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Unfortunate Triangle
Denial
For a few moments she was weightless, drifting through time. Kagome landed on the other side of the well in her time. Unable to hold anything back now that she was away from Inu-Yasha, she burst into tears. She'd told him she understood! Of course she didn't!
"Damn you, Inu-Yasha! I don't understand at all!" she sobbed to herself. Finding at least some comfort in hearing herself speak, she continued, "We've been through so much together, but I still mean nothing to you! How can you not care at all about me and just push me away?"
Her chest heaved with her sobs, and it hurt; it ached. She'd never known this feeling, and she hated it. Her fingers curled around her dark hair and pulled, wanting the pain in her heart to diminish. It didn't.
"I wish I'd never cared about him. I wish I'd never met him. I wish he were still pinned to that godforsaken tree. I wish I'd never fallen into the damn well!" she finished, hands releasing her hair and slamming onto the cold dirt of the said well.
"I hate him." At the moment her heart snapped inside her, and she didn't know what to do with all her unbound emotions, so she discharged her feelings through ragged breaths and miserable tears.
*****
After a few days of moping, Kagome decided that she would have to go back. Her eyes were exhausted from crying the past week; she didn't have any more moisture in her to release anymore. She was waterless and bare.
"I can't leave my true friends," she reasoned. "They might still need me to locate the shards, but I'm sure that Kikyou can, so maybe they don't need me." Her eyes stung when she said this. "If that's the case, then I guess I'll say goodbye."
Even though she was planning to leave to the past after a couple more days of doing nothing but feeling sorry for herself, she packed her backpack for her trip early. She might plan to stay for only a day, but she never knew how long she could end up staying. "This might be the last time I pack," she murmured with a sigh.
"Kagome!" her younger brother Sota called.
"What?"
"Someone's here to see you!" he shouted.
"I'll be down in a minute," she told him.
Forgetting her backpack, she made her way down the stairs and to the door. Without checking her appearance, she opened the door to a smiling Hojo.
"Miss Higurashi! How are you feeling?" he asked. "Your eyes are terribly red. You must have the flu very bad."
"Oh, um," she mumbled, pressing her fingers to her cheeks as if that would make the redness disappear.
"Besides that, you seem very healthy, though," Hojo said, realizing she might have taken offense.
"Thanks, Hojo," she said. He was always so sweet to her, but she had never really cared before. Even if she felt like a heartless zombie walking upon the radiant, sun-drenched earth, he was still there, trying to comfort her. She might have invited him in if she weren't so miserable.
"You haven't been to school in a week, and I was worried," Hojo went on. "I was hoping you would feel well enough to go out to lunch today or something."
"That's really nice of you, but, um," she said, trying to think of a reason to skip out on him. She didn't want to go anywhere; if she just stayed home, she didn't have to be around anyone, and no one could hurt her. "My chest hurts," she finished.
"I'm so sorry to hear that, Miss Higurashi. Is the flu causing it?" Hojo asked.
"Actually, some bastard broke my heart." She wanted to say that, but she didn't. She never wanted to admit that that stupid jerk had hurt her so much. She didn't even want to consider that he might have hurt her more than anyone ever had before.
"Yes," she said.
"Okay." He put a smile on for her, and said, "I hope you feel better soon, Miss Higurashi."
"Thanks," she said, giving him a sad smile in return. "I'll see you at school."
Hojo nodded, and she closed the door, shutting out the world once more.
*****
"Okay!" she said, putting on the cheeriest smile she could muster. She was completely ready to go.
"Mom, I'm leaving!" she called to the kitchen.
"Are you going to be okay, Kagome?" her mother asked, meeting her daughter at the door. She suspected that something might have happened between her and Inu-Yasha when she had last left, especially after Kagome had moped for over a week.
"I'm good to go." She noticed the worried look on her mother's face, and said, "Really."
"Remember, Kagome, that your grandfather, Sota, and I are always here for you, and we love you very much," she said, wrapping her daughter in her arms.
Kagome returned the hug, trying to ward of the tears that kept threatening to escape. "I know, Mom."
"No matter what happens, everything will be okay again later." She gave her daughter a meaningful look. "Sooner than you think."
"Um, right, Mom," Kagome replied with a laugh.
Mrs. Higurashi sent her on her way, hoping that she wouldn't keep denying her emotions. Feelings always feel worse later when they are shoved away and ignored, and then they are more difficult to overcome.
