Prejudice
Written By: France Gamble
Corrected By: My new computer software that corrects things now! ^_^
Chapter Seven
She sat in her desk and tried her hardest to ignore the whispers around her. "She's going to have a hanyou in seven months," someone said in a really loud whisper right beside her. She pulled her head down and covered her face with her hands. Which one of her friends would do this to her?
She looked over at Justine and Nidia who were both writing notes off of the bored. Or, at least looked like they were; Nidia's paper was strewn with a drawing, and she was modifying it. Kagome leaned over more and looked closely. It was the picture of InuYasha, only now the picture was holding a baby with small ears. 'Nidia, you're the one who's sending this awful rumor around,' Kagome thought as she glared at the picture. How could one of her most trusted friends not believe that she wasn't part of a relationship with the youkai? Justine looked at the picture and giggled lightly into her hand.
"What should we do about it?" another whisper somewhere in the classroom asked.
"Let's kill her before she has it," someone answered. Kagome gulped and rose her hand.
"Yes, Higurashi?" the teacher asked the pale student.
"I'm not feeling well, may I be excused?" Kagome asked the math teacher. The teacher nodded her head, and pointed to the class door. Kagome didn't' waste time in grabbing her school bag and making a quick exit. She would have to hurry. In thirty minutes school would be let out, and then she would have to run for her life. She pushed open the double doors and ran down the school yard. Her home was only the thirty minutes away that she needed to get home, but with her running she will only be home in half the time. Half way home the tears started down her face.
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He walked through the double doors going to his last class for the day. So far the other youkai had left him alone, but he wasn't going to quit being tense. "Hey dog breath!" a familiar voice called from behind him. 'So much for not getting into a fight,' InuYasha thought as he turned around. Five youkai stood right in front of him now. 'Ah great,' InuYasha thought as he recognized all of the youkai standing there glaring at him. The one girl was Kagura, and she was horrible even without her youkai powers. The four teenage boys were Kouga, and his hip-mate Tenma, and the brothers Hiten and Manten. One of each was a challenge enough for the white haired youkai, but with all five standing waiting for his blood... He didn't know what to do.
"What do you want, Kouga?" he addressed the obvious leader of this little gang. The evil looks he received were enough to know that this wasn't going to end in his favor.
"Doggy, listen, we've heard something that doesn't sound good for us youkai," Kagura said as she stepped forward in front of the group of boys.
"What did you hear?" InuYasha said, trying to keep up a tough front. 'Please don't mention my family,' he thought.
"Oh, something about a girl named Kagome, and her just happening to be HUMAN!" she screamed the last part, making sure her anger got across. InuYasha stepped back with one foot, making him better balanced.
"I don't know what you're talking about," InuYasha defended.
"You're living with her, dating her, and she's pregnant with your hanyou," Hiten said, as if reminding the inu youkai. InuYasha started shaking his head, trying to think of a way out. He could always run, but he knew he wasn't faster then Kouga. The three out of the five can fly. There was no way he would be able to get away; yet, he was going to try. He took off down the hall away from the group. The three wouldn't be able to fly in the hallway, and Kouga may be fast, but InuYasha was able to maneuver better than the wolf.
He heard their feet banging against the cracked marble floor. He slid against the floor as he turned the corner going for the next hallway. He was almost at the exit when something grabbed him from his color and threw him down. The side of his head hit the floor where the tile had stopped and the concrete began.
He couldn't recover before the hitting and beating started. It happened so fast, that he couldn't remember them stopping, or hear the sounds of the Principal as he checked the white haired boy lying on the floor. "InuYasha, are you okay boy?" the old principal asked as a teacher next to him escorted the abusers to the office down the hall, where the dean would give them their punishment.
"I can't feel anything but pain, Principal Totosai," InuYasha muttered as he tried to get up from the floor. "Nothing's broken though."
The old man nodded and helped his student stand. "I think you should go home. I'll call your guardian," Totosai said.
"No!" InuYasha snapped. "I...uhm, I mean, I can take myself home." He was standing now. The world around his started to spin, but he stood straight. He waited a minute for the dizziness to leave. Sighing, just enough to cringe, and started out the doors he had intended on going through in the first place. "I'll be fine."
"Be careful, and don't get caught by Y.E.S." the kind principal warned. InuYasha just nodded slightly.
