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CH: 2 Sleepover
"I'm telling you Kagome, just say no. If you're not ready just tell him." Sango said as she and Kagome stood at their lockers before class.
"I know, I really want to. It's just that every time it's on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't say it. I've just been kind of avoiding being alone with him." Kagome said.
"You can't avoid him forever." Sango pointed out.
"Yeah I know." Kagome then decided to change the topic. "So can you stay over tonight?" She had already told Sango that her mother was still in the hospital and that her little brother was sleeping over a friend's house since it was a Friday. Their school seemed to like starting the school year at the end of the week to give people a bit of schooling and then a break, just to get them back into the swing of things.
"You know I'd love to, but my dad just got back from his business trip and that means a family dinner that I can't miss. Gomen, Kagome-chan."
"It's okay." Kagome said, but her mood seemed to drop. "I'd ask Inuyasha, but I'm afraid he'd try to jump me or something if we were alone."
Sango frowned at the thought of Kagome being alone for the day. She knew her friend didn't like being home by herself. "Why not ask Sesshoumaru?" Sango asked considering Kagome had also told her about having dinner with him last night.
"I can't do that." Kagome blurted out, shocked that Sango would suggest it.
"Why not? You said he was a childhood friend and that you guys still get along. I'm sure he'd keep you company." Sango pointed out. 'And if he somehow convinces you to drop the obsessive baka of a boyfriend you have now then all the better.' Sango added to herself. "Just ask him. What could it hurt?"
Kagome sighed and thought about it. 'I guess it could be like one of the sleepovers we all used to have when we were younger.' "I guess I could." Kagome finally said. She jumped a little when an arm went around her waist. She turned to see Inuyasha who kissed her before she could even think.
Sango looked at the scene in dismay. She knew that Kagome could do so much better. "Aa, my dear Sango, why can't we be like that?" Sango felt a hand reach down and grab her rear. She quickly turned and slapped the offending person.
"I can't believe you Miroku!" Sango said and slammed her locker. She grabbed Kagome's hand and pulled her away from Inuyasha and stomped off without so much as a goodbye to either boy. Kagome turned and gave a small apologetic smile to Inuyasha seeing as though Miroku was unconscious on the ground so he couldn't see it.
"I still think he likes you." Kagome told Sango as they walked into their first period. Sango glared at Kagome, but Kagome could see the small blush rising in her cheeks.
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"Kuso, Miroku. I was just about to ask Kagome to spend the night at my place." Inuyasha said when Miroku finally pulled himself off the ground.
"My my Inuyasha I do think you're in a bit of a rush." Miroku said with a smile on his face.
"Oh please, you haven't even dated Sango and you're already touching her. I've dated Kagome for a few months now and she hasn't let me do anything, but kiss her." Inuyasha said sounding thoroughly disappointed.
"Perhaps she's just not ready Inuyasha. Have you ever taken into consideration how she feels about this?" Miroku asked seriously.
"It's not a big deal. She wants our relationship to be so special, but she won't let me move it to the next obvious level. I mean she would if she loved me right?" Inuyasha leaned against the lockers next to him and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Sure, whatever you say Inuyasha." Miroku said sounding unconvinced. Miroku silently hoped Kagome would be able to knock some sense into Inuyasha. He knew he was a lecher, but he would never force himself on a girl as he was afraid Inuyasha would.
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Sesshoumaru walked down the hall having another boring day. He had already been asked out too many times to count and mostly by the same girls he had rejected the day before. He almost had to hit himself when he had thought about accepting a girl's invitation just because she bared a slight resemblance to Kagome. 'I need help.' He thought to himself as he once again found his mind filled with thoughts of Kagome.
Now he got to go to the one class where he would actually get to see her. They had a music class together. Sesshoumaru's mother had insisted he learn to play some sort of instrument and after having numerous private lessons he became quite proficient at the violin. He was probably too good for the high school class, but he knew Kagome was in it since she liked learning to play the flute.
He walked into the room and quickly scanned it seeing that she wasn't there yet. He took a seat and began to set up his music sheets.
"Hey Sesshoumaru, I was wondering if you'd like to see a movie this weekend?" Sesshoumaru looked up to see a girl with short wavy black hair who was in his grade. He shook his head and went back to what he had been doing. The girl looked shocked at his rejection and quickly spun around and walked away.
"Man, Sesshoumaru that was the most popular girl in our grade that you just turned down." Sesshoumaru heard another boy in his grade, Hiten say.
"Yeah, you're too picky. You'll never find the girl of your dreams with such high standards." Hiten's little brother Manten said, though with Manten's looks it was no wonder he had such low standards.
Sesshoumaru barely registered their words. 'I did find the girl of my dreams, she just happens to be taken.' Sesshoumaru thought just as said girl walked into the room.
"Hey Sesshoumaru." Kagome greeted him and took the empty seat next to him which he had hoped she would.
"Hello Kagome." Sesshoumaru responded and actually shocked a bunch of girls into pure jealousy seeing as though he hadn't told her to go away.
"I have something I wanted to ask you, so can we talk at lunch?" Kagome whispered to him as the teacher finally entered the room.
Sesshoumaru nodded and a million possibilities of what she could want to ask him ran through his mind. 'What could she possibly want? Probably another ride home.' He told himself trying to keep from hoping too much. He kept reminding himself that she was still with Inuyasha.
The rest of class was rather uneventful as they had to pay attention to playing, but since Sesshoumaru had already memorized the piece he was able to keep taking glances at Kagome throughout the class. Kagome was practicing her best because they had a recital already in two weeks.
'Finally lunch.' Kagome thought as she put her flute back in the case. She stood up and was slightly startled to see Sesshoumaru standing in front of her.
"You said you wanted to talk." Sesshoumaru said reading her confused expression.
"Oh yeah. Well...ummm...do you remember how I don't like being at home by myself?" Kagome asked as they walked out of class. Sesshoumaru nodded and Kagome continued. "Well, my mother is in the hospital and Souta is staying over his friend's house. Sango can't stay over since she has a family thing and well, I don't really want to be alone with Inuyasha..."
