That summer, Kagome was faced with things she had never heard of and never thought about before. Being in such a private elementary school, she was as innocent as they come. She learned everything that summer. That summer made up for all the experience she lacked in elementary. She experienced exclusion, pain, people being pervs and for once, real happiness.
Kagome walked in the first day and saw Nanako. She caught up with her and met her new friends, Inuyasha, a bad-ass trouble maker, Ayame, a very tall girl with an interesting personality, and Goemon, a pretty boy with a bad attitude.
She was curious about her soon to be friends; she spent as much time as they let her just observing. Kagome was a shy girl, she sang in the crowd, played cards if people asked her and did what other people did if she wished but she rarely did things alone. Nothing like the people she had meet. Inuyasha was always being an idiot or hurting himself. Goemon was always making jokes. Nanako and Ayame were good friends. They were always laughing and joking. Kagome was usually on the side lines.
No, these people wouldn't take that. They included her, like no one else did. They cared about her and her well being, which she rarely felt.
A month later, Kagome became more comfortable with her new friends. She made jokes with them and hit Inuyasha if he did anything stupid. She felt excluded at times, like when Nanako and Ayame went shopping without her.
No one could see why Kagome wasn't perfectly happy. Was there a reason she shouldn't be? Of course not. She laughed and smiled, took pictures of her stupid friends doing stupid things. Like putting themselves on a leash. But Kagome had been alone so much that she pushed away everyone. She often caught herself crying, and not telling anyone why, because she didn't know. She had a deep depression that no one could fill.
Her days in that camp were filled with activity, drama, dilemma, love and loss. Nanako was a girl who loved to flirt. She had dated Inuyasha (for a couple days), Goemon (for about a day), and a couple other guys (for equal periods of time). She so long envied Nanako, because Kagome wasn't a very pretty girl, plain out ugly if you will, she has a flat chest, zits and uncontrollable hair.
Of course she saw Sango. But Sango became unusual toward Kagome. Now I can't describe it, if I was able to I would. It wasn't uncommon of course for them to fight but they always made up.
The summer almost ending, she didn't feel any better than she did when it started. Still the dreams of darkness filled her, the thoughts that no one ever cared about her, and never would. The things that filled her mind would make the strongest men weep, if they truly knew. The feelings of loneliness only filled her more. Her new friends, she thought, would only leave her, they don't really care, what would happened if I died? No one would care…..
The end of the summer couldn't have come any faster, the start of a brand new year, she couldn't wait. Finally she might find someone who cared….someone.
Something happened after that last day of camp that changed her forever, gave her things she didn't ever know. When she got home her phone rang, she picked it up, expecting it to be her mom or something…but it wasn't.
"Hello?"
"Hey, yeah this is Inuyasha, is Kagome home?" the voice on the phone responded.
"Yeah, speaking, how you get my number Yash?" she asked.
"Nanaku gave it to me" he answered
"Oh, ok, I figured" She said, she was talking to Nanaku over the internet.
"Yeah, so I wanted to ask something"
"Kay, shoot"
"I wanted to know if you would go out with me"
"Yash, I cant, I'm not aloud to date." She said, while typing to Nanaku, 'omg Inuyasha just asked me out! Is it ok with you?' Kagome only thought it was right to do, because Nanaku had already dated him.
"But if you could date, would you go out with me?"
"Yeah, I would"
That was it. That was all it took to make her life change, a simple yeah. Who knew that someone could make your life change so much? Now, Kagome didn't even know if they were dating or not. All she knew was if they were she had to keep it from her parents.
The middle school had moved to a different building, granted it was right across the street; they built it during Kagome's 6th grade year.
It was the first day of school again, little did she know of the things that would pass in those halls, on that campus, the things that changed her, molded her, and shaped her whole self for the rest of her life. She met her teachers, they were good people, and she had been strongly looking forward to having Mr. Hartle as her teacher. Her brother had him.
She no longer had to ride with her brother, seeing as he was going to high school. She rid with Nanaku and a now 6th grader, Yamashita. Yamashita was a hyper little girl, strong and violent.
Kagome's first days were lonely, she didn't really know anyone, but she met a girl by the name of Asuka. They became fast friends. Kagome made many friends actually. Still on the edge, her friends guided her to being actually happy.
Kagome had problems with Inuyasha at the beginning of the year. He called her after school but barely looked at her during school. It was extremely unusual. He sat at the other side of the table at lunch and didn't even look at Kagome. She thought he was embarrassed by her. He never asked her to the movies, or anything. She knew she asked him to be secretive, but people knew. People came up to her and said "You're Inuyasha's girlfriend right?" when she said yes, they said sarcastically "good luck".
Nanaku decided to take action, she told Yash to give a hug to Kagome. When he did, she was ecstatic! That lead to daily hugs and it stopped at that, never a date, never a kiss, that time she dated him.
Of course her friends didn't trust her. They didn't tell her anything that was going on, but everyone else knew. How would that feel? After a life like she had? Not particularly totally excluded most her life, but darn close to it. To think that you've actually made friends, BUT they don't trust you. And after, you think, that if you were told, not a single unfriendly word would have been spoken between the two whom fought. And never, even after they've said sorry, have you been told about what happened.
Her school work plummeting, her friends forever untrusting, and her family falling apart took up most of the beginning of that year. She knew that the only thing she had was Inuyasha. She survived solely on him.
SOOOOO? How was it! It's really hard to write this considering I don't remember anything. This story is my life and I'm Kagome.
