A/N: Yup yup, another chappie! Man, I didn't want it to be this long...
Whatever. Anyway, whoever wrote this review--a person who signed under the name 'yo', this if for you and anyone else who has the same confusion. Here's the review:
why is it that every time kagome or rin is in trouble they are completely uselsess? i mean their both mikos so you say..and their defenseless? does this make sense to you? it common and boring and i am simply getting tired of reading the same bull shit taboo in every story yor plot is so interesting but you make the fight scenes boring. in the series kagome fights and defends too as much as she can..and shes brave but everyone seems to want to think that shes not! its ridiculous..come now author..impress your reading we want to read about some raw power comin out of kagome OR rin for once!
Alrighty, first thing! Rin is NOT, I repeat, NOT a miko! Only Kagome is! I don't know if I didn't make this clear, or if I made a mistake and mentioned that she was, but she is NOT a miko! Sorry for the confusion! So she's just a normal human being who just so happened to be engaged to a demon god...for now. I did say that I suck at writing fight scenes, so you have a point there, and I know Kagome is all brave and strong--I just dont like her, but that's just me--and blah blah blah! And come on now, dont get ahead of me! I did mention that Kagome doesn't know how to use her miko abilities. Unbelieveable: yes. But I made it that way, you know why? Because it has to do with the plot. But you made great points and I'm sorry for my suckiness.
Hey, you even gave me some inspiration even if it wasn't intentional...thank you!
:-D
If any of you people out there feel the same, well, keep reading my story even if it doesn't interest you at the moment and you'll find out the reason WHY Kagome and Rin are so defenseless when they shouldn't be. I'm not trying to make them appear completely useless throughout the whole story, because they're not--just that, at this moment, they're not powerful. They're NORMAL. Why? It's part of the plot so I cant tell you. If you truly want to know so badly that you cant wait until this story progresses and wish for me to spoil it to find out, then message me and I'll be happy to tell you my plans! That is, only if you promise to keep reading... ;-D
I'm tricky, right?
Ok, peeps! Enjoy the chappie! Anymore issues that you need me to explain and/or talk about, review or message me and I'll get back to you! Just dont do it anonymously because then I wont be able to reply unless I update! Dont be afraid to ask anything or vent because you as reviewers have the right to state your opinion! And I sincerely love all of you because you make my review count go up! Yup, I'm selfish...::grins innocently::
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Oh My Gods! 10
Kouga narrowed his azure blue eyes and growled at the silver-haired hanyou standing a few feet away from him and his woman, the same half-breed whose hand was ready to strike him...with a gargantuan Calculus book. The nerve of the mutt! Can't he at least use a better, less humiliating weapon? His only response to the silent threat was tightening his hold on the raven-haired beauty in his arms. "Well if it isn't the long lost Mutt Prince! Aren't you supposed to be living in a palace with your little 'Daddy' back in Makai?"
Kagome tensed, but it went unnoticed by the wolf demon still possessively embracing her. How did Kouga know that her fiancé was a...a prince?! And he mentioned a palace in Makai. What's he talking about? Palace equals royalty...no, he can't know! He j-just can't!
Inuyasha clenched his hands, bearing his fangs as a ferocious growl emanated from his lower throat and chest. "That's none of your business, wolf shit. And for your information, since you were too dumb to find out--my Dad's been dead for years. Hmph, aren't you supposed to be leading Enma now that your 'Papa' bit the dust?" Kagome didn't know what the heck they were talking about...
"Don't you dare talk about my father as if you know him, half-breed!" The wolf demon snarled.
"Then don't talk about mine, ya wimpy wolf!"
"I'll do what I want, dog turd! I aint Prince of Enma for nothing!"
"Keh! When you're arguing with someone, just make sure he isn't Prince of the whole fucking Western-Eastern Empire!"
"I don't care if you're a prince or not--you're still just a shit-faced mutt in the end!"
"Oh yeah, I should've known wolves suffer from head-in-ass syndrome..."
"Fuck you!"
"What is going on here?! And Kouga, let go of me already!" The miko, who had been feeling a bit left out as the two canine demons had their piss fight, finally broke free from her tenacious hold and stood in between them. She glared at each of them before facing Kouga. "Ok, how in the world do you know Inuyasha?"
