Prejudice
Written By: France Gamble
Corrected By: Elyndewen Startree
Chapter Six
She held her hand on the door and listened to the music flowing though the slight crack from under the door. It was a woman with a wonderful voice. She sang the high notes and the low notes perfectly. Kagome knew the song. She had heard it once before a long while back when she was just a little girl. 'Wow, I haven't heard that in such a long time,' she thought as the melody for Baby Mine traveled through the room.
She pushed lightly on the door, causing it to open slightly. She could see the white haired boy sitting on his new bed. He wasn't facing her, but rather looking towards the tape player that was running. The speakers brought out the music beautifully. The black haired teenager slowly walked towards her new house mate. His ears didn't even swivel to show that he had heard her enter. 'He's spacing out,' she though as she made sure to make a noise with her foot, as it slid against the brown carpet floor. He still didn't move.
A new song started as she walked forward. Unconsciously she listened to the woman sing her words.
"Be brave little one. Make a wish for each sad little tear.
Hold your head up, though no one is near.
Someone's waiting for you."
Kagome's breathed in and held it. She had reached her friend and was standing beside him. "InuYasha?" she whispered. He looked at her, but only his eyes moved. Quickly he turned away again and looked at the speakers.
"Don't cry little one. There'll be a smile where a frown used to be.
You'll be part of the love that you see.
Someone's waiting for you."
"InuYasha, please don't hate me," Kagome said as she sat down next to the boy with long white hair. He didn't look at her, or even acknowledge that she was even alive.
"Always keep a little prayer in your pocket.
And you're sure to see the light. Soon there'll be joy and happiness.
And your little world will be bright."
"I don't know if I hate you or not right now," InuYasha said in a low rumble voice. Kagome noticed it had a slight hitch to it though. 'He's crying, or trying not to cry,' she realized.
"Have faith little one. 'Till your hopes and your wishes come true.
"You must try to be brave little one.
Someone's waiting to love you."
The song ended as Kagome tried to think of what to say. "I know what it's like to hate the other side, remember? It will tear you apart. Just let it go, and be your kind self."
He didn't say anything as the tape in the deck stopped playing all together, a loud click making sure everyone in the room knew it was done with that side. Kagome leaned closer to him; scooting over so that she would be able to hear his answer if he whispered it again. Even though, in the quiet room, anything would be heard. "I hate them," he said. It was still very quiet, but it certainly held enough viction to get his meaning across.
"I know you hate them for what they did..."
"No! I hate every single one of them!" He turned to her. She almost shrank back in fear. He could kill her right then and there. "First they kill my mother, they make my brother flee for his life, then Shippo's parents, now my father is dead. You humans make me sick! You kill everything in your paths; the forest, the ocean, and us!" He stood up and looked at his hands, not her. "We have these, but haven't used them on you." His claws gleamed in the low light of the ceiling fan lamp. He seemed to pause in his thoughts as he looked down at her. "Kagome..." he lowered his hands to his side, "I don't want to hate you. I'm sorry I made you afraid."
"InuYasha," she tentavily said. "You didn't make me afraid of you. I was afraid for you." True, for a minute there she had been afraid for her life, but she was more afraid that he would end up a prejudice bastard like she had been. She stood up and pushed herself into his body. "Just don't change."
She felt him slowly bring his arms around her into a hug.
