Inuyasha kept checking the time. She was late, but this wasn't unusual, Kikyo was always late, it was something that often got on his nerves. Finally, he looked up towards the bus station and saw her walking towards him, her hands in her pockets, her face cold. Inuyasha smiled and held out his arms for a hug, she walked right past him.
"Inuyasha, we need to talk." Inuyasha winced at the words, but he pushed his bad feeling aside and nodded his head.
"Sure Kikyo, what's up?" he asked, easily keeping stride with her. She looked at him out of the corner of her eye. His chest tightened.
"This isn't working." She told him, her tone icy, and her eyes poisonous. Inuyasha chuckled a little, trying to ignore the filling of dread that had settled in the pit of his stomach.
"We aren't working Inuyasha. I've been seeing someone else." She said. Inuyasha's words caught in his throat, the pain was excruciating and immediate, in his chest, his stomach and along his spine. He shook his head, struggling for breath.
"Why?" he choked out, his voice sounding cracked and whiny to his own ears.
"I fell out of love along time ago Inuyasha." She placed her hands on each side of his face.
"I'm sorry." And she walked back towards the bus station and out of his life.
X~X
Kagome rubbed her eyes sleepily, she had woken up late and was now waiting at the bus station for her best friend Sango. She inhaled the familiar scent of old cigarettes and hairspray that polluted the air. She listened to the distant hum of traffic. It was 12:30 am and still no sign of Sango. She sighed and slumped against the cold, bright green bus station pole. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw something silver, she turned to look and met the eyes of a boy, the silver had been his hair, which hung to his thighs, and his eyes were like liquid gold, they danced with withheld tears. He glared at her with an unprecedented ferocity and she flinched back.
"Kagome! Hey!" Kagome spun around to see Sango jogging towards her. When she turned back around to look at the boy, he was gone.
X~X
She looked just like Kikyo. He thought she was her, but she wasn't, and she meant nothing to him, then why couldn't he keep his eyes away from her. She was watching the arriving buses with a bland expression on her pretty face. Her lips slightly pouted, her liquid brown eyes disinterested. And then she turned to look at him. His hands balled into fists as she cocked her head to the side, studying him. It was like she knew. Like she knew what he was going through, and he hated her for it. She flinched at the intensity of his glare.
"Kagome! Hey!" the girl whipped her head around. Ah, so her name is Kagome. Wait why did he even care. She stood up and waved at the other girl who was swiftly approaching. And Inuyasha, letting out an angry sigh, shuffled back towards his car.
X~X
"He just glared at you? For no reason?" Sango asked, delicately eating her fries. Kagome nodded over her strawberry milkshake.
"I don't know what was up with him. He looked at me like I had killed his father or something."
"And you say he was a Hanyou?" she asked. Kagome nodded again and folder her hands in her lap.
"I don't know Kagome, you know what they say about half-breeds, they are always dangerous, it's that demon blood in them, you have to be careful Kagome." Sango smiled at her.
"And if he comes after you, I will destroy him."
X~X
Inuyasha threw his car into gear and sped up, not caring that he was over 10 mph over the speed limit. He rolled the windows down and let his long silver hair blow in the wind, his sensitive dog ears picking up pieces of conversation as he drove past. Irritated, he switched the radio on and turned it up so that it deadened all other sound.
It never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled.
Inuyasha sighed and switched it back off. He was almost to his apartment. He parked the car and slid out of the drivers seat. He ascended the stairs and unlocked his door, slipping into his muddy gray living quarters. He slumped on the overstuffed couch and flipped on the TV. Everything reminded him of Kikyo.
"Damn." He said, bringing his fist down on the cherry wood coffee table.
"Damn, damn, damn!" he buried his head in his hands.
X~X
Kagome slid into bed and sighed in relief. She had enjoyed her last day of summer break, the school year was starting the next day and she felt surprisingly peaceful about it. But her mind kept turning to the Hanyou boy at the bus station. Why had he looked at her like that? Why had he looked so sad? She closed her eyes and tried to clear him from her mind, but she was unsuccessful, the sadness in her eyes kept floating to the forefront of her mind. She sighed and rolled over in bed.
"Who was he? She asked herself out loud. But no answer was forth coming, despite herself, she wanted to see him again, to find out what lay behind those eyes. She wanted to know the Hanyou boy with the silver hair.
X~X
Inuyasha sighed as he wrapped the bandage around his cracked and bleeding fist. Now he would get to go to school tomorrow looking like he had gotten in a fight. Teacher distrusted him as it was because of his being a half bread. The word tasted sour on his tongue. He turned the TV off and shuffled into his bedroom, ripping off a picture he had of Kikyo on his wall and crumpling it in his fist. Once again…he was alone.