Authors Note: ok, I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't hurt me! Ducks from flying objects I said I was sorry!!!!!!! It's just that I've had a lot of homework lately and my mom took away my time on the computer at home (did I already tell you that I have a limited time on the computer? Yeah, 5 hours a week. :( annoying mother… I only have ½ an hour at home now!!!!! Can you believe it????) because I've been going to the library after school pretty much everyday I can!!!!!! And at the library you can't save anything…. But I am REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY SORRY THAT I DIDN'T UPDATE FOR SUCH A LONG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!
I really am… :) anyway, I won't put any review replies and get straight to the story, k? And I'll TRY to update more!!!!!
Disclaimer: and yes, I KNOW that I keep forgetting to put this but like I said, I KNOW I don't own Inuyasha, ok? I DON"T OWN INUYASHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO YA CAN"T SUE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, I think you all get it now…… moving on……
Last Time:
Inuyasha sat down on Kagomes bed. "Oh crap."
"KAGOME!" Mrs. Higurashi yelled from downstairs. "BREAKFAST!"
Chapter Seven: WHY did we switch bodies???????
Inuyasha jumped up. Ok, getting dressed. This was going to be hard, he didn't know how to put on a bra and girls' clothes would feel weird, wouldn't they? Well, maybe not since he was a girl right now. But still, it was going to be really strange.
He walked over the closet and opened it. Unlike his closet home, it was all neat and tidy, no clothes were lying crumpled on the floor (there were shoes in neat rows instead), everything was hung up, and it was even color coded!
'Holey shit, man, I had no idea what neat freak she's become. She used to be a bit messier…' he thought, sifting through the clothes. Now, what did Kagome look hott in? Those short skirts she always wore and those tight tank-tops. Ok, he'd wear a black skirt and a hot pink top.
(A/N: ok, I know this is sounding weird and all, but he has to try and act like a girl now, he is one of 'em now… well, sort of… but Kagome's going to have to try to act like a guy too. And if anyone's wondering why Inuyasha was trying to think of what Kagome looked hot in, it's kind of obvious isn't it? He does still like her after all!)
Inuyasha grabbed them off their hangers and threw them on the bed. Now for a bra. Maybe he just wouldn't wear one… nah, he'd try.
'Ok, they weren't in the closet so they must be in this dresser here,' he though, walking over to the dresser and opening the top drawer. Bingo! There were bras, panties and other undergarments in it. He grabbed a peach colored one. Ok now he had to actually put the clothes on himself.
Grumbling, he slowly unbuttoned the pajama top. He had opened it half way when he stopped. Should he look? Or shouldn't he? Kagome would kill him if she found out he had looked at her, but then again, how would she know? He was just about to lift up the shirt when the door opened again.
"Kagome? Did you not hear me? Your breakfast is ready! It's getting cold!" Mrs. Higurashi said, as she opened the door. She then realized that Kagome (or Inuyasha I guess) was getting dressed so she closed the door saying, "Sorry, dear, just come downstairs when you're dressed."
Inuyasha thought quickly. The bra wasn't gonna go on easily, and the body he was in was a girl and so was Mrs. Higurashi so Kagome probably wouldn't mind if her own mother saw her so her said, "Wait! Mrs. Higur – I mean, mother, would you help me put this bra on? I don't remember how to. I can't remember how to get the clasp-thingy together."
He knew it sounded weird, but he was desperate here! His 'mother' walked over mumbling, "Ok…" with a weird look on her face. "But how would you forget? I mean, you started wearing one when you were ten, six years ago."
Inuyasha removed his shirt; it felt weird to be topless, with large 'lumps' (as Inuyasha was calling them) coming off his chest. Yet it also felt good in a way; when he was a male he used to go around topless all the time, at home and sometimes out around town.
Mrs. Higurashi picked up the bra, wondering why Kagome was being so open with her body, usually if she came in when Kagome was changing Kagome would yell at her and tell her to knock, but this time she had asked if her mother would help her put her bra on, how weird was that?
Mrs. Higurashi showed Inuyasha/Kagome how to put the bra together and then left, mumbling about teenage girls. Inuyasha picked up the top and put it on; that was easy. Then he pulled off the pajama pants and put the skirt on. Ok, now he was dressed.
Inuyasha opened the door to the room and walked out and down stairs, the smell of french toast wafting up the stairs.
Inuyasha walked into the kitchen and sat down as Mrs. Higurashi put a plate of french toast in front of him.
