Disclaimer: Nope, no Inuyasha owner here. Try next door. (not that I'm really a neighbor to the real author)
A/N: Second part of the first chapter: here it is!
She hurried off to her next class, and catched up to her best friends, one of which she was still mad at for some reason she couldn't remember. That short-haired friend who was supposedly mad at her gave her a tight bear hug. "What's wrong?" Kagome asked. Her friend turned her watery eyes and her saddened expression towards her, "I'm s-(she cracked)sorry!" she cried, surprisingly not in the 'rivers of tears flowing' from her eyes way, but in a 'shouting' way.
Kagome remembered what happened, and thought nothing of it, she didn't take it so personally, but she felt a sudden lump in her throat and a need to apologize as well, and she knew this was something really, really stupid to get all gushy over, but she felt it was in the spur of the moment. She felt this is something she wouldn't do on a regular basis, but she used the 'I've-got-my-period' excuse, again. Then, the happy pair of the best friends put their tears aside and linked arms while walking to their seats. They sat down happily, and the other pair of friends that were not PMS'ing followed after, relieved that they made up so fast.
They day finished in the blink of an eye, it seemed to Kagome as she sat on front of her desk, in her room. She was now showered and her hair smelled of the scents of conditioner and shampoo. All she had to do was finished her homework, not much, she only had to do math and science, but then again there was this math test coming up so she studied a bit as well.
"Honey, dinner!" her mom called.
"Coming!" Souta shouted from another room in which he set down his controller and put 'pause' on his PS2 game, and then ran down the stairs.
"Coming!" Kagome echoed and rushed down also.
Grandpa was already at the dinner table, awake this time. "You know, I really sensed some demonic auras around here today…" he began. In an usual family, sensing demon auras wasn't a good thing, but in this strange family it was because it meant the old man had something entertaining to do during the day, even though there was probably no demonic anything, whatsoever "And I had to execute many important spells to shoo them away…and…" he was still talking about spells and stuff, just like him to do that.
"Uh-huh…" The mother of the family pretended to follow.
This was another common day at the Higurashi shrine, another day in Kagome's life.
The week seemed to pretty much breeze through the same way that day did, with a few exclutions.
For one, Kagome found out that the blond-haired guy had arrived late to school the other day, precisely at lunch, so he only got have half a day and was new at the school. She was also taken aback when she realized this guy was in all of her classes, sitting right next to her too! Oh no, not another Hojo... Kagome thought, irritated.
But this guy wasn't as annoying as Hojo had been, if anything, he was a step down from Hojo! HE was so much WORSE! He was a practical bully; he played pranks on everyone, mostly her! And he did it so cautiously too, with a serious look as if every prank was carefully planned, and when it worked he smirked to himself. Kagome was just about through with this guy when Thursday, the day of her birthday, he seemed to come out of the group of outcasts at lunch. He did, he walked right past them, only to pick a fight with a boy much older than him, and he provoked him. The older boy wouldn't hit the blond boy; he said "Look, I don't want to hurt you! Understand? Now piss off!"
But instead of the blond boy walking away, he did almost the opposite and watched the older guy's face turn sharply when it received a full blow on the jaw, a very hard blow, delivered by the light-haired one. That was what provoked the older student, and he punched the younger one right back with almost as much force, and that seemed to take a lot of his strength. But how could the younger student even come close to the older student's strength? The older male was, after all, the captain of the wrestling team, one of the toughest sports ever! A huge amount of people from all the cliques started coming around them, enveloping them in a crowd that shouted "Fight! Fight! Fight!" in unison. This is where tough little Kagome decided she should break up the fight since there were no teachers around. She wanted to break it up mostly because she hated fighting, or so she thought, it really was because the blond guy had been driving her insane and now she wanted revenge by stopping this fight he so desired. This idea popped into her head, and normally she would have ignored it to watch the fight instead, but she was far more impulsive today…Yep, she just got her period Monday, and it wasn't about to leave until maybe the day after this one. She was having a furious mood swing to anger, and even her friends couldn't hold her back before she jumped right in between the two opposing men.
Both of them looked surprised to see a young girl between them, putting a hand to their faces as if to break up the fight.
"What the hell! Move if ya don't want to be ripped to shreds!" the blond one growled, and he said this with an odd sensation of malevolence and seriousness that sent shivers down Kagome's spine.
"N-no!" Kagome's voice cracked but she stood defiantly, mostly because her legs decided to become two heavy ice blocks and were paralyzed. Great! How was she going to run now? What do I do? My legs won't move!
"Crazy girl, listen to him and move out of the way!" shouted the other guy.
"Or I can make you move…" softly threatened the light haired boy, but with amenacing glare, and this told Kagome he wouldn't just gently shove past her to get on with the fight. Suddenly the bell rang, and everything was over.
Kagome took a deep breath as she was literally saved by the bell. The students all went"Aww..." as this was the second event that had entertained them and then come to a stop because of the bell. "Damn bell!" shouted one guy as he kicked dirt.
The students who had been involved in the fight vanished, and Kagome was the only one left standing there. A hand came out of nowhere and grasped her throat. She was pressed against a warm body, and she couldn't see who it was, but her throat was still being held. A voice whispered in her ear, "Stay out of my business, girl!" Then she was dropped roughly on the ground. When she looked up, she was too late and the person who had threatened her wasn't there, but she recognized that voice. Three guesses who…, she thought sarcastically.
