A/N: Ahhh, so many reviews. It's like the fountain of youth for me. Lawl.

TunaFish: Fluffy and Rin, sitting in a movie theater, k-i-s-s-i-n-g......

Rin: eh hehehe, ever heard of Physical Relationships?

Sesshy: This Sesshomaru does not know what you are speaking about

Rin: WHAT? HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT!!!! YOU MOTHER ******

Sesshy: This Sesshomaru hears someone calling his name. Goodbye Rin

Rin: Get Back here, I'ma going to Clomp you Fluffy

Sesshy: Eeeppp!!!

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He's With Me

Chappie Nine

An unfamiliar sensation brushed across her hand, and she nearly jumped out of her seat. Inuyasha was slowly running his thumb back and forth over her knuckles. It felt like a secret code vibrating through her skin. Almost as if he were saying, Don't worry, I'm here, and You're beautiful and I can't resist you. Why was he doing that? What did it mean? Should she do something, too?

Kagome knew she was being crazy, but her heat was ignoring her brain and had sped up to a million beats an hour. She could barely concentrate on the movie. Luckily it was a pretty short one, because by the end she didn't think her heart could take anymore.

''Wasn't that great?'' Rin enthused as the crowd spilled out into the street. ''I knew it would be great. It was so great!''

Kagome wondered how Rin could have enjoyed the movie when she seemed to have spent much of it kissing Sesshomaru. Then Rin stopped in her tracks, and Sesshomaru had to drag her out of the way of the people behind her.

''Oh, no,'' Rin moaned. ''What is she doing here?''

Kikyo was standing outside the movie theater, arms folded. She looked long and slim and elegant, as always, although the angry expression made her much less pretty.

''RIN!'' she screeched.

''Hey, Kikyo,'' Rin said nervously. ''Look who we ran into.''

''After all I've done for you,'' Kikyo said, her voice as cold as ice. ''I made you popular. I got you a boyfriend. Don't you know I can take it all away like that?'' She snapped her fingers.

Kagome found herself unconsciously leaning into Inuyasha, away from Kikyo, and he put one arm around her in a protective way that she liked.

Was this an act? Kikyo seemed genuinely mad. Maybe Rin really had been keeping it a secret from her. But then how did Kikyo know to show up there?

A suspicion struck her. Could Kikyo have weaseled the information out of Koga?

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''Oh, for heaven's sake,'' Rin said. ''Dont be a drama queen, Kikyo. I just wanted to go to the movies. You're not the be-all and end-all of my social life.''

''You'll be lucky to have a social life after this,'' Kikyo said. ''Sesshomaru, come with me.'' She turned regally, swinging her hair back from her forehead.''

''Please,'' Rin scoffed. ''He's my boyfriend.''

''Not if I don't want him to be,'' Kikyo said. ''Come along, Sesshy.''

Sesshomaru hesitated, looking back and forth between them.

Rin's mouth dropped open. ''For real?'' she said. ''Sesshomaru!''

''I can get you Kagura Kasumi,'' Kikyo said to him.

''Okay,'' Sesshomaru said with a shrug. ''Maybe she won't won't fuss at me like this one does.''

Inuyasha snorted.

''You kiss like a wet fish, anyway!'' Rin called as Sesshomaru trailed after Kikyo. ''Troglodyte!''

Inuyasha and Kagome exchanged uncomfortable glances. Kagome wasn't sure what they were supposed to do. Rin wasn't exactly her friend, but they couldn't just walk away from her after that.

''Oh my God,'' Rin huffed, blowing strands of hair out of her face. ''What a waste of three months that was. I'm sorry you guys, we totally ruined your date.''

''It's okay,'' Kagome said. Espically since it's not even a real date.

''I guess you guys should go to dinner without me,'' Rin said. ''I'll just go home and start cutting Sesshomaru out of photographs or something.''

''That sounds terrible, Rin,'' Kagome said. ''You should come with us.''

