A Tragic Love
Disclaimer: Three things I would do and buy if I owned Inuyasha travel Europe in a boat shaped like a Mercedes CLK buy a lifetime supply of red gummy bears BUY COLIN FARRELL, who will eventually fall in love with me...
Things accomplished...
ZIP, ZERO, ZILCH...I wish I owned Inuyasha.... --
+Ch. 16: The Spring Dance Blues (Part 1)+
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"Kikyo, what are you doing here?" Kagome asked eyeing her sister, Inuyasha by her side.
"It's a free country. I can go wherever I want and tonight I decided to have a little walk. Mom told me you went to a movie with Sango or as she likes to call her the 'that poor girl.'" Kikyo walked forward, swinging one leg gracefully at a time. Kagome watched her sister glide through the street as if she were born a model. Kikyo was wearing a flaming red halter, a denim skirt, Milano blahniks to match, and her raven black hair swishing through the air.
Kagome slightly turned her head towards Inuyasha whose eyes were firmly fixated on her scanky whore of a sister. She sighed and slapped him on the arm. He shook off his gaze and turned to Kagome in surprise, "Why'd you do that?"
"You know why, you perv!"
Kikyo's red slips parted in a smile and she took out a lighter and cigarette, placed the cigarette on her lips, and lit it. She exhaled in fumes and circled the couple in curiosity.
"Sango looks a little different from the last time I saw her. I swear she didn't look this cute," she said giving Inuyasha a wink. He took his gaze away from her and looked down, hoping to rid his mind of the circulating impure thoughts.
Kagome stepped forward, violently grabbed the cigarette from her sister's lips, threw it on the ground and stepped on it. "Would you just leave us alone!"
Kikyo took out another cigarette and posed in a femme fatal picturesque, "I can't quite do that. You see, I find Inuyasha quite interesting."
Kagome froze and uttered, "How did you know his name?"
Kikyo smiled and again puffed on her cigarette exhaling a trail of murky smoke that appeared almost white underneath the moonlight. "Oh my! Don't tell me your boyfriend didn't mention our little encounter." She stopped short of Inuyasha and grinned, "Surprise."
"Inuyasha, what is she talking about?" Kagome asked, turning to Inuyasha and ignoring her sister's devilish stares.
"I..."
"Inuyasha, what are you trying to hide?" Kikyo asked, her eyes fixed on his now.
In truth, Kikyo had found him rather good looking but too young for her taste. If she desired, she could easily steal Inuyasha away from her sister in a matter of simple moves. But, she had other plans for him. He would use him as she did to all the other men that fall head over heels for her and use him to her advantage. Kikyo looked at him—his smoldering good looks, bad boy charm, and the very fact that he was the son of his father's enemy. I mean who could ask for a more desirable man. Of course, she also saw him as a pawn to her sister's torment and as she watched him just now, she could feel her sister's heartbreak and she loved it.
Kikyo watched in pleasure as Inuyasha struggled to get his words out just right as not to hurt his poor little Kagome. But no matter how he was going to explain it, it all came down to one conclusion—he had purposely kept something from Kagome. And Kikyo knew that Kagome hated her and the only thing that would hurt her most in the world was finding out Inuyasha was keeping the fact he met her. I mean if it had been any normal girl, Kagome would pass it off but knowing that girl was Kikyo would be harder to digest. After all, it is Kikyo she hated.
"Yeah Inuyasha, what are you trying to hide?" Kagome asked, her arms folded and her face so twisted that she began to resemble her sister. It was pretty freaky.
"Well, you see, I was outside and—and she was outside—we, actually, were both outside and--"
"Inuyasha, just shut up." Kagome retorted, backing away and watching the two from a distance. It was as though she were seeing this from a stranger's point of view, looking in and wondering what was happening. She was so confused and even though she could feel herself leaping over boiling point, she didn't quite care anymore. She was with Inuyasha now and she was not going to let her sister win, like she always did. She was going to show her.
"Come Inuyasha, I'm fucking tired. I want to go home."
Inuyasha turned to Kagome and gulped, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I said I was tired," Kagome remarked.
Kikyo watched her sister, fumes coming out of her head. She was struck, flabbergasted, and baffled. What the shit was going on? She thought. She hated to see that her sister was not throwing a fit. She hated to see her pass this by as if it didn't matter.
In frustration, she threw tore the cigarette from her lips and said, "Where do you think you are going?"
"Home."
"I see, you going to bring him home too? Mom would love that."
"Actually I am."
"What?! Kagome are you out of your fucking mind?" Inuyasha yelled.
"No, I just think that it's time mother met you."
"You do?" Kikyo and Inuyasha asked in unison. Kikyo tried to keep in her surprise but she couldn't conceal it any longer. What was her sister thinking?
Kagome stared at the bewildered two for a moment and then smiled, "Kikyo, you never ceased to amaze me."
"Thank you, I live to amaze."
Inuyasha stepped back from the brooding twosome and smirked, "So she knows."
Kagome nodded her head but continued to stare at her sister who was smoking her cigarette with increased satisfaction painted on her disgusting face.
"Of course she knows. She's always known."
"So when we met--"
"Yes Inuyasha, I knew. I just wanted to test you."
"Test me?" Inuyasha asked.
"I wanted to know what kind of guy you were. I don't let any guy go out with my little sister."
"Bullshit! You were trying to seduce him you little cow."
Kikyo looked up and shrugged, "Hey I can't help it if he happened to fall head over heels for me."
"I did not fall for you," Inuyasha said as a matter of factly.
"Oh you didn't? Why did you go into my car?"
"I--" Inuyasha was speechless, heck he didn't know why he went into the car.
"That's what I thought."
"No I didn't fall for you," he yelled at Kikyo. He turned to Kagome and laughed, "Kagome, I did not fall for her."
Kagome watched him turn back and forth until his gaze finally landed on the ground. Kagome felt her heart give way to anger and jealous. But her heart was trying to fight back, reminding her that she did love Inuyasha and she did trust him. But as she was watching Inuyasha, jealous could not help but win.
"Inuyasha, let's just go."
"To meet your mom?" he asked in fear.
"No, just drop me off."
Inuyasha stepped towards Kagome and walked along side her. He watched her fight to keep her temper. He was in for it now. What the fuck was happening? Luck was not on his side. He finally hooks up with Kagome and Kikyo had to go and ruin everything. But he had to admit she looked mighty hot—WHAT? Inuyasha get a hold of yourself, dammit! Remember Kagome. Shit! What was wrong with him? I mean he had a perfectly hot looking girl right in front of him and here he was now thinking about how fucking hot Kikyo was.
"Inuyasha, what are you thinking about?" Kagome asked, cutting through his thoughts.
"What? No I was thinking about how fucking evil your sister is."
"Yeah she is a bitch."
"Kagome," Inuyasha said. Kagome turned around and looked at him. "What?"
"Can I hold your hand?" he asked shyly.
Kagome looked at him for a moment and smiled, "No."
"What? Did you just say no?"
"I'm so glad you aren't deaf."
"Kagome!" he whined.
"Inuyasha, do you expect me to hold your hand after what happened?"
"umm yeah..." he asked unsure, raising hand to his head and scratching it profusely.
"You are such a dimwit!" she said shaking her head but after a couple minutes of staring at Inuyasha, she began to smile.
"Why are you smiling?"
"I don't know." Inuyasha walked towards her and smiled, planting a kiss on her lips.
"So does this mean you forgive me?"
"Maybe."
"I hate it when you tease me."
"I do too," said a voice from a distance. The two love birds froze in mid kiss and cocked their heads towards the oddly familiar voice. Kagome, still holding Inuyasha's hand, held her breathe and refused to accept the unacceptable. There, her hands folded in annoyance stood her mother, fuming so profusely that the heavens above were parting from the heat radiated off her mother's body. Her mother did not move, did not even utter another word from her bitter lips. She remained in that one spot, where the street light's glow shown over head. Underneath the yellow light, her mother appeared uglier and her face more menacing. She looked as though she were calculating her moves, ready to pounce at any moment.
Inuyasha tore his eyes away from the woman beyond to unbind his hands from Kagome's grasp, which was beginning to disrupt his circulation. But Kagome did not notice that Inuyasha had taken his hands away from hers. Her hands remained poised in mid-air, frozen from the perpetual shock at seeing her coldhearted mother. Although Inuyasha had no idea who was standing before them, he remained silent and watched Kagome's face turn from a blushing red to a stark pale white. He glanced once again to the stranger underneath the lamplight and noticed she looked oddly like Kikyo. Inuyasha saw the resemblance through her brooding disposition not from the looks alone.
