('') (' ') (' ' ) ~レビューを残す
The world seemed so empty in the xanthous eyes of the expressionless hanyou. Petite feet padded lightly against the wooden flooring in graceful steps, unsure of where to go. Small ears upon the hanyou caught the faint sound of the front door opening. In that instant, a smile grazed on the hanyou's petal soft lips.
InuYasha found himself in a cold, damaged home. That wasn't the strangest part surprisingly. He ran his clawed hand down his neck with a quickening heartbeat. His silvery tresses where no longer the length of his lower back. The only long hair remaining was the locks of hair that usually lay in the front of him next to his bangs. His ears perched up at the soft creaking of the old stairs. His knuckles cracked, echoing in the quiet room daring the person to challenge his strength. What he saw could have made his eyes roll right out of his head.
Small hands gripped the rail of the stairs as the owner waited for InuYasha's next move. Long black eyelashes blinked at InuYasha.
'A...girl?'
The young hanyou had shoulder length black hair pulled tightly in a low ponytail. Her auburn kimono stopped to her knees with a green obi tied loosely around her waist. She giggled softly as InuYasha just decided to stare and mess with his hair.
"Daddy..? What's wrong?" The girl asked with a tilt of her head.
InuYasha's hand on his bangs stopped scrapping his scalp as he challenged the girl with a 'What did you say?' look.
"Excuse me?"
"I've been waiting for you Daddy. But you can't stay...can you? That's okay. Take care of mommy for me?"
"Wh-what are you talking about?"
The smaller hanyou in the room crossed her arms and glared at InuYasha. "Daddy. That isn't funny."
InuYasha gulped at the demonic voice sneaking into her vocal cords. He once again ran his hands through his suddenly short hair. 'This has to be a nightmare...'
"You! You're the one that cut my hair! Weren't you!"
"Dahviette did no such thing Daddy!" She declared in her undeveloped voice that still made her sound like a baby. If InuYasha had to predict she looked about five or six years old.
"So that's your name." InuYasha cockily announced with a turn of his head to the side.
"You would know Daddy!" She cried as tears began springing into her eyes.
"No! D-don't cry! Please I won't be able to handle it!" InuYasha begged. InuYasha thought long and hard before it finally clicked. 'Dahviette...wasn't that the name Kagome gave her strongest avatar in Breeze Assassin Online...She would always be her. The game we used to play all the time in middle school...but why does she keep calling me 'Daddy?' Is...she...'
"Um...your mother...? Yeah, who would that be?" He quietly asked not really wanting to know the answer.
A strange glowing light appeared beside Dahviette as it's wind seemed to be gently begging her to go through it.
"You wouldn't have forgotten Mommy. Or have you been chasing whores while you've been away? I look just like her and you, Daddy..."
"...I don't actually think a girl as teeny as you should be saying that word."
"I got to go now daddy." Dahviette's sudden anger vanished and the smile on her face reappeared. "Don't forget what I said. Say 'hi' to Mommy for me. Bye Daddy!" The girl stepped into the light and allowed it to engulf her.
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"Shit!" InuYasha bolted up from his lying position on the ground. He found himself back in his sleeping bag in the tent with his three friends. He looked around as he tried catching his breath. "The hell kind of dream is that?"
Miroku shifted into his sleeping bag and looked up at the panicking hanyou. Giving a big yawn he rubbed his eye. "InuYasha? What's got you so...jumpy?"
"J-just a nightmare. Some creepy shit Miroku." InuYasha shivered and saw his lengthy hair touching his lap. "My hair!" InuYasha grabbed hair from both sides of his head and wrapped it around the front of his face, breathing in his shampoo scented silvery tresses. "It's back..."
Miroku just watched in horror at InuYasha took the feel and scent of his hair in his nostrils like a drug.
"So...When did this strange fetish for your hair begin InuYasha? Perhaps when you started working at the salon?"
