Kagome looked up to her best friend, waiting what he would say. She searched his eyes, the looking glass into his soul. They were tortured, emotions flickering across them nonstop. He seemed to be in a reverie, his eyes seemed to be looking far away, into the cosmos. Snapping out of it, he calmly strode past her, as if nothing had happened.
"Why are you doing this? Yesterday, you were fine being with me! What's wrong, Sess-chan?" she pleaded, eyes shining with tears.
Hearing the name pained him. She treated him so well, like one of her kin. He paused in his steps before continuing on, an icy expression plastered as his mask. Don't cry. Please. Don't cry.
Kagome fell to her knees, a broken expression on her face. "Don't leave, Sesshou," she pleaded softly, tears streaming down her pale face, "Whatever I did, I'm sorry."
His heart clenched as the smell of tears broke into his senses. Now, I'm the one hurting her. Turning around, he walked back to her slowly. She watched him through blurry eyes, regret consuming her.
"I'm sorry," she whispered when he kneeled in front of her.
"You didn't do anything," he said monotonously.
"Why, then?" she questioned, looking up at him with a tear-streaked face.
"Why are you so sad?" he asked gently, letting his emotional mask fall.
"Because my best friend just walked away from me, and I didn't know why," she answered, more tears running down her cheeks.
"And crying will make him come back?" he asked, holding her face in his hands and wiping the tears away.
"It obviously did," she said, smiling weakly.
"Are you sure?" he asked, smiling back.
"I'm not letting him leave," she assured, throwing her arms around his neck and holding him tightly.
The move almost knocked him off balance. Hesitantly, he responded, encircling his arms around her waist. If I leave, I hurt her and myself. If I don't, I will probably still hurt myself. Oh well, I'll stay. He felt her rub her face in his hair, making him smile slightly. Pulling back, he kissed her gently on the cheek, making her blush heavily.
"It seems you're quite shy, as well," he mused, smiling.
He stood, pulling her up with him. "Let's continue our tour, shall we?"
She nodded, hooking her arm through his and leaning into him. "Let's."
They walked down through the corridors, walking in and out of a few select classrooms. Traveling to another building, they ran through the rest of their classes. They even looked through the cafeteria, seeing if the food there was worth eating. Deciding it wasn't, they started on their way home. The two were walking through the building, Kagome chattering about a profane ad on the wall and Sesshoumaru nodding a few times, adding some comments in occasionally. Then, someone came running around the corner at an alarming speed. He collided with Kagome, his long, jet-black hair falling over his shoulder onto her. Groaning, he quickly, pushed himself off her, mumbling apologies nonstop. She angrily glared at him.
"Hey! Why don't you slow down?!" she yelled at him.
She heard a mumbled 'sorry' before he turned away from her, starting to run down the hall again. Kagome caught his hair, tugging on it to make him stop. "What were you doing?!" she yelled.
Angry amber eyes turned to glare at her. "Leave me be," he said angrily. For some reason, unknown to him, the girl he had run into gasped, taking a step away from him. His expression softened a little. "Are you okay?"
The girl had backed into a boy standing behind her. He took hold of her, also staring at him. They both looked like they had seen a ghost. He was about to ask what was wrong when they both said something simultaneously.
"Inuyasha?"