We Can't Be Friends
Chapter Twenty-Two: Untitled
(A/N: I have a good reason for not updating in so long. School and friends. I've been so gosh darn busy, I barely have time to sleep. And than job hunting. Geez, it's so hard now that Bush has shipped many of those potential jobs overseas.)
(Flashback)
"Come on Kagz! I told you, they're stuck up freaks. You don't wanna meet them!" Inuyasha complained to the scowling woman beside him.
She glanced up at him with heavily lidded eyes, lips poked out tantalizingly. He swerved on the road, naughty thoughts racing through his head.
"Shit! Jeez, Kagome please!" he hissed. She just smiled. She smiled that million dollar, 'I am ever so innocent' smile. He almost thought about giving in.
Almost.
Seeing that her vixen appeal was close to a serious crash in burn, she huffed and turned in her seat.
"It's not like I'm judging you by them, Inuyasha. Usually when someone proposes, they know the in- laws."
"Hey, it's not my fault. My parents are jerks. Plain and simple. They'd run you away, and I ain't havin that, ya got that?" he snapped. Her little brown orbs widened in surprise.
The audacity!
"Stop the car!" Kagome yelled grabbing onto......well something that shouldn't be grabbed while operating a vehicle.
"Jesus!" Inuyasha gasped skidding across three lanes of traffic and finally into the grassy center. His hands shook like icicles, and suddenly, he wanted nothing more than to throttle the naive beauty.
If she'd just stayed in the damn car.
"You're such a loser, Inuyasha!" he heard her call from the side. She had her skirt hiked up all the way to her creamy thigh, thumb out.
"What the fuck are you doing!" he screamed as four cars almost collided after one look. Well, after a long freakin' stare.
"I'm getting a ride!" she shot back smiling at the ogling men. A few left hurriedly, after a few angry words and slaps from the woman besides them. Some cat called and made urgent gestures to get her inside.
These she all passed up, ignoring them until a light blue convertible pulled up behind her.
"Need a lift, little lady?" the smooth drawling cowboy....well.....er......drawled at her. She flashed him that ever so sexy grin, before hopping in besides him.
"Kagome, don't be this way!" her desperate fiancé called. She just threw her hair behind her, sticking out her long pink tongue, and giving him the ever famous, flying bird.
"Think hard, are you taking me or not?" she threatened, hand on the seat belt. The highly amused cowboy watched patiently, waiting for her to either buckle up or knuckle out.
Inuyasha's eyes turned into slits of violet.
The audacity!
"Kagome come back now!" he commanded. With a shrug, she clicked the belt into place, and the car revved off.
'She'll come back' he thought with a shred of male ego.
'He'll still be there' she thought, with a smirk of womanly pride.
Ah. Sweet Love.
(End Flashback)
'Have I ever been so happy?' Inuyasha thought to himself. It had been, heaven, to be with Kagome again. Like her absence was meant just to make her return that much sweeter. And she'd been.....perfect.
He was a second from his hall, when suddenly Sesshoumaru briskly walked, shirtlessly, from the same area. Inuyasha kept to the shadows, slumping down so he wouldn't be noticed.
'What on earth?'
Jr. Sherlock crept back down his hall after taking a good look at his brother's mused look. Suspicious, he pulled out his key before noticing, he didn't need it.
The door was open.
Inside, Kikyo was desperately trying to tame her wild hair with hairspray and a brush. Her breasts oozed from the simple silk shirt she wore. And that's all she wore. Her remembered Sessie's bare chest, and he mystery of the unclothed man, was solved.
'Kikyo and Sesshoumaru? The mere thought is revolting!' Inuyasha silently laughed. He barged in, keeping his humor in check as she jumped almost a record eight feet.
"You scared the bejesus out of me, Inuyasha!" she wheezed, her chest heaving. Inuyasha gave her a knowing smile.
"More comfortable in my clothes?" he asked. She looked down before blushing thee shades of red.
"Um, yea," she responded tentatively. He, once again, did a once over of her, and than the room. EVERYTHING was in disarray.
The tables were overturned. The furniture had suspicious dark spots dripping onto the carpet. The bed, their bed, was nothing but a rumpled mess. Not to mention the strips of cloth he found peeking from under the bed...
"Have fun?" he snorted, step siding the tell-all furniture and heading straight to the bathroom.
'A bath defiantly sounds good at the moment' he thought with a long sigh.
She had tripped...........yeah, I know, not usual. But this was the fourth time, in the last five minutes. Dazed. That was a good way to describe her starry eyed appearance.
It had taken her a full fifteen minutes to rouse herself after her little rendezvous with her ex-fiancé's brother.
'Damn' she thought, completely unable to wipe the giddy school girl smile from her lips. It was like her first time, all over again. With the same chauvinistic pig at that.
