Author's Notes: Wow, 3 chapters all uploaded in one day XP I originally had all this in one chapter, but it was 10, 000 words! So, I deleted the originalstory, &decided to brake it down. Sorry for any confusion this might have caused! T-T Please review, I hope you enjoyed reading, and I'll try to get the new chapter up as soon as I can :D
Disclaimer: Again, I don't own Inuyasha! O.O
Kagome walked down the dirty sidewalk, ignoring all the whistles, hoots, & ogles from the perverted men that were sitting on the sidewalk, most of them were holding cans & asking for 'Donations'. This city was so pathetic, really. The sky was a dingy gray, from all the smoke that flowed out of the random factories. There was trash galore polluting the streets cups, bottles, just about everything you could think of was lying around everywhere you walked. Trashcans carelessly toppled over, graffiti lacing every building. Even the buildings themselves seemed to be dirty…is was as if the city had given up on itself.
She had a destination in mind, like she always did in the morning, and looked down house after house trying to find it, although she knew perfectly well where it was. Guess you could call it a habit. After finally finding the desired house, she frowned on the sidewalk, 'Damn, she's not out here again…' Kagome thought to herself with a groan of annoyance, and decided to stand outside the house for a little longer, patiently waiting.
Kagome huffed. Okay, it had been 10 minutes, forget patience.
Kagome stormed up the driveway, dodging a navy blue car. The one they had been driving the night before & earlier this morning. Once up & over the front porch steps, Kagome knocked onto the door with force, "Sango-chan! I told if you weren't outside, I would leave withou-" Kagome was cut off as the door opened, to reveal a tall boy with black hair & a very toned chest that peaked out of his shirt very noticeably.
He was just visiting for a few months because break had come at his College. He looked like he just woken up seconds ago, with his hair a little messy & sexily hanging over his eyes a bit. On his body, he wore a white tang-top that revealed his arms, like the ones people would sometimes wear while working out, and plain navy-blue pants on his legs that were pretty loose. Kohaku looked like one of those beefy tough-guys, but was actually very sweet, and kinda a bookworm. The college he was currently studying at was way out of the Taijiya's league, but he had gotten a Scholarship.
"Ah, Kagome-san, I thought it was you. That's some fist you have, your knocks woke me up! Haha" Kagome blushed from embarrassment at this, "You're here to pick up Sango, ne?" Kohaku, Sango's older brother, replied with a warm smile.
"Um…hai, Kohaku, is your sister here?" Kagome asked nervously to the college student, 'Boy, he seems to get hotter every time I see him…' Kagome thought to herself, desperately trying to stop this weird urge to twirl a stand of her hair & giggle. It wasn't like she could flirt with him, even if she had wanted to (which she firmly convinced herself, she didn't!), he was unavailable.
He had a girlfriend. A really sexy Youkai girlfriend, as a matter-of-fact.
"Hai, she's puking in the bathroom" Kohaku answered disdainfully, and motioned for her to come in. The house was a lot like Kagome's, not very nice, nor very clean. Sango's father was lazily sitting on the living room couch watching Football, munching on either chips, or popcorn, or something different all together, Kagome couldn't really tell. Sango's mother had died when she was very young, & Kagome didn't really know how, she just knew that she had died & Sango had said she hadn't really gotten anytime to know her.
Kagome headed to Sango's bedroom, where her bathroom was located, "I'm such an idiot…how could I get myself into something like this…?" she could hear Sango's melancholy voice come from behind the closed bathroom door with a sigh. "Sango-chan, is everything okay…?" Kagome asked with sincere concern, knocking on the door lighter then she had on the front door. "K-Kagome-chan!" she could hear Sango exclaim with surprise, and could hear rustling inside the bathroom. Some more shuffling, & a few other sounds that Kagome couldn't identify were heard, then suddenly the door opened revealing a very tired & sick-looking Sango, "Hai…? Kagome-chan, I'm fine, I just don't feel very well this morning, as usual y'know."
"Sango-chan, you certainly don't look well…" Kagome agreed anxiously, while looking at a pale-faced Sango, "Maybe you just had too much to drink?" Kagome suggested while raising an eyebrow.
Sango looked unsure & looked away, "Uh, no…I mean, maybe…um, I'll be out in a second, wait in the front for me, okay?" Sango stuttered out in giant chunks of sentence, trying to decide on what to say in a confused & dry tone, then closed the bathroom door. Kagome decided that, since Sango seemed to want to be alone, she wouldn't bother her by stalking the bathroom door, and went to go wait in the front. About 7 minutes later, she could spot the Taijiya's front door open & a rushed-together Sango coming out of it, her backpack hanging messily over her shoulder, "N-No, Kohaku…we did not use your car…stop asking me already…No, I'm not l-lying!" she could hear Sango yell in through her door towards her brother, before she slammed it closed & walked towards Kagome who was waiting on the sidewalk. Then they started walking in silence. Kohaku probably suspected something about what happened last night, and Sango never was really good at lying.
Kagome was still wary for her friend. It was natural to be a little sick after a night of partying, but it was this suspicious feeling that Sango was hiding something from her. And what had she meant by what she had said in the bathroom? Actually, she had felt this way for quite a few months now, the feeling that Sango was hiding something important from her.. "Are you sure you're okay? You could have just stayed home if you're still sick this morning…" Kagome stated out again.
