Sorry for the wait! I got locked into my own story!! lol!!! I just Finished Get Well or Else and is starting the sequel Get Away Island. BUT DON'T READ UNTIL THIS IS DONE!!! UNFORTUNATELY THAT WOULD BE THE NEXT CHAPTER!!!!! Sigh......OH WELL!!!! Enjoy!!!!
For the Love of It
It was around the end of the day when I made my way to my locker only to see what looked like a garden of flowers and a million boxes of chocolate. Of course it wasn't my locker. It was Inuyasha's. He made his way gracefully down the hall and caught sight of what became of his locker, groaning while nearing my side. I pushed aside the bush of wrapped flowers with my foot.
"I guess it's pretty clear that the school loves you Yash…" I stifled my laughs as he pushed aside numerous bouquets and wreaths. Students walking by smiled and lingered. They were waiting to see if he'd choose their gift. Inuyasha however took a breath and opened his locker.
"All this for a car accident…." He chuckled. I would have done the same also. "So now what Kagome?" He smirked picking up one of the roses in wrapping paper and handing it to me. I smiled taking the stiff stem absorbing its scent.
"I don't know for sure actually…." I shrugged. Two girls walked pass eyeing me down like live meat. I watched as they continued up the hall secretly whispering about me behind her back. Inuyasha leaned against the locker shaking his head. I felt my face collapse watching as they left, but soft hands had engulfed my cheek.
"Don't think of them Kagome…." He waved them away with a graceful hand. Just that one gesture could make me believe that he could vanish them almost instantly. But yet, it wasn't that easy.
"I'm not so sure if I could." I moped. He flashed me the astonishing white of his teeth and fangs before leaning in close to me.
"I'd learn if I were you…." He whispered with a wink. Joy. Just joy. I couldn't keep the sunshine that broke from inside. Even through the blackness.
Kouga strode up to us grabbing a box of chocolate from the pile of gifts.
"Hey Sport, ready for your soccer game?" He chirped. I could felt almost instamatically that he would take care of me. My male friends had topped the list for the most trusted. I felt the same way I felt around Inuyasha: safe.
"Take care of her Kouga…." My hanyou instructed. " I'll be down in the field in a second." I didn't have to worry about that. He loved me just as the same. Even if his love wasn't the same type as Inuyasha's. Kouga was the type of person you'd ask for as a brother or buddy. It was his mentality
"I'll take care of Kags for ya'." He declared, winking at me. Inuyasha placed a gentle kiss to my forehead and head nodded my wolf protector.
"See you guys in a few."
"Bye Yash." I waved. Then it was that time… my soccer game.
Parents and faculty lined the bleachers screaming their heads off for our team. Here I was, on field , silently pumping up hard adrenaline during the last minutes of our tied game. Inuyasha and our other male friends (besides Shippo, who was their mascot) had a football game around the same time our game started. That left a small interval of time where they might be able to watch us. Might.
Kagurya and Naraku narrated the game as we played, which was very encouraging, but it still didn't have the same effect as my hanyou did to me. Kagurya blared into the mic.
"The game is coming to a close my friends!!!! With a deadening tie and but a few seconds on the clock, it's up to any player to make the lucky shot!!!"
I watched as Sango took ownership over the ball.
"What's this? Sango Ouasaan takes the ball!!! She's so very close to the goal!!!!" Naraku cheered. Sango moved closer to me now. So very close….. I had the all clear. She could shoot it to me at any time.
I was ready…..
I wanted that goal…..
Our eye contact seemed like it lasted hours rather than a second or two. Everything slowed down once I was watching the ball go flying through the air. Everything…slowed…..
Hope shattered and I could tell that that kick wasn't going to make it. It wouldn't make the goal…..
But there I stood…. Watching it fly…. More than able to correct the kick….
I corrected it… but some how, there was regret…
I lept off the ground, feeling as my uniform caught onto the swirling wind. My feet air borne. My leg swung up wards, cutting the air sharply. Parallel to the ground, I could feel as the inner bend of my foot made contact with the ball.
I could remember the diving of the goalie, the sound of ball to net, followed by the roar of the crowd. But there was a big mystery; their noise had only lasted but a few seconds. Because next thing I knew, I was falling, to the ground….then I was landing
I hit the grass harder than I anticipated. Worser yet, my right leg had made my landing first. I could almost hear the tiny pop it made internally.
So I met grass partially on my side, head throbbing… body aching. Kagurya and Naraku was going to love reporting this.
"Oh my gosh!!!! It looks like Kagome Higurashi has taken one for the team! They won, but she appears to be unconscious!!"
No, I was partially awake. I heard everything…but most importantly, I could see through squints. There was a circle of my team mates forming…then coach…
I wanted to sink away in that grass where I laid so lamely. I wanted to disappear. I couldn't take this type of publicity…that is..until the narrators announced something I wanted to hear…
There was cheering mostly in the female section…shrieks and wolf whistles….. Kagurya was thrilled.
"What's this? It's Inuyasha Sanyosho! Captain of the foot ball team followed by a few of his team mates! He's coming onto the field! What eye candy for the moment huh ladies!!!"
My teammates made space for him, and I could hear the grass crumple in his movements. His intoxicating smell wrapped around me like some sort of shawl. I'd look at him if my eye lids weren't so heavy. He spat out his mouth guard laying his helmet besides him.
"Kagome….Kagome…." his voice called. My body attempted to raise my left side from the grass only to feel shooting pain. I winced crying out, startling my friends and coach in a matter of seconds. But I needed to find him….
"I-Inuyasha?" I called out. My ankle continued shooting me up with pain. I took a breath sitting up. "It….hurts" I winced.
