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Author's Notes: GOMEN~!!! I thought, I positively honestly thought that I'd have this out by end of December. Well, school sucks and so does homework. Plus, I got into another play (cheers) so I've got a lot of stuff to do. So forgive me everyone! I tried my hardest to make this chapter good just because you had to put up with my procrastination and busy life. Anyways, sit back and enjoy! Please leave me a review ____________________________________________________________________________ ____
A School Story: Chapter 14: Warnings By Chibiukyo ____________________________________________________________________________ ____
"So," Katsuaki grinned after the last bell rang and he was at his locker, "Inuyasha is going to send me into my impending doom?" Midori shuddered and nodded in response, causing Katsuaki to laugh harder. In his mind, this was absolutely great. Inuyasha couldn't kick him three feet much less into next week.
"I wouldn't be so cocky if I were you," Midori whimpered and his friend raised an eyebrow, "No, really I wouldn't. Inuyasha looked positively furious, and...Well, just plain...s-s-s-cary! Gah!"
"Oh will you come off it?" Katsuaki slammed the locker door shut and threw on his black jacket. He glanced over at group of students who were chattering quickly and he heard his and Inuyasha's name mentioned in their mix of words. He felt his ego boost when a girl in the group looked up at him and giggled when they made eye contact. Yes, he was Mr. Popular.
"I think you're going to get beat up so bad your ego will deflate!" Midori shuddered again; the sound of a definite apocalypse rang through his voice. Katsuaki raised a skeptical eyebrow and laughed cockily yet again.
"Oh my," Katsuaki sneered, "Inuyasha's got me all in a dither."
"Katsuaki you should be peeing in your pants," there was a hiss from behind him and Katsuaki turned to come face to face with Naomi. Naomi was the type of girl who if she didn't attend a school with a uniform, would dress in black from head to toe. She was mentally gothic, and she wasn't afraid to show Katsuaki her grotesque interest in sharp objects.
"What?" He asked stupidly. Naomi noted that when he was confused he looked a little like a baby llama.
"If Inuyasha doesn't beat you to a bloody pile of street trash," Her voice sounded pleasingly morbid, "I will run you over with my mom's car and turn you into a bloody road waffle."
Katsuaki wanted to humor Naomi. "Is that a threat?"
"Hell yes." She gave a macabre, sarcastic smile. It sent chills down Katsuaki's back. She turned around and walked coldly out of the facility.
"Goodness," Midori squealed, "You're a total goner!"
"Thanks a lot," Katsuaki turned to walk out to the parking lot, "Thanks a lot for your support, Midori."
~*~
Sango stood by the front gates and waited patiently for Naoko to arrive. Naoko was always very cross about waiting even five minutes for anybody, yet she was always at least ten minutes late. That was very hypocritical of her, but since they needed to see Shinobe Sango decided to let the tardiness of her acquaintance slide.
Suddenly, Naoko came running out of one of the school doors and she hurried towards her waiting friend.
"Sango!" She sobbed as she clutched Sango's arm, "I'm terribly sorry. just. I needed to tell Etsuko that I wasn't coming home with her."
"You didn't tell her where we're going, did you?" Sango asked, "I hope not."
"No, don't worry. She's Katsuaki's Hench Woman, she'd tell him where we're going."
That was true. There was a sort of connection between Etsuko and Katsuaki, just like there was a connection between Katsuaki and Kyoko. Etsuko and Katsuaki seemed like they were planning something, they'd often huddle together and talk suspiciously. Kyoko, on the other hand, had some- sort of lustful feeling after him. Their feeling was mutual between the two.
"So wrong," Sango murmured and Naoko looked at her.
"Going schizophrenic are we?" She asked and Sango shook her head quickly. They both laughed a little.
~*~
"I think we need a rosary." Midori was nearly sobbing, and Katsuaki felt rather compelled to beat him with something. Whatever that something was, he didn't know.
"Will you just shut the hell up?!" He blurted and Midori flinched. He shuddered in a feminine way and gave a little "eek!" when he saw Inuyasha and Miroku standing about twenty feet away. They weren't the only ones there, Naomi and Kagome were standing at the back-end of a car by the guys.
Staring at a rather squeamish Midori, Miroku laughed, "I think he's going to pass out!"
"I just lost my temper," Inuyasha lied to Katsuaki, "I really just think we should settle this in a nice conversation-like way, don't you?"
"Excuse me?" Katsuaki looked at Inuyasha, who was mentally telling himself not barf up his lunch at the retarded words he had just said. Midori had looked incredibly relieved at Inuyasha's words.
"I said let's handle this like men." Inuyasha gagged, he was being somewhat civil just for Kagome. Naomi looked a little perturbed and decided to speak up.
"I think you should apologize to Kagome first," She hissed and grabbed Kagome's arm protectively. Katsuaki scoffed at the remark.
"Why?"
Naomi and Inuyasha looked positively furious (not to mention incredibly militaristic) and both of them stepped forward towards Katsuaki. It was Miroku that stopped him when he cleared his throat.
"I think that it's a more. gentlemanly way to settle with words instead of violence."
"So you want us to get in an argument?" Katsuaki asked another stupid question and Naomi snickered at the llama thought. He shot her a look, but she didn't silence her giggles.
"What the hell are you laughing at you retard?" He shot at her and she stiffened.
"What the hell did you just call me?"
"Leave her alone, Katsuaki," Inuyasha reached out to pull him arm from walking towards Naomi, but he failed when Katsuaki smacked his arm away. Inuyasha staggered backwards, indisputably pissed off.
"I called you a retard," Katsuaki said childishly, "You don't like that?"
"Shut up!" She snapped at him, "You're the retard!" She let go of Kagome and gently shoved her away.
Katsuaki suddenly laughed as he walked up to her and pushed her backwards. She toppled over backwards, onto the pavement behind her.
"Get up," he snapped at her, "If you're so tough you could have prevented that."
Naomi looked incredibly provoked; she stood up and shoved Katsuaki backwards. She saw from behind Katsuaki that Miroku was holding Inuyasha back. She didn't care; all she wanted was to kick the living balls out of Katsuaki.
"Leave her alone, dumbass!" Inuyasha yelled and stepped forward, dragging a helpless Miroku behind him.
"Stop it you two!" Kagome suddenly shouted, and then she made the mistake of her lifetime: Kagome intervened in the fight. She pushed them both apart with all her strength and that left Katsuaki staring blankly at Kagome.
