Inuyasha © Rumiko Takahashi
Loveless © Kouga Yun
Prologue: Wish
Kagome rested her elbow on the windowsill as her chin rested on her palm, eyes trained close to where the sun was, watching the clouds change colors and darken as dusk was settling in to unfurl into twilight, the stars already starting to peek out from the dark navy blue of the sky, the color become the black emptiness of space. She raised her other hand to rest on the windowpane, the chilling night seeping through the transparent material.
She relished the subtle chill that weaved into her warm-blooded arm, alerting her senses delightfully. Her cerulean blue eyes light up with it, fall was approaching and the seventeen-year-old miko couldn't wait for winter.
Glancing briefly over to her desk that held her computer, Kagome felt impatiens bubble in her chest around her heart, fending off any negative emotion that try to get in it. The active cell phone by the monitor was still, no one had called her since that morning. They had told her that they would call later that day before she went to bed, and yet, here she was, with no one calling. Breathing through her nose, Kagome got up and put her phone on its charger, undressing to go to bed.
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Bleary, sleep-heavy eyes opened as an insistent buzzing sounded next to her ear. Groaning and turning onto her side, she saw her cell phone ringing, the glowing face glaring at her with the number that he had been waiting for to call since she was told that they would call later. Yawning and stretching her arms above her head the best she could being so close to the wall and all, her eyes closed without her consent despite her desire to answer her cell phone.
Reaching an arm to the cellular device, her hand and sleeping nerves refused to cooperate with her brain and instead of grabbing her phone, she knocked it off of her nightstand next to her bed and onto the floor. Attempting to blink the sleep out of her eyes, she caught a glimpse of her alarm clock with glow-in-the-dark hands that read two thirty-five in the morning.
Groaning and turning away from the clock so that her back was to it, she faintly heard her cell phone stop buzzing momentarily before it buzzed once to signal a new voice mail. Her eyes grew too heavy for them to remain half-lidded and they closed, bringing her back into dreamland almost instantly.
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Resisting the urge to slam her head into the nearest vertical surface to her person, Kagome settled with letting it thump onto the table in the dining room as her mother hummed a light tune as she cooked breakfast in the kitchen. Kagome moved her head upwards so her chin rested on the wood surface, a red mark on her forehead as she glared at the open cell phone that repeated the automated voice for the voice mail options. Souta looked at his sister with worry and concern in his eyes, curiosity swimming in the blue depths of his eyes as well.
"Kagome? Do you really want to date this guy? I mean, what about your crush on Inuyasha? Does that mean nothing to you or was it just a temporary thing?" Souta knew that his sister wasn't that heartless as to only go after Inuyasha for his rugged looks, but what did he really mean to Kagome? The younger child watched as Kagome's shoulders slumped and she leaned back in her chair.
"I don't know Souta. I'm attracted to him if that's what your asking, but I think its only because his 'bad-boy' attitude reminds me of Inuyasha and that makes me feel guilty, keeping me from dating. I can read him like an open book from being around Inuyasha for two years." She sighed, looking her brother in the eyes, "Inuyasha was my first love Souta, but it was only puppy love and he soon became a more of an older brother to me when I came to terms that he could never really love me like that because I reminded him too much of Kikyou, so I guess that, yes, it was a…temporary thing, but it wasn't meaningless."
"So… are you going to date this guy or not?" Souta asked after a few awkward moments that were filled with their mother's humming.
Kagome closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose with her fingers, "I guess I do, but I don't want to only because he reminds me of Inuyasha, that's the thing." She let the hand that rubbed the bridge of her nose rest on the table, gaze having shifted to her open cell phone. A dew seconds passed and she closed the mobile device.
"I think you should give him the benefit of the doubt Kagome. He may seem like Inuyasha now, but he could be drastically different." The matriarch of the household said as she came out with plates in one hand with the prepared breakfast in the other. She set the items on the table before her two children, hazel eyes smiling at her confused daughter, "especially with how you talk of him."
Kagome gave a small smile back, "I guess I could."
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The seventeen-year-old miko drew her legs up to her chest, eyes unseeing as she gazed at the floor in her room, her self was on its charger and buzzing almost nonstop. She closed her eyes as she tried to done out the sounds of her phone buzzing. For once in her life, all she wanted a stable relationships where both her and whoever she went out with to be honest with each other minus her exposing going to the Sengoku Jidai and all, but still.
