Disclaimer: You all know already. Beside it's not like Takahashi-sensei
will read this fic and sue me for using her characters.
"Are you sure this is the best way?" A woman asked her husband with uncertainty. Her kind face was creased with worry. She and her husband were sitting in their family room, talking with hushed voice as if afraid if anyone beside them heard their conversation. "I'm afraid he'll became worse if we take him back."
Her husband shook his head miserably. "We've done everything we can, honey. We should try the psychologist my friend told me about. It's our last hope."
Tears poured from the woman's eyes, staining her cheek and her husband could do nothing but gather his broken wife into a comforting hug. He ran his hand through her hair and whispered encouraging words to calm her down. Although he himself was in the verge of crying, but as a good husband and a man, he would comfort his wife first then deal with his bottled up feeling.
"He will be cured, honey." Hope was still there, but it was losing up fast in the man's heart. Only God could answer it.
On the second floor, inside a room, a young man with long black hair was sprawled on the bed, uncaring with the disheveled sheet like any other male species in the world. Stack of boxes filled with cloths, game, or anything he has which were put beside the door were the only sign of moving out. Heavy curtains draped on the window blocked out sunlight from entering the dark and cold room.
The boy was staring intently to an old picture. The picture looked like it's been rumpled and then smoothen again for more than a few times. It showed three little girls playing happily on the playground, didn't realize that someone had took their photo without their consent. His white teeth were shown when the boy grinned sinisterly, pleased. His smooth yet evil voice whispered a promise only four walls around him could heard.
"I'm going to get you, girl."
In the same time in Tokyo, two girls sneezed at the same time, spraying their unsuspecting friend with viruses.
First Kiss
Chapter 9: End of Fight (and Stupid Revenge) By: Lafine
"And he said he will use it in his novel, that prat." Inuyasha fumed for the nth times that day. His mother, Sakura, was listening intently to her son, half amused and half curious with the story his son told. It was different with the story Kagome and Sesshoumaru told her this morning. "Said it will give the reader a good load of romantic crap. What's so romantic about someone in a drag?!"
She felt pity for the young man sat beside her bed but the story itself proved to be a good laughing matter she was confused to give in to laughter or comforting her son's dented ego. She chose the former.
"Mom?!" Inuyasha watched in disbelief and frustration as his mother laughing at his expense. With an indignant huff he said "What's wrong with you peoples? Is this world turning against me?!"
Sakura tried to smother her laugh with her hands and soon after her laugh subsided, she smiled at her pouting son and patted his head while he grumbled like five years old.
"Inuyasha, I believe Sesshoumaru won't do that to his own brother." She still smiled.
"Mom, you forget how cruel Sesshoumaru could be." Inuyasha said with indignant huff. He still remembered when Sesshoumaru cut Inuyasha hair in his sleep when he was graduated from elementary school. He had Xelloss-what his name hairstyle for one year. Thank God for his abnormally fast hair growth. The pleasant memory about that incident only when Sesshoumaru got grounded for one year by their father.
"Now, now, Inuyasha. Don't speak bad about your own brother." Sakura chided playfully.
Although she still loss her memory, she wasn't brooding and pitying herself about it. Inuyasha, her son, was grouchy and had a bad temperament but he stills a good boy. She could laugh and chided him like he was a little boy meanwhile Sesshoumaru, her stepson, was calmer and had the mature aura around him. She decided that he doesn't need her as much as Inuyasha do.
She claimed Shiori as her best friend and from her she know about her past. Shiori also updated her daily about the information about the relationship of Inuyasha and Kagome. From her point of view, Kagome, Shiori's daughter, was a very nice girl and she agreed readily when Shiori offered to match made them. Hey, memory loss had nothing to do with her motherly side. It's a mother's job to 'take care' of her kid.
"I will get revenge on both of them."
Then again, matchmaking Inuyasha and Kagome proved to be difficult since both of them acted like ten years old around each other.
"Darling, revenge will get you nowhere. Why don't you forget about it?" And you guys gave me difficulty if you guys keep continuing this. Get a truce and kiss already. She added to herself, not knowing that they already made a truce and they already kissed. It was a mutual agreement between Kagome and Inuyasha not to tell anything about it.
"I WANT to forget about it, Mom. But she always insult me first."
"I do not." Kagome's voice was heard from the opened door. She smiled at Sakura but frowned at Inuyasha. Inuyasha gladly returned it. "You're the one who insulted me first after the truce. I'm merely tried to got back at you."
