Kagome's Wish
Chapter Seven- Mixed Emotions
By: inuyashasgirl789
Kagome walked up the stairs slowly, taking a step every few seconds. Sango who was many steps in front of the girl looked back at her friend, wondering why she seemed to be spaced out. The hug couldn't have done this to her right? Sango knew they hated each other and that Kagome would rather run around the school naked than willingly hug him. But then, it WAS just a hug and what its doing to her was just plain CREEPY!
"Hey Kagome...are you...okay?" Sango asked and went back down the steps to walk next to Kagome.
"No I am not okay," Kagome said as she started sweating for some reason. She wiped at the sweat on her forehead and blew air out. "This is killing me!"
"Its killing you because you hugged Inuyasha on accident and he said he actually liked it?!" Sango asked, guessing that she was right about why her best friend looked all nervous and sweating. She looked like she was in pain too...
"WHAT!? YOU THINK---" Kagome screamed, her eyes wide as saucers. "You think THAT was killing me!? Oh no! No no no no no no no! THIS is killing me!" Kagome shouted and pointed behind her at her HUGE bag of plushes that she was dragging up the stairs.
"Oh...umm...whoops...?" Sango whispered sheepishly and rubbed at the back of her head. "Hey Kag...can I ask you something?"
Kagome, who had slits for eyes since she was annoyed that Sango thought Inuyasha, of all people, was making her nervous and sweating, hissed out viciously, "what!?"
"Do you umm...like...Inuyasha?" Sango squeaked out quickly, fearing her head will be sliced off pretty soon.
"Do I----Do I------like---INUYASHA?!" Kagome yelled in such a loud voice that parts of the ceiling crumbled and fell down on Sango's head. "NOOOO!!!"
Sango squeaked as she felt Kagome's aura blow sky high.
"I will NEVER like that ass!" Kagome screamed and ran up the stairs pulling her bag of plushes along behind her like it weighed as light as a feather.
"Whoops..." Sango said as she watched Kagome disappear from view."I guess that that was the wrong thing to say..."
Kagome trudged up the staircase while pondering Sango's words over and over. Did she like Inuyasha? She didn't think so. I mean, it was just a hug and its not like she could stop hating him just because he told her he liked it. She still hated his guts and she still hated the way he would smile and she still hated the way he would talk and flirt...in short, she still hated everything about him. The only problem was whenever someone mentioned Inuyasha, the first thought that popped into her head was not about how she wanted to kill Inuyasha but rather when he said he enjoyed that little hug. That was annoying her but its not suppose to be a big deal...
"Ok...now where did I go and where is Sango..." Kagome grumbled to herself as she noticed that through all her anger, it had taken her to some unknown part of the castle. She spotted a soda stand and shrugged. Might as well stay in one place then walk around mindlessly.
She walked up to the stand and ordered a sprite. Leaning against the stand, she looked around for any signs of Sango or anyone else she knew. There was hardly anybody here and the few people who were here, she didn't even know.
"Heres your sprite," the young guy behind the counter said and handed Kagome over her soda.
Saying thanks, Kagome took a seat on one of the benches nearby and continued to look around for someone. The history classes were big! How come she couldn't even see ONE person she knew.
Sipping her sprite quietly, she stared at the bag of plushes in front of her and the first thing that stood out to her was the cat. It was right there, staring back up at her with those enormous cute eyes. Inuyasha had given that to her...
"HEY KAGOME!" someone screamed in front of the girl, giving her such a fright that she sprayed the soda all over the person's face until the person was barely recognizable.
Kagome gulped and took another long sip from her sprite to calm for rapidly beating heart. Taking another sip, she got ready for some screaming from whoever it was that was dripping wet with soda and probably very pissed.
"Kagome...it's me...Kouga," the guy said and wiped away the soda revealing Kouga's face.
Kagome's eyes widened to a considerable size and she sprayed the mouthful of sprite she had in her mouth all over Kouga again. Quickly grabbing her bag of plushes by a corner of the plastic, she made a dead sprint for the door, not caring where it took her as long as it was anywhere far away from Kouga. She would have rather met no one at all in that place than having to meet him while she was alone. That guy was spooky and Kagome swore that he stalks her because he always had pictures of her everywhere when she didn't remember taking a picture there. Was he...obsessed with her?
