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7 - Operation Christmas Present
Kagome awoke in her room the next morning. She sat up, taking in her surroundings. 'How in the hell did I get here?' she thought grogily. 'Last I remember, I was in Inuyasha's car and I fell asleep on him... Or maybe that was a dream...' Then she recalled the previous night, the winter dance. She blushed at the thought. 'I danced with Inuyasha, and the worst part about it was that it was one of the best times of my life' She curled her legs up underneath her body and leaned against the wall.
Her heart was bursting with love for the hanyou, ready to explode from the pressure of his presence alone. A deep emotion-filled sigh escaped her chest, causing her head to tilt back and hit the wall. "Damn..." she muttered as she rubbed the lump forming on her head. Her eyes went to her bedside table, where three photographs lay with a white rose. "Okay, this is weird." Then she remember. Last night they had all gotten their pictures taken. Each of them had bought three, one of each picture they had taken. The first was a picture of the happy couple, Sango and Miroku. Their smiles were bright and they had a certain gleam in their eyes. A bright smile spread across her face before she fliped to the next picture. It was of Inuyasha and herself. She gasped. 'That same look... The same look that was in Sango and Miroku's eyes... There it is!' It was true. Both Inuyasha and Kagome had unknowingly given eachother one of the most loving looks a person could give, full of adoration and tenderness. She shook her head. 'This is too much to handle this early in the morning' She looked at her alarm clock. 'Okay, so it's almost noon, but it's still too early'
She slowly flipped the photo to the last one. A large grin crossed her face as her sleepy brown eyes scanned the four people on the picture. All of them were there, grouped together to fit in the shot. Miroku and Inuyasha were in the center with their arms around the other's shoulder. Kagome and Sango were behind them, wrapping their arms around their necks. All of them had large smiles crossing their faces and gleaming eyes. Even Inuyasha. She'd never seen someone change so drastically in only a week. 'Only a week!' she realized. 'I've only been here a week! I feel like I have been here forever... I hope I won't have to leave... New Year's is coming up... No! Stop it now!' she mentally screamed to herself.
"I won't think of that now... I'm gonna enjoy what I have until... Well, I'm not gonig to worry about it," she decided, pushing the horrid thoughts from her mind.
Ever since her father died, night after night she would have nightmares. Awful nightmares of that night. The shadows, holding large objects, bringing them down with emense force on a person. By the time the shadows were through, the poor man was beaten to a pulp, barely hanging on to life. Then the unthinkable happened; one of the shadows reached into his coat, bringing out another object. Then, that explosion. The sound of a gun shot would ring through her dreams, echoing in the caverns of her mind, piercing her to her very soul.
The thing that haunted her most was after the shadow's left. She had gone out to him, while her brother had fainted after the gun fired and her mother called the ambulence. Hot tears streamed down her cold, pallid face. A drop fell on the man's face, causing his eyes to blingk open slowly. She gasped, thinking the man was dead.
"Daddy! Daddy, please hold on, Mom's calling the ambulence, please..." she quieted as her father reached up and touched a battered finger to her lips to hush her. She gingerly took his hand in her's, bringing it down near her lap.
"Honey, tell your mother that I love her and she was the sunshine in the darkness of my world," he started.
"No, Daddy..."
"Let me finish, Gome," he said, referring to her nickname. "Your brother is a strong boy, but he'll need your help through this time. Stick together." She nodded slowly. "Sweetie, never give up. No matter what life deals you, stay strong. Make good decisions. That's what got me into this mess in the first place..." Suddenly he coughed, blood coming out of his mouth.
"Daddy..."
"Please, live life to the fullest. Don't let my mistakes hold you back..." His eyes went dull, his hand going limp in her grip.
"Daddy!" she screamed, collapsing onto his still chest as the flashing red and blue lights approached from the street. With the aid of the bullet, the man died, leaving behind only his wife, two children, and his lifeless corpse.
