~*~*~*~* DISCLAIMER ** I want to say Inu Yasha's mine, but if all I've got
is just a dime, I doubt Takahashi Rumiko will sell him to me... v_v
~*~*~*~* Chapter 21 ~ A Small, Friendly Kiss *~*~*~*~
"So how does it feel kissing the love of your life?" I asked Sango the moment we were alone in our room (get it? We're not tied anymore!). She immediately blushed deep red.
"I think I need to go and take a bath..." she muttered as she made a run for the bathroom. But, try as she might, I was faster than her.
"Come on Sango! You can talk to me!"
Sango raised her eyebrows, her face still red, but not as much as before. She sighed deeply, but then smiled. The best smile I had ever seen from her. I couldn't help but smiled back, my eyes gleaming.
"It was.." Sango began. I hold my breath. Sango's going to go rambling about that moment! I knew it! ..... but, she didn't. She sighed and closed her eyes. I raised my eyebrows.
"Sango?"
"Yes, Kagome?"
"What happened to you? One moment you're shy, next you're happy, and then you sounded so sad it seemed you're ready to cry any moment..." I asked, utterly confused with Sango's reactions. Sango sighed again.
"I don't know what to do now, Kagome..." she said. I was VERY surprised with Sango's statement.
"What do you mean you don't know what to do?"
"I mean, I now know for sure that I love him and he loves me to. But..." Sango trailed off.
"But?" I asked again, a bit too eagerly.
"But, don't you think.. it's a bit too sudden?" She asked. I thought about her question for a while. When my brain had finally caught up with the right answer,
"SANGO, YOU SILLY GIRL!!!!" I shouted. Sango jumped.
"What the hell was that for?" She asked, clearly surprised with my reaction. I cleared my throat before I started on my speech.
"Listen here, young-girl-who-is-madly-in-love-at-the-moment-but-don't-know- what-to-do (A/N Long word, I know ^.^), here's my first point of advice, LOVE IS NEVER TOO SUDDEN!" I shouted the last part. Sango opened her mouth as if to interrupt me but I ignored her and continued speaking,
"Especially in your case. When's the first time you meet Miroku? 8 years ago?" I gave a whistle. "Whew, that's a long time gal! And I presume you've fallen for each other for... what? 5 years? Well, here's my second point of advice, YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING!!!"
Sango was now definitely shocked with the amount of energy I was having.
"So I don't understand why you have to feel weird about it. I mean, anybody with a brain would have realized that you guys are SO meant to be with each other. Even though Miroku can be a pervert sometimes and YOU can be a killer sometimes too..."
"HEY!" Sango interrupted. I ignored her.
"That just meant that you guys are the right couple! You know why? Because YOU are going to STOP Miroku whenever he's doing his PERVERTED stuffs. Right?" I gave my best friend a small wink, in which Sango was too shocked to reply. I grinned.
"And that concludes that YOU are the light and Miroku is the darkness. You know why? Because you will lead the 'Darkness' into the 'Light'. However, there will be no light without any darkness and there won't be any darkness without light. Am I smart or what? So, my third point of advice is, GO DATE HIM! GO KISS HIM! GO GET ENGANGED WITH HIM! GO MARRY HIM! GO HAVE KIDS WITH HIM...!"
WHAM!!!!!!!!!!!
"O... ouch!" I shouted, noticing too late what I had just said. There, standing in front of me, was Sango, her face red. At first I thought that Sango was pissed off, but then I noticed the cheerfulness on her eyes. Her lips forming into a smile. She had hit me with her pillow.
"Kagome... you... you.." She said, unable to found words to suit her mind. I laughed.
"Me... me... me what?" I asked, laughing. Sango laughed a long with me. She hit me with her pillow again.
"You... AAARGH!" Sango said as she hit me again.
And that was the start of our pillow fight...
~*~*~*~* On Another Side of the School *~*~*~*~
~*~*~*~* INU YASHA **POV** *~*~*~*~
"Alright." I said, looking at Miroku. He was doing his homework.
"What?" He said, not looking back.
"Feh, as if you don't know what I'm talking about?" I noticed that Miroku had stopped writing, but soon he regained his consciousness and continued his work again. I sat on my bed.
"So you're going to answer me or not, pervert?"
"Is it me that is so stupid that I do not understand you or is it YOU who are stupid because you are talking nonsense at the moment?" Miroku questioned, still looking at the direction of his notes. I growled, but then it changed directly into a smirk.
"C'mon Miroku. I know you're DYING to tell me about it."
"About what?"
I growled.
"About HER."
Miroku started to read his textbook.
"HER who?"
I growled again.
"HER as in SANGO TAIJIYA."
Miroku's textbook fell to the ground, but he picked it up without looking at my eyes.
"What about SANGO TAIJIYA?"
I took a deep breath and counted from 1 to 10.
"About your KISS with HER."
Miroku suddenly stood up and walked towards the bathroom.
"You know what Inu Yasha?" my best friend asked me. "I think I'm stinking. Need to go take a bath..." Before he reached his escape route however, I blocked him first, snickering.
"Alright. Now that we're on track, why don't you start to explain.... how did you feel back then?" Miroku's face turned red as he slumped stupidly into his messy bed.
"I don't know.." this clearly was not the answer I wanted.
"What do you mean you don't know?"
"It's just so.. so.. so..."
"So... So.... So...?" I asked, urging him to continue.
"So.. sudden." (A/N Scary what both Miroku and Sango have in common v_v) I almost fell to the ground hearing his answer. What kind of a lame excuse was he telling me?
"SUDDEN?" I shouted. My roommate nodded his head without speaking anything. "What do you mean it's too sudden?"
"I don't know.. It's just that everything is going on so fast. I'm not sure what to do right now." I rolled my eyes. Was this really what Miroku had in mind? I seriously couldn't believe he was serious. No - for the matter, I couldn't even believe THIS was the Miroku I had known for 10 years.