"I was joking." Inuyasha muttered, not admitting the fact that he was indeed the one who broke their agreement first. "Besides it's true."
"What did you say?!" Kagome's voice rose slightly.
Sakura, sensing the upcoming argument, decided to intervene before her room became battlefield. She asked with hope literally shone from her eyes. "You two already made a truce? For real?"
From the slight grumble from both teenagers, Sakura decided that the answer is yes. If her leg weren't bind in plaster cast, she would jump around the room like the rabbit from Bambi movie. This matchmaking still had hope!! If she and Shiori could make their son and daughter realize the chemistry between them, hopefully in the next five years she would carry her first grandchildren. Then she asked what's been in everyone's mind about so- called truce.
"Why you both still prank each other?" She asked with a confused frown.
Both Kagome and Inuyasha pointed at each other and screamed. "IT'S HIS/HER FAULT."
"WHAT?! MY FAULT?!" Both demonstrated their same way of thinking by throwing the other with patent glare. Sakura sweat dropped at the increasing battle aura.
Just before the verbal-turned physical fight erupted, Shiori with her impeccable timing entered the room with Miroku trailing behind her. He gave a cheery wave to the glowering Inuyasha and Kagome.
"Hey, Yasha. What's wrong with you?"
"They just fight again, Miroku" Sakura answered. "I'm sorry kids, but could you three leave I and Shiori alone? I need to talk to her."
"Okay, Ma'am. Come on Inuyasha." Miroku got out first and followed by Inuyasha and Kagome, leaving the scheming mothers alone. At the lobby, Miroku asked Kagome if she wanted to go with them to ramen house, Kagome declined much to Miroku's disappointment and Inuyasha's happiness.
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As they entered the ramen house Miroku chosen ("It's cheap and the ramen's good."), they ran to someone they least expected to see in a place like that.
Kikyou, the elegant queen of ice and one of the top students, wore a short kimono with the shop's emblem on the back with an apron on top of the kimono was busy delivering guests' orders; she didn't notice the slack- jawed customer on the front door.
"Oi, Miroku, Inuyasha. What are you doing there with that idiot expression?"
The boys turned their gaze from Kikyou to Sango who sat on one of the tables. She waved at them to come and sit at her table. She grinned at them when they still had their idiot expression on their face.
"What's wrong? Can't imagine Kikyou working as a waitress in a ramen house, can you?"
The duo nodded.
"Well, open your eyes wide. It's real even though it's as unbelievable as what you guys did at festival."
"Why she works like this? I thought she's rich." Miroku asked, curiosity bursted out. Inuyasha nodded beside him.
"Well, you thought wrong. It's family matters."
"Family matters?"
"Hey, where's Kagome? She promised to meet me here." Sango asked Miroku, decided to dodge the question. Some things would be better leave unanswered. Besides it's not on her place to tell other about Kikyou's condition. The expression on her face told Miroku, he won't get anything more.
"Keh, why should we know about the wench whereabouts?" Inuyasha answered carelessly. "What?" He asked in self-defense as Miroku nudged him with his elbow at the dirty look Sango threw at him.
"Inuyasha, it's not polite to call Kagome a wench." Miroku said, his eyes darting from Sango to Inuyasha with implied warning, which Inuyasha obliviously ignored as he dug his grave even deeper.
"Why not, with the way she suck up Sesshoumaru whenever he came is a prove."
A hearty smack by a hard, flat plastic landed on his head. He whirled around to see a glowering Kagome, holding a tray with Kikyou behind her holding the ramen bowl with here-we-go-again expression. And indeed Inuyasha and Kagome were going at it again (not in the perverted way, mind you).
"What did you just say, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked sweetly. Miroku, the levelheaded one between the boys could detect the danger but once again Inuyasha showed the world how oblivious he could be.
"You heard it, Kagome. Or you turned deaf because of old age?"
"Why you?" Kagome raised the tray once again, intent to make a dent on Inuyasha's thick skull. Inuyasha caught her hands just in time.
"Oh no, you don't." As Kagome struggled to get free. He stood up and took the tray away from her grasp. Kikyou gladly received it. "I have enough of your childish behavior."
"My CHILDISH behavior?! Inuyasha, may I tell you that YOU'RE the CHILDISH one here. If you're mature like Sesshoumaru then we won't have this conversation." Kagome hissed.
