Disclaimer: I do not own Junjou Romantica or Inuyasha. They belong to their rightful creators and distributors.
AN: OMG! Not only can I believe how much people love this fic but I also can't believe that my sister is now getting MARRIED! Her boyfriend had just proposed to her on the 1st of June! It was such a surprise that he proposed at the restaurant they took me and my dad.
Anyways, good new about my life aside, the events of what happened in the series are slightly altered because there were certain moments that I wanted Kagome to be a part of. Hope everyone enjoys this chapter, no matter how short or rushed it seems.
Chapter Four
This atmosphere… Misaki didn't like it one bit. When he and Kagome arrived at the gate after Usagi-san dropped them off, Tsumi-senpai was waiting for them (well, for him, really). After Tsumi-senpai and Kagome had exchanged greeting, they sounded clipped and curt. And as they looked each other in the eye, you could almost see electricity clash between them as they kept their kind facades.
And now that they were walking to class together, the tension felt really thick, making Misaki uncomfortable to the point of him now knowing that his cousin did NOT like Tsumi-senpai for some strange reason.
Then he remembered what she had said about his eyes yesterday when she came to pick up her schedule. It was clear that she didn't trust him… 'Just like Usagi-san…'
Arriving at the classroom, the tension was still high, and Misaki didn't like it. He really wanted them to get along, not dislike each other.
Misaki opened the door, and saw his teacher there, he smiled, "Good Morning Kyouju."
The teacher, Hiroki, turned around, "good morning." seeing the person behind Misaki, and pointed at Kagome in shock that was similar to yesterday, "Nowaki-onna!!!"
Everyone in the class became silent, until Kagome burst out laughing.
"Good morning to you, too, Kamijou-Kyouju. But I thought that Usami-sensei had told you my name already…" Kagome greeted with a smile once she had calmed down from her laughter. She giggled when she saw her Literature professor blushed a bit, looking at his attendance list, skimming through the names hoping that one of them would ring a bell in his head.
She chuckled a bit, "its Higurashi Kagome, Kyouju. Please remember it since I'm going to be in your class for the rest of the year." Kagome winked at him at that last part before she turned to Misaki, asking where he sat so that she could sit with him.
As Misaki sat between Kagome and Tsumi-senpai, the tension eased up a bit since it seemed like the both of them were too busy paying attention to Kamijou-Kyouju's lesson. Glancing at Tsumi-senpai, Misaki saw that he was jotting down notes while paying attention to what the professor was saying.
Glancing at Kagome… Misaki gasped silently when he saw that Kagome's eyes were closed and her breathing was steady.
'How can she fall asleep?! If Kyouju finds her sleeping, he's going to throw something at her…!' Misaki thought frantically.
He just spoke too soon.
Hiroki found Kagome asleep before yelling with a angry tick on his head, "HIGURASHI!" He threw a piece of chalk at her and before anyone could laugh or say anything Kagome caught the piece of chalk in her hand.
The class went silent, surprised that this was the first time anyone's ever caught something that the Kamijou Devil threw at them, "Yes Kyouju?"
Hiroki twitched. This kid had guts for falling asleep in his class and catching the chalk he threw; he'd give her that, "Would you kindly stay awake now?"
"Hai" Kagome said, giving a yawn, which only made her teacher twitch again before he went back to his lecture.
After that indecent, the rest of the class went fairly fast with people just taking notes and asking questions. With the bell ringing for class to be over; everyone got their things gathered, and started to leave.
"Higurashi, can you stay? I would like to talk to you." Hiroki called out to her as she was getting ready to leave with Misaki.
"Hai! Coming!" Kagome turned to Misaki, "You can go ahead and start home. I will see you when I get there."
"B-but." Misaki started, but Kagome waved him off, and went to see the teacher, but not before sending a warning glare at Tsumi who just smiled 'harmlessly' at her.
