Guardian Demon by Outlaw024
Author's notes: Well, thanks to alrasha, evil-little-fairy-girl-of-the- firefly-kitsune-clan and one other reviewer, (whom I forgot to record the name of but you should know who you are. ) I will continue to write this story. Thanks for the comments, they really helped. I forgot who asked but in this story InuYasha is somewhere around 22-24 years old. I'll explain his background later in the story and I have a few (cliché) plot twists later that will keep you interested (unless you already realize this story is shit). Also, Jaken will make a brief, OOC, appearance. He looks like he does in the show except he's about five feet tall and wears modern clothes. In fact, a lot of characters from the show will appear in this story, just imagine that they all look the same as they do in the show but they wear modern clothes. Got it? Good. This chapter's gonna start off a little quirky and then get a little weird. And so far I've planned who the bad guy is, what happens when InuYasha finally meets him, and how/if he dies. So, let's get started. Oh yeah, I do not own InuYasha. I do wish I had kawaii ears like his though.
Chapter 3
0800 hours
InuYasha and Kagome arrived just as the morning bell rang. The students in the main yard shuffled into the school.
"KAGOME!" someone called out from the crowd. Kagome looked around to see who it was.
"Hey Sango!" she called back as she ran up to meet her, InuYasha followed silently behind her. He stuck out of the crowd like a sore thumb, mostly because he was a foot taller than anyone else. His dog-ears and long silver hair were also noticeable, but what seemed to really set him apart was the way he dressed. A casual black suit, dark sunglasses, and the chrome-plated Beretta 9mm at his hip seemed to attract the most attention. Some of the girls giggled when they saw him, others eyed his gun with suspicion, and everyone wondered what the hell he was doing there.
"Why didn't you call me this weekend?" Sango asked, "and who's that guy?"
"Kagome sighed. "It's a long story. I was busy on Saturday and Sunday."
[A.N: Cue "Jaws" theme.] While she explained everything, a figure darted through the crowd towards them. He crept up behind Sango and wrapped his arms lightly around her waist. "Good morning Sango," he whispered into her ear.
Sango whirled around and slapped him across the face. "HENTAI! I TOLD YOU TO STOP DOING THAT!" This sudden commotion caused everyone within 20 feet to stare.
Miroku rubbed the red spot on his cheek. "I see we're feeling frisky today," he replied playfully. "Oh and good morning to you Kagome."
Kagome giggled. "Thanks."
Meanwhile, InuYasha observed these antics and chuckled a little. That little chuckle suddenly made Kagome remember what she was talking about. She gathered her thoughts and then explained everything as simply as possible. "My family got a death threat so now he's," she motioned to InuYasha, "been assigned by the police to protect me."
Neither Sango nor Miroku could think of anything to say about this. Usually when a teenager shares a problem with his or her friends it's something they can relate to and say, "dude, that sucks." This was not one of those times.
InuYasha checked his watch. "Shouldn't we be getting inside right now?"
"He speaks!" Miroku exclaimed in a corny voice. Sango quickly covered his mouth with her hand.
"You'll have to excuse Miroku, he's a dumbass and a pervert. By the way, my name's Sango. Nice to meet you."
InuYasha smiled slightly. "Nice to meet you both."
Miroku managed to pry Sango's hand off of his mouth. "Aww, c'mon Sango. I may be a pervert, but I'm your pervert." After saying this he gave her ass a little squeeze.
Sango's face turned bright red. "I swear to God Miroku, if you don't start running now."
Sensing danger like a deer caught in the headlights of an on- coming car, Miroku began to step back. "Well it was nice talking to you, gotta go." He took off running and Sango went after him.
Kagome turned to InuYasha. "Two words: Couples counseling."
"You mean they're dating each other?" InuYasha asked in astonishment.
"Yep, for over a year."
"Damn." He rechecked his watch. "You'd better hurry up."
