Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, but my birthday is this April! Oh, never mind.
(A/N) O.k., the fact is that it is really late at night and I just had this amazing inspiration for no real reason. I'm sitting in my room reading fanfics when it just hits me that I really want to start this fanfic, because if I don't then it will never be written. This is only my second fic but I'm sure that it will not be my last. This is going to be an AU fic about Inuyasha and Kagome, though my last fic was about Sango and Miroku. That one was a one shot but this one is definitely going to be a multi chapter fic, though it is really hard for me to extend a story because there is this mechanism in my brain says do it all in one night. Must be all that procrastination on school projects.
I'm sure that most do not care about my personal life, so if that is the fact than skip this paragraph and just read the story. Anyway, just this year I switched to a new school, which just happens to be a private school, and everyone there have known each other for most of their lives and so my two friends, yes, I mean two, it is most certainly not a typo, are also both new to the school. The only problem with that is that they went to the same school last year. And it just accurrs to me that I just formed a little paradox of my own there. Is it possible that I am doomed to live with this all my life? Is it a curse? Anyway, my love life is still lacking and I don't expect it to improve any time soon. That cute boy at my fencing place will never think of me the way that I think about him. Sigh...
Even when everything is turning out wrong,
Something might come out right
chapter 1: only gets worse
In a that was not too small, but not too big either, two people who were fated to be together wandered through their simple lives without a care in the world, not knowing that soon, something would change their lives forever. It could bring them closer together, or pull them apart far enough so that they would never see each other again. This decision completely relied on them...
A young girl of about the age of 17 bounced out the door of a tall and elegant house and ran down the steps toward a Limo waiting at the bottom of the steps. As she skipped down the steps, you could see her long, raven hair blow in the breeze, so soft and light that it flowed like water. She wore a simple green school uniform that was common all over Japan, but she unconsciously made it look as beautiful and elegant as a ball gown.
Her name was Kagome, and though she was the most popular student in her school, she treated every one as if they were a personal friend, thought her friends hoarded her and kept her from those who could tarnish her popularity. Her family was very rich, seeing as her father was a great business man and was the owner of an overseas trade company.
She jumped into the luxurious car and settled herself into the back seat, setting her school bag beside her. She wore the sweetest of smiles, full of innocence. Though she was old enough to drive, her father was very protective of his cars, not to mention his daughter, and insisted that the family driver take her to school every morning and back.
"Miss Higurashi, you are looking happy today as usual, I don't know how you can be so lively on a Monday though." Said the driver
"I love every day equally, and I especially like going to school with my friends, the homework isn't that bad after all!" she said with the most beautiful smile that was possible on the known Earth.
"If only every person on this Earth was as pure hearted as you, there would be no war and the world would be perfect. But one can only wish." The driver said with a sigh. Kagome gave a confused look as they drove from the front steps.
Meanwhile on the other side of town...
"INUYASHA get your LAZY ASS out of bed NOW!!!!" screamed an angry and rough voice from a downstairs room in a fairly decent sized house on the corner of a once peaceful neighborhood. It was assured that everything was now awake on the planet called Earth, even those who were deaf felt the violent percussion of the voice. All things that is, except the one called Inuyasha. The teenager slept soundly through what could have been an earthquake for all he cared.
In another half an hour, the 17 year old roused from his death-like sleep for no apparent reason. He first opened one deep violet eye, and seeing that the room was dark, opened the other eye. He turned on his back in a slow motion, and thinking that it was still early in the morning, he turned to face his alarm clock. He started to close his eyes when something registered in his brain and he leaped out of his bed. It was already 7:30 and school started at 8:00, not to mention that he had a half an hour drive ahead of him.
"Crap!" yelled the overwhelmed teenager as he ran around his room trying to find some clothes that were not on the half of the spectrum labeled 'soiled beyond recognition', but had to settle for some in the middle of the spectrum. He grabbed them and ran down the stairs trying to put them on. With his shirt already on, though it was backwards it was good enough for him, he attempted to pull on his pants, which ended up being a very bad idea considering he was also trying to go down the stairs. He tripped himself on the next step and tumbled down the stairs landing square on his face. After a few seconds of recovering, he sat up and pulled the thick black hair from his eyes to look at the person approaching.
Above him stood an elegant man wearing white cloths, his eyes were a deep shade of gold and his hair was a shinny silver that made him look more god-like than human. A small smirk appeared on his face, "You do know that this would not be nearly as amusing if you didn't do this every day, now don't you dear brother."
"Shut up, Fluffy!" said Inuyasha in reply. Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes in pure disgust of the name and stuck his nose in the air as he walked away.
Inuyasha pulled his pants on fully and ran out the door. He jumped into his little run down Honda that must have been an artifact by now, and drove out of his neighborhood at Mach I.
Kagome's driver pulled up to the stop sign, and seeing as the street was clear, he turned onto the street only to almost be rear-ended by an extremely old Honda. The Honda swerved into the oncoming lane, but seemed to be unaffected considering he merely pulled in front of them and continued at great speed until he was out of sight.
"Crazy teenagers. That is why you don't drive out here alone."
Kagome settled into her seat in her science class, she really hoped that for some reason the teacher had become miraculously pregnant over the two day weekend and would give them a study hall because she could no longer come in to teach. But her hopes were diminished as soon as the teacher walked in looking as grumpy as usual. She walked to the front of the class and spoke in her crackled, shrill voice.
