Title: TMttF's First Attempt
Author: Tsubasa Kya
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters.
This is TMttF's first attempt, I will not be completing it, I just felt like sharing my failures. I will post what I have, no more.
Kagome calmed herself and explained. "You can be happy to know that I was wrong in my assumptions. Keiko didn't kiss Hojo. Alen, Hojo's twin, kissed Keiko."
"But what does that mean?" Botan asked.
Kurama answered, "It means that Keiko was cornered in the band room by Alen Nisho who tried to kiss her and succeeded, until she slipped away from him."
"Or in simple terms," Hiei said, "you can beat a one Alen Nisho to a pulp tomorrow, Yusuke."
Yusuke ground his fist in his palm, "He can bet I will! No one kisses my girl but me!"
Keiko smiled, her eyes tear stricken because she'd been crying earlier. She hugged Yusuke and a moment of silence was shared through the room before Botan ruined it. "So, Keiko, your turn!"
Keiko untangled herself from Yusuke and smiled. "Okay! Back to business!" She reached forward and spun the bottle. It slowed to a stop on Hiei and she smiled.
"Truth or dare, Hiei!"
Hiei shrugged. "Truth, I suppose."
"Ooohoo!" Keiko cheered. "Okay, I want to know where you got that necklace!"
Hiei scowled. "No where." He said.
Kagome giggled, fluttering her eyelashes at him. "Aw, sweetie, don't say that! You know I gave it to you!"
Keiko squealed happily. "Aw, how cute! You wear something your girlfriend gave you? How romantic!"
Kagome and Botan giggled, Kuwabara drooled at Kagome's cleavage, and Kurama smiled. Yusuke laughed.
Hiei scoffed. "She's not my girlfriend." He said. "How many times must I tell you?"
Kagome walked over to where Hiei was and made herself comfortable in his lap, smirking when he looked uncomfortable at their closeness. She, as she'd done before, sent a smidge of her power (not enough to change her aura) into his body, keeping him from acting aggressive towards her. "Aw, now you don't really mean that do you, sweetie?" She asked with a pout.
Hiei scowled more. "You" But he didn't get much further because Keiko had had enough of the 'romantic lover's spat'. "Hiei, just spin the bottle." Keiko demanded.
Yusuke stopped laughing to point out that he couldn't with Kagome on his lap. "'Gome's in the way, so how can he?" He asked.
Keiko frowned. "Alright, then. I will do it for you." She spun and it slowed to a stop on Botan.
"Dare!" Botan said excitedly, before the question could even be asked.
Hiei rolled his eyes. "Okay, fine. I dare you to"
Kagome grinned mischievously and whispered in Hiei's ear, "Tell her to kiss Suichi. Consider it a favor...or else." Kagome warned.
Hiei glared at Kagome momentarily before repeating the dare, hating how she seemed to have made a pet out of him.
Kurama glanced at Hiei, annoyance apparent in his eyes. "And this would be coming from where?" He asked.
Hiei muttered darkly, "Her idea."
Kurama wondered exactly what Kagome had done to make Hiei so mild tempered.
Botan frowned. "No way! I'm not sayin' that Kur – I mean Suichi isn't appealing or anything, but" At the look Keiko was giving her, she closed her mouth, crossed the room, and pecked Kurama on the cheek. "There, happy?" She asked, moving back to her original spot.
"Very!" Keiko said. "Now spin."
Botan did and it landed on Kagome and Hiei. "Truth or Dare, Kagome." She said, a dark vengeful tone to her voice.
Kagome smiled sweetly, all the while thinking 'I seem to be a magnet for the bottle.' "Dare." She said. She really had no other option anyway, because she didn't want to answer questions about herself.
"I dare you to" Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on who you were, the phone rang.
Kagome climbed out of Hiei's lap to answer it, but Yusuke was quicker.
"Yo" He said, then after a second grumbled and held the phone out to Kagome. Kagome smiled and took it.
"Hello, Kagome Higurashi speaking." Kagome said in a pleasant tone.
"Oh my gosh! Kagome, I'm so sorry!" The voice on the other end of the line said. It sounded like Eri, one of Kagome's friends from her old school.
"Why are you sorry?" Kagome asked.
"I heard you got kicked out of school so you had to move."
"I didn't get kicked out of school, Eri." Kagome said with a sigh.
"Well, that's not what I heard. The teachers are all bustling about it. They said that you are a bad student, doing drugs, joining gangs, beating up innocent bystanders, and were involved in multiple gang related violent streaks."
