A/N: Gomen nasai! Gomen nasai! *Bows and continues to apologize profusely* I went to the huge comic book store and the Asian marketplace and then I stayed at my friend's house and then I went camping for three days and when I got back home and turned on my desktop computer, my hard drive just went KABOOM! Well, not really kaboom but you get my drift, yeah? My caught a virus. I mean it just totally crashed and my dad couldn't fix it right away. I'm just EXTREMELY glad that I keep all my fanfictions on my laptop and not my desktop otherwise they would have all gone down with the hard drive. But I still have my stories; the only problem was finding a computer to upload them from. My laptop doesn't have internet access so yeah. But now I'm back on the computer and the only reason this wasn't up last week was because I had school and the teachers absolutely loaded me with homework.
Anyway, last chapter, I gave those bonus questions for you all to answer and one reviewer answered that one of the lines came from How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days, which is absolutely correct, but no one picked out the other line. In the Cartoon Network dubbing of Yu Yu Hakusho, some girls start talking to Kuwabara and Kurama comes over and they ask if Kurama is his girlfriend and Kuwabara laughs and tells them that Kurama is a guy. So they say "Oh, you should have told us," and then walk away. So yeah, that one was a bit harder to pick out and answer though.
Disclaimer: Don't own the characters…still…
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Old Feelings Die Hard
Chapter X
"Damn!" Sango cursed, peeking through the curtains of a window at the front of the house, overlooking the driveway.
"What? They're back?" Miroku asked, eagerly hopping off of his place on the couch in front of the T.V. to look over her shoulder out the window.
"Yeah, they're back but neither of them look too happy," Sango said.
"No kidding," Miroku whistled. "Inuyasha looks ready to kill."
They heard the front door open and then slam shut before two pairs of stomping feet could be heard marching up the stairs. Neither Kagome nor Inuyasha said a word and Miroku and Sango soon heard two doors slam shut.
"This doesn't sound good," Sango said, wincing slightly.
"How 'bout you talk to Inuyasha and I talk to Kagome for a change?" Miroku asked. "I don't think this situation really calls for a man-to-man chat. Guys don't like to talk to each other about this kind of stuff."
Sango nodded but then jabbed a finger into his chest as she glared threateningly at him. "Don't you dare try anything on her or I'll track you down and beat you senseless, you got it?"
Miroku grinned. "Now Sango, I hardly find the desire to hit on other women now that I've met you!" he declared, taking her hand with the finger jabbing into his chest and kissing it before he strode off down the hall, knocking on the door to Kagome's room.
Sango stood frozen for a moment, her hand still in the air before she shook her head quickly and moved down the hall to knock on Inuyasha's door.
"You decent?" she shouted when he didn't say anything. She heard a noncommittal noise, muffled by the door and she supposed that meant, "Yes, please come in."
Pushing open the door, she stepped inside to see Inuyasha sitting in a black swivel chair in front of his computer desk, the computer on in front of him. He seemed to be working on some sort of 3D character design and he quickly minimized the window and turned in his chair to face her.
"Where's Miroku?" he asked, frowning.
Sango grinned as she sat on the edge of his bed, across the room from him. "You know him, he said he wasn't comfortable with these sorts of conversations."
He laced his fingers behind his head as he leaned back in his chair. "So that means he's where?"
Sango nodded towards the wall separating Inuyasha and Kagome's rooms. "Next door."
Inuyasha immediately leapt to his feet. "What? You let that pervert in her room? What the hell is the matter with you?" Then he made to hurry out the door and beat down Kagome's door but Sango shook her head.
"I wouldn't worry about it too much. I think she'll be fine. Besides, Kagome's acquired a nice left hook since you saw her two years ago," Sango said, grinning.
"Hmph," Inuyasha muttered, sitting back in his swivel chair after moving it closer to the separating wall to listen for any noises he didn't like. Miroku was his best friend but that didn't mean he trusted him with Kagome.
Sango hid a small smile by turning her head slightly.
"So…?" Inuyasha prompted, apparently impatient to get this conversation over with.
"You okay?"
Inuyasha snorted, turning away from her to stare at the wall.
Sango continued unperturbed. "Well, if you ask me-which you didn't, I know-I think you're probably trying too hard. I mean, I'm not really supposed to tell you as much but I really think Kagome's heart still belongs to you. It may not seem like it right now but I know her pretty well, as do you, but I'm a bit less biased than you at the moment and I really believe that it's true. I think you just need to give her some space, you know? Thinking time."
