OMG! O.o I'm so sorry guys! I really wanted to update sooner, but…. Some college classes can be a pain in the ass. . so annoying! Since I'm out for winter break I'll try to update more. So enough blabbering on my part. Here's the story!!!
Chapter 6
Kagome woke up to a soft knocking on her door. She groaned at the insistent noise and sleepily drug her pillow over her head. The ever persistent knocking grew in volume. Kagome only responded by pressing the squishy pillow further into her ears.
"Kagome? Are you up? Kagome?" came her mother's voice from outside the door. Kagome pressed her face, trying to dive and disappear into the oblivion of her mattress.
It didn't work, because her mother opened the door and walked hastily to her daughter's bedside. She sat in the old rocking chair that happened to face Kagome's bed. That rocking chair had once belonged to her grandmother, now it was Kagome's possession. Her mother had used it to rock her to sleep up until she was about eight.
"Kagome, c'mon sweetie, time to get up. I guess you forgot to set your alarm clock again," her mother urged. Kagome groaned loudly. She had forgotten, but didn't want to get up. Getting ready for school and school itself was the bane of her existence.
"Sango will be here in a few," her mother let out an exasperated sigh, grabbed the edges of the blanket Kagome was cocooned in and yanked with all her might in a downwards motion.
Kagome fell out of the depths of her warm comforter to land on the cold, wood floor. She gave out a gasp of surprised and shiver at the sudden contact of the slick, cold wood.
"Sorry, babe, I did give you plenty of time to get out," her mother apologized, raising her hands defensively. Kagome glared at the elder woman, who in turn raised an eyebrow at her daughter's rash behavior.
"Get ready you have twenty minutes 'til Sango gets here."
Kagome's eyes widened and she scrambled to get to the bathroom to take a short military shower. She screamed as the chilled liquid hit her warm skin. Grumbling about Souta's extravagant bathing habits she rushed to clean herself and hopped out of the shower. She ran a brush through her damp hair and zipped through brushing her teeth. She ran across the hallway to her room, a towel wrapped firmly around her body.
Today's attire reflected Kagome's haste. She yanked on a pair of clean gray sweat pants with her school's name printed down one leg. She pulled a plain red T-shirt over her head. The next items where mix-matching socks. After that she ripped a plain black zip-up hoodie from one of the hangers in her closet.
She threw her stuff into her school bag and purse just as she heard the doorbell ring from downstairs.
Pulling out her metallic-blue hair dryer, she began to quickly dry her dripping hair just as a knock came to her door.
"Give me a minute," Kagome cried breathlessly, trying desperately to relieve the tangles and snares from her midnight black locks. She fussed, cursed and willed her hair to dry quicker, but she ultimately knew it was going to take a little time.
A deep throaty chuckle was her answer. Her hands and heart faltered, dropping the running appliance noisily to the floor.
"Take your time," a smooth-as-chocolate voice rumbled through the grain of the door. She stared at the door, hardly believing it. Warily, she picked up her hair dryer gingerly, her hands shaking like autumn leaves in the wind, and quickly finished her hair.
She turned off the small machine and everything went dead silent. She barely breathed for that he might hear her shallow breaths through the door. She walked silently and slowly to her purse to pull out her makeup and applied it to her face.
She had messed up a couple of times, cursing under her breath, because her hands had shook so hard. She was nervous. She hadn't expected him so soon.
Abruptly, a thunder-like chuckle came from directly behind and above her. She let out a cry, which was greatly muffled when a colossal hand came up to cover her mouth. She struggled against the hand, earning another rumbling laugh that she clearly felt as he had pressed her to his torso.
"Shh, Kitten, what's the matter? Did I scare you yet again?" Inuyashas's voice asked, amused at her ability to be easily frightened. She nodded affirmatively against his hand. She was aware that he was moving above her and felt his breath on her cheek.
"Good, you should be scared," he smothered his words at her. Her pulse quickened, but not out of fear, but instead out of excitement. "There are things about me that are needed to be known, but that'll come Friday night. Are you almost ready to leave?" She nodded again. "Good."
