Crystaltears: Hey everyone! Srry we haven't updated in like forever! I'm
REALLY SORRY about that. We've all been really busy with finals and project
stuff...so we didn't really have the time to write this chapter, but we
tried as hard as we could! Remember...all the last two chapters were on the
exact same day...Saturday...and this one is too...just so u can know what
day we're at! This'll probably end up a long chapter cuz of our very spacy
updates. I promise next chappie will be a new day!!
D-E-V-L-41: Many thanks to: SweetazKande, kirei-kitsune13, guy, kylio, strawberrie bunny, S2animeluverS2, judif08, Allysono123, remix-69er, Pinayazngrl, Radhika14024, DarkSoulOfOne, Tear of Fate, kagomesheart, mangagirl626
Radhika14024: Your idea is good, but we already have everything planned out, and it's gonna be REALLY good, snickers
HAHAHA!! Most of you thought that it would be Inuyasha!! HAHAHA!! Lol, I shouldn't spoil it...Just keep reading!! And Enjoy this chapter!
Disclaimer: We don't own Inuyasha, although we truly wished we did...and in case u guys didn't know...this storyline IS based on a book...although my mind has gone blank at the moment and I can't remember what it was...
D-E-V-L-41: Based on Nick and the Nerd, I never read that book, but crystaltears41090 has. We do not own most of the plot, but we own some of it, cause we added stuff and deleted stuff.
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Chapter 8- Truths Revealed
"Hey Sango, I got to go. Hojo said he was coming by to drop off his homework."
(AN: Bet you didn't expect that...and now you're all watching your computer screens in disappointment...no worries though...)
"Oh yeah, he said you were going to start holding on to his homework."
Kagome heard Hojo's footsteps coming down the hall. "Well, I'll see ya later!"
"Yeah, tell Hojo I said hi."
"I will."
"Wow, girls, even geeky ones, I guess, talk on the phone." A familiar voice that absolutely did NOT belong to Hojo said.
The phone dropped out of Kagome's hand and she sat upright. Inuyasha stood there, leaning against the wall on his heels, a huge grin plastered onto that perfect face of his.
"What are you doing here?"
"We need to talk. I tried calling you, but obviously I've gotten a busy signal...so I decided to come over."
"Without an invitation?"
"Hey, aren't we friends, at the least?"
Kagome rolled her eyes, 'I wouldn't exactly call us friends.'
"Have a seat then." Kagome dropped down onto the couch.
Inuyasha plunked down on the couch beside her, VERY close to her. He leaned his shoulders onto the leather couch. "I guess that wasn't Abe on the phone?"
"I wish."
"Hey, it's not like I can't hope or anything, besides, I really don't think we did any irreversible damage today."
"WE? It was all you that caused the pandemonium in the store. Not ME!! I wasn't part of that!"
"Just fuck off, ok? Fuck off for a sec so I can get my priorities sorted."
At that moment, when Kagome was just about to blow her top, her grandfather came in with a tray of cookies. God, was her grandfather nosy. "You're always welcome in our humble home, Inuyasha."
"Thanks a lot, Mr. Higurashi...I've been wondering though...Can you read tea leaves or palms?"
'Oh my god!! This guy must have hit his head. God, how demented can he get?!'
Kagome's grandfather took his palm with a twinkle in his eye. "Hmm...It seems that you will soon approach a fork in the road, one path leads to happiness, the other to misery."
"Awesome!"
'God! Poor guy, he must be too stupid to know that there's a fork in the road every single day!'
"I still can't believe your grandfather is the 'Keeper of Fortunes'!! Can he predict when you're going to fail a quiz?"
"Yep. With astounding accuracy, actually," Kagome assured him, "since I NEVER fail quizzes."
Inuyasha snatched a cookie off the cookie tray and let his fingers toy with the end of Kagome's ebony hair. She knew it meant nothing; it was just Inuyasha's way of touching girls. She'd seen him do the same thing to a zillion girls in the hallways. But still...Kagome couldn't stop the pounding of her heart, and her mouth went dry.
Inuyasha looked intently at Kagome for a moment before he said, "We need to talk strategy."
"What?"
"Duh! Strategy, you wench...I thought you were good at making plans...you are a nerd after all." Inuyasha put his hand under Kagome's curtain of raven black hair and his fingers skimmed along her neck. Kagome felt shivers crawling down her spine. "Wow, you have really soft hair."
