InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Leave it in the past ❯ Insight ( Chapter 2 )

Hey peeps!! This is chapter two!!!!!! Hope you like this chapter!!!! Now…READ!!!!!

 

Chapter Two: Insight

 

Kagome got off the bus and ran up the shrine steps toward her mother's waiting arms, her pig tails flying behind her in her rush to get to her mother.

 

“OKAASAN!” she yelled joyously, catapulting into her arms and being engulfed in her mother's warmth. She looked up into eyes that looked so much like her own to realize that they were puffy and tear-stricken.

 

“What's wrong, Okaasan? Why are you crying?” the innocent little Kagome asked, her eyes burning with the curiosity of an eight year old and the urge to comfort the mother that she loved so much.

 

“Nothing's wrong, sweetheart. Just go on inside and put your stuff away. I'll be in to talk in a second,” Mrs. Higurashi said, wiping her eyes and giving her daughter a brave smile.

 

Kagome walked inside, aware of the feeling deep in her gut that something was not right with her mother. She pulled off her shoes in front of the door, hung up her small hello kitty backpack and put her jacket away, sitting on the couch to await her mother.

 

Her mother came in after taking off her shoes at the door and sat down. “Kagome, sweetie, I need you to understand something,” her mother started.

 

Kagome's gut instinct that she'd felt earlier was making her stomach feel weird, like it was sloshing around and panic began to rise like bile in her throat. “Yes Okaasan,” Kagome said.

 

“Kagome, when people die, what do you think happens to them?” Mrs. Higurashi asked her daughter.

 

“Umm… I don't know,” Kagome said, her blue eyes searching for the answer on her mother's face.

 

“When people die, You don't see them again. For you, they don't ever come back,” Kagome's mother said, tears gathering in her eyes.

 

Kagome reached up and put her hand on her mothers cheek, wondering why her mother was crying. “What is it, Okaasan?” Kagome asked innocently.

 

“Honey, your Otousan…” she started to say, but a sob escaped and she began crying again.

 

“Where's Otousan? Is he back from work?” Kagome asked excitedly.

 

“No honey. Otousan's gone,” her mother said.

 

“Where did he go?” Kagome asked.

 

“Otousan is dead, Honey. He's not coming back,” her mother said, gathering Kagome to her chest.

 

“Why isn't he coming back?” Kagome asked but she didn't need her mother to tell her why as understanding dawned on her, bringing tears to her eyes. She didn't know exactly what “dead” meant, but she knew that her daddy wasn't going to be here when she got home from school, wouldn't be here for her when she had to tell him about how Miroku had put a spider in her hair. He wouldn't be there at all.

 

“Don't cry, honey. Listen, cause I'm about to tell you something real special. Are your ears open?” her mother asked, pulling Kagome's head to where she was looking in her mother's eyes.

 

“Yes Okaasan,” the little girl said in an almost strangled voice.

 

“Even though you might never see Otousan, he will always be here. You can feel him. Can you feel daddy right now?” Kagome's mother asked.

 

“No,” Kagome said, her eyes brimming over with tears for her beloved daddy and hysteria welled up inside at the thought that she couldn't feel daddy.

 

“He's here, baby. He's here,” her mother said, cradling her daughter in her arms.

 

“OTOUSAN!” Kagome cried as she turned her head to her mother's shoulder, her body wracked with sobs.

 

“It's o.k. baby. Otousan's watching,” her mother said tearfully as she smoothed her daughter's hair away from her face.

 

As Kagome grew older, her father's trial pressed on and Kagome started to understand what it was all about. The man who stood to the left of the court room was being tried for the murder of her father. And as each year passed, the trial grew longer, until finally the man was found not guilty. She saw the pictures of her father's brutal murder and that the evidence blatantly pointed to the man, but the jury found him not guilty. Kagome didn't understand. Justice had NOT been served.

 

After the murderer was let go, Kagome swore that no daughter would be put through that by the murder of her father. She decided to become a lawyer and make sure that justice wasn't just something that people believed in, but something that would be practiced. She would make sure that all those that were guilty were found guilty and all others were spared.

 

 

 

 

So this is the end of chapter two…I hope you like it!!! Thanks for reading!!!

 

Next chapter:Inuyasha to the rescue