8Goodbye To You
By: x shadow
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha or any other copyrighted material that may be held herein. Thank You.
A.N.: OK people, if any of you live in N.Y.C. don't flame me if I screw this up. I went a while ago and am trying to write this a close as I could; if I have some misconceptions on it le' me know!
Key: -sounds- thoughts
Summary: In a small park on the west side of Queens NYC a fight went down, a gang fight to be specific. "Shadow" came out the winners and their opposing gang, the "Tribe", was swiftly exiled from Shadows new territory.
Goodbye to You
Chapter One: Enter Goodbye Girl
-sniff sniff-
InuYasha inhaled the scent on the park, the newest addition to his territory. He was the leader of "Shadow" on of the biggest gang's in New York City. He was currently waiting the rest of the shadows to gather in west park. Even though they all new it wasn't a great idea to all meet in one open place unless there was a fight, they couldn't check out their new territory except at night. The scent of the trees that filled the back of the park had always relaxed him.
-sniff sniff-
mmmm...cherry blossoms and...vanilla? What the...?
Immediately he started walking towards the intoxicating smell. What he saw was the last thing he was expecting. There sitting on the top of the slide, leaning against one of the handle bars was a girl maybe two or three years younger than himself (he's like 19) . She had light skin, which, in his opinion, was a sharp contrast to her raven hair that had blue and silver streaks in it and her brilliant blue eyes that reflected in the shimmering moon light. She wore a black skirt that had blue ribbons lacing the front and a black tee-shirt. On her feet were black knee-high lace up boots and over it all was a form-fitting white leather jacket with the word Black Dragon inscribed in silver thread on the back, with little pink cherry blossoms stitched around the lettering. As Inu-yasha stared at her a soft melodic voice began to filter quietly through the air and it became apparent that she had no idea he was there.
"Of all the things I've believed in
I just want to get it over with
Tears form behind my eyes, But I do not cry
Counting the days that pass me by
I've been searching deep down in my soul
Words that I'm hearing are starting to get old
It feels like I'm starting all over again
The last three years were just pretend
And I said,
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything I thought I knew
You were the one I loved
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
I still get lost in your eyes
And it seems that I can't live a day without you
Closing my eyes and you chase my thoughts away
To a place where I am blinded by the light
But it's not right
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything I thought I knew
You were the one I loved
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
And it hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time
I want what's yours and I want what's mine
I want you
But I'm not giving in this time
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything I thought I knew
You were the one I loved
The one thing that I tried to hold on to Goodbye to you Goodbye to everything I thought I knew You were the one I loved
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
And when the stars fall
I will lie awake
You're my shooting star..."
"Oi bitch! Who are you and what are you doing in MY park?!" The hanyou yelled once she ended.
The younger girl apparently startled, gasped and whipped her head in his direction. He watched in mild amusement as she slid down the slide and walked towards him.
"Excuse me, but did I hear you say YOUR park?" She asked indignantly and added "asshole" as an afterthought.
"Yeah MY park, at night at least." He retorted.
"It's not your park!" She exclaimed, "The city owns it!"
"What they don't know won't hurt 'em." was his simple reply.
"You're not even supposed to be here at night!" she said
"Neither are you." That should shut her up. Inu-yasha thought smugly to himself.
She gave a rather unladylike snort and asked "What gave you the idea I cared? It's never bothered them before that I'm here."
"Whatever bitch, I've got people to meet so take a hike if you wanna live." He said as he began to turn around.
-swish zing!-
"What the hell?!" He spun around as quickly as he could when he heard something whiz past his face. He could feel something drip down his face and, as soon as he smelled copper, knew it was blood. His own blood to be precise.
"Shuriken throwing stars, a favorite weapon of mine. Care to threaten my life again mutt?" She asked with a slight smirk.
"You. Bitch." He growled out as he lunged at her.