-_-
He had made it through the front door right after Kagome. Mrs. Higurashi was cleaning a really nasty cut on the side of his face when the front door opened and slammed shut in desperation. Souta and Shippo came running into the kitchen panting like they had just run the fifty yard dash after having run a marathon. "Mommy!" Souta screamed as he ran straight to the sitting woman. "Mommy they said they'd kill us!"
"Who said that?" Kagome asked. She fisted her right hand in front of her shirt. "I'll kill them for threatening you."
"They wouldn't tell us their names, but they said they were kids from Y.E.S. and a human with a youkai is against the rules. They said that they would kill us because we broke the law," Shippo started to cry.
Mrs. Higurashi reached forward, still holding onto her son, and pulled Shippo to her. She hugged both boys, "No one's going to hurt my family."
"What are we going to do, mom?" Kagome asked the adult.
"We don't need to stay here. This shrine only needs one person to care for it, and it's about time I moved away from my dad anyway. We'll go somewhere safe," Mrs. Higurashi told her family. She smiled the two teenagers as she hugged the little boys harder.
"Where's a place where we can all be together?" Kagome seemed full of questions.
"No, don't worry about it. Shippo and I will leave. I can't ask you to trouble with us any longer," InuYasha said as he stood up from the kitchen table. "Don't worry about us, we're just youkai." He leaned forward and tried to bring Shippo from the woman.
"InuYasha, you're part of my family now. You can't leave your family, can you?" she asked him as she pulled Shippo closer to her to keep the older youkai from brining him away.
"Family is a human term," InuYasha said. He gave up on pulling the young child from the mother, and stormed out of the room. They heard the door slam shut behind him.
Mrs. Higurashi looked at her daughter. "Go talk to him. I'll calm the boys down and set up where we're going to move." Kagome nodded as she left the house to find the boy. When her daughter was gone she turned to the two boys. "Let's pack our things, and while we're packing Shippo can tell us what youkai call family." She smiled at them and they both climbed down from her lap.
"Well, InuYasha is a dog youkai. They live in packs, like wolves do. It really depends on the youkai, but InuYasha's the only dog youkai who comes from such a small pack. The dog youkai in our town had lots of pack members, but InuYasha only had his brother and father, and his brother did the unthinkable and left the pack," Shippo told them as they ascended the stairs to their room.
-_-
Kagome circled the shrine looking for the white haired youkai. After going around twice, she gave up looking, "He's probably not even on the grounds anymore. Figures he'd leave."
"Who left?" a voice asked. Kagome jumped from being startled and looked around. She couldn't see anyone. "Look up." She did. Her eyes came upon the person she had been looking for sitting in a tree. Not just any tree, but The God Tree.
"How did you get up on that branch? Do you know what tree you chose to jump into?!" she looked at him in shock.
"One, I jumped, and two, yeah, I know what tree it is," he smirked down at her. She had never seen him act so arrogant before. For a moment she was at a loss for words. This wasn't the youkai who was the obedient servant her mother had hired; this was a confidant boy who thought he could take on the world and win. This wasn't the real him.
"InuYasha, that's a sacred tree! Get out of it now!" Kagome ordered.
"Make me," he challenged her. He crossed his arms over his chest, leaned against the trunk, his legs comfortably straddling the branch.
If she wasn't so shocked, she would have been angry with him. Instead she could feel the tears welling up in her eyes. "InuYasha," she whispered. She looked down at the ground, away from the youkai. A single tear fell and landed on the ground. She was shaking, her whole frame wrecking with the sobs.
She didn't hear him jump from the branch, or walk over. Somehow he was able to make no noise. She realized he was there when he placed a hand on her shoulder. "Why are you crying?" he asked. His voice was once again sweet and caring in its own timid way.
Her tear stained face came to look at him, "Don't hide again, please?"
"Me running out and hiding from you made you cry?" he asked.
"No. You acting like you are arrogant and bad tempered. That's hiding," Kagome told him. "I don't ever want to see you like that again!" He stepped back at her yelling. He placed his hand up, showing he didn't mean any harm.
"I'm sorry," he choked out.
She sighed a few times, trying to calm herself, "No, I'm sorry." She turned around, her black hair swinging from the speed of her turn. He watched as she stormed off into the house.
-_-
He looked up at the window he knew was his. It was open, just like he liked it. Crouching slightly he jumped up and landed on the sill. Sitting there, right where he landed, he sighed. Leaning against the side of the sill he thought about what he should do. "I wish Sesshomaru were here. He'd know what to do."
