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Chapter 24: The Ending Memories
I started to see my life passing before my eyes. Starting from when I was a young child. My earliest memory.
I was four and had to attend my first day of daycare. My daddy and mommy were dropping me off because they were becoming much to busy to work and take care of a child all day. I remember wailing all day until a little boy named Ochi came up to me. He consoled me and told me about his first day of day care. He became my first friend. I stayed friends with Ochi until the third grade when he passed away from lung cancer. His parents used to smoke in the house and my dad and mom said they didn't want me around that. They had good judgement.
My next memory was my sixth birthday. The day my daddy and granny died. I whined to daddy about wanting a dollhouse and that he needed to go get it for me right away or I'd start to cry. It was a blizzard outside and there were many wrecks already that day, but I didn't care. I wanted my dollhouse. I was such a brat. My granny was his mom. She told him that she would go with him to the store as long is it made her little angel happy. I wasn't an angel. I was the exact opposite. That night they left to get the dollhouse. It was all fine until we received a call from the hospital saying that they had retrieved two dead bodies from a car wrec. Those two bodies were my dad and granny. It was my fault that they were dead.
My next memory was when Souta started getting bullied in his Kindergarten class. He came home one day crying and told me that this mean girl in class was making fun of him because he was different. This was back when we still had to attend normal schools. Schools that weren't able to handle our abilities in the least. Souta told me that the main reason he was so upset was because her daddy owned the school and no one would discipline her and that he couldn't hit her back because she was a girl. A normal girl. So I took it upon myself to join Souta at school the next day and at recess I pulled the girl behind a bunch of trees and scared her half to death with my powers. They weren't scary to people who knew what they were but to normal people like her, they were frightening. That girl never bothered Souta again.
I remembered my middle school. Hakurei Middle School. It was a school for normal people and for the gifted like me. I loved it there. I had made some pretty great friends like Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi. We did everything together in middle school. I remembered when I started my period at a sleepover at Eri's and her mom had to teach me how to use a tampon. It was pretty crazy! I remembered our summers together and then eventually moving up to high school together. The four of us went to Sakura High. Sakura High was such a large milestone in my life. I got my first boyfriend in 9th grade. His name was Naraku Onigumo, what a bastard he turned out to be. He was my first kiss and he tried to make me go all the way with him, but I didn't want that. He dumped me after I denied him sex. What a waste of time.
Then I remembered my mom and grampa's death. Yes, I'd lost a lot of people hadn't I? I remember waving goodbye to them as they walked out the front door, promising they'd call as soon as the plane landed. They called a little early. That was a terrible joke... I remembered holding Souta as we both shed tears of sorrow at the dreadful loss of our mother and grandfather. I remembered going to court and receiving a chance at keeping Souta with me. I remembered everyone staring at me at school. I had to finish my sophomore year and it had only just begun. I remembered having to hear my mothers will just as I had with my fathers and learning that we were left five hundred thousand dollars. I stored it away for safe keeping and we'd still barely touched any of it. I could remember looking for houses somewhere away from Tokyo and away from my old life. I remembered the depression, the suffering, the tragedies.
I remembered moving into our apartment and going to Shikon High. The high school I'd met so many wonderful people at. People that understood my brother and myself. People that truly cared about us for who we were, inside and out. I remembered when Souta and I became the priest and priestess captains alongside Miroku and throwing it in Kikyo's face. I remembered when Souta had made his first friend in years, Kohaku. I remembered meeting my best friend. Sango Taijiya. She had become such a large portion of my life and I'd be forever in her debt. She made me face my past instead of letting me run from it! She confided in me about her tortured past! She stayed with me in the hospital for weeks when I was ran over! She was my best friend!
I remembered taking Kina in temporarily until Ayame could reclaim her. We bonded instantly and she began calling me mommy. She loved to watch Bratz and Barbie movies. She loved her dollies and loved her uncle Souta. She would get upset with herself when she didn't understand something and begin to cry into my arms. I remembered reading her a bedtime story every night before she fell asleep next to me. I remember seeing her distorted, sad face.
Then I remembered Inuyasha. I remembered his touch. His hugs. His kiss. The way he would listen to me talk for hours on end without a single complaint. The way he stroked my hair when I cried. I remembered when he would help with problems Souta was having when I didn't know what to do in the slightest. I remembered how attached Kina had been to him. He loved that little girl. I remember when he professed his love for me in the middle of the cafeteria, causing Kikyo to run out in frustration. I remembered meeting his brother, Sesshomaru and his girlfriend, Rin for the first time. Sesshomaru was quite nice to me and Rin became a close friend of mine. Then I remembered Inuyasha being killed and becoming a monster.
I remembered hearing from my birth mother and birth father for the first time. I hated my mother but I enjoyed my father. I remembered freeing my father and I remembered my mother killing Inuyasha. I remembered her possessing my little brother and forcing him to fight me until one of us died. I remembered Souta's heartbroken face as he took that last swing.
