A wish Upon A star
Please forgive me for my VERY late update -_- ... I have had such a busy, busy week! I had two birthday party's to attend and then my birthday party to celebrate, and to put it all together I also had a lot of math homework – and all of you know how long it takes to finish math homework T.T
Hmm... did any of you readers know that a wish Upon a Star is my VERY first fanfic? Surprising eh?
I hope a lot of you noticed... this is my twentieth chapter! And I always like to reveal something on a number with a zero at the end!
Because I know that you all are anxious to read on with the story instead of reading my notes I'll skip the replies of reviews and just continue on with the story.
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Chapter Twenty
Definition
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Kagome groaned as she heard maidens bang on her bedroom door. Shaking her head, she tried to ignore them and doodles on a parchment instead. Since morning maidens had been walking in and out of her room, dressing her up in different clothes, trying to figure out which on suited her best.
Kagome felt her heart fall when the events of breakfast scurried back into her mind.
x.x.x.x.x – Flash Back – x.x.x.x.x
Kagome looked around the table nervously, it was definitely too quiet. She sneaked a peek at the king and queen, even they seemed nervous and Kagome panicked when she saw the look in their eyes.
They were hiding something. They looked just like Kagome's parents did when they were about to tell them she was getting engaged.
She looked across of the table to Inu-Yasha, who was devouring his breakfast like there was no tomorrow, she blinked. He didn't seem to notice the queer silence at the breakfast table today.
Looking sideways, she noticed Sesshomaru was paying no attention to the king and queen but rather to the maiden serving the orange juice. She raised an eyebrow at him... hadn't he been doing that yesterday... or the day before... even the day before that?
She shrugged and tried to eat her breakfast, but as Kagome stuffed the bacon in her mouth, she just chewed on it and didn't swallow. Her guts were telling her something, that something big and bad was about to happen.
Deciding she couldn't stay in the awkward silence of the table, she got up and was about to leave but stopped when she heard the queens voice.
"Oh, please don't leave – we have an announcement to make"
Kagome almost choked on the words, announcements never had anything good in store for her...
Turning around, she sat back down on the chair and waited patiently for the king and queen to make their 'announcement'. After Inu-Yasha finished devouring his bacon and eggs, the queen got up and smiled warmly to all the guests at the table.
"We have decided something very important" The queen started and the king stood up to help her with the announcement.
"As you all know, your engagement is arriving in a while" The king narrowed his eyes at Inu-Yasha who growled at the sentence.
"And we decided, why not..." The queen continued.
"...why not put a marriage in it as well!" The king finished off for the queen.
What happened afterwards was quite a blur to even Kagome who experienced the chaos.
Firstly, dead silence. No one spoke, no one even took a breath, and it seemed as if even the wind had stopped its daily course.
Then, everything exploded.
"WHAT!?!" Inu-Yasha bellowed and stood up immediately, knocking down his chair and sending the contents of the table scattering across the room.
"Calm down Inu-Yasha" the queen started but was cut off when Inu-Yasha started talking.
"Who are you to tell me what to do? My life has been hell since you barged into my life" He said sharply to the queen who sighed in hurt defeat and shook her head, she was about to talk again but Inu-Yasha barged out of the room.
The king looked over to Kikyou, Kagome and Sesshomaru for reinforcements but he didn't get any.
Sesshomaru stood up and glared at the king and queen, warning them not to speak making him seem very much like –their- father instead of the other way around, and with that he vanished from the room in a puff of clouds.
Kikyou fainted.
And Kagome, she was speechless.
x.x.x.x.x – End of Flash Back – x.x.x.x.x
Kagome hit her head softly on her table. Oh god, the must have been joking - Marriage, right on the day of the engagement? That was unfair, disastrous to say in the least.
Kagome lifted her head when she heard a maiden shout out to her from outside of her door.
"Lady Kagome! Your wedding dress has arrived!"
Kagome lowered her head back to the table and sighed depressively. Why wear a wedding dress when you don't want to be wed?
