Disclaimer: I did it!!! I finally did it. Now you might be asking yourself 'wow, did she really go over to Japan and have the rights to Inuyasha signed over to her?' and the answer to that would have to be…no. But I did recently purchases a little plushy backpack of the Trigun cat which I absolutely love!!!
Im back baby and am ready to write. Im the new and Improved, 16 YEARS OLD, belly button wearing, fat lip lacrosse playing author that you've all come to know and love.
Yea that's right. Some stupid bitch hit me in the mouth with a lax ball and now it looks like I had a really bad collagen injection on my top lip, but hey, that's what the sports all about.
This chapter goes out to obsessed14 because she reviewed one chapter 3 times to tell me to hurry up and I get my motivation from her. Lol.
OH MY GOD! Sorry im writing this part like a week after I started this chapter but I just finished watching Kenshin's battle between Sito and him leaving for Kyoto. I cryed so much! I mean Karou loves him so much and he just left her. How sad!
Chapter 8: Learning to breath
"Oh yea! That's it baby. Come on come on! To the left, no no the right. The Right! Ohhh Ohhh. Damn." Miroku hit the side of the 'Crane Game' for the third time that morning as he lost yet again.
He was about to put in another coin when something hit him in the back of the head.
Miroku turned around, scanned the area and found the culprit to be none other then the smirking Inuyasha.
"Miroku," Inuyasha pleaded from one of the waiting benches he was sitting on, "Maybe you should take a break from that stupid game that's eating up all your money, and let one of the other kids in line have a turn?"
"But I," Miroku looked down at the line of about 8 or 9 kids who looked to be getting a little impatient. "But I almost got it." Miroku whined to Inuyasha.
"What in the world would you want from that machine that you can't just buy from a toy store?"
Miroku beckoned Inuyasha over to the 'Crane Game' to see what all the fuss was about. Inuyasha, who really didn't want to give up his spot on the bench, shook his head and said "Na ah. No way im losing this spot to see some stupid toy."
At the words 'stupid toy' Miroku let out a gasp and put his hands to his mouth.
"Take that back right now. She is not stupid…she's beautiful." With that Miroku started to stroke that side of the machine.
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow quizzically. "She? Who the hell is she?"
Instead of Miroku answering, the boy behind him did. "He's been trying to get this stupid Malabo Barbie doll for the last 20 min. I mean, come on! Only someone who is seriously queer would want a dumb doll like that."
As Inuyasha was trying to contain himself from flat out laughing, Miroku slowly turned around to face the kid that came up to about his waist.
He bent down so he was about eye level with him and spoke in a clear, slow voice. "Listen you little punk, watch who you callin' queer around here, because as I see it im getting the only doll in there that's a chick. So unless you plan to get out of this line right now, all your gonna be able to get is a shit load of He-Man dolls and between you and me I'd rather be playing in the tub with Barbie than with He-Man."
Miroku was smiling rather pleasantly as he turned back around to continue his game until he heard someone mutter under their breath, "Faggity-Ann."
Miroku whirled around and picked the little kid behind him up by his shirt collar. "What in hell did you just call me you little ass whip?"
By that time Inuyasha was pulling the kid out of Miroku's grip and a handful of parents and waitresses were watching this little public display unfold.
"Miroku buddy," Inuyasha said calmly. "The kid is seven. He's not worth it man, he's not worth it."
Miroku let the now sobbing kid down and brushed off his jacket. He turned to face Inuyasha only to say in a low voice "Malabo Barbie isn't stupid…and I'm not a fag."
Inuyasha laid a reassuring hand on his friends shoulder and said, "I know man, I know."
Just as Inuyasha was about to mutter a complaint about how his seat was stolen he heard to hostess call out his name, signaling that their table was ready.
Miroku and Inuyasha both trudged behind the waitress and took a seat across from each other in the booth they were directed to.
"Waiting for more or is it just going to be you two today?" The waitress, who's nametag read 'Eri' said politely.
"Waiting for two more," explained Inuyasha, "but you can take our drink orders now if you want?"
"Sure." Eri pulled out a pad and took the pencil out from behind her ear and pause as the two guys made up their mind about what to drink.
"I'll just have some coffee, black if ya don't mind." Said Inuyasha looking up to see Eir scribble something down on her pad.
"And for you?" She said turning towards Miroku.
Miroku's eyes feverishly scanned over the menu so not to miss a single thing. When he got to the bottom of the last page his eye lit up. "I'll have a banana-berry smoothie with whipped cream and TWO cherry's on top. Thank you very much."