The pictures, the sounds, his words... they stabbed through her dreams like a knife. She had nightmares about that night constantly for a whole year, until she moved here, that is. The first night she slept in her new house, she dreamed of her friends. For the first time in almost a year, she had slept easy. It had been like that since she moved here. The threat of the new year was pushed far from her mind as she picked up the rose, bringing it to her nose and inhailing the sweet fragrance of the silky petals. Out of the corner of her eye she saw a note that had been tucked underneath the rose. The scratchy handwriting had been writen with a black pen on her personal stationary, the one with the cute cats on it. It read -
Kagome-
Here's a flower for making me have the best time I've had in years.
-Inuyasha
It was simple, yet so sweet. In her eyes, the only thing that he could've said that really would've beaten it would be 'I love you', but she knew that even if he did love her, he would never admit to it. She sighed as she got up and realized she was still in her dress. Slowly she got up and changed her clothes, putting on a tank top and some jeans. She pulled a brush through her tangled hair and took the pictures and pinned them on her cork board along with her friends from her previous school. Resting her eyes on the picture of Inuyasha and herself momentarily, she went down stairs to get some food for her rumbling stomach.
Later that afternoon, Inuyasha found himself at Kagome's front door. His cheeks flushed with the thought of going in her house again.
flash back -
Inuyasha scooped the sleeping girl up in his arms, trying not to wake her. He couldn't help thinking that she looked beautiful while she slept. Glitter was practically raining from her dress, most of it falling on him, but he stopped caring a long time ago. He carefully shifted her weight to where he was holding her with one arm and knocked on the door lightly. When he saw who answered the door, he was relieved. It was her mother.
"Good evening, Inuyasha," she said with a large smile on her face, letting him in.
"Good evening," he said, trying his best to bow with the sleeping Kagome in his arms.
"Kagome's room is the first room up the stairs and to the left. Would you mind taking her up there?"
"Not a problem..." he said, looking around nervously.
A large smile spread across her face. 'Now I know where Kagome got her smile...' he thought as he started going up the stairs to Kagome's room.
"Inuyasha, dear, don't be so nervous. Grandpa isn't here at the moment and won't be until the new year. So please, feel welcome to come over anytime. I've never agreed with my step-father's ideals, and I think that you're a good boy," she told him as he ascended the stairs. At the top, he turned and looked down at her, granting her a smile. He looked to his left, finding the door and opening it.
Her scent hit him like a ton of bricks. His senses were overwhelmed with her sugar-vanilla fragramce, making it very hard for him to concentrate on what he was doing. Inuyasha's large amber eyes scanned the room. There was a bed and a desk with a stereo on top of it. Everything else was packed away in boxes, stacked in two out of the four corners of the room. 'I wonder why she hasn't unpacked her things?' Then it hit him. 'She has only been here for a week! How in the hell did I not remember? I guess it seems like she's always been here' he thought as he sat her on her bed. Her sleeping form curled up, her dress ruffling up to show her lower legs. He pulled a blanket over the sleeping girl, tucking it around her body. Remembering something, he reached into his pocket, taking out three of the six pictures. He looked them over, making sure she was getting the appropriate ones. Seeing the pictures made him smile, thinking over the night's events. The pictures were really good. His favorite was the one of himself and Kagome. The look that she gave him... and the look he gave right back... That look made life seem perfect. 'As a matter of fact, life has been fairly perfect lately' he thought contently. He pulled the rose he had picked on the way here out of a back pocket (luckily it had no thorns) and set it on her night table. Then he looked around, finding a peice of stationary and a pen. He quickly scrawled down a note to her, setting it under the exquisite white flower. 'There. Perfect'
He looked down at Kagome, and brushed a couple stray hairs away from her face. His rough thumb ran over her silky cheek, sending chills up his spine. Sighing, he removed his hand and walked to the door. Grazing the light switch, he turned to the darkness of her room, the slight moonlight coming in through the blinds on her window.
"Someday I'll tell you exactly how I feel..." he whispered, as not to wake her up. "And I'll make sure you're awake, too..."
- end flash back
He gingerly knocked on the door, expecting to see Mrs. Hirugashi. 'She's really nice' he thought. But when the door opened, his amber eyes spotted a boy of about twelve or thirteen looking at him with wide eyes.
"Are you Inuyasha?" the young boy asked.
"Yep. Who wants to know?"
