InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Middle School Troubles ❯ Kikyo's True Self and Kagome ( Chapter 15 )

 

Kagome had been civil with Inuyasha and Kikyo the entire time they were around each other. Kagome had been keeping a countdown until the end of the school year now so she knew just how many more days she would have to suffer through of Inuyasha and Kikyo “together -time.” The whole idea just made her sick.

 

What did he see in her anyway? She was pretty, poised, smart, elegant, witty … and she was just digging herself a deeper hole. Who was she kidding? Kikyo was ten times greater than she was. No wonder Inuyasha had chosen Kikyo and left her in the dust. Even though she had come to terms with it (sort of), it didn't mean she had to like it.

 

In fact, she hadn't even talked to the “cutest couple” in school for a while. She never even saw Inuyasha by himself anymore. He always had that giddy thing hanging off his arm. Miroku and Sango's relationship, on the other hand, was going swell for them. Kagome was extremely happy about that, but her joy was being pulled down by her depressed state. She had been living her days on autopilot, but she was tiring of that. She was ready to take back the wheel and steer once again, and that was just what she was going to do.

 

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“You go on ahead, baby, I'll catch up with you later.”

 

Kagome watched in distaste as Kikyo waved at her boyfriend and told him to go on ahead of her. How sweet, Kagome thought, she's letting him off his leash.

 

Gathering up her books, she realized that she'd have to make a stop by her locker before she left for home. Groaning about her stupidity, she walked through the halls full of students scurrying to leave the school. She had never really taken notice to the fact that the students could clear out of the building faster than the eye could follow because once she had shut her locker after retrieving her forgotten book, the halls were devoid of all life.

 

This fact alone made her want to run out of the school because the empty halls were creepy in her mind. She had made it the hall with the front doors at the end of it and was close to reaching them when she was unceremoniously yanked by the arm into a janitorial closet. She remembered hiding in one of these with Sango before trying to escape the watchful eyes of Mrs. Pulami.

 

The fact that the person who had so rudely pulled her inside the cramped space was someone whom she had no desire to speak with whatsoever only dampened her mood. This was just one of those days.

 

“You're Kagome, right?”

 

“Yes, I am.”

 

“Well, I just wanted to have a little chat with you. I know how you like my boyfriend, and I think it's quite cute, actually.”

 

Kagome stared with a gaping mouth, partly from frustration and partly from embarrassment. Who did Kikyo think she was anyway? Talking all high and mighty like she knew everything when she didn't know a thing about her feelings toward Inuyasha, she was such a - a something!

 

Kikyo's whole light-hearted demeanor suddenly darkened and Kagome had to wonder if it was the same person standing before her. “I won't let you have him. Try all you want, but I'll always win. I have Inuyasha right here,” Kikyo paused and held out her hand for Kagome to see, “wrapped around my pinky finger.”

 

This statement angered Kagome considerably. She was to be civil no more.

 

“You think you can just own him like that?! He's not property. You can't control him like that, you bitch!”

 

Kikyo slapped her hard across the face, but Kagome just kept going.

 

“Inuyasha is too good for such a vial creature as your self. I haven't figured it out yet, but you're up to something. I've seen you with Naraku quite a lot and -”

 

This time Kikyo shoved her backwards where her back collided with the light-brown, wooden door that opened from the force of the collision. Kagome landed harshly on the tiled floor. She realized that she must have struck a nerve with the always cool, calm and collected Kikyo: a nerve by the name of Naraku.

 

She had truthfully only seen her with him twice out of pure coincidence. They didn't look like they were a couple or anything, but she did find it odd. Now she knew there was something up because of Kikyo's crazed reaction.

 

“What do you know, girl?” Kikyo hissed deadly as she advanced slowly on Kagome.

 

“What do you mean by that?” Kagome bit out in a feisty tone, angry at the mini-skirted, tank-topped bitch before her. Who the heck was she to talk to her in such a way?

 

Kikyo grabbed Kagome's shirt collar roughly and shook her angrily. When no response came, she proceeded to pull her up into a standing position and throw her backwards into the lockers. A loud clang resonated throughout the empty halls as Kagome slouched to the ground.

 

So far, she had been successful in keeping her cool for some strange reason, but she was about to the breaking point. All she needed was just another little push and she was ready for retaliation. That “push” came in the form of Kikyo's next statement.

