Ok so I not dead after all =). Yet...
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Why the hell was she so cold? Kagome wondered moodily tightening her hold on the five multi-colored sweaters covering her tiny shivering form.
The day had looked so promising too.
The sun had shone brightly through her third floor apartment window lighting up her 60's style kitchen in her run down apartment building, the neighbors had stopped fight somewhere around 3 am allowing her to get a much needed 4 hours of sleep before starting up again, and apparently the annoying cat from one floor down finally bit the big one.
Not to say Kagome didn't like cats. Actually she liked them quite a lot considering all the years she had let Buyo, her grandfathers 18 year old tubby kitty use her jeans as his personal scratching post. But really a girl could only take so much midnight yowling before climbing out on the ledge after the noisy beast with a hammer.
Kagome sigh softly watching annoyed as her breath fogged instantly before her eyes and drifted away.
"Why today?" Kagome groaned aloud yearning her several odd looks from the other poor souls that had chosen to venture out on the hellishly cold morning. "Of all the days for Kike to call in sick it had to be today didn't it?" Kagome snapped a little louder sending icy glares at the snow covered sidewalk. The snow remained stubbornly quiet.
Temper flaring slightly Kagome made to kick at it, slipped on the ice concealed by the snow and promptly fell on her behind. Uttering a very unladylike profanity, Kagome scrabbled to her feet and hissed. "Stupid piece of…!" The long stream of curses that followed did little to cool her temper so with one final look at her snowy adversary she again departed.
The bakery come into sight all to soon and before Kagome knew it she was inside, in uniform, and taking orders. This job was simple for someone like her take orders, bring meals, clean tables that was it. But still it nagged her. When 7 years ago at the tender age of 15 she had been unexpectedly pulled into the past to battled beside her friends against the evil demon Naraku and restore the sikon no tama, she never would have guessed this as her future. At one point during her travels Kagome had seen her self as a lawyer of course her failing in political science a had put an end to that, at another she had been the ideal house wife tenderly nurturing her children as her husband got ready for work. Why the last was still out of reach bugged her endlessly. Four long years after her fairy tale had begun it had ended so abruptly that Kagome still felt a bit of shell shock 2 years after.
The battle had ended the evil half demon slain and the sikon no tama once again whole and in her hands. Even today Kagome could not tell what exactly had happened next. It had all seemed so surreal the quiet of the valley around her the trees swaying slightly in the breeze. The stunned expressions of her dear friends as a strange pink light engulfed her body. She could remember vaguely the voices their voices calling out to her but all was consumed by the pink mist until finally it took hold of all the senses and blackness rained. She had woken hours later in the well house dazed and confused.
Blinking back tears Kagome picked up the final plate of the night off table 12 and placed it onto her cart. 'Two years later and it still hurts' she thought mournfully as she wheeled the heavily laden cart into the back. David the bakery's 38 year old owner and her boss smiled brightly at her as she entered the kitchen before glancing at the clock.
"Hey there Kagome." He said merrily. "You're here awfully late! Why don't you go on home now? Christmas is coming next week got get all that decorating and rapping done!" He said heaving his own bag of rapped presents onto the top shelf. "Gotta hide these from the youngens. Been all over the house looking for them!" He laughed and Kagome laughed with him.
"Thank you sir. I'm almost done, just gotta wash these then I'm off." She said smiling half heartily at him.
He smiled back. "Alright then I'll be off now then. Don't work to hard Kagome and see you next Year!" He laughed at his own joke before disappearing out the side door and into the night. Kagome watched a snow flake fall onto the tiled floor as the door slide shut. 'three years' she thought 'today makes it three years.'