"What were you doing woman?!" Katsuaki glared at her, but Inuyasha walked over behind Kagome. He quickly shut up and Inuyasha smiled.
"What were you doing, Kagome?" Naomi glared at Katsuaki, "I was going to beat him into next year."
"Love to see you try," he sneered back at her and walked forward, right into her face. She straightened up, but was still a few inches shorter than him. She snarled something like 'shut up' but he didn't care.
"Leave her alone, freak!" Inuyasha suddenly grabbed Katsuaki's arm from behind and pulled it upwards. The was a nasty 'pop' noise and Katsuaki squeaked like a pre-pubescent schoolgirl.
"You almost dislocated it!" He shouted at Inuyasha, rubbing his shoulder, "I should dislocate your neck."
"Not if I dislocate yours first!" Inuyasha snapped and stared menacingly at the other boy. Katsuaki shuddered a little and picked up his bag to leave.
"Where are you going?" Inuyasha shouted after the fleeing boy. He ran up to him, leaving Miroku rather ruffled and yelling. Inuyasha didn't even glance back at him as he approached Katsuaki proudly. Katsuaki turned to face him and puffed out his chest.
"I am going home!" He hissed and shook his head aggravatingly. Inuyasha grinned snidely and then shoved Katsuaki backwards. He stumbled; but sadly regained his balance.
"And why would you be doing something as silly as that? Little too girly to engage in a fight?"
Katsuaki laughed sardonically and then threw his bag brutally against the pavement. Kagome could have sworn she head something shatter inside of that bag, but wasn't sure. The force that he had thrown it had been scary enough. It enticed her not to investigate any further.
Katsuaki continued his moment of inflated pride; "I don't engage myself in a battle of wits with anyone who's unarmed."
Inuyasha tilted his head and gave a fake smile. He nodded like he understood, which made Katsuaki suddenly feel very uncomfortable.
"I see," stated Inuyasha, "Then why aren't you fighting me? You're the one that needs to pal around with a half-wit so you have someone to look up to." He twisted his baseball cap backwards so that the bill was in the back. He then stood up straight and changed his expression to a more natural look: anger.
Naomi was now standing right next to Kagome, her hair neatly pulled back in a ponytail. She had crossed her arms across her chest and looked right at Kagome. "What the hell do you think he's going to do?"
"Inuyasha or Katsuaki?"
Naomi shrugged, "Now that you mention it. both I guess."
Kagome laughed unnervingly, "I think someone might be killed or seriously injured at the least."
Katsuaki just laughed at Inuyasha's last little comment, and retorted it. His comment consisted of something clever, but Inuyasha was seeing too much red to give a damn if the world blew up.
Within a matter of milliseconds, Katsuaki found himself pinned against the back of an SUV. His feet dangled about five measly inches from the ground and Inuyasha's hands pressed menacingly against the front of his shoulders. Katsuaki looked at Inuyasha and soon regretted it.
"You need to learn to do three things Katsuaki. Shut up, keep your hands to yourself, and drop dead. Preferably, I'd like you to learn the third one." Inuyasha hissed these words right into the other boy's face, "And if you have problems with any of those three I'd be glad to help you out."
Katsuaki laughed like he'd just heard the world's greatest joke. He grinned and leaned forward as far as he could. Luckily for him, it was where the average person's ear would be. Inuyasha's ears of course were located on the top of his head, but his hair covered those bare spots. Katsuaki began to whisper two words that could possibly sign his death warrant. It would be signed in his own blood.
"Shove it."
Inuyasha suddenly pulled Katsuaki forward, his back no longer making any direct contact with the car. He was thrown to the pavement in a violent way, his hands breaking his lethal fall. He glared up at his opponent, who began to speak candidly.
"You really need to factor that you're not talking to the sweetest, most understanding, nicest guy around. If there weren't two ladies and well.Miroku. I would be forced to take your foot and shove it so far up your ass your nose would bleed. I'd be suffering too, believe me that."
"And how is that, Ghandi?" Katsuaki sneered. He stood up and brushed off his wrinkled clothes. Inuyasha felt a sudden, over-whelming desire to shove him back onto the ground. He stopped himself however.
"Because I'd be risking my meaningless life touching you." Inuyasha couldn't thing of anything better, but felt content enough by being able to say something. Anything would be fine, just so as long as he had the final word in their discussion.
Katsuaki was now stable on both of his feet. He looked at Inuyasha with a sense of phony pacifism, and sighed. He then glanced at Inuyasha as he shook his head. He was satisfied to see Inuyasha looking interested.
"What is buzzing about your silly little mind?" He asked Katsuaki coldly, who suddenly began snickering. "What the hell is so entertaining, bitch?"
"We're such LOSERS," he laughed, pointing over at Kagome, "Fighting over a dog like that one!"
Naomi gasped and then covered her mouth. Miroku looked around awkwardly while asking where the dog was, and then Naomi slapped him.
"He just called KAGOME a dog, dip shit!" She shouted, "He should be SHOT!"
Miroku looked quizzically at Katsuaki, "I think he needs glasses."
"No. he needs me to run him over. I would do it too, but I don't have enough self restraint for only five times." Naomi's eyes glittered evilly and she glanced at her sparking black car. Suddenly she sighed, "I think Inuyasha will have as much damage as a speeding truck though."
Speaking of Inuyasha, he stood trembling. Katsuaki's silly chortling only made his temper boil more, and the other three watched in unison as he clenched his fist deathly tight. Blood trickled from between his fingers.
"YOU.TAKE.THAT.BACK." He snarled, "RIGHT NOW!"
Katsuaki literally jumped at least three feet backwards. He hadn't guessed in the slightest that Inuyasha would become suddenly very homicidal; it dropped a few anvils on his ego. His eyes widened as Inuyasha stode up to him so closely, he could hear his heartbeat.
"You need to stop talking about Kagome like that. If she's a dog, than that Etsuko of yours is a donkey. No. a donkey's ass." Inuyasha shoved Katsuaki backwards again, but this time with enough strength to send the stunned boy a few more feet than he had jumped. However, this time Katsuaki did not fall.
"If you ever say anything that stupid. that thoughtless ever again, I will kill you. I will gut you like a little fish and leave you in the sun." Inuyasha growled threateningly, "Actually, it doesn't have to be sunny. I'm not picky, just as long as you're very dead."
