Hello! Ok I'm thinking that I can update either every Friday or every
Saturday. Which would you prefer? I'll take the majority of the vote and if
no one votes then it will be Friday. I got six wrong on my spelling test.
That tells you if you find any spelling mistakes, I suck at spelling.
Grammar isn't too good either.
Just a friend – thank you for pointing that little mistake out to me, I wasn't thinking when I wrote out the name. I just thought of something and put it down....anyway. Thanks.
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Bloody SkidMarks
Chapter 3
Midnight Blood
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'I make it to Tokyo in on piece, amazingly. I'm introduced to this huge arrogant jerk named Inuyasha...what kind of a name is that anyway. I leave the only people I know from this new place and run off on my own. I'm such an idiot. Then I finally realized that I'm being the dumbest person in the world and so happened to come across Miroku who brings me to Sango's place. Oh, scary. I end up going shopping!'
"Ok, Kagome. Come on out. You've been in there for 10 minutes now. It doesn't take that long to put on some clothes." Sango yelled through the door of the dressing room. "I should know!"
"I'm not coming out even if you drag me." I yelled back. I examined myself in the mirror. I looked like a total punk, not me!
"Well, if I have to drag you then I would have already seen you. At least open the door!"
"No!" I was defiant. I was not going to be seen by anyone in these hideous clothes.
"Kagome! Open the door! NOW!" I jumped when I heard her voice that came thundering through the door.
"Fine, fine! I'll open the door." I turned the door hand and pulled the door open an inch. Sango threw the door open and walked in to see me standing in the middle of the room looking down at the floor.
"To baggy. Not you." She said mater-of-factly.
"Told you." I sneered as I pulled off the shirt that looked like pajamas.
"I know exactly what to get you now." She grabbed the shirt, walked outside, and closed the door to wait for the pants. I threw them over when I had gotten them off. I just waited there until she came back and threw even more clothes over the door.
I grabbed a pair of pants and looked at them. They were black like everything else Sango had given me so far but were a heavy fabric. They were very low cute and a little baggy, not half as bad as the first ones though.
I pulled them on easily then looked for a shirt, and found a small tub-top. The weird clothes Sango picks out help me. I slipped it on and opened the door not afraid to show the clothes off.
Sango seemed a bit surprised that I had willingly opened the door without her yelling at me. "That looks great! I really like those." I smiled at her enthusiasm. I hadn't heard anything like that for along time, nothing so exited about 'me'.
"Sure you can't find anything with a 'bit' of color?" I asked looking at all the black; it got somewhat depressing. Then I looked at Sango; she was in dark chocolate brown pants with a creme off-shoulder top. I had to admit I really liked it on her. The brown match perfectly with her hair.
"Sorry." She seemed to just notice all the black too. "I'll be right back, don't go anywhere."
"Where do I have to go?" I whispered to myself. 'No place but back to hell, and even there isn't someplace.'
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We walked out of the mall carrying 10 bags of clothing that Sango had bought. Where did she get all that money? I pushed it away; if she was willing to spend so much on clothes who needs to worry about where the cash came from. However, I suspected racing had something to do with it.
"So what do you want to do next?" Sango asked as we walked toward her car again.
"I don't know, what is there to do?" Sango looked around a bit. "Everything." She finally said. "Want to go see Inuyasha?"
I looked at her as if she was insane! "Why would I want to go see him! That arrogant jerk!"
Sango smiled at my reply. She knew I didn't want to see him, she just liked to see the expression on my face, isn't she nice? "I'm joking."
"That's what you want me to believe!" I said it as a joke but I meant it for real. Everyone wanted me to believe something that wasn't the truth. Everyone expected me to do something that was false and wrong. No one wanted or expected me to do anything correct or to someone else's advantage. No one told me truth everything was a lie. However, the only thing I believed was lie so truth to me is a lie to you. How are we to determine what it really is if no one knows for sure because they've been told so many different things?
