Disclaimer: I don't own Inu-Yasha. No matter what Larry may tell you O.O;
Creepy Echoing Voice: She does too own him! She keeps him locked in her
closet!
*hits her head* Shut up, Larry .; .. .; .. . Oh,
and as a substitute of Kagome and Inu-Yasha being the main characters, me
n' Tsubii are! Tsubii is B-Chan by the way. Don't worry though! They are
now deemed side characters such as Sango or Miroku! It aughta be pretty
damn good, too, knowing my messed up school! The booty patrol has made a
traumatic comeback this year and my ass is ratin' good! Welcome to my life.
Inu-Yasha style. *puts on sunglasses and walks the opposite direction as
White America starts playing*
Chapter 1: White America
Nodoko was so happy to be in school! Over the summer, bandcamp took up all her precious outside-of-band-buddy-hanging-out-with time. On top of that, this year it started on her birthday, spoiling all potential plans on her part.
Tsubii flung an arm in front of her without removing her eyes from the magazine she'd stolen, preventing Nodoko from walking strait into one of the biggest mass migrations that year. (Mass Migration: when all the people on one entire floor of the building gather into a gigantic mob, following one or a group of persons to a major fight. Sometimes you even have to request special permission to be there! These migrations are the most dangerous thing found in nature. You could be trampled to death!) The two eased in, meeting Sango and reveling in the excitement of old flames of hatred being rekindled.
Even the poor socially incompetent nerds knew who was at the front.. Inu- Yasha. He was the only one in the world who would tempt fate on the very first day of school, especially with the really ill teachers congregating nearby.
(I'm using real names.. I hope no one sues me! X_X But what will they take!? All I have right now is $1.08 in change and one of the pennies is purple! That penny is mine! I named him Phillip! He's my friend!!! Okay. I'm over it. .;) He was looking for Tim alongside Jesse and his slutty girlfriend. The two stuck together. just not like real friends. Real friends were rare among their type. It was a cold coalition filled with distrust and hatred.
A hand snaked between two people towards Nodoko, inching dangerously close to her ass. She stopped in her tracks as the hand started groping her. The crowd parted behind her, letting the culprit be seen in plain view. She turned and slapped Miroku across the face.
"Hmmm. On a scale from one to ten. The booty patrol division five gives your ass a ten!" he said, smiling up at her with his usual brightness. She turned around and hugged him, her wing-like sleeves wafting around him.
"Gomen nasai, Miroku! You just don't know who's rubbing your ass anymore." she said, letting him lift her onto his shoulders. Tsubii sighed heavily yet wistfully. She thought she would be single forever!
She had a strange and deluded stalker though. He would follow her barefooted to Hell if she'd go on a date with him. He really scared her though. "Wait up, you guys! What are you doing?! Trying to abandon me?!" she yelled after them as they ran after the congregation.
When the migration stopped, they were in front of Mrs. Sellers' room. Inu- Yasha stood to the side ready to step in if Jesse was in danger. Then came Mrs. McMinn. the biggest spoil-sport of them all.
"What do you kids think you're doing!? Get out of here! Shoo! Shoo!" she yelled, waving her arms like some kind of spazing idiot. People stared running like a stampede, screaming and kicking others out of their way. (This is the part where I said people could get killed!) Nodoko, Tsubii, and a bunch of hysterical girls hurled themselves through the bathroom door.
Miroku ran into the boys' bathroom along with a laughing Cody, the leader of the booty patrol. There were many advantages to belonging to such a patrol. Cody reserved the bathroom for a patrol outpost. You always had a place to hide when the need arose.
Inside the girls' room, girls were lighting smokes and doing their makeup as if nothing had happened. A slip of a girl who was all legs and black hair stood in the corner with three friends, talking on and on without end. This was Inu-Yasha's new girlfriend, Kagome Higurashi, a transfer student.
"You know, he's only going out with her because she looks like that Kikyo slut," Tsubii whispered to Nodoko, "That little bitch. I'm glad she got suspended when she shot Inu-Yasha! I don't even feel bad that she got shot!"
Sango, the sluttiest cheerleader in the whole school, flipped back her hair into a lesser girl's face as she drew vulgar signs with makeup on the mirror. Nodoko slid down the wall into a ball next to her and sighed exhaustedly. A smashed stick of lipstick fell from above and hit her in the head.
"Damn it, Sango! Do you have to do that every time you get bored?" Nodoko said in Sango's general direction.
"Hey! It's something to do! You should try it when you're stressed! It takes the anger or jealousy and makes it into a picture rather that a pent up emotion!" Sango said as she finished writing a random name under a picture of the worlds' smallest dick.
"And why would you be stressed. this time at least." Nodoko replied as she drew swirls all over the ground next to her.
"You and Miroku, of course! So stressful!!!! I wish so much it was me! I am the most jealous and stressful wreck ever to be born!!!" She replied, ripping out her hair and grinding some eyeliner into the wall.
Nodoko stood, a calm and bored look on her face and walked over to Tsubii. Sango could get a little wacko every now and then. If you were the object of her anger at the time, you would steer clear if you were wise.
She followed behind Tsubii quickly, eager to get away from Sango's axe murder's mood. "Why should she care if you're his fiancé, Nodoko? You've known him longer anyways!"
Nodoko looked down at the ring strung on Miroku's lucky blue prayer beads then to him. He was defiling a stone bench with a permanent marker. He smiled and waved to her as he put their initials together on the bench. Maybe Tsubii was right.
Inu-Yasha was going crazy with boredom. He had figured if he wasn't going to a party tonight, he'd go insane. It was homeroom and he was sitting with Kagome and her friends in the corner. Kagome seemed happy enough to everyone and she was! Believe me, she was! The only problem was that he was in many gang wars and got in trouble a lot. (By gang wars I mean small rumbles or non-organized disputes between some of the larger social groups)
Miroku wasn't paying any attention, as usual. He was too busy with the new purple skating gear on his left hand. He had knocked up some seventh grader for it and couldn't be happier if he ruled the entire world.
"Would you like to see it again?" he whispered to Nodoko low enough for only her to hear.
