Chapter 10. Alright, I was afraid I'd never reach 10. So anyways, my creative juices are starting to run out. But I have a basic idea of what I'll do with the story, so hopefully I'll be able to finish it before I completely run dry. Again.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the InuYasha characters. Period.
Chapter 10
He waited patiently and quietly until the time was right. It was too nerve wrecking for him. He couldn't even focus on his homework. So all he could do was pace him room, sit on his bed, or stare at the black computer screen on his desk. His current activity was lying on the bed, trying to count his heartbeats. He checked the time on his cell. '11:32? Why hasn't he gone, yet?' he asked himself, rolling on his side. Finally, he heard a familiar creaking noise. It was his father. The creaking started from the stairs and onto the landing, where it passed his door, and down the hall. He waited for the next familiar sound, the click of a door, and the turn of the lock. The passing seconds seemed to have gone on forever, but still, he waited. Two minutes later, he heard them. It was time.
He grabbed his backpack, and another bag stuffed full with clothes and anything else he needed, before he headed over to his window. He opened them, and carefully heaved his stuff out the window, and onto the roof, before he climbed out. Turning back, he stared at his nearly empty room with a determined look, and, with no second thought, closed the windows behind him. Grabbing his things, he readied himself as he looked over the edge, and down to the darkened ground below. Then he jumped.
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"Alright, alright, I'm coming." yelled an annoyed and otherwise very tired Miroku. He pushed off his blankets and headed over to his window, where he could see big shadow sitting on the other side, though not too well, because he was still in sleep mode. As he pulled away the curtain, he jumped. It was InuYasha.
"Hey, man! What's up?" he heard InuYasha say. Miroku opened his window and stepped aside to let InuYasha in. He realized that his friend was stuffed bags, one of which he recognized as his backpack. A brow raised.
"Should I even ask what you're up to? Why are you in my room at…" he turned to look at the digital clock that sat on his desk. "12:30 in the morning!?"
"Because, you opened your window." InuYasha said as he began to pull some things out from his backpack. Clothes. Miroku had guessed that there wasn't enough room in the other bag for them, so InuYasha had stuffed them in his school bag. "And besides, Sango kept throwing things at me when I appeared at her window."
"Well, at least she had the right idea." Miroku fell onto his bed, and pulled a pillow to him, hugging it. He watched as InuYasha pulled out a set of clothes from the pile he pulled out from his backpack, and tried to stuff the rest into the other bag, but couldn't, so he settled with just laying them on top. Miroku frowned. "So… you want to tell me what this is all about?" InuYasha froze.
"Promise me that you won't tell the others."
"Who, Kagome and Sango? Why?"
"Just promise me."
Miroku, unsure of what to do or what was going on, stared at InuYasha, and found that he was staring back at him. Staring hard into his eyes. It started to creep him out a bit, but he tried not to show it, finally, he looked away, and nodded. "I promise."
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"Morning, guys!" Kagome yelled as soon as she spotted both Miroku and InuYasha walking together to school. Sango turned in the direction that Kagome was looking, and gave a confused look. She knew something was up. In all the years that she's known the two, never has she ever seen them walking to school together. It certainly wasn't the first time. But it rarely ever happened. It was a sign to her that something had happened. Kagome didn't seem to notice. As soon as InuYasha stepped foot through the arched entry of the school, she threw her arms around him as if they hadn't seen each other in years. Miroku stood forgotten.
Sango slid over to Miroku's side and whispered, "So, what happened?"
"How do you mean?"
"I mean the only time you two have ever walked to school together was when something happened. Like the last time, when you heard your parents shouting, and you thought that they were getting a divorce."
"I was 7, mind you. And nothing happened. We're just two men who decided to meet up somewhere on the way to school." Sango stared at him. Through him. He knew that she knew he was lying. Before Sango could press the matter further, the bell rang, and she heard Miroku give a sigh of relief. She glared at him. "What? Now I can't be glad that the bell rang? Sheesh!" he walked ahead of them, Sango at the rear. InuYasha and Kagome smiling and talking to each other, his arm around her shoulder, fingers weaved in with hers.
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"Okay, so we've decided to tell you both the truth." Kagome said to Miroku and Sango, who looked at each other with confused looks. They sat in a small circle under a tree, which was partially hidden by a building, and the band room. They liked this spot because they knew no one else would hang out there, and because it was more or less secluded from everything else. InuYasha was leaning against the tree, staring at the two, his arms crossed. He didn't really agree to this, at first, but Kagome had convinced him that they couldn't exactly hide it from them. Not forever. And so there they were, staring at their friends, who stared back at them in confusion. Kagome held out a hand to InuYasha, and took it, and pulled him to her. He kneeled behind her and wrapped his arms around her, his chin on her shoulders. "InuYasha and I… we're going out."
"Out? Out where?" Miroku asked, obviously not fully understanding what he had just heard. Sango wacked the back of his head.
"She means that they're dating." She turned back to the couple. "When? How?"
"Two months ago, the day we got back from Winter Break." InuYasha said.
"You see… it was first period, and the teacher hadn't come yet," Kagome started, and she told of how InuYasha had been lying on the bed in the health room, and had told her that he loved her, and asked if she felt the same about him. She in turned confessed her love for him, and wanted to be by his side, and so on and so forth. The only reason they hadn't told them was because Kagome wanted to wait and see how things went between the two before announcing their relationship. So far, it was the best thing that she had ever done in her life. When she finished, she waited for either Sango or Miroku to say something, but both were speechless.
"Well?" InuYasha asked, obviously trying to break the awkward silence.
"Well…" Miroku started, but Sango cut him off.
"Well, I think it's about time! I've been waiting for months for one of you to make the move!" she cried out. It was InuYasha and Kagome's turn to be in shock. They looked at each other, and then looked away, blushing. Sango had seen right through them the whole time, but they hadn't really seen it in each other. It made Kagome want to kick herself.
"Wait, YOU KNEW, and didn't TELL ME?" Miroku asked, giving a half upset, half how-the-heck-could-you-tell sort of look.
"I figured you already knew. It WAS a bit obvious." Sango shrugged. She then turned to the couple and gave them a look that said, 'Besides, I walked in on you two when you almost kissed, remember?' They seemed to have understood it, for they both slightly nodded and gave a half nervous smile. Poor Miroku was still fuming about how he hadn't noticed by the time the bell rang.
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"Now for my mother." He heard her say. It took InuYasha a while to realize what she was talking about.
"You didn't tell her yet? It's been two months, Kagome!"
"I know. It's just that… I guess I'm afraid. I mean, she once told me that she didn't want me to date until I was 30!"
"Oh geez." That's a bit extreme. He couldn't help but think that. And yet, he sort of understood why her mother said that. A lot of people's lives were ruined by simply dating some person that they thought would be "The One". "So how are you going to break it to her? Want me to be there?"
"I don't know… I still need to think about if I even want her knowing about you. Plus there's about a million other things that'll worry me if I DO choose to tell her."
"Like?"
"Like your family…" she said softly.
InuYasha stopped, and she turned and looked up at him, alarmed. But she found him smiling at her. It wasn't the, "I'm trying to hide my feelings towards that situation" sort of smile, but a real smile. He pulled her into a hug. "If the time comes, let me worry about it."
Okay, I'm tired. Please review! Helpful ones, I might add. No flames. NIGHT!!
~Kogoro
