Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters. And I do not intent to gain any kind of retribution for this work of fanfiction.

Summary: Kagome goes on a date with someone it isn't Inuyasha and he has to do something about it.

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The date

Kagome took the final sip of her third iced tea of the last hour, trying to do something. The man in front of her kept talking about the dull problems of his life. Half an hour ago—when she started to make a mental list of the groceries she had to get from the store later—he had been telling her his biggest problem of each morning, having to choose just one of his hundred different ties. She wasn't sure what he was talking about. Out of guilt for thinking how difficult it would be for him to choke on his tie right there, she paid attention to his words.

"...and that is why you should never, never, wear a teal tie with a navy blue shirt when you plan to go sailing."

Kagome mentally groaned. He was still talking about ties?!

This was their second date, she had agreed to put up with him for a second time because she had hoped it wouldn't be as awful as she remembered. Thinking that last time she may have just been too cranky about what Inuyasha had said right before the date.

He knew how hard it was for her to find someone she liked enough to date. And according to him it was because she had really high standards. In reality it was because no man came close to that stupid jerk of a hanyou she loved.

Kagome knew she was in love with Inuyasha, and had been for a long time. But now she wanted more than the unhealthy psychological marriage they had, because once and again Inuyasha had made it clear how he didn't want anything else but friendship from her.

And now she was ready to start looking for the next best thing to him. And obviously this first attempt was shitty, but she was set on trying.

Kagome looked at her date as he gave one of his explanations about how being an accountant was one of the more challenging jobs. She didn't have anything against accountants, they were needed and even if she didn't have that vocation, they were awesome. She just happened to be on a second date with the accountant that thought his job was more dangerous than a lion tamer, more important for their clients job than a doctor and more tiresome than a child caretaker.

She turned to look out the windows as she thought to come up with an excuse that was believable, yet just rude enough to avoid an invitation for another date, knowing that as long as this guy kept hearing his own voice, a second person listening to him wasn't really important. Then, something caught her attention.

"Is that...?" she mumbled, staring at the figure that was outside the restaurant trying to see through the window with both hands cupped around his eyes.

Then he walked to the door and used too much strength to swing it open, making it crash against the wall before stomping inside, directly to her table.

Kagome was baffled to see him there. The man in front of her was still oblivious to the visibly upset hanyou towering beside him.

"Get up! We're leaving!" he shouted as a hello.

All the joy she had felt at seeing him walk in evaporated with his words. How dare he?! Kagome thought.

"I'm not going anywhere, I'm on a date!" she declared, smoothing the napkin over her lap.

Apparently that was the moment the other half of her date noticed something was wrong, and with a quiet disdain he turned to the white haired man and asked, "May I help you?"

Inuyasha scoffed in his direction, but didn't remove his eyes from Kagome's face. "Just shut up or go away. Don't really care which."

Kagome stood up angered, but before she could say something the man seated in front of him raised an outraged hand, "Excuse me, but she is my date!"

Inuyasha's ears perked and swiveled to the back. She knew that meant he was angry.

With his unwavering eyes still on her and a voice low Inuyasha shouted, "She is mine!"

Apparently the growl was enough to make the other man back down.

Kagome blinked a couple of times, confused. "Am I?"

As his words kept repeating in her head they started to infuriate her beyond what she thought possible. "Since when?" she asked with her hands on her hips.

He was a jerk, after ignoring her advances for years, he came here to ruin her date! Stupid dog-boy.

Inuyasha took a step forward, forgetting the intimidating stance for the human there, and centered his attention on getting the stubborn wench to understand this date, or whatever, was wrong.

With his cheeks slowly becoming red, he managed to stutter, "Since- since- since ALWAYS!"

Kagome's brow arched. "Yeah?"

He took another step closer. Trying to show her how serious this was. That way she would stop doing this stupid shit and go with him. "Yes!"

Inuyasha expected her reaction to be one of joy, but instead he found pain and sadness when she asked, "Why, Inuyasha?"

The sight of her sadness and tears always turned off something important inside his brain, and as usual his eloquent response was "Because- because I say so!"

Kagome scoffed "Well! I say that you're an arrogant jerk and I can date whoever I want!"

The silver haired hanyou turned to the meek man sitting in front of her. "So you prefer this instead of me! Even if you say that, hearing him talk makes you sleepier than watching the dryer work!"

