A/N: You all probably aren't used to me updating so quickly (it usually takes me awhile to update). ^.^ I read Snooptopian's review and I was like "Whoa, this calls for speedy update," so I started writing this chapter right after I read it to try to get it up within a week ^.^ and did a speedy update. Here is your fun stuff Snooptopian. ^.^ And I get a bag of cookies now!
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Old Feelings Die HardChapter IX
When Kagome's door slammed shut, Sango and Miroku walked out of the room and down the stairs as if they weren't sure about what had just happened, though they had witnessed the entire thing. They found Inuyasha in the kitchen with his elbows on the table and his face buried in his hands.
"Do you guys think I'm wrong here?" Inuyasha mumbled suddenly.
"Uhm…well it really depends actually." Before Inuyasha could ask about what it depended on, Miroku continued. "It depends on how she feels. I mean, if she's really moved on then you're probably wrong but if she still has feelings for you, maybe you're doing her a favor." Miroku then turned to Sango expectantly.
"Hey, no way! What Kagome-chan tells me is none of your businesses. If she wants me to tell you, or if she wants to tell you herself, then you'll know but until then, it's private," Sango stated firmly, crossing her arms as if daring Miroku to press further. "But I will tell you that she doesn't want to marry Sesshoumaru and I personally don't like him at all."
"I still think he's a girl," Miroku said seriously.
Inuyasha snorted. "Probably make things a lot easier if he was female."
"I don't think she'll go through with it. I actually expected her to call it off much sooner. I was watching her when her parents came over for dinner and I thought she was going to die," Sango said.
Then Inuyasha narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "Wait, how'd you guys know what I was talking about?"
Sango and Miroku glanced at each other and then Sango pointed to Miroku. "It was all his idea!"
Kagome spent the rest of the afternoon up in her room, sketching, reading, and writing while Sango and Miroku went out for lunch and a movie and Inuyasha hung around the house, watching T.V., drawing, thinking, or pacing the length of the kitchen.
Around seven, the phone rang and Kagome picked it up off the nightstand from her position on the bed. "Hello?"
"Kagome?"
"Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked, sitting up.
"It seems to be busier here at the office than I though so I won't be home until late. Would you mind getting Inuyasha on the phone?"
Kagome blinked in confusion. "You want to talk to Inuyasha?"
"Yes."
"Err…all right…" Kagome said, still perplexed. She stood and crossed the room to reach the door and pull it open. Then she poked her head out into the hall and called, "Inuyasha! Sesshoumaru wants to talk to you!"
"What?" Inuyasha asked, sounded just as confused as she did. "I've got the phone down here."
Hanging up the phone, she sat back down on the bed to finish her drawing. She heard some shouting on Inuyasha's part and then a bit of silence as he listened to Sesshoumaru's reply. Then Inuyasha began shouting again.
"No way in hell! You are such a bastard, you know that? Damn, you're supposed to be on vacation over spring vacation." After a moment of listening to Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha snorted. "I'm not telling her….no fucking way. You tell her."
Moments later, Inuyasha opened the door and handed her the phone. He stood there, leaning against the doorframe as Kagome finished talking to Sesshoumaru.
"I'll be late tonight so I won't be able to take you to dinner. Inuyasha said he would be glad to take you though."
Kagome paled. "Uhm…that really isn't necessary. I mean, we could just go sometime when you're not busy. You know, I-"
"Nonsense, I said you'd go out to dinner but unfortunately I can't make it. You'll still go out to dinner. You shouldn't have to hang around the house all day. While Inuyasha wasn't my first choice to accompany you, my business associates weren't available. Try to have fun, okay? I'll make it up to you, I promise." And then Sesshoumaru hung up.
Kagome held the phone out in front of her to make sure that all this was really happening and that the phone was real. Unfortunately for her, the phone was very real and all of that had happened.
She glared at the phone and then shouted into it, though Sesshoumaru had already hung up. "Business associates?! Don't you have normal friends?!"
