A/N: Hi guys! It's been a while since I've actually conversed with you guys! I hope this story is pleasing to everyone who is reading it. There are possibly 3 or 4 more chapters left. I never intended for this to be that long. Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well.
There is a lime in this chapter; I couldn't resist. :)
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Who knew that so much could happen in two days? My life has never been this exciting and now we are going to a fair! So many wonderous things happen a fair...or at least they do in movies. Haha.
"That'll be $16." The ticket master happily smiled at the couple in front of him.
How it is to be young again...
InuYasha reached in his pocket and pulled out a $20 that was gladly exchanged by the feeble old man behind the ticket booth. He tore off 20 tickets and handed them to the man.
"Enjoy your night." The elder man winked at InuYasha as the couple walked away to reveal another couple who came to enjoy their night.
"Keh." InuYasha had unknowingly reached for Kagome's hand, causing Kagome to blush. Oh how bad she wanted to pull back but her heart convinced her otherwise.
As they walked through the actual entrance of the fair, Kagome was taken back by how beautiful everything looked. Lights of many colours adorned the fairgrounds, creating a sort of atmospheric glow around the couple. Straight ahead was nothing but a brightly lit path of food vendors, aligning both sides, that led to where all the fair rides and games were.
"Wow..." Was all Kagome could manage to get out.
"So, where do you want to go first?" InuYasha casually asked. But the look on Kagome's face naturally lightened her gorgeous facial features. The lights reflected in her eyes so gracefully, softening her features, causing an angelic glow to envelope her and making his heart skip a beat.
Whoah...calm down InuYasha. It's just a fair and only for an hour or so.
All of a sudden, "Summer" by Calvin Harris started to play through the speakers that were hanging on all the light poles on the grounds.
"I love this song!" Kagome squealed. She started to run down the path, dragging InuYasha with her. He chuckled at her childish antics. God, she is magnificent.
"When I met you in the summer..." Kagome sang along, giggling like a little school girl. She saw a booth up ahead that looked like fun; it looked like one she saw in a movie once.
Was it Grease?
"Where are we headed?" InuYasha yelled behind her.
All she did was point to a booth that read "Knock Me Down". He studied it upon closer inspection.
"Would you like to play Little Missie?" A rather large man with a mustache behind a counter asked Kagome.
She nodded a thousand times over, smiling all the way.
"Well, since you are so determined and quite adorable, I'll let you throw the first ball free of charge." His smile soon faded when he watched, what he assumed was the boyfriend of the woman, growl in his face.
"InuYasha! What is wrong with you!" Kagome pushed him aside and apologized to the game vendor.
InuYasha, himself, was surprised at his sudden outburst just as much as, or even more than, the man and Kagome.
"I-I don't know what came over me." He excused himself from Kagome to find the nearest bathroom. On the way, though, he bumped into Sango and Miroku.
"Where's Kago-" Miroku was quickly shut off by the growling hanyou running past him.
"I'll go find Kagome. Check on him." Sango told Miroku. He nodded and followed after their leader.
InuYasha found the men's room, which was surprisingly nice for an outside fair. He ran over to the nearest sink and turned the cold water on to splash his face. Just as he began to dry his face, the door opened to reveal a troubled looking Miroku.
"Man, what has gotten into you?" He walked over to where InuYasha was and put a hand on his shoulder.
"I really don't know man. One minute I was being dragged by a happy, overgrown kid-Kagome and the next minute I was growling at a game vendor because of his comment to Kagome." His head fell into his hands.
Miroku sighed, realizing his friend's simple solution to his simple problem,"I think you're in loooove my dear friend."
InuYasha shot up and glared at his friend. Hard.
"What the hell do you mean?! I'm trying to get a divorce and-"
This time it was Miroku's turn to interrupt.
"You're divorcing Kikyo? Didn't you just marry her like 5 months ago?" Miroku's curiosity peaked.
It was going to come out anyway...
InuYasha turned his gaze toward the mirror in front of him," At first, I just wanted to get away from her. I long had the divorce papers with me, just in case. I signed them the second day of our marriage in fact." He chuckled.
Miroku just kept listening. InuYasha continued.
"Anyway, I decided enough was enough. I wasn't going to let my parent's rule my life anymore. So, a few days ago, I left that bitch a note that I would return with divorce papers ready to sign soon. I flew to L.A. to start my journey back to New York on motorcycle, hoping the days would further clear my head and help prepare me for my parent's and Kikyo's wrath."
Miroku finished," And now your parent's and Kikyo are out to bring you back home."
"Yeah. But I don't understand how they even knew where I was. I didn't tell them!" InuYasha rolled his neck and looked at Miroku.
"Hmm...we are in quite the predicament. Well, how about you go back out there and go have fun with Kagome. She seems like a really nice girl and I think she likes you too." Miroku wiggled his eyebrows in a provocative manner.
