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Jules2004: Yes. I agree. Even ME, being the totally obsessed fan-girl of Inu... will admit that he is a bit of a bakayaro. -_-;; Eh. Thanks for the praise! lol. I try to keep Inu as much in character as I can. Though in this one you're about to read... it was kind of hard to. lol. Kagome and Naraku together?? Umm... EW?!! lol. No, I would NEVER have that! EWWWIES! . That's just gross. lol. The Rin and Sesshy thingy, I like. Though, I will agree... it IS a bit pedophile-ish lol. I think Kikyo is going to *try* to keep them apart. But... really not. *sigh* I'll have to re-plan this thing again. lol. She is going to have a big of a big role. I mean, even though I hate her, she *can* be a good person, and often times helps Inu and them. *cringe* Thinking of that gives me goose bumps. lol. But, grrr. You're making me re-think this man! lol. She isn't an evil force driving them apart though. I will say that. Because, if you remember in a past chapter. Kanna is spending a weekend with them soon. lol. And well.. She's going to have a big part in this. Really, it's Kagome's trust that's going to set the stage for them. Well... grrr. You shall see. lol. I feel very flattered that you think so highly of my story! lol. =^_^= You get... umm.... This awesome (and I mean AWESOME) inflatable Miroku! ^_~ LMAO! Sorry, I couldn't resist! ^_^'
Sparrowslove: Eh, he can be gentle with his claws! ^_~ heehee. *I* would know! =^_^=
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Disclaimer: Heh, long time.. No see one of these in a few chapters! lol. heh. ^^' No.. I don't own him. =(
Where we left off....
["Just... huff... A… huff... few more... huff... blocks..." She breathed heavily as she walked on. "Then… huff... I can get some... huff... bandages on these... huff things..." She shook her head and subconsciously pulled out her cell phone and keys. The petite young body fell suddenly onto the cold cement, flinging her stuff around. She slowly let go of her phone after she hit the floor.
"Hello? HELLO!?!!" Someone yelled.
"Inu… InuYasha..." She whispered in pain and fatigue.
"Kagome!?" Worry in his voice.
"Hmmm?" She smiled before her eyelids shut and she could hear, taste, smell, touch, or speak no more.... ]
Chapter 8
"Just a Dream"
Kagome slowly fluttered open her eyes as she slowly licked her dry lips. Golden rays of light drowneded the light blue room, and caused her to squint for a little while before her eyes got used to the light. With a groan, she tightened her grip on the covers and flipped over on the bed.
Her eyes shot open as she turned around while sitting up in the bed. She blinked and looked around the room from her center position.
"Where am I...?" She asked herself aloud, softly.
The room was a Pansy Blue and the white fabric curtain played in the wind as the light seeping through it gave the room a clean feeling. A distressed white dresser across from her with a mirror over top. On the top of the long dresser was a pitcher of water, some fragrance bottles, and magazines. She raised an eyebrow at this but then looked to her left. There, she saw the closet on the wall and the creaked open door. Right next to the bed was a matching distressed white nightstand with storage drawers underneath. She looked passed the lamp standing upon the nightstand, and, instead, inspected the light shadow the neighboring window played on the wall. Suddenly the window flapped--- she jumped slightly. But relaxed after she noticed it was only the white fabric curtain flapping back in from the wind.
She inhaled deeply and then fell back with outstretched arms onto the big comfortable bed. Oh how the room smelt good. Her closed eyes seemed to squint as she thought about the smell. 'It's oddly familiar. Like someone I know....' she thought but just couldn't put a name on it. Whatever or whoever the smell was, she loved it. She inhaled deeply, again, with a big smile and closed eyes before snapping up in attention.
A noise had erupted from somewhere beyond the door. Her breathing suddenly become stressed as her heart seemed to be beating faster. Kagome gently grabbed the white, blue, purple, yellow, and green patterned comforter and seemed to slide off the bed. As her feet soundlessly found their way to the floor and she stood, she noticed she was dressed differently. With wide eyes she looked down at her...
'Pajamas?' She thought.
The young woman tugged lightly at the comfortably tight dark blue velvet tank she wore, and then looked down at her light blue fabric pajama pants. She raised an eyebrow about to say something to herself when several more noises erupted from the other side of the door.
'It sounds like pots and pans.'
The girl quietly and cautiously crept to the door, listening carefully all the while at the series of curses coming from someone behind the door. Her eyebrows furrowed and jus as she grasped the edge of the door, she heard heavy footsteps coming closer. She stopped, too much in shock to move. She shook her head and was about to turn and run into the bed, when a man pushed open he door.