She pointed at the slightly offended man. "He might be more boring and bland than plain water, but he is brave enough to admit he likes me!"

Inuyasha huffed highly offended. The wench wanted him to say he liked her! As if he was going to say something as stupid and lukewarm as that. "I don't LIKE you, stupid!" he said, implying as much as he could in his firm tone.

Kagome hid her pain as fast as she could. "If you don't like me, why are you ruining my date?"

Inuyasha was confused by her reaction, but it was not in him to back down, much less when his wench was involved. "As if it could be worse than it was. I could smell the boredom from the sidewalk!" His tone even and low.

She gasped. The fact he was probably not lying made her even angrier. "This being an awful date has nothing to do with you!"

"The fuck it doesn't!"

"For your information, I was having a perfectly lovely time with- with-" She looked at her date briefly, totally unable to remember his name.

"-with MY date!" she finished, scowling back at Inuyasha, who had a small yet cocky smile on his lips.

"YOU obviously weren't interested, so what's your problem?"

Her hands fisted on her sides before raising one and pushing a single finger on his chest punctuating each word that were said with a harsh tone. "YOU! You are my problem!"

He could swear she growled for a moment before continuing. "Just when I half convinced myself this was a not-so-terrible second date, you had to show up!"

His brow arched in a cocky expression "This is a terrible date, and you know it Kagome!" He gave her a smug smile. "If I was your date..."

Kagome interrupted him before he could tell her what his fictional perfect date with him would be. Before he could wrap her up in a story that would give her everything she could ever want but never will. Before he could find a new way to break her heart again. The woman tried to make her voice as dry and bored as she could "But you are not, so get lost!"

Her anger was rapidly growing, he had countless opportunities to ask her out, many hints she had dropped along the years they had been friends. And now! Now when she was ready to move on and find something else, he had to come and ruin it? No! Enough of always being ready for him, waiting for him. She would never again accommodate her life for his convenience.

Inuyasha took a step back surprised by the anger in her last remark, his brows moved lower as his face showed the determination he felt. He'd made a promise to himself that he would not leave there without her!

Through his teeth he declared, "I told you, I'm not going anywhere"

Pulling a chair from the table behind him, he seated himself at their table and grabbed her wrist, pulling it slightly to make her sit back.

What he was doing was beyond his worst behaviour, he was being a dick. Kagome wanted to be angry, she wanted to feel the indignation she was supposed to feel, but that flame that had ignited the moment she saw him stalk his way to her was becoming bigger with each word he said. And it was becoming harder and harder to deny she was liking it. Her anger was fueled by her incapability to feel angry at him.

"Inuyasha! You should leave!" She told him through her teeth staring at his eyes. "This is incredibly rude to- to-"

Kagome blinked confused for a moment. There was no way she had forgotten her date's name. His name was... his name was... she kept repeating in her head with her eyes narrowed.

"Whatshisname..." he provided nonchalantly with a side looped smile showing one fang.

Kagome turned ready to apologize, only to find her date was not there anymore.

"He is gone!" She yelped surprised.

It was not lost to Inuyasha how her lips momentarily stretched into a smile against her will.

A smile that disappeared the moment he uttered his next words. "Are we done pretending you're angry I'm here?"

Inuyasha put his chair back at its original table and sat in the place the other man had vacated as Kagome stared at him dumbfounded.

"Did you order already?" He asked with the same ease as if asking for the weather. Kagome hadn't yet reacted as he turned around and called the waiter, shouting they wanted two specials before he even arrived to the table. "Wench, if you didn't want me to come you shouldn't have a date in our favorite restaurant."

Kagome's mouth was agape. The way he was making all of this a joke was too hurtful, she was not going to stay and watch him laugh off one of the most difficult things she had to do.

Holding her tears the woman took her purse and walked away as he ordered beverages.

"Kagome!" she heard him call from behind her, but she just picked up her pace, speeding past people in a blur. She heard a distinctly animalistic growl before a strong hand clamped around her arm.

Before Inuyasha could circle her to cut off her escape, she pulled her hand away from his reach.

"Kagome...wait-" he tried again when her teary eyes found his, holding anger and hurt he wasn't expecting to find there.

"No!" She pushed him away with both hands on his chest as soon as he was within reach again. His ears drooped with the rejection, he was prepared for her anger, and dignified reaction, but not one so extreme. For the first time since he had convinced himself this would work in front of the mirror, he started to doubt his chances.

