InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Spectacular Year ❯ Yuka's Downfall ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: I have never owned any characters of Inuyasha… and if I did, I wouldn't share them! Just kidding… But seriously, I don't own Inuyasha.

Author's note: Come on people… you should know the drill by now… R&R!

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Yuka's Downfall

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A month after the party…

Kagome awoke to the sound of her phone ringing, causing a threatening growl to escape from the girl's throat. "Who could be calling so early in the morning?!" The frazzled teen crawled out of bed and stumbled across her room, only to bump into her dresser that held a digital clock. The timepiece told the time of twelve thirty; Kag-chan had overslept. Another ring from the phone brought the ebony haired girl back to her senses and off to find the phone, which wound up under a pile of clothes.

"Hello?" The drowsy teen voiced into the phone.

"Kagome? Hi, it's Yuka. Did I wake you up?" Kagome's best friend's voice floated into her ear, kick-starting the stormy eyed teen's mind so she could start the process of figuring out what was going on.

"Oh, yeah, but it's fine Yuka. What's up?" She fumbled with her words, but was finally able to get them to come out correctly.

"I was just checking up on you, yah know? Haven't heard from you in awhile and all…" Yuka's voice trailed off, knowing it was her fault for not speaking with Kagome. She was just afraid that her friend's problems were too much, and were going to take Yuka herself down, too.

"Oh, how kind of you." Kagome spat back at Yuka. "Hmm...I'm just grand, hope things are great with you and all." The girl's nose flared, as if she were talking to Yuka face to face.

The teen on the other line backed down, missing the sarcasm a little, "Oh… that's good to hear… umm… so?" She couldn't think of anything to say to Kagome, especially after dropping her like Ayumi and herself had just done.

"Ugh, Yuka, do you mind if I let you go? I need to take a shower and get started with today's chores," Kagome lied, but she needed to get away. Hearing her friend speak to her as if they were still really close...well, it hurt.

"Oh… alright Kagome, talk to you later then?" Yuka didn't even wait for her to reply, hanging her phone up instantly, leaving Kag-chan glaring at her portable phone.

"Well, isn't she just a bundle of joy," the teen sneered at the sound of the dial tone. She punched lthe 'Off' button, and threw the electronic across the room. Sighing, she plucked out another oversized tee shirt, and pulled out a pair of shorts. Kagome changed quickly, and trudged out of her room to face another day of torment.

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Later, around five o'clock that day…

"This is just too cool!" Kagome squealed in joy for the first time in weeks. The role playing boards completely intrigued her, seeing people create characters and then play them in any situation was amazing. "Wow, I think I just found a new hobby to pass my time."

The teen had spent the month since the breakup with Kouga on the computer, rotting away her life. She was trying to find things that would keep her mind off of the current technical difficulties in her life. It appeared that she finally found the one thing she needed: the ability to live her life through her characters, and not focus on her own current life.

The ebony haired girl lurked amongst the boards for awhile, allowing her time to create characters of her own to use. Most of the time they were someone with problems, or --if it were a demonic type of role-play-- she'd play a vampire who longed for a stake to the heart, or a companion, to soothe her aching soul.

-Ring Ring- Sapphire eyes whipped away from the screen to the phone charger, hoping to see the phone, but it wasn't there. Growling in frustration, the teen ran from the computer in search of the phone before the person who was calling went into voicemail. "Souta! Where's the phone?!" She yelled for her little brother.

The younger sibling just shrugged and continued on his way through the house, followed by Buyo, the cat. Their little parade irked the girl as she rummaged about the house, looking for the source of the annoying ring. She finally came across her dirty clothes pile, pin pointing that place to be the loudest of rings.

"Ah hah!" Kagome reached into the clump of mess, and pulled out the phone. "Mushi mushi?" She answered the phone in an exhausted voice.

"Oh Kagome, hi! Sorry about earlier… did I wake you again?" Yuka's voice chirped over the telephone.

"No, I was in a frantic search for the phone, and it's okay, Yuka. Thanks for the apology." The teen smiled, even though Yuka wasn't even there. At least someone actually did seem to care.

"Oh, well I was going to ask if you wanted to spend the night over here, so maybe we can catch up and all?" Yuka's voice remained cheery, even though the girl was a little weary about the whole idea. But Kagome was her friend after all, and she needed to do something for her.

"Umm… sure!" Kagome was a little hesitant, too, since she'd be leaving her new found role playing boards on the computer and walking right back into reality. But her mind quickly plotted a way for her to get on the boards, even over at Yuka's house. They always got on the computer when she was over there, so maybe she could get Yuka into role playing, as well.

