Faye: Yeah...HERE'S CHAPTER 7!
Sheeka and Koruineku: Yaay! claps
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Chapter 7
Souta came home from school, threw his backpack on the couch, then slumped down next to it. He grabbed the remote and flipped the TV on, after doing so he crossed his arms over his chest and glared at the screen.
No one was home. Kagome was at school, then she'd probably go out with her friends, Ms. Higurashi was at work then going to go out shopping. Grandma and Grandpa had gone on a little vacation trip to a spa for a week. He'd be all alone for another few hours. His mom didn't get off work for another two hours and who knows how long she'd be shopping. Kagome didn't get out of school until five o'clock because she had an extra curricular, then when she goes out with her friends she's normally not home until around nine.
Souta sighed. How boring it had become around here lately. He loved his friends Angel and Nick. He had other friends, but they normally only hung around him only when Nick was there. He had other girl friends, because Angel would always introduce some new girl to him, but even if they had wanted to hang out with him he didn't want to do any boring girl things like 'dress up' or 'tea party.' It was different with Angel, he would jump at those two games if it was with her, but she normally liked to climb trees, catch bugs, and do all the fun things Souta never thought a girl would do. Certainly Kagome would never pick up a spider in her life. At least he didn't think she did.
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AN: Oh look back to Yash's house! Inuyasha was sitting in his room writing in his notebook. Every night he had double homework. He promised Kagome they would graduate together and he'd be damned if he flunked this grade. His social life had been totally ruined. He never had time to do anything, even weekends he continued working on his old homework. Plus, he had to go to his job.
He bused tables at the local diner now. He didn't do it because of the money, he did it so he could get away from his homework, as an excuse. He needed a break, even if he disliked work. Plus his adoptive dad sent him money for the house and house repairs so he saved that for important things. The money he made he spent on CDs and computer games. He guessed that it also kept him out of trouble.
Miroku and Sango had been spending a lot of time together, and Inuyasha disliked it. Miroku didn't even call him anymore, he didn't seem to care how hurt Inuyasha was that he couldn't see Kagome. Even Sango didn't seem to care anymore that Kagome was gone. She still talked to her so she didn't need to wish her to be here.
The only person who seemed to have the same wish as he was Kouga. They had been getting along lately, and hung out occasionally, which would surprise Kagome to no end. Kouga wasn't that bad as long as he stayed away from the subject of him loving Kagome, because that wasn't true. He never told Inuyasha to his face that he was going to steal her away from him, but they both knew that he thought it in his head. Funny thing was it didn't seem to bother him anymore. He didn't seem to care as much as he did before. And Kouga didn't seem like he wanted to take her away as much as he did when she lived there.
Now, suspecting Inuyasha was once again single, all the girls flocked around him. Inuyasha shooed them away, he never told them he was still with Kagome, but they'd never listen anyways. Girls like them never did. All they wanted was Inuyasha, his looks, his smile, his face, his body. Not his personality. Kagome wanted his personality AND his looks. He loved her for that. He always would, so no one could ever take her place.
He threw a picture at the wall as he thought this. It was the picture of him with Kikyo. He smashed the glass in the frame and watched it fall to the floor with a thud. 'Good riddance.' He thought. He was absolutely sick of that picture cluttering the collage of his wonderful Kagome...
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Souta flipped channels with the remote and sighed. It had only been an hour, he still had three by himself. If he were back in Japan, he'd have invited all of his friends over and had a little party for a while, but he only knew two people here, and both were gone or busy. Nick had a date with some girl, they were going to a movie or something, and he hadn't heard from Angel in a week. Souta hadn't seen her once since her birthday. He wondered why she didn't call. Why didn't she tell him she was moving? Why did she have to leave without saying good-bye and break his heart?
The phone rang and Souta continued staring at the TV. He didn't hear the phone. Then it stopped and rang again, somehow it got through to him this time and he stood up and went to get it.
"Hello?" He asked into the phone.
The line was fuzzy, but he could make out the words...and the voice. "Souta?"
"A-An-An...gel..." Souta gasped.
"I'm sorry, Souta." Angel said through all the fuzz.
Souta really couldn't tell if she was sad about it or not because you couldn't really here her to great through the fuzz. "Angel...where are you?"
