Yes, this story is still on temporary hiatus. It takes me awhile to write chapters.

I don't really like the beginning of this chapter, but I do like the ending. I wrote the ending last night when I was half-asleep, so if there's any problems, please let me know.

Now, the story begins…

Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?
…

Death

Kagome Higurashi sat in her bedroom. I'm going to take my time, she told herself, as she put pen to paper once again. No, Kagome Higurashi was not doing her homework. Kagome Higurashi was writing a suicide note. The radio beside Kagome's bed played an old love song. Kagome picked up her pen as she listened to the chorus of the song. She remembered singing it with her boyfriend, InuYasha. Kagome softly sang the chorus.

She looked over at the diamond ring that InuYasha had given her just a few weeks earlier. She picked up the note that he'd given her with the ring and read it out loud for the last time. Kagome, you shine as brightly as this diamond ring. I'll love you forever. Love, InuYasha.

Then, the next week, Kagome had caught InuYasha making out with Kikyo. Kagome, hadn't stopped thinking about that scene, and now she was going to take matters into her own hands.

Kagome finished her suicide note and left her bedroom.

She walked to the bathroom. Kagome had decided that she didn't want to die painfully, and she didn't want there to be blood.

Knowing that her mother occasionally used sleeping pills as a sleep aide, Kagome opened the medicine cabinet in the bathroom and easily found the bottle.

Kagome took the bottle back to her bedroom. She sat on her bed to plot the final step of her plan. She quickly read the instructions on the bottle. So, the normal dose is one or two pills. I guess that I'll want to take a lot more than that.

Kagome took one last look at her room. She memorized everything quickly. I will truly miss this place. The girl walked over to her bedroom window. She opened the window and took a long look at the scenery.

After all of that was finished, Kagome was ready. She quickly downed the pills and lay down on her bed. The pills acted fast and before she knew it; Kagome Higurashi had fallen asleep for the last time.

When she came to, Kagome noticed that she stood in front of a pair of huge golden gates. Heaven, she knew.

"Kagome Higurashi, I presume," a male voice startled her from her thoughts.

Kagome looked ahead of her and to her right. She hadn't noticed him earlier, but she noticed him now. There stood an angel with a long scroll of names. St. Peter.

"Yes, that is me," Kagome answered.

"I'm sorry, Kagome Higurashi, but I can't let you pass through the gates," he stoically told her.

"Why not?" she asked nervously.

"You went to the grave with regrets, doubts, or unresolved issues. Heaven is a place of eternal peace. You can't come here with problems," the angel explained to her.

"What do I do then? I can't just will myself to live again," Kagome replied.

"That is true. You cannot live again. In scenarios such as this, I have no other choice. You must walk among the living until you can resolve everything that bothers you. You will not be seen or heard, but you will be there."

Kagome heard clinking noises. Chains, but why?

St. Peter explained the noises to her. "The Chains of Mortality have arrived. You will wear them, unconsciously, the whole time that you are bound to the mortal world. I wish you good luck."

Kagome looked down and noticed that the chains had, in that time, ensnared her body. "Do you mean to say that all humans wear these chains?"

St. Peter shook his head. "Not at all. Only immortal souls who are bound to the mortal world wear them."

Kagome felt herself being pulled backward. The Gates of Heaven were getting smaller. Kagome didn't want to leave, but she knew that she had no choice. The Chains of Mortality were pulling her back to the world from which she'd come. Once there, they'd bind her for an indefinite amount of time.

"One last thing, Kagome Higurashi!" St. Peter called to her. "The key to unlock your chains can come in ways that you least expect!"

In ways that I'd least expect? Kagome thought. Then, right before she returned to the mortal world, she blacked out.

I hope that the chapter helped to pick things up a little. I don't really know how I'm taking this story from here. So, I'll just figure it out when I write more of it