A/N- ***IMPORTANT*** Even if you usually skip over the author's notes, all of you who read the first chapter when I first posted it, read this. I made some changes to the family situation. I changed the first chapter already. Alright, I changed it so that Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru aren't half brothers but stepbrothers, meaning that they were both born before their parents got married. This is why Sesshoumaru didn't know Kagome while she and Inuyasha were dating since Inuyasha was living his dad during high school. Then Inuyasha left to live with Moriko (his mother) and Inutaisho (his stepfather) and that's why he moved. And this also explains why Moriko and Inutaisho don't know Kagome because yeah. That explains everything. I was thinking about the whole half brother thing and realized that that just didn't explain things enough and it didn't work so I changed it. That should get rid of the confusion I've been having about it too ^_^

Disclaimer-I do not own the Inuyasha characters but I'm working on it. It's number three on my to-do list right under world domination and befriend the macaroni penguins.

This chapter is dedicated to Pink straw, who was the first to review! Woo! *Confetti falls out of the ceiling*

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Old Feelings Die Hard

Chapter II

Still in a deep state of shock, Inuyasha sat down on the doorstep. He couldn't believe it. She was here! He was about to stand up excitedly to go in and talk to her when the realization came crashing down on him and he sat back down on the step.

"She's Sesshoumaru's girlfriend?!" he asked himself in amazement. And then he got a strange feeling. Was it jealousy? Why? She must've dated dozens of guys since she left…Then Inuyasha scratched his head. Come to think of it, he had been jealous then too. He was always wondering what kind of guy she was dating while he was gone. Those kinds of thoughts only made him want to march back to Kyoto and kick some ass. (A/N-Kagome lived in Kyoto and she and Inuyasha went to a high school in Kyoto. Inuyasha's father lived in Kyoto. Moriko and Inutaisho live in Tokyo and that's where Kagome goes to college. Inuyasha also goes to some college in Tokyo. I really don't know any colleges in Tokyo so I can't really name them ^_^;;)

Inuyasha had dated Kagome in high school. They had had the kind of love you only found in fairy tales, or so it seemed like anyway. He had been the type of person who slept in the back of the classroom or made smart-ass comments when the teacher called on him and Kagome had been the straight-A student at the top of the class. Despite the fact that they had been as opposite as they could possibly be, Inuyasha had asked Kagome out in sophomore year and after that, they dated for two years. For two years they were absolutely inseparable despite everyone's doubts that they would ever last so long. And then Inuyasha had moved. After that they had tried to keep up their relationship as best they could but they slowly lost touch and grew farther apart. Finally, they had broken it off deciding that it just wouldn't work with them so far apart.

Inuyasha ran a hand through his hair and then pressed the heels of his hands into his eyes. "This is a nightmare…" he muttered. Then he sat up, asking himself how it was a nightmare. That was two years ago! Everything changed and he couldn't possibly still have the same feelings so it wasn't a nightmare. It was just fine.

With that thought in mind, Inuyasha stood up and got ready to open the door when he thought about what would happen.

"Well what am I supposed to fucking say? 'Hey babe, remember me? I called you a know-it-all goodie two shoes bitch for two years before I asked you out. Remember?' Feh, yeah, there you go!" Inuyasha muttered sarcastically, holding the door handle. "Well, one thing's for sure: I'm sure as hell not going to tell Sesshoumaru she's my ex-girlfriend. We hate each other enough as it is."

Kagome blinked at the door. Had she seen right? Was that really Inuyasha? Two years of not seeing him and he's…Sesshoumaru's step brother? Kagome glanced over at Sesshoumaru and realized that he had always reminded her of Inuyasha kind of. They looked the same sort of but they were so different.

"Kagome? Are you okay? Do you know Inuyasha?" Inutaisho asked, jerking Kagome out of her thoughts.

"Oh…umm, no," Kagome answered quickly. She heard the front door open again and she looked at the floor, the wall, the ceiling, anything but the person walking through the door. She wiggled slightly in happiness. She couldn't wait to talk to him later. She wanted to know what he had been up to and how he had been doing in the last two years.

            "Ignore Inuyasha's unusual antics. He's always like this," Sesshoumaru told her and Inuyasha glared at him.

" 'Antics?'" Kagome repeated, looking at the table. "What antics? Oh! Those antics, right…" she mumbled, laughing slightly.

Sesshoumaru glanced over at her and she stared firmly down at the coffee table.

Kagome shifted uncomfortably on the couch. The entire dinner with the family thing had gone from bad to good to KABOOM! So should she just tell them that she knew Inuyasha? It wasn't that big a deal if she knew him, right? Then she frowned, remembering that Sesshoumaru didn't seem to like Inuyasha too much. Inuyasha probably wasn't too fond of Sesshoumaru either. Having Sesshoumaru know that his stepbrother, whom he seemed to despise, was her ex-boyfriend would just make things awkward and uncomfortable. But it wasn't like she wasn't feeling awkward and uncomfortable already. What's one more to the pile?

