Summary: When Kagome's friends from America comes to live with her and her family, what will happen to Inu and co.? What will be Inuyasha's wish when they defeat Naroku?
Chapter 2: A…normal? Day
"KAGOME!"
All three turned around to find that two girls were racing toward them, shopping bags wildly spinning against their legs.
"Oh no…" Kagome moaned, and smacked a hand against her forehead, "Not them."
Starling and Destiny watched as the girls came to a stop in front of them, opening their mouths to say something, but shutting them when they noticed Starling and Destiny.
"Who are you? You must be foreign." One of them said to Destiny, causing Starling to become angry and glare at the girl.
"Hey," Starling said, standing in front of Destiny, "listen up, chikita, don't ever insult my sister. Got it?"
She emphasized her point by jabbing a finger into the middle of the girls chest, which made her move backwards.
Kagome stepped forward, "Okay, okay guys-calm down. Eri, Yumi, this is Starling and her twin sister Destiny. They're here for a visit. We're taking some time away from the house."
The two girls nodded, but continued to glare at Starling. "Okay, whatever," the other said, "but when can we hang out? The entire class 1-A misses you." I really don't know her class, I guessed
"Um…" Kagome said, biting her lip, "Well, I'm not sure…see, I have plans with these two for the break because they have to go back to America at the end of it. Maybe we can hang out after they go back."
The two seemed uncertain, but soon they moved on, saying they had to leave to get home for dinner.
"Oh no!" Kagome said, pushing back her sleeve and looking at her watch, "We're going to be late too!"
They left the mall and ran toward the Higurashi shrine, hoping to make it before dinner so Ms. Higurashi didn't get mad.
"Hello girls, hope no boys kept you." She said as they walked in and left their shoes by the door, putting on their slippers and walking into the kitchen.
"Oh, mum, not that again. No boys kept us, it was only two girls from school who wouldn't really stop talking." Kagome said, and Destiny nodded.
"And they were really mean to Destiny, Ms. Higurashi, so I had to stand up for her, and by the time we remembered the time we had to run. I hope we aren't too late." Starling said, bowing slightly.
"No," Ms. Higurashi said, blushing, "Oh, you're too much. Really, call me Oka-san or something, Ms. Higurashi sounds so formal."
Starling too then colored, saying, "Okay Oka-san, should we wash up?"
Nodding, Ms. Higurashi finished setting the table and went to the oven, stirring a pots contents and then calling Kagome over to her.
"Kagome, Inuyasha stopped by earlier, and I would normally have told him where you went, but you seemed so happy to be going out with your friends I didn't want to ruin it. So I told him I'd tell you to go see him as soon as you had the chance. He looked worried."
While Ms. Higurashi was telling her duaghter all this she was cooking and serving the food, and writing down something on a scrap piece of paper. She folded it and gave it to Kagome.
"This is something similar to what my mother gave to me when I met your father. I hope you will cherish it as much. The secret to letting the relationship last is to keep t safe. But never look at it until the day something happens and you need encouragement."
She gave Kagome a strong smile and continued getting dinner ready until the time when she called everyone from their own places. Starling and Destiny from their room, Grandpa from the old spell house, and Sotou from his place in front of the T.v.
When they were all sitting at the table eating, Grandpa finally asked, "Who are these two very nice looking girls that are eating with us tonight?"
Rolling her eyes at her grandfather, she told him about how they were her penpals and that they were here for break.
Finishing quickly, Starling asked permission to bring Destiny and Kagome out for a little bit.
"Sure." Ms. Higurashi agreed, reaching for her wallet.
"No, really Ms- Oka-san, I've got it this time." Starling told her, smiling. She had put her purse on a table near the dining room, easy reach for her when she stood.
Nodding, Ms. Higurashi went back to eating and talking with her father while Kagome and Destiny got up and followed Starling out into the front hall.
"What's all this about?" Kagome asked Destiny in a whisper, slipping off her slippers and putting on her shoes.
"I know as much as you do…nothing." Destiny whispered back, also putting on her sneakers. She grabbed her purse which had been laying on the rack for shoes and then followed her sister out the door and into the dark night.
Kagome followed, also taking her purse and venturing into the night.
"I don't know about this." Destiny said aloud, but Starling grabbed their hands and walked off the shrine property, heading toward downcity.
They walked until they had reached a building that looked an awful like a club. Kagome and Destiny looked uneasily at each other, but Starling just laughed.
"It's not a club," she said, "It's a store. Actually, it's a restaurant. But they have dessert to die for."
