InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ School, AKA: The Hellhole ❯ Chapter Three ( Chapter 3 )

The silence was beginning to grade on her nerves.

Tick.

Tick.

Tick.

Where was that ticking coming from?! Kagome looked wildly around the elevator, looking for the source of the incessant ticking, until her eyes landed on Inuyasha's wrist around which rested a solid gold watch. Her mouth formed a small 'o'.

'Okay, just calm down. You can stand a minute in an enclosed space with the stuck-up jerk who called you a Goth…' Kagome coached herself.

Inuyasha glanced over at the "Goth-girl." She seemed to be fidgety. She was nervous. He could tell by the way she twisted her hands in her shirt… which served to pull the top taught over her torso and give him a good view of her chest. He inwardly moaned. 'A very good view of her chest…' he thought.

"So," Kagome drew, trying to start up a conversation to pass the time. Why was the stupid elevator being so slow, anyway?! They were only descending one fucking floor! "What's your name?"

Inuyasha was shocked, to say the least. He was, after all, the most popular guy in the school. Why, everybody knew who he was! "You don't know who I am?" he asked, unbelieving.

Kagome nodded and her brow furrowed. Her face took on a curious expression. "Should I?"

Should…

Should she?! How could she even ask that question?! Inuyasha opened his mouth to let out an angry answer and put this girl in her place when their little compartment suddenly jerked to a stop.

"Finally!" Kagome cried out in joy…

But the doors didn't slide open. So they waited… and waited… and waited still. It had been at least two minutes by now. Kagome was starting to go into a panic. The door wasn't opening! She was stuck! They were stuck! Together! She was stuck with a conceited jerk in a tiny elevator! And she was claustrophobic!

She'd never told anyone before, but she was deathly afraid of small spaces. They'd think her soft if they knew she possessed such a senseless fear. But she'd been this way ever since she was ten when… Kagome gave a shudder; she really didn't want to think about that.

"Hey!" Inuyasha's voice brought her out of her silent reverie. "Why isn't that thing opening?" he asked, as if she could possible provide an answer.

"How am I supposed to know?" she retorted angrily, trying to cover up the Goosebumps that were slowly spreading over her body. She wouldn't be able to take this much longer. Memories she'd tried so hard to suppress were coming back with a vengeance, pouring over her like a bucket of ice cold water.

She heard a very animalistic growl come from her side and turned to see Inuyasha whipping out a very compact, very expensive cellular phone from a pocket of his baggy blue jeans. He punched in a number, fingers rushing expertly over the dials with practiced ease. "Hey, Myouga!" he nearly shouted into the device. A few seconds passed as the person on the other line spoke.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm at the school."

…

"Well, this stupid elevator got stuck."

The person said something else that caused Inuyasha to look over at her. "Yeah, there's Goth-girl in here," he told the person on the other line.

…

"Good! Hurry!" and with that, he closed the phone, replaced it back into his pocket, and flopped down on the floor of the elevator to wait until his butler arrived to set them free.

After a few moments of awkward silence, Kagome decided to try and start up a conversation again to take her mind off the high metal walls of their compartment that seemed to be closing in on her. "Who'd you call?" she asked in her slightly shaky voice. She hoped he didn't hear that.

Inuyasha, however, caught the miniscule quiver in her tone and inwardly smirked. What girl wouldn't be nervous in his presence? "My butler, Myouga-jiji," he answered proudly. He decided to humor the swooning (she was swooning in his mind) girl and talk. "So when'd you move here?"

She seemed to relax as she got into the conversation. "I didn't actually move, just transferred schools a few days ago."

That peaked his interest. "Why'd you have to transfer?" Inuyasha asked. He hid his curiosity in his voice well, but Kagome could tell her was waiting for her answer the way his cute little puppy ears swiveled in her direction. 'Whoa! Where the HELL did that come from?! They aren't cute! And neither is he!'