"Sure, sure. Wow! It's so cool! I don't know what some little seventh grader was doing with it!" she replied, undoing the velcro straps and putting them back again.
Kagome was sleeping quietly, holding onto Inu-Yasha's switch blade arm. He wasn't too happy about this, but he tolerated it. He was too deep in thought, staring off into space to visions only he could see.
'Boring shitty homeroom. This sucks some major ass.' He thought to himself as the teacher rambled on and on about being nice to the new people and such. Then, all of a sudden, he was dragged from thought by a girl running out the door screaming and crying.
This was Meighan. She was one of the biggest crybabies the school had seen. No one liked her because she was mean to everyone and obese. If you were friends with someone she didn't like, she'd yell at you for getting too close or make fun of your clothes to the public. She cried like this all the time. *sigh* Would she get over herself!
This time, no one even flinched or looked up. Tsubii continued filing her nails into perfection, Sango continued trying vainly to put on some lipstick she'd defiled by drawing with it, Nodoko continued playing with the velcro, and Miroku stared at her with a goofy smile as he twirled her hair around one finger. No one really cared anymore. It was too common an act.
Later that day, Nodoko was in the only class where she had acquaintances, not friends and one person she was single handedly passing through highschool. She was slowly nodding off, the history problems on her paper becoming blurry swirls. Her head fell to the desk, followed many others.
The teacher was always gone from the room, off eating popcorn or some such. Sleep was the best cure for this particular class. Then, almost simultaneously with her head hitting the desk, an upward rain of pencils stuck into the cheap particleboard ceiling. A few fell, hitting people out of their stupor.
Spencer, the one who was dependant on her to pass, tossed her a note with two red tickets poking out. This was kind of a monthly payment thing. He got football tickets for Miroku and Tsubii and she helped him pass through the ancient ways of cheating.
Nodoko and Sango got in free, her being a flute and Sango being a cheerleader. The note told where tonight's party was. It was located at the old house across from hers. The family who'd lived there had cleared out a month before and it was scheduled for demolition. It also said there would be a huge bon-fire.
She glanced around the room, looking to see if Kagome was there. It was never too late to get on her good side. Sure enough, there she was, sitting quietly and doing her work. Nodoko wrote a note, crafted the perfect paper airplane, and flew it to Kagome's desk. She opened it and read to herself.
Kagome,
I know we don't really know each other that well, but I want you to come to a very exclusive party. If you're seen there with me, you'll get real popular, real fast! In case you think I'm up to something, I'm not! I merely am looking to make an ally in this fucked up world! Meet me by my compact at the party! (It's blue by the way.)
Your Friend,
Nodoko Kikonoi
Kagome looked from the note to a smiling, waving, sleepy Nodoko. Maybe this was someone she could trust. She decided then and there that she would go. just to see what all the commotion was about.
That day pretty much went by like every other day at every school in the cosmos until that night when the party began. Nodoko stood with Miroku, leaning on the compact. Sango was sitting on the trunk vainly trying to seduce Miroku with her many sluttish actions, resisting the awful temptation of defacing some random cars.
There was a large pile of wood for the bon-fire and Miroku had rounded up a few jugs of gas. After a few moments of standing idoly, he started carrying jugs filled with gas over to the wood pile.
Kagome was a bit late, but she did show. "Nodoko! I made it! What's going on so far!?" she said perkily as she stood in front of Nodoko. Nodoko tilted down her pink sunglasses and looked at her with a cocked eyebrow. Tsubii rolled down the car window to stare. Sango just stared.
"Nani? Nani!?!?" she said, not too sure why they were all staring.
Nodoko flicked the shades back up her nose and said, "You're way too perky. You need to mellow out before we all choke to death on your good charma. Pretty soon we'll all start feeling like koala bears crapped rainbows in our brains."
Kagome leaned against the car casually but was quickly moved by Nodoko to her other side. "Miroku's spot, honey, Miroku's spot."
"Gomen nasai. I didn't know." Kagome replied shyly.
Nodoko cocked her eyebrow and started at her through the pinkness of the lenses, "Stop being so nice, you'll scare people away. A normal response to that would be 'Sorry I pissed in your Cheery O's, bitch!'"
Tsubii spoke as she leaned out to wave at Ayame who was heading for Kouga, "Learn the lingo. I don't know what part of Kikyo Inu-Yasha saw in you."
Sango jumped in and added, "And don't you go askin' Inu-Yasha who Kikyo was. He'll bust you up then punish us the same."
Someone yelled out over the crowd, "Hit the deck!!!!" and people everywhere hurled themselves to the ground. The people who had been spreading the gasoline with Miroku had gone a little bit overboard. The gas had created a miniature mushroom cloud. After it was over, Miroku came running out of the smoke and hit the car coughing.
There was black all over his face.... He waved a singed arm and laughed stupidly.
Nodoko whacked him over the head, "Baka! Baka! Baka! Baka! Baka!!! You could have gotten yourself killed! You are the stupidest fire bug on earth!... and I love you!..." Nodoko yelled before jumping up and kissing him deeply, the blackness getting on her face. Sango gripped her lipstick tightly before hurling it at a random passerby.
Kagome glanced over to a rusted swing set, and, seeing no one was there, she walked over to sit. She sat down hard on one of he swings and watched the flames dance in her eyes. She swung back and forth in the swings, wondering what it was like inside one of those embers.
Kouga stood with is friends. He was very popular among the skaters. He was deemed kind of a . prince of boarders and skaters. Ayame was trying as hard as she could to seduce Kouga to no avail. Kouga liked that new girl over there. What was her name again? Oh, yeah. Kagome.
He shoved Ayame off, took her daiquiri, and made his way over to Kagome. "Hey, sweetie. Want a daiquiri?"
Kagome smiled and nodded, taking it from his hand, "Arigotou! Ummm. Gomen, but I already have a boyfriend. Inu-Yasha."
Kouga looked at her in shock and disbelief, "You mean. dog turd!? That insolent puppy?!"
Kagome's vision was going double and her palms were getting sweaty, "I think so. I can't quite remember."
