InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Broken Laptop is the same as a Broken Heart ❯ The Assigned Project ( Chapter 7 )

Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ, Inuyasha, Naruto, YYH, YGO, and YGX! The story contains Inuyasha, YYH, YGO, and YGX characters, along with DBZ, Monster Rancher, and Naruto elements, like jutsu wise.

 

Author's Note: I want to thank once again to MysticalSpirits for being my beta reader.

 

Chapter 7: The Assigned Project

 

It has been three weeks since Inuyasha and Kagome had spoken. Kagome tried to get to Inuyasha, but he had always avoided her, telling her to go-away in a cold manner, and Inuyasha's sister and friends purposely got in her way. Ginta and Hakku, who were fully healed from the fight with the Taisho siblings, confronted Inuyasha to force the forgiveness out of him, but they were again beaten up by Inuyasha and Melody. Kikyo, on the other hand knowing that she couldn't get to Inuyasha, without Melody or any of the Taisho twins' friends in her way, thought that she could steal the recipe from Melody, but she couldn't get pasted the traps that Melody laid on her.

 

Kagome was currently in Koga's room in the hospital. Koga's ribs were almost healed, but his arm and leg were still broken. Sanosake, Ginta, Hakku, Kikyo, and Miroku were also present, as Kagome began to tell Koga about everything that had happened.

 

Koga frowns and he tells Kagome, seriously, “You went to that mutt and his sister, when I told you not to!”

 

Kagome glares at Koga and she says, “Well, how were you supposed to get better? Taisho is now avoiding me like a disease now and it's getting harder and harder to get his forgiveness. Taisho told me that he got that laptop from his father before he died.”

 

Hakku says, plainly, “I guess that would explain why it was so important to him.”

 

Koga tells Kagome, “Kagome, I don't want those dogs' help at all, even if they give it to me!”

 

Kagome shrieks, shocked, “What!? Why not!?”

 

Koga says, in a serious tone, “My pride, that's why!? If I allow a worthless half-breed, like Taisho to help me, then what's left!? I don't accept that mutt to help me at all!”

 

Kagome turns away from him and she asks, annoyed, “What is it about your pride, honesty?”

 

Koga says, in a serious tone, “Like I said, a human like you could never understand a demon's pride.”

 

Kagome huffs, angrily, “Then, explain to me, because I'm sick and tired of hearing about me not understanding!”

 

Koga says, in a serious tone, “No!”

 

Kagome couldn't help herself anymore, and she says, in a begging tone, “Please, Koga! I'm just trying to help…”

 

Koga yells out, seriously, “I mean it, woman! I'm not explaining it to you! Now, leave it! I'm not asking those dogs for any help, got it?”

 

Kagome paused, frowning and staring at him, angrily, and she says, “You know, I begged Taisho to help, but he just coldly brushed me off and explained himself to me.”

 

Koga drawls, “Then, he's a bigger freak than I thought.”

 

Kagome says, seriously, “To you, maybe!”

 

Koga asks, in a sneer, “Excuse me, but, you happened to agree with me before I broke his stupid laptop!”

 

Kagome says, in a serious tone, “Yes, and I don't deny that! But that was a gift from his father before he died, Koga, and if I'd known that, I wouldn't have joined in on your teasing, especially not after he started sobbing about it!”

 

Koga cries out, stunned, “What!? You're defending that half-breed freak?”

 

Miroku states, in a serious tone, “If I remember correctly, it was that `half-breed freak', who happens to be the reason why you're here with a broken arm and leg.”

 

Koga huffs, annoyed, “Don't remind me!” On the meanwhile, Kagome walked towards the door silently and Koga looked at this.

 

Koga asks her, seriously, “And where do you think you're going?”

 

Kagome looks back at Koga, with a face more serious than he had ever seen it before and she replies, “What do you think? Something that I should have done four years ago! I'm going to see if there's anything that I can do to make it up to Taisho for hurting him so badly.”