Inuyasha was silent for long moments in which he continued to stare at the wall with his back to Sango before he finally said, "She's leaving."
"Well that's just-she what?!" Sango asked incredulously, completely unprepared for what he had said. Then she calmed down and said, more to herself than Inuyasha, "No, no, it's all right, I'm sure. Miroku's talking to her."
Inuyasha snorted again but said nothing.
After Kagome called to come in, Miroku stepped inside her room to find her lying on her bed, her head buried in her pillow. Sighing inwardly and deciding that this conversation would take a long while, he sat down in the swivel chair at her desk.
Kagome mumbled something into the pillow but her voice was so muffled that Miroku had to ask her to repeat it in English.
Lifting her head slightly, she said, "I'm really not in the mood for talking at the moment."
"Ahh but I really think you need to talk about this, don't you agree? And I'm very much in the mood for listening."
Kagome mumbled something again and Miroku stood up, walked across the room to stand by the bed, pulling the pillow out from under her face and threw it out the open door.
"Hey!" Kagome protested, getting up into a sitting position.
Miroku shut the door before sitting in the chair again. "You were saying?"
Kagome scowled at him, crossing her arms.
Standing up, Miroku began to pace the length of the floor beside the bed. "They way I see it, you have two choices here: a guy who's too perfect he's just plain wrong and…well and Inuyasha."
"I need to pack. Mind leaving?"
"Actually I do. We're not finished here and-what?" Miroku asked, stopping in his tracks.
"I asked if you minded leaving," Kagome repeated, looking under the bed for something.
"No, before that: you need to pack?"
"If I'm leaving, yes, I need to pack," Kagome explained as she pulled a sock out from under the bed and frowned at it.
"You're leaving. Wha-why?"
"Because I want to," she answered shortly, moving to the closet.
"If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were running away."
Kagome paused for a moment, her coat in her hand. "I'm not," she said firmly as she pulled out her duffle bag.
"You lie."
"I do not!"
Miroku glanced over at her, giving her a look clearly saying, "Do I look stupid to you?"
"I'm not running and I'm not lying!" Kagome shouted, throwing her bag on the bed, glaring furiously at anything and everything. "Not running!" she said once more, just in case Miroku hadn't heard her the first time.
"Uh oh," Sango said, pressing her ear against the wall. "That moron. He's going about it all wrong."
Inuyasha soon heard shouting and he jumped up to press his ear to the wall as well.
"Not running!" he heard her firmly shout.
"I think you are," Miroku said in a singsong voice.
"Idiot!" Sango muttered.
The next thing that could be heard was Kagome sniffing and choking as she ranted and raved angrily at Miroku. Sango and Inuyasha heard something hit the wall. After that it was silent and Inuyasha pressed his head even closer to the wall in order to try to hear what was going on.
He heard the door to her room open and then he distinctly heard his mother's voice.
"Shit!" Inuyasha cursed. He hadn't even heard Moriko come home.
"Kagome! What's wrong dear?" Moriko asked, concerned, as she strode into the room.
"Oh, she just-" Miroku began to explain, a sly grin on his face but Kagome quickly cut him off.
"It's nothing! Miroku was just telling…me a sad story…about his dog…that died," Kagome explained hurriedly as she wiped her eyes.
"And I think Kagome would probably like to tell you that she's leaving because-" Miroku began again, but Kagome broke into his sentence when she saw Moriko's crestfallen expression.
"I was just kidding. I'm not going anywhere. I love being here too much," Kagome said laughing nervously.
Moriko visibly brightened upon hearing this news and then cheerfully announced, "I'll start dinner!" before leaving the room.
Kagome waited until she heard Moriko's steps on the stairs before exhaling loudly and relaxing. Shoulders slumped, she plopped herself on the bed.
"So I suppose that means you're staying, yes?" Miroku asked cheerfully.
The same time the next night found Kagome sitting across a table from Sesshoumaru in a restaurant. Frowning, she looked over the menu. She couldn't read it; it was in a language she didn't know. French, she guessed, though it might have been Italian.
