Reminders: Remember Inuyasha doesn't know Kikyou was part of Kagome's
kidnap...Kagome never told him. Just remember that. ;D
Kagome's Wish
Chapter 18: Distraction to an Unspoken Truth
By: inuyashasgirl789
It was really strange when your mind was empty. Have you ever felt that before? If someone pried open your brain and stared at what you were thinking, they'd only see a lone tumbleweed pass by in your blank mind, and nothing else.
Really, she didn't know what she was thinking about. Every time she would try and think about something, only Inuyasha's face would appear before her and she would grin like a madwoman, before going back to her vegetated state.
It was absolutely amazing what three simple words could do to a girl, especially from the person she adored. Please don't deny it ladies because you know it's true. Those three, seemingly insignificant, words could do wonders to even the most stoic girl in the world, and Kagome was just not an exception.
She was just sitting on her bed, having come home from Inuyasha's house, and even when Souta jumped onto her just to see her keel over, all she did was stand there looking strangely ahead. Of course, Souta got scared after just hanging onto his sister for a minute and she hadn't reacted, so he let go and promptly went to the kitchen, looking like a guilty puppy with its tail between its legs. Then, Kagome had just pasted on a huge creepy smile, and walked upstairs without another word.
Souta, with no doubt, was scared.
"Okaa-san! I think nee-chan has side effects from her kidnap," he whined to his mother, who was at the kitchen making lunch.
"Why so dear?" she answered, a warm smile on her face as always.
"Well, I jumped onto her, and she didn't react for a minute."
"Did she react after that?"
"No.I let go and she just walked upstairs with this big grin on her face."
Mrs. Higurashi put a hand happily over her heart. "My son, your sister is finally growing up," she said in a dramatic voice, which left Souta confused. Mrs. Higurashi looked questioningly at Souta, a grin on her face just like Kagome. "Hmm.a pink wedding dress or white one.?"
Souta's eyes widened. His family was going insane! All of them! Each and every one of them! Time to talk to a considerably 'normal' man in the house, since the females seemed to have all gone crazy .
He ran outside as fast as he could, searching for grandpa. [not that he is much help, ne?]
While, Kagome finally snapped some sense back into herself when a bird flew into her window. Blinking her eyes, she conclusively came up with the answer to what she had been trying to think. "Inuyasha.said.he loves me." Holding her hand over her heart, she smiled, this time not as big, but still very blissfully. Looking at the phone, she decided she'll have to call Inuyasha and.return the favor.
Dialing his number, she frowned when the phone was busy. "Probably Sesshoumaru on a business call?" she mused to herself, and put the phone down in her lap. "I guess I'll just have to call somebody else then."
*~*~*Fifteen Minutes Later.
Inuyasha hit his head repeatedly over and over using his own fists---like he had done for a few hours already. "I'm such an idiot! Idiot! IDIOT!" he shouted to no one, contemplating on using the wall instead of his fists. "How could I have just.burst that out in the heat of the moment!?" he yelled, deciding that the wall was a good alternative after all.
But he soon stopped, as he found the wall a very good, yet hard, alternative.
Rubbing his bruised head, he scowled menacingly. Kagome hadn't replied, she had just looked shocked, and when he meant shocked, it was more like traumatized. Her eyes were wide, and her mouth was open, while not a word was uttered from her lips.
Talking about her lips, he had KISSED her. He had kissed Kagome! "I'm so screwed!" he roared, and covered his face with his hands. 'Not that her lips weren't soft and---' Inuyasha let out a frustrated growl and shook his head in his hands. "I'm just a stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid---"
"Uncle Inuyasha? Someone's on the phone for you," a girly voice interrupted in front of him, a hint of surprise in her tone.
Taking his hands away from his face, Inuyasha saw Rin grinning and holding the phone out towards him, her eyes sparkling with questions that were just bursting to get out.
He shot a glance at her that told her not to ask anything about Kagome."Thanks." he whispered to his niece as he took the phone.
"You're welcome!" she said in a happy voice, skipping back over to the door.
Inuyasha was just about to lift the phone up to his ears before Rin spoke more, probably unaware of the warning look her uncle had given her before. "Can Rin call Miss. Kagome, Aunty Kagome now?" She beamed a toothy smile over to her suddenly extremely red uncle, who looked ready to faint any moment.
"Rin! If you utter another word about what we talked about." He left the threat open in the air, but Rin didn't seem to notice.
