This is chapter 7. A lot is going on in this chapter, I do hope everything is clear enough. I'll be posting chapter 8, 9 and 10 very soon. Maybe today. Plz review this chapter if you liked.

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Oh, before I forget and go to jail- Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.

He Loves Me,

She Loves Me Not.

Chapter Seven: From Afar, More Memories, Parent's Plans

Inuyasha spotted Kagome sitting by herself in her homeroom class at break time. She was obviously studying hard, he could tell. Maybe this wasn't the right time to ask her to talk to him about their break up.

He bit into his lip and wondered for a second more. Should I? He shook his head then sighed. No, he wouldn't disturb her thinking. But maybe, he could just tell her hello.

Yes, he nodded to himself. He would start off slow by saying, hello, giving her warm smiles and then talking about little things like schoolwork. Kagome was a generous person, maybe she wouldn't mind putting their break up out of her mind for a while, just to help his grades improve a bit.

He smiled at the thought and then froze when he heard his name.

"Oh Inuyasha" Kagome said sadly. "What has happened to us?" She sniffed.

'I don't know, Kagome,' his mind replied. 'But I'm willing to talk if you are,'

Kagome sighed and closed the book she was looking at. She held it securely to her chest and stared at the chalkboard. "Everything was going fine," She said softly as if she knew he was listening. "Everything was wonderful, we used to hold each other, smile and be happy. We used to dance… Oh! What would I give just to dance with you again?" Suddenly, Inuyasha heard Kagome sing softly a part of a song from one of her favorite Disney shows. It was the reprise of The Little Mermaid's "Part Of Your World".

What would I give to be where you are?

What would I pay to be there beside you?

What would I do to see you, smiling at me?

Inuyasha's heart was pounding as he listened to her words. Was she secretly trying to tell him something? Did she know that he was there listening intently to what she was saying? He inhaled deeply, trying to calm his throbbing heart. He was sure it was beating loud enough for her to hear.

"Oh Kagome," She got up and went to the chalkboard. "Stop being foolish. Inuyasha and Kikyo are together, every time you see him; he's smiling with her." She picked up the chalk and started to write.

'But Kagome, those smiles are fake!' Inuyasha wanted to tell her.

"He just seems so happy," She sighed as she drew a crooked heart and wrote Inuyasha's initials and then she put his verses hers. She smiled a little and felt a tear run down her face. "Kagome, Inuyasha's not thinking about you."

'Yes I am!' His throat constricted. 'I think about you every day, every hour, every minute, every single second. Damn Kagome, you're always on my mind.'

Kagome let the chalk drop and fall to the floor; she wrapped her arms around her body and then shook. When her mind conjured up the picture of Inuyasha and that brunette haired girl in Ame's Ice Cream Parlor, she knew that she had to be strong. She let in a deep breath and with renewed strength; she stood tall. "I don't love you!" She said strongly and forcefully. "If you can hear me Inuyasha, good! I don't love you! Not anymore! I thought our love was strong enough to overcome all our problems, well, you've proved that it wasn't! I don't love you! I don't love you! I don't love you! So just get out of my head because I've got a Bio test to study for and thinking about you isn't going to help me pass!"

With a few relieving pants, Kagome went to her seat, opened her book and started her task of studying again. She had to admit that saying she didn't love Inuyasha hurt her a lot but she had to rid herself of their problems because she had a big Biology test that would be thirty five percent of her overall Biology grade. She needed to pass it.

Inuyasha's heart calmed, he stared at Kagome and put on a wry smile. 'You don't love me or are you just saying that so you can concentrate on your work?' he smirked. 'We'll see just how much you don't love me on Friday night at the Springtime Dance."

With that thought, Inuyasha walked away. He wanted Kagome to do well in her work; going to her now would only be a distraction to her. On Friday, though, she had better be prepared because Inuyasha was going to be ready to dance and grind with her all night.

Inutaisho and Izayoi were seating in the Higurashi's Living Room waiting for Sakura, Kagome's mother to come from changing her clothes so that they could talk. Inutaisho and Sakura were close friends in the music business. They understood many aspects of the business and Sakura was always willing to give Inutaisho new suggestions to help him out.