"You're telling me... That YOU, Miroku Houshi, the so-called-master-of-all- women is having troubles trying to figure out what to do with the love of his life?" Miroku slowly nodded his head.
My mind had too adjust a few seconds to finally realized what I should do with this hopeless guy. I smacked him on the head.
SMACK
"Ouch! What was that for?" Miroku shouted.
"Hit for thought." I said simply. Miroku rubbed his head painfully. He looked at me, clearly annoyed.
"Whatever. If you don't want to help me out, then don't asked me." He said. I paused. Was he telling me to butt out of his problems? No way in hell.
"Fine. Here's what I think... So what if everything is happening all of a sudden? I mean, not that it's the case for you two, you guys had been in love for 5 years... Anyways, love has no boundaries. Who cares if a pair of people who just met suddenly made up the next day? Second, believe me, if your heart wants you to be together with her, then so be it. Who's going to stop you? Me? Your parents? Our friends? The teachers? No one. No one's going to stop you and,.. They can't. What you want to do is your decision.. not the others. Third," I smiled at the thought. Miroku was looking at me hopefully.
"Third," I repeated, "why don't you go give her a ring of engagement?" I smirked as I watched Miroku's face turned a deeper shade of red.
"SHUT UP!" He shouted, throwing his pillow at me.
"What the heck what that for?!?!?!" I shouted, throwing another pillow at him.
"For being such a great friend!" Miroku said, beaming. I beamed too.
And that was the start of our pillow fight...
~*~*~*~* THE NEXT DAY *~*~*~*~
~*~*~*~* SHIN **POV** (3rd Person's Point of View) *~*~*~*~
"What do you mean you lost them?!?!!?" roared Inu Yasha. Kagome jerked her head up in disgust.
"Well, I'm so~rry," she began, "But it's not purely ALL my fault for loosing the bag of treats." Inu Yasha rolled his eyes. It was the second day of the Halloween Festival, and Kagome and Inu Yasha were already tied together again. How Kagome wished they were not. (A/N I'm meeeean!!!)
"Snap out of it, wench. If it's not your fault, then whose is it?"
"Yours, dimwit." Kagome countered back.
"Oh yeah, mine." Inu Yasha said sarcastically, "Mr. Totousai handed it to YOU, how am I supposed to be responsible?" Inu Yasha snapped.
"Because you are my partner, because you made me tripped this morning and caused someone to stole the bag, AND because you are such a jerk!!!" Kagome finished. Inu Yasha's mouth opened a bit, but quickly regained his posture.
"So? It's just your fault that you're such a clutz! Don't go blaming things on ME!"
"Fine then, blame everything on ME, the clutz! The wench! Blame it on ME!" Kagome shouted, causing Inu Yasha to flinched a bit. He could tell easily that Kagome's more pissed off than he was, which caused him to back away a little bit.
"Okay, sheesh. Don't go shouting your head off. So what are we going to do now? We got exactly 2 more hours to go and look for a bag of treats. We need it, desperately. Except if you want to be a mocking stock for the whole school." Inu Yasha added sarcastically. Kagome frowned.
"What do you think I am? Of course I don't want to be the mocking stock for the school! The question now is.... where and who are we going to get another bag of treats?"
"Hmph, you're asking me?" Inu Yasha snapped. Kagome rolled her eyes.
"This is going nowhere..." she muttered.
~*~*~*~* 5:30 P.M *~*~*~*~
"So... what will be our last victim's task gonna be?" Mr. Totousai's voice boomed across the whole gym. Kagome and Inu Yasha stood in the middle of the room, faces red with both embarrassment and anger. To put it simply, they didn't managed to stole a bag of treats to get them away from the punishment.
Somebody in the audience's seat shouted,
"LET THE TWO OF THEM PRETEND TO BE DRUNK!!!"
What followed were a lot of moans saying that wasn't 'fun enough'. Well, that's FUN ENOUGH for Kagome.
"LET THE TWO OF THEM PRETEND TO BE COUPLES FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS!!!" Someone else shouted from the crowd. Kagome and Inu Yasha quickly blushed a deeper red than they were already and started to mumble a lot of curses. Inu Yasha tried to shout and complained, but his voice were drowned by, once again, the moans of the other students.
"NO WAY! THEY'RE ALREADY COUPLES IN THE FIRST PLACE!" Said another student.
"WHAT?!?!!??!" Kagome and Inu Yasha shouted at the same time, but was failed to be heard by the other students as the shouts of 'ooooohs' and 'aaaaaaahs' were heard.
"What are they talking about?!?!?!?!" Kagome screamed, only to be heard by Inu Yasha.
"Morons. I'm going to kill them as soon as this is over." Swore Inu Yasha. Kagome secretly agreed with him.
"I KNOW!" said a voice the two youngsters were very familiar with. It was Sango. Kagome looked up hopefully at Sango. She KNEW her best friend would not let her down. How very mistaken she was....
"LET THE TWO KISS!!!!" Sango shouted. What followed was the laughter and the agreements of the other students.
"WHAT?!?!?!?!" Kagome and Inu Yasha shouted at the same time.
"YES, THAT'S A VERY GOOD IDEA!" another student shouted over the crowd.
This time, both Kagome and Inu Yasha were REALLY pissed off. Kagome cleared her throat and took a deep breath. She then mustered all the energy cells inside her body and shouted,
"STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP THIS NONSENSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEE!" The whole gym went quiet, as everyone's attention turned to Kagome. Inu Yasha flinched a few meters away from her (I forgot to tell you that they were not tied anymore). Kagome took another deep breath.
"First of all, I am NOT Inu Yasha's girlfriend and I will not accept any long-term punishment, because it is against the Halloween Festival's rule anyway. Second, I will not, I repeat, WILL NOT kiss Inu Yasha no matter what you guys say!" Kagome declared, causing silence to dominate the whole gym. Finally, after what seemed like ages, somebody shouted.
