Chapter 14
"Whatever you say, Naraku-sensei." Oh, it was very sarcastic. So much so, that everyone in the class was brought into this giggling fit. And it wasn't even all that funny. Just, his face as she'd said it, which had gone all scrunched up and ugly with fury.
"Don't look into anything valuable that has a reflection," Inuyasha pretended to muse, " You might ended losing a fortune"
"Nice" Kagome whispered over to him. He suddenly remembered what Miroku had said,
"So… you like her now?"
"And I always wondered what happened to that hallway mirror…" Kagome pondered loudly.
"Well, come on Kags. It's not like you never thought it was him" the two now faced each other, in a fake conversation.
"That's true…" she shook her head in thought. "But they never found the person who did it… you would think teachers would confess to something like this…"
Inuyasha nodded in agreement, " He isn't a good teacher though, Kags. You said so yourself"
"Yeah…" she sighed dramatically, the disappointment made obvious. He put his hand on her shoulder, as if to comfort her.
The class watched in awe. Sango and Miroku looked at each other a moment before laughing a little.
"That's enough you two. No need for dramatics" the way he said was like the fun loving teacher who just laughed everything off. Kagome was furious. He was not her friend, he was not her teacher, and he was most definitely NOT her step-father. Inuyasha saw the look in her eye, but was too late to try and stop her.
"I think we all like to act a little different than who we really are" she commented scornfully. But she hadn't acted the way Inuyasha, Sango or Miroku had expected her to.
They thought she'd scream and swear and physically injure many people.
Sango was completely wide-eyed. When had her Kags become so mature, or scornful?
She turned to walk away but Naraku- sensei put his arm on her shoulder, "You're not go-"
"Don't touch her!" Inuyasha yelled at him.
"I'll do what I want" Naraku said back, seemingly stunned by the out-burst.
Inuyasha went and took Kagome's hand, dragging her out of the room. They ignored as the teacher screamed at them to return to the classroom immediately!
"You okay?" he asked when they were at the other end of the school, nearer the doors.
"Yup, just fine!" her voice was now chipper, too chipper.
"Don't lie to me, you're bad at it" he replied unaware of yet another quote that had played itself on his lips.
Kagome sighed, "So I've heard"
"Wouldn't be surprised…" she really was bad at it. Sure, her face could give you any lie to believe, but her voice always betrayed her.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" She stared at him with dagger eyes.
"It means it's painfully obvious that you cannot, I repeat, cannot lie." Inuyasha had really only meant it as a joke, but Kagome, like many other's in this story, misinterpreted it as something else. Only this time, it was as a challenge. So, as she opened the school entrance she accepted it head on.
"I can lie! I'll prove it, too. Ask me anything, and I'll lie about it." Suddenly they both had forgotten the whole entire class incident. But for different reasons. Kagome was totally focused on winning this 'challenge'. Whereas Inuyasha had a plan to learn the truth about something, a very important something.
"Anything?" She nodded in response.
"Come on, I can so do this"
"Alright" they walked out of the parking lot and onto a sidewalk. "What do you dream about?" He had to know what was keeping her from sleeping. What could be that awful?
"I-I dream about lots of stuff." Kagome could've kicked herself, stuttering. What kind of liar was she? He looked over to meet her gaze.
Why does he always look at me like that?!
"Well then why don't you tell me about a specific dream," he could see her face cringe in such a small way that if he hadn't been watching for this type of reaction, he would have missed it completely, "Say... the one you were having in my car? Or apartment?"
"Oh, you know, just a plain old nightmare about some monster" They reached the park and turned down its pathway,
"Really?" she couldn't help notice it was the same word he had used before. About the same thing. Her nightmares. "And does that monster happen to kill you're father?" it felt cruel to say, but he needed to. She had to stop pretending. Her face looked away.
"n-no, nothing like th-that" Kagome cursed herself for shaking.
"You're a bad liar. Somebody killed your dad in your dream" She herself had said so, after all.
"How did you know that?!" she blurted.
"So, it's true?" he questioned her further. But when he said this, she walked ahead of him, giving Inuyasha the cold shoulder. This was stupid; Kagome should just say what happened.
"N-no" The next thing that happened was hard to describe, on both parties.
Inuyasha turned her to face him, Kagome looked away. He put both his hands on her face and turned toward his own. (Similar happenings…)
Kagome couldn't help think he had big hands, and they were warm. Not like hers, which were small and often cold. Her cheeks flushed.
"Kags, you really like him!" …
His did, too, but Kagome didn't see.
"Kags, tell me the truth. I told you you were bad at lying, and you are. I know he's in your dream"
"How…how did you know? I never…" her words faded as she stared at him, he smiled.
"What's the smile for?! You never smile! Your smiling!?" he was just totally creeping her out.
"You talk while you sleep. When you were sleeping you kept mumbling stuff. Mainly about death and your dad" Kagome was shocked. She talked in her sleep! Who knew?
"Stay with me Kags," he said after she began to float towards Lala Land,
"You also said… you knew who killed your dad"
There was a long moment of silence. Inuyasha didn't want to force her to answer or say anything. Kagome was just surprised. So they stood there, his hands on her face in the middle of the park.
"Yeah…" she finally submitted. She had sort of seen him, she guessed.
"But Kags, you said it was a car accident" it didn't make sense. Both suspected 'foul-play', but both of them also knew how stupid it all sounded.
"Maybe…"
Now, this heart-warming moment was soon destroyed. Not because of what either had said, no. That was all apart of a deep conversation. What actually caused Kagome and Inuyasha a huge embarrassing scene was a random on-looker.
Because this old woman decided to act on an assumption. However innocent and cute it was,
"Oh, look! A pair of lovers! Aren't they cute?"
A/N: So it was Naraku! Yeah… he wasn't in this chapter so much… but he'll soon be joining this story… I think.
And how about that granny!? (No offense to elderly people!!)
They are cute! I can totally see me and granny having some long discussion on this topic… I should totally do a forum or something on this: Inuyasha and Kagome: From Granny!!
Well… maybe forums not the right thing… Sorry for acting stupid there. I'm a little tired… it's late! But that would be hilarious…
Back to stuff that makes sense! It might be a while before I get another chapter posted, but hold on 'cuz it will be coming!! I promise! (Sorry for yet another long author's note…)
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