InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ In The Fast Lane ❯ Down Memory Lane ( Chapter 5 )

Inuyasha trudged back to the school cafeteria, confused at his actions. Why had he chased her? She was just another girl, nothing more… Or was she? Standing by the cafeteria doors he reached to open them when they swung open, to reveal a very pissed off Sango.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?!" She screamed at him, earning glances from many passing students.

"What did I do to who?" he asked trying to get passed the disgruntled human, however she blocked his way.

"Kocora! Ayami just called me and said Kocora is beside herself!" Sango poked him in the chest driving him into the wall.

"She saw something she didn't like, so what?"

"Are you that blind! She's not coming back Inuyasha, you blew your only chance."

"What chance? There was nothing I wanted from her!"

"Take a good look Inuyasha, and when you realize your mistake don't come crying to me," Sango turned on her heel and left the confused Honyou in her dust.

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Inuyasha groaned as he beat his head against a table in the school cafeteria. He had lost his appetite, along with his cockiness. He felt as if a part of him was gone and only because a stupid little girl had stepped into his life. He immediately stopped abusing his head when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Looking up he growled when he saw Kikyo.

"Where were you last night Inu-honey I thought you were going to come to my house," Kikyo asked as she smiled suggestively.

"What are you suggesting?" He growled, he did not have time to deal with her.

"I'm merely suggesting that we finish what we started yesterday."

"We never began anything yesterday, Kikyo So there is nothing to finish."

"That's not what it looked like," she smiled as she moved to straddle her self on his hips.

"No wonder Kocora was so upset yesterday," Inuyasha turned his head and growled instinctively when he saw Kouga.

"What do you want Wimpy-Wolf?" Inuyasha grinded out as he forced Kikyo off his hips where she went to sit down and pout.

"I came to give you this dog-bastard," Kouga growled as he thrusted a wooden box into Inuyasha's arms. "Really I don't know what she saw in you."

"What's this," Inuyasha glowered at the Youkai.

"You'll see when you read what's in the envelope, but let me warn you and I only want to say this once. If I ever see you near her I will rip you to shreds!" The Youkai turned on his heels and stormed out of the cafeteria with a worried Sango on his heels.

Growling in frustration Inuyasha took the exit to the school courtyard where he jumped into a tree and examined the wooden box. Tearing open the envelope that was taped to the front and addressed to his name he was somewhat surprised to find a letter. Regarding the messy writing he could smell the scent of salt on it, telling him whomever had written it had been crying. Ignoring the smell of tears he read on.

Dear Inuyasha,

This is my final good-bye. I would have came to you and told you, but I'm not in the mood or shape for it. I just want to wish you and Kikyo a happy relationship because you two looked so happy on the cafeteria table when I walked in… I also wanted to tell you that I lied to you through my teeth and what surprises me the most is that you never noticed it, let alone `smelt it'. At first I regretted it, it hurt to lie to someone that I cared for so much and that I thought I could trust. But then I found out that you and Kikyo had something going on for a while. At first I said it wasn't your fault that you had to move on but than I realized that I had waited for four years to be able to come back to you and you could have at least waited! So here was my lie, Kocora, and me we are the same. Yep that's right, that whole time you were talking to me, I was right next to you! That is what hurt the most, you didn't recognize me, didn't even realize who I was from my scent and it hurt like you would not believe.

By the time you finish reading this letter I will be gone, probable to Mexico or something, I'm not sure but just to make sure you remember me I gave you a little treat…

Hate you for the rest of my life,

Kagome

Her words stung, they dug a deep hole in his chest, bringing unwanted tears to his eyes. She really hated him but it wasn't what she thought! Who was he kidding it was exactly what she thought it was. Sango was right, he had blown his only chance and he never realized it until it was too late.

He put the letter in his pocket and opened up the wooden box. His heart shattered when he saw all the pictures of them when they were little every memory was in that little wooden box, however a growl grew in his chest when he came to pictures of Kagome and her so called family. One was of her on a mike with Kouga on the back, too close for Inuyasha's liking. At the bottom of the box was a couple of DVD's. One was labeled Revenge along with many other discs.

Forgetting about school, Inuyasha hopped into his car popped one of the many discs in his DVD player. At first it was nothing but static however it soon cleared to show an image of a dark house. Kagome soon appeared on the screen, smiling her biggest smile.

"I have decided it is my turn for revenge," she snickered quietly. "Earlier today Kouga put my bike in the rafters saying that I wasn't behaving so I had to be disciplined, so now he is being disciplined!"

The picture faded out and the next image was of a small bright kitchen where the camera seemed to be placed on the table, in the background you could hear Kagome snickering until the loud booming voice of Kouga interrupted.

"KAGOME!" He yelled as loud as he could muster as his door slammed open. Inuyasha laughed somewhat at the scene that arranged itself before him. There standing in pink bunny rabbit boxers was Kouga. Somehow Kagome had colored his hair Pink wrote `Loser' on his forehead in what looked to be pernamit marker while his face was adorned with markers making him look like a little girl who wanted to play dress up and wanted to see what she looked like in makeup only to use markers in the end. Though the fun didn't end there. On his chest in a matching marker to the writing on his forehead was a message on his chest making Inuyasha laugh harder.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN BY `I AM A LITTLE PUPPY AND I NEED TO BE LOVED'?!" Kouga bellowed at the girl who was now lying on the floor laughing. After many more hilarious moments the disc popped back out and Inuyasha replaced it with one that had `Kagome' written on it. The faces of a very excited Ayami and Kouga met Inuyasha.

"Ginta! Don't focus the camera on us, Kagome's up next!" Ayami glared at the camera, causing the person to jerk it towards the stage. Out came a Kagome who looked to be sixteen at the time. She wore a black strapless dress that hugged her torso and spread out at her thigh as it reached to the ground. She stood at the podium that was positioned on the stage and cleared her throat.

"I'm little nervous," she said into the mike laughing somewhat. "Today I have the great honor to stand before the graduates of Ecole High. I know you may all be looking at me and saying that I shouldn't be up here delivering a speech to graduates, when I, myself am not. The person that was meant to take this stage and tell you how proud she was is not with us today. Yura Morimotto, a honor role student and a role model for many, died in a horrific car accident last weekend. She was a dear friend to me and her family had came to me and asked me to take her place in this ceremony. But we must put that behind us, for today is a day of celebration for those who have worked so hard to end up where they are today.

"I may have not known many of you personally, but I know what great people you all are. Well except for the day I found slugs and leaches in my locker and note that scared me half to death. How was I to know that Grade twelve's didn't appreciate being bombarded with smoke bombs in science class. However I would like to say how incredible proud of all of you I am. You have gone against all odds and have made it through the past four years of high school and have come out as champions. I idolize you all for that.

"I was also able to see many of difficulties that you were given through the year, for four of the graduates that are out in the crowd today is the closest thing I have to family. I can remember them coming in to our apartment an odd color of green because they had to dissect frogs earlier that day.

"I want to finish off by telling you all that you have made it far in the world already and you will go much, much further in the future. Congratulations Graduates of Ecole High, the future is yours!" The stadium erupted into cheers as hats flew towards the sky and the TV became fuzzy again.

Inuyasha sat back in his car. He didn't know how to feel. Jealous, because he never was there to see her or maybe he was sad, regretful almost.

"What am I doing!?" he exclaimed as realization dawned on him. "I should be looking for her, not feeling sorry!"

Turning the car on he speed down the street, not knowing where he was going or where Kagome was…