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Kagome's family was murdered and no one knows by whom. She's only 13 when this happens so Kagome feels as though she's struck by lightning. She gives up on happiness and gets into a gang where she's their most valuable member. With Kouga by her side, and a new family, Kagome feels as if nothing could go wrong. It's not the same happiness she had before but a substitution. She promised herself she would never feel that happiness again. No matter what. Until something happens and now she's on her own again. That is, until she meets a certain silver haired person and his brother...
H a p p i n e s s I s N e v e r R e a l
Chapter 2
Pain in The Ass
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Using her hand to support herself as she leapt over the fence, Kagome looked behind her. Smirking, she slowed down a bit, knowing they would never catch up to her. This is one of those times when you would start to think about the tortoise and the hare story. The hare took a rest and then the tortoise beat him. Kagome wasn't the hare. She was better.
The pudgy officer struggled to keep up with the skinny one. They were going too slow and they knew it. Kagome would be long gone by the time they got there.
Seeing a dull yellow car that just happened to have the door open, Kagome immediately hopped in, seeing a way to escape even faster. Luckily, the keys were already in the hole so Kagome wouldn't have had to hotwire it-- not that she couldn't. It would just be a waste of time.
Kagome slammed the door shut, catching the attention of a young man on the front porch of the house the car was parked in front of. It seemed he was too busy flirting with some woman that he forgot about his car.
Kagome winked at him and drove off, leaving the blushing young man behind.
"COME BACK WITH MY CAR!" he shouted as he just realized what happened.
A few minutes later, the two cops showed up, out of breath and both holding coffee and doughnuts. You would think that it would be impossible for those two to run all this way without spilling a thing but the coffee had a lid on it and the doughnuts were in a tightly wrapped box.
"What happened here?" asked the skinny one.
"Ignore him. Did you see a young woman pass by here?" cut in the pudgy one.
"I'll answer both of your questions," answered the young man. The skinny officer smirked at the fatter one, as if saying 'Hah, MY question was right too.' The pudgy one just grimaced. "A young woman did pass by here but she stole my car!"
"This is bad," said the skinny one. "She was fast enough with only her legs but with a car...it'll be near impossible to get her now."
"You said it," agreed the fat one, chomping on a doughnut with a worried look.
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'Hmm...I wonder what the old gang is doing,' thought Kagome. She went back to her old thoughts, the ones she was thinking about before she saw the cops. She was so close, yet she knew if she even stepped foot on that street, they would be all over her within a few seconds.
Growling at the thought of being surrounded by ex-gang members, Kagome took another route-- one that led to the highway.
A few minutes later, Kagome slowed down, feeling a little tired. She reached the end of the highway and pulled over but it was a little too slow. How was she to know that a car was about the change lanes at the last second? The two cars collided and right in the exit too. Luckily, there weren't any cars around for miles but unfortunately for Kagome, the other car might have been demolished. The air bags puffed out and Kagome quickly opened the door to get out.
Walking over to the other car slowly, she realized the other car was damaged a lot more than hers was-- correction, some other guy's car. Feeling the slightest tinge of guilt, Kagome walked over to the driver's seat. Reluctantly, she opened the door.
Maybe the person in the car wasn't hurt, maybe he was just unconscious. If he was, she could make a run for it right now. She was right in front of the exit, nobody would know! When people came to see what had happened, she would be long gone. They would never know she was the driver. They would just pin the crash to whoever owned the car.
Kagome thought about this for a split second but no matter how cold and bitter she was, she was still caring. Nobody could ever get that out of her system.
To her horror, the man in the driver's seat was bleeding terribly. His leg was bent the other way and it just looked horrible. Amazingly, his hair was untouched. Beautiful, long, silvery-white hair fell into her arms as she tried to lift the man out of the car.
Praying that the man wouldn't wake up, Kagome set him down on the hard rocky floor. THAT woke him up. Prayers were never Kagome's strong point.
Golden amber orbs looked through Kagome's as he started to regain consciousness. He had a soft expression that made him look so innocent; Kagome regretted ever stealing the car. Instantly, she took it back. The eyes turned hard and anger grew.
