The Dark Prince
Chapter two: Poor Kagome
Strutting to the nurse's office, Inuyasha ignored the call to the office once again. He didn't give a fuck about the principal who would let him off with a "warning" again. He wanted to check on Kagome, screw everyone else. He sneered at yet another call and stepped into the nurse's office.
In the office, Kagome was sitting on a table with the nurse applying ice to her cheek. Inuyasha walked in right as the nurse was saying, "There you go, sweetie."
Kagome tried to brightly smile, but to Inuyasha it came off weakly. She still had the wounded look on her face, too. Inuyasha suddenly felt the strange urge to wrap her in his arms and sooth everything. However, before he let himself to put the thought in the back of his mind, hoping that this was just brotherly protection.
The nurse spotted him and gave him a question look. "Inuyasha, what are you doing in here, it's not time for your ear check up yet."
He shook his head at the nurse and glided into the room. To his nose the disinfectant smell should have been an illegal assault but he sucked it up and went to the bed Kagome was cutely perched on.
"Hey, Kagome," he said softly, not knowing why. It might have been that the nurse's office was quiet or because she looked so cute with an ice pack to her face. Kagome looked up at his profile. He wasn't looking at her and she saw his mouth in a soft frown, his eyes glowing like a slowly and quietly burning fire.
"Hey, Inuyasha," she muttered, getting off the bed to stand on her feet. Though it didn't do her much good as Inuyasha still towered over her. He opened his mouth to say something, with no idea what to say, but just to say something. He was quickly cut off by the nurse making herself comfortable and grabbed his ear to drag him away.
"Well, come over here," the nurse said as she dragged him away from Kagome to have him sit on the bed next to hers. That was the first time she really noticed his ears. At first she thought they were fake, part of the whole Goth thing. Pretend to be demon and Goth, but they weren't. Kagome suddenly felt the urge to lay down.
"Are you all right?" Inuyasha asked her. She looked pale, almost ready to pass out in his opinion.
"Are you really the last demon?" she asked, staring at him. She knew it was rude, but just couldn't seem to help herself. She'd heard about this almost two years ago, but never thought she'd meet him. Or that he would her YouTube rocker.
"That's me," Inuyasha said, looking at her, while the nurse fussed with one ear. "Thank God nobody cares anymore."
The nurse took her hands away from his ears and Kagome watched as one little, light ear twitched. Then the other one did the same. Suddenly Kagome got up and sat next to him on his bed. She had an intense look on her face, Inuyasha noticed. But she wasn't looking at his face. She was staring at his ears. What's her deal? It's not like she's never seen dog ears before, he thought as he slightly leaned away.
He didn't get far as Kagome reached up and grabbed the closet velvet, fuzzy ear. On instinct he leaned closer to her. Kagome giggled happily at his reaction. Finally realizing what he was doing, he pulled away, blushing just slightly. What the hell, he thought as he took a side long glance at Kagome. Once he could the look on her face, he immediately turned away.
The nurse, who was scribbling on a clipboard, glanced up to see the banter. She smiled at the cute, young couple in her presence. She was surprised to see Inuyasha act this way, but it was a nice changed. She shook her head.
"Don't do anything I wouldn't do," she said. Inuyasha gave her a sly smile and knowing that his check up was done, took Kagome by the arm and they were in the hall. It was completely empty, since the bell hadn't rung for the class change yet.
Then the loud speaker interrupted the silence of the hall. He was being called down to the office again. You'd think they'd give up, he thought. But Inuyasha sighed and turned in the direction of the blasted office. They were going to go through this again. But he was held back by a hand on his arm.
"I'm going with you," Kagome spoke up. He looked down at her with a raised eyebrow.
"What? Don't you think I've ever been in trouble before?" Inuyasha asked her with a grin. He shrugged her off and started walking again. He heard a gasp behind him and fast footsteps on the floor catching up with him.
"Okay, maybe you're right," she continued, "but first time for everything." He crossed his arms over his chest.
