Sorry for lateness! I've had exams, and I'm such an idiot. My grades have dropped 50% or more. I suck fish guts.
So I won't keep you waiting for a unnaturally short chapter. Sorry about that.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.
Anything But This
Chapter 4
Living to Control
"What??"
"You heard me. You'll go buy some more textbooks, and take a few sticker photos with her." Inuyasha's father said calmly.
"But I'm busy tonight! I..have..uhm." Inuyasha quickly searched his mind for a excuse, but his father cut in first.
"Tutor lessons, I know. Why are you so reluctant? She's not a bad girl." Inuyasha snorted, disbelievingly. Obviously his dad didn't know anything about her.
And a realization about that hit him hard, like a punch in the gut. It meant he knew her well. Pbffth. She was just so flippin' stubborn it was hard not to see it.
"Fine..fine." Inuyasha, 0; Dad, 1. Once again victory went to his father. One day he'd have his win though... one day.
"Hey dad!" Inuyasha called out hopefully to his father's retreating figure. A responsive grunt indicated he had heard. "Does this mean the Sunday dinner is off?"
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"Whose name was the White House under when it tried to deal with 1993 economic conditions and economics of healthcare?"
"..."
"Okay, maybe that was kind of hard. What about...uh... Which of the following is #1 when it comes to importance?: Financial Security, Freedom of Speech, Equality of Oppurtunity, Self-reliance, Loyalty to country, tolerance of others, Freedom of religion, Individual initiative, Right to private property, Government by law and not individuals, Concern for the underdog, Fair play, Justice or Order in Society."
"..." Inuyasha simply stared.
And stared. He was thinking of a White house that was worrying for their drowning dog by financially securing the economics of healthcare.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome called out softly, lowering the large book propped on the desk. It was creepy whenever he lost himself like that, a feeling of tension wound around everything. You never knew when he would pounce again...
She clucked her tongue, as if she was calling a dog. Then snapped her fingers. He still wasn't moving...
"Inuyasha!" She slapped both sides of his head at once and withdrew quickly behind the desk. He may burst out angrily...
"What the hell-- Why?" He said suddenly in English. (You should know you have to say 'what'. ) Kagome sighed, wrinkling her nose at him and speaking.
"You have the most freakiest way of falling asleep, you know that?"
Inuyasha blinked. "I do?"
Kagomed rolled her eyes, but suddenly something vibrated in her pack. Her cellphone. Digging through her bag to find it, she finally discovered it, muttered a 'never mind' and flipped it open. "Hello?"
Inuyasha scowled. Who was the one interrupting the lesson now? However, Kagome's next reaction alarmed him very much.
...She practically melted into a chocolately, too sickeningly sweet gloop before his eyes.
"Oh, it's YOU Hojo..." She giggled. He blinked again.
"No, no! It's fine, I can see how you were busy..." She grinned, embracing the phone like a babe and chewing on the ends of her fingers. Inuyasha started to gag.
"Next Saturday?? Of course!" She said a little too excitedly, causing a certain white-eared person to have his eye start twitching.
"Mmm... oh." She blushed scarlett. "I love you too Hojo...see you next week..." She shut the phone, kissed it and sighed, melting into a puddle. Her student's reaction was to start vomiting.
Inuyasha rose again a few seconds later, and started drumming his fingers on the desk impatiently. Kagome looked at him strangely, a look of wonder and surprise.
'When did he come here?' She thought, and then remembered. Funny how Hojo could just swirl her brain around and turn it into mush.
"Who's Hobo?" Inuyasha scoffed. "Your boyfriend?"
"Hojo? Oh...yeah." Kagome said mildly.
It was his turn to be shocked. He would never have guessed, even with that last 'I love you' comment that she had had a boyfriend. It just didn't seem possible. He had doubted this girl had a world beyond tutoring him and irritating him to no ends.
"I guess you're not as innocent as I thought you were. Not that you're really that innocent in the first place anyway..." He said smugly, finding amusement in seeing her face turn bright shades of pink from being so mortified and then red from fury.
