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Sitting in the police car, Kagome was numb with grief. "It's not true, there not dead this is just someone's idea of a sick joke. My mother is going to come out that door any second and wrap her arms around me and tell me it was all a big misunderstanding." Kagome thought as she rocked back and forth a bit, still clutching the blanket in her hands.
She remembered everything in with such clarity; she didn't think that she would ever get the images of that day out of her head. She found out later that whoever had done this, had stabbed her family to death. The worst part of the day however, was having to go down to the morgue, to id everyone.
Whoever had done this to them had been horribly brutal. Not caring that this was someone's family, that he or she had ruined, not caring at all that these were once people, and yet oddly enough the person took enough care to not damage the faces of his victims in the slightest. When they pulled back the sheet of the first body, Kagome started sobbing again, for on the table, was her mother. Looking as if she was just asleep and not lying there dead.
After that it was as if nothing else mattered. She remembered nodding yes that that was her grandfather and brother, afraid to speak, for fear of breaking down in tears again.
When she got to Inuyasha, Kagome gave a startled gasp, and felt sick to her stomach, as if she was going to see a repeat of everything that she had eaten in her eighteen years of living. Because the killer, had slashed Inuyasha's face beyond recognition, the only way she was even able to tell it was him was due to the long, silvery hair, that she had loved so much.
Nodding an affirmative, to the police officer next to her, Kagome turned and ran for the ladies room, and promptly threw up everything in her stomach. She knelt there for a minute beside the toilet, silent tears running down her face. Finally she wiped her mouth, and went back out to face the cold, harsh reality that she was indeed alone in the world down. Gone was the laughing, carefree girl, and in her place a scared girl who suddenly had to grow up all to fast.
She came out of the restroom, and was guided back to the chief's office, were she sat down on a couch to wait for him to come in. The chief had already verified that Kagome was indeed at school, when this had happened. Thus ruling her out at least for the time being as a suspect.
He walked into his office a manila folder in hand, and he settled behind his desk, with a frown on his face. These kinds of cases upset him the most, twenty-five years as a police officer, and he still wasn't used to death.
"Miss Higruashi, is there anyone that you could think of that might want to hurt your family?" he asked her in a gentle voice.
She looked at him, her eyes red, and her skin the color of paper it was so white. "Why would anyone want to hurt my family? My grandfather was a shrine keeper, and he supported my family, because my father died not long after my brother was born. My mother kept the house and gave tours of the shrine, and my brother and I were students." She said as she shifted around on the couch.
"Do you have anyone that you can stay with for a couple of nights? At least until we have finished processing the crime scene?" he asked.
Flinching at the word crime scene, Kagome drew in a deep breath. "Could I make some calls, maybe I can stay with a friend from school for a while." She said, her voice breaking a bit.
He nodded toward the phone. "Go ahead you can use the phone in here, I'll leave so you can have some privacy ok?"
She arranged to stay at Yuka's house for the night, after explaining the situation as best she could to Yuka's mother, she told Kagome that she was welcome to stay as long as she liked.
When Yuka and her mother showed up to pick her up, she rode in silence on the way, staring bleakly out the window. They had the spare bedroom all set up for her to sleep in, and Yuka let Kagome borrow a few of her things to wear. As she turned out the light, and stared up at the ceiling, the door to the bedroom opened, and Yuka's mother stuck her head in to check on her. Seeing that she was still awake, she walked over and sat down next to Kagome.
"Would you like to talk about it dear? It might help just a bit." She asked her quietly.
Kagome shook her head, and Yuka's mom got up to go. But before she left she bent down and gave Kagome a tight hug. "it will get better, it takes time but I promise that it will eventually get better. I know that it doesn't seem like it now but trust me sweetie it will." She whispered in her ear.
Kagome hugged her back, and she started to cry softly. Yuka's mom sat there for over an hour that night, hugging her, rocking her back and forth, until eventually, Kagome cried herself to sleep.
The next few days were kind of a blur to her, and even after the police had finished with her house and had cleaned it all up, Kagome still stayed at Yuka's house, her dreams haunted by the sight of bloody walls, and body bags. Of faceless men with silver hair, reaching out to her with bloody hands. Of her mother lying in the kitchen, her chest and stomach covered in blood, her brown eyes lifeless, and staring.
She often woke from these dreams, screaming in fright, covered in sweat, and shaking, and always when this happened, Yuka's mom was right there to comfort her, help her, and soothe her back to sleep. She had no appetite only eating when Yuka's mother insisted. If it hadn't been for Yuka's mother, Kagome thought she probably would have just curled up in a ball and waited to die, so that she could be with her family again. As it is she was dropping weight anyway, her skin had gotten so pale, that she matched he school uniform. She gave up on living, in a way, she thought that she had nothing to live for.
When Yuka's mother finally had her start going back to school again, about a week after the murders, Kagome stayed away from everyone else, even going so far as staying in the band room, while everyone else ate lunch.
One afternoon, not long after she started back to school, she was standing by a fence in the school yard, with Eri, Ayumi, and Yuka, when a strange man with long black curly hair, pulled up high in a ponytail, stopped on the other side of the fence. The first thing that all four of them noticed was that oddly enough, the man was wearing what appeared to be, light blue eyeliner, lining the top of his eyes, and that his eyes were also a strange color, an light purplish pink color, as if he was wearing contacts.
"Kikyo." He said as he stared at her. "We can finally be together now, I got rid of them so we could finally be together, my beloved, Kikyo."
All of them stared at him in shock, and Kagome shook her head. "I'm sorry sir, but I don't know you, and I think you have the wrong person, my name is Kagome."
"Kikyo! How could you forget you once long love, Naraku? I got rid of them all just so that we could be together once again, especially that silver haired boy, who was stealing your love from me?" he said as her reached out and touched her arm through the chain fence.
Recoiling as if he had just shot her, all Kagome could do was stare at him. "What…what did you just say?"
And being the mean rotten author that I am that's were I'm going to leave it for now! Hope you all like chapter two of Standing in the rain.
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Sachichan16: it will eventually be Kouga Kagome, but it takes time to get the story plot going sometimes, and she just lost her family to boot so maybe in the next chapter or so.