"Don't compare me to that sadist." Inuyasha growled.
"Why? Because you're jealous we get along?"
"HELL NO."
"Oh you are." Kagome said with glee and with singsong voice she said. "Inuyasha is jealous, jealous, jealous." Which Inuyasha retaliated by saying "I'M NOT!!"
Sango and Miroku watched with worry at the verbal fight as it's escalated further. All the customers were staring at their friend and the chef didn't look too happy with the commotion. All of them were shocked when a
"SHUT UP!!" rang through the restaurant, effectively shushing the battling duo. Inuyasha and Kagome stared wide eyes to the one who just yelled.
For the first time in their friendship, Kagome saw Kikyou scowled. Or scream for that matter. The chef himself looked shock at his calm employee and the usual customer gaped at the elegant waitress they adore. A knife could cut through the uneasy silence that filled the room.
"Sit down." Her order was followed immediately by Inuyasha and Kagome. They both looked up at her like guilty kids waiting to be lectured by their mother.
Which is what she's going to do.
"Kagome, you should stop taking every Inuyasha's insults to heart and stop hitting him on the head no matter if he deserve it. And Inuyasha, watch your tongue, I believe your mother don't teach you to speak like that. No one liked to be insulted. No, don't try to protest. You both made a truce and for God's sake, follow that idea. I'm sick of watching you two squabble like a deranged idiot every time you guys met. And you two live in the same house, don't you pity your family, Kagome? Your fight is beginning to bore me. I will not tolerate any of your fighting anymore, especially not here."
Kikyou ended her tirade and watch the squirming Inuyasha and Kagome with satisfaction. Yes, she got her points across. She put the ramen bowl on the table and said to the astonished Sango.
"Here's your order, Sango." After that she left to do her chores.
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Two weeks after Kikyou's lecture, Kagome and Inuyasha really having a truce. No more insults, no more 'accident' pranks and to everyone's delight, no more fights. All students finally received their well-deserved peace at lunch break.
At Higurashi's shrine, the other family members started to notice the unusual peace between Kagome and Inuyasha. Grandpa and Sota were happy beyond belief since the peace seemed to settle down unlike the first one. The only one who was disturbed by it was Mrs. Higurashi. If you want to know why, the answer was Kagome and Inuyasha made the peace by avoiding each other. It didn't bode well with her.
"Kagome? Can I come in?" Shiori knocked at her daughter's door, waiting for a few seconds until Kagome said yes. She entered and noticed that her daughter was in her study session, judging by the book clattered on the table.
Kagome looked up from her notes to regard her mother. She couldn't shake the feeling that Shiori wanted another long mother-daughter talk. She didn't mind it, in fact she need it. In these two weeks Kagome was constantly distracted. And tonight was like the other, she wasn't studying the Math notes in front of her. On the contrary she was thinking about Inuyasha's mom question, Kikyou's outburst and the boy in the room beside her. She couldn't find the answer to question number one. Why she and Inuyasha still prank each other even after the truce? Is it because it's the only way, they could show their affection without attracting other's suspicion?
"What's wrong, Mom?" She asked, letting all her current life problems flow away from her brain.
"It's about you and Inuyasha."
Only to get it slammed back to her with double force. So much for the necessary distraction.
"What's about it?" Kagome asked casually, hoping her mother didn't detect her uneasiness. "We didn't fight anymore so you don't have anything to worry."
"In fact that's what I'm worry about."
Kagome widen her eyes in confusion. Her mother is worried because she and Inuyasha didn't fight anymore? Why? She thought everyone would be happy with that. She was happy with it and would be happier if the tense situation between her and Inuyasha gone.
Shiori chuckled at the confusion clearly written on her daughter's face.
"It's not that I WANT both of you to fight again. I just noticed that you two didn't interact much these two weeks. Get along is good but is it necessary to avoid him?"
Kagome heaved a sigh. She didn't really want to avoid Inuyasha but whenever he was around her, he always found reasons to get away before she managed to say 'Hei'. Naturally she thinks it's his way to keep the peace between them and she went along with it. She doesn't want any other fight and she certainly won't come up to him and say "Hey, Inuyasha. Can we talk again? I miss our banter."
Nope, she would never do that.
"We didn't . avoid each other." At here Kagome noticed the raised eyebrow. "Okay so we kinda avoid each other. I don't want it that way but ."