"No, it's not completely the alcohol, Kagome…well, at least I think it isn't…" Sango wondered aloud, more to herself then to Kagome. It was as if there was something Sango wanted to tell Kagome, but kept deciding at the last minute not too. There was an awkward silence between the two, and Kagome sensed the air suddenly get tense. In a desperate attempt to lighten the mood, Kagome decided to do some of her obnoxious teasing...
"Sango, you're not becoming one of those people that make themselves throw up to lose weight are you?" Kagome asked with a convincing sigh, "Way too many girls are doing that nowadays".
Sango stared at her friend with a raised eyebrow, as if saying 'what the hell?', "No! Of course not." Sango stated out calmly.
"Because, ya know, it only makes you uglier. Bony people look creepy, and-" Kagome continued, pretending to completely ignore Sango as if she didn't exist. "Kagome! I'm not doing that." Sango answered again in a now more forceful in tone.
"-and, you have a beautiful body, so you have no need to do that anyways! And you may be gaining a little weight-" she continued. And indeed, Sango's did look a little bit larger then usual, she may have only gained 7 pounds or so, but against her skinny body & curvy figure, it was noticeable.
Sango didn't seem to be very fazed by the fat joke, and was starting to lose her temper. "KAGOME!" Sango cut Kagome off again with a loud frustrated sigh, "Will you Shut up!" Sango added with a furious sigh & shook her head, her 'Anger' side furiously peaking it's head out of the corner that was 'Meek Sango'. Kagome knew that wasn't it, the throwing up thing, because like as it had been stated, Sango was very bad at lying. It would have been obvious if she had been denying this, and was lying about it. The air seemed more carefree now, though.
"Heh...so what is it?" Kagome asked again, getting back to her original question. Sango looked at Kagome regretfully & sighed, turning her head away & looking absentmindedly into a 7 Eleven window that they happened to be passing at that moment, "Nothing, Kagome...really." Sango answered in an unsure tone, afraid to look at her friend. "Sango…" was Kagome's exasperated starting reply, "-you know, I'm not an idiot, I know when you're keeping something from me.", then she grabbed Sango's arm, so she could turn her around & they could be face to face so she could read Sango's expression. "I want too, but-" Sango suddenly cut herself off as she noticed Kagome's descending arm, and realizing, Kagome tried to pull it away, but Sango grabbed it before she had a chance to hide it from veiw.
She had just noticed something for the first time. There seemed to be new scars…
"Kagome, I thought you said you stopped…" Sango said in a dead-serious tone, as she took her eyes off Kagome's right arm, and looked up at her, a pained look in her eyes. Kagome quickly pulled her arm away, putting both of them behind her back, "I did! I swear!" Kagome said quickly with a forced smile.
"If you don't stop doing that, you're going to kill yourself! Slashing your wrists & arms doesn't help anything, Kagome." Sango said in an informative tone. "And remind me, since when did you become my mother?" Kagome countered with that sarcastic tone of hers.
Sango smirked, "And remind me, since when did you become so interested in knowing my business?" refering to Kagome's sudden interest in Sango's secrets lately.
Bullseye! She so had that coming. Kagome could think of nothing as a comeback, and just stuck her tongue out at her friend childishly, trying to regain some of her lost pride. "I'm serious, Kagome! Honestly, I don't know what I'd do if you died…you're my only real friend, y'know?" Sango got back to the conversation beforehand, now looking as if she was trying to hold back tears.
"Sango-chan!" Kagome quickly stated out confidently, smiling forcefully while trying to take that depressed look off her friend's face, "Don't worry, I did stop, honest! I got these new scars from fighting. I swear. You know how I like fighting, right? Well, um…" Kagome took a quick pause to think of a substantial lie, "…I…I got attacked by this gang the other day, on the way home from school, and I didn't try to run away or anything...'cause you know how I'm not like that. Well, this real big guy had a knife, & I just got a few cuts! That's how this happened." she blurted out overly quickly, trying to hide this nervous look on her face by pushing on smiles & smirks.
Sango tilted her head sideways a little, and wrinkled up her nose a bit, "Really? You're telling the truth?" Sango wasn't really sure…but she was as good at telling if people were lying, as she was lying herself. And again, the odds were against her on that talent.
"I swear!" Kagome said again, obviously acting overly perky. Sango just looked down at her shoes unsurely again, she didn't believe Kagome.
Kagome wrapped her arm around her friend's shoulder, and looked at her, "I promise - I'll never die on you without warning like that…and I especially wouldn't die by doing something as pathetic as killing myself! How stupid would that be? If I die, I'd want to die in a more…thrilling way, like in a fight or something." Kagome said calmly while rolling her eyes, "Believe me, would I lie to you?" she asked forcing another smile on.
…yes, I just did right there…
Sango just looked up at her, smiled back weakly, and hugged her, "You're my best friend Kagome, of course I believe you". Kagome could do nothing but bite down on her lip in guilt over Sango's shoulder, 'Dammit, Sango-chan, why do you have to be so damn gullible!' Kagome thought to herself in frustration.
Of course, I had only been lying about the 'Lying to Her' part…I was truthful about never killing myself out of the blue…or at least, that's what I had thought…
