InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Strange Duet ❯ Confrontation ( Chapter 7 )

 

“Ms. Higurashi?”

 

Kagome's unfocused attention suddenly snapped back at the sound of her name being said. Blue-grey eyes cleared and turned nervous as she saw the head of the school looking rather uncertain and nervous beyond her.

 

`Did I do something wrong?'

 

Eri, Yuka and Ayumi looked at her questioningly; heads tilted to the side as if asking her what was going on and received a confused shake of her head as an answer. Kagome swallowed hard and stood up a little from her seat.

 

“Y-yes?”

 

“May I speak to you….privately?”

 

Kagome nodded, her heart sinking in her chest as she swallowed hard again and collected her things silently. Her face burned as several people looked at her and started whispering amongst each other about the possible reasons she was being called out of class. Her head was high and her chin rose stubbornly as she felt her eyes prickle with tears of humiliation. She hadn't been absent all that much already, had she?

 

`Why am I getting pulled out of class?'

 

Kagome followed the older woman with a nervous and sick feeling in her stomach, her eyes following the pattern on the floor as she tried to think of something, anything to say that would somehow clear the air between herself and her principal. Ebony hair fell into her eyes as she prepared to speak and was surprised to find the older woman stopping to stare out the window. Her principal's voice was concerned and even a little frightened as she turned her dark brown eyes to Kagome's nervous and pale form.

 

`The poor girl, I wonder how she ever became mixed up with that ruffian.'

 

“Ms. Higurashi, there is a…visitor on the school grounds who is asking for you in a rather inappropriate manner.”

 

Kagome's face paled further than the principal could have imagined as the blue-grey eyes snapped out to the window overlooking the entrance to the school. The way the girl's face fell and her eyes seemed to glow with a mixture of anger and regret sent a pang of sympathy through the woman's heart as she touched Kagome's shoulder gently, her own dark hair twisted high up into a bun as she regarded Kagome kindly through her cat's eye shaped glasses.

 

“Ms. Higurashi, I can call the proper authorities to remove him from the grounds if he frightens you so.”

 

Kagome's body suddenly stiffened as she quickly shoved her instructor away from her and darted to the windows in front of her. Inuyasha had unsheathed the Tetsusaiga and was aiming directly at her principal. Just when he had raised the gigantic fang shaped blade over his head, Kagome managed to get the window open and screamed the subduing word, her hands gripping the edge of the windowsill tightly.

 

`He's going to use the Kaze no Kizu!'

 

“Inuyasha, osuwari!”

 

The unmistakable yells and curses floated up to her as she whirled around and raced for the stairs, taking them two at a time in her haste to get down to the first level and out the doors before Inuyasha was able to move from his subjugation. Her eyes flashed as she called back an apology to her poor instructor and swung herself around a corner, past a group of startled freshman and shoving the doors open with a force that even surprised her as she stormed over to where Inuyasha was just pulling himself out of a nice Inuyasha shaped crater in the stone and cement ground.

 

The two of us are screaming, even now

Just continuing to believe isn't the answer

Expose your weaknesses and your wounds

If we don't continue to struggle, nothing will begin

 

“What are you doing here?! I told you never to come back here!”

 

Inuyasha growled at her, baring his fangs as he sheathed the Tetsusaiga and glared down at the furious human girl in front of him.

 

“I came back because a certain bitch didn't give me any fucking answers!”

 

“So that means you had a right to try and fire off a Kaze no Kizu at my teacher?!”

 

“The bitch is a youkai Kagome!”

 

“Yeah?! So what? Youkai can live in peace too Inuyasha!”

 

“She'd come and suck your blood dammit!”

 

“You're so paranoid about other youkai that you can't even see the real problems in life!”

 

“You mean like you fucking lying to me about training with Sango when you were really sneaking off to see that bastard brother of mine?!”

 

“Excuse me, Higurashi? Do…you need the police to get rid of this guy?”

 

Kagome and Inuyasha whirled around and noticed the growing crowd of students and staff looking anxiously between the two of them. During the argument, Kagome had shoved Inuyasha and had gotten shoved in return. The two of them had been pushing each other with more and more force before the timid looking secretary had interrupted the two of them. He had grabbed her by the front of her school blouse during the argument and had his fistful of fabric to hold her in front of his face during the screaming match.