Running through a big hall, she saw another door at the end and quickly opened it. In her haste, she clicked the lock closed on the outside of the door without knowing and slammed the door shut on the inside. Heaving a big sigh of relief, she just wasn't ready for the next shock.
"Ka...Kagome?" a very familiar voice asked and Kagome froze as she felt her blood turn cold.
Peeking just one eye open, she turned around and came face to face with Inuyasha. "AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed, loud enough to deafen the poor guy in front of her.
"It IS you!" they both shouted in each other's face and had their mouths open.
"Oh screw my life," Kagome mumbled angrily to herself and tried turning the doorknob. She suddenly gulped and tried turning the doorknob again. Panic rising to the surface of her emotions had her taking in deep breaths as she twisted the doorknob this way and that trying to make it turn. "AAAAH! DOORKNOB! LET ME OUT!"
Inuyasha just stared at her in shock. "You...locked us in!?!?!!" he demanded with wide eyes.
"No I di---Yes I di---I mean! No! YES! AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Kagome screamed out in frustration and clutched her head. "This isn't happening! I can't be stuck in a damn room with the biggest jerk on Earth!!!" she screamed and slid down onto the ground, putting her face in her hands in horrible resignation.
"Well I'm sorry for being a JERK!" Inuyasha hissed out angrily and looked at the pathetic pile on the ground. "You make me sick..."
"Well, you make me sick too," Kagome grumbled irately before turning around and leaning on the door to stare around the room in observation. This time, Kagome's eyes were wide with horror and she squeaked while covering her eyes. This couldn't be happening...
Inuyasha grinned like he had just won the lottery at seeing the strong fear in Kagome's eyes. "I see you don't like this room very much, huh?" he questioned as he smirked at having the upper hand.
"Oh no! I looooove this room!" Kagome grumbled as sarcastically as she could from her hands and shook her head. "I just don't like seeing things like this..."
"Come on! Its just how people were tortured in the castles years and years ago! Its just some people getting their heads chopped off, people hanged from the ceiling by a chain connecting the ceiling to their belly button, people having their tongues pulled off, people being stretched---" Inuyasha was just beginning to tell the nasty details about the room when Kagome threw one of her big plushes at him.
"Be quiet!!" she squeaked out loudly while her heart thumped in her face as those descriptions were just graphically drawn in her mind from her trepidation.
"Well learn to love this room because I think we'll be stuck in here for a while, thanks to you," Inuyasha stated and walked to the other side of the room, leaving poor Kagome alone.
"I really do hate you, Inuyasha. I really, really do," Kagome said quietly and looked down at the ground. "You can HAVE your stupid cat back," Kagome growled and picked up her bag of toys, searching through it for the plush. "Where is it..." she whispered to herself while digging through the mess of animals.
"So? Where is it?" Inuyasha asked, watching the girl dig through her enormous bag of toys.
"Umm...I don't have it right now. I'll give it to you later," Kagome said and frowned at Inuyasha. She didn't know where the plush was but she had an idea that she might have dropped it at where she had met Kouga. She's guessing that in her haste, she dropped it without knowing. Only problem is she hopes Kouga picked it up and is holding it for her or else she wouldn't know what to give back to Inuyasha. Her sewing skills aint great either. Hey...wait! Why would she sew the cat back for INUYASHA?! She'll just tell him she lost it if she couldn't find it.
"I bet you lost it or threw it off from the tower," Inuyasha said and shrugged as he looked the other way. "Not like I care though."
"Heh..." Kagome said and from then on, the two of them were on mute, each of them on the opposite sides of the room.
Kagome hugged her knees to herself and laid her chin on them while keeping her eyes closed and shaking slightly. This was the most perfectly horrible place to be right now. In a horror/torture room with the biggest moron on the face of the earth. God was so nice to her...
