Inuyasha, "Girl Unseen" Kagome ficlet, rated G
Fandom: Inuyasha
Title: Girl Unseen
Author: Paynesgrey
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Kagome
Spoilers: end of the manga
Word Count: 250
Notes: Written for the "Mask" theme at iyfic_contest
Summary: She's just going through the motions.
Girl Unseen
When she finally admits that she’s alone, Kagome puts on a different face. She smiles and gives her friends a shoulder to cry on, but she doesn’t let them see the pain she’s feeling herself.
She goes to school, concentrates on her homework, and she sees the world through a dark tunnel where her end result is her high school graduation.
Kagome admits to being scared. No one person’s resolve can be that strong from determination alone. Memories and feelings have a way of seeping out of her heart into her mind.
But there are no Inuyashas resting in tree branches when she looks above her. The old well is just a well, and it smells of mold and dust and no longer simmers with magic. The wise old tree feels just like it has before: ancient, calm and unchanging.
Tears bleed from the corners of her eyes, and she’s grateful she’s holed up in her room slaving over her upcoming history exam. She shakes the old memories from her thoughts, and they fade like her tears as she starts over from the top of her page.
The next day she knows she’s aced the test, maybe with one or two wrong but she doesn’t blame it on a lapse in determination. She laughs with her friends and feels somewhat normal, like them, when she confesses to getting a few wrong.
But they don’t really know. She never lets them see past her true mask.
Kagome Higurashi isn’t really there.
Title: Girl Unseen
Author: Paynesgrey
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Kagome
Spoilers: end of the manga
Word Count: 250
Notes: Written for the "Mask" theme at iyfic_contest
Summary: She's just going through the motions.
Girl Unseen
When she finally admits that she’s alone, Kagome puts on a different face. She smiles and gives her friends a shoulder to cry on, but she doesn’t let them see the pain she’s feeling herself.
She goes to school, concentrates on her homework, and she sees the world through a dark tunnel where her end result is her high school graduation.
Kagome admits to being scared. No one person’s resolve can be that strong from determination alone. Memories and feelings have a way of seeping out of her heart into her mind.
But there are no Inuyashas resting in tree branches when she looks above her. The old well is just a well, and it smells of mold and dust and no longer simmers with magic. The wise old tree feels just like it has before: ancient, calm and unchanging.
Tears bleed from the corners of her eyes, and she’s grateful she’s holed up in her room slaving over her upcoming history exam. She shakes the old memories from her thoughts, and they fade like her tears as she starts over from the top of her page.
The next day she knows she’s aced the test, maybe with one or two wrong but she doesn’t blame it on a lapse in determination. She laughs with her friends and feels somewhat normal, like them, when she confesses to getting a few wrong.
But they don’t really know. She never lets them see past her true mask.
Kagome Higurashi isn’t really there.