"On my way to Texas..." This he could here perfectly. Her voice was sad, and he heard her sniff. "I'm so sorry, Souta. I really, really, really am! I lov...." The line went totally fuzzy on Souta.
"Angel? Angel! Angel?!" After a minute or two, listening to the fuzz, Souta hung the phone up. He stared at it for another five minutes. He was in disbelief. Why was this happening to him? Why?
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"I don't believe this." Kagome stared at the man across the table from her. She slammed her fists down on the table and shook the glasses of water. "How could you do that to him?"
"I didn't." The man said calmly sipping his cappuccino. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them Kagome was in his face.
"You just confessed it to me, and NOW you're telling me you didn't do that. What is your PROBLEM?" Kagome yelled, frustrated.
A waiter walked up and looked at the girl, she was a bit hesitant to say what she had to, but it was the bosses orders. "Umm, you, uh, p-please take this somewhere else? You're disturbing other customers." She stuttered.
"Whatever. Come on, Sesshomaru" Kagome rolled her eyes. "You're giving me a ride home and I'll talk to you there I guess." Kagome folded her arms across her chest and walked out the door.
Sesshomaru sighed, grabbed his cappuccino, and followed her. "Didn't you have a car?"
"Yeah, but I walked to school today. My mom took my brother to school early so he could make up a test because he was sick yesterday, so I had all the time in the world. Since I had to wake up early because I thought I was taking him, I decided to walk to school. Then you came up to me and asked if I wanted to talk with you about Inuyasha, and of course I did because Yash deserves so much better. I love him more than anyone." Kagome sighed.
Sesshomaru drove Kagome to her house, parked the car next to the curb, grabbed the keys, and got out. Kagome pushed on the door to get it opened and then slammed it shut once she got out. Sesshomaru loved it when she did that. Not. He hated it and Kagome could tell he was especially mad since he glared at her all the way up the walkway. Kagome smirked at him then opened her door and moved out of the way to let him in first then she walked in, slamming the door behind her.
"Do you enjoy slamming doors or something? First my car door, now your house door. What the fuck is your problem." Sesshomaru hissed.
"Shut up. I'm pissed at you and everything else in this world. Now sit your ass down and I'll be back." Kagome waved him towards the coach. Souta was no longer sitting there, he ran up to his room to bury himself in homework, blare his music, and try to forget about Angel. He didn't even hear his sister walk into the door, nor slam it. "Looks like there's something wrong with my brother." Kagome looked up at the room above her. "He only blasts his music when he's sad or mad or something."
Sesshomaru sighed. The loud music and the banging and the slamming of doors and all of this was giving him a huge migraine. "Why don't we go to my house and talk, your house is giving me a headache. Is it always like this around here?"
"Tell me about it. It's worse when everyone's home. Since my mom blasts her old music over my brothers, my grandma and grandpa are continuously fighting and I'm in my room trying to do my homework half of the time. You're lucky you live alone."
"I guess." Sesshomaru looked down into his cup of tea that Kagome had brought him. Why did people think he liked hot drinks all the time? Cappuccino at the restaurant and now tea here, then he'd get home and Amaya would probably make him hot cocoa. Truth was he didn't live alone. Amaya lived with him, they shared a house. She was new in town and had no where to stay, so Sesshomaru offered her a room in his house. She paid some of the house bill, though Sesshomaru had most of the money. That's how they met, how they started to like each other, how they started dating despite Sesshomaru being with Kiku. Then he broke up with her, since Amaya was there, she was trustworthy, and he liked her, but he didn't love her. She didn't rant on and on about him getting a hold of his brother, telling him how he felt, and how sorry he was like Kiku did. Amaya was an escape, some sort of shelter. This Kagome knew without him having to tell her.
"Look, I know you know how I feel about Amaya and how I feel about Kiku, but I can't help it. Amaya is an escape...if I go back to Kiku, who won't take me back anyways, she'd walk me right up to the phone and tell me to call my brother right then and there, while she was watching. I can't do it by myself, let alone when someone's there with me. How would you feel if the woman you loved was telling you to do something that was terribly hard for you? It's like being told to get rid of a puppy you've grown so attached to or something." Sesshomaru looked down into his tea.
