Shikon Point (Chapter 11)

Kouga paced in his room. The other night Kagome had kissed him. He didn't understand it, not that he didn't like her. He had wanted to ask her out forever. He just... wasn't expecting her to make a move, especially not then. She had seemed really down about something. But she had kissed him.

He always had thought that there was something between her and InuYasha. Of course she liked Kouga too, but it just seemed she liked InuYasha a little... too. That was probably the only thing holding him back from asking her out again. She had kissed him, though.

He still wasn't sure what that really meant. She had given him sort of a mixed impression. Yes, she had kissed him, but she had pulled back first and she hardly gave him a goodbye before practically slamming the door in his face.

What did it all mean? Was it just a one time thing or did it mean something?

Kouga groaned and picked up his phone. If he couldn't figure it out, maybe someone else could and they'd better. He dialed the first numbers that came to mind and sat down as the phone rung. After about five rings someone picked up.

"Hello?"

"Ginta?"

"Who is this?"

"Its me."

"And... uh... that would be who?"

"It's Kouga, you idiot!"

"Oh! Kouga! Uh... what's up?"

"What does it mean if a girl kisses you, then closes the door in your face?" he asked.

"Uh... I don't know" Ginta admitted.

"Idiot, why did I even ask you?"

"Uh... cuz I... " Ginta started, but Kouga was quick. He had already hung up on him.

Kouga groaned under his breath. He dragged a chair over from the other side of the room, placed it beside the phone and sat down. He looked out his window and started to twiddle his fingers, as if he was waiting for something.

"C'mon..."

The phone suddenly began to ring and Kouga picked it up at the first ring, like he knew that it would ring right then.

"I'msorrydon'thangup!" Ginta managed to say in one quick breath.

"Geez, take a breath!" Kouga said, leaning back on the chair and placing a statisfied smile on his face. He placed his feet on his desk and relaxed. "Now, are you going to listen?"

"Yes, did you say something about kissing someone?"

Kouga let out a sigh as he began to tell Ginta what had happened the other day, leaving out that he believed that she was crying earilier and that he had picked her up on the side of the road, half across town.

After Kouga had explained it all to Ginta, the phone became silent.

"Wow... Kagome kissed you?" Ginta asked in slight disbelief.

"Yes, she kissed me! Is that so hard to believe!" Kouga spat into the phone, sitting straight up in his chair.

"No! No! That's not what I meant, it's just surprising... you know!" Ginta said quickly in his defence, expecting to be hung up on.

"Yeah... I know..." Kouga sighed. He leaned back in his chair again and stared up at the ceiling. "Does that mean we're dating or something?"

"I think so..."

The phone was silent once again. Both trying to fully grasp the idea that Kagome now actually was Kouga's girl. Kouga's. He had said so for a very long time, but it never was fully true. This seemed almost surreal.

"Uh... thanks... Ginta..." Kouga mumbled, "I've got to go... bye..." With that, he slowly hung up the phone and stared out the window.

His Girl. Kagome was his girl now.

But he'd have to keep her his girl. InuYasha, that was the one thing that might be a threat.

'I guess I'm picking Kagome up on Monday for school' he thought to himself as he picked up the phone once again.

InuYasha slowly rose out of bed at the sound of his alarm clock. He groaned and walked over to his desk where it was placed. He turned it off and shuffled back into his bed. Fifteen minutes later he was woken by his mom's yelling.

"You're going to be late! I already have to put your clock on the other side of the room, what more do I have to do to get you to get up!" she asked loudly.

"Geez, keep it down", InuYasha said sitting up and rubbing his eyes. "It's not like it's the end of the wor--"

His eyes popped as he caught sight of the time. He suddenly bounced off of the bed and ran over to his closet. He threw a random shirt and jeans onto the bed.

"Mom! Get out! I need to get dressed!" he said pushing her out of the door roughly and closing it behind her.

InuYasha managed to get ready fast enough. He skipped breakfast and jumped into his car.