"I'm Souta, Kagome's kid brother," Souta replied, holding out a hand. Inuyasha took it and shook it lightly, not wanting to hurt his future love prospect's little brother. "I think it's so cool that you're my big sister's boyfriend! Maybe someday we'll be brothers!" the young boy added happily.
Inuyasha's face held a look of panic. "We're not going out!" he replied quickly. Maybe too quickly.
Souta's face fell as he looked down at his feet. "So you don't even like my sis?" he said in a sad tone.
"That's not what I said..."
"Okay! So you do like her! You're so cool, Inuyasha!" he said as he ran into the house. Inuyasha stood there, dumbfounded, as Souta went to the foot of the stairs and called, "Sis! Inuyasha is here!"
"Coming!" he heard Kagome's voice call in a sing-song tone. Her door opened and she popped out, skipping down the stairs and tackling Inuyasha, sending him to the ground with her on top of him.
"What in the hell are you doing, wench!" Inuyasha yelled, yet making no attempt to push the pretty girl off him.
"Man, Inuyasha, if you guys are just friends, then I don't think I'd wanna see what would happen if you were dating!" Souta said as he darted out of the room before either teenager could react.
But instead of getting up and chasing Souta, Kagome just layed there, her hands near his head and her face burried into the crook of his neck. Her fingers found his ears and rubbed them, causing his tense body to relax. He brought his hands up to rest on her lower back as a deep purr rumbled in his chest. Kagome felt it and giggled. Her laugh sent Inuyasha's heart into his throat, making his mind fog up. They stayed like that for several minutes.
Finally, Inuyasha whispered, "Are you okay, Kagome?" Suddenly he felt warm drops of water on his neck and picked up a trace of salt laced in with her sweet fragrance. He took her shoulders and helped her sit up, concern filling his amber eyes. "Come on, what's wrong, Gome?"
Even through her despair, she heard the sweet and farmiliar nickname. Her heart almost stopped with the sound of those words gracing her ears, especially from his soothing voice. A small smile spread across her face.
This really confused Inuyasha. 'First she's crying, now she's smiling? Man, she's one odd girl... yet I like her so much...' he mentally sighed. "You okay?" he questioned again.
"... Yeah, I guess. Just thinking about things. With Christmas coming up, memories are flooding back," she said as she wiped the remaining tears from her face.
Inuyasha's eyes widened with the mention of Christmas. He had forgotten about Christmas. 'Oh shit! What am I gonna get Kaogme?' he thought as he helped her up.
She took a deep breath. 'Where did that come from?' she thought. 'I've been fine all day. Why did I just completely lose it?' When she looked over to Inuyasha, she saw that he was starring off into space.
A smirk crossed her face as she gazed at the distracted look on his face. She brought her hand up and flicked his nose lightly. "Earth to Inuyasha! Awake!"
He shook his head. All his thoughts of Christmas left as he saw her chocolate eyes fill with happiness. He easily looped his arm in hers, dragging her to the door. "Come on, we're already late to the movie."
Kagome giggled as they walked down the stairs from the shrine to the street and climbed in Inuyasha's little red sports car. "Well, if I know Miroku, they won't be paying attention to the movie for very long..."
Inuyasha let out a quick burst of laughter. "Hell woman, I don't think Miroku has ever went into a movie theater to actually watch a movie!"
"Is he that much of a playboy?" she questioned as she stared at the passing scenery on the way to the theater.
"He wishs. Damn pervert can't keep a girlfriend for ten minutes."
Kagome turned to him, confused. "What do you mean?"
He chuckled at her slowness. "Well, you know why Sango slaps and punches him all the time?"
"Yeah."
"That's why."
"He does that to other people, too?" she gasped.
"Duh, stupid wench. All the girls in school know not to come within five feet of him anymore."
She giggled and they sat in silence throughout the remainder of the ride. As they pulled up to the theater, Kagome spoke. "Oh, Inuyasha? Thanks for the rose. That was really sweet of you..." She opened her door and got out of the car, jogging toward the door. He just smiled as he also got out and went to the theater, finding Kagome buying her ticket.
"What are you doing?" he asked her. "I was gonna pay for your ticket, stupid wench!"
