Thanks for the Memories

by: get-crunked

Chapter 4: Kagura's plan and Inuyasha's predicament

The Taiyoukai Residents.

Inuyasha was up in his room, he was too busy writing yet another poem for Kagome that he didn't even notice the time as it swiftly gone by.

"Inuyasha, is there something wrong?" Rin asked as she watched her older brother who was writing intently on the paper for hours now, and she had been watching him there for almost an hour now, and Inuyasha doesn't mind at all, because he usually whisk her away whenever she even enter the door, and now she's been sitting there for about an hour and he didn't do anything. Rin was sure that something was up. "No. Now be quiet and let me be before I kick you out," Inuyasha grumbled trying his hardest to focus on the piece, he's never really the type of guy who writes, but it was a chick flick movie who gave him the idea of love poems as the best way to impress a girl. He hated chick flick but he has no other option but to watch it because it was his mom's request to watch that certain movie, which actually made him teary in the ending. But that was a secret he'd die of, if Sesshoumaru found out.

"That is the point Inuyasha! Kick me out! You've been acting weird ever since you came home from school, what's going on? You didn't even tried to wrestle the game controller in my hands so that Sesshoumaru will have to kick you again-" Rin placed her small hands on her mouth as those words escaped her quickly. Inuyasha's ear's twitched for a bit. "What?"

"Nothing," She said quickly.

"You said something you little twerp! What was it? Were you doing that in purpose?" he asked his little sister incredulously.

"... Maybe..." she stifled a laughter seeing Inuyasha's expression.

"You're going to pay for that!" he said as he helped himself detach from the comfort of his study desk's chair to chase Rin . She let out a piercing shriek as Inuyasha starts to chase her out of the bedroom. "I'm gonna get you for that!"

"No you're not!"

"ARRRRGGGGGHHHH!"

"Inuyasha" a cold monotone voice cut him off.

"What now Sesshoumaru?" he said.

"Kagura called"

"So? She didn't ask you to go out with her did she?" he said, mocking him.

Sesshoumaru resisted a sudden urge of rolling his eyes. "No, she said to call her back" was the simple reply before Sesshoumaru walked over to where Rin was screaming to stop her. "Rin stop it,"

Inuyasha sighed. He picked up the phone and punches the on button, "Hey Sesshoumaru! What's Kagura's number?"

"How should I know?" Sesshoumaru said defensively.

"Wha-" Inuyasha rolled his eyes "You're the only one in this household who calls her"

"I do not call her." Sesshoumaru defended hard.

"Then how come you're up in your room last night?" Sesshoumaru opened his mouth for a retort but InuYasha quickly cut him off. "I was going to call Ryan up but Rin said you were using the phone" Inuyasha raised a brow.

"..."

Inuyasha smirked, knowing that he just hit the nail straight on the head. "So?"

Sesshoumaru walked towards the door of his room and stopped when he reached the door knob, turning ever so slightly towards his younger sibling he narrowed his eyes, "457- 8222" was all he said before he slam the door on Inuyasha's smirking face.

"Heh! I knew it!" he said mockingly. " Now... where am I?"

Inuyasha punched in Kagura's number. "Yo Kagura what's up?"

"Hey Inuyasha?"

"What?"

"I trust you are aware of the Masquerade party right?"

" The what?"

"Hojo's birthday party is a Masquerade party," Kagura explained.

"So?"

"You heard that Kagome is coming to that party right?"

"Yeah. I know." Inuyasha sighed then frowned.

"Well what if you go?"

"What for?"

"To have Kagome's attention to you not to Hojo to keep her from falling for him"

"But Kagura I thought we're not suppose to tell her about it yet"

"It's called a Masquerade party. You'd just have to keep your face from exposing it to her if you don't want her to know that is..."'

"Good plan. But here's a teensy-weensy problem" he said sarcastically.

"What?" Kagura raised her brows.

" I DON'T HAVE AN INVITATION!" he yelled.

Kagura winced; detaching the phone from her ears before her eardrums explodes. "Calm down will you," she yelled back.

"Well?"

" Sesshoumaru told me last night that you're dad is a business associate of Hojo's family and I figured that your family is ought to be invited to this particular party... so you can go. YOU SEE HOW SMART I AM?"

"Then what?"

"What what?"

"Then what happens when I attend the stinkin' party?"

