Shikon Uni. 16

Trouble and Apologies

After researching information on the computer for facts on the great S.S, Kagome hears people whispering behind one of the tall book shelves. She saved her work on the computer and went to go check it out. When she found that they had left right before she could see whom it was, she heard the sound of the door slamming and the laughing trailing through the hallways. Walking back to her computer-she found her books all ripped and torn. Her computer was frozen and her notebook was missing.

She was depressed and angry. She was tired and miserable. What could she do now? She has one more day and…who would want to steal her notebook? Kagome fixed her computer and re-organized her papers. Her eyes came across something else though. A silver earring was forgotten. She knew whose earring it was. Why is it that everyone is out to get her? She has done nothing wrong except for that whole Kikyo incident and freaking out on Sango. She was going to get to the bottom of this. Her notebook is now missing which had the play summary in it. She gasped. Could someone be spying on her? If there was, she was positive it was someone she knew and despised the most.

'It could have been Hojo or that person that I met in the forest. Hojo spied on me before but he doesn't wear any earrings and neither does the other person. Sango has one of those kinds of earrings. Maybe someone stole it from her and placed it under my papers, to make me think that she stole my notebook!'

Kagome packed up her things and walked out of the library. 'She was sure that it wasn't a one-person act though. There was more than one person, since there was laughing and whispering to make me walk away from my stuff.'

When she finally got down to the dorms she went to the living room and flopped down on the couch to watch some T.V. Her fingers punched in the numbers on the converter to switch channels and flipped through one of her favourite shows to watch.

During the commercials, she walked over to the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of pop out of the fridge. It has been sitting there for a couple of weeks.

After her boredom she picked up her cell phone and called Rin. The phone kept ringing and there was no answer. She then called Koga. No answer. Miroku, there was no answer. When she kept pressing the button to keep going down her list, she saw Hojo's name and deleted it from her friend's section. Kagome then, saw Inuyasha's name and pressed call to see what he was up to. Finally there was a voice on the other end.

"Hey." Inuyasha said.

"Hi…do you know where everyone else is? I tried calling them but they didn't pick up." She complained.

"No…I don't. But they are probably down at the library." Inuyasha replied.

"Really? 'Cause I was just down there, and they weren't there. At least I think."

"I have nothing better to do around here...so lets go find them." Inuyasha suggested.

"Sure, see you in two minutes." Kagome instantly answered.

Inuyasha put his cell phone in his pocket and walked to the door. When he opened his door Kagome wasn't there. He knocked on her door and then there was no answer. Inuyasha was beginning to get concerned and took out his cell phone and tried calling her, but there was no answer! He couldn't trace where she was. Her scent wasn't in the halls and he was beginning to think that something happened to her.

He broke open the door and looked around each room to find where she is. He looked everywhere. Then he saw the balcony door open. He ran to the door and saw that Kagome was unconscious! There was fresh blood streaming down her forehead and her left sleeve was torn off. There on the tip of her shoulder was a spider bite. It looked infected and swollen.

When she got up she found out that she was in the infirmary and her forehead had a bandaid on it and her shoulder was burning like crazy. She could hardly move her shoulder because it was throbbing and sore. But when she looked around the room she saw Inuyasha looking out the window right next to her bed.

"Hey, you okay?" Inuyasha asked concerned.

Kagome just stared at him for a minute then noticed that she was starring at Inuyasha for a long time. She blushed and answered quickly. "Yeah, I'm okay. What happened?"

"You mean you don't remember?" He asked stunned.

"Well, I only remember that I was brought crashing down to the ground when someone fell on top of me. Then I remember I was fighting back until they knocked me out." Kagome explained.

"Do you know who it was?" Inuyasha asked.

"No. Their face was covered by a black mask." She looked down towards her feet and saw that she also got a sprained leg. A tear streamed down her cheek. Her shoulder was beginning to feel like it was going to fall off! She cringed at the thought that it was going fall off.

Inuyasha sensed the salty tears fall down her smooth cheeks and asked why she was crying.

"My shoulder... is burning... and it's really painful!" Kagome cut in between sobs.

"Is there anything that you want me to do?" He asked.

"There is nothing really." She answered.

A couple of minutes passed by and the nurse came in to check up on Kagome.

"Oh Kagome, I see that you are awake." The nurse smiled.

"How are you feeling?" She asked.

Kagome smiled faintly and answered that her shoulder was hurting.

"Here let me check. Oh and my name is Faye." The nurse replied while checking her wound.

"Well it looks like you just have a spider bite nothing more. But I don't understand why it would hurt that much." Her eyes looked over the bite somemore. "I think I should put some medication on that. I'll be right back okay Kagome."

Kagome just nodded and turned her head slightly off to the side.

"I don't think that is just any normal spider bite. It looks too big to be one. Oh and it looks like it s getting worse" Inuyasha spoke outloud.

"Oh thanks." Kagome sarcastically replied.

When the nurse came back it was a different one. "My name is Yaneya. I'm the head nurse. My sister Faye told me about this unusual spider bite that you have on your shoulder." Her eyes were drown towards her shoulder. "That is not a spider bite! It looks like a knife that has been stabbed in your shoulder." "Were you attacked by someone?" She asked.

"Yes, and I was knocked unconscious." Kagome added.

"Hm...I see." Yaneya understood what had happened now. She was probably given some sort of curse.

"Kagome, I think you have been given a curse. That mark is called the dark moon curse."

"Which is?" Inuyasha interrupted.

"It means that whenever there is a full moon you will become something you're not! I warn you that the person who gave it to you is very powerful and has the power to kill you!" Yaneya exclaimed looking down sadly.

