Disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING BUT THAT OF WHICH I CREATED...which in this case is practically nothing...not anything worth while...not like Inuyasha or anything *sigh*
The Plan
Inuyasha and Kagome have made up but it seems 'the plan' is still in action. No romantic confessions, but it seems another type of confession. Kagome seems to have blurted out about the...um...incident with Hideko. She can't stop apologizing but will Inuyasha forgive him? Will it become the talk of the school? Will his friends give it a rest? Does anyone believe that nothing happened? Will they believe that Inuyasha's fine? Let's read below to find out...
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"Inuyasha, is it true?" Eriko prodded him gently with her plastic fork, "Did Fujiwara-san really rape you?"
Inuyasha refused to lift his head but was glad that the rest of the school had chocked up Kagome's outburst to jealousy and exaggeration.
"She attempted to..." was all he answered.
That was enough to send shock through Eriko, Sango Miroku and Yuki.
"What?" Sango snapped.
Kagome looked between Inuyasha and her friends. "What did you think she was gonna do when she climbed into his bedroom window?"
"When was this?!" Miroku gasped in a whisper to avoid the unwanted attention of the entire school.
Eriko looked at Kagome. "Was that why you needed my spare key so badly?"
Miroku looked between all his friends and was somewhat relieved to see that Yuki shared his puzzled expression.
"She...she attempted to?" Yuki gaped.
"How far did she get?" Miroku asked, a little too excitedly.
Inuyasha glared but he didn't lift his head. "Not very. She was just mostly...undressing me and stuff..."
"What?!" Eriko, Sango, Miroku and Yuki cried before adjusting their volume.
"And she kissed me on the lips a few times..." Inuyasha continued, "Nothing even close to actual sex happened so can we just drop it now?"
Miroku pouted, "That's further than I've ever been..."
Yuki's face was a deep crimson. "Whoa..."
Eriko smacked Inuyasha lightly. "Well, it's not nothing at all, is it? I'm your best friend, don't keep secrets from me!"
"It's nothing to me!" Inuyasha snapped, lifting his head for the first time since the discussion began.
Sango looked at Inuyasha. "How...how did this happen? Did she overpower y-"
"She tied me up, okay! She caught me by surprise and tied me up! Can we just drop it now?!" Inuyasha answered before laying his head back down.
Kagome blinked, noticing how he cut Sango off.
"If the very vic-...if the person directly involved doesn't give a rat's ass, then why should you?"
"Maybe we should drop it..." Kagome replied, "Inuyasha, clearly doesn't wanna talk about it."
Eriko blinked as she noted Kagome's tone.
"I hated hearing her repeat it like that. Talk about it like that. Like I was a victim. I don't wanna think about it like I was a victim."
Eriko nodded, "Yeah, guys...his virginity's still in one piece."
Sango looked between Eriko and Kagome before her eyes finally landed on Inuyasha. "If you don't wanna talk about it, then we won't force you anymore."
Just then, Yuki fainted.
"Yuki?!"
...
Eriko sighed as she saw Inuyasha sitting in front of his front door. He looked still distressed.
"Inuyasha...you wanna talk about something," Eriko replied joining him.
"No. I don't," Inuyasha replied, turning away.
Eriko rolled her eyes. "Fine then, you need to talk about something."
"I'm not a victim," Inuyasha snapped.
Eriko smirked a little but didn't interrupt him. If she said nothing, the talking would just happen naturally.
"I was just...just caught by surprise," Inuyasha continued, "If I had known...if I hadn't have had my guard down, there was no way that she'd..."
"You're a half demon. I have twice your demonic power, maybe even more. You're tied down. What can you do?"
"Being a...being a half-demon...I'm not...I wasn't..." Inuyasha started to stumble over his words and as he realized what he was doing he grew more frustrated.
"You're a half demon. I have twice your demonic power, maybe even more. You're tied down. What can you do?"
"I wasn't-! I can't be-!" Inuyasha's frustration grew further as the rest of his sentence stood out in his mind. Helpless.
"Warning me? Are you really in a position to be saying that?"
HELPLESS.
"Now it's time for the real fun to begin."
You were so HELPLESS.
Inuyasha held his hand over his ears and screamed, "NO!"
Eriko didn't know exactly what was wrong but she was very worried that she started a conversation she shouldn't have. "Inuyasha, Inuyasha, calm down! Calm down!"