Kouga put an arm around her, preventing a nasty fall into the dirt, "Of course he's not! I am! Me, Kouga!"
Kagome looked up at him bewildered, "Are you sure about that? I coulda swore it was that angry guy coming this way."
Kouga whirled around to face a very angry Inu-Yasha. He tried to casually walk off without success. Inu-Yasha slugged him as hard as he could, "You keep your filthy paws offa her, bastard!"
Kouga hit the dirt, moaning and rolling around. He was quickly scooped up by his strange haired friends and carried off. Ayame ran up, bowed to Inu- Yasha, and then ran after the group. Kagome started to fall out of the swings but was promptly caught by Inu-Yasha.
He took the daiquiri and sniffed it, "Just a simple daiquiri. laced with LSD. Stupid girl." Kagome fell over and was again caught. He picked her up bridal style and carried her to Nodoko's compact.
"Nodoko! You were supposed to be watching her! What the unholy Hell do you think you're doing!?" Inu-Yasha spat in Nodoko's face.
Nodoko shoved Miroku and Sango back, "When did I say that, insolent bastard!?"
Inu-Yasha shoved them out of the way and set her in the back seat, "Take her home!"
Sango didn't like the role of standing to the side so she spoke up, "We're not leaving the party on account of that bitch! Take her home in your car! Oh, that's right! YOU DON'T HAVE ONE!!!"
Inu-Yasha twitched slightly, the realization that he himself had no car. Miroku stepped forward, "C'mon, Nodoko! Sango! Give the guy a break! Let's take her home. We'll come strait back, I promise!"
As soon as he stopped talking, rain poured down upon them, drenching their poor semi-atomic bon-fire. Nodoko was panicking, "No way more than five are gonna fit in my compact!!!"
"I'll stay behind." Inu-Yasha piped up, "I'll hitch a ride with Jesse or something. Go on. Get outta here 'afore I change my mind!"
Tsubii looked out the back window as they pulled out the drive along with other cars. Inu-Yasha was standing back there in the rain, looking like a poor lost puppy. She again sighed, wishing she had such a loyal boyfriend. if only one she could get.
When Kagome awoke, she was sleeping on a dark green couch. At her feet, Sango was sleeping, clutching feebly to her favorite colored lipstick, boomerang bone.
Nodoko, Miroku, and Tsubii were watching TV from the floor. She had absolutely no idea where she was, but that was the biggest television she'd ever seen! She sat up and looked about her surroundings.
Nodoko turned around, smiling happily, "Mornin', baka! What did you think you were doin' drinkin' one of Kouga's special daiquiris!?"
She jabbed Tsubii in the side, signaling for her to say something to go along with that. Tsubii shooed Nodoko's hand away, preferring to remain asleep on the sheep skin rug. "Yeah. What she said."
She looked to Miroku and jabbed him, "Shhh! I'm learning how to make a shoplifting bag offa Cops!"
She sighed deeply, "Anyway, we left Inu-Yasha in the rain to bring you here. He insisted we leave him behind. Now sit a spell and watch this Cops marathon with us. You'll learn things."
The creamy white lipstick Sango was clutching hit the white shag rug. Nodoko glanced over then laid her head on Miroku's lap, every intention of sleeping there. Kagome uncovered herself for a snack run.
She found some chips and Coke and sat back down on the couch. She glanced to the clock, the time being exactly 10:08. She figured that she'd stay the night here. Her mom wouldn't care if she came home the next morning.
Miroku spoke out of the blue, "Inu-Yasha may act tough, but, deep down, he hurts every day. I remember the day when it all started.
~*Flashback*~
It was around July a year and a half ago. He and his posse` were sitting in Denny's at 1:00 in the morning. People did this alot and still do. Inu- Yasha and Jesse started hitting on the waitresses for kicks.
There was a real cute girl he recognized. She lived in the nice houses a couple of blocks from his trailer park. I just so happened to be there receiving payment from Cody when it all went down.
She walked up real casual and told him her name was Kikyo. "You want a free round of beer for you and your friends?"
"What's the catch, ho'?" Jesse snapped.
"Nothing, nothing. If only I had a gangsta boyfriend with long silver hair and gold eyes."
Inu-Yasha was confused, but he pulled her into his lap, "Well you do now! Get us the beer!!!"
She started dancing around like a stupid little school girl. (Which she was) It hurt him bad in the end.
~*End Flashback*~
Kagome tilted her head confusedly, "But that's not sad. How could it hurt him?"
Miroku shook his head, "I'd prefer not to tell the rest, please. It brings back bad memories for me too."
Kagome started to put a hand on his shoulder but recoiled, "Gomen nasai. I didn't know."
"Fogetabotit. It's not important." he said as he leaned over to sleep. "Hmmm. Payment can wait till tomorrow night."
In a way, the booty patrol was like a less organized Mafia. Plus, only the Mafia says 'fogetabotit.' She had finally made some new friends and didn't have to hang out with the ho's from Inu-Yasha's gang. Could this be the life she wanted?
The next day at school, they were an awful noise coming down the hall. "Only two more weeks until the game! Here! Have some tickets!" Nodoko said excitedly as she gave the tickets to Miroku, Tsubii, and Kagome.
"I had to do some real underhanded pickpocketing, but I got you a ticket, Kagome!" she said as she gave Kagome hers.
Miroku smiled and did a peace sign, "And I've stocked up on silly string, fog horns, and shakers!"
Sango smiled, remembering good times when they were at games together. Miroku had blown a fog horn in her ear and she'd spilled nachos and cheese all over her uniform. Not one of the best memories but still.
They were coming up on a congregation of seventh graders trading Yu-Gi-Oh cards. They all stood tall and ignored ones lower than themselves, taking full effect of the dominance factor. (*dominance factor: unwritten and unspoken rule that gives dominance to the one of superior age or stature. Those younger than you or of lower stature move when you are coming strait for them. If the lower one feels they are dominant, then the two will most likely run smack into one another. This leads to name calling and shoving but rarely fighting.)
All the little people parted. It's always great to be older! Until you hit 30. then it's not.I know -I'm- gonna cry when I turn 30. One with a black eye looked evilly at Miroku. He was the one who was missing his left skating pad.
