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When All Else Fails
Chapter- 5
'I cant breathe!' She looks around. 'I'm in a white area? Where am I?' She takes a few steps forward. 'Hello?' She looks around but doesn't see anything but white. A black figure flies past her; causing Kagome to take a few steps back. After being startled back, she runs into something. Kagome manages to look up and stare into the person's eyes. The eyes were red instead of a reassuring violet or golden she was expecting. "Who are you?!" she demands. She watches his eyebrows rise as he locks eyes with her.
"You'll find out soon enough." Kagome bends over like she's about to vomit. And to tell you the truth, that's what she felt like doing.
*
"Damnit Kagome! Don't you die on me woman!" He pounds the ground next to Kagome's still body. 'Man I really didn't want it to come down to this...' He leans in to give her mouth-to-mouth when he receives a mouthful and a face full of water...from the girl he was lying on, causing his eyes to fly open and meet hers. He freezes, inches above her face and just stares... She couldn't remember anything until her mind un-fuzzed. A cool wind blows past them and Kagome realizes 'Hey, that wind touched more skin than it should have.'
"Get off me!" Kagome freaks out and pushes Inuyasha off of her. "Just because I get knocked out doesn't give you opportunity to take advantage of me!" She grabs her top from the edge of the water. Inuyasha gathers his wits and stands up.
"That's just the way it looked! I wasn't going to do anything to you! I swear!"
"That's what they all say." She turns her back to him as she puts her top back on. Inuyasha takes a step forward.
"Come on Kagome! You slipped in the pool and I was just trying to help!"
"HELP? You think what you were doing was help?" She studies his face for any kind of guilt or sudden remorse, but the only thing she saw was hurt... She knew she was wrong, but she wouldn't admit it. She was pretty sorry for jumping him like that, granted, he WAS only trying to help.
"I'm sorry Kagome." He looks ay her. "I didn't mean for it to look that way. I was only trying to help." He looks away as he heads to grab his towel and go home.
"Inuyasha..." She whispers. He heard it; she knew it. It had caused a slight falter in his step, but he just continued.
"I'll see you back at the house." It came out as a mumble that he didn't want to say at all. He continues to cross the street barely missing a car. His voice seemed so...disappointed...or was that a tinge of anger? Or maybe lust? What would've happened if I hadn't woken up?
*
"What can I do to make her believe me? Dinner...Gift..." He stops pacing. "That's it! A gift!"
*
When Kagome finally brought herself to actually come in the door, she noticed Inuyasha on the Internet looking at something. She tried to inch closer, but his sensitive ears picked up her footsteps, and he quickly closes the window. Inuyasha stands up and pushes in the chair in one swift movement, and quickly sweeps past Kagome without even realizing she was standing there. He had good reason to. "Inuyasha?" She watches him head into the kitchen.
"She really has no idea..." He quietly snickers to himself. 'Just keep the idea that your mad at her. She'll never expect it.' He begins searching the barren pantry for any source of food what so ever. She watches him come out empty handed and growling. Taking all his frustration out on the poor cabinet, splintering the side with the handle with the minor flick of his claws. He turns around and pretends like he just realizes she was there. "You hungry?"
"No...A little..." She looks at his perked ears. Smiling, she answers with a nod. "Yeah, sure."
"Go put on some dry clothes." He opens a can of soda. "We'll leave in a few"
"K..." She walks into her room. He gets the oh-so-pleasurable task of de- snarling his hair. He decides to get started now or he'll never finish.
*
"What is he trying to pull here?" Kagome asks her reflection. She stares at the figure in the mirror, letting out a heavy, depressed-like sigh. "What would he want with a girl like me anyways." She turns sideways and glances over her body before sliding on her pants. "I'm not anything extraordinary...I'm small, everything is small." Creating an angry scowl. "What am I thinking?" She puts on her shirt. "If I think like this, and let it get to me it will show weakness..." She begins the task of reapplying her makeup, not that she wore much to begin with. "And we can't show weakness Kagome, now can we?" The girl in the mirror smiles. "This is it, time to go eat..." She sticks out her tongue at herself and laughs.
