Broken Glass
Chapter Ten

Snow crunched under his boots as he made his way towards Kagome's apartment. Halfway through sixth period it had started to snow outside and it hadn't let up until well past dark. Needless to say, the world was shrouded in a thick layer of snow and Inuyasha was caught in the middle of it. Having replaced his converse for his hiking boots in order to have better traction along the icy sidewalks, Inuyasha zipped up his jacket further.

'Comfort over fashion, I always say,' Inuyasha thought to himself as he flipped his scarf over his shoulder. 'Wait, I never say that. Whatever. It's too damn cold for me to argue with myself.'

Snow crunched behind him and the silver haired boy paused, the delicate hairs on the back of his neck standing on end. He turned slowly and was met with the steady gaze of Naraku. If Inuyasha was surprised to see him, he didn't show it. He remained cool and collected.

"You enjoyed it," Naraku said as a greeting and without preamble. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow.

"Enjoyed what? The snow?" Inuyasha shrugged. "Sure. I love snow."

"No." Naraku shook his head and smirked. "Making Hiten scream. Making him bleed. You enjoyed it." It wasn't a question. It was a statement. Inuyasha shivered, and not from the cold.

"I did not," Inuyasha lied. Guilt swam within him. Not only had he actually enjoyed the pain he'd caused, he'd laughed about it. And to make matters worse, Kagome had seen him bloody his fists and laugh at the pain he caused. He frowned and turned on his heel, making way towards Kagome's apartment building.

Naraku caught up with him and walked slowly beside him. "I take it that you will not be rejoining our group," Naraku said as casually as one could when discussing the weather. He left all emotion from his voice as the two walked. Inuyasha clenched his fists within the pockets of his jacket. He nodded curtly.

"I have no desire to return to that part of my life," Inuyasha said sternly. He'd said that a lot lately and he wished that Naraku would receive the hint and leave him in peace. He no longer wished to be the way he had been. That brief moment yesterday when he felt the thrill of blood surging through his veins as he relished in the feel of fist against flesh had been exhilarating, but as the adrenaline ebbed away to nothing, he was left with the everlasting wave of cold that swept over him in his guilt.

His mind's eye flashed to the images of Kagome, her wide blue eyes staring at him silently, her mouth moving but no sound leaving the beautiful pink lips. The way she had looked at him -like he was a wild animal in a zoo- had been too much for him.

And what probably had been the worst was when she let it go. That look in her diamond blue eyes as they stared at him, numb with emotion, had been too much. But when she'd chosen to store it away at the back of her mind had ripped him apart. 'You can never forget these things' he'd told himself that night. 'You cannot forget the look of fear in their eyes… the look of fear in her eyes. You… can… never… forget…'

"You didn't seem to think so yesterday," Naraku chuckled without mirth, unknowingly speaking the thoughts that haunted Inuyasha's mind like an invisible ghost.

Inuyasha stopped and turned towards him with angry golden eyes. He stared at Naraku darkly but he refused to back off. He met the boy's gaze evenly, a cocky smirk upon his lips. He knew. They both knew. "What do you want?"

"You know the rule about leaving?" Naraku questioned him, dark reddish brown eyes staring down at the amber-eyed boy. Inuyasha drew back his lips in a sneer.

"Yes."

Naraku nodded his head and smirked cruelly. "Good. Meet us at Pine Lake park at sunset. Come alone and tell no one of where you're going." If anyone had been listening in they would have scolded Inuyasha for his next answer.

Inuyasha brushed past Naraku, bumping shoulders harshly and waved a hand. "Whatever."

"Good morning," Kagome greeted softly when she opened the door to Inuyasha. He smiled and nodded his head before stepping inside and removing his shoes. "One moment," she said apologetically and ran away inside the apartment, doubtlessly to her own room. Inuyasha stood awkwardly in the foyer before moving towards the kitchen. Mrs. Higurashi was there to greet him and smiled warmly in greeting.

"Hello, Inuyasha." She smiled gently, a warm motherly smile. "How are you this morning?"

"I'm good, ma'am, thank you," Inuyasha sighed and accepted the plate of eggs and toast she handed him. Truth be told, he was not fine; he was dreading tonight. Golden eyes flickered towards the door Kagome had disappeared behind before he poked at an egg and slipped it into his mouth. He sighed gently and chewed on the food. What was he going to do? He knew the rules; he'd helped make them with Naraku after they'd watched all those movies together. He'd never even considered he'd be the one having to be part of the conclusion.

