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The Breakup
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"Homeschool? So, I just stay here?" Inuyasha groaned as he visibly deflated, "Why can't I go to school with Kagome?"
Ms. Higurashi sighed as she gave him the most genuine smile she could muster given the circumstances, "Well, it's the middle of the school year dear. You can't just start."
Kagome's mother would be damned before she told Inuyasha the true reason he couldn't attend the school even if it meant lying to him. Sometimes the truth was not worth telling. That hateful woman at the testing facility was on her shit list and she wasn't about to make the boy who had protected her daughter with his life so many times feel like he was defective. He got enough of that in his own time. He didn't need it in this one.
While her explanation seemed to appease the boy, Kagome seemed to have realized something wasn't quite right about that explanation as her daughter arched her brow and gave her a quizzical look. Trying to shake her head as subtly as possible and giving the ebony haired boy currently burying his face in his hands a pointed look, Ms. Higurashi clearly tried to send the message that she was not discussing the reality in front of him. Luckily Kagome seemed to get the message.
"It won't be that bad," Kagome cooed placatingly as she ran her fingers through his hair, "Why don't we go get you a haircut like you want, huh? We can go to the mall and get you some new clothes too."
Seeming to feel a little better by this offer, Inuyasha nodded sheepishly and huffed, "Stupid school. Fuck them. Saying I can't go. I mean, maybe that's good. Not like I'd really feel good going by myself when you're in my era."
"Yeah," Kagome chuckled nervously, "It'd be like throwing you to the wolves."
"Wait, what?" Inuyasha gasped, placing his hand to his chest in mock horror before grinning and joking playfully, "You're right but I don't know why you had to bring wolves into it. Couldn't you'd've picked a better way of saying that?"
As she sighed awkwardly, Kagome didn't think she'd ever get used to these new Inuyashas. They really were completely different people than what they were when they were together – not better, not worse…just…different. They were strangers to her and...she missed him. Terribly. If she could, she'd sell her own soul and her right kidney just to have one more day with the half-demon she loved.
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Running her fingers through her hair in an uncharacteristically agitated fashion, Kikyo huffed as she continued her path towards her former village. It was beyond frustrating that Inuyasha had disappeared without a trace. Oh, she had seen and heard tell of his demon half multiple times. The human was who was missing.
It had become apparent immediately that she had miscalculated. While she knew they would split in twine - he desired being human as much as she desired him to be so - the demon possessed intelligence enough to not merely be a mindless killing machine which threw off her plan entirely. If Inuyasha had been in the form she expected, he should've been easy to dominate. Instead, it seemed that the demon had become the dominant one which irked her to no end. While he may be comatose somewhere, the human couldn't be dead. She could've found him if he was dead.
Straightening herself up a little, Kikyo suddenly smirked and turned in the opposite direction. It was time that she sought help to bring an end to the beast by whatever means necessary so that she could get what she truly wanted all along.