Mixed Emotions Nineteen
Author's notes: Thanks for all the awesome reviews, everyone! It made me really happy 3! I've been caught up with school again, giving me mental block…but here's the nineteenth chapter of "Mixed Emotions"! The story is coming to an end…maybe.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha!
Mixed Emotions Nineteen – Losing her to someone else
The end of their relationship…or is it?
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"I have to stay here. Permanently…" Ayame choked, sniffling at the other end of the line. "…and my father said that he already pick a young man for me to marry…"
"Ayame-chan! But what about Kouga?!?" Kagome whispered as quietly as she could to prevent Kouga from hearing. "You know he loves you--"
"And I love him all the same. Father said that he was planning an arranged marriage for me," the red-head continued. "I tried to reason with him, but nothing worked…Kagome, I tried so hard…"
"I know…"
"Please…tell Kouga everything for me…I don't have much time…" With a nod, Kagome hung up with a bleep. She looked at Kouga with the most pitiful eyes; eyes that looked like they were about to be flooded by sincere tears.
"Kagome…?"
"She's…not coming back. I'm sorry, Kouga-kun."
"I wonder how lady Kagome's keeping up with Kouga," Miroku mumbled thoughtfully as he gazed upon the starry sky with Sango and Inuyasha. "She's been trying to cheer the poor guy up."
"Well, he better not be makin' a move on my girl," the hanyou snapped, crossing his arms childishly. "Or else, he's dead-meat the next time we meet." Sango let out a soft laugh, but grew concerned for her best friend.
'I wonder if something happened? She's late, and she's only supposed to drag Kouga here…' the raven haired girl thought, sighing heavily. Then, she felt a hand brush by hers. It was Miroku smiling down at her, who was lying down on the grass. She couldn't help but grin at his calm yet cheery face.
"You know what? She's taking to long," Inuyasha demanded, getting up from his laying down position. "I'm gonna go check on her." The monk stretched his arm out, indicating to stop the growling hanyou. "What now?"
"She's coming. Can't you hear Kouga?" Inuyasha concentrated his ears in the deafening silence of the park, and hear a young man's, or a wolf more like, agonizing howl in the night. But it was impossible to have wolves in the middle of Tokyo…
'Kouga's a wolf demon?!?'
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"HHRAAAAH!" Kouga screamed, pounding his room wall. It created a small crater, due to the force of his punch.
"Kouga--"
"Shit, why did this have to happen?!?"
"Kouga--"
"Go away! Leave me alone!!" Gasping at her friend's rage, Kagome bellowed, "Kouga! Calm down!"
"I said, GO AWAY, Kagome!" the teen growled back furiously. "HOW CAN I CALM DOWN?!? CAN'T YOU SEE THAT SHE'S NOT COMING BACK?!?"
"But if you go ballistic, what good would it do?!?"
Silence. All that could be heard was Kouga's loud breathing out of anger, and Kagome's sigh of defeat.
"Nothing, Kouga. You're not the only one who's going to be sad. All of us will! Miroku, Sango, and even Inuyasha!" The wolf demon let his hand fall to his side limply. Sudden emotions came over him like a wave. Finally, he couldn't hold them back. Tears appeared at the corner of his blue eyes, reflecting the light from the moon which shone through the window. Kouga shook uncontrollably, unable to maintain his balance. Soon he collapsed on the floor, tears flowing silently from his eyes, yet he made no sound.
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"Salt…what the hell?!? He's crying?!?" Inuyasha exclaimed in disbelief. "What a weakling." Miroku sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. The girl beside him tightened her grip on his arm.
"Don't be like that, you insensitive hanyou. You cried too, at least, at one point of your life," Sango pointed out, nodding in disappointment.
"Well, that was when I was little. Real men don't cry at all." The couple sighed heavily, shaking their heads at his remark.
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"Kouga-kun…" Kagome whispered as she knelt down on the floor and let the young man lie on her lap. Grabbing her handkerchief from her side pocket, she wiped Kouga's face lightly. Suddenly - and surprisingly – he grabbed girl's hand and squeezed it.
"Ayame…I miss you…already…"
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NEXT DAY
It all began as it usually would. Only, something doesn't feel right. It's like something bad is going to happen that day. But Kagome paid no mind to the tingling sensation in the back of her neck…Sango tapped her friend once more, making her snapped back to reality. Blinking a few times, she gazed at her friends, putting on her 'I'm alright' act.