*
"Damn... Damn Hair!" Inuyasha grunts as the brush gets stuck. "Why don't I just chop this off?"
"Because you wouldn't be you without your hair." Kagome leans in the doorway, with no hint that she was still angry. The sudden sound of her voice nearly made Inuyasha jump.
"When'd you get in here?" (Completely forgetting about the brush stuck in his hair.)
"While you were throwing the brush into the bathtub..."
"What makes you call this 'me'?" He snags a handful of silver and gives it the death grip.
"Offsets your eyes. Amber and silver go good together. You were blessed to have both." She walks away from the bathroom doorway. 'Was that actually Kagome? That couldn't be... I'm seeing things...' He quickly tears through the rest of his hair then sets the brush down and rushes out of the bathroom.
"You ready to go?" He offers his hand. Seeing the gesture, Kagome raises an eyebrow as well as a head tilt to the motion. "Just let me lead you out." 'It wont be the last.' His mind stops. 'Hold on Inuyasha, don't even think about getting in a relationship with a girl 3 years younger and living out of this area! Think with the correct head, here. There's no way your getting in her pants. If she's kept them off her this long, she can do it again.' he smiles inwardly. 'Unless...'
"Inuyasha?" Her voice snaps him back to present.
"Sorry." He answers quickly. "Lets go?" 'I knew it' he yells at himself when Kagome refuses his hand.
*
"Sango?" Miroku studies her face.
"Yes?" She looks up at him.
"Do you think my house is in one piece?" Sango begins to laugh.
"I hope so." She leans against Miroku as they walk. "What do you think you would happen if you found Inuyasha and Kagome in the same bed, intertwined?" A brief image of the scenario popped into his head. He suddenly stopped and stared blankly at Sango.
"I wouldn't be able to look at them the same." He heads towards a nearby park bench. "I wouldn't be able to face her mom...oh shit... Kagome's grandfather is a shrine keeper. Do you have any idea how much of a fight would happen if Kagome were to get involved with Inuyasha. Inuyasha is a hanyou, which as you know means he's half demon. Man, her grandfather would freak." He laughs to himself. "I wonder how many warding scrolls he would put on Inuyasha trying to keep him away?" He smiles at the sound of Sango's laughter. "What a sight." He looks at Sango. "Why?"
"Because I can see it happening some time in the near future. And there's nothing you can do about it."
*
Inuyasha grabs Kagome's arm. "Hold on, I need to go in here for a minute."
"Can I come?"
"No, wait out here. I'll only be a minute." He smiles. "I promise." Inuyasha quickly walks into the store.
"What are you thinking, you crazy hanyou?"
*
Inuyasha wanders around trying to find what he saw on the Internet earlier that day. "There it is." He grins proudly after finding his prize.
*
"What the hell is taking you so long!" Kagome groans as she paces outside the storefront. Something catches her interest in the corner of her eye. 'What was that?' She turns around and sees it again.
"Miss me?" Someone standing behind her purrs.
"But..." She turns around and comes face to face with none other than Kouga. "Oh shit..." She nearly falls backwards. "What...What are you doing here?" Becoming nervous when she feels the cool brick on her back.
"Oh nothing." He looks up to the now star studded sky. "Just wandering on a beautiful night."
"Ah." She looks back to the door. "I'm waiting for someone, though. So, uh, nice to see you..." Kagome continues staring at the door. 'Come on Inuyasha, what's taking you so long?'
"Are you waiting for your cousin? Because if I remember correctly, that's who your here to see."
"Uh...no. He's not my cousin." When Kagome finally broke the sentry of the door and looked back towards Kouga, he was far closer than she expected. "Whoa." She would have collapsed if the wall were not pressing against her. Without anywhere to run, Kagome watches him inch closer.
"Just give me a chance." Kouga puts his hands on the wall, on either side of Kagome's head. "Just one chance. After that, its all your choice."
"But I don't even..." he quickly takes to opportunity to kiss her.
"Get off her you filthy mutt!" Inuyasha sinks his fist deeply into Kouga's ribs, which grabbed Kouga's attention rather quickly. Stammering back a few steps after the blow from Inuyasha, Kouga looks over at the 'Lowly 2nd year hanyou that he was far more superior than in more ways than one.'