"Oh, Inuyasha," she murmured. If she couldn't have him any other time, she did, what, only an hour ago? Guilt still hung heavy within her, after all, he didn't know about the tragedy.
"Kagome? Kagome what are you doing out?" she heard a small voice whisper to her. She whipped around, and softened at the appearance of Sesshoumaru. She'd never seen him look so handsome, with jet black hair turning bluish in the enchanting moonlight. His head was tilted forward, allowing his waving bangs go tall sexily in his eyes.
He stood upon a pedicel of pagan god.
Whatever the hell that meant.
He looked down right guilty. Like the dog caught with the cat's bloody, disfigured, lump of a furry head. His slumped shoulders. His slightly withdrawn actions. His nervous habit of biting down on his bottom lip.....was coming into play. He'd stuck his hands in the cookie jar. Maybe tasted some wares?
"I'm just coming from-" Was he shirtless?
And since when did he start wearing Brittany Spear's, 'Curious' perfume?
What the hell was going on?
(Second Flashback)
He stood with his arms around her slim waist. He nuzzled his face into her neck, brushing his lips seductively against the sensitive skin, sending shivers of want down to her do-dah.
She ignored the surrounding fireworks, feeling all the world was right as one hand slipped to her flat stomach. He would soon find out that a baby resided there. That under hand a baby boy or girl was growing. She was waiting for the right moment, after all, she'd only known four days herself.
She didn't understand the happiness she felt when the little EPT proved her predictions. Pregnancy. Of course she knew her dreams were shot, opening up a big time restaurant and becoming a famous writer.....well, the writer bit could still be achieved. But children left little room for entrepreneurship.
She was happy. She would admit it, but she also was afraid. So very afraid. Inuyasha was all she ever wanted, all she ever needed. He was at the top of his high school football career, and wanted to start a business. Surely, he'd be angry at the sudden change in his plans. They'd always said they'd get married AFTER college.
"What's going through your mind, little bird?" he whispered to her. His embrace tightened, and she felt his warmth and concern flow into her.
"Nothing, honey, nothing. Just our plans. Did you ever wonder what would happen if they'd change?" she asked aloud. His eyes twinkled suddenly, and the usual mischievous shine in his eyes flared to life.
"Yes, I wanted to change a couple of those myself."
She chuckled as he started to nibble on her ear. "Oh, really? But what about now? High school has come and gone. I haven't dated anyone other than you in six years. That's pretty steep."
"Well it's the same for me, Kagome, but I'm not exactly checking out other prospect girlfriends am I?" he inquired a brow quirked in curiosity. She suddenly understood what her foolish words sounded like.
"Not that! I'm not saying that I would ever want to see what else is out there, I'm pretty content with what I've got," the last part was so wispy he barely heard. Something was wrong, he just had that vibe. They wouldn't have been together as long if he didn't know when she was troubled.
"Kagome, what is it? Truly?" he said turned serious. Kagome tried desperately to ignore the nosy teen geeks listening and watching their drama. She tried to ignore the entire crowd.
"Inuyasha, what would you do without football?" she asked. He did love the sport, maybe even more than he did her. After all, a major contract could set him for life, keeping him away from his daddy's money for a while.
"Dunno. Start some type of business. Become a politician, I dunno, Kagz." He shrugged his shoulders and listened his grip on her, just enough, so she could turn and look him in the eye.
"What if I was.......you know?"
His violet orbs widened in shock. His mouth opened and closed quickly, before a small laugh escaped him. He pulled her close to him and swung her around, oblivious to the poor onlookers having to quickly evacuate.
After the dizziness passed, Inuyasha reached down to kiss his beloved girlfriend.
"If you were with child, my child, Kagome I don't know-are you!" once again a startled expression lit up his handsome features. She quickly waved her hands and shook her head no, hating lying to him.
"I was speaking hypothetically of course,"
"Open your eyes Kagome." His mouth was twisted in egotistical determination. Summing up all her will power, she repeated the lie, to his face, without blinking or giving herself away.
'Thanks, Kami!' she thought out while the next bunch of fireworks consumed the night sky.
"Beautiful!" Kagome exclaimed stepping out of Inuyasha's embrace and turning her head to take in every inch of beauty. Inu cocked his head, lovingly, to the side.
"Sure is," he muttered, not paying one bit of attention to the Freedom Day firework/parade.
(End Flashback)
They had cheated. All of them had degraded themselves to nothing but infidelic morons. Kikyo with Sesshomaru. Inuyasha with Kagome. It was a betrayal that would rock the core of everything they knew.
It was time fore new beginnings.
It's about damn time!
(End Chapter)
BGLI
I can't believe it took me so long to write this chapter. I just wanted to put lots and lots of mush/happiness together. How lovely!
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