Eriko's words reached him and he began to calm down. Inuyasha swallowed, "For a moment...Hideko really had me cornered and I was actually afraid that she was going to..."
"At least I got to have some fun along the way."
"I was actually scared...so very scared for a moment," Inuyasha continued, "I had a moment of weakness. A moment of weakness that almost..."
"That's precisely what I know you'll do."
"Kagome had to come save me. Me," Inuyasha remarked, "I needed to be rescued. What if...what if I wasn't the one being...being...what if it was Kagome or someone else important to me in my position? Would I have been able to do anything? What if it was me who needed to do the rescuing? Would I be up to par? If I couldn't even save myself without someone else's help? Without Kagome's help?"
Eriko bit her lip to keep from speaking.
"You're a half demon. I have twice your demonic power, maybe even more. You're tied down. What can you do?"
"What good is being a half demon?" Inuyasha snapped, "Half nothing. Worth nothing."
"What a sad, disgusting disappointment you are. Your idiot father left a perfectly wonderful family to go off and marry some human slut and have you, an abomination."
"A weak fool just like your father. And pathetic like your mother."
"Looking at you makes me sick to my stomach."
"If I wasn't so merciful, I would have had them abort you."
"Half-breed."
"I hate it. I hate this. Being this. Born like this!" Inuyasha's voice steadily rose, "They should've aborted me. They should have aborted me!"
"Inuyasha! Stop!" Eriko cried, "Don't forget, I'm a half-demon too. Although calling us half-nothing is debatable, doesn't that mean we're half-something?"
Inuyasha glared at his shoes. "What if half isn't good enough?"
"Stop putting yourself down, Inuyasha," Eriko cut in sharply, "You're not worthless. You're not pathetic. You're not weak. And you're not helpless."
Inuyasha looked at Eriko. "Then...what am I?"
As Eriko noted the tears pooling in her eyes, she had a very good feeling that she had reason to be furious with Taisho ojii-dono. The self-loathing always had something to do with Taisho ojii-dono. "Inuyasha, you're-"
"Then why did Kikyo abandon me?" Inuyasha cut her off, "I loved her with all my might and she left me."
Eriko swallowed, "Inuyasha, don't let Kikyo's decision dictate who you are. She picked the money. Maybe she wasn't the one. She isn't the one. Otherwise I'm sure you'd be together right now. She couldn't see you for all that you were worth. And Taisho ojii-dono doesn't look at you at all. But-"
"Kagome does, right?" Inuyasha cut in, "But what good will it do her? To be with me, if I can't even protect her? If I can't even protect myself? What if we have kids? Will I be able to protect them too? From Taisho ojii-dono?"
Eriko decided not to mention Inuyasha jumping the gun there. "So you need to get a little stronger. No one said you were the strongest, Inuyasha. But you're certainly not the weakest. You made it through that ordeal with Hideko, on Kagome's strength that time but yours the next, okay? Don't overstress yourself over something that almost happened. And definitely do not base it on being a half-demon, Inuyasha."
Inuyasha didn't respond. He just let Eriko's words sink it.
"Inuyasha, don't forget you're a child of love. The embodiment of the feelings between your parents. No matter what your stupid grandfather says."
Kikyo didn't think I was worthless. Inuyasha admitted reluctantly.
"No. I'm not going to be paid to abandon Inuyasha! I'm not going to have you send me away! No amount of bribery will make me do that! Why does everyone think I'm only in this for the money?! Is it that impossible to believe Inuyasha could attract someone on his own merit?"
Kagome doesn't either. Neither does my mother or father. Or any of my friends.
"She told me that she...well...wanted to marry Inuyasha."
Even Hideko doesn't think I'm worthless.
"So you need to get a little stronger..."
Inuyasha turned to Eriko. He smiled a small grin, "Thanks Eriko."
"You're welcome, it's what I do," Eriko grinned right back at him.
The obligatory apology for the lateness of this chapter as well as one for the psychological-ness of this chapter. Oh and Yuki is fine, don't worry about him.
I have decided to update all the stories that are still ongoing. I have ten. Thus far I have updated Falling Star, TBVE 2, Makeshift Misfits and The Plan. 40%. I still have We Shoulda Picked Florida; Uh no; How to Get the Girl; Oakey Dokey Karaoke; Sing Me a Song and Three Wishes. All of which have been WAY overdue.
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