My Father's Will by PhoenixBlade
Chapter One
My Father's Will
Chapter One
by supermai
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Disclaimer: Inuyasha is the rightful property of Viz and Rumiko Takahashi. This fanfic is all mine!
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How the hell did this happen?
I stood before the pearly, golden gates of my soon to be assumed hell. Eden's paradise, also known as my home, was now far away in another town. Here, I was left to fend for myself like a stray dog scavenging for leftovers in the trash. Well, the depiction was a little extreme but that's what it felt like for me.
Oh yes, sorry, but I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Higurashi Kagome and I was once a proud honor roll student and in the Archery Club at my old high school. Now, I was doomed to live out the rest of my high school years at THIS prison called Kuribuki High, which was also known as one of the most prestigious schools in all of Japan. Despite it being one of the most prestigious schools filled with rich, snobby, egotistical brats, it was... an all-boys school... and I was 100% all girl with everything to prove that I was 100% female.
So how did I, an honor roll student, ace archer in the archery club and totally feminine and all girl student end up going to this godforsaken all-boys school? That, my dear readers, is what I'm about to tell you.
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Two months ago...
I was on my way home from an archery tournament. My team had gotten first place after a long and grueling fight and we proudly celebrated our win by going out to karaoke. Unfortunately, we had all forgotten the time amidst all our fun and left later than the time permitted for our curfew. So anyway, I had just gotten home to the shrine, which my grandfather owns, and had assumed everyone to be asleep when I heard my mother call me to the living room. Thinking that I was in for some trouble for coming in late, I walked in with head bowed low in apologies.
"Kagome, there is something that we need to talk about," my mother said.
Her voice sounded mournful, as if something horrible had happened.
I rose my head and saw that she was dressed in black. Around her were other people whom I did and didn't recognize, all dressed in black as well.
"Mom? What's going on? Where's Souta?" I asked.
"Souta's asleep, Kagome," grandpa answered.
"Then what's wrong?"
I was scared, what had happened?
"Kag-Kagome... your father..." she started but bursted out in tears.
Grandfather took mother into his arms to console her and he looked up at me, "Kagome, your father died today from a tumor."
Once I heard "died," my blood froze cold and the world was no longer spinning. Everything had stopped, frozen in time.
"What?" I asked, hesitant but needing to make sure what I heard was right.
Another voice spoke up, "Mr. Higurashi has passed away, miss."
I looked to the person. He had long white hair and amber eyes. I had never seen him before. The look of unfamiliarity on my face must have prompted him to introduce himself.
"Forgive me," he said, "I am Kageshiro Inutaisho, a longtime friend of your father's. He was a good man."
Perhaps I wasn't hearing it right and I asked again. The look in his eyes made me believe the next words spoken by another. It was a look of sadness and great pity.
"Your father's dead, Kagome."
All eyes set down upon me. Water welled up in my eyes as a heartwrenching feeling, like a million knives, dug into me and I made a noise between a whimper and a cry in disbelief. A stray tear ran down my cheek and I couldn't take it anymore. The room started to get blurry and the temperature in the room soared. In one second, I fainted.
When I awoke, I found myself on the sofa and heard voices coming from the kitchen. The presence of people who were there earlier were now gone. Who was left?
I got to my feet and slowly walked over to the kitchen with the assistance of the walls in my state of grogginess and internal pain. It was still dark out so the light from the kitchen was bright, drowning out the night outside. When I got to the kitchen door, I saw four people around the table with a bunch of paper strewn all over it. They all looked at me with pity and sadness in their eyes. Mom had cried her eyes out because her eyes were red and swollen. Baka...
I recognized mom and grandpa, but not the other two. Feeling my strength return to me, I wobbled on over to my mother who stood up to catch me in case I fainted again.
"Mom, what's going on here? What's with the papers?" I asked as her hands found its way around my shoulders.
"Kagome... Sit down... We're... going through your father's wills," she told me.
She sat me down in the empty chair beside her.
"Kagome, this is Mr. Hayashi, he's the family lawyer," she addressed to the man wearing a suit and glasses. He looked to be in his forties.
"And this," she said turning to the other man also in a suit who was about the same age, "is Mr. Asagi. He's a longtime friend of the family."
He nodded to me, "You probably don't remember me much Kagome, but I held you in my lap when you were a toddler."
A vague memory passed in my mind's eye. A man whose face I had forgotten fit the figure of Mr. Asagi, holding me in his lap and laughing along with me.
"I think I remember you a little, Mr. Asagi..." I turned to my mother, "But what does this have to do with dad's will?"
She hesitated for a bit and opened her mouth to say something, but stopped and turned away.
"What? What's wrong?"
"Kagome, you... your father..." she started but ended up sobbing.
Grandfather placed a hand on her shoulder to calm her.
"Mrs. Higurashi, shall I speak for you then?" the lawyer asked.
She sniffed and nodded her head a second later.
He turned to me and adjusted his glasses.
"Kagome, in your father's will, he left a lot of money to your mother and grandfather. He left quite a bit for you and your brother Souta as well. Among other things, everything is listed here in the papers, but one of his requests in his will is rather odd," he told me.
"What?"
He lifted a paper and gave it to me. He pointed to one part of the paper that was highlighted, "In this will, he requests that in order for any of you to receive the money, you must go to Kuribuki High School."
I looked up in surprise, "Kuribuki High! B-but that's considered one of the most prestigious high schools in the country! I could never make it there for billions of reasons!"
"In terms of grades Kagome," Mr. Asagi spoke up, "they're magnificent and beyond expectations and being an honor roll student and the ace archer in your club is also a plus. You have all the qualifications."
My head fell, "But I... I don't have the money though."
"Money will not be an issue if you agree to go," Mr. Hayashi said.
I looked back up, "But!... It's an ALL-MALE school! I still can't go there anyway! I like my school! Maybe he made a mistake and meant for Souta to go!"
"There's no mistake Kagome, he meant specifically for you to go," grandpa told me.
I looked at the sheet again, every word that my father had written down.
"...I would request that Higurashi Kagome, my daughter, go to Kuribuki High School should I pass away before her high school years are over..." I read.
No shit! He wasn't kidding!
"But... this is crazy! What do you expect me to do, dress up like a guy and go in?" I exclaimed.
"That... is exactly what we planned to do..." smirked Mr. Asagi.
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Present...
I refused to do it, but later I found out that the shrine wasn't doing too well financially. Mom was a housewife and grandpa's money that he earned from the shrine was barely enough. Souta was way too young to work and I was too busy in the Archery Club to get a job. Dad was the one doing all the working and paying for the bills, but he had always been away for work. Now that he was gone, we had no money. I had a talk with Sango, my best friend since childhood, and she told me to do what I thought was best and so, I reluctantly agreed and lo and behold, here I was.
"Oh, are you new?" someone asked me.
I turned to the speaker. It was a boy, probably the same age as me with short tied back black hair. I nodded.
"Oh! Welcome! I can show you to the administrative office if you want!" he perked up.
"Ari...Arigato," I said.
He stuck out a hand and smiled, "My name is Miroku."
I looked at it for a bit, then took it and smiled back, "I'm Kagami."
Suddenly, time seemed to have restarted again.
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End of chapter one. Everything written her eis false and the characters may be OOC but this is for your amusement and for my Writer's Block only and cannot be used for sale and other crap.For those of you who have enjoyed this story, please visit my other fanfic called Snow Pearl on Fanfiction.Net. My user name there is PhoenixBlade.