Thinking fast she twister around a kicked him in the back of the knees as he feel to the ground, whipping out a knife and stepping over his calves one leg on either side of him, knife at his throat.
"Please punk, you thought you could beat me?" She said in to his ear.
"With out using my demon power, no. But with? I think so..."
"Wha-" "umph"
His elbow made a full connection with her ribcage, knocking the wind out of her but not breaking any bones. He wasn't that brutal...to a girl...on his day- err night off.
As the black and white clad girl flew back wards gasping for breath she had a split second to read the back of his own leather jacket. It was black and on the back in in the same color was the word SHADOW. She gasped again though this time not for air. Isn't that the name of the gang that won west park in that fight last Saturday? At least that's wht I've been hearin'. She silently asked herself.
"Close yo mouth unless you tryin' to catch somethin'." He sneered at her.
"Y-you're in the gang that beat Koga?" She asked, elated that she could meet the person(s) that kicked "wolffy's" ass.
"Correction, I'm the leader of the gang that beat wolf-boy's ass, in to the ground." He said, gloating.
What she did next shocked his to no end. She stood up, bruched off her skirt and held out her hand to shake and said "Kagome Higurashi."
Hesitantly he reached out and grasped her hand, admiring how silky soft her skin was.
"Inu-Yasha Taisho." Her smile grew as they retracted hands and she continued to talk.
"Yanno I owe you a ton for taking the park from Koga, that bastard can't take a hint, going around telling people I'm "his woman" and shit like that! I seriously can't believe him! But now thanks to you his ass won't be nowhere near here. Finally my nights will be peaceful..." she trailed off muttering the last part more to herself than the young man in front of her.
"What d'ya mean finally your nights will be peaceful?" He asked, intrest piqued.
"Well I've been coming here every night ever since my... err since forever. Now Koga won't be 'round to bug me." She said with a smile. "Anyways did you happen to see Kagura or Kanna when you fought with Koga's gang?" she asked innocently.
Ever since what? his mind asked. Eyeing Kagome warily before answering he said "I dunno, who're they? If ya mean those two creepy chicks, one looks about 7 and the other has like red contacts, then ya."
"Ya that would be them, seriously though, they were their? Shit. Umm... I've gotta get home and you "have people to meet" so maybe I'll catch ya 'round here some night. O and if anyone should happen to mention me around you try to act like ya never met me m'kay?" She said before walking off talking to herself.
Whaaa- what the heck was that? What is she muttering about? I think I'll have to find out. I'll follow her. The gang can go without me. Come to think of it they probably already did. He mused to himself as he silently stalked after the young girl.
Her voice traveled in the soft breeze, as he strained to hear her muttering.
"...if they were there then the plans to merge went through, and he saw their entire fight! What a waste. Oh well at least I got out before things got sticky. -giggle giggle- That InuYasha dude was definitely a cute little hottie though. -giggle- Well now I know for sure that damned Koga won't bug me anymore, he's ruined so many beautiful starry nights with his nonsense, I'll be dead before I'm is fricking woman. -sigh- I miss the good old days... I hate going "home" It's not like anyone's waiting for me, it's not like any one cares..."
Why wouldn't anyone care about her? Merge what? Damn, this gurlz like a puzzle! What can an innocent like her know anyway?! Hmm...her fighting style was far from innocent though. I have to admit she has got so mad skillz wit thos shuriken. He thought to himself, as his hand absent mindedly went to his cheek trying to get the dried blood off.
By the time her ranting had finished she had ended up in front of her apartment, sighing again she slipped the key into the lock and turned the handle. Entering the cozy apartment and closing the door behind her and locking all four locks, she entered the kitchen to get a drink and then went to change into her pj's.
"Wish I had some Starbucks, ahh well I wouldn't sleep for another few hours if I did." She concluded to herself while climbing into bed.
And with those last thoughts and vol. 5 of battle royal clutched in her delicate hand, Kagome Higurashi was swept away into a dreamless sleep.