 

Everyone gasped in shock, Kikyo stood up and she says, seriously, “But, Taisho hates you. If you're within a scent's range of him, he'll walk away or do that weird instant-move thing of his. Plus, his damn poodle of a sister gave him something to negate the cloaking spells that blocked your scent from his nose. I should know, I've tried to sneak up on him, but he somehow got out of my reach.”

 

Kagome shook her head, waved it off and she says, in a serious tone, “I have to try!”

 

Koga tells Kagome, in a serious tone, “No! I don't want you to hang around with that half-breed freak, Kagome! I'm not going to allow it! I'm the alpha male and you're my woman, so you have to do as I say, do you hear me!?”

 

Kagome replies, in an icy and monotone voice, similar to Inuyasha's, “Yeah, I heard you, Koga. Except, you've got something wrong: I'm not your woman.”

 

Koga wasn't fazed and he says, plainly, “Yeah, I know, you're just my girlfriend. Look, I just don't want you hanging with that freak and his posse like Yugi and his pack are.”

 

Kagome says, coldly, “You've obviously don't care about other people's feelings! You have no right to tell me who I should hang around with!” Kagome stormed out from the room, with Koga calling her back unsuccessfully.

 

Koga yells out, seriously, “Kagome, come back here! Kagome!” He winches from his injuries, crying out even louder at his frustration and he yells out, angrily, “Damn that mutt! Thanks to him, I'm in this condition!”

 

Miroku tells Koga, interrupting his rants, “You know that was a pretty bad move that you just made, Koga.”

 

Koga says, seriously, “I was just protecting her, that's all!”

 

Sanosake asks, curiously, “Protecting her from what? From Inuyasha Taisho! From what I know, Inuyasha is the one avoiding her. Kagome wants to make up for her mistake because she is trying to understand him.”

 

Koga smirked, but it wasn't very convincing and he says, “She just pities him, that's all.”

 

-::-.-::-

 

The next morning, many students were talking amongst themselves and entering the buildings of Domino High School for class. Inuyasha walked into Mrs. Hotaru's room and he sneezed.

 

Inuyasha says, plainly, “I wonder what's wrong with me.”

 

Inuyasha had always gone to class with Melody or a few friends, but now his sister was at the bathroom, and his friends hadn't even arrived to school yet. He took his seat and pulled his book out, and it took a while for him to notice the familiar scent of cherry blossoms and vanilla, which was heading straight for him.

 

Inuyasha thinks in his mind, annoyed, “Oh great!” Inuyasha shuts his eyes as though he were willing her to leave. It was to no avail, as Kagome passed him to get into her seat behind his.

 

Kagome looks at the back of Inuyasha's head and she says, kindly, “Good morning, Taisho.”

 

Inuyasha `humph' and he says, while looking at his book and in a cold firm tone, “You do realize if I'm seen talking to you and those fucking wolves show up, I may have to sudden urge to send them back to the hospital with their damned leader.”

 

Kagome winched at Inuyasha's cold threat and she says, plainly, “Well, Koga, Ginta, and Hakku are naturally over-protective of me. They want me to stay away from you, Koga especially.”

 

Inuyasha bit back, coldly, “Then why are you talking to me? I thought you and I agreed not to speak to each other, unless this is another attempt to bury the hatchet with your fucking boyfriend! News flash, Higurashi, not gonna happen!”

 

Kagome says, with a sigh and only slightly fazed, “Listen, I know that you're not planning on forgiving either Koga or me anytime soon, but…”

 

Inuyasha says, in a cold firm voice, interrupting Kagome, “If this is your way of putting me in a false case of security, it's not working, wench.”

 

Kagome tries to say, “But I wasn't…”

 

Inuyasha says, in a cold harsh tone, interrupting Kagome, “Save it, bitch! You're just trying to lower down my defenses, so I can be easy prey, since you can't hurt me with priestess magic and your damn boyfriend and those wolves can't hurt me, anymore. Let me tell you something: it isn't working.”

