Rumiko Takahashi owns Inuyasha, not me- I really wish I did (sighs sadly)

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He Loves Me,

She Loves Me Not.

Chapter Eight: Get out of my head!

Kagome came home with disappointment written all over her face. For some reason, she just knew she hadn't done too well on her Biology test. She let a few tears drain maybe she shouldn't have lied and said she didn't love Inuyasha. Maybe her lie was the reason she felt she didn't succeed in getting a good grade on her Bio test.

"Good afternoon, Kagome." Her mother greeted cheerfully.

Not even her mother's smiling face could make her feel better, she felt like a failure. She didn't like the feeling at all.

"What's the matter, Kagome?" She asked as he went to her.

She sighed and shrugged. "Bio test was a killer," She said softly. "I think I failed it."

Her mother twisted her mouth a little and sat her down in the Living Room. She held Kagome to her chest. Her daughter was one who strived for A's nothing less, she could understand that she wasn't feel too good about the grade she got.

"Honey, I won't be too hard on you if you fail it," She said in a motherly tone.

"But it's thirty-five percent of my grade! My score will drop horribly!" She cried.

She sighed and wrapped her arms even tighter. "I'll just go to your teacher and ask if you can take it over, but honey, weren't you studying?"

"Of course I was studying for it!" She exclaimed and then she closed her mouth. Had she really been studying? Her mind went back to the day she had sat down to pick up her Bio textbook. She had begun to study, but then her mind drifted off to something else.

'Something else like… Inuyasha!' she gasped when her mind finished the sentenced. Her mind had drifted off to Inuyasha and what he was doing and what he was wearing and if he was kissing and touching Kikyo or that other brunette in the ice-cream parlor.

Kagome bit her lip and cried more; she hadn't been studying as hard as she should have been because she had been thinking of Inuyasha.

"It's okay honey, how about you calm down and we eat dinner?" She asked. "How does that sound?"

She sniffed but didn't answer.

"I made your favorite, steak with brown gravy, mashed potatoes with garlic and string beans."

Kagome looked up at her and gave her a wobbly smile. "Okay," She said softly. "I'll eat."

"Atta girl!" Her mother grinned and stood up with her. "Now go wash your face and your hands while I dish our dinner."

"All right." She said walking up stairs to the bathroom.

She looked at her reflection and didn't like what she saw at all. Her eyes were red and puffy, her hair lacked the shine it used to have and she wouldn't even start on the brown in her eyes that should have been twinkling.

Without Inuyasha, it seemed as though all the sheen and sparkle was gone.

'Stop thinking about that boy!' Kagome huffed as she picked up her face soap. 'He's not getting me anywhere in life!' She wet it and began to make lather. 'He's only putting me back!'

She put the soap down and began to rub in the mild-scented foam. 'Because of him I can't think to study, or write proper essays, I can't do algebra as flawless as I could have once before, I can't even think straight because of him!' Kagome sighed, turned on the water and washed the soap off of her face.

'He's an obstacle in my way, that's all he is!' Kagome's mind shouted. 'Because of him I probably failed that crucial Bio test!' Kagome's anger began to rage. 'Watch when I see him tomorrow, I'm going to chew him up and spit him out for making my life so bloody miserable!"

Once Kagome had calmed herself down, she put on a tiny smile, so as not to worry her mother, and went downstairs. When she sat, she gasped at her plate. Her mom had made her a mountain of mashed potatoes and the gravy was flowing down it like a river. It was beautiful and so very creative.

"Dinner looks wonderful mom," She said with a bright smile.

She grinned as she picked up a forkful of mashed potatoes. "Tastes even better."

Kagome took up a forkful of the creamy potatoes and put it in her mouth. Her eyes closed as the flavor exploded in her mouth.

"How is it honey?" She asked noting the savory look on her daughter's face.

"It's delicious!" She said picking up another forkful.

When dinner was finished, Kagome was about to start cleaning the dishes, but her mom called her over into the Living Room.

"Yes?"

She was seated in her favorite chair. Her mother patted her thigh as a signal to her that she wanted her to sit with him. She went over and sat upon her thigh. She wrapped her arms around her waist and held her.

"Honey?"

"Yes?"

"Be honest with me," Her mother said. "Are you happy?"

She blinked and thought for a while, was she happy? No, she wasn't happy. She'd just failed her Biology test, she couldn't stop thinking of Inuyasha, Inuyasha was with Kikyo and in short she was so gloomy without him.

"No mom," She told him softly. "I'm not happy."

Her mother sighed and turned her to face him. "Why honey?"

She looked into his eyes and let the tears that were pent up inside of her drain down her cheeks. "I failed my Bio test."

Sakura wiped her tears away. "Is that all?"

She sniffed. "Inuyasha is seeing another girl. Her name's Kikyo Miko." She nearly choked on the name.

"Honey, how did you and Inuyasha break up?" He asked as his daughter sniffed a few times in succession.

Kagome's mind whisked back to the parlor scene and the pain came back ten-fold. She bit into her lip and turned from her father. "I'd rather not say. All I know is that he couldn't love me too much if the following day after we broke up he got together with Kikyo!"