Miroku just shoved him for his defiance. He posed no threat to them. So much for the ways of the Buddha!
When they reached the end of the crowd, they were forced to go around a few of them. It was Rin, Shippou, and Kohaku. Kohaku got shoved a little by Sango, him being her little brother. The other two were family of Inu- Yasha.
Even though he wouldn't lift a finger to help them, people thought he would. That's what they told people so they'd be left alone. Rin was Inu- Yasha's step sister, not having the same dead mom as him. Shippou was his step brother, not having the same dead father as him.
Their poor aunt was always crying and popping tranks (tranquilizers). The family life was so messed up; others wished theirs wasn't the same. Inu- Yasha's big brother had once taken Rin and run off to a Motel 8 in Birmingham. The fuzz got him real fast.
(A/N: The other day there was a big drug bust right in front of my house! O.o I don't know how that applies but. yea .;) Sesshomaru only wanted the best for poor Rin. He was coming back for a week to see everyone and go to the homecoming game. People thought he was a little distanced from the world, so they steered clear. He was even in the mental hospital after watching his mother being brutally hacked apart by her boyfriend. He thought he saw the man looking for him everywhere he went.
Inu-Yasha was in the bathroom with his friends, burning black places on the wall tiles. "I'm so pissed at those stupid whores and their pimp! They're driving Kagome to their side!"
One out of the group stepped forward to speak, "Miroku used to be one of us! Don't talk shit about him! His girlfriend was one of ours too! They just hopped at a chance to be accepted by the public! Cody just gave them a little push!"
Inu-Yasha threw his lighter aside and punched the guy, "Once he accepted Cody's offer, he lost all respect from us! I don't care if you never get up from there! Kiss the ground!" He put his foot on the guy's head and forced his face into the tiles.
Inu-Yasha went home to his aunt that night. She was sitting in the dim light of the kitchen with her trank bottle crying. She had a bandage on her arm where his uncle had taken a broken beer bottle to her. It was like this every time he came home. Sad, ain't it?
Inu-Yasha stormed to his room, shaking the whole trailer as her slammed the door. He popped his Alien Ant Farm CD in the three disk changer. He did this every afternoon. He came home, put in a CD, curled up, and slept until his shows came on or it was time to go to some random party.
He started to remember fragments of the past as he lay there alone.
~*Flashback*~
Kikyo walked out under a street light, carrying a small handbag. She'd agreed to meet Inu-Yasha there to give him the stolen money. She heard a rustle behind her and the click of a gun.
"Who's there? Is that you, Inu-Yasha?" she said into the darkness. There was a resounding gunshot and she was hit. Hit right in her left shoulder. She fell, the bag landing just out of her reach.
Naraku stepped from the shadows, crushing her delicate wrist under his army boots. "I'll just be taking that. Thanks for the money, sweetness! Inu- Yasha sends his thanks as well! Kukukukukukuku!" Naraku snarled as he snatched the bag.
Kikyo kept her eyes shut tight, fearing what she might see, "Why, Inu- Yasha?... Why did you betray me?!" She went out cold after that, a pool of her own blood forming under her.
The guy inside the convenient store came running out, a cell phone in his hand calling an ambulance.
When she came to, the paramedics hadn't arrived yet. She pulled a revolver from under her skirt. She was going to kill that Inu-Yasha.
~*End Flashback*~
A horrible slamming sound snapped him out of his daydream. His uncle Ray was home. He could hear a string of curses and a whiskey bottle breaking on the cabinet door. He decided to move in and break it up.
Ray had the woman cornered and smelled strongly liquor. Inu-Yasha punched him across the jaw, "Don't stand in the way this time, Sarah! I'm gonna kill this bastard!"
Ray turned to face him, waving the bottle shakily. He was afraid of Inu- Yasha. Tears were welling in Sarah's eyes. "Please don't, Inu-Yasha! He won't do it again, I swear!" she yelled shakily from her corner. Even though he abused her, he didn't give a damn if she lived or not, and she spent most of her time drowning her sorrows with pills, she still loved him.
While Inu-Yasha was looking away, Ray took a drunken swipe at the boy's neck. He neatly dodged it, escaping with a small cut on his left cheek. The man quickly ran out when he saw Inu-Yasha's pure look of anger.
"Bitch! Why'd you distract me?!" he snapped in the woman's face.
"We. We're in love. It's just. a different kind of. relationship." she said softly, her voice filled with uncertainty.
Inu-Yasha started for the door, picking up his dad's old heater on the way. "I'm going to take care of business."
Kagome: Next Time on Betrayal of a Different Sort. Inu-Yasha goes for his revenge on Ray, but is it really worth loosing a good home to take care of Sarah? Sesshomaru comes for a visit to see his beloved baby brother. Will he be able to stop this whole mess? Or will he just make maters worse beyond what it ever could have been? Find out next time when the Gangsta Fairy Tale begins again with Session 2: Business. Ja na, gangsters.
~Dragonfly~
Like a warm summer day, like a warm day in May Babe, you make me feel so hot Like a small butterfly, like a bird in the sky Feels like a star that I'm not
You tell me things that I never knew (Aye, yow, wa) So what am I supposed to do? (Aye, yow, wa) Running around like a little kid (Aye, yi, whoa) One, two, three, and I'm here, here, here!
Like a dragonfly, flying high in the sky There is light above and beyond you and I Like a dragonfly, flying high in the sky There is light above you and I
Like a small paradise, like a scent of a spice Yes, I guess I understood Like a flower so sweet, like a lover of me Boy, you make me feel so good.
You tell me things that I never knew (Aye, yow, wa) So what am I supposed to do? (Aye, yow, wa) Running around like a little kid (Aye, yi, whoa) One, two, three, and I'm here, here, here!
