For Better or For Worse
Chapter Twenty
He made his choice. He made a choice.
Grabbing her text book and his books, he got out of his seat and made a run for the door.
Unfortunately the teacher noticed his actions and made it just in time in front of his way to Kagome and out into the hall.
"Now where are you going? I said detention for a week if anyone leaves!"
"I know, I'm not deaf."
"Well with the way you pay attention, I couldn't have noticed."
"Move."
"What did you say? No, sit down!"
"No, move or else."
The teacher laughed.
"Or else what? Detention for you? Sit down now Inuyasha!"
"He didn't move.
"SIT DOWN!"
He would have usually obeyed after pissing him off a little, but he was determined to get to Kagome.
"I warned you."
Inuyasha said in a warning tone, but before the teacher could do anything, Inuyasha punched the teacher in the stomach.
He slumped over in the pain from him.
Inuyasha looked down at him and then back at the now open door way.
He ran.
The teacher slowly got up and walked out the door, holding his stomach and yelled to Inuyasha already at the end of the hall.
"That's a month's worth of detention! That is if you don't get suspended first!"
He walked back into the class room and acted as if nothing happened and picked up where he had left off with his lesson.
The students in the class room were still in shock of seeing one of their classmates beat up a teacher and ditch class.
Inuyasha ran down each hall that had Kagome's scent in it as fast as he could.
Her scent got stronger and stronger as he reached a window or door, so he figured she had gone outside.
Opening the door with most of her scent on it, he stepped out into the fresh air of salt.
So much of it too.
He looked down at the miko sitting under the tree in the back of the school.
She was crying, and had been crying for a long time.
His facial expressions lightened as he saw her.
Slowly and quietly he walked up to her, without her noticing.
He sat down next to her under the tree.
She lifted her head from her hands and knees as Inuyasha scared her.
Her cheeks were flushed, and fresh tears were on them and still held in her eyes.
She looked at him with tears still rolling down her face.
Quickly, she put her head against his chest and cried on his chest until there weren't anymore tears left to shed.
AT that moment she didn't care if it was Inuyasha or not, it could've been anyone for all she cared, but she needed a shoulder to cry on and his was the one.
They sat there for about a good thirty minutes.
Kagome cried on Inuyasha's shoulder, and Inuyasha rapped his arm around her shoulders and head to comfort the girl.
When she had finished crying, she looked up at him and pushed herself back into her place against the tree and away from him.
"Kagome look, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you by kissing her. Hell, I wish I didn't kiss her! It's not like I wanted to anyway."
Kagome turned and looked at him.
"It's not the fact about you two kissing, it's about the thing she's trying to do to me with you."
"Which is…"
"She kissed you, knowing it would bring back awful memories."
He still looked confused.
Kagome sighed and finished the story in detail.
"Ok. I had a best friend when I was little. His name was Nikousu. We were really close and after a stunt she pulled on me to make me feel like crap, she wanted me to suffer more than I already had. She took my best friend from me. One day at recess she took him in the hall and they kissed for about ten minutes. I had forgotten my drink in my locker and passed them. Since their kiss, he never talked to me again and was always mean to me. It was like she had changed and stolen my best friend. He moved at the end of that year. We haven't spoken since. And when I saw her kissing you, I thought I was about to loose another friend and…"
She started to cry again.
Inuyasha pulled her into a hug, shocking her.
"You will never lose me Kagome. I promised to protect you. You think a kiss is going to change our friendship, well at least I thought we had one…"
He said as he looked down at her and as she looked up at him.
"We do, I was just mad. Sorry."
"It's ok, just hurt a little. I mean we have only been friends for a week, but it's felt like years."
"I know what you mean. And thank you."
"For…?"
Inuyasha was confused again, but was happy that her soul seemed calmer, happier, more at ease.
"For not leaving me like Nikousu did."
"Never. Why don't we get back to class? I think ninth period is over. So one more period to go."
That's when he remembered what the teacher had said before.
"Uh, maybe we should just miss the rest of class. I'm kind of, shit, I really screwed if I go back."
"What? Why? What did you do?"
"Well, the teacher was stupid and blocked the door as I tried to run after you. He said if I left I would have detention. I told him to move and warned him too, but he didn't so I kind of, well, I punched him in the stomach and ran."
Kagome put her hand over her mouth.
"You did what!"
She punched him jokingly in the arm and laughed.
"Ha ha, ya I guess you are screwed."
"Ya, he yelled down the hall that I have a weeks detention or even suspension."
Kagome just laughed.
For the rest of the school hours, they just sat there facing the field under the tree.
It's leaved had been falling, which helped form the scene.
With Kagome leaning on Inuyasha's shoulder smiling, Inuyasha's arm around her shoulders; him smiling as well, and the scene surrounded their two forms, they both sat there until the last and final bell of the day rang.