When Inutaisho had found out that his son had fallen in love with his friend's daughter, he saw no problem with it, though; Sakura was very protective of her little girl. Sakura had even warned Inuyasha that he would have his manhood extricated from his body if he touched Kagome inappropriately or in any way Kagome didn't like or appreciate.

Inutaisho smiled at that memory, Inuyasha was holding his piece all day and every time he was with Kagome he would hold her away at arm-length and when he kissed her, it would usually be on the cheek or a tiny peck on the lips. But that was before; Sakura had realized that Inuyasha could be trusted. Kagome sure had a lot to say to him, when Sakura had caught her seated in Inuyasha's lap.

"Mom, leave Inuyasha alone!" Kagome shouted at her.

"Kagome, this boy is no good! How could he have you pressed up against him like that?" Sakura growled as she tried to grab Inuyasha by the scruff of his neck.

"Mom, leave Inuyasha!" She shouted again. "He's my boyfriend! He hasn't done anything wrong and I sat in his lap on my own! I'm not a little girl anymore!"

"You've just turned fifteen years old! He's almost seventeen!" Sakura barked at her.

Kagome's brown eyes flashed angrily. "Age ain't nothing but a number!" She said softly. "I thought you said you loved me mom!"

Sakura calmed. "Kagome, of course I love you, honey. It's just that…"

"Well if you love me," She said going into Inuyasha's arms. "You'll see that Inuyasha is right for me. He has done nothing wrong, I love him and he loves me."

"But honey…"

"No!" She pouted. "You said you'd give me the moon and the stars if you could, and you can't, but you can give me him." She said softly. "You can give me Inuyasha because to me, he's the whole solar system."

Sakura sighed. "All right honey," She said giving up the fight. "But, Inuyasha I'm warning you now, you'll treat my daughter with respect! The day she comes to me and tells me that you've defiled or hurt her in any way is the day your pole and balls get cut off and fed to the dogs. Understand?"

Inuyasha cupped himself and nodded.

Inutaisho grinned. He'd seen the whole scene unfold. It was a funny scene too cause Kagome was so tiny, but her mouth sure wasn't and the way she protected his son from her mother's wrath was even funnier.

When Inutaisho saw the way Kagome held onto Inuyasha he knew that Kagome was the right girl for his son. Something inside of him just said, 'she's the one'.

"Why are you so smiley?" Izayoi asked poking her husband in his side.

He looked down at her and kissed her forehead. "I was just remembering the time when Sakura had told Inuyasha she would cut off his 'manly-parts' if he did anything disrespectful to Kagome.

Izayoi smiled a little; she also had a beautiful memory of when Kagome and Inuyasha were together.

Izayoi was preparing dinner and Inuyasha had invited Kagome over to eat with them since Sakura had gone away on a business trip.

"Kagome," Izayoi called to the girl seated in her kitchen.

"Yes Mrs. Takahashi?" She answered.

"How about I show you how to make Inuyasha's favorite dessert?"

Kagome was out of the seat in no time. She listened attentively on how to make Triple Fudge Chocolate Cake. She hummed a bit as she mixed the batter and Izayoi found that it was a joy to have such an enthusiastic young girl so in love with her son.

"You really love Inuyasha don't you?"

Kagome looked up at her with a blush and nodded. "Yes ma'am, and he loves me a whole lot too."

Izayoi smiled lovingly. "You know, I remember when my husband and I were around your age. I always helped his mom with the cooking and I use to babysit Sesshoumaru's daughter." She said. "You do know Sesshoumaru, right?"

Kagome nodded. "Yes, that's your husband's oldest son. He's a lot older than Inuyasha."

"Exactly." Izayoi smiled as she sprinkled some sugar into the batter Kagome was mixing. "Anyway, Inutaisho and I were so in love, but to tell you the truth, I could never bring myself to be his girlfriend."

Kagome blinked at her, Izayoi giggled. "That's right," The mother said. "I was such a shy girl. Guys never really paid attention to me, so I was really shocked and a bit scared when Inutaisho started giving me the eye."

