Love Comes to Those Who Wait
Chapter 4
"What?" Ayame said blinking.
"I know it's a little late notice, I forgot about it until just a second ago," pausing Kagome waited for Ayame's response. But when none came she immediately went on. "If you can't its okay, I'm sure you're busy what with moving in and all I just wanted to say the invitations open."
Ayame paused, she really did have things to do that night but Kagome was inviting her along with her friends to the mall! No one had ever invited her anywhere with them let alone to hang out! "I'd love to come Kagome," Ayame said. Unpacking could wait! "I'll just need to phone my dad and tell him I'll be home later."
"Great!" Kagome said as Ayame pulled out her cell phone (A/N: Sigh I wish I had a cell phone...)
"Dad?...............Oh hey dad, um look I'm going to be later tonight okay I got invited to go along with some friends to the mall................yeah I'll finish unpacking when I get home.....mhhmmmm.......okay well I got to go. See you later bye."Ayame said hanging up her cell phone. Looking up at Kagome, Ayame smiled. "Okay!" she said cheerfully. "I'm ready anytime you are."
"Alrightee then," Kagome said pushing the doors open and holding it so Ayame could go through as well. "Well I said we'd meet the gang by the well at the mall. Let's go."
"Well?" Ayame asked curiously as she walked alongside with Kagome. "What's a well doing at a mall?"
"Oh its not inside," Kagome said waving at someone who walked by. "It's outside, it's really old so the mall didn't want to tear it down so they left it out front for memorial sake. The gang and I call it the bone eaters well. I can't remember where the idea came from."
"Oh, I get it," Ayame said nodding. "So where exactly is the mall?"
"It's riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight there," Kagome said as there turned the corner and pointed at a large mall. "Oh look, I can see Inuyasha, Sango and Miroku. Come one lets go introduce you!"
"Are you sure they won't mind me joining you?" Ayame asked hesitantly even at the distance they were she could see a large scowl on the hanyou Inuyasha's face. "I wouldn't want to impose or anything..."
"Not at all; don't worry you'll fit right in. Now just remember what I said about Miroku," Kagome said as Miroku scuttled (A/N: don't you just love that word) over.
That made Ayame smile and so she replied, "don't worry I will."
"Lady Kagome," the boy named Miroku said as they got nearer. "Lovely to see you as always," Miroku took Ayame's hand and said, "but who is this vision of loveliness I see standing before me?"
"This is Ayame," Kagome said opening her mouth to say something more but closed it as Miroku turned to Ayame.
"Lovely goddess," Miroku said drawing her closer. "Will you do me the honor of bearing my child?"
"Let the poor girl go Miroku you pervert!" the girl named Sango grabbing Miroku by the ear and dragging him off Ayame.
"But Sango dearest," Miroku protested. "You didn't allow Ayame to answer my question!"
"Her answer will be the same as ever other woman you've ever asked, no!" Sango snapped letting go of Miroku's ear and giving him one last smack for good measure. "Hi Ayame," Sango said turning to Ayame. "I'm Sango, nice to meet you. I apologize for this pervert that goes by the name of Miroku's actions."
"It's okay," Ayame said grinning. "Kagome had already warned me in advance so it didn't come as too much of a shock."
"Lady Kagome!" Miroku indignantly exclaimed. "How could you portray me as thus, I must say my intentions were entirely honourable!"
"Feh!" Inuyasha said. "Honourable my ass."
"Inuyasha!" Miroku said. "Do you too believe my morals to be less than average."
"Morals!" Inuyasha scoffed. "What morals! If your morals were graded you'd fail! I think a starving tiger has more morals than you do!"
"I'm injured Inuyasha," Miroku said pouting. "You have wounded me to the heart!"
"Oh give it a break monk," Sango sighed.
"Look I'd love to stay out here and chat in the sunshine with the little birdies and the fluffy clouds but I'm starving so can we just get moving and talk over some chow?" Inuyasha said impatiently.
"Yeah sure," Kagome said and the five of them walked into the mall together.
Soon they were all sitting around a table, Sango, Kagome and Ayame sitting with cappuccinos, Miroku with an ice cream sundae and Inuyasha with a huge bowl of ramen.
"Soooo," Sango said sipping her coffee. "How was your first day?"
"Pretty borring until I meet Kagome," Ayame replied truthfully. "All I got was test after test on how much I knew."
"Yes, I noticed," Sango replied. "I would have been bored witless too, even if I did manage to ace all of them like you did."
Ayame blushed, and Kagome went on, "yeah now that Sango reminded me. That was pretty amazing." Turning back to her coffee Kagome sighed. "I wish I did that well in math." Looking at Ayame, Kagome smiled weakly. "I don't do to great in math."