"Rin want lots and lots of cousins to play with!" she giggled happily, before closing the door and skipping down the corridor, oblivious to the horrified expression on Inuyasha's face.
"Kids!" he snarled, wondering what the world taught their children nowadays, forgetting that he himself wasn't technically an adult yet. "That darned Sesshoumaru! I don't know how he could have raised such a happy child."
Remembering that he had a phone in his hands, he lifted it up to his ears with the scowl still very evident on his face. Chuckling was heard on the other line, and Inuyasha instantly knew who it was.
"What do you want, Miroku!?"
Miroku snickered, adopting a kiddy voice. "Uncle Inu! Rin want lots and lots of cousins!" he teased wickedly, before bursting out in more mirth. "I tell you, that was absolutely priceless," he chuckled, sounding as if he was rubbing away tears of laughter.
"Oh shut up before I snap your neck in half," Inuyasha barked infuriatingly at his friend, who was having the best time of his life---on Inuyasha's expense.
"Okay, fine fine, Uncle Inuyasha," Miroku couldn't help but tease once more, before stopping his amusement when he heard Inuyasha start to growl louder. "Anyway, guess what?"
"Oh I don't know, I wasn't the one who called," Inuyasha replied sarcastically, before adding on, "What?"
"Well I have two things to tell you. First and latest thing was that just two minutes before, I went to check my mail and I got a note from someone."
"Geez. A note. How exciting."
Inuyasha could just 'hear' Miroku frown on the other line. "This is serious, Inuyasha."
"Fine. Go on Miroku."
"Well.the note.it's not just any note. It's from Kikyou."
Inuyasha lost his voice, only barely able to croak out the response: "Kikyou? Isn't she."
"Yea, that's what I thought. Dead. But it doesn't seem like it."
"What kind of writing is it in?"
"It's very girly, straight cursive writing."
Inuyasha gulped. "Yea, that's her handwriting."
There was silence as the two boys stopped to think of what this all meant. "Hey wait!" Inuyasha started, "Why would she give a note to YOU and not ME?"
"I don't know. I just found this in my mailbox like I said. Don't you want to hear what it says though?"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Duh. Go ahead."
Miroku cleared his voice over the phone, preparing to recite: "Dear Inuyasha, please meet me on the rooftop at school at 3pm sharp today. We need to talk. Love, Kikyou."
Miroku sounded surprised as he asked over the phone, "You know, that doesn't sound like Kikyou though. It's not all gushy, sweet and filled with 'Inuyasha my honey' everywhere. And what rooftop is she talking about, might I ask? There's quite a few rooftops at our school."
But Inuyasha knew the exact rooftop she was talking about, whispering, "Our rooftop."
" 'Our' rooftop?" Miroku echoed.
"Yea.I mean, it's kind of obvious Kikyou and I use to have a thing right? When we were small.I liked her a lot.so we would always meet on top of one of the rooftops after school when we were younger to talk about our life. Then, she began to change.she really was a sweet girl when she was small and when I had a crush on her.but now.she's different I guess."
"We were friends our whole lives Inuyasha, me and you, but unluckily, or luckily, for me, I can hardly remember Kikyou 'sweet'."
Inuyasha chuckled at Miroku's response. "You never really knew her."
"I'm glad."
Inuyasha sighed, looking at the clock that read 2:30pm. "Well, want to come with me?" Inuyasha asked, but could already sense the apology before Miroku spoke.
"Sorry, I have a date with Sango today. But I mean, really Inuyasha! Inviting me to the rooftop with you! I thought I told you we were over!" Miroku said, mock depression in his voice. "I clearly love Sango now and we just can't have an affair, my Inuyasha. You'll just have to *gasp* forget me!"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes, not wanting to play along. "Whatever. I'm gonna go now. Bye."
"Wait! Second thing! Park! Sakura tree! Kagome! Fou---" Miroku began, an urgency in his voice, but Inuyasha hadn't heard any of it, just hanging up the phone.
Inuyasha sighed as he placed the phone on the table, looking out the window. "So Kikyou's not dead.I." Inuyasha mumbled, but shook his head. "I have Kagome.and she means everything."
Grumbling about the difficulties of women, he began to walk to his front door, intent on taking care of whatever Kikyou had planned for him.
*~*~*
Kagome grinned as she put on her hat, heading out the front door. "Mom! I'm going out for a while!" she yelled, before slamming the door shut.
Mrs. Higurashi, who was still in the kitchen, rubbed away imaginary tears. "I'm gonna have grandchildren! The joy!" she yelled gleefully, putting her hands up to her blushing face.
