When class was over, InuYasha was waiting at my locker for me.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm waiting for a pretty girl to get out of class. What about you?"

"I'm waiting for an ugly dude to explain himself."

He looked offended. "I am not ugly."

"I didn't say you were. I'm not pretty, so you must not be waiting for me. You're not ugly, so I'm not waiting for you."

He looked thoughtful for a minute. "You're right. You aren't pretty. You're beautiful." He smiled gently at me. "I'll see you tonight at seven."

He took my hand and kissed the palm of it, and walked away, never breaking eye-contact. I got my things in a daze.

InuYasha called me beautiful. He took back what he said about me being pretty, and said I was beautiful.

I was so off I didn't realize that Sota was calling my name to remind me not to overcook the pasta. "What's with you Kags?"

"Oh, nothing is wrong."

"You sure nothing's going on."

"Nothing bad anyway."

"Ohhhh…what happened? Is it InuYasha?" He started making kissy faces. I took his jaw in one of my hands, and he began to try to pry it off.

"Even if it's none of your business, which it isn't, yes it does have to with him. He asked me to a party today."

"Is that all? Or is there more? Did he say you were beautiful?"

I froze. "What did you just say? How do you know about that?"

"Sango called wondering what on earth Miroku was blabbering about. Sango said that Miroku said that InuYasha said that he said you were beautiful. Satisfied?"

"Yeah. When did Sango call?"

"When you were all in love with InuYasha. Hey, shouldn't he be in your room right about now? It's one minute until seven."

I choked harder. "How do you know that?"

"Sango said that Miroku said that InuYasha said that he was coming over tonight at seven."

Crap! It was almost time for InuYasha to be here. I ran upstairs, leaving Sota in the kitchen to breathe.

Sure enough, when I got up there, InuYasha was waiting with an expectant look on his face. I rushed over to the window and fumbled with the lock.

"'Bout time."

"I'm so sorry! I lost track of time, and Sota was being a little butt."

He laughed. I noticed that he had on another suit with red as the color. "It's fine. Here."

He handed me a dress bag. "What is this?"

"The dress. Now go try it on." I turned around to the bathroom and locked the door behind me. I opened the bag and had to cover my mouth with my hand.

The dress was blood red and strapless, with a lighter red band around the bust and around the waist. The bottom didn't have any intricate designs, but there were folds of chiffon overlapping. I put it on and it fit to a tee. Further down was a pair of shoes that were black and had a small black flower on it. InuYasha was right: this dress was altered for me.

When I opened the door InuYasha was looking through my pictures. "Having fun messing with me personal life?" He turned around, a witticism on his tongue, but he stopped short when his eyes landed on me. He looked me up and down in a way that no guy ever had. It was a look of enchantment.

"Kagome…" His eyes held a twinkle only seen in the movies. "You look…I don't even know how to describe you."

"Do I look that bad?" I started to freak out. What did he put me in? There's not a full mirror in my bathroom, so I ran over to my closet the best I could with heels and a long dress and looked at my reflection. I didn't look bad.

"Kagome, you are the most beautiful creature to walk this earth(A/N: copyright The Golden Lily by Rochelle Mead.). Why would you even think you looked bad? You never look bad."

"Just a reaction to your reaction."

"Was it that extreme?"

"Just a little." I smiled without teeth.

"If that's what your no-tooth smile looks like, I'd die to see one with teeth." He gave me a toothy grin.

I laughed, showing my teeth, and he smiled bigger.

"You're so corny." I giggled.

"You're so not corny and you're a girl."

"You're worse because it's just not normal for a girl to not like corny, but you being a guy, some might question your status about a closet of sorts."

His mouth opened in fake shock. "How should I prove to Kagome that I am not gay?" He got an evil glint in his eyes.

"What are you doing?" He started to stalk toward me. "InuYasha, what do you think you're doing?" He kept on moving closer as I backed away from him. "InuYasha, stop." He kept moving forward and his face held a Joker-like smile.

I stopped when my back hit one of my walls. He put a hand on either side of my face and leaned in so close I could smell him. He smelled warm and cuddly. "Kagome." He said.

