That was the voice of someone I had never heard before. But it wasn't the voice that bothered me. It was what the voice was telling me.

"Hello, is this the Tajiya residence?" The man on the phone didn't sound all to cheery and the background noises startled me. It sounded like he was in a place with a lot of frantic people.

"Why yes it is. May I ask whose calling?" It was then that worry overtook her. Who on earth would be calling her house? Most would say may I speak to your mother, your brother, your father, your uncle. Or they'd use names. Kohaku, Satsuko, Machiko, Tasutsu. She was the one who usually answered the phone, she knew all the voices.

But that wasn't the voice of someone she knew. And that wasn't the way anyone she knew asked to speak to someone. So who was it…?

Her unanswered question was cut short at the mysterious voice spoke once again. "This is Officer Takahashi, if you are standing, would you please sit down? I cannot be sure if you will fall over, and I do not wish another person to."

I just sort of sank into my bed. And my whole mind screamed it couldn't be true, who could have died? Only to be confirmed a second later at the officer's words, "Ms. Tajiya, is it?"

I stuttered over the simple word even I knew so well. "H..hai…"

I couldn't comprehend what he was going to say. But once he said it, I wanted to curl up and die. "Ms. Tajiya, your brother Kohaku Tajiya is dead."

Dead, death. You never truly understand the concept of death. Until it hits you smack in the face and someone you know dies. And there are several steps to understand what a person goes through when coping through any loss. And needless to say, I followed that pattern quite well, he told me later on.

I didn't even respond, until he started yelling in my ear. I wasn;t even thinking, I had just slipped into a blank nothing-ness. "Ms. Tajiya, have you heard anything I've said?"

"My brother is dead." I managed to spit out. It sounded mechanical and lifeless.

"Ms. Tajiya would you find it easier to give the phone to your guardian?"

"One moment please." I said. I sounded more like a robot and less like a human. "I'll put my mother on."

I placed the phone on the bed, and dragged one foot after another out the door, and to the top of the stairs. "MOM!!! PHONE!!!"

Then I dragged myself back in my room. And I plunked down on the bed. And I just sat there. I was in too much of a state of shock to do anything. Subconsciously I still didn't believe he was gone. Who knew this would happen? And all so fast at that, when I said good bye to Kohaku that morning, I hadn't expected it to be the last time I'd see him.

I thought I heard my mother sobbing downstairs, but I didn't really register it. I laid down and my head sort of sunk into the pillow. I just lay there, an incredible fog of depression hanging over me.

I must have fallen asleep, I can't remember lying there for too long.

I woke up to my alarm, stretched, felt better for all of three seconds…

Then realized Kohaku was dead. And crumpled to the floor like a rag doll.

Mother heard my alarm and came upstairs. "Sango, if you don't want to go to school today, I'll completely understand."

My eyes were blank as I stared at her, slowly blinked, then blinked again. Finally a nod came.

"Sango, would you find it easier to transfer schools?"

I blinked again, and nodded again. I sat on the floor, kneeling there.

And then it all hit like a tsunami. It hits and then it rolls back and forth until calming. This was the way the wave of pain hit, except it was more like multiple tsunamis, striking the same place one after another.

She stood up and concluded to herself that Kohaku was still alive, this was all just a cruel prank.

Slinging her backpack with her unfinished homework over her shoulder, she dressed as quickly as possible, gulped down her breakfast and headed out the door. Her mother didn't hear a sound, she was too busy sobbing in her upstairs bedroom.

As I walked, I wondered why Dad and Satsuko hadn't come to talk to me. I concluded that Satsuko had probablyt gone to some party, got himself piss drunk, and was sacked out on the couch, with the other half of the party. All the parties he went to ended with people hitting the floor drunk as a doorknob, and with horrible hangovers after ward.

Dad was a different story however, I had a feeling he hadn't returned from his business trip. I decided to just walk on in silence, and let my thoughts drown in one another.

-

As I was getting something from my locker, Kagome came up and began to speak to me. But because of the way I was running at the moment, it went in one ear and out the other.

"And Sango I was wondering why you weren't there when I came to your house to wait for you. And why didn't you come talk to me this morning. And why didn't you wait up when I yelled wait up to you?"

I slammed my locker door shut and turned away, not even acknowledging Kagome.

Kagome grabbed my arm and pulled me back, then placed both hands on my shoulders and turned me around. "Sango, something is wrong. Don't say everything's hunky dory, because judging from the way your acting it isn't. Please tell me what's wrong."

Before Kagome had even managed to begun her speech, I had fainted. She was the only thing holding me up, and when she removed her arms I dropped to the ground.

A shriek ran through the hallway as Kagome realized her dear friend was unconscious. Everyone turned around to see what had happened, and murmurs of "Some girl fainted" was heard throughout the hall.

Kagome sunk to her knees, and with a firm grip on Sango's shoulders, began shaking her back and forth tears in her eyes. "Sango what the hell is wrong with you, and why won't you wake up?"

I opened my eyes once again to the bright lights of the hallway, and looked up to find Kagome crying over me, shaking my shoulders some more for extra emphasis. She finally withdrew her hands and they fell limply to her side, scraping the ground with her nails as they found their place yet again. I held my arms out tentatively, and as expected Kagome fell right into them.

I wrapped my arms around her back and felt a few tears slide down my cheek too. Needless to say I was still in denial.

"'Ey it's two lesbians making out. If you're going to give us a show, at least take off your clothes first." It was that arrogant InuYasha guy. Kagome stiffened and I felt her pull back. It all happened so fast that the next thing I knew Kagome was standing there, mouth agape, hand held over it with the typical 'oh my god' expression.

She had slapped him. The hand mark proved it. And it was unexpected to. His eyes were wide with shock. And one of his hands rose up to touch his cheek. He didn't even say now. "Don't touch those higher than you, bitch." He muttered before spinning on his heel and walking off.

Kagome was staring at the ground, and we both knew she'd done something wrong.

-

The day went fairly slowly. I spaced out in all my classes, and every class when homework was demanded and not given, when no answer came forth, they all pointed to the door and I sat on the bench near the office until next class. Then I would get up and head to the next class.

The principal didn't notice me all day. Whether it was because I was so quiet sitting there, and I wasn't causing any trouble. Perhaps my mother had called the school letting them know why I'd be so spaced out. But most likely, she was dealing with the day to day trouble makers and had no time for a perfect student like me, who had simply managed to get all incomplete homework assignments in every class that day.

As I headed home down the path, I didn't know what to do anymore. Kagome walked beside me as silent as I was. I had a feeling she was still very shocked about the fact she had hit InuYasha. If it was some regular boy whom had insulted her, and then she had slapped him, she would still be ranting about how much a jerk said guy was. But she wasn't now. I came to the conclusion that perhaps there was something more that she felt towards him then just being in the same school.

We kept walking until we reached my home. I opened the door, but instead of hearing the normal sounds of my mother, I heard nothing.

"Kagome!!!" I called after her. She turned around and walked backwards until she reached the landing and was standing beside me, then slowly turned around. "Yeah?

"Something doesn't feel right…"

"Want me to come in with you?"

"Please do."

Kagome nodded and I slowly eased open the door hearing the hinges squeak, I wished I had oiled them more than anything now. I crept slowly step after step, and turned into the kitchen.

My scream hung in the air long after my body hit the ground.

Inu Kaiba: That was like my longest chapter without an author's note. I wrote it over two days, with the first two or three sentences. XD Oh good lord, I learned a fun lesson today. I learned that other people can be more like a parent to you then your own parents, and I don't like my parents so I was like n.n for good stand in parents. And now I'm appreciative of those people.