Ok...I'm in no mood for talking, so I'll just recap from last chapter. Oh btw, if you guys have any ideas or quotes you want to send me, please do. I'd greatly appreciate it. Oh yeah, and
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When we last left off, in ( Tattered and Torn ) with Kagome:
Kagome walked out on the street and realized Sango wasn't there. "Oh right...I Have to get a taxi..." she thought solemnly. She felt terrible after that meeting. That guy, Li Shaoran seemed to make her feel stupid and useless just by looking at her. "Well, I'm not going to get one on this street..." She thought, looking down the side road. Perhaps if she found a larger main road...
"I should've taken the day off..."
And Inuyasha:
Apparently, several shoppers who sided with the manager had stepped forward to act like personal bodyguards in case Inuyasha planned to attack.
"And what if I don't?"
"Then we shall make you, won't we?" another large man said, advancing. Inuyasha spread his feet apart and cracked his knuckles, a grin playing on his lips.
"I'd like to see you try..."
(A/N) and now that we're all up-to-date...let the story commence! Again!
( Tattered and Torn )
The large man with a sizeable patch missing from his hair, charged, but Inuyasha dodged him easily, flipping baldy into a display of tuna fish. The entire part of the store, which was not involved, gasped and the second man raced at him, this one quicker than the last. He swung at Inuyasha and managed to catch his wrist, and threw him to the ground. The shoppers had brought their children to the back of the store, many of them reluctant and wanted to see more fighting.
Inuyasha got up off the floor and cracked his neck. "You expected that to hurt me?" Snarling, the man came after him again and Inuyasha jumped up, spun around and thrust his fist under the man's jaw.
This power inflicted on his face, caused the muscular man to create somewhat of an arc in the air and landed in the fruit section, sending apples and oranges everywhere.
"Stop! You'll destroy the store!" the manager finally reappeared from behind his unofficial bodyguards. He pointed a shaking finger at Inuyasha, his voice raised in anger.
"You! Take your eggs and go! You are never to set foot in this store again!"
The cashier, who had finally let her arms down by her side, walked over cautiously to Inuyasha, looking fearful. She handed him the bag with the eggs in it, which he snatched and walked out.
"Well, at least I got free eggs." He grinned and walked down the street again, until he felt something slippery beneath him.
"Now what?"
He looked down and noticed the bag he was holding was wet and the contents were slipping out onto his shoes. He quickly opened the bag and saw that the eggs were all cracked and leaking out.
"Shit!" he yelled and threw the bag on the ground. People turned to look and formed a circle around him. He kicked the eggs and ran a hand through his hair, thinking about going back to beat the crap out of the manager for selling cheap eggs, but then realized: 'Oh yeah...I'm banned from there aren't I? Crap!'
Inuyasha cursed again, stopping as he heard two voices through the crowded street.
"See that man over there?"
"The one with the long white hair?"
"Hai. That's the third time this week I've seen him kicked out of a store."
"You're kidding! What for?"
"He's got an awful temper can't you see?"
"Oh yes, It's very obvious. That's terrible. People like that, belong in anger management."
"Or a shrink"
"Indeed, Indeed. Those are the people I want my Haruto to stay away from."
"Oh yes. They're quite a bad influence."
"I almost feel sorry for his poor parents. The shame he must bring upon them..."
Inuyasha spun around to glare at the two old ladies who were gossiping about him, but they weren't looking at him, and had stopped talking immediately. It was like they knew he was going to turn around to catch them. He turned away, just to hear their voices pick up immediately.
"If my child turned out like that, I don't think I could show my face in public."
"Well, his' parents could have disowned him. I heard of a similar story happening in Kyoto..."
"Really? Maybe they died. T'would explain his anger."
"Indeed, Indeed. Or maybe his girlfriend turned out to be a slut. I read a story like that in the last issue of 'Celebrity Today.' Horrible story."
He looked at them again, growling, but they showed no sign of even knowing his existence.
"Man, those old gals have skills..." he thought as he walked away, their voices started up again followed him until he was lost from sight.
Kagome stopped.
