InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Double Life ❯ Track ( Chapter 7 )

Doctor Izumi looked casually from Kagome to Sango. "Well, this is awkward."

Kagome felt her insides turn to stone. She wanted to run out of there right then, but her feet were rooted into the ground. Shock and trepidation rendered her legs useless. But this was all coming to a end, wasn't it? A little over a month had pass and only little did she accomplish.

She still had the Scholarship Exam to take. She still had to see Inuyasha high jump at his best. She still had to pass the next three years of high school. This wouldn't only end her education here, but also her dreams, goals, and future. All would end like that if Sango reported her.

Wait...if Sango reported her.

That meant she still had some sort of chance. They were never on each other's bad side and she could be the female friend Kagome needed so desperately. The only tricky part was getting Sango to not report her, and it couldn't be that hard...

Kagome smiled weakly. "Um, surprise?"

Sango blinked, mouth slightly opened. "...All this time? You were a..."

"Girl?" she tried.

Sango's voice lowered to a hiss. "A girl?! I can't believe it! I mean, at an all boys' school of all places!"

Kagome raised her hands defensively as Sango started to continuing her hissing, much to Doctor Izumi's annoyance ("Why are you hissing? It's only the three of us in this room."). "Look, I'm sorry I kept it a secret but I had to," Kagome started.

"Why?" Sango's voice stayed low, clearly ignoring Izumi's remark.

"Because of this school's scholarship program. It's my only chance into get into a university with cutting in the money for my little brother's education."

"And so you did all of this," she whispered.

Kagome nodded slowly, anticipating Sango's next remark with anxiety. But much to her suprise, Sango broke into a smile. "Amazing! I don't know anyone who would have the guts to do what you did. I mean, cross-dressing and going to an all boys' school just for your family's sake. Wow."

Kagome blinked. "What?" Her brain didn't seem to be functioning properly.

"You practically threw your feminity away for your family!--"

Izumi rolled his eyes. "--and came here to sadistically make a poor doctor at this school go through even more suffering than he's already going through--"

Sango shot Izumi a glare because continuing. "--A lot of my friends talk about their silly fantasies about dressing up as a guy and going to Yusako so they could just be surronded by guys but none of them ever had the guts to actually do any of that stuff. But you're different; you're really brave."

Kagome rubbed her feet together sheepishly. "Not really...And I never fantasizing about doing this!" she quickly added.

Izumi snorted but before he could say anything, Kagome kicked him sharply in the shin.

"So you won't tell anyone?" Kagome asked over Izumi's grumbling and complaining.

Sango shook her head incredulously. "Of course not! And if you need any help, I'll be more than glad to help you."

Kagome smiled. "Great."

She had never anticipated any of this to happen, but she was glad it had. Really glad. Things were going getting better at the minute and she was clearly hoping for more. Now she had Sango on her side, many of her worries were disappearing. She now had someone there to help her on her lying (Thank god!) and someone who could tell her if she showed any hints that she wasn't someone who she seemed. All was good and she was happy to say that life no longer sucked.

As Kagome sunk deeper in her pit of happiness and giddiness, Izumi watched with the utmost disinterest. Of course, all was just a facade. He was really glad that Kagome had found the female friend she had been pining for. Now she wouldn't bother him with her problems but with Sango instead! Ah, the pure bliss of it.

Of course, handing out advice to the girl wasn't as bad as it seemed. He was used it considering that many students had come in before for advice (making him wonder excessively why they didn't go to the guidance counselor instead). It was actually quite enjoyable watching her worry over little things; it made him want to laugh many times but females seemed to be like that a lot. Well, he had to admit, women do have their interesting sides.

He watched with slight annoyance as Sango made herself tea with his good china and with his teabags. Much to his misfortune, he remembered that she was still in the room. "What brings you here anyways?" he asked in his dryest and coldest tone.

"I came to visit, my grumpy dearest," Sango replied, seemingly unfazed by his tone. "You should be happy to see me."

"Considering that I see you almost everyday, believe me when I say that I nearly cry in joy when I realize that you haven't made an appearance in the hour."

She gave his a dirty look. "You're too kind." She sipped her warm tea. "Anyways, Mom told me that she wants you to come home tonight for dinner."

"No." was his immediate answer.

Sango looked up, raising her brows. "Why not?"

Izumi looked at her as if it was the most obvious answer of all. "Why would I want to her house? Stuuu-pid!"

"Um, how do you two know each other?"