"Why not?" Sesshoumaru cut her off. He hadn't actually meant to ask, but had just accidentally blurted out the question. He just couldn't figure why she wouldn't want to be alone with her boyfriend, although the idea was greatly distasteful to him.
"Do you promise not to tell?" Kagome asked. 'I can't believe I'm gonna tell him what's been going on.' Sesshoumaru just nodded. "Lately, he's been just trying to be, I don't know, too affectionate, if you know what I mean. And I just don't think I'm ready for something like that." Kagome admitted.
Sesshoumaru didn't know what he was feeling at that point. He was thoroughly angry at Inuyasha for being that way with Kagome, but also wondered if he would be the same way if he was with her. He was also slightly relieved that Kagome didn't want to do those things with his brother. The knowledge of which putting to rest many of the painful thoughts he had imagined about their relationship.
"So what was it you wanted to ask?" Sesshoumaru tried to get them back on topic.
"Well, Sango suggested that I should ask you to keep me company." Kagome finally said shocking Sesshoumaru. He didn't say anything and Kagome got a bit apprehensive. "You don't have to. I mean I know you probably have much better things to do."
"Sure."
"Nani?" Kagome asked making sure she had heard right.
"I said sure. I'll spend the night." Sesshoumaru said not believing he had actually accepted her invitation either. He wondered what had gotten into him until he saw Kagome's wonderful smile and remembered exactly why he was doing this.
"Great, it can be just like a sleepover." Kagome said happily. Sesshoumaru had to work hard to suppress the smile that wanted to show because of her enthusiasm. People in the halls watching them walk by were shocked enough that someone was actually having a conversation with Sesshoumaru. Seeing him smile might give someone a heart attack.
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Inuyasha waited till he finally saw Kagome enter the cafeteria and then was fully pissed off when he saw that she was talking to Sesshoumaru. He watched as they parted ways though he still didn't like the fact that they seemed so close.
"What was that all about?!" Inuyasha demanded to know as soon as Kagome sat down.
"What are you talking about?" She asked very confused. She had just sat down and already he was angry about something. She silently hoped that it wasn't about her ditching him yesterday.
"I'm talking about you being all friendly with Sesshoumaru a few seconds ago."
"We're friends Inuyasha. We've all been friends since we were kids, you know that." Kagome pointed out and started eating her sandwich.
Inuyasha was about to go off at her, but just then Sango and Miroku came in and sat next to them. "What's wrong?" Miroku asked seeing Inuyasha was clearly upset.
"Nothing." Inuyasha said defensively.
"Inuyasha's upset because I was talking to Sesshoumaru." Kagome said.
"And he actually talked back?" Miroku asked a little surprised that Sesshoumaru would be talking to anyone.
"I don't see what's so wrong with that." Sango said.
"What's wrong with that?" Inuyasha repeated. "He's a complete and total insensitive jerk and you shouldn't be talking to him." He said to Kagome.
"Well, excuse me for having friends." Kagome said. "I'm not hungry anymore. I'll see you guys later." She got up and walked away after grabbing her bag.
"Kagome..." Inuyasha went after her.
"Those two have problems." Miroku stated.
"You're telling me. I think Kagome deserves someone better." Sango said.
"I don't know. I think Inuyasha is a decent guy after you get rid of the whole possessiveness and self delusion." Miroku said.
"You know that you just pretty much described about 80% of his personality right?" Sango pointed out.
"Yes, but I figure that other 20% has to be worth something." Miroku answered with a smile.
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"Kagome wait up." Inuyasha yelled at her and Kagome stopped and turned around.
"What, Inuyasha? Have some more people you want to tell me not to be friends with?"
"Look, I'm sorry okay. I just don't like you with other guys. You and Sesshoumaru are just friends right?" Inuyasha asked.
"Of course. You know I would never cheat on you." Kagome said sounding slightly hurt that he could even think of such a thing.
"Yeah I know." Inuyasha said feeling kind of guilty for accusing her. "Look how about I take you out to dinner tonight and then we can go someplace."
Kagome knew what Inuyasha was thinking when he said someplace. "I can't tonight. I have to watch Souta." Kagome lied. She felt really guilty for doing it, but she had to.
"He's old enough to watch himself, Kagome. Just come out with me tonight." Inuyasha said a bit angry at being rejected yet again. He took a step forward and held her arm.
"I can't Inuyasha." Kagome said looking desperate for some sort of distraction.
"Look Kagome I -" Inuyasha was cut off as the fire alarm started going off. People began to rush out of classes and Kagome followed them silently thanking whoever had pulled that alarm.
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Sesshoumaru had seen Kagome leave looking upset and Inuyasha chase after her, so he decided to follow. He heard Kagome's sarcastic question to Inuyasha as she finally turned around to face him and knew that the argument must have been over her talking to him earlier. He felt guilty for putting her into such a position. But the guilt was nothing compared to the pain he felt when he heard Kagome say they were just friends. He knew they were and that she thought of him as a really good friend, but hearing it from her still hurt.
He continued to listen as Kagome lied to Inuyasha in order to get out of going out with him. Sesshoumaru was angered when he heard Inuyasha trying to make her change her mind. She thought of him as a friend and right then she was in trouble with Inuyasha trying to advance on her, he did the only thing he could think of at the moment to protect her and not get her into further trouble. He pulled the fire alarm.
Everyone filed into the courtyard and waited for the annoying alarm to get turned off. Sesshoumaru sat on one of the benches and thought about what had just happened. 'I knew she only thought I was a friend.' He thought sadly. 'Could I really change all that? I mean Inuyasha treats her so horribly and I wish she could just see it. Would I have a chance if they broke up?'
Sesshoumaru would never do anything to make them break up. He knew he couldn't do that to Kagome. He resigned himself to his fate of having to watch her from afar, but promised that he would always be there if she needed him.
