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CHAPTER 7 - Flabbergasted
Kagome sat in class the next morning, furiously writing notes. She wouldn't think about Sesshomaru, she wouldn't think about how he had protected her, how he'd touched her hair…
How she had wanted to kiss him. She licked her lips as she vaguely thought about it. He was so warm, and it was amazing how he could be so gentle yet so cold hearted at times. Her arm started to hurt her. She grabbed it, dropping her pencil. She rubbed it until the pain went away. She would look at it later. In the meantime, she had notes to take.
After class, she ran into Sesshomaru. Literally. She decided she needed to get home, now. She turned and walked away. InuYasha came and put his arm around her.
"InuYasha, what are you doing?" Kagome asked, slightly irritated.
"I'm going over to your house, what else is there?" InuYasha turned his nose up as he walked with his arm around her, at least until she brushed it off.
"You don't have to keep your arm around me, InuYasha," she grumbled.
"Why are you in such a bad mood?" InuYasha demanded.
"Never mind," she responded.
"Is it Natasha?" Kagome looked at InuYasha with suspicious eyes.
"No," Kagome defended. But, it was.
"Yeah it is, wench," he grinned. "She's jealous. She thinks Sesshomaru is in love with you."
Kagome laughed. "Sesshomaru? In love with me? A human? I don't see it."
It was at this point that she considered the fact that she MIGHT have feelings for Sesshomaru. No. It wasn't possible. She wouldn't, she couldn't have feelings for someone who despised humans. Who couldn't return her love.
"Me either," he said.
They walked in silence to her house. Kikyo hadn't joined them; she hadn't been waiting like she always was. This bothered Kagome a little. Kikyo was never sick, and never failed to meet Kagome.
"InuYasha…" Kagome whispered. "Do you think Natasha will come after me?"
She didn't need to ask, but she wanted to. She knew Natasha would come after her, hurt her, and maybe even kill her to get to Sesshomaru. What really hurt was that she knew Sesshomaru wouldn't be bothered by her death.
"Probably. Actually, most likely," InuYasha had a concerned look on his face.
An hour later, after InuYasha had walked her home and made sure Kikyo was okay, he left. Kagome went to her room to do her homework. She was determined to pass her math test coming up.
"Kagome?" came a quiet voice. It was Kikyo. It didn't really sound like a question, but it didn't sound like a statement either.
"Yeah?"
"Do you… do you think InuYasha likes me?" she asked. Kagome stared at her. Was she serious? Everybody knew he did. Everybody but her.
"Uh, why do you ask?" Kagome just didn't get it.
"I don't know," she responded without emotion. "Just a hunch I'm not sure about."
"Oh," Kagome smiled as she looked at Kikyo, "Of course he does."
"Do you have feelings for him?" Kikyo had an evil glint in her eyes. Kagome was taken aback. Why would she ask THAT? Everybody knows her childhood crush on InuYasha was long and done with!
"No! I stopped liking him a long time ago, Kikyo," Kagome said.
"Well, there was that one time you kissed him!" Kikyo was throwing that in her face, for the millionth time in the last ten years. Seriously?
"Are you serious, Kikyo?" Kagome demanded, standing up from her desk chair. "We were six! He got me down from a tree and I thanked him with a kiss! And it was on the cheek for crying out loud! I don't have feelings for InuYasha!"
"Whatever," Kikyo said, smirking and walking out of her room.
What was that about? Kagome stood in the middle of her room, and for lack of a better word, she was flabbergasted. Kagome shook her head, giving up on the strange encounter with her twin sister and sat on her desk chair and studied until late at night.
"I can't take it anymore," Kagome sighed. She flopped on her bed, and closed her eyes. Instantly she was asleep.
*In Kagome's Dreamland*
She was walking underneath some cherry trees. The petals were falling around her as the sunset spread across the sky. She laughed at her little friend, Shippo, as he was jumping in the petals and laughing. Kagome ran after him when he told her to catch him. They played late into the night. Suddenly, everything disappeared as she plummeted into darkness.
Shippo? InuYasha? Sesshomaru? What's going on? Where are you? Help me! Sesshomaru!
*Exiting Kagome's Dreamland*