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truly blessed, please let me know if the formatting is better on this story
yet? I had a tooth pulled thurday so I'm sorry that I'm updating kinda
slowly I've benn out of it, plus I kinda lost my Muse for awhile but thanks
to Carpatian she returned to me....thanks so much Huggers anyways on with
the story......
Disclaimer: Do I really have to keep saying this? Why do you people have to keep crashing my dreams? Damn lawyers......I don't own Inuyasha or any other characters...tho I do own Hikaru, Asami, and Sumie.....at least until Mrs. Rumiko gets back with me on the offer........
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IxionGoddess-thank you so much for the review, I'm sorry it took me so long to respond, I've been kinda busy and I had a tooth pulled Thursday so I've been out of it for a while thank you for the advice and I will try to fix things.......
BelleDayNight-Thank you so much it means a lot to me coming from one of my favorite writers, I hope that you enjoy the rest of the story......
Carpatian-You are my first real reviewer that I didn't have to ask to read, thanks so much, Gives out cookies Don't tell anyone that yours is bigger......anyways I like your name, do you read the Dark series? Thank you so much for the wonderful review you made my day and brought my muse back!!!! Thanks again.......
The morning after
The sun was peaking through the trees when it invaded Kagome's cracked eyelids, she opened them to confront the intruder to see that it was morning and time to get started with the morning activities.
Sitting up and stretching she looked around her to find that no one else was awake yet, not even Shippou so she decided to go to the spring for some alone time. Upon arriving, she perched on a rock that was near the edge and dangled her feet into the relaxing water.
'What is wrong with me? Why can't I just make myself realize that he's a stupid jerk in love with someone else and get over it?' Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, 'I'm not going to let him ruin my day; it's far too beautiful a day to be brought down by my stupid thoughts of that irrational hanyou.'
With that thought she promised herself that she wouldn't think of it for the rest of the day, just then she felt someone tap her on the shoulder and spun around in surprise. Finding the object of her thoughts standing there with a strange look on his face, "You scared me half to death; you're only supposed to sneak up on your enemies not your friends."
After the words left her mouth she turned back around, her face twisting in some sort of emotion, "Well I guess I should say your 'allies' at least, not your friends." She finished her statement to him.
'That stung' he thought to himself as he looked at her still trying to figure her out, he guessed he'd deserved it for last night, but why did she have to be so cruel? The next thing that came out of his mouth almost caused Kagome to fall off the rock and into the water "Look I'm sorry for being such a jerk last night Kagome."
She turned slowly as if he'd been possessed by a demon and was afraid that he would take her head off if she moved too fast. Then realizing that he wasn't possessed she arched her brow in question and leaned over to feel his forehead to see if he had a fever. "Are you okay? Are you feeling sick?"
Inuyasha slapped her hand away annoyed and narrowed his eyes at her replying "Can't you just take an apology from once without some stupid 'sick' comment?" She smiled dryly "Well I guess if it wasn't so out of character for you, I wouldn't be so shocked."
She then flung herself at him in a hug and almost knocked him over, "I forgive you Inuyasha, thank you for apologizing and I'm sorry for saying the 'S' word so angrily." Smiling at each other and turning to walk back to camp holding hands in a friendly manner. (Of course it's in a friendly manner what the hell else would it be?)
Everyone was awake when they arrived back at camp; they had been trying to figure out where Kagome had gone when they saw a rare sight approach them, Inuyasha and Kagome hand in hand and smiling, looking at them suspiciously.
Miroku made the first comment on their strange behavior (of course) "So, what were you guys doing?" he asked a wicked smile spreading across his face as he spoke.
"Shut up you pervert!!" Inuyasha snapped at him from above after Sango had knocked him the back of the head with her boomerang, causing him to fall face first into the dirt.
Rolling their eyes they set about to start cleaning up the camp site. The girls busied themselves with breakfast prepared as they guys busied themselves doing nothing as usual.