Kagome laughed. 'The things people make up these days, just to get their students attention.' "I was involved in nothing of the sort, Eri."
"Well, how come your mother sent you away then?"
"Because she's a selfish woman who doesn't think about obligations that need to be met before her own selfish needs." Kagome looked at the clock, seeing it was midnight already. "But it is late, so I'm going to go."
"Good idea. I'll call again another time and we can talk okay? Now that your brother gave me this number to reach you at, I can call you! Oh, by the way, how's that Parvovirus curing up?"
Kagome choked back a laugh. 'Doesn't she realize that is a dog's disease? What kind of bull shit was grandpa feeding everyone before?' "Oh, the Parvovirus is healing up just great! You wouldn't even realize I ever had anything of the sort!"
"That's good. Well, I'll let you go then and call you some other time."
"Okay." Kagome hung up, a big smile on her face that she couldn't contain. Life just kept getting stranger and stranger by the moment.
"Parvo, 'Gome?" Yusuke drawled. "Even I know that's a dog's disease. So, are you gonna tell me NOW what's going on?" He sat down next to her at the island counter, handing her a glass of milk.
Sometime during the phone conversation everyone else had left. Kagome sighed, the smile gone along with her bubbly mood. She took the glass of milk gratefully, taking a small sip of it. "Do you want to talk about your secret? I know you have one. My mom was talking to your mom on the phone once and I overheard part of the conversation. Something about fighting in a tournament against groups of demons for some sort of championship? Wanna talk about that?"
Yusuke remained silent for a few moments before looking at his own glass of milk disinterestedly. Then he finally spoke, saying exactly the opposite of what Kagome had expected him to. "I'll tell you my secret if you tell me yours." He told her quietly, though his voice still echoed in the nearly empty apartment.
Kagome looked at him to see his face serious. She smiled, though it wasn't quite reaching her eyes. "Alright, Yusuke. You want to know so bad, and I guess it would help a bit to let someone know..." She sighed deeply, before proceeding to explain everything that had happened to her up until then, leaving nothing out, sparing no detail at all.
When she finished, Yusuke looked at her in a new light. "Somehow I find it oddly believable, though it is a very unbelievable story."
Kagome chuckled. "I can't honestly say that I always believe it myself. Sometimes it feels like it has all been a dream that I'll wake up and find myself on my fifteenth birthday again, never having met anyone from the past. So what's your story?"
Yusuke smiled. "I personally don't think it is as great or interesting as yours is, but since you awarded me, I suppose I have to do the same."
"Yes, I would appreciate the return favor."
Yusuke proceeded to tell his story from start to finish, including telling her about Hiei's sister Yukina and their relation. He didn't leave out any details either, and if their family could be prided on only one thing coming from their grandfather's side, it would have to be that they were very good at storytelling and details. Kagome listened as he finished up with telling her about their latest mission and having to find a half-demon who haunted a well-house.
Kagome smiled, not making the connection between Inuyasha being a half-demon and coming out of the well-house often to see her if she was back. Likewise, Yusuke didn't make the connection with her being a shrine-girl and going into a well-house to meet up with a half-breed dog demon, a fox demon, and two humans and a cat demon. He also didn't measure up with the fact that she found Shikon shards.
"Have you ever told Keiko about this?"
Yusuke sighed and nodded. "Botan told her during the whole mekai insect incident – I think that was what those bugs were. She was suspicious that I'd been spending all that time with some other girl, but I wasn't."
Kagome shook her head sadly. "I don't know what to tell you. She's strange, that's for certain."
"I think it's her being different is what attracts me to her."
Kagome smiled. "Perhaps it is. You are weird too, after all. Like kinds attract you know!"
"No, they push each other away."
"Well, this time they don't." Kagome told him decidedly. "And I have to warn you, Inuyasha will be coming soon to see me, so don't go spirit gunning him, okay? I don't care how strong you are, I don't want to risk him getting hurt or you getting hurt."
Yusuke grinned ruefully. "Yeah, whatever."
Kagome nodded and looked at the clock again. She sighed. It was four AM already. She rinsed her glass out and then placed a hand on Yusuke's shoulder. "I'm going to bed to get a little sleep before school. Tomorrow you're going to class whether you like it or not so you should sleep to. And don't tell anyone my secret. I can't have people know. Don't even tell your closest friends."
