Mixed Emotions [Eleven]

Author's notes: Hello again, everyone! I guess the events in chapter 10 went too fast...don'tcha think so? Lol. Anyway, I have so much time to do stuff now that I'm not on vacation anymore =P. Man, I can't seem to continue "Another Chance" and "Kouga's Disguise," since I'm so busy with this. But I'll try anyway. I know that I've said that so many times before, and still nothing has happened. Everytime I try to write the next chapter, I can't seem to think about what's gonna happen next. ARGH! Enough of my blabbing. Well, enjoy chapter 11 of "Mixed Emotions."

P.S. I meant to make the previous chapter [Ch.10] a songfic =)...but I guess I forgot. Oh well. I'll try it again on another chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha. Nope.

Mixed Emotions [Eleven] - Next morning commotion!

Inuyasha and the gang

It was 9:45AM. Saturday morning. The birds were chirping merrily at the garden. The fountain water was running freely. Sango woke up when the rays of the sun entered her open window and shone on her eyes. Slowly getting up, the 16 year-old girl rubbed her eyes and yawned. Shoving the curtains aside, she looked outside of her window and realized that the bedroom that she was staying in was facing the side where the garden was down below. The cold morning air blew, making her shiver a bit.

"Wow. This place is really remarkable. It looks beautiful on the inside, as well as the outside," she thought to herself, then she could hear Ayame snore from the other room. Sango giggled at her friend...but everything else was peaceful. Then, after a long while of admiring the gardens, she decided to wake the others up. After all, it was already quite late. She got out of her PJs and put on a wild red shirt and a pair of capris, then looked out at the garden once more. She couldn't help but gazed at the colourful flowers down below. The shack that they partied in blended in with everything else. "I wonder when Kagome will find out that Inuyasha already has a girlfriend..." Sango sighed. "Poor girl. What can I do - as her bestfriend - to help her if she does find out? She'd be torn over it for days...or weeks...even months!" She sat on her bed, then thought, "I wonder if Inuyasha told her already? I'm gonna go ask Kagome..." Sango made her way out of her room...then she was infront of Kagome's door. She held the doorknob, turned it clockwise, and the door opened quietly. Sango stopped dead in her tracks.

There was Kagome, under the comforter with her head resting on a young man's chest...Inuyasha's, of course. The hanyou's arms were wrapped around Kagome as the two slept on, unaware that they were being watched at the moment. Sango retreated a few steps and closed the door behind her. "Kagome and Inuyasha....? Wait a minute...they're in the same room...and sharing the same bed?!?!" The 16 year-old girl thought. She rushed to Miroku's room, and burst the door open. The monk was still sprawled on the bed, snoozing his butt off. Immediately, she closed the door behind her.

"Miroku! Miroku! Wake up!" Sango said, shaking him vigoriously. "It's urgent!" Miroku's eyes shot up and his hand grabbed the girl's.

"Okay! Okay! I get your point!" he mumbled, rubbing his eyes furiously. "What is it?"

"It's Kagome and Inuyasha. They're in the same room sharing the same bed!"

"So...?" Since he just woke up, Miroku's reaction time was slow. A few minutes of silence passed, then Miroku had a bizarre expression. "WHAT?!?"

"What's the 'so?' for?" Sango asked, shaking her head, as if disappointed. "Usually you're thinking of something dirty..." Glancing at the monk, he looked as if he were thinking something...bad. A hand came rushing to his face, making a red, temporary hand-print. "...Now that's what I'm talking about." Miroku rubbed the red hand-print on his cheek and laughed nervously.

"Are you sure?"

"Of course. I was there just a few minutes ago!"

"Alright...Jeez, calm down, girl," Miroku commented. "Let's go wake up Kouga and Ayame. We all have to talk about this." Sango nodded in agreement, and the couple rushed to wake up the other teens. Ayame and Kouga finally woke up, and the group of four assembled at Miroku's bedroom. Sango sat on Miroku's bed by the window, and Ayame crossed her legs while sitting on the bed beside Sango. Miroku sat on the floor by the wall, while Kouga lay on his stomach on the carpeted floor.

