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Shippou looked at Inu-yasha strangely while he was munching his lollipop. His eyes bulged slightly.
"What, you idiot kid?" Inu-yasha asked gruffly.
"How many licks does it take to get to the center of this lollipop?" Shippou questioned, clearly interested in what he was asking.
"I don't know!" Inu-yasha screamed out.
"Because you're too dumb?" the kid had an angelic look on his face, almost as if he wanted to make Inu-yasha angry.
"I swear to you, I will kill you!" Inu-yasha picked up Shippou by his head, but he was just a second to slow, the kid slid down and he got hold of his shorts.
"OW!" Shippou frantically tried waving his arms around to get out of Inu-yasha's grasp.
"Keh!" Inu-yasha smirked.
"You're giving me a wedgie Inu-yasha!"
"Eh?"
Inu-yasha looked down and saw what his hand was holding, he screamed like a girl and dropped the kid on the cold, tiled floor.
"Don't you dare do that again!"
"My hand's contaminated with that thing I just touched!" Inu-yasha ran around the room, blowing on his hand, shaking it loosely in the air as if he had cooties.
"Honestly, you're more immature than me..." Shippou was now munching on a chocolate bar.
"Is that what I think it is?!" Inu-yasha's eyes glinted evilly, he reached out his arm and grabbed the little kid's candy.
"Hey! You're not supposed to steal from kid's!" Shippou tried defending himself.
"Then just think that you're an old lady."
Inu-yasha munched on the bar.
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"But why?" Kagome asked Mrs. Higurashi, tears falling down her pale, rosy red cheeks. Her hair was matted and she possessed no strength to stand up anymore. All her energy was drained away by those few words that were muttered just minutes ago.
"Kagome I can't argue with the law…" Mrs. Higurashi said on the other line, biting back the tears that were forming in her eyes. She hardly ever cried, she was a strong woman, a very strong woman, even her husband had never seen her cry; but now here she was, about to break down and fall because her one and only little girl was about to go away.
"I don't want to leave…" I shouldn't make this even harder than it is, Kagome thought, But I can't keep everything inside me! I'd go crazy… "When do I have to go?" She asked, defeated by the moment, she couldn't stand arguing with Higurashi-san for something that would never change. It was useless to do anything like that.
"…In a month…" Mrs. Higurashi said on the other side, the line crackled a little, creating small static waves that were intercepted in between the syllables of the words.
"I…I can't deal with this right now…" Kagome was about to literally break down, there was no way she would be able to stand talking about the matter, just thinking about it was horrendous enough.
"I know…"
"I-Call me later…" Kagome didn't wait for an answer and put down the receiver into the phone, she sighed and pushed her back on the wall, rubbing her temples with her fingers. She was getting a head ache from all this. She bent down and sat on the floor, hugging her knees while burying her head inside of them. Valleys of tears came running down her eyes and she tried crying out loud, but her voice was already lost in the memories of the conversation.
What am I going to do? Kagome asked herself, not knowing the answer herself. She grimaced and smirked sadly, I'm still asking rhetorical questions even now…
The girl stood up slowly, her legs still shaking from the emotional impact that had been blasted onto her. She wished it was all a dream, a bad dream, or a joke that later, she would laugh at when she really understood it. But deep inside, she knew that it was going to happen, you didn't live life as a dream unless you were a spectator, watching from the outside not bothering to work on anything from the inside.
Just when I was going to enjoy it here too, Kagome thought to herself. She wiped away the few remaining tears and clenched her fist in determination, I'm not going to let this break me; no matter how hard it's going to be, I have to be strong for every body; because what matters most is not the situation I'm in, but the emotions that I want to feel. I'll survive through this!
Don't make goals for yourself that you can't even match…
The thought left her head quickly, but she couldn't stop pondering about it.
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Sango thwacked Miorku on the head slightly, distracting her from driving. She crashed into the traffic light and went through it, bumping into someone's car.
"Hey! Ass hole!" She cried out, lifting her middle finger, "Watch where you're driving! You just wrecked my car!"
Everyone sweat-dropped.
"I think it's you that hit him…" Kouga said to Sango, tapping her shoulder slightly.
"Hey! You, shut up! You're supposed to defend me! I know I hit the idiot but I've got to make me look good!"
"She is right in a way." Sesshoumaru's eyes were wrapped up in immense thoughts, something very unlikely for the former president of the "I can't think or else my head will blow" club.
"Do you think we should get out of here?" Miroku asked impatiently.
"Yeh, I think that guy is calling the cops." Sango replied.
"COOL! The cops?!" Kouga popped out from behind.
"You gag him, I kill him."
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"Do you have…umm, Barney?" Inu-yasha asked the kid, both holding "Go-Fish" cards.
"You want Barney of all things?" Shippou widened his eyes.
"Well it's better than getting that other green and yellow dinosaur!" Inu-yasha fumed, "These stupid cards of yours! I told you, buy the tellytubby go-fish cards! Not the Barney! But no, you won't listen to me!"
"Stupid big kid, what's wrong with you, huh?" Shippou asked, challenging Inu-yasha to a fight, he lifted his fists in the air, a murderous look covering his face.
"You, sit back down." Inu-yasha said as he popped Shippou back into the baby seat.
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"Inu-yasha…" Kagome whispered hoarsely while putting her trembling hands on his shoulder. She looked pale, unhealthy, stressed even.
Inu-yasha froze underneath her grip, Kagome never talked like this unless she was really upset, normally she would either be hitting him or making sarcastic jokes.
"What is it?" he asked as he stepped out of his chair, walking towards the large living room.
"There's something really important that I have to tell you." Kagome said. "And you can't laugh because of it."
"Spit it out."
"It'll only make you happier, but what the heck?" she fiddled with the thumbs on her hands slowly, making little circles in the air, a sign of anxiousness, "I have to leave."
"Then leave! When will you be back?"
"Never."
"What do you mean, never?" he asked, confused.
"I'm meaning that I have to go away…forever Inu-yasha."
Forever
Inu-yasha suddenly found himself without words for a while, something amazingly rare for a guy such as he. "Forever", it seemed so, fantasy-like for some reason, in-human, un-worldly. Was it really true? He couldn't begin to comprehend all of the complexities that existed within the matter, just a few hours ago he had managed to make her stay, and now, she was leaving again? That just wasn't right, not right at all…Why did she have to leave? Of all people….
"Inu-yasha?" Kagome asked, biting back the emotional outbreak she was about to throw again. He was probably laughing on the inside, grinning to himself because I'm going to leave, Kagome though cynically. She hated that word, it was so insulting towards the people that it was talking about; but in a way, reality had made it true…In itself, life was a series of cynical incidents that overlapped each other…The irony of it was too great to explain.
"When are you going away?" Inu-yasha tried not to shake her shoulders and demand of her all the details of the matter, she looked way too fragile for that to be done.
"In a month…" she didn't need to be pressed anymore. Inu-yasha was probably jumping up and down right now, smirking at her saying "I told you that you weren't and would never be a part of us."
Suddenly, he grinned, answering Kagome's worst fears.
Her face lit up at what he said next.
"Then let's make this the best month that you've ever had in your life!"
AN: Well, isn't this a weird chapter? I'm so sorry that it's not as good as you'd like it to be!!!! Wahh!! I tried, it's true! But really, I'll make the next chapter better, I swear! Please review ^^