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AN: Here comes number 3!
This might be the last chapter, if I don't get at least 5 reviews so PlEaSe ReViEw!(Or the story might be deleted by yours truly. Seriously.)
Hey, Your Life Is Just As Screwed Up As Mine!
"InuYasha, I told you I'd come out when I was ready to go!" shouted Kagome. The boy in front of her looked back blankly as if to say 'Do I ever wait?'
Kagome sighed. InuYasha snorted. Akane stared. And, Ranma made faces behind the dog-boy's back, so that he was just visible to the two girls.
Of course… he would be the immature one... well the only other immature one from InuYasha, that is.
Akane had a drop of sweat rolling down her temple, looking as if she were about to fall on her face with embarrassment for the boy who was previously to be her husband.
Inuyasha was barely holding his patience down; he almost couldn't stop himself from hitting or causing some sort of damage to the boy behind him.
Oh wait… he didn't try not to.
And, so InuYasha's hand snapped behind him to grab the boy by his cute little braid but… his hand met nothing. He turned back to look at Kagome with questioning eyes and instead of meeting her smoky blue gaze, he found a different more masculine gaze aimed at him along with a cocky grin. One that was disturbingly familiar.
So, the boy had a bit of skill, did he? Cocky brat…
"InuYasha, leave him alone!" Kagome called out.
"Yeah InuYasha, leave harmless little old me alone!" Ranma mocked.
"Ranma, you'd better shut up right now or--"
"Or you'll what? You don't do martial arts, what could you possibly threaten me with?" Ranma cut in with a bored look.
If there was one thing that was good about his new fiancée and engagement, it was that his bride-to-be was not only extremely cute, feminine and well, cute, but she didn't pose too much of a physical threat to himself. She didn't know the first thing about hand-to-hand fighting; and in his eyes, that made her all the more cute.
"Oooh, you are SO infuriating!"
"I know," the boy with the braided pigtail smirked.
Akane watched these events pass. The engagement was just announced to them and they were already getting along... well, at least in the way that married couples were supposed to be compatible. They had already started their little lover's tiffs, before they had even become lovers.
InuYasha had started growling at the other two's ridiculous actions.
And, what about InuYasha? Was he okay with all of this?
Somehow, she doubted it.
He didn't look like a person who just gets over things quickly and moves on; and Akane was more than sure Kagome meant a lot to him… his eyes told all that needed to be said.
Every time he so much as looked at her, all his emotions would shine through; yet, every time she turned to look at him, he changed his whole demeanor.
He was obviously a very guarded person.
Perhaps, that's what drew Kagome to him.
She was absolutely, without a doubt, downright positive Kagome was flat out in love with the golden-eyed boy.
Her actions told her story, every little glance at him and just the way she acted explained it all. It was usually easy to tell when a girl's fallen, and this girl fell hard but… it seems she holds back her own feelings on purpose… for a specific reason.
She shook her head. Perhaps she'd look into it more later. These two led very painful and confusing lives. They faced serious things that they shouldn't have seen at this age. It was going to take a while to sort out the people behind the facades.
"You know I am really starting to dislike you!" came Kagome's voice.
"Oh yeah, well, psshhh!" Ranma replied intelligently.
"Nice comeback…" InuYasha said flatly.
Akane growled.
"Ranma-kun, your so mean!" Kagome said, after she elicited a stunned gasp.
"Don't worry Kagome, he'll get his with time," Akane said with a death glare aimed at the boy.
"Oooh, I'm shaking," Ranma mocked.
"Keh"
Kagome looked over to the inu hanyou. He was being unusually quiet.
"Um, InuYasha…"
InuYasha looked at her, and they locked eyes for a moment. Then quickly, the boy moved his eyes towards the floor.
Kagome wanted to say something further to him… but she didn't know what she should say, so instead she pushed back to the previous topic.
"Come to think of it, I am a bit hungry… I skipped out on dinner yesterday… and lunch," Kagome said with a slight blush.
"Oh my… we can't starve the future mother of my children!" Ranma yelled out.
Kagome was blushing furiously and InuYasha turned away with an unreadable emotion on his face.
Ranma was holding down a chuckle and Akane looked overly angered.
Kagome cleared her throat, effectively bringing everyone's attention to her.
"What? Why are you all looking at me for? I just had somethin in my throat…" the long-haired girl spoke.
"Keh, maybe you should stop bringing unwanted attention to yourself," InuYasha stated annoyed.
"What? I don't… Why would you… I will never understand you!" Kagome stated, throwing her hands in the air.
InuYasha watched her begin to rant.
"Uh-oh… I think she's mad," Ranma mumbled.
"First, you act like nothing in the world could bother you, then you get all needy, then act like the world is against you, and then you start becoming all possessive!" Kagome practically yelled.
InuYasha started to growl, his lips formed a sneer, "I don't ever need a single thing from you Kagome, it's you who always needs something from me! And I do not act possessive!"