"Kagome, is this your—mother?" Inuyasha asked, turning to Kagome now, concern and fear in his voice.
Kagome nodded her head and sighed, "I knew she'd find out one day."
Then, as if emerging from the shadows itself, appeared a shadowy figure, lean, its hair swishing in the air, and her Milano Blahniks clicking on the pavement.
"Kikyo," Kagome whispered. She watched her sister stand beside her mother and place a comforting hand on her mother's shoulder. It made her sick to see her sister pretend to be so loving when in reality she was a self- centered whore.
"Kagome, come here this instant," commanded her mother. Kagome's gaze turned from Inuyasha to her mother. Inuyasha did not beckon her back or pull her towards his side, he just watched her slowly walk towards her mother. Of course, he had wanted to pull her back but it was his turn to be frozen in fear.
"Good-bye Kagome," Inuyasha said to no one but himself because he knew Kagome could no longer hear him.
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"You can't make me not see him anymore. Go ahead slap me, beat me, I really don't care what you do!" Kagome yelled, staring point blank at her mother and sister. They had dragged her home by force and then pushed her onto the couch which hurt, by the way, because the arm of the chair hit with the bone of her butt.
"You think I want to beat you? I want to do something to you far worst!" screamed her mother. Kagome watched her eyes bulge in pleasure.
"You can go ahead and go out with that boy all you want."
"I can?" asked Kagome in surprise.
"Sure, you can, just as long as you go with Kouga to your spring dance and then go out with him."
"Mother! I already tried that, remember? It didn't work out!" Kagome screamed.
"I don't give a care in the world whether you like it or not because I demand you go out with him. The more you go out with him, the easier it will be when you have to marry him."
"Marry him? I thought--"
"You thought nothing. So tell me, what do you want to do?"
"I can't believe you are doing this to me? I can't be with Inuyasha and be with Kouga at the same time! It isn't fair to either one of them!"
"Tell me something I don't know, Kagome," said her mother, a smirk across her face. "So I am being forced into marriage?"
"Do you expect us to just let you marry any random guy in the street?"
"I'm only 15, mother! Why are you doing this to me?"
Her mother paused at looked at her crying daughter, "Because I love you."
Kagome looked at her mother in disgust. Her mother was willing to let her date Inuyasha but for a limited time only. Once the spring dance was over, she would have to be with Kouga. And that was something she was not prepared to do, not when her heart belonged to someone else.
"How do you know I won't continue going out with Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.
"I know you won't because if I catch you even once, I will tell your father."
"Sorry mother but that doesn't scare me," Kagome remarked chuckling.
"Even if I told him that that boy is a Bakemono?" her mother said, smiling.
"What? How did you--" Kikyo emerged from behind her mother and grinned.
"You did it! You bitch! You said you weren't going to--"
"I never said such a thing! Besides, you expect me to hide this from our dear loving mother?" Kikyo asked, her lips pouting. 'Loving? What mom was she thinking of?' Kagome thought.
"Kikyo, I hate you," Kagome said flatly, bitterness in her voice.
"I'm sad to hear that little sister. I did it for your own good."
My own good? Bullshit!
"Kagome, you continue to see Inuyasha and I'll tell your father and he won't take the fact that you're seeing a Bakemono lightly. He did it once before and he can do it again. Stop seeing this boy or else he'll pay for the consequences."
'Did what once before? Strop trying to be to cryptic mom and just tell me!'
"Okay, I'll stop seeing him before the dance."
Kagome stood from the couch and glared at her family. Her mother left the room momentarily and then emerged again holding something in her hand. Her mother threw the object onto the floor and it landed just short of Kagome's foot. It was Inuyasha's bloody shirt.
"Next time, he won't be so lucky."
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Sango watched Miroku from a distance, sitting beside Kagura and smoking a cigarette, a habit Sango hoped he'd quit when she wins him back.
'Kagura, that bitch! She did something to him! But what?' Sango sighed and slumped onto the table. 'I hate my life.'
"Sango are you on something?" Inuyasha asked, chopping into his sandwich. Sango looked up and shrugged. She hadn't told anyone about what was happening to Miroku, although his actions speak louder than anything she had to say. In a matter of a week, he had the total of ten detentions. Kagome had seen him steal a couple of items on the teacher's desk and he spray painted "You want shit? Come pick the school's ass" on the school wall.
It saddened Sango to remember what Miroku once was. His smile, his bladder problems, and even how he'd look up her skirt when she bent over. She wished she could have hit him once more with her bio book before he decided to go to the darkside. And God he was so hot too when he wasn't always covered with smoke and Kagura's nasty ass face by his side. But Sango had to admit he was sort of sexy in that smoldering, bad boy, stapler stealing kind of way. Ack! What was she thinking? She loved her old Miroku, no matter how perverted he was.
"Miroku sure changed, huh?" Inuyasha said, interrupting her thoughts. She looked over at him and sighed, "Changed? I hardly noticed."
"Give me a break! He's all smoking and mean and stuff. Damn, that kind of reminds me of me. That's scary."
"He's just trying out a new look," Sango said, but it was at that instant that Kagura decided to kiss Miroku on the lips. Sango and Inuyasha turned away, "Whoa!" Inuyasha said, his sandwich still in his hand, "Did you, um, break up with him?"
Sango packed her things and leaped off the bench, "I have to go."
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"Kagura, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Miroku asked, pushing her away after she had unexpectedly kissed him on the lips. Actually, he wouldn't have cared much if they hadn't tasted like old lettuce. And there was the fact that he missed Sango and he had sworn long ago that the only lips he would kiss was Sango but then again he was no longer with Sango.
"I just kissed you, can't I do that. I am your girlfriend."
Miroku set the cigarette on his lips and turned away. He hadn't intended to start smoking, he just thought it added to the whole bad boy "I'm gonna kick your fat ass" look. Now it was almost like a bad habit. He had to remind himself to quit.
"You aren't my girlfriend."
"But we're always together and you broke up with Sango."
"Yeah that's true. But I'm still not your boyfriend."
"Miroku, my love, come on. I can be a really good girlfriend, besides, I already got my dress for the spring dance this Saturday," she said glowing.
"Return it. I'm not going to that lame ass event." He laid back onto the table and rested his head on his arms. Kagura stared at him in disappointment. This was the first time she had seen him so cold. She had wished now that he was the old Miroku again. But she couldn't have the old Miroku back because the old Miroku was Sango's boyfriend and hell would freeze over before she decided to give up her Miroku. Even though he was a coldhearted asshole, he was still single and available.
"I can't return it, it was on sale. Miroku..." she said, bending over now next to Miroku. Miroku turned his head away from hers and closed his eyes, which were concealed within his dark glasses.
"What?" he asked, not really caring.
"I'll make sure it's a night you never forget, if you know what I mean."
"Isn't it time for your medication?" Miroku asked yawning.
Kagura sighed and grabbed her things, "Fine, you ass."
Miroku was hardly listening Kagura now. His gaze and attention had shifted towards Sango, who was sitting alone now, reading a book by the science building.
'Where was Inuyasha?' he asked himself. He looked around and found Inuyasha talking to Kagome and holding her hand. 'That two-timer. Doesn't Sango care?' Why did he care, besides she wasn't his problem anymore. He no longer had Sango, he just had Kagura, which he would gladly return. He'd rather be by himself than have to listen to her talk anymore. Sigh. He wished he could hold her in his arms again. He missed his Sango so much. Snap out of it! --
"Inuyasha, I have to tell you something," Kagome said, holding his hand.
"What is it?" Inuyasha asked, sensing it was something serious. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. It's about the dance this Saturday."
"Don't worry about it, I've got it covered. And guess what, I have a tux too. You don't look happy."
"Inuyasha, it's my mom."
"It's because of the other night."
Kagome nodded her head, "She wants me to go to the dance with Kouga."
"She what?" Inuyasha asked, flinging his hands away from Kagome's and using them to hold his head up and he slumped onto the table.
"She knows."
"Knows what?"
"About you being a Bakemono..."