He blinked is eyes and ran a hand over his head, removing his hat. Ever since Kagome's grandfather had made a big deal about no hats when eating, he'd made sure that his hat was removed at all meals. Dog ears twitched underneath unruly locks of hair that he'd forgotten to comb before leaving for Kagome's apartment.

He felt eyes on him and glanced up. Mrs. Higurashi eyed the dog ears on top of his head. When he sent her a questioning look she shook her head and smiled apologetically, a blush of embarrassment peppering across her cheeks. "I'm sorry. It's just a shock every time I see them."

Inuyasha nodded his head and offered a tiny smile. "It's fine… I get that a lot." Not really, though. Minus Kagome's family and Naraku, no one knew of his dog ears outside of his family.

Mrs. Higurashi didn't seem satisfied or convinced by Inuyasha's lethargic tone, but allowed the subject to drop as she prepared a plate for Kagome when the girl entered the room. She trotted over to Inuyasha and sat down on the stool beside him. She offered a tentative smile before eating her food.

The two teenagers sat in silence, shrouding the apartment in a steady silence only broken when Mrs. Higurashi loaded the dishwasher or when Kagome's cat, Buyo, started yowling for food.

As the two students left and made their way towards school, Kagome noted the way Inuyasha nervously looked around, as if expecting someone to be standing there. "Everything okay?" she asked, worried. Ever since yesterday, Kagome had found a strange protectiveness for Inuyasha fall over her- even though she was perfectly aware Inuyasha was able to protect and care for himself.

Inuyasha looked at her absently, golden eyes swimming with emotions. "Yes," he said after a short pause, nodded his head and looked away.

Kagome wasn't convinced and they both knew it, but she didn't pester or press the issue. She looked at him quietly and licked parched lips. She wanted to reassure him; she didn't like how fidgety he was, nor the way he seemed to tense at the simplest sound.

Kagome felt a lump form in her throat as they came to a stop at a crosswalk. The giant red hand flashed, signaling they'd just missed the crossing, but they didn't move to dash across the street. Cars passed them as they made right and left turns. Kagome glanced at Inuyasha and felt her heart thunder and her hands grow sweaty. She knew something that often gave her reassurance when something plagued her mind, but the thought of doing it to Inuyasha made her feel nervous. Very nervous…

Wiping her hands on the pleats of her skirt she swallowed her nervousness and grasped his hand, which hung loosely at his side. They both jumped in surprise. Inuyasha's thoughts were shattered when he felt a small, dainty hand touch his and wrap cold fingers around his own.

Kagome refused to look Inuyasha in the eye. She kept her gaze down and at her feet. A blush sprung over her cheeks as she nervously tried to keep her breathing even. Her heart continued to speed in her chest and she gulped down the troublesome lump in her throat that seemed content in suffocating her.

Inuyasha glanced down at the hand that cupped his and a small, hesitant smile spread over his lips. Squeezing her hand comfortably, he led the way across the street when the sign of a stick figure walking flashed on.

He stretched out his long legs so that he only stepped on the white lines, dodging the pavement in between them and laughed. "If you step only on the white lines while crossing and make a wish it will come true," he explained when Kagome gave him a hesitant look. She was extremely grateful that no cars were around to see their intertwined hands and Inuyasha's vivacious way of moving. "Really," he insisted when Kagome seemed skeptical.

Kagome rolled her eyes and giggled. "Just like wishing on a star?"

"Oh, hell no. Wishing on a star is complete bullshit. Now walking on only white lines- that's true," Inuyasha insisted with a brilliant grin. Kagome stared at him for a moment before she became aware that his particular grin was rather contagious.

"So what did you wish for?" Kagome questioned when they made it across the street.

Inuyasha tilted his head and squeezed her hand, surfacing a blush on her cheeks. He grinned dazzlingly at her and shook his head. "Now then," he said mysteriously, his golden eyes twinkling. "If I told you it wouldn't come true."

"You really think so?"

"I know so," Inuyasha said gravely, giving her a serious look before cracking a smile again.

"So what are we supposed to be doing for this project?" Inuyasha asked in a bored tone as he leaned his head against the palm of his hand, leaning forward and inspecting the sheet of paper Kagome was writing on.

Kagome glanced up at him and smiled tenderly, though it went unnoticed by Inuyasha who stared at Kagome's handwriting like they were having a meaningful conversation. "We have to explain Spain's role during the Renaissance."

"Okay…"

"In Spanish of course."

