This chapter might have some grammar mistakes, so bear with me. The first week of school had taken some of my time away from writing. Moreover, I was stuck at the part where Inuyasha confronted Kagome. I had all the plots and ending planned out, but it was a matter of connecting the plots together. I don't want the plots to just happen right away; I wanted the story to go as smoothly as possible. Now that's tough. .

Disclaimer: Last I check Inuyasha was not up for bids in EBay. If it was, you'll see me bidding a lot of money (monopoly money that is ) by now. :p

The Wrong Soul Mate

Chapter 7: Confronting

Miroku watched the next movie on the screen, showing a teenage blonde girl getting a beer from a refrigerator in the garage. The place was dark, only a small speck of light was shown through the tiny windows on the garage door as a creepy music was played in the background, telling the audiences that the girl was not alone in the cold room.

Out of curiosity, why did the kid's family put a refrigerator in the garbage? Aren't they supposed to be in the kitchen? Miroku thought as a shadow closed the only door that leads to the inside of the house. He predicted that the girl will die right here in the garage. 'Poor girl, she was cute, too.'

He felt Sango tensed up near him. He smiled, although it didn't reach the corner of his eyes. It felt like eternity as he watched her grabbed the couch, afraid to know what will happen next. God, he wanted so much to hold her in his arms, shielding her from that scene, but he couldn't. He knows for sure, she will slap him, thinking he has some perverted thoughts to hold her like that. Hell, at the moment, he couldn't think of anything, much less perverted.

He averted his eyes back to the screen and then to the empty seat beside Sango. His brows lined up together. Didn't Rin go to the bathroom half an hour ago? 'It must be all those foods she ate at dinner today. For a small body, she sure can eat.'

Suddenly, he realized something. He and Sango are alone on a couch in the living room, watching Scream. He smiled selfishly when a mischievous gleam sparkled in his eyes. Yep, his perverted thoughts are back. His slyly raised both of his arms to stretch before draping his right arm behind her. He smirked when Sango didn't notice what he has done.

At that moment, Kagome popped out of nowhere on the third steps of the stairway, causing her to stumbled down the stair. Startled by the noises, Sango and Miroku turned their head to the source, seeing Kagome lying on the ground.

"Rin!" Sango shouted as she stood up.

"Don't worry, I'm okay." Kagome managed a reply as she slowly got up. "This is one of the reasons why you don't skip on the stairs." She lied, feeling all guilty lying to them. She hated it when this happen. One: The guilt for lying. Two: Never panic when you're trying to fade from one place to another or else you will appear God-knows-where.

"Are you sure?" Miroku asked, knowing for sure his chances of groping Sango just plummeted down the drain.

"Yes, I'm sure." She faked a yawn. "Whew, I'm getting sleepy. Well, I'm going to sleep now, okay?" She slowly backtracked towards the stair while her ears were trying their best to detect any sound that indicated if Inuyasha pulled in through the driveway.

"But—" Sango was about to walk towards her, but Kagome interrupted while putting both of her hands in front of her. "No really, I'm fine. I'm just sleepy that's all. Just go back watching that movie. Don't mind me." She leaned forward when the blonde girl was stuck in one of the windows on the garage door. "Is that a new movie?"

Miroku quickly gazed at the screen behind him. "Yeah."

'How long was I gone to miss the ending of I Know What You Did Last Summer?' She thought. 'Who died?' When she was about to take interest in the new movie on the screen, she could faintly hear the sound of an engine from outside. 'Inuyasha!' "Well, goodnight!" She rushed upstairs, trying to find a hiding place. She could see right now, Saku and Takeo must be laughing at her right now from up there because she was afraid of seeing a certain hanyou. Hell, if they were in her shoes, they would do the same thing too.

She stopped in front of Sango's door. 'No, I can't hide in here. Inuyasha will definitely find me in here.' She then turned to the other closets on the hall. 'Yeah, like I'm going to hide in there too.'

She gazed up toward the ceiling. He found her there last time, so that was scratched off from her list of hiding places.

She heard the door slammed open with Inuyasha's voice shouting "Where is she?!" from down stair. By the sound of his voice, it didn't sound friendly. "Uh oh." On impulse, she went into Inuyasha's room.

"Where is who, Inuyasha?" Miroku asked, bewildered by his best friend's behavior. He guessed that the dinner didn't quite go soo well.

"Don't play dumb with me, Miroku! Where is Rin?!" The hanyou barked.

"Geez, you don't have to shout you know?" Miroku covered his ears. "You could have asked, you know?"

"Miroku." His voice was stern as he glared, dangerously at him.

"Okay, okay." He pointed up. Before he and Sango could say anything, Inuyasha was gone.

"What's eaten him?"

