*sigh* Once again I apologize for the late update, I really hate updating like this, but I've sooooo busy not to mention lately my computer has been being a piece of...poop.lol. I tried my best to put as much time as I could in this chapter but I guess it wasn't enough because this is another slightly short chapter. I really hate short chapters, but that's all I could do...unless you all wanted to wait another week for a longer chapter.^-^

Also I don't think this chapter is very good so I'm not proud of it and I also have some bad news at the end of this chapter....don't worry it's nothing to kill me over...at least I don't think so.

Diclaimer: Don't own, Don't sue, Thank you ^-^

Kouga: You know, you've been making me really restless with putting everything else before this story!

Ashley: Well SOOORRY, but there are more important things then hooking you up with Kagome ya know!

Kouga: What are you talking about, you know you like it when I hook up with Kagome.

Ashley: * sighs * yeah I know

Kagome: * sweatdrops *

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Chapter 12: Wake Up Call

Barmp! Barmp! Barmp!

Kouga's eyes flashed open in total alarm and he scrambled to his feet at lightning speed in a fighting stance. His eyes shifted around the room, searching for the cause of the annoying repetition of sound until his eyes fell on the alarm clock next to Kagome's bed. He looked to the girl, who was sprawled out on the bed, still asleep, "How can she sleep through this racket?!"

He stalked over to the noisy device and began poking at it, and getting quite flustered at doing so, the sound it emitted was so irritating! Kouga began to shake the thing around but to no avail to ceasing the sound. He gave up on the clock and turned to the girl lying in the bed next to him, no doubt she knew how to turn the damned contraption off. But she looked much to peaceful to wake. So he slumped to the floor in defeat and cupped his hands over his abused ears and glared at the clock.

Kagome began to stir. She was having the most wonderful dream.

She had been lying in a field full of Sakura blossoms and Cicadas could be heard in the distance. It was the most beautiful scene she had ever seen, then from behind her she felt strong arms latch around her waist and she could feel the mans hot breath in her ear, whispering sweet nothings that made her melt in his embrace. Even though she couldn't determine who the voice belonged to, she knew it was male. She was about to turn around to witness her love but suddenly a huge flock of crows flew by and they made the oddest caws that rang straight through her head.

Her eyes popped open and she let out a frustrated groan at the lovely greeting her alarm clock gave her. Turning her head over, she saw Kouga sitting on the floor with his hands over his ears and he seemed to be growling at her clock and giving it a glare that could probably compete along side Sesshoumaru's. She gave him a sympathetic smile, 'he didn't want to wake me up'. She leaned over to clock and turned the clock of by giving a quick pound on the button in frustration. She hated that sound. Then there was silence.

Kouga looked up to the girl, "uh...good morning", he smiled sheepishly.

The girl gave a deep yawn and stretched out her arms in response as she sat at the edge of the bed, "well, let's get ready!"

Raising a delicate eyebrow, Kouga looked at the girl in confusion, not needing to ask his question orally to what she was talking about.

"Don't you remember?", he continued to stare at her, "we have school"

"Oh yeah...that", Kouga replied as he wiped his hand over his face and wove his fingers through his hair. Realizing that he was still half asleep even though he went through that horrible noise.

Kagome got up off the bed and looked down at herself. Once again she failed to change out of her clothes she had worn the previous day. "Ugh! I need a shower real bad, I feel like a pig!", she was talking more to herself than Kouga.

Kouga stared up at her and looked her over, she didn't smell bad or anything and she certainly didn't look like a...pig?

Before Kouga got a chance to voice his own opinion, Kagome combed her fingers through her raven hair and walked over to the closet, "I'll set some clothes out for you to put on, before I leave to do that though"

She took a few garments from the closet and threw them on her bed, landing in a heap that mingled with her rumpled blankets.

Kouga was thankful she wasn't making him take another one of those horrid shower things, the last thing he wanted was another encounter with that odd...evil contraption. "So, will I wait for you here?"

Kagome was just trotting out the doorway with a bright smile on her face when he asked this, she didn't have a clue why she should be happy, she was after all, going to school. "Yeah, you can wait her-no, no, no. As soon as your done getting dressed, go downstairs and I'll meet you there!", she was glad she caught herself, if she didn't, she more than likely would have walked in half-naked on Kouga. She didn't even want to imagine what the consequences of that would have been.

Kouga hadn't really caught that she had corrected herself, he was too tired to notice now that he had settled down slightly and the clock had shut-up. But that didn't stop him from glaring at the device one last time as he began to remove his shirt. And of course he didn't ignore the fact that Kagome was watching him for a couple of seconds longer than needed before the left the room, "just a matter of time"

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"Kagome! If you don't come down now, your not going to get any breakfast!", Mrs. Higurashi yelled up the stairs to her daughter who seemed to be taking forever to get ready.

