A/N-Sorry I haven't updated recently. Been busy with three research projects, two of which I should be working on right now but I decided to take a break on since I've been working on them for almost five hours now. I don't have time to do review responses, so sorry but I don't. I'll do them next time I promise.
Disclaimer- I don't own the Inuyasha characters blah blah blah etc. etc.
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Old Feelings Die Hard
Chapter III
It didn't take Kagome long to gather the stuff she would need together. She was only going to be staying for two weeks after all. Her roommate, Sango, walked into their dormitory to see Kagome rushing around and tossing things carelessly into a suitcase.
"Kagome-chan! Are you moving out?" Sango asked in shock.
"No, no, I'm just staying at Sesshoumaru's parents' home for awhile," Kagome assured her friend. "You'll have to visit me there or I'll die in the awkwardness!"
" 'Awkwardness?'" Sango repeated, raising an eyebrow questioningly.
"Yes," Kagome sighed as she paused in her packing to lean against the wall. "You remember that guy I told you about? The one I went out with for two years in high school until he moved away?"
"Inuyasha. Yeah, you may have mentioned him once…or twice…or three times…a day," Sango answered, grinning, as she picked up a baseball sitting on the edge of Kagome's desk and tossed it from hand to hand. "Why didn't you guys keep in touch after he moved anyway?! You guys sounded perfect and it sounded like you really loved him."
"Inuyasha is Sesshoumaru's half brother!" Kagome hissed.
Sango's mouth dropped open and the baseball fell to the floor to land on her foot. Sango winced and bit her lip. "Ow…" she whimpered. Then she looked at Kagome. "His half brother?! You have got to be kidding me."
"I'm not! He came to dinner last night! Imagine my surprise at seeing him walk through the door after I hadn't seen him for almost two years! And there I am with his brother!" Kagome said, stuffing her hair dryer into her suitcase. "And then I found out that I was staying with their parents for spring break because Sesshoumaru told his parents I was. Guess who else is staying there for spring break?"
"Inuyasha?" Sango guessed.
"Bingo! I mean, can you imagine a more awkward situation?! I certainly can't," Kagome said, her words gaining speed as she started to sound panicky.
"This is great!" Sango exclaimed. Then she shot her hand into the air, crying triumphantly, "High school love reunited! Love conquers all! Hell yeah!"
"No! This isn't great Sango! This is madness! This is torture!" Kagome corrected. "Hello, remember Sesshoumaru, his half brother. I'm going out with him remember? And to make things worse, Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha absolutely hate each other! Luckily, Sesshoumaru doesn't know that Inuyasha's my ex-boyfriend. I told him I didn't know him."
"Well do you still have feelings for Inuyasha?" Sango asked, hopping onto her bed and laying on her stomach as she watched Kagome hurry around.
"No! At least…I don't think so…" Kagome answered uncertainly. And then she answered more firmly. "No."
"Well see? What's the problem then? You don't have feelings for him so it really shouldn't matter," Sango declared.
"It shouldn't but it does! I mean me and Sesshoumaru will be…there and he'll be…there and…it'll just be awkward okay? You will visit me though, won't you?" Kagome asked hopefully, grabbing her art supplies and her art portfolio. Moriko had asked to see some of Kagome's art so she had decided to bring her portfolio.
"Of course I will! Besides, I want to see who this Inuyasha person is. You've only mentioned him twelve gazillion times in the one year I've known you," Sango said and Kagome threw a pillow at her face.
"Here's your room dear," Moriko told Kagome kindly, opening the door to a room. Kagome peeked inside to see deep red drapes with a gold gauze balance above the window. The blankets were the same gold and deep red color and a red rug lay on the floor beside the bed. A desk sat in the corner beside a walk-in closet.
"Thanks, it's great," Kagome said, smiling as she set her suitcase on the bed. When Moriko had left, Kagome sighed and ran a hand through her hair. "Well, this isn't so bad. Not nearly as awkward as I thought it would be."
Oh but Kagome was wrong…so wrong. It was just about to go from awkward to downright unbearable.
Kagome yawned as she rolled out of bed. Her legs were still numb with sleep so she tumbled to the floor when she tried to stand.
"Ow…" she mumbled, pushing herself up off the ground to stand and make her way slowly to the bathroom to clean herself up. "Sorry…" she mumbled when she ran into someone in the door of the bathroom. She glanced up to see Inuyasha, looking just as disheveled and drowsy as she did.
He grunted in response and tried to make his way past her and into the bathroom just as she stepped forward.
"Haven't you ever heard of ladies first?" Kagome mumbled lazily, her eyes still half closed.
Inuyasha growled. "I don't give a damn. I need to get into the bathroom."
Then Sesshoumaru walked down the hall behind them. "Ladies first, dear brother," Sesshoumaru said sternly, sneering on the word 'dear.'
Inuyasha gave Sesshoumaru a little shove. "Bastard…Too damn cheerful in the morning…Fuck off…"
"Watch your language. There's a female here in case you didn't notice," Sesshoumaru rebuked lightly, giving Inuyasha a little shove back.
"Nothing she hasn't heard before…" Inuyasha muttered, shoving Sesshoumaru again. Then he turned towards the bathroom once more to find that Kagome had snuck into the bathroom while they were arguing. Inuyasha cursed fluently, kicking at the door weakly with his foot, which was still heavy with sleep. When he heard the sound of a shower being turned on, he turned around and leaned his back against the door, sliding down to sit on the floor with his back against the door. He sat there, grumbling until he fell asleep, leaning against the door there in the hall.
Half an hour later, the door opened behind him and he fell backwards into the bathroom.
Inuyasha looked up at Kagome, dressed and clean with her wet hair falling over her shoulder, who was grinning down at him. Drops of water fell from her hair to land on his face.
"Good morning!" she said cheerfully. She heard him mumble something like 'nothing fucking good about it' as she stepped over him and went back into her room.
Another half hour later, the family, and Kagome sat at the table eating breakfast. It was unusually and uncomfortably quiet at the table. Moriko tried to start conversations several times but no one seemed to be in a mood to talk. Sesshoumaru seemed to be thinking about something and Inuyasha still looked half asleep.
When the family was done eating breakfast, Sesshoumaru stood and cleared his throat loudly and pointedly. Once he was sure he had everyone's attention, he turned Kagome's chair around so that she was facing him and kneeled down in front of her. Kagome's eyes widened and her heart sped up in panic and nervousness.
Sesshoumaru smiled and reached into his pocket pulling out a small box and causing Kagome's nerves to go haywire. She could feel her brain starting to panic and shut down while she tried to keep it functioning so that she could at least think the situation through. Her brain had other ideas though and it shut down entirely, leaving her utterly defenseless and senseless.
Sesshoumaru opened the box to confirm Kagome's fears. There was a ring inside.
'Think, think, think!!!' Kagome commanded herself but her brain refused to start up again and her nerves were still on hyper drive and in a total frenzy.
"Kagome Higurashi, will you marry me?" Sesshoumaru asked, giving her that charming smile.
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A/N-I know I know but I couldn't help myself! I had to do it! The toaster made me! The toaster made me! Besides, I know how much you all love cliffhangers ^.~ I couldn't help myself though. Now…like I said: no time for review responses. Gomen nasai but I don't. Must work on projects…grade depends on them…must get back to them now…
