Disclamer: I don't own Inuyasha and co. Rumiko Takahashi does.
He had a wife, and he had a child back at his home. So then why was he always coming to my home? Did he like the ramen? Was it my room? Maybe he just wanted to...get away from it all? Whatever the case, Inuyasha kept coming more and more often to my visit me, and, not that I didn't like his company or anything, but......
when someone comes over to your house every...single...day...suspicions start to arise, and assumptions get made. None of those things is good. And boy, was I getting suspicious. It was the same thing every day. I'd hear a knock on my window(though I told him the door was there for a reason), and in he would come, going straight to my bed so we could have our 'daily talk'. Once I got all comfy on my bed, we got started on the stories of our adventures together. When night fell, Inuyasha would urge me into the kitchen so I could make us a cup of ramen, and then we'd head out onto my roof.
"Mmmmph....this is some slurp damn good ramen....."
Yeah.......
"Sure......" I was distracted by ...oh, I don't know....something other than Inuyasha's atrocious eating habits perhaps? Maybe I shouldn't have been, because the eating youth looked up at me with some noodles hanging out of his mouth.
" You don't like yours? Because if you don't..."
"Uh...no-no, they're good."
" Oh." he wiped away the remaining noodle pieces on his face and looked down. " You're not annoyed by me...are you?"
Me? Annoyed? Never. Except a when he ate all my ramen. And didn't lock the door when he went to the bathroom. And destroyed half my kitchen when he thought some cooking utensil was trying to attack me. Which was often.
"Heh-heh..uh...no?" Wrong answer.
He angrily thrust the empty cup away from him, and turned his back to me.
" I knew it! Can't believe what an idiot I've been...thinking you wanted my company..."
Breath in...breath out...breath in....and out....
"Ah, no Inuyasha! I do want your company! I like it when you're here because, well, you're my friend."
Wronger thing to say.
"Y-you do? You like it when I'm here?"
"Yeah."
That night, when I got into bed, ready to sleep, I heard breathing in the corner.
" Uh, Inuyasha? What are you still doing here?" Two amber eyes peered at me through the darkness.
" I decided to stay here for the night." There was the slightest hint of a challenge in his voice, asif he was daring me to say no.
"O-okay."
When I woke up, he was gone. And as I opened my jewelry box to get my earrings, I realized so was a photograph of me and him.
It was like, that night, a new routine was made. One that I wasn't supposed to know about. Instead of visiting me during the day like before, Inuyasha would sneak into my room at night and just sit there. That's right. He just sat there on my floor the whole time, watching me I suppose.
When I went through the well to see my friends, he'd often sit high up in a tree and avoid saying anything to me. But at night, he'd come into my room, and after a while, even started getting onto my bed with me( a good distance away), and lay there, staring up at the ceiling. But not once did he ever try to wake me. Not once. Until one night, when he lay on my bed. closer then usual. I was getting quite uncomfortable with his close proximity and so I turned the other way, so as not to face him.
Suddenly, I felt something start to stroke my hair.
"...Kagome?" I feigned sleep.
"Hey...Kagome....?" Nope. Not answering.
"Kagome, please..." Okay, fine.
Sighing I turned around.
"What?"
He flushed.
"I- I just wanted to tell you that I....."
I raised an eyebrow.
"You....?"
He shook his head.
"...I wanted to change it....but I couldn't. So, now.....I'll have to live with it...."
I blinked.
"What the hell are you.....?"
"....for the rest of my life. After that, everything can get to how it's supposed to be."
......Huh? Whaaa...?
"Did I miss something?"
Closing his eyes, Inuyasha smiled and put his lips to my forehead.
"Goodnight. I'll be seeing you soon." And he left.
Five days later, when I woke up in the morning, something didn't feel right. Something was wrong. Very wrong. Immediately, I got dressed and jumped through the well to find out if anything was amiss. Upon reaching Sango and Miroku's hut, Sango herself was walking out. She stopped dead when she saw me.
"Kagome...."
Yes. Something was wrong.
"Sango, what happened? Why are you..."
She flung herself at me, sobbing.
I began to tremble.
"Sango? Where's Inuyasha?"
She glanced up at me with watery eyes.
"Kagome...four nights ago...Inuyasha killed himself...."
After that point, everything was like a dream. I remember going to Inuyasha's burial sight and seeing Kikyo there, kneeling.
"Kikyo...."
She stood, keeping her head bowed.
I wanted to comfort Kikyo, but at the moment.... I needed comforting. Kikyo glanced at his grave one last time and walked towards me slowly.
"How did he...?"
"Drowned himself." she reached into her sleeve and took out a piece of paper letting it float to the ground.
"He had this with him when...it happened." With that being said, the broken woman walked away.
Bending down, I picked the paper up.
It was my photograph. The one that had been missing. In it, me and Inuyasha were smiling, though I was glancing at him through the corner of my eye, as was he.
I flipped the phot to it's back, reading the words that were scrawled on it.
'I'll wait for you Kagome. See you soon.'
End.