Her friends came from a far distance and helped her up. They didn't have any idea what happened, and tried questioning her later about what she had done and if she had gotten in the fight. She lied so she wouldn't worry them, then she rushed with them, heading to class.
When she got home that afternoon, she was received by complete and pitch black, darkness. Suddenly
"Mom, I'm ho-me!" she shouted. This was freaky, what if the guy who threatened her was with the mafia? And then they found out the names of her family members and swiped them all while she was away! Her heartbeat sped up.
Unexpectedly, light nearly blinded her as the room started to take its normal form. "Surprise!" three familiar voices shouted at once.
It was her mother, her grandpa, and her little brother. She was so relieved, and surprised. How could she forget her own birthday?
"Happy-birthday honey!" her mom caroled.
"Happy birthday sis!" her brother joined.
"May the evil spirits leave your body…and enter the realm of peace…to move forth the…" her granddad was the only one who offered her a prayer for the evil spirits to disclaim her body, even thought she doubted after so many years of living in a shrine that she was in any way possessed. Her granddad was the only one to ever hand her that kind of prayer on her birthday, actually, but that was one of the things she loved about him.
"Thank you guys so much! I was so surprised, I thought someone kidnapped you all or something!" Kagome let her words slip.
"Don't be silly!" her mom smiled, "Let's sit to eat cake now, and then you get to open our presents."
"Yes!" Souta drove his arm down by his elbow, while making a fist with his hand with his fingers facing him, showing he'd been waiting for the cake the whole afternoon.
Kagome and her family sat down on the floor, to enjoy a delicious looking vanilla and chocolate chips ice cream cake that read "Happy birthday Kag" and had fifteen candles.
"I couldn't make your whole name fit in, sorry dear" her mother apologized.
"Mom, it's fine! I love your cakes!" she reassured her.
"Of course, Kag." Souta commented sarcastically. Kagome glared at him.
"Who's Kag?" Grandpa asked.
"Oh stop it everyone, let's eat!" The mom ended the argument and handed out plates with sliced pieces of cake. They all took in the sweetness of vanilla with just enough flavors from the chocolate chips to make it fantastic. Then Kagome was handed three presents from the ones she loved.
A fifty dollar's worth gift card from her mom to a popular store, "Oh mom! Thanks soo much! I adore you!"
Then a nail polish from Souta, that read "5.99" on a white tag.
"What? I need a raise in my allowance!" Souta exclaimed sheepishly.
"Well, thank you" Kagome wasn't rude.
"Souta you could have at least taken the price tag off!" His mom added.
And last but not least, a scented candle to ward off evil spirits from gramps.
"Thank you grandpa!"
"You're welcome!" he nodded.
The night came to an end as Kagome took a long hot bath, relaxing and thinking back on her day. Well, after the bath she brushed her teeth and hair, and then said her good nights. She went straight to bed so she could wake up early the next morning to finish studying for a certain math test.
Sure enough, the next morning she arouse happily on a Friday, the day of the long awaited sleep over. She got up, made her bed, and got ready for school, with lots of time left for her to study. Then she ate breakfast, and "See ya mom, love ya! See ya Souta and gramps, love you too!" grandpa snored in response, sleeping again, and Souta waved.
She walked to school this time, not being late at all. But the events that followed in school were really not that interesting, other than the math test and if that was interesting then this had to be the most boring day of her life, with only the sleepover that afternoon to look forward to.
The upcoming party eventually, gradually, came by and Kagome was now huddled with her friends at her house gossiping about school and, what else, guys…
"But that redhead boy is cute you have to admit" one stated
"Ew! No, the one with black hair of course! The captain of the football team!"
"We have a football team?" Kagome asked, but was ignored by a friend with mid-hair length.
"Actually, I think the one with brown hair is hot!"
Kagome never really liked this topic, because it always ended the same way for her when she was addressed about which guy she liked.
"No one, really…" she answered.
"Ah! You're still hung up on that cute boy Hojo, right?"
"Aww, how cute!"
"I remember how she used to a talk so much about how annoying he was, but she was really just showing affection!"
"I was not!" Kagome said in her defense.
"Was too!" Her three friends all defied her.
And after that highly disturbing conversation, Kagome managed to convince her friends to go rent a movie instead of going on about Hojo. They agreed and assumed she was sensitive about the topic, to add to Kagome's annoyance.
They were halfway towards the movie-rent place, when Kagome spotted a rare but recognizable blond head. She saw him run into a dark alley and fade into the darkness. Her feet seemed to slow down, placidly, and halt as she stood there, not noticing her friends had already turned right in a corner and had started chit-chatting. Kagome sensed the aura again, and her curiosity overtook her legs as she saw the dark alley coming to view and move nearer and nearer. Then she thought she had been abruptly dropped into subsconciousness when she couldn't see her own nose, or hands, or legs, or squat! Oh no! She ran forward, not really knowing where that was, and couldn't rid herself of the darkness, until suddenly she took a step back, and felt her body float up into the black sky. Her hair flew everywhere into a tangled mess as she cut through the wind up, like a sharp blade, only she wasn't seeing any stars… It was too late when she realized she was positively falling instead of flying, and then hit her head violently. That was when she was truly knocked unconscious, and lay there for hours…
A/N: Ta da! There it is! My first Chp! Hope you enjoyed it, and don't worry 'cause there's a lot more to it than that!
