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NOTE: They are NOT hanyou, youkai, miko etc in this story. They are all HUMAN!
Title: Until Love Happened
Summary: They are best friends, however this fact has to be kept hidden from the rest of the world. Why? He's a famous singer, and keeping this friendship hidden is the only way to keep her family safe. Until Love happened... InuKag
Disclaimer: I don't own IY and co. Rumiko Takahashi does. I own none of the songs either!
Genre: Romance/Drama
Ages: Kagome: 17, Inuyasha: 18
Rating: R (M)
.- .- .- .- Chapter 2: The First project of the Year
The story is just beginning…
They day went on okay. Kagome and Inuyasha made it back to school on time for classes. Inuyasha dropped Kagome off at a deserted park so she can walk the rest of the way so they don't attract attention.
Inuyasha parked his car at the far end of the parking lot; since he was driving Kagome home today and Kagome ran her way back to school.
He walked slowly to the main gate, and he opened it just as Kagome arrived.
"Nice jog?" He grinned.
"Shut up." She muttered. There was nobody in sight so they were kinda dropping the act.
The warning bell rung and the two rushed to their class. Remember, they kinda had every class together. They had advanced calculus right now. They walked into their class to find that they had Miroku also in that class.
"Yo Roku!" Kagome waved at him as she ran past Inuyasha to go hug Miroku. Miroku Houshi, best friend to Inuyasha and currently in complete love with Kagome's best friend, Sango.
Miroku was like a brother to Kagome. They've known each other since they first started high school.
"Hey Kagome! What's up?" Miroku said as he hugged Kagome. Miroku never, ever went lecherous on Kagome. Yea, he still does the occasional, 'Kagome, bear me an heir' but he, after the first time he touched her ass on the first day of high school, never touched her again.
"Same old. Oh god how was England?" Kagome asked. Miroku went to England over the summer to visit his mother's father, Mushin. Miroku's father and other grandfather (father's father) died in an accident a few years ago so Miroku lives with his mother and goes to England to visit his grandparents.
"It was boring. Old man Mushin is loosing his memory. He didn't remember my name OR mom's name!"
Kagome stifled a laugh. "Poor Aunt Midoriko." Kagome said softly.
"Yea, well Alzheimer's can do that."
Inuyasha walked over and clapped Miroku's back. "And you can count that you will have it too! It'll save Sango from your lecherous deeds."
Miroku laughed. "Oh come on Inuyasha, you know Sango loves me."
Kagome snorted. "Try telling her that one."
Inuyasha laughed.
"So, you two have all the same classes together?" Miroku asked.
Kagome nodded.
"How's it like?"
Kagome snorted. "Being with a stuck up jerk like him?"
Miroku raised a brow. "So you actually don't like him? But I thought everybody does? Hell even Sango does too!"
Kagome shook her head. "I don't know how they like him… he's so… urg!"
"Urg?" Inuyasha asked as he raised a brow.
"Shut up!" Kagome scowled as she sat beside Miroku. Inuyasha took the empty seat behind Kagome.
The teacher, Totosai-sensei walked in and class begun.
Math class ended very quickly and Inuyasha and Kagome rushed to their last class of the day, biology. There they found that Sango was with them.
"Hey!" Kagome smiled as she hugged Sango Yue, her best friend.
"Hi Kags! I heard Roku's in your math?"
Kagome nodded. "Yep."
"Cool, how's he? When'd he come back from England?"
"Three days ago. I dunno how he did all of his shopping in such short notice."
Sango snorted. "That's Roku, he never shops."
Kikyo, unfortunately, was also in this class. Inuyasha, though hesitant, left Kagome to sit with Kikyo. Kagome sat beside Sango and resumed talking, only giving a glance in Inuyasha's direction.
Inuyasha lip went up only a little bit, shooting the smile at Kagomes' direction. Then he gave his undivided attention to Kikyo.
Biology ended extremely slowly. Their teacher was Kaede-sensei and man did she ever drone on and one forever.
Kagome walked to her locker by herself. Sango had to go pick her brother Kohaku up from a neighboring school. Kagome's brother, Souta would come home half an hour later from his school. Kagome got her books from her locker and shut the door. She would wait at the park that Inuyasha dropped her off this morning.