"Can I help you with something?" I asked, more calm then I had been.

He kept leaning in until our mouths were just a sliver of an inch apart. (A/N: Can you guess what happens now?) "Believe me now?" He was smiling, I could hear it in his voice because I couldn't look down or our mouths would meet.

"Nope." I smirked. Hey, I said I couldn't look down, I never said I couldn't make a face, within reason that is.

He backed away from my face quickly, but his hands remained. "How do I not dazzle you?"

I began to laugh at him. "You don't think I'd let something like that show, do you?" He looked like a lost puppy. "You don't know a thing about my past, do you?"

"I know about your dad, that your mom's a total bitch, your brother is all you have family wise, but that you have three fantastic friends: Miroku, Sango, and me, the best." His face remained still. "But other than that I don't know about your past."

I gave a sigh. "How much time do you have here?"

"I have as much as you need me." He sounded so sincere.

"Okay, I need a real answer, because this is going to be a long story."

"I told you: I have as much time as you need me, and then some. If I get yelled at, screw it."

"I don't want you to get in trouble on my account."

"Oh please, do you think my parents care why I'm late? I'm on time mostly, so they don't care why I am late if I am, because they know it's for a good reason. So I have as much time as you need me."

I nodded. "I'll be right back. So this works for you?" I twirled in the dress slowly. When I turned around, InuYasha had a soft, peaceful smile on his face.

"It's beautiful. You're beautiful."

A light pink dusted my cheeks. "Where did you get this?"

"Do you remember when you took the test? That night, we were meeting Rin, Sesshomaru's girlfriend, she has a ballroom gown fashion line, and she gave me this. It was one of her more toned down designs."

"Will Rin be there?"

"She will."

"Good. I want to meet her. Whoever can design something as simple yet amazing as this deserves a hug."

"Be careful, Sesshomaru might think you're making a move on his girl."

"Are you questioning me?" I said, bringing my hands up to wrap around his wrists that were around my face. I took them off of my wall and pushed them back to his hips, my hands staying on his, my thumbs resting on his hips.

"Kagome?"

I got closer to him, my chest touching his chest. I leaned my head up to his mouth. "This change your mind?"

"N-no."

I gave a slight giggle. "Do I have you tongue-tied, my InuYasha?"

"Keh, no." He flipped his hands back around to capture mine. "You were going to get out of that dress, were you not?" He wiggled his eyebrows and pulled me in closer and rested his hand on the zipper of the dress.

"InuYasha I swear if you unzip this dress bad things will happen to you."

His hand slid down bringing the zipper with it. "Like that." He did it again.

"Yes like that."

"So do it?" He unzipped the dress halfway.

"InuYasha, stop."

"Stop what?" He unzipped it a little more.

"Unzipping my dress!" I whisper-yelled.

"Keep doing it? Yes, okay." He unzipped it all the way and it would've fallen all the way if his chest hadn't been pressed so firmly on mine.

"InuYasha, either zip it back up, or walk with me to the bathroom." He began to walk me backwards into the bathroom and locked the door. I had my hands to hold up the dress by now, and my other hand was searching for the zipper. He came over and took the hand looking for the zipper.

"Afraid of me now?" His hand curled around the wrist that was holding my dress up. "Are you afraid of me now?"

"Just a little. Now let go of my hand."

He dropped his hand and turned to leave. "Just this time Higurashi." He chuckled and left, letting me change back into my other clothes. I grabbed some p.j.'s from the floor (A/N Oh like you haven't done it before.) I grabbed some black Buffy The Vampire Slayer shorts and a shirt that said "Angel is my Demon.".

I walked out of the bathroom to find InuYasha looking at a picture of me and Sango. "Looking through my personal stuff again Takahashi. What is it with you and being my stalker?"

He smiled and walked over to me. "I thought I was your demon." He said poking me in the stomach where Angel's face was.

"Nope, just the plague."

He snagged his phone from his pocket and flung his arm around my shoulders. He faced the camera towards us and took a picture. "There, now you have a picture of just you and me." He sent me the picture and to some email. "And I'll print it out and frame it for you." He winked. "Now then, you told me you had a story to tell me."

