REVIEWS GALORE! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Me think I need to be locked up. Okay...
Disclaimer - Okay, that's it... Irishwolf511, exactly who do we have again?!
Irishwolf511 - Hmm, lessee...Inuyasha, Kagome, the remains of Kikyo, Sango, Shippou, Miroku (slap), Ayame, Sota, Kaede, uh... Myoga, Naraku, Koga, Rumiko Takahashi, um, ... I think that's it...no wait, one more
Kamiko-Zephuru - Oh yeah, our latest catch... (Pulls out huge bag, pulls out Hachi)
Irishwolf511- (stuffs Hachi back in bag, throws bag in cell with Sango)
Kamiko-Zephuru - BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ANOTHER HAS FALLEN TO OUR POWER!
Irishwolf511- (looks bug-eyed at brother, backs away slowly) someone needs to seek professional help...
Shard - (friend of ours) (pops head out of door) LIKE MY MOM!
Kamiko-Zephuru - (falls down, ANIME STYLE!)
Irishwolf511- Okay,
A. Who let you in here? And
B. Your mom is the last person I would send someone to for psychiatric help
Shard - HMPH. (Slams door. Then from behind the door) WAIT A MINUTE!
Irishwolf511- Oops. We forgot to hide the prisoners again.
Kamiko-Zephuru - Uhhhh.. Quick, slam her in the head with the frying pan!
Irishwolf511 - I can't do that
Kamiko-Zephuru - Why not?
Shard - (looks evilly at them) because I have a skillet...
(Kitchen Ware Wars! Next time on Disclaimer!)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Sunset Staring
Silence. Pure and utter silence. Everyone in the room was just as surprised and completely weird-ed out, and looking at each other and/or the jewels.
"Uh... Now what?" Shippou squeaked.
Ding-Dong.
All of the teens (and kit) jumped an average of 3 feet up in the air (high number because of Inuyasha, who jumped a total of onto the ceiling light) No one moved, too scared to break the silence anymore. But the doorbell rang again. "Um... I'll get it." Kagome whispered, walking ever so slowly to the door.
- - Place jump to outside of door - -
'HELLO?! DOES ANYONE EVEN LIVE HERE!? ... Ugh, I mean, it was bad enough when I found out Inuyasha lived with Higurashi, but not even answering the door to see me! ME! OF ALL PEOPLE!' Chiaki thought angrily, tapping her foot at the shrine-house's front door.
Kagome opened the front door, to see Chiaki standing there, face instantly hardening upon seeing her archrival. "Oh, Higurashi, is Inuyasha home." Kagome's face was one of pure annoyance. So, in her anger and sheer aggravation, she slammed the door right in Matsuda's face.
"Ow..." Chiaki said, rubbing her nose. 'How dare she! She should know that Inuyasha is mine now! I mean, we went on a date and everything, although it was cut rather short when he just up and left me there, with nowhere to go but back to school. Hmph... I'll get to him... And to you Higurashi, don't even worry about that...' she snickered before turning and going back down the shrine steps. 'How many steps do they need for this place?!'
- - Back with kags. - -
"Oi." she thought. There was not a single bit of guilt in her about slamming the door on that slut. Slut was a good term, too, considering that whenever Chiaki got a bad G.P.A., not only fifteen minutes after stepping into the principals office did it suddenly go up. Nope, not a bit of guilt.
Kagome came back into the living room, only to see that no one had moved an inch. "Kami, do I have to get all of you guys out of a trance on my own? Ugh..." she randomly picked up a sports horn, and pressed the button.
Poor Inuyasha. With his sensitive hearing, he was knocked out. Not everyone else though, they were just awakened from their stupor.
- -Time skip - -
"Done!" Sango said, collapsing onto a nearby chair. Kagome and Sangarouka followed, as did Miroku and Morobuku. Inuyasha, however, stood firm where he was. "Uh, hey Inuyasha, you can sit down now..."
WHAM!
Kagome winced. "Oops. Sorry..." Once he was able to lift his head off of the ground, Inuyasha simply glared at her, and then left the room and went outside.
"Um, Kagome, I don't think he's happy about that." Sangarouka said.
"No really." Sango retorted.
"Well, I was just reassuring her about what to do now!"
"Please, you were just randomly stating the obvious."
"Hey, I'm not stupid."
"If that's so, then why do you act stupid?"
"Well, If I'm stupid, I must have picked it up from you, oh great previous soul bearer." the two launched up from their seats, and Miroku brought out some popcorn. "This could get good." He handed the bowl to Morobuku. "No kiddin'."
The two girls were glaring knives at each other, and looked as if they were about to pull each other into a catfight.
"Uh guys?"
"WHAT SHIPPOU?!"
"WHAT SHIPPOU?!"
"Kagome already went outside about halfway through your argument." The two girls then heard the door to outside slide shut, and dropped from their attacking positions.
- - Place change, back with Yanayi and Ituchi - -
"I see your love for coffee hasn't died out." Ituchi joked, walking up to his bride from behind. She took another sip of the brown, thick liquid in the Starbucks cup. "YEP, I LOVE CAFFIENE!"
"Please don't tell me you're like this around the kids..."
"They don't mind."
"Oh Kami..." they walked down the sidewalk in silence. "So... when are you going back to Japan?" Ituchi asked.
"Four days."
"Wow, that doesn't leave a lot of time for us..." he sighed. "Oh well, I guess we'll just have to make the best of it."
"Yeah."
"Hi, guys." a voice said from behind them.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
The slightly green tint haired boy smiled widely, showing of how proud he was of freaking them out beyond all reason.
The two relaxed after a second and turned around. "Naena, what do you think you're doing, sneaking up from behind like that?!"