"I rinse it with rainwater."
"Really?" He moved her hair out of the way and touched her ear. "What do you wash your ears with?"
He was teasing her, and she knew it. This is why she never made conversation with guys, including Abe, she had no idea what guys were supposed to talk about. "You were saying something...about strategy."
"Oh yes...um...that...Strategy." Inuyasha bobbled his head up and down.
Inuyasha sat up and began tapping his foot annoyingly on the wooden floor. Kagome squeezed herself into the corner, just in case he ever had the urge to sit himself down again. She didn't need herself to be distracted by his absent-minded strokes since she knew it meant nothing to him.
"Obviously, the nerd was too busy thinking about his job to notice you today."
"Maybe I'm just not noticeable."
Inuyasha suddenly stopped his tapping and looked at her in the eyes, "You ARE noticeable."
"Like a zit."
Kagome looked into his gold orbs and the way he was staring at her made her think that he meant something nicer.
"So what's something nerd boy does?"
"Uh...I'm pretty sure he goes to the library five out of the seven days of the week."
'God. This nerd boy...is seriously a NERD/GEEK/SUPER FREAK boy!'
"So he'll be there tomorrow?"
"What? Tomorrow...probably. He always studies there the weekend before the next week so he can get ahead of the class."
Inuyasha nodded his head. "Ok, so we're gonna go there tomorrow."
"But I-oh hi, Hojo. Nice to see ya!"
As Hojo walked in, his eyes grew as wide as two saucers when he saw Inuyasha sitting on the catch with her. "Uh...I'll come back later."
"No. Wait. I'm your friend," Kagome protested. "Just give me your homework. That's all I ask."
Hojo gulped; it looked like Inuyasha just might pounce on him any second or bite him. 'Is that the way the cool people see me as...a dirty air that might contaminate them...a threat to them? Have they ever given me the look as if I didn't belong? Or I was lucky to be breathing the same air as them?'
Inuyasha was cool, no doubt on that one, but come to think of it, he wasn't all that different. Well...maybe he was. But he didn't let anyone else scare him, and if he wanted something, he would go after it.
'But...I can't say his goals are really impressive or anything. Like taking me to the dance...but he does do whatever it takes to get what he wants.'
Hojo reluctantly handed Kagome his homework. Kagome set on the table and looked up at Inuyasha. He was watching her with his intense and heated molten gaze.
Inuyasha suddenly shifted his gaze, "I gotta go back to my car to get something. We'll talk about our little date at the library later."
As soon as he left, Hojo turned to Kagome, "Why are you dating HIM?! Of ALL people."
"We're not dating, Hojo. Just friends. That's ALL!"
"Right. You know I've got eyes. I saw the way you were looking at him. Like he meant the whole world to you."
'Huh? What was Hojo talking about? How was I looking at Inuyasha? Do I look at him like he's a possible friend, like the way I look at Hojo? I on. He just lets people take his homework...and then gets heated up about this?'
"Anyways. I do have ears. He told you not to forget about your date."
"No...not that type of date. We're going to the library to go study."
"I never thought I'd hear 'Inuyasha' and 'study' in the same sentence. I can't BELIEVE your hanging out with him so much," Hojo retorted.
"Oh, come one, Hojo!" Kagome bit her lip from telling him about meeting Abe. She just didn't think a guy like Hojo would understand that. "I'm helping him...a little." He was proving to her that he could appeal to a brain like herself. 'God, but I don't want to consider how much he's beginning to appeal to me...AHHHHH!!!!!!!!' Kagome mentally smacked herself. "And he's helping me get a date with Abe."
'Argh! Darn it! How did I suddenly let that slip?'
"Have you gone INSANE?!!!!???!! You're trusting HIM? That no good, dirty rotten player? Kagome...I'm not friends or pals with him or anything, but all I've got to say about him is that he's like every other one of his kind...he'd never do anything for anyone unless there's something in it for himself."
"Inuyasha's different."
'But didn't I think that a ton of times too? What if he is...?'
"Stay in reality here, Kagome! If you hang out with him, there's gonna be trouble."
"I don't think so."
"Whatever. I gotta go home now." Hojo was fuming when he stomped out of the room.
'Great. Now HE'S mad at me!'
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Inuyasha reentered the room.
