InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ An Encounter With Fate ❯ Running Away ( Chapter 1 )
A/N: New fic!!! Woooo!!! Just wanna let you guys know, this story is AU, because even though it seems like our present time and place, its really different at some points (you'll just have to see how). Oh, and to darkangel, Kelly is superiorpaperclip and one of my bestest friends. The pink and fluffy thing is an inside joke. Oh yeah, you should go read her story. After mine ^_^
Disclaimer: *sigh* don't own inuyasha. *tear*
An Encounter With Fate
Chapter 1 - Running Away
Kagome sighed glumly as she stared out the window with the same feeling at the dark night sky. `Grandma,' she thought before feeling the familiar sting of tears in her eyes. Her Grandmother's passing, but the pain was still there. Fresh as it had been six months ago when she passed. She doubted anyone noticed how sad and depressed she was.
No one really noticed her. It was all about her twin sister, Kikyo. She got all the attention, along with all the love. Well, maybe not all of it, since they sometimes paid attention to Kagome. Like birthdays and Christmas (the only reason they probably remembered her is because her birthday is the same as Kikyo's and Christmas, is Christmas). And because there was still Souta to think about, so maybe not all of it, but a vast majority of it.
Her grandmother was the only one who actually paid attention to her. She guessed it was mostly because they shared a room and that her grandmother was home most of the time. She was home a lot with her grandmother, too. This was because whenever the family went out, they'd never really bring Kagome along. They always left her with her grandmother. So naturally they grew close. Another reason why Kagome suspected that her family knew about her was because of her grandmother.
And now that her grandmother had passed, she was afraid that her family would forget about her all together. But not so much. She had never really loved nor loathed her family other than her grandmother. But now she was eighteen and a graduate from the top high school in Tokyo. And of course, her sister was eighteen and a graduate from Takahashi High, so Kikyo was going to have a grand party. With all 300 of her closest friends, not to mention there was still the family. And that the graduation party was a joint-party between their birthday party. Of course, the banner would read, "Congrats and Happy Birthday Kikyo" It might've been different if her grandmother was there to help, it might've actually had her name in it, but not anymore.
That's what helped her decide. Tomorrow, she'd leave. She was going to run away. It sounded childish, but she didn't think anyone would notice. She was packing some of the final things she would need. But for, now sleep would suffice.
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Kagome woke before the crack of dawn. She always woke up at this time. She went to (A/N: this school is made up, I think, and I don't know where Kagome lives, so I'm making it up. So don't quote me on this) Tokyo Central College Prepatory Academy for Young Men and Women in downtown Tokyo. Since she lived on the outskirts of Tokyo, going there was no easy task.
Even when she had gone to the same school as Kikyo, she'd always get up early because she wouldn't be able to take a shower unless she woke up before her. So she was used to this time. As she stepped into the shower and let the nice warm water flow down her body, she took the time to repeat the plan in her head. She'd bring everything she needed to school, and never come back. She'd go somewhere far away, get a job (hopefully), take the entrance exams to a college (probably getting a scholarship in the process) and attend there to continue on with her life.
She knew how to defend herself; she had money saved from all eighteen years of her life, plus the three hundred she got as birthday/graduation money, and the rest that was in her account. She had a car (which would be traded in or just sold so no one would use that to find her), she had clothes, and knew how to cover her tracks and avoid anyone tracking her. She knew how to make herself look like a boy so that no one would actually have a real reason to go after her. She knew how to get water if there was none, how to forage for food and everything. She had learned all of this in school.
Kagome did find it a bit strange that school taught all this stuff, but they were a prepatory school, preparing you for anything. Plus she went to private school, since she earned a full scholarship there (as if her parents would pay the yearly $20,000 fee). Plus they offered survival training courses over the summer (which she took), apothecary courses (which she took), self defense and martial arts courses (which she took), basic weaponry (which she took) and she had archery outside of school on top of it. She knew how to get along just fine. Plus, she had all the book knowledge that she learned in regular school classes. Biology, psychology, astronomy, calculus, and some other courses she took. She was actually named in school, the over-achiever. She didn't care. It didn't matter, since it was to try and get someone to notice her, plus she enjoyed it and a lot of it was easy or came natural to her. So she got straight A's in everything, got the highest test grades, passed with flying colors, top of her class. It was a well-known fact that no one liked her because of it. It wasn't her fault that she was born this way.
When she compared herself to Kikyo, man was it different! Kikyo was pretty, popular, relatively smart (at Takahashi High, anyway), athletic, wanted, and loved. Whereas Kagome was lonely, ugly (in her thoughts anyway), athletic (although she didn't show it as much as Kikyo did), unwanted and unloved. She never really minded it till she was completely ignored. So as she stepped from the shower, she hoped that everything would go as planned.
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All her stuff was ready. This was the last time she would ever be Kagome Higurashi. She would be Kiyoshi Takara. She gathered her things. They were her book bag (which was being left at school), a bag of clothes, a book on edible plants and animals, her money, a few days rations of bread and water, a blanket, some other important items (matches, maps etc.) and her weapons and armaments. Before she left, she eyed a picture on her cabinet. It was of her family. Her mother, her father, her grandfather, her grandmother, Kikyo and Souta. She wasn't there. She was taking the picture. But still, it was a reminder of who she was and what she left behind. So taking the picture out of the frame, she carefully slipped it into the pocket of the journal book she brought along.
Walking past the rooms of sleeping people, down the stairs, through the kitchen. There stood a girl, a young woman, bags and keys with her. Looking back a bit nostalgically, she left what was once her home behind forever.
A/N: sorry it's kinda short. Have to go watch Inuyasha on Adult Swim now. REVIEW!!!! ^_^