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From Hatred To Love
Chapter 16- Kikyou Left All Alone
Anger. That's all he saw in her brown orbs when they had gotten into position. He was surprised that she already had her arrow in place. It was pointing strait at his face. He saw her mouth the words ' You're dead' and knew she was going to hit him with all she'd got.
Inuyasha gave her a smirk. ' Bring it on.' Kagome saw him as he mouthed those words to her and pulled her arrow back further. She was not going to get beaten by him again. This time she was going to take him by surprise.
The miko looked over at Sango who was like her, not taking her eyes off her opponents. They were going to be dead meat. This time. Sango sensed Kagome watching her and gave her best friend a smile.
"They're doomed!" she whispered and turned her attention back to the boys. Kagome smiled back at her friend and nodded.
Sango turned her head and looked at her teammates. Kagome seemed totally focused but her hope dimmed when her eyes caught sight of Kikyou. She wasn't paying much attention. She was too busy cleaning some dirt out from her nails. Sango frowned and shifted her gaze to Dawn. The girl was surprisingly focused. Sango blinked she was not acting pompous like Kikyou and worrying over the simplest things.
The exterminator's thoughts were interrupted when Mr. Louse blew his whistle. "On the count of three!" he shouted. "One," he began. Kagome pulled her arrow back further. "Two. Three! Go!"
Inuyasha had barely any time to duck before Kagome shot an arrow at him. She mumbled under her breath for missing him and cursed him for his agility. Sango caught sight of Miroku running towards them. She in turn ran towards him and prepared herself to fight.
Sango attempted to kick the monk but her caught her leg before it could reach him. Her face turned a bright red when his hand stroked the same leg in which he was holding. Before the monk could have even blinked Sango's hand came to his face, knocking him down.
"Stupid pervert. You can't even kept your hands to yourself, even in gym!" Sango yelled and charged at him.
Inuyasha was just as unlucky was Miroku. Kagome was shooting so many arrows at him that he had dogged them by only about one centimeter. Inuyasha groaned when the girl drew another arrow and aimed it at him.
Kouga was laughing his head off. Kagome was only aiming at Inuyasha and no one else. It was funny to see Inuyasha being beaten by a girl. The hanyou turned around and glared at Kouga.
"Shut your mouth Kouga. I'd like to see you doge all these arrows!"
"I don't have to!" he laughed. "You're the one who'd gotten Kagome pissed, not me!" The hanyou growled and was about to reply when an arrow grazed his cheek. Turning around, he looked at a smiling Kagome.
"How dare you hurt my man!" Kikyou yelled. Kagome rolled her eyes and turned her attention back to the hanyou. But he was gone. She searched around frantically for him and was surprised when her bow and arrows suddenly turned to pieces before her eyes.
Inuyasha then appeared out of nowhere and grabbed Kagome by her wrists. The girl struggled against his hold but couldn't get away. Inuyasha looked as his opponent gave a defeated sigh. He thought that she had given up and had let down his guard.
What happened next, he wasn't expecting. He immediately released her and fell to the floor. She had kicked him strait in the nads.
"Why'd you do that?" Inuyasha growled and began to stand up but stopped when Kagome began glowing.
"I told you that you were going to be dead. Next time take it seriously!" Kagome said and was about to shoot him with an energy beam when the bell rung. Kagome groaned. She was finally going to beat him but the bell had rung. Kagome gave an annoyed growl and outstretched her hand to help the fallen hanyou.
Inuyasha took her hand and allowed her to pull him up. Before the friends could say anything to each other Kikyou ran in between them pushing Kagome down to the ground. Her arms wrapped around the hanyou as she squeezed his waist.
Kagome looked on in disgust. Inuyasha immediately pushed the girl away earning a pout from her. Inuyasha pushed passed Kikyou and lifted Kagome back to her feet.
"Thanks," Kagome said. Inuyasha flashed Kagome one of his sexy smiles, which caused her to blush. The two were so entranced by each other that they completely forgot about Kikyou's presence. The miko looked in shock, as the two were drooling over each other. Her looked turned into disgust when they didn't turn away.
"Inuyasha!" she yelled which quieted down the entire gym. The two snapped out of their trance to stare and Kikyou. "Why are you looking at her like that?" she asked, her voice sounding hurt. Inuyasha didn't know how to respond. He tried to keep from blushing but he couldn't.
