Now, this is where the real story starts! Seriously...
Chapter 6: Living With Loss
All went silent. The pinkish purplish light no longer shone or shined. (whatever) the kids no longer screamed.
"Kayo! Zoria!" shouted Kagome in fear as she ran towards their room. Inuyasha followed Kagome to the room.
Kagome entered the room, and collapsed to the floor as she tried to hold in her tears.
" NOOOOOOOOOOOO! ZORIAAAA! KAYOOOOO!" The room was a complete disaster. The furniture was all misplaced and broken. Kayo's bed was crunched face down on Zoria's side of the room, and Zoria's bed was in splinters on Kayo's side of the room.
broken shards of their toys and just about everything else in the room scattered all over the carpet. Kagome grabbed a piece of stuffing from a teddy bear, and stared at it, with shocked tears raining on the stuffing. Inuyasha ran around the room, moving all the broken furniture around in hope of finding his kids. "Where are you guys? Answer me dammit!"
"Oh god!" Said Kyoi as she entered the room. She was frozen at the doorway.
Inuyasha kept on digging through the rubble, he was moving around like his former hanyou self. He then heard a soft whimper from behind the closet door. He tossed the broken dresser and all of its content aside and pulled the door open.
"Hello? Are you guys in there? Damn!..." Said Inuyasha worriedly. He heard more sobs and spotted a shaking blanket in the corner. He flipped it over to find Zoria crying and shaking, hugging Kayo's teddy bear.
"Zoria!... Zoria... thank goodness you're safe. Where's Kayo? Is he here too?"
Zoria's head knelt down to her knees. "Kayo... gone..."
"What do you mean? Where the hell is your brother!" Said Inuyasha in escalating worry.
Zoria's lip quivered as she tried to stop her tears like a big girl. "Kayo... gone... tooked away..."
"By who?"
"... a scary looking man..."
"How did this man look like?"
Inuyasha grabbed Zoria and craddled her in his arms. She continued to shake ans sob.
"... Kayo ... gone... tooked..."
"It's ok, Zoria..".
"someone call somebody! Kayo is missing!" Said Inuyasha to Kagome and Kyoi.
there was a strange long moment of silence. Sota appeared with the phone in his hand.
"I called the police! I called the police! They're comming! They're comming!" Said Sota as he ran around the room.
"You idiot! The cops are all gonna think we're nuts! Did you not see the pink flash of light?" yelled Inuyasha to Sota as he waved his fist his way, with Zoria still in his other arm.
"Um... yeah... "
"They're gonna think we threw those things around and that we're the reason for Kayo's disappearance! They're gonna think that we're a bunch of psychos and they're gonna take Zoria away as well! SHIT! what do we do now..." Inuyasha was now in a panic trance.
" sorry..."
Kagome still sat on the floor, gazing at the splinters of plastic and wood and all the teddy stuffing on the floor. "No..."
The police eventually came. Sota greeted them at the door and led them to the room.
"What the hell happened in here? Did a hurricane pass this room?" asked an officer as he entered the room.
"He's ... missing..." Said Kagome, still looking at the stuffing in her hand.
"Who's missing? Who made this colossal mess?" Asked the officer with no more enthusiasm than a paperclip.
"Someone took our son okay? Does that answer that for ya?" said Inuyasha, already losing his patience for the officer.
"Please remain calm... how was your son taken, mister, what's your name sir?"
"We don't know how he was taken! All I know is that according to my daughter here, a scary looking man took him away! All I heard were the cries of fear escaping my children's lungs, and all I saw was pinkish purplish beams coming out of their bedroom!"
"Strange...we'll investigate and see if we can find your son..." said the sleepy monotone officer and soon, a search party was started. The investigation lasted 3 years, but there was no luck in finding Kayo. The investigator people closed the case and assumed that Kayo was dead. There was soon a ceremony for the mysterious loss of Kayo Higurashi. (Can't really call it a funeral because there's no body... I dunno... call it what you like.)
Zoria remained marked by that night when Kayo was taken away by the scary man that she only had seen.
