REVAMPED

Kagome threw on a fresh pair of blue skinny jeans with a regular light pink V-neck t-shirt and a set of pink converse. She grabbed her purse and threw her phone, wallet, and house keys into it. Not bothering to mess with her hair, she left out the room closing the door behind her. Inuyasha was still sitting in the living room when she returned. When he heard her re-enter the room, he looked back up at her expecting to finish their conversation but was met with Kagome steering towards the front door.

"Hey, going somewhere?" He asked, finding everything so sudden.

She double checked her purse as she faced Inuyasha's direction. "Nowhere special. My cousin goes to this school too so she wants to get together so we can catch up. I haven't seen her in like three years and the last time I remember talking to her was when she commented on one of my Facebook graduation photos."

"Well I guess I might as well get ready to head out too."

Inuyasha got up from the couch and took a long stretch, bending his arms backwards and twisting them near his lower back. "Have fun." He said, waving to her as she opened the door and stepped out. She hollered "Bye" back to him as she walked down the hall which was the last thing Inuyasha heard before the door closed shut. A small, gentle smile curved on his face as he stared at where she had just been.

"Well, at least she isn't crying."

Sango and Kagome had agreed to meet up nearby Chinese restaurant that Inuyasha and the crew had taken her to. Sango didn't want Kagome to get lost on the big campus just yet so she decided they would go somewhere Kagome at least knew how to get to. Kagome was the first to arrive since Sango's apartment was located on the opposite side of Campus. While Kagome's building was on the north side, Sango's building was further southeast. Luckily, Sango drove a range rover, so it wasn't supposed to take her long to arrive.

Kagome decided to grab them a table and past the time on her phone. While she scrolled through Facebook and Instagram, she didn't notice the bell ringing as someone came in. A post about liking to save a baby's life came up but before Kagome could roll her eyes and flick past it, her eyes were engulfed in blackness from someone's warm, strawberry scented hands being placed over them.

"Guess whooo?" A familiar voice sang to her ears.

Kagome decided to play along. "Hmm. I don't know, could it be the girl with the big butt from my family reunion?"

"Ugh! Ew! What the hell kind of description is that for your older cousin?" Sango sucked her teeth, snatching her hands from around Kagome's eyes and fisting them onto her hips.

Kagome spun around and saw her slightly shorter cousin who stood at 5'5. Shockingly to Kagome's surprise, she was wearing a strapless blue crop top, and a black stretchy mini skirt with a pair of sleek heels on her feet. She even had her hair in a clean blunt-cut bang. Although Kagome's didn't appear shocked, her eyes spoke loud enough for Sango to understand exactly what she had been thinking. Sango took her seat across the booth from Kagome and began speaking to clear the air.

"Yes, Yes. I know. Your once sneakers and sweatpants wearing cousin is no more." She said but then decided to backtrack. "No. I still am that person, but my ex dude lives in the same building as you so I wanted to look cute in case he came by so he can see everything he missed out on." She showed a teethy smile that Kagome took as less than happy. That was smile set out for envy.

"Wow…You dated people too? Things have really changed huh?" Kagome spoke but as soon as the words left her mouth, Inuyasha's words from earlier came back to her. With that in mind, she changed her statement. "Maybe you were always like this, and it just took the right situation to bring it out of you Sango. You just might be more into girly things than you thought."

Sango gave her a spunky face that had "I don't believe you" written all over it but she let that face go and shrugged her shoulders, staring down at the table. "Yeah, I guess you're right. I've learned so much about myself during my time here Kagome. It's like really crazy. Like all my life, I hated pink, I hated females, and now here I am a full blown feminine, pink beret wearing girl that is straddling the bi-curious fence."

The last confession had Kagome almost spitting out water that wasn't even in here mouth. "Woah, you're bi-curious?"

Sango nodded. "Yup. I decided to give it a go after my last ex because I found myself turning down great women over macho men that could never spot a good woman standing in front of them. Even if she had god himself standing next to her saying it was true, these men still wouldn't see it. There are just too many fuckboys on this campus, and I feel suffocated! So, there might be some fuckgirls but a lot of these fuckgirls wanna fuck me so why not see how it goes."

Kagome held Sango's hands in hers. She didn't know why but she felt a sense of pride in knowing Sango had found herself. Although she was still struggling with getting to know herself, Sango's revelation gave her hope that life without Kouga might just be what she needed after all.

"I'm so proud of you Sango." She told her, gripping her hands to let her know she meant every word.

