InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Death, No Reason To Forget Love ❯ The Next Morning... ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha! I only own the story! But wouldn't it be good if I did own the show? Or the manga? Hmm… Anyway, I hope you enjoy! This kinda took me a long time to write. But besides my meaningless rambling, Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.

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Death, No Reason To Forget Love

Chapter Two: The Next Morning

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P lease note: Yes, I made Kagome 17 years old in this story, because I have some things in here that'd only make sense after time passed. And since I made Kagome two years older, I made all the other characters two years older also! And, I do like Kagome, but not that much anymore… No clue why.

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The next morning…

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Ms. Higurashi sniffled, dipping a teabag into her cup of hot water as she heard the TV from the living room, which was showing the morning news. She stared at a picture of Kagome that was hanging on the refrigerator for a while, then looking away as she heard something that caught her attention.

"Now in other news, a young 17-year-old local girl, Kagome Higurashi, passed away last night." The reporter started. As Ms. Higurashi moved into the living room, she saw that the TV was doing live coverage on her daughter's death, reporting from outside the hospitals main entrance. "It was at this hospital here last night the girl died. She was a Shikon High School student who rarely showed up for class, although sources say she was thrilled whenever she passed her high school exams and was planning to take her college exams next spring. However, her death was a mystery. According to the doctors here at this hospital, it seems that young Higurashi was rushed into the hospital already unconscious. She had been covered in blood and seemed to have strange bite marks embedded in her skin all over her body. Surviving are her mother, Ms. Nea Higurashi, 42, and a younger brother, Souta Higurashi, 11. Her father had died soon after Kagome had been born in a car crash, and the death of her elderly grandfather was last month by going into cardiac arrest. But since her mother was at work and brother at school when Kagome was rushed into the hospital because of an emergency phone call, they are proclaimed 'innocent' for the markings on her body. Other sources say that a young man had called into 911, sounding nervous and not really knowing what he was doing or saying. But although these questions will remain unanswered, all we can do is just guess on this case for now. Until next time, this is Kiko Takayama, reporting from Tokyo."

Nea nodded her head, remembering that after she came home that first night from the hospital, (A/N: Kagome was in the hospital for about a week) she had checked the security cameras placed in random places around the shrine to try and see the real reason Kagome had been injured, and saw many pictures of a worried Inuyasha hugging Kagome close to him as she held tightly onto his chest, crying in pain. It seemed like he refused to put Kagome down, even though her blood was seeping through her clothes and onto his outfit or falling to the ground. Other cameras showed Inuyasha lightly kissing Kagome or trying to calm her down, then another where he was on the phone looking nervous, his hand interlocked with Kagomes, their fingers laced. And other ones showed Inuyasha wiping the blood off the floor with some paper towels as Kagome laid off to the side. Although there was no audio to the clips, Nea could tell exactly what was going on at the time, and it made her smile.

Inuyasha had returned the next day after the incident, explaining to her that their worst enemy, Naraku, whom Nea and Souta had heard a lot about from whenever Kagome returned home, had snuck up on them while they were all resting and attacked. He also stated that it had wounded Shippo, Miroku and Sango but not as badly, that they would heal within a matter of days.

Yawning, Souta slowly walked down the stairs, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. "G'morning" he lightly said, walking into the living room and made a straight movement to the table in the kitchen, plopping down on a seat, not taking the time to look at the TV.

"Good morning, dear. They just showed some footage about your sister… They explained some things, but didn't cover a lot." Souta merely nodded, reaching for the middle of the table where a large stack of waffles had been piled, putting about seven of them on his plate. Nea then walked into the kitchen, sitting down beside her son as she took a small sip of her tea. "And although your sister just died last night, I'm sorry, but I still have to send you to school. You have missed too many days this year already, and I cannot afford to let you stay home again, I don't want to pay more fines."

About an hour later Souta was off to school. Nea had walked him out of the house and shrine and down the large front steps, waiting with him until the bus came. Whenever it did, Souta got aboard slowly as Nea watched him; many kids were staring at them with death glares, like if they suspected it was their fault Kagome had died or something, which their young minds probably did.

When getting back into the house, Nea fell backwards onto the living room couch, sighing heavily as she turned off the television. She had called for the day off, which was reasonable for any mother since she needed time to think. Looking out the living room window, she saw the small hut where the Bone-Eater's well was held inside. It had been about four days since Inuyasha had came out of it, she wondered if he would ever come back again. "Tell Inuyasha… I loved him." Kagome's words found themselves playing over and over in Nea's head. Nea simply chuckled, smiling to herself. Although her daughter was dead, she couldn't be more happier knowing that her only daughter had found love with a person who would've loved her back, a person who would've done anything for her.

A couple hours later, Ms. Higurashi was still laying on the couch, now fast asleep as the only light in the room besides sunlight escaping from the sides of the window blinds were the commercials and programs playing on the television, flickering light all around the room.