"Yum!" was all he said as he began to drown the toast in syrup and eat it, not neatly I must add. Actually, the truth would be completely un-lady like as Kagome had become. He wasn't cutting the pieces small but just shoving a load into his mouth, the 'Inuyasha style' of eating.
Mrs. Higurashi just stood there, flabbergast (A/N: ooh I like that word!!!!) at how her 'daughter' was acting.
"Ka-Kagome? Are- is, um, are you feeling alright, dear?" she mumbled as Inuyasha chomped on another piece.
"Sure! I feel great!" Inuyasha said with his mouth full, grinning widely at her.
'Gross!' Mrs. Higurashi thought, turning away so her daughter couldn't see her cringing. 'When did my daughter ever become such a pig? She's acting like a boy! What would Inuyasha think of this? If he sees that he definitely won't want to marry my daughter!'
Mrs. Higurashi turned to Sota. "Are you all packed up to go to Shōjo's sweetheart?"
"Yup!" Sota said, jumping up from his chair and running upstairs calling back, "Me and Shōjo are gonna build a fort in the woods behind his house!"
"That's great dear, go get your bag and we'll go over now. Kagome, I'm taking your brother over to his friends. I don't know what your plans are, but before you leave the house wash your face, please," Mrs. Higurashi added to who she thought was Kagome.
"Hmmph!" Inuyasha grunted, swallowing some food. "I'm gonna go over to Kag – I mean, I'm going to go over to Inuyasha's house when I'm finished breakfast."
"Ok, definitely wash your face then, dear!" Mrs. Higurashi called, walking out of the kitchen shaking her head. 'It's a good thing I only have one teenage daughter, I can't even figure her out let alone two or three!' She thought, putting on her shoes and picking up her keys and purse. It was too warm to need a jacket.
"Sota! Come on! I'm leaving!" she called up the stairs.
"Coming! Don't leave!" was Sota's answer as he ran down the stairs, lugging a huge duffel bag behind him.
"Why do you need all that?" Mrs. Higurashi asked. "You're going for one night!"
"Well, Shōjo and I want to tent in the forest too and he couldn't find his tent so I offered to bring ours!" Sota explained as he put on his sneakers. "Er, that's ok, right Mom?" he added, grinning hopefully.
Mrs. Higurashi sighed. "All right, I guess it is but ask next time, ok?"
"Ok."
"Right, let's go!" and he two left for Sota's friend's house.
After his 'mother' and 'brother' left, Inuyasha put his plate in the sink and ran up that stairs to Kagome's room, grabbing the phone when he was in.
"Ok… 521 6895…" Inuyasha mumbled, calling his real home.
"Hello?" said an unemotional voice.
"Hi, Sesshomaru! This is Kagome! Remember me? Inuyasha's," he tried not to choke on the word, "fiancé! Is he there? I'd kind of like to talk to him, please, if it wouldn't be too much trouble?" Inuyasha said, hoping he sounded like Kagome.
"Um, he left a few minutes ago-," Sesshomaru said.
"He did? Where'd he go?"
"To your place, soon-to-be Mrs. Takahashi!" Sesshomaru said, smirking. He had been fight the urge to say that for so long and he just couldn't keep it in him any longer.
He knew what Inuyasha and Kagome's real feelings were about the wedding arrangement. They weren't all happy like they had said they were at the dinner last night, they were furious that their parents had ever made such an arrangement without consulting them! Well, at least that's the impression he had gotten from all Inuyasha's cursing at him on the drive home that night, but maybe Inuyasha's true feeling were unknown to even him…
"Wha-wha-?! How DARE you!" Inuyasha cried, the anger rising up in him quickly while all the time hoping everything he was saying was like whatever Kagome said when she was mad. He knew what she used to say, just a long stream of curses and screaming. But she had changed, who knew what she said now?!
Sesshomaru chuckled. "Well, tootles, Mrs. Takahashi! Hope you find you husband-to-be soon!" he said as he hung up. 'Oh, she'll be fun to tease!' he thought, grinning.
On the other line Inuyasha was staring at the phone, ready to crush it in his hands. Which he would have done, if he were in his own body that is.
"Why would Kagome come over here when I thought I was going to go there?" Inuyasha muttered, going back downstairs. "I mean, that's good because that's why I was calling but why would she come over here without telling me?"
Just when he was at the last step, the front door opened and in walked Kagome, just in Inuyasha's body.
"Eh? Who said you could just barge in like that?"
"It's my home; I can do whatever I like in it."