"Today we are going to start our final project. You will all be working in pairs." Everyone in the class started to mumble about whom they would be with and so on "BUT! I will be choosing your partners for you." Every one in the classroom started to voice their disapproval to the teacher but she left no room for it as she started to read names off.
"Kouga and Ayame...Shippou and Sakura...Kanna and Kagura...Sango and Miroku...Kagome and Inuyasha...Hojou and Yuri. I think that is all. Any questions? Good." The teacher left no room for complaint as she walked around the room and handed out the paper about the project.
Inuyasha sat at his little corner seat thinking that he would have liked to just do the project with Miroku, but unfortunately he ended up with some annoying popular girl who would inevitably do the entire project and take all the credit. His grade was already suffering from small incidents which the teacher always blamed him for, despite the fact that they were purely natural. For example, the teacher never told them what happened when one mixed an acid with a base, and for this mistake that was purely hers he had to replace all the windows that were shattered and pay for the costly clean up crew. He was so far into his thoughts that he did not notice a certain girl walk up to him.
As Kagome approached she herd the restless teenage boy mumble something about a waste of money and clearly herd him say, 'deadly chemicals my ass, it only burned through the wood.' Looking slightly nervous now, Kagome kneeled down in front of his desk to look at him at eye level. He seemed not to notice though.
"Um, excuse me, but we are working on this project together, if I'm not mistaken." Said Kagome
"Well as far as I know I am the only kid named Inuyasha in this whole school." Inuyasha said in a coy voice.
"Well I suppose that you are right." Kagome said, being rather offended by his tone.
"Keh" was his only response.
"Any way, since this project is due on Thursday, it looks like we are going to have to work on it after school. So maybe you could meet me at my house." She handed him a slip of paper with her address on it and directions to her house. She smiled, waved and walked out the door seeing as the class was over. Inuyasha sat there looking thoroughly lost. He had never met her personally, only her friends, whom as a total treated him like her was a foul blob of sewage that just happened to gain enough intelligence to walk and talk. Kagome was different than them in most ways, despite the fact that she was popular, and he was...well, not, she treated him with all the respect she had. Sango was the only other one that was not bad, though got annoyed easily and was a tad bit on the violent side. He didn't get why Miroku liked her so much. Maybe this project would not be so bad after all.
At lunch, Kagome sat across from her best friend Sango, talking about homework, evil teachers as they seemed to be, but mostly about the project that was assigned to them in science class.
"I can't believe that of all the partners I had to get I had to get Miroku." Sango said with displeasure. "He may seem all cute and innocent at first, but as soon as you let your guard down, his hand has mysteriously crept to rest on your ass. Not to mention that perverted little grin he gets some time when he looks at you. I bet that his mind rivals any porno film that could possibly exist. Anything close to that is illegal to put on film." She said in a huff.
"You know that he only gets that grin when he looks at you. He also only gropes you, I think that the more you beat him up, the more he will do it. He is just that kind of guy." Replied Kagome. Sango's cheeks turned a dark shade of red at the comment and turned away.
Inuyasha and Miroku walked out of the lunch line with whatever it was that they served them. It looked like hot dogs that were wrapped in taco shells with baked beans on top. Miroku looked helplessly at the taco hot dog and glanced at Inuyasha.
"Maybe we should consider the vegetarian option, not that it looked any more edible than this...um...thing that they call food." Said Miroku, probing the hot dog with his finger.
"I'm sure it isn't that bad if you just eat it without looking at it." Inuyasha stated, but was proven wrong when he saw some kid move to throw it away, but it escaped and started bouncing of the floor. Three feet...two feet...one foot...then it slid out of control, leaving a greasy trail on the floor before being stopped by some helpless kid as he tripped over it. Miroku and Inuyasha looked horrified and tipped the food into the garbage can. As they headed for a table, the paramedics carried the boy away on a gurney.
Miroku led them toward a table and pointed out the two girls sitting there.
"The one on the right is Sango and the one on the left is Kagome. I herd that you're doing your project with her. You are one lucky dog(A/N inside joke *giggle*), she is hot, but too bad because I have Sango, and she beats Kagome by a long shot. Not to mention she has a nice ass." Miroku said the last part with a sly grin on his face.
"Whatever." Replied Inuyasha, quite used to Miroku's behavior.
Miroku sat next to Sango, and Inuyasha, seeing no other place to sit, sat on the opposite side, right next to Kagome. She looked slightly surprised, but put on a shy smile. Inuyasha saw the reaction and said, "If you think that I'm that repulsive, then I'll just sit at another table." Kagome felt terrible as he started to get up, considering she did not mean it in that way.
"No, please don't go." She said as she grabbed the sleeve of his school uniform. As he settled down, without letting go of his sleeve, she pulled his closer to her and whispered very quietly in his ear, "I don't have anyone to talk to when Miroku comes over, Sango is much more interested in talking to him." She then pulled away, letting loose a little giggle. Inuyasha shivered a little from her being so close and blushed. Then he thought to himself, why am I blushing, it's not like I like her or anything, she's only a little bit cute. No way, I am not thinking about this. Must disconnect brain...must disconnect brain...
A scream from across the table pulled him out of his thoughts. "Hentai!!!!" yelled Sango, pulling an extremely large boomerang from 'secret weapon land.' Everyone looked confused except for Miroku whom was unconscious on the ground with a bump on his head the size of a watermelon. His hand slowly slid off of her butt. Miroku had clearly forgotten every girl had access to this world, and Sango had a year round pass.
