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Life In The Fast Lane
Chapter Five
Payback's a biatch
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Two weeks later:
It was a Thursday and it was late after school. Kagome had stayed to do some research for a school project. After she was done in the library, she headed out to the school football field and sat down at the top of the bleachers. Lot's of memories from this place. Of course back then, she was on the field, not in the bleachers. Yes, Kagome used to be a cheerleader. That was in freshman year and when she was dating the most popular boy in school, Hojo. Then he moved to America and Kagome got sick of being popular. She then met Sango and the lecher Miroku and they became best friends quickly. Ah, the memories.
As Kagome was reliving her first year of high school, someone came onto the field.
"Kagome!" he called. Kagome looked down from the brilliant and stunning sky and her eyes focused on the figure calling her name. Slowly but surely, she descended down the metal bleachers to the field.
"Hey Kouga..." she said uneasily.
"Hey Kagome. What cha been up to lately?" he asked taking a step towards her. Kagome cleared her throat and stepped back.
"Nothing much. Just you know...hangin with friends." He stepped towards her again.
"One of those friends wouldn't happen to be Inuyasha, right?"
"Kouga, how did you find me here?" he chuckled.
"Kagome, I simply followed you here. But I want you to answer my question now."
"No...I'm not hanging out with Inuyasha." She said looked down. Kouga grabbed her and she screamed. "Stop screaming." He said dangerously. Kagome nodded and shut her mouth. Kouga put his left hand behind her neck and lightly pressed his middle finger into her pulse, while with his other hand, he gripped her right arm. "You scared?" with his hand on her pulse it was like he was touching her heart, and he smirked when he noticed her beat was speeding up.
"No..." she whispered.
"Good." He said with a sick grin. "But that still doesn't help your case. I know you're lying to me about hanging out with Inuyasha. I have eyes everywhere Kagome. Don't lie to me."
"I'm sorry, Kouga. Just please stop."
"Shut up!" he said harshly. He kneed her in the stomach, making her fall to her hands and knees coughing and trying to take in air.
"Kouga..." she coughed out. "Why are you doing this to me?" he grabbed her by her hair and lifted her head up.
"Because you're my woman, and Inuyasha wants you. That's not gonna happen on my watch."
"Kouga...we broke up. Why can't you leave me alone?" as if the world couldn't throw more problems her way, it started to poor rain.
"No Kagome. You wanted to break up! There's a big difference, sweetheart." He roughly let go of her hair and she winced. She blinked water drops away from her eyelashes, but her natural salty teardrops blended well.
"Kouga, leave me alone, please." She whimpered. She didn't want to show weakness to Kouga, but she couldn't help it. This straight up spelled possessive, abusive, stalker guy.
"Baby, why couldn't you just listen to me? I told you to stay away from him. I told you there'd be consequences. But noooo. You didn't wanna listen." He grabbed hold of her arm and pulled her up to her feet, tightening his grip. Kagome trembled from the cold rainy weather.
"Kouga you're scaring me." she tried to wrench her arm free, but it was no use. So what do you do when you're afraid besides panic? Fight back.
Kagome was still struggling to get out of his grip to no avail. So she started swinging with her free arm. She threw wild kicks and punches towards his face in an attempt to get free, but he just dodged them easily.
"Talk about feisty. You know this is kinda amusing." Kouga said with a smirk. That just made Kagome even angrier. So she threw one more punch and it hit him. Squarely in the jaw. Kouga's head was slightly turned to the right from the blow. Kagome humphed triumphantly to herself but her brave girl act faltered when he started chuckling.
"Wh-why are you laughing, you bastard?" she yelled at him.
"My dear, dear Kagome. Hope it won't hurt to bad when you wake up." He said with a sick grin.
"Hope what doesn't hurt?" she asked skeptically through the rain. One more time she tried to free herself from his grip. Didn't work.
"You'll see. Let's let it be a surprise, shall we?" after Kouga said that...the world seemed to slow down for Kagome. First she felt the pain of Kouga holding her arm so she couldn't get free. Second she saw his fist flying towards her face looking like it could do serious damage. And third, her world went into complete darkness...
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The eyelids covering Kagome's chocolate brown orbs fluttered open helplessly. Her eyes searched around the room for some type of identity. She most certainly wasn't in her room, or house for that matter. Then she sat up quickly as realization hit like a cow on a stick. She wasn't at home. But also when she sat up quickly, a pain surged through her head and stomach.
