A/N: Is it possible to get a hangover from two fast uploads and diet food?
Hana-san: FOR GODS SAKE! YOU AREN'T FAT!
Yura-chan: How do you know? Can you see Tenshi-chan right now?
Hana-san:arches eyebrow: Can you?
Yura-chan: Bite me
Hana-san: No thanks; I'm allergic to midget.
Oooookaaaaay…. Thank you for that amusing interlude, guys...
Yura-chan: whatever
Hana-san: Our pleasure
Uh, Okay then, I have two semi-lame notes regarding the entire story; I'm not trying to offend you by putting these up because they're kinda 'duh.'
1.) All flashbacks are from the Demon Child prequel, coming soon.
2.) It has occurred to me that there are two ways to pronounce the name 'Kara', seeing as only Hana and Yura know how I say it, I'll put up here merely because it was bugging me… the two ways are 'Care-a' and 'Car-a' I use the second one, sorry if I annoyed anybody by saying this.
Disclaimer: Ah, if only obsessive fangirl love was a form of legal documentation…sigh
Chapter 5.) Why only gophers love holes
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"Well, Miss Higurashi, you got yourself pretty banged up huh?" Kagome just looked away as the jovial doctor chuckled to himself. "But now we need to be serious."
'Serious about what? I've just found out I've wasted the last two-and-a-half years of my existence, nearly gotten myself gutted like a frigg'n fish, and ended up here, in this stupid hospital, surrounded by all these demented medical professionals! Yeah, I'd say this has been pretty serious!' The teen balled her hand into a fist, digging her nails into her palm. She had cried enough today…
"So…Kagome, is it? Is there anyone we could get in contact with? A parent? Guardian?" The man flipped through some papers while he waited for the girl's answer.
"No…my Mom died in a car accident about eight months ago and her good friend in Kyoto is taking care of my little brother…I turned 17 about last month so I'm technically an adult." (A/N: in most metric-using countries, if your 17 you're a legal adult, in America you have to be 18)
The doctor smiled weakly as he looked through Kagome's file. "Only 17…they keep getting younger and younger, but it's not like this sort of thing isn't unusual these days," he mumbled under his breath, shaking his head.
"What? What's 'not unusual'?" Kagome tried to sit up in the bed, but found it extremely uncomfortable; she let out an irritated groan and lay back down.
"Miss Higurashi, according to this, you're...you're pregnant" the older man sighed and placed a comforting hand on the girl's shoulder. "I'll leave you alone for a little while, the nurse will be in shortly."
Kagome didn't even watch him leave the little room…she just laid there, staring out the annoyingly large windows at the darkening sky; the sounds of a brewing storm told her all she needed to know.
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Kagome sat up strait in her bed and fell back down again, covering her face with a pillow. She tried to block out the obnoxiously bright sunlight, but the impending morning was just like the memories that haunted the night…no matter how hard she thought them, they never went away…
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"Kami, did something die last night?"
Kagome shot her daughter an irritated look from across the table.
"No, seriously, Mamma. You don't look so good…" Kara leaned over her pop tarts and put a hand to her mother's forehead, which Kagome swatted away.
"I'm fine Kara, I'm fine, just…never mind." She waved her hand in an irritated manner and returned to her magazine.
"Whatever you say, Mamma," Kara rolled her eyes and went to go get ready for school.
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"I'm boooored!"
"You're always bored!"
"Yeah? Well today, I'm eeeeeextra boooored!"
Nishi rolled her honey brown eyes at her best friend. In all the years she had known Kara, nothing, nothing could pacify the teen for more than half an hour. She was like a puppy, a 5'5, golden-eyed, puppy.
"Well, what do you wanna do if your so bored, Kara?"
The girl looked thoughtful for a moment, twiddling a strand of raven hair around her black nailed finger. "I have no clue."
The brunette girl shook her head, and smirked. "Well, we are in study hall, how about, well I don't know…studying?" Nishi shot Kara a pointed look and returned to her term paper.