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The subject of his musings was now making her way through the crowd to the back and hopefully away from Inuyasha. She knew that he had no problem with making a scene in front of other people, but she was not about to embarrass herself in front of the entire school.
She saw Sesshoumaru sitting on one of the benches and wondered why no one was sitting next to him. He always seemed so lonely and it hurt knowing that one of her friends felt like that. She went and sat next to him. "Hey Sesshoumaru."
He looked at her and gave a sort of half hearted smile which pulled at her heart strings. "What's wrong?" Kagome swore that she would fix anything that she could.
"It's nothing." Sesshoumaru said happy that she worried for him.
"Okay...but you know you can tell me anything right?" Sesshoumaru nodded, though he knew he couldn't tell her what was really bothering him. "I wonder who pulled the alarm. That doesn't happen very often here." Kagome said and saw the almost imperceptible tensing of Sesshoumaru's shoulders. "Do you know who did it?"
Sesshoumaru didn't know what to say. He didn't think he could ever lie to Kagome. "I did." He admitted and looked away from her.
"You? Why would you do something like that?" Kagome was shocked that Sesshoumaru had done something against the school rules. He had never done anything that was out of his role as perfect student.
"You seemed like you needed an excuse to get away." He answered still not looking at her.
Kagome remembered how she had been wishing for something to interrupt her and Inuyasha. 'Sesshoumaru must have seen and I did tell him what's been going on.' "You did that...for me?" Kagome asked.
Sesshoumaru nodded and was fully ready to accept whatever scolding he was about to get. What he didn't expect was Kagome to practically tackle him in a hug. "You're my savior, Sesshoumaru." Kagome smiled and hugged him.
Sesshoumaru tried to keep the same façade he used at school, but found he couldn't help but hug her back. Students near the back had seen the hug and soon rumors were already flying. Gossip was big in the school and as soon as the students were allowed back into the building many people had already heard what had happened.
Kagome went through the rest of her classes feeling slightly secure in the knowledge that she had a friend as great as Sesshoumaru who was willing to mar his perfect record to help her. Sango and Miroku had heard about Kagome hugging Sesshoumaru and both were trying to keep the rumor from reaching Inuyasha.
Kikyou was furious when she heard. She wanted Sesshoumaru and instead was losing to her cousin. Her cousin who she thought didn't know the worth of anything since she had never been through the hell she had. Kikyou had been fully changed by her hellish experience and now thought that she fully deserved to get what she wanted. 'Kami, knows I've earned it.' She thought to herself, but tried to suppress the bad memories of why she thought she deserved it.
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Kagome walked outside with Sango after school had finished and used her to make sure Inuyasha didn't try anything. She felt horrible for having to do this with her own boyfriend since she really did care about him, but she was just feeling unsafe with him at the moment. Sango had even had Kagome take martial arts lessons with her in order to teach her some self defense. Kagome thought Sango was going too far, but went through with it for her friend's sake.
"You sure you can't go out tonight?" Inuyasha asked Kagome one last time before he had to leave.
"I'm sure. I really need to go to the store and buy food for dinner and then take care of Souta. Maybe another day." Kagome said.
"I thought Souta was-" Miroku started to say, but got elbowed in the gut by Sango.
Inuyasha looked at the two girls suspiciously, but then decided Kagome would never do anything to ruin their relationship so he let it slide and left. 'I didn't even get a chance to give her my ultimatum. Next time I get her alone.' Inuyasha promised himself.
Kagome said good-bye to Sango and Miroku and went to find Sesshoumaru. She gave her usual greeting to him and he opened her door for her incidentally giving more fuel to the rumors that were going around.
"I was thinking maybe we could go out to eat tonight, so you don't have to cook. My treat." Sesshoumaru said as he pulled out of the parking lot.
"I don't mind cooking." Kagome answered.
"I insist." Sesshoumaru said. In his mind this is as close as he would get to a date with her so he might as well enjoy it while he could. More memories to keep him when he went off to college.
"Okay." Kagome said not feeling quite right about Sesshoumaru buying her dinner. She never felt good when people bought her things. "Nothing expensive." Kagome said seeing as though she didn't want to waste too much of Sesshoumaru's money and the fact that they were hardly dressed for anything fancy.
"Deal." Sesshoumaru said and drove and stopped next to a park that had a sushi bar nearby.
They got out and walked through the park to the sushi bar. Kagome loved the food and spending time with Sesshoumaru. It seemed like nothing had changed in the time they hadn't hung around each other and they instantly went back to being close friends. "So how come you don't have a girlfriend, Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked the question Sesshoumaru dreaded.
'Because the girl I want is already with someone else.' Sesshoumaru answered in his mind. He couldn't lie to her and say he hadn't found the right girl yet, because she was sitting right across from him. He just merely shrugged and hoped she would drop the subject.
Kagome was getting pretty good at reading Sesshoumaru's body language and noticed he wanted her to drop it. 'I wonder if he likes someone, but she doesn't like him.' Kagome thought, wondering why he wouldn't want to talk about it. "So do you think the class will be ready for the recital?" Kagome asked.
Sesshoumaru was relieved when she didn't pursue the girlfriend subject. "I think it'll be fine." Sesshoumaru answered. The class was advance music, so they should have been good enough to put on a good recital.
"Yeah I'm sure you'll be fine, Mr. I don't need the sheet music." Kagome teased.
"You'll be fine Kagome." Sesshoumaru said knowing how she worried about playing in front of crowds.
The rest of dinner went well with light conversation. They were walking back to the car through the park when they heard a scream. Immediately both of them started running off in the direction it had come from. There they saw a gang of boys standing over a small girl.
"Hey lay off!" Kagome shouted and the guys turned to look at the people who had intruded on their fun. Kagome gasped when she recognized the leader of the gang. "Kouga?"
"Kagome? Well, looks like my woman came to pay me a visit." Kouga said and walked toward Kagome, but Sesshoumaru stood in his way. "Finally replace dog breath with this guy. You're my woman Kagome. You should be with me." Kouga said while glaring at Sesshoumaru.