"I don't know him personally, Kagome, not that I'd want to, anyway," the wolf demon replied, smirking at his woman with all the charm a prince could possess. The teen wished it wasn't illegal to kill someone at the moment, especially when she glanced back at her fiancé only to see that his eyes flashed crimson red. Not good... But, as she carefully observed him, she noticed that he looked...well...different. His aura drastically changed for the worse, too...definitely not good.
Even so, Kagome was glad that he finally stuffed his Calculus book into his messenger bag...there was no need to have flying textbooks in the living room...
"Keh!" I have to control myself, the hanyou mentally growled, willing his inner youkai to calm down; the fact that another demon was so close to his 'mate' didn't bode well with it. He didn't know he was capable of being this possessive, almost to the point of desiring to draw his own blood if it would settle his raging youkai--of course, the first one bleeding would be the wolf demon. "He's an immortal living in the mortal realm, future King of the Northern Lands--Enma. We only met once when we were pups--it was hate at first sight."
"I never saw the Prince of the Western Lands--which is Makai--after that." And he was glad of it. "Now, why the hell are you and mutt face living together? Tell me what Ayame said isn't true!" Kouga wasted no time in taking a hold of Kagome's two hands as though he was going to propose to her. He ignored the savage growling in the background, for the most part...as well as his woman's pale face.
"Umm..." What am I supposed to tell him? All this was new to her! So there were more immortals hiding in the mortal realm?! What?! And she hadn't known that Kouga was a prince! Well, it did explain his charm... Moreover, she eyed the necklace acting as a choker around the dark-haired demon's neck, which seemed like ordinary surfer beads--now she knew that the necklace actually marked him as an immortal.
And he had eight teeth on it; thence he was also a demon god. Next thing I know, I'll find out that Houjo's the Prince of Atlantis...
Inuyasha was trying very hard to suppress the urge to kill and think later, but his attempts were becoming futile with every second that damn wolf spent so close to his Kagome! Hell--he didn't care anymore and he wasn't going to deny it; Kagome was his and it was going to stay that way unless he said so! Damn, red was seeping into his vision again... "Isn't it obvious, or are you blind, wolf bitch? We're engaged."
"Engaged?!" Kouga looked like someone had shot him in the heart, and he faced Kagome with the most earnest and hurt expression on his handsome, tanned face that had her gulping. "He forced you into it, didn't he? I'll kill dog turd and then we can be together, my woman! I don't care what our families say because I love you and I'll make you mine!"
What play are we in, Romeo and Juliet? The miko thought dryly. She didn't care; the first bell was going to ring soon, and because of these two dimwits, she now only had time to make the second bell in order to not be considered late. "That's nice and all, but--"
"Make her yours?! Asshole, she's mine!" Kagome desperately wanted to know why dog demons--no, scratch that, all canine demons were overly possessive! And what does Inuyasha mean that I'm his?! I'm not a dog bone that any one can just verbally claim!
"Can you guys just please--"
"She's my woman, therefore my mate." Kouga finally let go of the raven-haired teen's hands, evidently ignoring her anger, and treaded closer onto thin ground, where Inuyasha was glaring at him with what had to be the most deadly expression Kagome had ever seen on his face. The way his jaw was determinedly set with his eyes keenly narrowed gave away his cryptic intent--murder. He seemed ready to...kill someone...
This is getting out of hand, Kagome nervously stared back and forth between Kouga and Inuyasha, taking in the wolf demon's cocky smirk and the hanyou's deadpan look. I didn't think they would react this way to each other, especially Inuyasha! One second, he's beyond furious; the next, it's like he's Sesshoumaru's twin!
"Come say that again to my face, wolf shit. Tell me again that she's yours." His voice terrified Kagome--she swore it wasn't his! It was too calm, too smooth, too much like his older brother's, who was probably the most powerful and dangerous demon in the entire universe! Gods, comparing the two at the moment left hardly any room for distinctions!