She didn't want to just be some conquest and quick lay just because she was attractive to some extent!
Bringing her hands to cover her ears, she felt tears leave her closed eyes as she felt someone sit down on her bed next to her and draw her to their chest. Kagome fisted her hands in their—her mother's—shirt by their shoulders as anger and shock made themselves predominately noticeable in her chest. A hollow hole started to make itself known under all the raging emotions in her body.
"I'm sorry Kagome. I shouldn't have made that suggestion a few months ago." Her mother said by her ear and her mother rubbed her back, resting her cheek on her the crown of her daughter's head. The completed Skikon no Tama glowed faintly as Kagome sniffled, opened her blue eyes a bit to look at her now silent cell phone, "No, it's not your fault. I'm at fault too, I should have trusted my gut instinct about him. I'd take Naraku over him, at least the only thing I'd have to worry about is being killed before he'd ever sleep with me just because he could."
Kagome's mother smiles at her daughter's attempts to make her feel better and reassurance. She closed her eyes and hugged her daughter tightly momentarily before pulling back. She watched as Kagome wiped away her tears and try to give a smile to her, but sort of failing. The matriarch of the family looked at her daughter with understanding, "Why don't you turn your cell phone off and get some rest Kagome? I'll have Souta come get you when dinner's ready. Okay?"
Kagome nodded, "Okay."
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Dinner was uneventful and Kagome quickly found herself in her room, laying on her back in her pajamas, hands resting beside her head on her pillow, blankly staring at the white ceiling of her room. Her cell phone was turned off and ordinary life for her after Naraku was destroyed and the jewel complete was completely and utterly boring. When she had bumped into the guy, the first thing she thought when she saw his face was that he was just like Inuyasha in expressions.
It wasn't only that, but the whole 'bad-boy' thing sort of drew her in, she couldn't help it, but he was attractive, at least in her eyes he was. And he seemed the stereotypical bad boy the more she got to know him those few months, however, after hearing him brag to his friends about planning to bed her and dump her because he wanted to date some other girl he found attractive set her right off and anger and resentment clouded her mind as she left, ignoring their date that day.
So here she was, though Kagome couldn't help but wonder why she wasn't grieving more, but she'd been through this sort of similar situation before with Inuyasha, though he never actually wanted to bed her or dump her because he already had someone, and if he didn't, he would have been loyal to a fault. No ands, ifs, buts, ors nor questions asked. Inuyasha wasn't dishonorable.
Kagome turned to her side, both hands resting by her head in front of her face, her eyes closed as she couldn't help but regret taking that guy up on being his girlfriend. The hollow hole in her chest where her heart was grew a bit more since when it first formed. Why was it her that got all the bad relationships, like similar women in her position across the globe constantly asked themselves? Did she have a large sign over her head that practically screamed to all the people who wished to make her life and romantic relationships hell?
Sighing, Kagome grasped the jewel around her neck unconsciously, 'I just wish that there was a way to tell people apart, virgins and non virgins. Like with a trait or something, like cat ears or dog ears, anything to tell the difference! And I wish that there was more excitement in the world, like more magic or something along those lines. I don't care.'
The jewel in her grasp glowed momentarily, getting Kagome out of her mental talk with herself as she felt a chilling and sinking feeling fill her stomach. Her blue eyes widened as she let go of the jewel when the glow dulled and it lost its inner luster that represented the jewel's power. Placing her hand over her racing, nervous heart, Kagome took several deep breaths to calm herself to no avail. She just made a wish on the jewel when she promised to her remaining friends that she wouldn't all because they came to the agreement that there was no such thing as a pure wish.
Mentally yelling at herself, and wanting nothing than to rip out her own hair in frustration, she laid down and tried to sleep, hoping that what just happened was just a hallucination of some sort and that when she woke up that it would be all right and that no wish was made on the jewel and it still had its power and inner sparkle that she grew oddly fond of for some reason or the other. Biting her bottom lip when she reopened her eyes, Kagome yawned as her frustration only made her more tired and she fell asleep not much later.
She prayed to Kami-sama that it was only a bad dream.
Yeah, I know, no Loveless characters yet, but there will be soon. I got bored and no, the guy that is compared to Inuyasha is merely a one-time only OC that won't be returning. I'm just toying around with this idea of a Loveless and Inuyasha crossover. Though, was Ritsuka ten or twelve when Seimei died?