I would like to give thanks to my 100th reviewer, kinko! Congrads! And to answer your question, no. I'm not the person who wrote that story.
Princess Kitty1 - To answer your question, maybe you should just make a Rebirth - Part II, or, an alternative ending. Because personally, I think that story rocked, and you shouldn't change a thing. But hey, your the author! ^^ I'll respect whatever you decide to do!
Now, enough with author's notes, on with the story!
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He put his hand on her shoulder, and she gasped in surprise. "Kagome,
am I really ruining your life?"
She just stood there wide-eyed at his sudden sense of compassion. He
never had once been nice to her, besides making jokes on her, and laughing
with her. Once and awhile he'd be nice to her and all, but never compassionate.
She just looked down to the ground, and said something totally irrelevant
to the question, "Are you happy now?"
"What?" He was taken a back by her question.
"Are you happy now?" She repeated calmly. "That you now have
made me cry, and made me hate you even more than I ever had before?" She
turned around and looked him in the eyes, sternly.
"I..." He couldn't think of the right words to say, just the fact that
her eye's were boring into his.
"And to think, I still like you." She added on, for confusion. Plus,
she still had to go along with the bet, so she had to do this, even if
she hated him with her whole being. She put a hand on his cheek, and smiled.
"I'm not that mad though, in the end.. because, your you."
She walked out of the room, leaving a stunned Inuyasha. She whispered
a quiet, "Yes!" And walked out to her car with the keys. She had
finally come out, and said something as stupid as that to him, and she
would win this bet in no time!
But, the one question that ran through her mind was,
"Where did I come up with the words to say that?"
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It Takes Two To Do The Tango
Order Four
Act II - The Bet
Just a day,
Just an ordinary day.
Just tryin to get by.
Just a boy,
Just an ordinary boy.
But he was looking to the sky.
And as he asked if I would come along,
I started to realize-
That everyday you find,
Just what he's looking for,
Like a shooting star he shines.
-Ordinary Day
Vanessa Carlton
***
Kagome's night went by, uneventful, as she just went to sleep when she
got home, eat dinner, then went back to bed. Of course, she took a long
shower, scrubbing the black paint out of her hair, and off of her face.
Thank God that stuff was washable. She just went to bed, with the same
question plaguing her sleep,
"Where did I come up with the words to say that?"
***
Kagome sat in homeroom, talking to Sango about the bet. Sango decided
to go easy on her because of the incident yesterday.
"Okay, Kags. Listen, I have decided to change the bet around. How about,
you just get him to kiss you, and then your bet is off? I mean, I'm seriously
surprised you haven't fainted yet. All the other girls do when they talk
or look at him.." She said, also waiting for Kagome's answer.
"No." She stated simply. "I'm making the stakes higher, listen, I'll
get him to fall for me, AND kiss me. Sango, I can do this, and I
won't fall back on it!" She looked Sango in the eye, dead serious.
"Kags, why?"
"I have a reputation, THAT'S why." She said, watching the teacher
enter the room.
"Alright class, you have textbook work to do today, because I'm busy
grading, so get to work. Open to page 697. I want complete sentences, and
NO
slacking off!" She said, sitting in her desk, beginning her work.
Inuyasha snorted. He could slack off! He was well, him. He leaned on
the back of his chair, balancing a pen on his nose looking up.
"Achoo!"
He looked around the classroom, trying to close his eyes and get some
rest.
"Achoo!"
He opened his eyes, and looked around again, this time seeing Kagome
rub her nose, and her face was pretty red. "Achoo!"
Inuyasha quietly walked over to her, just like he did in art class.
He draped his famous letterman jacket over her shoulders, and she looked
up to him. He put a finger to her lips and shook his head, 'No.'
He walked back to his seat.
Kagome, sneezed again as soon as he sat down. He sighed, and crawled
down on the floor. He finally got to her seat, and poked her with his finger
in the leg. She took it as an itch, and itched. He snorted, and she looked
down. She gave him a really puzzled stare, as he kneeled down next to her.
He put his hand to her forehead, and then to his.
"You have a fever.." He said, really quietly, so quiet she barely caught
it.
She blushed at his sudden kindness. 'What has gotten into him? Oh,
he's probably trying to repay me for yesterday. I mind as well let him
do it, since the bet is still on.' She thought, wisely.
She crouched down to his level, "Okay, I'll tell the teacher I have
to go to the nurse." She raised her hand.
"Yes, Ms. Higurashi?" She said, calmly.
"I need to go to the nurse, I think I'm going to throw up." Kagome said,
putting on an achy face.
