Summary: A rather funny (in my opinion) about what happens when Kagome drags Inuyasha to the future for her little brother's birthday party, and Souta's birthday present is - a puppy! HAHA! There's fluff in here and InuKag pairings! READ!!!
Disclaimer - I don't own Inuyasha...-sniffle-
Chapter Three - The Kiss -
Inuyasha opened his eyes, hearing noises coming from Kagome's bed, and looked around, surveying the dark room. There was no unfamiliar scent on the air, other than that of the damn cat, and everything seemed quiet, but still the noises came. Inuyasha stood up and walked over to Kagome's bed, where the girl moaned and rolled over, obviously having a disturbing dream.
Inuyasha watched the girl, transfixed by the beauty she possessed. A feeling of affection whooshed through his body, leaving him confused. 'What was that? Why do I always feel so…strange…around her?' the hanyou thought. He was pulled out of his thought when the girl twitched in her sleep again. He laid his hand on her brow, soothing her, and pushed the hair out of her face. Her hair was so smooth and silky. He loved the feel of it. His movements seemed to calm her, so he removed his hand, with only a little regret, and turned to go back to sleep.
A hand grabbed out at him and Kagome said, "No, Inuyasha, stay…don't go…I love you…"
Inuyasha froze. Did he really just hear her say what he thought he did? "Ka…Kagome?" he asked tentatively. But he got no answer. The girl was asleep again, if she had woken up in the first place. He tried to turn and go back to the wall, his mind reeling, but her hand tightened on his and he couldn't bear to pull away. Silently, Inuyasha laid down next to her on the bed and laid his arm protectively over her waist, hugging her to him. He buried his face into her hair and promptly fell asleep, their hands still clasped in front of the sleeping girl.
Kagome woke up the next morning to find herself lying next to Inuyasha in her bed. Her face burned bright red, even though no one was in a position to see it. 'How the hell did we end up like this?' she thought, feeling a little awkward, but reluctant to move nonetheless. She remembered her dream last night, a horrible nightmare she had about Sesshomaru killing Inuyasha, and wondered if she'd cried out in her sleep. 'But still, why would Inuyasha not have just woken me up?' Kagome shook her head slightly to clear the thoughts out of it and rolled over, looking at Inuyasha's sleeping face. 'Wow, he really must be sleeping. I thought he hardly ever actually slept…he's always so alert.' Kagome rubbed her hand along his cheek, taking in his peaceful face, the same face that had captivated her for so long. Unconsciously, she moved her hand up to rub one of his ears, and instead of ducking away, Kagome could hear a soft purring noise coming from him.. She smiled and laid her hand back down onto his face. It was only then that she noticed that he was holding her other hand tight in his. She pulled their clasped hands to her face and kissed his hand.
Drifting back off to sleep, Kagome whispered, "Don't ever leave me, Inuyasha." Even though she knew he could not hear her plea.
Inuyasha opened his eyes and looked at the now sleeping girl, and smiled. He had heard her plea and snuggled closer to her, laying in the bed, waiting for the girl to wake up again eventually.
A couple of hours later, Inuyasha was jerked out of his thoughts, which had centered around Kagome then entire time, and fell off the bed when a horrible wailing noise sounded throughout the room. Kagome sleepily sat up and looked around, rubbing the last dregs of sleep out of her eyes. She saw Inuyasha, now a hanyou again, looking around frantically, clasping his sword sheath which he must've just picked up off the floor.