"Oh come on Inu-kun! Please give me a ride home." Kikyo pouted.
Inuyasha shook his head, he knew that Kikyo had her ride home, and he knew she was begging to be with him, but no matter how much he wanted to drop Kikyo off, he had to drop Kagome off, that was a promise.
Suddenly his cell phone rung. He took it out of his pocket and saw caller ID flashing, 'Sweetheart calling, answer?'
"Who is it Inu?" Kikyo asked.
"Sweetheart." Inuyasha replied as he picked it up, eyeing Kagome walking out of the opposite door.
"Hey Sweetheart." He said as he wrapped an arm around Kikyo's waist.
"If you want to drop her off, go ahead. I'll walk to Souta's school and wait for mom to pick us both up."
"What are you insane? Walk to his school? It's 15 minutes away!" He growled into the phone. Kikyo scrunched up her eyebrows. 'What the hell is he mad for?' she thought.
"So I'll walk. I know you want to drop your girlfriend off at her house. I get it Yashie, you wanna spend time with her. We've been friends forever and we'll always see each other, just do what you want to. I'm already on the main street."
"Are you damn sure? If anything happens to you I'll kill whoever did it you hear?"
"Yes I hear, now you leave or else Sesshomaru will get mad at you."
"Ok Sweetheart. Love you, bye."
"Love you too Yashie." And Kagome hung up. She sighed as she started slowly walking in the direction of Souta's school.
"What is it Inuyasha?" Kikyo asked as she ran a finger down Inuyasha's chest.
Inuyasha scrunched up his eyebrows. 'Kikyo brought her car and it's supposed to rain today… I can't just leave Kagome to walk to Souta's school.'
"I have to go home really fast baby. Can you drive yourself home? I promise I'll pick and drop you off tomorrow." Inuyasha said as he kissed Kikyo's cheek.
Kikyo sighed and nodded. "Alright Inu. I love you."
"Same." Inuyasha said as he turned and ran to his car.
As soon as Inuyasha was out of earshot Kikyo let out a cry of despair. "THAT BITCH! WHO IS SHE?"
.- Inuyasha -.
Inuyasha growled as he got into his car and sped out of the parking lot. 'How the hell can I just say, "Yea Kagome, go ahead and walk" when I promised her I'd drop her off today!' Inuyasha's mind scolded him.
"I'm such a piss off." He roared to himself as he saw Kagome walking slowly towards Souta's school, which is another 10 minutes away. There were no cars passing by, except for those people who were headed home from work. None of them knew Inuyasha's car and none of them saw Inuyasha in the car so it was okay to talk to Kagome.
He rolled down his window and called to her.
"Sweetheart!" He yelled. Kagome turned around and frowned. "What are you doing here?" She asked.
"I promised I'd drop you off home didn't I Sweetheart?" Inuyasha asked.
"But you… Kikyo… what?" Kagome sighed as she ran to the open window and leaned forward to talk to Inuyasha.
"Yea but then my guilty conscious was chewing me up saying that I promised you and whatnot."
Kagome frowned at him. "That conscious if yours is gonna be the end of you Yashie."
Inuyasha chuckled. "Yea, yea I know. Get into the car, I'll drop you home."
"You sure?" Kagome raised a brow.
Inuyasha nodded. "Absolutely."
Kagome shrugged as got into his car and fastened her belt.
"So, you have a cell phone, you could have called your mom to pick you up now or a taxi, why walk to Souta's school?" Inuyasha asked.
"I wanted to think." Kagome said as she stared out the window.
"About what?" Inuyasha asked softly as he glanced at Kagome.
"About you me and Kikyo." Kagome replied in the same tone.
"What about you me and Kikyo?"
"Well, Kikyo and I were friends, you know that right?"
Inuyasha nodded.
"It was after Kikyo was paired up with you for our fifth grade science fair project that she became all girly and started trying to push me into doing things…"
"And then?" Inuyasha asked.
"Then what? She was forcing me to go friggin' bra shopping with her. Yea I do go shopping with my friends but picking bras for them! At the age of 10? Oh come on! I told her no and she's all like, 'Oh yea, Kags you're so jealous that I know Inuyasha and you don't.' And I was all like, 'I don't need to know Inuyasha.' And she was all like, 'He's the most richest boy in the world, how can you not want to know him' and I was all like, 'because you touched his arm.' And she spit in my face and puffed off."
