Okay readers I have some devastating news. I'm putting all of my fics, except for Silver and Gold, on an indefinite hold. I don't know when I'll start up my writing again but I know it won't be for a while. So I'm coming out with an entirely new stream of fics. This time I won't waste so much on dialogue and focus more on backgrounds and such. I hope you like my new style of writing. By the way, this chapter is mostly in Kagome's point of view. I'll try to warn you when mine comes on.
Disclaimer: Owning Inuyasha is something someone like me can only dream of.
Summary: She was sick of being called 'the fat one.' She hated being thought less of than her sister. So Kagome finally got up off her ass and started to make some major changes. Changes that gave her a chance for a new life. Changes that made people realize that her elder sister wasn't as perfect as she let on….
"Meh" talking
'Meh' thinking
"Meh" phone conversation
Life's Changes: Kagome
Chapter One
Plans for the Future
She was going out again. It was probably a different guy. No matter how many times I tell her that going out with anyone who asks is a big mistake, she just doesn't listen. But why should she? It's not like I've ever been out on a date. No, I'm always thought of as the overweight sister. The 'fat one.' My parents officially decided that I'm not Kagome Higurashi. I'm now named 'Kikyou's little sister.' Do you know how degrading that is? Sure she's let me live with her since those two kicked me out for being an imperfect child, but she's not exactly the brightest bulb in the box. Then again, my parents' names are actually Arata and Yukiko. I suppose 'freshness' and 'snow child' are a more based on their personalities than on their own parents' 'brilliant' naming ideas.
I know that I'm not being fair. I mean, they are my parents after all. But after twenty long years I can finally speak my mind…to my mind. I'd never say these things out loud. Who would? So I'm confessing my thoughts to their source. Odd? Of course it is! But I'm Kagome Higurashi, my even my aura is odd.
You see, my elder sister, Kikyou, and I look a lot alike. You just can't see it through all of my…extensions. We both have the same pale skin. Our faces are the same heart-like shape. Of course, her nose is thin and straight, as well as a bit longer than mine. Also, her lips are what can only be described as pouty…I can't believe I just thought that. Anyway, the only other differences are that my hair is a complete ink black color and hers is that really rich brownish black. Oh and her eyes are brown. My eyes are violet. But other than that we look exactly alike, and that's the saddest and scariest thing to ever happen to me. I hate it that I look like her. I hate it that she seems perfect. I hate it that she always has a guy and I'm stuck with my fucking love handles for company. I hate it.
But I'm getting off topic. This is about Kikyou's date.
I heard the knock on the front door from my bedroom. Judging by the heaviness of the fist it was another guy. I waited to hear my sister's soft footsteps on the ground but I only heard a second round of knocking. Sighing I stood up and headed out into the brightly furnished living room. It made me sick, all of those pinks and yellows and baby blues. Pulling my red and green plaid robe closer to myself I went to open the door.
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(It's my turn to tell the story. So my POV.)
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Kagome opened the door just slightly to see an incredibly handsome young man standing in front of it, his back to her. Clearing her throat, the twenty year old brunette tried to catch his attention. "What do you want?"
Turning around the young man startled her with his piercing amber eyes. His hair was long and black and it suited him. He wore baggy old blue jeans and a red button up shirt.
Underneath that he had on a white muscle tank top. "Kikyou?"
Startled at his question Kagome sighed. "Goodbye."
She closed the door in his face. Turning away from the portal she headed towards the couch only to hear the doorbell before she sat. Growling slightly, Kagome stood up and yanked the door open. "What the fuck do you want?"
The man looked down at her shocked before glowering right back at her. "I'm here to see Kikyou. Where is she?"
"Why should I tell you?" Kagome said dully. She was getting pretty annoyed.
"Because I'm her date." He replied smoothly.
Kagome snorted indignantly. "You act as though you're the first. For the love of Kami-sama. Now I know why my aunt Kaede was so unhappy to have Kikyou visit."
He continued to glare at her until she simply turned and headed towards her sister's room.
"Have a seat date-of-the-night. I'm sure she'll be out in a moment."
Kagome padded to the white door that led to the elder woman's sleeping quarters. "Hey Kikyou! Your date is here."
