InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Somewhere Out There ❯ So This is the End ( Chapter 8 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: Anubis_Himura 
Such a long withdrawl! I love you guys!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Hentai / | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 01.11.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.2K | Visits: 1.0K | Status: Completed
Such a long withdrawl! I love you guys!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Hentai / | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 01.11.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.2K | Visits: 1.0K | Status: Completed
How was everyone's Holidays? Happy 2005!!
OOOH! Before you read the chapter, read how Happy this is! My friend and I are going to the 'Taste of Chaos Tour' featuring: The Used, Killswitch Engage, My Chemical Romance and like three other bands! Yay! Okay, now that you all hate me (unless you don't listen to that music or just don't care or have all ready seen them) have fun with the chapter! Oh, and the chapter title is from a Story of the Year song called Razorblades and has nothing to do with the chapter. hehe ^_^
Somewhere Out There
Chapter 8: So This is the End
2004
Anubis_himura
; *~Seemed to stop my breath my head
on your chest waiting to cave in
from the bottom of my . . .
hear your voice again could we dim the sun
and wonder where we've been?
Maybe you and me
so kiss me like you did
my heart stopped beating
such a softer sin
(I'm melting)~*
~
&n bsp; Sango sat bolt upright in her dorm room bed and began to breathe heavily. She had been having horrible visions all night of Kagome. First Kagome had been sucked into a tornado, and then she had been frozen to death in an ice storm. Now she had another one of Kagome lying dead on a bench. Something's wrong. Sango decided. Sango looked over to Kagome's bed. Kagome wasn't there. Sango began panicking. She ran to the boys dorm.
"Miroku! Kagome is gone!" her voice was an urgent whisper and Miroku barely stirred. "Miroku!" she tried again.
"What are you yelling about?" Inuyasha woke up and turned over, looking at the nagging girl.
"Kagome, she is gone." Sango explained.
Inuyasha yawned, apparently bored by the thought, "No she isn't." he stated.
"She isn't in our room." Inuyasha looked up from his pillow and shook his head.
"She's outside on a bench. Now can you please be quiet?" Inuyasha turned over and went back to sleep.
Sango ran outside and found Kagome on the bench, sleeping. Ignoring the fact that Inuyasha was right she ran over to her.
"Kagome?" she asked, gently shaking her.
Kagome stirred and slowly opened her eyes. She blinked a few times against the sun and finally sat up, fully awake. "Mornin' Sango."
"Kagome!" she hugged her closely, "I had horrible dreams about you all night. I was so scared."
"Did you think they were real?" Kagome asked, smiling slightly.
"Why are you sleeping outside anyway?"
"I . . . I"
"What is it Kagome?"
Kagome told Sango the whole story. From Greggers party, to Inuyashas memory loss, to Sesshomarus visit.
"THAT JERK!" Sango screamed.
"Shh." Kagome looked around to make sure no one heard her. "It was my fault too Sango. I deserved what Sesshomaru said. I don't deserve Sesshomaru. I never did." She looked down at the ground, her haggard appearance proving how crestfallen she was.
"I meant Inuyasha. He could have the decency to remember!"
"It's okay Sango. This is my life. I have to deal with it." Kagome yawned again and looked at her watch. "I have to go to class. I'll see you later."
"Okay." Sango hesitantly allowed her friend to leave, then ran off to the dorms.
~*
; "OUCH!" Inuyasha sat up, staring at Sango who looked more angry than he had ever seen a human. "What the fuck was that for?!" Sango had hit him on the head, and not just a simple back-hand, she had really wailed on him.
"You jerk!" she screamed before casually walking out of the room.
"Sango my pet, what seems to be the trouble?" Miroku ran out after her, leaving Inuyasha very confused and slightly injured.
"Stupid women . . . P.M.Sing mother fuckers." Inuyasha massaged his injured head for a few minutes. Noticing the time on the wall he bolted up to get ready for class.
A mere thirty steps away from his first class of the morning he ran into a distracted Kagome. "Ow." Kagome mumbled as she fell onto the floor. She hadn't noticed who had knocked into her and didn't bother looking up either.
"Sorry Kags." Inuyasha managed quickly as he helped pull her to her feet.
Kagome looked at him with a mixture of shock and confusion. He looked back with a similar expression. "What's wrong? I thought that 'cause Sesshy was here you'd be all happy."