The door went straight into her face and she fell backwards onto the floor---out cold.
"Damnit." InuYasha said as he caught her with one hand, mere inches from the ground. His other hand held a large silver tray with food, a bowl with water in it, and a towel on it.
Balancing the tray, he slowly slid it onto the buffet dresser right next to him. The hanyou suddenly turned his head back to the young woman mere inches from falling onto the soft plush white carpet.
'Heh, that is pretty nice carpet...' he thought and started to rub his hand over it.
His ears perked up after hearing a 'thump.' "Ho?" He turned his head to see that he dropped Kagome onto the carpet while feeling that same carpet! -_-;;
"Shit," he said and, slowly and gently, he picked her up. Carefully laying her down on the bed, he then turned around to fetch the tray.
InuYasha pulled the chair closer up as he now sat right beside the bed that Kagome was residing in. The half man set the tray on the nightstand beside him and the bed, and then proceeded to wet the cloth that rested on it. His strong tan hands wrung out most of the water and her then unfurled the off white washcloth and then fold it neatly. With a sigh, he pressed it onto her head while keeping his ears on guard for any sounds.
A slow, but deep, intake of breath sounded and Kagome fluttered her eyes open. "Hmmm?" Brown eyes looked up to smiling yellow ones. "Inu...Yasha?"
"Shh." he said as she pressed a clawed finger on her lip, and dabbed her forehead with a washcloth. A slight blush appeared on her cheeks and she quickly became mute. "So...how are you feeling?"
"Fine. I don't really hurt at all." She looked down at the comforter on her chest.
"You were scraped up pretty bad. Burns, embedded glass, cuts, scrapes, bruises.. Are you sure you're okay?"
Her eyes snapped up to meet his, "How long have I been here?"
He stopped patting the washcloth on her forehead and set t back on the tray. "Just 2 days."
"2 days! What about school! I missed! And my MOM! Wat will I and school NOW? What wi-"
"Shh!" He said as he placed his finger on her lips for the second time. She looked down at his claws. How is it that something that could slice a demon... could produce the gentlest touch? "School was canceled. Afire happened there last night."
"A.... Fire?" She looked up at him.
"Yeah." He whispered.
"InuYasha?" She whispered back not stealing away from his glance.
"Hmm?" He moaned, as his head grew closer.
"Inuyasha..." she whispered and suddenly, but gently, grabbed his head and pulled him into a full-blown kiss.
"What?" Someone sounded. "WHAT?!! Damnit.. Don't tell me she's talking in her sleep... wait. She's, talking in her sleep... about me?"
Kagome moaned and InuYasha's eyes grew wide as his head lowered down to the girls face. He inspected her facial expressions, sniffed 0.o and suddenly the girl's eyes flew open and InuYasha fell back onto the ground.
"Wha-what the hell did you do that for wench?!" InuYasha erupted as he pushed his top self up with his arms, leaning back.
Kagome had sat up in bed, quickly, and was now looking at InuYasha with wide eyes and a fairly present blush upon her face. "I-I-InuYAsha?!" She half questioned, half exclaimed, in a high pitched voice. "Wha-"
"Feh. Shh. Hold on just a minute." He got up onto his feet and sat down on the bed next to Kagome's legs, one of his legs dangling off the side of the bed. "All right. First things first: How are ya feeling? You hurt anywhere?"
Kagome jumped, startled a bit, in surprise. 'InuYasha... is worried? He, he cares about how I feel?' She looked into his eyes that were filled with stern concern. "Umm.. I" she lifted a hand to her face and realized that there was a bandage on her cheek. 'I must have gotten scraped up pretty bad.' She felt her stomach and noticed there was a stiffness of a bandage under the velvet tank. 'He...'
"Hey, I didn't look. Well... I did but I mean... I had to cover them up!" InuYasha suddenly got flustered halfway through trying to defend himself.
Kagome laughed lightly. "Thank you InuYasha."
"Eh?" His ears perked up and he looked at the grinning girl. "Err.. Umm... you're welcome." Pause. "I guess. Feh." He crossed his arms and stuck his nose into the air.
"I feel a lot better. How long was I-"
"Only for the night. School is canceled today. Sudden storm. There was also a fire. But, like a fire would cancel school." He rolled his eyes and scoffed.
Kagome's face tinted pink as she suddenly, "Hey! It could happen!"
InuYasha faced her with a raised eyebrow.
"Well... it could." Her head lowered as she pouted her lips.
