Still don't own Inuyasha...
(REVISED VERSION...no cliffy!)
Chapter 4-what a night
Kagome stared up at the clock with weary eyes, anxiously waiting for the hands to reach the 3:30 mark. She turned her head and glanced quickly out the window to see if Inuyasha was still waiting for her; luckily to her pleasure, he wasn't.
The ticking from the clock was driving Kagome into another nap, but she was snapped out of her daze by the sound of the loud bell booming throughout the school. She popped her head up and grabbed her book bag and headed out of the classroom; quickly and nervously saying goodbye to Miroku, who had passed by her and patted her on the back. All the girls said bye to him as well, with flirtatious gestures and over done smiles.
She saw Sango in the hallway, who had managed to see her get bashful with the good looking man.
"Oh so you know the new T.A?" Sango asked giving Kagome a nudge. She just rolled her eyes and explained to her,
"Not really, he just helped me up with I fell flat on my face in the hallway." She laughed, "Not a great way to make a first impression." Sango shrugged and tried to hide her amusement.
The hallways were quickly being emptied by the minute as all the girls rushed to get back into their dorm rooms. Sango and Kagome scurried back into their own room and jumped out of their uncomfortable uniforms and into some decent street clothes. Kagome took a deep breath and plopped herself onto her bed giving a loud "Mmm" type of moan. She laid down and watched Sango sit at her desk and once again bury her face in a school book.
Kagome wondered if she was always so school oriented, so she asked her. Sango pulled her head out of her book and turned her seat towards Kagome.
"Actually, no." She admitted, "That's why I'm here. You see back at my old school I had this boyfriend…needless to say I got caught up in the relationship and almost failed my junior year." She blushed a bit. Kagome sat up on her elbows,
"So you had to leave?" She raised a brow, "Wow, he must have been distracting!" She chuckled. Sango shrugged and mentioned oh so slyly.
"Well not to mention he knocked me up; so I guess you could say that." Kagome shot up.
"What?! Come again?" her eyes were filled with curiosity, "You have a kid?"
"No!" Sango defended, "Unfortunately I lost it early on. But that's the main reason why I'm here; my mother thought if I was somewhere, where all that I had around me was school, then I could focus more, graduate, and become the brain surgeon she's always wanted me to be." She said the last part in a fake chipper voice. Kagome nodded, not knowing how to respond to such a deep confession. She just laid back and stared at her ceiling. Sango went back to her book, but not before asking;
"So why are you here?"
Kagome closed her eyes and sighed, "Well it's not as good a reason as yours," she teased, "but, if you must know; my mother found out I was skipping school. So yeah, now I'm here." Kagome put a hand behind her head.
'This is such a weird place' she spoke in her head, 'God I hope that guy doesn't try to kidnap me or something.'Relaxing deeply in her bed, Kagome fell into a dreamless sleep. Hours upon hours past; Sango had fallen asleep as well. Most everyone in that hallway had.
The sun had been set for hours now and it was late in the evening. Kagome tossed and turned between her sheets. She was suddenly awakened by a gasping noise. She shot up like a bullet from her bed. Kagome looked around the room; there was nothing there. She slapped her hand on to her forehead trying to calm herself down. 'C'mon Kagome you're just shaken up by that story and that guy…and that dream…it was only a dream' she kept telling herself. She sat up more and threw her legs off the edge of the bed. Her feet touched to cold wooden floor. Shivers ran up her legs. Kagome stood up, she let out a sigh.
She heard a long creak sound coming from the floor. She swung her head around to the door behind her; nothing of course. She let out a breath. She turned back around and looked up. Kagome jumped out of her skin. There she stood. She had hellish blacked out eyes and her skin was a pasty white. She looked dead and decayed. Kagome tried to scream, but the girl, with her long boney fingers, choked her. Her long black mildewed hair hung lifelessly around her skeletal body. The dead girl jerked her head to the side, opening her mouth oh so slightly, letting out a gurgle. Kagome squeezed her eyes shut and started to cry, feeling the blood from this being ooze onto her flesh.
Running out of air, Kagome opened her eyes fast and wide, and saw nothing. There was no one in her room and she could breathe again.
