DISCLAIMER: Kayashi is mine, no one else is... Too bad
New... Long... and late! Sorry guys, but... well.. it took long to write a long chapter... and... It's just part one of two XP Guess I'm seeking records, first The day the world ended chapter 7 with twentynine pages... but this! Is just hilarous... But, long delay, long chapter, hope you all like, read on friends!
(Warning for mix of fluffy sweetness, 'scary' flashbacks and even argumentations! Not to mention.. BIRTHDAYS!)
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'Thinking'
"Talking"
.:Mind reading talk/thought:.
.:Lyrics:.
"Singing"
"Music"
.:Note of Place etc. :.
:-:Flashback:-:
-Mindspeach- (Guess when?)
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.:Chapter 10 - Girl's birthdays part 1:.
She was floating... no... she wasn't even moving... Darkness was around her, and everywhere she turned, only darkness met her eyes. But behind that darkness, a blue light began spreading. Her feelings returned, and her heart felt sadness, lost and lonely, and the burning feeling she had swore to throw away. But still, it was there, and that for one man, and even if she had swore never trust men anymore, she couldn't deny it. The blue light came closer, and she tried to reach out for it, but couldn't. It was waiting now, pulsating and waiting for something. That was when voices reached her ears.
.:It is true... right?:.
.:Hai...:.
The blue light engulfed her and suddenly her head was spinning, the darkness dissolved.
She was laying down, and...
She felt someones lips touch her, and first she thought to panic, until she felt the aura of that one man, that she was willing to throw her oath away on. And somehow, she still heard the voices, seemingly coming from his aura.
.:What is true, Tai Sesshomaru?:.
.:That I...:.
Her eyes flustered open and as She met his eyes, felt the burning feeling, and didn't close the links of their minds...
.:...I love Kayashi:.
'And I love you, Sesshomaru...' She thought, and as the link was there, he widened his eyes. She decided to show him that she knew some things about kissing too, so she sneaked her tongue in between his lips, seeming to startle him, but in his mind he snickered, and opened his mouth, only to fight back with full force.
'Not so quick, Fluffy!' She thought and in some way managed to take herself up into a sitting position, and in that way gaining more room for the fighting.
.:Heh, you're just a Hanyo after all...:. He answered mockingly and placed his hands on her shoulders, pushing her back again, but he met resistance. She placed her own hands and arms under her back and with them pushed back, holding herself up, but that was also to his favour. Somehow she couldn't win against him in this fight. Her arms shook of tiredness, and he never stopped trying to push her back, so finally she just let go and fell backwards on the couch again. As she did, her hair fell into her face, but she felt his clawed hand drag the locks away while dominating her mouth.
He let her go and raised up, sitting at the end of the couch.
.:What the...:. He thought, and then glanced over to her, and she got it.
'Why do we hear each others thoughts like this?'
.:Not all thoughts... just ones aimed at the other:. No spoken words, just them looking at each other, and thoughts... talking...
'But... why?'
.:The Tenseiga, the sword I used to heal you with, is also some kind of matchmaker it seems... it wanted me to confess my true feelings, and that energy made from that... healed you... I should have known...:. He slapped his forehead with closed eyes.
"You should have known what?" He flinched, now that she spoke, but didn't aim any toughts towards him, got him startled.
"I- don't think you would like the outcome... you don't trust men, right?"
"Ehm... no, not really..."
"Since five years ago?"
"Hai"
"And now... Haven't you felt the change in you?"
She hadn't, but now when she seeked it. She did. His aura was in her, as hers was in his... and that...
"No way, is it?" She said, suddenly shaking.
"I'm afraid it is" He said. "With our auras mixed, we just started the progress of mating... I'm sorry..."
"Don't be" She said slowly, but her mind was frightened. "It's not much to do now, is it?"
"Do you still not remember?" He asked her as a change of subject.
"No... not really"
"Then I know something that might..." He rose up. "Come" He took her hand and dragged her up. She didn't notice but now that her chest only was covered with the bandages, and she blushed a little and looked around, her shirt was ripped, so she really hadn't anything to put on. Sesshomaru sighed.
"Here" He took his outer jacket of, so that he only had his for the day white shirt on. She accepted the black jacket and put it on. It was a little too big, but it was better than nothing.
"The others will be waiting outside..." He said, but then decided to use their new way. The new gate was not like the mind-reading, because he couldn't read any others so...
-Just walk past them and that quickly, I tell them you're okay, got it?-
-Hai- She answered with a smile. And he opened the door.
Four loud slams where heard, and as he looked out, his three friends and one brother laid in a big heap on the floor, smashed aside by the door. Kaede just smiled a little.
"Is the lass better?" She asked
"Hai, we're leaving now, if that's okay?"
"go you two" Sesshomaru glared at the four on the ground, and they all smiled embarassedly. He then led Kayashi out of the room, and then took her hand. Behind him, he heard Miroku's voice.
"Wasn't that Sesshomaru's jacket she was wearing?" She blushed, but he ignored the Perverted boys comment.
"This way" He said and started following the corridor further. They stopped outside his father's office, he listened.
-Not there, let's go- He said. She nodded and he opened that door too. Both of them knew what to look for, or at least Kayashi thought she knew. Sesshomaru at least found it.
And if they stared.
"What the---" She said slowly.
A bookcase, filling the whole wall on one side, filled their eyes, and...
"Sesshomaru... day... Friday was... Ah, here" Sesshomaru said and found a book in the third row. He handed it to her as she amazed stared.
"Mostly Inuyasha all over here... only three earlier with us two..." She said while opening the book. He looked everywhere but there, before she stopped, he looked at her.
The picture was good, he had to admit. And not only that one. They followed the whole way from Kayashis speach in that tree clearing, past the scene where she barely touched his lips, until the second he had deepened it, and then further. She flipped the last page, where They where pulling back, eyes opened again, and then closed it.
"I- I..." She said. "I remember now... Even if it is foggy..."
"I'm sorry"
"For what?" She said while putting the book back into the bookcase.
"For using you, in that situation... you were drunk, and I still used it..."
"No, I suggested it, right? Did I sound convincing?"
"Hai..."
"Then it wasn't you fault, all mine..." She laughed. "Last time I take alcohol that is!" He laughed too, until he heard some known footsteps. And no where to hide.
The door opened.
"Sesshomaru...? Kayashi?" Inu-Papa asked while stopping up in his tracks. Kayashi looked down, slowly trying to hide the photo book behind her back, while Sesshomaru looked anywhere but towards his father. "What are you doing here?" The principal continued. Sesshomaru tried desperately to find a thing to say. He turned to Inu-papa to tell a quick lie, but Kayashi was quicker than him, with the truth.
"We're sorry" She said. "But since I didn't remember what happened at the party... well..." She shrugged her shoulders and then held the book out. "You're a good photographer" Inu-papa shone up and took the book from her.
"Am I not?" He said before passing them and carefully placed the book at the same place it came from. He then turned towards Kayashi. "I heard of the accident, are you fine now?"
"Maybe..." She said, when she thought back. "I just know that the person ordering Kagura, was the same who killed my dog... and..." She sighed. Sesshomaru decided to speak after his slight shock over Kayashis speech.
"If the principal allows, we should be heading back to our dorms now" Inu-papa noded slightly.
"Do so" He said slowly. They bowed slowly before turning to leave. Sesshomaru left the room and as Kayashi took the door and did the same, Inu-papa spoke.
"Kayashi"
"Hai?" She asked and looked back.
"Nice Jacket" He smirked. She glared at him before closing the door just a little bit harder than needed.
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Kayashi took out a new a new pair of clothes as they entered the dorm again. The sun was setting, but after all, she was not goig to waste the whole day away. As she took out a pair of blue jeans, Sesshomaru shook his head and said:
"Blue will not fit with black"
"Black!?" She questioned as she stopped up. He knocked with his right fist on the window.
"The sun" Still not understanding, she laid the jeans down and then walked over to him. She looked out, saw the red sky, but not knowing what he meant, she glanced at him with a questioning face. He pointed a bit higher through the window, and she looked up.
The second her eyes met the fase of the opening black crescent moon, the sun set.
A pulsebeat inside of her told her of her transforming. she looked at her blue-black hair and normal hands.
"I didn't remember..." She whispered. He shrugged his shoulders.
"I did, so it was lucky you didn't get attacked now, or you wouldn't survive" She backed away from the window quickly with a frightened face, so quickly that she fell. His reflexes made him take a step forward and catch her.
Pretty much big mistake.