Finally giving up on the trying to decipher the menu, she furtively glanced at the man sitting across from her over the top of the menu. He was certainly very handsome, but his gaze was cold, business-like, brusque as his eyes scanned the menu. Feeling her eyes upon him, he looked up at her and his lips curled into a smile, though, she noticed, his eyes did not. Then he was back to scanning the menu.
'Oh kami…' she thought to herself, a horrible sinking feeling in her stomach. Not even a week before, his smile would have made her stomach flutter pleasantly, or at least she would feel something. Now though…now she felt nothing. 'Oh kami…' she thought again, suddenly feeling horrible.
She felt like she was being a bad person; a great guy, her fiancé, to be exact, was sitting across the table from her in a lovely restaurant. To any observers, it would seem she had everything but, truth was, she felt as if she were missing everything, or perhaps only one important thing…
'I'm…I'm such a horrible person! What's…There's got to be something wrong with me! I-I love Sesshoumaru! I do! And Inuyasha…well he's out of the picture now, or at least, he should be!' Kagome thought, panicking slightly.
Then she stared at Sesshoumaru, determined to prove to herself that she was doing the right thing by being with him. Reaching forward, she grabbed the top of his menu, lowering it down to the table. His eyebrow arched inquiringly.
"Sesshoumaru, what am I to you exactly? I mean, what if I said that I wanted you to kiss me right here. Or what if I said that I don't much fancy this place and that I wanted to go to the diner down the road? Would you make out with me in a park?" Kagome asked boldly in a brusque, business-like tone.
Sesshoumaru slowly glanced around him, making sure that no one sitting at tables nearby had heard her. Once he was satisfied that they hadn't overheard, he leaned forward, looking slightly confused. "Love, where's this going, exactly? Do you have a fever? It sounds as if you're a bit delirious."
Kagome's mouth opened and closed in confused shock. "I'm…I'm not delirious! I want you to answer my questions!"
When Sesshoumaru didn't answer and just continued to look at her skeptically, as if trying to decide if she was serious or not.
"I take that as you wouldn't snog me in the park, what about the privacy of your own living room?" she prodded, seeing as how he didn't seem about to say anything anytime soon.
Now heads in the restaurant were turning towards them since Kagome's voice had continually increased in volume. The waitress came over to their table, speaking something in French, or maybe it was Italian.
Sesshoumaru, ignoring her previous comments, turned towards Kagome and asked, "Is it all right to start out with a bouillabaisse?"
"I don't know what that is!" Kagome shouted sharply. She was truly panicking now; she needed to have Sesshoumaru reassure her that he was the right guy for her and he wasn't cooperating. She needed to be reassured that she would be happy with him. "You need to answer my questions, please, it's important!"
"Oui," Sesshoumaru told the waitress, who nodded and left, casting a glance over her shoulder at the pair.
"Well? What about the living room? Or even the kitchen?" Kagome prodded, desperate for reassurance now.
In answer to the questioning glances being sent their way, Sesshoumaru explained to the other diners, "Delirium."
"'Delirium?!' Is that how you'll explain me to everyone? That I have delirium? Do you feel that I need some sort of explanation?" Kagome asked.
"Are you sure there's nothing wrong?" Sesshoumaru asked, having the thoughtfulness to look concerned.
"What, so now there's something wrong with me, huh?"
"What's happened to you, Kagome?"
Kagome gazed at him for long moments before finally slumping in her chair, sighing. "Nothing, it's nothing." She couldn't believe that she had gone off on Sesshoumaru like that. He had done absolutely nothing wrong; she was one who felt that she had done wrong. If she were going to yell at anyone, it should have been herself. "I'm sorry, Sesshoumaru. I don't know what came over me. I must have some sort of fever, I suppose."
Sesshoumaru nodded and they went through dinner more or less in silence except for the occasional 'please pass the salt.'
In the car, Kagome felt as if she should say something more, anything to break the horrible silence, but she could find nothing to say. She had apologized and, quite frankly, she had nothing more to say.
Climbing out of the car when they pulled into the driveway, she shut the door behind her and walked up the driveway, exhaustedly stumbling through the front door. She had done nothing that had taken serious physical effort but the emotional effort of the day was enough to make anyone tired. After Inuyasha giving her the cold shoulder all day and dinner with Sesshoumaru, she was worn out.
Once inside the door, Kagome frowned as she realized something; she turned around and walked back out onto the driveway and noticed that it was strangely lacking a couple vehicles. Shrugging, she figured that Inuyasha and Miroku had gone out to the movies or a bar or something. Well, she hoped they weren't at a bar; the thought of some prostitute giving Inuyasha a lap dance made her twinge with jealously.
