Chapter Warnings :: Zilch—unless their helpless thoughts and a heated twister game.
School Days
Created by: Reall-Goodchild
Re-written by: Melody Unwinding
Kagome was worried. Both of the demons had come back in bad moods, neither speaking a word. Inuyasha switched sleeping arrangements with Ayame, knowing that something had perspired between the two. No one said a word—not wanting to risk their lives on their curious minds. The morning came quickly, and an excitement and hesitation filled the whole cabin. Today they were going to find out who their survival companion was. The counselor's gave the teens 15 minutes to get ready—mainly for the girls to put their faces on.
Slowly they filed into the mess hall, everyone gathering their food. Ayame had taken up a calm and cool façade that she hadn't removed since the other day. Her naturally mischievous emerald orbs were faded and solemn. Her natural spark and fire had left and she looked as if her soul had been extracted from her. The only time she had even shown the slightest act of emotion, was when her gaze had passed by Kouga's and for a split second both wolves blushed, even if no one else noticed.
Kagome sat across from Ayame, and couldn't help but feel the urge to bring up the only topic that all four of them hadn't discussed privately. Sango's eyes urged Kagome to keep her naturally open mouth shut, almost begging her to keep the oath that they silently made with a single glance.
"So," Kagome started, against her own will to keep everything inside. "What punishment did you get?" Ayame stopped poking at her eggs and Sango froze in mid bite. She glared across the table at Kagome while Ayame sat there, frozen in her own mind. She couldn't stop thinking about the other day—how it had all happened. But that wasn't what her mind was preoccupied with—it was him. The way he left her dumbfounded—the way he left her wanting more. She could still remember how he tasted, and the way he didn't treat her like a glass flower about to crack with any brute force. She hated herself for longing his touch—the very same thing that sent her over the edge.
"Ayame?" Kagome repeated, bringing her friend out of her thoughts. She looked at her friends, giving them each a good look in their tired eyes.
"Well we-"she was off by the sudden sharp whistle of Tamika. Inwardly she thanked the girl for everything she was worth.
"All right, listen up! Your partner's have been chosen and are about to be posted up on the outside of the girls cabin. So whenever you're ready to take a peek, you're more then welcomed to." She said in a loud voice that made many of the teens cower.
"Let's go check it out!" Ayame said quickly as she got up, abandoning her eggs. Her face lit up gently, and neither of the two girls bothered to protest. Quickly they scrambled after the demon who was practically racing towards the cabin after the herd of teens that had the same idea floating around in their minds.
"Slow down!" Kagome almost panted as she ran after both of her friends—being the least fit. But they failed to hear over the groans and cheers of the teens as one by one they found out their partners. Sango hung back, not really wanting to find out her partner right away. Kagome—obviously being curious—shoved her way through until she slowly fingered her name and her partner. Her jaw dropped and her fists clenched unconsciously at her sides. She practically stomped back and was almost spewing steam from her ears.
"What's wrong?" Sango asked, a little worried about the shade of red that her face had taken. Kagome narrowed her eyes at the approaching figure that was followed closely by two others. Barely managing to make a coherent sentence, she seethed out one word:
"Him."
Sango turned around and saw the always smug and full-of-himself hanyou strolling with his little posse not too far behind. He was talking to Kouga, while Miroku almost wet himself waiting to find out who was sentenced to having to sleep in the same tent as him. She inwardly smiled, knowing that under all that anger, she held a small feeling for the poor boy.
"Sucks to be you." Sango said with a slight laugh. Miroku gave Sango an almost disturbing glance as he pranced by her and groped his way to the front of the dissipating crowd. His slender finger ran across the list, and then it stopped.—landing on the most wretched woman that anyone would pity, and the lecher himself. A large smile planted itself on his face as he extracted himself from the crowd and made his way over to the two women.
"More like sucks to be you." Kagome muttered just loud enough for Sango to hear. Her jaw tightened and her eyes opened slightly. Kagome gave her a smirk as she set off for the list at an unnaturally slow pace. All eyes turned to her as she walked forwards—the crowd giving her an open aisle to walk down. As if she was a dead man walking, she gulped under the stares of all the eyes. All knew that her doom was official, and there was no sneaking her way out of it.
"What the-"She said slowly before she let out a howl that was loud enough to damage any being on the whole earth's ears.
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None of them could believe their luck—they were stuck with the only people that they didn't want to. Kagome was trying to get a leash on her anger towards a certain hanyou, while Sango was busy massaging her hands so that they wouldn't be sore from beating the poor pervert. Ayame on the other hand, she didn't have much to say. She didn't know what to feel—what to say. Kouga was almost the mirror image of her; he was left with many images swirling inside his head.
He couldn't stop thinking about what had ensued in the cabin only the day before. He wasn't sure how he was supposed to be functioning. She made his head spin, his heart pound and his body temperature rise. She drove him wild beyond anything imaginable—and it was hard to keep a leash on it all. When he had spared her a glimpse, he had found himself wishing for the most desirable thing to pass between them. He could still taste her faintly—but he needed to renew the memory.
"All right you guys—twister time!" Tamika called from the living room of the cabin. Everyone groaned, but the cheerful girl ignored them all. "Any volunteers?"