Katsuaki gulped and kept his mouth shut. He figured he was dealing with a crazy man. Someone that should probably be locked up for a while, if not his whole life. Katsuaki backed away slowly, his shoulder burning with pain from the powerful shove.
"Look." He pleaded, "I-I was just kidding. joke? Do you take jokes?"
Inuyasha didn't respond, but walked right up to Katsuaki. There were a few moments of ungraceful and sickening silence, and then Inuyasha just punched Katsuaki right in the face. The three spectators jumped backwards in surprise and Kagome covered her eyes.
Katsuaki collapsed, and while on the ground covered his face with his hands as well. Inuyasha just towered over him like a bird on it's prey, glaring menacingly.
Sitting up, the other boy coughed and then spit. Some blood followed. He awkwardly moved his tongue around in his mouth, discovering that he had bit the inside of his mouth as he collapsed. He also figured that at least one tooth of his was now officially loose; an attack worthy of a nice kick in the ass on his opponent.
"Are you getting up or just going to be stupid and lie there?"
Katsuaki looked at Inuyasha coolly and stood up. For a moment, there was a silence. Everything around them stopped at they stared angrily at one another. The wind stopped, the birds stopped singing, the leaves their rustling. Naomi, Miroku, and Kagome said nothing; therefore making it seem as if the two fighters were alone in the world.
"I'm not wasting my time on you." Katsuaki suddenly blurted, "You got yourself a goddamned cheap shot."
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow, but didn't change his expression other than that. "It was a cheap shot well spent."
Katsuaki just nodded and asked Inuyasha if the ridiculous boy was proud of himself. His response was cold, just a simple "Yes." However, that "yes" was like poisoned candy, misleadingly sweet and innocent. Katsuaki just shook his head, but halfway though, he began to smile.
Inuyasha became puzzled to this, but before he could ask anything, Kagome yelled a "Look out!" Then, he felt a pain run down from his head to his feet. Someone had a taken it to their advantage and smacked him good.
Inuyasha fell down to the ground. Before he completely fell into a midnight surrounding, he saw five people standing above him. Two of those onlookers were grinning; one falsely sheepishly whiles the other triumphantly. That sheepish looking person however, was someone who wasn't there in the beginning, and was the one he had to thank for his current predicament.
.Etsuko. ~*~
"I appreciate what you did for me today, Inuyasha." Kagome put and ice pack on his head, "But if I had known you'd have gotten knocked with a book bag I would have rather been insulted."
Inuyasha looked up at her and grumbled something incoherent. She just laughed a little, feeling her sunny disposition flooding back to her. Whenever she was around Inuyasha she always felt like her normal self, but whenever Katsuaki was around, she was suddenly docile like an abused puppy.
"He's wrong and perverse," Inuyasha snapped, removing the ice pack and sitting up, "He should be murdered. He should be murdered very slowly; very slowly indeed. Etsuko should have herself a public execution as well."
"I'm sure you'd be very good at coming up with grotesque ideas for that one. She said she didn't know it was you anyways." Kagome replied, shoving him back down into the couch. "Now shut up and let me put this little thing back on your head. If I don't, you'll have a huge lump the size of Shippo in the morning."
"Right. Oooh right. I believe that one. She's full of her own shit, I should get one of those lawyers like they have on The Box With Moving Pictures and Sound and get Sue on her ass." Inuyasha sighed and Kagome raised an eyebrow. Apparently someone didn't understand about the thick line between reality and television.
"Right Inuyasha."
Inuyasha grumbled something again, this time it was understandable. Something about a "human bitch." She raised her hand and threatened to smack his throbbing skull. Her threat worked and he apologized gruffly, recoiling back into a half sitting half lying down position on Kagome's bed.
A few moments of rather awkward silence ensued and then Inuyasha spoke.
"Whatever happened to that hairy little bastard anyways?"
"Who? Shippo?" Kagome asked, sitting next to him, "I have absolutely no idea."
"Maybe- hopefully- he died." Inuyasha laughed evilly, and Kagome smacked the ice pack. He shrieked in pain and then swatted his arm at her.
"Don't say that!!!" Kagome hissed, "It's not a very nice nor heart warming comment to make!"
Inuyasha placed his hands on the wounded spot and whimpered, "You are cruel."
"I am cruel to be kind, Dog-Boy. Terribly sorry."
Inuyasha grumbled and then rolled over. He complained of his "sleep deprivation" and when she asked why, he claimed that sharing a room with Miroku was the stupidest decision a person could make. Apparently, he snored loud enough to wake the dead. Literally.
Kagome allowed him to sleep in her bed just for tonight. He seemed very thankful, and was quickly off in his world of dreams. She just giggled to herself and turned to glance out the window at the now beautiful black sky.
~In the darkness, and even in the light, evil things can hide.~ She thought, ~Just they become harder to discover when the lights are on.~
Kagome decided to just watch him sleep. There was nothing else she could do but sit on the edge of her pink bed and watch him dream about whatever. She hoped whatever he was visualizing that it was happy, bright and that she was in it. That's all she wanted at the moment.
She dreamed of him and found her mind dawdling on if he dreamed of her. She guessed he did due to the fact that they were close friends at the very least. The title "Traveling Companions" didn't make much sense right now because they were stationed in her time in her house. So "Friends".no. "Close Friends" was the title the two deserved when together now.
Kagome liked him.
No matter how many times she sat him, slapped him, shouted at him, cried about him, had her life endangered by him, or whatever else unfortunate happening included them both; she liked him. She couldn't help it, and now that she considered him a Close Friend, it was good. Out of any guy she had crossed paths with, she liked him best, even if he did have dog- ears and white hair. It didn't matter. He still had that rather clueless nature that guys had, that confusion and fascination about women, and that manly 'Lets Solve This With a Violent Beating, Men!' problem solving mindset.
Inuyasha rolled over, kicked Kagome. She squeaked as she slid off her bed and onto the carpeted floor. Her little shocked noise awoke him, and he sat up. She smiled strangely up at him and then stood. She flattened on her skirt and then plopped herself into her spot again. He smiled.
"Kagome?"
"Yes Inuyasha?" She asked sweetly.
"What does 'Ghandi' mean?" Inuyasha looked at her and blinked. Kagome just looked at him with an exasperated expression.
"Ghandi was a person, and he died long before.well, my time. He did a lot for the country of India." She patted his leg, and he still looked at her quizzically.
"Is it an insult?" Inuyasha asked and Kagome face faulted slightly.