She gasped slightly as the borrowed Jacket slipped a bit, and he was very quick to rise her up again before embarrased turning around. She blushed while pulling it closer around her.
"Okay, I'll find clothes fitting for Black and Chestnut then" She said just to say something.
"Do so..." He cleared his throat as he heard his own voice fail him. she smiled slightly and walked over to the closet. She took out a pair of black jeans and a white T-shirt, and her own Blue-black Jacket. He turned on the TV and sat down on the couch while watching some music videos on MTV, when he got his own Jacket tossed at him. He forgot about the situation and half-angrily pulled it of himself and turning around.
"Hey, what was that goo---" He chocked his words.
She turned her head over her shoulder, and her face reddened.
"T-turn around" She told him. He took his eyes from her and turned back towards the TV, really embarrased now.
"I'm so stupid..." He muttered.
"What?" She asked over her shoulder while pulling the Jeans on and throwing her bloodstained ones into the Laundry basket. She unwrapped the bandages and noticed no scars, smiled a little before taking a new white cotton bra on.
"I'm so stupid" He repeated. "I just... never had any... you know..."
"You never chared dorm with a girl... never had a girlfriend?" She asked and sat down on the bed, looking at his back as he was fighting to hold his face towards the screen. She still hadn't put on the T-shirt.
"Well... yeah..." He answered unsure. She shrugged her shoulders.
"I wasn't that embarrased now" She said, a bitter tone lacing her voice. "It's not like nobody has seen me without clothes or something..." She silenced as she knew she was beginning to tell him what she held secret for so long. But there was no turning back. Not for sesshomaru either, as he turned around and at the same time turning the TV off.
"What are you saying?" He gasped out. She made a small attempt to hide her shirtless torso, but then lowered her arms as he seemed to frustrated to even notice.
"It was that way at the streets..." She began. "The only way to fit into the gang as a girl..." the bitter tears flooded up in her eyes and she sobbed while continuing.
"Was to..."
"Be submissive towards the guys" Sesshomaru finished for her. He stood up and sat down next to her, laying an arm around her shoulder. She wiped her tears away but stopped as they flowed on.
"H... H-hai...." She stammered. "But it was nothing... you know... serious... mostly just the type like them seeing me without clothes, sometimes even touch, but not more..." she chocked on her words again and took a breath. "But... it made me feel... ugly... and... Tainted..." She took another choking breath as her tears fell down onto her hands that she held in front of her eyes. He strook her hair slowly and holding her closer towards him.
"Sch..." He murmured. "You are neither ugly or tainted Kayashi" He said and kissed her forehead as she lowered her hands once again. He wiped the tears from her eyes with his hand andthen just held it against her cheek. "You are beautiful, do you know that?" She sobbed again and leaned against him.
"Arigatou" She murmured. "But..." She bit her lip.
"You don't have to say anything if it hurts you" He ensured her.
"It hurts me not to tell" She exclaimed and looked at him. "There was one time when I felt more tainted than ever... when Ikado showed up"
"Ikado?"
"Some guy that seemed really popular among all gangs. Well... I, as the only girl in the group of course had to be like..."
"Something they could show up?"
"More like some toy he could use... they gave me to him, they acctually said it... like: 'This girl is yours now' and just..."
"How old were you?" He asked and strook her hair some more. She burrowed her face into his shoulder.
"Twelve" She whispered.
"Twelve!?" He asked shockedly.
"Hai..." She took a breath and looked up again. "Either way, this guy Ikado, I don't know what he could have been... like... nineteen or twenty... but he actually used me like I was his possesion. I thought that Satoshi, my boyfriend and only friend since I was seven, would be able to comfort me later on. Satoshi was not a part of the gang, just a boy from a few blocks away. But he had friends in the gang, and as Ikado told them that I had been the one snaring men... he..." She chocked again.
"He told me he hated me! That I was a slut, and ugly, unworthy, uncute... and that I..." she raised her hands to her face. "That I was getting uglire by the minute, because he told me lies taints the face, and that meant I was getting uglier..."
"You are saying..."
"He hurt me that day, and then just left me with Ikado... and he said... That he would do it to me again... like that evening... but Mikomi, who had been hostaged by the police, ran in and saved me seconds before he would have managed to do it... and then the police came... He wanted to destroy our family, crush my soul by doing it again..."
Sesshomaru stopped her again, whie his own soul turned to ice.
"What do you mean by 'it'?"
"That evening..." She sobbed. "He used me... when the others left, I felt fragile... and he... said...
.:Flashback:.
"So Kayashi... mizuno, right?" The young man asked her as she pressed herself against the wall, as far away of him as she could. "Answer me slut!" He threw a knife at her, planting it into the wall beside her head. She yelped in fright.
"H-Hai..." She answered, gulping at the knife placed inches from her face.
"Good" He said, taking one step closer. "I heard bad news about your parents five years ago..." He murmured. "Died by the lightning..."
"They got murdered!" She protested, but was met by a slap.
"Do not talk unless said to!" He yelled at her, and she sobbed. "Are you scared, little girl?" He asked her then, sounding like he chuckled.
"Hai..." She answered thruthfully. He snickered more and took a step closer.
"If you're scared now, it will soon go away..." He took her chin in his right hand. "I can make the fear dissappear, but there is no certain that it will not be replaced by pain..." He drew the knife out of the wall and put it by his belt again. she stared at the knife first, with widened eyes and trembling with fright, then looked at him again.
"Do you want the fear to dissappear?" He asked her, with a voice that made her know that 'no' was not an option. She trembled and looked down.
"Hai" She answered. He pulled her face up again.
"What a good little slut you are" He said. In her heart the fright just increased by ten.
.:End Flashback:.
"And then..." She shivered and trembled by herld pain and anger. Sesshomaru just waited a second before asking.
"What did he do to you?" He asked, the cold in his soul consuming him as he saw the pain in her eyes.
"That bastard..." She said hissing. She clenched her fists and shut her eyes tight together. "He made me feel that tainted and ugly... used... and... hurt..."
"Kayashi, you don't have to..." He started.
"I want to tell you" She cried. "I want that held pain to go away!" He nodded, backed a little away and held his hand on her shoulder, giving her some space.
"But don't tell me..." He said more as an exclaimation than a question.
"Oh yes he did..." She hissed. "That Fucking bastard Raped me! Right towards that goddamn wall!!!" Time stopped for a second as the information froze his whole being, but he put that to the side as she broke down.
She pressed herself against the wall and drew her knees up to her chin, holding her arms in front of her face and crying out that pain. He placed his hand on her shoulder again.
"Kayashi..." He whispered. She looked up with her eyes bloodstained.
"H-hai?" She asked. "Do you think I'm ugly now? Do you, just like Satoshi, think that I am a slut that let him do it to me!?" She sobbed more and he sat down closer to her by the wall and placed his arm around her.
"I don't think you're ugly" He said and she looked up again.
"You... don't?"
"No" He answered, smiling a little. "In fact, I think you are really brave to tell me that, after that you don't trust men"
"I didn't trust men since they all were like him..." She said and leaned against his shoulder. "But I trust you..." She looked up again. "But that has nothing to do if I'm ugly or not!" He chuckled a little and pulled her into his lap, holding her against his chest like she was a child.
"You are not ugly" He said. "You are really beautiful, for me the most beautiful in the world" He kissed her forehead again and laid down on his side, after that she had sat up on the bed again. She looked at him.
"Arigatou" She said for the second time that day.
"You're welcome" He yawned. She giggled for a second before doing the same. He laughed a little at that too.
"I think we both are tired" The girl said, but looked out the window.
"Mhm..." He answered. That was when he realized she still hadn't a shirt on. "Ehm... Kayashi..." He stammered, sudenly red-faced.
"What?" She asked and turned towards him, then she giggled. "Are you that shy about it?" She mocked him.
"Hey, after all..." He couldn't find any words that he could say to explain himself, he didn't even know if he wanted her to put her shirt on.
"You said yourself I am beautiful" She said. "Was it a lie? Shall I hide myself?"
"You know that's not it!" He said and sat up. "Of course you are beautiful but... We are not... you know..."
"Together?" She said sadly. "I guess we aren't" She shrugged her shoulders and turned to find her shirt. He could have kicked himself and then decided to recover his mistake. He grabbed her arm.
"We are not together... yet" He said as she turned. Her face lit up a bit, and he smiled too.
"But..." She said and blinked after reading his thoughts.
"...We shall not say anything to the principal" They said. He smiled.
