Time Heals All
Chapter : 3
Kagome got home just after midnight. As soon as she got home she headed up to her room and fell right asleep.
She awoke to the smell of her mothers home cooked breakfast. She thought about how much she had actually missed her mothers home cooked meals since she had moved out. She smiled at the thought and got up to get dressed.
Kagome ran down the stairs and into the kitchen feeling a lot better than when she had first come to the shrine. She walked up to her mother and gave her a kiss on the cheek before taking her seat at the table. Sitting down beside Souta she took her fork and dug into her food.
All this reminded her of when she was still going to school. Oh how she missed those days when everything was so easy... well easier than they were now.
She finished up her breakfast and got up to walk around outside. Kagome walked to the old bone eater's well and sat on the edge.
"Why did my life turn out like this?" Kagome questioned herself. "Did I do something wrong?"
She didn't know what to do anymore. He said he loved her and yet he was still cheating on her. Yeah she knew, she wasn't stupid or anything. She just didn't have the heart to leave him. She loved him too much and yet that wasn't enough.
She got up and left the bone eater's well. She walked around the shrine and decided she wanted to climb one of the huge trees. Kagome walked over to one of the biggest ones and started to climb. It had been a long time since she climbed, but climb she did.
She got up to a big branch and sat there looking down to see how high she was, then sat back against the trees base. A gentle breeze blew and gently played with her hair like an old lover.
She sat up there for quite a while, but she had gotten hungry again and decided to go back to the shrine to see if her mother had cooked anything for lunch.
Carefully climbing down the tree, her foot finally reached firm ground. She then fixed up her clothes and headed back to the shrine.
As she made her way back to the shrine she wondered if Inuyasha would even call on her birthday. It was coming up in less than three days. She shook her head and knew that she was here to get away from her pain. Not to think about him and make the pain even worse.
With her mind made up she walked to the shrine. For her long visit she would forget about Inuyasha and have a great time with her family. Souta was done school for the summer and he also had his girlfriend with him. So she decided she would get to know the girl and hang out with her brother for the summer.
When it was time for Souta to go back to finish his last year in school she would head back to the city. And back to all the pain and lying Inuyasha was causing her.
She entered the house to find Souta just heading out. Saying something about going to pick up Kanna and bring her over for the rest of the day.
Kagome gave her brother a warm smile as he passed her and he too smiled back. She walked into the kitchen and saw her mother preparing the dinner. Kagome decided to help her mother out with the cooking and setting up of the table.
After half an hour the mother and daughter finished up the cooking. Just as Kagome was done setting the dishes out for the family and their guest, Souta walked in with Kanna at his side.
"Hey Kanna," greeted Kagome with a warm smile.
"Hi, Kagome."
"Souta, why don't you go get jii-san and we can sit down and eat."
"Okay mom." Souta said as he walked out of the kitchen to go and get his grandfather.
Kagome smiled, for she knew jii-san would start telling old tales about the shrine and many other old stories. She loved her jii-san and hadn't noticed how much she missed his old ramblings, as annoying as they were.
As she had predicted, jii-san went on and on about some fan from a witch princess. And how his ancestor had stopped the evil princess and exorcised the old fan, making all evil vanish from it.
After supper Kagome washed the dishes with the help of Kanna, while her mother sweptthe floor. This was how she wished it would always be. Souta with his wife... well girlfriend, mother, jii-san and herself in this big shrine. All one happy family.
Kagome and Kanna finished up with the dishes and headed to the living room where Souta sat watching some T.V. Kanna walked over to Souta and sat down beside him.
Kagome smiled as she watched Souta put his arm around her. She decided to leave them alone and headed up to her room. Once there she called her best friend Sango. The two talked for hours and Sango had planned to come down to see Kagome for her birthday.
The two talked for hours about this and that, just babbling on about their high school days. It had only been four years since they graduated out of high school but it didn't hurt to bring up old memories.
But that was easier for Sango. For Kagome it was different. Four years ago it was easier, four years ago Inuyasha really did love her.
Kagome was then called by her mother. She looked at the clock to see it was time for supper. She said good bye to Sango and went to join everyone in the kitchen for supper.
It was the same as in the afternoon, jii-san told of another story. And after supper she and Kanna washed the dishes. The only thing that was different was that Kagome took out the trash.
She had offered to take it out seeing as she was planning on going outside anyway. After throwing the trash in the bin she headed to the hill behind the house. Once she was on the very top she sat down to watch the sunset. How she loved sunsets, and watching the stars on cool nights.
She sat there watching as the sun set, and the moon rise high into the night sky. As the night before she gaze at the stars, she could get use to this. Living here again would be great... if only it were that easy.
She got up and dusted the grass off of her butt and started back to the shrine. Walking into her room she grabbed her pjs and headed to the washroom to change. Once done with that she headed back to her room and flopped down onto her bed and was soon fast asleep.
Hm... once again Sesshoumaru hasn't appeared in this chapter. And this is a really really short chapter! But that I have already made up in chapter four. Which I will post on Thursday.