A/N: I'm really sorry about not updating this sooner. The fact is, I had like three pages written out, just the way I wanted them, and then for some reason unknown to me and probably even a higher power, my fucking computer deleted it without my consent. I was too pissed to write. That's the truth. I didn't have any further inspiration and didn't think I could write it again to it's perfection. On top of that unfortunate event, school seemed to take top priority on my "To Hell With" list. Before I knew it, I'm sick in bed with the common cold, congested to the point where thinking isn't even a common feat. So, it was unfortunate, but I decided to put this off until I could focus my complete and loyal attention on it. I hope that this chapter turns out good, and that all of you can stop cursing my very existence (unless I put out a brand-spankin-new chapter out for you). Please enjoy, and then review. Because I'm taking time out to write this, and it would be absolutely lovely if I could get even half of the "hits" I receive for this story in the form of reviews. Thanks a bunch guys.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.
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Sitsume High
Chapter Seven
TaintedMunkeyz
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This place is a prison, and these people aren't your friends… welcome to Sitsume High.
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Kagome and Sango walked into the crowded lunchroom, their eyes scanning the throng of students for their usual table.
"Shit, I can't do this any more." Sango laughed and jumped onto a picnic table occupied by a few lonely nerds. All the contents of the table shook as she put her hand up to her forehead – palm down – and searched for the boys. She spotted them at a far corner in the back and leaped with joy, knocking over the kid's beverages.
"My bad." She twisted her lips into an innocent smile and leapt down from the table, colliding into some poor bystander carrying his plastic red tray.
Kagome clapped.
"Very graceful, Sango." She said dryly and laughed. Sango shrugged.
"It worked, didn't it?" it was Kagome's turn to shrug as she walked through the crowd following Sango to the boy's table. Sango slid in next to Miroku and kissed him on the cheek before sliding her backpack off of her shoulders and throwing it onto the table next to her.
Kagome's greeting with the additional boy wasn't as heartwarming. Sango rolled her eyes at the two's behavior and glanced down at what Miroku was eating.
"Can I have one of those?" she said pointing to a french fry. Miroku stuck his tongue out and shook his head.
"No. Mine." He said like a three-year-old that didn't know how to share. Sango smirked.
"Look, there's a naked woman!" Miroku's eyes widened and he looked over to the lunch line as Sango snatched his fries, laughing giddily. Miroku turned back around with a glare.
"That's not a very nice joke to play on someone, my dear." She snorted and popped a fry into her mouth.
"Worked on you kiddo." Miroku propped his head on his chin and pouted.
"You're mean. I don't like you anymore." Sango laughed, eating another fry.
"When did you decide this?" she raised an eyebrow and Miroku frowned looking at the girl that made him absolutely nuts.
"Just now." Sango smirked and something sparkled in her eye; a look Miroku was all too familiar with.
"Bet I can change your mind." She challenged. Miroku smirked.
"Bet you can't." He retorted. Sango grabbed the front of his t-shirt and pulled him forward roughly into a chaste, but sweet kiss. Kagome's eyes widened, as did Inuyasha's. Miroku pulled back with a boyish, dazed grin on his face.
"I still don't like you." Sango laughed and rolled her eyes.
"Nice try, but that's all you get for now."
"It was well worth it babycakes." Miroku smirked and wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her closer and grabbing a fry from his tray. Sango rolled her eyes and looked across the table at her two companions.
"Oh, you're still here?" she laughed as Kagome tried to swipe at her and sighed happily. "So what's up?" she asked Inuyasha. He shrugged.
"Party tonight." He said passing a flyer from the end of the table over to his newest friend. The bright piece of neon green paper blinded Sango and she squinted.
"Kouga's house, eh?"
"7:00, eh?" Miroku mirrored her actions and she slapped his leg playfully.
"Shall we attend?" Kagome asked quietly as she turned the paper around so she wouldn't have to read it upside down. The small flyer read as follows:
Get your ass over to Kouga's house if you're looking for a night of fun.
Booze, loud music and a pool? – That's what I call a good time.
Tonight, 7:00 till we get tired, biggest house on Pacific Circle.
As they say "Be there, or be fucking square."
Kagome shook her head as she read the contents. Kouga was such a weirdo. Miroku laughed as Kagome read it out loud.
"I don't think they actually say 'fucking', but whatever floats that kid's boat." Sango giggled.
"So are we going?" Kagome repeated in different words. Sango looked up and gasped.
