Disclaimer: Here's my plan: I'll go to Japan, fall in some random well and
into the past (or a coma) and then go find Inuyasha. Once I find him I
shoot him with a tranquilliser dart and slap a sticker on his head saying
'I own him'. Of course, there are no mirrors in that time... well, not
many... and when he wakes up he'll be blissfully unaware that he is my
property. Once I do that I can stop writing these disclaimers, and go back
to the nuthouse to live out the rest of my fantasy life ^_^
(A/N: I swear I'm not crazy, I'm just ill. Stupid friends have been sneezing all over me at school again - hasn't anyone heard of a tissue? Well... now I'm coming down with the flu - again! I can't believe it!)
Two Faced
Hypothetically...
"The day of darkness is less than a week away..." The Prime Minister rested his chin in his palm as he leaned against the meeting table. "I have received news that Kagome has escaped her captures and has reunited with her father."
"Thank god..." were the various murmurs of reply.
"Though Inuyasha is still with her."
This was met by silence.
General Taijiya leaned forward. "Shouldn't you tell them what he did?"
"There's no way to establish two-way communication. I am assuming that Kagome has told the military she is travelling with what he has done and I expect they are holding him captive." The Prime Minister shrugged. "The message from Major Houshi didn't elaborate anymore than 'we have Kagome and Inuyasha'."
"Maybe we should send a plane down there to take Inuyasha back and commit him to prison. It's too risky having him out there." The General argued.
"And risk having that one crash too?" the PM shook his head. "I don't think so. Besides, so far the prophesy is coming true, and I don't want to risk anything that might upset the balance. It is best we wait it out. Inuyasha won't survive the day of darkness... and neither will Kagome, unfortunately. We'll send a plan down there afterwards to pick them up."
"But Major Houshi insists that we send one now." The General scowled. "My daughter is down there as well - I don't want to risk her life too."
"She won't be in any danger because she has no demon soul within her." The Prime Minister shrugged. "Humans will survive fine."
"So we just ignore his calls for help then?"
"We have to."
"But leaving Inuyasha over there... at such a critical time." The general winced. "Who knows what kind of heinous things he could be planning..."
^_^
If he turned off the light... and then waited a little while... the little critter would come out from under the ceiling tile... and then he could turn the light on again and with a rolled up newspaper - bam! Dead cockroach!
Inuyasha patiently waited patiently under a light switch... but it seemed like his master plan wasn't really working out. Looked like even parasites could outwit him these days...
With a sigh he picked himself up off the floor and went off in search of some action. All this cockroach business had made him hungry so he set off in search of the dining hall downstairs. Kagome and her father were already sat at one of the tables with Sango and Miroku. Deciding to join them, Inuyasha headed straight for that table, passing a couple of waiters and waitresses on his way.
"Can you believe it?" one of the waiters was whispering. "We are standing in the presence of greatness!"
"THE Mr Higurashi from the government AND the prodigal girl!" someone else squealed with delight.
"You have to wonder what kind of great debates their discussing..."
"Plans to save the world..."
"Philosophical conversations..."
"Politics..."
"Some kind of top secret government conspiracies..."
Inuyasha arrived at the table and sat down, catching the tale end of the 'great' debate.
"Peanut butter and Jelly on toast?" Kagome winced at Sango. "Are you nuts? That's disgusting! Are you pregnant or something?"
"Well its better than yucky marmite sandwiches." Sango retorted.
"Don't dis the marmite!" Miroku scoffed in a feigned camp voice.
Mr Higurashi was just smiling at his daughter. "I'm just glad you're all alive and well... see? Wasn't I right to get Inuyasha here to protect you?"
Kagome and Inuyasha swapped brief glances before nodding quickly with big fake smiles. Sango and Miroku just knowingly smirked at one another. Those two were just so bad at lying, people could just read them like a book.
"Kagome." Her father suddenly spoke up in a serious tone. "Can we take a walk for a minute or so."
Kagome stiffened slightly, looking at the other three around her before nodding and smiling. "Sure." She got up and followed him out of the dinner hall and outside.
Miroku happily turned to Inuyasha. "So - what's your favourite food?"
The ground was still slightly damp from the rain from the previous night, but the air was a lot warmer and humid. "What did you want to talk about, dad?"
"Kagome..." He sighed and clasped his hands behind his back. "You do realise the day of darkness will arrive in a week or so."