"Let's just go to class, you guys...we'll be late!" No one listened to her; Inuyasha was lost behind a thick wall of ice while Kouga couldn't see past an unvoiced challenge that he wanted to conquer. It was just the two of them, and Kagome was forced to be a spectator. She noted how tense their bodies were, hidden beneath navy uniforms, and how their auras spiked in warning...death was in the air, that's what it was. She hadn't imagined such a thing was possible, but she was witnessing it.
It's like...like the living room suddenly became a field for a gruesome kill...
Inuyasha's eyes were beyond frozen and his face was grim; it reminded his fiancée of how he had appeared before battling those demon puppets a couple of nights ago. Her eyes widened when she realized just what the half-immortal was planning, and her heart went out to Kouga, who obliviously took the bait like a true arrogant fool. Oh no, he's going to--!
The wolf demon prince smirked and walked closer towards Inuyasha until their noses nearly touched. It didn't bother him that the hanyou's demonic aura was darker than usual and voltaic energy was cackling around him, serving as a barrier for his anger. Hell, he even disregarded the fact that a rock currently showed more emotions than the usually abrasive half-breed. All that passed through his mind was proving once and for all who was the dominant male, proving once and for all who was the better leader, who had the better pack--and better yet, who, in the end, kept claim on his prize.
"Fine, then, stupid mutt. Kagome is mine. Kagome is my woman. Kagome is--AH!"
"KOUGA! Inuyasha STOP!"
Inuyasha's dark amber eyes maliciously smiled, and they glanced down to gaze at the clawed hand, his clawed hand that gripped the damn wolf's throat. His sharp claws dug into soft tanned flesh, enough so that thick crimson blood was drawn, and his nimble fingers tightened around his rival's neck, now silently daring him to continue spewing foolish nonsense. Kouga struggled to claw at the hand that blocked his airways--hell, he struggled to breathe! But nothing...nothing worked! Kagome was tugging restlessly at Inuyasha's arm, but he heeded none of it.
All he saw, all that he could see, was a certain wolf demon's suffering.
He loved the thrill of a kill--he loved the pained look on his victim's face. The poor fool couldn't even breathe; the gradual redness seeping onto his pale face foretold his fate. He only wanted to laugh at the other's expense, and at the ridiculous pleading of the human woman pulling at his arm in near tears.
Who was she? Who was he trying to kill? Who was...who was he? He didn't know. But he enjoyed this...torture. Yes, he consented while his youki seemed to roar with agony as it fought a losing battle against sizzling, foreign dark energy, I enjoy this very much. And I won't stop. I can't stop. Why can't I stop? No, I won't stop. This wolf's agony...is what I've wanted for a long time. How and why are questions I can't answer. Something is telling me that he should die...painfully. What is it? Where am I?
"INUYASHA! STOP! You're going to kill him!" Kagome didn't know what to do as she begged and tried to talk some sense into her apparently crazed fiancé.
Why was he acting like this?! Why did he look so intent on murdering Kouga, as if he was a hated enemy? An adversary, a challenge that he took glee in surpassing...Why did he look so lost in sadistic satisfaction? Who was this conniving demon that morphed from the idiotic yet big-hearted hanyou she knew and cared for?
She wasn't far from the truth, however...she realized that no matter what she said to him, or how hard she pulled on his arm...her eyes shifted to Kouga's pained expression as he tried to breathe in fresh air, with his azure eyes nearly popping out of their sockets...Kagome knew that Inuyasha wouldn't stop. He couldn't stop....because he didn't know himself anymore. How did she know that?
I cant...I have to do something! She couldn't bear to just idly stand by and watch her fiance kill someone! She couldn't! But what could she do? What was there to do that would bring Inuyasha back...or at least stop him?
Her heart pounded in her ears, defeaning her, shutting out the sounds of Kouga's struggle to breathe. She glanced at her fiance's dark eyes gleaming with sadisitc pleasure. Her blood raced through her veins, pulsing rapidly under her skin. The wolf demon's wide blue eyes and gritted teeth were ingrained into her memory. Her hands fisted at her sides, attempting to fight the foreign pressure pushing on her chest.
She couldn't just stand by and watch. No.
She wouldn't.