"Okay, so Inofficially" She stated. He nodded. She reached out for her shirt when he once again laid his hand on her arm. "Na-"
"You can keep that off" He smirked.
"Hey!" She giggled and tried to take his hand away and added as she didn't manage to: "Hands off, now"
"Nope" He smirked even wider.
"And on my human night of all things!" She growled at him and punched him in his chest, but he just chuckled.
"Weakling" He joked and kissed her.
-Bastard- She answered, but got only laughter as reply. She got pushed down onto the bed as he after all was stronger than she was. He let her arm go and instead took his time dragging his claws up and down her arm and shoulder. She shivered and let a small moan escape her. He let his hand travel over her shoulder and then collarbone. As he went downwards, she stopped his hand wit her own and pulled back. He glanced questioning at her.
"I'm not ready for anything serious...yet" She said. "Please just let me wait until I'm ready?" He nodded and stood up, going over to the door and locking it, since he knew they forgot to do it before. She went over to the closet again, and this time took out a nightgown in a light blue material. She looked at it before turning.
"I haven't used this one ever" She said. "It was my mom's" She sighed and then went over to the bed again. He looked at the gown and smirked a little. Every guy would have liked that one, and Miroku probably saw that kind of gown on every girl in school, in his dreams.
"Don't give me that smirk" She said and then motioned with her hand.
-Turn around- He did so, but turned back again seconds later, just to see if she noticed. She turned again and sighed.
"turn" She said. He did, but once again turned back. She sighed.
"Are all guys crazy?"
"Probably" he said. She shook her head and sat down on the bed while pulling the jeans of. She pulled the gown over her head before rising up and folding the jeans and putting them in the closet together with the shirt. She glanced at him.
"Don't you change for night?"
"Nope, since I often sleep on the couch" He chuckled as she rolled her eyes. "You know, You are cute as a human, but your ears are what makes you beautiful as a hanyo" He walked over to her and put his right hand on her head, where her ear normally was.
"Hmph, And I always thought they made me look dumb" She said and backed away. "I sleep in the bed, you on the couch"
"Not tonight" He said.
"I'm so not sleeping on the couch... and besides..." SHe looked out the window. "I'm scared"
"Why?"
"I'm human... and if he is after me..."
"I won't let him, I'll guard you"
"Arigatou..."
"But that means we need to share space here Girl" He snickered.
"Suit yourself" She sighed and laid down, closing her eyes. She heard him stand by the window for a while, and some minutes later, she could fell him lay down behind her, sneaking an arm around her waist and pulling her towards his chest. she smiled a little before relaxing and soon falling asleep.
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(A/N: Turn back time to when Sess and Kayashi left Kaedes office)
Miroku rose up from the floor first merely seconds after Sesshomaru and Kayashi left the room.
"Shall we follow them?" He asked smugly. Sango rose up as well and answered him by hitting him over the head.
"No! stupid..." She exclaimed as her two friends rose up as well, but silenced as Kagome grounded Inuyasha with an 'osuwari'-command.
"Why..." She started.
"Bastard" Kagome hissed at Inuyasha, who actually smirked, even if it was behind that face of pain from the grounding. Kagome turned to Sango.
"My boyfriend spends too much time with your's" She stated while brushing her jeans off. She glared over her shoulder towards Inuyasha, who just rose onto his elbows and sighed.
"Like I can help it" He said mockingly. "After all, and mister pervert over there have been best friends for about... hm... ten years!?" Kagome snorted.
"No reason to copy him" Miroku cocked his head and looked towards the Hanyo questioning while motioning with his hand, singing one or two. Inuyasha answered with motioning two on his right hand and one on his left, and Miroku smirked and nodded slightly. Sango wacked him over the head again.
"Stop smug-smirking, what was it about?" She asked. Miroku sighed.
"I wish I could tell you my lovely Sango" He said. "But that is something only known between boys" Kagome snorted again.
" 'Between boys', my ass" She said. "Like no one could figure it out!" Inuyasha rose onto his feet again.
"Oh yeah?" He said.
"Right, lets try at least" Kagome smirked a little. "Left hand, one is outside the clothes, two is inside. Right hand, one is the chest, two is the butt. So, was I right?"
Sango burst out in laughter as the two boys got a long face each. Miroku sighed and looked over to Inuyasha.
"Your girlfriend is too smart" He said.
"I know" Inuyasha answered before turning towards Kagome. "You're no fun like that!"
"Serves you right" She said and then floded her arms over her chest. "Heh, 'between boys' my ass" She muttered and turned around, heading for the door with Sango following, still giggling. Inuyasha leaned over to Miroku and whispered.
"Her ass? Well... if you ask me, she has a nice one, what about you?"
"Almost as nice as my lovely Sango's, yeah" The houshi answered. The two girls abdruptly turned around with flaring eyes.
As they left the office stomping away, Inuyasha tried to stand up, only having his backside snapping ominously. Miroku crawled out from under a bookcase.
"Aww..." He muttered. "Inuyasha, how come you never get as bad as me?" He asked while rubbing his sore head.
"Not as bad!?" The Hanyo hissed. "I fucking broke my back" He made another attempt to rise, without success. Miroku pulled him up after some while, getting tired of waiting. Inuyasha's back snapped again and he hissed in pain. Miroku looked down in the three foot crater and then at his friend.
"Maybe you did get worse than Me" He said. Kaede cleared her throat and they turned towards her, neither knowing she was still there.
"Can Ye two clean up here?" She asked with a smug smirk.
"Hai..." They groaned.
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Kagome slowed down as her anger cooled off after about ten minutes. Sango seemed to calm down as well. They looked at each others flustered faces, red from anger, and then burst out in laughter.
"Did you see their faces as you managed to know their 'secret'?" Sango giggled.
"H-hai" Kagome answered. "And not to mention their frightened one as we finished them off..."
"Especially Inuyasha..." Sango stopped laughing. "But Kagome, yo should have taken it easier... you might have hurt him seriously!"
"Him!?" Kagome shook her head. "Not a chance, but maybe his back will make him remember not taking me for granted"
"Yup, definately" Sango stopped by her dorm. "Well, are we going to study or just do something fun?"
"Do you have schoolwork?" Kagome asked.
"Nope" Sango said.
"My dorm or your?"
"Your" Sango smirked. "But..." She locked her dorm with a key, and Kagome could have swore Miroku's name was on it.
"I took his, he will be locked out" Sango added.
"Are we always thinking the same?" Kagome asked and took out the key to lock her dorm up. Inuyasha's name was clearly written on it. They laughed and went inside. Kagome locked the door after them and thereafter they sat and watched Ranma½. And their boyfriends... well...
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Inuyasha groaned every step he took as his back protested against ther movement. Miroku sighed and rubbed his head again.
"Women" Inuyasha groaned. "Why are they always so... edgy!?" Miroku sighed again, that was the seventh time, and now was also the time to stop it.
"But don't you think that the fact that they are edgy, makes them a little more sexy than innocent girls?" The Hanyo scratched his head.
"Probably..." He mumbled.
"And haven't you always told me you liked feisty Women?"
"I might..."
"So, whats the problem!?"
"Probably that I hadn't counted fifteen 'osuwari'-s into the category of 'feisty women'!?" Inuyasha grumbled somwthing about 'dumb' and Miroku patted his shoulder.
"It's not that bad Inuyasha" He said. "Maybe your brain can be saved if you stop being dumb now"
Did I have to tell you Miroku ended up with another whack onto his head?
He soon hurried to walk next to his friend again.
"Aw, come on" he pleaded. "It was a joke!"
"Not funny" Inuyasha snorted. Miroku shook his head and walked on, towards their dorms. However, he stopped before tha and eyed into a keyhole, and smirked.
"Hey Inuyasha, what do you like Kayashi?" Inuyasha flinched.
"Nani!?" He said, stunned. "Why would I have somthing for KayashI? And WHY are you bringing that up now!?"
"Because she is taken" Miroku rose up and walked on towards his dorm, smiling.
Curiousity killing him, Inuyasha looked inside the room, as he found the door not locked. He eyed inside, and then abdruptly shut it, trying not to be too loud.
"What the---" He said. "I never thought that... Sesshomaru you bastard..." he smirked and turned towards his dorm. Miroku smirked as well.
"Okay, hope the girls are not too angry..." He said unsure. Inuyasha nodded and they tried to open the doors.
Locked.
"So they are angry" Inuyasha sighed and searched in his pockets for his key, seeing Miroku do the same.
They both realized in the same second.
