Twisted relations
"Yeah, me and Koga are going to catch a movie now on Saturday," said Sango, trying to pick out an outfit AND apply her mascara AND read a little in the textbook for her English AND talk to Kagome on the phone, all at the same time. She was doing as well as you might expect. "We're going to that new Disney film, what's it called, Finding Nemo. It looked so cute."
"You look so cute, too," laughed Kagome. "Together, I mean."
"Oh for heaven's sake, haven't you given up on that yet??" Sango sighed impatiently. "We're just friends, how many times do I have to tell you? You wouldn't make all this fuss if I went with Miroku, or Inu-yasha, or Hojo… We're just going as FRIENDS. We're FRIENDS. Jeez."
"Yes, yes, whatever you say," giggled Kagome. Sango stuck her tongue out at the telephone. Alright, so it was childish, but Kagome was being pretty goddamn childish too. It wasn't as if she and Koga were going out or anything. They just liked to hang out together. She couldn't believe she had hated him so much in the beginning. How stupid all of that seemed now, the time when they were always griping at each other. Boring.
Of course they still got angry at each other, argued and fought until they were so sick of each other that they'd stomp off in two different directions and sulk stubbornly for hours. But now they could for the greater part of the time finally come to an agreement, admitting that they had both been in the wrong. - Although, of course, most of the time it was Koga who had been in the wrong. At least from Sango's point of view.
She hadn't expected a miracle, but slowly, over a few weeks, "the seed of friendship that had been sown during the Week of Peace had begun to sprout". (Actually, she thought Miroku was taking things a bit too far when he said that.)
Kagome talked about them as a pair. There was no truth at all in that. He was still a badly-spoken, uneducated lout. They still had the most blazing rows about stupid little things ('Well, he always starts them!' thought Sango. '...alright, almost always. Often, anyway. Definitely half of the time. I think.'). And he still played rugby. Honestly. She didn't know how there could ever be a chance of a relationship there. They were just too different.
She had more in common with one of his mates, Snap. She was happy over having gotten to know him. He was one of her favourite people in the entire world.
Which reminded her, she needed to talk to him. She'd do it after she'd gone to the cinema with Koga.
Cinema with Koga.
With Koga.
Koga.
Koga.
"Hello, Sango, are you still in there?" Sango shook her head. Oh, she was too scatterbrained for these kind of multiple activities. Now that she was trying to think in the middle of it all as well the mess was unbelievable. She noticed that she had been underlining important phrases in her English book with her mascara brush. Wincing, she smudged it off and returned to her conversation with Kagome.
"Barely. I've such a lot to do and think about, you know."
"Poor baby, you're all stressed out, of course. Going to the movies with one of the most attractive guys in school. All the girls feel sorry for you, you know."
"We're just friends, you know."
"That's not what the girls in school think, you know."
"You're all starting to get on my nerves, you know."
"Sorry. You know."
"What do you say we finish this conversation before we both go insane. You know?"
"Good idea."
"Bye."
"Bye."
'Aargh!' Sango screamed in her mind, hanging up. 'They're all driving me crazy. There's nothing between me and Koga, is that so hard to understand?'
And why were all the girls in school – at least in Kagome's year – so interested in him, anyway? What did he have? ...Well, except his good looks. And sense of humour. And wittiness. And kindness and charming manners when he wanted to. And his way of always finding out when you were sad, and doing something about it. And his fierce loyalty to all his friends. And his great taste in music, and his pleasant voice that made him a good singer.
…Except for that, there was really nothing special about him.
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Curse that Inu-yasha for always finding out things about him he didn't even realize himself! Koga fumed. He had just had an…enlightening conversation with Inu-yasha. And it had brought up facts he didn't want to face. How had this happened?
How could he have fallen in love with a rich bitch from the posh quarters?
But maybe she felt the same way. Inu-yasha had dropped some obscure hints, and Kagome always looked so starry-eyed when she saw them together. And there was a certain something about the way she smiled at him… on the other hand, maybe not. Probably not, no. How could she?
He always had lots of fun going out with her, but something had felt wrong. And by talking to Inu-yasha – damn the guy and his insight in other people! – he had been able to pinpoint the problem: they were going out as friends. And he damn well didn't only want to be her friend.
"Screw it."
He had, of course, enjoyed the movie that Saturday. Even more so because he was seeing it with her.
'Think I'll invite her to the party on Friday. Jinenji did say I could bring anyone I wanted. …I need to speak to Snap. He always knows what to do. It's amazing how he…'
As the thought of Snap entered his mind he spotted the very same person walking around to the back of the sports hall. Now what on earth was he doing there? That was where people usually went to make out in between lessons.
'Has he found himself a girl at last? Without telling me? Sneaky bastard.'
Koga battled with himself for a while.
'Well, after hiding stuff like that from me, his bestest buddy, he deserves to be spied on. Er… it's also part of my job as his friend.'
He realized with a sigh that he wasn't even good at making excuses to himself. However, he did not need to make use of his spectacular spying skills – perfected over time – because at that moment Snap reappeared. This time with company.
The company of Sango.
She was giggling, and was very red in the face. Koga was for a few seconds too busy with being shocked and betrayed to hide, but then recovered his senses enough to duck behind a tree. He watched as Sango and Snap walked arm in arm towards him, stopping just out of hearing distance. He strained his ears and was able to pick up a few words.
"…no one like you!" Sango exclaimed, looking up at Snap with an expression Koga couldn't read from so far off.
"Yeah, I know, ha ha. Let's do this some other time, huh?"
Sango laughed and gave him a small shove.
"I have to get going. You're the best." She reached up and planted a hasty kiss on Snap's cheek before running off. She twirled around after she had run some half way back to the school buildings, making a sign with her right hand and mouthing "Call me!" Snap waved and then walked in the other direction.
And Koga still stood behind the tree, feeling as if his world had just split in half.
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Heh. Plot twist. I bet you can all practically feel the evil grin I'm giving you here.
Now, I do believe I have someone else to thank beside my lovely sis. Teyka, co-writing a fic with the earlier mentioned little sister of mine, pointed this out to me – without her, and all the other people who nagged at me to write fics for them, I would never have started writing at all. I used to write fics for my sister and her friends, putting them as head characters and making their favourite manga characters fall in love with them. And from there I started writing fanfiction.
Thank you, naggers! This is Teyka, Yoko, Alissa and all you others. Hope you live happily ever after with the manga character of your choice (in my stories you do).
