REI'S CORNER: wow, Database Drama is really catching up with Walk Behind Me in reviews. That makes me really happy, because it means that you people are liking this story just as much as you all like the other one. So right after I finish this chapter, and get it posted, I'm gonna have a party in my crab hole! (A.K.A. my room.) Um lets see..... I don't think I have any important announcements. Hmm. Hey has something really bad ever happened to you, and for some reason, you're like really calm and peaceful, maybe even happy about it????? that's how I feel right now. Weird... Just so you know, the love triangle between Koga Kagome and Inuyasha is almost over. wink wink

Chapter 11- Highwater, Hangover

Ayame dragged herself out of the bathroom. Oh what exactly had made her go and drink like that? Yeah, she did break up with other boyfriends, all the time. But this one was different. Raphael was starting to grow on her, and then HE broke up with HER. Ayame wasn't taking rejection oh too well. She looked up at the clock on the wall. Oh yay, it was noon, and she had no plans. Which meant she would have to stay "home" with the Kagome chick. Not that she had anything against the girl. It was just that after the whole time being room mates, she knew absolutely nothing about Kagome, except for the fact that she they went to the same college, and that Kagome had a pathetic obsession with her computer.

"Hey Ayame. How are you feeling today? Better I hope." she turned to see Kagome standing behind her.

"Oh hey. Yeah, I'm okay now. I think." Ayame answered.

"Hey I made you some breakfast. But it's probably cold by now....Want to come hang out with me?" Kagome asked.

"Gee....Kagome...I don't know..."

"Please? It's been forever since we last talked." Ayame stared at the girl. What was up with her? This couldn't have been her room mate. Kaagome was never really this openly....Friendly.

Ayame sighed and followed Kagome into the living room. While Kagome walked into the kitchen, Ayame plopped onto the couch, hopefully something would be on tv.

"You look better now." she heard from the other side of the couch. She looked over and saw a young man sitting there, crossed arms and a smirk on his face.

"Who are you?" Ayame asked.

"Me? Names Koga. Ayame, right?"

"Y-yeah. Um what are you doing here?"

"I'm Kagome's friend. We met last night, but then again, you wouldn't remember that, would you?" Koga laughed and Ayame blushed.

"I was having a bad day, sue me."

"No, I won't sue you, but I will ask why."

"That's none of your business!" Ayame yelled.

Kagome heard Ayame's yell, and looked over at them.

"Koga, stop tormenting my friend!" Kagome yelled from the kitchen.

Ayame smiled.

"You're her boyfriend?" she asked.

"As a matter of fact, I am..."

"NOT." a voice cut in.

Both Ayame and Koga looked behind then, and saw Inuyasha standing there.

"Koga, you better stop telling people that. Kagome's bound to find out sooner or later that you're sayin' stuff about her." Inuyasha warned.

"Find out what?" Kagome asked, standing next to Inuyasha with crackers in her hand.

Everyone but Kagome jumped, and widened their eyes.

"Whoa, how'd you do that?!" Koga asked.

"Don't do that! You nearly gave me a heart attack!" Inuyasha shouted.

"Are those crackers for me?" Ayame asked.

Kagome laughed and handed Ayame the crackers, heading back toward the kitchen as the phone rang.

Ayame, Koga, and Inuyasha sat still, wondering what just happened. Ayame broke the silence.

"So who are you?" she asked.

"That's Inu. Kags' ex." Koga cut in.

"Koga! Shut up! I can talk for myself ya know. Besides, my name is Inuyasha." he corrected.

"You're her ex?" Ayame asked.

"Well sort of, not really, I don't know!" Inuyasha ran into the bathroom to escape the conversation.

"He's weird." Ayame said.

"Yup." Koga agreed.

All of a sudden, Ayame stood up and ran for the bathroom.

"Oh boy." Koga said.

---

"Great, we're out of good food." Kagome said, searching through the freezer.

"Hi Kagome."

"Oh. Hey. Guess what?"

"What?"

"You, and Koga are going grocery shopping!" Kagome yelled cheerfully, shoving a shopping list into his hand.

"What?! Why?! You have to be kidding me! I'm not going grocery shopping!" he yelled.

"Oh yes you are!"

"You can't make me!"

Kagome took a step toward him, and yanked on his hair, pulling him out of the kitchen and toward the living room couch. Inuyasha yelped the whole way.

