Chapter 7
Kagome waited for an answer to her greeting...but none came. Now she started to worry, 'is anyone here? What happened here? This place is usually bustling with activity, and most of all were is InuYasha that he cant here me call?' "uhhhh, guys?!" Kagome called trying again for a response. Still nothing, 'great now what?' she thought as her eyes caught sight of a piece of paper on the kitchen table. Kagome looked over at Ayumi, "this is REALLY weird.... InuYasha of all people should be able to hear me...." She then walked over to the table and looked at the note,
Kagome,
I had to go out to run some errands, sorry. But grandpa and Souta are both here, they are out cleaning the shrine, so if you need anything just ask them. I told Souta about InuYasha so if he needed to find you Souta could tell him that you were out. (Don't worry I didn't tell grandpa...)
Mom
'Ok, that answers were my family is but I still don't know were the one I'm really worried about is...InuYasha...' "Alright, my mom is out and my grandfather and little brother are out back if you wanted to know...but I'm going to go look in my room to see If InuYasha left a note of any kind...I highly doubt it though..."
Ayumi looked at her puzzled, "Why are you so worried? He can be controlled when you say "sit," cant he?"
"Yea, but that's not the point..."
"Then what is the point?"
"It's......"
"It's?....Ya gotta keep going Kagome..."
sigh "I don't know....I guess I'm more worried about him than the civilians...he wouldn't hurt any human without a reason....he wouldn't hurt a demon without a reason...so I'm not really worried about that but he doesn't know anything about this time...he could get himself hurt or worse killed......"
"You worry too much Kagome I'll bet that he is fine...he is probably in your room or out sitting in the God Tree so cool it...."
"I guess your right...I should stop being so paranoid...but with InuYasha who knows..."
Ayumi laughed at her friends comment, "whatever Kagome..."
Kagome then started to walk up the stairs to her room with her friend in tow. Once at the top Kagome opens her door and peers in her room, she then closes the door as quickly and quietly as possible and runs down past Ayumi into the living room were they started. She then broke out laughing, she let herself fall on the couch laughing hysterically with a pillow over her face to muffle the noise.
Ayumi had watched her friend open the door to her room, close it, run downstairs and laugh into a pillow.... "Ahh, Kagome, you ok?" she asked with genuine worry.
Kagome removed the pillow from her face as Ayumi came over to the couch to see if she was really all right. "Yea, I'm fine...it's just...it's...hehehe" Kagome tried to reassure Ayumi but failed as she fell into another fit of giggles.
About five minutes later when Kagome had calmed down again she told Ayumi to follow her. She led her friend up to the door. "Ok I want you to go the corner of the room in between my closet and desk and don't move from there or make a sound, got that?" she said kindly.
Ayumi nodded, "of course, but why cant I make a sound?"
"You'll see..." is the only think Kagome says as she opens the door to the room and creeps in. Ayumi slips in as Kagome closes the door wordlessly behind her.
Ayumi then turns to face her friend, she is looking at her bed with an unfaltering smile on her face. Ayumi lets her eyes drift off to the place were Kagome is looking, there on her bed is a boy. Not just any boy either this is InuYasha, she watched the figure curiously, 'so this is the infamous InuYasha...' he seemed to be sleeping, he face had a blissful expression on it and a strand of his hair was lying across his face, giving him an innocent appearance. She then noticed his clothing...he was robed in a beautiful feudal aged hunting kimono, it was an excellent color of red and it fit him perfectly as he slept, draped loosely over his figure. This she caught what must have been hysterical to Kagome...there clutched in his arms was a large white fluffy dog. He had his arms wrapped protectively and gently around it as though afraid that he might hurt it.
Ayumi let out a soft chuckle and looked at her best friend, Kagome was leaning on the wall for support. Ayumi was curious, "t funny Kagome but its not THAT funny..."
Kagome wiped a tear from her eye, "It's just that...just, it's an inside joke.... You had to...oh never mind"
Ayumi smiled at her friend's embarrassment, "no matter, I think its pretty funny just from what you've told me."