"Sesshomaru and I have decided to see other people." her voice was strong despite the weakness she felt.
"Why?" he scoffed, "You two were so happy together."
"We just have." Kagome was becoming snappy. "Excuse me, I have to get to class."
Kagome brushed passed him into the classroom and walked up the stadium style seating to the back row where she took out a notebook and focused her eyes halfheartedly on the teacher.
Inuyasha walked in, a few steps behind her, and sat down next to her. Throughout the period he watched her out of the corner of his eye and tried to determine what really happened.
"So, what really happened?" he leaned over and whispered to her.
"None of your business." she answered back impatiently.
"Tell me." he ordered.
"No."
"Come on"
"I said no Yash."
"What did Sesshy do to make you so upset huh?"
"IT WAS NOT SESSHOMARUS FAULT!" Kagome almost stood up and yelled it in his face.
"Ms. Higarashi! That is a very interesting fact, could you relate that to Aristotle? If you can I won't kick you out of my classroom." Mr. Ouy had on his 'I'm not kidding around' look, but leaned calmly on his pointing stick, waiting for a response.
"I am sorry Sir." Kagome stood up, grabbing her books, and walked out of class.
Her destination didn't become apparent until she reached it. Her body automatically walked her to the cafe. She bought a small coffee and watched the people walking by. She debated telling him, if only so he would shut up about Sesshomaru. Then she thought better of it. She knew that alcohol had a lot to do with his memory loss; but, being Kagome, she thought it was more like he didn't want to remember. That he had blocked it out on purpose.
She watched as two girls walked by. She recognized them as girls that lived in the dorm room near Hers and Sango's. They began talking to Inuyasha and Kagome looked away, but continued to glance at them out of the corner of her eye. Inuyasha nodded almost politely to the girls and walked into the cafe. Kagome knew there wasn't a back door, so she prayed he didn't see her. Apparently, (insert religious entity -or lack there of - here) was not on her side today.
"Kagome," he sat down in the other chair, across from her.
"Why do you want to know so bad?" Kagome was getting tired. She felt weak and she hated feeling that way.
"I just want to know what happened. You look so . . . sad."
"Why do you care how I feel?" she snapped back.
"We are friends ya know. You can talk to me." he was trying to be nice, she was just making it so difficult
"No. I can't." she felt herself begin to cry again and tried to blink the tears away.
"Why are you crying?"
"Sesshomaru had every right, every reason to break up with me. If he didn't, I would have thought something was wrong with him." Kagome put her hand to her neck, suddenly it felt like someone was applying great pressure to her neck.
"Are you okay?" Inuyasha asked, noticing her pain.
"My neck is killing me." Kagome explained. It seemed that the previous topic didn't matter.
"Let me see?" Kagome pulled her hand away and Inuyasha pulled down her turtle neck. She had been wearing turtle necks for a while now. He saw a large wound, apparently a bite mark, covered by a hickey.
Inuyashas head began to spin. He pulled his hand back and closed his eyes, trying to regain his composure.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome watched as he swayed in his seat. "Yash?!"
He opened his eyes and opened his mouth to speak, before passing out on the floor. Kagome stood up and walked around the table to him. "Yash?" she gently tapped his face, trying to stir him. "Yash, wake up."
~*§¤*~
&nb sp; "What happened?" Inuyasha sat up in his own bed.
"You fainted, at the cafe." Kagome explained.
"Kagome was going to call the paramedics when we happened along and so we all carried you back here." Miroku chimed in. Sango sat there too.
"Why did I faint?"
"I don't know. I told you my neck hurt and you just kind of collapsed."
"That makes no sense." Inuyasha reasoned, sitting fully up and looking around as though he had never been there before.
"Well that's what happened." Kagome shot back in an aggravated tone.
"Fine."
The four were silent for a few minutes. It was an awkward silence. Everyone shifted their eyes and avoided everyone else all together.
"I'm going to finish my term paper." Kagome announced as she stood up and turned to leave.
"Like we need to know what you are doing every minute of your life." Inuyasha retorted with.
Kagome didn't vocalize; she simply stuck her middle finger up at him in the universal 'fuck off/fuck yourself/fuck you' sign. She made a graceful departure and slammed the door behind her.
