I know, long wait, but my parents left for two weeks and I couldn't get on the net! Sorry guys! Any way, here you go!
It was another monday. Kagome hated mondays. You should be allowed to skip them and go straight to tuesday. On monday, every one was still drug out from the weekend. The realy bad thing about today though, was that she'd have to face Inuyasha and Koga. If only she could hide under the covers all day. But, of course she couldn't. She threw them off of her head and stood up. Maybe just a little too quickly, though, because her vision blurred and she swayed. It was alright in a moment though. She took as long a shower as she dared and trudged back to her room in a towel. She decided to have a slow day, so she picked out a non-figure forming tee and flare jeans. She put on her converse high tops and pulled her hair back in a high pony-tail. She only put on the lightest touches of make-up and grabbed her shool bag. She looked at her watch and realized that if she didn't leave now she'd be late. She grabbed a couple peices of toast off the counter and left.
She jumped down the steps two or three at a time. She was realy begining to like that. She wanted to try something else today. She still had her hand over the jewel that was hidden under her shirt, and jumped onto a garbage can. It wasn't realy all that high, but she never could do that before. She went up one more and jumped onto a wall that surrounded someone's house and ran the length of the road. She was walking on it when she heard some one very familiar.
"Hey Kagome, what are you doin' up there?" He was under her and looking up, making her very glad she opted for jeans today. She ignored him completely. She told him she didn't want to talk to him, and the idiot didn't even wait till she had cooled off. How stupid can you get? "Aw, come on. Say something!" She looked away. "Fine!" She could see him crouch and get ready to jump. She didn't even think, her instincts took over. She didn't have to hold the jewel anymore, she'd tested that on the steps, so she used it and ran. "Hey!" She didn't look back, just kept going, jumping over gaps in the wall for streets or entrances. She knew he was on the wall behind her, she could sense him. The jewel seemed to pick up things like that. It reminded her of the day before yesterday. She'd known there were two demons watching her and Hojo, and after she focussed for a second, she could tell who. That's when she told Hojo he'd better go.
She chanced a look back, and Inuyasha was gaining, and he looked mad. She got another adrenalin rush and sped up a little more. She didn't even think about how fast she'd have to be going if she was beating Inuyasha. She could see the school coming into veiw. If she hurried she could get there and hide in her first class. She looked back as she jumped off the wall into the school yard. She spotted Sango walking into the building.
"Sango! Wait up!" Kagome was at her side in a second. Her hair was a little windblown, but it looked sexy. She wasn't ruffled or out of breath in the least.
"Kagome! What- How-" For once, words failed her.
"I need to tell you something." Kagome led her to an empty class room inside and spilled. Kagome confessed all about how the jewel was taken out of her, how it made her feel, and how she's been different since. Sango stared wide eyed and open-mouthed for a full minute after she'd finished.
"Wow." Kagome laughed nervously. "Like, seriously? You can run faster than Inuyasha? And, like, jump realy high too? Wow, just, wow." Sango had a very nice deer-in-the-headlights look.
"That ain't every thing." She then relayed how she'd met with Hojo, and how Inuyasha and Koga had followed. "Why do you think they followed? Well, I can see Koga doing it, he's fairly demented. But Inuyasha? Why would he want to?" Kagome bit her bottom lip. Sango laughed and startled Kagome.
"Girl, you are so blind. He likes you! You honestly can not tell me you never noticed." Kagome looked away. "Oh my God! You didn't! How you could you not? Never mind, that doesn't matter. The thing that does matter, is he and Kikyou are fighting right now. Do you want him?" Should Kagome answer yes? She could tell Sango couldn't she? Of course she could! Sango was her best friend, and she deserved to know. Kagome lamely nodded her head and blushed. "Oh, that is so sweet!" Kagome glared at Sango who clasped her hands together. "Okay, okay, we'll think this over tonight at one of our houses. I know you can get him, he's never even acted mildly interested in any one other Kikyou. For today, just try to be polite and avoid most conversation."
"How am I supposed to do that? He's my science partner!" Kagome groaned and banged her head on the table.
"Calm down, just stick to science, don't get into a personal conversation." Sango was being very business like and seemed to know what she was talking about. Had she done this before? Kagome wouldn't be surprised. It would be her luck to befriend the school match-maker. Just then the bell rang and Sango and Kagome rushed to their first hour.
Koga kept his distance today. He'd look at her from across the room and when she noticed and looked his way, he turn back around and pretend to pay attention. Well, at least her outburst at the park had one good effect. But she did feel bad, she'd hurt his feeling. He deserved the yelling, yes, but she didn't mean to do so much damage. Inuyasha was pig headed, so he hadn't minded so much. He'd talked to her this morning. Koga was hurt. She didn't want to, but she'd have to appologize. She knew he'd be all over her again, but she wasn't the type of person that could handle some one not liking her. Except Kikyou, but that was different.
The bell rang and Kagome jumped to meet Koga at the door. "Koga, uh, hi." He stopped and looked a little worried. "Look, I'm sorry about yelling and all, but you realy shouldn't have been spying on me. I don't know why you followed me, and I don't think I want to know. So, I stick by what I said, but I am sorry if I hurt you." She stood there biting her lip. He scratched the back of his head.
"Yeah, uh, sorry 'bout followin' you, I was just worried. Ya know? Well, see ya." He hurried off down the hall. What was up with him? He did even call her his mate. Weird. Oh well. She was looking forward to her next class so she hurried to her locker.
