Inuyasha © Rumiko Takahashi
"What the hell is up with this traffic? We have been stuck in this damn car for over two hours, and we haven't gotten off the freeway yet!" Inuyasha yelled in frustration. "We'll never make it by six by the speed we are going."
"Inuyasha, would you just shut up? You know, some people are trying to get some sleep and they don't want to be bothered by your constant yelling." Kagome said to Inuyasha, she was being to lose her patience.
"What did you just say, wench?" Inuyasha turned around just when Kagome finished her sentence. "Did you just fucking tell me to shut up? Look here, bitch, I can kick you out of this car in less than a second. So if you don't want your ass out on the freeway, I suggest you stay out of my business."
"Inuyasha, you will not be kicking anyone out of this car as long as I am driving or in this car." Sesshoumaru said, getting annoyed at his little brother. "Just go listen to your IPod or do something less disturbing."
"Yeah, that might actually keep your mouth shut for the rest of the trip." Kagome muttered under her breath. Kagome took out her book, Chasing Redbird, which she started a couple of days before the school year had ended.
"Don't think I didn't hear that, you bitch." Inuyasha said as he took out his red IPod from his pocket and began listening to T.M. Revolution's Invoke.
"They won't ever stop bickering, will they?" Rin asked Sesshoumaru. "Geez, it seems like I'm babysitting two kindergarteners, and I'm the youngest here."
Sesshoumaru gave out a small chuckled. "I don't even know why they hate each other." Sesshoumaru said as he made his way through the traffic.
Sango made her way through to the front of the car and joined in Sesshoumaru's and Rin's conversation. "You know if you think about it Inuyasha and Kagome do make a really cute couple. But the only thing is that they hate each other's guts."
Rin gave out a small yelp. "Sango, when did you get up here? You almost gave me a heart attack just now." Rin said as her hand covered her heart.
"Rin, stop overreacting. I doubt, I would ever give you a heart attack? Oh Sesshoumaru, do you think you can turn the air conditioner just by a notch. It's really cold back there." Sango asked. "You know what? There is another really cute couple here, but they just won't express their feelings for each other." Sango said before she went back over to Miroku.
"Who are they, Sango? Tell me, is it you and Miroku?" Rin asked wondering who her sister could be talking about.
"What? I cannot believe you even guess that; you already know how much I dislike him." Sango said turning away to cover her blush. 'Why am I blushing? I so do not have a crush on that pervert; this cannot be happening.'
"Sheesh, you can't even take a small joke. I was just kidding about you liking him, Sango. Don't make it a big deal." Rin said as she was trying to cover her laughter.
"I can't believe you would make a joke out of that, Rin. What kind of person would do that to her own sister?" Sango said raising her voice only by a little.
"Would you to shut up? You know some people, like Kouga and me, are trying to get some sleep." Ayame said as she snuggles closer to her boyfriend. "Wake us up when we arrive to Kyoto."
"Sorry for waking you up, Ayame; we will try to keep our voices down." Rin apologized to her friend. "That's weird; Kagome should be up in our faces by now, mentioning her and Inuyasha would look adorable together."
Sango went over to Kagome and took away the book she was reading. Kagome was fast asleep, listening to her mini disk player. "She must be really tired if she slept through us talking, I mean she's always a light sleeper." Sango told Rin.
"Rin, you might want to start waking them up, we will be arriving to a rest stop, so we can all get some lunch." Sesshoumaru told Rin, as he exited off the freeway.
"That's a great idea, Sesshoumaru. I'll start waking everybody up." Rin said to Sesshoumaru. She crawled next to Kouga and Ayame and nudged them gently. "Wake up, you two. We are going to stop and get some lunch. So, start gathering all your things."
Ayame stirred. "Hmm?" She muttered as she began to rub her eyes. "Oh okay. Kouga, time to wake up, we are almost at a rest stop." Ayame told Kouga, who was still sleeping. "We're going to get something to eat and if you don't get up, we will leave you."
Kouga stretch and yawned. "You better not leave me." Kouga said as he grab Ayame's arm and pull her close to him. "Just give me five more minutes, okay? I'm really tired, because I barely got any sleep because of Ginta calling me like at one in the morning, and we didn't stop talking until like three." Kouga explained to Ayame.