Sesshoumaru glared right back. Kouga looked him over and decided that he would probably need help taking down Sesshoumaru and snapped his fingers. The other three guys with him went to his side. "Teach him some respect."
The first guy came at Sesshoumaru and tried to punch him, but Sesshoumaru dodged and kneed the guy in the stomach. The second and third tried a combined attack. However, even together they were no match for Sesshoumaru and went down hard.
Kagome watched as Sesshoumaru fought not noticing Kouga coming up behind her until he had grabbed her. One arm was around her stomach, bracing her arms to her sides while the other covered her mouth. Kagome stomped on his foot, which got him to let go a bit and then she back kicked him. 'Guess those self defense classes do come in handy.
Kouga groaned as he stood and looked at his other three gang members who were in worse shape. "I'll get you later." He said and ran off with the other three running after him.
Sesshoumaru and Kagome ran to the little girl on the ground. She looked up at them in fear. "Don't worry we won't hurt you." Kagome said. The little girl let Sesshoumaru pick her up.
"Where do you live?" Sesshoumaru asked her.
"Rin doesn't have a home." The little girl answered. Sesshoumaru sighed. He had no clue what to do with her.
"Come on, we can take her to my place. We can't leave her here." Kagome said and Sesshoumaru nodded.
"You're going to take care of Rin?" Rin asked.
"For now." Sesshoumaru answered. The girl gave a big gap toothed smile and hugged Sesshoumaru. He looked at Kagome in confusion, but she only smiled at him thinking what a cute picture the two of them made.
Sesshoumaru set Rin in the back seat of his car and then drove to Kagome's house. "So where do you know Kouga from?" He asked Kagome.
"I ran into him once when I was at the hospital checking up on my mom. One of his gang members was hurt or something. He asked me out, but I said I already had a boyfriend. Then he said that no one had told him no before. About a week later I ran into him again when I was with Inuyasha. He went off about how I was his woman and Inuyasha had stolen me. They got into some huge fight. Guys can be such idiots. No offense." Kagome explained.
"None taken." Sesshoumaru said and stopped the car when they had reached the shrine. Rin was already asleep in the back seat. Sesshoumaru picked her up and carried her up the stairs and into Kagome's house. Kagome led him to Souta's room where she said Rin could stay for the night.
"Wanna watch some movies?" Kagome asked.
"Sure." Sesshoumaru answered and Kagome went to the kitchen and put some popcorn in the microwave and told him to go find a movie. She came back into the living room with two drinks and popcorn and took a seat on the couch next to Sesshoumaru. When she saw which movie he had chosen she instantly regretted letting him choose.
Sesshoumaru had chosen one of her brother's horror movies and Kagome was incredibly easy to scare. Every time something would jump out she would jump also making Sesshoumaru laugh a bit. When she had enough of him laughing at her she threw some popcorn at him which he retaliated. Soon a huge popcorn war broke out in the living room.
The two of them ended up lying on the floor exhausted after finally calling a truce. "I'm sleepy." Kagome said while yawning.
"I didn't notice." Sesshoumaru said and yawned as well since it was contagious. "Come on, go to bed."
"Nope, too tired to get up." Kagome said. Sesshoumaru sighed and stood. He then bent down and picked Kagome up. She was shocked that he did that. Her arms instinctively went around his neck to make sure he didn't drop her. Sesshoumaru took a few moments just to revel in the feeling of her in his arms and then carried her to where he remembered her room was.
He tried to toss her on her bed, but with her arms around his neck she took him down too. Kagome laughed at him as he tried to stand with his dignity still intact. He was about to leave when she asked him where he was going. "I was going to sleep on the couch."
"Nope, you're breaking the rule of the slumber party."
"Really, and which rule is that?" Sesshoumaru asked leaning against the doorframe.
"Everyone at a sleepover is supposed to sleep in the same room." Kagome said, yawning again.
Sesshoumaru stood frozen where he was wondering if he had heard her right. "Kagome, I don't think..."
"It's a sleepover rule." Kagome said. She didn't mind Sesshoumaru sleeping in the same bed as her. They were friends and she knew he would never try anything.
"Fine." Sesshoumaru relented. "Do you have a sleeping bag?" He asked figuring he could just sleep on the floor.
"Nope, Souta took it to his sleep over." Kagome answered nearly falling asleep. Sesshoumaru just stood there for a few more moments.
Sesshoumaru steeled his resolve and walked over to Kagome's bed. 'Well, it's not like we're sleeping together, just lying in the same bed.' Sesshoumaru tried to tell himself. He sighed and sat down on the bed. Kagome already seemed asleep facing him. Sesshoumaru lay down next to her and brushed some stray strands of hair out of her face. She unconsciously snuggled closer to him and he could feel a blush rising in his cheeks. He couldn't remember the last time he had blushed. "I love you Kagome." Sesshoumaru whispered and gently kissed her forehead before falling asleep next to his love that seemed so close and yet so out of reach.
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What's going to happen when Inuyasha gives his ultimatum? What was Kikyou's hellish experience? Will Sesshoumaru ever tell Kagome how he feels? Better review to get me to write more. ^_^ Hope you all enjoyed the chapter.
Translations:
Mochiron: Of Course
Kuso: Shit
Nani: What
Baka: Idiot
Gomen: Sorry
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CH: 2 Sleepover
"I'm telling you Kagome, just say no. If you're not ready just tell him." Sango said as she and Kagome stood at their lockers before class.
"I know, I really want to. It's just that every time it's on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't say it. I've just been kind of avoiding being alone with him." Kagome said.
"You can't avoid him forever." Sango pointed out.
"Yeah I know." Kagome then decided to change the topic. "So can you stay over tonight?" She had already told Sango that her mother was still in the hospital and that her little brother was sleeping over a friend's house since it was a Friday. Their school seemed to like starting the school year at the end of the week to give people a bit of schooling and then a break, just to get them back into the swing of things.
"You know I'd love to, but my dad just got back from his business trip and that means a family dinner that I can't miss. Gomen, Kagome-chan."
