InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Silver Hair ❯ Chapter one ( Chapter 1 )

Silver Hair

 

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“Kagome! Dinner!” Mum called up from the bottom of the stairs, I had no intention on coming down to eat.

“Kagome Higurashi! Come down now! I have worked very hard on this dinner!”

 

Blah blah blah

 

“Kagome!”

“What?” I pushed myself off the soft mattress laying on my bed and made my way over to my dresser; hoping if my Mum came upstairs she would think I was getting dressed.

Mum's footsteps could be heard coming up the steps as I quickly fumbled through my belongings throwing all types of shit onto the floor.

“Kagome!” Mum stood in the doorway, her eyes appearing stressed, her breath choppy.

“Hmm?” I hummed, hoping she would turn around and go away.

“You were up all night again weren't you? You were with that…that boy again weren't you?!”

“What if I was?”

“For God sakes Kagome! Do you think I don't care about where you go at night? Well I do! Kagome! I'm so damn worried about you when you leave! I never know when I'm going to see you again! Look at yourself! You sleep all day and then get up at night and go partying with your friends! Is this the way you want to live? Kagome if you don't get your act together I'll…”

“What? You'll what Mum? Send me back to Tokyo?”

Mum starred blankly at me and responded in Japanese, “That's exactly what I'll do.”

Hearing her speak that language always gave me the chills, how she always spoke with her tongue moving in so many different directions; you could get lost watching. I of course spoke the language fluently but I could never master the tongue art that Mum did.

Realizing what she had just said I too starred back at her, a look of “you wouldn't dare” plastered on my face.

“Dinner.” With that Mum turned and left my doorway, leaving me dumbfounded in a pile of wrinkled clothes and stained bras.

“Fuck.” I slammed my hand down on my dresser and then turned to look at myself in my mirror that hung from a nail on my wall. The mirror only showed my knees and up from where I was standing. I gazed at myself, glancing at my tangled black hair and my once tan skin, that was now nothing but an off white color. I raised my hands to my head, letting my fingers run threw my hair until I gripped the tresses so hard that I screamed and then fell to the carpeted floor below me. “I hate you!” I shrieked. Most people would think I was talking about my mother but that wasn't at all what I meant. I was yelling at myself. The girl I had become. Life use to be a breeze for me, I had all A's and B's, I was on the Acadia Junior High cricket team for girls. I had tan skin, I ate right, and I had never snuck out of the house once. Once the end of Junior High came around, however, I changed. I slept in all the time, I did my homework but slept in class so I never understood any of it, and I started sneaking out late at night; first on just weekends but then weekdays too. Mum talked about sending me back to Tokyo to live with my dad, who I despise, but she never lived up to it. She normally would just use it as a way to get me to listen to her. But this time, she was serious. I could see it when she gave me that smirk of hers. It always meant that she was going to do something that would piss me off. And living with my dear daddy would do just that.

When I was four I remember hearing Mum and Dad always fighting about their relationship or lack-there-of. I never understood why they would yell so much until one night I couldn't sleep because of all the ruckus they were making. I tiptoed downstairs until I could clearly make out what they were saying.

“I hate you! I can't believe I ever married such a worthless pig as you!” Mum was yelling in Japanese, which they both did whenever they wanted to argue. They thought it was better than English because I couldn't understand much Japanese at that age.

“Please! Megumi! Please, listen to me! Hear me out! I'm sorry! It meant nothing!”

It took me awhile to catch on because I was four and completely oblivious, but after a few hours Mum kind of unintentionally spelled it out for me that Dad had had an affair.

That moment was like having my dad wrap his hands around my neck and squeeze as hard as he could and smile the whole time.

Once Mum started to cry I left and went back upstairs, shutting my door tight. The rest of that night I camped out in my bathroom, which was attached to my room, and slept in the bathtub until Mum came in the next morning trying to gently tell me that we would be leaving Dad behind, for good.

The following weeks were filled with Mum getting boxes of our belongings ready for the big move to England. When she told, me that night that she wanted to get far away from him…she wasn't kidding. Three months later we were settled into our new house and ready to start over. I continued to grow up speaking both English and Japanese, which turned out to come in handy at times. When I turned seven Mum started dating some guy that she worked with, two years later he proposed and they got married.