 

Kagome gave Inuyasha a scathing look even as her cheeks turned red from embarrassment and she turned her attention to her fellow schoolmates and the staff before she grabbed one of the long locks of hair hanging over Inuyasha's shoulder and started to pull him towards the gate that lead out of the school grounds.

 

`I can't believe this!'

 

“No, no! I've got it under control, I'm sorry. My…personal trainer gets like this sometimes when I miss too many of his scheduled meetings. It's a form of, uh, training! He's checking if I can keep my balance.”

 

She glared at him even as she waved at her school and started down the street at a rather quick pace that had Inuyasha jogging to keep up with her.

 

“Oi bitch, you can let up on my hair!”

 

Kagome released him as if coming into contact with him burned her skin and continued to storm down the street.

 

“You are the worst you know that!? It'll take me months to try and smooth things over after that stupid stunt you pulled back there!”

 

Inuyasha's eyes flashed as he matched her stride and glared back at her.

 

“If you wouldn't have fucking lied to me we wouldn't be in this situation!”

 

“Oh and I'm the only one who's lied to anyone here?!”

 

They were climbing up the stairs to the Higurashi Shrine and yelling at each other the entire time. People passing by looked concerned and hurried away from the two quarreling as fast as they could. No one wanted to be involved in this kind of a quarrel, especially not between a livid high school girl and a strangely dressed man with a sword at his hip. Inuyasha and Kagome stopped in the middle of the grounds, the house in behind Kagome and the well house behind Inuyasha. Furious supernova gold eyes glared into the equally furious storm colored gaze as their hands clenched into fists.

 

`I told him to leave me alone!'

 

`She's going to give me answers if I have to “train” them out of her!'

 

“What the hell were you thinking anyways?! Sesshoumaru could have killed us all in our sleep because of you!”

 

“And you would know about him coming to visit me in the night? I wasn't the only one going off by myself without telling anyone!”

 

“What the hell does that mean?!”

 

“It means that I knew you were sneaking off to go and be with Kikyou when you though everyone was sleeping!”

 

Kagome's voice cracked when she said Kikyou's name. Her face was flushed and her throat started to hurt from all the screaming. Her voice dropped in pitch and in volume as she looked away from him, her eyes looking at something else as an angry expression remained on her face.

 

“I knew the whole time where you went off to and I never said or did anything about it.”

 

Inuyasha's ears flattened against his head as a rush of guilt started to stab through him. He shook it off and continued to shoot foul looks at her as he snapped back a response, voice mocking and sharp as he spoke.

 

`Shit, I swore that I checked everyone to make sure they were actually asleep!'

 

“So you decided to go to Sesshoumaru since I went off to see Kikyou?! What the hell kind of traitor are you Kagome!?”

 

Traitor.

 

Immediately Inuyasha wished he could take the words back as his mouth shut with a nearly audible snap. His eyes watched as Kagome walked towards him, her fists clenched and rose as he prepared to brace himself for a hard, and not undeserved, blow to the face. Imagine his surprise when he felt the rosary around his neck suddenly glow and pass through the skin of his throat before solidifying in Kagome's hands.

 

She had removed the beads from around his neck. The damnable necklace that Miroku had jokingly referred to as his “collar” was off his neck and back in Kagome's hands, worthless and powerless against him.

 

So, why did the feeling of not having those heavy beads on his shoulders not feel as great as he had always imagined it would be?

 

Kagome turned around, silent and began to head towards the house, long legs taking even longer strides as she nearly broke into a run trying to get into the house. The black-violet beads with the fang shaped bone adornments clacked against each other in a strange rhythm with the girl's violent movements.

 

`What the hell, Kagome?'

 

Inuyasha shot forwards, not noticing the approaching forms of Kagome's mother and Souta with Jii-chan as he reached out and caught Kagome's shoulder from behind.

 

“Kagome, wait, I di-”

 

The sound of her hand striking his face seemed to be amplified by the sudden silence in the Shrine's grounds. Inuyasha's head turned to the side, eyes wide in shock and disbelief as the stinging of his cheek made it known to him that Kagome had actually hit him. He turned his head back to look at her, one hand going up on its own accord and actually touching the bright red mark from where her hand had connected with his cheek.