"Well, damn," Inuyasha cursed and ignored the warning Mr. Kyo shot his way. Inuyasha cracked his knuckles absently and didn't notice Kagome cringe at the sickening sound. He tapped his tongue along his two front teeth and hummed in thought as the cogs in his brain turned and he plotted how to do this assignment.

Finally, he shrugged. "Good times."

Kagome glanced at him and smiled shyly. "Hm."

"Something the matter?" Sango's partner asked on the other side of the room. Sango looked at Inuyasha and Kagome absently, watching the way Kagome would laugh after Inuyasha would say something. She didn't miss the way that Kagome would smile tenderly at him when he wasn't looking and he'd smile warmly at her when she had her head ducked over her work.

"No," Sango lied.

She shouldn't be jealous of her friend. She should be happy for her. In a way she was, but she was also jealous of Inuyasha. He was making Kagome happy… he was breaking her from her shell.

She was eternally grateful to Inuyasha for doing that, but at the same time she wished she was the one doing it and not the golden-eyed boy.

"Whatever you say," her partner said absently.

Sango let out a small, triumphant screech as she slammed the birdie down towards the other side of the net and Miroku returned it with a small battle cry of his own.

It was second period racquet sports, and Sango was in a game of wits with Miroku. Granted, badminton wasn't much in the wits department, but still. Usually the two were partners, but today there was an uneven number of teams leaving Sango and Miroku to play against each other while Shippou, the odd one out, watched with a bored expression.

To tell the truth, Sango had not been too keen on having Miroku as a partner. Sure, they were friends and they got along great, but there was still the underlying mayhem that was Miroku's wandering hands. Granted, the boy had calmed down halfway through sophomore year, but during freshmen year and the first half of tenth grade he'd been a little monster. However, he'd seemed to have calmed down this year with only mild instances when he was a pervert, as is typical of normal hormonal teenaged guys.

"Shippou," Miroku whined as he missed the birdie when Sango returned it. "Why aren't you in here helping me kick Sango's ass?"

Shippou glanced up from the book he'd been reading. "I'm studying for my driver's test," he said simply.

"Oh," Sango said brightly and smiled. "Are you taking the written today?" When Shippou nodded, Sango frowned. "Remember to know stuff on the bicyclists…"

Shippou nodded again.

Miroku sighed and melodramatically through his racquet up over his head and stared at the ceiling. "Why does Sango destroy my delicate reputation?" he questioned the ceiling of their gym.

Sango gave Miroku a dry look. "What reputation? That you're a moron? Because I can assure you, Miroku, you're not doing anything that can question that reputation."

"Har har," Miroku said dryly and cracked his neck when he straightened his head. "I meant the reputation of being a kick-ass badminton player."

"Sorry, you suck," Sango declared as she slammed the birdie into Miroku's chest. The small thing didn't hurt, but Miroku still let out a small 'ow' out of reflex. "Wimp," Sango joked teasingly and Miroku cracked a grin.

"Perhaps, but I'm your wimp, Sango," Miroku said as he dove under the net and scooped up Sango into his arms, causing a screech to erupt from the girl. Shippou glanced up at them and rolled his eyes before returning to his driver's manual. He was glad his partner was sick today…

"Let go of me, you weirdo!" Sango declared and kicked her leg against his thigh. Miroku laughed and set her down when their PE teacher glanced at them from across the gym, peering at them over the funny pages of the Tuesday newspaper.

"You two are such children," Shippou muttered.

"Said the peanut gallery," Miroku returned as he waltzed back to his side of the court, doing a limbo under the net and sufficiently cracking his back and earning a cringe from Sango.

"Whatever," Shippou muttered and stared at the information provided about parallel parking.

Math class was boring. But it was always boring, so this wasn't a newfound discovery that particularly shocked Inuyasha. The said boy fiddled with a red pen, tipping his head back and trying to balance it on his nose while their teacher described the benefits of math in the real world.

Kagome glanced at him from her seat on the other side of the room and stifled a giggle that leapt into her throat. Inuyasha hummed slowly and yawned, sufficiently dropping the pen into his lap.

He frowned at the writing utensil as if it had done him personal harm before declaring, "This class is a complete waste of my time!"

Silence fell over the teacher as the class erupted into fits of laughter. Random outbursts were always happily and eagerly accepted by the teenagers, especially during their math class.

"Inuyasha," the teacher said calmly, her lips quirked downwards. "Perhaps it would be too much to ask that you sit still and take your feet off of your desk?"

