Author's Note: Chapter Five. This looks like an interesting chapter for you
guys to feast upon.
Thanks again for reading this story and being patient with me. This chapter is a twist, but don't worry it is and will be an Inu/Kag fic. Eventually.
Look sorry about going on and on but those that reviewed yesterday I'm sorry about the mix up the computer just shut down on me and I guess it uploaded wrong along the process. I know for a fact I uploaded into the HSR story but whatever it's fixed now. Thanks for your concern guys, it means a lot!
Disclaimer: Last time I checked I still didn't own Inuyasha (asks my lawyer once again). Nope, nada, zip, zilch, and none.
High School Reunion
Chapter Five
Reunited at the Reunion
Kagome did what she had always done. Talk to a friend and release out all her feelings. But not tonight. She just needed to talk. She just needed to tell someone and that someone has always been Sango.
Sango knew about her feelings for Inuyasha, even when they were in high school. She had teased Kagome about it countless times on how funny it was that she was attracted to an airhead like him.
Sango had long since stopped her teasing. She instead felt sympathetic for Kagome's dilemma.
Kagome never knew what it really was that had her so wound up about Inuyasha. The very name of him made her choke or hard to think. But it had been a while since she had touched the subject of Inuyasha. Ten years to be exact.
Kagome dialed Sango's number as she relaxed in her bed in her comfortable nightgown on which she also wore a large robe over. The robe had been her father's. The color now was fading and the cotton worn in. But it was something that Kagome couldn't bear to throw out.
"Hello? Sango speaking" Kagome visibly relaxed against her pillow.
"Sango, it's me Kagome. Did you get the letter?"
"Yeah! I can't believe it. Has it really been ten years already? It seemed like yesterday we were walking across the stage, getting our diploma. Smacking Miroku and calling him a pervert."
"I know, wait a minute the whole Miroku thing did happen yesterday, anyways... I guess we'll be meeting everyone there..."
Sango wrapped the cord of her telephone around her fingers and released it again. "Miroku will be so happy, he's missed Inu... Uhh certain people so much. You know old friends and such..."
Sango knew Inuyasha was a touchy subject for Kagome.
Kagome smiled knowing what Sango was trying to do. It was the old curving around the best friend's heartache subject maneuver. "It's okay Sango we can talk about him now...That's kind of why I called...This whole reunion is making me think. I think I still have feelings for him." Kagome admitted openly.
"Apparently so. Kagome what are you going to do? I mean things have changed now."
Kagome sighed, she wished she knew why she felt like mush when ever his name was mention.
"Kagome we'll fight this. Don't worry about it. Just try to think about other things during this week, when the reunion comes...Well when it comes we'll face it then. We'll face it together, like old times."
Kagome put a hand by her heart. She was truly touched. "Thanks Sango. That meant a lot to me. How can I ever repay you for all the things you have done for me?"
"Well by let's say a little shopping spree oh I don't know around the afternoon tomorrow?"
Kagome laughed. "A little shopping spree? Sango as long as I have known you, little never means little in your vocabulary. It means grand, super, or large. But little now that's stretching the truth a bit."
"Hey!" Sango said defensively.
Kagome laughed even harder. "Hey to you to. You know I would most definitely be more than happy to oblige in this shopping extravaganza."
"Good! See you tomorrow then at Ferellino's Plaza around three thirty?"
"Sounds good to me."
Kagome hung up the phone and pulled the blanket up to her chin and let sleep claim her.
Kagome sighed fretfully as she looked at each dress. The dresses at the mall or the Plaza they went to were all way to revealing and childish for her taste.
Kagome decided to wear the very first dress that she created. She had made it but never had really thought of putting it out on her line of fashion.
Until recently couture were making head lines and people were going crazy for them. Even then she didn't put it out. Maybe because it had sentimental value or maybe because it was her very first design. Whatever it was she never had the guts to wear it.