"What do you want?" Kouga snaps. Inuyasha stares at him and gets startled when Kagome latches herself to his arm. He could've sworn he heard a whimper form in Kouga's throat.
"I should ask you the same fucking question."
"Run home hanyou-boy. You don't deserve a girl like her."
"Oh! But you do?" Inuyasha acts sarcastically surprised. That was Kouga's breaking point.
"God Damnit hanyou!" Kouga charges at Inuyasha, much too fast for him to predict. Inuyasha hit the ground hard, seemingly to move in slow motion.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome rushes to his side. "Are you alright?" Inuyasha smirks.
"This is why I hate wolves." He begins laughing as he slowly stands to his feet.
"That wasn't enough for you dog-boy?"
"Dog Boy?" Kouga smiles.
"Yeah, you heard me. I said DOG-BOY!" Kouga quickly pins Inuyasha to the ground as a crowd begins to gather.
"Get off..." Inuyasha struggles to take a full breath.
"Sorry mutt, I don't take requests." Kouga puts more pressure on Inuyasha's chest, right above his diaphragm (the muscle that allows you to breathe).
"Kouga! Get off him now!" Kagome finally finds her voice throughout the whole ordeal. "Please..." Kouga's attention quickly transfers from crushing Inuyasha's ribs to the elusive beauty that he so badly wanted. Grunting Kouga punches Inuyasha in the face one last time for good measure. Slowly standing, Kouga walks over to Kagome.
"This one was free, you owe me the next time I let this pathetic dog get away with his life."
"I don't appreciate the name calling used in front of me." Kagome glares at him. "Let this be a warning." Kouga scoffs and begins to walk away.
"Fucking dog." Kagome the nearest object and nails Kouga right in the back of the head. "You little..." He turns and looks at her.
"I warned you." She walks toward Inuyasha who was still struggling to gain back his breath. "Are you ok?" She kneels beside him.
"That really fu...I mean..." He coughs. "It hurt..." he touches his face.
"Come on Inuyasha. Let me get you home. I'll order a pizza or something." Kagome hears a struggled laugh.
"Just..." He tries to sit up with some difficulty. "...Give me a sec." He pants.
"Are you sure you're all right?" Inuyasha used Kagome for balance as he stands up.
"Yeah. I'll heal." He smiles.
"Lets get home." She puts his arm around her shoulders and she wraps her arm around his waist. "Can you breathe any better? He had his knee on you pretty hard."
"Some what..." He pauses. "Lets go home..."
*
"Hello?" Miroku opens the door. "Where are they?" He looks around the empty quarters. He checks the rooms to be sure... Just in case.
"They may be out at that line of shops around the corner." Sango looks at Miroku's worrying expression. "What's wrong?"
"What if something happened to her?"
"Nothing has happened to her. She's a strong girl, she could probably fend..." Both turn to the sound of an opening door. "My god, what happened?" Inuyashas panting had become worse.
"He got in a fight." Kagome leads him to the couch.
"With who?" Miroku leans against the back of the couch.
"Kouga." Kagome continues to study Inuyashas deteriorating condition, which was not getting any better.
"Kagome..." He opens his eyes to search for her. It was a harder task than he thought.
"Hm?"
"There's something..." He coughs again. He weakly points to the side of his neck. Miroku jumps when he saw the motion. Kagome squints and pulls out a small, clear, dart-like tube from the side of his neck.
"Give me that." Miroku grabs the dart from Kagome. "This is..." He brings it to his nose. "As I thought."
"What?" Sango looks at the vile.
"Poison. It attacks the lungs. But with youkai's and hanyou's it doesn't affect them as severely as it would a normal human. So Inuyasha should recover rather quickly."
"Damn you Kouga. You sick, sneaky bastard." Kagome whispers to herself, getting a weak chuckle from Inuyasha...the only one that could hear her comment.
WEE! I finally finished it! How'd ya like it? It actually didn't take me as long as I thought I was going to. AND I got my other fic up! YAY! Forbidden Thoughts. Sneaky Kouga ^^.