Said feet were removed from said desk and Inuyasha gave the teacher his best smile. "Oh come on now, ma'am, certainly even you can safely say that I bring joy and love into this classroom at every instant."

The teacher pursed her lips and turned on her heel, returning her attention back to the white board, ignoring the silver haired boy. Inuyasha turned his head and smiled at Kagome when he saw that she was laughing.

Class continued on as normal.

They sat just outside the cafeteria, resting their backs against the wall halfway down the hallway as they feasted on their lunch. Even though students weren't technically allowed to eat there, the rule wasn't often reinforced so the two were happy to eat there.

Inuyasha ate his lunch happily and unfolded the napkin note that Kagome wrote him like the day before.

He unfolded the white napkin and read over the purple marker Kagome used to write with. "Happy belated Valentine's Day," he read out loud and glanced at Kagome, who quickly dropped a package into his lap.

He glanced at it and opened it, revealing a pair of some kind of material. He looked at it curiously and ran his fingers over the fabric. It was feather soft and he felt himself smile. "Uh… Thank you, Kagome?" he asked with his golden eyes glittering.

"They're arm warmers," Kagome said quickly and she fidgeted. "I made them a while ago and didn't know who to give them too… I can take them back if you'd like…"

She watched as he slipped them onto his arms and he smiled. "I like them," he announced and picked up the cheese sandwich she made for him. He ate it for a while and curiously observed the arm accessories. "Hyacinth," he mused as he looked at their color. He heard Kagome laughed.

"That's why I gave them to you," she joked.

"Yep, me and my fixation on gay colors," Inuyasha considered and was pleased when he heard Kagome laugh softly. "Well it is. When you hear a teenaged guy say he likes hyacinth instead of some normal color like black or green you have to wonder."

"I think it just makes you an original person, Inuyasha," Kagome admitted and turned her head away quickly, hiding her blush and the flustered smile on her lips. "Oh, before I forget," Kagome said quietly as she dug around her backpack and extracted a bundle of black. "My mom wanted me to give this to you. It's from the family."

He took it and unrolled it, revealing a hat. He smiled. "Tell your mom thank you," he said quietly as he observed the hat. Then he felt a small bark of laughter leave his throat. "Kagome, this thing has cat ears."

"Mom's weird," Kagome admitted sheepishly. "If you don't like it-"

"I love it." Inuyasha grinned and stared at the hat with two black cat ears.

"I'm glad," Kagome said softly and smiled shyly at him.

Their meal proceeded and was filled with their simple conversation they shared in between bites of the lunches Kagome had made. Shortly afterwards, however, when Inuyasha was positive that no one was coming and that the were out of the video cameras that littered the school's range he switched his normal yellow and blue beanie with the black hat with cat ears sewed onto it. The pockets the pointed sleeves created moved smoothly over his own ears and he grinned proudly.

"If they twitch I can just tell them that they're battery operated," Inuyasha grinned. "No one will notice though since they move so discreetly. That and this school is filled with unobservant morons. Just to be convenient." Kagome smiled faintly.

Kagome looked at him shyly and looked at him through the covering of her bangs. Her head bowed she bit her lowered lip. "Inuyasha…?" she trailed off when the silver haired boy looked at her.

"Yeah?"

"Can I…"

"Kagome?"

The two looked up and Kagome blinked her eyes in surprise when Shippou looked down at her. The boy's red hair was pulled back into a small pony tail and curious green eyes stared down at the two sitting on the ground. "What are you two doing down here?" he questioned.

"We eat down here," Inuyasha said smoothly before Kagome could open her mouth to speak. "And you?"

"I came down here to study quietly. I hate the library." Shippou shrugged and held up his driver's manual. "I have a test this afternoon for my driver's license and I'm not going to fail!"

Kagome nodded her head and motioned to her other side. "Why don't you sit with us? We have nothing better to do."

Shippou happily accepted their invitation and Kagome was glad when the two boys took the opportunity to talk to one another a little more than they had. Even though Shippou sometimes didn't answer because he had to memorize numbers.

"How did you two do on the test?" Shippou questioned as he nonchalantly turned a page in his booklet.

"I failed the first time," Kagome said gently and grasped her hands. "I'd forgotten to study the bicyclists section and forgot some distances about things. I passed my second time though, with only two answers wrong." Shippou nodded his head.

"How about you, Inuyasha?" Shippou questioned.

Golden eyes glanced at his two friends and he sighed gently. Stretching out his legs he pursed his lips. "I'm not allowed to get my license. I've never taken the test."