"Just keep her from talking to Hojo, keep her company... Surely Hojo will come to her, so you better ask her to dance first."

"Kagura..."

"NO. No don't need to thank me"

"I was just saying..."

"I know you were just saying I'm a good friend, no need to tell me, I know that already"

"What I meant was you're such a psycho sometimes"

"Well of course--- hey wait a fucking minute did you just say I'm psycho?!"

"Yes"

"You evil conniving jerk how could..." she trailed off.

"I was just kidding... Now what's your plan?"

---

Kagome was walking with Sango to Kagura's house, the same time Inuyasha and Kagura was planning their 'magnificent' plan on having Kagome distracted from Hojo.

"Kagome?"

"Yes?"

"... Do you think Hojo is... nice?"

"Of course he is! I mean he went all the trouble just to write a poem to a new girl!" she said, blushing.

"... Well how bout Inuyasha?"

"Huh?"

"I mean do you think he... maybe just maybe... have a chance on you?"

With this statement made by Sango, Kagome started to blush real bad, her usual pale cheeks are turning into Tomato red... maybe Cranberry red, "Wh…Why are you asking me this Sango?" Kagome starts to look down on her shoe, trying to hide the fact that she's blushing, that only made Sango giggle lightly. Looking at Kagome while she looks down on her sneakers trying to hide the fact that her face was as red as beets was slightly amusing for Sango. "Nothin... I was just... wonderin..." she shrugged though half of her was lying, she knew that the reason why she asked her the question was because she wanted to make sure if Inuyasha had at least a small chance to this girl, whom she knows Inuyasha was dying to go out with.

Looking away, Kagome's face feels hot. "...Err... Of course he would..." she halted. Sango hid a grin, but soon replaced by a frown when Kagome continued. "But..."

Sango frowned deeper. "But what?" she snapped.

"I think he's... eccentric..." Kagome murmured.

"What makes you think that?"

"Well remember that one time we came over his house?"

"Uh huh..."

"I don't know! I just think he's a good guy but he's a bit eccentric..."

"Well sometimes you must cope up with your companion's eccentric ness…" Sango shrugged.

"Yeah I know... but... besides... if I ever did like him, it's not like he's going to like it... the guy's bit obsessed with skateboard and video games the type of guy who have no interest in dating..."

"Well he is kind of obsessed with Skateboards and Video games... but I heard that he also writes..." Sango lied. She's been friend with Inuyasha for so long and never knew about him writing, but the fact is kind of true, Inuyasha do know how to writes poems, after all he was the one who slipped the love poem on Kagome's locker and made her smile. "He does?!"

"...Err... yes!" but then something dawned Sango it was then she remembered Kagura said that Inuyasha did not want any of them to tell Kagome that he likes her. It has to come to him and by him means Inuyasha Taiyoukai only. And Sango figured that she's giving out so many clues for Kagome to solve that is if she noticed...

"I didn't know that!"

"Me either come on!" Sango said as she pulled Kagome towards Kagura's house hoping she'd forget about the 'InuYasha writes' part.

"Hang on!" Kagome pulled Sango making her stop by the door. "Are you telling me that Inuyasha writes?"

"...Err... maybe..." Sango sweat dropped.

"Does he write stories?" Kagome said a bit suspicious.

"...Err yes! He does... but... err... we... I... err... I haven't seen any of his work!" Sango stammered as she puts on a fake smile.

"Why?" Kagome asked incredulously.

"Hey guys took you long time to arrive!" Kagura suddenly popped out of the door. "I can hear you guys talking from the living room and I thought it was you so I was right!" she said cheerfully. Sango's eyes turned to Kagura and smiled nervously at Kagome. "... Because... he showed it once to Kagura... and ... she... laughed... so... err... since then he... didn't want to show his work to anybody..."

"What are you guys talking about?" Kagura inquired.

"Oh that's really dirt Kagura you shouldn't have laughed on InuYasha's work"

"What?"

Sango stared at Kagura with a fix look that says: 'I'll explain things later... just follow my lead...'

"Well... of course! Now would you like to enter?" Kagura showed to the both of them their house door.

"... Still Kagura that wasn't nice at all..." Kagome said which made Kagura frowned, as she watched Kagome strolled inside her house, "You better have a good explanation" Kagura whispered through her teeth when Sango passed, sighing at Kagura's temper she whispered back with a smirk, "Whatever. Anyways I have to tell you something, later..."