Now I have two half brothers and three stepbrothers. Two of my stepbrothers are already married and have families of their own but the youngest one, Xander, is sixteen a year older than me.

“Kagome, Megumi wants you downstairs.”

I looked up from the floor, let go of my hair, and starred inanely at Xander. His normally auburn hair was darker due to the lack of light in my room. Xander leaned down to where his eyes were parallel to mine as I continue to gaze at him.

“You okay?”

I nodded. Xander and I never use to like each other at all. When his dad first proposed to my Mum we both use to try to kill each other, hoping that if we succeeded the other parent that didn't belong to us would hate us so much that they wouldn't marry the other. Of course our plan failed, but on the day of the wedding when I came down stairs and saw him all dressed up and he saw me, we both realized that we couldn't change what fate had thrown at us and decided to bare with it. As we got older we both formed a bond that no one could break. Not even our parents or brothers. “I'll bring you up some food if you don't want to go downstairs.”

“I'm okay…I'm just in a mood I guess…that's what Mum calls it anyway.”

Xander nodded. “What was all the ruckus about Tokyo? She still using that to get to you?” Xander grinned hoping his small joke would make me smile, which it didn't.

I shook my head. “Ha… I think she really means it this time.”

My stepbrother's eyes widened, “I'm sure she didn't. Now come on, after dinner I'll take you to the mall over on the other side of London. We can talk for awhile ok?”

“No that's okay. You have things to do. I know that you're going out with Macy and Brian tonight. I'll probably call Jason. We'll go somewhere and talk. You go have fun and forget about your worthless good for nothing sister.”

“Shut up.” Xander pushed my to the ground and started to “play” punch me. I played back until Xander's dad called both of us to come downstairs.

 

- - -

 

“Kagome, phone.” I reached over the couch and grabbed the phone from Mum's hand.

“Allow?” I said with a hint of a French accent in my voice.

“It's me. Meet me outside, I'm in the driveway.”

“Now?”

“Yes now, you dimwit.”

Ignoring the comment I hung up the phone and headed over to the front door.

“Where you going?”

“Out.”

My step dad watched as I quickly unlocked the front door.

“Where out?”

“I'll be back later.” With that I slammed the door behind me and made my way to the end of our driveway.

 

“I just met the coolest people ever!” Jason lit the end of his cigarette, took it in, and then handed it off to me.

I took a quick puff and then responded, “This is what you wanted me out here for?”

“Uh, yea. We're gonna meet them done at the lake tonight with a group of other people from all over the world!”

“What? You're making no sense.” I starred at my friend wondering what he had been smoking before he came over.

“My stepbrother's dad is taking in foreign exchanged students from other parts of Europe, the U.S., and a few parts of Asia, like India, China, and Japan. He had nothing better to do with the summer. He got like two form Japan.”

“Japan?”

“Yes, Japan. Anyway, apparently the kids he's looking after made a few friends at the embassy place that they all had to stay in for a few days. Most of them are from Japan though…well, these kids can speak English pretty well and most of them are staying for a little over a month. So we've made plans, we, as in my step-bro and his little foreign friends, to hang out until they all leave. So hurry up and get ready cause I'm leaving in five minutes.

“Uh…right…”

“Come on, Kagome! These guys are amazing! They do all kinds of crazy shit!”

“I'm too tired. Go without me.”

“Damn. You ruin everything. And you're going. Now hurry up!”

 

How Jason talked me into going was beyond me, but I think that my step dad yelling at me when I came back inside made me make up my mind.

“So, how are things?”

I glared at him wishing he would stop acting so dimwitted.

“I see.”

“Listen. All I wanna do is meet these losers you keep harping about and then go home and sleep. I'm tired.”

“How? You sleep all damn day. I called your house like ten times and your step dad finally answered just to tell me you were asleep and to stop calling.”

“Well, did you.”

“Ha, no.”

I shook my head.

“How many drugs have you been taken?”

“I'm not on drugs.”

“Then why are you always so tired.”

“I don't know okay? Can you just shut up, Jason?”

“I can.”