"Oh, calm down, Inuyasha," she said. "It's only my alarm clock. I guess I forgot to shut it off last time I was here." Kagome rolled over and slammed her hand down on the clock radio next to her bed, glancing at the time while she did so. "Wow, it's already nine, I should've been up an hour and a half ago helping Mom with the party decorations." Kagome stretched and let out a huge yawn. She looked over at Inuyasha who was looking rather uncomfortable, expecting to be sat for sleeping in her bed. "Well, I am going to hop in the shower and get dressed for the party. You can take a shower after me if you want. Right now, you can go back to sleep if you feel like it. Or you could go ask my Mom if she can make you some breakfast." Inuyasha's ears perked forward at the sound of breakfast. Kagome laughed and walked over to her dresser to pull out some clothes and grabbed a towel. Just before she shut the bathroom door, she yelled, "Oh, and why don't you try some food OTHER than ramen today. We do eat other things sometimes. You might like Fruit Loops, ask Mom to make you them." She shut the door.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. 'How could someone not eat ramen all the time when they had an endless supply? Oh well, maybe I will try these fruit loop things. Kagome suggested ramen to me, and she was right about that…' Inuyasha shrugged and grabbed the Tetsuaiga, heading down the stairs to find Kagome's mom and get some food.
Kagome stepped out of the shower and dried off, cautiously opening the door to her room to see if Inuyasha was indeed still sleeping. But, as she thought, he had gone downstairs to find some food. 'That boy can not resist a meal…it's a wonder he doesn't weigh a million pounds.' She thought, but she didn't really mean it. She knew that with al the battles Inuyasha fought against much stronger demons, he had the right to have such a huge appetite.
She quickly dressed in her party clothes, which were a little more fashionable than what she normally wore- a short black pleated skirt and a dark green short-sleeved t-shirt. She loved this outfit because she thought she looked good in green, and the green reminded her of the forest around the Feudal Era village she loved so much.
Checking her appearance in the mirror, Kagome went down the stair in search of food for herself. She was starving. Inuyasha may have eaten three bowls of ramen the night before, but Kagome had only had one, and had to constantly fight off Inuyasha for it at that. She padded down the stairs and into the kitchen, finding Inuyasha gulping down a large serving of Fruit Loops. He looked up when he heard her enter.
"Oi, Kagome, why did you not tell me about these before? They're almost as good as ramen!" With that statement, he tipped the bowl up and slurped down the rest of the milk, almost choking on it as a spare loop got caught in his throat. Kagome laughed and got the stuff out to make her own bowl of cereal.
"Can I have another bowl, Kagome?"
"What number bowl are you on now, hmm?" Kagome raised her eyebrow
"Uh…ihinkwarounfo…" came the mumbled reply.
"Excuse me? I didn't hear you…"
"IT WAS FOUR, YOU GODDAMNED WENCH!!! NOT GET ME MORE!!!" he yelled, almost flinging the bowl at her,
"Four? I think you have had quite enough. I am surprised we have anymore left…Besides, I don't think all that sugar could possibly be good for you." Inuyasha grumbled, getting up and walking out the door. Kagome was sure he was headed to sulk in the God's Tree. She ignored his antics and ate her breakfast, cleaning up when she was done and going to find her Mom and help decorate.
She finally located her Mom outside near the shrine, and she surprised to see Inuyasha's red fire rat coat among the people helping decorate. She waved hello to her mother, but walked over to Inuyasha, who was staring oddly at a roll of crepe paper.
"I thought you were going to sulk about not getting more Fruit Loops, not to help my mother." Kagome smiled, guessing at the answer that was about to come.
"Your mother caught me before I got there. I couldn't escape! She's almost as bad as my mother was at making me do stuff!" Kagome was caught off guard at the mention of Inuyasha's mother.
"Oh, uh, well, she can be like that when she wants to. Here, let me help you hang the crepe paper." Kagome took the roll from him and began to unroll it. 'Inuyasha never mentions his mother…' she thought, intrigued at what other similarities there may be between her own mother and Inuyasha's human mother. But she shrugged off the thought and told Inuyasha how to hang the crepe paper, warning him to be really careful with the fragile stuff. Leaving him to decorate the tree as only a hanyou could, she walked over to her mother for instructions.