"It's okay." Kagome said, but her mood seemed to drop. "I'd ask Inuyasha, but I'm afraid he'd try to jump me or something if we were alone."
Sango frowned at the thought of Kagome being alone for the day. She knew her friend didn't like being home by herself. "Why not ask Sesshoumaru?" Sango asked considering Kagome had also told her about having dinner with him last night.
"I can't do that." Kagome blurted out, shocked that Sango would suggest it.
"Why not? You said he was a childhood friend and that you guys still get along. I'm sure he'd keep you company." Sango pointed out. 'And if he somehow convinces you to drop the obsessive baka of a boyfriend you have now then all the better.' Sango added to herself. "Just ask him. What could it hurt?"
Kagome sighed and thought about it. 'I guess it could be like one of the sleepovers we all used to have when we were younger.' "I guess I could." Kagome finally said. She jumped a little when an arm went around her waist. She turned to see Inuyasha who kissed her before she could even think.
Sango looked at the scene in dismay. She knew that Kagome could do so much better. "Aa, my dear Sango, why can't we be like that?" Sango felt a hand reach down and grab her rear. She quickly turned and slapped the offending person.
"I can't believe you Miroku!" Sango said and slammed her locker. She grabbed Kagome's hand and pulled her away from Inuyasha and stomped off without so much as a goodbye to either boy. Kagome turned and gave a small apologetic smile to Inuyasha seeing as though Miroku was unconscious on the ground so he couldn't see it.
"I still think he likes you." Kagome told Sango as they walked into their first period. Sango glared at Kagome, but Kagome could see the small blush rising in her cheeks.
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"Kuso, Miroku. I was just about to ask Kagome to spend the night at my place." Inuyasha said when Miroku finally pulled himself off the ground.
"My my Inuyasha I do think you're in a bit of a rush." Miroku said with a smile on his face.
"Oh please, you haven't even dated Sango and you're already touching her. I've dated Kagome for a few months now and she hasn't let me do anything, but kiss her." Inuyasha said sounding thoroughly disappointed.
"Perhaps she's just not ready Inuyasha. Have you ever taken into consideration how she feels about this?" Miroku asked seriously.
"It's not a big deal. She wants our relationship to be so special, but she won't let me move it to the next obvious level. I mean she would if she loved me right?" Inuyasha leaned against the lockers next to him and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Sure, whatever you say Inuyasha." Miroku said sounding unconvinced. Miroku silently hoped Kagome would be able to knock some sense into Inuyasha. He knew he was a lecher, but he would never force himself on a girl as he was afraid Inuyasha would.
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Sesshoumaru walked down the hall having another boring day. He had already been asked out too many times to count and mostly by the same girls he had rejected the day before. He almost had to hit himself when he had thought about accepting a girl's invitation just because she bared a slight resemblance to Kagome. 'I need help.' He thought to himself as he once again found his mind filled with thoughts of Kagome.
Now he got to go to the one class where he would actually get to see her. They had a music class together. Sesshoumaru's mother had insisted he learn to play some sort of instrument and after having numerous private lessons he became quite proficient at the violin. He was probably too good for the high school class, but he knew Kagome was in it since she liked learning to play the flute.
He walked into the room and quickly scanned it seeing that she wasn't there yet. He took a seat and began to set up his music sheets.
"Hey Sesshoumaru, I was wondering if you'd like to see a movie this weekend?" Sesshoumaru looked up to see a girl with short wavy black hair who was in his grade. He shook his head and went back to what he had been doing. The girl looked shocked at his rejection and quickly spun around and walked away.
"Man, Sesshoumaru that was the most popular girl in our grade that you just turned down." Sesshoumaru heard another boy in his grade, Hiten say.
"Yeah, you're too picky. You'll never find the girl of your dreams with such high standards." Hiten's little brother Manten said, though with Manten's looks it was no wonder he had such low standards.
Sesshoumaru barely registered their words. 'I did find the girl of my dreams, she just happens to be taken.' Sesshoumaru thought just as said girl walked into the room.
"Hey Sesshoumaru." Kagome greeted him and took the empty seat next to him which he had hoped she would.
"Hello Kagome." Sesshoumaru responded and actually shocked a bunch of girls into pure jealousy seeing as though he hadn't told her to go away.
"I have something I wanted to ask you, so can we talk at lunch?" Kagome whispered to him as the teacher finally entered the room.
Sesshoumaru nodded and a million possibilities of what she could want to ask him ran through his mind. 'What could she possibly want? Probably another ride home.' He told himself trying to keep from hoping too much. He kept reminding himself that she was still with Inuyasha.
The rest of class was rather uneventful as they had to pay attention to playing, but since Sesshoumaru had already memorized the piece he was able to keep taking glances at Kagome throughout the class. Kagome was practicing her best because they had a recital already in two weeks.
'Finally lunch.' Kagome thought as she put her flute back in the case. She stood up and was slightly startled to see Sesshoumaru standing in front of her.
"You said you wanted to talk." Sesshoumaru said reading her confused expression.
"Oh yeah. Well...ummm...do you remember how I don't like being at home by myself?" Kagome asked as they walked out of class. Sesshoumaru nodded and Kagome continued. "Well, my mother is in the hospital and Souta is staying over his friend's house. Sango can't stay over since she has a family thing and well, I don't really want to be alone with Inuyasha..."
"Why not?" Sesshoumaru cut her off. He hadn't actually meant to ask, but had just accidentally blurted out the question. He just couldn't figure why she wouldn't want to be alone with her boyfriend, although the idea was greatly distasteful to him.
"Do you promise not to tell?" Kagome asked. 'I can't believe I'm gonna tell him what's been going on.' Sesshoumaru just nodded. "Lately, he's been just trying to be, I don't know, too affectionate, if you know what I mean. And I just don't think I'm ready for something like that." Kagome admitted.