Like a dragonfly, flying high in the sky There is light above and beyond you and I Like a dragonfly, flying high in the sky There is light above you and I
Like a dragonfly, flying high in the sky There is light above and beyond you and I Like a dragonfly, flying high in the sky There is light above you and I (2x)
Note from Naoiki: I hope you liked my fanfiction! There will be a new song after every chapter! Be excited, your lady commands! I really love you guys for caring about my life (which this is based on)! Arigotou! *Hugs everyone mentally* Please review, just don't try to fill my head with ideas for I already know what happens!... For it's my life! Not yours! Mine! Do give me your praises, I won't even mind some flames! Just review! ^_^ Arigatou!
Chapter 1: White America
Nodoko was so happy to be in school! Over the summer, bandcamp took up all her precious outside-of-band-buddy-hanging-out-with time. On top of that, this year it started on her birthday, spoiling all potential plans on her part.
Tsubii flung an arm in front of her without removing her eyes from the magazine she'd stolen, preventing Nodoko from walking strait into one of the biggest mass migrations that year. (Mass Migration: when all the people on one entire floor of the building gather into a gigantic mob, following one or a group of persons to a major fight. Sometimes you even have to request special permission to be there! These migrations are the most dangerous thing found in nature. You could be trampled to death!) The two eased in, meeting Sango and reveling in the excitement of old flames of hatred being rekindled.
Even the poor socially incompetent nerds knew who was at the front.. Inu- Yasha. He was the only one in the world who would tempt fate on the very first day of school, especially with the really ill teachers congregating nearby.
(I'm using real names.. I hope no one sues me! X_X But what will they take!? All I have right now is $1.08 in change and one of the pennies is purple! That penny is mine! I named him Phillip! He's my friend!!! Okay. I'm over it. .;) He was looking for Tim alongside Jesse and his slutty girlfriend. The two stuck together. just not like real friends. Real friends were rare among their type. It was a cold coalition filled with distrust and hatred.
A hand snaked between two people towards Nodoko, inching dangerously close to her ass. She stopped in her tracks as the hand started groping her. The crowd parted behind her, letting the culprit be seen in plain view. She turned and slapped Miroku across the face.
"Hmmm. On a scale from one to ten. The booty patrol division five gives your ass a ten!" he said, smiling up at her with his usual brightness. She turned around and hugged him, her wing-like sleeves wafting around him.
"Gomen nasai, Miroku! You just don't know who's rubbing your ass anymore." she said, letting him lift her onto his shoulders. Tsubii sighed heavily yet wistfully. She thought she would be single forever!
She had a strange and deluded stalker though. He would follow her barefooted to Hell if she'd go on a date with him. He really scared her though. "Wait up, you guys! What are you doing?! Trying to abandon me?!" she yelled after them as they ran after the congregation.
When the migration stopped, they were in front of Mrs. Sellers' room. Inu- Yasha stood to the side ready to step in if Jesse was in danger. Then came Mrs. McMinn. the biggest spoil-sport of them all.
"What do you kids think you're doing!? Get out of here! Shoo! Shoo!" she yelled, waving her arms like some kind of spazing idiot. People stared running like a stampede, screaming and kicking others out of their way. (This is the part where I said people could get killed!) Nodoko, Tsubii, and a bunch of hysterical girls hurled themselves through the bathroom door.
Miroku ran into the boys' bathroom along with a laughing Cody, the leader of the booty patrol. There were many advantages to belonging to such a patrol. Cody reserved the bathroom for a patrol outpost. You always had a place to hide when the need arose.
Inside the girls' room, girls were lighting smokes and doing their makeup as if nothing had happened. A slip of a girl who was all legs and black hair stood in the corner with three friends, talking on and on without end. This was Inu-Yasha's new girlfriend, Kagome Higurashi, a transfer student.
"You know, he's only going out with her because she looks like that Kikyo slut," Tsubii whispered to Nodoko, "That little bitch. I'm glad she got suspended when she shot Inu-Yasha! I don't even feel bad that she got shot!"
Sango, the sluttiest cheerleader in the whole school, flipped back her hair into a lesser girl's face as she drew vulgar signs with makeup on the mirror. Nodoko slid down the wall into a ball next to her and sighed exhaustedly. A smashed stick of lipstick fell from above and hit her in the head.
"Damn it, Sango! Do you have to do that every time you get bored?" Nodoko said in Sango's general direction.
"Hey! It's something to do! You should try it when you're stressed! It takes the anger or jealousy and makes it into a picture rather that a pent up emotion!" Sango said as she finished writing a random name under a picture of the worlds' smallest dick.
"And why would you be stressed. this time at least." Nodoko replied as she drew swirls all over the ground next to her.
"You and Miroku, of course! So stressful!!!! I wish so much it was me! I am the most jealous and stressful wreck ever to be born!!!" She replied, ripping out her hair and grinding some eyeliner into the wall.
Nodoko stood, a calm and bored look on her face and walked over to Tsubii. Sango could get a little wacko every now and then. If you were the object of her anger at the time, you would steer clear if you were wise.
She followed behind Tsubii quickly, eager to get away from Sango's axe murder's mood. "Why should she care if you're his fiancé, Nodoko? You've known him longer anyways!"
Nodoko looked down at the ring strung on Miroku's lucky blue prayer beads then to him. He was defiling a stone bench with a permanent marker. He smiled and waved to her as he put their initials together on the bench. Maybe Tsubii was right.
Inu-Yasha was going crazy with boredom. He had figured if he wasn't going to a party tonight, he'd go insane. It was homeroom and he was sitting with Kagome and her friends in the corner. Kagome seemed happy enough to everyone and she was! Believe me, she was! The only problem was that he was in many gang wars and got in trouble a lot. (By gang wars I mean small rumbles or non-organized disputes between some of the larger social groups)
Miroku wasn't paying any attention, as usual. He was too busy with the new purple skating gear on his left hand. He had knocked up some seventh grader for it and couldn't be happier if he ruled the entire world.
"Would you like to see it again?" he whispered to Nodoko low enough for only her to hear.
"Sure, sure. Wow! It's so cool! I don't know what some little seventh grader was doing with it!" she replied, undoing the velcro straps and putting them back again.
Kagome was sleeping quietly, holding onto Inu-Yasha's switch blade arm. He wasn't too happy about this, but he tolerated it. He was too deep in thought, staring off into space to visions only he could see.