Kouga was patiently sitting at the table, well at least he looked pretty patient. Inside however, he was constantly thinking about Kagome and the talk they had had last night. Did she still love Inuyasha? Or did she just tell him that she no longer did because it would have made Kouga feel better about her situation?

But as far as he could remember, he didn't sense any falsehood in her explanation. Maybe she didn't harbor strong feelings for the mutt anymore, maybe some, but not as fluent as before. He would have to go by this, so now the only question was...what should his next move be?

Kouga, being in deep thought, was completely oblivious to the boy that was sitting next to him, bombarding him with senseless questions, then going on about some new video games were being released that he thought Kouga would like.

It didn't matter anyway, it's not like Kouga would have known what the boy was talking about. But Kouga was grateful that Kagome's mother hadn't talked to him that much this morning besides a simple 'good moring', with her scary, unpredictable smile.

Souta realized that Kouga hadn't listened to a word he was saying, instead he seemed to be focusing on a small speck of something on the wall. Feeling that this was the perfect moment to use the element of surprise, Souta asked the one question that could probably get anyone's attention coming from a ten year old, "did you and my sister have sex last night?"

Kouga's face flushed as he fell out of his stupor, then he smirked when he looked down at Souta, so the boy knew about more things than Kouga had thought, "what did you just say kid?". Kouga had to make sure that what he heard come out of the boy's mouth was correct, in fact he knew he said it, it was just so amusing that he wanted to hear it again.

"I said 'did you and my sister have sex last night?'", Souta was proud of himself for getting the wolf's attention and waited patiently for and answer. It seemed that this topic interested his hero.

Mrs. Higurashi walked in on the question just as it was being asked, "Souta! You don't asked people questions like that, it's rude!", she gave him a light tap over the head, "and don't call it sex, it's such a nasty word, call it making love!"

Souta blushed and rubbed the back of his head unconsciously, "yes mama, sorry"

The older woman looked at Kouga and gave him a nervous smile, "I'm really sorry about that, he doesn't usually ask such brash questions", she sighed, "they grow up way too fast"

Kouga gave the woman a dashing smile, "don't worry about it. I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it. Right kid?", he stared back down at Souta. He had his eyes narrowed slightly, still awaiting an answer obviously. Kouga winked at the boy and let him come up with his own conclusions to the question.

Souta blinked once...twice. He without doubt, took the wink the wrong way. "Mom I'm leavin' , love you bye!", Souta stuffed one last slice of toast in his mouth before he grabbed his bookbag and headed for the door, "see ya later Kouga!"

SLAM!

He was gone.

Kagome came down the stairs with her bookbag hoisted over one shoulder. She was now back in the clothing Kouga was more familiar with. "Sorry for taking so long, I was having a bit of trouble finding my math book", she gave her mother an innocent smile.

Her mother gave an exasperated sigh, "you know, one of these days your going to be late", then she laid a plate of breakfast in from of the tardy girl.

'It's not like it would matter, I missed enough school already', she chuckled to herself mentally.

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The walk to school was surprisingly nice. Her and Kouga had ended up talking about her time as she answered all his questions about the strange things. They had also laughed about many of the funny stories they had shared with each other.

Kagome felt much more at ease, to just talk about anything at all to Kouga, he would listen to her every word, unlike Inuyasha who'd probably be complaining about her constant babbling by now. Also, Kouga seemed to have changed a bit since he had come to the 21st century with her. Normally, whenever they were in the feudal era, all he would say to her was that he wanted her to come with him and be his woman and then he and Inuyasha would start fighting. It was a headache waiting to happen. At first when Kouga wanted to stay with her, Kagome's first thought was 'God No'.But now that almost three days had passed being alone with him, Kagome was glad that he stayed with her, she found an even closer friend in Kouga that she had ever anticipated to find in the wolf demon.

She turned her head to look up to the handsome boy next to her. He was looking around at their surroundings with his charming smile still plastered on his face. For a split second, the angle the sunlight hit his face, he seemed to look like a God of some sort. Boy, was he hot. Kagome felt her face burn up when her thoughts wandered to the previous night when he invoked that feeling to flutter around in her stomach. Even though she's been getting to see his more soft, caring side, Kagome realized that Kouga still held his old intentions, and he wasn't going to give up. But now it didn't seem that bad, could it be that Kouga's charm was beginning to manipulate her?

'Maybe I should give Kouga a chance, after all, he's really sweet and he's great to talk to', her eyes wandered over his features again, 'and hot'. That's where she began to notice what she was thinking about, 'Oh great, I'm starting to have the hots for Kouga. Bad Kagome, Inuyasha would kill you if he found this out!'

But Inuyasha's not your boyfriend

'But....', Kagome was now talking to herself.

No 'buts'! We're not chained down to Inuyasha, we're free to be with whomever we choose!

'That's true....'

Exactly, so let's go for it!

'Oh my God, I can't believe I'm having this conversation with myself, am I going crazy or something?'

Kagome shook her head to escape all her thoughts and stared back up t Kouga again who looked back at her with his soft blue eyes that glistened in the morning glow.