"But?" Shiori asked, waiting for Kagome to elaborate.
"Mom you know us, it's the best thing we can do to stop our stupid wit fight." Kagome said with exasperation. Shiori nodded sagely. "Besides if I went to talk to him, he'll insult me again. I'm tired with it. I want to be friend with him, to forget the bad first meeting but he, being the stubborn idiot he is, just don't listen."
Shiori smiled at her distressed daughter. "But don't you think he deserve to get another chance to feel welcomed in our house? Talk to him, Kagome, I believe he won't do that again."
"He blew every chance I gave." Kagome gave her mother inquisitively. "How do you so sure he won't shove his foot down his throat again next time I talk to him. IF I talk to him."
Shiori smiled mysteriously as she got up. Kagome didn't know that the wall separating her room and Inuyasha's wasn't as thick as Kagome believe and the boy would certainly hear Kagome's outburst earlier about she want to be friend with him. Hopefully, Inuyasha isn't as thick and stubborn as Inutaisho was.
"I have my way."
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Inuyasha laid on his bed, listening as Mrs. Higurashi's passed his room. He waited until the soft patters were out of his hearing range before releasing a satisfied sigh. He heard the talk between Kagome and her mom clearly, thanks to his sensitive ears and he couldn't help but to grin.
'So Kagome want to be his friend. It's not a bad thought. And their first meeting could go to hell for all he care. It's what that make him and Kagome enemies.'
Although I don't mind the kiss. It was nice.
'Woah where did that come from?' Startled, Inuyasha sat up on his bed and shook his head vigorously. He didn't like the kiss, end of discussion. His lips felt tingly because it was his first kiss, that's all. He didn't want to think more about it, afraid if it would lead him to a new revelation. He didn't and doesn't like Kagome. And it will stay that way.
But it won't kill him to be friend with her. Again his stubborn heart said.
"Aargh. What is wrong with me?" He asked in irritation. Kagome had done more damage to his pride more than Sesshoumaru ever did. Why he wants to be friend with her?
Because it was him that drive her to do all those things.
Inuyasha noticed that debating with himself were not a good sign of mental health. He shoved the voice to wherever the voice came from but the voice resist.
You know you want to be her friend, admit it.
Inuyasha groaned. 'Fine, if I talk to her tomorrow and remade the truce will you leave me alone?'
No voice answered him.
"I think I should see a psychiatrist." Inuyasha muttered before sleep claimed him.
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"Oi, Kagome."
Kagome stopped on her track to school and turned around to see Inuyasha walking towards her. Did he just greet me? Kagome thought in confusion as Inuyasha walked up beside her.
"I want to talk to you." Blunt as ever, Inuyasha started their conversation as they walked together to school. "I . I want to ."
"Yes."
"I want to borrow your notes." Inuyasha felt like banging his head to the nearest wall, he wasn't going to say that.
"Sure." Kagome smiled. At least he tried to be civil for once. Mom's right. If I want our situation become better, I should give him another chance. "Hey, Inuyasha, can we get a truce once again? For real this time."
Inuyasha stared at Kagome for a moment. 'Does this girl can read my mind? She always know what I want to talk about.' But he recovered immediately.
"No more name calling?" asked Inuyasha.
"Yes, no more name calling, no more insult." Kagome stated. "And no more stupid revenge for both of us. This time I want this truce to work."
"That's bad, I still want revenge for the photos." Inuyasha grinned at the murderous look Kagome gave. "But I can live without it. You won't break this truce?"
"Absolutely."
"Pinky swear?" Inuyasha wiggled his pinkie between them and Kagome burst out laughing. "You're too old for pinky swear, Inuyasha. How about hand shake and a promise to be friends?"
"Deal." Inuyasha swooped Kagome's hand and shook it. They looked at each other with smiles on their face before they laugh together, relieving the tense between them completely.
"This is going to be a beautiful friendship, Inuyasha." Kagome said, quoting from a book she read.
"So beautiful it's sickened me." A calm yet dangerous voice said, breaking the trance. Kagome and Inuyasha turned around to see a male student with curly long black hair tied sneered at them. Recognition hit them like tons of bricks.
"Naraku?!"
"Onigumo?!"