Kagome frowned slightly. This was a topic she didn't really want to talk about with her father so soon after being reunited with him. "Yes."
"Well... Major Houshi has asked that a plane be sent to pick us all up the day after tomorrow in the airport, south of here."
"Go on..."
"I want you to go back north as well." He said seriously.
"What?" Kagome stopped short and stared at him. "After all these years of pressuring me to do my duty you're going to send me home?" Not that she was planning on arguing with him, she just didn't understand why he'd suddenly changed his mind. "What's going on?"
He'd received a fax from General Taijiya... a fax copy of the real prophecy - the unedited version. Kagome didn't need to know those details... but after reading what would really happen, suddenly her miracle didn't sound so important anymore. She could go home and demons could live on for all he cared. If the price of wiping the demons out cost his little girl her life... then he was willing to change his mind. "You don't want to kill demons do you?"
"No!" Kagome said quickly.
"Then why are you arguing with me?" he smiled and wrapped his arm around her shoulder. "I don't want to make you unhappy by forcing you to do anything you don't want to. You can go home."
"Thank you..." Kagome leaned against him and lapsed into silence.
"Kagome?"
"Yeah, dad?"
"I'm glad you're alive. When they said your plane had crashed I was worried sick."
"Inuyasha... looked after me." Kagome said uncertainly. "I was in safe hands."
"I know. I told you he was good at his job." He squeezed her shoulder. "You should have more faith in me. But has the prophesy been coming true while I've been away?"
With a sign Kagome nodded and confided in him. "There was... a time when a big demon attacked me and Inuyasha when we arrived at a desecrated village where we thought you were staying. That monster nearly killed him... and for no reason anything I threw at the monster seemed to have as much destruction as a grenade or something. I practically blew it up..."
He frowned at her with concern. "Are you ok?"
"It was scary for a while... and I felt sick afterwards... but I'm ok. I saved Inuyasha, that's the important thing." She nodded.
"Hey, maybe we should hire you as his bodyguard instead, then?" he grinned and she smiled in response.
A comfortable silence fell on them as Mr Higurashi watched the villagers around them idly. Kagome was just staring at the damp, firm earth before them as they walked. "Dad?"
"Yeah?"
"How did... how did you and mom get together?"
That was a very out of the blue question that threw him for a moment, but he smiled and answered anyway. "We met through our friends in University. She was studying for law and so was I... we liked each other enough to get married and have kids - we had you and then we started to pursue our own careers. She wanted to be a small town lawyer... and I wanted to go into politics. By the time we had Souta I think our views started to differ too much... and we both decided on a mutual divorce."
"Did you have any hitches before you got into a relationship with her?" Kagome asked, still watching the ground with fascination.
"Not really. We were very alike back in University, we got on very well. The first argument we actually ever had was about the colour of the settee we were going to have. And that was after you were born."
"Oh..." Kagome murmured quietly.
"Why the question?" he asked straight back.
"I was just wondering..."
"Sixteen years and you finally started wondering?" He gave her a suspicious look. "Tell me another one."
Kagome wondered how she was going to phrase this without giving too much away. "Hypothetically..." yeah that always worked. "There's this girl... and a guy..."
"You and Inuyasha?"
Damn he was good. Kagome shook her head quickly. "No - it's this Mexican soap that we've been watching lately. And since we aren't going to be able to watch the rest of the plot if we go home... this scenario is bugging me."
"Go on then..."
"Well... there's this girl... forget her name - and there's this guy called Santito in the program." Kagome patted herself on the back mentally. "These two always fight, but just when they're starting to get to know each other and like each other more than just friends... Santito cheats on the girl and basically betrays her."
"I see..." he nodded in understanding.
"And then there's the whole I hate you, please forgive me, kind of period where there's all this conflict. And finally they reach an understanding with each other... but right now it's kind of uncertain where the plot is heading. I mean... the details on Santito are etchy at the most and I don't know personally if he's going to betray the girl again - and neither does this girl. But then they start seeing each other in new lights and whatever... and the girl is worried what will happen if they get too close."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean... she's worried... because he's really good to her from what she can see... but she doesn't trust him. But... she's worried that if she does forgive him and trust him then she'll fall in love with him."
"And that would be bad in case he betrays her again, right?" her father guessed.