Miroku recovered quickly, being used to Sango's beatings. He sat up and cleared his throat as if nothing had happened, though he kept his hands to himself this time. "Sango, would you like to go for coffee after school?"
"If you could work out that major character flaw of yours in three hours, I would be glad to." Sango said in a peeved voice, making it clear that the answer was no.
After school, Inuyasha was standing at his locker when Kagome came up to him and smiled. "I hope that you haven't forgotten that you are coming over! I'm going to go home in my car because my dad would never approve of someone other than my driver taking me home. He is so paranoid." She smiled again and ran out of the school building with her books in her small black school bag.
Her hair flowed perfectly behind her, just like it did that morning. He didn't care what Miroku thought, but to him she seemed almost goddess like and could rival any beauty put in front of her. Her school uniform was slightly shorter than most it seemed, but it didn't give her a trashy look like it would most people, but it showed that she was a free spirit.
He was soon pulled from his thoughts as he felt someone pull on his hair rather hard. He didn't even have to turn around to know who it was. It was Kouga, probably one of the most annoying human beings that existed on Earth, not to mention that he really had the hots for Kagome. Though she didn't know it, behind her back, Kouga had been rather possessive of her, calling her his woman and so on, despite the fact that he had not gone on one date with her. No one would challenge him for what he did because he was known to get into fights, and always won them. Inuyasha probably would have challenged him, but didn't want anyone to think he was doing it for Kagome. Before today, he had hardly talked to her, much less gone to her house, and would rather to stay out of the way of the whole girls and popularity business.
"Hey dog boy, you seen to be awfully familiar with my woman don't you? I would back off if I were you, if you don't want to be hurt." Said Kouga in a proud voice.
"Even if there were something to back away from, I don't think I would need to you wimpy wolf." Stated Inuyasha in an uninterested tone.
"Urusei!" said Kouga, launching himself at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha playfully ducked all of Kouga's attacks while lightly punching him as he passed by. Kouga attacked him once more but threw a fake punch, and as Inuyasha ducked the attack, he ran directly into Kouga's leg. He leered back in pain, clutching his stomach for a second before attacking him full force. He punched Kouga full in the face, causing him to stumble back. He came running at Inuyasha with great speed and pushed his face into one of the lockers. Inuyasha punched Kouga in the stomach and continued his attack and kicked him into the locker. The fight was over. Kouga crawled to his feet and stumbled down the hall, but not before turning around and yelling at Inuyasha, "Don't think that I've lost, because I haven't."
Inuyasha saw no power in the treat and walked away without responding. When he got in his car, he remembered that he did not have time to be wasting, he had to get over to Kagome's house or she might show a little bit of personality like Sango's.
Kagome sat on her couch, watching the door with a little concern. He does remember that I asked him here doesn't he? Did he get lost on the way because of my confusing directions? Her thoughts were interrupted as the door bell rang. She smiled and ran to the door. When she opened the door, she gasped out in fright. In front of her stood Inuyasha, battered and bruised. The most prominent of the injuries was a cut over his left eye, which was bleeding profusely.
"Oh my god, what happened? Were you mugged?!" said Kagome in a worried voice.
"Nothing, it's no big deal." Inuyasha said, trying to calm the frantic girl as she dragged him through the house. She walked into the kitchen and pushed him towards a chair, and ordering him without words to sit.
"Don't worry about it, it's not that big of a dea_" Inuyasha had no time to finish his sentence when she turned around with flames in her eyes.
"SIT." She said it with no expression, but it had the effect she needed. Inuyasha, looking purely scared, shut up and sat down on the chair so quickly he could have broken it. When she turned around again, she had her normal worried face on. She delicately washed away the blood that had dripped all over his face with a warm, damp cloth and was careful not to be hard on the wound itself. After she had cleaned him up a little, she pulled out the alcohol and dripped some on a clean rag.
"This is going to hurt a little." She said with concern. As she dabbed it on the cut, Inuyasha said nothing, but winced at the pain. She quickly removed the rag and dampened a new one. She pushed it to the wound and mopped up the small amount of blood that had leaked out. She placed a square of gauze on top of the cut and taped it down with some athletic tape. Inuyasha wondered why she even cared to dress it so well, no one, not even his mom had ever taken such time to care for him. She usually just gave him some pain-killers and a Band-Aid and left him to himself, though that was to be expected, because she was the owner of a large chain of pharmacies.
"Well, if you are feeling up to it, would you like to hit the books?" asked Kagome, though she still sounded nervous about his injury.
"Sure, I'm up to it, what is it about?" Kagome face faulted.
"You mean that you weren't listening the whole half an hour that she was talking about it?" Kagome said in an aggravated tone.
"She is like the most boring person alive! I can't listen to her talk for five minutes much less a half an hour! Don't give me that look." Inuyasha said, exhaustion.
Kagome looked at him in an odd way, but couldn't help but laugh at his utter lack of attentiveness. She broke out laughing so hard that she had to clutch her sides. Inuyasha in the meantime looked worried and continued to ask just what was so funny, which of course made her laugh only harder. He continued to follow her up the stairs to her room.
After she laughed herself out, Kagome spent the next hour telling exactly what the project was about, though she had to go into great depth about a lot of it because Inuyasha didn't understand it.
"It's a good thin that I didn't listen, because it sounds like I would have just gotten more confused than I already am." Stated Inuyasha.
