Chapter 7
"His ears?" Kagome looked at her friends, confused. She then turned and looked at Inuyasha as his ears swiveled back. 'DAMN, I've spent so much time with him, I forgot about his dog ears.'
"Look Eri, they moved on their own. So are they real? How do they move?" Ayumi questioned anxiously. "Who is he and why is he here?"
Kagome and Inuyasha felt cornered by all the questions. They looked at each other in hopes of finding a way out.
"Um...Eri, Ayumi why don't you go sit down while we put the groceries away. Then we'll explain everything." Kagome watched as her friends slowly walked over and sat on the couch next to Yuka. She then turned her attention back to Inuyasha. They slowly started to put things away.
"So any ideas on how to get out of this one." Inuyasha whispered to Kagome.
"Only one....we tell them the truth. I think its time." Kagome whispered back. She saw Inuyasha was about to yell "WHAT" but she managed to cover his mouth before he did. "It's been three years now. They've helped me every way they could to with school, I think they deserve to know the truth." She stared up at him with pleading eyes. "Please, they're my best-friends."
"If they're your best-friends, what does that make me?"
"We'll discuss that later." She smiled at him as she put away the last item. "So lets tell them."
"Keh!"
Kagome walked over and sat in the vacant chair, as Inuyasha sat on the floor next to it, crossing his arms and legs like he always does. "This may take a while for me to explain, but keep in mind everything I say is true." Kagome then started to relate to them about her adventures. Starting at when she first fell through the well, met Inuyasha, broke the Shikon no Tama, their search for the shards, Kikyo's resurection, meeting Kouga, fighting demons, and even about Inuyasha's brother. "So you see, his ears are in fact real, because he's a half youkai, half human, he also has claws and fangs. And I warn you he has superior senses and strength." Kagome breathed a sigh of relief as a giant burden was lifted off her chest.
Her friends stared at her in disbelief. Still reeling from the new info.
Yuka was the first to speak. "So this is the jealous, overprotective, two timing jerk?" She watched as Kagome nodded. Yuka closed her eyes and shook her head from side to side slightly. "Poor Hojo, he never had a chance, did he?"
All Kagome could do was hang her head. 'I guess he didn't. Even if in the end Inuyasha choses to be with Kikyo, I would always love him.' Kagome directed her gaze to the fire that still blazed fiercly.
"I see now." Yuka watched Kagome's change of emotion and understood immediatly. 'She's in love with the hanyou next to her. Deeply so, and probably has been since she met him. But what about him. Kagome said he chases after that Kikyo girl. I need to find out, for Kagome's sake, what he feels for her.' "I have an idea, lets play a game." That got everyone's attention. "Lets play 'Word Association.'"
"Whats that?" questioned Inuyasha.
Yuka tried to explain the best she could. "It's a game where if I say a word you say the first thing that comes to your mind. Like this." Yuka turned and faced Eri. "Wood?"
"Tree."
"Fire?"
"Hot."
"See it's easy. Now you try." Yuka turned and faced Inuyasha. "Snow?"
"Ball."
"Food?"
"Ramen." [That one got a giggle from Kagome.]
Yuka then decided to use her new found information against him. "Cat?"
"Kirara."
"Annoying?"
"Shippo."
"Family?"
"Pack."
"Children?"
"Pups."
"Kikyo?"
"Dead."
"Kagome?"
"Mate."
"WOW! Inuyasha, your a pro at this game." Yuka gave him a foxy grin as they saw Kagome flee to the bedroom and shut the door loudly behind her.
"What's with her?" asked Inuyasha.
"What were the words during the last round." Yuka said as she winked at him.
"Um....you said Kagome, and I said.......OH HELL!" Inuyasha jumped to his feet and ran to the bedroom. Fortunatly the door was unlocked so he entered and closed the door so the group of girls outside couldn't hear.
"Yuka that was mean." stated Eri bluntly.
"I needed to figure out some things" Yuka noticed the mad expression from her two friends. "Look, when I said 'family' he said 'pack' like a wolf pack. And when I said 'children' he said 'pups'. He thinks like a dog sometimes. And based on his replies dog youkai and wolves are the same sociable creatures. They form packs, choose a mate and have pups. Now, wolves mate for life, and they choose them very carefully, if one dies, so will the other. Thats why I said 'Kagome' if he loves her, he would have answered the way he did, but if he didn't he would have said something else completely different. I needed to find out how he felt for Kagome, and from what I understand of the hanyou, he wouldn't admit his feelings in the open, surrounded by girls." "So you tricked him, thats still mean, and ingeniative." Ayumi commented Yuka on her quick wit. ~******~