InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ From Hate To Love ❯ The Accident ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter Two: The Accident

Friday. At least it was Friday. Kagome walked home miserably, thinking the day couldn't get any worse. Thanks to her hopeful thinking, it started to rain. She sighed just as a car went through a puddle on the road beside her, spraying her uniform brown and giving her a mouth full of mud. She screamed frustratingly.

Her day had been all but good. She still hadn't managed to get all the gunk out of her hair and it seemed soaping it up with the school's cheap no name soap wasn't the best of ideas. She didn't realize how hard it was going to be to rinse it all out, considering the school's sinks weren't very large. She could barely fit her head under the tap. When she finally did manage, her head got stuck! She spent fifteen minutes trying to pry herself out, while the spigot scrapped her scalp. After all that, she wasn't even going to try cleaning her uniform. A wet white shirt wouldn't be fun to wear all day.

Everything seemed to slow down. Her classes seemed to drag on for hours. She was late for most of them because all of her teachers decided to lecture her about being on time. One teacher even said she was mocking the school uniform with her feathery getup.

She had to spend her lunch hour doing dishes in the kitchen. Luckily, Inuyasha got chair duty and spent his time stacking and putting away all the chairs in the cafeteria. She didn't think she would have been able to stand another one of his rude comments and `humorous' pranks. She managed to avoid him all day. Though, she wasn't able to avoid all the snickering and whispering around her every time she walked into one of her classes or even down the hall. It was aggravating.

Kagome paced herself up her shrine steps, just as her family made their way down them.

"Mom? Grampa? Sota? Where are you all going?"

"Oh hello dear," said her mother. "We're going grocery shopping. Would you like to co- Kagome! What on earth happened to your uniform? And your hair…? There's no way you can come out looking like that! What you do at school, I'll never know… Well, go get cleaned up. We'll see you when we get home."

Sota was struggling to keep from bursting out with laughter. His sister looked like a big dirty yellow budgie! He couldn't help himself. "I don't know mom… I think it's an improvement!" He ducked as a shoe came flying at his head. "Kinda gives a new meaning to the word chick, doesn't it!" He raced down the steps and into the car before Kagome could grab a hold of his collar and give him a piece of her mind.

"Mom! Grampa! Aren't you gunna do something about him?" She looked over at them. Her mother only sighed while her grandfather shrugged.

"Boys will be boys," said Grampa. "See you later dear bye." They both waved before climbing into the car at the bottom of the steps.

"Boys will be boys…YA RIGHT!" Kagome mumbled, half screamed. She made her way over to her house. She pulled on the door. It was stuck. She pulled harder. It didn't budge. She gave the door a threateningly look, as if it would make it open. Nope, still didn't open. `Hmmm… I could try a window…' Kagome thought to herself. `But Mom keeps all the windows locked… Except mine!' She raced over to where her window stood high above the ground, on the second level of her house. She looked around trying to figure out some way she would be able to get up there. She then spotted The God Tree.

"Of course! I'll just climb up and whamo, I'm in my room!"

Naturally, it wasn't that easy. The tree was slippery from the rain, and hard to climb. Her skirt snagged on what seemed like every branch and her hair, if possible, got even messier with all the twigs that caught onto it as she struggled to climb. She was almost at her window when she slipped. She managed to grab hold of a branch, but her knee skinned along the bark when she began to go down. She winced at the pain and pulled herself up onto the branch. Kagome stopped to catch her breath. That was harder than she thought it would be. Her clothes stuck to her from the rain and sweat she had perspired. She was almost there. She eased herself across the tree limb and over to her window. The window gave her a hard time, like everything else today, but by using all the strength she had left, she pulled it open and crawled inside.

She immediately went to the bathroom to have a long soothing, relaxing bath. When she finished, it was well past eight o'clock. She found herself too tired to do anything or wait for her family to come home, so she crept into her nice comfy bed and went to sleep as the rain hammered down against her window.

It felt like she had just closed her eyes when they were forced open again by the sound of the phone ringing. She looked over at her clock, it was midnight. Who would call at such a time? She tried to ignore it, hoping the person would just go away or leave a message, but the ringing persisted. She cynically pulled herself out of bed and over to the phone on her desk. She looked back at her bed and envied to be still snuggled up in it. She sighed and picked up the phone.

"Hello?" she asked groggily.

"Hello, am I speaking with…Miss Kagome Higurashi?" The person on the other end's voice was clearly masculine and had a hint of urgency in it.

"Yes, this is her. May I ask who I'm speaking with? And why you're calling me this late at night?"

"My name is Dr. Saatchi. I'm a doctor at the Tokyo Hospital. I'm sorry to call you at this time but I have news regarding your family." He paused for a moment. "There's been an accident. Your family's vehicle crashed head on with another family's minivan. We have reason to believe the driver of the minivan may have been intoxicated. Add a drunk driver, a van full of people, and heavy rain, your bound to have an accident. It was unfortunate your family was involved." Kagome's eyes were wide as she sat down in her desk chair.

"Oh my goodness! Are they all right!?"

The man sighed before continuing. "For the most part they are doing good. Your grandfather is in stable condition and remains unconscious. Your mother has lost a lot of blood but thanks to the Red Cross, she is slowly regaining her strength. As for your brother, he suffered a severely broken arm and a bad cut on his head. We would like to keep all of them here for a while in order to be sure they are of good condition before allowing any of them to leave."

"Of course. Yes, I understand." Kagome could barely find anything to say. Her family had been in a car crash. They're in the hospital. They can't come home.

"Now, Miss Higurashi. The Society for Child Safety, has advised me that you are alone. You have no relatives in the Tokyo area and are not old enough to fend for yourself. That is why we have scheduled you to go into the care of a foster family. A young man came in here asking if he could help out in anyway and we suggested he take you in. He is a college student who lives with his younger brother, who I believe is of your age. You are to come down here at 2 p.m. tomorrow with all your belongings of value. You can visit your family while down here and then you will then be taken to their… apartment. "

Kagome was silent. Who did she know who had an older brother? … No… It couldn't possible be him! There was no way!

"Umm d-do you know the names of the two people I'm going to live with?" she asked hesitantly.

"Hmm, I have it hear in my book. Let me see. Ah yes. They don't seem to have last names. A Mr. Sesshomaru and a Mr. Inuyasha… Miss Higurashi? Miss Higurashi are you still there? Hello?"

She fainted.

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