Kagome went down stairs finally. Her mother and Grandfather were there, but so wasn't Kagura.
"Hello dear. How are you?" Kagome sat next to her mother and Souta sat right next to her. Kagura glared at Kagome, Kyo was fuming on the porch, Tohru was smiling, Yuki seemed slightly bored, and Shigure seemed happy as can be.
"She's not doing well from what I've seen." Kagome looked to her younger brother. He didn't need to say anything. Everyone except for Kyo and Kagura turned to her. Kyo because he was still mad, Kagura because she was still glaring.
"What's wrong honey?" Kagome teared up again.
"I don't want to relive it mom. It's just been a rough few days that's all." Kagura seemed to glare more.
"Let me fill you in Kotori." And so Shigure did. Kotori just nodded every so often and when he finished she nodded some more.
"I see. So Kagome found out. I knew she would. And everyone else in here except for us and Tohru are cursed members as well."
"Yes, and there seems to be some tension in the little love triangle." Kotori cocked her head. Kagura stood.
"Tension? She's trying to steal my Kyo!" Kagome stood next.
"Not I'm not! I haven't tried a damn thing! I'm trying to accept the fact that it'll never happen! But that doesn't mean I can stop loving Kyo with the drop of a hat!"
"You're lying! You don't love him! You just want him ever since you found out that dog of yours died!" Kagome grabbed her collar and pulled her almost over the table.
"Listen you stupid pig! Sesshomaru wasn't some dog! He was an Inu Youkai! And not just any Inu Youkai! But Lord of the Western Lands! He meant the world to me and all I have to remember him by is the fang around my neck and the last kiss he ever gave me right before that stupid well drag me back through! You also can't say anything about him because if he hadn't protected your ancestors in the past you wouldn't be alive right now! So show some damn respect you swine!" Kagura just stared at her and Kagome let her go. She whistled and in came Diamond with her bow and arrows.
"K-Kagome?" She turned to her mother.
"Sorry mom, I'm going out for a bit. Why not stay here and talk to Shigure more?" She jumped on Diamond's back and left. She landed in her little clearing and turned to Diamond.
"You may want to leave this time. I'll send a send spark up when you can come back. It won't be safe for you." Diamond nodded and left. Kagome turned to the dummies and put her hands together in the motion she did when she had put subjugation on Kyo's beads.
She sat down and breathed in. As she breathed out she allowed miko energy to flow out and cover the ground within a foot diameter around her. As she breathed in it shrunk to 6 inches. As she breathed out is went a foot farther. Breathing out added a foot while breathing in subtracted 6 inches.
This continued until the ground of the entire clearing had covered with miko energy. Kagome stood, never parting her hands an inhaled. the miko energy completely returned to her. Instead of exhaling Kagome screamed and the energy burst through the clearing destroying most of the dummies. She even purified the pollution in the area she was in.
When Kagome finished and parted her hands she opened her eyes. She felt a lot calmer and was ready to return. She sent up the spark and Diamond returned. Kagome jumped on her back, wondering why she even bothered bringing her bow and arrows in the first place, and returned.
Everyone was still there, only Tohru and Yuki were in the kitchen. Kotori looked at Kagome and stood.
"Kagome." She walked over and hugged her daughter. "I'm wondering if it's better if you just finished high school from home." Kagome froze, and the chatting that was happening in the kitchen had ceased.
"W-What?" Kotori pulled from her daughter and looked at her.
"Living in a house with the person you love and always having his deranged fiance come over is not going to help you any. I know having the well there all the time didn't help, but you've obviously healed, and I don't want you to get hurt any further." Kagome teared up.
"B-But mom! What about Tohru? I can't push all of my work onto her! It's not fair!"
"Kagome!" She looked at her mother. She had never used that tone with her before. "I understand you don't want to stress Tohru out but it doesn't seem like Kyo's just gonna jump in your arms anytime soon screaming to the world he loves you and it doesn't seem that this idiot is gonna let him near you now that she knows your feelings for him! Yuki and Tohru are nice, I admit, and I trust Shigure with you entirely-"
"Then why-"
"But I don't need to see you fall apart again!" Kagome stared at her mother.
"I-I-I won't go! Do you know the shit I just went through to stay here? And dealing with Kyo and Kagura will be nothing compared to the demon's I've dealt with in the past!"
"Mama?" Kagome turned and saw Shippo in the yard.
"S-Shippo?" Kagome started to cry and threw herself into his arms.
"Mama? What's wrong?"
"I don't wanna go Shippo. I don't want to leave the house. I don't want to feel like I've abandoned them. Shippo please help me. Help mom understand." Shippo looked to Kotori.
"Grandmama?" Kotori looked at him in shock. This was the little fox demon her daughter showed her in a picture and adopted. "She'll be okay. I'm watching over Miroku's and Sango's children and that includes her as well. She's a lot stronger than you believe." Shippo smiled to her. Kotori sighed.
"Alright then, Father, Souta, it's time to go home. It's almost time to feed Buyo and you know how he gets. Good bye Shigure, Yuki, Tohru." Kotori hugged Kagome. "If you need anything you know who to call." She looked to Kagura.
"I would appreciate if you learned to treat my daughter with some respect because she has done more for you than you will ever know." Kotori then got Kyo's attention.
"And you! If you hurt my daughter's heart anymore than you already have!" She hugged him and picked him up by the scruff then smiled. "I'll bring you to the vet just like this and get you fixed." Everyone looked at her and Kagome just smiled as she and Shippo began to laugh a little.
"I love you mom!" Kagome hugged her mom again and she smiled and then they all left.
"What's wrong with her?" Kagome smiled.
"She's just trying to protect me like usual." Kagome smiled to Shippo. "Soooo, Shippo. You find someone yet?" He blushed.
"Mom!" Kagome smiled to her son. She wished she could've raised him at least a little while, because she'd raise him like her mother raised her.
Yay! Another chapter! I hope you guys like it. Next time! Something else happens! I don't know what but I promise you, it will be something =)