"Stupid wish didn't even come true" she murmured as she remembered the night she made a wish of true love on the special star.
"What wish?" A voice in her head spoke up.
"I made a wish, to experience true love – I wasted my one wish on something that's definitely not going to come true" She answered back, not noticing she was talking to herself and a voice in her head.
"Oh, and you say it hasn't come true?" The voice replied.
She scoffed "It hasn't, I mean – it's only coincidence I met Kouga, Miroku and Inu-Yasha and I was forced to meet Sesshomaru, none of my meetings seem destined"
"None of your meetings –were- destined, but haven't you thought after making that wish, maybe they did become destined?" the voice replied mysteriously.
Kagome laughed to herself quietly "Oh, so you mean – just because I made a wish, all my paths of life were changed and I wasn't supposed to meet the people I met but I did just because of a simple wish?"
"That could be what I am saying"
"Then tell me, how come I haven't fallen in love yet?" She asked back smartly.
"Oh, but you have"
Kagome sat up straight at the words and then blinked when she noticed herself staring at the wall.
Had she just been talking to herself? She shook herself at her stupidity and returned doodling on her paper, though it wasn't helping her much on erasing her own words of the wish.
'Oh, but you have'
The words kept ringing in her mind over and over again. She shook her head and sighed in frustration. She was just letting her imagination run free, she hadn't fallen in love – if she did, she would've known.
She growled and started playing with her, starting to feel frustrated as the simple words rang in her mind again and again.
"You mind if I interrupt this mental phase you're going through?" Sango's voice carried to her ears.
She looked up from the desk and saw Sango in front of the door where maidens were still banging at.
"I wasn't going through any mental phase" Kagome said simply as she stood up and walked over to the bed where she laid down promptly.
"They sent me in here to get you to open the door for them" Sango stated simply as Kagome looked at her from half closed eyes.
"How many weeks till the engagement, or may I say now – marriage?" Kagome asked hopelessly.
"Three weeks and three days" Sango replied, feeling pity for the girl in front of her.
Kagome who was still trying to get rid of the words her self conscious had said to her, as she replayed the words again, a question popped in her mind as she saw Sango fiddle with her hands. "Hey, Sango – let me ask you a question"
Sango looked at her and then nodded "Go ahead"
"How do you know you're in love?" She asked, surprising Sango very much at the question.
After getting over her shock, Sango sighed and answered Kagome's question with a lot of thought. "Well, you don't - until the last minute"
Kagome blinked at her answer, this didn't help very much "What do you mean?"
Sango sighed and rolled over to her back on the bed "I mean, all the time you're hanging around with a guy, and you're always getting into fights or end up in embarrassing situations – you always think of him as a close friend, but then when everything is over and you think you've lost him – you just know"
"You just know what?"
"You just know if you're in love or not, when you have something you take it for granted, you never treasure it until it starts to fall out of your grasp, and then you realize how much it means to you"
"So, you mean -." Kagome started but was cut of from Sango.
"What do we know? We could be falling in love with a guy right now and we have no idea but when their not with us we realize it then and then we know what we've lost"
Kagome stared at her hands; this conversation was getting her nowhere and now she had forgotten how it had started. Kagome sighed, she was being silly – just because her stupid self conscious said she might be in love already didn't mean she actually was.
She was about to speak but Sango was faster.
"So, are you thinking about anyone?"
Kagome blinked, looked up at Sango and scoffed "No one"
"Right..."
Kagome gaped at her "Girls talk about these things don't they? It doesn't mean that I'm in love with someone"
"Right..."
"SANGO!"
"Okay... okay, jeez – I was just joking"
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Inu-Yasha grumbled as he glided down from Kagome's balcony down to the gardens below.
"Stupid girl..."
He was going to pick her up and ask her if she wanted to go and check out the sea but, instead he had caught her in an awkward conversation about love and how you would know if you had met your true love.
"Dumb stupid girl..."
He had to admit the conversation did nothing but make him blush immensely, how would he have known he was so sensitive to the topic?
