Okay ppls!!!! I know I haven't been on for the longest time, but Hurricane Ivan just hit Pace and Pensacola really hard here in Florida. It took them FOREVER to get our power back so since yesterday I haven't had power.... Meaning- no hot showers, no computer, no phone, no lights in the house, (it was SUPER dark at night) and WORST of all.......NO COFFEE!!!!! No refrigerator or freezer either, no stove.....yeah I bet this is boring so.... Thanks to Hot Hanyou. walks off stage

Disclaimer- Nope, all I own is a penny!!

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After Kagome saw her mom had left out of sight she trudged back upstairs to finish unpacking. She wasn't even at this house for a full 10 minutes when Aunt Kagura called her down to dinner.

"Kagome, Kikyo, Kaede!! Dinner's ready!"

She gasped at the fact that she hadn't even seen all her relatives yet! Sota especially! Where was he? He was usually the one who greeted Kagome first. He always had adored Kagome when they were younger, she liked him too. He was really just a baby then and followed Kagome around like a little lost puppy. It was really cute.

Kagome sighed and looked around, surprisingly, she was already in her and Kikyo's room.

Well, Kaede's bound to have grown a little or matured some

While Kagome was off in her little dream land, Kikyo took this opportunity to swing open their door with such force Kagome jumped off the bed and screamed.

"Oops! Sorry 'bout that Kagome. Umm... dinner's ready!"

When Kagome just sat there trying to regain what pride she had left, Kikyo boasted about how if she didn't get up, she'd kick her.

"Come on!! We haven't got all day!!! Get moving!!"

"Alright!! Alright!! I'm moving!"

When everyone was at the table, and her relatives were talking away to each other, she noticed Sota was no where to be found.

"Aunt Kagura? Where is Sota?"

And just like that everything was quiet. So quiet, she could've sworn she heard a pin drop. (Just trying to lighten the mood!)

Slowly but surely, her aunt spoke, while everyone but Kikyo, bowed their heads.

Sigh "Well Kagome. You apparently haven't heard about the accident-

"What accident?"

Kagome said, already alarmed as to what happened to her cousin.

"He- He......he died. A year ago."

She was dumbfounded. Sota...... the sweetest person she'd ever met was gone forever.

"Oh come on mom!! It was a year ago! That is the past. I've gotten over it, why can't you?"

Kagome snapped her head up to look at Kikyo. Did she realize what she was asking?

To forget such a sweet boy, especially asking her own mother to forget 4 years with her own son!? That scared her. But what scared her most was the look on Kikyo's face as she said it.

A look of pure, utter amusement and.....satisfaction?!

Kagome looked at her aunt to see if she realized Kikyo's look. With GREAT relief, she saw that her aunt and the rest of the family were just lifting their heads up, meaning they hadn't seen a thing.

I'll think about Kikyo later. Right now, I just have to make sure I don't cry.'

Sure enough, tears started welling up in her eyes.

'No! I thought I wasn't supposed to do that! Oh well, I can't stop it anyway.'

"May I be excused?"

"Of course." answered her uncle.

She quickly ran upstairs to her shared room and accidentally slammed the door. Almost immediately she started crying. She ran over to her bed and started crying uncontrollably into her pillow. Soon she heard a knock at the door. She knew it was coming and knew exactly what to say,

"Please go away! I need time to think!" she didn't want to be rude.

"You know? That would work on my parents, but not on me. Now open the door."

Was it just her, or did that command sound a little harsh.

Either way, she got up to unlock the door. She did need to talk to Kikyo anyway and clear a few things up.

"Are you crying? Man, Kagome you can't be this whiny when my friends get here tomorrow morning."

Did she hear correctly?! Whiny?! Her cousin just died?!

"Kikyo! How can you be this way?!"

Kikyo snapped her head in Kagome's direction with an icy glare.

Oooh! Cliffy!!! Once again, thanks to Hot Hanyou... REVIEWS ARE APPRECIATED!!!! Don't worry Inu will show up in the next chap! Sry it's so short! C U soon!! R&R