Curiosity Killed the Cat

Kagome and Inuyasha sat in silence. It was cold, the ground was wet, it was 2 o'clock in the morning, and nothing had happened yet. Needless to say, things weren't going well.

Kagome's pink pajamas were wet, and even tough her hands were buried deep into her jacket's pockets they were still cold.

Inuyasha, who had been sleeping in black sweats, slipped on a gray T-shirt, and a jacket before following Kagome out of the house.

Silence…that's all there was, silence and darkness…it was unbearable, it was horrible, it was disgusting, but it was so peaceful that it all evened out.

In fact, sitting here, in the dark and in the silence, Kagome felt a little bit of happiness; glad she was sitting there with Inuyasha.

Sure, they weren't the closest of friends, in fact their friendship would probably be over in a matter of weeks, and her memories of him would fade and he'd just be another person she didn't like, but for right now, right that second, they were friends.

And for some reason, a reason Kagome couldn't understand, she was happy.

And maybe that's why she hated Kikyo. No…she hated Kikyo because she was Kikyo, but maybe another reason she hated Kikyo was because she would always have Inuyasha. She didn't want to date Inuyasha, Kagome really didn't, but Kikyo was dating Inuyasha, and that meant that at the end of the day Kagome was still something less in his eyes, just a friend that he liked, while Kikyo was his girlfriend that he loved.

Or maybe, sitting out on the cold wet grass had made her go crazy. Either way, sitting there didn't seem so bad.

Inuyasha sighed, looking over at Kagome, watching as she just looked down at the grass that sat beneath her.

Inuyasha couldn't help but stare, as she looked content, maybe even happy, staring at the grass.

That was one thing he liked about Kagome. She was easy too please. She gets happy when he got a math problem right, and she gets happy when she finds her lost pencil at the bottom of her purse, and she gets happy when she finishes a good book. She wasn't anything like Kikyo.

Kikyo was so hard to please. She wasn't happy with just any flowers, she had to have the perfect date, she wouldn't get happy over finding her lost pencil, and she certainly wouldn't get happy staring at grass.

But Kagome did. Kagome found joy in almost anything, and Inuyasha liked that. That's one of the things he liked about her.

Kagome, as if sensing his gaze, looked over at him.

"What?" she asked, sending him a confused look. "Are you still mad at me?" she asked, sitting up straighter.

"What made you think I was mad at you?" Inuyasha asked, confused.

"Oh, I don't know. Maybe you saying that you hated me." Kagome said, rolling her eyes. "So, are you still mad or have you cooled down?"

Inuyasha shook his head, before looking back at her. "Naw, I'm not mad."

Kagome nodded her head and looked back down at the ground.

"What's so interesting?" Inuyasha asked, looking down at the grass.

"Nothing. Its just grass." Kagome said, but she was still smiling down at it.

'I wonder if she just likes to smile…' Inuyasha thought, watching her.

She had a nice smile.

Smiling slightly, Inuyasha looked back out at the back yard, and for the first time, saw a pair of headlights coming down from the side of the house.

"Kagome." Inuyasha whispered, repositioning himself so he was leaning closer to the bushes.

Kagome looked up, and spotting the lights, got down next to Inuyasha, peering out through the bushes as the headlights stopped.

Lights inside the house turned on, and Kagome could see Renkzo's shadow moving through the house.

She got closer to the ground as Rubio got out of the van he was driving and came over to the bushes. She felt Inuyasha move her closer to him, so their elbows and knees were touching as they sat on their knees, leaning on their elbows to look out into the darkness that was the backyard.

"You're late!"

Kagome looked over as the screen door creaked opened and out came Renkzo, dressed in plaid pajamas, but he had on his shoes.

"I'm early." Rubio insisted, moving away from the bushes. Kagome and Inuyasha visibly relaxed as Rubio moved further away.

"Don't play you're stupid games now!" Renkzo snapped, getting out of the doorway, so Rubio could come in.

"My games are not stupid." Rubio said, in a fake hurt tone. "Besides, I'm not playing any game. I'm early. You're just going crazy."

"I'm warning you." Renkzo said, smacking Rubio on the head as he walked into the house.

Rubio rubbed his baldhead as Renkzo closed the screen door, and the two men walked out of view.