Yusuke nodded his understanding. "You know, it felt good telling someone about my life and how it really is. I mean, I talk to my mom about it some, and I talk to Keiko a bit... The guys live it with me, but I can't tell them about it and how I feel, you know?"
"Yes, I know how you feel. In the eyes of my friends, I'm always ill because I'm always gone into the feudal era. It felt really good to tell someone the truth. Soon, though, She smiled at him one last time before going to bed. Shortly after he went to bed as well.
Things were going through Kagome and Yusuke's heads, mainly surrounding the two's secret lives. Both were doing something that they had to. Both were forced into a life somehow, Yusuke was forced into it by doing a good deed and pushing a child out of the way of a rampant car and getting killed. He wouldn't have had the chance to revive if he had not accepted the deal Koenma had given him, which meant he had to be a Spirit Detective. Somehow along the way, he had made friends with Kuwabara, his one time rival, and Kurama and Hiei. His last mission, the Toguro tournament, had ended up with Yusuke's mentor, Genkai, transferring her greatest power to him and then she ended up dying at the hand of one of the Toguro brothers. That had hurt Yusuke. He'd grown used to the woman being around, but now she wasn't there anymore.
Kagome was forced into her secret life because of a centipede demon that had pulled her through the well, biting the Shikon out of her side. After that, she was bonded to Inuyasha through the rosary that Kaede had thrown around his neck. After that, she had accidentally broken the jewel, creating even more of a tie to the past. It was her responsibility to collect the shards. No one else's. She would complete her obligations, but she had promised her mother that she would stay with Atsuko for a while at least. She would stay for a while, but eventually Inuyasha would get restless and he would drag Kagome into the past again. She knew for now though, he would allow her to live at Atsuko's, so long as he was allowed to as well.
Kagome woke the next morning, ready for a day of whatever would come. She showered, dressed in a silk tank top with a built in bra that had a slit up the right side and the left as well, going half way up the tank top. Sprawled across the chest of the tank top were the words 'You like..?' in black and she wore a black silk skirt that would create a 360 degree circle if she spun around. The skirt stopped four inches above her knees. She wore plain black sandals. This was her rebellion to her mother. She refused to wear the uniform like a good little girl would. She left her hair down.
Yusuke, for once, was up and waiting for her after she'd finished putting on a light pink eye shadow and clear lip-gloss. She smiled innocently when he gave her a once-over. She knew he was curious as to why she wasn't wearing the school outfit when she had it. She decided to explain.
"My mother expects me to behave. I don't exactly intend to be a mindless drone. Besides, with you as a cousin, I will have standards to hold up to, won't I?"
Yusuke grinned broadly. "Well, I can't have you spoiling my rep."
"And I wouldn't think of doing such. So are you going to join class today?"
Yusuke rolled his eyes. "Probably not."
"My dear cousin," Kagome said, shouldering her backpack and then linking her arm through his and dragging him to the door, "if you don't, I'll be forced to tell Keiko. I'm sure she won't be too happy to know you're skipping."
Yusuke put on a pouty face. "You wouldn't dare."
Kagome locked the door and shut it behind them, one arm still linked through his. "Oh, I would dare. I certainly would dare."
Yusuke groaned at the thought of Keiko reprimanding him for skipping class. "But I don't want to go to class..." He whined. "It's boring..."
Kagome giggled. "You might learn something if you go." She told him. "Besides, Keiko would like it if you started showing an interest in your future."
They reached the school; Kagome still had her arm linked through Yusuke's. She released him and the two walked towards their class.
At lunchtime, Haru and Sheena called her over to their lunch table and she sat with them, receiving a groping because the only place left at the table was between Haru and another boy who looked at Sheena and Haru with disgust. He seemed to be a rather stuffy type of person.
"Haru, would you remove your hand from my behind?" Kagome asked, an angry tick appearing above her left eye.
Haru grinned. "But my hand likes your behind." He told her. "And by the way, yes I do like!" He said, waving to her shirt.
Kagome looked at it, and saw it said 'you like..?' on it. She blushed and slapped Haru for looking. "You're not supposed to answer a question like that!" she said, embarrassed.
Sheena laughed, munching on her sub sandwich. "Haru, you never learn, do you?" She asked. "Get a girlfriend."
"I'm working on it."
"It might work better if you didn't grope people all the time." Kagome pointed out. "I've only known you for a day, and already I know you do this."
Haru shrugged and stole one of Kagome's curly fries, since his were gone. "Actually my eyes are set on a particular new girl to this school." Haru said, looking at Kagome meaningfully.
