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Inuyasha - ¬.¬ Oh joy, what a accomplishment....
GiGi - (sigh) Ain't it?
Inuyasha - No....
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GiGi - - . - ; I also don't own the cootie quote that I included in this chapter.
Chapter 7
Kagome To The Rescue!
Sesshomaru didn't have to wait long. It was actually right after lunch that his Ghost Girl came after him. The lunch bell had just rung, signaling the end of period, so everyone was in a mad dash against the clock to get to class on time.
Sesshomaru, however, was just starting to get up from his seat, I noticed as my attention waver to the crazy dead girlfriend of his. She was standing two metres away from the guy, just glaring at her ex-boyfriend as people walked through her. Then she adverted her gaze at one of the wooden beams of the breeze way. I didn't find any connection between all that until I realized the beam start to shake. Not violently, but you tell it was breaking apart from the rest of the breeze way. It hit me.... I knew what she was going to do.
I raced towards Sesshomaru, half sprinting, half racing- and flung myself on him.... Causing the both of us to go flying.
Just in time too. The beam crashed down, right where Sesshomaru had been standing seconds ago. Pieces of flying wood splattered everywhere as I lay on top Sesshomaru. Ow.... I think I got conked on the head with a block of wood Hmmm.... Or maybe I bonked myself on one of Sesshomaru's abs? Ha ha. Hey, a girl can dream right? As I pried my face off him, I was thanked with a horrified expression over his face. He sat up, staring.... Horrified, at the ten-inch plank of wood that lay at his feet. He was still in shock of what had almost happened to him.
"Excuse- excuse me!" Sister Kaede pushed her way to the front of the crowd that had formed around the two of us. She froze when she saw the wooden beam of death (or should I say what was left of it) and then rushed over to us. "Good gods!" she cried out. "Are ye two all right? Kagome? Sesshomaru?"
I slowly moved my arms and limbs around, learning from experience that it was the easiest way to detect broken body parts. Though I wasn't hurt, my vision was still blurry. Ugh.... Why were there two Sister Kaedes? I started to sway lightly back and forth, until Sister Kaede held onto my shoulders. I blinked a couple of times and then everything returned to normal. Well, whatever normal is.
I looked around for any ghosts. Really, if I had seen Kagura (probably smirking or laughing her head) I would have so killed her. Except for the fact.... Well, that she was already dead. But she seemed to have disappeared.
"Wow...." Sesshomaru muttered, facial expression still in shock. He didn't look hurt either, which was a relief.
"Hey, you okay?" he asked me, eyes filled with concern. Eyes that were unusually golden too. "Thank you so much.... I-I-I think you saved my life. Wow."
"Oh," I shrugged, giving him a smile. "It was nothing. Just wanted to make myself helpful, that's all." Me.... Oh, I was still in shock that this hot guy was actually talking to me. Me!
Sister Kaede looked us both over again. "Thank heavens no one was injured. Are ye two sure ye are not hurt?" Two nods answered her question. "Well, I think Miss Higurashi looks a tad bit pale. I shall accompany her to the nurse's office if that's alright with you, Kagome." After giving her a positive response, she turned her attention to the crowd of people around us. "Now students, as you can see no one was injured. Thank god for this miracle. Now please head to your classes now."
The students immediately scrambled away from us. Yeah....Sister Kaede had that affect on people. Good thing she used her powers for good, and not evil!
Instead of the nurse's office, I was taken back to the main office. Figures.
"Child. Can ye explain to me what exactly happened? Beams of wood do not normally fall on our students."
I made myself comfortable on one of the chairs and told my story to Sister Kaede.
"Ye-ye mean Kagura did this? To him? What? Why this doesn't make sense. K-Kagura.... She loved Sesshomaru- from what I've heard. W-w-why would she do this to him? Why?" Sister Kaede cried out in disbelief.
"At least we know why she's been sticking around for. To kill her 'beloved.'" I emphasized at the irony of this issue.