"What the hell, are you kidding? No you have to be kidding? How the fuck does your family always find out these things?"
"You know I was asking myself that same question. I think its to make my life more dramatic than it seems."
"Well fuck its dramatic. So are you going to?"
"I have to," Kagome said, trying to desperately hide the uneasiness in her voice.
"I see. Well, it's okay."
Kagome bowed her head and sighed, "I can't ever see you again after the dance."
"What? I thought it was just for the dance!"
"It isn't. I'm betrothed to marry Kouga."
"You what!?" Inuyasha screamed, slamming his head onto the table. Kagome reached over and patted him on the head, "I'm sorry Inuyasha." Suddenly he shot his head up in the air, "You don't have to do that! We can run away together and get married!"
"Inuyasha, get real! What normal teenager does that? What are we Romeo and Juliet?"
"You're right, it's stupid. But I don't want to lose you."
"I don't want to lose you either but I have no choice."
"Wait we can sneak around."
"Inuyasha, wake up! We do that now and to tell you the truth, we aren't very good at that," Kagome said, remembering Kouga, Kikyo, and her mother.
"True but we can try harder!" Inuyasha said trying to sound unnaturally optimistic. Kagome smiled at seeing how cute he looked when he was desperate. She loved the fact that he was trying so hard to be with her. But she knew she couldn't let him because it might mean his life. God, why did her dad have to be so gangster? She felt like she was living in the Sopranos.
"Inuyasha, I can't. I think—I think we have to end it." Kagome said, backing off, and holding back burning tears. Inuyasha watched her slowly inch herself way and turned away.
"We can be friends."
Great! That was the last thing he wanted to hear from her lips. But he couldn't push her away farther than she was already going because he did want her in his life, even if it meant being only her friend.
Kagome was feeling the same anxiety. It felt like swallowing daggers when she uttered those words. In truth, she wished she was in his arms. But she found herself unconsciously backing away from him and before she knew it he was merely a spot. But she did not turn; she just continued to stare at him until he could no longer see her. He eventually left.
--
"Sango, why are you always alone?" Inuyasha asked, bending over and looking over Sango's shoulder. She closed her book and turned around.
"Oh, it's you. Why are you always talking to me?"
"What? I can't talk to you anymore?"
"I mean you use to be all 'I'm Inuyasha and I'm tough and I hate the world!' now you're 'I'm Inuyasha, how are you and may I pour you a cup of tea.' What gives?"
"Nothing, you just look really bummed lately and I can relate. Maybe I can help"
Sango looked at him curiously and smiled, "Thanks Inuyasha, but you can't help me."
"I know you broke up with Miroku. And before you decide to go crazy and tell me you didn't, I should tell you that I broke up with Kagome too."
"You did, huh? Well, sorry." Sango sighed, 'what the freak? And she worked so hard to get them together.'
"Nah, it's okay. We're still 'friends.'"
"Well at least you guys are friend. Miroku and I are another story. He won't even talk to me and to make it worst, I don't even know what I did for him to break up with me. It just came out of nowhere."
"Really? That doesn't sound like Miroku."
"I know, that's what's scary."
"He has been hanging out with that freaky chick a lot."
"Kagura?" Sango said bitterly.
"Yeah that chick. She's one freaky deeky lady."
"Yeah she is, which is weird. He never used to hang out with her."
"But he's got this new look now. She kind of matches his new him, minus the medication."
"Yeah, true." Sango said in despair. Inuyasha sensed her pain and patted her on the shoulder, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean that."
"No, it's okay."
"Oh and you know what's a real bummer?"
Sango turned to him and said, "What?"
"The spring dance is this Saturday."
Sango looked and focused her attention on the clock ahead. It was the spring dance this Saturday. She had completely forgotten. It was then that she remembered Miroku telling her that he would make it a special night—the night they'd celebrate their anniversary.
"Yeah, I know."
The clock struck one thirty. Sango turned her attention away from the clock and smiled.
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1:25—Miroku slumped onto the bench and looked inside his jacket for a cig but found none. Fuck, he had used the whole pack already. Okay, this is it, I'm going to quit. He didn't want to start using cigs regularly and then get lung cancer when he was old and gray. Hell no! He saw Kagura approach him and was about to duck and cover but she had seen him before he got the chance to escape.
He found her completely annoying but no matter how many time he had told her to go away: Fuck off! Get Away! Leave me the hell alone!—she just couldn't take a freaking hint. So, he had to suck it up. She sat by him and wrapped her arm around his. He let her, hoping it would make her go away faster.
"Miroku, did you reconsider about the dance?" she asked. Miroku groaned and looked in his pocket for a cig but remembered he had none. He sighed and looked away.
"Because it could be fun if we went together! You could pick me up with a limo and then you could get me pink daisies because those are my favorites. We could go out to dinner at Le Café because I heard it was really good there but of course their kind of good could not be my--"
Miroku drowned out her shrilling voice and was caught by the sight of Sango, still sitting alone, reading a book. He smiled and wished he was by her now, holding her hand or watching her read like he always did. But his perfect vision was soon interrupted by a figure that slowly approached his reading beauty and propelled her to close it and look up at him. He was disappointed to see it was no other than Inuyasha himself. He watched them for a moment and felt sick. He turned to Kagura who was still going on and on about whatever she was talking about.
"—and then you can get me punch after we dance a couple of slow songs and you--"
"Okay."
"Okay, what?" she asked.
"I'll go with you."
-- ~*~SPRING DANCE~*~
Kagome looked at herself in the mirror and sighed. Sure she looked too cute in her blush colored strapless gown with matching Jimmy Choos spring/summer edition but who gave a fuck if she wasn't going with Inuyasha. She stared at herself for a couple more minutes, layering her blush so that she soon resembled a very happy care bear in order to avoid the inevitable. Her mother had already called to her for the last ten minutes.
She hoped that maybe she thought she was dead and that would be the end of that, but sadly there she was, in front of the mirror, daydreaming about life as a sad housewife when she got married to Kouga. Where was some freaking poison when she needed some?
Alas, time was ticking and before long her mother flung open her door and stomped inside, her frown turning into a smile. She beamed down at her youngest daughter and clasped her hands. Kagome had never seen such a sight, it was almost funny in a twisted weird "my mother is a freak" kind of way.
"Kagome, don't you look beautiful. Patricia, come in here!" she bellowed. The maid came in and stood there before speaking, "Patricia, yes, come in here, Kagome's hair needs a little more work. I expect her to be ready in a few minutes. Kouga has been waiting out there for thirty minutes." She paused and looked down at Kagome, "And Kagome, he looks mighty handsome tonight. He even rented a limo, isn't that just lovely?"
Kagome nodded, steam rising from the top of her blistering head. Her mother left, leaving her with Patricia. Whoa! Kagome thought, where the hell was Patricia the whole time. She seemed to have disappeared.
"Kagome, you can't keep frowning all the time, your face will get all ugly," Patricia said, combing down her ill attempts at curling her brown locks.
"I know, but I can't help it."
Kagome looked at Patricia in the mirror and frowned. "Is it so bad to be with Mr. Chikara?" Patricia asked in concern.
Kagome thought about that for a moment and realized that he was a good guy, just not the guy for her. She shook her head and Patricia smiled.
"See? It will be okay. Once you are married, everything will fall in place."
"But I don't want to marry him. I don't feel that special feeling when I'm with him," Kagome admitted. Patricia continued to comb her hair and now taking out the curling iron.
"I know what you mean Ms. Kagome. But you see, sometimes you just have no choice. Even though your heart belongs to another, you must give in to what your family wants in order to make them happy."
"But why should I? They've never treated him like I'm a part of their family. You are more of my family than they are!"
"Shh! We must not get our tempers fired up. You have a dance to go to and don't think you want mascara running down your face." She looked at Kagome for a long time in the mirror before speaking again, "I know they've never treated you well but I also know that in the end, they are still your family."
"I can't believe you are saying this. You are telling me not to follow my heart?"
"I am saying to do what you think is best for everyone." She spun her on the chair and smiled, "There, you look beautiful. Have a good time tonight, Ms. Kagome. Say hi to Inuyasha for me."
"Wait what?" Kagome asked shocked.
"I said have a good time." With that, she closed the door.
Kagome admired herself in the mirror and smiled. She had to admit she was pretty hot tonight. She gathered her things and dumped them into a silk bag of a darker color than her dress and opened the door to her troubled fate.