InuYasha blushed at the thought of Kagome liking him back. But do I really like her?
A knock on the door caused both men to panic. But they calmed down when they heard Kagome on the other side.
"Are you okay InuYasha?"
"He's fine!" Miroku answered for him," In fact..." He grabbed his friend's wrist and pushed him toward's the door. He opened it and shoved InuYasha onto Kagome, causing him to fall on top of her.
Miroku noticed Sango had come with Kagome and grabbed her hand for them to run away, he being afraid of what InuYasha would do.
"Houshi!" InuYasha quickly helped himself and Kagome off the ground, but not quick enough because Houshi was out of sight.
"Damn lecher." He mumbled under his breath. He felt a tiny hand on his shoulder and turned to see Kagome looking down at the ground.
"Le-Let's go back. I really wanted to try my hand at winning a plushie I saw..." Her voice was barely coherent, but InuYasha's ears caught it.
"Okay." He whispered.
Kagome looked up and smiled her gorgeous pearly whites at him. Something inside him caused a low growl to escape. His heart raced at the sight of her pink-tinted cheeks.
She grabbed his hand and ran back over to the booth, for a second time in 30 minutes. The heavy-set man saw them coming and backed away a little when the couple approached the counter.
"Does your offer still stand?" Kagome asked, batting her eyelashes.
"Will your boyfriend attack me again?" The man didn't sound like his peachy front when they first arrived.
"InuYasha's not my-" Kagome started to say how he wasn't her boyfriend, but deep inside she wished she didn't have to.
"I'm sorry about before. I'm fine now." InuYasha smiled and apologetical smile.
He neither denied or confirmed it! Kagome squealed inside. Maybe she had a chance with this hanyou.
"O-Okay." The man eyed him for a second before he turned around to where he held the baseball sized balls and picked out one for Kagome.
He handed it to her, still keeping his eyes on the man," You see these bottles behind me?" he pointed to a counter, about 6 feet behind him, that held 7 sets of glass bottles that stacked three to a set,"you have to knock a set down in order to win one of these prizes." He pointed to the array of prizes that cluttered all around the outside of the booth.
"Ok." Kagome positioned herself, trying to copy a baseball pitcher.
InuYasha wanted to chuckled at the determined look on her face; it contorted in concentration.
After counting to 3 to herself, she aimed at the set that wa right in the middle and threw the ball as fast and hard as she could.
Miss.
"Oh, I'm sorry Little Missie. Maybe next time." The heavy moustached man turned around and walked to the counter behind him to stack the glass bottles back up.
"Aw." Kagome looked up at the prize she wanted so bad: a stuffed cat plushie that looked almost identical to her cat that died in her apartment fire. Tears started to swell up inside her and InuYasha could practically bathe in the potentness of her sadness.
"Hold on! Give me the damn balls." He ordered the vendor.
"It's 3 tickets for 3 balls." He pointed to a sign beside him that listed the prices and amount of tickets for so many balls.
"I only need one." InuYasha smirked.
"1 ticket please." The vendor placed a ball on the counter, his right hand stretched out and palm up.
Kagome reached in her pocket and tore off a ticket to give to InuYasha. He gladly took it and smacked it on the vendor's outstretched hand.
"Good luck." The man moved away to give InuYasha some room.
"Keh." Without even thinking about it, InuYasha threw the ball at the set Kagome had aimed for.
Hit.
"Told you I only needed one ball." InuYasha nonchalantly told the man, whose mouth was wide open.
"You can take any of these prizes." He shakily pointed all around him.
"That cat. The fat one." InuYasha reached above him and unhooked the fat cat from the netting, before giving it to one very happy Kagome.
"InuYasha! You have no idea what this means..." Kagome started to tear up until the emotions could no longer be contained and let the floodgate out.
"Come again." The vendor waved them off as InuYasha led the emotionally stressed Kagome to a sitting area near some food vendors.
"Calm down Kagome. Umm..." He wasn't exactly the best person at trying to calm a crying girl.
"I-I'm ju-just so so so hap-py." She buried her face in InuYasha's chest, while tightly holding her fat cat, which she so happily named Buyo the Second.
InuYasha just wrapped his arms protectively around the girl and continuously rubbed her back, trying his best to calm her.
After a good 10 minutes, Kagome finally calmed down enough to form complete sentences.
"This cat looked so much like my little Buyo that died in my apartment fire. Thanks Yash...uh! I mean InuYasha!" She squeezed her cat a little tighter and hid her embarrassed face in it.
InuYasha laughed at her innocence," Yash is fine. Hey, there is still some time left before we need to hit the road. Want to go anywhere else?"
Kagome nodded in her plushie and looked to her right, where there stood the nation's biggest ferris wheel.