Kagome them walked over to the bed and softly sat down next to the dozing InuYasha. She looked at his peaceful sleeping expression and then glanced at my friend who was watching me. I motioned for her to go and stand in the corner of the room, in between the closet door and her desk. Ayumi did as she was told and saw Kagome place her index finger in from on her lips silently telling Ayumi to be quiet as she watched.
Kagome then turned her attention back to the hanyou, a small smile on her face. InuYasha's face twitches ever so slightly as I run my hand over his face pushing a lock of his silver hair back out of his face. He unconsciously leans into my touch as my fingers graze his skin, Kagome smiles. She then brings her hand up to his ears, she starts to rub then tenderly and after a moment a soft purr could be heard coming from deep in InuYasha's chest.
Kagome smiles at InuYasha's reaction, and Ayumi's jaw drops when she hears the purr, once it penetrates her head and she can do more than just stare, she clamps her hand over her mouth to muffle the laughter that threatened to emerge from her lungs. Once she finally gained control of herself again she look at Kagome, she still had tears in her eyes from silently laughing so hard, but was in an uplifting mood. "Oh...my gosh...I...didn't know...that he...PURRED!!!" she said softly so not to wake up said hanyou.
"I know...isn't it great?"
"That's so funny...hey wait a minuet, I thought InuYasha was a dog....so why dose he purr? Don't cats purr?" the curious girl questioned
"I know, it is weird...I never asked him that, but I did only find out last night that he purred..." mentioned Kagome, still massaging InuYasha's soft white ears.
"Why did you do last night to make him purr?..." Ayumi immediately regretted the question...it was a little personal...but to her surprise Kagome didn't blush and splutter, she answered clearly.
"Same thing as I am doing now" she says with a very content smile
By now InuYasha had leaned his head into Kagome's hand as she rubbed his ears, Kagome thought he was waking up and faced him. But she let her smile grow and had to surpress a laugh when she realized her was still asleep. 'Wow, I can't believe he is still asleep...' with that InuYasha started to stir.
Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 'someone's purring...wow my ears feel good...HEY! That's me purring!!! And what the heck am I holding? It doesn't smell quite like Kagome...hey...KAGOME!!!' InuYasha mentally pieces together as he groggily wakes himself up. Kagome stops petting his ears when she notices his eyes start to open. 'Oh so now you stop...you think I don't notice...ah? And I wanna know what you stuck in my arms, so your not gettin out of trouble...Nice try Kagome....' InuYasha's eyes blink open and he scowls at Kagome.
"What" she asks innocently
"WHAT?! What do you mean what?! You know perfectly well 'what'!"
Kagome smiles sheepishly and responds, "ah-no I don't..."
InuYasha glares at Kagome, "your horrible at lying Kagome...so you shouldn't even try."
"Hey, I'm not bad at lying!"
InuYasha rolls his eyes, "yes you are, number one I was awake when you were petting my ears and I have a thing in my lap that wasn't there before...." he says straightforwardly.
This time it was Kagome's turn to glare, "jerk, you don't have to be so mean, so I cant lie that isn't a bad thing, and so what if I was petting your ears? I know you like it! And everyone like Paws how can you not? With is cute dog ears just like yours"
"I'm just telling you so you don't try it later and get caught in am embarrassing situation that you make worse by trying to lie. Plus I do NOT have CUTE ears!"
"I dint hear anything about you like your ears getting petted" Kagome answers smartly.
"Feh" was all InuYasha responded at first and then glared at her, "hey don't even try to distract me! I ain't gonna work! I'm still mad at you!"
"Damn" Kagome hisses under her breath but InuYasha hears anyway and falls over laughing. "What's so funny?!" she yells getting angry with him and his 'attitude'.
"Y-you just...Ha ha ha" he was in shock that Kagome had cursed, 'I'm a bad influence...I wonder what her mom would think...mentally cringes if she pulls that in front of her mom I'm a dead man...(well dog technically...kind of)" InuYasha had now forgotten about the whole purring incident because of Kagome's unconscious choice of words.
