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Chapter Two
Kagome had just left Inuyasha' s house. She was in a good mood. She thought she might have just met a new friend. Miroku was really nice, and it seemed that they had a lot in common.
She walked in the back door only to find her mother sleeping on the couch, so she quietly walked to her room and grabbed her camera. No she wasn't going to take a picture of her drunken mom who was thrown across the couch, she was going for a walk to see what she could see.
She changed into a pair of black sweats and a dark blue tee shirt. Hey, she didn't want to be wearing a skirt in this town when she went walking alone at night.
She went towards the park. She loved that place. Someone tapped her on her shoulder; she almost jumped out of her skin (Jeez that seems to be happening a lot).
"Oh my God Sango, don't do that to me at night."
"Hey Kagome, exactly what is a fifteen year old doing at the park at this hour? Meeting someone?" Sango laughed, Kagome was embarrassed.
"No, I just went to go take some pictures, the city looks so beautiful from here, especially when all the lights are turned on."
"Oh Kagome, I forgot to give you an assignment. I guess you can just take pictures of the city right now while I sit on the bench and write about the most beautiful parts of the city, something like this that not everyone has experienced."
"That sounds really nice Sango."
They just stayed in the park in silence for about two hours. They were both getting ready to leave when they heard some gunshots a couple of blocks away.
"Sango, I know this might be risky, but I am definitely going to go check this out."
"Kagome, you could get hurt!"
"You could get first dibs on the best story to happen for weeks!" Sango couldn't argue with that. They began running down to street until they were right by the strange gunshots. There was a child being held by a tall man with a gun. What seemed to be her mother was crying and asking nicely to the man if she could have her baby back. He held the gun at her face and began yelling at the woman. She yelled back. Big mistake! He then brought the gun up to the child's head and began grinning madly.
Kagome and Sango were so close up that they could see the man's fingers tightening around the trigger.
There was nothing they could do, not now anyway. Sango felt horrible. She let a teenager go here. She let a teenager see someone get murdered.
Right before the trigger was pulled a low growling could be heard. The man let the trigger loose and turned to the growling.
Every one was looking at the dark alley just a few feet away from the scene. Out came a person with silver hair and dog-ears.
Kagome's first thought was that it might be Sesshoumaru. She knew that couldn't be. Sessh was nice to her, but he didn't really seem to care about anyone else, and there was the fact that Sesshoumaru' s ears were like humans, just a little pointy. Who was this guy?
They all wondered who this person might be. In a quick second the figure pounced on the man with the gun and they began wrestling. The mother ran up and grabbed her child as Sango began dialing 911. The man was quickly wrestled down.
Kagome took pictures, but no one seemed to notice. They could hear the police from a few blocks away.
Sango faced Kagome "You have to go now. I will be a witness to this crime, but you have to leave, it's past curfew and you'll be up all night telling the police what you saw! You could get in a lot of trouble."
Kagome quickly ran off through the backyards that had no fences. She was lucky that there was just enough of a faint glow from the city that she didn't run into anything. She ran home and developed the pictures.
Sango just stood there waiting for the police to come. The man with silver hair quickly ran to an alley and must have left quit far away. The police cars stopped just yards away from her. They came up to her and the mother with child.
Sango explained everything that she had seen first, because the woman hadn't calmed down yet. Sango got home late that night. She was so very tired.
Sesshoumaru was reading the last page of the newspaper when he heard the door slam open. He raised his head and saw his brother. "Inuyasha, why is it that you are in your hanyou form? I thought that you wanted to be human."
Inuyasha looked down. "I was walking when I saw a man with a gun."
"And..." Sesshoumaru urged his brother to continue.
"Well I couldn't just let him shoot the child so I jumped on him then I left right before the police came." He continued looking down.
"I don't know why you would endanger yourself for a human. I know I wouldn't. They aren't worth it. Your human side has made you week, Inuyasha."
Inuyasha just continued looking down at the floor. "I just didn't want the kid to get hurt."
"SO what if you see another child endangered? What will you do then?"
Inuyasha was silent for a moment. He didn't know how to answer that. "...Maybe...maybe I would just save it."
Sesshoumaru stared at his little brother for a while. "Inuyasha are you aware that you can't allow yourself to be seen like that?"
Inuyasha nodded in understanding. "Because if I do people will hate me...People and demons alike hate hanyous. They are ashamed."
There was a silence and Sesshoumaru nodded. "Maybe I could change that though." Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow.
"And how would you propose to do that Inuyasha?"
Inuyasha looked into his brother's eyes. "Maybe if I help people by using this power...maybe then hanyous could get some respect. It isn't like it's our faults. We can't help what our parents do."
Sesshoumaru nodded in understanding. "You do realize that you cannot reveal your identity."
"Why not?"
"Because then people would think you were just doing it for the glory. Maybe if you were to keep your identity a secret, but let it be known that you are in fact a hanyou maybe that would get you some respect."
"Sesshoumaru, why are you doing this? You never seem so willing to help anyone."