Inuyasha looked at the girl across the room with his bright golden eyes and sighed. She was being stubborn and he knew it by the way she was shaking slightly and how she kept on mumbling incoherent things to herself. He wasn't trying to be mean by leaving a girl on the other side of the room while she was scared out of her wits. Its just...this was Kagome! And why was he even thinking about her...
Kagome squeaked really loudly when she felt the slight touch of fabric brushing down her arm. This brought a chill down her spine and her heart missing a beat. Screaming, she swatted at what it was with her hands while continuing to keep her eyes shut to the world.
Two warm hands grabbed both of hers and held her still while it commanded, "Shut up Kagome! It's just me!"
Opening her eyes abruptly, she came face to face with a very pissed Inuyasha who looked like some of Kagome's swats had hit him smack on the cheeks. His cheeks were glowing a slight red but his eyes were ablaze with a fiery glow as he stared intently at the girl in front of him until she calmed down a slight.
"Are you done hitting me yet?"
Kagome blushed a light rosy color from her embarrassment and felt her heart rate go higher instead of lower. Taking in deep breaths to try and calm her heart which was going at express rate and which was thumping loudly in her head, she refused to meet the rapt stare of the guy in front of her but rather gazed at both their hands intertwined together in her lap. This only made her face a deeper red and her mind explode with thousands of thoughts running through them as she felt the heat overwhelm her.
"Are we...are we going to get out from this place?" Kagome asked quietly, trying to make her mind's train of thought change directions.
"I don---" Inuyasha began but at that time, Kagome had looked up at him and gasped.
"Oh my god...I'm sorry!" Kagome exclaimed when she remembered how red his cheeks were.
Without thinking, she separated one of their hands and reached to brush her fingers lightly across his cheek. Kagome gulped when she fully realized she had just done something really "friendly" to someone who she was suppose to hate.
Inuyasha shuddered at the contact and gulped nervously as he felt his face grow heated and heart beat at a nearly painful speed. His hatred for Kagome vanished like water being poured over fire to extinguish it. The only thing left behind was a diminutive tingle that spread from his head to the tip of his toes. His breath caught in his throat when Kagome brushed her fingers from his ear to his chin as they both kept their intense eye contact.
As sudden as she had did that action, she retracted her hand back twice as fast and flushed an almost crimson color. Looking the other way, she mumbled a slurred apology and extracted her other hand away from his vaguely trembling grip.
Still blushing, Kagome looked at Inuyasha and asked, "Does it sting?"
"No," Inuyasha grumbled, trying to pretend that Kagome touching his cheeks wasn't a big deal.
But through the dim, shadowy light, it lit up both their faces perfectly precise and showed that in fact, both of them were still flushing from the uncalled-for action. Turning away from each other in awkwardness, they chose to fix their sights on something else which was very interesting--- the floor and the ceiling.
Suddenly, a pained groan erupted from the other side of the room and Kagome squealed in fright before literally jumping onto Inuyasha's lap and hugging him around the chest in fear. Shaking with terror, she buried her head in Inuyasha's chest and yelped out, "what was that!?" while breathing like she had just ran a mile in five minutes.
Inuyasha, who wasn't as freaked out as Kagome, imagining that the groan was a sound effect since this was obviously a torture room, patted Kagome's head softly and tried to pry her off of him.
Who knows who might just choose this time to come in and see them both like this! And since people believe what their eyes first see rather than believing in what was logical, some people might just take it the wrong way. Or maybe just because they were perverts like Miroku, but that's another story...
Inuyasha gently hushed the girl in his lap as he made small swirly patting gestures on Kagome's back to try to make her calm down. When Kagome finally settled down enough to look at Inuyasha, she took a glimpse around the room, trying to find the source of the groan but to no success.
Looking back up at the guy, she said, "I wanna go out!" and gave him a puppy-dog look which made Inuyasha melt although he didn't show it.
"We'll go out. Don't worry," he said and tucked a stray strand of hair behind Kagome's ear before giving her a reassuring smile.
"But I'm scared!"
"I'll protect you..."
"Huh....?"
"I said I'll protect you...forever..."
Now if those two weren't so caught up with each other, they would have noticed a pair of bright, yet flaring, cerulean eyes glaring at Inuyasha.
Guess who?
