InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Into the Night ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Candlelight flickered off hundreds of mirrored surfaces. The air was heavy with the scent of sandalwood incense. Though the sky was blue and the sun was shining outside, inside Tsubaki’s house, it felt like the stroke of midnight. Izayoi looked across the small table at her aunt, respectfully silent as the white-haired kuro-miko stroked her hands in the air over a softball-sized crystal ball. When Tsubaki’s was satisfied with her work, she set the ball on the black velvet covered surface of the table. Three crystal balls sat before the kuro-miko. One was made of smoky quartz. One was clear quartz. The third was purple amethyst. She was ready to begin.

“What is troubling you, my child?”

Izayoi’s little hands twisted together on her lap. “It’s InuYasha. He’s been spending way too much time with a new girl at his school. I’m afraid he will lose focus and ruin everything…”

Tsubaki passed her hands over the amethyst globe. “The girls name?”

Izayoi felt the tension in her body subside. Tsubaki had been taking care of her for a long, long time. It was Tsubaki that told her everything she needed to know to catch the eye of the Inu Taisho. Tsubaki mixed the potions and cast the spells that bound the Taisho to her side, leading him to cast aside his bonded mate. Tsubaki stayed by her throughout her difficult pregnancy, and served as midwife when she gave birth to the Taisho’s hanyou son. Tsubaki made sure that Izayoi kept her youthful beauty, though she was really nothing more than a human hime.

“The girl’s name is Kikyo.”

With the advent of the twentieth century, the smoky quartz globe foretold the events that led to the extinction of Japan’s demon population, leading the Taisho and his family to safety and prosperity in the United States of America.

With her big eyes full of shadows, and waves of ebony hair to her feet, Izayoi had taken her place as one of the most famous young ingénues of the silent screen era, cast as the love interest of Douglas Fairbanks. The same year, InuYasha celebrated his one-hundredth birthday.

The kuro-miko stared into the amethyst globe for what seemed like a very long time. Softly, she instructed, “bring me a lock of this Kikyo’s hair.”

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Kikyo had been making the long walk from her mother’s apartment to school every morning, and back again every afternoon since the beginning of the term, while Kagome rode with InuYasha in his big red Mercedes.

Kagome looked about twelve, and dull as dishwater. The other girls boycotted the knee socks that were part of the school uniform, and rolled up their pleated skirts at the waist, to show more leg. Not Kagome. She kept every button on her crisp white shirt buttoned, red tie in a regulation knot. Before and after gym class, the girls’ locker room was filled with students sporting the latest styles from Victoria’s Secret, in every color of the rainbow. Thongs were the norm, and high-cut bikini panties and low-rise boy shorts were considered conservative. Kagome was the only one who wore plain white granny panties. And yet rumors persisted that, as soon as she graduated from her senior year, she would marry InuYasha. The richest boy in school, and possibly the most handsome, as well, though some girls preferred Bankotsu, the jock, or even Miroku, the man-whore.

Kikyo’s mother had assured her that, if she just showed an interest in the hanyou, he would fall at her feet. She had even signed the waivers for breast augmentation surgery and collagen injections for her daughter’s lips, and coughed up thousands of dollars to pay for them.

Mother was wrong. Even once Kikyo began to put out, InuYasha remained loyal to Kagome, driving her back and forth to school and refusing to take part in Kikyo’s attempts to destroy her self-esteem. Still, he did stop sitting with Kagome at lunch and school assemblies, sitting beside Kikyo instead. Kikyo made sure that Kagome heard about their trips out of town, and set it up so she walked in on InuYasha kissing her on more than one occasion.

Any other girl would have retaliated, or at least broken down in tears. But not Kagome. Kagome went on as usual, hanging out and laughing with her friends, who also happened to be the most popular students in school.

It made Kikyo so mad she could spit.

She had made InuYasha promise to meet her before first period, even hinting that she had a little surprise planned for him. He slid through the door after the first bell rang, casting her an apologetic glance, his little dog ears flattened against his head.

Lunch hour arrived, and Kagome had still not showed up at school. InuYasha was sweating. Kagome never ditched school. He considered calling his father, but didn’t want to suffer the fall-out.

Halfway through lunch, Sango sauntered over to his table, Miroku following after her as usual. Sango, Miroku, Bankotsu, and Bank’s cousin Jakotsu had laid claim to a table on the opposite side of the lunchroom when Kikyo started sitting with InuYasha. Sango sneered at Kikyo before addressing InuYasha. “Where’s Kagome, dog boy?”

Sango used to be his good friend. Miroku used to be his best friend, before he started fucking Kikyo. The whole situation made InuYasha feel rotten.

“Dudes, I don’t know. She didn’t meet me at the mansion this morning, and when I went over to the shrine to pick her up, her mom and Souta hadn’t seen her. I told Mom I was running late, and she would have to drive Kagome to school, but…” He waved his free hand around to signify how confused and worried he felt.

Kikyo snuggled closer to his opposite arm. She hated it when he called Mrs. Higurashi “Mom”.

“Probably in her room, crying in her pillow.” She remarked snidely.

“No. I checked her room. Her bed was made but she wasn’t there. I tried to sniff her out, but she hadn’t been there in a while.”

Kikyo seethed at the casual way he spoke of being in Kagome’s room. He had never been in her bedroom. There was no way she could take him home to meet her mother, or allow him to see their slummy apartment. “Maybe gave up on hanging around InuYasha, and found herself her own boyfriend.” Kikyo looked around the lunchroom. “Wasn’t that loser Hojo absent today as well?”

Sango balled up her fist, ready to flatten the little bitch’s nose. Miroku, always poised to react to his girlfriend’s violent gestures, grabbed her arm and pulled her away from the other girl.

InuYasha remained oblivious to the byplay, but reacted aggressively at the mention of the human boy’s name. Hojo was actually not a loser at all. He was the top-ranking senior on a fast track for a medical degree, and excelled in both track and football. In a mixed school, with demon, hanyou, and human students, that was saying a lot. “That Hobo better not even think about going anywhere near my Kagome.” InuYasha growled.

Miroku, normally the peacemaker, had to chip in. He hated the way Kikyo was treating Kagome, and couldn’t understand why InuYasha let the bitch lead him around by his dick. “So, now she’s suddenly ‘your’ Kagome.”

“She’s always been MY KAGOME, and everybody knows it. So, you two up for helping me look for her as soon as school lets out?”

Sango quickly agreed, and where Sango went, Miroku followed. Kikyo piped up. “I’ll go, too, Inu.”

“You better just go home, Kikyo. My dad had a little talk with me, and he’s not cool with us spending so much time together.” She was left gasping like a fish on dry land when the bell rang, and everyone darted off for their afternoon classes.