Ok so i really should be updating my other story that i haven't touched in a few months but in order for that one to get updated i really need something else to get me motivated! So this story is actually about halfway done so i don't feel guilty about uploading cause i know i can keep up with the updates. So welcome to my third Inuyasha Fan Fic! No flames please, if you don't like it then either give me constructive criticism or stop reading. Just a little warning before we begin, i had to convert this from first to third person. I think i've got all the bugs out but bear with me if there are a couple mistakes here and there. Happy reading!
"You're going to be late for school if you don't hurry up!" a voice shouted through a bedroom door. The girl inside sighed and rolled her eyes then knocked on the wall of the room three times to acknowledge that she had heard. The she went back to studying her reflection in the mirror. She was wearing a pair of clean jeans that were free of holes, comfortable sneakers and a t-shirt that said 'silence is golden, duck tape is silver.' Her long black hair was, for once, free of it's usual braid so that it hung loose down to waistlength. Streaks of electric blue highlighted her raven hair, making the girl look like the rebel child she wasn't. Atop her head perched two little dog ears that twitched with every little sound.
"Sis, Come on we're gonna be late," the girl's little brother called. Said girl punched the wall of her room so hard that the pictures hanging up downstairs rattled. 'I'll be ready when i'm ready,' she thought, making quick work of getting her hair back in it's french braid,' and not one moment sooner.' She checked to make sure the braid was even and then turned to the jewelry box that sat on her dresser. She lifted out the one piece of jewelry that ever got worn and slipped it onto her left ring finger. Instantly she felt the change ripple through her body, her hair went a complete raven black, her eyes changed from electric blue to a dull shade of brown and the dog ears disappeared to be replaced with human ones. The girl heaved her back pack over her shoulder and took one last glance at her now human appearance before leaving the bedroom.
Her little brother, Souta, was waiting for his sister by the front door. "Finally Kagome," he said," i was afraid that you were going to make us late on our first day of school." His sister shot him a glare which he correctly interpreted as a 'Don't piss me off' look. He took a step back and then ducked around the corner saying," what do you know i forgot to grab my helmet. Meet you outside."
Kagome shook her head as she headed into the garage and over to her motorcycle. It was black with a wing motif on the sides. It was the last gift her mother had ever given her and for that, she loved it with all her heart. Kagome would be devastated if anything ever happened to it. She had named it Guardian Angel.
She put the back pack in one of the saddle bags and shrugged into her riding jacket. She straddled the bike and put her helmet on and backed it carefully out of the garage just as Souta was running out the front door, riding jacket on and helmet in hand.
He hopped on the bike and his sister barely gave him any time to hang on before the two of them sped off. Kagome dropped him off at his new middle school before making her way into the parking lot of her new school. Some kids looked up when they saw a motorcycle being driven into the parking lot, watching with curious eyes at who the rider was.
She found an empty parking space and slid into it. She took off her helmet and shrugged out of the jacket, stowing both away in the saddle bag and getting her backpack out. Then Kagome went in search of the office.
Kagome could feel the whispers going around the halls at the emergence of a new student, and one that rode a motor cycle at that. She let out a small, sad, wistful sigh before squaring her shoulders and closing her ears against the chatter. They wouldn't be this talkative about her once they found out about her. After that it would be the exact same as any other school she had been to. The only thing that would be different would be the fact that they wouldn't hate her just for being alive.
Kagome found her way to the office with little trouble. It's the same in every school, the main office. It's always right next to the front door. She stood outside it and took a deep breath ready for some very uncomfortable explanations on her part and some really weird looks. This was going to be fun.
She stepped into the office and went over to the desk in the room. Then she took a piece of paper out of my pocket and placed it on the desk. The note read, 'Hello, my name is Kagome Higurashi. I am mute and a new student here. Could you please get me my schedule and my locker assignment?" The woman looked mildly surprised but not as surprised as she would have been had she no warning. Kagome's step-father had called the school head to tell them all about her disability. In the end she managed to get everything with almost no trouble.
Kagome found her locker in a fairly busy hallway, filled with kids and plugged in the combination. She tugged the lock, found that the lock didn't open and resisted the urge to roll her eyes. This again. For some reason, combination locks just don't like her.
