This is my very first story. Please go easy on me. Please Review! ; P
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Chapter 1
**Inu Pov**
I am thirteen and I am hopelessly in love with a girl with jet-black hair and brown eyes. Her smile makes my heart beating faster and makes me feel warmer inside. Every touch of hers gets me tingling inside with joy. Her scent of vanilla gets my mind overwhelmed and dizzy. Her hugs warms me up and makes me want to never let go. Whenever I am with her, that is when I am the happiest. I have the tendency to get jealous every time a boy is by her. If I ever see a boy come near her or touch her, I always have the urge to beat the crap out of him. She makes me do and say crazy things, and that's why I will always love her. She was the girl who took my pain away and replaced it with joy.
Her name is Kagome.
When I was younger, I was always picked on because I was different from everybody else. My demon father and my human mother got married and had a child. Me. Unfortunately, I couldn't be a full-blooded demon like my brother, Sesshomaru. I was and still am, a half-demon. Half human and half demon. And that will never change.
All the boys would pick on me whenever they came near me or claimed I annoyed them somehow. Plus, unlike most boys, girls would never talk to me. When they did talk to me, they would always stand in front of me and look at me in the face and say, "Half-demon," every time. The boys would just shove me or hit me whenever I got in their way. I would always feel bad about myself and kept wondering, Is there something I have done? What did I do? And why do they call me a half-demon all the time? Every time I asked my mom, she would just look at me with sad eyes and say, "Nothing is wrong with you. You are perfect the way you are." She would try to look at me with a happy face on by putting on a smile, but in the end she just burst into tears. She hugged me against her and cried out,"I'm sorry." She has always comforted me when I felt sad or lonely. I knew that she thought it was her fault that I got treated this way. She always blamed herself because she knew how the kids treated me. I knew from that day my life would be full of pain. However, all that changed when I met her. That first encounter when we shook hands, changed my life forever.
One day, I saw boys playing soccer together. They were laughing and having fun and all I thought was, I want to play with them too. I never got to play with anyone, since they just ignored me when I came near them. But I just wanted to play with them, only if I could play with them one time. I kept following the ball move as it moved across the pavement. Just hoping if they could ask me to join. Somehow, I knew that would never happen. One of those boys didn't trap the ball, and the black and white ball came rolling towards me and stopped when it hit my foot.
They looked at me with annoyed eyes and all they said was, "Give it here half-demon!"
I really wanted to play with them and didn't think about the consequences. I thought maybe for once they would give me chance. If I played with them, then they would see how nice I was and fun to be around. Maybe my mom will actually be right about my life turning around. Boy was I wrong.
I asked, "Can I play with you too? It looks like a lot of fun. I haven't played soccer before, but I can try if you just teach me. I am a really fast learner. I think I can get the passing down first." I smiled eagerly to learn. I thought they would smile back and welcome me, but instead they just grinned weirdly at me, which made me uncomfortable. Then all of them started to laugh, as if what I said was a joke. They couldn't believe that I would have even thought of asking them if I could join. I felt an ache in my stomach and a little bit of embarrassment and anger.
One of the boys that had a red shirt and black shorts on came up to me and just stared at me, then said, "I think I have a better idea." He looked at all of the boys surrounding him and gave them a look. They looked around and nodded at each other, then started to exchange the look which meant that they were all thinking the same thing and the boy's message was received.
They came towards me by all walking very slowly that built up the suspense and tension. All I did was think in my mind, I need help.All of their arms began to go slightly upward, ready to give me a beating.
I closed my eyes waiting for the impact to come. I waiting for about three seconds for them to hurt me, but instead I hear a girl's voice. I slowly opened my eyes and waiting for my eyes to adjust. The image went from blurry to clear. In front of me, there was a girl standing behind the crowd of boys with her mouth open and fists on her sides. She had her head held up high and chest out, trying to look brave. She looked funny. I started to smile a little from the site.
She opened her mouth and shouted, "Stay away from him!"
They all smirked and the boy with the red shirt said, "You can't tell us what to do. We don't listen to anyone and do what we want. And what can a ugly little girl like you do to us?" The rest of the boys laughed from what the boy just said.