^_^
His arms went easily into the back and forth motion of sweeping the shrine's main steps. He had finished all of them, and was working on the main entrance pathway. The leaves and dirt didn't give him any trouble. The wind stayed away, as though thinking it just wasn't a good time to play with the youkai. It was a wonderful Saturday afternoon. His white ears listened to the boys, Shippo and Souta, play in the sand box. They seemed to be digging tunnels and running Hot Wheels Cars through them. His golden eyes stayed transfixed on his chore. He didn't need to work for the money any more, but he did feel he needed to work to keep his room and Shippo's room in the main house. He felt indebted to the Higurashi's for what they were doing to the two poor orphaned youkai. Not many humans in Japan would have brought in "dangerous" youkai like them. 'But this family is different,' thought InuYasha. He breathed in the sweet smell of the fresh air. It wasn't that fresh, but he had long since gotten used to the smell of the buses and everything city life comes with. Another scent made its way into his nose. The scent of humans very close, and they seemed to be coming up the Higurashi Shrine steps. He walked slightly over, making sure to look like he was still working, and looked down the steps. Sure enough there were five teenagers coming up. Four were girls and the fifth was a boy. They were wearing the clothing for Kagome's school. 'Kagome had school today? But she told me it was a Holliday!' he thought. He moved away from the middle of the path, to give the humans enough room to pass.
They made it to the top and stopped right in front of him. The girls all stood there looking at him. The boy with slightly long hair, pulled back into a small pony tail, looked at the girls as he motioned for them to keep walking. "Hello, girls? I'm sorry to interrupt your ESP communication here, but we need to get going to the Main House? Hello? Anyone home?" he asked. He moved closer to one of the girls, an American by the looks of it, "Keri? Anyone there?"
"Cut it out, Miroku!" the South American looking girl yelled at the boy. She flipped her long black hair over her shoulder, as her brown eyes stared at InuYasha.
InuYasha didn't look at them. He continued to sweep the ground, following their movements with his excellent hearing and smell. He really hoped they would take the boys advice and continue on their way. Shippo and Souta had stopped their play to watch the scene. 'Just pick on me, not the kids,' InuYasha prayed.
The girl, with brown hair placed in a high pony tail, looked over at the children in the sand box as if knowing what InuYasha had been praying for. "Souta! What are you doing playing with that thing?"
Souta glared at the girl, "Justine, he's my friend! Don't pick on him."
"Uhm, guys! Kagome, remember?" Miroku, the boy, reminded everyone.
"Shut up," the girl with long black hair in a pony tail yelled at the boy. The insulted boy walked over to her and wrapped an arm around the quickly getting mad girl. A minute later she screamed out, "Pervert!" and slapped him smartly on the face. He had a goofy smile and the other girls laughed.
"Sango, that hurt," Miroku complained. His hand was on the quickly forming red palmed mark on his cheek.
"Hey! Youkai! What are you looking at?" the South American asked as InuYasha was caught staring at them all and their odd antics.
InuYasha looked back down at the sidewalk. 'I was looking at ugly humans that think they're better then everyone in the world!' he thought, but didn't speak. He knew he would get into trouble had he actually voiced his opinion.
"That's what I thought," the South American girl sneered as she smirked.
"Hey, Nidia! What's the difference between a rock and a youkai?" Justine asked the dark skinned girl who was already teasing the poor InuYasha.
"I don't know what?" Nidia asked back. Both girls smirked.
"A rock has a bigger IQ!" Justine threw the punch line. Everyone in the group laughed. InuYasha could hear Shippo sniffle as he let the joke touch into his soul. InuYasha let it bounce off of him; he heard better ones before. And it's easy to turn the jokes around and make them against the humans. He would have to reassure the kitsune later on.
He was happy when he heard the familiar sound of Kagome's feet coming towards them. He looked over his shoulder and saw her standing there with a tray. The silver tray held three water glasses for the three boys. Souta gladly went over to her and took the tray. He whispered something, and she nodded her head. "Hey, guys!" she called to her friends. The five teens forgot their torturing jokes, and went to their host. "What are you guys doing here?" Kagome asked them.
"We missed you in school today," Keri told her Japanese friend.
"I had something to take of here at home. My mother called the school," Kagome told the friends. She motioned for them to start on their way into the house. They followed her into the main house, leaving InuYasha wondering what did Kagome and her friends have in common any more.
^_^
Kagome sat in the living room, her friends all around her with their notebooks open. It was study session time, and they weren't studying. Choice of topic: The white haired youkai outside.
"Too bad slavery is gone," Nidia smirked. She drew something on her paper as the conversation continued. For some reason it oddly resembled the person in the topic.