"Get your hands off my girlfriend!" Kouga shouted in a deafening voice while literally kicking the door down with his foot.
Kagome quickly scrambled off of Inuyasha's lap and stared at the open doorway on the left side of the opposite side of the room next to Kouga. A big sweat drop appeared on her head as she glanced over to Inuyasha who looked just as surprised as she was.
How blind were they not to notice the second door?!
"Don't you ever touch my girlfriend like that!!!" Kouga bellowed as his eyes held a livid look.
Running over to Inuyasha in his natural athletic speed, Kouga flew his fists at Inuyasha's face before Inuyasha side stepped and avoided the blow with Kouga losing control and instead, landing his fists on the first door. This caused it to crack and split while the people on the big hall outside just stared at the fist protruding from the thick wooden door.
Retracting his hands, Kouga scowled daggers at Inuyasha who was currently looking at the enormous hole in the door with wide eyes. Kouga WAS angry and he HAD taken the scene wrong.
"Kouga-kun!!!" Kagome tried screaming but it seemed like the guy wasn't listening and his only intention was on hurting Inuyasha...seriously.
"Kouga you shit hole!" Inuyasha shouted as he ducked to avoid one of Kouga's fists. Twisting 180 degrees, he stared at Kouga with his back to one of those horror displays which had a hard, concrete cage around it. "Don't take what you saw seriously!" he tried reasoning but Kouga just wasn't listening to anyone.
"I'm going to kill you, you bloody DOG!" Kouga shouted in pure rage and landed a kick at Inuyasha's abdomen and sent him flying backwards, skidding to a stop right in front of the display.
"STOP FIGHTING!" Kagome screamed loud and clear, having enough of their fighting and throwing herself right in the middle of the fight.
That was one bad idea.
Kouga, who had been running at his fastest speed, withdrew his fists as he finally noticed that Kagome was right in front of him. Unfortunately, momentum carried him running and he couldn't stop in time, resulting in him smashing right into Kagome. She exhaled sharply as the air was knocked out of her and both of them were sent hurtling backwards through the air.
Inuyasha's eyes grew to the size of pans as he watched the two hurtle back very close to him. He was frozen in place as the air in his lungs refused to let him breathe and his heart had seemed to stop in time.
By simple pure luck or something, Kouga and Kagome whizzed right pass him when he blinked his eyes and he gulped as he turned around so quickly, it was a surprise that he didn't break his neck in the feat.
He watched in horror as Kagome collided with the concrete cage, her eyes wide, with pain evident in them as her head knocked hard against the concrete. Kouga landed sharply on Kagome's stomach, sprawled horizontally as he rolled down onto her lap, moaning something about broken bones.
People who were peeping in had horror in their eyes as they watched the girl's head loll forward with bright blood revealing on the concrete behind.
Inuyasha had his mouth open in shock as he clambered over to Kagome quickly while a familiar scream from behind signaled that Kagome's best friend had just seen the scene.
Shaking the girl roughly, he shouted, "KAGOME! ARE YOU ALRIGHT!? KAGOME! ANSWER ME! SOMEONE FUCKING CALL THE HOSPITAL!" The people stared back at him with weird looks until one decent soul finally whipped out his cell and dialed the emergency number.
Kagome had her eyes half open as she stared at the fuzzy images in front of her. Why did her head hurt this much? Why was everything fuzzy? Why can't someone get that weight off of her lap!?
Sango screamed in plain panic and worry as she watched her best friend's eyes close more. "What happened!?" she screamed at Inuyasha as she shook him like a rag doll while watching more blood drip from the back of Kagome's head. "WHAT DID YOU DO!?"
Inuyasha looked at her with the most confused and terrified expression he had given anyone and he quickly shot a worried glance over at Kagome who by now had her eyes open to a slit. Fret etched across his face as he finally heard the people tell him the ambulance was on its way.
Kagome took in ragged breaths as she felt the darkness creep to her mind and try to swallow her whole. Closing her eyes and welcoming the darkness, "Kagome! Be alright! I LO---Just be alright!" was the last thing she heard before the darkness embraced her in its peaceful sleep and the world was blacked out.