It was now ten thirty at night and the two each had a long page of notes, though they were no were close to having enough for a paper. Kagome had already fallen asleep a long time ago and was leaning on Inuyasha's shoulder as a pillow. He probably would have blushed if he wasn't so tired. He decided that it would be better to go home than to fall asleep in her room, so he got up to leave, but forgot that Kagome was on his shoulder. She fell over on the ground and woke up instantly.
Kagome awoke when she hit the floor, and was startled by the fact that she had slept for the last hour while Inuyasha had continued to study. She saw him put on his jacket and head for the door. "Wait, are you sure you are all right going home in the dark? It could be dangerous." As she was talking, he rested his head on the door frame and closed his eyes. "Inuyasha? Are you okay?" She stood up and walked towards him. By the sound of his breathing she knew that he was asleep and tapped him on the shoulder. "You can stay in the guest bedroom tonight, it's too dangerous for you to be driving. School starts later tomorrow because of the teacher meetings." She led him down the hall and into a room. She left and shut the door behind her, heading towards her room to go to sleep as well.
The next morning Kagome walked into Inuyasha's room, already dressed and awake. She was not surprised by the fact that Inuyasha was not awake yet, he didn't seem to be a morning person. She saw that he was facing the other direction as she approached, so she went around to the other side and lightly tapped him. Little did she suspect that he would grab her around the waist and pull her directly on top of her. Kagome blanched as Inuyasha squeezed her to his body. She was quite afraid that if he wanted to, he could take her right there. She looked down into his peaceful face and found that he was sound asleep. Her mind eased a little, but she blushed anyway. She tapped him a little harder this time and blushed a light pink as she saw him open his eyes.
Inuyasha was having a nice dream and was warm from his little position, but to his dismay, he was tapped to consciousness by an unknown person. He opened his violet eyes to meet light blue-gray ones. He was slightly surprised and paused for a minute. It finally registered that it was Kagome and not his dream, his face turned a deep red. He quickly rolled over and looked at her lying on the bed where he was just laid.
"S-sorry, I didn't know that you were there..." He blushed brightly again.
"It seemed like you did." Kagome stated, but after realizing what she had said, she blushed even more than Inuyasha. "Ahem...I thought that my dad might have some books on the Hydrogen bomb that might be useful. Do you want to go with me? He should be in his room still." Said Kagome, recovering a little from their last encounter.
"sure." Said Inuyasha, trying to bring his heart beat down.
They walked down the winding corridors that were even enough to confuse an engineer. Finally they reached a door at the end of what seemed like all the halls met. It was like one of those things that was so easy to find but so easy to get away from, like the entrance of the maze is so easy to find but you can't get to the end, and the end is the farthest from the beginning, it seems like there is no way to get out, no way to escape.
Kagome quietly opened the door so that she would not wake him if he had not done so himself. What she saw would change her and Inuyasha's lives forever. Lying in the bed was a sleeping woman with platinum blond hair that looked silvery the way that it was spread all over the pillow. The sheets were folded just below her belly button, exposing her full breast, which lay uncovered. In the corner stood a man looking in the mirror while tightening his tie. He was dressed well and richly in a suit, probably going off to work. He was Kagome's father.
Kagome stood with her mouth open, attempting in vain to speak, hoping to disprove what she knew was true. The next thing that she heard sent her over the edge, "Mom?" the voice was quiet and scared, but Kagome heard it. She took off running down the hall crying silently. Inuyasha felt her take of, and after a little bit he turned to follow her. He ran as fast as he could until she was in his sight, but held behind, not having the heart to make her stop, because she was doing just what he wanted to do. She was escaping. Escaping from the hurt, the pain, hoping that if she ran long enough that it would just go away.
The next thing he knew they were in a garage and Kagome had jumped into her fathers private car. She put her hand on the key, only looking more in pain. She looked like she was going to turn it, when she dropped the hand onto her lap and rested the head on the other hand, which was still on the wheel of the car. Inuyasha entered the car on the passenger side and shut the door. It seemed like Kagome had not noticed him, and he sat quietly, not saying a word, though it was not like he had anything to say.
"Why did he do it? It's not fair." She was whimpering, but she did not move her head once as she spoke. Inuyasha didn't say anything. He could not answer that question for her. "Why? Why did this have to happen?" again he remained silent. "Why can't I do it?" she asked
"Do what?" Inuyasha inquired.
"Why can't I just go, what is keeping me here?" Kagome sobbed.
"Maybe you just need some help." Replied Inuyasha. He picked her hand up out of her lap, holding it gently. Kagome looked up, confused by his action. He looked her reassuringly in the eyes, then he moved her hand to the key. She smiled sadly, then turned the key with his support. The car started to run and she pulled out of the driveway as fast as she could, the farther she was from here, the better.
"B-but where are we going to go, we don't have any money!" complained Kagome.
"I really don't care I just don't want to be here." Said Inuyasha, never taking his eyes off the road.
(end of chapter 1)
Artemis: Well, what did you think?
Inuyasha: that was really, incredibly bad. Not to mention that Kouga got a few hits on me, that is so unrealistic.
Kagome: *sniff* that was really sad. I can't believe you wrote that. *sob*
Artemis: I swear that it will get better! And I'm sorry to you guys who wanted more romance, it will get better in later chapters, I promise.
Inuyasha: The only thing that could make this story better are giving me a sword, brining in the demons, and NOT MAKIG ME A WEAK HUMAN!!!!
Kagome: *sniff* osuwari *sniff* (boom) this is a drama you baka.
