A/N: hey guys. Here's the next chappie to the A-List. Thank you to all those who reviewed. Means the world to me. anyways, I know I pissed a lot of people off with the last chapter, so hope this one makes up for it.
Disclaimer: nope...
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The A-List
Chapter Seven
Rewarded
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A few select emotions ran through Inuyasha as he stared at the scene before him; which by the way did not make him happy. Anger, fear, worry, an uneasy feeling and horror swept over his face like a picture show.
Kagome had her back up against the dark hallway's wall, and the bulky man that smelled of sweat and fear was in front of her, holding a gun up to her temple. It seemed as though he was saying something to her, because she kept nodding her head in a jerky movement.
With a frown set on Inuyasha's face, he crept in the shadows till he was behind the guy. Kagome's eyes widened slightly, and she slid down the wall in one fluid movement, then between the guys slightly parted legs, before Inuyasha smashed him against the wall. She watched in astonishment as Inuyasha beat the guy or demon as she found out, against the stone wall.
"You sick bastard. Pick on someone your own size." Inuyasha muttered as he punched him in the stomach.
"Will do." The demon smirked and punched Inuyasha, squarely in the jaw, making him stumble back. Both went off punching each other, and Inuyasha finally knocked the gun from his hand. It slid on the ground near Kagome and she looked at it, then back at the scene before her. Then she picked up her backpack and pulled her cell phone out, dialing one of her family bodyguard's number and then the police.
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Inuyasha finally knocked the demon out and now he was lying still on the ground. He scooted over to Kagome.
"You hurt?" he asked in a gruff voice. Kagome shook her head.
"No. How about you?" she looked over at his busted knuckle. He smirked.
"I'm good. It'll heal."
"Right." She said nodding her head and looking over at the beaten thing on the floor. "Sorry."
"What are you talking about?"
"I mean, that you had to come and save me. I wasn't even paying attention, then all the sudden he grabbed me."
"Did you learn your lesson?" he said in a teasing voice.
"I don't think dying by a gunshot is the way I want to die, even though it would solve a lot of problems..." she said quietly. But before he could ask her what she meant, they were swarmed with police, important looking men and a crowd.
"Okay boys. Get them." One man said, his men taking hold of Inuyasha and getting ready to cuff him up.
"What?! It wasn't me!" Inuyasha yelled, trying to get out of their grip.
"Stop!" Kagome yelled. Everyone did as told, and froze in place. "You will release him, or you will lose your job." She threatened, hands on her hips, a frown set on her face.
"Yes ma'am." The men released Inuyasha and he rubbed his wrists from where the cuffs were once placed.
"He's the one that did it. Arrest him." she said, pointing to the guy on the ground. They did as told again, and arrested him.
"So...I'll see you later." Inuyasha said rubbing the back of his neck and trying to scoot away. But as he did so, he ran into a very tall man, with broad shoulders and long black hair in a ponytail.
"Where do you think you're going?" he asked in a booming voice. Kagome sighed.
"And who are you?" Inuyasha asked.
"I'm Kagome's father, and I wanted to fully reward the man who saved my precious daughter." He smiled a somewhat distant smile, but it was still there. Kagome now rolled her eyes. 'Precious my ass.' She thought.
"Uh, that's okay. I was just in the neighborhood and I decided to save a life, you know how it is." Inuyasha tried to brush it off. Just then Sango and Miroku broke through the crowd and got to the middle.
"What happened?" Sango asked frantically.
"Oh, you know. I was only held at gunshot, then Inuyasha swooped in, in such a heroic manner and saved my ass." Kagome explained calmly. Sango stared.
"Okay. Are you okay? Gods that sounds scary." In the feeling of the moment Sango actually hugged Kagome. Both sweat dropped.
"Next order of business." Kagome's father said. "We need to choose your reward."
"Oh, no thank you."
"Um...Inuyasha...you are kind of talking to the richest guy in the world." Miroku whispered in a hushed tone.
"So about my reward." He started again. Everyone sweat dropped this time. "What did you have in mind?"
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"So...wait...let me get this straight..." Inuyasha started. He cleared his throat and tried to bring the excitement down in his voice. "You...are letting me live here...with three people I'm close to...for however long I want?" Inuyasha asked slowly.
"Correct."
"And this wont be a problem?" he asked.
"Not at all."
"And I can leave when I want?"
"Correct."
"And...do I have to follow any rules?"
"Same one's Kagome follows." Sito looked over at Kagome who was standing with her back against his home office room's wall, one leg propped up, her arms folded. She was gritting her teeth and snorted looking away.
"And those would be?"
"I'll let her go over those with you. Right now, though, you should have a decent tour of the house." Sito explained. He beeped a button on the phone holder on his desk, and one servant came through the door.
"Yes sir?"
"Take this young man on a tour of the house please."
"Yes sir." The young maid smiled at Inuyasha and then led him out of the office, to give him a tour of the grounds and where he'd be staying.
"Kagome." Sito said evenly.
"What?" she answered harshly.
"Please treat our new guests as if they were family." He leaned back in his chair and propped his feet on the desk.