Eri looked at him skeptically but jotted something down and started to make her way back to the kitchen when Inuyasha called out to her for one more thing.
"Hey Eri" she turned around at the sound of her name, "If you see two girls come in with long black hair about our age, do you think you could tell them that we're over here?"
"No problem." As the waitress walked to the next table to take more orders, Inuyasha and Miroku put the menus down and settled down deeper into their seats to get more comfortable.
"So I was wondering," Inuyasha started, " are you ever going to tell me what Kira was doing over at your house last night?" Inuyasha's gaze flickered over Miroku briefly to get his first reaction on the subject. To his surprise Miroku seemed pretty cool about the situation.
"Kagome and you left to work on your new apartment, Sango got asked out by a guy and I…"
"Whoa Whoa Whoa! Back up here." Inuyasha held his hands up in semi disbelief. "Sango got asked out by a guy? Why the hell didn't I know about his?"
Miroku was now shaking his head in agreement with Inuyasha's first comment about how someone actually asked Sango out while explaining his second question to him. "Well you weren't there at the time and I guess I just forgot to tell you until now."
Miroku shrugged his shoulders and looked over at his friend who seemed to be deep in thought.
"What's up with you now?" Miroku questioned
Inuyasha seemed to pause for a moment before he answered. "I wonder why she would go out with another guy right in front of you? That's pretty weird."
"Why is it weird? She's aloud to date people. I just don't know how many people would want to date her?"
"Oh come off of it Miroku. You can't tell me that you haven't noticed it can you?" Inuyasha laughed a little as he looked over a Miroku only to find him with a surprised looked on his face.
"Dude, what are you trying to get at?" Miroku urgently asked.
"You can't tell me that you didn't know that Sango is…" Inuyasha didn't get to finish his sentence because right then a very loud and obnoxious yell was heard through out the whole entire restaurant.
"What do you mean I bumped into you? You practically tossed that thing into my chest!"
"Miss, please try to keep your voice down. There is no need for you to be shouting like that in the restaurant."
"I can shout where ever I damn well please and could somebody get me a fuckin' towel…NOW."
Inuyasha and Miroku exchanged worries glances at the sound of Sango's emanating through out the building. They then both looked over to where the voices were coming from, trying to catch a glimpse of their friends.
Finally Inuyasha spotted Kagome, who was trying her best to conceal a fit of giggles that was upon her and Sango, who was to busy trying to blot off what ever spilled on her to notice her friends laugh.
"Here comes the girls." Reported Inuyasha
"And there goes my Banana-Berry smoothie." Sighed Miroku as he looked at what spilled on Sango's shirt.
As the girls finally spotted the two boys Kagome gave a pleasant hello to everyone at the table and slid in next to Inuyasha. When Sango finally looked up from her shirt and surveyed her only option was to sit next to Miroku she muttered something that clearly sounded like "why the hell did I even bother to wake up."
As Sango plopped down next to Miroku she glanced up to see if she could locate some more napkins to assist her in the cleaning of her shirt, but stopped when her eyes fell on Inuyasha and Kagome.
She gave a quick snicker and elbowed Miroku to look across the table at the pair. Miroku looked over and was practically stunned but what her saw.
Inuyasha's and Kagome's bodies were quite close to one another, despite the immense amount of room that was around them. They both were looking at only one menu and talking in hushed voices with their heads both bent in towards each other's. Every few seconds Inuyasha would crack a joke at whatever meal they were now observing and Kagome would reply with a flattering giggle.
Sango was now looking over to catch Miroku's reaction to this little public display of affecting and was rewarded by seeing Miroku's jaw almost touching the table. He looked over to Sango as if she would have the answer to when and how Inuyasha and Kagome got so…close? But Sango could only shrug her shoulders in response.
"Ahhem!"
Inuyasha and Kagome both looked up startled only to find Miroku and Sango looked at them with the you-better-tell-us-everything-that-really-happened-at-your-apartment-last-night look.
Inuyasha could tell right away, but since Kagome had only started to hang out with the infamous double team known as Sango and Miroku, she was a little slow.
"What up?" she asked innocently.
"Don't give us that bull Kags," Sango replied coyly, "how long have you two been together? It's couldn't have been that long seeing you only met a while ago."
"What the hell are you implying Sango?" Inuyasha interrogated gruffly.
"Whoa man, no need to get an attitude." Miroku said, "My lovely counterpart were just asking a question to what looked like the obvious."
At that Kagome and Inuyasha both looked at each other and seemed to notice for the first time that morning how close they really were. At realizing this though they both backed away suddenly making the table shake and making the creamer that was hovering in between Miroku and Sango teetered and fell on Sango's lap.