'Was that a dream!?' she screamed in her head, 'that was real! I know it!' she knew it had to be; her neck was sore and she was standing up still. She began to hyperventilate and ran to her window. When she opened it, much to her horror and dismay, there stood Inuyasha waving to her.
"Kagome!" He tried to say loudly enough without being caught by anyone watching out. Kagome leaned over the window seal.
"You idiot, you're going to get us both in trouble if someone finds you!" She whispered loudly enough so he could hear her.
"Come down here!" he ordered. Kagome crossed her arms and shook her head violently,
"No! If you want to see me so bad then you come up here!" she spoke back. She turned to go back into her bed when she heard a loud swoop Kagome turned back around and saw Inuyasha in her window seal sitting there.
"Oh." Was all she could say. Inuyasha sneered concededly.
"I need to talk to you, but not here." He told her. Kagome sat on her bed and rubbed her neck.
"Yeah, I don't know…I just had the weirdest experience." She informed him. Inuyasha walked over to her and looked at her neck.
"What happened?" He asked. Kagome shook her head. Inuyasha scowled.
"Onigumo, no doubt." Kagome stared up at him confused.
"What?" she begged, "No! I don't know who did this…maybe I'm going crazy!" She kept shaking her head. Inuyasha still stood there waiting for her to explain.
"I saw someone." She began, "I turn around and I saw this…thing…a girl. Or at least it use to be." She struggled to get the words out.
"What are you talking about?" he demanded. He squatted down next to her and looked at her bruises.
"It was this girl…but she was dead. And she just looked so horrifying. She was trying to strangle me!" She finally came out with it. Inuyasha stood back up and folded his arms across his chest.
"Maybe if you wouldn't have run off none of this would have happened." Kagome stood up next to him.
"Excuse me?" her tone was dripping with annoyance.
"This wouldn't have happened, I bet!" he started again, "This is why you should come with me. I think you should see something." He pulled Kagome by the wrist and jumped out the window, holding on to her, making sure she didn't hurt herself.
The two made their way surreptitiously around the school, being careful not to wake anyone. Once toward the back, they made it to the abandoned building and carefully opened it without a sound. Walking down that dead corridor chilled Kagome to the bone and gave her an awful feeling. They stopped at the same room they made it to last time; Inuyasha led her in.
Kagome walked behind him as he grabbed that same box he did the last time. He opened it and dug around finally retrieving something that would interest her. Kagome leaned over his back to see what he had found. Inuyasha turned around to face her and held out a smudge and smoke stained picture of two girls smiling brightly for the camera.
Kagome took the picture slowly from Inuyasha, carefully, as though it were almost too delicate to hold. She studied the girls for a moment then took in a sharp breath.
"Oh my God." Her voice was shaky. "Who are these people?" she held out the picture. Inuyasha pushed it back to her.
"Do you recognize them?" He asked know very well what he answer was.
"Yes!" Kagome shuddered. Inuyasha grabbed the picture and pointed to each girl so that Kagome could see.
"This girl here." Pointing to the girl on the left, "This is Kagura. And this one," he pointed to the girl on the right, "This is Kikyo." Kagome had a hopelessly lost look on her face as she tried to put the puzzle together.
"What!?" Her breathing became deeper, "I've seen them." Inuyasha kept the same face, waiting for her to go on.
"Her." She pointed to Kagura, "The first dream I had was about her…she was trying to stab me…or someone." She stared at the picture, her eyes locked on Kikyo. It was her. The image of that decrepit creature with the blacked out eyes flashed viciously in her head.
"Her." Her eyes were still on her. "She wasn't a dream was she?" Inuyasha looked down.
"I'm not sure." He said, "But I think I know why you're being haunted." Kagome directed her eyes from the picture to Inuyasha.
"I think you two are connected somehow." The boy tried to explain, "I'm not sure, but you might be her reincarnation sent out to finally put her spirit to rest. Avenge her, if you will." Kagome stared blankly.