"What the fuck?" she muttered to herself. She reached a hand up to her cheekbone, just below her right eye and winced. She searched the place for a mirror and found one over the fireplace. Wait...fireplace? Whose room has a fireplace? She really needed to find out where she was. But she also needed to see what was up with her face.
She dizzily got up and wobbled over to the mirror. Her dark raven hair covered her face, so she brushed it behind her ear. What she saw though, made her cringe.
Right there, below her right eye, was a nasty purple and black bruise. It really didn't match with her creamy colored skin.
"Wow, don't I look like shit now." She sighed and looked down at her arm, which just happened to be throbbing with pain. "And I feel like shit too, what a coincidence." She cooed sarcastically. She went back over to the couch and sat down. She didn't want to investigate the apartment, but what the hell?
As she searched the apartment, she saw that it was true bachelor status. Big screen T.V., every video game system imaginable at your finger tips, card game laid out across the coffee table. And she could have bet that in the cabinets, all there is, is Ramen and Cereal. Such a man's place. (A/N: kinda just think of what Will and Grace's apartment looks like only more...manly...lolz)
She came down a hall where there were three doors. 'Which door do I choose Regis?' she asked herself with humor. She opened one door and found a bathroom. Nothing in here but steam like someone just got done showering. She took a deep breath, which smelled like...a forestish smell. Very manly. Huh. She closed that door and went on to door number two, which was, as she guessed a guest bedroom. Boring. She went to door number three. She twisted the knob and opened the door slowly. What she found was...Kikyo! (A/N: Dun, Dun, and Dun! Haha, just playin. Back to the story). What she really found was Inuyasha, his back facing her, taking off his towel to get dressed! Kagome eeped and Inuyasha let out a 'Holy Shit!'
"Sorry Inuyasha!" she yelled through the door, after closing it. She ran back to the couch and hopped over the back. How she did it, she did not know. Anyway, Kagome was blushing. No that was an understatement. Kagome was so red it looked like her natural skin tone. 'He has a nice ass, though.' She thought giggling. Then she regained her composure when she heard the door down the hall opened.
Inuyasha came bounding down the hall (now fully dressed) and stopped in front of the couch where Kagome was seated. She looked up at him innocently.
"Hey Inuyasha."
"Kagome...what did you see?" his eyes held an embarrassed glint.
"Nothing Inuyasha. Scout's honor." She lied. He looked at her with uncertain eyes.
"Okaaaay...anyway." He sat down next to her on the couch. "Want to tell me why I found you like this?" he asked touching her cheek and making her wince a little.
"Uh, not particularly." She said standing up and heading into the kitchen.
"Well you're going to have to Gome." He came up to her and looked at her cheek. "Look, I wanna help."
"Which brings me to a few questions of my own. How did you know I was in that field?"
"Well I called your house to see if you wanted to hang out, but Sota said you were gone. Then I called Sango and she said you were at school finishing up on a school project. But when I got there, is was raining and I found you...well unconscious." He explained.
"Oh, well where is here?" she asked looking around.
"Well, this is my apartment. It's next to Sesshomaru and Rin's pent house, but since me and my brother always fight, I said I wanted to get my own place. And that's what I did. I got an apartment by my brother's house." (just to let everyone noe, Inu is 18 too)
"That's awesome."
"Yep. Now you get to tell me who did this to you." He said sitting her down at the kitchen table and then seating himself across from her.
"You don't really want to know." She said brushing it off.
"Kaaagoooomeeee!" he whined.
"Alright, alright. Kouga did it," she said quietly.
"Oh, I am so gonna kick his ass. For you and just because I have a reason now."
"Inuyasha stop."
"No Kagome. I'm serious. He deserves to have his ass kicked. I'll make him sorry." Inuyasha was so wrapped up with cruel ways to kick Kouga's ass, that he didn't hear Kagome say she was hungry and in a little bit of pain. Both emotional and physical.
"Inuyasha!"
"I'll kick him in the stomach."
"Inuyasha!"
"Then I'll beat his face in."
"Inuyasha!"
"What?" he turned around with a semi-annoyed, semi-worried look on his face.
"I'm kinda hungry and I'm not really feeling all that hot."
