InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bitter Sweet Tragedy ❯ Strange Dream.. ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

She began to hear her alarm faintly in the distance, having a crazy dream that took her by surprise. She stood standing stunned, hearing a faint whisper of a young boy's voice hidden by the shadows. “Happy Birthday Kagome.” He began to laugh cruelly, as she felt her heart rapidly beating and suddenly..... Her alarm clock began to play loud music from her radio, as she caught her breath and slammed down on the snooze button. Her slender fingers grasped her pink sheets, trembling at of faint whisper that echoed in her ears.

“Happy Birthday Kagome!” Her younger brother rang with excitement, that brought her flying towards her ceiling in alarm. He stood beside her bed in his navy blue pajamas, with his fingers tapping anxiously on the envelope in his clutch. “Damn Sota! Never do that when I'm sleeping!” She bellowed loudly, giving her brother a dirty look for waking her so early in the morning. She began to rub her eyes, and placed her hairbrush in her hand that laid untouched on the dresser. She began to run the brush through her thick raven black hair, as she gazed into her reflection. Her hazel eyes caught glance of her young brother handing the seal envelope towards her.

“Well, almost birthday.” He added as he transferred the letter into her hands.

She began gingerly opening the letter, as twenty bucks flew out of it. She grinned with delight as she grabbed the money, and threw the card on her dresser.

“I'm late!!” She cried out, grabbing her school uniform and stammering down the steps.” Aren't you gonna to read it!?” Kagome grabbed her yellow backpack and slung it over she shoulders.

“Sorry don't have time bye!!!”

She began running under her blossomed cherry shrine tree, and down the shrine steps as her ivory skirt flew in the gentle summer breeze. “Great! If I didn't hit the snooze button, I'd be there on time!” She yelled, as she hustling down the crowded streets, as she reached her school as fast as she possibly could. Her long black hair swayed in the wind, as she wore her school uniform that went well with her ivory skirt. As she reached the school, she began to have flashbacks of her dream. She began to faintly see a young boy, laying against the wall with an errie smile and a deep voice that gave her chills up her spine. The faint errie whisper she could still hear in her ears, but she didn't understand why. “Happy Birthday, Kagome.” Her eyes opened wide, bringing her back to the reality of the real world. Each time she remembered that strange boy, she could slowly began to see his face from the shadows.

She stood in front of her high school, as she began to laugh and shook her head, as she proceeded up the concrete steps. “I shouldn't be freaked out! It was only a dream nothing more than that.” She quietly placed her feet onto the floor, as she threw her bag into her rusty locker and proceeded, to class.

She slowly approached her math room, as everyone was silent. Her classmates stared at her, and back to they're assignments. She fixed her black hair and quietly proceeded to her desk.

“Kagome!” Her friend Eri yelled, as her pencil was moving continuously moving throughout her page. “Your late! This isn't like you, usually you're the first one here!”

Eri exclaimed as Kagome began to set her stuff up, and laughed embarrassingly.

“Well, ya I know but, I've been running late for some reason...Of course that dream didn't help..” She glanced at the teacher, as she placed her hand out in front and whispered, “That means you studied...right? Kagome, you listening?”

Kagome began tapping her pencil, and began seeing the young boy from her dream once again, who glared in her direction. She could feel herself shake as his errie voice traveled into her ears. She could see him lift his head from his knees repeating, “ Happy Birthday, Kagome.” She felt his arms grasping hers, slowly beginning to show his appearance.

“Kagome! Are you even listening to me!?” Her friend fluently waved her hand clearly in front of her face, as though she was in her own distress. Slowly, she heard her friend's voice and drifted out of her errie state of mind. She began to place her slender hands on her moist forehead, stunned and dazed what just happened to her.

“Oh sorry, for some reason I'm tired, that's all.” She said cheerfully, like nothing was wrong in the first place. Her friend dropped her pencil, and glanced at her friend beside, staring into nothing. Her pencil remained still, usually she was the first student to be done almost everyday. “You sure your fine? You seem alittle...” “Me fine?! Of course! Never felt better!” She lied under her breath that hid how she truly feel, a feeling that had too much in common with her dream. Her friend concerned, raised an eyebrow and reluctantly took her word for it.

She sighed in relief, she was off her back and she could think things through without any interrogation. The school bell broke the silence, that brought smiles to the student's long lifeless faces.

