Authors note: Wow! I can't believe how much you gous like this story... Although I am overwhelmed by reveiws, I will still reply to each and evey one of them, because I love hearing from you guys! Don't hold it against me if I do a reveiw twice... they ARE kind of hard to keep track of... But here I go!
Thoughtsoftradgedy- I know! I'm a complete fluff addict myself... Thats why I write these kinds of stories...
Blood Soaked Hands- Yes! Hojo is a turd, we all know it! I personally don't like him, but you gotta give him credit for persistance! All I can say, in reply to that other comment, is yes, they are cruel... I'll update as soon as my writers block dies...
greatyoukai-You really think so? ee! happiness! Yeah... sadness... I think is a big part of a story. If your character is happy during troubled times, they are just plain insane!
Starfire77- Oh wow, it did?! Thank you so much for reading it! I'll make sure to keep up the writing!
SanaKurataSangatsuNanoko - Oi, I don't know how you can write your name that fast! And yes.. I already read a little bit of one of your stories, I would have read the rest, but my evil brother made me stop...
demonchik39-LUCKY! I completely envy you! I have the cd, but have yet to go to a concert. Oh, and in response to the other comment, no comment... if I told you what happened, it would ruin the story! I shall update very soon!
Tobias-Thank you so much! I wasn't sure if the 3rd chapter was up to par.. But I'm glad it is!
Daddy's pixie- Yes, I know, I am evil! But not so that you can't handle me. I'll update as soon as I can, for all you guys!
Kagome2691-Thank you. Oh yes, and I do know that inuyasha and sesshoumaru are hot. In my little group of friends... I get inuyasha, my friend stephanie gets sesshy, and my friend sam gets kouga. So, I really haven't got the right to like sesshoumaru, though I don't mind having Inuyasha! .-
Kougagirl666-tank you so much! .
Mr. P coat-You think so?! I'm really happy now!!!
Sweetpikachu-Oh sure, she will find him. It's up to me how long it takes her, though...
lupin-Yes, I like her shoes too... Anyway, I'll try to keep up the pace for you guys. Thanks for the compliments. .
Okay, I think that's all... If I missed anyone, let me know in a reveiw and I'll be sure to do it in the next chapter! Anyway... School is starting again, that means my evil brother is going back to college, and I'll get to write even more! I'm especially happy, because I'm getting the inuyasha soundtrack, because I absolutly love the music! I like one ending in particular.
I completely love "Every heart" Because it's totally inuyasha/kagome. And I support that couple with every fiber of my being!
Okay, thats all for now, read and reveiw!!!
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Kagome had woken up early the next morning, but she hadn't bothered to get out of bed. Since no one was really up yet, although she could have sworn that she heard grandpa ruffling his useless sutra's in that annoying way that he had.
She thought about it, wondering... In what way, could inuyasha still be alive? Had he survived somehow, to the modern age?
If he had, it still wouldn't explain why he had never once tried to contact her. Unless he had no way to do so...
Light finally spilled into the room out of the bedroom window, a sure sign that it was morning again. Kagome was thankful that it was finally the weekend of a long week. One of her hands made it's way to the side of her face. Her head pulsed sorely and stubbornly, she had no idea why... Maybe it was because of the dream..
She shook her head and tossed the covers haphazardly of off her body and slowly brought her feet down to the floor, lost in thought. Going about the changing or her clothes half-heartedly...
Okay, so she knew what to do, but how was she going to do it? Everything that seemed familiar, was so far away now.
Miroku and sango had become family to her, and shippo was like her son. But they couldn't help her now, could they?
She streched once more and looked out her window, her eyes instantly flitting toward the patch of bushes that hid inuyasha's statue.
What was her obsession with that thing? Other than the fact that it was his exact image, she couldn't help but be drawn to it... It was really very strange.
"Kagome... are you up? I have some breakfast made if you're hungry!" So her mom really was up this early, kagome never would have guessed it. How did her mother even know that she was up...?