The two eventually ordered their food, and Kagome bought a pineapple soda as her regular. After the food arrived, it didn't take long for them to finish but the girls were too involved in their conversation to get up and leave. Kagome had told her about all the things she had accomplished so far in high school, figure skating, and all of the events that had led up to her coming to the college. Sango on the other hand talked about all of the drama she had gotten into with her male bestfriends during her freshman year.

Eventually, everything took a left turn and once Sango asked the question of the night, Kagome still wasn't accustomed to feeling like Kouga was done with her, but she knew she'd have to face reality sooner or later.

"So, what's going on with you and this so-called boyfriend? You talked about him a lot but I don't think I ever got to meet him."

Kagome nodded. "Yeah, so about that" She took a gulp of her drink before continuing the rest of her story. She had been waiting too long to get everything off of her chest, but the truth still pained her to talk about. "I'll start from the very beginning."

The day in the life of freshman student Kagome Higurashi had started as normal. The typical group that despised her bones taunted her the minute she walked through the front door all the way to her first period class. At this point, Kagome had grown so used to them, she couldn't hear a word they were saying since she learned to block out their hurtful words.

On this particular day, lunch had an extended period of time due to the student assembly that was to be held directly after it. Kagome's lunches were normally quiet if no one took the special corner of the room since it was the furthest away from the group she hated. She entered in as normal, walking past all of the known faces that sat in their regular seats. She got in the lunch line and picked up an already prepared tray. When she got to the front of the line, things took a turn for the worst.

As she reached inside her pocket to get her student ID, her lunch tray smacked her upside the face causing the open cup of juice and sauces from the food to get all over her as well as her uniform. Not only was her uniform ruined, but the corner of the tray had also hit her directly in her right eye. Her hands let go of what was left of the tray as she covered her eye in agony. She fell to her knees and held her face in her lap hoping the lack of light in her lap would cause less of a headache that the beating pain was causing her.

The smack to the eye had caused a sudden pause in the rest of her senses. She held her breath after feeling like the wind was knocked out of her, and her nerves had gone numb outside of the ones causing her distress. Her hearing had snapped in half and could only hear white noise for second. This had only occurred for a few moments before the sound of laughing from people hit her ears. There was a bundle of mixed emotions going on around the room. Kagome had heard some people laughing while others were telling their friends about how wrong they thought it was but chose to do nothing about it. The staff that stood at the student swipe station had jumped out of her seat and tried to scold the students but they laughed her off and soon, the rest of the cafeteria had found it funny as well. It was at this moment when the rest of her feelings came back into her body. She felt breathless but there was something else storming inside of her chest that she couldn't quite put her finger on but with each chuckle, snicker, and giggle the feeling grew worse. Her heart started to race as her thoughts went cold.

The pain had swelled up so bad that she couldn't even cry but the stinging in her throat was there. One of the girls had started yelling harsh words once again at Kagome. She did this back-to-back for the next thirty seconds or so.

"You fat bitch! Don't you ever thing again in your life that you're better than me! Always ignoring me like I don't exist, but I do whore! Kouga is my man, and you need to stop staring at him! He doesn't fucking want you because he doesn't like fat girls! Even if you lost the weight, your face is still fucked up! I'm glad I never have to go through my life looking like yo-"

SMACK

Kagome didn't know when she did it, but she uncovered her tear leaking eyes, and grabbed the tray beside her with both hands. Using her right leg to lift herself up off the ground, she gathered all of her strength and thrashed the lunch tray across the side of the girl's head causing her to fall over and for the lunch tray to break in half.

All the laughter inside the room finally came to a halt and more staff had come downstairs to assess the situation. Before the other people in the group could lunge at Kagome, security held them down and the nurse escorted Kagome upstairs and ordered for the second nurse to attend to the unconscious girl on the floor.

Kagome had to spend the rest of her time in the nurse's office until the counselor came to speak to her. The nurse had to step outside of the room to assist the ambulance with the other girl. During her absence, another person had come through the door. Kagome's head was down, and she was holding an ice pack on her bruised eye but the person could tell she was who he was looking for.

"Hey Kagome." Someone called out to her.

Hearing her name, she slowly looked up trying to keep her eye as still as possible. If she could move her eyes at that time, she would've shown a more surprised face. There in flesh and blood stood Kouga Miriashi.

"Um..Your girlfriend is about to get on an ambulance if you're here looking for her." She spoke assuming he was going to ask her where the girl was but instead, she was told a much more shocking collection of words.

"Ex-girlfriend you mean."

"What?"