'What! Wait! I'm going to be killed? Why? Who would do this?' Kagome cried and felt like her whole world was crashing down on her. She could feel Inuyasha embracing her in a hug. He then whispered in her ear, "I'll protect you!"

Kagome rested her head on Inuyasha's shoulder. "Thank you, Inuyasha." Kagome whispered back.

He felt the warm and sweet whispered breath that touched his ear when she talked. It sent shivers down his neck and down his spine.

Inuyasha walked into the infirmary the next day to check on Kagome. Turns out that she was able to leave and the doctor said that she will be okay if she takes pain killers for her shoulder once evey 2 days.

Kagome felt happy that she was able to get out of the infirmary. But she wasn't happy about the fact that she was probably going to die on the next full moon.

"Inuyasha...?" Kagome said.

"Yeah?" He answered looking over at her.

"Thanks." She smiled brightly and interlocked hands with him. He looked down at the slight movement and blushed lightly.

"Feh, whatever!" He exclaimed.

They walked down the hallway for awhile until they saw Miroku and Sango. They stopped to talk and telling them what had happened and not to worry. Well they did have to worry now!

"What! There is something to worry about!" Sango shouted. "My bestfriend is going to probably die, because someone gave her a curse!"

"Sango calm down." Miroku spoke softly.

"Calm down? How can I calm down?"

"When is the next full moon?" Miroku asked.

"In three weeks." Kagome replied sadly.

"Well we have three weeks to find out who has done that to you and find a way to break the stupid curse!" Inuyasha exclaimed.

"It's no use! There is more than a thousand people in this school. How are we going to find the person in time?" Kagome doubted.

"Kagome, we can do this! We have to believe we can. There is only hope that we can save you!" Sango reassured.

"We will all help." Miroku encouraged.

"Me too." A voice said from behind the group.

"Koga? Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha asked in bewilderment.

"Yeah, yeah we heard the whole thing!" Koga admitted.

"No one is going to hurt my Kagome and get a way with it!" Koga stated.

They all sweat dropped except for Inuyasha who was arguing about how Kagome is not his.

"And what are you going to do about it mutt face?" Koga asked angrily.

"That's it I'm out of here!" Kagome began to walk again and also being followed by Sango, Miroku and Sesshomaru.

Inuyasha growled at Koga and then ran after Kagome and the others, as did Koga too.

Sesshomaru glanced down at Kagome and saw the worried look on her face.She looked frightened and worried.(AU:Well who wouldn't be?) He didn't want to say anything that would upset her so he said nothing. The group walked down towards the cafeteria to have some lunch and saw Rin sitting down at a table talking to a boy. Sesshomaru's face was impassive, but could see a little jealousy in his eyes. They all went to go sit with Rin. The boy was across from Rin. Sango sat beside Miroku and across from everyone else. Inuyasha sat beside Kagome. Kagome was seated left beside Rin. On Rin's right side was Sesshomaru and Koga sat across from Kagome and beside Miroku.

"Hey Rin!" Kagome greeted.

"Hey Kagome. What's up?" Rin asked happily.

"Oh nothing much. Who is this?" She replied.

Rin looked at the boy that Kagome was referring to. "Sorry I didn't ask you who you were?"

"Oh sorry my name is Toshiro." He apologized.

"Hey, Toshiro. My name is Kagome and this is Miroku, Sango, Koga, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru." Kagome introduced each person then got up after she felt her stomache growl."Well I guess i should be getting something to eat."

As she said that Inuyasha and Koga followed after her.

Inuyasha growled at Koga and said, " don't you have something other than to do, wolf boy?"

"Nope. I'd rather follow the one I love and go get something to eat." Koga answered grinning.

"Why you!" Inuyasha raised his fist at him.

Kagome saw the two fighting again and sighed,"don't you two ever stop fighting?"

They looked at her and shrugged then began fighting again.

She rolled her eyes and kept walking towards one of the food places.

When they came back to eat at the table they saw that everyone else except for Rin and Toshiro went up to the food places to order. Rin was still talking to Toshiro and it seemed like they were talking about the psychology exam coming up.

Toshiro looked like a cool person to hang around with. He had black long hair that was tied up in a pony tail and bangs that came down over his forehead.AU:Like Koga's except just a bit shorter. He also has icy blue-silver eyes and is wearing a black shirt, knee length shorts and black skater shoes with white laces.

'He kind of reminds me of Koga.' Kagome thought.

After lunch was done everyone headed back to their classes. Kagome knew that for the rest of the three weeks Inuyasha was going to be keeping a close eye on her. 'She then remembered that moment in the infirmary when Inuyasha hugged her like that. It hurt her shoulder a bit, but it was definitely unexpected!'

Inuyasha looked at Kagome and knew she was thinking about something. He had to admit. He loved having her around now. It made him realize that no girl would have stayed this long with him. Except for Kikyo. His eyes closed at the thought of her. Although he missed her the most! He knew that she was never going to come back. If she did it would take a miracle. From the moment when Kagome was pretending to be Kikyo, he knew that she had a different scent then before. But he really didn't want to deny that Kikyo wasn't really Kikyo. But Kagome is much different then Kikyo. She is kinder than Kikyo ever was. More adventurous that's for sure! She has some resemblance to Kikyo but that is only her eyes and hair colour.

He thought about it somemore and thought, three weeks isn't that much time to find out who the person is. The question is, if we do find out who the person is.

Once they were in their classes, Kagome was passing notes to Sango telling her that she was sorry for spazing out like that. Sango looked at Kagome and smiled and said she was sorry to. Then sent a note saying, after you left I really did need help with the cooking. I needed to also clean a lot of dishes and didn't finish until an hour after she ate.

Kagome laughed softly and replied to the note well next time you'll know!