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A/N: I am going to place a new chapter up every day this week; probably everyday until I leave. I need to finish this, and I only have two weeks left. I'm going to work hard everyday. I promised I would finish this story before it became too late, but with everything in my life going from bad to worse, I couldn't finish this. I am going to try my best to get going now on the next chapter, as this is updated. Please review this chapter, and tomorrow look for the next chapter. ^_^
Answers to Questions:
FukashiOni: Yes it makes perfect sense, that's why I did it. ^_^ and thank you, coming up with Y.E.S was hard. I actually sat there for a while coming up with acronyms left and right, trying to make one work. It's not as easy as it looks! It's almost as hard as finishing a story! ^_^
iNiGmA: I'm sorry these chapters aren't long like some of the stories out there, but I have outlined every chapter, and that's just the way they fall onto the page. I try to keep every chapter with its own theme so-to-speak so it's difficult making things long. And I've never been one for having long chapters.
Kibethan: You will find out if he heard her in a couple of chapters.
Ho-Chi-Mihn-City: Thank you for the birthday greetings. I don't know why I am able to place emotions in these characters like I do (someone actually told me it was because I can feel other's emotions), but I just know what I want them to feel. I know what I would feel in that situation if I was that person, and so I take things one character at a time. It also helps to watch a lot of InuYasha episodes, and both of the movies (Too bad the third one is still in theatres.) Maybe, just like you said, you only write depressing because you feel that way. You could try pretending to be someone else, and maybe you might feel something else.
makkurona*inu*punk: I forgive you. I understand being away, it's happened to me before. ^_^
Obsessive-Starchaser: I'm so sorry I let this go for a whole month. I really didn't mean to, I have just been busier then ever. I am packing, getting ready for my last two good-bye concerts, and now trying to finish this story that's going to be around, probably, 20 chapters or so. And I have only two weeks to do it. Sorry, and thank you for reviewing me and reminding me. Everyone should thank you too, because you woke me up from my slum.
France
P.S. I have a livejournal now, and so if anyone figures it would be worth knowing my life outside of writing, go ahead and look me up. It's the same name: francegamble.
Written By: France Gamble
Corrected By: My new computer software that corrects things now! ^_^
Chapter Seven
She sat in her desk and tried her hardest to ignore the whispers around her. "She's going to have a hanyou in seven months," someone said in a really loud whisper right beside her. She pulled her head down and covered her face with her hands. Which one of her friends would do this to her?
She looked over at Justine and Nidia who were both writing notes off of the bored. Or, at least looked like they were; Nidia's paper was strewn with a drawing, and she was modifying it. Kagome leaned over more and looked closely. It was the picture of InuYasha, only now the picture was holding a baby with small ears. 'Nidia, you're the one who's sending this awful rumor around,' Kagome thought as she glared at the picture. How could one of her most trusted friends not believe that she wasn't part of a relationship with the youkai? Justine looked at the picture and giggled lightly into her hand.
"What should we do about it?" another whisper somewhere in the classroom asked.
"Let's kill her before she has it," someone answered. Kagome gulped and rose her hand.
"Yes, Higurashi?" the teacher asked the pale student.
"I'm not feeling well, may I be excused?" Kagome asked the math teacher. The teacher nodded her head, and pointed to the class door. Kagome didn't' waste time in grabbing her school bag and making a quick exit. She would have to hurry. In thirty minutes school would be let out, and then she would have to run for her life. She pushed open the double doors and ran down the school yard. Her home was only the thirty minutes away that she needed to get home, but with her running she will only be home in half the time. Half way home the tears started down her face.
-_-
He walked through the double doors going to his last class for the day. So far the other youkai had left him alone, but he wasn't going to quit being tense. "Hey dog breath!" a familiar voice called from behind him. 'So much for not getting into a fight,' InuYasha thought as he turned around. Five youkai stood right in front of him now. 'Ah great,' InuYasha thought as he recognized all of the youkai standing there glaring at him. The one girl was Kagura, and she was horrible even without her youkai powers. The four teenage boys were Kouga, and his hip-mate Tenma, and the brothers Hiten and Manten. One of each was a challenge enough for the white haired youkai, but with all five standing waiting for his blood... He didn't know what to do.
"What do you want, Kouga?" he addressed the obvious leader of this little gang. The evil looks he received were enough to know that this wasn't going to end in his favor.