"Why is that?" Kagome asked as she actually started to map out an equation for her algebra/trig class.
"Ah, for sex slaves of course!" Miroku sighed as he stared at something on the ceiling. All of the girls scooted away from him. He obviously didn't know what they were talking about, and had his head somewhere in the clouds; his perverted clouds.
Justine laughed as an image popped into her brain, "Miroku, if you knew what we were talking about, you probably would be stabbing your eyes out with a spoon right now." She giggled more, and the other girls, except Kagome, joined in.
"What are we talking about?" Kagome looked up at her four giggling friends. She was trying very hard to find what was so funny.
"Why, your new slave in the front yard of course! He's so animalistic, don't you think?" Justine said as she also started to doodle something on her paper.
"Well, he is a youkai," Sango said as she continued to work on a difficult English sentence.
"So what if he's a youkai," Kagome glared at her friends now. She knew what they were thinking. As they stared back in shock, she realized her mistake. She had stood up for the "inferior" species. She quickly grasped her mouth with her palms. 'Aw crap!' she thought.
"Sticking up for a youkai?" Sango asked as she leaned forward on the table. "I thought you wanted them dead as much as we did."
"I did...er, do want them dead," Kagome tried to cover. She was in trouble now.
"Kagome! Dinner time! Show your friends to the door!" Mrs. Higurashi yelled from the kitchen. Kagome thanked the gods and her mother right then as she quickly rushed her friends out of the house and assured them that she would be at school on Monday. As she shut the door and turned around she ran into something very solid, or rather, slightly solid. Her brown eyes looked up and into bright amber eyes. They were sad, she could tell that.
"InuYasha, what's wrong?" she asked the boy.
He didn't say anything as he turned around and walked to the dinning room table. She followed mutely.
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A/N: *Peaks up from her new computer* I did it! I finally have a new computer! And guess why I didn't update right when I got this baby. Because with this new computer I received a new family too! Yup, I am under a lot of stress right now, and am going through counseling for my emotional trauma. *Nods* Yup... so anyway, I will update every week now, since this is actually part of my healing process. Please be kind and review!
Answers to Questions:
Nani: I try not to stick to the usual. I read a lot, so I know what a lot of people have already posted on matters such as this. It would be redundant for me to continue the same one is a slave the other master type situation. I have a lot of twists and turns all set for this story, and I haven't even thought of an ending yet!
KittySamurai506: Well, I can't say I'm not lazy. I've been living in my new house since March 1 and am just now coming out with this new chapter. I'm just hoping I can finish this before I leave.
Ho-Chi-Mihn-City: Can you actually believe that most of my material comes slightly from real situations. When I hear of something happening, or feel like I need a good upbeat on life, I write everything down. This story came to me while I was speaking my prejudice sibling. We had been speaking, and she had mentioned something that made me want to slap her. But instead I wrote it down, and when I finished my Beautiful Curse Payback story, I started writing what I had written down. That's why my stories are usually able to bring great emotions, I think.
LC WOLF: Like I had told Ho-Chi-Mihn-City, I write my stories according to my mood at the time of outlining them. Sometimes if I'm in a good mood, I won't be able to write a sad part of the story, so I have to wait for something to emotionally happen. Since when I was writing this outline a lot of stuff was happening, I was able to write this. Don't worry though; more action is going to happen soon!
InuObsessed: Domo arigatou! I appreciate the birthday greetings a lot. You don't know how happy it made me feel that someone had remembered it was my birthday, even though I wasn't able to update. ^_^ Arigatou futatabi! (Thank you again!)
France
P.S. I redid my entire site. I am now accepting other people's stories, and would be happy for the publicity. Also, I know that ff. net can crash and even erase stories, so I placed all of my stories on my site totally too. Finally everyone can read my stories if ff. net ever decides to die again. Some other people have their stories up as well, and it would be a shame if people didn't read them. Go here: www. geocities. com/ francegamble2003 Just take out the spaces!