Kagome blushed at the statement, knowing he was talking about her.
Sheena grinned. "So, Haru, tell me about this new girl. What's she like?"
Kagome blushed further as Haru spoke. "She's beautiful. No, beautiful doesn't even describe her. She's gorgeous! She's a goddess above goddesses. She's got a firm stomach, perfectly toned legs," At this, Haru's hand moved under the table to rest on Kagome's thigh, a grin on his face as she slapped his hand away, "She's got chocolate brown eyes, a firm ass, and a smile that makes me go all wobbly-kneed. I met her yesterday and I fell seriously infatuated, and she's sitting next to me."
Kagome was as red as a tomato when he finished. Even though he was a lech, he certainly knew how to make a girl feel good about herself.
Sheena grinned. "Haru, you're embarrassing her!" She laughed.
"Are you still coming for dinner tonight?" Haru asked. "Please come for dinner! Please, please?" Haru gave her puppy dog eyes, taking her hand in his and kissing her fingertips.
Kagome sighed. "Alright, alright. I'll come. I don't know about Yusuke and Keiko though."
Haru slung an arm around her shoulders, groping her breast while stealing a curly fry. "No problem. Sheena's just seriously infatuated with Yusuke is all. She's also got this thing for that Minamino boy. He's one of Yusuke's friends."
"Haru, you said you wouldn't tell!" Sheena cried.
"I lied. Besides, Kagome won't tell, will you?" Haru eyed Kagome, who was unnaturally quiet with a strange smile on her face as she looked at Sheena.
"Suichi Minamino comes to Yusuke's house at night... you never know what might slip in a game of Truth or Dare..." Kagome murmured.
Haru smirked. "Ooh, too bad for you, Sheena!" Haru cackled gleefully.
After lunch, the three went to their classes, and then after school Haru and Sheena walked with Kagome towards their house.
"I'm nervous." Kagome admitted as they approached the large complex that housed Kagome's apartment. Kagome was surprised that Haru and Sheena lived in the same apartment complex that she did, but as they had said, it is a small world after all. "I don't want to make the wrong impression or anything, you know?" She ran her hand through her long raven locks again. She seemed to be doing that a lot these days.
Haru smiled at her. "Don't worry. Dad, Mom, and uncle and his fiancée'll all love you. You've got nothing to worry about."
Sheena grinned, throwing an arm around Kagome's shoulders. "And you'll get to see our new baby brother!" She said leading Kagome out of the elevator. Haru opened the door to the apartment, heading in before Sheena and Kagome. They were on the fiftieth floor.
"DAD! MOM! UNCLE INU! AUNT MARON! WE'RE HOME!" Haru yelled. "KAGOME IS WITH US! YOU SAID WE COULD BRING HER FOR SUPPER!"
Sheena let go of Kagome and closed the apartment door behind the two of them. "Kag, take your shoes off here." Kagome did as asked, taking her shoes off by the door and setting them neatly by Sheena's. Haru threw his over towards Sheena's and rushed towards one of the doors off the front room, opening it and peering in, then blushing and slamming the door shut.
"Uncle Inu and Aunt Maron are busy..." He explained.
Sheena laughed, going over to the door and knocking politely. "Uncle Inu, Aunt Maron, anytime you feel like finishing, you can come out and meet our new friend."
The door opened to show an irritated young woman, looking about twenty five years old. She wore a peach dress that was strapless and went down to her knees and had short black hair. She wore no make up, but she didn't really need it. She had blue-violet eyes and full pink lips, long lashes and a perfectly manicured brow. She had curves all in the right places and long clean shaven legs. Her toenails were painted a soft pink and so were her fingernails. She first slapped Haru upside the back of the head and then Sheena in the same fashion.
"Both of you, enough! For one, Sheena, you should not even fall for such a trick! Your uncle is in the bathroom! And you," She said, rounding on Haru, "stop your yelling! You're told every day not to yell. We do have neighbors you know! And you should know by now that your father does not come home until after you do." Kagome guessed this was Maron. Maron turned towards Kagome, who still stood by the door. She walked quickly across the room and extended a hand towards Kagome. "And you must be Kagome. I've heard so much about you from the twins." She said in a pleasant tone. "I'm Maron Ushiki, their uncle's fiancée."
