Just want to be with you.
Disclaimer: Dont' own Inuyasha.
Kagome felt she stop moving through time and opened her eyes. Realizing that she had come home to stay finally, she climbed out of the well and stepped into the well house. Kagome braced herself and opened the door. After the darkness of the feudal era and the well house, the bright sunlight of her time hurt her eyes. Kagome walked out and shut the door firmly behind her as if to signify the finality of time traveling days.
Mrs. Higurashi was preparing lunch when she heard the back door open. "Lunch will be served soon, otou-san." When she did not hear an answer, Mrs. Higurashi turned around and saw her daughter standing in the kitchen, smiling at her.
"I'm home okaa san, for good."
Kagome was not surprised that her mother did not expect her to walk through the door. After all, it was summer vacation and she usually spends all her time in the feudal era and only come home to restock no supplies. This time before she went back, she had packed enough supplies to last for a month. So it was only natural that she was not expected. "Lunch sounds really now, I'll just take a shower and be right down." and ran upstairs.
Mrs. Higurashi was not fooled by her daughter's happy façade. She saw how her daughters' eyes clouded with unshed tears when she made her statement. She knew of Kagome's feelings concerning her friends and adopted son, but especially Inuyasha. He was her daughter's unrequited love interest since the beginning of her time traveling days. For her Kagome to sever all ties with the past must be killing her. As a mother, Mrs. Higurashi could only hope that her baby would be happy.
With the sound of the shower to muffle the sound of crying, Kagome sobbed her heart out. All the tears that she held back in the feudal era came spilling out. She cried for the loss of her friends, she cried for the part of time which she was no longer a part of, but most of all, she cried for Inuyasha. She always knew Inuyasha saw Kikyo in her, both physically and spiritually. After all Kikyo was her incarnate. Why else would she have made that wish if it was not for him? It was not because of her pride to be second best that she had to leave. No, she left because she could not bear to see the hurt in his eyes when he looked at her. Staying with him will only remind Inuyasha of his failed promised to his past lover and there was no way Kagome would put someone she love through that, no matter how much she wants to be with him. Meanwhile the only comfort which she can give herself was that she could at least give him back some of the life that Inuyasha ought to have lived and be happy.
Sitting down to eat with her family at the table was luxury that she dreamed of in the feudal era. It was always either picnics or camp fire cooking. To be honest, she preferred to eat at table inside a house with air conditioning in the summer and heat in the winter, plus no fear of bugs dropping into the bowls and swallowing it due to the dim light. 'Yes I'll just think about the good things I have in this time', Kami knows she complained enough times about the inadequate sanitation facilities and having the need to look out for hentai monks when she bathed.
The sound of chopsticks connecting with bones broke her out of her reverie. "Souta, you will not take Kagome's oden." Souta rubbed his sore knuckle while his mother sent a glare in his way.
"But okaa-san, Kagome's not eating it and it's going to get cold." Souta observed.
Mrs. Higurashi gave her son another look and said to Kagome "Eat your oden before it gets cold." Kagome stifled a laugh and stuck out her tongue at her little brother and did what her mother told her.
Kagome's hand stroked the fur on Buyo's back and smiled on hearing the cat's contended purr and settled himself more comfortably on her comforter. The cat had refused to leave her bed after she came home. Kagome proceeded to scratch her cat's ears before drifting off to sleep. 'This cat is like Inuyasha and Shippou combined' was her last coherent thought before sleep claimed her.
The rest of the summer passed in a flash. Soon it was time for school to start again. As she was packing her school bag with her new textbooks, she found herself trying to stuff ramen into her school bag. "What are you doing Kagome?" she scolded herself, "you are going back to school, not to collect jewel shards." Kagome automatically brought her hand to her hip where the shikon no tama came from her body and looked out the window towards the well house. Immediately her throat choked up and she felt her heart constricted as if someone had tugged on it hard trying not to let it beat. Tears came into her eyes, "Oh Inuyasha, I miss you so much." she whispered. Kagome clenched her hands to keep the tears from falling. No one knew how much she longed to jump into the well just to glimpse at her friends. One look would be enough. It took all her effort not to run to the well house every morning. No one knew of the tears she shed into her pillow at night.
"Kagome?" her mother's voice called to her from the doorway, "here is your new uniform."
Kagome turned to take the sailor style uniform from her. "Thank you, okaa-san, I was just packing my books for school tomorrow."Mrs. Higurashi smiled at her daughter, she did not fail to notice the ramen sitting on her daughter's desk and knew that her daughter is still suffering inside. How many times since coming home, she had caught her daughter looking dejectedly out the window of her room at night. It broke her heart to see her once cheerful daughter so sadden. Mrs. Higurashi wanted to be with her daughter through out the whole quest. She longed to hold her daughter close and tell her it would be alright. But she could not do so, for Kagome made the choice herself and comforting her would just make her feel even guiltier about leaving. The only thing Mrs. Higurashi could do was to send a prayer up to Kami for the hundredth time since her daughter came home 'Please let Kagome be happy again.'