0810 Hours
A test is always the perfect way to start your school day. Kagome sat in the back of history class, her pen poised over the paper on her desk. Miroku, who now had a fresh lump of the back of his head, and Sango were sitting a few seats in front of her. InuYasha had taken an empty desk next to Kagome and was know trying to occupy his mind. Earlier he had unclipped the laser sight from his Beretta and had been rather amused by shining it on the ceiling. Unfortunately the teacher had come over and told him it was distracting the students then confiscated it from him; he could have it back at the end of class. It wasn't really distracting the students though; she just wanted something to bitch about.
InuYasha stood up and walked around to stretch his legs. He glanced around and noticed that most of the students were stuck on question 42. They were all whispering to each other trying to figure it out. He walked back over to Kagome and looked at her paper. Sure enough, she was stuck on that problem too. He read the question.
42. The Battle of marked the beginning of Germany's retreat out of Russia.
InuYasha walked up to the dry-erase board and picked up a marker. He looked at the teacher, who was completely immersed in a book about how to deal with stress, and then began to write on the board. "42 IS STALINGRAD". When he finished he turned around and made a slight cough sound. One student looked up and read the message. He poked the kid sitting next to him who read the message and then he poked the kid next to him. This process continued until everyone had gotten the answer. InuYasha erased the writing and gave everyone a thumb up before sitting down.
1400 Hours
"Why did you write the answer on the board today?" Kagome asked. This sudden question shattered the silence that had been filling the car ride home.
"What?" InuYasha replied innocently.
"Cut the shit, you know what I'm talking about. I wanted you to keep a low profile today."
"Well, I never remembered World War II battles and I just wanted to help."
2200 Hours
The call came at 10:00, just as everyone was feeling relaxed. Ryoku had picked up the phone while InuYasha and Sesshomaru stood nearby. When Ryoku hung up he tried to explain everything as simply as possible.
During the afternoon a man had approached an undercover narcotics officer, who was staking out a possible drug deal on the west side of Tokyo, and began to ask about where he could aquire a PSG-1 sniper rifle, a suppressor, and hollow-tipped bullets. Because of the report of the assassination threat on the Higurashi family the day before and that all officers had been alerted to watch for any suspicious activites like this, the officer ignored his previous duties and arrested the man. Since Ryoku, Sesshomaru, and InuYasha were the officers in charge of the case, the Chief requested that one of them come down to the station and question the suspect.
"Well one of us has to go down right now and question him," Ryoku explained, "and it's not going to be me. I don't like doing that shit."
"I can't. Sota asked me to check over his math homework," responded Sesshomaru rather dryly.
InuYasha stared at him. "I thought you said not to get emotions involved."
"I know, but fractions are fucking hard for a 10 year old."
"So does that mean," InuYasha's voice trailed off.
"Yes, you're going," Ryoku "assured" him. "Here are the car keys, have a fun time."
Kagome's room
InuYasha knocked on the door and waited for it to be opened. Kagome might still be a little annoyed with him. Suddenly the door swung open and InuYasha suddenly found himself staring face to face with Kagome.
"What's up?" she asked cheerfully. She seemed to have calmed down.
"They have a suspect in custody down at the station and I have to go question him. I'll be gone all night I just thought you should know."
"Why do you have to go?"
This wasn't the reaction InuYasha was expecting. He was expecting her to be relieved that the assassin might have been caught. "Well, Ryoku doesn't like questioning suspects and Sesshomaru is checking over Sota's homework."
"Oh, I see. Wait, how come you didn't check over MY homework? I do need some help with Literature."
This sudden complaint from Kagome caught InuYasha off guard. "I...I...you...never asked me to check your homework and..."
Kagome giggled. "I was just kidding. You're a body guard, not a tutor."
"Oh", InuYasha breathed a sigh of relief and then laughed a little, "well I'll see you tomorrow morning." He began to walk away but then he turned around. "Kagome, what don't you understand in Literature?"
Kagome was a little shocked by this sudden question. "Well, we're reading 'The Taming of the Shrew' and I don't understand what the message is that Shakespear in trying to convey."
InuYasha hesitated for a moment and then cleared his throat. "Y'know, I had to read that when I was in school. If you want, I can help you with it."
"Really? That would be great!"
"Ok. Tomorrow then? I really have to get going now."
"Sound's good to me. Bye!"
