Author's Note: Hi and heres a new chapter, though it won't be a new chapter if your reading this and this has been finished for two years, never ming
ok, have you notice that i'm putting quotes at the beginning of every chapter, there is some sense to why i'm putting them here, not only because i want to, though some times i wish i hadn't bothered, because it's hard to find or think up a quote at the beginning of a chapter that has something to do with the chapter, but doesn't give the chapter away.
anyway i'll shut up and let you read, chapter 3.
Chapter 3
Nothing inspired me more
Than the desire to bang my head
Against a wall and knock myself
Unconscious.
Inuyasha sat up in Goshinbuko, feeling strangely safe in its branches, even though he had been pinned to the great tree not so long ago.
The cool, half eaten moon, glowed down at him threw the thick green foliage. It made the Marble on his palm glow like a miniature moon with it middle eaten out, for the jewel was blocking it flowing glow. He almost resent the jewel for doing that.
He stared at the Soul Marble and sighed.
Why him?
Why choice him out of all the people and Demons in the world?
He was just a Half-Demon.
He leant his head back against the Goshinbuko huge trunk and closed his eyes.
He was tired, so very tired, but he couldn't sleep or more to the point he wouldn't let himself sleep.
He had no wish to sleep. Not after being force into an enchant sleep for the heavens knew how long.
He had always disliked the whole concept of sleep, for one, when you slept you were vulnerable to attack by an enemy and sometimes, a lot of times, when you went to sleep you didn't wake up again, not ever again.
Sleeping was death.
Death was sleeping.
It was always out there waiting to attack you and the moment you closed your eyes, there it was, ready and waiting.
But he wouldn't give it a chance to catch him, he would not sleep, not without being totally on his guard, at all times.
"Good morning, Inuyasha."
Inuyasha glared down from his great height in the Goshinbuko high braches at the cheerful speaker, standing at the tree's great roots, holding a plate in one hand, a glass in the other and grinning from ear to ear.
"What's so good about?" He grumbled crankily, still scowling at Tamaki, who laughed good naturally.
"Come down and eat, you great Baka (idiot)." Tamaki said.
Inuyasha scowled deepen, but jumped down from his branch with ease, landing lightly on his feet on the ground by a stunned Tamaki.
"Cool." Tamaki said, wide eyed with awe. Inuyasha rolled his eyes, this guy was impossible and what did he mean by cool, it was freaking hot standing in the way of the Sun.
"Now who's the Baka, saying it's cool, when it feels like hot spring." Inuyasha snarled at him, Tamaki looked confused for a moment then caught on.
"no, when I say 'cool', I don't means its cool, but that its…" he trailed off, Inuyasha wasn't listening to him and was happily digging into the food Tamaki had brought, his caution from yesterday about the food Tamaki offered him was completely gone.
Tamaki watch Inuyasha eat with little interest, he had seen hungry boys eat hundreds of times and Inuyasha at this moment was no different then them, except for the fact that he could eat at super speed. One moment the food was there the next, poof, it was gone, completely and utterly.
"Doesn't eating hot food that fast, burn your tongue and throat?" Tamaki asked off hand, Inuyasha eyed him critically and went on to his fourth bowl of Ramen, and from what Tamaki could gather he really, really liked it.
"Well, now that your done eating, I have to go to school, so I won't be back until this afternoon, so please try and stay out of trouble until then, cause the last thing my family and I need is for half of Japan to realise there is a wild half-demon terrorising our shrine." Tamaki said, sighing and stood up unwillingly.
Inuyasha eyes narrowed.
Terrorising.
He felt his hands curl into fist as unwanted memories of his attack on the village flowed threw his mind.
"Eh, you ok?" Tamaki asked, when he notice Inuyasha had not responded to what he had been saying. He frown when he notice Inuyasha hands curled into fist, his eyes where hundreds of miles away, or many hundreds of years away.
"Hey, you alright?" Tamaki asked, he tapped Inuyasha shoulder gently.
SMACK
Tamaki was sent flying downwards, his nose bleeding and his right cheek bruising from Inuyasha lightning fast punch.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Tamaki bellowed, scrambling to his feet to confront Inuyasha, who snarled warningly at him. Tamaki took heed of the warning in Inuyasha's growl, but calmly stood his ground, his eyes glowing with annoyance and frustration and that was all.