"No, no.well, in the context he used the man's name in probably. Katsuaki should be slapped several times for using someone's name in vain, even if it's his, it's not a very nice thing to do." Kagome said, imagining slapped Katsuaki herself. It would be nice to drop a few heavy metal objects on top of his head if slapping wasn't enough to quench her thirst for vengeance.
Inuyasha was silent for about thirty seconds when he asked again, "Is it an insult?"
~He's going to be the death of me.he doesn't listen.~ She whimpered in her mind; fighting the urge to take that ice pack and shove it in his mouth.
~*~
Shinobe looked deathly pale and rather sickly when Sango and Naoko knocked on her door. She had answered it callously, and looked very despondent at their sight.
"I'm sorry," She murmured awkwardly, "I've been sick, that's all. Excuse me."
"It's all fine," Sango bowed and smiled at her, "I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself. I'm Sango, one of Naoko's friends."
"Lovely," Shinobe smiled cordially, "I'm glad to meet you. You should all come in you know, I can give you some water if I don't have any tea left."
"Oh no," Sango suddenly felt like she was imposing on the poor girl, "I'm fine with just water. I don't want to make you go through the trouble of preparing anything."
"If you just want water," Shinobe smiled, she looked and acted much older than she really was, "It's no trouble. Have a seat."
Sango and Naoko sat next to each other on two chairs that were facing what looked like a permanently damaged couch. There was a blue flowered pattern on it, which had faded incredibly over the years. Underneath the old couch there appeared to be a colony of dust bunnies, and Sango spotted some jewelry caught in the midst.
"What are you looking at?" Naoko asked her after she had noticed Sango staring beneath the furniture. Sango got off the chair, bent down, and reached underneath the couch. She seized the necklace and after shaking it free of dust, held it suspended in the air.
The necklace turned out to be an oval-shaped golden locket. It dangled from a golden chain and it was in a dire need of polishing. There was what appeared to be an ivy-like pattern chiseled around the rim of the locket. Sango felt the urge to open it up and look inside, but Shinobe walked into the room.
"I'm sorry I took so long," She laughed and handed Sango some water and Naoko some tea. They both thanked her and she sat across from them on the couch. She looked at the locket Sango had been holding; it was lying limply in her lap. She frowned.
"Open it up," She ordered, "See what's inside."
Sango did as she was told, and gasped when she saw what was inside.
"I think I understand why you and Naoko are here," She looked rather aggravated at Naoko, "I'd rather not get other people involved, but since Naoko brought you here."
Sango looked at the pictures. One was a rather prettier and happier looking Shinobe and the other was a more pleasant Katsuaki. Well, she had assumed they were Katsuaki, presumably when he was a young boy. The pictures weren't very old, taken maybe two to three years before.
"Can." Naoko looked rather apologetic, "You tell us about you and Katsuaki?"
*Shinobe's Point of View*
"I knew Katsuaki since he was in fourth grade, and since then we had been inseparable. We did everything together: playing, parties, even shopping, for years. He was great, very sweet and understanding, exactly what you wanted in a best friend. I mean sure, we played jokes on the neighbors. We weren't bad kids even Katsuaki was good. Just. something changed, something happened, and I know what.
There was Etsuko.
Etsuko came along one day and everything changed for the worse. At first, I thought she was very nice, complimenting him and me. She even suggested we should start dating in ninth grade, last year, which would prove to be my biggest mistake ever.
"I think you should," Etsuko leaned closer to me, her eyes sparkling. She looked slightly plotting something malicious, but I ignored it.
"Think we should date?" My question was slightly.well. stupid. She had been talking about it for the past several days, completely obsessed with it, and had even offered to make arrangements for us to go to dinner. We were only in ninth grade.
After a while of convincing, I agreed to go on our first and only date. I didn't want to date Katsuaki. I hadn't even been associating with him recently due to a dramatic change in his attitude. The once nice, grinning boy suddenly had become cynical and sarcastically smirking.
I knew why too. He was hanging around the girl I was sitting next to.
Etsuko.
Let me describe your sister, Naoko. She was dark, sarcastic and very unlikable. I tried to look past the bad in her and into the good. Not everyone is as completely bad as they come off. Nobody is as cruel and sickening as people claim they are. Deep down, everyone has his or her angelic side.
I knew she'd get us involved into a lot of things, being quite some older, but I tried to think that coming to her house and seeing her get Katsuaki drunk was just a phase. Just simple phase that he'd outgrow in time.
There was more than getting drunk, too. She encouraged him to try other things, bad things, and do things. She told him to steal and that it was good for him. So he started shoplifting from expensive stores and amazingly he never got caught. He even brought Etsuko and I presents back from places so high-priced we didn't even know existed. I would hide the things and only brought them out when he came over. He'd get angry when I didn't use them, and I felt uncomfortable using them.
One night, after he had brought me back some pretty jewelry from a local store, Etsuko came over. She hadn't been invited, but she decided to stride proudly right into the living room. She dragged me after her, and she forced me to sit beside her on the couch. We engaged ourselves into a deep conversation, when she blurted a comment I never wanted to hear.
'Why don't you do things with him?' Etsuko giggled and winked at me.
'Things?'
'You know, things. He is your boyfriend after all isn't he?' Etsuko pulled out a pack of cigarettes and offered them to me. I refused and she just shook her head. After popping one in her mouth, she continued speaking. 'You can sleep with him. It's okay. Even if you're kids.'
Of course, it's not okay. It's not all right to do anything like that until you're older. But Etsuko was so much older and she appeared to be so much older and more experienced. You know, when someone like that enters your life and appears to be mature. It doesn't matter if she is only two grades ahead of you, she's a goddess.
So I did exactly what she had so carefully recommended. Well, as it turns out, her advice is less helpful that receiving some from a convict. As you can obviously tell, I've ended up in an unfortunate place in my life.
And that's how it happened. It wasn't right; I didn't want to do it. But I did and now I'm paying for something that wasn't my fault, something that I have been warned to keep my mouth shut about. My life is ruined, I'll never be young again, and I'll always be someone's mother. Don't get me wrong, I love my baby with all my heart, but I just want to have my old life back again."
*End Shinobe's Point of View*
With that, Shinobe finished and left Sango staring and Naoko looking positively angry.
Stockmon: S.H.T.L.T means Spontaneous Hand To Leg Thing. I don't really like that chapter either. LOL!