"You wanted to talk to me?" she asked as she stopped in front of his desk. She already knew why he wanted her to stay after class. It was because she fell asleep in his class... and on he first day here no less.
Hiroki glanced at the girl in font of him. She didn't seem like the type to fall asleep in class, so he was trying to figure out why she did so in his class, "Yes. I would like to talk to you about falling asleep in class... you do not seem the type to do that... is there a reason?"
Kagome laughed nervously, "I stayed up really late last night and I only got a couple hours of sleep. I got an idea for a short story, and I ended up writing all through the night because I didn't want to lose the idea over night." By now she had a blush from embarrassment on her cheeks.
Hiroki blinked. 'Stayed up most of the night… just for a story idea?'
What Akihiko said about her wanting to be a writer was true. And maybe her living under the same roof as his childhood friend would do well for her for her path to being a writer…
Hiroki sighed before saying, "I'll let this slide once since you're new to the University. Just don't let it happen again if you really want to pursue that career choice of yours of being a writer."
Kagome blinked at him, wondering how he knew that she wanted to be a writer. But after remembering that Usagi probably told him when she was getting her schedule yesterday, Kagome nodding with a smile before bidding her new Literature professor goodbye as she left out the door.
Once she was gone, Hiroki lit out the air he didn't know he was holding when Kagome gave him that smile. Gods, the girl looked like a more feminine version of Nowaki, all smiles but with a womanly feminine nature; it almost made him want to pounce her and take the chance to be dominant in the relationship.
Hiroki's face turned red at thought, wondering what came over him. Letting his head hang, he muttered to him self, "I'm really looking into this too much…"
/\/\/\/
With Kagome, she was heading towards the gate of the school, so she could go home. But the thing she saw at the gate shocked her. It was her cousin and it seemed like this guy was trying to get Misaki to go with him.
Kagome's eyes narrowed, "MISAKI!!!!"
Calling out his name had gotten both of their attention, and looked her way. She jogged over to where he was.
"I thought I told you to head home without me?" she smiled, then looked over at the man holding Misaki's wrist. "Ano... and you are, sir?" she smiled sweetly, making the man take a step back. Kagome inwardly smirked, ohhhh this was going to be fun.
Haruhiko was driving by Mitsuhashi University when he saw Misaki walk out the front gate. He really thought that it was fate that he was able to see the boy for the third time after so few days. But right when he was going to bring him home to get a good explanation from Misaki why he didn't want the strawberries he sent anymore, a girl's voice called out Misaki's name.
He was surprised that the girl was even real with how long her hair was. It was also surprise that she was even a University student with how small she was.
"Ah, My name is Usami Haruhiko." he told the girl when she asked who he was.
"Ahh, it's nice to meet you, but Misaki," she loops her arms with her cousin's, "and I have to be heading home now... so if you'll excuse us....." Kagome pulled Misaki with her, down the street.
"Wait!" Kagome turned her head around and looked him in the eye, she was silently telling him to shut up, and he got the message, but didn't listen to it.
Just as Kagome was about to verbally tell him off but heard a car drive up to them. Seeing the familiar red sports car and her role model stepping out of it, she gave a relieved but still a happy smile before she greeted the man, "Ah, Sensei! Konnichiwa!"
Usami didn't hear Kagome's greeting or Misaki's question of why he was there. All that was running through his head was that his older brother was there, with Misaki and Kagome, and asking himself why he was even there in the first place. After giving Haruhiko a long hard glare, Usagi spoke, "Misaki, Kagome… get in the car."
The tone in his voice made Misaki and Kagome pause, knowing that he was now in a bad mood and decided to just do what he says without question.
Neither of them said anything when they were in the car and the atmosphere was suffocating. Kagome could tell Usagi was mad, and Misaki was nervous. Hell, the tension was making her nervous!
As the car came to a stop in the garage, everyone got out while still quiet. It was starting to make Kagome uneasy as she started fidgeting as they finally made it back to their apartment.