End
AN: Yaaaiii at last he appeared. My favorite number two villain. But I won't described him as a complete evil, he just has slight problem with personality, that's all. Again, I thank you for the wonderful reviews, it's the thing that fanfiction authors cherished. So once again I ask, can I have your reviews? *puppy eyes*
"Are you sure this is the best way?" A woman asked her husband with uncertainty. Her kind face was creased with worry. She and her husband were sitting in their family room, talking with hushed voice as if afraid if anyone beside them heard their conversation. "I'm afraid he'll became worse if we take him back."
Her husband shook his head miserably. "We've done everything we can, honey. We should try the psychologist my friend told me about. It's our last hope."
Tears poured from the woman's eyes, staining her cheek and her husband could do nothing but gather his broken wife into a comforting hug. He ran his hand through her hair and whispered encouraging words to calm her down. Although he himself was in the verge of crying, but as a good husband and a man, he would comfort his wife first then deal with his bottled up feeling.
"He will be cured, honey." Hope was still there, but it was losing up fast in the man's heart. Only God could answer it.
On the second floor, inside a room, a young man with long black hair was sprawled on the bed, uncaring with the disheveled sheet like any other male species in the world. Stack of boxes filled with cloths, game, or anything he has which were put beside the door were the only sign of moving out. Heavy curtains draped on the window blocked out sunlight from entering the dark and cold room.
The boy was staring intently to an old picture. The picture looked like it's been rumpled and then smoothen again for more than a few times. It showed three little girls playing happily on the playground, didn't realize that someone had took their photo without their consent. His white teeth were shown when the boy grinned sinisterly, pleased. His smooth yet evil voice whispered a promise only four walls around him could heard.
"I'm going to get you, girl."
In the same time in Tokyo, two girls sneezed at the same time, spraying their unsuspecting friend with viruses.
First Kiss
Chapter 9: End of Fight (and Stupid Revenge) By: Lafine
"And he said he will use it in his novel, that prat." Inuyasha fumed for the nth times that day. His mother, Sakura, was listening intently to her son, half amused and half curious with the story his son told. It was different with the story Kagome and Sesshoumaru told her this morning. "Said it will give the reader a good load of romantic crap. What's so romantic about someone in a drag?!"
She felt pity for the young man sat beside her bed but the story itself proved to be a good laughing matter she was confused to give in to laughter or comforting her son's dented ego. She chose the former.
"Mom?!" Inuyasha watched in disbelief and frustration as his mother laughing at his expense. With an indignant huff he said "What's wrong with you peoples? Is this world turning against me?!"
Sakura tried to smother her laugh with her hands and soon after her laugh subsided, she smiled at her pouting son and patted his head while he grumbled like five years old.
"Inuyasha, I believe Sesshoumaru won't do that to his own brother." She still smiled.
"Mom, you forget how cruel Sesshoumaru could be." Inuyasha said with indignant huff. He still remembered when Sesshoumaru cut Inuyasha hair in his sleep when he was graduated from elementary school. He had Xelloss-what his name hairstyle for one year. Thank God for his abnormally fast hair growth. The pleasant memory about that incident only when Sesshoumaru got grounded for one year by their father.
"Now, now, Inuyasha. Don't speak bad about your own brother." Sakura chided playfully.
Although she still loss her memory, she wasn't brooding and pitying herself about it. Inuyasha, her son, was grouchy and had a bad temperament but he stills a good boy. She could laugh and chided him like he was a little boy meanwhile Sesshoumaru, her stepson, was calmer and had the mature aura around him. She decided that he doesn't need her as much as Inuyasha do.
She claimed Shiori as her best friend and from her she know about her past. Shiori also updated her daily about the information about the relationship of Inuyasha and Kagome. From her point of view, Kagome, Shiori's daughter, was a very nice girl and she agreed readily when Shiori offered to match made them. Hey, memory loss had nothing to do with her motherly side. It's a mother's job to 'take care' of her kid.
"I will get revenge on both of them."
Then again, matchmaking Inuyasha and Kagome proved to be difficult since both of them acted like ten years old around each other.
"Darling, revenge will get you nowhere. Why don't you forget about it?" And you guys gave me difficulty if you guys keep continuing this. Get a truce and kiss already. She added to herself, not knowing that they already made a truce and they already kissed. It was a mutual agreement between Kagome and Inuyasha not to tell anything about it.
"I WANT to forget about it, Mom. But she always insult me first."
"I do not." Kagome's voice was heard from the opened door. She smiled at Sakura but frowned at Inuyasha. Inuyasha gladly returned it. "You're the one who insulted me first after the truce. I'm merely tried to got back at you."