"Feh, I'll help you with your wounds, but for food, you're on your own." Inuyasha jogged off towards the bathroom for a first aid kit.
"Hey! You brought me here, you big jerk!" she yelled after him. Inuyasha came back into the livingroom and sat down. Then he scoffed.
"That's because I'm a caring and gentle soul. And I care about other people's well-beings." Then he looked up from the first aid kit to her and patted the spot next to him on the couch. "Especially you." He said quietly when she sat down next to him. She held in her surprise and decided to tease him.
"Thanks. But have you always been such a softy. You seem much more like the type that would keep to himself." She nudged him with her elbow.
"Whatever." He pulled out some painkillers. "Uh, I need you to lift up your shirt." Kagome raised a hand and went into full swing but he caught her wrist.
"You're just like Miroku!" she let out a 'humph'.
"Actually I don't think anyone could compare to his lecherous ways. But that's beside the point. You did get punched in the stomach right? Or am I just delirious?" Kagome's face immediately turned red from embarrassment.
"Oh. Wow. I am so sorry. I just thought, well yeah you know." Slowly she lifted off her sweatshirt and, then lifted up the bottom of her T-shirt. "Well...not much damage. Just a bruise. If you had your belly ring in it would have really messed you up. Does it hurt when you sit down or move or anything?
"No just when someone pushes on it or touches it," she replied.
"Okay, you can just take an extra-strength Tylenol for that. Pain anywhere else?"
"Hmm, let's see. Only on my face." She said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, which it was. Inuyasha sweatdropped.
"Right, well let me see." Inuyasha gently brushed back a few strands of black hair. "There's a cut, but it stopped bleeding. Then there's that nasty looking bruise. Ouch that's gotta hurt."
"Inuyasha!" she slapped his hand away.
"What, wench?" he asked, rubbing his abused hand.
"You jerk! You don't have to state the obvious again and again! And don't call me a wench!"
"I wasn't!"
"Really? Then what do you call 'Oh there's that nasty looking bruise. Ouch that's gotta hurt. Oh doesn't it suck?'" She said in a mocking Inuyasha voice.
"Are you always like this? And anyway, that wasn't...and I wasn't...well if Kouga hadn't hit you so hard, it wouldn't be there in the first place." He said turning the blame from himself. Kagome raised a brow noticing his earlier comments and the fact that he turned the attention from him to Kouga, but let it slide. Then her eyebrows furrowed despondently and she blew her bangs out of her face.
"No...if Kouga hadn't hit me in the first place, it wouldn't be there." She said quietly. Then she brought her feet up and sat criss-crossed on couch.
"Sorry Kagome. I just don't understand the cause of why he abused you in the first place." He said settling back into the couch. Kagome looked over at him sadly.
"First reason is because of you." She said with little humor in her voice. Inuyasha looked at Kagome and was about to ask her the question, but she stopped him and knew what he was going to ask. "And because of me. I say because of you, because that night we were at the club, I broke up with Kouga. While I was in the middle of it, he stopped me and asked if it was because of you. I told him partly because yes I still wanted to keep hanging out with you. He told me that if I knew what was good for me, I'd stay away from you. I got angry and told him basically that I wasn't his bitch. Then he told me that I didn't have a choice. That left me angry, but I decided I wanted to be your friend anyway."
"Surprisingly, I followed all that. Although I do have one question."
"Shoot, cowboy."
"How did he know we were hangin out with each other?" he asked curiously.
"Ah, good question grasshoppa. While I was going out with him, I found out that he has people everywhere. He probably got them to spy on us or something."
"Are they watching us right now?" he scrambled around the apartment, closing all the windows and doors so nothing could happen or no one could get in. Kagome smiled, ignoring the pain it caused to her cheek.
"No. After my punishment on the football field, I'm pretty sure he called them off for now."
"Punished you? You can't be serious."
"Oh, but I am my friend. You see, whenever I do something Kouga dislikes I'll probably be punished."
"Not on my watch."
"Stop trying to be a hero, Inuyasha..."
"No serious. He doesn't owe you like your some sorta slave."
"I know, but its no big deal." She said quietly.
"Kagome come on. You like being abused?"
"Well, no."
"Then let me take care of him."
