Usually, I would be happy with the amount of reviews I got, but I'm really not so much, considering the content. Not that it was overly criticizing, mind you, but... let's just say that I get guilty REALLY easy, over a lot of things I have no control over. Like I feel guilty that my science teacher might get fired because the school district doesn't have enough "funding" to keep her at her job. Yet they have the money to build a new pool, two new gyms, new track area, baseball area, baseball practice area, football field, and football stands. (KPK- kinda funny that they're planning on having fees to get onto the sport teams) I DISPISE sports in the first place, but when they say they don't have enough funding... I don't buy that bullshit, mista!
Also, I know that many of you are most likely using any source you can to attempt to find me and make sure that I am stabbed, shot, decapitated, and exploded with some TNT (Then impaled with the Disney Magic Cruise Liner... That was very creative. I don't think I ever would have thought of that one). However, the stuff in the last chapter (no matter how much I wish it could burn in hell) literally had to happen. Seriously, it did. If it didn't, there would be no third story in the making.
Disclaimer -(SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS! Haha! That was fun!
Some of you guys are real moody, ya' know that? Seriously, I was reading some of KZ's reviews. But still, we loves y'all. Now, on to business! Am I right in sayin' that the reverse gravity-ness has caused insanity throughout the folksies (new fave word) still at the mall? Considering they were singing the song previously stated when we left them, I'd say 'hell yeah!' So. What the am I gonna do for this chapter? (KZ really took out all the stops for this one folksies) How 'bout we go back in time and find out what the flying girls are up to? We left them just having hit the bottom of a 747, which is preparing to land.)
(WARNING: DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT TRY ANY OF THIS STUFF AT HOME! I'm serious!)
Love Music- Any bright ideas?
Shard- Leave your name and number and I'll get back to you!
Sangarouka- We are seriously screwed!
Sango- KINDA FIGURED THAT, NUMBSKULL!
KungPowKitty- I coulda been sleepin' in!
Shard- Okay, the important thing is to NOT PANIC!
Love Music- Haven't we done this already?
(landing gear comes down)
Sango- This is new
Sangarouka- Bad bad bad bad bad bad BAD!
KPK- Bad would be a good description
(Meanwhile, INSIDE the plane)
(crtsxtht) Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We'd like to say thank you for responding effectively to the unexpected turbulence we had earlier. Our technicians will be looking into it once we land at St. Louis Lambert Airport, where it is currently 74 degrees and 11:47 A.M. (crtsxtht)
("Responded Effectively" my patookus. When the girls were launched into the hull of the flying brick, not only was there pandemonium, but the flying attendant just about leapt out the emergency exit in a state of panic. Two words: First Day. Furthermore, those stupid oxygen masks popped out, which is enough to make anyone a little jittery.)
(Back outside)
Shard- What the heck are you doing!
Love Music- I'm reading! Maybe it'll give me an idea of how to get us out of this mess! (thwacks KPK)
KPK- OW! Hey! (whap) What was that for!
Sangarouka- You've got us stuck to the underside of a 747!
KPK- At least we aren't up on the moon at this point!
Sango- She has a point (whap)
KPK- YEOW! YOU JUST AGREED WITH ME! WHAT IS THIS!
Sango- Figured I must be missing something if everyone else was hitting you also
KPK- Love Music, out of curiosity, what are you reading?
Shard- IT'S THE SCRIPT TO PIRATES OF THE BLOODY CARRIBEAN!
Sango- Whoa, cool it.
Shard- COOL IT? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND! LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE! NOT ONLY ARE WE STUCK TO THE UNDERBELLY OF A 747 WHICH IS ABOUT TO LAND, SQUISHING US INTO OBLIVION, BUT GRAVITY'S FLIP-FLOPPED ON US! (reminds me of a certain senator who ran for, and lost, the recent election)
KPK- Don't push me, you republican
Shard- Oh, I'm pushin', democrat
(And all hell breaks loose)
Love Music- (turns page) I'll never get used to those two
Sango- Did I miss something?
Sangarouka- Yeah. It's called American Political Parties, and it also happens to be the worst invention yet conceived by mankind
Shard- (is yelling at KPK (who is yelling back) when her hand hits the planes landing gear, aka wheel, and the baggage compartment flies open, sending several suitcases and what looks like a tea set flying)
Shard- Oops.