Many thanks to all you reviewers out there ^_- I made WAY past my anticipation mark! Heehee more reviews! 220 is my goal for this chapter.wish me luck!
Author's Notes: GOMEN~!!! I thought, I positively honestly thought that I'd have this out by end of December. Well, school sucks and so does homework. Plus, I got into another play (cheers) so I've got a lot of stuff to do. So forgive me everyone! I tried my hardest to make this chapter good just because you had to put up with my procrastination and busy life. Anyways, sit back and enjoy! Please leave me a review ____________________________________________________________________________ ____
A School Story: Chapter 14: Warnings By Chibiukyo ____________________________________________________________________________ ____
"So," Katsuaki grinned after the last bell rang and he was at his locker, "Inuyasha is going to send me into my impending doom?" Midori shuddered and nodded in response, causing Katsuaki to laugh harder. In his mind, this was absolutely great. Inuyasha couldn't kick him three feet much less into next week.
"I wouldn't be so cocky if I were you," Midori whimpered and his friend raised an eyebrow, "No, really I wouldn't. Inuyasha looked positively furious, and...Well, just plain...s-s-s-cary! Gah!"
"Oh will you come off it?" Katsuaki slammed the locker door shut and threw on his black jacket. He glanced over at group of students who were chattering quickly and he heard his and Inuyasha's name mentioned in their mix of words. He felt his ego boost when a girl in the group looked up at him and giggled when they made eye contact. Yes, he was Mr. Popular.
"I think you're going to get beat up so bad your ego will deflate!" Midori shuddered again; the sound of a definite apocalypse rang through his voice. Katsuaki raised a skeptical eyebrow and laughed cockily yet again.
"Oh my," Katsuaki sneered, "Inuyasha's got me all in a dither."
"Katsuaki you should be peeing in your pants," there was a hiss from behind him and Katsuaki turned to come face to face with Naomi. Naomi was the type of girl who if she didn't attend a school with a uniform, would dress in black from head to toe. She was mentally gothic, and she wasn't afraid to show Katsuaki her grotesque interest in sharp objects.
"What?" He asked stupidly. Naomi noted that when he was confused he looked a little like a baby llama.
"If Inuyasha doesn't beat you to a bloody pile of street trash," Her voice sounded pleasingly morbid, "I will run you over with my mom's car and turn you into a bloody road waffle."
Katsuaki wanted to humor Naomi. "Is that a threat?"
"Hell yes." She gave a macabre, sarcastic smile. It sent chills down Katsuaki's back. She turned around and walked coldly out of the facility.
"Goodness," Midori squealed, "You're a total goner!"
"Thanks a lot," Katsuaki turned to walk out to the parking lot, "Thanks a lot for your support, Midori."
~*~
Sango stood by the front gates and waited patiently for Naoko to arrive. Naoko was always very cross about waiting even five minutes for anybody, yet she was always at least ten minutes late. That was very hypocritical of her, but since they needed to see Shinobe Sango decided to let the tardiness of her acquaintance slide.
Suddenly, Naoko came running out of one of the school doors and she hurried towards her waiting friend.
"Sango!" She sobbed as she clutched Sango's arm, "I'm terribly sorry. just. I needed to tell Etsuko that I wasn't coming home with her."
"You didn't tell her where we're going, did you?" Sango asked, "I hope not."
"No, don't worry. She's Katsuaki's Hench Woman, she'd tell him where we're going."
That was true. There was a sort of connection between Etsuko and Katsuaki, just like there was a connection between Katsuaki and Kyoko. Etsuko and Katsuaki seemed like they were planning something, they'd often huddle together and talk suspiciously. Kyoko, on the other hand, had some- sort of lustful feeling after him. Their feeling was mutual between the two.
"So wrong," Sango murmured and Naoko looked at her.
"Going schizophrenic are we?" She asked and Sango shook her head quickly. They both laughed a little.
~*~
"I think we need a rosary." Midori was nearly sobbing, and Katsuaki felt rather compelled to beat him with something. Whatever that something was, he didn't know.
"Will you just shut the hell up?!" He blurted and Midori flinched. He shuddered in a feminine way and gave a little "eek!" when he saw Inuyasha and Miroku standing about twenty feet away. They weren't the only ones there, Naomi and Kagome were standing at the back-end of a car by the guys.
Staring at a rather squeamish Midori, Miroku laughed, "I think he's going to pass out!"
"I just lost my temper," Inuyasha lied to Katsuaki, "I really just think we should settle this in a nice conversation-like way, don't you?"
"Excuse me?" Katsuaki looked at Inuyasha, who was mentally telling himself not barf up his lunch at the retarded words he had just said. Midori had looked incredibly relieved at Inuyasha's words.
"I said let's handle this like men." Inuyasha gagged, he was being somewhat civil just for Kagome. Naomi looked a little perturbed and decided to speak up.
"I think you should apologize to Kagome first," She hissed and grabbed Kagome's arm protectively. Katsuaki scoffed at the remark.
"Why?"
Naomi and Inuyasha looked positively furious (not to mention incredibly militaristic) and both of them stepped forward towards Katsuaki. It was Miroku that stopped him when he cleared his throat.
"I think that it's a more. gentlemanly way to settle with words instead of violence."
"So you want us to get in an argument?" Katsuaki asked another stupid question and Naomi snickered at the llama thought. He shot her a look, but she didn't silence her giggles.
"What the hell are you laughing at you retard?" He shot at her and she stiffened.
"What the hell did you just call me?"
"Leave her alone, Katsuaki," Inuyasha reached out to pull him arm from walking towards Naomi, but he failed when Katsuaki smacked his arm away. Inuyasha staggered backwards, indisputably pissed off.
"I called you a retard," Katsuaki said childishly, "You don't like that?"
"Shut up!" She snapped at him, "You're the retard!" She let go of Kagome and gently shoved her away.
Katsuaki suddenly laughed as he walked up to her and pushed her backwards. She toppled over backwards, onto the pavement behind her.
"Get up," he snapped at her, "If you're so tough you could have prevented that."
Naomi looked incredibly provoked; she stood up and shoved Katsuaki backwards. She saw from behind Katsuaki that Miroku was holding Inuyasha back. She didn't care; all she wanted was to kick the living balls out of Katsuaki.
"Leave her alone, dumbass!" Inuyasha yelled and stepped forward, dragging a helpless Miroku behind him.
"Stop it you two!" Kagome suddenly shouted, and then she made the mistake of her lifetime: Kagome intervened in the fight. She pushed them both apart with all her strength and that left Katsuaki staring blankly at Kagome.