'Stupid!' she screamed silently to herself. 'Just pretend like you don't know him, idiot! You're supposed to be making a good impression here!'

Kagome looked up at smiled at Inutaisho and Moriko. "This is a really lovely house."

Kagome felt like she could slap herself. 'Lovely house? How lame was that?'

Moriko smiled pleasantly, slightly calming the panic in Kagome's brain. "Why thank you dear. You're staying here over your break, right?"

Kagome jumped, panicking again. "I am?"

"Why, yes. Sesshoumaru said you two were staying here over spring break," Moriko told her.

"Oh…right…" Kagome mumbled. 'Idiot! That was two years ago and it's over now so just pretend like you don't know him! Sesshoumaru's parents are probably thinking you're crazy!'

"So what are you majoring in college?" Inutaisho asked Kagome.

"I'm majoring in art," Kagome answered, glad that a subject to talk about was finally brought up.

"Oh how nice!" Moriko said, smiling. "Inuyasha here is majoring in graphic arts and animation! Isn't that right dear?"

"Yeah," Inuyasha answered and Kagome glanced up at him, surprised. She had never known that he was interested in animation or graphic art. He had always joked that he was going to be a bartender or one of those creepy bouncers that stood outside all the fancy clubs and bars (Kagome had laughed and told him that he was too scrawny to be a bouncer) or something like that. He had even once joked that he was going to be a pirate of the black market or the leader of the underworld. 

Just then, Kagome heard a beeping noise like a timer going off.

"Dinner's ready!" Moriko declared cheerfully and then they all moved into the kitchen.

Moriko placed stuffed cabbage, mashed potatoes, fresh salad, and a macaroni salad on the table and Inuyasha smirked. If he had known that Sesshoumaru's girlfriend was Kagome, he could've told his mother that Kagome didn't like cabbage and was allergic to mayonnaise. He glanced over at Kagome and saw that she noticed the macaroni salad and stuffed cabbage as well and was shifting uncomfortably from foot to foot as if undecided about something.

They all took a seat at the table and Moriko insisted on serving Kagome, who began to protest when she placed stuffed cabbage on her plate but shut her mouth when Moriko smiled pleasantly at her.

"Looks great!" Kagome said, smiling slightly. Then she picked up her fork and poked at the cabbage a bit while the rest of the family was busy talking to each other. When Kagome thought no one was looking, she quickly pushed the stuffed cabbage off her plate and onto the napkin in her lap.

'Great! Now what do I do with it?' Kagome asked herself, looking down at it sitting in her lap.

"Macaroni salad dear?" Moriko asked Kagome politely.

"Uhm, n-" Kagome began to say but Moriko was already serving her some macaroni salad. Kagome smiled weakly. "Thank you." When no one was looking, she again shoved it off her plate and into the napkin.

'Idiot! Now what?' Kagome fumed silently to herself. 'Such an idiot!'

Inuyasha smiled slightly, watching from his seat across the table as Kagome seemed to be silently arguing with herself. He caught her attention by stepping on her foot and then motioned for her to pass him the napkin. At first she didn't understand what he was saying so he dropped his gaze downward to where her lap would be if the table weren't there and again motioned for her to hand it to him.

Kagome glanced around to make sure the rest of the family was preoccupied and passed him the napkin under the table. Then he excused himself and left the room. Kagome wondered what he was going to do with it.

Inuyasha sighed, slamming the door to his car shut and walked to the doors of the diner. That night was strange. After two years he finally saw the supposed "love of his life" again and lo and behold, she's his brother's girlfriend. Inuyasha figured he would never see her again and now that he had seen her again, he wondered whether or not he still had any feelings for her. During dinner he couldn't really tell since he was too busy watching her hide all her food in her lap.

Inuyasha smiled to himself, shaking his head. Kagome was still how he remembered her. Walking towards a table, Inuyasha stopped short when he spotted the object of his thoughts sitting at a table. She looked like she was arguing with herself and Inuyasha smiled again. She was spooning out an ice cube from her soda. She had always loved to munch on ice cubes and Inuyasha could never figure out why.

He slid into the booth to sit across from Kagome and she jumped, dropping the ice cube on her lap. She closed her eyes and winced.

"Cold…" she whimpered.

Inuyasha grinned. "Long time no see." 

"Yeah, I guess so…" Kagome murmured, twirling a fry absently between her fingers.

"So, Sesshoumaru eh?" Inuyasha clucked his tongue in disappointment. "I thought you had better tastes than that."

Kagome grinned, kicking him under the table. "You kidding me? What good tastes? I dated you didn't I?"

"Only you can slam yourself and me at the same time," Inuyasha replied, chuckling.

"Besides, I had no idea he was your brother. He never talked about his family much. Sure, he kinda looked like you but you two are totally different so I had no idea," Kagome explained.

"I'm offended," Inuyasha said simply. "I always thought I looked much better than him."

"Yeah well that's what happens when your ego gets bigger than your brain. It starts to have a mind of it's own," Kagome told him, grinning.

