Inu-Yasha
A Feudal Fairy Tale
Disclaimer: This episode of Inu-Yasha and the character Saeko
are of my own creation. I do not own any portion of Inu-Yasha.
"Inu-Yasha" and all related characters,
names, etc. are ©1998-2003 Rumiko Takahashi/Shogakukan,
Inc. Inu-Yasha is a trademark of Viz
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What's a Hanyou
to Do?
Scroll Five:
Confessions
Saeko leans her back against the door to Professor Higurashi's classroom and slides down it, the tears stinging
her eyes. She just witnessed the instructor kiss Inu-Yasha
and, to her great dismay, he hungrily kissed her back. Right now she wishes
that she were the one in the hanyou boy's arms.
'I...I shouldn't of ran off yesterday,' she thinks sadly to herself. 'Maybe he
would've tried to kiss me again if I stayed.'
She stands up and walks off to her locker, not paying attention to the students
that she walks into. 'Why can't he notice me more?' she angrily thinks. "I
mean, I'm not some hot looking babe like Professor Higurashi,
but I know that I am attractive.' The neko girl
punches the locker next to hers, creating a very large dent in it and scaring
off the students near her.
"What I need," she mutters out loud, "is a way to get him to
notice me more. But how?" A devious smile plays
across her face as an idea comes to her. 'Oh yeah,' she thinks while rubbing
her hands together in a sinister looking way, 'that definitely will work! Inu-Yasha will be mine!'
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Meanwhile back in the classroom, Kikyo
and Inu-Yasha are still in their heated embrace. The
instructor reaches up under his shirt and touches his bare chest, getting a
growl in response from the hanyou. As her hands
explore his finely toned chest, Kikyo's mind is
working at a mile a minute. 'What am I doing?' her mind screams in shock. 'I
have never been so forward like this before...and besides, I am not supposed to
do this with students! It is both morally wrong and illegal!'
Another voice inside of her speaks up. 'But this feels so good!' the voice
moans. 'I have never felt so attracted to a man like this before. I have to
have him, I need to have him!'
Inu-Yasha suddenly pulls himself off of the beautiful
teacher. "Wait!" he gasps, "I...we can't do this. Its not right." Though he is trying to keep his
distance right now, his body is screaming for him to get closer and take the
woman in front of him.
Kikyo leans up and nips at his lower lip. "But I
thought that we were having fun? I know I was certainly enjoying myself,"
her voice lowers, making her sound very seductive.
The hanyou inwardly moans to himself.
'I can't resist her if she talks to me like that!' he worriedly thinks.
"I...I was," he admits to her, "but this isn't right. We can't
do this..." he pauses. The words, 'I have feelings for someone else too,'
are on the tip of his tongue, but he just can't say them with this extremely
attractive woman standing in front of him with such a seductive look in her
blue gray eyes. He just has to settle with saying, "We just can't."
Professor Higurashi sighs slightly. She then reaches
into her blouse and pulls out a business card from her bra and hands it to the
surprised hanyou boy. "This has my cel phone number, my home phone number and address in case
you ever decide to change your mind," she says with a suggestive wink,
earning a blush from Inu-Yasha. Kikyo
leans up gives the young man one last kiss. "Go on now before you are late
to class."
He nods and quickly runs off. The instructor sighs again, this time more
deeply, and leans up against her desk while clutching her rapidly beating
heart. "What is it about that hanyou that
attracts me so?" She places a hand on her forehead and begins to chuckle. "Oh dear. I hope that Kagome does not hear about this.
She surely would try to strangle me for kissing the boy she is interested
in!"
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Inu-Yasha quickly makes his way into his next class
just as the late bell rings. He frowns at the sight before him. He has Saeko in every one of his classes except for only one. In
every class he had with her yesterday they sat next to each other, and he
assumed that today would be no different. But right now, there is no empty
seats near her since they are all taken by a bunch of guys who are talking to
and flirting with the neko girl, who giggles at their
words and flicks her hair back every now and then in a flirty way.
