I didn't think my life could get any worse than it already was. I was sitting in the back seat of my brothers 2012 Chrysler 300. Even though I hated my brother I had to admit that his car was sexy as hell. It had a glossy black coat of paint that he washed and waxed once a week. The interior was black and the seats were a deep blood red. But that was the only thing nice I would ever say to Sesshomaru.
It was a Sunday and almost 4:00. We took a 10:00 flight that morning from L.A to the Hilo Internation Airport in Hawaii. Sesshomaru and his wife, Rin, did live in New York. But when they found out that they had to be my guardians they packed their bags and had their things on a plane to hawaii. Apparently, that's where Rin grew up. She said she grew up in a town in Hawaii called Luray. Which the only thing I didn't understand was why the hell was there a place in Hawaii with that kind of name? But I didn't dwell on that part too much. What bothered me the most is that she said it was a town. Not a city. I'd never lived anywhere else other than very large cities with lots of people. But the more I thought about it the more I didn't really care. It wasn't like I was gonna go to school there or go out in public. I would do the same thing I did when I lived in dad's mansion. Except it would be happening in a different mansion.
Living with Sesshomaru was gonna be hell. Not so much Rin though. She was just so unaturally happy and thought that everything was "just so cute!" She reminded me of a kid sometimes. She was really short, only about 4'10, whereas Sesshomaru was 6'1. They looked odd together, but somehow perfect for each other. A daily dose of happiness was what he needed. Maybe he was different around her but to everyone else he was an asshole and I couldn't figure out how any woman with a brain could ever love Sesshomaru. But Rin defiantly had a brain. She had a bachelor's degree from Harvard Law, which was how they met. She was an excellent lawayer. She really knew her shit.
Suddenly, Sesshomaru slammed on his breaks, knocking me out of my thoughts.
"What the hell Fluff! Are you trying to kill us?" I angrily asked him.
"Quiet half breed," was his response.
I looked infront of him to see if we were at a stop light. We weren't. Instead, we were sitting in the middle of an empty road. He had stopped because a family of ducks were crossing the road.
"Awww! Those ducks are just so cute!"
I bet you can guess who said that. I had to agree with Rin though. They were pretty cute. They looked really happy without a care in the world. I wished I was in that duck family. Knowing my luck I'd be the ugly duckling though and wouldn't turn into a swan.
"What the hell am I thinking? I just wished I was a duck! Damn I need some air."
I rolled my window down half way as Sesshomaru started down the road again.
"Goodbye cute little duckies!" Rin yelled looking back at the ducks as if they could hear her.
I rolled my eyes at her. "Someone kill me now."
I laid my head against the head rest and looked out my window allowing the fresh air to hit my face. That was when I noticed something.
"Wait a minute. He just stopped the car on an EMPTY road to let a family of ducks to cross. We're not on route 130 anymore! We're on an empty road. And there's something else strange. The road we're on is going down. Like we're going down a hill or something. There's hills of rocks and trees around us. I don't understand?"
My questions were answered just a few minutes later when the road finally straightened out like a normal road again and I looked behind us. What I saw took my breath away for a moment. It was a mountain! We we're just on a mountain! I had never been on a mountain before and I didn't really have a mountain view at dad's mansion. The view from there was always just a bunch of trees because the mansion was isolated on a private road from the city.
I looked ahead of us as we passed a house. It looked kinda run down. It needed a paint job and all cluttered crap that was all over the porch belonged inside the house not outside of it. It all ranged from used dishes to kid's toys. And there was a dog laying in front of it. It had a collar on but it wasn't tied up. It could run away into the woods around us or run into the road! The only time you would see a dog running around the streets of L.A is if it got lose or if it was homeless. This place was already really weird.
We passed a couple more houses that needed paint jobs and soon we entered the 'downtown' of Luray was what they called it. It had everything a town needs. A post office, a small movie theatre that, for some reason, was painted an ugly pink. There was a bank, a couple of small business restaurants, a gym and a lot of old appartments that all needed paintjobs.
A large gust of wind blew my snow white hair wildly around my face when I realized my window was still down. I quickly went to put my window down when something caught my eye. It was a demon. And he was walking with a human. They both looked like teenagers and they both had skateboards. They were talking and laughing like any two friends would.
"But he's a demon!" I thought. "Human's treat demons like dog shit!"
"What do you think of Luray so far Inuaysha?"
Rin's voice knocked me out of my confusion.
"Keh! This place looks like a shit hole to me!" I responded.
Rin turned from me and shared a look with Sesshomaru. She grinned slightly and broke their eye contact. They looked like they had some kind of secret or that they knew something that I didn't. I was about to say something about it but Sesshomaru spoke first.
"Down Leaksville Road, right there, is where Luray High School is," he said as he gestured to a road that we had passed.
I raised an eyebrow at his statement.
"So?" I asked.
"So you will attend tomorrow," he responded.
"Ha! Bullshit!" I yelled to him.
Rin must have felt that it was her turn to speak. "Inuyasha. Just because some people haven't been nice to you in the past doesn't mean that people here will act the same way. It's time for you to get back out there and meet people and make friends!"
Sesshomaru scoffed. "Please, Rin. The half breed has never had any friends."
