All I Need Is You
A Fanfic Inspired By The Song "All I Need Is You" By The Click Five
Chapter 1
Disclaimer : I do not own the characters in this story, I merely own the plot and such. Although I would very much like to own Inuyasha and his cute ears. Hee.
Summary : An InuYasha and Kagome Fanfic. Everything is normal for Kagome until the house next door goes 'For Sale' and a certain hanyou called Inuyasha moves in. Love could be the last thing these two expected from all this.
Stepping out of her house, Kagome felt the morning air hit her. She shut the door gently behind her as she felt the wind play softly with her hair. Kagome pulled her schoolbag closer to her, as if it was her only security and began to make her way down the front path in front of her house. Before long, she took a glance at the residence next door to her own, noticing something quite different about it. There, was a sign in their front yard, their front lawn still perfectly cut even though she never really got to see her neighbours around, and she made her way towards the odd sign curiously.
Once there, she cocked her head up to see the writing on the sign clearer, reading it carefully through:
"Sold -
By LoveGood
Real Estate Company"
Kagome took a step back and began to scratch her head, what a strange world this was. She hadn't even realized that her neighbours had moved out, let alone met them, and now there was a completely different family moving in, or whoever had decided to buy the house. Was the world moving that quickly or was she just too out of things to even notice – either way it seemed to suck severely. Sometimes she wondered how people could move on so fast.
For sure, she knew something was missing in her life, whatever it was she was still trying to work it out.
Kagome steadily drew a breath of fresh autumn air, watching at the multicoloured leaves churned in the air as they began to free fall. And without looking back, she continued to make her way to school – deep inside, hoping that something good could be made out of her new neighbours, whoever they may turn out to be.
Inuyasha slumped back into his chair, with a deep "humph" and folded his arms across his chest angrily. Sesshomaru had won the argument – again, since he had been doing so for the past few weeks, or more likely, his whole life. Sesshomaru kept his attention on the road, his eyes darting around the view in front of him, whilst Inuyasha focused his own on looking out the window by his side. The scenery blurred past in vibrant colours of red and orange hues of the trees, but it was too fast to really take in the beauty when you were angry. Why did they have to move again?
Though his older brother had promised that this would be the last time that would ever move, Inuyasha was still tired of moving to new places nonetheless. He was getting sick of all this moving around, and it wasn't even working to his advantage... No matter where he and his brother went, he was still going to be forced to be an outcast, by both his school and anyone else whom he met. Just because of the way he looked, just because he was different to all of them. Of course the world was changing, but everyone still decided to not accept him.
He was a half breed, so he didn't really belong anywhere…
Sesshomaru, on the other hand, was very much accepted, everyone loved and obeyed him, but that's just the way it goes. Everything for the old guy and nothing good left for him, well, he was kind of used to the treatment by now. Since you stay alone, why depend on anyone else. If you are alone, then it should stay that way. It was his entire brother's fault – if he didn't have such a stupid business job, they wouldn't have to keep moving around like this.
Inuyasha took a fleeting look at his brother and came to another conclusion. He was an independent person, he would just need to put up with this a while longer, until he was old enough, then he would get right out of his brother's care and find somewhere to live - alone. No one ever had needed him, and he was sure he didn't need anyone else either. It was simple as. A fact of life.
He sighed to himself and averted his gaze once more to the blurring colours, as they drove down the most perfectly normal suburban street he had seen in a long: of course, each street they moved to looked more perfect and more suburban than the last, they were all the same really. What makes this place any different from the rest anyway?
The people would be no different either.
Kagome exhaled noisily. The school day had gone by way too quickly and she was finding it difficult to catch up, these days her head always seemed to be stuck up in the clouds, despite her usual character to work towards all the faultless grades. She used to be one to always strive for the best, but now she was barely a ghost. Kagome gathered her things, sweeping them all into her ragged mailbag and more or less got herself ready to go home. Another wasted day of school, nothing had seriously sunk in.