"I'll do whatever it takes, Inuyasha..." Amber eyes flitted towards her, regarding her with a mere passing glance, as if deciding that she, a human mortal, was no threat to his power. "I'll do whatever it takes to get you back...because the Inuyasha I know would never kill someone out of sick pleasure." She raised her head high enough so that her blazing chocolate eyes were no longer hidden by her raven bangs. "I'll get you back!!"
Without thinking, without rationalizing what she was doing, Kagome latched onto Inuyasha's arm with all her might, but she did note the warmth spreading through her fingers. The warmth that summoned tingling sensations at the tips of her fingers...did she ever look down at her hands? No.
So of course, the miko didn't know that they were glowing a soft pink...
...that is, until a flash of bright pink light blinded everyone...
...with a scene that seemed more familiar than possible...
Kagome gasped as she was more or less sucked into some kind of dark forest in the depths of her mind. How did she know that? Who knew, but she fathomed that her subconcious self had somehow reverted into her mind. 'Wasn't I just in the living room? Where am I and what's going on? Where's Inuyasha and Kouga?' She was beyond confused, though she didn't have time to mull over her situation when she heard shouting coming from up ahead.
"INUYASHA!!" The miko blinked repeatedly before she gaped. Now she was really confused. 'That voice...the one shouting...that's...that's me.' "STOOOP!!"'What's happening?'
She wasted no time to run towards where the voice--her voice--was coming from. In less than a minute, after gasping for air--stupid hills--she lifted her head and laid eyes upon the scene in front of her. She couldn't help but gasp in complete shock...
'Oh my gods...that is me shouting! A-And...Inuyasha, Kouga! They're in the same...the same thing's happening as before. Inuyasha's strangling him...' Kagome sucked in a breath of air as she analyzed what was occuring in the clearing. She eyed...herself tugging at the hanyou's arm, the same arm that held a dangling Kouga at the other end...but she was wearing some kind of strange silk garb. It looked...midevil like...a light green dress of sorts.
Her eyes then settled on Inuyasha, who was wearing the same fire rat kimono he usually wore...his immortal clothes. And Kouga...the wolf prince was wearing what looked like battle clothing, with a black breastplate covering his chest, brown furred shoulder guards, headband, wristband, etc. Obviously...he wouldn't wear that in the mortal realm. 'So...am I in the immortal realm? But then...how can there be two of me in the same place?'
The miko was confused, yet she continued to watch. "Inuyasha, please! You're going to kill him!" As before, she was pleading unsuccessfully with a murderous hanyou. "Step away from the killing field--please step away from it! There's no use in killing him!"
'He's not listening...' Kagome brought her hand up to her chest, clutching the woven fabric of her navy blazer. 'Why does it hurt so much that he's not listening...? Like he's so close, yet so far away...it hurts.' And she knew that it also hurt her twin self by the tears that threatened to escape her eyes...
"You won't listen to me, my love? Will you lose yourself to the point of killing him for your own satsifaction?" 'My love?! Whoah...' Sure, they kissed but she didn't love him! "You leave me no choice. I'll do whatever it takes, Inuyasha. I'll do whatever it takes to get you back....because the Inuyasha I know would never kill someone out of sick pleasure...I'll get you back!!"
'I said that, too...' What was going on?! 'Wait her, well my hands are glowing pink! I think that happened before...what was that?'
She watched as her twin self fisted her hands at her sides, much like she had done, and grew awed when they started to glow a soft pink. The miko could feel the sheer spiritual energy coming from her even from the long distance between them! 'Am I that strong?' Even now, the pure energy was trying to lull her towards it...draw her in... 'Yeah, that's power all right.'
Her twin's eyes blazed with agony. "Whatever it takes...I'll do whatever it takes..."
Kagome's own eyes widened in horror. Was she...?! Would she...?! 'Oh my gods, she's, well I'm going to...to purify him?! Her hands are glowing with purifying energy that can kill demons...no way...I wouldn't...oh no...no...' Her twin nearly embraced her supposed lover's arm, and with one solid tear escaping each of her eye lids, she slowly pressed her glowing hands onto Inuyasha's flesh... 'No...' The area was then englufed in a bright flash of pink light, much like the one she had seen before she 'reverted' into herself...
But...she could still hear Inuyasha's howl of pain...
"NOOOO--!!!"
........
"--OOOO!!!"
SPLASH!!
"W-Wha...WHAT IN THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR?!?!?! I'M FUCKING DRENCHED NOW!!!"
Kagome bolted upright while gasping in terror, and she blinked a few times, trying to gather her current surroundings. Her eyes found Kouga groaning as he rubbed his head, apparently recovering from a nasty fall--or did he pass out? Inuyasha was the one screaming his head off as usual, yelling profanity after profanity at his elder brother, who was boredly scrutinizing the claws on his right hand while holding a gray bucket in his other. But most importantly, they were all back in the living room...and Inuyasha hadn't been purified.
Once her breathing settled, and the miko was able to think coherently again, she looked down at her hands.
They were normal; no glowing, no pink, no warmth--just normal.
Was that a good thing?
What just happened? She sighed, closing her eyes at the memory now embedded into her mind for life. Inuyasha's cry of pain...her glowing hands...a flash of blinding light... What was it all? What had she seen? Did the others see it, too? Somehow, she doubted it. That flash of light...it happened after I touched Inuyasha's skin...were my hands glowing before that trip down memory lane? Yeah...it was. But...I didn't purify him.
She gazed up at him, watching him as he ranted with all the energy that a sopping wet hanyou could possess. He seemed fine, absolutely fine. Kagome bit her lip in frustration. What the hell just happened?! And since when did I learn to purify demons? Last thing I knew, my miko powers were pretty much...um, is dormant the right word? Whatever. I didn't know how to use them, and now... She intently observed her fingers, which appeared normal on the outside, yet...she felt tingling in the inside...the warmth was also returning. Now I can summon that pure energy on will. What happened to me?
"--and you didn't have to fucking dump a bucket of cold-ass water on my--"
While ignoring his younger brother's furious ranting, Sesshoumaru nonchalantly stared at the random gray bucket in his hand with a quirked eye brow, almost as if he was surprised that it had materialized itself into his possession out of no where. He then directed his gaze back to his seething younger brother, who was a living example of a wet dog with water dripping down his cheeks, locks of silver hair, and, yes, his no longer immaculate uniform.
The dog demon assessed his inferior's eyes, which were once again a vibrant gold flaming with suppressed fury rather than a cynical dark amber. The wolf also seemed unharmed...except for his raw neck...and the miko...he eyed the miko...she appeared to be bewildered. Hn...does she not know what she had just done? What she could have done? Plausibly. Well, there is no need to inform her at this moment, especially with the wolf present.
He briefly shut his golden honey eyes at the distasteful sight before him. "Good, you're back to normal, as well as conscious." Kagome mused about what he had said. So we did pass out. Gods, what had I done?!
"Oh hoh, so you're here, too? What the hell?! Is there a gathering for princes or something that I didn't know about?!" The silver-haired immortal in question refrained from commenting on certain people's stupidity whatsoever.
"Yeah, he's engaged to someone, too." I really have to watch what I say around Sesshoumaru; he's going to kill me one day. Kagome met his death glare--it was the second one today--with a nervous smile. She was glad, at least, that she was gradually coming out of her stupor.
Kouga furrowed his eye brows at the...revelation. "I never saw that coming...anyway--what in the fucking seven blazing hells were you trying to do to me, dog fuck?!" He erupted once he caught a hold of himself with Kagome's help, so overcome with anger that he even forgot to flash her a princely smile. Was the world ending?! "You piece of shit mutt! If you had killed me, there would've been HELL to pay!"
"In the contrary, wolf," Sesshoumaru cut in before another piss fight commenced, "the Western-Eastern Empire would merely become the Western-Northern-Eastern Empire."
The wolf demon rolled his eyes in exasperation, bringing his hand up to wrap around his tender neck. "It still doesn't explain why he tried to kill me!" Gods dammit! I didn't know the half-breed was that strong! His aura was freakin' suffocating me!
"It still doesn't explain why I'm fucking DRENCHED!" If there was one thing Inuyasha hated the most, it was being soaking wet. From head-to-toe. With his clothes uncomfortably clinging to his lean body. Well, then again, he also hated the 'innocent' look his brother shot him, a look saying, 'What does that have to do with me?' Damn bastard...
