Promise Me

Chapter 5

Thinking of what the girl said Kagome walked on towards her house. She had had enough of being outside of her home. However, did that girl really want to be her friend? No one had ever wanted to be her friend, this being the first time someone wanted to be her friend and it confused her.

Finally reaching her house she took out the house key from her pocket and unlocked the door. She walked into the kitchen and looked at the clock. It was only eleven in the morning.

She went up to her room to sit down and think about what the girl had said. Even if Kagome wanted to be friends with her she had no clue as to how to actually be friends with her. Giving up on thinking about it she walked over to her bed and curled up into a little ball and fell asleep.

Kagome awoke and looked at her clock only to find she had slept for an hour. Oh how she wished this day would end, she even found herself wanting a beating from Naraku. She had become to use to it already, she had gotten to the point where it didn't feel right to not be beaten. Where as someone else might find this a time to be at ease, a time to at last feel a little bit safe.

Getting up out of her bed she walked over to her desk and looked at her homework. Yes she was done but if only to pass the time by she would do many more pages. Sitting down to flip through her books she settled for doing math. It would take much longer than doing something from her science book.

Finishing about ten pages of her math she looked up at the clock and found that it was already six. She closed her book and decided to do some from her science and then take a bath and sleep before school. Finishing six pages of her science she once again looked to the clock.

It was eight which meant she would have a bath maybe get something to eat and then go back to bed and wait until morning. She closed her book and gathered her papers and text books and put them into her bag. She then got her pajamas and headed to the bathroom to take a bath.

Filling the tub with hot water she took off her clothes and stepped into the water. Most of the bruises were gone and her scratches and cuts were healing. She washed her hair out and then just sat there until the water was getting cold. She got up and out of the tub and drained the water. Drying her body and then putting on her pajamas.

Deciding against eating she headed to her room to once again sleep. Once again plagued by nightmares she tossed and turned. But then... the angel that protected her from the demons in her dreams was there. He seemed to be coming to her more and more in her dreams protecting her as she fell asleep within his arms.

Opening her eyes she found the morning sun was shining through her bedroom window. It was morning, she had slept through the night without once waking up sweating from her nightmares. Lating in her bed for another hour just thinking on who this familiar yet strange person was.

At last getting out of bed, changing and getting her bag she walked downstairs to the kitchen. She ate a small breakfast and then headed out the door back to school.

Almost to the school someone started to call her name. She stopped and looked behind her to see the same girl she had met yesterday. Then she started to walk again. The girl caught up to her and kept up with her.

"So... You come to this school to?" asked the girl.

Kagome didn't answer, but ignored the girl.

"Why don't you talk?"

"Didn't this Kagome already tell you? She has nothing to say."

Sango involuntarily shivered at the sound of her voice. It just seem so unnatural and so distant. Shrugging it off she kept on with asking the girl a couple of questions.

"I hadn't realized that you came to this school. There are a lot of people to come here and if I had known you came her I would have offer to be your friend sooner. My brother Kohaku will be coming her next year, he will be finished grade eight and then there's his friend Shippo. He too will be coming here next year. I will introduce you to some of my friends too."

Kagome looked at the girl who talked on forever. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to at least give the girl a chance to be her friend. If she was the one who had come to her.

They walked into the school together. One girl going on and on about nothing and the other just silently listening to the endless babble. She looked around the school and as usual they were empty this time of the morning.

Kagome reached her locker and expected the girl to walk on to her own locker. But she was leaning against the lockers and waiting for her. Kagome got her books out and started to walk towards her class when Sango grabbed hold of her arm and lead her towards her own locker which was two floors up.

"Sorry for dragging you all this way but I will walk you back down when I'm done," said Sango as she threw her bag into the locker and shut it. "So let's get you back down to the main floor."

Slowly the halls started to fill up with the students and then the bell rang and Sango departed and went her own way to her class. Kagome slowly walked into her class and sat down in her seat. This Sango really was serious about being her friend. The teacher then walked around collecting the homework from the students. She handed in her work and just sat there as the teacher droned on.

She had done this over the weekend and found it to be a bad idea to do her homework ahead. Now she would have nothing to do after Naraku beat her. She would just have to sit in her room all night and wait for the next morning.

Three classes gone by the bell rang and it was now lunch. Sango had found her once again and told her to sit with her in the cafeteria. People had stared at them as they walked by. Probably because no one had ever been seen with the strange girl before.

Sango just glared at them and they went on doing their own business. Sitting down at a table the two girl's silently ate their lunch until Sango yelled out someone's name. Not long after two guy's sat down on wither side of the table one beside Sango the other beside Kagome.

"These are my friends. This is Miroku and beside you is Inuyasha."

Kagome looked over to the dark haired guy and then back down at her food.

"She sure is quiet isn't she?" said Miroku.

"Who is she?" asked Inuyasha.

"Oh, yeah this is Kagome."

"Nice to meet you Kagome," said Miroku.

The girl only looked up at him and the look she gave him made him shiver, there was something wrong with this girl.

"So how is your day so far?" asked Miroku.

Kagome didn't answer. She didn't want too. She didn't know these people, nor did she want too.

"What's wrong with you?" asked Inuyasha as he looked at the girl beside him.

This was too much! Kagome got up and started to walk away from the table yet once again Sango was at her side.

"I'm sorry about them... You'll get use to them,"

"This Kagome won't get use to them for she will not be around them any longer," said Kagome as she looked into Sango's eyes.

Inuyasha and Miroku had heard what the girl said and had both felt uneasy about the girl's strange voice.

"I'm sorry if I upset you," apologized Sango.

"Feh! If the girl is gonna be stuck up then let her," came Inuyasha's reply.

Sango glared at Inuyasha and turned back to face the girl in front of her, "Ignore him."

"Yes ignore the baka. He usually doesn't mean what he says," said the one known as Miroku.

"Listen your efforts to befriend this Kagome are in vain. I suggest you save it for someone else," said Kagome as she stepped around Sango and walked of disappearing behind the cafeteria doors.

"There's something wrong with that girl."

"I agree with you Miroku and she seems she really needs a friend."

"She just told you to save it!" was Inuyasha's reply.

"Can it Inuyasha! You don't see the pain that I see in her!"

"Ha! How can you be so sure she isn't just a stuck up bitch!"

Sango glared at Inuyasha and grabbed Miroku by the arm and walked off.

Inuyasha watched as his two friends walked off. He knew that they wouldn't be mad at him forever in fact they would probably be hanging around him by the end of the day. But one thing he agreed with was that the girl truly was in pain he just wasn't one to actually admit he wanted to help someone.

He wondered what was up with the strange way she talked and the way she referred to herself in third person. He had never before met anyone who talked in that way. Shrugging he to made his way out of the cafeteria to get ready for the last two classes of the day.