Smiling, he shook his head. "You never cease to amaze me," Inuyasha said, turning a corner.
"Good," she said grabbing his arm, making them uncross. "Then we'll never tired of each other."
So they walked to the office, their arms interlinking, with Kagome chatting happily. Inuyasha hardly got in a word edge-wise and rather than be annoyed because of it, he was amused by it. Within no time, they were in front of the office door, a solid, wooden door that had a plaque in the center. Inuyasha's lined eyes looked over at her.
"You sure?" he asked. Kagome nodded, looking at the door.
"I think I can get you out of this," she stated. Inuyasha shrugged then opened the door and they both stepped inside the office. A plump lady with an old but kind face sat at the reception desk. She didn't look up as the door closed behind the couple, being busy on the phone. The old lady was writing something down and then said goodbye to the person she was talking to in a polite manner.
The lady looked up and smiled as she caught sight of Inuyasha. "In trouble again?" she asked, though she really didn't have to. Inuyasha nodded to her, his face seemed craved from stone.
"As always, Helen."
"Who's your friend?" she asked. But Inuyasha didn't reply to her. He just walked down the blue carpeted hallway, passed the reception desk, and stopped at the last door at the end of the hallway. Kagome glanced up nervously at him, then right back in front her. Inuyasha didn't look to be in a good mood, he just pulled his tie looser than it already was.
The door opened and the principal just nodded to the chairs in front of his messy desk. He just sighed and closed the door after they were seated. The principal's gray hair showing more in the sunlight that was coming in from the window behind him as he sat in his dark brown. An ugly shade of Kikiyo brown, Kagome noticed.
"Inuyasha, you're in here again," the principal started. He looked down at the blue colored sheet in front of him. "For knocking out another student," he paused, then looked up at Inuyasha with exasperation. "With a dodge ball?"
Since Inuyasha said nothing and just rolled his eyes, the principal went on. "You threw it as hard as you could," his voice raising as he read from the paper. "During a dodge ball game knowing you would hurt the kid and what's better, the game was already over." There was a slight vein in the principal's forehead that could be seen as he glared at Inuyasha.
Said troublemaker just shrugged his shoulders not feeling the need to say anything. Kagome sat forward on her seat, hoping to be seen and heard.
"Wait," she piped up. "He did it for me." The pudgy principal looked over at her now, anger receding from his expression to be replaced with an look of interest. Now that she had the full attention of the principal she looked down at her feet on instinct.
"Go on," the principal persisted. She swallowed, trying to make sure she didn't sound like a pansy.
"Well," she said, " During the game a guy hit me with the ball as hard as he could and Inuyasha was just avenging me." Before she could go on, she swore she heard a growl from Inuyasha.
"Yeah, asshole. Or was there too much fat around your ears to hear that?" Inuyasha said. Though it sounded more like a low rumbling growl. He never liked the principal anyway. The bastard was put in jail for have sex with a student years back when he was still a teacher. While he got his teacher's license back about ten years ago and out of prison about twenty years ago, he still had the balls to flirt with the female students. And when they tried to report him, Inuyasha knew that the principal blackmailed them, though he had no proof of it.
And he'd be damned if he'd let Kagome get into that. She was too naïve, too sweet and innocent for what went on in this school. Inuyasha was snapped back to reality went he realized the principal, who was done yelling about the 'asshole' comment, was talking to him. He tuned in immediately.
"All right Inuyasha, your off the hook. Be thankful to your new friend," he said. Inuyasha blinked. He missed the entire conversation. In the shocked silence, a ring tone went off. Through out the room you could hear Natasha Bedinfield singing that she had a pocket full of sunshine. Kagome, leaned down and pulled her cell out of her skirt pocket as the singing stopped.
The principal narrowed his eyes. "No cell phones."
"But," Kagome's eyes widened as the principal held out his hand.