"Right here!" Kagome said enthusiastically waving her arm in the air. Tamika nodded at her as she began to look for three male competitors. Kagome dragged Sango and Ayame with her—wanting them to endure the embarrassment that she had to go through. Miroku almost jumped at the chance to be within groping distance of her and he wouldn't get slapped for it. He sprang forward, grabbing Kouga and Inuyasha by their arms.
"You have your three male competitors to take on these gorgeous ladies." Miroku said as he wiggled his eyebrows at Sango. She turned away from his gaze and pretended that she didn't witness that.
"All right then, let's begin!" Tamika said with a large smile on her face.
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It was down to the two wolf demons, Kagome and Inuyasha. Sango had eliminated both herself and Miroku when he went to reach for a yellow circle he just 'happened' to brush past her derriere. Inuyasha and Kagome were facing each other, rather close up, and Ayame and Kouga were almost lying underneath the two. Being demons, they had better balance and flexibility than humans. Ayame was looking upwards with her arms stretched on either side of her. Kouga was pressed up against her, and he could swear that she felt his heart beating loudly in his chest.
"Right hand blue." Tamika called out—watching them all with interest. Kouga moved his right hand practically under her and felt his breath failing him. She was just there, underneath of him. Somewhere in his mind, he had wanted this to happen—but in a whole different activity. Her eyes avoided his own, and she was having a tough time as well. The temptation to just kick his legs out from under him would send him crashing down on her, and there she could kiss him just like she had in the cabin. But her rational side of her brain was telling her different.
Kouga couldn't take it anymore. He needed her—and he needed her now. His desire was slowly building up, and he wasn't aware that he had possessed any for her at all. He gazed into her emerald miss-match of emotions until finally both of theirs connected. He lowered his head to hers, ready to capture her lips into a crushing kiss that he had wanted to relive. But just as he was about to, someone hit the back of his legs and sent his knees to the ground. Ayame lost her balance as Kouga hit the ground, and they both lay there under the others. Kouga was lying in between her legs, staring into her eyes like there was no tomorrow.
"All right you two—out before you mess the game up." Tamika said as she spun the spinner once again. Kouga tore himself away from the trance that the demon had placed him in and slowly slid out from under the last contenders. Ayame followed suit, but left the opposite end—away from him.
"Looks like it's down to you and me woman." Inuyasha said with a smirk. She gave him the best a glare he could from the close proximity, hoping that he could feel that hate that was radiating through her eyes.
"Soon to be only me." She retorted back. He scoffed at her statement and waited until Tamika called the next demand.
"Left hand yellow." She said, chatting with some nearby girls. Inuyasha moved his hand easily, and soon Kagome followed with a little difficulty. But as soon as her hand was planted and she tilted her head up so that she could look at him, she felt the situation to be that much more harder to handle. His molten gold eyes bore into hers, searching for something unseen. In a way she felt violated, but all those thoughts fled from her mind.
He was doing fine—until she looked up. Inside he was twisting and turning, and he wasn't quite aware of what was happening. Suddenly he didn't feel so sure of himself. He tried to pry his gaze away from her stormy depths, but his body would have none of that. With his great sense of sound, he failed to hear Tamika call out the next command, signaling the game to continue. To him, it was like Time had stopped, and there was no one in the room except for the two of them.
Her heart was pounding heavily and she wasn't sure what she was supposed to do. All that seemed to be passing through her mind was him. She gulped as her head unconsciously moved forward slightly, allowing their noses to brush against each other. Instinctively he licked his lips as he followed her previous action. His breath was caught somewhere inside of his lungs, and he could barely stand being in such a close radius of her without having any temptation to do what was flashing through his mind.
"Inuyasha? Kagome?" Sango asked, wondering why they hadn't responded to Tamika's claim. If he only moved an inch closer, he could capture those rosy lips of hers in a heart-melting kiss...
"Inuyasha!" Kouga cried, pulling the poor hanyou from the cursed trance that she had put him in. He tore his eyes away from hers reluctantly, pausing to look at the confused teens. He didn't have enough in him to look back at her—he was afraid that it would happen again. He got up from his position, careful not to touch Kagome. Without a glance back he put on an emotionless face and began to walk away.
"She wins." He muttered giving a slight wave.
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A/U :: Here it is! After...however long it took me to update, I DID IT! I had volleyball, homework and the fact that everyone was hogging the computer. Oh and maybe it was also the fact that I was moving some of my stuff. So if you guys have any ideas that you might want to share, I welcome them with open arms.
:-: And Reall-Goodchild if you have any ideas yourself, I welcome those also. And also...I really like long reviews that tell me what I did wrong and what I did well and so on—I'm not quite a fan of the 'write more' ones that I get. I tend to just delete them like they mean nothing to me—no offense. Like in volleyball, it doesn't matter if you get a point by the other team not getting the ball over, or hitting it out that counts—or even a free ball. The ones that do are the attacks and the balls you fight to save. So in a way, the reviews that mean so much to me, are the long ones that tell me their exact opinions, even if it's not that good.
:-: But enough babbling, I should start on chapter 11! Or maybe try and update one of my other stories...hmm...maybe I should try that, ha. So farewell until next time I update! Arrivederci!
Melody Unwinding