"No! In that damn dream my hair was chopped up to my neck! My NECK Miroku! Y-you know how painfully short that is?" He squeaked sounding like he was about to cry. "That's not even the worst part."
"It gets worst!" Miroku shouted in horror, quickly regretting it seeing as he probably woke a few people up.
"Yeah this like little girl kept calling me 'Daddy' and was like threatening me with her demonic voice and shit!"
"What a crappy dream. Well...compared to mine at least...Which you so rudely interrupted."
"Seeing as it's you Miroku...no offense but I'd probably throw up if you told me about it."
"Couldn't agree more."
"Well...I'm going to try to fall back asleep. Sorry I woke you up."
"No pro-Snore..."
"Why can't I ever fall asleep that fast!"
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In the time leftover that the night had to offer, all of the campers were able to sleep peacefully. This time filled with nothing but sweet dreams or a mind seeing nothing but darkness. The adults decided the very first hours of sunrise that it was better to leave. The kids had one last final to study for right before graduation. That time couldn't afford to be wasted away any longer. It was better for Gramps too; who wanted to sleep the remainder of the morning in his comfortable water bed. InuYasha had gone straight to Kikyo's house to hang out with her for the day once Ukyomi dropped off the Taisho's at their mansion.
Everyone went their separate ways on Sunday, getting quite enough of each other on Saturday. The lazy day known as Sunday quickly past and everyone returned to their daily routines for their final days in high school.
It was scary to think about; for the past thirteen years Kagome had been stuck in school learning a novel full of information. To suddenly just drift away from it seemed a bit tragic in her eyes. Others in her class looked at her like she was a freak and cheered when they knew it was only a few more days before they finally escaped their living hell and start their independent lives they so craved for.
With a toss of her body-length braid, Kagome's homeroom teacher jumped up on her desk and took a seat. Considering that she had about two-hundred students..it wasn't as depressing to see her learners move on. Though, she wished she could keep her favorites.
"Graduation is in just a few days. I hope each and every one of you have a plan settled. For instance; do you plan on starting a family...or work on a college degree? You won't be on a good foot if you tell me you don't know. Today, now that our criteria lesson plan is complete, we're going to help organize your futures." Reaching in a drawer for her purse the teacher pulled out a plastic bag filled with little slips of paper in it. "Here I have a...bag. For a fun game we're going to play in the remainder thirty minutes of class we have. On each slip of paper there is one future option that you could possibly end up in life. I'll pass it around starting with...Hojo!"
A bulky hand raised itself high in the air to get the teacher's attention.
"Question; Esuyo?"
"Yeah...Do we have to do this? It's a bit elementary school-ish..."
"Would you rather we complete a lesson in the book?"
"No...thanks."
The teacher hopped off her desk and walked over to Hojo, putting the plastic bag within his reach.
"Once you've picked a slip, stand up and read it out loud."
"Join the military." Hojo announced proudly as he stood. A few giggles were heard throughout the classroom. No way was Hojo capable of doing that..
"Joining the military!" The teacher repeated for those who possibly couldn't hear Hojo. "This is actually a very interesting choice for the future in my opinion. Though you may be away from your family, you train hard and get to travel around the world! If you're lucky, you may even get stationed in the country you've been wanting to visit. The military comes with risks, but of course it all pays off when you understand the help you gave to your home country."
Another, more petite hand raised her hand high up in the air.
"Something to add?"
"Yes. Why do advertisements of the military not include the scary crap that happens like say...all the blood for instance?"
"Their jobs are to encourage people to fight for their country. They don't want to have people be afraid of it. If that happened, we wouldn't have any self defense!"
The student behind picked up another slip of paper and hesitantly stood up.
"Home business?" She said more as a question.
"Ah! A home business is perfect for those who have children to take care of. If you pull the right strings you're bound to live a successful financial life."