"Since you are both dimwitted fools, I shall explain." Sesshoumaru, however, first took the chance to wipe invisible dust from his impeccable uniform, which was a black version of the high school one. Kagome had to admit that he looked even more handsome than usual--of course, he looked like a wealthy and intelligent businessman. That's actually pretty close to being true...
"We don't have all day here, bastard!" Inuyasha growled through his gritted teeth, trying to ignore the miserable feeling of being...wet.
The dog demon sighed. "Rule number one of immortals residing in the mortal realm: do not kill. Period. Rule number two: do not venture into killing fields." He glared at the two canine demons glowering at each other. "Now, who wants to be the star puppy student and tell me what you two whelps did wrong?"
"He tried to kill me!" Kouga pointed an accusing finger at Inuyasha, seeming like the tattletale he...still was.
"You provoked me into a killing field!" The hanyou shot back, his former anger swelling with vengeance. Gods, now he remembered why he hated wolf demons! And the fact that he had almost ventured into a killing field was new to him...obviously, he couldn't remember when he lost his self-control in the first place...or when he had fallen unconscious, so Sesshoumaru said.
"Because you didn't want to believe that Kagome is my woman!"
How did they drag me into this again? Sheesh, I'm going to have to murder Kouga now... And after she completed her series of murders, the miko was going to officially change her name and move to a distant country where there were no over-possessive canine demons...hopefully, that included the immortal ones. Those dogs were the trickiest.
Inuyasha felt his mind clouding with fury once again. "She's MINE!" What's it gonna take to get it through his fucking thick skull?! If she's my fiancée, then she's mine! Keh! And I don't see him having a bond of mates with Kagome!
"MINE!"
"MINE!"
"MIIINE!"
"MIIIIIII--!!"
"Shut up, now." Sesshoumaru was inwardly relieved that he managed to call back the two idiots from the edge of a killing field before it was too late. "Wolf, you knew that the half-breed was one step away from a killing field, and yet you still did not relent. Half-breed, you need to control your anger, as well as your inner youkai, much more efficiently so that things like this do not occur a second time. Am I understood?"
Kagome wasn't even going to ask what a killing field was...she'd heard about it twice already, yet interrupting the three demons at the moment probably wouldn't be a good idea. She surmised, though, that a killing field...was anything but pretty.
A series of grumbles was the immortal's answer, not that he cared for a proper response anyway. "Good--refrain from fighting again or I will have to drag you both to the immortal realm and kill you." With that said and done, the dog demon bent over to pick up his forgotten briefcase. However, he abruptly stilled his movements and faced the direction he had come from. Everyone noticed one of his pointed ears twitching by the slightest bit, and soon enough, his nose twitched in unison...what was he doing?
And then...he left without a word. He just vanished...or...ran away was more appropriate.
Inuyasha blinked and cocked his head, no longer minding that he was still dripping water.
Kagome just...gaped at the fact that Sesshoumaru had shown fear for a split second.
Kouga crossed his arms once the wounds on his neck finally healed, oblivious to the dog demon's unusually brisk departure...as always.
But they all understood when...
"SEEESSHOOOUUUMAAARUUU!!!!!"
BANG!!
Like a paralyzing clap of thunder, the door to bedroom on the left side of the closest hall way slammed open, and a disheveled teenager nearly bolted out. Those in the living room swore they saw lightening strike the carpeted floor behind her, but even that did not overpower the hell that was in the dark-haired girl's eyes. The fiery cinnamon irises of her eyes then searched for a certain demon god culprit, but he was not in the room. He. Was. Not. There. "DAMMIT! I'm going to KILL HIM!!"
The others were petrified of the object she held in one hand, though--it was her desk top lamp. And she looked ready to throw it at any moment in time...Kouga decided to never come pick up his woman ever again so long as she lived with homicidal weirdoes...
"Hey, Rin," Inuyasha immediately signed his death warrant when he spoke to the harshly breathing teen, though his golden eyes were fixed on her neck...or one side of it, actually, "what's that red thing on your neck? It looks horrible--is it a cut that got infected?"
Kouga huffed. "Duh! It's a big-ass bruise!"
"It looks worse than just a bruise! Don't you see how red and purple it is?!"