While they ate breakfast Sango and Kagome were enthralled with starring at Asami, who hadn't said a word since her encounter with the wolf prince the night before, when she looked up to see her fellow females staring at her, they looked away as if the sky had become interesting at that moment.
Asami blushed and looked back down at her bowl, where her gaze did not leave until everyone else was finished with breakfast and was packing up. ',,',',',',','
"Good morning Kouga" Ginta said cheerily at the approach of his leader.
Kouga just grumbled something and walked past him, he then stopped and turned slightly to look back at him saying roughly "Ginta, I will be gone most of the day and I don't want to be disturbed, anything that needs to be taken care of, take care of it!" taking off on his last words in his usual speedy fashion.
"What's wrong with him this morning?" asked Hakkaku as he walked up to his comrade having heard the conversation, Ginta shook his head and said "Dunno, he's been in a sour mood since last night." Shrugging the other wolf off, he turned and walked back into the den.
Kouga ran as far north as he could until he didn't recognize the territory anymore and then slowed, finding a huge cluster of rocks that looked as though they had once been a cave or den he perched himself on top of it and yelled.
"DAMN!!!" he hadn't gotten any sleep last night, all he did was have all these weird dreams about Kagome and that girl. The word that had plagued him so the night before pounced forth in his mind, 'Your wrong dammit, I do love Kagome.'
He sat there and pondered everything from the very first time he saw Kagome to every time he'd thought about her. His thoughts steered him toward the thought that Kagome always seemed so distant towards him, and how she didn't return his feelings, she was too busy following that stupid dog around to even notice him practically. 'She's nice to me and all, but it's like I'm just someone she knows.'
Falling backwards anime style and putting his arms behind his head he stared at the sky, he hadn't even noticed when he'd stopped thinking of Kagome and the thoughts of that girl took control of his mind and made it wander about. Making a smile appear cross his masculine features, he just laid there and let his thoughts go. ,',',',',',',','
Sango and Kagome were bringing up the rear of the pack a good few paces behind so no one could hear their conversation; they were engrossed in discussing the events of the night before. "So Kagome, what do you think of the commotion last night?" Sango asked her.
Looking over at her friend and smiling evilly Kagome replied bluntly "I think they like each other." "Do you really. They don't even know each other how is that possible?" Sango asked Kagome in confusion, Kagome giggled and answered her matter-of- factly "Well sometimes it's just a thing, kinda like love at first sight?"
Sango looked at her even more confused than before. "Ok, well tell me when did you know you liked you know who?" Sango blushed but answered "Well I kinda thought he was cute when I first saw him but then....I don't really know."
"Well did you have this strange feeling like even though you didn't know why you just knew you had to see him again?"
"Yes" was Sango answered in defeat. "Well that's what I'm talking about; remember when you asked me about the 'strange encounter' with Kouga yesterday while we were at the spring?" Kagome asked her, Sango nodded and Kagome continued.
"Well it was strange, I saw his reaction when I introduced him to the girls, he never even looked at Sumie, he never took his eyes off of Asami." "Yeah and what about that snort business when you finished introducing them?" Sango asked her, Kagome smiled at this question, and replied "I wonder if he was trying to shake the feeling of 'butterflies'?"
She giggled when she thought of Kouga with 'butterflies' Sango joined her in her visual thoughts of Kouga and laughed then asking her "You know what I bet he was, Kouga has always thought that he loved you, well love as any demon knows any ways, and now all of a sudden this girl comes on the scene and makes him feel all 'weird' and he doesn't know how to handle it."
Kagome nodded and added "Yeah, and then what about Asami's reaction, she just stood there like he'd kissed her or something, and the same last night, all she could do was sit there and blush!"
Sango laughed "Yeah she was three shades redder than an apple last night after he took off." "And did you see how she wouldn't make eye contact with anyone today?" Kagome asked giggling, Sango nodded, knowing her friend was going some where with this,
"Well I think we should see where this goes, if I know Kouga at all, his curiosity is gonna get the better of him sooner or later, then if we're right, I think we should set them up." "Have you been thinking of this already Kagome?" Sango questioned her friend suspiciously;
Kagome smiled wickedly "I already got a plan!!!" The girls giggled together at their recent conversation, went back to walking with the rest of the group, giggling every now and then and exchanging looks. Not knowing a certain hanyou with super sonic ears heard the whole conversation.
