InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Never Meant It ❯ Trying To Mend The Cut ( Chapter 12 )

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Never Meant It

A/N: Who ordered the next chapter?

And the thankyou's go to :drumroll please:: Princessstphanie . Mori'quessir . Andrea . Mikii and Lokii . inunojiichan

Only five… Guess most of my thanks were in my other story, huh?

Chapter 12: Trying to Mend the Cut

"Wake up Kags! It's moooooooornin!!" A cheerful ball of energy ran up to the was-sleeping lump on the bed. "Come on!! Mom said that if you didn't get up in ten-well, eight now-minutes, you'd be late for school!"

"WHAT!" Kagome jumped out of bed, into the shower, out of the shower, into her clothes, and out the door.

It was a nice, brisk, sunny, winter morning. The snow that had covered the grounds the night before had almost melted but not quite, leaving a nice, thin layer of white. Birds were calling in the air, fluttering towards the south hemisphere of the world where it was warm. Geese flew up ahead, honking in V-shapes and Z-shapes and other-shapes. Children ran to school, laughing and yelling to each other to hurry up or else they'd be late.

Much like what Kagome was currently doing.

'Crapcrapcraaaaapppp, I'm gunna be soo late! And Sensei-sama's already mad at me for skipping class yesterday…' Huffing and puffing, Kagome blew into the classroom in a whirlwind of coats, books, and bags, apologizing quickly to the teacher and plopping into her seat.

"Kagome Higurashi. You're late. Again." The teacher sighed. ”What might your excuse be this time?" The class chuckled.

"Um…woke up late?" Kagome smiled apologetically before getting out the books Sango had out on her desk three desks away. The teacher just rolled her eyes and turned back to the blackboard.

"If you all would turn to page 393 now that Ms. Higurashi had decided to grace us with her precious presence…" Kagome sighed and dropped her head down to her arms.

…

"…Kags? Wakeywakey…" Kagome shifted a bit away from the prodding object. A sigh. "…Kags. Wakey upey." Kagome groaned and shifted some more. "WAKE UP KAGOME!!"

"AAGH! Whaat?" Kagome opened her eyes to see a blurry form of a smiling Sango above, poking her.

"Class ended about thirty seconds ago. Come on, time for French." Sango told her before heading to the lockers.

Grabbing her French books, along with the rest of her books, Kagome slugged down the hallways towards "Mademoiselle Hugette"'s classroom, ignoring the hushed whispers and pointing fingers and stifled laughter behind her.

"Today we will start a new project. This one will, once again, have partners-" Kagome and Sango looked at each other, smiling, "-that I have already chosen." Groans. "In fact, your partners will stay the same, so if, say, Kagome and Kouga were partners last time, they will stay partners for this project as well. Yes Kouga?"

"So I'm Kagome's partner this time?"

"Yes-no-well-not unless you were last time." Mademoiselle Hugette rubbed her face quickly, ignoring the laughter in the classroom, and continued on with the project's details.

"This project will be almost like a continuation of the last project. Based on one of the memories of your partner, you will write a paper pretending that it was you living that memory instead of your partner. It can be like another biography, it can be in the form of a story, poem, or whatever form you choose. However, it must be in French."

'Almost like fan fiction.' Kagome scoffed. Getting up, she walked over to her partner and sat down in the next seat.

"So what memory am I doing?"

Miroku winced. 'So blunt, Kagome, that it hurts.' "Up to you. I don't care."

Kagome nodded her head," fine," and walked off.

Sitting at her desk in her room, Sango poured over her French homework, putting all the emotions that she had felt into the paper. Drops of tears fell here and there, but her tissue soaked them all up so they wouldn't destroy her paper.

Two neighborhoods away, Inuyasha did the same, revealing the emotions that he had felt when he told her the bet. His heart broke over and over again, but his almost unsticky tape mended it so he wouldn't be destroyed inside out.

Sighing, Kagome put her pencil down, hand aching with writing cramps. She flexed her fingers and stood up, her back cracking almost instantly.

"Dinner time! Kagome, hurry or you won't have anything to eat alright?" Kagome heard her mother yell up the stairs and, gathering all the tissues strewn about the floor, headed downstairs for dinner stopping a second to throw the wet tissues away in the trash.

"Mmmm! What's to eat tonight Mama?" Kagome smiled as she entered the dining room.

"Ramen! And it's all mine. Mama said so, right Mama?" Souta inched towards his bowl of ramen, protective of his ramen from the possible predator.

Tears came into her eyes all of a sudden, and, panicked, she jumbled out "All yours. Got it. I'll just take the bowl of Oden and be off; I have lots of homework. Bye!" Scooping a bowl full, she ran back up to her room.

Closing the door, Kagome slid to the floor, her back on the wood. She heaved a sigh, trying un-successfully not to cry. For some reason, ramen reminded her of Inuyasha, who in turn reminded her of Miroku. She sighed again.

Over the week that had passed, Kagome tried really hard not to cry and breakdown in front of everyone. She kept all her tears to herself. She ignored Miroku relentlessly and stayed away from Sango in case she was to try and set them back up. In turn, she and Sango's relationship also started to slip and Kagome slowly started to become less close with her friends. Kagome

Kagome sighed again and wished it would all stop; the tears, the pain, everything.

'AAAUUUGH!!! I'm going to be late! AGAIN!! Damnit, Sensei-sama's gunna have my head!! Craaaaaaaap…!!' Kagome raced to school, books, papers, binders, and bags, mentally screaming at Souta for not waking her up earlier.

Whooshing into class, Kagome blurted out an apology before sitting in her seat and taking out the necessary books that were out on Sango's desk. The teacher just sighed, not even bothering to chastise the girl.

"Turn to page 450 and start reading…" Kagome's vision slowly turned black.

…

"Really Higurashi. You'd think that, after getting two detentions for sleeping in class, you wouldn't do it another two times." A deep voice brought her out of her slumber, and Kagome, for one, was not happy.

"Go away Inuyasha." Kagome lifted up her head and got her things together. Seeing Inuyasha not moving, she asked, "What?"

He shifted, as if uncomfortable. Kagome looked at him weirdly before bending down to pick up a dropped pen. Straightening, she saw he was still staring at her.

"…What?"

Shift shift.

Growling, Kagome spit out "If you don't have anything else to say, would you mind moving so that I can get to French class? I'm already ten minutes late as it is."

"IwantyoutogetbacktogetherwithMiroku." He suddenly blurted out, stopping the girl halfway to the door.

"…What?"

"You heard me. I want you and Miroku to get back together." Inuyasha turned away from her face for a second before looking back at her, his own defiant look clashing with hers.

Kagome looked away. "Why?"

"Because. Miroku's dying without you. You're dying without him. And I started this fucked up mess, so I'm gunna clean the damn thing up if it's the last thing I do."

Shaking her head, she softly said, "Forget it." and walked out the door.

A/N: Last chapter up soon, after I get to writing it. A long chap, this one was. 3