Souta, who was now with grandpa, both looked horrified.
"Now Souta, when the women in the household go all weird, it's most likely PMS. Be careful, for when they are happy, they could turn evil as quick as lightning!" Grandpa taught, while Souta nodded his head with wide eyes, listening to his elders for once.
But the grandpa-grandson conversation was interrupted as the phone suddenly began to rang. With a surprised squeak, Mrs. Higurashi picked it up from next to her, Souta and Grandpa leaning in to listen to the conversation. "Moshi moshi?"
"Mrs. Higurashi? Is Kagome there?" a male voice asked over the line.
"Who is this?" Mrs. Higurashi asked, wondering if he would be her son-in- law.
"This is Miroku, a friend of hers."
Mrs. Higurashi looked downcast, but smiled again anyway. "She just went out, so would you like to leave a message for her?"
"Do you know when she'd be back?"
"Maybe twenty minutes later at 3? I'm not sure. Maybe she just went out to the store."
Miroku grumbled some things over the line. "When she's back, can you tell her Inuyasha can't meet her today because he has some business to take care of? Please tell her I'm sorry I didn't tell her this sooner because I didn't know of it until after she called me asking me to tell Inuyasha to meet her."
Mrs. Higurashi nodded happily, although Miroku couldn't see it. "I'll tell Kagome, dear. Thanks for calling!"
"Thank you very much Mrs. Higurashi."
Mrs. Higurashi hung up the phone and put her two hands up to her face again, this time her eyes going sparkly. "Maybe I'll have grandchildren sooner than I thought!"
Kagome on the other hand, was happily walking towards the park and shops ten minutes away. No matter how she tried, the smile on her face could not be erased. It was certainly not the first time a boy had admitted they 'loved' her, but it was definitely the first time someone had truly meant it---or so she hoped.
She couldn't deny it now. She might have tried to fight it when she told Sango she only liked Inuyasha.
But now, she was totally in love with that reckless, aggressive jerk. The way his eyes would stare into her own, the way he had kissed her, the way his words made her heart beat outrageously.yes, she couldn't contradict it. She had fallen in love with her former adversary.
She might not have spoken the truth out, she had been too stunned when he had admitted it to her, but she was going to. She wouldn't run out the door like she had done a few hours ago and walk around town like an idiot in love, but she would tell him, face to face, that she felt the same.
She giggled ironically. "I can't believe I'm starting to love you more than I hated you before, Inuyasha!"
And for now, only the air heard her confession.
*~*~* Rooftop.
Inuyasha huffed as he climbed the last part of the stairs, looking annoyed that he had to climb so high up to just reach the rooftop. After climbing over a fence, a gate and breaking in a window to get to the stairs to the rooftop, he wasn't a happy boy. "They should just build a damn elevator." he grumbled, before pushing open the surprisingly unlocked door to the rooftop.
"Kikyou." he whispered, when he saw a figure sitting on the edge, dangling and kicking her legs childishly in thin air, her hair fluttering almost innocently in the wind.
The mentioned turned around when she heard her name, a light smile on her face. Inuyasha was strangely reminded of the sweet little girl he had fallen for when he was younger.there was no trace of the naïve, bimbo-like Kikyou anywhere on her smile.
"Sit with me, Inuyasha," she whispered, and Inuyasha noticed that it was also her normal voice, no high squeaking anywhere.
Being cautious, he decided to sit a few feet away from her, in the same manner she was. She didn't seem to be bothered by the distance between them, only looking out towards the view of the town. Inuyasha stared at her, an internal conflict as to who would say the first thing.
She however, seemed to read his mind and told him, "Ask whatever you want."
That was all he needed. "Aren't you dead?!" he asked, almost impolitely to his childhood friend.
Kikyou almost giggled, covering her mouth with her hands. "Do you want me dead?"
"No."
"Then that's all you need to know as to why I'm not dead.are you happy I'm alive?"
Inuyasha hesitated for a moment, but replied nonetheless, "Yes."
"Liar."
There was a strained silence as the couple on the rooftop both looked at whatever they were looking at; Kikyou continuing to stare at the town while Inuyasha glimpsed at her from the corner of his eyes.
The silence was broken as Kikyou started talking again. "Remember our younger years.we would always go here. Everyday. After elementary.after middle school.everyday," she muttered, pulling a strand of her hair behind her ears. "I.I was so in love."
Inuyasha flinched when he heard that confession. "But.you changed."