~*§¤*~
&nb sp; Life passed slowly for the students at Ithaca University. Not just the four troubled students in dorms '8D' and '12D', but the rest of the student population as well. Kagome was happy to say she had no term papers, lab reports, or any such homework over the long one-month winter break. She smiled to herself in her dorm as she packed up the last bit of luggage that would be accompanying her home. Sango ran into the room, smiling happily as she flopped on to the bare mattress.
"Happy?" Kagome asked rhetorically.
Sango made a 'Mmm hmm' sound and nodded enthusiastically.
"Why?" Kagome asked, as though interested, simply to play along with her friends antics.
"Well . . . " she paused, adding to the drama of the moment. "Miroku and I . . . " she paused again and Kagome was beginning to get annoyed. "We slept together!" she bounced up and down on the mattress, giggling (quite literally) like a schoolgirl.
Kagome looked puzzled for a moment, before becoming happy. "I thought you two had done that ages ago."
"No!" Sango stood up, apparently outraged. "Miroku and I were taking our time. We've been dating for like sixth months now though, so we finally felt comfortable having the talk and the . . . actions." she continued to smile and a dreamy look overtook her eyes.
"Oh. Well. Yay! I just really thought you'd been together, like that, already."
"What am I? Some kind of slut or something?" Sango shut her eyes tight as the words escaped her mouth. "Kags, I didn't mean it like that. I -"
"Just stop Sango." Kagome let out a determined breath and defiantly left the room.
"Kagome, wait!" she was all ready gone.
~§¤~
&nbs p; "Would you two hurry up? We have a little thing called a time schedule! If I don't get out of the parking lot by seven thirty I am going to hurt someone!" Inuyasha shouted from the drivers seat of his car.
"Shut the fuck up will you?!" Kagome screamed up to him from her position behind the car.
"Ya know, I can back this thing up right now and take care of a lot of problems bitch."
"Fuck off!" Kagome yelled back, rolling her eyes and stuffing her bag in the back.
"Kags," Miroku tried to get her attention. "If you want, we can switch halfway and you can have the front."
"Whatever." Kagome shrugged and got into the backseat, behind Inuyasha. Sango sat behind Miroku, leaving Miroku in the front riding shotgun to Inuyasha.
The first four hours of the trip were boring. No one talked, Sango kept looking to Kagome out of the corner of her eye. Kagome was intent on counting every tree or building she could find. Anything to keep her mind off her 'nic' fit. Miroku tried breaking the silence a few times, only to receive 'shut ups' or worse . . . silence. The radio was on, but it was purely background. No one paid attention to what the radio was saying, or playing.
Finally arriving at a half way point the four jumped eagerly out of the car. Kagome ran into the convenience store while Inuyasha pumped gas. Miroku and Sango simply stretched.
"You want front Kags?" Miroku asked sweetly, preparing to hop in the back.
"Whatever." she got in front and waited for the rest to get in.
Inuyasha started the car and started to pull out of the gas station. He noticed an odor in the car, that wasn't there before, but he ignored it and headed back for the highway.
Once they were on a back road, approximately two hours later, Kagome rolled her window down and leaned her head against the door jam. An unpleasant smell filled the car, the open window providing little ventilation.
"What the fuck are you doing?" Inuyasha yelled as he noticed for the first time that Kagome was smoking. "You can't smoke in my car bitch!"
"How much did you put in gas back there?" She asked, taking a large drag of the Marlboro cancer stick.
"Twenty five. Why?"
Kagome reached into her purse, and then her wallet, pulling out thirty dollars. "Take this if it'll let me smoke." she threw the money at him and continued to look out the window, flicking the cigarette ashes and watching them disintegrate in mid air.
Inuyasha stuffed the money in his cup holder and 'feh'ed.
Another two hours, and another four cigarettes, and the four college students were in their own town, on their way to their own houses.
Kagome was dropped off first and she couldn't have been happier. She pulled out her duffle and slammed the trunk shut just as Inuyasha sped off. "Jerk" she muttered as she opened the bar door and walked up the backstairs.
It was a familiar routine, yet some how, at this moment, seemed so foreign. She threw her duffle on her bed and called out into the empty apartment "Mom? Dad?"