Life gets so confused at times, but sometimes you're grateful and sometimes you just want to escape from it all and leave the world of the living forever. Then there is always something here that keeps you tied to this world in someway. Even if you don't want to admit it, it's true.
I looked up to the sky; it was dark with a gray haze to it, like my heart and mind. They were filled with darkness never to see the spark of light. It was as if everything was to stay like this, dark, destructive and lonely. I was missing someone in my life that could show me the real meaning of the life itself, and I was living and trying to run away.
We were in Sango's car and driving by the time I had come back to reality from my thought. Everything was so confusing. My childhood dreams just seemed to come crashing down around me all at once as soon as I realized that none of those thing would ever happen now.
I closed my eyes and breathed evenly to calm my nerves and mind. "Where are we going?" I asked in an easygoing voice that showed nothing of what I had just been thinking.
"To get you a car."
"A what?" I asked. I was definitely not expecting that response.
"Well, if you're going to be with us you need to race. That is if you're not afraid of a little street racing." She eyed me looking for fear.
"But I barely know how to drive an automatic, not to mention a manual!" I was rather scared by the idea but I was more enjoying the fact that I could learn.
"I can teach you, Miroku can help. I would have to say Inuyasha would be the best instructor, but I got the picture on how much you hate his guts. So I won't let him, not like he would really want to considering how he acted the first time he saw you." I could tell she was thinking back to when we arrived in Tokyo and I was introduced to Inuyasha. I could defiantly see it perfectly.
"I guess, but don't expect me to race tomorrow." I said I was a bit more excited about driving then what I really let on. I didn't want her to think I was over excited.
Sango turned into a small parking lot and got out of the car. "Come on." She said before closing the door and walking up to the door of the small shop.
I followed after her after a moment of taking in the small shack. I didn't appear to be much and I was starting to wonder what kind of car we could buy here. When I walked in my thoughts were even stronger.
"So what kind of car are you looking for?" I heard a man ask Sango.
"Something with power, maybe for a strong beginner." I started walking toward the voices.
"I don't think I have anything that would fit that classification," I didn't think so, considering the shape of this place. "But if you would want something a bit more powerful I have that." A bit more powerful? What are these people trying to do? Kill me? I would believe it without hesitation if someone were to tell me straight out. I finally found Sango and the man she was talking with. He didn't look anything as I expected.
He was built fairly small, not the broadest shoulders but he was defiantly in shape. His shirt was off and his muscles were the nicest I had ever seen in a man.
"This is the girl?" I walked around me eyeing me carefully as if looking for something to object about. "There's nothing really here." He picked up one of my arms as if it were a dirty scrub rag.
"Trust me, she's got the spirit." The spirit? What in the world did she mean, the spirit? I don't have the spirit for anything; I've never been able to do anything as if I would have the spirit to do something like street racing. Illegal street racing for that matter.
"You sure? She doesn't look like she knows even what a spark plug is." Hello people I'm still here. You don't have to talk as if I'm just a picture on the wall and I'm not really here and listening. I stayed silent.
"I'll teach her everything there is to know and Miroku is going to help." The man was shaking his head disagreeing with something.
"Inuyasha would be much better at teaching her everything there is to know. However, I don't think he could get along with an ignorant person like her. Like I said she doesn't even know what a spark plug is." He shook his head again as if trying to figure out what to do with me. He treated me as if I was a piece of trash that couldn't be thrown out but didn't want to be kept.
"Give her a chance. She'll be the brightest person in a week's time. I promise." Sango gave him a genuine smile.
"Bring her back in one week and I'll see what she knows. I'll be the one to determine whether she's really a true racer or if she's just a wanna-be." What? What did he just call me? Oh, so he doesn't have faith in me? It's not as if anyone has before. Sango had faith in me, other wise why would she have made the deal with him to have me know everything in ONE week.
