Inuyasha: So what's going on in this chapter wench? You gonna make me throw up my insides again?
InuLuver1990 grins: Well, I haven't thought of it yet.
Inuyasha: WHHHATT! So you're telling me, Me and Kagome ain't gonna be together in this one?
InuLuver1990 shakes her head.
Inuyasha: Damn, stupid, suspense-giving author!
InuLuver1990: I heard that. Anyway, you're lucky I don't own you because I would personally make Kagome SIT you a hundred times!
Inuyasha: Whatever wench, get on with the story!
InuLuver1990 sighs as she thinks: He's such a handsome hanyou, but he's still so very rude. I think I'll punish him a little more.
InuLuver1990: On with the story!
He Loves Me,
She Loves Me Not.
Chapter Twenty-Five: Kagome's Breakdown and Phone Call
Morning came and went swiftly on Sunday, Kagome stared at her phone; it was the afternoon, almost 3:00, maybe she should try to speak to Inuyasha today. She bit her lip, prayed to God that he would answer and then picked up her telephone. She dialed the first four digits but then rested the phone down. She wasn't ready for another rejection.
Kagome sighed sadly and rested diagonally across her bed, she closed her eyes and began to dream about the good times she had with Inuyasha when he was her boyfriend. She reminisced about the time they spent in his room doing homework and making out and being naughty with each other. She thought about all the times she tried to seduce him to 'play' with her but he would get up and run away.
Kagome let out a tiny laugh. Inuyasha always ran away when she got too sexy with him. She grinned; he had loved her so much; he had loved her not only for her body but also for her mind, her spirit, her guidance, and mostly, her love.
Then Kagome's smile melted into a frown. Inuyasha didn't love her any more. Her throat closed up, she could hardly breath. Every time she thought about the fact that Inuyasha didn't love her any longer, she would clam up, she would breathe hard, hyperventilate; she would feel as though she were going crazy. And she was, Kagome was going crazy without Inuyasha.
Then the hot tears from her eyes scorched lines down her reddening cheeks. She and Inuyasha had spent so much time together. They had spent Christmases and birthdays and they even celebrated their anniversary, the day she and Inuyasha had become a couple. Inuyasha would buy her anything she wanted, no matter what it was.
Her last birthday she shared with him was wonderful. Inuyasha had bought her a ruby encrusted, pure gold locket in the shape of a heart. And inside of it was a picture of him on one side, and her on the other and they were smiling like idiots. Kagome went into her jewelry box and picked it up and opened it.
"Inuyasha!" Suddenly she broke down into a fit of sobs. Kagome cried and cried and cried and cried until her mother came in to comfort her, but she found no solace in her mother's arms. She wanted Inuyasha.
"Honey," She said softly.
Kagome wasn't listening; she just got up and went to her bureau. On top was the gift Inuyasha had given her on their third and last anniversary. It was a beautifully crafted music box. The tune was so touching and heartrending she and Inuyasha had sat in her room and made up a song for it.
Then, Kagome began to sing. Her mother sighed and listened as Kagome sang tearfully her and Inuyasha's love song.
I'll always love you; you know we won't part,
You'll always love me; your love fills my heart,
Our love won't dwindle, our love's here to stay.
You'll be beside me, for all of my days
You'll be beside me, for all of my days
Our love won't dwindle, our love's here to stay.
You'll always love me; your love fills my heart,
I'll always love you; you know we won't part,
"But we did!" She cried and began to rage at once. She stormed around her room. "You liar!" She screamed. "You said you loved me but you don't love me! You said we wouldn't part! Well what the hell has happened to us? You said you'd be beside me forever!"
She looked around her frantically. "Where the hell are you?! Where is the love you said won't weaken? Where? Where is it?" Kagome's movements became so erratic; she began to break things. She picked up one of her high heel shoes and threw it into her mirror. The mirror shattered into a million tiny pieces and scattered all over her bureau and floor.
"Kagome!" Her mother shouted afraid that Kagome would hurt herself. She went to Kagome and pulled her into her arms. She just thrashed and screamed and thrashed even more until she was tired and only sobbed silently.
Sakura sighed and held her shaking daughter in her arms. She had to do something about Kagome and Inuyasha, her daughter was slowly going insane and she couldn't bear to lose her. She held her tightly until she fell asleep. Then she rested her on her bed, covered her with her blanket, kissed her forehead, said a little prayer over her and left her room.
"What am I going to do?" She asked himself as he went to the kitchen. Kagome had asked her to stay out of her and Inuyasha's problems but there had to be some way she could help her. Sakura started making a little lunch for Kagome as she tried to think of ways she could help her.
Inuyasha was in the living room studying harder than he had ever studied in his life. Kagome didn't love him. If she loved him, she wouldn't have been kissing Naraku.
"Bloody hell!" He cursed. "Stop thinking about her! She doesn't love you! She and Naraku are together! There's nothing I can do about it! I have to study!"
Inuyasha flipped the page in his Biology book and tried to concentrate on his work, but found he couldn't take his mind off of Kagome. He rested his head down and balled his fists until he drew blood in the palms of his hands.