"You perv! Is that all you have stored in your pea-sized brain?!" She yelled at him, grabbing at two long streams of hair and yanking at his head.
Her heart skipped a beat. She had forgotten about those dog ears. Inuyasha sensed her sudden curiousity, belying her violence from earlier, and knew what she was seeing right there. Fammit.
He tried to push her off, and could easily have done it, but she was a girl...with two locks of 'his' hair in her fists.
"Stop." She said breathlessly. "Are those fake?"
Ah, the girl had unconsciously given him an excuse.
"Of course they are fake...I just kind of put them on because, because... I have so much hair..." Suddenly he felt two small hands twist his ears, and they twitched. Bad move.
She screamed, and from being next to him, now she fell into his lap still with his hair like a horse's reins. Tugging his head along with her in an odd way, his lips were only a few millimeters from her shoulder.
"Those aren't fake." She said, trembling. The stupid girl probably didn't notice the silly position they were in. Her hands reached out to tweak them again, but he seriously wanted no more trouble.
He dumped her from his lap by standing up, and went as far away as possible but still in the room. "They are furry ...and animated. I couldn't just buy something simple with my money, could I?" His voice sped up, and he laughed nervously, but slowed down as he another thought entered his mind.
"Speaking of money and buying...," He grabbed her scrawny wrist, jumped out the window despite her protests and screams, then dragged her to his motorcycle. "My dads wants me to get some new books, and I'm supposed to take pictures with you. Cooperate, or you can bet you'll die." Placing her slim figure in the front, he strapped her down and got on himself.
He sped up as he saw a bookstore. He wanted to forget that ordeal. She couldn't find out...
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"Just get in!" Inuyasha growled, trying to shove a stubborn-as-a-rock Kagome into a sticker photo square. He wanted this over with...
"No." Arrogant as ever.
"Why not??" He said impatiently with exasperation, but then lifted Kagome, carrying her into the square and then stepped on her shoes to nail her down to the ground.
"I don't have time for this!" She cried out desperately.
"You can, and you do." Wearing an obviously fake smile on his face, he gritted his teeth and shoved Kagome forward. "Say it!"
"Screw you!" She grinned and then made a sour face while the camera was still flashing and then jumped out to attack Inuyasha for making him do that.
"You idiot! I can't believe I just did that. Anyone seeing us would think we were a..." She coughed lightly, realizing what she had been about to say.
"Or something..."
"Yeah, yeah, come on." Inuyasha said impatiently, losing a few coins in his pocket during the process. It didn't matter to him at the time anyway, he was late.
"Those better be good pictures..." He yanked out the smooth plastic that was being printed, grabbed her by the waist and rode home as quickly as possible.
Which wasn't quick enough.
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They were stopped by a group of girls.
Kagome was shocked to see a girl that could have been easily mistaken for being her or vice verce. The girls were all questioning Inuyasha about...her seemingly. They glared and whispered and made her uncomfortable in their tight-fitting clothes compared to her tacky ones. She was about to yell at Inuyasha, whack him over the head and demand to be driven home but suddenly things got quiet and tense.
He was over by an old building, discussing things in a low voice with another man. He nodded, and then suddenly entered the building, heading towards the roof.
Kagomed started panicking. She was alone. Inuyasha was leaving. She was around strangers. 'I want to go home.' She whimpered.
She knew Inuyasha wasn't the best support in the world, but he knew these weird, scary, tough people. She absent-mindedly jumped off from the motorcycle and was about to follow him into the building until her freaky twin stopped her.
"What are you doing with my face?" She spit her saliva over to the side where they were confronting eachother, her friends beginning to gather around them both. Kagomed glared at them all, angry at their disrespectfulness. She was after all, a year or two older than them.
"And what are you doing with Inuyasha, hag?"
Hag? She never recalled that being in college would make people consider that you were an old woman. Kagome crossed her arms, and spoke as confidently as she could. Which wasn't too confident, unfortunately.