She felt his head twist, his hot breath intensifying a ten-fold, and then gasped into his palm as a hot tongue tip suddenly touched her sensitive skin. He licked that side of her face once. She immediately became woozy and felt her knees give. He caught her before she hit the floor and swung up her legs into the cradle of his arms.
"Hey, hey, I can't have my girlfriend pass out on me. What would her loving mother think of me then?" his voice light and amused. She gasped at his casual reference to their relationship. I guess we would be a couple now. She thought, her cheeks turning pink.
Suddenly his arms tensed up, making them feel like steel bars underneath her. She looked up and found his eyes glaring dangerously out her window. A low primal growl rumbled through his chest. The strange puppy dog ears that perched on his head suddenly went erect and started swiveling around in circles, trying to make out every single sound. Kagome watched him in horror, for she didn't know what was going on.
He looked at her face and Kagome saw everything. She saw anger, she saw hatred, she saw the muscle-freezing glare that predators give to their prey to petrify them. She waited for her fear to come, but it never did. Instead she felt intrigued and stared in wonder at her boyfriend. She gulped at the realization that she should have felt fear, but didn't.
He had looked at her with that piercing look only for a second, but instantly relaxed.
"Sorry, Kitten," Inuyasha muttered sheepishly. She shook her head.
"Never mind that, what was that all about?" She inquired. He looked away and a sad expression flashed across his features, pulling at Kagome's heartstrings.
"Nothing, Kitten, at least nothing that you have to worry about," he answered. "Were you not scared at all?" She shook her head and he looked at her incredulously.
"You should've been! Why weren't you?!" He scowled at her. She blinked at him and shrugged her shoulders. He sighed and gave her a weary look. "Not everything is what it seems, Kagome. I am unfortunately not only subjecting you to me, which is dangerous alone, but you are placing yourself in harm's way by being with me." She gave him another curious look and he sighed impatiently, completely out of his character.
"Look, I promise I will explain it Friday, but I really don't know what I'm doing being with you," he said, looking away again. Kagome gasped in horror and shook her head, wrapping her arms around his chest as much as she could. He looked down at her, dumbfounded.
"What are you doing?"
"I want to stay with you…," she answered into his chest. She felt him give a sharp intake of breath.
"No, you don't," he insisted. She frowned into his rock-solid bosom and wrapped her arms tighter.
"Please don't leave me," she muttered weakly. She really didn't want to let go of him, and she wasn't sure if she could. He was the first guy that had made her feel this way. She didn't care if she was being selfish or not, but she wanted to grasp onto this feeling as if it was a lifeline, which really was in Kagome's case. He sighed dejectedly.
"Well, when Friday comes around, we'll see what you think then," he uttered almost inaudibly.
"Do you not want me?" she whispered, fearing the worst.
"No! No! It's not that at all! I just don't think I would be…safe for you to be around," he said. She furrowed her eyebrows together, but pinched her lips tight against further questions. She'll find out on Friday like he promised. He coiled his arms, bringing her closer to his face and rested his face into her hair.
"Alright, let's get to school before your friend, Sango, has a cow. I called her up to tell her I was picking you up. She didn't sound happy, but agreed nonetheless," he spoke softly. She nodded apprehensively and watched him as he dropped her down to her feet. He looked at her sheepishly then shrugged, pivoting on his foot and walking out the door.
Kagome grabbed her stuff and followed his suit, grabbing breakfast on the go, kissing her mother and her brother on the cheeks and rushed out the door to meet him at his car. Inuyasha waited patiently by the passenger side of the vehicle and opened it for her.
She walked past him to get into the car and heard him purr at her. She had sat down and twisted her head to ask him what that was all about when she came face to face with the door. She heard the driver's side open and she twisted her head to find him already in the seat. He grinned cheekily at her, causing her heart to flutter and her eyes to squint suspiciously at the humongous man.
"What was that all about?"
"What?"
"That! That purring, that grin! What's that all about?" she huffed at him. His answer was a grin and she rolled her eyes.
"Didn't I tell you already?"
"Tell me what?" his grin grew wider. He reached up and leaned towards Kagome. Kagome's heart thumped hard in her chest. "Inuyasha?"