"But you don't understand. You beat up on one person and the whole family comes after you, or whatever is precious to you. It's like a freaking Yakuza." She tried to reason with him. Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's hands and held them in his.
"Kagome, that's where you'll have to trust me. I wanna protect you. Promise to let me protect you." She really, really didn't want to make a promise like that. Yeah she trusted him and all, but it wasn't worth him or anybody else getting killed over. She would never forgive herself if that happened. Kagome swallowed hard. "Promise me Kagome." He said quietly. She looked down at their hands. Their fingers were intertwined and he was holding hers gently, yet securely.
"I promise." She whispered.
"No say the whole thing, so I know you trust me." Kagome raised an eyebrow.
"Talk about picky," she muttered under her breath. "I promise to let you protect me Inuyasha."
"Good." He pulled her into a light embrace, careful of her injuries. Surprisingly, the hug left them both feeling somewhat secure. "Now, how about we take care of your cheek?" Kagome nodded and Inuyasha applied some cleaner and put gauze bandage ofer it.
"I'm still hungry." She reminded him.
"Didn't I say you were on your own for that?" Kagome's mouth dropped open.
"I thought you were kidding."
"Well now you know that I wasn't. We have school tomorrow and I need my beauty sleep." He said walking off to his room.
"Inuyasha!" she yelled hands balled at her sides.
"What?" he asked turning around.
"You dragged me here-"
"Ahem, carried."
"Whatever. Where am I supposed to sleep?"
"In the guest bedroom." He said simply.
"Okay, can we like, stop by my house tomorrow morning?"
"Sure. Whatever. Goodnight."
"Sweat dreams jerk." She muttered darkly under her breath. Then she went to work making herself something to eat. Just like she had predicted, the cabinets were full of cereal and Ramen. 'Should have known' she sighed.
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Later that night, Kagome couldn't get to sleep. Her cheek was killing her and she kept thinking about all the things Kouga had said and that he would hit her again. Yes, it could happen. And damn that boy hit hard.
But the sad thing was that she was a strong, but when it came to Kouga, she just became weak. She wasn't being cocky, but she could kick anyone else's ass if she had to. It was just something with Kouga. And she really needed to get over that if she valued her safety. And maybe even her life.
But, nonetheless, she was still bored as hell and couldn't get to sleep. So she decided to get up and bug Inuyasha. Hey, he said he was going to protect her. So why not start now?
Slowly, she got out of bed and headed out of the room she was staying in. then she came to Inuyasha's door, only to find it closed. 'Hope he's dressed this time.' She thought with a smile. She opened up the door and was swallowed by darkness, except for the moonlight flowing through that window and casting a square light on the carpet by the bed.
"Inuyasha, are you awake?" she whispered. She really hadn't expected to get an answer but it was worth a try. She walked over to Inuyasha's bed and looked down on his sleeping form. 'He's even hot in his sleep.' She thought with a snort. Then she reached down to poke him. but before she could get even one annoying poke in, he caught her wrist, which mind you, scared the shit out of her.
"Kagome?" he asked groggily. She was standing there wheezing, trying to get back to her normal breathing. Inuyasha sat up in bed. "Uh, you don't sound to good. Are you okay?" she narrowed her eyes at him.
"Yeah, just peachy-keen." She sat down on the bed.
"Sorry if I scared you."
"Right...I'm straight. I wasn't scared."
"And I'm the Tooth Fairy. Mind telling me why you're sneaking around in my room?" he said making out her figure in the darkness. The moon was reflecting in her eyes and the moon hit her skin making it look radiant.
"Uh, sleepwalking?" she asked more than said with the shrug of her shoulders.
"Try again." He replied bluntly.
"Okay fine. My cheek hurts and I'm scared." She said, saying the last part quietly.
"Scared of what?" he asked.
"Being hit, Inuyasha." She said embarrassed. "I know it's stupid..."
"No it's not." He said scooting over. "Hop in."
"Excuse you?" she wasn't sure she heard right.
"Oi, girl. Get in. When I was really young and I was afraid of things, my mom would let me stay with her. It made things better." Kagome looked at him with a smirk.
"You used to be afraid of things?"
"Feh, that's besides the point. Now hurry up and get in so I can go back to sleep. It was you who woke me up in the first place remember." Her smirk was replaced by an uneasy look, but hopped in anyway. It wasn't the first time she had been in bed with a guy, but with Inuyasha, it was different. Although when he put an around her waist and snuggled with her, she was a bit surprised. Kagome's back was against his chest, and she had her head hook underneath his chin.
