InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Betrayal's Gift ❯ Chapter 2

18 years later in modern day Tokyo

 

“Hotaru_Hotaru Higurashi!”

 

`Damn, not her again I don't need this crap today.'

 

The seventeen year old girl stopped in her tracks when the snobby girl named Fuu stopped in front of her. A bunch of other kids surrounded her and did not allow a way of an escape.

 

“I'm not in the mood today Fuu, just leave me alone.”

 

The young debutant wasn't hearing her. With a malicious glint in her eye she began to taunt her.

 

“Guess what guys? I heard that Higurashi's father, he was in Kabukicho.”

 

“Really Fuu what was he doing `there'?”

 

Said one of the other girls with her. Everyone laughed because everyone knew that it was Japan's largest red light district, where there is plenty of lewd entertainment there to pick and choose from.

 

“Why Minako, I am so happy to answer your question. My mom said that she had passed by on a bus to get home when she saw him… (in mock shock) entering a whore house with a whore!”

 

Everyone started to laugh and point at the young girl. Even some of the guys made some cat noises questioning her about her own innocence.

 

“If she's anything like her father she might give any of us a good time.”

 

“Yeah, right if you want to freak it up with a FREAK!” Yelled out one of the other boys.

 

Then Fuu decided to intervene since she saw the angry scowl cross the other girls' features.

 

“Your father is such a pathetic lecherous loser and do you know what that makes you Hotaru?”

 

She asked all too sweetly.

 

“I don't really care, but I suppose your going to tell me anyway right?”

 

One of the boys behind Hotaru slapped her upside the head. She growled in her mind.

 

“Yo Higurashi, don't be a wise ass.” Said the one who slapped her

 

Hotaru looked down at the ground and concentrated on the cracks on the side walk.

 

Fuu pressed in.

 

“Well really Hotaru, I don't know why you bother even breathing, you're a waste of space. Do yourself a favor and stick one of those mantra thingy's into your neck and give yourself a deep paper cut and die a painfully slow and lonely death.”

 

The girl then spat between Hotaru's shoes and laughed again with her click of friends. Hotaru counted to one hundred three times concentrating on the meditation that her father had taught her. She made it back to the shrine and headed into the house ready to make a dash to her room.

 

“Hi honey how was school?” Kagome asked.

 

Yet, the girl kept walking as if no one said a word.

 

“Excuse me young lady, I asked you a question.” Kagome gently chided.

 

Hotaru stopped and gave her mother hateful violet eyes.

 

“I hate you both, you ruined my life!”

 

And with that said she went upstairs to her room. Kagome now being thirty four years old looked at her teenage daughters fleeing form with a pale and tired look. Her nerves shot, Kagome pulled into her pocket and swallowed a pill. Afterward, she hummed a quiet tune and continued preparing the dinner.

 

Once Hotaru was in her room that used to be Kagome's when she was a teenager, she flung herself on the bed and began to let her anger and frustration out with her tears. How many times had she cried on her pillow and still since her younger days she gave way to her fantasy.

 

`One day my prince will come, he'll be strong, brash and he'll tell off all those punks who told me I was ugly or a freak. He'll love me and I will not be alone anymore.'

 

She closed her eyes and thought about her dream man. She sighed.

 

`Hotaru, really, you're nearly eighteen and your still fantasying. Grow up. No one is ever going to think you're beautiful. No one is ever going to marry you.' The evil voice in her head sang.

 

She stood up and went to her vanity. She looked at herself in the mirror and thought about her life. Since she could remember she was shunned from other people. She was considered a freak. Apparently, when she got older her parents told her that they were both of spiritual background and that was why she was different from the other kids.

 

*Flash Back*

 

“Mommy, the kids at school, they pick on me. That's why I don't want to go to school.”

 

“Well honey, that's normal, kids always pick on kids. That's just how the world is; they'll stop when they see you're not upset by their remarks.”

 

“No mama, they call me a freak.”

 

Than the little girl with the big innocent lavender eyes looked at her mother with serious hurt.

 

“I even heard a teacher call me a freak.” She whispered.

 

Kagome gasped with pain in her eyes and heart.

 

“Honey, what teacher said that?”

 

The child just shook her head not wanting to say who. Kagome sighed and held her daughter to her bosom.

 

“You're special Hotaru never forget that. You're like a precious gem. The people who call you a freak just don't understand how beautiful you are and they are jealous.”

 

The little girl began to cry. As Kagome soothed her back.

 

“Hotaru honey, Did you know that I'm a priestess, a reincarnation of a very powerful miko named Kikyo and your daddy, well, he's a very strong monk there was a time that we both fought with really bad monsters and got rid of them all so that you can live in a world with no evil creatures.”

 

“But, mama, the evil creatures are still here right now… they're humans. They are the ones who hurt me. Even Yoko, I thought she was my best friend and she hurt me. She doesn't want to be my friend anymore because the other kids think I am weird.”

 

Kagome's eyes veiled over with sadness. A vision of a young hanyou child wanting to have friends played in her minds' eye. The last time some one had said that humans were evil was the one silver haired hanyou that dubbed her one of them. That was a memory she wanted to desperately forget.

 

“Yes, I know, sometimes we humans can be monster, but, that doesn't mean we can't change.”

 

*End Flash back*

 

Then she began to think about her seventh birthday, she began to feel different from the other children. She began to experience some things that other children would not encounter. She felt a dark side to her that she couldn't explain.

 

Morbid dark thoughts would pop into her mind when the other kids made fun of her; feelings that frightened her and images that made her sick with unrealistic fear. She had nightmares of her doing unspeakable things to the people she disliked for picking on her and when ever she was mad at someone strange accidents seemed to happen to them.

 

An incident had happened at the school that they had to call her parents to come and pick her up. She was found near the paralyzed body, but nothing could be said as to what had happened and Hotaru couldn't remember.

 

However, when the girl woke up she declared that Hotaru had cast a pale lavender light that surrounded her and tried to suffocate her and that Hotaru's voice was saying awful scary things to her.

 

The school dropped the charges since the girl obviously made it up, but Miroku and Kagome took that as a sign and from then Miroku had trained his daughter to control her powers. But it was shortly after that that Kagome had a nervous breakdown and was in and out of the hospital and started taking drugs to calm her nerves.

 

Hotaru looked up into the mirror again. Since then she hadn't lost control. In fact, she tried to be as normal as possible, so she didn't use her powers at all. She left them dormant, but recently, the only place she could feel calm and peaceful was sitting on or by the Goshinboku tree, so to quiet her thoughts that was where she headed.

 

After a while in meditative thought Hotaru was brought out of her musings. She heard someone talking very quietly and stole out of the tree's boughs.

 

“Inuyasha, I miss you so much. Everyday I think about how I hurt you, I never meant to hurt you like that. My life is a mess now, Miroku is running around, and my daughter is closed off. In a lot of ways she reminds me of you. I wish that I was able to turn back the hands of time and do things differently.”

 

Hotaru had quietly climbed down the sacred tree and pulled in next to her mother to only hear the tale end of her sentence.

 

“So, you regret having me?” She asked affronted.

 

Kagome spun around frightened. She hadn't sensed her daughter's presence.

 

“Hotaru you startled me.”

 

Hotaru smiled darkly. Kagome than registered what her daughter had said.

 

“Of coarse not!”

 

“Yeah, whatever.”

 

Before Kagome could say anything, the young girl ran away from the only person she thought would love her unconditionally.

 

`Great, I hurt her too.' Kagome thought as she pulled into her pocket and took another pill.