 

“Well I guess you already know about the plan, but it won't do you any good. It will be like killing two birds with one stone. Naraku will be overjoyed to know that he's hurting you so much. I have to say that I'm beginning to enjoy it myself. My going out with Inuyasha is a request from Naraku. Inuyasha means nothing to me, but now I'm going to step up my game even more to make him fall for me even harder. You don't stand a chance.”

 

That was it. Before she knew it, Kagome had thrown a well-aimed punch in the direction of Kikyo's pretty, little face. It would be a black and blue mess after she was through with it. It would have impacted hard had someone not blocked it with their own open palm.

 

To her horror she saw Inuyasha standing in front of Kikyo protectively with angry eyes directed solely on her. She had never seen Inuyasha so infuriated before. It scared her. Yes, because his face had taken on a frightening look, but also because all his animosity was aimed right at her.

 

“I - I have to go.” Kagome said suddenly and turned on her heal to leave after wrenching her hand from Inuyasha's grasp. He only grabbed her by the upper arm and stared at her intensely. Kagome glanced up at him once before averting her gaze to the floor.

 

“Apologize to her.”

 

Kagome looked at Inuyasha indignantly. “I didn't even hurt your precious girlfriend. Did you see what all she did to me?”

 

“Apologize now.” His grip tightened around her arm and she scrunched up her face in pain.

 

“Inuyasha, you're hurting me.” Kagome tried to get his hand off, but it just wouldn't budge.

 

“I said apologize to Kikyo.”

 

“I'm sorry! There's your damn apology. Get your filthy hands off and leave me the hell alone!” Kagome's anger level was rising immensely. She hadn't even laid a finger on Kikyo and he was telling her to apologize when he didn't even know the whole story. It only outraged her more when Inuyasha didn't let go of her arm.

 

“What do you want now, Inuyasha. I'm not getting on the floor and groveling for forgiveness. I'm not even the one at fault here.”

 

“You could have fooled me.” Inuyasha said evenly.

 

“Don't act like you know what happened. You weren't here to see you perfect girlfriend's “dark” side. Now quit acting like you know what you're talking about and let go of me!” Kagome slapped him as hard as she could with her other free hand before stalking off away from the couple. She heard in distaste as Kikyo began to cry as if Kagome had actually harmed her. What a conniving, little witch.

 

She stayed strong all the way home before collapsing onto her bed from emotional exhaustion. Looking down at the spot where Inuyasha had roughly grabbed her, she realized that it was bleeding. She figured it must have been his unusually sharp fingernails that came with being a hanyou. Wrapping up the wound and bandaging it properly, she collapsed onto her bed once more and cried into her pillow until she fell asleep. She was just extremely thankful that there was no school tomorrow.

 

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“She even goes on to say that I don't know the whole story when it was clear that her next move was to punch Kikyo.” Inuyasha finished relaying his story to Miroku who listened intently. “I just can't believe Kagome would do something like that.”

 

“In all honesty, I would say there is more to the story than what you saw.” Miroku knew of Kikyo's true personality. After all, he knew more of it than Inuyasha since he believed Kikyo to be the reason for the hanyou's expulsion from their previous school. The only reason Miroku had left as well was because Inuyasha's mother requested he keep her son out of trouble. Had he not been asked, however, he still would have gone with Inuyasha anyway.

 

“I understand that part. I just don't want to not trust Kikyo's word. She told me that Kagome pulled her into the janitor's closet and threatened her to stay away from me. I want to believe it, but it doesn't seem like something Kagome would do.”

 

Miroku nodded to show comprehension at Inuyasha's dilemma before arriving at a solution. “I think you need to talk to Kagome to get her side of the story. Don't you need to work on that project for Mrs. Ajewski anyway? That would be a great excuse to get time find out what happened.”

 

At the mention of the said project, an all too familiar confusion crossed Inuyasha's face. A confusion Miroku had come to know as the “What are you talking about and why don't I know about it?” expression.

 

“Have you and Kagome even started on it?”

 

A slightly less confused silence pursued.

 

“Did you forget that it's due this Monday and that only leaves you Saturday and Sunday to work on it? Well since today is Saturday, you really only have Sunday because I doubt Kagome will want to see you today. I also believe you do not have the guts to see her.”

 

“I am not afraid of that idiot.” Inuyasha strained the word “not” to emphasize his point.