'Duh, stupid, she heard you walking around upstairs..' She thought to herself as she stumbled down the stairs.
But then, her mother probably had a specific reason for making breakfast early. Ever since kagome had burst into tears in front of the sacred tree, and run to her, Mrs. Higurashi was a careful listener to all of kagome's problems.
"Hi mom.." Kagome sighed dutifully as she sat down at the modest table that her mother had readied for breakfast.
"Kagome.." Her mother smiled at her and put some feshly made sushi on kagome's plate. (A.N. I have no Idea what japanese people have for breakfast, so don't hold it against me. )
Her mother sat down across from her, picking at her own breakfast before looking up at kagome.
"Dear... I got a call from your school, about the math class." She began.
Kagome winced and kept eating, carefully paying attention to how she picked up each piece of her sushi. Why did she have to hear something like this, now?
"I'm not going to yell at you, because I know that you aren't going to let your grades slip. What I DO want to talk to you about, is your feelings, kagome..."
Her mother sighed as she looked back down.
"You seem so sad lately, you hardly eat, you don't talk anymore. And whenever we want to do something, you just give us a sad look... I want to know what's going on." Her mother had a concerned tone of voice, Kagome really wasn't surprised. She knew that this would happen sooner or later.
"Well... Mama, it's about inuyasha. I..I miss him. Thats all it really is..." She really couldn't look her mother in the eyes, because she knew that she wasn't telling the complete truth.
"Kagome, did you love inuyasha, if you were honest..?" Kagome looked up, shocked that her mother would be so forward in her search for a better understanding of the truth.
"Yeah.." She sighed, wondering what her mother would ask now.
"I'm glad that you can tell me these things." Mrs. Higurashi smiled and stood up, gathering her breakfast dishes into a stack to wash them. Kagome sighed again, her mother never ceased to amaze her. with things that other people would be nosy about, she just wanted to know what was wrong.
"Go outside and get some fresh air, it might clear your head. Don't worry about the dishes, I'll do them." Her mother looked at her seriously, it sounded more like an order, the way she had said it anyway... But kagome wasn't about to argue with her mother, she knew that it would be better if she was alone for a while. Meaning, not being stuffed into a house all day!
"Okay mom, I'll just walk around a little bit..." Kagome rolled her eyes and got up, not bothering to grab her jacket.
As soon as she stepped out the door, kagome knew that it was a bad choice, the wind was blowing, and the sky was dark. But she at least wanted to check on the statue, to see if nothing had happened to her only way to see him, if only in a way...
It had rained a bit during the night, so as she stepped foot on the grass, she slipped, falling through the bushes once more, as she had when she had first discovered it. Pitifully, she got up, shaking her fist at the bushes.
"I'm gonna cut you down someday, and when I do, it won't be pretty!" Who cares if she didn't mean it, it was still nice to think about. She frowned and turned to the statue, it was still painful to look at, seeing how the villagers had depicted him.
She moved her ankle and tried to stand up, yelping, she looked down at her ankle, noticing a large scrape that was blossoming into a bruise.
"Oh great..." She muttered.
"Inuyasha would be laughing at me, right about now..." She groaned in pain and reached for the closest thing that she could grab onto, which turned out to be the cold, dead hand of the statue. She pulled her body closer to it, easing her side against it, so that she could attempt to get up again. She ran her hand along the ground, but instead of finding just flat ground, she found several little bumps.
Like beads...
Her eyes widened as she looked at the ground, could they be..? Were they Mirkoku's prayer beads, or Inuyasha's enchanted necklace..?! She hurridly dug with her fingers, frantically scratching at the ground, before she unearthed one of the beads.
the bead was purple, and the next bead to come from the earth was shaped like a sharp tooth, just like the ones on...
Her hand flew to her mouthh, covering it in a gasp, these WERE inuyasha's sit necklace beads! She would know them anywhere...
Without thinking anything of it, she began digging for more of the precious beads. Soon enough, she had a good pile of the beads. But soon enough, she found something flat that did not feel like dirt.