After Kagome watched Usagi head to his room while almost slamming the door behind him, she looked to Misaki who had made a beeline to the kitchen and started cutting a daikon radish, probably with the thought of making dinner. Setting her bag on the sofa, Kagome walked up to the counter, intent on wonder what had just happened to make Usagi-sensei so angry. One thing was for sure though, the man who tried taking Misaki to his car was the reason but she didn't know what that reason was.
Resting her hands on the counter, she spoke, "Ne, Misaki?" The boy stopped his task in cutting before he looked up to her, "Who exactly was that man who tried taking you to his car? And why did Sensei get so angry at him?"
Misaki looked at Kagome for a moment before releasing a nervous laugh, cutting the rest of the daikon radish as he answered, "I don't know much of the details… but Usa- I mean, Haruhiko-san is Usagi-san's older brother. I don't know why they seem to hate each other but… I think the reason why Usagi-san is so angry is because Haruhiko-san, before you came over to live with us, kept sending me strawberries in wooden boxes…"
Kagome blinked in surprise, pointing to the fridge, "HE was the one who sent those boxes of grade-A strawberries?" At Misaki's nod, she then asked, "Why?"
"I… kinda helped him when he didn't know which train to take to the Hotel he was going to have a meeting at but was also the same hotel that Usagi-san was going to have his party, that's going to take place next month, for winning the Kikukawa Award for his latest book."
"Sensei's latest book… 'The Moon in the Box'?" From Usagi-sensei's normal romance books, Kagome liked that one the best. Misaki nodded again before making his way back to the fridge to get the meat and other veggies. "And you helped this Haruhiko guy, pick the train that leads to this hotel… for some reason; I don't think that's the full explanation…"
Misaki sighed before explaining, "When we found out that we were heading to the same hotel, we went there together. And as we were heading to the front desk and I was going to call Usagi-san to ask where he was, the both of us ran into each other at the elevators. As Haruhiko-san started mouthing off about how Usagi-san's writing was horrible when he had never read any of his books, I blew up at him, giving him a year's worth of 'Baka' before I dragged Usagi-san back to the elevator so that we could go to the hotel room Usagi-san booked for us for the weekend."
(Note that the party isn't going to happen just yet. I want Kagome to be a part of that.)
"How does that explain the expensive strawberries and that guy trying to get you into his car?"
"I ran into him again in the hotel after receiving flowers from him and he offered some cake to me after running into me. As I was going to explain that I didn't need the flowers, he asked what I liked…"
"Which led you to telling him that you liked strawberries and that led to him sending you the expensive stuff in wooden boxes…?" Misaki looked at Kagome with wide eyes, shocked that she deducted that much when he hadn't finished. After recovering from the shock, Misaki nodded before he continued to prepare dinner.
After a pause, Misaki finished, "After receiving the strawberries without being able to tell Haruhiko-san that he doesn't have to send me anymore, this led Usagi-san to buying me strawberry things from cakes, fruit drinks, house shoes, and a lot of other things."
Kagome stifled a laugh, but it didn't work she started laughing. Misaki just glared at her, "IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!!"
Kagome just kept laughing. It was so funny and she got what was going on. Sooo Misaki and Usagi-sensei... who would have guessed that her distant cousin and her favorite author and role model were lovers? But still, in some ways it was kinda sexy
"KAGOME!!! I SAID IT WASN"T FUNNY!" Misaki yelled, he didn't get what was so funny!
/\/\/\/
From within Usagi's room, Usagi was trying to calm down after coming home with his two housemates. As if seeing his brother at the hotel and him giving Misaki those those flowers and those wooden boxes of Grade-A strawberries, wasn't enough, it almost seemed like he was trying to take Kagome from him as well.
Usagi's eyes widened for a second in confusion. Why did he care that Haruhiko took Kagome? He'd rather have his brother take her than Misaki in some ways, but the thought of Haruhiko taking Kagome while being left with only Misaki… it only made him angry. A part him just felt that he needed both Kagome and Misaki with him… and that they both belonged to him…
He couldn't understand why he was feeling this way toward the girl when he knows that he loves Misaki more and was never interested in women before.
