InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sing For Me ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

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“Souta…Souta wake up.” Kagome whispered.

 

“Hm? Five more minutes…” Souta mumbled rolling back over.

 

“No, you have to get up now. Its 6 o'clock and Mikaru and Mom get up at 8. Hojo's already here to help us pack and leave before they get up. He brought some boxes for us to use. Now get up, get dressed, start packing, and be quiet.” Kagome got up and started walking back to her room but stopped in the doorway and turned back to Souta. “Oh, and Hojo is in my room helping me pack my stuff so if you need help or you get done come get one of us.” With that she went back to her room.

 

As she walked into her room she saw three boxes on her floor, four suitcases on her bed, and Hojo standing in front of her shelves where she kept her trophies. She had known Hojo since second grade and he had been one of her closest friends so naturally he knew about what went on with Mikaru and had been more than happy to help them get out of the house. He had been in love with her for years, more than just a friendship kind of love, but he knew that she would only ever love him with a sister's love and that was fine with him. “Hey, is this one new? I've haven't seen it before.”

 

“Oh, yea. I won that last night at Midtown.”

 

“Hey Kagome, on the way to the train station will you sing for me one last time before you leave?”

 

Kagome stiffened. “No Hojo, I won't. I realized something last night. For me singing won't ever be anything more than a dream and I'm a senior this year. It's about time I start focusing on reality and a future that can really happen. I'm going to give up singing Hojo.”

 

“What? How can you say that? You are the best I've ever heard Kagome, you can ask anyone and they'll tell you the same. Please don't give up Kagome; you'll get there one day.”

 

“No, I've already made up my mind. I'm going to finish high school, go to college and get a real job, that's final.”

 

Hojo was crushed; it was her voice that he had initially fallen in love with. But he knew when Kagome decided on something there was no convincing her. With a sigh Hojo asked “So I'm taking it you don't want to pack your trophies?”

 

“No, I want to take them. Even though I'm going to stop singing, those trophies have great memories attached.” She said with a thoughtful look on her face as she picked up one of the many trophies that lined her walls. “Alright, enough talking, we need to get to work before they wake up.” Kagome said as she settled the trophy she had picked up into a box.

 

The boxes were a pretty good size each so her trophies all fit into one and a half boxes if they laid them on their sides and put foam or newspaper between them. She filled the rest of the second box with pictures and jewelry boxes and other valuable or fragile things. She filled the third box with shoes, jackets, and sweaters. Three of her suitcases she filled with the remainder of her clothes and the fourth was filled with posters and other things she had on her walls.

 

By the time they had finished it was 7:15. Kagome went down the hall to check on Souta. He was just putting the last of his shirts in his last suitcase. “Are you ready?” Kagome asked.

 

“Yea, I think so.”

 

“Ok, take your stuff to my room and we can move it down to Hojo's car. After that I'll write a note for Mom telling her where we went and why. Alright, let's go.”

 

After figuring out how to fit all of their stuff into Hojo's car, which took about half an hour, Kagome told Souta to sit in the car and wait on her while she went back inside to write the note. Going back inside, she took one last look around. Sure, she'd miss her mom incredibly, but she couldn't stay anymore. She was tired of hiding bruises under make-up and lying to her friends about why she missed school or came in with the occasional sprain or a broken bone.

 

Sitting down at their counter in the kitchen she started her note:

Mom,

I'm sorry, but Souta and I have left. I couldn't stay here and be abused and I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I left Souta here by himself. We're staying with Grandpa in Tokyo. Don't worry, we'll be fine. Grandpa's already enrolled us in schools in Tokyo. I love you Mom but I can't stay around Mikaru. I really hope you understand and can forgive me. Please don't be mad at Souta, it's not his fault. You can come visit us but I'm not coming home. I'm finishing out my senior year in Tokyo then I can go out on my own and help take care of Souta. I love you Mom, Good-bye.

Love,

Kagome

 

Crying, Kagome left the note on the counter along with a necklace that her mother had gotten her on her 17th birthday. It was a silver chain with two music note pendants hanging from it. The bigger one was silver and the smaller one was silver with onyx laid into it. It was her favorite necklace, but she wanted to leave something of hers for her mother.