She started to get red in the face and she was flushed with anger. "Ugly! Little! You are going to pay for that!"
"Oh no, I am so scared!" One of the boys said imitating a little girl's voice.
She came towards them and went for a punch in the boy who just insulted her, but missed. He grabbed her by the right arm and threw her down to the ground. I saw her body shake a little from what just happened. She started to tremble under the boy's grip.
The boy had an evil grin that matched the rest of the boys' faces. They were all thinking the same thing. They were going to hurt her. I couldn't let that happen.
"Let's make sure that you understand." The little girl who lying on the ground still had brave look on her face. Although, I could see she was just masking her fear by putting on that brave face with her head up high because I could see that fear sparked in those brown eyes of hers.
I could see they were getting ready to kick her because they had their legs and shoes drawn back. I knew I couldn't just stand here and watch a little girl get beaten up. Something inside me took over. I could feel it. A rush of emotions came flooding through my body. I was just so mad, no furious. My body was moving on its own and I didn't know how to control it.
It was my human mind that reacted, but my demon body that made my body actually move.
I ran there as fast as I could and took two of the boys hands and threw them over me making sure they landed hard. They flew over my head and into the pond nearby and I heard a big splash. Although they didn't get hurt as badly as I wanted them to be, it got them scared enough that they stumbled out of the pond and ran the other way.
I turned around and I could feel my demon side ready to take the other boys down. But the little girl already kicked them hard enough, that they ran the same direction the other boys did. I looked at her and studied her to make sure she was alright. She looked dirty. She dusted off her pants and shirt from dirt and walked right over where I was standing.
I thought she was going to yell at me and then walk away, like all the other girls did. Instead, she said, "Hi, I'm Kagome. What is your name?" At first, I was stunned. No girl has ever talked to me and if they did it was always like, "Freak," "Half-demon," or "Stupid dog," or let alone stand up for me and fight against boys.
"I-I'm In-Inuyasha," I stuttered.
She smiled that made my heart beat faster and made me feel warm inside. "Hi Inuyasha. I hope in the future we are going to become great friends." She took my hand and shook it. I felt this tingly sensation cover my body. What is this feeling?
Kagome changed my world from then on and from that moment I knew that she was the one I was going to marry.
Ever since she saved me from those boys, or really thugs, when I was younger, I always fell for that sweet smile of hers that made me tingle inside, and made me think of her all day long.
I still think that I need to owe her somehow for saving and staying with me ever since. However, I could only repay her by being near her. I know that wasn't enough, but everything she did made my debt to only bigger and bigger.
I still wonder why she stays by my side, but whenever I ask she always says, "You are the most important person in the world, and you are my best friend." That always made me feel warm inside, but also made me a little sad in the gut.
Best Friend.
I knew she never thought of me as more of a friend. But I always figured that being her best friend is more than what I could ever want. Being her best friend made me stay by her side and comfort her whenever she got lonely.
One day in the backyard, we were playing tag and running around like little kids. It was my turn to tag her. She started running towards the tree with a smile on her face. I grinned back and then she started running faster and faster. Being a half-demon like I am, I knew that she would never get away from me. I ran even faster than her, then caught up to her and grabed her by the waist. We both stumbled to the ground and onto the grass. We were lying on our backs looking up at the clear,blue sky and I could hear her giggling beside me. I looked at her as she stood up. She opened her mouth and said with her smiling face, "Promise me you will stay with me forever and we will always be friends."
I was the happiest half-demon in the world and said, "I promise."
Those two words would be the death of me because one day when Kagome went home with her family and I went back into my house, my mom looked at me with wavering eyes. She smiled at me, but I got scared when I saw water collect at the bottom of her eye. Her face was shaped upward with a smile, but her eyes said, "I'm sorry."
I looked away from her sad eyes and said, "What's up, mom?"
"I know you are very happy here and you love it here. But..." She started to turn her face to look away from me.
I felt in my heart I knew exactly what she was going to say, but I didn't want to believe it. She can't be really thinking what I think she is thinking. I said, "What is it mom? Tell me." I wanted those few words to sound calm, but instead they turned out shaky. I wanted her answer to prove I was wrong. I wanted her to say something else.