Kagome loved a good love story. She listened intently to Izayoi as she told her love story. It was about a girl who loved this guy, who happened to have another girl in his life. But that the guy's first girl wasn't giving him the love and support he needed so he turned to the second girl and fell maddeningly in love with her. As time passed, problems and fears began to erupt. The fears came to the point where the second girl decided that she had to become some other guy's girlfriend so that the guy wouldn't put his attention on her.

Kagome was on the edge of her seat. "So, what happened?"

"Well," Izayoi smiled. "Me, being the scary second girl became the girlfriend of a guy named Takemaru. That made Inutaisho angry to the point, that he beat up Takemaru and sent him battered to the hospital."

Kagome gasped. "Mr. Takahashi did that?"

"Oh yes," Izayoi nodded with a smile. "It was horrible but that only showed me that Inutaisho was still very much in love with me and he wouldn't give up." She sighed. "So, not wanting to get Takemaru into anymore problems, I dumped him."

"Go on," Kagome said completely enraptured as she began to work on the chocolate icing.

Izayoi sighed again and stirred the pasta she was boiling. "Let me remember, Oh! Then Inutaisho and I stopped talking for a while and due to circumstances beyond our control or fate we met at a fancy restaurant with our parents, who ended up shuffling us around until he and I were seated at a two-person table."

"That is so romantic!" Kagome giggled.

"I know, too bad I wasn't ready to talk to him so I got up and ran to the bathroom."

Kagome gasped her golden eyes widening. "You ran away from him? That must have made him feel terrible."

Izayoi nodded. "It did actually. It made him feel so bad that he ignored me and told me that until I'm woman enough to face my fears then he won't speak to me."

"So what were your fears?" Kagome wondered.

"Well," She blushed a little. "Inutaisho was a very passionate man, still is. Everything he did and said just made me feel so tingly and it was scary because every time he touched me my body would sing and I'd lose control and that made me scared because I knew that I could get pregnant and end up being kicked out of school and I didn't want that."

"That makes sense," Kagome nodded as she began to grease a glass-baking pan. "So you were afraid of his passions, the way he loved you, more to the point, him?"

Izayoi sighed and gave an affirmative nod. "Yes, I was so afraid of him, but after a while, I decided that I would face my fears, so I got my friend Takemaru to plan a way to get me and Inutaisho alone somewhere."

"I like where this is going," Kagome said as she poured the chocolaty batter into the greased pan.

Izayoi grinned. "Maru's plan was for me to go to the beach late at night. He made Inutaisho think that I was going to commit suicide and then before I knew it, Inutaisho was by my side."

"Wow," Kagome said as she evened the batter in the pan.

"It was wonderful because, Inutaisho and I were able to talk and get things straightened out."

Kagome nodded and then bit her lip as she wondered something. "Sorry for being so personal, but did you and Mr. Takahashi have sex that night?"

Izayoi smiled in a motherly way. "We were prepared, you know with contraceptives but then, we found we weren't really ready, so we didn't."

"Oh," Kagome said. "So you'll know when you're truly ready?"

"Yes," Izayoi replied. "Now pop that cake into the oven, let's clean up and sit and I'll tell you all about Inutaisho' first girlfriend and what happened to her."

"All right."

And so, Kagome and Izayoi spent another thirty minutes just talking about what had happened when Izayoi and Inutaisho were younger. When they were finished, Kagome changed the topic.

"Inuyasha's name is very unique. I don't think there's anyone else in the entire world." Kagome looked at the name and then grinned. "His name is absolutely sexy Ms. Takahashi. I just love saying his name over and over in his ear; it just rolls off my tongue. Inuyasha."

Izayoi grinned. "We liked it too, it sounded very strong to us and Inuyasha's a very strong boy."

Kagome agreed completely. "Now where's Inuyasha?"

"I sent him on a few runs he'll be back soon." She said noting Kagome's impatience in the way she tapped her fingers, and her leg shook.

"All right."

"Now, who's the one daydreaming?" Inutaisho said as he kissed his wife's lips.

