Inuyasha had gotten to class early only to find that Kagome wasn't there yet, but Miroku and Sango were. In fact when Inuyasha had walked into the room Sango was hitting Miroku with a book.
"Even though I'm your girlfriend it doesn't mean you can grope me whenever you want!" Sango yelled at a half conscious Miroku.
"I'm sorry..." Miroku said and gave Sango a hug "I won't do it again." Right when he said this Sango shrieked "Why did I ever say yes to going out with you! All you are is a lecher!"
With that Sango turned around and saw Inuyasha. "Hey there Inuyasha are you looking for Kagome?"
"N-no" Inuyasha stuttered "Just woke up early and decided to get to school early..." Inuyasha then sat down and pulled out a little notepad, he had to write down some reminders for the day. The thing on top of the list was for him was to pick up his motorcycle after school, it had broken down a couple weeks back and it was finally fixed for the time being. 'I need to just get a new motorcycle...' Inuyasha thought to himself 'I need to get a new job first...' Inuyasha had a job at a guitar shop, but had to quit because of him moving. He wasn't going to put more miles on his already banged up motorcycle for the job.
Inuyasha was drowning in his thoughts and didn't even notice that Kagome had walked in the door. Kagome took the opportunity and started to slowly creep up behind him. Inuyasha hadn't noticed that someone was right behind him until he felt a pair of hands quickly grab his sides.
Inuyasha was startled and had jumped up to find Kagome laughing her ass off. "Oh that's funny" he said sarcastically and got an evil smile on his face "You know what's even funnier?"
Kagome stopped laughing and said "No, what?"
Inuyasha's smile got bigger and only said "this." Right after he said this Inuyasha lunged at Kagome to tickle her, but she was fast and already started to run around the room. This went on for about five minutes until Inuyasha caught and pinned Kagome to the ground. Then he tickled her until she started to complain that her sides were hurting.
Still laughing Inuyasha went to help Kagome up and she could barely stand up straight. They both went to their seats so that they could catch their breath and Kagome gave Inuyasha back his CD case. "I hate you" Kagome said playfully as she handed Inuyasha the case.
"Why?" Inuyasha asked smiling.
"Because you were right once again" Kagome replied "I did like the CD's"
"Told you so" Inuyasha said smiling, but that disappeared once someone entered the room. Kagome noticed this and turned around to see who had wiped the smile off Inuyasha face.
"Hey there Kagome" a normally cheerful Hojou said and kissed her on the cheek.
"Hi Hojou" Kagome replied and looked at Inuyasha. His ears had gone flat and there was a look of sadness barely noticeable in his eyes. This had hurt Kagome, for some reason it felt like her heart ached and it was sunk down in her eyes. 'I have to break this off...' Kagome thought to herself 'I don't want to have a relationship with someone I don't have feelings for...' "Ho-" Kagome start5ed to say but was cut off by Hojou.
"Kagome can I talk to you outside?"
"Ok" Kagome calmly replied and followed Hojou. "What is it?" she asked as Hojou closed the door behind him.
"Well I wanted to know something..." Hojou started to say "are you unhappy with me?"
"Well ummm...." Kagome said and tried to cover it up "Why do you ask that?"
"I've been noticing that the past couple of weeks you've been unhappy when I'm around" Hojou replied "and I've noticed that you've been avoiding me..."
Kagome was silent for a couple of minutes trying to thing of something to say. Finally she figured it out and said "You're right, I don't really have feelings for you anymore...I mean I used to...but they just disappeared. I wanted to try and make this work but I couldn't go through with it..."
"I kinda figured that" Hojou said "So it's for the best if we go our separate ways right?"
"Yea..." Kagome said 'Wow he's taking this so easily...' she thought to herself at the same time 'This seemed too easy...' "Besides there are plenty of girls that like you and I know that you must like someone else."
Hojou chuckled and said "Yea..." After they were done talking Kagome went back into the class while Hojou left to his.
Kagome walked to her desk as happy as she could possibly be. From what Kagome saw she didn't break Hojou's hear and now she could get closer to Inuyasha.
"Why are you so happy?" Inuyasha asked as Kagome sat down.
"Because my string have been cut" Kagome replied.
"Huh?" Inuyasha said looking puzzled.
"I'm single" Kagome said and waited to see Inuyasha's expression. He looked seriously shocked.
'What?' Inuyasha thought to himself 'She broke up with him? Is this a sign?' The one more question came into his head "Why did you two break up?" Inuyasha said aloud.
"I didn't have feelings for him the way I used to...." Kagome said "Why stay with someone you don't have anymore feelings for?"
"Oh..." Inuyasha replied as the bell rang. Maybe he did have a chance with her. He saw how happy Kagome was at the mall but was she just being nice?