"Surely life has got to be better than this." She thought quietly to herself, she couldn't resist another long sigh as she threw her bag over her shoulder, wincing at its weight.
"Is something troubling you Kagome?" said a reassuring voice from nearby, she heard the creak of a table as someone got off it and made their way towards her.
Kagome looked up, slightly stunned and saw a smiling wolf demon in front of her, leaning forward so much he was barely touching her nose; to her relief, he leaned back upon her looking up, grinning like some kind of lunatic. Who would you describe a guy like him? Well, Kouga was the school athletic - all girls loved him and all the guys wanted to be him. Yet at the sight of Kagome, he would throw them all off him and be at her side immediately. Cute? Not really.
She didn't have that much thought for guys like him either.
He was annoying, cocky and stubborn, most of the things that she disliked in a person, but he did try to make her smile and usually he succeeded triumphantly. That was the good thing about him, inside that tough exterior, was a kind and caring guy – and that was the part of Kouga which she called her friend.
"No, nothing at all Kouga, I'm absolutely fine." She answered, smiling back at him weakly, hoping the corners of her mouth would not succeed to not twitch.
Looking unconvinced, he stepped back further, studying her closely, he raised an eyebrow but then shrugged, and deciding to let Kagome continue to walk home, buried in her utmost thoughts. Kouga couldn't help but notice that she was in a weird mood.
He watched as she walked away, her hair spilling messily over her shoulders and her eyes following the floor beneath her – what a dreamer?
Unwillingly and extremely stubbornly, Inuyasha got out the car after his brother, swinging his legs off the chair and jumping out onto the sidewalk in a gliding movement. He shut the car door behind him as loudly as he could, then stuffing his hands into his pockets when he finally decided to look up. Suddenly, he was overcome with an emotion of bemusement when he caught the sight of his new "home."
It much more different from any house they had ever lived in. It was, well, it was huge. Compared to all the other houses that they had lived in, yeah it was. Sure, they had still been living in luxury, everything and anything at their fingertips but they were all just meaningless materials that acted as comfort, and soon enough there was no room for all of these things in the house.
So, of course Mr. Practical Brother decided it was best to move closer to his new job position. Well, it was better than him not being around all the time, right – not.
"Inuyasha, I wonder how many flies you could catch with your mouth open like that." He said, breaking Inuyasha out of his thoughts and stumbling back to reality. The house would practically be his own, since his brother was never around.
Swiftly, he realized what he must have looked like; therefore, he straightened and fixed himself up before he went to help Sesshomaru with the unpacking, still acting like a childish loon.
She had finally reached home, though her legs were aching from the trek, she was overjoyed; Kagome outstretched a tired hand to open the front gate, and took in this moment as a kind of success, she shut her eyes and breathed in a long deep breath before opening her eyes again afterwards. She entwined her fingers with the wood and shoved it open, when suddenly, something moved from the corner of her eye, causing her head to snap in its direction - sending her hair to swing around her neck in following motion, and almost tumbling over to the collapse of weight on one side because of her bag.
Something was different.
Her eyes widened when she found a rather fancy-looking car parked in the driveway of the house next door, its trunk and two doors left open to reveal a few neatly packed boxes sitting inside. Some other boxes were left sprawled across the lawn too, ruining its perfect cut here and there; the front door was open too, giving Kagome a good view of the interior which also looked neat but extremely empty.
She wondered what this was all about. And then, as if on cue, someone walked right out of the house carrying a load of boxes that towered way above his or her head, and grumbling to themselves about something along the lines of having to "bring out stupid boxes again." Feeling curious and inquisitive, she went over to say check it out and say "hello" to the new possible neighbours.
"Hey!" A female voice said from behind him, catching him completely off guard.
Startled by the voice from absolutely no where, and out of the afternoon's silence too, Inuyasha accidentally dropped his load and fell over, slipping on a toy or something of the sort that he hadn't seen in his path. The cardboard boxes scattered across the drive, spilling their contents of clothes and such for public eyes to see – if any public eyes were there at all.