"Yeah. I heard what she did to you, and I refuse to be with someone like that. I thought she was a sweet, goofy kind of girl but I guess not. I'm really sorry about what she did."

He felt bad due to the fact that he had known about his girlfriend's torment against Kagome for the past several months but did nothing about it. As far as he'd known, it had never gotten physical before so he thought it was something petty she and Kagome were arguing about but after seeing a shattered plastic tray on the ground, he knew that rage would never come from someone who wasn't fed up with someone else's bullshit. The beef was clearly one sided and Kouga blamed himself for not picking up on the signs from the start.

Kagome had been staring at him one time in swim class when he had taken his shirt off. Their swim class was the only class they had together due to it being an elective available to all grades. When he had told his girlfriend about the gawking girl, he hadn't expected her to blow it out of proportion. He thought he was a possessive boyfriend, but she took it to another level.

Kagome didn't respond to him, not knowing what to say. What do you say to a guy that just ended things with a two-year relationship on his own accord? Kagome just didn't know.

"You don't have to speak if you don't want to but I'm just letting you know I'm super sorry about everything. Take care."

That, unbeknownst to Kagome, was the start of their relationship. Kagome didn't think much of him showing up to apologize to her because she was in too much pain to think about it but from that day on, Kouga suddenly started messaging her on Facebook, checking on her from time to time. Two-minute texts turned into thirty minute conversation during lunch which led to exchanging phone numbers and talking on the phone until someone fell asleep.

The whole process happened over the course of the next two months but talking to someone every single day took a toll on Kagome's heart and she couldn't be happier she smacked a girl in the head with a lunch tray.

Not before long, Kouga asked her out and although she was hesitant at first, she threw her worries out of the door and happily accepted. Up until this point, Kagome hadn't had any problems out of the group that followed her around but once word got around the school that Kagome was his new girl, the bullying started again. She hadn't told Kouga due to not wanting him to worry but he found out on his own and ended up putting a stop to their antics. He even had some of his friends patrol around Kagome's classes to make sure she was always safe.

Kagome appreciated his efforts and in turn, would reward him with a thousand kisses to the face. She was never ready to take that extra step with sex but that didn't stop her from letting Kouga introduce her to other things. Kouga was never the one to pressure her and was okay with sticking to their regular which consisted of him latching onto her and kissing her all over. From time to time, he would give her lower area an oral massage but never asked for any back. That was what led to her giving it to him on their second anniversary. Although he hadn't asked for it, it made him super happy.

For a while, all had seemed well and Kagome fell for him harder every day. She had hoped he was feeling the same always. When it was time for him to graduate and go to college, he had been the one to cry on the day he left her. He held onto her for a long time. She wanted to cry as well but at the same time, she wanted to be strong for him. When he left, he had talked to her every night during the first few weeks of school.

He had started to miss her so much that he wouldn't talk to his dorm mates and would talk to her during all of his free time or wait until she was free to call her. Kagome loved the clinginess but wanted him to enjoy college so she pressured him to go on and make friends. That he did but then everything took another slight shift.

Kouga began calling and texting her less to the point where they would only talk if she called or texted him first. Kagome wasn't the one to let it slide either. She called him one night she knew he was supposed to be free. When he had answered her, there was loud music in the background.

"You guys are fucking sluts! Haha! Hello?"

"Hey baby, um where are you?"

"Hey Kagome, wassup?" He said nonchalantly.

She had been nervous about calling him to tell him what was on her mind, but she felt like she had no other choice. Him being at another party he didn't tell her about wasn't helping with her anxiety at all either. Nonetheless, she continued talking to him.

"Oh nothing. It sounds like you're at another party…"

"What this? Oh no. Just a friendly gathering- aye! Feet off the fucking table man! Shit cost money this college ain't giving us!"

Kagome held onto her cellphone just a little tighter, feeling her chest thud at a quick pace. "Kouga, is something wrong? You haven't been wanting to talk to me lately and you keep going out without telling me. Did I upset you? Did I do something wron-"

"No, no, no babe!" He raised his voice over the phone cutting her off. "I just been busy with a lot of things on my mind. You're good though. It has nothing to do with you."

She could tell he was trying to ease her mind but she couldn't shake the feeling that there was more to the story than the wolf demon was letting up. Deciding that it was probably all in her head, she let it go.

"Alright baby. Just call me later when you can."

"Oh yeah. I will Kagome. Look, I gotta go. Talk to you soon."

"I love you baby."

"Yeah, talk to you later, bye."

"Kouga, come on. I'm ready to go-" A girl's voice could be heard over the phone before the line cute off.

