Warui Musubi - Evil Riceball
Please don't question my weirdness. I know I am odd.
CHAPTER 4 - SPYINGAs Inu-Yasha walked on to the park with his skates dangling in his left hand, I watched with anticipation. I hid behind trees, cars, and anything I saw as I followed him. The park entrance came into view. Kikyo was waiting impatiently by the "WELCOME TO CLIFFE PARK" sign. But when she saw Inu-Yasha, she put on a fake smile (this time without showing her braces), and she waved with a friendly, I'm-a-sweet-damsel-in-distress gesture. The sight of it disgusted me. It was as unKikyo-ish as you can get. I wished Inu-Yasha would see her true personality, even a glimpse, and come to me and say that he liked…
I shook those thoughts out of my head. I had to stay focused. As far as I knew, the only way Kikyo was going to show Inu-Yasha her nasty, true side was if I was present. And that was the point of my genuine GET-INU-YASHA-AWAY-FROM-KIKYO plan. Operation: commenced.
"Hi, Inu-Yasha," Kikyo cooed sweetly.
"Hi, sorry I'm late," Inu-Yasha apologized.
I grinded my teeth together. He was apologizing to that wench! I wished I could thwart him away from Kikyo somehow, but that would ruin my plan. I had to wait for the right moment. I hated to do it, but I stayed right behind the bush that I was hiding in and didn't budge, even though my brain was screaming at me to interfere ahead of time.
I watched as Kikyo and Inu-Yasha put their skates on. Kikyo's skates, her favorite pair with hearts all over it (Yuck!), was what she brought. I noticed that she even polished them.
I knew that Kikyo was a very experienced skater, and I wondered how I would keep up with her when she was skating. I knew I couldn't take my eyes off of them, after all. I suddenly felt foolish for forgetting to bring my own skates. I wasn't as good at it as Kikyo, but at least I could stand up on the skates. I sighed. It was too late now.
Inu-Yasha stood up on his skates and brushed off his jeans. Kikyo finished lacing her's and attempted to stand up, but to my surprise she fell over.
This shocked me. I couldn't help but wonder, What the hell! I mean, didn't I just finish saying two paragraphs ago what a great skater Kikyo was? I had never once seen her fall like that. Then it hit me—she was faking. It was a dirty trick. She was going to use her "inability" to skate to somehow get Inu-Yasha!
"Sorry," she said apologetically, "I'm not really experienced in the whole roller-skating department."
I wanted to shout, "Bullshit!", but I sealed my mouth tightly shut. I really began to wish I had remembered my roller skates. Really.
"Are you sure you want to go roller skating, then?" Inu-Yasha asked with concern. "I mean, if you're not good at it, then…"
"Oh, well…I was hoping that you could…well, give me lessons."
So that was Kikyo's plan. She was trying to play damsel in distress again. She never played fair!
I recalled all of the times Kikyo punched me or gave me a fat lip simply because she got a bad grade or had to dump someone. I remembered how she controlled me and bossed me around. Then I decided: If Kikyo wasn't going to play fair, that was fine. Because neither was I.
I watched them for a whole half hour as Inu-Yasha "taught" Kikyo how to skate. I could tell that Kikyo's enthusiasm for learning how to skate was fake. She actually seemed pretty bored.
Bored—I could truly say that that's how I felt. I yawned. I struggled to keep my eyes open. No! I screamed at myself. I can't fall asleep now—not when everything is at risk! Bored…
I was about to take a much struggled-against snooze when I heard Kikyo say, "Hey, Inu-Yasha. All this skating is making me a little hungry. Are you hungry too?"
I listened intently as Inu-Yasha replied, "Well, I guess I am a lit—"
"Great!" Kikyo interrupted. "Why don't we go somewhere to eat then?"
I wanted to strangle Kikyo with my bare hands. She was a complete witch! It was torture for me to sit and watch, but I decided not to act quite yet. I followed a safe distance behind them as Kikyo lead Inu-Yasha to a local restaurant called Vincent's.
When they went in, I realized that if I went in, they would recognize me. But I knew I had to watch them somehow, if not from peeking through the restaurant window. Damn, I thought. Nothing is ever easy.
I quickly grabbed an old newspaper from last week off of the ground, wiped it off a bit, and shoved it in front of my face. I knew I must have looked weird, but at least Inu-Yasha and Kikyo wouldn't be able to see my face. That was all that mattered.
I sat down in a booth right behind them. I knew it was bold and a bit risky, but the restaurant was noisy, and I wanted to be able to hear their conversation, every word.
"So, Kikyo," Inu-Yasha said after clearing his throat, "you have a twin sister named Kagome?"
My heart skipped a beat. If Kikyo now knew that he knew about me… I could only imagine the beating she would give me afterwards.
Kikyo tried to keep on her fake smile, but I could see (peeking my eyes above the newspaper) her surprised look. "Oh, you met her, did you?"
Oh, no… I thought to myself in a panic. Please let Kikyo have mercy on me. Don't let her hurt me more…
Inu-Yasha, astonished by Kikyo's sudden coldness at the mention of me, said, "Yes. Do you two…not get along or something?"
"You!" Kikyo cried shrilly. "You, don't go near her! She…she…"
Kikyo calmed down a bit and then went on. "She is a very violent person at times. She may try to hurt you, and I would feel so upset if she ever laid a hand on you."
Violent, eh! I'd show her violent! She was the real violent one! I only hoped Inu-Yasha would see that.
He raised his eyebrow slightly. "She didn't seem that way to me."
Kikyo stammered as she tried to make up an excuse, and then she finally came up with, "First appearances can be rather deceiving."
Inu-Yasha didn't respond. I was really beginning to struggle to stay in my seat. I wanted to barge in and startle Kikyo right at that moment, but I still decided to wait. I knew Kikyo was going to try something else, something bigger, and that was when I wanted to act.
Her bigger plan occurred sooner than I thought it would. I saw her pose and knew what she was going to try to do; she was attempting to KISS INU-YASHA!
I didn't even wait to see how Inu-Yasha was reacting to Kikyo's sudden "smooch attempt." I simply stood up and crammed the newspaper in Kikyo's face. It was the first bold thing I had ever tried to physically do to her, and it satisfied me more immensely than I first realized.
Kikyo's face was red with anger as she pulled the newspaper from her face. She was glaring right at me. Inu-Yasha watched with confusion.
"Kagome…" Kikyo said in a dangerous tone I had rarely heard her speak in. "This is the last straw. You are a little bitch, do you know that? How long?"
I didn't open my mouth. Kikyo was being unusually calm about the situation, and I didn't like it.
"HOW LONG?" Kikyo snapped, making me jump. "How long have you, you horrible little bitch, been spying on me and Inu-Yasha? Huh?"
I still didn't answer. I avoided any possible eye contact with Kikyo and Inu-Yasha. No matter how bad a situation I was in, this was all according to plan. That was all that mattered.
There was a long silence. In the middle of that silence, Inu-Yasha got up and left. Just like that.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Sheesh! I just went back and read this chapter. It didn't have much humor in it. I had really hoped that it would… Oh, well. The next chapter should get a little funnier. Sesshomaru will take a little part in the story (keyword: little) in the next chapter, so it should be interesting. And Kagome will definitely be in a better mood, since she will be going on an "outing" nudge, nudge, wink, wink with Inu-Yasha. Yeah, things will be getting interesting all right.
Phew. This chapter is a little longer I think. Not much, though. Gosh, my fingers are tired though! Ta ta! (Sorry, no preview for the next chapter! I haven't started writing it yet, so it may take some time for me to update!)