Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews:D Sorry for the late-ish update. -.- And I wanna say thanks to anyone who reviewed my oneshot, Caged Bird. If they read this. XP Thanks. :)
Brief: Continue of last chapter, sadness; Halloween day!; Before school mischief :D
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha ;-;
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Last time:
"Okay…" he helped me up, and I left him there. I guess he probably went to Kirei, since I think he kind of left her there. I stopped and looked back as I saw him run. I chanted in my head, 'I am okay with this, I am okay with this…'
But, you want to know something?
I really wasn't okay.
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Chapter 13: Mischief
Kagome slowly walked back to the Goshinboku, head down as if deep in thought. Tears sprang to her eyes as she replayed what she saw between the most likely to-be couple's conversation. She furiously wiped them away, refusing to cry over something she would call 'petty'. 'I'm strong, I won't cry because he asked another girl out…' she thought, but her heart betrayed her mind.
Before stepping out the door, she took in a deep breath and plastered on the best fake smile she could muster. Stepping out, her smile desperately tugged down, trying to make its way to a frown as it saw all the happiness in the courtyard. Why did she have to be depressed while everyone else was happy-go-lucky?
Walking towards Sango and Miroku under the Goshinboku, she forced the 'smile' to stay on. Sango was the first to notice Kagome. "You didn't find him?" she asked.
"Well… sort of, he was sort of… busy," she strangled out, desperately not wanting to remember what she had heard.
Sango and Miroku looked at her worriedly, but didn't let anything on. "Oh, okay," Sango replied. Kagome thanked the Gods that Sango didn't mention anything about the fake smile, if she had noticed it.
After a while, Inuyasha came to the Goshinboku with his arm around Kirei's shoulders. She seemed to have a smile that was forced on, but otherwise she was very pretty looking… if she changed her style of clothing a bit.
She wore a red and white striped tube top that showed her belly and much skin. Her white 'mini skirt' was much too 'mini', you couldn't even call it a micro-mini. Her red hooker heels clicked on the cement, giving people an annoyed feeling as it sounded. Kirei had so much make up on her face, people wouldn't be surprised if she was Ronald McDonald (I'm very sorry for insulting you, Mr. McDonald.). Her hair was stiff and solid, probably sprayed with a billion bottles of hairspray… way too much.
"Inuyasha, who's this?" Miroku asked.
"This is my new girlfriend, Kirei…" he murmured, tightening his hold on her shoulders as if looking for comfort. He found none.
The gang put on tight-lipped smiles. "I see…" Miroku said.
After a few moments of awkward moments, Kirei finally spoke up, but to Inuyasha. "Baby, I'm gonna go to my friends now, okay?" she said in her sugar sweet voice, suddenly seeming fake to Kagome… not that cute little kid voice anymore. What a fake. Kirei gave Inuyasha a wet, sloppy kiss on the cheek, making Kagome, Sango, and Miroku want to puke their lunches out.
Kirei ran off as best as she could in her hooker heels, hips swinging ridiculously in an attempt to look 'sexy' and micro-micro mini skirt hanging dangerously low on her hips. As soon as she was gone and Inuyasha looked back at them, they all looked down and continued eating their lunch more quietly. Inuyasha looked at them, confused.
"Is there something wrong?" he asked.
Miroku sighed. "Well, buddy, I'm going to tell you the truth. Even I wouldn't grope that girl's ass. What's wrong with you!" he exclaimed.
Sango choked on her food. "Miroku not groping a girl's ass? Incredible," she muttered the end. "But I do agree… I don't really like that girl, and I think she hangs out with Kikyou…" she continued.
"Well, she's my girlfriend, you guys don't have to like her," Inuyasha glared, trying to defend himself rather than Kirei. Deep inside, though, he really didn't like the slut at all.
"Dating Kirei is like dating Kikyou, Inuyasha," Miroku sighed. "It's just not right. You should be dating Ka-…" before he could continue, Kagome slapped her hand over his mouth; a tint of pink that flashed over her cheeks went unnoticed.
"I should be dating Ka…?" Inuyasha asked, suspecting that Miroku was going to say 'Kagome'…
"What he meant to say, was, uh… you should be dating… Ka… kinder girls! Yeah!" Kagome finished in her lame attempt to save herself, and Miroku.