"What the hell do you think you're doing!" he shouted.
"Saving you!" retorted Kagome.
"Wha--! OH SHIT! Look at my leg!" he gasped in shock.
Kagome grimaced. His leg wasn't a very pretty sight to see.
"Here," said Kagome as she started to take off her jacket, revealing a tight black tank top. She laid it down on the floor and sat down with him. Without saying anything, she took his head and made him sit upright, laying his head on her chest.
The man blushed a bit as she did this. He wasn't used to being fondled over.
"I-I can fix it myself!" he said, trying to regain some of his pride back. He popped his knee to fix his leg. It wasn't twisted the wrong way anymore but it did start to bleed more.
Kagome gasped as he popped his knee. She had never seen anyone do that before.
"We'll need to bandage that," she said softly. Using her teeth to tear her jacket, Kagome gently bandaged his arm and made it into some sort of sling and bandaged his knee to keep it in place-- just in case. She also bandaged the rest of him that was bleeding and she didn't even need to ask where it had hurt. The blood was seeping through his clothes a bit.
"There, that should stop the bleeding for now," said Kagome proudly. "Not bad, if I do say so myself."
She laughed lightly, having never said that phrase in her whole life. It sounded funny coming out of her mouth.
"I-I could have done that myself! I don't need some stupid ningen female's help!" he huffed.
"Well, supposedly, this ningen female just saved your life!" snorted Kagome. "Wait...ningen? You're not human?"
"Duh, what do you think these are?" he asked, pushing back his hair with his undamaged arm to reveal two cute dog ears.
Kagome's eyes contracted to dots as she fought the urge to rub them and say "kawaii!" She didn't do that kind of stuff anymore.
"So, what are you then?" she asked, not really feeling scared at all.
"Y-you mean...you're not going to run away screaming? You're not scared?"
"Why should I? You're just a demon...right?"
"Yea. But you should know, I'm not a real demon. I'm a hanyou."
"Does it matter? That's more of a reason to fear you less. You're more human than the full demons," she said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"But everyone else runs away. Everyone else is scared of me. Everyone else...hates me," the stranger said softly.
"Well," Kagome replied, lifting his chin so he could look her in the eye instead of staring at the sky. "I'm not everyone else. I'm just me. Although I have to admit, you're the first demon-- hanyou I've ever met."
She smiled at him and took the remains of her jacket to make a pillow for him.
"I'll be right back," she said. "I just have to go see if the car is working. If it isn't, we're walking."
"Eh? Don't you care about what happens to your car?" asked the hanyou. Normally, girls would go crazy and start whining about how their parents were going to kill them for ruining their cars.
She just grinned. "Not my car."
The stranger smirked back at her. "Wait. How do I know you're not just going to leave me here and drive off?"
"You don't. Just trust me on this."
He didn't answer her. For some weird reason, he did trust her and he didn't know why. That scared him. He had never been one to trust a stranger but then again, she did save him. Looking at it from a different point of view, she was the one who had crashed into him in the first place so it was her fault! He couldn't help but stare at her as she bent over to check the hood of the car.
'Nice ass,' he thought. He blushed and mentally slapped himself for thinking like that.
Swinging her backpack over her shoulder, Kagome got up and walked over to the hanyou.
"Car's busted. We're walking."
"Just how do you expect me to walk!" he growled, gesturing towards his leg.
"What do you want me to do? Carry you?" Kagome's voice was filled with sarcasm.
"Hell no!"
"Then walk!"
"But I can't!" he whined.
"Then I'll carry you!"
"Fine."
"EH?" she hadn't expected him to agree.
"C'mon then. I'm waiting."
He held out his arms as if he were a child waiting to be picked up. He looked so adorable Kagome almost couldn't refuse.
"Alright then," sighed Kagome as she picked up his legs and he wrapped his arms around her neck.
She started walking for about three minutes when suddenly the man's stomach grumbled.
"Oi, girl, do you have food?"
"I DO have a name y'know."
"What is it?"
"Tell me yours first."
"Keh! My name's InuYasha."