Sango shrugged. "I don't know. But I don't think it's a good thing, especially if it involved him yelling Rin's name."

Inuyasha went and opened every door he could grab. He checked Sango's bedroom, Miroku's, the rooftop, the closets, even the bathroom. The situation felted familiar for some reason, but at the moment, he was too furious to notice. That leaves one room he didn't searched yet. His room.

He slowly opened the door and walked in. It was empty, although he could clearly smelled her scent in his room. 'Lavender.' The scent was getting stronger when he stood near his bed. He gazed down on his comforter.

Why didn't he stopped and smell her scent before barging every room like a lunatic? He could have saved a lot of time if he did so in the beginning. He shook the thought off before a mischievous glimmer sparkled through his eyes. He smirked. Well, he could have a bit of fun before confronting her.

Kagome bit her bottom lip as she lied on her stomach below the mattress, unaware that Inuyasha already knew where she was because of her scent. It wasn't a good hiding place to hide, but she wasn't thinking clearly at that time when she was trying to find one. Well, at least, she could see a clear view of his feet.

She could hear him yawned, and through the small gap below the bed, she could see him take off his shoes before sitting on top of his bed. The weight above her soon increased on her. For a hanyou, he sure was heavy.

She glanced up, annoyingly as she quietly tapped on the soft carpet.

With an evil smirk across his face, Inuyasha got up on his bed and started jumping on it. It brings back memory as he continued to jump on it. He remembered when he was little he used to jump on his bed all the time with his mother, although his father and Sesshoumaru disapproved of it.

The thought about his parents made his heart ached…

He stopped just in time for Kagome to crawl out quickly and yelled at him. "Okay, I surrender! Are you happy now? Jeez, what were you trying to do? Kill me?!" She rubbed her aching head.

The thought earlier vanished when he saw her. "About time you got out, Wench! I was starting to think you enjoyed being jump on!" He yelled.

Her right hand rolled up to become a fist. "You knew I was under your bed the whole time! And yet you didn't say anything in the beginning?!"

He crossed his arms. "Keh. I think you deserved it for what you did today."

She scratched her head as she faked a chuckle. "Heh, heh. Oh that… well… I was… uh… you know…" She slowly walked backward towards the exit.

"Not so fast Miss Innocent." He quickly rushed to the only exit and closed it.

She trapped. In Inuyasha's room. With a hanyou who can't wait to spill her blood. Kagome quickly glanced at the bathroom's door. If she makes it on time, maybe she can make it.

"Keh. You can try running to it, but it will be a waste of breath."

Kagome glared at him. Well, there goes her escape to the bathroom.

"Care to explain why you went around and telling lies about how deeply I felt about a certain woman?" He slowly walked toward her. Each step he walked to her was the same amount she walked back.

"Umm…" Kagome tried to hide her fear, but deep down she knew he could smell her fear a mile away.

He took another step forward as she took another step back to meet the edge of the bed.

"You know, I didn't remember saying anything about how guilty I was. I know for sure I would tell you how much I want to apologize, but I couldn't remember mentioning it to you. Unless I have short-term memory, right? Or maybe, it was some minx who decided to butt into people's business?" He continued, placing emphasis on the last sentence as he stopped at an arm distance away from her.

'What are you doing Kagome?! You're a goddess for Christ's sake! Are you're going to let a mere hanyou scare you like that?!' Kagome raised her chin in confidence as she got her strength back. "Look Mr. I-know-it-all, if I haven't butt in, you guys will still hate each other by now. I was only trying to help!"

"Help?!" He spatted. "Oh yes, your help sure have made us grew from hating each other to loving each other right now. Oh I could see it now, we are just best friend."

Kagome opened her mouth, but he interrupted her with a glare. "And don't even say 'I was trying to help,' because you've made it even worse! If you haven't mixed people's words around, everything would be fine by now!"

Kagome clenched her fists. His words did hurt, but something inside of her exploded, replacing the pain in her heart temporary away. "If it weren't for me," She slowly retorted, "you would be the same person," She glared menencely at those golden orbs of his'. "who was too weak to do anything for the sake of his company. No, for the sake of yours and your brother's company. Which by the way, your father worked so hard to make that business become successful in the beginning. You want all those years he strived for to come to ruins because someone was too damn stubborn to even apologize! Or even cooperate with someone else!"

'Okay, maybe I went a bit exaggerated about the business part coming to ruins and maybe the weak part too.'

Kagome could see his clench fingers tightening, even his jaw was tightening. And she swore she could have seen veins popped out along his arms when he averted his eyes to the floor. 'Good going Kagome, now you really tempted the beast.'