 

It was 7:50 when Kagome got out to the car. “Kagome?!?” As Kagome opened the door she turned around and saw Shippo running down the sidewalk.

 

“Shippo what are you doing here?” she asked as he reached her and stopped panting from running. Shippo was a kitsune youkai who was about a year younger than Souta putting him at 10. He was one of the first youkai she had ever met and gotten to know. When she had first saw him she thought he was the most adorable thing she had ever seen with his auburn hair and bright green eyes. He was always following her around and asking her to sing for him.

 

“Mama was cooking breakfast and realized that we were out of eggs so I was on my way to get some from the store. Kagome, are you going somewhere?”

 

“Yes, Souta and I are going to Tokyo to live with our Grandpa.” Kagome said choking on tears. She hated to leave him too, and since he looked like he was about to cry it didn't make this any easier.

 

Coming around the side of the car Hojo came up behind Kagome and cut in, “Don't worry about it. I'm going out to Tokyo next weekend to check on them. If it's ok with your mom I'll take you out there with me, ok?”

 

Sniffling, Shippo nodded his head and ran up to hug Kagome. “And you'll sing for me when I visit won't you?”

 

“No Shippo. I'm not singing anymore, I'm sorry.”

 

“What? Why?”

 

“Listen Shippo, I've got to get Kagome and Souta to the train station, but I'll explain it to you when I get back alright?”

 

“Alright. Bye Kagome, I'll miss you.” Shippo said on the verge of tears.

 

“Bye Shippo, I'll see you in a week. Let's go Hojo, Mom and Mikaru should be waking up soon.”

 

It was 7:55 when Kagome got in the car and Hojo started towards the train station. Due to traffic it was 8:30 when they got to the station. After helping to get Kagome and Souta's stuff out of the car and on the train he gave Kagome one final hug. “Listen, you know that if you run into any kind of trouble you can always call me. I'm going to come visit you next Saturday to make sure everything's going ok.”

 

“Thanks for everything Hojo. There's no way I could ever repay you for everything you've done to help.” Kagome said still hugging Hojo. Pulling away she looked Hojo in the eye, smiled and walked toward the train.

 

“Kagome?”

 

“Yea Hojo?”

 

“Just be careful.”

 

“Ok.”

 

~At the Taisho house in Tokyo~

 

“Hey Sesshoumaru.” Inuyasha said from his brother's doorway.

 

“What in the hell are you doing in my room? Leave me alone.” Sesshoumaru ordered from his bed where he was working on some song lyrics for a new song.

 

“Well then I guess you don't want to hear about the new girl...” Inuyasha said as he pushed off the doorway and turned to walk away.

 

“Wait, what new girl?”

 

“Miroku just called. He got caught with his headphones out in class again and had to go to the principle's office yesterday, while he was there that old, eccentric priest from the Higurashi Sunset Shrine called about enrolling his granddaughter who's a senior this year. We're going to have a miko on the grounds. Hopefully she'll have been around demons before this and won't try to purify us. I bet she's the perfect little angel type who studies and trains like a good little girl.”

 

“Well you shouldn't worry too much. There aren't many real miko's left, and those that are real don't have much power.”

 

“What about Kikyo? She's a powerful miko.”

 

“Kikyo isn't a miko, she's a witch. There's a difference and you need to learn to see that dear little brother.”

 

“Yea whatever, so what are we going to do about this new girl?”

 

“Nothing. We'll see what she's like and then decide if she's a possible threat.”

 

“Fine, but you know that she's just going to be another quiet, nerdy, wanna-be miko.”

 

“We'll see. And Inuyasha…?”

 

“Yea?”

 

“Get the hell out of my room and leave me alone.”

 

~*~*~*~

 

Kagome woke up when she felt the train shake due to slowing down, indicating that they were in Tokyo. She looked down to see that Souta had laid his head down in her lap and gone to sleep. “Souta, we're there…wake up.” Kagome said softly running her hand through his hair.

