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Caught In Between
Chapter 10 – Ripple Effect
"We should all have a beer!" Miroku joyfully suggested, desperately trying to lighten up the dim mood.
The two looked at him like he was crazy. Kagome decided she would sob more into Inuyasha's chest.
They say beer brings out your true feelings.
Despite their ongoing argument, it seemed all Inuyasha's true thoughts towards Kagome bled freely from his mouth as he spoke softly and comfortingly.
"I'm here. It's alright." He combed his hand slowly through her hair but allowed his second, free hand to obey his hormones and wander down to what Miroku would be proud of. Too bad Kagome didn't approve of this lechery.
"Ah!" She squealed in surprise. She pulled back and frowned, deciding to cry on herself instead. Inuyasha was too drunk to know better. He took one long look at Kouga, who was on the ground and decided to leave him there as he pulled Kagome and Miroku out of the bathroom.
They each sat down, occupying 3 of the nine red, damaged and unattended spinner chairs. After a long talk with Kagome, they ordered some more beers to finish off the night. In the middle of all the far from sober activities and stupid-like conversations, Inuyasha and Kagome got friendlier than normal. Kagome thought that they should call it a night.
"Inuyasha stop, I was just saying thank you, a kiss on the cheek isn't an invitation to make-out."
Again, Inuyasha was too deep in to realize what he was doing. He continued to try to kiss Kagome as Miroku laughed hysterically at nothing in the background.
"Stop it! You're acting just like Kouga!!" She screamed furiously. Gentle thoughts and nice words melted away as anger and fury oozed into her.
'Oops, wrong thing to say.' Miroku thought.
And though drunk, Inuyasha took it very seriously. He shot her a short, meaningful look and slapped her.
They say beer brings out your true disposition but too much can do the opposite. Every thought that he had ever entertained in the past month was quickly rising to the surface, fortunately, these thoughts were ruined by the angry scream of Kagome, who was now wide-eyed and ready to fight back.
"How dare you?!" She demanded, much closer to fainting than to sober. The bar slowly poured in a circle around the two and Miroku continued laughing. Inuyasha's response was drunk but still very senseful.
"You bitch, no compare me to that stinking asshole... Maybe next time I'll remember how you take things for granted and I won't give a fuck for you even if you beg for me to help!"
The crowd around them paused and though they did not know half the story, they laughed and cheered and some booed.
Kagome ended up walking away and needless to say, they didn't talk much the rest of the night. Ten minutes into the distressed talks and depressed feelings, Inuyasha kept smelling something peculiar, he couldn't quite put his finger on it. But when Kagome abruptly and quickly fainted in the corner of the bar, crying, and he knew the problem. The smell was that Kagome had been drugged.
And it seemed that everything was inaudible as he watched her pale body hit the floor.
"Oh, fuck." But that also went unheard.
Her bloodshot eyes closed and her consciousness started slipping away.
Miroku and Inuyasha hovered over her face and talked frantically to her. But everything was slow and silent. It seemed even colorless as Miroku tapped her face to help her snap out of it. They kept saying things to her that she couldn't understand, and then it happened, all at once, the silent voices, the colorless picture and the slow motion disappeared when she fainted.
After they brought her outside, Miroku headed home saying.
"Man...My dad's gonna be angry."
It was one in the morning.
The whole world seemed to be revolving around the problems of teenagers, like school wasn't even as close as important as emotions lately.
Inuyasha finally made it to his house and unlocked the door. He walked in with Kagome feeling heavy in his two normally strong arms, and when he attempted the stairs, he fell back and landed on the floor with Kagome on him. He started chuckling and that chuckling grew into a whole-hearted laughter.
The Next Morning
Kagome awoke in the soft, comfortable bed of Inuyasha. She could tell because it smelt like him, she smiled slightly before thoughts of the night before came rushing to her. She turned to her side to look for a clock but only found Inuyasha sleeping next to her. She groaned and shut her eyes tight, wishing him away. And when she looked again, lo and behold, he was still there. She removed the blankets and revealed her own very sore and aching body.
She got up and tried walking around but found that each movement greeted her with sore muscle pains.
Once she had made it down the trialing stairs of the mansion, she saw Inuyasha making coffee.
"But—you were..." Kagome swore she had already seen enough crap for the time being. Now Inuyasha could teleport from the bed to the kitchen.
"Three stairways." He said plainly.
"I need a shower." She droned.
"There's a bathroom on every floor."
She walked towards the first door on her right, begging with God that it was a bathroom. Well, at least something went right as she opened the door and gasped and giggled at the luxuries momentarily having something to take her away from her thoughts of the night earlier.
Inuyasha waited, he couldn't just leave her there; she would probably need breakfast or coffee or something.
Wait a minute, weren't they in some sort of argument?
'Aren't I supposed to be mad at her for something?' He wondered thoughtfully. Then he remembered and realized he still was angry.
He didn't have to feed her breakfast, what was he thinking?
When she came out of the bathroom, he stood there, watching, waiting.
"Um, Inuyasha? Why were we uhh...sleeping together?" Kagome asked, embarrassed just to think that they could've done something that they would regret.
"Oh." He was expecting a different question; he answered her as he poured himself a mobile cup of coffee.
"My guess is it was Sesshomaru's idea of a joke. Because I think I passed out on the stairs." He really didn't feel like talking about it all that much.
"Ok, well, I guess we missed the first half of school, are you gonna still--"
"Kagome what the hell is your problem? How could you get talked into the bar with Kouga?"
