WOW! I'VE GOT AN IDEA FOR ONCE!! Yea, you bonehead, just start. I've taken too long anyway…
Chapter 22
Kagome walked home from school with a follower, a particular "someone special" with her. "See ya!" Inuyasha said continuing on.
"Bye! See you later!" Kagome said returning the farewell. She walked up her small shrine steps slowly with a rather largely obese cat greeting her at the top. "Go away Buyo…" In response, she got a meow that sounded like a dog attempted to meow. "Stupid thing…" Kagome walked in her home with a big grin on her face. "I'm home!" she said aloud, but in response, got whispers and murmurs from the front room.
"Kagome? Please come here for a second," her mother finally said from the living room.
Wondering what the problem could be, she continued on and was greeted with her mother and grandfather on the couch. But another person, a man, stood talking with them.
"What's this about?" Kagome asked with a curious look on her face.
"Kagome, please don't be angered or alarmed, but this man has some very good news for us." Ms. Higurashi said standing up. "Please hear him out?"
Kagome nodded and came in to sit on the chair across from the strange man. "Alright, explain yourself."
The man nodded. "Well, as you know, your brother was killed in an accident. Well I am from the L.M.P (a/n: no importance). We give … underprivileged families a new start with housing. Seeing as your brother supplied the most, and majority of the family income, I'm allowing you to save up for a new beginning."
Kagome couldn't comprehend what he was saying, they? Underprivileged?! What was he talking about? They always had enough money, and extra to spare! Her mom had a decent job, and her grandfather earned the little bit with the shrine shop. Even she pitched in with every little effort. And now they were bound to be moving… again?
…What would her friends think? What would Inuyasha think? That, it self was another problem right there. The one person she considered a true blue friend she would have to leave. And to who knows where? The other side of town? The other side of the city?...The other side of the world??
"Kagome? Are you okay? Kagome??"
"OF COURSE I'M NOT OKAY! FIRST YOU TELL ME THAT WE'RE POOR! THEN YOU TELL ME THAT WE'RE MOVING! I HAPPEN TO HAVE FRIENDS HERE FOR ONCE. AND NOW YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT WE HAVE TO LEAVE! HOW COULD YOU!" The saddened girl ran off to her room in tears, leaving her audience flabbergasted.
"I'm sorry. She never behaves like this otherwise!" Kagome's mother tried to apologize.
"It's alright, ma'am. I'll be on my leave. I'll give you one week." The man tipped his hat and was on his way.
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(okay, about now, mentally play the Inu/Kag romancy-theme-thing song from the anime)
It's not fair! I can't do it… I can't be without him anymore… it must be true then… Kagome sat up from her current laying position. She wiped a tear away and looked at it glistening in the afternoon light. I… I must be in love with him… He never meant so much until he left… and now that he'll be gone… my love will be just a word… because he can go back to Kikyo. She ignored the knocking on her door and curled up in a ball on the top of her bed. It won't be fair… it'll be just like before… torture… embarrassment. And… yet… maybe it'll be for the better.
"Kagome?" a soft voice asked.
Still half crying, Kagome looked to see who had entered. "Hey," she said looking back to her bed. The person walked softly to where Kagome sat.
"You wanna talk?" he asked. Kagome shook her head. "Your mom called and figured you'd want to see me."
Kagome looked up into the kind, sparkling gold eyes of the one person she'd love to be with, but hate to see right now. "It's simple. Some guy tells us we're moving and I cry." She leaned against the wall and sighed. "Now I see it. When I first came here, I dreaded knowing you because of the way you'd treated me – just like everyone else in the world. But since that day, you've gotten to know me, unlike anyone else had ever done."
Inuyasha smiled slightly. "What's your point, genius?" he added with a jokingly voice.
Kagome hesitated and leaned forward. "I… I think I'm in love with you…" she blushed and kissed him softly on the cheek – surprising both of them.
The hanyou only smiled and turned to face her. "It took you this long to realize it?"
Soon both were enveloped in a kiss so deep and passionate, it took both of them to go against their will to pull away. "I'll miss you so much." Kagome said as tears welled up in her eyes.
"Don't cry… I'll always be there. No matter where you go. Just remember than I'm here," he said taking a hold of her hand and holding it to her heart, "And you're here," he said putting their hands to his heart.
Kagome was forward and hugging so quickly, he was knocked down on the bed. "Don't ever forget me!" she said burying her face in his shirt.
"I won't."