"Wait! I could call Sango's phone! She shouldn't be too far. Besides, it would save me money and a trip with some old guy that doesn't speak a word of Japanese." She said, thinking back to the last time that she called a cab.
Hurriedly, she flipped up her small silver Samsung cell, to find the welcoming message of:
'Sango is a sexy bitch'
She stared at it. Since when did Sango change her welcoming message? She must have been too preoccupied in Shaoran-san's office to notice it. Kagome smiled, despite it all and hurried to dial her best friends number.
"C'mon, pick up..." Kagome tapped her foot impatiently and nervously flipped her hair.
After ten or so rings, Kagome hung up, then dialed again. Still there was no answer, but suddenly:
"Hey! You've got Sango here!"
"Ah Sango! Thank god I-"
"I obviously had to turn off my cell phone or I forgot it, but leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Later!"
There was a beep, signaling Kagome to leave her message, but she hung up instead.
"Sango! How could you leave your phone?!" Kagome felt hurt, as though when Sango forgot her phone, it was like she was forgetting her. But then another thought crept into her head.
"Oh god! She'd better be ok! If one of her brother's idiot friends showed up and gave her a hard time, oh! I'd never forgive myself!"
She tried her phone again, in case it was just that Sango couldn't get to it in time. But there was no answer once again. She sighed and fiddled with her phone.
"Well, Sango can take care of herself. She's tough. I mean, she'd have to be, after that training her and Kohaku had to go through when they were little." Feeling slightly comforted, she walked out of the alley she was standing in to make her calls, and walked towards the road to call a taxi.
Inuyasha looked in his wallet.
"A whole night's work, and I hardly got $120 from it..." He picked through the bills and scowled. "This won't even get me food for a week." He looked around the street full of people, and back down to his wallet.
"Hmmm...looks like I'm gonna have to find a donation of some sort." He put his wallet back in the pocket of his baggy black jeans and glanced around for someone who looked too out of it to notice if their purse or wallet went missing.
Then he saw her. A girl with raven hair that swept around her shoulders, a blouse that had the top button undone and a shirt that just made it to her knees. (A/N: blah blah blah...snore ...this is where I make shitty descriptions and they're edited out...) The look was so bland, but this girl had a body that could make anything look good on her. But it was her face that interested Inuyasha at the moment. She had these amazing blue eyes that were glazed over in thought, every once in awhile, bumping into people distractedly, as she tried to put something in her bag.
"Perfect." He thought, walking briskly over to her, watching her through his dark sunglasses. As they neared each other, Inuyasha moved purposely in her way.
WHAM
As they collided, he reached into her open bag and pulled out her wallet with speed that would be the envy of every pickpocket.
"Hey! Watch where you're going, wench!" He spat, pocketing her wallet. The girl stumbled and looked down, giving Inuyasha the impression that she was crying. Just as he was debating asking if she was ok, she looked up with a wide smile that didn't quite match the distressed look in her eyes.
"Sorry! That's me for you. Always have my head in the clouds!" She reached down and picked up her purse from the ground and walked on, leaving Inuyasha staring after her. As he watched, he shook himself.
'What's going on? Why should I care what's wrong with her?' he thought angrily. After hitting himself mentally, he walked towards the first open market display that the wasn't banned from and opened the girls wallet.
"Higurashi Kagome huh? Well, thank you for your donation to the Inuyasha foundation." He grinned and passed the man a 1000¥ for a hot dog.
Kagome shook herself.
"Pull yourself together Higurashi! That guy must have been the tenth person who you've banged into."
Although she knew she had to concentrate on getting a ride to Happosai's, she found her mind wandering.
"That guy had the most bizarre color hair...it was silver right? And it was so long...wait! Why do I care about his hair! I feel like Yura. What am I thinking? He was a jerk anyway..."
She waved a hand out and finally, a bright orange taxi pulled up in front of her and she climbed in.
"Where you go to?" The driver asked in a thick accent. Kagome groaned and considered getting out.
"Uh...Sakurada-dori?" she answered, trying to remember what street Happosai's was on. The man pulled out at looked at her through the review mirror.
"Have you money?"