"It's not your home any more, remember?" Inuyasha grinned.
"OMG! Do I really look that cute when I smile?!" Kagome in Inuyasha's body cried, staring at herself.
"What?" Inuyasha gaped.
"I never knew that!" Kagome cried happily clapping her hands. But seeing as she was in Inuyashas body, with Inuyasha's voice, it looked pretty silly for a teenage boy to do that.
"Stop that! You're making me feel weird!" Inuyasha said in Kagome's voice.
"You know, Inuyasha, you have pretty good taste with what a girl likes to wear for a guy," Kagome commented, smirking at the look her words had caused.
"Wha-?" Inuyasha's jaw dropped. Then he grinned and said, "Well, I have good taste for anything!"
Kagome rolled Inuyasha's golden eyes. "Right. I was hoping this outfit that I picked for you was ok and since you've just labeled yourself as 'Mr. Good-taste' I guess I'll ask you. So? Like 'your' outfit?"
Inuyasha looked himself up and down and said, "Spin!"
Kagome rolled those awesome golden eyes again and spun. "Well?"
"Ok, I have to admit, you did a good job. That's my favorite shirt and pair of shorts ya know," Inuyasha admitted.
"I know," Kagome smiled.
"How?"
"I have a good memory."
"Huh?"
"A long time ago, you told me that this was your favorite shirt, remember?" Kagome said quietly.
"I did?" Inuyasha asked. Even though he knew that's what she was talking about, he noticed how his future fiancé had chosen not to say 'When we went out' but rather only implied that that was what she was talking about.
"Yes."
"Oh yeah… I can't remember where I got it…" Inuyasha scratched his head, thinking hard.
"Me."
"What?"
"You got it from me; I gave it to you."
"Oh, right… why?" Inuyasha's cheeks were on fire they were so red. Yet he didn't change the subject at all, just stood there feeling uncomfortable.
"No reason, I just saw it in a store and thought, 'Oh, Inuyasha would love that, and it would look so hott on him I just have to get it!' So I did." Kagome grinned, seeing how uncomfortable Inuyasha was.
Suddenly, Kagome's cheeks began to turn red.
"What?" Inuyasha moved forward.
"N-nothing," Kagome stammered. "It's nothing…"
'At least I hope it is…' she thought. 'But why do I suddenly feel like I miss Inuyasha? I mean, he's right in front of me and I'm in his body! I can't get much closer! What's wrong with me?!'
"Oh, ok…" Inuyasha sighed. He wished he and Kagome could be friends again, and not feel so uncomfortable whenever they really talked.
'All well,' he thought, sighing again. 'Maybe things will change…'
"What?" Kagome asked tentatively.
"Nothing."
"Tell me, I want to know!" Kagome burst out. "You always keep things to your self! You always do that! Even before you'd never really tell me anything! Why can't you just trust me for once?!"
Inuyasha stared at her. "Because of what happened last time I told you anything, you spread it around."
"I – I did not!" Kagome sputtered.
"Whatever, then how did everyone find out stuff that I told you?" Inuyasha shot back.
Kagome stared at Inuyasha. "I have no idea what you're talking about." She said flatly.
"Sure! That's one of the reasons we broke up, plus the fact that you were cheating on me!" Inuyasha glared at Kagome.
"What are you talking about?" Kagome asked, her temper starting to rise. "We broke up because you stared to ignore me one day for no reason what so ever! I hadn't done a thing!"
"Oh yeah? Maybe you should ask Hojo then, maybe he'll remember."
"Hojo? You mean my ex-boyfriend Hojo?" Kagome asked, even more confused than she had been.
"Yeah! Him!"
Kagome thought for a moment before she remembered.
"Oh my god…" Kagome whispered. Inuyasha knew that she had finally remembered what he had been talking about because Kagome only ever actually said 'oh my god' instead of 'OMG' when she was worried or surprised or anything like that.
'I completely forgot about that,' Kagome thought. 'How could I have…?'
Flashback
It was a few years ago and Kagome was standing the school yard with the then-most-popular girls in school, Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi.
"So Kagome, got a boyfriend yet?" Eri, the most popular girl in school asked.
"Um, n-no," Kagome said, thinking about Inuyasha, who was her boyfriend. She'd tell them but they were popular and she wanted to be and Inuyasha really wasn't. (A/N: yes I know he is now but he wasn't then! He got popular later.)
"Really?" Ayumi said, sounding kind of surprised. "Hm, why not? You're pretty good looking."