"Oh, well good morning Kagome. I was wondering when you were going to stop flirting with Inuyasha and come help me." Her mother smiled as she watched her daughter's face turn a bright red. "I was going to wake you up earlier, but you and Inuyasha just looked so cute together…" Kagome face went even redder.
"Uh, you saw that? Well, you see…I mean…nothing really… I don't know…" Kagome stammered out, but her mother interrupted her.
"Don't worry, Kagome. I'm not mad or anything. It's about time you two told each other how you feel. Inuyasha is so cute and he loves you so much. I know your safe with him." Her mother's words struck a chord with Kagome. 'Inuyasha loves me?' she thought. 'No, he can't love me. He loves Kikyo…I am just a shard detector for him. Mom must be imagining things.' Kagome grabbed a couple of decorations and a roll of tape and walked off, still in trance-like deep thought over her mother's words.
'Oh my, maybe they didn't tell each other how they felt last night.' Mrs. Higurashi thought. 'Well, it doesn't matter now, I know Inuyasha and Kagome love each other. They will reveal it in time…Still I wonder how the little situation happened last night if they didn't tell each other they loved each other.' Mrs. Higurashi sighed and looked in the direction of her daughter, who was hanging crepe paper in the tree next to Inuyasha's.
About three hours later, everybody was gathered inside to wait for all the party guests to arrive. Kagome was trying to hold back Inuyasha from taking over the kitchen and eating everything in sight, because he was now positive that everything in Kagome's time had to taste as good as Fruit Loops and ramen. She had forced him to change into the party clothes she had bought him last night, and could barely contain herself from staring at him the whole time. But the way he was acting was definitely helping her hold herself together. Finally, after threatening to 'sit' him to no avail, Kagome lunged and grabbed hold of one of his ears, holding it tightly. This finally seemed to calm him, even if he still grumbled every other minute. Finally, the doorbell began to ring and slowly but surely, all of Souta's friends showed up. Souta came up to Kagome right before the first guests entered the room and asked her to take Inuyasha up stairs because he wanted him to surprise all his friends. Kagome nodded and told him to send her friends that had promised to drop by up to her room. Souta nodded, but since he didn't seem like he was paying her much attention, she repeated the request to her mom before pushing Inuyasha away from the food and up the stairs.
In her room, Kagome flopped down on her bed and turned on her stereo with the remote lying on her nightstand. She had the radio set to an American rock station, and even though she didn't really like the song that was blaring out of it now, she didn't bother to change, knowing the song was nearing its end. "Get away from that door, Inuyasha. Souta asked you to wait up here for now, and you're not going to ruin his party for him. You can go eat till you throw up late. Believe me, there will be more than enough food left." All of a sudden, the noise coming from her stereo was rivaled by a bad song coming from the stereo downstairs. As much as she didn't like the song on her radio, she hated the one from the other, so she turned her radio up a notch to drown out the party music.
"Why the hell are you and your family playing music wars? Is it some kind of party tradition?" Inuyasha asked, clapping his hands over his ears.
"Sorry, Inuyasha, I forgot your sensitive hearing." She picked up the remote and turned the music back down. Inuyasha started pacing the room, completely bored. "Inuyasha, come sit down. Your pacing is bothering me." Kagome motioned for Inuyasha to sit on her bed.
"Well, sorry if I was bothering you, your majesty." Inuyasha growled, but he walked over and laid down on the bed next to her, one of his legs dangling off the side.
They lay like that for about ten minutes, when Kagome's door flew open and Buyo came charging into the room, jumping on top of Inuyasha and over Kagome to land on the other side of the bed. Inuyasha wasted no time clambering after the cat, growling loudly, but Kagome caught him by the shoulders, laughing. "Calm down, Inuyasha, some kid downstairs probably scared poor Buyo and he ran up here to get away from them he doesn't need some irate dog-demon scaring him even more. Let him be." Inuyasha looked at her and relented, tossing no more than an angry glare in the direction the cat had run.
