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Chapter 18

I don't own Inuyasha

"Are you ready to get dusted?" Koashu asked Ikuto as they got into their positions for a race around the track.

"Are you kidding me? Every time you don't avoid battling against me in some way, I always win."

"Running is my specialty. I hold the school record. I'm Olympic potential."

"Didn't know ugly was an Olympic sport."

"Well you'd have loser in the bag."

They continued their taunts until they saw a green flag drop and their feet picked up and they dashed around the track, faster than any of their competition. It was really just those two racing. None of the others could compete with Koashu and Ikuto. They had something to prove. Both of them hated each other, and needed to outdo the other, so they could simply look back on that day and tell of how they won, so the loser would put their head down in shame. "I'm going to win!" Ikuto yelled as he approached the finish line.

"Oh no you're not!"

Just when Ikuto was almost there in victory's grasp, he felt something under his foot and Ikuto fell on the track and hit his chin on impact with the ground while Koashu took the lead and won the race. Koashu began taunting, but Ikuto ignored him long enough to make sure that he didn't damage his chin. It was bleeding, but didn't seem to be anything more than that. "You tripped me!"

"No I didn't. You're insane!"

To make things worse, seven more people passed Ikuto and took their place with Koashu. "That's not fair Koashu, and you know it!"

"Get over it, Kazasami. It's just a game. If you can't understand that, then maybe you should go somewhere where someone actually cares about how you feel and what you say."

Ikuto got up and finished the race, but only to get into Koashu's face and then talk back to him. When things started to get out of control, the Advance Physical Ed teacher came to them and tried to calm them down, but Ikuto was too angry. "You cheated!" Ikuto finally yelled. "You cheated in that race!"

"I'm not a lair!"

"Oh yes you are. You just can't accept the fact that I was going to take the one thing you're good at away from you."

"I've heard enough of you!" Koashu barked as he stepped forward to fight Ikuto. Ikuto did the same. He wasn't going to back down from a fight. The teacher got behind Ikuto and pulled him back. "Calm down and go to the office right now!"

Ikuto didn't want to heed to the warning, but he didn't need to get kicked out for another fight. Suno would be furious if that happened, and he wanted to make peace for as long as he could. Suno not being the evil tyrant was really nice for Ikuto. "Fine!" Ikuto pulled himself away from the grasp of the teacher and began walking away to the office.

Koashu wasn't satisfied yet. "Hey Ikuto, what is it that we used to call you when you were a child? Wasn't it 'the demon child'?"

The thought of his childhood and how the children would call him a demon came back to haunt him, and he couldn't take the rage. He even thought of when Inuyasha mistook him for one, and Ikuto went mad! He ran to Koashu and gave him a right hook that knocked him down, flat on his back. Unfortunately for Ikuto, Koashu had his two best friends around and as soon as Koashu rose from his position on the ground, it immediately became a three on one assault. Ikuto was holding his own for a while, but he was getting pretty beat up. He was getting a good few punches on Koashu though. Ikuto was able to get the two friends off of him with a few good kicks and it was just Ikuto and Koashu left. Ikuto was more tired than Koashu, but Ikuto was much angrier. He jumped up in the air and did a spinning kick that made impact Koashu's arm. Koashu cried out in pain for a moment, but then pulled himself together for a head butt that knocked Ikuto to the ground and left Koashu holding his head with on his left arm, the one Ikuto didn't kick.

"Stop this! You guys are going to principle's office right now!" The Physical Ed teacher as well as three other teachers who heard the commotion came and grabbed the boys and stopped their fight. "Oh you guys are going to get it!"

Ikuto could have sworn that the last comment was more towards him than Koashu who started it all with tripping him and calling him a demon child. That brought back horrible memories, memories that he wanted to forget and keep buried in his heart.

In fifteen minutes, it had been decided that Ikuto would be suspended, even though he was jumped on by three boys. The principle demanded that Ikuto call his brother, but of course, Suno was busy, so he had to settle for the lap dog.

Jamon walked into the office and was surprised to Ikuto with only a busted lip and a gash above his right eye. "You look well."

"Shut up" he said restless.

"I just came from the nurse's office and saw the other boy, Koashu. I heard he's going to the hospital. They say his arm is broken."

"Broken?" Ikuto was shocked to hear such a thing. Sure he got Koashu pretty good, but broken? Ikuto didn't have a lot of strength when he kicked Koashu. He couldn't believe that he actually broke his arm.