Koga and Ayame laughed at Inuyasha.

"Kagome what are you doing to him?!" Koga asked between chuckles.

"You and him are going grocery shopping. He said that you weren't, is that true Koga?" Kagome asked, yanking on Inuyasha's hair more, making him yelp louder.

"Uh....heh...heh....What do we need to get?" Koga asked.

---Four Minutes Later—

"Bye guys!" Kagome waved, watching Koga drive off, Inuyasha grumbling in the passenger seat.

Kagome shut the front door and sat down smiling.

"Hey Ayame."

"Hi."

---

Koga and Inuyasha drove around a small, mini-mall about twenty times, before realizing that the grocery store was there. But when they got inside, they ran around quickly, gathering up the items on Kagome's list.

"Why are we doing this for her anyway?" Inuyasha asked, not exactly saying it to anyone.

"Because she asked for us to." Koga said, picking up a box of cereal.

"So what? I thought we were the guests."

"Look man, we owe it to her. Well you do anyways."

Inuyasha looked down. Oh yeah. He forgot that she had stuck up for him when Kikyo made a fool of him at their own wedding. Without saying another word, he went to help get more groceries.

"So you DO still like her." Koga said.

"What?! She's my friend!" Inuyasha yelled.

"Yeah. Ok. In that case, I'm asking her to go on a date with me." Koga smirked.

"What? Why?"

"'Cause I do like her."

Inuyasha snorted, and ignored him.

"So you DO still like her."

Inuyasha threw a can of beans at Koga's head. Bull's-eye.

---

"Don't scratch it!" Ayame yelled.

"But it's itching the hell out of me!" Kagome yelled back.

"I know, but it'll be better in ten minutes when you can wash it off!"

Kagome pouted. Ayame looked at her, a light blue facial mask on her own face.

"Don't do that. Your face'll get stuck"

Both girls chuckled for a few moments, then settled down.

"So what exactly is this going to do?" Kagome asked.

"It adds moisture to your skin, prevents wrinkles, and puts vitamins in you skin. That's why you shouldn't use the green ones. They dry out your skin." Ayame said, expertly.

"Oh." Kagome said.

"Wow. I don't remember having this much fun in a long time! I mean, I never really had girls to hang around, since my boyfriends would always take me places where we could be alone and all." Ayame confessed.

Kagome nodded, then looked at Ayame.

"What happened with you and Raphael?" she asked.

Ayame stiffened. "He dumped me for some cheap hussy with a husband."

Kagome gasped. "That's horrible. AND wrong! I'm sorry."

"Me too." Ayame said.

Kagome was trying to think of ways to change the subject, but failed miserably. But lucky for her, Ayame decided to break the uncomfortable silence.

"Oh well, guess that just means I should keep looking, right?"

Kagome nodded and smiled.

"Hey what about you though? Anyone special for you?"

Kagome laughed. "No I don't think I'm meant to have boyfriends. Always ends in disaster."

Ayame snorted. "What about that Koga guy? He seems a bit into you."

"Really? I never thought of him that way..."

Ayame laughed and then joked, "Good, 'cause he's a cute one."

Kagome's jaw dropped, and then both girls went into a big fit of laughter.

"Kagome! We're home darling!" someone yelled from the front door.

Both Kagome and Ayame rolled their eyes, and ran out into the living room, Kagome opening the door for Inuyasha and Koga.

"AH! It's the attack of the blueberry mutants!" Koga yelled.

Kagome rolled her eyes and Ayame laughed.

"Oh yeah, that reminds me....Kagome, you can wash now."

Kagome stared at Ayame for a minute, and then screamed a pitiful thank you, and ran toward the bathroom faster than any of them could say, "What?"

About three minutes later, Kagome came out of the bathroom, relieved. She noticed that Ayame had already washed hers off, and the guys had already brought in the groceries.

"Thanks guys. Guess I should get started on dinner, huh?" Kagome smiled.

Koga looked over at Kagome.

"Actually, you know what Kags, I think I wanted to site-see. So you don't have to make anything for me ok?" he said, then looked over at Ayame.

"Oh! You know what? Don't make anything for me either. I'm still a little queasy from before. Site-Seeing, you say? Well you wouldn't want to get lost would you? I'll go with you." Ayame said hurriedly.