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"Ok Kagome, this is the hood of a car, the roof, the hubcap..." Sango was naming off things and pointing to them as I tried to make a mental note of it all. How did she expect me to memorize all of these names, and what they belong with? "This is just the exterior of the car, just so you know. We'll get to the inside and bottom tomorrow."
Just what I wanted to hear. Everything is tomorrow, why not in a week or five. My life has always been tomorrow, always thinking about tomorrow not the present or the past. Some how, though, I always found myself in the past. Not know what I was doing or what was really going on.
"Sango, stop." She looked up from the car.
"What is it?" She started to walk over to me.
"I don't get it. I don't get any of it. Who cares what a hubcap is or a spark plug." I said, I was clearly annoyed by this cramming job.
"Kagome, a spark plug is the..."
"No Sango. I'm not going to learn about the car with out even know why I need to. It's just a piece of metal." I knew I went too far on that last sentence. Sango gasped when I said it.
"A car is not a piece of metal Kagome, and never say it again. I car is a beauty and a real piece of art."
"Now you're sounding like Miroku about a girl. Would you just stop it Sango. I have 6 days to figure everything out. Why must I learn everything today, right now?"
Sango's eyes wondered to the floor, I knew she got the picture and I was glad. "Hold on, I'll be right back." I started walking around the car when Sango had left, just looking at it as if for the first time. It felt like I had touched this before heard about it also.
"You're pathetic, you know that?" I heard Inuyasha's arrogant voice from behind me. I turned around and walked up to him.
"And what the hell do you think you're doing in here? Teaching me won't help any." I said my voice was cold and collective.
"At least you will be able to drive with us, even if you suck." He said the last part softly but with still the same edge.
"I'm so sorry I just popped up out of nowhere, but I heard you needed me so get over you're attitude. If you want me to learn anything you better start now."
"If you want to learn anything you better stop talking."
"And what if I don't want to stop?" I challenged.
"Then you can leave now." Ooo, ouch. If he's not mean enough.
I shut up and let him talk. He didn't talk though to my amazement, instead he took my hands and dragged me through out the car.
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"This is a hubcap Kagome." The voice that belonged to the hands and the man behind me said as he glided my hand along it.
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"This is the hood of the car, and in it is the engine and everything else." Inuyasha opened the hood and showed me everything under it.
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"The engine, it makes the car run. So many things go on in there it's amazing how it works." The man held me in his arms as he showed me everything there was to know about the engine. Things that I could and couldn't see.
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"Get in the car." Inuyasha said bluntly. I started to walk toward the passenger's side. "Where do you think you're going?"
"To the inside of the car." I said as if he was brain dead.
"Wrong side." He dangled keys from his outstretched hand. I had to smile at him the way he did things.
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"Wrong side Kagome." I looked up to the man with confused eyes. What did he mean? I always got in on this side of the car. In his hand, he held a key. "Take it." I was really confused now. Did he want me to drive the car?
I walked over to him meekly and hesitantly took the key from his hand. It seemed so large to me. My hand was about the same size as it. He patted me on the head and directed me toward the other side of the car. He opened the door for me and I got in. He walked to the other side of the car and did the same.
"Now put the key in the ignition and check to make sure the car is in park." I looked at him with question and reassurance. I got a soft loving smile.
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I held my breath as I turned the key in the ignition. Hoping the car wouldn't blow up, and if it did, that Inuyasha would save me too.
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A huge smile broke my face as the car engine started up. I looked over to my left to see my father smiling right back at me.
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A tear streamed down my face as the face of the man came into my head. A small smile played on my lips as the memory played back in my mind.
My father. The father I never really knew before fate took him away from me. I rested my head on the steering wheel as more tear protruded from my eyes. The memory was hard to live with so I pushed it to the back in a box that was covered with dust. I locked it back there so I could live my life without it but I realized that it would always be with me no matter what I did.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha's voice held nervousness when he said my name. Not anger or annoyance it was worry and nerves. I looked over to him with my tear stained face. I tried a small smile to show that I was fine but it was harder then I thought. His face held concern for that instance before he realized what he was doing.