"Better?"
"Much. Thanks."
"No problem." He felt her breathing become even after a few minutes and knew that she had fallen asleep. Then his eyes opened and he lifted his head to look at the sleeping girl in his arms. He brushed back a few strands of her raven black hair, careful of her bandage. He barely even knew this girl for a few weeks and now he was snuggling with her to make her feel better. He realized that he was doing exactly what Miroku had told him not to. He was falling in love with Kagome. And hard.
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The next morning, Kagome woke up in Inuyasha's room, with the sun's rays shining on her face. She opened her eyes and looked around. It didn't look like the guest bedroom she was staying in. then she saw the covers ruffled on the side of her. 'Shit.' She thought. She lifted the covers and found that she was still in her shorts and tank top. 'Thank the heavens.' She lay her head back down on his pillow, making his scent float up and she inhaled deeply, thinking that she could get used to waking up to this smell every morning.
Then his alarm clock went off. She looked over at the clock, which read 7:15. School started at 8:15. Well at least she wouldn't be late with Inuyasha driving. She giggled and got out of bed. Then she walked down the hall to the kitchen, where Inuyasha was eating a bowl of cereal, deep in thought.
"Hey." She said sitting down across from him. He looked up and smiled.
"Mornin. You hungry?" he asked pushing the cereal box towards her.
"Nah, I'm straight. My stomach hurts anyway. I think I'm just gonna go take a shower." She said, seeing as though Inuyasha was already ready for school. He nodded and went back to eating big spoonfuls of cereal. Kagome stood up from the table and was about to walk back down the hall, when she just suddenly hugged him from behind.
"Kagome..?"
"Thanks for taking care of me last night Inuyasha." She kissed him on the cheek to show her appreciation and released his confused form. She was back to the old Kagome. The one that isn't afraid to speak her mind and didn't blush when guys did 'things' (i'll leave that one to your imagination lolz). This was the Kagome that loved having a rush and a good time, but she was also smart and reserved when she needed to be. She loved fast cars, boys, and looking good, even though she didn't have to try. Yes, this was she and all that goody-goody stuff she did with Inuyasha was basically him messing with her head. It felt good to be back. With a smile playing on her lips, she headed down the hall to take a shower. When she was done, she pulled on some faded blue jeans and a black baby-T that said in white 'I can only please one person per day. Today's not your day. Tomorrow's not lookin so good either'. Then she pulled on her black and white Vans. She scrunched her wet hair with gel to make it curly, and then applied black eyeliner and a clear lip-gloss. And we can't forget about her black sex bracelets. (A/N: by the way for anyone who cares, this is what she was wearing last night at the field. But Inuyasha let her wash her clothes). She walked out of the room she was "supposed" to be staying in and walked to the kitchen, where Inuyasha was standing at the door, keys in hand and backpack slung over his shoulder. Today, he was wearing baggy blue jeans, showing his black boxers, and a baggy hunter green T-shirt. On the front it had a squirrel with a metal bat in its hands, or er...claws, and in white it said 'Protect you nuts'.
"Ready to go princess?" He asked as he opened the front door.
"You think that's funny? Kiss my ass."
"With pleasure, Kagome." He said with a smirk. She rolled her eyes as they headed out to the car. Oh yes. Now Inuyasha was back to his normal self. Before he could have kicked himself for being too soft. But now he was back to his cocky, arrogant, sanguine self, with conspicuously handsome looks. No more blushing when he talks to Kagome. From now on he's going back to his old self before he met Kagome. Girls, cars, girls and life in the fast lane.
"Okay so remember, we are stopping by my house." She reminded him as he threw his backpack in the back seat.
"Yeah, yeah I got it this." He said starting up the car. Then he changed the gear to reverse. As they drove down the road and Inuyasha changed gears, the silence was unbearable.
"So..." Kagome sighed.
"Nobody finds out about this." He said looking away from the road to her for a second.
"Finds out about what?" she asked, raising a slim black eyebrow and smirking, because she knew exactly what he was talking about.
"Don't play dumb. Nobody can find out about me helping you and shit."
"Why baby boy, don't want to loose your rep.? Don't worry about that, I make you cool."
