Promise Me
Chapter : 4
It was Saturday and Naraku wasn't home. He wouldn't be home until Monday and even with the house empty she felt as if he were watching her every move. She got a drink of water from the tap and then went back up to her room to catch up on her sleep. She hadn't been able to sleep in the last few days.
She had really got the beating of her life he had knocked her unconscious. Her head still hurt and for the rest of the days he had been home she hadn't gone to sleep. She had gone to school of course but it wasn't doing much for her, not when she hadn't slept for two days.
As her head hit the pillow nightmares once again consumed her. But a figure appeared in the middle of the horrible monsters of her dreams and walked up to her. This angel took her within his arms and sat down. He told her to sleep and that he would protect her as she slept. Believing him her mind went at ease and she relaxed in this angel's arms.
When she had awoke she looked around the room. It was already night and when she looked at the clock it read four in the morning. So she had slept for over sixteen hours and not one nightmare had plagued her. She felt refreshed and hungry. She slowly got up out of her bed and walked down the stairs and into the kitchen.
She gathered the ingredients to cook herself a meal and then set the table for herself. Then after she was done she started to work on cooking her meal.
Shutting off the stove she filled her plate with the food and sat down to eat silently. The figure in her dream seemed so familiar. Had she known him in a past life? Was he someone from school whom she had a crush on and hadn't even realized it? Who was this person who came to protect her from her nightmares every now and then?
She didn't know who he was but she was glad he kept the nightmares at bay while she slept. He didn't do it all the time but to her it was enough. When he came he somehow brought back her spirit... but when he left it was like he took it back with him. She finished her meal and washed her dishes and headed back to her room to do her homework.
By the time she finished her homework it was already six in the morning. She looked at her bare arm and found that the bruises were slowly fading. Her skin wouldn't be its natural color for very long for when Naraku got back she would have all the bruises and cuts back on her arms and everywhere else on her body.
Finishing her homework this early in the day meant that she would have a whole day without doing anything. She didn't know what she was going to do. She wasn't tired for she just woke up two hours ago. A whole day to herself without Naraku beating her. What would she do with that day?
She would go out into the world... She would go outside and walk around the neighborhood, that's what she would do. Putting on her shoes and getting her hoodie she walked out the door. She had never been outside besides walking to her school and back. She didn't know what stores where in her neighborhood.
It was early in the morning and she hadn't expected anyone to be up but to her surprise many people were up and outside. She had passed by people jogging and people walking dogs and many other things. She explored the park and walked around the whole neighborhood.
Deciding she liked the park better than walking around the streets she headed back to the park. She sat at a park bench just watching as people walked by when a dog ran up to her. She looked at it and then looked around the park. No one was coming after it but it had a collar.
She read the license on the dogs collar and decided to take it back to it's owner. It would pass a little of the time by if not much. She was sure she walked by the house's location when she was walking around.
Fifteen minutes of walking brought her to the doorstep of the dogs house. She knocked on the door and waited for someone to open it and claim their dog. The door then opened to reveal a girl and a little boy.
"Nyoko!" yelled the little boy and ran over to the dog and hugged it.
The girl smiled at what seemed her little brother then looked up to the girl who had brought the dog back home. She gave the girl a warm smile.
"Thank you for brining Nyoko home,"
Kagome just nodded and turned her back to leave.
"Wait!" came the girl's voice.
But Kagome kept on walking. She got a fair distance away but was soon caught up with. The girl was by her side and looking at her.
"My name is Sango. And I thank you for bringing our dog home," said Sango. "She went missing a week ago and we looked everywhere for her."
Kagome kept on walking but the girl Sango was right by her side the whole way. She wanted nothing more than for the girl to leave her alone. She had just returned the dog back to the house.
"Won't you say something?"
"This Kagome has nothing to say," rang the eerie voice of Kagome.
Sango shivered at the sound of this girl's voice. It was not natural and the distant look in the girl's eyes something was wrong with this girl and she wanted to help her for some reason.
"Kagome is it?" she got no answer. "Well Kagome... Would you like to be friends?"
Kagome stopped walking. Friends... No one had ever wanted to be her friend. They had always treated her like an outcast. Teasing her and pulling at her hair as if being beaten by Naraku wasn't enough. But she had endured it all she would come home and sit in her room but never cry. Not once had she cried. She had learned to keep her emotions hidden.
Sango stopped as soon as the girl stopped walking. Did she hit a sensitive spot? Why had the girl stopped walking? Was there something wrong? She decided to ask, "Is there something wrong?
"Why would you want to be this Kagome's friend?"
"Because you seem like you need a friend," was Sango's answer.
Standing there for a couple more minutes thinking about what this girl had just said. Then without a word she started to walk again leaving the girl standing in the same spot.
"This Kagome needs no friends," said Kagome as she walked off and disappeared around the corner.