Sorry to darken the mood with a more morbid chapter but I think she would be experiencing a bit of homesickness by now.
16 tea lights
It was midnight, Kagome lay awake in her bed staring at the ceiling and watching the flickering flames of the sixteen tea lights in her room. An awful lot had happened this year, and most of it had been unfortunate, and her fault. Blood had been shed and she had been... well she did not like her position even now seeming as it was still captive – but it was better than it was before. She was alive after all, and that was all that mattered for now in the big scheme of things. As long as there was breath in her body she was able to continue to fight, and fight she would for the equality she had been dreaming of ever since she was a small child.
Her relationship with Sesshoumaru had improved as of late, ever since that evening about a week ago since he kissed her. It was still fresh in her mind, she had thoughts she was like a pet to him, and people did not kiss their pets, not on the lips like he had. The occurrence made her rethink her current position. She wanted her family, she had never really had a good relationship with her mother, but she wanted her anyway to tell her what was going on and how to deal with it. She wanted her brother to spill everything to and help up, because being a pillar of strength for other people helped her to be strong too.
She wanted her father there to hold her ion his arms and assure her everything was going to be fine. Her father had always been the one to look after her and always loved her more than everyone else on the planet, even Souta, as horrible as it was to think it, but it was the truth. She missed him more today than he had ever missed anyone, because she knew that he was out there fighting for her. He had been away for a couple of months at a time before, but he always made sure to came back for today. But nobody was here for her today, she was all alone, and she hated to be alone, she realized that the day she got Sesshoumaru.
The day she had Sesshoumaru she was not alone anymore and realized she just tolerated being alone because that was how her life had turned out. When she got him she realized she did not have to be, and from that moment forward she never had been. She could not sleep this night away like all the others, because she felt so alone in the world, and when the morning came it would be better, but until then she would wait. She thought about all the events that had happened this year until the clock in her room struck one o clock, distracting her from her memories thus snapping her out of her reverie of thought.
If she tried really hard she could imagine a grand banquet and all of her family was here to share it with her along with her friends. There was a big cake like the one that Shippou had wanted back at home with candles in it. She leant forward and blew all the tea lights out before lying back down in bed against the soft covers and plumped up pillows. "Happy Birthday Kagome," she muttered to herself before her eyelids dropped shut.
No one even knew