Suddenly, the two of them realized the position they were in at that moment. Inuyasha was holding his upper body over Kagome with his face inches from hers. Inuyasha could feel her discomfort, but he felt paralyzed when he looked into her face. 'So close,' he thought. 'I am so close.' Unable to resist, he leaned his head down and caught Kagome's lips in a gentle kiss.
'What? Inuyasha is kissing me! Wait, how did this happen? I can't believe it!' Kagome's mind raced along at a headlong pace, but quickly lost all sense and gave up completely, letting Kagome melt into Inuyasha's kiss, and begin to kiss back herself.
As soon as Kagome began to kiss back, Inuyasha felt like he was losing control. He ran his tongue along her lips and was rewarded when she opened her mouth. He poured all his feelings for her and all his regret about the times he fought with her, insulted her, and made her cry into that one kiss. He felt Kagome wrap her arms around his neck and kiss back with a passion to match his own. He couldn't believe his luck. It felt like Kagome felt the exact same way about him as he did her.
Inuyasha's ears twitched and he pulled away from Kagome to see Eri and a few other girls standing in the doorway with their mouths hanging open. Inuyasha jumped off Kagome's bed and blushed, looking from the girls to Kagome, who was even redder than him. "Oh, sorry, guys, we didn't mean to interrupt anything. Your mom said to come up here when we got here…Oh and she mentioned asking Inuyasha to go downstairs and find Souta." Eri stated, trying to hid her excitement. Inuyasha chose that moment to make his escape and fled down the stairs. Kagome was still sitting on the bed turning redder by the second. Eri flung the door shut and the four girls jumped onto the bed and began demanding details about what happened.
"I…I don't know…We were just lying here, listening to music, and waiting for you guys to get here…Mom asked me to keep Inuyasha away from the food before he ate it all...And then Buyo jumped on him, so Inuyasha went after him until I stopped him. Then he looked down at me, he was leaning over me to get to Buyo, and then he kissed me." Kagome quieted, remembering the feel of his lips on hers, and the taste.
Eri squealed, brining Kagome back to earth. "Oh, I can't believe this. Inuyasha is way cuter than Hojo, and its obvious he really likes you. I could tell yesterday at the arcade that he was totally into you. Wow, Kagome you are so lucky." All the other girls readily agreed and offered their congratulations at snagging such a hot guy.
"Hey, Kagome, wasn't Inuyasha's hair black last night? And what's up with the dog ears? I mean, they were really cute on him, but still…" Yukari piped in.
"Yeah, I was wondering about that myself. Why does he have silver hair now?" Eri nodded.
"Oh, well…you see…he normally has silver hair. He just…uh…dyed it last night. Yeah, he used that washout overnight hair dye stuff. And the dog ears are just for the party. He thought they would be funny to wear…he has an…odd sense of humor." Eri nodded, along with the other girls, but Kagome wasn't really sure they bought her story.
At the same time, Inuyasha was being assaulted by fifteen ten year old boys, all of whom seemed fascinated with the very ears that the girls upstairs were questioning Kagome about. Inuyasha, whose mind was in a very different place from the party going on around him, didn't even flinch when the boys reached up and started tugging on the ears. He heard a request from Souta for a piggy-back ride, and though he wasn't quite sure what that was, he nodded. Therefore he was surprised when Souta climbed up on his back and requested that Inuyasha begin running around the yard. Normally that would've brought forth a deluge of insults and curses at being treated like a cart-horse, but as Inuyasha's brain was still recovering from the events that happened in Kagome's room, he gave all the boys piggy-back rides.
After carrying all the boys around the yard, Inuyasha finally seemed to come to himself and pay attention to what was going on. All the little pups around him were looking up at him with the same reverence that Souta gave him every time he came to this time. He smirked. Being worshipped was definitely not a bad thing. It was a hundred times better than being called a half-breed and a mongrel and being insulted by every damn youkai from the strongest dog-demons like Sesshomaru down to weaklings like that damn mangy wolf Kouga.