Kagome blushed. "Th-thanks. I just, um, er, I have been asked out but I turned them down."
"Oh," Ayumi said.
Eri rolled her eyes. "Well, you should get a boyfriend."
"…"
"Here, I'll help you. I'll choose a guy, you go up and flirt with him, and he'll ask you out and you say yes, ok?" Eri said, blowing a loose strand of hair away from her face.
"What?!" Kagome cried. "Um…" 'I can't do that!' she thought desperately. "What about Inuyasha? But I do want to be popular and if I turn this down, I never will be… Inuyasha isn't here, he's inside, he won't see…'
"Well?" Yuka asked.
"OK." Kagome said, breathing deeply. "Ok, choose a guy."
"All right!" Eri cheered, smiling. "Awesome, well, let's see… how about…" she paused, scanning the courtyard for boys. "Hojo! He's so cute, and he likes you, he'll definitely go out with you!"
'He likes me?' Kagome thought panicking suddenly. 'Then he will ask me out and… what do I do now? I could just pretend to flirt with him…'
"Um, ok." Kagome turned and started walking over to Hojo who was sitting by him self on the little wall that separated the lunch area and the school lawn.
Kagome flipped her hair over her shoulder and put a confidant look on her face. 'Ok, this'll be easy; I'll just talk to him and make it look like I'm flirting.'
"Hey Hojo!"
He looked up and a shy but happy smile spread across his face. "Hi Kagome!"
"Hey…"
"What's up?" Hojo asked, patting the wall next to him. "Want to sit down?"
"Sure," Kagome smiled sitting down. 'Ok, maybe this'll be easier than I thought it'd be!'
"So, how are you?" Hojo smiled.
"Good. You?"
"Great!"
"That's good."
"Hmm."
"So…"
"Yeah?"
'I could tell him to pretend we were flirting, but… if he really does like me then I can't do that,' she thought. 'All well, I guess I really will have to flirt with him. Well, here goes!'
"What ch'ya doin'?" Kagome said, pushing one of the shoulders on her zip up shirt down and sticking out her chest a bit.
Hojo stared.
"Uh, I'm, uh, reading something for English…" he mumbled, suddenly seeming embarrassed.
"Cool," Kagome flashed him one of her best smiles, the one she usually kept reserved for Inuyasha.
"Yeah…"
"So," Kagome scooted herself closer to him.
"W-what?"
"I donno." Kagome flipped her hair, laughing.
'Oh my god this is the crappiest thing I've ever done. I'm being so phony!' she thought, suddenly cringing. 'I can't do this anymore!'
"Ok, listen Hojo, I, er..." Kagome glanced over at Eri, Yuka and Ayumi. 'Ok, I have to do this! My reputation stands on this!'
"I was, um, wondering if you'd like-," she began.
"-to go out?" Hojo asked, thinking he was finishing her sentence.
"Um, well, ok. Yeah! Would you?" Kagome asked. 'I was gonna ask him if he wanted to go inside for a second! Or somewhere else, anywhere! Not to go out!' she thought, cringing inside.
"Sure!" Hojo cried, happily. "How about tomorrow afternoon? We could go get something to eat and see a movie!"
'Whoa! Sounds like he read that off a script!' Kagome realized. "Ok," she said, then wondering why she had agreed.
"Great!" Hojo stood up and was about to leave when he turned around and kissed her, on the lips!
"Mmph!" Kagome mumbled. 'What's he doing?!" he mind screamed, but her body just went along with it and kissed him back. 'What am I doing?!'
Hojo pulled back, his face extremely red from embarrassment. "S-sorry, I didn't mean to come on strong of fast or anything, it's just… I really like you." He looked at his feet.
Kagome suddenly completely forgot about Inuyasha and smiled. "That's ok," she said. "Well, see you later!"
"O-ok!" Hojo looked surprised. "Later!"
Kagome turned and walked started walking away. Then it clicked. She now had a date with Hojo; she was cheating on Inuyasha.
"What the hell did I just do?! I just – I just set up a date with Hojo tomorrow and Inuyasha is my boyfriend! What do I do now?!" she cried out stopping.
Luckily, Eri and her group were far enough away that they didn't hear her. Unluckily though, someone else was too far away to hear that too, even though he probably could have if he had wanted to, but his mind was to full of what he had just seen. Inuyasha was standing in the doorway of the school, staring at Kagome's back.
"Kagome…" he whispered, his eyes glazing over. "I thought… why…?"
He turned and ran back into the school.
