DEPTHS OF THE DAMNED

...The Girl Revealed in the Picture...

Disclaimer: sigh About how many times have I repeated it? grumbles I solemnly swear I do not own InuYasha and its characters or whatnot.

A/N: Okay, reviewers—I still like Kikyou a whole bunch, I don't know if everyone does, but since most people like InuKag...I put them together. Although I still like InuKik. Don't get angry at me! I'm doing what pretty much everyone likes—Inu is leaving Kik because he was dating Kag and it would be worse matters if she all of a sudden walked in on InuKik and saw her boyfriend dating her supposed rival, now wouldn't it? I'm just trying to please people—I'm being a good citizen person thing. Now...please. Here is the story. Enjoy.

Well, matters were worse for Kikyou. Her one true love had left her for his first girlfriend. She didn't even know why, actually. All she knew was that her InuYasha was going out with that wretched Kagome girl and all of a sudden, Kagome perhaps eloped, so InuYasha was left alone, saw Kikyou, asked her out, and then dumped her the next day. Kikyou couldn't stand it; she could hardly bear it. How would you feel if the one person you loved and had eternal feelings for, left you for some other girl? Heartbroken. That's how anybody with a heart would feel. And that's how Kikyou was feeling right now.

"I can't believe it! It's barely been two days and we're already finished! Through! Done with! That arrogant, selfish, greedy, yet adorable hanyou of mine... Why don't you understand...?" She cried to herself.

KNOCK, KNOCK.

"Who's there?"

"Sango."

"Come in..."

"Hey. You okay...?"

"Yeah, I guess so..."

"Sorry about InuYasha breaking up with you, Kik,"

"It's okay, really. I'll get over it, honestly." Kikyou faltered a fake smile and slumped over her desk again.

Sango walked over to Kikyou's tableside and found a picture of InuYasha and Kikyou together; Kikyou was hugging InuYasha to death. Sango laughed to herself. She turned away from the picture and found Kikyou staring at it. Sango flushed in embarrassment and guilt.

"That was the first day when he asked me out...He came over here and my mom took a picture..." Kikyou sniveled and buried her face in her arms. Sango averted her eyes from the picture of InuYasha and felt a pang of anger towards him for a moment, but it went away as quickly as it had come.

"I'm sorry, Sango." Sango looked over at Kikyou who had been wiping away a stray tear. "I'm sorry you have to see me acting this way. I'm being childish. You don't have to stay if you don't want to. I understand."

"No, Kikyou, don't say that. I—it's okay. I don't mind—really." Sango mumbled, shaking her head.

Kikyou smiled again and glanced over at the picture of them. She picked it up and tossed it onto the bed face-down. She frowned and merely said,

"I don't need InuYasha. Nobody really needs anything. It's only a matter of wanting. So I don't need InuYasha, because I don't want him anymore." Sango frowned slightly but then turned her head away at the picture. She picked it up again and started picking at the chipped edge of the glass frame and gasped as she dropped the picture frame.

"Oh—my—God—" Sango suddenly started to feel faint and fell to the floor. "Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God..." She kept mumbling. "No—no—no—it—it can't be—it just can't. No—she's..."

"What? Sango—what is it?" Kikyou whispered as she gazed at her friend.

Sango held the broken picture frame up to Kikyou wordlessly.

Kikyou frowned and looked down at the picture.

"What? I don't see anything wrong with the picture...except InuYasha is kinda grinning like a bit of a retard, but I don't see anything—"

Kikyou also dropped the picture frame to the ground and the glass shattered across the room slowly. The picture fell out from the frame. There in the middle of the picture was InuYasha and Kikyou hugging each other, but far back in the distance of the picture, a figure of a girl wearing strange clothes could be seen. The clothes looked exactly like the school uniform, only the normal uniform shirt was black instead of white, the hood-like material that went around the neck was red and so was the skirt. That...that hair. It was so familiar; Sango had seen it so many times. That familiar wavy black hair...

...Kagome...

"It's—that—Higurashi girl...your best friend... I've seen her so many times before she died, and never did she wear clothes like that! Why would she—" Kikyou murmured.

"She wouldn't wear those clothes. I know she wouldn't. She's not that type; she looks more like she's in a possessed state, like she was before she left us all at her house when we played "Light as a feather; stiff as a board"..." Sango remarked.

"Man... Those clothes really clash..." Kikyou commented.

Sango frowned.

"Well, they do!" She pouted.

Sango frowned again.

"Whatever...Listen, I gotta go. I need to talk to Miroku about this..."

"...Okay, bye, Sango..." Kikyou sighed.