'Gods, Inuyasha was right…I am selfish, aren't I?' she asked herself glumly as she marched up the stairs, entering her room and throwing her purse onto the bed before collapsing onto the bed.
Soon she heard someone knock on the door and the door opened to reveal a fidgety-looking Sango.
"What's up?" Kagome mumbled, staring up at the ceiling.
"Well…I just thought you might like-or not like-hearing that…well Inuyasha left."
"So what. He'll be back to give me some more of the cold shoulder in a few hours. Maybe not even until the morning," Kagome said, snorting derisively.
"No, I mean he and Miroku went back to their dorms," Sango explained hesitantly.
Kagome blinked up at the ceiling. "What?"
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A/N: Oh gods, you guys will not believe this. I think there'll only be one more chapter to this fanfiction. Wow, there might be two but as I'm seeing it right now, there's only one more. That's just unbelievable for me. This fic was so great *sob* I absolutely loved writing this fic but it's almost over! *sob* And I know this chapter was crap (I'm still suffering from writersblockitis) but the next one will be SO much better because that's when Kagome and Inuyasha finally get together. ^.^ I'm excited for that. Anyway, after I get this last chapter out, I think I'm going to start editing and fixing up this story chapter by chapter to make it better, so if you wanna read an edited version, keep checking this story out. Oh, but I'm already babbling as if it's over, but it's not over just yet, haha. So leave a review and I'm looking at having this last chapter up next weekend so look out for it.
Review Responses:
AND THE WINNER OF LAST CHAPTER'S GUESS THAT LINE CONTEST IS:
Unknown! Yeah, the person reviewed anonymously so the only name I have is 'unknown.' ^.^;; Well anyway, this person guessed that that one line was from How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days. No one picked out that one from Yuu Yuu Hakusho but that one was really hard to pick out so I don't blame y'all ^.^ Anyway, congratulations unknown! You win Pam Points! They're not worth anything; they just boost your self-esteem ^.^
Insane Punk Pixie: I know! *Drools* *Glomps Inuyasha* NO! Not the wet noodle! *Runs around in squares* *Runs into the wall* Ittai…
TheFrozenCow: Haha, poor Abby. "Before you criticize someone, try walking a mile in their shoes. Because then, you'll be a mile away and you'll have their shoes…"
melody27: No worries, next chapter, they talk about it ten-fold. Not to mention she and Sesshoumaru talk about it and everything's resolved and everyone lives snoggingly ever after! Oops…I meant happily. I dunno how snogging got in there. ^.~
Kgirl33: It's your favorite? Wow, I feel so honored. O.O I feel so bad. I left you all with that itty bitty ledge and then I didn't update for forever. . But no worries, I will update sooner this time. The last chapter will probably be up next weekend I'm thinking.
crimson red: I did write more chapters ^.^ I just have one or two more to go, though I'm leaning more towards one more chapter ^.^
Farren: Kouga won't be in this story. Kouga does play a huge part in the sequel to When Did Things Get Complicated though, so keep reading that one because Kouga will be in it ^.^
Kitsune Akira: O.O! I get brownies?! YES! *Does happy "I get brownies" dance*
Hanamaru285: Thanks ^.^
Celtic*Lady*Knight: You are a loyal reader and I didn't make her leave ^.^ Pam is good girl! 'Course…I did make Inuyasha leave. Haha, from now on, when you give me orders, you'll have to word them more carefully or I'll worm my way around them. ^.^ Pam is evil like that. *Insert evil laughter and thunder claps here*
Fat Cat Buyo: *Takes the Pocky and runs* Wahaha!
Lisi Naiku: The fluff is all in the next chapter! So keep an eye out for it ^.^
sleep walking chicken and HAP: Haha, that's okay. I suffer my temporary bouts of laziness as well. Well…my temporary bouts of laziness is 24/7 so maybe they aren't exactly temporary…
Kittymui: Yup, women are hard to predict. But it's fun to be unpredictable. Mwuahaha! "IF YOU LIKE PINA COLADAS!" I'll bet you weren't predicting that ^.^ CHOCOLATE CAKE! WOW! You know what I love! *Eyes narrow suspiciously* Have you been watching me?