It felt grainy and rough, like the surface of a wooden box... She frantically dug yet again, hoping for some piece of history that she could hold onto. A memory of her friends, as well as inuyasha that she could keep to remind her of them...
She brought the large box out of the meager hole that she had made, hugging it to her chest. She set it down carefully...
The box, was locked shut with a meager golden clasp, though it, as well as the box, was worn away severly. Kagome sighed and undid the clasp, setting the cover back on the ground.
Inside the box, were 3 things that almost made her heart break...
She reached inside and drew out a bracelet of prayer beads that were once miroku's, Sango's poison mask lay broken in half, next to a spinning top that she had seen shippo use so many times. Her friends, had cared enough to leave her the things that symbolized them the most. They hadn't wanted her to forget them, she smiled forlornly, holding the three onjects to her. As if wanting to absord her friend's essenses...
But she had forgotten... She looked up to see the stone eyes of the statue that carried inuyasha's likeness so well. He looked as forlorn as she was, almost as if he was trying to remember something that he had never wanted to forget. But even in his sorrow, and tears, he still looked proud, in the way that only inuyasha could.
"Trapped in the eyes of a stranger.." She whispered as she smiled up at the statue, it was a song that she had just heard, she had not payed much attention to the lyrics... But now, they flashed through her head.
"I still remember the world
From the eyes of a child
Slowly those feelings
Were clouded by what I know now
Where has my heart gone
An uneven trade for the real world
Oh I, I want to go back to
Believing in everything and knowing nothing at all
I still remember the sun
Always warm on my back
Somehow it seems colder now
Where has my heart gone
Trapped in the eyes of a stranger
Oh I, I want to go back to
Believing in everything
Where has my heart gone
An uneven trade for the real world
Oh I, I want to go back to
Believing in everything
Oh where, where has my heart gone
Trapped in the eyes of a stranger
Oh I, I want to go back to
Believing in everything" As she whispered the final words of the song, she felt the familiar tears crawl down her cheeks, it seemed like a daily routine now.
"Kagome!" She opened her eyes, shocked by the panic in her brothers voice. She quickly gathered the object into the box and closed it, holding it to her chest as she tried to rise again.
With a little trouble and much pain, she rose to her feet, leaning on the statue for support as she called his name.
"Souta! I'm down here! What is it?!" She grasped passing bushes, and small plants as she hopped up the gradual incline of the hill. She winced as she put down her injured foot in desperation.
"It's grandpa, he's not moving!" She gasped and hurried more, as souta's paled face appeared above the guardian bushes.
He looked so scared...
Like he'd seen a ghost...
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"Grandpa!" Kagome stumbled into the room, with souta following lamely behind her, his body shaking.
The room was dark, kagome reached for the light switch that she knew was there. It had to be there...
rubbing her hands along the wall, she hurridly tried to find it, and she did.
She took a deep breath before flicking it on, almost like the deep breath before the plunge, for she knew what she would find...
Light flooded the room, and she gasped again, her hand flying to her mouth in horror. Grandpa...
He wasn't moving, he wasn't breathing... His chest did not rise and fall as a person who was sleeping would do...
Though he looked like he was sleeping, his eyes were tightly shut.
He was dead...
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Authors note: Wow, I'm sorry about the long wait, but I got serious writers block, and I tried to write, but I screwed it up. The song, is by evanescense, though I can't remember the name. Because I wrote that part in last night, and I got it my A really awesome site, if you ask me! . I know, I know, how could I kill grandpa?!
It will all play into the story, in which, as of now, I have fully designed the plot. I wrote this, just after watching: Lord of the rings, the return of the king. And all of that angst rolled into my writing! Thanks for all of the reveiws! you guys truly are awesome.
Tell me if you don't like this chapter, I don't really feel that it is up to the standards of the last 3... But this is all I could write... I also wrote this while listening to "Black old sun" By sound garden/ Chris cornell. It's a really awesome song, that I reccomend to all of you!
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