InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Engaging Enemies ❯ Chapter 5 New Guy ( Chapter 5 )

Here's your chappie-ter. Ikuyo!

Chapter 5 New Guy

"Shut up in there, wench! I'm tired of hearing your damn bawling!" Inuyasha yelled as he banged on the wall that separated their rooms.

"Leave me alone! I can cry if I want to!"

"I said shut up! Nobody wants to hear your crying `cuz it's giving me headache!"

"Then go away! Nobody said you have to listen! Osuwari!" Kagome grabbed her talisman from her night stand as she said the last part. Satisfied by the sudden thud of Inuyasha being thrown into the wall, Kagome laid back down as she buried her face into the pillow.

She had been crying since she came to the Kanashii's house. She had forced herself to not cry around the others as she came in. She knew it was impossible to hide anything from the inu youkai demon family, but she tried to anyway. She didn't want them to get the wrong idea; the idea that she didn't like being there. True as it was, Izayoi and Old Lady Kanashii were very kind and hospitable to her. She didn't see too much of Inutaisho for him to say more than five words and she hardly saw Sesshoumaru except at school. Whenever she met him in the hallway by chance, he always glided past her, she never being able to discern any emotion or meaning to his face.

She had gone straight to her room and basically cried herself to sleep. When she woke up the next morning, she remembered she didn't have school and had lain around in bed until Izayoi shooed her into the bathroom to clean since she looked a mess. In the shower she allowed herself to cry, despite the fact that she tried to not allow herself to shed tears seeing as nothing was going to change her situation, not even crying her heart out to someone who didn't give a rat's ass about her or her pity problems.

She finished washing and went back to her bed to sleep, seeing as her frustration got the best of her. When she woke, she found Ayame, Rin, and Sango sitting by her, sympathy for her evident on their faces. The girls had come by after hearing what happened with Kagome and Houjou. They wanted to cheer her up by going to see a movie that Kagome had been waiting for months for, but Kagome declined the offer. Then they suggested going out for ice cream. She denied that too. They ended up leaving since all of their plans back fired. When they left, their sympathy still lingered in the room as Kagome suddenly bursted into tears, muffling her cries with her pillow. Unfortunately, Inuyasha's room was right next to hers and he could her the cries very clearly, even without his keen doggie hearing.

Inuyasha was finally able to peel himself off the wall and stalked out of his room. He banged open the door to Kagome's room, and marched in. He was great by the site of Kagome almost choking herself with the pillow. He grabbed the pillow out of her hands so that she could look at him.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?! You've been crying since yesterday and it's really riding on my nerves!"

"Osuwari! That's none of your business! Besides, why would you care?! You're just a cold, heartless bastard, so get out of my room!"

When Inuyasha was free of the subjugation spell, he pushed himself up off the floor and glared at Kagome threateningly. "Bitch, if you don't stop doing that, you'll so regret it! And this ain't your room. This is my house so you can get out!"

"I told you not to tell me what to do! Osuwari!" She said holding up the talisman. He flew out of the room and into the bathroom. "Now leave me alone!" She yelled as she slammed the door close.

Inuyasha got right back up once the spell had worn off and went right back into the room. "What the hell is the matter with you?! I was just asking! You didn't have to bite my head off!" Kagome didn't respond as she was lying on her bed without so much as a word. "Do you hate me so much that you gotta cry about it, is that it?" She still didn't say anything. "That's it, isn't it? Fine! Not like I care!" He turned to leave but stopped when he heard her mumble something. It was so indistinct that even he couldn't understand. He faced her to hear her better. "What'd you say?"

He heard her sigh as she sat up facing the window. "It's about Houjou." She heard him mutter a `Feh!' but ignored it. "I hadn't told him about our…ordeal and he found out when Kikyou told him. He was hurt when I talked to him yesterday, saying he wasn't sure if could believe me or not."

"Why didn't you tell him? That would have been the smart thing to do considering the fact that he did find out by someone else."

"I tried to, but I didn't know how to break it to him without me hurting him. I even asked him to meet me after school earlier this week to tell him but it just didn't seem right. I mean, he deserves more than what I did to relieve the situation for me. He probably hates me."

"I wouldn't count on it being anything else. Look, that's your problem and it doesn't help it any more by just sitting around here bawling about it all day. You should just go on up to him and apologize. If he doesn't see how hurt you are and doesn't accept it, then he's not worth it."

Kagome looked at him over her shoulder. `Is he… no, that can't be. But it sounded like he was being nice to me and…offering me advice. What changed him so suddenly?'

Inuyasha saw the look that she was giving him and it disturbed him, very. "What the hell are you lookin' at, bitch?! You got an eye problem, or are you just trying to freak me out?!"

The look on her face changed immediately. "I was just thinking that were actually acting nice and was showing my gratitude, but apparently I was wrong."

"Two things, bitch; one, I don't do nice; two, that's bad when you freak out even a hanyou. And if you were showing gratitude, then say you're sorry."

"Sorry? For what?!"

"For sitting me twice when I didn't do nothin'! What else do you think I mean?"

