There's a lot of crappy excuses that I could tell you, but I'll spare you and just shorten it to my life sucks. So, here ya go. Sorry for taking so long.
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Chapter 4 : A Date To Remember
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It was 6:45 and Kagome was running around trying to find something to wear. Inuyasha called her at 6:30 to wear something nice because they were going to a fancy restaraunt. While she was running around in a hazardous manner she had to admit, it was sweet of him to take her to a fancy place, although she would have prefered McDonald's.
After succesfully ripping her closet apart she found a decent outfit. Sure it was a pretty plain dress, but she figured it would work wonders for tonight. Time for make-up!
Just as she was headed for the bathroom the doorbell rang. She almost gave herself whiplash as she flung her neck around looking at the clock. 6:55 was flashing in red letters on her alarm clock. Since when are men early!? She wanted to growl at his stupidness. Why couldn't he just act like other men? She shrugged to herself and skipped down the stairs down to her date and to a night that could be a nightmare or a blissful dream.
She opened the door to a less than happy hanyou. How could you tell you ask? Well, it was a dead give away. His mouth was molded into what looked like a permanent scowl, the once lively ears where now glued to his head, and she could swear she heard a distinct growl coming from him. "Hi there Inuyasha."
All she got in reply was a dark grunt.
"What wrong with you?" She asked, eyebrows knitted together in anger and slight worry.
"Don't worry about it wench, now let's go," he growled out, already turning and heading to his car.
Though Kagome wasn't any part demon, she let out an angry growl. How dare he! She stomped to the car with tempting thoughts on how to kill the man she would have to spend an entire night with.
The drive there was a quiet one until Kagome took it upon herself to turn on the radio. She began to play with the knobs til she found a station that was decent. Every so often she would twitch the knobs again til she found a song she liked. All the while she unknowingly drove the already peeved golden eyed man next to her up the wall. His hand quickly grabbed hers before she could switch it again. "If you change the station one more time, I swear I will behead you. You do not, I repeated, DO NOT, play with MY radio. No one has the privledge to do that, except me. You're lucky I let you get that far with it!"
Kagome looked appalled that he would speak to her that way and began to retort when he announced that they were there.
Once they were inside, Kagome began an in-depth reveiw of the place. Fancy chandeliers, fancy tables, facy soft music, fancy french waiters, the whole nine yards. "Isn't this place a little too fancy?"
"My mom suggested it, well, forced really, so shut up. Just be glad I actually brought you here," he glared darkly at her before calling over a waiter.
Kagome mummbled under her breath. I knew he couldn't be too nice for too long. Ugh.
"Kagome? Hellooo. I've been asking what you want, so hurry up and order already!"
She galred in response, but gave a kind look to the waiter. She eyed the menu for a few minutes, making small, hmm's and ahh's.
Inuyasha blinked at her, starting to get angry, when suddenly a surprised look over came his features. He let a smug smile slip onto his lips and ordered for her, getting the same as he ordered.
When the waiter left, Inuyasha started to laugh at the girl sitting across from him. "You had no idea what anything was, did you?"
Said girl blushed and looked down at her hands, "Well, I've never been to a fancy place like this before."
A confused look slipped onto the man's face, "But your dad owns a huge company, so how have you not been to places like these?"
"I don't like them, the food looks...well...gross. And have you looked at the prices? It's all pretty unneccisary," she finished in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Well then, let's make this a little bit more fun," said a delighted hanyou.
She gave him a suspicious look and asked how, to which he replyed by flicking water at her. She gasped and glared at him. "Oh no...you just...did not!"
"I think I did," was his curt reply.
She let a calm smile come onto her red lips, before replacing it with a wry smirk. She took her glass of water, which had a lemon oh-so-delicatly wedged on the side of the glass, and flung the entire contents of the glass onto the golden eyed date of hers.
His mouth flapped up and down making him look like a fish out of water. He gave her a dark glare before throwing a glass of Pepsi onto her, making her quite sticky. "It was just a joke wench! No need to throw the whole glass at me!"
She let out an enraged screech slip from her lips and replied, "You just threw your Pepsi at me! Straw and all!" With an after thought she smiled and continued, "I didn't throw the whole glass at you," she dropped her smile, "but I will now!" She threw the fragile glass at Inuyasha who's eyes widened. He ducked right before it hit him, which ended up hitting the unhappy waiter in the stomach.
"I came to check on your drinks, but now I see you couldn't act civilized for a simple 10 minutes. I'm going to have to ask you to leave," the waiter said in a snooty tone.