"Well, honestly I don't really know myself. Maybe it is because father always liked you; maybe it is because I don't want you to shame him. I want to keep you from making a fool of him."
Inuyasha frowned. 'Why can't he just be nice?' There was a silence. "Well I am going to bed. I have school tomorrow."
Kagome woke up and put on a white dress. It reached her knees and flared from the bottom. She put on her white tennis shoes and began walking to work. She knew this new story would be good. She was practically skipping all morning.
She even left early. As she waked down the street she felt a tap on her shoulder. She jumped and spun around "Oh Miroku, it's you."
"Hello Kagome, what are you doing out this early? Does it take you that long to walk to school?"
"Oh, well no not really I'm just going to drop some pictures off at work."
"Pictures?" she suddenly stopped walking. Miroku noticed and also stopped.
"Did I say something wrong?" he frowned. She picked her head up and smiled.
"Well, no, I did. It's just that I never told anyone about my job before, not even Inu."
"Oh"
"Well, I guess I could always tell you, but you can't tell anyone else, not even Inuyasha, I actually wanted to wait until something really good happened. SO...promise?"
"Yea sure, I won't tell a soul."
"Well I only believe you because I heard that you are very trustworthy." He smiled. 'Inuyasha must really like me as a friend.'
"Okay, so you see, I am a photographer for the Dayship Picayune." Miroku' s eyes almost popped out of his head. He pointed a finger at her.
"You?"
"Well, it is a small part, but hey, there's always a picture." She chirped.
"Kagome that is a very prestigious newspaper. The only accept the best authors, and those authors are rich. Each author gets to choose his or her own photographer and one of them picked you! Who cares if it's small, you have to be the youngest person to work there!" She blushed at the indirect compliment.
"Well actually, my boss beat me by a year." Miroku just stared at her in awe as they walked down the street.
"So, here it is. You don't have to go though, you can just walk to school or catch the bus if it isn't too late."
"Are you kidding? I am definitely going with you, I may never have this kind of chance again." Kagome laughed at Miroku' s excitement.
They walked into the building and Miroku stopped. Kagome noticed this and turned to him.
"Is something the matter?"
"Miroku?"
"Oh...um Kagome this place is huge! I didn't realize exactly how bid this building was!" She smiled and began walking to the elevator.
"Miss Higurashi, you know you can't just bring in visitors without notifying anyone." She turned to see the secretary.
"Oh, but this is my friend, I'm just going to drop off some pictures to Sango." The secretary 'humphed' and nodded her head.
They went up to the third floor and walked to Sango' s cubicle. She wasn't there. Kagome frowned, "Guess I'll just have to wait for a while. You might want to go without me. We are pretty early and there isn't anything for you to do here."
"No, I think I will stay." So they just stood around and talked about some upcoming tests.
"Hey Kagome, Kagura told me you had a visitor?" asked Sango as she walked in and saw Miroku.
"Oh, I guess you'd be him." She smiled and held out her hand.
"You must be the lovely Sango that I have heard so much about. Please allow me to formally introduce myself."
KONK.
"Miroku don't even think about doing that to her. One she is an adult. Two she's my boss. Three her father is a lawyer." Miroku backed off. Sango giggled at his scared facial expression.
"So I guess you are Miroku. Nice to meet you. So Kagome, did you develop the pictures from last night."
"Oh yea." She held out the pictures to Sango.
"Wow Kagome these are really good. Well, I guess you two can leave now." She waved.
"By Sango. Call me tonight."
"By lovely Sango it was nice to meet you." They left and Sango smiled to herself. 'Oh to be young with friends. They seem so happy.' Miroku and Kagome just walked to school side by side.
They reached the school and Miroku saw Inuyasha and headed towards him. He turned around and noticed that Kagome was still where they had stopped. "Aren't you coming?"
"No, no I have some stuff that I have to do." He smiled then walked off to Inuyasha.
"Hey Miroku! Where have you been? You missed the bus."
"Well actually I didn't miss the bus, I walked with Kagome." Then he glared at Inuyasha. Inuyasha couldn't really reply to that.
"Inuyashie!" Inuyasha tensed up at the sound of the voice. "Inuyashie, why didn't you answer my call last night? I called you at two because I needed a few bucks and you didn't pick up."
"Well maybe I was asleep." She frowned.
"You know Inu, I don't like that attitude of yours." Inuyasha just stared at her. He never liked her attitude. Lately she had been treating him like a slave. He was tired of it. She began to cry. "Inuyasha, why do you hurt me like this? I only wanted some help. You have been so mean to me lately." She got out between sobs. Inuyasha couldn't stand it when girls cried so he comforted her.
"Kikyo baby, I'm sorry, it's just that I have been having a ruff time lately. How about we go to the movies or to a fancy restaurant. We'll do something really special."
She gave a smirk that he couldn't see. What she didn't know is that someone else could. Miroku. He was disgusted by the way she tricked his friend. He also mad that his friend couldn't see through her act.
He just walked away. Inuyasha broke the hug when the first bell rang. He turned to talk to Miroku but found that he wasn't there. He shrugged and walked off with Kikyo.