 

Kagome gains a red anime vein mark twitching on her forehead and she yells at Inuyasha, in an annoyed tone, “Excuse me! I was only trying to be nice, and here you are, acting like cold-hearted jerk! I don't know what you're problem is!”

 

Inuyasha says, in a cold harsh tone, “I don't see why you have to be nice to a `disgusting half-demon freak' like me, other than trying to get your boyfriend out the hospital after I gave him the beating that he so richly deserved.”

 

Kagome yells at Inuyasha, angrily and seriously, “But in the process, you broke his arm and leg!”

 

Inuyasha says, coldly, “You think I care! He, you, nor his gang showed any sympathy about how that damned wolf smashed up my laptop!”

 

Kagome rolled her eyes and she says, plainly, “Do you have to bring that up!? Look, I said I was sorry!”

 

Inuyasha spats out, in a cold nasty tone, “Well, `sorry' doesn't bring my laptop back, does it? So, do me a favor and don't talk me…ever!” Inuyasha places his right index and middle fingers to his temples and used Instant Transmission to teleport himself away, leaving Kagome with an extremely annoyed expression.

 

Kagome tells herself, in an annoyed tone, “Fine! Ugh, he's such a JERK!”

 

-::-.-::-

 

The first class of the day was over, many students walking around the corridors and talking among themselves. Inuyasha, Melody, Yusuke, Kira, Jaden, Kino, and Sango were grouped together, discussing Inuyasha's never-ending hatred of Kagome, which had grown even more in the past hour.

 

Yusuke cursed, annoyed, “Damn that bitch! She doesn't know when to leave you alone.”

 

Inuyasha says, in a cold annoyed tone, “No shit.”

 

Sango tells Inuyasha, seriously, “I don't see why you always have to be so cold to her! I know that she's hurt you in the past, but she's trying to make up for it. Your stupid pride just isn't letting her.”

 

Inuyasha scoffs, coldly, “Feh!? The only reason why someone like her would even be interesting in talking to me is to get something out of it. I'm not going to be used by that wench.”

 

Sango says, seriously, “But Kagome isn't like that!”

 

Jaden raised his eyebrow and he says, “Oh yeah!? Then why is she trying to get him to forgive her so badly? Why now? Why couldn't she do it, before? That judgmental human is bad news, just like the rest of the judgmental purebloods!”

 

-::-.-::-

 

Kagome stormed down the hall with Miroku, Ginta, and Hakku in tow.

 

Kagome says, annoyed, “Damn that jerk! What does it take for him to let go of this stupid grudge!?”

 

Ginta says, seriously, “Just don't talk to him anymore. You know what Koga's going to say.”

 

Kagome asks, in a serious tone, “Did Koga listen to me when I told him not to confront Taisho? No, he didn't! He didn't even bother telling me why it was so important for him to get even with him. I just don't know what's Taisho's deal is, that's all. I try to be nice to him and he just brushes me off!”

 

Miroku says, in a serious tone, “Well, Kagome, he's a half-demon and the only way to understand him is to think like a half-demon. He may believe that once he lets you in, you'll discard him like trash later.”

 

Kagome cries out, stunned, “What? That's crazy! I'd never do that to anyone. You know that.”

 

Miroku says, in a serious tone, “But Inuyasha doesn't know that. He believes you to be like everyone else, like all the spoiled `pure-breeds' he, his family, and friends hate so much.”

 

Kagome says, annoyed, “You know, I'm getting sick of that word right now!”

 

Miroku says, in a serious tone, “Inuyasha and his friends and sister are sick of being called these names by humans and demons alike. They're trying to make a place for them in society, and they have been for a while now.”

 

Kagome asks, thoughtfully, “This has been bothering me for a while now, but why do people treat them so badly anyway?”

 

Hakku replies, twitching his nose, “It's because they're different from us, lower than us.” Hakku says, plainly, “Demons dislike them because they have human emotions, and humans are disgusted by them because they look different, like a freak.”