*****
A light evening rain made climbing out the well a challenge, but Kagome eventually surfaced, muddy and damp. After finding a decent shelter under a tree with numerous branches, she rummaged through her backpack for an umbrella and rain boots.
"I knew I would need these someday," she said triumphantly.
Slidding her feet into the beaming yellow rain boots, she opened the matching polka-dotted umbrella. She looked rather silly, but it didn't matter because everyone in this time thought her garb strange. Heaving her backpack onto her shoulders again, she set off to Lady Kaede's village. Despite the rain, her journey was enjoyable, and she was careful not to step into any puddles with unknown depths. When she arrived, Kaede stripped her of her wet clothes and gave her a blanket to wrap around herself, seating her by the fire.
"I'm fine! Really!" Kagome insisted.
"One can never take chances, my child," Lady Kaede told her.
Leaving the conversation at that, Kagome sighed and nestled herself into the musky smell of the blanket.
"Kagome!" Shippou entered the hut, accompanied by Sango and Miroku. The little fox demon bounded into her lap and cried, "We haven't seen you in weeks, Kagome! Where've you been?"
Sticking her hand through the blanket, she patted his head and replied, "I had schoolwork and things."
"Tests?" Sango asked.
"Yeah," Kagome confirmed, making a face of disgust.
"So what have you guys been doing?" Kagome asked cheerfully.
Her friends were silent, exchanging worried glances.
"Lady Kagome," Miroku began, "There's something about Inu-Yasha that you need to know."
Sango glared at the wall, and Shippou was grinding his teeth together. Kagome got the feeling it was about Kikyou.
"I know that he has chosen Kikyou," she said as if it were old news.
"You do?" Miroku asked. "How?"
"Oh, I found out forever ago," she exaggerated. Truthfully, it had been eleven days since her last encounter with Inu-Yasha.
Sango stared at her friend, and a small hint of pity could be seen in her features. Even if Kagome seemed perfectly fine with the situation, Sango had the feeling that she was pretending that the betrayal of the boy she liked didn't matter.
Miroku also had his suspicions that Kagome was putting up a front, but being a boy, he could never be sure of a girl's true feelings. He would have to converse with Sango about it later. A naughty smile came across his face.
"Have you guys found any shards?" Kagome asked, wringing some water out of her hair; she was careful not to expose her nearly naked body that was underneath the blanket.
Sango shook her head. "We haven't been doing much shard searching as of late," she said, "but now that you're back, we will tomorrow."
Kagome smiled. "They do need me!" she thought happily.
Inu-Yasha entered the hut. He knew Kagome was there already -he could smell her- but he was still shocked to see her sitting by the fire. "She's come back to me!"
"Hi," Kagome greeted with a small wave.
Even if Inu-Yasha had known how to react to her casual salutation in the circumstances, he wouldn't have had to chance to say anything when Kikyou entered through the door behind him. Condescendingly, Kikyou looked down at Kagome.
"Hi, Kikyou," Kagome said immediately, trying to appear calm and cheerful.
"Hello," Kikyou said shortly, linking her arm with Inu-Yasha's.
"Perhaps," Miroku said, desiring that the awkward moment end, "we should get some rest. Tomorrow we must search for more shards of the jewel."
He lay down near the wall. Sango nodded and lay down across from Kagome, who held a drowsy Shippou to her side. Inu-Yasha usually would have left to think for a while before he came back to the hut to sleep, but tonight, he sat down against the wall nearest the door.
And Kikyou lay down beside him.
Shocked, Kagome watched her for a moment. "I didn't know she would be staying here," she thought. "Maybe I shouldn't have come back." After staring into the crackling fire for a while, she added, "Not that it matters."
Parody One
"Miss Higurashi! How are you feeling?" he asked. "Your eyes are terribly red. You must have the flu very bad."
"No, Hojo, it's not the flu. I'm on my period," Kagome told him.
Hojo ran off, screaming.
"Well, that's one way to get a guy to go away," Kagome observed.
Parody Two
A light rain made climbing out the well a challenge, but Kagome eventually surfaced, muddy and damp.
"Oh, no! All I'm wearing are white clothes!" she exclaimed.
The Playboy Company was on the scene in a less than a second.
"What? How did you guys get here?" Kagome asked.
"Never mind that," said the photographer. "We're just here to take pictures of you in your wet and muddy white clothes. Now give us all a sexy meow! You're a cat! You're a cat! Gr!"
"I'm going home to my mommy!" Kagome squealed and dove into the well.
"Damn it," the photographer said. "Now who are we going to have in out December Sexy Santa issue?"
