Chapter Nine – Complications

Kagome woke up suddenly after her crazy dream had just ended. Aki was in it, as was Inuyasha. They were fighting for her even though Aki knew that he couldn't beat Inuyasha, he had surprisingly lasted a long time in the battle. Kagome never got to see the end of the dream, for right before it ended, both Aki and Inuyasha turned to Kagome and demanded her to choose between them. Kagome was delighted that it was a dream, she got up off of her bed to see Inuyasha was quietly laying down beside her still. Kagome's alarm had not gone off yet, for it was still too early. However, Kagome saw Sango sitting my the door, her eyes in tears, and bags under her eyes. Kagome got out of bed quickly, but quietly and ran over to Sango.

"Oh my goodness Sango, what's wrong? Why are you crying? It looks like you haven't slept all night!" said Kagome worriedly.

"He told me…" she said quietly, tears still falling down her face, "that he loved me… I didn't know how to react, and I didn't know how to say it, so I told him straight out that I had a boyfriend… I told him, that I couldn't just break up with Ani."

"What happened?" asked Kagome, "What did he say to that?"

"He asked me, if I loved him…" said Sango, tears now flowing down her pale face, "and I couldn't say no, even though I don't. Miroku would say that if I love him, why couldn't I choose him over Ani… So I told him, that I did love him, and he was devastated, he didn't even say anything more, except, after he got up and went through the door he whispered goodnight."

Kagome's eyes opened wide, as she stared upon her friends broken and pale face. She couldn't believe what she had heard, for it was so unexpected to her. Kagome thought for sure that Sango would choose Miroku over Ani, but it seems as though she couldn't, even if that was her greatest wish. Sango looked up and Kagome's face, her tears still flowing.

"What have I done?" asked Sango, "I rejected the one that I love the most and now I am with one that I can not even relate to. He lives in a different world than me! He lives in a different era, and yet without liking him, I am bound to him."

"Oh Sango, I…" started Kagome.

However Kagome was suddenly interrupted by the loud beeping of her alarm clock. Inuyasha jumped out of bed and grabbed the alarm clock, shaking it up and down furiously trying to make it shut off. He proved unsuccessful.

"KAGOME!" he yelled, still shaking the alarm clock, "MAKE IT TURN OFF!"

Kagome's eyes widened, and she cracked a smile and walked towards him hugging him, and then taking the alarm clock. Kagome switched a button on the back of the clock, and the beeping had stopped finally. She put the alarm clock down, and looked at Inuyasha.

"See, that wasn't too hard now was it?" she asked calmly smiling

"If we ever get a house, that thing is never, and I mean NEVER going to enter the bedroom! It makes too much noise!" he said furiously glaring at Kagome

"Who said that we were going to get a house?" asked Kagome smiling

"Don't you want to?" he asked raising his right eyebrow

"I don't know," she began, smiling as she looked into Inuyasha's eyes, "Living with a half-demon might be a lot of trouble. You'd probably make a lot of mess too" she smiled again

"I would not!" said Inuyasha as defensively as a child.

Kagome laughed at Inuyasha, and turned back to Sango. Her smile faded and she sat down cross-legged in front of Sango.

"Sango, today let's not go to school and go shopping, alright?" said Kagome

"What?" asked Sango wiping away her tears, "Shopping, now?"

"Yeah," said Kagome smiling, "Grandpa will cover for us, and we can talk about everything, or we can not talk about it if you want to forget about it…"

"Kagome! What is this?" asked Inuyasha randomly holding up a wrapped present box.

"Oh, that's uh…" started Kagome struggling, and gazing upon the wrapped box that was sitting on her desk. "I actually don't know, why don't you open it up?"

"Ok!" said Inuyasha happily tearing about the box, "Do I get to go shopping too?" asked Inuyasha

Kagome looked at Sango, and then Sango smiled and looked back at Inuyasha.

"Sure you can Inuyasha" said Sango smiling, "This is going to be really fun!"

"Hey, Kagome look! It's Ramen!" said Inuyasha smiling, pulling out a container that contained ramen.

"That's nice Inuyasha, now come on, let's go get ready!" said Kagome to both Sango and Inuyasha.

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"Oh my god, I never knew that shopping was so much fun!" said Sango smiling holding six bags in her hands.

"I miss shopping, it's a great thing to do, blows your allowance quickly though." Said Kagome smiling

Inuyasha, who had also gone shopping with them, was finally persuaded before they left to put on regular clothes so that people wouldn't consider him weird. Kagome, however, was forced to buy him 13 packages of ramen for his pure enjoyment later on their way home. Kagome was holding one bag on her left arm, and her right hand was holding Inuyasha's as they walked about the mall. Sango and Kagome decided to make one last stop, at a clothes store. It was Inuyasha's job to tell them whether or not they looked good in their outfits. He had been doing so since they had received at the mall. They went through about 14 outfits, when finally Kagome chose one, and Sango left the store with three more outfits, and two more bags. They were about to leave and were walking when they bumped into someone unexpected at the mall. It was Ani, and Aki, accompanied by one girl who was holding Ani's hand. Kagome quickly let go of Inuyasha's hand and held her two bags, with one on each hand.

"Hello Ani" said Kagome nervously, staring at the ground.

"Hey baby!" said Ani walking up to Kagome and kissing her softly, "how are you?"

Inuyasha's eyes opened up wide, and he pulled Kagome towards him.

"What the fuck was that?" he asked angrily to Kagome, "This is that boy that I saw you with that night that I came to check up on you! You didn't break up with him!"

"What the hell are you talking about?" asked Aki furiously

"Kags, is my girlfriend!" yelled Inuyasha

"No, Kagome is mine!" yelled Aki

Inuyasha looked at Kagome angrily, his eyes became shiny. He looked at her with disgust.

"How fucking dare you" he said to Kagome, "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU!"

"Inuyasha, please, I can explain!" said Kagome, tears now falling down her face.

"I don't give a fucking shit about your pitiful explanations. How fucking dare you do this to me Kagome, I love you! You said you did too, and this is how you end up fucking treating me?" He yelled, "I'm leaving, I'll be waiting for Miroku. He'll be glad to hear about Sango too!"

Inuyasha turned to leave.

"He already knows" said Sango, tears also falling down her face as she looked at the girl holding Ani's hand. "How could you do this to me?" asked Sango, "I turned down Miroku, for you, and now I find you here with another girl."

Inuyasha ran out the door leaving Kagome blindly staring at that one spot where he had ran out the door, tears falling down her face.

"Oh well" said Ani calmly, "Your friend did it too, so why don't you complain to her"

"I should've just gone for Miroku." Said Sango, "I should have done the same thing that you did!" yelled Sango

Sango walked up to Kagome and grabbed her arm.

"We're leaving" said Sango, tears falling down her face, "we never want to see either of you again…"

"Oh, and we would?" asked Aki furiously, "After what you've done to us?"

Sango and Kagome just ignored them, and walked out of the mall, with tears flowing down both of their faces.