Away From The Well
Chapter 5
by KikyouCommitsSuicide
Disclaimer: Once upon a time, there was a girl who loved Inuyasha. She loved it so much that she went online and wrote a story called Away From The Well about it. Then the girl logged off, crying because she didn't own it - Takahashi-sensei does.
Author's note: I know the last chapter was kinda short, and it's been a long time since I last updated. You'll never guess why. I was in a car accident - ON MY BIRTHDAY. Now I have partial amnesia (or whatever you call it) and my right hand is all mangled and cut up. Of course I have to be the one most hurt by the accident. And I don't remember a thing about it, either. Kami. How annoying.
Anyway, my point is that this will probably be short too, seeing as I can only type with one hand... --
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"Kagome, can you lend me your cousin? I wanna %$# him again..." Kati said with a smirk. She had absolutely no reservations about asking Kagome to lend Inuyasha to her to be her boy toy (yup, it's actually a word. Looked it up myself). Actually, she did it on an hourly basis... or at least a daily one. Oh, someday Inuyasha would understand her and she'd be mortified... but she just couldn't tell him. It was all in good fun, but for some reason she just froze up when she tried to tell him. Why? She had no idea. It wasn't even something big.
"Sure," Kagome replied with a smirk of her own. "How long do you want him for? Because I'm kind of on a tight schedule and all..."
"Oh, yeah, finals, like, totally blow," Kati said in a mock-preppy voice. "But I'll be sure to have him home before it gets too late..."
Em, who was still not sure if this was a joke or not because neither of them had actually come out and said so, started concentrating intently on her chicken nuggets, which weren't too bad for cafeteria food.
Inuyasha, of course, wasn't listening, but rather glaring at a passage in English, trying to threaten it into making sense. For some reason, even his Sesshoumaru glare wasn't working on the damn marks.
He uttered a string of colorful curses at the passage, but it still wouldn't make sense. "Chikusho," he muttered at it. Then, his traditional way of asserting his supremacy not working, he proceeded to translate it, word by word.
No one, of course, heard him. Kagome and that weird-looking new girl were deep in a humorous conversation, and the girl from her dorm was studying her lunch as if she knew that she had nothing interesting to contribute. Pathetic.
"My god, she's selling Inuyasha?!" An overly exited voice squealed seemingly from right behind her. Kagome had no idea what in seven Hells this girl was talking about. Then, she figured that it must have something to do with Kati's conversation.
"Oooh, now's our chance! $20!"
"$30!"
"$32.72!!"
"Damn, I only have $10!"
A whole swarm of eager girls materialized behind her. They were so loud he even looked up to see what was going on. To his alarm, he couldn't even see Kagome - the mob had swallowed her up.
He tranquilly returned to his book. It was not his problem.
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Two days and three re-readings of the book later, Inuyasha triumphantly slammed the book down and yelled to her in English. "Kagome! I need to talk to you!!"
"Good, you finally learned English. Now I won't be forced to take notes in Japanese and English."
"Why do you have to take notes in English, too?"
"Because my teachers check them every once in a while. You know, to make sure that we're actually taking notes. But if it's in Japanese, they don't know if I'm rewriting The Tales of Genki, writing in my diary, or actually taking notes."
"Oh." What was this obsession people had in her time of checking everything about eighty times? Didn't they trust anyone? "Well, anyway, now that I don't need you as a translator, we can stop sleeping in this little shack. I even liked Kaede's hut better than this. And that's saying something."
"Oh. Okay."
"What? I'm dying to be with someone other than you! You're not a bad person Kagome, but I need to talk to other people! Even Miroku! Even... Shippou!!"
Wow. If Inuyasha wanted to hang out with a hentai houshi and a kitsune, he must REALLY be wanting for company. Wait...
"I'm not a bad person?" She asked in a fakely innocent way. Oh no. She was going to do something to him. What, he didn't know. But something she would no doubt regret... someday, anyway.
"Ummm... iie?" He asked tentatively, reverting back to Japanese because he was so uncomfortable. Why couldn't she just tell him what he said??
"Awww!" She said in a manner that if you hadn't heard the rest of the conversation, you would've though she saw something immensely cute and went to hug it. And she hugged him, too. "That's the nicest thing you said to me in a long time... if not in the entire time I've known you!"
Inuyasha, who, of course, hadn't been able to decipher the stream of unintelligible English babble emitting from her mouth, but not wanting her to know it (after all, he had just told her that he had learned English!), patted her lightly on the back. "Hai, hai."
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"So, man," a blond boy said excitedly to Inuyasha. "We know you're not her cousin. So what's really going on with you guys?"
Inuyasha looked skeptically at the person beside him, who was panting. He was, at the moment, running laps in PE, and everyone knew that he now spoke English - if only a little. Now everyone was bugging him about... well... something. He honestly didn't want to go through all the trouble of translating the extremely quickly spoken words. Nor did he care.
He noticed that mostly people asked him yes or no questions, so he said, "Yes," and pulled ahead of the annoying kid. How dare he ask him questions (Inuyasha's more like Sesshy-chan than we thought )?? It was at times like this that he envied his brother for having Jaken around. He was so lucky to have someone who worshipped the ground he walked on. And someone who could ward off annoying pests like these human boys.
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I know, I know, it's about half the length it should be! But I did warn you... and my hand hurts so much I need to get another Advil... did the quality of those go down or something??
Immortal Rain is soooo great!! I totally love it! I just got number 1 and 2 from Borders! Hehe, my mom paid for half of it, too! I think she did that cause I didn't want her there, though. She wouldn't let me go with my friends because of my hand! Doesn't she know I'm ambidexterous?! Hmph. Foolish human.
Reccomendation:
"City of Tomorrow's Memories"
It takes place in modern day, so it's like alternate reality. I know a lot of people prefer InuKag fics, but this one's a SessKag. I just love weird but well-written ideas! Hey, if anyone has or has read a good MirKag fic, tell me!
Or a KouKag fic, for that matter. I've been searching for one, but I can't find a good one...
I draw the line at NarKag, though. Let him have Kikyou (damn that %&$!).
I'm off to read my new manga... AGAIN! I love Rollitos!!
Ja ne, minna-san!!