 

`Sh-she actually hit me…'

 

Tears once again fell down Kagome's cheeks as she stared at him, her eyes staring at the mark she had given him on his cheek before they returned to his surprised and hurt eyes. She shook her head and looked down at the rosary in her hands.

 

`We were screaming at each other, like those people in TV shows…Have we truly come to this?'

 

“Just…go home to your time Inuyasha. This day was coming; you and I both knew it too. I don't belong there and you…”

 

“Kagome…”

 

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Souta's face paled as he shook his head. Brown eyes wide and silently pleading with Kagome not to say what he knew she was going to say to Inuyasha.

 

In the nearly four years he had known Inuyasha, there had never been a fight this intense and this bad. Never.

 

`Come on sis, don't say it. There's gotta be a way for you two to work things out!'

 

“Gramps, can't we do something?”

 

“Shouldn't we intervene? I mean, no little spat should become a life changing event like this…”

 

Jii-chan asked his daughter in law softly, noticing the way the argument was going to end and not liking it one little bit. Though he did not have the kind of powers his beloved granddaughter had been gifted by the Gods with, he still knew the hanyou and the girl too well to ignore what was going on between them at this moment.

 

Kagome's mother watched the man her daughter's heart loved so much and yet could not and would not ever have and her daughter as they fought. For a moment, she had been concerned that she would have had to go in there herself and prevent the two from physically attacking each other. Her fears had vanished when they had just taken to screaming at each other, though words were more painful than any physical blow the two may have given each other.

 

`I knew this day was coming, I just wish it didn't have to hurt Kagome so…'

 

“There isn't anything we can do Dad. Kagome's life and destiny have been entwined with Inuyasha's for so long, the only people who know what to do is those two.”

 

Souta's eyes pleaded with his mother to say something different. Her arms encircling him into a tight embrace brought tears to his eyes. He let them fall, even though he thought only wimps cried. Even if no one else knew or cared, his sister, mother, grandfather and the man he had come to love and embrace as an older brother's lives were to be forever changed by this day. And there was nothing anyone could do about it.

 

“Mom, what can we do? I hate this, feeling so trapped and useless sucks!”

 

Kagome's mother gently held her rapidly growing son and rubbed his back softly as her own dark brown eyes watched the fight suddenly quiet down as someone said the one would that would mean the start of the unknown road that was to come after the dust had theoretically settled.

 

“Souta, there is only one thing we can do…”

 

“What?”

 

“Be there for Kagome when she will need us the most. Inuyasha too, if he decides to come to us. That is all we can really do for either of them.”

 

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Kagome moved away from the hand that was reaching for her, still looking at the rosary in her hands as she finished what she was saying.

 

“…you don't belong here.”

 

She turned away and began to open the door to let herself into the house before Inuyasha's hand grabbing her shoulder had her pausing halfway through the door way. His hand was firm, holding her in place in an almost panicked grip as his voice reached her from over her shoulder.

 

“Kagome, wait. It can't…this can't be how it ends. There's too much left for it to be all over.”

 

He was pleading with her now, the panic from earlier and the fear from the battle with Sesshoumaru settling in as he continued to try and convince her not to do this, not to end everything and change the way things had been going.

 

`There's no way that everything just ends like this!'

 

“What about the promises we made Kagome? To Sango and Shippou and Miroku? And what about the promises to Kaede we made?”

 

She was shaking her head at his words. He grabbed the other shoulder and spun her around to face him, amber eyes bright and his voice starting to shake as it dropped to such a volume and tone that he had never known he could use before.

 

“What about the promises we made to each other Kagome?”

 

Kagome looked up from the beads in her hands and faced Inuyasha, tears still making a trail down her face as she shook her head and looked into his eyes.

 

`How could it have gone so wrong in so short a time?'

 

“It's over Inuyasha…can't you see that yet? What just happened between us, starting from hours ago, it…it all ended.”

 

Her voice was broken by a sob as she moved his hands off of her shoulders. Blue-grey eyes, now a pale grey thanks to the tears that had fallen and still shone, were filled with sorrow and a pain so deep that it hurt just to look at her.

 

“We destroyed all our promises Inuyasha, there's…no hope for us.”