She knew that her brother was still alive... somewhere in this world, and she hoped that wherever he was, that he was safe. She constantly dreamed of Kayo, but he always appeared in different forms. Sometimes he was the age he was when he was taken away, and sometimes he appeared at the age Zoria was when she was having the dream.
(As of now, the story will be seen through Zoria's eyes, and I'll be fast fowarding through her childhood until a certqain something happens, so if its rushy, just bear with me)
Zoria had constant nightmares of the man that took Kayo away. She had so much nightmares that she developed a fear of the dark and of sleep itself. Inuyasha and Kagome noticed that she always drew pictures of Kayo and a big black blotch with red eyes. She also became highly antisocial and isolated.
This concerned them, but all specialists they have seen said that this was normal behaviour for someone who has lived through trauma. The only trick was to keep her talking about her feelings, but year by year, she became more difficult to communicate with.
When she went to school, she made few friends, but those few friends were very close. She always spent time at her friend's house, Kira to be exact. Kira Kagarushi was her best friend of all. She never got annoyed when Zoria would talk about Kayo. Kira was great moral support, and spending time with her and her brother, Kevin was an escape to all the gloominess at home. Her parents' constant mentions of Kayo made her feel guilty, so she barely spent time at home.
And if she was home, she remained in her room unless it was mealtime.
Zoria liked Kevin a lot too. She couldn't help blushing every time she saw Kevin, but she knew nothing would ever happen between them. It would feel weird too. Imagine going out with your best friend's brother? (Well I guess it depends...) Zoria was a very bad liar, so wheever something was wrong, Kira would always interrogate her and force her to spit out the problem.
One night, when Zoria was about 15 years old, she sat on the couch, looking at the katana that hang on the wall.
Inuyasha walked in the door after a long shift of garbage picking. He smelled, well, like garbage of course and let's just say he had gained quite a few pounds since his days way back in the Feudal Era... well maybe more than a few pounds...
"Hey Daddy!" Greeted Zoria as Inuyasha stepped into the living room.
"What are you doing, Zori?" asked Inuyasha
"Just looking at the sword on the wall... I don't believe you came from the past and that sword could turn really big and kill a bunch of demons in one swipe."
"So you think everything about your mother and I's past is a fairy tale?" said Inuyasha with a smirk on his face. He knew she didn't believe him all along. He understood why she didn't believe it one bit as well; he would think the same thing in her shoes. He poked Zoria on the sides, and a tickle fight was started. They had tickle fights once in a while. The fight would often end by Kagome or Kyoi entering the room and telling them to be quiet at once.
The buzz in Zoria's ear buzzed constantly, never leaving her alone. She found it very hard to hear with her right ear, and the buzz just drove her nuts. If she had one wish, other than Kayo's return, it would be to get rid of that buzz once and for all until she ends up in an asylum because of it.
One morning, after a recurring nightmare, about Kayo and being chased by thousand of demons, and constantly seeing a pink sphere, Zoria woke herself up with a cry of fear. Good... it was just a dream... its okay now... Zoria slammed her head back onto her pillow. There were two minutes left before her alarm rang, and there was no way that she was getting up before that rooster alarm rang.
She noticed that the ring in her ear was gone... it was gone! She clearly heard Inuyasha's footsteps heading out of the door as if she was actually following him. She heard all of the conversations that went on between Kyoi, Sota and Kagome perfectly from upstairs, and they were downstairs in the kitchen. She felt as if she was actually in the conversation, right in front of them at the kitchen table. Is this what it's like to hear normally?
She drooled at the smell of coffee and pancakes... wow.. This is weird... I could even smell the syrup...
The sound of a rooster cried out from her alarm clock. It was so unusually loud that it literally sent Zoria flying off her bed. She grabbed her ears to block the sound, but she couldn't touch them. Have her ears disappeared? If she had no ears, how was she able to hear so well with no ears at all? She ran to the mirror to check if she had ears. She froze in shock as she saw that her black hair had turned silver, and that she had 2 doggy ears sitting on top of her head.
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH ME?
Well, here's chappy 6.. Chappy 7 is coming very soon... it's already written... but you can't read it until I get reviews! muahahaha! (I'm not that desperate for reviews... or am I...) Suggestions are highly appreciated at this point. (Smiles and happy new year everybody!)
