Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Second Chance for Heartbreak ❯ Goodbye my Friends ( Chapter 1 )

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2 years Previous

Kagome laid huddled in the dark at the bottom of the well, she simply knew this was going to happen. she cried until the tears stopped flowing and silent sobs now wracked through her young body. She didn't know how long she had stayed there at the bottom of the well situated on her family shrine curled in a loose fetal position, until her now teenage younger brother found her and climbed down and eventually carried her tin form back into the shrine.

She heard a gasp from her mother how scurried forward and directed Souta upstairs towards the bathroom and told him to place her in the tub and then leave. Mama Higurashi then came into the bathroom and locked the door behind her. She looked down at her shivering daughter with tear's in her eyes as she witnessed her 18 year old child in her most vunerable and pained state. She slowly walked over to the bathtub and started removing her daughter's clothes, soon a naked Kagome was surrounded by warm soapy bathwater as her mother washed her hair in an attempt to soothe away the pain of her loss. Kagome felt the numbness that had been in her body since the well had closed over slowly leave her body and she suddenly turned around in the bath to study her mother on the other side who was kneeling infront of her with motherly concern etched over her soft features. Slowly she began to tell the tale of the final battle and the events which took place after, her mother sat in silence knowing that Kagome's heart was still mourning the loss of her second family and listened to her daughters tale. Her brave little girl told her of how they were blessed with the luck of the god's as they defeated Naraku and yet lost none of their own friends simply due to the fact that Sesshomaru didn' think twice about using Tenseiga to save the brave warriors at their side's if their life was taken off them by the foul hanyou Naraku and Mama Higurashi silently gave her thanks to the god's also for keeping her daughter and her friends alive. Kagome went on to tell her how the group kept the shard's of the jewel seperate in order to keep Kagome with them until all the loose ends in the Feudal Era were tied up and she was thankful that she got to see Sango and Miroku married in a beautiful little quiet ceremony were Kaede performed the ceremony, she spoke of the endless conversations of what might happen to the whole jewel once it was again completed, whether Kagome would have to stay in the Feudal Era or return home to the future, and she began to cry once again as she choked out the conversation she had with Shippo about what might happen if she had to go home to the future and explained that she loved him as her son and would always find a way to be with him even if he had to wait 500 years to find her and that he had better stay alive until she does find him or else! And finally Kagome spoke of Inu Yasha and by the time she was finished her tale of how they accepted that they loved eachother but recognised the fact that they couldn't be together and Kagome made him promise to move on with his life and find love and be happy both of the Higurashi women sat with tears streaming down their face's.

Mrs Higurashi got up and walked gracefully to the hamper and lifted a towel and wrapped it around her now adult daughters body and hugged her like there was no tomarrow. She knew it was selfish but she was glad to finally get her daughter back but she also mourned the loss of Inu Yasha as he was a part of her family now also and she would miss him dearly.She left the bathroom to allow Kagome a few minutes peace and quiet and allow her to collect her thoughts.

Kagome slowly walked into her bedroom and put her pajama's on and ventured down stairs only to find a hot cup of tea sitting on the table of the living room and she sat surrounded by her family. Kagome knew that it would take a while for her to get over the loss she felt as she knew that now Miroku and Sango were dead but she felt better at the thoughts of the amorus monk getting the shit kicked out of him by a beautiful Sango, she felt peace knowing that they would have been happy together. Her thoughts strayed to Inu Yasha and Shippo. Would they still be alive? Where are the demon's in this Era anyways?

She had a lot to think about and her hand rested on the now useless bauble hanging just above her chest, she may have told her mother the story o the loss of her friends but she would never know about what her daughter had now become, there were some thing that Kagome just could not share. This burden was her own.

As she sat contemplating this whilst sipping her tea she had this strange feeling knot in her stomach and some how she just knew that whilst her Feudal adventure's were now over, more where just around over the horizon waiting to begin.