Chapter 7

Okay, how's it going people? Hopefully last chapter moved the story line along, if only just a little bit. Anyway as I said this chapter will go into some detail. Detail for what you ask? Hell if I know, I make this up as I go. So without more if my babbling here be Chapter 7. (Yes I said here be on purpose).

Here it was. The part of the day he had been dreading for only God knows how long. Inuyasha was at the bottom of the huge staircase; according to Kagome this is where she lived. How the hell did she walk up those stairs everyday? He thought to himself. What the hell? Why was he thinking that? He was going to tell Kagome that he was an assassin sent to kill her and that his friendship had been a lie. At least in the beginning. He had told himself over and over again that the only reason that he gave a damn about this woman was because he was getting paid to do so. But that wasn't true. Was it? He couldn't answer that. So if all else failed then he would-although he'd really rather not-kill her. So he brought along a Silenced 9mm pistol just in case. He didn't like the fact that by tomorrow Kagome might be dead, And by his hand of anyone else's. But, he kept reminding himself this is only if she panics and is about to run off to tell someone only then would he kill her if necessary.

He started up the staircase. He could of easily just jumped up them one half at a time but he had too much on his mind to do that. After reaching the top slightly out of breath he proceeded to go up to the door and knock on it. Waiting for a few second he heard the door handle turn, and thus the door open. To be greeted by who by his guessing to be Kagome's mother. Better play it nice like he had when he went to school the first time.

"Hello, would Kagome happen to be around?" He asked with a sheepish smile. He still hated smiling; however being around Kagome was making it become a regular thing with him.

"Yes she's here, and who would you be young man?" Kagome's mother asked.

"I'm Inuyasha Shimitsu one of Kagome's friends from school." He said the still-hated-but-not-as-much as- before-smile on his face.

"Ah yes, she told me that you would be here. But before you go I have a question? Are those dog ears real?" He should have expected that.

"Yes…they are…why?" He asked cautiously.

"Come here." She said motioning next to her. So he walked up.

He was expecting something of this sort to happen. After all Kagome had done it not to long ago. Mrs.H (Just so I don't have to write Higurashi every time.) was busy rubbing his ears. Maybe not rubbing more along the lines of tweaking. He enjoyed it although he would never admit it. But even if he didn't like having this done very often, but for the sake of looking like a nice person he let it go.

After awhile of this he heard Kagome in the background. "Mama who is it?" then she saw who it was and what was happening. "Let him go." Kagome said almost having to wrestle her mom off of Inuyasha. After doing so successfully she walked up to Inuyasha. "Sorry about that she likes cute fluffy things." Not really realizing that in a way she had just called Inuyasha cute. Neither did Inuyasha in fact. (So I don't have a reason why I wrote that.)

"Okay to get straight to the point, why did you come over and what was so important earlier" Kagome said being very blunt for an odd reason.

"Do you think that we could talk about this somewhere else." He said. "There is your mom what I'm guessing is your brother, and also what I'm guessing is your grandfather or someone similar in the kitchen he said pointing over his shoulder to the kitchen.

Kagome walked down the hall looked in the kitchen and walked back up to him. "okay how the hell did you know that?" She said a little disbelievingly.

"I smelt them"

"And how did you do that?"

He scowled. " Did you forget that I'm part demon? He didn't like talking about it. (A/N before I forget there are demons in the modern time that this story takes place in. They are just very rare and hard to come by. But it's common knowledge that they exist. All of the 'rules' still exist. Humans hate demons-usually- and vise versa and so on. All of those.)

"Oh I forgot it's not like it's that big of a deal. Is it?"

"Uh… n .Not. Not. Not unless you want it to be." He had to recover from what she had said. Normally he was shunned and hated by everyone. Even people at school but they didn't bug him because they knew that he could tear them limb-from-limb. Still he found it odd that there was so much spite and hate between the two races. (Demon and Human)

"And I don't so that settled. Anyway I guess we can talk in my room. As long as no annoying people follow us." She said the last part louder for the people in the kitchen busy listening in on their conversation.