Izayoi grinned. "I was just remembering the time Kagome and I talked about how you and I got together," She smiled warmly. "I just felt so comfortable telling her about us and then she asked about Inuyasha's name."

"That was a very nice way we put that together." He replied.

"I think so too." She sighed. "Now where is Sakura? It's almost time for school to be dismissed and we haven't told him what we've come to tell him."

"I'm right here, Mrs. Takahashi," The voice of Sakura Higurashi boomed through the Living Room.

She came in and sat down in his favorite chair. "Sorry to keep you waiting," She apologized. "Would you two like something to drink."

They shook their heads.

"No thank you, Sakura," Izayoi said.

"Yeah, we'd like to get to the point of our visit." Inutaisho interjected.

"Okay," Sakura nodded with understanding. "Let me guess, Inuyasha and Kagome right?"

The couple nodded and after explaining how their son was acting, Sakura told them about how 'out-of-it' Kagome seemed to be every day.

"I liked seeing my daughter happy and full of life but for the past seven months all she's done is cry and sigh sadly. She hardly ate for the first few months, but gradually she began to. I was really worried and I still don't know why she broke up with your son."

"We were told by Inuyasha," Inutaisho spoke. "That Kagome told him that she was in love with another guy named Houjo Taishiro and that she didn't love him anymore."

"I've met Houjo," Sakura said. "He's a really a nice young man. Kagome didn't tell me they were together; she introduced him as her friend."

"Why would Kagome break up with Inuyasha?" Izayoi asked them. "I see no reason to, he's told us he hasn't touched her inappropriately and that's the only reason I know that would make them break up, that and a misunderstanding."

"But what could Kagome have misunderstood?" Sakura asked suddenly. "It's such a mystery."

"You think maybe Kagome saw Inuyasha with another girl and got the wrong impression?" Inutaisho wondered and that's when Izayoi and Sakura looked at him with goggle eyes.

"That could be it," Sakura scratched her red hair. "But he would have had to be doing something intimate with that other girl in order for my daughter to think he was cheating on her."

"You mean like kissing?" Izayoi wondered.

Sakura nodded. "Yes, along those lines. You know intimate embraces where his 'rod' is aligned with the girl's own, hot lip locks, breast squeezing, smacks on the hip…"

"Passionate smiles, grins, flirty behaviour, twinkling eyes that say, 'I want to have you tonight'," Inutaisho added.

Izayoi bit her lip to stop from laughing. "I seriously doubt Inuyasha would do that with any other girl than Kagome. Inuyasha loves her!"

Sakura sighed. "You're right, my daughter's a mystery. What do you suggest?"

"Well," Inutaisho said. "We think you need to talk to your daughter, you know remind her of the good times she and Inuyasha use to have and then ask her if she would at least talk to him, you know, help him out with his work. But that'll only work if she could override the reason she dumped him. If she can't then, just ask her to talk to him a little. He's doing horribly; if his grades don't improve he may end up repeating grade twelve!"

Izayoi nodded. "And we're quite sure she still loves Inuyasha."

"I think I can do that," Sakura said a while later. "Yes, I'll talk to her tonight."

Izayoi smiled, jumped out of her seat and hugged her tightly. "Thank you so much Sakura."

Inutaisho got up also and politely pulled his wife out of the other woman's arms. "I'm still as possessive as I was eighteen years ago, honey." He grinned.

Both of the women laughed. "Of course you are," Izayoi smiled. "Now, I have to go home and start dinner, so let's go honey."

"Thanks for agreeing to help," Inutaisho said as he ushered his wife out of the house.

"Any time Inutaisho," Sakura sighed. "Any time."

When the Takahashi's were gone, Sakura started to make Kagome's favorite meal, garlic mashed potatoes, stringed beans and a juicy T-bone steak with thick brown gravy. As she cooked, she prayed she could find a way to get Kagome to talk to Inuyasha because if she could, she knew her daughter and Inuyasha would be able to work out their differences and start over. Kagome's light would shine wondrously once more.

GREAT! This chapter is done. The next few chapters will be up in no time at all. Tell me what you think or what you think will happen next!

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