"Huh, nice name."
"Well? What's yours?" he asked impatiently.
"I forget. Maybe later."
He had a bug-eyed look.
She just pulled a smile.
"So do you have food or what?" InuYasha asked.
Sighing, Kagome stopped walking for a second and used one of her arms to reach into her pocket. It took about a minute because InuYasha kept on fidgeting and she kept losing her balance. She tossed up a bag of pretzels and he quickly devoured the entire thing.
"EH? YOU ATE ALL OF IT?" she shrieked. He had tossed down the empty bag to her and it fell on the floor. "Now all I have left is gum.."
"Can I have some?"
"NO!"
"...Keh..."
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About a half hour later, they reached the exit. It seemed that the highway may have ended but that exit led to the freeway. -.-;;
Kagome was getting tired and InuYasha's constant whining wasn't helping any. She had thought about dropping him and running but that wouldn't be right. He was injured and it was her fault anyhow.
InuYasha seemed to realize her hard and shallow breathing and started to break the ice. Metaphorically speaking of course. After the pretzel incident, she stopped talking. He assumed it was because she was mad but in reality, she was using all her strength to not drop him.
"So what are you? A B-cup?"
Kagome stopped walking and instantly threw him down onto the ground. He landed with an 'oomph' but Kagome didn't even flinch.
"How dare you!"
"I was just kidding. You're a C-cup, am I right?"
"I'm warning you..."
"Nah, I was seriously just kidding. At least you're talking now." He half smiled. "The silence was almost unbearable."
Kagome felt a tinge of pink rise on her cheeks and she turned away.
"I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"Dropping you like that."
"Keh! That's nothing! I'm fine now!"
He stood up to prove his point. Kagome just gaped. How--
"What the hell!"
"Ah, I forgot to mention that us demons heal fast. Even hanyous heal faster than the average human."
Kagome was about to cry with relief when she saw that he was alright but didn't. She never cried anymore. Instead of expressing her joy, she hid it with anger.
"And when did you heal completely?"
"About 10 minutes ago."
"TEN...MINUTES...AGO...?" struggled Kagome. She couldn't believe this! Here she was, tired and hungry, when HE was already completely healed and he didn't even bother to mention it! Did he think her suffering was AMUSING?
"I-I'm sorry..." apologized InuYasha as soon as he saw how angry she had gotten. He look down at the floor sheepishly and when he looked up, he had an ashamed look on his face that made Kagome forgive him completely almost immediately. ALMOST completely...
"It's okay. Don't worry about it. I guess it wasn't your fault," she said softly. "But don't you ever do that again!"
Playfully, she swatted him on the arm. InuYasha smirked and removed the sling and bandages. He didn't need them anymore. Instantly, Kagome moved up closer to him, observing the now healed wounds.
"Amazing, there's no trace of them! Not even a scar!" breathed Kagome.
InuYasha blushed a dark crimson and pushed her away.
"C'mon, I'll take you home."
"Eh? But--"
Kagome was cut off by InuYasha grabbing her and putting her on his back. He leapt up and Kagome felt as if she was flying. She wasn't worried about falling off because it didn't matter. She wasn't afraid of death and nobody would care if she died. She was suicidal but death was just another part of life to her.
"You alright up there?" asked InuYasha. He still didn't know her name.
"I'm fine. Don't worry."
"Keh! I'm not worried!" he snorted. "Hey, where do you live, anyway?"
"..." Kagome didn't answer. She didn't have a home. Her newest foster home was a little too warm and inviting. They didn't expect her home for a few more hours anyhow so she said, "Around. Can we go to your place?"
"...Okay...but I gotta warn ya, my brother is a pain in the ass..."
Kagome smirked. "So am I."
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A/N: Okay, that took too long! I'm sooo sorry everybody! I hope you'll still r/r! I kind of rushed at the end of the review responses but oh well. Y'know what? Stupid won't show these certain characters so if you were looking for your name and saw it changed, I'm sorry! Some of your names had the lil line thing and it disappeared! SORRY! And I made lotsa lil happy faces in almost each response but I guess you can't see them...
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