InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Can't Stop Loving You ❯ Part Four ( Chapter 4 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Kagome took in the full image of this new, and quite. . . punk, looking girl. She had on a Green Day shirt, with some weird flower in a pot underneath the words "Green Day", black pants with strange contraptions all over them, most lacy or polka dotted. Converse, purple and black checkered, for shoes, and, the strangest thing out of all, was her hair. Kagome couldn't place the right word for it. It was shorter than her shoulders, and it was, from what she could see, originally brown, but had been dyed red streaks. The bangs were also strange, they went in a sort of 'swoop', from her forehead in the right side, and down to her ear in a slant on the left side. A strange looking girl at first, but it wasn't a bad look. Kagome decided to be the first to speak.

"Um. . . Hello. My name is Kagome. I will be sleeping with you. " Carol gave her a funny look at that sentence, but after hearing how much of an accent she had, she obviously was new at english.

Kagome had been practicing her english with Inuyasha, not that he helped at all, besides distracting her, but was still not very good at it. She had to stick with the basics for now.

"Oh, Hi! Your my new roommate, I presume? Cool, your room is the one next to the bathroom, and mine's the one next to it. Would you like me to help you with your bags?" she asked, in an abnormally loud voice, as most people would do to a foreign student.

"Iie. . . Um. . . I mean no, thanks. I've got them," Kagome said in english, and picked up her bags, suddenly feeling very tired.

Kagome hauled her bags into the room, that was empty minus a bed, desk, and window. Opening her bags, the first thing she got out was the picture of her and Inuyasha. She set it on the desk, stared at it for a moment, and then started to unpack her bags. Mounds of clothes, hairbrushes, a hair curler, a hair straightener, hair dryer, hair spray, a bag of makeup, 'You don't need that makeup stuff, Kagome. Your beautiful as is. ' Inuyasha had said so many times before when she'd found some other item of makeup to add to her bags.

Smiling as she though of that memory, she remembered that she was supposed to call Inuyasha back when she got home. Stretching, she got up from her seat on her bed and walked over to Carol, who was, at the moment, chugging a carton of milk.

"Excuse me, Carol? Where is the phone?" she asked the girl who currently had a white mustache. She wiped her face and and pointed to the corner of the living room. On a red desk in the corner, edges engraved with the Chinese symbols meaning "unique", "loud", and "polite", sat the phone, practically clinging for dear life onto the desk. Kagome walked over to it fast, as if if she didn't hurry it would fall.

She Picked up the phone and dialed the number.

Bleep, bleep, bleep, ble-
Kagome hung up the phone, remembering that she forgot the area code, and tried again.

Brrrring, brrring, brrring, brri-

"Hello?" Kagome heard Souta's voice on the other end of the phone.

"Hey little bro! What have you been up to?" Kagome asked, happy to hear a familiar voice.

"Hey sis, nothin' much. You fitting in with your new school?"

"I just got to my room. My roommate's name is Carol, and she's very nice. "

"Uh, cool. . . " he paused, an awkward silence between them.

"Wanna talk to Mom or Inuyasha?" he asked.

"Sure, whomever's closest I guess. "

"Uh. . . Well, Inuyasha's practically looming over my shoulder, so I guess he wins. Here ya go. Bye, Kagome. "

"Buh bye, Souta. "

". . . Hello?"

Kagome smiled as she heard his voice again.

Inuyasha hung up the phone with a sigh. 'I never knew that I could miss someone so much when I had seen them just one day ago. Kagome. . . I hope you come home soon. ' Inuyasha thought as he walked up the stairs to Kagome's room.

Every step seemed to creak in sorrow for him as he though of the woman that was his weakness, and his strength. The door to her room opened easier for him, as though knowing that he was tired and weak from missing her. Weak? No, that wasn't the right word. Weakness was also the wrong word to describe Kagome as. Really, she was more his strength than his weakness. The flame to the fire that lit up the cave of darkness that had slowly consumed his heart from torture and sorrow in the many long years of his life. Until Kikyo, he had though that he had nothing. And then, when he met Kagome, he realized that he hadn't. Not even Kikyo was something or someone that could heal the wounds of his heart. but Kagome could, and Kagome did, or was in the process of. What saddened him, though, was the fact that now his flame was gone, and so his fire went out. He realized that now, for the next two years, the only way to find happiness was the short vacations that the two could spend together twice a year.

Inuyasha growled at himself, looking into Kagome's mirror, scowling at the look of disgust on his face, directed at himself.

"Stupid, stupid! Why are you so stupid? Why couldn't you tell her no, once, just once. And now, because of your stupid mistake, you lost 'er. And now, your going crazy, talking to your self. Again. Like you did. . . Back then. . . When any villager that saw you would beat you and you would have to lie to your own mother. And now, you lie to the woman you love, telling her that your okay with her leaving. " he paused. ". . love. . . I - I do love her. More that Kikyo. More. . . more than anything else in the world. " he paused again, looking himself straight in the eye, angry again. "And you couldn't even keep her here long enough to tell her that, Baka!" by the end of his sentence, he was yelling, and gripping the wood on the counter so hard it was almost screaming in pain. Finished glaring at himself, he turned his attention to Mrs. Higurashi, who had made her way in to see what all the yelling was about.