Besides, she had no idea what she and Inuyasha would talk about for an entire dinner by themselves. Would they still act like it was a date? As long as Rin was there, she could keep pretending it really was.

''Yeah,'' Inuyasha said halfheartedly.

''Oh, sure,'' Rin said. ''Third wheel on your one-week anniversary. I'm sure that's exactly what you want.''

''We could call Miroku,'' Kagome said. ''I'm sure he'd be happy to come join us. And then you wouldn't feel like a third wheel.''

Rin brightened a little. ''Really? Wouldn't that be weird?''

''He won't mind,'' Kagome said. ''Right Inuyasha?''

''Sure,'' Inuyasha said. ''I guess I can share Kagome just this once.'' He took her hand and squeezed it. Kagome wondered what that meant.

Rin loaned Kagome her cell phone, and although he had grumbled a bit in his Miroku way about being in the middle of filming, he managed to make it to the diner in record time. He slid into the booth, next to Rin, before they'd even had a chance to order.

''Hey, Miroku,'' Rin said. ''Sorry to drag you out into the world on a Friday night. You'll never believe how I got ditched.''

As she launched into the story of Sesshomaru and Kikyo, Inuyasha leaned sideways and tapped on the back of Kagome's hand. She jumped

''Want to share fries?'' he asked

'' Sure, okay,'' Kagome answered.

She thought it was interesting to watch Rin transform her whole three-month relationship with Sesshomaru into a funny story. It was as if Rin's life could be a TV show in her own mind - something hilarious that happened to someone else. The way she described it to Miroku, it really did seem very funny. But Kagome couldn't imagine doing that herself. When Inuyasha went off to date someone else, she wouldn't be able to sidesplitting stores about pretending to be his girlfriend. She would just be sad.

After dinner, they went back to Miroku and Kagome's house and baked cookies, filming themselves with Miroku's camera, until their mother finally announced that it was time for Rin and Inuyasha to go home. Kagome realized that she hadn't been worrying about how to act on the date for at least a couple of hours. It had been like any other night when Inuyasha came over, except that Rin was there too.

And there was one other difference. Kagome walked Rin and Inuyasha to the door, where Rin's mom was waiting outside in the car. Rin started down the porch steps, but Inuyasha hesitated in the doorway.

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Oh my God, Kagome thought. It's the end of the date. Don't real couples kiss at the end of a date? Will Rin think it's weird if we don't? Does it matter, if she's not friends with

Kikyo anymore?

Inuyasha looked into her eyes, and Kagome held her breath. On one hand, she wanted him to. Of course she wanted him to ; she'd been wanting Inuyasha to kiss her for almost three years. But if this was her first kiss........ she wanted it to be real. She wanted it to be important to the guy as well as to her. She wanted Inuyasha to kiss her because he wanted to, not because he was playing a role.

''Um, good night,'' she said quickly, stepping forward to hug him good-bye. Maybe that would let him know that he didn't have to do anything else.

His arms tightened around her and it seemed for a moment like time slowed down, and she could have stood there forever, pressed against him. She breathed in the smell of his hair and felt the warmth of his face right next to hers.

Finally he let go and stepped back, and she did, too, trying to act casual, like that had been a perfectly ordinary hug.

''Okay. Good night,'' he said. He ducked his head, kissed her quickly on the cheek, and then turned, jumping down the steps. Within moments, he had vanished into the night.

And that was the end of Kagome's first date.

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Kagome: Why couldn't you let him kiss me?

TunaFish: Cause I'm the author and I said so

Inuyasha: Sulks around in a corner

TunaFish: .........................

A/N:

Question and answer time!!!!!

iluvSokka46: Q: Are you updating on love783904 or EmoTunaFish0.0

A: I am going to be updating the tenth chapter on EmoTunaFish0.0 not love783904 unless, my reviewers + readers ask me to. So I hope I didn't leave you too confused there

Kagome: Please review !

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