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Jami – What's up? This is the third chapter!
Harai(was Brittany, but apparently, that's her freaking slave name!) – Well, whoopdi doo!
Jami – Shut up! I like my story so far!
Rachel – Yeah, only you!
Jami – NUH UH! My reviewers seem to like my fic so far! SEE!?
Asian-Girl2005 – I'm liking it . No really , I love it . Please update soon.
Kittyearsgirl – OMG. This is cool. Please just keep going. Im adicted. Its like crack. M must have more.
BaBeeCinaMon – this is a really good story! I cant wait for the next chapter!!
Inu-yasha and snago luver – this is a great story!! Arigato for sending a new chapter up! I really wanted to know what happened and now I know. Keep writing! You do a great job at it. Well ja ne!
Jami – WHAT NOW!??!?!? HUH!?!?!
Harai – Well, you didn't read my reviews Jami! HUH?
Jami - ::glares at harai:: FINE!
Inuroxmysox13 – IF YOU EVER CALL ME BRITTANY AGAIN I'LL HURT YOU! AT LEAST CALL ME SANGO EVEN THOUGH I PREFERE HARAI! I TOLD YOU BRITTANY WAS MY SLAVE NAME AND I WILL NOT RESPOND TO IT ANYMORE!
your special
buddy,
Haraikotsu
Harai – that's better...
Jami - ::thinks, BITCH!!::
Rachel – Well, I didn't review because I didn't even read your fic! HAHA!
Jami – Then why do you bother being here in the first place!? ::rolls up sleeve and clenches fist::
Rachel – hey, I was only here for the food!
Jami – GRRR!!!
Harai – Kick her ASS! YEAH!
Jami - ::ponder for a moment:: where's zak? Wasn't I supposed to kick HIS ass? ::rachel and harai shrug::
Chapter Three: Why Couldn't I Have Just Gotten Drunk
Kagome stood in front of the tall mirror. She stared at herself contently, soaking up how she looked in the kimono Rin had given her for Inuyasha's seventeenth birthday party. The kimono was a beautiful white with dark red and light pink petals and flowers stitched all over it. Kagome had her long, raven hair down in a wavy mess and she was bare foot. Rin had also given her some makeup, so she had some blush and pink lipstick on. She smacker her lips, making a light clapping sound echo throughout the empty room. She gazed around at her surroundings.
On the floor, lay strewn red and white clothes that had belonged to Inuyasha about an hour before. Kagome sighed. As much as she wanted to impress him tonight, though, she hadn't the slightest idea why, she didn't want to blow it by being some slut.
It was hard, being raised to seduce men since the age of thirteen. By now, it came as habit to flirt and send sexual hints to men around her. It was as if it came naturally. Before she was taken into slavery, she was never like this. She was an innocent, shy teenager, still in the midst of virginity. Once her dignity was taken away, it was hard for her to trust people again. She would cover up most of her feelings by acting like a whore and getting a man into bed. Sex was her release, her escape.
But she didn't want it to be... she wanted it to be for love, not to use it like some drug...
But, apparently, that didn't matter to anyone else. And at that moment, Kagome didn't want to think about it anymore... at least not until someone would listen to her, to let her cry on their shoulder. But who would do that for some sex mistress?
No one. That's who. No one gave a shit about her, and Kagome was starting to lose hope of ever finding true happiness.
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Kagome walked sadly down the stairs to the ballroom. She walked solemnly inside the glowing room, full of the sweet smelling flowers she had picked earlier that day. This was her moment to make sure no one knew she was sad... that she was lonely.
She let her lips curve into a 'smile' and peered around the room for anybody she knew. There, she saw Emperor Sesshomaru and she gleefully glided over toward him.
"Good evening, you're highness." Kagome said and bowed her head slightly. Sesshomaru nodded and looked the girl over.
He knew something was up. He could feel it. Kagome was feeling something other than happiness, and right now, it didn't seem too positive.
"Is something the matter Lady Kagome?" He asked almost worriedly. Kagome's eyes went wide a bit but quickly covered it up with another one of her smiles.
"No! Of course not! Why do you ask?"
"Just curious." He told her and raised an eyebrow.
Rin walked in draped in a beautiful yellow kimono and Sesshomaru's eyes lit up. He quickly waltzed over towards her and offered her to dance. Rin blushed and agreed.
'Great... now I'm alone once again with no one to talk to...' Kagome thought unhappily as she watched the too glide around the room.
As if on cue, a long brown-haired girl, stood next to her. She had on a light lavender kimono on and her hair was slung back in a long ponytail. It was tied with a white ribbon.
"Hi." She said shyly. Kagome smiled again.
"Hi! I'm Kagome and I'm sixteen."
"I'm Sango. I'm seventeen. I heard you were a new mistress at the castle, so I decided to talk with you."
"Thanks. I was feeling a little lonely." Kagome thanked Sango.
"So, I hear you're Inuyasha's, right? You look an awful like Kikyou." Sango stated not looking her completely in the eyes.
