The Two That Don't Belong
By tK
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Inu x Kik

A try for modern time. Made mostly by me, but there are occasional small ideas given to me by n00dle. Anyway, it's modern time (but in a world of youkai), and the whole gang except Shippo, Kohaku, Rin, and other young characters are in their sophomore year at high school.

En no bekarazu jika Inuyasha.

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Kikyo did not want to go home again. She did not want to return to that mess. But she had nowhere else to go. She couldn't go to Inuyasha's, for one she didn't know where he lived, and two, she didn't want anybody knowing... about that. Especially him. He would wonder why she didn't tell him sooner... or... no, he wouldn't do that... but she still didn't want anyone knowing about what was going on at her house.

She would have gone to Kagome's and said she just wanted to hang out, but Kagome's mother always calls people to see if they're allowed over. And Sango's aunt won't allow anyone over, even if she wasn't there all the time, sometimes she just popped in to check on things, so Kikyo did not want to be spotted by Sango's aunt. And Miroku was just way too much of a for her liking.

But it came to a point where she just had to tell somebody about her little problem. She wouldn't be able to continue if she never said anything and never did anything about it; she'd probably get so fed up with all of it that she'd just... most likely . And it was no joke.

So she immediately knew who it was she would tell: Inuyasha. He was her best friend, and besides that, she wanted him to trust her more. She wanted to get closer to him.

"Inuyasha," she said one morning and they walked down the halls. "I have something important to tell you."

"Kikyo, you know you can tell me anything."

"Well... there's this problem, at home... and..."

"What kind of a problem?" he demanded, "you know that if you tell me I'll get myself over there and do something about it."

"It's my mother... she's..." Kikyo stopped him for a second, got up on her toes, and whispered into his ear, "she's abusive, Inuyasha." Inuyasha's world stopped. "She's abusive?" Kikyo nodded as to say yes. Inuyasha took a deep breath.

"Why didn't you tell me before?" he asked, "you know you can tell me anything, Kikyo."

"I... I was scared..."

"Arrgh..." Inuyasha embraced her. Kikyo was kind of shocked, but she didn't mind. "Kikyo no baka."

"What?"

"Kikyo no baka! Why didn't you tell me?"

"I said I was scared! I..." Kikyo continued, "I didn't know what would happen! INUYASHA NO BAKA! How dare you call me a baka!" Inuyasha let go of her. Kikyo turned and ran down the hallways. Why didn't he understand?

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"So this is how it is now?" Kagome asked Inuyasha after Kikyo was long gone. "You are mad at her, right? And now you tell me you care?"

"Kagome... I thought we would still be friends!"

"We broke up not that long ago and you're already going out with Kikyo!"

"I AM NOT! I'm just worried about her, okay? I was to you too! Back off, please!"

"Fine!"

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Kikyo did not want to return home at the end of that day. And she did not. Instead, she went to a familiar place, somewhere she had always gone to when she was like this. There was a hill with lots of trees and pretty flowers, and if you were there, the sunset was absolutely elegant. She did not want to face her mother, for she was scared now. She had always been. But there was just something about today she did not like.

Am I still friends with Inuyasha? she thought. Is he mad at me?

Kikyo stayed until the sunset. She calmly watched it, and decided afterward it as late, and she needed to go home. She wouldn't like it, but she at least needed food... or something... and telling Inuyasha was enough, she didn't want to tell anybody else.

Upon arriving home, her mother greeted her. Roughly.

"Where have you been?"

"Out."

"Where at?"

"Everywhere! No place in particular!" she lied, throwing her backpack onto the couch.

"Liar!" her mother screamed, getting ready to start the abuse. "Where have you been? I told you not to get involved with boys!"

"Mother, I'm not involved with that hanyou!"

"So he's a hanyou?" her mother asked, "no daughter of mine will be involved with the likes of hanyoui!"

"Mother, he's just a friend!"

"He's a HANYOU friend!" she shrieked, getting closer and closer to Kikyo... cornering her... she first took her long fingernails and put a cut on Kikyo's left cheek. Then she grabbed the belt she always had nearby. "Kikyo, get on your back if you want it to hurt worse."

"Mother!"

"On your back, or I'll use a metal hanger!" Kikyo obediently got on her back... this is what she got for even coming home at all...