"ALRIGHT THEN! MAKE THE GUY RUN 8 TRACKS WHILE CARRYING THE GIRL!!!!!!" Abrupt moans of displeasure erupted. "I'M NOT DONE YET!" The person who had voiced his/her idea shouted again. "IF THE GUY DIDN'T SUCCEED TO DO THAT IN LESS THAN 15 MINUTES, THEN THE GIRL MUST KISS THE GUY! HOW IS THAT?!?!?!?!"
At this, the crowd, once again, erupted with agreements. Kagome fell to the ground.
"What happened to my part of speech?" She mumbled. Inu Yasha, beside her, however, smirked.
"Alright!" He shouted. Kagome raised her eyebrows. "8 tracks is it? Hmph, no problem!" Kagome frowned.
"Yeah.. but you're carrying ME remember?" Inu Yasha turned and look at her.
"As long as you're not a fatso, I think I can handle it." Kagome raised her eyebrows as Inu Yasha lifted his hand towards the crowd, telling them he agreed.
~*~*~*~* ON THE TRACK *~*~*~*~
"Hey Inu Yasha!" Inu Yasha turned around. Miroku was running towards him.
"Hey, pal!" Miroku greeted. Inu Yasha frowned.
"What do you want now, pervert?"
"Make sure you fail the 8 tracks, okay?" He said, snickering. Inu Yasha frowned again.
"And why would I do that?"
"Coz you want to be kissed by Kagome, that's why!"
SMACK!!!
............Miroku landed on the ground as Inu Yasha prepared for the run.
Kagome hesitantly approached Inu Yasha.
"What is it, wench?"
"Are you sure you can do this, Inu Yasha?" Kagome asked, ignoring the 'wench' part.
"Feh. If I say I can do it, then I can!" He said confidently. Kagome sighed.
"Anyways, hop up." Inu Yasha said, blushing faintly.
"Huh?"
"I have to carry you, right?"
"Uh.. yeah."
"So what are you waiting for? Hop up!" Inu Yasha said, as he knelt down so Kagome could reach him. Kagome gave a small smile as she put her hands on her skirt, making sure it wouldn't show anything that wasn't appropriate, and lift herself up. Inu Yasha blushed as he felt Kagome rustled on his back, feeling the warmth and weight of her body.
~*~*~*~* MOMENTS LATER *~*~*~*~
"READY...... SET....... GO!!!!!!" And Inu Yasha dashed off, holding Kagome's back for safety.
'Feh, this is easy.' Inu Yasha thought. 'I do this for training all the time.'
Meanwhile, Kagome felt as if she was flying. With Inu Yasha's incredible speed and his warm back, she felt as if she was in the skies. She reached over and put her hands on Inu Yasha's neck, causing Inu Yasha to blushed instantly without her noticing it.
After the first lap, Inu Yasha turned to a steady pace. Kagome, a little bit disappointed with the change of speed, whispered closely towards Inu Yasha's ears, causing the poor guy to blushed again.
"Are you tired, Inu Yasha?"
"Feh, no way in hell."
"Good, coz we just went over 1 track."
"Hey wench, don't worry. I don't want to be kissed by you either." Inu Yasha said, quickly regretting what he had said. He knew that deep down... He WANTED Kagome to kiss him. As the thought came to him, he shook his head and decided to concentrate on keeping his energy steady.
After a few moments of silence, Kagome finally said something.
"You know Inu Yasha, sometimes you can be so kind." Inu Yasha almost skidded into a halt. Luckily, he didn't, because if he did, the two were forced to kiss and their efforts would be useless. Instead, he just turned deep red.
"Feh, what are you talking about?"
"Hmmm, I'm not sure." Was Kagome's weird reply.
"Huh?"
"It's just... I know that deep down, you really are a nice person."
Inu Yasha didn't know what to say to this, so he just kept quiet. Kagome continued.
"You protected me from troubles all the time. From Naraku, Kikyo, and even Kouga-kun. I really appreciated that." Kagome said sweetly, causing Inu Yasha's stomach to do a very dangerous flip-flop.
"Errrrrrrr." Was all Inu Yasha could say. Kagome smiled again.
"I mean.... Sometimes I wonder."
"About what?" Inu Yasha finally asked something.
"About you."
"About me?"
"Yes, about you." Kagome repeated. Before Inu Yasha could reply her, she continued, "Do you... uhm.... do you ever...."
"What is it?" Inu Yasha asked impatiently.
"Do you ever feel lonely?" Kagome asked hesitantly. Inu Yasha's hand slipped off Kagome's back. Quickly, Kagome said,
"I'm sorry. That must have been a private question. Me and my stupid mouth..."
"...... You're the first one who had dared to asked me that question." Inu Yasha interrupted her. Kagome's eyes widened, shocked that Inu Yasha had pursued the subject. She was about to opened her mouth for another set of apologies when,
"Meet me tonight in front of your dormitory if you want to listen to me....." Inu Yasha whispered. He sounded so distant, so lonely, so... sad. Kagome didn't answer, but after a while, she placed her head against Inu Yasha's warm back and nodded.
The rest of the track was continued with silence.....
~* A/N *~ My goodness! I should have ended it here! But I'm happy.. and I'm in the mood to write.... so I'm continuing!!!!! Am I kind or what? ^.^ *~
~*~*~*~* 8:00 P.M *~*~*~*~
Carefully and quietly, Kagome tried to get out of her room. Much to her dismay, Sango noticed her.
"Kagome? Where are you going at this time?" the girl holding her cat asked her best friend. Kagome tried to give a convincing laugh, which failed greatly.
"Uuuuuuh... just.... out for a walk." Kagome said, thinking of an excuse (A/N LAME excuse if you ask ME!). Sango raised her eyebrows.
"At this cold weather? Want me to accompany you?"