"Why'd you wake us up?" Kouga asked, yawning. "I mean, isn't it too early? I usually wake up at 11:00AM..."

"Well...you see, Inuyasha and Kagome are in the same room...sleeping," Sango explained. "And they're sleeping on the same bed!" Miroku and Kouga had a weird expression plastered on their faces...which can only one thing: they are thinking of the same thing.

"Do you think they did it?" asked Ayame, her eyes lighting up. "I mean, what else could it mean?"

"Why don't you take a peek, Miroku?" Sango suggested dully. "And Kouga, you can accompany him too." As the two marched out of the room, Ayame looked at Sango with a why-did-you-send-them-out look. "They know they want to see something." The red-head sighed as she lay on the bed, waiting for the young men to return. A few minutes went by, and when the boys returned, they looked somewhat amazed. Miroku sat back to his spot, and Kouga sat by him. The air was thick with tension, as Sango and Ayame awaited for their response. 10 minutes passed, and still there was no answer. The red-headed girl waved her hands simultaneously in front of their faces.

"Sango's right," Miroku finally said. "They are on the same bed. Although..." He could feel a grin forming on his face, and a laugh stuck on his throat. He knew that he was going to regret what he was about to say, for he will receive another slap from the mightly Sango [heh...]. "They didn't look so nude to me..." And there was the slap that he was expecting, but the impact was a little more powerful than the last. He felt the stingy sensation of the hand-print on his other cheek, and could do nothing but rub it to soothe to pain.

"It's true," Kouga backed up. "They still had their clothes on and were merely sleeping..."

"But there's still a possibilty that those two finally moved on to the next level of their relationship and DID IT!" Ayame insisted. "But the question is...why so quick? Why didn't they at least wait until they're been together for a year or something?"

"Oh my god..." Sango muttered. "A year...?" At first, they didn't know why she said this, but Miroku finally understood. His eyes lit up, as if a thought occurred to him.

"Oh damn..." he said. "Kikyo!" Ayame gasped.

"Inuyasha is going to be engaged with Kikyo this Christmas!" she exclaimed.

"And is going to be married a year after!" Kouga added. "But then..."

"Why did Inuyasha have IT with Kagome if he knew all this?!?" Sango continued.

"Calm down, Sango. We might not know it, but he might've given up on Kikyo and decided not to fulfill his promise," Miroku said, restraining the younger girl down. "Isn't that why he said that he 'can't keep his promise any longer' at the park?" The girl let out a sigh of defeat. "We know that you don't want Kagome to get hurt when she learns the truth. Isn't that why we decided to not tell her the truth? I know keeping a secret from a bestfriend is mean...but we don't want her to get hurt, don't we?" Ayame knelt beside her friend. Sango seemed to have calmed down. Miroku grinned.

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Breakfast was ready at the dining hall downstairs. The cups of hot chocolate steamed while the food settled on the plates. Sesshomaru, Inuyasha's elder brother, watched Rin as the girl played and ate with her breakfast, making a mess at her spot on the table. The elder brother closed his eyes sighed annoyingly, then looked up as the figure of Inuyasha's friends appeared by the doorway.

"Good Morning. Your breakfast is ready," he announced, showing the complete breakfast table along with Rin eating on the side. "Please don't mind Rin."

"No, we don't mind," Ayame said. Sesshomaru nodded.

"By the way, where is your mother and father? We wish to thank them for letting us in," Miroku added.

"Father is at work. Inuyasha's mother is out at the gardens, as usual."

"Er...'Inuyasha's mother'...?" Kouga wondered.

"That's right. Inuyasha is only my half-brother. He and I do not share to the same mother," Sesshomaru replied flatly. The group nodded and proceeded to the table. Sango and Miroku sat by each other, and the same thing for Kouga and Ayame [the couples sat opposite of each other. A long moment of silence went by as the four and Rin ate their meal. Sesshomaru merely glanced at the people at the table. Kouga was glomping down on his foor and was always asking for seconds, and Sesshomaru's servant, Jaken, would always give him so. When the people were nearly done eating, Inuyasha, followed by Kagome, emerged in the dining hall. Both were casually dressed like Miroku and the others. They sat opposite of each other and quietly ate their meal. Ayame felt like teasing them so, but tried to resist. Miroku couldn't help it though. He cleared his throat to catch everyone's attention except for Rin's, Jaken's and Sesshomaru's. Those three headed out as soon as Inuyasha appeared.

