InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Simple and Clean ❯ Over the Edge ( Chapter 16 )

Kouga_Lover_3056, SOOO SOOO SORRY!!!! I promise I'll try as hard as I can to update, okay? Please don't murder me! I totally understand if you do though… It's not that I don't want to update, it's just that I can never find the time between dance, homework, violin and school… this is so stressful!!! *sobs in corner* please don't kill me!! BTW, I'm currently also posting this story on fanfiction.net, but it is re-done. This means that I just put more detail into it, tweaked the story and ounce to make it more understandable and edited out mistakes. Pretty much, it's just a better version of this. To find Simple and Clean on FF.net just search my penname: Dragon-Neko383.

 

Okay people, I added a special “what-has-happened-so-far-blah-blah-blah” summary for those with short memories and others who just can't help forget the story because I take FOREVER to update this damn story…

“what-has-happened-so-far-blah-blah-blah” summary

 

Kagome, a young girl attending her second year of high school, meets Inuyasha, a troubled young man/boy/thing ^^ who used to date her older cousin (Kikyo). They supposedly broke off the relationship because Inuyasha had “cheated” on Kikyo, but at the moment, there is no substantial proof to back that claim up. Kagome and Inuyasha, after having a less than friendly run-in, warm up to each other more. Kagome also befriends a girl named Sango who has a past with her substitute art teacher Miroku (sounds like a soap opera *cringe*). Sango comes to foster an orphan named Shippo who is convinced that Inuyasha is gay. After an unfortunate incident at the ice-skating rink, Sango is out of commission at the hospital. There the motley crew meets up with “Assistant Doctor Kouga”, who makes a few friends and an enemy. When Kouga begins to flirt with Kagome, and worse yet, drive her home, Inuyasha becomes jealous and the two teenagers (Kagome and Inuyasha) quarrel. When Kagome tries to make up, the fight escalates and she decides that it would be a good time to take a break from Inuyasha. Sango, Kagome, Inuyasha and Miroku are reassessing their own hearts and in the midst of all that teenage madness, Sango reveals and important fact about her life before her move. In the meantime, Sesshomaru (Inuyasha's half-brother and uber-famous designer) has taken on a project that seems even too much for him to handle: fostering a nine-year-old ball of pure energy. That poor, poor man.

 

Okay, I hope that didn't totally bore you! So-o-o, on with the story:

 

Recap:

 

Downing two more pills, he waited for the effects to kick in. It was wrong, and he knew it plain as the back of his hand, but it was all he could do to forget. The coward part of himself couldn't face the hurt, not yet at least-maybe ever. He had taken the easy way out this time, and he knew that one day that voice in the back of his mind would overpower him. Then, there would be no going back.

“Save me-Kagome.”

 

Chapter 16

Over the Edge

 

A throbbing pain in his head woke Inuyasha the next day. By the warmth and angles of the rays seeping through the boarded up window to his left, he guessed that it was at least mid-afternoon. I should be in school right now. He thought to himself, wondering why he even bothered with school in the first place. What good would it do him? It's not as if he was ever going to have to work, not with the money his parents had left him. He slumped back down into the relative comfort of his threadbare pillow.

It wasn't that he wanted to live the life of a peasant; it was just that he didn't care. No one visited him, and even if they had, he wouldn't have fixed up the ramshackle old house just for a few guests. It was strange, now that he thought of it: one brother living in complete wealth, the other in illusionary poverty. He knew that there was quite a sum of money under his name in the bank, yet he used it for things that he thought mattered more than a nice house: food, gas for his car (Though he was too attached to the old thing to get another one), and sometimes things a little more shady.

His past, though a distant memory, was tucked safely in a hidden corner of his mind; one of the many skeletons cluttering his closet. His father had been involved with “sales”, as his mother put it anyway. For a five-year-old, this excuse was logical enough, but as Inuyasha grew, he started realize that his father's “sales” might be less than legal. The shady looking men that filtered quietly in and out of the house at night, and the fact that his father was almost never home gave the child reason to doubt what his father's business was.

At the tender age of eight, both of his parents died in a mysterious accident that left the detectives on the case puzzled. After his parents' death, the young boy was sent to Kaede, his mother's sister, to live with her. She knew quite well the business that Inuyasha's father had decided to involve himself with, and greatly disapproved. Kaede was a good tempered, nice-but-firm kind of woman who, to most people, was absolutely likable. Inuyasha hated her.

At this time, his aunt had decided that the boy needed a therapist, and so, the torture began. After a yearlong search, four unsuccessful therapists and a lawsuit later, Inuyasha met Totousai. The old man seemed to be the only person that the young boy could talk to about how he felt, and over the next few years, the two formed a lasting bond.