Izumi and Sango turned to look at a bewildered Kagome.

"She doesn't know yet?" Sango gave the doctor an accusing glare.

Izumi brushed it off by answering, "Much to my dismay, this little brat is my niece. And even more to my dismay, by blood."

"You make it sound like a bad thing."

"It is."

"Oh! You're the one who lend me the girl clothes," Kagome suddenly burst out.

Sango smiled. "Yeah. I was wondering why my uncle was asking for girl clothes. But he's ga--"

Izumi stood up. "Enough. Are you two done yet? I need to go back to work, which includes reorganizing my medicine cabinet in alphabetical order which I hate doing. So, shoo."

Sango pulled Kagome's arm. "Come on. He's just pissed just he can't remember the alphabet--"

"Out!!"

Sango and Kagome giggled as they scuttled out with linked arms. Kagome wanted to jump with joy and cry out to the world how lucky she was now. She couldn't help but realize that being with Sango was a lot like being with her female friends as they exited the building. Now everything was right and life was great.

But of course, this being Kagome's life, things like that don't last very long.

The two stopped when they heard a clatter of books. Not too far away from them was Miroku, eyes wide opened and books scattered all over the ground. Immediately remembering Miroku's talk of Sango, Kagome blanched. Truthfully, she always thought Miroku wasn't serious about Sango since from what she heard, he was always fooling around with girls. But from the look on his face, that didn't really seem like the situation.

Kagome looked at her arm linked with Sango's and back at Miroku again.

Damn it.

Damn it all.

Daisuke spread his papers about in sudden panic.

How could he lose it?! Of all the things he could possibly lose, how could he lose it?!

It wasn't in any of his books...or in his binders or under any of his papers. He looked frantically in his backpack but it still wasn't there. He looked under the table, on the ground around him, and threw his papers around in frustration. He quickly checked it pockets, but again, it wasn't there.

Daisuke looked around in the library and spotted Inuyasha sitting across from him. He shot from his position and to Inuyasha's side. Before Inuyasha could do anything, Daisuke pulled his up by yanking his shirt.

"Where is it?!" he hissed.

"What?" Inuyasha asked in an irritated tone as he tried to pry Daisuke's fingers off his shirt.

"My pen! Where's my pen?!"

"Pen?--"

"Yes! It's purple and makes the clicky noise--" Daisuke let Inuyasha go and started to pace.

"I don't have it--"

"Don't fool with me, Inuyasha! I saw you eyeing my pen a lot time now, and I know you've been just waiting for the right moment to snatch it from me." Daisuke stopped in his pacing and pointed an accusing finger at him.

"You're crazy. I don't have your fucking pen."

Before he could make another accusation, Daisuke stopped himself as realization hit him. "Wait, I know. Miroku must've stolen it! He's been eyeing it too." With that, Daisuke shot off to the library exit, ignoring the librarian who shouted after him ("No running in the library! Daisuke! Why are you still running!? Daisuke!).

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and scowled in annoyance at the mess Daisuke had made. He gathered the dropped papers and placed them in a neat pile on the table. He gathered his own stuff as he silently wondered where Kagome was. It had only been a day since the competition and he was kind of expecting to see her around more.

Hn, strange.

He squished all his books in his bag and walked out the library, twirling a purple pen in hand whilst it all.

Miroku quickly composed himself and picked up his books. He calmy walked over to them with the usual charming smile on his face. He stopped in front of them and bowed to Sango.

"What a pleasant surprise to see you here, Sango."

Sango blinked. "Hello."

He straightened and smiled at Kagome. She squirmed under his gaze and realized that Sango and she were still arm in arm. She quickly withdrew it. "Um, what's up?" she said lamely. Well, she couldn't really think of anything else to say.

"Ah, Kagome! That's right. I have something of a private matter to talk to you of. And if you will excuse us, dear Sango..."

Sango shot Kagome a worried look. "I'm sure whatever it is, you can say it in front of the both of us."

"No, I insist. Please do not worry, Miss Sango. It will only take a few minutes."

Kagome noted the hardness and bitterness she heard in Miroku's voice. She was worried. Well, everyone got beated up at least once in their lifetime.

Kagome followed Miroku gloomily as he sauntered on behind the nearby building and away from Sango. Once they turned the corner, she instantly started to wonder when he'd start beating her up. Maybe his muscles twitch every time he's about to attack so she'll at least have some sort of advantage since she was no martial artist. Then it hit her. They were still walking.