(A/N) O.k., the fact is that it is really late at night and I just had this amazing inspiration for no real reason. I'm sitting in my room reading fanfics when it just hits me that I really want to start this fanfic, because if I don't then it will never be written. This is only my second fic but I'm sure that it will not be my last. This is going to be an AU fic about Inuyasha and Kagome, though my last fic was about Sango and Miroku. That one was a one shot but this one is definitely going to be a multi chapter fic, though it is really hard for me to extend a story because there is this mechanism in my brain says do it all in one night. Must be all that procrastination on school projects.
I'm sure that most do not care about my personal life, so if that is the fact than skip this paragraph and just read the story. Anyway, just this year I switched to a new school, which just happens to be a private school, and everyone there have known each other for most of their lives and so my two friends, yes, I mean two, it is most certainly not a typo, are also both new to the school. The only problem with that is that they went to the same school last year. And it just accurrs to me that I just formed a little paradox of my own there. Is it possible that I am doomed to live with this all my life? Is it a curse? Anyway, my love life is still lacking and I don't expect it to improve any time soon. That cute boy at my fencing place will never think of me the way that I think about him. Sigh...
Even when everything is turning out wrong,
Something might come out right
chapter 1: only gets worse
In a that was not too small, but not too big either, two people who were fated to be together wandered through their simple lives without a care in the world, not knowing that soon, something would change their lives forever. It could bring them closer together, or pull them apart far enough so that they would never see each other again. This decision completely relied on them...
A young girl of about the age of 17 bounced out the door of a tall and elegant house and ran down the steps toward a Limo waiting at the bottom of the steps. As she skipped down the steps, you could see her long, raven hair blow in the breeze, so soft and light that it flowed like water. She wore a simple green school uniform that was common all over Japan, but she unconsciously made it look as beautiful and elegant as a ball gown.
Her name was Kagome, and though she was the most popular student in her school, she treated every one as if they were a personal friend, thought her friends hoarded her and kept her from those who could tarnish her popularity. Her family was very rich, seeing as her father was a great business man and was the owner of an overseas trade company.
She jumped into the luxurious car and settled herself into the back seat, setting her school bag beside her. She wore the sweetest of smiles, full of innocence. Though she was old enough to drive, her father was very protective of his cars, not to mention his daughter, and insisted that the family driver take her to school every morning and back.
"Miss Higurashi, you are looking happy today as usual, I don't know how you can be so lively on a Monday though." Said the driver
"I love every day equally, and I especially like going to school with my friends, the homework isn't that bad after all!" she said with the most beautiful smile that was possible on the known Earth.
"If only every person on this Earth was as pure hearted as you, there would be no war and the world would be perfect. But one can only wish." The driver said with a sigh. Kagome gave a confused look as they drove from the front steps.
Meanwhile on the other side of town...
"INUYASHA get your LAZY ASS out of bed NOW!!!!" screamed an angry and rough voice from a downstairs room in a fairly decent sized house on the corner of a once peaceful neighborhood. It was assured that everything was now awake on the planet called Earth, even those who were deaf felt the violent percussion of the voice. All things that is, except the one called Inuyasha. The teenager slept soundly through what could have been an earthquake for all he cared.
In another half an hour, the 17 year old roused from his death-like sleep for no apparent reason. He first opened one deep violet eye, and seeing that the room was dark, opened the other eye. He turned on his back in a slow motion, and thinking that it was still early in the morning, he turned to face his alarm clock. He started to close his eyes when something registered in his brain and he leaped out of his bed. It was already 7:30 and school started at 8:00, not to mention that he had a half an hour drive ahead of him.
"Crap!" yelled the overwhelmed teenager as he ran around his room trying to find some clothes that were not on the half of the spectrum labeled 'soiled beyond recognition', but had to settle for some in the middle of the spectrum. He grabbed them and ran down the stairs trying to put them on. With his shirt already on, though it was backwards it was good enough for him, he attempted to pull on his pants, which ended up being a very bad idea considering he was also trying to go down the stairs. He tripped himself on the next step and tumbled down the stairs landing square on his face. After a few seconds of recovering, he sat up and pulled the thick black hair from his eyes to look at the person approaching.
Above him stood an elegant man wearing white cloths, his eyes were a deep shade of gold and his hair was a shinny silver that made him look more god-like than human. A small smirk appeared on his face, "You do know that this would not be nearly as amusing if you didn't do this every day, now don't you dear brother."
"Shut up, Fluffy!" said Inuyasha in reply. Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes in pure disgust of the name and stuck his nose in the air as he walked away.
Inuyasha pulled his pants on fully and ran out the door. He jumped into his little run down Honda that must have been an artifact by now, and drove out of his neighborhood at Mach I.
Kagome's driver pulled up to the stop sign, and seeing as the street was clear, he turned onto the street only to almost be rear-ended by an extremely old Honda. The Honda swerved into the oncoming lane, but seemed to be unaffected considering he merely pulled in front of them and continued at great speed until he was out of sight.
"Crazy teenagers. That is why you don't drive out here alone."
Kagome settled into her seat in her science class, she really hoped that for some reason the teacher had become miraculously pregnant over the two day weekend and would give them a study hall because she could no longer come in to teach. But her hopes were diminished as soon as the teacher walked in looking as grumpy as usual. She walked to the front of the class and spoke in her crackled, shrill voice.