Inuyasha took notice of the slightest hint of color on Kagome's pale-as-moon cheeks. 'Is that a blush I see?' he thought with a self-satisfied smirk. After a few more moments of waiting in silence for her answer, he got impatient. "Hey, you didn't answer my question."

Jumping a little, Kagome was startled out of her thoughts. "Oh, yeah, uh…" she struggled to come up with some believable lie to tell him. No way was she going to tell him the truth about why she'd had to move. "Uh… I, uh, got expelled," she answered, proud of herself for coming up with such an ingenious excuse. She was a punk; he'd have to believe it.

"Uh-huh, and how'd you get expelled?" he asked her skeptically.

"Oh… uh…" 'Damn! How'd a stuck-up jock like him get to be so perceptive?!' "I burned down the chem. lab," Kagome lied. Was it just her or were the walls getting closer and closer together with every passing moment?

It was convincing, to say the least, but Inuyasha didn't quite buy it. Taking a tentative sniff of the limited air in their elevator, his suspicions were confirmed. Kagome was saturated with the scent of a person who had just lied through their teeth. 'She's a damn good liar though.' he thought.

Deciding to let it go since she obviously wanted to avoid the topic, he determined that he'd get the real answer later. Wait! What was he thinking?! There wasn't going to be a later! It wasn't like they'd be seeing each other after this or anything. Right? Exactly!

Inuyasha was saved any further inner confrontation when the doors finally slid open. Jumping up with a yelp of joy, he rushed out and greedily gulped in the fresh air. "Oh, thank god!"

After taking a few moments to appreciate the outside world, he plopped down on a bench across the hall to wait for Myouga-jiji to come. It was then that he noticed that he hadn't hear anything from Kagome in a few moments. He looked back at the still-open elevator to see a mass of black cloth and hair passed out on the floor. "She passed out!"

Rushing over to her still form, he checked frantically for a pulse, worrying that she'd suffocated or something. You never could tell with humans…

After reassuring himself that she was alive and just temporarily unconscious, he slung her roughly over his shoulder and carried her back to the bench. Inuyasha laid her less than carefully on the bench and stood back to glare down at her unknowing form. He'd actually been worried there for a minute. And, against his better judgment, he decided it was her fault. She'd probably put some kind of spell on him with her witch powers. Yeah, that's why he was worried. It's not because he actually cared or anything.

"Lord Inuyasha!"

The hanyou turned quickly to see a squat old man with gray hair and bulging eyes bustling towards him. Beside him was an old woman with long gray hair and a black eye patch placed over her right eye.

"Myouga-jiji! Principal Kaede-sama!"

"Oh, Lord Inuyasha, I was so worried about you!" the short old man cried in relief, rushing up to him and hugging the younger man around the knees which was as high as he could reach. The principal just looked on as the scene carried out.

"How'd you get the elevator open, old man?" Inuyasha asked as he pried his butler off him.

Myouga seemed to regain his composure and answered with a smile. "I called Principal Kaede-sama as soon as I got your message and told her about you and the young Miss being stuck in the elevator, so she went down to the basement where the controls to the elevators were and got it to open," he explained.

"Oh…" Inuyasha couldn't really think of anything else to say. "Well, let's get going then," he said as he bent to pick Kagome up. He slung her over his shoulder again and began to walk away, but was interrupted by Myouga's voice.

"Could you wait just a minute, Lord Inuyasha? And could you please be more gentle with the Miss?"

Inuyasha huffed irately but lowered Kagome down into his arms nonetheless. He continued off to the Limo that waited at the front of the school.

When the two were out of sight, Myouga turned back to the other woman. "What did you want to tell me, Principal Kaede-sama?"

The old woman's brow creased, causing more wrinkles to appear on her withered face. "When I went down into the basement to take care of the elevator, I noticed that one of the wires had been cut. I also found a pair of wire-cutters laying in the floor beside the box."

"Oh… Well, we'll have to be on the lookout from now on, won't we?" and with that, Myouga walked off to join his master in the Limo. 'So, someone is after Lord Inuyasha's life again, are they?'

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