Bangin

Chapter 23

Inuyasha looked surprised at the response. What exactly did she mean by they are using it against her. Was someone threatening his Kagome? He could feel the anger already surge through his body at the information and he didn't even know the details of it.

"What's going on Kagome? Who knows about us and what are they doing to you?" his voice was serious and low.

Kagome stiffened a bit as she looked up at Inuyasha. She could see the anger that was slowly growing with each passing second. Kagome retreated back not wanting to talk about it, especially not today.

"Inuyasha, it's the holidays. We don't have to discuss this right now."

The growl didn't go unnoticed to Kagome as she saw him approach her. "What do you mean Kagome? We don't have to discuss this right now. We do need to discuss this someone is threatening you and you think that I am going to stand by and let them continue to harass you. How long has this been going on?"

Kagome bit her bottom lip as she averted her attention from Inuyasha. This caused Inuyasha to growl louder as he placed his two fingers underneath Kagome's chin and made her look at him.

"How long has this been going on Kagome? And don't try to lie I can smell if your lying or not."

"For a week or so, but she told me that she knew for a while now."

"She?"

"Yes it's a girl. So don't do anything to her."

"What has she been doing to you Kagome? What type of threats has she been making?"

"She said that if I don't do exactly what she says she is going to reveal our secret to Kikyo."

"Don't tell me that it's that broad Tsubaki?"

Kagome's eyes widen. "How did you know?"

"I knew it was her, Tsubaki thrives on this type of stuff but don't worry, I'll take care of her."

Kagome looked at Inuyasha. "Don't do anything to her Inuyasha's she a girl."

"Yeah and she's also best friends with Kikyo. So how are you sure that she hasn't already told Kikyo."

"It's okay Inuyasha, I'll be fine Inuyasha."

"What has she been making you do Kagome?"

"Well she wanted me to an essay about British author that was due the following day, and I had to pull an all nighter just to get it done. And yesterday I had to go Christmas shopping for…" Inuyasha cut her off in disgust.

"She made you go Christmas shopping for her?"

Kagome nodded her head.

"That low down…"

"Don't Inuyasha that won't make the situation any better."

"I'll take care of everything Kagome; I promise you don't have to worry about anything anymore."

"Are you sure?"

"I give you my word." He pulled her body towards him and capturing her lips once again.

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Christmas break went by fairly fast as both Inuyasha and Kagome spent every single day together. They had a lot of things to catch up on and Inuyasha was more than willing to show Kagome that he truly did care for her.

School would begin tomorrow and Kagome was sitting down finishing up on her project. She hadn't thought about Tsubaki since she revealed what Tsubaki had against her. She felt relieved to know that he would take care of the situation, but it did worry her a bit on how he would take care of the situation.

There was a knock on the door and Kagome answered for them to come in. The door opened and Kagome's little brother poked his head inside her room.

"Kagome mom says if she could go to the store and get some laundry detergent she ran out of some."

Kagome nodded her head. "Tell her that I'll be down in a minute." Kagome still had her attention focused on the project.

Souta left the room delivering the message to his mother. Kagome sat the paper down and let out a sigh. "I've should have been finished with this days ago. I guess this is what I get for spending so much time with Inuyasha." She couldn't help but to smile at saying his name.

She looked over at the clock on her table and it was around 4:16. She stood up and stretched her legs a bit.

"Might as well get this out of the way." She grabbed her coat and some boats and headed downstairs.

"Mom where are you?"

"I'm in the laundry room, Kagome." She heard her mother's reply.

She headed towards the laundry room and saw her mother taking some of the clothes out of the dryer and placing them in one of the laundry baskets. She also was placing some dirty clothes from another laundry basket and placing them inside of the washer.

"Do you need any help with that mom?" Kagome offered.

"No dear, but could you run to the store and get me some laundry detergent." She reached into her pocket and pulled out some money. "This should be enough."

"The regular kind?"

"Yes get two boxes of them."

Kagome nodded her head as she turned around and headed towards the front door. She walked outside feeling the cold air brush against her face. She shivered a bit as she closed the door behind her. There was snow still on the ground and was said to be more coming soon.

"With this much snow we should get another day off from school." Kagome thought to herself as she headed towards the store.

Once making into the store, Kagome headed straight towards the household products section and grabbed two boxes of laundry detergent. She looked around and noticed that not that many people were there. Probably still out of town.

She headed for the cashier and greeted him with a smile.

"Is this all for you Miss?"

"Yes."

"Your total is 4.87"

"I've got it." Said a familiar voice from behind Kagome. Kagome looked up and smiled knowing exactly who it was.