"Will you quite it already?!" Kagome yells at InuYasha because he is still laughing at her.
InuYasha suddenly stops laughing and stiffens...'that scent...that's not Kagome's or one of a lingering family member...Crap!' InuYasha finally spots Ayumi, his eyes widenand he blushes from what had just gone on between him and Kagome, 'H-how did I not smell her?! Stupid, stupid, stupid! How could I not catch onto that?!'
Ayumi looked almost fearful now that InuYasha had spotted her, she gave a look to Kagome and she found her friend suppressing another round of laughter. He was shocked, why was she laughing?
InuYasha started to growl-but was cut short
"InuYasha! Be nice that's my best friend you're threatening!"
InuYasha stopped growling for a moment and looked to Kagome, not a good thing, she was still smiling because of the fact that InuYasha had overlooked Ayumi's scent for so long, no one had ever done that for very long before.
"Ok this is Ayumi, my best friend, InuYasha. This is InuYasha, my favorite hanyou, Ayumi." Kagome introduced both of her friends.
Ayumi being the friendly one walked over to InuYasha and bows respectively, "Hi InuYasha, a pleasure to meet you"
InuYasha is surprised by this greeting, 'why so formal?...Feh' "hi," he responds as he stares at her. Then he realizes he is still holding Paws. He blushes again and shoves the dog into Kagome's lap causing both girls to laugh, InuYasha growls.
"InuYasha, be nice!" Kagome cuts off his growling.
"Why you're the ones laughing at me!"
'Darn he has a point!' "Feh," was all Kagome could think of.
InuYasha's jaw dropped, 'did she just say what I think she said?! WOW, I really AM a bad influence. Heh'
Kagome looked over to InuYasha from Ayumi, who was just standing there now watching have their 'argument'. Her eyes widened as she realized what she said, 'That's twice now, why do I keep saying stuff like that?'
She then saw InuYasha's smirk, "I win," he taunts.
"You win? How do you win?" she challenges
"You couldn't say anything, so I won" he states.
"Well, you didn't respond when I said that you liked your ears scratched!"
"I-"'crap now what do I say?!' "I-I-I"
"Ha!" Kagome cries triumphantly
"Feh"
ding
"Lunch is ready!" Kagome announces.
InuYasha's spirits rise incredible at the mention of food and he races down the stairs with other 2 human girls, all looking forward to a good lunch.
Lunch was quiet, no one spoke, InuYasha didn't even slurp his noodles...lets just say the silence was unbearable. InuYasha was hungry and he did not feel comfortable in from of this strange human girl that was Kagome's friend. Kagome did not want to start another argument and actually get upset this time. Ayumi was still cautious of InuYasha, he was half- demon...even though Kagome told her not to worry it was still awkward, no the less.
"So Kagome why are we having Ramen?" Ayumi questioned to break the uncomfortable silence.
"Well its convenient and easy plus InuYasha cant get enough of it..." she answers
"Wow, the strong hanyou love Ramen? That's different-"
"Shut up!"
"InuYasha! Be nice!"
"Tell your friend to watch her mouth"
"Jez InuYasha, what is your problem?"
"Nothing!" his eyes went to the floor then to the window, "I just smell something, so leave me alone"
Kagome was completely shocked at this, "you Ok InuYasha? Usually if you smell something that bothers you, you just go take care of it..."
"No, I'm not ok but ill deal with it when it comes" he growled
"..."
InuYasha glanced at Ayumi and then this was better left unsaid for the moment, "I doesn't matter"
Kagome was about to argue but stopped at the look in his eyes.
Now it was a VERY uncomfortable silence, and again it was Ayumi who spoke, "so Kagome do you wanna go to the Mall? InuYasha is welcome to come too"
Kagome looks at InuYasha, he rolls his eyes, "fine, what ever wench." He responded to her silent question.
"Yea, sure we'll go, I need to get some clothes for InuYasha anyway" she says smiling as every went into the Kitchen again and placed their stuff in the sink.
"Onto the Mall" yelled the girls and InuYasha let out a moan, regretting his decision already.