Miroku hadn't stopped or turn around to start throwing punches at her. He was still walking, books tucked under his arm and hands in his pocket. It wasn't too long when Kagome realized that he had no destination in mind. Now his motives were questionable. There was always that possiblity that he wasn't pissed at her. Highly unlikey, but still, a possibility.

"Well, I have to say I'm quite surprised."

Okay, so not pissed, but more curious.

"So when did it happen?" he asked.

Kagome blinked. Now confusion. "What?"

Miroku stopped and turned around to face her. "You're going out with Sango, are you not?"

It took all the self-restraint she had to not laugh at his face. His face looked so honest, she was close to believing that he was really serious. Oh, wait. He was.

Kagome quickly recomposed herself and cleared her throat. "No, we not."

"I saw you two linking arms."

Was that accusation in his tone?

"Ah, yes, that." Now she was in desperation for a good lie. Kagome looked from the corner of her eye and spotted the track team training on the field. Perfect.

"Yes, well, I was planning to join the track team and Sango happened to know the coach so she was kind enough to show me to him."

It was such a good lie, Kagome was proud of herself. But much to her misfortune, Miroku didn't seem very convinced. Well, that was what it looked like.

"Really?" he asked with cocked eyebrow.

"Yes and if you excuse me, I'm going to go find the coach--"

"Oh, well then I'll take you there. I know the coach pretty well myself."

Before Kagome could say anything, Miroku started to walked towards the field, not giving her much of a choice but to follow.

"Okay," she said in a small voice. Guess she was going to be in the track team now. Well, it didn't seem too bad. Sure, it was totally unexpected and she never anticipated of doing it this year, but the school's team was supposedly very good.

So now her great, life-saving lie was now leading her into the road of track.

nkdsfia;vsja. [AN: I call this computer gibberish. ^_^ You'll be seeing this a lot.]

When they reached the field, most of the team were running laps. And they were fast. She wondered what rank she'd be in this team. She wasn't slow, that was for sure. Maybe this wasn't too bad. She'll use this track team thing as "an opportunity to measure herself." Yes, that made it sound much more cooler.

Miroku spotted the coach on the bleachers. "Ah, there's Coach Manji."

Kagome followed his gaze.

Hn. Funny how the coach was a woman. No wonder Miroku was skeptical. Pfft. Some great, life-saving lie that was.

"Coach Manji!" Miroku called out, waving his arm.

Coach Manji looked up. She was a middle-aged woman with dark shoulder-length hair, and she was pretty. No wonder Miroku knew her. She waved back and motioned him to come up.

Miroku gestured Kagome to followed him as he climbed up the bleachers.

"Why, Coach Manji, you've grown prettier!"

"What do you want, Miroku?" she asked with a hint of a smile playing on her lips.

"A friend of mine here would like to join your track team. I hope it's not too late."

"Of course not." Coach Manji looked behind Miroku to examine Kagome.

"Hm, slender, yes. Small and slim, which is another good thing." She looked up. "You have a body built for speed, young man. I'm surprised you didn't sign up eariler."

Kagome smiled weakly.

"I take it you've been in track before."

She nodded. "I was in the track team at Evergreen High."

"In America?" Kagome nodded again. "Impressive. Well, I think your chances here are pretty good." Yay.

She didn't whether to count this as a bad thing or good thing. Well, by the end of the day, she became a new member of the Yusako High Track Team.

Fantastic.

Stupid lie...

Kagome walked to her dorm with a satisfied grin on her face. She had finished all her homework at the library all before night fall. Sure, she joined the track team against her will and now had Miroku watching her, but at least she finished homwork which was a definite pointer. She walked in to see Inuyasha come out of the shower (and yes, completely clothed).

"Hi," she piped.

"Yo." Inuyasha pulled out a sports magazine from his drawer and sat on his bed. "I heard you joined the track team."

Wow, word sure did travel fast.

"Yeah."

"I guess you were serious, then."

She blinked. Huh. "Serious about what?"

Inuyasha looked up. "You said that if I went back to high jumping, you'd join the track team."

Kagome stayed motionless as she tried to recall herself ever saying such a thing. When did she....oh, yeah. She gave a short laugh. "I did, didn't I?"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

"What?" she asked defensively.

"Nothing," he replied. "I just think you're stupid."

"What?"

"And annoying--"

"Hey!"

"--and someone who I should roll eyes at."