"Time to pick the girls up" he mumbled to himself as he started to turn the car on.

It took a moment for it to click back into InuYasha's head. She had seen them. He frooze remembering this. He always picked Kagome up first because her house was closer, but he didn't feel it best to do so in this situation. Would she even talk to him now? Was he supposed to say 'sorry'? There had to be a way through it without that.

"InuYasha! Get a move on already!" his mom called from the front steps of his house.

He quickly remembered that if he made Kagome late on top of this, she would for sure never ever talk to him again. Sango would be mad at him too if she was late.

Did she tell Sango? Who else knew about it? He shook his head, trying to clear it so at least he could get out of the driveway. He did so quickly and sped off.

InuYasha stopped abruptly in front of Kagome's house. He quickly jumped out and jogged to her door. He knocked a few times then waited impatiently. He waited for a minute, no answer. He knocked again, but there didn't seem to be one movement from inside.

"Kagome?" he called starting to walk around to the back of her house.

Again, there was no answer. Where was she? Was she not answering on purpose?

"She left."

InuYasha spun around to see a red nosed Shippou standing behind him.

"She left? When? How?" he asked, blinking at the kid.

"A few minutes ago, Kouga picked her up" he said, before taking out a tissue and blowing his nose on it.

InuYasha winced in disgust from the sound Shippou made into the tissue. It took him a minute to recover from the noise so that he could process what Shippou just told him.

She left... with Kouga!

Envy started to boil in him, he tried not to let it show. He didn't want the little kid taunting him about it, he already had to see enough of that kid since he and Kagome were neighbors. Plus, Shippou might tell Kagome about this little 'conversation', the kid was such a kiss-up to her.

"Well... I didn't ask you" he said rudely.

"Yes, you did!" Shippou said jumping up and down, "You just did!"

Yes, he had. He knew that. How was he supposed to reply now? He couldn't make it look like he cared. He mumbled something quietly to himself before shrugging.

"Shouldn't you be at school or something?"

"I'm sick! You haven't noticed!"

InuYasha was about to reply back to the kid, when he looked down at his watch.

"Fuck! I'm late!"

"You cursed!" Shippou said accusingly, pointing at InuYasha for effect. InuYasha, however, did not take the time to reply to that or even notice it. He ran over to his car, jumped in and drove off as fast as possible without causing a car accident. He still needed to pick up Sango, or try to at least.

"Hey Kag!" Sango called, shuffling over to Kagome. "Kagome!"

Kagome slowly looked up from her locker at Sango as she popped up next to her.

"Kagome, you alright?" Sango asked, furrowing her brow at Kagome.

"Uh.. yeah. Why wouldn't I be?" Kagome asked straightening up and putting on a small smile.

"Er... just never mind."

Kagome put her attention back to her locker, choosing not to start a conversation with Sango. Sango tilted her head, a bit surprised that Kagome didn't. Usually she couldn't get Kagome to stop talking.

"Hey, Kag? Have you seen Miroku?" Sango asked, looking at her nails as though she really didn't care whether she answered her or not.

"No, he's absent I think."

"Oh" Sango mumbled, letting a bit of the disappointment show in her tone. "Isn't InuYasha absent, too?"

"I don't know" Kagome said, slamming her locker shut. It was such a lie! She then turned to Sango and tried not to look her in the eye, but it seemed Sango was looking at something else anyway.

"There he is!" Sango said, putting on a small smile, "At least one of them is here."

Kagome spun around to see which she was talking about.

'Please don't let it be Inu, please don't let it be Inu!'

It took a moment to stop him. Sure enough it was indeed InuYasha as she had prayed against. Kagome quickly turned back around to Sango, and brushed a hand through her hair nervously.

"Hey! Inu!" Sango called, waving her hands to signal him. Kagome's face lost a bit of its color.

"I've gotta go to next subject" she said quickly and then headed for her escape.

"Kagome?" Sango called, searching the hall with her eyes trying to see where Kagome had darted off to. "Kagome!"