Miroku walked silently down the hall. He ignored any of his friends that waved to him, or even the one's that pulled him into any conversations. He wanted to talk to someone, but he didn't feel right about it. He wanted to help Inuyasha, but he didn't know anyone who already knew about the situation in full.
He stormed into his class and sat down in the front row. "Miroku? What are you doing so far in the front? I thought you always sat up in the back." He turned to the voice.
"Oh, Kagome, well yea I normally do. I just felt like doing something different today." She smiled and turned back to her book.
"So what are you reading there?" She looked confused for a second and then she realized the book that was in her hand.
"Oh. This, it is the Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, I like Sci-fi and weird stuff like that."
"That's cool. I read that book a few years back. It was really good."
"Yea it is." There was a pause.
"I never thought that you were a person who liked to read." Kagome inquired.
"Well, I guess I'd be kinda surprised too. It's just that sometimes I like to get away from my life, and well reading a book puts me in a different place."
"Yea, I know what you mean. This town, these people, it all gets boring sometimes." They both just stared into space. They seemed to have a lot in common and they were both comforted by that.
It was lunchtime and Inuyasha was mad. He hadn't seen Miroku since that time in the morning. He didn't even say bye. He just left. Then he saw Miroku' s small ponytail and walked in that direction.
"Hey Miroku! Where the hell have you been all day?"
"Oh, Inuyasha it is you. Well for your information, I have been around Kagome all day." Inuyasha just stared at Miroku.
"So why did you just leave earlier?" Miroku shrugged.
"Okay..."
"So, Inu, Kagome's really cool. We have a lot in common. It's kinda weird." Inuyasha stared at Miroku. 'What does he mean by that? Why is he suddenly spending so much time with Kagome lately?'
"Hey Miroku, why are you spending so much time with Kagome? Do you like her or something?" Miroku started to laugh.
"Oh Inuyasha, why do you care? Do you like her or something?" Inuyasha just stood there.
"She's my best friend Miroku."
"And what does that mean? You two would make a great couple." Inuyasha turned a little pink .
"Look Inuyasha, no, I don't like Kagome. Well at least not in THAT way. I am only talking to her so much now because I just met her. She's really cool you know. I'm kinda disappointed that I just now met her. I only want to be her friend, nothing more." Inuyasha sighed.
"Feh, whatever, I don't care." Miroku saw Kagome and waved to her. She saw him and walked over.
"Hey Miroku, hey Inuyasha. What's up?"
"Just eating...and waiting for you."
"Really? Why?" Miroku laughed.
"So I could sit by my friend."
"Oh." She blushed from embarrassment. She took a seat and began eating. She looked up and noticed Inuyasha was standing next to the table, staring into space.
"You know Inuyasha, you could just sit down." He came back from his own little world and took a seat next to Miroku.
"So, how did you guys do on the bio test? It was a killer." "Well after last night it didn't really seemed that hard. Studying with you guys sure helped me a lot." Said Kagome.
"Yea that helped me a lot also, we should do that more often." Said Miroku.
Inuyasha just shrugged. "I don't think it helped that much, but I didn't have a clue what we were doing from the start." Kagome was about to say something when...
"Inuyasha! Where have you been? I have been looking all over for you."
"Kikyo, oh, well I have been eating with Miroku and Kagome."
Kikyo turned to the other two and sneered. "Why are you two hanging around with this wench?"
Miroku and Inuyasha both stood up angrily. "Never call Kagome a wench, ever!" Inuyasha yelled.
"You have no right Kikyo!" said Miroku. She stared at them. And began crying.
"I didn't mean to. It's just that she stole you both away from me!" She got out between sobs. She ran away. Inuyasha and Miroku stood there a moment. Inuyasha hated to see Kikyo upset like that.
"I have to go to her."
"Inuyasha no!" Miroku was too late. Inuyasha already started running after her. Miroku turned to say something to Kagome but found that she wasn't there. He turned around. No sign of her. 'Where could she have gotten to so quickly?'
He asked some students sitting near by and they said she ran off out of one of the doors and pointed to it. Miroku began in that direction.
He couldn't find her. He walked outside in the school's courtyard and sat under a tree. 'Why can't Inuyasha see through Kikyo? She is obviously up to something. But what? If I could expose her to Inuyasha then...then he won't get hurt. I just know she wants to hurt him. I just can't figure out how. Did he have to love her so much? I bet she knows that. That little bitch is taking advantage of it. Earlier I thought Inuyasha might have just let her run away and comfort Kagome. Kikyo knows his weaknesses and she is being cruel to him. Man I hope she gets out of his life soon.'
He decided to skip the rest of his classes. He got up and began walking to a café. It was a nice day. He noticed that there were a lot of people outside. 'It's nice that so many people are outside, but with so many people, something bad is bound to happen before the day is over.' He sighed and continued walking down the street. 'Kagome...why did Kikyo affect you so much? You are too nice for that kind of treatment. Come to think of it, you are so nice that I don't even try anything with you. I would feel so horrible if I did.' Then he realized where she had probably gone off to.
End of chapter two
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