InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Screen Names ❯ Old Rivalry ( Chapter 19 )

 

Old Rivalry

 

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Kagome opened the door of the locker room, only to see InuYasha waiting for her.

 

“Um, Kagome, I gotta ask you something.” InuYasha began to fiddle with a loose thread on his red hoodie, and looked fixedly at the ground, as if memorizing every last detail. His face slowly turned the color of his hoodie.

 

“Sure InuYasha, what's up?”

 

“Well, um, ya see, I've been thinking, do ya think we could, um, hang out this Saturday? Just me, you, and a good movie. What do ya think?” InuYasha could've described the floor in great detail. Oh, how he wished that it would just open up underneath him, and he could just keep falling forever, cursing himself for being such an idiot.

 

“I'll check my calendar for any plans I might have, but it sounds good to me.” InuYasha suddenly looked up.

 

“Really? A-alright then. See ya at lunch!” And InuYasha raced off.

 

`I may just be the luckiest guy in the world. I can be so utterly stupid, and still end up with a trip to the movies with Kagome! Score!'

 

Kagome stood for a few seconds, completely frozen to the spot.

 

`Did I hear InuYasha correctly? He wants to see me on Saturday. Not me, Sango, and Miroku, but just me. Does that count as a date? No way, InuYasha's just a really good friend! Right?'

 

She was still wondering this when she sat down at lunch. Miroku and InuYasha were off somewhere else, so it was just her and her best friend. Strange how quiet it was when InuYasha wasn't there. Kagome tried to shrug off the uneasy silence, but Sango seemed to be in a very quiet mood, and blocked Kagome's attempts at conversation with a simple “Uh-huh” or a “Hmm”. So Kagome opted for staring out the window and reflecting on ballet class. Once they really began to practice the dance, she and InuYasha would be forced into close proximity, and, well…

 

~Kagome fantasy: `InuYasha's in his leotard. Somehow I end up pressed up against him, my back to his chest. I can feel every muscle in his body. Kikyo is lying on the floor, blood seeping from every pore in her body.'~

 

Kagome smirked at that last thought, although she was a little disturbed by the rest of her fantasy. She wondered where Kikyo had disappeared to; she had been absent from school for two days.

 

`Oh well, don't need to ruin my fantasy.' ~A bucket of water is tossed over Kikyo. “Heeeeeellllp meeeeeee! I'm mellllltinnnnnnnng!”~

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InuYasha ran off to class, wishing he had gone to eat lunch with Kagome, instead of finishing his math test during that time. His thoughts scattered everywhere, mostly thinking about Kagome and how drop-dead gorgeous she'd looked in her own forest green leotard, with her hair held up in a loose ponytail to keep it out of her eyes.

 

~InuYasha fantasy: Kagome is twirling around the room, like a will `o the wisp, her eyes are luminous, her cheeks are flushed from all the exercise she's doing, and her hair is released from her ponytail, and swishing around as she turns. She does an excellent leap, right into my arms, and I can feel her back against my chest. I lift her high into the air, easily raising her light frame…~

 

InuYasha was so immersed in his daydream that he hadn't a clue of what was going on around him. He bumped into a solid figure, and dropped his books.

 

“Heh, InuYasha, so nice to see you again…”

 

InuYasha looked up at the figure, and growled in anger when he saw who it was.

 

“Onigumo…damn, how did you get here?”

 

“I'm a new student here. Is that any way to greet an old buddy?”

 

“In your case, yes. And since when were you my `old buddy'? Last time I saw you I ended up in the hospital.”

 

“Ah but InuYasha, sometimes you need a friend to knock some sense into your thick skull…and you needed someone to deflate your ego.”

 

“My ego is just fine, ya freak.”

 

“Hmph, prideful as ever. YOU are the freak, and you shall remain a freak until someone accepts you…but who wants to hang out with a half-breed?”

 

“I can name several…and guess what, you're a half-breed as well.”

 

“Which is why we must stick together and teach these inferior humans, the scourge of this planet, a lesson they won't forget.”

 

“They're my friends, ya dumbass…”

 

Onigumo grabbed InuYasha's collar, and hoisted him off of the ground. InuYasha gasped for air, as his feet kicked at his adversary's shins.

 

“Put me down, ya piece of shit!”

 

“Hold your tongue. Didn't you mother ever teach you good manners?”

 

“Ya know damn well that she died!”

 

“It was simply a rhetorical question, you idiot.”

 

“Put him down!!!” Another voice interrupted InuYasha, yelling from behind the two half-breeds. Kagome ran over to InuYasha, glaring at Onigumo the entire time.

 

“My, my, my, what a brave lass…do you know her personally InuYasha?”

 

“Kagome, this is a battle of wills between two demons! We don't need you interfering.”

 

“Stupid, you're choking.”

 

Onigumo dropped InuYasha, tossing him into the wall.

 

“InuYasha, your letter of challenge will arrive in due time…we will fight in the regular place.”

 

And Onigumo walked off.

 

“Who WAS that?”

 

“Naraku Onigumo. He's been fighting me since I was ten. I don't know what he has against me…Anyway, he has an annoying habit of never finishing a fight, and postponing it `til later.”

 

“How'd ya meet him?”

 

“He used to go to my school…” InuYasha growled at the memory.

 

~Flashback~

 

“Half-breed! I can smell your putrid stench during class, and it makes my stomach lurch with disgust!”

 

“Shut up! I'm normal! Normal!”

 

“You'll never be normal…I bet you could die today, and no one would care! Name two people that would care!”

 

“Shut up! Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut UP!!!”