"Here's your change." He handed him 13 cents back from the 5 dollar bill.

"You can keep it, it's just pocket change."

Kagome looked at Inuyasha. "I could have paid for it myself."

"You don't have to spend your money on this." He grabbed the bag as the two walked out of the store.

"Why is it that we always meet at this store?" Kagome looked at him.

"What do you mean?"

Kagome looked at the street ahead of her. "It's just whenever I go to the store, you seem to always be here also."

Inuyasha smirked to himself knowing what she meant.

"Does it bother you Kagome?"

Kagome shook her head no. "No I just noticed it that's all."

Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's wrist with his free hand and stopped her in her tracks. "I'll take you home."

Kagome looked around wondering if anyone was watching.

"Don't be paranoid Kagome and besides who's business is it anyways. Now come on." He said leading her towards his car. The two got in and drove off.

"Let's go to my place." His voice was mellow yet low.

"What?"

"Come over my house."

"I have to bring my mom back the laundry detergent and besides I'm still working on my assignment for school,"

"I'll drop you off at home so you can give it to your mom and you can bring your assignment with you over my house."

Kagome blushed a bit. "Like I'm going to get it done if I go over your house."

"You'll get something done alright."

"Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha couldn't help but to laugh at his girlfriend's flustered face. He found it extremely cute.

"Come on princess, you know you want to."

Kagome looked over at Inuyasha and of course he had that puppy dog pout on his face. It was something about it that made her wonder why she resisted him in the first place.

She let out a sigh as she looked out the window. "I guess it couldn't hurt."

"Yes!" came the response from Inuyasha. Kagome laughed at his outburst of excitement.

Inuyasha turned the corner and pulled into the drive-way.

"I won't be long." She grabbed the bags and headed towards her front door. The door was already unlocked and Kagome walked straight towards the laundry room.

"Here mom." She handed her mother the bag with the money inside.

"Was it enough?"

"My friend paid for it. Can I go over their house for a little while?"

"Is it Inuyasha again?"

Kagome nodded her head a blush staining her cheeks again but she was sure her mom couldn't tell the difference due to the fact that it was freezing outside.

"Sure why not but don't be home too late Kagome you do have school tomorrow."

"Okay thanks mom." She said giving her mom a kiss on the cheek and heading upstairs to get her assignment and running back downstairs.

She made it back towards Inuyasha's car and got inside.

"That was quick, princess. You must have really wanted to go." He smirked as he started the engine.

"Not as much as you wanted me to."

"Touché."

It didn't take long for Inuyasha to get to his house, even though the road had a hint of snow and ice on it, the sand made it somewhat easier to maneuver in. Inuyasha pulled up in the drive way and cut the engine off.

"You sure enjoy driving fast. Need for speed huh?"

"I've got a need, but I don't necessarily think it's for speed." He unfastened her seatbelt and moved closer to her.

Kagome could feel her face grow red and heat come to her face. "Um let's get out of here, I don't like being cold."

"I can keep you warm Kagome, I wouldn't mind one bit." His voice whispered in her ear.

Kagome quickly opened the door and stepped out of the car. Inuyasha chuckled to himself at the modest behavior that she was displaying. It was rather amusing that he could make her become that flustered over a short period of time. He followed after her as the two entered inside of his house.

"Finally I can take this coat off." Kagome unzipped her coat and sitting it on the couch. Inuyasha walked towards the television and grabbed the remote turning it on. "What do you want to watch?"

"How about a movie."

Inuyasha looked over at his DVD collection and pulled out a movie that would be enjoyable for the two of them, more likely her. He wouldn't be doing watching too much of the movie anyway.

He opened the case and placed the DVD inside of the DVD player and pressed play. He walked back towards Kagome and took a seat next to her on the couch. The movie started and Kagome was still working on the assignment. She would be finished in a couple of minutes and she wanted to finish it so she could watch the movie with Inuyasha.

Inuyasha looked over his shoulder and saw that she was still working on her assignment.

"You're still trying to finish that assignment up? Why don't you just relax and watch the movie."

Kagome ignored him as she continued to do her assignment. Inuyasha raised a brow as he grabbed the paper from her hands and held it in the air.

"Inuyasha give that back, please."

"Nope I wanted to spend time with you."

"You will just as soon as I get finish. I'm almost done."

"You can finish it later."

Kagome stood up and so did Inuyasha. "This isn't fair Inuyasha you're taller than me."

"Well you're just short it isn't my fault."

"Hey that's not funny." She crashed her body against his in an attempt to knock him down.

