Clouded eyes
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By: Fire (Fire0raven@yahoo.com)
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Note: I'm doing both number 7 and number 4 from the selection. I already had something to work with for number 7, but number 4 is still coming, fear not. Now review!
The plane proceeded into a rapid descent at Four Souls airport in Shikon. Kagome had her small black bag cuddled in her lap, watching over it like a mother to her child. She occasionally glanced at the passengers near by, but none of them seemed to be anymore than tourist or families returning home. She too would supposedly be returning home. To her bloodline family, but no matter how many times she would repeat that in her mind, it didn't feel as such.
It felt like her family was left behind her already. Kagome tried not to think about the past, nor complain about the elder man next to her trying, unsuccessfully to hit on a young waitress. Kagome would have helped the women, but with a look, the waitress didn't seem to mind that much. A grim expression lined her face, and she showed no interest.
'She must be used to stuff like this.' Kagome concluded and looked left out the window to the quickly passing scenery.
The speaker crackled and boomed, the pilot was informing everyone they were landing.
The fasten seatbelt sign lit up above her head, and Kagome, without thought, tightened the seatbelt around her waist, and sat on edge.
She didn't like being in new places, with no idea where you are, and not a clue as of where you could go. Kagome was hoping that there would be no trouble anymore, here, hundreds of miles away in Shikon. Anyone she had previously lived with should have not had the slightest idea of where she disappeared off to. Kagome didn't talk about the rest of her bloodline family much. Ever since the day when 'her mother sent her off' for lack of a better explanation.
'Everything like that is in the past. Dwelling on it will do nothing.' Kagome flinched at the sudden shaking the plane was going under, and the loud sound as the breaks attempted to bring the plane to a halt.
Kagome subconsciously had gripped the arm rests digging her nails into the fabric. She never liked sudden movements at the times there wasn't much you could do about it.
Her pessimistic view was making her think the one person who helped her escape turned on her, and planted a bomb on the plane. That she was just moments away from it going off.
However the plane safely landed, and pulled into port without a problem. Kagome let out a breath, still a bit apprehensive about what was awaiting her, as she lined up to exit the plane.
People squished together eager to get off, and either go home, or see new sights.
Kagome was neither. She had problems awaiting her whatever she did.
The clogging in the aisle slowly drained to the point Kagome walked down to the short tunnel to the main airport.
To her surprise, a girl around her own age, was impatiently pacing around, with her eyes darting among the passengers which had gotten off before her.
Kagome self consciously tugged on her long sleeved sweater, hoping that if this was who she was suppose to meet, they would recognize her. Since she were fifteen, around three years back, she hadn't changed much. Her hair grew a few inches longer, and her brown eyes where still there, but this time much more clouded, and far less happy.
The girl took a moment before her eyes fell on Kagome. "Kagome!" She yelped rather loud, but never got any looks, as everyone else was doing the same to others, ran up and gave a friendly hug.
Kagome violently jolted back before she realized this was a hug- not an attack. It usually was the other way around, she didn't get hugs.
Kagome still allowed her, to get on the girls good side, yet had a annoyed expression written all of her face.
Within a moment the girl let go enabling Kagome to see her face clearly.
"Sango?" She asked for confirmation to be sure, she didn't enjoy assuming things.
Sango nodded eagerly.
'She must have a lot of energy.' Kagome thought bitterly when Sango took her by the arm leading her out of the airport like a lost child.
"Kagome can I ask you something?" Sango said out of the blue as they reached her coal black SUV.
Kagome looked over the car, and gave her approval. She'd feared Sango would have some type of colorful van that it brought attention to the car, and more importantly, everyone inside.
"You just did." Kagome grinned, marveling at the tinted windows.
This car was very nice compared to the one she had. The paint job had been done over, and windows reshaped and tinted. It was necessary to change the car as it wouldn't help to drive around in a stolen one with someone recognizing it.
Sango rolled her eyes unlocking the doors, and climbing in.