Chapter Seven- Mixed Emotions
By: inuyashasgirl789
Kagome walked up the stairs slowly, taking a step every few seconds. Sango who was many steps in front of the girl looked back at her friend, wondering why she seemed to be spaced out. The hug couldn't have done this to her right? Sango knew they hated each other and that Kagome would rather run around the school naked than willingly hug him. But then, it WAS just a hug and what its doing to her was just plain CREEPY!
"Hey Kagome...are you...okay?" Sango asked and went back down the steps to walk next to Kagome.
"No I am not okay," Kagome said as she started sweating for some reason. She wiped at the sweat on her forehead and blew air out. "This is killing me!"
"Its killing you because you hugged Inuyasha on accident and he said he actually liked it?!" Sango asked, guessing that she was right about why her best friend looked all nervous and sweating. She looked like she was in pain too...
"WHAT!? YOU THINK---" Kagome screamed, her eyes wide as saucers. "You think THAT was killing me!? Oh no! No no no no no no no! THIS is killing me!" Kagome shouted and pointed behind her at her HUGE bag of plushes that she was dragging up the stairs.
"Oh...umm...whoops...?" Sango whispered sheepishly and rubbed at the back of her head. "Hey Kag...can I ask you something?"
Kagome, who had slits for eyes since she was annoyed that Sango thought Inuyasha, of all people, was making her nervous and sweating, hissed out viciously, "what!?"
"Do you umm...like...Inuyasha?" Sango squeaked out quickly, fearing her head will be sliced off pretty soon.
"Do I----Do I------like---INUYASHA?!" Kagome yelled in such a loud voice that parts of the ceiling crumbled and fell down on Sango's head. "NOOOO!!!"
Sango squeaked as she felt Kagome's aura blow sky high.
"I will NEVER like that ass!" Kagome screamed and ran up the stairs pulling her bag of plushes along behind her like it weighed as light as a feather.
"Whoops..." Sango said as she watched Kagome disappear from view."I guess that that was the wrong thing to say..."
Kagome trudged up the staircase while pondering Sango's words over and over. Did she like Inuyasha? She didn't think so. I mean, it was just a hug and its not like she could stop hating him just because he told her he liked it. She still hated his guts and she still hated the way he would smile and she still hated the way he would talk and flirt...in short, she still hated everything about him. The only problem was whenever someone mentioned Inuyasha, the first thought that popped into her head was not about how she wanted to kill Inuyasha but rather when he said he enjoyed that little hug. That was annoying her but its not suppose to be a big deal...
"Ok...now where did I go and where is Sango..." Kagome grumbled to herself as she noticed that through all her anger, it had taken her to some unknown part of the castle. She spotted a soda stand and shrugged. Might as well stay in one place then walk around mindlessly.
She walked up to the stand and ordered a sprite. Leaning against the stand, she looked around for any signs of Sango or anyone else she knew. There was hardly anybody here and the few people who were here, she didn't even know.
"Heres your sprite," the young guy behind the counter said and handed Kagome over her soda.
Saying thanks, Kagome took a seat on one of the benches nearby and continued to look around for someone. The history classes were big! How come she couldn't even see ONE person she knew.
Sipping her sprite quietly, she stared at the bag of plushes in front of her and the first thing that stood out to her was the cat. It was right there, staring back up at her with those enormous cute eyes. Inuyasha had given that to her...
"HEY KAGOME!" someone screamed in front of the girl, giving her such a fright that she sprayed the soda all over the person's face until the person was barely recognizable.
Kagome gulped and took another long sip from her sprite to calm for rapidly beating heart. Taking another sip, she got ready for some screaming from whoever it was that was dripping wet with soda and probably very pissed.
"Kagome...it's me...Kouga," the guy said and wiped away the soda revealing Kouga's face.
Kagome's eyes widened to a considerable size and she sprayed the mouthful of sprite she had in her mouth all over Kouga again. Quickly grabbing her bag of plushes by a corner of the plastic, she made a dead sprint for the door, not caring where it took her as long as it was anywhere far away from Kouga. She would have rather met no one at all in that place than having to meet him while she was alone. That guy was spooky and Kagome swore that he stalks her because he always had pictures of her everywhere when she didn't remember taking a picture there. Was he...obsessed with her?