Till Sango mentioned it to Kagome about the dress. "Kagome you should wear that dress, it really is something. Besides I'm sure your body has filled out nicely by now...I mean it you have to wear it or else I will tell him."
Kagome paused and turned around slowly "You wouldn't dare!"
Sango shrugged and continued looking at the rack of dresses that Kagome had made. They were at Kagome's boutique that hadn't opened yet but was filled with her latest new clothes. The shop was planning to open next year.
Kagome sat down on a chair and looked at Sango. Sango was right about the dress. It was a work of art; Kagome had remembered spending hours after hours creating it. But she had made that dress years ago. When she was scrawny and skinny as a stick.
Over the years her scrawny figure transformed into a voluptuous figure and she wasn't skinny as a stick, just average.
Kagome never knew why she had developed so quickly and later in life. Her mother had blamed it on family genes saying every Higurashi women were late bloomers.
Kagome laughed when she had heard what her mother had said. 'Now about that dress...' Kagome pondered until Sango distracted her.
"Ah ha!" Sango yelled at her successful finding. She held up a midnight blue evening gown.
Kagome smiled and looked at the dress; it would be perfect for Sango. After giving the dress to Sango as a gift they had lunch and then went their separate ways promising each other a call later that night.
The week had narrowing down to the day of her reunion. The days seem to fly by and it wasn't at all what Kagome had wanted.
Kagome was nervous, the reunion was tonight. Tonight where she would meet people that she hadn't seen in ages. But that wasn't the reason why she couldn't breathe properly at the moment. It was because she was going to see Inuyasha; she was going to see him at the reunion after all these years.
Kagome was in her bathroom doing her hair; she had decided to do a French twist with rhinestone clips to match her dress. She wanted to look nice, but not overdone. She put on her cream colored dress on, and was slipping on her heels when her cell phone rang.
She ran to her purse and took out her phone and answered it. "Hello?"
"Kagome, Sango here. Change of plans here. Miroku's car broke down so I'm going to have to pick him and Inuyasha up at the airport. I can't come and get you the traffic is horrendous; I hope you're not mad even after I had promised you that we would arrive there together."
"No Sango, that's okay I'll meet you there okay?" Kagome knew how important it was if Miroku had called Sango at the last minute for a ride. The plan was that Miroku was supposed to meet Inuyasha at the airport and pick him up and meet Sango and Kagome at the reunion.
"Thanks Kagome! You're the best, bye!" Kagome turned off her cell phone after Sango had hung up and headed downstairs to her garage.
Kagome parked her car, locked it, and put away her keys in her purse. She walked nervously to her school.
She stared at the school. Much hadn't changed over the years. Kagome stared at it; it seemed so long ago that this place had been like her home. Her heart was overwhelmed with memories.
She looked around and saw a few familiar faces and waved to a few. Then she looked around for Sango and Miroku; she couldn't find them.
'They must be inside already.' Kagome thought and walked up the stairs. The stairs that led to the front doors. The doors that led inside to the school that led to the gym.
Where the reunion was being held. The reunion was being held at the school's gym
Where everything was coming into foreplay. Everything that was left undone and unfinished ten years ago, it was going to happen tonight.
Her hands trembled as she pushed the door. It opened with ease and she stepped inside the school. She was inside her old school. She was here but different from the person that she used to be when she went here.
She had grown up. And she was ready, this time she was ready.
Her heels rhythmically clapped against the floor. She kept on walking towards the gym. And then she saw it. On the other side of the doors would be the reunion.
She inhaled deeply and pushed the door, inside blasted loud music and chatter of people. It seemed like a school dance except everyone here was older and different.
Her eyes searched around and spotted her friends. She also saw him.
Sango and Miroku waved for her to come over. Kagome smiled and waved back. She was about to go to them when a voice called out her name. She turned around and saw that it was Hojo.
She walked over to him. She stared at him, surprised at how he had changed over the years. He still donned a moppy mess of light brown hair Along with the framed smile that always seemed to reach out to his eyes. Over all he still looked good.
