Le Livre d'Amour
Chapter 7- Confessions
By Miyu6
Inuyasha's breaths came slow and steady as he listened to the scene that was unfolding on just the other side of the door. Eavesdropping (or accidentally overhearing something, as he preferred to call it) was one of his strong suits.
"She wouldn't." he muttered.
Hearing the stirring of chairs and some very formal goodbyes, Inuyasha made haste and got away from the door as fast as possible, heading over to his stuff and preparing to go home. Grabbing a cup of coffee for himself, he went out to his car and sat down in the drivers seat, taking a sip of the hot liquid and feeling it slide down his throat. As he took his time with the drink, he wondered what his odds of meeting Kagome today of all days had been. He thought about how her book going international would affect everyone. Him, and Kagome included.
"I don't know why I care. She's just a stupid girl whose fame has gone to her head. She has nothing to do with me."
But no matter how many times he tried to convince himself, he just couldn't erase her face from his mind. Her surprised look that she had given him just moments before seemed to be emblazoned in his head. Was that hurt he had seen flash behind her eyes for only a moment? Surely that wasn't betrayal she was feeling.
As his mind wandered, he began to wonder what his relationship truly was with the girl. Why did she bother him so much? Why did her face constantly haunt his dreams? Would he ever really have a moment when he didn't think about her in one way or another?
Damn it all.
Kagome shook Kamiya's hand and said her goodbyes before leaving the office. After saying goodbye to the receptionist she headed home. She was in a trance of sorts.
"International? Everyone will know me, I'll be a celebrity world wide if people in the other countries take to my book as well as the people here did. But…is it really what I want? Is it?"
Getting home and laying in bed wasn't nearly as comforting as she had hoped it would be. Laying in bed she had hopedshe would be able to sleep or at least get some comfort from hugging her sheets. She wasn't exactly upset, just in a stateof shock.
Thinking to herself, she finally came to a conclusion. She could not let herself live as she had for the past few weeks. She would go find Inuyasha and talk to him. She decided she would talk him no matter what. If he rejected her, she would deal with it. Even if it killed her inside, she would deal with it.
By the next hour, Kagome was ready and on her way back to the tall apartment building that she had resisted revisiting for so long. Walking on the sidewalk, she remembered how helpless Inuyasha had seemed when he had resisted her help with every fiber of his being. She saw the stains of his blood still on parts of the sidewalk and even though she knew he was fine now, it still made her heart ache. Was he really so immune to her feelings?
And yet, in his eyes back at the office, she seemed to see regret; even if only for a moment. He seemed almost ashamed of himself. It was then that she began to wonder if she was doing the right thing.
But as she reached for the silver door knocker, she realized there was no turning back.
Inuyasha was startled out of his sort of reverie as he heard a knock on the door. Who would be visiting him? Nobody ever came to visit. After a few more knocks, curiosity got the best of him and he walked over to the door and opened it.
He was met face to face with the woman his mind had not ceased to think about ever since they had parted that day. Neither said anything for what seemed like an eternity and finally Inuyasha noticed the way she shuffled her feet and seemed hesitant to address him.
"Um…Kagome?"
"Y-yes?"
"You…wanted to come in…right?"
Kagome stared him in the eyes for a second and then nodded slowly.
"Yes Inuyasha, yes I would."
Inuyasha looked down the hall and then allowed Kagome entrance to his apartment.
Kagome looked around the apartment in astonishment. To anyone else, his living space would have seemed nothing out of the ordinary. It had a typical masculine feel to it, she noticed, as she set her eyes on the main room in the house. A large television and comfortable pleather couch filled up most of the room and off to the side was a small kitchen, just big enough for one person. Off to left was another small hallway that had a few rooms going off of it. Kagome could see just the end of Inuyasha's bed in the room farthest away.
Remembering her reason for coming to visit, Kagome set her eyes on Inuyasha again. Unbeknownst to her, Inuyasha had been eyeing her ever since she had walked in the door.
"I don't think you know why I'm here Inuyasha." Kagome stated.
"No, I don't." he replied.
"I came because…I needed to see you."
Inuyasha's eyebrow raised slightly in her direction.
"You did?"
"Yes…there's something I really need to talk to you about."
Inuyasha wondered continually what this 'something' could be. Surely it wasn't what his heart had been hoping for ever since he had first laid eyes on her.
"Something has been bothering me for a long time," Kagome began. "Something that I just can't ignore any longer."
"So? What does that have to do with me?" Inuyasha said in a slightly mocking tone.
"Everything."
He was becoming frustrated with the way she seemed to be beating around the bush. Why had she really come to visit?
"Inuyasha, why do we act like this towards one another? How come every time we're together we fight? Why can't we just be normal friends?"
Inuyasha had gone to get a coke from the fridge and came back to hand one to Kagome. He turned to look out the window as he thought of how to answer her.
"It's because…I love you I guess." He said softly and fairly nonchalantly.
Kagome nearly dropped her drink as she set it on the coffee table, her shaky hand nearly knocking it over. With no warning she threw her arms around Inuyasha's waist from behind and he felt the air nearly get knocked out of him. The back of his red t-shirt was becoming soaked almost impossibly fast in Kagome's tears.
"I love you too Inuyasha."
Inuyasha's eyes widened as he moved around enough to set his hand on her head and run his fingers gently through her silky charcoal-colored hair. He was suddenly filled with a sort of admiration towards young woman. She had been brave enough to come to his apartment on her own and attempt to confess her feelings to him, even though he had been the one to do it first.
"Idiot." Inuyasha chided and Kagome buried her face into his chest again.
'Where do we go from here?' he asked himself. 'I've just done the thing I swore to myself I wouldn't do. I've fallen in love and bound myself to the woman I said I didn't want to hurt. What if something happens…What do I do now?'
Yes, indeed I have updated. I had a certain strange burst of inspiration today so I decided to turn towards my writing. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it. . Review and let me know.
Miyu