"What the fuck." Sango moaned. "You have got to be kidding me."
"Camuffins Sango." Kagome scolded, "That's what you get for making uncalled for assumptions about Inuyasha and I."
"Camuffins, what the hell is that?" asked Miroku.
"It's like karma idiot, but just the bad parts." Replied Sango.
By the time she was done talking the two boys were almost done snickering at her. Sango threw them a dirty glare and got up out of her seat, turned away from the table, and started to walk away.
"Oh come on Sango," complained Miroku, "It was just a joke and it's not like your pants are ruined, well they might be. Can I have a closer look to make sure they'll be ok."
"Perv. And for your information, im going to a bathroom, not leaving." Sango said without turning around and kept on marching to the bathroom.
The three were settling back down and cleaning up the rest of the cream when Inuyasha turned to Kagome.
"Hey, did you know that Sango was asked out by a guy last night?"
Kagome stiffened for the slightest moment but Inuyasha only needed a moment to notice it. She quickly composed herself though before Miroku saw and answered in a light voice, "Um yea, she mentioned something to me." Kagome gave a light shrug to that and went back to looking at her menu.
Inuyasha and Miroku exchanged glances at each other due to Kagome's short answer to the question. Inuyasha was already trying to think about why Kagome hesitated like she did when Miroku asked her about Sango and the guy, when all of a sudden it came crashing back sown to him.
"Kags, you slept over and Sango's house last night, right?" Inuyasha asked caushoiusly, with his eyes caste down towards the table as to not intimidate Kagome with the interrogation her was about to give her.
"Yeah." She spoke softly.
"Before you went and crashed at Sango's house you said you had to do something important that dealt with the phone call last night…right?"
"Yeah."
Inuyasha lifted his hand and hooked it under Kagome's chin. He gently but firmly moved her face so that it was looking directly at him when he asked her his next question.
"Kagome, what happened to Sango last night that made you go out at 2 in the morning and pick her up?"
The usually bubbly, cheerful girl was now wearing a face that was full of concern and hesitation, and that made Inuyasha mad. What ever happened last night was bad enough to make Kagome not wanna tell the guys and that must of meant that it was really bad.
"Kagome," Miroku's soft voice snapped Kagome's attention back to the question at hand, "What happened to Sango?"
Kagome gave a huge sigh and started to run her fingers through her hair, trying to de-tangle the snarls that were mildly forming in it. But after a few silent minutes of the two boys just staring her down, Kagome finally caved in and told them.
"This really isn't my place to tell you but since we all know that Sango wont tell you I guess.."
"I wont tell you what?"
Kagome didn't get a chance to finish her sentence because right when she was about to start the story Sango came back from the bathroom and sat back down in the booth only to find two of her friends staring at her as if she was about to cry and one of her friends fidgeting with her fingers on top of the table.
Sango knew that something was up.
"What's up guys?" she offered but was stopped by Miroku's hand encircling her upper arm and forcing her back out of the booth. Once he and her were successfully standing up he directed her to the double glass door and outside into the parking lot. Once they finally reached Miroku's destination point he let go of her arm only to have a very bewildered off girl fire some questions at him.
"Miroku, what was that for? Why are we out in the parking lot and why were Inuyasha and you looking at me as if I was about to break?"
Miroku dodged all of her questions by ignoring them and while running his hand through his hair, asked Sango a question of his own.
"Sango, what happened last night after you left with that guy?"
Sango stopped passing around in circles like a caged up animal long enough to look up at Miroku and just stair into his eyes. Her face held the faintest glimmer of shock but nothing else, but her eyes were the thing that gave her away.
They held in them a degree of self-doubt and shamefulness that Miroku had never seen in Sango. Where was the strong girl the smacked him silly every time he tried to grope her? What happened to make her look so…lost?
Then, in the faintest whisper Sango replied.
"Who told you?"
Her head was lowered so that her bangs fell gracefully into her eyes, shielding her from the outside world.
"No one yet. Kagome was but…"
"I knew I couldn't trust her keep something like this a secret." Sango was shaking her head and looking down at her fist, as if imagining already what it would feel like to give Kagome her ol' left hook to teach her to keep her mouth shut.
Miroku took one look at the trebling fist and quickly walked up to Sango and wrapped her up in a comforting hug. As he was holding her body, which at the time seemed a lot smaller then it usually did, he spoke words of comfort into her ear.
"Sango, what ever happened please tell me. Inuyasha and I practically forces Kagome into telling us what happened but she didn't get anywhere because you came back form the bathroom. It's just the we were so worried about you because I lov…we love you."
