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(AN: I'm updating this faster than "The Golden Rule" I feel bad now… but not to worry! I will update that… soon… I hope! ^-^)
Life Isn't Fair
Chapter Eight:
Confusion over Words
Monday mornings were always a drag. Going to bed late the other night made Kagome tried in the mornings, especially that she came home late with Inu Yasha after shopping. She couldn't help it; bookstores were her favorite place to go. And it wasn't entirely her fault, Inu Yasha wanted to go to electronic store that was a block away from the bookstore and about three blocks from where the car was stationed at. Nevertheless, it was still a tiring morning.
The ritual was the same: wake up, go to the bathroom, get dressed, go downstairs, eat something, get nagged by Inu Yasha about waking up late, go to the car, drive to school, get to her class and sleep. Yes, that was now the typical life of a straight 'A' student.
Sango walked into the classroom and stared at Kagome, who had her head down on the desk. Sango just had to make a joke out of this!
"Hey Kagome, what's that on the desk? It looks like a little river…" Sango smirked. This, she knew, would definitely get Kagome's attention.
And it did.
Kagome's head flew up. She did it so fast that it made her get a pounding headache with little flashing lights around everything she saw. "Funny," Kagome said, rubbing her forehead. "Very funny". She glared at Sango, who now only looked at her with big innocent eyes. Kagome rolled her eyes at her and let her head fall back to the desk.
"What's wrong Kagome?" Sango said, taking the seat next to hers. "You're never this tired."
Kagome yawned. "It's nothing; I just went to sleep late last night." She said in between yawns. She covered her mouth just to be polite.
Sango grinned at what she said. "What was that I heard? Kagome Higurashi out on a Sunday night?" she smiled at her friend. "With who?"
Kagome yawned again. Man, this was getting to her! "Inu Yasha." Big mistake. She sparked up Sango's interest.
"Really? This must have been one hell of a date!" she said with such enthusiasm. She turned her desk to face Kagome. "So, tell me about your date!"
Kagome's face went a little pink. "It wasn't a date Sango, it was just…" Kagome couldn't find the words to describe it, "A friendly outing? I don't know, but it wasn't a date!"
Sango had to laugh at that. "Whatever you say Kagome," she said rolling her eyes. "So what did you do on the 'friendly outing'?"
Kagome sighed and started retelling her story. She told Sango about the trip to the mall, the movies, the stores and the shopping. During her time telling Kagome got a little pink on her cheeks, but Sango decided to let it pass.
It took Kagome about 20 minutes to tell her story to Sango. What she didn't notice is that the whole class was paying attention to her story as well. Kagome only noticed this at the end when she was about ready to finish.
Every single pair of the 32 students that were sitting in that classroom was looking directly at Kagome. 'Uh oh' she told herself. 'What am I going to do now?' Kagome regained her posture and had a mean look in her eyes. "What?!" she said. "Can't no-one have a private conversation anymore?" She yelled at the class. She stood up and looked around the class to see where the teacher was, and to her surprise, she couldn't find her English teacher.
It was not until she turned her head that she saw where the teacher was sitting… next to Sango, who, by the way, seemed to be a little… freaked out. Kagome's eyes were popping out of their sockets. How dare the teacher be there, listening in on her private conversation with Sango and not do anything about it!
"What are you doing?!" Kagome screamed at the teacher.
The teacher looked lazily at her. "Well, I WAS listening to your conversation. It was pretty interesting, how you and that guy you were dating were holding hands."
Kagome turned beet-red. "WE WERE NOT HOLDING HANDS!" she yelled. "AND HOW DARE YOU LISTEN IN AND NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!"
The teacher stood up from where she was sitting. "Well, what do you want me to do? Punish those who were distracted from their work. Or punish the ones," she said as she looked at Sango too. Sango just looked at the wall that was right next to her, like saying she had nothing to do with this. "Who distracted everyone else first?" the teacher's voice was calm and serene.
Kagome could only glare at the teacher. "Whatever, I don't care." She said valiantly. "Do what you want. I don't give three shits."
Saying profanity in the teacher's class was a total sin. She was appalled when she heard Kagome's foul language. "That's it Kagome Higurashi! Detention for you for your foul language!" the teacher started walking to her desk and writing down something.
Kagome, on the other hand didn't really care. She rolled her eyes at the teacher and went back to her seat. The teacher came a little while later with a pink slip that had in big letter at the top "Detention". Kagome grumbled something under her breath. She couldn't wait for the bell to ring to change classes. To Kagome's luck, it did.
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Second period was used for sleeping since the teacher wasn't there. A substitute teacher was in her place for that day and so, they watched a movie. Sango and Kagome went to sleep and really didn't care much for the movie since it was based on Rome and the history of it.
A couple of minutes before class ended, the substitute informed everyone that their teacher was going to be out the rest of the week. Kagome and Sango were so grateful, now they could sleep when they wanted to.