"Inuyasha?" His mother called when she saw his head down and blood dripping.
He didn't look up; he just opened his hands and looked at the blood in his palms.
"Oh Inuyasha!" She gasped and took his hands in hers. "You're bleeding."
He took them away and wiped them on his shirt. "It's not bad,"
"Not bad!" Izayoi exclaimed. "You come with me right now and let me put something on it before it gets infected!"
Inuyasha bit his lip and turned to his mother. She was treating him like a baby, and what did Kagome say to him before? He didn't want to recollect, so, he just stared at her hard. "Mom, I'm fine." He said sternly. "I can take care of myself; I'm not a baby anymore so I don't need you to treat me like one."
She blinked at him, taken aback. Then her eyes saddened, he was right. Her son was a grown man; he could take care of himself. She inhaled deeply and nodded at him. "I understand," Then she turned away.
"Mom," He said softly.
"Yes?"
"Thank you for your concern,"
She turned and smiled at him. "You're welcome; just make sure you clean up the blood."
He nodded and then she went back into the kitchen. Inuyasha left the living room to clean his hands and when he came back, the phone rang. He picked it up and answered it; maybe, he hoped silently, it was Kagome.
"Hello?" He said.
"Inuyasha?" The girl on the phone spoke. "It's Kikyo."
Inuyasha wanted to hang up the phone, but Kikyo didn't deserve it, so he just listened to what she had to say.
"What is it, Kikyo?" He asked.
"Inuyasha, I need to speak to you lunchtime tomorrow," She said seriously.
Inuyasha thought about reasons why Kikyo Miko would want to speak to him. "Why?" He wondered.
"Don't worry about that; just make sure you're there and on time." She snapped at him a little.
He bit his lip. "Why can't you tell me now?"
"Because, I'd rather be looking at you, when I tell you." She said simply.
"Is it about Kagome?" The question slipped from his lips automatically.
"Maybe, maybe not," She told him. "Now, I have to go. Make sure you're under the bleachers first thing lunchtime."
"All right," He said and then he heard the dial tone.
'That was weird,' he told himself and sat down to continue studying but now his mind kept straying to what Kikyo wanted to tell him. Was it about Kagome or something else?
'Nothing on your exam is going to say what is Kagome's middle name, or what's Kagome's favorite food or color, so stop thinking about her, because she's thinking about Naraku not you.' He told himself harshly and then shook the thoughts out of his head, picked up his Biology textbook and started to memorize the information.
Then suddenly, Inuyasha's eyes began to droop and he fell asleep and began to dream. He dreamt long and hard about Kagome and when he woke up he was sweating.
"Bloody hell!" He growled.
"Ohhhhhh!" Little Aiko began to shake her hand at him. "Inuyasha say bad words! I gonna tell daddy!"
Inuyasha glared at her for a while and then grinned. Aiko was too adorable for words. She looked just like their father and Inuyasha except she was the girly version. "Come here Aiko," He called.
She came straight to him still shaking her tiny hand. "Daddy gonna punish you!"
Inuyasha just grinned. "Really?" He said.
She shook her tiny head at him. "Yes, cause I'm gonna tell him!"
Inuyasha laughed out loud. "Aiko, you're too much," He said and then lifted her into his arms. "How about I give you a big piece of cake so you don't tell?"
Aiko's eyes sparkled. She loved cake. "Okay!" She said happily.
"After dinner I'll cut the cake Kagome sent and give you a very big piece, but you have to promise not to tell dad."
"I promise!" She squealed happily.
"Good, now go play with your sisters," He said.
She frowned. "I don't want to!" She said with a huff.
Inuyasha stared at her. "Why not?"
"Cause, they're playing a game where I have to be the boy since I look like you and daddy and Hitomi is the guy's girlfriend and Keiko is the 'other girl' that's trying to get the guy! But I don't want to be the guy!"
Inuyasha blinked at her and sighed. Aiko's two sisters always treated Aiko differently; Inuyasha was beginning to worry about that. He didn't like how hitomi and Keiko behaved towards Aiko.
"Okay," He said. "If Kagome calls me, tell her I'm busy," He smirked as he turned on the television.
"But you watching T.V that's not a very good reason not to speak to somebody." Aiko frowned at him.
He grinned at her. "It's a good enough reason for me; just tell her I'm busy, okay?"
Aiko nodded. "Okay!"
"Right, mom's in the kitchen," He told her. "Go help her,"
"Kay!" She smiled happily and then sprinted on tiny legs into the kitchen. Inuyasha sighed and then thought about what he had dreamed.
Suddenly, his fury came rushing back, hotter than ever and then his mind began to rage with angry thoughts.
'Tomorrow, Kagome's going to tell me why she broke up with me, and if she truly doesn't love me; she'll have to tell me to my face!' Until then, she'll never be out of my system.
Kagome woke up from her slumber and saw that the mirror she had smashed to pieces was all cleaned up. Now she couldn't see her miserable face any more. She sighed and decided that it was time to call Inuyasha.
