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A Sister's Love
Chapter 2: Stare Down
Kagome, driving faster than she normally would, is on her way to pick up her sister, Kayoko, from the airport. She is already late and just as she is pulling into the airport parking garage her best friend, Sango, calls her to wish her a happy birthday.
"Hiya Kag! Happy Birthday!"
'Oh great…she's doing the three letter name thing again…' thinks Kagome as she replies, "Hey Sango. Thanks, I really needed to hear a friendly voice right about now."
"Your welcome, but why are you so down in the dumps? I mean, come on, it is your seventeenth birthday and all."
"Oh, it's just that Kayoko is back for a visit and her perfect ways will push me to the side, once again."
Sango rolls her eyes, happy that Kagome is on the phone and can't see her, and responds with as little sarcasm in her voice as possible, "Oh I see, but she can't be all that bad, can she? I mean, she has probably changed a lot since she left home for that school."
"I don't know Sango. I just hope she got a large taste of her own medicine in America." Kagome says, sighing, while she pulls into the only parking space she could fine, which happened to be on the top floor, in the farthest spot away from the elevators.
"You don't really mean that, do you Kags? I'm sure she has done a lot of growing up in the past few months overseas."
"Maybe your right Sango, 'sigh' but I better let you go because I ended up getting the worst parking spot in history, and I still have to run into the airport to get Kayoko at baggage claim." Kagome says, obviously upset, "Damn, I'm already fifteen minutes late!"
"Alrighty Kags, but remember, don't be too hard on her, she may have changed. I bid you farewell my friend, until school that is. Oh and happy birthday again!"
"Thanks again, and I promise I'll remember. See you later."
"No problem Kags. Talk to yah later, bye!"
Kagome flips her phone shut, clips it to her hip, and begins her long walk to baggage claim. All the while thinking 'a person like Kayoko will never change.' Lost in her thoughts, Kagome walks by a number of people starring at her. After walking by a few more groups of these people she begins to notice, not to mention she can hear a number of them talking about her and a few are even pointing at her. They seem to think she looks like another girl they have seen. Wait a minute that can only mean one thing, her sister is doing something to show off again. She begins to speed up her steps, until she is almost jogging, and she still can't seem to get away from the stares. 'Good,' she thinks, 'I'm almost to baggage claim, the faster I can get to Kayoko the faster I can get away from these strange people staring at me.'
She searches around the claiming area for a little bit before finally finding the section that her sister should be in. When she finally spots Kayoko she realizes why everyone was talking about her. Besides the fact that her sister was dressed in odd, skimpy clothing, she was bobbing her head up and down to the music of her CD player and singing the song out loud to herself. Kagome, embarrassed for her sister and herself, runs up to Kayoko and jerks off her head phones, which startled her sister.
"Get the hell away from me you….oh Kagome. You scared the shit out of me. Happy birthday Sis!"
"………."
"Umm, Kagome. Why are you looking at me like that?"
Without answering, Kagome grabs Kayoko's luggage and quickly walks toward the parking garage.
Shocked, Kayoko begins to jog trying to catch up with her sister. 'She seems really mad,' thinks Kayoko. 'I wonder what happened.' They walk in silence all the way to Kagome's car. 'Wow! She got a new car since I left. Geeze, lucky girl!'
Kagome opens her trunk and throws her sister's luggage inside of it, unlocks the doors and starts her car. When Kayoko sits down in the passenger seat Kagome finally talks to her. "What the hell were you thinking!" She asks upset. "I can not believe that you dressed that way to go through a PUBLIC airport! Are you crazy? What the fuck has America done to you? You even have fucking piercing! What else am I forgetting?"
"Well," Kayoko says, "I also have tattoos now and this is how they dress in America. I am so sorry if I embarrassed the all mighty Kagome, but I have the right to do what I please."
"Wait until mom sees you. You are going to be in so much trouble!"
Kayoko's eyes get unimaginably wide and she stares straight at her sister. "Please do not tell mom. I am sorry. I do have a hoodie, if you want me to put that on I will. Come on Kagome she will kill me if she sees any of them."
"Well it's not like she won't be able to see what you did anyway, but let's get going. We still have to go home to open our gifts and take Sota to school." Kagome put down the top on her convertible and backs out of her parking spot. "At least we will have some nice warm sun on the way to the house. By the way, like my new car?" she says warming up to her sister now that she realizes that for once she will not be the "perfect" one, and pulls out of the garage and into the busy streets and starts heading towards the highway that led straight home.