Police Station 2350 Hours
InuYasha looked at the file in his hand and then glaced at the monitor in front of him. "So, this Jaken guy was interested in buying a PSG- 1? He's never been in the military or the police, he's never had any shooting lessons of any kind, and he's...a banker? This doesn't add up at all."
"That's what we thought as well," said a police officer who was in the monitoring room with InuYasha.
"He wouldn't even know how to use that damn thing." He glanced over at the cop. "Do we have PSG-1's in the armory?"
Several minutes later
InuYasha walked into the interrogation room carrying a PSG-1, a single bullet, and a phone book. He slammed the door shut.
"Hello Jaken, I'm with the Special Task Force of the police, my name is InuYasha." Jaken looked up at him nervously. The only light in the room came from two lightbulbs hanging just above his head. The only furniture in the room was a chrome table and two chrome chairs, one at each end of the table. The was no one way mirror in the room, just a security camera. InuYasha glanced up at it. "See that? That's so they can watch to make sure I don't do anything to hurt you." He walked over and unplugged it. A look of pure terror filler Jaken's eyes. He couldn't speak. "Jaken, I want to get home and go to sleep. Just tell me who hired you to get a PSG-1."
"N...n...no one. I wasn't hired by anyone."
"That's a load of shit Jaken. You wouldn't even know how to use it." He picked up the PSG-1 and loaded the bullet into the clip. "Tell me how to make this thing shoot. If you get it wrong I will shoot you. If you get it right then nothing bad will happen."
Jakeb began to sweat profusly. "You...you load the clip and then you pull back the bolt."
"You forgot the saftey." InuYasha flicked off the saftey switch and aimed right at Jaken's forehead. Without hesitation he pulled the trigger and a gunshot errupted from the barrel. Jaken, who had very little time to react, screamed and threw his hands up in front of his face. InuYasha slammed the rifle down on the table. "Relax, it was just a blank. Now," he picked up the phone book, "who did you buy the gun for?"
"..................no one."
"Jaken, I'll be blunt. If you say that again I'm going to hit you with this telephone book and it will hurt like hell. Everytime you give me the wrong answer I will hit you harder. Who did you buy the gun for?"
"No one."
WHAM InuYasha smashed the book right into Jaken's face. The momentum sent the chair he was in backwards into the wall. His nose began to bleed.
InuYasha raised the book again and prepared to strike again. "WHO JAKEN?!"
Jaken could barely speak as he cowered in his chair with his hands held up in self-defense. "No one, I swear."
"WRONG FUCKING ANSWER!" Again the book collided with Jaken's face.
20 minutes later
Jaken's face was now swollen, bloody, and bruised. InuYasha threw down the telephone book and walked out of the room. He entered the monitor room. "He's not talking." InuYasha wiped a bead of sweat from his forehead. "Listen, I'm going home. Just lock him up for the night and someone will be back tomorrow."
Higurashi Residents 0100 hours
As InuYasha pulled up to the dark house he decided to go in through the garage and into the kitchen so that he wouldn't cause a commotion. He parked the Lincoln in an extra spot inside the garage and then entered the kitchen.
"How was it?"
InuYasha jumped about a foot in the air when he heard the voice. He looked around wildly to see where it was coming from; his hand was ready to draw his Beretta. Then he saw that the light over the kitchen table was on and Kagome was sitting in a chair; she was wearing a white bathrobe and she had a glass of water.
"Kagome?! Why aren't you sleeping?" he demanded.
"Well I figured that it would be nice if someone was waiting for you when you got back."
"Well you shouldn't stay up late, you have school tomorrow," he checked his watch, "....today. You have school today. [A.N. I'm typing at 2 AM right now.] You don't need to worry about me, it's my job to worry about you."
"I'm sorry. I was just trying to do something nice."
"Yes, that was nice of you to wait for me, but you need to sleep. If you don't then you'll get gray bags under your eyes and then you won't look so beautiful any more. Do you want that?" InuYasha quickly realized what he had just said and then realized that Kagome was now staring at him.
"InuYasha, did...did you just say I was beautiful?" she asked quietly.
