Yay another chapter! Well you guys asked if there was going to be a confrontation between Sango and Kagome, well there will be but not in this chapter...Sorry! I gotta keep you guys with the suspense a little long lol
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His Best Friend— Ten
Inuyasha groaned in pain, he was still in bed holding his stomach while his brother stood over him, his arms crossed with a deep frown on his face. On Inuyasha's other side stood Sango with a concern look to her face when she reached out placing a cold cloth over his forehead to reduce the high fever he had gotten in the middle of the night.
"I don't need that Sango…I'll be fine." Inuyasha told her weakly pushing her hand away. Sesshomaru growled, "How long has this been going on Inuyasha? This isn't the first time you've been ill." He demanded.
Inuyasha closed his eyes not wanting to look at his brother so he couldn't see the pain he was in, but he knew he also couldn't avoid the question for long so might as well tell him the truth.
"A month…maybe even longer." He replied lowly. Sesshomaru growled punching the wall next to him. Sango winced, but didn't comment that Inuyasha had been getting worse lately.
"You should have told me the moment you began to realize they kept progressing I have to send Father a message to tell him we might have to leave sooner than he expected." Sesshomaru said. Inuyasha shook his head rising from the bed.
"No, we can still continue Father is counting for this promotion deal between companies." Inuyasha said only to begin coughing. The smell of blood caught Sesshomaru's nose as he pulled out a handkerchief bringing it to his younger brother's mouth.
"If you keep being stubborn I'll send you overseas quicker than you believe you can tell Father how we failed but I won't." Sesshomaru snapped. Inuyasha pushed his arm way from his face, wiping his mouth away of blood.
"I understand." He said. Sesshomaru nodded his head.
"Rin!" he called out. The young girl came rushing in with a glass of medicine she gave to Inuyasha who drank ignoring the taste of acid burning his throat. When he finished he felt his eyes begin to close feeling the effects of the medicine.
"He'll only have another month maybe less if we don't take him back home." Sango whispered to Sesshomaru so Inuyasha wouldn't hear her, but he was still conscious enough to listen to the conversation.
"I know our spy is close in getting the information we need my position as Headmaster has limited me to get close to anything. Sango you must continue to watch over him make sure he stops this infatuation he's gotten for the Higurashi girl, there's no point in the girl to get her heart broken." He said. Sango turned to look at Inuyasha's sleeping face, and then nodded.
"Yes, I promise." She answered. Sesshomaru turned away ready to leave.
"I'll tell the spy to hurry, by the time Inuyasha realizes that there's no future for him here, we'll be across the ocean." He said as he left Sango looked one last time at her friend as she walked out. Hearing there retreating forms, and also that Sesshomaru was out of ear shot Inuyasha opened his eyes, they were still drowsy but he manage to pull them open to see Rin was still in his room cleaning up.
"Rin." He whispered. The young girl looked at him with confusion as he handed her a small note.
"Please…give this to Kagome." He whispered. Rin looked at the note, and then at Inuyasha with wide eyes.
"If you're brother finds out." She warned. Inuyasha laughed shaking his head.
"I don't care it's my life, please Rin?" he begged. Rin saw the desperate look Inuyasha was giving her realizing he's never looked so fragile before, she folded the note hiding it in the inside of her skirt pocket.
"Okay, I'll give it to her." She promised. Inuyasha gave her thankful eyes before letting the medicines effects take him to slumber.
"Oh Inuyasha, I hope you know what you're doing." The young girl told him.
At school Kagome searched frantically for Inuyasha, but she couldn't find him. He hadn't shown up for P.E and she also couldn't find Rin anywhere either, she was beginning to get worried that she was almost desperate to go ask Sango, but she hadn't.
Kagome decided to see if Inuyasha might be ditching as she headed to the rooftop during lunch, not only couldn't she find her friends, but Miroku had mysteriously disappeared and the more she thought about it the more she came to realize that he'd been disappearing on her a lot lately. The next time she saw him she was going to ask him about it but first she needed to find Inuyasha.
When she opened the door to the roof the sun blinded her for a moment until she saw her surroundings, it was empty. She let out a sigh of sadness as she took a step forward wondering where he was, when she heard voices, she stepped out wondering where they were coming from when the door slammed shut with a bang. Kagome jumped when she turned around she was surprised to see Sango standing in front of her, her arms at her waist; eyes hard.
"Can I help you?" she demanded. Kagome frowned wondering where she had come from and wondered if the second voice belonged to Inuyasha?
"I'm looking for Rin and my cousin." She said slowly, she wondered if she told the girl she was looking for Inuyasha would she tell her the truth about where he was.
"Rin, should be arriving she was the doctor's office." Sango said not mentioning Inuyasha. Kagome nodded a frown on her lips.
"What about Miroku? You guys are working on the history project together." She said. Sango rolled her eyes, "That guy is so lazy he expects me to do the work I avoid him as much as possible." She said. Kagome wondered were Miroku could be then when she remembered the time she caught him with a bruise to his face saying it was from the woman he loved.
'Was he being serious? Don't tell me he found someone and didn't even tell me the nerve of him! And I thought we we're best friends.' She thought angrily turning away to go find him and give him a piece of her mind.
"Okay thank you." Kagome said opening the door, but Sango stopped her.
"I'm surprised you didn't ask me for Inuyasha since he's not here." She said. Kagome could just feel the challenge in her words as she slowly turned to face the young girl.