Kikyou was quiet for a while, only enjoying the feel of the wind on her clean skin, which probably meant she had went home to take a shower after getting washed ashore. But of course, Inuyasha didn't know that. "For you."
Inuyasha looked taken aback. "Me?!"
"You." Kikyou turned her head to look straight into his eyes, emotions whirling in and out of her almost lifeless orbs. "All for you."
Inuyasha's throat was dry. "How.why."
Kikyou sighed as she turned her view back onto the town. "Ever since we started high school...you saw.her.that girl.Kagome." Kikyou said Kagome's name with malice and spite. "Every time I would walk down a corridor with you, you would always be looking around, and your eyes would always settle upon her. In the cafeteria when we ate lunch, your eyes were always on her. I don't even know if you ever noticed that she was always in your eyes, but even when I tripped once, you didn't notice.because your eyes were on.her."
"Kikyou." Inuyasha whispered breathlessly, but it felt wrong.her name coming out of his mouth. Why was it wrong.?
Kikyou laughed bitterly. "I thought it would change after a while, but you never changed. She was always the girl in your eyes, and I was just.there. I even cried at night.knowing I was losing you to her. What did she have? What did she possess that I didn't? I thought we were meant to be.me and you. I was first! She was second." Another resentful laugh. ".So I decided to change.to make you notice me again. I changed so much.just for you! Just for you to notice me again! But all you ever saw in me, was a friend.and I couldn't handle it! You couldn't just be my friend.Did you ever even notice you started falling for her?"
Inuyasha shook his head mutely. All he really remembered was staring at Kagome once in a while when school started.he never talked to her.he had always thought he was observing Kagome because she looked like Kikyou.but then he guessed he was wrong. Maybe.just maybe.he had fallen for Kagome the minute he saw her.but never admitted it to himself.just maybe.
Kikyou's eyes turned malicious at his silence. "I had to endure so much these years, and what was it for? For the love I had for you. But then you and her started arguing.and I knew.I just knew that if I allowed it to continue, you would both eventually fall in love. But I couldn't stop it, now could I? Look at you both now.so happily in love."
Inuyasha was shocked.no he was more than shocked. He was distressed now. He himself had been the one to change Kikyou.turn her into some bimbo.but then again. "Kikyou.if we weren't meant to be.don't push it. Please."
Kikyou snapped her head over to Inuyasha, who was getting up from the edge. Her eyes were filled with sorrow now, an anguished glint deep within her lifelessness. She herself got up and suddenly flung herself onto him, hiding her face between his shoulders. "We're meant to be, Inuyasha! We always were! We were meant to be.since we were small!"
Inuyasha pushed her away lightly, holding the agonized girl away from him. His eyes were regretful, but he had to do this. Kikyou and his time.was over. It was always just a childhood crush. "We're not, Kikyou. We're only suppose to be fri---"
He was cut off as Kikyou forced her lips onto him, wrapping her arms around his neck. He wasn't distressed, he was appalled; here was Kikyou forcing herself onto him while a few hours ago, he had only just kissed Kagome. He didn't react to the lips on his right now.he couldn't.it was like as if a bucket of ice had been thrown over him and his nerves had failed to react.
Kagome.her lips.they were so warm.so gentle.so soft.so loving.
Kikyou.her lips.they were soft.but.but.they were so cold.
Cold as frost.
With a sudden push against her shoulders, Inuyasha threw Kikyou to the ground, where her hair ran wild against the concrete, hiding her face that was staring at the ground. Her shoulders shook as wet drops appeared on the gray, hard ground, dripping from Kikyou's long eyelashes. She didn't bother to brush away her hair as she whispered in a small, cracked, tormented voice, "So.after all these years we've known each other.you choose her?"
Inuyasha backed away from the sobbing heap on the ground, his hands searching behind him for the doorknob. When his hands landed on the round knob, he replied with a firm voice, "Yes."
And he opened the door quickly, shutting it and disappearing down the stairs.
Kikyou was still sobbing alone on the ground, but her weeps soon began to turn to snickers as she pushed her hair away from her face. Her face was tear-stained, yet the salty substance still ran down her cheeks. The thing that stopped it from being sad was that she had a smirk on her face.an evil smirk. "Kagome.Kagome.just as I expected, you couldn't tell your dear Inuyasha---no---my dear Inuyasha that I had been part of the plan to kidnap you. Foolish girl. You think I'm dead? You think I'll just let you take what is mine? No." Kikyou muttered enigmatically as she looked over the rooftop at Inuyasha who was rushing out of the grounds.