Sango bit her lip, cursing to herself. And turned back around to see InuYasha right in front of her, she almost bumped into him. She let out a slight gasp of surprise. She took a step back and looked up at him.

"You startled me."

"Oh... uh... sorry."

"Where were you?"

"Late."

Sango knew as much. As soon as she noticed he was five minutes late, she knew she should start trying to get a ride from her parents. She had made it just in time. It was lucky really. She felt a little guilty that he had been late alone, the fact that he probably drove to Kagome's house attempting to pick them up didn't really help him get there in time. She brushed the feeling away, he had been late many times before, she doubted he really cared.

"You missed the whole first period!"

"Yeah, I think I noticed" he grumbled in an annoyed tone. "Did you see Kagome?"

"Yeah, I was just talking to her, she ran off. You think something's up with her?" Sango asked, tilting her head and trying to meet his eyes, but he looked away instantly.

"How would I know?" he shot back in defense.

"You both need to relax" Sango said, turning around and beginning to walk away.

What was up with those two? They were acting really weird. Had she missed something? If so, why wasn't Kagome telling her? Were they growing apart or something?

Sango shook her head, to clear the thoughts.

'Don't think like that Sango. Just get to class and leave it!'

Kagome let out a small sigh as she entered the cafeteria. The lunch line seemed to be crowded and today she was buying. She took a suspicious glance around the room. She didn't see InuYasha anywhere, thank God.

She calmly walked over to the line and took her place at the end. She must have been pretty late since she seemed to be the very last. The line didn't seem to be moving at all. She got onto her tippy toes and tried to see if the front was moving. Yes, the front was moving, but somehow the back, where she was, wasn't. She let out a groan, turning to lean on the wall.

It was then she noticed InuYasha step into the cafeteria. Kagome's eyes bulged slowly. He seemed to be looking around the room, for someone. Her? No, it must be Kikyo, she was his girlfriend, right? Kagome bit her lip, admitting this to herself, hurt.

She had a boyfriend, though and it wasn't InuYasha. That proved something, right? Kagome stepped a bit out of line. Where was Kouga? She needed to become closer to him if she ever wanted to get over InuYasha. Or in this case, if she wanted to wait in line without coming in contact with him.

She spotted Kouga, he was much further up in the line. He was surrounded by a few of his friends. They were laughing about something. Kagome glanced back at InuYasha, he seemed to be starting to walk to the line. Perfect time to move.

Kagome swiftly walked out of her spot in the line to Kouga. Yes, she was cutting. She usually hated it when people did it, that was why the line was so long, but she couldn't just stand there as InuYasha got closer.

"Hey Kouga" she greeted him, putting on a big fake smile.

His friends stepped back to see who was talking. They blinked at her, quickly shaking off their bit of surprise and greeting her back.

"Hi Kagome" they replied.

"Hey Kag" Kouga said, giving her a warm smile.

Kouga glanced over at the guys, seeming to give them a bit of a signal. It took them a minute, but then they seemed to start walking off.

"We better... eat... bye Kouga! Bye Kagome!"

"Bye!" Kagome returned to them, giving them a small wave, then turning back to Kouga and stood, wanting to start a conversation. But what was she supposed to talk to him about?

"Hey Kagome! You're leaving me all alone today!" Sango called from their usual table, waving over to her lightly.

"Sorry" Kagome said, blushing slightly as she took a seat next to Sango on the circular table.

"It's okay. We've got to talk, though" Sango said, smiling lightly.

"Talk about what?" Kagome asked, her voice just a tad on the shaky side.

"Well ---"

"Hey guys" InuYasha greeted, pulling into a chair across from them.

"Hey Inu!" Sango said, giving him a big annoyed smile. She had hoped to talk to Kagome alone.

InuYasha glanced over to Kagome who then shifted uncomfortably in her chair. Kagome did not return his greeting, it seemed more like she was trying to ignore it. She looked over her shoulder, searching hopefully for Kouga. InuYasha began to open his mouth to say something. Where was Kouga when she needed him?