"No chance princess you're just not stronger than me."

She smirked to herself. "Well see about that." She took a seat and folded her arms across her chest and crossed her legs.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome with suspicion. What was she doing and why did she give up that easily. She must have thought of something.

"What's the matter with you?"

She remained silent keeping her focus on the television.

"Hey what's the matter?" he looked at her and raised a brow. Kagome remained silent as she continued to keep her attention on the television screen.

Inuyasha sat beside her and handed her the paper. Kagome continued to ignore him finding the movie much more interesting.

"Are you avoiding me?"

"What am I hearing is there someone else in the room?" she looked around as if she was the only one in the house. She turned her attention back to the movie.

"Hmmm, guess it was just my imagination."

"You are avoiding me." He chuckled.

"I keep hearing this voice; I might need to get this checked out."

Inuyasha leaned towards Kagome staring at her intently. "Kagome, why are you avoiding me?"

She didn't look at him but replied. "Oh I'm not avoiding you Inuyasha. I'm just not paying you any attention."

"Oh so you got jokes huh?"

"I know no jokes."

In one quick movement, Inuyasha grabbed Kagome around the waist and positioned her on his lap. Kagome let out a shriek as she struggled to get loose.

"Inuyasha what are you doing?"

"I want my girlfriend to pay attention to me."

"I was trying to watch the movie."

"So now you wanted to watch the movie. What happened to wanting to finish the assignment?"

"You took it so what's the point. I can't even get it from you when I asked nicely." A pout graced her lips as she continued to squirm in his lap.

"You know the more you struggle the harder it is for me to let you go."

"Let me go Inuyasha so I can continue and watch the movie." She tried to loosen his grip from around her waist, but that proved pointless.

"I don't think that I will be doing that anytime soon, princess. Not until I get your undivided attention."

Kagome tilted her head so that she could look at Inuyasha in the face. "You've got your wish."

Inuyasha smirked.

"Now can I get off?"

"I think I like this arrangement better." He pulled her closer to him.

"Inuyasha!"

Kagome could feel Inuyasha's breath on her neck and it tickled a bit. She could feel the heat rising to her face as Inuyasha stared at her. She didn't want to look at him, so she kept her eyes elsewhere.

Inuyasha noticed this and grabbed her chin with his fingers and turned her face towards him.

"Are you getting shy princess?" his voice was low and somewhat husky.

She nodded her head.

"Don't be."

Inuyasha inched his face closer to Kagome's until his lips met hers. It was a soft kiss. Something that Kagome always melted in. His lips moved perfectly with hers. He loved her kisses they were so sweet and innocent, yet seductive and fierce.

He tightens his grip around her waist as Kagome placed her hands on each side of his shoulder.

Inuyasha had started to trail his kisses further down to the junction of Kagome's shoulder. He could feel his demon blood rising with the faint scent of her arousal in the air. It was mouthwatering and enticing. He had to control his inner demon because he for one knew that Kagome wasn't ready. But he did have one thing in particular.

Without hesitation, Inuyasha bit down on Kagome's neck and left a mark.

Kagome gasped a lit bit as she exhaled lightly. It felt like a slight pinch so she let it go un-notice.

Inuyasha removed his mouth from Kagome's neck and went to kiss her softly on the lips again. After a minute or so, Inuyasha pulled back and looked at the time. His eyes widen when he saw that it was almost 10:00. They had been kissing that long that time passed them by.

"I better get you home princess, it's getting late."

"I don't want to go home." Her voice was slightly out of breath due to the lack of air she had.

Inuyasha smirked. He wouldn't mind having his Kagome spend the night with him. But he wasn't so sure that he would be able to control himself if this keeps up.

"Maybe next time sweetheart." He picked her up bridal style and walked towards the front door.

It didn't take Inuyasha that long for him to make it to Kagome's house. As the car stopped Inuyasha looked over at Kagome.

"Get going it's getting late." His voice was soft and low.

"Thanks for tonight I really did have fun." She couldn't help but to smile and blush a bit.

"That's good, now get going. Don't want you to get in trouble."

She nodded her head as she opened the door, but not before he pulled her closer to him and giving her a gentle kiss on the lips. He brushed his lips softly against Kagome's neck and the mark was still there. He smiled to himself as he released her.

She made it safely inside and headed upstairs. Her family was asleep and she sighed to herself as she walked inside her room. She looked in the mirror and smiled, but as soon as she smiled it turned into a look of worry. She had a slight bruise on the junction of her shoulder and her neck. It was teeth marks, well more like fangs. She touched it softly and wondered exactly what this meant.

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