"He what?" Kagome was learning hand-to-hand combat with Sango. Since the jewel, Kagome hadn't had a problem with week knees and asked to learn it. She had a dagger, blunt of course, and a stick much like Miroku's, but with out the priest decoration at the top. The dagger was currently in her belt within easy access, but the two teens were battling with the sticks. The staff was about five feet long and Kagome had her hands in possitions that split it into thirds. She grasped tightly and made to strike Sango in the side, but she was too fast. Sango knocked Kagome's feet out from under her and held the end of her own right in front of Kagome's nose.
"I give, I give." Sango stood and held the staff at her side. "Yeah, he did," Kagome said getting up. "He wasn't a pig or nothin'! He acted more scared than anything." She picked up her own staff and put it behind her neck, looping an elbow over either end.
"That is odd. I wonder why. Do you think Inuyasha threatened him?"
"Like Koga'd be scared if he did. Come on, Sango, like that would stop him from being presumptuous to me."
"I guess your right. Maybe he's realy sorry for Saturday."
"I supose, but I realy can't see that."
"Me neither. You might have realy hurt his feelings."
"I don't care any more! I told him I was sorry, besides, he shouldn't have followed me! I shouldn't have apologized."
"Yeah well, you did, and you can't realy take it back now. Not that you should have said it to start with. I would have kicked his butt." Sango got into a fighting stance. "Come on, let's get in some more practice." Kagome smirked and also dropped into a stance. Sango raced torwards Kagome, but she was ready this time. Sango looked dazed from the ground on her back like that.
Inuyasha sat across from Kagome at their lab station, his attention completely on the pencil he balanced on his nose. Kagome was content at this point to just have him sit there and be quiet so she could keep her word to Sango. Kagome wouldn't make any moves torwards Inuyasha till she and Sango had a nice little heart to heart tonight. After a few minutes Inuyasha became bored and switched to leaning in very close, inspecting what she was working on, and not moving back. He was just... watching. And it was very disturbing.
"Do you think you could back off a little, please?" She was very emotionless and refused to show her annoyance. He grunted and slumped back in his chair. She sighed, but other wise ignored him. He turned his head from side to side, looking for something a little more interesting to do, but his classmates were all immersed in their work like Kagome. He settled for drumming his fingers on the desk and tapping his foot on the table leg. Kagome stopped for a second to send him a warning glare. "If you're so bored, then help." She held out a worksheet torwards him, silently giving him an option. He looked at it skeptically for a moment, almost as if he expected it to bite him. He sighed in resignition and took the paper.
The rest of his class was unbearably boring. All he did was look up answers in their text book, and Kagome had gone cold and distant on him. She was acting a lot like Kikyou at the moment. He shuddered and immediately retraced his thoughts. Kagome was not Kikyou, and Inuyasha would not make that comparison again. He saw Kagome glance at her watch and she started puting her things into her bag. Almost as soon as she had finished the bell and she made a bee-line for the door. Inuyasha debated for a moment in his head wether he should catch up to her or not. She was obviously still mad, and now that he thought about it he understood why she was. At least, he knew what triggered it, he still couldn't understand why she'd be mad just because he was watching. Sometimes he's such a guy. He didn't know if he should catch up and appologize proffusely. His little mental debate cost him precious seconds and she managed to escape before he had fully decided.
Inuyasha knew what he'd be doing in English to get her talking. The same thing as last time when he'd wanted to bug her into reacting. He whispered things into her ear again. He said he was sorry, he made many excuses, he tried to blame it on Koga, but she turned angry with him all over again. So he settled for breathing sexy, passionate things in her ear. He made sure all of it held a note of sarcasm or teasing in it, so she wouldn't be able to bring it up later as repayment.
Kagome had a lot of trouble paying attention again in class with Inuyasha behind her. He whispered startling things in her ear, his breath teasing the nape of her neck exposed from her high pony tail. He stomach did flipflops and clenched while she made a concious effort to loosen the muscles. A spot slightly lower than her stomach would tighten and send a tingly, ticklish sensation over her whole body. It took all of her will power not to shudder right there in class. She curled her toes in her shoes in a vain attempt to relieve some of the tension building in her.
Of course, Inuyasha could, once again, smell the effect he had on her. It was very faint, and it took him some concentrating to find it and issolate it from all the other humans in the room, but he realy apreciated that. If it was loud and obvious, every demon would know how she felt and half would probably go into mate mode. He would make sure none of them did, should they ever notice, but he still apreciated how hard it was to syfer her scents. He never would have noticed if he wasn't looking for a certain one. And he'd found it- passion. She was such a firey little thing, but he liked her like that. It made her more of a chase. Not that he saw her as a sort of hunting game, but complacent girls were such a bore. And he hated being bored. He respected Kagome, and that was rare. Very few people made it close enough to Inuyasha to have him trust them. And besides that, she had qualities most lacked in the strongest sense. She was proud, strong, self-sufficient, stubborn, brave, considerate, giving, supportive, soothing, flustering, agravating, calming, comforting, beautiful, shining, radiant, and she stood up to people that dared put her or a loved one down. She'd go toe to toe with Inuyahsa, and he would have liked her for that reason alone, but she had so many possitive atributes in addition to that. She was like a super woman, and Inuyasha wanted her.
I am so tired and I worked long and hard on this chapter. So review and I won't have to die. I ended it on a bit of a sappy note, but I think the end result was fine. yawns laters.