"No way---!" Miroku said. Inuyasha clenched his fist and seemed somewhat building up anger. His eyes flared and Miroku gulped as the Hanyo let that anger out.
"Ka-go-me...!" He growled. "You goddamn BITCH!!!"
And with that, he kicked the door in, trying not to hurt it too much. He heard the TV turn off.
The two girls looked up scaredly, Inuyashas voice had been heard.
"Sango---" Inuyasha growled. "Out!" He pointed out the door as he stepped inside. Sango jumped onto her feet and hurried out the door, trying not to look at the seemingly furious Hanyo. Miroku watched with amazement from outside.
"Miroku" Inuyasha turned. "You two can go back to you dorm, RIGHT!?" Miroku gulped and nodded frightened. Sango locked their dorm up and they both dissappeared. Inuyasha slammed the door shut and turned to his girlfriend.
"YOU...!!!" He growled. She flinched and backed away from him, her frightened eyes locked into his. She reached the corner of the room and pressed herself against it, kneeling down and tried to somewhat secure herself by holding her arms around herself. He snorted and took two steps closer.
"I can stand yelling" He started. "I can stand a couple of 'Osuwari' commands" He stepped even closer and she started trembling.
'What is he doing...' she thought. 'I didn't want to make him angry...'
"Ican even stand getting locked out...!" He said and stopped in front of her. She looked up ad gulped. He grabbed her by the neck of her sweater and pulled her up, so that she was in eyelevel, her toes some inches from the floor.
"But I can not stand it all at one... damn... TIME!" He yelled into her face, and she trembled even more while biting her under lip.
"Do you understand that BITCH!?" He asked, still yelling. She bit her lip harder to not cry and nodded frightened. "Good" He let her go, making her drop to the ground, as her legs couldn't support her. She rolled herself up and shut her eyes together.
'What did he get so mad about!?' she asked herself. 'It was only a joke... a damn joke!' She nearly jumped a feet up in the air as he spoke again. This time from the other side of the room.
"Get up and come over here" She gulped, he didn't sound any friendlier than before. She supported herself against the wall with her hands while standing up on trembling legs, looking down to not meet his gaze. She tried to steady her legs.
'He would never hurt me... right? He wouldn't...'
"I don't want to wait, Bitch" he growled and that thought flew out the window. Perhaps he would... if he was this angry... Another warning growl told her to hurry up. She took a deep breath and took one step, feeling her leg tremble a bit, but holding her up. She took another step and then let her arms go from the wall. She walked towards him and looked down the whole time. She thanked the light in the room, as she stopped when she was standing in his shadow, about four feet from him.
"Look up" He said, chillier and calmer than before. That tone of voice reminded her awfully much of Sesshomaru's. She bit her lip again, trying to dry the tears that already stained her eyes, and looked up.
He was standing leaned against the wall, arms crossed over his chest and cooly staring at her. She gulped and one tear fell down her face. That was when the faintest hint of a smirk appeared on his face. And she had enough.
"WHAT THE HELL IS SO DAMN FUNNY!?" She yelled. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, COMING HERE AND COMMANDING ME TO---" She chocked on her words as his hand hit her right cheek, making her drop to the ground again, totally silent of shock. The cooliness in his face had dissappeared. Flaring anger was in his eyes now. She regained her voice and stood up.
"How DARE you...!" She hissed. "You are NOT allowed to hit me...!" Next slap hit her left side, and she gasped before backing as he decided that she was going too far. He stepped forward, and continued doing so, driving her backwards, while he yelled at her.
"Not allowed!?" he yelled. "NOT ALLOWED!!!???"
"I WILL TELL YOU ONE THING, YOU LITTLE BITCH! IF YOU ARE ALLOWED TO GROUND ME WITH THIS FUCKING NECKLACE A DOZEN TIMES A DAY, THEN I AM COMPLETELY ALLOWED TO HIT YOU WHEN YOU ARE STRETCHING A POINT!!!" He slammed his tist into the wall beside her head as she realized she had backed into it, and she gulped as several cracks in the wall spread themselves from the point he hit with his fist.
"HAVE WE UNDERSTOOD EACH OTHER!?" He yelled, glaring into her once again frightened eyes. This time she couldn't make it. She sobbed once before the tears started falling. She trembled through her whole being and looked at him with that complete fear and tears falling down her face. She dropped to her knees and cried into her hands.
"Hai..." She whispered. "I under...-stand... but..." She sobbed. "Please stop! Please stop!!!" She cried out and shut her eyes together while letting the tears stream down her face. She heard him shift his weight and taking his fist from the wall. She heard him kneel down and readied herself for anything. As his claw touched the side of her face, she flinched, and she felt that hand stop in the air, before dissappearing. He sighed and then she felt his breath onto her neck, right below her ear. She sobbed again.
"Gomen" He whispered softly, and she flinched again. He had yelled at her at the top of his voice, angry and looking like he was going to kill her, and now... that change of voice and act? What was going on?
"Gomene Kagome" He repeated. She sobbed again as a new wave of tears was brought up.
"Y-you sc-a-red me-e..." she sobbed faintly. His hand touched her hair and slowly strook it.
"Sch..." He hushed. "Gomen..." His breath left her nack and she heard him stand up. She had the first impression of 'what the hell does he leave me for?' When she felt a tug under her knees and back. She realized he lifted her up the same second as she felt his claws against her shoulder, just holding up. He held her against his chest and walked over the room. She lowered her hands from her face and looked up. He didn't look at her, but as he sat down onto the bed, he did.
"Gomenasai... i really mean it" He whispered. She bit her lip as it started to tremble. He rose her up to sit in his lap instead. "Can you forgive me?" She couldn't bear that one either. She burst out in tears and threw her arms around his neck, crying against his shoulder. He lifted one arm and held around her shoulders, patting her slowly.
"Sch... Sch..." He whispered. "I know you can't forgive me easily..."
"Baka!" She cried. "You stupid idiot!" He arched an eyebrow.
"Na-"
"Of course I forgive you!" She continued. "I know I was stretching a point... sitting you so many times and making a fool of you and... and..." He placed his hand he had held around her shoulder firmly over her mouth.
"Sch" He chuckled. "We both were stretching a point" Her tears stopped falling. He removed his hand.
"Hai..." She whispered. "We where" She wiped her eyes and sat up straight. "But you really scared me..."
"I know..." He looked ashamed.
"I thought you were going to hurt me seriously..." He cleared his throat and she cocked her head. "Nani?"
"What I did to you know was minor against what my damn Youkai side told me to..." He sighed. "Just hope it never goes that far..."
"And what would that be?" She asked.
"Better if you don't know" He said and kissed her forehead.
"What is it with boys and kissing a girl on the forehead like she was some kind of pet?" He chuckled again.
"Perhaps you are my little pet" she hit him on the arm,
"Am not!" He snickered.
"You so are... hm... what would be fitting... a cat maybe?"
"I am so not a cat!" She hissed, which only made him chuckle more.
"Well.. you hiss... you are insolent... hot tempered... feisty and edgy, perfect cat"
"Look who's talking" She replied and softly stroked his ears. He didn't have the time to prepare. The catlike rumbling sound stil emerged from his chest.
"bi-itch" He growled and she just snickered.
"So, who is the cat of us two really!?" She asked.
"I'm an Inu-Hanyo, so that would be you" He said and stood up, she almost falling to the ground. He pushed her down onto the bed and backed of a feet while watching how she stumbled ad fell. She sat up again.
"I'm not a cat!" She said. He laughed.
"Ke! That is I who decide"
"Who died and made you emperor?"
"Hm... who died...?" He asked himself while taking that one step forward. "Do I have to answer?" He asked.
"Nope" She said. "Because I know I decide..."
"Not" He finished for her and pushed her down again. She sat up faster this time.
"How dare you..." She hissed. "That's it, you are not going to spend that much time with Miroku"
"Naww..." He pouted. "Why are you being so mean mommy?" She gasped in anger.
"Why you..." She hissed and kicked him in the stomach. He grabbed her leg and pulled. She landed in a heap on the floor.
"You are dead" She said. He kneeled down.
"You know" He said. "I always tell Miroku I like feisty Women, and I don't think I could find any as feisty as you" He captured her mouth and the battle was on. Kagome was as normally turned with her back against the wall, which made her in a submissive position, with no space at all, and since he had prevented her secret strategy by locking her hands against the bedpost with his own, she had not so much to decide. He pulled back and smirked. He licked his lips and seemed to wonder.
"Hey" He said.
"What?" She asked, still lost of breath.