"Great! You can come over whenever, okay? I'll see you soon, Kag-chan." That appeared to be Yuka's way of saying goodbye, because she hung up, once again, without waiting for a response from her friend.

Kagome smiled, "This should be fun," the teen stated, heading off to her room to pack. Buyo followed after her, only to smack into the door as she slammed it in his face, oblivious to him being there, all because someone was finally paying attention to her.

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Yuka greeted Kagome at the door with red and puffy eyes from crying, which only served to spike worry into Kagome when she saw. Yuka then hurriedly hugged Kagome, and ushered her inside and to the kitchen.

They indulged in chocolate chip cookie dough while Yuka told the story of what was going on. The stormy orbed teen concluded that Yuka just needed some support and that's why she invited Kagome over. But that was washed away when Yuka told Kagome that the break up happened right after she had gotten off the phone with her that morning. Ginta had called Yuka with the bad news.

"Oh Yuka, I'm so sorry!" Kagome hugged her friend tightly. "Men, they're so impossible… I bet Kouga had something to do with this." The ebony haired teen spat the boy's name in spite. "You know how him and Ginta were so close, he probably convinced Ginta to break up with you all because you're friends with me." She tried her best to cheer up her friend, playing the role of Yuka instead of herself, a month ago.

"Men are such jerks!" Yuka sobbed into Kag-chan's shoulder. As the other girl cooed softly, trying to soothe her.

"I have an idea! I just came across it a few day's ago, and today I was so into it. I'm sure you'll like it." Kagome smiled and pushed Yuka towards her computer. "It's called role playing. It's so much fun… you create a character, and give it a background, an appearance, etc. And you pretend to be that character around other people's characters on a site. You just have to see." Yuka just sat in her seat numbly and let Kagome take over the PC.

Within seconds, Kagome had the site up that she had been lurking amongst earlier, and picked out a board to give Yuka an idea of what she was rambling about. "See how this girl pretends to be some blonde cheerleader that can get anyone?"

Yuka nodded and read over the post, frowning out how weird it seemed. "It's kind of

strange…"

Kagome nodded, "Here, let's go pick out another board." She went back to the main board area and picked a prom board. "I'll play an outcast, hmm." Kagome sat back in her seat as a few people posted their introductions for their characters. "Ah hah! I got my character ready." The sapphire-eyed girl typed up her post and sent it to the board.

"Sometimes there are people who are desperate on the boards, and try to find dates over the internet. It's really amusing. But sometimes it's cool having another person's character to flirt with. Like, oh wow! There's a guy now…" Kagome smiled with glee at the next post that was put up on the boards. "He sounds cool, should we talk to him Yuka?" She proceeded to do so...after her friend nodded, of course.

The two girls pursued the guy who role-played as a teenager who was about to go street racing after the 'dance'. Kagome had her character leave the prom and follow after him, bugging him just a bit. After a while, the guy became bored and said he was getting off, he asked for their instant message screen names if they had one, and Kagome easily handed hers over.

"Oh wow, Yuka, this is awesome! This guy is amazingly good! Anyways, what do you think of role playing, Yuka?" The teen was brimming with excitement at gaining a new friend and an excellent teacher for role-playing.

Yuka nodded and urged Kag-chan on to talk to him. "I think he sounds cool, talk to him!" Apparently, Yuka's worries from her break up with Ginta were vanquished.

Kagome quickly agreed and started talking to the guy, calling him 'Vincent' after his character. Their conversation going over role playing, and how they came to role play so late at night when they should have been in bed, etc.

"Oh oh! Kagome! Ask him how old he is!" Yuka practically shrieked.

"Ok ok…" Kag-chan did as the girl asked and received the answer of sixteen from 'Vincent.' "Oh! He's our age! Cool!" The two ebony girls squealed together. Their happiness was cut short when they looked at the clock in the corner of the screen. "Oh my, we should probably go to bed," the blue eyed girl said, while typing a good bye to 'Vincent.' The two girls were sent to bed with a 'good night' and a 'sleep tight' from their mystery man.

Finally, the two girls pulled away from the computer screen around three in the morning, and headed off to Yuka's room for a good night's rest. Kagome's mind was filled with the things 'Vincent' and her had talked about, and couldn't wait to speak with him again. He seemed to cool the burning ache in her heart that was left after Kouga had broken up with her. She hugged Yuka, "Sleep well, and try not to think about Ginta. You'll find someone so much better," Kag-chan whispered, and laid down on the floor, snuggling into her sleeping bag. Her dreams drifting back to 'Vincent,' her mystery man from online…

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Author's Note: Yay! A semi-happier ending for Kag-chan, for the time being. Sorry, again, for not getting this out sooner, but I hope you all like it! And remember, this is going to be quite OOC… but bear with me. I needed to write this story.