Okay guys, I'm sorry about the late update, I have a ton of excuses the most pressing one is that I desperately need to use the bathroom! Anyways, I may continue this on, but I think it'll end here…
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Chapter 6 (right?)
"Is there something going on at the school?" His father asked Inuyasha the second he got home. "The traffic's horrible."
"Yeah, a semi-formal." Inuyasha flipped through the channels.
"Aren't you going?" He asked, shuffling through the mail.
"No." He answered shortly, not bothering to embellish.
"Why not?" He put the water on the stove for some ramen, "I thought Kagome would go with you."
"So did I." Inuyasha's face was pained no matter how hard he tried to hide it.
"Inuyasha is something going on with you and Kagome?" He asked his son (Okay I know I know his name I'm way too lazy to go back to the early chappies and look It up…)
"Yes."
Looking down at his son, and the pain etched in his face, as though it were always there, his father managed to snap out of his workaholic reverie he'd been living in.
"W-what are you doing?" Inuyasha looked over, bewildered.
"Sitting down with my son, since when is that a crime?"
"It's not…" Inuyasha looked away, "It's just that you haven't done it in a long time."
It nearly broke his heart to know that his own son thought that the very little semblance to male bonding was an anomaly.
"Talk to me."
Inuyasha looked at his father and didn't need to be asked twice, his heart was near-bursting and he could use some advice, it didn't help that his thoughts kept straying to Kagome all decked up and dancing with Kouga. That bastard didn't deserve a square inch of the girl dancing in his arms tonight.
"Well you see, father," Inuyasha began, "It's sort of a long story."
"I've got time." He smiled down at him, and Inuyasha smiled back, and embarked on his story.
"Well." Inuyasha and his father were talking over identical bowls of ramen, trying to fix the mess that Inuyasha had managed to wiggle himself into quite decidedly.
"You know that she's probably really hurt right now." He slurped up his ramen, making a slurping noise that drove his late wife nuts. "You should make up."
"How?" Inuyasha asked, "I can never see her!"
"Well you'll just have to make time."
Inuyasha smiled up at him, thankful for that time made. "Thanks…Dad." Something stirred in his father's heart and he realized how painfully absent he'd been these past years, leaving his children to manage on their own.
On his way up the stairs to his bed, his father looked at his son unnoticed, noticing how his hair was a lot longer, and the way his face had transformed from the chubby face he remembered when Inuyasha was a kid.
"God, Inuyasha," he whispered, inaudible, even to himself, "I love you." He shook his head and wandered up to bed, leaving his son to his TV show.
"I hate Infomercials." Inuyasha concluded finally, flipping through the umpteenth channel of ridiculous cures and items for sale.
He settled on a channel selling old fighting equipment. The monotonous voice lulling him to sleep.
"The tetsusaiga, a lethal legendary blade known to kill a hundred in one stroke," The voice advertised as he slipped away, "now on sale with it's sacred case and we'll even throw in the Shikon no Tama, also known as the Shikon Jewel, a replica of the sought after jewel, known in legend as belonging to a priestess and a half-demon. Any bidders?"
"Me.." Inuyasha murmured in his sleep. "I need it to protect her…Kagome."
He was still dreaming about the sword when a knocking on the door woke him up.
"You pervert!" He called out, "What? Huh?" – knock knock knock—
"Mphrmph." Inuyasha muttered, wiping off his face and clamboring to his feet to answer the soft but persistent noise.
"Hello?" He squinted out into the rain barely making out the shadowy form, "Who's there?"
A small sob leaked out from the darkness as the figure stepped into the light,
"Kagome?" she was barely recognizable with her hair tangled and pressed down to her hair because of the rain, her dress was also demolished, soaked and ragged. She looked down at the ground in silence before looking back up at him.
"Oh Inuyasha." Her eyes welled up in tears and she flung herself at him, sobbing her heart out onto his shoulder and drenching him to the core. Her legs gave out and he took her himself, guiding her into the house and into the living room.
She sat there staring around her blankly and shivering. Giving her a hug Inuyasha took her chin in his hand, staring into her eyes. "I do want to know what's wrong," a flicker of worry crossed his owl-tawny eyes. "But let me get you a change of clothes." He rushed upstairs as quietly as he could and grabbed a pair of sweatpants and a T-shirt, debating for a moment he also grabbed his blankets off of his bed.
"Here." He handed them to her and turned around, walking into the kitchen to fix a cup of tea, giving her some privacy.
"Now," Inuyasha pulled the blankets over them both, as they sat on the couch next to each other, Kagome nursing a cup of tea. "What's wrong?"
He must have said the magic words because instantly the tears began to flow again and she set down the cup, not trusting herself not to spill it.
Inuyasha wordlessly put his arms around her, holding her close as she cried, comforting her as best he could without words.
"I-I went to t-the semi with K-Kouga." She sobbed into his shirt, he patted her back and waited for her to continue, "It all started out all right…"
Kagome screeched in happiness as the bell rang, her gorgeous green dress flowing out around her, making her look like a princess. The green emerald hanging from her throat only accented the contrast to her milky-white skin and jet-black hair.
Kouga appeared in a tuxedo looking very well-groomed and nice enough to eat. After a half a million pictures they were able to escape in the car to the semi.
