the lost Higurashi

chapter 5

Present time (finally)
Sasuke -8
Itachi -13
Kakashi -16
Kagome - 8
Shikamaru -8
Souta-2 weeks

Kagome's POV
I waited with mother and Souta at the gates for father to come back. I played with Soutas hair and giggled and his laughter. "Look Kagome your father's squad is coming" mom glowed as she saw them "look Souta your father is coming." She glanced at me "oh and I see Kakashi and Itachi too," she teased. I blushed brightly but ignored her teasing. I watch as the ran closer to the gates of Konoha, but when they got closer I could see sad and grim faces. Kakashi and Itachi walked straight to me while the other team members walked to mother whose face was filled with worry because father wasn't there. Kakashi picked me up in his arms and ran from where my mother was at. I suddenly heard a loud sob I looked over Kakashis shoulder and saw my mother on her knees tears pouring out of her eyes. Souta in another woman's arms was crying loudly too. I struggled at Kakashi's hold on my body "let me go! Kakashi, I need to go back to mom. Can you see that she's crying" I yelled at him. My fist banging on his back I could hear a occasional grunt of pain "Kagome~' Itachi threatens. I frozed at the look on his face I stared back at my mother who was sobbing on the ground "why is she crying?" I asked softly. Kakashi stiffened "we'll tell you soon" he says guilt laces on both his and Itachis face before. Finally we made it to a private area near by a small stream of water. It was beautiful, it glowed at the afternoon sun hit it, the chirping of the birds were all around and a occasional breeze that shifted the trees around us. Kakashi sat for head between his legs, while Itachi leaned on the tree behind us "I'm so sorry," his voice cracked I looked at him confused. Soon I saw his body shaking he looked up at me with his sharingan eye, tears filled up and fell "I tried to help him but I wasn't fast enough" dread filled me I looked at Itachi "itachi what is he talking about. Just tell it to me straight!" My voice raised near the ending. Itachi looked at the ground "you and Kakashi have lost someone important" he says emotionlessly and left without looking back. I sighed and looked at the sky that were filled with columbus clouds 'so that's what you ment when you said you wouldn't be here.' I scoff but smiled 'I hope you are in a better place father, I know how you hated killing but you still did it to protect our home. Dad I won't immortalize you in the stars because they fade away, I won't remember you by a poem for it will be forgotten one day, so I'll just keep you safe in my heart so that you are with me in every way possible' I finished in my head. I looked at Kakashi and hug him from behind "I'm the one whose supposed comfort you not the other way around," he says weakly "I know" I whispered "he was your father" he muttered "I know" I replied "why aren't you crying?" He asked quietly. I squeezed him a bit tighter "I don't know, I want to but it won't come out....... does... that mean.....that I never.....loved him?" I asked shakily. He stayed silent for awhile the moves me to his lap where he cradled me in his arms "no" his voice breaks and holds me tighter as if I would dissappear. "Don't leave me I can't loose you too," he stops to breathe calmly and starts again "your father was a great man. Who help create a beautiful girl and a handsome son tho he never saw or held him, but he loved him the same, he was also a father figure to me and guided me." I smiled at him "careful Kakashi or your going to lose that go with the flow mood. if you keep on acting like Gai" I teased he chuckled at my lame joke "how could you joke at a time like this?," he asked softly his head resting on the top of mine, "I don't know........well I guess it's cause in some way I don't believe it, even though I made a huge speech about it in my head." I grabbed his hand and entwined my fingers with his. He chuckles "oh?" He asked I laughed and nodded. He kissed my head through his mask "Kagome....... he told me about the jewel," Kakashi whispered in my ear, I shuddered at how ticklish it was. Then stiffened up realizing what he said.

Flashback

"-You'll die Kagome." Father says grimly, my voice cracked "what?!" He nodded and looked at the Riverside "how do I fix it? I asked softly "there are three ways the first two I won't recommend or want you to do it, 1.is for you to die. So that one is a no ok?. 2.is to wish the jewel to make toy a full inu-yokai or a human. But the jewel is evil and will twist your wish, if you wish to be a full fledged demon your beast side will take control and kill everyone it sees. If you pick to be a human it will probably, give you a incurable disease that you will pass on your children and cause them to die a early in life. The 3rd one is to learn how to control your miko and your yokai. To create a balance between those two like yin and yang."