"Ouch," Inuyasha said, wincing. "Now that was harsh. So how'd you meet my ever-so-cuddly bastard of a brother anyway?"

"Well in my senior year of high school, I just kind of ran into him at a café and…yeah," Kagome explained awkwardly.

"That's the same year I moved away," Inuyasha murmured. "Got over me so quickly?"

Kagome flushed and looked down at her plate. What was she supposed to tell him? The truth? That she every time in the year after he left when she let her mind wander, she would see him or remember him or get flashbacks of them together? She couldn't tell him that now! She…had Sesshoumaru now and she couldn't go telling him things like that.

"Well, glad you moved on anyway. Missing you almost completely ruined my love life," he said, laughing to himself.

"How?"

"Three months after I started going to my new high school, I went out with this girl and I don't even remember her name. I only remembered that I called her Kagome and she threw a milkshake in my face."

Kagome put a hand over her mouth, trying to stifle her laughter. "What flavor?" she finally managed to ask.

"Chocolate I think."

"What'd you do with the food from dinner?" Kagome asked suddenly.

Inuyasha shrugged. "I gave it to the dog. You're too picky an eater."

"Well I can't eat mayonnaise! I'd have to go get a shot to keep my head from swelling up to the size of a watermelon," Kagome protested.

"I know. So…how did this happen anyway? Isn't it kind of strange?" Inuyasha asked.

Anyone else would have asked Inuyasha to elaborate but Kagome knew what he was talking about since she was thinking the exact same thing. "I don't know. You moved away so we kinda lost touch. But how did Sesshoumaru not know that I was your ex-girlfriend?"

Inuyasha shrugged. "Me and my brother didn't talk to each other much. Well, we didn't talk to each other at all actually. While I was in high school, I was living with my dad and he was living with my mom and Inutaisho so I didn't have a chance to tell him anything even if I wanted to. Then I moved in with my mom and Inutaisho."

"Wow, small world eh?" Kagome asked, grinning.

"Naw, big world, strange Fates," Inuyasha told her, looking over at her.

Kagome fidgeted and looked back down at her cheeseburger as emotions that she thought were gone a long time ago began to stir within her. They should've been gone a long time ago and she needed to get rid of them now. She glanced up again when Inuyasha grabbed her hand and laced his fingers through hers.

"I missed you," he murmured, looking intently at her hand.

"Ah, young love," Kagome heard an old woman sigh to her friend at the table behind Kagome's. "Brings back old memories, eh Ester?"

Kagome pulled her hand away and turned around towards them. "Actually," she began to explain but stopped when she realized that she didn't feel like explaining the story to them. It was too long of a story and she could feel Inuyasha's gaze burning a hole through the back of her head. She had to leave.

She turned back towards Inuyasha. "I have to go get my stuff. He called me two hours before the dinner to tell me that we were going to eat dinner at his-your parents' house and I didn't know we were going to be staying so I didn't get a chance to pack," Kagome explained, grinning apologetically as she stood and slung her purse over her shoulder. She quickly paid for her food and then left the diner.

Inuyasha nodded and watched her leave and get into her car. He watched until her car turned out of the parking lot and sped off down the street.

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A/N-*Sigh* I love the Inuyasha/Kagome-ness ^_^ Uhh…Yeah that's all I've got to say…so review!

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Full Moon-san-Whoa! I'm seeing double! There's two Full Moon-sans! Someone stole someone's name. *Blinks* Oh, oops, you're the same people huh? I knew that. Ooh, wow! Can you stalk me even though I got the next chapter up? I always wanted my own stalker!

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Princess Sapphire-Yes, Inuyasha is very polite. Very very polite. I'm lying through my teeth…

Celtic*Demon*Yume-Ooh, cool name! I like the asterisks! I didn't know you could use those in a pen name. Well now I do…

silverstarlight-Yes, Inu/Kag-ness rocks! Woo! Ooh…I just said dog/Kag-ness rocks…That's kinda wrong…somehow…Well anyway, yes! There are a lot of things I can do with this! I'm very excited because I get to do some evil stuff *Cackles evilly* Kukukuku -Naraku laugh=EVIL!

tenshineko-Doesn't your name mean angel cat?  Or was tenshi sky? No, it's angel…Oh, in math, I was spelling angle as angel the whole time. Heh, that's got nothing to do with it but I just remembered that…Their parting was fine. Inuyasha was just kinda…paralyzed with shock so he just groped for the nearest escape route I suppose. And no, this will not improve sibling relationships one bit. ^_^ And yes, thank you for checking my math. For some reason, right after math class, I can't do math. I have no idea why. I just can't. I guess in math class I get all…ehh…mathed out. But I changed their little relationship to each other anyway if you read the author's note above. So now they're…did I say five? Yeah, five years apart now. Nope, S/K just doesn't work for me…ever. So it's I/K woo hoo! I hate writing all the S/K-ness. It gets on my nerves so I won't be writing much of it. You all will just have to assume they're sharing fluffy, romantic moments because…bleh!

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