiding me, and all the neighbors think I'm a whore that ran off and got pregnant by some guy…oh god what will school have in store for me today?' she mentally groaned.
'Umph!'
Kagome fell on her butt and looked up at what she had bumped into.
"Kaaa-go-me!" a familiar voice squealed.
Kagome gave a weak smile "Hi Eri, Yuka, Ayumi."
"You're here! Your alive!" cried Ayumi.
"What happened to you?" Eri asked helping Kagome up to her feet.
"I don't want to talk about it…" Kagome mumbled and started speed walking.
The three girls gave each other worried glances.
"Were you raped?" Yuka asked bluntly.
"Yuka! How can you ask her that?" Ayumi scolded, "be sensitive! We have no idea what she went through."
"No. I wasn't raped." Kagome answered.
"Your still a virgin?" Eri asked.
"Yes."
"Were you kidnapped?" Yuka asked.
Kagome immediately stopped walking and looked down while her friends stared at her for an answer "Yes." They all gasped when they heard that answer/
"By who?" Ayumi asked.
"When ever I tell the story nobody believes me so I'm gonna' stay shut for now." Kagome said and broke out into a sprint when the school came into view.
"Kagome wait!" her friends chased after her of course.
'Can't everybody just leave me alone!' Kagome thought as she ran struggling to hold in her tears.
"Kagome!" someone in front of her cried out, forcing her to come to a stop and look up or else she'd crash into them.
"H- Hojo?"
"Kagome are you alright? I heard you went missing; everybody's been so worried." He said as he embraced her.
'What the hell is going on? I barely know this guy. Why would he care if I was gone or not?' she mentally asked herself.
Kagome heard footsteps come to a stop along with gasping behind them and she automatically knew her friends were watching them and would never hear the end of it.
"Uh… thank you? Hojo…" Kagome blushed as she started to have flashbacks of the night when she was drunk with Koga.
"Aww!" the three girls squealed in the background and Hojo smiled down at Kagome "Guess I'll let you go with your friends now" he said and wiped away a tear that was threatening to fall "See you later Higurashi." The girls ran over to Kagome's side.
"Oh my gosh! He is so in love with you!" Yuka cried.
"No wonder Hojo seemed so down and his kendo sucked. It's cause you disappeared." Ayumi added.
"Yeah that has to be the reason. Nothing in school has changed except for when you were gone. Everybody was wondering why Hojo was so sulky and now we know why." Yuka thought aloud.
Eri winked "Way to go Kagome you nabbed yourself a cute and popular boy toy."
"What ever… I don't care." Kagome grumbled and started walking into the school building.
"Yeah right! You were red as a tomato when he hugged you." Yuka laughed.
"It's not that. You guys just wouldn't underst-" But before Kagome could finish her sentence she was bombarded by nosy students who had questions for her.
"Oh my god your back!"
"What happened to you Higurashi-San?"
"Are you okay?"
"Where were you?"
But, Kagome never answered any of their questions. They weren't her real friends. It was obvious that they didn't care what had happened to her, they were all being nosy and wanted to start gossip.
'Ding, Ding!'
"Saved by the bell." She sighed in relief.
-
"Damn it!" Koga growled.
"C-calm down Koga." Ginta sweat dropped.
"Don't tell me what to do." Koga snorted. "How many men have we lost?"
"A lot in the past couple of days… about 15 men, and 6 wolves… but including the battle of the birds of paradise that makes a total of 85 men, and 12 wolves." Hakkaku calculated.
"This is ridiculous! Demons have been attacking our pack non stop."
"Um… can I point out something Koga?" Ginta asked.
Koga nodded "Go ahead."
"Well, according to all the reports we collected from witnesses on the deaths of our brothers, sisters, and wolves… they were attacked by demons seeking the Shikon Jewel."
Koga sat in silence deep in thought.
"What should we do then?" Hakkaku asked.
"I'm not sure…" Koga reluctantly admitted.
"Why don't we just use the Shikon Jewel the most powerful wolf tribe in all the land." Hakkaku suggested.
"No! We can't. The other wolf tribes would feel threatened and definitely start a civil war… even if we used the sacred jewel; all the other tribes working together can bring us down along with any other demons that want the jewel's powers." Koga said.
"But if we do nothing our pack numbers will rapidly dwindle!" Ginta pointed out.
"Demons keep attacking out comrades cause they can sense the Shikon Jewel is within or tribe, right?"
Hakkaku and Ginta looked at each and nodded "Yeah. I guess so."
"Then all we need to do is get the jewel far away from our pack so demons wont attack them."
"I'm not sure about that plan Koga." Ginta said.
"Well it's the only one we got! You wanna' sit here and waste time thinking of a better plan while more members of our tribe die?"
"Fine… So where we gonna' go?" Hakkaku asked.
"I dunno'. Kaede's village?" Koga suggested.
"Why there?" both his friends asked in unison.
"Well. She's like the only other priestess we know. Maybe she can help us, and maybe she can explain what happened at that well."
"Uh huh…" Ginta said not really buying Koga's excuse for going back to the well.
-
It was third period when there was an announcement on the school loud speaker.
"May Higurashi, Kagome please report to the Dean's room."
Everybody looked back at her with a 'what did you do?' kind of face.
"You may go Ms. Higurashi." The teacher said.
"Thanks." She mumbled and left the room immediately.
'What now?' she mentally groaned as she arrived at the Dean's door.