"I'll pose for your dirty magazine!" Kouga cried, running up to Playboy Company.
"Yes, you are sexy," said the photographer.
"I know," Kouga said.
And the photographer took pictures of him. Yeek!
Parody Three
"Lady Kagome," Miroku began, "There's something about Inu-Yasha that you need to know."
Sango glared at the wall, and Shippou was grinding his teeth together. Kagome got the feeling it was about Kikyou.
"I know that he has chosen Kikyou," she said as if it were old news.
"No, I mean that Inu-Yasha is dead."
"Oh, wow! I didn't know that! Tell me all about it!" Kagome demanded, lying down on the floor and propping her head up in her hands.
"It went like this." Sango began the gossip.
Meanwhile in the afterlife, Inu-Yasha was fuming. "Damn it! Does no one care that I'm dead?"
A silly little girl named Sarah popped into hell, conveniently beside him, and said, "No!"
Author's Note: Wow! I got a chapter two of this done. I hope you all liked it! When I read the reviews, I was informed that Rumiko Takahashi had the basic idea of what I did in chapter one in the manga, but I didn't know that because I've only read up to Volume 12. To fix my ignorant error, I decided to put an interesting twist into the story. BUM BUM BUM! Kikyou's going to tag along! I might even add a little plot involving evil forces. O.o I hope you find this interesting and continue to read it. I appreciate your reviews! I want to write a fanfic for the Gargoyles cartoon that is shown on Disney, and I want to know if any of you would be interested in reading it. I doubt it, but it never hurts to ask. By the way, I updated Past and Present Intertwine last night! It was a super long chapter, too. Hooray! I'm also REALLY sorry for not updating sooner. I had to go to a wedding during my fall break, I've have muchas bunches homework, and this last week I had finals! Now everything is over, and I start a new trimester on Wednesday, so I figured I should try to catch up with my fanfics! Yay! What else? What else? I want to tell all of you something funny, but what? Oh yeah! I was talking to a friend when I realized that eyelashes are hair! Unless someone has no eyelashes, one has hairy eyeballs. O.o I don't mean to sound stupid, I just never thought about what eyelashes were before. I just thought I should share that with all of you. Yeek yeek! *skips off singing We Three Kings, which actually has a very cool tune even if I don't know the words*
Unfortunate Triangle
Denial
For a few moments she was weightless, drifting through time. Kagome landed on the other side of the well in her time. Unable to hold anything back now that she was away from Inu-Yasha, she burst into tears. She'd told him she understood! Of course she didn't!
"Damn you, Inu-Yasha! I don't understand at all!" she sobbed to herself. Finding at least some comfort in hearing herself speak, she continued, "We've been through so much together, but I still mean nothing to you! How can you not care at all about me and just push me away?"
Her chest heaved with her sobs, and it hurt; it ached. She'd never known this feeling, and she hated it. Her fingers curled around her dark hair and pulled, wanting the pain in her heart to diminish. It didn't.
"I wish I'd never cared about him. I wish I'd never met him. I wish he were still pinned to that godforsaken tree. I wish I'd never fallen into the damn well!" she finished, hands releasing her hair and slamming onto the cold dirt of the said well.
"I hate him." At the moment her heart snapped inside her, and she didn't know what to do with all her unbound emotions, so she discharged her feelings through ragged breaths and miserable tears.
*****
After a few days of moping, Kagome decided that she would have to go back. Her eyes were exhausted from crying the past week; she didn't have any more moisture in her to release anymore. She was waterless and bare.
"I can't leave my true friends," she reasoned. "They might still need me to locate the shards, but I'm sure that Kikyou can, so maybe they don't need me." Her eyes stung when she said this. "If that's the case, then I guess I'll say goodbye."
Even though she was planning to leave to the past after a couple more days of doing nothing but feeling sorry for herself, she packed her backpack for her trip early. She might plan to stay for only a day, but she never knew how long she could end up staying. "This might be the last time I pack," she murmured with a sigh.
"Kagome!" her younger brother Sota called.
"What?"
"Someone's here to see you!" he shouted.
"I'll be down in a minute," she told him.
Forgetting her backpack, she made her way down the stairs and to the door. Without checking her appearance, she opened the door to a smiling Hojo.
"Miss Higurashi! How are you feeling?" he asked. "Your eyes are terribly red. You must have the flu very bad."
"Oh, um," she mumbled, pressing her fingers to her cheeks as if that would make the redness disappear.
"Besides that, you seem very healthy, though," Hojo said, realizing she might have taken offense.
