Chapter 7
'Lost Cause'
A/N: Warning; this is second to last chapter! Sorry I haven't updated in a while! I've been busy trying to find a job and I had a bit of writers block. Thanks for any reviews I have recieved! On with the story...
NO LEMON here!
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"Sango?" Kagome asked softly.
Said girl looked up saying, "Yup, what do you need?"
"You don't think that who ever attacked me will be at prom do you?" she questioned with worry evident in her tone.
Sango tapped her chin with a slim finger,"If he does, Inuyasha would find out first and most likely kick his butt!"
Kagome giggled and then spoke confidently, "Yeah, I guess your right. That is his way of fixing things."
"We've got to hurry up. The guys will be here any minute." Sango chided.
The two were steadily getting ready as night began to fall on the stormy evening. The rain was pouring since mid morning. A day that was to be special, was seeming some what gloomy. This night was prom. Final exams had finished and students were awaiting results, which were to come on the monday after prom weekend.with no more studing to do, all were just excited for the last dance in their high school lives.
Kagome had finished getting ready and was peering at her reflection. A glittering red strapless dress hugged her figure to her upper thighs and went loose down to ankles. She wore a pair of Cinderella style, ruby jeweled, sandle heels. Her hair was left down with many curls put in. A garnet jewel and silver necklace sat around her neck as a matching bracelet adorned her wrist. A deep red colored her eye lids and a light touch of black mascara brushed her lashes.
Kagome looked to Sango, who wore the same as Kagome, only her dress was a bright hot pink that sparkled with black glitter instead of silver. Sango was finishing with the last touches to her make-up and curls in her ponytail. When Kagome turned to her reflection in her full veiw mirror, a feeling of sickness came over her. She ran to the bathroom and spewed all the food she had eaten earlier.
"Are you okay Kagome?" Sango asked, a worried look on her face as she stepped into her best friends bathroom.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. I'm just a little nervous I guess." Kagome replied. Sango accepted her excuse, but she still remained with the worried look.
A minute later, the door bell could be heard from the front door.
"Kagome dear, Inuyasha and Miroku are here!" came Mrs. Higurashi's voice.
Both girls headed down the stairs, Sango leading the way as they made a slow decend. Might as well tease the guys a bit. Sango giggled as Miroku's jaw nearly hit the floor.
"Why Miroku, is that drool I see?" Sango joked.
"My lovely Sango, you must must know your beauty is quite mouth watering. You should dress like this more often..." he was cut off.
"PERVERT!" she screamed, slapping him for once again asulting her bottom.
"Keh! You'll never learn lecher." Inuyasha said simply. The figure hiding behind Sango had then caught his eye as Sango moved away from the stairs to storm toward the kitchen.
"Hello Inuyasha." Kagome said softly.
"You look gorgeous!" he said in almost a whisper where only she would hear. He grabbed her bracelet free wrist and placed a delicate assembly of a red rose, white carnations, and babies breath around it.
Kagome looked into his eyes and smiled lovingly. 'I love you Inuyasha. Why can't you ever tell me?' she thought.
"Let's get going, shall we. We're going to be late." Miroku said calmly.
'Something is off with Kagome's scent. She must be getting sick.' Inuyasha thought as he walked Kagome to the door, opening the unbrella and walking her the rest of the way to the black Hummer limo.
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"Wow! They really did a great job decorating!" Miroku exclaimed as they stepped into the school's gym where it all started. The place Kagome met her best friends, Sango and Miroku and where she met her love, Inuyasha.
The guys went their seperate way as Kagome and Sango were bombarded by the trio that Kagome grew up with.
"Wow! You two look great!" Ayumi screached in delight.
"Especially you Kagome! You match the decor." Eri put in.
"Your the only one that went with the color scheme. No one else knew until now that we chose 'Fire and Ice' as the prom theme. The commity thought it would be a great surprise." Yuka thought aloud tapping her chin lightly.
