InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ In the Boondocks ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

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In the Boondocks: Prologue

 

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A lonely girl sat on the wooden rail of her balcony as lightning and thunder warned her of the rain that was going to fall. She was on the second floor of old farmhouse she now lived in, and she could see the bard with chipping red paint and the matching horse stall.

 

All of her friends were in her old town, far away in California. Now she was in southern Ohio, away from the hustle and bustle of city life. Even the love of her life was stuck back in California. Oh, how she missed San Francisco! And everyone that still lived there.

 

The only reason she moved was because her great-grandmother, Midoriko Higurashi, died, leaving the house to Sota Higurashi II, her grandson. She loved spending time with Midoriko, who she and her brother called “Grammy Mido”. Grammy Mido always went to San Francisco, though, and this was her first time out here.

 

Her whole lifestyle was wadded up, stepped on, and then flushed down a giant, evil toilet. She sighed. `I miss San Francisco, and all my friends!' she thought. If she could go back and stay with them, she would. She laughed at the thought. It reminded her of the time she went to Rodeo with Nicole. The night before they left they went to Missy's house and tried to sneak her with them. It didn't work, but it was still funny. She missed them all dearly.

 

Her black hair blew in the fierce wind that was coming, and tears formed in her dark, chocolaty brown eyes just because she thought of them. She would call them when they got their phone connected. She was so far out in the boondocks that her cell phone didn't have any service. `This sucks!' she thought.

 

“Kagome?” a woman called. The woman was her mother. Kagome's mom stepped onto the balcony through the same door Kagome had went through to get out. “It's beautiful, isn't it?”

 

“I guess…” Kagome answered. It was beautiful, Kagome had to admit. In San Francisco, she never saw the stars in the sky. And it never got as dark there, either.

 

“You'll like it here, I promise.”

 

“Mom, I miss everyone! Nicole, Sarah, Missy… Koga.” Koga had been the love of her life since fifth grade, and now she was fifteen and in ninth grade.

 

“Kagome, if he's part of your destiny—”

 

“I don't believe in destiny,” Kagome cut her mother off. “You know that.”

 

“Everyone has a destiny,” Kagome's mother said.

 

“Yeah, I can see it now! My destiny is a bag of Doritos and a nice comfy couch! Oh! And there's a man… and he's just as lazy as me!” Kagome said sarcastically. “You know I don't believe in destiny, fate, or love at first sight.”

 

“What about Koga? Didn't you tell Missy that when you saw him it was love at first site?” Kagome's mom asked.

 

“No, Mom, I knew Koga since the first grade. We started dating in the fifth. If that was first sight then my brain don't process what I see right.”

 

“Whatever you say, Miss Kagome Higurashi.”

 

“Why must you insist on calling me that?” Kagome stood up and walked off.

 

Mrs. Higurashi let her daughter leave and then leaned her weight against the same ledge Kagome was on before. A man came up behind and put his hands on her shoulders and started to massage them. “She'll warm up, Naomi,” he said.

 

“You think so?” Naomi turned and looked at her husband. “I sure hope she does.”

 

“C'mon! She's my daughter! I know she will! I was like that at a young age, too. Every time we moved I'd bull up and not talk.”

 

“Well at least she talks, I guess. Unlike you, Sota.”

 

“What Mamma?” A young boy with the same dark hair and eyes as Kagome looked out of his window to his mom.

 

“I was talking to your dad, not you, Sota.”

 

“Oh. Okay.” He went back into his window and continued with whatever he was working on.

 

Sota was Kagome's younger brother. He had just turned nine before they left San Francisco; all of his friends were able to go to his party. Sota was known as Sota Higurashi III on his birth certificate, and to the mean little girl that lived across the street from them when they were in San Francisco. That was how he introduced himself to new people because he was very proud of his heritage.

 

When Midoriko and Semi Higurashi were newlyweds, World War II was raging in the States. Although they were legal Americans, they were still sent to the camps with the other Japanese. Both of them were born in the United States, but their parents weren't. Semi was very upset with the situation; his wife was pregnant, and they were both Americans. And so was the unborn child she carried. He and a few others started a riot in their camp. He was shot and killed instantly when he pulled out what a guard thought was a gun. In fact, it was only a Bible, which didn't look like a gun at all. This started more and more riots. He was the only one killed, and the Higurashi name became famous. Everyone knew that the baby boy was named Sota, because that was what Semi wanted his son named. That was Midoriko's only child, and she never remarried.

 

Kagome continued to walk up the hill behind her house as she thought about her Grammy Mido and Grandpa Semi.

 

The barns hadn't been used in close to seventeen years, and it was very evident in its appearance. There was still horse feed in one of the feeders, but it was mildewed and gross looking.

 

`This barn looks bigger on the inside. I can't believe how huge this thing is!' Kagome thought.

 

There was still bailed hay and straw stacked in separate piles in a corner. `I wonder why all of this is still in here…' she asked herself.

 

She remembered when Grammy Mido had told her that straw was used for keeping animals warm, and they ate the hay. But they would never eat the straw. “That's because it tastes gross and bitter!” Kagome remember her great-grandmother saying.

 

The cold air blew through the gaps in the walls of the barn and Kagome pulled her jacket tighter. It was May, but it was also raining accompanied by strong winds, lighting and thunder, and not to mention it was almost ten at night.

 

She could hear her mother calling her name in the distance so she shown her flashlight out the door so that she could be seen.

 

“Come on, Kagome! It's way to cold and rainy! You'll get sick!”

 

Kagome ran back to the house and went inside. Just then the electricity went out. Looking on the bright side she said, “Well, at least I have a flashlight.”

 

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This is my first chapter (well duh!) of In the Boondocks. I just want to tell y'all that the thing with Higurashis becoming famous with the shooting DID NOT happen. It just was something to give her, and this story, a little bit of distinguishing features. I will continue with Hitchin' a Ride, I'm not killing it. R&R XOXO Tormented Hanyou