Unfortunately Miroku's compassion wasn't reciprocated and Sango roughly shoved him away from her tensed, angered figure.
"Don't touch me!" Spat Sango, "You have no idea what my life has been like."
Miroku looked at her as if she had rabies and the hurt expression the dawned on his face pained Sango but she had kept her emotions in check for the short time she had known him and she was not going to break now. Not even if it was for someone who she thought could truly heal her pain.
So she retorted to hiding her true feelings under a mask of anger and rage.
"You really wanna know what happened last night? DO you really wan me to tell you that he slipped me a date rape drug in my drink? How he forced me back up to his apartment with him and tried to have his way with me? Is that what you wanna hear?"
Sango was now shouting at the top of her lungs at a weak and feeble looking Miroku. It was only now that she silently thanked him for bringing them out into the parking lot. But she wasn't quite done yet.
"Or how bout this. Did you want me to tell you that I managed to drag the sorry excuce for a human being off of me and knocked him out before he could do anything too damaging…"
Miroku winced at the word too and was trying to think about how far the guy actually went with Sango.
"…oh I know! How bout the part where I was wondering the streets of Manhattan until I found a pay phone to call Kagome to tell her to come pick me up? But don't think we stop there, because here's the big finally!"
Sango slowed her speech to emphasize that was about to come. Shamefully she spoke the last sentence with her head hung low and her eyes looking solely at the ground.
"The part where when Kagome finally found out what pay phone I called from and saw me, I was lying in a pile of my own vomit…passed out."
A long laps of silence followed her and Sango took her time in meeting Miroku's concerned stare, but when she finally did look up at him he was not looking at her, but rather looking over her shoulder at the entrance of the restaurant.
Sango reluctantly turned around to see none other than Inuyasha and Kagome watching her from the outside of the double glass doors. Inuyasha seemed slightly stunned but Kagome who was holding Sango's jacket and purse in her hands slowly made her way over to her friend.
When Kagome finally reached her, she put a reassuring arm around her shoulder and whispered something into her ear.
The boys noticed that Sango was nodding in response to whatever Kagome has said and was now reaching for her purse and Jacket, and then once she had them, slowly walked to the back parking lot where her car was.
Kagome turned now to face Miroku and Inuyasha, and in a tired voice told them that she was going to take Sango back to her apartment and asked Inuyasha if it was ok for them to do a rain check on helping him move into their apartment.
Inuyasha nodded dumbly to this but Miroku wasn't so passive, and as Kagome was walking towards the back parking lot to get Sango home he started to follow her, until he was stopped by a hand on his shoulder.
Miroku didn't need to turn around to know it was Inuyasha's calloused hand resting on his shoulder. And as his figure started to tremble with anger for what the guy gig to his Sango and sadness for the fact that she felt like she couldn't trust him.
"Why? Why her?"
"I don't know."
"That's not good enough." And with that Miroku jerked his shoulder out of Inuyasha's grip and stocked off towards his car, thus leaving Inuyasha to his own thoughts and feelings alone. With a heavy heart Inuyasha turned to walk to his own car and prayed to Kami that Kagome knew what she was doing.
The End.
Just Kiddin'!!!
"Sango, are you sure that you're going to be ok? I mean, come on, what happened to you last night is not something that you can simply brush off as a bad bar experience, I mean, come on…"
"Kagome?" Sango interrupted her friend.
"Yeah?"
"You're babbling now."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah."
"Oh, sorry."
Sango shook her head and stopped pacing around her apartment long enough to look at Kagome in her big, blue eyes. "Kags, trust me when I say I'm going to be ok by myself, and trust me further when I say if you don't get out and let me be I really am gonna slug ya."
Kagome gave a chuckle to that and responded, "If you're good enough to throw around threats, then you're good enough to be alone."
With that Kagome pushed herself out of Sango's chair and pulled on her coat. As she opened the door she tossed her friend a look over her shoulder and reluctantly left her.
At the sound of the door clicking shut, Sango fell face first into the pillows on her bed.
As the memories of last night and this morning replayed over in her mind, she tried hard to suppress them. With her face still buried into the mass amounts of pillows, she reached around blindly for the cordless phone that she knew was on her bed somewhere.
When her hands finally made contact with it, her fingers, which long ago memorized the keys without having to look at them, typed in a number that Sango would have never thought she'd be calling at that moment.
Miroku was jarred out of his thoughts when the tune "Big Pimpin'" signaled to him that his cell was ringing.