--
Climbing down the stairs, Kagome stopped short of seeing Kouga in his tux and was amazed at how hot he looked. She sat there on that step for a couple minutes, just examining him. 'So this is the man I am going to spend the rest of my life with?' she asked her self. He wasn't bad looking. He could actually pass for a hottie when he put his mind to it. His hair was slicked back slightly, so that a couple bits of bang fell onto his face. She watched him move it back with his hand occasionally while he talked to her mother. But it always managed to go onto his face again and she liked it that way. His smile was perfect—the best that money could buy, I'm sure of it. But every time he smiled, Kagome could sense some kind of sadness within it. When her mother left him alone (finally), Kagome proceeded to walk down the stairs.
She watched as Kouga's eyes drifted from the floor unto her and how his eyes widened and his smile graced his face. Stop drooling Kouga...
He took his hands out of his pocket and watched her in awe. She was simply perfect in his eyes and to tonight it was clear that she was an angel. He wanted to kiss her then but he had to control himself—after all her mother was just in the other room. She glided towards him and smiled. Maybe she had a change of heart, thought Kouga, which made him feel at ease because he had dreaded seeing her again for sometime. He knew that her heart belonged to another, but maybe she was beginning to see him in a different light.
Kouga took her hand and kissed it. She was shocked at first but for some odd reason she didn't feel like she was going to throw up like she usually did. 'God no! Am I falling for him' she shook her head no and set her hand by her side.
"Kagome you look hot," was all he said, grinning like a little kid at a candy store. She looked at him and decided she should pay him some compliment too, "You don't look so bad yourself."
Her mother reentered the room and she looked as though she were going to die from happiness. "I wish your father was here to see this! Oh and your sister just went back to school too."
Oh darn, too bad. Kagome thought, a smile spreading across her face. "Yes it is a shame mother."
Kouga then, out of nowhere, too her hand and held it, interlacing his fingers with hers. She wanted to punch him but how could she when her mother was standing right before them. She turned to Kouga, who continued to look at her mother, "Well, we better go. Oh wait, I almost forgot!"
Kagome watched him run over to the chair and pick up something, "Kagome, I almost forgot to give you your corsage."
'Corsage? I forgot to get the little sucker a boutonniere.'
"Oh and I'll get your boutonniere!" yelled her mother. 'What? But I didn't even bother getting him one.'
Kouga slipped the pink orchid onto her hand and smiled, "It matches with your dress."
'What the hell was up with Kouga tonight? He was acting somewhat like a normal person.'
Kagome smiled and reached over to her mother, who was carrying the boutonniere. She carefully pinned it on his Armani suit. It was the same pink orchid.
"We have the same taste," he said. 'No you have the same taste as my mother.'
"Shall we go?" he asked. Kagome stared at his outstretched arm and nodded. She reluctantly took it and watched her mother opened the door.
"Come home whenever you want to," she said. Kagome sighed and walked out the door, Kouga in hand. He led her down the steps towards the limo. Upon opening the door he turned to her and said, "You look really good."
"You said that already."
"I know."
He led her in and she was surprised to find a whole bouquet of pink orchids on her seat. She felt sort of happy when she held them in her hands. He could be unbelievable at times. She looked up at him and grinned, "Thanks."
He took out a bottle of champagne and two glasses. He poured the champagne and gave it to her.
"Are we allowed to drink this?" she asked.
"I paid for it," he said. Just then the car started and Kagome sighed, thinking about Inuyasha.
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The dance started exactly at 7. Unexpectedly, everyone arrived, even the loser potheads decided instead of staying home, they'd just smoke some weed in their best threads at the dance. So the night was magical. People hooked up and others broke up, this was in matter of moments because our protagonists haven't even entered the scene. Sure the whole school was there but Sango, Miroku, Inuyasha, Kagura, Kagome, and Kouga were no where to be seen. Where were they? Well, let's begin with Sango.
*** Name: Sango
Attire: A satin baby blue dress with a v-neck holter top. Nude colored evening shoes and pearl earrings. Her hair was done in a high bun with her bangs pulled to the side and put in place with a butterfly barrette. And of course a flip top hand bag –all found at a salvation army store—she looked for three months for the whole assemblage, of course it was all for Miroku.
Date: Inuyasha (yes it is true)—sporting a hot black Versace suit, silver metallic tie, and his out of control hair was slicked back—yes they are still in high school but if they gots the money, they need the hot threads--
Ride: a bus –her parents still believed that Sango and Miroku were still together and she couldn't break their little hearts so she just let them believe the lie. They found it odd that Miroku hadn't picked her up but she gave them some lame excuse and they believed her. She met up with Inuyasha at 6:45 at the bus stop and they drove in his beamer to school. They could have walked of course but hello, BEAMER!
*** Name: Kagura
Attire: A black spaghetti strap corset dress with a deep neck line so that her cleavage was all over the place, her shoes were black to match. Her hair was curled and pulled half-way up, clipped by a pearl barrette to keep it in place. She wore black gloves that reached up to her elbows and dangling vintage diamond earrings.
Date: Miroku—who was looking particularly fine in his Armani suit in black and a black tie to match. He still wore his dark shades but it added some hot character to his whole 'I wanna kick your ass' look. He spiked his hair slightly so that it didn't go onto his faced but some of his bangs covered the top of his forehead which wasn't so bad.
Ride: Miroku picked up Kagura at her house in his black Mercedes CLK with matching leather interior. He even took the time to get her a corsage—a deep red colored rose.
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Kagome and Kouga were the first of the gang to enter into the dance which was covered with stars and clouds in order to appear like they were all floating on a cloud at night—the theme. Kagome turned to the punch counter and was able to get some when Kouga stopped her, "I can get it."
"No I want to get it," she said. Kouga let her and she disappeared towards the counter. She was surprised to find Hojo there. She hadn't talked to him since that one time he asked her to the dance.
"Hi, Hojo," she said. He turned to her and smiled.
"Ms. Kagome. You look super hot."
"Thank you. How are you?"
"I'm okay. I needed to take a break."
So was he here with someone? Kagome asked her self.
"Umm, so how is the dance?" she asked, not knowing what to say.
"Well it's great." He then looked at her and smiled, "Are you here with Inuyasha?"
Kagome gulped, so he had known they were together. "You knew."
"Kagome, I always knew. But I still liked you."
"Well I guess it doesn't really matter because I broke up with him."
"You did?" he asked shocked. "That's crazy." He began shaking his head in disbelief.
"Hojo, are you still mad at me?"
"What for?" he asked, drinking his punch.
"For, you know, what I said before and what happened?"
"What? Ms. Kagome that's old news. You're still thinking about that? I'm quite over that. Anyways I'd rather be your friend than nothing at all."
Kagome hugged him, which then brought about a domino of mishaps. Upon Kagome's hug, Hojo was so surprised that he slammed his hand on the table but of course it landed on the punch, which tipped over and sent a puddle of red goo dripping on the floor. Luckily, Kagome was able to dodge the punch before it went onto her 500 dollar Jimmy Choos. But the river of punch began to wind its way towards the dance floor and sadly landed just short of Naru Okayama in her cotour Vera Wang in a stunning red. Kagome watched her backup slightly and before Kagome could scream watch out! Her beautiful Dolce & Gabbana shoes touched the river of punch and sent her waving her hands in the air in the desperate attempts to regain her balance. But it was too late, she fell butt first onto the stream of punch, ruining her dress which costs a good 3 or 4 thousands smackers. Naru looked around, her hair damaged from the impact, and began to sob. Kame Jojoba, her date, picked her up and escorted her to the girls' bathroom where her snobby trio met her and tried to calm her down.
"But my butt is all wet!" she sobbed.
"It's okay Naru. I can hardly notice it," replied snob girl #1.
Snob girl # 2 patted her on the shoulder, "Yeah, maybe they'll think its part of the design, you know, cotour does some really outrageous things..."
"Wahhh!" she sobbed as they entered the bathroom.
Kagome and Hojo looked at each other and ran away.
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A/N: finally! I finished another chappie! So, now I'm starting the 2nd part to Spring Dance Blues and this is how much I have done—ZIP! So, it might take awhile...school has been eating me alive!
Okay, so be patient for the next one and I'll c u guys later...OH and THANKS a bunch for reviewing again!