'Must not be here.' she thought to herself. 'How perceptive idiot'. She rolled her eyes at herself and plopped on to the plaid couch, she didn't really want her parents to know she had taken up smoking, so she changed her clothes and took a shower, shedding the smell from herself. She also wanted to use this alone time to think of how her life ended up as some 'movie of the week' scenario.
Mai and Ansel walked into their house, after a day of looking for new bedding as a surprise for Kagomes homecoming, and heard the shower water running.
"It could be a burglar." Mai whispered urgently.
"Why would a burglar take a shower?" Ansel retaliated. "It's obviously Kagome."
"Oh. Good point." Mai brightened and tapped on the bathroom door just as the shower stopped. "Kagome?"
"Hi Mom." Kagome called back through the door.
"What's wrong?" Mai could sense that her daughter was having trouble.
"I need to change Mom. I'll be right out." Mai took the hint and walked into the kitchen/dinning/living room combo and sat down next to Ansel at the table. They exchanged a worried glance and only a few minutes passed before Kagome came into the room.
"How is school going dear? Did you get our package?" Mai tried to brighten up the look on her sad daughters face. "What is wrong dear?"
"Oh Mom. Dad." Kagome hugged both of her parents, sniffling slightly. "It's been a long Semester."
~*~§¤~*~
& nbsp; ~* In your eyes
I lost my place, could stay a while
and I'm melting in your eyes
like my first time
that I caught fire
just stay with me
lay with me now *~
~*~*~*~*~*~
; AN: The song was by THE USED (appropriate based on the pre chapter AN ne?) the title of the song is "I Caught Fire"
So, there you have it. Good ol' chapter number 8. I wasn't as fond of this chapter as I was the last one. It seemed choppy, and I didn't bother editing because I didn't really like it. Maybe I'll work on that before I post it and this comment will make no sense. I'm kind of sad too, I was told, by my best friend, that this story idea 'sucks'. Way to be supportive hun. So, I am a little discouraged now. But you guys are WAY more than helpful with your wonderful comments! I love you guys and thanks so much for making me feel better! Even though some of you think its crap too. Oh well! For those of you that love me I love you! hehe. And we shall prevail and take over the world and run it with our mascot Hamsters! *Blink . . . Blink* Okay, so it sounded better in my head! Love you guys!
P.s. - I think I stole the name for Kags Mom. . . don't know from which fic though (possibly Zero -G) so read it! yay.
OOOH! Before you read the chapter, read how Happy this is! My friend and I are going to the 'Taste of Chaos Tour' featuring: The Used, Killswitch Engage, My Chemical Romance and like three other bands! Yay! Okay, now that you all hate me (unless you don't listen to that music or just don't care or have all ready seen them) have fun with the chapter! Oh, and the chapter title is from a Story of the Year song called Razorblades and has nothing to do with the chapter. hehe ^_^
Somewhere Out There
Chapter 8: So This is the End
2004
Anubis_himura
; *~Seemed to stop my breath my head
on your chest waiting to cave in
from the bottom of my . . .
hear your voice again could we dim the sun
and wonder where we've been?
Maybe you and me
so kiss me like you did
my heart stopped beating
such a softer sin
(I'm melting)~*
~
&n bsp; Sango sat bolt upright in her dorm room bed and began to breathe heavily. She had been having horrible visions all night of Kagome. First Kagome had been sucked into a tornado, and then she had been frozen to death in an ice storm. Now she had another one of Kagome lying dead on a bench. Something's wrong. Sango decided. Sango looked over to Kagome's bed. Kagome wasn't there. Sango began panicking. She ran to the boys dorm.
"Miroku! Kagome is gone!" her voice was an urgent whisper and Miroku barely stirred. "Miroku!" she tried again.
"What are you yelling about?" Inuyasha woke up and turned over, looking at the nagging girl.
"Kagome, she is gone." Sango explained.
Inuyasha yawned, apparently bored by the thought, "No she isn't." he stated.
"She isn't in our room." Inuyasha looked up from his pillow and shook his head.
"She's outside on a bench. Now can you please be quiet?" Inuyasha turned over and went back to sleep.
Sango ran outside and found Kagome on the bench, sleeping. Ignoring the fact that Inuyasha was right she ran over to her.
"Kagome?" she asked, gently shaking her.
