I'm sorry for such a long update… school has been hell and I've been having so many things happen. Please forgive me!

Chapter Four of Skater Boy ) Enjoy!

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CHAPTER FOUR

Holding Hands

Inu Yasha waited outside the school building as all the students were dismissed from last period. He stood under a tree with sunglasses, hands stuffed into his pockets. The sunglasses were to cover up his eyes, which had grown more and more sorrow contained by them. As the swarm of students walked out of the building, Inu Yasha looked through the crowd, searching for Kagome. He didn't see her in the large group of students, until the crowd simmered down. Finally, after waiting for nearly ten minutes, Kagome made her way out with Sango, Miroku standing next to her with a smack print on his face. He still did not learn the effect of groping Sango in places that she did not want to be groped.

Then he noticed Kagome, who's smile seemed smaller than what he had seen her wearing on her lips earlier. Her lips. The soft fleshy pink, that called to his, wanting to kiss them so tenderly.

"No," he muttered. "I can't."

"Kagome, you didn't eat, did you?" asked Sango as they came closer to where Inu Yasha was waiting.

"Uhm… no…" she mumbled, her smile had now completely vanished. Sango and Miroku tried hard not to give a sympathetic look to their friend, but they couldn't help it. The poor girl had suffered enough already. With the accident… and…

"Hey," Inu Yasha called out as he walked over. "Kagome, we have to talk."

Her saddened look had changed to that of a rather angry one. "Go away!" she screamed out to him, brushing past him and walking towards the exit of the parking lot, expecting to walk home.

"Kagome, I'll give you a ride!" Sango called out to her best friend, running after her as well.

"I'll walk, its only ten miles… plus I need the exercise."

"But-" Sango tried to get Kagome to change her mind, but Miroku placed his hand on her shoulder.

"Look," Miroku whispered, as he motioned his head over to Inu Yasha, who was already walking behind her, and finally catched up to her. "I think we should give them their space."

Silently, Sango nodded and lowered her head, her bangs covering her hazel eyes. Miroku embraced her slowly, not groping her at all. He whispered into her ear how everything will be alright, and she cried out all her tears onto his shoulder, as she had done so many times in the past year.

"Why do those two have to suffer…why?" she screamed, shaking harder than before. Miroku just stood there, his arms holding her fragile body as she let it all out. "It's just not fair," she mumbled through her tears. "It's just not fair."

Kagome walked down the street, as a few tears slipped down her cheek. She knew that he was walking next to her, but she ignored him with every last bit of her. She could not stand him any more. After walking in silence for two miles, they came to a mini mall, where Inu Yasha made the first move.

He grabbed her pale hand with his, entangling his fingers in-between hers.

"I-Inu Yasha…!"

"Come on, let's go get you something to eat, okay? You must be hungry, alright?" He smiled sweetly, something he hadn't done in months, maybe years. But it tempted her enough to agree to eat lunch with him, and enough to keep her hand entwined in his.

Blushing slightly, Inu Yasha walked Kagome over to the mini mall, where a small restaurant was. He led Kagome into the restaurant, and sat down at a table by the window. After the two had ordered a meal, they talked about some things in life, mostly about Kagome.

"So you don't remember anything from before last year?" questioned Inu Yasha, who took a sip of his water.

"Well… no… all I could remember was someone was holding onto me, and I felt as if I was dying. My body and soul was completely numb, and his body was so warm… his voice was that of an angel's to me, and I could trust him. I think before I passed out, the guy said 'I love you', and then everything went black," she let out a sad sigh, as she rubbed her hands together.

"Hey, don't be sad… okay?"

Kagome looked up at him, tears already swelled up in her eyes. "That warmth… is all I have left… it's not even with me. I'm so numb, its pathetic. But… I want that warmth- it made me feel as if I was needed to someone special. And I guess that's all that I really want…"

End with this chapter, going to work on some more…

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