"And miss a chance to see Kikyo get drunk and act stupid? Hell yeah we're going!" she said pumping a fist in the air. Inuyasha snorted. Kagome looked over at him curiously. They still hadn't talked to each other about the whole "Hojo" thing. He'd barely even said two words to her every day. And it was starting to piss her off, but she really only had herself to blame.
"Do you want to go?" she asked Inuyasha quietly. She seriously didn't want to set him off, but she had to talk to him.
"Whatever. I'm cool." Sango nodded.
"Alright. Hope this Kouga kid is actually true to his word."
"Well from what I've heard and what I've experienced, the boy can throw a pretty rad party."
"Rad like whoa?"
"Rad like whoa." Miroku smirked and repeated. Sango nodded.
"Alright. Sounds like a plan!"
(Sitsume High)
"So what are you going to wear?" Kagome asked as she followed Sango down the hall and into her room. Sango sat on Kagome's bed and placed a pillow on her lap looking on as Kagome walked up to her closet and slid open the doors.
"I don't know. Jeans and a cute top?" Sango replied as she spread out on top of the bedspread.
"Well, yeah… I meant, like what shirt." Kagome said as she pushed clothes apart on their hangers. She pulled out a pair of jeans from a stack in the closet and threw them over her shoulder, before looking for a shirt to wear. She picked up a black shirt that had white chalk-looking writing on it that said, "shut up and dance". "I'm wearing this." she said throwing it onto the bed next to Sango.
"Oh! Pick out something for me too!" Sango jumped up from the bed and walked over to the closet with Kagome. The dark-haired girl put her hand on her chin and thought carefully. Finally she went into her closet and pulled out a dark brown shirt that had pink writing on it that said, "I'm not a cowgirl, but I still like a good ride". Sango laughed.
"This one will make Miroku horny for sure." Kagome said dryly and tossed it to her sister. Sango shook her head.
"I have the perfect brown flip-flops for this too." Kagome went over to her drawers and picked out her undergarments, and then some socks. She twisted around slowly.
"Alrighty then. I get shower first!" she yelled out and ran out the door leaving Sango in her wake. Sango just stared at the place her sister just left and shrugged.
"Whatever, I just took one." she said quietly to herself and went back to her room to get dressed.
About an hour later, both girls were ready for the party in their jeans, t-shirts and flip-flops. Sango decided to wear her hair down - something she rarely did - as did Kagome. They both walked into the living room stuffing their phones into their pockets and reapplying their lip-gloss.
"You girls look very cute." Ms. Higurashi said as she paused in folding the laundry. Kagome smiled.
"Thanks mom." Just as she finished her sentence, the doorbell rang, signaling that the boys had arrived.
"Have fun girls! Don't be back too late!" she called out as they walked out the door.
"Okay!" they yelled back in unison and stepped down the porch steps and across the sidewalk to Miroku's car.
(Sitsume High)
Miroku pulled up to the curb about a block away from the house, because cars, no less owned by kids from school, took up every parking space on the block. They all opened their doors and stepped out into the fresh night air, readily willing to start partying and let the stresses of school melt away.
The music from Kouga's house could be heard, even from how far away they were. As they walked closer, they could feel the base vibrating their chests and the ground under their feet.
Kagome hooked her arm around Sango's and started skipping down the street, the boys walking slowly behind them. She could feel the music coursing through her veins and started getting excited and restless. They arrived at his open front door shortly and were welcomed by a throng of people by the front door drinking and dancing. All the lights in the house were dimmed lowly and Kouga even got fog to project low to the ground. Kagome smiled and tugged her sister towards a place that would be serving drinks.
After grabbing a few beers and tossing them to her friends, they wandered around the house towards the huge living room where the music was being produced. It was so loud that Kagome couldn't even hear herself think. She smirked as her eyes scanned the crowd of people dancing closely and sweating together as one big mob.
Inuyasha's ears flattened to his head as the music began to give him a pounding headache. He was used to it of course – he blasted his music as loud as it could go when his father wasn't home. The room was already dark, but he could see clearly due to his heightened eyesight. He looked to his left and saw Kagome with her eyes closed, swaying lightly to the music. She looked so gorgeous tonight, but he was still barely talking to her because of the whole Hojo thing. Maybe he was being childish and taking it way too far.
Or maybe he wasn't…
He didn't care. What she did was beyond upsetting. She could have at least told him the truth. Or broke it too him nicely. He didn't even think she cared that she hurt him. He did in fact go home and wallowed in self-pity. Not that he'd ever let anyone know that.