She tried the combination again just as someone shouted down the hall," Hey Kikiyo!" How she managed to hear that one thing all the way down the hall but she did. Kagome tugged the lock a second time, still nothing. 'Third time's a charm.'
"Kikiyo," came the shout again, louder this time. 'Alright, this time try going right ways past zero,' she thought.
Kagome was concentrating so hard on trying to get the lock open that she didn't register the fact that someone came up behind her. She did a mental happy dance when the very welcome 'click' of the lock coming open reached her ears. She did notice, however, when said person spun her around to face him saying," Oi Kikiyo, didn't you hear me calling you? I called your name like three times!"
Kagome found herself looking up at a guy about 6'4" with long silver hair, irritated golden eyes and dog ears that twitched angrily on top of his head. He had a 'don't mess with me' attitude that probably made sumo wrestlers gulp. Now Kagome was no push over, she would be the first to assure you, she's been in enough fights and come out on top to make most people think twice about messing with her. But let's just put this in perspective. Imagine you're face to face with a guy who happens to be blocking all escape routes by pinning you up against a locker, and looked like he could go five rounds punch for punch with a professional boxer and come out on top, then say you're not scared.
"Oi, you're not Kikiyo," the guy said, his eyes going from annoyed to confused to angry," who are you?" 'No shit Sherlock,' Kagome thought,' you're demon even if it's only half you should be able to tell my scent from hers.' This was one of those times when she desperately wished she could talk, it would make things so much easier.
Kagome stared at him for a moment before her brain kicked into gear. She dug around in my back pack and pulled out a notebook with the label of 'Conversations.' It was a notebook that never really got much use, most people when they saw her, didn't even want to try and talk to her. Those that did, well they got so bored with the slow speed of the conversation that they wouldn't talk to her any more after that. She grabbed a pen and started writing in the notebook.
The guy slapped the book and pen out of her hands. "I didn't ask you to write about it in your diary wench," he growled loudly, the hallway around us went dead silent," i asked you who you were and why you looked like Kikiyo!"
'You didn't ask me why i look like this person Kikiyo,' Kagome thought, her mind trying to catch up with the situation,' you just asked me who i was.' This was just great, five minutes in her new school and she already had my first fight, and she didn't even try and pick it this time. The halls had cleared, this guy was obviously one you didn't want to mess with. "I'll ask you one more time," the guy shouted," who are you and why do you look like my girlfriend Kikiyo!"
Kagome lifted her hands in the air and tried a last ditch effort, sign language. She really hoped this guy would get the hint and figure out that she couldn't talk. His golden eyes clouded with confusion for a moment and her heart soared, he might just get it. Then a second later his eyes grew angry again, even more angry than before if that was possible.
His balled fist came up into a strike position. Kagome grasped the ring on her hand, if need be, she could take it off and take this guy on in her other form. As a human, she was helpless against anything he did.
"Inuyasha, what are you doing?" Came a female voice from behind him. The voice caused him to stop short and look over his shoulder. His fist never went down, ready to move if the girl he had trapped tried anything. "Teaching little miss silence of the lambs here that when i ask her a question, she damn well better answer it," he growled at the girl. From the glimpse Kagome got of her over his shoulder, the girl was pretty. She was tall with long brown hair, not as long as Kagome's but fairly long, and wore a pair of skinny jeans and a black shirt.
She wore a frown on her face and Kagome wasn't sure if it was at Inuyasha or if she approved of what he was doing and the look was for Kagome. She figured she could take her if she needed to, but she needed to get through the hulk in front of her first. "And what did she do to you?" she asked sceptically. "She won't answer me when i ask her why she looks like Kikiyo," he said, stepping aside enough to let the strange girl get a better look at her.
The girl rolled her eyes. "Miroku, Sesshomeru, Koga! I found him!" she called over her shoulder. She leveled a gaze against Inuyasha, a mixed look of disgust and incredulousness on her face. "Let her go," she said. Her could had gone steady and steely, a command that no one dared oppose. He stepped away from Kagome and she gathered up her book that had gotten dropped on the floor. "Are you ok?" the strange girl asked her, reaching out a hand to help her back up.