KPK- you just know there's gonna be lawsuits after this mess
Love Music- Hey! (looks at 'Pirates' script) I HAVE AN IDEA! Follow me! (jumps into the baggage compartment, landing on the ceiling of the room.)
(four other gals follow) (and make a general mess of things)
Shard- Ohhhhhhh, I hit something!
KPK- Yeah! Me! Get off!
Sango- (pops out of pile of suitcases with some rather, ahem, peculiar clothing items on) I can't see a foot in front of my face
Sangarouka- Gee, I wonder why that is
Sango- (moves the coat off her head) Hey! A foot!
Sangarouka- That would be mine. Love Music, why the heck did you bring us in here!
Love Music- (leaps up onto ceiling (Remember the gravity!). Under normal circumstances (okay, normal for these guys), this wouldn't be all that odd, except she is dressed up as a pirate) Arrrr, me mateys! Come, you scurvy dogs!
(other four girls lean away some)
Shard- I think she's spent a few too many hours watching 'Pirates.'
Sango- I think she's been spending too much time with Felix.
Sangarouka- I think she's just plain crazy!
KPK- I think we're in trouble!
(five girls lean out of baggage compartment to look at what KPK is. Seems they are about 20 seconds from landing)
Sangarouka- Now what! The moment they land, we're dead! Not only are there five girls in the baggage compartment of a commercial airline, but they just happen to be stuck to the ceiling of the baggage compartment! Furthermore, there are about a zillion bags missing, having flown down to earth because gravity ain't messed up for them ( and which have probably landed on several dozen people by now)! If that isn't enough, the REST of the bags have all practically exploded because we followed Love Music's bright idea of jumping in here in the first pla- (wham-o!)
KPK- Announcing the return of the frying pan
Shard- (wakes up Sangarouka) All right, buddy, first of all, I'm the one who panics, so don't take my job. Second of al-
Sangarouka- I'm the prettiest girl on Mulberry Street!
Shard- Uh oh
Sango- Okay, so, what Sangy over here said + What has just happened to her + Us about to land in about 5 seconds, which will probably result in us all getting numerous injuries due to the position on the plane Major crap
KPK- Yeah pretty much
Love Music- Gonna ask me why I'm dressed up like a pirate?
KPK- Only if it makes the situation less of a mess
Love Music- What did pirates do?
Shard- pillage
Love Music- And?
Sangarouka- Meet me in Saint Louis, Louis, Meet me at the fair!
Love Music- No.
Sango- 2 seconds. Just tell us
Love Music- Let's put it this way: We're the pirates, and the plane is the ship we're planning to steal so we can fly ourselves out of this mess
Shard- Isn't that kind of against the law?
Love Music- This is a disclaimer. Just look how much we've been able to say in less than 2 seconds!
Sango- She has a poi-
WHAM, BANG, BUMP, ZAM, UTTER CONFUSION, THUD, CRACK (crack? that can't be good!) ZOOEY, CLATTER, WHAAAAAOOOOOOOO, BOPITY BOPITY BOPITY BOOM!
...roll roll roll roll cli-li-li-li-link
Shard- Methinks...we...just...landed
KPK- I'd like to think so. Hold it
(it's a dream come true. Sort of. Well, maybe just ironic. During their bumpy landing, seems some of the bags exploded. This means that the contents went everywhere. And apparently, some of the clothes just happened to get themselves onto the girls and... well... hm...)
Sango- WE'RE PIRATES!
Sangarouka- Yo ho ho, and a bottle o' rum!
(Only in a Disclaimer, my friends) (Geez, this thing is getting long!)
KPK-(to Love Music) You're ecstatic about this, aren't you?
Love Music- (is dancing around like a maniac) How could you tell?
Shard- Uh, Warning: Peoples are a'coming to unload and inspect our little rowboat!
Sango- Cue the final line that foreshadows our impending doom to come in the next chapter
Love Music- (raises a sword- Hey, wait where'd she get that?) On to pillage!
Sangarouka- Hallelujah!
(Am I bad?)
CHAPTER 23 - Plans Revealed - Part Two - True Juliet
Once upon a broken heart
I was walking alone in the dark
Looking for a way to start again
What wouldn't I give for a friend
In only a moment after Kagome was about halfway to the auditorium door, Sango, Miroku, and Naena sliced through the ropes they had been working at.
