Title: Playing Their Game
Chapter 4: The Chase
Kagome sat in her room, fidgeting and restless. She hadn't known why he kissed her, but she was certain that that was the reason he left earlier than everyone else, forgetting his shirt. She bit her lip and groaned. The brown eyed girl wasn't used to this sort of action and seeing as she hardly hung around any boys, she didn't know pits about them.
"Oh kami help me." She muttered, falling onto her bed and falling asleep.
The next day, she walked into class, her eyes heavy lidded with fatigue and she had to stifle a yawn as the teacher walked in a few moments later. The girl slumped down in her chair and sighed boredly. She tapped her fingers against her chin in a gesture of thought but she honestly wasn't getting anywhere.
The whole lesson was as boring about as interesting as sewage. Brown eyes wandered around the room until she met equally bored green eyes. Ayame winked and gave her a smile which she returned before circling the room once more. The teacher droned on and Kagome was about to fall asleep when something appeared onto her table.
Frowning, she picked up the scrunched up piece of paper and smoothed it out.
Didn't your mother ever teach you that it was rude not to listen when someone was trying to teach you something?
Confused, she looked up and around until her eyes fell upon a braided boy with a smirk gracing his lips. Narrowing her gaze, she coolly wrote back to him before chucking the paper over.
Didn't yours ever tell you that it was terribly annoying to pass people unwanted notes? Especially when said people don't even like you?
He looked up and snorted. Passing it back.
At least my mother taught me proper etiquette.
She glared at him and furiously scribbled down another witty comment before folding her arms and sulking.
At least mine didn't shove a stick up my arse when I was born.
He glowered at her then and tossed the paper into the bin. She smiled to herself when she noticed he had stopped but rolled her eyes when another landed onto her desk.
I still want my shirt back.
She huffed in annoyance and turned around, rummaging through her bag before she came up with his now clean and lemonade free shirt. When neither was looking, she smirked when she noticed the brand on the tag and took out her permanent marker and scrawled something big on the back.
When she was sure her teacher was still talking to himself...or the chalk bored, whichever way you looked at it, she threw the shirt at him, hitting him in the face. A good bunch of people who had been watching the whole ordeal out of boredom, tried to stifle laughter but one look from the scowling boy silenced them.
Bankotsu nodded at Kagome and without even examining the shirt, put it over the black t-shirt he was wearing now.
The girl snorted to herself and turned away. 'What an idiot.' She thought, running a hand through her hair and spending the last ten minutes of the class making paper airplanes.
As soon as the bell rung, the small girl picked up her things and waltzed out of the classroom without a second look back, grinning wolfishly all the way.
Bankotsu watched the girl go before packing his own things up and walking out. Ayame and Hiten caught up with him and froze when they saw his shirt. Sharing a sly look, the two of them chose not to say anything and instead walked to their next class.
Word had gotten around the entire gang about Kagome's prank and they all agreed on keeping it a secret. By the time lunch rolled in, Bankotsu had received a good many weird looks and small laughs which he silenced with a stern look.
He was slightly confused but chose to remain unfazed by it. The table the Ravens were sitting at was near the huge glass window and they had reserved that seat ever since they arrived at the school. Bankotsu looked out the window and watched the people on campus milling up and down and around.
"So," Kikyo started. "You got your shirt back I see."
Sango, who had been drinking her water, choked suddenly and had to be pounded on the back by an amused Inuyasha. The braided boy eyed her nonchalantly before turning to the tall Miko.
"Yeah, the wench gave it back first period."
The dark eyed girl gave him a stern look which he ignored thoroughly.
"At least she had the courtesy to wash it and then give it back." Ayame chimed in, narrowing her eyes at him.
He nodded blindly. "Uh huh."
The green eyed girl frowned and looked to where his gaze was before smiling to herself. Indeed, the blue eyed boy had his eyes plastered on a certain raven haired girl who had her legs crossed on her chair and was reading all alone on that table.
"You know, I don't think that your telepathic powers are strong enough to transmit a message to her from all the way over here by just staring at her. Usually one has to open their mouths to say something. But at times that doesn't work either due to the unfathomable things lovestruck people often say."
All eyes turned to the red haired youkai who had said that verbose speech before cracking up laughing. She too giggled, winking when Bankotsu gave her the evil eye.
"She's right, either talk to her or just ignore her." Suikotsu murmured, biting on a carrot.
