The Prom

Chapter Nine

Apologies and a Day at School

It was now nighttime in Kagome's era, and she was sitting under the god tree, thinking

about only Inu-Yasha. She was curled up like a ball and had her knees tucked under her

chin. Tears streamed down her face as she stared at the darken shrine grounds. Kagome

wished that he would come back soon, or she would be stuck with Hojo to go to her

prom. A low rumble in the sky indicated that it was about to rain. Rain started to pour

heavily from the sky, soaking Kagome to the bone. She didn't care; nothing seemed to

matter anymore with Inu-Yasha mad at her. It made her wonder if he saw her more than

just a friend and jewel detector. Speaking of the jewel, Kagome lifted the object in her

hand to her face, and stared at the glowing Shikon no Tama. The rain started to pour

harder, and the lightening illuminated the entire sky with it's light, followed by the low

rumble of thunder. Kagome snuggled closer to the tree, imagining that she was leaning

against Inu-Yasha. A thought started to pierce her heart as she started to think that

maybe Inu-Yasha would never come back, and was probably with Kikyo right now.

Kikyo . . . how she hated the person she was reincarnation of. She just wished that the

undead priestess would just go away and go back to the after life. Kagome started to

close her eyes as she felt sleep over come her. She would probably catch pneumonia if

she slept outside, but she didn't care.

************************************************************************** Three hours later . . .

Inu-Yasha leaped out of the well and opened the shrine doors. It was poring rain as he

stepped outside and headed for the Higurashi house. He would apologize to Kagome for

being a jerk and ask if he could still be her date. Inu-Yasha left his bag in the shrine just

in case Kagome didn't accept his apology and the stuff would have gotten wet. As he

headed for the house, a certain scent caught his attention. It was Kagome's . . . she was

outside somewhere in this terrible weather.

"Kagome!" called Inu-Yasha as he began to follow her scent. Finally he found her

curled up beside the God tree fast asleep, and shivering uncontrollably. Inu-Yasha

rushed forward and scooped Kagome up in his arms and headed for her house. He leaped

through her bedroom window and landed into her dark room. Pulling the covers back he

started to take her clothes off, but left her in her under garments. He wrapped her tightly

in her blankets and put his hand to her forehead. She was burning up.

Inu-Yasha ran down stairs and was relieved to find that everyone was asleep. Going to

the medical cabinet he started to read the different bottles of what Kagome called

'medication'. He finally found one called Fever Reducer. Reading the directions

carefully he grabbed two of the tablets, ran to the kitchen to grab a glass of water, and

back up stairs where he saw a now awaken Kagome.

"You came back . . ." whispered Kagome.

"Of course I did,"

Kagome leapt out of bed and hugged Inu-Yasha; tears were now streaming down her

eyes. Inu-Yasha was blushing like crazy since she was still dressed in her under

garments, however he returned the hug earnestly, taking in her beautiful scent, along with

the smell of sickness.

"Kagome, you have to take this medicine, or you won't be healthy for your prom,"

Kagome nodded and went back to her bed. Inu-Yasha handed her the medication and

she took it with no problem. They were silent for a moment, not really knowing what to

say to each other, so Inu-Yasha decided to break the silence.

"I'm sorry Kagome,"

"For what?"

"For running away like that, I should have stayed and let you explain,"

"Inu-Yasha I'm the one who should be sorry. I should have gone after you through the

well and explain things to you,"

"No Kagome, I'm the one who's always being the jerk. I'll understand completely if you

don't want me to be your prom date anymore," Inu-Yasha whispered in a defeated voice.

Kagome sat up and hugged Inu-Yasha. The half demon was surprised at first, but

started to return the hug. "Of course I want you to still be my date. I don't really have

any feelings for Hojo, except that he's a really good friend,"

Inu-Yasha nodded and hugged Kagome tighter. "So, your not mad at me anymore?"

"No, of course I'm not," Kagome glanced at her clock and noticed that it 11:30. She had

been outside for almost three hours.

"So when did you get here?" asked Kagome.

"A few minutes ago and . . . why were you outside freezing yourself?"

"I just fell asleep,"

Inu-Yasha laid her back down and covered her with her blankets. "Well, you need some

sleep missy. Don't worry, I'll guard over you tonight,"

Kagome nodded and drifted off to sleep with a half demon heavily guarding her side.

************************************************************************** Next day

Kagome walked through the busy streets to her school with Inu-Yasha by her side. She

wanted to show him what school was like. Kagome was wearing her usually school

uniform, and Inu-Yasha was wearing black shorts, shirt and sandals. She also had made

him wear sunglasses to cover his golden eyes and the usual red ball cap to cover his ears

"Are you sure about this Kagome?" asked Inu-Yasha. "What if they ask me to take off

my hat and glasses?"