"Hey Kag!" he called out from her other side, carrying his tray.

Kouga smoothly took the chair next to Kagome and wrapped an arm around her hip. He had noticed InuYasha and he felt like showing off a bit in front of him. He looked to Kagome and put on a big satisfied smile.

"You cover a lot of ground when you're in a hurry" he commented, starting to eat.

Kagome returned a smile to Kouga and nodded. She felt her stomach lurch, and hid a wince. She reached down and pulled Kouga's arm higher, to her waist. Kagome was uncertain where to look. She was afraid to see Sango's expression (who was surely wondering what was going on), she didn't want to look at InuYasha at all and Kouga's smile was making her nervous, she finally settled for looking straight down at her food and began to eat slowly, even though she didn't have an appetite at the moment. There was silence for a moment, like the world taking in a deep breath.

Suddenly there was a small crash and both Kagome and Sango looked over to see Kouga on the floor and InuYasha glaring down at him.

"What the hell are you doing over here? Don't you have some other table to be at?" he growled. Kouga blinked before jumping up and fixing InuYasha an angry glare.

"I can sit wherever I want! Do you have a problem with that, shit face?" he asked back, pushing InuYasha back lightly, but in a threatening manner.

"Maybe I do" InuYasha answered, returning the push. Sango stared at the two before looking at Kagome with a questioning glance.

Kagome ignored Sango's look, biting her lip. She quickly scanned over the room, most people seemed not to notice the two, Kagome wanted to keep it that way, she didn't like to cause or be in scenes, they drew the wrong kind of attention. Some people liked that kind, but she sure didn't.

"InuYasha, stop it! Leave Kouga alone!" These words brought a smile to Kouga's face, he grinned at InuYasha and turned to face Kagome.

"You don't have to worry, Kagome" he said proudly, turning back to look InuYasha in the eyes again. "The only one that's going to get hurt is dog shit here" Kouga gave InuYasha another little push, which InuYasha returned, harder this time.

"Both of you stop!" Kagome ordered, standing up. Neither looked or listened to her, they just both kept giving each other that harsh look. Kagome mumbled something under her breathe and got up out of her seat, speeding out of the lunch room. The two guys watched her leave the room, blinking after her.

"Look what you two have done now!" Sango groaned, turning her back to the two guys.

"Great job, jackass" Kouga hissed at InuYasha, turning to pick up his tray. He swiftly walked away, over to his normal table, as if nothing had happened.

"I'm the jackass?" InuYasha grumbled. He stood there for a minute before running off after Kagome.

"Kagome?"

She quickly slammed her locker shut as she heard InuYasha's fimilar voice. She grabbed her bag, almost spilling its contents all over the floor in her haste. She started off towards the one place he couldn't get her, the girl's bathroom. Unluckily her locker seemed to be the farthest place from all the bathrooms in the building, so she had to try to walk extra fast, without getting caught by one of the teachers.

"Kagome?" he called again.

She bit her lip as he sounded closer, he somehow always seemed to be faster and stronger than she, plus unlike she, he didn't care if one of the teachers saw him and stopped him, he was probably sprinting. As much as she was trying to escape, she didn't want a detention.

"Kagome!"

Suddenly, he had her pinned against a group of lockers. Her eyes bulged a bit in surprise, but went back to normal quickly as she struggled to break free.

"Kagome, stop running away damn it!"

She gave no response to him. Kagome gave up her struggle, however. She looked to her side, she didn't want to look him in the eye, he didn't deserve it.

"Look at me! What's your fucking problem? And what's with you and Kouga all of a sudden?" InuYasha asked in a deeply irritated voice.

"Jerk!" she said, turning to look at him, her harsh glaze seemed to set him aback for a minute.

"What makes me the jerk? You're the one dodging me! I know I kissed Kikyo and all, but this is a bit much!"