Kagome tilted her head a little as she stopped at the table. She hoped that she didn't do anything wrong.
"Hi Hojo, how's it going?" Kagome started trying to add in small talk. She felt guilty for not talking to him after all these years. She had lost contact with him after high school.
"Good Kagome and you?" Kagome shrugged and then smiled "Yeah I'm doing well too Hojo."
"That's good...Well have fun tonight but first you need to sign in and grab a name tag." Then he pointed to the notebook and the pen. Kagome nodded and grabbed the pen.
Kagome signed in, by the desk by the doors of the gym. Then grabbed her name tag and went deeper inside of the gym.
She came nearer to the group. She hugged Sango and Miroku and stood next to them.
"Hey Higurashi, how are you?" Kagome's heart did a somersault; there was only one possible person that called her by her last name with an air of confidence.
She turned around and saw it was Inuyasha. He had grown quite a bit from the last time she had seen him. He wore his hair the same but a little longer. His build was more muscular and he was also tanner. He was leaning back against the wall flashing Kagome a heart dropping smile.
Kagome smiled back and shook his hand. Her heart jumped at the sudden feel of his skin touching hers. "Hi Inuyasha it's been awhile."
He nodded in agreement. He couldn't believe it. The Kagome he knew then and the Kagome he was seeing right now were two completely different people.
It was still Kagome, except she had become a woman. She had become every man's fantasy. Years had done nothing to her soft beautiful face; in fact the years had made her only more beautiful and sexier. And tonight she was amazing.
Her hair was swept back showing her graceful ivory neck. And all together it was finished off with a soft smile.
And the dress brought out her curvaceous figure perfectly. He was surprised that even after all this time she still had her slim perfect figure and long lean legs. She had indeed filled out quite nicely. He looked at her left hand and saw that there was no ring on her hand.
It brought comfort in a weird sense of knowing that she wasn't married.
"Kagome your dress, it looks great on you! See I told you this was the one." Sango commented and winked at her.
Inuyasha silently agreed. He continued to smile at her. Kagome looked away and faced Sango instead, blushing madly.
"Okay you were right happy now?" said Kagome as the girls continued talking.
Inuyasha couldn't pull his eyes away from her if his life depended on it. He was fascinated with her. He caught the light scent of Kagome's perfume. It was intoxicating him and he could now hardly think straight.
He needed to act fast before something stupid happened.
Inuyasha took chance of the now silent group and started small talk. "So you design clothes now Kagome?" he asked.
Kagome nodded and answered "Yes". She looked at him in the eye as he did too.
It was inevitable, the passion that lied in both their eyes. Once again she looked away from his, this time a faint pink staining her cheeks.
Being completely oblivious to the exchange between him and her Miroku ruined the moment by asking Inuyasha a question.
The wrong question.
"So where's Kikyo?"
Kagome stopped breathing and concentrated on looking at the floor. She had almost lost herself there.
"In America, she has an important business conference she has to attend to and couldn't leave." Inuyasha replied.
"I see. So you're getting married I heard. The big wedding is when?" Miroku asked.
Sango stared at him in disbelief. She couldn't believe what Miroku was saying. He was ruining everything.
Inuyasha smiled faintly. He had asked her to marry him on their anniversary. Kikyo cried and said yes. But things that were going on at the moment were making him wonder if he had made the right choice of asking her.
Soon after wards she would come home later than usual or not even come home until the next day. Her excuse was that it was work. He didn't know if it was the truth. He too had become busy with work and had little time to find out.
But then she dropped the big one on him. She asked Inuyasha for a little space.
Confused but trying to be the understanding fiancée, he had given it to her. Then a few weeks later she told him she was moving out. And she did.
She called him everyday afterwards saying she loved him and that she hoped he understood. But the calls became fewer and fewer till they stopped all together. She returned the ring back to him.