'Boring shitty homeroom. This sucks some major ass.' He thought to himself as the teacher rambled on and on about being nice to the new people and such. Then, all of a sudden, he was dragged from thought by a girl running out the door screaming and crying.
This was Meighan. She was one of the biggest crybabies the school had seen. No one liked her because she was mean to everyone and obese. If you were friends with someone she didn't like, she'd yell at you for getting too close or make fun of your clothes to the public. She cried like this all the time. *sigh* Would she get over herself!
This time, no one even flinched or looked up. Tsubii continued filing her nails into perfection, Sango continued trying vainly to put on some lipstick she'd defiled by drawing with it, Nodoko continued playing with the velcro, and Miroku stared at her with a goofy smile as he twirled her hair around one finger. No one really cared anymore. It was too common an act.
Later that day, Nodoko was in the only class where she had acquaintances, not friends and one person she was single handedly passing through highschool. She was slowly nodding off, the history problems on her paper becoming blurry swirls. Her head fell to the desk, followed many others.
The teacher was always gone from the room, off eating popcorn or some such. Sleep was the best cure for this particular class. Then, almost simultaneously with her head hitting the desk, an upward rain of pencils stuck into the cheap particleboard ceiling. A few fell, hitting people out of their stupor.
Spencer, the one who was dependant on her to pass, tossed her a note with two red tickets poking out. This was kind of a monthly payment thing. He got football tickets for Miroku and Tsubii and she helped him pass through the ancient ways of cheating.
Nodoko and Sango got in free, her being a flute and Sango being a cheerleader. The note told where tonight's party was. It was located at the old house across from hers. The family who'd lived there had cleared out a month before and it was scheduled for demolition. It also said there would be a huge bon-fire.
She glanced around the room, looking to see if Kagome was there. It was never too late to get on her good side. Sure enough, there she was, sitting quietly and doing her work. Nodoko wrote a note, crafted the perfect paper airplane, and flew it to Kagome's desk. She opened it and read to herself.
Kagome,
I know we don't really know each other that well, but I want you to come to a very exclusive party. If you're seen there with me, you'll get real popular, real fast! In case you think I'm up to something, I'm not! I merely am looking to make an ally in this fucked up world! Meet me by my compact at the party! (It's blue by the way.)
Your Friend,
Nodoko Kikonoi
Kagome looked from the note to a smiling, waving, sleepy Nodoko. Maybe this was someone she could trust. She decided then and there that she would go. just to see what all the commotion was about.
That day pretty much went by like every other day at every school in the cosmos until that night when the party began. Nodoko stood with Miroku, leaning on the compact. Sango was sitting on the trunk vainly trying to seduce Miroku with her many sluttish actions, resisting the awful temptation of defacing some random cars.
There was a large pile of wood for the bon-fire and Miroku had rounded up a few jugs of gas. After a few moments of standing idoly, he started carrying jugs filled with gas over to the wood pile.
Kagome was a bit late, but she did show. "Nodoko! I made it! What's going on so far!?" she said perkily as she stood in front of Nodoko. Nodoko tilted down her pink sunglasses and looked at her with a cocked eyebrow. Tsubii rolled down the car window to stare. Sango just stared.
"Nani? Nani!?!?" she said, not too sure why they were all staring.
Nodoko flicked the shades back up her nose and said, "You're way too perky. You need to mellow out before we all choke to death on your good charma. Pretty soon we'll all start feeling like koala bears crapped rainbows in our brains."
Kagome leaned against the car casually but was quickly moved by Nodoko to her other side. "Miroku's spot, honey, Miroku's spot."
"Gomen nasai. I didn't know." Kagome replied shyly.
Nodoko cocked her eyebrow and started at her through the pinkness of the lenses, "Stop being so nice, you'll scare people away. A normal response to that would be 'Sorry I pissed in your Cheery O's, bitch!'"
Tsubii spoke as she leaned out to wave at Ayame who was heading for Kouga, "Learn the lingo. I don't know what part of Kikyo Inu-Yasha saw in you."
Sango jumped in and added, "And don't you go askin' Inu-Yasha who Kikyo was. He'll bust you up then punish us the same."
Someone yelled out over the crowd, "Hit the deck!!!!" and people everywhere hurled themselves to the ground. The people who had been spreading the gasoline with Miroku had gone a little bit overboard. The gas had created a miniature mushroom cloud. After it was over, Miroku came running out of the smoke and hit the car coughing.
There was black all over his face.... He waved a singed arm and laughed stupidly.
Nodoko whacked him over the head, "Baka! Baka! Baka! Baka! Baka!!! You could have gotten yourself killed! You are the stupidest fire bug on earth!... and I love you!..." Nodoko yelled before jumping up and kissing him deeply, the blackness getting on her face. Sango gripped her lipstick tightly before hurling it at a random passerby.
Kagome glanced over to a rusted swing set, and, seeing no one was there, she walked over to sit. She sat down hard on one of he swings and watched the flames dance in her eyes. She swung back and forth in the swings, wondering what it was like inside one of those embers.
Kouga stood with is friends. He was very popular among the skaters. He was deemed kind of a . prince of boarders and skaters. Ayame was trying as hard as she could to seduce Kouga to no avail. Kouga liked that new girl over there. What was her name again? Oh, yeah. Kagome.
He shoved Ayame off, took her daiquiri, and made his way over to Kagome. "Hey, sweetie. Want a daiquiri?"
Kagome smiled and nodded, taking it from his hand, "Arigotou! Ummm. Gomen, but I already have a boyfriend. Inu-Yasha."
Kouga looked at her in shock and disbelief, "You mean. dog turd!? That insolent puppy?!"
Kagome's vision was going double and her palms were getting sweaty, "I think so. I can't quite remember."
Kouga put an arm around her, preventing a nasty fall into the dirt, "Of course he's not! I am! Me, Kouga!"
Kagome looked up at him bewildered, "Are you sure about that? I coulda swore it was that angry guy coming this way."
Kouga whirled around to face a very angry Inu-Yasha. He tried to casually walk off without success. Inu-Yasha slugged him as hard as he could, "You keep your filthy paws offa her, bastard!"