"Worthless dumb stupid girl..."
He landed on the ground and made his way towards the forest, feeling grumpy of having to barge in and having to listen to a conversation about such a –mushy- topic.
"Stupid worthless stupid girl"
He stopped, wasn't he repeating the list of names he could call Kagome? He shook his head, she was getting to his head, and he knew it. After the incident with Naraku he had lowered – most – incidents where both of them could end up in a fight, and he had to accept, it wasn't easy. He had, by a lot of pressure, stopped calling her wench and other rude names he called her and lowered his possibilities to stupid and worthless.
Why should he care if she died?
It wasn't like she meant anything to him.
He was muttering something under his breath when someone patted him on his back. "Hey brother"
He jerked up immediately and turned around to see who it was, somehow his sense of smell and sound blocked by the intensity of his thoughts. He calmed down when he saw it was only Miroku and continued walking down the path to the forest.
"So, what have you been up to?" He asked in his normal cheery form.
Inu-Yasha grunted and said nothing but continued walking down the path.
"Do you want to know what I was thinking about?" Miroku asked Inu-Yasha as Miroku tugged along Inu-Yasha down the path to the forest.
"No" Inu-Yasha replied simply as he noticed this was Miroku he was talking to.
Miroku, ignoring his reply continued on with his conversation anyway "I was wondering how good it would feel to have Sango scratch and massage my ears"
Inu-Yasha blinked as he remembered when Kagome had done the exact same thing to him. A shiver went down his spine, even in the hot summer sun.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing"
"Right..."
"I mean it Miroku, why the heck would I start wondering on a topic right after you said something so pervert - ish"
"Right..."
"MIROKU!"
"Okay, Okay! Jeez, I was just joking"
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Kagome waked solitarily down the corridors of the castle, carefully avoiding any maidens who wanted her to try on a wedding dress. She had given into the maidens who had been banging on her door earlier on and had spent an hour trying on different kinds of wedding dresses.
"I can't believe my parents agreed to this," she murmured under her breath as she stepped down the steps of the staircase. "They're just sealing my life away"
She was running down the staircase, oblivious to where she was running off to when she stopped dead in front of a large oak door.
"That's strange, I've never been here before" Kagome whispered as she traced her fingers over the fragile and wooden handle of the door.
She turned around and looked up the staircase; she must have taken a wrong turn somewhere up ahead and must have ended down here. She was about to walk up the staircase again when she noticed the large oak door behind her again.
She hesitated. "The door or the stairs?"
She gulped and decided to look whatever was behind the large oak door, ignorant to the feelings in her guts that were telling her to turn around and run.
She walked down the steps and touched the ancient doorknob once again. It seemed worn out, as if a person had rushed in here again and again and had worn out the handle. She turned the handle and pushed the door in, revealing a dimly lit stoned wall.
She walked in, her footsteps echoing throughout the squared room, looking around, she noticed it was fairly empty apart from a throne shaped stand in front of the room.
Walking up to it, she kneeled down and examined it closely, there seemed to be writing on it.
She gasped as she read the words.
Rest in Peace
Here lies Ayumi Youkai.
Died at the age of 37, it has
been four years since her
departure, we will remember
you for eternity.
Kagome stepped back. There it was, in front of her. The grave of Inu- Yasha's mother, his –real- mother was right in front of her.
"So it was true" she whispered in a bare whisper to herself.
A faint sound snapped her out of realization and she turned around to see a little girl standing in front of her. She smiled faintly.
"Are you here to pay your respects? I'm sorry, I shouldn't have barged in, and I'll leave if you want"
The girl, who had un-human like white hair said nothing and continued staring at Kagome. After a moment she spoke up "My name is Kanna"
Kagome's smile wavered, the answer she had received was completely of course of what she had asked, though even a little confused at the girl, Kagome nodded brightly "That's very nice, and is that your mirror?"
The girl nodded "Can you help me clean it?"