 

Kagome widened her eyes and she yells out, in an annoyed tone, “That's a stupid reason!” It wasn't much of a surprise to her, but it bothered her somewhat to hear it. Kagome says, in a serious tone, “It's not their fault that they happened to be born this way.”

 

Miroku says, with a sigh, “But, that's the sort of pain Inuyasha and the others go through. They don't understand why people hate them so much, so when they get strong enough, they harden their hearts to most people who mistreat or abuse them. It takes a while to gain the trust of a half-demon.”

 

Kagome thinks in her mind, curiously, “Is the sort of pain that the Taisho twins' go through, everyday?” As Kagome continued walking to her second class, she thinks in her mind, “I wish I could find a way to get along with them, but theywon'tbudge, not after what happenedfour years ago.”

 

-::-.-::-

 

Sanosake entered the room with three girls clad in the Domino uniforms.

 

Jaden whispers, surprised, “It's her, again!”

 

Kira complains, “Jay, you may as well forget it. There's no way that Alexis human even look at us, not with our half-demon blood.”

 

Jaden says, with a sigh, “I guess that you're right, Kira.”

 

Sanosake says, with a smile, “Hey!” Sanosake says, addressing the class with the girls in tow, “These are transfers from the other Japanese class.”

 

The familiar one says, with a smile, “Hi, I'm Alexis Rhodes.”

 

The black haired girl says, with a wide smile, “I'm Mindy Hamaguchi.”

 

The red head says, with a smile and plain tone, “And I'm Jasmine Kurada.”

 

Sanosake nodded his head once they had finished their introductions and he says, pointing at the empty seat next to Jaden, “Alexis, I want you to seat next to Jaden. Jaden, raise your hand.”

 

Jaden reluctantly complied as the blonde haired girl to her chair. Alexis glanced over to Jaden, but he looked as though he wasn't trying to pay attention to her, and she whispers to him, “It's nice to see you, again.”

 

Jaden widened his eyes and he eyed her then whispers, plainly, “You have no idea what I am, do you?”

 

Alexis looked at him perplexed as Jaden shows her his fangs and claws. Alexis thinks in her mind, surprised, “He's a half-demon!? Howcool!”

 

Sanosake tells Jasmine, pointing at the empty sit next to Inuyasha, “Jasmine, I want you to have the seat next to Inuyasha.”

 

Inuyasha thinks in his mind, annoyed, “Oh great! Another human! She'll probably be like the others!”

 

Without another word, Jasmine went to her assigned seat as Sanosake send Mindy to her, which was next to Kino.

 

Sanosake says, in a plain tone, “Now, class, for the next three months, you'll be working on a research project about an event in a certain time period in Japan. This will be a two person assignment, and yes, I will be choosing your partners.”

 

Inuyasha frowns and he thinks in his mind, seriously, “A two person group, huh?”

 

Sanosake takes a clipboard from his desk and he continues, “Now, you'll both discuss what to have your project. You may exchange numbers and e-mails if you'd like. Now: Tristan Taylor and Melody Taisho.”

 

Melody thinks in her mind, with relief, “Thank god it's one of Yugi's friends! He's one of the humans that I respect.”

 

Tristan, on the other side of the room, looks at Melody and he thinks in his mind, with a smile, “One of Yusuke's friends from Genkai's place?I guess she is kind of cute for a half-demon.”

 

Sanosake says, reading down his clipboard, “Jaden Yuki and Alexis Rhodes!”

 

Jaden mentality yelps in shock.

 

Kino thinks in his mind, seriously, “What!? A human working with a half-demon! Someone has to be watching that Alexis human, just to be safe.”

 

Jaden thinks in his mind, seriously, “No!? Ithasto be some mistake! Why would he partner her with a `lowly' half-breed like me?”

 

Sanosake calls out, reading down his clipboard, “Miroku Houshi and…Sango Taijya!”