"Thanks, Hojo," she said. He was always so sweet to her, but she had never really cared before. Even if she felt like a heartless zombie walking upon the radiant, sun-drenched earth, he was still there, trying to comfort her. She might have invited him in if she weren't so miserable.
"You haven't been to school in a week, and I was worried," Hojo went on. "I was hoping you would feel well enough to go out to lunch today or something."
"That's really nice of you, but, um," she said, trying to think of a reason to skip out on him. She didn't want to go anywhere; if she just stayed home, she didn't have to be around anyone, and no one could hurt her. "My chest hurts," she finished.
"I'm so sorry to hear that, Miss Higurashi. Is the flu causing it?" Hojo asked.
"Actually, some bastard broke my heart." She wanted to say that, but she didn't. She never wanted to admit that that stupid jerk had hurt her so much. She didn't even want to consider that he might have hurt her more than anyone ever had before.
"Yes," she said.
"Okay." He put a smile on for her, and said, "I hope you feel better soon, Miss Higurashi."
"Thanks," she said, giving him a sad smile in return. "I'll see you at school."
Hojo nodded, and she closed the door, shutting out the world once more.
*****
"Okay!" she said, putting on the cheeriest smile she could muster. She was completely ready to go.
"Mom, I'm leaving!" she called to the kitchen.
"Are you going to be okay, Kagome?" her mother asked, meeting her daughter at the door. She suspected that something might have happened between her and Inu-Yasha when she had last left, especially after Kagome had moped for over a week.
"I'm good to go." She noticed the worried look on her mother's face, and said, "Really."
"Remember, Kagome, that your grandfather, Sota, and I are always here for you, and we love you very much," she said, wrapping her daughter in her arms.
Kagome returned the hug, trying to ward of the tears that kept threatening to escape. "I know, Mom."
"No matter what happens, everything will be okay again later." She gave her daughter a meaningful look. "Sooner than you think."
"Um, right, Mom," Kagome replied with a laugh.
Mrs. Higurashi sent her on her way, hoping that she wouldn't keep denying her emotions. Feelings always feel worse later when they are shoved away and ignored, and then they are more difficult to overcome.
*****
A light evening rain made climbing out the well a challenge, but Kagome eventually surfaced, muddy and damp. After finding a decent shelter under a tree with numerous branches, she rummaged through her backpack for an umbrella and rain boots.
"I knew I would need these someday," she said triumphantly.
Slidding her feet into the beaming yellow rain boots, she opened the matching polka-dotted umbrella. She looked rather silly, but it didn't matter because everyone in this time thought her garb strange. Heaving her backpack onto her shoulders again, she set off to Lady Kaede's village. Despite the rain, her journey was enjoyable, and she was careful not to step into any puddles with unknown depths. When she arrived, Kaede stripped her of her wet clothes and gave her a blanket to wrap around herself, seating her by the fire.
"I'm fine! Really!" Kagome insisted.
"One can never take chances, my child," Lady Kaede told her.
Leaving the conversation at that, Kagome sighed and nestled herself into the musky smell of the blanket.
"Kagome!" Shippou entered the hut, accompanied by Sango and Miroku. The little fox demon bounded into her lap and cried, "We haven't seen you in weeks, Kagome! Where've you been?"
Sticking her hand through the blanket, she patted his head and replied, "I had schoolwork and things."
"Tests?" Sango asked.
"Yeah," Kagome confirmed, making a face of disgust.
"So what have you guys been doing?" Kagome asked cheerfully.
Her friends were silent, exchanging worried glances.
"Lady Kagome," Miroku began, "There's something about Inu-Yasha that you need to know."
Sango glared at the wall, and Shippou was grinding his teeth together. Kagome got the feeling it was about Kikyou.
"I know that he has chosen Kikyou," she said as if it were old news.
"You do?" Miroku asked. "How?"
"Oh, I found out forever ago," she exaggerated. Truthfully, it had been eleven days since her last encounter with Inu-Yasha.
Sango stared at her friend, and a small hint of pity could be seen in her features. Even if Kagome seemed perfectly fine with the situation, Sango had the feeling that she was pretending that the betrayal of the boy she liked didn't matter.
Miroku also had his suspicions that Kagome was putting up a front, but being a boy, he could never be sure of a girl's true feelings. He would have to converse with Sango about it later. A naughty smile came across his face.
"Have you guys found any shards?" Kagome asked, wringing some water out of her hair; she was careful not to expose her nearly naked body that was underneath the blanket.