"Hmm...that's funny, because I don't seem to have a very good role model, to follow the example of." She glared and left the room, making sure to slam the door on the way out.
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"So these are the family gardens. And over here, we have the family swimming pool. Since its still summer, we have one for outdoors and one for in when it gets cold." She explained. But Inuyasha was barely even listening as he stared off the balcony and to the poolside below. Kagome was laying on a lounge soaking up the sun in her bikini. It looked as if she just applied sunscreen, because her skin was glowing radiantly. Her hair was wet and she had sunglasses shielding her eyes from the sun's rays. 'That's fucking hot.' He thought to himself.
"Sir. Sir, did you hear me?" the maid was trying to get Inuyasha's attention, though she knew it was elsewhere.
"Huh? Uh, yeah, thanks for the tour." He said, turning to take off towards the pool area.
"But sir! I haven't shown you where you and your friends are supposed to be staying!" she called.
"Kagome will tell me!" he yelled as he ran off.
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Kagome sat up, pushing her sunglasses to the top of her head, and picked up her journal, after taking a sip of the lemonade she was drinking. She hummed along with the tune playing in her earphones by Linkin Park and picked up a pencil, poising it over the paper to write.
I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless lost under the surface
Don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
(Caught in the undertone just caught in the undertone)
Every step I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertone just caught in the undertone)
She wrote a series of lines, all meaning something to her, but to any other person, it wouldn't make much sense. It was a rhymed yet not rhymed poem and it expressed her ideals and how she felt at the moment, how she felt in life.
I've become so numb I can't feel you there
I've become so tired so much more aware
I've becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you
More and more words flowed onto the paper and she began to write in beat with the music, not even bothering to think about each word she put down on the paper.
Can't you see that you're smothering me
Holding too tightly afraid to lose control
Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you
(Caught in the undertone just caught in the undertone)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
Caught in the undertone just caught in the undertone)
And every second I waste is more than I can take
Tears brimmed her eyes, but she refused to let them fall, as he hand began cramping. It really would give him satisfaction. To see her suffering, to see her feeling worthless. It wasn't really like he cared.
I've become so numb I can't feel you there
I've become so tired so much more aware
I've becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you
Kagome closed her eyes, but still wrote, not really caring if anything meshed together. She'd be the only one reading it anyway. She felt hopeless. She felt like a little child, crying over such nonsense. She missed her mom, a lot. And it was probably his fault that she was gone. That she drove herself to die so miserably.
And I know
I may end up failing too
But I know
You were just like me with someone disappointed in you
I've become so numb I can't feel you there
I've become so tired so much more aware
I've becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you
Her life matched the lyrics. Her father pushed her to be something she wasn't, so that he could look good. She hated him for that. For the fact that to everyone else, he acted like a good father, but when not in the eye of the public, a man with only work and no family.
I've become so numb I can't feel you there
Is everything what you want me to be
I've become so numb I can't feel you there
Is everything what you want me to be
As the song ended, Kagome let a tear drop, but she quickly wiped it away. Why cry over something that can't be changed. The CD ended and Kagome took a deep breath.
It was then that Kagome felt a hand tangle in her hair at the back of her head and she opened her eyes. She was staring right into golden orbs with her own chocolate ones.
"Inuyasha..." she whispered.
"Are you okay?" he asked, trying to hide the concern in his voice, but failing miserably. She smiled sadly and nodded.
"I'm fine."
"No you aren't."
"I said I'm okay. Just, leave it..." she sighed. He nodded and removed his hand from her hair.
"Okay, well...my friends should be here any minute. Should we go greet them?"
"Yeah, let me go change."
She led him inside the house and then up to the floor her room was on. She told him to wait while she went into her room and pulled on some clean clothes.
She came outside wearing a lavender summer skirt, three inches above her knees a white baby-T, and white flip-flops.
"Come on." They headed downstairs and as they came to the door, they were met with Sango, Miroku and Kito, his little brother. "Hey guys. You're the ones Inuyasha picked to stay?" she asked.
"Yeah." Miroku replied for all of them. "Pretty sweet crib, Higurashi." He said nodding his head in an approvingly manner.
"You can call me Kagome." She said with a smile. The group was bum rushed with maids that took their luggage and led them to different rooms.
"So...I need to know where I am staying." Inuyasha said with a sheepish shrug.
"Weren't you paying attention on the tour the maid gave you?" she asked as she led him back up to her floor.
"I got sidetracked." He said quietly. She laughed.
"Whatever. Here's your room. You've been blessed with it being right next to mine. Hope you like rock music." She smirked and went into her room, closing the door.
"Nice." He said with a smile. He unlocked his room door and stepped inside, truly happy with what was inside. "Nice, again." He nodded his head and headed over to the luggage on his bed to unpack.
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A/N: okay...that was kind of just a filler chapter. So I didn't drive anyone extra crazy with the last cliffhanger. Anyway, I'm about to go somewhere so enjoy reading. Have a super fun weekend ya'll.
Later Dayz, TaintedMunkeyz