The doors close in front of me

I have just boarded the train

I'm going home

They say home is where the heart is

Lately, I've been lost

Trying to find my way back

It's been a while since I've felt the warmth within my heart

And now

I'm searching for it

The stars are glistening in the night

And I enter our shrine

It seems so foreign yet familiar

On the walls there hangs a picture of my family

And just like that I know I've returned

But there's silence

An eerie silence

I hurry through the hallways

And in doing so

I receive a flashback of when I was a child

I am running,

Just like what I'm doing now

I'm looking for my parents

Who promised to return by ten

It is now twelve

The darkness seems to trap me

And I'm desperately trying to find them

I know they're here

And just when I was about to give up

I hear them

'Kagome, we're so sorry we're late, it was the traffic'

I run into the arms of my mother

And I cry

I make them promise to always return to me

And they agree

They never kept that promise

I race through the rooms just like in the past

But this time I'm looking for my Grandpa

In my heart

I know that it's too late

And I discover a letter

Lying on the desk

I read it with my drumming heart

Before it falls to the ground

Along with my tears

Gramps

Died last night

From heart failure

The letter

Was addressed from the hospital

Informing me of how deeply sorry they were

But they weren't

Who would show sympathy for a person they hadn't met?

I cry too much

But knowing doesn't stop the tears from flowing

A lifetime of my pain

Expressed in my sobs and tears

Some people had it all

Some people didn't

I once did

And I took it all for granted

I had to learn the hard way

And right now,

I would do anything to rewind back time

To beg my parents not to go out that night

To have come here earlier

To have not yelled at Inuyasha

I regretted it all

But I could change one of those things

I could apologise to Inuyasha

Because

Through my tears

I had forgiven him for what he had done

Tomorrow is a new day

Am I dragging it? I think I am. I also think I'm getting repetitive… I was actually going to drag it out even more but nah, poor Kagome has too much tragedy on her already. And this is short as well... pleh. I should stop complaining. I apologise for the bad chapter :(

Merry early Christmas… although this was a bit of a dismal chapter