With that said, she handed the phone back to Inuyasha, looking down at her feet and scowling. Great, Kagome thought, just great. Going to dinner with Inuyasha…great…
"Uhm, you know, you don't really have to-" Kagome began, but Inuyasha threw her coat at her head.
"Personally, I don't like it any more than you do but I wouldn't want your fiancé to get pissed at me. Besides, he asked nicely," Inuyasha grumbled, leaving the room and heading down the hall.
Kagome frowned and then hurried to catch up with him. "You're doing this because he asked nicely?! Well please don't take me to dinner," Kagome said, emphasizing the word 'please.' When she saw that he kept walking towards the door, she said, "But I said it nicely!"
Inuyasha smirked. "That's not how it works. Someone else asking nicely can't cancel out the first person asking nicely. See? Besides, I've got nothing better to do and I'm bored." He glanced sidelong at her then. "After this I promise to stay out of your life for another two years."
"About that," Kagome said once they were in the car and Inuyasha was driving somewhere. "I really…well I really didn't mean that. I really don't want you to stay out of my life. I mean, I still want to be friends, you know? I'm sorry that I said that because I really didn't mean it. I was just frustrated or confused or something and I just wasn't thinking…at all." Kagome finally glanced over at him to see if he accepted the apology or not.
Inuyasha just shrugged, keeping his attention on the road in front of him.
"Inuyasha, were you even listening?" Kagome asked, sighing in frustration.
He glanced over at her now, grinning. "Not really."
Crossing her arms, Kagome huffed angrily and turned to look out the window.
"Well I just apologized and it's your fault you weren't listening so I'm not doing it again," Kagome said.
The yellow light in front of them turned red and Inuyasha sped up to get through it, swerving around a car that was coming into the intersection when his light turned green. Kagome gripped the seat and turned to see the intersection clogged with traffic now.
"Inuyasha! That was a red light!" Kagome said, frantically searching for the seatbelt that she hadn't buckled as soon as they got in the car.
Inuyasha glanced over at her, grinning as she nervously buckled her seatbelt and then shrugged. "It was yellow."
"It was red! You're speeding, slow down."
Inuyasha looked around for a speed limit sign and grinned. "I don't see any speed limit sign. I guess that means I get to drive as fast as I want."
"It's 25 miles per hour when there's no speed limit sign!" Kagome protested. "Does this thing have airbags?"
Inuyasha glanced over at her, frowning. "This 'thing' is a 2003 black Mustang and yes, it does have airbags," he said and then added, "theoretically."
Kagome paled. "What?"
Inuyasha shook his head. "I was kidding." Then he looked over at her, cocking his head thoughtfully. "Since when were you afraid of my driving?"
"Since I learned about driving safely!" Kagome retorted, scanning the road for any collisions Inuyasha could possibly get in.
Seeing this, Inuyasha grinned and sped up, making Kagome squeak and grip the seat until her knuckles were white. "Damn Kagome, just relax. I haven't ever got into a car crash…yet."
"But not for lack of trying, I'm sure," Kagome muttered. "I'm driving on the way home."
Inuyasha snorted. "You think I'd let you drive this? I don't think so."
Kagome's eyes widened in disbelief. "You let yourself drive it! If I drive it, it's in far better hands!"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "And it'd be in even better hands if it were being driven by my brother but I'm not about to let him drive it either."
Kagome decided that a change of subject was in order since they were now back to talking about Sesshoumaru. "Where are we going anyway?"
Inuyasha didn't answer so Kagome returned to scanning the roads. When he parked the car and got out, Kagome saw that it was the diner that she had gone to after that first dinner with Sesshoumaru's parents.
"My favorite diner," Inuyasha answered when she glanced over at him questioningly.
She nodded and followed him inside and to a table. While waiting for their food to arrive, an uncomfortable silence hung over them and Kagome desperately groped for something to talk about. Finding nothing, she tapped her fingers on the table and glanced around her while humming the elevator music that was playing quietly in the diner.
