InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Hanyou and the College Girl ❯ Illusions ( Chapter 5 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]
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The Hanyou and the College Girl
Chapter Five: Swings and Illusions
By: darkangelprincess24
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Kagome rolled over in her bed and stared at her digital clock. It stared back at her. 3:36a.m.
She sighed to herself. Everyone had gone to bed about three hours ago. Even InuYasha fell asleep easily. Shippo, Shippo, and Kagome slept in Kagome’s room, while Miroku and InuYasha slept in her dorm buddy’s room.
It was a good thing Kagome’s dorm buddy, Ayumi, was in Kyoto visiting her parents. Reconstruction on the school had resulted in school being let out for “as long as need be”. Well, Kagome thought it was ridiculous. They just started school!
Kagome quietly got out of her bed, opened her door, and walked into the living room. She sat on the fluffy white couch and turned on the lamp next to it. She opened the book she had been reading before Kouga had barged in, asking her to marry him. Nonetheless, Kagome couldn’t concentrate on the book, so she put it down.
After about five minutes of trying to figure out what she should do, Kagome settled with her algebra homework. Kagome checked the clock on her kitchen wall. 4:02a.m.
She looked up when she heard a door open. InuYasha stood, yawning. His hair was thrown about in a way so that it covered his ears.
“Couldn’t sleep?” Kagome asked.
InuYasha’s eyes shot open in shock, clearly not having noticed her earlier. “I have one thing to say about Miroku,” He said as he plopped down next to Kagome, “He snores.”
Kagome giggled. InuYasha smiled slightly and continued. “And he talks in his sleep. It’s about Sango sometimes.”
Kagome smiled again. “They would be one heck of a pair.”
InuYasha nodded. They both sat for a few moments, not looking at anything in particular. InuYasha finally broke the silence.
“I-I’m sorry for what I said at the well,” InuYasha mumbled. “You know, about never doing anything for you. I lied.”
Kagome finally managed to choke out an “It’s okay”. She had never, in all the four years she’d known him, apologize. Kagome stared at her bare feet. Before she had gotten into the living room, she had changed into jeans and a dark purple turtle neck (it had become chilly, having no heat in the middle of October).
“Hey,” InuYasha said, “Do you wanna take a walk?”
“Uh…sure. Lemme get some shoes on.” Kagome left the room for a minute, then came back out and smiled. “Let’s go.”
They walked to the tallest tree in the neighborhood, which happened to be right in the middle of an elementary school playground. InuYasha seemed fascinated with the playground.
“Come on, Kagome!” InuYasha called. He was over by the swings.
They swung on the swings for a while, then just sat on them and talked.
“Why’d you come here? It’s so far away from my house, and you could have waited until I got there.”
InuYasha smiled deviously. “I just wanted to check up on you, and Sango and Miroku wanted to come, too.” Okay, it wasn’t the complete truth, but she didn’t need to know that.
Kagome smiled and looked down. Should I tell him? She thought to herself. Yes.
“I missed you, even though it was only gone for a little while.” She blurted.
InuYasha blushed. Kagome did also. “So, um, we should probably get back. Do you know the time, Kagome?”
“Oh! Yeah. Let me check…almost five.”
“Okay.” InuYasha spotted a sunrise, filled with oranges and yellows and reds. “Look, the sun’s rising.”
Kagome looked and stood up, smiling. They started to walk, but Kagome tripped over a small root. Sure enough, InuYasha caught her.
“Klutz,” He joked.
“Ha ha. Very funny.”
“Come on.” InuYasha stood Kagome up-right. InuYasha winced.
“What’s wrong?” Kagome asked.
“It’s nuttin. Just my head,” InuYasha chuckled slightly. “Kouga really can fight when he really wants to.”
“Are you gonna be okay until we can get back to the dorms?”
“Yeah, I think so. Thanks though-” InuYasha stopped, suddenly alert. Then, he started to push the scent away. It wasn’t possible for him to be here. Not possible at all.
“What?” Kagome asked nervously.
InuYasha wrapped his arm around Kagome’s waist when the scent didn’t disappear. “Sesshomaru.” He growled.
“Sesshomaru?”
“Yes. One thing my pathetic half-brother can identify with.” A cold, emotionless voice answered.
InuYasha pulled Kagome closer to him. “What are you doing here, Sesshomaru?” He growled.
“My, my, InuYasha, I see you have not changed. Running after pathetic, and worthless humans,” Sesshomaru commented as he saw InuYasha holding Kagome. “Pathetic fool. Have you not yet realized that all humans will do is hurt you?”
Kagome wrenched out of InuYasha’s hold, and stepped up to Sesshomaru. “I would never hurt InuYasha. Ever.”
“Stupid girl.” Sesshomaru reached out quickly, and clawed Kagome’s cheek. She fell to the ground with a thud!
“Sesshomaru, you’ll pay for that!” InuYasha charged at him and was about to do “Iron Reaver, Soul-Stealer”, when Sesshomaru suddenly vanished. “Hey! Where’d he go?”
Then, a maniacal laugh filled the air, saying, “InuYasha, I will get you!” It sounded like-
“Naraku!” InuYasha whispered. “It was all an illusion!”
“Um, InuYasha?”
InuYasha turned. As much as he hated to admit it, he had forgotten about Kagome. He hurried over to her, inspecting her cheek. It was lucky that Sesshomaru didn’t use his poison claws…or, wait, was that Naraku?
“Are you okay?” InuYasha asked.
Kagome blew it off with a wave of her hand. “I’m fine. What about you? How’s your head?”
“It’s alright. Now come on, let’s hurry up and get back.” InuYasha helped Kagome stand and they started walking again.
“InuYasha?” Kagome asked. “That wasn’t Sesshomaru, right? It was Naraku, because I faintly sensed jewel shards.”
InuYasha thought it over. “But, how? I mean, we killed him. For good, I thought.”
Kagome nodded. “Maybe he’s not dead.”
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Author’s note: Okay, for anyone who thought in the last chapter, “If there was weapons involved in Kouga and InuYasha’s fight, how come no one noticed?”, well, my answer is that everyone was home because the college had no school for repairs and stuff.