Mixed Emotions Chapter 14: Kagome's decision, an inuyasha fanfic

Mixed Emotions [Fourteen]

Author's notes: Here I am again, everyone! This update was very late though...--;; Thanks for the reviews! I really appreciate it. I like reading comments [bad/good]. I dunno why but...oh well. Anyways, on with the story. The others find Kagome somewhere and she asks them about Inuyasha's engagement. Incidentally, Kouga had an idea of ruining Inuyasha's night. But after seeking information about where Inuyasha and Kikyo were, Kagome runs off to find the couple. As she arrived at the edge of the city, where the couple was suppose to be, the engagement was already over...

P.S. That last sentence there...I meant something else by "already over"...it means it's already been done. [Oh no! I spoiled it! lol.]

Mixed Emotions [Fourteen] - Kagome's decision

The beginning of the long chase to the edge of Tokyo

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"You have something against my half-brother?" the silver haired brother asked quietly.

"That brother of yours stole Kikyo from me!" Naraku grumbled. "And Kikyo was always thinking about him! 'Inuyasha this', ' Inuyasha that.'"

"Well, you're one lucky bastard. My brother doesn't love that wench anymore."

"What?"

"You heard me," Sesshomaru smirked. "He's just keeping their promise."

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Kagome sat on a park bench, still thinking about what her friends had said 3 hours ago. Could it be true that Inuyasha was getting engaged today? Her friends seemed awfully serious about it. If so, when today? Could it be now? And why to Kikyo, of all people? He said he loved Kagome, not Kikyo...why...? These questions flooded Kagome's mind as she sat there, trying to hold back every tear that wanted to flow. She fell into a trance, thinking all about what was going to happen. Unaware that her tears were now flowing freely on her cheeks, Kagome just stared into space. It went on like this for a few minutes, until someone shook her to her senses.

"Here you are," someone said. "We looked all over for you."

"Why--why are you crying, Kagome?" muttered another.

"Huh--what?" Kagome snapped back to reality, feeling the cold, winter air blow on her tear-soaked face. "Sango?" She then realized that Miroku, Kouga, Ayame and Shippo were also there, though she couldn't see them clearly with her tears blinding her slightly. Before the others could say something, Kagome continued, "I heard what you guys were talking about. You don't have to hide anything anymore." Sango looked taken aback for a moment.

"We did it...so you wouldn't get hurt about it, Kagome," Sango explained apologetically. "We don't want to see you crying over a jerk like Inuyasha." The monk could notice a tear glistening by his girlfriend's eye, making him come to her side. "You see, we knew all this since 2 months ago, you know, a month after we met him."

"Tell me everything that you know," Kagome pleaded. "Please. Everything. The whole truth that you've been keeping from me."

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"Inuyasha?"

"Huh?" Inuyasha snapped out from spacing out and turned to Kikyo. "What is it?"

"You've hardly said anything since we arrived. Are you alright?"

"Uh, of course. Why wouldn't I be?" the hanyou muttered, pasting a fake grin on his face. "We are getting engaged tonight." Turning her worried expression into a smile, Kikyo smiled and giggled.

"You make me worry so much, you know?" she said, squeezing Inuyasha's arm with hers. "And I see you've changed a bit."

"Huh?"

"It seems like the old you is trapped somewhere in there." Kikyo pointed at Inuyasha's heart and tapped it.

"I guess time changed me," Inuyasha replied, holding the girl's hand, sighing. "Don't you think so?" Kikyo nodded sadly. This wasn't the Inuyasha that she knew from four years ago. He was violent and rough then, and was always swearing at others. He had little compassion in his eyes, and seldom did he smile. In the three years that they've been together, he was almost the same person everyday. But now he was different. Time cannot change him; it hardly did when Inuyasha was with her. Someone definitely changed him. Who?

"Um...Inuyasha?" The girl asked once more. "Have you been with anyone else since you transferred to your new school?" The hanyou hesitated. No, she mustn't know about Kagome. She doesn't have to know.

"No. Why would I be with someone else when I have you?" he replied with a straight face; but, of course, he was lying. "Let's enjoy our time here. Then we'll have dinner at this fantastic restaurant. I've only been there twice, but the food's good." Kikyo smiled, and sighed happily as they continued to go around the theme park...

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"Some say she looks almost like you, Kagome. Kikyo...the 'beauty and brains' of the best school here in Tokyo. Four years ago, Inuyasha met her. Eventaully, the two fell inlove with each other...lasted around three years until, I guess, he had to move here...now bound by a simple, yet difficult promise to keep: the promise to get engaged this very day and get married a year later."