"He deserves better. I want you to call him. Right now." Kagome looked at him, a serious look in her eyes. "Since him and I are dating it won't be as hard, will it now? I didn't think so. Now, stand up, walk to the phone, pick it up, and dial."
"But it's long..."
"Distance? I know, we have long distance on my phone, what do you expect from a girl who has a boyfriend in another country, and whose family has tons of friends there as well?" Kagome smirked at him.
Sesshomaru looked at her, a look of worry on his face, then he turned toward the phone and picked it up. He looked back at her, why was she making him do this? Why was she so much like Kiku? He looked at the look of strength in Kagome's eyes, he wasn't worried his brother would thrash out at him anymore. There was this certainty in her eyes that told him that this is what Inuyasha wanted more than anything, to hear from his brother, whom he assumed to be dead, or long gone. Sesshomaru sighed then dialed the number.
"Hello?" A voice answered.
"Inuyasha..." Sesshomaru said. He glanced to where Kagome was standing she was no longer there.
"Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha's voice was surprised. "I thought you were... With all the stories and..."
"Don't be so shocked, Inuyasha."
"Why couldn't you tell me? Why did it have to be such a secret. I mean hated you, because ever since you got with Kiku you never hung out with me and you weren't nice to me at all. I hated you more when you left because you didn't tell me, you just disappeared."
"Kiku never meant for my relationship with you to change. It wasn't her fault...do not hate her. She was the one who told me to call you, but I wouldn't. That is why I...broke up with her."
"You broke up with Kiku? You're kidding me!" Inuyasha said, unbelievingly.
"I could not bear her considered opinion that I should call you. She told me it was all her fault that you hated her...and me. So, when this girl moved to town, Amaya, I became her boyfriend and then broke up with Kiku...because Amaya was my escape...she hated when people said anything about you and she made sure everyone shut up about you."
"So how did you finally get the nerve to call me and tell me?"
"I was not going to...Kagome made me. That is where I am at, at this moment."
"Kagome's?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yeah. We met last week and we finally got together to talk about you."
"You had better stay away from her...she ain't an escape like that Amaya lady of yours." Inuyasha growled.
"Brother, first off I have a girlfriend. Second off, why would I want yours? Third, I want to get Kiku back..."
"Good." Inuyasha said, simply.
"Sesshomaru?" The woman walked into the room and whispered to him. "Can I talk to Inuyasha or are you still making up with him?"
Sesshomaru glanced over at Kagome. "Yes, I am done speaking to him." Sesshomaru handed her the phone without saying anything to Inuyasha.
"Hi, Inuyasha." Kagome smiled.
"Kagome, I am going to go now okay?" Sesshomaru waved at her. He foresaw a great friendship in the making.
Kagome smiled and waved. "Good bye, Sesshomaru."
Sesshomaru walked out the door and out to his car. He was happy that he had put that behind him. Now, he had to break up with Amaya, then do whatever he could to get Kiku to even look at him again, let alone go back out with him. He really didn't know what was going to happen now.
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"Kagome? Who did you have over earlier?" Souta asked coming into the living room, where his sister was watching TV.
Kagome jumped and glanced at him. "Jeez, Souta! You gave me a heart attack!"
"Who was it? You're not getting another boyfriend are you? I know how sad Inuyasha would be if that's the case."
"Oh my gosh, Souta! Why would I do that to Inuyasha you know that I love him more than anyone in the whole world!"
"Well, when you have other guys over it just doesn't seem like it. I don't know why I think that, I just do."
Kagome glared at him, Souta looked at her and knew what was coming. Kagome was about to lecture him. "Souta, you annoying little brat. That man was Inuyasha's brother. They haven't talked in years, and I felt it my duty to make them talk to one another. Also, you are to stay out of my affairs...if I wish to get a boyfriend here I will, but mind you, if I do choose to make that decision, which isn't likely, Inuyasha will know of it first. I'm not a cheater. I'm also allowed to have friends that are guys, it's not illegal. I will not cheat on Inuyasha because I love him more than anyone, he's not only my love, he's my best friend. If I break his heart, I break my own. Now, if you will excuse me, I have some matters to attend to." Kagome grit her teeth and clenched her hands as she stomped up the stairs angrily.