 

Sango mentality yells out, in an angered tone, “WHAT! NO,NO, NO,NO WAY! NO FUCKING WAY! I HAVE TO WORK WITH THAT PERVERT!!” Sango turned to Miroku just in time to see him blowing a kiss to her, to her disgust.

 

Melody tells Inuyasha, mentality, while holding back her laughter, “Oh man! Do I feel sorry for Sangoor what?Poor girl, having towork with that lecher!”

 

Inuyasha tells Melody, mentality, with a sly grin, “Yeah, no kidding! I really hate to be her now.”

 

Sanosake yells out, reading the clipboard, “Inuyasha Taisho and…”

 

Inuyasha thinks in his mind, in a begging tone, “Please! Pleaselet it be one of my friends or at leastYugi or someone, anyone, except…”

 

Sanosake calls out, seriously, “…Kagome Higurashi!”

 

The mentioned girl yelped in shock, her thoughts similar to Inuyasha and Inuyasha thinks in his mind, shocked and angrily, “WHAT!? I have to work with that judgmental bitch! OH NO! That's not going to happen!”

 

Ginta thinks in his mind, shocked and horrified, “Oh man! Kagome's working with Taisho! Koga's gonna freak when he hears this…”

 

Kagome looked up to see Inuyasha, who obviously wasn't happy about the arrangement. Kagome thinks in her mind, “Maybe this could be a way to defrost that asshole's heart!I mean we have been assigned to a project, which means that we'd get to know each other.”

 

Yusuke tells Inuyasha, mentality, “I can't believe it,Inu!”

 

Inuyasha tells Yusuke, mentality and annoyed, “Don't remind me!She'll no doubt try to get me make peace with her crippled boyfriend. Sheesh, no way is this going to work.”

 

After the rest of the assigning was finished, Sanosake gave each pair a time period and told them to meet with their partners. As the students did as they were told, Kagome stood and walked toward the empty seat beside Inuyasha, who turned his head away in disgust.

 

Kagome says, timidly, “So, I guess we're partners, huh? And our topic…”

 

Inuyasha says, interrupting Kagome coldly, “The Meiji Period.”

 

Kagome smiled and she says, “Oh, okay! That's a good topic for us to…”

 

Inuyasha says, cutting Kagome off, “That's where you're wrong, wench! There's no `us' or `we'. There's a `me' and a `you'. Second of all, `we're' not doing anything. I'll be doing the project on my own.”

 

Kagome yelps out, shocked, “What!? Then, what am I going to be doing?”

 

Inuyasha says, coldly, “Easy: nothing! Why would you want to work with me, anyway? You're the `queen' class and I'm just a half-demon. But don't worry, I'll put your name on the assignment so you'll get credit.”

 

Kagome says, seriously, “You can't do the project by yourself! It's mean for two people!”

 

Inuyasha says, in a cold plain tone, “Look, I've done this many times before, and it can't be that hard. Besides, if those wolves see me with you and they bother me about it, well, I'll just have to put them back they belong: with their damned leader.”

 

Kagome winched and she asks, “Why are you acting so violently with Ginta and Hakku?”

 

Inuyasha says, in a cold harsh tone, “Because they don't respond by words, only by action. I learned by experience. But that doesn't matter. You don't want to work with me.”

 

Kagome asks, seriously, “How could you say that!? Of course I want to…”

 

Inuyasha says, coldly, “No you don't! I'll work on it while you hang around with your sister and cousin and boyfriend and friends and doing whatever it is you do.”

 

Kagome responds, nastily for once, “Look, ever since I've seen you again, after four years, you've been awfully cold towards me, Koga, and my demon friends. I know that we've hurt you and I've already told you I'm sorry about it.”

 

Inuyasha says, in a cold firm tone, “And I've already told you that it's too late for apologies. So, could you please leave me alone?”

 

Kagome sighs as Inuyasha turns away and she thinks in her mind, “This isn't going to well! Now, he wants to work alone!”

 

Update: 3/22/08