Clouded eyes

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By: Fire (Fire0raven@yahoo.com)

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It'd probably help if I had a few readers to IM once in awhile for whatever reason- preferably those who can proofread. *laughs* Mistressfire0

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The morning greeted Kagome by shinning overly bright light into her eyes first thing, blinding her for a good minute. Kagome muttered under her breath, shading her eyes with her hand, and then got out of the range of fire. She rolled over to the other side of the bed gathering the motivation to drag herself up, and to the middle of the room.

It took her a moment to realize exactly where she was, and what she was doing there before she sighed with relief. To be truthful she'd been half expecting to wake up and discover she was being held captive with a gun to the side of her head- or something to a similar extent.

Kagome thought back to the last night, and based on the liquor bottle that was laying on the ground, and the towel that was still half way in the hall way she came to believe after she left the shower, she'd went for a midnight snack and ended up drinking the nightmares off.

Kagome shook her head disapproving of herself. 'What an awful habit, I can't even remember what the hell happened.'

The white room almost grinned at her as she studied the walls. Kagome had to wonder, did she really want to paint it black, and never move on from the way things were in the past?

"Thinking of the past, I still have that letter from Kagura to open." She told herself bitterly raising one hand to sweep the hair out of her eyes.

She turned around to grab a small glimpse of the black bag that resided underneath her bed. Within less than a minute, she walked over and pulled the sheets down further until the bag was no longer visible.

"I doubt anyone will come digging through my stuff, not here, but I never did trust them anyway." Kagome went on muttering even as she grabbed the room key, and locked the door behind her as she left.

The halls were remarkably silent, yet Kagome wasn't one to complain. She liked the silence, for it usually means your alone and everything is peaceful- granted. Granted it wasn't just because a murderer slipped in the house, and killed everyone so no one could make any noise.

Kagome shook her head at her own train of thought, and descended down the stairs at a quick place ending up in the entrance hall.

She was slowly beginning to get used to this place as she flipped on her heel to look at the stairs. The entrance hall lead to the stairs, kitchen, and numerous rooms to her left. The kitchen where she picked up the wine earlier was to her right, and the stairs faced the middle but curved upward.

The dinning room for normal occasions was most likely near the kitchen, Kagome figured based on her previous 'knowledge' about rich peoples houses.

'There is another dinning room for special occasions, but it isn't so they should be over on my right. The kitchen is never seen by the anyone in the dinning room, so I could just as well slip in there, grab some food, and eat back up in my room.' She planned things out as though she was going in for another mission in effort to grab something of high value.

"Kagome!" Kagome flinched, nearly jumping forward to avoid gunfire or something of the sort.

She flipped on her heel to see Sango leaning against the wall a good 10 paces away.

"Are you alright?" She questioned coming toward her while tying her hair back.

"I'm fine- perfectly fine. Why do you ask?" Her heart beat was returning to normal, and she slouched back from her previous stiff stance.

Sango shrugged, finishing with her hair, and beckoning Kagome to follow her as she made her way toward the kitchen.

"I don't know, I just heard some commotion that you were already in trouble. Dealing with Rin and all." She edged on, but left her words hanging.

"Oh." Kagome found herself looking toward the ground. "Yeah, Rin. What did you hear?"

"I heard that you covered for her, and if it is true we have to thank you so much!"

"What?" Kagome was slightly stumped. She lied to the family, and they wanted to thank her- there was something about that piece that didn't fit with the puzzle.

"Kagome, InuYasha, Miroku and I already knew about Rin and we were going to try to get her to stop, but we didn't really know when to confront her. If you hadn't stood up for her then they would have most likely sent her away." Sango explained with a ear to ear smile.

Kagome felt a small smile creeping up on her, but she slapped it away, and replaced it with a shrug.

"That was- unexpected, but I know what you mean." Kagome mentioned while following Sango into a room near the kitchen. Just as she expected it was a normal occasion kitchen, but she didn't expect it to be empty.

"Where is everyone?" Kagome lead out of the other conversation still feeling she shouldn't be in one at all.

"Gone I suppose, everyone has headed out. Though Kikyou is still here, we'll probably have to go help her prepare for the wedding- and that is why we're here stalling." Sango laughed a little, and Kagome joined her.

"I still remember Kikyou." Kagome stretched the truth a bit. She remembered Kikyou used to be her friend, but when she started going out with InuYasha Kagome could only use one word to describe her- bitch. She was never happy with Kagome, and it wasn't as much as Kikyou, but the fact that everyone treated Kagome like she was just Kikyou's shadow.

"I do remember the reason I was sent off to the boarding school to begin with." She recalled the fond memory, only she would call fond.

"Who could forget, I mean, she had black and blue bruises for a month." Sango threw in taking a seat at the pure polished wood table. Kagome took a seat across her counting at least twelve chairs along the overly large table.

A waiter came up asking what they would prefer. Sango ordered the usual, which Kagome seconded on the count it was eggs, hash, bacon, and toast.

Kagome then went back to recalling, and continued speaking in a lower voice. "I decked her. I can't even remember why, but I knew it was a stupid reason. Kikyou had come out of her room, and said some comment to me, and I jumped on her, and started hitting her like mad. I didn't even know how to fight, but it obviously did a lot of damage."

Sango nodded. "Everyone, and I mean everyone was shocked, it seemed like you were turning into some bad person."

Kagome blinked a full moment, almost as if she was double taking before breaking into a coughing fit, hiding her face from Sango's view.

"Are you alright?!" Sango got up, and nearly hopped the table, but Kagome recovered almost instantly.

"Fine, fine, just thirsty." She waved her hand noticing the food coming in behind her.

The waiter sat the food in front of her, and Kagome did have to double take. She'd never imagined so much good food in her life for one measly meal. She took a small drink of orange juice to reassure Sango, and went on in silence.

Rin busied in the room a few minutes later, sitting at the edge of the table with a hyper expression that hardly indicated she was here to eat. "Kagome." She burst out when both Sango, and Kagome had turned heads.

"I was down here very late last night, and I've gotta know- who was he?"

Sango cast a estranged look over to Kagome, and she just shrugged as a reply.

"Who Rin?"

Rin huffed for a second tapping her fingers on the table.

"I came down last night, and saw you talking to the guy. I even waved to you, and you told me to leave. Don't you remember? I thought he was your boyfriend."

Sango again looked toward Kagome, but she never spared Sango a glance.

'I couldn't remember what happened last night- could it be possible?'

"Are you sure it wasn't Kikyou?" Sango asked giving a small apology to Kagome, but mentioned they both did resemble each other. "She was out and about to last night."

"Um...I thought so, but this guy had a spider on his back, and long black braided hair." Rin mentioned as though it was careless information.

Kagome however never responded. 'Kikyou, or even possibly I was talking to someone from the gang- Hiten.....what the hell is going on?!'

Kagome immediately excused herself, and rushed upstairs without a word to the others.

They must know she's there, and must have erased her memory somehow.

Was Kikyou talking to him, and she'd just happened to stumble upon, so they knocked her out? Or was it possible Kagome herself was having a chat while drunk- and painfully truthful. Kagome fell to her knees upon arriving up in her room. She barely escaped alive the first time- Kagome suddenly feel sick. There was never a happily ever after end to this story.

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