"Why?" Ayame asked math was so simple for her. "I missed a whole bunch of school last year, cuz I had some problems with my immune system. It all started off as innocent stuff, colds, bunions, and what not but then my immune system started to get really weak so I caught colds like ever week, I caught pneumonia twice, bronchitis twice and I even had a couple of really bad flues. So I missed all these math classes and so since I missed all the basics I'm struggling now that it's harder." Kagome explained. Seeing Ayame worried look Kagome gave a small laugh, "Oh don't worry Ayame I'm all better now."
"Oh," Ayame breathed. "That's good. Well I'm really good in math I could tutor you if you want."
Ayame was surprised at the way such a simple comment could make Kagome's eyes light up. "Oh would you really Ayame? That would be so wonderful, I was so scared because I thought I was going to fail math. But if you would tutor me my marks would be sure to improve!"
Ayame smiled and said, "no prob."
"Whoever would have thought the great and popular Kagome would ever need tutoring," Inuyasha said through a mouthful of noodles. "Inuyasha! You insensitive jerk! Not everybody's perfect!!!!" Kagome snapped.
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Suddenly Ayame's attention was caught by a brown haired boy waving at Kagome from across the food court as he hurried towards her.
"Hey Kagome!" he shouted.
"Umm Kagome," Ayame said. "I think that boy's trying to get your attention."
"Oh who?" Kagome asked turning around and Ayame heard her groan slightly. Sango and Miroku grinned and Inuyasha growled angrily.
"Hi Kagome," the boy said pulling up a seat next to her. "How are you?"
"I'm doing great Hojo," Kagome said sweetly. "How are you?"
"Doing great," Hojo replied smiling broadly. "I was wondering if maybe you wanted to go out tonight with me to that new health food restaurant that just opened up downtown?"
"Oh tonight?" Kagome said. "Sorry Hojo, I already have plans. Maybe some other time."
That response slightly miffed Ayame because Kagome had just said she had nothing else going on that night.
"Oh okay," Hojo said standing up pretty cheerfully Ayame thought considering Kagome had just refused to go out with him. "Well maybe some other time. I'll see you around then. I've got to dash and help my mom carry all the tofu she just bought. Bye!"
"Bye," Kagome said waving as the boy dashed off.
"What and idiot," Inuyasha said going back to his ramen.
"Inuyasha," Kagome said. "That's not very nice. I'll have you know Hojo really is quite a sweet guy...unlike someone else I could mention."
"Hypocrite," Inuyasha said. "You're the one who just said you couldn't go out with him tonight even though you're not doing anything. I don't get why you can't just say "Hojo, I'm sorry I don't like you and I won't go out with you no matter how many times you ask so just bugger off.""
"Because that's cruel, he has to figure it out on his own," Kagome argued.
"But the idiot's too stupid to figure it out," Inuyasha countered.
"Okay, you two," Sango finally said interrupting. "That's enough, drop it. You're giving me a headache."
"Oh sorry Sango," Kagome apologized.
For a few seconds everyone just sat eating quietly until Sango said, "so Kagome how are the prom preparations coming?""Oh," Kagome said. "They're coming along just fine, Kouga and I had a brief debate about where to host it. I wanted it at that nice club and Kouga wanted to host it in the gym, but we solved it. I soon convinced him why it was better at the yacht club."
At that comment Ayame perked up. "Kouga?" she asked "Kouga from the Youkai-Wolf Tribe?"
"Yeah, do you know him?" Sango asked curiously.
"Yeah, I know him. We met once when we were kids," Ayame said. "He goes to this school?"
"Yep," Miroku said. "He's male head of the Student Committee."
"Oh really I didn't see him today, I would have said hi," Ayame said softly reflecting on her past. It had easily been ten years since she had seen Kouga and she wondered if he would even remember her. She would never forget how he had helped her when she had twisted her ankle falling down a set of stairs.
"What are you talking about. You've already met Kouga," Kagome said with a laugh and pulled her sketch book out. Flipping to a page she went on, "if not how could you have drawn this?"
Ayame gasped in shock as Kagome turned the sketch book around to reveal her drawing of the boy who had crashed into her that morning. "You mean- I mean this is – Kouga's the same person- whaaaaaa?"
Kagome just laughed. Sango, Miroku and Inuyasha craned their necks to get a better look at Ayame's sketch.
"Wow Ayame," Sango said. "That's pretty good."
"Yeah," Miroku agreed.
"Oh that's nothing you should see the sketches Ayame drew of us!" Kagome said. "You don't mind if I show them do you Ayame?"
"No of course not," Ayame said surprised at how nice it was to hear people complimenting her work.
"Wow," Sango breathed looking at her picture.
"Wow indeed," Miroku said as Sango's rear came into his lovely view as she stood up to reach across the table to grab Ayame's sketch book. The poor guy couldn't help it, his hand slowly inched forward to grab her lovely derrier.