The ticket guy gave him a weird look, while Kagome only sighed. "Oh, come on! You did enough already! After last night at least let me pay for my own ticket!"
He pouted, sticking out his bottom lip and letting his ears droop.
"Fine, how about this. You can buy the snacks, okay?"
"Fine," he grumbled.
The next day Inuyasha and Miroku were walking around the mall around noon. "Man, am I glad that Christmas break is here! I needed a break from school!" Miroku said.
"Yeah... Hey, what are you getting Sango for Christmas?" Inuyasha asked, looking around nervously.
"Why? Oh! You want to get something for Kagome, right?" he said as he nudged Inuyasha in the ribs.
"Feh!" he replied.
"Well, let's just say I'm buying it from there..." he said with a grin as he pointed to a store to their right.
Inuyasha sighed as soon as he saw him point to the entirely pink store. "Come on, Miroku! Not Victoria's Secret!" he said as he hit himself in the head.
"Why not?" Miroku aske innocently.
"Sango would kill you."
"Good point," he said as they walked on. "Anyway, I guess I get her jewelry, or something."
"I got Kagome jewelry for her birthday!" he growled, aggrivated with his simple-minded friend. "Besides, I want to get her something special..."
"Well, you better get thinking my friend!" Miroku said as he patted him on the back.
"Thanks, bud!" Inuyasha replied sarcastically.
"No sweat! Now come on, we've got Christmas presents to buy!" he said, dragging Inuyasha behind him. "Hope you have you're credit card!"
Kagome and Sango sat in the livingroom of Sango's apartment, also brainstorming ideas on what to give the boys for Christmas. They had been thinking for hours, yet neither of them came up with a good idea.
"It's so hard to buy for guys," Sango complained as she punched a couch cushion out of boredom.
"Um, Sango?" Kagome said cautiously.
"Yeah?"
"You're gonna kill that pillow..."
Sango instantly stopped and threw the pillow across the room. She sighed heavily, thinking harder.
"Well, I know what Miroku would like, but I'm not giving him that..."
Kagome laughed. "No offense, but he's such a pervert!"
Sango looked defeated. "Yeah, I know, but I love the guy!"
Kagome paused. "Wait a sec. You 'love' him? Like, 'I wanna marry you' love?"
"Well... Maybe..." she said through a deep blush.
Sango was tackled to the ground by Kagome in a hug. "Oh Sango! That's so cool! I'm so happy for you!"
"Yeah, but I wonder if he feels the same about me. I mean, he's such a pervert, I don't know if he can be content with just me, ya know?"
"Miroku totally likes you!" Kagome said as she got up.
"How do you know for sure?" Sango asked uncertainly.
"Well, when Inuyasha and I came out of the dance, he sure seemed to like you..." Kagome said, a mischevious hint in her voice.
Sango colored multiple shades of red and pink in memory of their make out session.
"Well, after seeing that glitter all over Inuyasha from your dress, I wouldn't be talking!" Sango said, immediately changing the subject.
Kagome got quiet. It was her turn to have the rosy color settle on her cheeks. "Shut up," she mummbled.
"Just kidding, Kagome!" Sango said, patting her on the back. "I know Inuyasha likes you. He has never acted so nice to anyone other than Miroku and I. Actually, he's a lot nicer to you than he's ever been to Miroku... Anyway, let's get back on task! Operation Christmas Present is a go!" Sango said as she shot off the couch, punching a fist into the air.
Kagome nodded and sprung up, saying, "Let's go!" They both hurried out the door, still no idea of what they were going to get or where they were going.
2 days later -
"Yay! Snow!" Kagome hollered as the gang walked through the park on the chilly winter afternoon. She spun around, trying to catch the delicate white flakes on her tongue. Sango plopped down on the ground and swung her arms and legs around.
"Miroku! Help me up!" she called. He stepped over, making sure to stay a safe distance from her, and reached out a hand and jerked her off the ground. She left a perfect imprint of an angel on the ground.
"Looks just like you," he said in her ear. She giggled and kissed him on the cheek.
"Feh. What so great about snow?" Inuyasha scoffed.
