Disclaimer: sigh this may possibly be the last disclaimer for this chapter! We've had some good ones… lol ok so yeah well I don't own ANYTHING it all goes to… RUMIKO TAKAHASHI! YAY!
Last time: "I don't want to be your friend." – Inuyasha (not much of a summer eh?)
This Time:
"What do you mean?!" Kagome screamed. This day was not going well at all. Clowns, bad memories and now THIS from Inuyasha!
"Geez Kagome! Would ya let me finish? Hear me out for once!" Inuyasha seethed.
"Hear you out? Hear you out for ONCE? Inuyasha, I don't know what you're talking about! I've always heard you out! And forgiven you!" Kagome threw the invisible malice back at him.
"YOU? Yeah right! You wouldn't forgive me if your life depended on it! Think about all those times you yelled at me and I put it behind me and went along like nothing happened!"
"Oh really? And when was this?"
"From all the back to sand box!" Spit was flying from Inuyasha and his arms were flailing in the air. Suddenly Inuyasha felt a small tap on the back. "WHAT?"
"Uh, Inuyasha, I just thought I'd let you know that you are now the main attraction…" Miroku said as Inuyasha momentarily calmed down and looked around to see a giant circle formed around him and Kagome, watching and listening intently to every word they said and every motion made.
"Inuyasha, perhaps we should continue this else where…" Kagome started to say before to Inuyasha before he completely turned and left without another word. "Leave it to him to have the last word…" She mumbled and ran off to follow the red clown.
She looked around the yard and couldn't find him anywhere. Not by the tree any more and not even down the steps if he was going home. Kagome decided to check inside the house- maybe he had to use the bathroom? No… no where in the house. She had searched every nook and cranny, every room and closet. Where could that hard headed teenage boy be?
After a couple hours of hopeless searching she took shelter from the beating sun in the cool little shack that the dried up old well was in.
"What's- sa pretty g-g-girl like you doing here?" Kagome looked around in the darkness and saw a figure sitting against the far corner. Various bottles were strewn here and there… Beer bottles, cans, and a few other type of liquor along with a flask.
"Inuyasha? Is that you? Where'd all this stuff come from?" Kagome picked her way through the mess and cleared a spot for her to sit next to him. She looked over him, his eyes were bloodshot and his breath was horrible. His body looked so limp and lifeless. He must have drank a lot in the past couple hours to be wasted so easily. There wasn't much to do for the time being… Kagome decided to just wait it out… hopefully he'd be awake before dark.
Hours later… the next day in the morning actually
Light touched Kagome's eyelids and they fluttered open. "What? OH GOD IT'S MORNING!"
"Argh, quiet the screaming I got a massive headache!" Inuyasha rolled over and woke up. "My stomach…"
"OH NO!" Kagoem screamed as Inuyasha rolled back over and got sick in her already vomit filled lap. "That is so disgusting Inuyasha!"
"I'm sorry Kagome… I was just so frustrated…"Inuyasha hung his head a looked like a little puppy at Kagome. She sighed and started to get up. "Where are you going?"
"To shower and change…where else?" And with that she left the hut leaving Inuyasha with the unspoken task to clean up this whole mess. He slowly got up, brushed the dirt and dust off himself and looked around at his mess.
"Looks like I'd better get started." He spoke aloud to himself and left the hut momentarily to go find a trash bag to put all the bottles in. Maybe he'd recycle them.
'I wonder why she wouldn't let me finish. God, we fight so much. If only she'd let me explain I've always wanted to go out with her. If only I'd told her instead of doing all that other stuff. I was so stupid. And I can't believe I dragged Miroku into it too.' Inuyasha found the bags and was back in the hut gathering the bottles and making a mental game plan on how approach this super sensitive subject. Without realizing it an hour had passed and he was tired. Inuyasha's back ached and he wanted a nap. AS he was about to leave the hut and tell Kagome he was leaving he saw her leaving the house to come over to the well.
"Kagome, I finished and well, I guess I'd better get out of your hair for now. I'm sure you've had enough of me this past weekend." Inuyasha stopped and looked at her face. It was so beautiful he thought to himself. Raven bangs falling into her chocolate eyes and a small pert nose. She had pretty lips always smiling and her eyes crinkling when she laughed.
"Inuyasha? Are you ok?" Kagome asked skeptically while subconsciously checking to see if anything was wrong with her outfit.
"No… Uh, so yeah. I'm gonna leave now." Inuyasha turned towards the stairs leading away from the shrine.
'You aren't just going to let him go and walk away like that are you? Call after him dummy!' Kagome thought as her childhood friend headed away.
'Damn it! Why didn't I ask if I could talk to her later? God, good thing it's the summer other wise school would be way to awkward. Maybe I'll call her next week…'Inuyasha thought as he took his bag of empty booze bottles and left. He was halfway down the steps when…
"INUYASHA!" Kagome yelled. She felt tears coming to her eyes but kept them back as the boy ran up the steps.