Both Inuyasha and Kagome raised an eyebrow. But before they could react, Ayame and Koga were already out of the apartment, driving off.

"Um, what just happened?" Kagome asked.

"I have no clue." Inuyasha answered.

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After standing around for a few minutes, wondering what to do, Kagome had made dinner, and Inuyasha watched. He didn't actually know that she could cook well, but there she was, making a really delicious looking dish of spaghetti. That's when he remembered that years ago she had told him that she taught herself how to cook, since her mom was reluctant to teach her anything. He never really thought about it until this moment.

After she finished, they ate in a comfortable silence. Well that's what Kagome thought the silence was. Inuyasha didn't like the quiet.

"So you were telling the truth when you said that you taught yourself to cook?" Inuyasha asked suddenly.

Kagome gave him a blank stare, unsure of what he was talking about.

"You said that you taught yourself how, because your mom wouldn't. Remember?"

"Oh. Yeah." she had forgotten about that.

"Well this is really good."

"Thanks." she said.

Kagome put her fork down. He still remembered about what happened years ago, and he still thought that she was lying to him. Her appetite was gone now, and she stood up to clear her plate.

Inuyasha looked up at Kagome. Oops.

"Did I say something wrong, Kay?" he asked. Kagome spun on her heel.

"What did you just say?!"

"I asked if I said something wrong..."

"Y-You called me Kay!" she yelled.

"I did? Oh...well you said I could call you that..."

For an unknown reason to Kagome, she flushed with anger.

"Well don't. Ok?" she bit out.

"Ok. Sheesh, what's wrong with you?"

"What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me?! You're the one bringing up stuff from the past!"

Inuyasha looked at Kagome and realized what he did.

"Oh...."

Kagome put her plate on the kitchen counter and walked into her bedroom, closing the door.

Inuyasha finished eating, then put his plate by hers and sat on the couch. 'Idiot!' he called himself.

Inside Kagome's room, she sat on her bed, staring up at the ceiling.

'How dare he call me that! I'm not the same as I was that long ago!' she thought. She turned over. 'But then again, I did tell him he could call me that.' Kagome sighed and stood up.

She opened the door and step out.

Inuyasha saw Kagome standing outside of her door and stood up.

"Look, Inuyasha, sorry I jumped at you like that. I'm just grumpy. Ok?" she said.

Inuyasha blinked. Wow, that was a fast forgiveness. He nodded his head.

"Sorry I, well you know." he said.

Kagome grinned and then hugged him.

"Yeah it's ok. What happened then happened then, we were just stupid teens then."

Inuyasha's eyes widened. "Uh, yeah, stupid teens."

Kagome smiled and let him go. "Hey I heard some scary movie is supposed to be on tv tonight, wanna watch it?" she said, sitting on the couch, clicking on the television.

Inuyasha nodded dumbly and sat by her on the couch, staring into the tv. But he couldn't watch the program. He was lost in what she had just said.

The phrase that woke him up from where he had been sleeping for four years.

Stupid teens?

ALRIGHTY THAT'S 8 FULL PAGES PEOPLE! I'M ROLLIN!

Ok some notes on this chapter. No, Koga and Ayame are NOT romantically involved....at the moment...but Ayame wanted to get out of the house, and Koga really did want to site-see. So they made plans to get away right after Ayame came back from her bathroom episode, and Inu was in the kitchen with Kagome.Oh and yeah, she was hungover, but she was a lot more emotionally hungover than justalcohol. I forgot to mention that last time.And so you know, the true loving part of Inu was asleep for 4 years, and now it's back . You might be like, well why was he so mad when Kikyo cheated on him then, well he has this really bad thing against cheating, even if he doesn't love the person cheating on him. He was also mad because, he was embarrassed, I mean wouldn't you be if your wedding was messed up, and all that money went to waste, because the person getting married to you couldn't be honest? I thought so. Well I hope you all liked this chapter. If you are still confused about something, ask me in a review! Review please.

COMING IN THE NEXT CHAPTER

Chapter 12- Old Feelings Rise, New Feelings set

Now that Inu is realizing what has happened, and what is happening, he wants to know what could have been. So maybe he'll just have to figure it out for himself. This chapter might take place a couple of weeks from this chapter. By the way, AYAME? KOGA? Why are you looking at each other like that?!?!?!?!

See ya next time!!!!