Kagome stood there, wondering what to do. 'I'll… I'll just have to pretend I didn't do anything wrong. And somehow break the date with Hojo…'
Kagome shook her head and began walking towards Eri.
"I did it!" Kagome said, trying to sound enthusiastic. "We're going out tomorrow!"
"Cool," Eri said.
"But he'll probably break it off tomorrow or something," Kagome added.
"Oh, don't worry, he won't he really likes you!" Eri smiled. "You know, I have to admit, I was surprised that you did that, I didn't think you would! You're pretty cool!"
"Thanks," Kagome smiled. She was accepted! She was cool now! Somehow, Kagome completely forgot about Inuyasha, again.
The next day, Inuyasha wasn't at school. And he wasn't there the day after that either. He called in sick. Kagome went to his house but Sesshomaru said he was too sick and that he looked gruesome and that if she saw him she'd be so disgusted she'd barf.
Kagome knew that he was exaggerating but she left him alone. The next day Inuyasha came back to school, which was three days after Kagome had done her little 'stunt', he ignored her. Kagome seemed to have forgotten any reasons that he'd ignore her and thought that he must just think that was how he could end a relationship if he got bored of it.
She was becoming poisoned with the thoughts of doing 'this' would make her more popular, and doing 'that' would make her less. The only friend she really kept was Sango, who she could never ignore because they had been friends for so long.
After a few weeks she acted as if she had forgotten ever being together with Inuyasha and focused on annoying him, calling him names and making fun of him with the other popular people. Hojo became her boyfriend and Inuyasha was almost completely forgotten.
Inuyasha had gotten another girlfriend, who didn't last long, and started making fun of Kagome. He eventually became more and more popular but things didn't exactly change between the two of them. And he didn't like being popular because it reminded him of why Kagome had cheated on him. He stuck with a few friends, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Myoga, Hakkaku, Ginta, and even though they sometimes fought, Koga.
One time, when no one was around, for some reason Kagome said hi to him nicely. That was what had started the 'once in a blue moon' conversations they had where they'd be nice to each other.
End of Flashback
Kagome stood there, staring at Inuyasha. She began to cry, and cry and cry.
"I didn't know you were standing there!" she wailed.
"I know. You thought you could cheat on me and get away with it," Inuyasha said, sounding kind of hurt.
"No! That's not what I was doing!" Inuyasha's body flopped on the floor. "I just wanted to be popular! I didn't mean to loose you or my friends! I just went too far! You don't know how over-powering Eri and Yuka and them could be then! You never talked to them!"
"You have a strong mind, Kagome, and if you don't want to do something, you don't. I know that, and if you hadn't wanted to cheat on me with Hojo you wouldn't have," Inuyasha said. It sounded weird to hear Kagome's voice saying that to Kagome.
"I know!" Kagome whimpered.
(A/N: sorry, I just have to say this! Wouldn't it sound weird to hear Inuyasha's voice saying all the stuff that Kagome is saying? And crying and whimpering? And the same with Kagome's voice except with out the crying and whimpering?)
Inuyasha snorted. "Whatever."
"I'm serious! I really liked you! I never wanted to hurt you!"
Inuyasha stared at her.
"Please! Please give me another chance to earn your trust or forgive me!" Kagome blurted out.
"What?"
"Please! Give me another chance!"
"You think I can do that after what you did? It's not that easy! I really trusted you, Kagome! And you hurt me! It still hurts!" Inuyasha cried.
"It does?"
"Yes!"
"Inuyasha…"
"No! Just shut up! I began to hate you after that! I still do! I hate you!" Inuyasha yelled.
"I loved you. But that's changed now," Kagome said, quietly.
"G – Wait, what did you say?" Inuyasha asked, not thinking he had heard right.
"I said I loved you, but not anymore. If you hate me, well, well. Because I hate you too now!" Kagome got up and ran out of the house.
Inuyasha stared after her. 'She loved me…?'
Then he got angry. 'What did she think she was doing? Asking for forgiveness and all that crap?! Like I could give her that!' Inuyasha thought. 'And she hates me now too? Now that makes me happy!'
TBC…
Yay! it's finished!!!!! I know it took long but I have exams next week so I thought I'd finish this but I won't be updating for a while because I there's exams next week, then on the 4th of February I'm going to Germany again. Not by myself though, with my mom, my step-father, neighbour and friend. It's for my grandparent's 50th anniversary! Heh heh… I'll see if I can update before I go though, I might be able to get some quick little thing up, who knows!
Well, review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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