Inuyasha stared at her suspiciously, but let it off after a while. He kept inside of himself, and thought.
'Kirei doesn't look that nice and shy anymore. She sure seemed like it, and I never really noticed her clothes… I mean, don't judge a book by its cover, right? I'm really starting to doubt that saying now…' he sighed. 'Maybe she is just some slut… but I need to get my mind off Kagome right now. I can't risk losing our relationship. But I think it's starting to fade now after I got with Kirei…' he thought, and looked at Kagome with a sad expression.
She didn't have that happy smile on, and she wasn't even talking whilst in other times she would be babbling any nonsense she could think of. Kagome didn't seem so 'Kagome' anymore…
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A day had passed, and the two best friends, Inuyasha and Kagome, had been getting further apart.
'I have to talk to her or something… our friendship could be falling apart…' Inuyasha clenched his eyes shut and punched his fist to the hard bark of the tree in the school courtyard, where Kirei had just left him to wait for his friends. 'What a great girlfriend she is. We hardly talk at school anyway…'
Kagome came next, surprisingly due to her known lateness to school. She walked to Inuyasha, where she only stood quietly and starting the awkward silence. Inuyasha broke it with a question; he was just annoyed by how quiet it was when they were usually talking a lot.
"So, Kagome… uh, I was wondering if we were still going trick-or-treating and to the dance with the whole gang together tomorrow…?" he asked, still hoping they would.
Kagome gave him the smallest smile, but it still made him happy. He'd rather have the smallest smile in the world from her rather than be ignored and not talked to by her. "Yeah, if Sango and Miroku are still going," she replied in a quiet voice, suddenly uncomfortable with him.
Something tugged at his heartstrings, telling him that she was uncomfortable with him now. It felt as if his heart was slowly coming apart, as she didn't talk, didn't smile, and didn't comfort him with the fact that she still loved him, her best friend… It made Inuyasha doubt if they really were 'best friends' now anymore.
He felt as if he would cry.
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Birds were chirping, autumn leaves that fell from leaves were twirling in the wind, and Kagome was staring at herself in the mirror. It was Halloween morning, and she was getting ready to go in her costume and to school.
She stared at her reflection in the mirror, looking at the details of her face. 'Is there something wrong with me? Is Kirei prettier? Why did Inuyasha pick her?' she still ended up asking these questions in her head, ignoring and already starting to break the promise of not getting or wanting to get any closer to Inuyasha than a 'best friend'.
She continued staring, bringing out the things she thought was wrong with her and comparing them with Kirei. 'I'm too tall… Kirei is shorter… My eyes are too big… Kirei's are small, long, and sophisticated… My bangs are shaggy, her bangs are straight and well-kept… all in all, she's just prettier,' Kagome thought dejectedly. She was self-conscious with her looks at the moment, but didn't let it get her down. She ignored the self-consciousness.
'I don't care what anybody thinks of how I look. Stupid Inuyasha, making me think this way,' she blamed Inuyasha, but didn't have the heart to go with it. She sighed, and then talked out loud to herself.
"Agh, I should just shut up. Today's Halloween; happy candy day!" she exclaimed, suddenly remembering that they would go trick-or-treating. She had to be happy.
Kagome got into her costume, and then looked into the mirror. She was suddenly reminded of what she had been thinking, and looked serious.
It was sort of hard looking serious in an Elmo suit, though.
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Arriving at school in her Elmo get-up, Kagome looked around at all the variety of costumes. She saw a few frightening costumes, all coming up to scare her with their screaming she liked to call 'battle cries'. Some people stared at her and whispered about her 'ridiculous costume', but she didn't care.
She spotted Inuyasha under the Goshinboku in a Blood Scream costume. 'How cliché,' Kagome rolled her eyes. He was all covered in the black cloak-like thing, with the white 'Scream' mask and blood trickling down. It was off at the moment, though. Miroku and Sango still weren't here… they'd been late to school lately.
"Hey Inuyasha!" she squealed, and hugged him as soon as he turned around to face her. 'I have to get this best friend relationship back on track,' Kagome thought in her head, squeezing him tighter.