"I do." I went over to my bed and sat, then patted a spot next to me for him to sit. He walked over and sat down, looking uncomfortable. "If you want to take your shoes off and lay down-." I didn't even finish the sentence before he had his shoes off, sitting with his legs out in front of him, and the top two buttons of his shirt open. "Well, that didn't take long." I put my back against the bed post and laid my legs out in front of me too. Our legs crossed each other.

"Alright, so story time begins now." He nodded for me to begin.

I took a deep breath in and let it out. "Okay, so a while back, I met this guy, Onigumo. He and I spent so much time together and we got to know each other so well, I'd fallen for him before I knew it. One night, things were getting pretty steamy." I saw InuYasha tense at this. "I wasn't ready to give it up yet, so I told him no. He said 'if you love me, you will sleep with me.'. I told him that I did love him, but I wasn't ready to sleep with him and that I wanted to wait until I was married, and he told me that I was a scared bitch." InuYasha's face twisted in anger. "It was then that he tried to rape me."

"HE WHAT?!" InuYasha jumped up and landed on the ground seething. I was afraid that he would turn into his demon again.

"But I stopped him before he could do anything. I kicked him in the stomach and ran. I'm fine now." I got up and rubbed InuYasha's arm with one hand as the other held on to his elbow. He turned to face me, and his eyes had a small red hue to them. He grabbed me by the arms in a tight grip and drug me back to the bed. He laid down with his head on the pillows and pulled me down with him.

"Anything else?"

"No. Ever since then I've had an issue with guys and trusting them." I shrugged my shoulders. He turned me around to face him.

"Kagome, I will never hurt you, betray you or try to rape you, or do anything else to hurt you in any way, be it physical, emotional or mental. I will always be by your side Kagome."

I nestled my head into his chest. "I know. And I'll never hurt you as long as I know you, and then some."

He rested his chin on the top of my head and we stayed like that until I fell asleep.

I don't know how he got me under the covers and sneak out of my room without me waking up, but he did it. And in three days I'll be at his house for the party. School was over until the first of the year, so InuYasha made sure to turn off my alarm clock. Or so I thought. Five minutes after I woke up, my phone's alarm went off, InuYasha's voice being the alarm.

"Wakey wakey my lovely. Three days until you come over to my house. At approximately 12:00 I will be at your window, so you better be there. This isn't about the dress, or anything about the party. Wear something nice, like that dress Sango put you in two weeks ago for Kohaku's birthday party. See you then. There's a reason I waited until 11:45 to leave you this." The message ended. I ran to the shower and hopped in. I took 15 minutes on purpose. When I got out, a towel around my hair and body, I saw InuYasha at my window. When he looked over at me his eyen nearly fell out of his face.

"What's wrong with you, InuYasha?" I smiled seductively at him.

"I told you when I was going to get here, didn't I?"

"Yeah, you did." I walked over to my closet and looked through it until I found the purple long-sleeved one-shoulder with the sleeve made of black lace, and came down to mid-thigh. "Is this the one?" I held it up for him to see.

"Yeah. I'll wait for you."

"Unless you change your mind."

"Ha, I won't though."

I turned around and walked into the bathroom and locked the door. I slipped out of the towel and into the dress. I dried my hair and brushed it out and let it hang down. I stepped out two minutes later and found some black shoes.

"Heels if you don't mind."

I rolled my eyes, but found a pair of two-inch black heels. "Better? Why do I even need heels? It's snowing outside."

"Because…you just do, okay."

"Where are you taking me to?"

"Somewhere." He picked me up bridal style and brought me to the window as I wrapped my arms around his neck for stability. "Hold on to me."

"What does it look like I'm doing?"

He rolled his eyes and jumped off my window sill. I kicked both my legs up and tightened my grip on his neck in surprise and let out a yelp.

He gave a loud laugh. "Take you by surprise did I?" He laughed once more.

He kept running on the sidewalk, but slow enough for people to see us. Hojo and Naraku were glaring each other down when they saw me and InuYasha. Then they glared at him. Hojo even started to run with us. He opened his mouth to say something, but then, like the cartoons, he ran into a telephone pole before he could say anything and I giggled softly.

