InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Serendipity ❯ Transformation ( Chapter 8 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

"He's quite nice, Kagome! Also, he's good looking! What more do you need?" Sango exclaimed, nudging her friend slightly as they made their way toward the cafeteria. Kagome sighed, massaging her temples.

"I know that, Sango. He's a very sweet guy, but... I'm just not interested."

She chuckled sadly to herself.

"And the funny thing, he's exactly how I imagined my dream guy to be. Smart, charming, caring, generous.."

"Then go for it!" Her friend replied as they took their usual seats at the table. "I don't have any feelings for him, though!" Sango huffed. "Kagome, you need to spend more time around guys! He can be the perfect start! You've been so withdrawn.." "I know, Sango. The only guy I actually spend time with is..." Sango raised a brow, before parting her lips slightly.

"Kagome.."

Kagome quickly shoved her hands in front of her face, shaking them, a worried grin on her face. "No, no! IT's deifnitely not like that! But my point is..I'm not looking for anything like that right now, Sango." Sango sighed, defeated. "If you say so, Kagome."

***
He drummed his fingers against the arm rest.

He fidgeted.

"If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."

Hojo took Kagome's hand in his own, and bent down to kiss it gently. She cleared her throat and began.

"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss."


"I can practically see the love radiating from you two!" Mr. Hotchi announced, his voice bellowing with excitment. Hojo blushed, still holding her hand. "Well, it's not hard to get the emotion across when it's real," he spoke softly, searching Kagome's eyes, bringing her closer. Her cheeks went red.

'Since when has Hojo become so daring?'

InuYasha groaned inwardly, his ears flicking in different directions.

'You've got to be kidding me. Don't tell me she's actually falling for that.'

The bell rang, ending the day. The hanyou would have been quick leaving today like he had been all week, but he and Kagome had a tutoring session today. He scowled when he saw her still talking to that pathetic Hojo character. He marched toward them, picking up some of their conversation as he did so.

"We can practice the kissing scene right now if you'd like, Kagome," he said sweetly, moving his face toward hers'. Her cheeks flushed in embarrassment. 'What do I do? We're going to have to kiss sooner or later, right? Maybe I should just let him kiss me and get it over with.'

Slowly, hesitantly, she shut her eyes, waiting to feel his lips rest against hers'. She'd never had a real kiss before, and she had been hoping to have with someone more special. Just as their lips were about to make contact, Kagome felt a sudden pressure jerk on her arm, yanking her back. Her eyes popped open, only to see a very irritated hanyou, glaring at her with disgust. "InuYasha?" Hojo, who still stood with his lips pursed, and his eyes shut, casually opened them. "What the hell are you doing?" he shouted, catching a few stray glances from other students. She furrowred her brows. "What are you talking about? We were just-"
"I saw what you were just doing! Just c'mon, we have tutoring today."

With that, he pulled her out of auditorium, leering at Hojo the entire way.

***

"Amacrine cells are cells that integrate information across the retina; rather than sending signals toward the brain, amacrine cells link bipolar cells to other bipolar cells and ganglion cells to other ganglion cells."

InuYasha clapped, a smile on his face. It wans't a smug smirk, but yet a gentle, warm proud smile. "That was amazing, Kagome! At this rate, you'll have at least 95% for this term!" The girl squealed in joy, wiping the bead of sweat dripping from her forehead. "Geez, and its all thanks to you, InuYasha!" She stood, and quickly yanked his arm, dragging him to his feet. He raised a brow in curiosity. "What are you-" His voice was cut short when he felt her small frame embrace him in her own, making that luscious scent enter his nose. God, it was enveloping him. "Thanks so much," she whispered softly, her chin resting on his shoulder. He couldn't move. He had forgotten how to.

She was too close.

He couldn't help it; He rested his chin in the crook of her neck, taking in her scent, noticing it was much stronger in this area. Vanilla sugars and honeysuckle rushed to his nostrils, coaxing him.

'She's too close..I need to get away..'

He hated her. He hated her for having this effect on him. His mind screamed at him to run, his body wouldn't listen. "InuYasha?" she whispered softly, pulling back at arms lenghth. She gasped at what she saw.

His eyes were red.

