Chapter 1 - Illusion
Silence. That was all she wanted right now, as she simply stared past the group of people. Before he, lay three coffins, containing the people she had know all her life.
"Why did this have to happen? First it was dad, now It's them too," she thought to herself.
The priest was saying something, she didn't know what. She didn't know anything about what was happening around her other than the fact that there were coffins in front of her.
"I'm supposed to feel sad," she thought. "but I don't feel anything. Why can't I cry right now?"
She barely noticed that the crowd was beginning to dissipate, that people were giving her condolences and trying to catch her eye. Still, she remained still, uncaring, unfeeling to the warmth of the sun on her pale skin. Unfeeling to the soft wind as it brushed her hair from her face.
Everyone had gone by now. She was finally alone. Left in the silence. For the first time in hours, she moved toward the coffins. Unable to look inside, she stood there staring.
"I love you Mom, I love you Souta, I love you Grandpa," she finally spoke quietly. With that she finally turned her back, leaving behind the life she had come to know to start anew.
She finally arrived back at the shrine. She stood in the entrance hall for a moment thinking to herself.
"This has been my home for years, always full of commotion. There was Mom cooking Oden, Souta playing video games, grandpa trying to make sutras. Now there was nothing but her." She looked around. There were still unwashed plates in the sink from their last meal together. There was a test with an "A" written on it on the refrigerator, Souta's last test. There were her grandpa's sutras lying on the table.
You would think that this would stir an emotion in someone who had just lost what was left of her family. Yet, Kagome Higurashi felt nothing but emptiness as she gazed at the remainders of a previous life. She finally went up to her room, a place she had gone many times when she was upset or needed to be calmed. She sat on her bed. Looking around her room at the girl she used to be. Bright colors surrounded her, giving the illusion of happiness.
Happiness. What an illusion. What was it? A mere feeling of joy or pleasure that one received? No Kagome had come to realize that happiness in life was an illusion, one which helped to very well cover up the pain and suffering. The high a person would get to keep on going, to keep living. The fact was, life was not happy, no matter how many times you tried to cover it up there was pain, confusion, darkness, everywhere.
Kagome sat on her bed thinking this. She laid down and fell asleep to her rather depressing thoughts.
AN Hey people. This is my first fanfic here.If you're reading it, I can tell you right now that its going to probably suck but hey, I hope to improve. I'm basically writing this to find out if I have any creativity in writing onesoever. Hopefully the chapters will get longer as I continue to write. A word of warning, this being my first fic there's a good chance that I'll abandon it n the middle. However, if I get some positive reviews this chance will be reduced. Reviews would be welcome, even if there's not much to review yet.