Living For Today.
InuYasha picked up the pamphlet and looked through it again, checking out the careers offered in the military. He glanced down the page, until he seen something he liked. He grinned. Now that looked fun. He grabbed his cell phone off his dresser, and dialed the number on the page. The phone rang twice, before it was picked up. A female voice answered on the other end of the line.
InuYasha closed his cell phone, and opened it again, accessing his calendar. He quickly typed in a date, and closed it again. He rolled off the bed, happy that he was getting rid of his cast today. He grabbed his wallet off his dresser, and walked downstairs, happy to get rid of the bulky thing. His arm felt a lot better, and he smiled as he thought about today. He got to hang with his friends again, and he would have the use of both his arms. He left the house and walked the few minutes over to Ayame's house, and knocked on her door. He waited, and looked around, never really noticing how her front windows had tiny semi-circular flower beds under them, with dark moist earth contrasting sharply with the surrounding bright green grass. He shifted his weight to his other leg, and was about to walk away, when Ayame opened the door. She looked out at him sleepily, making InuYasha laugh.
"Huh?" She looked at him, wondering why he was laughing. InuYasha grinned, his laughing under control, and walked in as she moved aside.
"Your hair is kinda messy Ayame." He said, laughingly. She shrugged, and grabbed a comb off the coffee table that was in her living room. She ran it through her hair a few times, straightening it out, getting all the stray hairs. She sat down on the couch and InuYasha sat down also, careful of his left arm. He leaned back against the arm of the couch and Ayame moaned. She closed her eyes and leaned back against InuYasha's chest. He grinned.
"So how ya been?" He asked. She shrugged sleepily.
"Ain't been doing a whole lot, just waiting for you to get better so we can hang out again." She said. InuYasha nodded.
"Yeah, the damn cast comes off today." He said. "So what are your plans for today?" He asked.
Ayame shrugged again. "Follow you around, feel you up, laugh at the stupid stuff you do, you know, the usual. Hang out." She said. "You know that all of us, Me, Sango and Kagome build our lives around yours, we live for the few hours we get to spend with you." InuYasha smirked. "Yeah, I love hanging with you guys too." He said.
"Well, I guess you guys are coming back to that industrial building, then." He said. Ayame made a questioning noise in her throat.
"You know, that industrial building that I fell and broke my arm at." He said. "I'm going back there to re-grind that rail."
Ayame laughed when she heard this. "InuYasha, I really don't know if your stupid, or just driven." She said. InuYasha shrugged gently.
"Maybe it's a bit of both." He said. Ayame nodded. "Yeah, I think it is."
Just then, there was a knock at the door, and Ayame sighed.
"COME IN!" She yelled, making InuYasha wince. Who knew that this tiny, soft spoken girl could yell so loud?
Sango and Kagome walked in, and they both tried not to react when they saw InuYasha cuddling on the couch with Ayame. Sango sat down on the opposite couch with Kagome, and they stared at the pair across from them. Ayame yawned, stretched, and got off InuYasha. walking into the kitchen.
"Anybody want anything?" She asked. Kagome shook her head, Sango jokingly rattled off a list of foods that were obtainable from your nearest McDonalds, and InuYasha just asked if she had any pop.
"So, InuYasha, how are you today?" Kagome asked, and InuYasha yawned. He sat up, and grinned at her.
"I'm fine, I get my cast off today, and I get to re-try that rail!" He said excitedly. Kagome gasped, glared at him.
"InuYasha, are you retarded!?" She asked. "Do you not remember what it was like to break your arm and smash your head against the concrete?" InuYasha nodded. "Yeah, I remember perfectly well." He said. "But it's my body, and if I wanna go do that again, then I'm gonna go do it again." He said. Kagome sighed.
"Okay, well, if that doesn't deterr you, then think about this." She said. "Think about how I'm gonna feel watching you go off that damn rail again!" She said. InuYasha actually thought about it for a second. "Think about how we are all going to feel, watching you do that again."