Naena waited a moment, before having the sand bag hit him in the head. "What is with getting hit in the head all the time?"
Sango's bag fell, and landed smack on Chiaki's head.
The preppy girl was completely thrust out of her disgusting little dream come true. She raised a finger into the air. "Ow." She fell unconscious on the balcony floor. As Inuyasha was bending down to her when Miroku's bag fell on his head, and jolted the hanyou's eyesight back to normal. As the curtains began to close, attempting to quell the unfortunate incident, Inuyasha came back to reality. He rubbed his head in sheer agony. "Ow... what in the... what's going on?"
Miroku, Sango, and Naena were now all utterly befuddled.
Inuyasha suddenly felt like puking. He could taste Chiaki in his mouth, a bitter sourness that delved into the deepness of his body. Inuyasha hated it, and no matter how many times he spat, he couldn't get the damned taste out.
The hanyou's sense of smell came back next. He smelled Kagome's dried tears. Tears of sheer agony, sheer pain, almost to the point of sheer hatred, he could smell the feelings in her fallen tears.
He looked up at the audience, and through the last bit of the open curtains, he saw Kagome, with the straightest face he had ever seen. No anger, no happiness, not even hurt, just... nothing. She opened the auditorium door, and left.
There was no love in my life
There was no light in my eyes
He attempted to reach out for her, even though it was futile, but the curtains closed off the figure of her, the door, and his love. Miroku's, Sango's, and Naena's scents came to him next. Before any of the drama department could get to him, the hanyou jumped up to where he smelled his friends. "What are you guys doing up here? What's with Kagome?"
In all of his time, Inuyasha had never seen Sango so... enraged. Out of reflex, she reached backwards for a nonexistent Hirikotsu. Finding none, the demon-exterminator whirled her hand around and slapped Inuyasha on the cheek. He was stunned. (KPK- thank you)
"I couldn't have put it better myself," Miroku put in, with Naena nodding with concurrence.
"How dare you ask 'What's with Kagome?' you bastard!" Sango yelled. "After what you just did, just tearing her heart out and setting it on fire, I'm surprised she didn't purify you into dust!"
"Huh?"
The three know where confused. Inuyasha had no clue what they were talking about.
All the tears that I had cried and cried
Seemed like they'd never end and I...
Kagome quietly left the school building with not so much more as inhaling and exhaling. What else can be expected? When a person has they're heart shattered completely, it's like they're soulless. I speak from experience.
'I wonder what I ever saw in him,' she thought, stepping out onto the pavement of the sidewalk, legs subconsciously taking her home. 'He's arrogant, selfish, a show-off, stupid, uncaring, overly protective, strong, handsome, funny, cute, sweet, gentle, and every damn thing I loved... everything I loved...'
Small tears fell off of her un-emotional eyes, her unemotional face. She stopped abruptly in her step, and turned in direction. 'I can't go home. I'll see him there, and he'll probably just rub it in my face: the fact that he's going out with the most popular girl at school...' she exhaled harshly, very close to a sigh. 'I'll just leave. I'll leave Tokyo behind, and make a new life for myself. The train station isn't all that far away, just a few blocks. Maybe I can go to Nagoya, or Sapporo, or maybe even Okinawa. Ooh... an Okinawa beach must be so much better than a Tokyo snow drift...' She felt around in her pockets. '... along with no money. Guess leaving town is out of the cards...' She turned around, and headed back towards her house.
Never believed fairy tales came true
But now know that they really do
Now that I found you
Now that I'm here with you
Inuyasha bolted out of the school. It hadn't taken long for Sango's and the other's explanation to hit him in the head and heart.
"You mean you have no recollection whatsoever of what just happened on that balcony?" Miroku asked.
The hanyou shook his head. "None, cept for the disgusting taste of Chiaki in my mouth. Ick, bleach, p-tui," he responded.
"Well..." Naena began." There's a certain reason for that..."
"Kagome, obviously came to this damned show," Sango interrupted. " We were all watching the play and such when a few guys around us acted rather strangely, but nothing too out of the ordinary..." she glared at the houshi. He cringed in spot.
"And this matters because?"
"Because since she was here," Miroku continued. "She just saw something that the romance editors for the school newspapers are going to be hounding you about for the next millennia."