"Inuyasha is dressed the same you know." Sango cut in seeing Kagome's discomfort.
"Oh? What's he wearing?" Eri questioned.
"An expensive white silk kimono with red flames patterned on the sleeves." Sango retorted simply.
"Dammit! That Hiro friend of his must've tipped him of the theme. The guy is Kimi, the prom commity president's boyfriend. She tells him everything. Oh well. That just means that you two are going to win the secret prize that is meant for the couple that matches the prom theme." Yuka said plainly.
"I didn't know till today what Inuyasha was going to wear. I just chose to wear his favorite color. The silver was just a fluke. I only put on what ever jewelery that matched. So basically, I knew nothing of this theme." Kagome seethed angerly.
"Sorry Kagome. We didn't know." Ayumi appologized for Yuka and Eri's assulting without thinking.
"It's alright. I'm not even sure why I just lashed out like that. I must really be getting ill." Kagome said and walked of to an empty table.
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For two hours the party was going smoothly until the lights began to flicker with each strike of lightening from the skies. A huricane warning was set out, leaving both students and prom supervisors stranded in the school. Many still went on with dancing after the DJ connected his system up to a small generator. Mr. Houdoshi, teacher and head supervisor, provided the generator so the teeens music would continue to keep them calm during their stay while the storm brew more harsh each moment.
Kagome was laying in the rest room vomitting for the second time. She had refused to let anyone know she was feeling sick. While she was occupied, Inuyasha hung around his friend Hiro, unaware of Kagome's illness.
"Yo, what's new with you and Kags?" Hiro questioned.
"It's Kagome and we're still the same." Inuyasha lied.
Hiro's mouth dropped in shock and said, "You mean you still didn't get laid!"
Inuyasha shook his head. "Nope."
"Man, that really sucks. I thought something would've happened by now. You two been a couple for what, three years and nothing." Hiro paused. "Well, at least you guys can graduate together since she got bumped up a grade for being to smart. You guys can really go from high school sweet hearts to college 'sweeties'." he laughed out.
"Keh!" was all Inuyasha said.
"Inuyasha?" a female voice called out.
Inuyasha turned and frowned. "What is it Kikyo?"
"Now, now. Don't be like that. I'm here to make ammends." she told him sweetly.
"Hey man, I'll catch you later." Hiro escused himself.
Inuyasha nodded and turned back to Kikyo and began, "What's this really about? You vowed to get revenge for me breaking it off with you in front of your possie. Now all the sudden you want to make ammends?"
"I know I was a bad girlfriend. Plus you know I'm all talk no action." Kikyo degraded. 'Take the bait.' she thought.
"Okay." he spit out with with confusion.
"I wish to be able to leave for college with out enemies and grudges. So I wish to make things right before graduation. I want to have a clean new start in the adult life. What do you say?" she asked.
"Sure, why not." Inuyasha said simply.
"Let's toast on it with a glass of punch." Kikyo said handing him one of the cups she was holding. "To a new start in life!"
"To a new start!" he cheered quietly as their cups clanked together and then drank the cold red liquid in one gulp.
'You fell and your life will be at my mercey now.' Kikyo thought grimly.
Inuyasha began to feel dizzy and said, "Was that punch spiked?" as he blacked out and fell to the floor. With the music and no lights because of the storm, no one noticed what had happened to the hanyou. Kikyo chanted a small prayer as the spell took it's coarse through Inuyash's body. His eyes soon flickered back open and began to adjust to the figure in front of him. The image of Kagome stood before him. He sences were out of wack, leaving only his eyes and ears working correctly.
"Kagome? Where did Kikyo go?" he asked.
"I'm not quite sure. I found you alone and passed out on the floor just now. Are you okay?" the illusion Kagome questioned.
"Keh! As if I ever get hurt." he replied.
She giggled and started to voice seductively, "Inuyasha, come with me. I want to give you something."