Kayoko looks at Kagome, startled by her sisters sudden change of tune, then she smiles, and says, as soon as they reach the beginning of the high way, "Hell yeah! Let's see what this baby can do!"
Kagome pushes the pedal as far down as it will go. With the added power, the car's engine makes a loud roar and begins to speed up. The two childish girls turn on the radio and begin to sing along with all the music that is blaring from the speakers as the convertible reaches speeds over one hundred miles per hour. (A/N: Yeah it totally sucks to get pulled over going over 100 MPH. 104 for me I got my license taken away for a month by the state) When they get in sight of the shrine Kagome slows her camero down to the speed limit since her mom is probably waiting for them to get there and watching out the window. Kayoko put her hoodie on so that her mother doesn't not see all of the tattoos and piercing that she now has.
As expected their mother is waiting at the door of her house for her daughters to pull into the yard.
Giggling, the girls step out of the car and gather Kayoko's things from the trunk. "Hey Mom!" they shout in unison. Mrs. Higurashi sighs, happy that her daughters are not fighting at the moment, and walks towards them to give Kayoko a hug.
"Oh honey, I'm glad that you made it home safely. How was your flight?" Mrs. Higurashi asks her daughter. Before Kayoko can answer, however, Mrs. Higurashi notices her daughter's ear piecing and narrows her keen eyes while stating, "I see you have manipulated you body without my knowledge or consent."
Quickly glancing over at her sister, Kayoko opens her mouth to speak, careful not to open it too wide however. "Mom, it's not that big of a deal. All that I did was pierce my ears, and only because my friends back in America paid for it as a quick birthday present. So I figured that since it was for my birthday it would be alright and we could have Kagome do hers later."
"It's not that it's a "big deal" Kayoko, the fact of the matter is that you didn't ask for my permission before you did it. Next time you do something like that ask me, otherwise you will be grounded for a month! I guess your sister can get hers done if she so chooses, but you must inform me before hand. I just want you to tell me what's going on. It's not that hard to talk to me you know." says Mrs. Higurashi with some slight anger and annoyance evident in her voice. With a promise from both of her daughters about telling her things more often, they walk into the house.
"Kayoko, you're home!" yells Sota, who is running down the stairs at top speed to welcome his sister home. Unable to stop quickly her slams into her knocking both of them to the ground, gives her a hug, then he drags both of his sisters into the living room. "Now, you can open your presents!" Sota says.
The girls just laugh and nod their heads at the boy, who in turn quickly scurries off to gather the presents which are still in the kitchen from the morning. Once he makes it back to the living room with all of the presents, and the rest of the family is there, of course, the girls slowly begin to open their gifts. They decided to open the gifts from Sota first, considering he would not stop bugging them until they did. "Oh Sota, it's very thoughtful. Thank you." both say respectively. He had made each of his sisters a card, some 'get out of chores free" cards, and picture frames made out of Popsicle sticks. Nothing extravagant, but the fact that the boy made everything himself made the gifts something that each girl would cherish. Next, it was time to open the presents from their grandfather. A beautiful jewel is what the old man presented to Kagome. It was about the size of a marble and was an outstanding shade of purple and pink. He called it a replica of the "Jewel of Four Souls." Then he proceeded to tell the history of the object that Kagome now wore on a chain around her neck. While gramps was babbling, Kayoko opened her gift from him, a book of herbal remedies that were used in the Feudal Era. "Thanks Gramps, this actually looks interesting." states Kayoko, while thumbing through the pages. Glancing at the clock Kagome stands up. "We better hurry or we're going to be late for school." she says in a frantic tone. "Sota, take Kayoko's stuff to her room, please. Mom, we will open your gifts when we get home, okay."
"Alright honey, you're right you had better hurry. Come on Sota, hurry up." says Mrs. Higurashi while Sota is running back down the stairs, following his sisters to the car, hopping in the back seat.
"Bye Mom, see you later." all three say with a wave before Kagome begins to drive off. "We love you!" they shout seconds before they are out of hearing range. Mrs. Higurashi just smiles watching them drive out of sight for another day of school.
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Thank you all for reading another chapter of A Sister's Love…if any of you know Kagome's mom's name could you please tell me cause I have no clue…or at least give me a name that would be good for her…I know it took me forever to update and I apologize for it…I'm hoping to put the next chappie up soon though cause I already have it over half written…until next time y'all please review…
-Jenn