Running through a big hall, she saw another door at the end and quickly opened it. In her haste, she clicked the lock closed on the outside of the door without knowing and slammed the door shut on the inside. Heaving a big sigh of relief, she just wasn't ready for the next shock.
"Ka...Kagome?" a very familiar voice asked and Kagome froze as she felt her blood turn cold.
Peeking just one eye open, she turned around and came face to face with Inuyasha. "AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed, loud enough to deafen the poor guy in front of her.
"It IS you!" they both shouted in each other's face and had their mouths open.
"Oh screw my life," Kagome mumbled angrily to herself and tried turning the doorknob. She suddenly gulped and tried turning the doorknob again. Panic rising to the surface of her emotions had her taking in deep breaths as she twisted the doorknob this way and that trying to make it turn. "AAAAH! DOORKNOB! LET ME OUT!"
Inuyasha just stared at her in shock. "You...locked us in!?!?!!" he demanded with wide eyes.
"No I di---Yes I di---I mean! No! YES! AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Kagome screamed out in frustration and clutched her head. "This isn't happening! I can't be stuck in a damn room with the biggest jerk on Earth!!!" she screamed and slid down onto the ground, putting her face in her hands in horrible resignation.
"Well I'm sorry for being a JERK!" Inuyasha hissed out angrily and looked at the pathetic pile on the ground. "You make me sick..."
"Well, you make me sick too," Kagome grumbled irately before turning around and leaning on the door to stare around the room in observation. This time, Kagome's eyes were wide with horror and she squeaked while covering her eyes. This couldn't be happening...
Inuyasha grinned like he had just won the lottery at seeing the strong fear in Kagome's eyes. "I see you don't like this room very much, huh?" he questioned as he smirked at having the upper hand.
"Oh no! I looooove this room!" Kagome grumbled as sarcastically as she could from her hands and shook her head. "I just don't like seeing things like this..."
"Come on! Its just how people were tortured in the castles years and years ago! Its just some people getting their heads chopped off, people hanged from the ceiling by a chain connecting the ceiling to their belly button, people having their tongues pulled off, people being stretched---" Inuyasha was just beginning to tell the nasty details about the room when Kagome threw one of her big plushes at him.
"Be quiet!!" she squeaked out loudly while her heart thumped in her face as those descriptions were just graphically drawn in her mind from her trepidation.
"Well learn to love this room because I think we'll be stuck in here for a while, thanks to you," Inuyasha stated and walked to the other side of the room, leaving poor Kagome alone.
"I really do hate you, Inuyasha. I really, really do," Kagome said quietly and looked down at the ground. "You can HAVE your stupid cat back," Kagome growled and picked up her bag of toys, searching through it for the plush. "Where is it..." she whispered to herself while digging through the mess of animals.
"So? Where is it?" Inuyasha asked, watching the girl dig through her enormous bag of toys.
"Umm...I don't have it right now. I'll give it to you later," Kagome said and frowned at Inuyasha. She didn't know where the plush was but she had an idea that she might have dropped it at where she had met Kouga. She's guessing that in her haste, she dropped it without knowing. Only problem is she hopes Kouga picked it up and is holding it for her or else she wouldn't know what to give back to Inuyasha. Her sewing skills aint great either. Hey...wait! Why would she sew the cat back for INUYASHA?! She'll just tell him she lost it if she couldn't find it.
"I bet you lost it or threw it off from the tower," Inuyasha said and shrugged as he looked the other way. "Not like I care though."
"Heh..." Kagome said and from then on, the two of them were on mute, each of them on the opposite sides of the room.
Kagome hugged her knees to herself and laid her chin on them while keeping her eyes closed and shaking slightly. This was the most perfectly horrible place to be right now. In a horror/torture room with the biggest moron on the face of the earth. God was so nice to her...