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'Hmmmm.' Thought Inuyasha while thinking over his new found information about his most hated rival and the new girl that had become another one of his friends. On one hand he was totally over joyed for some reason that Kouga might not 'love' Kagome the way he claimed or that there might be some big realization stumbling block in his way. On the other hand, he frowned then, still not sure it was such a good to throw his new friend to the wolves, literally. He glanced back at the girl in whom he was thinking about currently, and saw that she had a small smile on her face and looked as though she was off in 'dream world' as Kagome called it. He wasn't sure what the outcome of all of this would be, but he knew one thing that if Kouga laid one wrong hand on his friend or hurt her in any way, he'd slice him in half. He smiled then, this should be interesting. ---------- ----------- ------------- -------------- ---------- ---
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Kouga finally picked himself off the rock and sighed, he didn't have anything else accomplished then he had this morning.
'Dammit' he thought, was he really like Inuyasha and didn't know how to make up his mind, at that moment he almost felt sorry for the stupid mutt face, almost, 'Of course your not.' Came that voice again out of no where.
'Hey' Kouga said 'If your not gonna give me any better advice than you did yesterday and you plan on leaving me in a state of utter confusion, then buzz off!!'
The voice simply replied 'You're in denial.' At this Kouga got really pissed and replied back 'what in the hell, is that supposed to mean?'
'Think of this before I leave you again,' the voice said 'what have you thought about this whole time, all by your self, where have your thoughts been all day? Now try to think about Kagome the same way.'
Kouga was silent for sometime before he responded to himself out loud, "I can't dammit, my thoughts of Kagome are all messed up, and my thoughts just keep going back to...to...to........Asami.' he replied defeated by his own thoughts, he headed back to the den, that was enough for today, he was tired and he just wanted to go to sleep and stop thinking.
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Disclaimer: Do I really have to keep saying this? Why do you people have to keep crashing my dreams? Damn lawyers......I don't own Inuyasha or any other characters...tho I do own Hikaru, Asami, and Sumie.....at least until Mrs. Rumiko gets back with me on the offer........
Responses:
To:
IxionGoddess-thank you so much for the review, I'm sorry it took me so long to respond, I've been kinda busy and I had a tooth pulled Thursday so I've been out of it for a while thank you for the advice and I will try to fix things.......
BelleDayNight-Thank you so much it means a lot to me coming from one of my favorite writers, I hope that you enjoy the rest of the story......
Carpatian-You are my first real reviewer that I didn't have to ask to read, thanks so much, Gives out cookies Don't tell anyone that yours is bigger......anyways I like your name, do you read the Dark series? Thank you so much for the wonderful review you made my day and brought my muse back!!!! Thanks again.......
The morning after
The sun was peaking through the trees when it invaded Kagome's cracked eyelids, she opened them to confront the intruder to see that it was morning and time to get started with the morning activities.
Sitting up and stretching she looked around her to find that no one else was awake yet, not even Shippou so she decided to go to the spring for some alone time. Upon arriving, she perched on a rock that was near the edge and dangled her feet into the relaxing water.
'What is wrong with me? Why can't I just make myself realize that he's a stupid jerk in love with someone else and get over it?' Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, 'I'm not going to let him ruin my day; it's far too beautiful a day to be brought down by my stupid thoughts of that irrational hanyou.'
With that thought she promised herself that she wouldn't think of it for the rest of the day, just then she felt someone tap her on the shoulder and spun around in surprise. Finding the object of her thoughts standing there with a strange look on his face, "You scared me half to death; you're only supposed to sneak up on your enemies not your friends."