Not only did he not tell her he loved her back but an unfamiliar girl had spoken directly after the situation happened. Kagome gripped her phone with envy. Another girl was up on her man and there was nothing she could do.

A thought touched her. 'Was this the same rage Ayame felt when she tormented me back in school…No. I would never take it that far. No man should even be trying to entertain another girl while he is taken.'

The rest of the two semesters went on the the same. It got to the point where Kouga hadn't told her he loved her for months straight. When he came to see her for winter break, he had seemed a bit off then as well.

"Come on Kagome. Just for me? Please?" He said whispering in her ear as he rubbed on her thigh. He had gotten back to town a few days prior but wanted to spend some time with his family. When he came to see Kagome, he almost immediately wanted to be alone and insisted they go to her room. She led him upstairs and into her room but as soon as she shut the door, his lips jumped onto hers and he tossed her onto the bed.

To Kagome, he was acting like a dog in heat, but she was still uncomfortable with everything and made him stop. He still laid on top of her whispering in her ear and touching her. It felt nice but she had some serious things to address with him.

"Kouga, no. Look, we can do those things later, but I need to talk to you about some serious stuff." She said pushing him off of her and sitting up. He sucked his teeth and let out a huge sigh.

"Kouga, what's going on? You haven't been yourself lately."

"Myself? Kagome I'm sorry college and high school are two different things. I'm on my own and I don't always have time to talk to you."

"Kouga. First of all, that is fine. I know there is a lot more to college than the parties, but these said parties happen and I don't even know you're at them. Secondly you never tell me you love me anymore and there are always girls around you!"

Kouga's chest lifted up and down as he let out a deep chuckle. "Oh, my Kagome baby is jealous." He teased her, wrapping his arms around her and dodging the questions.

"Kouga, I'm not jealous ok? I just really want you to show me the same respect I show you when I'm around guys you don't know."

"Kagome, now you know that's different. Guys are just creatures that prey on women all hours of the day. They are the scum of this earth."

"But you have no problem hanging out with these so-called guys though."

"Kagome just cut it out so I can enjoy you. You know you miss me." He said, kissing her on the side of her neck.

Instead of moaning, Kagome let out a deep sigh. She did miss him, but she didn't miss this new side of him that had been slowly emerging over the months. Once again, she let it go.

"I'm only like that because I don't get to see you that often. If we were at the same school, I would be all over you, but I promise. I'm gonna do better."

Unfortunately, he didn't change, and Kagome felt like she was running out of options. So, she applied for the same college hoping things would get better.

Now here she was.

"Wow…That's a lot Kagome." Sango stared at her cousin with droopy eyes feeling sorry for everything she had been going through. She also couldn't get over the fact that her boyfriend had a similar name to a known player she knew.

'Has to be a coincidence…I'll let her finish and then maybe it'll shed light on who this guy actually is.'

Her younger cousin continued. "Yeah, so here I am now witnessing the biggest heartbreak of my fucking life."

"What?!"

Kagome told her everything from start to finish. From Kouga trying to lock her inside her room to him breaking up with her, and to Inuyasha being there for her when she was throwing up.

"He was so helpful Sango. He made me food, and we had a really good conversation too. It was just so nice to have someone treat me that nice after everything with Kouga."

Sango was quiet in disbelief. Her throat closed up on her and she couldn't speak on what was on her mind, but she'd be damned if she didn't try.

"Kagome..You were dating Kouga…the biggest whore on this campus? And now you're in a dorm with him and the rest of the fuckboys? Including my fuckboy ex?"

"Wait…Who is your ex Sango?"

"Miroku's lying, cheating, snaky, asshole self. I hate him!" She slammed her fist on the table which made the man behind the counter look their way.

"Really? He cheated on you?"

"Yes! Oh my gosh, did he hit on you already?"

Kagome was hesitant to answer. "Yeah, he did but after I told him I had a boyfriend at that time, he backed off."

"When was this?"

"Earlier this week when I moved in."

"That bitch! All he does it text my phone about wanting to get back with me but he is always trying to get in some other girl's pants! I just cannot stress myself to even hear from him anymore. I'm done Kagome."

Sango's perky cheeks had turned light pink from all the aggression going to her head. She not only found out her cousin is living in a house of whores, but her ex is still having his side fun instead of manning up. She clutched her phone out of her handbag and started typing up a lengthy text to Miroku.

"Keep going Kagome, I'm listening. I just wanna send his ass a piece of my mind."