Sakura sighed. "His parents came over today."

Her brown eyes snapped to him. "What did they want?"

Sakura rocked her softly in her arms. "They told me that you broke up with Inuyasha because you fell in love with some guy named Houjo."

"They did, did they?" Her brown eyes darkened. "What else did they say? That I'm the reason their son's grades are dropping faster than lead in water?"

Sakura could feel the anger in her daughter; it was intense. She didn't like the feeling at all. She nodded. "They did say something about Inuyasha not progressing how he used to. They say he's heartbroken."

Kagome let out a sound of disgust. "Him? Heartbroken? That's not Inuyasha!"

"Honey, why don't you talk to him? Suppose he's still in love with you?" Sakura asked suddenly.

'If he was in love with me, he wouldn't have cheated on me for some raven haired bimbo!' Kagome's mind shouted. "Well, too bad for him!" Kagome said getting up from her mother. "I'm not talking to him!"

"But honey…"

"No!" She shouted furiously her brown orbs flashing. "I don't have anything I want to say to him."

"Honey, he's doing horrible!" Sakura tried to get through to her.

"I don't care!" She said storming around the Living Room like a tornado.

"His parents are worried about him. They told me that if he drops any more, he'd have to repeat grade twelve!"

Kagome froze instantly. If Inuyasha repeated grade twelve, she'd be in the same stream as him since she was in grade eleven. Just the thought of being with Inuyasha for another school year made her heart flip but it also made her sick. She bit her lip, she didn't want him to fall back; she wanted him to progress.

"I guess I could talk to him." She said softly.

'Yeah, I do have something I want to say to him,' her mind thought menacingly. 'Oh yeah, I have quite a bit to say and it won't be anything good."

Sakura smiled, got up from her seat, went to her daughter and hugged her tightly. "I knew you'd understand."

She flashed her mother a tiny smile and nodded. "I don't think it'll hurt to just talk to him a bit. We may even work out our problems."

"That's the spirit honey!" Her mother said happily. "Now go and bathe, I'll clean the kitchen for you."

"Are you sure, mom?" She asked.

Her mother kissed her cheek and nodded. "Of course I'm sure, now you go upstairs and think about what you'll say to him."

"All right," She kissed her back and pranced up the stairs.

When Kagome reached the bathroom, she went in, took off all of her clothes and started up her bath water, a mixture of piping hot and freezing cold water. Once the tub was filled, she stepped into it and found that it was the right warm temperature she desired. With a satisfied smile, she sank her naked body into it and closed her eyes.

She went back to what her mother had just told her a while ago. "Of course I'm sure, now you go upstairs and think about what you'll say to him."

Kagome smiled. "Oh I know what I'm going to say to him and trust me when I say it, he's not going to like it."

Inuyasha was in his shower, cleansing his body of all the impurities it had gathered while he was at school. He couldn't wait for tomorrow to see Kagome again. He smiled as the water pelted his face and upper body and drained down his hard abdomen and long legs. He just couldn't wait for tomorrow to see Kagome's sexy raven hair and flashy brown eyes.

Black hair and brown eyes were regular features but Kagome's hair and eye color seemed to be in a different category.

Inuyasha felt his manhood harden and when he looked down, he wasn't surprised to see it was sticking out, almost straight. He sighed and took hold of it.

"Don't worry, Inuyasha junior," He said to it. "You'll be pressed up against Kagome's sexy hips on Friday night, I'll make sure of it."

He squeezed his piece, closed his eyes and imagined Kagome's hands upon him. When he released the white-hot passion that had filled his groin, he was gasping for air. He needed Kagome but not just in the physical aspect but also in the mental, emotional and spiritual sense.

Inuyasha exited the bathroom and went to his room. He pulled on his boxers and then went under his bed. He pulled out a shoebox filled with miscellaneous objects. He smiled with a sigh and sat on his bed.

He poured out the contents of the shoebox and his heart panged when he saw the lacy, black thong Kagome had danced in that long time ago. He picked it up and inhaled the scent.

"Kagome," He said softly.

He put the underwear down and picked up the strand of hair she had given him. He rubbed it with his fingers and then put it back inside of the box. There was an album of photos she had given him for his birthday.

He opened it and his throat constricted, there was Kagome as a baby, looking so red and adorable as she cried. He turned the page over and smiled as he saw Kagome all caked up in chocolate. She had only been three and she had smothered herself in the chocolate cake her mother had made for her.

Inuyasha laughed at other pictures of when Kagome was small and then broke down into tears when he saw her in a sexy red bikini when she was fifteen and they had been to the beach together. He bit his lip and stared at her happy face, and when he turned the page he cried even more. Kagome had written, 'I'll love you forever and always: Yasha vs. Kags for all time'.

Inuyasha closed the album, put it back into his shoebox and then picked up the last item. It was an envelope filled with letters. Inuyasha opened them up, read them one by one over and over again and then, when he was finished, he put up everything except a photo of Kagome's smiling face.

He looked at it before he sighed, kissed it passionately, held it to his heart and fell into a deep slumber with wonderful thoughts of Kagome on his mind.

Chapter 9 and 10 will be up in no time at all.

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From: InuLuver1990.