It was as if she disappeared. He was hurt badly. He tried contacting her. He found out she had put a restraining order on him. He was to stay within five hundred feet away from her. He had stayed away to hurt and angry to understand.
He didn't understand why she was doing this now. She had been with him all these years and now? He wasn't so sure anymore. He didn't know if he was in love anymore.
Inuyasha smiled at Miroku, he didn't blame him for his curiosity. After all he didn't know what had happened. It was his fault that their friendship had been put on hold for so long. It was only a year ago when they had rekindled their lost friendship.
Due to work recently, their friendship was once again put on hold. He had forgotten to tell him, work had once again taken over and life became hectic. He was still surprised that Miroku had still wanted to be friends.
He answered "There is no wedding...She returned the ring a few days ago. She said she wasn't ready for a commitment."
Miroku and Sango looked at him shocked. Kagome was motionless.
Inuyasha looked away from Miroku and excused himself, saying he needed to get a drink.
Instead he did what he always did when he needed to think, go outside.
He sat under a tree, clearing his head. Too many things were brought up at once. His tender wounds were spilling open like a waterfall.
"Oh Kikyo...Look what you've done to me...You left me stranded here alone and hurting. Why?" He asked to himself quietly. He heard footsteps walking toward his way; he looked at the person that sat next to him now.
"Inuyasha? What are you doing out here?"
It was Kagome. He was surprised, they hardly knew each other and yet she was concerned for him. He remained silent and Kagome stayed there, despite the chilling night air that was beginning to evade her body. She shivered but stayed with him.
"Inuyasha, I probably don't know what you are going through but you can tell me if you like." Kagome said suggestively.
He looked at her. He saw how trusting her eyes were and how patiently she waited next to him. He took his coat off and draped it around her shoulders. She thanked him and listened with open and ready ears.
He nodded and began to tell her his tale. It was hours later and he was still talking. She never interrupted once.
"And that's what happened. I don't know why she left for sure... Now that I think about it I'm not so sure myself why I had been with her for so long too."
Kagome nodded taking it all in. "It must've been hard. I mean you have your work and she has hers. Your lives are apart most of the time. I don't know if this is the right thing to say but..."
Kagome shut her eyes for a moment and opened them again. It was hard for her to say this but she couldn't allow her feelings to take over. Not at a time like this. His heart was somewhere else, she couldn't interfere.
"Inuyasha give it some time. You two were meant for each other. It'll work out in the end."
She stood up readying herself to leave; tears were already surfacing to the corner of her eyes.
"Well goodbye Inuyasha it was nice meeting you. I hope to see you again sometime." She handed his coat back and slowly walked away with her tears silently streaming down her face.
Inuyasha stood there confused, but let her go. He could tell she wanted to be alone. He watched her walk away, and for some reason he couldn't explain the feeling that was going on inside of him.
She got in her car and went home. She threw herself on the couch and cried for hours. Her body shook as she cried. Endless amounts of tears and tissues were settled on her couch.
It had hurt her, but she knew what she was doing was the right thing. But that didn't change the fact that she was hurting.
She cried her eyes out until there were no more tears left. She then fell asleep exhausted.
She knew where the boundaries where and she was at the point of running back to him and confessing everything that she felt for him. But she was better than that, years of hard work and perseverance had made her strong- willed.
And even if she had to wait a hundred years for love, then she would wait, she would not involve herself with someone who was in love with someone else and not her. Even if it was breaking her heart slowly. She would wait.
It was the next morning and Kagome woke up only to find out that she had a killer migraine. She went to her bathroom and took a long bath. She wrapped herself in a robe and was drying her hair with a towel when she heard the buzzing of her doorbell.
She answered the door. Never expecting him to be at her door.
AN: Six will be around later this month. If you read my bio which I update once or twice a week, you would know that one of my dogs died. It was my seven year old dog Aspen he was sick with cancer and put to sleep. And I am not in the mood to write any of my chapters for my stories till I recover which will be awhile. So please be understanding and give me time, thank you for reading and leave me a review if you'd like.