InuYasha cleared his throat. "...yes." Kagome's cheeks turned a light shade of pink as she smiled bashfully. "And yes, I mean it. Now please don't talk about it anymore. I'm not supposed to get emotions involved. Two days into my first assignment and I've already screwed up." Kagome continued to stare at him until he asked her a question that had been gnawing at the back of his mind. "Kagome, why aren't you scared?"
"Huh?"
"Why aren't you scared? Right now there's a threat on the lives of you and your family and you're not scared. Why?"
"I am scared, but I trust you."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well, even though I've only known you two days I know that you'll protect me and as long as you're around nothing bad will happen."
InuYasha eyes suddenly became hollow, like he was somewhere else, like he was remembering something. "Yeah, as long as I'm around nothing bad will happen." There was silence for a minute. "Ok Kagome," he stood up, "you need to get to bed now."
"Ok." Kagome stood up and walked over to InuYasha. She wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly, just like a child hugging a teddy bear. InuYasha didn't know what to do so he just hugged her back. The hollow look in his eyes disappeared.
End of Chapter 3
Ok, so I skipped right to the fluff and there will be more to come. So I had an entirely different idea for this chapter but it's coming up next. That interrogation thing with Jaken will play out a little more later on, I just wanted InuYasha to beat the shit out of someone. Actually that whole scene came about after I watched an episode of "The Shield". Sure, the way I wrote it sucked but it's still kick-ass in a sense. Ok, so my whole angle right now is that Kagome falls in love with InuYasha and he's falling in love with her but there's something in his past he can't let go of; that will be explained later. Remember the hollow look in his eyes? Well that's symbolism building up to the revelation of InuYasha's past. We had to learn how to do that in my Language Arts class. Don't know when the next chapter will be up and I'm sorry this one took so long to get up but my computer is all fucked up for some reason. Thank God I have a laptop to type on. P.S. I know that I added fluff way to early. I should have waited a few chapters before Kagome and InuYasha became attracted to each other. I'm sorry but I don't want to rewrite this chapter but I'm not happy with it. I could have written it a lot better but I'm just going to post it.
Author's notes: Well, thanks to alrasha, evil-little-fairy-girl-of-the- firefly-kitsune-clan and one other reviewer, (whom I forgot to record the name of but you should know who you are. ) I will continue to write this story. Thanks for the comments, they really helped. I forgot who asked but in this story InuYasha is somewhere around 22-24 years old. I'll explain his background later in the story and I have a few (cliché) plot twists later that will keep you interested (unless you already realize this story is shit). Also, Jaken will make a brief, OOC, appearance. He looks like he does in the show except he's about five feet tall and wears modern clothes. In fact, a lot of characters from the show will appear in this story, just imagine that they all look the same as they do in the show but they wear modern clothes. Got it? Good. This chapter's gonna start off a little quirky and then get a little weird. And so far I've planned who the bad guy is, what happens when InuYasha finally meets him, and how/if he dies. So, let's get started. Oh yeah, I do not own InuYasha. I do wish I had kawaii ears like his though.
Chapter 3
0800 hours
InuYasha and Kagome arrived just as the morning bell rang. The students in the main yard shuffled into the school.
"KAGOME!" someone called out from the crowd. Kagome looked around to see who it was.
"Hey Sango!" she called back as she ran up to meet her, InuYasha followed silently behind her. He stuck out of the crowd like a sore thumb, mostly because he was a foot taller than anyone else. His dog-ears and long silver hair were also noticeable, but what seemed to really set him apart was the way he dressed. A casual black suit, dark sunglasses, and the chrome-plated Beretta 9mm at his hip seemed to attract the most attention. Some of the girls giggled when they saw him, others eyed his gun with suspicion, and everyone wondered what the hell he was doing there.
"Why didn't you call me this weekend?" Sango asked, "and who's that guy?"
"Kagome sighed. "It's a long story. I was busy on Saturday and Sunday."
[A.N: Cue "Jaws" theme.] While she explained everything, a figure darted through the crowd towards them. He crept up behind Sango and wrapped his arms lightly around her waist. "Good morning Sango," he whispered into her ear.