The teacher was running late and everyone was chatting. Inuyasha had his notebook open and was doodling a design he wanted for his new motorcycles when he got it. Kagome was talking with Sango and explained what had happened between her and Hojou. Sango then urged her to go talk with Inuyasha. "You need to get to know him more" Sango said smiling "and if I'm right he has feelings for you too."
"But we went to the mall, talked and yea..." Kagome replied "I think we've gotten to know each other pretty well so far."
"You didn't tell me about this" Sango responded "anyways what did you find out?"
"He's seventeen, has his own apartment, and he's into rock.."
"That's not much, go over there and find out more." With this Sango pushed Kagome in that direction and was ready to push more.
"Fine I'll ask him if he wants to hang out after school" Kagome said and walked over to him. She stood behind him for a bit and watched as he was drawing a motorcycle with blue flames streaming from the front and black underneath them. "You have talent" she said and laughed when Inuyasha jumped to his seat "Sorry I didn't mean to scare you."
"You didn't scare me...you surprised me that's all" Inuyasha responded and sat up. Kagome sat down next to him and there was an awkward silence.
"So you like motorcycles huh?" Kagome said looking at the drawing.
"Yea, I want to get a job and buy a new one like this" Inuyasha replied.
"You have a motorcycle? I didn't see it yesterday..." Kagome said thinking for a minute.
"It's in the shop, the piece of crap" Inuyasha snickered "I need to get it today but I need to find a ride..."
"I can give you a ride" Kagome said and smiled.
"I don't want to put you out of your way" Inuyasha replied.
"Don't worry I have nothing to do, but there is one thing you have to do..."
Inuyasha looked at her weird and said cautiously "And what is that?"
"You need to give me a ride on your motorcycle. Is that cool with you?" she said smiling.
"Yea. But we need to stop my apartment and get my extra helmet for you."
"Okay! As long as I get to ride on your motorcycle I'm fine with anything." Kagome's smile became wider and she giggled.
"Oh really now?" Inuyasha said in a teasing voice.
"No!" Kagome said and slapped Inuyasha's hand.
Inuyasha smiled and said "I'm just kidding."
"Suuuure you were" Kagome replied.
Another five minutes went on like this until the teacher walked into the class. "Sorry I'm late" she said and quickly gave out some worksheets and I was basically free time after that. Kagome had pulled Sango outside as soon as they finished the sheets and told her what she was going to do after school.
"He's going to take you on his motorcycle?!" Sango said "He really does like you!"
"No, he's just a friend" Kagome said to calm Sango down "He probably has no interest in me whatsoever."
"Whatever" Sango replied "Lets go back inside, the boys are probably waiting for us."
Kagome followed Sango in and they found that they boys were having a conversation that abruptly stopped when they saw the girls. 'That's weird' Kagome thought to herself 'They were probably talking about boy stuff.' Kagome didn't even want to think about the conversation they were having. So she shook herself out of her thoughts and said "What are you guys up to?"
"Nothing" both of them said at once.
"What about you?" Inuyasha asked.
"Nothing" Kagome said putting on a smile and sitting down "So what are we going to do for lunch?"
"How about we go off campus for lunch today?" Sango said sitting on a desk.
"We can do that?" Inuyasha said confused. Of course he didn't know because it was his second day and the principal hadn't really explained the rules that well.
"Yea" Kagome said and giggled "Freshmen and Sophomores can't go off campus, but Juniors and Seniors can."
"So what do you guys have in mind?" Sango said "Do you want to go off campus or not?"
"Sounds good to me" Miroku and pulled Sango onto his lap.
"What about you two?" Sango said looking at Kagome and Inuyasha.
"Fine with me" they answered at the same time.
After they had decided where they were going the bell rang. Inuyasha waited for Kagome and started to walk her to class. He had this urge to put an arm around her, but he forced himself not to. He didn't want to be the guy trying to catch her on the rebound...
Kagome just walked in silence a bit thinking. Then out of nowhere she asked "When's your birthday?"
He looked at her for a second the responded "April 25, 1987......why?"
Smiling back she replied "Just wondering, I went birthday shopping the other day and I was wondering if I would have to go again. But from what it looks like I got plenty of time since it's winter. All I'm going to have to do is Christmas shopping." She didn't have to worry about that for about another week when winter break came.
"When's your birthday?" he asked.
"July 23, 1988" she replied "But why would you want to know?"
"Oh no reason" Inuyasha said putting on an innocent face. He was glad that he had enough time to get her a birthday present. But he had an idea of what to get her for Christmas. Thinking about it he started to smirk and thank goodness Kagome didn't notice or else she would have started to question him.
When they got to class Kagome, Inuyasha, Sango and Miroku sat by the window and started chatting with each other.
"So Inuyasha are you going to go by the sheet music today in music class?" Sango said jokingly.