Kagome looked at him blankly.
"Okay, so maybe I am a little possessive, but that does not give you any excuses to act the way you do! You flaunt yourself, dammit!" InuYasha continued.
"Sure, fine InuYasha! Everything you say and do is right, forgive me for doubting the perfect one!" Kagome yelled sarcastically.
"Well maybe I am right, at least just this once! Even if I am not as brilliant as you!" he continued.
"I never said I was perfect, it's just that you always consider everything you say as God-sent!" she returned.
"You know what, I don't have to take this!" he yelled.
"Well then don't!" Kagome commented.
InuYasha chuckled, "You are just the limit sometimes, no, wait, scratch that, all the time!"
"Uh… you guys?" Ranma spoke.
"Well the exact same thing could be said for you!"
"Maybe we should all just calm down a little, here," Akane suggested.
"You must have the world's biggest mouth, maybe when we finally face off Naraku, you can talk him to death!"
"Hey that was uncalled for…" Ranma said.
"No, InuYasha, I haven't got half the talent you do!"
"Keh, you're right you haven't got even half of anything that I do!"
"Yeah like your stupidity!"
"That's enough," Akane finally yelled as Ranma stood by and watched.
"You don't decide when I'm done yelling girl," InuYasha glared at her.
"Don't scream at her, idiot," Kagome yelled at him.
"Women shouldn't talk when not spoken to, sweetheart," the golden-eyed boy stared at her deathly calm.
"This isn't the feudal era!" the girl with long black hair exclaimed.
"So maybe we should go back to it, just so I could yell at you properly!"
"Oooo, Sit!" she yelled.
A loud crash was heard and InuYasha's face was in the floor.
"Wow, how'd she do that?" Ranma asked Akane.
"Haven't a clue," she answered.
"And stay down like the dog you are!" Kagome shouted, towering over the fallen hanyou.
He grabbed her ankle, causing her to fall, just as the rosary's spell wore off.
"How does it feel?!" he yelled as she groaned, rubbing her abused bottom.
"That was a cheap shot!"
"Oh, and I suppose using the rosary wasn't?"
"Here we go again," Ranma muttered.
"Not if I can help it," Akane spoke.
She made her way over to the bickering couple and pulled the silver locks of the boy's head.
"Leave the poor girl alone," she gritted out.
InuYasha's eyes narrowed and he grabbed Akane's wrist.
Suddenly, Ranma was in front of him, pulling Akane back from behind.
"That was unnecessary," he spoke towards the other boy.
InuYasha glared at him before turning his head and looking at Kagome who looked stunned. Suddenly he walked towards her and pulled her hand.
"Come on Kagome, we're leaving and you are never to come back here again," he all but growled still dragging Kagome to the front door.
"That's not my decision, it's my mother's," she replied.
"Not any more; you are not to come back to this time ever again," he spoke harshly.
"InuYasha, that's not fair!" Kagome complained.
"Oh well"
"You can't do this!" Kagome now tugged desperately at the arm InuYasha held.
"Watch me," he replied, not even recognizing her pitiful attempt to break free.
A shadow flew past them as Ranma jumped to block their exit.
"Let her go" he demanded.
"No, she has something to take care of before she can return to her 'normal' life," he spoke calmly, mirroring his brother's image perfectly.
"InuYasha--"
"The jewel is more important than this crap." He spoke firmly.
"She has a right to choose what she wants to do," Ranma argued.
"No… she doesn't. Right now her life belongs to the jewel shards and me, alone,"
"Fine, you win… let's go," Kagome spoke.
"Kagome, you don't have to go with him," the pig-tailed boy spoke.
"Yes, I do… look, just don't ask; I'll be back soon to fulfill my mother's wishes," she said sadly.
InuYasha grinned victoriously and dragged Kagome out the front doorway of the Tendo house, into the rain.
Before thinking about it, Ranma ran outside… being caught in the cold water and turning female.
Kagome turned back to the house, to get one last glance at the place. She blinked rapidly as she watched him change quickly. A girl with red hair stood in the place Ranma just had, wearing his clothes.
"Ranma?" Kagome gasped causing InuYasha to turn around and see the same figure Kagome was looking at.
He sniffed the air to try to find the scent of this person on automatic reaction. He used the same action when he met anyone. Though the rain made it hard to locate the girl's fragrance, he had finally obtained and his eyes held a confused expression.
She was Ranma. He wasn't sure how, but this girl was the same boy he was growing to despise. For a minute the trio stood there in the rain, becoming increasingly soaked. Akane watched from the doorway.
InuYasha stepped in front of a shocked Kagome and narrowed his eyes.
"What the hell is going on here?"
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AN: Well, this still might be the last chapter so review or the story will be deleted. Sorry, but I don't have enough time to waste on writing a story no one wants to read and I'm just not feeling motivated.