"Do I have money? Of course." She reached in her purse for her wallet. "It's right...here?"
Kagome couldn't find it.
"Wait, where is it?" she frantically dumped the contents of her purse onto the seat, and looked through her cell phone, address book, make up, keys and other small things, but she couldn't find her wallet.
"Have you money?' the driver asked again, staring at Kagome suspiciously.
"Yes! I mean no, I mean, I did! I don't know!" she said, slightly hysterical. The car stopped suddenly and Kagome was thrown into the seat in front of her.
"No Money, no ride! You try to cheat me!"
She put her hands in front of her face defensively.
"I'm not trying to cheat you! I swear! This is just a misunderstanding!"
"Out! Get out before I phone police!"
Stumbling out of the car, Kagome straightened up and realized she was right in front of the ally where she had made her call to Sango. She quickly turned around, but the taxi zoomed away as soon as she had closed the door. Arms by her sides, Kagome walked heavily back down the street.
"What do I do now? Can I take the subway? No...my pass is in my wallet with all my money. I could try Sango again..." She thought and pulled out her phone, pressing redial to Sango's number.
"Be there, be there..." Kagome prayed when her phone suddenly went dead.
"What's going on?" A red light flashed and she groaned. "Low battery? No! Not now! Why is everything bad happening to me? Why today?" She felt like she had just flunked her math exam all over again.
People walking down the street paid no attention to her as they did their shopping, except Inuyasha. He had received the change for his second hotdog and he had just bitten into it, when he noticed her for the second time.
Choking on his hotdog, he spun around, quickly putting his sunglasses back on.
'What the hell is she doing back here? I thought she got a taxi!'
'Idiot, she's looking for her wallet! What else would she be doing? You can't get a taxi without money!' another voice shouted in his head. The man at the concession stand raised an eyebrow, and grinned.
"Would you like anything else?"
Inuyasha looked at his hotdog in his hand, his appetite slowly ebbing away. He put his ketchup and mustard covered meat and bread back on the counter, ignoring the man's disgusted look.
"I gotta get outta here...she could've called the cops..."
But Kagome had absolutely no intention of trying to find her wallet on such a large crowded street.
"I'd better get walking if I want to get to work before it gets dark. Maybe then, someone'll give me a ride." Lost in thought, Kagome tried to think of the best way to get to Sakurada-dori, and concluded she first needed to cross the street.
"Then, I can take a right, go down until I get to the park., I guess I could cut through the park too..." she tried to visualize her route and she stepped out onto the street.
"Great, she's leaving!" Inuyasha grinned to himself, turning back to his hotdog, which he found was gone. Looking down, a little kid with bright red hair grinned back up at him with his cheeks bulging.
"Mmfph! 'Fippo foo qvick phir oou!"
Inuyasha's eye twitched. "Why you-" he went to lunge at the kid but stopped. There was a sound of screeching tires as they turned a corner down the street heading towards their direction. Inuyasha's head snapped up and he looked over. That girl, Kagome, was hardly half way across the street with a car coming right towards her.
"Hey! HEY! GIRL! MOVE!" He yelled, but she obviously couldn't hear him over the noise of the street and her own thoughts.
Instinct took over, and Inuyasha pushed his way through the crowd, sending some people sprawling and groceries flying.
"MOVE!" he yelled again and some people started screaming as they tried to get out of his way.
Kagome put her hands up to her ears. "It's so noisy! How can I concentrate when-OH!"
She looked up to see why there was so much screaming, and she saw the speeding blue car heading right towards her. The person in the car finally seemed to see her, and slammed on the brakes. But at the speed he was going, it didn't look like it helped much.
Kagome screamed, too petrified to move except to throw her arms up to cover her face.
'Oh god! I'm going to die young, single, AND on my way to my crappy job!'
She suddenly felt a pair of strong arms wrap around her, pulling her close to a firm chest.
(A/N: pushes Kat off the computer that sounds gay!
Kat: no it doesn't, it's wonderful! See what the readers say!
Me: if there are any...)
Kagome felt herself being lifted off the ground and her eyes snapped open, though she couldn't see much. The screech of the brakes rang in her ears, deafening her. She was moving, pulled by the person holding her, until both of them jolted forwards.