Inuyasha complied as a pull on his soul made him want what she was to give. The two snuck out of the gym and walked down the hall to a set of small stairs leading to the janitor's supply closet whick was more like the size of a class room. They disappeared inside, the world around them unaware of their intimate actions. All, but one other that is.
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Kagome finally quit the rest room, her nausia dimmed to barely nothing. She took the chance to find Inuyasha and came across Sango, who was yelling at Miroku for asking other girls to bare his son, again. Kagome watched as Miroku quickly swayed Sango out of her rampage. She could only sweat drop at the couple's silly arguement.
"Hey, have you two seen Inuyash?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah, he was hanging with Hiro earlier. Oh, wait. Hiro said something about leaving him. I think he might be over by the food table." Miroku answered.
"Thanks! I'll be right back." Kagome waved off.
When she arrived at the food table, Inuyasha was no where to be seen and she couldn't find Hiro to ask exactly where her love had last been. She continued her search and became impatient with each minute passed with no sign of where he had gone. That had soon ended when Houjo had shown up.
"Kagome! I've been searching all over for you! Eri, Ayumi, and Yuka said you were looking for Inuyasha. I saw the dirrection he went. Come." Houjo explained and grabbed her hand to lead her out into the halls.
Kagome pulled her hand free once out in the hall. The strech was dark like the gym, only the gym had at least the little colored lights from the dj equipment. They searched any open class room and even the bath rooms. Nothing indicated that Inuyasha had been there. The two had reached near the end of the hall when a muffled noice hit their ears. Houjo went first down the four step set of stairs to the janitor's closet. He reached for the handle, slowly sliding the door open as if to be cautious if something were to pop out and attack. What greeted their sights made Kagome's heart drop and shatter like glass. Her beloved, naked and fucking with another girl, Kikyo.
"No! How could you!" Kagome whispered and ran off toward the gym.
"Wait Kagome! Stop!" Houjo called out.
"Leave me a lone. Never come near me again." she seethed before taking off again to the gymnasium.
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'Twelve A.M.'
"Students are now permitted to leave for home. The huricane has passed. Be safe and have a good night." Mr. Houdoshi announced.
"Sango, I'm leaving now. I'll send the limo back for you, Miroku, and Inuy..." Kagome tried to say. A lone tear escaped her efforts of holding it back.
"Are you okay? Where is Inuyasha?" Sango asked her best friend.
"He...is..is with Kikyo. I've got to go." with out notice, Kagome ran off into the rain outside and into the limo.
"Please don't tell me he did what I think he did?" Sango questioned to no one in paticular.
"I'm sorry to say so, but I believe he did. Kagome would not seem so torn if he didn't." Miroku said sadly.
"I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!" she yelled furiously. "How could he hurt Kagome like that after they just...Urh, stupid baka! How could he, with that whore!"
"Calm yourself my love. Let us find him and try to understand this horrible situation." Miroku provided.
They found Houjo sitting against some lockers, his head hung down, and arms limp at his side. He was repeating to himself 'I failed'. The two watching knew at that moment he had something to do with this problem.
"You! Where is Inuyasha? And what the hell happened?" Sango screeched at him.
Houjo looked up slowly saying, "He's in the closet."
Sango took off to the janitor's closet as Miroku leaned down to look houjo in the eyes. "What exactly conspired here? And what have you to do with it?"
"Revenge!" was the one hated word that escaped his lips. Miroku stood up in acknowledge. 'Revenge'...Kikyo wanted this to get back at Inuyasha. Houjo...because Inuyasha took Kagome as his girlfriend, the girl Houjo had been wanting for himself the past four years, maybe more. With knowing this, Miroku walked in the dirrection Sango stomped off to...the janitor's closet.
"What the Hell do you think your doing? You little whore! Are happy with ruining people's lives? And you, you jack ass! Have you lost your brain?" Sango yelled at the two now half dressed couple.
"Sango? What are you doing?" Inuyasha asked.