"Yeah, so Kouga has tried to text me or whatever and he even tried to say he didn't' break up with me like he didn't sit on my bed and say those words to me. I have been ignoring him up until I slapped him but it's a lot. My mind has also been having these dirty thoughts like getting with Inuyasha to get back at him-"

Sango's face lit up in shock. "No! He's a fuckboy too!"

"What? Inuyasha? No Sango, Inuyasha is the nice one. He is the one that told me about Kouga cheating and he bought me food too."

She shook her head relentlessly and put her palms in front of her. "No Kagome. He is one of the worst. I hate his guts! He is the one that told me Miroku cheated on me to begin with, and I thought he was cool until I heard from other girls about him. He plays with your mind Kagome. He makes you think he's sweet and once he fucks, he is good as gone. So many girls Kagome have had their hearts broken by that man. He even helps girl get revenge sex against their exes like who does that to a vulnerable girl after a break up?! Kagome, I'm telling you to stay away from him. It's for your own good."

Kagome was stuck. She couldn't believe the words she was hearing. They were really hard to believe because Inuyasha had been extra nice to her for the past few days. Sango on the other hand did know about his psychological abilities. Maybe Kagome wasn't the first person he had talked to like that.

"Sango, he seems too blunt to be that much of a liar. I don't know but can you tell me more of what you know about them." She said, sipping on the last bit of her pineapple soda.

Sango more than happily told her everything she knew. "First and foremost, Kouga has been sleeping around since he got here and Miroku was hosting parties on their floor. I know about a month or two in, after mid-terms, there was a huge celebration at their building and Kouga was there. He got so wasted and fucked like four girls Kagome. From that point on, he always had a new face on his arm everyday. He just couldn't stop."

"That liar." Kagome said under her breath trying to hold back tears again for the umpteenth time that week.

"Yeah. I know it's hard to hear but when I found out the same thing about Miroku, I was the same way at first but damnit Kagome, you can't let these men walk over you. You gotta beat them at their own game. You have to get angry and get even. Make them fucking cry at your expensive high heels damnit and if a tear manages to get on those shoes, you make them clean it the hell off!"

"That sounds a bit over the top Sango…"

"It is and...really? Is he really gonna pull up outside?"

Kagome turned around and saw Miroku with some girl inside of a car. They both got out of the vehicle and the girl walked the other way. Miroku then waved to Sango inside. Sango practically jumped out of her seat and stormed for the door but not before she grabbed her hand bag on instinct. Kagome didn't follow her but she watched Sango yell at Miroku through the window before exiting through the door. She started thrusting her hands in his face and all he did was stand there and take it.

Unsure of what was going on, Kagome was unsure to intervene or not. Sango seemed really upset but Miroku was her roommate and things were already awkward enough. So, she just sat there and kept her eyes open in case she had to jump in. Instead of that being the case, a few moments into yelling, Miroku finally had appeared to be saying something before he walked back to his car and got into the driver's seat. Sango's immediate reaction was to bang on the passenger seat of the car as he tried to pull out of the parking spot. Sango wouldn't let him get away. She opened the seat of the moving vehicle and jumped into the passenger seat all the while still yelling at Miroku. After making a U-turn in the parking lot, the car door shut and Miroku sped off with a finger pointing in his face and a third hand on his steering wheel. Even with all the hectic behavior going on in the car, Miroku seemed to have control over it and managed to drive off safely.

Shaking her head, Kagome got up to throw the rest of her trash away. When she threw the soda can into the bin, her phone buzzed from inside her bag. She pulled it out and saw two texts. One was from Kouga and the other was from Sango. Ignoring Kouga, she chose to only open Sango's text.

Sango: Hey, sorry about our little outing. Had to handle this. Will make it up to you! Promise.

Kagome just responded "ok" and put her phone back in her bag. "So much for some well deserved girl time." She said to herself.

Time had gone by a great deal and the sun was almost ready to set. The warm summer breeze was still in the air, so Kagome wasn't dreading the entire walk back to the building. With her head down, she started the five-minute trek back to the complex. The parking lot was almost empty which was to be expected considering what day of the week it was. College students love their parties. When Kagome arrived at the building, she reached for door to open it. She was shocked to feel the door budge against her pull. Confused, she tried her strength again.

'Maybe the door is jammed.' She thought.

With one last final pull, the door made a jerking noise as it refused to open. Then, that's when she saw the glowing red sensor next to the door which hadn't been glowing the day she arrived. That's when her hands flew into her hair.

"Oh shit! I forgot about the damn doors!"