Kagome stirred and slowly opened her eyes. She blinked a few times against the sun and finally sat up, fully awake. "Mornin' Sango."
"Kagome!" she hugged her closely, "I had horrible dreams about you all night. I was so scared."
"Did you think they were real?" Kagome asked, smiling slightly.
"Why are you sleeping outside anyway?"
"I . . . I"
"What is it Kagome?"
Kagome told Sango the whole story. From Greggers party, to Inuyashas memory loss, to Sesshomarus visit.
"THAT JERK!" Sango screamed.
"Shh." Kagome looked around to make sure no one heard her. "It was my fault too Sango. I deserved what Sesshomaru said. I don't deserve Sesshomaru. I never did." She looked down at the ground, her haggard appearance proving how crestfallen she was.
"I meant Inuyasha. He could have the decency to remember!"
"It's okay Sango. This is my life. I have to deal with it." Kagome yawned again and looked at her watch. "I have to go to class. I'll see you later."
"Okay." Sango hesitantly allowed her friend to leave, then ran off to the dorms.
~*
; "OUCH!" Inuyasha sat up, staring at Sango who looked more angry than he had ever seen a human. "What the fuck was that for?!" Sango had hit him on the head, and not just a simple back-hand, she had really wailed on him.
"You jerk!" she screamed before casually walking out of the room.
"Sango my pet, what seems to be the trouble?" Miroku ran out after her, leaving Inuyasha very confused and slightly injured.
"Stupid women . . . P.M.Sing mother fuckers." Inuyasha massaged his injured head for a few minutes. Noticing the time on the wall he bolted up to get ready for class.
A mere thirty steps away from his first class of the morning he ran into a distracted Kagome. "Ow." Kagome mumbled as she fell onto the floor. She hadn't noticed who had knocked into her and didn't bother looking up either.
"Sorry Kags." Inuyasha managed quickly as he helped pull her to her feet.
Kagome looked at him with a mixture of shock and confusion. He looked back with a similar expression. "What's wrong? I thought that 'cause Sesshy was here you'd be all happy."
"Sesshomaru and I have decided to see other people." her voice was strong despite the weakness she felt.
"Why?" he scoffed, "You two were so happy together."
"We just have." Kagome was becoming snappy. "Excuse me, I have to get to class."
Kagome brushed passed him into the classroom and walked up the stadium style seating to the back row where she took out a notebook and focused her eyes halfheartedly on the teacher.
Inuyasha walked in, a few steps behind her, and sat down next to her. Throughout the period he watched her out of the corner of his eye and tried to determine what really happened.
"So, what really happened?" he leaned over and whispered to her.
"None of your business." she answered back impatiently.
"Tell me." he ordered.
"No."
"Come on"
"I said no Yash."
"What did Sesshy do to make you so upset huh?"
"IT WAS NOT SESSHOMARUS FAULT!" Kagome almost stood up and yelled it in his face.
"Ms. Higarashi! That is a very interesting fact, could you relate that to Aristotle? If you can I won't kick you out of my classroom." Mr. Ouy had on his 'I'm not kidding around' look, but leaned calmly on his pointing stick, waiting for a response.
"I am sorry Sir." Kagome stood up, grabbing her books, and walked out of class.
Her destination didn't become apparent until she reached it. Her body automatically walked her to the cafe. She bought a small coffee and watched the people walking by. She debated telling him, if only so he would shut up about Sesshomaru. Then she thought better of it. She knew that alcohol had a lot to do with his memory loss; but, being Kagome, she thought it was more like he didn't want to remember. That he had blocked it out on purpose.
She watched as two girls walked by. She recognized them as girls that lived in the dorm room near Hers and Sango's. They began talking to Inuyasha and Kagome looked away, but continued to glance at them out of the corner of her eye. Inuyasha nodded almost politely to the girls and walked into the cafe. Kagome knew there wasn't a back door, so she prayed he didn't see her. Apparently, (insert religious entity -or lack there of - here) was not on her side today.
"Kagome," he sat down in the other chair, across from her.
"Why do you want to know so bad?" Kagome was getting tired. She felt weak and she hated feeling that way.
"I just want to know what happened. You look so . . . sad."
"Why do you care how I feel?" she snapped back.