Written By: France Gamble
Corrected By: Elyndewen Startree
Chapter Six
She held her hand on the door and listened to the music flowing though the slight crack from under the door. It was a woman with a wonderful voice. She sang the high notes and the low notes perfectly. Kagome knew the song. She had heard it once before a long while back when she was just a little girl. 'Wow, I haven't heard that in such a long time,' she thought as the melody for Baby Mine traveled through the room.
She pushed lightly on the door, causing it to open slightly. She could see the white haired boy sitting on his new bed. He wasn't facing her, but rather looking towards the tape player that was running. The speakers brought out the music beautifully. The black haired teenager slowly walked towards her new house mate. His ears didn't even swivel to show that he had heard her enter. 'He's spacing out,' she though as she made sure to make a noise with her foot, as it slid against the brown carpet floor. He still didn't move.
A new song started as she walked forward. Unconsciously she listened to the woman sing her words.
"Be brave little one. Make a wish for each sad little tear.
Hold your head up, though no one is near.
Someone's waiting for you."
Kagome's breathed in and held it. She had reached her friend and was standing beside him. "InuYasha?" she whispered. He looked at her, but only his eyes moved. Quickly he turned away again and looked at the speakers.
"Don't cry little one. There'll be a smile where a frown used to be.
You'll be part of the love that you see.
Someone's waiting for you."
"InuYasha, please don't hate me," Kagome said as she sat down next to the boy with long white hair. He didn't look at her, or even acknowledge that she was even alive.
"Always keep a little prayer in your pocket.
And you're sure to see the light. Soon there'll be joy and happiness.
And your little world will be bright."
"I don't know if I hate you or not right now," InuYasha said in a low rumble voice. Kagome noticed it had a slight hitch to it though. 'He's crying, or trying not to cry,' she realized.
"Have faith little one. 'Till your hopes and your wishes come true.
"You must try to be brave little one.
Someone's waiting to love you."
The song ended as Kagome tried to think of what to say. "I know what it's like to hate the other side, remember? It will tear you apart. Just let it go, and be your kind self."
He didn't say anything as the tape in the deck stopped playing all together, a loud click making sure everyone in the room knew it was done with that side. Kagome leaned closer to him; scooting over so that she would be able to hear his answer if he whispered it again. Even though, in the quiet room, anything would be heard. "I hate them," he said. It was still very quiet, but it certainly held enough viction to get his meaning across.
"I know you hate them for what they did..."
"No! I hate every single one of them!" He turned to her. She almost shrank back in fear. He could kill her right then and there. "First they kill my mother, they make my brother flee for his life, then Shippo's parents, now my father is dead. You humans make me sick! You kill everything in your paths; the forest, the ocean, and us!" He stood up and looked at his hands, not her. "We have these, but haven't used them on you." His claws gleamed in the low light of the ceiling fan lamp. He seemed to pause in his thoughts as he looked down at her. "Kagome..." he lowered his hands to his side, "I don't want to hate you. I'm sorry I made you afraid."
"InuYasha," she tentavily said. "You didn't make me afraid of you. I was afraid for you." True, for a minute there she had been afraid for her life, but she was more afraid that he would end up a prejudice bastard like she had been. She stood up and pushed herself into his body. "Just don't change."
She felt him slowly bring his arms around her into a hug.