"Stop crying already!" He yelled.
"Why the hell should I?" I wasn't in the mood for his attitude at that moment. I opened the car door and stepped out slamming the door behind me. I couldn't go back into the car. It brought back too many unwanted memories. I ran out of the garage and into the ally.
I leaned up against the wall and slid down. Tears were flowing freely as memories of that man came back and I tried to push them away. It was hard to forget but it was even harder to remember.
I ran my hands through my hair as I sat there straightening my thoughts. Inuyasha, thankfully, didn't come out after me. His was the last face I wanted to see at that moment. His whole attitude was so prideful. I wished he would just stuff it up his ass and open his eyes to others around him.
Somehow, even through all of that I couldn't put him out of my mind. His long silver hair and his golden amber eyes. They seemed to say something to my soul that I couldn't hear. Maybe I didn't want to.
Day soon turned into night as I sat there listening to the traffic. The air grew cold as the sky grew dark. I still sat there thinking of nothing but what life was really meant to be. What my life is really meant to be.
My face was stained with the tears that I had cried earlier and my heart was beating at a steady pace. My life racing in front of me. My mind stuck in the past as my body in the present. My hand wondered down to the necklace around my neck. The pink shard was glowing in a soft pink light.
"Where'd you get that?" I jumped when I heard the voice above me. I looked up to see Sango standing by my side looking down at me.
I looked down at the shard as if to see what she was talking about. "My friend, before I left." I said. My temper was down to a tired laid back tone.
She held a closed hand in front of my face. I looked over to her to see what she meant. "Take it," She said. I put my hand out to except another small pink shard.
"Thank you." I said as I stared at the two shards.
"What are you doing out here? It's almost 9 o'clock." She sounded worried.
"Nothing, I just couldn't think straight in there." It was part truth, I couldn't think in that place.
"Maybe some cake or something would make you feel better?" it was obvious that she wanted to cheer me up, so I nodded in reply. She helped me up from the ground and we walked together to the closest restaurant that was still open.
The short walk did me good. It relaxed my muscles and my mind. Sango treated me to a huge piece of chocolate cake. The fudge frosting was piled on one inch deep and the cake itself was the best thing I had ever tasted. Besides the fact that I hadn't eaten since 10 that morning.
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My dreams were the strangest that night.
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"Kagome!" I turned around but couldn't see the person who belonged to the voice in the darkness that surrounded my vision.
"Kagome!" it screamed again. I tried to pinpoint the location it was coming from but other noises were interfering. "Kag..." the voice died down in a sickening fashion. I looked around frantically to figure out what had happened to it but it was no use.
Pain surged through my arm as I collapsed on the ground. My body was sprawled out, the pain in my arm was burning and my vision getting hazy. I saw a dark figure walk over to my side, he moved so smoothly it almost appeared he wasn't even walking at all. He moved his face over mine and looked into my eyes. His hand gently brushed away a few loose strands of hair from my face.
My mind seemed to be moving at the speed of light as my vision dead and my breathing shallowed.
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Why does a dream seem so real? Seems realer then life itself. What if someone lived in their dreams and they were dreaming in life? How could they live but not be living?
I felt my heart beat stop completely and my body felt as if it were being torn in 2 different directions. I wanted to keep living but a force unknown and unseen by me wanted to pull me away. I fought desperately to stay there but my strength was limited and the force seemed to be ultimate.
"Don't give up Kagome." I barely heard. It was so soft but it was determined. I relaxed and a soft pink glow surrounded me in its presence.
My eyes snapped open and I was greeted by the brightest light on the earth. I quickly closed them and just laid there. Heart pounding from the anxiety and my muscles tense. What the hell had happened?