"You have MY face, I was born before you. And I'm Inuyasha's tutor. Where is he going?" The latter was added with a stronger fierceness. She was angry at him, and fed up with all the disorganization of everything. She liked things clear and clean, neat and tidy. He was changing all that. Just one person.
"He's having another fight, what's it to you?"
"A fight?..." Kagomed breathed, and her twin snorted and rolled her eyes.
"Do you think he's having a tea party? He's just fighting." Her eyes glazed over, and she suddenly spoke in a feeble, wistful voice.
"I wish I could see him just once... I swear that guy is perfect."
Perfect? Pbffth. He was as perfect as nitrogen was hot. Kagome shoved them all out of the way, and ran up the stairs two at a time. She was going to be in alot of trouble, and because he just happened to get in a physical quarrel with someone. Why was everything so....wrong??
Huffing as she reached the roof floor, she got there in time to see mass destruction and several unconscious people. Right before her, was Inuyasha, tossing another man over to the side, adding to his pile. Broken bottles, over turned trash cans.... Everything. She could even see a gun. And Inuyasha...was bleeding. Abruptly but yet in a graceful motion, he turned to her, smirking, his eyes aglow.
She didn't know what she felt just then, but it was something very thrilling. Excitement, amusement, joy,...control. That was what he was feeling. But that was still absolutely no reason to go off slagging off everyone he disliked.
She could hear sirens in the distance, and couldn't comprehend what they were. Inuyasha registered it first.
"Oh fuck. Cops." He muttered nearly inaudibly.
Another second later, she was thrown onto his back, and it was all she had to cling to his neck and wrap her legs around his waist to keep from falling. But they were alreading falling anyway. Inuyasha could grow up to be a stuntman someday... He had jumped off the low building.
The last thing she heard, or felt before she fell unconsciousness from being so overwhelmed, was his steady heartbeat.
And her last thought was this.
"I'm going to kill him."
Sorry. It's late, and I'm so tired. I've been walking for more tha seven hours and went to school Saturday (as always.).
So I won't keep you waiting for a unnaturally short chapter. Sorry about that.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.
Anything But This
Chapter 4
Living to Control
"What??"
"You heard me. You'll go buy some more textbooks, and take a few sticker photos with her." Inuyasha's father said calmly.
"But I'm busy tonight! I..have..uhm." Inuyasha quickly searched his mind for a excuse, but his father cut in first.
"Tutor lessons, I know. Why are you so reluctant? She's not a bad girl." Inuyasha snorted, disbelievingly. Obviously his dad didn't know anything about her.
And a realization about that hit him hard, like a punch in the gut. It meant he knew her well. Pbffth. She was just so flippin' stubborn it was hard not to see it.
"Fine..fine." Inuyasha, 0; Dad, 1. Once again victory went to his father. One day he'd have his win though... one day.
"Hey dad!" Inuyasha called out hopefully to his father's retreating figure. A responsive grunt indicated he had heard. "Does this mean the Sunday dinner is off?"
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"Whose name was the White House under when it tried to deal with 1993 economic conditions and economics of healthcare?"
"..."
"Okay, maybe that was kind of hard. What about...uh... Which of the following is #1 when it comes to importance?: Financial Security, Freedom of Speech, Equality of Oppurtunity, Self-reliance, Loyalty to country, tolerance of others, Freedom of religion, Individual initiative, Right to private property, Government by law and not individuals, Concern for the underdog, Fair play, Justice or Order in Society."
"..." Inuyasha simply stared.
And stared. He was thinking of a White house that was worrying for their drowning dog by financially securing the economics of healthcare.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome called out softly, lowering the large book propped on the desk. It was creepy whenever he lost himself like that, a feeling of tension wound around everything. You never knew when he would pounce again...
She clucked her tongue, as if she was calling a dog. Then snapped her fingers. He still wasn't moving...
"Inuyasha!" She slapped both sides of his head at once and withdrew quickly behind the desk. He may burst out angrily...