Thanks again for reading this story and being patient with me. This chapter is a twist, but don't worry it is and will be an Inu/Kag fic. Eventually.
Look sorry about going on and on but those that reviewed yesterday I'm sorry about the mix up the computer just shut down on me and I guess it uploaded wrong along the process. I know for a fact I uploaded into the HSR story but whatever it's fixed now. Thanks for your concern guys, it means a lot!
Disclaimer: Last time I checked I still didn't own Inuyasha (asks my lawyer once again). Nope, nada, zip, zilch, and none.
High School Reunion
Chapter Five
Reunited at the Reunion
Kagome did what she had always done. Talk to a friend and release out all her feelings. But not tonight. She just needed to talk. She just needed to tell someone and that someone has always been Sango.
Sango knew about her feelings for Inuyasha, even when they were in high school. She had teased Kagome about it countless times on how funny it was that she was attracted to an airhead like him.
Sango had long since stopped her teasing. She instead felt sympathetic for Kagome's dilemma.
Kagome never knew what it really was that had her so wound up about Inuyasha. The very name of him made her choke or hard to think. But it had been a while since she had touched the subject of Inuyasha. Ten years to be exact.
Kagome dialed Sango's number as she relaxed in her bed in her comfortable nightgown on which she also wore a large robe over. The robe had been her father's. The color now was fading and the cotton worn in. But it was something that Kagome couldn't bear to throw out.
"Hello? Sango speaking" Kagome visibly relaxed against her pillow.
"Sango, it's me Kagome. Did you get the letter?"
"Yeah! I can't believe it. Has it really been ten years already? It seemed like yesterday we were walking across the stage, getting our diploma. Smacking Miroku and calling him a pervert."
"I know, wait a minute the whole Miroku thing did happen yesterday, anyways... I guess we'll be meeting everyone there..."
Sango wrapped the cord of her telephone around her fingers and released it again. "Miroku will be so happy, he's missed Inu... Uhh certain people so much. You know old friends and such..."
Sango knew Inuyasha was a touchy subject for Kagome.
Kagome smiled knowing what Sango was trying to do. It was the old curving around the best friend's heartache subject maneuver. "It's okay Sango we can talk about him now...That's kind of why I called...This whole reunion is making me think. I think I still have feelings for him." Kagome admitted openly.
"Apparently so. Kagome what are you going to do? I mean things have changed now."
Kagome sighed, she wished she knew why she felt like mush when ever his name was mention.
"Kagome we'll fight this. Don't worry about it. Just try to think about other things during this week, when the reunion comes...Well when it comes we'll face it then. We'll face it together, like old times."
Kagome put a hand by her heart. She was truly touched. "Thanks Sango. That meant a lot to me. How can I ever repay you for all the things you have done for me?"
"Well by let's say a little shopping spree oh I don't know around the afternoon tomorrow?"
Kagome laughed. "A little shopping spree? Sango as long as I have known you, little never means little in your vocabulary. It means grand, super, or large. But little now that's stretching the truth a bit."
"Hey!" Sango said defensively.
Kagome laughed even harder. "Hey to you to. You know I would most definitely be more than happy to oblige in this shopping extravaganza."
"Good! See you tomorrow then at Ferellino's Plaza around three thirty?"
"Sounds good to me."
Kagome hung up the phone and pulled the blanket up to her chin and let sleep claim her.
Kagome sighed fretfully as she looked at each dress. The dresses at the mall or the Plaza they went to were all way to revealing and childish for her taste.
Kagome decided to wear the very first dress that she created. She had made it but never had really thought of putting it out on her line of fashion.
Until recently couture were making head lines and people were going crazy for them. Even then she didn't put it out. Maybe because it had sentimental value or maybe because it was her very first design. Whatever it was she never had the guts to wear it.
Till Sango mentioned it to Kagome about the dress. "Kagome you should wear that dress, it really is something. Besides I'm sure your body has filled out nicely by now...I mean it you have to wear it or else I will tell him."
