NOTE: This has a fucked up scene in it.

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The Breakup

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The petite woman glanced up at the stricken looking boy in front of her and back down at his photo before sighing.

"You had such pretty hair in your picture," the woman commented in a disappointed tone of voice, "Now you've cut it all off."

"Yup, that I did," Inuyasha answered awkwardly as he continued to stare wide eyed at could only be Yura of the Hair's reincarnation. She was identical but for some reason, that was not as nerve-wracking as the thought of more tests. Suddenly, Kagome's weird obsession with studying and her distinct lack of fear regarding demons made a lot more sense in his mind. Once you've experienced the crushing fear of failure in this era, demons were nothing.

"Well, I am most cross," the woman pouted pettily before sighing and giving him a friendly smile, "But it doesn't matter. I'm Mei. I'm going to be your social worker."

Having never heard of that type of teacher before, Inuyasha grinned and nodded excitedly, "So where do we start? I'd really like to start on the math part because..."

"So," Mei interrupted him in a sickly sweet tone of voice, "my job is to make sure your noggin works right okay?"

As she glanced over the charts in front of her and pulled out a pen, a knot began to grow in the pit of the poor boy's stomach as what she said and what it meant sunk in. He must've done worse on his tests than he thought. Setting his jaw to keep a smile on his face, he tried to keep his composure as she began asking him questions that just confirmed his theory.

"Alright, so let's just jump in shall we?" the woman cooed as she gave him a wicked smirk that he was unsure how to take, "Do you have any family members still living? Any relatives of any kind that you know of?"

Slowly shaking his head, Inuyasha felt the knot loosen a little. That was an innocent enough question. Maybe this wouldn't be as bad as he thought it might be.

"Have you always had problems using the bathroom or just recently?" she asked next with a neutral tone of voice and his heart sank into his stomach as he muttered quietly, trying and failing to hide his embarrassment, "I don't have problems with that."

"Pity," the woman sighed as she pouted- a fact that didn't go unnoticed by the young boy who was wondering exactly what that was supposed to mean but kept his mouth shut as he fidgeted anxiously in his seat.

"Now, what made you want to cut your beautiful hair, like that?" Mei cooed as she reached up to run her fingers through his much shorter hair and leaned uncomfortably close to his face, "And why was it so long in the first place?"

"Um, please don't do that," Inuyasha mumbled as he desperately tried to lean away from her, officially creeped out beyond measure. Fighting the urge to smack her hand away, he clenched his teeth together and scooted the chair a little further away when she didn't stop. That had already backfired on him once during the initial testing and he didn't want to piss yet another person off.

"I see," the woman clipped as she finally withdrew her hand, "So you don't like touching I take it?"

"Wait, what?" Inuyasha spluttered as he did a very good impression of a doe in the headlights, "Yeah I like touching... normally, I guess. Why do you ask? Is this part of class?"

"It can be," Mei smiled seductively as she slowly moved the hand that had been on her lap slowly up his leg, "You're not all that bright are you?"

"What the fuck!? Get off me!" Inuyasha growled as he shot to his feet and began backing away from the woman now advancing towards him, "You…you need to leave. I'll tell Ms. Higurashi."

"Oh, I'm not going anywhere and she's not here right now," the woman crooned as she came close enough to run a slender finger down his chest in a way that made him want to retch and double his pace away from her, "No one can hear you, you know, and no one will believe someone like you. You think you're the first one to threaten me? If you fight me, I'll have you committed."

As his back hit the corners of the kitchen wall, Inuyasha's eyes dilated in fear. He'd literally been cornered and she was right...this, this was Kagome's world. He couldn't fight her off like he normally would. There were consequences here like whatever it meant to be committed. He wouldn't be able to go to school or do any of the things he…

Clenching his eyes shut, he fought back bile when he felt her breath on his neck and her hand palming him through his jeans.

"Stop, please stop," Inuyasha whispered desperately, cringing as she pressed with a little more force, "I...I don't want to hurt you."

"You said you like touching," Mei crooned as her fingers slipped underneath the fabric towards something he really didn't want her to touch, "And if you hurt me, then away you go."

Seconds before he was about to deck her, he heard a horrified gasp and had never been so grateful to hear another's voice than he was in that moment.

"MEI! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?" a woman's shrill voice suddenly rang out from the doorway, "I'M REPORTING YOU FOR THIS! THIS IS COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE!"

"Rin, I was merely…" Mei began playfully before the second woman cut her off, "Oh no! I've suspected this for years but I've never had any proof. You're done. Leave! NOW!"

