Sleepwalker
Chapter 2
Kagome turned onto her side and stared at the place where Inuyasha once laid. She ran her fingertips over his pillow and sat up. Guess he really is sleepwalking... She thought. She kicked the covers off and got out of bed and made sure to check for any sign of him in her room. Quietly, she made her way out into the hall and crept down the stairs.
"Inuyasha..." She whispered, "Inuyasha... where are you?"
"He's not here, dear." Came a voice from the dark.
Kagome gasped and whirled around to face the figure standing in the shadows. "Oh, Gramps! It's just you. Don't scare me like that. It's late, what are you doing up?"
Gramps smiled and put a finger to his lips in a shushing gesture. "You need to go get Inuyasha. He's outside walking around the shrine. He won't respond to me, but he will to you. Go to him, but don't try to wake him."
Kagome nodded and quickly made her way outside towards the shrine. She noticed him instantly. He was walking back and forth in front of the shrine doors. It looked to Kagome as if he was protecting them or something.
Kagome sighed and walked up to him. His eyes were partially open, giving him a cold look almost. They were glazed and although Kagome knew he could see her...he couldn't really SEE her.
"Inuyasha..." She whispered as she held out her hand to him. "Come on... It's time to go inside now."
Inuyasha's ears flattened to the top of his head and a growl started to form in his throat. "Who are you?" He whispered back.
In Inuyasha's dream state, Kagome looked to him like a siren... a woman of great beauty sent to destroy him perhaps. He didn't want to trust her... but her voice was so soothing.
"Inuyasha, it's me... Kagome. See?" Kagome smiled as she clasped his hand in hers and brought it to the top of her chest. "See, Inuyasha? It's just me."
Inuyasha looked down at their joined hands and continued growling. Kagome could tell he wasn't awake yet, but she didn't know what else to do. She tried pulling him towards the house but the growling just got more insistent. Kagome tried one more quick tug at his hand and Inuyasha lashed out toward her. Luckily, Kagome was used to such surprising attacks, even in her half-asleep state and jumped out of the way of his swinging arms.
"Inuyasha! Stop!" Kagome cried when he finally caught up to her. Inuyasha kept clawing at her though until she threw herself against his chest and held onto him. At first, Inuyasha was stunned from the sudden force of impact against his chest, and then the haze of sleep left him as he stared down at the raven-haired girl who was holding onto him so tightly.
Maybe if I stay like this he'll calm down...
"Kags?" Inuyasha asked as he tilted her head up to look at him. "What are we doing outside?"
Thank god!
Kagome sighed deeply as she realized he was finally awake and shook her head at him. "I don't know..." She said as she held out her hand for him. "How about we go back in?"
Inuyasha smiled as he took her hand and nodded his head. "Sounds good to me."
Together they made their way back into the house. Kagome looked for Gramps to tell him that everything was taken care of and Inuyasha was fine, but apparently he had headed off to bed already. By the time they reached the bottom of the stairs Kagome realized they were still holding hands. She started to let go of his hand and turned to walk up the stairs but Inuyasha held it tightly in his and pulled her around to face him.
"Thanks for doing this for me." He said quietly. He couldn't quite meet her eyes and kept his gaze directed on the floor. He hadn't felt so helpless before and this sleepwalking problem was really messing with his sense of power. But I wouldn't want anyone else to help me except her. He thought to himself.
Kagome smiled and gave his hand a little squeeze. "It's the least I can do for all you've done for me."
Inuyasha released her hand and they quietly made their way up the stairs to her bedroom. Kagome began unbuttoning her pajama shirt as they walked in and Inuyasha walked to his side of the bed. He didn't think much of it until she slipped her arms out of the sleeves and revealed that she only had on a light pink bra beneath.
He started panicking. Why is she doing this to me? Can't she see this is hard enough for me as it is without her stripping in the middle of the night?
Kagome glanced behind her as she began rummaging through her drawers to find a tank top and noticed his reaction. Their eyes locked for a split second before she looked away into the interior of the open drawer her hands were in. "What?" She asked.
"Couldn't you wait until I was in the other room or asleep even?" He asked as he eyed the contours of her breasts pressing against the silky fabric of her bra.
A blush started forming on her cheeks. "It's not like you haven't seen me naked before Inuyasha."
"That was by accident!" He called out in defense.
Kagome raised a finger to her lips and glared at him. "Do you want to wake everybody up? And besides, that last time when we were... together... wasn't an accident."
Inuyasha started sweating. He didn't like where this conversation was going. "I thought we were sure that was an accident." He said as he raked a clawed hand through his hair. It was really too long for this time period. If I'm staying for a while I should probably get it cut...
"Oh. Is that what we agreed on?" She inquired angrily as she picked a white tank top from her drawer and slammed it shut. Inuyasha glanced at the open doorway and hoped her family wouldn't hear all the commotion. "It must have slipped my mind." She hissed at him as she pulled the shirt over her head and got into bed.
"Kags... I just thought that we agreed that-" Inuyasha said as he reached a hand out to touch her shoulder.
"I know. Lets drop it alright." Kagome interjected as she pushed his hand away and turned on her side away from him.
Inuyasha continued to stare at her back for a few minutes until he heard the slow steady breathing that followed as she drifted off to sleep. He quietly got up and made his way to his pile of clothes on the floor in front of the bed. Silent as a mouse, he spread them out to make himself a make-shift bed on the floor. It's for the best tonight... his mind told him. Inuyasha took one more glance at Kagome before laying down on his clothes and falling to sleep for the second time in one night.
Luckily for both of them, Inuyasha stayed where he was until morning.