"What hurts?" He cooed gently.
"My ankle…" I hissed through pain. I felt as Miroku sat me up. He was handling me as if I was rare china. I felt as Inuyasha's gloved hand lightly skimmed the hollows of the injured joint, trying to find the source of pain. Coach stood close by worrying out of her brains, my team mates becoming uneasy; my hanyou was touching me and not them.
His fingers found the pain once I flinched.
"I think you dislocated it." He reported. Kouga took a look at it nodding. I blew a sigh falling back against Miroku's chest.
"Kagome, are you gonna be okay?" Ayame questioned. I nodded, though it felt like I had severed my own foot with my bare hands.
"Do you think you can walk Kagome?" Miroku asked from behind. I tried rotating my foot around only to feel that sharp jolt again. No sense in trying to move it anyways. I gave up and shook my head.
"I don't think so…"
No problem at all. My boyfriend had scooped me up bridal style, while Miroku held my leg straight so it would hurt. Kagurya and Naraku, AGAIN, thought that this would stir up the audience. Indeed it did.
"It appears that Inuyasha is carrying Ms. Higurashi off the field!" Kagurya announced. "Doesn't it make you want to injure yourself too?" She laughed to herself as the female audience cheered splitting my ears. "Yes ladies! HE'S SINGLE!!!!" The girls cheered I wasn't hurt right now, I'd give her something to talk about.
Single???? HE IS NOT!!!! Have I been Invisible woman all day! My friends could see my angered expression, made eye contact with the two M.C.'s shaking their heads and pointing to me and my hanyou as we headed to the bleachers. Naraku smirked turning to an embarrassed Kagurya. Stupid. You should feel like an idiot reporting our personal status to the whole school like if it were" Extra". But she tried turning it into something to laugh about.
"We have just received word that Inuyasha is NOT single. I repeat NOT single! He's actually carrying his girlfriend as we speak! Sorry ladies!!!" I could tell that Inuyasha flat out ignored it. When you were a school celebrity, you had to acquire such a skill.
He let me down on a bleacher, taking my ankle from Miroku gently. Inuyasha smirked.
"Okay, you might feel a pop, but just relax…." He instructed me. Relax? It only sounded easy. I could help to but to argue.
"Inuyasha, what are you going to-" He hushed me placing a brief kiss to my lips causing me to shut up almost instantly. Then he gave me the fang smile that made my bones blush.
"Trust me. Now hold still…." I nodded slightly as he took hold of my ankle. "Just relax." It soon occurred to me that he was going to re align my ankle. If he messed up, or if I messed up (by squirming), I might walk with a limp for the rest of my life. But at the same time, I could tell that he knew what he was doing. Being a demon and all, you were most likely able to break every bone in your body by the time you were considered an adult (if you had the gene to tell you so, you would stay teenage like for the rest of your life.) It was almost like a certain skill, where they had the knowledge to fix their problems. I also had found out that he had wanted to try to relieve my pain as soon as possible. It must have really hurt him somewhere to see me uncomfortable like this.
So, my male friends counted down.
"Ready?" Miroku asked. Inuyasha nodded, and they started the numbers. "1….2….3!" He snapped it around to the side with a quick odd twist of an angle. I heard and felt the tiny crack followed by the quick burn feeling. But then…..it was gone.
I sat up, adjusting myself against Miroku's chest, and rotated around my foot. The audience watched us awkwardly still loud as ever. The pain, it was gone…. My ankle felt fine….
"Inuyasha…" I began with shock. "You-….You fixed my ankle!" I smiled. He laughed at this nodding.
"Hopefully I didn't damage anything else in the process." He fingered around the joint cautiously watching me to see if there was anything abnormal. "Does that hurt?"
"Nope." I shrugged. He tried one more time.
"How about that?"
"No. I feel fine." I insisted. Sango and Miroku had squeezed me into a hug.
"Kags you kicked major ass out there!!" She cheered. "You'll have everybody talking about that kick!!" I giggled and propped my legs across Inuyasha's lap.
"That has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever done…." I laughed. I could see the mischief transfer in the boy's eyes before Inuyasha turned to me.
"Hey Kagome…seeing that you can't walk for the moment….-" They both instantly hauled me above their shoulders. I didn't get to even shriek.
"Miroku get her legs!" The hanyou cried. The two of them carried me, sacrificial style, and began sprinting across the field with Sango and Ayame laughing behind us.
"Where are you three taking me!" I laughed. "I can walk!!!!"
It occurred to me that the audience was cheering in happiness. They were glad to see me better…having a great time. Smiling.
My team made their way to me cheering and leaping around me. Naraku took the mic.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Kagome Higurashi is fine! Thus this marks an excellent victory for our fair school!!! Both her and Sango Ousaan claim the stars of this game!!!! Congratulations you two!" He cheered. Cheering from Naraku was awkward if you could probably imagine, but we took his congratulating none the less. I stood among the crowd. Standing ovations. I never had that before…not even from the student body either…. People respected me now. I never had that before as well. People wouldn't through knives at me for being with Inuyasha anymore (hopefully). People would call me "little girl". I could just be Kagome. I could just be Kagome…..and be loved…..by Kagome…..
warning: DO NOT TRY THAT!!!! YOU WOULD WALK WITH A LIMP FOREVER IF YOU TRIED AND FAILED!!! THIS IS A WORLD OF HUMANS!!! NOT SUPER BEINGS WHO ARE EXPERIENCED IN THAT FIELD!!!! Lol, but any hoo...... CHECK OUT MORE OF MY STORIES IF YOU WILL!!!!! Last chappie coming up next!!!! (SNIFFLE)
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