Koga in a blue suede three piece suit soaking in the glory and beaming proudness of his parents and three older brothers.
"Koga just 'cause you're getting older now don't make you the shit..." he read off one of the cards his brother, Victor, made for him that came with 20 dollars.
"Oh is that so..." Koga chuckled his eyes glimmering up at a laughing Victor who cooly nodded. Koga grinned but suddenly felt someone's eyes on him so turned to see amongst the bustling crowd Sesshomaru standing there with his brown suit hanging over his shoulder and his buttoned up shirt sleeves rolled up. He seemed to be smirking but this Koga could not tell.
"I'll see you later back in the gym. Thanks!" Koga handed his brother back the card and ran over to Sesshomaru.
Koga stopped and stared him square in the eye. Sesshomaru stared just as intensely but felt a need to break the silence between them.
"Hey."
"Hey."
Both sat down upon an abandoned pinic table shaded by some longleaf pine trees their branches hovering above them. Sesshomaru sitting on the bench and Koga sat upon the table top his legs resting over the bench.
"So when are you being sent?" Koga asked uneasily.
"The start of June" Sesshomaru replied mechanically.
Koga frowned, "But that's just next week!"
"I know" Sesshomaru grimly answered the obvious. He bent over picking off the spurs that were caught on his pant legs. Even though he remained cool and calm through this Koga could tell he was extremely bummed.
Koga's frown deepened as he thought back to last week's event.
Everyone except for the judge and jury could barely sit, they were all nervous wrecks. Inutashio could barely face his son while Izayoi was worried sick beyond belief to what might become of her step-child. Koga with his whole hand in his mouth bit hard down on his nails, after his parents had gotten word of there little venture he was being yelled at non-stop and the thought of prison or a juvinele detention center scared the shit outa him, and Kevin's mom was aggravated feeling this was a complete waste of her time.
Sesshomaru bowed his head as he sat silent trying not to think about what was going on. His eyes scanned the lines in the wood beginning to see them morph and wave like squiggles, swirling around and around like the red and white barber shop poles.
"Your honor these three juvinele hoodlums deliberately trespassed onto my property walked into my cemetery and vandalized it. I have photos of the damage they've caused to the expensive tombstones" the farmer who had pointed the shot gun at the three handed the baliff the pictures who then passed it to Judge Morgan.
"AND...I think they were also under the influence of drugs."
"Oh my lord..." Koga's mom shaded her eyes away fully embarassed.
Kevin's mom just rolled her eyes already knowing this was going to go downhill and Kevin just bit down on his bottom teeth rolling his eyes away with his leg jittering.
This snapped Sesshomaru back to his senses and he sat up forward staring at the ziploc bag that contained one cigeratte. His cigeratte.
"And if I can cut in Judge I do have a liscence that if I catch any strangers interloping on my property for no good reasons I can and will shoot for the protection of myself and family."
' Give me a fucking break...'
Judge Morgan nodded and flashed her stern eyes to the young man sitting in the stand beside her.
"Well Sesshomaru."
Sesshomaru swirved his head to the left meeting her almost black eyes.
"Do you have anything to plead on your behalf?"
Sesshomaru sat there, hands gripped to his knees, feeling for the first time claustrophobic with all those many different eyes set on him, waiting on him, hanging on for what words had to be said and questions carefully answered. Then his eyes met the green and blue ones of his two best friends, their faces pathetic and miserable, hanging low in their seats; their eyes were the worst part of all to look at. All puffy and shiny, they were just about ready to cry a river. It disgusted him.
Sesshomaru bowed his head down sighing heavily, intent on what he knew what he was about to do and try not to regret it.
He glanced back up at her impatient stare and unpleasent creased lips.
"Yes, there's something I must confess."
Too late he already regretted it.
"You see Koga and Kevin had nothing to do with this whole thing."
Koga and Kevin's facial expressions drastically changed at what their friend was saying, they perked themselves higher.
"I decided to go in alone and trash the cememtery because I was pissed and they waited for me outside on the tracks. They saw the farmer coming outside so ran into the cememtery to get me but he heard us and went after us so we ran. It was all me your honor, I was the one who ignored the no trespassing sign and went on this man's property, I was the one who vandalized his cemetery, and I was the one smoking the ciggeratte. They, they had absolutely nothing to do with this they were only innocent bystanders in my teenage tantrum."
"If they weren't involved in this and you are telling the truth?" Judge Morgan looked down at Sesshomaru unsure whether to believe him or not.
"Yes your honor" he answered with utmost grace.
"Then why? What was your motive for all this pent up anger to explode and take it out on someone else?"
Sesshomaru paused for a second softly tapping his fingers over his knees, and looked up into the eyes of his father fully staring never leaving nor blinking and that was the same with his own. His eyebrows soon furrowed together and he replied still not going to give into his father's glare, "Something about not taking my medication."
The gaval's bang announced the court dismissed. Koga and Kevin were free to go, but for Sesshomaru he had a choice, go back to juvy and stay another full long five months there or serve his punishment by staying with Mr. Kasama (the farmer) and his family on their farm in doing community service and working off the damages.
