- Drabble Collection: The Icarus Factor -

IX.

Lessons

For Kagome, the days go on as they are meant to go on, though she does not know this. She fights battles for shards, suffers the terrible excuses her grandfather comes up with on the phone, and receives odd gifts from the one person who does not seem to mind the strangeness in her life.

Hojou...

She smiles faintly and strokes the wrapper on the latest package – bath salts as a cure all?

Why not? At least they smell nice.

She feels guilty, as she always does, when she thinks about how she has stood him up most recently, how she doesn't really feel the way she should towards such a genial, handsome gentleman. She lets out a long sigh as she sinks into her bath.

Too genial, perhaps.

Thoughts of Hojou fade into daydreams of Inuyasha.