The pain of one can effect many.

-Niki

Kagome sniffled from inside her room, having run out of tears. Two days had passed since she'd fled the Fuedal Era. Her mother Izumi had come in to check on her several times. Offering her both food and comfort.

Izumi had tried to convince Kagome that she knew how it felt to lose her first love, having been a teenager in her life. But Kagome shrugged it off, too tired or too hurt to care.

Several times, Souta had entered the scene as well, wordlessly offering food or asking to play video games. He knew words held no meaning to her, not at that point in time at least.

Kagome sighed, getting up from her bed for the first time in those two days. The pain had numbed, but was still there never the less. It was waiting for her to break, so the waterworks could begin again.

She walked out of her room on unsteady feet, padding down the stairs. Ignoring the confused and shocked expressions of her family.

She yawned, making her way into the bathroom. She slowly, turned the diel of the sink to just the right temperate, then splashed her face with water.

Kagome looked deep into the mirror that stood atop the sink. Narrowing her dark blue eyes, the whole while questioning everything she'd ever believed.

Could Inuyasha really have loved somone as unattractive as her?

Sure, her friends thought her cute, and her mom often called her adorable, with her pink cheek appearing to have a perminant blush (Most likely from anger), full lips, and the darkness of her eyes and hair.

She appeared to be quite the catch according to her friend Eri. Yet, the only guy to ever think of her like that had been Hojo, and he'd been proven to have strange tastes... in everything.

Kagome wrapped her head into her arms and leaned against the cool marble of the sink in a weak attempt to ward off her coming headache.

"Kagome?" Her mother's soft voice called from the kitchen, the question in her tone quite obvious. "Will you be eating breakfast with us this morning?"

Kagome's head turned to look at her mother on its own accord.

Her throat was so swollen, could she even talk? Should she speak? Making her decision she opened her mouth, not enjoying the way her throat seemed to crackle and pop in the least.

"School.' She croaked out, her voice so hoarse it sounded pitiful even to herself.

Her mother's eyes narrowed slightly in confusion. "Kagome... it's spring break, you don't have to go to school for another week." She cleared her throat. "Which is what I've been wanting to speak to you about."

Mrs. Higurashi got up and walked toward her daughter, grabbing her hands tightly. "We're moving to Domino City, I found a place that looks really comfy." Tears began to gather in Izumi's eyes as she watched Kagome's own eyes widen in shock, "And I've already gotten a job there! The pay will be great, you just have to embrace it sweetheart."

"But... this was dad's house. He picked it out." Kagome whispered quietly, staring at her mother with slightly widened eyes.

Izumi's friends had been trying to convince her to move to Domino City for years, so they could spend more time together.

However, she had always refused because the shrine had been what her husband-Iowo- bought just a month before he was hit by a car, back when Kagome was seven.

Izumi said it wasn't right to sell the house, and often would call it her only reminder of Iowo.

In response to Kagome's words Izumi flinched back slightly. "Well, yes. Honey I just feel like we should move on." She murmured squeezing Kagome's hand reassuringly. "We need to stop living in the past, and start making a future... we both do."

Kagome looked into her mother's soft brown eyes, and realized the pain of Inuyasha's death was hurting Izumi just as much as it hurt her.

She took a deep breath and let a big fake smile melt onto her face. "Alright mom, that sounds great."

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Hey guys! I'm really sorry about how SHORT THIS IS! 0_0 Now onto how terrible I wrote it.

I'm sorry for the way it was written (terribly) but my dad's really sick and he could die at any moment, so I've been really focused on that. That is also the reason why I haven't updated any of the stories. Now the hospital we are leaving for on Monday is around 10 hours away from where I live so I should be able to get some writing it, but if I can finish all the chapters I'll be cutting it REALLY close because it will be the 23!

The other reason for my lateness is because (and I've had to confess this more than one time on different stories! ^_^)

My computer has a virus that keeps making it turn off, then when I FINALLY get it to come back on it has erased EVERY single on of my files.

Now I don't know about you fellow writers, but I usually write my chapters on paper beforehand. Okay, I stopped doing that around the end of May, but anyway. Whenever I'm feeling really tired, or lazy I tend to just jump onto my computer (not literally) and type away until I either finish or am EXHAUSTED. 0_0

So back around February I wrote a chapter for EVERY single one of my stories and they all got deleted before I could post them.

This was a problem because I LIKED how I had it the first time and I don't know about you guys but when I write a chapter I am DONE! 0_0 I feel completely satisfied and have no intention of ever looking at the chapter again, I don't even reread them, bceause I've been looking at the things for so long I can't even go back anymore!

I always think I have them memorized but then when i try to go back and write the chapter again it's ... okay let's just call it super annoying.

See my rant is almost the size of my chapter! THIS IS SO WRONG! (I'm doing the flaming for you, please don't leave any mean reviews... 'looks around guilty' ... but I wouldn't blame you if you did. Or if you stopped reading this halfway through.

ANYWAY the point is I hate having to redo chapters, which makes me uninspired, which makes me uninterested in the story itself and then I just seem to forget the story exists! 0_0

Well, I guess I'll see you as soon as possible! XD

Ja Ne!

-Niki