Instead she didn't.
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We were going to have to move. Those words were like dirt in my mouth. I still couldn't believe it when my mom said it out of her own mouth. I didn't want to accept the truth. It was just too real for me. I felt like it was a dream, but it wasn't. This was reality and this was my life that was turning into hell.
I didn't want to tell Kagome. I didn't want her to leave me, or I leave her. I loved her so much, and it hurt me, but in a good way. But this love now made me hurt and ache inside me. I would miss her warm smile that made me feel warm inside. Her scent of vanilla that I could smell every time she was near me. I would miss her black, shiny hair that fell perfectly onto her shoulders. I would miss everything about her.
I was sitting on my couch where I was lying for the past couple of days. My brother, Sesshomaru, kept saying, "Get your lazy ass off the couch and start packing. We are going to move whether you like it or not."
I hated my brother. I ignored his pestering and kept looking out the window moping like in those sappy movies girls watch. I couldn't understand why people acted that way in movies, but now I knew why.
My eyes twitched at the sound of footsteps coming near. My nose sniffed the air for the person's scent and all I could take in was the sweet smell of vanilla.
I quickly ran to the door and opened it. Kagome was standing there with her hands on her hips. I knew she was angry because I didn't call her or text her. For the past several days, all I did was mope and stare at our glass window.
"Would you like to tell me what is going on?" She threw her arms up in the air with frustration. She was mad and she should be.
I looked back in the house and closed the wooden door from behind. I gently pushed her down the stone steps. When we made it to the ground, I faced her and I could see her eyebrows pushed together.
I looked at her and didn't know how to start. I guess she could tell I was uneasy because she said, "Inuyasha, what's wrong?"
"Kagome, I am moving out of the country. I am going to go to America because my dad's job is going to be there. I was going to tell you earlier, but I didn't know how to tell you."
I saw her mouth twitch a little. Her face looked confused at first. She didn't believe me at first. And why would she? I used to hang out with her everyday and then the next couple of days I don't call her. Then out of the blue I say that I am moving. She had an expression on her face that told me she still didn't believe me. A couple seconds later, a bunch of movers parked in the front of my house in a truck. One of them headed towards my house and opened the door. He then came quickly back with a brown, plain box in his hands and threw it in the truck. He started to head towards the house again to probably remove all the those moving boxes out of the house and into the truck.
As I turned to look at Kagome's face again, her eyes were still watching the movers. Her eyes flicked back to me, and she a shocked look on her face.
"You're moving?" she asked.
"Yeah." I said, trying to keep calm as I possibly can.
"When?" She said with tiny crack in her voice
I shifted a little afraid of what she might do when I tell her. "Tomorrow."
Then she just slapped me in the face, and her face was flushed with anger. "Why didn't you tell me sooner? We could have been hanging out the past couple of days, but noooo you decided that you wanted to mope instead and then tell me the day before you leaving!"
I put my hand up to my cheek to rub the sting away. Damn, she slaps hard. That slap made my gut fill with aching pain. I knew she would be upset. "Look, I'm sorry. Okay? I didn't know how to tell you. You don't think that I'm not shocked, frustrated, or angry. Well to tell you the truth I am! Ever since my mom told me the other day, I just wanted to go out and run away! I wanted to tell you! I really did! But I couldn't." I'm such a coward.
I let a huge sigh out letting all those words hang in the air.
She looked kind of hurt, and I wanted to punch myself for just screaming in her face like that.
"I'm sorry. I was just a little shocked that you were moving. I don't want you to leave. You are my best friend, Inuyasha." Tears started to well up in her eyes, and they came streaming down her streaks.
I hated it when I girl cried. But I only cared if the girl crying was Kagome.
"Don't cry. We will get this through together. Okay?" I looked at her face, and her tears dried up. She said, "Alright."
