*A/n : Five reviews, it's certainly a start! I'd like to thank my reviewers! :) It's the last night I have of sheer solitude until I return to my hectic lifestyle (again...haha, it's what I get for wanting my bachelors at 20...), and I figured I'd work on this! On with the chapter! ^o^
*Disclaimer : I can't draw! At all! Certainly Inuyasha couldn't be mine! XD
One Day in Social Studies Class
Chapter 2 : Laughter, the Cure of Sadness
Scrambling herself together, Kagome scrawled a brief note in her notebook and left it on her desk, which would predominately distinguish itself in the wake of others, to tell her mother where she had gone. She sucked back the despair that caused her chest to heave in a rampant sobbing throb while tears cascaded down her face. Unable to control her emotions, she ran down the stairs with the ominous textbook in hand and rushed outside to where the brisk air met her continually-dampening cheeks and eyes harshly. Vision beginning to blur, Kagome bolted to the place where she needn't her sight to navigate: the well.
The young priestess bit her lip while the reaped consternations the book wrought built upon each other; images flew threw her head, and she tried to deny all she foresaw but she couldn't. It would be impossible to settle with her qualms unless she saw the one person her mind seldom drifted from. Jumping into the well, her heart ached as it felt the warm sensation envelop her; it was the same sensation she pleasured herself in while she resided in her love's strong arms. Things couldn't continue like this...The future had to be changed, but Kagome knew that that would be no simple task. It would cost its toll, its struggles, and its pain; but she was prepared to confront such things if it meant his survival.
Lights fading, she knew she was on the other side of the well, and she chucked the book up and out the well to avoid climbing with something in hand. She then escalated the vines with a foreboding feeling constantly nagging at her. What if no familiar face came to greet her with its cocky, pleased smile? What if the book had lied? What if...?
"Kagome," Inuyasha's voice carried over to her as he bounded over to her in leaps and she remained silent as shivers ran down her spine. "Why are you crying...?" His tone was soothing when he chose to worry, and as she watched his capable arms pulled her up from the remainder of the distance into his lap.
A meer glance at his face brought on a sigh of relief along with final tears which she unladed, and the hanyou was unsure how to react. Never before had she come to him crying for reasons unknown; usually he had done something stupid or reckless, but this was different... "Kagome, what...happened?"
Dabbing the wet spots from her face, Kagome sniffled, "That's the problem; something is supposed to happen, but it hasn't happened yet."
Inuyasha's eyes shown with a childish bemusement while he spoke, "So you're telling me you're crying over something that hasn't happened yet? Why are you crying over something that's supposed to happen? If it's really that bad, shouldn't you just stop it while you can?"
"But I can't bear the thought of that something happening, and I don't know if I can prevent it..." Kagome sighed as she clung to his warmth.
Sighing, Inuyasha replied obviously more patient than he had been in previous situations, "What is it?"
Kagome retracted her arms from him, drew herself away, and looked him clearly in the eyes as she answered, "I don't want you to die." Her voice shook on the last word, but she managed.
"Wait, do you know something I don't? What you have a bad dream or something? Remember, I'm not that easy to kill off," Inuyasha reminded her with that carefree albeit arrogant attitude that she knew and loved.
Walking to meet the book where she had left it abandoned by the rim, she picked it up and handed it to him. "You can read, right?"
"Yeah...My mother taught me a little before she died, but Kagome, there's nothing written in this 'bo-ok'. It's all blank." He returned the exuberant mass back to her as he waited for further elaboration.
"But I can read it! It told me Miroku, Sango, and Shippo wrote it, and that you died during the battle with Naruku!"
Inuyasha couldn't help but ask, "Did I win?"
Astonished at his response, she answered, "Yes..."
An evil glint appeared in Inuyasha's eyes as he retorted, "Well, I don't really see the problem. I mean, I kill him, you get the jewel, you can be 'normal' like you've always wanted, and..."
"STOP, JUST STOP!" Kagome screamed, "You insensitive jerk! BAKA! You can go die if you wanna...See if I care," Kagome's eyes widened as she realized what she had just said, and silent tears ran down her face in turn. How could I have said...something so cruel?