"What were you doing woman?!" Katsuaki glared at her, but Inuyasha walked over behind Kagome. He quickly shut up and Inuyasha smiled.
"What were you doing, Kagome?" Naomi glared at Katsuaki, "I was going to beat him into next year."
"Love to see you try," he sneered back at her and walked forward, right into her face. She straightened up, but was still a few inches shorter than him. She snarled something like 'shut up' but he didn't care.
"Leave her alone, freak!" Inuyasha suddenly grabbed Katsuaki's arm from behind and pulled it upwards. The was a nasty 'pop' noise and Katsuaki squeaked like a pre-pubescent schoolgirl.
"You almost dislocated it!" He shouted at Inuyasha, rubbing his shoulder, "I should dislocate your neck."
"Not if I dislocate yours first!" Inuyasha snapped and stared menacingly at the other boy. Katsuaki shuddered a little and picked up his bag to leave.
"Where are you going?" Inuyasha shouted after the fleeing boy. He ran up to him, leaving Miroku rather ruffled and yelling. Inuyasha didn't even glance back at him as he approached Katsuaki proudly. Katsuaki turned to face him and puffed out his chest.
"I am going home!" He hissed and shook his head aggravatingly. Inuyasha grinned snidely and then shoved Katsuaki backwards. He stumbled; but sadly regained his balance.
"And why would you be doing something as silly as that? Little too girly to engage in a fight?"
Katsuaki laughed sardonically and then threw his bag brutally against the pavement. Kagome could have sworn she head something shatter inside of that bag, but wasn't sure. The force that he had thrown it had been scary enough. It enticed her not to investigate any further.
Katsuaki continued his moment of inflated pride; "I don't engage myself in a battle of wits with anyone who's unarmed."
Inuyasha tilted his head and gave a fake smile. He nodded like he understood, which made Katsuaki suddenly feel very uncomfortable.
"I see," stated Inuyasha, "Then why aren't you fighting me? You're the one that needs to pal around with a half-wit so you have someone to look up to." He twisted his baseball cap backwards so that the bill was in the back. He then stood up straight and changed his expression to a more natural look: anger.
Naomi was now standing right next to Kagome, her hair neatly pulled back in a ponytail. She had crossed her arms across her chest and looked right at Kagome. "What the hell do you think he's going to do?"
"Inuyasha or Katsuaki?"
Naomi shrugged, "Now that you mention it. both I guess."
Kagome laughed unnervingly, "I think someone might be killed or seriously injured at the least."
Katsuaki just laughed at Inuyasha's last little comment, and retorted it. His comment consisted of something clever, but Inuyasha was seeing too much red to give a damn if the world blew up.
Within a matter of milliseconds, Katsuaki found himself pinned against the back of an SUV. His feet dangled about five measly inches from the ground and Inuyasha's hands pressed menacingly against the front of his shoulders. Katsuaki looked at Inuyasha and soon regretted it.
"You need to learn to do three things Katsuaki. Shut up, keep your hands to yourself, and drop dead. Preferably, I'd like you to learn the third one." Inuyasha hissed these words right into the other boy's face, "And if you have problems with any of those three I'd be glad to help you out."
Katsuaki laughed like he'd just heard the world's greatest joke. He grinned and leaned forward as far as he could. Luckily for him, it was where the average person's ear would be. Inuyasha's ears of course were located on the top of his head, but his hair covered those bare spots. Katsuaki began to whisper two words that could possibly sign his death warrant. It would be signed in his own blood.
"Shove it."
Inuyasha suddenly pulled Katsuaki forward, his back no longer making any direct contact with the car. He was thrown to the pavement in a violent way, his hands breaking his lethal fall. He glared up at his opponent, who began to speak candidly.
"You really need to factor that you're not talking to the sweetest, most understanding, nicest guy around. If there weren't two ladies and well.Miroku. I would be forced to take your foot and shove it so far up your ass your nose would bleed. I'd be suffering too, believe me that."
"And how is that, Ghandi?" Katsuaki sneered. He stood up and brushed off his wrinkled clothes. Inuyasha felt a sudden, over-whelming desire to shove him back onto the ground. He stopped himself however.
"Because I'd be risking my meaningless life touching you." Inuyasha couldn't thing of anything better, but felt content enough by being able to say something. Anything would be fine, just so as long as he had the final word in their discussion.
Katsuaki was now stable on both of his feet. He looked at Inuyasha with a sense of phony pacifism, and sighed. He then glanced at Inuyasha as he shook his head. He was satisfied to see Inuyasha looking interested.
"What is buzzing about your silly little mind?" He asked Katsuaki coldly, who suddenly began snickering. "What the hell is so entertaining, bitch?"
"We're such LOSERS," he laughed, pointing over at Kagome, "Fighting over a dog like that one!"
Naomi gasped and then covered her mouth. Miroku looked around awkwardly while asking where the dog was, and then Naomi slapped him.
"He just called KAGOME a dog, dip shit!" She shouted, "He should be SHOT!"
Miroku looked quizzically at Katsuaki, "I think he needs glasses."
"No. he needs me to run him over. I would do it too, but I don't have enough self restraint for only five times." Naomi's eyes glittered evilly and she glanced at her sparking black car. Suddenly she sighed, "I think Inuyasha will have as much damage as a speeding truck though."
Speaking of Inuyasha, he stood trembling. Katsuaki's silly chortling only made his temper boil more, and the other three watched in unison as he clenched his fist deathly tight. Blood trickled from between his fingers.
"YOU.TAKE.THAT.BACK." He snarled, "RIGHT NOW!"
Katsuaki literally jumped at least three feet backwards. He hadn't guessed in the slightest that Inuyasha would become suddenly very homicidal; it dropped a few anvils on his ego. His eyes widened as Inuyasha stode up to him so closely, he could hear his heartbeat.
"You need to stop talking about Kagome like that. If she's a dog, than that Etsuko of yours is a donkey. No. a donkey's ass." Inuyasha shoved Katsuaki backwards again, but this time with enough strength to send the stunned boy a few more feet than he had jumped. However, this time Katsuaki did not fall.
"If you ever say anything that stupid. that thoughtless ever again, I will kill you. I will gut you like a little fish and leave you in the sun." Inuyasha growled threateningly, "Actually, it doesn't have to be sunny. I'm not picky, just as long as you're very dead."