"Today we are going to start our final project. You will all be working in pairs." Everyone in the class started to mumble about whom they would be with and so on "BUT! I will be choosing your partners for you." Every one in the classroom started to voice their disapproval to the teacher but she left no room for it as she started to read names off.
"Kouga and Ayame...Shippou and Sakura...Kanna and Kagura...Sango and Miroku...Kagome and Inuyasha...Hojou and Yuri. I think that is all. Any questions? Good." The teacher left no room for complaint as she walked around the room and handed out the paper about the project.
Inuyasha sat at his little corner seat thinking that he would have liked to just do the project with Miroku, but unfortunately he ended up with some annoying popular girl who would inevitably do the entire project and take all the credit. His grade was already suffering from small incidents which the teacher always blamed him for, despite the fact that they were purely natural. For example, the teacher never told them what happened when one mixed an acid with a base, and for this mistake that was purely hers he had to replace all the windows that were shattered and pay for the costly clean up crew. He was so far into his thoughts that he did not notice a certain girl walk up to him.
As Kagome approached she herd the restless teenage boy mumble something about a waste of money and clearly herd him say, 'deadly chemicals my ass, it only burned through the wood.' Looking slightly nervous now, Kagome kneeled down in front of his desk to look at him at eye level. He seemed not to notice though.
"Um, excuse me, but we are working on this project together, if I'm not mistaken." Said Kagome
"Well as far as I know I am the only kid named Inuyasha in this whole school." Inuyasha said in a coy voice.
"Well I suppose that you are right." Kagome said, being rather offended by his tone.
"Keh" was his only response.
"Any way, since this project is due on Thursday, it looks like we are going to have to work on it after school. So maybe you could meet me at my house." She handed him a slip of paper with her address on it and directions to her house. She smiled, waved and walked out the door seeing as the class was over. Inuyasha sat there looking thoroughly lost. He had never met her personally, only her friends, whom as a total treated him like her was a foul blob of sewage that just happened to gain enough intelligence to walk and talk. Kagome was different than them in most ways, despite the fact that she was popular, and he was...well, not, she treated him with all the respect she had. Sango was the only other one that was not bad, though got annoyed easily and was a tad bit on the violent side. He didn't get why Miroku liked her so much. Maybe this project would not be so bad after all.
At lunch, Kagome sat across from her best friend Sango, talking about homework, evil teachers as they seemed to be, but mostly about the project that was assigned to them in science class.
"I can't believe that of all the partners I had to get I had to get Miroku." Sango said with displeasure. "He may seem all cute and innocent at first, but as soon as you let your guard down, his hand has mysteriously crept to rest on your ass. Not to mention that perverted little grin he gets some time when he looks at you. I bet that his mind rivals any porno film that could possibly exist. Anything close to that is illegal to put on film." She said in a huff.
"You know that he only gets that grin when he looks at you. He also only gropes you, I think that the more you beat him up, the more he will do it. He is just that kind of guy." Replied Kagome. Sango's cheeks turned a dark shade of red at the comment and turned away.
Inuyasha and Miroku walked out of the lunch line with whatever it was that they served them. It looked like hot dogs that were wrapped in taco shells with baked beans on top. Miroku looked helplessly at the taco hot dog and glanced at Inuyasha.
"Maybe we should consider the vegetarian option, not that it looked any more edible than this...um...thing that they call food." Said Miroku, probing the hot dog with his finger.
"I'm sure it isn't that bad if you just eat it without looking at it." Inuyasha stated, but was proven wrong when he saw some kid move to throw it away, but it escaped and started bouncing of the floor. Three feet...two feet...one foot...then it slid out of control, leaving a greasy trail on the floor before being stopped by some helpless kid as he tripped over it. Miroku and Inuyasha looked horrified and tipped the food into the garbage can. As they headed for a table, the paramedics carried the boy away on a gurney.
Miroku led them toward a table and pointed out the two girls sitting there.
"The one on the right is Sango and the one on the left is Kagome. I herd that you're doing your project with her. You are one lucky dog(A/N inside joke *giggle*), she is hot, but too bad because I have Sango, and she beats Kagome by a long shot. Not to mention she has a nice ass." Miroku said the last part with a sly grin on his face.
"Whatever." Replied Inuyasha, quite used to Miroku's behavior.
Miroku sat next to Sango, and Inuyasha, seeing no other place to sit, sat on the opposite side, right next to Kagome. She looked slightly surprised, but put on a shy smile. Inuyasha saw the reaction and said, "If you think that I'm that repulsive, then I'll just sit at another table." Kagome felt terrible as he started to get up, considering she did not mean it in that way.
"No, please don't go." She said as she grabbed the sleeve of his school uniform. As he settled down, without letting go of his sleeve, she pulled his closer to her and whispered very quietly in his ear, "I don't have anyone to talk to when Miroku comes over, Sango is much more interested in talking to him." She then pulled away, letting loose a little giggle. Inuyasha shivered a little from her being so close and blushed. Then he thought to himself, why am I blushing, it's not like I like her or anything, she's only a little bit cute. No way, I am not thinking about this. Must disconnect brain...must disconnect brain...
A scream from across the table pulled him out of his thoughts. "Hentai!!!!" yelled Sango, pulling an extremely large boomerang from 'secret weapon land.' Everyone looked confused except for Miroku whom was unconscious on the ground with a bump on his head the size of a watermelon. His hand slowly slid off of her butt. Miroku had clearly forgotten every girl had access to this world, and Sango had a year round pass.