 

Kagome removed his hand from holding hers, having to pry his fingers from around hers as silent sobs shook her body and a shudder passed through Inuyasha's. She took his hand and pressed the rosary into it, folding his fingers over the semi-precious stones and fang shaped beads before she looked at his face one last time. Kagome noted the over brightness of those golden eyes she had at one time loved to stare into, the clenching of his jaw and the hard lump that seemed to prevent him from swallowing properly. That coupled with the painfully desperate and broken expression on his face made it so that she would never forget this day, or him actually. She tried to force a sad smile on to her face and felt her lip tremble as her eyes filled up with tears of her own and spilled over. Two drops hit his hands and slid between his fingers to land and slide down the glistening beads of the rosary.

 

`I can see us, what we had, what made us work so well together dying.'

 

“Goodbye Inuyasha.”

 

Kagome turned around and fled into the house, the door slamming shut behind her even as Kagome's mother rushed into the house after her, hesitating a moment to give Inuyasha a tearful kiss on the forehead and a sad smile before she continued after her daughter, calling the young woman's name with tears in her voice. There was the sound of a door slamming and the sound of several latches being turned and fastened above him.

 

`Goodbye Inuyasha and I'm sorry.'

 

Inuyasha looked up to see Kagome frantically trying to pull her pink curtains closed. She was visibly and openly crying now, she never had cried openly with him as she was now. He watched her mother come into the room and say something to her before Kagome rushed into her mother's arms and sobbed. The two women held each other and became faint shadows in the unlit bedroom as they went and sat on the bed.

 

`Kagome…'

 

The old man had passed by him with a small pat on the shoulder and back before he went into the house, to comfort Kagome as well as he could no doubt. Souta was the last one to go into the house. His eyes were still wet and his nose a little runny as he looked at his childhood hero and his greatest friend, not to mention the brother he had never had before and bit his lip before he gave Inuyasha a salute and ran into the house as well.

 

Inuyasha watched the bedroom become filled with people that tried to comfort the girl he had loved and had only pushed away from him so many times.

 

He had pushed her away one time too many and this time, he would never get her back.

 

The window into the bedroom became blurry until it looked like he was trying to look through a clouded glass. It was only when Inuyasha found himself drifting through the time stream to return to the past that he realized that he was crying.

 

It was the third time in his life that he had ever cried and the second that he had for and because of Kagome.

 

He looked at the beads in his hand and felt his face pale as he saw and felt the unmistakable sharp points and edges of the shards of the Shikon no Tama that Kagome usually carried with her. They were resting on top of the little red tie that had come with Kagome's uniform blouse. The rosary completed the three items that were to forever remind him of who he had lost and how important she was to him.

 

`I must have ripped the tie loose and not even realized it. When did she put the shards into my hands?'

 

Sango, Miroku and Shippou were waiting anxiously by the well, waiting for the double flash of light that signaled that Kagome and Inuyasha were back and everything was to go back to normal. When only a single flash appeared, the sudden feeling of dread froze everyone in their places.

 

Another visitor hung close by the clearing, his eyes narrowing as he saw the flash of light and the form of his half brother suddenly jumping up from the bottom of a well. The scent of that girl was on him, her tears, her skin and something that belonged to her. Something seemed off about the younger pest as well and he couldn't figure it out until the woman slayer said something, her voice tight with tears and something else he couldn't place.

 

“Why do you have the shards of the Shikon no Tama, Kagome-chan's uniform tie and the rosary with you Inuyasha? Where is Kagome-chan?”

 

Inuyasha looked up at his friends, the small family that Kagome had brought together and held so dear. She had even taught him to accept and care for them as if they were his family. In time, they had become the family that he had not grown up with. He didn't realize he was still crying or if he did, he didn't care at all anymore, not when he was so numb from the events that had just happened. His eyes remained on the items belonging to Kagome that had come with him through the well.

 

“Kagome…will never be coming back to this era again. It's….it's all over, we're on our own now.”

 

Kaze no Kizu: Wound of the Wind, Wind Scar

 

 

Well, this chapter, amazingly enough, was done all in one night. I apologize if I make anyone depressed or cry with this chapter. If it makes you feel better, I was crying when I wrote this chapter. Hopefully I didn't make anyone OOC or at least too OOC in this chapter. I will be writing the next chapter sometime very soon, please continue to be patient and thank you all for reading and reviewing if you choose to do both.Any fan art inspired by this story would be appreciated if it isn't too much trouble for some of you if you feel like it.

 

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