So Sorry for the delay, this is a reposted chapi, cuz i had some thing to tell. First Thanks to all of my reviwers, i reached 300 reviews!!!! Now i want to get the 400 before ending the bet, so help me k?. Second, I didnt wanted to say this, but i think is necessary, this will be inu/kag (read the summary) but i wanted to cause some troubles,,, in the next chapter you will see that this is inu/kag, hehehehe. And for last....Is there no imagination for titles, i have already seen like 3 stories with the title the bet!!! Kami, i mean this isn't an original title but its mine so please people don't use it, if you want i can help you to find a new one. Thats all i assure you that the nwxt update will be in one week so the date will be..28 september!!! But in any case i don't do that it will be 1 October more probably the last one so... Enjoy the chapter.

Disclaimer: how many chapters i have write without this one huh?, anyways.... I don't own inuyasha __________

It's Saturday. I haven't seen her since last Sunday.... but most likely I don't want to.

"Inuyasha, we're going to the mall! I'm waiting in the car," Seshoumaru yelled from downstairs.

"Since when do you want my company? GO ALONE!"

"You are coming with me... I don't know how can you walk around with those awful clothes. We're buying new ones."

"Keh." In a question of minutes both brothers were heading for the mall.

The Bet

Chapter 15: Confusing Thoughts (mixed emotions)

By: Nova

Beta-reader and collaborator for this chapter: Kaze no Kagura

0109003 (another month?) 0909003 (hehehe) 2009003 (took me long enough, ne?)

"I am NOT wearing that," Inuyasha said, pointing to a 'peach'-colored (pink, it was pink!!!) shirt, unbuttoned in the front.

"That punk style you wear is... I don't know how you stand being seen in public like that." Maybe Sesshoumaru was cute and all, but when it came to fashion he was 'fancy,' to avoid the use of the word...

"I know you are gay (that word), but I am STRAIGHT, man. Don't you get it? I don't know how Kagome is interested in you." The last part was more a mumble than an out loud sentence.

"That's because I'm better, dear brother."

Inuyasha was walking out of that store by now. Spending more brotherly bonding time would be like suicide. Before he was out the door, he turned around, his eyes blazing and with a smirk (it was more like a forced one), said, "You're wrong, Sesshoumaru. You aren't the best one. She only has bad taste. That's all."

All the sadness he felt....

Feeling lonely again...

She was... a mean person, making him fall in love with her and later changing for his brother.

The one thing he wanted more than anything was to forget her...

Everything about her

_____ Higurashi's Shrine _____

"Please, Kagome!"

"No, Souta. I will not go with you for more videogames... The last time I was waiting for you for three hours."

"B-but you are my big sister! Please!"

Fifteen minutes, sixty pleases and chasing Kagome all over the house twenty times later

"FINE! But I leave you there by yourself, and we meet at the fountain in one hour. GOT IT?!"

"OKAY! Now I have to get the money! Mommy, can you give some money, PLEASE?"

_____ At the mall _____

Every woman turned around at his sight. His features were just beautiful, a little too beautiful, but.. well, his looks earned him gifts, discounts, free clothes, a parking space, entrance to a nice restaurant... and a lot more.

But everything was empty to him... The money, he had it, thanks to his father's business, and the females only came near him because of it.

Maybe that was why she caught his attention. She didn't turn around to look at him; he was after her. And his brother had some kind of claim on her... that only made her more desirable. The forbidden things are always the most tempting.

And speaking of Kagome... she was at the hanna (flower) store in front of him. Opportunities like this were the ones that you shouldn't let go of. And he was a smart and wise guy.

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A rose was in front of her.

She turned around to look at the one holding the flower. It was him... Sesshoumaru.

"Who are those for?" he asked, indicating the flowers she was holding.

"Uh? Oh, they're for my mother's birthday." She leaned over a little to smell the flower Sesshoumaru was holding in front of her face. "It smells good."

He also leaned in, leaving only the flower to separate their lips.. What was this woman doing to him?

"You're right. It smells good, but you smell even better."

She opened her eyes wide... that thing he said.

'You smell nice, Kagome.'

It reminded her of Inuyasha. She stepped back. Her emotions were all mixed. What was wrong with her? Before Sesshoumaru came, she was kind of dating Inuyasha. And she just met his brother two days ago and already had feelings for him?

"I-I gotta go. Bye."

"Wait." He grabbed her wrist, not forcing her to look at him, but making sure she heard him. "Come to dinner tomorrow at my house."

"Yes, I'll come. Bye now." She started to run.

One thing she didn't know was that while she was thinking the name 'Inuyasha,' it came out of her lips, startling Sesshoumaru. Hadn't he already won her? His brother had lost, right?

_____

What was wrong with her?! Playing with people's feelings like this?! Kami, how much she wanted to cry, to go with..

She bumped into someone.

"G-Gomenasai, I wasn't looking my way, and-"

"Keh!" She didn't need to look up to see who the person she bumped into was.

"Ah- eh" Words didn't want to come out.

"Why?"

She looked up to meet his eyes.. She hadn't known she had missed that golden until now, but they were sad, almost hopeless. And what was that trivial question?

"What were you talking about?"

Why did she play innocent?! He had seen her go inside the flower shop, and when he was almost inside of it, he saw Sesshoumaru go behind her... then all that mushy, sickening stuff... That made his blood boil. When he was getting out of there she came out like crazy and looking troubled. WHAT WAS HER FUCKING PROBLEM?!

"What do you feel for him?"

"I-I-" How could she answer that question to him, when she didn't even know the answer? "-don't know."

"FUCK IT!" - He put her against the wall, holding her wrists so she wouldn't escape. He wanted an answer for kami's sake! - "YOU ARE GOING TO- "

He didn't expected that... She started to cry.

"I DON'T KNOW, OKAY? IS THAT ENOUGH?"

"No, it isn't-" He was dead serious this time. Tears were not going to free her from this one. "-I want the truth."

"YOU WANT THE TRUTH? THEN I LOVE HIM! FINE, IS THAT ALRIGHT WITH YOU?!"

He released her.

Inuyasha hadn't seen this coming. Love. Maybe it had been a crush, but.. Love. He was so screwed.

Kagome bent to her knees and started to cry again. She didn't feel that way, but he was making all of this so hard!

"Gomen, Higurashi. Sayonara" He didn't look at her. He couldn't afford to; because of his brother he had lost his mother in that fire, and now he was losing Kagome... Now he remembered why was he so cold with everyone.

Tears didn't help at all. Kagome locked herself in the bedroom. Her heart was a maze. Who was she supposed to care for? To love?

And tomorrow she had to go to that dinner. Maybe all would be clear up on that day.

Some revelations that she couldn't find would come to the light.

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AN. Sorry if forgot one thing, i have a new fic, called Forgotten feeligns. Please go check it, if it sucks just say it. Arigatou