Sango whirled around and slapped him across the face. "HENTAI! I TOLD YOU TO STOP DOING THAT!" This sudden commotion caused everyone within 20 feet to stare.
Miroku rubbed the red spot on his cheek. "I see we're feeling frisky today," he replied playfully. "Oh and good morning to you Kagome."
Kagome giggled. "Thanks."
Meanwhile, InuYasha observed these antics and chuckled a little. That little chuckle suddenly made Kagome remember what she was talking about. She gathered her thoughts and then explained everything as simply as possible. "My family got a death threat so now he's," she motioned to InuYasha, "been assigned by the police to protect me."
Neither Sango nor Miroku could think of anything to say about this. Usually when a teenager shares a problem with his or her friends it's something they can relate to and say, "dude, that sucks." This was not one of those times.
InuYasha checked his watch. "Shouldn't we be getting inside right now?"
"He speaks!" Miroku exclaimed in a corny voice. Sango quickly covered his mouth with her hand.
"You'll have to excuse Miroku, he's a dumbass and a pervert. By the way, my name's Sango. Nice to meet you."
InuYasha smiled slightly. "Nice to meet you both."
Miroku managed to pry Sango's hand off of his mouth. "Aww, c'mon Sango. I may be a pervert, but I'm your pervert." After saying this he gave her ass a little squeeze.
Sango's face turned bright red. "I swear to God Miroku, if you don't start running now."
Sensing danger like a deer caught in the headlights of an on- coming car, Miroku began to step back. "Well it was nice talking to you, gotta go." He took off running and Sango went after him.
Kagome turned to InuYasha. "Two words: Couples counseling."
"You mean they're dating each other?" InuYasha asked in astonishment.
"Yep, for over a year."
"Damn." He rechecked his watch. "You'd better hurry up."
0810 Hours
A test is always the perfect way to start your school day. Kagome sat in the back of history class, her pen poised over the paper on her desk. Miroku, who now had a fresh lump of the back of his head, and Sango were sitting a few seats in front of her. InuYasha had taken an empty desk next to Kagome and was know trying to occupy his mind. Earlier he had unclipped the laser sight from his Beretta and had been rather amused by shining it on the ceiling. Unfortunately the teacher had come over and told him it was distracting the students then confiscated it from him; he could have it back at the end of class. It wasn't really distracting the students though; she just wanted something to bitch about.
InuYasha stood up and walked around to stretch his legs. He glanced around and noticed that most of the students were stuck on question 42. They were all whispering to each other trying to figure it out. He walked back over to Kagome and looked at her paper. Sure enough, she was stuck on that problem too. He read the question.
42. The Battle of marked the beginning of Germany's retreat out of Russia.
InuYasha walked up to the dry-erase board and picked up a marker. He looked at the teacher, who was completely immersed in a book about how to deal with stress, and then began to write on the board. "42 IS STALINGRAD". When he finished he turned around and made a slight cough sound. One student looked up and read the message. He poked the kid sitting next to him who read the message and then he poked the kid next to him. This process continued until everyone had gotten the answer. InuYasha erased the writing and gave everyone a thumb up before sitting down.
1400 Hours
"Why did you write the answer on the board today?" Kagome asked. This sudden question shattered the silence that had been filling the car ride home.
"What?" InuYasha replied innocently.
"Cut the shit, you know what I'm talking about. I wanted you to keep a low profile today."
"Well, I never remembered World War II battles and I just wanted to help."
2200 Hours
The call came at 10:00, just as everyone was feeling relaxed. Ryoku had picked up the phone while InuYasha and Sesshomaru stood nearby. When Ryoku hung up he tried to explain everything as simply as possible.
During the afternoon a man had approached an undercover narcotics officer, who was staking out a possible drug deal on the west side of Tokyo, and began to ask about where he could aquire a PSG-1 sniper rifle, a suppressor, and hollow-tipped bullets. Because of the report of the assassination threat on the Higurashi family the day before and that all officers had been alerted to watch for any suspicious activites like this, the officer ignored his previous duties and arrested the man. Since Ryoku, Sesshomaru, and InuYasha were the officers in charge of the case, the Chief requested that one of them come down to the station and question the suspect.
