InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love Yourself for Thyself ❯ Chapter 3

Beep…beep…beep…bee-SLAM!

 

It was morning. The last day of school!

 

Kagome moaned as she sat up in her bed. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and stretched to get rid of the kinks that formed while she was sleeping.

 

She lazily got out of bed and went to her closet. She pulled out a peach, knee-length skirt and a tan, sleeveless shirt. Then she wore tan sandals.

 

Kagome went down the stairs to eat breakfast. While she was going down, she smelt eggs, toast, and bacon. Her mouth started to water.

 

When she arrived at the kitchen, her mother turned around and smiled. “Good morning Kagome. Are you ready for your last day of school sweetie?”

 

Kagome smiled back. “Morning mom. Of course I'm ready!”

 

Then she muttered under her breath, “I have been ready since school started.”

 

“What was that?”

 

“Nothing!”

 

She sat down and her little brother Souta walked in and her Grandpa followed soon after. The whole family sat around the table and ate breakfast. After that Kagome went back upstairs to wash her face, brush her teeth, and pull up her hair. She grabbed her book bag and went outside to catch the bus.

 

The usual thing happened. She walks into the bus, people snicker, and she finds an empty seat. Then, the bus arrives at school, she walks out, and snickering joins with any possible torture that one can take.

 

When she arrived at her locker, she was expecting graffiti on her locker again like yesterday, but surprisingly there weren't. She sighed in relief.

 

But when she opened the locker, mud fell on top of her. Laughter echoed throughout the hallway and she heard someone say, “Go back to the farm you pig!”

 

That's when she snapped. She started to bawl and ran out of the school and went to the bleachers by the school's track. She sat under the bleachers and just wrapped her arms around her legs. She rocked back and forth. In the corner of her eye, she saw a shard of a glass and grabbed it.

 

“I am fat, I am a loser, no one likes me, no one cares about me. I will be alone, always be nothing,” she sobbed and sliced under her arms and watched it bleed.

 

She missed her first and second period. The teachers asked if anyone knew where she was and they would say, “Who cares? That fat loser is probably stuffing her face at a buffet!” or “The pig probably ran home back to its pen.”

 

Then the teacher would scold at them, but it didn't help.

 

Lunch came and Sango was surprised that Kagome wasn't at the lunch table. She missed her bus that morning and had to call a neighbor to drop her off. When she arrived at school, the bell rang for first period and wasn't able to see Kagome.

 

Then she felt a hand caressing her butt and she knew who it was. She whipped around and slapped Miroku on the face.

 

“You pervert!” she yelled at him.

 

Miroku rubbed his now red face and smiled at her. “Gee m'lady, you looked so sad and I wanted to cheer you up.”

 

Sango stared at him with narrow slits. “I was concerned at where my friend is, why don't you go back to your posse?”

 

“Oh, you mean that chubby girl that you always hang out with?”

 

“You've seen her?”

 

“No, but I'll help you look for her.”

 

Sango grinned. `Maybe there's more to him than being a pervert.'

 

So, they went out looking for her. Their last destination was the track. They walked around, calling her name. Miroku saw a figure underneath the bleachers. They ran to it and saw Kagome rocking back and forth with a piece of glass in her hand. And, they caught a whiff of mud on her and nearly wheezed since it smelt like it came from a…farm?

 

Sango saw cuts under her arms. “Kagome, what happened to you? What did you do to yourself?”

 

She knelt by her friend and hugged her, despite the caked mud on her friend.

 

“I came to school and opened by locker. Mud fell on top of me and everyone laughed at me. I couldn't take it and ran here, so I missed my first two classes,” Kagome explained.

 

Sango frowned. “But tell me, why did you cut yourself?”

 

There was a moment of silence. “I felt…numb…”

 

During their conversation, Miroku felt bad for her. He knew the whole school made fun of her because she was overweight and no one else in the school was, but he never stopped it. He could plainly see that she was the sweetest person, despite what she did to herself.

 

“Come, let's go to the girl's locker room and get you cleaned off. Do you have spare clothes?” asked Sango.

 

Kagome nodded and went to the gym.

 

“Can I help?” asked Miroku with a lecherous smile.

 

Sango sent him a `If you take one peek, I'll come and kick you ass,' look. Miroku backed away.

 

Sango helped her friend undress and clean her hair and body of dried mud. Sango broke in Yura's locker and took some shampoo and soap. Both of them agreed not to tell anyone what they did.

 

Kagome went to her locker and took out her sweatpants and a t-shirt and they went off to the office to get passes since the third period bell rang a long time ago.

 

Third period went pass fast cause when Kagome walked in, there was fifteen minutes left.

 

Fourth period came and it went by slow. All they did was watch a scientific movie of plate tectonics. Every now and then she would feel a paper ball hit on the back of her head. She just ignored it. There was several minutes' left of school.

 

The bell rang and everyone cheered. Students raced to get out of the school building and to start their summer vacation. Kagome was the last to get out.

 

The walk home was at a slow pace. In her mind, she was singing, `I am free! I am free! No more teasing and no more pranks!'

 

When she was near her home, she saw InuYasha drive by in a molten red BMW. Her eyes followed him until he was out of view.

 

She licked her lips and said, “I hope I'll get to see him over vacation!” And continued her quest to get back home.