Dancing in th Moonlight by Silver Rae

Chapter 1

The sun poured through the thin gold trimmed navy blue curtains of Higurashi Kagome's temporary bedroom.

Kagome was a raven haired twenty-two-year-old with lively blue-gray eyes that were now slightly dull.

She contemplated her situation as she raced around her room, tripping over random objects strewn across the floor in the dim light.

"Aya!" The raven haired girl shrieked, as she landed on her rear.

"Ow..." she winced while she got up. She frowned at the iron that caused her fall, and continued her search for the outfit she should have put out for her to wear before she fell asleep. 'Shoulda, woulda, coulda,' Kagome thought with a roll of her eyes.

If the circumstances were different, she would have been ecstatic. She had managed an interview with a prominent company. She had applied for secretary.

Kagome sighed, 'I would be able to get a better job than that, but I have to be home before four o'clock. I hate working late, then leaving Souta to make his own meal when he comes back from school. Buying those instant noodles didn't help at all. Last time he made Ramen, he burned it.' She sweat-dropped, 'How in the world can you burn Ramen?'

She and her brother were close, and despite their occasional spouts, they depended deeply on one another.

That thought brought a smile to her face as she ran around in her undergarments, searching for her black knee length skirt.

Kagome was glad that she had someone who had her back. Especially now. It was a hard time for the siblings.

The Higurashi well-house had caught fire while Mrs. Higurashi and Kagome's grandfather were still inside. They were looking for Buyo, the family cat, who was now at the veterinarian's in special care.

Both her grandfather and her mother were in critical condition at the best hospital in Kyoto. Kagome and Souta had been out when the accident happened, buying a celebratory cake for Souta's grades on his progress report. That was 2 weeks ago; it was now mid-October.

Kagome picked up her white blouse, and put it on with a sigh.

'I really hope our luck turns.'

After finding her matching suit jacket, she shoved her dainty feet into her black high heel shoes. They were two inch heels. Normally she wouldn't have bought shoes so high, but it was on a spur that she did.

She decided that she would place her hair up in a bun and stick with a professional look.

Leaving her room, she headed downstairs to the kitchen. The clock on the wall said that it was 5:45 a.m. Souta would be awake in fifteen minutes. She would leave after she made sure that he caught the bus to school.

He had gotten a scholarship, which fortunately provided transportation.

She had decided the night before that she was going to move into her parents home that was by a secluded beach. It would be better than what they had now. They were sharing the house with a woman that was never home, but on the rare occasion that she was, she would always be sickeningly drunk.

She had told Souta, and he had heartily agreed. They had started packing, and would be out in two days.

Unfortunately, she had forgotten that her parent's house was an hour away, and that she would have to quit her jobs in order to carry out her plan.

Souta would have to stay at his friend Kohaku's house in order to stay at the same high school, but it would only be for the weekdays.

She had never met Kohaku because she was so busy, but she would have to arrange a date to meet him and his family if Souta was going to stay with them.

"This is all so unorganized!" She whispered fiercely.

"I'm never doing anything on some stupid incite ever again," She groaned as she got out eggs, bacon, and orange juice from the fridge that their house-mate kept so well stocked. She pulled the bread off the counter as well.

Though she rarely ate any of it, she was always out doing God knows what.

She sighed for the umpteenth time as she made her and Souta breakfast.

Souta, a brown haired boy with cinnamon eyes, came down thirty minutes later after he had showered, brushed his teeth and was dressed in his high school uniform.

Kagome shoved a plate in front of him along with a cup of orange juice. "Here you go, eat up!"

Souta grinned, "Smells great sis, thanks a lot."

Kagome sat across form him at the table "No prob..."

She put her head on the table. "So tired!"

Souta frowned, 'She can't keep pushing herself like this, it's only Monday and yet she's so exhausted.'

Kagome sighed "I have to go. Make sure not to leave the house until the bus comes to pick you up. And call my cell phone as soon as you get to school. I want to make sure you get there okay."

Souta gave a salute: "Yes, ma'am!"

Kagome rolled her eyes, and ruffled her brother's hair. He gasped in feign annoyance.

"Hey, I just combed it...took forever to make my hair all nice and--!"

Kagome giggled, "Bye, Souta. i'll be home by nine this morning, and I'll finish packing the rest of our stuff, and have it sent to the house,"

' I also have to call Kohaku's family.' She added with a sigh.

Souta nodded, a troubled look marring his handsome features. "Okay, I'll see you later, but please get some rest."

Kagome smiled, waved and walked out of the house, keys in hand.

She didn't have time to rest. She had to call her Uncle Mushin, and tell him that she had to quit her job at his eminent hotel. Her uncle let her have a job there, and paid her double so that he could help pay for his sister-in-law's hospital bill.

"Well maybe I don't have to quit, I could just work there on weekends." She smiled.

"Finally, one thing straightened out.... Now like five more to go."

She hopped in her car. It was a blue convertible that her father had left to her before he passed on.

She smiled sadly, as she drove to I & S. It was a very successful company that used to be lead by father and son, but the father had passed on earlier that year.

She reached there in twenty minutes. She straightened her skirt, "I'll just go in, tell them that I am no longer interested in the job, and come out." She briskly walked up to the building, and pulled open the door.

Sadly, for Higurashi Kagome, nothing ever went as planned...

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A.N. Sorry if it's short. Review Please! Tell me how good, or bad it was. I need your opinion to make the story better.... Or to know if this is a lost case.

Rae : Wow... Chapter 1 done! Hurray!!! Now, I can work on the mystery of why my credit card bills are so high... *Rae mumbles taking out a pile of bills*

Silver: That rhymed! One done, one done, one done

*takes out a box of pocky, and munches* on some One done, one done, one done--

Rae: Hey.... Where do you get all that Pocky anyway?!

Silver: Um.... From the store

Rae: *glares* But you have no money

Silver: That's where your credit card comes in....

Rae: *eye starts twitching as Rae menacingly* advances on her muse