"NO!" Kagome said a bit too quickly. Sango's raised her eyebrows higher. Kagome gave a dry laugh. "I mean... no, I just need to go grab something from my car. I think I left my cell-phone there."
Sango's face looked confused. However, after a few minutes, she finally sighed and nodded.
"Alright, whatever. Just come back before the lights out, okay?" Kagome smiled and nodded her head. She quickly grabbed her thin sweater and rushed out. Sango shook her head the moment her roommate was gone.
"Kagome, Kagome. Next time you want to meet Inu Yasha, think of a better excuse..." she said, before turning around to put Kagome's cell-phone on her drawer.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kagome rushed out from her dormitory. The moment she did, the cold autumn wind welcomed her as she shuddered and began to look for Inu Yasha. She walked a few meters towards a nearby bench before she spotted him. She rushed over towards him.
"Hey Inu Yasha!" She greeted. Inu Yasha turned around to look at the raven- haired girl. He smiled.
"I thought you weren't coming."
'And miss a chance to be with you? No way!!! Wait.... WHERE DID THAT CAME FROM?' Kagome mentally cursed herself. Inu Yasha gave her a bewildered look before he started to walk towards the bench. Kagome quickly followed him. Both of them sat together, not saying anything. It was not long until Kagome felt nervous. She checked her watch. It read 8:15 p.m. She then looked back at the trees, which were shaking creepily with the support of the wind. That was when Inu Yasha started to speak.
"I'm a hanyou...." He whispered. Kagome, surprised, looked at him. Inu Yasha was staring at the ground. His eyes showed how he had wanted to let out these words out of his mind.
"I'm not a youkai, not a human either. When I was small.... the humans made fun of me, not to mention the youkai-s. I have no friend, no one to play with, and no one to talk to. I had always been alone. At that time, I didn't trust anyone, not even my parents. I always got beaten up at school. I continuously asked myself, 'why am I born this way?' or 'am I fated to be beaten and teased all my life?' or 'what did I do to deserved these kinds of treatments?' At that time, I hate everyone, I'm angry with the world. So I decided that if anyone were to fight me, I would beat them up before they got the chance. When I realized what I was doing, I noticed that I really don't belong anywhere in this world."
Inu Yasha stopped talking. He looked as if he was replaying something very painful. That was when Kagome reached out and placed her head on Inu Yasha's shoulder, giving the hanyou a jolt of shock.
"Kagome?" He asked, looking at the beautiful face. Kagome smiled.
"Thank you for telling me, Inu Yasha. It takes great courage to trust someone with your painful past. I'm happy to know that you trust me that much." These words sent out a wave of fuzzy feeling towards Inu Yasha's heart. (A/N Kind'a similar to the manga/anime huh? Hehehe, I told you! I SUCKED at romances! ^.^)
After staying a few minutes in that position, Kagome finally pulled back into a normal sitting position, much to Inu Yasha's disappointment. Kagome turned her head to look at Inu Yasha, her smile still pasted on her face. She was about to say something when she was interrupted with an,
"Achooooo!" she sneezed, shaking slightly under her thin sweater. She began to rub her hands together, in order to access heat. Inu Yasha raised his eyebrows.
"What are you doing coming down with that thin sweater at this kind of temperature?" he scolded but in a caring way. Kagome smiled, but another sneeze blew her way. She was about to tightened her gripped on her sweater before she felt a pair of hands on her shoulder. She looked up and saw Inu Yasha putting his jacket over her.
"You need to take care of yourself, Kag. I don't want you to get sick." He said, blushing deeply the moment he realized what he had just said.
"Thank you." Kagome said, as she instantly felt the warmth. She then checked out her watch and gasped at the time.
"Ohmigosh! It's already 9? I need to go FAST!" She said, as she began to stand up and turned to face her dormitory. Inu Yasha stood up too, unsure if he wanted to go back to his dorm or not. Kagome then looked at him and gave him a sweet smile that melted his heart without him realizing it.
"Good night, Inu Yasha." She whispered before she turned and walked away. Inu Yasha had a strong urge to call her and hugged her. Believe me, it took almost all of his energy to push the thought aside. However, before he could even turned around and head back towards his room, he saw a figure reaching over him. His eyes widened as he realized what had just happened.
Kagome had kissed his cheek.
It was nothing more than that, but it had seemed as if the whole world had turned their attention towards Inu Yasha.
He looked at her, and noticed how red her face was. But she was smiling!
"Once again.... Thank you, Inu Yasha!" she said, before she spun around, and began to run as fast as possible towards her room.
Inu Yasha stood there, frozen with happiness. His hand slowly reached over and rubbed his cheek. He was surprised what a small 'friendly kiss' had done to his heart, which was beating so fast he was afraid he might have a heart attack. Soon, his mouth slowly formed a smile.
"I'm the one who should thank YOU, Kagome." He whispered to himself before he himself turned around and walked towards his dorm.
~*~*~*~* A/N *~*~*~*~
Heyo people! How do you like this chapter? Psst, psst! I'm planning on making Inu Yasha ask Kagome soon. Get it? SOON! Hahahaha! Ehm.. I just noticed. I wrote 20 CHAPTERS! That's a lot! And the story doesn't seemed to want to end anywhere close, isn't it? ^.^ So... If any of you think it's boring.... tell me! I'll probably end it when this story reaches Christmas. Sad... But I don't want to make my story boring!
Oooooh, how many of you tried reading my 2nd fic? Onegai, if you haven't, JUST READ IT! Please!!!! ^.6!
By the way, I've decided not to change how the way POV-s are made. Coz most people said how they really loved me writing in this style. Some say it's unique, some say it's interesting.... etc. etc. Oh THANK YOU people! Anyways.... -thank you corner-
~*~*~*~* Thank You Corner (Only some considering there were too many people to answer v_v) *~*~*~*~
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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONEEEEEE!