The young woman didn't even have a chance to finish her sentence before her elder sister was out the door and halfway down the hall. Blinking, Kagome followed her with a confused expression on her face. 'How did she…?'
"Inuyasha!" Kikyou squealed. "I'm sorry for making you wait so long. I take it that you've met my baby sister?"
Inuyasha's eyes flickered to the oversized lump that had just settled on the white leather couch before resettling on Kikyou. "Yeah."
Smiling Kikyou walked over to the bored looking woman. "Make sure you don't eat too much tonight okay? I don't want to see you get sick again." The older woman kissed Kagome's cheek and headed towards her date. "Goodnight Kagome. If I'm not home by midnight lock the doors and turn off the lights."
Nodding Kagome sat back with a sigh as soon as the door closed. "Bitch." She muttered.
She knew that Kikyou used her as a sympathy card. "'My poor overweight little sister.' Meh."
Standing, she stretched. She walked towards the door and locked it, knowing full well that Kikyou wouldn't be home until tomorrow anyway. "Once a whore always a whore. And I swear if the dress color didn't repulse me, then the dress length did the trick. I thought she'd gotten through that stage. Fucking white. Meh, as if she's still a virgin."
Smirking, Kagome trudged into her bedroom and grabbed a newspaper. "Let's see. Houses for sale. I wonder how far I can get from Tokyo while actually staying in Japan."
Yawning, her dark eyes made their ways towards the clock. Five a.m. already? Damn. "I need to get a life. Then again that's what I'm trying to do. But if I don't sleep then I'll never have my freedom. God why can't Kikyou just let me and my fucking people go?"
By people Kagome meant her little sprite friends from the fairy realms. 'Shit…I've finally lost it.'
Groaning with discomfort, the large woman slowly made her way to the kitchen. 'I really need to stop talking to myself.' Carefully she opened the refrigerator and pulled out an egg carton. "Ugh. These aren't real? Oh for the sake of Kami-sama!"
A sudden image of dark red hair the color of mixed mahogany and cinnamon entered her mind, paired with stunning emerald green eyes of a fiery nature. With them came the picture of her best friend's heart-shaped face, which was softened by noticeable baby fat. Yes, her best friend was a beautiful creature behind such an unkempt façade.
Grimacing Kagome put the eggs back onto their shelf and headed towards the phone. "I wonder if Ayame's awake."
Being her usual bitchy self, Kagome smirked and decided to find out herself.
Ayame Hitogashi groaned when she heard her phone ring. What idiot would be calling this early? Checking the caller ID she groaned again. That idiot. She picked up the phone and answered hoarsely. "Moshi, moshi." "Hey Ayame." "Kagome, you monster, what the hell do you want?" "I just want to go have some breakfast." Kagome replied in a hurt voice. Ayame sighed. "Where?" "Over at Ume's." "Fine. I'll meet you there in ten minutes." "…Hey Ayame?" "What?" "Can you come pick me up?"
Ayame groaned for the third time that night. She hung up the phone and sat up. The loud creak that came from her bed made her wince as she stood up and got dressed in a pair of pristine white jogging sweats, knowing full well that Kagome hated the brightness of the suit. 'Payback's a bitch, my dear Kagome.'
With that final thought Ayame smirked and headed out towards her car.
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"I can't believe you wore that." Kagome stated heatedly as she sat across from her best friend in a small diner. "Its burning my eyes."
"I can't believe you called me at a quarter past five in the morning and thought you could get away with it." Ayame retorted rousing a snort from her companion. "And you can snort all you want, moron. Won't change a thing."
Kagome glared at Ayame. "Sorry if I woke you princess but I have something extremely important to tell you."
Raising a thin, dark red eyebrow Ayame decided to go along with her friend. "And that is?"
"I've finally realized that I can overcome my love handles, forget about my…thighs, and destroy my fat arms. I'm going to lose some weight." Kagome stated as if it were the best thing in the world. When she didn't hear a reply from Ayame she frowned. "What?"
"That's why you woke me up at five in the morning? To tell me that you're going to try to lose weight?" Ayame growled her eyes narrowing. "If you weren't my best friend I'd kill you."