His anger boiled with rage and yet not a single word would form out of his mouth. He was too angry to say anything at the moment. Okay, he admitted in some part she was a bit right, but did she have to go on yapping about him being weak? Nope. She shouldn't have.

Kagome stared at him, bewildered he didn't do anything. Not even saying anything to defend himself. She thought the part where the vein popped out was scary, but this silence was plain scarier. Did he heard what she just said earlier or was he being guilty for what he has said to her? She couldn't tell. Or maybe he was turning out to be some crazy hanyou after all.

She leaned a bit forward to see what was wrong with him, but at the same time, he looked up. She could have sworn she had seen a blaze of anger in his eyes, but it was gone as a lightening bolt, and instead, his eyes didn't show any emotion. It was like watching a flame frozen in the Arctic Sea.

He finally opened his mouth. Kagome betted it wasn't good, but she was ready for the blow. 'Here it comes.'

However, at the precise moment when words starting to finally formed out of his mouth, there was a faint sound behind his door. Inuyasha turned around and narrowed his eyes at his wooden door. If looks could kill then his door would be in ashes by now.

"Shh… Did they hear us?" Sango pushed her right ear against the door, trying to hear any sound coming behind it.

"I don't know." Miroku mirrored her action except this time his left ear was against the door instead.

A minute ago, they heard murmurs inside Inuyasha's room and then it was quiet. Did they suspect that they were being eavesdropped on? Maybe he shouldn't have accidentally slipped and banged his head on the door. 'Stupid floor.' He made a mental note to buy carpets.

"We shouldn't be doing this… spying." Miroku whispered.

"But weren't you the one who dragged me up here in the first place?" Sango responded softly.

"Yeah, but weren't you the one that say, 'We are invading their privacy, we shouldn't be doing this'?" God he loved it when he used Sango's words against her.

"Well… yeah…" Sango looked at him at the corner of her eyes. "But we are making sure that Rin is safe. A minute ago, Inuyasha looked like he was going to kill somebody."

He could have sworn he heard a light footstep behind the door, but maybe he was imaging hearing things. "Yeah, but weren't you the one that says Inuyasha won't harm Rin?" He paused. "Wait, I said that!" He lightly chuckled at his own amusement.

Sango only rolled her eyes.

Suddenly, the door was opened swiftly as Sango and Miroku fell sideway on the soft carpet. They both looked up to see an angry Inuyasha glaring down at them.

"Look what we got here. A pair of two loved birds on the floor. Isn't that just plain sweet?" Inuyasha responded with a hint of sarcasm in it.

"Oh hey Inuyasha. Didn't know you where inside," Miroku innocently smiled at him and then looked at Rin. "with Rin." He got up as he helped Sango stand. "Umm, Sango and I were testing if the doors were soundproof… and clean... enough to make sure… that…" For the first time in history he was lost in words.

Inuyasha folded his arms as he waited for their excuse.

"That…" Sango stared at Miroku then to Inuyasha, Rin, and back to Miroku. "That the door was not that dirty so Martha won't be exhausted cleaning every single one of the doors." She chuckled as she quickly stepped on Miroku's toes to inform their alibi.

"Ouch! Oh yeah, we loved doors to be clean." Miroku added.

Either that was one of the lamest excuses he ever heard of or he was just plain tired to confront those two for spying on them. Inuyasha sighed. "Okay."

Miroku, Sango, and Kagome widened their eyes as they all shouted in unison. "Okay?!"

Inuyasha leaned against the door frame from the inside. "Yeah, okay." His closed his eyes to take a deep breath for a second, and then opened it again. "What? That was just excuse?"

Miroku and Sango looked at each other. "Oh, no, no. We were thinking about…"

"I'm tired at the moment and I need to take a shower right now, so if you want to make another excuse, please make it outside my door." He walked toward his shelves and opened it. "And that mean you too, Rin."

Kagome frowned. What just happen there? Wasn't he supposed to yell at them for eavesdropping? 'Oh my god. Did I accidentally did something wrong?' Last she checked she didn't do any magic. Nope it wasn't it. Or maybe he lost it and already forgotten that it was she that mixed his and Kikyou's words around.

He took his pajama and looked at her. "We will continue this discussion later." With that, he disappeared inside his bathroom.

'Maybe not.'

AN: The more I reread this chapter, the more it disappointed me. It seems to be in a rush or something. I was about to add the "confronting" and "muffin" part on one chapter, but I decided to end it here because I think the "muffin" chapter will be quite long. Anyway, if you see any errors, bare with me. School has been a pain in the butt for awhile. One of my goals is to write at least a chapter per month. If my schedule gets too hectic, then it will be a chapter(s) per two months or so. However, I will try to write and post it per month if I'm lucky enough. Well, anyway, Happy Halloween!