"Naw, let's actually do something, I feel like getting detention, how 'bout you?" Kara's amber eyes lit up and were almost instantly extinguished when her friend shot her a death glare "Okay, no detention, but still...Heylet's grab Kuro, and blow this taco stand!" Kara pumped her fist in the air and attempted to yank Nishi out of her chair.
"No! Let me tell you again in Spanish so the whole 'taco stand' understands you! NO!" The whole room looked over at the two girls with annoyed expressions, Nishi waved at them sheepishly and shoved Kara back into her seat. "Now, for god's sake! Sit down, and write your report!" the brunette hissed.
"You ain't my Mamma, bitch," Kara mumbled in an almost perfect ghetto accent.
"Very Nice, Kara."
"I know."
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' This place…' Kagome hesitantly pushed open the ancient doors of the well house…15 years had left both the portal and it's traveler, shadows of their former glory…if you could call it that… 'Why am I doing this? It's not like I have a reason…' she brushed a loose strand of jet black hair behind her ear and just stood there, at the top of the rickety old stairs leading down to the well…
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"So, you get the feeling there's something she's not telling you, right?"
"Exactly!"
Kara skidded to a stop and sat down on a park bench, she remained quiet as she absentmindedly played with the wheels of her in-line skates, she looked up to see Kuro holding Nishi's bike and her best friend sitting beside her.
"I'm sure your Mom is telling the truth when she says nothing's wrong, Kara…" Nishi placed a hand on her friend's shoulder. "Maybe she's just going through some stuff."
The dark haired boy sat down on the other side of the girl and cast her a comforting grin. "Hey, we all know your Mom's a little weird, Kara."
Nishi shot Kuro a glare which he countered with one of his 'ain't I charming?' smiles, making her roll her eyes. "On the plus side, your Mom's pretty hot."
Both girls looked at their friend in disbelief, Kuro merely shrugged.
"I mean, it's like, I finally get the song 'Stacy's Mom,' only in this case, it would be 'Kara's Mom'…but that wouldn't work, because well, it just wouldn't rhyme, and stuff."
Kara arched an ebony eyebrow at her friend and stood up, allowing Nishi to have her say on the matter.
TWACK!
"You are SUCH a damn PERVERT!"
"Please, be reasonable, my dear! I only meant it as a joke! You know that no girl or woman could ever take my heart from your grasp!" Kuro nearly pleaded.
"Nice. How long did it take you to come up with that one?" Kara questioned over her shoulder as she started to head home.
"Not long actually. We're still on that Shakespeare unit in English!" Unfortunately for Kuro, the explanation caused him to not see how incredibly red Nishi was getting…
TWACK!
"Ow…"
With that, Nishi grabbed up her dark green bike and left Kuro alone to contemplate the misery that had befallen him.
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"Mamma? Maaaaaaaamma!" Kara called, dumping her old red backpack on the couch.
Sure, it was normal for Kagome to be home later than her daughter, but Monday's were technically her day off at the clinic…
Curiosity still fresh in her mind, Kara grabbed a cherry ice pop out of the freezer and headed outside.
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'I did the right thing… Why am I obsessing about this NOW?' Kagome scuffed the toe of her shoe in the dust covering the dirt floor, not realizing that she was being watched…
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'What's Mamma doing in the well-shrine?' Kara thought, sucking her cherry pop. From her perch in the goshinboku, she could see her mother's form sitting at the top of the stairs leading down to the old hole itself… 'Feh. She's a weird wench, but you work with what you have…' The teen tucked a strand of ebony hair behind her ear and descended almost effortlessly from the tree, landing swiftly in cat-like silence.
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Quietly, Kara crept towards the one place she had been forbidden to go…she didn't know why Kagome made such a big deal out of the stupid old shack, it wasn't like there was anything special about it, was there?
'Oh, damn it all! I miss the stupid bastard! That's why I can't sleep, and that's why I'm sitting in this stupid place! Oh, Kami…the clones were right! I do need to get out more and besides-'
"Hullo, Mamma."
"WHAT THE-? Oh, kami, It's just you Kara…your home early." Kagome stood up and dusted herself off. She smiled cheerily, but her daughter didn't seem too convinced.