-co Tsukino
Disclaimer: Three things I would do and buy if I owned Inuyasha travel Europe in a boat shaped like a Mercedes CLK buy a lifetime supply of red gummy bears BUY COLIN FARRELL, who will eventually fall in love with me...
Things accomplished...
ZIP, ZERO, ZILCH...I wish I owned Inuyasha.... --
+Ch. 16: The Spring Dance Blues (Part 1)+
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"Kikyo, what are you doing here?" Kagome asked eyeing her sister, Inuyasha by her side.
"It's a free country. I can go wherever I want and tonight I decided to have a little walk. Mom told me you went to a movie with Sango or as she likes to call her the 'that poor girl.'" Kikyo walked forward, swinging one leg gracefully at a time. Kagome watched her sister glide through the street as if she were born a model. Kikyo was wearing a flaming red halter, a denim skirt, Milano blahniks to match, and her raven black hair swishing through the air.
Kagome slightly turned her head towards Inuyasha whose eyes were firmly fixated on her scanky whore of a sister. She sighed and slapped him on the arm. He shook off his gaze and turned to Kagome in surprise, "Why'd you do that?"
"You know why, you perv!"
Kikyo's red slips parted in a smile and she took out a lighter and cigarette, placed the cigarette on her lips, and lit it. She exhaled in fumes and circled the couple in curiosity.
"Sango looks a little different from the last time I saw her. I swear she didn't look this cute," she said giving Inuyasha a wink. He took his gaze away from her and looked down, hoping to rid his mind of the circulating impure thoughts.
Kagome stepped forward, violently grabbed the cigarette from her sister's lips, threw it on the ground and stepped on it. "Would you just leave us alone!"
Kikyo took out another cigarette and posed in a femme fatal picturesque, "I can't quite do that. You see, I find Inuyasha quite interesting."
Kagome froze and uttered, "How did you know his name?"
Kikyo smiled and again puffed on her cigarette exhaling a trail of murky smoke that appeared almost white underneath the moonlight. "Oh my! Don't tell me your boyfriend didn't mention our little encounter." She stopped short of Inuyasha and grinned, "Surprise."
"Inuyasha, what is she talking about?" Kagome asked, turning to Inuyasha and ignoring her sister's devilish stares.
"I..."
"Inuyasha, what are you trying to hide?" Kikyo asked, her eyes fixed on his now.
In truth, Kikyo had found him rather good looking but too young for her taste. If she desired, she could easily steal Inuyasha away from her sister in a matter of simple moves. But, she had other plans for him. He would use him as she did to all the other men that fall head over heels for her and use him to her advantage. Kikyo looked at him—his smoldering good looks, bad boy charm, and the very fact that he was the son of his father's enemy. I mean who could ask for a more desirable man. Of course, she also saw him as a pawn to her sister's torment and as she watched him just now, she could feel her sister's heartbreak and she loved it.
Kikyo watched in pleasure as Inuyasha struggled to get his words out just right as not to hurt his poor little Kagome. But no matter how he was going to explain it, it all came down to one conclusion—he had purposely kept something from Kagome. And Kikyo knew that Kagome hated her and the only thing that would hurt her most in the world was finding out Inuyasha was keeping the fact he met her. I mean if it had been any normal girl, Kagome would pass it off but knowing that girl was Kikyo would be harder to digest. After all, it is Kikyo she hated.
"Yeah Inuyasha, what are you trying to hide?" Kagome asked, her arms folded and her face so twisted that she began to resemble her sister. It was pretty freaky.
"Well, you see, I was outside and—and she was outside—we, actually, were both outside and--"
"Inuyasha, just shut up." Kagome retorted, backing away and watching the two from a distance. It was as though she were seeing this from a stranger's point of view, looking in and wondering what was happening. She was so confused and even though she could feel herself leaping over boiling point, she didn't quite care anymore. She was with Inuyasha now and she was not going to let her sister win, like she always did. She was going to show her.
"Come Inuyasha, I'm fucking tired. I want to go home."
Inuyasha turned to Kagome and gulped, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I said I was tired," Kagome remarked.
Kikyo watched her sister, fumes coming out of her head. She was struck, flabbergasted, and baffled. What the shit was going on? She thought. She hated to see that her sister was not throwing a fit. She hated to see her pass this by as if it didn't matter.
In frustration, she threw tore the cigarette from her lips and said, "Where do you think you are going?"
"Home."
"I see, you going to bring him home too? Mom would love that."
"Actually I am."
"What?! Kagome are you out of your fucking mind?" Inuyasha yelled.
"No, I just think that it's time mother met you."
"You do?" Kikyo and Inuyasha asked in unison. Kikyo tried to keep in her surprise but she couldn't conceal it any longer. What was her sister thinking?
Kagome stared at the bewildered two for a moment and then smiled, "Kikyo, you never ceased to amaze me."
"Thank you, I live to amaze."
Inuyasha stepped back from the brooding twosome and smirked, "So she knows."
Kagome nodded her head but continued to stare at her sister who was smoking her cigarette with increased satisfaction painted on her disgusting face.
"Of course she knows. She's always known."
"So when we met--"
"Yes Inuyasha, I knew. I just wanted to test you."
"Test me?" Inuyasha asked.
"I wanted to know what kind of guy you were. I don't let any guy go out with my little sister."
"Bullshit! You were trying to seduce him you little cow."
Kikyo looked up and shrugged, "Hey I can't help it if he happened to fall head over heels for me."
"I did not fall for you," Inuyasha said as a matter of factly.
"Oh you didn't? Why did you go into my car?"
"I--" Inuyasha was speechless, heck he didn't know why he went into the car.
"That's what I thought."
"No I didn't fall for you," he yelled at Kikyo. He turned to Kagome and laughed, "Kagome, I did not fall for her."
Kagome watched him turn back and forth until his gaze finally landed on the ground. Kagome felt her heart give way to anger and jealous. But her heart was trying to fight back, reminding her that she did love Inuyasha and she did trust him. But as she was watching Inuyasha, jealous could not help but win.
"Inuyasha, let's just go."
"To meet your mom?" he asked in fear.
"No, just drop me off."
Inuyasha stepped towards Kagome and walked along side her. He watched her fight to keep her temper. He was in for it now. What the fuck was happening? Luck was not on his side. He finally hooks up with Kagome and Kikyo had to go and ruin everything. But he had to admit she looked mighty hot—WHAT? Inuyasha get a hold of yourself, dammit! Remember Kagome. Shit! What was wrong with him? I mean he had a perfectly hot looking girl right in front of him and here he was now thinking about how fucking hot Kikyo was.
"Inuyasha, what are you thinking about?" Kagome asked, cutting through his thoughts.
"What? No I was thinking about how fucking evil your sister is."
"Yeah she is a bitch."
"Kagome," Inuyasha said. Kagome turned around and looked at him. "What?"
"Can I hold your hand?" he asked shyly.
Kagome looked at him for a moment and smiled, "No."
"What? Did you just say no?"
"I'm so glad you aren't deaf."
"Kagome!" he whined.
"Inuyasha, do you expect me to hold your hand after what happened?"
"umm yeah..." he asked unsure, raising hand to his head and scratching it profusely.
"You are such a dimwit!" she said shaking her head but after a couple minutes of staring at Inuyasha, she began to smile.
"Why are you smiling?"
"I don't know." Inuyasha walked towards her and smiled, planting a kiss on her lips.
"So does this mean you forgive me?"
"Maybe."
"I hate it when you tease me."
"I do too," said a voice from a distance. The two love birds froze in mid kiss and cocked their heads towards the oddly familiar voice. Kagome, still holding Inuyasha's hand, held her breathe and refused to accept the unacceptable. There, her hands folded in annoyance stood her mother, fuming so profusely that the heavens above were parting from the heat radiated off her mother's body. Her mother did not move, did not even utter another word from her bitter lips. She remained in that one spot, where the street light's glow shown over head. Underneath the yellow light, her mother appeared uglier and her face more menacing. She looked as though she were calculating her moves, ready to pounce at any moment.
Inuyasha tore his eyes away from the woman beyond to unbind his hands from Kagome's grasp, which was beginning to disrupt his circulation. But Kagome did not notice that Inuyasha had taken his hands away from hers. Her hands remained poised in mid-air, frozen from the perpetual shock at seeing her coldhearted mother. Although Inuyasha had no idea who was standing before them, he remained silent and watched Kagome's face turn from a blushing red to a stark pale white. He glanced once again to the stranger underneath the lamplight and noticed she looked oddly like Kikyo. Inuyasha saw the resemblance through her brooding disposition not from the looks alone.
