REI'S CORNER: hi people. I'm back! But um take this note please. I think it's about time that I get a beta reader for my stories. Is anyone interested in being my beta reader, because I know that I need one. If you are interested please leave you email address in a review, or just review saying that you're interested, and I'll get back to you. Thanks! Oh geez I probably sound really desperate now....oh well....

Oh heh, I don't own INUYASHA OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT

Oh yeah, if you REALLY like Hojo, DO NOT read the middle of this chapter....you'll hate me....

Chapter 13- Stop Pushing me Away!

Kagome winced as she watched herself in the mirror, q-tip in one hand, her ear in the fingertips of the other.

"You know, it wouldn't be so bad if you would hurry up and do it." Inuyasha said from behind her.

"It still hurts." Kagome whined.

Inuyasha offered to help her, but she only whined and told him to let her do it. When she was finished, he followed her out of the bathroom.

"Is there something you wanted?" Kagome asked.

"Not really." Inuyasha said.

Kagome gave him a blank look, then hurried off into her bedroom, shutting the door before he could follow her. Inuyasha sighed and went to watch tv.

Kagome sighed. Why was this happening? She swore she wouldn't let this happen. They could only be friends from now on. She silently tried pounding that into her head, while she picked up the mess that was on the floor. After doing that, she sat on her bed.

'Maybe Inu and Koga will go home soon. Then I can get control of my emotions.' she thought hopefully.

"Kagome! There's some guy on the phone!" she heard from the living room.

Kagome sat up and ran out of the room.

"Who said you could pick up my phone?" she asked.

"Well you weren't picking it up. Says his name is Hojo."

Kagome sighed and took the phone, walking back into her room.

"Hi Hojo."

"Kagome? Who was that? Are you ok?" Hojo asked.

"I'm fine. What do you want?" she said, then heard a tiny scoff on the other line.

"I wanted to know if you wanted to come to a movie or something tonight."

"...."

"Kagome? You there?"

"Yeah. You do realize that we broke up weeks ago. Don't you?"

"Well yeah, but I was thinking, you know, maybe we could give it another try. Right?"

"Um, I'm sorry Hojo but I'm gonna have to pass."

"Oh...Kagome, is it that guy?"

"What guy?"

"The one that picked up the phone. Is that why you're saying no?"

Kagome paused for a minute, then slowly got more annoyed.

"Hojo, do you think it's that guy?" she asked.

"Well yes. I mean you would have said yes any other time wouldn't you?"

"Alright then Hojo, it's that guy." Kagome said and then hung up.

Frustrated, she went to put the phone back onto the coffee table.

"Wow Kagome you're pretty popular with the guys down here, aren't you?" Inuyasha asked.

"Yeah, whatever." she said back grumpily.

Inuyasha stared at her.

"What are you looking at?!" Kagome snapped.

Inuyasha looked away, "Nothing. Just wondering why you get all angry at me when I didn't do anything."

Kagome ignored his last comment and walked into the kitchen, grabbing some ice cream out of the freezer.

"Kagome?"

"What is it Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.

"So you are mad at me." he said. Kagome sighed.

"No. I'm just a little annoyed about something ok? It isn't you."

"Ok." he said.

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"Kagome can you please turn that down?! I'm trying to watch the tv!" Inuyasha pounded on her door.

Kagome opened her door, halfway conscious to the fact that she was only wearing a sports bra and some shorts.

"What?!" she yelled over the music.

Inuyasha tried to force himself not to look at her body, but he was failing, miserably.

"D...Down." he stuttered out.

"Wha....AH!" Kagome squeaked and shut the door in his face. 'What a pervert!' she thought.

After picking up his melted brain off of the floor, Inuyasha began banging on the door again. Kagome turned off her high-volumed music.

"What do you want?!" she shouted.

"I uh." He lost his words.

"You uh, d...d....d....d....down?" Kagome mocked. Inuyasha blushed furiously, realizing what he said and how wrong it sounded.

"I didn't mean it that way Kagome! I meant turn down the music!"

"Sure, whatever."

Kagome opened the door once again, this time with an enlarged t-shirt and some jeans on.

"I'm serious! Believe me!" he whined.

"I said sure."

Kagome walked passed him and went to the front door.

"Where are you going?" Inuyasha asked.

"For a walk."

Kagome swung open the door, only to find Hojo on the other side of it, preparing to knock.

'Oh great. Lets make Kagome's day living hell!' Kagome thought bitterly.

"Hi Kagome." Hojo said.

"Hey."

Hojo pushed some flowers in her hand. There were different colors of carnations. Kagome was too shocked by the flowers, she didn't notice Inuyasha walk up behind her.

"Those are flowers, so we're making up ok? So we can go out again, right?" Hojo said nervously, noticing Inuyasha.

"Kagome who is this?" Inuyasha asked.

"I'm Hojo. I-I I'm Kagome's boyfriend, so b-back off or I'll f-fight you." Hojo said.