Miroku recovered quickly, being used to Sango's beatings. He sat up and cleared his throat as if nothing had happened, though he kept his hands to himself this time. "Sango, would you like to go for coffee after school?"
"If you could work out that major character flaw of yours in three hours, I would be glad to." Sango said in a peeved voice, making it clear that the answer was no.
After school, Inuyasha was standing at his locker when Kagome came up to him and smiled. "I hope that you haven't forgotten that you are coming over! I'm going to go home in my car because my dad would never approve of someone other than my driver taking me home. He is so paranoid." She smiled again and ran out of the school building with her books in her small black school bag.
Her hair flowed perfectly behind her, just like it did that morning. He didn't care what Miroku thought, but to him she seemed almost goddess like and could rival any beauty put in front of her. Her school uniform was slightly shorter than most it seemed, but it didn't give her a trashy look like it would most people, but it showed that she was a free spirit.
He was soon pulled from his thoughts as he felt someone pull on his hair rather hard. He didn't even have to turn around to know who it was. It was Kouga, probably one of the most annoying human beings that existed on Earth, not to mention that he really had the hots for Kagome. Though she didn't know it, behind her back, Kouga had been rather possessive of her, calling her his woman and so on, despite the fact that he had not gone on one date with her. No one would challenge him for what he did because he was known to get into fights, and always won them. Inuyasha probably would have challenged him, but didn't want anyone to think he was doing it for Kagome. Before today, he had hardly talked to her, much less gone to her house, and would rather to stay out of the way of the whole girls and popularity business.
"Hey dog boy, you seen to be awfully familiar with my woman don't you? I would back off if I were you, if you don't want to be hurt." Said Kouga in a proud voice.
"Even if there were something to back away from, I don't think I would need to you wimpy wolf." Stated Inuyasha in an uninterested tone.
"Urusei!" said Kouga, launching himself at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha playfully ducked all of Kouga's attacks while lightly punching him as he passed by. Kouga attacked him once more but threw a fake punch, and as Inuyasha ducked the attack, he ran directly into Kouga's leg. He leered back in pain, clutching his stomach for a second before attacking him full force. He punched Kouga full in the face, causing him to stumble back. He came running at Inuyasha with great speed and pushed his face into one of the lockers. Inuyasha punched Kouga in the stomach and continued his attack and kicked him into the locker. The fight was over. Kouga crawled to his feet and stumbled down the hall, but not before turning around and yelling at Inuyasha, "Don't think that I've lost, because I haven't."
Inuyasha saw no power in the treat and walked away without responding. When he got in his car, he remembered that he did not have time to be wasting, he had to get over to Kagome's house or she might show a little bit of personality like Sango's.
Kagome sat on her couch, watching the door with a little concern. He does remember that I asked him here doesn't he? Did he get lost on the way because of my confusing directions? Her thoughts were interrupted as the door bell rang. She smiled and ran to the door. When she opened the door, she gasped out in fright. In front of her stood Inuyasha, battered and bruised. The most prominent of the injuries was a cut over his left eye, which was bleeding profusely.
"Oh my god, what happened? Were you mugged?!" said Kagome in a worried voice.
"Nothing, it's no big deal." Inuyasha said, trying to calm the frantic girl as she dragged him through the house. She walked into the kitchen and pushed him towards a chair, and ordering him without words to sit.
"Don't worry about it, it's not that big of a dea_" Inuyasha had no time to finish his sentence when she turned around with flames in her eyes.
"SIT." She said it with no expression, but it had the effect she needed. Inuyasha, looking purely scared, shut up and sat down on the chair so quickly he could have broken it. When she turned around again, she had her normal worried face on. She delicately washed away the blood that had dripped all over his face with a warm, damp cloth and was careful not to be hard on the wound itself. After she had cleaned him up a little, she pulled out the alcohol and dripped some on a clean rag.
"This is going to hurt a little." She said with concern. As she dabbed it on the cut, Inuyasha said nothing, but winced at the pain. She quickly removed the rag and dampened a new one. She pushed it to the wound and mopped up the small amount of blood that had leaked out. She placed a square of gauze on top of the cut and taped it down with some athletic tape. Inuyasha wondered why she even cared to dress it so well, no one, not even his mom had ever taken such time to care for him. She usually just gave him some pain-killers and a Band-Aid and left him to himself, though that was to be expected, because she was the owner of a large chain of pharmacies.
"Well, if you are feeling up to it, would you like to hit the books?" asked Kagome, though she still sounded nervous about his injury.
"Sure, I'm up to it, what is it about?" Kagome face faulted.
"You mean that you weren't listening the whole half an hour that she was talking about it?" Kagome said in an aggravated tone.
"She is like the most boring person alive! I can't listen to her talk for five minutes much less a half an hour! Don't give me that look." Inuyasha said, exhaustion.
Kagome looked at him in an odd way, but couldn't help but laugh at his utter lack of attentiveness. She broke out laughing so hard that she had to clutch her sides. Inuyasha in the meantime looked worried and continued to ask just what was so funny, which of course made her laugh only harder. He continued to follow her up the stairs to her room.
After she laughed herself out, Kagome spent the next hour telling exactly what the project was about, though she had to go into great depth about a lot of it because Inuyasha didn't understand it.
"It's a good thin that I didn't listen, because it sounds like I would have just gotten more confused than I already am." Stated Inuyasha.