"Why the hell would I talk to her? She's insulted me for one thing and she's a damned nuisance! AND I WAS NOT LOOKING AT HER!" The boy shouted angrily.
"Sure you weren't. Your eyes just happened to magnetize themselves in that direction due to the pull of very sweet girls." Sango said, tying her hair up and handing her brother an apple.
Kohaku, who had been lazily watching the whole thing, just crunched on the fruit and said in a soft voice, "Guys can't help it sometimes. Their eyes wander and then just land on the most strangest things."
"Thank you!" Exclaimed Bankotsu, regarding the youngest of the gang with praise.
The smaller boy cleared his throat and then spoke up again. "Oh no. I'm not taking your side. I think you're a damn idiot if you don't pick up on what dear old Fate is saying."
He received a deathly glare but just ate his apple, inwardly smirking at his friend.
"Yeah, well Fate as you so call it is a damn bitch at the moment who doesn't know what she's talking about." The boy mumbled, casting one last look at Kagome before returning to his meal.
The rest of the members just looked at each other hopelessly and shook their heads, the same word going through all of their minds. Denial.
A few lessons later, Bankotsu was at his locker, getting ready for his final class before he noticed a girl giving the back of him an odd look before giggling to herself and walking quickly away.
He frowned and shook his head, finally fed up with the strange glances from people. He purposefully marched himself to the bathroom and looked at himself.
Nothing seemed out of place. His hair was done in its usual braid, his face was clear of any ink and his white shirt was white over the black t-shirt underneath. His black jeans looked fine and his boots were clean. He even checked underneath them just in case but saw nothing out of place.
In general, he looked pretty damn good. Raising a brow, he smiled smugly and turned to leave, not before catching something in the mirror. He froze, all the earlier triumph dripping out of him, fast. His face turned cold. He turned around and saw the reflection of his back in the mirror. His eyes darkened and his jaw set.
There, written in thick black letters read; I'm the biggest asshole in the school.
To say he was mad was an understatement. He was actually extremely furious and even more so at his friends who were in on the bitch's little joke.
'Damn her, I am going to bloody murder her!'
Without even taking off his shirt, he stormed out of the bathroom in search for his so-called friends.
Kikyo, Ayame and Sango, who were at their lockers stopped when they saw him and equal looks of 'oh shit' were plastered on their faces.
"He knows." Came Ayame's timid voice.
"Uh huh." Were the replies of the other two in unison.
"Methinks we should warn Kagome." She said again.
"Oh yeah." they replied, and within seconds they had run off in different directions in search of the poor girl who was going to be in a dump load of trouble if Bankotsu got to her.
Kikyo ran quickly to the girl's class which unfortunately started in ten minutes meaning that he still had time to find her. She wasn't in there and as she ran out again, she saw Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha! Have you seen Kagome?" She called, running to him.
The amber eyed boy shook his head slowly in confusion but then it slowly dawned on him. "Oh shit. He knows."
Without another word, he too was off. An angry Bankotsu was something no one liked to witness. Well...anyone from the gang who was in a bad mood was someone to avoid. Their tempers were terrible and for those who didn't know them well enough, they would get a big scare.
Ayame found Hiten and Manten but neither of them had seen her and when she told them the problem, they scrambled away in search for her.
Sango quickly informed Miroku and Bankotsu's brothers who also went their way to search for the poor girl who was going to turn to jelly when their angry brother found her.
Within minutes, everyone from the Ravens, save for Sesshoumaru, was on a frantic search around the building for Kagome who was oblivious to it all.
The wolf youkai bumped into Ayame. "Did you find her?" She asked Kouga, biting her lips.
"No, I have no idea where she is." He called, before lugging it and heading off again.
"Just keep her away from him if you see her!" She called, before she too disappeared.
Inuyasha who was all the way in the West side of the building, was growling angrily to himself. Where the heck could she be? He was nearly tearing his hair out and when he caught a flash of silver, he ran up to his brother and warned him.
"Have you seen Kagome?"
The older boy shook his head. "No." Was his short reply.
The hanyou growled angrily and said, "We need to find her, Bankotsu's mad as hell and he knows about his shirt."
A flash went through the youkai's eyes and the boy nodded. "I'll look for her."
Inuyasha nodded as his brother sped off in the opposite direction. You'd think that their supposedly keen sense of smell would have found her easily, but with thousands of people in and out of the place everyday, it was hard to keep track.