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at the pathetic creature by the door.

"Kagome?" Hojo and Inuyasha asked at the same time.

"Hojo....I told you no. These are pretty, but I don't want them, sorry." Kagome pushed the flowers back. Hojo had sorrow in his eyes, and she felt kind of bad for him.

"It IS him! Kagome this isn't fair! I've known you since you got here, but you probably just met this guy in some club! You don't know him! I was here first!" Hojo yelled on the verge of tears.

Kagome was about to respond, but Inuyasha cut in.

"Actually, I've known Kagome for a long time." Inuyasha said.

"Yeah right." Hojo sniffled. "How long then?"

"Um, long enough to tell you that she like white tulips, not carnations."

Both Kagome and Hojo froze momentarily.

'He's right....' Kagome thought.

"Oh yeah? Is this true Kagome?!" Hojo yelled.

Kagome was lost in thought, she couldn't even answer. Inuyasha remembered that? That was really odd, since it was a really small fact about her.

Inuyasha smiled at Hojo and pulled Kagome back against him.

"See look, you upset her Hojo. Don't worry, I'll make sure she's okay." he said, grabbing for the door. Hojo was still yelling though.

"Oh no you don't! You might do something she doesn't want! By the way, I saw her ear! I bet she didn't want th-

Before he could finish, Inuyasha had closed the door in Hojo's face and let go of Kagome. He started chuckling when he heard Hojo's muffled wails against the door.

"Honestly , Kagome, what's with him?"

Kagome shrugged. "Inuyasha?"

"Huh?"

"You remembered my favorite flower." Kagome breathed out.

"Oh yeah, I did." Inuyasha smiled.

Kagome had a small blush on her cheeks. But it went away when she noticed Inuyasha laughing his head off at poor Hojo who was still crying his eyes out at the door.

"Inuyasha! How can you just laugh at him! That's mean!" Kagome yelled.

All of a sudden, they heard some cans be thrown outside, and an old man shouting, "Oh Suck it up crybaby! She doesn't want you!" followed by louder sobs from Hojo.

Kagome couldn't help it, she started laughing with Inuyasha.

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"Mmmm! This is really good!" Kagome said.

"Yeah! It is!" Inuyasha said back.

Kagome scooted away from him a little. Was it her, or was the couch suddenly getting really crowded? Inuyasha scooted by her.

"Do you want the rest of my ice cream Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.

"Nope. I'm fine, thanks though." he said.

Kagome scooted away again, no hope, he only scooted by her.

"Oh yeah, sorry about earlier at my room, I was practicing some dance moves." Kagome said, trying to change the subject so he wouldn't scoot next to her.

"Oh it's ok! Nothing I haven't seen before. Right?" He said back and chuckled.

Kagome chuckled back nervously, and scooted away again. No such luck for her, he scooted close to her again. Uh-oh, she hit a corner. Dead end.

All of a sudden, Kagome jumped up and Inuyasha look up at her in question.

"Wow, heh...I really like that song, don't you?" she said. "Just makes me want to jump up and dance!"

'Oh nice save stupid!' she thought.

"What song?"

"Uh...."

"Is something wrong Kagome?" Inuyasha asked.

Kagome sighed. "Um, I'd really appreciate it if you wouldn't sit two inches too close Inu, it's disturbing."

Inuyasha stood up and laughed, "Sorry, just trying to be close to you."

Kagome blushed, "Why?"

Inuyasha neared her. "You know why."

Kagome's blush got ten times deeper. What the hell was he talking about? Was this guy drunk???

Out of nowhere, Inuyasha started laughing.

"I'm just kidding around Kagome."

"O-oh! Heh heh I knew that." Kagome said

"Sure you did Kagome, sure you did. I'm going to bed now. So maybe you could leave the room, okay?" Inuyasha said.

Kagome blanched. Was he angry? What did she do wrong now?

"Inu..." she started.

"Just go Kagome, please?" he said, irritated.

Kagome turned around to go, but Inuyasha's voice stopped her.

"Why are pushing me away Kagome?"

Kagome turned. "W-what?"

"Why are you pushing me away?!"

Kagome winced.

Inuyasha ran up to her and hugged her.

"I still care about you, you know?"

"What?"

"Kagome! Come on, let's be real! How many times have you thought about us getting toether when I got out here? Huh?"

"..."

"Kagome? Tell me!"

"N-no! I'm not telling you that!"

"And why the hell not?!"

"'Cause I don't want to."

"Real mature Kagome!" Inuyasha let her go and slouched onto the couch.

"This was another reason why we even broke up! You, not telling me things! What's wrong with you?"

"W-what's wrong with me?! What's wrong with me?! What's wrong with you?! Always bring back the past! You act like we're still together!" she yelled.

"At least I remember."

Kagome glared at him.

"What do you mean, 'at least I remember' ?!"