She looked at her clock and it read 4:57. She sat up, went to her phone and dialed the phone number that was scorched permanently in her brain.
"Hello?" A little girl answered.
"Aiko?" Kagome asked. "It's Kagome, may I speak to Inuyasha please?"
"No!" The little girl shouted. "He busy!"
"Oh," Kagome said taken aback by the force of the girl's voice. "How have you been then?"
"Good," Aiko smiled happy that someone wanted to know about her. She liked to feel important. "Guess what I like?"
Kagome smiled into the phone, Aiko loved to tell people what she liked. "What do you like?"
"I like dollies and sparkly things and ice-cream and candy and…"
"Aiko," Her mother came into the room. "Who's on the phone?" She asked.
"It's Kagome, mommy," Aiko said.
"Then, why don't you give the phone to Inuyasha?" Izayoi wondered.
"Cause Inuyasha said that if Kagome called he's busy even though he's just watching T.V." She said bluntly.
Izayoi gasped and took the phone from her daughter, "Hello? Kagome?"
Izayoi only heard the dial tone and knew that Kagome had understood what Aiko had said. Izayoi redialed hoping Kagome would pick up but she didn't so she hung up.
"Let's go dish dinner honey," Izayoi said to her daughter.
"Okay!" Aiko obviously not knowing what she had done smiled showing off her cute little dimples as they walked into the kitchen with her mother.
'I hope Kagome isn't too angry,' Izayoi sighed softly.
Kagome was furious. Inuyasha would rather watch the television instead of talk to her. "Fine!" She shouted at the phone. "You stupid, no good, deceitful little… BABY!" She screamed and then began to cry. Inuyasha would rather watch T.V, than speak to her. Kagome bit her lip and let the tears drain down her face.
She sat on her bed for an hour or so, just thinking about her and Inuyasha and all the good times they had when suddenly the phone rang, and she glared at it. She sighed; maybe it was Inuyasha calling to apologize for being so horrible.
Kagome inhaled deeply and when the phone rang again, she picked it up. She wiped the tears from her face and then cleared her throat.
"Hello?" She answered.
"Hey Kagome," The guy said cheerfully.
Kagome frowned when she recognized the voice to be Naraku. She sighed and tried to sound happy to hear from him.
"Hello Naraku," She said.
"How are you?" He asked caringly.
"Not too well," She sighed sadly.
"Why?" He wondered as he flipped through his Civics book, he had been studying but became bored and decided to call Kagome.
Kagome then began to tell him about all her problems and how Inuyasha had told his family that if she called to tell her that he was busy when he was really just watching the television. Kagome started to sniffle.
"Kagome," Naraku said softly. "Don't worry about Inuyasha," He told her.
"Don't worry!" She shrieked at Naraku. "I love him! How the hell can I not worry about him?"
Naraku sighed harshly. "What I'm trying to say, Kagome, is that if you want, tomorrow I can get Inuyasha to meet you under the bleachers at maybe lunchtime to talk and work out your problems." He said.
Kagome thought about it. "Really?" She said softly.
"Yes,"
"All right," She sighed. "If you can get him there, I'll go."
"I will," He told her.
"You're such a good friend, Naraku," She said happily. "Thank you so much."
"You're welcome." He smiled. "Anyway, I just called to find out how you were doing and to tell you that this is my final plan to get Inuyasha to tell you he loves you, if it doesn't work…"
"I understand," She said with a small smile. "And thanks again,"
"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow."
When Kagome hung up she was feeling much better, she smiled, sighed again and decided to sleep a little more before she went for dinner. Maybe tomorrow, on Monday, she and Inuyasha would work out their problems once and for all. She hoped so.
Inuyasha: Hey wench, when's this story going to be finished?
InuLuver1990: There are 39 chapters all together I believe, but don't worry I've finished typing the entire story so all I have to do is post the chapters.
Inuyasha: Then what the hell are you waiting for a bloody sign? You know, I don't care about your readers who are trying to find out if Kagome and I are going to get back together- it's not their damn business anyway. The only thing I care about is when I will know when we're together again,
InuLuver1990: That was very mean Inuyasha! But anyway, you'll have to wait like everyone else!
Inuyasha: But I'm the star! I demand to know!
InuLuver1990 smirks: I'm not telling you!
Inuyasha: So how many chapters you posting today wench?
InuLuver: I don't know. I might post three more but I'd really like more reviews.
Inuyasha: You telling me that I have to wait until you get more reviews before I can find out when Kagome and I'll be together?
InuLuver1990 nods.
InuLuver1990: Don't blame me. Blame the readers! Oh but Sonyita- a very wonderful reviewer has given me my 5th review and so this chapter is dedicated to her.
Inuyasha: Just hurry up and post some more! I don't like not being with Kagome.
InuLuver1990: Aww! That's so sweet! Anyway, I'll post three more chapters today or maybe more, depending on how I'm feeling.
Inuyasha: You better be feeling damn good then!
InuLuver1990 rolls her eyes and signs out.