~Chapter 8 - The Start of a Beautiful Morning~
Kagome stretched her arms out over her head and let out a heavy yawn. It was
well past five o'clock in the morning and everyone except for her and Inu
Yasha had passed out long ago. What were they still doing up? Working on
lyrics and what not of course. It had now been a couple of months since she
and Inu Yasha had somewhat settled their differences, and both were working
really hard to get stuff together for the first album, which was due out
pretty soon. They didn't have long at all until they would hit the recording
studio.
"Getting tired already?" Inu Yasha looked up at her through his shaggy black
bangs and smirked.
"I'm fine. I can hang just as long as you can." She returned his look with a
defiant one of her own. She would never let him get the upper hand, never.
"Hmph, yeah right." He straightened his back and twisted his neck to the
side until it made a loud popping sound.
"Looks like I'm not the only one who's getting a little stiff."
"Whatever."
They continued taking notes and talking over various things. They had
already decided what songs they would use, most of them the two had come up
with together, and were now just fixing them up and making little changes
here and there. Since everyone else had been out in the living room when the
two had started several hours ago, they had both decided to work in Inu
Yasha's room. His room wasn't nearly as decorated as Kagome's, but it was
personalized. He had band posters up, video game posters, pictures of the
pre-Kagome gang, and a Josie and the Pussycats poster. When Kagome had asked
him about that one he just blushed and said with a shrug that Rachel Leigh
Cook was hot. He was so cute when he was embarrassed.
"My butts starting to go numb, mind if I sit on the bed?"
"That's not a bad idea; let's just move everything up there." He started
shuffling through paper and grabbed what was needed. Both of them made
themselves comfortable, both of their backs propped against the head board.
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Sango walked out of her room to see if any one else was up yet, seeing no
one around she made her way to Kagome's room. They were suppose to go out
and have one of their little girl outings today. It was already one so if
they wanted to hit any of the good shops they'd have to leave really soon.
She opened the door and took a look around, empty. That was weird; Kagome
was up later than she was. She wouldn't already be up and about. She stood
there thinking for a moment before walking off to search the rest of the
apartment. She looked in the kitchen, then the bathroom followed by the
balcony, but still no Kagome. She was getting slightly worried. Kagome
wouldn't have run off and ditched her. It just wasn't very Kagome like. Then
a thought struck her, so she went over to Inu Yasha's bedroom door. It was
worth a shot.
Slowly she turned the knob and cracked the door enough to peek in, not
wanting to wake Inu Yasha. When her gaze met the bed her eyes became
gigantic saucers and she nearly fell over from shock. It was the last thing
she would have expected to find. Inu Yasha and Kagome were both lying on the
bed cuddled up together. Kagome had her head buried in Inu Yasha's chest and
her arms draped over his waist. That wasn't the most shocking part; they
could have just fallen asleep and snuggled together unconsciously if that
were just it. The weird part was that Inu Yasha wasn't asleep; he was
holding Kagome tightly in his arms and tenderly running his fingers through
her hair, eyes slightly opened. Thankfully he hadn't noticed Sango yet, so
quickly regaining her senses she stepped back and made a fast get away. She
was defiantly going to have to have a long talk with him later.
Inu Yasha had only woken up a few moments ago to find Kagome curled up in
his arms. At first he had been a bit panicky, before calming down and taking
advantage of the situation. It wasn't often that he let his guard down, but
right then he just couldn't resist. She was so beautiful lying there asleep.
Ok, so maybe he did have the hots for her, but he'd never admit that to
anyone else. He had never really held anyone like this other than Kikyo,
that had only been a few times, and he had forgotten how nice it felt. It
was true that he had chosen to give up on love and the likes, but it didn't
mean he wasn't lonely because of it. It had never really bothered him to
much before, he did have his friends after all, but since this girl had come
into the picture things had started to stir. He was starting to wonder more
and more what it would be like to just say screw it and give love another
chance, but then he'd remember the pain that comes along with it.
Slowly he began to back away from the sleeping girl, deciding it best not to
let his mind wonder on such things for too long. Besides, she could wake up
at any minute and what would he do then? It wasn't like she'd actually wake
up and see him there and then proclaim her undying love for him before
making sweet lovin to him...fat chance. He tried to disturb the girl as
little as possible; he really didn't want her to wake. As he let his arms
slip from her waist and backed away Kagome whimpered and moved towards him,
grabbing onto his shirt and pulling him back.
"Inu...Inu Yasha, don't go..." mumbled the sleeping girl.