"What do you mean `didn't do anything'? You were being a jerk!"

"I was not!"

"You were too!"

"Was not!"

"Were too!"

"Not!"

"Were! Shut up and osuwari!"

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"Okay, class. Today we are learning about…"

Kagome was staring out the window, trying to think of ways of apologizing to Houjou without doing too much damage. She sighed as she tried to pay attention to Mrs. Shironaka when a piece of paper landed in front of her. She opened it up and saw a note. "Talk to Houjou, yet?"

She looked up at Ayame who looking back at her. "No," She mouthed.

"Why not?" Ayame mouthed in return.

"Tell you later." Ayame nodded as she turned back to the front.

Kagome sighed again. Since two days ago, Houjou hadn't said or even looked at Kagome. That made her feel far away from the world since Houjou nicest guy in the world and even he wouldn't look her in the eye. For the hundredth time that day, she sighed heavily.

"What the hell's wrong with you?"

She eyed the hanyou sitting next to her and looked away. "Nothing a heartless dog like you would understand," she snapped quietly.

"Attention, class. We have a new student joining us today. Your new classmate, Yamatou Kouga. He has just arrived from Osaka three weeks ago, so I would like for to make him feel at home here at Takeida High."

Suddenly, the door opened slowly as a guy with long black hair in a ponytail at the nape of him neck and striking sky blue eyes walked in, blushing very lightly. He bowed to the teacher, then to the class once he shut the door.

Kagome noticed out of the side of her eye Ayame perking up, staring, really practically drooling, at the guy.

"Now, to place you at a lab table…"

"Oh, oh, he can seat here with me and Shippou!" Ayame said waving her hand in excitement.

"Very well. Mr. Yamatou, you'll be seated with Ms. Chinai and Mr. Tsune."

`Yes!' Ayame said in her head. She smiled brightly as the new guy walked over to the seat next to Shippou. "Hi, I'm Ayame and this is Shippou. I hope you'll feel welcome here at Takeida High," She said cheerfully as he acknowledged her comment with a slight nod of his head.

"Thanks." Kouga turned his head to scan the classroom and all of his classmates. That's when the most beautiful, dazzling, gorgeous goddess of his dreams caught his sight. She caught the look he gave her and smiled at him delightfully. He felt his heart melt and then reform with a new kind of emotion that hit him hard as it began pounding against its prison. He turned back to Ayame. "Hey, Ayame, who is she?" He asked pointing over his shoulder at his goddess of wonder and beauty.

"Huh? Oh, that's Kagome."

"Do you know her?"

"Yeah, we're friends. Why do you ask?"

"She's the most elegant being in the entire universe," He mumbled as he turned his attention at his wonder, ignoring Ayame's last question.

Ayame felt a deep, sinking feeling in her chest where her heart used to be. She sadly turned her attention back to Mrs. Shironaka, who was mumbling on about something that made no sense to her.

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"So, how have things between Kagome and Inuyasha been? Are they getting along well yet?"

"Houshi-sama, if they are practically trying to throw the other in the dirt and hit the other on accident and look like they're ready to tear the others guts out while Kagome keeps sitting Inuyasha whenever she gets pissed off enough, would you think they're getting along fine?"

"Well, my beautiful Sango, they could only be showing affection for each other. They say the more two people fight, the more they like each other. Applying that theory, you must like me a lot, eh, Sango?"

"Keep dreaming, houshi-sama. You'll never get what you wish for from me."

"But, Sango, dear, I am dreaming, and they say the more you want something, the more of a chance you'll get it. And from what I'm dreaming right now, our future together is a very bright and lovely and enchanting one."

"You hentai houshi! Get your hands off of me!" Sango suddenly slapped the young monk as he was caught red-handed with his hand on Sango's rear. She walked off, looking for some actual decent company.

"Gee, Miroku, by the color of that handprint, you two must really like each other." Shippou walked up to him as Miroku rubbed his cheek fondly.

"Ah, yes, Shippou. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

"What does that have anything to do with Sango smacking you?"

"Nothing, Shippou, nothing at all, my young companion. But maybe I'll tell you something when you've aged in wisdom a little more."

"That what you told me when I asked you about why Kagome and Inuyasha hate each other's guts."

"Not necessarily. I said I would tell you that when you are a little older physically. What I meant just a moment ago was for when you became wiser in mind."

"You're an ass, Miroku. You know that?"

"Now, I've heard that a lot lately. I wonder why? Is it because I said something? Or maybe something I did?"

`I wonder why…' Shippou thought sarcastically. `Baka-hentai.'

"I'd say it's something that you didn't say. The only reason girls would call you that is because you don't know how to keep those hands to yourself."

Shippou and Miroku turned around to see Inuyasha's face spotted with dirt and a few twigs in his hair. "Inuyasha, got sat again?" Miroku asked in a too-cheerful mood.

"Shut it, monk."

"Did Kagome send you flying into another tree, again?" Shippou asked.

