MANGA CHAP. 544 - HIGH SCHOOL LIFE
OUR STORY: Chapter opens with Kagome stunned at suddenly finding herself in front of her high school. She hears someone calling her name. It's her friends Eri, Yuka and Ayumi who want to do some after-school shopping. Then it's a stop at a fast-food place for a snack and some gossip about boys they met at the high school entrance ceremony, including one who declared his love for Ayumi right in front of Kagome. Doesn't she remember, Eri asks. All very, very ordinary for a high-school student. Kagome's mind is fuzzy, because she can't recall the ceremony or anything else her friends are talking about.
Scene changes to the kitchen of Kagome's home, where she's helping her mother get dinner ready. She and her mother chat about events at school and the clubs Kagome wants to join. She says she'll join the tennis club for sure. The family sits down to dinner and Kagome asks her grandfather what high school entrance gift he got for her. He said she already got her gifts, a bit of dragon's tail and a tengu whisker for happiness and good luck. Her brother Souta says Kagome fed them to the cat, and she says it was dried food, after all. Grandpa is upset but Kagome's mom offers to get her a normal present. All very, very ordinary for a high-school student.
Next day, Kagome is in school, in gym class running laps. She sees members of the school's archery club doing practice shooting. Kagome stops short. Her mind races. There's something about bows and arrows that she should remember... Her friends interrupt her thoughts as they admire the archers' shooting form. School day ends and Kagome meets her brother on the way home. As they cross the courtyard, Kagome stops and stares at a steel storage shed. Her mind runs again, and she asks her brother if there ever was a wooden shrine in that spot, protecting a well. Souta says he has no idea what Kagome is talking about. She asks her well shrine question of her grandpa and mother and they say there's never been anything like that there.
Kagome goes to her room and changes out of her school uniform. Her cellphone vibrates. It's an e-mail from Hojo, asking if she wants to go see a movie Sunday. She decides to go, they meet, she asks him about life in an all-boy school. Nice date. Movie, arcade games, dinner. All very, very ordinary for a high-school student.
Next day, Kagome's friends grill her about her date with Hojo and want to know if she's going to start dating him regularly. She says they're just friends, not dating. Eri, Yuka and Ayumi want to know what she finds wrong with Hojo. Yuka asks if there's another boy she likes. Kagome says there's no one else, but somehow Yuka's question is very disturbing to her. On her way home after school, Kagome passes by the sacred Goshinboku tree on the shrine grounds. She stops and stares at the tree. She senses something is very wrong with it. She goes up to it, thinking there should be a scar on the trunk. She puts her hand on the tree, her mind racing as she tries to figure out why she's expecting a scar right there.
Her mind clears and she remembers Inuyasha and their first meeting 500 years ago under this tree. As she starts recalling Inu, she sees the scar on the trunk again. All her memories come flooding back, including those about the jewel and how the right wish will purify the Shikon Jewel and make it vanish from this world. YES! The Shikon Jewel. Kagome remembers it all, the jewel and Inuyasha and everything else.
She find herself inside the well shrine with her family, watching her mother and brother pawing at the spot where the well was, desperately calling for Kagome. She yells to them that she's right there behind them, but they don't notice her presence. Her three friends enter the shrine, asking where Kagome has gone. They're worried because Kagome hasn't come to school despite her trying so hard to get in. They don't notice Kagome either. Kagome realizes no one can see, hear or touch her. She's the invisible girl.
The whole scene in the well shrine vanishes and Kagome finds herself floating in the Meidou's blackness, dressed in her middle-school sailor suit, holding her bow, just as she was when she got pulled into the Meidou. High-school life was all an illusion, a dream! But what about what she saw in the well shrine? She hears a voice telling her the well has been closed and she no longer has any place to go. Kagome turns to find out who is speaking and discovers the voice is coming from the Shikon Jewel itself, which floats above her with her arrow still piercing it. THE END (^_*)
OUR STORY: Chapter opens with Kagome stunned at suddenly finding herself in front of her high school. She hears someone calling her name. It's her friends Eri, Yuka and Ayumi who want to do some after-school shopping. Then it's a stop at a fast-food place for a snack and some gossip about boys they met at the high school entrance ceremony, including one who declared his love for Ayumi right in front of Kagome. Doesn't she remember, Eri asks. All very, very ordinary for a high-school student. Kagome's mind is fuzzy, because she can't recall the ceremony or anything else her friends are talking about.