Kagome smiled and took the proffered hand. "I'm Kagome Higurashi." She said, relaxing. Perhaps this wouldn't be so bad after all. She could distinctly tell though, that Maron was a half-breed dog demon. But she had not acted aggressive towards Kagome, so things would be all right.
"Haru certainly holds you in a high fashion." Maron said with a smile. She let go of Kagome's hand and walked over to the couch in the living room. "Make yourself at home, Kagome. Haru, Sheena, your mother is in her room with the baby. Go introduce yourself."
Haru and Sheena rushed towards another door and inside it as quickly as their feet would carry them. Unsure of what else to do, Kagome stood in the doorway still, wishing she could think of a reason to leave. Her mind searched through all the possible reasons for leaving. 'I forgot to turn the oven off.' Lame. She hadn't even been home yet. 'I think I hear my mother calling.' Even lamer. Her mother was miles away.
"Kagome, please, come sit down." Maron said, patting the couch beside her. Kagome's feet carried her unwittingly towards the couch and sat her down beside Maron. "So, Kagome, did you just move to this school district?" Maron questioned, looking at Kagome.
"Uh huh... I'm living with my aunt and cousin, five floors down."
Maron nodded. "I see. So what about your mother and father? Where are they?"
Kagome frowned. "You could say I'm taking a forced vacation from my mother. My father ran off when my younger brother was born."
"Oh, I'm sorry."
Kagome smiled. "I'm not. I never knew the guy."
It was at that moment that Haru and Sheena came into the room, Sheena carrying a 'little bundle of joy' wrapped in a blue baby blanket. "Check it out, Kagome! He's got some funky eyes!" Sheena said.
Kagome stood and went to look at the baby. She found herself looking at a child who looked something like Sesshoumaru from the past. He had golden eyes, slightly pointed and angled elfish ears, and she noticed that his fingernails were a bit more claw like than a normal child's. She noticed that the child was not completely demon, but wasn't exactly a 50/50 half breed either. He seemed more like a 75/25 half breed, 25 being the human in him.
"Cute baby." She said with a smile. "You just wait though. Once they begin to crawl, you'll find you have your hands full."
"Ah, yeah, that's why he's mom's problem." Sheena said with a grin.
"Maron, where is my tooth brush!" A distressed call came from the back of the apartment. Kagome gasped at the familiar voice. 'Inuyasha is here? Why would he be here?' She wondered. 'I thought he was waiting for me at the shrine? And how would he know these people?'
Maron made a goofy face at Haru and Sheena as they snickered at her. "Honey, it is probably in the medicine cabinet with everything else!" She called out.
"I reorganized the cupboards, Inuyasha." A voice said from behind Kagome. Kagome turned to be faced with none other than Kagura, except instead of red eyes she had dark chocolate brown eyes. Kagome blinked her surprise. She was too surprised to be frightened. Kagura wore a blue silk skirt and blue silk tee-dress shirt. "The toothbrushes are in a glass on the sink. Only an idiot like you could miss it." She muttered the last part thoughtfully.
"HEY! I heard that!" Inuyasha yelled. "Don't push your luck, Kagura! I'm not in a very good mood right now!"
Kagura chuckled. "Aww, poor baby. Do you want a lolly pop? I'm sure it will make you feel better." She asked, sitting on the couch next to Maron.
"Who pays the bills here? ME!" Inuyasha yelled. "So leave me alone!" He whined the last part.
Maron and Kagura broke into a fit of giggles at the sound of his voice.
Kagome stood there, confused. Kagura was living semi-peacefully in a house with Inuyasha? There was something seriously wrong with this picture. Perhaps she was wrong and it wasn't her Inuyasha. But it was proved to be her Inuyasha when Inuyasha walked out of the bathroom and into the main room, brushing his teeth. His hair was dyed black and cut in a short bowl cut at the top of his head and his eyes were chocolate brown, and he was suspiciously missing the ears on top of his head, probably due to the fact that he had a bandana on his head which could likely be holding them down, but it seemed unmistakably him. He wore the rosary necklace around his neck and was wearing a plain white polo shirt with gray slacks.
"By bummy bays da biews, fo weab be abome, otay?" He said through a mouth full of toothpaste.
"Uncle Inu, don't talk with your mouth full of toothpaste around me!" Haru complained. "You're spitting it all over the place!" He wiped his face for effect, though nothing was there.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and went back into the bathroom, coming out a moment later without a toothbrush. "Okay, I'm off to..." He trailed off, noticing Kagome for the first time. For a second he was frozen to the spot, but then a wide grin spread across his face and he crossed the room, grabbing Kagome into a hug. "Wow! You're alive! I thought you died!" He began jabbering excitedly.