"Inuyasha is mine.he always will be."
Kagome's Wish
Chapter 18: Distraction to an Unspoken Truth
By: inuyashasgirl789
It was really strange when your mind was empty. Have you ever felt that before? If someone pried open your brain and stared at what you were thinking, they'd only see a lone tumbleweed pass by in your blank mind, and nothing else.
Really, she didn't know what she was thinking about. Every time she would try and think about something, only Inuyasha's face would appear before her and she would grin like a madwoman, before going back to her vegetated state.
It was absolutely amazing what three simple words could do to a girl, especially from the person she adored. Please don't deny it ladies because you know it's true. Those three, seemingly insignificant, words could do wonders to even the most stoic girl in the world, and Kagome was just not an exception.
She was just sitting on her bed, having come home from Inuyasha's house, and even when Souta jumped onto her just to see her keel over, all she did was stand there looking strangely ahead. Of course, Souta got scared after just hanging onto his sister for a minute and she hadn't reacted, so he let go and promptly went to the kitchen, looking like a guilty puppy with its tail between its legs. Then, Kagome had just pasted on a huge creepy smile, and walked upstairs without another word.
Souta, with no doubt, was scared.
"Okaa-san! I think nee-chan has side effects from her kidnap," he whined to his mother, who was at the kitchen making lunch.
"Why so dear?" she answered, a warm smile on her face as always.
"Well, I jumped onto her, and she didn't react for a minute."
"Did she react after that?"
"No.I let go and she just walked upstairs with this big grin on her face."
Mrs. Higurashi put a hand happily over her heart. "My son, your sister is finally growing up," she said in a dramatic voice, which left Souta confused. Mrs. Higurashi looked questioningly at Souta, a grin on her face just like Kagome. "Hmm.a pink wedding dress or white one.?"
Souta's eyes widened. His family was going insane! All of them! Each and every one of them! Time to talk to a considerably 'normal' man in the house, since the females seemed to have all gone crazy .
He ran outside as fast as he could, searching for grandpa. [not that he is much help, ne?]
While, Kagome finally snapped some sense back into herself when a bird flew into her window. Blinking her eyes, she conclusively came up with the answer to what she had been trying to think. "Inuyasha.said.he loves me." Holding her hand over her heart, she smiled, this time not as big, but still very blissfully. Looking at the phone, she decided she'll have to call Inuyasha and.return the favor.
Dialing his number, she frowned when the phone was busy. "Probably Sesshoumaru on a business call?" she mused to herself, and put the phone down in her lap. "I guess I'll just have to call somebody else then."
*~*~*Fifteen Minutes Later.
Inuyasha hit his head repeatedly over and over using his own fists---like he had done for a few hours already. "I'm such an idiot! Idiot! IDIOT!" he shouted to no one, contemplating on using the wall instead of his fists. "How could I have just.burst that out in the heat of the moment!?" he yelled, deciding that the wall was a good alternative after all.
But he soon stopped, as he found the wall a very good, yet hard, alternative.
Rubbing his bruised head, he scowled menacingly. Kagome hadn't replied, she had just looked shocked, and when he meant shocked, it was more like traumatized. Her eyes were wide, and her mouth was open, while not a word was uttered from her lips.
Talking about her lips, he had KISSED her. He had kissed Kagome! "I'm so screwed!" he roared, and covered his face with his hands. 'Not that her lips weren't soft and---' Inuyasha let out a frustrated growl and shook his head in his hands. "I'm just a stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid---"
"Uncle Inuyasha? Someone's on the phone for you," a girly voice interrupted in front of him, a hint of surprise in her tone.
Taking his hands away from his face, Inuyasha saw Rin grinning and holding the phone out towards him, her eyes sparkling with questions that were just bursting to get out.
He shot a glance at her that told her not to ask anything about Kagome."Thanks." he whispered to his niece as he took the phone.
"You're welcome!" she said in a happy voice, skipping back over to the door.
Inuyasha was just about to lift the phone up to his ears before Rin spoke more, probably unaware of the warning look her uncle had given her before. "Can Rin call Miss. Kagome, Aunty Kagome now?" She beamed a toothy smile over to her suddenly extremely red uncle, who looked ready to faint any moment.
"Rin! If you utter another word about what we talked about." He left the threat open in the air, but Rin didn't seem to notice.
"Rin want lots and lots of cousins to play with!" she giggled happily, before closing the door and skipping down the corridor, oblivious to the horrified expression on Inuyasha's face.