Inuyasha's eyes widened a small fraction in surprise, but hugged her back anyway as his eyes went back to normal size and softened. 'I miss this…' he thought, placing his cheek on the top of her head. He was a good half foot taller than her. Inuyasha inhaled her natural scent; it wasn't covered up with pounds of perfume as Kirei had done. He couldn't stand the perfume… it gave him headaches and he often held his breath when near Kirei, which wasn't often…
He noticed, for the first time, her costume. "So you decided to go Sesame Street this year?" he sweat dropped.
Kagome grinned widely. "Yup!" she exclaimed, twirling around in circles and walking with her hand on her hip as if on a catwalk. She 'showed off' her Elmo costume, complete with the head part, but left a big hole for her face. The eyes popped out at the top of the furry red head, as did the big orange nose under the eyes.
"Brava, Brava!" he joked in a French accent, bringing two fingers to his lips and kissing them, before putting them back out. It looked pretty ridiculous, with Bloody Scream talking French like and Elmo doing a modeling show.
"Thank you, thank you," Kagome mock bowed.
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Five minutes before the bell rang, Miroku and Sango came running to the Goshinboku flushed and out of breath. Kagome and Inuyasha grinned a grin that rivaled Miroku's in his perverted state as they looked at the two friends once more.
"So, Sango… what have you and Miroku been doing, red and panting, hm?" Kagome said as sly as she could, her voice matching the Cheshire (sp?) cat grin on her face.
Sango's red gradually turned shade after shade, getting darker each time and mouth agape. "Kagome, you… you pervert! You've been hanging out with Miroku too much!" she cried out.
"Oh, no, no, no, Sango… I think it is you who has been 'hanging around' the pervert a lot," Inuyasha smirked. "Doing what, may I ask?"
Miroku took the time to cut in. "Oh, we were just in a dark corner, ma-…" Miroku never got to finish his sentence, because Sango had already knocked him unconscious with her strong, very strong fist.
"Aw, you knocked him out before he could finish saying you guys were making out!" Kagome pouted.
Inuyasha smirked with his teeth wildly, getting another idea. "Or was he going to say… making love?" he said, his face matching a maniac who was grinning like a mad man.
Sango flushed harder, her face becoming as red as a tomato. "We were not!" she yelled furiously, stomping into the school's entrance with very loud steps.
As soon as she was inside the school, Inuyasha and Kagome dropped to the ground and rolled around in their moronic laughter. "Did you see that! She got so red!" Kagome said through her giggles and laughs, as it got harder to breath.
"Yeah… Oh man, I think I'm going to bust a gut," Inuyasha said as he slowly stopped laughing, stomach hurting and taking big gulps of air.
"Yup," Kagome simply answered, trying to catch her own breath.
Miroku took the opportunity to wake up at this time, and guess what he saw? Inuyasha and Kagome, on the ground, looking at each other, red, and panting. 'I think I'll get some revenge for Lady Sango…' he grinned.
"So, what have you two been doing while I was knocked out by my beautiful, dear Sango? You're the ones who are all red and panty," he smirked, his violet eyes twinkling with mischief and revenge.
Inuyasha looked at him weirdly. "We were laughing at how Sango stomped away in all her tomato red glory," he shrugged. He tried to get air into the Scream costume… it was getting hot.
"Oh, were you?" he asked, making Kagome suspicious at what he was going to say.
"Yes, we were…" she replied to him slowly.
"Well then I guess after laughing, you too decided to do the dirty dirty!" he exclaimed. The bell rang as Inuyasha's and Kagome's mouths lay agape. "Oh, the bell has rung! Tata, my friends!" he said, blowing them a mock kiss as a girl would do, and ran off.
"What… the… hell," Inuyasha said dully. Kagome shrugged.
"Hey, I guess that's what we get for making fun of them."
Inuyasha let out a 'pfft'.
Kagome smiled at what had happened as she got up to go to homeroom. 'At least we still have a bond,' she thought as she dusted off her red Elmo suit.
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As Miroku slowed his walk on the way to homeroom, his purple eyes still gleamed as he remembered what he had done.
'Revenge is sweet.'
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…And there. I think it was a bit short. -.-; I'm becoming a baaaaad person at updates. Oh, and you'll find out Sango and Miroku's costumes next chapter… 'cause Inuyasha and Kagome didn't notice their costumes as they made fun of them :D
Review, please? Until next time. :)
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