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(haha, I'm going to stop it there because I know you guys wanted an update and that's as far as I felt like going. You'll have to review for me to be motivated to write some more. I'm on a down slope for writing... I'm a tired skater. Leave me alone! So, please review. I'll try to get the next chapter up within the next 2 weeks. Soo tired. Well ja for now.) * goes and finds a bed *
Just a friend – thank you for pointing that little mistake out to me, I wasn't thinking when I wrote out the name. I just thought of something and put it down....anyway. Thanks.
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Bloody SkidMarks
Chapter 3
Midnight Blood
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'I make it to Tokyo in on piece, amazingly. I'm introduced to this huge arrogant jerk named Inuyasha...what kind of a name is that anyway. I leave the only people I know from this new place and run off on my own. I'm such an idiot. Then I finally realized that I'm being the dumbest person in the world and so happened to come across Miroku who brings me to Sango's place. Oh, scary. I end up going shopping!'
"Ok, Kagome. Come on out. You've been in there for 10 minutes now. It doesn't take that long to put on some clothes." Sango yelled through the door of the dressing room. "I should know!"
"I'm not coming out even if you drag me." I yelled back. I examined myself in the mirror. I looked like a total punk, not me!
"Well, if I have to drag you then I would have already seen you. At least open the door!"
"No!" I was defiant. I was not going to be seen by anyone in these hideous clothes.
"Kagome! Open the door! NOW!" I jumped when I heard her voice that came thundering through the door.
"Fine, fine! I'll open the door." I turned the door hand and pulled the door open an inch. Sango threw the door open and walked in to see me standing in the middle of the room looking down at the floor.
"To baggy. Not you." She said mater-of-factly.
"Told you." I sneered as I pulled off the shirt that looked like pajamas.
"I know exactly what to get you now." She grabbed the shirt, walked outside, and closed the door to wait for the pants. I threw them over when I had gotten them off. I just waited there until she came back and threw even more clothes over the door.
I grabbed a pair of pants and looked at them. They were black like everything else Sango had given me so far but were a heavy fabric. They were very low cute and a little baggy, not half as bad as the first ones though.
I pulled them on easily then looked for a shirt, and found a small tub-top. The weird clothes Sango picks out help me. I slipped it on and opened the door not afraid to show the clothes off.
Sango seemed a bit surprised that I had willingly opened the door without her yelling at me. "That looks great! I really like those." I smiled at her enthusiasm. I hadn't heard anything like that for along time, nothing so exited about 'me'.
"Sure you can't find anything with a 'bit' of color?" I asked looking at all the black; it got somewhat depressing. Then I looked at Sango; she was in dark chocolate brown pants with a creme off-shoulder top. I had to admit I really liked it on her. The brown match perfectly with her hair.
"Sorry." She seemed to just notice all the black too. "I'll be right back, don't go anywhere."
"Where do I have to go?" I whispered to myself. 'No place but back to hell, and even there isn't someplace.'
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We walked out of the mall carrying 10 bags of clothing that Sango had bought. Where did she get all that money? I pushed it away; if she was willing to spend so much on clothes who needs to worry about where the cash came from. However, I suspected racing had something to do with it.
"So what do you want to do next?" Sango asked as we walked toward her car again.
"I don't know, what is there to do?" Sango looked around a bit. "Everything." She finally said. "Want to go see Inuyasha?"
I looked at her as if she was insane! "Why would I want to go see him! That arrogant jerk!"
Sango smiled at my reply. She knew I didn't want to see him, she just liked to see the expression on my face, isn't she nice? "I'm joking."
"That's what you want me to believe!" I said it as a joke but I meant it for real. Everyone wanted me to believe something that wasn't the truth. Everyone expected me to do something that was false and wrong. No one wanted or expected me to do anything correct or to someone else's advantage. No one told me truth everything was a lie. However, the only thing I believed was lie so truth to me is a lie to you. How are we to determine what it really is if no one knows for sure because they've been told so many different things?
Life gets so confused at times, but sometimes you're grateful and sometimes you just want to escape from it all and leave the world of the living forever. Then there is always something here that keeps you tied to this world in someway. Even if you don't want to admit it, it's true.