"Well you act like 'us' never happened. One of us HAS to remember that!"

Kagome gave a dark chuckle.

"Don't mess around with me like that Inuyasha! I mean it!"

"Like what? Give me a break Kagome! If I hadn't ever come out here, you would have forgotten me forever!"

"You're wrong!"

"Oh really, how? How am I so damn wrong, huh? Tell me! I'm waiting!"

"First things first, Inuyasha, YOU were the one getting married, I only came to Illinois to find you because I remembered! Second, I just....I couldn't forget you, ever. Okay?"

Inuyasha flinched. Ouch, she was right....

Kagome turned and grabbed her shoes out of her room and then headed for the front door.

"Kagome...."

"Don't talk to me right now Inu, I don't want to hear it!"

"B-but where are you going?"

"Doesn't matter, does it?"

"It does!"

"Don't even worry about me, I'll be back whenever. If Ayame comes by, tell her to call me!"

And with that, Kagome walked out of the front door. She didn't even care when it slammed shut dramatically, she didn't really intend for it to do that, but she felt a little better after doing it. Off she walked into the night, not caring who was out there. She was only going to walk around campus for a bit. Just to clear her head and calm down, it shouldn't take that long, right? Kagome looked at the tower clock at the college. 'Two minutes until midnight.' she thought.

Inuyasha was in the living room, debating with himself, over and over again. Half of him told him that he was right about the whole argument. It wasn't his fault that she was pushing him away. But the other half told him he was wrong. He shouldn't have expected her to come to him in open arms after so long. Besides, he was wrong to say that she didn't remember.

He saw the clock next to her tv. It read 1:47. She has been gone for more than an hour now! Inuyasha rushed over to the front door and looked out. He saw no sign of her.

He closed the door and walked back to the living room. She was really mad. He knew she was capable of getting that angry, but he really didn't know. She could have been in trouble for all he knew. 'Ok! If she's not back in ten minutes, I'm going out to find her!' he thought.

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Kagome rushed back home as fast as she could, she knew Inuyasha would be worried about her by now. She ran as fast as she could. She thought back to last night. She hadn't expected to fall asleep on a bench, and for that, she felt completely stupid, not to mention cold.

Running up on to the porch, she peered into the window next to the door. Kagome scoffed. There was Inuyasha, asleep on the couch. 'Yeah, he was worried alright. Worried that I'd wake him up when I came inside.' she thought coldly.

She quietly opened the door and stepped inside. Closing the door behind her softly, she took off her shoes, and headed for the bathroom. All she had to do was put down her shoes and- oops. Too late.

"Kagome?!" Inuyasha half yelled and half yawned at the same time.

"Oh hi." she bit out, then continued her way to the bathroom.

Inuyasha glanced at the clock once more. 'Holy crap! I fell asleep! It's six in the morning, and she's JUST getting in?! Where'd she go?'

Inuyasha stood up.

"Kagome! Where the hell did you go last night?! I was so worried!" he yelled.

"I went out. Not that you'd care."

"I DO care! I know you went out! Are you okay? You aren't hurt are you?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Kagome shot back.

She swiftly shut the bathroom door, while Inuyasha growled.

When she came back out, Inuyasha was staring her in the face, anger in his eyes.

"Where did you go?" he asked again.

"None of your business." she tried to push past him, but he held onto her arm.

"It IS my business. You don't just go walking out on me like that, you hear me? You could have gotten seriously hurt!"

"So?"

Inuyasha pulled Kagome into a tight embrace.

"I don't want you hurt Kagome! You mean too much to me!"

At first Kagome struggled against him, but softened after a moment. Then hugged him back.

"I'm sorry." she said quietly.

And that's how they stayed for the entire morning. Just standing in a tight embrace, not worrying about the time or how hungry they got. They just enjoyed the moment. Bringing back old feeling for each other. Neither knew if they would stay or go. They didn't care. They just cared about that moment.

That's where Koga and Ayame found them that day. Just standing there.

"Wow, we obviously missed something." Ayame said. Koga nodded.

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! Cute no? Wow, this is going faster than I expected. To be completely honest, this chapter was really hard to write! Both emotionally AND physically I had to keep going back and erasing things, because they didn't sound right! But alas! I have it out! And this is 10, yes 10, 10! Pages! So that's a lot for this story, no? Hope you liked the happy fluffiness at the end, because it's gonna get REALLY rough soon, you'll see what I mean!

COMING IN THE NEXT CHAPTER

Chapter 14- So, You two are Going out, or What?

Koga and Ayame didn't get the memo, so it's question time! Are Kagome and Inuyasha dating once again? Is their love FINALLY restored? Guess you'll have to wait and see! But wait, Kagome and Inuyasha must have missed a memo too! Since when did Ayame get so comfy and mushy with Koga? Kagome's surprised. Usually she would be out of the house with a new boyfriend by now....

OK SEE yA NeXT TimE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!