"Come on, Inuyasha. Snow just sets the scene for Christmas!" Miroku called as he was cheching the lake to see if it was compleately frozen. "The lake will be compleately frozen by tomorrow. We should come ice skating!"
WHACK! Suddenly, a large ball of snow slammed into the side of Inuyasha's head.
"That's it! Who the hell did that!" he yelled. Then he spotted Kagome giggling over near a bare cherry blossom tree. "Oh, now you're gonna get it, wench!" He ran toward her, picking up a large amount of snow in the process. Kagome screamed and ran toward the lip-locked Miroku and Sango.
"Damn it, Kagome! Don't come toward us!" Miroku hollered. Just as Inuyasha threw the huge snowball, Kagome dived out of the way, leaving Miroku and Sango to take the full blunt of the snowball.
"Snowball fight!" Sango called.
"Me and Sango verses Kagome and Inuyasha!" Miroku called. They instantly seperated into their respective teams, both finding a tree to hide behind.
After a couple minutes of vigorous snow ball making, the game was ready to being. "Okay, Sango. You go to the far left and I'll go to the far right and we'll close in on 'em," Miroku told her.
"Okay, got it." They both started to creep off, only to be hit with a full frontal assalt from Inuyasha and Kagome.
"Now you guys are going down!" Miroku called as they retreated. The fight went on for almost ten minutes, the war almost a deadlock tie.
"Miroku, I think it's time to get 'it'!" Sango told him softly. He jerked his head in the direction of the tree, signaling for her to get it.
Inuyasha was a snowball throwing machine. They had run out of their pre-made snowballs a while ago. Every time Inuyasha would throw a snowball, by the time it hit it's target, he already had another made, ready for launch. Kagome stayed off to the side, throwing random snowballs when they wern't suspecting to get hit. They made a great team, and Sango and Miroku were currently losing.
Suddenly Sango brings out a snowball about the size of a soccer ball. "What the hell!" Inuyasha called as he saw it. Instantly he knew what was going to happen. When they were young and would have snowball fights, everytime Miroku and Sango were losing, they would make a gigantic snowball. Then they would run up, smacking him in the head with it and knocking him out, thus ending the game. But this time they wern't running for him. "Watch out, Kagome!" he called as he ran toward her.
Just as they were about to throw the snow soccer ball, Inuyasha dove in the way, causing it to hit him instead. "Oh Inuyasha!" Kagome proclaimed as she fell to her knees next to the dog-eared hanyou. "Are you okay, Inu?"
"I don't know if I'll make it," he said as he lie on his back with Kagome looming over him. "Please forget about me." His hand reached up and took hers.
Kagome surpressed a giggle. "Oh, Inu, what will I do without you?" she gushed.
"You should move on with you're life. There's no hope for me now." He faked a chough and pretended to die.
"Poor Inuyasha! What am I gonna do?" Kagome said sadly to the sky. "I guess I'll have to tell Kouga that I can go out with him now..."
Suddenly Inuyasha's arms sprung up and wrapped her in a bone-crushing hug. "Like hell you will!" he told her.
They all laughed and headed to the closest home, which was Kagome's, to dry off and warm up.
2 days later -
It was Christmas eve and the gang had all agreed to spend it together at Kagome's house. Since Inuyasha and Sango had hardly any family, besides eachother, and Miroku's dad was never home, Kagome's mother insisted on them staying for the night and spending Christmas day with them as well. They readily accepted, glad they could spend Christmas together. Mrs. Hirugashi and Souta had gone to bed, leaving the teens sitting near the roaring fire place, gazing at the twinkling of lights on the tree.
Sango's head rested on Miroku's shoulder. She snuggled closer to him for warmth. Miroku reached his arms around her and pulled her closer.
'Here it comes' Sango thought. 'He's going to ruin another perfect moment by groping me...' She waited, but it never happened. 'Maybe he truly loves me, too...'
"Sango, my love?" he whispered in her ear.
"Yeah?"
"Merry Christmas." He tilted his head back and gently kissed her on the forehead.
Sango felt tears swell up in her eyes as he said this. "Merry Christmas, Miroku. Here," she said as she handed him a box wrapped in candy cane paper.