About ten other students pulled out their chosen slips of paper and called them out loud for the teacher to elaborate on. Kagome had so many decisions to choose from. She actually thought that her teacher's lesson was pretty helpful. She definitely was able to pick out the jobs she didn't want. Before she even noticed, the plastic bag had slid right in front of her as well as the teacher coming up to her desk.
"Your turn Kagome."
Kagome stood up as she grasped the small paper in her hand. Unfolding it, she swallowed the large amount of saliva produced in her mouth when she had been deep in thought.
"Stay-at-home mom."
"Okay. Stay-at-home moms have chosen that they don't want to spend their life working. They pile that task on the father who- let's hope earns enough money to support his family. This particular job doesn't actually get you any money but it's fun for those who like spending time with their babies."
"H-how awful." Kagome commented on with curving eyebrows.
"Huh?"
"That's not very nice to put all the work on the father. I would feel so useless if I didn't help with the bills at all...I would feel like a freeloader!"
"I think you missed the point Kagome..."
In the seat beside Kagome, InuYasha was chuckling. Of course Kagome would be the one to make a big deal out of the slip of paper she picked out. For as long as InuYasha knew Kagome he noticed that she loved to help and be independent in the things she decided to do. Asking for help crushed her.
"Kagome, listen...Some families prefer the mother stayed with the babies rather than send then off to a daycare. The fathers are usually okay with the decision, knowing the greatest gift his wife could ever give him is a family."
"That isn't good enough! I would be killing my husband with the load of work piled on his back and shoulders! You know what? Let him be the stay-at-home dad. I got this covered." Kagome's declaration caused a few other students to join in on the chuckles.
"That's your opinion Kagome and you don't have to necessarily choose this pathway."
"I'd never!"
"...Moving on."
Kagome sat in her seat grumbling to herself after a few more students read their 'future life' slips of paper. Even if she did marry a man that was a billionaire, she wanted to help pay the bills! She saw no problem in caring for her children as well as have a part-time job. Kagome decided to push the thought away once the plastic bag landed in front of InuYasha. She watched as he flicked to folded piece of paper open with his claw and read it silently. He raised a brow and looked at his homeroom teacher.
"You really want me to read this out loud?"
"Yes InuYasha. In school you will be treated the same way as every other student and they had to read theirs' out loud."
"If you say so..." He got up slightly and leaned on his desk. "Uh... rich bastard ladies' man."
The teacher's eyes bugged out of her head as her students burst out laughing.
"I...I didn't write that!" The teacher claimed as she frantically reached for the slip of paper. "C-choose a different one...InuYasha. One of the students must have slipped it in as a joke before class started."
"Okay..." InuYasha opened up the new paper and whimpered. 'you've got to be kidding me...' He sure hoped that this was another joke. "M-male stripper...?"
"WOOO!" The girls in the classroom cheered and whistled at the sexy hanyou. They would definitely visit his strip club every night.
"Eheh...uh I'd rather be the rich bastard." He decided, getting back the other slip of paper.
"Well InuYasha," The teacher smiled. "Why don't you be both?"
"WOOO! Hell Yeah!" The girls cheered making his face as red as his shirt.
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Kagome slurped on her cherry slushy at lunch while her friends were discussing what they planned on doing after high school.
"I plan on going to college to be a gynecologist." Miroku stated confidently.
"We all saw that one coming..." Sango groaned. "You know it's the law to have a nurse in there with you so that they can watch you?"
"Psh...I-I knew that..."
"What do you want to do Kagome?" Sango asked before she stuffed her face with chili-cheese fries.
"As much as it's going to disappoint my family...I think I want to skip college and...maybe get an apartment with a stable job. Just until I figure out what I want to do in life... You know this whole time in school I've never known what I've wanted to do. I barely enjoy working at Victoria's Secret but at least it pays off once I get my check."
"So Kagome's being a bachelorette..." Miroku said with his hand on his chin.