But Sango was to in awe of her portrait to notice. Sitting absent- mindedly on Miroku's hand much to his pain, she said, "Ayame it's wonderful. You've captured me perfectly, it's like looking into a mirror....no it's like seeing me through someone else's eyes."
"Yeah," Inuyasha said. "Even I've got to admit she's right, you're way better than Kagome over here."
"Hey," Kagome protested. "I'm getting better."
"I guess, I'm never letting you paint me again though. I looked like a toad or Jaken or something," Inuyasha said.
"You did not!" Kagome exclaimed indignantly.
"Yeah, sorry to say the truth Kags but that definitely wasn't one of your better pictures," Sango said handing Ayame back her sketch book carefully. "When I saw it I thought you had done a picture of a candy cane."
"That was because I tried to draw Inuyasha with his hair swirling in the wind," Kagome protested trying valiantly to defend her art.
"Maybe Ayame can give you a few pointers, from now on," Miroku suggested hopefully recalling how he had already agreed to pose as Kagome's next victim. Of course only after Kagome had blackmailed him saying she'd tell Sango about something he had done when they were kids...
"Sure," Ayame replied. "I'd be happy to help."
"So Ayame, what other option are you taking?" Sango asked.
"Gym," Ayame replied.
"Oh cool, so you'll be in our class," Miroku said.
"Yeah I guess," Ayame replied.
"So about today-" Kagome said and went on to tell everyone about how she had just seen a really good movie until unexpectedly Ayame's cell phone rang.
"Sorry," she apologized and then answered. "Hello?......................Oh hi dad......mmmmhhmmmm......yeah I can come home now..........oh I'm just at the mall.......okay see you in about ten minutes.......yep.......by." Closing the phone Ayame stood up. "Sorry I've got to go, I'll see you all tomorrow."
"Okay," Kagome said. "See you."
"Yep, see ya," Sango said with a wave.
"Yeah, whatever," Inuyasha said going back to his ramen.
"Good by glorious vision of beauty," Miroku said as Ayame turned away. She turned just in time to see Sango smack him.
Smiling she waved and began to walk to the exit. But as she did her demon senses picked up on Kagome asking, "So what do you guys think of Ayame? Do you like her?"
"Oh yes," Miroku replied feverantly.
Ayame slowed her pace so she could hear the rest. "You like every girl you meet you pervert," Sango replied. "But I agree with Miroku, she's really nice. A little shy, but I'm sure she'll open up once she gets to know us better."
"What do you think Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.
"She's nice enough" Inuyasha replied but feeling a glare from Kagome he instantly added. "Oh yes really nice, I like her a lot. She's a ....um.....really talented artist!"
Ayame grinned at that and returned to her normal pace, and if there was a little more bounce to her step than normal....well no one would know the difference.
Author's Note: Okay sorry for the short chapter I had intended to write more but I'm going camping (hooray) tomorrow and well I though you'd all appreciate this (short but at least posted) chapter. I know I promised she'd meet Kouga but that will DEFINATELY come next chapter so please don't kill me......I had planned on including that in this chappie but well camping interupted that we weren't sipposed to leave until Sunday so yeah... well I'll be gone for 3 weeks so yeah appologize in advance for the long time its going to take to update. Oh a watch out for Hojo peeps he's gonna play a pretty important part in the story, just a quick warning.A quick thanks goes out to all those who reviewed.
Kouga-Jr.: thanx for reviewing hope you like the new chapter
Xiao-Mao: Don't worry even though I'm a Kag x Inu fan I won't bash Kikyo, she will be mentioned though in a way I hope you like....Kouga will be introduced next chappie don't worry!
Neverland01: thanks for the review hope you like the new chapter!
Shura the Noble Pirate: thanks so much for the kind words, whenever I need a little boost in enthusiasim for my story i look to your reviews, your the best!!!! As for the KikxInuxKag triangle i won't do it, Kikyo will be briefly mentioned in a way I think all Kikyo fans will like. As for Naraku......oh he'll be in this fic don't worry he's going to be a major character.
Faintest Scent: So glad you like the story, and the human/demon relationship in the world. Thanx for reviewing
Ahanchan: Oh don't worry Ayame is DEFONATELY gonna fall for Kouga no ifs ands or buts. Yep Naraku etc. will be in this fic Naraku in particular is going to play a large role and now that you mentioned it Bankotsu and Jakotsu would be great high school students. As for her mother I had originally only planned it to add depth to her personality but you along with a couple other peeps have asked if there was something behind it so I'm pondering about whether I could maybe include something dramatic or something like that well hope you like the new chapter!
Spirit Demon: thanks for the review really appreciate it! Hope you liked the new chapter.
Suma Godess of Darkness: thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep it in mind for the next chapter where Ayame actually meets Kouga.
Well toodles ya'll see ya in 3 weeks. Shamanic Destiny