"I've heard that one too many times! You want to tell me who this Kikyou person is? No one is giving me an answer!" Kagome almost shouted.
"Well... you see... she was..." Sango was cut off just two seconds too soon.
Suddenly, a swarm of lustful looking men huddled around her with wide eyes, gibbering happily at this wonder that had popped up out of nowhere.
"Whoa! What a babe!" One said.
"She's a hottie!" Another shouted.
"Who's is she? I wish she were mine!"
"Yeah, me too!"
"Me three!"
Kagome felt as if she was drowning. She couldn't breathe and she could feel her face burning to a bright red.
That was when he walked into the room...
He was clad in black pants, and a long, black, silk shirt, open to show his muscular chest. His long dark hair flowed freely to his waist, and his gray eyes lit up the room.
Kagome held her breath as she watched him walk around. By now, she had grown oblivious to the crowd of men around her,
And for a split second, his gray orbs locked with her blue ones, and she could feel the blush rising again.
There was only the two of them... no one else. The world seemed to be cast into oblivion. Only the sound of her heartbeat filled the room.
She didn't know if she was hallucinating or not, but it sure looked as if he had just smirked at her.
And then his eyes were somewhere else, almost like he didn't care at all.
Kagome felt her loneliness drifting back to her, and she gulped.
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"Brother, where are you off to? The party's just begun."
Inuyasha stopped dead in his tracks and groaned. He turned around slowly to face Sesshomaru.
"Just getting some fresh air. What?" He asked.
"I was concerned for Kagome." Sesshomaru answered.
"What for?" Inuyasha asked. "She seems perfectly fine to me." He pointed his index finger toward the crowd of shouting and fighting men with an exasperated Kagome in the middle of it.
"Don't be an ass, Inuyasha!" Sesshomaru ordered.
"What are you getting at, Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha raised an eyebrow.
"Help her out! Can't you see she's suffocating over there? Ask her to dance! Help her escape!"
Inuyasha doubled over and clenched his stomach as he laughed. "Are you serious?" He gasped through laughs.
"I'm deathly serious." Sesshomaru told him and grabbed the hilt of his sword.
"Feh! I ain't afraid of you!"
"Maybe not, but Kagome might be."
They stood there for what seemed like hours, glaring at each other.
"Fine, I'll do it, but don't ever bribe me into doing something by threatening to kill Kagome again! That's just plain STUPID!" And Inuyasha stomped over to Kagome.
"Not half as stupid as you are." Sesshomaru mumbled as he watched his brother walk away from him.
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"C'mon! You know you wanna come up with me to my room tonight! Right?"
"Ahh.... Not really..." Kagome tried prying herself off of these lame excuses of men. "Get off of me!" She shouted.
"Not until you tell me you wanna dance!"
"No, dude, she's dancing with me!"
"I asked first!"
"I saw her first!"
She closed her eyes. 'Why couldn't I have just gotten drunk?' She thought to herself. Kagome was growing weary. She was almost ready to let one of these animals drag her up to a bedroom so she could lie on a bed. She was getting desperate for help and she needed it before someone took her away.
And so her prayers were answered...
She felt another hand grasp her arm and drag her out of the blob of men. 'Oh great.' She thought. 'One of them actually got to me.' She opened her eyes back open to find a pair of gray orbs staring back at her.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha let go of her arm and wrapped his arms around her waist, attempting to dance with her. "What are you doing?"
"Dancing." He answered, not looking her completely in the eyes.
"With me? Why?" Kagome asked curiously. She was almost delighted it had been him than one of those other men.
"Because..." He trailed off.
"Because why?"
"Because, I-I just wanted to." He stumbled over his words.
"You wanted to?" Kagome asked, blushing again.
"Umm... yeah..." Inuyasha said almost truthfully. It's not like he hadn't thought about dancing with her...
She let out a heavy sigh as they floated around the room, doing their best to get as far away as possible from the angry mob of men. "Better you than one of those wild animals." Kagome rolled her eyes at the thought. "I was afraid that one of them would drag me upstairs to their bed and... well, you get the jist."
Inuyasha 'humpfd.'
Kagome sighed again.
They both decided to glance at each other, not thinking that the other would be looking at them as well, and they blushed and peered away.
Kagome really wanted to ask him. It felt as if it was the most important thing in the world and that everyone was trying to keep it from her. She felt left out, which made her feel lonely, which made her feel angry. She HAD to know. So, she asked someone she thought she could depend on, who could answer all of her questions, who could help her understand.
"Inuyasha, who's Kikyou?"
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Inuyasha stopped moving and peered into her eyes as if trying to find the answer himself. "It's not important."
"Can't you just tell me?"
"It isn't that easy!"
"Why not? Everybody's been talking about some girl named Kikyou! They say that I look like her and everything, but they won't tell me who she is! Please? Just tell me?" Kagome pleaded, her eyes sparkling with ass kissing.
He sighed. "You really want to know, don't you?" Kagome nodded. "Let's go outside."
