"Mom! Mom I'm home! I won the game! Mom? Mom, where are you!? We won... the... game..." Kagome Higurashi walked into her kitchen to find her mother with her head in her hands and quite upset about something. "What's wrong mom? Where's dad?" Her mother didn't answer, but looked at her with very solemn eyes. Her grandmother had taken her to her soccer game and she won it for all her teammates. She wanted her father to hear about the great news.

(Flashback)

5 second on the clock, 2 teams neck and neck, she makes it to the goal.... and she scores!!!!! Over the loudspeaker are the words,"Kagome Higurashi has won the team 1st place championship!!!"

(End Flashback)

Surely her dad would be home to congratulate her in her winnings? "Mom? Where's dad? Did he go somewhere?" To her shock and dismay, her mother broke down crying.

"Mom?! What's wrong?! I-I'm sorry! Please don't cry! I didn't mean to get you upset!"

"Ka-Kagome," her mother sniffled, looking at her daughter with wet eyes," your father, while you were out,I went shopping and- and he had a heart attack!!!!Kagome looked on in horror as her mother broke down in tears. Why isn't she with him? Is he ok? Are the first two thoughts that crossed her mind

"Well!! What are we waiting here for? We HAVE to go see him! He needs us!!" She went to go grab their coats when she felt her mother pull her by the arm.

"No Kagome...he isn't at a hospital anymore-

"THEN WHERE IS HE!!!!?? You're his WIFE!! Your supposed to know these things" Kagome understood what her mother meant, but she couldn't believe it-no, she REFUSED to believe it. So with tears forming in her eyes, she ripped herself from her mothers grasp and sprinted up the stairs and slammed the door behind her.

'How could this happen!? Why did it HAVE to happen to us!?' With that, she flopped on her bed and gazed at a picture she had of her and her father when she was little. She was on his shoulder with a peace sign for fingers while her father was winking playfully. It was on the fourth of July so the fireworks were bursting in the back round. It really was a beautiful picture. She always liked it until now. Now, everything had already changed, even a simple picture of her family was different within seconds. She figured her life would change soon too. It was inevitable to try and keep it from happening, no use, waste of time. So it was only common sense to not think about it, or the serious pain forming in her very heart. Soon, Kagome Higurashi drifted into a peaceful sleep.