Kagome and Inuyasha immediantly sombered up. Kagome looked down in shame, and Inuyasha said in a serious tone, "We shall comply and we are extremely apologetic for ruining the night for any customers that feel like the night had been robbed from them." After a small pause he continued in a humerous tone, "Nah, I was just joking, but," he continued, this time in a serious tone, "If you're going to ask me to leave, I'm going to have to ask you to pull the stick out of your ass my good sir."
Kagome couldn't help but chuckle at that, as did Inuyasha. They both slipped out of the restaraunt and began walking down the sidewalk. It was fairly quite as they walked, until Kagome busted out with laughter. "I can't believe that just happened," she stuttered out between her laughter. Inuyasha slowly started to chuckle as well, which soon turned into both of them clutching their guts in laughter.
"Yeah, it was pretty funny," Inuyasha responded after he straighted up, then asked, "Do you want me to have the limo come pick us up?"
She thought about it for a second before shaking her head. [1 "Nah, let's just enjoy the night. It's pretty nice out anyways."
After she said that, both people remained quiet and continued walking down the dimly lit sidewalks. Inuyasha silently agreed that it was nice out in his head. The wind was blowing, making it a bit chilly, but not to where it was bothersome. A sudden sqeaul interupted Inuyasha's thoughts. He looked frantic for a moment, thinking something may be wrong, but when he went to glace at Kagome, she was gone. Where'd she go?! He failed around, trying to see where she had gone. He spotted her making a dash for some swings. It turns out the had come upon a park, Sakura Park. If you must know, it's named because all the Sakura trees that inhabit the area. Simple, no?
"Kagome! Get back here!" His footsteps began to squash the lush grash underneath as he chased after her.
"I love this park! I always came her when I was little!" She smiled from her spot on the swing.
Inuyasha gave a confused glance before responding, "I use to as well."
"I don't remember ever seeing you," Kagome said as she furrowed her brows trying to rememeber seeing someone with his hair color.
"Oh, you probably wouldn't remember me, I was never in the spot light..."
"What do you mean Yash?"
"Oh nothing. Don't worry about it, and did you just call me Yash?" He quirked his eyebrow at her new nickname for him.
She giggled, "Yup! It's easier to say."
Inuyasha nodded his head in understanding, but didn't say anything more. Once again a silence passed over the two. It seemed awkward to Inuyasha, there he was just standing in front of Kagome who was lightly pushing herself forward and backward. Kagome on the other hand was in a different world. After another moment, in which Inuyasha's comfort level went down, Kagome broke the silence. "Why were you so mean earlier?"
"What? When? When we first met?" Inuyasha didn't stop the look of confusion that slipped and stayed onto his face.
"No, today, when the date began. You were being mean and...rude, and stuff. Remember?" She lightly bit the her bottom left hand corner lip, and look to him to see if he understood.
His mouth made a small oh, showing he understood. "My mom said I should take you somewhere nice like a fancy restaraunt instead of somewhere like Burgar King. I didn't want to though, I mean it's nice to be rich and have people know you and like you, but I don't like those fancy ass places."
"But your mom was the one who said to take me to McDonalds or Burgar King and skating and a movie, wasn't she?" Her eyebrows shot down in confusion once more. Anymore of that and her head might just implode.
"Yeah, and she knew you heard her, so then later on when you left, she told me to take you somewhere fancy, somewhere you would appriciate. Of course, I didn't want to go there, but I was pretty much forced so I was pissed off."
"Oh, so, you didn't want to take me to a fancy restaraunt?" She looked sad and pouted at him.
"You said you didn't like those places, remember?"
She giggled, "Yeah, I know, I was just teasin'." She smiled at him then pouted at the thought of the penguin suited waiter that had earlier caused their demise.
"Well, we both love the park, so let's enjoy it!" He quickly found himself behind Kagome, pushing her in the swing.
She laughed, like she was once more a child. "I haven't felt this free in years! This is a date to remember for sure!"
"Why, thank you madam!" He proclaimed in a heavily accented French voice. "I do believe I am incredible as well," he finished in a British accent.
"You goof ball!" She hopped off the swing, which she ran to the slides right after.
"Psh, I could jump farther than that wench!" He said, reverting to his old ways.
"But you're a hanyou!" As her lips uttered those words Inuyasha's ears slammed back, and his eyes glazed over with memories that made him in a state of distraut for years. Seeing the change in the once firey hanyou, Kagome quickly slipped down the childrens slide and ran to his side. "What's up?"
"Nothing, don't worry about it." His voice was once again laced with a frosty overtone. He began heading over to the sidewalk, implying that it was time to leave. Kagome opened her mouth to speak, but she found herself at a loss for words. What could she say in this situation? She didn't even know what was wrong.