Kagome screamed again and shut her eyes tight as they both rolled over. But the person's body protected her the entire time. Finally, Kagome lay still, eyes still shut tight, on top of the person whom had just saved her. Her hands clutching their shirt like a lifeline.
Inuyasha cursed. He had pushed his way through the crowd, seeing the girl throw her arms in front of her face. "Not much protection for you there girl." He thought as he grabbed her and hoisted her up. He had tried to get both of them out of there, but the car clipped his side, causing him to fall.
He had pulled Kagome under him as he rolled on the concrete, as he felt the throbbing pain all through his back, where he'd been hit. He scowled to himself.
'You're getting soft Inuyasha...' he thought. He'd been hit by a car before, and it didn't hurt that much. 'you need more practice...' the thought that he needed to practice getting hit by cars was slightly amusing, but if it helped, then he didn't give a rat's ass.
A small moaning brought him out of his self-disputes. Kagome was still hanging onto him, not showing any signs of getting up, or moving for that matter. Inuyasha grinned and looked down at her clinging to him.
He hadn't had a girl hanging onto him like that since, well, the night before. But he hadn't had a sober fully clothed girl that close to him in a long time. It brought back good memories, but bad ones as well.
Growling, he shifted.
"Hey. You ok?"
Kagome opened her eyes, seeming to realize that she was still holding onto Inuyasha. Getting off him quickly, she brushed her hair out of her eyes and bowed.
"Gomen. Hai. I'm fine...just a-wait a second! What about you? You were just hit by a car weren't you?"
She looked at him surprised, as he jumped up and brushed himself off.
"Feh. It only nicked me. I doubt I'll even bruise."
Kagome couldn't help staring. Nicked or not, at the speed it had been going; If he hadn't gotten her out of the way, she would have been a pancake on the road.
"It wasn't even going full speed. Nothing to get excited over. Anyway, you sure you're ok?" He asked again, noticing his sunglasses had been broken and seemed to pay more attention to them.
"Well, yes, but-"
"Good. In that case-"Inuyasha ignored her protest and pocketed his broken glasses before continuing. "What the hell d'you think you're doing, running out in front of cars , wench??!"
Kagome was taken aback.
"What did you call me?" she said, surprised.
"First you go around banging into people, then running out in front of cars! You're more trouble than you're worth girl!" Inuyasha spat. Her eyes flashed dangerously.
"Hey! Number 1 Mister! My name isn't wench or girl! It's Kagome! 2: I didn't ask for your help, nor did I, or do I need it! I'm perfectly independent and I don't need you!" She prodded a finger to his chest, and he scowled at her.
"It didn't look that way when you were standing there screaming." He grinned at the blush that crept up on her cheeks, although she didn't dare show it in her eyes.
"My help is the only thing that prevented you from becoming a tire skid on the ground, so you should be on bended knee, thanking me!"
Although this boy had said the exact thing that Kagome was thinking mere moments before, did not mean that she was going to tolerate the telling off he was giving her. And that arrogant smirk he wore wasn't helping.
"Why would I thank you? I only thank people who-"
"Hey! Hey! Are you two ok?"
A group of people from the sidewalk was hurrying over to them, interrupting their argument.
"Do I LOOK ok?!" Kagome yelled at them angrily, causing a few to take a few steps back. Inuyasha opened his mouth, but then his brow furrowed.
"What's that sound? Sirens?"
"Yeah, we called the police and the ambulance. That driver pulled a hit and run, so they're checking it out."
"Police?" Inuyasha's eyes flashed at the word, and he looked around darkly.
"Yeah, they tend to deal with things like this!" Kagome snapped at him. "Hey! Where're you going?"
He grunted.
"Well, they've got plenty of witnesses. You don't need me."
"You get back here! Wait!" She yelled after him, but gave up once he hurried down the street.
"Jerk..."
well...that's all I have for now. Sorry for the long update. I've had a billion projects to do and my fish died and my dog ate my homework and...and...and...I'll stop giving excuses now. Over and out.