Luna: I GRADUATED FROM JR.HIGH TODAY! WOOO! I SURVIVED!
Veron: WE MADE IT THROUGH THE PREPS AND THE POSERS!
Luna: THE PERVERTS AND THE SCARY WANNABE SLUTS!
Veron: THE GRADES AND THE PEER PRESSURE!
Luna: THE INUYASHA DISEASE!
Veron: AND- wait…aren't we still infected with that?
Luna: Yes, only not as bad as when I first introduced it to you and everyone else.
Veron: True
Luna: Watch, when I post this chapter it will be late August or early September.
Veron: LOL
Luna: Read while we celebrate!
Jareth: Dear god…they're bringing in illegal substances…o.o
A/n was written in June. ((Sweatdrop)) BUT INUYASHA ENDED TODAY! SO this is in honor of the anime finishing. ((Nods)) NO REVIEW RESPONSES TODAY. Gomen ;;
Disclaimer: No. Plot is mine. Characters are not. So FEH!Chapter 29: Don't Stop
They had been home for a few weeks now, of course not with out a few conniptions. Rin would be cordial to Kagome since she had risked pneumonia to find her beloved 'older brother' but still had not forgiven her teacher for it. Not that the elder miko could blame her, if she was in her position, she'd be no less forgiving.
Her heart was torn in complete halves. She was forever Inuyasha-kun's but she felt a strong companionship to his reincarnation. And would most likely be the strongest emotion she would be able to feel for the half demon boy until she tasted his blood. But she didn't want to. She was afraid. If she gave in…would she forget Inuyasha-kun? What would happen? Oh the questions and confusion…
Kagome sighed weakly and twirled her straw in her lemonade, watching the ice cubes dance and clink against the glass. As if they were waltzing and the lemonade were the music, leading them through the dance steps. Closing her eyes, she remembered her last words to Inuyasha the day before they returned.
" I'm sorry…
…
I wish…
…
…That it could've been different."
The miko winced; she had practically laid it out for him. She was surprised he hadn't clawed a cut in his skin and made her taste it right there. But then again, Inuyasha wasn't Koga. Once in a great while, the ignorant, overbearing, pompous, arrogant hanyou would think. Kagome snorted and took a thankful sip of her cool summer beverage.
Her mother's worried brown eyes rose in her mind. When she first told her mother about how close her and Inuyasha-kun were becoming…she was worried to say the least. She didn't want her daughter's heart to be broken by some demon boy who had tried to kill her mere months before. And even threatened him the first time he came to the hut.
The young boy's nose twitched, as he smelled a different scent emitting from Kagome's normally empty household. An older lighter scent then Kagome's, only with a hint of herbs and spices that he couldn't place. He blinked as the door was pulled back and an older woman stood there, her brown eyes suspicious and determined as she looked over the hanyou.
" You must be Inuyasha."
" And what of it?" He asked, glaring at the woman.
" I want to make one thing clear young man. Right here and now." She stepped up and glared up at him, her eyes serious and expression reminiscent of his own mother's when she meant business.
" Do you see that tree over there?" The woman gestured with her hand toward an aged old tree a few yards away, it's bark cracked with time and it's boughs blowing innocently in the breeze.
He nodded slowly.
" Hurt my daughter or break her heart and I swear, that I will personally shoot you through the heart and seal you to that tree for the rest of eternity. Understood?"
So this was where Kagome received that temper from…
He gulped and nodded, giving a faint wary look to the bow over the woman's shoulder.
Kagome ran up from the right, a basket of flowers in her arms, her eyes bright and cheerful as she spotted her friend.
" Inuyasha! I didn't expect to see you here." Stopping, she wiped some sweat from her brow as she placed the basket by the door. Noticing the slight tension between her loved ones; she gave them a curious look.
"What did I miss?"
Her mother gave her child a bright reassuring smile.
" Nothing dear. We merely talked. Now go ahead and relax the rest of the day."
" But Mama-"
" No but's Kagome. Go and have fun, lord knows you've been working hard all morning." Her mother gave her a brief kiss upon the cheek and ushered her away from the hut. As the two walked away, Kagome couldn't shrug off the feeling that one of her mother's patented 'death glares' was being directed at the boy beside her.
Looking back, she blinked as her mother smiled and waved at her, before returning inside.
Brushing it off as a mere hallucination, she gave the hanyou a bright smile and ran off beckoning him to try and catch her.
" I think too much…" She murmured, her mouth set in a pout as she gazed out the window. When a giant boomerang blurred past and distant male screams could be heard. Begging for mercy as an irate ex-taijya flew by the window upon Kirara.
" Ne, Miroku-Sama…will you ever learn?" Kagome shook her head as she finished the last few drops of her lemonade, standing she set the glass on the counter when she heard a shift of clothing behind her. Turning, Kagome gave a short gasp of surprise, confusion etched on her features.
" Rin-Chan…what are you doing here?"
The young miko refused to look her way, when she set a plastic case on the counter between them. Kagome picked it up, looking it over; she gave her pupil a confused look.
" Your Chobits DVD?"
"Watch the last two episodes." Were the only words she spoke to her teacher before turning on her heel and walking out of the room, leaving Kagome with a case full of questions.
