Ch. 11 Sleep Tight, Kagome
Inuyasha was sitting on the couch, pondering the events of the past couple days, when he heard a loud knock on his front door. When he opened the door, he was surprised to see a very wet Kagome standing there shaking."On my god Kagome! What happened to you?" Inuyasha stood in his doorway, too stunned to move.
"Can I come in?" Kagome asked in a sheepish voice.
"Of course you can!" Inuyasha led her inside. "I'm going to get you some dry cloths, ok?" Kagome just nodded.
Inuyasha came back, he helped Kagome into the bathroom so she could she was done she came back to the living room and sat down next to him. Instead of jumping right into a conversation and asking her what happened, he waited for Kagome to speak to him first. Finally she did."How have you been?" Kagome asked.
"Uh...ok I guess. Kikyo broke up with me this morning though." He answered.
Kagome gasped. "I'm so sorry Inuyasha." She set her hand on his, looking at him sympathetically.
"Don't worry about it. I kinda figured it would happen soon anyways." He sighed, then smiled at the beautiful women sitting beside him. "So, you wanna tell me what happened now?"
Kagome visibly stiffened, as she started to explain what had happened. She looked down through the whole story, but slowly lifted her head at the end as tears streamed down her face. "How could he have lied to me? What did I do to deserve this?"
"Oh, Kagome. You don't deserve this. I'm so sorry. I wish I would've told you the straight truth from the beginning."
"What? You knew all along?"
"I'm sorry! But I couldn't tell you. It's a family secret. I had no right to tell you. And if I would've, Sesshomaru would have came after me and ripped me to pieces! I tried to warn you, I really did! I tried to keep you away, but..." Inuyasha trailed couldn't say anything.
She was mad and upset. So she just cried while hitting Inuyasha quite hard in the chest. She soon started to get tired, and stopped hitting Inuyasha. Within a minute she had fallen asleep in his arms. Inuyasha slowly picked her up and carried her to his room. He carefully set her down on his bed, then sat down in his desk chair. He watched as Kagome's chest moved up and down. Inuyasha was hypnotized by her beauty and slowly fell asleep.
Miroku came up to the door of his dorm, feeling much better now that him and Sango had worked everything out. He opened the door, expecting the get attacked by Inuyasha's questions about why Miroku was home so much later than usual. Instead, he heard complete silence. As he walked towards Inuyasha's room, he checked every room on the way. "Where is Inu-" He stopped mid sentence when he saw Inuyasha sleeping next to Kagome, his head by her side and his hand on hers. Miroku couldn't help but gape at the two. He walked over to Inuyasha and shook him.
"Inuyasha! Inuyasha, wake up!" He whispered. He glanced over to look at Kagome and saw the tear stains going down her cheeks. Miroku started shaking Inuyasha even harder. "Get your ass up!" He yelled as quietly as possible.
"Huh?" Inuyasha jumped up. "What the hell man?!"
"Shhhh. Kagome!" Miroku hissed.
"What? Oh, sorry." Inuyasha looked over at the still sleeping miko.
"Inuyasha. what happened?" Miroku asked.
Inuyasha led Miroku back into the living room, then explained the whole story. He realized hiding it from Miroku would only cause more problems, and he did owe him an explanation. As Inuyasha finishes, Miroku is totally stunned. "How can this be true? Poor Sesshomaru. And poor Kagome. She must be so upset right now. She truly does love him, and to have a secret like that kept from her? It's not fair."
"I know. I wish I could help her, but I just don't know how." There was a quiet aura surrounding the two friends. That is until they heard a noise coming from Inuyasha room.
Cuz nobody wants to be the last one there.
Inuyasha and Miroku jumped up.
Cuz everyone wants to feel like someone cares.
They hurried to the room.
Someone to love with my life in their hands.
They entered the room to see Kagome's phone lit up.
There's gotta be somebody for me like that.
Miroku rushed over to it and answered it before Kagome was woken by the song.
"Hello?" He whispered.
"What the hell? Miroku, why are you answering Kagome's phone?!" Miroku knew right away that it was Sesshomaru.
"Hey! Calm down! Kagome's sleeping. So just leave her alone for right now, ok? I'll let her know you called and she can decide for herself whether she wants to call you back or not."
"Are you kidding me? There is no way I'm leaving Kagome alone with you! I'm coming over right now!"
Inuyasha snatched the phone and went out into the hallway. "Don't be an idiot! Kagome is pissed at you and that's why she's here! Maybe when you learn to tell the truth she'll want to come back to you! So until then, BACK OFF!"Inuyasha slammed the phone closed before Sesshomaru could respond.
Miroku emerged from the room and eyed Inuyasha. "Wasn't that a little harsh?" He asked.
"Well, I couldn't let him come over here. Kagome needs to rest, not fight with that bastard. I just don't want him disturbing her."
"It's alright Inuyasha. I think it's time for me to confront Sesshomaru and talk things out." Kagome said, coming out of Inuyasha's room.
"Kagome! How are you feeling?" Miroku walked closer to her.
"Fine, thanks. You guys are too good to me." She smiled at her friends.
"Kagome, are you sure you're ready to see him?" Inuyasha asked
"Well, not totally, but I have to. Hiding from him, from my pain, it won't solve anything. And then I'll just feel worse. But really guys, thank you for everything. I can always count on you two." Kagome started to get her stuff together, so she could go find Sesshomaru. More than likely he was still streaming over Inuyasha little outburst a couple of minutes ago.
"What do you plan on saying to him, Kagome?" Inuyasha gave her a skeptical look. She dropped the bag of wet cloths that was in her hand.
Miroku jabbed Inuyasha in the side when he saw her reaction.
"I...I don't know. I'm not really sure. I guess I'll start by telling him how I feel about all this. It's not that I'm really mad at him for lying to me, more for the fact of how he treated me after I tried to help console him. Anyways, that's all I can really do for now. I'll just have to wait and see how it goes from there." A silent tear slid down Kagome's cheek. She then turned around and smiled brightly at Miroku and Inuyasha. "I'll see you guys later, ok?" She picked up her stuff and started towards the door.
"Wait!" Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's hand.
"Huh?" Kagome looked back, confused.
"Um...well...good luck." Inuyasha smiled down at smiled back.
Then she got on her tiptoes and gently kissed his he had a chance to react, she was gone.
"You know, Kagome really does have a heart of gold." Miroku looked at Inuyasha.
"Yeah." Was all he could say.
A/N:I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter! The next chapter will hopefully be coming soon. I'll warn you all now there is an unexpected twist coming in the next chapter. It may be the final one. But it may not be. Just a small reminder: I DO NOT own Inuyasha. and the song featured in the chapter I DO NOT own either. It is Gotta Be Somebody by Nickelback. Well, let me know what you think!! Thanks to all my fans!!
