Time Heals All

Chapter : 2

It had been two weeks since she had last called Sesshoumaru. She had made up her mind about not bothering him. So here she was, at the shrine away from Inuyasha. At least for the time being.

He was never home to miss her anyway. She was sure he was jumping for joy after reading the note she had left for him. She was staying at the shrine with her mother and seventeen year old brother Souta, and of course jii-san. She had written on the note that she would not return for at least a couple of months.

Souta's yelling brought her out of her thoughts. He had left in the morning to hang out with his friends. But of course she had known he was hiding the truth from her. She would let him bring his girlfriend to her.

Kagome decended the stairs and entered the living room to see her brother along with a girl by his side. There she was right. He was hiding the truth from her. Probably because he wanted to surprise her. So thats how she acted.

"Hey sis! This is my girlfriend," said Souta as he looked over to the girl on his right. "Her name is Kanna."

Kagome smiled and extended her hand, "nice to meet you. Kanna."

"It's nice to meet you too. Your brother talks about you a lot."

Kagome looked at her brother and smiled.

"Listen Souta, I'm going out for a drive. So can you tell mom that I will be home this evening?"

Souta nodded, and with that she left the house and drove away from the shrine. She had been driving for an hour before she finally pulled into a park . She exited her car and looked around for a minute before she finally shut the door.

She had always loved parks. Whether it was a childrens play park or a park with many paths and many fields and forests. She walked over to a big tree and sat underneath it. she was almost asleep when her cell phone began to ring.

She had forgotten to turn it off, but answered it anyway.

"Hello?"

"Hello..." came the reply.

"Sesshoumaru?"

"Yeah it's me. Kagome... Are you okay?"

Kagome's heart fluttered and it was as if time was standing still, for she couldn't answer for a while.

"Yeah," came her answer just barely over a whisper.

"I was worried... I had called your apartment. Inuyasha answered and started yelling something about turning you against him," explained Sesshoumaru. "Where are you?"

"I just decided to get away for a while... I'm at the shrine with my mother, Souta and jii-san," answered Kagome.

There was a long silence before Kagome finally broke it.

"I'm sorry. I should have called you earlier."

"..."

"Sesshoumaru... Are you still there?"

"I have to go. Rin will be home soon. Good-bye... Kagome."

"Bye..."

Kagome heard the click on the other end. But she still held the phone to her ear for a few more minutes before finally slowly shutting it. She sat under the huge tree thinking about the call she had just gotten from Sesshoumaru.

For an hour she sat there thinking, but her mind tired her out and she lay down on the grass and closed her eyes. Drifting off into a peaceful dream.

By the time Kagome awoke the stars were in the sky. She didn't know what time it was, but she knew she had to call home. Her mother was probably worried about her.

After calling home and telling her mother she would be home before midnight she laid back down to gaze at the stars for a while. A shooting star made its way across the sky and Kagome closed her eyes and made a wish.

I am truly sorry for not having made this chapter long ago. And it is shorter than I intended it to be. But I promise I will have chapter three up by um... let's see... say Tuesday or Wednesday. I know I didn't have much of Sesshoumaru in this chapter and I do realize that he is way way OOC. The OOCness I cannot do anything about... for this story to work he has to be that way. But about him not being in this chapter I promise you will have more of him in the next. And if not I will have him in chapter four. But I now know where I am taking this story. So hang in there a little longer and again sorry for not updating sooner.