"Looks like you need to lay off the milk." Jamon turned his sights to the principle and said "I heard that Ikuto is getting suspended and the other boy is not."

"That's right" said the principle. He nodded his head. "Yes, Ikuto threw the first punch."

"He claims that Koashu assaulted him by tripping him during a race and then saying a very racist remark. Either they are both suspended, or neither of them gets suspended."

"I can't do that! This boy is lucky he is not being expelled!"

"Then Mr. Kazasami will have no choice but to pull his funding from the school." Jamon smiled. "It's your choice."

No one in the school liked Ikuto. Even most teachers didn't. Some were kind to him, but most of the time, it would be people like the principle himself, who was just looking for the excuse to kick him out. The principle did agree with Jamon and said that they both would be suspended for a week, and Jamon humbly accepted. "Thank you Mr. Oshiri. I knew you could be bargained with." He fixed his tie that was slightly out of place. "Come along Ikuto. Let's go."

Ikuto nodded. "Sure thing." When they left the school building, Ikuto laughed gently and said "Man that was great! You certainly showed him."

"Money controls everything in this world. It controls businesses, schools, and even men's morals. He wanted you out of there, but the sake of the school rested in keeping you in."

'Maybe I should consider being a business man like Suno. I mean, I practically know everything about it. I've grown up around it, and it does control the world. Suno has so much power.'

"You need to go to the hospital and get some stitches for your cut."

Ikuto was holding a thick white bandage over the cut, but it wouldn't stop bleeding. "I guess you're right."

"I'm going back to work. I've got better things to do than to be annoyed by pest like you. Mr. Kazasami was doing important work when the school called about this whole mess and I was forced to come here on Mr. Kazasami's behalf."

"Just quit babbling and leave me alone."

Feudal Era

Kagome was riding on her bike slowly so that her friends could keep up with her. Inuyasha wanted to go faster, but everyone complained about how tired they were and how they should relax for at least a moment. "I can't wait until we get all the shards of the jewel and become a full fledged demon."

Kagome was tired of hearing the same old speech over and over again. Who wasn't? Every time Inuyasha's demon blood took over, nothing but bad things came of it. He slaughtered people, attempted to kill her, Sango, Shippo, and Miroku. Would taking the jewel and turning him into a full blooded demon really help the situation? Could anything good actually come from the jewel? Every time the Shikon jewel was involved, everything always went wrong. "You know, I think you're fine as a half demon Inuyasha. I like you like this. Do you really have to change?"

"I like you this way too" Sango said, and Kirara purred with agreement.

"Kagome is right" Miroku nodded "Why change? Haven't things worked out for you this way? You're already strong, and you haven't been too friendly when your demon side is in control."

"Well" Shippo interrupted "he's not friendly now anyways."

Inuyasha knocked Shippo on the head. "Will you guys just shut up already? I want to become a full blooded demon and that's what I'll become, no matter what."

Kagome sighed. 'Inuyasha, why can't you just stay this way?'

Present Time

Ikuto stepped inside the living room of his house to see Suno waiting for him impatiently on a couch. "Uh, hi Suno." Sarah was sitting next to him. She looked at Ikuto sadly, hoping that he would consider what they had talked about the night before. She then looked at her husband in an attempt to calm him down, but Suno wasn't in the mood to listen. He was ticked. "What?" Ikuto said casually, as if nothing was wrong.

Suno rose to his feet and crossed his arms. He was trying to remain calm, but he was pretty upset with his brother. "What do you mean 'what?'? Don't you realize what you did today? I specifically told you not to get into any more fights. All I wanted was for you to go to school, learn every possible thing that you could, and then make something with you life. I just wanted you not to put our family name out there so people wouldn't look at us with shameful eyes. I just wanted you to be quiet and not shame our family, but no, you had to fight that boy today and not only that, you broke his arm!" He uncrossed his arms and threw them up in the air as if he had given up. "I can almost taste to the lawsuit. Why would you fight him?"

'Why? He has the nerve to ask why?' "What do you mean 'why?'? I fought because that stupid, no good, jerk is prejudice, like you!"