"Listen, mutt face--I'm the only one who's not an idiot here, so I know what I'm talking about. That thing is a bruise. See--look at the size of it! It's like she got hit with a baseball!"
A baseball? Oh yeah, it's a ball used in a weird human game played with a bat. Perhaps there truly was a good reason why Kagome made him read the dictionary instead of the obvious one--torturing him. "Keh! You can't go around with that crap on your neck, Rin."
"You got that right; it's an eye sore." The sable-haired wolf demon nodded as the hanyou smirked. Was it a miracle that he and Inuyasha at long last agreed on something without trying to kill each other? Perhaps the only way they could get along was if Kagome suddenly disappeared... Maybe I should be the one to go on that Ramen Maker quest...
The miko in the living room shifted her attention to her friend, and gulped when she noticed that Rin's eyes just kept getting darker and darker with each of their comments. The lamp in her hand rose higher and higher, too... Why are guys so stupid? And now I know why Sesshoumaru and Rin did so long in their room... She shuddered at the thought of exactly what they had been doing.
No need to envision it!
"You there...with the pony tail..." Kouga blinked in confusion when he realized that the 'mentally unstable' teen was talking to him. He soon gulped and felt chills run up his spine when she raised her head, enough so that her devilish eyes were no longer covered by her obsidian bangs. "I'm giving you three seconds to get out of here. One..."
The wolf demon wanted to whimper--what the hell was he supposed to do?!
Rin growled and poised the lamp in her hand up higher in the air, "Two..."
Inuyasha shot him an exasperated look, silently willing him to run away with his tail between his legs like Sesshoumaru had done. Kouga's hands trembled when the bright orange lamp rose even higher...
"THREEEEE!!!"
"AYAAAMEEE!! I decided to walk you to class only if you SAVE ME!!"
SLAM!
BAAAM!!
"GAAAH!!!!"
THUD!!
Ok, that's it! I'm asking Rin for an apprenticeship! Kagome cynically grinned and rubbed her hands together like a crazed scientist. She did lightly kick the prone body sprawled on the sodden carpet right next to her for no reason at all... Hm, this is actually pretty fun...
All the while, poor Inuyasha was swirly eyed. Why?
Well, Rin had ended up throwing the lamp at him since Kouga managed to escape.
Giggling. Laughing. Gossiping. Joking.
That's what surrounded him at the moment--he hated it, and the worst part was that he would be stuck with all these annoying sounds while in a cramped room for an hour. Well, that was until he would switch classes only to suffer the same thing again, or that was what Kagome had explained. His golden amber eyes then glanced at the carefree faces of his fellow classmates as they mingled and talked and...did teenager things.
He had always found it strange how mortals bonded with each other.
Even now, he felt extremely out of place, standing beside whom he guessed was the 'teacher' in the classroom. Not only did he stand out like a sore thumb because of his exotic silver hair and golden eyes--not even the demons here had such wild hair colors--but as he gazed at all the...the 'cliques' the students were in, from what he sorted was the girlie girl group to the really athletic guys, he realized that he just wouldn't fit in with any of them. Kagome had her own friends; what about him? He hated her friends, except for the really dense one--so what was he supposed to do?
Keh. It's not like I need any of this crap. I don't need friends. He nodded in tune with his thoughts. He had been alone for most of his life, or what he remembered of it, and he wasn't about to start vying for companionship now. Living with Sesshoumaru for years did that to a person...
"Alright, class! Settle down!" The human teacher standing in front of his mahogany wooden desk cleared his throat to get his class of twenty-seven students to silence. The hanyou beside him merely shook his head, feeling dread drip into the pool of mixed emotions flooding his mind.
It took at least a minute longer for the entire classroom to quiet down enough so that a pin could be heard dropping on the floor, and Inuyasha had to say that the silence was uncomfortable. He twitched his ears a couple of times in annoyance--he detested the growing feeling of isolation and solitude bombarding his heart and mind. Though, he noticed too late that twitching his ears was not good; people were snickering at his peculiar 'hanyou defect'.
Dammit! He had dog ears! So what?! He was damn proud of it!