But he had the biggest crush on the girl. And it was killing him, because he was trying with all his might to get over her. But he just couldn't. Everything about her drew him to her. Which royally sucked because it wasn't helping his case any. It also didn't help that he was always with her since they both had Sango and Miroku as friends. Which meant whenever they did the group thing, he'd be silently suffering like a kicked puppy in the corner.
He snorted.
Whatever. He'd decided to just let whatever happened happen. He decided to just let her make the first step. Even though that could result in nothing happening at all. But that was fine with him. It wasn't his place to go to her. He'd done that before and they covered it up and pretended to subject wasn't sore.
His focus came back when he noticed Kagome conversing with someone. His eyes narrowed when he saw the long brown hair tied up in a high ponytail and the sharp ice blue eyes. Kagome turned around, and without a word handed him her beer. He stood there stupidly as he watched them both go into the crowd and start dancing closely.
He turned to his right and saw Sango gaping at her sister. Apparently it wasn't just a shock to him. His gaze snapped angrily to the girl that had captured all his attention lately and he growled.
How low could you go?
He drained his beer quickly and set Kagome's down on a table holding a lamp carelessly. He closed his eyes as his brain started getting fuzzy. That had been his third beer; he'd had two before he came. And now his body was tingly and warm. He touched fists with Miroku and walked out of the room. He couldn't stand it anymore.
Kagome was pissing him off thoroughly. Grinding her ass into Kouga's groin like she didn't have a care in the world.
Inuyasha sucked his teeth as he pushed through all the inhabitants of the house. People were passed out in the halls and on the stairs and he looked at them with disinterest. His ears twitched erratically as different voices and sounds reached the small furry appendages. He overheard a conversation between three girls with annoying high-pitched voices.
"That stupid bitch is dancing with my Kouga." She huffed angrily. Inuyasha nodded to himself.
"Don't worry Ayame. The slut will get hers." He recognized that voice as Kikyo's. But he could get his body to work right and look in the direction the voices were coming from.
"I can't believe the boys told us not to do anything rash. What the hell is with that?" another girl said. She was better known as Kagura.
"And you know why? They said they didn't want us getting our asses kicked again. Can you believe that?"
Inuyasha couldn't help himself. He chuckled lowly and kept on moving, ignoring the rest of their conversation. On his way to the front door he passed by Naraku and Sesshomaru, both smoking something what looked like weed.
"What are you doing here?" Naraku sneered lowly.
"Shut up bitch. The whole school was invited if I'm not mistaken." Inuyasha retorted growling. Sesshomaru regarded him coolly and took a drag of his joint.
"Whatever. Where's your little whore?"
"She's not a whore." Inuyasha defended, even though what he saw earlier made him beg to differ.
"I'm sure she isn't. She's always with you, but now she giving all she's got to Kouga. Weren't satisfying her good enough?" Naraku replied smoothly. Inuyasha sniffed and shoved his hands into his pockets.
"Better shut your fucking pussy ass up before I make you." He narrowed his eyes at the boy with long black hair. Naraku jumped up; ready to strike the tall and lanky boy, but Sesshomaru held out a clawed hand and took another drag from the object in his hand.
"We're not looking for a fight at the moment, so if you're on your way out, step to it," he said coldly and blew the smoke out above his head. Inuyasha flicked his gaze towards the boy that looked almost identical to him and lifted his head.
"Later, Pansies." He shoved past the girls who just happened to come over and link their selves onto the two boys arms and headed outside.
He was barely a few yards away from Miroku's car when someone called out his name. He inwardly groaned when he recognized it as Kagome's voice. He took a short drag on his freshly lit cigarette and sighed glancing up to the star covered sky.
"Inuyasha! Shit, wait up!" he stopped and flicked ash from the tip of the white stick. She jogged in her flip-flops and came around to the front of him, peering up at his face. "Why'd you just leave so suddenly?" she asked, panting lightly from her little bit of exercise.
"There wasn't anything worthwhile keeping me there." He said shortly, his dark eyebrow raised towards his hairline. He was looking her straight in the eyes as he said this, and her breath hitched in her throat.
"Oh." She said quietly. Inuyasha nodded slightly and took another drag from his cigarette, blowing the smoke above her head. She looked at him puzzled. "Since when do you smoke?" the look he was giving her was unnerving enough, but just his presence sent a slight chill through her body.
"It's something I do occasionally. When I'm pissed off or stressed out." he said, like it was none of her business.