"Yeah, well, anyways. I got you last night. You were just... lying there on the street. I figured you had something to do with that fire. What the fuck happened Kagome? You had me fucking-" he stopped, suddenly aware of what he was saying. Kagome's eyes seemed to widen in hope. InuYasha growled, frustrated, and shook his head. "What if you would have been killed? THEN how the hell could we beat Naraku?"
Kagome slouched down from her former erect position. -_-'
"Well?! What happened?!" InuYasha was growing impatient.
"What happened?" She repeated in a questioning tone as she looked up to meet his amber gaze.
"That's what I said! What are ya, going deaf?!" Kagome threw a nasty look at him. "Ugh. Kagome... just... please, tell me what happened last night?" He asked softly, concern overly drenched in his accent.
Kagome sighed. "A... a demon."
"But-"
"I know. You said that there were none out... but there were. And-"
"How did you get caught in it?"
She jerked slightly as her cheeks were painted in that watercolor rose again. "I umm... well.."
"How. Did you. Get caught in it?" He asked sternly. His whole face and eyes seemed to be stone.
She gulped and looked down at her twiddling thumbs. "Well.. I, umm, well," she inhaled and exhaled deeply before looking up at InuYasha. "I left right after you did. I ran downstairs, hoping to catch up for you, but you had left. So, I figured that I would walk. And... Well.. Then I started walking and I came to the vacant lot and I started hearing noises. Then, I squashed this bug and then this giant demon bag of bugs- Mr. Giant Sack Man! And.. I.. I fought him. Well, it. I tried everything until I took out my lighter, and started throwing fireballs at it. Eh, it didn't like that very much...." She smiled shyly. "The next thing I remember... The explosion had thrown me back and all this glass fell on me. I got back up and tried to finish my walk home... and then I realized I couldn't make it home and I needed a ride. I knew my mom wouldn't be up. And... I guess I must have called you."
InuYasha nodded. "Keh." Awkward silence.
"Well, then I wake up and hear you are all over me!" She waved her arms wildly.
"All over you?! WHAT THE HELL?!!" He jumped off the bed and looked at her like she had grown 5 purple spotted aqua heads.
"Oh don't try to play that came! I woke up and your face was hovering right over mine!" She pointed a finger, accusing the hanyou.
"HA! I was looking to see what was wrong with your ass! Besides... you called my name."
"What?!"
"Heh. You heard me wench. 'InuYASHA!'" He altered his voice pretending to be Kagome.
"Oh yeah right! You WISH! WhatEVER!" She crossed her arms and stuck her nose in the air looking the other way. (Heh, sound familiar? ^_~)
"Grr..."
She turned around and stuck out her tongue.
He stopped. "You can't be mad at me stupid girl! I was the one who bandaged you up!" Heh, he won!
"To sneak a peek at my tits!" She covered her boobs.
"LIKE HELL! Who the fuck would WANT TO!?" Damn she was bad for his nerves. But she did have some pretty nice knockers...
She squinted at him.
"I thought so! Now... chill. I brought you a friggin hot cloth and some soup. Be grateful wench." He started to pull up his chair next toe the bed.
"What.. What are you doing?"
He rang out the washcloth, placed a clawed hand on her shoulder, and gently pushed her back lying on the bed. "Now lay back." His hand suddenly started to lift up her shirt. Kagome screeched and snapped it back down while InuYasha looked at her like, 'wtf!?' "Relax, damn. I'm not going to try to look at your fucking tits. I'm cleaning you up. Okay? Now... just lay back down." He pushed her down gently while keeping eye contact with her.
Right as her head hit the pillow, his hand lifted up the shirt. Finally tearing his eyes away from hers, he looked down at her bandaged torso and began slowly undoing the bandage. Kagome winced in pain as he finally got the last of the taped bandage off. Scrapes, Bruises, and Burns marked her body with that eerie nasty yellow puss. She gulped and he suddenly started to press down the warm cloth. She sighed- it felt pretty good.
"AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed in pain. "WHEN THE HELL WERE YOU GOING TO TELL ME ABOUT THE ALCOHOL!?"
InuYasha had suddenly replaced that warm nice clean cloth with one drenched in alcohol.
"Oh come on. Don't tell me you couldn't smell that shit!"
"I couldn't!" She sniffled. "My nose is friggin clogged up!"
He sighed. "The soup will help. Lay back down. Let me finish."
He continued to clean her wound. He hated how she would wince slightly or gasp as he dabbed the alcohol on her. Finally he put on the new bandage.