Katsuaki gulped and kept his mouth shut. He figured he was dealing with a crazy man. Someone that should probably be locked up for a while, if not his whole life. Katsuaki backed away slowly, his shoulder burning with pain from the powerful shove.
"Look." He pleaded, "I-I was just kidding. joke? Do you take jokes?"
Inuyasha didn't respond, but walked right up to Katsuaki. There were a few moments of ungraceful and sickening silence, and then Inuyasha just punched Katsuaki right in the face. The three spectators jumped backwards in surprise and Kagome covered her eyes.
Katsuaki collapsed, and while on the ground covered his face with his hands as well. Inuyasha just towered over him like a bird on it's prey, glaring menacingly.
Sitting up, the other boy coughed and then spit. Some blood followed. He awkwardly moved his tongue around in his mouth, discovering that he had bit the inside of his mouth as he collapsed. He also figured that at least one tooth of his was now officially loose; an attack worthy of a nice kick in the ass on his opponent.
"Are you getting up or just going to be stupid and lie there?"
Katsuaki looked at Inuyasha coolly and stood up. For a moment, there was a silence. Everything around them stopped at they stared angrily at one another. The wind stopped, the birds stopped singing, the leaves their rustling. Naomi, Miroku, and Kagome said nothing; therefore making it seem as if the two fighters were alone in the world.
"I'm not wasting my time on you." Katsuaki suddenly blurted, "You got yourself a goddamned cheap shot."
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow, but didn't change his expression other than that. "It was a cheap shot well spent."
Katsuaki just nodded and asked Inuyasha if the ridiculous boy was proud of himself. His response was cold, just a simple "Yes." However, that "yes" was like poisoned candy, misleadingly sweet and innocent. Katsuaki just shook his head, but halfway though, he began to smile.
Inuyasha became puzzled to this, but before he could ask anything, Kagome yelled a "Look out!" Then, he felt a pain run down from his head to his feet. Someone had a taken it to their advantage and smacked him good.
Inuyasha fell down to the ground. Before he completely fell into a midnight surrounding, he saw five people standing above him. Two of those onlookers were grinning; one falsely sheepishly whiles the other triumphantly. That sheepish looking person however, was someone who wasn't there in the beginning, and was the one he had to thank for his current predicament.
.Etsuko. ~*~
"I appreciate what you did for me today, Inuyasha." Kagome put and ice pack on his head, "But if I had known you'd have gotten knocked with a book bag I would have rather been insulted."
Inuyasha looked up at her and grumbled something incoherent. She just laughed a little, feeling her sunny disposition flooding back to her. Whenever she was around Inuyasha she always felt like her normal self, but whenever Katsuaki was around, she was suddenly docile like an abused puppy.
"He's wrong and perverse," Inuyasha snapped, removing the ice pack and sitting up, "He should be murdered. He should be murdered very slowly; very slowly indeed. Etsuko should have herself a public execution as well."
"I'm sure you'd be very good at coming up with grotesque ideas for that one. She said she didn't know it was you anyways." Kagome replied, shoving him back down into the couch. "Now shut up and let me put this little thing back on your head. If I don't, you'll have a huge lump the size of Shippo in the morning."
"Right. Oooh right. I believe that one. She's full of her own shit, I should get one of those lawyers like they have on The Box With Moving Pictures and Sound and get Sue on her ass." Inuyasha sighed and Kagome raised an eyebrow. Apparently someone didn't understand about the thick line between reality and television.
"Right Inuyasha."
Inuyasha grumbled something again, this time it was understandable. Something about a "human bitch." She raised her hand and threatened to smack his throbbing skull. Her threat worked and he apologized gruffly, recoiling back into a half sitting half lying down position on Kagome's bed.
A few moments of rather awkward silence ensued and then Inuyasha spoke.
"Whatever happened to that hairy little bastard anyways?"
"Who? Shippo?" Kagome asked, sitting next to him, "I have absolutely no idea."
"Maybe- hopefully- he died." Inuyasha laughed evilly, and Kagome smacked the ice pack. He shrieked in pain and then swatted his arm at her.
"Don't say that!!!" Kagome hissed, "It's not a very nice nor heart warming comment to make!"
Inuyasha placed his hands on the wounded spot and whimpered, "You are cruel."
"I am cruel to be kind, Dog-Boy. Terribly sorry."
Inuyasha grumbled and then rolled over. He complained of his "sleep deprivation" and when she asked why, he claimed that sharing a room with Miroku was the stupidest decision a person could make. Apparently, he snored loud enough to wake the dead. Literally.
Kagome allowed him to sleep in her bed just for tonight. He seemed very thankful, and was quickly off in his world of dreams. She just giggled to herself and turned to glance out the window at the now beautiful black sky.
~In the darkness, and even in the light, evil things can hide.~ She thought, ~Just they become harder to discover when the lights are on.~
Kagome decided to just watch him sleep. There was nothing else she could do but sit on the edge of her pink bed and watch him dream about whatever. She hoped whatever he was visualizing that it was happy, bright and that she was in it. That's all she wanted at the moment.
She dreamed of him and found her mind dawdling on if he dreamed of her. She guessed he did due to the fact that they were close friends at the very least. The title "Traveling Companions" didn't make much sense right now because they were stationed in her time in her house. So "Friends".no. "Close Friends" was the title the two deserved when together now.
Kagome liked him.
No matter how many times she sat him, slapped him, shouted at him, cried about him, had her life endangered by him, or whatever else unfortunate happening included them both; she liked him. She couldn't help it, and now that she considered him a Close Friend, it was good. Out of any guy she had crossed paths with, she liked him best, even if he did have dog- ears and white hair. It didn't matter. He still had that rather clueless nature that guys had, that confusion and fascination about women, and that manly 'Lets Solve This With a Violent Beating, Men!' problem solving mindset.
Inuyasha rolled over, kicked Kagome. She squeaked as she slid off her bed and onto the carpeted floor. Her little shocked noise awoke him, and he sat up. She smiled strangely up at him and then stood. She flattened on her skirt and then plopped herself into her spot again. He smiled.
"Kagome?"
"Yes Inuyasha?" She asked sweetly.
"What does 'Ghandi' mean?" Inuyasha looked at her and blinked. Kagome just looked at him with an exasperated expression.
"Ghandi was a person, and he died long before.well, my time. He did a lot for the country of India." She patted his leg, and he still looked at her quizzically.
