Disclaimer: Ok I STILL don't own InuYasha:( I know I know it's sad! I'll try harder to own it and then maybe the series will never end! Because yes, the series is coming close to an end :'(
Wish I Could Stay Chapter 2: Ironic Meeting
InuYasha sat on the school steps wondering if he should do it. He had that chance to leave school for the day, maybe even forever, and escape. On the other hand he could stay out of trouble and go back inside...but then he would look like an idiot. Either way he lost. But nowadays, when wasn't he losing? InuYasha heaved a sigh and stifled back a tear of hatred, he took off down the street to his childhood tree house, where he figured he could sit and think.
Miroku watched in awe as InuYasha ran out the door and sighed to himself. InuYasha had never been like this before the fire. Never. He had never done anything worse then spit balling the ceiling, and that was only once in grade four because he was going to get beat up if he didn't. InuYasha was more the good type. The one with all the funny answers to questions, but not the uncalled for kind. The kind that made even the most serious teachers laugh.
He had always worn good white t-shirts with another open one on top and jeans. His hair was always brushed. His attitude towards school was good and his grades were never any lower then a B if he even got that. Don't get me wrong, he wasn't a geek. He was on the chart for more popular guys, there were only a few in his way, Sesshomaru being the most popular, Koga coming after that, then Naraku, then of course InuYasha. He was even dating the most popular, nicest, and richest girl in the school, who was well known all over the country.
No, he was certainly never the type to run out of school like that. Even the teachers had thought of him as a nice boy...and now? What was he going to do? He couldn't sit around and be that best friend that lets their friends go to parties and be drunken drivers. He had to lay his foot down, no matter what skipping just wasn't acceptional, even considering the circumstances. He sat down at his desk, thinking of what he could do. The teacher already knew of the incedent so he couldn't possibly cover for InuYasha, he had only one other choice, to run out after him. So he did, and he knew where InuYasha would go.
Sango Taijya ran downt he street, pulling her best friend by the arm. It sounds like something a 10 year old would do, certainly not fit for two 15 year olds, but it was the only way to get her down here. Sango sighed, she was just too good for her own...well, good. So the two girls ran down the street until they spotted the jewelery store and paused for a moment in front of it to take a breather.
Kagome panted, holding onto Sango's shoulder with one hand and her knee cap with another. She really didn't want to go through with this, but she didn't want to be called a loser either, and she knew Sango would use her big mouth just to blab to everyone that Kagome Higurashi was a goody good.
Automatically when you looked at her you knew it. She wore a sparkly choker with a long string and a fake diamond at the end, though no one could tell that it was fake, it looked just like it was real. Her shirt was only so tight that you could see it clinging to her, but not as tight as it got, not nearly. Her pants were in between tight and loose, they went up to her belly button and had no holes in them. Her shoes weren't anything special, they weren't skateboard shoes, they weren't your average dork shoes, they were just average. Her hair was combed back and beautiful looking, it was never messy and always neatly brushed, bringing out her beautiful chest nut brown eyes.
Sango Taijya on the other hand was the exact opposite. She wore a tight black top with the words "Rock Hard" on it, her belly half shown. Her pants were tight and came around her waist at the very bottom of it, revealing even more of her belly. Her hair was always loose but never as neatly done as Kagome's. It made her look restless and tough. Her eyes were black and showed a complete rebel to anyone who looked into them for even a split second.
It was odd how Sango and Kagome had come to be best friends, nobody would ever have expected it, and since as long as they could remember, there were the odd few kids that were trying to turn them against each other. It certainly would be interesting if that happened. Kagome's parents were completely against the friend that Kagome chose to share all of her best friend jewelery with since kindergarden, where Sango's parents couldn't be more delighted.
Sango pushed Kagome's hand off of her shoulder and brushed the dirt off of her pants. "Ok, so this is it Kagz. This is the moment of truth!" Sango said, a smile on her face as she lifted her hand waiting for Kagome's to give her a high five, at least to show enthusiasm. Kagome smiled weakly and clapped her hand to Sango's then quickly brought it back down beside her.
"I don't know Sango. I don't think I can do it" Kagome said tentatively. She really didn't want to go through with this. Her face and eyes showed it. Her eyes were pleading for Sango's mercy, but Sango, of course, was too tough to give in. She looked away from her shaking friend and moved closer to the jewelery store's door.
"Come on, don't tell me you're gonna fall out on me at the last minute. Kagz you said you were with me on this one. If you wanna go and be the little backstabber that I know you are, then you can go ahead and run home to your big screen tv. Apparently you 'think' you're too good to hang with me" Sango said, faking disapointment and walking further towards the door. Suddenly a hand grabbed her shoulder and she turned around. She met Kagome, staring into her eyes, hers begging.