--

As I see you there standing by the door

Makes me want to hold you tighter

Take you higher

I'm sorry but I can't tell you yet

I know you like someone else greater than me

But it hurts seeing you with him

Should've known better not to ...OH FUCK IT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This writing thing... pisses InuYasha to hell! After writing the cuss in upper case letter, he once more crumpled the paper and tossed it in the nearest waste basket, where you could see about seven other paper ball crumpled around the waste bin. "Dammit this is... so..." he stopped whining when he heard a sudden blast of Rap music coming from Rin's room.

A bay bay a bay bay...!

InuYasha slammed his pencil on the desk and stuck his head out of the door, "RIN! Turn that damn song before I loose myself!"

"WHAT?" Rin screamed through the noise.

"I said TURN THE DAMN THING OFF! I'M KINDA WORKING HERE!"

"WHAT?"

InuYasha huffed and strolled towards the room that was creating such noise.

A bay bay a bay bay...!

Strolling right inside the room he unplugged the radio off in which made Rin frown and her hands firmly on her hips. "What do you think you're doing?" she whined.

"Look twerp I'm working in my room so it's better if you turn it down..." Inuyasha bend leveling his Golden eyes to Rin's Brown ones.

"Well I would turn it down if you were doing your Homework but you weren't..."

"What's that supposed to mean?" InuYasha raised his brows.

"You know I can read" She shrugged.

"Eh? You mean to say you look at my stuff?"

"DUH" she rolled her eyes.

"Oh no missy you are so gonna pay for that!" Rin let out a piercing shriek as soon as Inuyasha jumped on her bed and made some monster noises.

Upon hearing Rin's shouting voice, Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes then calmly turned to the phone.

"Is something wrong there Sesshoumaru?" his father demanded raising his brows.

"No." Sesshoumaru answered reluctantly but he was annoyed. Right after he said that a loud crashing sound coming from Rin's room was heard followed by Rin's voice saying 'Oooh you broke it...'

"Are you sure?" the white haired man raised his brows waiting for Sesshoumaru's reply.

"I shall see..."

"I'll call you back when we are near" with that clarified, he hang up the phone and so did Sesshoumaru. He narrowed his eyes then strolled up to see what was the commotions happening.

"That's my nightlight you broke!" Rin shouted.

" I did not!" Inuyasha offended crossing his arms.

"Yah you did!" Rin stomped her foot.

"Keh!"

"I'm soo telling!" Rin rolled her eyes.

"What? I didn't even..."

"InuYasha" came Sesshoumaru's, cold voice. Both froze from their spot as soon as they heard Sesshoumaru's 'Stop-whatever-the-hell-you-two-are-doing-before-I-kick-both-of-your-asses' voice.

"Sesshoumaru I didn't do it! InuYasha was the one who broke the nightlight not me he was..."

"Stop right there"

Rin froze. InuYasha stuck his tongue out. Rin narrowed her eyes.

"Did you just say that you broke the nightlight?"

"No. I didn't broke it InuYasha did..." Rin shrugged pointing at the broke Lampshade.

Sesshoumaru turned towards the broken piece of furniture and once turning his head towards Inuyasha he gave him a deadly scowl. Inuyasha growled. "The hell are staring at?"

"Get out" Sesshoumaru said as he calmly pointing the door towards InuYasha.

"Whatever" InuYasha snorted.

"The kitchen is a mess." Sesshoumaru said as Inuyasha passed him.

"So?"

"Go clean it"

"Why the hell should I?"

"Father will be home soon,"

"What?"

"In five minutes..." with that said Sesshoumaru strolled passed him then stopped by the door frame, turning back to his younger siblings he began, "Clean all your mess..."

"Fucking Sesshoumaru why can't he just clean it himself," Inuyasha muttered when Sesshoumaru was out of earshot.

" Inuyasha?"

"What?" he demanded not even turning to look at Rin.

"What does fucking mean?" she asked innocently.

"Remind me to explain it to ya when you're a bit older, now before Sesshoumaru come here again, clean this thing..."

"NO I WANT TO KNOW NOW!"

Inuyasha sighed. "Look kid it's something you shouldn't know about"

"Fine! If you don't tell me then I'll ask Sesshoumaru what it means" she shrugged.

