A/N: Thank you to all who reviewed my last chapter and to all who are about to read this one. I do not own Inuyasha. Enjoy!
Chapter 4: PART 1
"Kikyo, baby, you gotta' understand…"
"…yeah I know, but I just don't think that it was necessary for me to be there…"
"...could you let me finish my God damn sentence!"
"…well I have to yell just to get through to you!"
"Fine. I'll be there."
Miroku and Sango just stared at Inuyasha as he flipped down his cell phone,
"And the verdict is?" questioned Miroku, "Apparently she wants to talk to me in person, so I have to meet up with her today after school." sighed Inuyasha.
"Why are you still with that doorknob of a girlfriend anyways?" Sango nagged,
"Sango what the hell do you know about her anyways…"
"Well I do know that the last time you made us go out with the two of you she couldn't stop talking about how long it took her to find the perfect nail polish color to match her outfit, did I mentioned she insulted me ever chance she could. You're so lucky I'm your friend and didn't punch the shit out of your girlfriend. That day, I vowed to myself that I would never go near that woman again." Sango said as she stood triumphantly raising her fist in the air, Miroku and Inuyasha slowly walked away to the school.
They tried to sneak away from her, "…your girlfriends crazy," whispered Inuyasha to Miroku.
"I HEARD THAT!" Sango yelled as she caught up to Miroku and Inuyasha.
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During English class Inuyasha noticed that Kagome wasn't there. Her desk, which was placed in the front of the classroom, was bare.
'…our English teacher just frustrates me sometimes…'
Inuyasha remembered Kagome saying this when he asked why she was crying that day in the hall.
"Higurashi, Higurashi Kagome?" asked the teacher as he took attendance,
"Weird, she's never missed a class," he mumbled to himself as he checked her off as absent.
"I never thought I'd see the day when that creepy chick was absent…" joked a boy in the back of the class,
"That's enough back there!" ordered the teacher,
"Cool it teach, I mean honestly, who gives a flying, pardon my French, fuck about that Higurashi chick…" sighed the rebellious student,
"Out! Down to the office now! I will not tolerate that language in my class!" The teacher yelled and pointed to the door.
"Ptsh, not like this is the first time I've been down there…" as the student said as he walked out the class door.
Inuyashas eyes never left the clock through out all of class, and Kagome never showed up.
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Yet again, during lunch Inuyasha was surrounded by people who basically bowed to him; they all sat at the same table in the cafeteria everyday.
Inuyasha slurped his ramen up and was moving on to his second bowl when his eyes caught a glimpse of Kagome walking by their table. One of his friends noticed him starting,
"Hey Takahashi, what you staring at?"
Inuyasha shook out of his daze, "Nothing, just noticed that that Higurashi chick is here for lunch but wasn't for English…"
"Oh yeah, there she is," Inuyashas friend noticed and threw a wooden chopstick at her to catch her attention,
Kagome was startled by an object being thrown at her and turned to see where it came from.
"Eh, you, Fag. You into skipping English now?" the friend laughed, followed by everyone else at the table laughing…
…except for Inuyasha, these jokes use to be hilarious to him, but it didn't seem so funny now. All he could was stare into her eyes. She stared right back at him before breaking the contact and quickly walked away. He suddenly wasn't hungry anymore; his hunger was replaced by this terrible feeling in the pit of his gut as he watched Kagome walk away with her head down. Her eyes looked as if she had been betrayed because he didn't say anything to defend her.
"…Hey guys, I'm going to call Kikyo, see you after school at the smoking pit."
"Alright, bye." They said.
He lied; he wasn't going to call Kikyo. In fact, right now, he had not one thought about Kikyo in his head.
Chapter 4: PART 2
"Miroku, I don't care about how she felt, I told you that already." Inuyasha sighed into his cell phone,
"Well, you told me you got this horrible feeling in your gut when you saw the, and I quote, 'sadness in her eyes.' This, my friend, is what we humans know as the emotion of guilt. Therefore you felt guilty or bad about how your so called friends were insulting Kagome. In conclusion your cared that her feelings where hurt." Miroku replied from the other line.
"Whatever, listen buddy, I gotta' go, Kikyo just walked in. See you later tonight, k?"
"…yeah. Bye" and he hung his cell just as Kikyo approached the booth he was sitting in.
"So, who were you just talkin' to?" She slyly asked while she sat down in the seat across from him and pulled a mirror and lipstick out of her purse.
"Miroku." There was silence,
"So you hang out with that slim ball who tried to grope my butt."
"He has a girlfriend now, Sango." Inuyasha replied,
"Oh, she managed to get a boyfriend, Ha" Kikyo smacked her lips together,
'Sango was right, Kikyo just likes to insult her; even when she's not here.'
"Enough with the stalling Kikyo, why'd you want to talk with me person to person?" Inuyasha got serious.
She seductively dragged her hand up and down his arm, "Oh don't get so uptight baby, I've just missed you, that's all." She finished with a pout.
Inuyasha was now officially confused, 'she yelled at me on the phone, and now she's acting needy? Woman… I'll never understand em''
"So, your not…mad at me?" Inuyasha questioned,
"No, why would I be 'Yasha? Come on, let's get out of here, you can come over to my place, my parents are out of town for a couple of day." She said with a devilish tone.
Inuyasha knew what this meant, and he was never one to turn that down.
"Sure, I'll come over, and around 8:00 you wanna head over to The Joint with me, I'm suppose to meat Sango and Miroku there…"
"Tell them you're canceling."
"…"
"Now, come Inuyasha, Daddy left me with his car." And she walked out of the restaurant and expected him to follow,
which he did.