The stuffed-bear-loving man's thoughts were cut short when he heard laughter from outside his door and downstairs and Misaki yelling about something not being funny.
Sighing Usagi got up form his bed, bringing Suzuki-san with him. As he came down to where the dinning area was, he could see Kagome laughing and Misaki was glaring at her.
"What's so funny down here?"
Kagome stopped laughing momentarily before trying to stop herself from laughing again as she answered, "Misaki just told me about what was going on with that Haruhiko guy and the strawberries. I had never seen such a love triangle!" But as Kagome started to calm down a bit, she gave two thumbs up at Usagi and grinned, "But I'm rooting for you sensei! Don't lose to Haru-baka!"
Behind her she heard a thump. Misaki had tripped from shock at her statement. She mentally snickered before seeing Usagi's surprised look turn into a smirk.
"K-KAGOME!" Blinking she turned to her cousin again.
"Yes?"
"So… you're... n-not... umm-" Misaki stuttered, he wanted to say she was ok with his relationship with Usagi, but it was kind of embarrassing to say out loud.
"Misa-chan, this isn't the old days when it was looked down upon to see two males or two females together intimately in public. And besides, I've been around plenty of guys who have boyfriends. Plus…" Kagome brought her hands up to her lightly flushed cheeks with a giddy grin, "It feeds my muse for any future Yaoi books I may want to write."
Misaki turned a bright red at his cousin's answer while frowning. How'd his sweet innocent cousin turn into a Boy Love fangirl similar to Aikawa-san?! His sights then turned to Usagi who was still smirking with pride at Kagome's support in keeping him as a lover. Misaki glared at the older man with all his might, darkly promising to kill him.
Usagi chuckled a bit before walking up to Kagome and setting a hand on top of her head before ruffling her bangs, "Arigato… at least I know that I have one of Misaki's relatives' blessings."
"Eh..? Taka-chi doesn't know that you and Misaki are together?"
Misaki quickly stood, "NO! Ní-chan doesn't know! Nor does he need to know that I'm with Usagi-san; his best friend!"
"He wouldn't be that against it..." Kagome put her finger on her chin in a thinking manner, "...he probably wouldn't care as long as you're happy, and well taken care of Misa-chan."
Kagome grinned, "And besides, you and Usami-sensei look CUTE together!"
Misaki blushed as Kagome came around the counter and hugged him. When she released him, Kagome patted his cheek, "I always knew you would make a cute uke."
Misaki then went into an embarrassed stuttering fit before Usagi chuckled before coming around the counter and wrapping his arms around Misaki's waist. With one of his hands, he gently grabbed Misaki's jaw, turning the boy's attention to him as he gave a seductive smile, replying to Kagome, "Ah, yes… it's true that he makes a very adorable uke…"
Kagome laughed again at Misaki turning redder than before. As she was making her way out of the kitchen to get her messenger back, she glanced back, adding, "But Misa-chan would make a very potential Seme if he didn't always act like the shy uke he is." She then yelped in surprise while narrowly dodging one of the sliced pieces of daikon before laughing as she made her way to her room.
And even though she shut the door behind her, she could still hear her distant cousin's halfhearted threats as Usagi laughed at Misaki's antics… little did she know that it was also because of her own antics as well.
FOUR PAGES! Hope everyone loved this chapter! It took a while to write. Now Kagome has met Haruhiko and now knows that Usagi and Misaki are together, even though Misaki is embarrassed by this.
Now all who's left to introduce is Miyagi, Isaka, and Usagi-chichi-ue, along with any others I may have missed.
Hope you guys stick around for the next chapter!
Suggestions and ideas on how Kagome's relationship with Usagi and Misaki should develop are welcome.
Also, the Japanese term "Kyouju" mean "Professor". Just wanted to let you guys know.