"You're not making it better!"

"I'm not trying to."

"Well, then you're loud and idiotic."

"I'm NOT loud."

"But idiotic."

"I'm not--"

"You're not gonna get anywhere by saying 'I'm not, I'm not'." she feigned a dorky voice for him.

"I do NOT sound like that."

"That' what you think."

Instead of retorting, Inuyasha merely glared back at her. He thrusted his magazine in front of his face and fell back onto the bed with a clear 'thump.'

The corner of Kagome's lip twitched irritably. What a jerk. She stalked towards the bathroom with every intent to take a nice, long, warm bath. She was half way there when she noticed something on the floor. She cocked her head as she picked it up. It was a wallet picture. It was a picture of Inuyasha with his arm over a girl's shoulder. A pretty girl's shoulder. She had a pleasant smile on her face and her blue eyes shone brightly. Inuyasha was...he looked happy. He was wearing his trademark smirk, but he was...happy. But none of that was what scared her. What scared her was the girl in the picture. She--she looked a lot like her.

It was almost as if she was looking at a picture of herself. It almost seemed like that.

Kagome could feel herself blanched. But how?

Inuyasha looked from behind his magazine and saw Kagome standing there, seeming immobile. He frowned. "You just die or something?"

Kagome suddenly whirled around and Inuyasha saw the picture in her hand. It was a picture of him and...her. He suddenly lunged forward and snatched it from her hands. She didn't react to it though. She just stood there and stared at him. Slowly, her eyes lowered to the floor.

She cleared her throat but her voice was small. "Who's that?"

"No one," he said hastily.

She looked up at him, almost scared to ask. "Is that...is that Kikyou?"

"I--" he started, but then he saw the look on her face. He suddenly saw the saddness and tiredness in her eyes. She was tired of it. He could see it. She was tired of being left out. She was tired of people shunning her when it came to this. She knew that he probably wouldn't answer her, but she asked anyways. He didn't want to be the one to promote that look in her eyes.

"Yes," he said in a firm voice.

Suddenly there was a boom and the room shook very slightly. The look in Kagome's eyes disappeared instantly as she groaned. "Oh no..."

Inuyasha looked around, confused. "What? What just happened?"

Kagome looked annoyed. "They're at it again. Daisuke and Miroku," she explained. "Something about a purple pen. They were at it all day."

"Oh."

Maybe it was time he gave it back before Daisuke destroyed the entire school campus looking for it.

"Where are you going?" he asked when Kagome started towards the door.

"To see if I can break this up. It's getting ridiculous, don't you think?"

She pulled on her jacket and reached for the door.

"You're not asking me."

Kagome stopped and turned around. "I'm sorry?"

His eyes were downcasted and confused as he asked. "You're not going to ask anymore?"

Realizing what he meant, Kagome shook her head. "No."

Inuyasha looked at her, takened back. "Why?" he asked softly.

Kagome shrugged. "It's not any of my business, is it? Everything's really up to you. If you're not ready to tell me then I can't really do anything about that. I'll just wait until you're ready."

"You would do that?" She nodded. He watched her for a moment, more confused than before. "How could you -- Why would you?"

She looked at him, really looked at him. Not as the high jumper so many people idolised. Not as Inuyasha. Not as anyone. Just him.

"Because it doesn't matter," she said honestly. "You're you. If you feel you're not ready, then I'll wait."

* * *

Good news: they did settle the problem and Daisuke got back his pen.

Bad news: Now he just shot glares at Inuyasha, much to his annoyance, and checked his pockets every five minutes to make sure the pen was still there. But the only one bothered by him was Inuyasha so everyone else was basically happy.

He was definitely different from the Daisuke she was used to.

"Yes, this is Daisuke when he blows a fuse in his brain." Miroku would say.

Surprisingly, over a pen.

But it wasn't too long 'til Daisuke calmed himself and returned to the Daisuke Kagome was familiar with. So all was well (so far), and they were all watching Daisuke's T.V. since he was the only one who had one in his dorm.

"I don't get it," Inuyasha said as they watched "The Matrix" the tenth time. "Why do you get a T.V. and the rest of us don't?"

"'Cause I'm dorm head," Daisuke replied smugly. "I'm supposedly more responsible than all of you and I spend more time studying than watching T.V."

Chiaki snorted in his soda and started coughing as he tried to blow it out of his nose. Miroku patted his back while trying to muffle his chortles. Suddenly, the door burst opened and Toji and Shun stumbled in.