"Kagome, is this your—mother?" Inuyasha asked, turning to Kagome now, concern and fear in his voice.
Kagome nodded her head and sighed, "I knew she'd find out one day."
Then, as if emerging from the shadows itself, appeared a shadowy figure, lean, its hair swishing in the air, and her Milano Blahniks clicking on the pavement.
"Kikyo," Kagome whispered. She watched her sister stand beside her mother and place a comforting hand on her mother's shoulder. It made her sick to see her sister pretend to be so loving when in reality she was a self- centered whore.
"Kagome, come here this instant," commanded her mother. Kagome's gaze turned from Inuyasha to her mother. Inuyasha did not beckon her back or pull her towards his side, he just watched her slowly walk towards her mother. Of course, he had wanted to pull her back but it was his turn to be frozen in fear.
"Good-bye Kagome," Inuyasha said to no one but himself because he knew Kagome could no longer hear him.
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"You can't make me not see him anymore. Go ahead slap me, beat me, I really don't care what you do!" Kagome yelled, staring point blank at her mother and sister. They had dragged her home by force and then pushed her onto the couch which hurt, by the way, because the arm of the chair hit with the bone of her butt.
"You think I want to beat you? I want to do something to you far worst!" screamed her mother. Kagome watched her eyes bulge in pleasure.
"You can go ahead and go out with that boy all you want."
"I can?" asked Kagome in surprise.
"Sure, you can, just as long as you go with Kouga to your spring dance and then go out with him."
"Mother! I already tried that, remember? It didn't work out!" Kagome screamed.
"I don't give a care in the world whether you like it or not because I demand you go out with him. The more you go out with him, the easier it will be when you have to marry him."
"Marry him? I thought--"
"You thought nothing. So tell me, what do you want to do?"
"I can't believe you are doing this to me? I can't be with Inuyasha and be with Kouga at the same time! It isn't fair to either one of them!"
"Tell me something I don't know, Kagome," said her mother, a smirk across her face. "So I am being forced into marriage?"
"Do you expect us to just let you marry any random guy in the street?"
"I'm only 15, mother! Why are you doing this to me?"
Her mother paused at looked at her crying daughter, "Because I love you."
Kagome looked at her mother in disgust. Her mother was willing to let her date Inuyasha but for a limited time only. Once the spring dance was over, she would have to be with Kouga. And that was something she was not prepared to do, not when her heart belonged to someone else.
"How do you know I won't continue going out with Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.
"I know you won't because if I catch you even once, I will tell your father."
"Sorry mother but that doesn't scare me," Kagome remarked chuckling.
"Even if I told him that that boy is a Bakemono?" her mother said, smiling.
"What? How did you--" Kikyo emerged from behind her mother and grinned.
"You did it! You bitch! You said you weren't going to--"
"I never said such a thing! Besides, you expect me to hide this from our dear loving mother?" Kikyo asked, her lips pouting. 'Loving? What mom was she thinking of?' Kagome thought.
"Kikyo, I hate you," Kagome said flatly, bitterness in her voice.
"I'm sad to hear that little sister. I did it for your own good."
My own good? Bullshit!
"Kagome, you continue to see Inuyasha and I'll tell your father and he won't take the fact that you're seeing a Bakemono lightly. He did it once before and he can do it again. Stop seeing this boy or else he'll pay for the consequences."
'Did what once before? Strop trying to be to cryptic mom and just tell me!'
"Okay, I'll stop seeing him before the dance."
Kagome stood from the couch and glared at her family. Her mother left the room momentarily and then emerged again holding something in her hand. Her mother threw the object onto the floor and it landed just short of Kagome's foot. It was Inuyasha's bloody shirt.
"Next time, he won't be so lucky."
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Sango watched Miroku from a distance, sitting beside Kagura and smoking a cigarette, a habit Sango hoped he'd quit when she wins him back.
'Kagura, that bitch! She did something to him! But what?' Sango sighed and slumped onto the table. 'I hate my life.'
"Sango are you on something?" Inuyasha asked, chopping into his sandwich. Sango looked up and shrugged. She hadn't told anyone about what was happening to Miroku, although his actions speak louder than anything she had to say. In a matter of a week, he had the total of ten detentions. Kagome had seen him steal a couple of items on the teacher's desk and he spray painted "You want shit? Come pick the school's ass" on the school wall.
It saddened Sango to remember what Miroku once was. His smile, his bladder problems, and even how he'd look up her skirt when she bent over. She wished she could have hit him once more with her bio book before he decided to go to the darkside. And God he was so hot too when he wasn't always covered with smoke and Kagura's nasty ass face by his side. But Sango had to admit he was sort of sexy in that smoldering, bad boy, stapler stealing kind of way. Ack! What was she thinking? She loved her old Miroku, no matter how perverted he was.
"Miroku sure changed, huh?" Inuyasha said, interrupting her thoughts. She looked over at him and sighed, "Changed? I hardly noticed."
"Give me a break! He's all smoking and mean and stuff. Damn, that kind of reminds me of me. That's scary."
"He's just trying out a new look," Sango said, but it was at that instant that Kagura decided to kiss Miroku on the lips. Sango and Inuyasha turned away, "Whoa!" Inuyasha said, his sandwich still in his hand, "Did you, um, break up with him?"
Sango packed her things and leaped off the bench, "I have to go."
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"Kagura, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Miroku asked, pushing her away after she had unexpectedly kissed him on the lips. Actually, he wouldn't have cared much if they hadn't tasted like old lettuce. And there was the fact that he missed Sango and he had sworn long ago that the only lips he would kiss was Sango but then again he was no longer with Sango.
"I just kissed you, can't I do that. I am your girlfriend."
Miroku set the cigarette on his lips and turned away. He hadn't intended to start smoking, he just thought it added to the whole bad boy "I'm gonna kick your fat ass" look. Now it was almost like a bad habit. He had to remind himself to quit.
"You aren't my girlfriend."
"But we're always together and you broke up with Sango."
"Yeah that's true. But I'm still not your boyfriend."
"Miroku, my love, come on. I can be a really good girlfriend, besides, I already got my dress for the spring dance this Saturday," she said glowing.
"Return it. I'm not going to that lame ass event." He laid back onto the table and rested his head on his arms. Kagura stared at him in disappointment. This was the first time she had seen him so cold. She had wished now that he was the old Miroku again. But she couldn't have the old Miroku back because the old Miroku was Sango's boyfriend and hell would freeze over before she decided to give up her Miroku. Even though he was a coldhearted asshole, he was still single and available.
"I can't return it, it was on sale. Miroku..." she said, bending over now next to Miroku. Miroku turned his head away from hers and closed his eyes, which were concealed within his dark glasses.
"What?" he asked, not really caring.
"I'll make sure it's a night you never forget, if you know what I mean."
"Isn't it time for your medication?" Miroku asked yawning.
Kagura sighed and grabbed her things, "Fine, you ass."
Miroku was hardly listening Kagura now. His gaze and attention had shifted towards Sango, who was sitting alone now, reading a book by the science building.
'Where was Inuyasha?' he asked himself. He looked around and found Inuyasha talking to Kagome and holding her hand. 'That two-timer. Doesn't Sango care?' Why did he care, besides she wasn't his problem anymore. He no longer had Sango, he just had Kagura, which he would gladly return. He'd rather be by himself than have to listen to her talk anymore. Sigh. He wished he could hold her in his arms again. He missed his Sango so much. Snap out of it! --
"Inuyasha, I have to tell you something," Kagome said, holding his hand.
"What is it?" Inuyasha asked, sensing it was something serious. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. It's about the dance this Saturday."
"Don't worry about it, I've got it covered. And guess what, I have a tux too. You don't look happy."
"Inuyasha, it's my mom."
"It's because of the other night."
Kagome nodded her head, "She wants me to go to the dance with Kouga."
"She what?" Inuyasha asked, flinging his hands away from Kagome's and using them to hold his head up and he slumped onto the table.
"She knows."
"Knows what?"
"About you being a Bakemono..."
"What the hell, are you kidding? No you have to be kidding? How the fuck does your family always find out these things?"