Kagome smiled cheerily "Sure"
Kagome stepped forward and ripped a piece of cloth from her dressing gown, not caring in a least that she had just ruined her new dress. As she lowered the cloth to the mirror, she frowned "That's weird Kanna; I don't see any dirt on your mirror"
There was no reply, feeling uneasy, Kagome decided to clean it for her anyway. As she touched the mirror, Kagome felt shocking pain.
It felt as if someone was separating every molecule in her body and trying to pull her life out. Kagome choked for some air and strained her eyes to see properly through the white mist that had formed around her.
She looked into the mirror and gasped when she saw no reflection.
Then, her body collapsed into numbness.
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Inu-Yasha sighed as he walked down the spiral staircase to pay his daily respects to his dead mother. It broke his heart when he kneeled down in front of the gravestone and prayed, she wouldn't have died if he hadn't been so enormously stupid.
"If I had killed myself a second earlier... she wouldn't have died"
He clenched his fists, four years since his mother's death, and he still wouldn't let her go. He gulped; he knew the reason why he never accepted his new mother... he was terrified, terrified to move on without someone beside him.
Inu-Yasha was lost in his thoughts when he smelt something familiar. He stopped dead in his tracks and kneeled down to the floor to sniff the staircase.
He froze. "This is Kagome's scent"
Realization hit him like a wave. 'Damn!'
He ran down the steps like wind and almost crashed into the large oak door. Fumbling with the fragile and wooden handle, he opened the door and growled immediately.
The room was lingering with Kagome's scent. Growling from his throat, he looked around to see if Kagome was still here... "If she is... I'm gonna -."
He froze, the sight in front of him making his blood freeze in his veins.
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I swear the next chapter will come out VERY soon ^.^
I wouldn't leave you on such a cliffie for long ... *creeps away from computer screen*
No seriously, I mean it.
*Plans a runaway*
^.^ I'm just joking, you can expect the next chapter up in a few days, and by few I mean three or four, or maybe even two!
Remember to Review!
Oh- and the whole mother thing isn't the family secret, just to anyone who is wondering.
Sayonara!
Please forgive me for my VERY late update -_- ... I have had such a busy, busy week! I had two birthday party's to attend and then my birthday party to celebrate, and to put it all together I also had a lot of math homework – and all of you know how long it takes to finish math homework T.T
Hmm... did any of you readers know that a wish Upon a Star is my VERY first fanfic? Surprising eh?
I hope a lot of you noticed... this is my twentieth chapter! And I always like to reveal something on a number with a zero at the end!
Because I know that you all are anxious to read on with the story instead of reading my notes I'll skip the replies of reviews and just continue on with the story.
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Chapter Twenty
Definition
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Kagome groaned as she heard maidens bang on her bedroom door. Shaking her head, she tried to ignore them and doodles on a parchment instead. Since morning maidens had been walking in and out of her room, dressing her up in different clothes, trying to figure out which on suited her best.
Kagome felt her heart fall when the events of breakfast scurried back into her mind.
x.x.x.x.x – Flash Back – x.x.x.x.x
Kagome looked around the table nervously, it was definitely too quiet. She sneaked a peek at the king and queen, even they seemed nervous and Kagome panicked when she saw the look in their eyes.
They were hiding something. They looked just like Kagome's parents did when they were about to tell them she was getting engaged.
She looked across of the table to Inu-Yasha, who was devouring his breakfast like there was no tomorrow, she blinked. He didn't seem to notice the queer silence at the breakfast table today.
Looking sideways, she noticed Sesshomaru was paying no attention to the king and queen but rather to the maiden serving the orange juice. She raised an eyebrow at him... hadn't he been doing that yesterday... or the day before... even the day before that?
She shrugged and tried to eat her breakfast, but as Kagome stuffed the bacon in her mouth, she just chewed on it and didn't swallow. Her guts were telling her something, that something big and bad was about to happen.
Deciding she couldn't stay in the awkward silence of the table, she got up and was about to leave but stopped when she heard the queens voice.
"Oh, please don't leave – we have an announcement to make"
Kagome almost choked on the words, announcements never had anything good in store for her...