"Find her find her find her! Oh my god what if we can't find her?" Came the frantically feminine voice of Jakotsu as he ran with his two other brothers to look for her.
"Shut up and concentrate!" Renkotsu, ever the serious one, slapped his friend on the head and continued to search for the brown eyed girl.
"But what do we do? What do we do?" The boy screeched, his eyes widening.
Suikotsu looked at him worriedly and took his hands. "Hey, Jakotsu," he began soothingly. "Deep breaths now. Come on, you're alright." The longer haired boy took deep breaths as his brother told him to do and gripped Suikotsu's hands tightly.
"You're alright, we'll find her and then I'll treat you to a cream puff ok?" Despite the comical and rather needful conversation, Renkotsu rolled his eyes and groaned.
"Jakotsu! Get a hold of yourself and stop freaking out over the stupidest reasons!"
Suikotsu glanced warningly at his brother. He could be as nice as he wanted to be, but everyone knew not to annoy Suikotsu too much. Renkotsu sighed and unwillingly patted his youngest brother on the back.
Students gave them all strange looks as they passed but they hurried by quickly seeing the deathly look in Renkotsu's eyes.
After a few more moments, Jakotsu sniffed and stood up straight, refined and proper. "I'm alright." He said in a clipped tone. "Yes, I'm quite fine now. Let's go."
After another few minutes of running around, the entire group bumped into each other in the main hall of the Center building, all panting and tired.
"No sign of her." Hiten said.
"I hope to kami she's gone home." Sango said.
"That or at least for the next lesson, vanished off the face of the earth." Came Miroku's deep voice. He wiped perspiration off his forehead and Sango smiled tiredly at him.
"Which, might I add, would be quite impossible seeing as she's walking towards us right now." Kohaku said plainly. They all turned at the same time and saw her walking towards them, her eyes on the book in her hand.
"And here comes the devil himself." Kouga said, the quiver in his voice very clear.
The group turned their heads in the opposite direction and sure enough, Bankotsu was marching towards them, a furious gleam in his eyes. He wasn't looking at them, more past them at the brown eyed girl who had no clue whatsoever as to what was going on.
And the problem was, they were walking towards each other and the gang was dab smack in the middle of the two of them all. Now this was a bit of a predicament. "Well, this is interesting." Kohaku said, bemused.
They all looked at each other in worry.
"I'll take Kagome. The rest of you, deal with him."
Everyone looked at the usually quiet Sesshoumaru and nodded as his tone clearly left no room for argument. He walked past them and towards Kagome.
The rest of them turned around, blankly. "So," said Miroku casually. "Any ideas on how we deal with braid boy?"
"Not a clue." Hiten said equally.
"Maybe we should tell him it's all a hallucination." Kouga offered, earning himself a thump on the head from Ayame.
"Or we could accidentally knock his lights out for the rest of the day." Mused Inuyasha.
"Or not!" Kikyo said, looking at him with a disapproving frown.
"Maybe if we just turn him around, he'll walk the other way."
Everyone looked to Shippou with incredulity but then with surprise.
"Hey! When did you get back?" Hiten asked the previously missing gang member who had been on holiday in Spain the past two weeks.
The fox smiled and said jovially, "Oh a few days ago. Jet lag y'know."
"So, good holiday?" asked Inuyasha, clapping his hand in a friendly gesture on the younger boy's back.
"Oh yeah, it was fun. Nice and hot." He said, enjoying the way the boys watched him enviously.
"Hello! We have an even more important problem here!" Kikyo exclaimed.
"What's that?" Inuyasha asked, confused.
"Oh, I think she means the big bad Shichinintai marching towards us with murder written all over his face." Kohaku offered again, clearly unfazed.
"Ah." The hanyou said understandingly.
"So, what are you guys planning on doing with the guy?" Shippou asked.
"We have no clue. You know the story?" Kouga asked.
The fox nodded. "Yeah, Sango told me yesterday on the phone.
"Hey! She never called me when I got back from Thailand last year!" Miroku said, clearly offended.
"That's because you called me!" Sango shouted. "Now can you please save your complaining for later? We have to deal with Bankotsu. And I honestly don't even want to go within three feet of him at the moment!"
"Alright, alright, here's what we'll do. Jakotsu and I will keep him occupied while you guys take the rope I have in my locker and tie him up." Renkotsu said.