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I woke up in bed the next morning with the sunlight streaming down from my window. I pulled my covers off of me and I stared out the window. The sun was bright and warm. There were no clouds in the sky. My ears twitched every time I heard the birds chirping. The trees and plants were perfectly still. Everything was perfect...outside. It was peaceful and quiet, until I heard a car pull in front of the house.
Instead of being a perfectly good day, it was like a nightmare. My life would be hell from now on.
I quickly got dressed and ran down the staircase making thuds that I'm sure the whole house could hear it. I opened the front door and I realized that today I was going to move and would never see Kagome again. I saw her car already in front. She was standing by the pond where we first met.
I saw her sweet smile when she looked at me. She came running towards me and stopped when she was right in front of me. It suddenly got quiet. I didn't know what to say. I was never good at saying goodbyes, but I knew she kenw that already because she was the one to break the silence, "I hope that you have a good time over there."
I shrugged, "Yeah, I probably won't." I frowned.
"Hey, don't make that face. Let's try not to make this a goodbye. It's not like we are saying goodbye forever. Remember, you said that you would visit me by next summer." She was still smiling that sweet smile of hers. Her smile made me know that everything would be alright. "I will definitely come and visit you next summer. I won't make this arrangement even worse than it already is."
"That's my Inuyasha."
"Whatever."
She faced me and leaned in towards me to give me a hug. When her arms wrapped around me, I was first shocked, but then automatically my arms wrapped around her torso. I smelled her scent of vanilla. And I felt her silky hair brush against my cheeks, when she hugged me. I never wanted this to end, but to my dismay I felt her arms leave my back and onto her sides.
My mom, dad, and brother were already in the car. They were ready to leave, and mom shouted, "Come on let's go."
I looked back at Kagome and said, "Goodbye." She looked at me with unwavering deep brown eyes and said back to me, "Goodbye." I saw the sadness in her face, and looked at her. I only thought of the favorite things that I would miss about her. The thought that came to me was, I love you.
Before I turned to leave, I touched my cheek to her cheek, and could tell she was blushing. I put my lips next to ear and said three little words that I thought I would never regret, "I love you. Always."
I turned away from her and didn't see her reaction. I climbed in the car and looked at her one more time. She looked a little shaken, but in a good way. Then she looked back at me with those warm, chocolate eyes and smiled. I grinned back at her as we drove off. I stared out the back window and saw her getting smaller and smaller, but her smile never left her face. I said to myself, I love her and I will always love her. Nothing will ever change.
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*A couple months later*
"Okay, Inuyasha breathe in." I inhaled air and kept holding it in. My face started to turn red. "You can breathe out Inuyasha." I quickly exhaled all the air I was holding in. I just wanted to make sure that everything was fine with me. I don't want to be in here more than I have to.
"I am going to take your blood pressure, okay?" I nodded answering his question. He wrapped a black band around my upper arm. As he was squeezing the ball, it was getting tighter, then he looked at his clock and the pressure released. "You're blood pressure is normal. You are really healthy. But still don't do anything strenuous. We want you're heart to be as healthy as can be."
"Can I go now?" I asked the doctor.
"You can go-" I didn't let him finish because I was already rushing towards the doors. Great, I'm out of this hell hole. Ever since I had that little heart attack, I had to go to the hospital at least once a week.
I opened the doors, and was glad that I was free, well at least for another week. Damn, it's freezing. Where did my coat go? I rushed back into the hospital and went back to the room I was just in. My ears started to twitch a little because I heard people talking.
"Do you think that he is going to make it?"
"I don't know. I have a feeling that he is not going to make it." That was Dr. Brown's voice. What was he talking about?
"How long do you think before he dies?" Dies?
"I think that he has until he turns 21." 21? Dies? I quietly rushed to the doors of the hospital. I looked up at the gray sky and saw the snowflakes falling onto the ground. I reached my hand out to catch a snowflake and it melted and disappeared in my hand. Just like me. I am going to disappear, when I turn 21. I am going to die. I felt my face getting colder, and took my hand and touched my face. I took it away from my hand and saw my hand was wet with my tears. I can't accept this. I am not going to die. He just said that I was healthy. How could I possible just die? From that day on, I realized in a couple of years, I was going to die. Fate is so unfair.