Kagome waited for an answer to her greeting...but none came. Now she started to worry, 'is anyone here? What happened here? This place is usually bustling with activity, and most of all were is InuYasha that he cant here me call?' "uhhhh, guys?!" Kagome called trying again for a response. Still nothing, 'great now what?' she thought as her eyes caught sight of a piece of paper on the kitchen table. Kagome looked over at Ayumi, "this is REALLY weird.... InuYasha of all people should be able to hear me...." She then walked over to the table and looked at the note,
Kagome,
I had to go out to run some errands, sorry. But grandpa and Souta are both here, they are out cleaning the shrine, so if you need anything just ask them. I told Souta about InuYasha so if he needed to find you Souta could tell him that you were out. (Don't worry I didn't tell grandpa...)
Mom
'Ok, that answers were my family is but I still don't know were the one I'm really worried about is...InuYasha...' "Alright, my mom is out and my grandfather and little brother are out back if you wanted to know...but I'm going to go look in my room to see If InuYasha left a note of any kind...I highly doubt it though..."
Ayumi looked at her puzzled, "Why are you so worried? He can be controlled when you say "sit," cant he?"
"Yea, but that's not the point..."
"Then what is the point?"
"It's......"
"It's?....Ya gotta keep going Kagome..."
sigh "I don't know....I guess I'm more worried about him than the civilians...he wouldn't hurt any human without a reason....he wouldn't hurt a demon without a reason...so I'm not really worried about that but he doesn't know anything about this time...he could get himself hurt or worse killed......"
"You worry too much Kagome I'll bet that he is fine...he is probably in your room or out sitting in the God Tree so cool it...."
"I guess your right...I should stop being so paranoid...but with InuYasha who knows..."
Ayumi laughed at her friends comment, "whatever Kagome..."
Kagome then started to walk up the stairs to her room with her friend in tow. Once at the top Kagome opens her door and peers in her room, she then closes the door as quickly and quietly as possible and runs down past Ayumi into the living room were they started. She then broke out laughing, she let herself fall on the couch laughing hysterically with a pillow over her face to muffle the noise.
Ayumi had watched her friend open the door to her room, close it, run downstairs and laugh into a pillow.... "Ahh, Kagome, you ok?" she asked with genuine worry.
Kagome removed the pillow from her face as Ayumi came over to the couch to see if she was really all right. "Yea, I'm fine...it's just...it's...hehehe" Kagome tried to reassure Ayumi but failed as she fell into another fit of giggles.
About five minutes later when Kagome had calmed down again she told Ayumi to follow her. She led her friend up to the door. "Ok I want you to go the corner of the room in between my closet and desk and don't move from there or make a sound, got that?" she said kindly.
Ayumi nodded, "of course, but why cant I make a sound?"
"You'll see..." is the only think Kagome says as she opens the door to the room and creeps in. Ayumi slips in as Kagome closes the door wordlessly behind her.
Ayumi then turns to face her friend, she is looking at her bed with an unfaltering smile on her face. Ayumi lets her eyes drift off to the place were Kagome is looking, there on her bed is a boy. Not just any boy either this is InuYasha, she watched the figure curiously, 'so this is the infamous InuYasha...' he seemed to be sleeping, he face had a blissful expression on it and a strand of his hair was lying across his face, giving him an innocent appearance. She then noticed his clothing...he was robed in a beautiful feudal aged hunting kimono, it was an excellent color of red and it fit him perfectly as he slept, draped loosely over his figure. This she caught what must have been hysterical to Kagome...there clutched in his arms was a large white fluffy dog. He had his arms wrapped protectively and gently around it as though afraid that he might hurt it.
Ayumi let out a soft chuckle and looked at her best friend, Kagome was leaning on the wall for support. Ayumi was curious, "t funny Kagome but its not THAT funny..."
Kagome wiped a tear from her eye, "It's just that...just, it's an inside joke.... You had to...oh never mind"
Ayumi smiled at her friend's embarrassment, "no matter, I think its pretty funny just from what you've told me."