'These puppies aren't so bad,' Inuyasha thought, looking at the worship going on around him. 'Hell, they're much better behaved than that damn Shippo. At least these boys give me the respect I deserve.' Inuyasha puffed out his chest a little bit with pride and followed the boys over to the pile of presents which was sitting just inside the house in the living room.
Everybody was already in the room, including Kagome and her girlfriends, when the boys lead Inuyasha inside. He glanced over at Kagome nervously, but was mollified when she cast a warm smile in his direction, which got her a squeal from Eri and a poke in the side. 'Girls,' Inuyasha thought, rolling his eyes. But he was still happy to know that Kagome wasn't mad at him or anything.
The boys all sat down on the floor around the pile of presents, but Inuyasha saw Kagome staring at him out of the corner of his eye so he walked over and stood next to her sitting on the couch. Inuyasha devoted all his energy to paying attention to Souta, who was opening his presents one by one, and trying not to stare at Kagome, but his efforts went unrewarded when Kagome reached out and took his hand, not saying a word or looking at him. He couldn't concentrate, and so he just let his mind wander irrevocably to the subject of Kagome and his feelings for her.
Finally, the party ended and everyone filed out the door, thanking Mrs. Higurashi and wishing Souta a happy rest of his birthday, including Kagome's friends. Inuyasha smiled as all the boys looked at him and wondered which would be the first to scrounge up enough nerve to say goodbye to him. Turned out it was a tall blonde boy, who looked like he was American, who finally walked up and haltingly said 'bye. Inuyasha rewarded him by saying "anytime" and ruffling the hair on his head. 'Much better than Shippo,' he thought as the other boys crowded around him, forcing him to let go of Kagome's hand.
He bade good-bye to all the boys and then looked around the room for Kagome. She wasn't in there, but smelled her scent coming from the kitchen. Perking up at the idea of eating the leftover food from the party, Inuyasha hurried after Kagome.
He found her sitting at the table picking at a bowl of chips in front of her, lost in thought. She looked up as Inuyasha came into the kitchen, and smiled again. "Inuyasha," she began to say, but she was interrupted when her Mom yelled for all the family to come back into the living room for one last surprise. Kagome closed her mouth and stood up, grabbing Inuyasha's hand to walk into the living room.
"I don't know, Kagome. You're Mom said only the family, and well I am not really a family member…" Inuyasha said, pulling her back for a second.
Kagome turned to him. "Don't worry about it. When it comes to my Mom and Souta, you're like a son and brother. I would hazard the guess that even Grandpa considers you family. Come on, let's see what Mom is up to now." Kagome and Inuyasha walked into the room and sat next to each other on the bottom step of the stairs, it being the only place that wasn't occupied by an aunt, uncle, or cousin. Inuyasha was glad she didn't let go of his hand even after they sat down, and she sat really close to him, even though there was plenty of room for both of them. Hesitantly, he removed his hand from her and draped an arm over her shoulders, being rewarded by her snuggling closer to him and leaning against his chest. 'Kami, I don't think Heaven itself could be better than this,' he thought.
At that moment, Mrs. Migurashi walked in carrying a large box which she held carefully, setting it down in front of Souta. "Well, since we all know Souta loves dogs," she started, glancing at Inuyasha and smiling, "Grandpa and I decided to get him a little something extra for his eleventh birthday." Souta ripped the top off the box and out jumped a little brown and white Akita puppy with a big red bow around its neck. The puppy leapt onto Souta and began licking his face while Souta laughed.
"Hey, Inuyasha," Kagome nudged him in the ribs, "Is that what you looked like when you were a puppy?" She laughed quietly, but was silenced by a quick kiss from Inuyasha.
"No, I think I was cuter than that. And I didn't leap on top of an eleven-year-old boy and try to lick him to death." Kagome laughed again and snuggled closer to him, watching her younger brother play with his new puppy.