"Have you got a new lippgloss?" He asked.
"Hai, and?"
"Well... since you taste cherry today... I just thought" She stuck her tongue out and ended up yawning. He patted her head and chuckled.
"I still think you would be a Neko Youkai if you were a youkai, girl" He said.
"I would not..." He slapped her again, but this time just loosely and just for fun, but it startled her either way. He rose up and looked down on her.
"Are you going to lie there all night?" He asked.
"No!" She jumped up onto the bed. "The bed is mine"
"Oh, possesive" He snickered. "But In fact, I will not sleep on the couch"
"How are you going to make me change my mind?" She asked. He smirked.
"How are you going to prevent me from not doing as I want?"
"How about..." He reacted faster and faster she thought as he quickly used his extra plan, by throwing himself onto her.
"No, no no..." He said. "That would not work"
"Of course not" She said. "Get of, I need to change"
"I find no reason to get of" He smirked. She rolled her eyes and pushed him of with her hands. He sat up against the wall and cocked his head.
"I'm still not sleeping on the couch tonight"
"Fine, use the floor then" She replied and went over to the closet. She took out a pyjamas with pink flowers on and headed for the bathroom.
"I'm not some kind of dog!" He muttered.
"ho?" She asked as she opened the door. "I thought you said you were" She laughed and closed the door. He grumbled.
"Why is always she getting the last word?"
Because she is a girl
He sighed. 'Why are you coming back now?'
I only answered
'But what does the fact that she is a girl end up in her getting the last word?'
Women do get the last word, it's just that way
'Meaning you don't know'
So what?
'Just dissappear' An the voice did, and he sighed and closed his eyes. He thought back to where he had lost his anger into rage and his eyes dimmed over. He had't meant to lose himself like that... Neither to yell at her, or hit her...
His Youkai side had smirked when she trembled, looking at him with complete fright and tears in her eyes. As he now remembered that scene he raised his left hand to his face and wiped one tear away.
.:Flashback:.
"Get up and come over here" He growled as he watched her from his side of the room. She flinched and seemed to almost jump out her skin. She steadied her hands against the wall and slowly stood up. His Youkai side growled.
'She's taking too long...'
"I don't want to wait, Bitch" He growled as reply from that thought. She stopped up and he let out a warning growl. She took a shaky step, and another one before letting her hands go from the wall. As she walked towards him she looked down the whole time. She stopped about five feet from him, still looking down. His Youkai side chuckled cooly.
"Look up" He said, chillier and calmer than before, perhaps a continuation on the Youkai side's mood. She waited a few seconds before looking up, trembling and with dimmed eyes. He just coldly looked at her. She gulped once and lost a little control over her fear, and that ended up in a tear falling from her eyes. The Youkai in him smirked, and that reflected in his face. That was when she started screaming, and making his Youkai side once again flaring anger up in him.
"WHAT THE HELL IS SO DAMN FUNNY!?" She yelled. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, COMING HERE AND COMMANDING ME TO---" He hit her, square over her right cheek with his left hand. She silenced and dropped to her knees in a shocked state. His eyes flared of anger and his Youkai side growled in anger and now and then chuckled in angry laughter, still his human side hated himself for finding some satisfaction in hurting her. She stood up.
"How DARE you...!" She hissed. "You are NOT allowed to hit me...!" He slapped her again, harder this time, making her gasp and backed of. Both he and his Youkai side decided this was going too far. He left the wall, taking steps forward and making her back of even more, she stared at him while his anger formed into words he threw in her face.
"Not allowed!?" he yelled. "NOT ALLOWED!!!???"
"I WILL TELL YOU ONE THING, YOU LITTLE BITCH! IF YOU ARE ALLOWED TO GROUND ME WITH THIS FUCKING NECKLACE A DOZEN TIMES A DAY, THEN I AM COMPLETELY ALLOWED TO HIT YOU WHEN YOU ARE STRETCHING A POINT!!!" He slammed his fist into the wall beside her head when she had reached the far end of the room. The wall cracked and she gulped.
"HAVE WE UNDERSTOOD EACH OTHER!?" He yelled, glaring into her once again frightened eyes. She broke. She sobbed once before the tears started falling. She trembled through her whole being and looked at him with that complete fear and tears falling down her face. His Youkai side chuckled pleasedly with a cold laughter. She dropped to her knees and cried into her hands.
"Hai..." She whispered. "I under...-stand... but..." She sobbed. "Please stop! Please stop!!!"
.:End Flashback:.
He placed his hand over his face. The words echoed through him.
"Please stop! Please stop!!! PLEASE STOP!!!" He sighed. When she had cried that out, his normal side felt that shame he had as a half-human, his Youkai side had backed of, suddenly angry. He had flinched and looked down at his broken girlfriend. He had pulled his hand back from the wall and looked at it. He kneeled down and tried to slowly, softly just try to calm her, but as soon as he came near with his hand, she flinched and he froze. He had removed his hand looked at it, and sighed. he leaned forward and then he had told her he was sorry, three times... once she had flinched, once she had sobbed and told him how much he scared her, and the third time she had been silent, and he lifted her up, holding her like she was a child. And he never had felt that ashamed in his whole life.
Be glad you at least got her to cheer up afterward.
'Well... hai... that is at least one good point...'
So why continue feel ashamed, it's okay now, right?
'Hai...'
He heard the shower turn on and listened to the sound of flowing water and then smirked as an idea popped up, and he rose up. He went over to the water tap they had by the little kitchen. He had to try it out...
He turned the temperature to the warmest, and then turned the tap on. A strangled shriek came from the shower, informing him it did work. He turned the water of and snickered before doing the same again, but this time with cold water.
As she came out from the shower five minutes later, changed into her pyjamas, she growled at him.
"Bastard" She hissed. "Why did you do that for!?"
"For you" He smirked and placed a kiss on her nose, making her angry face change surprised for a minute, before getting the flare back in her eyes.
"That's it! Tonight you either sleep on the couch or on the floor! Got me!?" He just listened with an amused face and then cupped her chin.
"You know, you are cute when you are angry, that flare in your eyes and that red fluster on your cheeks" He said and she looked surprised again. "Calm down a little now, would ya?" He then asked and pushed her lightly. She stumbled backwards one step and tilted her head.
"You're right... I need to---" She was cut down by a yawn.
"You need to sleep" He said and looked at the watch. 23:07. "We have school tomorrow..."
"And gym-class" Kagome said. "I think we were going distance running or something..."
"Another reason for you to sleep" He finished and smiled.
"Hai..." She said sleepily and turned. She walked two steps before turning.
"You can sleep on the couch or floor, it won't hurt you"
"Bitch" He joked.
"Bastard" She replied before heading for bed. He smiled softly after her.
About ten minutes later her breathing had turned rythmical and slow, and he sat down on the couch. He opened his schoolbag and took out his agenda. He eyed through the week, then towards the sleeping girl. He took out a pen and ringed in a date in the week. The 19:th. He smiled again and laid his agenda down next to a packet he had hidden there.
'It's hard buying a present for a girl...' He thought.
Not harder than understanding them
'Very funny'
Am I not?
He just sighed before putting his bag next to the bookshelf. He sat down at the foot end of the bed and watched his girlfriend in her sleep. She halfturned to her back and mumbled something. He closed his eyes and delt the foggy feeling of sleep flowing over him. Another ten minutes and the whole room was silent.
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(A/N - Ah... our two fav. couple in twenty pages... -stops up- TWENTY PAGES!? Here I go again... -Walks off-)
The Seventeenth of November... the girlfriend week started.
"Congratulations Sango!" Kagome squealed that morning and handed her present over to her friend as she woke her up in the doorway. Sango wiped her eyes from sleep and then smiled.
"Arigatou Kagome" she said. She accepted the present and ripped the paper open. It revealed a golden broch with a butterfly in magenta crystals. "It's beautiful" She hugged her friend.
"I hope you like it, it cost much more than my wallet finds healthy" Sango laughed and then said
"I need to take proper clothes on, wait a sec"
"Sure" As Sango had emerged into the bathroom, Miroku came to the door.
"Damn you Kagome" He said. "You were faster than me, this year too"
"Isn't she always?" Inuyasha asked from the wall on the other side of the corridor.
"Inuyasha" Miroku lowered his voice. "Be a little quiter next time"
"What do you mean?" the Hanyo asked.
"You're little yelling contest was heard over the whole building" Kagome looked down and Inuyasha glared at the perverted boy. He signed a: 'shut up or i kill you' and Miroku did indeed shut. Sango came out from the bathroom in a black strapless top and a pair of black jeans. Kagome arched an eyebrow.