One look at her confused face and he turned away.

"Uh. . . Please, don't even ask. " he said, and a few seconds later he was shot out the window and down the well.

Kagome sighed as she set the phone back on the hook. How she missed him, already. 'Can't help but wonder if he feels the same, huh, Kagome?'

Walking out of the room, she turned down the brown, worn hallway, and went back to the office, where she ran into the principal, literally.

"Well, hello Kagome. How has everything been going? Do you have any questions?" she asked the girl, who was currently trying to get her vision to become un-blurry.

"E-every-thing's going pretty good. Um, I would like to know my class schedule, though. Could you tell me where to get it, onegai?" she asked, looking up at the principal, once again, clad in red. The principal smiled at her, and Kagome got an eerie feeling when she looked at the young miko.

She led Kagome down another hallway next to the desk in the office, and into a room that had a sign above the door. 'Counselor' was written on the sign. They walked into the room, and met another woman. "Hello, Marcy, this is Kagome Higurashi. She'd new here and needs her schedule. Could you help her out, I have to go to a meeting. Tha-anks," she said as she walked out of the room, lengthening out the 'thanks' she gave the new counselor. Kagome looked at 'Marcy' when she began to talk to her.

"Hello, Kagome. I'm Mrs. Chamberlin, I'll be your new counselor. How are you today?" she asked politely. She was a very nice woman, with red, curly hair pushed up in a messy bun. She looked to be in her early to mid. forty's. She had a normal, white blouse on, and a pale-green skirt that went down to her ankles. She was defiantly American, and her smiled seemed to calm Kagome. She knew from the first sight of her that she was a good woman, a trustworthy one. Kagome smiled.

"I'm fine today," she replied as she sat down, "How are you?" she asked, being polite. The woman smiled as she turned to her desk drawer, looking through file upon file.

"Oh, I'm doing great today, thank you for asking," she replied as she looked through the files, still, mumbling last names as she filtered through more and more files that seemed to never end.

"Ah, here we go, Higurashi, Kagome. From Japan, I see. . . Female, eighteen years old, and. . . Many sicknesses. Wow, that's a lot of sicknesses in three years. So, have you gotten over your sicknesses yet, or will you still be getting frequently sick?" she asked as she looked back up at the young Japanese woman.

Kagome flinched, not really knowing what she was supposed to say. Would she just, for some reason, miraculously get over her sicknesses? 'I guess that's the only thing I can say, because I have no reason to stay from school anymore,' she though it over, and decided that that was the only way to go.

"I've gotten better over the past few months, so I think my sickness-streak has ended," she replied, still thinking that her answer was weak, but the woman smiled and nodded her head in understanding as she put the file back, but not before grabbing a lone, blue paper. She handed it to Kagome, and she looked at it with curiosity.

"It's you schedule. See, first period you have History, second you have Gym, then break, you get a half hour. Then third, you have Language Arts, then your elective, you can choose you electives in a few days, then Science, then Algebra two," the woman told her as she pointed to the words on the paper. One side of the paper was in english, and the other was in Hiragana, thankfully. "Well, I think that's it," she said as she handed Kagome another paper, this time pink, "This is your electives sheet. Fill it out and give it to the woman at the front desk by Monday, and, if your playing sports, you can go to the nurse anytime on Monday's, Wednesday's, and Friday's, and from noon until three on Saturdays. Thanks for coming today, Kagome. You can leave, unless you have anymore questions," she finally ended, as she stood up and opened the door for the young miko.

"No, I don't think I have anymore questions. Thank you very much, Mrs. Chamberlin," Kagome said, and got up and strode out of the room, flashing a bright smile to the woman before walking down the hallway and down to the nurses office.

A/n, I am so sorry for not updating sooner, and I am SOOOOO sorry if there are spelling mistakes in this chapter, but my computer is totally screwed up and isn't working right. I'm kind of busy lately, so sorry, again, if I don't update sooner.

Baba - Old Woman, Witch.

Baka - Idiot

Chikushou - Damn

Daitoku - Priest

Fujo - Sorceress

Fukurou - Owl

Hanyou - Half Demon

Houshi - Monk

Iie - No (i-i-e, not L-i-e)

Inu - Dog

Joshi - Women

Kami - God

Kitsune - Fox Demon

Koi - Loved, beloved

Kuromiko - Dark Miko

Miko - Shrine Maiden

Neko - Cat

Nisou - Priestess

Ohayo - good afternoon

Ojii-san - Grandfather

Okaa-san - Mother

Onegai - Please

Onna - Woman

Ookami - Wolf

Red Dragon - Ru-doragon

Sama - Lady or Lord - respectively

Seiyuuki - Monkey

Shika - Deer

Shikon no Kakera - Shikon Shards

Shikon no Tama - Jewel of Four Souls

Taijiya - Demon Exterminator

Taiyoukai - Demon Lord

Youkai - Demon