 

“Really? That didn't take as long as I thought it would.”

 

“That's because you fell asleep, dork.”

 

“Oh…”

 

“Well let's get off this train, get our stuff, and see if we can find Grandpa.”

 

Getting up, they walked to the front of the train together. When they got off they found a cart they could load all their stuff on and then went off to find their Grandpa.

 

“Kagome! Souta!”

 

Hearing their names they turned around to see an old man in shrine clothing waving his hands franticly. Sweat-dropping, Kagome waved back and said “Hey Gramps. It's good to see you again. I haven't actually seen you in a while.”

 

“Well come on. I rented a moving truck for today to get all of your things to the shrine. We need to load them on the truck so we can go. I forgot to ask if they could send someone to help us move everything.”

 

Sighing, Kagome rolled her eyes. `Yep, same old Gramps. Some things just never change I guess.' Taking a deep breath, Kagome turned to Souta and said “Come on, we're going to need all the help we can get.” So pushing the cart outside, they went up to the truck and lifted the door so they could start putting everything in the back. It was a lot easier to fit everything in there than in Hojo's car. After about ten minutes they were ready to go on to the shrine.

 

On the way Grandpa was talking about all the preparing he'd done to get everything ready for them. “You each have separate rooms, and I painted them the colors that you asked for Kagome.” At hearing this Souta took in a deep breath thinking Kagome might have said to paint his room pink or something as a joke. “Kagome, your room is a deep red just like you said, and Souta, yours is forest green.” Souta let out the breath that he had been holding and Kagome giggled and leaned over to whispered in his ear “Do you really think I'm that mean?”

 

“Honestly?…I wouldn't put it past you…”

 

“Why Souta…I'm hurt, truly I am…” she said putting her hand over her chest in mock hurt.

 

“Well, we're here. Souta you probably don't remember much about this shrine, but what about you Kagome? Does anything look familiar?”

 

“All those steps…that's a hard sight to ever forget, especially after walking up and down them.” Kagome replied as she stared at the massive set of stairs leading up to their new home. “Well, I guess we should get to work on moving all our stuff up to the house”

 

With that they got out of the truck and got to work. After an hour they had moved all the boxes and suitcases up to the house and sorted out whose stuff was whose. Kagome looked around her new room. Actually it wasn't her new room seeing as this had been her room here when she was little. Furniture was still in the same place, something she would probably change around later, and her bed still had the same pink and blue sheets, that would definitely have to change. She would go to the store later and get some new stuff to go in her room. She had been preparing for this day for a while and had saved up $500. Grandpa had said that he would pay for new things for Souta's room if it was needed.

 

Kagome unpacked all of her clothes and hung them in the closet; all of her pictures, she put on her desk, dresser, and night stand; the jewelry boxes went on top of the dresser; and her trophies went on the shelves that Grandpa had put up for her. She decided to put her posters and things up later that night, but right now she wanted to go to the store and get some new sheets and things.

 

She went over to a corner of the room and pulled a sheet off of a free-standing full length mirror. Grandpa had said that it had been their Grandma's and he had put it in the attic for storage, but thought she might like it. He was right. She loved it. The bottom was about 4 or 5 inches off the ground and the mirror its self was about 5 feet and some odd inches tall, which was great because she was 5'6”. It had a wooden frame made from a dark polished wood that looked like cherry.

 

Going over to her closet she looked for something to wear. It didn't have to be much just something she wouldn't mind being seen at the store in. “Aha, perfect.” She pulled out a pair of baggy jeans that she had worn holes in at the pockets and a few places down the legs. Despite being baggy, they showed off her waist nicely. Reaching in one of her drawers in her dresser she pulled out a black sports bra and a black t-shirt that had silver letters on it reading `Music is Medicine.' The shirt was tight and showed a little bit of her stomach but it was fine. Pulling on her black combat boots she walked over to the mirror and decided to just leave her black, waist-length hair down. Grabbing her black bag with the red dragon on it she stuffed her money in it and threw on some black eyeliner and shades of gray eye shadow before running down stairs.

