A RAINY SEPTEMBER
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR-DOWN IN THE BACKWOODS
SUMMARY-
Her whole life, Kagome has been made fun of by everyone. Her first friend was a boy named InuYasha, but now that they're 15 they don't talk. No one, not even InuYasha, knows of Kagome's secret life. She sings her heart out every now and then and she also works at her uncle's club, with five of her friends(Two guys and Three girls), so she can help earn money to get her grandfather out of the hospital.
STORY-
Mrs. Higurashi pulled into a gravel road driveway and Kagome jumped out of the car quickly.
She was soon tackled to the ground by a six year old and an eight year old.
"Well, it's good to see you two again also...Shippo, Rin."
The two kids smiled lovingly up at their cousin and then pulled her inside with them.
Sesshomaru smelt something delecious and followed Mrs. Higurashi and Souta inside.
They walked out back and saw Kagome playing the guitar while her older cousin, Matsu was singing.
"Becky was a beauty from South Alabama, Her daddy had a heart like a nine-pound hammer...Think he even did a little time in the slammer, What was I thinkin? She snook out one night and met me by the front gate, her daddy came out waving that 12 gage. We tore out the drive, he peppered my tail gate. What was I thinkin? Oh, I knew there'd be hell to pay...But that crossed my mind a little to late! Cause I was thinkin 'bout a little white tank top sitting right there in the middle by me. I was thinkin 'bout a long kiss, man just gotta get going where the night might lead...I know what I was feeling...But what was I thinkin?"
Mrs. Higurashi and her family smiled at Kagome with a lot of warmth.
She hadn't played the guitar since her father left.
The only person that could get her to play anymore was her cousin, Matsu.
And even he had to beg a lot.
The song kept going and when it finished Kagome and Matsu hugged each other before laughing and started to catch up on things they missed.
When Souta was three and Kagome and Kikyo were five, they moved from the country...Into the capital of Japan.
And they started over a new life.
"Woah, Haven't heard you play since you were six...Kaggy..."
Kagome turned around and glared at who she saw.
"What the fuck are you doing here InuYasha?"
He smirked and stood next to Matsu.
"I invited him. After all, he said you wouldn't mind. You two are still friends, right?"
Kagome glared at both of them and shook her head before running inside and slammed the bedroom door of the guestroom.
"No, I'm not! I haven't been since Kikyo met him!"
Matsu glared at InuYasha and punched him so hard, he fell to the ground.
"Don't lie to me, boy! I'm not from the city. I don't have that many manners!"
InuYasha gulped and nodded his head.
Sesshomaru sighed and rolled his eyes before he walked into the house and followed Kagome's scent.
He was about to knock on the door, when he heard a beautiful piano playing.
"She walks to school with the lunch she packed. Nobody knows what she's holding back. Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday. She hides the bruises with the linen and lace. Oh...The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask. It's hard to see the pain behind the mask. Bearing the burden of a secret storm. Sometimes she wishes she was never born. Through the wind! And the rain! She stands hard as a stone! In a world that she can't rise above...But her dreams give her wings! And she flies to a place! Where she's loved...Concrete angel...!"
Sesshomaru listened to the lyrics carefully and could almost feel the exact same pain that Kagome was feeling.
Sesshomaru's father cheated on his mother with InuYasha's mom and had him.
After that happened, Sesshomaru left to live with his mom and wound up in the hospital a lot.
Most of the time he was on the virge of dying.
But he remembered a little girl that would always come to visit him.
She had short raven hair and bright hazel eyes.
Every time she would see him, she always had a cast on either one of her legs, or her arms.
He always asked why, but she would just smile and say...
"I just wasn't careful and fell down the stairs again."
He remembered his last day in the hospital.
It was the day he got to live with his father again, and also the last time he saw the little girl.
A nine year old Sesshomaru had just put his hospital clothes on the bed and looked out his door.
He saw a little seven year old girl with raven hair and hazel eyes sitting on the ground with tears in her eyes.
She had a bright green and dark purple cast on her right leg.
He was about to walk over to her but stopped when he saw a little five year old boy with raven hair and dark brown eyes run over to her.
"No! Kahome has to stand! Don't fall, sissy! Don't cry! Souha's here now!"
The little girl wiped away her tears and smiled goofy at her younger brother.
She grabbed her crutches and stood up slowly and carefully, with a little help from her brother.
"Kahome? Can Kahome sing for Souha?"
She nodded her head and then the two walked back to her room.
Sesshomaru sighed and sat down on his hospital bed.
Right after he did, he heard the seven year old singing.
She had an amazing voice considering how young she was.
"She walks to school with the lunch she packed. Nobody knows what she's holding back. Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday. She hides the bruises with the linen and lace. Oh...The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask. It's hard to see the pain behind the mask. Bearing the burden of a secret storm. Sometimes she wishes she was never born. Through the wind! And the rain! She stands hard as a stone! In a world that she can't rise above...But her dreams give her wings! And she flies to a place! Where she's loved...Concrete angel...!"
Sesshomaru's eyes widened and he suddenly remembered.
"Kahome..Wasn't Kahome...It was Kagome...And Souha...Was really...Souta?"