I looked up to the sky; it was dark with a gray haze to it, like my heart and mind. They were filled with darkness never to see the spark of light. It was as if everything was to stay like this, dark, destructive and lonely. I was missing someone in my life that could show me the real meaning of the life itself, and I was living and trying to run away.
We were in Sango's car and driving by the time I had come back to reality from my thought. Everything was so confusing. My childhood dreams just seemed to come crashing down around me all at once as soon as I realized that none of those thing would ever happen now.
I closed my eyes and breathed evenly to calm my nerves and mind. "Where are we going?" I asked in an easygoing voice that showed nothing of what I had just been thinking.
"To get you a car."
"A what?" I asked. I was definitely not expecting that response.
"Well, if you're going to be with us you need to race. That is if you're not afraid of a little street racing." She eyed me looking for fear.
"But I barely know how to drive an automatic, not to mention a manual!" I was rather scared by the idea but I was more enjoying the fact that I could learn.
"I can teach you, Miroku can help. I would have to say Inuyasha would be the best instructor, but I got the picture on how much you hate his guts. So I won't let him, not like he would really want to considering how he acted the first time he saw you." I could tell she was thinking back to when we arrived in Tokyo and I was introduced to Inuyasha. I could defiantly see it perfectly.
"I guess, but don't expect me to race tomorrow." I said I was a bit more excited about driving then what I really let on. I didn't want her to think I was over excited.
Sango turned into a small parking lot and got out of the car. "Come on." She said before closing the door and walking up to the door of the small shop.
I followed after her after a moment of taking in the small shack. I didn't appear to be much and I was starting to wonder what kind of car we could buy here. When I walked in my thoughts were even stronger.
"So what kind of car are you looking for?" I heard a man ask Sango.
"Something with power, maybe for a strong beginner." I started walking toward the voices.
"I don't think I have anything that would fit that classification," I didn't think so, considering the shape of this place. "But if you would want something a bit more powerful I have that." A bit more powerful? What are these people trying to do? Kill me? I would believe it without hesitation if someone were to tell me straight out. I finally found Sango and the man she was talking with. He didn't look anything as I expected.
He was built fairly small, not the broadest shoulders but he was defiantly in shape. His shirt was off and his muscles were the nicest I had ever seen in a man.
"This is the girl?" I walked around me eyeing me carefully as if looking for something to object about. "There's nothing really here." He picked up one of my arms as if it were a dirty scrub rag.
"Trust me, she's got the spirit." The spirit? What in the world did she mean, the spirit? I don't have the spirit for anything; I've never been able to do anything as if I would have the spirit to do something like street racing. Illegal street racing for that matter.
"You sure? She doesn't look like she knows even what a spark plug is." Hello people I'm still here. You don't have to talk as if I'm just a picture on the wall and I'm not really here and listening. I stayed silent.
"I'll teach her everything there is to know and Miroku is going to help." The man was shaking his head disagreeing with something.
"Inuyasha would be much better at teaching her everything there is to know. However, I don't think he could get along with an ignorant person like her. Like I said she doesn't even know what a spark plug is." He shook his head again as if trying to figure out what to do with me. He treated me as if I was a piece of trash that couldn't be thrown out but didn't want to be kept.
"Give her a chance. She'll be the brightest person in a week's time. I promise." Sango gave him a genuine smile.
"Bring her back in one week and I'll see what she knows. I'll be the one to determine whether she's really a true racer or if she's just a wanna-be." What? What did he just call me? Oh, so he doesn't have faith in me? It's not as if anyone has before. Sango had faith in me, other wise why would she have made the deal with him to have me know everything in ONE week.
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"Ok Kagome, this is the hood of a car, the roof, the hubcap..." Sango was naming off things and pointing to them as I tried to make a mental note of it all. How did she expect me to memorize all of these names, and what they belong with? "This is just the exterior of the car, just so you know. We'll get to the inside and bottom tomorrow."
