CHAPTER 8:

A SORRY AND SAVED

A/N: well, here it is. The last chapter…NOT! Just kidding. Sorry. I just wanted to see what would happen if I did that. Please, im really sorry…LOL. Well, thank you for reading the story and please enjoy.

"Hm…Haru's absent." Mr. Fujiko said. "Must be sick. It is getting cold. I don't want any of you to get sick. The weather is changing so keep yourselves warm."

"Hai!" everyone said.

Kikyo bit her lip. Absent? Haru?

"He's not usually absent is he?" Mizuru asked Kikyo.

"No…I don't think." Kikyo replied.

"Nope. Haru's rarely ever absent. Maybe once a year. I didn't see him cough yesterday too." Inuyasha butted in.

"Maybe he caught cold at the last minute…" Kikyo said to herself. She hoped it wasn't because of yesterday at the field.

"You should see him, Kikyo, if you really love him." Inuyasha said.

"W-What does that mean?" Kikyo asked embarrassingly.

"You're going out with him aren't ya?"

"You're going out with Haru!" Mizuru shrieked. "That's great!"

Kikyo slumped in her chair. Her face turned red. "Um…you see…"

"Okay! I want you to turn to page 167. Everyone, start the assignment on the page!"

"Okay." Everyone said, sighing.

Kikyo sighed. How can I explain that I don't love Haru? It was kinda fast…

:X:X:X

"Kikyo. What's up? You've been acting so weird." Inuyasha said, running up to Kikyo in the halls.

"Inuyasha…it's you. Well, I haven't been acting weird."

"Yes you have." Inuyasha said. "Everytime we talk about Haru, you're face turns red…" Inuyasha held his breath and made his face turn red. "Like this!" he laughed, letting go of the breath.

Kikyo's face turned red again. "O-Oh…I d-didn't know that." She lied.

"Calm down. I didn't mean to make you feel so insecure." He explained.

"It's alright. So Haru doesn't get sick a lot?"

"Nope. Not really. Sometimes when he got sick, he'd keep trying to go to school. He hated staying home with his dad."

"Oh yeah."

"He really hates his dad. I think somewhere inside him, he wants to just punch the guy one time. But I think that he knows that if he ever did that, something bad would happen like to his mom and he'd feel more guilt."

"Haru…he's such a nice guy. I understand how he felt when he lost his mom."

Inuyasha's eyes wandered away. "Oh yeah. Your mom. She died."

Kikyo kept quiet.

"How's your dad doing?"

"Okay I guess. I'm sure he still misses mom though. We're all trying to stick together. We promised each other that mom's death wouldn't eat us alive and that we'd keep trying to move on with life."

"Heh. You guys seem like such a lovey-dovey family."

"How about your dad?"

"My dad?" Inuyasha kept quiet for a while. "I hate him." he said cruely.

"What? Why?"

"Do I have to have a reason?"

"Of course. I don't think you should hate him so much. I mean, he's your father."

"Well what about Haru? He hates his dad!"

"You should try to solve things with your dad before it's too late. I'm sure Haru is trying too, Inuyasha."

Inuyasha looked away. "You don't understand! I hate him. And I'll hate him forever!"

"Inuyasha. You can't mean that."

"So what if I do?"

"It's sad if it's true Inuyasha." Kikyo said. "I know that it's hard to forgive sometimes but-"

"Shut up!" Inuyasha yelled. "He did something horrible. So horrible that I can't forgive him…"

Kikyo looked at Inuyasha's eyes. He was remembering something from the past. They looked so painful…so hurt. "Inuyasha. I-I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said those things. You look so hurt. I'm sorry to have brought back a memory."

Inuyasha shook that thought out of his head. "Forget it. You don't have to apologize." He gently hit Kikyo on the head. "It's okay. I'm…I'm fine now."

Kikyo couldn't help but smile. She liked him better this way than the way he was before. But that made Kikyo realize that there was a hurt side of Inuyasha too, just like Haru.

"We should get to class. Let's go." Inuyasha grabbed Kikyo's hand and ran to class.

:X:X:X

The bell for then end of the day rang.

"Inuyasha. I never knew where Haru lived. Can you-can you show me?"

"Sure. I'll walk you over there." Inuyasha offered.

"Um, okay." Kikyo agreed.

The two began to walk to Haru's house.

"So are you too still dating?"

"…no." Kikyo said.

"No? Why?"

"I guess we were going too fast." Kikyo explained.

"Heh. Maybe." Inuyasha said. In a matter of time, the two arrived at the house. At their luck, Haru was coming out of the house.

He widened his eyes. "Kikyo…! Inuyasha…!"

"Haru. Um…hey." Kikyo didn't know what to say.

"What are you guys doing here?"

"We…I came here to see you Haru. Are you okay? Are you sick or something?"

"Yeah." Haru sniffed. "I kinda caught cold."

Kikyo was relieved. So he didn't stay home because of yesterday.

"I guess I should go then. Bye Kikyo." Inuyasha said, leaving the two alone.

"So, you going out with him now?" Haru asked.

"No. It's not that. I just wanted him to tell me the directions to your house but he wanted to walk me there."

"I see." Haru said incredulously.

"Haru. Really. That's all that happened. And about yesterday, I'm sorry." Kikyo said, looking straight into his eyes. "Please forgive me. I shouldn't have just been saying yes that I wanted to go to the dance with you and everything else all this time. I'm sorry I let it go so far and then told you I never loved you. But please, I still…I still want to be your friend Haru. I want to go through things and have you by my side as a friend. I want to…I want to stay friends."

Haru smiled. "Of course. I'll still be your friend. I'm just glad you still want to be my friend after I…I kissed you."

Kikyo almost forgot about that.

"Well don't worry." Haru whispered in her ear. "I'll keep your secret about Inuyasha."

Kikyo blushed but nodded. "T-Thank you."

"And I can't believe you took the time to come to my house. You didn't have to."

"I thought you didn't come to school because…because I told you I didn't love you yesterday."

"Nah. That was something that brought me down, I had to admit, but I caught cold yesterday from wandering around in the cold night yesterday. I was thinking about stuff." Suddenly Haru sneezed.

"You'll get sicker by the moment. Stay warm, okay Haru? It'd be horrible if you got sicker."

Haru chuckled. "Yeah, it would be."

"I have to go right now, Haru. But please keep warm and take medicine!" Kikyo said, going home.

"I will, Kikyo." Haru smiled as he watched Kikyo disappear as she went back home. "I will…"

A/N: Well, I finally finished this chapter! I didn't have a lot of time to update so, yeah. Anyways, I think I'll start working on this story a lot now. Okay, bye and see you in the next chapter:D