The young miko pulled her blanket tighter around her form, the television screen flickering in the darkness of the bedroom. A click and the screen went back to the menu. Kagome glared at the television screen. So this is what Rin wanted her to understand, what she meant by Inuyasha pulling a "Freya" on her. The one just for me. The pain of suppressing the feelings…
Speaking of suppressed feelings…
Kagome stood her eyes a blaze with anger. How dare Rin think she knew what was going on…She loved the young girl, but just because she had fallen in love once didn't give her the experience to say that she was right. She was still a virgin, Kagome wasn't. She knew more then her pupil ever would. It was time that her apprentice learned that…
Rin's eyes snapped open from her nap on the lawn as a purified arrow flew right by her nose and slammed into the brick to her right.
Turning her head, her eyes widened as she saw Kagome drawing yet another arrow and aiming it at her. Her stormy eyes livid, sparks of pink floating about her ebony locks.
" What are you-"
Thwock.
It landed two feet from her, the light slowly fading from the arrow's shaft. Standing up, Rin glared at her sensei, what was she trying to pull?
" Fight back Rin."
Thwock.
Rin dived to the floor, looking underneath her tanning chair; she quickly grabbed her bow just as another arrow came straight toward her. Her eyes flashed pink as her power made her bow glow and she knocked the arrow away.
" Why are you doing this?" Rin asked, her other hand fishing out the quiver from underneath the chair.
Kagome didn't answer, merely pulled yet another arrow and aimed at her friend.
" Fight back."
Sesshomaru felt a sense of foreboding as he sat at his desk. A pair of reading glasses perched on his face; he pulled them off and pinched the bridge of his nose. Going through all his emails was so tiring…the foreboding became stronger and he stood, his amber eyes narrowed suspiciously.
That's when he heard his half brother's frantic cries down below in the gardens. Growling, he decided to investigate the cause of Inuyasha's distress.
Rin glared at her sensei, the wind whipping about them, their hair running harshly against their faces. Her grip on her bow increased as she watched the calm façade of her friend. As she looked at her, she realized just how out of place Kagome was. Her stormy eyes and long raven hair, her red hakama pants and fitting white blouse. The quiver slung over her slender shoulder and the bow gripped in her right hand.
She didn't belong here. She seemed so…odd standing before her, her expression cold and furious as she waited for her student to make the next move. Her aura was in furious angry waves that poured about her body, making her fierce and foreboding. Until a familiar male voice cried out to her.
"KAGOME!"
Her eyes widened a fraction as they slid over to gaze at the confused hanyou outside the barrier. He was yelling at her, asking her what the hell she was doing, asking her to stop. Stop trying to hurt Rin, stop trying to die, stop trying so hard, stop feeling guilty, just STOP!
But…
I don't want to stop.
I want to keep trying to deny my feelings, I want to keep living, I want to fight Rin and prove her wrong, I want to keep feeling guilty, feeling something like how I used to be, I want to keep being Inuyasha-kun's one and only. I don't want to stop.
So don't try to…
Don't try to stop me.
Just don't.
" Rin."
Please…
The said girl averted her attention back to her feudal miko teacher and looked at her confusedly.
" Drop your weapons."
She did.
As did Kagome.
" Come at me."
" Nani?"
" Come at me. With everything you've got."
But without a weapon…how am I supposed to attack you? Why do you want me to attack you? What are you planning?
"Fine. I'll attack."
Kagome slipped off her sandals and ran at her, her stormy eyes glowing pink as she leapt up. Her hands pushed out toward Rin and Rin flew backward, landing in some rose bushes. The thorns pierced her skin and cut her clothing. Glaring at her teacher, she staggered up, her own eyes blazing the color of sakura blossoms.
With a cry, Rin launched herself at Kagome, her hands glowing and she slammed into her sensei. Her eyes widened as she felt Kagome's hands enclose around her own.
"Good." Was all she said before launching her upward into the air. The wind pushing Rin's hair back and making her garments billow. She almost enjoyed the feeling before watching Kagome leap up toward her, her leg outstretched about to nail her student in the back.
Rin dodged Kagome's attack before she felt an arm push up against her throat and push her body against Kagome's chest. The young miko struggled, her nails digging desperately into Kagome's flesh, beads of blood starting to form.
" You cannot control me Rin."
Her eyes snapped open, realization dawning on her on why her friend was fighting with her. She squirmed, only to feel her teacher make her hold stronger.
" You are only sixteen. You have no idea what I went through. You cannot simply make yourself accept someone else to love. It takes time." Turning Rin around, she made her pupil face her, her hand cupping Rin's face and gripping it nearly making Rin cry out in pain. Retaliating, she pressed her hands against Kagome's shoulders using her powers against her.
Kagome didn't even flinch.
" Do not try to make me stop and fall in love with Inuyasha. He is not mine. It's not your choice to make." Her face pressed in close contact, their noses touching as she moved her hands to Rin's shoulders and squeezing hard.
" It's mine."
Rin screamed as she felt Kagome's powers run through her, tearing her clothes as she returned it, putting all her own anger at her sensei into her counter attack on her shoulders.
Kagome didn't even acknowledge her attacks. Merely dug her nails into her pupil's shoulders, their powers clashing as they intensified.
" But you said…to Kikyo…that he was yours…" Rin managed to spit out, watching Kagome's expression.
" I lied."
And the two felt their power stop abruptly from the strain before they both fell unceremoniously to the ground, the barrier breaking and cries of alarm filling their fading consciousness.
I think…I understand now Kagome…
And I'm sorry for what I did…
It's just…
I hate seeing him sad…
Surely you understand that?
Luna: Finally…. Falls over
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