 

Miroku merely shrugged his shoulders to his friend's declaration. Inuyasha, taking the gesture as a sign of disbelief, stated that he would go work on the project with Kagome today for sure. Miroku shrugged again and Inuyasha kicked him out of his house in a fit of short-tempered rage. He would show Miroku!

 

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To ring the doorbell or not to ring the doorbell, that is the question. Inuyasha was about to forget it all when the door opened on its own. It was Kagome's mother. “Oh, your Sesshomaru's little brother, right?”

 

He nodded and she smiled warmly at him. “Can I help you?”

 

“I needed to work on a project with Kagome for school.”

 

“Come in and make yourself at home then. Kagome needs all the help she can get. I have to go run some errands, but she's upstairs in her room working on it.”

 

Inuyasha went inside as she exited. Before Mrs. Higurashi closed the door, she called his attention back on her. “Oh, and be careful. She's in a foul mood for some reason. That's why I'm doing my errands right now.”

 

Inuyasha gulped as she shut the front door before eyeing the stairs leading to the second floor warily. No, he was not going to fear this girl! He needed some answers and she was going to give them.

 

He knocked on the door and heard footsteps on the other side coming for the door. Inuyasha was met with Kagome's shocked eyes that soon turned cold. “Hello.” It wasn't a friendly tone, but it wasn't unfriendly either. Maybe he had a chance?

 

“I came to work on our project.” He peered over her head, being that he was taller than her, and saw a tri-fold poster on the floor with a mess of papers, glue, scissors and many other supplies strewn across her carpeted floor. “Have you already started without me?”

 

“Yeah,” Kagome turned away from the doorway without telling him to come in and went back to work cutting out a picture she had printed off from the internet, “I figured you had forgot about it, so I decided to do it by myself.”

 

“Well that's stupid of you. I would have made the same grade as you without doing anything.”

She stopped cutting, froze for two seconds and inclined her head upwards to see the standing Inuyasha fully from her sitting position. “You have me wrong if you think I was doing this as a favor. I was planning on turning the project in and asking that this grade be my own since my partner didn't do a thing.”

 

Inuyasha gaped in silence after Kagome went back to cutting the paper - this time in more jagged strokes - and surmised that she was indeed still extremely pissed at him. What had he done anyway? He still didn't know. As far as he knew, she was the one in the wrong.

 

“Here, cut the rest of these out. I'm going to start gluing down everything else.”

 

Inuyasha was startled at her sudden command but took the scissors with no questions asked. Taking a seat on the floor and resting his back against her pink-quilted bed, he multitasked by doing his newly assigned job and also watching Kagome do her own task. The whole time he stared at her he was trying to pluck up enough courage to ask her for her side of the story about what happened with her and Kikyo.

 

“Inuyasha, will you stop staring at me already. It's annoying.”

 

“Kagome, what happened between you and Kikyo yester-?”

 

“Are you almost done cutting out those pictures? I need to glue them down, and there is still a paper to be written. Hurry up.”

 

Inuyasha was not going to let the conversation be changed so easily. He was now more determined than ever to find out what happened because Kagome was avoiding the question.

 

“What did you do to Kikyo? Did you really pull her in a janitor's closet and threaten her to stay away from me?”

 

“That's insane! Who told you that?”

 

Inuyasha received a grunt of distaste from the raven-haired girl seated across from him when he told her it was Kikyo.

 

“She's a liar.” Kagome muttered under her breath discreetly, but Inuyasha picked up on it easily.

 

“She isn't a liar, Kagome. I know Kikyo, but I'm not so sure I know you.”

 

Kagome looked at him with pain in her eyes. How could he say something like that, and why does it hurt me so much?

 

“You're right, Inuyasha, you know nothing about me at all if you think I would actually pull Kikyo into a closet and threaten her!”

 

Inuyasha gulped as Kagome glared icily at him. “W-Well, I don't know! I want to believe Kikyo, but for some reason I-”

 

“Excuse me; I'm going downstairs to get something to drink.” Kagome hoisted herself off the ground in one graceful motion, exited her room and turned towards the stairs.

 

“Fine then.” Inuyasha muttered darkly before he continued cutting out the last picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A/N: I'm going to stop it here for now. Hope you like it.

 

Sorry for not updating sooner, but - don't kill me when I say this - I kind of forgot about this story between everything I've been busy with. Sorry, but school comes first, unfortunately. The good thing is that it's almost summer, and I will have ample amounts of time to work on this story … hopefully.

 

 

 

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