I remembered his apologies and his crying. The unbearable look in his eyes as he begged me not to go. I remember whispering that I loved him and everybody in the group that I loved them. I remember apologizing for not protecting him better and him laying his head on my bloody chest, soaking my outfit with tears. I remembered closing my eyes and taking my final breath with a smile.
They say that after you die, there's still thirty seven minutes of brain activity where you recall your entire life before you completely pass on. This was my last thirty seven minutes.
I WAS GONNA CUT IT THERE BUT I FIGURED I MIGHT AS WELL KEEP GOING!
HERE WE GO.
NORMAL POV
Souta took his last swing right as his mother was defeated. Miroku quickly threw subduing sutras on her body to prevent her from further use of her powers. It was far too late, however. Souta had already swung his axe. His mind was returned to his own just in time to see Kagome drop her blade while he sliced his sister in half at the waist. The look on his face was uncanny. His face distorted into a look of pure terror.
"WHAT HAVE I DONE?!" He screamed out as he tried to cat what was left of his sisters top half, "Kagome..? Kagome, I'm so sorry!" He cried out to his sister.
She blinked a few times, blood spilled from her mouth but she still smiled anyways. She caressed her brothers face and everyone gathered around to hear her final words.
"No, Sou..ta." She wheezed out. "I am the one that failed you. I'm sorry I couldn't protect you. I love you Souta... and I..love you all... So .. much..nnnn" Her eyes rolled back and everyone knew that she was gone.
They all began to mourn as Souta shook her body violently.
"Kagome? KAGOME?!" He screamed into his sisters dead face, "NO! YOU CAN'T BE GONE!"
The boys father, Magatsuhi, pried him off of his sister and forced him into a hug. He knew this was a tremendous weight on his sons heart and he didn't know what else to really do at the time, so he just held him.
It was time to return home. To hold funerals for the ones we lost. Magatsuhi took Kagome's body while Sesshomaru collected Kina and Inuyasha's ashes. There was much mourning to be done, but not here. They had to return home and do things properly. Kagome's body lay in a sack on Magatsuhi's back and Souta stroked the bag the entire trip back to the well. No one said anything or made a move to stop him. They knew what he was feeling.
'I will avenge you, Kags... I promise...' Souta thought to himself as he stroked the bag.
He pulled the Shikon from his pocket and examined it. The jewel used to hand from his sisters neck and he wanted to keep it in her memory. He wanted to hold his sister but that would never happen again, so he had to settle with something personal from her.
When they arrived back in their apartment, Souta let out all of his frustrations. He tore her room apart, angry at the world. Then upon realizing what he'd done to her things, breaking and trashing it, he tried to fix it. Apologizing to no one in particular. Everyone waited in the living room for him to come back down. Magatsuhi and Sesshomaru made work on digging graces while everyone else watched Midoriko, making sure she didn't escape. The bodies were just being placed in the graves as Souta returned to the group.
"We're burying them." Kohaku told Souta from the back doorway.
Souta nodded and headed to backyard of the apartments. He saw the graves and sighed. It was really happening. Once the bodies were buried, Miroku stood up to do a prayer over the graves because Souta was in no state to be using his powers.
"Would anyone like to say a few words?" Miroku asked as he finished his prayer.
Sango stood on shaky legs an walked toward the graves. She took a deep breath.
"It's insane. Kagome.." A tear slipped down her cheek, "Was my best friend. She saved my life and helped me through the tough times in my life. I owe everything to that girl!" Sango was sobbing now, "She was so beautiful! She cared for us all so much and took on so many responsibilities..."
Sango finished her speech and Miroku held her the rest of the funeral. The next person who approached the graves was Sesshomaru. He spoke of his brother and all the memories they shared. It was touching to see him get so emotional about someone he always seemed to despise. Rin decided it was her place to say a few words about Kina since no one else seemed to have the words to say. She told everyone of how sweet and how they should all cherish life because it could be gone any second.
The funeral came to a close and everyone decided to stay with Souta at the apartment. He needed people to be there for him. They needed to be there for each other. Everyone settle in for bed and chained Midoriko to a chair, Magatsuhi keeping close watch on her. No one knew quite exactly what to do with her yet. Souta knew what he'd do. During one his and Kagome's journeys in Shikon Village they found a wall mirror. A wall mirror that you could send someone inside for all eternity. It was a place worse than hell and was escape proof for only Souta knew the spell to unlock and lock the portal.
He told his father to bring Midoriko upstairs, that he knew what to do with her. Magatsuhi was pleased with the punishment and decided to let it happen. Souta placed the mirror directly in front of Midoriko and began to chant a spell quickly as he looked into her eyes. She started to beg him for mercy and that she didn't want to go back into a void of nothingness again but Souta did not want to hear it. He slapped her across the face and continued on with the spell. Both of their bodies glowed green and The next thing Magatsuhi saw was an empty chair. He got up to glance in the mirror and saw her chained to yet another chair, but she was trapped in the mirror too!
"What are you going to do, Souta?" Magatsuhi asked his son.
"I'm getting Kagome back."
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