"I was joking." Inuyasha muttered, not admitting the fact that he was indeed the one who broke their agreement first. "Besides it's true."
"What did you say?!" Kagome's voice rose slightly.
Sakura, sensing the upcoming argument, decided to intervene before her room became battlefield. She asked with hope literally shone from her eyes. "You two already made a truce? For real?"
From the slight grumble from both teenagers, Sakura decided that the answer is yes. If her leg weren't bind in plaster cast, she would jump around the room like the rabbit from Bambi movie. This matchmaking still had hope!! If she and Shiori could make their son and daughter realize the chemistry between them, hopefully in the next five years she would carry her first grandchildren. Then she asked what's been in everyone's mind about so- called truce.
"Why you both still prank each other?" She asked with a confused frown.
Both Kagome and Inuyasha pointed at each other and screamed. "IT'S HIS/HER FAULT."
"WHAT?! MY FAULT?!" Both demonstrated their same way of thinking by throwing the other with patent glare. Sakura sweat dropped at the increasing battle aura.
Just before the verbal-turned physical fight erupted, Shiori with her impeccable timing entered the room with Miroku trailing behind her. He gave a cheery wave to the glowering Inuyasha and Kagome.
"Hey, Yasha. What's wrong with you?"
"They just fight again, Miroku" Sakura answered. "I'm sorry kids, but could you three leave I and Shiori alone? I need to talk to her."
"Okay, Ma'am. Come on Inuyasha." Miroku got out first and followed by Inuyasha and Kagome, leaving the scheming mothers alone. At the lobby, Miroku asked Kagome if she wanted to go with them to ramen house, Kagome declined much to Miroku's disappointment and Inuyasha's happiness.
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As they entered the ramen house Miroku chosen ("It's cheap and the ramen's good."), they ran to someone they least expected to see in a place like that.
Kikyou, the elegant queen of ice and one of the top students, wore a short kimono with the shop's emblem on the back with an apron on top of the kimono was busy delivering guests' orders; she didn't notice the slack- jawed customer on the front door.
"Oi, Miroku, Inuyasha. What are you doing there with that idiot expression?"
The boys turned their gaze from Kikyou to Sango who sat on one of the tables. She waved at them to come and sit at her table. She grinned at them when they still had their idiot expression on their face.
"What's wrong? Can't imagine Kikyou working as a waitress in a ramen house, can you?"
The duo nodded.
"Well, open your eyes wide. It's real even though it's as unbelievable as what you guys did at festival."
"Why she works like this? I thought she's rich." Miroku asked, curiosity bursted out. Inuyasha nodded beside him.
"Well, you thought wrong. It's family matters."
"Family matters?"
"Hey, where's Kagome? She promised to meet me here." Sango asked Miroku, decided to dodge the question. Some things would be better leave unanswered. Besides it's not on her place to tell other about Kikyou's condition. The expression on her face told Miroku, he won't get anything more.
"Keh, why should we know about the wench whereabouts?" Inuyasha answered carelessly. "What?" He asked in self-defense as Miroku nudged him with his elbow at the dirty look Sango threw at him.
"Inuyasha, it's not polite to call Kagome a wench." Miroku said, his eyes darting from Sango to Inuyasha with implied warning, which Inuyasha obliviously ignored as he dug his grave even deeper.
"Why not, with the way she suck up Sesshoumaru whenever he came is a prove."
A hearty smack by a hard, flat plastic landed on his head. He whirled around to see a glowering Kagome, holding a tray with Kikyou behind her holding the ramen bowl with here-we-go-again expression. And indeed Inuyasha and Kagome were going at it again (not in the perverted way, mind you).
"What did you just say, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked sweetly. Miroku, the levelheaded one between the boys could detect the danger but once again Inuyasha showed the world how oblivious he could be.
"You heard it, Kagome. Or you turned deaf because of old age?"
"Why you?" Kagome raised the tray once again, intent to make a dent on Inuyasha's thick skull. Inuyasha caught her hands just in time.
"Oh no, you don't." As Kagome struggled to get free. He stood up and took the tray away from her grasp. Kikyou gladly received it. "I have enough of your childish behavior."
"My CHILDISH behavior?! Inuyasha, may I tell you that YOU'RE the CHILDISH one here. If you're mature like Sesshoumaru then we won't have this conversation." Kagome hissed.
"Don't compare me to that sadist." Inuyasha growled.