"Yeah whatever. I don't need people thinking I help the weak." He said with a smirk of his own.
"Ouch Inuyasha, I think I need some ice for that wicked burn." She said fanning herself then laughing.
"Tch, whatever," he said as he changed a gear. "And don't tell anyone about how I made you feel better either, wench. I'm no softie."
"First of all, don't call me wench. And second, you didn't seem to think you weren't a softie when you were snuggling with me last night." She grinned widely and reached over and gave his cheek a pinch.
"Yeah, you liked that huh? Too bad it won't happen again. You should have savored it while it lasted." He said cockily.
"Right Inuyasha. No need to worry about that, I did. But I also want to thank you for taking care of me. Like I did earlier. If you didn't save me, I could still be out there."
"That's not true. The janitors come to school early." He said with a snicker.
"Shut up, meanie." she said sticking out her tongue and turning away.
"What are we two-year-olds? I haven't heard that one in a while."
"So I'm child-like on the inside. No biggie." She said as they came to her house. She took off her seatbelt.
"Be right back."
"Actually, with everything going on, let me go in with you. Besides I haven't seen your house yet."
"Couldn't wait to come up, could you? And I thought you didn't care." She said raising a playful eyebrow.
"I don't care. I just feel like taking a walk."
"No you feel like taking advantage of me."
"Either, or." He said with a smirk. Kagome rolled her eyes as they headed into the apartment building. Inuyasha looked around and also realized that they weren't in a good part of town. She led him to a flight of stairs and they started to climb.
"Damn girl, did you have to get a room on the third floor?" he asked fake panting.
"You can't be serious." She said turning around to face him. "And anyway, this keeps me in shape." She said with a smirk. They climbed the rest of the step until they got to her door, then Kagome pulled out her keys and fumbled with them till she found the right one.
"Nice." He said looking around.
"Sota! Are you here?" she called out. She didn't get an answer so she lifted her wrist to look at her watch. It was already 8:00.
"Did we miss him?"
"Yeah, my brother is such a dork. He probably got to school early only to skate or something. You know our school grounds are like one big skate park." she said matter-of-factly. Then she headed towards her room and picked up her black backpack.
"Ready to go?" Inuyasha asked when she came out of her room.
"Yeah let's go. But first," Kagome went over to the phone and looked at her messages.
Dear Kagome,
Sango called; wanted to see where you were. Oh and Kouga called too...repeatedly. There's no stopping that freak...
Sota
"Anything good?" Inuyasha asked coming over. "No, just Kouga calling me...repeatedly." She said twisting her face to show her displeasure. "Anyway, let's go now." They headed out of the apartment and back down to Inuyasha's car.
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Both teens arrived at school, talking animatedly coming up to their lockers.
"Hey guys. Eh, Kagome...what happened to your cheek?" Sango asked as she and Miroku came up to their lockers also.
"What? Nothing's wrong with my cheek." She said getting out her schoolbooks.
"Then why does that bruise look like you got hit in the face with a bat?" Miroku asked.
"Felt like one too," she muttered under her breath. "Whoa wait. You can see my bruise?"
"Uh, it doesn't exactly blend with your normal skin tone." Miroku said sweat dropping.
"Inuyasha! How come you didn't remind me to put gauze on it this morning?" she said punching him in the shoulder.
"Hey I'm sorry. I didn't really pay attention when you got up this morning." He said without thinking.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop and rewind that. Where were you last night Kagome?" Sango asked.
"Damn, shouldn't that bell be ringing?" Kagome said closing locker.
"No, you're not getting out of this one. What happened to your face and where were you last night?" Sango's eyes bore into Kagome until she couldn't take it anymore.
"Okay, okay. I'll tell you. Just stop looking at me like that." Kagome dragged Sango off to the bathroom to tell her everything that happened.
"So uh, where was Kagome last night?" Miroku asked.
"At my apartment. And get those perverted thoughts from your head."
"I wasn't thinking perverted thoughts...but now that you mention it," that got him a smack on the head.
"Stupid pervert."
"Sorry, sorry. So what happened to her cheek?"
"Kouga punched her. Hard."
"You gonna kick his ass?"
"Oh yes. It will be like the highlight of my day."
"Just be careful my man. You never know what could happen." Inuyasha shrugged and closed his locker, and then the bell rang.