"Sango" She said. "It's for god's sake 5 degrees outside (Obs! Celcius)"
"I don't care" her friend snorted. "Today i wear what I want, and the weather may fly out the window"
"Happy birthday Sango" Inuyasha said and gave her a quick hug. She hugged him back and then smiled. Inuyasha smirked at Miroku.
"Seems I was faster this year again" he said. "Let's go Kag" Kagome nodded.
"See you at Gym" She said and then left. Miroku cleared his thraot and Sango looked at him with a small amused smile.
"Hai?" She asked.
"Ehm, Happy Birthday" he said and handed her a present he had behind his back.
"well thank you" She said and opened it. It was a plushie of a two-wailed cat and an envelope. she hugegd the plushie. "How cute"
"hehe, thought you'd like it" Miroku said.
"I call it Kirara" Sango smiled. Kirara, who acctually passed by, arched an eyebrow.
"That cat by my name?"
"I know your secret" sango whispered mystically, and Kirara sighed.
"Suit yourself"
"What..." Miroku said but Sango already started opening the envelope, and he silenced. She took out the piece of paper and stared at it for a second.
"You don't mean it... do you...?"
"Of course I do" He said and smiled. Her face lit up and she kissed him while holding her arms around his neck. Then she pulled back.
"Arigatou" She said.
"Always my dear" He said, but looked a bit concentarted. Sango laughed and backed of. He sighed in relief and flexed his frozen hand, not a second to early.
"Let's go find the others" She said and he nodded. She kissed the piece of paper before sprinting of.
.:Gym Class:.
Sango hurried out from the changing room and over to Kagome and Inuyasha, who just now were talking to Kayashi. Kayashi looked at Sango and said something, and they all looked at her.
"Happy birthday Sango" kayashi said. "They just told me, and do you know?"
"What?" Kagome smiled.
"You have birthday the 17:th, I have the 19:th... and Kayashi has birthday at the 18:th!"
"And you tell me that now!?" Sango looked shocked. "That makes it, we are going shopping today!"
"Then I can get you a present too" Kayashi said.
"But you will never beat my boyfriend!" Sango said. Inuyasha arched an eyebrow.
"What has he given you this year?" He asked while looking towards the other end of the hall, where Miroku just emerged from the boy's changing room.
"Look at this" Sango showed Kagome the piece o paper, and then smiled. kagome gasped while handing it over to Kayashi.
"No way!?" She exclaimed. Kayashi smilked as well before giving the paper to Inuyasha. he looked at it and smirked a little, but in the meantime looked a bit disturbed.
"Not too original" He said and glanced at Miroku as he joined them. "Where did you get the idea?" Miroku looked apologizing at him. Kayashi smirked wider.
"Sango, you are the luckiest in Japan" Kagome said.
"Together with a couple of thousand others" Sango said.
"What is so speacial about it?" Kayashi asked.
"So special!?" Kagome gasped. "She gets to go on the Concert with Morning Musume, and thereafter is she invited to a party where they are as well!? That is Fabulous!"
"I never heard of them..." Kayashi said. "But I don't know..."
"I need to find a way of getting there as well!" Kagome said. "Sango please! Let me follow in you poocket or something!" Inuyasha smirked.
"Take it Easy kag, is it the whole world?"
"Hai!" She answered. "I would give anything for those tickets!" Miroku smirked and Inuyasha elbowed him.
"By the way" Kagome continued. "How did you get them?" Inuyasha shook his head to Kayashi as she opened her mouth, and Miroku shrugged his shoulders.
"My uncle gave me them a while ago, asked if I could use them since he doesn't like them so..." He decided to change the subject.
"Kayashi" The hanyo looked at him. "And now don't pretend of not knowing..." he leaned forward. "How is things going with Sesshy?" Kayashi widened her eyes and hit him over the head.
"What do you mean!" She said while a blush was spreading. "It's nothing..."
"Don't pretend not knowing..." Miroku said. Sango and Kagome gaped.
"Kayashi, what does he mean?"
"nothing!" Kayashi shrieked. Inuyasha smirked and turned to the left.
"Fluffy! get over here!" Sesshomaru looked up from where he sat and tied his shoelashes and looked questioning at Kayashi. She shook her head and seemed to concentrate a bit. Sesshomarus face darkened and he rose up. Kayashi sighed.
"Men" She muttered. Kagome didn't say anything about the link she had felt, but she decided to ask kayashi about it. sesshomaru walked over to them and stopped before Inuyasha. without reason, he hit Inuyasha with his fist straight over the face. The hanyo flew backwards towards the wall. A few students turned, but most didn't care. Inuyasha rose up and rubbed his cheek.
"Why-?" he asked while walking up to his brother again. The Youkai leaned forward and hissed.
"Don't you ever again estimate to blackmail or force my girlfriend into anything, Understood!?" He straightened up and turned around. Kayashi sighed.
"Don't dare to leave me here now Fluffy" She pleaded. He turned and smirked as he watched their stunned faces.
"Just don't talk about it aloud or near you-know-who" He said and walked back to the bench. Kagome turned to Kayashi.
"Congratulations" She said, seemingly still shocked. "You have succeeded in turning a cold Youkai into your... yeah, you know" Kayashi sighed.
"Well, I guess"
"How did you do that!?" Sango asked.
"Simply telling him I l-o-v-e him" Kayashi spelled out whispering. Inuyasha regained his speech and smirked.
"Sesshomaru wouldn't fall for that" He said.
"Yes he would" Kayashi said.
"How are you so sure?" Miroku asked.
"He told me he loved me too" The Hanyo girl said simply. "Oh, Yura's coming" she walked away from the stunned group.
"Tell me I didn't just hear that" Inuyasha said.
"You did" The others answered.
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After Gym Class, there was a hole in their shedule, because the english teacher was ill, so they decided to do their shopping then. Kayashi joined Kagome on a search for a present for Sango while Sango found one for Kayashi, and then she switched and went with Sango to decide a present for Kagome, while she then chose one for the Hanyo girl. Sesshomaru now and then laid a comment wethe ror not Blue was Kagomes colour, and if it was, what shade of blue. Inuyasha dragged Miroku away after a few minutes.
"Houshi" He growled as he had dragged the boy all the way out of the shopping-centre. "What was it with that!?"
"W-with what?" Miroku asked.
"You told me your mother wanted to go on that concert, that was why I gave you them!"
"oh that..." Miroku smiled nervously. "i just needed them, it was the perfect present..."
"The present I payed" Inuyasha growled. "And if Kagome gets to know that, and knowing that I now don't have enough money or time to fix for her, she will never forgive me!"
"I never thought of that..." Miroku sighed. "Okay... but not much to do now..."
"Oh yes there is" Inuyasha said. "You are personally going to get new ones"
"Me?" Miroku exclaimed. "You have lost your mind, how will I be able to..."
"Figure it out" Inuyasha said. "Because I am not going to ask my dad to talk to Tawaki-san for tickets again"
"Tawaki-san...?" Miroku asked.
"Morning Musumes recent tour-leader" Inuyasha said. "I asked dad to ask him the last time, but paid them myself"
"oh..."
"He gave me those VIP-tickets for a prize of 1000 american dollar"
"Ow..."
"1000 dollar each" Inuyasha said with a glare towards Miroku, who stared stunnedly. "And that was because I owed your mom"
"since?"
"Since she has helped me a lot through my life, but you gave away those to your girlfriend, And Kagome knows I can get tickets in some way... but if I do it again..."
"Tawaki-san will think you are selling them yourself"
"Exactly, so you figure a way out" Inuyasha said and turned. "Kagome's birthday is in two days, I need them tomorrow evening" with that he walked back into the center.
"Okay... I figure it out..." Miroku said and sighed. 'I'm screwed' He thought and followed his friend.
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Kagome walked through the store looking for a fitting present for her Hanyo friend.
'Crap...' She thought. 'I don't even know what she likes...' She sighed and walked on. She passed counters with cosmetica and parfumes, but soon realized that was nothing for her friend. She sat down on a chair by the clothes part and thought.
'She's a Hanyo... lived on the street for almost whole her life...' Her mind was a total blank. She didn't come of anything in the fuss of thoughts she managed to orient. She wanted to find something original... that no one would think of---
She slapped her forehead in frustration. How had Sango managed to find a fitting present!? Someone cleared his throat behind her and she turned.
"I might help" Sesshomaru said smugly. Kagome sighed in relief.