"Is it an insult?" Inuyasha asked and Kagome face faulted slightly.
"No, no.well, in the context he used the man's name in probably. Katsuaki should be slapped several times for using someone's name in vain, even if it's his, it's not a very nice thing to do." Kagome said, imagining slapped Katsuaki herself. It would be nice to drop a few heavy metal objects on top of his head if slapping wasn't enough to quench her thirst for vengeance.
Inuyasha was silent for about thirty seconds when he asked again, "Is it an insult?"
~He's going to be the death of me.he doesn't listen.~ She whimpered in her mind; fighting the urge to take that ice pack and shove it in his mouth.
~*~
Shinobe looked deathly pale and rather sickly when Sango and Naoko knocked on her door. She had answered it callously, and looked very despondent at their sight.
"I'm sorry," She murmured awkwardly, "I've been sick, that's all. Excuse me."
"It's all fine," Sango bowed and smiled at her, "I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself. I'm Sango, one of Naoko's friends."
"Lovely," Shinobe smiled cordially, "I'm glad to meet you. You should all come in you know, I can give you some water if I don't have any tea left."
"Oh no," Sango suddenly felt like she was imposing on the poor girl, "I'm fine with just water. I don't want to make you go through the trouble of preparing anything."
"If you just want water," Shinobe smiled, she looked and acted much older than she really was, "It's no trouble. Have a seat."
Sango and Naoko sat next to each other on two chairs that were facing what looked like a permanently damaged couch. There was a blue flowered pattern on it, which had faded incredibly over the years. Underneath the old couch there appeared to be a colony of dust bunnies, and Sango spotted some jewelry caught in the midst.
"What are you looking at?" Naoko asked her after she had noticed Sango staring beneath the furniture. Sango got off the chair, bent down, and reached underneath the couch. She seized the necklace and after shaking it free of dust, held it suspended in the air.
The necklace turned out to be an oval-shaped golden locket. It dangled from a golden chain and it was in a dire need of polishing. There was what appeared to be an ivy-like pattern chiseled around the rim of the locket. Sango felt the urge to open it up and look inside, but Shinobe walked into the room.
"I'm sorry I took so long," She laughed and handed Sango some water and Naoko some tea. They both thanked her and she sat across from them on the couch. She looked at the locket Sango had been holding; it was lying limply in her lap. She frowned.
"Open it up," She ordered, "See what's inside."
Sango did as she was told, and gasped when she saw what was inside.
"I think I understand why you and Naoko are here," She looked rather aggravated at Naoko, "I'd rather not get other people involved, but since Naoko brought you here."
Sango looked at the pictures. One was a rather prettier and happier looking Shinobe and the other was a more pleasant Katsuaki. Well, she had assumed they were Katsuaki, presumably when he was a young boy. The pictures weren't very old, taken maybe two to three years before.
"Can." Naoko looked rather apologetic, "You tell us about you and Katsuaki?"
*Shinobe's Point of View*
"I knew Katsuaki since he was in fourth grade, and since then we had been inseparable. We did everything together: playing, parties, even shopping, for years. He was great, very sweet and understanding, exactly what you wanted in a best friend. I mean sure, we played jokes on the neighbors. We weren't bad kids even Katsuaki was good. Just. something changed, something happened, and I know what.
There was Etsuko.
Etsuko came along one day and everything changed for the worse. At first, I thought she was very nice, complimenting him and me. She even suggested we should start dating in ninth grade, last year, which would prove to be my biggest mistake ever.
"I think you should," Etsuko leaned closer to me, her eyes sparkling. She looked slightly plotting something malicious, but I ignored it.
"Think we should date?" My question was slightly.well. stupid. She had been talking about it for the past several days, completely obsessed with it, and had even offered to make arrangements for us to go to dinner. We were only in ninth grade.
After a while of convincing, I agreed to go on our first and only date. I didn't want to date Katsuaki. I hadn't even been associating with him recently due to a dramatic change in his attitude. The once nice, grinning boy suddenly had become cynical and sarcastically smirking.
I knew why too. He was hanging around the girl I was sitting next to.
Etsuko.
Let me describe your sister, Naoko. She was dark, sarcastic and very unlikable. I tried to look past the bad in her and into the good. Not everyone is as completely bad as they come off. Nobody is as cruel and sickening as people claim they are. Deep down, everyone has his or her angelic side.
I knew she'd get us involved into a lot of things, being quite some older, but I tried to think that coming to her house and seeing her get Katsuaki drunk was just a phase. Just simple phase that he'd outgrow in time.
There was more than getting drunk, too. She encouraged him to try other things, bad things, and do things. She told him to steal and that it was good for him. So he started shoplifting from expensive stores and amazingly he never got caught. He even brought Etsuko and I presents back from places so high-priced we didn't even know existed. I would hide the things and only brought them out when he came over. He'd get angry when I didn't use them, and I felt uncomfortable using them.
One night, after he had brought me back some pretty jewelry from a local store, Etsuko came over. She hadn't been invited, but she decided to stride proudly right into the living room. She dragged me after her, and she forced me to sit beside her on the couch. We engaged ourselves into a deep conversation, when she blurted a comment I never wanted to hear.
'Why don't you do things with him?' Etsuko giggled and winked at me.
'Things?'
'You know, things. He is your boyfriend after all isn't he?' Etsuko pulled out a pack of cigarettes and offered them to me. I refused and she just shook her head. After popping one in her mouth, she continued speaking. 'You can sleep with him. It's okay. Even if you're kids.'
Of course, it's not okay. It's not all right to do anything like that until you're older. But Etsuko was so much older and she appeared to be so much older and more experienced. You know, when someone like that enters your life and appears to be mature. It doesn't matter if she is only two grades ahead of you, she's a goddess.
So I did exactly what she had so carefully recommended. Well, as it turns out, her advice is less helpful that receiving some from a convict. As you can obviously tell, I've ended up in an unfortunate place in my life.
And that's how it happened. It wasn't right; I didn't want to do it. But I did and now I'm paying for something that wasn't my fault, something that I have been warned to keep my mouth shut about. My life is ruined, I'll never be young again, and I'll always be someone's mother. Don't get me wrong, I love my baby with all my heart, but I just want to have my old life back again."
*End Shinobe's Point of View*
With that, Shinobe finished and left Sango staring and Naoko looking positively angry.
Stockmon: S.H.T.L.T means Spontaneous Hand To Leg Thing. I don't really like that chapter either. LOL!
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