Ok, here's the 4th chapter. If you all like Kikyo.. umm haha just a warning I guess? Woot. I really don't have much to say this time. Aloha!

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha & crew or "duck and run" by 3 doors down. Also, the song in the story is "I'm so Sick" by Flyleaf. A really good girl rock band, you guys should check them out!


Duck & Run

Run in with Kikyo


"Kagome… Kagome… Wake up! You're going to be late for your next class!" she opened her groggy eyes and rubbed them with the back of her hand, wincing as she was reminded of the bruises upon her face.

"Come on wench! Get up, get going!" This time she was able to pick her head up to see golden eyes glaring down at her. There was still a bit of the worry she'd seen in them from earlier that day.

She smacked her mouth a little, trying to get rid of the funky taste she'd acquired while sleeping and said "Alright, alright. I'm getting up, I'm going," She quickly closed her open sketchbook, hoping he hadn't seen anything that was written in it as she stood in the doorway she finished her statement "I'm gone."

With that Inuyasha watched her leave the room and waited until he heard her jogging lazily down the hall until he sat down in his seat and pictured the things he'd seen in her sketchbook. The one thing that was burned in his memory was the giant word in bold angry colors. Fuck it.

Just what had she meant by that? Kagome wasn't the type of person he could imagine writing those things, even saying them.

For the rest of his art class he was distracted. He would pick up his pencil and tap it against his chin and bite on it while he brooded before he'd throw it down and run a hand through his hair. What was it about this girl that made him feel like this? That made him care?

Before long the bell rang for lunch and for once he rushed towards the cafeteria and outside to their place. He sat down beside Kagome and started to eat, glancing at the girl who was stifling quiet for once.

After Miroku joined them he stood up and looked at Sango "Hey, I need in your lunch account. I'm still hungry and I ran out of money."

The girl glared at him "You know Inuyasha, I'm not made of money!"

He raised his eyebrows and then motioned his head towards Kagome and then mouthed 'We need to talk about her.' Before he said loudly "Well, you certainly have more than most of us here. Come on! Please?"

Sango caught on and stood up voicing in aggravation that she couldn't stand him ordering her around. When they walked inside they sat down at one of the round empty table and Inuyasha looked at her "Ok, so do you know what's wrong with Kagome? She's been acting strange all day."

A heavy sigh emitted from the girl's throat "I don't know, but she seems really depressed. She hasn't said more than one word to me today and that was just a 'fine' to my question of how she was."

"All this just doesn't give me a good feeling. There's got to be something wrong with her, for her to act this out of character." He sighed and resigned their conversation as they both walked back to the table, making sure that they both had cookies to make sure their cover was completed.

Soon after they returned Kagome turned her dull eyes towards Sango and said in a small voice, trying to regain her happy-go-lucky cover "Hey, Sango! Umm, mind if I crash at your house tonight? I'm bored of my house."

Only Inuyasha caught the slight quiver in her voice when she said the last thing. He didn't suspect that she was actually bored. Boredom wouldn't cause such a drastic change in her attitude. Maybe she got into an argument with her mother?

"Sorry Kagome… I would let you if I didn't already promise Miroku that we'd go on a date tonight. We won't be back until midnight probably since it's a Friday." Sango looked down, blushing slightly because she had to say that they were going on a date. She didn't think twice about why Kagome would ask to come over when she rarely even wanted to hang out for an hour after school.

Kagome felt her heart sink down into the pit of her stomach and had to swallow hard to commit the vomit that was threatening to beseech her throat to let it free back down into her bowels. To the gallows, was all she could think of at the moment about the idea that she would have to return to that house, that insane asylum, to face the punishment that had been awaiting her since she'd hit puberty.

But Inuyasha came to her rescue "Hey… You could hang at my place tonight if you want to. I've got nothing better to do." He didn't know why he offered her this, but the paling look that hit her face the moment Sango let her down demanded that he offer.

The first true smile of the day lit her face as she nodded enthusiastically as she gave him a small, quick hug. To cover up the awkwardness she said gleefully "Good! I promise you, I won't bug you at all if you don't want me to!"

"Feh, whatever wench." With that he stood up because the bell had rung for them all to leave to their next class. Sango and Miroku headed out of the lunch room while Inuyasha and Kagome stayed behind in the lunch room and waited for the PE coach to tell them what they were to do for the day.

An elderly man with a funny, twirled mustache sat on the wall of the wheelchair ramp and said with an authoritative voice "Alright, girls," he referred to everyone one in his coed class as girls "we're going to run outside a little today. If you all do well in the running, I may decide to allow you all to roam the grounds for the rest of the class. Now hit the locker rooms!"

They all entered their separate locker rooms. Unlike everything about the school, the locker rooms were actually close to normal sized ones. Kagome went into her gym locker and pulled out the grey sweat pants she'd cut off into Capri's, and then a green long sleeved turtle neck and an old grey gym t-shirt to her old school that had 'Eri' scribbled across it then crossed out and replaced with 'Kagome'.