"Mother, don't-"

"HANYOU!" she screamed, starting to slash the belt across poor Kikyo's back. "Hanyoui-" WHACK "are-" WHACK "despicable-" WHACK "creatures-" WHACK "that-" WHACK "no-" WHACK "human-" WHACK "should-" WHACK "be-" WHACK "involved-" WHACK "with!" WHACKKKKK! Her mother observed Kikyo's face after turning her over. "Why aren't you crying?"

"I'm never going to cry!" Kikyo shouted, "I'm not that weak!"

"You are!" her mother cried, putting the belt high over her head.

"Mother-!"

Then an utterly familiar voice from her hanyou friend came: "Kikyo!"

"I... Inuyash... sha?" Kikyo stuttered, shaking from fear. But she refused to cry.

"Leave her alone!" Inuyasha shouted. Kikyo couldn't see by now... her vision was horribly blurred, and she was consumed by darkness, but before falling off to unconsciousness she could still hear... a sound as if the belt was thrown into the kitchen and hitting some china or something was made. She heard Inuyasha shout, "Leave Kikyo alone!" right before she was entirely gone into the unconscious world of her own.

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Inuyasha refused to speak to Kikyo from then on. Kikyo thought it was because he was still mad at her... but really, Inuyasha was just too tied up in all of it. Kikyo being abused, his emotions, Kagome, school, friends, and that creepy history book...

Kikyo called up Sango one afternoon and got Inuyasha's IM name. From then on she got on almost every afternoon to the night waiting for his name to pop up. For now her aunt had moved in with her, but it was only temporarily. Sango's aunt heard about the news and was going to have Kikyo move in with them, with all her belongings, so that Kikyo's aunt could go back to her work in Kyoto.

Finally after eight days of waiting for Inuyasha's name, he came up on IM.

kikyomiko89: inuyasha
inudog-boy56: howd u get my name kikyo
kikyomiko89: friend
inudog-boy56: who?
kikyomiko89: just some1 listen inuyasha i appreciate you coming to my house and saving me
inudog-boy56: w/e
kikyomiko89: why have u been ignoring me...?
inudog-boy56: becuz
kikyomiko89: well if u won't talk 2 me at school will u at least talk 2 me now?
inudog-boy56: go away
kikyomiko89: inuyasha!
inudog-boy56: go away!
kikyomiko89: please talk to me inuyasha
inudog-boy56: ok fine kikyo listen... umm... i kind of... kikyo i came to your rescue cuz i was worried about you
kikyomiko89: yeah...
inudog-boy56: and after that history book... well did u read it? the one about the sengoku jidai?
kikyomiko89: not yet
inudog-boy56: well heres a spoiler: the inuyasha and kikyo in there get together. and then... i realized it was meant to be... kikyo i think i like you.. like really like you kikyo
kikyomiko89: inuyasha u dunno how glad i am 2 hear u say that
inudog-boy56: im sry its all sudden and stuff...
kikyomiko89: its ok im jus glad you were there for me
inudog-boy56: ...ok ill see u at school and im sorry again but my mom wants me off i know i just got on but shes over here complaining like u wouldnt believe
kikyomiko89: ok... cya... love u
inudog-boy56: love u 2

From hate to love... that wasn't exactly how Kikyo had pictured their conversation, but she didn't have any complaints. She'd waited almost a year now, she'd been there at her locker for him last year and now up to the present time... and it had finally been awhile since him and Kagome broke up. Then it seemed like every second was a minute, waiting for them to leave each other, but now she was glad that she finally had her prize.

And she really needed to catch up on her history homework.

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Yeah I know that was weird but I hope it came out okay... yeah I know I made ya'll think they'd end up hating each other this chapter with all the previews, but it came out okay! I am just so mean, tricking all of you like that... OH yeah if you like fluffiness STAY TUNED FOR NEXT CHAPTER! and the history crap will come into play around chapter 5! AND SORRY THIS ONES SHORT it's only 1600 words long... sorry sorry sorry!

Next Chapter Previews!

"No, we can't say anything yet..."

"Get your stuff, you're moving in today, Kikyo."

"Well what did you do with my mother? She may have been a crazy, alcoholic, drug-addict but she's still my mother, you know..."