"Doggy, listen, we've heard something that doesn't sound good for us youkai," Kagura said as she stepped forward in front of the group of boys.
"What did you hear?" InuYasha said, trying to keep up a tough front. 'Please don't mention my family,' he thought.
"Oh, something about a girl named Kagome, and her just happening to be HUMAN!" she screamed the last part, making sure her anger got across. InuYasha stepped back with one foot, making him better balanced.
"I don't know what you're talking about," InuYasha defended.
"You're living with her, dating her, and she's pregnant with your hanyou," Hiten said, as if reminding the inu youkai. InuYasha started shaking his head, trying to think of a way out. He could always run, but he knew he wasn't faster then Kouga. The three out of the five can fly. There was no way he would be able to get away; yet, he was going to try. He took off down the hall away from the group. The three wouldn't be able to fly in the hallway, and Kouga may be fast, but InuYasha was able to maneuver better than the wolf.
He heard their feet banging against the cracked marble floor. He slid against the floor as he turned the corner going for the next hallway. He was almost at the exit when something grabbed him from his color and threw him down. The side of his head hit the floor where the tile had stopped and the concrete began.
He couldn't recover before the hitting and beating started. It happened so fast, that he couldn't remember them stopping, or hear the sounds of the Principal as he checked the white haired boy lying on the floor. "InuYasha, are you okay boy?" the old principal asked as a teacher next to him escorted the abusers to the office down the hall, where the dean would give them their punishment.
"I can't feel anything but pain, Principal Totosai," InuYasha muttered as he tried to get up from the floor. "Nothing's broken though."
The old man nodded and helped his student stand. "I think you should go home. I'll call your guardian," Totosai said.
"No!" InuYasha snapped. "I...uhm, I mean, I can take myself home." He was standing now. The world around his started to spin, but he stood straight. He waited a minute for the dizziness to leave. Sighing, just enough to cringe, and started out the doors he had intended on going through in the first place. "I'll be fine."
"Be careful, and don't get caught by Y.E.S." the kind principal warned. InuYasha just nodded slightly.
-_-
He had made it through the front door right after Kagome. Mrs. Higurashi was cleaning a really nasty cut on the side of his face when the front door opened and slammed shut in desperation. Souta and Shippo came running into the kitchen panting like they had just run the fifty yard dash after having run a marathon. "Mommy!" Souta screamed as he ran straight to the sitting woman. "Mommy they said they'd kill us!"
"Who said that?" Kagome asked. She fisted her right hand in front of her shirt. "I'll kill them for threatening you."
"They wouldn't tell us their names, but they said they were kids from Y.E.S. and a human with a youkai is against the rules. They said that they would kill us because we broke the law," Shippo started to cry.
Mrs. Higurashi reached forward, still holding onto her son, and pulled Shippo to her. She hugged both boys, "No one's going to hurt my family."
"What are we going to do, mom?" Kagome asked the adult.
"We don't need to stay here. This shrine only needs one person to care for it, and it's about time I moved away from my dad anyway. We'll go somewhere safe," Mrs. Higurashi told her family. She smiled the two teenagers as she hugged the little boys harder.
"Where's a place where we can all be together?" Kagome seemed full of questions.
"No, don't worry about it. Shippo and I will leave. I can't ask you to trouble with us any longer," InuYasha said as he stood up from the kitchen table. "Don't worry about us, we're just youkai." He leaned forward and tried to bring Shippo from the woman.
"InuYasha, you're part of my family now. You can't leave your family, can you?" she asked him as she pulled Shippo closer to her to keep the older youkai from brining him away.
"Family is a human term," InuYasha said. He gave up on pulling the young child from the mother, and stormed out of the room. They heard the door slam shut behind him.
Mrs. Higurashi looked at her daughter. "Go talk to him. I'll calm the boys down and set up where we're going to move." Kagome nodded as she left the house to find the boy. When her daughter was gone she turned to the two boys. "Let's pack our things, and while we're packing Shippo can tell us what youkai call family." She smiled at them and they both climbed down from her lap.
"Well, InuYasha is a dog youkai. They live in packs, like wolves do. It really depends on the youkai, but InuYasha's the only dog youkai who comes from such a small pack. The dog youkai in our town had lots of pack members, but InuYasha only had his brother and father, and his brother did the unthinkable and left the pack," Shippo told them as they ascended the stairs to their room.