~Shin
~*~*~*~* Chapter 21 ~ A Small, Friendly Kiss *~*~*~*~
"So how does it feel kissing the love of your life?" I asked Sango the moment we were alone in our room (get it? We're not tied anymore!). She immediately blushed deep red.
"I think I need to go and take a bath..." she muttered as she made a run for the bathroom. But, try as she might, I was faster than her.
"Come on Sango! You can talk to me!"
Sango raised her eyebrows, her face still red, but not as much as before. She sighed deeply, but then smiled. The best smile I had ever seen from her. I couldn't help but smiled back, my eyes gleaming.
"It was.." Sango began. I hold my breath. Sango's going to go rambling about that moment! I knew it! ..... but, she didn't. She sighed and closed her eyes. I raised my eyebrows.
"Sango?"
"Yes, Kagome?"
"What happened to you? One moment you're shy, next you're happy, and then you sounded so sad it seemed you're ready to cry any moment..." I asked, utterly confused with Sango's reactions. Sango sighed again.
"I don't know what to do now, Kagome..." she said. I was VERY surprised with Sango's statement.
"What do you mean you don't know what to do?"
"I mean, I now know for sure that I love him and he loves me to. But..." Sango trailed off.
"But?" I asked again, a bit too eagerly.
"But, don't you think.. it's a bit too sudden?" She asked. I thought about her question for a while. When my brain had finally caught up with the right answer,
"SANGO, YOU SILLY GIRL!!!!" I shouted. Sango jumped.
"What the hell was that for?" She asked, clearly surprised with my reaction. I cleared my throat before I started on my speech.
"Listen here, young-girl-who-is-madly-in-love-at-the-moment-but-don't-know- what-to-do (A/N Long word, I know ^.^), here's my first point of advice, LOVE IS NEVER TOO SUDDEN!" I shouted the last part. Sango opened her mouth as if to interrupt me but I ignored her and continued speaking,
"Especially in your case. When's the first time you meet Miroku? 8 years ago?" I gave a whistle. "Whew, that's a long time gal! And I presume you've fallen for each other for... what? 5 years? Well, here's my second point of advice, YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING!!!"
Sango was now definitely shocked with the amount of energy I was having.
"So I don't understand why you have to feel weird about it. I mean, anybody with a brain would have realized that you guys are SO meant to be with each other. Even though Miroku can be a pervert sometimes and YOU can be a killer sometimes too..."
"HEY!" Sango interrupted. I ignored her.
"That just meant that you guys are the right couple! You know why? Because YOU are going to STOP Miroku whenever he's doing his PERVERTED stuffs. Right?" I gave my best friend a small wink, in which Sango was too shocked to reply. I grinned.
"And that concludes that YOU are the light and Miroku is the darkness. You know why? Because you will lead the 'Darkness' into the 'Light'. However, there will be no light without any darkness and there won't be any darkness without light. Am I smart or what? So, my third point of advice is, GO DATE HIM! GO KISS HIM! GO GET ENGANGED WITH HIM! GO MARRY HIM! GO HAVE KIDS WITH HIM...!"
WHAM!!!!!!!!!!!
"O... ouch!" I shouted, noticing too late what I had just said. There, standing in front of me, was Sango, her face red. At first I thought that Sango was pissed off, but then I noticed the cheerfulness on her eyes. Her lips forming into a smile. She had hit me with her pillow.
"Kagome... you... you.." She said, unable to found words to suit her mind. I laughed.
"Me... me... me what?" I asked, laughing. Sango laughed a long with me. She hit me with her pillow again.
"You... AAARGH!" Sango said as she hit me again.
And that was the start of our pillow fight...
~*~*~*~* On Another Side of the School *~*~*~*~
~*~*~*~* INU YASHA **POV** *~*~*~*~
"Alright." I said, looking at Miroku. He was doing his homework.
"What?" He said, not looking back.
"Feh, as if you don't know what I'm talking about?" I noticed that Miroku had stopped writing, but soon he regained his consciousness and continued his work again. I sat on my bed.
"So you're going to answer me or not, pervert?"
"Is it me that is so stupid that I do not understand you or is it YOU who are stupid because you are talking nonsense at the moment?" Miroku questioned, still looking at the direction of his notes. I growled, but then it changed directly into a smirk.
"C'mon Miroku. I know you're DYING to tell me about it."
"About what?"
I growled.
"About HER."
Miroku started to read his textbook.
"HER who?"
I growled again.
"HER as in SANGO TAIJIYA."
Miroku's textbook fell to the ground, but he picked it up without looking at my eyes.
"What about SANGO TAIJIYA?"
I took a deep breath and counted from 1 to 10.
"About your KISS with HER."
Miroku suddenly stood up and walked towards the bathroom.
"You know what Inu Yasha?" my best friend asked me. "I think I'm stinking. Need to go take a bath..." Before he reached his escape route however, I blocked him first, snickering.
"Alright. Now that we're on track, why don't you start to explain.... how did you feel back then?" Miroku's face turned red as he slumped stupidly into his messy bed.
"I don't know.." this clearly was not the answer I wanted.
"What do you mean you don't know?"
"It's just so.. so.. so..."
"So... So.... So...?" I asked, urging him to continue.
"So.. sudden." (A/N Scary what both Miroku and Sango have in common v_v) I almost fell to the ground hearing his answer. What kind of a lame excuse was he telling me?
"SUDDEN?" I shouted. My roommate nodded his head without speaking anything. "What do you mean it's too sudden?"
"I don't know.. It's just that everything is going on so fast. I'm not sure what to do right now." I rolled my eyes. Was this really what Miroku had in mind? I seriously couldn't believe he was serious. No - for the matter, I couldn't even believe THIS was the Miroku I had known for 10 years.
"You're telling me... That YOU, Miroku Houshi, the so-called-master-of-all- women is having troubles trying to figure out what to do with the love of his life?" Miroku slowly nodded his head.