"Hahahaha...you fool!" Kikyo laughed malisciously as some other students appeared to see what all the commotion was about. Only horrified faces could be seen. "Thought you were with you petty girlfriend?"
"Kagome?" he questioned, confusion now over taking his appearance.
"You are just a stupid little half breed." Kikyo hissed. Inuyasha growled in response as his sences began to flow back to him.
"Kikyo! What have you done to me?" Inuyasha growled out.
"I put a spell on you to have you believe I was your little slut of a girlfriend. She must really be good in bed if males would risk raping her to have a taste. Oh, I forgot, the guy who touched your bitch won't be found." she spit out like venom.
"YOU BITCH!" Sango screamed before punching Kikyo square in the face.
"You broke my nose!" cried Kikyo hold her now bloody nose.
Miroku stepped in before Sango could hit Inuyasha too for being so stupid to have even conversed with Kikyo.
"Now my sweet, Inuyasha should be punished, but not by us. I have already contacted Sesshomaru and he said he would gladly take care of it. And Inuyasha, it matters not that you were under a spell. Spells only change physical features of the body, not the person's clothing." Miroku finished.
"And don't even try to pull 'I couldn't see in the dark' cause every one knows youkai and hanyou can see as if it were daylight!" Sango put in.
"I...I know." Inuyasha mumbled.
"No, no you don't know. Kagome is basically lost to herself. You've really screwed this up. She'll probably never want to speak with you ever again." said Sango through fustrated tears.
With the last words said, all the students, including Sango and Miroku left to go home. Prom had become a disaster for some this night. Inuyasha had ended up running from the school into the rain and never stopped until he reached a small forest to howl out the pain he had caused his love. Kikyo cared about nothing but her fractured nose and complained to her father, to which he gave her six hundred dollars to be rid of her whining. Houjo was stuck in a world of self pitty for becoming a monster. The one thing Kikyo didn't say, was that it was Houjo that attacked Kagome. The reason Inuyasha couldn't find the scent was because of a scent masking/matterializing spell. Things were now destroyed. All in one night, prom night.
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"Kagome dear, are you still not well? You've missed graduation and have been in bed for almost two weeks." Mrs. Higurashi consoled softly. She had been worried since prom night, with both hurricane and they way her daughter looked when she had finally arrived at home.
"No mama. I've been throwing up at least twice a day. My throat and stomach are hurting for puking so much." Kagome said hoarsely.
"Get dressed. I'm going to take you to the clinic to get checked. Perhaps you may have a serious flu from being wet late at night after prom. Be ready quickly." her mom commanded.
In little more than twenty minutes, Kagome was dressed and her and her mother were off to the clinic.
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"What! It can't be true." Kagome yelled in shock.
"I'm afraid so. Are tests don't lie." Dr. Yoshi affirmed.
"I can't be pregnant. I've been taking my pills on time every day. I haven't missed one. This can't be happening!" she cried out.
"Birth control is only 99 percent effective. There is always a small chance of pregnancy occurring. I advise you to stop taking the pill immediately and begin prenatal vitamins." the doctor put in.
"I'm so sorry Kagome! You know I'll help as much as possible. I'm just glad you did take the effort to protect yourself." her mother comforted.
"Now, about the father?" asked Dr. Yoshi.
Kagome couldn't speak about him still. Tears welled up in her eyes, yet did not spill.
"I'm sorry doctor. We have yet to speak with him and I fear I am going to have to be the one to bare the news. Kagome has gone through enough heart ache for now." Mrs. Higurashi spoke up.
"Very well. I want to see her back in four weeks." the doctor appointed before leaving the room.
"Mama... I will tell him. Just not yet. When the baby's close to be born, I'll tell him then." Kagome confided.
Her mother hugged her saying, "I understand. When you good and ready dear."
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A/N: Chapter done!! Sorry, AGAIN, that it took so long. I'm gonna start the next/last chapter and hopefully get it up by the end of the week. Later!! Please review!