InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Altering Mistletoe ❯ Fret ( Chapter 3 )

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to

have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust

utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and

who loves us in spite of all our faults.

---- Charles Kingsley

"Lucky is the man who is the

first love of a woman,

but luckier is the woman who is

the last love of a man."

---Unknown

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Altering Mistletoe

By

FloralBlackMoon

Chapter 03: Fret

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Foreword: Note to Mara-chan, The reason why this story is probably the first in which Kikyo and Kagomé are friends because everyone else seems to harbor this resentment toward Kikyo because she prevents any romantic relationship to establish between Inu Yasha and Kagomé. I believe if in another situation all together Kagomé and Kikyo wouldn't be enemies or dislike each other. Kagomé has a friendly exterior and so it would be nearly impossible for her to dislike Kikyo and Kikyo has this lonesome kind of air through out the series and so I just don't see any type of bitterness between the two. I don't understand why Fan Fiction authors do that if any other reasons because of the barrier Kikyo is between Inu Yasha and Kagomé. So really that's why you don't find as much Fan Fiction that had Kagomé and Kikyo friendly. Also why I made Kikyo and Kagomé best friend. (Also who would care for an original character anyway?) Also this chapter is really based on Kikyo. Next chapter I will revert back to the main characters, our beloved Inu Yasha and Kikyo.

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"No!!" Kagomé screamed, pushing Inu Yasha out of her way as she ran to the bridge. "Kikyo!!" Kagomé stopped in horror; she could no longer see her friend. Trembling in fear and shock, she shook her head, "N-no-no…"

Inu Yasha stood still reaching his hand up as to grab an invisible figure and dropped his hand down. Looking to his side, he gritted his teeth. Kikyo…

"Inu Yasha…" A soft moan came.

Inu Yasha turned to Kagomé, "What?"

"I didn't say anything…" Kagomé said, turning to where Kikyo was.

"Inu Yasha…" A horse whisper came.

Kagomé stood, mouth agape before realization dawned on her. Running toward the edge, she looked over it to find Kikyo hanging slightly, limply.

"Oh My Kami…" Kagomé breathed. "Inu Yasha, she's alive!"

"Then what are you doing talking to me, girl? Help her before she falls!" Inu Yasha barked, running toward Kagomé.

Kagomé nodded and grasped Kikyo's right wrist. Walking back, she started pulling Kikyo up, she felt a relief of pressure as she pulled Kikyo up when Inu Yasha grabbed Kikyo's other wrist and started pulling her up also.

"No…let me fall," Kikyo whispered softly. Crystal tears slid down her cheeks, scattering into the peaceful air as she quietly cried, hoping that the other two did not hear her do so. "I can't…no…"

Kagomé shook her head and they finally had Kikyo back on the bridge. Holding Kikyo tightly, she cried. "Kikyo,"

Inu Yasha stared at the two as they hanged on to each other. Looking away, he couldn't stand to look to Kikyo. Knowing that indirectly he could have caused her death. He didn't have to have pushed her himself, but it was like he did if she had died, if she had jumped.

If she did die…they might have as well prosecuted me… Inu Yasha thought as he watched Kagomé hug Kikyo. Turning away from the scene, he started walking away but froze when he heard Kikyo's dismayed angelic voice call out to him.

"Inu Yasha…why did you come?" Kikyo asked.

Inu Yasha chuckled. "C'mon, did you honestly think I was that cruel? I have feelings too, ya know,"

"Yes, but why did you care enough to come? I though you---"

"Well you thought wrong…Look, we better go. I have classes tomorrow and I have to get some sleep." Inu Yasha said; yawned, stretching his arms.

"Yeah, we better get ready to go." Kagomé nodded and turned her attention back to Kikyo, rubbing her back. "You okay?"

"Yeah…I guess so. I'm just glad Inu Yasha came for me." Kikyo whispered to Kagomé so Inu Yasha wouldn't hear. Kagomé rolled her eyes as she sighed. "You're juuuust fine."

Kagomé slowly stood up, helping Kikyo up along the way, running her fingers through Kikyo's ruffled hair.

"Do you need help along the way to the car?" Kagomé asked out of worry. Kikyo chuckled lightly and shook her head.

"No Kagomé. Please don't worry about me."

"Fine…"Kagomé said, still looking at Kikyo. "But I'll still walk by you."

Kikyo rolled her eyes playfully as she started walking to the car. Kagomé followed Kikyo, watching her every move.

Reaching the car, the two entered the car to find Inu Yasha sitted in the back. "C'mon! I gotta go!"