"Aww, poor Kouga. You know what? That sucks for you, because you aren't going to fall asleep again. So, hurry and get your things together." Ayame told Kouga in a stern voice.
Sango went over to Kagome and shook her gently. "Wake up, sleeping beauty. Your knight and shining armor had just arrived." Sango said to Kagome, who still haven't waked up. "Come on, Kagome. Just wake up or I'm going to tell Inuyasha to wake you up for me."
Kagome shot up. "You better not have that bastard wake me up." Kagome told Sango in a deathly voice. "And I mean you better not." Kagome warned Sango.
"Gosh Kagome, I was just kidding you don't have to take it so seriously." Sango said trying to back away from her friend. "But can you wake up Inuyasha?"
"How about…no, and that's my final answer." Kagome told Sango. Kagome picked up her book and began reading again.
"Keh, I don't want a bitch like her to wake me up." Inuyasha said taking off his headphones. "So where are we going to eat?" Inuyasha asked Sesshoumaru as he got off the freeway.
"We will decide when we get there." Sesshoumaru said in a monotone voice. "Rin, did you get everything ready?" he asked as he watched her from the rear mirror.
"Umm…yeah, I just need to find my purse. Did anyone see where I placed it?" Rin asked everybody in the car. 'Of all places where could I have placed it?' She asked herself.
"Rin, do you think it is in the front? I mean, you sat there for most of the car ride." Sango asked Rin as she helped her younger sister. "Inuyasha, do you see Rin's purse?" Inuyasha ducked down as looked for the missing purse.
"Let see…is that it? No, wait…found it." Inuyasha said as he got up, holding Rin's lost purse and brushing his hair away from his eyes.
"Oh my gosh! Thank you, Inuyasha, you are such a lifesaver; and here I was thinking that my purse was gone forever." Rin told Inuyasha, as he finished moving his hair.
"Keh, don't worry about it." Inuyasha replied. 'Besides Sesshoumaru would have killed me if I didn't help search for it.' Inuyasha thought to himself.
"Wow…I can't believe Inuyasha actually helped someone." Kagome muttered to no one in particular. "There's a surprise."
"What the fuck did you say, bitch?" Inuyasha snarled at Kagome. He had heard everything that she had said.
"What I said is none of your business." Kagome replied coolly. She brought her book up and began reading once more. 'Damn, I forgot that he have super hearing. I should be careful what I say to myself now.'
"I think it is my business." Inuyasha looked at her, and pulled her book away. "Don't try to ignore me." Inuyasha's anger was rising.
"You better give me back my book." Kagome's anger was too beginning to rise. "I said give me back my book." Kagome wanted to strangle him for stealing her book away.
"That is enough of you two. Both of you need to stop all this bickering, we are trying to have a nice summer vacation, but all you are doing is making it hell for us!" Sango yelled. "Inuyasha, give back Kagome's book. And Kagome, stop staying things behind Inuyasha back."
Inuyasha gave back Kagome's book and crossed his arms. As for Kagome, she opened her book to the page that she was reading before Inuyasha took it away from her. "Sango, you look stressed. Why don't I give you a nice massage?" Miroku said as he moved closer.
"Back off, you pervert. All I need is to clear my mind and that does not include you giving me a massage." Sango said sternly as she rubbed her temples. 'They can be so immature, why can't they just grow up for once?'
"Look everybody." Ayame said breaking the silence. "We have to stop all this bickering, and I mean now. Sango is getting tired of you two fighting all the time and same with everybody else." Ayame began.
"She's right. We should just get everything out in the open before this trip turn into a disaster." Kouga suggested. "I think we should just say what's on our minds and get this over with."
"I agree with Kouga." Miroku said agreeing. "Let's just tell each other what's bothering and what we can do about it, because this trip would just cause more problems in the future."
"We can ask each other questions and we have to answer them, but nobody else but the person you ask can talk, so meaning no interruptions." Rin said agreeing with the idea of sharing their thoughts and feelings. "I will start first. Kagome, do you really hate Inuyasha as much as you say you do?"
"I agree no interruptions. All this arguing is going to stop today, and I mean it when I say today." Sango said taking out some medicine to relieve her aching headache.
"What kind of question is that?" Inuyasha asked as Sesshoumaru gave Inuyasha a cold glare. "We all know that she hates my guts as well as I hate hers."