Inuyasha hooted with laugher. "I remember that. She touched my arm when she needed tape."
Kagome giggled. "Yea. I still don't get why we even had to hide our friendship back then. I mean you weren't a singer."
"But I was still famous thanks to Dad. And Aunt Korari didn't like the publicity."
Kagome shrugged. "Oh well. After that incident, she started hating me, and that carried out forever."
"And I ended up dating her, fueling your anger for her even more."
"Exactly." Kagome grinned.
"Funny. Anyways, Sweetheart, dad's birthday is in two weeks and we're celebrating. Fluffy and Rin are going and I need somebody to go with to dad's party. I was hoping you."
"What about Kikyo?" Kagome asked staring at him.
"Remember the last time?" Inuyasha asked.
"Oh yea, she got mad at Rin because Rin said she knew you so well and Kikyo got pissed saying 'Bitch, you don't know my man'."
Inuyasha nodded. "Yea, I don't want that happening again. So will you?"
Kagome smiled and nodded. "Yea sure. So tell me, what's up with Rin and Fluffy? They're so perfect for each other but they don't have any kids yet."
"Fluffy said that when he's ready. He's still trying to get into the fatherly mood."
Kagome laughed. "That's Sesshomaru alright."
Inuyasha pulled up to the shrine. "We're home Sweetheart."
Kagome leaned over and kissed Inuyasha's cheek. "Thanks! Bye Yashie!"
"Later Sweetheart."
Kagome jumped out of the car and waved at Inuyasha as he sped off. She rushed up the shrine steps, bowed to the Buddha statue and rushed into the house.
"I'm home!" She called.
"Hi Kagome! Can you go pick your brother up? The car keys are on the front table."
Kagome threw her backpack onto the floor and picked up her mother's car keys.
"But mama, I don't have my official license yet! I only did the written test. Yashie's the one who picks and drops me off."
Korari frowned. "But Kagu, I'm really busy. The sink overflowed and I'm trying to pull hair out of it. Now why would hair be in the kitchen sink?"
"Souta tried to give Buyo a bath in the sink. Want me to tell Yashie to pick Souta up?"
"Could you? If it's not to much trouble."
"Alright."
Kagome speed dialed Inuyasha. He picked up and Kagome heard music, the song My Boo in the background. She laughed a little when she heard her and Inuyasha singing.
"Yo Sweetheart, what's up?"
"Mom's really busy and you know I can't drive. Can you pick up Souta?"
"Perfect timing Sweetheart, I'm right in front of his school."
"Great Yashie! You're the best."
Inuyasha laughed. "I know. Bye."
"Later."
Kagome flipped her phone off and stuffed it into her pocket.
She walked into the kitchen and winced. The sink was full of brown water and her mother was elbow deep in the water, picking Buyo's fur out.
"Ew! Grossorific!" Kagome hollered.
"Hi dear. What did Inuyasha say?"
"He said ok. Oh god, with all this, pick up Kagome, drop off Kagome, pick up Souta, drop off Souta business, it will be found out that the Takahashi's and us are friends."
Korari shook her head. "No, Inuyasha's car windows are tinted so nobody will see inside."
"Thank god for that."
"Dear Kagu, would you grab a bag."
Kagome ran to the cupboard, pulled out a big black garbage bag and held it out in front of her mother. Korari dumped a handful of hair into the bag. Kagome pretend to gag. "Nasty shit!"
"Tell your brother to wash Buyo in the backyard alright?"
"Sure thing. This is gross! You should get Souta to wash this!"
"You really think he'd put his hands in this?"
"I doubt it ma."
Korari laughed. "WE'RE HOME!" Came Inuyasha's voice.
Kagome ran to the entrance of the house. "How'd you get up a hundred shrine steps without being seen Yashie?"
"I ran, and nobody is here anyways."
