InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Simply Trying ❯ Chapter 1

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
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Kagome had a pain in her neck for the past week. It'd been killing her! But she was moving today. She was moving in with her cousin. She loved her cousin but she felt so alianated from her. She had seen her at Christmas but that was Christmas about three years ago. Maybe it was because of the big age difference. Her cousin was a grown woman, at least 8 years older than her, but then again, her cousin would never tell Kagome her real age. She looked out the window of the bullet train, she was surprised as to how little people were on it but she didn't really care, the more space for her. Her trip was going to take at least another hour. She packed three suitcases one with winter clothes, one with summer clothes, and one for autum clothes. She planned to get a job once she got to her cousins house to get more clothes and try to earn her keep at ther house. She didn't exactly know why all of the sudden she didn't want to be a shrine maiden, most of the women in her family had been shrine maidens and ever since she was a young girl she dreamed of being a shrine maiden. She would visit her other cousins who are shrine maidens and look at them with respect and admiration. They would even dress her up with a little white and red kimono while she stayed at their shrines. When her cousins would sweep, she would sweep; when her cousins would pray, she would pray.

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But maybe that why she didn't want to anymore. Maybe the reason that originally wanted to be a maiden is because she saw so many around her that were. When everyone is little they want to comform, its human nature. But when one grows and develops a stronger and more stable personality one is able to deviate from the path laid out. One is able to stand up and say 'no, i don't want to do this!.' Maybe that whats going on. Well whatever the reason, I don't want to waste the rest of my life doing something I don't want to and be miserable. Maybe my future is in Kyoto with my cousin.

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Kagome's eye began to twitch. Behind her sat a little boy. He had been kicking her seat for a half hour now and it was getting irritated. From listening in on the way he spoke to his mother, and the way his mother reacted to him, she could obviously tell that the boy was a spoiled little brat.

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Thats it!

"Excuse me ma'm, but could you tell your son to stop kicking my seat?" She politely asked the mother if the child. The woman nodded

"Sweetie, could you please stop kicking this young lady's seat? Its very rude."

"NO!"
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"Sweety, you have to stop. Sweety please- swee-sweety please. You have to stop." The woman was really trying to calm down the child but the the little boy didn't care at all. The mother was being way too polite, she needed to assert her authority to the child.

"Ma'm please, may I?" Kagome asked the woman for the opportunity to try to deal with the child herself. "Um sure. . . Just be careful, he's a delicate boy."
Kagome couldn't believe what the woman just said to her! Delicate?! He's a spoiled little brat! 'Cuz' you made him one! Delicate my derriere!

"Little boy, please stop kicking my chair" Kagome requested very calmly and politely. The boy looked at her with a look that said "are you serious?"

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Kagome leaned in to the boy and was an inch away from his face. Very sternly she spoke. "You will stop kicking my chair right now before I knock a knot in the back of your head. Do you understand?" Kagome's voice and face were a bit scary. The boy sunk into his chair trying to escape the scary girl that had just threatened him. His mother looked at him and how he had stopped and looked at the girl in awe. It had been obvious that the woman had never been able to control her son. Maybe know she could after seeing how to deal with her son. The train stopped and the boy and woman got up to leave. As they were walking off Kagome pretended that she was about to hit the boy and he flinched. Yes, thats how you have to do it, put the fear in them. Spoiled little brat. Maybe now I can get some sleep. She leaned her head on the window and once again made the boy flinched through the glass, once the train started moving she started to doze off.

A flash of bright light

Images

A flash of bright light

More images

The thing was she didn't recognize the images. It was images of small children playing in a field. Images of a young girl with red eyes making tea. Images of shadows, or what seemed like a shadow that had a mind of its own.

She was holding a mirror and looked at herself and couln't see herself, it turned black when she put it up to her face. She looked down at the rest of her and saw that her body had gone limp. She collapsed on the floor, her head hitting the floor hard. Kagome winced as she made contact, but that pain seemed to have jolted her out of her sleep.

She woke up and looked around, her head was plastered to the glass window, the condensation on the glass made her hair stick to her face. She reached a hand up to her face and felt it chill, either from the glass or from her dream, she wasn't sure. The train stopped suddenly, it was her stop. Kagome looked out in hopes of seeing her cousin waiting for her but was disappointed. Kagome wasn't exactly astonished. She only remembers her cousin vaugely, which is odd because she is going to live with her. You would think I would be familiar with the person that I'm about live with for the next couple months. . .

She stood at the train platform for about 20 minutes before deciding completely that her cousin was not coming. She had three suitcases that she had to carry to her cousins apartment who she had no idea where was at. She couldn't take a cab or bus because she couldn't remember. So putting two suitcase handles in one of her hands and the other suitcase in her hand. She dragged the three suitcases down the street and made her way down the sidewalk hoping to see a phonebooth soon. If she did run into a phonebooth, there will be a phone book with people's names in it, and their numbers and adresses.

Yea my hands don't hurt at all! I mean, I head blisters were in this time of year-OW!

He hands had been sweating and rubbing against the leather for about 20 minutes now. She did find a phonebooth, with said phonebook, and after asking someone on the street where exactly her cousins apartment was, she found out, it was a 40 minute walk. She looked at the position of the sun. That puppy is going down and fast . . . Something tells me that I'm not going to make it before dark. The sun was setting and made everything appear to be a golden hue. It was beautiful, but beautiful don't give you strength. Beauty does not take away the blisters, and beauty does not make the three mile hike any shorter or easier. . .




She finally made it across town and as expected it was dark. And just to add another little spice in her life, her cousin lived on the top floor, in the last apartment! Kagomes hair was a mess, she had broken a sweat and was looking ragged. She knocked on the door verociously. Until it just swung open. She stepped inside and saw her cousin with a goofy grin on her face. She was drunk. SHE WAS DRUNK AND LAYING ON THE COUCH STARING UP AT THE CEILING! Kagome didn't even look at her, she just kept walking in the apartment and looked for the spare room. She made it past the home stretch she dropped her suitcases at the door and collapsed on the bed that didn't even have sheets on it yet. In fact, half of her body was on the bed and her bottom half was kneeling on the floor. Oh yes, this is going to be the summer of my life . . . Kagome thought sarcastically but she didn't know how much truth was in those words.