Letting out a frustrated sigh Kagome rushed into an explanation. "No. I'm also moving away from Kikyou. I'm going to start my life anew. And I want you to come with me."
Ayame blinked. "Right genius. And who's gonna be our coach? We do need one, you know if we consider our habits."
"I was thinking that you could get Armani to help." Kagome mumbled. Ayame's eyes went round as saucers as she started to shake her head. "Come on! Please Ayame!"
"No. No, no, no, no, no! I'm not asking for her help! She's evil, and conniving…." Ayame started only to have Kagome finish.
"And beautiful, and smart, and fit." Kagome's eyes narrowed for a moment before returning to their almond shape. "That's not the point. Aren't you sick of Atari getting so much attention? Don't you just want for once for men to look your way? Please Ayame. I don't want to do this alone. Please?"
Ayame stared at her friend from across the table before sighing. "Y-yes. I want men to look at me and say 'That's the one I want to be with.' I want to be blessed with everything that Armani and Atari have. But…but I just don't know how to do that!"
Smiling Kagome stood and placed a twenty dollar bill on the table. "Let's not waste anymore time. I wanna get in shape. And I know you do too."
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Kagome and Ayame walked into the large workout room quietly. It was empty except for the equipment. Carefully they walked towards a door with the word OFFICE on it at eye level. Gulping they pushed the door open.
They were met with a very well organized room. On one side of the room was a desk with papers and books spread out on it. At the wall next to it there was a large tan filing cabinet. Next to that was a coffee machine. Across from the first desk, and to the girls' right, was another desk, except this one had a grey computer off on the left side of it and on the right side there were pictures of relatives and friends. In front of the desk was an office chair. In that chair was a remarkably beautiful woman.
Her face was small and heart shaped. Her eyes were a pretty green color and her hair was a dead straight and shoulder length light brown. When she stood she reached up to their chins. She wore simple green jogging sweats and Nike tennis shoes.
"Hello. My name is Suzuki Hirada." The small woman stated. "I take it that you two must be Kagome and Ayame?"
The two nodded. Suzuki smiled and walked out the door. As soon as they followed, she turned and the pleasant expression that had been on her face vanished.
"From now on you will work until I tell you to stop." She snarled in her high pitched voice. "So right now, the two of you are going to start with sit ups. I want thirty out of each of you right now. Got it!"
The two nodded and dropped to the floor. After a while those blue mats were starting to get mighty painful, as well as frightful. No longer did the gymnasium appear as harmless as its first appearance let on. Come to think of it, neither did Suzuki. Her high voice hurt their ears when she yelled. Her green eyes exerted an amazingly strong inner flame. Her body language stated that she was strong and wasn't afraid to whip them into shape. In a way, Suzuki Hirada was very much like a slave driver.
The rest of the day she made them do push ups, pull ups, pacers, weight lifting. You name it they did it. When the session was finally over Suzuki smiled sweetly.
"The two of you did wonderfully! See you again on Saturday! Remember use those tapes I gave you. Especially that Pilates one." Suzuki chirped watching them leave.
When the two sweaty women entered Ayame's car, Ayame glared at Kagome. "That is the last time that I ever listen to you or my sister!"
Grumbling the irritated young woman started the vehicle and sped off. She was more than glad to get away from that hell house called a gymnasium.
When Kagome trudged through her sister's front door she was hounded with questions.
"Where were you? How long have you been gone? Who were you with?" Kikyou asked in frenzy, following Kagome as she headed towards her bedroom.
"I was out, I've been gone for a few hours, and I was with Ayame of course dumbass!"
Kagome answered shutting the door in her sister's face. She heard Kikyou 'humph' and walk away. She smiled thinning and looked disdainfully towards her bedroom floor. "You got to do what you got to do."
Sitting down on her sickeningly white carpet she started to do some sit ups, surprising herself when they stopped hurting her stomach. 'Maybe this was a good idea after all.'
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Three weeks passed and Kagome was glad to see that not only had she dropped down from two hundred and fifty pounds to two hundred pounds. Kikyou didn't notice the difference. Hell the only things Kikyou realized were either about her or a new potential date. But she really liked this Inuyasha. Apparently, from what Kagome had overheard from Kikyou's conversations with her close friend, Kagura, he was the luckiest man in the world, to be in her company for so long. Yeah. Right.