As she began changing into her gym clothes, Kikyo and some of her posse came up beside her and slammed her locker clothes "Hey, new girl. Your pimp beat you up or something?"

Kagome shot the girl a deadly glare and opened her locker back up again, then shoved her stuff into the locker. While waiting for them to leave her alone she slid the t-shirt on over the turtle neck and started to tie her shoes.

"Hey bitch, I was talking to you!" yelled Kikyo as she slammed the new girl against one of the lockers.

This time Kagome reacted and shot Kikyo a seething glare before she stood up and looked at the girl who was a good 5 inches taller than she was. But this didn't intimidate Kagome in the least as she grabbed the front of the taller girl's shirt and pinned her against a locker.

"The names Kagome. Leave me the fuck alone or I'll mess you up." With that she gave the girl a tight smile and turned her back, preparing to walk out of the locker rooms.

Before she could, Kikyo ran after her and yanked her back by her hair and then swung at her. Kagome dodged the punch and jabbed the girl in the stomach. That's when the fight commenced.

Kagome had Kikyo pinned on the ground and she was wailing on the taller girl when her minions started in on her too. Soon there was 5 girls against one and surprisingly Kagome was still whipping them.

Meanwhile, outside the locker rooms some girls not involved in the fight were running out and in tears, and a guy just sort of pointed at the girl's locker room and said to the coach "Hey coach! I think there's a cat fight going on in there!"

Many of the boys then started trying to cram their way into the girls locker room to watch, but the coach shoved through them all and finally split up the fight. He angrily marched out all the girls and lined them up against the wall outside the lockers.

"Ok, tell me what happened!" he glared at all the girls, looking them all over for damage. The smaller one, the new girl, was standing away from all of them and had her arms crossed. He couldn't imagine how she was still standing because she had a nice black a blue face. Little did he know, that the bruise on her face wasn't from the fight.

The other girls had bruises and scratches upon them, their hair all out of sorts and very sullen looks upon their faces. Kikyo stood, wailing that the 'witch' had ruined her perfect modeling face. True enough, Kikyo was very swollen looking and already couldn't see out of one eye.

"Well, go ahead girls!" when none of them responded to him he stalked up and down the line "If you all aren't gonna tell me, then I'll tell you. Looks like you all got catty when this one said something nastey to you all." He pointed to the new girl and glared at her. He smiled sweetly at Kikyo, knowing she'd repay him for getting her out of trouble.

One of the girls spoke up brightly "Yes! Yes! That witch ATTACKED poor Kikyo and we just all tried to pull her off her! But she just kept fighting and started beating on all of us too! Just for trying to save Kikyo!" she brought out a fake sob and hid her face against one of the guys who patted her on the shoulder.

"Ok, I see how it went. New girl, you have detention after school for the next week with me!" he glared at the girl and tried to hide a smirk. They all knew what happened to girls with detention with him.

Finally Inuyasha stepped forward in a panic and said angrily "That's bull shit! You can't do that to her, when it was obviously all those girls ganged up against her! You're a fucking idiot!"

"Oh really? If you think so, Mr. Taisho, I suppose I'll give you the same sentence! Now all of you, the show is over. Get running!" he turned to the 5 girls and said sweetly "Go ahead, you all are excused for this period. Miss Higurashi, Mr. Taisho, get moving. NOW!"

With that the gym class all filed out, one after another and soon all were out jogging around the old soccer field. Kagome jogged alone, around the old playground and baseball field instead, trying to keep her anger under wraps.

Inuyasha caught up with her and said beneath his breath "Stupid whores. Shouldn't mess with you, just cuz you're new and better looking than they."

She rewarded him with a small smile as she looked up at him, slowing down their pace now that they were out of sight "You know, you didn't have to stand up for me and get yourself in trouble as well."

He threw out his arms and shrugged as he smiled down at her and then turned it to a scowl "Feh, whatever. I knew I didn't have to, but I wanted to."

She felt as if her whole world was brightening up a bit as she looked at him "Thank you Inuyasha. You're a good friend."

"Feh, whatever. Now sit down and let me have a look at you." He looked once more to make sure they were well out of view of any of their classmates or the coach.

A blush spread across her face before she sat down on an old rotting bench and he kneeled down in front of her. Taking her chin in his hands he inspected her face, turning it from one side to the other.

"They really gave you a beating, didn't they? We'll have to put some stuff on the scratches to make sure they don't scar." He sat back on his heels and looked her over again before laughing "But boy, did you give them a whipping!" his grin widened a bit he heaved himself up and sat beside her.

A small smile came to her lips again "I did, didn't I?

"Yes! And 5 to 1! You still won! Heh, I've never seen Kikyo lose a fight before, especially when she has all her cronies!"

Before long the two were up and jogging slowly into the locker rooms. Both of them left for their last hour class and dreaded the double detentions they both had at the end of the day. But at least they had the other to keep them company.


All I have to say, is Kikyo is a bitch. Yay. There. Said it. WOOOOooooOO! I know you all must be THRILLED that Inuyasha and Kagome are finally starting to warm up to each other!


Umm, could I possible have 5 reviews before I update this story? THANKS


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