THE DETENSION: PART ONE
Standing in front of the school on an early Saturday morning,
Not to study in the library,
Not for community service hours,
Nor for tutoring younger students,
Kagome Higurashi was there for a detention.
Checking her watch it read 7: 56 a.m., she still had four minutes before she had to be seated in a chair in the schools library. She clutched her dull colored bag as a cool breeze blew by, she look around her, it was all empty. It was was odd to see the front of her school so...deserted. The jocks weren't throwing around a football on the grassy field, the "popular" girls weren't sitting on the stairs putting on their make-up, nobody was sitting up against the tree reading a book, there weren't any noisy cars in the parking lot blaring music, and no one was sitting against the wall of the school play guitar…
It was empty.
But she was never apart of any of this, she just came to school went to her locker, maybe to the washrooms, and then straight to class. Kagome didn't socialize before school, she didn't really socialize during classes, and she sat alone during lunch. This past week had probably been the most she'd ever socialized since grade school, and it was thanks to Inuyasha.
7:59
'Shit,'
And that was the first time Kagome Higurashi ever ran in a school hallway.
She opened the library door with one hand and held her bag with the other; she didn't even look around the room to see if her English teacher was there or not. There were eight large desks, large enough to fit four people, lined up in rows of two, she took a seat in the second row and stared down at her bag. The library doors opened, her head abruptly looked up,
"So, you actually came, and exactly at 8:00 a.m., that's what I like to see." The English teacher spoke with arrogance, she couldn't stand it. He put a stack of papers down on a desk after signing two of them. He then looked over to Kagome; he held his stare on her for a few moments, as if he was making some sort of decision, and then quickly exited the library. She let out sigh of relief. But not even two minutes later he re-entered the library, and marched over to where she was sitting and sat himself on the desk in front of her just staring down at her, she looked away.
"Do have anything to say for yourself and your behavior the other day?"
He paused,
"Kagome, I'd appreciate it if you would look at me while I'm speaking with you." She slowly turned her head towards him, "That's much better." His grin widened.
She began to tremble,
"It seems you buddy hasn't shown up yet." He started, "Don't associate yourself with him; I hate to see you waste your life." Then he did it.
He placed his dirty hand on her cheek and brushed a loose piece of hair behind her ear, his hand then slowly traveled down her neck,
Her eyes were watering, yet she did nothing but turn her face away.
Slowly he reached the rim of her T-shirt, and then made his way down the front of her shirt…
She had never felt anything worse then his touch.
The tears were streaming down her cheeks, yet she didn't make a sound.
Every so suddenly the both library doors slammed open, Inuyasha had finally came and about seven minutes too late.
The teacher quickly jumped off the desk, stumbling at bit with his words he finally spoke, "Inuyasha, I said promptly at 8:00 a.m., not whenever is convenient for you!"
Inuyasha, ignoring whatever it was the teacher was saying, stared blankly at Kagome, she was crying. She wasn't even facing him, but he could smell the strong tears. Now, Inuyasha wasn't the smartest guy in the school, but he had a small idea of what may have just happened; it made him cringed inside.
He then snapped back to reality and look towards the teacher in front of him,
"…I'll let you off today and only because you'll be here the whole day. I'll be back to check on you two every hour on the hour, you'll be able to eat at 12 o'clock, I hope your brought your own lunches." He looked at the two of them once more, Kagome looking in the opposite direction and Inuyasha looking at him with a confused look of disgust. He then turned and quickly marched out of the library.
Inuyasha just stood in front of a desk, not to sure of whether to say something or not. He sat his lunch down on the desk and walked toward where Kagome was sitting. He stood at the end of her desk,
"Can I sit?"
She was startled; quickly she turned to face him while quickly whipping her tears away.
"Oh, umm yeah, sure…" she moved her bag off the table on to the floor. They were again placed in another moment of awkward silence.
"You must think I'm a wussy or something…"she started off, "…basically every time we see each other I'm crying or something stupid like that." She tried to smile.
"It's not stupid to cry."
He said very solemnly looking forward; he then turned his face toward hers,
"…but it is stupid to keep a secret like that."
She went into a state of shock, was he talking about what she thought he was talking about, her eyes started to water again,
"I mean, it's not that you had to tell me, but shouldn't you at least tell somebody?"
She couldn't say anything, even if she wanted to, and the words wouldn't come out of her mouth. She turned her face forward; her hands were twisting inside one another,
"...who" she finally spoke, her voice just above a whisper, "Who exactly am I suppose to tell?"
"Family, friends…" he said simply, not knowing that telling her 'friends' and 'family' wasn't as simple as he thought. She merely responded by looking at him with a small grin,
"That's not possible." she turn her head to face the front again, she couldn't look him in the eye right now.
Kagome thought he would now drop the whole issue. She had just told 'The Inuyasha' more then she ever wanted to. Yet, a short moment later Inuyasha asked something she defiantly wasn't expecting,
"Then why don't you tell me?"