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow in confusement.
Just look at the sunshine, and you
Showed me a world I had never seen
I woke up and fell into this dream
Happily ever after just took time
Once upon this broken heart of mine
"You baka, she saw you kiss Chiaki!" Naena shouted.
Inuyasha instantly took grasp of the situation.
Sango got a quizzical look on her face. "Inuyasha, what all do you remember?"
"Only that before this damned scene I smelled something sweet, kind of like burning sakura, I lost all memory of everyone I know, and my eyesight went red. That's it, and I'm so outta here!" he lunged out of the area above the stage, and got out of the school as fast as he could.
"KAGOMEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Inuyasha shouted, hoping to get some sort of a call back. None. Even though he could smell her, it wasn't good. Her scent... it wasn't it's usual self. Instead of being like a grove of spring flowers, the felicity of the ocean upon shore, everything that he loved and adored, it was cold and almost non-existent, like a rotting tree from being incinerated by a fire.
"KAGOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" he roared once more. He was just slightly able to pick up a sound, like it was her stopping for a moment before moving on. In the direction of her house. 'Duh.' He mentally slapped himself in the head.
In only a moment more, he caught sight of her, and landed a few yards behind her. "Kagome!" He ran over to her as fast as he could, arm outstretched.
Long ago and far away
I could never dream of the day
Kagome turned her head around a bit, just enough so he could see her face. Nothing. Completely empty, like a shell with no life within. She stepped out of the way of his contentious grab, and turned to face where he would land.
Inuyasha stopped, and turned around to look at Kagome. For the first time in his life, Inuyasha had been completely refused by Kagome.
"Inuyasha," she began, with almost a smile on her face. "You don't have to act out this whole soap opera anymore, m'kay? I already know that you're in love with Chiaki, and I-"
"Kagome I-"
She held up two fingers to silence him, her eyes closed and an almost smug smile on her lips. "And I wish you both the best. Now, I would appreciate it if you didn't try to hang around me anymore, I've got things to do you know!" She started to walk off again.
' I don't believe it...,' Inuyasha thought, a knot forming in his throat. 'I've... After all that I've done to her in the past... I've actually... broken her heart...'
That your love would come my way and stay
And sweep me away, and I...
"Kagome, please listen to me!" he yelled, and lunged forward. Once again, she sensed it coming, and moved out of the way.
"I have no need to, Inuyasha," she said plainly to the hanyou now on the ground. "I was foolish, you know," she began, facing him. "To think that it was possible to change who you loved, to try to get Kikyo out of the picture. And of course, the moment that happened, you met Chiaki, and your heart was taken instantly, like something out of a fairy tale."
Inuyasha just lay on the ground, and whimpered. The first time he had whimpered in a long time. It went unheard.
"You know, Inuyasha, I actually was in love with you... But, hey, can't change people, so, my heart just let go. Just let it rest in peace, 'kay?" she smiled. Her words stung him, more than anything that he had felt before. More than when he battled Hiten and Manten, more than Ryukotsusei, even more than when he had learned his mother had died and was thrown out of the household he had resided in when she was living. They were ripping at his insides.
Kagome began to walk off again.
Never believed fairy tales came true
But now I know that they really do
Now that I found you
Now that I'm here with you
Inuyasha shot straight up, and this time took hold of Kagome's wrist. She turned around, and he prepared for another nonchalant onslaught of words.
"DAMN IT, INUYASHA, MY HEART IS ALREADY DESTROYED, CAN'T YOU AT LEAST LET ME BE!" Kagome screamed, tears now gushing from her eyes. "YES, I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU! I'VE BEEN IN LOVE WITH YOU SINCE FOREVER! BUT I KNOW THAT YOU DON'T RETURN THE FEELINGS, SO LET ME GO!"
"Kagome, pl-"
"NO!" She wailed, still attempting to have his grip be relented. " I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE DAMNED EXCUSES, LIES, OR LOVE GAMES, INUYASHA! NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, YOU'VE KILLED ME INSIDE!"
Inuyasha felt guilt wave over him unpresidently.