Scoffing, Mei stormed over to her bag and made to grab the notes when Rin slammed her hand down on top of them, "No you don't. I'm taking these notes with me and I'll turn them in."

Fuming now, Mei straightened herself up and glared down at the woman, "No one will believe you. It's my word against yours."

"Oh, honey, didn't they tell you about the facility's new policy to record all new home visits? You were at that meeting if I do recall and I do believe it started this week based on reports of potential abuse," the second woman cooed wickedly as she gestured to the small camcorder atop the refrigerator, it's small red light blinking rhythmically. Smirking at the horrified expression on Mei's face, she continued in a cool tone of voice, "I had Ms. Higuarshi set up the video feed before she left, right before you got here I believe if I'm correct."

For a second, Mei's eyes darted between Rin's face and the camera seemingly trying to decide whether it would be worth it to try to grab the camera and scram before Inuyasha beat her to it and moved to stand behind Rin, who nodded appreciatively at him over her shoulder.

"Fine, I'll go!" Mei announced shrilly as she pushed them both out of the way, continuing to shout over her shoulder as she rushed out of the house, "But you've got no proof of any wrong doing. He…he needed to be subdued after an outburst. You hear me! He needed to be subdued!"

As the front door slammed closed, Inuyasha timidly looked down at his savior and handed the camera over before averting his eyes and heading back towards the table.

"Hey, you okay?" Rin said softly as she placed the camera purposefully back atop the fridge and joined him at the table - noting how he was trembling slightly and had his arms wrapped loosely around his stomach, "She'll never be able to hurt you again. That never should've happened."

"I shoulda stopped her," he whispered in a pained tone of voice as his face crumpled and paled, "I...I let it..."

"She was threatening you and she was in a position of power that she abused," Rin cut him off, "What she did was wrong. So very wrong. She'll pay. I promise you that."

Inuyasha nodded numbly, hating himself for being so weak, hating feeling so powerless, hated that he clearly just wasn't cut out for this world, that he had already failed so miserably. The woman's face crumpled sympathetically at the pain he was clearly trying to hide reflecting back at her in his eyes.

"Let's talk about which subjects you like, huh?" the teacher offered sweetly, "Your strengths were in reading. You want to start there or..."

'This would've never happened if I did better on those tests,' he thought miserably before swallowing thickly and forcing a smile onto his face, "So, um, can...can we start with math?"

Upon seeing his unnatural smile and the self-doubt evident all over his face, Rin made a decision right then and there. Whatever they thought was wrong with him, all those notes about him being special needs were bullshit. The boy had shown more emotional strength and composure in the five minutes she'd known him than most adults she'd met and he'd just had a bitch of an experience. This was a boy who'd been hurt long and hard - probably abused or worse his whole life - and instead of seeing that, they made the nastiest report about any student she'd ever seen. It was evil and she was gunna have nothing to do with it. Pulling out her own set of charts and picked up one of the sheets of paper before holding it up for him to see, "These tests they had you take, they're hard even for me. And I'm not here to make your life harder, believe me. We'll start with math and go from there but…I think you've had enough for one day. You hungry?"

After the last person who was supposed to 'help' him, Inuyasha was very weary of trusting this new woman. Reluctantly he nodded once and she smiled kindly at him, "How about I order a pizza? Your mom can probably pick it up on her way back once I call her and let her know, uh, what happened. It'll be my treat."

Although he had no idea what pizza even was, he nodded and gave her a timid smile before it crumpled into a frown as he muttered quietly, "I don't understand why she did that. I didn't do anything to her."

"I know," the woman sighed quietly as she pulled out her phone and began punching in Ms. Higuarshi's cell.

"You believe me?" the human boy asked incredulously, his eyes betraying his new onset of nerves.

"Of course," Rin gave him a sympathetic look and shrugged as she pressed the call button, "Why wouldn't I?"

As he tried to process a total stranger being genuinely sympathetic to something terrible that had happened to him, his human heart wrenched painfully in his chest as old pain mixed with the new. It was because he was human that she cared. Was this how people would've been if..if...

Suddenly, all he wanted to do was run away and hide...and so he did. And Rin let him, sighing heavily as he went before speaking in soft tones to the enraged mother she had on the phone.

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As the demon looked up into the night sky from his place atop the well, he sighed dejectedly. She hadn't come back. She was supposed to have come back to him hours ago. If…if she wasn't back by tomorrow afternoon, he'd go get her – spell be damned. Her absence had already been longer than he thought he was capable of handling and…and he needed her to know what Myoga had told him about the spell. Just as she never made him choose, Inuyasha wasn't going to force her to choose between them either…and it was just as well. It probably was a moot point anyway. She loved the man he used to be, not the demon he was now.