"Why? Because you're jealous we get along?"
"HELL NO."
"Oh you are." Kagome said with glee and with singsong voice she said. "Inuyasha is jealous, jealous, jealous." Which Inuyasha retaliated by saying "I'M NOT!!"
Sango and Miroku watched with worry at the verbal fight as it's escalated further. All the customers were staring at their friend and the chef didn't look too happy with the commotion. All of them were shocked when a
"SHUT UP!!" rang through the restaurant, effectively shushing the battling duo. Inuyasha and Kagome stared wide eyes to the one who just yelled.
For the first time in their friendship, Kagome saw Kikyou scowled. Or scream for that matter. The chef himself looked shock at his calm employee and the usual customer gaped at the elegant waitress they adore. A knife could cut through the uneasy silence that filled the room.
"Sit down." Her order was followed immediately by Inuyasha and Kagome. They both looked up at her like guilty kids waiting to be lectured by their mother.
Which is what she's going to do.
"Kagome, you should stop taking every Inuyasha's insults to heart and stop hitting him on the head no matter if he deserve it. And Inuyasha, watch your tongue, I believe your mother don't teach you to speak like that. No one liked to be insulted. No, don't try to protest. You both made a truce and for God's sake, follow that idea. I'm sick of watching you two squabble like a deranged idiot every time you guys met. And you two live in the same house, don't you pity your family, Kagome? Your fight is beginning to bore me. I will not tolerate any of your fighting anymore, especially not here."
Kikyou ended her tirade and watch the squirming Inuyasha and Kagome with satisfaction. Yes, she got her points across. She put the ramen bowl on the table and said to the astonished Sango.
"Here's your order, Sango." After that she left to do her chores.
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Two weeks after Kikyou's lecture, Kagome and Inuyasha really having a truce. No more insults, no more 'accident' pranks and to everyone's delight, no more fights. All students finally received their well-deserved peace at lunch break.
At Higurashi's shrine, the other family members started to notice the unusual peace between Kagome and Inuyasha. Grandpa and Sota were happy beyond belief since the peace seemed to settle down unlike the first one. The only one who was disturbed by it was Mrs. Higurashi. If you want to know why, the answer was Kagome and Inuyasha made the peace by avoiding each other. It didn't bode well with her.
"Kagome? Can I come in?" Shiori knocked at her daughter's door, waiting for a few seconds until Kagome said yes. She entered and noticed that her daughter was in her study session, judging by the book clattered on the table.
Kagome looked up from her notes to regard her mother. She couldn't shake the feeling that Shiori wanted another long mother-daughter talk. She didn't mind it, in fact she need it. In these two weeks Kagome was constantly distracted. And tonight was like the other, she wasn't studying the Math notes in front of her. On the contrary she was thinking about Inuyasha's mom question, Kikyou's outburst and the boy in the room beside her. She couldn't find the answer to question number one. Why she and Inuyasha still prank each other even after the truce? Is it because it's the only way, they could show their affection without attracting other's suspicion?
"What's wrong, Mom?" She asked, letting all her current life problems flow away from her brain.
"It's about you and Inuyasha."
Only to get it slammed back to her with double force. So much for the necessary distraction.
"What's about it?" Kagome asked casually, hoping her mother didn't detect her uneasiness. "We didn't fight anymore so you don't have anything to worry."
"In fact that's what I'm worry about."
Kagome widen her eyes in confusion. Her mother is worried because she and Inuyasha didn't fight anymore? Why? She thought everyone would be happy with that. She was happy with it and would be happier if the tense situation between her and Inuyasha gone.
Shiori chuckled at the confusion clearly written on her daughter's face.
"It's not that I WANT both of you to fight again. I just noticed that you two didn't interact much these two weeks. Get along is good but is it necessary to avoid him?"
Kagome heaved a sigh. She didn't really want to avoid Inuyasha but whenever he was around her, he always found reasons to get away before she managed to say 'Hei'. Naturally she thinks it's his way to keep the peace between them and she went along with it. She doesn't want any other fight and she certainly won't come up to him and say "Hey, Inuyasha. Can we talk again? I miss our banter."
Nope, she would never do that.
"We didn't . avoid each other." At here Kagome noticed the raised eyebrow. "Okay so we kinda avoid each other. I don't want it that way but ."
"But?" Shiori asked, waiting for Kagome to elaborate.