Souta sighed. 'Ever since we left Japan she's been so bitter. Something's bothering her she's just not telling anyone. Not even Inuyasha. I know it.'
Tears fell as Kagome walked up the steps. The phone would ring soon. She knew it. It was said to her in a dream. The day, the time, and who the person was. She knew she would have that talk with Souta and she knew she'd stomp up the stairs and then get to her room, and the phone would ring. She would answer it, it would be...
The phone rang. Kagome sighed and ran to the phone after yelling, "Don't worry, I'll get it!" She picked it up and visibly shook. "H-hello."
"Hello Kagome." The malevolent voice spoke in her ear.
Kagome held back the urge to scream. "H-hi." She bit her lip and the tears rained down her cheeks.
"Do you miss your home, Kagome? Your friends? Your Inuyasha?" The voice paused. "Your enemies."
"Yes...but not my enemies." Kagome growled then whispered. "Naraku."
"So you do know who it is. I figured as much."
"I'll never forget your wicked voice..." Kagome clenched her fist, digging her nails into her hand, drawing blood.
"Kikyo is working in on your beloved Inuyasha. He'll be yours no longer. He'll be Kikyo's forever, and that will leave you cold and alone."
"Shut up, Naraku. Whatever you do, you won't break Inuyasha and I up. You won't!"
"That's what you think Kagome..." She heard the click, and the beeping at the end of the call. Naraku had hung up...
Kagome fell to her knees and sobbed. "You bastard..." She mumbled. 'I'll never forgive you or Kikyo, Naraku...Never!'
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The phone rang. Inuyasha picked it up. "Yo?" He said into the phone.
"Hello Inuyasha."
"Kikyo." Inuyasha growled. "Why are you calling."
Kikyo made a pout and a sniffle. "Oh Inuyasha! Why won't you forgive me! I loved you so much...I thought you loved me too. I thought you wanted to be with me forever. You promised me. I was so stupid! I can't believe I broke up with you, I loved you so much, but you were always flirting with Kagome." Kikyo tried to stifle her cries. "I thought you loved her more than me, so I gave you up so you could be with her. I thought that was what you wanted. You liked her a lot. Naraku told me. He said you two made a move to kiss one another the night Kagome almost got raped, I suspected she was there, and he went to check, when he saw that, he ran in to attack her. I was so stupid to tell him to spy. It's all my fault. When I lost all hope of being with you, I broke up with you... I knew you only wanted to be with her. I knew it... and now it's true. Why did I let you go? Why?" Kikyo cried.
"Kikyo...I wanted to stay with you, but you did me a favor, you broke up with me, and I fell in love with Kagome. It was the biggest and best favor ever done for me."
"So, you do love her? I knew it... I thought maybe it was possible to get you back, maybe it was possible while she was gone. Maybe...I didn't know you still loved her so much."
"Things have gone slightly downhill since she moved, but we're still together."
"Go out with me." Kikyo whispered.
"Wh-what?" Inuyasha gasped, surprised by her request.
"Go out with me."
"I cannot comply with that request."
"It is not a request."
"Then what is it?"
"A demand."
"No." Inuyasha slammed the phone down.
It rang again and he picked it up. "Please?"
"No!" He yelled and slammed the phone down. 'Damn her, trying to tear me and Kagome apart... damn her to hell!'
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Kikyo cursed under her breath and looked at Naraku. "No luck. He won't take me back."
"We'll get Kagome to like someone else..." Naraku smirked. "That'll break them up."
"He has to be handsome."
"I'll find someone."
"Stunning."
"Don't you worry, you'll get Inuyasha back."
"Someone just as good as Inuyasha, but just as evil as you. That will act as though he loves her and as soon as I have what I want, stomps on her little heart."
"I like how you think." Naraku grinned.
"Glad you do." Kikyo smirked.
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Kagome picked up the telephone to another call. "Hello?"
"Hi Kagome..."
"Yash!" Kagome said, delightedly. "I've been waiting for you to call, I was going to call myself, but I was too afraid to pick up the phone."
"Why's that?"
"Naraku."
"He called you!?"
"Yes.." Kagome said quietly, trying to forget. She could hear Inuyasha growl in her ear.
"That bastard! Kikyo tried to call me. Tried to get me back."
