Ch. 54 Onigumo

*Inuyasha's POV*

Hamurai grinned as I continued to stare at his arm.

Suddenly Kagome walked up behind me with a friend of hers, she stopped for a second to look at Hamurai's arm, then she laughed as she continued on her way. I would have yelled at her then, but I was still not over the shock of seeing my girlfriend's name burned into one of her ex-boyfriend's arm.

After a few more minutes of this, Hamurai finally decided to explain.

"See when I dated Kagome it was back in 8th grade, and we were all pretty, plainly put, stupid back then" he paused for a second, "Anywho, one of my friends" he glared at Keno "told me that girls were really into guys who would tattoo their name on your arm, and well since there was no way I could have gotten a tattoo then, we decided to use the engraving blocks, you know the ones that burn words into wood, on my arm. It hurt like hell, but the next day when I showed Kagome, she freaked out and dumped me, not believing she could have ever dated someone so stupid"

Ryo reached over and patted him on the shoulder, "harsh man"

Hamurai nodded, "she did apologize, but she still thought I was pretty stupid"

I sort of just nodded, 'man this guy is stupid', suddenly I noticed that the guy Ryo had introduced, as Onigumo hadn't said a word. I leaned over towards Ryo and whispered, "Hey why hasn't Onigumo talked yet?"

"I thought that was pretty obvious" Onigumo said coldly, I guess he heard me.

"Then why" I asked, getting a little bit pissed at this guy.

"Simply put, I hate you"

Now this was a little unexpected, "scuse me?" I asked just making sure that I heard right.

"I hate you," He said as if I was some redundant kid.

"Can I ask why?", was this guy really one of Kagome's exes? She must have had bad luck with guys, that is of course until she met me.

"I was Kagome's last boyfriend, she only dumped me because she moved, we should have still been together, but of course you swooped in on her, when she was vulnerable, and took her" he glared at me.

"Whoa dude" Ryo put his hand up, "calm down, trust me I know this guy, he normally doesn't need a girl to be vulnerable in order to get her" I looked over to me and grinned, "but I don't know, Kagome's is a whole different enchilada"

"Hey" now I was slightly annoyed.

"Just joking" Ryo smiled, then he leaned over and whispered, "trust me, I think she only went out with him because she was blackmailed or something"

I grinned, "well it was nice meeting" I glanced over to Onigumo, "some of you but I need to go find the Mrs." 'and go ask her what the freaking hell was going through her mind when she dated that asshole'

I wandered among the crowd for a few minutes before finally finding Kagome, she was sitting at a large table, and surrounded, by tons of giggling girls.

"Kagome" I shouted over the noise, she looked up at me.

"What?" she yelled back

"We need to talk" I believe she heard me because she got up and walked over to me.

She smiled at me, 'gods she has a cute smile' , "what do we need to talk about?"

"Your exes"

Her eyes suddenly widened and she glanced around quickly, "um let's talk about this outside"

I nodded and followed her out of the crowded restaurant.

As soon as we got outside she turned around and gave me a nervous look, "so how much do you know?"

I frowned a little, "how much should I know?"

"Uh, he he, all of it, you should know all of it, which I'll tell you" she gave me a bit of a forced smile, "where shall I start?"

"With Onigumo" I said sternly.

"Oh" she looked down for a second, "you see, my friends sort of pressured me into going out with him, to try and make the guy I had dumped before him jealous"

"Huh?"

"I was talked into dating him for some stupid reasons, I wanted to break up with him for awhile, he was a jerk. Anyway I sort of procrastinated, because I felt sorry for him, plus my friends told me I was probably being picky, no guys perfect," she took a step closer tome , "except you of course"

I gave her a stern expression, "finish the story"

"Um yeah, so when I found out I was moving I thought it was the perfect excuse for breaking up with him"

"and"

"that's all" she smiled.

I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Inuyasha that is it, end of story, now let's go in we're missing my party"

"ok" I decided we could pick this up later, "but I'm not done with you Higurashi"

She grinned and grabbed my arm before walking in.

We left just as it was about to get dark, Kagome's friends had gotten her a lot of going away presents, I'm not sure why they gave them to her now though, she said last time they sort of left in a hurry.

On the drive home , Kagome leaned on my shoulder and I could tell she was smiling, "you really did miss them all didn't you"

She looked up at me and nodded, I could see tears in her eyes. I reached down wiped her eyes with the one hand I wasn't using for steering, "you'll see them again"

She smiled a little wider and laid her head back on my shoulder, "thank you Inuyasha"

I looked down at her, "your welcome", 'I do love you', I smiled, even if it wasn't right to tell her yet, it's still nice to be able think it.

A/N sorry bout the short chapter, I promise I'll update tomorrow, oh yeah, I'm sorry bout the one shot I wrote, when according to my sister, I should have been writing another chapter to this.

Oh yeah another lil thing, I sort of lied about one of the spoilers, but it would be an even worse spoiler if I told you which one I lied about, because it will look like that's going to happen but it doesn't (still with me?). But if you really want to know just ask when you review. Yes the fire thing will be coming up very soon, (that was close I almost ruined that part of the plot by accident)

Word for the wise, do not under any circumstances crash a grocery cart full of cheese into a display of cutlery, even if it seem s like a really good idea at the time, because even if you are extremely skilled at getting away with really stupid things (though you consider them pretty funny), there's always a chance that your face, or your friends faces, may get caught on the surveillance tape

Oh yeah, someone pointed out (thank you for this) that I am setting a bad example or something; so um don't do the stuff I do. It's stupid and irresponsible an much worse things can happen than having your parents getting called at three in the morning and being told of your delinquency, trust me on this, much worse. The only reason I do them is because I never learn. So please be smarter than me.

P.S. I don't own Inuyasha, (I know I haven't said that in a while)

And the reason for the wait, is simply my computer is a bitch that won't let me get online. Thanx