"Whatever" Inuyasha shudder not even fully registering what the kid had said.

"OK!" Rin ran off giggling.

"Wait What?" Inuyasha's eyes widened. "Fucking...err fudging twerp get back here!"

Inuyasha ran to Rin, trying to catch Rin before she could cause him trouble again. " Rin! NO!"

"SESSHOUMARU!"

--

"Taylor, maybe Hojo does like..." Ashleigh swallowed. "Kagome..."

"No way!" Taylor stood and towered over her younger twin sister. "Why would Hojo hit some... geeky new student..."

"...Maybe she's not too geeky..." Ashleigh swallowed again. "... I saw her wardrobe... and she's got those Versace Suede boots we've been wanting to buy ever since they came out!"

"What?"

"... The brown suede boots..." Ashleigh looked down to her knees.

There was a suspicious look on Taylor's face then it dawned her. "You took the boots didn't you?!" she squealed.

"...No." Ashleigh's voice was higher pitched than usual.

"You did!"

"Ok I did! It's here!" Ashleigh's face brightened as she stoop down and grab the pair of brown boots under her bed.

"Hell..." Taylor hanged.

"I know! I have a brown Versace suede boots!"

"Give me that!"

"No it's mine!"

"Well I'm older so I have the right to have it!"

"No!" Ashleigh whined as she tried to pull the boot off Taylor's hands.

--

Kagome sighed. "This is useless. I'll never find a perfect outfit for Hojo's party"

"... Well Kagome... what're you going to do in the party?" Sango asked plopping next to Kagome.

"Mingle I guess..." Kagome shrugged.

"Do you think you'd find some cute boys?" Kagura raised a brow.

"I dunno...besides it's a masquerade party, if I ever meet a guy there... I wouldn't know for sure how they look like if they have a hideous mask on their face..." Kagome chuckled lightly.

"...Well if you ever meet someone you think better than Hojo... would you talk to him instead of Hojo?"

"Probably..." Kagome shrugged.

--

"Inuyasha stop this foolishness father would be here in 5 minutes..." Sesshoumaru towered over Inuyasha as he once more make them stop for the second time that day.

"Keh!" Inuyasha huffed.

"Why don't you make yourself useful and take Rin to the park?"

"And why would I do that?"

"Because being you here would only cause more mess and I can't have you messing up the house while father will be coming home soon"

"Keh! Come Rin"

"OK!"

--

"You know what? What if we go to the park and have some fresh air? I mean we've been here like the whole day looking for a dress for Hojo's masquerade party" Sango sighed.

"Alright. Say where is the park?" Kagome smiled.

"No need to worry about that, I can use the car to cart us over there," Kagura suggested.

"Okay"

So off the three to the park where they can face a cheek- blushing predicament.

--

"Rin, just go and play with those kids over there?"

"Okay!"

"Be right here"

Rin nodded. "Hey Shippo over here!" and with that she ran to where the Shippo kid was.

"Hey Kagura look it's Inuyasha right there..." Sango whispered at Inuyasha as soon as she saw Inuyasha by the bench. Kagura smirked, "I have a plan."

"Hey Kagome I think we have company right there!" Kagura told Kagome. "Oh!"

"Hey INUYASHA!" Sango shouted.

Inuyasha looked up only to see Sango, and Kagura... and Oh my god is that Kagome? The girl he's been thinking of the whole day? The girl he's been trying to impress by means of romantic poems in which Hojo lied about? Oh gods that is her. Inuyasha's panic reached its highest range and he can't help but to feel a hot prick slowly creeping up to his cheek. Holy shit he's blushing! He tried to focus on other things like his sister Rin, but he knows that won't help since they're coming closer.

"Hi Inuyasha!" Kagome cheerfully greeted.

"...Err hi!" Inuyasha placed his hands on the back of his neck while looking directly on his sneakers trying to hide his blush. Sango and Kagura couldn't help but giggle. "Oh my is that Rin over there?" Kagura said pointing at Rin. "Sango do you want to say hi to her?"

"Oh sure Kagura," Sango beamed. Knowing what Kagura and Sango are up to, Inuyasha widened his eyes trying to say something but he met Kagome's gaze that kept him from talking. " Kagome would you mind talking to Inuyasha here for a bit?" Kagura lightly smirked. "Me and Sango will just say hi to Rin is it fine?" Kagura met Inuyasha's furious but awkward glance but she only stuck her tongue. "Oh sure Kagura... say hello for me will you?"

