InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Stones ❯ Stones ( Chapter 1 )

Stones

 

A/n: This was originally an English assignment that I had. We had to write a page-or-less fictional story about losing (or almost losing) something important. I was going to give it a happy ending, but it was screaming angst. The person who's narrating is Sango.

Disclaimer: We've been over this! The Inu-tachi can go, but Sesshy's mine!

 

 

The stone half-bounced across the sidewalk three times before once again connecting with Kagome's shoe. It was one of those days, the days that are so hot everything looks, and feels, dead. I'm not quite sure what had inspired us to go for a walk that day, but we did. We just walked at a lazy pace, not really paying attention to the world around us, just talking. After walking around for a while, we started a game. Somebody would find a rather large stone, and kick it as far as they could before the other person kicked it away from them. I had stopped playing after a while. my feet were hurting. Kagome had made it into a game for herself. To see how far she could go with the same stone. She'd had this stone for almost three blocks, her personal record.

Kagome had always been rather impulsive, doing things without thinking of the consequences, like that time when she was dared to ask Hojou out on a date, and did it, while she was dating Kouga. Word spreads fast through schools, and that relationship quickly ended. She didn't think things through, and it got her into quite a bit of trouble. She kicked the stone again, this time hitting it a little off-center, and kicking it into the road. I laughed at her. She had never been good at kicking anything straight. Figuring that she would just find a new stone to kick, I kept on walking. Kagome has done some stupid things before, but I honestly never expected her to go out and get that stone. As soon as I heard the horn blaring and the screeching of tires, I knew. I knew what I would see. I didn't want to see, but I had to. I turned. I saw the vehicle rushing away. I saw Kagome lying crumpled in the middle of the right lane. I saw the flashing lights of the ambulance. Time no longer held meaning for me. I was lost.

Now I'm sitting here, in the hospital waiting room, three months after that day, waiting for my parents to pick me up for the last time. I am sad, but I'm not crying. I knew this day would come. I knew it the day I saw her hooked up to those machines in the hospital. Machines can't give a human life.