“Will you?”

“I get it.”

“Thank you.”

“Hey, Jason! We're over here!”

Jason and I looked over to see a group of guys standing on the Yates's dock. A guy, obviously Jason's stepbrother, was waving his hand wildly at Jason and me.

 

“Beer?” Once we reached the group Todd handed Jason a beer and then went to offer me one.

“No thanks.”

“Aw, come on Kagome. You could use some alcohol.”

“Trust me, no I couldn't.”

Todd smirked and turned to face the group of people in front of us.

“Jason, Kagome… Inuyasha, Miroku, and Koga.” Todd pointed at each guy as if they were meat.

“Hey.” Jason nodded and then took a swig of his beer.

I stood where I was, my arms crossed and my focus on the lake a few feet away from us.

“Kagome? You gonna say something'?”

I turned my head to face Todd, “I didn't know I had to.”

Todd frowned, “What's your problem?”

I ignored the question, twisting around to get off the dock and over to the sand below it.

“What's her problem?” I heard Todd whisper to Jason.

“Period I guess.”

I picked up a rock and threw it at Jason's balls. “Fucker!” I yelled.

“What the fuck is your problem?” Jason, in relief that had I missed, jumped down from the dock and walked over to where I stood.

The silver haired guy that stood on the dock with Todd started to chuckle lightly, his friends joining him.

“You got something you wanna say?” I bellowed.

“Yea,” he replied smoothly, “I think you're one hell of a bitch that should get rid of her attitude if you know what's good for you.”

“You know when I asked I wasn't really looking for a reply.”

Inuyasha, as Todd had called him, jumped off the dock and made his way over to me. “Then why'd you ask?” his breath smelled of cigarette smoke and alcohol.

I looked away from him, focusing my eyes on the lake.

“I see, you gonna play games now?” I could see Inuyasha smirk from the corner of my eye. “You're pretty ugly. Wouldn't hurt to lose some weight too, you cow.”

I spun my head around and glared at him. “I bet you have a dick the size of a pen.”

“That the best you could come with?”

“Yea. It was.”

“Amateur.”

“Whatever. I'm leaving.”

“Aw, you're a baby too.”

“You leaving so early?” Jason questioned, beer still in his mouth.

“Jason, suck balls.” I said, ignoring Inuyasha.

I made my way out of the woods and up the path back to the main road.

“Asshole.” I muttered.

 

- - -

 

“You smell like smoke.”

I sniffed my shirt and then pulled it off, throwing it to the flow. “There, happy?”

Xander shrugged, “Not really, seeming that now I have to look at you naked.”

“I have a bra on.”

“It's still an ugly site.”

“Then stop…” my focus drifted from Xander to back at the lake.

“You're pretty ugly. Wouldn't hurt to lose some weight too, you cow.”

“Jackass.”

“What the hell? I was kidding!”

“Not you.” I walked over to my dresser and pulled out a worn, red tank top. I pulled it over my head and moved it around my body, letting it fit with my figure. When I looked up I saw myself in the mirror on my wall again. I glanced at myself, looking up and down and left and right, looking over my body.

“You okay?” Xander ambled over to where I stood; he too looked in the mirror.

“Xander?”

“Yea?”

“What do you see?”

Xander's eyes met mine as he glanced at me with uncertainty. “What do you mean?”

“When you look at me, what do you see?”

Xander thought a moment then responded, “The most amazing sister I could ever have.”

I snorted leaving Xander by the mirror and plopping down on my bed, squeezing the stuffed panda he had given me on my eleventh birthday.

“Why are you asking me stupid questions?”

I rolled over, the overhead light shinning brightly in my eyes.

“I don't like myself.” I didn't mean to express my feelings to Xander, more so I was trying to convince myself that I was feeling them; he just happened to be there to here it.

“I was with Jason tonight.”

“What did that bloody punk do to you? I'll kill him! I swear, Kagome, I'll kill him!”

“He didn't do anything. We were by the lake with a few of his brothers…his stepbrother's friends. Apparently Todd's dad is taking in foreign exchanged students.

“Right.” Xander laid down next me, watching as I gently stroked my panda.