"Time for first period." Miroku closed his locker and they headed off to gym.
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The rest of the day until lunch went by smooth. Kagome didn't have any clases with Kouga until after lunch so things were okay. That is...until lunchtime.
Kagome came into the lunchroom with her friends and they found an empty table.
"So guys. Do we have plans for this weekend? I feel like I haven't raced in a long time." Kagome said.
"Yeah ditto. But after you three smoked those so-called pros, nobody good is coming around." Miroku explained.
"It sucks. I need money. Kohaku can't keep bringing home all the money. I mean even though I used to pay most of it, I'm only running on like $600 pocket change." Sango said.
"You know to any other teenager, $600 pocket change is like a dream come true." Inuyasha said.
"Haha, yeah I know. But I guess not for us, right Kagome?" Sango said turning to Kagome. But she had a blank look on her face and her skin had turned pale. "Uh Kagome. What's wrong?" Sango was trying to find what she was looking at, and found Kouga coming towards them.
"Don't look now, but here comes Kouga and his slutty sister, Kikyo." Miroku said. Inuyasha looked up just as Kouga came up.
"Kagome, can we talk? It's really important." He said nicely. Kagome slumped down in the booth they were in and tried to make herself disappear.
"Kouga leave her alone. You are getting nowhere near her. So I suggest you step." Sango said standing up.
"Or what?" Kouga pushed her back down in her seat. "Come here Kagome. I want to talk to you." Kagome shook her head and scooted closer to Inuyasha.
"Leave her alone Kouga."
"This is so not my scene." Kikyo said. She walked away without looking back.
"Okay whoa there, Kouga. You're going to apologize to Sango tight now. Because I hope I didn't just see you lay a hand on her." Miroku said dangerously.
"I'm sorry Sango. Now can you come and talk to me Kagome." Inuyasha shook his head and stood up.
"Kouga step down homie. I don't know if your deaf or just stupid, but I believe Kagome said she didn't want to talk to you."
"Inuyasha stay out of this. This is between me and my woman."
"Yet, you two broke up. In fact, I believe she broke up with you on that Friday at the club."
By now there was a growing crowd around the group. Everyone was interested in what was going on and why these two boys have a grudge against each other.
"Hey why don't you just stay out of my way?"
"No why don't you just stay out of Kagome's. If you want to get to her, you gotta go through me."
"With pleasure." Kouga swung at Inuyasha, only for him to dodge and knee Kouga in the stomach.
"That was for Sango." He punched his head to the left. "That was for Kagome." Then he punched his lights out, knocking Kouga unconscious. "And that right there, was just because I could." Inuyasha took Kagome's hand and led her out of the crowded cafeteria. They walked and ended up in the senior hang out. That's where all the seniors usually hang out, but since there was a fight, everyone was in the cafeteria. (this is how it is at my school. theres a class quad for each uh...year. Like the freshman quad, the sophmore quad, junior quad and then the senior circle. this year ill be a sophmore yeah!!)
"So are you okay?" Inuyasha said breaking the silence.
"Yeah, I'm peachy. Thanks for that back there." She said with a small smile.
"No problem. But hey, I know you have classes with Kouga after lunch. Why don't you just tell the nurse you don't feel good? I'm sure after she see's your bruise, she'll let you do something."
"Are you suggesting I lie, Mr. Takashi?" she said in a jovial tone.
"No, I'm saying you should take a break. You've been through a lot."
"Yeah okay. But I thought you don't help the weak."
"I helped you didn't I?" he said with a smirk. She hit him on the shoulder.
"Whatever. I'll talk to you later."
"Bye." She gave him a hug before heading over to the nurse's office.
Meanwhile, a shady character was watching though the bushes. He took out his cell phone and dialed a number.
"Yeah. Start putting a plan together. I don't care how long it takes, just as long as you get rid of him." he snapped his cell phone shut and smirked before limping away.
A/N: okay so i was writing then when suddenly...HOLY NUCKIN FUTS!!! lolz i just wrote the longest chappie ever. usually i write about 6-pagers, but today i wrote about a 12-pager. arnt yall proud? haha okay so anyway i just want to thank my reviewers and ill get workin on that next chapter as soon as i can! just read and review and ill update as fast as i can!
Later Dayz, TaintedMunkeyz...