"Hand it over," he demanded. Kagome slowly put the cell in the principal's hand. She felt like part of her was ripping away. Her mother bought her that phone two years ago, for Kagome's fifteenth birthday. She was so excited that she could give Kagome her first cell phone. Kagome remembered that her mom was so giddy as she opened the wrapped box that revealed to be a cell phone.
The principal grabbed it and leaned back in his ratty brown chair. He waved them off. "Get out."
Inuyasha and Kagome rose and he led the way out. They passed the nice, old lady again, but she didn't say anything to them. And they didn't say anything either. Once in the hallway, Kagome looked around.
"Well I got to go," she excused. She didn't really want to leave Inuyasha's company but she didn't know what else to do. Inuyasha tilted his head and looked at her. He sighed and patted her head, messing up her hair affectionately.
"See ya around, Rainbow," he said. Then turned and walked down the opposite she was going to go. Kagome stared after him, eyes wide, looking at his retreating back as he swaggered down the hall. Then, for no reason, her lips curved in a slight smile.
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After school, Kagome just sighed. It was the first day of school and she had homework, her feet hurt from walking all over campus to get to her classes and her uniform shoes weren't broken in so that had something to do with it, she had an ugly, reddish-purple bruise on her cheek, and she kept getting glares from Inuyasha's girlfriend. But, Kagome supposed, it could have been worse.
Kagome kept her positive attitude up as she walked down the street to get to her dorms. She sighed again, and without looking crossed the street to the dorm buildings. There was a loud screech that assaulted her ears and Kagome snapped her head up in the direction of the screech.
A car was headed too fast in her direction. She had no time to run. As the car screeched on the road she rolled onto the hood of the car. The impact hit her arm and made pain spread on her body as the car jerked to a stop. Kagome, who had at some point closed her eyes, opened them to see the gleam of a silver mustang. She let out a breath that sounded more like a gasp and got off the car.
Her legs were shaky as the driver got out. His pale brown hair slightly in his deep green eyes. He closed the door and rushed over to her, taking in the girl's slim but curvy figure.
"Are you okay?" he asked urgently. Kagome, who now remembered how to breath, looked up at the guy towering over her.
"I'm so sorry!" she told him. He put a hand on her shoulder, because he couldn't resist it, to see if it'd help her calm down.
"That's quite all right," he said smoothly. His eyes traveled her body again, just because he could do it. "I'm Hojo."
Yeah, Kagome knew him. She saw him in the halls quite a few times. Her new friends said he was King of the Preps, so to speak. Kagome wasn't really into the whole prep thing, she preferred to be neutral about it. He was on the football team, which was mostly gothic too. She heard from Megan they called themselves the Black Team and that Hojo stayed on the team even though he was out numbered. But no one knew why he didn't just quit the team when he was outnumbered.
Hojo snapped his tanned fingers in front of Kagome's face, making her snap back to reality. Kagome's head shot up to look at the man. "Anybody in there?" he joked showing his perfectly straight white teeth.
"Oh! I'm Kagome," she introduced and smiled back on instinct She held out her hand and he took it, shaking it up and down a little longer than necessary.
"I like that name," he smoothly replied, not taking his eyes off hers. Nor letting go of her hand.
"Thank you," she replied.
Damn, she's hot, Hojo thought. You can totally tell she's a virgin. Hmm, I'll be sure to take it away from her.
Hojo let go of her hand and Kagome assumed that he was done talking as he seemed deep in thought. So with nothing more to say, she turned and walked acrossed the rest of the street to the dorms. Hojo, pulled out of his imagining when she walked away jogged after her.
"Wait," he called after her. She slowly turned half her body to face him. For some reason she just wanted to get to the dorm.
"You wanna go out tonight? 7:00? To eat?" he asked. He gave his best expression to come off as a sincere school boy.
"Um," she hesitated. "I don't know."
"Come on," he persisted. "I'll pay and it'll be an apology for almost hitting you with my car."