"How come?" Shippou questioned.

"My bubbie doesn't want me to get one," he said with a shrug. "I don't mind much. I can walk around or take a bus. Being able to drive isn't all that important to me, anyway. I can bum a ride from Kagome if I ever need one." He jabbed a thumb at Kagome as if to demonstrate his point.

Shippou looked horrified. "But getting a car is a huge step for a teenager!"

"I can't drive well, anyway," Inuyasha said with a shrug. "I have a permit, though," he pursed his lips. "Haven't taken a driver's education course, though. Don't plan to. Maybe someday I'll get my license, but right now I'm content with walking."

"Huh." Kagome thought this over, processing the information before shrugging her shoulders.

"To each his own," Shippou muttered and flipped a section in his manual on bicycle safety. He didn't want to fail.

The classroom of sixty-plus students was silent as each student bent over their reading and occasionally scribbled some notes down onto their sheet of paper. Ms. Bacon and Ms. Duncan occasionally glanced over a student's shoulder and pointed a section they hadn't taken sufficient notes on.

They moved slowly, their steps deliberate but the rest of their body lagging as they moved from table group to table group. The slightest sound carried across the classroom for all occupants to hear. A gentle sigh, the rustle of paper, the sound of a binder being unzipped, and the occasional scrunch of eraser against paper were sounds that often accompanied the silent atmosphere of the classroom.

Inuyasha sat leaning against the back of his chair and his legs stretched out causing the student across from him to kick him occasionally. She'd glance up at him, sneer, and return to her work, trying to be discreet about her dislike for his posture. He tapped his pencil against his desk and ignored the pointed glares many of his classmates sent him.

"My legs hurt," he declared with a small frown.

The silence of the classroom was shattered by that simple statement and three thirds of the class looked up at Inuyasha and about a fourth of them giggled uncomfortably. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow as Ms. Bacon moved towards him and knelt down.

"Mr. Cohen," she said calmly, her dark eyes looking at him seriously. "Please do not disrupt my classroom or I shall have to send you down to the principle."

"Ol' baldy and I are close buddies," Inuyasha protested with a smile which ruffled Ms. Bacon's feathers. "Don't worry, ma'am, I'll behave."

Seeing that the melodrama was over for the most part, the assignment for the class continued on. Inuyasha glanced over at Kagome and found her giving him a shy smile before she ducked her head and returned to her reading. He continued to look at her and when she glanced up again to see he was still looking, she blushed and bit her lip.

Inuyasha watched her for a long time, his head resting in his hand as he leaned against his elbow. He watched Kagome for a long moment. The way she held her pencil, the way her hair fell over her eyes every so often only for her to bat it away with small, dainty fingers, the way she would lick her lips or worry her lower lip as she thought hard, the way she'd flick the nonexistent eraser dust off her paper….

'Stop staring at her…' he thought in annoyance. 'You know how flustered she gets.'

He still couldn't take his eyes away from her. He was captivated by her. 'She doesn't think she's beautiful… she doesn't think she's anything special.'

He smiled softly to himself and ignored the glare Ms. Duncan sent him when she realized he wasn't working.

'I wish I could show her.'

"Stupid pointless lab," were the first words from Kikyou's mouth that afternoon during their sixth hour. Kikyou muttered curses under her breath as she fiddled with the cover slip and struggled to drop five drops of sugar solution onto the slab of onion cell.

Ayame sighed from the other side of the table and watched in boredom as Colby attempted to get the slip under the microscope without having to switch it from high power.

"All labs are stupid and pointless," Colby muttered as he peered into the ocular and adjusted the view of the microscope. "It's something that we'll all have to live with for the rest of our lives."

"Not the rest of our lives," Ayame amended.

"Yes, the rest of our lives," Colby insisted. "High school, college and then when we have children in high school and college; we'll have to help them."

"Do you expect your parents to help you in college?" Kikyou countered. Kagome watched the exchange between the three with heightened interest.

"Don't twist my words," he muttered but didn't offer protest as he jabbed a thumb toward the microscope. "You're turn to look Ayame. Draw and I shall copy."

Ayame made a small noise in the back of her throat but didn't protest his demand as she leaned over the lens and peered into it.

"So, Kagome," Ayame said casually as she pulled away from the microscope and began drawing a diagram of the cell she was observing. "What were you and Inuyasha up to today?"

"What do you mean?" Kagome asked casually as she, too, began to draw a picture of the cell underneath the microscope Kikyou had prepared.