"What?" she didn't believe him, "that doesn't make sense!" Inuyasha cut her off,
"I know that! But you can't deny that you look ridiculously like her, which has to mean something. Not to mention Onigumo is after you." Kagome couldn't deny that their resemblance was uncanny. But it still didn't make sense. Why wasn't she at rest? And, what about Onigumo?
"I don't understand what any of this means still. Why are you here?" she struggled to put the pieces together. Inuyasha took a breath.
"To get Onigumo. He's-"
"What is with you and Onigumo?" Kagome exclaimed.
"Let me finish!" The man roared, "Jeez woman. Well, you know the whole "legend" about what happened to Kikyo and how Kagura killed her out of jealously?" Kagome nodded childishly. Inuyasha continued.
"Well that was about half wrong!" his voice was stern and masculine; "It was all Onigumo's doing."
"How?" the utterly confused girl asked. Inuyasha took another deep breath.
"Years ago when this school was co-ed. Well, Onigumo was a student." He continued his story; Kagome was enticed with curiosity "He was madly in love with Kikyo. But she didn't love him back, no matter how many times he tried to woe her. She knew there was something…wicked…about him."
"So why did her friend kill her?"
"Well, she really wasn't supposed to. Kikyo and Kagura were the best of friends, believe it or not. You see what happened was this," he paused, "Onigumo had invited Kikyo and Kagura to this party, purposely to try and get Kikyo again. They were polite and decided to go ahead and go with him. Now, Kagura had a boyfriend, his name was Sesshomaru." He stopped for a moment and watched Kagome's face. Then he continued on with his story.
"While they were there, sure enough, there goes Onigumo hitting on Kikyo. I guess she finally had enough, she screamed at him, embarrassing him in front of everyone. He was so humiliated. He wanted to get back at her so bad. Weeks passed and he still couldn't let it go. So he decided to be an idiot and turn two friends against each other as a comeback!"
"How did he do that?" Kagome needed to know.
Inuyasha and Kagome stood face to face in that dark burnt up old room. She was listening cautiously to his story.
"Well…" be begun, "Kagura was very gullible and he used it to his advantage. He saw Kagura at another party, but this time without Sesshomaru; he told her that Sesshomaru always seemed to be leaving and that him and Kikyo were too close. Then he pretty much ended it for Kikyo. He told her that he caught Sesshomaru and Kikyo together while she was gone." Kagome looked shocked.
"He was such an idiot. He got Kagura drunk and told her that she should confront Kikyo about all this. He didn't realize that she was a crazy drunk and stabbed her to death." He finished. Kagome stood there agape.
"And Kagura felt bad and killed herself?" she asked him. Inuyasha sighed,
"I don't think so, I have reason to believe he killed her." Kagome shook her head a bit and blurted,
"What do you have to do with any of this?"
Inuyasha huffed, "Sesshomaru was my brother; he got accused of conspiring to kill her, since Kagura was his girlfriend. But I think Onigumo had something to do with it." There was a pause. "My brother is dead now and now I want revenge. That bastard needs to get what he deserves."
"Don't you think you're being a little vindictive?" Kagome asked him. Inuyasha brushed her off.
"No. God knows how many other people he's hurt. Don't be surprised if you're his next victim." With that he turned around and walked out the room, but not before turning back briefly and muttering,
"If you need me…you know where to find me…" he walked off. Kagome screamed out,
"Where?!" this guy was too mysterious!
She heard him call out, "I'll be around." She had no idea what that meant. And she dared not ask another question.
Kagome walked out of that building and back to the window she "jumped" out of. She struggled to get back in and after a long while, she finally pulled herself into the room and plopped onto the floor.
Sango woke up suddenly and turned to her roommate.
"Kagome?! What are you doing up?" she pondered. Kagome stood up quickly and brushed herself off.
"Um, nothing. Go to bed, this is a dream." He ordered. Sango, still in a sleep-like state just nodded and fell back onto her pillow and into her deep slumber. Kagome let go of the breath she was holding and shut the window behind her. She walked slowly and exhausted back to her bed, giving it a smile, she let her body collapse onto it and began to snore loudly. Dreaming of what Inuyasha had told her. Now wishing to see him once more.
End of chapter
OK I could tell yall didn't like the cliffy so here is my original piece!
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