"You shouldn't. It's bad for you." He slanted his eyes at her, flicking the burning stick to the ground and smashing it with his heel. She'd stated the obvious, like it was something he didn't know, and now it felt as if she were going to start teaching him a lesson.
"Since when did you get permission to fucking lecture me like you're my mother or something?" he asked coldly and stepped around her, ignoring the slight guilt he felt when she gasped. "You certainly don't act like her." he flicked his ear with a clawed finger and closed his eyes as he walked down the sidewalk, listening to her small footsteps as she followed him.
"Excuse me? I was just saying it's bad. What the fuck is up your ass, Inu-"
"What's up my ass is none of your concern. Before you start worrying about me, you should stop and take a look at your own behavior." He shoved his hands in his pockets and kicked a loose pebble on the gravel below him, strolling along as if there wasn't anything to worry about in the world.
Of course that wasn't the case.
"Um, okay. I'm not the one that's been acting like the world is out to get me lately. Why don't you just tell me what's wrong so I can stop playing this stupid little game."
"Oh, but that's precisely what it is! A little game to you, right?" he stopped, and turned around and opening his arms out beside him, grinning a grin that was empty as hell. Kagome swallowed the lump in her throat and willed her heart to slow down.
"What are you talking about?" he lost his grin and in it's place a snarl formed. He dropped his arms to his sides and stared at her.
"What is it that you want from me? Tell me. I'm very curious." He cocked his head to the side and regarded her with apathy. Kagome shook her head.
"I don't want anything from you. What the hell?"
"No, no. Please. Be completely honest with me." he started, as if he was being some generous person. Then he became a little bitter. "Is it money? Sex? A good time? Let me know so that we can get to it and I can be on my way." Kagome's mouth dropped open. She took the few steps it took to reach him and brought her open palm against his cheek.
"Inuyasha, I can't believe you! You fucking bastard! Why would I want any of that from you? Are you insane? Are you drunk? Let me fucking know, because I'm just as intrigued as you are!" she screamed at him. He snapped his head back towards her and she could see every single thing he was feeling swirling in his amber orbs.
"Don't act like you care about me if you really don't!"
"I do care about you! What are you talking about? Is this about Hojo?"
"Hojo, Kouga, any other boy you meet. No it's not about that shit, Kagome." She inhaled a deep breath of air, burning her lungs, before she chose to speak again.
"God. Just tell me. What is wrong?" she pushed her hand through her hair and shifted all her weight to her left leg, her hands on her hips.
"What's wrong is that whenever you seem to need something you magically remember my name. But other than that I seem pretty useless to you. You don't seem to even know I exist when you're on dates with Hojo, or practically having sex with Kouga while dancing. That's why I ask, what is it exactly that you want from me. Because I can't deal with this anymore, and I'm tired of you acting the way you are." Kagome bit her lip as tears pooled in her eyes.
"I'm so sorry. I didn't realize. Oh, god." She covered her face with her hands and Inuyasha just stared down at the ground.
"Kagome. I appreciate our friendship, and I really do enjoy it. But not when you act like it doesn't matter." He whispered.
"It does matter to me though!" she cried out. "It does. I'm sorry, this isn't me, you know that!" he took in a sharp intake of breath.
"I don't… know that. I don't think I know you as well as I thought." He looked up from the ground and found her eyes. "And, I don't want to know you if you aren't acting like yourself." He swallowed an increasingly growing lump in his throat. Kagome started whimpering as she tried to hold in her sobs. "When you're ready to… let me see you for you, and when you stop acting like our friendship isn't important, you know where to find me. I don't trust a lot of people. And I don't want you to become someone I can't trust. I like you a lot. You probably already know that. I just like who you were when I met you. I'm not telling you to change if you don't want to. But I can't guarantee that we'll be friends if it's like this." he stepped closer to her and held her face in his hands, his heart aching because she was this upset. He hated doing this, but it was for the good of things. If they could get through this, than hopefully all the rest would be smooth sailing. He leaned down and kissed her gently, catching her bottom lip between his before pulling away. "Take care." He whispered and let go, turning around and strolling down the street quickly before he changed his mind and ran back to her. He could still hear her sobs but picked up his pace and turning around the corner.
It had to be this way; at least for a while…
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A/N: I love this chapter. There's so much emotion. It was hard to write though, and again, I apologize for getting it out late. But thank you to those who were patient. Please review guys! Thanks a bunch!
TaintedMunkeyz