"Well one of us has to go down right now and question him," Ryoku explained, "and it's not going to be me. I don't like doing that shit."
"I can't. Sota asked me to check over his math homework," responded Sesshomaru rather dryly.
InuYasha stared at him. "I thought you said not to get emotions involved."
"I know, but fractions are fucking hard for a 10 year old."
"So does that mean," InuYasha's voice trailed off.
"Yes, you're going," Ryoku "assured" him. "Here are the car keys, have a fun time."
Kagome's room
InuYasha knocked on the door and waited for it to be opened. Kagome might still be a little annoyed with him. Suddenly the door swung open and InuYasha suddenly found himself staring face to face with Kagome.
"What's up?" she asked cheerfully. She seemed to have calmed down.
"They have a suspect in custody down at the station and I have to go question him. I'll be gone all night I just thought you should know."
"Why do you have to go?"
This wasn't the reaction InuYasha was expecting. He was expecting her to be relieved that the assassin might have been caught. "Well, Ryoku doesn't like questioning suspects and Sesshomaru is checking over Sota's homework."
"Oh, I see. Wait, how come you didn't check over MY homework? I do need some help with Literature."
This sudden complaint from Kagome caught InuYasha off guard. "I...I...you...never asked me to check your homework and..."
Kagome giggled. "I was just kidding. You're a body guard, not a tutor."
"Oh", InuYasha breathed a sigh of relief and then laughed a little, "well I'll see you tomorrow morning." He began to walk away but then he turned around. "Kagome, what don't you understand in Literature?"
Kagome was a little shocked by this sudden question. "Well, we're reading 'The Taming of the Shrew' and I don't understand what the message is that Shakespear in trying to convey."
InuYasha hesitated for a moment and then cleared his throat. "Y'know, I had to read that when I was in school. If you want, I can help you with it."
"Really? That would be great!"
"Ok. Tomorrow then? I really have to get going now."
"Sound's good to me. Bye!"
Police Station 2350 Hours
InuYasha looked at the file in his hand and then glaced at the monitor in front of him. "So, this Jaken guy was interested in buying a PSG- 1? He's never been in the military or the police, he's never had any shooting lessons of any kind, and he's...a banker? This doesn't add up at all."
"That's what we thought as well," said a police officer who was in the monitoring room with InuYasha.
"He wouldn't even know how to use that damn thing." He glanced over at the cop. "Do we have PSG-1's in the armory?"
Several minutes later
InuYasha walked into the interrogation room carrying a PSG-1, a single bullet, and a phone book. He slammed the door shut.
"Hello Jaken, I'm with the Special Task Force of the police, my name is InuYasha." Jaken looked up at him nervously. The only light in the room came from two lightbulbs hanging just above his head. The only furniture in the room was a chrome table and two chrome chairs, one at each end of the table. The was no one way mirror in the room, just a security camera. InuYasha glanced up at it. "See that? That's so they can watch to make sure I don't do anything to hurt you." He walked over and unplugged it. A look of pure terror filler Jaken's eyes. He couldn't speak. "Jaken, I want to get home and go to sleep. Just tell me who hired you to get a PSG-1."
"N...n...no one. I wasn't hired by anyone."
"That's a load of shit Jaken. You wouldn't even know how to use it." He picked up the PSG-1 and loaded the bullet into the clip. "Tell me how to make this thing shoot. If you get it wrong I will shoot you. If you get it right then nothing bad will happen."
Jakeb began to sweat profusly. "You...you load the clip and then you pull back the bolt."
"You forgot the saftey." InuYasha flicked off the saftey switch and aimed right at Jaken's forehead. Without hesitation he pulled the trigger and a gunshot errupted from the barrel. Jaken, who had very little time to react, screamed and threw his hands up in front of his face. InuYasha slammed the rifle down on the table. "Relax, it was just a blank. Now," he picked up the phone book, "who did you buy the gun for?"
"..................no one."
"Jaken, I'll be blunt. If you say that again I'm going to hit you with this telephone book and it will hurt like hell. Everytime you give me the wrong answer I will hit you harder. Who did you buy the gun for?"