R and R. - -Ayame
When All Else Fails
Chapter- 5
'I cant breathe!' She looks around. 'I'm in a white area? Where am I?' She takes a few steps forward. 'Hello?' She looks around but doesn't see anything but white. A black figure flies past her; causing Kagome to take a few steps back. After being startled back, she runs into something. Kagome manages to look up and stare into the person's eyes. The eyes were red instead of a reassuring violet or golden she was expecting. "Who are you?!" she demands. She watches his eyebrows rise as he locks eyes with her.
"You'll find out soon enough." Kagome bends over like she's about to vomit. And to tell you the truth, that's what she felt like doing.
*
"Damnit Kagome! Don't you die on me woman!" He pounds the ground next to Kagome's still body. 'Man I really didn't want it to come down to this...' He leans in to give her mouth-to-mouth when he receives a mouthful and a face full of water...from the girl he was lying on, causing his eyes to fly open and meet hers. He freezes, inches above her face and just stares... She couldn't remember anything until her mind un-fuzzed. A cool wind blows past them and Kagome realizes 'Hey, that wind touched more skin than it should have.'
"Get off me!" Kagome freaks out and pushes Inuyasha off of her. "Just because I get knocked out doesn't give you opportunity to take advantage of me!" She grabs her top from the edge of the water. Inuyasha gathers his wits and stands up.
"That's just the way it looked! I wasn't going to do anything to you! I swear!"
"That's what they all say." She turns her back to him as she puts her top back on. Inuyasha takes a step forward.
"Come on Kagome! You slipped in the pool and I was just trying to help!"
"HELP? You think what you were doing was help?" She studies his face for any kind of guilt or sudden remorse, but the only thing she saw was hurt... She knew she was wrong, but she wouldn't admit it. She was pretty sorry for jumping him like that, granted, he WAS only trying to help.
"I'm sorry Kagome." He looks ay her. "I didn't mean for it to look that way. I was only trying to help." He looks away as he heads to grab his towel and go home.
"Inuyasha..." She whispers. He heard it; she knew it. It had caused a slight falter in his step, but he just continued.
"I'll see you back at the house." It came out as a mumble that he didn't want to say at all. He continues to cross the street barely missing a car. His voice seemed so...disappointed...or was that a tinge of anger? Or maybe lust? What would've happened if I hadn't woken up?
*
"What can I do to make her believe me? Dinner...Gift..." He stops pacing. "That's it! A gift!"
*
When Kagome finally brought herself to actually come in the door, she noticed Inuyasha on the Internet looking at something. She tried to inch closer, but his sensitive ears picked up her footsteps, and he quickly closes the window. Inuyasha stands up and pushes in the chair in one swift movement, and quickly sweeps past Kagome without even realizing she was standing there. He had good reason to. "Inuyasha?" She watches him head into the kitchen.
"She really has no idea..." He quietly snickers to himself. 'Just keep the idea that your mad at her. She'll never expect it.' He begins searching the barren pantry for any source of food what so ever. She watches him come out empty handed and growling. Taking all his frustration out on the poor cabinet, splintering the side with the handle with the minor flick of his claws. He turns around and pretends like he just realizes she was there. "You hungry?"
"No...A little..." She looks at his perked ears. Smiling, she answers with a nod. "Yeah, sure."
"Go put on some dry clothes." He opens a can of soda. "We'll leave in a few"
"K..." She walks into her room. He gets the oh-so-pleasurable task of de- snarling his hair. He decides to get started now or he'll never finish.
*
"What is he trying to pull here?" Kagome asks her reflection. She stares at the figure in the mirror, letting out a heavy, depressed-like sigh. "What would he want with a girl like me anyways." She turns sideways and glances over her body before sliding on her pants. "I'm not anything extraordinary...I'm small, everything is small." Creating an angry scowl. "What am I thinking?" She puts on her shirt. "If I think like this, and let it get to me it will show weakness..." She begins the task of reapplying her makeup, not that she wore much to begin with. "And we can't show weakness Kagome, now can we?" The girl in the mirror smiles. "This is it, time to go eat..." She sticks out her tongue at herself and laughs.