"I guess I was kinda mean to her earlier,"
he mumbles under his breath. "This day went from good to bad to confusing
to aggravating and it's just started!" He sighs deeply and takes a seat
high up in the corner. There is nobody around him and right now he prefers it
that way since now he has gotten over the shock of what just happened with him
and Professor Higurashi and is now focusing back on
another recently discussed topic, his mother.
She was a great woman, always caring for him and taking care of his needs even
though he was...different. For the first six years of his life, she was his
only family. Inu-Yasha never knew his dad since he
died when he was just a tiny pup. He did know that his father was the great
full blooded inu youkai
lord that held control over most of the western lands and that his older full youkai brother, Sesshô-maru, is
now in control of those lands and governs over all that dwell there. He hasn't
seen his brother since he was around four or five and the youkai
made it quite clear that he wanted nothing to do with his younger hanyou brother. From what he knows, after his father died,
he gave his lands to Sesshô-maru and left Inu-Yasha with a large chunk of his fortune so the hanyou can live a comfortable life without having to do
such simple things like get a job.
When he was younger, Inu-Yasha was upset that his
only sibling wanted to distance himself so much from him, but nowadays he
barely thinks about his brother. "He can go screw himself for all I
care," the hanyou boy mutters under his breath.
"If he wants to deny my existence then fine, I'm better off all by myself
anyway." He leans on his right arm and gazes out the window next to him.
"No Father, no mother and a brother who wouldn't care if I just suddenly
vanished off the face of the earth. Boy, I'm just one big sob story."
Inu-Yasha mutters all of this, but Saeko was able to listen in on everything he just said. Her
cat-ears droop in sadness. 'Oh wow,' she thinks to herself, 'I didn't know how
bad he has it. I do feel sorry for him...but I'm still upset that he kissed
Professor Higurashi and snapped at me earlier.
I...I've got to keep up on the game plan.' She goes back to talking and
flirting with the numerous guys around her, checking every now and then to the inu hanyou to see if he's paying
attention, but he's not. He is still staring out the window with a downed look
on his face. The neko girl sighs and stops talking to
the guys around her and directs her attention to the English instructor, much
to the disappointment to the flock of boys trying to get her attention.
The hanyou boy continues to stare out the window to
the west throughout the entire class. About halfway through, though, he gets
the strange feeling that someone is looking at him, and not anybody in class,
but somebody outside, someone in front of him, someone...far away...
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Meanwhile, Kagome Higurashi sits in her class, lazily
gazing out of a nearby window to the east while her science teacher continues
to droll on through his extremely boring lesson plan for the day. Suddenly, the
young woman's body stiffens as she feels someone begin to look at her.
Something about the way she is feeling right now reminds her of Inu-Yasha and how her body seemed to melt under his
penetrating gaze with those gorgeous eyes of his.
'But that can't be right,' she thinks, thoroughly confused, 'he's at Takahashi
High, and that place is several miles from here!' Kagome both mentally and
physically shrugs. 'Oh well, I hope I can see him again, maybe I can get his
number or something this time as long as that other girl doesn't drag him off
again.' She begins to frown. 'I wonder who she is. She looked like a hanyou too. I hope she isn't his girlfriend or something, I
want to take up that position!' she finishes with a smile and a blush, getting
confused glances from both Sango and Miroku next to her.
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The next couple of hours at Takahashi High go by
relatively smoothly. Koga wakes up in the middle of the day and storms off to
class, embarrassed at having been taken down twice in two days and knocked out
with the same wrench. He decides to leave that inu-kkoro
and the cute neko girl alone...for now.
Inu-Yasha mopes all through school, quickly going to
his locker in between classes and always taking the upper corner seat next to
the windows. He also pushes all other seats away from him so nobody can bother
him. He knows what he is doing is foolish and child like, but he has his times
where he just wants to be left alone to brood in his thoughts and he tends to
get a little...snappy if he is bothered. Unfortunately for him, those times
usually come when he is in school or in public areas with lots of people so he
gets the reputation of being rude, cold and cruel, though for some strange
reason he seems to always attract a lot of good attention from women. 'Well
women are strange,' he thinks with a small chuckle.