“Drop your pencils, times up!” The teacher beckoned, as Kagome panicked when she lastly clued in. She stared blankly at the big words and bold print that spelt out, “ Test”

Her face grew long, as she dropped her pencil as she placed her face ashamed on the desk. “I can't believe I didn't even study at all! Let alone actually wrote anything on it...I'm such an idiot!”

Everyone else proceeded, handing papers onto the teacher's oak bureau Her long hair draped over her shoulders as her friends glanced at her not budging from the desk.

They all stood between the doorway, glanced at her friend who likely failed the test.

“Kagome's pencil didn't move an inch during the whole test! You think she's all right!?”

Yuki mentioned, grabbing her pink bag and discussing with the two other concerned friends. “Maybe she's finally lost it!” Eri thought twisting pieces of her hair.

“Maybe that disease has finally kicked in!!” Ayumi exclaimed as Eri swatted her hard with the palm of her hand. “ Let's be realistic here!! Obviously, something is troubling her. Maybe it's Hojo. She's always like this when it comes to guys. You guys think that might be the reason? That's the only thing I can think of.” Yuki began sighing, as the hallway was dead silent besides the couple walking hand and hand out the door.

Kagome still remained troubled, with her slender fingers stressfully through her thick black hair. “That dream, it's completely thrown me right off. I haven't been myself since earlier today. I don't really know why this is happening!” She began to think it through, wondering why this dreamed continued to rattle her.

“Well when it comes to Kagome, she's unpredictable.” Eri admitted , as she twirled her hair growing impatiently. Yuki began to walk slowly over to her desk, with a cheery smile to try to turn things around.

She silently, placed her hands on Kagome's desk her hazel eyes glanced at her with a gazing smile she had never seen before. “Kagome, we know something has been troubling you lately, and we wanna help.” Eri and Ayumi crouched beside the desk, and Kagome sighed loudly. “I don't think you can help, to be quite honest.” Kagome replied harshly, placing her head against her hand. Yuki gave another hopeful grin, having another idea to comfort her. “How about we go eat like always! My treat!” She yelled waving the money around with excitement.

Kagome began to laugh, and stood out of her seat, “Fine, alright I'll go!” All the girls linked arms with huge grins and headed to they're favorite fast food place. Kagome grabbed her yellow bag from her rusty locker as her friends began walking ahead, waving at Kagome. “Kagome come on!” Eri began to yell loudly, as Kagome slammed the locker and began running as quick as she could down the hallway.

“Guys, wait up!” Kagome began yelling down the street as her ivory skirt began flying up into the breeze. She passed every she could, as she caught her breath the moment she caught up to her friends. “Finally caught up about time!” Ayumi mentioned seeing her bright red face, and her breathing heavily. Kagome tilted her head from the sidewalk, and gave a light grin, “ Well, ya but you guys wouldn't wait!” All the girls began to laugh towards Kagome, “Well we want to be there before it closes!”

Finally, they walked in as Eri grabbed her money and waited in line to get her order taken. The girls sat in the back, where they usual sat and gossiped about everything. Like guys, and Kagome's romance and social life. Kagome sat against the window as Eri grabbed the food and placed it the tray on the table. “So Kagome what's going on with you? You haven't been yourself lately..” Eri said marjorly concerned. Kagome could only tuck back her black hair and grabbed a fry and brought it to her mouth. “I bet ya it's Hojo isn't it?! It's Hojo!!” Yuki began screaming with excitement as her friends leaned closer to hear all the gossip. Kagome began to blush immediately, and shook her hands and head in disagreement. “No! It has nothing to do with him, honest! Just some dream I had that's all.” The girls began sipping they're drinks and had huge grins and leaned in closer for juicier details. Yuki began to grin devilishly as she took another sip of her soft drink. “Tell us what it was about..were dying to know Kagome!” “Ya, you've always got something good to say, so let's hear it!!”

All the girls began to chant, as they were drawing quite attention to they're table and of course themselves. Kagome began to blush red, “Please don't embarrass me now...” Her head heavily rested against the table glowing scarlet. Kagome's face never appeared so red but it continued the more her friends chanted. “We wanna hear gossip!” The girls demanded , as they began to bang they're fists against the table wildly. Kagome just slumped down in her seat, slowly getting annoyed. “Please shut up...please shut up!”