"What happened, Kagome?"
"Did the damn guy make a move on you?!?"
"This is no time to fool around, Inuyasha. This is a serious matter," Miroku muttered. "What happened last night?"
"He cried…"
"Why?" Sango asked, knowing that something must've happened between Kouga and Ayame. There's nothing else a stubborn guy like him would cry about; not even his family. "Something happened between him and Ayame?"
"Yeah. You guessed right."
"So what?" Inuyasha grumbled. "It can't be that big of a problem, can it?"
"Ayame's not coming back. She has to stay in America for the rest of her life…" Kagome explained sadly. Inuyasha and Miroku raised their eye brows, feeling alarmed all of a sudden. Sango gasped. The 15 year old girl continued, "…and her father arranged a marriage for her with some other dude."
"WHAT THE HELL?!?" Inuyasha yelled. "Doesn't her dad know that she's already Kouga's girlfriend?!?"
"Why?!?" Sango hollered, both sad and angry at the same time. "That's too cruel!"
"There's only one thing that I can think of that Kouga might do now…" Miroku said quietly. "…obviously, he's going to try and end his life. In short, committing suicide."
"!!!"
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Up on top of the high school building was a figure of a young man of 16, swaying from side to side as he glanced down at the usual busy streets of Tokyo. Today would be the last day he would be seeing the place. All memories of it would be gone, along with him. Kouga was preparing to jump off the ledge.
"I'm sorry…everybody…" he whispered to himself. "If I can't be with her… I can't be with anyone else…"
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"He can't do this!! What in the world is he thinking?!?" Sango wondered out loud as the group of four ran once again on the streets they've been running around a lot, huh? :3.
"He's just bound by the chains of love. Without Ayame, the chain's cut off, and he's falling apart!" Miroku explained between the gasps of air. Gazing up at the school building, he raised his hand and pointed at the figure on the ledge. "And not only is his heart falling, he, too, is going to fall from that building!!" The figure swayed side by side, until it seemed the wind blew him forward, and he fell head first. It seemed like time stopped everything. Inuyasha sped up; he wasn't very far from it now. Everyone held their breaths until…
"Kouga! It's not worth it!!" Sango cried from afar.
"What the hell are you doing?!?!" Inuyasha yelled, grabbing the young man by the collar. "Do you think she wants you dead?!?" The hanyou caught Kouga by the collar as just as he was about to plunge into total darkness. He was almost killed, but thanks to his friends, his life was spared…
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"Man, the week's been exhausting," Inuyasha commented as he strolled at the steps of his mansion. As he marched up to the door, he gazed upon a piece of paper, held onto the wooden door by what looked like a knife.
There was a note. On his front door.
"Inuyasha,
It's me again. I know that my relationship with you is over, but I can't get over you as
easily as you did with me. My love for you will linger on until the day I die...of course,
until I find someone else, too. But till then, I will hunt you down, even if it means
taking away the life of Kagome Higurashi!!!"
That was the breaking point. His mind raced as he sped up and leaped above on the roofs of the houses and buildings in Tokyo. As the usual Higurashi Shrine came into his view, his eyes were fixed on the lighted up window on the second floor of the house by the shrine. A wave of relief swept over him as he saw Kagome about to turn off her lights.
"Kagome!" he half-whispered, half-called out at the girl, who, in turn gazed upon his amber eyes. "You have to come with me. RIGHT NOW."
"Why? What's up?" the raven haired girl asked in wonder. "Has something happened?"
"Someone's after your life. You have to come with me! I can't let them harm you!" the hanyou replied with sincere eyes, pulling her close to him. "There's no time to change. We'll call your mom and grandpa tomorrow morning. Right now, your safety is my first priority." Nodding her head to him, Kagome embraced him fully. Inuyasha placed the girl on his back, told her to hold him as they journeyed back to the demon's mansion.
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Well…there you go…again. It's been a month since I've updated Thanks to a reviewer who reminded me! and here you have another chapter. School's been really hectic since exams are coming up in a month or two, so I have to study, study, study! See ya around in a week or two for the next chapter of Mixed Emotions!
P.S. Sorry for updating so late. Gomen! Reviews, please?