"Mom you know us, it's the best thing we can do to stop our stupid wit fight." Kagome said with exasperation. Shiori nodded sagely. "Besides if I went to talk to him, he'll insult me again. I'm tired with it. I want to be friend with him, to forget the bad first meeting but he, being the stubborn idiot he is, just don't listen."
Shiori smiled at her distressed daughter. "But don't you think he deserve to get another chance to feel welcomed in our house? Talk to him, Kagome, I believe he won't do that again."
"He blew every chance I gave." Kagome gave her mother inquisitively. "How do you so sure he won't shove his foot down his throat again next time I talk to him. IF I talk to him."
Shiori smiled mysteriously as she got up. Kagome didn't know that the wall separating her room and Inuyasha's wasn't as thick as Kagome believe and the boy would certainly hear Kagome's outburst earlier about she want to be friend with him. Hopefully, Inuyasha isn't as thick and stubborn as Inutaisho was.
"I have my way."
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Inuyasha laid on his bed, listening as Mrs. Higurashi's passed his room. He waited until the soft patters were out of his hearing range before releasing a satisfied sigh. He heard the talk between Kagome and her mom clearly, thanks to his sensitive ears and he couldn't help but to grin.
'So Kagome want to be his friend. It's not a bad thought. And their first meeting could go to hell for all he care. It's what that make him and Kagome enemies.'
Although I don't mind the kiss. It was nice.
'Woah where did that come from?' Startled, Inuyasha sat up on his bed and shook his head vigorously. He didn't like the kiss, end of discussion. His lips felt tingly because it was his first kiss, that's all. He didn't want to think more about it, afraid if it would lead him to a new revelation. He didn't and doesn't like Kagome. And it will stay that way.
But it won't kill him to be friend with her. Again his stubborn heart said.
"Aargh. What is wrong with me?" He asked in irritation. Kagome had done more damage to his pride more than Sesshoumaru ever did. Why he wants to be friend with her?
Because it was him that drive her to do all those things.
Inuyasha noticed that debating with himself were not a good sign of mental health. He shoved the voice to wherever the voice came from but the voice resist.
You know you want to be her friend, admit it.
Inuyasha groaned. 'Fine, if I talk to her tomorrow and remade the truce will you leave me alone?'
No voice answered him.
"I think I should see a psychiatrist." Inuyasha muttered before sleep claimed him.
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"Oi, Kagome."
Kagome stopped on her track to school and turned around to see Inuyasha walking towards her. Did he just greet me? Kagome thought in confusion as Inuyasha walked up beside her.
"I want to talk to you." Blunt as ever, Inuyasha started their conversation as they walked together to school. "I . I want to ."
"Yes."
"I want to borrow your notes." Inuyasha felt like banging his head to the nearest wall, he wasn't going to say that.
"Sure." Kagome smiled. At least he tried to be civil for once. Mom's right. If I want our situation become better, I should give him another chance. "Hey, Inuyasha, can we get a truce once again? For real this time."
Inuyasha stared at Kagome for a moment. 'Does this girl can read my mind? She always know what I want to talk about.' But he recovered immediately.
"No more name calling?" asked Inuyasha.
"Yes, no more name calling, no more insult." Kagome stated. "And no more stupid revenge for both of us. This time I want this truce to work."
"That's bad, I still want revenge for the photos." Inuyasha grinned at the murderous look Kagome gave. "But I can live without it. You won't break this truce?"
"Absolutely."
"Pinky swear?" Inuyasha wiggled his pinkie between them and Kagome burst out laughing. "You're too old for pinky swear, Inuyasha. How about hand shake and a promise to be friends?"
"Deal." Inuyasha swooped Kagome's hand and shook it. They looked at each other with smiles on their face before they laugh together, relieving the tense between them completely.
"This is going to be a beautiful friendship, Inuyasha." Kagome said, quoting from a book she read.
"So beautiful it's sickened me." A calm yet dangerous voice said, breaking the trance. Kagome and Inuyasha turned around to see a male student with curly long black hair tied sneered at them. Recognition hit them like tons of bricks.
"Naraku?!"
"Onigumo?!"
End
AN: Yaaaiii at last he appeared. My favorite number two villain. But I won't described him as a complete evil, he just has slight problem with personality, that's all. Again, I thank you for the wonderful reviews, it's the thing that fanfiction authors cherished. So once again I ask, can I have your reviews? *puppy eyes*