Kagome is smiling taking a breath after getting off the public bus and walked into the building ahead, and took a deep breath her heart was beating a mile a minute this was a new experience for her. She smiled and walked to the big doors before stopping and holding up her left hand before drawing the character for person and swallowing it how she did when she graduated, without her friends there she wasn't sure if she could do it.

Yeah she spoke her mind and was out with her thoughts and opinions but in crowds of her peers was when she got shy unless she got worked up. She took the cold doors by the handle and pulled opening it and walked down the empty halls with craft projects painted everywhere on the walls. A smile rose to her face as she started remembering all the old walls and the clean white floors, with banners in the hall stating the room number and the purpose of the room. The hall lead to four rooms and one outside exit, she went to the first door on the right remembering her way from long ago.

She slide the door open so she wouldn't have time to overthink and make herself nervous again. Kagome took a small short breath and smiled opening the door to see an old lady with a wrinkled face smiling happily at her with her hair all pinned up in a bun with an apron on. The woman gestured to Kagome and turned to the front of the room and back to Kagome, Kagome wasted no time walking up to the old woman's side and turned to bow to the people before her as she stood up with a smile.

Kagome stood straight and tall, as the old woman spoke "This is Ms. Higurashi, children she will be the new teacher and I will come by to help once in a while. Children I want you to be kind to her, treat her well. Ms. Higurashi here was once where you were sitting and who knows maybe one of you will be standing where she is and she will be standing where I am."

They all watched the new teacher she was had brown hair and wore an yell dress with a white open buttoned sweater. The old woman smiled and looked at the children, then turned to Kagome "Ms. Higurashi, here." She held out a key on a pink key chain, Kagome's eyes widened and she looked shocked beyond belief "What? No way?! You are giving me the daycare?!"

The old woman nodded and smiled "Yes, you may change the name if you want. I want you to make this place yours while keeping all your good memories in heart. Make this a special place for the children please, just how I made it special for you."

Kagome nodded and smiled happily "I will!" With all her nervousness seemingly gone she turned to the children and smiled looking at them "Alright to start off lets go with names, your age, and one thing you love." Kagome smiled and looked at a little girl with gold hair and she spoke broken Japanese she had brown eyes and her features screamed overseas "Me called Nicole Summers. Six. Puppies." She smiled and started speaking fluent English to the girl and smiled "You are from overseas right? Well many people will think that is cool and will want you to teach them a bit of English too. So do your best! You'll become fluent in Japanese in no time."

The girl smiled and spoke one Japanese word very well proving Kagome's point "Thank you, Teacher."

She went to each table there were three desks in each row and five rows, she went to the last two kids. They smiled awaiting their teacher and smiled, she looked at the boy sitting in front of the other "What is your name?" The boy wore shorts with hair combed back nice in place he had light green eyes and their hair was raven black she smiled as the first one spoke "Len Hama. Age five and I love my sister Fuyu."

She nodded and looked at the boys obvious twin brother who had short spiky hair and smiled "My name is Ken, age Five older by six minutes and I love my kawaii dolly college girlfriend." Len glared at his brother and formed his lips in a thin line, he wasn't one for joking in class "Sis's friend is not your girlfriend, like she would ever date you."

"What?!"

"Well we are like twelve or thirteen years younger than her, and she is pretty enough to find someone her age."

"I can't dream?"

Kagome had to resist the smile it was adorable, it was disrupting though "Alright please settle down. Let us all get ready for centers, alright there will be three groups of four and one group of three, please pick your groups."

She thought children socializing was a very important and knew obedience was too but they could choose their own groups. Within five minutes the groups were all picked, and looked at their new teacher once they were done "Alright class group one gets puzzles, group two board games, group three blocks, group four toy box, and group five you get books."

She then numbered the groups and after doing so watched them spilt to the right stations, after centers she had art planned, reading, then lunch, recess and nap time, and lastly free play. Her job was to get them ready for kindergarten and social interaction she didn't teach them much math basically how to count up to 100, their alphabet, colors, to read a little that is mostly it.

She smiled watching all the little busy bodies working, laughing and learning while having so much fun. Kagome couldn't believe that she had once been here doing the same thing Little Dango's was the best place in the world. It was where she had bet Yuka, Eri, Ayumi and Hojo. It seemed like forever since high school graduation when it had only been two years, Kagome had done college quickly to get a certificate in child care and took some classes in business on the side. She remembered how all her friends went to big four year colleges and she just didn't want too, she was sick a lot in middle school having a weak immune system back then but by freshman year in high school she got a lot better.