I was about to cuss him out but Rin shot him a very dirty look that shut him up immediately.
Suddenly we wern't in town anymore but we were on another road not too far from the school. It was called Stonyman Road. There were houses and small businesses everywhere and they were actually pretty nice. They weren't humongus like the mansions I'd lived in, they were pretty small looking. But they weren't run down at all. Most of them had nice flowerbeds with windchimes on the porchs and little garden figureens like little stone turtles or something. There were lots of kids out and about as well. Most of them were riding bikes or walking up and down the road. Two, I noticed, were playing basketball in the drive way of a house. One, was human, and the other, was a lizard demon. He had green scaley skin, three toes on each foot and three fingers on each hand.
Before I could start my inner thought confusion battle whatever the hell it was I had earlier. Rin squeeled in excitment.
"Ohmygosh I love this song!" she said with excitment as she turned the radio up pretty loud.
I was suddenly dumbstruck by the beautiful voice that started singing with the acoustic guitars.
When I was younger, I saw, my daddy cry
And curse at the wind.
He broke his own heart and watched
As he tried to reassemble it.
And my momma swore
That she would never let herself forget
And that was the day that I promised
I'd never sing of love if it does not exist.
But darling,
You are the only exception.
You are the only exception.
You are the only exception.
You are the only exception.
Maybe I know somewhere deep in my soul
That love never lasts.
And we've got to find other ways to make it alone.
But keep a straight face.
And I've always lived like this
Keeping a comfortable distance.
And up until now I have sworn to myself
That I'm content with loneliness
Because none of it was ever worth the risk.
Well you are the only exception.
You are the only exception.
You are the only exception.
You are the only exception.
I've got a tight grip on reality.
But I can't let go of what's in front of me here.
I know you're leaving in the morning when you wake up.
Leave me with some kind of proof it's not a dream.
You are the only exception.
You are the only exception.
You are the only exception.
You are the only exception.
As if I had known and heard the song before, I started singing with the beauty on the radio with the golden voice.
You are the only exception.
You are the only exception.
You are the only exception.
You are the only exception.
And I'm on my way to believing.
Oh, and I'm on my way to believing.
For some reason the last line made me smile and feel warm and fuzzy inside. It was a strange feeling and I didn't know what kind it was but I tried the best I could to ignore it. "I wonder who that was singing that? Whoever she is she has a beautiful voice."
I was too rapped up in my thoughts to notice Rin and Sesshomaru sharing a glance with each other, lightly smiling. Until Rin put a CD in the stereo.
A guitar started then a drum rythem. It wasn't hardcore but instead it was all very soft; almsot majestic. Then that same beautiful voice that blew me away before started singing.
Down to you
You're pushing and pulling me down to you
But I don't know what I
Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself
From saying something that I should've never thought
Now when I caught myself, I had to sto pmyself
From saying something that I should've never thought of you
Of you
You're pushing and pulling me down to you
But I don't know what I want
NO, I don't know what I want
You got it, you got it, some kind of magic
Hypnotic, hypnotic, you're leaving me breathless
I hate this, I hate this, you're not the one I believe in
With God as my witness
Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself
From saying something that I should've never thought
Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself
From saying somehting that I should've never thought of you
Of you
You're pushing and pulling me down to you
But I don't know what I want
No, I don't know what I want!
Don't know what I want
But I know it's not you
Keep pushing and pulling me down
When I know in my heart it's not you
Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself
Once again, just with the other song, I started singing.
From saying something that I should've never thought
Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself
From saying something that I should've never thought of you
I knew
I know in my hear it's not you, I knew
But now I know what I want, I want, I want
Oh no, I should have never thought!
I smiled to myself again and got that same feeling from before. I wondered who the owner of that beautiful voice was. And I wondered what she was going to sing next.
But much to my dissapointment Rin turned the radio off.
"Look Inuyasha this is the road we live on now!" Rin said clearly with excitment.
I looked around and, sure enough, we were in a neighboorhood called Paradise Drive. All of the houses were like the ones I had seen before; small but nice. We passed a backroad that breaks off and out of the neighborhood. It was called Higurashi Drive. Two houses up from that road Sesshomaru suddenly pulled into the drive way of a small house.
"Oh Sesshy! It's just so cute!" Rin squeeled with excitment as she hugged Sesshomaru's neck and kissed his cheek several times.
I sat in confusion for a moment trying to process everything that was going on.
"Why the hell are we at this house? Why the hell is Rin thanking Fluff Butt? And why the hell are they getting out of the car?...AND WHY THE HELL IS A MOVING TRUCK HERE?!"
It then hit me hard. Like how hard puberty hit Justin Bieber.
I stuck my head out the window and yelled to Sesshomaru. "Hey Fluff Hole! You don't expect me to live in this tiny thing do you?!"
He turned toward me with his usual blank expression and said, "Get your butt out of the car little brother and inside our new home." He then turned with Rin under his arm and walked into the house.
My life had gotten even worse than it already was.
A/N: Hey you guys! I hope you like everything so far! Don't worry, Inuyasha will meet kagome in the next chapter I promise! Oh and the songs that were used "The Only Exception" and "I Caught Myself" both by Paramore! Anyways, please review! I enjoy the feedback! See you guys next chapter!
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~Barbie~