Sesshoumaru didn't know what he was feeling at that point. He was thoroughly angry at Inuyasha for being that way with Kagome, but also wondered if he would be the same way if he was with her. He was also slightly relieved that Kagome didn't want to do those things with his brother. The knowledge of which putting to rest many of the painful thoughts he had imagined about their relationship.
"So what was it you wanted to ask?" Sesshoumaru tried to get them back on topic.
"Well, Sango suggested that I should ask you to keep me company." Kagome finally said shocking Sesshoumaru. He didn't say anything and Kagome got a bit apprehensive. "You don't have to. I mean I know you probably have much better things to do."
"Sure."
"Nani?" Kagome asked making sure she had heard right.
"I said sure. I'll spend the night." Sesshoumaru said not believing he had actually accepted her invitation either. He wondered what had gotten into him until he saw Kagome's wonderful smile and remembered exactly why he was doing this.
"Great, it can be just like a sleepover." Kagome said happily. Sesshoumaru had to work hard to suppress the smile that wanted to show because of her enthusiasm. People in the halls watching them walk by were shocked enough that someone was actually having a conversation with Sesshoumaru. Seeing him smile might give someone a heart attack.
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Inuyasha waited till he finally saw Kagome enter the cafeteria and then was fully pissed off when he saw that she was talking to Sesshoumaru. He watched as they parted ways though he still didn't like the fact that they seemed so close.
"What was that all about?!" Inuyasha demanded to know as soon as Kagome sat down.
"What are you talking about?" She asked very confused. She had just sat down and already he was angry about something. She silently hoped that it wasn't about her ditching him yesterday.
"I'm talking about you being all friendly with Sesshoumaru a few seconds ago."
"We're friends Inuyasha. We've all been friends since we were kids, you know that." Kagome pointed out and started eating her sandwich.
Inuyasha was about to go off at her, but just then Sango and Miroku came in and sat next to them. "What's wrong?" Miroku asked seeing Inuyasha was clearly upset.
"Nothing." Inuyasha said defensively.
"Inuyasha's upset because I was talking to Sesshoumaru." Kagome said.
"And he actually talked back?" Miroku asked a little surprised that Sesshoumaru would be talking to anyone.
"I don't see what's so wrong with that." Sango said.
"What's wrong with that?" Inuyasha repeated. "He's a complete and total insensitive jerk and you shouldn't be talking to him." He said to Kagome.
"Well, excuse me for having friends." Kagome said. "I'm not hungry anymore. I'll see you guys later." She got up and walked away after grabbing her bag.
"Kagome..." Inuyasha went after her.
"Those two have problems." Miroku stated.
"You're telling me. I think Kagome deserves someone better." Sango said.
"I don't know. I think Inuyasha is a decent guy after you get rid of the whole possessiveness and self delusion." Miroku said.
"You know that you just pretty much described about 80% of his personality right?" Sango pointed out.
"Yes, but I figure that other 20% has to be worth something." Miroku answered with a smile.
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"Kagome wait up." Inuyasha yelled at her and Kagome stopped and turned around.
"What, Inuyasha? Have some more people you want to tell me not to be friends with?"
"Look, I'm sorry okay. I just don't like you with other guys. You and Sesshoumaru are just friends right?" Inuyasha asked.
"Of course. You know I would never cheat on you." Kagome said sounding slightly hurt that he could even think of such a thing.
"Yeah I know." Inuyasha said feeling kind of guilty for accusing her. "Look how about I take you out to dinner tonight and then we can go someplace."
Kagome knew what Inuyasha was thinking when he said someplace. "I can't tonight. I have to watch Souta." Kagome lied. She felt really guilty for doing it, but she had to.
"He's old enough to watch himself, Kagome. Just come out with me tonight." Inuyasha said a bit angry at being rejected yet again. He took a step forward and held her arm.
"I can't Inuyasha." Kagome said looking desperate for some sort of distraction.
"Look Kagome I -" Inuyasha was cut off as the fire alarm started going off. People began to rush out of classes and Kagome followed them silently thanking whoever had pulled that alarm.
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Sesshoumaru had seen Kagome leave looking upset and Inuyasha chase after her, so he decided to follow. He heard Kagome's sarcastic question to Inuyasha as she finally turned around to face him and knew that the argument must have been over her talking to him earlier. He felt guilty for putting her into such a position. But the guilt was nothing compared to the pain he felt when he heard Kagome say they were just friends. He knew they were and that she thought of him as a really good friend, but hearing it from her still hurt.
He continued to listen as Kagome lied to Inuyasha in order to get out of going out with him. Sesshoumaru was angered when he heard Inuyasha trying to make her change her mind. She thought of him as a friend and right then she was in trouble with Inuyasha trying to advance on her, he did the only thing he could think of at the moment to protect her and not get her into further trouble. He pulled the fire alarm.
Everyone filed into the courtyard and waited for the annoying alarm to get turned off. Sesshoumaru sat on one of the benches and thought about what had just happened. 'I knew she only thought I was a friend.' He thought sadly. 'Could I really change all that? I mean Inuyasha treats her so horribly and I wish she could just see it. Would I have a chance if they broke up?'
Sesshoumaru would never do anything to make them break up. He knew he couldn't do that to Kagome. He resigned himself to his fate of having to watch her from afar, but promised that he would always be there if she needed him.
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The subject of his musings was now making her way through the crowd to the back and hopefully away from Inuyasha. She knew that he had no problem with making a scene in front of other people, but she was not about to embarrass herself in front of the entire school.
She saw Sesshoumaru sitting on one of the benches and wondered why no one was sitting next to him. He always seemed so lonely and it hurt knowing that one of her friends felt like that. She went and sat next to him. "Hey Sesshoumaru."
He looked at her and gave a sort of half hearted smile which pulled at her heart strings. "What's wrong?" Kagome swore that she would fix anything that she could.
"It's nothing." Sesshoumaru said happy that she worried for him.
"Okay...but you know you can tell me anything right?" Sesshoumaru nodded, though he knew he couldn't tell her what was really bothering him. "I wonder who pulled the alarm. That doesn't happen very often here." Kagome said and saw the almost imperceptible tensing of Sesshoumaru's shoulders. "Do you know who did it?"