Kagura blinked and looked closer at Kagome, noticing something she hadn't seen before. "Oh my god! It's you!" She got up and peeled Kagome away from Inuyasha's death hug only to catch Kagome in one of her own. "Thank you so much! I owe you everything! Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!"
Haru, Sheena, and Maron looked at the three confused. "Oookay, did I miss something here?" Haru voiced the three's thoughts.
Seconds later, a fourth party person exited a room to see what the commotion was only to have his eyes widen and he briskly crossed the room to see if it was true. "But your dead! How are you here!" Sesshoumaru cried out. He had brown eyes and black hair now, cut to midback and held in a low tie at the nape of his neck. Kagome could see his markings faintly, but they seemed to be covered up by some magic of some sort.
"We must be missing something..." Sheena voiced the three's thoughts this time.
Frustrated by the attention, Kagome scowled and spread her arms out from her body, her power going into it. The three excited demons jumped back as a fiery barricade, invisible to the human eye, was erected. "Enough!" Kagome yelled.
Maron, who could see the barrier, opened her eyes wide. "Okay, I know we're missing something now."
Kagome knew she was had thrown out more power than she needed, but she'd just felt so claustrophobic at that moment. She toned it down to a lower level so she was still able to hide her miko aura, putting her arms to her sides again. She looked at the three, confusion apparent on her face.
She soon figured out that she was rambling off incoherent questions without her realizing it and closed her mouth with a snap. Silence in ensued for a moment but Sheena broke it.
"Um, dad, mom, Uncle Inu, how exactly do you know Kagome?"
Sesshoumaru looked at Sheena and Haru, who's eyes were begging for an answer, but he didn't know what to say. He couldn't exactly say 'Oh, five hundred years ago I was a blood thirsty demon lord and I tried to kill her several times over a sword.'
Inuyasha and Kagura didn't know the answer to that question either. Their lips were flapping but no sound emerged.
Kagome, somewhat used to strange questions like that by now jumped in to answer the question, flashing a bright smile towards Sheena and Haru. "Oh, it's a long story, but to make it quick and to the point, I met Inuyasha on a field trip I had taken, and Sesshoumaru and Kagura were there as well." She said in a tone of finality.
Sheena and Haru looked convinced, but Maron looked suspicious. "What kind of field trip?" She asked. Again, lips flapped like birds wings.
'Do I have to do everything?' Kagome wondered, but kept that smile in place. She quickly thought of something to improvise and then saw embroidered on Inuyasha's polo was the words 'Matenkashi Corporation'. She made a wild guess that that was where Inuyasha worked. "My family lives on a shrine and we often take 'educational field trips' to different places. This one took us to Matenkashi Corporation about five years ago."
Maron had yet to meet Inuyasha five years ago. She'd only met him three years ago, so she figured this could be very well true and let it drop, flashing Inuyasha a broad smile. He gave her a nervous laugh. "Eh hehe, yeah. That's how it was."
Kagome congratulated herself on her extraordinary improvising skills. 'Perhaps I should be an actor...' She thought.
"Ah, well then... shall we go to dinner?" Sesshoumaru asked, doing his best to keep his nerves down as he felt and saw Kagome dissipate her barrier.
Kagome shook her head then as she felt something the others did not. "Actually, I'm really sorry Sheena and Haru, but I have to be going."
Sheena looked at the clock and saw that it was six o'clock somehow already. "Aw man! Well, come back okay?"
Kagome nodded. "I will, and thank you for the invitation." She glanced one last time at the three familiar people who surrounded her and then with a small smile at them, she headed for her shoes, slipping the sandals on and briskly leaving the apartment. She pressed the down button for the elevator as Inuyasha exited the apartment and followed her into the elevator.
As the elevator doors slid shut and Kagome pressed for the 45th floor, Inuyasha pressed for the lobby. Inuyasha stared at Kagome wide eyed in amazement. Kagome sighed. "Great, just great. You know this is going to cause problems right?" She asked him.
"How so?" He asked.
"Because, you idiot!" She yelled. "You're coming here! I mean, you're past self is! And I would say it would be very awkward if you met your past self, wouldn't you?"