The walk home was as awkward and gruesome as any other moment the pair had shared together in a long time. Kagome tried a few times to speak with Inuyasha about the incident, but as they were nearing closer to home, she had made no headway. Racking her brain with possible answers for the nth time she still found nothing. A split second later, her eyes widened with shock and her pupils srunk with realization. She grabbed Inuyasha's wrist and came to an abrupt halt. "It's because I said hanyou isn't it?"
"Feh, what would you know." Under his breath he added, "Stupid humans."
"Hey! It's not my fault, I didn't know you would get hurt over one word."
"That ONE word, as you called it, did me more pain in a single day than you've felt in your whole life probably!" He snapped as he whipped around to face her. "If you knew a single thing about me, you would know that."
"Well, you don't open up to anyone, so how should I know!" She yelled back.
"I met you like what? Two or three days ago? That sure is a lot!" He finished in a sarcastic manner.
"I don't see why it's so bad! It's what you are, isn't it?" Her voice was still laced with anger, but there was an underlying sense of confusion and curiousity.
Not seeing those tones, his eyes widened and his breath seemed to stop. He said nothing, but he looked as if he wanted to kill. "We're done with this conversation Kagome, we're almost home. Once we get there, don't plan on bothering me."
"But I really don't understand Inuyasha!"
"You wouldn't understand," he coldly replyed.
Kagome's eyes glistened with hurt, curiosity, determination, and and confusion. What is going on! "Inuyasha. you're a jerk!" She started stomping towards her house as Inuyasha huffed, crossed his arms, and turned to go to his.
When Kagome got inside her huge abode she ran up to her room, grabbed a pillow and screamed as loud as she could. Souta came crashing through the door a few seconds later with a baseball bat.
"What!? Who's dead! Who should I kill!"
Kagome took her face out of the pillow to look at the shaking teen, she had to giggle at the site. Once she realized why he was there her eyes got sad again, "Inuyasha's being a jerk again."
"How?" Souta put the bat down and sat next to Kagome on her bed.
"He's being a jerk! I say one word and he gets all mad at me and won't tell me why he's all upset."
"You musta been pretty mean. What'd you do?"
"I said he'd beat me at jumping farther because he's a half demon," she paused, then continued, "Would you get mad at that?"
He thought for a second and shook his head, "Why would you? It's what he is."
"That's what I said! Ugh, guys. I just don't get them."
Souta nodded his head agreeingly, then after a second he jumped up, "Hey!"
Meanwhile at the Takashi resident...
A fist tore through a punching bag that was supposed to be demon proof, but in a state of frenzy he was in, nothing could stop him. Sesshomaru happened to be passing by when he saw what Inuyasha was doing to the training room. He sighed, "What now brother?"
"That bitch called me a hanyou," he roared.
"She's a human, it's not like she knew it's a bad word."
"The hell she didn't!" His eyes flashed red at the replaying memory.
"How would she know? She's known you for like what? Two, three days tops? Just talk to her about it. Sometime's I wonder how you're even related to me."
"Shut up Sissy-maru!" Inuyasha ran towards him, aiming to punch him, but Sesshomaru caught his hand and twisted it behind his back.
"Stop this nonsense Inuyasha! Talk to her tomorrow! She's probably more hurt than you are, think of how confused she is! And if you ever try to punch me again, I'll break your arm." He threw Inuyasha to the floor and walked out heading who knows where.
Inuyasha sat up and rubbed his wrist and sighed. "What does he know..."
Meanwhile [Again in the Takashi resident...
"Dad, Izayoi, Inuyasha' being a irrational again."
"Oh dear," she sighed, "What happened now."
"That boy is more trouble than he's worth..."
"Oh shush!" Izayoi looked to Sesshomaru to continue.
"He was on his date, Kagome called him a hanyou not knowing that it was hurtful, so now they're mad at each other and Inuyasha refuses to acknowledge that he should just talk to her instead of being mad at each other."
"Well, she did call him a half demon..."
"But she didn't say half breed! That boy! I'll go knock sense into him!" Izayoi got out and dashed out the door and down the hall. When I'm done with that boy he'll wish he was still fighting with Kagome!
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[1 - Why do people put they shook their head yes or nodded their head no? I thought it was nod for yes, shake for no? That's a big pet peeve of mine and soo many people do it.
Oh goodness, what has Inuyasha gotten himself into this time? What has Kagome done! OH NOES! Once again sorry for the long awaited update, you'll probably hate this chapter too...Sorry ( I'll try better next time and junk.
Just wondering, how many people actually read this story?
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