"Hey! You don't have to be in my car! You can walk for all I care." Kagomé snapped at Inu Yasha.

Inu Yasha bit back a bitter remark, but growled and settled into his seat with his arms crossed childishly.

"Fine, just hurry up." Inu Yasha muttered.

"Hmph, thought so." Kagomé smiled and entered the keys into the ignition.

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Kagomé eyed Kikyo from the corner of her eyes as she fried some eggs. Having nothing else to cook for the night, Kagomé was left to eggs.

Kagomé slammed the spatula down, turning to Kikyo. "Kikyo! I can't take this any more. You have to talk to me!"

Kikyo eyes flickered toward Kagomé as she smiled, "I'm fine Kagomé."

Kagomé sighed and turned back to her food. She couldn't take the deafening silence she had encountered once they had dropped Inu Yasha off. Kikyo had empty hollow eyes when they had came back. Kagomé had noticed as Kikyo walked to her room she walked like one of those zombies on the movies.

<I'm so worried about her. But…she won't open up.>

"You know that I can't help you if you don't talk to me, right?" Kagomé stated quietly. Turning off the heat. She felt Kikyo's dark eyes stare at her back.

"I'm fine, Kagomé."

"Are you?" Kagomé said, placing the eggs on the vanilla-colored plates. "Are truly and seriously okay?"

"Kagomé, I'm just going through a lot now. I feel like---"

"You've lost everything in the world?" Kagomé finished. "I've hear that on TV."

"Yes, but this time, this isn't a line I have memorized and practice nightly to remember."

Kikyo took a fork from near by and started flipping it with her fingers. "This isn't make-believe."

"I know…I know." Kagomé said sadly as she placed Kikyo's bowl in front of her. "No need to remind me."

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Kikyo held onto the books tighter as she walked down the hall. Staring at the floor, she couldn't stand to look at the eyes glancing at her as she walked passed them.

<Why are they looking at me?>

"Hey, did you hear? Last night she…"

"Oh my God, you heard that too? I heard she asked Inu Yasha to sleep with her!"

"She tried to kill herself last night. Bitch probably knew Inu Yasha would help her."

"Look at little Miss Perfect. She tried to kill herself yesterday."

Kikyo stopped in her tracks, how did these people know? Who told them?

Kikyo clenched her fist as she let go of her textbooks. They tumbled to the floor as a heap as Kikyo held back the hot tears that were aching to fall.

Let out a ragged sob, Kikyo bent down to pick up the book. She stopped when she saw feet stop by her. The figure bent down, as it turned out to be a man, and started helping her with her books.

"Y'kay?"

Kikyo eyes looked at the male and nodded, "Yes. Thank you."

Taking the books from the man, she started running away when she heard him started gossiping about her.

She stopped when she found Inu Yasha there, talking with his friends. Walking silently to him.

Kikyo stopped in front of Inu Yasha, looking him square in the eye. "Inu Yasha…"

Inu Yasha looked at Kikyo with a questioning _expression, "Kik--"

*--Slaap-*

Inu Yasha froze as Kikyo slapped him. Looking at her while his hand cupped his reddening cheek.

"Why'd you do that for?!"

"How do people know about last night, Inu Yasha?!"

"Kik…" Inu Yasha stopped when he saw tears slid from Kikyo's closed eyelids.

"Forget it." Kikyo whispered, walking away from Inu Yasha, leaving a trail of tears behind.

.Kikyo continue to run, passing by the comments thrown at her.

She's always had a perfect life, they'd say. She could have never felt any pain. She was rich. She has beauty. She had friends. She had everything that could make anyone happy.

<So why am I unhappy? Because all of it…except friends, are material things. >

"I'm such a bitch.." She said to herself, finding a janitors room, Kikyo opened it and hid herself in it. Thanking Kami that no one was present in that hallway. Kikyo slid her knees up to her chest. Closing her eyes, shut. Wishing to Kami she could just be separate with her body. Become someone new. Someone worthy to be respected.

Leaning a bit to the wall, Kikyo stared at the endless darkness. Holding her breath when she heard the familiar cheery voice of Kagomé.

"Uh-huh. Calculus is just killing me." Kikyo heard Kagomé say to a friend next to her.

"Hey, I'll know you'll do just fine!" Her friend answered back. Kikyo let out a sob and hunched back deeper into the smaller room. Kagomé was Miss Perfect. She had everything. Slowly closing her eyes, Kikyo tried to imagine a place of happiness. A Utopia of a kind, somewhere she was accepted.

Finally her eyes closed and darkness took over.