"Kids!" he snarled, wondering what the world taught their children nowadays, forgetting that he himself wasn't technically an adult yet. "That darned Sesshoumaru! I don't know how he could have raised such a happy child."
Remembering that he had a phone in his hands, he lifted it up to his ears with the scowl still very evident on his face. Chuckling was heard on the other line, and Inuyasha instantly knew who it was.
"What do you want, Miroku!?"
Miroku snickered, adopting a kiddy voice. "Uncle Inu! Rin want lots and lots of cousins!" he teased wickedly, before bursting out in more mirth. "I tell you, that was absolutely priceless," he chuckled, sounding as if he was rubbing away tears of laughter.
"Oh shut up before I snap your neck in half," Inuyasha barked infuriatingly at his friend, who was having the best time of his life---on Inuyasha's expense.
"Okay, fine fine, Uncle Inuyasha," Miroku couldn't help but tease once more, before stopping his amusement when he heard Inuyasha start to growl louder. "Anyway, guess what?"
"Oh I don't know, I wasn't the one who called," Inuyasha replied sarcastically, before adding on, "What?"
"Well I have two things to tell you. First and latest thing was that just two minutes before, I went to check my mail and I got a note from someone."
"Geez. A note. How exciting."
Inuyasha could just 'hear' Miroku frown on the other line. "This is serious, Inuyasha."
"Fine. Go on Miroku."
"Well.the note.it's not just any note. It's from Kikyou."
Inuyasha lost his voice, only barely able to croak out the response: "Kikyou? Isn't she."
"Yea, that's what I thought. Dead. But it doesn't seem like it."
"What kind of writing is it in?"
"It's very girly, straight cursive writing."
Inuyasha gulped. "Yea, that's her handwriting."
There was silence as the two boys stopped to think of what this all meant. "Hey wait!" Inuyasha started, "Why would she give a note to YOU and not ME?"
"I don't know. I just found this in my mailbox like I said. Don't you want to hear what it says though?"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Duh. Go ahead."
Miroku cleared his voice over the phone, preparing to recite: "Dear Inuyasha, please meet me on the rooftop at school at 3pm sharp today. We need to talk. Love, Kikyou."
Miroku sounded surprised as he asked over the phone, "You know, that doesn't sound like Kikyou though. It's not all gushy, sweet and filled with 'Inuyasha my honey' everywhere. And what rooftop is she talking about, might I ask? There's quite a few rooftops at our school."
But Inuyasha knew the exact rooftop she was talking about, whispering, "Our rooftop."
" 'Our' rooftop?" Miroku echoed.
"Yea.I mean, it's kind of obvious Kikyou and I use to have a thing right? When we were small.I liked her a lot.so we would always meet on top of one of the rooftops after school when we were younger to talk about our life. Then, she began to change.she really was a sweet girl when she was small and when I had a crush on her.but now.she's different I guess."
"We were friends our whole lives Inuyasha, me and you, but unluckily, or luckily, for me, I can hardly remember Kikyou 'sweet'."
Inuyasha chuckled at Miroku's response. "You never really knew her."
"I'm glad."
Inuyasha sighed, looking at the clock that read 2:30pm. "Well, want to come with me?" Inuyasha asked, but could already sense the apology before Miroku spoke.
"Sorry, I have a date with Sango today. But I mean, really Inuyasha! Inviting me to the rooftop with you! I thought I told you we were over!" Miroku said, mock depression in his voice. "I clearly love Sango now and we just can't have an affair, my Inuyasha. You'll just have to *gasp* forget me!"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes, not wanting to play along. "Whatever. I'm gonna go now. Bye."
"Wait! Second thing! Park! Sakura tree! Kagome! Fou---" Miroku began, an urgency in his voice, but Inuyasha hadn't heard any of it, just hanging up the phone.
Inuyasha sighed as he placed the phone on the table, looking out the window. "So Kikyou's not dead.I." Inuyasha mumbled, but shook his head. "I have Kagome.and she means everything."
Grumbling about the difficulties of women, he began to walk to his front door, intent on taking care of whatever Kikyou had planned for him.
*~*~*
Kagome grinned as she put on her hat, heading out the front door. "Mom! I'm going out for a while!" she yelled, before slamming the door shut.
Mrs. Higurashi, who was still in the kitchen, rubbed away imaginary tears. "I'm gonna have grandchildren! The joy!" she yelled gleefully, putting her hands up to her blushing face.
Souta, who was now with grandpa, both looked horrified.