"Simple, having fun!"
"Ugh, thirteen year-olds..." Ituchi rubbed his brow.
"Wait, what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be back in Nagoya with the others?"
"Well, they wanted to know why it was that they were being forced to move to Tokyo all of the sudden," Naena eyed Ituchi. "I believe you forgot to tell them why before they shoved onto the first plane to Taipei."
"Oops, I knew there was something I forgot."
"Yeah, oops is right."
(A/N - just how confused are you now?)
- - back in Tokyo - - (music for this part, h t t p : i c h i g o s . c o m / a n i m e m u s i c /m i d i / d e t e c t i v e c o n a n s e c r e t o f m y h e a r t . M I D)
Kagome silently walked out towards the sacred tree, which a certain hanyou was sulking in. But she didn't get it, why was it that Inuyasha was so upset about this time that she accidentally sat him? It had happened before, many times before. But she knew that if she didn't find out now, when the occurrence was still fresh, this reason would be completely over blown. Not to mention it would gnaw at her wish-to-be boyfriend for quite a while. "Um, Inuyasha?" he didn't move, but she knew he heard her. With his hearing, he most likely heard the entire fight Sango and her reincarnation had had.
Kagome sighed inwardly. "Inuyasha, stop pouting."
"I don't pout, wench."
'Yeah, whatever.' She looked up at him, staring into his amber eyes that she had grown to love. Even though he was looking at the changing leaves of the tree, she could see them so wonderfully.
Her gaze fell downward to the clothing that he wore. She was so happy her mother had good tastes when it came to fashion and things, since he looked good enough to completely drool over in his jeans and white t-shirt. Even though the shirt wasn't tight, she could still make out the good impression of his muscles.
She went back to his face, and noticed of how perfectly the scene he had 'set up' was, with the sun falling beyond the horizon behind him. 'Oh Kami... how much do I love him...' she had gotten over the fact that she thought he loved her, since she now assumed that he had been talking about Kikyo that fateful night when her heart had raced so.
His face was not one of happiness, or of anger, or anything for that matter. It was just, discomfort. 'He put on the mask again. Why does he always do that? I don't think of him as a lowly half-breed or anything. Not that he is lowly for that matter, considering how many demons and evil things he's killed, like Hiten and Tokajin...' she thought, sighing outwardly this time. She was completely unaware that he was staring at her as well now.
"What are you looking at?" he said gruffly.
"I'm looking at you, idiot." she retorted, being pulled from her stupor. But she didn't regret saying it, since it snagged his attention. "Looking at me?"
"Yes, at you. Is there a problem?"
"Why would you look at a lowly hanyou? There ain't nothing to stare at."
"I hate to disagree." she said, joy warming her a little bit. Her heart was starting to race.
Inuyasha's heart was already past the speed of light. "I, uh... err... hmph, what do you want then?"
She sighed sadly, and the half-dog demon immediately regretted what he said. Not only did she sigh, but also sorrow welled up to her eyes, and her heart slowed down. "I, um..." she stuck one leg behind the other, making her look almost irresistible to Inuyasha. "I just wanted to apologize for s-i-t-ing you," she said; sorrow clinging onto her words unmistakably.
Kagome turned around to go back inside, when Inuyasha smelled it. Tears.
Immediately he was down by her, and gripped her hand. (A/N - ironic how the tables were switched. You know, she came out to apologize to him, and now he's is doing the same to her)
Kagome whipped her head around, accidentally flipping her hair in the process. Her beauty surpassed any other the hanyou had ever seen, and lost all words in his mind. He could only stare.
"Um, what are you looking at?"
"You."
(A/N - This is the part of the fan fiction that I always love to do) She smiled to herself, seeing as the lines had now switched. But it was impossible of how her heart raced faster than she could have ever felt it do so in gym class. "What's there to look at, dog boy?"
He looked like he was thinking hard on what to say, before finally agreeing on, "Everything about you."
Kagome's heart skipped multiple beats.
"Uh... Wh-... I mean... Um..." Her words were lost to her. She could never think of a time that he openly complimented her, or anyone else for that matter. But his gaze on her was way more than enough to take her breath away.
The two just stared at each other for what seemed to be eons, completely unaware of how their bodies were ever so slowly moving closer. After a minute or two, they were in complete hug. But Inuyasha then became aware of how they were moving closer to each other, and turned just a little so that her head would rest on his shoulder.
Kagome couldn't think of any other place she would want to be at that moment. Being embraced so lovingly by her love was a feeling that had no parallel. For a moment, all things wrong in her life and in the world dissipated. Even so many of the other people in her life faded away, and the only one still fully in her head was Inuyasha.
He could feel it. Her chest was beating out of control, just as his. "I'm sorry..." he whispered so softly that she could barely even hear it. It just made the entire scene even more wonderful for them.
"Kagome, Inuyasha! Dinner is ready." Sangarouka called out the window. Soon after the beckoning, a loud crash was heard from the kitchen, followed by series of yells.
Inuyasha let Kagome out of his arms, and silently said. "Go on in, I'll come inside a little later." He kissed her forehead, and jumped out of her arms, down to the entrance the shrine, and bounded down the long steps. He was gone.
"Inuyasha..." she said, heart racing faster than anything it had before. Her breaths were so small, she felt like she stood on a cloud. Involuntarily, she walked back into the house, and suddenly had a realization of what happened. 'He... just kissed me!...'
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How much do I love this chapter? Oh, It is so wonderful. And if you didn't listen to music I gave you to listen to while reading, then go get it, and come to this chapter and reread from where I originally told to listen to the music to the end. It completely adds to the effect.
You better review this time. I worked my ass off on this chapter.