"What the hell-- Why?" He said suddenly in English. (You should know you have to say 'what'. ) Kagome sighed, wrinkling her nose at him and speaking.
"You have the most freakiest way of falling asleep, you know that?"
Inuyasha blinked. "I do?"
Kagomed rolled her eyes, but suddenly something vibrated in her pack. Her cellphone. Digging through her bag to find it, she finally discovered it, muttered a 'never mind' and flipped it open. "Hello?"
Inuyasha scowled. Who was the one interrupting the lesson now? However, Kagome's next reaction alarmed him very much.
...She practically melted into a chocolately, too sickeningly sweet gloop before his eyes.
"Oh, it's YOU Hojo..." She giggled. He blinked again.
"No, no! It's fine, I can see how you were busy..." She grinned, embracing the phone like a babe and chewing on the ends of her fingers. Inuyasha started to gag.
"Next Saturday?? Of course!" She said a little too excitedly, causing a certain white-eared person to have his eye start twitching.
"Mmm... oh." She blushed scarlett. "I love you too Hojo...see you next week..." She shut the phone, kissed it and sighed, melting into a puddle. Her student's reaction was to start vomiting.
Inuyasha rose again a few seconds later, and started drumming his fingers on the desk impatiently. Kagome looked at him strangely, a look of wonder and surprise.
'When did he come here?' She thought, and then remembered. Funny how Hojo could just swirl her brain around and turn it into mush.
"Who's Hobo?" Inuyasha scoffed. "Your boyfriend?"
"Hojo? Oh...yeah." Kagome said mildly.
It was his turn to be shocked. He would never have guessed, even with that last 'I love you' comment that she had had a boyfriend. It just didn't seem possible. He had doubted this girl had a world beyond tutoring him and irritating him to no ends.
"I guess you're not as innocent as I thought you were. Not that you're really that innocent in the first place anyway..." He said smugly, finding amusement in seeing her face turn bright shades of pink from being so mortified and then red from fury.
"You perv! Is that all you have stored in your pea-sized brain?!" She yelled at him, grabbing at two long streams of hair and yanking at his head.
Her heart skipped a beat. She had forgotten about those dog ears. Inuyasha sensed her sudden curiousity, belying her violence from earlier, and knew what she was seeing right there. Fammit.
He tried to push her off, and could easily have done it, but she was a girl...with two locks of 'his' hair in her fists.
"Stop." She said breathlessly. "Are those fake?"
Ah, the girl had unconsciously given him an excuse.
"Of course they are fake...I just kind of put them on because, because... I have so much hair..." Suddenly he felt two small hands twist his ears, and they twitched. Bad move.
She screamed, and from being next to him, now she fell into his lap still with his hair like a horse's reins. Tugging his head along with her in an odd way, his lips were only a few millimeters from her shoulder.
"Those aren't fake." She said, trembling. The stupid girl probably didn't notice the silly position they were in. Her hands reached out to tweak them again, but he seriously wanted no more trouble.
He dumped her from his lap by standing up, and went as far away as possible but still in the room. "They are furry ...and animated. I couldn't just buy something simple with my money, could I?" His voice sped up, and he laughed nervously, but slowed down as he another thought entered his mind.
"Speaking of money and buying...," He grabbed her scrawny wrist, jumped out the window despite her protests and screams, then dragged her to his motorcycle. "My dads wants me to get some new books, and I'm supposed to take pictures with you. Cooperate, or you can bet you'll die." Placing her slim figure in the front, he strapped her down and got on himself.
He sped up as he saw a bookstore. He wanted to forget that ordeal. She couldn't find out...
--------
"Just get in!" Inuyasha growled, trying to shove a stubborn-as-a-rock Kagome into a sticker photo square. He wanted this over with...
"No." Arrogant as ever.
"Why not??" He said impatiently with exasperation, but then lifted Kagome, carrying her into the square and then stepped on her shoes to nail her down to the ground.
"I don't have time for this!" She cried out desperately.