Turning around, she sat back down on the chair and waited patiently for the king and queen to make their 'announcement'. After Inu-Yasha finished devouring his bacon and eggs, the queen got up and smiled warmly to all the guests at the table.
"We have decided something very important" The queen started and the king stood up to help her with the announcement.
"As you all know, your engagement is arriving in a while" The king narrowed his eyes at Inu-Yasha who growled at the sentence.
"And we decided, why not..." The queen continued.
"...why not put a marriage in it as well!" The king finished off for the queen.
What happened afterwards was quite a blur to even Kagome who experienced the chaos.
Firstly, dead silence. No one spoke, no one even took a breath, and it seemed as if even the wind had stopped its daily course.
Then, everything exploded.
"WHAT!?!" Inu-Yasha bellowed and stood up immediately, knocking down his chair and sending the contents of the table scattering across the room.
"Calm down Inu-Yasha" the queen started but was cut off when Inu-Yasha started talking.
"Who are you to tell me what to do? My life has been hell since you barged into my life" He said sharply to the queen who sighed in hurt defeat and shook her head, she was about to talk again but Inu-Yasha barged out of the room.
The king looked over to Kikyou, Kagome and Sesshomaru for reinforcements but he didn't get any.
Sesshomaru stood up and glared at the king and queen, warning them not to speak making him seem very much like –their- father instead of the other way around, and with that he vanished from the room in a puff of clouds.
Kikyou fainted.
And Kagome, she was speechless.
x.x.x.x.x – End of Flash Back – x.x.x.x.x
Kagome hit her head softly on her table. Oh god, the must have been joking - Marriage, right on the day of the engagement? That was unfair, disastrous to say in the least.
Kagome lifted her head when she heard a maiden shout out to her from outside of her door.
"Lady Kagome! Your wedding dress has arrived!"
Kagome lowered her head back to the table and sighed depressively. Why wear a wedding dress when you don't want to be wed?
"Stupid wish didn't even come true" she murmured as she remembered the night she made a wish of true love on the special star.
"What wish?" A voice in her head spoke up.
"I made a wish, to experience true love – I wasted my one wish on something that's definitely not going to come true" She answered back, not noticing she was talking to herself and a voice in her head.
"Oh, and you say it hasn't come true?" The voice replied.
She scoffed "It hasn't, I mean – it's only coincidence I met Kouga, Miroku and Inu-Yasha and I was forced to meet Sesshomaru, none of my meetings seem destined"
"None of your meetings –were- destined, but haven't you thought after making that wish, maybe they did become destined?" the voice replied mysteriously.
Kagome laughed to herself quietly "Oh, so you mean – just because I made a wish, all my paths of life were changed and I wasn't supposed to meet the people I met but I did just because of a simple wish?"
"That could be what I am saying"
"Then tell me, how come I haven't fallen in love yet?" She asked back smartly.
"Oh, but you have"
Kagome sat up straight at the words and then blinked when she noticed herself staring at the wall.
Had she just been talking to herself? She shook herself at her stupidity and returned doodling on her paper, though it wasn't helping her much on erasing her own words of the wish.
'Oh, but you have'
The words kept ringing in her mind over and over again. She shook her head and sighed in frustration. She was just letting her imagination run free, she hadn't fallen in love – if she did, she would've known.
She growled and started playing with her, starting to feel frustrated as the simple words rang in her mind again and again.
"You mind if I interrupt this mental phase you're going through?" Sango's voice carried to her ears.
She looked up from the desk and saw Sango in front of the door where maidens were still banging at.
"I wasn't going through any mental phase" Kagome said simply as she stood up and walked over to the bed where she laid down promptly.
"They sent me in here to get you to open the door for them" Sango stated simply as Kagome looked at her from half closed eyes.
"How many weeks till the engagement, or may I say now – marriage?" Kagome asked hopelessly.
"Three weeks and three days" Sango replied, feeling pity for the girl in front of her.