She pulled Kagome up and, without thinking, she signed a 'thank you' to the girl. The strange girl stared at her in stunned shock, then a look of anger crossed her face. 'Here it comes,' inwardly wincing and bracing herself for the insults that were coming. They never came, instead, the girl turned to Inuyasha and started yelling at him. "You god damn Idiot," she screamed at him, tugging at a silver dog ear so she could yell in it," the girl's deaf and you're standing over her about to beat her up!" She noticed that at the beginning of the yelling Kagome had clamped her hands over her ears.
"You can hear me?" she asked. Kagome nodded and finger spelled 'mute', to her. In her experience most people at least knew the American sign language alphabet. She nodded then narrowed angry eyes at Inuyasha again. "You're despicable," she muttered," Miroku, i need your translation abilities over here."
Five people appeared in the hallway behind the girl, two girls and three boys. "Hey Sango," one of the girls said, skipping over," who's the new girl?" "Same question i've been trying to get her to answer," Inuyasha said. 'By threatening me,' Kagome signed at him,' don't you know sign language when you see it?' One of the boys laughed out loud. 'You'll find that when it comes to Inuyasha,' he signed back at me,' he doesn't notice things unless he wants to.'
Kagome stared at him, flabbergasted, for a second, then her hands switched into high gear. Where did he learn to sign? What was his name? Why did he know how to sign? Was Inuyasha always such a jerk? On and on the questions went, her hands going a mile a minute and his were trying to keep up. Finally he threw his hands up in the air. "Give Miroku a minute," the girl, Sango said," i've never seen him sign this much before." Kagome nodded and got incredulous looks from the rest of the gang. "She's mute, not deaf," Sango explained," she can hear but not speak. Could you sign your name?" 'Kagome,' she signed, going slow to make sure she interpreted correctly.
"Kagome," she repeated," pretty name. I'm Sango, the guy signing to you is Miroku, the girl next to me with the short hair is Rin, the red head is Ayame. Sesshomeru is the one that looks like an older version of Inuyasha, minus the ears, they're half brothers by the way. And Koga is the wolf demon with the bushy tail and the attitude problem." "Hey what about me?" Inuyasha asked.
Kagome beat Sango to the punch on that one, figuratively, not literally, no matter how much she wished it otherwise. She signed something to him and Inuyasha's mouth fell open in shock. Miroku started laughing so hard that tears were coming out of his eyes. Everyone looked to him for translation. "That is not something i'm going to translate," he said," i'll just leave it up to your imagination, but just think that it's not pretty." Most everyone broke out into smiles at this.
"Do you need help finding your classes Kagome?" Rin asked Kagome. 'If you could just point me in the direction of room 207,' she signed,' i can take it from there.' Miroku translated for her. "That's where we're all heading," Rin said," we'll just take you."
Warning bells were going off in Kagome's head at that. 'Just one class,' she told herself,' one class and then i only have to talk to them as acquaintances.' Slowly she nodded, hoping that her hesitancy hadn't shown on her face. "Great," Rin squealed," Let's go!" "She gets kinda hyper sometimes," Sango told the taken aback Kagome," but it makes up for Sesshomeru always being so stoic all the time so it all balances out in the end."
First period turned out to be history which was good, Kagome always manage to pull all A's in history even if she sleep through most of the class. "What do you have next Kagome," Miroku asked at the end of class as everyone was gathering up their stuff. 'Calculus, I can get it from here.' She sped out of the class before anyone could stop her to offer their help.
"You know, i get the feeling that the wench doesn't like us," Inuyasha said, staring out the door where the new girl had gone out of a moment before. "No shit Sherlock," Koga said," you threatened to hit her. If i were her i would have been scared out of my wits." "I really can't believe you did that Yash," Ayame said, shaking her head," come on, let's get to class."
As it turned out, Kagome had Calc with Sesshomeru, some how she had pegged him for being the smarter of the two brothers. Physics was next. This time she had Sesshomeru, Miroku and Sango in the class with her. She tried to find a seat as far away from them as she could. In each class it was always the same. The teacher would introduce her, tell them that she had just moved and that she was mute and to be nice. Then the stares would start, then the whispers would start, then the insults would start.