"Your excused." She signed Kagome a pass when Kagome said, "Can I pick
someone to go with me? I'm afraid to go alone." The teacher nodded, and
all the boy's in the class hand's flew up.
"I pick um.. Inuyasha." The whole class, literally gasped. Sango and
Miroku's eye's widened, and really thought Kagome was ill. Kagome and Inuyasha
went out of the room, and Kagome closed the door behind her.
"Alright, Mr. I'm not sick! If I have a fever, its not my fault." She
said calmly.
"Kagome! Stop being so stupid, and listen to me!" He grabbed her hand.
Kagome looked up to him, and her eye's widened at how fast her heart-beat
quickened. 'Why.. do I feel this way? He's just an ordinary boy..'
"I..I..I...will go.." She said, stuttering.
"I think you are really sick Kagome, look at you." He said, pointing
to her shoulders. They were bare, so he pushed the coat up on her. He had
made skin contact with her, but this time it was different. After he pushed
up "her" coat, he slowly slid his hands down her arms, and up again.
She then did the most embarrassing thing, she had ever done in her life.
She fainted.
***
Kagome's eyes opened warily, looking at her surroundings. "Ugh.. where..
am I..?" She said, slowly.
"You fainted you stupid, wench. I had to carry you all the way down
to the nurse, and she panicked like normal." He smirked.
"Sango.. I'll kill you.." She said, Inuyasha not understanding that
at all.
"Why? What did Sango do?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well, she put that idea in my mind that I would faint if.." She closed
her mouth. She would NOT tell Inuyasha that! "..if I didn't go to
the nurse soon!" She finished off, quickly, looking down at the floor.
Inuyasha, smiled. "Well, I brought you, so you have nothing to be worried
about."
Kagome, was suspicious, she KNEW something was going on now.
Inuyasha was never nice to her, did things for her, and not do a prank
for this long!
Little did she know, Inuyasha and Miroku had, had a little talk...
-Flashback-
"Inuyasha, get over here. I have something to tell you." Miroku said,
eagerly.
"Yeah, what is it?" Inuyasha said, listening to Miroku.
"Well, it goes like this. You know, me and Sango are close friends,
and she told me about this little bet she had made with Kagome.. she bet
her that she couldn't get you to be her's or kiss her within a week. So,
I don't want you to fall for that. Or, you can, and break her heart in
the end if she falls for you." He finished, as if he were talking about
the weather.
"Well..well..well.. Ms. Higurashi will have her heart broken in the
end, and I will make sure its pure torture."
-End Flashback-
Inuyasha grinned at that memory. It was working alright! He could tell
Kagome was falling for him, and it would be great in the end when he broke
her heart. The ultimate prank, ever.
Kagome looked at him, trying to look like she was in pain. "Inuyasha..
I don't feel well.." She said, quietly so he couldn't hear.
He leaned in and said, "What did you say?"
She lowered his head to her lips. "I said, thank you for taking care
of me, Inuyasha." She kissed him on the cheek, and let his head go back.
He blushed, and said, "No problem." He then snorted, and crossed his
arms over his chest. 'Why am I blushing? Its just Kagome! I guess I
should play a prank on her then..' Inuyasha reached in his pocket for
some whip-cream.
Kagome, had already fell asleep on the bed she was resting on, as he
just thought of the oldest trick in the book, but it was funny. He grabbed
a piece of cloth, and sprayed a bit of whip-cream in each of her hands.
He carefully tickled her nose, and as she whipped her nose, he laughed
like hell.
Kagome opened her eyes, taking her other hand, and brushing back the
hair away from her eyes, as she realized her hands were filled with whip-cream,
and now her hair and face was too. She yelled at him. "Why do you have
to keep doing things like this? Its so ANNOYING!"
She took the last bit of whip-cream and whipped it all over his face.
"How, dare you! I saved your sorry ass, and this is what I get?"
Kagome then thought of that idea that she got yesterday during art,
and smiled the biggest smile she had ever before. "No, this is." She leaned
up, and licked the whip-cream off his nose and cheeks.
Inuyasha instantly froze, as she continued cleaning his face. He turned
a bright red, when she licked around his lips, seeing she had done her
job well. Except there was some on his lips, covering them actually. So,
just in the heat of the moment, she licked his lips, cleaning them fully.
"Thank you for saving me, Inuyasha." She smiled at him, and winked.
He just stood there, looking at her.
His plan wasn't going very well.
For, he was falling for her.
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AN: Oh.. Inuyasha.. your falling! And your falling hard! What will he do about this in the next chapter? Wait and see!