He smiled perfectly again. But if she had to be honest with herself, she wasn't attracted to him. Sure, Hojo was hot, really hot. But it was Inuyasha who put the butterflies in her stomach and had her heart racing. However, Kagome could think of no reason not to go and she needed to chill out after all that happened today.
Kagome nodded. "Okay," she smiled and waved then continued to walk down the street again. She climbed up the steps that lead to the dorm and since it was a guy dorm, litter scattered the ground, weird noises could be heard from the parking lot and boys couldn't contain themselves from making a complete ass of themselves.
"Hey, baby," one grease monkey propositioned. She ignored the comment and went up to the third floor. The trek to the third floor seemed to take her energy, but once she saw the number on the door, all was forgotten. She found the desire to chuckle and did so as she opened the door to her room.
She needed to remember to get some paint, screw what management thought. She wasn't living here for two years with plain, ugly beige walls. Not that she'd paint the entire room, just her room. Kagome went to the computer room and found a sticky note on the desk and wrote 'cell phone' so she would remember to get it back the next day. Then she walked into the living room and stuck it on the side of the TV.
Since it was early in the afternoon she went into her room. Everything was made up, all the bed spreads, the desk had her favorite stuff on it and the vanity had her girly, pink things laying on the top. She just needed this room to have some wall color. A light pink and black would go nicely, she thought.
With that, she grabbed her pink purse and headed out the door. She made it down the three flights of stairs and through the lobby without a single comment. As she made her way through the parking lot, her dark hair blew into her eyes. She shook the dark strands from her face and pulled out her keys. Pressing a button, a little beeping sound was made along with headlight flashing in her eyes.
Kagome smiled at her car, she loved it so much. It's glossy, pink paint shined in the afternoon sum as she got in. The sudden urge to put the top down hit her, but she resisted as she shut the car door. Her tight jeans slid over the fine, black leather of the interior as she started the car. The pink machine purred gently to live and then Kagome put it in gear and sped out of the parking lot.
The radio hit full blast with Christina Aguilera sing the lyrics from her hit single Genie in a Bottle. Driving down the road to the chorus, Kagome sung happily until she realized that she was in town and the store was the next left turn. Kagome pulled into Sherman Williams and pulled into a parking space. The name was always a gay one for a store, but she wasn't complaining as long as they had what she was looking for.
About an hour later, Kagome left the store with a few gallons of her paint of choice. She had used the credit card her foster parents gave her, as that was the only source of money she had. She put the pain the backseat and started the car, blasting Genie in a Bottle again. It was about five when she was hauling her paint up to the dorm room. With all the gallons she was having trouble making it up the dorm steps.
The weight was then easily lifted off her grateful arms. She turned around surprised, only to be met with Inuyasha's grinning face. She grinned back, those butterflies taking off in her stomach again, she noticed.
"Having trouble?" he asked, clearly amused.
"Yes," she laughed. They went up the one flight left of stairs and into the actual dorm room. Kagome shut the door and Inuyasha put the paint by the couch in front of the TV. Kagome stood as Inuyasha looked back at her.
"Are you going to start?" he asked, taking his place on the, go figure, black couch. She shook her head.
"I don't have time," she told him. Inuyasha raised one perfect eyebrow in her direction.
"What? You have a date or something?" he joked, smirking at her. She blushed and looked away, slightly nervous.
She already has a damn boyfriend?, he thought in jealously. He knew he should tamp down the emotion but he couldn't let it go. Not while she was his to protect. Well, in way she sort of was.
"Who is it?" he asked, hoping he hid the sudden fury. She walked to the couch, where he was sitting and picked a gallon of paint. She put it near the wall by the TV then went back to the couch to get more.
"His name is Hojo," she said. His face twisted in a sneer and he was off the couch before she could even blink. He grabbed her shoulders, firmly not hurting her.
"I want you to stay away from that guy," he hissed at her. Her innocent eyes took on a confused look.
"Why?" she asked. "He seems nice."