Kagome booked it out of physics as fast as she could, making it to music just before the bell rang. "You're a fast runner," came a voice. She looked up to see Ayame, Rin and Sango, Ayame had spoken. Kagome shrugged and went over to introduce herself to the teacher. This was a choir class but she asked if she could join and play piano for the group instead. The school had agreed and she sat down at the piano bench and did a couple of scales while the teacher got the music scores to the pieces they were learning. the class ran fairly smoothly.
"Hey Kagome, do you want to eat lunch with us?" Rin asked. Kagome shook her head and got out her conversations notebook. 'I have something else i need to do,' she wrote and showed it to them,' maybe another time?' "We'll hold you to that," Rin said skipping out the door.
Kagome had lied to them. She didn't have anywhere to be for lunch, but she really just needed to get outside and be away from people for a while. It's not that she didn't like people, she just didn't trust them. Now that she thought about it, there wasn't that much of a difference. Kagome wandered around for a couple of minutes before she found herself on the roof. Nearby there was a tall tree that reached taller than the school building. Ok so it was about a twenty foot jump from the roof to the nearest branch of the tree but that wasn't much of a problem for her in her other form.
Kagome looked around, there was no one on the roof and no one in the courtyard below to see anything. She took a deep breath and for the first time in a long time in broad daylight, she took her ring off. She held her breath as the change rippled through her. Her hair got it's blue highlights back, her finger nails lengthened, her fangs elongated and her ears that she loved so much moved from the sides of her head to the top of it. She took a deep breath through her nose. She didn't smell anyone who could blow her cover. Thank the gods above.
She jumped from the roof to the tree and landed with the grace of a cat. Then she climbed even higher still, till at last she was as high as she could go without getting hurt. She slipped the ring back on her finger, settled back into a comfortable position on a branch and closed her eyes, intent on getting herself into some state of calmness before afternoon classes.
Half way across the school, in the lunch room, a tall girl with jet black hair and red eyes felt something. 'Now that is a presence i haven't felt in a long time,' she thought to herself, focusing, trying to pinpoint where the presence was. Slowly a devious smile spread across her face. 'So the little girl is back,' she thought,' well this just makes things that much more interesting.'
About halfway through lunch Kagome heard a group of students come into the courtyard and sit under the tree she was in. For once, she didn't care, she was just about asleep. 'The only thing that would make this better would be a pillow or three,' was her last conscious thought before falling asleep.
Under the tree sat the group of people Kagome had been trying to avoid all day. "So what do you guys think of Kagome?" Sango asked. "She's cute," Koga said, earning him a painful elbow in the ribs from Ayame. "She's shy," commented Miroku. Everyone shot a look at Inuyasha, who had been oddly silent throughout the day since the incident that morning. "What are you looking at me for?" he asked, temper flaring. "You know exactly why mutt," Koga said. "Piss off wolf turd!"
Before a fight could erupt, Ayame stepped between the two. "Just once i would like a day where neither of you went home with wounds from a fight," she said," stop it now." Both boys sat, shooting the other dirty looks. Inuyasha leaned back against the trunk of the tree for a moment, then sat up again, a frown on his face.
"Do any of you smell something odd?" he asked, looking at the other demons in the group. "What kind of odd brother?" Sesshomeru asked. "It smells slightly demonic, but then disappears," Inuyasha said," i don't know why but it's driving me crazy. it's like i know it from somewhere." "Well i'm not smelling anything," Koga said. "Ditto here," Ayame sighed. "I smell something," Sesshomeru said, a look that might have been labeled thoughtful crossing his face," but i'm not sure what it is. There is another smell though, there is someone up in the tree."
Before anyone else could react, Inuyasha was leaping up the branches higher and higher to the top of the tree where the girl who everyone had just been talking about sat, sleeping. Kagome must have been deeply asleep because usually the sense of a demon near her iwas enough to get her up and into an attack position.