Kagome them walked over to the bed and softly sat down next to the dozing InuYasha. She looked at his peaceful sleeping expression and then glanced at my friend who was watching me. I motioned for her to go and stand in the corner of the room, in between the closet door and her desk. Ayumi did as she was told and saw Kagome place her index finger in from on her lips silently telling Ayumi to be quiet as she watched.
Kagome then turned her attention back to the hanyou, a small smile on her face. InuYasha's face twitches ever so slightly as I run my hand over his face pushing a lock of his silver hair back out of his face. He unconsciously leans into my touch as my fingers graze his skin, Kagome smiles. She then brings her hand up to his ears, she starts to rub then tenderly and after a moment a soft purr could be heard coming from deep in InuYasha's chest.
Kagome smiles at InuYasha's reaction, and Ayumi's jaw drops when she hears the purr, once it penetrates her head and she can do more than just stare, she clamps her hand over her mouth to muffle the laughter that threatened to emerge from her lungs. Once she finally gained control of herself again she look at Kagome, she still had tears in her eyes from silently laughing so hard, but was in an uplifting mood. "Oh...my gosh...I...didn't know...that he...PURRED!!!" she said softly so not to wake up said hanyou.
"I know...isn't it great?"
"That's so funny...hey wait a minuet, I thought InuYasha was a dog....so why dose he purr? Don't cats purr?" the curious girl questioned
"I know, it is weird...I never asked him that, but I did only find out last night that he purred..." mentioned Kagome, still massaging InuYasha's soft white ears.
"Why did you do last night to make him purr?..." Ayumi immediately regretted the question...it was a little personal...but to her surprise Kagome didn't blush and splutter, she answered clearly.
"Same thing as I am doing now" she says with a very content smile
By now InuYasha had leaned his head into Kagome's hand as she rubbed his ears, Kagome thought he was waking up and faced him. But she let her smile grow and had to surpress a laugh when she realized her was still asleep. 'Wow, I can't believe he is still asleep...' with that InuYasha started to stir.
Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 'someone's purring...wow my ears feel good...HEY! That's me purring!!! And what the heck am I holding? It doesn't smell quite like Kagome...hey...KAGOME!!!' InuYasha mentally pieces together as he groggily wakes himself up. Kagome stops petting his ears when she notices his eyes start to open. 'Oh so now you stop...you think I don't notice...ah? And I wanna know what you stuck in my arms, so your not gettin out of trouble...Nice try Kagome....' InuYasha's eyes blink open and he scowls at Kagome.
"What" she asks innocently
"WHAT?! What do you mean what?! You know perfectly well 'what'!"
Kagome smiles sheepishly and responds, "ah-no I don't..."
InuYasha glares at Kagome, "your horrible at lying Kagome...so you shouldn't even try."
"Hey, I'm not bad at lying!"
InuYasha rolls his eyes, "yes you are, number one I was awake when you were petting my ears and I have a thing in my lap that wasn't there before...." he says straightforwardly.
This time it was Kagome's turn to glare, "jerk, you don't have to be so mean, so I cant lie that isn't a bad thing, and so what if I was petting your ears? I know you like it! And everyone like Paws how can you not? With is cute dog ears just like yours"
"I'm just telling you so you don't try it later and get caught in am embarrassing situation that you make worse by trying to lie. Plus I do NOT have CUTE ears!"
"I dint hear anything about you like your ears getting petted" Kagome answers smartly.
"Feh" was all InuYasha responded at first and then glared at her, "hey don't even try to distract me! I ain't gonna work! I'm still mad at you!"
"Damn" Kagome hisses under her breath but InuYasha hears anyway and falls over laughing. "What's so funny?!" she yells getting angry with him and his 'attitude'.
"Y-you just...Ha ha ha" he was in shock that Kagome had cursed, 'I'm a bad influence...I wonder what her mom would think...mentally cringes if she pulls that in front of her mom I'm a dead man...(well dog technically...kind of)" InuYasha had now forgotten about the whole purring incident because of Kagome's unconscious choice of words.