Walking up the stairs and to her bedroom Kagome flipped on the light and flopped down on her bed. "Ok, now what did you want."

But of course by this time Inuyasha was having a hard time figuring out how to say this. So he went for the blunt route.

"…This may seen odd but…" He still couldn't say it.

"What?" Kagome looked up at him all innocent like. Dammit how the hell can I say this? Inuyasha was having a problem still. But at that time his cell phone rang. He answered it thankful for the interruption, but not for long. It seems that his employer had decided to call and chew him out for not doing what he was going to get paid for. Inuyasha wasn't listening that much until he noticed what the guy was going to say. So he nailed the speaker button on the cell. (I don't think cell phones have a speaker phone on them do they? But for this they do.) And what the man was saying was suddenly heard through out the room for everyone and anyone to hear.

"Do you know why I calling?" The man was sounding very pissed. "I want to know why the hell you haven't killed that Higurashi woman yet. Do you not remember which one it is? Or have you grown too soft to kill her? Let me remind you then. It's the younger one, you know the one named Kagome. Did you hear that? Ka-go-me…" With that Inuyasha crushed the cell phone in his hand ending all sound in the room.

That eerie sound stayed around fir awhile. Until Kagome spoke "So…you were sent to kill me eh? So I guess acting all nice and what not to me was just part of it. Wasn't it?" She said not looking at him.

Inuyasha said nothing.

"Just get out of my house before I call for someone, and tell them what you really are like." Kagome was looking at him now. She looked ready to cry.

"I knew that this was going to happen…Dammit. Sorry Kag but I can't have you telling everyone what I do. Mainly the cops, Or anyone like that" With that he pulled out the pistol from the back part of the waistband on his jeans and pointed it at her.

She kept staring at him her gaze never faltering. "Are you going to kill me then? Go ahead see if you can pull that trigger." A few moments passed. "You can't can you?" She wasn't mad or crying or anything just watching him.

He said nothing once more.

"Well? Can you or not." She was negotiating. More or less, and he knew it but he couldn't bring himself to pull the trigger.

His hand has gone unsteady and started shaking along time ago. He still couldn't bring himself to pull the trigger. Pull the damn trigger…pull it! He commanded his hand but it didn't oblige. Dammit he almost yelled out. He couldn't do it…he couldn't fucking do it.

He dropped it, right on the ground it bounced an inch or so off the ground and landing in front Kagome who was still sitting on the bed. He fell onto his knees on the verge of crying but not allowing himself to.

"Go ahead, pick it up and shoot me. I deserve it for all the people I killed but most importantly almost shooting you…" Inuyasha had looked up at Kagome, with a look of self-hate in his eyes. (Can you do that?)

"No…I don't think that it's necessary." She still picked it up. But instead of doing what Inuyasha wished she chucked it out of the window. "Nobody really deserves to die." She walked up to him and put her arms around him. He made no move to stop her.

"I do… do you have any idea how many people I've killed? I lost count a long time ago." He had started looking at the floor after her embrace started.

"Oh well forget about that. Everyone deserves a fresh start from a bad past." She cajoled.

Both of them stood and sat on Kagome's bed.

Inuyasha didn't trust himself to speak again.

"Now is there really anything bad with not doing your assignment?" She asked curiosity getting the better of her.

"Yes, that one of the many bad things about this…"

"And what would that be…"

"To name one if I fail an assignment then another assassin will come to kill you. Another thing is that my reputation, if you can call it that will be shot. All other assassins will wish to kill me and they'll try."

"That's not good is it…"

"See…"

"But I trust you can protect me from any other assassin. I ask you. Can you and will you?"

"Y.Yes I will. I won't let you get hurt."

"I know" Kagome said leaning onto his shoulder. He in turn didn't do anything but soon leaned onto the wall behind him and put an arm around her as she fell asleep.

A/N Awww! A whole lota fluff…sorta. While still moving along the story line, damn I'm good. "Hammer time… Can't touch this. Heh Heh. Anyway please review everyone I really, really, really want to know what you think.