InuYasha was subdued. It was okay to place himself in harms way because it was only himself suffering, and it was a choice he made. But when it came to stuff like this, where his friends could suffer emotionally, it made him re-think his plan. He wasn't that selfish that he would toss away his friends thoughts and feelings just for a personal gain.
"Okay, okay, you got me, I won't do it again." He said. 'But I will do it someday, when you aren't around.' He thought.
Kagome, glad she settled it, smiled at Ayame as she walked in, holding two drinks. She gave InuYasha his Cola, and took a sip of her chocolate milk. As InuYasha raised his glass of Cola to his mouth, he caught a glance at his watch. He would have to be at the hospital in twenty minutes. He stood up. "Well guys, are you coming with?" He asked. Sango and Kagome cast blank looks at him.
"Where are you going?" They both asked. InuYasha bared his fangs in a deadly grin. "To get my cast cut off."
They jumped up. "Yeah, let's go!" They said, and all three girls followed him out of the house, Ayame locking the doors.
At the hospital, they all had to wait in the waiting room while InuYasha went in alone to get his cast removed.
Ayame, Sango, and Kagome were waiting for about ten minutes, before InuYasha came back out, sporting the use of both his arms. His face wore a grin that could be likened to the fox that had just been set loose inside the chicken coop. He was now ready to commence his retarded stunts. Ayame grinned, and felt her old feelings come back as InuYasha shot her a confident smile.
"Let's get out of here guys!" He said, happy to get rid of his cast. He now had tons of energy, and no way to release it...until he saw the brick wall in front of him. He started to jog toward it, calling out over his shoulder, "Stupid stunt number one!"
Ayame laughed, Sango felt her stomach twinge, and Kagome sucked in a deep breath, ready to yell at him. InuYasha jumped up, with Kagome's scream in his ears, and placed his foot on the wall. He leaned back, and kicked off the wall, backflipping off it. He landed, bending his knees to absorb the impact, and yelled triumphantly. It wasn't the backflip that had excited him, those were easy and he had been doing them forever, but it was the realization that, after a week and a half having the use of only one arm, he was now free.
"Hey, that was pretty cool, can you do another one?"
Everyone looked over to the person who had spoken, and they saw a girl walking toward them. The three girls each were on guard, but none more so than Ayame. Ayame started growling softly, flexing her claws. InuYasha regarded the girl like he would any other, with polite respect, but no interest.
The girl in question was a bit taller than Ayame, and sported a pair of cut off jeans that showed a lot of leg and thigh. The jean shorts were unzipped, and showed a bit of a thong underneath. The girl had a tight white shirt on, with the words 'This shirt looks better wet' on it. It covered a very large chest, but not much else. Her long blonde hair hung down to her hips, which weren't covered by the short shorts, and her eyes were a golden color like InuYasha's, except darker. Atop her head were a pair of fox ears, and everyone could see that she was a kitsune. She moved lithely over to InuYasha, and put her arm around his shoulder.
"Well, can you do it again?" She asked, her voice purring. InuYasha pointedly removed her arm from his shoulder, and she immediately looked insulted. He grinned. "Can't do it if your holding on to me babe." He said smoothly. He backed up, and took a run at the wall, jumping into it and getting three steps up the wall before backflipping off. Sango didn't know he could do that, and was immediately interested. She wanted to learn how to do that. Then maybe her and InuYasha could go tricking together sometime. The kitsune smiled at his antics, and took his hand, dragging him a few feet away from the girls.
Sango, Ayame, and Kagome all watched, wishing they could hear what was being said. They wondered if InuYasha would didtch them for the beautiful girl, and while they didn't think he would, it was always a possibility. The conversation was taking a while and they were getting wary, watching InuYasha shake his head repeatedly. Ayame gasped, and pointed, and everyone looked to see what she was pointing at.
The girl was giving InuYasha her number. They watched InuYasha pocket it, without looking at it, and wave to her politely as she walked away. He then turned and walked back to the group, stopping short when he saw them all staring at him.
"What?" He asked innocently.