"I noticed I didn't think anything of it." She said hoping to sound uninterested. Sango folded her arms together motioning to the book she carried.
"That's Inuyasha's why do you have it?" she asked. Kagome looked at the red book and then at Sango.
"He let me borrow it, it's for out project. Is he okay?" she found herself asking worried that something bad happened to him. Sango shook her head.
"He's fine, listen Kagome I don't know what you are to Inuyasha but as his best friend you need to know you can't get near him." Sango said. Kagome stared at her with wide eyes she couldn't believe she was telling her what to do, who did she think she was?
"Excuse me? What does this have to do with you Inuyasha and I are just friends." Kagome said. Sango gave her a look.
"We're both girls here, and I know that you're beginning to have feelings for him. I'm only helping you out Kagome. He probably hasn't told you but soon he's going to leave Tokyo, and move to the States." She said. Kagome felt her heart tighten hearing the news that Inuyasha might be leaving.
"His Father is a famous man in the states with the largest company you can imagine right now he should be signing a deal to unite himself with Europe once they've come together Sesshomaru will leave and partner up with his Father. Inuyasha CAN stay here, but he WON'T. Family means more to him than anything, so you should stop this before you get hurt." Sango said. Kagome couldn't believe what she was hearing, she didn't really understand what Sango was talking about, but she did understand that he would leave if given the choice. She wasn't someone important like she made herself believe after all she was just another bothersome girl he kept having to save. Kagome could feel the tears prick up but she wouldn't let Sango see her cry.
"I get it just…don't tell him we talked." Kagome said as she walked out the tears falling. Sango watched with sympathetic eyes as Kagome ran away, she didn't mean to expose their plans out, but she had no choice. She wouldn't be able to bear for Inuyasha to get hurt again, she turned around seeing Miroku coming out of his hiding spot a frown on his face.
"Are you going to yell at me?" she asked. Miroku shook his head as he neared her wrapping his arms around her.
"No, I wish you would have told me that you would be leaving soon." He said pressing a kiss to the side of her neck. Sango sighed.
"I did tell you that I couldn't get involved with you but you wanted to take the risk, do you regret it?" she asked. Miroku groaned.
"Never, I will remember our time together even if we were worlds apart." He told her. Sango smiled at him warmly, "If only we could have met sooner." She whispered. Miroku didn't reply instead he brought his lips to hers reminding her that they still had now.
Rin arrived in school and the first thing she did was search for Kagome, she wasn't by their usual hang out spot or at her locker. Rin was beginning to stop her search when she remember the one place Inuyasha had told her before she left where she might be. Rin walked down the hall reaching the history room, as she walked pass it towards the end of the door were Inuyasha had told her was the room were all history books were held, Rin turned the knob opening the door she looked amazed to see so many books in one area when she saw Kagome sitting by a table, tears in her eyes.
"Kagome?" Rin asked closing the door behind her as she went to the young girl. Kagome looked up wiping her tears forcing a smile on her face.
"Oh hey Rin, how did the doctors go?" she asked. Rin sat down next to her with a frown how did Kagome know she was at the doctors? When it suddenly made sense now her tears, and the sad look on her face that showed how upset she was, almost broken hearted.
"Did you talk to Sango?" she demanded. Kagome looked down, but it was written in the way her shoulders hunched over. Rin shook her head in anger what did Sango tell her?
"She told me you guys were leaving, moving to the States and that Inuyasha would go too because he cares about his family more than anything." Kagome told her softly. Rin sighed still holding the note she received that morning, if she gave Kagome the note only more misery would befall her, and she didn't want that. Kagome had become her dear friend and she didn't want her to get hurt, but whatever decision she came up with her friend would still end up getting hurt.
'Oh Kagome, please forgive me.' She thought softly.
"Kagome, do you care for Inuyasha?" she asked. Kagome looked up seeing Rin waiting for a response with a serious expression. She wiped her eyes again.
"I don't know, sometimes he can be annoying and a jerk but there are times when he shows his soft spot and the way he protected me. He's on my thoughts and every time I see him I feel so happy that I don't want to leave his side." Kagome said softly. Rin closed her eyes smiling, Kagome may not have been sure of her feelings but Rin was. She opened her eyes taking a hold of Kagome's hand.
"He's still going to leave Kagome, please remember that." Rin said handing her the small note. Kagome glanced at her confused as she opened it, her eyes wide when she read it, and then back at Rin who smiled at her softly.
"But he's still here, so just enjoy it while it lasts." She said with a smile. Kagome laughed wiping away happy tears as she hugged the young girl.
"Oh Rin, what would I do without you?" Kagome asked. Rin didn't answer, but she was glad that she had met Kagome and how fast they had become best friends.
'When this is over, I'm going to miss you Kagome.' Rin thought sadly, but she wasn't going to ruin the moment she was going to follow the advice she gave Kagome and enjoy it while it lasts, hoping in the end they could all part ways as friends.
Aww Rin is such a good friend Go Rin! So we saw a few things like Miroku and Sango are secretly seeing each other tsk... tsk... and what did Inuyasha write in that note for Kagome? Let's find out in the next chapter!
Next Chapter: Midnight Flight
Kagome finds herself having the best night of her life, the stars are bright in the sky and the wind felt so cool against her face she was glad she had decided to come with him...Inuyasha.
Hmm any ideas what those two are going to be doing? Review/follow to find out!