Kagome who was still trying to get rid of the words her self conscious had said to her, as she replayed the words again, a question popped in her mind as she saw Sango fiddle with her hands. "Hey, Sango – let me ask you a question"
Sango looked at her and then nodded "Go ahead"
"How do you know you're in love?" She asked, surprising Sango very much at the question.
After getting over her shock, Sango sighed and answered Kagome's question with a lot of thought. "Well, you don't - until the last minute"
Kagome blinked at her answer, this didn't help very much "What do you mean?"
Sango sighed and rolled over to her back on the bed "I mean, all the time you're hanging around with a guy, and you're always getting into fights or end up in embarrassing situations – you always think of him as a close friend, but then when everything is over and you think you've lost him – you just know"
"You just know what?"
"You just know if you're in love or not, when you have something you take it for granted, you never treasure it until it starts to fall out of your grasp, and then you realize how much it means to you"
"So, you mean -." Kagome started but was cut of from Sango.
"What do we know? We could be falling in love with a guy right now and we have no idea but when their not with us we realize it then and then we know what we've lost"
Kagome stared at her hands; this conversation was getting her nowhere and now she had forgotten how it had started. Kagome sighed, she was being silly – just because her stupid self conscious said she might be in love already didn't mean she actually was.
She was about to speak but Sango was faster.
"So, are you thinking about anyone?"
Kagome blinked, looked up at Sango and scoffed "No one"
"Right..."
Kagome gaped at her "Girls talk about these things don't they? It doesn't mean that I'm in love with someone"
"Right..."
"SANGO!"
"Okay... okay, jeez – I was just joking"
.............................
Inu-Yasha grumbled as he glided down from Kagome's balcony down to the gardens below.
"Stupid girl..."
He was going to pick her up and ask her if she wanted to go and check out the sea but, instead he had caught her in an awkward conversation about love and how you would know if you had met your true love.
"Dumb stupid girl..."
He had to admit the conversation did nothing but make him blush immensely, how would he have known he was so sensitive to the topic?
"Worthless dumb stupid girl..."
He landed on the ground and made his way towards the forest, feeling grumpy of having to barge in and having to listen to a conversation about such a –mushy- topic.
"Stupid worthless stupid girl"
He stopped, wasn't he repeating the list of names he could call Kagome? He shook his head, she was getting to his head, and he knew it. After the incident with Naraku he had lowered – most – incidents where both of them could end up in a fight, and he had to accept, it wasn't easy. He had, by a lot of pressure, stopped calling her wench and other rude names he called her and lowered his possibilities to stupid and worthless.
Why should he care if she died?
It wasn't like she meant anything to him.
He was muttering something under his breath when someone patted him on his back. "Hey brother"
He jerked up immediately and turned around to see who it was, somehow his sense of smell and sound blocked by the intensity of his thoughts. He calmed down when he saw it was only Miroku and continued walking down the path to the forest.
"So, what have you been up to?" He asked in his normal cheery form.
Inu-Yasha grunted and said nothing but continued walking down the path.
"Do you want to know what I was thinking about?" Miroku asked Inu-Yasha as Miroku tugged along Inu-Yasha down the path to the forest.
"No" Inu-Yasha replied simply as he noticed this was Miroku he was talking to.
Miroku, ignoring his reply continued on with his conversation anyway "I was wondering how good it would feel to have Sango scratch and massage my ears"
Inu-Yasha blinked as he remembered when Kagome had done the exact same thing to him. A shiver went down his spine, even in the hot summer sun.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing"
"Right..."
"I mean it Miroku, why the heck would I start wondering on a topic right after you said something so pervert - ish"
"Right..."
"MIROKU!"
"Okay, Okay! Jeez, I was just joking"
.......................................................
Kagome waked solitarily down the corridors of the castle, carefully avoiding any maidens who wanted her to try on a wedding dress. She had given into the maidens who had been banging on her door earlier on and had spent an hour trying on different kinds of wedding dresses.