"Let's go." This time, he grabbed her by the hand and ran over to where the tall ferris wheel towered.
"For couples, it is 10 tickets." A woman smiled at them. Kagome nodded and tore off 10 tickets to hand to the nice lady. She took them and ushered them into an empty carriage before closing and locking the door.
The wheel started to move up, startling Kagome in the process, but InuYasha wrapped an arm around her waist to calm her down.
"This is the most fun I've ever had." She admitted. Being sheltered your whole life really takes a toll on a person's development and sense of 'fun'.
"Why haven't you ever been to a fair? Even my older sadist of a half-brother enjoys a fair every once in a while." He felt Kagome snuggle up against him and place her head on his shoulder.
She watched the stars twinkle opposite of the window in front of her before answering," My life has always been controlled. My mother sheltered me away from the world."
InuYasha now realized how similar they really were,"I know what that's like. After a while, you just feel-"
"Trapped?" Kagome finished for him.
"Yeah. Like one of Houdini's inescapable boxes. Your life is shaped and molded by what your parents have predestined for you. They don't give you the time of day when it's something you want. That's fucked up in my book." He looked down to see Kagome looking up. His golden ochre eyes met her chocolate swirls. Both now understood.
He ever so gently grasped her chin and brought her face closer to his. At last, their lips met in an almost explosive way, like a fire could start at any moment from their lips moving against each other. The ferris wheel stopped near the top to let more passengers on at the bottom.
Kagome felt her bottom lip being licked, knowing InuYasha was desperately trying to slip between her lips. A little hesitant, she eventually allowed him access in and he gladly took it. Their tongues slid past each other, both trying to gain dominance. InuYasha slid his free hand inside Kagome's shirt and trailed up her bare stomach to where her ample breasts were firmly sitting in her bra. Kagome's free right hand was intertwined in InuYasha's hair, pulling herself closer to him. She felt a yank on her bra and soon followed was a rough thumb that started to rotate on her left nipple.
A moan escaped her lips, which caused a low, seductive rumble inside InuYasha's chest. They retracted from each other to give each more oxygen. InuYasha took this opportunity to trail his hot, heavy breaths on her shoulder. It caused Kagome to shudder, but she gladly welcomed the feeling.
He spoke against the crevice of her neck, "I really really want-"
Ring Ring Ring
"The fuck?!" InuYasha yelled. As quickly as their love fest had started, it ended just as quickly. He reached into his back pocket for his phone. Kagome pulled away and fixed her bra. She hugged her plushie and looked out the window beside her, away from InuYasha.
What in the hell happened? What I wanted, happened, but does InuYasha really feel like that too or was he just caught up in the heat of the moment?
"What do you mean?! You better not be lying to me Fluffy! I'll kill you!" InuYasha yelled into the phone.
Sesshomaru was on the other end, sipping hot tea in his office. The family had left hours ago, en route to where InuYasha currently was.
"Look," Sesshomaru cleared his throat, oblivious to InuYasha's empty threats," they were here almost 5 hours ago and left. I'm just as unhappy with that disgrace of a woman as you are. She isn't worthy enough to wear the Taisho name. I thought I'd be nice and give you a heads up. I want you to divorce her as fast as you can. I do believe Father made a terrible choice in picking your wife."
InuYasha processed this information, realizing that his half-brother, the one in the family who despises him the most, was on his side. It would be pretty laughable at any other time.
"So if they left the L.A. airport almost 5 hours ago, they should be close to here. Damn it. Thought I'd never say this to you, but thanks." InuYasha hung up just as the ferris wheel was stopping to let them off.
"What happened?" Kagome was worried by the look InuYasha gave her.
"My parent's and..." he really didn't want to say it, but Kikyo and him were still legally married,"and my wife are on their way here. We have to gather everyone and leave." He gripped her wrist and ran out as soon as the woman unlocked their door.
He ran past the brightly lit fair rides. He ran past the booth that he won a prize for Kagome from. He ran down the path that had food vendors on either side, all kinds of different smells entered his airway. He ran out of the fairgrounds and darted to the dark parking lot. As he approached the parking spots where he knew they parked the bikes, he saw people already there.
Miroku and them? Can't be...it's too early.
He stopped running when he smelled the scent of the people he was dying to avoid.
"Kikyo." He deadly whispered. Kagome still stood at his side, InuYasha's hand around her right wrist and Buyo the Second in her left hand. She noticed a woman, arms crossed, blocking the way to InuYasha's bike; a tall man who looked like InuYasha stood to her left and was holding a really pretty woman close to him.
Is this his family? Kagome all of sudden ran cold with fear.
"Well well. If it isn't my husband and the side ho." Kikyo darkly chuckled, especially eyeing the woman that InuYasha had a death grip on.