"I see..."

"Kagome, you gotta do something!" Sango urged. "You can't let that two timing bastard get away with it!"

"You can go and stop them!" Kouga suggested. "Let's go sabotage their date! But the thing is -- we don't know where they are. They could be anywhere, ya know."

"I'm guessing that their last destination is this fancy restaurant somewhere in town," Miroku said. "And I doubt that they're engaged yet."

"Why not?"

"Well, y'see, before a couple gets engaged, first they go somewhere...like a theme park or something. After all that, they go to a restaurant. Not just any other restaurant: the guy takes his to-be-fiancee to a very fancy restaurant...to brighten the mood, y'know? Then, after the meal, the he proposes to the lady. If she accepts, well, congratulations, you've done it. If she says no, well, sorry, but that's too bad."

"And how did you aquire this information?" Ayame wondered.

"That's easy."

"You read those romantic crap from a book or somethin'?" Kouga asked bluntly.

"No," Miroku answered simply. "But I know someone who does." On that note, the monk felt a sharp pain on his cheek. Of course, there was the usual hand-print left on the spot...meaning Sango's hand was there. "I didn't name any names!" he muttered with full innocence, then sighed in defeat. "Actually, I tried it once...with Sango, obviously. She still hasn't answered me...but anyway, I said my part about what I know."

"Kagome," Shippo murmured. "Please be don't upset..."

"I'm...not.." But the others could clearly tell she was. There was no point in hiding it. "Why don't we start looking for them--?"

"Let's go ask his household first. They should know where they are," Sango replied.

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"They went to the theme park...then I heard Inuyasha say something about going to some restaurant called Ahakuri or something..." Rin answered as she poured tea in Shippo's cup. Naraku was watching her intently, thinking what everyone else would be thinking: that Kagome was Kikyo's clone, or twin sister. Very typical. "I heard it's suppose to be somewhere in the edge of town. I don't really know that exact adress...I'm sorry..."

[Note: I dunno if there really is a restaurant with that name and location, okay? I just don't know any restaurants in Japan. I've never been around it.]

"That's fine," Kouga smirked. "At least we got a lead." Kagome dropped her tea cup, spilling everything on the carpetted floor. Ayame frowned, but was worried about what her friend was doing. "What's the matter, Kagome?"

"I need to go to the washroom. Stomachache."

"Alright." Her fake excuse worked ib her friends. The junior girl made a bee-line for the washroom, and once inside, she stared at her reflection in a full-lenght mirror. Tears streamed out of her eyes endlessly, sobbing her heart out.

What if...--just what if--...he's just using me because he misses Kikyo? Because he misses being with her? But he said he loved me...

The sun was beginning to set. The washroom was lit by the bright red-orange light from the sun through the window. Kagome sniffed a few more tears and glanced at the window...

I'll look for him myself...It's my problem after all, not Miroku's, nor Sango's, Ayame's, Shippo's, or Kouga's. I have to deal with it...

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"She's taking too long in there," Shippo commented, about 20 minutes later. "Do you think she's okay?"

"I hope so," Sango said. "I'll go check on her." Kagome's bestfriend made her way to the washroom and knocked at the door. "Are you okay, Kagome?"

No response.

"Oh my god, what could've happened to her in there?!?" Sango thought, panicking a little. "Was she in excrusiating pain that she fainted?!?" Turning the door knob clockwise, the door swung open, blowing out cold air from an opened window. Immediately, Sango gazed outside the window. Kagome had gone out on her own. Slipper tracks were left on the snow below the window that led to the main street. Her friend was gone long before they knew it.

"KAGOME'S GONE!" Sango boomed in the living room. "SHE RAN OFF!"

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'I'm sorry, guys...I have to go...I must see him...before everything falls apart between the two of us...'

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Well that's chapter 14 for you. Short chapter...Late update again --;; so many happenings around my life. I promise to not to do it again! Please forgive me... I had to cut the chapter short...

Next on "Mixed Emotions:"

Kagome ran, rode a bus, rode a stolen bike...everything, and I mean everything as she travels to the edge of Tokyo, hoping to catch Inuyasha and Kikyo before the moment of engagement. Shippo, Kouga, Ayame and Sango runs minutes behind their friend, worried about what moves she was going to make on the way to Ahakuri...where everything will shatter into a million pieces!

P.S. Reviews please?

Oh and by the way, I need a song for a future song-chapter [Chap.16, most likely. Or Chap. 15]. A song about breaking up and going away would be good I need suggestions, please!