My mind had too adjust a few seconds to finally realized what I should do with this hopeless guy. I smacked him on the head.
SMACK
"Ouch! What was that for?" Miroku shouted.
"Hit for thought." I said simply. Miroku rubbed his head painfully. He looked at me, clearly annoyed.
"Whatever. If you don't want to help me out, then don't asked me." He said. I paused. Was he telling me to butt out of his problems? No way in hell.
"Fine. Here's what I think... So what if everything is happening all of a sudden? I mean, not that it's the case for you two, you guys had been in love for 5 years... Anyways, love has no boundaries. Who cares if a pair of people who just met suddenly made up the next day? Second, believe me, if your heart wants you to be together with her, then so be it. Who's going to stop you? Me? Your parents? Our friends? The teachers? No one. No one's going to stop you and,.. They can't. What you want to do is your decision.. not the others. Third," I smiled at the thought. Miroku was looking at me hopefully.
"Third," I repeated, "why don't you go give her a ring of engagement?" I smirked as I watched Miroku's face turned a deeper shade of red.
"SHUT UP!" He shouted, throwing his pillow at me.
"What the heck what that for?!?!?!" I shouted, throwing another pillow at him.
"For being such a great friend!" Miroku said, beaming. I beamed too.
And that was the start of our pillow fight...
~*~*~*~* THE NEXT DAY *~*~*~*~
~*~*~*~* SHIN **POV** (3rd Person's Point of View) *~*~*~*~
"What do you mean you lost them?!?!!?" roared Inu Yasha. Kagome jerked her head up in disgust.
"Well, I'm so~rry," she began, "But it's not purely ALL my fault for loosing the bag of treats." Inu Yasha rolled his eyes. It was the second day of the Halloween Festival, and Kagome and Inu Yasha were already tied together again. How Kagome wished they were not. (A/N I'm meeeean!!!)
"Snap out of it, wench. If it's not your fault, then whose is it?"
"Yours, dimwit." Kagome countered back.
"Oh yeah, mine." Inu Yasha said sarcastically, "Mr. Totousai handed it to YOU, how am I supposed to be responsible?" Inu Yasha snapped.
"Because you are my partner, because you made me tripped this morning and caused someone to stole the bag, AND because you are such a jerk!!!" Kagome finished. Inu Yasha's mouth opened a bit, but quickly regained his posture.
"So? It's just your fault that you're such a clutz! Don't go blaming things on ME!"
"Fine then, blame everything on ME, the clutz! The wench! Blame it on ME!" Kagome shouted, causing Inu Yasha to flinched a bit. He could tell easily that Kagome's more pissed off than he was, which caused him to back away a little bit.
"Okay, sheesh. Don't go shouting your head off. So what are we going to do now? We got exactly 2 more hours to go and look for a bag of treats. We need it, desperately. Except if you want to be a mocking stock for the whole school." Inu Yasha added sarcastically. Kagome frowned.
"What do you think I am? Of course I don't want to be the mocking stock for the school! The question now is.... where and who are we going to get another bag of treats?"
"Hmph, you're asking me?" Inu Yasha snapped. Kagome rolled her eyes.
"This is going nowhere..." she muttered.
~*~*~*~* 5:30 P.M *~*~*~*~
"So... what will be our last victim's task gonna be?" Mr. Totousai's voice boomed across the whole gym. Kagome and Inu Yasha stood in the middle of the room, faces red with both embarrassment and anger. To put it simply, they didn't managed to stole a bag of treats to get them away from the punishment.
Somebody in the audience's seat shouted,
"LET THE TWO OF THEM PRETEND TO BE DRUNK!!!"
What followed were a lot of moans saying that wasn't 'fun enough'. Well, that's FUN ENOUGH for Kagome.
"LET THE TWO OF THEM PRETEND TO BE COUPLES FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS!!!" Someone else shouted from the crowd. Kagome and Inu Yasha quickly blushed a deeper red than they were already and started to mumble a lot of curses. Inu Yasha tried to shout and complained, but his voice were drowned by, once again, the moans of the other students.
"NO WAY! THEY'RE ALREADY COUPLES IN THE FIRST PLACE!" Said another student.
"WHAT?!?!!??!" Kagome and Inu Yasha shouted at the same time, but was failed to be heard by the other students as the shouts of 'ooooohs' and 'aaaaaaahs' were heard.
"What are they talking about?!?!?!?!" Kagome screamed, only to be heard by Inu Yasha.
"Morons. I'm going to kill them as soon as this is over." Swore Inu Yasha. Kagome secretly agreed with him.
"I KNOW!" said a voice the two youngsters were very familiar with. It was Sango. Kagome looked up hopefully at Sango. She KNEW her best friend would not let her down. How very mistaken she was....
"LET THE TWO KISS!!!!" Sango shouted. What followed was the laughter and the agreements of the other students.
"WHAT?!?!?!?!" Kagome and Inu Yasha shouted at the same time.
"YES, THAT'S A VERY GOOD IDEA!" another student shouted over the crowd.
This time, both Kagome and Inu Yasha were REALLY pissed off. Kagome cleared her throat and took a deep breath. She then mustered all the energy cells inside her body and shouted,
"STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP THIS NONSENSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEE!" The whole gym went quiet, as everyone's attention turned to Kagome. Inu Yasha flinched a few meters away from her (I forgot to tell you that they were not tied anymore). Kagome took another deep breath.
"First of all, I am NOT Inu Yasha's girlfriend and I will not accept any long-term punishment, because it is against the Halloween Festival's rule anyway. Second, I will not, I repeat, WILL NOT kiss Inu Yasha no matter what you guys say!" Kagome declared, causing silence to dominate the whole gym. Finally, after what seemed like ages, somebody shouted.