Sango shook her head. "We haven't been doing much shard searching as of late," she said, "but now that you're back, we will tomorrow."
Kagome smiled. "They do need me!" she thought happily.
Inu-Yasha entered the hut. He knew Kagome was there already -he could smell her- but he was still shocked to see her sitting by the fire. "She's come back to me!"
"Hi," Kagome greeted with a small wave.
Even if Inu-Yasha had known how to react to her casual salutation in the circumstances, he wouldn't have had to chance to say anything when Kikyou entered through the door behind him. Condescendingly, Kikyou looked down at Kagome.
"Hi, Kikyou," Kagome said immediately, trying to appear calm and cheerful.
"Hello," Kikyou said shortly, linking her arm with Inu-Yasha's.
"Perhaps," Miroku said, desiring that the awkward moment end, "we should get some rest. Tomorrow we must search for more shards of the jewel."
He lay down near the wall. Sango nodded and lay down across from Kagome, who held a drowsy Shippou to her side. Inu-Yasha usually would have left to think for a while before he came back to the hut to sleep, but tonight, he sat down against the wall nearest the door.
And Kikyou lay down beside him.
Shocked, Kagome watched her for a moment. "I didn't know she would be staying here," she thought. "Maybe I shouldn't have come back." After staring into the crackling fire for a while, she added, "Not that it matters."
Parody One
"Miss Higurashi! How are you feeling?" he asked. "Your eyes are terribly red. You must have the flu very bad."
"No, Hojo, it's not the flu. I'm on my period," Kagome told him.
Hojo ran off, screaming.
"Well, that's one way to get a guy to go away," Kagome observed.
Parody Two
A light rain made climbing out the well a challenge, but Kagome eventually surfaced, muddy and damp.
"Oh, no! All I'm wearing are white clothes!" she exclaimed.
The Playboy Company was on the scene in a less than a second.
"What? How did you guys get here?" Kagome asked.
"Never mind that," said the photographer. "We're just here to take pictures of you in your wet and muddy white clothes. Now give us all a sexy meow! You're a cat! You're a cat! Gr!"
"I'm going home to my mommy!" Kagome squealed and dove into the well.
"Damn it," the photographer said. "Now who are we going to have in out December Sexy Santa issue?"
"I'll pose for your dirty magazine!" Kouga cried, running up to Playboy Company.
"Yes, you are sexy," said the photographer.
"I know," Kouga said.
And the photographer took pictures of him. Yeek!
Parody Three
"Lady Kagome," Miroku began, "There's something about Inu-Yasha that you need to know."
Sango glared at the wall, and Shippou was grinding his teeth together. Kagome got the feeling it was about Kikyou.
"I know that he has chosen Kikyou," she said as if it were old news.
"No, I mean that Inu-Yasha is dead."
"Oh, wow! I didn't know that! Tell me all about it!" Kagome demanded, lying down on the floor and propping her head up in her hands.
"It went like this." Sango began the gossip.
Meanwhile in the afterlife, Inu-Yasha was fuming. "Damn it! Does no one care that I'm dead?"
A silly little girl named Sarah popped into hell, conveniently beside him, and said, "No!"
Author's Note: Wow! I got a chapter two of this done. I hope you all liked it! When I read the reviews, I was informed that Rumiko Takahashi had the basic idea of what I did in chapter one in the manga, but I didn't know that because I've only read up to Volume 12. To fix my ignorant error, I decided to put an interesting twist into the story. BUM BUM BUM! Kikyou's going to tag along! I might even add a little plot involving evil forces. O.o I hope you find this interesting and continue to read it. I appreciate your reviews! I want to write a fanfic for the Gargoyles cartoon that is shown on Disney, and I want to know if any of you would be interested in reading it. I doubt it, but it never hurts to ask. By the way, I updated Past and Present Intertwine last night! It was a super long chapter, too. Hooray! I'm also REALLY sorry for not updating sooner. I had to go to a wedding during my fall break, I've have muchas bunches homework, and this last week I had finals! Now everything is over, and I start a new trimester on Wednesday, so I figured I should try to catch up with my fanfics! Yay! What else? What else? I want to tell all of you something funny, but what? Oh yeah! I was talking to a friend when I realized that eyelashes are hair! Unless someone has no eyelashes, one has hairy eyeballs. O.o I don't mean to sound stupid, I just never thought about what eyelashes were before. I just thought I should share that with all of you. Yeek yeek! *skips off singing We Three Kings, which actually has a very cool tune even if I don't know the words*