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The best years of our lives

Chapter 4: When all hope is lost

Kagome thought in wonder as Miroku and Sango were staring into space.

"Um…you guys ok?" Kagome was totally oblivious to what had happened. "You guys are creeping me out…what's wrong?"

Sango couldn't find her voice but pointed past Kagome. Kagome turned around to see what she was pointing at. As soon as Kagome fixed her attention, her heart jumped out of her chest.

"R…Rin! Heh…heh…uh…what a…uh…pleasant surprise to see you here!" Kagome choked up, now getting red in the face.

"Yes Kagome dear, what a pleasant surprise to see you and your 'friends' here as well." Rin said sarcastically folding her arms.

Miroku picked up his rather large bowl and started to walk off. Before he could get very far, Sango grabbed his shirt and sat him back down.

"Well…I'm waiting…what did you find out Sango?" Rin now pulling a smirk on her face.

"Um…I…uh…found out…um…I found out that…uh…that my dog is gonna have puppies!" Sango fibbed. If Rin knew what happened, all three of their heads would be mounted on the school's flagpole.

"Oh…congrats to you then. Um…can I talk to you Kagome?" Rin threw a sarcastic smile back at Miroku and Sango while leading Kagome to another part of the café.

"What do you want?" Kagome said with annoyance in her voice.

"I want you to stay away from InuYasha. He has nothing to do with you…anymore."

Kagome wanted to claw Rin's eyes out. Did she know about what happened over the summer? "How do you know if InuYasha did or has have anything to do with me?"

"Lets just say I have 'connections'. Now you know the rules; I get everything, and you don't. Head my warning, scum." Rin shoved Kagome and walked off.

Kagome was really furious now. Why was InuYasha doing this to her? It was just her luck Rin decided to get her greedy paws on him.

Settling on doing nothing, Kagome walked back over to where Sango and Miroku were. A waitress had already came and cleaned up their table since Miroku's huge sundae was gone. Kagome knew that Sango and Miroku wanted to leave from seeing the worried looks on their faces.

"Lets go…there's nothing else to do here…" Kagome hung her head as both Sango and Miroku put their arms around her. While walking out the door, Kagome looked back at InuYasha to see that seemed perfectly content. Except there seemed to be an aura of sadness around him. She shrugged it off and walked on.

Sitting under the cherry blossom tree, the now trio were sitting down and enjoying each other's company. It seemed like that incident at the café happened forever ago even though it was only three days previous.

"Hey Sango! I just remembered!" Kagome said just as a thought smacked her brain.

"Remembered what Kag?" Sango asked while taking a bite out of her banana.

Kagome opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out. She started thinking about all her memories with InuYasha and how Rin has just ripped them up.

"Kagome? You alive?" Sango asked after she noticed that Kagome was staring out into space.

"Huh…what? Oh! I'm sorry!"

"What were you gonna tell me?"

"Oh…um…you never told Miroku and I what you found out."

Miroku stopped stuffing his face with his bag of potato chips and looked up. "Yeah! What did you find out?"

Sango paused for a moment to gather her thoughts. "Ok…Rin brought up the dance to InuYasha and she chose him to be her date, not at his will of course. But the thing is InuYasha seemed pretty interested. She's up to her schemes; which isn't anything new. I don't know what was going through her head but I do know that she wants to 'destroy' you somehow that you won't be able to show your face again. I know she wants to do that to anybody that gets in her way, but she seems extremely serious about you this time."

Kagome's cheeks grew hot as her heart started beating faster. What did she do to deserve this?

"Well Kagome…" Miroku started to pat Kagome's back. "It was nice knowing you."

"MIROKU!" Sango hit Miroku over the head with her book bag. Kagome continued sitting next to Sango with an unemotional expression on her face.

Sango felt much grief for Kagome. She found love and it came to a crumbling halt. But her herself found Miroku and stuck with him. Sango felt caught in the middle; Kagome was her best friend though and she wasn't going to give up just yet. "Miroku! Get up!"

"Huh? What?" Miroku said holding his head.

"You're still friends with InuYasha, right? I mean, you haven't been around him much since you two got here."

"Oh…yeah! Of course we're friends. I am getting concerned though about him, and that takes a lot. Even though he doesn't express his emotions well, I can tell when something's not right. Something happened and now all he does is spend time with that b!tch Rin."

"Well…since you two are still friends, would you mind trying to get some info about what the hell is going on?" Sango requested.

"Um…I guess…What do you want me to do?"

"You can figure that out on your own!" Sango grabbed Miroku's book bag, threw it in his arms and forced him up. "Get a move on cowboy!"

Miroku took a few steps, turned around and made a puppy dog face at Sango.

"Keep going!" Sango demanded and pointed ahead.

Miroku hung his head like a deprived little child and continued walking. 'Some plan this was.' Miroku said to himself while looking down the hallway.

He had no clue where InuYasha would be at this moment. Just when he thought all hope was lost he heard Rin's shrill of a laugh coming from the right. Swinging his book bag onto his back, Miroku started to casually walk down the hallway.

In the distance Miroku could see Rin dressed in her usual high fashion clothes, InuYasha, and some of her followers coming the opposite way.

"Well well well…well isn't it Miroku, the girls' b!tch. So where are they at? They making you go do something for them as usual?" Rin interrogated, stopping in front of Miroku.

'If she knew what I was really doing…I'm in deep crap.' Miroku felt his face get red. "Uh…well…the girls are doing whatever girls do in the bathrooms, and I wanted to hang with my best bud, InuYasha. Is there a problem with that?"

Rin looked over at InuYasha and looked back over at Miroku. "I guess not…you're not with your pathetic excuses for girls anyway." Rin turned around and snuffed off, leaving InuYasha.

"Watcha want man?" InuYasha asked, acting as if nothing ever happened.

"We haven't hung out all week…lets go somewhere." Miroku tried to convince.

"Um…sure I guess. Is everything ok?"