"Thanks Sesshy" She thanked.
"You're welcome... but... ehm..." Sesshomaru cleared his throat again. "You need to help me as well"
"Sure" Kagome said cheerly.
Sesshomaru took some checkings over the shoppingcenter to find a present Kagome would be able to give her. He returned some minutes later to the point they had decided to meet, as Kagome made the same sort of check on things he could buy for his girlfriend. Both found it was easier to find what others could buy. Kagome arrived a minute later.
"Okay, let's start with your present, shall we?" She asked.
"Sure" And they both went of.
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The group reunited by the entrance and Inuyasha groaned as Kagome not only bought presents to Kayashi... but a truck load for herself.
"What?" She asked. "I had some money left..."
"Don't..." Inuyasha silenced her. "I don't want to hear" He then took her stuff and sighed before heading back. Miroku sighed.
"Poor guy..." He gulped. Because... well...
"What?" Sango asked as she put the last item on her load. "Did I buy the wrong colour?" Kayashi smirked and Sesshomaru shook his head while they left as well.
That evening, when the lights were all out, the stars got covered by clouds, but these youst had a happy surprise for the students...
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The next morning, Kagomes first thoughts had been to go out and give Kayashi her present, but as she had put her clothes on and woke her boyfriend up as she rampaged because she didn't found her red sweater. He sighed and sat down on the back of the couch while watching her. She went and opened the curtains, and then stared before letting out a squeal of happiness, making him look her way and walking up to her, looking out as well.
Those tiny crystals only meant one thing.
"I can't believe it... It's snowing!" Kagome whispered. He replied with a yes and smiled softly as he watched his girlfriend in her blissful moment. Well as you saw it, the first snow was something special. It was a bit magical seeing those small crystals of ice falling down, already colouring the schoolyard in it's silver white colour. As the sunlight, still visible through the light snowfall, hit the small crystals, they gleamed with all colours the world could come up with. She squealed again and opened the window. A cold breeze flowed in, taking some of the snowflakes with it, and Kagome laughed a little while wiping the crystals out of her face as they hit her. Inuyasha shook his head and closed the window.
"You'll catch a cold" He said.
"I will not!" She protested loudly. He shook his head and sighed.
"Okay, I'll catch a cold if that window is open" Kagome snickered softly and rose her hands in a gesture of surrender.
"Okay, I give up, I guess I just have to go out to get to fell the snow, right?"
"Yup" Inuyasha winked. "But first, I think a certain Hanyo girl wants her birthday present" Kagome gasped.
"Oh my... I forgot!" She ran and got her present, ran over to Inuyasha and gave him a peck on the cheek before running out of the room, grabbing her dark blue winter Jacket at the way out the door. Inuyasha shook his head and smiled.
"Well that girl never grows up"
Are you saying you are grown up?
'I wasn't asking you!'
He followed her out.
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Sango heard the squealing from Kagome's dorm and smiled as she herself found the white crystals falling from the sky. She sighed in delight and her eyes gleamed for a second. The winter was cold, but it had its qualities. miroku was busy brushing his teeth and didn't notice. She called him and he turned. She pointed out the window.
"Look" She said. He smiled a little and nodded but then continued. He spit into the zink and flooded cald water over the toothbrush before puuting it back.
"Weren't you about giving Kayashi her present?" He asked. Sango snapped her fingers.
"RIGHT!" She squealed and took her present. "Cya at Chemistry!" He waved after her with a smile, but as soon as the door slammed shut his expression turned darker. he picked the phone up and took out a piece of paper. The cellphone beeped as he hit the number and held the phone to his ear. A phew tones went past before...
"This is Tawaki Kakaro?" He heard a male voice at the other end.
"Hello, this is Houshi Miroku speaking" he greeted back. "Well... I have a little thing to ask about... it is Like this..."
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Kayashi opened her eyes as Sesshomaru drew the curtains from the window. He smiled at her.
"Good morning sleepy" He said. "And happy birthday" She smiled a little and sat up. He stared out the window again and sighed slowly.
"Snow..." He muttered. Kayashi wrinkled her nose.
"Snow always reminds me of how cold winter is" She said in slight disgust. Sesshomaru sighed again.
"Cold, yes, but nothing more than that..." He looked up. "Before you, I have only loved one thing, the silent fall of the snow... reminds me of some dance... a dance on ice... slow, but still swift in its places... rythmical but still disturbed... cold... but still heart-warming..." Kayashi listened to his words, he sounded spaced-off, but still like he was searching each word, inside his soul... He flinched slightly.
"Gomen" He apologized. "I lost myself a second, don't pay attention to it..."
"I found it really... heart-warming" She smiled. "I never heard a guy talking like that... just the kind like 'hey dude' and like..."
"Are you saying I am no guy?" Sesshomaru looked fake shocked.
"Of course not" She snickered while dragging a light blue sweater over her head. "You are just the opposite of the guys I knew... those who always showed off..."
"I show off as well" He put in, but she ignored him while continuing to her jeans.
"... always acted like jerks towards weaker..."
"I also have..."
"And never cared about anyone..."
"I haven't..." She giggled and spun around before giving him a chaste kiss.
"Don't put yourself down, remember my about 'I'm not cute'? This is the same" He silenced.
"You're right..." He smiled and turned away from her and stepped over the room in two steps, stopping by the door, realizing something. "Oh, here, happy birthday!" He flicked his hand and sent something towards her, she raised her hand and caught it. "Open it when I have left" He said, a slightest hint of blush appearing.
"I never bought a present for a girl before, see?" He closed the door and she lowered her hand and looked at the wrapped present. She smiled a little before sitting down on the chair by the computer, carefully unwrapping the paper. This was the first present a boy had gave her, after her dad of course... but still... She finished opening it and watched a box with inscriptions in Kanji, which she couldn't read, and a piece of paper. She took the paper up.
"Happy Birthday!
I didn't really know what to get you... but...
Well, In case, you should open that box..." She did and stared at tiny boxes inside, with more incriptions, and they were split up in groups inside small boxes, which had one single inscription.
"... The group in the right corner contains five differnet essesences of old legendary scents, which are said to stimulate and relax
The group to the left of that one contains one box, in which prayer beads are settled, not like thos Inuyasha got cough freaking fun cough but these makes your demon blood stay, should not be used as hanyo, since it raises Youki, but if you should feel unsafe at you human night, yeah..." She smiled a little and watched the beads in raven-black with red tints.
"... To the left of that one is another box, with the opposite effect, not much to say...
Below that one are four boxes, each of them containing one Sealing scroll for evil, but be carefull, one (far left) erases Youki totally! I explain the others when you talk to me next time (whenever that is)
Right of that one is the biggest box, and I suggest you open that before reading" She arched an eyebrow and shrugged her shoulders before doing so. She dropped the letter as she rose her hands to her face. She let one hand down to take the item up, and a sunreflection falling through snowflakes hit the steel. she turned her hand and watched as the sunlight reflected differnet colours on the object.
It was a bracelet, more wasn't to say, but it was one first around the wrist, then in two silver chains connecting to a ring on the middle finger, with a diamond shaped like... a fang, slightly curved to not scratch the skin, but still laying towards it. The bracelet itself had small fangs 'falling' down towards the elbow, about one half inch each. And all in diamond. She tried it on and found it fitting perfect, but also something else. An aura laid across the bracelet, and she picked the letter up again.
"... The man I bought this from is named Toutousai, the man who forged mne and Inuyasha's swords from our fathers fang to 'protect' and help us, he made that bracelet, out of my fang acctually... to protect you
It is not his orginal work (since that is making weapons) because this is a shield. The aura you feel is the defending aura the bracelet is warded with. IF something made from a youkai (energy etc.) would hit you, it absorbs the energy, and will (if you increase your own 'practise' with it) also reflect it, but it needs time, but always think of it, I am always there, even not present...
And, well besides that...
Take out the piece of paper behind the box, and please tell me your answer...
/Sesshomaru
P.S. PLEASE, son't tell my brother about this, he will tease me nuts D.S." She smiled a little before folding the letter and laying it in the box, then closing it. She put it on the desk before searching for that piece of paper he talked about. She foun dit pretty soon, as it was attached to the underside of the box. She opened that one and looked down at it, before smiling. She searced in her mind and then ran over to the window, opening it. She lent outside and yelled.
"SESSHOMARU!" He was halfway towards the shoolbuilding, alone since lessons didn't start for another one and a half hour. He turned to her.