Inuyasha snorted. "Uncomfortable much?"
Kagome jumped. "N-no. I mean, of course not."
"Kagome…you were humming the elevator music," Inuyasha said, the corners of his mouth twitching as he tried not to laugh. Then he sighed, shaking his head. "Do you want to talk about this?"
"T-talk about what?" Kagome asked, suddenly finding the table very interesting indeed. 'Good Kagome…just play dumb and maybe he'll let it drop,' Kagome thought, and then sighed inwardly. 'Not likely with my bloody luck.'
Inuyasha sighed and spread his hands. "Fine, I'll wait." Then he leaned back, laced his fingers behind his head, and just stared at her.
Kagome glanced up and he was still staring intently. When she looked up again, he was still watching her, waiting. Fidgeting nervously, she looked around her to avoid looking at him as she returned to humming the music. When she chanced a glance at Inuyasha, his shoulders were shaking with silent laughter.
"This isn't funny!" Kagome said, glaring.
"Who's laughing?" Inuyasha asked innocently.
"Y…you…" Kagome began, trying to find something sharp and witty and biting to say to him. Instead, she just muttered, "You're absolutely impossible."
"You're not the first one to say so," he said, still staring at her, unblinking.
"What, so we're going to have a staring contest then?" Kagome asked tartly, crossing her arms.
Inuyasha grinned. "If I win, we get to talk."
"And if I win, you will stay silent the entire meal"-then she grinned-"and you'll take me to that arcade across the street for a game of air hockey."
"Agreed."
"1…2…3…"
Thirty seconds into the staring contest, the waitress came to their table with their food.
"Sir, I wasn't sure what kind of sauce you wanted so-" she began as she placed their orders on the table.
Inuyasha waved a hand dismissively, not looking away from Kagome. "Whatever, sod off, I'm busy."
The waitress glared at him, her hands on her hips. Then she smirked. "I'll just add them all then, sir."
When Inuyasha didn't answer, she grinned and removed the top bun from the burger he had ordered. Then she squirted excessive amounts of ketchup, mustard, ranch dressing, honey mustard, horseradish, and barbeque sauce on the beef patty, adding plenty of salt and pepper for good measure.
At the angle they were sitting at, Inuyasha couldn't see what the waitress was doing unless he tore his eyes away from Kagome to forfeit the staring contest, but Kagome could just make out the waitress's actions out of the corner of her eye and she grinned.
Replacing the top bun, the waitress smiled cheerfully. "Enjoy your meal!" she called over her shoulder as she all but skipped away.
Still grinning broadly, Kagome groped around the tabletop and grabbed a French fry and ate it without looking away from Inuyasha. As she was hoping, his hunger got the better of him and he grabbed his burger without looking away and took a large bite. He immediately made a face and spit it out, coughing and choking.
"What the fuck?" Inuyasha choked, blinking in confusion.
"I win!" Kagome shouted triumphantly and she stood and did a little victory dance. Then she burst into laughter, seeing that Inuyasha was still choking and spluttering and was attempting to wash down the taste of all the sauces mixed together with his soda.
Inuyasha lifted the bun of his burger and shot to his feet, glaring as he looked around the diner. "Where the hell is she?"
Kagome, still laughing uncontrollably, pushed him back into his seat. "Come on, you were a jerk to her. Apologize and I'm sure she'll get you a new burger," she said between laughs.
Inuyasha scowled. "Better be a big one," he muttered.
Half an hour later, Kagome and Inuyasha were at the arcade, playing air hockey, Kagome's favorite arcade game. When Inuyasha had won one game and Kagome had won one game, Kagome left to get some more change so they could break the tie.
When she turned back towards the air hockey table, she saw Inuyasha talking with a pretty girl and her friends. She immediately felt a surge of some emotion. Was it anger? Jealousy? Whatever it was, it made Kagome march over to Inuyasha and tap him on the shoulder.