"Kagome..." Inuyasha started as he lifted her onto his lap. "It's okay, Kagome, I'm sorry...You want me to stay around, right?" She nodded 'yes' in his chest before he continued, "Well then I ain't going anywhere."
Muffled by his entirety, she muttered, "I don't care if we kill Naraku, or if I get the jewel! I don't even want to be normal anymore! After this, how I could I go back without regrets? It doesn't mean a thing to me if a single one of us dies! We went into this together, we're coming out of it the same way!"
"It'll be okay 'Gome," Inuyasha tried to comfort her as he stroked her hair, "I'm not going anywhere; I'll stay by your side as long as you want me to."
Deeply inhaling, she looked up into his golden eyes and asked, "Since when did you start being nice to me?"
"Since you decided to come up to me crying while I was in a good mood," he smiled as he returned her gaze.
"A good mood...in you? What brought that up?" Inuyasha in a good mood? Did the apocalypse just occur and I missed it?
"Thinking."
Kagome snorted, "You use you head for that?"
Inuyasha's eyes flared up with a fiery passion that he hadn't felt since Kagome's departure for her home. "Wench, what do you mean by that?"
Laughing, she retaliated with a smirk, "You know what I meant, dog boy!"
"Oh yeah? I thought you said that I didn't think!" Inuyasha returned as he bemusedly watched the girl still settled in his lap.
Unable to contain herself any longer, Kagome burst into laughter and Inuyasha's boyish grin lit up his face. "Inuyasha, could we go sit in the tree?"
Nodding, Inuyasha took her up in his arms and jumped to his usual place in the tree. He sat down and situated her in his lap and muttered, " 'Gome, don't worry 'bout it. What'll happen will happen, but I'll be damned if I let you cry over someone like me."
Snuggling closer to him, she whispered, "Well whatever you do, don't die on me...I just don't want to let you go..."
Inuyasha placed his chin atop her head to let the nape of his neck reside near her face as he replied, "I won't leave until you tell me to. 'Kay Kagome? I'm here right now, and we'll solve tomorrow's problems tomorrow. Let's not tell the others 'bout this book thing..."
"Mmkay, night," Kagome mumbled as she drifted off into the world of slumber.
Left to his thoughts, Inuyasha soon slept as well, Kagome's warmth right there beside him.
~The Next Morning~
"Kagome," Inuyasha, the get-up-with-the-sun-earlybird, prodded at the girl still sleeping on his chest.
Shifting slightly, Kagome mumbled, "Five more minutes..."
"No," Inuyasha sternly relied. "It's still early, and I don't want the others to wake up before we get up..."
Kagome's eyes opened and saw his silver hair shine against the pale sunlight. Rubbling at her eyes in disbelief, she answered, "Alright fine, take me down, I have to get my stuff from home anyways..."
Without a response, he brought her back down to the ground below, and Kagome's eyes immediately fell upon the book that she had left forlorn on the ground. "I left that here...What if someone had found it?" I'm hopeless...So careless...
"But there's nothing written in there. No one here would have been able to read it anyways," Inuyasha persisted with what he had initially proclaimed the night before.
It finally hit her. "Wait, so you couldn't read it? Maybe they don't want any unfair advantages...Am I some sort of exception or something? Huh. Anyways, I should probably get back! I'll return a little later just as planned. Remember, Sango, Miroku, and Shippo, don't need to know about this!" Kagome summarized everything and stepped off the rim of the well and down it, disappearing with a blue glow.
Completely dumbstruck, Inuyasha just stood and stared at the place Kagome last dwelt. What...exactly happened last night? It's a weird feeling...We sort of fought, but...And I...Was nice?
End of Chapter 2
*A/n : Now that that's done...Please review! I personally loathed the previous version of this chapter with all my being, and I hope it's better this time around! (I wonder if I will every be completely satisfied by my own work!) Kagome's reaction better seem more...realistic, too! I hope XD I did make a considerable difference from the previous version in plot as well, and I think this is a better choice. ;) By the way, I sincerely apologize if some words clump together! I type on the document manager so I can access it anywhere, but it does that sometimes when I save (and you guys might be surprised at how much I proof read & save)! o: If you catch one, tell me, I'll fix it (if it doesn't just give you guys a new one instead!) 0_o
~Mitzuki-chan ^o^
