Pieces of You
Chapter 4
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"Where are you going?" called Miroku. "You need to wait for us so you won't get lost going to class. Remember what almost happened this morning?" She stopped and turned around to face him, "I'm leaving."
With that she turned and walked out of the cafeteria. Inuyasha stood up quickly dragging his bag over his shoulder, "Tell Kouga to dump my trash," with that he stalked off after Kagome. "Oi, wench where the hell do you think you're going?"
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Sango, Shippo, and Miroku, all stared after Inuyasha and Kagome. Then together they all stood up saying, "I think I'm going to go too." They all stared at each other silently, Sango was the first to break the silence. "Well, then I think we need to leave a note for Kouga," glanced at his unconscious form. "To throw away our trash."
She reached into her bag, pulling out a green notebook, tearing a sheet out and scribbling a note on it before folding it and handing it to Miroku, who was nearest to Kouga. He quickly put the note by Kouga's tray, the side with his name scribbled on it topside.
With that they all picked up their bags and left. Leaving their trays and the unconscious Kouga behind. Ignoring the stares of fellow students, they walked out of the cafeteria and school. Their exit, accentuated with a loud slap and a scream of "Pervert."
Inuyasha stormed out of the school after the new girl. He paused blinking in the sunlight, turning his head back to look up and down the road. With a growl of frustration, he realized he couldn't see her anywhere.
"Damn, where the hell did that bitch go," he said to himself. "She can't have gone that far." He jumped when a hand appeared out of nowhere on his shoulder. "You know buddy, if we didn't know better we'd think you were stalking her."
A low growl interrupted Shippo's little speech. He quickly removed his hand, saying, "Jeez, breathe." He frowned, "Why are you following her?" Inuyasha froze, 'Why am I?' "None of your business Shippo."
Raising a hand to block the sun from his eye's he stared down the road in both directions. 'Shit, she walks fast!'
"Oi, Inuyasha!" shouted Miroku, who'd run into a door on the way out, when he'd been side tracked by a pretty face. "Where's Kagome?" Sango appeared behind him and said, "You did at least see where she went right?"
"Nope, that bitch walks fast." He shrugged, "Who cares, want to skip anyway?" With that he turned and walked towards the student parking lot. Sango quickly jogged after him, pink shoulder bag bouncing behind her. "Inuyasha wait up, I need a ride!"
Shippo and Miroku, glanced at each other, towards the school, then each other before shouting unanimously, "Wait for me!" and sprinting after them.
Kagome walked along the sidewalk absently kicking a convenient soda can. "I can't believe I mentioned Kikyou, how careless can I be," she murmured to herself. "What will I do when they start asking questions. And I know at least Sango will."
With a sigh she stopped walking to look up at the sun. "Kikyou always's did say my mouth was a step ahead of my brain sometime's." A sad smile crossed her face, eye's shadowed, as the image of Kikyou talking flashed before her eye's.
"Really Kagome, do you ever think before you speak!" A small smile crossed Kikyou's lips, "Well, I guess that's what makes you, well, you. The laughing, talkative, foot in the mouth girl. That everyone love's."
Kagome sighed, no matter how confident Kikyou acted around other's. She couldn't hide from Kagome her lack of self confidence. Kikyou would spend hours in the morning trying to look perfect, never satisfied.
She stood up gracefully, adjusting her skirt, before tugging her bag up with her. With an almost silent sigh, she began walking mindlessly down the road. Ignoring the roar of passing vehicles, and the stares of their occupants.
The wind was whipping her hair violently around her face when she reached what looked like the shrine near her old house. She unconsciously found herself climbing the tall steps.
She was halfway up when she realized what she was doing, and stopped climbing. Shaking her head at her own inattention, she sat down on a step and stared down at the street below.
Her eye's went unfocused as she half watched the cars speeding by. A soft sigh escaped her lips as the wind jerked her hair in different directions, skirt fluttering against the stone of the steps. Little wind devils rose and she watched them chase leave's across steps below her before dying.
How often had she sat like this since that day. Her mind drifting back, and reliving the worst moment in her life.
Too many time's to count. She knew her being sent to live with Kaede was an attempt, to try to get her to move on. But even after two years the pain of watching Kikyou die was seared across her heart. Even more so though, the knowledge she couldn't stop her from doing it hurt much worse.
She raised her hands to clutch at the two locket's hung around her neck. Her finger's traced across one, subconsciously knowing that on the front of the circular face, was her name, engraved in the silver.
Slowly her finger's released the locket and fumbled to grasp the other, rubbing back and forth over her sister's name on the front.
Inside she knew there would be a picture of Kikyou and her together. Just as there was in her own.
She sat there for awhile before thinking about what had happened that day.
"So where are we headed Inuyasha?" Yelled Miroku over the loud booming of the music. His voice hardly reaching the boy in the driver's seat, as the wind caught it and diminished the sound.
Inuyasha leaned forward turning down the music a little to yell back, "What'd you say?"
Miroku rolled his eye's before responding, "Where are we going?"
Inuyasha looked at him for a moment before shrugging, "I don't know. Ask Sango."
Miroku, leaning over Shippo, who'd had the misfortune of having to sit in the back with him, grinned at Sango saying, "Sango dear, where are we going?"
With a sigh she turned backwards to face him and said, "I don't care where ever you all want to go. You and Shippo decide." She turned and faced forward again, returning to reading her book.
Leaning back Miroku turned to Shippo. They both exchanged a glance before nodding simultaneously, and with a victory punch into the air they shouted, "The Hirosaku Shrine, let's visit Koharu!"
Inuyasha and Sango flinched, then sighed simultaneously. With a slight turn of the wheel, and the screeching of wheel's Inuyasha turned the car around to head towards the shrine.
Looking up from her book, Sango glanced out the passenger seat window. "I wonder where Kagome is right now," she whispered quietly.
Dusting off her skirt, and slinging her bag over her shoulder Kagome began to finish her climb up the stairs. 'Might as well check it out,' she thought.
The stairs seemed to go on forever now that she was paying attention. When she finally reached the top, she was out of breath. "I am so out of shape," she said to herself, between deep breaths's.
"It just take's some getting used to," said a voice in front of her. She looked up quickly, surprised she hadn't noticed the girl earlier. "It would have been easier if you hadn't gone so fast."
Kagome stared at the girl, she was very pretty, with short black hair, held back with a pink bandana. She had freckles, but they just made her cuter. She was dressed in casual clothes, but held a broom in her hands. While she was talking she was absently sweeping the courtyard.
The girl paused in her sweeping, and extended her hand with a smile, "My names Koharu, what's yours?" Kagome stared at the hand for a second before reaching out to grasp it, "Kagome."
Koharu smiled broadly, releasing her hand. "I was just about to stop for tea, if you'd like to join me?" After a second of hesitation, Kagome nodded saying, "Thank you, that'd be nice."
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'Ello, Forbidden Elf here, I bet your hating me right now because I took so long to update.
Sorry, well the next chapter should come to me easier. Finger's crossed. So you know ahead of time, I'm not going to have Kikyou as a bad person, and though I might bring in Naraku, I will probably have him way OOC. Anyway, talk to everyone later.
Forbidden Elf
P.S.
I have the next chapter all planned out. Expect it soon!