Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Never Ending Dream ❯ Forgotten Friend ( Chapter 4 )

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Forgotten Friend

"Why are you so damn happy today? Don't tell me you actually enjoy detention." Inuyasha demanded as he wrote: I will not disrupt English class, for the fiftieth time on the chalkboard. "Oh, I get it. You're happy because 'he' always picks you up, right? You like that pretty boy, don't you?" Inuyasha deducted with a devious smirk.

"What are you talking about?" I demanded. "Shuichi and I are just friends." Yes, that's right. Shuichi and I are just friends, nothing more, nothing less. Inuyasha's wrong, like always, might I add. I would never have those kinds of feelings for someone, if anyone at all, even if it is Shuichi. My life has already been planned and there's nothing I can do about it.

"Feh, I'm not stupid, wench." Inuyasha spat as he continued to scribble on the chalkboard. "I have plenty of good reasons. First off, you two always walk to school together. Secondly, you've never been this close to a guy before. Thirdly, that pretty boy avoids all the girls…except you. Last of all, you two are together any spare moment there is."

"If just walking to school shows that I'm in love with him, then what you're saying is that you're in love with Kouga!" I smirked. "As for the rest of the points you made, isn't that what friends do? Well, of course you wouldn't know that, because you don't have any friends. I don't know if I should laugh or pity you, Inuyasha."

"What would you know?" Inuyasha growled, snapping the chalk in his hand in two. "You haven't changed at all! You're still that same stupid girl back from when we were little."

"Well, you haven't changed either, Mr. I-am-better…" I stopped mid-sentence and snapped my attention to the classroom door when it suddenly slammed open. Great, it's my self-proclaimed boyfriend- Kouga. I rubbed my temple in a soothing manner as Kouga argued heatdly with Inuyasha about yelling at his woman…which would be me.

"Listen here, dog-breath, if I ever hear you talking about MY woman that way…" Kouga growled when Inuyasha rudely interrupted. I might as well finish writing while these two idiots bite each other's heads off.

"How can she be your woman when she loves that pretty boy?" Inuyasha taunted. INU-YA-SHA! You just have to make my life like hell, don't you? What did Shuichi ever do to you? You know very well Kouga's going to gave Shuichi trouble after this!

"Is it true Kagome?" Kouga asked. "Is that sissy boy really stalking you?" I could feel one of my veins pop when Kouga grabbed my hand. What should I say? What do I really want to say? I want to say, no, you're the one that is stalking me, so butt off! "I'll give that sissy boy a piece of my mind for…"

"He has a name, Kouga." I growled as I wrenched my hand from his grasps. "It's Shuichi and I hope you learn to use it. You wouldn't want to be like Inuyasha, do you?" I asked as I finished writing my last sentence. "Well, I'm going to go back to my dormitory now. I suggest you two stop arguing and leave as well."

"Wait; let's see a movie on Saturday." Kouga suggested. Is this how a guy asks a girl on a date? It's more like a demand to me. "Then we can go out for lunch and then hang out at the…"

"Kouga, I have a lot of homework to finish on Saturday." I interrupted as I heaved my backpack over my shoulder. It's not a total lie, but it isn't the truth either. But the point is that I don't want to spend my Saturday with Kouga. I opened the classroom door and smiled when I spotted my roommate. Shuichi gracefully pushed himself off the hallway wall he had been leaning against and walked towards me.

"Finished?"

"Yes," I replied. "But I think I got a migraine."

"That bad, huh?" he asked with a small smile.

"It wouldn't have been so infuriating if Inuyasha would learn some manners." I murmured quietly. Actually, the detention itself went pretty smoothly. It was Inuyasha and Kouga that gave me the migraine.

"Are you hungry?" Shuichi asked and I eagerly nodded my head. "Then let's go grab a bite to eat, my treat."

"Okay, but I want to drop off my books first." I replied as we walked down the hallway. This is my fourth day of detention and Shuichi had always there to pick me up everyday - I'm actually looking forward to having detention. I felt my cheeks heat up when I realized what I had just admitted.

"Are you busy on Saturday?" Shuichi calmly asked. "If not, do you want to go see a movie?"

"Okay," I chirped happily.

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"Today's the last day of detention," I sighed. Inuyasha grunted in agreement beside me as he picked up his backpack. We both walked into the hall, but Shuichi wasn't there. Maybe he's running late today.

"Guess pretty boy isn't here to pick you up today." Inuyasha smirked. "Can't walk back without a guide?" Why can't Inuyasha just shut up for once in his life? So Shuichi's late, but I'm sure he'll be here soon. He always picks me up even if I never asked him too.

"I don't have my keys, idiot." I growled.

"Keh," snorted Inuyasha. "What good does it do by waiting for the pretty boy? He wouldn't have your keys. You should be looking for your dorm mate. You really are an idiot."

"I left my keys with him," I lied. What else can I say? Shuichi is my dorm mate? Inuyasha would blab it to the whole school! Then Kouga's going to go berserk, Krystal and Marie would never let me live it down, and the girls will murder me! "I'll just wait a while."

"Keh, stupid girl." Inuyasha grunted as he dropped his backpack. I blinked in surprise when Inuyasha stood in companionable silence beside me. Isn't he going to go back to his dormitory?

"Inuyasha," I called softly.

"Shut up, I can't leave you here alone, even if you are an annoying wench." Inuyasha snorted. I smiled softly as Inuyasha turned his head away in embarrassment. I guess this is Inuyasha's way of saying he cares. But it surprised me that he actually cares at all. I thought, without a doubt, he hated me.

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"I'm very sorry miss." Shuichi apologized to the girl he had involuntarily ran into. The girl stood up and dusted off the invisible dust from her blouse before locking her brown orbs with Shuichi emerald ones.

"Shuichi-kun," the girl whispered softy as tears began to well in her eyes. Shuichi took a step back in surprise when the girl cried, "Don't you remember me anymore? I'm your girlfriend, or at least, I was your girlfriend."

"Maya?" Shuichi asked in surprise as he pulled the girl into his embrace. "Of course I remember you. You're the reason I'm even at this school. I just didn't recognize you after three years."

"Why don't we talk over some dinner?" Maya timidly suggested. "I have so many questions I wanted to ask. I want to know why you left me and this town." Shuichi agreed as they headed towards the sushi bar, hand in hand. "Do you still see me as your girlfriend?" Maya asked softly as a crimson blush seeped over her pale complexion.

"I do," Shuichi replied calmly as he gently squeezed Maya's hand in a reassuring gesture.

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I gazed lazily out through the hallway window as small droplets of rain splattered against the glass. "Hey, Kagome," Inuyasha called. Kagome, he used my name, for once. Then why am I still so unhappy? "I don't think he's coming." Inuyasha mirrored my thoughts. "It's been two whole hours. You can't wait for him forever. Plus, it's beginning to rain"

"What else can I do?" I asked while clenching my fists. Shuichi, where are you? Did you forget about me? Or are you hurt? I shook my head slightly at those possibilities. Maybe he's back at our dormitory? No, then he would've noticed my keys on the table, so he would've come picked me up.

"You can stay at my dormitory." Inuyasha suggested. "It's in the opposite direction of your dormitory building, but at least I have my keys. It's better than staying here all night." There isn't much of a choice, is there? I'm just glad Inuyasha isn't taunting or calling me names - I wouldn't know what I would do in a mood like this.

"Okay," I replied. "Let's go."

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TBC