Don't Forget Us
Chapter 2
Inuyasha climbed out of the well and looked around. It seemed like Kagome was just there. He followed her scent into the house.
"What does it say Kagome?" Ms. Higurashi asked her daughter. Inuyasha smelled salt. Someone was crying.
"I…didn't…get in." Kagome sobbed. Inuyasha decided to make his presence known. He looked at Kagome being held by her mother. Kagome was the one who was crying.
"Kagome?"
"Hello Inuyasha. You've caught us at a bad time I'm afraid." It was Kagome's mother.
"What's wrong with Kagome?" He asked.
"I wasn't accepted into a college I applied to. I missed too much school." Kagome explained as she sat up. "Now let's see if Yale has the same thing to say about me." Inuyasha took the letter from her hands.
"Inuyasha! Give it back!" Kagome lunged but couldn't reach above the hanyou's head to grab her letter.
"No way. Not if you are gonna keep crying about some stupid piece of paper."
"Sit boy." Inuyasha crashed into the floor and Kagome's mother plucks the letter from his hand.
Kagome's POV
I took the letter from my mom and read. I get to the 'We are sorry to inform you' and I feel the tears in my eyes, but I hold them back. I have one more letter to go before I cry again.
"I didn't make it." I whisper, mostly to myself.
"Well, Yale is a very hard school to get into and with all the school you missed, I am not that surprised dear." says mom. I stare at the only envelope left. It was for a small university in the United States. A state college mom called it. It is supposed to be a very good school, but defiantly not my first choice. It seems like this letter is thicker than the others. I begin to read. 'Dear Miss Higurashi, we are pleased to inform you that you have bee2n accepted into Penn State University.' I start screaming.
Normal POV
"Oi wench! What's wrong with you!" Inuyasha shouts. 'Danm ears.'
"I got in! I got in! Oh my God! I got into a university!" Kagome shouts.
"That's wonderful dear! You must go and tell you friends from the feudal era. They would certainly be proud of you! I'll go make some tea to celebrate." Kagome's mother exclaimed as she walks into the kitchen. Kagome stops jumping up and down.
"Oh no, the feudal era." Kagome mumbles. Only Inuyasha can hear her.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Kagome doesn't answer him. "What is it Kagome?"
"This college is all the way in the U.S. I can't go back in forth from era to era if I go to college." Kagome whispers.
"Oi, what the hell are you talking about? How far can it be?"
Kagome walks over to the bookshelf and grabs an atlas and finds a page with a world map.
"Here is Japan." Kagome points to the page. "And here is the United States of America." Inuyasha's eyes get bigger as Kagome traces her finger across the page to the spot where she thinks Pennsylvania is at.
"Oh." Is all the hanyou can mutter.
"This is a problem. If I go to college, I won't be able to see you guys, but if I don't go, I won't be able to get any good jobs here in my time."
Kagome begins to sob silently.
Inuyasha's POV
'Oh great, she's crying. Now what?'
"What's wrong Kagome?" Her mother asked as she entered the room.
"If I go to college, I won't be able to visit the feudal era. I will have to leave them" Kagome replied to her mother. It seems simple to me. Kagome could just stay with us.
"Well, it seems like you should have a better reason than that. You must think of your future Kagome. You need to think of a very important reason to stay here in Japan. Do you have any?"
Kagome looks up at me with questioning eyes. Then her gaze falls to the floor. "I guess...I…don't."
"Well, then I suggest you go tell your friends. Then comeback, we'll make your arrangements for college, and you can go back for the rest of the summer." Kagome's mother smiles.
What does she mean by "leave them'?