Kagome took the passenger seat upfront without thought. Her original plan was to sit in the back so no one would be able to see her as much. Yet the tinted windows changed that.
"I meant to ask, why are you wearing the sweater and pants? It's hot out here."
Kagome looked down at her outfit. It was far more than what she normally wore; a pair of army pants, and small strapped low cut black tank top.
That however showed off all of her tattoos. Especially the spider on her back from joining a Naraku's gang at her other home.
If others were to see it, maybe they would recognize her, and bring unwanted attention.
Kagome never tried to make a scene. It was like attention was simply drawn to her.
Kagome set her bag on the ground, and shoved it under her the seat with her feet while answering with the first thing that came to mind.
"Oh, it was terribly cold where I came from." She lied as if it were the easiest thing in the world.
Sango started up the car giving a confused look. "I thought you lived with your at the dorms to the boarding school, right? Since when was that cold?"
Kagome inhaled without bringing must notice to it. She hadn't thought about that. Her mother originally allowed her to live at a nice boarding school, but Kagome left shortly after arrival, and meet her other family.
However they kept the news that she was no longer attending school to a minimum to avoid any potential problems. Sango would not have known.
Now it was the time to use the second thing of relevance that came to mind.
"OK, on my way some lady spilt blood red wine on me, my shirt is see through, and my shorts were soaked making it look like something else."
"Oh." Sango replied.
Kagome mentally congratulated herself for steering away from that conversation. Yet Sango led it into a worse.
"So how has life been at the school? What was it like boarding? I've never been to one." The girl was just trying to make a descent and friendly conversation.
Kagome paused for a moment before finding another way to answer, without actually answering. "Enough about me, what did I miss?"
Sango nervously laughed, giving no real answer, but self consciously speeding.
The silence eloped the car for at least a good half an hour until Sango pulled into a the driveway of a LARGE house.
This caused Kagome to double take a few times, but Sango answered, without her asking.
"InuYasha got engaged to Kikyou so he invited everyone to live in his huge mansion. His father was rich, and once he died, the money was given to InuYasha, and land to Sesshoumaru. Of course, Sess had something bad to say about that." Sango's voice was hiding something, and she knew it.
Kagome could easily tell when someone was hiding something, like when there voice edges off normal, and they continue to shift restlessly in their seat.
"Inu-Yahsa is engaged to Kikyou?" Kagome said blankly remembering the reason Sango might have a problem telling her. Three years back Kagome had a palpable crush on him, and even a blind man could have noticed it.
Their parents were old family friends, and Kikyou and Kagome used to be best friends of InuYasha. However both Kikyou and InuYasha were older than she, and when they reached a reasonable age, they started dating, and left Kagome behind. Kagome had ignored it for the most part, but when she was fifteen it became painfully obvious, and she'd left to a boarding school hoping for a new start.
She'd went through heart break a number of times back than, but as everything does, the pain had faded, and the problems seemed like nothing compared to what she was in now. Perhaps her start was a little to new.
"Um...alright..." Was all she could bring herself to say.
The distractions of the area around caught her attention. Everything had changed drastically.
"But don't worry, I'm sure everyone will be happy to see you!" Sango erased the tension in the car, and pulled in to a parking space.
Kagome shrugged, and gave a weak smile. She dipped her hand in her big pocket of her gray pants.
Sango looked over at her, slightly with slight wonder.
'Oh yeah.' Kagome mentally told herself when she found nothing. 'I quit a month ago.'
"Come on." Sango linked arms with Kagome when she got out of the car. "I'll show you inside."
Without objection Kagome went with Sango feeling a different emotion than what was usual for her. The emotions of fear, pain, rush, or entertainment from laughing at horrible things. She couldn't place this new emotion easily. She felt welcomed? Wanted? 'No' Kagome thought bitterly. 'I am wanted, but that isn't a good thing sometimes.'
