Clouded Eyes

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Fire: I honestly bet there are a lot of typos in this, and I never let Raven proofread it. I didn't even read it over so sorry. Raven is sick again concocting another virus to plague mankind. Review.....

"Your keep my secret won't you?"

"Sure kid." Was the last thing Kagome said before she opened the door to find a small crowd of people, They had clearly heard.

'Or not.' Kagome added in her mind.

Kagome nervously laughed facing the crowd. It looked like a crowd of concerned mothers that bitch until they get their way.

"I know I smelt smoke, we should have known you would have done something like this!" One pointed out.

"How come she came back anyway?" Another asked from the back.

Kagome cocked her head to the side confused. Were they blaming her? My lord, so much for not getting in trouble.

"What are you people talking about?" Kagome asked innocently.

One marched in the front picking up a cigarette Kagome had subconsciously snatched. Kagome looked down with in 'um I can explain.'

"Don't tell me Rin was doing it? It was you right?" Her voice was soft, but serious.

She looked up to meet Kagome's eyes, but they were far to clouded to see the truth.

"It was-" Kagome looked back at Rin who was almost in tears "me of course. Rin is too young, and smart to do anything like that, even for a guy." She emphasized the smart, and guy.

Rin bit her lip suppressing shouting something out.

"I say we send her off to a boarding school to get her mind straight if you ask me!" One piped up from the back.

Oh Kagome could just picture beating her to within an inch of her life with a metal pipe or something. She did NOT plan to go back there. However she calmed herself instantly, she shouldn't even be thinking things like that anymore.

The one with the soft voice, Kagome noticed reminded her of someone. She cursed her memory, because she just couldn't place it.

"I'll take care of it. Go back to sleep everyone." She said, still in a soft voice to the crowd.

The crowd slowly disappeared.

"Would you like to come for a walk?" She asked, and Kagome reluctantly nodded.

Kagome didn't bother to spare a glance back at Rin, but took a long look at the woman she stood next to. Brown curvy short hair, and kind eyes. Kagome couldn't place it, but she truly looked like someone far more kind hearted and observant than the rest.

"I knew you know." She started to speak, which caught Kagome's attention. They descended the staircase, and were out onto the garden path Kagome had discovered when she'd been on the balcony. It was lit up by side lamps which made it glow.

On each side of a gray gravel sidewalk were beautiful flowers, types she never even knew existed. 'Then again, I never really did get a chance to stop and smell the flowers....

"I knew about Rin, as did my future son, but were not ready to confront her. It was nice that you defended her, she is a good girl. I'm afraid it's tradition in this place to send them off on their own. That is what happened to you Kagome."

Kagome snapped her head over to look at the woman.

"You might have forgotten me, but no matter how you changed, I could never forget my own daughter."

Kagome's mouth dropped open slightly, and her eyebrows rose. It took a moment for this new information to process through her head.

Her mother, how could she forget that! Kagome's heart started beating faster as she thought over the situation.

"Wow....um..." She was at a current loss for words. However, Kagome didn't see this as a time for a happy family reunion. She recalled three years ago when her mother was the one who sent her off.

Now she could hardly sleep at night, and when she did nightmares of the utmost horrors. Her life was now revolving around the past, instead of the past just shaping the future. How she got herself into the situation, was something she couldn't get out of easily. In fact, she was so sure it was going to be the cause of her suffering and death. It only takes two years to screw up your life forever.

"Perhaps if we forgot the past, than we could start a better and new life. Kagome?" Her mother questioned at the end for the lack of response.

Was Kagome that willing to give up everything to act happy, and fool herself into it. Put her past into the back of her mind, and bury it there? Forgive, and forget everything her mother did to her, and start over. Maybe that would be the best way for everyone, but Kagome couldn't do that if she wanted to. On her plane flight to Shikon she promised herself something. She'd lied her whole life at the gang, either to steal, get away from being punished, or whatever, but she didn't want to have to do that anymore.

"No, I'm not going to fake it, so when the real thing comes up, I'm stumped for words." Kagome shot back, harsher than meant.

Stopping herself from saying more, she turned on the gravel to walk away. Walking away, is like running away, somewhat of a cowardly escape. However walking was slower to break away from it instead of just forgetting about it. Kagome knew doing so would be better for both of them, and she didn't care how cowardly it might have seemed.

"Kagome." Her mother reached out quick enough to grab her shoulder. "Life couldn't have been that bad! I'm your mother, don't you care about me at all."

Kagome stopped abruptly with a jolt of her shoulders. She bit her lip to calm herself, but no she wouldn't cry. Crying as Naraku said was a weakness in character, and if your actually sure who you are you won't cry, because you wouldn't let stupid things phase you.

"One, you may be my mother, but you know nothing about me, meaning your not a very good one. And two, if I care about you I'd be doing the same thing I am now, except faster." Kagome's voice was slightly broken, but she reminded herself about not crying.

As she walked away, she knew exactly who she was. She was a loner who screwed up her life without the chance of making it better.

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Three hours past quickly since Kagome's little confrontation with her mother. She was up in her new room, sitting on her bed with her black bag on her lap. She was recently moving it so it wouldn't get stolen in her sleep when a white envelope. She hadn't noticed it before, but it seemed someone must have place it on her bag before she left.

'Lady K' It spelt in cursive letters. Kagome must have stared at it for a good while before she went to open it.

She skipped the page long letter to see who it was signed by.

'... K, that is your unbeatable plan. Good luck, you'll need it.

-Kagura' Kagome grimaced. She DID NOT want to read it tonight. The last sentences did spark her interest, however she didn't want nightmares again tonight.

She knew Kagura was just a doll for Naraku, and was being blackmailed into a lot of it, but it didn't matter to her. An enemy was an enemy, and despite popular belief, an enemies enemy is not always your friend.

Like Kagura was her enemy, but she hated Naraku, and though it was Kagura's enemy, that would never make Kagome like him.

She slid the note under her pillow, and went to sleep.

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'Kagome' Kagome's friend Yuki came over to her. 'It is true, you can finally escape!' There was happiness in her face for Kagome. She was right next to Kagome but her voice seemed so far away, like a distant echo.

'You, Yuki?' Kagome had asked subconsciously looking behind them.

They were sitting on the edge of the well, in the house next to the shrine.

'I need to stay here to make this work!' Yuki's voice was fading.

Kagome realized it then, it was just like one of their worst fears, the doors were open, and in a spray of bullets one of them went down. Kagome caught a flash of red from the corner of her eye, but it wasn't until Yuki slumped over that she actually realized she was dead. Naraku came up in front of her with that same disapproving frown that was tattooed in Kagome's mind. his hand lashed out catching Kagome off guard, and second later Kagome was holding her bruised cheek.

He started to yell at her, however Kagome couldn't even hear what he was saying, it was like a mute movie fading away.

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Kagome jolted awake with a cold sweat.

She was breathing hard, but looked around. For a moment she was clueless to where she was but memories came back, and she dropped back down on her bed.

"A nightmare, that's all it is." She told herself sighing.

Some of these nightmares weren't what her mind made up, but memories she tucked away in the back of her mind.

She looked over at the clock which read 11:30. Of course she'd end up sleeping late just to prolong her nightmare. 'Figures' Kagome muttered sitting up.

She snatched up some clothes which were black baggy pants with extra pockets, a white wide strap tank-top, and an overly sized black jacket. Then she wandered off to where the shower was.

She completely forgot about the letter Kagura had left for her, now dropped on the floor. She'd never suspected somebody would wonder in and find it.

Of course not, because it is usually what you least expect that actually happens.