Inuyasha was apparently oblivious to her questions as he wrapped a massive hand around her neck, his long fingers curling easily, and drew her head to his. His fingers were pulling her into a deadly trap, not only was he alluring such as most predators were, but he was also powerful, his fingers could easily crush her neck with a simple squeeze. He pushed his nose into her hair and inhaled deeply.
"I know I shouldn't be doing this, but you smell absolutely wonderful," he murmured into her locks, she blushed heatedly and turned her face away. He chuckled, withdrawing from her, and drove his car out of the driveway.
They arrived at her school in a timely fashion and hurried to the cafeteria to meet up with Sango. As soon as they got there, they were bombarded with a very suspicious Sango. She could have sworn that they had done something without her knowing. Kagome had a good idea what that something was, but promptly shot down the idea. She also wanted to be left with the delectable images of a certain white haired male that interrupted her thoughts. She blushed at the vivid imagery and looked away from the other two.
Of course, neither of them was paying attention. Sango was convinced that they had had sex and Inuyasha was determined to set Sango's mind that they had not. Which of course was true, they had not had sex.
"Come ON! I know you two at least did something! Kiss! Touch! Something!" Sango wailed. Inuyasha gave her a look of disgust, his lip curling up.
"Pish! Even if we had, do you honestly think that I would tell you? That's Kagome's job to gossip about our physical relationship! I don't get into all the nasty vivid detail that I'm sure you would include and beg for from her!" Inuyasha argued. Sango huffed. He added hurriedly, "I'm not going to force Kagome to do anything that she doesn't want to do!"
"Do you think that Kagome would tell me?! I still don't know what happened on your first date!" Sango cried, glaring daggers at Inuyasha. Inuyasha sighed exasperatedly and looked at her with a wary eye.
"That's not my problem, if Kagome wishes to tell you then she will tell you herself," Inuyasha finalized, he made his point clear that the discussion was over when he got up to go get a smoothie from one of the food areas.
"Kagome, PUH-LEEZ! Tell me! Did you two have sex yet?" Sango asked, looking like a greedy woman after some poor old beggar's purse.
"NO, Sango, we didn't. You know me, I'm too shy for that yet. Plus, something gives me the feeling that he won't do it with me so soon anyway," Kagome answered absentmindedly. Sango huffed but then perked back up again.
"What makes you say that?" Sango asked.
"Oh, just a feeling, he so gentleman-like anyway and there's something else," Kagome said.
"Gasp! He's seeing another girl, I know it!" Sango hissed accusingly. Kagome scowled at the silly woman.
"No! I think he would have told me or at least given something away that he was… No, there's something else, but I don't know what it is. Whatever it is, he's telling me on Friday," Kagome answered looking at Inuyasha, who was waiting near the counter for his smoothie.
"Wait, what's going on Friday?"
"He invited me to his house to have dinner with his family,"
"Really?"
"Yah, why?" Kagome looked over at Sango, who in turn was giving her a very evil look. Kagome gulped.
"Sango? What are you thinking?" Sango erupted into evil cackles, clearly scaring Kagome. Kagome looked at her friend warily.
"Time for another make-over!" Sango shouted exuberantly, throwing her arms in the air like a little girl. Kagome almost prat-falled but caught herself.
"Another?! Aw, Sango! Let me dress myself!" Kagome cried defensively. Sango shook her head. No.
Kagome sat back in her chair, defeated, and waited for Inuyasha to come back. She didn't look at Sango anymore, afraid of what the girl was scheming.
Kagome didn't have to wait long. Before she knew it, Inuyasha was back at her side, drinking the smoothie and she got the same tail-thumping puppy image in her head. She was going to have a hard time these next few days.
They walked to English class and the old bat was replaced by a young man barely out of college. He looked very awkward: tall, thin, dark glasses with brown unkempt hair. He must have felt awkward to stand in front of students not far from his age, because he kept stuttering and shifting his weight uncomfortably.
Apparently he was their substitute because their teacher had gotten a bad cold. They would be watching a film on how to construct a good paper. Everyone groaned and busied themselves to get ready for a good nap.
The sub placed the VHS into the mouth of the VCR and pressed play. The video gave a little static jolt before it began into a very blurry black and white bore-fest. The man walked over to the light switch and flicked it off, throwing everyone into the darkness.