"You didn't take her back did you?!" Kagome asked, desperately, almost despairingly, quite worried.
"Don't be stupid! Of course I didn't take her back."
"Don't call me stupid!" Kagome was on the verge of tears, it was too much emotional stress for her today. She couldn't quite handle it, she just wanted to fall onto her bed and sleep soundly, not thinking about the imploring evil that was closing in on what was rightfully hers.
"You are stupid! Why shouldn't I call you it. I ain't gonna break up with you because of some stupid wench I used to go out with. Why would you even think that?"
"Maybe because you loved her once." Kagome said more quietly as hot tears ran down her cheeks, she tried her hardest not to let her silent cries be heard,, but Inuyasha heard her sniffling.
"Kagome! I'm sorry! Don't cry! I love you, only you, I swear it! I don't want Kikyo! I'm sorry. So sorry. Forgive me. I love you!"
"Inuyasha, it's not you, it's the situation. I can't take it anymore. I always have to worry about what you're doing. I thought I trusted you, but I'm so far away, how can I be so sure? I just, I don't know what to think, maybe it's not best that we..."
"Are you saying you want to break up." Inuyasha said simply, with no emotion, though it was building up inside. He could feel the warm moisture in his eyes.
"I'm not saying that." There was silence after she said that. Long, awkward silence. It seemed never-ending. Then she finally decided to speak. "I'm just not sure about things at the moment."
"So, you want to break up? I don't believe this." Inuyasha said, fury evident in his voice.
"Inuyasha! Will you listen to me a moment?!" Kagome practically screamed at him. Inuyasha was suddenly quiet. Kagome took a deep breath and sighed. "We're not breaking up, unless you want to, but I don't. I'm just so worried, everyone's trying to break us up..."
"So you're pretty much just going to let them then aren't you?"
"What do you mean by that!?" Kagome hissed.
"You want to break up," Kagome began to protest, but Inuyasha silenced her by going on. "And don't even deny it, Kagome! Don't piss me off and deny it, you know it's true, you should say it's true for your own benefit. You want to break up, answer me, you do. That's what you want."
"No! I don't want that! Leave me alone, Inuyasha! I love you, I'm not about to break up with you because of a dumb reason like that. I won't let them win. You're mine, you always will be. Now just leave me alone!! I suppose I'll call you later, but don't worry if it's not for a few days." Kagome slammed the phone down.
Inuyasha sighed and placed his phone down on the receiver as calmly as was possible for a man like him when he was angry and sad at the same time.
Kagome began crying. She couldn't help it. She just pretty much told Inuyasha to screw off, a little more kindly, but she did. She sunk under her covers in her bed and cried herself to sleep...
Faye: covers her mouth innocently Was that a mean ending? Was it a cliffy.
Koruineku: Nah, I don't think so. looks at Sheeka What about you?
Sheeka: stares at screen, mouth gaping, glares at Faye HOW COULD YOU! YOU KNOW VERY WELL THAT INUYASHA AND KAGOME WOULDN'T FIGHT LIKE THAT! WHY WOULD THEY WANNA BREAK UP!? THEY WOULDN'T DO THAT! YASH WOULDN'T SAY THAT, KAG WOULDN'T LET HIM SAY THAT...goes on and on
Faye: Sorry, they fight alot, what do you expect from long distance lovers? I mean, we fight. Oops, did I bring my own life into this o.O? Oops. Oh well :D
Sheeka: ...PERFECTLY LOGICAL IF HE HAD CHEATED ON HER.
Faye: And as Sheeka goes on and on, I'll be starting up on the new chapter, sorry they are taking so long lately.
Sheeka: ...NO WAY KAG WOULD CHEAT ON YASH...MAYBE YASH ON KAG BUT ...NO! NOT EVEN YASH ON KAG, NOR KAG ON YASH, THEY WOULDN'T...THEY COULDN'T!
Koruineku: Sheeka! It's done! OVER! Let it be.
Sheeka: ...STUPID HEARTLESS! CARELESS! IMPOSSIBLE. NEVER!
Faye and Koruineku: sigh Ja ne everyone, until next chappy.
Sheeka: KAG WOULDN'T WANNA BREAK UP, SHE WANTS YASH FOREV---gets tape put over her mouth by Faye
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