Inuyasha noted this, the boy hadn't run away after he had striked him and he only looked annoyed about it, not angry or reproachful.
What the hell was wrong with him?
Any sane person would have done something more then yell in frustration.
Inuyasha scowled, he was regretting hitting Tamaki, who had done nothing wrong really.
He growled, he hated regretting, this was all his stupid, useless, human half's fault and with that he ran, like he had always done when he was faced with these sorts of issues.
"Wait, Inuyasha…WAIT." He heard Tamaki yell after him.
He could hear Tamaki running after him and he frowned, he had never had anyone chasing after him, yelling wait with that sort of voice.
He started to slow down only to speed up again.
No he wasn't going to fall into that trap again.
After a time he could no longer hear Tamaki's voice nor feet chasing after him. Maybe the boy had chosen to be wise and had given up on him and let him go on his own.
Inuyasha slowed to a walked and as he did so he notice how little people payed attention to him as if they barely knew he was there.
He also noticed that the nauseating smells, he had smelt since yesterday had grown stronger making his head swirl.
He groaned, he hated this place, he wanted to leave but of cause he didn't know how to do that.
"Found you." Gasped out a wheezing voice behind him. Inuyasha almost jumped out of his skins and he certainly did jump.
He sat on top of a pole that was bent some what at the top, and scowled with venom down at Tamaki who was puffing and panting, leaning heavily against a brick wall, clutching both his sides.
"God, do you even know how freaking fast you ran and how far you've come, you moron?" Tamaki demanded once he had caught his breath somewhat.
Inuyasha frowned and shook his head, feeling much calmer after his run and was rather amused to see the calm, cheerful Tamaki, looking hilariously outraged.
"Oh, you think this is funny do you?" Tamaki demanded, though he looked less outraged now though still rather annoyed.
"Why the heck did you punch me for then run off?" Tamaki asked, once Inuyasha had come down from his poll. Inuyasha scowled, but shrugged, keeping his dangerous fist at his sides. Tamaki sighed, realising his question was going to have to go unanswered.
"Come on, I'm already late for school as it is." Tamaki said darkly, beginning to walk back the way they had come.
"What's School?" Inuyasha asked curiously, his head tilted to one side. Tamaki stared at him in disbelief.
"You gotta be kidding me; you don't know what a School is?" Tamaki asked torn between laughter and shock. Inuyasha shook his head.
"Well let's say for some it's one of the most horrible levels of Hell." He said, sighing heavily, Inuyasha frown but let it go.
"Here, you should really wear something over your ears; people might begin to wonder other wise." Tamaki said, holding out a strange object in his hand. Inuyasha stared at it doubtfully.
"It goes on your head; it's called a cap, ok." Tamaki said, shoving it on to Inuyasha head.
"Not that it's really going to make much difference, since you already look like an idiot with your cloths and hair." Tamaki added with a sigh, eyeing Inuyasha cloths with doubt.
"I'm surprised that no ones called the police because of you, I mean you're not hard to notice, yet no one seems to be noticing you." Tamaki scratched his head for a moment, before hitting his forehead with his hand, making a loud slapping noise and making people stare at him in surprise, taking no heed of Inuyasha making him feel happily invisible.
"Dammit, they can't see you, your not technically here, well you are, but you aren't." seeing Inuyasha's blank expression, he rolled his eyes.
"Your invisible to them, you don't have a body, so you technically don't exist here, in this time." Tamaki explained as they continued to walk down the street and turn a corner into another street, Inuyasha was already completely lost and confused, by the different smells and noises that were going on around him. But he couldn't help but grin at the idea that no one could see him, it was a sort of relief not having people glare at him from all directions.
"Oh well, keep the cap on anyway, if your coming to school with me, the last thing I need is to be distracted by your ears." Tamaki sighed, rubbing his discoloured jaw where Inuyasha had punched him.
While he had been running, it hadn't hurt at all, but now it was beginning to throb, he wondered what his teachers and classmates would say when they saw him with a broken nose and nicely rainbow coloured jaw. Probably think he was now gangster or a delinquent. He groaned, just what he needed in his final term of middle school.
Inuyasha frown at Tamaki, he was sighing and groaning and making a lot of weird faces, but Inuyasha decided to let it pass, though he did wince a little when he saw how many colours there where playing on Tamaki cheek.