Everyone raised a brow.
"What exactly do you have rope for?" Manten asked.
"Rock climbing club. It's real fun actually."
"Really? Maybe I should try."
Ayame growled in annoyance but then froze when Bankotsu passed the group. "Oh no, oh no." She muttered, trying to get their attention. "Bankie alert! Bankie alert!" She shouted.
"Suikotsu get the rope!" Kikyo ordered as she, Ayame and Sango ran after the boy.
"Hey, Bankotsu, what's up! Did you hear that I got my new bike last week?" The wolf girl tried but he ignored her.
Sango and Kikyo tried to keep up with him and lead him into conversation but the boy would not budge and kept marching straight towards Kagome.
Meanwhile, Kagome had stopped when Sesshoumaru stood in front of her. The brown eyed girl frowned. "Hey, what's wrong?"
"Bankotsu." The silver haired boy said.
The girl froze and peeked over his shoulder. "Oh dear."
The boy nodded and Kagome bit her lip. "He's mad?"
"That would be an understatement."
'Smooth move, Kagome.' She said to herself.
Aquamarine eyes darkened when he noted that she had taken off with Sesshoumaru and he broke into a run after them.
Ayame squealed. "Guys! He's running after her!" The three of them took off, the boys not far behind them.
Renkotsu and Jakotsu caught up with their brother easily and shouted. "Bankotsu! Stop it! It was just a joke!"
"You knew about it?" He demanded, furious now.
The two looked at each other. "Err. Not really?" Jakotsu tried.
The boy just ran faster.
"Suikotsu! Do you have the rope?" Ayame called as she ran.
"You mean we're actually going to use it?" She heard delight in his voice and rolled her eyes, muttering to herself.
"Bankotsu wait! You really don't want to do this!" Sango tried.
"Oh yes I do! She humiliated me in front of everyone! AND she spoiled my favourite shirt!"
"It was a joke!" Kikyo tried.
"Violence is not the answer Bankotsu!" Shippou called.
"Who said anything about violence?" The braided boy demanded.
"Well, with the evil eyes and the anger and the death look, it's kinda hard to think otherwise." Hiten said.
"But what are you going to do to her?" Ayame asked fearfully.
Bankotsu was silent. "I haven't decided yet." He said finally.
Turning around, Kagome groaned and stopped, Sesshoumaru stopping with her. "This is so stupid." She muttered to herself. With that, she turned around and fixed Bankotsu with a placid look.
Bankotsu slowed down and marched up to her. "YOU!"
Kagome just looked at him, then passed him at the others who all had either very worried or interested looks on their faces. She turned back to him finally.
"Yes. Me."
Her calmness only infuriated him even more. "You humiliated me in front of everyone, you insulted me and you spoiled my fucking favourite shirt!"
Kagome raised a brow. "Is that all?"
"Don't mess with me, girl. You have no idea how far I can go." He hissed. His voice was low, low and deadly and if Kagome knew any better, she would have backed down then and there, but her pride wouldn't have let her.
Instead, she moved closer, looking him square in the face. "And you have no idea how far I can go. Your little threats won't work with me. I've had worse."
They just glowered at each other for a few moments, Kagome finally breaking the silence. "Do yourself a favour braid boy and get over it. Nobody likes a crybaby."
She walked passed him, making sure her shoulder nudged him hard. As she walked away, she saw the looks of relief on the others' faces. But she paused when he said, his voice deadly low.
"You think this is all a game don't you." She turned around and looked at him, coldly. "Do yourself a favour and back down now because things are about to get deadly." He smirked.
She returned the gesture. "I'll be looking forward to it." She turned around, the smirk still on her face, and walked away, leaving the entire gang with one thought in mind,
Things were about to get interesting.
A/N: I'm baaaaaaaaack! I know, I'm terrible, I just had a HUGE writer's block and now I'm so glad that I'll finally get to write more! I'm on holiday so I'll write and write and write. I know this isn't the best chapter, I kinda thought it was a little overdone...but that's what ya'll get when you get me writing after two concerts in a row. I just hope that while I move this summer I'll still get internet connection to write because I've got a lot for this story! So thank you to all who have reviewed so far and keep reading because this is going to continue:D I'm going to complete all my stories, I swear!!! Now...REVIEW!!!!
Peace out!
Rex