"Will you quite it already?!" Kagome yells at InuYasha because he is still laughing at her.
InuYasha suddenly stops laughing and stiffens...'that scent...that's not Kagome's or one of a lingering family member...Crap!' InuYasha finally spots Ayumi, his eyes widenand he blushes from what had just gone on between him and Kagome, 'H-how did I not smell her?! Stupid, stupid, stupid! How could I not catch onto that?!'
Ayumi looked almost fearful now that InuYasha had spotted her, she gave a look to Kagome and she found her friend suppressing another round of laughter. He was shocked, why was she laughing?
InuYasha started to growl-but was cut short
"InuYasha! Be nice that's my best friend you're threatening!"
InuYasha stopped growling for a moment and looked to Kagome, not a good thing, she was still smiling because of the fact that InuYasha had overlooked Ayumi's scent for so long, no one had ever done that for very long before.
"Ok this is Ayumi, my best friend, InuYasha. This is InuYasha, my favorite hanyou, Ayumi." Kagome introduced both of her friends.
Ayumi being the friendly one walked over to InuYasha and bows respectively, "Hi InuYasha, a pleasure to meet you"
InuYasha is surprised by this greeting, 'why so formal?...Feh' "hi," he responds as he stares at her. Then he realizes he is still holding Paws. He blushes again and shoves the dog into Kagome's lap causing both girls to laugh, InuYasha growls.
"InuYasha, be nice!" Kagome cuts off his growling.
"Why you're the ones laughing at me!"
'Darn he has a point!' "Feh," was all Kagome could think of.
InuYasha's jaw dropped, 'did she just say what I think she said?! WOW, I really AM a bad influence. Heh'
Kagome looked over to InuYasha from Ayumi, who was just standing there now watching have their 'argument'. Her eyes widened as she realized what she said, 'That's twice now, why do I keep saying stuff like that?'
She then saw InuYasha's smirk, "I win," he taunts.
"You win? How do you win?" she challenges
"You couldn't say anything, so I won" he states.
"Well, you didn't respond when I said that you liked your ears scratched!"
"I-"'crap now what do I say?!' "I-I-I"
"Ha!" Kagome cries triumphantly
"Feh"
ding
"Lunch is ready!" Kagome announces.
InuYasha's spirits rise incredible at the mention of food and he races down the stairs with other 2 human girls, all looking forward to a good lunch.
Lunch was quiet, no one spoke, InuYasha didn't even slurp his noodles...lets just say the silence was unbearable. InuYasha was hungry and he did not feel comfortable in from of this strange human girl that was Kagome's friend. Kagome did not want to start another argument and actually get upset this time. Ayumi was still cautious of InuYasha, he was half- demon...even though Kagome told her not to worry it was still awkward, no the less.
"So Kagome why are we having Ramen?" Ayumi questioned to break the uncomfortable silence.
"Well its convenient and easy plus InuYasha cant get enough of it..." she answers
"Wow, the strong hanyou love Ramen? That's different-"
"Shut up!"
"InuYasha! Be nice!"
"Tell your friend to watch her mouth"
"Jez InuYasha, what is your problem?"
"Nothing!" his eyes went to the floor then to the window, "I just smell something, so leave me alone"
Kagome was completely shocked at this, "you Ok InuYasha? Usually if you smell something that bothers you, you just go take care of it..."
"No, I'm not ok but ill deal with it when it comes" he growled
"..."
InuYasha glanced at Ayumi and then this was better left unsaid for the moment, "I doesn't matter"
Kagome was about to argue but stopped at the look in his eyes.
Now it was a VERY uncomfortable silence, and again it was Ayumi who spoke, "so Kagome do you wanna go to the Mall? InuYasha is welcome to come too"
Kagome looks at InuYasha, he rolls his eyes, "fine, what ever wench." He responded to her silent question.
"Yea, sure we'll go, I need to get some clothes for InuYasha anyway" she says smiling as every went into the Kitchen again and placed their stuff in the sink.
"Onto the Mall" yelled the girls and InuYasha let out a moan, regretting his decision already.