"Inuyasha," she said, smiling sweetly. "You're boyfriend's looking for you."
Inuyasha made a sort of choking noise and his mouth opened and closed, though no words came out. The girls' smiles all dropped like flies.
"Oh, you should have told us," one of them sniffed as the others followed her away.
"What the hell was that?!" Inuyasha finally managed to shout.
"What do you mean?" she asked innocently.
"You told them I was fucking gay!" he shouted, causing many heads to turn their way. Inuyasha glared furiously at them and they immediately returned to whatever they were doing.
"You're a pathological flirt!" Kagome shouted back.
"What, five seconds ago I'm gay and now I'm a pathological flirt?!" Inuyasha asked. Then he blinked, the anger suddenly dissipating. "You were jealous."
"I was not!" Kagome protested indignantly.
Then his anger was back tenfold. "Oh I get it, you can just move on but I can't? Is that it? You can get pissed off when I talk to other girls but you expect me to stand by and let you marry my fucking brother?! Kinda selfish, don't you think?"
"That's not-it's not like-it's-" Kagome stuttered, at a loss for words. 'Gods, why me?' Kagome asked herself over and over again. She was angry and sad and confused and lost all at once. "Damn, I-I can't do this-I-I can't deal with this anymore! I'm going back," Kagome finally shouted.
"Good idea," Inuyasha agreed hotly, storming towards the door.
Kagome hurried to catch up with him as he unlocked his car. "No, I don't mean going back to your house. I'm going back to my dorm. I'm packing my things as soon as we get back to the house."
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A/N: Wow…even I didn't know I was going to do that until I typed it O.o Hmm…well that's not a cliffhanger. It's just a twist/surprise/'Oh gods why did you write that' itty-bitty ledge. ^.^ So review, it makes me happy ^.^ Oh, and bonus points for whoever can spot the lines that come from another show/movie. One of the lines comes from a movie and another one of the lines comes from an anime show. Bonus points are worth nothing, they're just there to raise your self-esteem ^.^
Review Responses:
Kitsune-balloon: Here's the next chapter so you can start going in your tracks again ^.^
Lisi Naiku: Nope, not Jaken O.o Jaken will probably not be making an appearance in this fic. At least I haven't planned on him making an appearance.
Diva Erinnus: IY/Kag is the best Inuyasha pairing! ^.^ Well, that my biased opinion anyway *grin*
Jak1: *Grabs popcorn and sits to watch*
Sprout: Argument award? Wow, that would be the greatest award to have. Then writers would be like "Yeah, I won a Newberry Honor Award" or "I won a National Book Award" and I would say "Oh yeah, well I won the best argument award so there!" ^.^ The make out-I mean make up scene doesn't come till…next chapter…I think…Unless I add another little twist *Insert evil cackle*
DevilishGrl17: Me neither. They need to get together. Still haven't decided about how to break the news to Sesshoumaru…*Evil laugh*
Inu lover: Thanks, I'm glad you like it! I hope this was A.S.A.P. enough ^.^
Crimson red: I hope my fic keeps you interested till the end ^.^ Thanks for reviewing!
Celtic*Lady*Knight: Yup, definitely lots of drama. And Sesshoumaru is indeed and emotionless void. He's a pretty emotionless void but Inuyasha has a more masculine prettiness ^.^
Snooptopian: Here's fun stuff! I get cookies now! *holds out hands for cookies*
Fat Cat Buyo: Oh, didn't realize Sesshoumaru fans were reading as well ^.^
Sleep walking chicken and HAP: Yup, plotless story would be kinda boring. Unless it's a humor plotless story. Then it's funny ^.^
Hanamaru285: Thanks for reviewing ^.^
Kittymui: Uhm…perhaps. I don't have any planned but if people wanna see Miroku/Sango development, I guess I could work it in.
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