Just what I wanted to hear. Everything is tomorrow, why not in a week or five. My life has always been tomorrow, always thinking about tomorrow not the present or the past. Some how, though, I always found myself in the past. Not know what I was doing or what was really going on.
"Sango, stop." She looked up from the car.
"What is it?" She started to walk over to me.
"I don't get it. I don't get any of it. Who cares what a hubcap is or a spark plug." I said, I was clearly annoyed by this cramming job.
"Kagome, a spark plug is the..."
"No Sango. I'm not going to learn about the car with out even know why I need to. It's just a piece of metal." I knew I went too far on that last sentence. Sango gasped when I said it.
"A car is not a piece of metal Kagome, and never say it again. I car is a beauty and a real piece of art."
"Now you're sounding like Miroku about a girl. Would you just stop it Sango. I have 6 days to figure everything out. Why must I learn everything today, right now?"
Sango's eyes wondered to the floor, I knew she got the picture and I was glad. "Hold on, I'll be right back." I started walking around the car when Sango had left, just looking at it as if for the first time. It felt like I had touched this before heard about it also.
"You're pathetic, you know that?" I heard Inuyasha's arrogant voice from behind me. I turned around and walked up to him.
"And what the hell do you think you're doing in here? Teaching me won't help any." I said my voice was cold and collective.
"At least you will be able to drive with us, even if you suck." He said the last part softly but with still the same edge.
"I'm so sorry I just popped up out of nowhere, but I heard you needed me so get over you're attitude. If you want me to learn anything you better start now."
"If you want to learn anything you better stop talking."
"And what if I don't want to stop?" I challenged.
"Then you can leave now." Ooo, ouch. If he's not mean enough.
I shut up and let him talk. He didn't talk though to my amazement, instead he took my hands and dragged me through out the car.
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"This is a hubcap Kagome." The voice that belonged to the hands and the man behind me said as he glided my hand along it.
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"This is the hood of the car, and in it is the engine and everything else." Inuyasha opened the hood and showed me everything under it.
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"The engine, it makes the car run. So many things go on in there it's amazing how it works." The man held me in his arms as he showed me everything there was to know about the engine. Things that I could and couldn't see.
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"Get in the car." Inuyasha said bluntly. I started to walk toward the passenger's side. "Where do you think you're going?"
"To the inside of the car." I said as if he was brain dead.
"Wrong side." He dangled keys from his outstretched hand. I had to smile at him the way he did things.
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"Wrong side Kagome." I looked up to the man with confused eyes. What did he mean? I always got in on this side of the car. In his hand, he held a key. "Take it." I was really confused now. Did he want me to drive the car?
I walked over to him meekly and hesitantly took the key from his hand. It seemed so large to me. My hand was about the same size as it. He patted me on the head and directed me toward the other side of the car. He opened the door for me and I got in. He walked to the other side of the car and did the same.
"Now put the key in the ignition and check to make sure the car is in park." I looked at him with question and reassurance. I got a soft loving smile.
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I held my breath as I turned the key in the ignition. Hoping the car wouldn't blow up, and if it did, that Inuyasha would save me too.
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A huge smile broke my face as the car engine started up. I looked over to my left to see my father smiling right back at me.
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A tear streamed down my face as the face of the man came into my head. A small smile played on my lips as the memory played back in my mind.
My father. The father I never really knew before fate took him away from me. I rested my head on the steering wheel as more tear protruded from my eyes. The memory was hard to live with so I pushed it to the back in a box that was covered with dust. I locked it back there so I could live my life without it but I realized that it would always be with me no matter what I did.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha's voice held nervousness when he said my name. Not anger or annoyance it was worry and nerves. I looked over to him with my tear stained face. I tried a small smile to show that I was fine but it was harder then I thought. His face held concern for that instance before he realized what he was doing.
"Stop crying already!" He yelled.