Kagome blushed and removed her lips from her straw. "I suppose it...wouldn't hurt to find someone to settle down with."
"If you couldn't get a boyfriend throughout your years in school I don't think you're going to have much luck." Kikyo commented with a smirk. "I bet you haven't even had your first kiss."
"Hey! That's my best friend your talking about Kikyo. Watch your mouth." InuYasha yelled making Kikyo's mouth drop.
"For real Kikyo; it ain't funny." Sango added. "Kagome's beautiful and will have no problem finding a husband." 'I would add that InuYasha was her first kiss but...you'd probably slaughter us all at this table...' Sango added in her mind.
Kikyo got up giving everyone a cold stare and stormed out of the lunch room. She was getting sick of everyone taking Kagome's side. Even her own boyfriend went against her! A boyfriend was supposed to be supportive not verbally abusive towards her when she said something he didn't agree with. She couldn't take the neglect every time she opened her mouth. She couldn't stand sitting next to Kagome at the lunch table. She only did it for InuYasha. The twos' relationship always had her questioning things.
"Jesus..." InuYasha smashed his face with his hands and groaned. "I can't deal with her sometimes. I'm going to have to talk to her about it later..."
Sango scooted over to Kagome who looked like she wanted to cry but wouldn't allow the moment to show weakness. Sango wrapped her arms around Kagome's shoulder and rested her head next to Kagome's. "Don't listen to her Kagome..." Sango rocked her gently and glanced up at InuYasha. "So...What are your plans?" She asked in order to get everyone's mind somewhere else.
InuYasha shrugged and stared down at his claws. "I'll be forced to join my dad's company and take over in the far future. That's only if Sesshomaru doesn't take it. Which he probably will considering he enjoys work being stuffed up his anus."
Kagome's giggles brought a smile to his face. He was glad he was able to cheer her up so quickly.
"Other than that...I don't know. Just like Kagome; I haven't thought clearly on what I would rather do. I've been told to shoot for the best but my only options for that seem to be a lawyer or doctor...perhaps a businessman. My only thoughts in school have been about getting a diploma and balancing a life with friends..."
Sango just nodded, about to say something but was cut off by Miroku.
"Is...that..." Miroku began with his squinted eyes trying to focus on two girls by the bathrooms. "Oh my...gosh."
"What?" Sango said.
"Shiori and Kanna are making out near the bathrooms. I-If I'm seeing correctly..."
"They're lesbians?" InuYasha cried once he followed Miroku's eyes. "You mean back in middle school I dated a lesbian!"
The four of them watched the two girls go at it and quickly looked away except for Miroku. Miroku opened up his bag of chips and enjoyed the show.
"Who knew I would get such entertainment at school..."
"Pervert!" Sango slapped him across the cheek though he still remained unfazed.
"We lost him." InuYasha joked.
Kagome finished off her slushy and tossed it into the trashcan next to their table.
"Sango? You haven't told us what you were planning on doing." Kagome pointed out, reclaiming her seat.
"Undercover cop." She said simply. "Something involving guns. Can't say I'm looking forward to the training though."
"Perfect for Sango. I'm sure you'll do great." Kagome encouraged.
"Shango you planning on handcuffing me?" Miroku grinned.
"Don't start Miroku..."
"Are you guys walking together during the graduation?" Kagome asked Miroku and Sango.
" That all depends. I'll walk with you Kagome if you don't have a partner." Sango offered clearly understanding that InuYasha would choose to walk with his girlfriend.
"No it's okay. You two walk together. I think it will be cute."
"Really Shango-Chan!" Miroku squealed. "You'll be my walking partner?"
"I guess...I don't see the big deal in the whole walking thing. I'd rather just stay home and just have them mail me my diploma."
"Then you don't get that feeling at the ceremony." InuYasha commented. "Personally I think the walking is just to embarrass us in those graduation robes."