"You know I was asking myself that same question. I think its to make my life more dramatic than it seems."
"Well fuck its dramatic. So are you going to?"
"I have to," Kagome said, trying to desperately hide the uneasiness in her voice.
"I see. Well, it's okay."
Kagome bowed her head and sighed, "I can't ever see you again after the dance."
"What? I thought it was just for the dance!"
"It isn't. I'm betrothed to marry Kouga."
"You what!?" Inuyasha screamed, slamming his head onto the table. Kagome reached over and patted him on the head, "I'm sorry Inuyasha." Suddenly he shot his head up in the air, "You don't have to do that! We can run away together and get married!"
"Inuyasha, get real! What normal teenager does that? What are we Romeo and Juliet?"
"You're right, it's stupid. But I don't want to lose you."
"I don't want to lose you either but I have no choice."
"Wait we can sneak around."
"Inuyasha, wake up! We do that now and to tell you the truth, we aren't very good at that," Kagome said, remembering Kouga, Kikyo, and her mother.
"True but we can try harder!" Inuyasha said trying to sound unnaturally optimistic. Kagome smiled at seeing how cute he looked when he was desperate. She loved the fact that he was trying so hard to be with her. But she knew she couldn't let him because it might mean his life. God, why did her dad have to be so gangster? She felt like she was living in the Sopranos.
"Inuyasha, I can't. I think—I think we have to end it." Kagome said, backing off, and holding back burning tears. Inuyasha watched her slowly inch herself way and turned away.
"We can be friends."
Great! That was the last thing he wanted to hear from her lips. But he couldn't push her away farther than she was already going because he did want her in his life, even if it meant being only her friend.
Kagome was feeling the same anxiety. It felt like swallowing daggers when she uttered those words. In truth, she wished she was in his arms. But she found herself unconsciously backing away from him and before she knew it he was merely a spot. But she did not turn; she just continued to stare at him until he could no longer see her. He eventually left.
--
"Sango, why are you always alone?" Inuyasha asked, bending over and looking over Sango's shoulder. She closed her book and turned around.
"Oh, it's you. Why are you always talking to me?"
"What? I can't talk to you anymore?"
"I mean you use to be all 'I'm Inuyasha and I'm tough and I hate the world!' now you're 'I'm Inuyasha, how are you and may I pour you a cup of tea.' What gives?"
"Nothing, you just look really bummed lately and I can relate. Maybe I can help"
Sango looked at him curiously and smiled, "Thanks Inuyasha, but you can't help me."
"I know you broke up with Miroku. And before you decide to go crazy and tell me you didn't, I should tell you that I broke up with Kagome too."
"You did, huh? Well, sorry." Sango sighed, 'what the freak? And she worked so hard to get them together.'
"Nah, it's okay. We're still 'friends.'"
"Well at least you guys are friend. Miroku and I are another story. He won't even talk to me and to make it worst, I don't even know what I did for him to break up with me. It just came out of nowhere."
"Really? That doesn't sound like Miroku."
"I know, that's what's scary."
"He has been hanging out with that freaky chick a lot."
"Kagura?" Sango said bitterly.
"Yeah that chick. She's one freaky deeky lady."
"Yeah she is, which is weird. He never used to hang out with her."
"But he's got this new look now. She kind of matches his new him, minus the medication."
"Yeah, true." Sango said in despair. Inuyasha sensed her pain and patted her on the shoulder, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean that."
"No, it's okay."
"Oh and you know what's a real bummer?"
Sango turned to him and said, "What?"
"The spring dance is this Saturday."
Sango looked and focused her attention on the clock ahead. It was the spring dance this Saturday. She had completely forgotten. It was then that she remembered Miroku telling her that he would make it a special night—the night they'd celebrate their anniversary.
"Yeah, I know."
The clock struck one thirty. Sango turned her attention away from the clock and smiled.
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1:25—Miroku slumped onto the bench and looked inside his jacket for a cig but found none. Fuck, he had used the whole pack already. Okay, this is it, I'm going to quit. He didn't want to start using cigs regularly and then get lung cancer when he was old and gray. Hell no! He saw Kagura approach him and was about to duck and cover but she had seen him before he got the chance to escape.
He found her completely annoying but no matter how many time he had told her to go away: Fuck off! Get Away! Leave me the hell alone!—she just couldn't take a freaking hint. So, he had to suck it up. She sat by him and wrapped her arm around his. He let her, hoping it would make her go away faster.
"Miroku, did you reconsider about the dance?" she asked. Miroku groaned and looked in his pocket for a cig but remembered he had none. He sighed and looked away.
"Because it could be fun if we went together! You could pick me up with a limo and then you could get me pink daisies because those are my favorites. We could go out to dinner at Le Café because I heard it was really good there but of course their kind of good could not be my--"
Miroku drowned out her shrilling voice and was caught by the sight of Sango, still sitting alone, reading a book. He smiled and wished he was by her now, holding her hand or watching her read like he always did. But his perfect vision was soon interrupted by a figure that slowly approached his reading beauty and propelled her to close it and look up at him. He was disappointed to see it was no other than Inuyasha himself. He watched them for a moment and felt sick. He turned to Kagura who was still going on and on about whatever she was talking about.
"—and then you can get me punch after we dance a couple of slow songs and you--"
"Okay."
"Okay, what?" she asked.
"I'll go with you."
-- ~*~SPRING DANCE~*~
Kagome looked at herself in the mirror and sighed. Sure she looked too cute in her blush colored strapless gown with matching Jimmy Choos spring/summer edition but who gave a fuck if she wasn't going with Inuyasha. She stared at herself for a couple more minutes, layering her blush so that she soon resembled a very happy care bear in order to avoid the inevitable. Her mother had already called to her for the last ten minutes.
She hoped that maybe she thought she was dead and that would be the end of that, but sadly there she was, in front of the mirror, daydreaming about life as a sad housewife when she got married to Kouga. Where was some freaking poison when she needed some?
Alas, time was ticking and before long her mother flung open her door and stomped inside, her frown turning into a smile. She beamed down at her youngest daughter and clasped her hands. Kagome had never seen such a sight, it was almost funny in a twisted weird "my mother is a freak" kind of way.
"Kagome, don't you look beautiful. Patricia, come in here!" she bellowed. The maid came in and stood there before speaking, "Patricia, yes, come in here, Kagome's hair needs a little more work. I expect her to be ready in a few minutes. Kouga has been waiting out there for thirty minutes." She paused and looked down at Kagome, "And Kagome, he looks mighty handsome tonight. He even rented a limo, isn't that just lovely?"
Kagome nodded, steam rising from the top of her blistering head. Her mother left, leaving her with Patricia. Whoa! Kagome thought, where the hell was Patricia the whole time. She seemed to have disappeared.
"Kagome, you can't keep frowning all the time, your face will get all ugly," Patricia said, combing down her ill attempts at curling her brown locks.
"I know, but I can't help it."
Kagome looked at Patricia in the mirror and frowned. "Is it so bad to be with Mr. Chikara?" Patricia asked in concern.
Kagome thought about that for a moment and realized that he was a good guy, just not the guy for her. She shook her head and Patricia smiled.
"See? It will be okay. Once you are married, everything will fall in place."
"But I don't want to marry him. I don't feel that special feeling when I'm with him," Kagome admitted. Patricia continued to comb her hair and now taking out the curling iron.
"I know what you mean Ms. Kagome. But you see, sometimes you just have no choice. Even though your heart belongs to another, you must give in to what your family wants in order to make them happy."
"But why should I? They've never treated him like I'm a part of their family. You are more of my family than they are!"
"Shh! We must not get our tempers fired up. You have a dance to go to and don't think you want mascara running down your face." She looked at Kagome for a long time in the mirror before speaking again, "I know they've never treated you well but I also know that in the end, they are still your family."
"I can't believe you are saying this. You are telling me not to follow my heart?"
"I am saying to do what you think is best for everyone." She spun her on the chair and smiled, "There, you look beautiful. Have a good time tonight, Ms. Kagome. Say hi to Inuyasha for me."
"Wait what?" Kagome asked shocked.
"I said have a good time." With that, she closed the door.
Kagome admired herself in the mirror and smiled. She had to admit she was pretty hot tonight. She gathered her things and dumped them into a silk bag of a darker color than her dress and opened the door to her troubled fate.