It was now ten thirty at night and the two each had a long page of notes, though they were no were close to having enough for a paper. Kagome had already fallen asleep a long time ago and was leaning on Inuyasha's shoulder as a pillow. He probably would have blushed if he wasn't so tired. He decided that it would be better to go home than to fall asleep in her room, so he got up to leave, but forgot that Kagome was on his shoulder. She fell over on the ground and woke up instantly.
Kagome awoke when she hit the floor, and was startled by the fact that she had slept for the last hour while Inuyasha had continued to study. She saw him put on his jacket and head for the door. "Wait, are you sure you are all right going home in the dark? It could be dangerous." As she was talking, he rested his head on the door frame and closed his eyes. "Inuyasha? Are you okay?" She stood up and walked towards him. By the sound of his breathing she knew that he was asleep and tapped him on the shoulder. "You can stay in the guest bedroom tonight, it's too dangerous for you to be driving. School starts later tomorrow because of the teacher meetings." She led him down the hall and into a room. She left and shut the door behind her, heading towards her room to go to sleep as well.
The next morning Kagome walked into Inuyasha's room, already dressed and awake. She was not surprised by the fact that Inuyasha was not awake yet, he didn't seem to be a morning person. She saw that he was facing the other direction as she approached, so she went around to the other side and lightly tapped him. Little did she suspect that he would grab her around the waist and pull her directly on top of her. Kagome blanched as Inuyasha squeezed her to his body. She was quite afraid that if he wanted to, he could take her right there. She looked down into his peaceful face and found that he was sound asleep. Her mind eased a little, but she blushed anyway. She tapped him a little harder this time and blushed a light pink as she saw him open his eyes.
Inuyasha was having a nice dream and was warm from his little position, but to his dismay, he was tapped to consciousness by an unknown person. He opened his violet eyes to meet light blue-gray ones. He was slightly surprised and paused for a minute. It finally registered that it was Kagome and not his dream, his face turned a deep red. He quickly rolled over and looked at her lying on the bed where he was just laid.
"S-sorry, I didn't know that you were there..." He blushed brightly again.
"It seemed like you did." Kagome stated, but after realizing what she had said, she blushed even more than Inuyasha. "Ahem...I thought that my dad might have some books on the Hydrogen bomb that might be useful. Do you want to go with me? He should be in his room still." Said Kagome, recovering a little from their last encounter.
"sure." Said Inuyasha, trying to bring his heart beat down.
They walked down the winding corridors that were even enough to confuse an engineer. Finally they reached a door at the end of what seemed like all the halls met. It was like one of those things that was so easy to find but so easy to get away from, like the entrance of the maze is so easy to find but you can't get to the end, and the end is the farthest from the beginning, it seems like there is no way to get out, no way to escape.
Kagome quietly opened the door so that she would not wake him if he had not done so himself. What she saw would change her and Inuyasha's lives forever. Lying in the bed was a sleeping woman with platinum blond hair that looked silvery the way that it was spread all over the pillow. The sheets were folded just below her belly button, exposing her full breast, which lay uncovered. In the corner stood a man looking in the mirror while tightening his tie. He was dressed well and richly in a suit, probably going off to work. He was Kagome's father.
Kagome stood with her mouth open, attempting in vain to speak, hoping to disprove what she knew was true. The next thing that she heard sent her over the edge, "Mom?" the voice was quiet and scared, but Kagome heard it. She took off running down the hall crying silently. Inuyasha felt her take of, and after a little bit he turned to follow her. He ran as fast as he could until she was in his sight, but held behind, not having the heart to make her stop, because she was doing just what he wanted to do. She was escaping. Escaping from the hurt, the pain, hoping that if she ran long enough that it would just go away.
The next thing he knew they were in a garage and Kagome had jumped into her fathers private car. She put her hand on the key, only looking more in pain. She looked like she was going to turn it, when she dropped the hand onto her lap and rested the head on the other hand, which was still on the wheel of the car. Inuyasha entered the car on the passenger side and shut the door. It seemed like Kagome had not noticed him, and he sat quietly, not saying a word, though it was not like he had anything to say.
"Why did he do it? It's not fair." She was whimpering, but she did not move her head once as she spoke. Inuyasha didn't say anything. He could not answer that question for her. "Why? Why did this have to happen?" again he remained silent. "Why can't I do it?" she asked
"Do what?" Inuyasha inquired.
"Why can't I just go, what is keeping me here?" Kagome sobbed.
"Maybe you just need some help." Replied Inuyasha. He picked her hand up out of her lap, holding it gently. Kagome looked up, confused by his action. He looked her reassuringly in the eyes, then he moved her hand to the key. She smiled sadly, then turned the key with his support. The car started to run and she pulled out of the driveway as fast as she could, the farther she was from here, the better.
"B-but where are we going to go, we don't have any money!" complained Kagome.
"I really don't care I just don't want to be here." Said Inuyasha, never taking his eyes off the road.
(end of chapter 1)
Artemis: Well, what did you think?
Inuyasha: that was really, incredibly bad. Not to mention that Kouga got a few hits on me, that is so unrealistic.
Kagome: *sniff* that was really sad. I can't believe you wrote that. *sob*
Artemis: I swear that it will get better! And I'm sorry to you guys who wanted more romance, it will get better in later chapters, I promise.
Inuyasha: The only thing that could make this story better are giving me a sword, brining in the demons, and NOT MAKIG ME A WEAK HUMAN!!!!
Kagome: *sniff* osuwari *sniff* (boom) this is a drama you baka.