After the words left her mouth she turned back around, her face twisting in some sort of emotion, "Well I guess I should say your 'allies' at least, not your friends." She finished her statement to him.
'That stung' he thought to himself as he looked at her still trying to figure her out, he guessed he'd deserved it for last night, but why did she have to be so cruel? The next thing that came out of his mouth almost caused Kagome to fall off the rock and into the water "Look I'm sorry for being such a jerk last night Kagome."
She turned slowly as if he'd been possessed by a demon and was afraid that he would take her head off if she moved too fast. Then realizing that he wasn't possessed she arched her brow in question and leaned over to feel his forehead to see if he had a fever. "Are you okay? Are you feeling sick?"
Inuyasha slapped her hand away annoyed and narrowed his eyes at her replying "Can't you just take an apology from once without some stupid 'sick' comment?" She smiled dryly "Well I guess if it wasn't so out of character for you, I wouldn't be so shocked."
She then flung herself at him in a hug and almost knocked him over, "I forgive you Inuyasha, thank you for apologizing and I'm sorry for saying the 'S' word so angrily." Smiling at each other and turning to walk back to camp holding hands in a friendly manner. (Of course it's in a friendly manner what the hell else would it be?)
Everyone was awake when they arrived back at camp; they had been trying to figure out where Kagome had gone when they saw a rare sight approach them, Inuyasha and Kagome hand in hand and smiling, looking at them suspiciously.
Miroku made the first comment on their strange behavior (of course) "So, what were you guys doing?" he asked a wicked smile spreading across his face as he spoke.
"Shut up you pervert!!" Inuyasha snapped at him from above after Sango had knocked him the back of the head with her boomerang, causing him to fall face first into the dirt.
Rolling their eyes they set about to start cleaning up the camp site. The girls busied themselves with breakfast prepared as they guys busied themselves doing nothing as usual.
While they ate breakfast Sango and Kagome were enthralled with starring at Asami, who hadn't said a word since her encounter with the wolf prince the night before, when she looked up to see her fellow females staring at her, they looked away as if the sky had become interesting at that moment.
Asami blushed and looked back down at her bowl, where her gaze did not leave until everyone else was finished with breakfast and was packing up. ',,',',',',','
"Good morning Kouga" Ginta said cheerily at the approach of his leader.
Kouga just grumbled something and walked past him, he then stopped and turned slightly to look back at him saying roughly "Ginta, I will be gone most of the day and I don't want to be disturbed, anything that needs to be taken care of, take care of it!" taking off on his last words in his usual speedy fashion.
"What's wrong with him this morning?" asked Hakkaku as he walked up to his comrade having heard the conversation, Ginta shook his head and said "Dunno, he's been in a sour mood since last night." Shrugging the other wolf off, he turned and walked back into the den.
Kouga ran as far north as he could until he didn't recognize the territory anymore and then slowed, finding a huge cluster of rocks that looked as though they had once been a cave or den he perched himself on top of it and yelled.
"DAMN!!!" he hadn't gotten any sleep last night, all he did was have all these weird dreams about Kagome and that girl. The word that had plagued him so the night before pounced forth in his mind, 'Your wrong dammit, I do love Kagome.'
He sat there and pondered everything from the very first time he saw Kagome to every time he'd thought about her. His thoughts steered him toward the thought that Kagome always seemed so distant towards him, and how she didn't return his feelings, she was too busy following that stupid dog around to even notice him practically. 'She's nice to me and all, but it's like I'm just someone she knows.'
Falling backwards anime style and putting his arms behind his head he stared at the sky, he hadn't even noticed when he'd stopped thinking of Kagome and the thoughts of that girl took control of his mind and made it wander about. Making a smile appear cross his masculine features, he just laid there and let his thoughts go. ,',',',',',',','
Sango and Kagome were bringing up the rear of the pack a good few paces behind so no one could hear their conversation; they were engrossed in discussing the events of the night before. "So Kagome, what do you think of the commotion last night?" Sango asked her.