-_-
Kagome circled the shrine looking for the white haired youkai. After going around twice, she gave up looking, "He's probably not even on the grounds anymore. Figures he'd leave."
"Who left?" a voice asked. Kagome jumped from being startled and looked around. She couldn't see anyone. "Look up." She did. Her eyes came upon the person she had been looking for sitting in a tree. Not just any tree, but The God Tree.
"How did you get up on that branch? Do you know what tree you chose to jump into?!" she looked at him in shock.
"One, I jumped, and two, yeah, I know what tree it is," he smirked down at her. She had never seen him act so arrogant before. For a moment she was at a loss for words. This wasn't the youkai who was the obedient servant her mother had hired; this was a confidant boy who thought he could take on the world and win. This wasn't the real him.
"InuYasha, that's a sacred tree! Get out of it now!" Kagome ordered.
"Make me," he challenged her. He crossed his arms over his chest, leaned against the trunk, his legs comfortably straddling the branch.
If she wasn't so shocked, she would have been angry with him. Instead she could feel the tears welling up in her eyes. "InuYasha," she whispered. She looked down at the ground, away from the youkai. A single tear fell and landed on the ground. She was shaking, her whole frame wrecking with the sobs.
She didn't hear him jump from the branch, or walk over. Somehow he was able to make no noise. She realized he was there when he placed a hand on her shoulder. "Why are you crying?" he asked. His voice was once again sweet and caring in its own timid way.
Her tear stained face came to look at him, "Don't hide again, please?"
"Me running out and hiding from you made you cry?" he asked.
"No. You acting like you are arrogant and bad tempered. That's hiding," Kagome told him. "I don't ever want to see you like that again!" He stepped back at her yelling. He placed his hand up, showing he didn't mean any harm.
"I'm sorry," he choked out.
She sighed a few times, trying to calm herself, "No, I'm sorry." She turned around, her black hair swinging from the speed of her turn. He watched as she stormed off into the house.
-_-
He looked up at the window he knew was his. It was open, just like he liked it. Crouching slightly he jumped up and landed on the sill. Sitting there, right where he landed, he sighed. Leaning against the side of the sill he thought about what he should do. "I wish Sesshomaru were here. He'd know what to do."
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A/N: I am going to place a new chapter up every day this week; probably everyday until I leave. I need to finish this, and I only have two weeks left. I'm going to work hard everyday. I promised I would finish this story before it became too late, but with everything in my life going from bad to worse, I couldn't finish this. I am going to try my best to get going now on the next chapter, as this is updated. Please review this chapter, and tomorrow look for the next chapter. ^_^
Answers to Questions:
FukashiOni: Yes it makes perfect sense, that's why I did it. ^_^ and thank you, coming up with Y.E.S was hard. I actually sat there for a while coming up with acronyms left and right, trying to make one work. It's not as easy as it looks! It's almost as hard as finishing a story! ^_^
iNiGmA: I'm sorry these chapters aren't long like some of the stories out there, but I have outlined every chapter, and that's just the way they fall onto the page. I try to keep every chapter with its own theme so-to-speak so it's difficult making things long. And I've never been one for having long chapters.
Kibethan: You will find out if he heard her in a couple of chapters.
Ho-Chi-Mihn-City: Thank you for the birthday greetings. I don't know why I am able to place emotions in these characters like I do (someone actually told me it was because I can feel other's emotions), but I just know what I want them to feel. I know what I would feel in that situation if I was that person, and so I take things one character at a time. It also helps to watch a lot of InuYasha episodes, and both of the movies (Too bad the third one is still in theatres.) Maybe, just like you said, you only write depressing because you feel that way. You could try pretending to be someone else, and maybe you might feel something else.
makkurona*inu*punk: I forgive you. I understand being away, it's happened to me before. ^_^
Obsessive-Starchaser: I'm so sorry I let this go for a whole month. I really didn't mean to, I have just been busier then ever. I am packing, getting ready for my last two good-bye concerts, and now trying to finish this story that's going to be around, probably, 20 chapters or so. And I have only two weeks to do it. Sorry, and thank you for reviewing me and reminding me. Everyone should thank you too, because you woke me up from my slum.
France
P.S. I have a livejournal now, and so if anyone figures it would be worth knowing my life outside of writing, go ahead and look me up. It's the same name: francegamble.