Snorting to herself Kagome entered her sister's entirely pink and, in Kagome's opinion, entirely repulsive bathroom. Setting her towel down, the woman stripped down to nothing. Her violet eyes wandered over the curves that were finally showing. There was still fat but thanks to Suzuki and her heavy workouts, both at home and at the gym, Kagome was well on her way to becoming a thinner person.
Giggling to herself for the first time in years, she turned on the hot water and started to wash herself of the day's dirt and grime. Just as she was washing her legs, a pair of startling amber eyes flew to her mind. Surprised she cried out and slipped on the bar of soap she'd just been using. Rubbing her now bruised bottom, Kagome stood gingerly. 'What the hell was that?' The eyes flashed her mind again. 'I know those eyes from somewhere…. But where?' Shrugging she shook off the feeling of déjà vu and continued to wash herself. Right in the muddle of rinsing the shaving cream from her leg she saw a face and body connect with those eyes. Gasping she realized where she recognized those beautiful amber orbs. She knew them, because she saw them every Thursday night at the door. She knew them, because they were Inuyasha's.
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Kikyou continued to primp herself for her date in her large bedroom. "Hmm. I wonder when Inuyasha will be here."
Giggling the twenty-two year old finished curling her straight black tresses. Standing she pulled on a knee length emerald dress that cut down the front exposing a large amount of cleavage. Pulling on matching green stilettos, Kikyou headed towards her master bathroom where she continued to glob make-up on her face.
Inuyasha Matsushita knocked on the front door for a second time. Hearing footsteps he steeled himself. Narrowed violet eyes peered at him through the small crack in the door. He heard a quiet sigh as the door opened a bit wider allowing only her head to pop out.
"Who are you?" The young woman asked dully. "If you're a rapist then the pretty one's in her bedroom."
Inuyasha's eye twitched. 'Must not kill date's sister.' "Good evening. May I speak with Kikyou?"
Kagome's eyebrows rose in mock shock before falling into their normal place. "Why, Inuyasha! What's got you acting like a gentleman?"
"Where's your sister?" He growled. Usually he'd just push past her. But this night was different. Tonight he was meeting Kikyou's parents. He needed to practice.
Kagome sneered in a reply. "Where do you think, smartass? Where is she every time you come over?"
Before he could retort Kikyou came out from behind the door. Her brown eyes were shining and she grabbed his arm tightly. "Kagome do you think you could catch a ride from that friend of yours, Ayumi was it?"
"Ayame." Kagome replied through clenched teeth. "And yes I'm sure she'd be more than happy to."
When the younger sister walked onto the porch Inuyasha saw her in something other than a robe or sweats for the first time. Kagome was wearing a knee length grey dress that seemed to add to the intensity of her eyes. She didn't wear any make-up besides black eyeliner and her shoes were simple and black with no heel. Something that little girls on playgrounds wore. Her hair was up in a tight bun and the dress was high cut with spaghetti straps.
Kagome appeared to look bored as she walked past them to sit on the steps. "Go ahead. I'll wait for Ayame. I called her just a few minutes ago."
Kikyou nodded and pulled Inuyasha towards his red and expensive car. He followed without a word.
Ayame picked Kagome up exactly five minutes after Inuyasha and Kikyou had left. When the two had piled into her fairly small vehicle, Kagome started to talk about her thoughts in the shower before stopping. She didn't know what that had meant. So she should wait to tell Ayame. At least, that's what her instincts told her to do. And seeing as her instincts were usually right, she listened to them.
After a rather short drive the two stopped outside of Kagome's parent's two story home with a great reluctance to leave each other in their minds. Kagome because she was seeing them again, and Ayame because…Kagome was seeing them again.
"Good luck." Ayame called out before speeding down the street. Chuckling softly Kagome turned with a deep breath and started towards the door.
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Sorry to cut you off right here but I decided to leave some for the next chapter. (Actually, it was to leave you in suspense.) So I hope you liked it. I think I did pretty well but hey, what can ya say eh? It's 3:20 a.m. I've got to go to sleeeeeep. So sleepy. Goodnight humans. Do not worry.