^_^
His arms went easily into the back and forth motion of sweeping the shrine's main steps. He had finished all of them, and was working on the main entrance pathway. The leaves and dirt didn't give him any trouble. The wind stayed away, as though thinking it just wasn't a good time to play with the youkai. It was a wonderful Saturday afternoon. His white ears listened to the boys, Shippo and Souta, play in the sand box. They seemed to be digging tunnels and running Hot Wheels Cars through them. His golden eyes stayed transfixed on his chore. He didn't need to work for the money any more, but he did feel he needed to work to keep his room and Shippo's room in the main house. He felt indebted to the Higurashi's for what they were doing to the two poor orphaned youkai. Not many humans in Japan would have brought in "dangerous" youkai like them. 'But this family is different,' thought InuYasha. He breathed in the sweet smell of the fresh air. It wasn't that fresh, but he had long since gotten used to the smell of the buses and everything city life comes with. Another scent made its way into his nose. The scent of humans very close, and they seemed to be coming up the Higurashi Shrine steps. He walked slightly over, making sure to look like he was still working, and looked down the steps. Sure enough there were five teenagers coming up. Four were girls and the fifth was a boy. They were wearing the clothing for Kagome's school. 'Kagome had school today? But she told me it was a Holliday!' he thought. He moved away from the middle of the path, to give the humans enough room to pass.
They made it to the top and stopped right in front of him. The girls all stood there looking at him. The boy with slightly long hair, pulled back into a small pony tail, looked at the girls as he motioned for them to keep walking. "Hello, girls? I'm sorry to interrupt your ESP communication here, but we need to get going to the Main House? Hello? Anyone home?" he asked. He moved closer to one of the girls, an American by the looks of it, "Keri? Anyone there?"
"Cut it out, Miroku!" the South American looking girl yelled at the boy. She flipped her long black hair over her shoulder, as her brown eyes stared at InuYasha.
InuYasha didn't look at them. He continued to sweep the ground, following their movements with his excellent hearing and smell. He really hoped they would take the boys advice and continue on their way. Shippo and Souta had stopped their play to watch the scene. 'Just pick on me, not the kids,' InuYasha prayed.
The girl, with brown hair placed in a high pony tail, looked over at the children in the sand box as if knowing what InuYasha had been praying for. "Souta! What are you doing playing with that thing?"
Souta glared at the girl, "Justine, he's my friend! Don't pick on him."
"Uhm, guys! Kagome, remember?" Miroku, the boy, reminded everyone.
"Shut up," the girl with long black hair in a pony tail yelled at the boy. The insulted boy walked over to her and wrapped an arm around the quickly getting mad girl. A minute later she screamed out, "Pervert!" and slapped him smartly on the face. He had a goofy smile and the other girls laughed.
"Sango, that hurt," Miroku complained. His hand was on the quickly forming red palmed mark on his cheek.
"Hey! Youkai! What are you looking at?" the South American asked as InuYasha was caught staring at them all and their odd antics.
InuYasha looked back down at the sidewalk. 'I was looking at ugly humans that think they're better then everyone in the world!' he thought, but didn't speak. He knew he would get into trouble had he actually voiced his opinion.
"That's what I thought," the South American girl sneered as she smirked.
"Hey, Nidia! What's the difference between a rock and a youkai?" Justine asked the dark skinned girl who was already teasing the poor InuYasha.
"I don't know what?" Nidia asked back. Both girls smirked.
"A rock has a bigger IQ!" Justine threw the punch line. Everyone in the group laughed. InuYasha could hear Shippo sniffle as he let the joke touch into his soul. InuYasha let it bounce off of him; he heard better ones before. And it's easy to turn the jokes around and make them against the humans. He would have to reassure the kitsune later on.
He was happy when he heard the familiar sound of Kagome's feet coming towards them. He looked over his shoulder and saw her standing there with a tray. The silver tray held three water glasses for the three boys. Souta gladly went over to her and took the tray. He whispered something, and she nodded her head. "Hey, guys!" she called to her friends. The five teens forgot their torturing jokes, and went to their host. "What are you guys doing here?" Kagome asked them.
"We missed you in school today," Keri told her Japanese friend.
"I had something to take of here at home. My mother called the school," Kagome told the friends. She motioned for them to start on their way into the house. They followed her into the main house, leaving InuYasha wondering what did Kagome and her friends have in common any more.
^_^
Kagome sat in the living room, her friends all around her with their notebooks open. It was study session time, and they weren't studying. Choice of topic: The white haired youkai outside.
"Too bad slavery is gone," Nidia smirked. She drew something on her paper as the conversation continued. For some reason it oddly resembled the person in the topic.
