Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.
A/N: sorry for taking so long to update…I've just been on a none-writing binge. Dunno why. It's been a bad week. So I decided to type this chappy out… now I feel better. :D
Snowflakes Keep Falling On My Heart
Chapter Ten: Gym Class
(A few weeks later…)
The first week of school for Kagome Higurashi's senior year was definitely not the best. Luckily, it was the last period of the day for her: gym.
During this particular gym class they'd begun archery. Lucky again for Kagome, it was one of her strong points. She had no friends in this class… let alone any other of her classes. So she was off kind of by herself.
Kagome sighed deeply; relaxed for the first time in a long while. She'd begun taking hour-long lessons with Lady Kaede- a sweet, elderly priestess who'd sought out Kagome. She'd sensed Kagome's powerful aura. However, she also noticed her talent as a pianist as well one-day as Kagome had been playing the piano in the middle of a store in the mall.
So for the fist half-hour, Kagome received piano lessons and for the second half of the hour she took miko lessons. This included archery among other fighting techniques.
Luckily, Kagome only had to tell him half the truth. Which he was fortunate enough to be told any which way.
She loaded her bow and took a few more steps back. She pulled and aimed. One eye closed. Perfect form.
The bruises on her chest and arms burned. The cuts and slashes stung with ferocity. She clenched her teeth fiercely trying to block out the pain. The agony watered her hard eyes. But she couldn't cry. She hadn't cried… for three whole years… not since that day.
That fateful, cursed day.
He'd broken her spirit. Nearly broken her will to even live. He'd ruined her, her life. Everything was dead to her. Just nearly, if not entirely.
The only way to come back was to fight.
Filled with fiery passion, she pulled the bow harder, the wood creaked under the intense pressure. The increasing pain within the girl's body-ignored…
A pink, pure, dim light, unseen by the other students, covered her entire body.
Naraku's face flashed across her mind.
The pink light darkened, deepened.
He forced her mother to marry him.
She pulled harder, emanating a soft grunt of frustration. Her lower lip quivered in rage.
Every night: pure torture.
Harder.
He'd broken her spirit. Murdered her heart.
She finally released.
The arrow created it's own wind stream causing the grass to whip. Kagome's black hair encompassed her face, tore by the force of the wind. The arrow went so fast, a hissing sound could be heard in the silence of the field.
In a heartbeat, arrow hit wood. The arrow not only hit the small, red center of the target but also kept going. Splinters of wood exploded everywhere.
Kagome's arm slowly fell as the commotion ceased. She was fuming.
Everybody in the class was silent for a moment. A moment which did not last long at all.
"Way to go, Kagome!"
"That was awesome!"
"How'd you do that?"
The chattering grew as excitement and awe coursed through the inquiring teens.
Kagome just huffed, wiped her brow of the drops of sweat, and walked forward towards the mess she'd made. She didn't acknowledge any of the attention she was receiving at all.
Inuyasha was off a ways. He was also in gym class as well this period, strangely enough. He'd seen her pink aura. He'd felt her power. It was amazing. Who is this girl? The girl from the cemetery…she'd haunted his mind up until the time school had started and when he first saw her again … he'd been overcome with such a strange... feeling.
(Flashback)
Inuyasha was currently lying down on the concrete wall of the school's entrance stairway. Inuyasha's buddy, Miroku, was greeting all the girls and asking them that inevitable question of his. A group of giggling freshman girls was just walking away from him.
"Ah… I love the first day of school. All the new, fresh girls." Miroku sighed out as he leaned against the said concrete wall.
"You had better mean freshmen, Miroku-kun," said the stern voice of Sango, another friend of Inuyasha's. She was making her way up the steps towards the two boys.
"Why, never my dear Sango! I couldn't look at the men like that…that's just wrong! But you should know, sweet, sweet Sango, I have eyes only for you, no matter what my hands may do," Miroku said as he took her hands in his.
"Taking up poetry now, are we?" asked Sango as she took her hands from his and patted them as to say, don't ever do that again.
"For you I would!"
Sango let out a frustrated sigh. He'd caught sight of a new group of girls approaching. "You'll never change, will you?" Sango laughed and took Miroku's place on the wall as he scurried towards the unsuspecting girls. "What's going on Inuyasha-kun? It's been a while. A long while."