"Nice one Hojo!" Yelled InuYasha.

He kept running for a while, almost thirty minutes maybe, and my arms are getting tired. "InuYasha, how much longer?"

"Not far, only another couple seconds." Sure enough, as soon as he said it, he started to slow down, and he came to a walk. "Do you think you can walk on your own?"

"Put me down and we'll find out." He started to put me down hesitantly so as not to drop me. When my feet made contact with the ground, I stumbled from being uncomfortable for so long. He instantly wrapped an arm around my waist. "Kagome!"

"I'm fine, just a little slow, duh."

"Okay, it's just up here." He kept the arm around my waist as he led me down the sidewalk. "How are you feeling?"

"I'm fine, thank you."

He smiled softly at me. "After you." He opened a glass door for me, and I stepped through. When I entered the room, I was met with the sound of running water and the smell of fresh water from a creek in the middle woods. The room was dark and had stalks of bamboo lining the dark blue walls, with potted plants hanging from the ceiling. There were women in there were dressed in traditional deep blue kimonos with their hair up in a bun. One of them came over to us.

"Hello, how may I help you?"

"Takahashi please."

She looked down on a list. "Hello InuYasha! Welcome to Takumi's. Is this Kagome?" Her eyes shifted to me.

"She is." He said while smiling down at me.

The lady nodded knowingly. "Follow me." She grabbed two menus and led us to a table made to look like a melted mirror, with bamboo surrounding us.

"It's beautiful." I breathed. InuYasha squeezed my hand.

"It is, isn't it."

The lady gestured for us to sit down. InuYasha came behind me and pulled my chair out for me. "Thank you." I blushed. Training to be a demon slayer I didn't really have time to date. I've never even been on a date.

"Is this a good first date?" Asked InuYasha.

"Woa, what? This isn't a date."

"Oh come one, can't it be? Please?"

I sighed. "No." Something occurred to me. "How do you know I've never been on a date. I told you that story about Onigumo. How do you know he never took me on a real date?"

"I did a little research."

I thought about his past. "Oh. No. Please, please tell me you did not track Onigumo down."

"I wish I had enough time to do that, but no, I didn't. I bugged Sango."

I leaned my head back. "Why do you care about my past with Onigumo?"

"He did something to you, and I want to make it right. So I'm taking you on a proper date. Now will you please say this is a date?"

I sighed in defeat. "Fine, it's a date."

"Yes."

The lady came back to us. "Ready yet?"

InuYasha slapped his forehead. "we got so caught up talking we didn't even look. Sorry."

She gave us a big smile. "It's no problem." Unlike most waiters somewhere else, she sounded like she meant it.

I picked up my menu and started to look. Most of it was from Europe or America, so I have no clue what they are. The only thing that I knew was sushi, so I got that and some water.

"You ordered sushi and water because you have no clue what anything else is, do you." He said it as a statement, not a question.

"No. Why would you do that?"

He laughed. "Because it's fun to see you do something and not know what you're doing. Do you know how hard it is to find something you're not good at? Food is the only thing that you don't know."

The lady, Hitomiko, brought our drinks. He got some tea from Ireland.

"Do you want a sip?" He held his cup to my mouth holding eye contact. I opened my mouth slightly and warm liquid poured in.

And I wanted to spit it right back out.

He started laughing at my reaction. I almost choked on it, but I don't want to look rude by spitting it out, so I swallowed it and then chugged some water.

By the time I was done, InuYasha was still laughing at me. "Yeah, yeah, get over it." I took another sip of water. "Shut up, or else." I left the threat on the table and he shut up. "That's what I thought. Now then, where were we?"

"Political junk. Presidents and governors, impeachment and the judicial branch." InuYasha stroked his chin to make it look like he had a beard.

I giggled a little. We kept talking until our food arrived and I almost started a food fight with InuYasha's hamburger and my sushi. Other than that it was one of the best times I've ever had. When it came time to leave it was almost three. Yes, we were there for three hours.