"Alright..." Kagura smirked at Inuyasha. Sango giggled then waved her left hands.

" So... Kagome... I ... err heard that Kagura is going with you to the party..." wow that was a good start, smooth Romeo!

"Yes! Remember I asked you to come with me? But you said you have things to do." Kagome smiled.

"...Err yes my dad is coming to the party I think and Sesshoumaru, I don't know about that punk..." he felt a smile tugged to his lips and Kagome smiled back, there wasn't much to talk about and Inuyasha can't think of any other topic to talk about since he's enjoying the time when he could just look at her big brown eyes.

There was a thick awkwardness in the air once they were both just staring at each other, his golden eyes met her chocolate brown ones, he was looking at her then it was really weird when it feels like she's leaning closer. He swallowed then slowly he starts to lean closer, and closer. It was just a breath away, one breath away of kissing her...

"Inuyasha?" Kagome blinked.

"... What?" he said snapping back to reality.

"You're kinda staring is there something wrong?" she said it with a tiny shade of pink dusted her cheeks.

"...NO!" he said defensively. "No, nothing's wrong... I... I... Never mind..." he blushed.

"...err," Kagome stared at her shoes.

Inuyasha wanted to tell everything he has in mind, Oh he just can't resist the amazing feeling of having Kagome on his arms. Feeling the static roll on his fingers as his lips brush her soft pink ones, Oh he just love to do it! He just loved to tell her everyting now- hold on there a second! He CAN tell her now! Now that Kagura and Sango are not around- Now that no one is around he can tell her how much he likes her, how much he wanted to go to the dance with her, and how much he wanted to tell her that the poem was from him not from the jackass Hojo!

"Umm Kagome I have to tell you something..." Inuyasha said trying to concentrate on looking at her straight on her eyes.

"Huh? Yes?" Kagome beamed widely at him.

"I... I have to tell you something..."

"Umm. What is it?"

"I..." Inuyasha placed his hands at the back of his head while the other was stuck on his left pocket. "I just wanted to tell you that I was the..." he trailed off and looked over at the figure that stood behind a tree with a football.

"Yo Kagome over here!" there stood Hojo waving at Kagome with a flirty smile, the one that he usually uses when he's trying to get someone as his new girlfriend.

"OH! Hi Hojo!" Kagome waved enthusiastically. Without even a second passed Inuyasha scowled seeing that Hojo was running towards them and Kagome still looking at Hojo. "Ummm Inuyasha?" Kagome looked at Inuyasha, silently asking him for a polite permission. Looking down at his shoes, trying to hide the defeat look on his face, he gave her a fake smile, in which no one could tell that this particular person ever fazes anything. "Go ahead. I'll tell you later!"

"Umm. OK!" with that Kagome run towards Hojo and once more they exchanged some cute little greetings.

Inuyasha sighed. Walking over at the bench and sat there looking at the exchange looks between Kagome and Hojo. It could've been him standing there flirting with her if he wasn't such a slow poke. "Hey how it do Romeo?" Inuyasha snapped his head up seeing Kagura and Sango walking towards him with a wide smile. "Keh! Nothing much" he huffed.

"Pfft! I see you let her talk to Hojo again!" Kagura rolled her eyes.

"Hmph! It's not like I could stop her! Hojo's all over him now!" He exclaimed. "It's not... It's not like I could make her stop liking him..." His voice turned into a whisper.

"Inuyasha..." Sango looked at her friend. "There is a way!"

Kagura raised her brows. " And that would be?"

"I'll set you guys up a date!"

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They say that all secrets shall be reveal sooner or later but some say that sometimes secrets are better off untold. But why does it hurt when your trying to tell someone something but something's keep stopping you from doing it? Inuyasha just can't get enough of Kagome's sweet smiles, but will he ever tell her how he felt about her if someone's been trying to impress her with all greater charms than his? Will he ever have the guts to tell the whole world: Kagome Higurashi I am in love with you! ...? Find out on the next chapters on Thanks for the memories.

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AN: hey you guys I am soo sorry for the longest delays! I have been very busy for the past couple of months very busy that I didn't even touch my computer for maybe about a week. Anyways I know this chapter is long but I hope its worth reading and waiting for the next chapters to come! Please review!