"I can't believe my parents agreed to this," she murmured under her breath as she stepped down the steps of the staircase. "They're just sealing my life away"
She was running down the staircase, oblivious to where she was running off to when she stopped dead in front of a large oak door.
"That's strange, I've never been here before" Kagome whispered as she traced her fingers over the fragile and wooden handle of the door.
She turned around and looked up the staircase; she must have taken a wrong turn somewhere up ahead and must have ended down here. She was about to walk up the staircase again when she noticed the large oak door behind her again.
She hesitated. "The door or the stairs?"
She gulped and decided to look whatever was behind the large oak door, ignorant to the feelings in her guts that were telling her to turn around and run.
She walked down the steps and touched the ancient doorknob once again. It seemed worn out, as if a person had rushed in here again and again and had worn out the handle. She turned the handle and pushed the door in, revealing a dimly lit stoned wall.
She walked in, her footsteps echoing throughout the squared room, looking around, she noticed it was fairly empty apart from a throne shaped stand in front of the room.
Walking up to it, she kneeled down and examined it closely, there seemed to be writing on it.
She gasped as she read the words.
Rest in Peace
Here lies Ayumi Youkai.
Died at the age of 37, it has
been four years since her
departure, we will remember
you for eternity.
Kagome stepped back. There it was, in front of her. The grave of Inu- Yasha's mother, his –real- mother was right in front of her.
"So it was true" she whispered in a bare whisper to herself.
A faint sound snapped her out of realization and she turned around to see a little girl standing in front of her. She smiled faintly.
"Are you here to pay your respects? I'm sorry, I shouldn't have barged in, and I'll leave if you want"
The girl, who had un-human like white hair said nothing and continued staring at Kagome. After a moment she spoke up "My name is Kanna"
Kagome's smile wavered, the answer she had received was completely of course of what she had asked, though even a little confused at the girl, Kagome nodded brightly "That's very nice, and is that your mirror?"
The girl nodded "Can you help me clean it?"
Kagome smiled cheerily "Sure"
Kagome stepped forward and ripped a piece of cloth from her dressing gown, not caring in a least that she had just ruined her new dress. As she lowered the cloth to the mirror, she frowned "That's weird Kanna; I don't see any dirt on your mirror"
There was no reply, feeling uneasy, Kagome decided to clean it for her anyway. As she touched the mirror, Kagome felt shocking pain.
It felt as if someone was separating every molecule in her body and trying to pull her life out. Kagome choked for some air and strained her eyes to see properly through the white mist that had formed around her.
She looked into the mirror and gasped when she saw no reflection.
Then, her body collapsed into numbness.
.................................
Inu-Yasha sighed as he walked down the spiral staircase to pay his daily respects to his dead mother. It broke his heart when he kneeled down in front of the gravestone and prayed, she wouldn't have died if he hadn't been so enormously stupid.
"If I had killed myself a second earlier... she wouldn't have died"
He clenched his fists, four years since his mother's death, and he still wouldn't let her go. He gulped; he knew the reason why he never accepted his new mother... he was terrified, terrified to move on without someone beside him.
Inu-Yasha was lost in his thoughts when he smelt something familiar. He stopped dead in his tracks and kneeled down to the floor to sniff the staircase.
He froze. "This is Kagome's scent"
Realization hit him like a wave. 'Damn!'
He ran down the steps like wind and almost crashed into the large oak door. Fumbling with the fragile and wooden handle, he opened the door and growled immediately.
The room was lingering with Kagome's scent. Growling from his throat, he looked around to see if Kagome was still here... "If she is... I'm gonna -."
He froze, the sight in front of him making his blood freeze in his veins.
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I swear the next chapter will come out VERY soon ^.^
I wouldn't leave you on such a cliffie for long ... *creeps away from computer screen*
No seriously, I mean it.
*Plans a runaway*
^.^ I'm just joking, you can expect the next chapter up in a few days, and by few I mean three or four, or maybe even two!
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Oh- and the whole mother thing isn't the family secret, just to anyone who is wondering.
Sayonara!