"This is awful. Truly awful! I have, never in my time as a mediator, encountered a ghost as violent as Kagura."
"Really?"I glanced out the window in front of me. The view was really beautiful. I could see the sea, some valleys, heck.... even Mt.Fuji- "Hey! I can see my house from here!" I discovered.
"That's very interesting Miss Higurashi," Sister Kaede reminded me. "But could ye stick to the subject?"
I apologized and listened to her talk, "She was always such a sweet girl too. Yes, a bit rebellious, but she has never been trouble. What could be causing her to feel so much rage for a young man she ostensible herself to love?"
"You really don't know?"
"I know they had a spat in their relationship-...."
"-..... They broke up" I clarified.
"-.... Yes, but such extreme emotions. This terrible killing rage she is experiencing. Surely this is uncommon between couples-...."
I shook my head. "-.... Excuse me, I know you had to take some vow of celibacy, but haven't you ever been in love? Haven't you ever felt what it feels like? That Sesshomaru guy totally freaked on her. She thought they were going to get married and spend the rest of their lives together. Kind of stupid on her part, considering she's only what, sixteen or something. But still, the guy played her. Used her then when commitment came to question, he got rid of her. If that's not enough to inspire a killing rage in a girl, I don't know what is. "
Sister Kaede looked at me thoughtfully before speaking. "Ye speak from experience, do ye not?"
"Me? Not exactly. I've had crushes on guys and all, but I can't say they've returned the favour." Unfortunately.... "Still.... I can understand what Kagura is going through and how she feels. I can imagine how the break-up hurt her."
"Like killing herself." Sister Kaede caught on.
"Right. But now killing herself isn't enough. She's not going to be finished until he goes down with her." I explained.
Sister Kaede sighed as she shuffled the papers on her desk. "I've talked to Kagura till I'm blue in the face ever since she showed up as a ghost. And now this.... th-this is just dreadful. If Kagura is going to try and hurt Mr. Hishinuma then I'll have to advise the young man to stay home until we have this problem under control."
"How?" I snorted. "Tell the guy his dead girlfriend's trying to kill him because he broke up with her?"
"Not quite," Sister Kaede opened a few drawers and pulled out a ziploc bag, filled with something greyish. "This should guarantee Mr. Hishinuma out for at least a week."
"You're going to poison the guy?" I shrieked. "But you're a priest Isn't that against your sainthood?" I felt myself pale as I imagined Sesshomaru dead. Kagura would be happy alright.
"No no no," Sister Kaede tried to calm me down. "Not poison. No no no, Kagome. I was planning to use head lice. The head nurse is scheduled to check tomorrow. I'll just guarantee that Mr. Hishinuma ends up a bad case of-...."
"-.... Gross!" I interrupted, not being able to bear this crime. "That's just sick! Wait.... Why do you have a collection of lice in your drawer anyways? Eww!" I realized.
"Kagome...."
"Oh yeah.... That's really yucky! You just can't put lice in the guy's hair!"I finished.
"But why ever not? It would serve our purposes and then as ye pointed out, he wouldn't die this way. It would keep him out of harm's way until I can figure out a way to stop Kagura-...."
"You can't just put lice in people's hair though!" I said again, trying to make a very good point here. Shuddering, I continued. "It's just so wrong." I don't really know why I was so against the whole lice idea, other than it being very unhygienic. I guess it's because.... well.... the guy just had such nice hair! I had gotten a pretty good view of it when I 'saved' him. It was silvery, shiny, long and silky.... (well I imagine it is.) I could imagine myself running my fingers in it. But with lice? Yeah, that kind of ruined the picture. How did that kiddy rhyme go again?
You gazed into my eyes,
What could I do but linger?
I ran my hands all through your hair,
And a cootie bit my finger.
"Argh. Just hold the lice alright?" I offered my services. "Let me deal with Kagura. After all, you've been trying for....a week I'm guessing?"