"Sooooo, what's brings you out here? Oh, and I've been home for about half an hour. You're seriously losing it, Kagome." Kara crossed her arms across her chest; playing with the awful red ascot that was part of her school uniform.
Kagome stood and gaped for a moment. It never ceased to spook her at the eerie resemblance Kara had to…she shook her head to clear her thoughts, she was breaking an oath unto herself just by being in this place, let alone thinking about…him. 'Damn it! There I go again…I need therapy…or something.' Kara shot Kagome a skeptical glance as she followed her back into the house.
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'If she's not going to clue me in, I'll just have to do it myself…'The silence of the night was broken by the sharp sound of a window creaking open. Deftly, Kara climbed out of her room and out onto the damp lawn…
'Too simple…' she smirked. The girl had been sneaking out since she was around 5, and Kara took comfort in the fact that one of Kagome's terminal flaws was her distinct cluelessness, (A/N: who cares if it's not a word! It's fun to say! So many s's!) making what she wanted to do that much easier.
CRRRREEEAAAK!
Kara winced at the sound as she pushed open the old well house doors
'Gosh, this place is like a million years old…' she thought, amber eyes scanning the ancient building. She had never really been inside this particular shrine. According to Kagome, it was 'really dangerous' and 'nothing special.' 'Feh, nothing special my ass.'
She pulled the scrunchie out of her hair, and as she re-did her ponytail, something caught her eye… Kara carefully made her way down the rickety old ladder and bent down to examine what looked like a burned piece of cloth sticking out of the dirt surrounding the well itself.
'What the-' She hesitantly dug a bit of dirt away, exposing what looked like an old yellow backpack. From the looks of it, someone had attempted to burn it, but had settled for burying it instead. Kara unzipped the bag and carefully emptied the contents. One object caught her eye in particular; maybe it was due to her odd attachment to shiny objects…
'A locket? What is this? Days Of Our Lives or something?' Kara rolled her eyes and shifted through the rest of the junk. Most of it was pretty damaged, so she couldn't make out who-or what was in a few photographs. Considering the backpack a lost cause, Kara stashed it under the old ladder; she'd look at it later.
Kara walked back over to the old well. She attempted to lift the large wooden lid as quietly as she could, and with a bit of heaving, stood it up beside the well itself.
'Ah, so it's a big ole' hole in the ground.' Kara smirked and waved her hands in front of her in a mock-scared way. 'Oooh! So scared!'
Suddenly, one of the rotten planks forming the sides of the well snapped under the girl's weight. She was sent hurtling downwards for what seemed like a lot longer time than it would take to fall a mere 8 or so feet to the bottom of the well, but any thoughts of height, or old dusty wells, or anything where knocked instantly out of her head as she hit ground…hard.
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Okay, to be clear, this chapter did not suck as bad as I would have thought, and look! Over 1,000 words! My longest chapter!
Okay, I have a few dedications to mention,
First off, Kara's cherry pop is dedicated to my beta Fox-chan for putting up with me leaving the AIM every 10 minutes to get one, and also for her glorious work on the formatting!
And second, the line "She's a weird wench, but you have to work with what you have," is my dedication to classic InuYasha-ness…unless you're extremely dense, you'll understand why Kara delivers that particular line when referring to Kagome.
Review Responses
inuzrule: This is wayyy creepy! I actually started reading your fic a while back! It's pretty good! As for Minami's parents...yes, her dad is lord fluffy, as for her mom...fine, I won't tell you then.
TaiYoukaiSesshomaru: geee...nice review...O.o, uh, yes and yes on your first answer and no and no on the second set. Keep reading!
Iamsiriusgrl: Moshi-moshi Hana-san! Marvey explaination on why I need self-confidence! ya really know how to make a sista feel special You have the best reviews ever! miss ya xxx
FlamingRedFoxtosses cherry pop out a window, distracting Fox-chan and alowing Tenshi time to recover from stranglehold: wheew...mucho sorry for the lil' expose, muchos gracias for the review it was...wonderful
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