"So, what is this school thing of yours like?", Kouga asked, breaking Kagome's concentration on his feautures.

"Oh um, well I guess you'll find out for yourself soon enough, it's just around the corner!", she smiled up at him with a slight blush from her conflict with herself.

'Well, this should be an interesting day', Kouga thought to himself. Kagome's time was definitely a puzzle, full of odd contraptions and...schools. He did like it but only because Kagome was there with him. He definitely enjoyed life in the Sengoku Jidai much better, now all he had to do was convince Kagome the same thing.

They walked around the corner and Kagome lead Kouga onto the school grounds, "well, here we are...school", Kagome scowled out the last word. Why did she even want to come back home?

Taking advantage of their situation, Kouga snaked his hand around her back and let it rest on her hip, bringing her slightly closer to him. Kagome stiffened at his touch. He looked down and met her eyes that were filled with surprise, "well your my girlfriend aren't you?", that's when he smirked down at her blush stained face.

Kagome laughed nervously, then removed his hand from her waist reluctantly, but instead of removing his hand completely, she laced her fingers with his. She continued walking, smiling to herself, 'as strange as this is, holding Kouga's hand is kind of...nice'

Okay, so there it is...chapter 12. Like I said I hate that it's a tad bit short, but I tried, plus time is never on my side. Sad but true. So was it worth waiting for? I hope so.

Kagome: I can't believe Souta would ask that kind of question!

Miroku: Well could you blame the boy? He reminds me of me when I was his age.

Everyone: * sweatdrops *

Kouga: Go me, Go me! I think I'm finally actually getting somewhere now!

Inuyasha: In your dreams wolf!

Kouga: Or......in Kagome's?

Inuyasha: *growls *

Ashley: Oh my. Time to reply to some reviews! ^-^.

Playful Kagome- * sigh * Yes I agree, Kagome's very lucky to have all these guys after her. Why can't they like me instead!?

Sesshoumaru: Stop complaining wench! I don't want to hear about your love life or lack there of. *looks to Marylett * and I will call you a wench if I wish.

It's a good thing your hot Fluffy, or else I don't think I'd be able to stay in the same room as you.

Sesshoumaru: Did you just call me Fluffy?

Hehe, anywayz. By the way I'm loving your story so far!

Empress-of-the-shadow- You know I don't think Inuyasha will ever accept anyone else for Kagome except him, but yet he still goes after Zombie Girl.

Inuyasha: SHUT UP! That's different.

Riiiiight. Thanks! I never thought of my story as Kick Ass, Lol. But it does make me happy to know you think so! I know what you mean about Computers....they hate me, except on certain occassions. Oh And I would love to know the name of the Crossover fic! I love IY/YYH Crossovers!

Evil Cheese- You know, I don't think I'll ever get over your pen name Lol I love it! And my deepest apologies for teasing you. It was fun while it lasted though! Lol. Hmmm, do you think I should let Shippou out of the closet?

Shippou from in the closet: YEEESSSS!!!!!

Sango from in the closet: Don't forget about me!

Ashley: I thought Miroku got you out!?

Miroku: She threatened to hit me again. * nervous laughter *

Thanks to all! Puffin, Crimson Release, Gizmo369 (cute? Hmm. Lol thanks!^-^), Kawaii Youkai (thanks ^-^, sure I'll read your fic! What's it called?), Playful Kagome, DemonFireGirlHotaru (that was definitely the weirdest...yet funniest review I've had yet! ^-^ Thanks!), empress-of-the-shadow, Kin103 (thanks), Makikilala (thanks ^-^), Evil Cheese, KittykatK (yes, I have been meaning to proof read my chapters, but like I said before, sometimes time isn't my friend ^-^, but I'll try my best! Thanks), Koga Fan (Thanks!), and of course....Saiyan-legacy102(yes you are, now, down on your knees and beg for the next chapter! Lol. J/k. Thanks ^-^)

Also, I believe I got my first flame...but I'm not positive because it was worded strangly.Don't worry the name is not listed above, I don't want to put anyone in the spotlight. But anywayz please, if you have any problems with my stories please tell me but I'll only really acknowledge it if it actually makes sense. Also If you really don't like my story....don't read it. ^-^

Also everyone please be patient! Inuyasha will find out soon enough!

Okay, heres the slightly bad news I was talking about, I don't know if I will be updating next weekend because I have a couple of test this week which will occupy a bit of my time, but you never know what may come up. So if I update by say....Saturday check out my profile and I will explain what I'm at to be keeping you waiting and give you an approximate day when the next chapter may be up! ^-^, that goes for all the other times when I'm late updating. Plus if you wanna chat with me, e-mail me at angelfire87ca@hotmail.com or feel free to add me to your MSN, and talk to me there, I'm usually on everyday at some time ^-^. Anyway, I think I've talk for far too long! Love you All! AND PLEASE REVIEW AND MAKE ME HAPPY!