"I'll be telling them you have an eye condition, but as for the hat I'm not sure,"

"And another thing . . . since I'll be having black hair for your prom, won't they be

confused that I have white hair now?"

"I already explained that,"

"By telling them what?"

"Well I told them that you were in an accident and that your hair turned white, and that

your dying black to look nice at my prom,"

"I guess that's an okay excuse. Oh! And by the way, what's the deal with them calling a

jealous, violent, two timing boyfriend?"

"Well since I was spending so much time in the warring states era, they guessed that I

had a boy friend or something. So I just described you,"

Inu-Yasha nodded. Maybe he had been a two timer or whatever Sango and Miroku had

called him that day, but tomorrow night he wouldn't be anymore. Plus, they now had all

the jewel shards . . . or did they. Inu-Yasha stopped for a sec, with a confused Kagome

looking at him.

"Inu-Yasha?" asked Kagome.

"Kagome, how many shards did Kouga have?"

"Three,"

"I thought he only had two. Remember we took the one in his arm when we fought with

the birds of paradise,"

"Well maybe he found another one, because according to Sango they got two from his

legs and one from his right arm,"

"Maybe,"

They continued walking and headed for the school.
As Kagome entered the classroom, everyone was staring at her and the stranger they had

never seen before. Kagome's friends jumped to their feet, brought her to the middle of

the classroom, and surrounded Kagome, leaving Inu-Yasha standing by the door alone.

"Kagome, is that your jealous two timing boyfriend?" asked Eri.

(Note here that I only know one of her friend's names)

"If that's what you want to call him yes. His name is Inu-Yasha,"

"What a weird name, and he kind of looks weird too. I still can't believe what you said

on the phone was true about him having white hair,"

"Yeah so what?" asked Kagome.

Just then the teacher walked in, "Alright students sit down now,"

Kagome's friends returned to their seats while Kagome walked to the front to talk to the

teacher about Inu-Yasha watching her classes.

"Well, I suppose Miss Higurashi, but I'm warning you now no funny business,"

"Thank you sir," said Kagome. Luckily for her she sat at the back of the classroom with

her friends and motioned Inu-Yasha to pull up a chair from the back beside her. As the

teacher was taking attendance, all of Kagome's classmates were staring at Inu-Yasha.

As the day went on, Inu-Yasha watched on what exactly Kagome did when she said she

had to go to do. It was rather boring, however it wasn't really that bad as he sat by

Kagome. When the bell rang for lunch, Kagome led Inu-Yasha to the roof to eat lunch.

"So what do you think so far?" asked Kagome as she pulled her lunch out of her bag.

"It's alright I guess, a little boring if you ask me, plus I didn't understand that one class

with all the numbers or what ever you call them,"

"You mean Math class?"

"Yeah,"

"Well, my next classes are going to be about as boring as the other ones," said Kagome

as she handed Inu-Yasha part of her lunch.

Inu-Yasha was about to reply, but froze as he could hear and smell someone approach

them. "Someone's coming,"

Kagome looked at the door, which led to the stairs to see Hojo appear. She looked at

Inu-Yasha and said very softly for only him to hear "Don't worry, I'll tell him to leave,"

Hojo approached them cautiously; his eyes were locked on Inu-Yasha. "Hi Kagome, can

I talked to you please?"

"I suppose, Inu-Yasha can you leave us alone for a moment,"

Inu-Yasha nodded and went around the corner. He took his hat off so he could hear

what they were saying.

"I wanted to first apologize for what I did that night at the restaurant, I would have told

you sooner, but this is the first time I've been able to talk to you,"

"I see,"

"And, I was just talking to your friends, and they were saying how that guy you are here

today is just a friend. You see Kagome I still don't have a date for the prom because I

was really hoping you would change your mind. So would you mind if I danced with you

a couple of times at the prom,"

Inu-Yasha was doing as best as he could to not just run around the corner and kill Hobo.

Instead, he punched the cement wall to relieve his anger.

"I don't know about that Hojo. I really just want to dance with Inu- Yasha, I mean he is

my date after all,"

"But Kagome he doesn't even go to this school, I mean I was watching him during class

and it looked like he didn't have a clue about anything,"

Kagome was really getting pissed off at Hojo and could hear Inu-Yasha growling behind

the corner. The bell suddenly rang, and Kagome sighed with relief as Hojo left and she

waited for Inu-Yasha. As they walked down the stairs she noticed that Hojo was

watching her very closely, and did so during her next class.

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Last Class:

Kagome and Inu-Yasha exited the English room with Inu-Yasha and her sweating like

pigs.

"Man, I've never been in a room that's so hot," panted Inu-Yasha.