Kagome paused and turned around slowly "You wouldn't dare!"
Sango shrugged and continued looking at the rack of dresses that Kagome had made. They were at Kagome's boutique that hadn't opened yet but was filled with her latest new clothes. The shop was planning to open next year.
Kagome sat down on a chair and looked at Sango. Sango was right about the dress. It was a work of art; Kagome had remembered spending hours after hours creating it. But she had made that dress years ago. When she was scrawny and skinny as a stick.
Over the years her scrawny figure transformed into a voluptuous figure and she wasn't skinny as a stick, just average.
Kagome never knew why she had developed so quickly and later in life. Her mother had blamed it on family genes saying every Higurashi women were late bloomers.
Kagome laughed when she had heard what her mother had said. 'Now about that dress...' Kagome pondered until Sango distracted her.
"Ah ha!" Sango yelled at her successful finding. She held up a midnight blue evening gown.
Kagome smiled and looked at the dress; it would be perfect for Sango. After giving the dress to Sango as a gift they had lunch and then went their separate ways promising each other a call later that night.
The week had narrowing down to the day of her reunion. The days seem to fly by and it wasn't at all what Kagome had wanted.
Kagome was nervous, the reunion was tonight. Tonight where she would meet people that she hadn't seen in ages. But that wasn't the reason why she couldn't breathe properly at the moment. It was because she was going to see Inuyasha; she was going to see him at the reunion after all these years.
Kagome was in her bathroom doing her hair; she had decided to do a French twist with rhinestone clips to match her dress. She wanted to look nice, but not overdone. She put on her cream colored dress on, and was slipping on her heels when her cell phone rang.
She ran to her purse and took out her phone and answered it. "Hello?"
"Kagome, Sango here. Change of plans here. Miroku's car broke down so I'm going to have to pick him and Inuyasha up at the airport. I can't come and get you the traffic is horrendous; I hope you're not mad even after I had promised you that we would arrive there together."
"No Sango, that's okay I'll meet you there okay?" Kagome knew how important it was if Miroku had called Sango at the last minute for a ride. The plan was that Miroku was supposed to meet Inuyasha at the airport and pick him up and meet Sango and Kagome at the reunion.
"Thanks Kagome! You're the best, bye!" Kagome turned off her cell phone after Sango had hung up and headed downstairs to her garage.
Kagome parked her car, locked it, and put away her keys in her purse. She walked nervously to her school.
She stared at the school. Much hadn't changed over the years. Kagome stared at it; it seemed so long ago that this place had been like her home. Her heart was overwhelmed with memories.
She looked around and saw a few familiar faces and waved to a few. Then she looked around for Sango and Miroku; she couldn't find them.
'They must be inside already.' Kagome thought and walked up the stairs. The stairs that led to the front doors. The doors that led inside to the school that led to the gym.
Where the reunion was being held. The reunion was being held at the school's gym
Where everything was coming into foreplay. Everything that was left undone and unfinished ten years ago, it was going to happen tonight.
Her hands trembled as she pushed the door. It opened with ease and she stepped inside the school. She was inside her old school. She was here but different from the person that she used to be when she went here.
She had grown up. And she was ready, this time she was ready.
Her heels rhythmically clapped against the floor. She kept on walking towards the gym. And then she saw it. On the other side of the doors would be the reunion.
She inhaled deeply and pushed the door, inside blasted loud music and chatter of people. It seemed like a school dance except everyone here was older and different.
Her eyes searched around and spotted her friends. She also saw him.
Sango and Miroku waved for her to come over. Kagome smiled and waved back. She was about to go to them when a voice called out her name. She turned around and saw that it was Hojo.
She walked over to him. She stared at him, surprised at how he had changed over the years. He still donned a moppy mess of light brown hair Along with the framed smile that always seemed to reach out to his eyes. Over all he still looked good.