Inuyasha sighed and looked down. "Okay, you're forgetting something though. I've already lived this, and so for me the awkward time is already past. I met myself," He got a thoughtful look on his face, holding his briefcase in his hand, "tried to kill myself, which was really weird, and then got sat. Twice at the same time." He scrunched his face up in concentration, as though trying to remember far back in time. "I mean to say that you said sit to try to stop me from killing me but both of me received the subduing spell. Gah! I'm confusing myself."
Kagome sighed as the elevator opened on her floor. "I suppose this means I never really had a chance with you, huh?" She asked quietly.
He looked confused. "What?"
"You're getting married to the other half-breed, aren't you? Congratulations." She said, faking a smile. She left the elevator just before the doors could close, hiding her tears behind her bangs.
Two days later
She could feel her Shikon shards being moved so she hurried to her Aunt's apartment and into her room to see Inuyasha sitting, looking almost exactly like she had seen him two days before except he was wearing his clothes of the fire rat and his sword was strapped to his side, on her bed placing a loose shard into the container filled with them. Kagome blinked, looking from him, to his haircut, to his now brown eyes, back to his now black hair, and then she fainted. She had no clue why, considering she should have seen this coming, what with all the surprises she seemed to be having lately.
Inuyasha hurried to catch her, but he tripped and stumbled so didn't make it in time. "Oomph!" The bandana fell off his head and he couldn't get it back on so he gave up trying.
Moments later Kagome woke up in her bed, confused when she saw Inuyasha staring down at her. She saw his ears twitch irritatedly. He sat next to her prone form on the bed, staring down at her with all his might as though he could burn a hole in her with his eyes. Which thankfully he couldn't.
"Why are you here?" Kagome asked him.
"Because I'm going to take you back right now." He said as though it should be obvious to her. "And why the hell do you smell like me, Sesshoumaru, and Kagura all at once?" He demanded.
Kagome groaned and pulled the pillow over her head. Her words were muffled by the pillow. Inuyasha snatched away the pillow and glared down at her. "Explain to me now!" He yelled.
"Because"
A door slamming and the sound of voices in the living room interrupted her. "Alright already, I get it! Now would you shut UP Botan? It's bad enough I get it from Koenma! I don't want to hear it from you too!"
Inuyasha sniffed the air. "Kagome, there are a group of humans and demons in your house... stay back. I'll"
Kagome rolled her eyes, grabbing his arm before he could go anywhere. "They're good guys." She told him. "Just leave them be."
Inuyasha deadpanned. "Why!" He said, still moving to get up.
"Because if you don't I'll sit" Kagome said before realizing her mistake. That sit brought him crashing down towards her, his lips somehow by some odd fate connecting with hers and somehow he ended up half straddling her. Just then, the sun decided to set and because it was the night of the new moon, Inuyasha's ears disappeared into human ears, his claws were gone, his canines just ordinary, and his eyes were naturally chocolate brown.
Then, fate decided to be eternally cruel and bring Yusuke and his friends to investigate the noise. They opened Kagome's door to see Kagome in this position with Inuyasha and all were in varying states of shock.
Yusuke was in by far the worst state of shock known to man. His eyes were bugging out and he was making tiny choking noises. Finally he came out of it and yelled angrily, "Get off'a my cousin!"
Kagome and Inuyasha were both in shock as well, staring deep into each other's eyes, blushes on both party's cheeks. They knew full well that the spell lasted sixty seconds, no more no less, and it would be sixty seconds before either could move, the spell holding each firmly in place.
When the agonizingly long sixty seconds was up, Inuyasha jumped off of Kagome, making 'petewy' sounds as he wiped his lips on his sleeve. "God, wench, you did that on purpose!"
Kagome sat up angrily. "I did not!"
"You did to!"
Yusuke, standing slightly off to the side with Hiei, Botan, and Kurama, looked confused. "Did we miss something?" He asked.
"How could I purposely make you 'sit' like that?" She demanded hotly.
The rosary around Inuyasha's neck glowed and he found his face in the ground. He mumbled into the carpet, glaring up at Kagome.
"You know what? For that, SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT!" The rosary glowed eight times and he found himself waiting there in the carpet for nine minutes while Kagome crossed her arms and waited, glaring down at him.
"I think we missed something." Botan said.
"Indeed." Kurama agreed.
At the end of the nine minutes Inuyasha jumped up angrily, pulling at the rosary on his neck. "Just take it off! It's the source of every last problem that we have!"
Kagome snorted, very unladylike. "It's the source of all YOUR problems, but the ANSWER to all MY problems." She told him. She then realized that there were others in the room and turned towards her cousin, blushing, embarrassed. 'When did they get there?' She wondered. "WHAT!" She yelled.