Looking over at her friend and smiling evilly Kagome replied bluntly "I think they like each other." "Do you really. They don't even know each other how is that possible?" Sango asked Kagome in confusion, Kagome giggled and answered her matter-of- factly "Well sometimes it's just a thing, kinda like love at first sight?"
Sango looked at her even more confused than before. "Ok, well tell me when did you know you liked you know who?" Sango blushed but answered "Well I kinda thought he was cute when I first saw him but then....I don't really know."
"Well did you have this strange feeling like even though you didn't know why you just knew you had to see him again?"
"Yes" was Sango answered in defeat. "Well that's what I'm talking about; remember when you asked me about the 'strange encounter' with Kouga yesterday while we were at the spring?" Kagome asked her, Sango nodded and Kagome continued.
"Well it was strange, I saw his reaction when I introduced him to the girls, he never even looked at Sumie, he never took his eyes off of Asami." "Yeah and what about that snort business when you finished introducing them?" Sango asked her, Kagome smiled at this question, and replied "I wonder if he was trying to shake the feeling of 'butterflies'?"
She giggled when she thought of Kouga with 'butterflies' Sango joined her in her visual thoughts of Kouga and laughed then asking her "You know what I bet he was, Kouga has always thought that he loved you, well love as any demon knows any ways, and now all of a sudden this girl comes on the scene and makes him feel all 'weird' and he doesn't know how to handle it."
Kagome nodded and added "Yeah, and then what about Asami's reaction, she just stood there like he'd kissed her or something, and the same last night, all she could do was sit there and blush!"
Sango laughed "Yeah she was three shades redder than an apple last night after he took off." "And did you see how she wouldn't make eye contact with anyone today?" Kagome asked giggling, Sango nodded, knowing her friend was going some where with this,
"Well I think we should see where this goes, if I know Kouga at all, his curiosity is gonna get the better of him sooner or later, then if we're right, I think we should set them up." "Have you been thinking of this already Kagome?" Sango questioned her friend suspiciously;
Kagome smiled wickedly "I already got a plan!!!" The girls giggled together at their recent conversation, went back to walking with the rest of the group, giggling every now and then and exchanging looks. Not knowing a certain hanyou with super sonic ears heard the whole conversation.
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'Hmmmm.' Thought Inuyasha while thinking over his new found information about his most hated rival and the new girl that had become another one of his friends. On one hand he was totally over joyed for some reason that Kouga might not 'love' Kagome the way he claimed or that there might be some big realization stumbling block in his way. On the other hand, he frowned then, still not sure it was such a good to throw his new friend to the wolves, literally. He glanced back at the girl in whom he was thinking about currently, and saw that she had a small smile on her face and looked as though she was off in 'dream world' as Kagome called it. He wasn't sure what the outcome of all of this would be, but he knew one thing that if Kouga laid one wrong hand on his friend or hurt her in any way, he'd slice him in half. He smiled then, this should be interesting. ---------- ----------- ------------- -------------- ---------- ---
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Kouga finally picked himself off the rock and sighed, he didn't have anything else accomplished then he had this morning.
'Dammit' he thought, was he really like Inuyasha and didn't know how to make up his mind, at that moment he almost felt sorry for the stupid mutt face, almost, 'Of course your not.' Came that voice again out of no where.
'Hey' Kouga said 'If your not gonna give me any better advice than you did yesterday and you plan on leaving me in a state of utter confusion, then buzz off!!'
The voice simply replied 'You're in denial.' At this Kouga got really pissed and replied back 'what in the hell, is that supposed to mean?'
'Think of this before I leave you again,' the voice said 'what have you thought about this whole time, all by your self, where have your thoughts been all day? Now try to think about Kagome the same way.'
Kouga was silent for sometime before he responded to himself out loud, "I can't dammit, my thoughts of Kagome are all messed up, and my thoughts just keep going back to...to...to........Asami.' he replied defeated by his own thoughts, he headed back to the den, that was enough for today, he was tired and he just wanted to go to sleep and stop thinking.
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