He stared at the girl in surprise, how the hell did this little girl, this little mute girl at that, get herself this high in the tree with no help? Without thinking he leaned in close and took a sniff of her scent. It smelled... It smelled... 'Fake,' the word crossed his mind in a flash, giving no indication of where it had come from. He took another sniff, that was it, it smelled fake somehow. 'But there's no way for someone to change their scent,' he thought to himself as he stared at the strange girl.
"Inuyasha," Rin called," who is it?" "The girl from this morning, Kagome," he called back. He could hear the exclamations of surprise coming from down below. That must have been what woke her up.
Kagome opened her eyes to find two golden ones staring back at her and way too close for personal comfort. She was up and instantly alert, getting into a fighting position, ready to counter any attacks he might throw at her. They stared at each other for a few seconds, brown eyes clashing with gold when he broke the connection. "I'm not going to hurt you," he said.
Oh hell no, she was not going to fall for his tricks that easy. He just wanted her guard to go down so he could call her names or hit her or something. He noticed that instead of the words calming the girl down, she tensed even more and stood up, right hand gripping her ring. "I'm serious," he said," i was acting like a jerk this morning because i thought you were someone else and you surprised me by not being her. I'm sorry."
He had said the last part so low that Kagome almost didn't hear him. He sounded sincere but experience had taught her that the ones that sound the most sincere were the ones who were the best liars. "Is this because of what i am?" he asked me suddenly and she felt as if a load of bricks had been dropped on her. She could never hate him for being hanyou, it would be like hating herself.
'I don't hate you,' she signed to him,' i just don't trust you.' She started to climb down the tree but he grabbed her hand and forced her to stand up. Kagome pulled away from him, she was not going to fall for him that easy. She took a couple of steps backwards, away from him. That really wasn't the best idea.
Her foot slipped and she lost my balance, causing her to fall out of the tree. Now her new school was three stories high and the tree was about two more stories above the school. So Kagome was plummeting five stories with nothing to break her fall. Her mouth opened in a silent scream and her hand grasped the ring. If she transformed she wouldn't get quite as hurt and any wounds she got would heal faster.
She was about to pull it off when two strong arms wrapped themselves around her and hold her close. "Hang on," Inuyasha whispered in the frightened girl's ear. Kagome looked at him in shock, he had just jumped out of a tree that she wouldn't have wanted to try to in her other form in a thousand years. Not only that but he had done it for a girl he didn't even know, a girl that he had threatened to beat up this morning. A girl that everyone shunned.
They touched down with a slight jolt, Inuyasha taking the brunt of the impact with his legs and knees. "Kagome, are you ok?" just about everyone asked at the same time. She tried to pull away from Inuyasha but was shaking so bad that she just stumbled and he held her tighter. 'Are you ok?' Miroku signed,' not hurt are you?' She shook her head no.
When Kagome finally felt like she had control of herself, she pushed Inuyasha away and stood up, still shaky but she was in control of it now. 'I'm fine,' she signed to Miroku,' just a little shaken up.' She waited until he translated for the group before turning to Inuyasha and signing,' thank you for saving me. The answer to the question you asked before is that i don't hate you. I don't judge others just because of what they are. But at the same time i don't trust you either.'
Kagome started to walk away from the group but didn't get more than three steps away when a sudden, searing pain in her throat forced her to stop. She collapsed on the ground from the pain, but instead fell into someone's arms.
"Kagome, are you ok, Kagome!" Inuyasha asked. The terror and concern in his voice was real as the light of day. 'Just because he's worried now doesn't mean that he's a good guy,' the little voice inside Kagome's head reminded her. She acknowledged it but couldn't do more than that because the pain was just too much.
Her hands came up to her neck and tears pricked her eyes. 'No tears,' Kagome told herself as she gritted her teeth,' your meds for this kind of thing are in your backpack, tell Miroku.' She lifted her hands and signed painfully,' front pocket, backpack. Clear vial, purple liquid. Hurry.' She was fairly sure that she hadn't needed to add the hurry at the end because even before she had finished her instructions he had all but ripped open her backpack. Everyone else crowded around, asking what was wrong.