Instantly, Kagome and Inuyasha both stiffened.
Kagome suddenly had the very impulsive urge to go to Inuyasha. She wrapped her fingers around the sides of her chair and clutched until her knuckles turned white. She sat that way for a while, ignoring them when they ached and groaned in protest at the constant exertion. She didn't dare look over at Inuyasha, for fear that she might do something entirely out of her control.
Her breathing was completely erratic, almost as if it was electrified. She couldn't see him, but somehow Kagome knew Inuyasha was going through the same process. Her heart thumped in her rib-cage, encouraging her to touch him, even if it was just a caress.
The rest of the hour was spent like this, not relaxing until the lights came back on. The awkward substitute had turned them on so abruptly that all the students, save for Kagome and Inuyasha, hissed in pain at the blinding light.
Kagome felt her pupils painfully retract at the rude light, but didn't dare relax until her body told her to. She reached up and rubbed her eyes, groaning gratefully that her eyes and her fingers had been released. She stretched and bent her fingers to make sure she hadn't lost any and then felt someone watching her. She turned her head slightly to see that Inuyasha was giving her another sheepish smile.
"What was the movie about, Kagome?" He asked lethargically. She shrugged.
"I don't really know, I wasn't really watching," She admitted, color going into her cheeks. He smiled at her.
"Me neither,"
They were interrupted by the substitute asking that by the next class to have a two-page paper on what was said in the video.
"Crap, we're screwed," Inuyasha said, voicing both of the couple's thoughts.
"We'll just ask Sango," Kagome supplied hopefully. Inuyasha grinned and nodded. They grabbed their belongings and headed out for lunch with Sango.
The rest of the week went by in a blur. Inuyasha picked her up from the house, insisting that his gas mileage was ten-times better than both Sango's and Kagome's cars combined, which Kagome seriously doubted, but didn't argue. They sat in the middle of English and listened to the movie, went to lunch then went back home. Inuyasha always stayed with Kagome.
Friday finally arrived and Kagome didn't have to get up early, because she didn't have classes on Fridays.
Therefore, Kagome wasn't expecting Sango to rudely interrupt her wonderful dream about white-wovles.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Kagome groaned against her pillow. She shifted her body so that she could delve deeper into her mattress. She wasn't quite ready to wake just yet.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Kagome sighed in defeat and flopped herself out of the warmth of her sheets. Her hair in an absolute disarray, her pajama pants twisted and her shirt scrunched in odd places, she made her way to the nuisance. Then she remembered what was going on Friday and gave an extra loud groan. She knew full in well what was behind the door, but really didn't want to open it. "The Devil", or so she called Sango when she was giving Kagome a make-over.
Kagome slowly opened the door, the action only to be interrupted by Sango forcing the rest of the door open with a big slam.
"Kagome! Good Mornin', Gorgeous!" Sango positively beamed. Kagome stared at Sango in utter horror and disgust. Sango giggled.
"Aw, come on! Don't be mean! Let's go get you ready!" Sango shouted gleefully.
"Sango…, I'm going to his house tonight not now," Kagome grumbled. Sango grinned seemed to crack her face in two.
"These things do take time, you know! Now, quickly! Go take a shower!" Sango grinned and stomped off.
"Aye, aye, Capt'in! Sheesh, she has way too much energy in the mornings…," Kagome mumbled to herself, but decided it was best to obey the dark-haired woman. She quickly got her clothes and toiletries together and proceeded to the bathroom.
After having a nice, warm shower, Kagome stepped out to observe her reflection in the steamed up mirror. She sighed resignedly and commenced shaving her legs. It wasn't that she hated her image or that she was vain, but she wished some things about it could have been different. Abandoning this thought she rinsed her legs, washed her face and brushed her teeth before exiting the small room, steam twisting tendrils around her legs.
Right as Kagome was about to walk into her room, she got nearly tackled by Sango, who happened to intercept her path. Crying out as both smashed into the wall, Sango barely gave time for Kagome to realize what was happening, before she half-dragged her down the stairs to get Kagome ready.
"Sango!" Sango didn't reply. However, Kagome wasn't going to stand for this. She was in a bath towel for heaven's sake!