"Why the hell should I?" I wasn't in the mood for his attitude at that moment. I opened the car door and stepped out slamming the door behind me. I couldn't go back into the car. It brought back too many unwanted memories. I ran out of the garage and into the ally.
I leaned up against the wall and slid down. Tears were flowing freely as memories of that man came back and I tried to push them away. It was hard to forget but it was even harder to remember.
I ran my hands through my hair as I sat there straightening my thoughts. Inuyasha, thankfully, didn't come out after me. His was the last face I wanted to see at that moment. His whole attitude was so prideful. I wished he would just stuff it up his ass and open his eyes to others around him.
Somehow, even through all of that I couldn't put him out of my mind. His long silver hair and his golden amber eyes. They seemed to say something to my soul that I couldn't hear. Maybe I didn't want to.
Day soon turned into night as I sat there listening to the traffic. The air grew cold as the sky grew dark. I still sat there thinking of nothing but what life was really meant to be. What my life is really meant to be.
My face was stained with the tears that I had cried earlier and my heart was beating at a steady pace. My life racing in front of me. My mind stuck in the past as my body in the present. My hand wondered down to the necklace around my neck. The pink shard was glowing in a soft pink light.
"Where'd you get that?" I jumped when I heard the voice above me. I looked up to see Sango standing by my side looking down at me.
I looked down at the shard as if to see what she was talking about. "My friend, before I left." I said. My temper was down to a tired laid back tone.
She held a closed hand in front of my face. I looked over to her to see what she meant. "Take it," She said. I put my hand out to except another small pink shard.
"Thank you." I said as I stared at the two shards.
"What are you doing out here? It's almost 9 o'clock." She sounded worried.
"Nothing, I just couldn't think straight in there." It was part truth, I couldn't think in that place.
"Maybe some cake or something would make you feel better?" it was obvious that she wanted to cheer me up, so I nodded in reply. She helped me up from the ground and we walked together to the closest restaurant that was still open.
The short walk did me good. It relaxed my muscles and my mind. Sango treated me to a huge piece of chocolate cake. The fudge frosting was piled on one inch deep and the cake itself was the best thing I had ever tasted. Besides the fact that I hadn't eaten since 10 that morning.
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My dreams were the strangest that night.
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"Kagome!" I turned around but couldn't see the person who belonged to the voice in the darkness that surrounded my vision.
"Kagome!" it screamed again. I tried to pinpoint the location it was coming from but other noises were interfering. "Kag..." the voice died down in a sickening fashion. I looked around frantically to figure out what had happened to it but it was no use.
Pain surged through my arm as I collapsed on the ground. My body was sprawled out, the pain in my arm was burning and my vision getting hazy. I saw a dark figure walk over to my side, he moved so smoothly it almost appeared he wasn't even walking at all. He moved his face over mine and looked into my eyes. His hand gently brushed away a few loose strands of hair from my face.
My mind seemed to be moving at the speed of light as my vision dead and my breathing shallowed.
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Why does a dream seem so real? Seems realer then life itself. What if someone lived in their dreams and they were dreaming in life? How could they live but not be living?
I felt my heart beat stop completely and my body felt as if it were being torn in 2 different directions. I wanted to keep living but a force unknown and unseen by me wanted to pull me away. I fought desperately to stay there but my strength was limited and the force seemed to be ultimate.
"Don't give up Kagome." I barely heard. It was so soft but it was determined. I relaxed and a soft pink glow surrounded me in its presence.
My eyes snapped open and I was greeted by the brightest light on the earth. I quickly closed them and just laid there. Heart pounding from the anxiety and my muscles tense. What the hell had happened?
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(haha, I'm going to stop it there because I know you guys wanted an update and that's as far as I felt like going. You'll have to review for me to be motivated to write some more. I'm on a down slope for writing... I'm a tired skater. Leave me alone! So, please review. I'll try to get the next chapter up within the next 2 weeks. Soo tired. Well ja for now.) * goes and finds a bed *