Here ya goooo! Now if I can only get to writing To Forget And Love Another...but I can't find the book with that story in it...I think it died, but I'll keep looking! It's gotta be lost in this room of mine somewhere...along with my poor missing drawings...:(
Disclaimer: Not mine, not mine, I wish, but alas, these characters to not belong to me...
DREAMING DOWN THAT OLD DIRT ROAD
Chapter 14
"Here you go!" Mrs. Higurashi cried out, giving Inuyasha and Kagome a second round of drinks. "This is so fun! don't you agree?"
"Mmmhhhmmmmmmm!" Kagome replied while beginning to chug down her second Sour Puss Slushie. Inuyasha did the same. He didn't want to admit it, but he himself was staring to feel a little light headed, and wasn't thinking as straight as he could have been. He kept staring over at Kagome, and not just her in general, but her lips. He kept gazing at her lips that had a glittery shine from a lip gloss she had put on after dinner. They looked so soft and shiny that he just wanted to reach over a pull her into a kiss so badly. As these thoughts raced through he mind, he began leaning closer and closer to the young miko sitting beside him.
Kagome glanced over to Inuyasha who was staring at her lips, only inches away from her face, then leaned away nervously. Her attention was suddenly focused more down, as she noticed a buldge starting to form in Inuyasha's pants. Kagome turned the deepest shade of red then pushed him over back onto his side of the couch, but lost her berrings when the sudden movement made the room start to spin, and she fell over, and onto Inuyasha's lap, where she confirmed that Inuyasha was quite turned on by something.
Inuyasha too had gone bright red at this point and everybody was staring at them. "Oopsies!" Kagome giggled, breaking the tension in the room. "I fell! Hahaha! That must have looked kind of bad!"
"Mom! I can't stand this movie!" Sota exclaimed. "Can I go over to Kyle's house?"
"Sota darling! It's much too late for you to go alone! It's dark outside!" Mrs. Higurashi pointed out. "If you want to go, I'll take you, okay?"
"Oh nonsense! You stay here! I'll go take Sota!" The old man offered from his chair in the corner of the room.
Kagome's mom looked at the two of them for a moment, before agreeing to let him take Sota instead.
The two of them left and it was just Inuyasha, Kagome and Mrs. Higurashi left to watch the movie, which was now at the scene where the barbie is taken to the castle in the clouds.
"Oh my you guys drink those so fast! Let me make you guys some more!" Kagome's mom said happily as she took both of their empty glasses and went back into the kitchen. Kagome watched her mother disappear into the kitchen before turning to Inuyasha to apologize about falling on his lap like that, but when she turned to see Inuyasha, he was leaning towards her, staring into her eyes with such an intense longing. Kagome became very nervous as she watched him stare at her.
"Uhmmmm...Inuya-"
Before Kagome could finish what she was going to say, he leapt forward, wrapping his arms around her, and running his right hand through her hair, pulling her lips to his.
The strong desire to taste the soft pink lipgloss that shimmered the reflection of the television had been frustrating the half demon to no end, and with the help of the alcohol induced slushies that he had consumed at such a rapid rate, his resistance to any intimacy with this dark haired beauty next to him vanished like the slushies themselves.
His thoughts once their lips were locked together alarmed him for not only did she fail to return the intimate gesture, but she made a alarmed moan and pushed away from him slightly. He was about to pull back and apologize when the moan gained a softer, wanting tone to it and she reversed the direction she was moving back to him and kissed him back with equal inticipation.
Kagome's right hand gradually made its way to the cap which hid his fuzzy dog ears, and pulled it off with the same smooth motion. Inuyasha at first showed a little discomfort to being so exposed but any signs of concern melted away as he made a soft sigh, almost a purr. She had begun to tweak his ears. Rubbing softly along the edges in a circular motion she started to giggle and pulled away from the kiss.
He stared at her for a moment, his head beginning to tilt to that side toward her touch. He felt so relaxed, yet so uncontrollably excited at the same time. Pulling her closer to him, he kissed her again, with more energy this time. He could hear her heartbeat, and feel it in her chest, which was now pressed up against his.
At that moment Mrs. Higurashi walked back into the living room unnoticed. At first she thought the sweet little kiss was adorable, until she noticed her daughter's hand rubbing something furry on top of the guys head. Furry dog ears to be exact. This man wasn't Ian. He wasn't even human. It was the monster that almost killed her daughter not too long ago, and he was holding her, and kissing her.
The two of them jumped alert when they heard glasses drop to the floor only a couple feet away from them. They looked to see Mrs. Higurashi, and she looked as though she could kill.
Kagome glanced over to Inuyasha to see his reaction when she realized she had exposed his ears completely. Thurning back to her mother she began to apologize when her mother finally snapped out of her state of shock.
"How dare you touch my daughter you filthy demon! I told you never to see her again!" She screamed at him, tears were beginning to build in her eyes.
"Mom, you don't under-" Kagome started.
"I understand perfectly! He hunted you down again, just so that he could hurt you again! Put you in greater danger! I know how monsters like this think, Kagome!" Her mother barked back at her.
The word hunted seems to fly out of her mouth and stab into Kagome's chest and she looked over at Inuyasha who was a mix of anger, worry and most of all pain from what he was hearing. Kagome saw that Inuyasha was beginning to almost believe in these horrible words. This made Kagome explode with anger. "That's because you're a monster! You're the only monster here!"
With that said Kagome rushed past her mother and up to her room where they heard a loud slam which almost seemed to rattled the entire house.
"Mrs. Higurashi's face looked hurt and crushed, but that snapped away when she focused her sight on Inuyasha. "See! All you do is cause her pain! Why can't you see that!" She cried out, opening the door. "Now get out of here! Leave and I never want to see your face again!"