"I know, try going through that every day,"

"What class you got next?"

"Gym, and then were done for the day,"

Kagome lead Inu-Yasha to the gymnasium and explained to her gym teacher why Inu-

Yasha was there. The teacher agreed he could watch, and said he could join in today as

well.

"So tell me again what were playing?" asked Inu-Yasha as they headed outside with the

rest of the class.

"We're playing soccer, and don't worry I'll explain the rules to you once we get out

there,"

"Feh,"

As they walked out onto the soccer field, Kagome looked over her shoulder to see Hojo

still spying on her.

"Okay people, today we're playing soccer as you can of course see. For the team

captains, we'll have Kagome and Hojo," said the gym teacher.

"Wait here and I'll pick you first," hissed Kagome as she approached the front of the

class.

"Okay you two, rock paper scissors to see who gets to go first,"

Kagome and Hojo did best two out of three with Kagome being the victor.

"Alright Miss Higurashi, you choose first,"

"Inu-Yasha," said Kagome.

Inu-Yasha just stood there wondering what the heck to do.

"Inu-Yasha come stand behind me," said Kagome.

He walked towards her and stood behind her as Hojo called out the first member of his

team. Once everyone was picked Kagome assigned positions to her teammates and who

would substitute for who.

"Okay Inu-Yasha you will be staying on full time since you're our goalie," said Kagome

as she lead him to the net.

"What exactly is the point of this game?" asked Inu-Yasha.

"You see that white and black ball my teacher has? Well using our feet we have to kick

it into the net. Now since you're the goalie, you have to stop the ball. Got it?"

"Can't I just swipe it with my claws?"

"No, just catch it and throw it to someone on our team,"

"Well how the hell am I supposed to know who's on our team,"

"Argh! You see how one team has yellow shirts on and the other one doesn't? Well the

ones without the yellow are our team, you follow?"

"I guess, cause your on your own until the end of gym class," said Kagome as she

walked away.

A loud whistle blew, which Inu-Yasha guessed meant the game was on.

************************************************************************** The end of class:

Kagome and an exhausted gym class headed back into the school to change. The score

had been 20 to 0 for Kagome's team. The reason for this was no one could get a ball past

Inu-Yasha with his fast reflexes. Inu-Yasha carried Kagome into the school on his back

despite all the weird looks he was getting. As he waited for Kagome to get changed back

into her uniform, the gym teacher congratulated him on a job well done during the soccer

match. Kagome came out of the change room a little later and then they were off back to

home.

It was boiling hot out as they walked home and stopped at an ice cream shop to cool

down. Inu-Yasha and Kagome licked their chocolate ice cream all the way home. As

they were just a block away from Kagome's house, Inu-Yasha leaned down and

whispered in her ear, "Were being followed, but don't turn around,"

"How do you know," whispered Kagome.

"I can smell him,"

Kagome immediately knew Hojo was following her. They walked up the shrine stairs

and immediately went into the house to cool down.

"So, do you want anything to eat?" asked Kagome as she put her school stuff away.

"Something cold," said Inu-Yasha taking off his sunglasses and hat.

"Hmmm, want some pop?"

"Cola coca please,"

"Inu-Yasha, it's Coca Cola,"

"Feh,"

They sat down in the living room and watched TV. An hour later they fell asleep and

were awoken by her grandpa, "Demon be gone!" he cried as he threw his scrolls at Inu-

Yasha, which bounced off his head.

"How many times do I have to tell you old man that they don't work?"

************************************************************************** That night:

Kagome lay on her bed with Inu-Yasha sitting at the side of her bed. She felt sort of bad

that he had to take the floor. "Hey Inu-Yasha, are you awake?"

"Yes,"

"Are you sure you want to sleep on the floor? Cause I can pull out the couch for you if

you like,"

"I'm fine here thanks,"

"You sure?"

"Yes,"

"Well then, good night Inu-Yasha,"

"Good night Kagome," whispered Inu-Yasha. Taking a deep breath he started to think

what it would be like to lay in bed with Kagome and just hold her all night. Then her

started to blush as he thought of other things he could do with her in bed. Shaking his

head he slowly went to sleep, thinking about what tomorrow would bring.

TBC....

I swear family dinners are evil!!! Is it just me or do cousins never listen? All th

teenagers and kids were downstairs wrestling. Well i wanted to use my aunts computer

so i could write this chapter. Well i couldn't leave until i pinned my cousin twice. Since

I'm a famr girl and get to wrestle cattle, i won really easy. But then my other cousins

wanted to wrestle me!!!! ARRGGGHHHH! But the good news is i got this chapter done.

Well everyone the next chapter is the start of the prom!!!! Yeah! Please review

and tell

me what you think!!!!

Lynns