"ALRIGHT THEN! MAKE THE GUY RUN 8 TRACKS WHILE CARRYING THE GIRL!!!!!!" Abrupt moans of displeasure erupted. "I'M NOT DONE YET!" The person who had voiced his/her idea shouted again. "IF THE GUY DIDN'T SUCCEED TO DO THAT IN LESS THAN 15 MINUTES, THEN THE GIRL MUST KISS THE GUY! HOW IS THAT?!?!?!?!"
At this, the crowd, once again, erupted with agreements. Kagome fell to the ground.
"What happened to my part of speech?" She mumbled. Inu Yasha, beside her, however, smirked.
"Alright!" He shouted. Kagome raised her eyebrows. "8 tracks is it? Hmph, no problem!" Kagome frowned.
"Yeah.. but you're carrying ME remember?" Inu Yasha turned and look at her.
"As long as you're not a fatso, I think I can handle it." Kagome raised her eyebrows as Inu Yasha lifted his hand towards the crowd, telling them he agreed.
~*~*~*~* ON THE TRACK *~*~*~*~
"Hey Inu Yasha!" Inu Yasha turned around. Miroku was running towards him.
"Hey, pal!" Miroku greeted. Inu Yasha frowned.
"What do you want now, pervert?"
"Make sure you fail the 8 tracks, okay?" He said, snickering. Inu Yasha frowned again.
"And why would I do that?"
"Coz you want to be kissed by Kagome, that's why!"
SMACK!!!
............Miroku landed on the ground as Inu Yasha prepared for the run.
Kagome hesitantly approached Inu Yasha.
"What is it, wench?"
"Are you sure you can do this, Inu Yasha?" Kagome asked, ignoring the 'wench' part.
"Feh. If I say I can do it, then I can!" He said confidently. Kagome sighed.
"Anyways, hop up." Inu Yasha said, blushing faintly.
"Huh?"
"I have to carry you, right?"
"Uh.. yeah."
"So what are you waiting for? Hop up!" Inu Yasha said, as he knelt down so Kagome could reach him. Kagome gave a small smile as she put her hands on her skirt, making sure it wouldn't show anything that wasn't appropriate, and lift herself up. Inu Yasha blushed as he felt Kagome rustled on his back, feeling the warmth and weight of her body.
~*~*~*~* MOMENTS LATER *~*~*~*~
"READY...... SET....... GO!!!!!!" And Inu Yasha dashed off, holding Kagome's back for safety.
'Feh, this is easy.' Inu Yasha thought. 'I do this for training all the time.'
Meanwhile, Kagome felt as if she was flying. With Inu Yasha's incredible speed and his warm back, she felt as if she was in the skies. She reached over and put her hands on Inu Yasha's neck, causing Inu Yasha to blushed instantly without her noticing it.
After the first lap, Inu Yasha turned to a steady pace. Kagome, a little bit disappointed with the change of speed, whispered closely towards Inu Yasha's ears, causing the poor guy to blushed again.
"Are you tired, Inu Yasha?"
"Feh, no way in hell."
"Good, coz we just went over 1 track."
"Hey wench, don't worry. I don't want to be kissed by you either." Inu Yasha said, quickly regretting what he had said. He knew that deep down... He WANTED Kagome to kiss him. As the thought came to him, he shook his head and decided to concentrate on keeping his energy steady.
After a few moments of silence, Kagome finally said something.
"You know Inu Yasha, sometimes you can be so kind." Inu Yasha almost skidded into a halt. Luckily, he didn't, because if he did, the two were forced to kiss and their efforts would be useless. Instead, he just turned deep red.
"Feh, what are you talking about?"
"Hmmm, I'm not sure." Was Kagome's weird reply.
"Huh?"
"It's just... I know that deep down, you really are a nice person."
Inu Yasha didn't know what to say to this, so he just kept quiet. Kagome continued.
"You protected me from troubles all the time. From Naraku, Kikyo, and even Kouga-kun. I really appreciated that." Kagome said sweetly, causing Inu Yasha's stomach to do a very dangerous flip-flop.
"Errrrrrrr." Was all Inu Yasha could say. Kagome smiled again.
"I mean.... Sometimes I wonder."
"About what?" Inu Yasha finally asked something.
"About you."
"About me?"
"Yes, about you." Kagome repeated. Before Inu Yasha could reply her, she continued, "Do you... uhm.... do you ever...."
"What is it?" Inu Yasha asked impatiently.
"Do you ever feel lonely?" Kagome asked hesitantly. Inu Yasha's hand slipped off Kagome's back. Quickly, Kagome said,
"I'm sorry. That must have been a private question. Me and my stupid mouth..."
"...... You're the first one who had dared to asked me that question." Inu Yasha interrupted her. Kagome's eyes widened, shocked that Inu Yasha had pursued the subject. She was about to opened her mouth for another set of apologies when,
"Meet me tonight in front of your dormitory if you want to listen to me....." Inu Yasha whispered. He sounded so distant, so lonely, so... sad. Kagome didn't answer, but after a while, she placed her head against Inu Yasha's warm back and nodded.
The rest of the track was continued with silence.....
~* A/N *~ My goodness! I should have ended it here! But I'm happy.. and I'm in the mood to write.... so I'm continuing!!!!! Am I kind or what? ^.^ *~
~*~*~*~* 8:00 P.M *~*~*~*~
Carefully and quietly, Kagome tried to get out of her room. Much to her dismay, Sango noticed her.
"Kagome? Where are you going at this time?" the girl holding her cat asked her best friend. Kagome tried to give a convincing laugh, which failed greatly.
"Uuuuuuh... just.... out for a walk." Kagome said, thinking of an excuse (A/N LAME excuse if you ask ME!). Sango raised her eyebrows.
"At this cold weather? Want me to accompany you?"
"NO!" Kagome said a bit too quickly. Sango's raised her eyebrows higher. Kagome gave a dry laugh. "I mean... no, I just need to go grab something from my car. I think I left my cell-phone there."