It was all she had dreamed of, the flashing lights and blasting music, everyone dressed up and looking gorgeous. The punch was spiked within a half an hour and everyone was having a better time.
"Kagome," Kouga whispered in her ear during a particularly endearing slow song. "You look amazing." She blushed innocently.
"You do too."
"and Kagome?" He asked, their bodies rocking together,
"Yeah?"
"I love you." He whispered even softer, and her whole face lit up like a Christmas bulb. "I love you too." She admitted, and it was true, she'd do anything he asked her to, anything to make him happy, that's how much she loved him.
Eleven came much sooner than it did usually and when Kagome went back into the car, feeling woozy but so alive she moaned, "I don't want to go home yet."
"Then don't." Kouga was already changing directions, "We can go to my house." They pulled in the parking lot but neither moved. Kouga reached across the seat and kissed her firmly on her lips, loving how soft they were. So innocent. He chuckled, deepening the kiss. She reluctantly went along with it, but jerked away when he tried to go farther.
"Kouga-" she warned
"Don't you love me?"
"Yes."
"Then let me love you too." He kissed her again, feeling her melt under his touch but she backed away again.
"Kouga, I really don't want to." She was beginning to panic, and looked at the door to make sure it was unlocked.
Kouga slid over to the other seat, sitting on her lap, and kissing her between words, maneuvering the seat to lay down and flipping the "child lock" on the door.
"Come on, Kagome." He kissed her tenderly.
"I really-" He cut her off with a kiss that she returned, "don't want- to." She tried to resist him but his weight was pushing down on her, and she really began to panic as he lifted her dress while pinning her down.
"But I do."
Kagome broke off the story and buried her head into Inuyasha again and he seethed, "Kagome…" he murmured, rubbing her back, 'Oh god, what did he do to you?' he thought to himself disgustedly.
"H-he wouldn't stop." She cried, he voice muffled. "But I got out finally." Her voice shook along with her body. "I hit him really hard and he still wouldn't let me go. We didn't… you know. But he kept wanting to go farther." She closed her eyes. "I put the car in neutral, he yelled and got off of me, slamming it in park. I got out of the car and started running."Her eyes looked up at him from her tearstained face, reflecting all the horror and pain. "What do I do now?"
"Kagome... you have to tell someone." Inuyasha informed her in the evenest voice he could manage.
"No," she shook her head, "I didn't stop him until later, and I led him on. I kissed him."
Inuyasha let the subject drop, holding his best friend and comforting her through all hours of the night until the sky shone a purple color.
"Inuyasha?" Her sleepy voice called him from the depths of his hug, the tea stone-cold in it's mug.
"Yes, love?"
"I never finished what I was going to tell you the night you kissed me." He stiffened but she continued, "I was going to say I love you too, but I love Kouga and I'm with him." She nestled into him, pulling the covers up around them both. "But I'm not anymore, I did love him." She was adamant about that, even when half-conscious, "But I guess he didn't love me…" She sighed, "Does it mean I'm a bad person if I love you so soon? I always have, it's just… I was with him, and Kikyou, and all…" She was beginning to fade, sleep taking over.
"You're not a bad person Kagome." Inuyasha huggled her closer.
"I heard you outside my door when you got the homework." She conceded, as he steadied himself. "I just wanted to say I love you too, Inuyasha. I love you so much…"
"Shh Shh." Inuyasha hushed, afraid he was dreaming, "Don't worry about it, just sleep, we'll figure it out in the morning."
"Mmm." She agreed and without further ado fell asleep in his arms. It was contagious for not soon after, he followed her into dreamland, and there they stayed, when his father came down a few hours later, straightening his tie, and saw the two of them, both in Inuyasha's clothes, curled up in one another's arms, fast asleep.
"Thank you," he whispered to whoever was listening. "They needed love."
IT'S NOT OVER YET!
So I know I promised special awesome stories to read, but… okay so I failed, my mom turned off the internet, so I'll post a whole chapter to them. This is just Authoress remarks, because I want to give everyone the chance to get to know me or not, whatever they choose.
SO my name is Stephanie, and I am really sleepy and cold. I am almost exactly 16 ½ (this month) and I live in a COLD COLD state in the U.S. I love anime (duh) though I haven't seen a lot. More personally, my biggest flaw is that I have a huge heart that breaks easy, and that I can be mean to the people I love most (I get bitchy and tease them, it's a flirting thing…I think) I was a tomboy until 7th grade and still am somewhat. I just moved to a new school and NO ONE LIKES ME! I'm writing an original story in my spare time (with a little help from a teach.) and it's 25 pages long NON DOUBLE SPACED! It's really good and I will SO send it to you if you ask. Um. I want to be a forensic scientist when I get older, though I mostly want to be a mom. I wear low-top converse shoes and Am pissed that they are now a fashion statement. They are dirty and worn and falling apart… just the way they should be. I am a pretty emotional person. Not "emo" per say but I feel emotions strongly. My fav writers are (of novels) Tanora pierce and Amelia Atwater Rhodes check them out! I have two cats hogging up my whole bed right now, and I am really sleepy, my sugar rush from the SOBE POWER now gone. I'm sorry for the slow update. I'll try to post sooner, though I have rehearsal on Monday (One Act Play Competition!)
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