 

“Leave him alone Sam, he's a crybaby!”

 

“Aww, does the crybaby miss his mommy?”

 

“I'M NOT CRYING, YA JERKS!!!”

 

“Hmph, leave him alone all of you. I wanna see if this boy can beat me in a little match…”

 

“Your no better than him, Naraku. You're a half-breed as well…”

 

“Yes, but I'm older and stronger…and your wounds from our last battle haven't exactly healed over yet, have they? I can make some new ones, if you wish…”

 

“No! I mean, no, you can fight him Naraku. Just leave him alive, so we won't get in trouble, ya hear?”

 

“Yes, no need to take on such a tone, you piece of scum. Get out of here, all of you.”

 

Silence for several minutes.

 

“…Why do you want to fight me?”

 

“Half-breeds always have to fight…they can't lay down and cry, while others tease. They have to take action!”

 

A punch to my face at the word `action'.

 

“Don't cry out in pain. That only makes the beating worse!”

 

A knee to my gut.

 

“You can't fight…I shouldn't waste my skills away on you.”

 

“SHUT UP! I CAN FIGHT AS WELL AS ANYONE!!!”

 

I punch him furiously, my anger taking over.

 

“SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPP!”

 

I yell these two words with every punch I throw.

 

He chuckles, and then leaps away.

 

“It has been fun. Until we meet again, half-breed.”

 

“My name…is InuYasha…InuYasha Taiyoukai.”

 

“Very well…InuYasha.”

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InuYasha lay on his bed, looking at the ceiling.

 

He was tired of lying to himself. He wasn't important. To anyone.

 

“Sango has Miroku, and vise versa. Sesshomaru has Rin, and Rin has him and Shippo. Shardetector…well, at least she could live without me…she probably has a boyfriend or a husband for all I know. Kagome…Kagome could ignore me and accept Koga's advances. It would be a lot easier, that's for sure. Maybe I could just go up to Onigumo during our fight, and tell him to kill me…the authorities wouldn't mind, and Onigumo'd find a way to detach all the blame from him…”

 

It could work. Everyone's problems would be solved. Sesshomaru wouldn't have to pay as many bills, or spend as much time at home. Sango and Miroku would move forward in their relationship, and they would be too caught up in their love to notice his absence from their lives. Shardetector would wonder what had happened to him…for about a nanosecond…then she would go back to her real life, and not care about him in the slightest.

 

Kagome would (heck, he hated to say it) go to Koga, and maybe cry on his shoulder for a second or two, the move right into the making out part, now that all the obstacles were out of their way.

 

But then…he wouldn't grow up, surviving and thriving, proving that hanyous could amount to something. He'd beat the crud out of anything that got in his way, and make his dead folks proud.

 

Would he really disgrace his dad's memory by giving up and just dying like that?

 

Would he really disgrace his mom's memory by not having a normal life, and maybe even a girlfriend?

 

Was he gonna prove everyone else correct?

 

He'd heard it everywhere, all the time: `Something so inhumane shouldn't live'…`IT is so worthless in this world'…`It'll never survive'…`It'll be mocked for life.'

 

He'd known why his mom had cried all the time…she pitied his future existence…she cried when he went into her room while she was sick…she cried when he gave her a hugs and kisses goodnight…she had especially cried her hardest when he had limped into the house, with a black eye, and two missing teeth as well.

 

He tried to comfort her: “You should've seen the other guy…” but although she laughed through her tears, he could smell her sadness.

 

“My little koinu…I don't hate what you are! Why would you say that to your poor okaasama? I just worry for you…and your future. If you weren't here, I wouldn't have something to remind me of your father…material possessions are easily lost, and can never measure up to flesh and blood. I love you so…as I loved him.”

 

It was his clearest memory of her. She had died a month later.

 

She had always been a sickly woman. He took care of her, even when he was very little.

 

“Mama, I won't die…not until my ties to this world are broken…maybe I'll see you again Mama, or maybe I'll just be a corpse in the ground…but I'll stay here…so if you do see me, if your somewhere looking down on me, with Dad at your side…I'll be here, proving everyone else wrong, just for you.”

 

InuYasha grinned, remembering that he'd written something like that down in his notebook…he'd been reminiscing about his past, and thinking about his future.

 

“Oi, InuYasha, your getting soft…go and watch some anime or something, maybe that'll snap ya out of this `I-wish-I-was-dead' psycho-babble. Better yet, go talk to someone on IM…”

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demon'sclaws is now online

 

slayergurl is now online

 

Houshi is now online

 

 

shardetector: hey demon, can I put you on conference with Houshi and a friend of mine?

 

 

demon'sclaws: (sigh) if you must

 

shardetector: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

 

 

 

 

shardetector has invited you to “Enter into the unknown workings of my mind”

 

 

demon'sclaws has entered conference

 

 

Houshi has entered conference

 

 

slayergurl has entered conference

 

 

shardetector: hiyas! : P

 

slayergurl: hi to you too!

 

demon'sclaws: keh, girls…

 

Houshi: hey Sango

 

slayergurl: hi Miroku (girly giggle)

 

shardetector: wait, Miroku?

 

slayergurl: yea, kag, how did ya find out his IM identity…I thought he only gave that out to InuYasha and me…

 

demon'sclaws: HOLD THE PHONE! Kagome???

 

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A/N: Hehehe, I HAD to make a cliffy! You guys better be satisfied…this chappie was OVER SIX PAGES LONG!!!! Yea, I typed my heart out, just so I could get in some of that IM you guys seem to love so much…and a little tidbit of InuYasha's history. By the way, koinu means puppy.