"Who was that girl?" Sango asked, trying to keep the jealousy out of her voice. InuYasha shrugged.
"I don't know, she said her name was Kasumi." He said. "She said that she liked my trick, and..." He trailed off.
"And?" Kagome demanded. InuYasha looked at them and grinned. "Well, the next part is a bit slutty, but she said that it must take a great body to do that kind of stuff, and she said she wanted to see it, then gave me her number." He said.
Ayame gaped. "A bit slutty? Try a whole lot slutty. Giving her number out to a stranger, and saying that she wanted to see his body!" She scoffed, and shook her head.
"Does this happen often to you, InuYasha?" Sango asked. InuYasha shrugged again, and they suspected that this was becoming his favorite gesture. "This is about the third time this month." He mumbled. He kept his eyes on the ground, and Kagome laughed.
"Don't worry InuYasha, it's nothing to be ashamed of, it just means that girls are interested in you, after all, your pretty hot." She said. Everyone looked at her, and she blushed. "W-well, he could be considered hot from some girls point of view." She said, trying to cover her mistake. Sango opened her mouth to question her, but Kagome quickly cut her off.
"The point is," She rushed, "Unless your actually calling these numbers up, and meeting these people, then you have nothing to be ashamed of." She said. InuYasha grinned. "No, don't worry, I haven't been meeting any of them." He said. "Whether they be guy or girl." He muttered under his breath.
Sango was the only one to catch that, but she said nothing. She merely grinned. "So at least you know that girls find you interesting." Sango said. "That has to be a big boost to your self-esteem." She said. They all started walking again, and InuYasha nodded.
"Yeah, I guess you could put it that way." He said. "But I'm not going to stop tricking just because random horny girls keep giving me their numbers." He said. Sango laughed. "Way to go InuYasha!" She said. "Fight off the hordes of horny female teenagers hungering for your sexy body!"
InuYasha blushed. "It's not that bad." He said. "There aren't that many girls after me."
Ayame stuck her tongue out at him. "Stop acting like a player, InuYasha, it doesn't suit you."
InuYasha pretended to be hurt. "Aww, you mean I can't dress up in the baggy blue jeans and wear red jerseys, and pure black Playboy hats, and sharp necklaces?" Ayame took a second to imagine that, and had to forcefully close her mouth, lest the drool start coming out.
"Well, no one here would object to that," She said slyly, "But we'd all sure as hell beat you down if you started whoring girls." InuYasha dismisssed that thought.
"No way, dibs out, that's not my idea of fun, whoring out girls for cash." He said. "Not my taste."
A few seconds went by in silence.
"Unless..."
Everyone looked at him, for he was wearing a sly grin. "Unless what?" They all asked. He glanced around at all of them.
"Unless you three were my girls that I'd whore out!" He said, dancing away from their slaps and punches.
After a while, they reached the ice cream store, located inside a convenience store, and InuYasha pulled them all inside, insisting that he buy them something, as a celebration for him getting his cast off.
Kagome didn't want anything, but InuYasha pushed until she accepted a bottle of pop, and Ayame immediately pointed to cookie dough. He laughed, got it for her, and recieved a hug as thanks. Sango, more conservative, asked for, and recieved, plain vanilla. She loved plain vanilla. InuYasha got a pure chocolate cone, and they all sat outside, eating their cones and contemplating whatever it was that three teenage girls contemplated whenever in the presence of someone as hot and kind as InuYasha.
Sango often thought of what could be between her and InuYasha, if she was willing to take a risk and ask him out. She wanted to so bad, but was always afraid of him rejecting her, no matter how nicely he would do it. Then things would never be the same after that again. And she was quite happy with the relationship she had with him right now, thanks very much. She wasn't about to ruin something this good. She sighed, and cast a look at InuYasha. He was a messy eater, and the ice cream had melted a bit when he went to take a lick, and had run down his chin, and down his neck a bit. She groaned inwardly. What she wouldn't give to lick that off...