"Why is that?" Kagome asked as she actually started to map out an equation for her algebra/trig class.
"Ah, for sex slaves of course!" Miroku sighed as he stared at something on the ceiling. All of the girls scooted away from him. He obviously didn't know what they were talking about, and had his head somewhere in the clouds; his perverted clouds.
Justine laughed as an image popped into her brain, "Miroku, if you knew what we were talking about, you probably would be stabbing your eyes out with a spoon right now." She giggled more, and the other girls, except Kagome, joined in.
"What are we talking about?" Kagome looked up at her four giggling friends. She was trying very hard to find what was so funny.
"Why, your new slave in the front yard of course! He's so animalistic, don't you think?" Justine said as she also started to doodle something on her paper.
"Well, he is a youkai," Sango said as she continued to work on a difficult English sentence.
"So what if he's a youkai," Kagome glared at her friends now. She knew what they were thinking. As they stared back in shock, she realized her mistake. She had stood up for the "inferior" species. She quickly grasped her mouth with her palms. 'Aw crap!' she thought.
"Sticking up for a youkai?" Sango asked as she leaned forward on the table. "I thought you wanted them dead as much as we did."
"I did...er, do want them dead," Kagome tried to cover. She was in trouble now.
"Kagome! Dinner time! Show your friends to the door!" Mrs. Higurashi yelled from the kitchen. Kagome thanked the gods and her mother right then as she quickly rushed her friends out of the house and assured them that she would be at school on Monday. As she shut the door and turned around she ran into something very solid, or rather, slightly solid. Her brown eyes looked up and into bright amber eyes. They were sad, she could tell that.
"InuYasha, what's wrong?" she asked the boy.
He didn't say anything as he turned around and walked to the dinning room table. She followed mutely.
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A/N: *Peaks up from her new computer* I did it! I finally have a new computer! And guess why I didn't update right when I got this baby. Because with this new computer I received a new family too! Yup, I am under a lot of stress right now, and am going through counseling for my emotional trauma. *Nods* Yup... so anyway, I will update every week now, since this is actually part of my healing process. Please be kind and review!
Answers to Questions:
Nani: I try not to stick to the usual. I read a lot, so I know what a lot of people have already posted on matters such as this. It would be redundant for me to continue the same one is a slave the other master type situation. I have a lot of twists and turns all set for this story, and I haven't even thought of an ending yet!
KittySamurai506: Well, I can't say I'm not lazy. I've been living in my new house since March 1 and am just now coming out with this new chapter. I'm just hoping I can finish this before I leave.
Ho-Chi-Mihn-City: Can you actually believe that most of my material comes slightly from real situations. When I hear of something happening, or feel like I need a good upbeat on life, I write everything down. This story came to me while I was speaking my prejudice sibling. We had been speaking, and she had mentioned something that made me want to slap her. But instead I wrote it down, and when I finished my Beautiful Curse Payback story, I started writing what I had written down. That's why my stories are usually able to bring great emotions, I think.
LC WOLF: Like I had told Ho-Chi-Mihn-City, I write my stories according to my mood at the time of outlining them. Sometimes if I'm in a good mood, I won't be able to write a sad part of the story, so I have to wait for something to emotionally happen. Since when I was writing this outline a lot of stuff was happening, I was able to write this. Don't worry though; more action is going to happen soon!
InuObsessed: Domo arigatou! I appreciate the birthday greetings a lot. You don't know how happy it made me feel that someone had remembered it was my birthday, even though I wasn't able to update. ^_^ Arigatou futatabi! (Thank you again!)
France
P.S. I redid my entire site. I am now accepting other people's stories, and would be happy for the publicity. Also, I know that ff. net can crash and even erase stories, so I placed all of my stories on my site totally too. Finally everyone can read my stories if ff. net ever decides to die again. Some other people have their stories up as well, and it would be a shame if people didn't read them. Go here: www. geocities. com/ francegamble2003 Just take out the spaces!