Curtains Open by clock-winder

Soulless Eyes

Chapter 1: The Soulless Eyes

"It wasn't a coincidence that I've met you. It was inevitable that we crossed paths. I shouldn't have tolerated myself to stop because ironically I've moved closer to you. Though I saw what will happen and knowing how tragic it was I still kept on moving until I reached that unfortunate end.

As I've accepted none from anybody I tried to be strong. Strong so I can stand up and fight time, strong so that I can move on, strong so that I could love again knowing that I could bleed to death. I've tried to forget whatever it was that was hurting me but even if I run as far as I could it will always stick with me. It will always be with me in my mind and in my heart." She sighed after that, looking heavily at the piece of paper she has been holding. Then with her right hand she wrote something on the piece of paper and with a heave she said "I tried to come and see you but you have closed every single gap...."

"Well isn't that tragic!" a voice suddenly boomed out of nowhere startling her. She turned around wide eyed and her hand over her heart.

"You scared me!" she shouted in surprise. Her heart was about to jump off her throat, she was so focused on what she was doing when someone suddenly hugged her from behind.

"I wouldn't want to miss that silent moment. It was the best moment to surprise you! You were very serious Kagome.... I love it." He grinned looking straight at the cerulean eyes of the irritated girl in-front of him.

"What do you want Miroku?" she said eyeing the guy with a smirk running across his face. She put her hands on both sides of her hips and then did a pout.

"Oh aren't you cute when you're mad?" he said grinning wickedly.

"Whatever Miroku...." She said turning her back on him.

He suddenly blocked her way and said "Why? Haven't you missed me, my darling?" Kagome rolled her eyes then waved him off.

"Miroku, you know that I'm very busy proof reading the script and not only that I have to distribute the work by Friday and see how our props are doing. And before I forgot I also have to do the layout for the playbook. So I don't have any time to waste thinking about a pervert like you!" Kagome said with irritation laced in her voice. She sat down and continued to read the script fully ignoring the pained expression Miroku was giving her.

"Ouch, that pains me my dear" he said then pretended to cry, then to choke as if he was shot by a gun. Kagome rolled her eyes; she was used to see Miroku acting like this, a playboy none the less and a very good theater actor. She ignored the drama that he was doing and turned her back on him again which she regretted later on. She was reading again when suddenly she felt a hand on her backside.

'SMACK!'

"Pervert! How many times do I have to tell you to keep that hand away from me or I'll have to amputate that cursed hands of yours!" Kagome screeched, her face turning red from anger. Miroku just grinned and rubbed his swollen cheek. He was so used to hearing life threats from Kagome that it was now a part of his day to day life, without a single of her so-called threats his life would be missing a large piece of it.

It was already a practice for them, Miroku gropes her at least 3 times a day and in return she at least gives him 5 smacking a day.

"Okay, okay... I give up... I'm here because we decided that next week would be the best week to do an audition. So I'm checking on the progress of the script. And by the way Ms. Kaede had read the summary of the play and she was ecstatic to help us in finding sponsors and actors." He said still rubbing his swollen cheek which by now has a clear view of a handprint of Kagome.

"You know Kagome your smacks are becoming harder and a lot stronger. It really leaves a mark on me." He sheepishly smiled at her and then turned to leave.

When he left Kagome shook her head in disbelief and then just suddenly smiled. Her friend hadn't really change, they were friends since elementary and they were inseparable, she knows him so much that as time passed they were like siblings. He hadn't learn a thing from groping women and having a swollen cheek after that, there was this one time that he accidentally groped the wrong butt and had his nose broken in the end. All she could do was sigh and roll her eyes in disbelief because of his determination in groping. Yes, a playboy and a pervert all in one.

"As I look into her soulless eyes I began to pity her. Where is the girl that I met before, her spirit just went away..."

II

The clock stroke 12 when Kagome decided to head home. It was a cold night, a winter actually but though she knows that it is always the same temperature as any other winter cold nights, this night was unusually very cold to her. Yes, she knows no other reason but sadness and loneliness but what could she do? She lives in an apartment near her work place, her parents are far away from her like she always wanted though she misses her little brother she never dreams of going back there, she got the job she wanted, and she has a very nice and trustworthy friend to rely on. With all of this there is always something that she can't leave behind. Something that she can't seem to shake off of her, she can't forget.

As she walks through the snowy path and cold breaths are unleashes from her. Her mind was far from where she is trying to forget whatever that was bugging her. Trying to hide what can be dig up and trying to mask what can never be masked. She knows this though she refuses to accept. Refuses to accept the fact that it happened, refuses to accept that she was in it, refuses the fact that it had hurt her, refuses to accept that everything that happened was real. Everything happened and she doesn't want to remember, remember the pain, remember how it hurt, how she cried. With what had happened left her behind, left her to hurt, left her to be miserable, and left her until her eyes where soulless and careless.