*
"Damn... Damn Hair!" Inuyasha grunts as the brush gets stuck. "Why don't I just chop this off?"
"Because you wouldn't be you without your hair." Kagome leans in the doorway, with no hint that she was still angry. The sudden sound of her voice nearly made Inuyasha jump.
"When'd you get in here?" (Completely forgetting about the brush stuck in his hair.)
"While you were throwing the brush into the bathtub..."
"What makes you call this 'me'?" He snags a handful of silver and gives it the death grip.
"Offsets your eyes. Amber and silver go good together. You were blessed to have both." She walks away from the bathroom doorway. 'Was that actually Kagome? That couldn't be... I'm seeing things...' He quickly tears through the rest of his hair then sets the brush down and rushes out of the bathroom.
"You ready to go?" He offers his hand. Seeing the gesture, Kagome raises an eyebrow as well as a head tilt to the motion. "Just let me lead you out." 'It wont be the last.' His mind stops. 'Hold on Inuyasha, don't even think about getting in a relationship with a girl 3 years younger and living out of this area! Think with the correct head, here. There's no way your getting in her pants. If she's kept them off her this long, she can do it again.' he smiles inwardly. 'Unless...'
"Inuyasha?" Her voice snaps him back to present.
"Sorry." He answers quickly. "Lets go?" 'I knew it' he yells at himself when Kagome refuses his hand.
*
"Sango?" Miroku studies her face.
"Yes?" She looks up at him.
"Do you think my house is in one piece?" Sango begins to laugh.
"I hope so." She leans against Miroku as they walk. "What do you think you would happen if you found Inuyasha and Kagome in the same bed, intertwined?" A brief image of the scenario popped into his head. He suddenly stopped and stared blankly at Sango.
"I wouldn't be able to look at them the same." He heads towards a nearby park bench. "I wouldn't be able to face her mom...oh shit... Kagome's grandfather is a shrine keeper. Do you have any idea how much of a fight would happen if Kagome were to get involved with Inuyasha. Inuyasha is a hanyou, which as you know means he's half demon. Man, her grandfather would freak." He laughs to himself. "I wonder how many warding scrolls he would put on Inuyasha trying to keep him away?" He smiles at the sound of Sango's laughter. "What a sight." He looks at Sango. "Why?"
"Because I can see it happening some time in the near future. And there's nothing you can do about it."
*
Inuyasha grabs Kagome's arm. "Hold on, I need to go in here for a minute."
"Can I come?"
"No, wait out here. I'll only be a minute." He smiles. "I promise." Inuyasha quickly walks into the store.
"What are you thinking, you crazy hanyou?"
*
Inuyasha wanders around trying to find what he saw on the Internet earlier that day. "There it is." He grins proudly after finding his prize.
*
"What the hell is taking you so long!" Kagome groans as she paces outside the storefront. Something catches her interest in the corner of her eye. 'What was that?' She turns around and sees it again.
"Miss me?" Someone standing behind her purrs.
"But..." She turns around and comes face to face with none other than Kouga. "Oh shit..." She nearly falls backwards. "What...What are you doing here?" Becoming nervous when she feels the cool brick on her back.
"Oh nothing." He looks up to the now star studded sky. "Just wandering on a beautiful night."
"Ah." She looks back to the door. "I'm waiting for someone, though. So, uh, nice to see you..." Kagome continues staring at the door. 'Come on Inuyasha, what's taking you so long?'
"Are you waiting for your cousin? Because if I remember correctly, that's who your here to see."
"Uh...no. He's not my cousin." When Kagome finally broke the sentry of the door and looked back towards Kouga, he was far closer than she expected. "Whoa." She would have collapsed if the wall were not pressing against her. Without anywhere to run, Kagome watches him inch closer.
"Just give me a chance." Kouga puts his hands on the wall, on either side of Kagome's head. "Just one chance. After that, its all your choice."
"But I don't even..." he quickly takes to opportunity to kiss her.
"Get off her you filthy mutt!" Inuyasha sinks his fist deeply into Kouga's ribs, which grabbed Kouga's attention rather quickly. Stammering back a few steps after the blow from Inuyasha, Kouga looks over at the 'Lowly 2nd year hanyou that he was far more superior than in more ways than one.'