"I don't want this anymore!" She shouted at the same time her tears started to stream down her cheeks. "This is not good for me. It's not enough! Leave me alone!" Kagome was trying to hit his chest with little success.

The hands Inuyasha had been using to avoid getting hit by her, dropped to his sides at once. The last light of hope about them died with her words. She didn't want him. He wasn't enough for her. She didn't want him.

"You can't come here and hijack my date!" Inuyasha let her fist hit his chest as she kept going. "You can't do that and expect me to be fine with it. What if I wanted you there? What if I never wanted to go on a date?"

Her voice was getting louder as her hits started to be felt as that by his body "You had no right! Not after ignoring me all this time! Not after rejecting me so many times!"

Inuyasha's ears perked up again as she kept talking—screaming—Was she saying what he thought she was?

"... wait!" He yelped but Kagome was not listening.

"... no right, after all the times I felt humiliated trying to get you to notice me!"

"Wait!" Inuyasha tried again, now with a hint of a growl in his voice.

Kagome's hands stopped midway for a second as his words registered, and started to shake her head as her hands came back to hit him. "NO! I'm tired of waiting! I won't stay here and-umph."

Using another growl to distract her he circled her body with his arms and pulled her to his chest. After the initial shock she started to fight against his hold, but this time she kept quiet, maybe because Kagome knew there was no way she could escape him, or maybe because she was secretly liking it, if the sudden blush on her cheeks was any indication.

"Wench!" he growled. "Let me talk!"

After a little more struggling under his serious eyes, Kagome let out a long sigh and stood still—the farthest away from him that she could—but stood still.

Kagome was startled when his arms pulled her to his chest. The sudden closeness of his body, along with the warmth he always exuded and those intense eyes threw her out of balance. Enough to made her think her voice would quiver if she spoke. She stayed quiet but kept fighting him for a while. She was not ready to hear him talk, but doubted her resolution to walk away.

"Talk." Was all she said.

Cutting back on the growling, he got ready to finally talk. "The fuck you mean I rejected you? I gave you ramen! That should count for something." It was a big gestured that had backfired, he knew, but how could she not know what it meant?

Kagome gasped. He did not!, she thought. How dared him bring that up? "What if you gave me Ramen?" she shouted back.

"It meant something to me! And you just took it from me and excluded me completely!" Inuyasha still remembered how she took it, he wanted to be part of it but it had backfired as it always did.

"Exclude you? Exclude YOU?" Kagome huffed in the way she had learned from him years ago. "You came to my house with a cute shiba pup and told me someone gave it to you and you hated dogs." She took a dignified breath through her nose before continuing "I took it because you were going to take it to a shelter. YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS THERE!" She finished as she started to fight his hold again. "I took care of that Shiba dog. That by the way you said it was an Akita and you were wrong! I love that dog now and I'm not giving it back to you!" She was not going to say that she had fallen in love with the dog as soon as she saw him squirm in Inuyasha's arms, it was a fluffy white pup, that resembled her hanyou and seemed to be in love with Inuyasha's face, she had melted at the scene, but when he said it was a burden for him and practically tossed it to her, she had thought of him as hers and nothing would change that. Ramen was hers!

Inuyasha tightened his grip enough for her to be in full contact with his chest with her arms trapped between them. "It was a lie, OK!" he huffed, his breath blowing on her bangs.

Kagome could feel his warmth surrounding her as her body slowly began molding to his. She unconsciously grew closer to his face as he talked. Her own body was distracting her from the fight.

Maybe a little too late she asked a very blushed hanyou "...you lied?" Her chocolate eyes trying to make contact with his golden ones, but finding it impossible as he was now the one to hide his face from her. The side of his face that was visible to her was rapidly becoming red, even from the skin of his neck she could see it blush.

"I-I gave you Ramen as a symbol" he mumbled still looking away.

Kagome knew that the best way to force words out of him was to remain quiet until he said as much as he was able, so when his eyes drifted to her face quickly before looking away again, she made her best effort to keep her angry face.

"Fuck. I wanted you to think of me when you look at it and that you... you would ask me to help you raise it..."

"Bu-but you said you didn't want to be bothered with it!"