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Well, it was time. A week had passed and the Higurashi's were ready to move again. All their boxes had been packed up and were almost on their way to their apartment in… the United States. All that was left was the clothes on their backs and them – the small Higurashi family.
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Kagome stood under the large tree that had overlooked the shrine they'd lived at. She looked up into it's full bloomed branches and let a tear drop from her eye. Let this always be a reminder. She said engraving on the back her initials, K.H. I'll be back. One day.
"You forgot something smart one!" said an oncoming voice. Kagome looked behind her to see Inuyasha walking forward with his hands in his pockets.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome cried running to him.
"Hey, you haven't left yet. You aren't supposed to be crying yet," he joked hugging her back. After a bit, he walked her to the tree to where her initials stood alone on the bare tree bark. "Look, you forgot something," he said pointing to the spot below her name.
"No I didn't," she replied confidently. Inuyasha leaned forward and scratched two small letters below Kagome's own. I.Y.
"Yes, you did." he said pulling away, satisfied with his work.
"Kagome! Time to go!" said a woman's voice from the front of the building.
Inuyasha looked down to Kagome, who was attempting to hold back tears. "Don't forget, I'm always there."
She couldn't hold it anymore. She cried full blow in his shirt. "I can't stand it! I won't leave!"
"You have to, idiot! If you don't go, just think of where your mom and grandpa will end up!" Inuyasha said pulling the girl away.
Kagome nodded and sniffed. "Alright."
"Leaving without saying good-bye?" said a girl's voice.
"SANGO!" Kagome ran to her friend, where they both started crying, in Kagome's case, again. Miroku shrugged and walked to Inuyasha. "I'm so sorry for not telling you! I didn't want you to worry about me! I didn't think I could handle saying good-bye to you. You were one of the first friends I had."
"I'll miss you too. Promise you'll try to write and call and see us and-"
"Sango! I will! Don't worry," Kagome said pulling away, red nose and eyes. She looked over to where Miroku stood. "Miroku…"
"I'll miss you too, Kagome." He said sincerely, holding her like a true friend. "Things weren't always on the best… turfs, but I still consider you my friend, one of the dearest ones I've got…"
"Oh, don't be silly!" Kagome said pulling away.
"KAGOME!" her mother's voice said anxiously again.
"Well, I better go." She turned to Inuyasha for one final hug. "Never forget…" she whispered.
"I won't…" he pulled her at arms length to look her in the face one more time. Then he pulled her close to his heart one last time. "I… I think I'm in love with you too."
Kagome left behind no regrets. She left her heart, her friends, her life, only to have it brought back again with one simple boy.
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Kagome sat in her small little humble home after completing a successful college years in the good ol' city of New York. She was reading up on some of the day's top news stories when the phone rang. Who'd call at this time? She asked looking at the clock which read 11:27. "Hello?"
"Kagome?"
". . . . . . . . . . . . Inu…yasha?" Tears were starting to form, she could tell.
"Look out your front window."
…Kagome walked slowly to the front door and looked out it to see HIM standing there on her porch. She threw the phone aside, completely ignoring the BZZT! And ZAP! It made when it collided with the hard tile floor. "INUYASHA! I THOUGHT I'D NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN!!!" She had her grip around him so hard, he couldn't talk.
"K-Kag…"
"Oh, sorry." She lightened up a bit and let the tears go. "I'm so glad to see you!" she said looking him up and down, seeing as he hadn't changed much since the last time he saw her… those many years ago.
"Me either," he said hugging her for good ol' times sake. After a bit more, he pulled away and walked her in the house. "I've missed you so much." He said looking around her small home.
"Oh, how I've longed to see you! It's been too long!" she said sitting back on the couch and folding up the paper.
"I know." He followed her lead and sat down beside her. "Look, there's something I gotta ask you, and you gotta promise you won't freak out? Okay?" Inuyasha asked, turning to Kagome.
"Anything."
Inuyasha got down on the floor, on one knee and pulled a small box out of his jacket pocket. "Will you… Kagome Higurashi…. Marry me?"
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A/N: THE END!! No, seriously. I uh… kinda lied about the ongoing part… I guess… hehe!! I've definitely thought this over and am confident there will be a sequal, seeing as we KNOW Kagome's answer!
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Right???
Oh well… can't say I didn't warn ya!
This was really fun to write! You reviewers are awesome! I dedicate this story TOTALLY to you guys! It was you, really, who kept me writing. So, if you want a sequal, you know what to do!!!!
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