"If it's not boring" Inuyasha replied "He sure didn't appreciate me trying to spice up the anthem..."
"Yea well Good Charlotte's "The Anthem" doesn't really go along with the real anthem." Sango replied.
"Hey it's not my fault" Inuyasha laughed "but still he didn't have to take my last pick away, I had to buy ten new ones yesterday." He then pulled out a black pick with blue flames "All I can say is that he's not getting this one..."
"You better watch it" Sango responded "With your luck that'll probably be the first one he takes."
"Whatever" he said and headed to his seat because of the bell ringing.
"He really did that?" Kagome whispered to Sango once they were seated.
"Yea" Sango said "Why did he tell you and you didn't believe him?"
"Yea..." Kagome replied embarrassed. The teach then passed out a worksheet and the two started to work until a folded piece of paper flew onto Kagome's desk. She opened it and it read:
So you didn't believe me huh?
She looked over at Inuyasha shocked and he just smirked. She then wrote back saying:
You heard that?!
'If he had heard that what else has he heard today?' Kagome thought and then blushed.
Getting the note back she hesitated to open it, but once she did she was relieve to read what he wrote.
These ears are for more than just looks. But don't worry I don't eavesdrop.
That isn't my style, unless I feel that I need to.
She sighed. But what if he was just saying that to get her off her guard.
The note was passed back and forth for the whole class. Even Miroku and Sango had joined in the note. (AN: having more than two people in a note is so much fun. Did that once in Bio. anyways...) Everyone had a good time in until the class ended.
They were headed to the parking lot to leave for lunch. Sango was riding with Miroku and Inuyasha with Kagome. Sango wanted it to happen like this so...she thought she was so sly.
When Inuyasha and Kagome got in the car Inuyasha noticed that a CD was sticking out of the player. He pulled it out and noticed that it was a CD of his. "Hey!" Inuyasha said and showed Kagome the CD "Were you planning on taking my Blink 182?"
Kagome stared at the disc blankly for a second and then realized what it was "I'm sorry I thought I put that back in the case..."
"Suuure" Inuyasha said teasingly. He popped it back into the player and turned to the track "Always." For the rest of the car ride there was silence, both Inuyasha and Kagome were thinking. But as soon as they had gotten to WacDonalds conversation started up again.
They decided there to stay at the fast food restaurant, getting a booth Sango arranged it for Inuyasha and Kagome to sit on one side while Miroku and her sat on the other side. 'I'm so smart' she thought to herself.
Kagome glared at Sango realizing what she was doing, so she sat there in silence to piss off Sango.
"So Kagome are you okay after what happened with Hojou this morning?" Sango said realizing what Kagome was doing.
'Oh great she has to ask that, of course I'm fine with it' Kagome thought to herself then answered "Yea I don't think that I should've gone out with him anyways."
"Why not?" Sango said wanting to keep this topic going.
"Because we didn't have the same interests and all that...." Kagome said "also we barely spent anytime together and people like Yumi pressured me to stay with him. You saw it." She didn't want to talk about this anymore and gave Sango a look to get her to drop it.
Sango got the hint and she changed the subject. "So what did you do yesterday?" she asked "I called yesterday and you weren't home." She already knew where Kagome had been but she had wanted to start some casual talk.
"Me and Inuyasha went down to the mall and got to know each other" Kagome replied having a huge smile on her face. She liked this topic.
Inuyasha was a little embarrassed for some reason and his cheeks turned an unnoticeable shade of pink.
Sango and Kagome kept the casual talk going until lunch was over. They were in the same arrangement for the cars, Inuyasha with Kagome and Sango with Miroku.
Inuyasha was staring out the window and he decided something. "Hey Kagome" he said and turned around to face her.
"Yea?" she replied looking at him.
"You want to come back to my place and study after I give you a ride?" Inuyasha said while fiddling with one of his black bracelets.
"Yea that sounds great" Kagome said smiling "but I was thinking, where are we going to leave my car when we go for the ride? I mean you probably have assigned parking and all that..."
"We'll just put it in my parking spot. Not like my motorcycle takes up that much space you know?" Inuyasha said smirking.
"Okay then" Kagome said "I'll meet you after school were we met yesterday ok?"
"Yea fine with me" Inuyasha said as Kagome parked. They got to class a little late but according to Inuyasha it was worth it since he had gotten some alone time with Kagome.
A/N: Man....I have six chapters written down on white paper and I didn't realize how small I write. This chapter is six pages typed but it's six pages written. Yea it takes me a while to copy these chapters from the writing to the document because I find things I need to change. Well again I am really sorry for not updating. Hope you had a good Christmas and yea please R&R. Please? Pretty Please? awe come on all you have to do is press the pretty little button on the left that says "Submit Review." Ok well until next time. Bye for now!