Souta grinned. "Oh it was so damn cool! Yasha's sports car pulls up and everybody's like, 'Whose car is that.' And when I got to it everybody said, 'Souta? Who's car is that?' And I laughed and said, 'My brothers.' And everybody was all like, 'You have a brother?' and I ended up saying, 'My sisters boyfriend'."
Kagome's eyes turned red. "You said what?"
"Oh what was I supposed to say Kagu? Yea we're friends with Yasha Takahashi?"
Kagome jumped her brother and pushed him to the ground. "Well you didn't have to say Yashie was my boyfriend!"
"Oh please, you know you want him to-" Kagome pulled off her socks and shoved it into Souta's mouth.
"AWW GROSS!" He roared as he pulled the socks out of his mouth.
"Wanna know what's really gross? Go into the kitchen."
Souta got up and ran into the kitchen. "EWWW! EWWW! DOUBLE EWWWW!" He roared as he ran upstairs.
Inuyasha laughed. "Wanna be my girl, eh Sweetheart?"
Kagome glared at him. "You know fully well that I would never want to go out with a stuck up jerk like you Yashie."
Inuyasha laughed as he pecked Kagome's cheek. "Later Sweetheart." And he ran towards his car. Kagome stood there with her fingers on her cheek where Inuyasha kissed her.
'Stupid me! Stupid me! Why the hell do I talk in my sleep? That's the only fucking way Souta would know I want to go out with Inuyasha!'
Kagome shook her head and clapped her hands. 'I've been able to hide my feelings for him for 7 years now, I can keep it up for the rest of my life right?'
She groaned and sat on the sofa, switching on the television. 'It's hopeless; I'm way to in love with him. To bad he likes Kikyo…'
.- Next Day: Musical Theater Class -.
"Alright class, we're starting our first project of the year." Said Kaguya-sensei.
A eruption of groans was heard.
"Oh be quiet, it'll be fun. I want every pair to come here and pick a name from this hat. Starting with Hikaru and Sai."
Sai and Hikaru walked to Kaguya-sensei and pulled a piece of paper out of the hat. "What does it say?" Said Kaguya.
"Cinderella." Said Sai.
"Good. Ayame and Kouga."
Kouga pulled a name out of the hat and read. "Little Red Riding Hood."
"Shippo and Souten."
Souten pulled a name out. "Snow White."
"Alright, Kagome and Inuyasha."
Kagome remained seated as Inuyasha walked down and pulled a name out of the hat.
"Sleeping Beauty."
"Great."
The names continued to be pulled out and other fairy tales such as, 'Beauty and the Beast' were pulled out.
"Alright, now that you have all of your names, I will explain the project. You and your partner will act this out in two weeks time. It'll only be you two and you can pick out any costume you like from our costume room or buy any you like. It'll be a mark out of 25 for your acting. After this project, we will do a singing project and that's when I know what level each of you is one. Now, I will hand out a rubric and you can start planning."
Kagome frowned as she saw that this was to be marked on your acting skills, preparation skills and costume designs.
"Great… just perfect." Kagome murmured.
"It ain't that bad."
"Says you." Kagome glared at him. "You know fully well I hate Sleeping Beauty."
"Why? Because in our 6th grade play you were the good fairy, Kikyo was the Sleeping Beauty and I was the prince?" Inuyasha asked.
Kagome shook her head. "No, because I remember spraining my ankle in one of the practices for the play you're talking about."
Inuyasha frowned. "When?"
"It was three weeks before curtain opening and I fell off the ladder when I was pretending to fly."
Inuyasha winced. "I remember that. You made a fast recovery and were able to act."
Kagome nodded. "Anyways, what do we do?"
"I dunno…" Inuyasha shrugged.
Kagome frowned. "So is that all you can say you stupid jerk? I dunno? Make me do all the work? Who do you think you are? Just because you're famous doesn't mean you get everything you want!"
Ayame and Souten rushed over. "Kagome, it's all right."
Kagome shook her head. "Whatever. I'm sorry for blowing out guys."
Ayame and Souten nodded. "No problem." They walked back and Inuyasha whispered a quiet, 'Good acting.'
Kagome smiled as they started writing down everything they needed for this mini project.
Alright, did you like this chapter? It was a bit weird but it starts and explains some things the last chapter didn't!
Stay tuned because this is just beginning.
Lub, Sakura