"What do you want?" Kouga snaps. Inuyasha stares at him and gets startled when Kagome latches herself to his arm. He could've sworn he heard a whimper form in Kouga's throat.
"I should ask you the same fucking question."
"Run home hanyou-boy. You don't deserve a girl like her."
"Oh! But you do?" Inuyasha acts sarcastically surprised. That was Kouga's breaking point.
"God Damnit hanyou!" Kouga charges at Inuyasha, much too fast for him to predict. Inuyasha hit the ground hard, seemingly to move in slow motion.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome rushes to his side. "Are you alright?" Inuyasha smirks.
"This is why I hate wolves." He begins laughing as he slowly stands to his feet.
"That wasn't enough for you dog-boy?"
"Dog Boy?" Kouga smiles.
"Yeah, you heard me. I said DOG-BOY!" Kouga quickly pins Inuyasha to the ground as a crowd begins to gather.
"Get off..." Inuyasha struggles to take a full breath.
"Sorry mutt, I don't take requests." Kouga puts more pressure on Inuyasha's chest, right above his diaphragm (the muscle that allows you to breathe).
"Kouga! Get off him now!" Kagome finally finds her voice throughout the whole ordeal. "Please..." Kouga's attention quickly transfers from crushing Inuyasha's ribs to the elusive beauty that he so badly wanted. Grunting Kouga punches Inuyasha in the face one last time for good measure. Slowly standing, Kouga walks over to Kagome.
"This one was free, you owe me the next time I let this pathetic dog get away with his life."
"I don't appreciate the name calling used in front of me." Kagome glares at him. "Let this be a warning." Kouga scoffs and begins to walk away.
"Fucking dog." Kagome the nearest object and nails Kouga right in the back of the head. "You little..." He turns and looks at her.
"I warned you." She walks toward Inuyasha who was still struggling to gain back his breath. "Are you ok?" She kneels beside him.
"That really fu...I mean..." He coughs. "It hurt..." he touches his face.
"Come on Inuyasha. Let me get you home. I'll order a pizza or something." Kagome hears a struggled laugh.
"Just..." He tries to sit up with some difficulty. "...Give me a sec." He pants.
"Are you sure you're all right?" Inuyasha used Kagome for balance as he stands up.
"Yeah. I'll heal." He smiles.
"Lets get home." She puts his arm around her shoulders and she wraps her arm around his waist. "Can you breathe any better? He had his knee on you pretty hard."
"Some what..." He pauses. "Lets go home..."
*
"Hello?" Miroku opens the door. "Where are they?" He looks around the empty quarters. He checks the rooms to be sure... Just in case.
"They may be out at that line of shops around the corner." Sango looks at Miroku's worrying expression. "What's wrong?"
"What if something happened to her?"
"Nothing has happened to her. She's a strong girl, she could probably fend..." Both turn to the sound of an opening door. "My god, what happened?" Inuyashas panting had become worse.
"He got in a fight." Kagome leads him to the couch.
"With who?" Miroku leans against the back of the couch.
"Kouga." Kagome continues to study Inuyashas deteriorating condition, which was not getting any better.
"Kagome..." He opens his eyes to search for her. It was a harder task than he thought.
"Hm?"
"There's something..." He coughs again. He weakly points to the side of his neck. Miroku jumps when he saw the motion. Kagome squints and pulls out a small, clear, dart-like tube from the side of his neck.
"Give me that." Miroku grabs the dart from Kagome. "This is..." He brings it to his nose. "As I thought."
"What?" Sango looks at the vile.
"Poison. It attacks the lungs. But with youkai's and hanyou's it doesn't affect them as severely as it would a normal human. So Inuyasha should recover rather quickly."
"Damn you Kouga. You sick, sneaky bastard." Kagome whispers to herself, getting a weak chuckle from Inuyasha...the only one that could hear her comment.
WEE! I finally finished it! How'd ya like it? It actually didn't take me as long as I thought I was going to. AND I got my other fic up! YAY! Forbidden Thoughts. Sneaky Kouga ^^.
R and R. - -Ayame