"San-Go!" she emphasized the last syllable as she drove both of her heels into the ground, forcing both to fall to the floor. Sango looked up, a ferocious look in her eyes. Kagome gulped visibly.
"What?" she snapped. Kagome sighed.
"Sango, can you at least let me dress first?" Sango blinked in confusion, and then she gazed down to realize that Kagome was only wearing a towel. Sango blushed.
"Whoops, sorry, Kags," Sango muttered. Kagome laughed at her friend and got up, running back up the stairs, one hand holding the towel in place, and rushed back into her room to put on some temporary clothes. She wrapped her hair in a towel and then walked back down the stairs.
"Ah! Okay, Sango, now I'm ready!" Kagome exclaimed happily, proud of her accomplishment. Sango looked up from a magazine she had been reading while she waited and rushed over to Kagome immediately. Not even looking at the girl, Sango continued where she had left off and dragged Kagome to her mother's bathroom. She shoved Kagome unceremoniously into the awaiting chair.
"Let's see…," Sango muttered. She dove head first into the epic make-up case and looked for the ones she wanted.
"Sango…?" Kagome inquired, a little frightened by her friend's determination.
"Ah ha!" shouted Sango making Kagome "eep!" and fall from her chair. Kagome quickly climbed back into her seat before Sango turned around to face her.
The look that Sango gave Kagome had to be downright evil.
"Baby blue…," Sango murmured. Kagome gulped.
"Wh-what?" she stammered.
"We're gonna do baby blue this time!" Sango exclaimed, her evil look replaced by a psychopathic one. Kagome sweat-dropped.
"O-okay," Kagome affirmed meekly. Sango abruptly began her task of the determined theme: baby blue.
By the time Sango was done, Kagome looked downright astounding. Her hair was pinched at the top, making a half ponytail. Her bangs, still swooped, almost covered her left eye. Her hair had been scrunched to make wavy locks of ebony sweep down to her shoulders. Her eyes were highlighted with baby blue eye shadow, black eyeliner and black mascara. On her lips was a simple shade of light pink. To top it all off, Sango had applied a very light blush to give a very airbrush look.
"Oh, Sango…You never cease to surprise me," Kagome murmured, staring in awe at the breathtaking woman staring back at her in the mirror.
"I know. Alright, alright, enough with the flattery go get dressed," Sango urged hastily. Kagome didn't waste a minute and dashed up the stairs, trying not to mess up her face and hair. She rummaged through her closet until she found a baby blue and brown dress. She squealed with delight and pulled it cautiously over her head. She grabbed a pair of baby blue high-heels and slipped them on her feet.
Rushing over to her jewelry box she pulled a pair of dangly silver earrings and a beautiful silver necklace. The last that she pulled was six silver bracelets to give three to each arm. Turning to her full-length mirror she gave herself a look down. Nodding approvingly, she turned back, grabbed her perfume, giving a couple of squirts and rushing out the door. Sango was waiting for her outside. She squealed at Kagome.
"Oh my gosh, girl, you look absolutely fantastic! I'm so jealous!" Sango positively oogled at Kagome. Kagome blushed, making her already pink cheeks go pinker.
"Now we have…three hours to waste," Sango literally sagged, looking at her watch. Kagome sighed and walked back downstairs to watch television for the next couple of hours.
Two and a half hours, several shows and multiple sighs later…..
The doorbell rang loudly, interrupting the monotony of the day, and resulting in both girls leaping straight out of their skins. Kagome looked at Sango who looked back.
"He's here," Sango stated the obvious. Kagome rushed upstairs, grabbed a small brown purse and rushed back, Inuyasha now standing in their entrance way once more. Her heart thundered within her chest upon seeing his gorgeous, abnormally tall self. His face cracked into a heart wrenching grin when he saw her.
"Kleine Katze!" he exclaimed. Kagome blushed upon being noticed.
"Haha! Are you ready, Kitten?" Inuyasha asked softly, though his voice thundered down the hallway. Kagome nodded shyly and walked up to him. He wrapped his arm around her shoulders and ushered her to the door.
"Well, let's go meet my family!" Inuyasha beamed, his abnormally sharp teeth glinting in the hallway light.