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Inu Yasha caught a glimpse of Kagome as she walked into his class. She looked to be worried and slightly pissed off. 'I wonder what she did now' he guessed to himself.
Kagome brushed passed him and mumbled a quick 'sorry' under her breath. She quickly took a seat next to Sango. She put her head down and prayed that Kouga would find her. Unfortunately with his keen sense of smell, he quickly rushed to her side.
"Kagome, my dear! How I missed you!" He said in a cheerful voice. Kagome could only turn her head and roll her eyes. She really wasn't in the mood for his gayness.
Inu Yasha quickly glared at him. He then, got a bright idea!
"Kouga" Inu Yasha called to him. Kouga quickly turned his head to where his name was called. He looked slightly confused.
"Yeah Teach?" Kouga said getting up from where he was seated comfortably next to Kagome. Kagome also looked at Inu Yasha confused. Why would he call Kouga?
"I need you to do me a big favor," Inu Yasha said with a big grin. "I need you to go up to the library, and do these," he handed him 2 stacks of paper. They were huge! "I need you to sort these out in alphabetical order. Then after you do that, you have to go to the office and leave them there." Inu Yasha explained like if it was breeze. The look on Kouga's face was one to die for. He had swirlies on his eyes like this: @_@.
Kouga was a little slow at understanding what Inu Yasha meant. He talked too fast and poor little Kouga's brain couldn't keep up with him. Inu Yasha sighed and explained things so slowly; even a second grader could understand him. Kouga, in the end, understood Inu Yasha's explanation and went off to the library.
When he left, Inu Yasha smiled a grin at Kagome who only smiled back, relieved that she wasn't going to sit next to the idiot Youkai.
Inu Yasha's class went by fast, and Kagome wished it hadn't. She sighed when she looked at the clock and noticed it was only two minutes before the bell rang. She got up and went towards Inu Yasha's desk.
Inu Yasha looked at her quite surprised. "What is it?" he asked.
Kagome sighed unhappily. "I want to talk to you after class." She said quietly. Inu Yasha noticed that she was sad and got quite worried.
"You ok?" He asked. Kagome only nodded. "I have planning period next, so we can talk for a long time." he said.
Kagome went back to her seat and put her head down. When the bell rang, she lifted her head and saw that Inu Yasha was giving a note to Sango. Intrigued, she went towards his desk. "What did you give Sango?"
Inu Yasha smiled a bit. "A note for Miroku." He said simply. A few more words would make that statement a lot clearer -_-*.
Kagome just started snickering. "You're sending love letters now? Inu Yasha, I thought you couldn't have a relationship with a fellow co-worker." She taunted him. He just fumed a little.
"I'm not gay!" he sort of yelled. He didn't do it as loud as when he did it in the bar since there were classes next door to his. He sighed. "I don't go that way, if that's how you put it."
Kagome laughed a little. "I know you don't, you just make it so easy!" Kagome smiled at him, one of those smiles that would melt your heart.
He cleared his throat and pretended to put papers in order. "So what is it you want to talk to me about?" he said looking directly at Kagome. Kagome looked somewhere else to avert his gaze.
"Oh, uhh… I got a detention today. And that's really bothering me." She lied. She had to look somewhere else or else a little twinkle in her eyes made it clear that it was lying. Well, it didn't take a genius to realize that she was lying, Kagome totally sucked at it!
"Don't lie." Inu Yasha said. "I can tell when you're lying, have you forgotten?" he tapped his nose with his finger. Kagome cringed. It was one thing she remembered; it was that his sense of smell was a darn good one at that.
Kagome sighed. "I'm not lying!" She protested. "The detention is what really bothered me." By now, she was walking around the classroom. She sat in a desk that was closest to his desk. She sighed again. "Ok, if you really want to know…" she got up and went towards Inu Yasha. "My pet chicken died." She whispered in his right ear.
Inu Yasha just sweat dropped. "Kagome, you don't have a pet chicken" he said. "You don't have any pets period!"
"Ahh, that is where you are mistaken my young friend. I have a cat. Haven't you seen him lying around on the floor? He kinda looks like a dead, dried animal." Kagome said being sarcastic. Inu Yasha just gave her a dull glare, of course, that had to make Kagome laugh. "Lighten up; I was only kidding… well, about the cat being dried up part…" Kagome trailed off.
Inu Yasha could feel something, but couldn't quite put his finger (or claw for that matter) on it. It was radiating off Kagome, in a way that it was making him uncomfortable. "Something's bothering you right?"
Kagome smiled at him and pretended that nothing was wrong. The scent Inu Yasha smelled was instantly gone. He was confused. "You worry too much you know" she said as she gathered her things. Kagome put on her backpack and asked Inu Yasha for a pass which he gave her.
"You sure you're gonna be ok?" He asked her one more time. He was so troubled with himself, he didn't know what could have been bothering Kagome. She nodded, grabbed the pass, and went for Miroku's class…
While going to his class, Kagome stopped by the girls bathroom on the second floor. She put her stuff down on the counter and went to look for toilet paper in all the four stalls. She found some and quickly began to dry the tears that were threatening to fall.