Inu Yasha froze, not knowing whether to run or stay and see how this little
thing played out. She didn't look like she was awake yet, so that must have
meant she was dreaming. Wait a sec, did that mean she was...no way, she
couldn't be dreaming about him. She had just mumbled his name though. He
couldn't help but smirk at the thought, this would be so good to use against
her later, but did that mean she actually liked him? Why would she, he was
awful to her. Inu Yasha's expression turned more thoughtful as he pondered
what this meant. Maybe she did like him for some odd reason, that meant that
maybe he stood a chance with her. Then again that would also mean that he
would have to put his heart out on the line again and possibly get hurt
again. Was that a risk he was willing to take? No, she'd just do him like
Kikyo did. Why was he even thinking about this anyway? Why did this girl
have this effect on him, this was stupid. She'd just crush him once she got
her greedy little paws on him, and then were would he be? He roughly pushed
her away and jumped up storming out of the room. He was angered by the way
his emotions were troubling him. He didn't want to think about things like
this, and it was all HER fault.
Kagome woke to being forcefully pushed back. She wasn't quite sure as to
what was going on. One minute she had been all nice and warm having the
nicest dream about being held in a pair of strong arms and then BAM, she was
falling off of the bed right onto the floor. That kinda hurt ALOT! Finally
she looked around and realized exactly were she was, in Inu Yasha's room.
She must have fallen asleep in here the night before. Then that must have
meant that it was Inu Yasha who had pushed her off of the bed. A bright
blush made its way to her cheeks; he must have pushed her because she had
cuddled up to him in her sleep or something. How embarrassing. She sat up
and peeked over the bed...no Inu Yasha. He must have got up and left
already.
Kagome walked into the living room rubbing her sleep filled eyes to find
Sango sitting on the couch with a towel wrapped around her head. Inu Yasha
was still no where in sight, but she could hear the shower running so that
was probably him. She made her way over to Sango and took a seat.
"Have a good nights sleep?" Asked her friend with a teasing smile. What was
up with that?
"Um...yeah. Why?"
"Oh, no reason." That smile was still on her face, it was beginning to scare
Kagome a little.
Kagome thought more about what had just happened. Why did he push her off of
the bed like that? So what if she cuddled to him in her sleep or whatever?
It didn't give him the right to just push her around like that, he could
have just awakened her and asked her to move, but NO. That jerk had to go
and shove her around. Her anger was beginning to get the better of her, she
was fuming. Hands fisted and teeth clenched, she made her way to the
bathroom where she guessed the guitarist to be. She pushed on the door with
all of her force once she reached it.
"INU YA...ya...ya..." She trailed of as she took in the picture in front of
her. It was Inu Yasha in nothing but a...a....a small towel. Tiny beads of
water trickled down the lines and curves of his well toned chest. Kagome
could so feel a nose bleed coming on. Her face flushed bright red from the
heat running through her body, all of her anger suddenly forgotten. Inu
Yasha finally noticed what she was doing; he quickly turned his back to her
to hide his own brightly colored face. It didn't do much good for Kagome
though; the back was just as nice as the front.
"Don't you know how to knock!?"
"Oh, um...I...I...uh...SORRY!" Suddenly realization dawned on her and she
made a fast get away out of the room. What was she thinking? Well apparently
she wasn't, just gawking like that. Now she'd never be able to go around him
again without keeling over from embarrassment. Oh, what a day this was going
to turn out to be.
Inu Yasha just turned and stared at the door, still somewhat shocked by
Kagome barging in on him like that. Her staring at him like that just
confused him even more. It did bring a smirk to his lips, just the fact that
she had been gawking over him like some kind of sex god. Hey, he was a guy
after all with a very large male ego.
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Yay, chapter 8 is finally up. Go me, go me...anyway, sorry it took so long. Been a REALLY hectic month at work. I think the other cashiers are plotting to kill me by taking so much time off. Oh well, I did survive. Hopefully my updates will be coming out sooner now. Thanks to all of you who reviewed. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!! Thanks to Risika (I hope that's right) as well, she went through and edited my story for me. She's so great!! Now you won't have to put up with my bad grammar. ^_^
I'm gonna try to develop more on the other characters more in the upcoming chapters. I have a plan for Miroku and Sango I think, but it's gonna be more of a in the back of the story line type of thing. I still don't know if Shippo's gonna appear....who know's what'll happen. I'm kinda wishin I had of left Kouga out of the band and made him some sort of obsessed crazy fan boy. I think that would have fit so much better. Oh well, I'll just have to go with what I got. None of the stories really planned out, hence why it takes so long to update, so bare with me. Well like I said, thanks. I think I'll end my rambling now. As always, REVIEW. I absolutely love them.
