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Notes: I'm so sorry! I know it's been the longest time I haven't updated. I feel so horrible. Omg, I love the transition when Sango smacked him in the last chapter. And wow…almost 100 reviews. Actually, there's 99 at the moment. I'll be so happy. I always envy people with many reviews, and so when it's me who becomes one…wow. Kalliel, oh, but you must ramble. Rambles in my reviews make me really happy. Really really really happy. Thanks. But you rock. I mean, Shared Soul completely sucked. I agree. It was rushed. It sucks. This is off topic, but when will you decide the winner for the contest at LOP? Mila2504, Inuyasha can't really smell anything in Kagome's mind, however, he can smell Kouga as any dog should.
Random: I have many phobias in life: maggots, airplanes, being infested by worms, gangrene, infections, earwigs (the bugs that crawl up into your ear and to your brain), loud noises, big trucks, weed whackers, and meat grinders.
Chapter Thirteen: Into the Fire
Left in a classroom, a demon starts playing with his lighter…blocking the way out.
It was a week after her coma that she returned to school. Because her grades were fairly low, she told her doctor she couldn't miss another class. When she says fairly low, she means it. Because her grades had dropped so dramatically that she would do anything drastic to raise them again. It was because of all the distractions, she thought. If she wasn't daydreaming about Inuyasha, none of this would have happened. But then, if she hadn't been daydreaming about him, she would never have gotten to know him like she does. And he would never had kissed her. That kiss…Kagome daydreamed about it. It was a shame Inuyasha loved Kikyou. She grew to hate Kikyou, and she despise Inuyasha for playing with her mind. Or at least she thought.
It was just a few weeks till the end of the year. Till the end of Kagome's junior ear, nearing the graduation of Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku. Kagome tried to avoid the fact. She didn't want it to get to her. After all, her true friends were going to graduate. And she will spend the next year alone with the bickering of those three fangirls and Houjou.
Now she was once again sitting in her science class. She watched Sango jotting down her notes, and Inuyasha and Miroku bickering and laughing at one another, about who knows what. She sighed. Catching herself falling asleep, Kagome sat up straight and took her paper, picking up her pencil and holding it as if she were ready to take notes. Seeing this, Sango laughed quietly. Kagome smiled.
At this point, the teacher grew silent, and her impatience for the class shown through her expression. "I'm sick and tired of you all. I'm going to have a substitute subbing you for the next few days." Silent expressions of joy came after she said this, and she sighed. "I'll return." She said, and she walked out the door, shutting it. The class didn't know, but she asked a teacher in a nearby classroom to check on them if they grew too loud.
"Yes!" Kagome said out loud, and she walked over to Sango, who had walked over to Inuyasha and Miroku and sat down.
"Kagome, are you going to the prom?" Sango suddenly asked. Kagome shook her head sadly. "I wish I could go. But there's no one for me to go with."
"Kagome, I think I can invite you." Sango said. "So we can hang out there." She smiled.
"Really?" Kagome was happy, but that wasn't what she meant when she said there was no one for her to go with. She meant as in a date. There was really no one. She didn't wish to go with Houjou, but who she really liked was going with Kikyou. Sango had Miroku. He had shyly asked her all alone one day, which was odd for him, since he was such a pervert.
"Watch out, you jerk!" A girl shouted out, and the four of them looked up towards her. A demon sitting near the doorway, was playing with his lighter, and waving it around, pretending to light the desk in front of him on fire. And he seemed to be succeeding. The desk burst up, the upper layout protecting the wood shriveling.
"Holy shit!" Inuyasha stood up, and he laughed, because at first he didn't know the danger. He himself was a pyromaniac, and he threw paper balls at the flaming desk. Sango shook her head disapprovingly. What they didn't realize in their entertainment, was that the fire was getting a tad bigger than the first demon had thought.
"Stop!" Kagome shouted, trying to put the fire out. But it was too late. It reached the posters on the wall and flamed them up because of the permanent flammable ink used on them. The paper balls Inuyasha had thrown had reached the door, and the paper hiding the window through the door burned. The fire flickered back and forth at the door, and the walls around it. The room filled up in thick grey smoke, and Kagome coughed, landing on her knees. Sango and Miroku were on the ground in the corner, trying to block the smoke from entering their lungs. Inuyasha had held his nose, his eyes tearing. His excellent smell was flustered, and he coughed.
Seeing Kagome on the ground, coughing, clutching her neck as if she couldn't breathe, he crawled over to her. Kagome couldn't breathe now. She felt herself weakening, and her eyes closed. The smoke was toxic, because the flames reached a bucket of cleaning solution. Everyone heard the fire bell ringing in the halls, but there was no escape for them.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted weakly, he crawled to Kagome, and saw her coughing suffer her. Desperately thinking of something to save her, he dashed toward the door, kicking it continually, until it opened, to let the smoke out. Everyone in the class rushed out weakly but as quickly as they could, and Inuyasha saw Sango and Miroku come out of the room, but not Kagome.
"Kagome!" He rushed into the room, and found her on the ground, unconscious. He picked her up and rushed out of the room again, covering her face with his red hoody. "Kagome…please wake up…" He said, and he bent down to kiss her forehead, afraid of her harm.
"Kagome! Are you alive in there, moron?" Inuyasha asked. At this, Kagome jumped up immediately. Looking around, she realized that she was still in her classroom. Nothing was in flames, no smoke was in the air, and Inuyasha was clapping in her face, to get her to return to the real world.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" She exclaimed, very embarrassed. She felt her face becoming red, and she flustered, covering her face with her hands. "I won't do it again!"
"Do what?" Miroku asked smirking. At this, Kagome shook her head rapidly.
"Nothing, nothing!" She said. The three of them were looking at her quite oddly, but Inuyasha was the one to break the silence.
"Pfft, who cares." Kagome felt relieved, although she did feel like glaring at him. She couldn't believe she did that, even though she told herself to stop day dreaming…to stop day dreaming about him, someone who would never really love her.
"Kagome…the prom is in a few days. It costs $10 for you. If you want, I can pay for you. Since I'm going off to college, I really want to spend time with my best friend before I go." Sango said, saying the last bit sadly.
"Aw, Sango. You're my best friend too… I'll go, but you don't have to pay." Kagome replied, still a little embarrassed.
"We must go shopping for a dress!" Sango told her, and Kagome squealed silently and they both smilied. Both Inuyasha and Miroku rolled their eyes.
"So who are you asking?" Miroku asked him.
"Who else? Kikyou." He said rudely, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Hearing this Kagome stiffened, but it seemed only Sango and Miroku noticed.
"I'm sorry, Kagome." Sango whispered to her, patting her shoulder. The bell rang, and because the teacher never returned, the class just left, leaving the four. Inuyasha stood up and waited by the door for his best friend, who was waiting for his girl friend, who was talking to Kagome to cheer her up. "Forget him."
"I'm going to go." Kagome said silently, and she nodded at Sango's words, but both of them knew she would never forget Inuyasha.
"I'll see you at 4pm after school, okay?" Sango said before she left. Kagome nodded and stood up, walking rather quickly towards the door, rushing past Inuyasha and bumping into his side.
"What the hell?" He shouted back at her when she dashed through the hall. Inside, he felt guilty. But it wasn't his fault. He liked Kikyou. He couldn't dump Kikyou for a junior who happened to have a crush on him. Sango glared at him as she walked through the door, but he shrugged it off.
"You aren't too good with the ladies…" Miroku said, and Inuyasha hit him on the head irritated as Miroku smirked.