"For me?" She nodded slowly as he unwrapped the gift. Inside the box was an envelope sitting on the bottom of the box. His light blue eyes gave her a skeptical look as he picked it up and opened it slowly. He pulled out a single slip of paper, which read
This is a promise that I, Sango, will love you, Miroku, until the day that either we die or you grope another girl. (in which case you'll die anyway)
Yours forever, Sango
"No worried, my love," he told her as he wrapped her in a hug to hide his tears. "Since I have you, there isn't even another option. This is for you," he said as he pulled away, handing her another box.
She gave him a look. "This had better not be from a lingerie store!"
"Ummm... You should give me that back then..."
"Miroku!"
"I'm kidding!" he laughed. "I'm kidding! Go ahead and open it."
She opened it hesitantly. Inside the larger box was a small velvet jewlery box. She opened it carefully. "Oh my gosh! Miroku, it's beautiful!" she said as she saw the peice of jewlery. It was a long silver necklace with a small pink pendant hanging off of the chain. Upon closer inspection, she saw that benethe the semi-transparent rosey colored stone was an ingraving. It read 'Miroku loves Sango Forever'. Tears swelled in her eyes as she read the endearing message.
She wrapped her arms around his neck, kissing it gently. "Sango loves Miroku, too," she whispered. They sat like that for awhile, just holding eachother close.
Inuyasha and Kagome sat near a dark corner, far away from the fire. Inuyasha had said that the flames hurt his eyes, so they moved. Kagome was sitting on his lap, his chin resting easily on her shoulder.
"Inuyasha?"
"Yeah?" he replied.
"Ummm..." She didn't know how to say what she wanted to say. 'How do I ask him if he loves me?'
"Kagome."
"Huh?" she said as she snapped out of a daze.
"I love you, Kagome," he said as he nuzzled her neck with his nose.
"What? You... You do?" she asked insecurely.
"Duh! Stupid wench..." he mummbled. "Here," he said, not giving her time to respond as he shoved a gift to her.
She turned so she was sitting sideways on his lap, partially facing him. She opened the box to find a small jewlery box. When Miroku had said to get jewlery for her, he had thought it was stupid. But after he saw this, he knew it was the perfect Christmas present.
Kagome cautiously opened the small box. Inside was a silver ring, embedded with small emerald-colored gems. She was so shocked she couldn't talk.
"This is a promise ring," he said, carefully taking the ring out and sliding it on the ring finger of her left hand. "A promise that I'll get you an even better ring after we graduate."
Tears slid down her cheeks like tiny rivers as she held her hand up, examining the glistening ring in the fire light. Inuyasha's ears drooped. "I understand..." he said as he reached up and tried to take the ring back. She violently jerk her hand away and wrapped her arms around his neck, crying into his chest.
"What's your problem, wench," he whispered in her ear.
"You're a jerk!" This shocked him. "Why didn't you tell me earlier that you had feelings for me? I've been stressing out about telling you how I felt, and you just come right out and say it? You jerk!" She punched the back of it's shoulders lightly as she said it.
"What are you saying..." he asked her, kind of confused.
"I love you, idiot!" Instantly Inuyasha wrapped his arms around her, whispering comforting words in her ear. Once she calmed herself down she moved away from his body, finding one of the only genuine smiles she'd even seen on his face. She smiled back as he brought his clawed hands up and wipe away the evidence of her tears.
She reached down and picked up her present to him. "Here. This is for you," she choked out, feeling nervous. He unwrapped it quickly, revealing a necklace made up of black beads and white fangs.
He smiled. "Thanks, Kagome."
"I made it myself..."
He just grinned as she picked it up and put it around his neck. It looked natural there, as if it belonged. Suddenly he closed in on her face, placing a chaste kiss on her lips. As he pulled away she followed him, bringing her lips back to his. Their first kiss was filled with magic, and as they separated, she said, "Inuyasha, I love you so much..."
"I love you too, Kagome." It was then, as she was leaning on his chest, he realized that Kagome had given him the best gift he'd ever recieved. 'She gave me even more than she thought. Beside the necklace, she gave me her love and trust. I'll love her forever for that'
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