"You ok?" Inuyasha asked, looking over at Kagome.

"Me? I'm fine. Why?" Kagome asked, not understanding why she wouldn't be fine.

"Uh? Oh, I was just…I just wanted to make sure. That's all." Inuyasha explained, sitting up.

"Well, I'm ok." Kagome said, reassuringly. "I say we go check out the van."

"What? Why?"

"Because they have to had put whatever was in the storage garage somewhere. Where else could it be?"

"In a million other places."

"Well I want to check this place out." Kagome said, standing up.

"Don't be stupid, we should listen to their conversation." Inuyasha said, standing beside her.

"Why? We don't even know where they are. We should look at the van while we still can."

"Kagome we don't even know there's anything in the van. If we listened to their conversation we'd know what we're dealing with."

"Inuyasha-"

Kagome stopped as the screen door opened and she looked over just in time to see Rubio make his way out to the van, Renkzo behind him.

Kagome opened her mouth, an un-stoppable gasp about to escape her, when Inuyasha pushed her backwards.

She automatically wrapped her arms around him, but he was falling to the ground too. The air escaped her as she landed on the ground, Inuyasha's weight on top of her.

Inuyasha quickly put his hand over her mouth, leaning down closer to her, so his face was about 2 inches.

"Quiet." He whispered, waiting till she nodded her head before he pulled his hand off her mouth, and used it to prop himself up.

Kagome could feel her heart race, Inuyasha's legs were entangled with her own, and their bodies were pressed together. But with his arms up, he held his upper body off her, instead looking out of the bushes, making his hair dance around above Kagome's face, some of it brushing her cheek.

"It should be safe soon, the police don't have any leads, and they have no trail." Rubio said, opening the doors of the van.

Renkzo laughed, obviously happy. "Good, good. Then I should be able to have the Charity Ball soon then. And after that everything will fall into place."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Rubio said, tired of hearing the same old speech.

"Pardon?" Renkzo said, obviously not liking Rubio's attitude.

"So, all we have to is lay low for a couple more days and then we're in the clear." Rubio said, ignoring Renkzo.

"Yes, yes. And tomorrow?"

"What about it?"

"What are we doing tomorrow?"

"The same thing we always do Pinky. Try and take over the world!"

"What did I same about your games?" Renkzo snapped, walking away.

Rubio, laughing, waved his hand, climbed in the van, and drove off.

Kagome let the breath she was holding out as Rubio drove away, and looked up to see Inuyasha looking down at her.

"Are you ok?" he asked, not moving off of her.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Kagome said, noticing how warm she was.

"Good." Inuyasha said, smiling.

"Do you know what this means?" Kagome asked, noticing how Inuyasha's hair danced around her face.

"That you're ok?" Inuyasha asked.

"No, about what they said."

"Rubio is an idiot."

"No! It means they don't know about us. And it means we have to go to Renkzo's party."

"What? I how are we suppose to get in?"

"…I'll think of a way." Kagome said.

"Of course you will." Inuyasha replied.

Inuyasha and Kagome just lay there, still in their pervious positions, looking at each other.

"…Come on…we have school in the morning. We better get back home…" Inuyasha said, pulling himself up, a bit reluctantly.

"Yeah…" Kagome said, noticing how cold she was all of a sudden.

Inuyasha helped Kagome off the ground, and walked her home, standing a little closer then he had to.

As soon as Kagome walked inside, he waited outside her house until all the lights she flicked on flicked off.

Looking at his watch he saw it was almost 3 o'clock. Shaking his head, he shoved his hands into his pockets and headed towards his house.

He walked into his house quietly, and walked up to his room. He threw his jacket on the floor and pulled off the gray T-shirt, before getting on his bed, and wrapping himself up under the covers.

There were many unpredictable things in his life, but Kagome had to be the most unpredictable. And she was the thing he liked the best.

Smiling, he fell asleep.

Done! And this one is longer, because I didn't update last week. I'm better, by the way. I'm totally fine now. It might be a little early to say, but I think there's only going to be somewhere between 10 and 15 chapters left. Not sure. I hope you guys enjoyed. And I want to thank all my reviewers. Read and Review. Till Next Time…