Kagome stretched her arms out over her head and let out a heavy yawn. It was
well past five o'clock in the morning and everyone except for her and Inu
Yasha had passed out long ago. What were they still doing up? Working on
lyrics and what not of course. It had now been a couple of months since she
and Inu Yasha had somewhat settled their differences, and both were working
really hard to get stuff together for the first album, which was due out
pretty soon. They didn't have long at all until they would hit the recording
studio.
"Getting tired already?" Inu Yasha looked up at her through his shaggy black
bangs and smirked.
"I'm fine. I can hang just as long as you can." She returned his look with a
defiant one of her own. She would never let him get the upper hand, never.
"Hmph, yeah right." He straightened his back and twisted his neck to the
side until it made a loud popping sound.
"Looks like I'm not the only one who's getting a little stiff."
"Whatever."
They continued taking notes and talking over various things. They had
already decided what songs they would use, most of them the two had come up
with together, and were now just fixing them up and making little changes
here and there. Since everyone else had been out in the living room when the
two had started several hours ago, they had both decided to work in Inu
Yasha's room. His room wasn't nearly as decorated as Kagome's, but it was
personalized. He had band posters up, video game posters, pictures of the
pre-Kagome gang, and a Josie and the Pussycats poster. When Kagome had asked
him about that one he just blushed and said with a shrug that Rachel Leigh
Cook was hot. He was so cute when he was embarrassed.
"My butts starting to go numb, mind if I sit on the bed?"
"That's not a bad idea; let's just move everything up there." He started
shuffling through paper and grabbed what was needed. Both of them made
themselves comfortable, both of their backs propped against the head board.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Sango walked out of her room to see if any one else was up yet, seeing no
one around she made her way to Kagome's room. They were suppose to go out
and have one of their little girl outings today. It was already one so if
they wanted to hit any of the good shops they'd have to leave really soon.
She opened the door and took a look around, empty. That was weird; Kagome
was up later than she was. She wouldn't already be up and about. She stood
there thinking for a moment before walking off to search the rest of the
apartment. She looked in the kitchen, then the bathroom followed by the
balcony, but still no Kagome. She was getting slightly worried. Kagome
wouldn't have run off and ditched her. It just wasn't very Kagome like. Then
a thought struck her, so she went over to Inu Yasha's bedroom door. It was
worth a shot.
Slowly she turned the knob and cracked the door enough to peek in, not
wanting to wake Inu Yasha. When her gaze met the bed her eyes became
gigantic saucers and she nearly fell over from shock. It was the last thing
she would have expected to find. Inu Yasha and Kagome were both lying on the
bed cuddled up together. Kagome had her head buried in Inu Yasha's chest and
her arms draped over his waist. That wasn't the most shocking part; they
could have just fallen asleep and snuggled together unconsciously if that
were just it. The weird part was that Inu Yasha wasn't asleep; he was
holding Kagome tightly in his arms and tenderly running his fingers through
her hair, eyes slightly opened. Thankfully he hadn't noticed Sango yet, so
quickly regaining her senses she stepped back and made a fast get away. She
was defiantly going to have to have a long talk with him later.
Inu Yasha had only woken up a few moments ago to find Kagome curled up in
his arms. At first he had been a bit panicky, before calming down and taking
advantage of the situation. It wasn't often that he let his guard down, but
right then he just couldn't resist. She was so beautiful lying there asleep.
Ok, so maybe he did have the hots for her, but he'd never admit that to
anyone else. He had never really held anyone like this other than Kikyo,
that had only been a few times, and he had forgotten how nice it felt. It
was true that he had chosen to give up on love and the likes, but it didn't
mean he wasn't lonely because of it. It had never really bothered him to
much before, he did have his friends after all, but since this girl had come
into the picture things had started to stir. He was starting to wonder more
and more what it would be like to just say screw it and give love another
chance, but then he'd remember the pain that comes along with it.
Slowly he began to back away from the sleeping girl, deciding it best not to
let his mind wonder on such things for too long. Besides, she could wake up
at any minute and what would he do then? It wasn't like she'd actually wake
up and see him there and then proclaim her undying love for him before
making sweet lovin to him...fat chance. He tried to disturb the girl as
little as possible; he really didn't want her to wake. As he let his arms
slip from her waist and backed away Kagome whimpered and moved towards him,
grabbing onto his shirt and pulling him back.
"Inu...Inu Yasha, don't go..." mumbled the sleeping girl.