He had been involved with drugs before, but it was just a way to cure the depression that had overcome him when he had to face the fact that his parents were dead. They had been prescribed by the therapist before Totousai, but Inuyasha had not taken that alternative until after his sessions with Totousai had ended. Though he had convinced Kaede that he had moved on from the therapy stage, he was still possessed by a deep sorrow that even Totousai could not cure.

At the age of thirteen, after taking the pills for a little over two years, Inuyasha discovered that if he added a pill to his daily dose, it had a more desired effect. Soon, he was completely addicted to the drug, and it was only then that Kaede decided that Inuyasha needed serious help. She checked him into a hospital and left, passing him on to the only person left that would be able to handle the troubled teen. This person was a good friend of his late father; his name was Myoga.

Myoga wasn't the live-in guardian that Kaede had been. Instead he visited the Kagayaku Manor three or four times a week to make sure that Inuyasha was faring well. When Sesshomaru decided to sell the manor and move into an apartment, Myoga had tried to convince Inuyasha of renting an apartment as well. But Inuyasha, still trying to hang on to any memories he might have possessed of his parents, moved into his mother's old house. She had never sold it when she had married his father, parents long dead, and so it was abandoned, waiting for the day that it was demolished to make way for something newer and better. To put it lightly, the house had seen better days.

Inuyasha, despite Myoga's pleas to redo the house, moved in and took no measures to change it in any way, keeping the memories intact. The house with its boarded-up windows and ancient furnishings gave the teenager a sense of comfort and security. Inuyasha began to enjoy life more, and with that enjoyment, came the reappearance of the addictions he had harbored in the past. It seemed to anyone that came in contact with him that he was no longer a boy, though he had only just entered his teens. The years of emotional stress had aged him far passed his own years.

At fourteen, he was more mature than most of his grade-mates, and so, he started to stray towards his upper-classmen. He fit in with people that were years older than him better than he fit in with people his own age. These friendships only fed his addictions, and soon he was way over his head. And then, as though by some higher force, a young woman found him, and made up her mind to save him. Her name was Kikyo.

Kikyo was the one who had searched through his backpack, snatching away his anti-depressants. Kikyo was the one who had called the pharmacy and discontinued his prescription. Kikyo was the one who had made him feel like someone in the world cared about who he was on the inside, not how he mature he acted. Kikyo knew how hard it was to be misunderstood by the entire world, to have no where to run to. She gave him a place to run.

Inuyasha's eyes closed and he slipped away into a dream-like state. I shouldn't have taken so many… Kikyo's not here to save me anymore. The last thing he remembered before his mind went completely black was a form, reaching out from the darkness towards him. It was fuzzy, but as the image began to clear Inuyasha recognized it. At first he had thought it was Kikyo, come to haunt his thoughts, but he realized that it was not Kikyo, but Kagome. Inuyasha reached out his hand to grab a hold of hers, but she was too far away.

Kagome…

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Kagome woke with a start. She looked around her, wondering for a second where she was. Sango was sleeping peacefully next to her, her breathing slow and steady. She tried to recall the dream she had been having, but it was already gone, a fleeting feeling shadowing her mind. All that she knew was that it hadn't been a pleasant dream. Kagome's memory flooded back to her. Sango and Kagome had stayed up until about seven O'clock in the morning, and they had slept it off way into the afternoon. Kagome strained to remember what had woken her so violently.

Something was very wrong. Her stomach was unsettled and she felt as though something unpleasant was looming, just out of perception. She knew what this was about, and yet she didn't want to give into it. She was going to show Inuyasha that she could be strong. She could live without him. And yet… something seemed out of place. This wasn't the jittery, love-sick feeling that had plagued her earlier. No, this was much different.

She knew though, that the wrongness had to do with Inuyasha, she could just feel it. Pulling on her sweater, she headed out the door, leaving a note on her pillow about where she would be. She hoped that Sango would find it and tell her mother before she called in the National Guard. Fortunately she had slept in her clothes, so she wouldn't have to take the extra time to change. Grabbing her bike, she pedaled furiously in the direction of Inuyasha's house.

I just hope I'm not too late…

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Okay, I updated sooner than I thought… Yay! [does a little happy dance] I know, I'm sorry that this is getting a bit depressing, but I just had to explain a little more about Inuyasha's past and all that sad stuff… It will get better as the story progresses, promise! Besides, didn't that answer some of your burning questions? No? Ah, well… I tried.