Scene changes to the kitchen of Kagome's home, where she's helping her mother get dinner ready. She and her mother chat about events at school and the clubs Kagome wants to join. She says she'll join the tennis club for sure. The family sits down to dinner and Kagome asks her grandfather what high school entrance gift he got for her. He said she already got her gifts, a bit of dragon's tail and a tengu whisker for happiness and good luck. Her brother Souta says Kagome fed them to the cat, and she says it was dried food, after all. Grandpa is upset but Kagome's mom offers to get her a normal present. All very, very ordinary for a high-school student.
Next day, Kagome is in school, in gym class running laps. She sees members of the school's archery club doing practice shooting. Kagome stops short. Her mind races. There's something about bows and arrows that she should remember... Her friends interrupt her thoughts as they admire the archers' shooting form. School day ends and Kagome meets her brother on the way home. As they cross the courtyard, Kagome stops and stares at a steel storage shed. Her mind runs again, and she asks her brother if there ever was a wooden shrine in that spot, protecting a well. Souta says he has no idea what Kagome is talking about. She asks her well shrine question of her grandpa and mother and they say there's never been anything like that there.
Kagome goes to her room and changes out of her school uniform. Her cellphone vibrates. It's an e-mail from Hojo, asking if she wants to go see a movie Sunday. She decides to go, they meet, she asks him about life in an all-boy school. Nice date. Movie, arcade games, dinner. All very, very ordinary for a high-school student.
Next day, Kagome's friends grill her about her date with Hojo and want to know if she's going to start dating him regularly. She says they're just friends, not dating. Eri, Yuka and Ayumi want to know what she finds wrong with Hojo. Yuka asks if there's another boy she likes. Kagome says there's no one else, but somehow Yuka's question is very disturbing to her. On her way home after school, Kagome passes by the sacred Goshinboku tree on the shrine grounds. She stops and stares at the tree. She senses something is very wrong with it. She goes up to it, thinking there should be a scar on the trunk. She puts her hand on the tree, her mind racing as she tries to figure out why she's expecting a scar right there.
Her mind clears and she remembers Inuyasha and their first meeting 500 years ago under this tree. As she starts recalling Inu, she sees the scar on the trunk again. All her memories come flooding back, including those about the jewel and how the right wish will purify the Shikon Jewel and make it vanish from this world. YES! The Shikon Jewel. Kagome remembers it all, the jewel and Inuyasha and everything else.
She find herself inside the well shrine with her family, watching her mother and brother pawing at the spot where the well was, desperately calling for Kagome. She yells to them that she's right there behind them, but they don't notice her presence. Her three friends enter the shrine, asking where Kagome has gone. They're worried because Kagome hasn't come to school despite her trying so hard to get in. They don't notice Kagome either. Kagome realizes no one can see, hear or touch her. She's the invisible girl.
The whole scene in the well shrine vanishes and Kagome finds herself floating in the Meidou's blackness, dressed in her middle-school sailor suit, holding her bow, just as she was when she got pulled into the Meidou. High-school life was all an illusion, a dream! But what about what she saw in the well shrine? She hears a voice telling her the well has been closed and she no longer has any place to go. Kagome turns to find out who is speaking and discovers the voice is coming from the Shikon Jewel itself, which floats above her with her arrow still piercing it. THE END (^_*)
What will happen when Inuyasha finds her, as I'm sure he will? What will he decide to do? I didn't really think that Takahashi would have them
decide where to end up, but that looks like where she's heading.
Freaky.
. I'm assuming the Tama just allowed him to talk to them for some reason, maybe to worry them or try to fill Inuyasha with desperation so
he'd make a mistake in his haste.
That Shikon Jewel is just trying
to trick her! I just hope she's strong enough to overcome the darkness. And I think she will. When baby Hakudoshi tried to make her accept the darkness in
herself, she overcame it. I know she will overcome this darkness as well. 
