Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha.
A/N: Here's the next chapter. It's kinda just randomly in there, I know, but I thought it'd be important to establish the plot and all that BS. Anyway, here it is. Hope it's to your liking.
-Aurayne
Chapter 2
Kagome's chestnut brown eyes fluttered open as her alarm clock began to buzz. She slammed her hand down onto the device in order to stop the tremendous ringing, but failed miserably, for her vision wasn't yet oriented to the morning's light.
"Stop…ringing…," she groaned, tumbling onto the floor and ripping the clock out of the wall, "That takes care of that."
Kagome pulled herself up and stumbled into the bathroom, reaching for her toothbrush but instead knocking all the contents of the shelf onto the rug.
"This is not my morning," she sighed, bending down to clean up the spilled items.
Suddenly, the phone began to ring just as Kagome's cell phone also began to go off. She dropped the objects in her hands and ran to grab her cell phone.
"The machine will get the home phone," she said aloud, snatching up her cell phone and pressing the talk button, "Hello?"
"Hey Kagome," responded the voice on the other end.
"Oh, hey Sango," Kagome uttered as she raced back to the bathroom to clean up.
"You sound frazzled, what's going on?"
"I just have a lot of things going on right now," Kagome told her, placing the items back onto the bathroom shelf.
"Like what?" Sango asked curiously.
"Well, I have to clean up around here, go to the gym, cook myself some breakfast, take a shower, drop off some paper work for my boss, get home, change, meet InuYasha for lunch, come home again—"
"What was that last one?" Sango demanded suddenly.
"Come home again?"
"No, the one before that," Sango said quickly, sounding desperate to get an explanation.
"Meet InuYasha for lunch," Kagome replied confidently, though had feelings contradicted her tone.
"Do my ears deceive me? Did you just say you were gonna have lunch with InuYasha, your ex, InuYasha?"
"Yeah, what about it?" Kagome inquired, though she knew why Sango would be interested in this sudden turn of events.
"What happened to Koga?" Sango asked in a whisper.
"Why are you whispering?"
"In case he can hear you," Sango said pointedly, "Don't you think he'd be kinda upset if he knew you were going out with your ex. He's not exactly what you'd call the accepting type. In fact, he's the exact opposite, more of the jealous type."
"I know, but he doesn't know. Plus, this lunch with InuYasha is more of a friendly thing. It's not a date."
"Alright, my next question…why are you going out for a 'friendly lunch' with InuYasha?" Sango questioned.
"Well, I wanted to honor our commitment. We promised we'd stay friends and I didn't want to say it without really following through with it," Kagome explained seriously, crossing over to her living room and cleaning up stray papers that lay on the hard wood floor.
"Are you sure this is a good idea? I mean, you guys were pretty serious before," Sango reasoned.
Kagome could envision the barbed look that was sitting upon Sango's pale, pointed face. She sighed heavily, resolute to express her case thoroughly.
"Why wouldn't it be a good idea?"
"Well, are you sure there's not a small chance that you're still in love with him?" Sango asked.
"Sango! Come on, there's no chance. I'm seeing Koga and InuYasha mentioned that there was someone he's dating too," Kagome informed her, heading back towards her bedroom.
"It's eating you up inside, isn't it?" Sango inquired, a slight tone of excitement in her voice.
"Do you want it to be eating me up inside?" Kagome questioned, raising her eyebrows with interest.
"Well, no, but I think you guys were perfect together. Complete compatibility," Sango told her.
" First of all, you know me and InuYasha fought all the time," Kagome began, becoming annoyed by Sango's constant suggestions that she and InuYasha should reunite, "Second of all, we're both in relationships right now."
"So you're not completely opposed to the idea of getting back together?" Sango urged, the bright smile on her face imaginable in Kagome's mind.
"I never said—"
"You also never said 'no way'," Sango interrupted.
"Can we please talk about something else?" Kagome begged, becoming uncomfortable with the current topic.
"Okay, we can talk about how maybe you shouldn't go out for this lunch," Sango suggested.
"What's the big deal?" Kagome demanded, rummaging through her closet for her workout clothes.
"I just…don't want you to get hurt…again," Sango said to her friend with a solemn tone.
"On come on Sango, did I really seem hurt the first time we broke up?"
"You came to my apartment a total wreck. You used up two boxes of tissues and had to sleep over because you were too depressed to trek all the way back to your apartment…which is only two blocks away, mind you," Sango explained pointedly.
"Way to push me off my horse and kick me in the face with stiletto heels," Kagome replied caustically.
"Sorry," she apologized, feeling the guilt after she had made her point.
"It's okay. I just… I wanna do this. I think me and InuYasha would work well as friends and…I miss him," Kagome stated, pulling on her workout top and balancing her cell phone on her shoulder.
"So you admit you miss him."
"…Bye Sango."
"Fine...you'll admit it eventually," Sango insisted, "I'll meet you at the gym."
Kagome pushed the end button on her phone and tossed into her workout bag along with her MP3 player. She pulled on her tennis shoes then stalked out of her room and headed for the kitchen. She reached over the counter and pushed a button on her answering machine.
"You have one message," the machine announced.
Kagome pressed another button and waited for the message to play. InuYasha's voice erupted from the device and Kagome felt her stomach roll.
"Hey Kagome, it's me... I mean, it's InuYasha. Uh...Just give me a call back as soon as you can. Talk to you later."
When the message ended, Kagome sighed heavily and swung her bag onto her shoulder. It was going to be a long day.
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