Inuyasha looked at the girl across the room with his bright golden eyes and sighed. She was being stubborn and he knew it by the way she was shaking slightly and how she kept on mumbling incoherent things to herself. He wasn't trying to be mean by leaving a girl on the other side of the room while she was scared out of her wits. Its just...this was Kagome! And why was he even thinking about her...
Kagome squeaked really loudly when she felt the slight touch of fabric brushing down her arm. This brought a chill down her spine and her heart missing a beat. Screaming, she swatted at what it was with her hands while continuing to keep her eyes shut to the world.
Two warm hands grabbed both of hers and held her still while it commanded, "Shut up Kagome! It's just me!"
Opening her eyes abruptly, she came face to face with a very pissed Inuyasha who looked like some of Kagome's swats had hit him smack on the cheeks. His cheeks were glowing a slight red but his eyes were ablaze with a fiery glow as he stared intently at the girl in front of him until she calmed down a slight.
"Are you done hitting me yet?"
Kagome blushed a light rosy color from her embarrassment and felt her heart rate go higher instead of lower. Taking in deep breaths to try and calm her heart which was going at express rate and which was thumping loudly in her head, she refused to meet the rapt stare of the guy in front of her but rather gazed at both their hands intertwined together in her lap. This only made her face a deeper red and her mind explode with thousands of thoughts running through them as she felt the heat overwhelm her.
"Are we...are we going to get out from this place?" Kagome asked quietly, trying to make her mind's train of thought change directions.
"I don---" Inuyasha began but at that time, Kagome had looked up at him and gasped.
"Oh my god...I'm sorry!" Kagome exclaimed when she remembered how red his cheeks were.
Without thinking, she separated one of their hands and reached to brush her fingers lightly across his cheek. Kagome gulped when she fully realized she had just done something really "friendly" to someone who she was suppose to hate.
Inuyasha shuddered at the contact and gulped nervously as he felt his face grow heated and heart beat at a nearly painful speed. His hatred for Kagome vanished like water being poured over fire to extinguish it. The only thing left behind was a diminutive tingle that spread from his head to the tip of his toes. His breath caught in his throat when Kagome brushed her fingers from his ear to his chin as they both kept their intense eye contact.
As sudden as she had did that action, she retracted her hand back twice as fast and flushed an almost crimson color. Looking the other way, she mumbled a slurred apology and extracted her other hand away from his vaguely trembling grip.
Still blushing, Kagome looked at Inuyasha and asked, "Does it sting?"
"No," Inuyasha grumbled, trying to pretend that Kagome touching his cheeks wasn't a big deal.
But through the dim, shadowy light, it lit up both their faces perfectly precise and showed that in fact, both of them were still flushing from the uncalled-for action. Turning away from each other in awkwardness, they chose to fix their sights on something else which was very interesting--- the floor and the ceiling.
Suddenly, a pained groan erupted from the other side of the room and Kagome squealed in fright before literally jumping onto Inuyasha's lap and hugging him around the chest in fear. Shaking with terror, she buried her head in Inuyasha's chest and yelped out, "what was that!?" while breathing like she had just ran a mile in five minutes.
Inuyasha, who wasn't as freaked out as Kagome, imagining that the groan was a sound effect since this was obviously a torture room, patted Kagome's head softly and tried to pry her off of him.
Who knows who might just choose this time to come in and see them both like this! And since people believe what their eyes first see rather than believing in what was logical, some people might just take it the wrong way. Or maybe just because they were perverts like Miroku, but that's another story...
Inuyasha gently hushed the girl in his lap as he made small swirly patting gestures on Kagome's back to try to make her calm down. When Kagome finally settled down enough to look at Inuyasha, she took a glimpse around the room, trying to find the source of the groan but to no success.
Looking back up at the guy, she said, "I wanna go out!" and gave him a puppy-dog look which made Inuyasha melt although he didn't show it.
"We'll go out. Don't worry," he said and tucked a stray strand of hair behind Kagome's ear before giving her a reassuring smile.
"But I'm scared!"
"I'll protect you..."
"Huh....?"
"I said I'll protect you...forever..."
Now if those two weren't so caught up with each other, they would have noticed a pair of bright, yet flaring, cerulean eyes glaring at Inuyasha.
Guess who?
