InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ I Remember You ❯ Leaving Home ( Chapter 1 )

I Remember You

Chapter 1

"I don't want to go!" whined the girl to her mother.

Her mother sighed. This was the third time in last hour that she had heard that same lamentation. Her daughter was going to leave for college the next day and during her time of what was supposed to be excited packing she had done nothing but wail and yowl. The constant bewailing had become a familiar part of the day. It was the mother's job to be sad about her daughter growing up and leaving, not the daughter. Right?

The girl was laying spread eagle in her boxed lined room. All her things had been packed into brown cardboard boxes and they lined the room like drab three-dimensional wallpaper. The only thing non-brown and boxy in the room was an empty bed and the sprawled girl on the floor. From her prone position she had seen her mother pass by her door, basket of laundry in hand, and had chose that moment to let loose her loud whine.

Her mother, who had been just an innocent passerby, now fell victim to the need of comforting her only daughter. She placed her basket on the floor in the hallway and entered the package, and sorrow, laden room. Gently, she sat on the bed and with another quiet sigh began her recitation of comfort. "Kagome, you have worked so hard to get into Tokyo U. You studied for so long and did so well it would be silly to pass up this chance. Your grandfather is proud of you, your brother is proud of you, I am proud of you, and if your father were alive he would be proud of you. You entered within the top 10% of those who were admitted in. And got excepted in to the academic college of your choice. You." her oration stopped when she heard the sluggish speech of the outstretched girl. "What was that?"

"Nothin," Kagome grumbled.

"No tell me."

"It was nothing!"

Sigh. "All through high school you said how you wanted to get into a good university. And now here you are and for the past two weeks I have heard nothing but you cry at the idea! Now tell me something that would be useful! Tell me something that would give me the SLIGHTEST idea of why you would change your mind!" She was nearly shouting, "Tell me something that would help me understand you!"

Silence answered the mother's plea. The girl laid on the floor as unresponsive to the imploration as she had been the multiple attempts of comfort her mother had tried before. She made no move to respond and the silence stretched minutes to eternities.

One minute... silence

Two minutes... crickets chirping

Three minutes.... tumbleweeds blow across the room

Four minutes.... "GAAAAH!!"

The sound of silence was broken by a mangled cry from the lying girl, and the definite thud of the girl fiercely throwing herself on to her side and curling up into a tight ball. The position she held herself in made her almost shrink in size. The girl that usually stood so tall and vibrant now seemed like a shrunken and scared version of herself.

The silence began anew. But it only lasted for about another minute when Kagome murmured in a tone that was nearly inaudible, "something doesn't feel right," she took a deep breath, louder than her speaking voice," I feel like I am missing something."

Her mother didn't know how to respond.

One minute...

Two minutes....

She smiled. Two weeks of driving the family crazy and making her worry so, her daughter finally admitted to her fears! She was nervous about going to her new school! About missing her family! She was homesick and she hadn't even left home yet.

The mother's smile never left her face as she stood up from the bed, walked over to her child, knelt, and, as best she was able to, gathered her daughter in her arms. With the young girl's body leaned against hers, she took one of her hands to make comforting circles along her back, and with her other hand drew Kagome's face so their eyes would meet. Soft brown met soft brown and for a second the mother's theory wavered. Kagome's eyes held more emotion than was normal for someone her age and for someone in her situation. But she let her doubt fade, as she emotionally rationalized that her daughter had always been an emotional girl.

"My little girls homesick already, huh?" She smiled warmly into her daughter's eyes.

"What.....?" confusion spread across her daughters face until she realized what her mother was talking about. "No, no, no, no.."

"Awww. It's okay for you to be upset. This is a big change in your life. You have to make all new friends, meet all new people, and live in a whole new world." Something unrecognizable flickered across Kagome's eyes that her mother had no idea what to make of. There was the flicker and then the look of pain returned. She had no idea what to make of the disturbing animation that played in her daughter's eyes.

She wanted nothing more than to take that pain away. She wanted to make her daughter look like every happy carefree 18 year old was supposed to look. In her moment of heartache for her daughter, she heard a voice. The voice was calm and soothing. It's tone held a note of something hopeful, yet the voice too held a sadness and finality that was nearly visible. It wasn't until after it had stopped that she realized t had been her voice.

"Kagome, no matter how far you go, you will always have people who love you. Because you can't see them as often as you like, they have not forgotten you. And even when all hope seems lost and you feel as if your very soul is dying there still is hope. You're loved and not even time or chance could ever change that."

She had no idea where that came from. She knew it as the truth but it wasn't her normal speaking style and it had never even occurred to her to say something that dramatic.

But for the first time in the past two weeks that she had been trying to comfort her daughter, her daughter responded. Her eyes focused on her mother's eyes, and a little of the pain that clouded her eyes seemed to fade. A small smile graced her young face. They looked into each other's eyes. One set of eyes, round with surprise, and another looking as if they had found some light at the end of a tunnel.

Kagome threw her arms around her mother's neck and with ferocious energy squeezed her mother close to her. Thin tears streamed from tightly shut eyes and in a quiet voice she whispered, "thank you."

The older woman, still amazed, brought her arms up mechanically to hug her daughter. She was glad she had helped, but her mind stayed bewildered on why she had said what she said.

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