"Alright, so that was all the fun I had planned for us today, so I guess I should take you back home. Do you want me to carry you, you do you want to ride on my back?"

"I'm in a dress."

"Yeah, your point?"

"My point is wouldn't that be uncomfortable?"

"Maybe for you, but not me."

"Of course not." He turned around and I jumped on his back. Don't worry I had shorts on underneath it. He ran faster than he did when we came here and he jumped more and more. We reached my house in ten minutes.

"Now why didn't you use that speed when you picked me up?''

"Because I could tell you were uncomfortable being where you were. Contrasting your prior beliefs I can act like a gentleman when I want to." He held his chin higher in the air.

"Thank you for this afternoon." I smiled at him.

He smiled back at me. "Hey, I couldn't help it. You never had a real date when you were with that monster, so I thought I'd make up for it."

"Well, I appreciate it. Thank you." He pointed to his nose. "What?" He kept pointing to his nose and I finally got what he meant. He wanted me to kiss him…on the nose. I rolled my eyes and started up. Right before I pressed my lips to his nose, he bent his head down and captured my mouth with his, kissing me through a smile.

When we pulled back for air, he had a smirk. "Think you're smart do you? You're not. I knew you were going to do that." Even though I didn't.

"No you didn't. I didn't even know that I was going to do that until you started. I didn't even think you were going to do it at first until I heard you sigh.

I opened my mouth in shock. I punched him on the arm and he cringed. "Did you forget that I'm lethal? Remember that I can beat you whenever I feel like it."

He put both hands up in a sign of surrender. "Okay, okay, I give. I'm sorry. Am I forgiven?"

"Fine, but no more." I was actually serious about this. When I kissed Koga I didn't think about it as much. I'm still a little uncomfortable with the physical aspect of a relationship. Not that InuYasha and I are dating, or that I would want to…right?

He got a look of realization in his golden eyes. "Okay. I understand."

I got closer and hugged him to me. "Thank you." He was surprised at first, but then he wrapped his arms around my torso. "Goodbye. See you in two days."

"See you in two days."

I went in through the front door and was met with a little brother crying and a mom sitting on the couch far away from him. It seems they had a fight.

Sota looked up and his face brightened. He got up off the couch, nearly falling on the way there. "Kagome!" I knew he was crying, but it looked like he'd been crying for a while. He nearly knocked me down when he hugged me.

"Hey Sota. How are you?"

"I should be asking you that. What happened to you? When I went into your room this afternoon you were gone and your phone was still on your dresser, so I thought the worst."

"But then I talked to him that you were probably just out and forgot your phone. He just wouldn't listen to reason though."

"You can knock someone out mom." Said Sota, a hint of hatred in his voice. This wasn't Sota. They'd had another fight.

Sota and mom had fights a lot because Sota doesn't think it's right the way that he gets so much more attention than I do. This must've been one of those times.

"Sota has a point. But so does mom. I'm a demon fighter. It's going to take a hell of a lot more than someone knocking me out to capture me."

"Watch your tongue young lady. Such foul language, probably from that Sango you always hang around."

"Mother, enough. It'll take a heck of a lot more than that to capture me. Better?"

She glared at me. "Alright, smarty, go upstairs. Look at what you've done to your brother. He's been crying for so long. Ever since this morning."

"Mom, I left at twelve-thirty. I didn't have a morning. Come on Sota, why don't you come with me to my room." I gave my mother one last look and turned on my heal, Sota right behind me.

We entered my room and InuYasha was sitting on my bed. "I didn't know I left my window open to strangers."

"I didn't either." Said Sota from right beside me. It startled InuYasha. "Hey InuYasha."

"Hey Sota. How've you been?"

"Okay."

"Now, I know the second Kagome walked into her house that she was in trouble, or rather your mother. Your sister's anger smells so good."

"So her happy smells bad."

"She smells amazing whatever her mood. I'm just smelling more and more anger from her as time goes on."

"Yeah. Mom's been a real witch lately. Even more so since Kagome got into your class."

InuYasha scrunched his eyebrows together. "She's mad at you for getting into the boys' class?"