Kurama pointed to the jar of Shards on the bed. "Are those Shikon shards?"
Inuyasha stood angrily, staring at Kurama. "Yeah, but you aren't going to touch them!"
Kagome slapped her forehead with her palm. "God, I'm surrounded by arrogant demons." She muttered. "Everyone thinks they know everything!"
Kagome sat on her bed, taking up the jar of shards. "Okay, now you can settle down Inuyasha. I have the shards."
Yusuke was looking at a picture and then at Inuyasha for a moment, but then he pocketed the picture and shrugged. 'Not him, though the resemblance is striking.'
Inuyasha grumbled about it but sat on the floor by the bed, right next to where Kagome sat, his eyes angrily fixed on the group at the door.
Kagome sighed and fell back on her bed. "You can all leave now." She told them, staring at the ceiling.
Yusuke narrowed his eyes, looking from Kagome to Inuyasha and back again. Finally he left. Kurama and Botan followed. At some point in the whole argument, Hiei had already left. Botan closed the door behind her.
"Sorry, Kagome." Inuyasha muttered, resting his head against the side of her knee.
Kagome giggled. "It was actually funny." She said. "It was completely accidental."
Inuyasha wrinkled his nose up in distaste. "Great sense of humor you have, Kagome."
Kagome sighed. "Well, I'm sorry if you don't find it funny. But I do."
Inuyasha climbed up on the bed, collapsing next to her. "Talk to me." He half-heartedly demanded.
"Okay, what do you want to talk about?"
Inuyasha shrugged. "I don't know. I just want you to talk to me."
Kagome smiled and nodded. "Alright then. You're getting married in my time. You lived this long, and you're getting married to a half-breed dog demon like yourself. You seem to be friends with Sesshoumaru, and Sesshoumaru has a child with Kagura and is married to her and adopted two human children."
Inuyasha lifted his head from the bed to look at Kagome's face, trying to tell if she was joking or not. He only saw a serious expression, but he still couldn't believe it. 'I'm not with Kagome?' He wondered, horrified.
"Sesshoumaru lives five floors up on this building. You work for a big company, Sesshoumaru is a teacher, and you rent the apartment that you, Sesshoumaru, Kagura, Sesshoumaru's son, Sesshoumaru's adopted kids, and your fiancée live in. Rather than Sesshoumaru having all the glory, you're the one with it."
'...I'm the one with the glory? Me?' Inuyasha thought incredulously.
"And you're getting married." Kagome whispered. She looked at Inuyasha's profile to try to gauge his reaction, but she only saw shock. Slowly that shock began to melt into hurt.
"Why am I not marrying you?" He whispered, his bangs hiding his expression.
Kagome shrugged. She didn't know the answer to that. She wished it were her, but it wasn't. It was Maron.
But then she remembered what they all said, or unconsciously hinted at. 'But you're dead! You died! I thought you were dead!'
A tear slipped down Kagome's face. "I think I die."
Inuyasha sat up angrily. "You won't die! I won't let you. I said I would protect you..."
Kagome smiled and sat up as well. "Well, who knows. We're not there yet. When we get there, we'll find out whether or not" Kagome was cut off when Inuyasha caught her in a kiss.
When he broke it, he looked her deep in the eyes. "I promise you, I will NOT let you die!" 'I love you too much to let you die.' He thought, wishing he had the guts to say it.
Kagome blushed as her mind registered the kiss finally. Shortly after her mind processed what he had said and her blush deepened. "Thank you." She said. 'Oh my god! Inuyasha and I kissed!' She thought.
The phone rang so Kagome answered it. "Hello?" She asked.
"Kag! It's me, Sheena! You said you live five floors down, right? Well, can Haru and I come over? We don't want to go to a baby sitters house."
"PWEESE, Kagome?" Haru asked.
Kagome laughed. "Okay, sure. My cousin's friends are over, so we'll probably play a game or something."
"Yes! Thanks! We'll be down in a second!" Sheena yelled excitedly. Kagome hung up when she realized that Sheena had done so already. Inuyasha smiled faintly at her and she ducked her head.
Yusuke didn't like it. He didn't like the behavior at all. "Hey, you!"
This will not be added to! This is the last chapter! Like I said, it was the first attempt at the story Tie Me to the Future. If you want the full version, go to Tie Me to the Future. It's obviously in my profile.