"Good morning, everyone!" The class responded with the same greeting. "Today, we have a new student joining our lovely Literature class! Why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself? I'm Nobunaga-sensei."
Inuyasha stared at his new dark-haired teacher in something akin to contempt. He didn't want to talk to these imbecile mortals! But, his glare was met with a patient smile, and after a half-minute of nonstop staring, the hanyou consented and faced the 'eagerly' awaiting class. "Maebashi Inuyasha."
...
Nobunaga-sensei clicked his tongue at the awkward silence that accompanied that clipped statement. "Ok...then welcome, Inuyasha! Since you're new and all, tell us a bit about yourself!"
Chirp...chirp...chirp...
Where did that grasshopper come from all of a sudden?
The half-immortal cocked one of his eye brows incredulously. Who did this human think he was?! And what did he mean by 'tell us a bit about yourself'? What did 'a bit' entail? He subconsciously sought out his fiancée in the midst of the sea of students, and found her seated in the third column of paired desks, specifically in the second row. She met his gaze and smiled encouragingly...hmm...
"Keh! I'm Kagome's fiancé." Her smile instantly turned into a frown. Did he say something wrong? She looked ready to kill him...
"No way! Kagome's engaged?! When did that happen?!" One of the girls sitting behind the miko shrieked, causing the teen to hunch her shoulders, hoping that it would protect her from further mishaps.
"Shoot, that's another hot girl taken! We're running out of choices, Daisuke!" Inuyasha had to resist the urge to rip off the asshole's smirking lips and shove it down his laughing friend's throat.
"Well someone is getting busy...soon enough, there'll be another high school drop out to add to the statistics...I hope your kids have his pretty hair." At that comment coming from a rather coquettish demoness with short charcoal black hair, Kagome snapped her eyes up and furiously glared at her blinking-dumbly-because-psychotic-wench-might-kill-me fiancé.
Nobunaga-sensei, whose coffee eyes had bugged out of their sockets, finally regained his composure and silenced his class. "T-That's great to know, Inuyasha. Congratulations Kagome!" The miko's beat red face beheld a potent death glare directed at her oh so intelligent fiancé. "Um...is there anything else...?"
The hanyou thought long and hard about it, racking his brain for something about himself that would satisfy his human teacher--this time, whatever he said was not going to be held liable against him by his fiancée. He didn't know why she was so angry; all he said was the truth! He wasn't supposed to lie about it, right?
"...I like ramen." Yeah, he was dead meat.
"HAHAHA!!"
Laughter erupted from each and everyone one of the students in the classroom, even the teacher allowed himself a couple of chuckles. The only ones not laughing were Kagome, who was banging her head against her wooden desk, and Inuyasha, who scowled since he didn't know why everyone was making fun of him. Was it funny that he liked ramen? It was the best food in the world!
"Thank you, Maebashi! You can go sit in that empty seat next to Morimotto Yuka, the girl with the short auburn hair. Yuka, raise your hand!"
Oh no. Fuck no. This cant be happening. Inuyasha stood paralyzed as he gaped at the one person he did not want to sit next to no matter what. The one human girl who got on his nerves more than anyone else ever had, including that wolf shit, Kouga. The bitchy friend of Kagome...Yuka...was, in turn, glaring daggers at him as he slowly made his way to his desk, which was fortunately--maybe currently unfortunately--across from his fiancée.
Damn, one of us is going to end up dead by the end of class, and it won't be me. And he was completely sure of that.
Nobunaga-sensei was oblivious to the overwhelming tension between his two adjacent students, and he began his lesson with a goofy smile on his face at all times. "Last class, we left off discussing Edo Period Lit, and we thoroughly examined the influences of feudal literature, such as the emerging working and middle classes..."
Inuyasha droned out the rest of what his teacher was saying, leaving the information to be digested by his furiously twitching ears--it was the perks of being a hanyou; he didn't have to pay attention, but he still memorized every single word related to him. He only began typing notes on his laptop when other students did, mainly because he didn't want to feel more left out than he already was. Either way, he wasn't really paying attention.
Forty-minutes of nonstop talk about pointless literature blab later...
...a small window popped up on the hanyou's screen, interrupting his speedy typing.
A/N: SHORTENED!