"You know what she means," Kikyou said with a small smile as she lifted her reading glasses off the bridge of her nose so she could peer into the field of view. Pulling away, she readjusted the glasses on her nose and read over the directions once again. Poor eyesight was a reoccurring trait in her family and Kikyou's mother and father both had it.

Kagome licked dry lips and shook her head. "Don't be ridiculous. Sango and I are doing something after school today. Inuyasha has somewhere he needs to be so Sango and I are going off to see a movie."

"Hm," Ayame snorted and emerald eyes looked in boredom down at her diagram. "He has been spending a lot of time with you; I was hoping you two had done something."

"What are you doing, living romantically through Kagome?" Colby accused and laughed softly as he removed the cell's slide and added three drops of regular water to even out the sugar solution. Ayame frowned. "Get a boyfriend, Ayame."

"Was that a discreet way of asking me out?" Ayame asked with a small smile.

"No," Colby accused with a roll of his eyes. "That was a hint for you to get a life and leave poor Kagome alone."

"Oh, so you want to go out with Kagome," Ayame accused and Kikyou picked up on Ayame's teasing tone.

"Yeah, Colby," Kikyou said, her brown eyes shining with her laughter. "Be a little more direct with my cousin; she's kind of dense sometimes." As if to demonstrate, she tapped Kagome's head with her knuckles and the two black haired girl's giggled.

Colby rolled his eyes. "I'll never understand girls."

"Don't try to; your head will explode," Kagome joked and smiled brightly when she caused her friends to laugh.

Inuyasha gave Kagome a small wave goodbye as she walked off with Sango in tow. He stood stupidly at the back of the school as he watched Kagome and Sango climb onto Kagome's bus. He continued to watch stupidly as the buses pulled out and he realized he'd missed his own. Sighing gently, he shuffled his feet and began the long trek to his home. He'd stop by the grocery store and pick up some food for dinner tonight, too.

His steps slowed as a thought hit him. 'I've got to go to the park at sundown… How am I supposed to tell Bubbie? She'll be expecting dinner…'

He frowned. He hated lying to Bubbie, but he was a man of his word and even if it was Naraku he was promising, he couldn't go back on his word. The only thing he truly had to his name was his honor and he would not sacrifice it. For anything.

His golden eyes saddened as he left the campus of the school and made his way down the hill. 'What am I going to do…? Bubbie will see what's happened the moment I come home. There's no way I can hide it from her; Naraku's not going to go easy on me. He never went easy on anyone, why would he do so with me?'

Shaking his head and whipping his face with stray strands of silver hair, Inuyasha continued walking and stopped at the crosswalk. His eyes watched the signal to make sure it was safe to cross before stuffing his hands into his pockets and jumping on the white lines only.

'I wish that I don't get the shit beaten out of me too bad tonight,' he declared when he stepped on the final white strip. He sighed again. That was unlikely.

Author's notes: The spacing is, once again, screwed up. No damn surprise there, i'm shocked it hadn't happened sooner. Here are some answers to frequently asked questions.

Is this going to be a lemon?
This has been bugging me for a bit now. I have raised the rating for this story due to future content. This content, however, is not sexual content. This story is not, will not and never will be a lemon. Just because it's rated R does not mean it's going to be sexual. I mean, not only am I under aged and it's prohibited at this site, but do you seriously think that the Kagome in this story is capable of performing such acts? I didn't think so.

How come Kagome's such a wimp?
The Kagome Higurashi of this story is a shy girl. I think I've made it quite clear that she's very unconfident and fearful of people's opinions about her. She hates to go back against people and is afraid of displeasing them. Though it has not been completely addressed, something has happened in Kagome's past that has made her shy.

When is there going to be some major romance?
Like in real life, you cannot rush romance. Especially with two characters such as Inuyasha and Kagome who have very delicate personalities. Don't rush things, because if you take the time it will be so much more beautiful.

Why doesn't Kagome get contacts?
This question shall be addressed later on. When Kagome rants about it, you'll understand, hopefully.

What's the deal with Inuyasha's ears?
I wanted to keep Inuyasha human, but I decided this after I'd already given him dog ears. So I came up with the ears thing. I know it's been done before, but what I meant when I said it was kind of original is that it happened to his grandfather and not the boy himself. Inuyasha has a smaller amount of the DNA then his grandfather and his father did.

It may seem like it breaks the flow of the story and all, but it does come into play later on. Just keep your eyes open.

Fanart:

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Kagome:
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