"No one."
WHAM InuYasha smashed the book right into Jaken's face. The momentum sent the chair he was in backwards into the wall. His nose began to bleed.
InuYasha raised the book again and prepared to strike again. "WHO JAKEN?!"
Jaken could barely speak as he cowered in his chair with his hands held up in self-defense. "No one, I swear."
"WRONG FUCKING ANSWER!" Again the book collided with Jaken's face.
20 minutes later
Jaken's face was now swollen, bloody, and bruised. InuYasha threw down the telephone book and walked out of the room. He entered the monitor room. "He's not talking." InuYasha wiped a bead of sweat from his forehead. "Listen, I'm going home. Just lock him up for the night and someone will be back tomorrow."
Higurashi Residents 0100 hours
As InuYasha pulled up to the dark house he decided to go in through the garage and into the kitchen so that he wouldn't cause a commotion. He parked the Lincoln in an extra spot inside the garage and then entered the kitchen.
"How was it?"
InuYasha jumped about a foot in the air when he heard the voice. He looked around wildly to see where it was coming from; his hand was ready to draw his Beretta. Then he saw that the light over the kitchen table was on and Kagome was sitting in a chair; she was wearing a white bathrobe and she had a glass of water.
"Kagome?! Why aren't you sleeping?" he demanded.
"Well I figured that it would be nice if someone was waiting for you when you got back."
"Well you shouldn't stay up late, you have school tomorrow," he checked his watch, "....today. You have school today. [A.N. I'm typing at 2 AM right now.] You don't need to worry about me, it's my job to worry about you."
"I'm sorry. I was just trying to do something nice."
"Yes, that was nice of you to wait for me, but you need to sleep. If you don't then you'll get gray bags under your eyes and then you won't look so beautiful any more. Do you want that?" InuYasha quickly realized what he had just said and then realized that Kagome was now staring at him.
"InuYasha, did...did you just say I was beautiful?" she asked quietly.
InuYasha cleared his throat. "...yes." Kagome's cheeks turned a light shade of pink as she smiled bashfully. "And yes, I mean it. Now please don't talk about it anymore. I'm not supposed to get emotions involved. Two days into my first assignment and I've already screwed up." Kagome continued to stare at him until he asked her a question that had been gnawing at the back of his mind. "Kagome, why aren't you scared?"
"Huh?"
"Why aren't you scared? Right now there's a threat on the lives of you and your family and you're not scared. Why?"
"I am scared, but I trust you."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well, even though I've only known you two days I know that you'll protect me and as long as you're around nothing bad will happen."
InuYasha eyes suddenly became hollow, like he was somewhere else, like he was remembering something. "Yeah, as long as I'm around nothing bad will happen." There was silence for a minute. "Ok Kagome," he stood up, "you need to get to bed now."
"Ok." Kagome stood up and walked over to InuYasha. She wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly, just like a child hugging a teddy bear. InuYasha didn't know what to do so he just hugged her back. The hollow look in his eyes disappeared.
End of Chapter 3
Ok, so I skipped right to the fluff and there will be more to come. So I had an entirely different idea for this chapter but it's coming up next. That interrogation thing with Jaken will play out a little more later on, I just wanted InuYasha to beat the shit out of someone. Actually that whole scene came about after I watched an episode of "The Shield". Sure, the way I wrote it sucked but it's still kick-ass in a sense. Ok, so my whole angle right now is that Kagome falls in love with InuYasha and he's falling in love with her but there's something in his past he can't let go of; that will be explained later. Remember the hollow look in his eyes? Well that's symbolism building up to the revelation of InuYasha's past. We had to learn how to do that in my Language Arts class. Don't know when the next chapter will be up and I'm sorry this one took so long to get up but my computer is all fucked up for some reason. Thank God I have a laptop to type on. P.S. I know that I added fluff way to early. I should have waited a few chapters before Kagome and InuYasha became attracted to each other. I'm sorry but I don't want to rewrite this chapter but I'm not happy with it. I could have written it a lot better but I'm just going to post it.