Disclaimer:
(moi) Gaz: I don't own Inuyasha.
(Angie) Zim: Yes you do.
Gaz: Since when? o-O;
Dib: She used her...connections.
Zim: -prideburst-
Dib: GAZ! Can I have Miroku! PLLLEEEAAASE!
Gaz: -freaking out-
No, this isn't what actually happened. If I was serious, I would have Kagura paired up with Sesshoumaru, Kouga and Ayame, 'n' Kikyou with some...guy...And Jakotsu would leave Inuyasha alone 'cause that really freaked me out the other day, watching that episode...But Jakotsu can have Bankotsu. :D Yaoi, anyone?
Friday
Kagome woke up, sore and groggy. Every muscle in her body said "Don't you fucking get up or I'll give you cramps that could kill." Okay, maybe not that, but something like it. She grumbled a "Sonofabitch," and tried to get out of bed. Notice the 'tried'.
Little had Kagome realized, her legs had gotten tangled up in the sheets of her bed. She fell, with an "EEP!", facefirst into the black carpet. She felt a soft patting coming down the hallway to her room, then saw the door open. Emi poked her head inside. "Get yer ass movin'! It's 7:45! I've been up since 6! Up with you!" Walking in, she placed a mug of coffee on Kagome's bedside table, then tapped the alarm clock with a claw. "You should probably get up around 6:45," she said, "'cause you'll be able to get in character before school." She turned abruptly and skipped out, hearing a muffled "Fuck you" from behind her on the floor. A swift movement of her left hand brought on laughing and she closed the door.
A few minutes later, Kagome was tightening her black leather boots. She looked in the mirror. A long sleeve black shirt with silver stitching, a black and white bondage skirt, boots...now for the fun. Grinning sadistically, the gothic teen went to her makeup mirror and began to apply white eyeshadow and black eyeliner, white compact powder, and a reddish purple color of lipgloss. Glancing at the clock, she sighed. Had to be at school in 25 minutes; it was 8:05. And she still had to do her hair. Grumbling as she parted it down the middle and snatched two scrunchies, she put the messy mass of black hair into a couple of pigtails, similar to a picture she had seen of Amy Lee.
Knocking at the door, Emi said "You ready yet?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, chill for a second, okay!"
She opened the door. "Just hurry up," Emi growled, and walked towards her, handing Kagome a calendar. "I thought you might find this interesting. Days marked with red are when my parents are going to be home." Kagome cocked an eyebrow and flipped through it. "Holy shit. Only 12 days!" Emi nodded. "That's for this year. They'll only be here 12 days this whole year. Rest of the time they're on business trips. Now get ready." She snatched the calendar, which was something she had ordered off of Hot Topic Online, from her older cousin and stuck it on the wall near her bed, then walked towards the door. "Hey, Emi?" The storm hanyou turned towards the miko. "Yeah?" "Nice outfit." Emi looked down and shrugged. "Thanks." She was wearing a white lacy calf-length skirt with a train over a pair of dark blue jeans, her Converse, and a black babydoll-ish shirt with turquoise stitching along with a pair of thick past-elbow black fingerless gloves.
At 8:23, Emi and Kagome were in Kagome's car on the way to school, stereo blasting "The Leaving Song Pt. II" by AFI.
By the time they reached the school, it was pretty crowded. Kagome huffed. It was a bit too crowded for her taste in the morning. Otherwise she'd start a mosh ot something. Out of nowhere there was a shout and a disgruntled yelp from Emi. The miko turned around in defense of her cousin, only to note that it wasn't just her cousin. Suichi had jumped Emi, and she was now giving him a piggy back ride. "Ya freaking pansy, can't even walk...jeez..." the storm hanyou growled. Inuyasha's cousin merely laughed. (A/N: Think Inuyasha carrying Kagome. x3 This has actually happened to me before...)
In homeroom, Kagome and Inuyasha sat in their usual seats, near the window. 5 days had gone by since she had first seen him, battered and bloody, in class. Every morning, Sango and Miroku had come to check up on them, make sure they were okay. They had been. But today, the day before winter break started...Angry faces turned to them, teeth ground together, knuckles cracked.
A young bear youkai came out of the group, followed by a couple more youkai and humans.
"Hey, hanyou filth, what're your plans? Think you can hide behind the gothic ho forever? Think again." The bear youkai grinned, fangs bared. Kagome glanced at the clock wearily. Class started in 15 minutes. She turned back to him slowly, and nodded towards the clique of girls in short skirts and tight, midriff-baring shirts. "I'm the ho? Ahem. Over their, your hookers are dressed in summer clothing. It's December. There is snow on the ground. I actually have warm clothes on. I have CLOTHES on. Not little strips of spandex, clothing. I'm not the ho here." One of the said hookers screeched and stomped over. "I am SOOOOO not, like, a hooker! I totally am not, so take it back you freak!" Kagome smiled, not a warm smile...a mocking one. "And if I don't?" She rose form her chair. "Because I'm not apologizing to fucking trash like you."
"GOTHIC BITCH!" The girl shoved Kagome's shoulder, but Kagome didn't flinch. She grabbed the girl's upper arm and squeezed, then threw her back at the seat she came from. "Stay," shr growled, then walked back to her seat as if nothing had happened. The bear youkai growled, and sniffed the air. The teacher was coming. "We'll get you, scum." He snorted at them and went back to his seat. The crowd dispersed. Inuyasha scribbled on their notebook and put it on her desk.
How could you take on Kikyou?
Kagome cocked an eyebrow. Who?
Kikyou. That girl. She's a powerful miko and has lots of connections.
Kagome sighed. She had noticed the girl was hiding her spiritual power. But she shook her head. Inuyasha didn't know that Kagome was a miko as well, and just as powerful. She was nothing at all.
