Inutori: Sorry it took so long to update, I've been distracted.
Inuyasha: You liar, you were just being lazy.
Inutori: Oh, shut up! Kagome!
Kagome: What is it THIS time?
Inutori: That jerk :pointing to Inuyasha: is insulting me.
Kagome: :cough: hypocrite :cough:
Inuyasha: Well Inutori started it by making me be so arrogant!
Inutori: Did not! I don't own you, I didn't create you! I only use you in my fanfic stories because I like Rumiko's story!
Inuyasha: Keh…

Chapter 2
Torturous Living

"What did you do to Inuyasha!"

I wince at her loud screech. What is her problem? Did I somehow mess up her perfect life? "I didn't do a thing to that violent jerk!" Maybe I shouldn't have answered the hysterical girl how I did, because she certainly doesn't take it too well.

"Inuyasha is NOT a jerk! You are! He didn't say anything when he came back downstairs and he just left! You had to have done something to him, ugly!"

Kikyou has called me ugly since we were only seven and she had come to visit us. I don't know why she did it: it was probably just to annoy me. You'd think that a fifteen-year-old would be more mature than as to result in childish name-calling; I guess not. "I didn't do anything to him! I'm not lying!" We are having a yelling match and I am not about to lose. Good thing mom isn't home. "He came up here and used MY bathroom and then left! You go a problem with that?"

"You're not telling me the whole truth! I already knew he came up here to use the bathroom; that doesn't explain why he just decided to leave when he came back down!"

"I'm sorry if I can't explain the workings of your boyfriend's pee-sized brain! Just get out of my room!"

I'm sure my face is red by this point, but as long as my lungs can hold out, I'll keep going. Kikyou turns red as well, but I think it is for a different reason. She quiets down to a low whisper and looks down at the floor.

"He's not my boyfriend…anymore." She glares at me again, her mellowness obviously leaving in a flash of rage. "Inuyasha will probably never want to come over again thanks to you! Ugh, I HATE YOU!" She flings up her arms and stomps over to her own roomdown the hall, apparently giving up.

I smirk to myself, having successfully won the match against my half-sister. Wait…that guy ISN'T her boyfriend? Than why were they so intimate and stuff at school? That is just freaky. Just hopefully she is right and he won't ever want to come over again, but knowing my luck, I'll be seeing a lot more of that jerk.

Heaving a sigh, I unpack a couple of boxes before collapsing back onto my bed. I have been here for less than twenty-four hours and already I have managed to make myself two enemies. Unfortunately, I'm not really a social bug so I haven't made any new friends to balance it out. This is Tokyo all over again.

I think I fell asleep, because next thing I know, I hear mom calling up the stairs for supper. How times flies.

Pulling myself up off of the bed, I yawn and head out of my room. While on the stairs I can smell the scent of pizza wafting up my way. Seems that even mom wants to make everything quick and easy while we're still settling in.

Downstairs, everyone takes a seat at the small table to eat the junk food before us. Everyone except Kikyou, that is.

"I am NOT eating that garbage, I'll get fat!" She gawks at me as I pause from my inhaling of a slice of pizza. "And Kagome, honestly, if you eat like that you'll never get a boyfriend."

I am sure to swallow the food in my mouth before I respond. "And what makes you think I want one?" Her eye seems to twitch, but she says nothing in response to my comment so I just continue eating.

Kikyou goes over to the fridge and takes out an apple to begin eating. Her bites are little and dainty, like a toddler's, and she chews slower than a cow. I just can't stop staring at her like she is an alien the entire meal, but perhaps she IS at least half alien. After all, we had different dads.

She eats about half of the apple before throwing the rest away and saying she is full. What a waste of a perfectly good apple.

Mom looks to Souta and me, a forced smile on her face. Apparently she too is having problems digesting Kikyou's strange ways and wasteful behavior. "How was your first day of school?"

"Oh! It was great! I met this boy named Kohaku and we get along real well! It was his house that I went to! He says he has a big sister too that comes from the depths of-"

"Souta! You will say no such thing at this table!" My ears nearly explode with that shriek of my mom's. I think I could have lived my life without that little outburst.

"Well, he has a big sister too." Souta looks down at his hands and swallows.

"Mom, may I be excused?" I look at my mom with a calm expression, trying not to vent my anger at what Souta had almost said. Then again, it isn't exactly a false statement. I will openly admit to that.

Mom nods and I stand up to leave the kitchen. It's a good thing Souta has distracted mom, or I would have had to tell her about MY day. That wouldn't go so well. She'd probably call the school and demand that the teachers talk to their students about playing nice. I'm in high school for crying out loud; I can take care of myself!

I meander up the staircase, listening in to what my mother is scolding Souta for. Then I hear Kikyou on the phone in her room. Her door is cracked open so I take it upon myself to inch towards the door pressed against the wall to hear what she is saying.

"Honey, you know with these peddlers here you can't spend the night…yeah, State gave that wench custody of…no, I don't think she'd mind if I went over there…why would I ask that old hag if I could go out?…of course I don't listen to her…yeah…I'll be over in ten minutes, see you then…love ya…bye."

The phone clicks and I listen to the bedsprings creak as Kikyou shifts or stands up. I take that as my cue to get to my own room, so I leg it back down the hall towards the stairs and slip into my room before Kikyou exits hers.

So, Kikyou is going to go spend the night at someone's house on a school night, and from the sounds of it, it isn't any girlfriend. Yuck!

I slump down on the bed, still wearing my jeans, and close my eyes.

Only they shoot open again when the sight in my window registers in my brain. There on the windowsill is a silver-haired boy. He is staring at me curiously, and he continues staring even after I have obviously seen him.

The guy doesn't look too intimidating so I cautiously approach the window and look at him up close. His eyes are an amber color and his ears are perched on the top of his head like a canine's. Actually, the longer I stare the cuter he seems.

He points a clawed finger at the closed window and I get the impression that he wants me to open it. I am in a trance from those eyes and it doesn't seem my body wants to obey my mind. Inwardly I scream that he could be a rapist and that I should run downstairs, but my hands slowly move forward and unlock the window.

Once it is unlocked, the boy rips open the window and jumps in; his clothing and hair are dripping wet.

I glance outside and see that it is pouring rain: then I hear some rolling thunder. Where there's thunder, there's lightning.

"Took long enough, wench." The man shakes off similar to what I've seen wet dogs do, and then he sits down on my bed. "I thought I'd be out there all night." He falls back and puts his arms behind his neck, looking over at me.

Okay, so he isn't trying to rape me yet, but he is in my room, on my bed. I am a little more than freaked out by now. "N-nani yo?" My eyes open and close a few times as I stand by the window, stark still.

"Oh, didn't Kikyou tell you? This is where I stay every night." A smirk plays on his lips and I know I am doomed. This guy not only looks strong, but he also has sharp nails and fangs.

I
Do
Not
Sleep

Inutori: Okay, if I get enough reviews, I can guarantee it won't be UNDER a certain length.
Kagome: You're a poor planner, you know that?
Inutori: Yeah, you're point? I already knew that.
Kagome: Once an idiot, always an idiot.
Inutori: Hey! You just insulted me, didn't you!
Kagome: Inutori no baka!
Inutori: …keh
Inuyasha: Don't forget to review so the story will go on.
Inutori: Oh, and just so people know, I DO write for fun, it's just that I never know how long the chapters that I post should be, so I set up a curriculum to know how much I should put in the next chapter. So REVIEW, and sayonara till next chapter!