Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha.
My feet made almost silent clapping nosies on the tiled entryway. I slipped my shoes off and made sure to quietly dig my phone from my pocket before massaging InuYasha to tell him I got home, just like I had promised.
I turned the corner and could hear a hand fumbling in the darkness. I squished my body into the nearest wall before that step monster could scramble to turn the couch side lamp on.
"Damn, I was sure that was her." He sighed and flipped the light back off, content to sit in the darkness in order to scare me.
My socks didn't make a sound even when I climbed the stairs to my room. My fingers ran over the loose wooden paneling to find the small grove my father had carved there. I would always lock my door and he always had a small little pin he would use to open it. Even in the dark, I remembered that little niche.
I popped the pin into the door handle and when the lock gave a click, the downstairs light came on and his heavy footfalls started up the stairs.
I slid into my room after hiding the key and re-locking the door. I threw everything onto the bed and practically tore myself out of my clothing. Everything was just to clingy.
The nob jiggled and I could hear him call to my mother in her bedroom, telling her I was home. I let out a sigh at his loud remarks and filthy language. I crawled under the covers and imagined being back with Sesshomaru.
A breeze was lightly flowing in from my window. I must had left it open when I made my escape. I wiggled farther into the covers, my body only covered in an old t-shirt.
Soon that jack butt's pounding was replaced with my mothers quiet knock. I so badly wanted to open that door, to let her in, to give her a big and make her see that we could leave. But she wouldn't listen. She would smile sadly and shake her head before her brute of a man took his opening to barge in.
So instead of doing all the things I wanted to, I hid under my covers and hoped if I stayed there long enough, maybe they would leave. If I was silent enough, maybe they would stop. Maybe if I was good enough, my mother would quit running away and hear what I had to say.
LTTD
I had taken the early bus.
It had arrived at six thirty and I had been waiting, standing next to an old man and a small girl tightly clutching her grandfathers hand, her tiny fingers clasped around a stuffed rabbit.
The ride was uneventful and when I finally made it to Sesshomaru's house, it was almost seven. The gravel made a satisfying crunch under my school shoes and when I slipped the letter into the mail slot, Rin's brown eyes greeted me.
"You're back! I'll go wake Sessy!" She called but I quickly shook my head and was sad to see her smile falter. "Why?"
"Its just that, he just went to sleep. I wouldn't want to wake him. Besides, I have to get to school." I let out a sigh and sat down, the small ghost girl climbed gently into my lap and I carefully brushed a hand through her hair, laughing when I could untangle it, let alone touch it. "I think it would be better if he just read it with out me here."
She nodded lightly and promptly fell asleep in my lap. It took a few tries but I finally got her into the porch swing without waking her up.
I slipped out the gate and was faced with a fuming InuYasha. His leg was propped to the side to support his motorbike, a gift from his father who's a big shot businessman.
"What were you doing?" His eyebrows were smushed together and his uniform was ruffled from him riding.
"Just saying hello to Rin." I lied and his face relaxed. I stalked over to his bike and grabbed the extra helmet that was attached to the side panel. "If you want to accuse me of something, can it wait till you get me to school?"
"Sure." He sighed, kick starting his bike and waiting till I threw my legs over the back before taking off.
I remembered when he had turned sixteen and the bike first appeared in his driveway with a big red bow. We had spend the whole day driving around.
When the school came into view I waited till he had put down the kickstand and slid off the back. From the corner of my eye I spotted Kikyo watching us from her place at the top of the cheerleaders pyramid.
"What is up with you lately?" InuYasha asked, falling into line with me and not noticing his fuming girlfriend.
"Life. Life happened to me. And weird vampires and ghost girls and a butt-face for a best friend." I could hear him sigh next to me before he grabbed my wrist and dragged me through the school and up to the roof.
His hands rested on my shoulders to get me to sit down on one of the vents. He took the seat next to me and then gestured for me to explain.
"I just needed to get away from my mom and that..man. It was nice to just forget about it for a while." He interrupted me.
"You could have came to my house, you know my mother loves you!" He said.
"I knew that during the weekend you would be with Kikyo."
He got quiet for a little bit then opened his mouth like he was going to say something but then shut it, like he had thought better of it.
"Just say whatever you wanted to say." I muttered, blowing a strand of hair out of my eyes. I looked over to see him lick his lips and the next words trickled from my lips without a thought. "You know, you were my first crush?"
His eyes went wide and with a shark intake of breath, Kikyo burst through the roof door and stomped over to us. Her pretty red cheerleading dress billowed behind her while her small purse clanked against her hip.
"Inu! Come on!" She called, cocking her hips and planting her hands on her slim waist. I made a little head bob in her direction and his mouth flapped like a fish out of waker. "InuYasha!"
She clomped the rest of the way over, her black flats slapping the gravel, before grabbing his wrist and tugging him to door. He looked back a few times but followed his girlfriend obediently down the stairs till his beautifully white hair disappeared from view.
Latelatelatelatelatelatelate late.