"Damn, that hurt." He whispered to himself.
Inuyasha rubbed his (what seemed like a broken) skull, as he looked around worriedly at his belongings on the ground when unexpectedly, the cutest laugh he had ever heard broke the silence, emerging from a close proximity. A laugh… something he had not heard in a long time.
He looked up just in time to find a teenage girl, possibly his age, if not perhaps a little younger, standing over him and smiling. She immediately stopped giggling at his bewildered expression, but not shocked because of his appearance as a hanyou, but because of the icy glare he cast her. Nevertheless she outstretched a hand without delay, offering to help him up, as if good nature was instinctive to her.
He ignored her lingering hand, turning away from her and got up himself, with a swift acrobatic step that seemed flawless. Only when did he did see, as he looked at her face-to-face that she seemed somewhat disappointed for the fact that he had refused her help.
Obviously noticing that he was staring, she turned away to hide the colouring in her cheeks – for the first time in a long period, she blushed. But why? She hardly new this person, but somewhere inside her that dead feeling was beginning to dissipate.
"What's up with you? It's like you've never seen a girl before." She said, breaking the silence, her back still to him, she avoided playing with the hem of her shirt or tucking a strand of ebony hair behind her ear to distract herself.
He merely, tossed his head up in his usual way and "Keh'd" her statement, returning to picking up his belongings that lay all over the floor, shoving them into random boxes that were nearby, uncaring to where they ought to go.
Kagome, feeling bad for being the reason that they were on the floor, bent down and got to her knees to help him. She gathered a few t-shirts into her arms and handed them to the boy who she had just met unhurriedly.
Inuyasha looked up from what he was doing and somewhat gratefully, took the clothes from her hands, brushing them slightly and causing the hairs on the back of his neck to rise from the contact, he placed them into one of the boxes labelled "Inuyasha's clothes." He could try to attempt a smile, but he wasn't sure how it would look after several years of malpractice.
As an awkward silence spread between them, Inuyasha heard Sesshomaru come back outside, catching a glimpse of his long silver strands of hair catch the autumn sunlight "Hey Inuyasha, are you done bringing in th-" He began to say, but stopped when he saw the two of them sorting out the mess in the drive. He cocked up an eyebrow at the sight and with a brief nod at Kagome, retreated back inside the house with a playful, and knowing brotherly smirk.
"Um, here you go." She said, handing him another set of clothes which she had collected, she attempted to smile but her lips failed her too, it became a strange try to pout instead, so she just stopped.
Inuyasha, without warning, snatched his belongings from her hands and cast her an irritated look, his lips curling into a small frown.
"You can just go now. Don't bother helping me anymore." He snapped, feeling his defence mechanisms kicking in after feeling thankful for her help. He threw the clothes into a box and got up, tucking it under his arm, making an effort to walk away from this girl.
But this girl, had been the first to not mention, let alone notice the difference in him. Like she didn't mind… or was she too dense to realize. They didn't belong in the same type of world. Hers was bright and happy, whilst his was darker than hers could ever be. And no one wants to see or be in the dark.
Kagome's mouth dropped open and she felt her nerve tick, she threw him an equally annoyed look and stood up. Kagome sighed, giving up to his behaviour and decided to just go home as he said. She picked up her things and left without saying a word, she walked off to her own house, shutting the door behind her as she went - not knowing that she had left a very confused hanyou watching her leave. It could have been said that they were equally stubborn.
A/N: Hey hey! The author here, and thank you for reading the first ever chapter of my first ever fanfic – what a joy for you! Wooop! Haha. Anyway, this is a working progress and hopefully, will continue to get better along with my writing skills. So yeah, that's all really. Please review! And I will try to update whenever I can. Let me say this. Reviews will be the only reason I continue on with the story.
Enjoy!
-Fallen11angel