Sister Kaede nodded. "Since the last week of August. That's when she first showed up. Now I know it was for Sesshomaru."
"Well, let me try and talk to her. After all, maybe all she needs is a little 'Girl Talk'?" I suggested.
"Well.... I don't know...." Sister Kaede admitted. "Ye seem to have a tendency to... ehr.... be physical. Remember mediators are meant to help spirits.... not hurt them."
I sighed, knowing I was going to have to prove myself. "Were you just out there or not? Are you telling me to talk to the beam of wood into not crushing into Sesshomaru's skull?"
"No no no.... I just mean if ye tried a little compassion-....."
"Sister Kaede.... I have plenty of compassion. My heart bleeds for the girl, really. But if she's going to try and hurt people, compassion isn't going to do anything. She keeps thinking this is her school.... well I have news for her. It isn't. It's mine now. She made her decision, and she's got to stick with it. She cannot kill people for her own sake."
Sister Kaede looked at me thoughtfully,though in doubt. "Well.... if you're sure...."
"As sure as I'm ever going to be." I jumped out of the armchair and started to walk out of the Principal's office.
I waited at the reception counter for a hall pass to get back to gym class. The novice manning the counter was taking an especially long time filling out a simple pink slip of paper. When I finally got it, I walked out the door and bumped into someone's shoulder. I started to fall until the person caught me.
"Hey! Watch where you're going-.... Oh hi Sesshomaru!"I realized when I looked up. I smiled sheepishly.
"Sorry about that." he apologized as he set me back on my feet.
"It's ok. Say, what were you doing in the nurse's office anyways?" I asked, noticing the plaque above the door.
He sighed. "Nurse wanted to do a check-up on me. Wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. What were you doing in the principal's office? You didn't get in trouble, did you?"
"Nah.... Sister Kaede wanted me to fill out a few forms and stuff. I'm new after all." I shrugged.
"Kagome Higurashi? You're Koga's new stepsister, right? The one from America?" Sesshomaru recalled as I told him who I was.
"That's me. And you're Sesshomaru Hishinuma."
He laughed, "Koga mentioned me?"
I almost laughed out loud with the thought of Dopey mentioning anything. Ha, like Koga had enough brain cells to remember anything. "No, it wasn't Koga."
"Oh," he said in a voice so sad I wanted to rummage through my backpack (my locker was still broken) for tissue. "People must be talking about me."
"A little," I took the plunge. "I'm....ehr .... sorry about your girlfriend."
He sighed again. "So am I.... believe me. I tried to transfer to JSS, you know, the high school across town. Yeah, but they're full for the year. Even the public schools wouldn't accept me. I wouldn't have come back at all, bu well.... you know, colleges and universities generally want you to have graduated high school before accepting you."
"Yeah, I've heard that before." I laughed.
"Anyways," he noticed my backpack, casually swung over my right shoulder. Like I had mentioned earlier, my locker door had been jammed shut due to Kagura's interference. "Want me to carry that for you?" he offered.
"Sure." I answered, not really thinking. I was still trying to come up with a way to get rid of Kagura as he offered to walk me to class. He told me today the gym class would be meeting in the Health room for some Sex Ed. Great....
"So I guess everyone is blaming me for what happened to Kagura."
"It's not your fault. If it's really anybody's fault, it's Kagura's fault for doing this to herself." I tried to comfort the poor guy.
"Yeah, but I drove her into doing this, you know? If-if I didn't break up with her.... then she'd be here." He sputtered out with guilt.
"You have a pretty good opinion of yourself, don't you?" I turned around to face the guy.
"What?" he looked taken back.
"Well, who said it was your fault? Anything could have driven her to the brink of death. It just so happens you broke up with her at the same time. It could have been anything. Her pet dying, failing a science exam, not making the cheerleading squad, parents refusing to raise her allowance, Maybelline stopped making #54 Forever Rose lip gloss." I joked around, trying to lift the mood of this conversation. "Anything. It could be anything. So don't beat yourself up for that." I noticed we were in front of the Health room. "Here's my stop. Thanks for taking me here."