"So, how are your arms?" He asked. She looked up and held out her arms. He took the one farthest away from him and lifted up the bandage. "Eh, looks good. I just changed that one earlier... so you shouldn't need another one. Gimme the other one." She lifted her arm onto his arm. He lifted up the bandage and nodded. "Eh, looks good too." He sighed as he replaced her arm back to her side.
InuYasha leaned back in the chair. Kagome looked at him and smiled. 'Well.. This is awkward...' He "Feh'd" and looked out the window with a scowl on his face. Kagome's eyebrows furrowed as she looked at him. She suddenly noticed how his features changed, he looked peaceful. The light showed threw the window as a light breeze played slightly with his hair. She smiled as she inhaled deeply and suddenly exhaled.
His head snapped to her as she suddenly looked at him, "What?"
He smiled as he laughed gently. "Nothing."
O.O 'Did.. Did he just...?' her features softened as she smiled warmly.
"Can you sit up?"
"Hmm?"
"Can you sit up?" He asked again.
"Oh! Um.. I think so.." She started to pull herself up and winced from the pain.
"Keh, never mind, lay back down." He pushed her down gently. "I can do it from up here." Kagome's eyes grew wide as thoughts ran through her head. "Oh come ON! Get your filthy head out of the damn gutter!"
"Hey! How was I supposed... to know..?" She stopped as he gently peeled off the bandage on her face.
Amber eyes were fixated on the cut across the woman's face. Black brows knitted together, "This one just needs some cleaning and air..." He grabbed a bottle while keeping his eyes on her cheek.
He dabbed some of the medication onto her cheek, then screwed the cap back on and gently placed the bottle back onto the tray. He took out a band-aid and put it over the cut right above her eyebrow. He then when back to her cheek, and started to blow lightly. Kagome's nose scrunched up slightly but then stopped as he continued to blow. She looked up at his eyes and then at his lips. All while taking in how good the air being blown onto her felt. Her face turned red as she realized what was happening with her. She squealed and he stopped blowing.
"What?"
"Huh? Oh nothing! Something silly! Never mind! Heh."
'What was she thinking of? Damnit!'"Feh, whatever." He stood up. "Well, looks like your all bandaged up... I have some soup for you if you want it. Not the best, but, hey. Whatever. It's still hot so you might want to wait a while for it."
"Oh.. Umm..Okay."
'What do I say now?'"Yeah. Well, just, I don't know.. Sleep for a while." He threw an arm up as he turned to leave.
"Umm.. InuYasha?" Kagome spoke softly.
'!' "Yeah?" He asked breathlessly. He shook his head, "Yeah?" He then asked gruffly.
'I..' She sighed as she looked down and then looked back up at him with a big smile that just tugged at his heart stings, "I just wanted to say thank you, InuYasha. For everything. I don't know what would have happened without you."
'Kagome...' He huffed, "Yeah... whatever, no problem."
She laughed lightly and he turned to leave, "Oh! And Inuyasha?"
He turned around again, hopeful. "Could you.. Umm... turn off the fan, please?"
He looked up at the ceiling fan still going and walked towards her to pick up the chair.
She pointed towards the wall next to the door. "Umm.. The light switch is right over-"
"Feh. It's broken." He said as he positioned the chair at the edge of the bed. 'Damn these fucking ceilings. Why the hell do they have to be so high?!!'
"Oh..." her hand dropped in midair as she looked at him trying to reach for the dangly thing. He couldn't reach.
He gulped. "Damnit." And he suddenly got up on the bed and stood right above Kagome. One foot on her left, and one foot on her right, as he reached for the pully thing.
"WHAAA?!!" She screeched.
"Shutup wench! Damn! I'm just turning off the fan!!" He couldn't really say anything... this position of looking right down at her was causing his senses to go all out of wack.
Kagome looked up and inwardly glomped at the sight above and in front of her. "Eh?" She left out with furrowed brows.
"INUYASHA!!!!" Someone busted through the door in the living room. InuYasha lost balance and fell face first on top of Kagome. He put out his arms as he fell. A shock ran through him. He opened his eyes to be eye to eye with Kagome.
They were.. KISSING?!!
Inu's and Kag's eyes were huge as they both realized the sudden position, but neither moved. Miroku and Sango suddenly busted through the door.
"Inu.. Oooh!" Miroku wore a perverted grin as Sango stood with an open jaw and O.O eyes bulging out of her skull.
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It's short. It's crappy. I suck. I know. I have the next chapter started. Sorry I could get this up by last Sunday. I said I would try. So don't kill me!! lol. Anyways.. Next chapter we will learn more about the reason of the attack. And... Umm... maybe some other stuff? lol. Review. Please. ^_^''
~Angel Whisper