"Yeah… that's what everybody's been saying."
Sango took in his full appearance and it finally clicked in her mind that he didn't look the same.
"Inuyasha-what did you-" she was cut off as he suddenly sat up abruptly. It seemed something had caught his eye now as well. "Ugh! You boys and your wandering eyes." She leaned forward and tried to figure out what had stolen the boy's attention so.
A girl their age was walking solemnly up the steps. She had black hair that reached to her hips, a white bandana had been folded and wrapped around her head to keep her bangs out of her face. That only helped to illuminate those beautiful, deep, brown eyes of hers. Dark, raven-black locks wrapped themselves around her body like flowing water in the night. She wore long sleeves and jeans despite the warm autumn weather.
Who is she? Thought a puzzled Sango. Maybe she's a transfer…
It's her…echoed Inuyasha's thoughts.
The chills that raced up and down his arms and back had nothing to do with the slight breeze wavering through the air.
She lifted her head up slightly and chanced a glance, barely noticeable, directed at Inuyasha. The boy and girl made instantaneous eye contact. Time seemed frozen as the cherry blossom petals blew around in the background and the girl paused. However, the girl broke it almost immediately. She adjusted the brown strap of her book bag upon her shoulders and hid the painful wince. She hastily jogged a few steps but tripped. Inuyasha was at her side before she even began to fall.
She's so small...he thought as he wrapped his arms around her tiny midrift.
Her eyes widened in fear and once she realized the close proximity of their two warm bodies, she fumbled to grab the railing and straighten herself up... away from the boy.
"Th..thank you," she uttered softly, not making eye contact with him.
Before he could say anything, she was already jogging the rest of the way up the stairs and was soon swallowed by the crowd of students.
(End Flashback)
Inuyasha slowly took in every aspect of the girl before him, locked in his intense gaze. She walked with stiff grace. Her eyes seemed dull… almost lifeless. But a pure, chocolate innocence lay within, deep, deep down. She knelt and stood as she picked up her arrow from amongst all the debris with the same stiff gracefulness. Her back was erect unlike most girls who cared nothing of their posture…she seemed so proper. Her ebony locks flowed down to her waist like a waterfall in the night… like the first day of school.
"Hey, Yasha, did you just see that chick? She blew up the freaking target board! And those things are SOLID!" came the voice of Miroku, also taking gym this class period. "She really is hot though. Look at those legs…" KONK. Sango had appeared out of nowhere and had apparently heard Miroku's last two statements, earning him a punch to the head-temporarily knocking him out.
Sango and Miroku were both really good friends with Inuyasha, they'd all been friends since elementary school. Hence them knowing his secret… his true form, and why he'd been away the past 10 years. And hence them all having a very strong friendship.
"Hey Sango. What's up?"
"Hey Inu, not much. Did you see that over there?" she said, indicating with a nod of her head towards the said girl.
"Yeah. Damn…she's strong. Do you know who the hell she is?"
"That's Kagome Higurashi. At least I think… She's not exactly a social butterfly. I think she's a transfer from a nearby school. No one knows why she switched, however."
"Oh…huh…Doesn't sound familiar."
But deep down…something about that 'Kagome' girl did seem familiar. Inuyasha dismissed it as nonsense.
The ten-minute warning bell rang, shaking Inuyasha from his reverie.
"I'll take care of this baka. I'll see you later Inuyasha.," said Sango with a lopsided smile as she began dragging an unconscious Miroku across the training field.
"Yeah. Later Sango," Inuyasha replied half-heartedly as he watched Kagome carry the bags of equipment across the field all by herself.
Pretty damn strong… for a girl. A normal one, at least.
A/N: hilo!! it's been a while, i know. but me es back and i brought a new chappy along with me:D i hope you all liked this chappy.. i just.. kinda.. wanted to illuminate some stuff... while still being kinda incognito...hehe, i like dat word. but... you'll understand the pain that kagome's going through in due time... (it ain't pretty, lemme warn ya...)and inu's appearance. the later'll be in the next chappy i believe. sooo... ermm... yes! thank oo so vury, vury much fur R&Ring!!! i hope you enjoy!!
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