Kouga hit the dirt, moaning and rolling around. He was quickly scooped up by his strange haired friends and carried off. Ayame ran up, bowed to Inu- Yasha, and then ran after the group. Kagome started to fall out of the swings but was promptly caught by Inu-Yasha.
He took the daiquiri and sniffed it, "Just a simple daiquiri. laced with LSD. Stupid girl." Kagome fell over and was again caught. He picked her up bridal style and carried her to Nodoko's compact.
"Nodoko! You were supposed to be watching her! What the unholy Hell do you think you're doing!?" Inu-Yasha spat in Nodoko's face.
Nodoko shoved Miroku and Sango back, "When did I say that, insolent bastard!?"
Inu-Yasha shoved them out of the way and set her in the back seat, "Take her home!"
Sango didn't like the role of standing to the side so she spoke up, "We're not leaving the party on account of that bitch! Take her home in your car! Oh, that's right! YOU DON'T HAVE ONE!!!"
Inu-Yasha twitched slightly, the realization that he himself had no car. Miroku stepped forward, "C'mon, Nodoko! Sango! Give the guy a break! Let's take her home. We'll come strait back, I promise!"
As soon as he stopped talking, rain poured down upon them, drenching their poor semi-atomic bon-fire. Nodoko was panicking, "No way more than five are gonna fit in my compact!!!"
"I'll stay behind." Inu-Yasha piped up, "I'll hitch a ride with Jesse or something. Go on. Get outta here 'afore I change my mind!"
Tsubii looked out the back window as they pulled out the drive along with other cars. Inu-Yasha was standing back there in the rain, looking like a poor lost puppy. She again sighed, wishing she had such a loyal boyfriend. if only one she could get.
When Kagome awoke, she was sleeping on a dark green couch. At her feet, Sango was sleeping, clutching feebly to her favorite colored lipstick, boomerang bone.
Nodoko, Miroku, and Tsubii were watching TV from the floor. She had absolutely no idea where she was, but that was the biggest television she'd ever seen! She sat up and looked about her surroundings.
Nodoko turned around, smiling happily, "Mornin', baka! What did you think you were doin' drinkin' one of Kouga's special daiquiris!?"
She jabbed Tsubii in the side, signaling for her to say something to go along with that. Tsubii shooed Nodoko's hand away, preferring to remain asleep on the sheep skin rug. "Yeah. What she said."
She looked to Miroku and jabbed him, "Shhh! I'm learning how to make a shoplifting bag offa Cops!"
She sighed deeply, "Anyway, we left Inu-Yasha in the rain to bring you here. He insisted we leave him behind. Now sit a spell and watch this Cops marathon with us. You'll learn things."
The creamy white lipstick Sango was clutching hit the white shag rug. Nodoko glanced over then laid her head on Miroku's lap, every intention of sleeping there. Kagome uncovered herself for a snack run.
She found some chips and Coke and sat back down on the couch. She glanced to the clock, the time being exactly 10:08. She figured that she'd stay the night here. Her mom wouldn't care if she came home the next morning.
Miroku spoke out of the blue, "Inu-Yasha may act tough, but, deep down, he hurts every day. I remember the day when it all started.
~*Flashback*~
It was around July a year and a half ago. He and his posse` were sitting in Denny's at 1:00 in the morning. People did this alot and still do. Inu- Yasha and Jesse started hitting on the waitresses for kicks.
There was a real cute girl he recognized. She lived in the nice houses a couple of blocks from his trailer park. I just so happened to be there receiving payment from Cody when it all went down.
She walked up real casual and told him her name was Kikyo. "You want a free round of beer for you and your friends?"
"What's the catch, ho'?" Jesse snapped.
"Nothing, nothing. If only I had a gangsta boyfriend with long silver hair and gold eyes."
Inu-Yasha was confused, but he pulled her into his lap, "Well you do now! Get us the beer!!!"
She started dancing around like a stupid little school girl. (Which she was) It hurt him bad in the end.
~*End Flashback*~
Kagome tilted her head confusedly, "But that's not sad. How could it hurt him?"
Miroku shook his head, "I'd prefer not to tell the rest, please. It brings back bad memories for me too."
Kagome started to put a hand on his shoulder but recoiled, "Gomen nasai. I didn't know."
"Fogetabotit. It's not important." he said as he leaned over to sleep. "Hmmm. Payment can wait till tomorrow night."
In a way, the booty patrol was like a less organized Mafia. Plus, only the Mafia says 'fogetabotit.' She had finally made some new friends and didn't have to hang out with the ho's from Inu-Yasha's gang. Could this be the life she wanted?
The next day at school, they were an awful noise coming down the hall. "Only two more weeks until the game! Here! Have some tickets!" Nodoko said excitedly as she gave the tickets to Miroku, Tsubii, and Kagome.
"I had to do some real underhanded pickpocketing, but I got you a ticket, Kagome!" she said as she gave Kagome hers.
Miroku smiled and did a peace sign, "And I've stocked up on silly string, fog horns, and shakers!"
Sango smiled, remembering good times when they were at games together. Miroku had blown a fog horn in her ear and she'd spilled nachos and cheese all over her uniform. Not one of the best memories but still.
They were coming up on a congregation of seventh graders trading Yu-Gi-Oh cards. They all stood tall and ignored ones lower than themselves, taking full effect of the dominance factor. (*dominance factor: unwritten and unspoken rule that gives dominance to the one of superior age or stature. Those younger than you or of lower stature move when you are coming strait for them. If the lower one feels they are dominant, then the two will most likely run smack into one another. This leads to name calling and shoving but rarely fighting.)
All the little people parted. It's always great to be older! Until you hit 30. then it's not.I know -I'm- gonna cry when I turn 30. One with a black eye looked evilly at Miroku. He was the one who was missing his left skating pad.
Miroku just shoved him for his defiance. He posed no threat to them. So much for the ways of the Buddha!
When they reached the end of the crowd, they were forced to go around a few of them. It was Rin, Shippou, and Kohaku. Kohaku got shoved a little by Sango, him being her little brother. The other two were family of Inu- Yasha.