'I can't do it' she thought to herself as she looked in the mirror. 'I can't ask him to tell me! He already tried to tell me once and I said 'no'' Kagome saw the image of herself, almost to the point of crying. It made her feel slightly depressed that he would have that kind of impact on her. 'Maybe if I tell him the truth, it would make me feel better…' her thoughts trailed off. She didn't know if Inu Yasha would tell her the truth. She sighed and began to wash her face in the sink, dried herself, then went to Miroku's class.
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Ah, the joy of sixth period. It always brightened up Kagome's day no matter if she was having a crappy one. That class was a breeze. They took notes that day, didn't do much after that other than to talk to Sango.
"How come you didn't come to class till later on?" Sango asked when the class wasn't doing much other than to talk. She noticed the somewhat sad face Kagome had put and didn't insist on talking about it much further.
"Oh, I just had to talk to Inu Yasha about… stuff." Kagome said trying to sound cheerful. Too bad for her it didn't sound right.
"Oh" was all that Sango could say, she wanted to change the subject so it wouldn't make Kagome all depressed. "Oh! You know what?"
Kagome smiled. She loved it when Sango said that. "Chicken butt?" Both girls laughed. Ah, what stupidity can do to lighten up the atmosphere. "Ok, no really. What?"
"This Saturday, Miroku asked me to go with him to see a movie. He said he was going to invite Inu Yasha to go so I was guessing he's going to take you" Sango said very excitedly. Kagome smiled.
"I don't know, as far as I know, every time he's gone out it had been disaster upon disaster with the 'I'm not gay' routine." She said, Sango laughed and so did Kagome as they remembered it. "I think he's busy… I don't know"
Sango slapped Kagome's arm. "Stop saying things like that! Have you even asked him if he was busy?!" She kinda yelled at Kagome. Kagome could only nod her head in saying 'no'. "Then?! Don't be a wimp! Ask him to go out with you on Saturday!" At this point Kagome was afraid that if she said something wrong Sango would snap her head off, so she kept quiet and nodded her head and smiled.
Sango settled down in her chair and looked straight ahead, then started to snicker. Kagome was confused. 'Ok, either she's gone crazy or…' well she couldn't think of another reason and just concluded that she was crazy. That was until Kagome turned her head and saw what Sango was looking at: It was the teacher. It's been 20 minutes since class started and they forgot to make fun of the teacher! (Now how did that happen?) He was wearing a pretty gay shirt that said "Go Lady Basketball! You can do it!" The colors even made it worse for him. They mocked the teacher all throughout the class period.
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The bell rang to let the whole student body out at 2:30 on the dot. Kagome had completely forgotten about her detention when Sango reminded her to go tell Inu Yasha she wasn't going to go home with him today. Slowly but surely, she made her way to his class.
The door was cracked slightly opened, it seemed someone forgot to close it when they left the class. No matter, Kagome put her hand on the handle and was about ready to push it open, when something stopped her.
Inu Yasha's voice… saying something…
Kagome tried to listen in more carefully, but all she heard were the last few words.
"I love you too"
(AN: Another awful cliffhanger. *sigh* People have been asking when the conversation between Inu Yasha and Kikyou comes up. Don't worry! It will later on! Just have some patience people! ^-^)
Reviews:
Fallen phoenix: I try to be a fast updater but now, with finals going on at my school, its kinda hard for me to update as soon as I want to. I don't have enough free time like I did before. I'm sorry =(
Monkeystarz: lol, that's happen to me too. Thanks to umm *cough* report cards *cough* my mom didn't let me use the computer for a full 2 months once… it was torture!
Leina: 1: Kikyou is a stalker. She has ways of getting things. Well, she is Kagome's cousin and her mom is her aunt. Kagome's mother thinks she's a good cousin to Kagome, but Kagome despises her. 2: Well, Kikyou is just a bitch in this story.
Miyoko5800: I know that this fic particularly revolves around Kagome and Inu Yasha but not to worry! In the later fics, there will be parts where we see how their relationships develop.
Kagome5: I try to update as soon as I can, but now with finals I cant =( sorry…
Akari Sennyami: I wanted to thank you for your reviews that were just so filled with enthusiasm and emotion! Thank you! When I read them I was like, wow… *laughs* I like your reviews a lot!
Sweetdaeth: Sesshomaru will eventually come into the story, more like in chapters 10 or so, more or less around there.
Cherrie: The reason why Sesshomaru acts so kind to Kagome is that both their mothers have known each other for years. Sesshomaru has always (and will) act like an older brother to Kagome because that's how he looks at her: like a sister. Kagome will always be fond of Sesshomaru as a brother. Nothing more. Thought I cant say the same for Inu Yasha, Kagome has always looked at him like a crush rather than a brother. Hope that kinda clarifies your question.
To everyone else that reviewed, thank you. If there are some that I did not answer your question, just email me and I will be more than happy to respond back!