Kagome looked up from her spot on the couch and suddenly asked, "Hey, Inuyasha, I was just wondering...did you put that Tetsusaiga sword in my locker?"
"No duh, it didn't just appear there."
"Gosh, what's the matter with you, I was just asking!"
"A really obvious question"
"But...that day you came over to help me, you said it belonged to your friend...didn't you? You didn't STEAL it or anything, DID YOU?" Kagome was now starting to panic. What if she got caught with a sword worth millions? Her reputation and her future would go down the drain!
"So...I lied. How gullible can you get?"
"Why are you mean, then nice, then mean, then nice?!"
"Wow! You called me nice? So we ARE friends now."
Kagome was too frustrated to say anything back, instead, she just grunted.
After she got over her frustration, she said, "So why did you put it in my locker anyways, and how did you know where my locker was, and more importantly, my combination!"
"Sheesh, calm down, one question at a time; I've ACTUALLY had the Tetsusaiga ever since I was little, the other questions, let's just say I have my ways." Inuyasha smirked. 'Hehe...doesn't a little nerd like her know that if you jam a lock the right way, it'll come loose? HAHAHA!!!! And I followed her to her locker...but I can't say that or else it won't sound smart enough for her. Wait???!!!! Why do I wanna sound smart enough for a little nerd girl like HER??!!'
"URGH! That isn't helping, if you had the Tetsusaiga ever since you were little, then why did you give it to me?"
"I have no use for it!" Inuyasha lied.
Kagome looked confused, "NO USE FOR IT?! YOU COULD HAVE SOLD IT FOR MILLIONS!"
"Ok, ok fine, I just wanted to surprise you that's all, I mean you need to have some fun in your life, right?" Inuyasha said in a you-have-no-life tone.
"I guess..." Kagome said quietly.
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D-E-V-L-41: Sorry if this chapter is short, we expected a lot more, but I guess we just couldn't think of anything to write...truthfully, Crystaltears41090 wrote about 90% of this, lol, some of us were having a writer's block (Like me, Grrr hate those) and some of us didn't feel like it (Like me and the rest of the people) lol
Crystaltears: Aw!!! How sweet...but you don't understand how TERRIBLY bored I can get. As in VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY BORED!!! I mean...I have nothing...absolutely nothing I can do...actually...I have a lot I can do...but I love this story the most...cuz the most people review it...hehe.
D-E-V-L-41: Many thanks to: SweetazKande, kirei-kitsune13, guy, kylio, strawberrie bunny, S2animeluverS2, judif08, Allysono123, remix-69er, Pinayazngrl, Radhika14024, DarkSoulOfOne, Tear of Fate, kagomesheart, mangagirl626
Radhika14024: Your idea is good, but we already have everything planned out, and it's gonna be REALLY good, snickers
HAHAHA!! Most of you thought that it would be Inuyasha!! HAHAHA!! Lol, I shouldn't spoil it...Just keep reading!! And Enjoy this chapter!
Disclaimer: We don't own Inuyasha, although we truly wished we did...and in case u guys didn't know...this storyline IS based on a book...although my mind has gone blank at the moment and I can't remember what it was...
D-E-V-L-41: Based on Nick and the Nerd, I never read that book, but crystaltears41090 has. We do not own most of the plot, but we own some of it, cause we added stuff and deleted stuff.
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Chapter 8- Truths Revealed
"Hey Sango, I got to go. Hojo said he was coming by to drop off his homework."
(AN: Bet you didn't expect that...and now you're all watching your computer screens in disappointment...no worries though...)
"Oh yeah, he said you were going to start holding on to his homework."
Kagome heard Hojo's footsteps coming down the hall. "Well, I'll see ya later!"
"Yeah, tell Hojo I said hi."
"I will."
"Wow, girls, even geeky ones, I guess, talk on the phone." A familiar voice that absolutely did NOT belong to Hojo said.
The phone dropped out of Kagome's hand and she sat upright. Inuyasha stood there, leaning against the wall on his heels, a huge grin plastered onto that perfect face of his.
"What are you doing here?"
"We need to talk. I tried calling you, but obviously I've gotten a busy signal...so I decided to come over."
"Without an invitation?"
"Hey, aren't we friends, at the least?"
Kagome rolled her eyes, 'I wouldn't exactly call us friends.'