"Here we are, my own personal Hell." Tamaki told him suddenly in a low dramatic voice. Inuyasha eyed the building in front of them and pulled a face. It was big, huge even and smelled like lots of different people. He looked at Tamaki who was wearing a depressed expression on his face.
"Come on, and enter the Demon's nest." He sighed and trudged threw the gates of the school, towards the dread building, with a bewildered Inuyasha following behind him.
Maybe he should have just kept running, this place was clearly evil.
Inuyasha eyed the building nervously and wonder what horrors there where to been found inside.
The horrors inside where not what he had expected, there were no demons there, no evil spirits, just a whole lot of humans.
Inuyasha followed the slumped Tamaki as they walked grimly threw the halls.
"It's nice of you to finally join us, Mr Higurashi." Said a man standing in front of thirty or so people around Tamaki's age, they all giggled and made snide remarks, all directed at Tamaki, who ignored them, apologized to the man calmly, saying it would never happen again before walking down the rows of desks to an empty one by a window in the second row. He sat down heavily and dragged out his books and stared at them somewhat blankly.
"Hey, Higurashi, didja get into a fight or something?" sniggered his neighbour, Tamaki ignored him, but Inuyasha notice his hands clenching into fists.
"He's not denying it." Said another boy.
"Nah, he's too much of a whim to get into a fight, he was probably slapped by some girl." Said another boy and the class laughed, Tamaki continued to ignore them, but his ears went bright red. Inuyasha scowled at the class, he was taking a great disliking to them all. He knew how this feeling of humiliation, he knew it all too well.
"All right, be quiet all of you, or it detention." The man out front yelled at the class before turning once again to the black board that he was writing strange figures on.
Maybe it was a spell, Inuyasha wondered.
"Also, Higurashi I wish to speak to you after this lesson." The man added coldly.
Tamaki groaned, his head dropping to his desk heavily.
Inuyasha scowled at the Man, who clearly disliked Tamaki, for some reason or other.
"Higurashi, would you care to explain yourself?" asked the Man, who Inuyasha learned was called Mr Muzuki, a balding man in his late to mid forties, short and stout, with an extreme dislike of teenagers from any age, he also had a cold, bad temper. It was after class and everyone had left except them, standing out in the hall.
"I can't explain really; I just tripped over on the way to school and crashed into a poll." Tamaki lied badly; staring at his feet, hoping his evil maths teacher wouldn't see threw him.
Mr Muzuki gave a snort and rolled his eyes in disgust, did the stupid, ignorant boy think that he could really lie to him, how stupid could the boy get.
Inuyasha snorted also, anyone in their right minds could have guessed and seen right away that Tamaki was lying. Idiot.
Tamaki sighed inwardly, he could sense his teacher hadn't brought his lie, he could sense Inuyasha hadn't either, even though he knew the truth. Was he that bad at lying?
"Detention, this afternoon after school, Higurashi, for lying to your teacher, disrupting the class with your lateness and for getting into a fight, in your school uniform, disrespecting the whole school in doing so." Mr Muzuki said, a slight grin playing on his face, though it soon faded as he glanced at the spot where Inuyasha was glaring fiercely at him. Muzuki shivered, before turning on his heels and stomping off.
Tamaki groan and smacked his head repeatedly against the wall of the school corridor outside his classroom.
"Just my luck," He grumbled, "I get detention, I don't have a single clue what the bastard was rambling about with the stupid Surds, who the heck needs to learn about them anyway, there not even useful."
Inuyasha stared at Tamaki unsure what to do, it was after all mostly his fault that Tamaki was in trouble.
"Um, Higurashi, are you alright?"
Both human and half-demon boy jumped, as a sweet, gently voice came up beside them without their notice.
Inuyasha scowled at the pretty girl standing, now in front of them, her dark hair was pulled back in a rough bun at the base of her neck, a few wisps of hair fell into her was as she tilted her head slightly in confusion as the fact that Tamaki had one moment been banging his head against a wall and the next going bright scarlet red as he faced her.
"eh, hi Suki, how are you today?" Tamaki gushed out, his face still a brilliant shade of red and he had once again taken to staring at his feet intently.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes, the idiot was being an even bigger idiot in front of a stupid wench. He growled softly at the girl, her dark eyes reminding him painfully of Kikyo's.