Even though he wouldn't lift a finger to help them, people thought he would. That's what they told people so they'd be left alone. Rin was Inu- Yasha's step sister, not having the same dead mom as him. Shippou was his step brother, not having the same dead father as him.
Their poor aunt was always crying and popping tranks (tranquilizers). The family life was so messed up; others wished theirs wasn't the same. Inu- Yasha's big brother had once taken Rin and run off to a Motel 8 in Birmingham. The fuzz got him real fast.
(A/N: The other day there was a big drug bust right in front of my house! O.o I don't know how that applies but. yea .;) Sesshomaru only wanted the best for poor Rin. He was coming back for a week to see everyone and go to the homecoming game. People thought he was a little distanced from the world, so they steered clear. He was even in the mental hospital after watching his mother being brutally hacked apart by her boyfriend. He thought he saw the man looking for him everywhere he went.
Inu-Yasha was in the bathroom with his friends, burning black places on the wall tiles. "I'm so pissed at those stupid whores and their pimp! They're driving Kagome to their side!"
One out of the group stepped forward to speak, "Miroku used to be one of us! Don't talk shit about him! His girlfriend was one of ours too! They just hopped at a chance to be accepted by the public! Cody just gave them a little push!"
Inu-Yasha threw his lighter aside and punched the guy, "Once he accepted Cody's offer, he lost all respect from us! I don't care if you never get up from there! Kiss the ground!" He put his foot on the guy's head and forced his face into the tiles.
Inu-Yasha went home to his aunt that night. She was sitting in the dim light of the kitchen with her trank bottle crying. She had a bandage on her arm where his uncle had taken a broken beer bottle to her. It was like this every time he came home. Sad, ain't it?
Inu-Yasha stormed to his room, shaking the whole trailer as her slammed the door. He popped his Alien Ant Farm CD in the three disk changer. He did this every afternoon. He came home, put in a CD, curled up, and slept until his shows came on or it was time to go to some random party.
He started to remember fragments of the past as he lay there alone.
~*Flashback*~
Kikyo walked out under a street light, carrying a small handbag. She'd agreed to meet Inu-Yasha there to give him the stolen money. She heard a rustle behind her and the click of a gun.
"Who's there? Is that you, Inu-Yasha?" she said into the darkness. There was a resounding gunshot and she was hit. Hit right in her left shoulder. She fell, the bag landing just out of her reach.
Naraku stepped from the shadows, crushing her delicate wrist under his army boots. "I'll just be taking that. Thanks for the money, sweetness! Inu- Yasha sends his thanks as well! Kukukukukukuku!" Naraku snarled as he snatched the bag.
Kikyo kept her eyes shut tight, fearing what she might see, "Why, Inu- Yasha?... Why did you betray me?!" She went out cold after that, a pool of her own blood forming under her.
The guy inside the convenient store came running out, a cell phone in his hand calling an ambulance.
When she came to, the paramedics hadn't arrived yet. She pulled a revolver from under her skirt. She was going to kill that Inu-Yasha.
~*End Flashback*~
A horrible slamming sound snapped him out of his daydream. His uncle Ray was home. He could hear a string of curses and a whiskey bottle breaking on the cabinet door. He decided to move in and break it up.
Ray had the woman cornered and smelled strongly liquor. Inu-Yasha punched him across the jaw, "Don't stand in the way this time, Sarah! I'm gonna kill this bastard!"
Ray turned to face him, waving the bottle shakily. He was afraid of Inu- Yasha. Tears were welling in Sarah's eyes. "Please don't, Inu-Yasha! He won't do it again, I swear!" she yelled shakily from her corner. Even though he abused her, he didn't give a damn if she lived or not, and she spent most of her time drowning her sorrows with pills, she still loved him.
While Inu-Yasha was looking away, Ray took a drunken swipe at the boy's neck. He neatly dodged it, escaping with a small cut on his left cheek. The man quickly ran out when he saw Inu-Yasha's pure look of anger.
"Bitch! Why'd you distract me?!" he snapped in the woman's face.
"We. We're in love. It's just. a different kind of. relationship." she said softly, her voice filled with uncertainty.
Inu-Yasha started for the door, picking up his dad's old heater on the way. "I'm going to take care of business."
Kagome: Next Time on Betrayal of a Different Sort. Inu-Yasha goes for his revenge on Ray, but is it really worth loosing a good home to take care of Sarah? Sesshomaru comes for a visit to see his beloved baby brother. Will he be able to stop this whole mess? Or will he just make maters worse beyond what it ever could have been? Find out next time when the Gangsta Fairy Tale begins again with Session 2: Business. Ja na, gangsters.
~Dragonfly~
Like a warm summer day, like a warm day in May Babe, you make me feel so hot Like a small butterfly, like a bird in the sky Feels like a star that I'm not
You tell me things that I never knew (Aye, yow, wa) So what am I supposed to do? (Aye, yow, wa) Running around like a little kid (Aye, yi, whoa) One, two, three, and I'm here, here, here!
Like a dragonfly, flying high in the sky There is light above and beyond you and I Like a dragonfly, flying high in the sky There is light above you and I
Like a small paradise, like a scent of a spice Yes, I guess I understood Like a flower so sweet, like a lover of me Boy, you make me feel so good.
You tell me things that I never knew (Aye, yow, wa) So what am I supposed to do? (Aye, yow, wa) Running around like a little kid (Aye, yi, whoa) One, two, three, and I'm here, here, here!
Like a dragonfly, flying high in the sky There is light above and beyond you and I Like a dragonfly, flying high in the sky There is light above you and I
Like a dragonfly, flying high in the sky There is light above and beyond you and I Like a dragonfly, flying high in the sky There is light above you and I (2x)
Note from Naoiki: I hope you liked my fanfiction! There will be a new song after every chapter! Be excited, your lady commands! I really love you guys for caring about my life (which this is based on)! Arigotou! *Hugs everyone mentally* Please review, just don't try to fill my head with ideas for I already know what happens!... For it's my life! Not yours! Mine! Do give me your praises, I won't even mind some flames! Just review! ^_^ Arigatou!