-Chapter 3-
"W-WHAT?!?!?! INUYASHA!!! NO YOU AREN'T!" Kagome took a few seconds to calm herself down before continuing, "No one should be thinking of themselves like that, Inuyasha. Not me, not that wolf demon, not Mr. Myoga, Not that weird-looking human, not anyone! You shouldn't put yourself down like this!"
"...I have no choice, though."
"And will you stop writing and just talk already?!"
"I can't. I'm sorry."
"Why not? Isn't writing in itself a form of talking?"
Inuyasha looked down to the ground for a few minutes before bounding off. 'She... She just doesn't understand. I don't want her life to be miserable, though... No one's ever been that kind to me before. But... In order for her to be happy, and in order for her life to be tease-free, I have to stay away from her.'
"O-Oh no... I overdid it... He's mad at me now... Is there something I'm missing?" Kagome wondered aloud.
The next day at Shikon High School...
"Ah. Kagome, welcome back. Pick your seat." Myoga instructed.
Kagome walked over and sat down to the seat next to Inuyasha's.
Gasps, over dramatic yelps, and a few whispers here and there signaled that nobody in the class was too keen on that idea.
Later that same day...
"Okay, then. That just about wraps up today's Algebra lesson. Lunch time, now! Which one of you would be honored to serve me up some nice, piping hot blood, hm?" Myoga the flea demon said.
Everyone but Kagome and Inuyasha, and a few other students, flew out the door in a rush to get what they wanted before someone else took all of it. That was just how it was in the cafeteria. Inuyasha, on the other hand, got up slowly and walked out of the classroom. Kagome followed in secret, still trying to figure him out. Inuyasha was walking down the hallway leading to the school's front doors.
'Where's he going?' she thought, careful to be extremely silent.
After Inuyasha was out of the building, Kagome was, too. The both of them walked and walked until each heard Inuyasha's stomach growl like a lion.
Kagome was the first to take action and hid, still watching Inuyasha very closely.
Inuyasha kneeled on all fours and started sniffing the ground, moving around occasionally. There were a ton of scents to sift through. Eventually he got up and sniffed the air for awhile.
Kagome watched as he sauntered over to a nearby dumpster. He reached in in search of something. After rummaging around for a bit, he pulled out a leftover, half-eaten piece of bread. He sat down and looked around really fast before eating it.
'Why doesn't he get lunch like everyone else?' she thought. 'Why does it have to be a dumpster?'
Inuyasha, after he was done with his bread, sniffed the air once more when a wind blew. He stiffened, knowing who it was. Ever since he first saw her, he'd memorized her scent.
'Uh-oh... Did he notice me?' she thought.
Inuyasha walked over to the tree she was hiding behind. It was a beautiful cherry blossom tree. The petals from the flowers were in bloom and it seemed as though they were eternally falling, like pretty pink snow. There were a few dewdrops left on the falling petals, from the heavy rain that had previously occurred. The sun's rays were reflected by the drops, making them shine in many different colors. He jumped up and landed softly but swiftly on a branch of the tree right above Kagome.
Kagome looked up, knowing she'd been discovered. "Oh, uh. Hey." she said quietly.
Inuyasha still didn't speak, but looked down at her.
"Hey! You filthy halfbreed! Get out of my tree!" an angry apartment-dweller yelled. He threw an apple at him.
Inuyasha saw the apple coming and caught it before it could hit him.
Kagome's stomach growled at that instant. She blushed, as she always did when her stomach growled. She didn't know why she blushed; it wasn't anything to be embarrassed over. But she couldn't stop it from sneaking into her cheeks.
Inuyasha looked at the apple he held, and then at Kagome. He held out the apple in front of her, beckoning her to take it.
"Huh? No, it's okay! I'm fine! You can have it." she said. But her stomach wasn't so keen on that and growled again, louder this time.
He waved it in her face, practically insisting that she eat it.
When her stomach growled yet again, she said, "Um... Why don't we split it?"
He pulled the apple closer to him. His nails grew much longer and he sliced through the apple with ease, splitting it in half. He held one of the two halves out to her, and kept the other one for himself.
"Thanks. Oh! That reminds me!" she said as she took the half of the apple, "I have a boxed lunch back in the classroom. Wanna share it?"
He just looked at her. He really did look hungry, so Kagome took it as a yes. She ran back to the school to get her lunch.
Inuyasha waited until she came back. "Okay! I'm back!" he heard her call out.
She sat down on the ground. "I brought an extra pair of chopsticks. I always do that, in case I were ever to drop the ones I'm using on the ground." She patted the ground beside her, the body language that said, "Sit here."
He jumped down from the cherry blossom tree and sat down right beside her.
"Here." She handed him a pair of chopsticks. "Today I have some re-fried noodles. Do you like those? I also packed some onagi, in case of midday hunger."
He took the pair of chopsticks and tried his had at working with them. No use...
"You don't know how to use chopsticks, Inuyasha? Here, you take the upper one and hold it still. Then you take these two finger to hold the bottom one. You have to use the bottom one to get the food, while the top one serves as a base or something."
Beads of sweat appeared on his head as he tried to do what she told him to. No use...
Kagome took his hands, while blushing, and helped him get some of the noodles. But she found that really hard and she almost dropped the chopsticks. So instead, she used her own chopsticks and fed him some of the re-fried noodles.
Inuyasha was almost taken aback by her patience with him. Anyone else wouldn't ever even think of helping him, let alone feeding him! And, this girl,Kagome, was even offering him her lunch! He wished everyone was like her... It was so obvious that she didn't care if he was full demon or half demon or human.
"Well, does it taste good? I didn't work very hard on it. And...I'm not that good at cooking, but-"
Inuyasha tried to grab some more of the noodles. Best thing he'd ever tasted. A heavenly taste to his tastebuds!
"Well, okay, then. I guess now we know you like them!" Kagome smiled. Nobody ever wanted more of her cooking before!
The rest of lunchtime, for the two, was spent eating re-fried noodles and onagi. Inuyasha loved the onagi.
A/N
These are just some notes about the food I put in the last bit of the chapter:
*Re-fried noodles-Noodles that have been simmered in a special Japanese sauce for an hour to an hour or so. They are then re-fried if there are noodles left over.
*Onagi-A ball (or balls) of rice covered in hardened bean paste. It's usually used as a snack food.