"OF COURSE I WOULD LIKE TO!" She yelled. Even from this far, their combined auras made her feel his smile, and then.
-You didn't have too scream it-
-I wanted too- She answered.
-Sure... well, at seven?-
-Okay- He smiled again and turned around, walking two steps before slightly turning his head.
-While we are talking... do I totally suck at giving presents?-
-Not at all Fluffy- She held her right arm out, showing the bracelet as it gleamed slightly in the sunlight. He just smiled.
-Close the window, It's still snowing- Then he turned and walked into the school-building. She closed the window and turned to her the desk, throwing away the present-paper and then trying to read the inscriptions, until her doorbell rang. She went to open and then steped back with her ears flat against her head.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!" Her two friends greeted. Inuyasha just sighed and waited until they had finished squealing and then said his own 'Happy birthday' while the two girls began singing 'Happy Birthday to you' as much they could. Kayashi scratched the back of her head whie silently inviting them in, showing them in with his right hand, and that got them silent. Inuyasha slightly arched an eyebrow, but the girls...
"Wow!" Kagome squealed.
"Were did you get that!?" Sango finished while pointng at the bracelet.
"Oh, this?" She asked. "Fluffy gave it to me, come in" She turned and quickly hid the letter in her jeans-pocket, remembering Sesshomaru's plea not showing it to his brother. Kagome and Sango followed before giving her their presents. She took the two wrapped presents before putting them down on the bed and then telling them about the box, since they took interest in it. She remembered inb her head and smiled a little. She suddenly understood two inscriptions...
"Inuyasha, may I borrow you a second?" She asked. He looked questionably at her. Kagome too but Kayashi smiled and picked up a bracelet of prayer beads, crystal white with a tint of blue. He backed of but she ensured him. "It's not permanent, I know both spells, to put it on and to put it off" He sighed as Kagome and Sango pleaded him too.
"Okay, Okay!" he said and held his right wrist out. Kayashi smiled and closed her eyes. Kagome arched one eyebrow when the aura lit up.
'How can she...?'
Everyone can, Miko's just have easier
'That's not true...'
No, it is not, her mother was a youkai, her father a priest, said so at least, and not in public
'How do you know?' But silence followed. Kayashi mumbled something under her breath before opening her palm, the bracelet split up and formed around the Hanyos wrist.
"Don't be shocked now" She prepared and it suddenly lit up. Inuyashas eyes widened as he raised his left hand, staring. It was middle of the day, but still...
"Wow..." Sango said. Inuyasha's claws dissapeared, his eyes switched from amber to violet, his hair from silver to black, and his dog-ears dissappeared and instead became human ones.
"How the hell..." he muttered. Kagome walked up to him and watched the bracelet.
"Youki absorbtion" She stated. "May I try?" Kayashi nodded and Kagome closed her eyes. Less than two seconds later the bracelet lit up again, splitting up and forming in the miko's hand. Inuyasha sighed in relief as he felt his 'normal' appearance return. Kagome gave the bracelet to Kayashi.
"You better be careful with that" She said. Kayashi nodded and put it back in the box.
"Open our presents now" Kagome said. The Hanyo girl nodded slightly and went to open the first one, wrapped in purple paper.
"That's mine" Sango said. Kayashi nodded again, understandingly. She unwrapped it and then held the item up. And it was gorgeous.
The silver material gleamed in the sunlight hitting it. She stood up in awe and held the dress in front of her. It was strapless, going down to her knees, in a silver glimmering colour. Even though plain silver, it stil in reflections of light, looked more like it was diamond.
"I thought it would fit you" Sango said. "Hope you like it" Kayashi nodded once again, not being able to do more. She carefully folded it and laid it down again, before going over to sango, hugging her.
"Arigatô Sango-Chan" She said with tears in her eyes.
"Ah, it was nothing" Sango smiled and hugged her back. "Go check Kag's now, I bet she's got something too" Kagome shifted her weight from one foot to another.
"Well... I got something... but... you'll see" Kayashi smiled and opened the present, wrapped in blue paper. She stared again. Before cracking a smile.
"You and Fluffy went to the same store, didn't you?"
"yup" Kagome smiled. "Like it?"
"Really much..." Kayashi took the dagger like object and put it to her left wrist. It looked like the dagger was at her under arm, but she could twist it and use it as a weapon, or just have it there ((A/N: Sango uses a weapon like this once against Naraku (When Kohaku shows up and she steals Tetsusaiga) This is almost the same...)). It was in silver steel, and had a sapphire attached to the upper side, where also an aura laid.
"Purifying" Kagome said. "With my aura, you can vanish demons with it, only low level, but you can combine it with the shield spell and make it a purifying shield for any demon to be destroyed if touching"
"Arigatô" Kayashi said again. Inuyasha smirked.
"Do I dare to hug you or are you too dangerous?" Kayashi stuck her tongue out and he snickered before giving her a hug.
"Happy birthday hanyo girl" He said. "How old did you get again?"
"18"
"What!?" He said, backing a step and staring at her. "You're for god's sake older than me"
"Got it right" She grinned mishievously. "And do you know what that more means?" Inuyasha groaned.
"You get drivers Licence before me..." ((A/N: In Sweden (Were I live, you can 'test-drive' with instructor as you turn 16, but cannot get licence before 18)) Kagome grinned slightly.
"But Inuyasha" She said. "You turn eighteen in may"
"I know..." He grumbled. "But still..." He pouted and Sango shook her head before turning to look for her boyfriend as he stormed inside. He greeted a 'happy birthday' to kayashi before turning to Inuyasha and giving thumbs up before showing he was in a rush and sprinting of. Kagome took two steps forward and pout her hands to her sides, glaring slightly.
"WHAT was that about?" she wondered. He flicked her nose.
"No-othing" He dragged the 'o' out before smirking and turning around. "I need to get breakfast, I'm fucking starving"
"No swearing" Kayashi said. "I'm older than you, listen to your elders"
"Screw you too" He muttered. Kagome looked fake shocked.
"But Inuyasha!" She exclaimed. "Wasn't I your girlfriend? Have you been cheating on me!?" Sango just snickered. Inuyasha growled and turned in the door.
"Screw you all" He said before leaving.
"What the-" Kagome looked fake-shocked again. "See, he is cheating on me!" They laughed a little and Kayashi said Thanks again before they all left for breakfast, and then to an incredible boring math-lesson, Kayashi just wanted evening to come.
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Inuyasha waited by the school-fence, angrily grumbling about the girls, then the snow, then Miroku, who was late, and then his stomach, which still jearned for food. Miroku came running in a hurry down the road, his dark violet jacket half-put on and an envelope held in his right hand. He slided to a halt before the Hanyo.
"I--- g-ot them...---" He panted out. Inuyasha snatched the envelope and took out the two papers.
"Hmm..." He glanced at Miroku. "How much did you pay?"
"Ehm..." Miroku smiled embarrased "500 dolar each... cheaper than his first price of 850..."
"Okay, then you will need to pay... this too" Inuyasha threw a paper in front of Miroku before closing the envelope and walking off to breakfast. Miroku picked the paper up, looked at it, and groaned.
"And of course He had to... wait..." He checked again. "This is two evenings... TAI INUYASHA...!" he growled. "You make me pay the expensivest restaurant in town, two evenings... for you and your brother! I guess I know what you are all planning now... two damn evenings with your girls... maybe I should invite Sango... but..." He sighed and walked over the schoolyard with his head hung.
"I'm total out of money... this will cost me at least..."
"2500 dollar..."
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Kagura spit the man in his face.
"I should have knew!" She hissed. He laughed.
"Kagura, You will join together..." he held his right hand out. "With these..." She gasped slightly.
"How did you..."
"As you see..." The man walked over to Kikyo, waving a hand in front of her face. "They are all gone" He walked past Kanna, Kouga and than also...
Kagura widened her eyes again.
"How could you do it to your own brother!"
The man laughed again, icily and cold.
"You know, I escaped prison today, and he talked about getting the orb first... But, I must set in for the Mizuno girl first, and not the stupid orb... got it, Kagura?" He smirked just now. "I need to control him so our goal will set on Mizuno, the bitch who got me locked in...! Kagura... You will join now!"
She screamed as energy hit her, but her confused thoughts were still seated on the last controlled individual... The second Bakenou son...
Naraku...
.:Chapter end!:.
Bet I got you all beat now, didn't I? Naraku is not the bad guy! Surprise! (Laughing) Ahem, well, so, now you just think of who it can be! (I know... well partly because I am the author XP)
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/Ashley