She had let all her defences down now, and the tears began to stream down her face. Inuyasha didn't want to start anything so he rose calmly from the sofa, and simply walked out the door. He walked out and down the street without even looking back until he knew for sure that he was out of view before jumping on the nearest roof and sneaking back to Kagome's house, but hefore he hopped onto the roof at the corner of the street he froze. It felt like someone..or something was watching him.
Inuyasha scanned the area as carefully as he could but found no one. He was just paranoid. He was imagining things. Kagome's world was safe and didn't contain demons like his world did. Demon's couldn't switch from one world to the next either. One thought then struck him. He was in this world, and there was demon blood in him too.
He shook off all those crazy thoughts and continued over to Kagome's window. She lay there, face craddled in her arms, and she was crying. Her mother was right about something. He had caused her sadness. Ever since that day he had turned full demon and attacked her. Why couldn't he remember any of that. All he could recall was the blood all over his hands and seeing Kagome covered in the same blood.
His heart wrenched at the memory. He would make this better. If he had caused her sorrow, then he would try to make her happy, and then he would leave. Never come back. His heart wrenched once again, this time more painfully when he realized that he would never see her again. She was like an angel. She had grown to become his everything. He had fallen in love again, and he was scared.
He reached over and opened the window carefully. He tried pushing all those thoughts away, but they lingered in his mind, risisting to leave as he gazed down at the girl on the bed. She glanced up through teary, red rimmed eyes.
He opened his mouth to speak but nothing came out. He went to try once again but was cut out when she leapt off the bed and pressed herself against his chest. He could feel the tears beginning to soak through his casual modern day shirt. "Inuyasha I'm so sorry," she wimpered. "I should have never invited you here. This night was horrible."
"No it wasn't Kagome," Inuyasha replied calmly, forcing the comforting words out of his mouth. "Tonight was one of the best nights I've had in a while, and it just seems to be getting better as we speak."
"How could you think that? Look at us!" She shot back.
"I am," He said with a pause. He had to let this off his chest but it was so hard. He wasn't the sensitive kind of guy. "and I'm looking at you in my arms." He then held her more tightly, and she responded with the same gesture.
"Inuyasha?" Kagomes whispered as she began to calm down"
"Yeah?" He answered softly.
"Do you love me, or are you still in love with Kikyo?"
There was a long pause of silence. Inuyasha knew the answer. He loved her. Kikyo was in the past, Kagome was now, and he wanted to spend as much time with her as he could, but these words wouldn't come from his mouth. He began to curse his sense of pride when he realized he couldn't say it.
She pulled back from him slowly to stare into his eyes, but before she could look into them clearly he leaned his head down towards hers and caught her lips with his own. She did not kiss back as last time. She merely stood, grounded in the center of her room. He pulled away embarassed when she continued to speak.
"So is it me or Kikyo that you pictured kissing you earlier?" Her glared was very serious and gained more and more pain from each silent moment that passed. Tears began to form so she turned her head casually and looked out the window trying to act nonchalant about the whole topic. "I take that silence as Kikyo.." She spoke. She had wanted her voice to sound strong but as the first word slipped out it cracked and the tears overflowed once again.
"Kagome..." Inuyasha said sadly. "Kikyo, I loved her..bu-"
"Inuyasha, you're disgusting! That's it! First my mom, now you!" Kagome cried out in frustration, and pulled a big backpack and a pair of old runners from under her bed, took out all the books then went over to her dresser. Openning it, she sorted her close and put the occasional one in the bag until it was so full that Inuyasha thought it would never close, but she seemed to force the zipper shut, then started slipping on the runners.
"Kagome, what do you think you're doing?" he said finally.
"What does it look like! I'm leaving!" and as Kagome picked up her bag and headed for the door Inuyasha went to stop her but couldn't because he felt something pull tight around his neck and drag him down to the floor with a big thud. The sit command. Kagome froze thinking that the sound might have been heard by her mother. She couldn't use the main exit, she'd be spotted before she even reached the door.
Instead of reaching for the door, she walked to the other end of the room and looked out the window. It was a high jump, but if she grabbed the branch to the left it would hopefully bend enough to take off five feet from the fall, but the branch alone was a couple feet to the side. Not the most convenient of escape routes, but it'll have to do.
She was about to jump for the branch when she heard a sound from behind her. Inuyasha was getting up to stop her again. Not caring if her mother heard her at this point she did the first thing that came to mind. "Inuyasha sit! You, sit, can't, sit, follow, sit, me! SO SIT BOY!"
After all those sit commands Inuyasha had been knocked out slightly, it would probably wear off in five to ten minutes, but in that time Kagome could run far, but not far enough for a demon to trace. Kagome moved quickly, she jumped for the branch and found out it was weaker than she assumed. The branch made a loud snapping sound but still hung on. Her feet were dangling a foot or two off the ground when she finally let go, and landed softly in the short grass below. Not wanting to waste anymore time, she ran. She ran as fast as she could down the sidewalk, around the corner and kept going, taking as many turns as she could. It wasn't until she was six or seven blocks down did she slow for a breath. The feudal era had made her very athletic this past year or so. She looked back to confirm nobody was following her and continued on as a quick rate, hoping that a certain half demon wouldn't follow, yet at the same time wishing he would.
End Chapter 14
There oh my gosh! It was almost impossible for me to stop! I just wanted to keep writing forever! So you'l probably see me update the next chapter super fast. Compared to the others at least. Working 32 hours a week on top of school hardly gives me time to sleep. Haha! See yas!