"Do you remember our first night, Lolly?"
Kagome Higurashi made her way through the rain to a familiar hotel. She stepped inside and in the elevator checked her hair from the mirror though it was no use. It was as if her clothes and face were all just a big wet mess. Sighing, she walked to the hallway until she saw the door 113. She knocked.
"It's open, goddamit!"
Kagome frowned but opened the door and walked inside the small hotel room, already now trying to muffle the usual "tirade" how Inuyasha called it which was ringing inside her head. Since Kikyo's death, over a year ago, Inuyasha had sold their amazing big house and moved to a hotel. He did have money, it wasn't about that. Kagome knew that he didn't want to dwell in the past but he didn't have the power to move on either. So he went work and spent his days in here. Kagome was now his only friend who had stayed with him. Of course she stayed. She could never leave him because...
Kagome shook her head, saying to herself silently, 'Because he's my friend. My best friend."
She walked towards the bathroom when she heard cursing and rattling. Inuyasha sounded pissed and soon she saw why.
"Can't you see I'm- Kagome?" he blinked at her. "Hey. I thought you were some chambermaid."
"So rain reached here too?" Kagome couldn't help but smile when she saw him kneeling in front of white toilet seat, toilet brush in his hand. The floor was wet and his black shirt too. "Inuyasha, what are you doing?"
"Damn toilet started to flood", he stood up then looked at her fully. "Hey, you're all wet. Did you walk here?"
"I'm tough", she grinned.
"Yeah, I bet you are, Lolly", he chuckled and Kagome smiled at the nickname. Two years ago when their friendship had just started to bloom, he had started to call her Lolly because at that time she had loved to eat lollipops. He handed her a towel and his red bathing robe.
"Take these, so you don't get cold. Change in there", he pointed at the room which was also his bedroom and living room. Kagome smiled thankfully.
The robe smelled like him. He didn't use perfume, his natural scent was wonderful enough. Secretly Kagome smelled the robe one last time before Inuyasha came in the room, throwing his wet shirt aside. "It's not filling the room with water anymore but... I think I broke it", he shrugged. Kagome tried to keep her eyes off from his chest. She had seen him shirtless many times, she had seen him shirtless many times... "Why did you come here anyway?"
"No reason", she sighed and sat down on his small couch. "What? Can't I come to see you when I feel like it?"
"That's not it", he waved his hand. "Besides I was just planning to order pizza. Want some?"
"Sure", she smiled.
He called with the phone to the pizza place, after that he changed his clothes to comfortable black pants and red shirt. She put the TV on and watched as in action movie the bad guys were driving with fast cars and polices were after them. When the pizza came, Inuyasha sat down next to her and they ate together, watching the movie.
"That's lame", Inuyasha commented as one bad guy was shot. "He should have cut his head off or something."
"I'm glad he didn't because I'm eating", Kagome answered. "And that happens in horror movies."
"No, in real horror movies there has to be some monster or ghost. Or else it's not horror movie."
"In that case my day was like in a horror movie because my boss is a big bad monster", she sighed.
"Right", Inuyasha turned to look at her. "How was Kagome's first day at work?"
She frowned at his playful tone. "It's not funny. He looked at me strangely the whole day. And I'm sure that he stared at my breasts when I was on break."
"Huh?" his eyes flashed. "What? He did what?"
"Someday I'll institute my own shop", she said wishfully, ignoring his quiestion. "I'm not sure what kind of shop but I will."
"I'm sure you can do it", Inuyasha said, looking into her eyes.
"Thanks", she smiled and carefully touched his hand. He didn't squeeze hers but didn't pull away either. "How was your day?"
"As usual", he said simply. "Paper work and meetings."
She drew her hand away, rolling the words inside her mouth before saying them out loud, "Inuyasha..." He made a sound so that she knew that he was listening. "I... My old friend is moving away from here and she's going to sell her house pretty soon. It's quite big and in a good shape."
"Kagome..."
"I know, I know but... You can't live here for the rest of your life", she tried make him look at her. "I'm worried about you and your life. I'm sure Kikyo would want you to move on too."
"How do you know what she would want?", he couldn't help but snap at her but regretted it immediately when he felt her freeze beside him.
"Fine", she said softly but sneezed loudly.
As she rubbed her nose Inuyasha sighed then and pulled her against his side. "Idiot. You got some cold, didn't you?" he murmured, breathing in her scent. Kagome didn't answer. "Sorry", he said against her hair. "Kikyo is... It's still hard to talk about her."
Kagome chose to be quiet and let him talk so she just nodded.
"I want to move on but it feels unfair when she can't move anywhere anymore. I miss her but... I want live my life again, really I do. I'm just not sure how", he souded so vulnerable that Kagome fully turned to him and wrapped both of her arms around him.
"I know", she said to his chest. "I know and I'm going to help you with that every second." Inuyasha hugged her back tightly. After a moment they pulled away to look at each others and Kagome chuckled, wiping away her few salty drops, "Why am I always the one with tears?"
"Maybe because you always cry for me", Inuyasha smiled to her gently and it warmed Kagome's heart.
She knew that it wasn't the right moment, she knew that the right moment would probably be much, much more later but when her heart was beating so fast that she thought it was going to burst, she couldn't wait anymore. He had to know. "Listen. Inuyasha... I..." but he cut her off.
"You got something on there", he snorted, amused, wiping away the little stain of food from her chin.
"Oh, thanks", she said but then saw how humor in his eyes disappeared and his face turned serious.
"And there", his voice was more husky now when his thumb touched her bottom lip. Kagome didn't dare to even breathe as their eyes locked then dropped to each others lips. Seconds passed, one, two, three, four...
He moved closer and carefully, like waiting for her to pull away, drew her lips against his and deep down they both could only think, 'At last.'
They kissed. And though they knew that nothing could ever be the same between them, it was too late to stop anymore.
AN:
So I'm giving you a big flash-back, this chapter and the next one. You can figure out what's going to happen in next one after you've read this...
Thanks for reading & comments are welcomed!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha
