Under the Pale
Autumn Moon
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Kagome struggled to get out of his
grip for a moment before staring into his deep, depressing violet
eyes. She sighed in defeat and nodded sadly.
Inuyasha noted
the sadness in her expression and released her, he smiled softly and
held out a hand to her, she took it and her heart did a drop straight
to her stomach at the tingling feeling she received when Inuyasha
smiled in relief.
"Kagome?" Kagome felt that
dropping feeling again when he called her name, "what's
wrong?"
Kagome tensed and turned away slightly looking at
her feet as if they were the most interesting thing in the
world.
Gulping loudly she forced a totally fake and somewhat
unnerving smile on her face, "Nothing why do you ask?"
Inuyasha
backed up a step when Kagome smiled her oh-so-evil smile but soon
gave her a dry look, "I think the moping around and crying
slightly was a sure sign, plus, you aren't looking me in the eyes,
which you usually do, and also, you haven't said a wise-crack or
fucking annoying comment. Something's up."
Kagome sighed,
"Do you make it your hobby to try and memorize what I do when
I'm depressed, happy, excited and so on?"
Inuyasha beamed
proudly, "Yup."
"Why?" Was Kagome's dry
response.
"Because I care about you," Was Inuyasha's
plain and blunt response, saying it as if it were the most normal
thing in the world.
Kagome's heart leapt into her throat
before it came crashing down into the pit of her stomach. She blushed
softly and looked away from him, trying to make her heart stop
beating so fast.
"Now tell me what's wrong."
Kagome
made no reply for a while, "I can't tell you."
Inuyasha
seemed a little disappointed but nodded, "I understand if you
don't want to talk about it."
He smiled lightly and
walked over to her. He reached around her shoulder and pulled her
into a one-armed hug before walking off and out of the room, before
shutting the door he looked over a Kagome and smiled, "And Kag,
if you want to tell me, I'm here for you, remember that."
Kagome
could do nothing but nod stupidly.
Inuyasha walked down the
hall. 'Why the hell did I just fucking do that?' he screamed
to himself. Walking numbly around he dodged the maids who were
scurrying around trying to clean before Sango got up and did her
rounds.
Walking into the kitchen he searched around for some
food. That was all Miroku was good for in his opinion. Plus, he was
too busy chasing skirts to notice when he stole food from his working
hands.
Grabbing an apple he turned to leave, sighing softly he
noted the smell of some kind of soup. Good. Kagome liked soup. He
blushed softly, now that he stopped to think about it, he knew a lot
about the floating girl.
He looked around the room; everything
always seemed so normal in Sango's house. Except Kagome, who had gone
unnoticed for a long time it seemed. He looked at the fridge, where
little pictures drawn by Shippou hung loosely with the cheep magnets
that were only worth 25 yen. Then he saw something that almost made
him drop the apple.
Miroku and Sango making out!
"BAD
IMAGE!" Inuyasha yelled. But he noted with disgust that the
couple seemed oblivious to him, he quickly made his exit.
What
was this feeling in the pit of his stomach?
It was very
annoying.
"BAD IMAGE!" Kagome looked up
from her apple to hear Inuyasha scream and heard a door slamming.
Sighing deeply she concluded that he'd seen Sango and Miroku.
Her
heart did that weird drop again. It was very infuriating how it kept
doing that. The lifting itself up only to drop down into the bowels
of her stomach thing.
The door slammed open to reveal
Inuyasha, with the look of someone who'd just watched 'the ten
greatest animal lovers' on the animal planet.
Slouching onto
the couch beside Kagome he muttered things that she couldn't hear
before he finally realized that she was looking at him intently,
"What?"
Kagome shook her head, "No." she
smiled softly, "it's nothing."
Inuyasha placed his
chin in his hand and rested it on his knee, staring at her,
"Sometimes, Kagome," he said softly which caused Kagome to
stop munching her apple to look at him, "sometimes, 'nothing'
really is a way of saying 'something'."
Kagome almost
choked on her apple chunk residing in her mouth at the cool,
enlightened look in Inuyasha's eyes. She gulped down the apple and
stared back into his calm eyes.
Kagome hesitated, 'All
right, time to say something that will prove your fine.'
"Huh?"
Was Kagome's intelligent response. 'Oh god, Kagome...' she
thought to herself.
Inuyasha chuckled softly and sat up,
scratching the back of his neck, but never leaving eye contact with
Kagome. Violet with Blue.
"Kagome?" he said almost
too softly. Kagome wondered what had gotten into Inuyasha. Why was he
so gentle, so kind?
"Y-yes?" she asked
timidly.
"Have you ever wanted someone you couldn't
have?" he asked, his eyes glazed over with an unknown
passion.
Kagome almost gasped at the irony. Who the hell could
Inuyasha love so much?
Who could Inuyasha want? Kikyo? Most
likely, but that didn't explain why he didn't let Kikyo kiss him. She
shrugged mentally.
Realizing Inuyasha was waiting for an
answer she nodded, "I have."
Inuyasha nodded lightly
and stood up, "Okay."
And he walked out of the room
again, leaving Kagome to ponder whom he could want.
She looked
up at the ceiling and smiled sadly at the chipped paint flecks that
floated into the light of the window, "If only you knew how
much."
Inuyasha walked out of the room because
he felt the heat rising in his cheeks. He would not let Kagome
see him blush, and over such a dumb question too.
He cursed
silently to himself as he climbed the staircase to the attic. He
slipped into the dusty box-filled area. He had found it a few days
ago, when he had to be alone for a while, and he discovered that by
grabbing the overhanging on the upper part of one of the windows, he
could swing himself completely onto the roof.
And he did so
whenever he wanted to be alone. Or away from Kikyo. Or away from
Sango. Or Kagome. All right, away from people.
Sighing softly
he grabbed the overhanging and swung himself onto the tile-plated
roof, leaning against a chimney and staring off into the sunset.
The
only problem with the roof was that it reminded him of Naraku. He was
so busy with his thoughts that he didn't notice when Kagome slid
through the roof and into full view. Leaving her hazy form she
watched Inuyasha skeptically, him still in his trance.
"Damn
you, Naraku," Inuyasha muttered to himself.
