Authors note: Hello again minna-san!
Wow! I can't believe the positive feedback the this first chapter got!
I will be replying to your reveiws in each chapter, so here I go!
Candizzle: Thank you for the compliments, I am planning on making it a 20 chapter story, so watch for my updates, kay?
iLvsimplepln2- No! Inuyasha didn't die! I would tell you what actually happened, but that would ruin the story for you... so read the chapters to find out!
Moonlight6-Yeah, I didn't know if the first chapter was really a GOOD first chapter, seeing as there was so much info in it... but I'll consistently use this writing style through out the story! thanks!
Martina-sama-I'm glad you like it! I'll try to update every 2-3 days... thank you!
Anyway... read and reveiw!
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She gasped as she thought about it... This stone, looked just like inuyasha, as he would look when he would crouch to the ground, like a dog sitting on his haunches. She couldn't be wrong, she had seen it way too many times to be mistaken.
"But then... I was just asleep, maybe this is all a dream... a good dream..." She reached up to her cheek to pinch herself, which only resulted in a yelp of pain.
"Than this must mean... that I'm awake... and this is..." She looked to the rock again.
Maybe, the villagers had erected a statue of inuyasha or something... He HAD done a lot for the village, even though he complained about it an awful lot. Kagome reached up, hesitantly touching the cheek of the statue, not poking it, but relativly caressing it. It was cold, and had some of the morning dew on it that would surely dissapear when the sun rose.
Her fingers trailed up to the eyes, tracing the shape of them, and wondering...
"Inuyasha... I miss you..." She knew that the statue was not inuyasha, but just the fact that it was his image made the tears come to her eyes.
Looking up at the sky, she noted that the sun was rising, the soft shadows of the trees playing across the statue's face.
She sighed, it hadn't helped that she had gotten no sleep whatsoever, and still had to find her way back to the shrine, as well as her bed. She pulled her robe back onto her shoulders and began her acsent back up the small hill. Giving a a parting glance to the statue of inuyasha, something felt strange about the statue...
Kagome shook her head and dismissed the feeling, walking the remaining distance up the hill.
"Kagome?! kagome where are you!?"
almost tripping on the root she was stepping over, she fell flat onto her face, looking up in complete surprise.
"Ack! Uh... Mama! I'm over here!"
Next time she was going to sneak out and discover statues that looked like inuyasha, she needed to cover her tail once in a while by getting back to bed before sunrise...
Kagome emerged from the bushes to see her mother, tapping her foot impatiently. Waiting for kagome to stand up straight, her mothers face was a cross between angry and worried to death. Kagome had never been deathly afraid of her mother, Mrs. Higurashi had the tolerance of an elephant and the temperment of a...
Well, a mother... if you wanted to be specific.
"Kagome... why were you in the bushes at five in the morning?" Kagome could immidiately tell that her mother was just worried, all bark and no bite...
She shook her head again, what was with her and dogs? Other than a dog-eared hanyou, whom she had fallen for in the feudal era of japan... Not to get off the subject or anything.
"Umm... I was thinking about inuyasha and I couldn't sleep, so I took a walk and fell into the bushes accidentally."
Her mother's face immidiately softened, she knew how hard it had been for kagome, being the only person kagome had actually told, up to this point.
"Warn me next time, okay?" Her mother smiled and walked back to the house without another word, leaving kagome in a state of releif. She sighed as she turned her attention back to the statue in her mind...
What a great reminder, just when she truly wanted to forget about him, he popped back up and made her relive it all over again.
"There goes my chance of being sane..." She muttered to herself and began her trudge back to her house.
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"Kagome. I know it's been a rough time for you... but you need to work harder, I don't want to see you fail."
She winced nervously as she sat in her desk, waiting for the teacher to finish lecturing her. If he only knew how rough it had been, battling demons, falling for a hanyou, and being torn away from him at the last minute. Her teacher probably didn't worry about things like that, he probably worried more about his math equations more than anything else.
But then, she had never been any good at math anyway...
"Alright, I want to propose a small training session, just to help you in math, this will be after school for only an hour."
Kagome sighed, it wasn't like she didn't have time for it anymore, she had all the time in the world. Compared to only a few weeks ago...
"Hai, sensai, I'll do that." She nodded dejectedly and got up, shouldering her backpack and sighing.
She wouldn't try to look on the bright side, because, lets face it, the bright side is overrated. She trudged out of the classroom, glad that the schoolday, grueling as it was, was finally over. Now if she could just make it home without mishap, maybe she could take a bath, as well as a nap.
"Hey kagome!" She groaned, she knew who that was... The only thing she didn't know, was when the guy would get a clue. She turned her head slightly to see a gushing hojo.
"Hi." She put on a fake smile and waved just as happily, though only she could tell that she was pretending.
He smiled blindly and put a hand on her shoulder, a very forward move for hojo, at least, from what she could see.
"Kagome..." His face darkened slightly.
"I know that it's been a really hard time for you..." So hojo knew too, huh? Maybe he would spare her the "Dinner and movie" routine, hopefully.
"I just want to let you know that your hamster's death is not an easy thing to live with, and I want you to know that I'm here for you..."
Kagome didn't fall over, but she did manage to tip slightly to the left. After righting herself, she smacked herself in the head, cursing her grandfather and his silly excuses.
"Oh... yeah." She managed to choke out. Taking that her throut problems were from an entirely different emotion, namely sadness, hojo went ahead and dropped the bomb.
"But I'd like you to join me for a movie, it won't be too long, and if you need to go home, I'll take you home anytime."Like THAT made it any better.
"Hojo, I'll get back to you on that, okay?" She looked up at him, feeling guilty that he was so honest, and she was... well...
Dishonest, to state it plainly...
He smiled and nodded his head enthusiastically, turning the other way, but not before waving with a happy smile on his face. Kagome sighed, suddenly drained, how did he do it? Maybe it had something to do with being normal, she would never know...
She walked slowly that day, after all, there was nothing to walk fast for... No inuyasha, sitting at her house, challenging her little brother to macho pride games, at which she would giggle uncontrollably. There would never be a time, when she would spot inuyasha in her room, just sniffing. She would never be able to relish the look on his face, when she made herself known, the emotions that she could see, if only for a moment.
There would be her family, and they would love her, as they always had. But now that she had tasted love of a different kind, she wondered if her family's love would be enough to pull her through.
She hoped so...