Loveless © Yun Kouga
Inuyasha © Rumiko Takahashi

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Kagome sent a supposedly secret sour look to Soubi as he and his friend took Ritsuka and his three friends out for ice cream – it pained her because she, Seimei and Ritsuka would do that when they could the last couple of years before Seimei's "death".

She tore her eyes away when the cell phone she was given vibrated – once. Sighing, she took out the portable phone, flipping it open to see who sent her the mobile message.

Are you still holding up to your promise, Loveless Sentouki? Letting Soubi do all the work for you?

The blue-black-haired miko wrinkled up her nose, resisting the urge to send back a crude reply to the sender— "And who are you?"

Kagome snapped her phone shut and pocketed it, looking over to a long light green-haired boy and wavy-haired brunette looking at her with a critical eye. She didn't reply as she waited for either one of them to talk some more to know which had initially spoke to her.

The left green eye of the brunette looked at her curiously, "Sentouki?"

"Hai."

Girly green looked behind her and at the immediate area around the trio, "Where's your Sacrifice?"

The seventeen-year-old female's fingers twitched at the question – she wasn't going to answer that question or their inquiry of her name, "No one you need to know."

Green scoffed, "And how do you know that we don't already know your Sacrifice?"

The miko let a delicate frown mar her features, "I don't know, I'm not psychic. Besides, who are you?"

Eye-patch glanced at girly green, before looking back at her – apparently Green was more of the talker amongst the two of them, "Why should we tell an old lady like you?"

Kagome's eye twitched at the insult, making an off-handed mumbled comment of 'aren't you charming?' – giving the two of them an agitated glare. Her thick black tail lashed behind her – mirroring her emotions – cat ears set back on her head— "Ne, you have to admit that she's attractive..."

'Great, now I'm being hit on by preteens.'

The green-haired boy looked contemplative, tapping his chin with a bandaged finger – 'Both of their hands are bandaged to the wrist' – "You're right..."

Kagome mentally threw her hands up in exasperation, glancing behind them to see the group she was watching slowly leave the park and tempted to slap the two preteens by her upside the head for distracting her. The miko threw a dark glower at Soubi's back, 'You probably put them up to this...'

Not hiding her annoyance, the seventeen-year-old looked at the boys in front of her, "I'm leaving."

The duo watched as she turned and walking in the opposite direction that Soubi, Ritsuka and the others were traveling. Natsuo and Youji quickly ran to her sides, each latching on to one of her arms, "Matte! We never got your name."

Sighing and feeling mentally defeated, the blue-black-haired teenager gave in, already knowing that she was going to regret doing so later, "Higurashi, Kagome. Now will the two of you let go?"

Surprisingly, the two let go of her and stepped back from her – to which Kagome was relieved for and continued on her way to leave the park. Natsuo glanced over to his Sacrifice, "We have to tell Soubi-san now."

Youji nodded his head.

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Nakahira sighed as he patted the top of Kagome's head as she gripped him around his abdomen – albeit somewhat painfully. His light-hued eyes looked down at the crown of her head where his hand resided, the other curled around her shoulders and under her hair, "What's wrong this time?"

She shook her head from where she buried it in his chest – although she matured early, she was still a tad short compared to him. Light-colored cat ears twitched as they started to lay themselves back on his head, "Something's wrong or else you wouldn't be acting like this."

Seimei watched the interaction between the two through a slight crack in the door separating the room he was in from the one they were in. His tail twitched ever so slightly as he heard Kagome's refusal to tell Nakahira-san what was bothering her.

He couldn't help but give a small smile, feeling as though he already knew what she was refusing to talk about.

One of Nakahira's feline ears turned in the direction of the sound of the door opening, looking over his shoulder to the black-haired Aoyagi – a frown on his face as their eyes met.

"Let me see if I can get her to confess what is bothering her, Nakahira-san."

Walking over to the pair, Seimei stood behind Kagome, taking her upper arms in his hands – trying to ease her off of the lighter-haired young man. He may not really like the younger male, but he at least helped unwrap the young woman from around his midsection.

The Beloved Sacrifice drew his younger brother's Sentouki into his arms, giving Nakahira a look that requested some time alone with Kagome if he was to get her to calm down. Reluctantly, the other older male left the two alone in the room.

His smile didn't fade as Seimei looked down to the shorter teenager in his arms, her hands resting on her shoulders, hair hiding her face from view, "Now, are you going to say what's on your mind, Kagome-san?"

He could hear a faint groan from Kagome, knowing that she knew that she would have no choice but to tell him what was on her mind. The older brother could almost feel her lips moving through the fabric of his long-sleeved turtleneck. One of his hands, left her back to toy with the tip of one of her feline attributes, "What was that?"

The miko took her face away from Seimei's chest, looking up at him with what looked to be a combination of a frown, scowl and a pout, "Why am I not allowed to fight for Ritsuka-kun? Why must Soubi be the one to do it? I've known him longer than he has! And then there were these two kids Ritsuka-kun's age came up to me – probably put up to it by the teme – and hit on me!"

The wavy-haired male watched silently as the female panted softly, cheeks lightly dusted with a blush from her small rant; the hand that was toying with one of her cat ears lightly gripped it, cupping around the back of it, "Soubi doesn't let his emotions get the best of him, is all. Besides, you need to learn more so that you can protest Ritsuka better than him."

"And what about the two boys?"

"I wouldn't worry about them, if I were you."

Kagome huffed and slumped against Seimei, 'Right... they have my name, I am too going to worry about them! Besides, are things ever going to go back to the way that they were before?'


Anyone else notice that in the manga, one of Ritsuka's classmates has dark hair, but light colored cat ears? It's bugging the hell out of me! o.o This may be a light rating, but I have a feeling that it is only a matter of time before I up the rating to M, though that's probably be a one-shot all it's own. I feel very sociopathic and asympathetic seeing how I am estatic to be single again, since my girlfriend broke up with me through a text message. I guess no one really breaks up face-to-face anymore... I'm trying to show Seimie's different "personalities," though they are more of how people say he acts around certain people and whatnot.