Kagome was lost in her own thoughts, and didn't realize when InuYasha slowly worked the bottle out of her hand, to take a drink, then slowly replace it. She absent-mindedly went to take a drink of her Dr. Pepper, and gasped as she realized that it was half gone. Did she really drink that much? She heard a giggle and looked over to see InuYasha wipe a bit of pop off his upper lip. She glared at him, then had to wonder how he had gotten the bottle in the first place. Was she that zoned out?
Ayame stared at the hanyou, and wondered what he was like underneath that black shirt of his. She imagined him in her room, door locked, slowly taking off that shirt of his. She started imagining other things, and started zoning out.
"...Ayame? Ayame!!!" Ayame was shaken out of her stupor, and she licked non-chalantly at her cookie dough ice cream.
"What was that about, Ayame?" Kagome asked, worriedly. "You went all glassy-eyed and started sweating a bit." She said. "You feeling okay?" Ayame blushed, and turned away from them to hide her embarrassment.
"Y-yeah, everythings fine, it's all good, no worries!" She said. She waited until her blush had faded before turning around again. The group had dismissed her, and were talking about something else. Ayame realized that she had hit the bottom. She officially couldn't stop day dreaming about InuYasha. She sighed. She wished that she could control her thoughts, but she couldn't. They would just randomly pop up, and she would start fantasizing about him. Not that she minded, and she would often think about him until she fell asleep at night, but she wished her day dreaming would pick a better time to attack. She finally snapped out of her reverie to realize that InuYasha was holding a hand out to her, to help her up. She accepted his hand, and he gently helped her stand, before he started to walk away. And he hadn't let go of her hand. She blushed as she held his hand the whole time they were walking back to where ever they were going, and she thoroughly enjoyed it.
Sango eyed the two holding hands, and became a bit jealous. First it was the fox-girl, then it was Ayame. Why wasn't InuYasha paying attention to her? She then realized what she was thinking, and discarded the thoughts like they were diseased. They most likely were. Infecting her with jealous thoughts, and making her dislike her best friend. Sango knew she should be happy for Ayame, and InuYasha. Her two best friends had found happiness, and who cares if the guy she wanted found happiness with her best friend, and her best friend got the guy she always wanted?
Then Sango scoffed. It wasn't like they were going out or anything, they were just holding hands. Still, she couldn't shake the feeling that it was turning out to be more than just holding hands. Maybe those two had something more than they were letting on. They did spend a lot of time together. Alone. Sango then shook her head again. Ayame was her best friend, and if anything like that was going on, she would be the first to know. Besides, InuYasha wasn't the type to keep secrets like that from his friends. If Ayame didn't tell them, InuYasha would. Sango knew that she would just have to earn the love that he was showing Ayame. It was probably because they spent so much time together that he would hold hands with her in public like that. She remembered back to what Ayame had said. She had earned her affection from InuYasha. Sango knew exactly what she would do. Being naturally athletic, and in good shape, she would appeal to his much more energetic side. She would go tricking with him. That would build the bonds necessary to make him hers,
Kagome cast a glance at Sango, and was about to ask her a question, when she saw that Sango was deep in thought. Maybe this wasn't the best time. She kept her question to herself, and pondered the meaning of InuYasha and Ayame holding hands.
They stopped off at InuYasha's house, where he told them that he was going to stay for the rest of the night. He was tired. They all accepted this, and Ayame hugged him tightly, before letting go and smiling at him. The other two stood around awkwardly, for a second, before InuYasha sighed loudly.
"Do I need to invite you?" He asked, his arms open wide. The girls grinned. He most certainly did not! They pushed their way up the steps, to hug him tightly. He laughed, and waved them off as he said good night. It was just barely starting to get dark, and he had some work to finish up before he went to bed.
"G'night InuYasha!" Kagome called. InuYasha grinned. "Good night!" He waved at them once more, before disappearing into his house, locking the door. No one was home. Perfect.
He ran up the stairs to his room, and shut the door, emptying out his pockets. He dumped the piece of paper with the girls number on it onto the bed, next to his cell phone, and jumped in bed, picking up his cell. He opened it, and started dialing...