Kagome screamed glaring at her friends, that quietly settled down the minute she snapped. Kagome's raven black hair flew up in the air, as she suddenly felt all eyes on her. Her hands shook into fists as her ivory skirt stuck out towards the back of her seat.

“Lay off..You'll hear everything in a minute alright!?” Kagome screamed, and realized how much attention she was drawing to herself. All the customers in the place suddenly went quiet, and glanced towards Kagome, glaring at her for her behavior. “ Sorry...” she whispered, blushing feeling like an idiot as she fixed her skirt and sat back down.

Her friends blankly stared at her, couldn't believe how angry Kagome could get. She laid her head down stressfully, as her friends began to eat in silence. Kagome just stared out the window, with her head laying against her hands. Her hazel eyes watched the rain pour, as they sat for abit in complete silence. “You think it's something we said?” Yuki whispered, as Kagome just had a gloomy expression on her face. She just stood from her seat and blankly stared at her friends. “Look it's getting late...I should go home. So I'll talk to you guys later.” Kagome sadly said, as she began running into the street opening her pink umbrella embarrassed of her outburst of anger, and completely drained of energy. “Wait, Kagome! It's not even dark. Kagome? Kagome!”

Her friends began yelling, as Kagome couldn't hear them or didn't chose to. “I'm so tired right now...but I'm almost home...” She slowly felt her eyelids grow heavy, hearing the familiar voice around her that scared her to death. She began to watch everything spin around her screaming nervously, “ Hello!? Answer me!!?” She quickly glanced behind her shoulder, as a hand crept upon her. “You'll never get home, ever.” She faintly hear his voice, and felt him push her towards the ground. “ What's going on, what's happening!?”

Kagome began hearing car horns honking loudly, as she began to blink terrified as she heard some speak to her. “You alright?” Kagome lightly placed her hand on her forehead and gazed over towards the voice beside her. Kagome found herself sitting in the middle of the road, as cars were pulled to the side, almost turned into an accident.

“What happened?” Kagome's hazel eyes met with the guy's as he threw his hand towards her. “You were crossing the road and fainted.So I grabbed you as soon as I could. At least your not hurt or killed. Here, I'll help you up.” Kagome began to blush slightly, as the young boy began to pull her up from off the road. “Thanks so much...” The guy smiled underneath his un neat strands of bangs as Kagome stood still as her skirt blew into the breeze. “No problem..” His words drifted, as her friends gasped, glancing at the accident seeing Kagome was in the middle of it.

“Kagome! I'm glad your alright!!” The girls smiled as Kagome looked around for the guy who saved her very life. “ Where, did he go?” She wondered as her friends began walking down the street with her back home. “If it wasn't for that guy, I would have been killed.” She commented looking back at the reality of what almost happened to her.

“Were just glad your fine!!! But we didn't see any guy with you.” Kagome's hazel eyes stared back at her and stopped in the middle of the sidewalk. “You guys, didn't?” Kagome stood in confusion, “But I swore there was someone there.” She began to think it through, as her friends slowly moved on ahead. “Kagome, I just think you need a good night's rest that's all.” Eri suggested, as Kagome grinned and walked up the shrine steps.

“Hopefully, thanks guys.” She softly whispered as she opened the door, and slide down against it. “That guy was real who saved me..I'm sure of it.. That dream has shaken me too much. Kagome, get ahold of yourself, you just need a good rest that's all.”

Kagome began walking up stairs into her bedroom and threw her school uniform on the side of her bed, She began to grabbing her pink nightgown and threw it on her. She began to splash her face with ice cold water, ready to fall to sleep. “Kagome, why did you come in so late???” Her brother sleepily asked, rubbing his eyes staring at his older sister. “Sota, just don't worry about it.” Her brother grinned as he grabbed some water from the fridge. “Alright sis, night.” Kagome cheerfully smiled and whispered back. “Night Sota.” Her brother quietly shut the door, as Kagome began walking across to her room across the hall.

“It's scary..I almost died in a car accident. But I hardly even remember it.” Kagome shutted off her night table lamp, as her door slowly opened a crack as Buyo began to meow loudly. Kagome grinned and began to pet him with delight as he arched his back.

“Who's a good kitty?” She said in a cute voice, as the cat plainly meowed. She snuggled under the covers and stood wide awake. “Just need a good night's rest..But that guy who saved me, they said they didn't see him at all..Was he real? Or was I just seeing things?

( Please R&R)