"I don't know, Sango... It probably is her... It just seems—impossible." Miroku sighed as Sango told him about it over the phone. "We don't even know what really happened to Kagome."

"I know that, Miroku, it's just, well, I saw her with my own two eyes! It's her! Sure, she doesn't dress like that, but it doesn't mean it's not her. I, uh, happened to snag the picture from Kikyou's room. I'll scan it and send it to your computer right now." Sango said.

"'Kay." He muttered.

Sango set the phone down on her bed and took the picture from her bag and placed it on the scanner face-down. She pressed the "Scan" button and it immediately sent itself over to Miroku's computer.

"I sent it."

"Yeah, I'm looking at it...but I don't see—THERE! I see it! I mean, I see her. My God, you wouldn't know it was her with those clothes on if she didn't have that extremely wavy hair..." Miroku mentioned.

Sango nodded to herself.

"I don't know, Miroku, I just don't know. I wish we somehow knew where she was now..."

"I'm afraid to imagine where she is, Sango," Miroku mumbled.


Kikyou slammed her fists onto the desk and stared at her phone for a long time. Not hesitating, she picked it up and dialed a number and let it ring three times, until someone picked it up.

"Hello?" a familiar voice answered on the other end.

"...Hey, Inu..." Kikyou sighed.

"Kikyou?! Wha?! I—we're not dating anymore—we're finished! So why are you—"

"I miss you, Inu..."

"Kik, you already know why I broke up with you! And you know very well that I still have feelings for you, but my heart is set on Kagome! How would you feel if you were dating some guy and then he left you for someone else?"

"Bad... Really bad."

"Exactly my point. If I ever find Kagome again and you and I were still dating, she'd go ballistic on me and kill me! So do you understand, Kik? I still love you, but like I said, Kagome's the one for me. Not you. I'm sorry..."

CLICK.

Kikyou sighed as she placed the phone back down in its cradle and disappeared into her thoughts. If it wasn't for that Kagome girl, Kikyou would have InuYasha all to herself... If only she knew where Kagome was...then she could take care of Higurashi personally. Not that Kikyou was the type to just go out and hurt and/or kill someone just for a guy that they both have feelings for or whatnot. Kikyou surely wasn't going to resort to violence. No. That'd just make it worse. Definitely worse... She just needed to find a way to get InuYasha to like her better and distract him from Kagome... Yes... That was definitely the plan... Now...how was she supposed to find Kagome...?


Sango let out a heavy sigh as she flopped down on her bed and, holding the TV remote up in the air, clicked the television set on. She flipped through the channels boringly.

"Boring...boring...so boring..." She muttered monotonously. Dissatisfied with what was on, she turned it off and rolled on her side, falling asleep.


RRIIIIIIING.

RRIIIIIIING.

Sango awoke and sat bolt upright as she looked around for the phone. She rummaged through her blankets and found the ringing phone and pressed the talk button.

"Hello?"

Then there was a dead dial tone and Sango angrily pressed the off button.

"Damn prank phone calls..." She muttered, clearly annoyed.

She flopped back on her bed only for barely a minute when the phone rang again. Sighing, she turned it on.

"WHAT?" She growled through the mouth-piece.

"Jeez, Sango, you okay?"

"Oh. Miroku... Sorry. I thought it was another prank phone call. I was—never mind. So...what did you want?" She apologized.

"Nothing... I, well—just wanted to see how you...were...and stuff..." Miroku said embarrassedly.

"Aw, that's so sweet." Sango chirped.

"But I was thinking, Kikyou is definitely going to take the break-up badly, so we really need to find a new guy or someone for her, otherwise, who knows what she'll do to InuYasha."

"There was some new guy at school named Musou."

"He looks a lot like Naraku, Sango...and Kikyou hates Naraku." He said shortly.

"But Musou and Naraku are two completely different people! You'll see. She'll forget all about InuYasha... Well, actually, I think she'd rather be a lone wolf. No one is gonna suit her except for InuYasha."

"Yeah, I guess you're right. Oh, well. Thought I'd try and help a friend of yours out, but... I guess she's better off without another guy."

"...I guess so. Thanks, Miroku."

"Yeah... Well, gotta go. Haven't had anything to eat and I'm starving! Heh."

"Bye. I love you."

"I love you, too, Sango."

Sango set her phone back down on its cradle and clutched at her pillow. How hard was Kikyou going to take this? How would she be able to go to school tomorrow without seeing him? Sango sighed to herself. Kikyou would probably do something drastic. Sango shook off the thoughts and drifted off to sleep and had a peculiar dream about InuYasha and Kikyou fighting...and it was bad. Real bad...