The hanyou boy sighs lightly. He is getting nowhere
while in this damp mood and thinking such depressing thoughts. His mind wanders
on ways in which he can cheer up a bit. The first thing, or more accurately,
the first person he thinks of is Saeko. Inu-Yasha visibly cringes while remembering how he snapped
on her earlier. "Maybe telling her I'm sorry will help make me feel
better." He pauses for a moment before adding, "I guess it'll make
her feel better too." He jumps slightly in surprise as the bell to signify
that the current class is over rings. There are only two more classes and then
school will be over for the day. The hanyou boy
gathers up his things slowly, keeping an eye on Saeko
ahead of him.
The neko hanyou picks up
her books and leaves class, on her way to her locker. "Today is just not
my day," she grumpily mutters. "First I make my koinu
savior all mad at me so he won't even speak to me, then he gets all warm and
cozy with Professor Higurashi and then when I try to
make him jealous by flirting with other guys he just ignores me and doesn't
even look phased! What did I do to deserve this?" She gets to her locker
and opens it, oblivious to the young man standing right behind her.
Inu-Yasha grins as he leans in close to Saeko and whispers, "Hey koneko,"
into her left ear.
The hanyou girl shrieks as she jumps up a few feet in
the air. Quickly, she whips around to see who surprised her. She is shocked to
see Inu-Yasha's smiling face. Without thinking, she
bops him on top of his head. "Why'd you do that for baka!"
the neko girl snarls, "you scared the hell out
of me!"
"That was the point," he chuckles at her. He then looks down towards
the floor and rubs the back of his head. "Look...I...I'm sorry for
snapping at you earlier. Its just that I get kinda…touchy when conversations lead to my family."
Saeko smiles in a knowing way. "Yeah, I know the
feeling," she admits. Without warning, she jumps into Inu-Yasha's
arms, cheering, "Yay! We're friends again!"
The hanyou boy pats her awkwardly on her back while
thinking, 'Girls are so confusing.'
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The second day at Takahashi High is now officially
over and all of the students are scrambling to their lockers to get out as
quickly as possible. Saeko on the other hand is
happily skipping down the hallways next to Inu- Yasha, who keeps on glancing over to her and rolling his
eyes both in annoyance and amusement. They both split up and go to their
lockers to gather up their stuff.
After they are done with that, they team up again and make their way to the
nearest exit which has them passing by Professor Higurashi's
classroom, much to the neko girl's frustration. As
they pass her class, both glance in. Kikyo is calmly
sitting down at her desk, shuffling through a stack of papers. She looks up
from her work and turns her head toward the two hanyous
looking at her from her door and smiles warmly at them with a small wave.
Inu-Yasha is about to give her a timid wave back when
Saeko suddenly grabs his hand, intertwines her
fingers with his and pulls him in close to her, surprising both the inu hanyou and the instructor.
The hanyou girl pulls Inu-Yasha
along away from the Professor's classroom, giving her a dirty look behind the
boy's back.
Kikyo huffs slightly and mutters, "Bitch,"
under her breath as she goes back to her work.
Saeko's cat-ears and Inu-Yasha's
dog-ears twitch in hearing the instructor's angry comment. The neko girl looks about ready to kill while the inu boy fights hard to hold in his laughter, but he still
has a look of amusement on his face. The young woman's anger increases as she
sees the boy next to her who looks like he is about to split a side so she does
the only thing that comes natural, she hits him really hard on his head.
The hanyou boy's skull crashes down onto the tile
floor. He is quick to his feet, a malicious rage in his now fiery gold eyes.
"You're gonna pay for that neko!"
he snarls.
Saeko makes a kissy face at
him. "You'll have to catch me first my koinu
savior!" she giggles gleefully as she leaps away with Inu-Yasha
in hot pursuit.