Kagome tilted her head a little as she stopped at the table. She hoped that she didn't do anything wrong.
"Hi Hojo, how's it going?" Kagome started trying to add in small talk. She felt guilty for not talking to him after all these years. She had lost contact with him after high school.
"Good Kagome and you?" Kagome shrugged and then smiled "Yeah I'm doing well too Hojo."
"That's good...Well have fun tonight but first you need to sign in and grab a name tag." Then he pointed to the notebook and the pen. Kagome nodded and grabbed the pen.
Kagome signed in, by the desk by the doors of the gym. Then grabbed her name tag and went deeper inside of the gym.
She came nearer to the group. She hugged Sango and Miroku and stood next to them.
"Hey Higurashi, how are you?" Kagome's heart did a somersault; there was only one possible person that called her by her last name with an air of confidence.
She turned around and saw it was Inuyasha. He had grown quite a bit from the last time she had seen him. He wore his hair the same but a little longer. His build was more muscular and he was also tanner. He was leaning back against the wall flashing Kagome a heart dropping smile.
Kagome smiled back and shook his hand. Her heart jumped at the sudden feel of his skin touching hers. "Hi Inuyasha it's been awhile."
He nodded in agreement. He couldn't believe it. The Kagome he knew then and the Kagome he was seeing right now were two completely different people.
It was still Kagome, except she had become a woman. She had become every man's fantasy. Years had done nothing to her soft beautiful face; in fact the years had made her only more beautiful and sexier. And tonight she was amazing.
Her hair was swept back showing her graceful ivory neck. And all together it was finished off with a soft smile.
And the dress brought out her curvaceous figure perfectly. He was surprised that even after all this time she still had her slim perfect figure and long lean legs. She had indeed filled out quite nicely. He looked at her left hand and saw that there was no ring on her hand.
It brought comfort in a weird sense of knowing that she wasn't married.
"Kagome your dress, it looks great on you! See I told you this was the one." Sango commented and winked at her.
Inuyasha silently agreed. He continued to smile at her. Kagome looked away and faced Sango instead, blushing madly.
"Okay you were right happy now?" said Kagome as the girls continued talking.
Inuyasha couldn't pull his eyes away from her if his life depended on it. He was fascinated with her. He caught the light scent of Kagome's perfume. It was intoxicating him and he could now hardly think straight.
He needed to act fast before something stupid happened.
Inuyasha took chance of the now silent group and started small talk. "So you design clothes now Kagome?" he asked.
Kagome nodded and answered "Yes". She looked at him in the eye as he did too.
It was inevitable, the passion that lied in both their eyes. Once again she looked away from his, this time a faint pink staining her cheeks.
Being completely oblivious to the exchange between him and her Miroku ruined the moment by asking Inuyasha a question.
The wrong question.
"So where's Kikyo?"
Kagome stopped breathing and concentrated on looking at the floor. She had almost lost herself there.
"In America, she has an important business conference she has to attend to and couldn't leave." Inuyasha replied.
"I see. So you're getting married I heard. The big wedding is when?" Miroku asked.
Sango stared at him in disbelief. She couldn't believe what Miroku was saying. He was ruining everything.
Inuyasha smiled faintly. He had asked her to marry him on their anniversary. Kikyo cried and said yes. But things that were going on at the moment were making him wonder if he had made the right choice of asking her.
Soon after wards she would come home later than usual or not even come home until the next day. Her excuse was that it was work. He didn't know if it was the truth. He too had become busy with work and had little time to find out.
But then she dropped the big one on him. She asked Inuyasha for a little space.
Confused but trying to be the understanding fiancée, he had given it to her. Then a few weeks later she told him she was moving out. And she did.
She called him everyday afterwards saying she loved him and that she hoped he understood. But the calls became fewer and fewer till they stopped all together. She returned the ring back to him.
It was as if she disappeared. He was hurt badly. He tried contacting her. He found out she had put a restraining order on him. He was to stay within five hundred feet away from her. He had stayed away to hurt and angry to understand.