"Now Souta, when the women in the household go all weird, it's most likely PMS. Be careful, for when they are happy, they could turn evil as quick as lightning!" Grandpa taught, while Souta nodded his head with wide eyes, listening to his elders for once.
But the grandpa-grandson conversation was interrupted as the phone suddenly began to rang. With a surprised squeak, Mrs. Higurashi picked it up from next to her, Souta and Grandpa leaning in to listen to the conversation. "Moshi moshi?"
"Mrs. Higurashi? Is Kagome there?" a male voice asked over the line.
"Who is this?" Mrs. Higurashi asked, wondering if he would be her son-in- law.
"This is Miroku, a friend of hers."
Mrs. Higurashi looked downcast, but smiled again anyway. "She just went out, so would you like to leave a message for her?"
"Do you know when she'd be back?"
"Maybe twenty minutes later at 3? I'm not sure. Maybe she just went out to the store."
Miroku grumbled some things over the line. "When she's back, can you tell her Inuyasha can't meet her today because he has some business to take care of? Please tell her I'm sorry I didn't tell her this sooner because I didn't know of it until after she called me asking me to tell Inuyasha to meet her."
Mrs. Higurashi nodded happily, although Miroku couldn't see it. "I'll tell Kagome, dear. Thanks for calling!"
"Thank you very much Mrs. Higurashi."
Mrs. Higurashi hung up the phone and put her two hands up to her face again, this time her eyes going sparkly. "Maybe I'll have grandchildren sooner than I thought!"
Kagome on the other hand, was happily walking towards the park and shops ten minutes away. No matter how she tried, the smile on her face could not be erased. It was certainly not the first time a boy had admitted they 'loved' her, but it was definitely the first time someone had truly meant it---or so she hoped.
She couldn't deny it now. She might have tried to fight it when she told Sango she only liked Inuyasha.
But now, she was totally in love with that reckless, aggressive jerk. The way his eyes would stare into her own, the way he had kissed her, the way his words made her heart beat outrageously.yes, she couldn't contradict it. She had fallen in love with her former adversary.
She might not have spoken the truth out, she had been too stunned when he had admitted it to her, but she was going to. She wouldn't run out the door like she had done a few hours ago and walk around town like an idiot in love, but she would tell him, face to face, that she felt the same.
She giggled ironically. "I can't believe I'm starting to love you more than I hated you before, Inuyasha!"
And for now, only the air heard her confession.
*~*~* Rooftop.
Inuyasha huffed as he climbed the last part of the stairs, looking annoyed that he had to climb so high up to just reach the rooftop. After climbing over a fence, a gate and breaking in a window to get to the stairs to the rooftop, he wasn't a happy boy. "They should just build a damn elevator." he grumbled, before pushing open the surprisingly unlocked door to the rooftop.
"Kikyou." he whispered, when he saw a figure sitting on the edge, dangling and kicking her legs childishly in thin air, her hair fluttering almost innocently in the wind.
The mentioned turned around when she heard her name, a light smile on her face. Inuyasha was strangely reminded of the sweet little girl he had fallen for when he was younger.there was no trace of the naïve, bimbo-like Kikyou anywhere on her smile.
"Sit with me, Inuyasha," she whispered, and Inuyasha noticed that it was also her normal voice, no high squeaking anywhere.
Being cautious, he decided to sit a few feet away from her, in the same manner she was. She didn't seem to be bothered by the distance between them, only looking out towards the view of the town. Inuyasha stared at her, an internal conflict as to who would say the first thing.
She however, seemed to read his mind and told him, "Ask whatever you want."
That was all he needed. "Aren't you dead?!" he asked, almost impolitely to his childhood friend.
Kikyou almost giggled, covering her mouth with her hands. "Do you want me dead?"
"No."
"Then that's all you need to know as to why I'm not dead.are you happy I'm alive?"
Inuyasha hesitated for a moment, but replied nonetheless, "Yes."
"Liar."
There was a strained silence as the couple on the rooftop both looked at whatever they were looking at; Kikyou continuing to stare at the town while Inuyasha glimpsed at her from the corner of his eyes.
The silence was broken as Kikyou started talking again. "Remember our younger years.we would always go here. Everyday. After elementary.after middle school.everyday," she muttered, pulling a strand of her hair behind her ears. "I.I was so in love."
Inuyasha flinched when he heard that confession. "But.you changed."
Kikyou was quiet for a while, only enjoying the feel of the wind on her clean skin, which probably meant she had went home to take a shower after getting washed ashore. But of course, Inuyasha didn't know that. "For you."