Sarah's eyes widened as Suno's narrowed in on his brother. Out of all the things to call his brother that was one thing that Suno couldn't stand, at least not anymore. "Oh, I'm prejudice? I'm prejudice? I'm prejudice after I clothed you, bathed you, taught you, and trained you, for the last nine years of my life? I'm prejudice after I made sacrifice after sacrifice to try and shape you into not only a man, but a great man? I've given you everything I could, put up with so much of your crap, and crap from other people, just because they were prejudice and I'm your brother? I've lost business deals because of you, because I've stuck up for you! I'm prejudice when I fought with everything I had to keep you with me after our parents died? I'm prejudice, when I watched you lay unconscious in the hospital when you were a boy never leaving your side? I'm prejudice? I'm prejudice?"

"Suno!" Sarah stood to try and stop him before he did something that he would end up regretting.

"Stay out of this Sarah!"

Sarah put her head down and obeyed.

"Want to know the real reason why I don't like you, since I'm obviously not prejudice?" He stepped forward to get right into his little brother's face. "You want to know why? I'll tell you why? It's not because you're half black. It's because you're an ungrateful brat!"

"Ungrateful?"

"Yes, you're ungrateful! You have this wonderful life going for you and still it's not enough. Everyone still has to be your enemy."

"My life is wonderful you say? You took my childhood away! You wouldn't let me play with the other children or talk to the other children. You always made me study! I haven't played a video game since I was eight! I didn't play games; I had to learn some meaningless crap that you found important! It was always the same. It was always what you wanted instead of what I needed!"

"You're such a fool! I didn't let you play with the other kids because they didn't want to play with you. I was trying to protect you from rejection!"

"All you wanted to do was steal my happiness away!" Ikuto heart was breaking. He struggled not to get chocked up. "You wouldn't even let me cry at our parent's funeral! You wouldn't even let me mourn their death!"

"I couldn't mourn for them, why should you get to have that privilege?"

"You could have. We could have together!"

"I didn't have the time!"

"You never have the time for anything except for what you want. You're always too busy cutting a business deal or figuring out how to make my life more horrible!"

"I didn't have the time because I had responsibilities! I had to get my life together! One of us had to be the parent. Your mom was gone, mine was dead, father died. I had to take care of you and I had to take care of the company. I had to keep it up, somehow. Do you know how many legal difficulties I had to go through? My father's closest allies didn't trust me; they thought I was too young. They tried to steal it away from me, and the court tried to take you away as well. I was too busy fighting."

"Why? You didn't like me that much. You were always too busy doing your own thing to care about me. Why didn't you place me in a foster home? You never were around anyway, even before their death!"

"We're ten years apart. I was trying to start my own legacy, but then father died."

"You know it's because of how I am, and you know it! Not a day goes by when you wish that I was just like you, all Japanese. You regret my mother's relationship with our old man."

"You're right. I do. Isn't that how every kid whose parent's divorced feels? It wasn't supposed to be that way. It was supposed to be my father and my mother, not them divorcing and finding another woman, in a whole different country."

"So you are racist!"

"No, I just simply despise your mother!"

Ikuto pushed his brother back. "Don't talk about my mother that way!"

"Why?" Suno did the same, but didn't take the physical fight further. "You wanted to know the truth? She's the one who attempted to take my mother's place, as if she was better."

"She never thought she was better. She was just trying to have a place in this world with someone she cared about. You're being ridiculous!"

"I'm being ridiculous? I doubt that! It's her fault that our father is dead." Suno was so disgusted whenever he talked about his step mother.

"Suno" Sarah said begging "stop this."

"No, he should hear this. You passed out during that fire. I was going to go inside the house to help father get you and your mother, but father instructed me not to. I didn't want to listen to his command, but I did. He came out the building with you in his arms. You were hardly breathing, and you were severely burned. He handed you to me and told me to watch over you while he went back in. The firemen tried to stop him. They told him it was too late, and that she was probably dead. They said it was a miracle that you weren't dead. Father didn't listen though. He forced his way back in, and he never made it out." Suno ended his story quietly. The story always upset him, so he tried not to think of it.

"I…I was never told." Ikuto calmed down.

Suno chuckled in unbelief. "You're so ungrateful, it's amazing."

"Just shut up!" Ikuto yelled.

"You disrespect our father so much, like referring to him as 'old man', even though he gave so much to you and your mother. He gave you so much of his fortune and even scarified the pride that so many people had towards him to marry a foreign woman. In the end, he even gave his life for you and your mother. He gave you so many opportunities and chances to make something of yourself and you throw it back at my face." Suno raised his voice once more. "Do you want to know why I truly hate you Ikuto?" He stepped closer to his brother and quieted down his voice, but put even more repulsion in it. "He gave you everything, and all I got was you."