"Like what?" Kagome suddenly asked boldly. "He isn't looking at me in any strange way! Just because Inuyasha is my friend again, you have to make a huge deal about it!"
"That's true," Sango said and pushed through the crowd, dragging an unconscious Miroku behind her. "Every time Kagome and Inuyasha are in the same room, you make a fuss." Kikyou glared daggers at Sango.
"That's not true!" she began. "Kagome is trying to steal him from me! I have to be protective!"
"I've never been yours Kikyou! Get it through your thick skull, we broke up two years ago!" Inuyasha yelled. Kikyou seemed taken back. With a saddened look on her face she spoke to him.
"But baby," she began. She didn't have anytime to finish because Inuyasha was already on his way out with Sango, Kagome and an unconscious Miroku.
With a frustrated growl Kikyou stomped her foot on the ground. Her life sucked at that point of time. Kagome and Inuyasha were getting closer with each coming day. Dawn was beginning to act strangely and Naraku always stared at her every time she passed and it was freaking her out.
"Dawn!" Kikyou finally said not looking back. She knew the girl would come. The girl appeared in front of her. "We must do something about this situation."
The girl looked at Kikyou confused. Just what did she mean. " What situation?"
Kikyou stared coldly at her apprentice and gave the girl a rough shove. "Duh! Kagome and Inuyasha!"
"Oh," she said and put her hands to her chain as if she was recalling something. "What about Miroku. I want him too!" she said.
"This is about me, not you Dawn. I don't care about your personal life or your desires. It's because of me that you are so very popular and well known. Do you remember when I found you? You were stupid, ugly and all alone." Kikyou said calmly.
"I wasn't all alone!" Dawn argued. "I had friends!" The girl looked down at her feet. Tears came to her eyes when she recalled her former friends who hated her now. "Had. Now I don't have anyone."
Kikyou looked taken back. Dawn had never really argued at her or raised her voice. Never. She was changing. With a flick of her hair Kikyou continued her conversation. "Dawn. Don't you dare argue with me. I told you before without me you'd be nothing. I made you survive and I don't care about your problems. They're yours to deal with."
"But I help you with all your problems!"
"So that don't mean I have to help you."
Dawn stared at the miko in shock. This girl wasn't her friend. She was being used the whole time without even noticing it. Kikyou didn't care about her but only for herself. Gathering all her courage Dawn spoke back.
"Then if you truly mean that then this ' friendship' is over, Kikyou," Dawn replied.
"What do you mean?" she asked as she watched the girl struggle to take off the friendship bracelet off her hand.
"You've treated me like dirt for the past three years and I can't take it anymore. I'm through doing your dirty work, find someone else to help you out!"
With those words out of her mouth Dawn threw the golden piece of jewelry off her hand indicating that she was not joking around. Kikyou looked down at the bracelet.
"You can't leave!" she yelled. "You're nothing without me!"
Glancing back one last time Dawn spoke. "No Kikyou. I am and I doubt that you can survive without me at your side and you know what? You really are a bitch!" With those final words Dawn walked out of the gym leaving a now friendless Kikyou.
"Jeez she gets me so annoyed!" Inuyasha growled at her sat shaded under a tree with Kagome, Sango and Miroku who still was blacked out. Kagome gently rested a hand on his shoulder and gave him a gentle smile.
"Don't worry about her. After a while you learn to ignore her completely," Kagome said. "but it might be harder for you since you have a temper."
"I do not have a temper!" Inuyasha argued.
"Yes you do!"
"No I don't"
"Yes you do. Your temper is building up now!"
"No it isn't! I'm not as bad as you are!"
"What! I don't have a temper!"
"Yes you do!"
"No I don't!"
"Yup!"
"No I don't, Inuyasha!"
"Oh will you two shut up already!" Sango yelled which caused the two to look over at her. She was leaning over Miroku. "You two act as if you're still in kindergarten!"
Sango gently shook the monk after giving the tow a little lecture about their behavior. Miroku was out for quite some time now. He didn't even budge. Sango was worried. Maybe she'd punched him too hard. Leaning over a little closer, she examined him more closely.
"Sorry," she whispered only for her to hear. "Please wake up, Miroku-sama."