"Have a seat then." Kagome dropped down onto the couch.
Inuyasha plunked down on the couch beside her, VERY close to her. He leaned his shoulders onto the leather couch. "I guess that wasn't Abe on the phone?"
"I wish."
"Hey, it's not like I can't hope or anything, besides, I really don't think we did any irreversible damage today."
"WE? It was all you that caused the pandemonium in the store. Not ME!! I wasn't part of that!"
"Just fuck off, ok? Fuck off for a sec so I can get my priorities sorted."
At that moment, when Kagome was just about to blow her top, her grandfather came in with a tray of cookies. God, was her grandfather nosy. "You're always welcome in our humble home, Inuyasha."
"Thanks a lot, Mr. Higurashi...I've been wondering though...Can you read tea leaves or palms?"
'Oh my god!! This guy must have hit his head. God, how demented can he get?!'
Kagome's grandfather took his palm with a twinkle in his eye. "Hmm...It seems that you will soon approach a fork in the road, one path leads to happiness, the other to misery."
"Awesome!"
'God! Poor guy, he must be too stupid to know that there's a fork in the road every single day!'
"I still can't believe your grandfather is the 'Keeper of Fortunes'!! Can he predict when you're going to fail a quiz?"
"Yep. With astounding accuracy, actually," Kagome assured him, "since I NEVER fail quizzes."
Inuyasha snatched a cookie off the cookie tray and let his fingers toy with the end of Kagome's ebony hair. She knew it meant nothing; it was just Inuyasha's way of touching girls. She'd seen him do the same thing to a zillion girls in the hallways. But still...Kagome couldn't stop the pounding of her heart, and her mouth went dry.
Inuyasha looked intently at Kagome for a moment before he said, "We need to talk strategy."
"What?"
"Duh! Strategy, you wench...I thought you were good at making plans...you are a nerd after all." Inuyasha put his hand under Kagome's curtain of raven black hair and his fingers skimmed along her neck. Kagome felt shivers crawling down her spine. "Wow, you have really soft hair."
"I rinse it with rainwater."
"Really?" He moved her hair out of the way and touched her ear. "What do you wash your ears with?"
He was teasing her, and she knew it. This is why she never made conversation with guys, including Abe, she had no idea what guys were supposed to talk about. "You were saying something...about strategy."
"Oh yes...um...that...Strategy." Inuyasha bobbled his head up and down.
Inuyasha sat up and began tapping his foot annoyingly on the wooden floor. Kagome squeezed herself into the corner, just in case he ever had the urge to sit himself down again. She didn't need herself to be distracted by his absent-minded strokes since she knew it meant nothing to him.
"Obviously, the nerd was too busy thinking about his job to notice you today."
"Maybe I'm just not noticeable."
Inuyasha suddenly stopped his tapping and looked at her in the eyes, "You ARE noticeable."
"Like a zit."
Kagome looked into his gold orbs and the way he was staring at her made her think that he meant something nicer.
"So what's something nerd boy does?"
"Uh...I'm pretty sure he goes to the library five out of the seven days of the week."
'God. This nerd boy...is seriously a NERD/GEEK/SUPER FREAK boy!'
"So he'll be there tomorrow?"
"What? Tomorrow...probably. He always studies there the weekend before the next week so he can get ahead of the class."
Inuyasha nodded his head. "Ok, so we're gonna go there tomorrow."
"But I-oh hi, Hojo. Nice to see ya!"
As Hojo walked in, his eyes grew as wide as two saucers when he saw Inuyasha sitting on the catch with her. "Uh...I'll come back later."
"No. Wait. I'm your friend," Kagome protested. "Just give me your homework. That's all I ask."
Hojo gulped; it looked like Inuyasha just might pounce on him any second or bite him. 'Is that the way the cool people see me as...a dirty air that might contaminate them...a threat to them? Have they ever given me the look as if I didn't belong? Or I was lucky to be breathing the same air as them?'
Inuyasha was cool, no doubt on that one, but come to think of it, he wasn't all that different. Well...maybe he was. But he didn't let anyone else scare him, and if he wanted something, he would go after it.
'But...I can't say his goals are really impressive or anything. Like taking me to the dance...but he does do whatever it takes to get what he wants.'
Hojo reluctantly handed Kagome his homework. Kagome set on the table and looked up at Inuyasha. He was watching her with his intense and heated molten gaze.
