Ch. 6: The Kiss
me: sorry for not updating! Our school is having benchmark finals, so yeah!
Kikyo: ....I update my fanfics when there are finals....
me: and look what kind of grades YOU get....
Kikyo: excuse me?!?!
me: well, you failed math, didn't you?
Kikyo: *shifty look* uh.......I may have...
me: *sighs* my point exactly. Well, have a good time reading this chapter, and please review!
Kikyo: it was HARD math!!
Sango sighed and leaned against the cold stone wall of Kaede's house. "Houshi-sama, you should really take those stupid scrolls off. The longer you keep them off, the madder InuYasha will get. He's not stupid, you know."
"He acts stupid...." Shippo muttered. Since there was no InuYasha around to hit him, he continued. "That stupid dog is probably up in Kagome's tree right now, just moping. I think Miroku should keep them on a little while longer."
"I will take them off tomorrow, at daybreak." Miroku announced. "I can simply say that I was trying to keep Shippo from falling in."
"InuYasha doesn't care if Shippo falls in...." Sango pointed out.
"True, true..." Miroku mused. "I'll think of something else." Shippo sat and glared at everyone, his large kitsune eyes narrowed in anger.
"I wish Kagome was here..." he pouted. Miroku scooted a little closer to Sango.
"InuYasha and Kagome are both gone... maybe I should keep the scrolls on a little longer, to give us some alone time?" The houshi smiled at Sango. She glared back.
"Get away from me...." Sango scowled.
"Sango, I've been wondering, would you-"
*SLAP*
The injured houshi scooted back over, his eyes still mischievous. "Is that a yes or a no?" Sango turned away to hide the smile that was spreading across her face. She wouldn't answer that question, not yet...
Back in modern times....
"What?! No, there is no way I am kissing InuYasha!" Kagome shrieked, her face red with embarrassment. Yuka shrugged, picking up the phone on Kagome's desk.
"Fine then. What's Sesshomauru's number, InuYasha?" she asked, an evil grin spreading over her face. InuYasha glanced at Kagome. She held his gaze for about two seconds, before she felt her face grow hot. She stared at the floor. This was really horrible. She'd dreamed of kissing InuYasha many times before, but never in her room, and NEVER in front of her friends... This was so stupid, but she had no choice... Kagome snapped her head up, a determined look in her eyes.
"Alright, since you guys are going to be such babies about it..." Kagome glared pointedly at her friends, her voice cold. "I'll kiss him." InuYasha's eyes were the size of plates. She turned to face him, the determined look fading with each passing second. "A-Are you ready, InuYasha?"
"I...guess so...." The hanyou wore a look that Kagome had never seen before. He looked so young, so embarrassed and so...hopeful? He sat directly across from her, barely two feet away. Kagome squinched her eyes shut, waiting for him to kiss her and be done with it. She slowly pushed her face forward. Nothing was happening. Kagome could hear her friends squealing in anticipation. She cracked one eye open slightly. InuYasha was slowly, very slowly, coming closer. She had never been this close to him before. Kagome snapped her eye shut again, pushing her face forward as she did so. Their faces touched. Someone, it sounded like Yuka, sighed.
"This is so romantic!" Eri squeaked. Kagome was bewildered. He seemed to be kissing her very easily. It was almost as if....
As if he had kissed her before...Kagome's eyes snapped open and she pulled herself away, leaving InuYasha looking very confused.
He...he has kissed me before... well, a part of me, anyways. He's kissed Kikyo. And he's thinking of her. I-I forgot for a moment. Im just her replacement, the shard detector. These thoughts invaded Kagome's head, making her eyes fill up with tears. How could she have forgotten about Kikyo? "Listen...can you guys just go? I....I think I have a fever or something..." Kagome sat down heavily on her bed. For once, her friends listened to her.
"Sure, Kagome-chan...call me if you need anything..." Ayumi whispered. Yuka and Eri threw dirty looks at InuYasha as they gathered their stuff and left.
"Kagome...what's wrong?" InuYasha asked, a genuine note of concern in his voice. Kagome flinched at the sound of his voice.
"Look, InuYasha...can you just go back out into the tree? We can check the well in the morning..." Kagome said softly.
"Kagome, what is wrong? Just tell me!" His voice raised an octave, making Kagome flinch even more. She turned to face him, her tear-streaked face suddenly fierce.
"You were thinking of Kikyo! Don't try to deny it! Every time you look at me, every time you see me, you think of her! She's the one you love! It doesn't matter about my feelings for you, InuYasha, because somehow, you can't see past my looks...you just....can't..." Kagome's voice faltered, tears dripping down onto her uniform. "Just go...please go. I can't talk to you anymore tonight." She glanced up at his face. His eyes looked hurt, just for a second. Then they turned cold.
" Trust me, you are nothing like Kikyo. I'll see you tomorrow." With that, he hopped out the window. Kagome watched him settle into the tree, and then she closed the curtains.
"You don't know me...." she whispered. "You don't know anything about me." Kagome sat back down on her bed and cried until she fell asleep.
kyo: I knew he loved me better! Ha!
Me: ...I shouldn't have written that...
Kikyo: InuYasha loves ME! *evil laugh*
Ed-chan (from school!): *pushes Kikyo into the well* what a psycho....