Inuyasha looked taken aback. "Me?!"
"You." Kikyou turned her head to look straight into his eyes, emotions whirling in and out of her almost lifeless orbs. "All for you."
Inuyasha's throat was dry. "How.why."
Kikyou sighed as she turned her view back onto the town. "Ever since we started high school...you saw.her.that girl.Kagome." Kikyou said Kagome's name with malice and spite. "Every time I would walk down a corridor with you, you would always be looking around, and your eyes would always settle upon her. In the cafeteria when we ate lunch, your eyes were always on her. I don't even know if you ever noticed that she was always in your eyes, but even when I tripped once, you didn't notice.because your eyes were on.her."
"Kikyou." Inuyasha whispered breathlessly, but it felt wrong.her name coming out of his mouth. Why was it wrong.?
Kikyou laughed bitterly. "I thought it would change after a while, but you never changed. She was always the girl in your eyes, and I was just.there. I even cried at night.knowing I was losing you to her. What did she have? What did she possess that I didn't? I thought we were meant to be.me and you. I was first! She was second." Another resentful laugh. ".So I decided to change.to make you notice me again. I changed so much.just for you! Just for you to notice me again! But all you ever saw in me, was a friend.and I couldn't handle it! You couldn't just be my friend.Did you ever even notice you started falling for her?"
Inuyasha shook his head mutely. All he really remembered was staring at Kagome once in a while when school started.he never talked to her.he had always thought he was observing Kagome because she looked like Kikyou.but then he guessed he was wrong. Maybe.just maybe.he had fallen for Kagome the minute he saw her.but never admitted it to himself.just maybe.
Kikyou's eyes turned malicious at his silence. "I had to endure so much these years, and what was it for? For the love I had for you. But then you and her started arguing.and I knew.I just knew that if I allowed it to continue, you would both eventually fall in love. But I couldn't stop it, now could I? Look at you both now.so happily in love."
Inuyasha was shocked.no he was more than shocked. He was distressed now. He himself had been the one to change Kikyou.turn her into some bimbo.but then again. "Kikyou.if we weren't meant to be.don't push it. Please."
Kikyou snapped her head over to Inuyasha, who was getting up from the edge. Her eyes were filled with sorrow now, an anguished glint deep within her lifelessness. She herself got up and suddenly flung herself onto him, hiding her face between his shoulders. "We're meant to be, Inuyasha! We always were! We were meant to be.since we were small!"
Inuyasha pushed her away lightly, holding the agonized girl away from him. His eyes were regretful, but he had to do this. Kikyou and his time.was over. It was always just a childhood crush. "We're not, Kikyou. We're only suppose to be fri---"
He was cut off as Kikyou forced her lips onto him, wrapping her arms around his neck. He wasn't distressed, he was appalled; here was Kikyou forcing herself onto him while a few hours ago, he had only just kissed Kagome. He didn't react to the lips on his right now.he couldn't.it was like as if a bucket of ice had been thrown over him and his nerves had failed to react.
Kagome.her lips.they were so warm.so gentle.so soft.so loving.
Kikyou.her lips.they were soft.but.but.they were so cold.
Cold as frost.
With a sudden push against her shoulders, Inuyasha threw Kikyou to the ground, where her hair ran wild against the concrete, hiding her face that was staring at the ground. Her shoulders shook as wet drops appeared on the gray, hard ground, dripping from Kikyou's long eyelashes. She didn't bother to brush away her hair as she whispered in a small, cracked, tormented voice, "So.after all these years we've known each other.you choose her?"
Inuyasha backed away from the sobbing heap on the ground, his hands searching behind him for the doorknob. When his hands landed on the round knob, he replied with a firm voice, "Yes."
And he opened the door quickly, shutting it and disappearing down the stairs.
Kikyou was still sobbing alone on the ground, but her weeps soon began to turn to snickers as she pushed her hair away from her face. Her face was tear-stained, yet the salty substance still ran down her cheeks. The thing that stopped it from being sad was that she had a smirk on her face.an evil smirk. "Kagome.Kagome.just as I expected, you couldn't tell your dear Inuyasha---no---my dear Inuyasha that I had been part of the plan to kidnap you. Foolish girl. You think I'm dead? You think I'll just let you take what is mine? No." Kikyou muttered enigmatically as she looked over the rooftop at Inuyasha who was rushing out of the grounds.
"Inuyasha is mine.he always will be."