Inuyasha growled. HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT! She could kill you if she wanted to!
No she couldn't Inuyasha. Chill out. I can handle it.
He sighed. Whatever you say, Kagome. Just...be careful.
Emi was facedown on her desk. "SLEEP. I need...sleep...or coffee...maybe both..." she growled. Suichi sighed, giving up on her. "Emi, get up. You can't sleep here. Only teachers get coffee, and besides, you of all people shouldn't be having coffee."
She turned her head towards him and opened a single glaring, green-yellow eye. "You're evil, ya know that?" she said, halfheartedly whacking at him with her tail.
From the other side of the room, a paperball hit Emi on the head. She bolted upright. There had been a rock hidden inside. "Son of a bitch!" said she, looking towards the person who had thrown it. Tch. Figures. It had been Yuki. Human girl that had been after Suichi's heart for years, just to piss Emi off. She stood and stalked over to Suki's desk. Of course, Yuki was playing the innocent princess. The angry hanyou slammed her fists on the desk to get her attention. "Throw another mother fucking rock at me, Yuki, and I will tear you limb from limb. Got it!" she snarled. Yuki just nodded, not making a sound. Emi had been enraged, and an enraged Emi is what the hanyou haters watched out for.
After school, Kagome and Inuyasha had gone a separate way from Emi and Suichi. The past week they had been plotting (A/N: THEIR DEMISE! No, only kidding...I couldn't help that...Gaz spazz moment...) to help the two along a little bit, but they also secretly saw it as a way to be near eachother. The miko paused a moment, looking down the street. Most shops were closed and the employees on vacation. Nobody was going down the street. Kagome couldn't help it any longer.
She pounced at Inuyasha's back, nearly earning a yelp out of the inuhanyou, and latched onto his ears. She laughed. Ever since she had met him, she had wanted to touch his ears terribly, and now she was able to do so without any comments from anybody.
Inuyasha's reaction was surprising. Usually he would have pulled away, but...her scent, the feeling of her being close to him...her arms around him..soft hands rubbing his ears...He leaned back into her, just about to start purring. 'Mmm...good...don't...stop...Kagome...good...' he thought to himself, smiling slightly. But suddenly a car went by, which neither of them had noticed. It honked at them, making them jump away from eachother, embarassed. "Sorry! They're just so...damn, I thought I had rid myself of this word...cute!" She blushed and looked down at the ground, away from him. Her hands fidgeted with her skirt. He tapped her arm to get her attention, then grinned when she looked up at him. A foreign voice in Kagome's head said, 'It's okay, Kagome.'
About six blocks away, two figures huddled against the cold wind at the park, on the bridge. The trees broke the wind, but not much. Emi's already wild black hair whipped her face, and she looked up through the trees at the dark sky. She smiled, then looked back down, or should I say, more towards Suichi. Her companion was completely silent, thinking about who-knows-what.
Well, actually, Suichi was thinking about what Inuyasha had said for the past few days. Do you like her? he had asked on paper. "Well...yeah, I do...so?.." Inuyasha had sighed. Then let her know how you feel. Contrary to popular belief, you can regret what you don't do. So do something. She might like you too for all you know, and if you don't...she might think you don't like her. "You should really listen to your own advice, Inuyasha." He had rolled his eyes and walked out.
"Emi?" Suichi said so softly Emi wasn't even sure if he had spoken at all. She turned and found out that he had, as he was looking at her through the corner of his eyes."Hm?"
"I...uh...um.." he faltered out of embarassment, and a blush creeped up his cheeks. 'Just talk to her, stupid!' he scolded himself.
"What is it, Suichi-kun?" Emi asked. She was a little confused. It looked like Suichi was waging war against himself.
He snapped out of his mini-battle. "Um..I..." he said. 'Just say it, Gods dammit!' He sighed. "YouknowIvelikedyouforalongtimeright?" he asked quickly.
Emi blushed intensely. "I...eh...you...what!" She processed this information slowly. 'He likes me! WHAT! How come he hadn't told me until now!'
He nodded and turned away from her. "Yeah. Inuyasha's been bugging me to tell you...said I would probably regret it if I didn't...but...I was worried you'd reje-.." He was cut short by arms reaching around him and warm breath on his neck, making his skin tingle and a shock run down his spine. "You should have told me sooner..." she whispered into his neck.
"E-Emi..." he stuttered, still in a stupor over the girl's actions. He had never seen this side of her, although he knew she hid herself from everyone, including him. She was opening up to him, if only a little. Loosening her grip a bit, Suichi took this as a chance to turn around and hold her to him. She complied, her face in the crook of his neck, purring. He grinned, but a glance at his watch made him glare a little. "Emi? Aren't your parents gonna be home today?" She sighed. "Fuck them. I wanna stay right...here..." She moved closer to him to emphasize her point. "Yeah, but..." he choked out. He wouldn't say that he was afraid of her father or anything, but besides that, having her this close...after longing to have her here for so long...it was overpowering his senses. "Emi...they'll be home...you know your dad doesn't like you being home late or anything..." he said, somewhere between a whimper and a whisper. She nodded, for this was the truth, and she pulled back reluctantly. They both hopped down off of the side of the bridge where they had been sitting and onto the grassy stream bank.
"Damn, I know this is the wrong season to ask this...wrong month...still..." Suichi grumbled. "But...will you be mine?" Emi smiled at him warmly and nodded. "Of course I will..." She slipped his hand into hers and they walked out of the park, just like that.
(A/N: WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE! This was a fun chapter to wrote:D Buuutttt...I'm about to write the next chapter. :O OH! Review responses!
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