Kagome felt the growl even before she was able to hear it. Suddenly his face was almost touching hers, his rapid breathing brushing on her face again, this time she didn't move back. A sweet warm feeling started to blossom in her chest, hope was both one of the best and worst feelings to have.

"When..." he said through his teeth "When have you ever believed in what I said?"

Kagome hid her smile as she felt more sure about where this conversation was heading. She batted her lashes with the most innocent expression she could show "You mean I should not believe you now?"

Another growl resonated between their bodies. "I'm not fucking playing, Kagome! I'm trying to tell you...I'm trying to tell you that you can't date other men!"

Kagome's brows knitted at the sound of his explanation. "That is not enough!"

One moment she was in the middle of the sidewalk held hostage by her hanyou and the next she felt loss of his warmth on her back, replaced by the cold concrete of the restaurant side wall. She gasped at the feeling and stayed frozen in place when his cold nose touched hers and her brain registered that even if her back was cold, the rest of her body was warmly pressed against his. A different kind of warmth invaded her body at the same time her cheeks blushed.

"Stop saying that!" he whispered. "I know I'm not enough for you! Fuck! I know I'll never be! But-but-I..."

His track of thought was instantly lost the moment Kagome's hands slid around his neck and her eyes looked at him expectantly.

"But you what?"

"Huh?"

Kagome bit back a laugh "You said 'But I...' I want to know what followed" the last words where only a whisper against his skin, only clear to him because of his ears.

He gulped, it was now or never. His mind was reeling, he really needed to say something good if he didn't want to ruin the mood. The problem was his fucking mouth... he needed something that couldn't be misunderstood, and if it was cool even better. But the way Kagome's soft curves were pressing more and more against him and the heat behind those chocolate eyes was not helping in maintaining a steady blood flow in his brain.

"I-I..." he stuttered with a raspy voice.

"You...?" Kagome asked again, moving slightly closer to his lips.

Inuyasha closed his eyes tightly "I want to wake up beside you every morning!" he practically shouted.

When no sound came after his admission he slowly opened his eyes, to find a teary eyed Kagome smiling brightly at him. "Okay..." was her breathy answer.

"Are you sure? Why are you crying? You're not supposed to cry when..."

Kagome pulled him to her lips at the same time she shushed him.

The first touch was slow and shy, even a little clumsy. Nonetheless it was perfect, for the both of them it was like a missing piece finally fell into the right place, it just felt right.

Quickly, maybe too quickly they found the right pace, their touches and caresses became confident and intense, urgent. Trying to make up for all the time lost, all the misunderstandings, the lost opportunities, the unnecessary pain.

When they finally heard the throat clearing with convulsive manner, Kagome's hands were one deep into his hair, and one under his unbuttoned shirt, his hands were holding her by her ass as her legs circled his waist.

"Excuse me..." said the stranger, and with a snarl Inuyasha separated from her. It took him a couple of seconds and a few quick slaps to his chest for the foggy haze to disappear from his head.

Without exchanging a word and with equally intense blush, they helped each other to arrange their clothes. Inuyasha tried to hide her disheveled appearance from the other man, he even combed her hair with his hands. As he did that she looked up with a content smile in her lips and he couldn't stop himself from a last peck on her lips before taking her hand, and turned to the man, still partially hiding her from the annoying human.

"I'm-I'm sorry to, um... interrupt, but the check hasn't been paid yet..." The also embarrassed human said.

Kagome gasped and tried to walk to the man. "I'm sorry I'll-"

Inuyasha's voice interrupted her "I'll pay it..."

Kagome looked at him with the question written on her face and he only shrugged.

The hanyou told her to wait for him at the door as the man escorted him to the register.

A few minutes later he was walking back to her with a huge smile on his face, one Kagome was sure was reflected on her own.

After hooking her arm in his they walked together without a clear destination in mind.

"You know..." Kagome turned to him without stopping. "You didn't need to do all this, a 'go out with me' would have been enough".

Inuyasha looked straight ahead as the blush returned once again to his face. "But what wouldn't be my style, would it?" His eyes drifted to her slowly and winked at her.

Kagome smiled warmly at him "I guess not".

The end.

N/A:

Thank you for reading!

This story started as a joke with my friend Robin, so when her birthday came along, I had to do this for her.

Jealous Inuyasha half thinking things before jumping and doing things that often backfire is one of my favorite tropes! As you can read here!

Also thank you to those who take their time liking and reviewing!

Love,

Nanna