The girl, Suki, blinked in confusion at where Inuyasha was standing, frowning slightly, for she could just make out, what looked like an fuzzy outline of a tall boy, with flowing robes and hair.
The outline suddenly faded and she shook her head, she must have been imagining thing, maybe stressing over her exams was making her see things.
"I'm fine, thank you, Higurashi." She replied politely.
"Hey Suki, why are you talking to that loser?"
Suki closed her eyes in irritation. Just once couldn't the idiot just leave her alone?
"He is not an loser, Yazmino." Suki said quietly, flinching a bit as a tall, arrogant looking boy, with black hair cut short, flung his arm around her small shoulders.
Tamaki scowled at him, angrily.
"Come on, let's go." Yazmino snarled, turning around dragging Suki with him as he did so, she turn her head and shot an apologetic look at Tamaki, her eyes lingering for a moment on the place where Inuyasha was standing. Yazmino looked back over his shoulder at Tamaki smiling triumphantly.
Tamaki scowled after him, before returning to bang his head against the wall.
"Your going to knock yourself out, you know if you keep doing that." Inuyasha said in a dead pan way.
"That's the point, for at this moment nothing has inspired me more than the desire to bang my head against a wall and hopefully knock myself unconscious." Tamaki said calmly, continuing to whack his head against the wall.
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow, sceptically.
"ok." He said, before grabbing Tamaki and started to roughly drag him down the hall.
"Aw, come on, haven't you picked up me enough today." Tamaki howled as Inuyasha dragged him rather brutally out of the school.
Tamaki had notice the many odd looks he had received, for he looked as if he was being dragged down the hall by thin air. His face flamed and he hung his head, this was so embarrassing.
"What are you sulking about?" Inuyasha demanded, once they where outside, under a tree that was away from where most of the other students hung out.
"I'm not sulking." Tamaki grumbled back, flopping on to the ground, rubbing his forehead, it like his cheek was aching and was making his whole head hurt.
"You liked that girl, don't you?" Inuyasha asked unexpectedly, Tamaki jumped slightly at the sudden, rather embarrassing question, he open his mouth to deny it, but the words never came as he notice the cold, distant look to Inuyasha face.
Tamaki bit his lip, why did he have a feeling that Inuyasha wasn't all that keen on girls, or maybe he had been, but something had happen to change his feeling towards them.
"I do like her, but I don't think she likes me much, though." He admitted, though he didn't know why he was telling Inuyasha, it wasn't like he cared.
"Feh." Inuyasha snarled.
"Girls are cruel, they say one thing, but they don't really mean, they say they love you and want to be with you forever, but they are lying, she was lying about everything, she didn't give a damn about me. She didn't love me, she shot me for no good reason." He hissed, Tamaki stared at Inuyasha, wide eyed.
He knew now Inuyasha wasn't talking to him, but to himself. Tamaki felt a pang on sadness hit him for Inuyasha. That must have hurt him deeply, to have someone who seemed to care about you, only to betray you.
Inuyasha suddenly jumped up into the tree above their heads, landing lightly on a branch.
"And now I have to move her damn soul to another, why the heck do I have to, she shot me! I don't want anything else to do with her." He shoved his hands into his robes and pulled out the Soul Marble and held it in his hand and stared at intently.
"Inside this marble is the Shikon Jewel and this marble is made of Kikyo's soul, why would anyone want Kikyo's soul inside of them, it's stupid and cruel, way to cruel to do to some innocent pup." He whispered and with that he rolled his hand over and let the marble drop towards the hard concrete ground below.
Author's Note: argh a cliff hanger, though not really, i mean if the Marble really didn't break then there would be no Kagome, would there. this wasn't going to be a cliff hanger, but i thought what the hell, i'll let you chew on this for a bit until i sort out chapter four.
You might have notice that, though i potrayed Inuyasha as really not liking Kikyo and not liking to think of her, but i have him not really minding the Marble, even though it's Kikyo soul, i wanted him to look at it as not only being Kikyo's soul, but soon to be someone else soul, and he feels sort of sorry for the person who is going to inherit Kikyo's Soul and the Jewel. If my rambling made sense to any of you your really smart or you just get what i'm rambling about.
P.S. have a guess who the Girl is.
anyway see ya.
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