Something flickered in Kagome's eyes at this. First she wanted to start to cry again, but then the memory of the note in her locker came back. Her hands tightened into fists. How could he be so cruel and then even ignore what he had done? She looked up into his eyes with pain and silent anger. InuYasha blinked, and shrugged uncomfortably, he didn't like the feeling he was getting from that cold stare, it almost reminded him of Kikyo's, except this one seemed to hurt more.

"Get away from me!" she yelled, kneeing him in the groin.

"Fuck!"

InuYasha quickly pulled away and winced, bending down slightly. Kagome took a step away from the locker she had just been up against and looked down at him with hot tears falling.

"This makes you the asshole" she replied in a shaky voice as she pulled out the half crumpled note out of her bag and threw it at him lightly.

She started to walk away again, still to the girl's room. Strangely enough, it was still to hide. To hide her tears, they were foolish tears, she shouldn't let herself feel with way, not about him, especially. Before she made a last turn to enter the girl's lavatory she stopped and turned to him for a moment, she covered her eyes with her bangs so he couldn't see the tears forming there.

"And Kouga's my boyfriend."

Then she left, left InuYasha there, bending down and looking at the ground.

"Your boyfriend!" he yelled back in the direction she had gone, even though he knew very well that she was out of ear shot by now.

Envy grew up inside him. Kouga, that dumb ass. He wanted to throw a punch at him right now, however Kouga was for sure not in the hall. How were they both suddenly 'going out'? He had been sure they wouldn't get together anytime soon. Was it seeing Kikyo with him that pushed her to that? How could she really like him? He growled to himself, fists clenching and unclenching.

He looked at the paper she had thrown. What had she been talking about? What could it possibly say to have made her that angry? She could get into little fits, but she had never gone that far. Her voice had been shaking too. Usually it was always calm, and if it did shake at all, it was from laughing.

The bell period bell began to ring, signaling the end of lunch.

InuYasha took no notice of the bell and slowly bent down to pick up the note. He took a moment to look it over in its crumpled state, then began to carefully open it. He blinked as it seemed to be his own handwriting. He quickly began to read it over. It read:

Kags,

Come to the Library after school. I'll be there. Wait for me, I'll be looking forward to seeing you.

-Inu

"What the hell? I didn't write this..."

To Be Continued

Whooo cliff hanger! I'm not so evil to leave a really big cliffy, but I left one. I hope the plots going well and its keeping all of your interests. Please tell me in a review if anything in it bores you, if you disagree with anything, or if you have any ideas. Or... just review! I love all of you that do review! You guys rock! Without your support I would not have gotten this far.

I'm planning to adding the rising plots for other characters aswell. I have a bit of an idea for Sango and Miroku problems. I was hoping to save them and use them for a second season, but I doubt I will do one plus, I want them to have a bit of drama aswell. I hate it when certain characters totally have the spot light. I like to keep it a bit fair. In the next chapters there should be a bit more fluff between some characters. I won't tell what couples because I think that pretty much gives half of the plot away off the bat, no I won't make that certain. For all you people know I could have... Jaken going with Sesshoumaru... oh gosh I can't pull that off! No, I'm deffinatly not putting them together. Jakens just a toad in this so that'd be really odd. No offece to people who like that, I just don't see their feelings going that way. But you still don't know what I have up my sleeves! At least I hope you don't...

Okay so things to ponder on to make you want to read the next chapter more (yes, I'm evil aren't I?)... What's InuYasha going to do about the note? Who did write the note? Does Ayame know about Kouga and Kagome? what is the evil Naraku planning? What plans do I have for Sango and Miroku? Will Kohaku be found out? Is Hojo still gonna try to get Kagome? What changed Kikyo? ARE THEY ALLGOING TO DIE!

Sorry for not updating sooner,

Maddycat2000

PS I was just pretending to be ultra dramatic with the 'are they all going to die?' thing. No way am I killing them all. Just an odd joke of mine... -.-'