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Memories Never Fade
Chapter 2:Just another day
Kagome awoke to the sound of Souta's screams. She figured her mother was already up and beating him, but to her surprise… she wasn't. Souta was having a nightmare.
She looked over at the clock; it was only 6:00am. She and Souta would have to get ready for school in about 30 minutes. Kagome shook Souta to wake him up so he would stop his screaming.
They decided to go ahead and get dressed, then go downstairs to try and pack their lunches. If Mrs. Higurashi was already awake, she wouldn't let them take lunch, she'd make them starve.
After getting dressed, they rushed downstairs to see if their mother was awake or not. Sure enough, she was. She was sitting on the couch drinking a beer, cursing at the television.
That drunken bitch, thought Kagome, she should go to hell!
Souta had a sudden out burst. He ran over to his mother and slapped her across the face, "Bitch!" he yelled. "You're nothing but a drunken bitch!"
Kagome gasped, knowing her and Souta were about to be beaten.
"Souta, just for that, I'm going to make you suffer."
Souta just stared at her.
"I'm going to beat Kagome. I know how much you hate watching your sister get beaten."
Kagome's chocolate brown eye's lit up and she began to panic. What was she going to do? All of a sudden, Mrs. Higurashi takes her half empty beer bottle and slams it into Kagome's head.
Souta cried as he watched Kagome fall to the floor, crying in pain with blood coming from her head. The glass had cut her head.
"Souta…" Kagome squeaked, "It's not your fault!" She could see the guilt in poor little Souta's eyes.
Every morning, someone got seriously hurt. Whether it is just random, or punishment for a certain action… someone got hurt. Just another day, Kagome though, living in pain and torture. God…I'm starting to doubt you. If there really is a God he'd help us.
Kagome slowly got up from the ground, and went to the bathroom to clean herself up for school.
About 20 minutes later, they left. Souta went to the middle school, while Kagome went to the high school. Since they were going to different places, about halfway there they had to split up. Kagome kissed Souta goodbye and headed off to her school.
No one at her school knew what was going on. On the outside, Kagome appeared to be a happy, joyful girl. However, on the inside, she was scared, and slowly shutting down.
She would tell someone what was happening at home, if she could. She was terrified that her mother would find out and would beat her like hell, possibly even kill her before the social services came to take her and Souta away.
"Hey Kagome!" hollered Sango, Kagome's best friend.
"Oh. Hey Sango."
"You look tired… did you have a rough night?"
Kagome was silent for a moment, "Yeah. I wasn't feeling too great."
"Oh, sorry Kagome."
Both Sango and Kagome headed off to their science class. Once they arrived, they found out that they were going to be assigned partners in order to do a project. Hopefully, Sango and Kagome were to be partners.
Her teacher read off the pairings.
"Sango and… Miroku."
"Kagome and… Inuyasha."
Sango groaned and Kagome was confused. Who was Inuyasha? She began to look around the room. She finally spotted someone who she figured was Inuyasha; he had white hair, amber eyes, and dog ears. He must be half demon, thought Kagome.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
Kagome packed up her stuff and headed towards the door, where she was approached by who she believed was Inuyasha.
"Kagome?"
She nodded.
"I'm Inuyasha."
"Nice to meet you."
He smiled, showing his pearly white teeth, "About being science partners… do you want me to go to your house? Or do you want to go to mine?"
"Yours!" Kagome quickly replied, perhaps too quickly.
"Ok. Can I have your phone number so I can call you tonight?"
"Umm… yeah." She wrote it down on a scratch sheet of paper, "here."
"Thanks."
Kagome nodded and he left. Wait, she thought, will mom let him call? Will she let me go to his house? Pfft... I doubt that.
The rest of the school day went by to quickly. Kagome was headed home and dreaded what was going to happen as soon as she got there.
"I'm home…mom." She never liked calling her 'mom' ever since she started to abuse her and Souta.
"Good. Come into the kitchen."
Kagome obeyed and walked into the kitchen. Souta sat on the floor, looking up at Kagome with fear in his eyes.
"Kagome…sit down on the floor. Now."
Kagome once again, obeyed.
"Time for a beating," she said with a big grin, then slapped them across the face, leaving a big, visible bruise on both of them.
Kagome didn't cry. No. This time she didn't cry. She decided just to keep it to herself and let it build up… she couldn't cry in front of Souta anymore.
Mrs. Higurashi told them to go do their homework, then go to bed. She seemed to have had enough with them for the night.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
Mrs. Higurashi answered the phone, "Hello?"
"Ummm… is Kagome there?"
"No." she snapped quickly.
"Oh. Well…can you tell her Inuyasha called?"
"Sure."
With that, Mrs. Higurashi slammed the phone down and stomped off to Kagome's room, where she was doing her homework.
As soon as her mother came in the door, she knew something had made her mad.
"Who is this Inuyasha boy? Why is he calling?
"Inuyasha is my science partner at school. He was calling to give me directions to his house."
"His… house?"
"Yes… mother. Did I stutter?"
"You are not going to his house, or anyone else's. You are to remain here."
Kagome nodded, while rolling her eyes. Luckily, Mrs. Higurashi didn't catch her eye rolling.
After finishing her homework, she quickly kissed Souta goodnight and went to bed. She ordered him to go to bed too so he wouldn't get in any trouble and be beaten.
Kagome lied there in her bed, thinking about her mother, Souta, and her life.
"Just another day…" she whispered softly as she slowly drifted off to sleep…
Thanks for reading, everyone! Please Review!
Oh and let me just say... if you picture this story in your head, it looks kind of odd because you could never imagine Kagome's mother being her and Souta, ne? I chose this topic because I wanted it to be a lot different from the series. Anyways, please review! Thanks!
Mariah