"Is something wrong?" Inuyasha glanced around for robber or blood but he didn't see anything. The suddenly he felt a pair of slim arms wrap around his neck and a bunch of black stuff in his face. He coughed and used his free hand to rub her head and pat her hair out of his face. The dropping the bag out of his other hand he brought it to rest on the small of her back just pressing her slightly closer.
"I'm so sorry for the way I've treated you! You were right!" Kagome said in a quiet, firm voice. She pulled back a bit and loosened her arms. The kind of just stood there and before Kagome completely pulled away. Inuyasha let his hands slowly fall, missing the warm body that had been residing close to his.
"Inuyasha, I- I want to hear what you have to say. Even if you don't want to be my friend, not that we really have been friends for the past few years, I think I should still listen to you and you owe me a reason why." She said meekly over her back while studying the ancient tree in the shrine.
"Kagome. It's not that I don't want to be friends with you. I don't want to be just friends with you. I never have….' Inuyasha spoke in a slow, clear manner. This may be the last things they say together and he didn't want to look back in regret because he yelled at her the whole time or didn't say something.
"What are you saying, Inuyasha?" Kagome turned around slowly.
"I'm- What I'm trying to say is…"Inuyasha started but didn't know how to finish.
"Have all these years been an act?" Kagome glowered.
"Well…"
"Oh my god Inuyasha; I can't believe you'd done this."
"Wait… I think you're assuming the wrong thing…" Inuyasha held his hands up in defense.
"What? Wait…. So you haven't hated you all these years?" Kagome was getting confused and a little line played across her forehead. Her moth formed a little half- smile, half- frown as she tried to figure it out.
"No. I haven't. I could never hate you Kagome!"
"Then what you are talking about?"Kagome held her fists to her side, she couldn't take it anymore, if he was trying to say that he didn't like her, then just say it, he shouldn't put her through all the pain. She leaned against the tree and looked up at Inuyasha, "Inuyasha, you don't have to lie, I understand, I didn't mean anything to you, maybe we should just end it here..."tears stung the back of her eyes, but she strongly blinked them away and Inuyasha walked towards her front door, not wanting to look back, not wanting to see his face, hear his words, the words that she always came straight from his heart....
Inuyasha blinked for a second, "Kagome, what's your problem? Don't do this!" he made his way to her and grabbed her wrist. "Don't leave me..." he said sadly. Kagome's heart fell into the pit of her stomach.
"Why shouldn't I leave you? You left me once...didn't even care about me...you don't know how much that hurt..." her voice started shaking as a lump grew in her throat Inuyasha closed his eyes, "I know...I'm sorry...I am stupid, I know....but I also know this..." he pressed her small body against his own, whiffing up the sweet scent of her hair, he breathed in deep, knowing the words that were on the tip of his tongue."Kagome...I wanna be with you... I...I love you Kagome Higurashi." he kissed the top of her head, afraid of what she was going to say; sparkling tear drops fell from the young girl's eyes, her own heart stopping in her chest.
"Inuyasha....do you mean that?" she asked, her breathing uneven.
Inuyasha nodded, "Yes, that's why....that's why I acted so rude, I never meant to hurt you, and I don't want to leave you. Please stay with me." he whispered, holding her tight.
Kagome nodded, "I love you too...I always shall, please, love me forever." she turned and hugged him and looked up into his eyes, her own glittering with his. she reached up and pressed her soft lips against his own, giving him a loving kiss, filled with all of her heart. They stood like that for a while, not letting each other go, the sunset hitting them just right, making them glow in their own love. Inuyasha looked at her and smiled, Kagome smiled back.
"HELL NO!!!!" yelled a voice from a passing car. Inuyasha and Kagome both knew that voice....Sango. She drove by in her silver Lexus, Miroku in the front seat with her, a huge smirk across his face.
"Hey Inuyasha!" he yelled, "So you guys finally got together? Good, now I just need to get this little vixen with me" Inuyasha gagged and laughed, "Well....we know who's next...." he smiled and hugged Kagome once again, "I'll always love you..." he murmured.
THE END
A/n: ok well first of the up there was the ending that I couldn't write but Sango-chan ((HuntressSango)) wrote for me! So yeah I don't own that she does. Thanks a bunch sango-chan! I luv ya! IOU big time! Lol well yeah that's the end of my story! YAY my first finished one! I hope you all liked it! Review please! And thank you everyone who reviewed it and stuck with it along the way! I love all of you!
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P.S. That was the ending theme 'Dearest' yeah Hamaski Ayumi sings it … I didn't write this song so it doesn't belong to me. I got the lyrics from www.animelyrics.com so go there if you want them or the English translation! Ta!