"Sango, i'll go with you. I don't want you to think that I think i'm too good for you because that's not it at all. I just know that people get records for this kind of thing. I'm nervouse about that. I've never had a single negative mark on my record and I don't want to start now. But if that's what it takes to make you believe me, then that's what i'll do. You're my best friend, Sango, and I never want to let you down" Kagome said, her voice deceiving her and giving in to the peer pressure that a best friend should never sentence the other to.
"Good, i'm glad" Sango said, giving her friend a suddenly caring glance and then a hug. "Now let's go before it gets late and your parents start wondering where you are" Sango said, pretending to care about what happened to Kagome when she got home. Secretly, she did care. Secretly, she wished that she had never brought Kagome to this. Secretly, she wished she was a better person. She knew one thing though, and it was clear to almost everybody. She would never change. It was clear to almost everybody. Almost. It wasn't clear to Kagome.
The two girls entered the jewelery shop, Kagome looking like she belonged there, with her beautiful apearance and graceful walking. The jewelery looked as if it belonged on her. Diamonds through her silky raven black hair, crystals draping from long gowns, golden and amethyst tiara's pearched on her head. She was made for this place, and she had so fallen in love with it. 'Too bad' she thought 'that i'll never be able to look at this place without feeling guilt again'.\
Sango on the other hand looked like a dreamer. A dreamer who dreamed of jewels and crystals, dreamed of being the type of girl that Kagome looked so much to be, dreamed of being able to afford something as elegant as what the shop held. Her eyes held hope. Hope that someday her dreams would become a reality. Hope that someday Kagome's features would grow upon her. Hope that someday she would be rich and be able so buy nice clothes with crystals draping everywhere. Hope that someday she would be able to have a golden and amethyst tiara pearched on her head. At least...that's what the clerk always saw, and even began to feel pitty towards.
Sango elbowed Kagome and pointed to the most beautiful necklace in the shop. It was a silver chain with a huge, real diamond on the end of it, that fit like a choker. Her eyes bore fake awe as she hinted to Kagome to pick it up and tuck it into her pocket. Kagome's eyes wore the same begging expression as before as she silently urged Sango to tell her not to do it. That never came though. No, she wasn't that lucky.
She decided she would walk away and let Sango do the dirty work, it was her plan in the first place, so Kagome shouldn't get stuck taking all the action. She walked over to where she saw a pretty braceley made of rubies on a rack and began asking the clerk about it. She loved rubies but knew very little about them, and the clerk seemed glad when he got a chance to talk with this pretty young lady.
Sango saw this as the perfect chance to take the necklace and have it done with. Maybe Kagome didn't know what she was doing, but she had just set it up so that the shoplifting was as easy as lifting a finger. Easier then any Sango had ever done before. She lifted the necklace off of the rack and palced it gently inside her pocket, then checked to make sure nobody had seen her.
The coast was clear and no one was jumping her so she walked over beside Kagome and endured as much as she could of the boring talk about rubies. Then poking Kagome in the side, she motioned that it was time to go and led her out of the shop. Once they made it across the door step an alarm went off and they were back where they had started. Sango pulling on Kagome's wrist as they ran down the streets a few blocks, but this time they weren't alone. The police were suddenly behind them after a few minutes, so they kept on running as if for their lives.
Kagome's chest felt like it was fit to burst at any moment and the pain was almost too much for her, but somehow she urged herself to keep on running. She couldn't stop now, the cops were after her. Her, a good girl. Her, the teacher's pet. Her, mom's little angel and daddy's prized possession. She ran down the streets, feeling her cirulation begin to cut from Sango's tight grip but knew that if Sango let go, she would fall behind and get caught, so she put up with it. They saw an alley that Sango knew only too well would take them to a clearing in the woods, so they turned down there. No cars could possibly get there, once you were there you couldn't get back for days by using the path in the forest and the police always turned round the other corners in their cars. Once they were sure that they had lost the police, Sango fell on the ground, fits of laughter taking over her body. This was just too fun.
Kagome's face was red, half from running, half from anger. She kicked a tree branch , the branch falling beside the tree onto the ground and let out a sob, plenty louder then she would have liked. Tears began rolling down her cheeks and her body shookl uncontrolably as she took a seat beside Sango on the ground. Sango gazed over at Kagome and realised the hell that she had driven her to. Kagome wasn't the type that she could lock up into this misery with her. She was the good type. The eager type. The goal setting type. The ambitious type. She laid a hand on her shoulder and opened her mouth to speak when her hand was suddenly thrust roughly back down to her side and Kagome ran off into the woods somewhere.
