By: Patche
Disclaimer: Umm I do not own/am not in any way affiliated with… Inuyasha, the song "Stay" or any songs I think fit the story perfectly.
Take One
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It was weird. The next day at school, Inuyasha had just told me to meet him at his locker after school. So, I stood there and waited for a good twenty minutes watching all the students pass by. I noticed so many little couple holding hands and taking time out to suck face with each other. It was moderately disgusting.
Of course, Taro had to walk by with his newest Barbie doll and kiss her right in front of me. It stung… just a little.
I finally sighed and let myself lean against the locker giving up all hope on Inuyasha ever showing up.
He obviously had forgotten… so I was just going to play this off cool. I'd walk away and never bring it up again… or speak to him again.
But just as I started to head to the doors, I heard him behind me.
"What the fuck, Kagome? You don't understand how to wait by someone's locker?"
I turned around to see him looking at me as if I'd just killed his dog.
"You didn't show up for twenty minutes?" I asked heading back towards him.
"Well, not everyone needs to know about this… do they?" He asked.
I just rolled my eyes. "So… you're just going to hide until the whole school is gone, make me look like an idiot standing there before you show?" I shook my head. "No… you know, if your grades don't matter enough for you to sacrifice your popularity for two seconds out of the day, then you… you don't deserve help!" I shouted.
"I mean, if Taro could go out with me for a whole year… sacrificing his reputation for nothing… why can't you?" I turned around and began walking out the doors.
"Besides, it's not like you're all that popular anyway, Inuyasha. You have no room to be embarrassed by me!" I shouted before turning back around. For some reason… I could feel my eyes welling up and my throat getting swollen. My nose was stinging.
It wasn't the fact that Inuyasha was embarrassed… but just everything. The fact that Taro, after twenty-four hours, had moved on… the fact that I was such a nerd that even my assistance in the popular realm was frowned upon… and the fact that nobody, not even the people I tried my best to help cared.
I heard footsteps behind me, which caused me to stop walking. I had already reached the parking lot by now.
Inuyasha ran up in front of me and grabbed me by the shoulders, shaking me as he spoke.
"Kagome, I need this… you have GOT to help me!" he was shouting at me.
"Why me? Don't you have any other smart friends? Did Taro put you up to this so that I could feel a million times worse than I already do? I mean, why me?!" I shouted, the tears in my eyes started to fall now.
Inuyasha froze. "Don…Don't cry Kagome…" He looked around frantically for something that would help. "Kagome… please don't cry…" He begged. "Stop it!" He finally shouted causing me to straighten up.
He cleared his throat and looked me dead-on. "The answer to all those questions is 'no'. I picked you because you owed me something anyway… and I needed help and you could help me." He grumbled a bit, scratching his head. "I mean… I only need you because there is no one else who is somewhat smart."
I looked up at him and noticed the intent on his face. He wasn't trying to hurt me or anything. Somehow I felt better.
I took a deep sigh and
smiled. "Okay, let's go then…"
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His house was practically a castle. He had more rooms than a hotel and so much gold and silver… it was amazing.
I almost felt like a little rat that completely didn't belong. I stood out like a particle of dust on the china.
"Wow…" I whispered to him. "This is where you live?" I asked still looking around in amazement.
"It's not that great…" he mumbled. I spun around to face him.
"It's like a palace… how can it not be great?" Inuyasha just shook his head and headed for the stairs.
I just stood there wondering what was going on until he turned around and shouted, "Are ya coming or not?!"
I followed him up the stairs passed, what I assumed to be, several guest bedrooms. When we reached his room, I completely froze up. His bed was twice the size of my room and his room was twice the size of my house.
It did seem to accent his personality, however. He had a wall of records, CDs, and posters for various rock bands I knew he liked. His bed was black with a white comforter. He had a red lava lamp sitting next to it and a big bookshelf full of Horror stories.
I smiled. For some reason seeing all this made me kind of happy. I liked him now.
I heard him sigh which broke me from my trance.
"Uhh… so what do you need help on?" I asked walking over to him. He sat down on his bed and picked up a textbook off his floor.
"Algebra?" I asked in disbelief.
"Well we aren't all gifted with mathematical brains, okay?" He shouted as a defense.
I just chuckled and opened the book up to the first page. But something struck me as odd. This book wasn't the same one I had when I took Algebra. Was he learning something different?
"What?" He asked.
"This isn't the same book that I had…" I said digging through it. "Did your class get new books?" I asked.
Inuyasha just shook his head. "No, some idiot went through the book and whited out half of the lessons so it's very hard to read…" He said angered.
I raised in eyebrow in disbelief.
"Okay…" I said closing the book. "So, what can I help you on?" I asked. He pulled out a sheet of paper which read "SLOPE".
"Yea… so this is all gibberish…" He mumbled.
"Okay." I said cracking my knuckles. "Well, you see this equation… uhh y 6x 7?" I asked. Inuyasha nodded.
"Yea… I can't graph that." He said bitterly.
I raised a finger. "Ah ah ah… you can, good sir. And I shall teach you how!" I said in an excited tone. This stuff always got me so excited. I looked up to see Inuyasha staring at me with quite the blank face.
"Okay…" I started ignoring his faces. "First off, the intercept is 7. So, you star by placing a dot on the y axis at 7." He did so and I carried on. "Now this six is the rise and run… but it's always rise over run so… 6 is just six over one which means you go from the 7, go up 6 places and over 1. And there are your coordinates. Now, you draw a line through them and voila!"
I could feel him staring at me the whole time I was working. For some reason, it made my heart feel like it would jump up into my throat.
"You get it?" I asked looking up all too quickly and knocking foreheads with Inuyasha.
"Ahh, shit!" He shouted laughing and holding his head.
I just giggled along, holding mine.
"You have a hard head…" He said to me. I just laughed and looked at him.
"Are you okay, now?" I asked. He looked at me confused for a second.
"I was just kidding… it didn't hurt that bad."
I laughed and shook my head. "No… I mean, did I explain it well enough?" I asked pointing to the algebra.
"Oh, yea… I think I've got it." He said with a little blush gracing his cheeks.
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A/N: Aww… it's sweet. Thanks for the reviews guys. I finally had time to read 'em. You guys are just so sweet. You know what else is sweet? This story called "Before the Last Petal Drops"… it's in my favorite stories. I suggest anyone with a heart that needs squished should read it. I'll be updating soon.
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