"Mind your own business, kid." Inuyasha wiped the dirt from his face and then flipped his hair to brush out all the twigs in his hair. When he finished, he looked up at his friends and saw their amused faces from his awkward grooming. "What the hell are you two bastards looking at?"

"Nothing, nothing at all, my dear hanyou." Miroku and Shippou immediately straightened their faces.

Inuyasha flipped his hair back up and saw the new guy. He followed his eyes and saw that he was staring at Kagome in a weird way as Kagome was stretching to do a few laps around the track with Sango and Ayame. "What's up with the new guy?"

Miroku and Shippou looked over at who Inuyasha was talking about. "What is his name again?"

"Kouga; he just moved here from Osaka," Shippou stated.

"Ah, I see. Well it seems our new friend has taken an interest in young Kagome. Looks like you've got some competition, Inuyasha."

"What do you mean by that?! I've got competition for what?!"

"For Kagome's affections, of course. But then who could resist a young beauty like her. Surely, I would not get in your way of your girl seeing as I've got my eye set for Sango."

"Feh, I'll keel over before I ever even think about liking that bitch!"

"Inuyasha, you do realize that a bitch is a female dog of another male's mate? So by calling her that, you're referring to her as your mate," Shippou cleverly said, being rewarded with a large lump on his head. "Hey! What did I do?!"

"Feh!" Inuyasha walked over to Kagome and the girls. "Hey, wench! You better think twice about stretching like that before someone, like Kouga, starts gawking at you, not that I see a reason why a guy would want to even give the time of day to look at you."

"Osuwari. Go away before I decide to throw you into a tree across town."

"Wench, if you don't stop doing that…HEY! Get back here!" He yelled from the ground as the girls had already left him in the dust, literally.

"FYI, wench also means prostitute or some kind of maid, so, technically, you're also calling her your whore."

"Fuck off, kid!"

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`Okay, that guy is totally creeping me out. Every time I look at him, he's staring at me and doesn't look away! He's really got to stop looking at me or I'll give him something to look at!'

Kagome tried to duck away from everyone in the class as the bell for second period rang.

"Hey, Kagome, wait a minute!" Kagome felt a slight chill go up her back as she turned around to see Kouga waving for her to stop and look.

Kagome plastered on a fake smile as she tried to not want to run. "Hi, Kouga. What's up?"

Kouga grabbed her hands as her eye began to twitch very slightly. `He's touching me! This guy that I don't know is touching me!'

"Kagome, I know this is kind of quick but you seem like everything that I've ever dreamed about in a girl. You're the pearl of my eye that I've not seen until now. You're the goddess of my dreams that I've only pictured until now. You're the sunshine of my darkness, lighting my day every time I'm just in the presence of you. Kagome, will you do me the pleasure of being my mate?"

"WHAT?!!!" She yelled. "You want me to be your what?!!"

"My mate. Something wrong?"

`Yeah, I got a friggin' lunatic that just asked me to have sex with him!!!' "No, Kouga. It's just…that I can't…do that for you. I'm…already taken." `Why the hell am I lying to myself? Already taken? I can't possibly be saying that I actually am Inuyasha's fiancée, could I? What the hell?!'

"You mean, there's someone else. Don't tell me you're talking about that dog-shit you sit next to? I thought you hate him? Unless of course, he's forcing you to be his mate. That's the lowest thing I've ever heard a dog do! Want me to take care of him? I'll be ready to tear him to shreds for you."

Kagome sighed. `Where the heck does he get this? Did he even hear what I just said?' On the one hand, she would have preferred to have Inuyasha tortured, but she had to consider how Izayoi would feel about her son being beaten up, though Kagome didn't see how Kouga could manage to even hurt the dumb inu hanyou.

"No, that's okay Kouga. There's nothing you can do about it. Look, I gotta go before I'm late for class."

"Okay, Kagome! I'll see you later my mate!"

Kagome froze in her spot, her face flaring from the uncertain amount of heat filling her cheeks. `What did he just call me? Mate?!'

Kagome stomped down the hall fuming towards the science wing. `First, I gotta deal with Inuyasha and Kikyou in all of my classes every friggin' day. Then I find out that I have to marry the aforementioned mutt. Next, I gotta live with the guy until my mom and grandfather get back. Suddenly, Houjou's mad at me and I can't get him to talk with me. Now, all of a sudden, this new guy comes up to and asks me to be his MATE!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD?!!!'

"Hello Kagome. You seem to be angry. Is there anything I can do to help you with your day, today?"

"And now I have a friggin' hentai that's about to eat dirt for the rest of his damn LIFE!!!"

Kagome walked in the classroom to let down some steam as Miroku was trying to pick himself out of the deep pit of Kagome's fury. "What did I do?" He asked innocently.

"Being a perv, that's what, houshi." He watched as Sango made her way into the classroom in tempts of helping Kagome with her new problem."

Everyone was looking at Kagome with a very scared look on their faces.

Okay, that's all for today. Sorry. Please vote on my polls or I will be very sad. JK

(It's the freaky face guy! -Conan Edogawa -Detective Conan - Case Closed)