Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha, Takahashi Rumiko does. I do not own
the song I Swear, All-4-One does. *eyes them both greedily*
Chapter One: Melancholy
Kagome sighed as she leaned back against the Gods Tree in her back yard. She picked at a piece of fluff on her skirt then leaned back to stare at the bare imprint burned into the tree above her head. Inuyasha had been pinned there centuries ago by that witch Kikyo, and then later by her reincarnation, whom Kagome now knew was herself.
It had been almost a year since the quest to reform the Shikon Jewel had begun. Despite their greatest efforts to flunk her, Kagome had gotten into one of the top high schools and was even now preparing for one of the most important moments in her high school life.
She grimaced as she imagined Inuyasha's reaction to her news. 'I've got to be home in two days', she'd tell him. And then of course he would gripe and moan and complain. Then he would try to physically restrain her and she would have to "sit" him and then she'd leave crying.
Kagome clenched her fist tightly in anger. Why should she put up with this? She was a grown woman for heaven's sake! She shouldn't have to put up with an arrogant, pushy, loud, overbearing, wonderful.
"Kagome?" her mother asked as she approached her daughter tentatively.
The girl started, and then smiled at her mother. "Sorry, Mama, I was daydreaming."
"About that cute friend of yours?" she asked teasingly, a small grin on her lips. Kagome grimaced again as she stood and brushed the leaves from her skirt. "I have no cute friends, Mama," she scoffed. "Is something wrong? I need to get ready to leave for the past again."
"I picked up your dry cleaning this morning, Kagome. Would you like to see?"
Kagome's anger and frustration at a certain dog-eared hanyou vanished as her smile lit up. "Of course!! Let's go, let's go!!"
She grabbed her mother by the arm and practically dragged her, laughing, into the house and up to Kagome's room. There she made a beeline for a plastic garment bag hanging on her closet.
Kagome's mother smiled softly as Kagome lifted the plastic and fingered the silk material inside. 'She's growing up far too fast for me,' she mused. She giggled a little as Kagome removed a blue silk ball gown from the garment bag and held it up to herself. 'Then again, maybe she's just right'.
Kagome held the gown up her to body and pantomimed dancing across the floor with some invisible stranger. Her face was beauteous as she twirled and jumped, her cheeks rosy and her eyes flashing.
Suddenly she stopped and glanced towards the window, her eyes narrowing. "Kagome? Is something wrong?" her mother asked as her daughter stalked towards the closed window.
Kagome peered hard out the window and saw nothing but softly blowing snow flakes in the cool afternoon air. She shrugged and turned back around to grin at her mother. "No, Mama, nothing at all. Would you please watch this for me until Friday?"
Her mother nodded and hugged her daughter as she ran past to grab her huge yellow backpack. She watched out the window as Kagome ran around to the front of the house to bid her grandfather and brother farewell and blinked twice as she caught a flicker of movement out of the corner of her eye. She turned quickly just in time to see a flash of red and white disappear into the well shrine.
Kagome's mother grinned secretly as she moved to hang up the ball gown on the hanger again.
~~~End of Chapter One~~~
~~ I hope you all like my beginning. Don't worry; our favorite hanyou will be in the next chapter, but only if I GET 10 REVIEWS FOR THIS CHAPTER!!!! ONLY THEN WILL I UPDATE!!! ~~
Chapter One: Melancholy
Kagome sighed as she leaned back against the Gods Tree in her back yard. She picked at a piece of fluff on her skirt then leaned back to stare at the bare imprint burned into the tree above her head. Inuyasha had been pinned there centuries ago by that witch Kikyo, and then later by her reincarnation, whom Kagome now knew was herself.
It had been almost a year since the quest to reform the Shikon Jewel had begun. Despite their greatest efforts to flunk her, Kagome had gotten into one of the top high schools and was even now preparing for one of the most important moments in her high school life.
She grimaced as she imagined Inuyasha's reaction to her news. 'I've got to be home in two days', she'd tell him. And then of course he would gripe and moan and complain. Then he would try to physically restrain her and she would have to "sit" him and then she'd leave crying.
Kagome clenched her fist tightly in anger. Why should she put up with this? She was a grown woman for heaven's sake! She shouldn't have to put up with an arrogant, pushy, loud, overbearing, wonderful.
"Kagome?" her mother asked as she approached her daughter tentatively.
The girl started, and then smiled at her mother. "Sorry, Mama, I was daydreaming."
"About that cute friend of yours?" she asked teasingly, a small grin on her lips. Kagome grimaced again as she stood and brushed the leaves from her skirt. "I have no cute friends, Mama," she scoffed. "Is something wrong? I need to get ready to leave for the past again."
"I picked up your dry cleaning this morning, Kagome. Would you like to see?"
Kagome's anger and frustration at a certain dog-eared hanyou vanished as her smile lit up. "Of course!! Let's go, let's go!!"
She grabbed her mother by the arm and practically dragged her, laughing, into the house and up to Kagome's room. There she made a beeline for a plastic garment bag hanging on her closet.
Kagome's mother smiled softly as Kagome lifted the plastic and fingered the silk material inside. 'She's growing up far too fast for me,' she mused. She giggled a little as Kagome removed a blue silk ball gown from the garment bag and held it up to herself. 'Then again, maybe she's just right'.
Kagome held the gown up her to body and pantomimed dancing across the floor with some invisible stranger. Her face was beauteous as she twirled and jumped, her cheeks rosy and her eyes flashing.
Suddenly she stopped and glanced towards the window, her eyes narrowing. "Kagome? Is something wrong?" her mother asked as her daughter stalked towards the closed window.
Kagome peered hard out the window and saw nothing but softly blowing snow flakes in the cool afternoon air. She shrugged and turned back around to grin at her mother. "No, Mama, nothing at all. Would you please watch this for me until Friday?"
Her mother nodded and hugged her daughter as she ran past to grab her huge yellow backpack. She watched out the window as Kagome ran around to the front of the house to bid her grandfather and brother farewell and blinked twice as she caught a flicker of movement out of the corner of her eye. She turned quickly just in time to see a flash of red and white disappear into the well shrine.
Kagome's mother grinned secretly as she moved to hang up the ball gown on the hanger again.
~~~End of Chapter One~~~
~~ I hope you all like my beginning. Don't worry; our favorite hanyou will be in the next chapter, but only if I GET 10 REVIEWS FOR THIS CHAPTER!!!! ONLY THEN WILL I UPDATE!!! ~~