"Yeah. Oh you should've seen it. I think mom's afraid that she'll turn out to be just like dad,"

InuYasha never broke eye contact with me. "Why would Kagome become her father?"

"Dad was a demon fighter when he was in school too. That's where he learned to be so strong and where to fight. That's why Kagome started learning right before he left us. She never told me what that meant though."

There's a reason why that is. Right before my father left us, he came home drunk one night. I was in the living room watching Vampire Knight when he clumbsily opened the door and shut it back, never waking mom or Sota. He came into the living room, the top button of his shirt had been ripped off.

He came closer. "Why the hell are down here in my spot on the couch?" I was confused because dad had his own chair. "Answer me bitch."

"Daddy? What are you saying?" I whispered to him. I remember how scared of him I was.

"Who the hell are you?" He couldn't even remember who his own daughter was.

"Daddy, it's me, Kagome."

He slapped me in the face. "I think I'd remember my own daughter. My daughter could block a punch from a drunk man."

I was in shock from the slap I didn't see him move once more. He tossed me to the floor, my tumbling across the carpet onto the hard kitchen floor. He came into the kitchen and grabbed a knife. He started to shove it in my face, never touching me though.

"Can you defend yourself? Huh!" He placed the knife back on the counter. "Daughter she says. It's a lie." He turned back to me, a look of pure hate in his cold eyes. He kicked me in the stomach, making me slide into the counter where the knife was, making it fall on me right as my mother walked in, the knife cutting me on the arm.

"Kagome!"

"Himo, you know this girl?"

"Yes, Shimi, she's our daughter."

His eyes got warmer, but then grew cold again. "Put the girl away from me."

"Shimi, did you do this to her?"

"Well she has to learn sometime."

Mother turned back to me. "Go upstairs and address your wounds, okay my sweetie? But make sure not to wake your brother."

I nodded because my voice was scared of my 'father'.

A year after my father left us, I was going to tell Sota what happened that night, until mom stopped me. "You can't tell your brother about this."

"Why not?" I asked.

"Because Sota doesn't need to know about this."

"Why not?"

"Sota will not ever find out about this, and that's the end of it."

"Mom, I need-"

"What you need to do is shut up, and just go on. Now, go do your chores."

And from that point on, my mother and I grew further and further apart.

Back to the present, InuYasha's eyes got cold as well. Not towards me though. "Sota, why don't you go and play in your own room."

Sota could sense that InuYasha and I were going to talk about things, so he gave a swift nod and left.

"What the hell was that? Is there more to your past that I don't know? What happened?"

I sighed and relayed the whole night. InuYasha's head fell.

"I am so sorry Kagome. You've been through so much. And to believe that your mom doesn't even care. I think you should go get help."

"You think I'm crazy, don't you."

"No, I mean relationship counseling with your mother. Or she needs to go into a crazy bin. Try and hide from your son a part of his father leaving, and beating his older sister. That's sick is what that is."

"InuYasha, it's done. There's nothing I can do about it."

"But there's something I can do about it."

"Like what?"

He looked me in the eye with sympathy and love. "I can't make you forget what he did, but I can help you get past it."

"You already have. You gave me someone to hate, something to channel my energy into, and that was my dislike of you."

"But now that we're friends, what's going to happen?"

"Nothing because I've forgiven him. That's all that I can do."

"When did you forgive him?"

"Two years ago. When I started to beat the crap out of you and Sesshomaru in demon fighting. I wasn't mad because I knew how to protect myself, physically and emotionally."

"By putting up a wall so all those wanting inside have to pass a test? That doesn't seem like forgiving to me."

"That's not him, that's her. I don't want to end up like her so I have to keep that wall up. It's even up around Sango."

"Is it up right now?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"In all honesty, because you're scaring me."

He popped his eyes wide open and realized what he was doing. "Kagome." He walked over to me and picked me up and carried me to the bed. (A/N do I really need to say anything right now, or can you read my mind?)

We laid down like we did last night. We didn't say anything for the rest of the night.

I'm ending it right there. Anything happen in this chapter that you were not expecting at all? Ever. Well, I feel better. I was also called a narrow-minded bitch by my best friend, so forgive me if my writing seems angry.