Hojo was busy becoming a physician that specializes in surgery and was still in college studying day in night and when he wasn't in class or studying he was working at his family's home remedies store. They had been dating but four months ago they broke if off agreeing she couldn't fit into his schedule and had her own life and schedule that didn't seem fit with his.

He told her that their jobs were more important right now so their relationship should be put on the back burner. That was when Kagome said that sounded like no relationship just possession and how she was no one's to put on the back burner, she wasn't an attention hog but she wouldn't be ignored until it was convenient for him. She threw his promise ring at him and left, and they haven't seen each other since.

Yuka was training to become a news reported and journalist, she couldn't make up her strong willed mind. Eri was training to be a nurse for a doctor and went to the same school as Hojo, while Ayumi was trying to become a relationship counselor. She always told Kagome the best advice along with anyone else who needed it, so she was knew that she wanted to help people's relationships and be the savior of their romance.

Kagome hadn't seen her friends in a while they were all busy and she had just found herself quitting her part time job at a café to devote all her time here instead, she had been trying to save up for her own place to live. She had graduated at seventeen and now at nineteen was embarrassed living with her family after two years. She smiled and thought about an apartment she would be happy with any apartment as long as it wasn't far away or in a terrible neighborhood.

Her brother was now thirteen and just entered junior high wearing a black uniform with gold shiny buttons; every time she saw him it brought back memories. Someday all these children she was teaching would have just as many wonderful experiences. She had been a little bit of an athlete in high school, she had been in the archery club and tennis club. She was descent at tennis but excelled somehow in archery club.

Kagome went through her first day at her new job with ease the children seemed to really like her and it was fun for her as well as the children. She waited as the bell rang telling the child to gather up their things as everyone started packing up and getting ready to go, she smiled and saw the twin boys patiently waiting on the steps. She smiled sadly and walked over to them both sitting down "Is it okay for me to sit?"

They nodded and looked to the street, she smiled and nodded and looked the way the two boys were looking "So is your mommy coming to get you." Ken's eyes stayed glued to the street while Len spoke "Mommy is overseas."

"Your father?"

"He is with her." Len stated.

"Oh, so who is coming for you." Concern now filled her their parents were away? Was someone even coming? I suppose I could walk them home and still make it in time for a train if they live far away that is. Where do they live?

"Our big sis."

"Oh, are you sure? Want me to walk you come?"

The boys shook their head and then jumped up quickly and began to run towards a woman with black hair and glasses with a business wear look to her young face, making her look more professional than Kagome who now owned her own business. Making her feel as if she needed to wear a pencil skirt and also be more professional but then again looking like the office type in a preschool….

'No way in hell.'

She saw a doll looking girl behind the business lady, the two boys ran up bombarding the young doll looking girl with questions. The small group walked away while Kagome decided to lock the doors and start her walk home. When she passed the small convince store on the corner she knew she was halfway there, she smiled as she thought about what was awaiting her at home.

Her mother who was sweet and nothing but kind and always trying to be the perfect mom. However she could remember the early days when her mother was a new house wife trying to cook and at first she was terrible, her mother had been a high class career woman. The idea of love and a family didn't really interest her, but one day this business partner she hoped to get to merge with the company she worked for made her fall in love. They got married and had a loving family for five years until he died in a heart attack.

It was devastating to her family. She was so young for nearly five years and Souta was nearly two, but her mother moved in with her father in law he was the only family member left. Her mother had been a orphan since age fifteen her parents died in a tsunami and her mother in law died a few hours after Kagome's father due to something going wrong in the birthing.

So their family was small but she loved her family more than anything.

Her family pet was an amazingly old cat Buyo, he was nearly twenty now, her father gave the cat to her mother a year before Kagome was born. They had dated two years before having a family and when they did they moved in while her mother was quitting her job as business woman in the company she worked for company to become a housewife. She said she wanted to travel and have adventure, but Sota and her gave her mother all the adventure she would have ever wanted.

Kagome made it to the steps of the shrine her family had, it was her father's side who was the spiritual side of the family. She ran up the stairs and saw her brother sweeping the stone path way, her brother was all about history and folklore wanting to inherit the shrine for some reason. Kagome thought it was a fun place to grow up, but now it's all dirty and dusty and way more work than its worth.

She smiled seeing the tall tree with a rope and paper attached to it making her feel all warm inside, there was just something special about that tree with the huge scare in the front of it. Something that just warmed her spirits and her heart it over powered her with happiness whenever she needed it. It was her strength and one of the only things she really loved about the shrine. The other was the old shack that was empty it was so mysterious she wish she knew what had been there before, nothing was kept in there.

When she asked her grandfather he said his great great great great great great great great great grandfather said once a well was there, but that was well over five hundred years ago. It could have just been a mess up in facts and probably was so for now it was just empty storage.

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