He didn't move. Sango leaned in a little closer to examine him. Not realizing that their noses were touching. She suddenly felt something push her down and her lips brushed slightly against Miroku's. The girl pulled up immediately, embarrassed.
Miroku's eyes flew open with a perverted glint in them. " Sango!" he said in a surprised voice. "So this is what you do when I'm unconscious. Take advantage of me."
The girl looked away her cheeks turning pink. That when she saw the monk's hand on her butt. He had pushed her down, which meant he was awake the whole time.
Miroku was smiling. He didn't see when her hands curled into fists at her side nor did her see when her face turned angry, all he saw was Sango's fist connect with his face, again. His hand which was on her butt, found its was back at his side and Sango immediately got off him.
"Stupid, lecher," she muttered and took a seat away from him.
Kagome laughed, she and Inuyasha had seen the whole thing. Inuyasha huffed at the situation and didn't understand why Kagome was laughing so loud.
"They're meant for each other," Kagome said between giggles. Inuyasha looked confused.
"What do you mean, she just beat the crap out of him!"
"She does that because she likes him, a lot," Kagome whispered, knowing Inuyasha would hear alone. "Sango is violent and every time Miroku hits on her she always seems to blush before she gives him what he deserves."
"So you're saying that she beats him up to hide how she really feels?"
"Uh-huh."
"Weird," he said.
"Hm," Kagome sighed. The day was drowsy. They had about one more hour until classes would start again. She leaned against the tree and closed her eyes as a soft breeze blew. Inuyasha stared at her from the corner of his eyes. Although he wouldn't admit it, Kagome looked radiant, even in her school uniform. Maybe he should invite her over today. Rin of coarse would be happy to see her.
"Kagome?' he asked.
"Hm?"
"Wanna come over later by my place?"
A smile formed on her face and she nodded. "Sure. I'd love to see Rin and Sesshoumaru again." She reopened her eyes to look at him. "And Ill be even happier to spend time with you."
Inuyasha blushed. His cheeks turned even redder when Kagome rested her head on his shoulder and cuddled up next to him. Inuyasha rested one hand behind his head, not knowing what to do.
"I'm glad we're friends again," the girl whispered.
"Me too."
Dawn was smiling. She couldn't believe that she had done that. She finally felt like her own person, at last. No more orders from Kikyou she was now free. Free from being Kikyou's slave.
She didn't have any friends now. No yet anyway. She knew that she was about to make plenty. Walking outside Dawn spotted Kikyou. The miko was glaring daggers at her. ' Guess I'm her enemy now,' Dawn thought and stuck her tongue out at her former friend.
She wasn't afraid of Kikyou anymore. She could get a life and a new panther while she was at it. ' I'm not your servant anymore Kikyou.' For the first time in a long time Dawn gave a genuine smile. Seeing a huge oak tree up on the tiny hill, she headed towards it, thinking that she needed shade.
She didn't expect to see Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango and Miroku sitting there. Kagome was the first to spot her. She raised an eyebrow ad searched around for Kikyou.
"Hi," Dawn said shyly. The four looked over at her. Sango gave an annoyed look, Inuyasha rolled his eyes and Miroku tried to look past her.
"What do you want now?" Sango asked. Surprisingly Dawn didn't glare at her like she would usually do. She looked down at her feet and fiddled with a loose strand of her hair.
"Can I sit here?" she asked.
"Where's Kikyou?" Inuyasha asked.
"I don't know and I don't care!" she said as her nose squinted up at the mention of Kikyou's name.
"What do you mean?" Kagome asked, still searching for Kikyo.
"Kikyou doesn't care about me. All she cares about is herself and her needs. She told me how without her I'd be nothing. She used me to help her with all her plans. I was just a tool to her," Dawn said and looked down at her hands.
"Sure you can sit with us, whatever," Sango said which surprised Dawn. "But I still don't trust you."
Dawn smiled and sat next to Sango. She had a feeling that she was about to get some true friends and Kikyou, she could drop dead and still Dawn wouldn't care.
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Done. Yay! Now what do ya think. I just felt evil so I had to do that to Kikyo. I just want her to die, die, die! Anyway. I hope you liked this chapter. Remember to review and if you have ideas e-mail me please. Thanks again. I got over 300 reviews. You guys are so great! Bye.
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