Kagome nodded. "She doesn't want to be heartbroken again because the first time he betrayed her she got hurt because she lost a good friend. And this time she might not only lose her trust but she could lose her heart... to him..."
"Right."
"That's where the last episode left off... and I don't know what she'll do. What do you think she'll do."
"Well, not having watched the program I don't know how they feel about one another." He shrugged helplessly. "But, it really sounds like this guy is sorry."
"Yeah, but when she was getting to know him she didn't even catch a hint that he was being two faced. And now she can't be sure if he's still being two faced or if he really does want to help me."
Her father blinked at her last word but didn't show he'd noticed it. Kagome hadn't seemed to notice he slip at all, she was too deep in thought. "Well... maybe she should tell him to rot in hell and leave him for someone who can take care of her better?"
"What if she likes him too much to leave him. What if he's still her only true friend?"
"But what if he's not being true to her?" her father asked sharply. Kagome didn't answer so he went on. "She should probably leave him. Forget him. Move on. It's best not to risk falling in love when there is too much at stake."
"What if... what if she's already in love with him?"
"Then she's a fool."
"No she's not, she's just confused. And so is he." Kagome argued. "Trust me, I've seen the program, not you."
"If he's confused then he'd probably being truthful about how he feels. Human emotion is never simple as equations. If he was trying to trick her then he'd be more sure of himself, wouldn't he?"
"Yeah... I suppose..."
"What exactly did he do to lose her trust?"
"That's not important - what's important is how on earth is she supposed to handle this? What should she do? She looked up at him, needing an answer to her own problem from him.
"It sounds like she's hurt very badly..." her father sighed. "It sounds like he's being truthful... but if he's betrayed her once he can easily do it again. If I was this girl I would keep my friendship with him, but avoid any romantic situation completely."
"Keep the friendship..." Kagome echoed.
"Don't avoid him." Her father said softly. "If you avoid him you will only hurt yourself."
Kagome looked up, blushing furiously and about to correct him... before seeing his serious look and conceding. "Yeah... you're right."
"We are talking about Miroku, right?"
Kagome rolled her eyes. "Yeah dad, we're talking about Miroku."
^_^
The bunker door burst open and Kouga skidded to a halt before them, clearly out of breath. He stood panting for a moment, struggling to talk.
"Take your time, we've got all of... ooh... a week before we all die?" Kagura said smoothly, glancing at her watch.
"Inu... and... bitch... betrayed... sex... and... bets..." Kouga managed to huff out.
The others just stared at him, waiting for him to elaborate.
"You mean... Inuyasha betrayed the girl and is now guilt ridden and is going to the brothel and bookies?" Yura tried to decipher. "We knew that."
Kouga shook his head.
"You mean, Inuyasha has betrayed us because he is having sex with Kagome and their fellows are having bets about it." Kagura guessed wildly and snorted. "Yeah, right. As if that little invertebrate could think about betraying us."
Kouga caught his breath, but was still gasping. "I was down at the village... heard it all... with my very own ears... Inuyasha... and the bitch were having sex... the others were making bets... they seem to trust him... I think... he's betrayed us... because he's in love."
The table was suddenly turned over simultaneously as the two women rose angrily to their feet. "WHAT?!"
"He's gone to them - he said he was looking for her when he left - but he's found her and he's doing her!" Kouga growled. "He's betrayed US!"
Yura was about to shout something nasty when Sesshomaru cut her off. "So it is his choice to die with her then, that's braver than I gave him credit for. But stupid. I suppose he didn't think we would find out. Very well... when we attack we kill them both, understand?"
Kagura was frowning. "But he's your own brother..."
"That won't impair my judgement." Sesshomaru answered curtly and lifted the table back into place with one hand. "Now sit down and lets pick up where we left off... now... where were we?"
Kagura looked down at her hand of cards. "Go fish."
"Ah fuck!"
^_^
Kagome left her father to go find her way around the back of the inn and to the room that she was sharing with Sango, Rin and Kikyo. She rounded a corner and bumped straight into Inuyasha.
"Hey there." He greeted as she landed on her behind.
"And now of all times you decide to let me fall on my ass." She grumbled.
He held out his hand and she eyed it warily. He rolled his eyes. "Of for fuck's sake... don't trust me enough to help you up?"
"You'll drop me as payback for that kiss." She said knowingly.
"I don't plan to get revenge for one lame kiss." He snorted. "I've kissed you before that, and I didn't pay you back for that one."