Miroku handed her the vial of lavender liquid. She tried to unscrew the cap but her hand was badly shaking and her fingers couldn't grip the cap the right way. Someone took the vial from her, she couldn't see who because the pain was making her see stars and she knew she was on the verge of blacking out. Whoever it was held the vial to her lips and she opened her mouth obediently and swallowed a mouthful before she had to stop. Crap, she needed to drink the entire dose of medicine but the pain was so bad that she couldn't swallow.
Whoever had the vial kept putting the open end to her lips, trying to make her drink it. Kagome started to cough then, choking up blood. "What the hell is happening to her," Inuyasha growled. "I don't know," that voice was Miroku's. The pain was making her delirious, she was sure, seconds later she passed out.
"Fuck," Inuyasha growled when Kagome went limp in his arms, still convulsing in pain. Rin was the one holding the bottle of medicine to her lips. "Is there any way you can force her to take it while she's sleeping," a worried Sango asked her. "No, if she's unconscious while she drinks, there's a chance she'll choke on it. Wonder why she collapsed like that," Rin replied. Inuyasha started shaking the girl. "Kagome wake up," he growled," you need to wake up."
A couple of seconds later she did wake up, her head spinning and the pain worse than ever. She coughed up more blood and then the vial was back on her lips, a voice that sounded like Rin's telling her to drink. She did and this time she managed to drink the rest of the dose. Kagome felt someone wrap their arms around her and hold her close until she stopped convulsing.
Finally, ten minutes later the medicine kicked in and the pain subsided. "What happened Kagome?" Surprisingly, it was Sesshomeru who asked that. Kagome lifted her arms weakly and began to sign. 'Sometimes, randomly, i get these awful pains in my neck and throat, it's like someone's sticking a knife in it and twisting,' as she signed, Miroku translated,' doctors don't know what does it. The medicine i have helps but it doesn't stop the pain from coming back.' It took a couple of seconds after she had stopped signing to realize that Inuyasha was growling lowly in his chest. It was the kind of growl that promised trouble to anyone who decided to provoke him.
"Inuyasha," called a voice from across the courtyard. Everyone turned their head to look at who had called. Kagome looked and saw a girl about her height and build coming their way. When she got close enough, Kagome finally saw why Inuyasha mistook the two of them. They had a lot of the same features and if she hadn't known better Kagome almost would have mistaken the two of them for twins. This was Kikiyo.
"Inuyasha," she said, coming to a stop in front of where he was sitting, holding Kagome in his lap," who's this?" She looked at her virtual twin with a glare that would have sent anyone else to the grave in a heartbeat, it scared her so much that she struggled to get out of Inuyasha's arms. Kagome was too weak at the moment and finally settled back down after Inuyasha squeezed her tightly to keep her in place.
"Inuyasha, who is she?" Kikiyo asked again. The look just about drilled holes into Kagome's skull but in her current predicament, she really couldn't do anything about it. "This is Kagome," Inuyasha said, emphasizing her name," and Kikiyo, i have something i need to talk to you about. Alone." Kikiyo sneered at this. "That's going to be kind of difficult," she said," since you have your arms wrapped around that little whore like there's no tomorrow." The name she said didn't effect Kagome. She had been called much, much worse. She couldn't, however, say the same for Inuyasha.
"What did you call her?" he asked, his voice rising dangerously. "You heard me," Kikiyo said," i leave you alone for half a day and i find you wrapped around this slut." Kagome felt the growl that came from his chest rather than heard it. 'Inuyasha let me up,' she signed,' i'm fine now.' "She wants you to let her up Inuyasha," Miroku translated," she says she's fine."
Grudgingly, he let her escape his embrace. Something pinged in the back of Kagome's mind as soon as she was out and almost immediately wanted to be back where she was moments before. "We need to talk Kikiyo," Inuyasha said, standing up and walking in front of her. "Whatever you can say can be said right here, right now," Kikiyo said, seething. Inuyasha sighed and Kagome noticed a pained expression in his eyes that hadn't been there before. "Kikiyo," he said softly, pleadingly. "Just say it," she said. "Kikiyo, we have to break up," he said, shocking almost everyone around him," i'm sorry but we're over."
And that cliffy is hopefully to get you all hooked and reviewing! The more i hear, the more i write, the sooner you guys get your next chapter! Until next time!