InuYasha watched as Kagome picked off the nail polish on her thumb and sighed. He kept getting this feeling that he should walk with Kagome rather than Kikyo. It just didn't feel right not to walk with the one person who helped him get through the difficult times in school. Something gnawed at him inside telling him that Kagome earned that spot rather than Kikyo who was only good for...well 'girlfriend & boyfriend' stuff.
The bell rang twice interrupting his thoughts. He walked along Kagome's side as they made their way to their next period.
"Kagome?"
"Hm?" She said not looking up.
"I'm sorry...about Kikyo."
"That's okay." Kagome smiled. "It's not your fault. She just doesn't like me."
Kagome reached for her fifth period room's door before a clawed hand gently grabbed her wrist.
"InuYasha..."
"Would it be weird if I asked you to walk with me at graduation instead of Kikyo?" He whispered with uncertainty.
"A little." Kagome admitted with a smile. "I'd actually preferred if my best friend was at my side that day too."
"So you will?"
"Of course. Who will Kikyo walk with? I feel kinda bad stealing away the person she planned on walking with..."
"That's what I can't understand about you Kagome..." InuYasha chuckled.
" Can't understand what?"
"You manage to feel sorry for others even if they don't like you as a person."
"It's who I am." She shrugged. "I won't see you later huh?"
InuYasha shook his head. "I'm going to Kikyo's. I'll probably be on Breeze Assassin Online later if you want to join me."
"Okay. Dahviette will be there." Kagome waved InuYasha off as he strolled into the neighboring door besides her own.
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Just like he had said, InuYasha went to visit Kikyo to have a chat.
"InuYasha? What are you doing here?" Kikyo asked as she leaned against her front door.
"I came to see you."
"Look...now really isn't a good time..." She quickly said looking at her parents baking things in the kitchen.
"I have to talk to you though."
Looking back into her house she frowned. "Fine. We'll take a walk."
"Okay..."
Kikyo quickly slipped into her tan flats and shuffled out the door.
"Kikyo? Where are you going?" Her father called.
"Just going for a walk."
"Alright."
Kikyo locked the front door and followed InuYasha along the sidewalk in her neighborhood. It was a peaceful afternoon with loiterers finally leaving the school long after the bell had dismissed the students. Since it was pretty much the end of the year, not a lot of classes were still giving out homework. Kikyo was graceful in her steps as she breathed in the fresh air. It was strange that they weren't holding hands or anything. Kikyo sighed and stopped in her tracks.
"What's your deal?"
"What are you talking about? I'm just walking..."
"You wanted to talk to me...so talk."
"I'm sorry for yelling at you at lunch."
"No you're not." Kikyo shot back coldly. " You stood up for that bitch like you do all the time."
"Babe, she was sitting right there. It ain't cool making comments on people like that when they are sitting nearby. Kagome's sensitive sometimes and you hurt her feelings."
"What is this third grade? You want me to go to her house and apologize? I wouldn't even!"
"I'm not asking you to apologize. But why'd you dash out of the lunch room today?"
"Jeez InuYasha you're always taking her side!" Kikyo yelled out in frustration. "That's why I ran. You have all your friends against me like I'm some outsider! You're dating me; not Kagome! Get that through your head InuYasha. Girlfriends come before friends alright?"
"Where's all this coming from Kikyo?"
"I don't know...I just can't keep it in anymore. I'm just...so angry!" She gritted through her teeth. "It's like you love her more than you love me. If both me and Kagome were falling off a cliff and you could only save one-I bet you would choose Kagome."
"Kikyo-"
"You would wouldn't you?" Kikyo asked in disbelief.
"That's not exactly an easy question to answer." He admitted in a whisper looking at the ground.
"Yeah it is you liar. Best friends forever gotta stick together through thick and thin! I can't believe you sometimes! W-when you kiss me I can tell you're not even thinking of me. You look right through me InuYasha." Kikyo cried. "I've tried getting over it, I tried pushing her away but there is no way to separate you two. Instead of hanging out with me over the weekend you know what you did?"