Though my hand indicated I wanted my bag back, he still held onto it, his own hands twisting the bag straps. "Hey," he said, looking down at me, considering he was at least a foot taller than me. "Let me take you out tonight. You know, to thanks you for saving me and all."
His question threw me off guard. C'mon. The last time I expected to get from this was a date. Especially with ex-boyfriend of a ghost I was in charge of getting rid of.
"Sorry, I got plans tonight." I lied as I thought about my plans. I didn't add now my plans involved him in any matter.
"Tomorrow night, then." he insisted as he refused to take 'no' for an answer.
I was pretty shocked that he was so eager to date me. This has never happened before. Back in my old school, I was pretty much labeled the weirdo of the school. Talking to yourself and getting busted by the police a lot basically guarantees that result.
Don't get me wrong here. Occasionally some new guys would show some interest in me.... but then someone who knew me would tell them all about me. Then they'd avoid me like I was the black plague or something. Yeah.... that really hurts a girl's self esteem. Tear, tear.
But now I had a chance to start over.... with a whole new population of people. No one knew me except Dopey and Sneezy. I didn't really worry about Dopey and Sneezy telling people about me because well.... they didn't seem like.... you know, the verbal types. No one really knew what I was like.... I had a chance to start off fresh. But could I? Noooo..... I had to get rid of his girlfriend. I sighed. Why me? Oh why did I have to be born a mediator? "Look..... I'm not allowed to go out on school nights."
He still continued to persist. "This weekend then. How about Saturday night? C'mon."
I was still unsure of the matter. I wondered if Kagura knew what her 'Boy Toy' was doing behind her back. It didn't seem too smart to get involved with the boyfriend of a ghost that was trying to kill him. And I'm sure Sister Kaede would never approve of this either. But then again, how often was it that a Sesshomaru Hishinuma asked a girl like me out? Not often!
I gave him a smile and nodded. "Saturday it is. Pick me up at seven?"
"Seven, it is." he smiled back. "See you Saturday, if not sooner." He winked, gave me back my backpack and started to walk off to him own class.
"See you." I called back to him as I turned around to open the door. "Oh Sesshomaru," I whirled around to face him again. "Watch your back."
GiGi – Oh I got a review asking if this story is Sesshomaru/Kagura. Hmmmm.... If you consider her trying to kill the guy, very romantic.... Then sure! But if you don't, then I guess not. However, there might be some odd fluff between the two in the later chapters. Kagome/Sesshomaru? There might be a bit. And if there will be any Kagome/Inuyasha. Well.... There probably won't in this story. However.... If I make a sequel.... Then we'll talk. (nod) For anyone who has read any of the Mediator books, you will know how the pairings work.
Kagome - 5.5 I'm in every pairing.... Goodie-....
GiGi - -.... Goodie gumdrops! =D And now for some of the regulars!
Miroku - (randomly appears) Time to rub!
Sango - 5.5 What?
Miroku - (does the 'rub')
Sango - SLAP!
Miroku - (sighing happily) Ah.... it was worth the pain.
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GiGi - Yeah.... anywho, thanks to the reviewers for helping me decide which story to do next (check the end of the last chapter for the summaries) However, I don't plan to post that story until I do at least 2 or 3 more chapters of The Mediator so please continue to vote! And.... doughnuts for all the reviewers!
Shippo - (happily helping himself to the doughnuts)
Inuyasha - (grabs the doughnut from Shippo's hands.... and eats it!)
Shippo - WAH!
Inuyasha - (ignores the waterworks residing next to him)
Kagome - (sigh) Inuyasha.... (hands Shippo her doughnut)
Shippo - (once again happily munching.... now sitting far away from Inuyasha)
GiGi - . Take the doughnuts!
Inuyasha - Yeah.... eat them before I do.