"Get your hands off my girlfriend!" Kouga shouted in a deafening voice while literally kicking the door down with his foot.
Kagome quickly scrambled off of Inuyasha's lap and stared at the open doorway on the left side of the opposite side of the room next to Kouga. A big sweat drop appeared on her head as she glanced over to Inuyasha who looked just as surprised as she was.
How blind were they not to notice the second door?!
"Don't you ever touch my girlfriend like that!!!" Kouga bellowed as his eyes held a livid look.
Running over to Inuyasha in his natural athletic speed, Kouga flew his fists at Inuyasha's face before Inuyasha side stepped and avoided the blow with Kouga losing control and instead, landing his fists on the first door. This caused it to crack and split while the people on the big hall outside just stared at the fist protruding from the thick wooden door.
Retracting his hands, Kouga scowled daggers at Inuyasha who was currently looking at the enormous hole in the door with wide eyes. Kouga WAS angry and he HAD taken the scene wrong.
"Kouga-kun!!!" Kagome tried screaming but it seemed like the guy wasn't listening and his only intention was on hurting Inuyasha...seriously.
"Kouga you shit hole!" Inuyasha shouted as he ducked to avoid one of Kouga's fists. Twisting 180 degrees, he stared at Kouga with his back to one of those horror displays which had a hard, concrete cage around it. "Don't take what you saw seriously!" he tried reasoning but Kouga just wasn't listening to anyone.
"I'm going to kill you, you bloody DOG!" Kouga shouted in pure rage and landed a kick at Inuyasha's abdomen and sent him flying backwards, skidding to a stop right in front of the display.
"STOP FIGHTING!" Kagome screamed loud and clear, having enough of their fighting and throwing herself right in the middle of the fight.
That was one bad idea.
Kouga, who had been running at his fastest speed, withdrew his fists as he finally noticed that Kagome was right in front of him. Unfortunately, momentum carried him running and he couldn't stop in time, resulting in him smashing right into Kagome. She exhaled sharply as the air was knocked out of her and both of them were sent hurtling backwards through the air.
Inuyasha's eyes grew to the size of pans as he watched the two hurtle back very close to him. He was frozen in place as the air in his lungs refused to let him breathe and his heart had seemed to stop in time.
By simple pure luck or something, Kouga and Kagome whizzed right pass him when he blinked his eyes and he gulped as he turned around so quickly, it was a surprise that he didn't break his neck in the feat.
He watched in horror as Kagome collided with the concrete cage, her eyes wide, with pain evident in them as her head knocked hard against the concrete. Kouga landed sharply on Kagome's stomach, sprawled horizontally as he rolled down onto her lap, moaning something about broken bones.
People who were peeping in had horror in their eyes as they watched the girl's head loll forward with bright blood revealing on the concrete behind.
Inuyasha had his mouth open in shock as he clambered over to Kagome quickly while a familiar scream from behind signaled that Kagome's best friend had just seen the scene.
Shaking the girl roughly, he shouted, "KAGOME! ARE YOU ALRIGHT!? KAGOME! ANSWER ME! SOMEONE FUCKING CALL THE HOSPITAL!" The people stared back at him with weird looks until one decent soul finally whipped out his cell and dialed the emergency number.
Kagome had her eyes half open as she stared at the fuzzy images in front of her. Why did her head hurt this much? Why was everything fuzzy? Why can't someone get that weight off of her lap!?
Sango screamed in plain panic and worry as she watched her best friend's eyes close more. "What happened!?" she screamed at Inuyasha as she shook him like a rag doll while watching more blood drip from the back of Kagome's head. "WHAT DID YOU DO!?"
Inuyasha looked at her with the most confused and terrified expression he had given anyone and he quickly shot a worried glance over at Kagome who by now had her eyes open to a slit. Fret etched across his face as he finally heard the people tell him the ambulance was on its way.
Kagome took in ragged breaths as she felt the darkness creep to her mind and try to swallow her whole. Closing her eyes and welcoming the darkness, "Kagome! Be alright! I LO---Just be alright!" was the last thing she heard before the darkness embraced her in its peaceful sleep and the world was blacked out.