Sesshoumaru didn't know what to say. He didn't think he could ever lie to Kagome. "I did." He admitted and looked away from her.
"You? Why would you do something like that?" Kagome was shocked that Sesshoumaru had done something against the school rules. He had never done anything that was out of his role as perfect student.
"You seemed like you needed an excuse to get away." He answered still not looking at her.
Kagome remembered how she had been wishing for something to interrupt her and Inuyasha. 'Sesshoumaru must have seen and I did tell him what's been going on.' "You did that...for me?" Kagome asked.
Sesshoumaru nodded and was fully ready to accept whatever scolding he was about to get. What he didn't expect was Kagome to practically tackle him in a hug. "You're my savior, Sesshoumaru." Kagome smiled and hugged him.
Sesshoumaru tried to keep the same façade he used at school, but found he couldn't help but hug her back. Students near the back had seen the hug and soon rumors were already flying. Gossip was big in the school and as soon as the students were allowed back into the building many people had already heard what had happened.
Kagome went through the rest of her classes feeling slightly secure in the knowledge that she had a friend as great as Sesshoumaru who was willing to mar his perfect record to help her. Sango and Miroku had heard about Kagome hugging Sesshoumaru and both were trying to keep the rumor from reaching Inuyasha.
Kikyou was furious when she heard. She wanted Sesshoumaru and instead was losing to her cousin. Her cousin who she thought didn't know the worth of anything since she had never been through the hell she had. Kikyou had been fully changed by her hellish experience and now thought that she fully deserved to get what she wanted. 'Kami, knows I've earned it.' She thought to herself, but tried to suppress the bad memories of why she thought she deserved it.
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Kagome walked outside with Sango after school had finished and used her to make sure Inuyasha didn't try anything. She felt horrible for having to do this with her own boyfriend since she really did care about him, but she was just feeling unsafe with him at the moment. Sango had even had Kagome take martial arts lessons with her in order to teach her some self defense. Kagome thought Sango was going too far, but went through with it for her friend's sake.
"You sure you can't go out tonight?" Inuyasha asked Kagome one last time before he had to leave.
"I'm sure. I really need to go to the store and buy food for dinner and then take care of Souta. Maybe another day." Kagome said.
"I thought Souta was-" Miroku started to say, but got elbowed in the gut by Sango.
Inuyasha looked at the two girls suspiciously, but then decided Kagome would never do anything to ruin their relationship so he let it slide and left. 'I didn't even get a chance to give her my ultimatum. Next time I get her alone.' Inuyasha promised himself.
Kagome said good-bye to Sango and Miroku and went to find Sesshoumaru. She gave her usual greeting to him and he opened her door for her incidentally giving more fuel to the rumors that were going around.
"I was thinking maybe we could go out to eat tonight, so you don't have to cook. My treat." Sesshoumaru said as he pulled out of the parking lot.
"I don't mind cooking." Kagome answered.
"I insist." Sesshoumaru said. In his mind this is as close as he would get to a date with her so he might as well enjoy it while he could. More memories to keep him when he went off to college.
"Okay." Kagome said not feeling quite right about Sesshoumaru buying her dinner. She never felt good when people bought her things. "Nothing expensive." Kagome said seeing as though she didn't want to waste too much of Sesshoumaru's money and the fact that they were hardly dressed for anything fancy.
"Deal." Sesshoumaru said and drove and stopped next to a park that had a sushi bar nearby.
They got out and walked through the park to the sushi bar. Kagome loved the food and spending time with Sesshoumaru. It seemed like nothing had changed in the time they hadn't hung around each other and they instantly went back to being close friends. "So how come you don't have a girlfriend, Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked the question Sesshoumaru dreaded.
'Because the girl I want is already with someone else.' Sesshoumaru answered in his mind. He couldn't lie to her and say he hadn't found the right girl yet, because she was sitting right across from him. He just merely shrugged and hoped she would drop the subject.
Kagome was getting pretty good at reading Sesshoumaru's body language and noticed he wanted her to drop it. 'I wonder if he likes someone, but she doesn't like him.' Kagome thought, wondering why he wouldn't want to talk about it. "So do you think the class will be ready for the recital?" Kagome asked.
Sesshoumaru was relieved when she didn't pursue the girlfriend subject. "I think it'll be fine." Sesshoumaru answered. The class was advance music, so they should have been good enough to put on a good recital.
"Yeah I'm sure you'll be fine, Mr. I don't need the sheet music." Kagome teased.
"You'll be fine Kagome." Sesshoumaru said knowing how she worried about playing in front of crowds.
The rest of dinner went well with light conversation. They were walking back to the car through the park when they heard a scream. Immediately both of them started running off in the direction it had come from. There they saw a gang of boys standing over a small girl.
"Hey lay off!" Kagome shouted and the guys turned to look at the people who had intruded on their fun. Kagome gasped when she recognized the leader of the gang. "Kouga?"
"Kagome? Well, looks like my woman came to pay me a visit." Kouga said and walked toward Kagome, but Sesshoumaru stood in his way. "Finally replace dog breath with this guy. You're my woman Kagome. You should be with me." Kouga said while glaring at Sesshoumaru.
Sesshoumaru glared right back. Kouga looked him over and decided that he would probably need help taking down Sesshoumaru and snapped his fingers. The other three guys with him went to his side. "Teach him some respect."
The first guy came at Sesshoumaru and tried to punch him, but Sesshoumaru dodged and kneed the guy in the stomach. The second and third tried a combined attack. However, even together they were no match for Sesshoumaru and went down hard.
Kagome watched as Sesshoumaru fought not noticing Kouga coming up behind her until he had grabbed her. One arm was around her stomach, bracing her arms to her sides while the other covered her mouth. Kagome stomped on his foot, which got him to let go a bit and then she back kicked him. 'Guess those self defense classes do come in handy.
Kouga groaned as he stood and looked at his other three gang members who were in worse shape. "I'll get you later." He said and ran off with the other three running after him.