"I guess..." Kagome slipped her hand into his larger one and stood up.
If she thought he was going to let go of her hand then she was sadly mistaken.
(A/N: good night! Next chapter - 'Concentrated Purity')
(A/N: I swear I'm not crazy, I'm just ill. Stupid friends have been sneezing all over me at school again - hasn't anyone heard of a tissue? Well... now I'm coming down with the flu - again! I can't believe it!)
Two Faced
Hypothetically...
"The day of darkness is less than a week away..." The Prime Minister rested his chin in his palm as he leaned against the meeting table. "I have received news that Kagome has escaped her captures and has reunited with her father."
"Thank god..." were the various murmurs of reply.
"Though Inuyasha is still with her."
This was met by silence.
General Taijiya leaned forward. "Shouldn't you tell them what he did?"
"There's no way to establish two-way communication. I am assuming that Kagome has told the military she is travelling with what he has done and I expect they are holding him captive." The Prime Minister shrugged. "The message from Major Houshi didn't elaborate anymore than 'we have Kagome and Inuyasha'."
"Maybe we should send a plane down there to take Inuyasha back and commit him to prison. It's too risky having him out there." The General argued.
"And risk having that one crash too?" the PM shook his head. "I don't think so. Besides, so far the prophesy is coming true, and I don't want to risk anything that might upset the balance. It is best we wait it out. Inuyasha won't survive the day of darkness... and neither will Kagome, unfortunately. We'll send a plan down there afterwards to pick them up."
"But Major Houshi insists that we send one now." The General scowled. "My daughter is down there as well - I don't want to risk her life too."
"She won't be in any danger because she has no demon soul within her." The Prime Minister shrugged. "Humans will survive fine."
"So we just ignore his calls for help then?"
"We have to."
"But leaving Inuyasha over there... at such a critical time." The general winced. "Who knows what kind of heinous things he could be planning..."
^_^
If he turned off the light... and then waited a little while... the little critter would come out from under the ceiling tile... and then he could turn the light on again and with a rolled up newspaper - bam! Dead cockroach!
Inuyasha patiently waited patiently under a light switch... but it seemed like his master plan wasn't really working out. Looked like even parasites could outwit him these days...
With a sigh he picked himself up off the floor and went off in search of some action. All this cockroach business had made him hungry so he set off in search of the dining hall downstairs. Kagome and her father were already sat at one of the tables with Sango and Miroku. Deciding to join them, Inuyasha headed straight for that table, passing a couple of waiters and waitresses on his way.
"Can you believe it?" one of the waiters was whispering. "We are standing in the presence of greatness!"
"THE Mr Higurashi from the government AND the prodigal girl!" someone else squealed with delight.
"You have to wonder what kind of great debates their discussing..."
"Plans to save the world..."
"Philosophical conversations..."
"Politics..."
"Some kind of top secret government conspiracies..."
Inuyasha arrived at the table and sat down, catching the tale end of the 'great' debate.
"Peanut butter and Jelly on toast?" Kagome winced at Sango. "Are you nuts? That's disgusting! Are you pregnant or something?"
"Well its better than yucky marmite sandwiches." Sango retorted.
"Don't dis the marmite!" Miroku scoffed in a feigned camp voice.
Mr Higurashi was just smiling at his daughter. "I'm just glad you're all alive and well... see? Wasn't I right to get Inuyasha here to protect you?"
Kagome and Inuyasha swapped brief glances before nodding quickly with big fake smiles. Sango and Miroku just knowingly smirked at one another. Those two were just so bad at lying, people could just read them like a book.
"Kagome." Her father suddenly spoke up in a serious tone. "Can we take a walk for a minute or so."
Kagome stiffened slightly, looking at the other three around her before nodding and smiling. "Sure." She got up and followed him out of the dinner hall and outside.
Miroku happily turned to Inuyasha. "So - what's your favourite food?"
The ground was still slightly damp from the rain from the previous night, but the air was a lot warmer and humid. "What did you want to talk about, dad?"
"Kagome..." He sighed and clasped his hands behind his back. "You do realise the day of darkness will arrive in a week or so."
Kagome frowned slightly. This was a topic she didn't really want to talk about with her father so soon after being reunited with him. "Yes."
"Well... Major Houshi has asked that a plane be sent to pick us all up the day after tomorrow in the airport, south of here."