The interior wasn't much of a surprise for a mansion. Everything was neat, ordered, and expensive. Elegant, but also tasteful. Despite the point Kagome hadn't lived in a house like this didn't mean she hadn't seen it. Numerous times she'd snuck in with a few others to steal something of expensive value and sell it off at a high price.
Sango released her arm aware of Kagome's awing to the house. She giggled quietly. It was no surprise she wasn't used to this from living in a boarding school.
'It's just' Sango thought a little deeper 'She's not acting like herself.'
A frown came on her face. 'It's probably because she went to one of the hardest schools- that's all it is.' Sango reassured herself. Both Kagome's mother, and Inu-Yasha's took off somewhere, Miroku was out to meet someone, and Kikyou was with InuYasha at a play.
There wasn't that many people left that Kagome would recognize. Over the past years their family had grown half the size.
"Kagome, it looks like everyone's gone. Would you like a drink, or set up your old room?"
Kagome turned to Sango shrugging. "I'll go for the drink. Don't worry, you don't have to entertain me."
Sango pulled back, only slightly shocked. Was her uneasiness that obvious? "Oh, sorry. I'm just a little uneasy because- well- you haven't really been acting like yourself."
Kagome already had forgotten how she used to act like, and the new way she did would probably be awkward. It wasn't as if she could say 'Hey lets go smoke a joint outback where we can be entertained by street fights going on below us' or more precisely 'Dawg, wanna smoke a joint out back, watch those mother fuckers break each others jaws, yo?'
It wasn't like she tried to talk like that to be a punk, but hanging out on the streets didn't do her good for remembering how to converse in an intelligent conversation. It might not have even been the normal gang talk, but she had spoken like that for a long while.
"Chill, I've just been alone for a long while studying." Giving a reassuring smile she took off in a random direction.
"Oh! Ok K-Kagome?" Sango titled her head to the side giving her back a strange look.
Kagome turned around. "Yeah?"
"The kitchens that way." She pointed left, the opposite direction than she had been heading.
The kitchen was spotless, hired cooks running around making the evenings meal. The heat in here was more than the rest of the house due to the stoves. She tugged at the sweater desiring to take it off, but knowing otherwise.
"Can I help you with anything Ms?" A male cook asked politely, yet gave her a strange look.
'Must not look rich.' Kagome thought.
"Um....do you have some Valpolicella?" She asked for some wine hoping for no objections about her being underage.
She was only 18, a legal adult now, but still wasn't 21. Speaking of the age 21, InuYasha would be so in maybe 6 months? He was 2 and a half years older than her.
To her amazement, the cook retrieved it without as much as a problem.
"Would you like it in a cup?"
"Better just give me the bottle." She took it from him after he took out the cork.
She walked off, hiding it to the side until she found a nice balcony where she could sit down, have a drink, and think of her next move.
The Italian wine soothed her nerves, but she'd still hoped for a cigarette. Chances are someone would smell it though. The wine on her breath might have been a problem, but Kagome would just say they had a party before she'd left. The bottle was a lot, but after years of drinking, it still wasn't enough to get her drunk.
Voices went on talking below her, and with nothing better to do, she eavesdropped.
"I swear it's like she just gets mad for no reason!" One voice, a males, shouted helplessly as well as lost.
"Calm down, Kikyou probably was just having a bad day. It's not like it's the first time you've fought."
Kagome smiled remembering the constant fights she'd get in with her older sister, and InuYasha would come along and be peacekeeper.
"But the wedding isn't that far away, she'll stay mad just to spite me."
Kagome thought for a second. Wedding? Kikyou? Male's voice?
'InuYasha? That's gotta be InuYasha!' In a hurry, curios to see what he looked like Kagome ran up to the railing. It was no good, they were under her. However, with skills of sneaking in and out, she flipped around the railing, holing to the top with her legs, and looked back to see. She should have been barely visible.
That was until she slipped.
The fall wasn't much of the problem, it does happen once in awhile after perform stunts like that, but the wine bottle was sitting on the floor next to the railing.
That too, slipped.