Inuyasha suddenly shifted his gaze, "I gotta go back to my car to get something. We'll talk about our little date at the library later."
As soon as he left, Hojo turned to Kagome, "Why are you dating HIM?! Of ALL people."
"We're not dating, Hojo. Just friends. That's ALL!"
"Right. You know I've got eyes. I saw the way you were looking at him. Like he meant the whole world to you."
'Huh? What was Hojo talking about? How was I looking at Inuyasha? Do I look at him like he's a possible friend, like the way I look at Hojo? I on. He just lets people take his homework...and then gets heated up about this?'
"Anyways. I do have ears. He told you not to forget about your date."
"No...not that type of date. We're going to the library to go study."
"I never thought I'd hear 'Inuyasha' and 'study' in the same sentence. I can't BELIEVE your hanging out with him so much," Hojo retorted.
"Oh, come one, Hojo!" Kagome bit her lip from telling him about meeting Abe. She just didn't think a guy like Hojo would understand that. "I'm helping him...a little." He was proving to her that he could appeal to a brain like herself. 'God, but I don't want to consider how much he's beginning to appeal to me...AHHHHH!!!!!!!!' Kagome mentally smacked herself. "And he's helping me get a date with Abe."
'Argh! Darn it! How did I suddenly let that slip?'
"Have you gone INSANE?!!!!???!! You're trusting HIM? That no good, dirty rotten player? Kagome...I'm not friends or pals with him or anything, but all I've got to say about him is that he's like every other one of his kind...he'd never do anything for anyone unless there's something in it for himself."
"Inuyasha's different."
'But didn't I think that a ton of times too? What if he is...?'
"Stay in reality here, Kagome! If you hang out with him, there's gonna be trouble."
"I don't think so."
"Whatever. I gotta go home now." Hojo was fuming when he stomped out of the room.
'Great. Now HE'S mad at me!'
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Inuyasha reentered the room.
Kagome looked up from her spot on the couch and suddenly asked, "Hey, Inuyasha, I was just wondering...did you put that Tetsusaiga sword in my locker?"
"No duh, it didn't just appear there."
"Gosh, what's the matter with you, I was just asking!"
"A really obvious question"
"But...that day you came over to help me, you said it belonged to your friend...didn't you? You didn't STEAL it or anything, DID YOU?" Kagome was now starting to panic. What if she got caught with a sword worth millions? Her reputation and her future would go down the drain!
"So...I lied. How gullible can you get?"
"Why are you mean, then nice, then mean, then nice?!"
"Wow! You called me nice? So we ARE friends now."
Kagome was too frustrated to say anything back, instead, she just grunted.
After she got over her frustration, she said, "So why did you put it in my locker anyways, and how did you know where my locker was, and more importantly, my combination!"
"Sheesh, calm down, one question at a time; I've ACTUALLY had the Tetsusaiga ever since I was little, the other questions, let's just say I have my ways." Inuyasha smirked. 'Hehe...doesn't a little nerd like her know that if you jam a lock the right way, it'll come loose? HAHAHA!!!! And I followed her to her locker...but I can't say that or else it won't sound smart enough for her. Wait???!!!! Why do I wanna sound smart enough for a little nerd girl like HER??!!'
"URGH! That isn't helping, if you had the Tetsusaiga ever since you were little, then why did you give it to me?"
"I have no use for it!" Inuyasha lied.
Kagome looked confused, "NO USE FOR IT?! YOU COULD HAVE SOLD IT FOR MILLIONS!"
"Ok, ok fine, I just wanted to surprise you that's all, I mean you need to have some fun in your life, right?" Inuyasha said in a you-have-no-life tone.
"I guess..." Kagome said quietly.
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D-E-V-L-41: Sorry if this chapter is short, we expected a lot more, but I guess we just couldn't think of anything to write...truthfully, Crystaltears41090 wrote about 90% of this, lol, some of us were having a writer's block (Like me, Grrr hate those) and some of us didn't feel like it (Like me and the rest of the people) lol
Crystaltears: Aw!!! How sweet...but you don't understand how TERRIBLY bored I can get. As in VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY BORED!!! I mean...I have nothing...absolutely nothing I can do...actually...I have a lot I can do...but I love this story the most...cuz the most people review it...hehe.