Seeing her shocked reaction made those bloody eyes revert back to auburn, pulling him from his trance. He quickly shoved her away, grabbed his belongings, and dashed out of the house.

***

"I can't believe I lost control, " he whispered, his fists leaning against the bathroom sink. His hair sheilded his shut eyes, beads of sweat dripping down his face. A hand reached up to cover his face, attempting to cease the uncontrollabe emotions that were flourishing from deep within him. He knew what was happening, and was fully aware he had no power to stop it.

It was inevitable.

***

"You've been wasting away in that pathetic artwork more than usual lately," Sesshomaru said blatantly, leaning against the door frame of his younger brother's room. InuYasha sat hovered over his sketchbook, rapidly gliding a pencil across of it. He didn't bother to look up at the demon's comment.

"What's it to you?"

"Just a casual observation, little brother. You do realize that no insignificant talent that you may posess will deny the inevitable? You will be a failure, nothing will change that."

InuYasha felt his molars begin to grind, as his fists slowly clinched and unclinched themselves. Moments later, InuTaisho stood alongside Sesshomaru, a smirk wide on his face. "Aren't you absolutely lucky to have a realist such as your brother? You wouldn't want to waste your life on silly drawings, now would you?"

InuYasha cursed, knowing full well they were right. Who was he kidding? He couldn't do this.

He was, in fact, worthless.

He balled up his artwork, the same artwork, in which only moments ago, he was very proud of.

Sesshomaru and InuTaisho held a smug look, both feeling accomplished, and walked downstairs.

InuYasha noted the veins popping out of the skins in his hands, threatening to break through their barrier. He smirked sadly, thinking about his mother.

"Death would be a place most suiting for me."

InuTaisho had always claimed Izayoi had betrayed him, slept with other men behind his back. He had grown to detest her, thus detesting the son that came from her being. The hanyou knew full well his mother was not guilty of such crime, and struggled to put together the peices of this imaginary puzzle that saddened him.

Since the moment Izayoi died, InuTaisho felt that he hadn't had enough time to punish that blasted woman, but a thought struck him.

Why waste time thinking about the mother, when he could make her son suffer just as much?

Thus, the abuse began.

***

"Draw with me, InuYasha!" Kagome insisted, immediately pulling out her pencil, while tossing him one. He instinctively caught it, but shook his head. There were in theri usual spot in her room. "Nothin' doin."
She frowned. "Whynot? I've seen your art..it's.."

"A waste of time," he finshed gruffly. She raised a brow. "How could somoene so talented call their work a waste? You should take pride in it!"

"You just don't get it," he said softly, shaking his head. "What is there to understand, InuYasha? You're talented. You have your entire life ahead of you. If anyone tells you otherwise, they're an idiot."

He smiled at her last remark.

***
JULIET

"My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound:
Art thou not Romeo and a Montague?"

ROMEO

" Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike."

JULIET

" How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?
The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,
And the place death, considering who thou art,
If any of my kinsmen find thee here."

ROMEO

" With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do that dares love attempt;
Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me."

JULIET

"If they do see thee, they will murder thee."

ROMEO

"Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity."


"I would not for the world they saw thee here."

ROMEO

" I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;
And but thou love me, let them find me here:
My life were better ended by their hate,
Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love."

JULIET

" By whose direction found'st thou out this place?"

Mr. Hotchi declared a break, providing Kagome and Hojo a moment of peace. InuYasha found himself digging his clawed nails into the cushion of the seat, dreading the play. With everyday that passed, he realized they were getting closer and closer to the scene where they would have to share a kiss.

He dreaded that.

Bu this was only because he couldn't stand that Hobo kid.

That had to be the only reason.

Right?

Psht, of course. There could be no other reason. Hobo just seemed so annoyingly nice.

To Kagome.

Nothing was wrong with that, right?

It irked him that Kagome had no intention of putting the little brat in his place either. Didn't he see that she wasn't interested?

She wasn't interested, was she?

He shook his head casually.

Nah.

He had to admit, ever since that incident, when she hugged him..he was feeling amazingly drawn to her.
She hadn't even realize what it was that she had done, just by that simple gesture.

She brought out the demon in him.