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Climbing down the stairs, Kagome stopped short of seeing Kouga in his tux and was amazed at how hot he looked. She sat there on that step for a couple minutes, just examining him. 'So this is the man I am going to spend the rest of my life with?' she asked her self. He wasn't bad looking. He could actually pass for a hottie when he put his mind to it. His hair was slicked back slightly, so that a couple bits of bang fell onto his face. She watched him move it back with his hand occasionally while he talked to her mother. But it always managed to go onto his face again and she liked it that way. His smile was perfect—the best that money could buy, I'm sure of it. But every time he smiled, Kagome could sense some kind of sadness within it. When her mother left him alone (finally), Kagome proceeded to walk down the stairs.
She watched as Kouga's eyes drifted from the floor unto her and how his eyes widened and his smile graced his face. Stop drooling Kouga...
He took his hands out of his pocket and watched her in awe. She was simply perfect in his eyes and to tonight it was clear that she was an angel. He wanted to kiss her then but he had to control himself—after all her mother was just in the other room. She glided towards him and smiled. Maybe she had a change of heart, thought Kouga, which made him feel at ease because he had dreaded seeing her again for sometime. He knew that her heart belonged to another, but maybe she was beginning to see him in a different light.
Kouga took her hand and kissed it. She was shocked at first but for some odd reason she didn't feel like she was going to throw up like she usually did. 'God no! Am I falling for him' she shook her head no and set her hand by her side.
"Kagome you look hot," was all he said, grinning like a little kid at a candy store. She looked at him and decided she should pay him some compliment too, "You don't look so bad yourself."
Her mother reentered the room and she looked as though she were going to die from happiness. "I wish your father was here to see this! Oh and your sister just went back to school too."
Oh darn, too bad. Kagome thought, a smile spreading across her face. "Yes it is a shame mother."
Kouga then, out of nowhere, too her hand and held it, interlacing his fingers with hers. She wanted to punch him but how could she when her mother was standing right before them. She turned to Kouga, who continued to look at her mother, "Well, we better go. Oh wait, I almost forgot!"
Kagome watched him run over to the chair and pick up something, "Kagome, I almost forgot to give you your corsage."
'Corsage? I forgot to get the little sucker a boutonniere.'
"Oh and I'll get your boutonniere!" yelled her mother. 'What? But I didn't even bother getting him one.'
Kouga slipped the pink orchid onto her hand and smiled, "It matches with your dress."
'What the hell was up with Kouga tonight? He was acting somewhat like a normal person.'
Kagome smiled and reached over to her mother, who was carrying the boutonniere. She carefully pinned it on his Armani suit. It was the same pink orchid.
"We have the same taste," he said. 'No you have the same taste as my mother.'
"Shall we go?" he asked. Kagome stared at his outstretched arm and nodded. She reluctantly took it and watched her mother opened the door.
"Come home whenever you want to," she said. Kagome sighed and walked out the door, Kouga in hand. He led her down the steps towards the limo. Upon opening the door he turned to her and said, "You look really good."
"You said that already."
"I know."
He led her in and she was surprised to find a whole bouquet of pink orchids on her seat. She felt sort of happy when she held them in her hands. He could be unbelievable at times. She looked up at him and grinned, "Thanks."
He took out a bottle of champagne and two glasses. He poured the champagne and gave it to her.
"Are we allowed to drink this?" she asked.
"I paid for it," he said. Just then the car started and Kagome sighed, thinking about Inuyasha.
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The dance started exactly at 7. Unexpectedly, everyone arrived, even the loser potheads decided instead of staying home, they'd just smoke some weed in their best threads at the dance. So the night was magical. People hooked up and others broke up, this was in matter of moments because our protagonists haven't even entered the scene. Sure the whole school was there but Sango, Miroku, Inuyasha, Kagura, Kagome, and Kouga were no where to be seen. Where were they? Well, let's begin with Sango.
*** Name: Sango
Attire: A satin baby blue dress with a v-neck holter top. Nude colored evening shoes and pearl earrings. Her hair was done in a high bun with her bangs pulled to the side and put in place with a butterfly barrette. And of course a flip top hand bag –all found at a salvation army store—she looked for three months for the whole assemblage, of course it was all for Miroku.
Date: Inuyasha (yes it is true)—sporting a hot black Versace suit, silver metallic tie, and his out of control hair was slicked back—yes they are still in high school but if they gots the money, they need the hot threads--
Ride: a bus –her parents still believed that Sango and Miroku were still together and she couldn't break their little hearts so she just let them believe the lie. They found it odd that Miroku hadn't picked her up but she gave them some lame excuse and they believed her. She met up with Inuyasha at 6:45 at the bus stop and they drove in his beamer to school. They could have walked of course but hello, BEAMER!
*** Name: Kagura
Attire: A black spaghetti strap corset dress with a deep neck line so that her cleavage was all over the place, her shoes were black to match. Her hair was curled and pulled half-way up, clipped by a pearl barrette to keep it in place. She wore black gloves that reached up to her elbows and dangling vintage diamond earrings.
Date: Miroku—who was looking particularly fine in his Armani suit in black and a black tie to match. He still wore his dark shades but it added some hot character to his whole 'I wanna kick your ass' look. He spiked his hair slightly so that it didn't go onto his faced but some of his bangs covered the top of his forehead which wasn't so bad.
Ride: Miroku picked up Kagura at her house in his black Mercedes CLK with matching leather interior. He even took the time to get her a corsage—a deep red colored rose.
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Kagome and Kouga were the first of the gang to enter into the dance which was covered with stars and clouds in order to appear like they were all floating on a cloud at night—the theme. Kagome turned to the punch counter and was able to get some when Kouga stopped her, "I can get it."
"No I want to get it," she said. Kouga let her and she disappeared towards the counter. She was surprised to find Hojo there. She hadn't talked to him since that one time he asked her to the dance.
"Hi, Hojo," she said. He turned to her and smiled.
"Ms. Kagome. You look super hot."
"Thank you. How are you?"
"I'm okay. I needed to take a break."
So was he here with someone? Kagome asked her self.
"Umm, so how is the dance?" she asked, not knowing what to say.
"Well it's great." He then looked at her and smiled, "Are you here with Inuyasha?"
Kagome gulped, so he had known they were together. "You knew."
"Kagome, I always knew. But I still liked you."
"Well I guess it doesn't really matter because I broke up with him."
"You did?" he asked shocked. "That's crazy." He began shaking his head in disbelief.
"Hojo, are you still mad at me?"
"What for?" he asked, drinking his punch.
"For, you know, what I said before and what happened?"
"What? Ms. Kagome that's old news. You're still thinking about that? I'm quite over that. Anyways I'd rather be your friend than nothing at all."
Kagome hugged him, which then brought about a domino of mishaps. Upon Kagome's hug, Hojo was so surprised that he slammed his hand on the table but of course it landed on the punch, which tipped over and sent a puddle of red goo dripping on the floor. Luckily, Kagome was able to dodge the punch before it went onto her 500 dollar Jimmy Choos. But the river of punch began to wind its way towards the dance floor and sadly landed just short of Naru Okayama in her cotour Vera Wang in a stunning red. Kagome watched her backup slightly and before Kagome could scream watch out! Her beautiful Dolce & Gabbana shoes touched the river of punch and sent her waving her hands in the air in the desperate attempts to regain her balance. But it was too late, she fell butt first onto the stream of punch, ruining her dress which costs a good 3 or 4 thousands smackers. Naru looked around, her hair damaged from the impact, and began to sob. Kame Jojoba, her date, picked her up and escorted her to the girls' bathroom where her snobby trio met her and tried to calm her down.
"But my butt is all wet!" she sobbed.
"It's okay Naru. I can hardly notice it," replied snob girl #1.
Snob girl # 2 patted her on the shoulder, "Yeah, maybe they'll think its part of the design, you know, cotour does some really outrageous things..."
"Wahhh!" she sobbed as they entered the bathroom.
Kagome and Hojo looked at each other and ran away.
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A/N: finally! I finished another chappie! So, now I'm starting the 2nd part to Spring Dance Blues and this is how much I have done—ZIP! So, it might take awhile...school has been eating me alive!
Okay, so be patient for the next one and I'll c u guys later...OH and THANKS a bunch for reviewing again!
-co Tsukino