"I-"
"You went camping with fricken Kagome Higur-trashy!" Kikyo finished for him.
"It was a family event!" InuYasha argued. "I didn't have an option in going!"
"Ya would've gone anyway Yash!" Kikyo felt so infuriated and wish she could bash his head into the ground with her shoe. "I look similar to Kagome...Sometimes I feel like I'm just a replacement because you can't have her."
"What are you trying to get at?" InuYasha asked getting tired of their long conversation. He honestly just wanted to tell her he was sorry, and then kiss her goodbye and tell her he would see her tomorrow. Suddenly the nice day didn't seem so nice after all. It was as if in their eyes it grew cloudy filled with falling droplets of rain. All of it just had to be an illusion though.
Kikyo wrung her hands beside her and sighed. "I don't know how much longer I'll be able to tolerate all this..."
"Kikyo..." InuYasha whimpered with his eyes drooping. "Y-you don't mean that."
"Damn it InuYasha you better choose right now."
"Please...Don't make me." He begged in a hushed voice.
"It's either me or her." She stepped back before he could grab her hand. The rejection was eating at him alive. His heart was beginning to shatter in small pieces one by one.
His amber eyes shifted to ground as he shook in fear. He couldn't let her go...But he also couldn't just throw away his best friend. He really wished it was raining now if tears secretly fell.
"Please...no Kikyo." He looked up from the ground into her cold brown orbs. She gasped as his glazed eyes were threatening to shed tears. It hurt her inside too but she didn't want a relationship like this...
"If you love me you'll forget her."
"I do love you though!"
"Every time you say that I try my hardest not to consider it a lie."
"It isn't a lie! Kikyo I love you!"
"Don't make this harder for me InuYasha...One look in your eyes tell me who you truly care for. I've tried being selfish but nothing is working."
"I can change!"
Kikyo folded her arms and waited patiently for his answer.
"I love you Kikyo...But I'm not willing to toss my best friend aside." He admitted clenching his hand into a fist turning his knuckles white.
Kikyo stepped up to him, placing her hands on his chest and lightly placed her lips over his as if to remember the feel of them. After what seemed like a life time, she pushed him away and just walked away without another glance back.
Kikyo brought her hand up to her mouth as she choked on the oncoming heavy flow of tears. Her other hand was holding herself around the abdomen as if to keep herself from turning back around and running into the hanyou's arms. It was all over. He chose keeping his best friend over her. Her chest felt awfully painful that she considered the possibility that she was dying. Her 'friends' tried explaining her what being heartbroken felt like. She would have never thought it was this physically and mentally painful. It made her want to curl up on the ground and rot away.
She couldn't take it anymore as she let a flow of tears run down her face. She loved InuYasha too much. She was angry with herself that she took this long to realize it. She turned around and ran, tripping over her unstable feet onto her knees.
"InuYasha! Please stay!" She cried out. She opened her red puffy eyes only to notice that she was now alone in the community park. "What have I done..." She cried out to the heavens and remained where she lay on the warm concrete in the park.
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InuYasha swung the front door of the Taisho mansion open, pushing the welcoming buxom Nozomi out of the way and stomping up to his bedroom.
Izayoi ran out of the den where she had been reading and helped Nozomi.
"Are you alright dear?"
"Y-yes." She said dusting herself off. "Master InuYasha seems very upset..."
Izayoi winced when she heard his bedroom door slam with a powerful swing and placed a hand over her chest.
"My poor baby...Someone must of hurt him deeply."
So...they broke up. You happy? …. you selfish reviewers who get what they want... :/ lol just kidding.. I can picture a few of you getting up to dance...
My eyes were watering when I was writing that scene... First I was like, "Are you for real right now?" but then I realized it was due to the song I was listening to at the time. ( Ningyo Hime) xD
Hope you liked the chapter :DD