"So how was last night, Inuyasha and Kagome?" the monk asked in a suspicious tone. Of course, Kagome and the hanyou looked puzzled for a moment, and Ayame couldn't hold it back any longer. The redhead giggled.

"Uh...what do you mean?" Inuyasha asked, glacing at everyone at the table.

"You two perfectly know what I mean." Kagome blushed, but laughed it off nervously. Was it because they happen to see her and Inuyasha sleeping right next to each other on the same bed? They didn't do anything though. They just...slept. That's all. There was nothing else that happened except

"Seriously, guys! If you think we did something, we didn't okay?" Kagome explained; there was still a hint of pink on her cheeks.

"Is that so?" Sango said, her lips curling into a smile. Then Miroku turned to her and whispered, "I think she's right. If they did do IT, we coulda seen a sign or something."

"Or heard some kind of noise," Sango giggled. The silly arguement came to a halt when Izayoi entered the room. She looked particularly happy.

"Good Morning, everyone. Did you have a nice sleep?" Izayoi asked cheerfully. Everyone nodded. "I see. Well, please feel free to enjoy the rest of your day here. We don't get guests often." As Inuyasha's mother exited the room, Miroku and Sango exchanged glances; so did Kouga and Ayame, and Inuyasha and Kagome.

"So...going back to our 'famed' topic..." Kouga teased. "What did happen last night?"

"Nothing," Inuyasha replied. "Nothing at all."

Everyone else besides Kagome was slightly back. Miroku had a raised eye brow.

"You serious?"

"Yeah."

"Then...why were you guys on the same bed in the same room?" Ayame wondered.

"That's 'cause we fell asleep there."

"That's it?"

"Yep."

The short conversation was interrupted when Sesshomaru's servant, Jaken, waddled into the room. His big, yellow eyes searched the room for someone, then finally, he hollered, "Lord Inuyasha! There is a call for you in the living room." Inuyasha stood up from his seat, nodded an "excuse me" to everyone, then bolted out of the dining room. He found the phone resting on an end table beside a close phonebook. Taking the phone, he placed the receiver over his ear. "Hello?" was the first thing he said.

"Inuyasha." The voice sound vaguely familiar.

"Kikyo...?"

"Mm-hmm. How's life?" Kikyo asked.

"Pretty good, I guess," Inuyasha replied.

"So...um...Sorry. I couldn't make it to your party yesterday. My friend was really sick, and I couldn't--"

"That's okay. I understand."

"I see. So our engagement this Christmas is still on, huh?" she said. Inuyasha's eyes widened, and his heart skipped a beat. The engagement was still on? She didn't forget about everything?

"Er...yeah, I guess..." the hanyou stammered. Then, there was silence. Everything was quiet. Inuyasha's heart was pounding inside his chest so quickly that it hurt.

"Inuyasha..." Kikyo began. "...is there something else in your mind?"

"What are you talking about? Of course our engagement is still on!"

"Alright!" she replied; the hanyou could hear a clapping sounds in the background. "I'm so excited! Aren't you?"

"Um...yeah..."

"I'll see you at Christmas then! Lots of love and bye!" And then she hung up. Inuyasha did so too, then sighed heavily. How was he going to explain this one? Everyone else knew it besides Kagome. Inuyasha curled up on the couch he was sitting on, and placed a hand on his forehead. "I can't do it...I don't want to get engaged to her...not now..." he thought, as beads of sweat ran down his face. "...I...I don't love that way her anymore!"

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And so...Kikyo will finally play her part of this story. There you have it. I've had a fun vacation, by the way. I'm just so excited about what's going to happen in the future chapters! More twists and turns for Inuyasha as he finds out about Kikyo's secret, his love for Kagome, and his meddling friends are at work[sneaking their way to Inuyasha's life...as usual.]! More things are gonna come up as Inuyasha ventures to find out who he really loves and who will he end up with: Kikyo or Kagome?!

P.S. Reviews please?