"Kagome can answer for herself and what did I say about no interruptions?" Rin told Inuyasha. "So are you going to tell or what?" Rin asked Kagome.
"I…no, I really don't hate him; I never really did, but after what he did to me all I wanted was to hate him." Kagome confessed to everyone. Inuyasha's eyes widen as her words sank in. "But…I couldn't, and I can never hate him." Kagome ended in a whisper, but Inuyasha heard everything.
Tears were beginning to fall from her eyes; everybody was stunned at what Kagome had told them. "Kagome, it's okay." Ayame whispered to Kagome, trying to comfort her. "So Inuyasha, what happened in the past that we don't know?"
"Oh my," Sango said to herself. She was beginning to feel terrible for all the times she tempted Kagome on why she disliked Inuyasha.
The spotlight was on him now, everyone paid close attention to him. "A few years ago…Kagome and I were dating. We went out for over a year, but things started getting bad. Kikyou walked into the picture and so did Hojou. Kikyou wanted me for the longest time and same with Hojou, but they couldn't get it through their heads that Kagome and I loved each other with both of our hearts." Inuyasha said but was cut off by Kagome.
"That's when our relationship took a turn. One night during a party that Hiten and Manten held, I saw Inuyasha kissing Kikyou and that's when I broke it off with Inuyasha. All my feelings for Inuyasha disappeared that night and that's when we started hating each other." Kagome said finishing off her side of her story.
"You got that all wrong." Inuyasha said. "My trust for you disappeared before the party. Remember going to the mall with Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi? And how you four bumped into Hojou?" Inuyasha said bring back his painful memories.
"How…did you know I bumped into Hojou? I never told anyone about that day and Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi promised me that they would never tell another living soul." Kagome said remembering that day.
"You know what? I saw the whole thing from the beginning to the end. Of how Hojou took you away from your group and how he kissed you." Inuyasha stated, never in a million years did he thought of revealing that day.
"So in other words, you were spying on me?" Kagome asked. "You told me that you were going to hang out with Hiten and Manten."
"They had to go to the mall with their younger sister, Souten. They told me to meet them at their house, but before they left they called me and told me that you were with Hojou. So I rushed over to the mall to see for myself." Inuyasha told Kagome. "And after that, we had plans to go out for dinner. I wanted you to tell me what happened at the mall, but you kept ignoring my questions."
"I didn't want to tell you because you were going to get mad and start a riot." Kagome said to Inuyasha. 'I was the one who started the downfall…I should of told him.' Kagome pushed back her thoughts. 'No, he was the one that kissed Kikyou.'
"You want to know everything that happened at the party? I'll tell you. Hiten and Manten knew that I was depressed about Hojou and you kissing, so they told Kikyou. They thought that I should be with someone that wouldn't cheat on anyone else. So Kikyou took me into another room and she began getting close to me, but she told me if I done anything Naraku would have hurt you, so it was either Naraku hurting you or it was me." Inuyasha told Kagome.
Everyone was silent. They had finally known the cause of Inuyasha's and Kagome's relationship. 'Such deep secrets being told that had been kept away.' Miroku thought to himself.
"But either way, I would have gotten hurt." Kagome said. "Why didn't you tell me this earlier? Why now?" Kagome's tears stained her cheeks once more.
"Because…you had already left me." Inuyasha said in a whisper. No one said a word; they gave their hearts to Inuyasha and Kagome. Memories that was healed with other memories, opened once more.
'Oh no, I shouldn't have made them tell such deep wounds.' Rin thought as she blamed herself for bringing back deep memories. "Inuyasha, Kagome, I am so sorry. We shouldn't have force you to tell your painful past."
"I didn't know…Inuyasha, how could you hide this deep secret from me? Your best friend!" Miroku said as he pretended to act hurt.
"We are truly sorry. Can you ever forgive us?" Ayame asked both of them. Before any of them could answer Sesshoumaru told them that they had arrived.
"Geez Sesshoumaru, great way to end the mood." Kouga teased. "Come on, Ayame. Instead of us bothering them, they should really be alone to talk." Ayame nodded and walked instead the fast-food place with the rest of them gang, leaving Inuyasha and Kagome alone.
'I hope that everything will be okay between them.' Sango hoped as she got out of the car and ran after the rest of the gang. "Don't leave me behind!"