"Go on..."
"I want you to go back north as well." He said seriously.
"What?" Kagome stopped short and stared at him. "After all these years of pressuring me to do my duty you're going to send me home?" Not that she was planning on arguing with him, she just didn't understand why he'd suddenly changed his mind. "What's going on?"
He'd received a fax from General Taijiya... a fax copy of the real prophecy - the unedited version. Kagome didn't need to know those details... but after reading what would really happen, suddenly her miracle didn't sound so important anymore. She could go home and demons could live on for all he cared. If the price of wiping the demons out cost his little girl her life... then he was willing to change his mind. "You don't want to kill demons do you?"
"No!" Kagome said quickly.
"Then why are you arguing with me?" he smiled and wrapped his arm around her shoulder. "I don't want to make you unhappy by forcing you to do anything you don't want to. You can go home."
"Thank you..." Kagome leaned against him and lapsed into silence.
"Kagome?"
"Yeah, dad?"
"I'm glad you're alive. When they said your plane had crashed I was worried sick."
"Inuyasha... looked after me." Kagome said uncertainly. "I was in safe hands."
"I know. I told you he was good at his job." He squeezed her shoulder. "You should have more faith in me. But has the prophesy been coming true while I've been away?"
With a sign Kagome nodded and confided in him. "There was... a time when a big demon attacked me and Inuyasha when we arrived at a desecrated village where we thought you were staying. That monster nearly killed him... and for no reason anything I threw at the monster seemed to have as much destruction as a grenade or something. I practically blew it up..."
He frowned at her with concern. "Are you ok?"
"It was scary for a while... and I felt sick afterwards... but I'm ok. I saved Inuyasha, that's the important thing." She nodded.
"Hey, maybe we should hire you as his bodyguard instead, then?" he grinned and she smiled in response.
A comfortable silence fell on them as Mr Higurashi watched the villagers around them idly. Kagome was just staring at the damp, firm earth before them as they walked. "Dad?"
"Yeah?"
"How did... how did you and mom get together?"
That was a very out of the blue question that threw him for a moment, but he smiled and answered anyway. "We met through our friends in University. She was studying for law and so was I... we liked each other enough to get married and have kids - we had you and then we started to pursue our own careers. She wanted to be a small town lawyer... and I wanted to go into politics. By the time we had Souta I think our views started to differ too much... and we both decided on a mutual divorce."
"Did you have any hitches before you got into a relationship with her?" Kagome asked, still watching the ground with fascination.
"Not really. We were very alike back in University, we got on very well. The first argument we actually ever had was about the colour of the settee we were going to have. And that was after you were born."
"Oh..." Kagome murmured quietly.
"Why the question?" he asked straight back.
"I was just wondering..."
"Sixteen years and you finally started wondering?" He gave her a suspicious look. "Tell me another one."
Kagome wondered how she was going to phrase this without giving too much away. "Hypothetically..." yeah that always worked. "There's this girl... and a guy..."
"You and Inuyasha?"
Damn he was good. Kagome shook her head quickly. "No - it's this Mexican soap that we've been watching lately. And since we aren't going to be able to watch the rest of the plot if we go home... this scenario is bugging me."
"Go on then..."
"Well... there's this girl... forget her name - and there's this guy called Santito in the program." Kagome patted herself on the back mentally. "These two always fight, but just when they're starting to get to know each other and like each other more than just friends... Santito cheats on the girl and basically betrays her."
"I see..." he nodded in understanding.
"And then there's the whole I hate you, please forgive me, kind of period where there's all this conflict. And finally they reach an understanding with each other... but right now it's kind of uncertain where the plot is heading. I mean... the details on Santito are etchy at the most and I don't know personally if he's going to betray the girl again - and neither does this girl. But then they start seeing each other in new lights and whatever... and the girl is worried what will happen if they get too close."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean... she's worried... because he's really good to her from what she can see... but she doesn't trust him. But... she's worried that if she does forgive him and trust him then she'll fall in love with him."
"And that would be bad in case he betrays her again, right?" her father guessed.
Kagome nodded. "She doesn't want to be heartbroken again because the first time he betrayed her she got hurt because she lost a good friend. And this time she might not only lose her trust but she could lose her heart... to him..."
"Right."
"That's where the last episode left off... and I don't know what she'll do. What do you think she'll do."