 

“Hey Gramps, I'm going out to the store, I'll be back in a little bit. Does anybody else need anything while I'm out?”

 

“No dear, we're fine on everything. Be careful and don't get lost.”

 

“I won't, I can still probably still find my way around the neighborhood to that store a few blocks away. Well, bye!” With that she was out the door and making her way down the shrine steps. “He really needs to have an escalader put in, these steps are murder.”

 

Walking down the street she noticed that a few things had changed but not much. There were a few new houses, which were very nice, but other than that almost everything was the same. She found the store easy enough and bought some black sheets with white roses on them and a red comforter that had black roses on it and a matching set of pillow cases. She also got a small CD player/alarm clock to go on her nightstand. After leaving the store she started on her way home and on the way spotted the park where she used to play when she was little. She couldn't help herself and headed over through the park and found the swings. Setting her bags down next to a nearby tree she sat down and began to swing.

 

~At the Taisho house~

 

Sesshoumaru walked out of his room and made his way down stairs and to the front door. He was almost there when he heard someone behind him and grunted. “What is it?”

 

“Where are you going?” he heard Inuyasha ask.

 

“I'm going for a walk to get some fresh air. I'm tired of smelling you everywhere.” And he walked out the door.

 

He walked down the street and through the entrance to the park. As he walked down a pathway he heard a creaking sound and knew someone was swinging `Damn, I was hoping nobody would be here this late.' As he rounded a corner he saw the back of a girl his age on the swings. Not thinking much of it he walked on past and just glanced over and caught a glance of her face. `Kikyo…' he thought with distain. `Wait, that's not Kikyo…the air doesn't smell of death. Who is this?' he thought as he turned around to watch the girl.

 

About the time he turned around he noticed that she was getting ready to jump out of the swing. He merely stood and watched to see if she could land on balance. She jumped and flew through the air, her hair waving behind her and hit the ground but her knee's buckled and she hit the ground and rolled a few times before she stopped and just laid there…and laid there…and laid there. It was then that Sesshoumaru knew that something was definitely wrong and decided to walk over to her and see if he should call an ambulance.

 

~With Kagome~

 

Everything was black. Slowly colors started to come back to her. The first she saw was a molten gold, then silver, then black. As everything started to clear up she realized that there was a person kneeling next to her, and not just any person, but a demon…a very handsome demon. He was just staring at her, so she stared back. Taking a better look at him she could see the violet crescent moon on his forehead and the magenta stripes on his cheeks and wrists. He had incredibly long, smooth silver hair that he had pulled back into a ponytail and two daintily pointed ears. He was well built and was wearing a pair of black baggy pants and a black beater.

 

“Do you need medial attention?”

 

Kagome almost didn't register the question. “No, I'm fine.” She said pushing him away and getting up. After dusting herself off she walked over to the tree where she had laid her things; once she had gotten everything she walked back to the demon, who was now standing his full height, `Wow, he's a lot taller than I thought. He's probably somewhere around 6'4”.' “Thank you for your concern now if you don't mind I'm going home.” With that said she walked around him and to the entrance where she started making her way home.

 

Sesshoumaru was floored. It wasn't very often that he was dismissed, especially by a human, and a mere girl at that. He wasn't in the mood to chase after her so he turned and started on his way as well.

 

Upon getting home Inuyasha was sitting in the living room watching TV, so Sesshoumaru decided to go up to his room. “So, anything interesting happen on your little walk?” Sesshoumaru sighed when he heard Inuyasha's voice behind him.

 

`Why can't he ever manage to leave me along for two seconds?' “No, just a walk through the park. Nothing special.”

 

“Oh, alright. Well, it's getting late I'm going to go see when dinner's going to be ready.”

 

With Inuyasha gone, Sesshoumaru was left to his thoughts. “Who was that girl?” he wondered aloud as he once again picked up his paper and pen and started working on song lyrics.

 

~*~*~*~

 

Again, what do we think?? I tried getting this chapter up on FF.net but it was being stupid and wouldn't upload this chapter…go figure…oh well…point is that you get to read it now right?! Happy reading and don't forget to give me some honest feedback!

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