"We are friends ya know. You can talk to me." he was trying to be nice, she was just making it so difficult
"No. I can't." she felt herself begin to cry again and tried to blink the tears away.
"Why are you crying?"
"Sesshomaru had every right, every reason to break up with me. If he didn't, I would have thought something was wrong with him." Kagome put her hand to her neck, suddenly it felt like someone was applying great pressure to her neck.
"Are you okay?" Inuyasha asked, noticing her pain.
"My neck is killing me." Kagome explained. It seemed that the previous topic didn't matter.
"Let me see?" Kagome pulled her hand away and Inuyasha pulled down her turtle neck. She had been wearing turtle necks for a while now. He saw a large wound, apparently a bite mark, covered by a hickey.
Inuyashas head began to spin. He pulled his hand back and closed his eyes, trying to regain his composure.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome watched as he swayed in his seat. "Yash?!"
He opened his eyes and opened his mouth to speak, before passing out on the floor. Kagome stood up and walked around the table to him. "Yash?" she gently tapped his face, trying to stir him. "Yash, wake up."
~*§¤*~
&nb sp; "What happened?" Inuyasha sat up in his own bed.
"You fainted, at the cafe." Kagome explained.
"Kagome was going to call the paramedics when we happened along and so we all carried you back here." Miroku chimed in. Sango sat there too.
"Why did I faint?"
"I don't know. I told you my neck hurt and you just kind of collapsed."
"That makes no sense." Inuyasha reasoned, sitting fully up and looking around as though he had never been there before.
"Well that's what happened." Kagome shot back in an aggravated tone.
"Fine."
The four were silent for a few minutes. It was an awkward silence. Everyone shifted their eyes and avoided everyone else all together.
"I'm going to finish my term paper." Kagome announced as she stood up and turned to leave.
"Like we need to know what you are doing every minute of your life." Inuyasha retorted with.
Kagome didn't vocalize; she simply stuck her middle finger up at him in the universal 'fuck off/fuck yourself/fuck you' sign. She made a graceful departure and slammed the door behind her.
~*§¤*~
&nb sp; Life passed slowly for the students at Ithaca University. Not just the four troubled students in dorms '8D' and '12D', but the rest of the student population as well. Kagome was happy to say she had no term papers, lab reports, or any such homework over the long one-month winter break. She smiled to herself in her dorm as she packed up the last bit of luggage that would be accompanying her home. Sango ran into the room, smiling happily as she flopped on to the bare mattress.
"Happy?" Kagome asked rhetorically.
Sango made a 'Mmm hmm' sound and nodded enthusiastically.
"Why?" Kagome asked, as though interested, simply to play along with her friends antics.
"Well . . . " she paused, adding to the drama of the moment. "Miroku and I . . . " she paused again and Kagome was beginning to get annoyed. "We slept together!" she bounced up and down on the mattress, giggling (quite literally) like a schoolgirl.
Kagome looked puzzled for a moment, before becoming happy. "I thought you two had done that ages ago."
"No!" Sango stood up, apparently outraged. "Miroku and I were taking our time. We've been dating for like sixth months now though, so we finally felt comfortable having the talk and the . . . actions." she continued to smile and a dreamy look overtook her eyes.
"Oh. Well. Yay! I just really thought you'd been together, like that, already."
"What am I? Some kind of slut or something?" Sango shut her eyes tight as the words escaped her mouth. "Kags, I didn't mean it like that. I -"
"Just stop Sango." Kagome let out a determined breath and defiantly left the room.
"Kagome, wait!" she was all ready gone.
~§¤~
&nbs p; "Would you two hurry up? We have a little thing called a time schedule! If I don't get out of the parking lot by seven thirty I am going to hurt someone!" Inuyasha shouted from the drivers seat of his car.
"Shut the fuck up will you?!" Kagome screamed up to him from her position behind the car.
"Ya know, I can back this thing up right now and take care of a lot of problems bitch."
"Fuck off!" Kagome yelled back, rolling her eyes and stuffing her bag in the back.
"Kags," Miroku tried to get her attention. "If you want, we can switch halfway and you can have the front."
"Whatever." Kagome shrugged and got into the backseat, behind Inuyasha. Sango sat behind Miroku, leaving Miroku in the front riding shotgun to Inuyasha.