Normally Miroku would never drive and talk on his precious cell phone, but he needed something to take his mind off of what happened today.
"Hello?"
"Hey Miroku. It's Sango." Her voice sounded a bit hesitant, but firm nonetheless.
Miroku almost got into an accident when he heard her on the other line. "Um, hey."
"I was wondering, do you wanna go out for some coffee or something?"
Kagome was fishing around in her purse, trying to find the keys to her apartment that she was trudging up to at the moment but stopped looking when she found her apartment door being propped open by a large cardboard box.
Kagome then suddenly remembered that Inuyasha had yet to get his own things over to the new apartment and unpack them.
Walking into the apartment Kagome was happy to see a glimpse of what the other parts of Inuyasha's personalities were like.
Her fingers glided softly over some of the t-shirts that had been unpacked and were lying on the couch. Kagome took her time to look at some pictures that Inuyasha had out on the coffee table, smiling softly as she saw some were of him and his friends but others were just of beautiful landscapes and golden dawns.
Kagome let out a sign of comfort and contentment, knowing that she would be able to spend more time with his man she was becoming more enthralled with by the minute.
She put down her bag and started to unpack some of his shirts that were still in the box, taking great care in laying them down on top of each other and enjoying the smell of him wrap around her as she hummed softy to the radio playing in the background.
As Inuyasha was lugging another one of his heavy boxes up from his car to the apartment his thought returned to the confrontation in the parking lot that morning. He really hoped that Kagome knew how to make Sango feel better.
Then almost immediately Inuyasha's thoughts traveled from his bartender to his new roommate.
A lazy smile crept across his face at the thought of her.
How had he gotten so caught up in her essence so easily and quickly?
They had been living together one day for god sakes and all he could think about when he was moving about the empty apartment was her. Granted, her things were all over the place so he couldn't turn a corner without thinking of her, but at the same time he didn't mind the continuous smell of her lingering everywhere.
It was at that moment that Inuyasha realized that there was a soft humming noise coming from inside his apartment, and almost just as quickly he realized that it was the voice of Kagome.
As he neared the open door to peak inside and say hello, he stopped himself at the last moment when he saw her.
She was swaying with her back to him hypnotically back and forth to a soft song that was playing on the radio, softly clutching one of his favorite shirts. She seemed to be so perfectly content that he didn't want to dare disturb her with unnecessary small talk.
Inuyasha, instead, put down the box he was holding and made his was slowly and quietly into the apartment and behind the remarkable girl who was in a world of her own.
Kagome's body suddenly tensed when she felt the arm snake across her waist and press firmly onto her flat stomach, until she inhaled quickly only to be rewarded by Inuyasha wonderful scent.
She relaxed instantly and allowed herself to be pressed into his hard chest, tilting her head back slightly so it was resting on his shoulder, she closed her eyes and smiled as he started to sing to a new song that came on the radio.
Hello, good morning, how you do?
What makes your rising sun so new?
He could feel her soft body bounce in a giggle as his breath teased her ear and the nape of her neck.
I could use a fresh beginning too
All of my regrets are nothing new…
Kagome felt a soft pressure on her temple and realized that Inuyasha was placing a kiss that was as soft as butterfly wings there.
So this is the way that I say I need You
This is the way
This is the way that I'm…
Learning to breathe
I'm learning to crawl
I'm finding that You and You alone can break my fall
I'm living again, awake and alive
I'm dying to breathe in these abundant skies…
Inuyasha slowly turned Kagome's shoulders around till she was facing him directly and, with his fingers intertwined with hers, held them to his chest.
Hello, good morning, how you been?
Yesterday left my head kicked in…
He flicked his head to one side and she smiled brightly.
I never, never thought that
I would fall like that
Never knew that I could hurt this bad…
Kagome took her hands out of his, much to Inuyasha's chagrin, but then, to his supries, she cupped his face gingerly between her two hands and stared at him longingly.
Inuyasha responded to his by embrace her softly with his two strong arms.
Learning to breathe
I'm learning to crawl
I'm finding that You and You alone can break my fall
I'm living again, awake and alive
I'm dying to breathe in these abundant skies…
Inuyasha slowly brought his face down to meet Kagome's waiting lips and they finally kissed their first kiss together in their apartment, where nothing mattered besides Inuyasha and his Kagome.
So this is the way that I say I need You
This is the way that I say I love You
This is the way that I say I'm Yours
This is the way, this is the way…
Learning to breathe
I'm learning to crawl
I'm finding that You and You alone can break my fall
I'm living again, awake and alive
I'm dying to breathe in these abundant skies.
Done until next time! Review!!