"Uh-What?! It's not like that at all! You act like I agreed to everything he did! He forced me, Inuyasha!"
"Yeah, sure seems that way when you don't give the luxury of a thank you. I bet you would've preferred if I didn't come into the men's room when I did!"
"What, do you think I'm some kind of slut?!"
Familiar rage and anger filled both their minds as they pierced each other's eyes with their own. Everything Inuyasha ever got slightly angry about built up to a tower of hatred.
"If you wanna get an apology or a lovely thank you why don't you try to be nice to me once and a while!?" She demanded angrily.
"Maybe I'd be nice if you didn't take everything I've done for you for granted. You don't seem to be all that thrilled that I helped you out! But maybe you could spare me all your bitter feelings! In the meantime, there's more coffee in the mug if you want! Good-fucking-bye!" He slipped on his light coat and walked out the door, purposely slamming it as hard as he could. He got in his car and was about to drive off when Kagome came running out with coffee.
"You're not going to give me a ride?" She asked, clearly appalled.
He was silent and looking deadly for a moment before slowly saying,
"Get in."
Once they got to the school, they separated as far as they could from each other.
"Inuyasha! Where have you been? I was so worried!" Kikyou hissed from across the lunch table.
"I don't wanna talk about it." He said softly, barely eying his food.
When he looked across the room and saw Kouga, coming right for them, he got up, ready for action.
When they were face to face and only a fingers length away from each other, Kouga made the first move to payback Inuyasha with a quick jab to the face to embarrass him. Students turned their heads and shut up to watch the action.
Kikyou gasped.
He smirked and as Inuyasha was about to punch him as hard possible, Miroku jumped in the middle and his punch halted an inch from his best friend's nose.
"Stop." He said. Miroku's voice was firmer and more intense than it had ever been.
Inuyasha looked into his eyes; they were so serious, something you rarely saw in a person like him. He tried to push him out of the way but his hands were grabbed amazingly forcefully and held while they still stared right at each other. Inuyasha jerked back his hands.
"Move." Inuyasha ordered.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Miroku asked softly.
"Quite sure." He replied sarcastically, taking in none of his meaningful words.
"She told me to thank you for what you did. But if you show her you can tear Kouga to pieces, you think she'll be happy…?" He pushed him back a little, letting Kouga leave.
A happy smile graced his features,
"There's still 15 minutes in lunch and she wants to talk to you."
"Great…can't I get a moment's peace?" Inuyasha asked as he left, irritated that hew hadn't had time to settle down.
Miroku sighed in relief and sat down,
"Man that was scary!" He commented as he leaned back.
Sango smiled happily at him,
"When you want you can get pretty serious."
"That was very hard. But I just knew that if I talked Inuyasha out of that, Kagome would be impressed with him." He answered, looking away.
"Was she watching?"
"Yeah, see? Inuyasha's talking to her right now. And they're smiling, and they're happy, and they fighting again."
"Really? How can you tell?" She asked, quite puzzled as she looked at their figures.
"I'm just kidding." He replied with a chuckle.
She knocked him on the head. Miroku automatically decided that this was a good time to practice his groping skills.
He reached down and then a little to the side,
Score!
Gasp!
Slap!
The slap was harder than Sango intended it to be.
"Hey! Why are you so angry today? That one really hurt!"
"Oh, sorry!" She exclaimed as she rubbed his red cheek.
"It's just that, when my friends get angry, I get angry and I guess I hit harder."
"What do you mean, 'you get angry'? Like a ripple effect?" Miroku asked.
"Yeah, I guess it's like that."
"Inuyasha. I realizes that this is probably one of my only chances to talk to you, and I just wanted to say that--"
"I don't care." He said simply. She looked at him quizzically and was about to ask until he continued,
"I know what you're going to say and... I don't care. I-I…I don't care about what happened with Kouga, I don't care what happened with Kikyou at the carnival, after the carnival. I'm just very sick of thinking about it all and…I don't care anymore. I don't want you to apologize for anything, because, none of it matters and I just, I…just want to be with you. Nobody will have to be upset for anything at all and we can put it all behind us."
When Kagome didn't answer, he quickly backtracked and searched for something or anything he said wrong. But she just stared at him, in awe at this proposition.
"You think they'll start over?" Sango asked, watching the process.
Miroku smiled and replied,
"Inuyasha doesn't believe in starting over, says it shows lack of effort. He likes to say that they put it all behind them."
"But that's like the same thing, isn't it?"
"It's just like when you said you were only angry because of your friends and I thought you were just angry. Either way, you were angry, so either way you put it; I'd say Kagome and Inuyasha are friends again. Just watch and see." Miroku finished with a grin.
"Well, I don't know, I think they're coming out a little more than friends…Where's Kikyou?"
"Bathroom." He replied.
"Wow, you don't miss a beat on women, do you?" Sango asked dully, eying that hand of his.
"If you're still mad at me, I'm really sorry for the things I said. I just wanna put it all behind us." He started to worry that by her silence she didn't want to forgive him.
"Inuyasha…if…you can do all that than so can I, I can do whatever you need me to, just…don't be mad at me anymore. You're right, we should just leave it all behind."
Inuyasha instantly pulled her into his arms and accepted with great gratitude, this second chance. He nearly lost his breath when the happiness impaled him and he took short, sharp sighs to relieve himself of the sudden and intense wave of new feeling.
The fact that the argument was finally over hit him so hard that he almost cried.
He didn't know what else to do but believe that it was real and to hold her.
Haha! I finished that chapter!! R and R!