Daisuke glared at them. "Seriously, it's called, 'knocking,' people."

Ignoring him, the two pushed themselves to their feet. They seemed out of breath as if they came here in a rush.

"The lunch lady chased you out of the cafeteria, didn't she?" Miroku said with a confident nod.

Shun looked at him incredulously. "No, she only does that to you." He turned his head towards the others. "Anyways, there's this hot foreigner chick standing out at our gate."

Toji slumped down to the ground with a bewildered look on his face. "I wasn't even interested in her. Why was I even running?"

"Because I was," Shun said.

The look faded from his face. "Oh, yeah..."

Miroku rose to his feet. "Foreigner?"

Shun gulped for more air before continuing. "Yeah. At first, I thought she was just some Otasku schoolgirl hanging around. But then I saw she had blue eyes!"

Kagome blinked then she shook her head. No way. The only black haired, blue eyed girl she knew was hundreds of miles away. It couldn't be.

Miroku was already on his way to the door with Chiaki close on his heels. Kagome cocked her head curiously. Maybe he wasn't serious about Sango afterall.

"I think she's a bit tomboyish too. Well, that is if all tomboys wear cargo shorts and t-shirts," Toji said as he groped for the dumplings on the table. "Did your mom make these? Fantasic!" Toji exclaimed when Daisuke nodded.

Kagome remained silent as she processed all the infomation that was given to her. A dark-haired, blue-eyed girl who was wore cargo shorts and a t-shirt. Her eyes widened marginally.

No way.

No, no, no way.

Barely a second later, Kagome was up on her feet and out the door. Inuyasha stared after her before turning to the remaining others. "Now I'm curious."

Shun blinked. "Why?"

Inuyasha stood up and grabbed his jacket. "Kagome isn't interested in girls."

Shun slowly stood and followed Inuyasha. "A boy who interested in girls? That's new."

Daisuke quickly followed the two. "Yeah, it's weird. I mean, Kagome's a pretty boy. He was bound to catch some girl's eye. Surprisingly, he rejected every single one who asked him out and you know how many cute girls Otsaku has."

"A lot," Toji remarked.

Inuyasha shrugged on his jacket. None of the others knew about Kagome. Popularity with the girls wasn't what sparked up his curiosity. It was her startling interest in this foreign one.

Once Kagome reached the school gate, there was an unusual large assortment of boys gathered around the area and leaning on the brick wall that supported the gates was the foreign girl. She still couldn't see the girl's face though. Too many boys.

As she neared, Kagome wanted to laugh as she heard the boys' failed attempts to speak to her in English.

"Haw du yu du?"

"Plas tu mat yu."

Unfortunately, Kagome was too short to see the girl's reaction to all of this. Suddenly, Kagome stumbled forward when someone knocked into her. She turned around to see Miroku jogging forward, smoothing out his hair in the process. Kagome pushed her way through and when she saw who it was, her throat was too clogged up with shock to say anything.

Miroku approached the bored looked foreign girl and said in perfect English. "Pleased to meet you." He held out his hand for her to take. But the girl merely looked at it and back at him.

"Notice anything missing?" she said in Japanese.

Miroku frowned. He wasn't only confused that she spoke in Japanese but also what she had meant. Then something caught his attention. Her chest.

It was flat, meaning there were no breast. Meaning this "girl" was a "boy."

Crap.

Chiaki realized this and started to laugh, clutching his sides. Miroku bowed apologetically and started to drag Chiaki away when he saw Kagome, frozen in her spot.

"Kagome? What are you doing here? I thought you don't like girls."

But Kagome didn't hear him. Her attention was on the foreigner in front of her. The foreigner heard Miroku and faced Kagome with equal surprise and delight.

"Kagome!"

Kagome found her tongue and stuttered.

"A-Aki?!"

End of Chapter 7

AN: Sorry I miss the update day but I fell asleep before I could update yesterday. And today, my family decided to go to Monterey Bay. So yeah. Me update now.

Also, I know this chapter probably has a lot of grammar mistakes in it, but I'll edit it later. Me promise.

Is Inuyasha still a hanyou, but in disguise?

No, he's human...for now...

How will Kikyou die?

I can't tell you that. But you will all know soon.

What's AU mean?

AU means Alternate Universe.

Okay, now that's done. Happy Birthday, Moon_Kitsune!

And Precious, your reviews make me giggle. ^_^