The other two girls giggled at their uneasiness and odd feelings. They had been so huge, but they knew better than to take it seriously. With Starling, she knew everything and you knew you could be safe.
"May I help you?"
An overly-cheerful waitress was standing at a podium watching the door and her eyes brightened considerably when the girls walked in.
"Yeah, um, you can calm down, and get us a booth. One where we can see the…outside." Starling said, motioning toward Destiny and Kagome at the last part.
The waitress seemed to get what she meant and led them to a window booth, setting down three menus.
Starling told Destiny to go on the inside of the booth seat, near the window. Destiny gave her sister a suspisous look, but slid into the booth, allowing room for her sister to slide in next to her.
"What's this all about Star-san?" Kagome asked, also sliding into the booth, but across from the girls, and picking up the menu, glancing casually at the selections.
"Look out the window and you'll see." Starling said, and Kagome put down the menu, taking her first real look out the window she was seated next to. Destiny did so too, and gasped at what she saw.
Outside the window was a playground, one with trees and grass. You could see the sky through the branches, and the birds had made nests among them.
Kagome looked at the playground for a little while, then realized what Destiny had noticed. There was a little building in one section of the trees, and she whispered, "Keade's hut…"
Destiny nodded, quietly, and then giggled slightly. "To imagine," she said, "We're sitting in one of the villigers huts."
Though both the other girls laughed too at first, they were all then struck by that fact. People that Kagome knew personally and the girls knew through Kagome had once been here, living, and now the girls were sitting on what could've been someone's hut. They had already died, of course, but the though was still saddening.
"I see you guys have gotten the same feeling I got when I first came in here. I realized the same thing you have." Starling said, and Kagome wondered when she had been here.
"When did you come here, Star-san?" She asked, clearly puzzled.
"After we arrived in Japan and met your mother, she sent us out on our own for an hour or so. Me and Tiny spilt up and went separate ways, and when I got hungry I came here to eat. I was in this booth when I looked outside and saw that hut," she explained, "I knew it must've been Keade's and preserved all these years."
Destiny nodded, "I remember that. We did spilt up-but I didn't know you had come here."
Starling nodded as Kagome looked back out the window, remembering times when her and Inuyasha had fought within that hut.
"Can…can we go in it?" She asked, turning back to her friends.
Nodding, Starling told the other two that she had asked the waitress while she was here. She had planned bringing them here after dinner, so she didn't bother to go check it out before.
"Are you ready to order?" The waitress said, coming to their table.
"Um…" Starling said, thinking, "hot fudge sundeas, three please. We'll be out at that hut for a little bit but we'll be back. If their ready beforehand, can you just leave them on the table?"
The waitress nodded and Starling thanked her before leading her friends to the hut.
"You ready?" Destiny asked Kagome, knowing that this would be total deja vu for her.
Kagome nodded, pushing aside the door, and walking in, looking around. She noticed most things were where they belonged, while some things were missing. "I…" she said, "I'm not all that surprised, actually. I kind of keep expecting Keade or Sango or Miroku or Shippou, or even Inuyasha to walk in the door and greet me. Is that silly thinking or what?"
Starling and Destiny smiled at the girl, noticing the homesickness that she complained about in letters often getting for either era when she was in the other for a certain amount of time.
"No," Destiny said, "Just hopeful wishing. You want them to still be alive. They may be. But they might not. Only in your heart they may live on."
Destiny was getting Kagome more sad, but she didn't seem to notice that and so Starling jabbed her hard in the ribcage, getting her attention and telling her to knock it off.
Kagome walked slowly around the hut, dragging her fingertips across everyday items, the small bed, the earth fire pit, the floor, even the walls. She seemed to be taking in the whole hut, slowly remembering all the times she'd had there, and hoping there was more to come.
Destiny stepped outside to look if their desert had arrived, and Starling walked over to Kagome, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Kagome," she said softly, "let's go eat desert. I'm sure everything's okay."
Kagome turned to her friend with haunting eyes, "What if in this era too they're all dead?"
Starling hugged her friend, and Kagome seemed to go limp in her arms, crying softly. Rubbing her friends back, Starling made her back up and then dry her tears. "Everything will be fine." Starling told her, "I promise."
The other girl nodded once and then smiled as they left the hut and followed Destiny into the restaurant once again.
"Destiny…why must I want you in both era's? I know what is to come, and not all of it is good."
The unknown person had a soft, velvety voice that seemed to reach Starling ears, for she was the last, and she turned, half expecting to see someone but knowing that no one could have followed them all this way to Japan.
Sorry to leave you at a cliffie, but I promise to update very soon!