Inu Yasha froze, not knowing whether to run or stay and see how this little
thing played out. She didn't look like she was awake yet, so that must have
meant she was dreaming. Wait a sec, did that mean she was...no way, she
couldn't be dreaming about him. She had just mumbled his name though. He
couldn't help but smirk at the thought, this would be so good to use against
her later, but did that mean she actually liked him? Why would she, he was
awful to her. Inu Yasha's expression turned more thoughtful as he pondered
what this meant. Maybe she did like him for some odd reason, that meant that
maybe he stood a chance with her. Then again that would also mean that he
would have to put his heart out on the line again and possibly get hurt
again. Was that a risk he was willing to take? No, she'd just do him like
Kikyo did. Why was he even thinking about this anyway? Why did this girl
have this effect on him, this was stupid. She'd just crush him once she got
her greedy little paws on him, and then were would he be? He roughly pushed
her away and jumped up storming out of the room. He was angered by the way
his emotions were troubling him. He didn't want to think about things like
this, and it was all HER fault.
Kagome woke to being forcefully pushed back. She wasn't quite sure as to
what was going on. One minute she had been all nice and warm having the
nicest dream about being held in a pair of strong arms and then BAM, she was
falling off of the bed right onto the floor. That kinda hurt ALOT! Finally
she looked around and realized exactly were she was, in Inu Yasha's room.
She must have fallen asleep in here the night before. Then that must have
meant that it was Inu Yasha who had pushed her off of the bed. A bright
blush made its way to her cheeks; he must have pushed her because she had
cuddled up to him in her sleep or something. How embarrassing. She sat up
and peeked over the bed...no Inu Yasha. He must have got up and left
already.
Kagome walked into the living room rubbing her sleep filled eyes to find
Sango sitting on the couch with a towel wrapped around her head. Inu Yasha
was still no where in sight, but she could hear the shower running so that
was probably him. She made her way over to Sango and took a seat.
"Have a good nights sleep?" Asked her friend with a teasing smile. What was
up with that?
"Um...yeah. Why?"
"Oh, no reason." That smile was still on her face, it was beginning to scare
Kagome a little.
Kagome thought more about what had just happened. Why did he push her off of
the bed like that? So what if she cuddled to him in her sleep or whatever?
It didn't give him the right to just push her around like that, he could
have just awakened her and asked her to move, but NO. That jerk had to go
and shove her around. Her anger was beginning to get the better of her, she
was fuming. Hands fisted and teeth clenched, she made her way to the
bathroom where she guessed the guitarist to be. She pushed on the door with
all of her force once she reached it.
"INU YA...ya...ya..." She trailed of as she took in the picture in front of
her. It was Inu Yasha in nothing but a...a....a small towel. Tiny beads of
water trickled down the lines and curves of his well toned chest. Kagome
could so feel a nose bleed coming on. Her face flushed bright red from the
heat running through her body, all of her anger suddenly forgotten. Inu
Yasha finally noticed what she was doing; he quickly turned his back to her
to hide his own brightly colored face. It didn't do much good for Kagome
though; the back was just as nice as the front.
"Don't you know how to knock!?"
"Oh, um...I...I...uh...SORRY!" Suddenly realization dawned on her and she
made a fast get away out of the room. What was she thinking? Well apparently
she wasn't, just gawking like that. Now she'd never be able to go around him
again without keeling over from embarrassment. Oh, what a day this was going
to turn out to be.
Inu Yasha just turned and stared at the door, still somewhat shocked by
Kagome barging in on him like that. Her staring at him like that just
confused him even more. It did bring a smirk to his lips, just the fact that
she had been gawking over him like some kind of sex god. Hey, he was a guy
after all with a very large male ego.
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Yay, chapter 8 is finally up. Go me, go me...anyway, sorry it took so long. Been a REALLY hectic month at work. I think the other cashiers are plotting to kill me by taking so much time off. Oh well, I did survive. Hopefully my updates will be coming out sooner now. Thanks to all of you who reviewed. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!! Thanks to Risika (I hope that's right) as well, she went through and edited my story for me. She's so great!! Now you won't have to put up with my bad grammar. ^_^
I'm gonna try to develop more on the other characters more in the upcoming chapters. I have a plan for Miroku and Sango I think, but it's gonna be more of a in the back of the story line type of thing. I still don't know if Shippo's gonna appear....who know's what'll happen. I'm kinda wishin I had of left Kouga out of the band and made him some sort of obsessed crazy fan boy. I think that would have fit so much better. Oh well, I'll just have to go with what I got. None of the stories really planned out, hence why it takes so long to update, so bare with me. Well like I said, thanks. I think I'll end my rambling now. As always, REVIEW. I absolutely love them.