Sango's face looked confused. However, after a few minutes, she finally sighed and nodded.
"Alright, whatever. Just come back before the lights out, okay?" Kagome smiled and nodded her head. She quickly grabbed her thin sweater and rushed out. Sango shook her head the moment her roommate was gone.
"Kagome, Kagome. Next time you want to meet Inu Yasha, think of a better excuse..." she said, before turning around to put Kagome's cell-phone on her drawer.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kagome rushed out from her dormitory. The moment she did, the cold autumn wind welcomed her as she shuddered and began to look for Inu Yasha. She walked a few meters towards a nearby bench before she spotted him. She rushed over towards him.
"Hey Inu Yasha!" She greeted. Inu Yasha turned around to look at the raven- haired girl. He smiled.
"I thought you weren't coming."
'And miss a chance to be with you? No way!!! Wait.... WHERE DID THAT CAME FROM?' Kagome mentally cursed herself. Inu Yasha gave her a bewildered look before he started to walk towards the bench. Kagome quickly followed him. Both of them sat together, not saying anything. It was not long until Kagome felt nervous. She checked her watch. It read 8:15 p.m. She then looked back at the trees, which were shaking creepily with the support of the wind. That was when Inu Yasha started to speak.
"I'm a hanyou...." He whispered. Kagome, surprised, looked at him. Inu Yasha was staring at the ground. His eyes showed how he had wanted to let out these words out of his mind.
"I'm not a youkai, not a human either. When I was small.... the humans made fun of me, not to mention the youkai-s. I have no friend, no one to play with, and no one to talk to. I had always been alone. At that time, I didn't trust anyone, not even my parents. I always got beaten up at school. I continuously asked myself, 'why am I born this way?' or 'am I fated to be beaten and teased all my life?' or 'what did I do to deserved these kinds of treatments?' At that time, I hate everyone, I'm angry with the world. So I decided that if anyone were to fight me, I would beat them up before they got the chance. When I realized what I was doing, I noticed that I really don't belong anywhere in this world."
Inu Yasha stopped talking. He looked as if he was replaying something very painful. That was when Kagome reached out and placed her head on Inu Yasha's shoulder, giving the hanyou a jolt of shock.
"Kagome?" He asked, looking at the beautiful face. Kagome smiled.
"Thank you for telling me, Inu Yasha. It takes great courage to trust someone with your painful past. I'm happy to know that you trust me that much." These words sent out a wave of fuzzy feeling towards Inu Yasha's heart. (A/N Kind'a similar to the manga/anime huh? Hehehe, I told you! I SUCKED at romances! ^.^)
After staying a few minutes in that position, Kagome finally pulled back into a normal sitting position, much to Inu Yasha's disappointment. Kagome turned her head to look at Inu Yasha, her smile still pasted on her face. She was about to say something when she was interrupted with an,
"Achooooo!" she sneezed, shaking slightly under her thin sweater. She began to rub her hands together, in order to access heat. Inu Yasha raised his eyebrows.
"What are you doing coming down with that thin sweater at this kind of temperature?" he scolded but in a caring way. Kagome smiled, but another sneeze blew her way. She was about to tightened her gripped on her sweater before she felt a pair of hands on her shoulder. She looked up and saw Inu Yasha putting his jacket over her.
"You need to take care of yourself, Kag. I don't want you to get sick." He said, blushing deeply the moment he realized what he had just said.
"Thank you." Kagome said, as she instantly felt the warmth. She then checked out her watch and gasped at the time.
"Ohmigosh! It's already 9? I need to go FAST!" She said, as she began to stand up and turned to face her dormitory. Inu Yasha stood up too, unsure if he wanted to go back to his dorm or not. Kagome then looked at him and gave him a sweet smile that melted his heart without him realizing it.
"Good night, Inu Yasha." She whispered before she turned and walked away. Inu Yasha had a strong urge to call her and hugged her. Believe me, it took almost all of his energy to push the thought aside. However, before he could even turned around and head back towards his room, he saw a figure reaching over him. His eyes widened as he realized what had just happened.
Kagome had kissed his cheek.
It was nothing more than that, but it had seemed as if the whole world had turned their attention towards Inu Yasha.
He looked at her, and noticed how red her face was. But she was smiling!
"Once again.... Thank you, Inu Yasha!" she said, before she spun around, and began to run as fast as possible towards her room.
Inu Yasha stood there, frozen with happiness. His hand slowly reached over and rubbed his cheek. He was surprised what a small 'friendly kiss' had done to his heart, which was beating so fast he was afraid he might have a heart attack. Soon, his mouth slowly formed a smile.
"I'm the one who should thank YOU, Kagome." He whispered to himself before he himself turned around and walked towards his dorm.
~*~*~*~* A/N *~*~*~*~
Heyo people! How do you like this chapter? Psst, psst! I'm planning on making Inu Yasha ask Kagome soon. Get it? SOON! Hahahaha! Ehm.. I just noticed. I wrote 20 CHAPTERS! That's a lot! And the story doesn't seemed to want to end anywhere close, isn't it? ^.^ So... If any of you think it's boring.... tell me! I'll probably end it when this story reaches Christmas. Sad... But I don't want to make my story boring!
Oooooh, how many of you tried reading my 2nd fic? Onegai, if you haven't, JUST READ IT! Please!!!! ^.6!
By the way, I've decided not to change how the way POV-s are made. Coz most people said how they really loved me writing in this style. Some say it's unique, some say it's interesting.... etc. etc. Oh THANK YOU people! Anyways.... -thank you corner-
~*~*~*~* Thank You Corner (Only some considering there were too many people to answer v_v) *~*~*~*~
Inuyddam = Oh.. sorry, but I have to stick with this kind of POV. And my friend? She's trying to grab you and hug you coz you said thank you to her. She's scary... I know. v_v
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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONEEEEEE!
~Shin