InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Smokes and Mirrors ❯ Sweet Misery - Part 2 ( Chapter 6 )

Smokes and Mirrors

 

 

Chapter 6: Sweet Misery - Part 2

 

Lunch never cheered Inuyasha up in any way. Being gloomy and miserable right off the bat didn't help matters either. He told his friends that he'd eat out today so they didn't have to wait for him. Sango didn't seem to mind letting the dumbass eat by himself and as for Miroku: any chance at being alone with Sango was a good opportunity for him.

 

Inuyasha slowly trudged towards his locker. He might have told them he was eating out if only to eat alone. The diner hall wasn't the best place for him to be right now. The kids usually drove him to the brink of insanity on regular days, so he'd just loose it if he were to go today. That really isn't such a good idea.

 

His school bag exchanged for his lunch, Inuyasha closed his locker door and out the corner of his eye, he saw her. Curiosity pulled at his inner strings. He followed her to the cafeteria, saw her walk up the stairs, but he didn't follow here there. He knew she'd come right back down anyway.

 

No matter what the day, the second floor was always jam packed with people. He himself stopped checking that floor over four years ago. Apparently they remodeled it and changed its color. But he wouldn't know and could care less. Walking up those stairs was a waist of time for him.

 

Inuyasha kept himself busy looking at the bulletin board. Once Kagome was downstairs, he saw her go straight to the line. He took this opportunity to move in a little closer. To his luck she hadn't noticed him yet. The line up was rather long, but it moved rather fast. This must be his lucky hour. She'd be done with it quickly and he wouldn't look like an absolute idiot leaning against the cafeteria wall doing nothing.

 

Looking around, he spotted his friends. Sango and Miroku were at their usual seats. Except instead of him, there was Kouga and his two lackeys, Ginta and Hakaku.

 

`That stinking fucker…'

 

Kouga always irritated the shit out of him and always thought he deserved the Bad Ass title more than Inuyasha. But Inuyasha Bad Ass Taka will never relinquish his title to such a wimpy freak.

 

Scanning the other students, his eyes fell on Sota. The kid was making his way towards the middle of the line. Inuyasha's brown orbs followed the freshman to his destination. He blinked a few times, making sure his 20/20 vision hadn't failed him. The boy was talking to Her.

 

`What the hell?!?!'

 

The two were talking. They weren't saying much, but the girl acted civilized. There was no hostility what-so-ever. Why?

 

Why her and not anyone else? Why would he go see Her of all people?

 

And why did she not bark back at him? Why did she show some kind of respect towards the freshman? Did she know about his past already? She's barely been here one day and she already knows about him? That's not possible. It took new students months, sometimes even over a year before Sota would allow the new students to interact with him. Why didn't she yell at him when she seems to detest just about everyone she comes in contact with.

 

When she was done paying her juice and muffin, Inuyasha saw her head towards a waiting Sota. So the muffin was for him? All smiles, the boy said something and headed towards the exit.

 

She quietly followed and so did he. Pushing himself off the wall, he chased after them all the way out the school. They were now in the backyard and he knew immediately where he was taking her.

 

But why? That place was sacred for the boy.

 

Inuyasha hid behind a nearby tree and watched in pure fascination.

 

“Do you like it?”

 

Seconds felt like long minutes. A gentle, warm and pure smile graced the girl's pink lips. Beautiful was all he could think off. Her face, her entire physical façade just relaxed, all tension seemingly gone.

 

Her lips moved but he didn't hear her words. Sota must have though. His eyes shimmered with unshed tears. The freshman more or less through himself at her, hugging her close. Her left arm went around him, bringing him closer, and the boy just lost it. He cried and Inuyasha could hear his soft sobs

 

“I miss him.”

 

He sounded so hurt, so broken. Inuyasha knew whom the boy was talking about and he's own heart constricted with pain as he watched in silence. He knew the kid rarely showed his tears to anyone, Sango included. However, here he was, hiding behind a tree and watching the young lad cry in the arms of the new student, a girl the boy should barely know.

 

The girl, Kagome, dropped her juice box, completely ignoring it as she fully hugged the boy damping her shirt uncaringly. She never took her eyes off the tree though, her own orbs glistening with tears. She was holding them back, her body visibly tensing again and frustration flashing in her eyes.

 

Minutes passed and finally Sota pulled back, his eyes downcast. Kagome looked at him and the warm smile returned, the tension once more leaving her. “Keep your chin up Sota. You know how that old bat will react if she found out you cried.”

 

Her voice was soft and gentle, a bit of humor mingled in. She sounded like an angel to Inuyasha's ears. The girl he met in class was nothing like the girl standing before him. The girl he met in class was cold and hostile. This one is sweet and kind. How could they possibly be the same person?

 

He had to find out who she was. He was beyond curious now; it's more like obsessed now. He should have checked the attendance sheet. Maybe his answer was there. Or why not just go to the source? Or one of them at least? Sota would tell him. The kid looked up to him. That's what Sango told him.

 

He zoned out of the Kagome and Sota's conversation for a while, lost in his own thoughts. However, a light laughter brought him back to the scene before him.

 

Sota was laughing at what he didn't know. Kagome still had a smile on her face, but it was different from the warm smile she had before. This one looked sadistic and down right scary. Sota stopped laughing and looked up at Kagome, her smile also fading.

 

“Hey sis? You know it doesn't hurt to laugh or cry sometimes.”

 

The rest of the conversation never registered in his brain as one word kept repeating in his head.

 

Sis.

 

Was she really his sister? Last he heard, the girl was mentally and physically ill, the reason why nobody has seen her. Sota didn't deny it either, so they all believed that rumor to be true.

 

Now he had to find the truth and Sota certainly could be his source. But he could always go see Kaede, the school's student councilor. She knew all the students even before they were introduced to the students. She's never refused to help him before either.

 

Mind set, he fled the scene before being spotted by either one of them. Forgetting lunch, Inuyasha had a mission to accomplish.

 

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A.N.

 

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