"Everyone seems nice to you," he almost yelled at her, bending down to her face. He grabbed the collar of her shirt, hoping to make her understand where he was coming from. But all of a sudden a burst of awareness shot through his body and went right down to his groin. He should have pulled away, but he didn't.
Her cute violet eyes meshed with his golden ones and he could no longer help himself. Not with her. His lips captured hers in a forceful kiss. Kagome stiffened only for a second before leaning into his embrace. Inuyasha let go of her collar to wrap his arms around her waist. His tongue leaped out to lick the seam of her lips.
Kagome felt Inuyasha's hot tongue and her stomach feel out of her body. Her heat went to her throat but she opened her mouth for him. He growled when she let him have access to her mouth and eagerly explored this new territory. She moaned into his mouth. Inuyasha brought her body up against his so he could feel her sweet body. His mind clouded and the only thought he could withhold was wanting her. And taking her.
Kagome's body felt over heated as she was brought up against Inuyasha's hard body. But just as she wanted to fight back and explore his mouth a ringing sound cut through the air. Kagome was pulled back into straight thinking and pulled away from him. She did it with a gasp and turned around, fingertips touching her lips.
Inuyasha looked down at his black phone. Damn you, to hell, he thought. It was his girlfriend. Well the sucky excuse for one at least. He answered reluctantly.
"Hey, baby," he robotically said into the phone. There was a pause where he pretended to listen to her. "No, that's fine, bye." He quickly ended transmission. Kagome's mind hit mass capacity as she realized that she was just a booty call. He had a girlfriend, one that he'd been with for God knows how long, but she was conveniently in the room, right? Did she have any common sense?
She could feel his eyes burning into her back. Slowly, reluctantly, she turned around to face him.
"Watch yourself," he commanded. Then proceeded to walk past her and put a pink sticky note one her forehead. "Get your phone back."
He opened the door and said, "God, it's a circus in here." Then he took one last look at her and despite everything she giggled a little. When he was gone, she shut the dorm door and leaned against it for a minute, biting her bottom lip. Then, sucking it up, she went into the computer room. The sliver guitar he had caught her eye. The one he sang with in the YouTube videos. It was all sliver, but like his phone, there was a black web that ran acrossed it.
It reminded her of his kiss. It was something like magic. Corny, yes, but there was not other word she could use to describe it. It was his hard, demanding…okay, bad thoughts. Think virgin thoughts, damn it.
She vaguely wondered how she was going to get her phone back. She stared at the computer screen then the time caught her eye. 6:46 is what the time said. Her eyes widened and adrenaline pumped through her as she ran to her room. She brushed her hair, applied a touch of lip gloss, cursing when the bottle fell on the floor and sprinkled a little perfume on her clothes.
Then, in a rush, Kagome snatched up her purse and then ran for the door. But she bumped into a chest and she looked up at the broad shoulders like Inuyasha's though he wasn't nearly as tall or wild looking. Kagome instantly shoved down the comparison and looked at Hojo's green eyes. They were looking her over.
"You still look good," he greeted. She slightly laughed it off.
"Yeah, I didn't have time to change," she said, slightly breathless from the running. He smiled at her.
"I understand," he muttered. Kagome took in her date for the night. He was stunning in his blue Hollister shirt and snug fitting jeans that did wonders to expose the thigh muscles he worked in football.
The kiss between her and Inuyasha flashed through her mind again but she shoved it down as they made small talk to the parking lot. He lead her to his sliver car. Kagome stopped when Hojo opened her door for her. She smiled, it was slightly strained, but hopped in the car. Hojo went around the side and closed the door.
"Cute bug," he grinned. Kagome spotted her pink car in a sea of black cars and smiled at the irony.
"Thanks," she replied.
To Be Continued..
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes i know pink is in here alot XD but it is my favorite color and in the show kagome had it everywhere so i thought it would be alll good. I do not have a problem with goths actually most of my friends are goth or emo im in the middle basicly but i dont like people that think there better then everyone else. Yep hojo is gonna be in this one i know his eyes arnt green but all well.