The first four hours of the trip were boring. No one talked, Sango kept looking to Kagome out of the corner of her eye. Kagome was intent on counting every tree or building she could find. Anything to keep her mind off her 'nic' fit. Miroku tried breaking the silence a few times, only to receive 'shut ups' or worse . . . silence. The radio was on, but it was purely background. No one paid attention to what the radio was saying, or playing.
Finally arriving at a half way point the four jumped eagerly out of the car. Kagome ran into the convenience store while Inuyasha pumped gas. Miroku and Sango simply stretched.
"You want front Kags?" Miroku asked sweetly, preparing to hop in the back.
"Whatever." she got in front and waited for the rest to get in.
Inuyasha started the car and started to pull out of the gas station. He noticed an odor in the car, that wasn't there before, but he ignored it and headed back for the highway.
Once they were on a back road, approximately two hours later, Kagome rolled her window down and leaned her head against the door jam. An unpleasant smell filled the car, the open window providing little ventilation.
"What the fuck are you doing?" Inuyasha yelled as he noticed for the first time that Kagome was smoking. "You can't smoke in my car bitch!"
"How much did you put in gas back there?" She asked, taking a large drag of the Marlboro cancer stick.
"Twenty five. Why?"
Kagome reached into her purse, and then her wallet, pulling out thirty dollars. "Take this if it'll let me smoke." she threw the money at him and continued to look out the window, flicking the cigarette ashes and watching them disintegrate in mid air.
Inuyasha stuffed the money in his cup holder and 'feh'ed.
Another two hours, and another four cigarettes, and the four college students were in their own town, on their way to their own houses.
Kagome was dropped off first and she couldn't have been happier. She pulled out her duffle and slammed the trunk shut just as Inuyasha sped off. "Jerk" she muttered as she opened the bar door and walked up the backstairs.
It was a familiar routine, yet some how, at this moment, seemed so foreign. She threw her duffle on her bed and called out into the empty apartment "Mom? Dad?"
'Must not be here.' she thought to herself. 'How perceptive idiot'. She rolled her eyes at herself and plopped on to the plaid couch, she didn't really want her parents to know she had taken up smoking, so she changed her clothes and took a shower, shedding the smell from herself. She also wanted to use this alone time to think of how her life ended up as some 'movie of the week' scenario.
Mai and Ansel walked into their house, after a day of looking for new bedding as a surprise for Kagomes homecoming, and heard the shower water running.
"It could be a burglar." Mai whispered urgently.
"Why would a burglar take a shower?" Ansel retaliated. "It's obviously Kagome."
"Oh. Good point." Mai brightened and tapped on the bathroom door just as the shower stopped. "Kagome?"
"Hi Mom." Kagome called back through the door.
"What's wrong?" Mai could sense that her daughter was having trouble.
"I need to change Mom. I'll be right out." Mai took the hint and walked into the kitchen/dinning/living room combo and sat down next to Ansel at the table. They exchanged a worried glance and only a few minutes passed before Kagome came into the room.
"How is school going dear? Did you get our package?" Mai tried to brighten up the look on her sad daughters face. "What is wrong dear?"
"Oh Mom. Dad." Kagome hugged both of her parents, sniffling slightly. "It's been a long Semester."
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& nbsp; ~* In your eyes
I lost my place, could stay a while
and I'm melting in your eyes
like my first time
that I caught fire
just stay with me
lay with me now *~
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; AN: The song was by THE USED (appropriate based on the pre chapter AN ne?) the title of the song is "I Caught Fire"
So, there you have it. Good ol' chapter number 8. I wasn't as fond of this chapter as I was the last one. It seemed choppy, and I didn't bother editing because I didn't really like it. Maybe I'll work on that before I post it and this comment will make no sense. I'm kind of sad too, I was told, by my best friend, that this story idea 'sucks'. Way to be supportive hun. So, I am a little discouraged now. But you guys are WAY more than helpful with your wonderful comments! I love you guys and thanks so much for making me feel better! Even though some of you think its crap too. Oh well! For those of you that love me I love you! hehe. And we shall prevail and take over the world and run it with our mascot Hamsters! *Blink . . . Blink* Okay, so it sounded better in my head! Love you guys!
P.s. - I think I stole the name for Kags Mom. . . don't know from which fic though (possibly Zero -G) so read it! yay.