InuYasha sat in his tree house, his hands balled into fists. He kicked the side of the house, accidentally creating a knew window. He gazed outside it. He was int he middle of the forest, where he secretly used to come and play when he was a little kid, about 6-10 years old. He rubbed his hands in his hair trying to rid himself of the frustration but failing miserably. His grief was overwhelming. He felt horrible about everything that had taken place. Horrible. Like it was his fault. The fight was because of him. His brother died because he was too stupid to give him a second thought. He was too late to save his own mother because he felt so sorry about losing his father and for himself for even losing his father. He had an image to keep up at school, but he didn't know if he could do it. Suddenly, he forgot everything that he had learned in the past at school. He forgot the information on next weeks test. He felt no desire to learn it again. He didn't see the point. It's not like he was ever going to use it anyway.
He didn't see a point to living. Everyone worked so hard to acheive their goals, and then after you acheived them, what did you get? You got death. After you worked so hard to acheive everything you got death. He knew that for sure. No doubts about it. His parents had worked so hard to become rich, at least rich enough to say that they were up there with the Ozamaku's. They had almost acheived it, $500 more and they would have done it, but they died in that fire. He punched a few new holes in the wall, let out a few screams and then burst out crying. He sat his weary body on the tree house floor and cried and cried and cried until he heard leaves crunching outside. He looked out one of the newer holes in the house and saw Miroku emerging.
"Screw off Miroku! Go back to school! Keep up your good record and crap!" he yelled. He really wasn't in the mood for a companion at the moment. He didn't think that he ever would be again. He hated people as far as he was concerned. He hated them all. Everyone. None of them could keep their noses in their own buisness.
"I will not" Miroku said, climbing up into the house and seating himself beside InuYasha, who grunted in acknowledgement. "I'm sorry they had to say those things to you but, what's wrong with you? You were never like this before. I meen, you would never just run out of school like that" Miroku said to his friend, not in a harsh voice.
"Feh" InuYasha said. It was the only answer he could think of. He knew that Miroku was right, but he didn't want to admit it. He never would, not if his life depended on it. Come to think of it, he didn't charish his life like he used to anymore. He didn't suppose he ever would. He was about to sink back into his misery when the sound of crying reached his ears and he looked out the hole in the house to see a raven haired girl running towards it, tears streaming down her face and soaking her long raven hair.
Kagome looked into this strange boys face, staring into his warm golden eyes, and felt like she could fall into his arms, but she didn't. Wiping away tears with her arm and keeping back the thousands of tears that had yet to fall, she hardened herself up. She wasn't going to make a bad impression on this boy no matter what. "Hi" she said in a half tearful, half happy voice. "I'm Kagome".
InuYasha stared at the girl as he stood tall, his arms crossed. He wasn't about to let her see that he had been crying, so he waited a few minute before be decided to talk. "Yeah whatever. Nice to meet ya Kagome...I guess" he said a little uncertainly, sounding meaner then he had planned on. Apparently Kagome noticed this because she decided to let it pass. Then she had a thought. "What are you doing out here in the middle of the forest?" she asked.
InuYasha scoffed. "I used to have an old tree house out here when I was about 7-ish. I just came out here instead of going to school" he said. He found the softness in his voice quickly, and changed it to tough. "What were you cryin' for a minute ago anyway?" InuYasha asked in a voice that made it sound as though he didn't really care.
Kagome sighed. "My 'friend' was trying to get me to rob a jewelery store and now we've got the cops after us" she said simply. Then she took notice of InuYasha's puffy, swollen red eyes. "And what've you been crying for?" she asked mischeiviously.
InuYasha took this offensively. "Feh. I wasn't" he said as though he had actually fooled her...He hadn't. "Sure you haven't" she said. "But I told you my reason, the least you can do is tell me yours" she said, holding her ground for the minute. "Look! I haven't been crying! Now but out! It's not like it's any of your buisness anyway!" he yelled definately. Miroku stepped between them.
"Now now, calm yourselves" he said reasonably. "Clam it Miroku" InuYahsa said with a growl. "I'm outa here" he said, finalizing the meeting and walking off. Miroku cast an apologizing glance at Kagome and ran after his friend.
Kagome sat on her bed and waited for the doctor to leave her house. She hated him. He was an intrudor. He had no right to visit her dad as much as he did, there was nothing wrong with him...except cancer. She sighed and rolled over onto her back, a tear running down her face. Then she a scream coming from her fathers room and a knock on the door. Jumping off of the bed she hurried over to her door and opened it. It was the doctor. Kagome looked up at him with pleading eyes; he looked sadly at his feet.
The tears were coming out non stop now and she ran into her fathers room, flinging herself on top of him, embracing him with both arms, crying hysterically. She let go of her fathers body, ran one hand across his face, and gently kissed his cheek. Then, suddenly, she stood up and ran from the house. Outside and down the driveway she could still hear her mothers feverish screams. Braking into a run now, she flew down the streets of Tokyo, despair overcoming her.
She didn't know where she was going, she didn't care, she just wanted to get away. Then she crashed into something soft and dissolved into it, crying dramatically. She didn't care what it was that was causing her so much comfort, she just wanted it to stay.