Ikuto had claimed many times that Suno hated him, but he had never actually heard it come out of his mouth before. Now to hear it actually come out of his mouth…it was just too much for him to handle. The only thing that Ikuto could think to say was "I hate you." He repeated it again quietly. "I hate you."

"Well the feelings mutual." Suno stepped back and waited for his brother to make the next move. Suno was calming down, while Ikuto looked as if he was going to explode with emotions, and anger wasn't the only one going through his body.

Ikuto stepped back, turned around and rushed out of the house, slamming the door behind him. "Go after him!" Sarah said to her husband.

"No. He knows his way home. If he wants to leave for a while, that's fine by me. I don't have time to deal with this crap." Suno left her presence and headed towards the gym. There was a punching bag with his name on it.

Sarah herself had to calm down and try to stop herself from having a total break down.

"Mommy" Rina cried from the top of the stairs. "Why's daddy mad at Ikuto?"

Sarah ran upstairs to her daughter and wrapped her arms around her crying daughter. "Shhh, everything's going to be alright. Just give your daddy some time." She held her daughter tighter. 'Oh Suno, look what you've done!'

Ikuto drove to the mall, still pissed at his brother. He just wanted the pain to stop, but he couldn't go back home. How could he? 'How can I face him again? We've said it. We actually said the truth. I said I hate him and he said he hated me. I can't go back. I don't think I could, even if I wanted to.' He was eating a cheeseburger and fries and could only think of Kagome and how she loved to eat that over anything else, even though Ikuto could get something much better. 'Kagome.'

Ikuto finished eating and quickly went shopping for clothes, a sleeping bag, food, tooth brush, brush, deodorant, toothpaste, a giant backpack like Kagome's, and anything else to survive that he could think of. He was completely done in about two hours and then drove to his school. Only the janitors were still there at that time, so he didn't have much trouble getting in. He went to his locker and put his wallet in his backpack that was kept safely inside his locker. He figured no one would steal it. Everyone in the school was rich, and there wouldn't be any reason to go in the locker and through his backpack. He then called a cab to pick him up and left his car keys and phone in backpack, as well as any other expensive thing he had on him. 'This is it. I'm not coming back Suno. I guess you can have everything now.'

Feudal Era

"You can't go home!" Inuyasha yelled. "Kagome don't! What do you need to go home for?"

"I need to get some more supplies. I'm just going there really quickly and I'm coming straight back. Don't worry about it." She jumped down the well before she could hear Inuyasha complain anymore.

'She better not see that stupid Ikuto boy.' Inuyasha waited impatiently for about a half hour, and it was driving him crazy. He was so paranoid that Ikuto might see Kagome and she would be talking to him, having a good time. "If I ever see that Ikuto again, I'll-"

"Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha looked behind him to see Ikuto climb out of the well with a backpack, and Inuyasha didn't like the looks of things. "Wait a minute, what's all that stuff for?"

"What do you think? I'm coming here for a while."

"What for? No one wants you here!"

He smirked. "I figure Kagome will say different, now where is she?"

"She went home. You didn't see her?"

"I guess she's in the house. I came straight here." Ikuto sighed and looked into Inuyasha's eyes desperately, even though he didn't mean to. "I…I need to stay here, and I'm not trying to make a move on Kagome."

"You're such a liar. I know you just want…" Inuyasha saw the look in his eyes, and was actually curious to what was going on. What was going on? "This place is too dangerous for you!"

"Sorry that you're intimidated by me, but deal with it." He crossed his arms. "I'm here to stay." He smiled brightly. "So where are the others? I know Shippo likes me more than you."

"That's because he's an idiot!"

"Is Kagome one too?"

Inuyasha grabbed him by his collar. "Do you want your face rearranged?"

"Hey, just calm down Inuyasha! I'm not here to stir up any drama with you, so just relax. Why can't we just get along?"

Inuyasha knew Ikuto was just trying to get him riled up. Inuyasha really, really didn't like Ikuto. "Just leave already."

Ikuto sat down on the grass and the laid on his back. "I'm waiting right here for Kagome to come back and there's nothing you can do about it."

Inuyasha grunted and was ready to just pound on Ikuto, but Kagome could get back at any moment… He could already feel the sit! 'You just wait Ikuto.'

"And I get the jewel" said a female demon "if I do this to the mortal boy?"

"That is our agreement."

"Then it's a deal, Naraku."

He smirked. 'Inuyasha's reincarnation is going to fall right into my trap.'

To be continued...

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