Sesshomaru didn't need to think about this one and immediately agreed into community service for Mr. Kasama. If only he knew just exactly what he was in for.
"I just want to know something" Koga spoke up after he woke from his reminiscing.
"Yea?" Sesshomaru picked the last spur off his pant leg and sat up.
"Why did you do that?"
Sesshomaru frowned and glanced away. "Do what?"
Koga sighed, "Come on Sesshomaru you know what, don't bullshit this anymore than you've already have."
"Who said I was bullshitting?" he inveighed staring straight into Koga's eyes which suddenly made him blink and look up at the crisscrossing tree branches how the sunlight shined down upon them.
"If I had a pyscho for a friend...I'm glad it's you."
It hadn't really crossed his mind at all to why he did it.
"I don't know. Maybe it was just something you said."
"Something I said?" Koga replied bewildered.
"Yes, something you said and I felt obligated to surrender myself to the authorities because I know how much this meant to you and I didn't want to ruin your summer and Kevin's by staying in juvy on account of me being an asshole so can we just leave it at that?" he irritable answered staring now at Koga.
Koga looked down almost feeling sorry but also felt Sesshomaru was right it really was all his doing anyhow. But that still didn't mean it upsetted him that Sesshomaru was going to have to waste his whole summer without help doing God knows what on some hick's farm but he didn't want his feelings to bother the moment so remained silent and took out an envelope.
"What's this?" Sesshomaru asked taking the handed envelope.
"Graduation present" Koga grinned.
Sesshomaru slipped the unlicked top off and half smiled with a chuckle once opening the bulged card signed by Koga and Kevin. A dime of weed was taped to the inside. He slid the card and envelope far into the pocket of his pants so it was hidden.
"Thanks."
Koga nodded.
"I have yours too" Sesshomaru took something out from his other pocket.
Unwrapped and to the point just like Sesshomaru he handed Koga a 14 karat gold watch with gold numbers and hands fixed on a royal blue background. Koga's eyes lit up like Christmas lights to say he was very surprised the least.
"This must have cost you like a gajillion dollars!" he felt unworthy of such a fine item.
"Na, my grandfather gave it to me but I never really wore it at all so I'd thought you might want it. But if you don't like it I can always-"
"Fuck no! It's just what I need to work on my timing in track plus it makes me look rich" Koga suavely grinned clicking the watch solidly on his right arm.
"I'd thought so" Sesshomaru rested his eyes lying himself ontop the bench.
"Koga! Come on we have to-" Mrs. Wolfe stopped in her tracks seeing Sesshomaru sit up from the bench.
"Koga we have to go back into the gym for the last of the ceremony" her voice had changed from happy to monotone and she seemed to scowl at Sesshomaru when she added, "And you too."
"Alright mom" Koga stood up stretching before they followed behind Mrs. Wolfe.
"Mom look at what Sesshomaru gave me" he tried to give his best smile showing off the antique watch.
She only nodded not even looking at the gift. "That's nice dear."
Koga frowned placing his arm down and turned to whisper into Sesshomaru's ear.
"Don't worry she'll forgive you and forget about this whole thing."
"Here's hoping.." Sesshomaru doubtly answered as they stepped inside the air conditioned gym.
'Get on with it...or not who really wants to make this boring speech go faster so that I could start my sentence sooner?' I pondered slouched with my legs stretched out under the chair infront of me.
My eyes wandered throughout the crowd of heads infront of me; my disparting eighth grade class, the microphone was buzzing in and out of focus which was some sort of amusement seeing the principal get all stage frighty over it, the gym was decorated with streamers, balloons, confetti,and a huge banner that read "Good-Bye Eighth Graders May All Your Future's be Bright!", all in our school colors blue and yellow.
Just thinking about my communitiy service for that gun toting hick Kasama made me think about my future not being the bright colors of blue and yellow but grey and dim. And speaking of Kasama...
"What the fuck's he doing here?" I whispered to myself seeing that wild ebony hair of his combed back and smooth.
Just seeing the back of his head made me want to burn a hole through it. He was seated three rows ahead of me beside him was a woman with curly and I mean CURLY red hair and a taller boy with dark hair sitting beside her. But I didn't pay any attention to them just Kasama who turned. At first I thought he was going to turn around and scowl at me now but no he turned and looked down at a girl with ebony hair like him and wildly curly like her mother's. I knew that girl, of course I did we've known eachother for this whole time without even talking. Her name Rin and her last name...Kasama!
How funny and strange the world works just to poke more fun at you.
I watched like I was watching a film strip, she turned into the eyes of her bastard of a father and they both smiled so cutesy and Daddy's Little Girl like-It made me want to hurl!
But then I suddenly got the ending of this whole fucked up script, I'm going to be living with these people. Until now I never even thought about that just the whole working off my sentence crap but no they want me to suffer more by staying in the same house and occupying the same oxygen I breathe with these people!
Sesshomaru felt a stab at his gut and grasped his hand to cover his tightly shut mouth. Around him the air seemed to thicken and cloud his senses with an unearthly stench he could only smell.
Now I'm really going to throw up...