“I don't know. They all seemed jerky to me, but one called my ugly and fat. He didn't mean it, I could tell, but it still pissed me off.”

“So now you think you're fat and ugly? Just because one ass wipe said so? Kagome…”

“No, it's not because of him. I've been in some weird mood lately where it seems like I hate the world and the world hates me…I know that's not true but it still hurts to think about it at times. Damn…I'm even confusing myself.”

Xander sighed. “Sometimes…I don't know.” Xander placed his arm around my shoulder and leaned up against me. “Sounds like you have a pretty good view on how much life sucks…but you can always find a way to keep your glass half full. Did that make sense?”

“Surprisingly.”

“Ha! Good.”

Xander smiled, his blue eyes glistening in the light of my room. Those eyes use to hate me once, how I was happy that those days were over.

 

- - -

 

Jason let out a cloud of smoke from his mouth and then handed his cigarette over to me. I slid the round paper between my fingers and looked around the skate park.

“So…” Jason looked to the ground avoiding my eyes, “about yesterday.”

“What about it?” I rushed my words.

Jason coughed, “So how did you like the guys?”

I glared at him but he didn't see my look; he was too busy focusing on the floor.

“I thought they were ass wholes.”

“They really aren't that bad.”

“You know what?” I rose from where I sat and looked out over the park, “I've had enough of you.” I threw down my cigarette and grinded it into the ground with my foot. “Later.”

“Kagome…”

I continued to walk away from Jason, fed up with his weak sense of self.

 

By the time I had made it back to my house I had smoked seven cigarettes, hitched a ride with two guys that were obviously wasted, and ignored eight calls from Jason on my cell. As I made my way up my driveway I could hear yelling coming from the inside of my garage door. Making my way through the garage I could see Xander and Mum; Xander throwing his arms in the air every time he went to speak and Mum motioning her hands in a way to try to calm him down.

“Why the hell do you do this? You say you're going to do something then you never do it, but when you finally decide it's “the right thing to do” you hit us with it without warning?” Xander was using all of his voice to deliver his message. I cringed whenever it was his turn to “talk”.

“Xander, both your father and I think that this is the best thing for not only Kagome but for the family.”

Oh God they're talking about me, I thought.

“How? So she can live with her dad? The guy that you had decided was a horrible man and wanted to get away from her? How fucked up is that?”

Oh…It made sense now.

“Xander, I…” Mum looked over to the door and out its window to see me standing there, head down and arms crossed. “Kagome!” she gasped.

I pushed open the door and walked past both my brother and her without one glance to either of them.

“Kag…”Xander held out his hand but then put it down. I continued on my way until I reached my room, where I plopped down on my bed and sobbed until I fell asleep.

 

- - -

 

“We really do think that it's best, Kagome.” Mum sounded calm but I knew inside she was falling to pieces.

“After a year if you have gotten your act back together you can come back and everything will be like before.” My step dad explained. I didn't give a rat's ass what he had to say and figured I'd let him know.

“Shut up! Why the fuck do you think I want to hear anything come out of your God forsaken mouth!?”

“Kagome!” Mum shrieked but I paid no mind to it.

My step dad rose from the table, his mug of coffee in one hand and a sports magazine in the other. “This is for the best, Kagome. Please try to understand that.”

 

When they had finally told me that I was leaving to live with my dad, I had already known due to the “conversation” Xander and Mum had had before hand. However, the news still hit pretty hard and I figured that I wasn't going to get over it for a while. When it came to packing though, I couldn't seem to get through one bag of luggage without Mum over my shoulder saying, “Are you sure you want to take that too?”

But when it finally came time to leave, Xander wouldn't come to the airport with us. Instead he chose to spend the whole day before with me, and every ten minutes tell me how much he was going to miss me and how much he hated our parents.

What had surprised me the most though, wasn't the whole scenario of me going back to Tokyo or the fact that Xander was more pissed off than I was, but the plan ride that would take me back “home”. When I had finally fastened my seat belt and let the fact that I was going back to my dad sink in, I turned my head to look out the window by the two seats next to my own and saw a man sitting there. Not only did I know this guy, I knew him as a jackass, a jerk, and…as Inuyasha.