Sesshoumaru and Kagome ran to the little girl on the ground. She looked up at them in fear. "Don't worry we won't hurt you." Kagome said. The little girl let Sesshoumaru pick her up.
"Where do you live?" Sesshoumaru asked her.
"Rin doesn't have a home." The little girl answered. Sesshoumaru sighed. He had no clue what to do with her.
"Come on, we can take her to my place. We can't leave her here." Kagome said and Sesshoumaru nodded.
"You're going to take care of Rin?" Rin asked.
"For now." Sesshoumaru answered. The girl gave a big gap toothed smile and hugged Sesshoumaru. He looked at Kagome in confusion, but she only smiled at him thinking what a cute picture the two of them made.
Sesshoumaru set Rin in the back seat of his car and then drove to Kagome's house. "So where do you know Kouga from?" He asked Kagome.
"I ran into him once when I was at the hospital checking up on my mom. One of his gang members was hurt or something. He asked me out, but I said I already had a boyfriend. Then he said that no one had told him no before. About a week later I ran into him again when I was with Inuyasha. He went off about how I was his woman and Inuyasha had stolen me. They got into some huge fight. Guys can be such idiots. No offense." Kagome explained.
"None taken." Sesshoumaru said and stopped the car when they had reached the shrine. Rin was already asleep in the back seat. Sesshoumaru picked her up and carried her up the stairs and into Kagome's house. Kagome led him to Souta's room where she said Rin could stay for the night.
"Wanna watch some movies?" Kagome asked.
"Sure." Sesshoumaru answered and Kagome went to the kitchen and put some popcorn in the microwave and told him to go find a movie. She came back into the living room with two drinks and popcorn and took a seat on the couch next to Sesshoumaru. When she saw which movie he had chosen she instantly regretted letting him choose.
Sesshoumaru had chosen one of her brother's horror movies and Kagome was incredibly easy to scare. Every time something would jump out she would jump also making Sesshoumaru laugh a bit. When she had enough of him laughing at her she threw some popcorn at him which he retaliated. Soon a huge popcorn war broke out in the living room.
The two of them ended up lying on the floor exhausted after finally calling a truce. "I'm sleepy." Kagome said while yawning.
"I didn't notice." Sesshoumaru said and yawned as well since it was contagious. "Come on, go to bed."
"Nope, too tired to get up." Kagome said. Sesshoumaru sighed and stood. He then bent down and picked Kagome up. She was shocked that he did that. Her arms instinctively went around his neck to make sure he didn't drop her. Sesshoumaru took a few moments just to revel in the feeling of her in his arms and then carried her to where he remembered her room was.
He tried to toss her on her bed, but with her arms around his neck she took him down too. Kagome laughed at him as he tried to stand with his dignity still intact. He was about to leave when she asked him where he was going. "I was going to sleep on the couch."
"Nope, you're breaking the rule of the slumber party."
"Really, and which rule is that?" Sesshoumaru asked leaning against the doorframe.
"Everyone at a sleepover is supposed to sleep in the same room." Kagome said, yawning again.
Sesshoumaru stood frozen where he was wondering if he had heard her right. "Kagome, I don't think..."
"It's a sleepover rule." Kagome said. She didn't mind Sesshoumaru sleeping in the same bed as her. They were friends and she knew he would never try anything.
"Fine." Sesshoumaru relented. "Do you have a sleeping bag?" He asked figuring he could just sleep on the floor.
"Nope, Souta took it to his sleep over." Kagome answered nearly falling asleep. Sesshoumaru just stood there for a few more moments.
Sesshoumaru steeled his resolve and walked over to Kagome's bed. 'Well, it's not like we're sleeping together, just lying in the same bed.' Sesshoumaru tried to tell himself. He sighed and sat down on the bed. Kagome already seemed asleep facing him. Sesshoumaru lay down next to her and brushed some stray strands of hair out of her face. She unconsciously snuggled closer to him and he could feel a blush rising in his cheeks. He couldn't remember the last time he had blushed. "I love you Kagome." Sesshoumaru whispered and gently kissed her forehead before falling asleep next to his love that seemed so close and yet so out of reach.
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What's going to happen when Inuyasha gives his ultimatum? What was Kikyou's hellish experience? Will Sesshoumaru ever tell Kagome how he feels? Better review to get me to write more. ^_^ Hope you all enjoyed the chapter.
Translations:
Mochiron: Of Course
Kuso: Shit
Nani: What
Baka: Idiot
Gomen: Sorry
Review Responses:
Sunstar: Don't worry I won't let Inu force Kagome
Writerlover101: Here's the next chapter, don't cry
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Massao-na-Mizu: Don't say bad things about your stories, I think they're great. And I love the criticism, it helps me write better keep it coming. Yeah, I often forget the translations, but I put one this chapter. ^_^ The whole Kikyou a slut thing has a reason so don't worry about it just being cliché. And unfortunately I don't have a beta reader so I have to try and read over my own stories, it's so sad. Well, thanks for the great review.
Hentai Jane: I agree, I'd probably slap Inu and walk away.
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Ameru43: Well, Rin and Kouga make they're appearance and soon so will Shippou and Naraku.
MysticalAngel: I've been considering the whole bastard Inu and bitch Kikyou thing and I'm not sure but their personalities might change later on. Not really sure, the fic kind of writes it self.
Setsuna: That was such a hilarious story. Don't worry, Inu will get what's coming to him because of that ultimatum thing. And thanks for letting me archive your fics.
Kit: I only sing either while I'm driving or at karaoke, I would say I'm semidecent. Yes, I do draw, I actually did a mural in my dorm building of this huge Japanese dragon that winded up the three story staircase. I feel so sad that I won't get to see it anymore since I won't be living their next school year.
Thanks to all the other people who reviewed, I love all the reviews. And right now I'm working on an Inuyasha Alternate Couples website, it's really mediocre right now, but I'll put the link up in my bio in a couple days.
~*Shichan