"You can, and you do." Wearing an obviously fake smile on his face, he gritted his teeth and shoved Kagome forward. "Say it!"
"Screw you!" She grinned and then made a sour face while the camera was still flashing and then jumped out to attack Inuyasha for making him do that.
"You idiot! I can't believe I just did that. Anyone seeing us would think we were a..." She coughed lightly, realizing what she had been about to say.
"Or something..."
"Yeah, yeah, come on." Inuyasha said impatiently, losing a few coins in his pocket during the process. It didn't matter to him at the time anyway, he was late.
"Those better be good pictures..." He yanked out the smooth plastic that was being printed, grabbed her by the waist and rode home as quickly as possible.
Which wasn't quick enough.
---------
They were stopped by a group of girls.
Kagome was shocked to see a girl that could have been easily mistaken for being her or vice verce. The girls were all questioning Inuyasha about...her seemingly. They glared and whispered and made her uncomfortable in their tight-fitting clothes compared to her tacky ones. She was about to yell at Inuyasha, whack him over the head and demand to be driven home but suddenly things got quiet and tense.
He was over by an old building, discussing things in a low voice with another man. He nodded, and then suddenly entered the building, heading towards the roof.
Kagomed started panicking. She was alone. Inuyasha was leaving. She was around strangers. 'I want to go home.' She whimpered.
She knew Inuyasha wasn't the best support in the world, but he knew these weird, scary, tough people. She absent-mindedly jumped off from the motorcycle and was about to follow him into the building until her freaky twin stopped her.
"What are you doing with my face?" She spit her saliva over to the side where they were confronting eachother, her friends beginning to gather around them both. Kagomed glared at them all, angry at their disrespectfulness. She was after all, a year or two older than them.
"And what are you doing with Inuyasha, hag?"
Hag? She never recalled that being in college would make people consider that you were an old woman. Kagome crossed her arms, and spoke as confidently as she could. Which wasn't too confident, unfortunately.
"You have MY face, I was born before you. And I'm Inuyasha's tutor. Where is he going?" The latter was added with a stronger fierceness. She was angry at him, and fed up with all the disorganization of everything. She liked things clear and clean, neat and tidy. He was changing all that. Just one person.
"He's having another fight, what's it to you?"
"A fight?..." Kagomed breathed, and her twin snorted and rolled her eyes.
"Do you think he's having a tea party? He's just fighting." Her eyes glazed over, and she suddenly spoke in a feeble, wistful voice.
"I wish I could see him just once... I swear that guy is perfect."
Perfect? Pbffth. He was as perfect as nitrogen was hot. Kagome shoved them all out of the way, and ran up the stairs two at a time. She was going to be in alot of trouble, and because he just happened to get in a physical quarrel with someone. Why was everything so....wrong??
Huffing as she reached the roof floor, she got there in time to see mass destruction and several unconscious people. Right before her, was Inuyasha, tossing another man over to the side, adding to his pile. Broken bottles, over turned trash cans.... Everything. She could even see a gun. And Inuyasha...was bleeding. Abruptly but yet in a graceful motion, he turned to her, smirking, his eyes aglow.
She didn't know what she felt just then, but it was something very thrilling. Excitement, amusement, joy,...control. That was what he was feeling. But that was still absolutely no reason to go off slagging off everyone he disliked.
She could hear sirens in the distance, and couldn't comprehend what they were. Inuyasha registered it first.
"Oh fuck. Cops." He muttered nearly inaudibly.
Another second later, she was thrown onto his back, and it was all she had to cling to his neck and wrap her legs around his waist to keep from falling. But they were alreading falling anyway. Inuyasha could grow up to be a stuntman someday... He had jumped off the low building.
The last thing she heard, or felt before she fell unconsciousness from being so overwhelmed, was his steady heartbeat.
And her last thought was this.
"I'm going to kill him."
Sorry. It's late, and I'm so tired. I've been walking for more tha seven hours and went to school Saturday (as always.).