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Once outside, they sat down on one of the stone benches near the meadow where Kagome had picked flowers earlier that day. Inuyasha was avoiding her eyes again.
"So, who is she?" Kagome asked for the last time.
Inuyasha swallowed hard. "She was..." He began. "Kikyou was my slave mistress." Kagome didn't say anything and let him continue. "We met when we were thirteen, and we couldn't stand each other."
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"Inuyasha," a muffled voice that was Inuyasha's father had said. "Meet your first ever slave mistress, Kikyou. She's thirteen, just like you. Now, go get along and have fun." And his shadow disappeared from the picture.
Kikyou shifted her feet on the floor. Inuyasha crossed his arms.
"I didn't ask for this!" Inuyasha told her harshly.
"Well, it's not like this was my idea or something!"
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"But soon, we learned to actually become friends, and we did everything together."
Kagome peered up at Inuyasha's form. She couldn't read his expression because his dark bangs were covering his eyes.
"When we were fifteen, we actually did the thing that Kikyou was bought for in the first place." Inuyasha continued. "We fell in love."
Kagome was feeling sadder and sadder as he spoke. There was something about this Kikyou she didn't quite like hearing about.
"But then, my father died, and my elder brother, Sesshomaru became the new emperor. It was hell. My brother didn't quite like Kikyou and he often tried to break us apart. It was so stupid." Inuyasha gulped. "Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse between me and Kikyou... she was..." He paused.
Kagome gazed up at him. "Inuyasha?" Kagome asked worriedly.
"She was raped and murdered in the forest."
Kagome held her hand to her throat, getting a visual of this Kikyou girl being murdered... becoming so helpless. Becoming so lonely.
"Inuyasha... I'm sorry." Kagome began, tears welding up into her eyes. "I'm so... so sorry..." Kagome held her hands to her face and began crying.
Inuyasha peered over at her. "Why are you crying? Stop it!"
"I can't!"
"Why not!?"
"Because I know what it feels to be so confused in the world, so scared. So alone! With no one to hold onto! No one who cares about you!" Kagome wailed.
Inuyasha stared, stunned at her.
"I know what it feels like to be virtually raped and stolen of your one true innocence! I know how it feels to be so alone! So LONELY!"
She felt tight arms wrap around her shuddering body, keeping her from shivering, helping the tears to stop. She felt his heartbeat, his caring, and warmth. She felt him stroke her hair and caress the small of her back. She felt his gentle, yet, at the same time strong, touch.
She opened her eyes, still blurry from the tears to look up at him. Their eyes locked and her heart almost melted. "Inuyasha... thank you..."
"Yeah... sure..." He said. "I didn't know that someone who looked so happy could actually be so sad inside. I... I'm sorry."
"For what?" Kagome asked, wiping the tears from her face.
"For being such a jackass to you. If I knew you felt the same hurt as I did, then I would have opened up to you more." He told her with true honesty. Kagome smiled for real, for the first time that night. His hand reached out to touch her cheek. Kagome lifted her hand to hold his. "Are you gonna be okay?' He asked.
"Ahh... I don't know..." She trailed off. Kagome peered down to find what she never expected to see on Inuyasha.
She grasped his arm and held it out in front of her to examine the deep, painful looking cuts across his wrist and the top of his arm, still fresh with blood.
"Inuyasha?" She asked sadly, tears welding up in her eyes again.
He pulled his arm from her grasp and turned away from her. "Those... are just some scratches..."
"Inuyasha, I'm not stupid." Kagome told him and wrapped her arms around his waist and began to cry into his back. She enlaced her fingers together in front of his stomach and held onto him tightly.
She felt his warm hand cover hers and he turned to her to wipe away her tears. "Listen to me." He ordered. She nodded. "What I did... I just... I don't know how to explain it... I..." He was cut off when Kagome leaned up and kissed him softly on his lips.
After a few moments of shock passed, Inuyasha closed his eyes and leaned into her touch. He wrapped his arms around her again and held her to his chest.
Whatever he was feeling, it wasn't a negative emotion. The feeling was positive and hopeful. It was kindness and trust. He felt passionate and daring. He didn't feel alone anymore.
And let's just say Kagome was feeling mutual.
Kagome broke off the kiss and tangled her arms around him. "I don't want to be alone anymore. I don't want to be lonely!" She cried into his chest.
"Neither do I." He told her.
The truth was, he didn't know how he felt. He wanted to know Kagome inside and out. He wanted to be with someone again, and if anyone, he wanted it to be Kagome.
But he still couldn't bring himself to forget Kikyou. It isn't easy to forget someone that was so close to you once, so in love with you. It's hard... extremely hard, but he knew he had to move on.
He had to move on, or else, he would be lonely forever...
END CHAPTER
Jami – tell me what you thought. I knew I HAD to make a little more romance happen, right? Hehe!
::looks around and sees that everyone has left::
Jami – Those bitches!
::stomps off to murder her friends::
EXPECT ANOTHER CHAPTER IN A FEW DAYS!!!