"I'VE BEEN HURT AND SLASHED BY EVERY TIME YOU WERE WITH KIYKO, AND I HATE HER FOR IT! I WISH HER CLAY BODY WOULD JUST FALL APART, WHEREVER IT MAY BE!" she screamed. It was never apparent to her of how much she had bottled up her emotions, how much she really did despise Kikyo for 'taking' Inuyasha away from her. It was like her hatred had taken on a body of it's own, and had taken over. " I'VE HATED IT, AND I HATE YOU NOW! NO MATTER HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU, I HATE YOU FOR KILLING ME! YOU'VE CRUSHED MY HEART INUYASHA! THAT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN DAMN WELL HEAL!" she screeched, before breaking down into uninterrperable sobs.
"Kagome, please listen to me..." Inuyasha began, pulling the teenage girl to face him.
Just look at the sun shine, and you
Showed me a world I'd never seen
I woke up and fell into this dream
Happily ever after just took time
Once upon this broken heart of mine
"I don't know what happened. Everything just went red, like my eyes were glazed over in blood or something. I couldn't control myself, like I was being controlled or something. I-"
"Oh please," Kagome snapped back between sobs. "This is just like that time when you went on the date with Chiaki, and then you brought me home and put on a wonderful performance of 'how sorry' you were, and how 'love would make you do stupid things sometimes'. At first I thought you meant you were in love with me, but then I thought it was toward Kikyo, but now I know that it was for Chiaki all along."
"But..." A small tear rolled it's way down the hanyou's cheek. No matter how much Kagome tried to deny it, she knew it was genuine. "But... But I am in love with you Kagome. I've been in love with you for so long..."
This is the way a fairy tale feels
This is the way I know its real
Cuz this is the way a broken heart...
Kagome was stunned. She could tell that he was telling the truth; babysitting her little brother and being able to tell when he was lying about putting gum in the cats hair really paid off every now and then.
"But Chi-"
Before she could stop him, Inuyasha reached over, grabbed the back of Kagome's neck, and sealed his mouth over hers.
heals...
Every last bit of her screamed with rejoice, every last shard of her heart that had shattered and punctured her gut found it's way out and reshaped it's way back together in her chest.
After a moment of letting the fact sink in, Kagome flung her arms around Inuyasha and kissed him back, tears slowing down into, not those of pain, but of joy.
Inuyasha breathed in deeply, and caught Kagome's scent. Not only was it back to it's original splendor, but in extremity, all of it shouting to be released from extreme power, extreme happiness.
Yeah...
And I...!
Never believed fairy tales came true
But now I know that they really do
Now that I found you
Now that I'm here with you
Inuyasha pulled back, and before Kagome could question him, he pulled her into his chest. "I can't tell you how much I'm in love with you, Kagome. You're everything to me!" He held her tighter. "And I don't want you to think anything otherwise ever again."
"But..." Kagome began, wrapping her arms around the half demon's chest. "What about Kikyo? And Chiaki?"
"Keh!" He turned the miko so her face looked into his. "For one thing, Chiaki is a preppy little bitch for which the only reason I haven't sliced her to bits is because the damned law in this realm doesn't allow it. And two, Kikyo is nothing more than a shab body; nothing more than a clad of earth and ash. And... She smells like death, which isn't all that nice of a smell, mind you."
Kagome giggled in Inuyasha's arms.
Just look at the sunshine, and you
Showed me a world I'd never seen
I woke up and fell into this dream
After a moment of just holding each other, Kagome looked up at her new boyfriend. "Um... Inuyasha?"
"Hmm?"
"Could you hug me a little less, I can't breath."
"Fine, but only if I get to do this." Inuyasha smiled, and swung the miko up and into his arms, so that he was carrying her.
"Inuyasha, what are you doing!"
"What's it look like, carrying you."
"No duh. But, why are you heading back to the school?"
"Simple. We're going to break the news to everyone, and have some fun bashing Chiaki."
Kagome leaned up, and placed a kiss on his cheek. "Thank you, Inuyasha..."
He grinned like a complete fool.
Happily ever after just took time
Once upon this broken heart of mine
(KPK- YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY! HAAAAAAAAAAAAALLELUJAH! (dances around the room in pure ecstasy! (KZ- For real. I'm serious, she is doing seventies disco)) ABOUT TIME!)
Now, is that better everyone? No more bad feelings?
(Sorry for Kikyo Lovers)
(song was Once upon a broken Heart by Beu Sisters)
Review?... Please?... Anyone?...
KPK- (is rolling on the floor giggling. This is too much fun)