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"So, you're telling me you canceled with us yesterday so you could spend the night at Kikyo's…you man whore." Sango spat.
"Oh, Sango, I think you're being too harsh with our friend here, I think spending a night with a girlfriend is a perfectly good reason to cancel a pre-plan engagement." Miroku reasoned,
Sango sighed, "Oh course you'd agreed, all you guys ever do is think about sex sex sex! God, you guys make me wish that sometimes I had a friend who was female, instead of disgusting males."
"Hey, you picked to be friends with us." smirked Inuyasha as they entered the school's front doors.
The three of them joined up with four other guys and two girls in the hall and started to walk to the cafeteria together before classes started. As they were walking to the cafeteria Inuyasha stumbled over someone who was picking up her text books from the floor, as he stumbled over her, her glasses fell off her face and onto the floor,
Crack.
Inuyasha's foot had stepped right on the glasses to break his fall. He had just broken the infamous 'goggle glasses' which belonged to none other then Kagome Higurashi. He looked down to see her shocked eye,
"Oh shit, Kagome, I'm sorry-" Inuyasha started to apologize to her, when he noticed the weird stares he was receiving from his friends.
"-What the hell do I care," he continued, "Those had to be the ugliest glasses I've ever seen. I just did you a favor, you should be thanking me, and what the hell were you doing in the middle of the hall anyways, don't you know people walk here. Huh, for teacher's favorite, you're not too bright." And there it was, the cruel word vomit Kagome received everyday, but this time it had come from Inuyasha Takahashi, her English partner.
She quickly picked up her books and her crushed glasses and scrambled to the side of the hall, her eyes were filled with fear.
"Come on, let's go." He finished and walked off with his friends,
Miroku and Sango gave him an ashamed eye; he just turned his head from them and looked back at Kagome, trembling with her lock, trying to open her locker. Sango stopped and turned around and left the group.
"Hey, I'm sorry about him He's just a real jackass sometimes."
Kagome gave a small chuckle. Sango smiled, "Hey, do you need help with your lock? Just tell me your combo." Kagome had a worried look on her face.
Sango stuck up her pinky finger, "I won't tell anyone, I promise."
Kagome replied with a small smile and raised her pinky finger, "It's 128890."
Sango toyed with the lock until' she got it opened, "There ya' go."
"Thank you."
Sango held her hand out, "I'm Sango; we've never really talked before."
Kagome shook her hand, "I'm Kagome."
"You Kagome, you are really pretty without those huge glasses."
"…" Kagome stared blankly at her, 'was this girl kidding?'
"You look at me like I'm joking, or something."
The bell rang,
"Well, I'll see you later Kagome." And Sango ran off to class.
"That was odd." Kagome whispered to herself.
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Sango was walking towards her usually table where 'everyone' sat, from the corner of her eye she spotted Kagome, sitting alone at a table.
'Do I really want to waste my time sitting with those egotistic jackasses?'
Sango was really the only girl who sat with them, them being the gang of guys who were considered the popular seniors. Sure, there were their girlfriends sitting at the table too, but Sango couldn't really stand any of them. The only reason she sat there was because of her boyfriend, Miroku and Inuyasha, one her best friends. But on many occasions all three of them would slip out of the cafeteria and sit and talk on the hill behind the school near the football field.
"Hey, Kagome." Sango called, Kagome looked up from her book, "Do wanna come and eat outside with me?"
Kagome had a confused look on her face, "Um, ok." And she picked up her backpack and book and followed Sango out to the hill behind the school.
Once they were sitting down Sango pulled out her sandwich form her bag and began to talk,
"Me, Miroku and Inuyasha usually eat out here."
"Are they your friends?" Kagome asked with a whispering voice,
"Yeah, they're my best friends, well Miroku's actually my boyfriend, but we've know each other since forever. I think you went to the same school as him?"
"Yeah, I did."
"Was he as much of pervert then as he is now?" Sango asked.
Kagome chuckled, "I think so."
Sango laughed as well.
"Hey, Sango you up there!" Miroku called from the bottom of the hill,
"Yeah, I'm here." Sango called back,
"Who you up there with?" called Inuyasha, he reached the top of the hill with Miroku and just froze as his eyes met Kagome's.
"Um, I was just leaving…" Kagome whispered starting to stand up, "No." Sango grabbed her wrist and pull her back down,
"Inuyasha, are you going to say something to Kagome."
"Um, can I talk to you alone?" he rubbed the back of his head, Kagome hesitated.
Sango whispered in her ear, "Don't worry, he's a nice guy underneath it all."
Kagome walked towards Inuyasha, "sure." She wouldn't look at his face.
Inuyasha lead her away from Miroku and Sango,
"I'm sorry." He grumbled, he looked over at her to see her reaction, she was still looking down.
He grabbed her shoulders, he noticed her body tense as she winced her eyes shut like someone was about to hit her,
"Hey, wooh, don't get all tense, I'm just sick of you not looking at me when I talk to you."
She slowly opened up her eyes and look into his own. He smiled, "That's better."
"Hey, today after school; are you free?"
"Yes."
"Good, I'm taking you out to buy new glasses, Ok? I'll pay."
"…no, don't worry, you don't have to do that."
"Yes, yes I do. After school meet me at the front doors, Ok…Kags." He smirked.
"Yeah, ok." She lightly smiled back.
"He likes her…" Sango whispered while spying on Kagome and Inuyasha,
"Yeah, I think he does." Agreed Miroku
A/N: I'll finish it there. Next chapter will or should be posted by Wednesday.
Thanks for reading!