"Well, not having watched the program I don't know how they feel about one another." He shrugged helplessly. "But, it really sounds like this guy is sorry."
"Yeah, but when she was getting to know him she didn't even catch a hint that he was being two faced. And now she can't be sure if he's still being two faced or if he really does want to help me."
Her father blinked at her last word but didn't show he'd noticed it. Kagome hadn't seemed to notice he slip at all, she was too deep in thought. "Well... maybe she should tell him to rot in hell and leave him for someone who can take care of her better?"
"What if she likes him too much to leave him. What if he's still her only true friend?"
"But what if he's not being true to her?" her father asked sharply. Kagome didn't answer so he went on. "She should probably leave him. Forget him. Move on. It's best not to risk falling in love when there is too much at stake."
"What if... what if she's already in love with him?"
"Then she's a fool."
"No she's not, she's just confused. And so is he." Kagome argued. "Trust me, I've seen the program, not you."
"If he's confused then he'd probably being truthful about how he feels. Human emotion is never simple as equations. If he was trying to trick her then he'd be more sure of himself, wouldn't he?"
"Yeah... I suppose..."
"What exactly did he do to lose her trust?"
"That's not important - what's important is how on earth is she supposed to handle this? What should she do? She looked up at him, needing an answer to her own problem from him.
"It sounds like she's hurt very badly..." her father sighed. "It sounds like he's being truthful... but if he's betrayed her once he can easily do it again. If I was this girl I would keep my friendship with him, but avoid any romantic situation completely."
"Keep the friendship..." Kagome echoed.
"Don't avoid him." Her father said softly. "If you avoid him you will only hurt yourself."
Kagome looked up, blushing furiously and about to correct him... before seeing his serious look and conceding. "Yeah... you're right."
"We are talking about Miroku, right?"
Kagome rolled her eyes. "Yeah dad, we're talking about Miroku."
^_^
The bunker door burst open and Kouga skidded to a halt before them, clearly out of breath. He stood panting for a moment, struggling to talk.
"Take your time, we've got all of... ooh... a week before we all die?" Kagura said smoothly, glancing at her watch.
"Inu... and... bitch... betrayed... sex... and... bets..." Kouga managed to huff out.
The others just stared at him, waiting for him to elaborate.
"You mean... Inuyasha betrayed the girl and is now guilt ridden and is going to the brothel and bookies?" Yura tried to decipher. "We knew that."
Kouga shook his head.
"You mean, Inuyasha has betrayed us because he is having sex with Kagome and their fellows are having bets about it." Kagura guessed wildly and snorted. "Yeah, right. As if that little invertebrate could think about betraying us."
Kouga caught his breath, but was still gasping. "I was down at the village... heard it all... with my very own ears... Inuyasha... and the bitch were having sex... the others were making bets... they seem to trust him... I think... he's betrayed us... because he's in love."
The table was suddenly turned over simultaneously as the two women rose angrily to their feet. "WHAT?!"
"He's gone to them - he said he was looking for her when he left - but he's found her and he's doing her!" Kouga growled. "He's betrayed US!"
Yura was about to shout something nasty when Sesshomaru cut her off. "So it is his choice to die with her then, that's braver than I gave him credit for. But stupid. I suppose he didn't think we would find out. Very well... when we attack we kill them both, understand?"
Kagura was frowning. "But he's your own brother..."
"That won't impair my judgement." Sesshomaru answered curtly and lifted the table back into place with one hand. "Now sit down and lets pick up where we left off... now... where were we?"
Kagura looked down at her hand of cards. "Go fish."
"Ah fuck!"
^_^
Kagome left her father to go find her way around the back of the inn and to the room that she was sharing with Sango, Rin and Kikyo. She rounded a corner and bumped straight into Inuyasha.
"Hey there." He greeted as she landed on her behind.
"And now of all times you decide to let me fall on my ass." She grumbled.
He held out his hand and she eyed it warily. He rolled his eyes. "Of for fuck's sake... don't trust me enough to help you up?"
"You'll drop me as payback for that kiss." She said knowingly.
"I don't plan to get revenge for one lame kiss." He snorted. "I've kissed you before that, and I didn't pay you back for that one."
"I guess..." Kagome slipped her hand into his larger one and stood up.
If she thought he was going to let go of her hand then she was sadly mistaken.
(A/N: good night! Next chapter - 'Concentrated Purity')