As Kagome and Eri entered Wacdonalds and ordered their food, a new song by Avirl Lavigne started to play over the speakers.
"Let's talk this over it's not like we're dead. Was it something I did? Was it something I said? Don't leave me hangin in a city so dead. Held up so high on such a breakable thread."
"Oh!!! I love this song!!" exclaimed Eri.
"Great," came Kagome's response, dripping with sarcasm.
"Kagome, I thought you liked Avirl."
"Not in recent memory," Kagome snapped back.
Eri's eyes widened at Kagome's remark, "Someone got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning."
Kagome rolled her eyes and shook her head, "Whatever."
Eri frowned as they took their food to a table. "Kagome what's up with you lately? One minute you're fine, the next your biting my head off. What gives?"
Kagome shrugged. "I'm just.......you know................," she trailed off as music filled the void.
"You were all the things I thought I knew and I thought we could be....."
Eri's eyes widened again even bigger this time, "OH........." she said, then she lowered her voice to a whisper. "Is it that time of the month, for you?"
Kagome glanced down at her fries, suddenly losing her appetite. "Sort of." She looked back up at Eri and said "It's bigger than my time of the month."
Confusion settled on Eri's face as she asked, "What's bigger then your time of the month?"
Kagome broke eye contact with Eri as tears welled up in her own. "Not having one, when your supposed to," she stated softly.
Eri's eyes really popped out this time. "What?! That's impossible! You'd have to be preg...." She stopped. "Kagome, are you pregnant?" she asked softy.
Tears threatened to trickle down Kagome's face as she nodded.
Eri's face softened. "Oh Kagome, I'm sorry." She took her hand and gently patted it. "Don't worry, I won't say anything. Just let me know if you ever need anything."
A shaky, "Okay," was all Kagome could get out.
Eri glanced thoughtfully at her for a moment. "Does your mom know?"
"Not yet."
"Gramps?"
"No."
"Sota?"
"Not yet, but I figured I'd tell him first, of all my family."
Eri nodded, and looked over at the window, a sad smile playing across her face. "Well, here's your chance."
"Huh?" Kagome also looked over at the window, only to see Sota outside it, waving his arms like mad at her. "Sota?" Kagome ran outside, only stopping once she had reached her little brother. Slightly breathless, she asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Kagome," her brother seemed on edge for some reason, "I came as fast as I could....."
"For what? What's wrong?" Concerned, Kagome started to feel somewhat ill.
"Inu-Yasha is here."
Oh, no. This was just like her dream, only it was really happening.
"How?" was all she could think to ask.
"I don't know. I just went outside to look for Buyo and he was in the yard."
"Is he still at the house?"
"No, he left before I did, to look for you."
"Great." This was just not her day. A nightmare at school and now another nightmare at Wacdonald's that happened to be real. But wait, she had sealed the well, so how did that darn half demon get through? "Sota, how did Inu-Yasha get through? I know I sealed the well."
Her little brother looked slightly baffled at the question, then his face lit up. "Oh yeah, Gramps removed them the other day when he was cleaning the Shrine."
"WHAT?!!!!" Kagome could've died right there.
"Kagome, calm down. It's going to be okay."
"No it's not going to be okay! Do you want to know why?"
"Ummmmm...........well................."
"I'll tell you why it's not going to be okay. Okay? One because I'm probably failing Geometry. Two, I'm not really on speaking grounds with anybody in our family."
"Yeah, I know you've been avoiding everyone lately........"
"Sota!!!"
"Sorry."
"And three, I pretty much hate Inu-Yasha and wish he would just curl up and die, and to top it alllllllllllllllllllll off , I'm pregnant!!!!"
"Your pregnant?" asked a voice from behind her, and it wasn't Sota.
"Look," she addressed the person behind her as she turned to face him. "I don't think it's any of your business..........," her voice trailed off as she realized who she was talking to. Now she seriously wished she could just curl up and die.
"Oh I think it is, Kagome." Inu-Yasha now stood in front of her, arms crossed. And boy, did he look pissed off.
"Uhhhhhhhhhh......" Kagome lost all speech and thinking capabilities at that moment, except for one coherent thought that still remained. 'Run, run for your life you fool,' it told her.
As if reading her mind, Inu-Yasha spoke. "Kagome, don't you dare think of running away," he warned.
Like she would listen to him. "Sorry," Kagome replied before running in the opposite direction from Inu-Yasha. "Sit!!!" she cried as she grabbed Sota by the arm and dragged him along.
"Kagome, slow down!!!" cried Sota.
"We can't, gotta keep going till we reach the subway!!"
"Why?"
"Only works on him for so long," she said breathlessly as she ran. Kagome practically flew over the coin collector and dragged Sota into the open sub-door.
"Kagome, where are we going?"
"I don't know."
"Home?"
"No we can't. He'll be waiting for us there."
"Can't he just track your scent anyway?"
"Not if we keep riding different trains."
"Oh. How long are we going to ride this one?"
"I don't know yet," Kagome said softly as she sat down by the window. The train started to take off, and Sota sat down beside her, silently leaning against her. Kagome then realized she was hearing that Avril song playing again. It was coming from the set of headphones the girl sitting in front of her was wearing.
"He was everything, everything that I wanted. We were meant to be supposed to be but we lost it. All of the memories so close to me just fade away. All this time you were pretending so much for my Happy Ending."
Kagome sighed softly while staring out the window at the passing scenery. Where was her Happy Ending?
A.N- Hey just a last minute thought. Do any of you guys watch Wolf's Rain?
If so did anyone catch the 9/19/04 12:30 A.M show? What was up with Darcia killing Hamona? I missed the three episodes before it and was totally lost. My cousin Andrea and I were like "Hey what a minute isn't she like his lover/wife/soul mate, so why did he just kill her?
Let me know, if you know.