Right after they exit the school, the two play an extreme game of cat and
mouse. The hanyou girl puts up some of her best
evasive maneuvers, but amazingly the inu boy is able
to keep up behind her, which is impressive since her neko
abilities make her even faster and more agile than Inu-
Yasha. After a few minutes of this intense chase, Saeko starts to become worried that she will be caught,
something that has never happened in her entire life. Her initial plan was to
lose him and sneak off to his place while he was still searching for her. Then
he would come home to a very...interesting surprise!
Her primary plan failed, the neko hanyou
decides to steer into a nearby forest, which is quite large. 'If I zigzag
around enough,' she thinks to herself, 'then maybe I can still lose him and get
to his place! I swear that by the end of this day, I will make him mine!'
Not too far behind her, Inu-Yasha smiles as he sees
the direction in which Saeko is heading. 'Big mistake
koneko!' he happily thinks. 'The forest is my
terrain. You'll never lose me in there!' His smile widens as the neko girl in front of him goes down below the treetops.
"If you're going under...then I'm going over!" He launches himself on
top of the trees and gracefully runs along them, quickly surpassing the young
woman below him.
Saeko glances over her shoulder while traversing through
the vast expanse of trees and underbrush. A sly smile works its way upon her as
she notices that Inu-Yasha is nowhere behind her.
Just to be on the safe side, she takes a sudden sharp right turn. After a few
moments of dashing, she hops up onto a large branch of a tree that is well
hidden with leaves and vines hanging around it. She keeps her senses on full
alert to find out if the hanyou boy is still
following her. A few minutes pass and she cannot see, hear or smell him
anywhere.
'Good,' she thinks with relish, 'I can finally get off of this damn tree and
sneak off to his place before he gets there. Boy will he be surprised!' Saeko just takes her first step down when a sudden rustling
behind her catches her attention. She turns around just in time to get charged
into by Inu-Yasha. They both quickly fall to the
ground. The neko hanyou
closes her eyes to brace for impact with the earth when the hanyou
boy turns her around so he is the one that hits not her.
Unfortunately for them, they were on a small hill and the two of them begin to
tumble down. At first the hanyous yell out in
surprise, but about halfway down, their yells turn into joyous laughter. They
finally stop rolling and land with Saeko lying on top
of Inu-Yasha, both grinning like children.
"That was...interesting," she pants, beginning to sit up.
The inu boy is about to respond when a stream of
light pours through the trees above him and falls directly on Saeko, giving her an almost angelic glow. Without thinking,
he reaches up and caresses the left side of her face.
The neko girl's breath
catches in her throat at Inu-Yasha's gentle touch.
Her heartbeat increases as he begins to pull her down while leaning up towards
her. 'This is it,' she determinedly to herself. 'This is what I wanted to
happen...well it went differently in my head and we were supposed to be at his
place but.wait a minute! Why am I complaining? I
should just shut up and kiss him!' This ends her inner conversation with
herself and the hanyou girl leans down to meet Inu-Yasha's lips with hers. 'My first
kiss! Yay!' her mind congratulates herself.
Below her, the inu boy is having similar thoughts.
'Whoa, I'm actually kissing her. My first kiss...well the first one I
initiated. Hey, this kiss is as good as the one with Professor Higurashi!' He feels a small lurch in his stomach when his
mind goes to the beautiful instructor. 'I like her...but I also really like Saeko. Speaking of which, I wonder if she is liking this kiss as much as I am.' He opens his eyes
slightly and sees that the hanyou girl has her eyes
closed and is apparently enjoying herself. He closes
his eyes again. 'Well that settles that Inu-Yasha so
why don't you just stop being a dope and thinking too much and enjoy kissing
this cute girl on top of you?' The definitely puts an end to those thoughts as
the two pull each other closer, both yearning for each others warmth and
affections. The two young hanyous from Takahashi High
have united.
To be continued...
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Translations (in order of
appearance):
No new words ~ Sorry, I don't know a whole lot of Japanese words!
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Author's notes: Alright, another
scroll is finished. I had originally planned to jump ahead next scroll to the
next school year where Kagome, Sango and Miroku will start to attend the school, but I just thought
of a good story to add next, and it should be a little funny too! - lighthawkdemon
Questions or comments? E-mail me at: lighthawkdemon@yahoo.com