He didn't understand why she was doing this now. She had been with him all these years and now? He wasn't so sure anymore. He didn't know if he was in love anymore.
Inuyasha smiled at Miroku, he didn't blame him for his curiosity. After all he didn't know what had happened. It was his fault that their friendship had been put on hold for so long. It was only a year ago when they had rekindled their lost friendship.
Due to work recently, their friendship was once again put on hold. He had forgotten to tell him, work had once again taken over and life became hectic. He was still surprised that Miroku had still wanted to be friends.
He answered "There is no wedding...She returned the ring a few days ago. She said she wasn't ready for a commitment."
Miroku and Sango looked at him shocked. Kagome was motionless.
Inuyasha looked away from Miroku and excused himself, saying he needed to get a drink.
Instead he did what he always did when he needed to think, go outside.
He sat under a tree, clearing his head. Too many things were brought up at once. His tender wounds were spilling open like a waterfall.
"Oh Kikyo...Look what you've done to me...You left me stranded here alone and hurting. Why?" He asked to himself quietly. He heard footsteps walking toward his way; he looked at the person that sat next to him now.
"Inuyasha? What are you doing out here?"
It was Kagome. He was surprised, they hardly knew each other and yet she was concerned for him. He remained silent and Kagome stayed there, despite the chilling night air that was beginning to evade her body. She shivered but stayed with him.
"Inuyasha, I probably don't know what you are going through but you can tell me if you like." Kagome said suggestively.
He looked at her. He saw how trusting her eyes were and how patiently she waited next to him. He took his coat off and draped it around her shoulders. She thanked him and listened with open and ready ears.
He nodded and began to tell her his tale. It was hours later and he was still talking. She never interrupted once.
"And that's what happened. I don't know why she left for sure... Now that I think about it I'm not so sure myself why I had been with her for so long too."
Kagome nodded taking it all in. "It must've been hard. I mean you have your work and she has hers. Your lives are apart most of the time. I don't know if this is the right thing to say but..."
Kagome shut her eyes for a moment and opened them again. It was hard for her to say this but she couldn't allow her feelings to take over. Not at a time like this. His heart was somewhere else, she couldn't interfere.
"Inuyasha give it some time. You two were meant for each other. It'll work out in the end."
She stood up readying herself to leave; tears were already surfacing to the corner of her eyes.
"Well goodbye Inuyasha it was nice meeting you. I hope to see you again sometime." She handed his coat back and slowly walked away with her tears silently streaming down her face.
Inuyasha stood there confused, but let her go. He could tell she wanted to be alone. He watched her walk away, and for some reason he couldn't explain the feeling that was going on inside of him.
She got in her car and went home. She threw herself on the couch and cried for hours. Her body shook as she cried. Endless amounts of tears and tissues were settled on her couch.
It had hurt her, but she knew what she was doing was the right thing. But that didn't change the fact that she was hurting.
She cried her eyes out until there were no more tears left. She then fell asleep exhausted.
She knew where the boundaries where and she was at the point of running back to him and confessing everything that she felt for him. But she was better than that, years of hard work and perseverance had made her strong- willed.
And even if she had to wait a hundred years for love, then she would wait, she would not involve herself with someone who was in love with someone else and not her. Even if it was breaking her heart slowly. She would wait.
It was the next morning and Kagome woke up only to find out that she had a killer migraine. She went to her bathroom and took a long bath. She wrapped herself in a robe and was drying her hair with a towel when she heard the buzzing of her doorbell.
She answered the door. Never expecting him to be at her door.
AN: Six will be around later this month. If you read my bio which I update once or twice a week, you would know that one of my dogs died. It was my seven year old dog Aspen he was sick with cancer and put to sleep. And I am not in the mood to write any of my chapters for my stories till I recover which will be awhile. So please be understanding and give me time, thank you for reading and leave me a review if you'd like.