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Chapter 2

The Bodyguard

Inuyasha gaped at the girl he had pinned to the ground. She can't be! She's lying! his mind screamed.

Inuyasha shook his head, trying to clear his thoughts. "You're Kagome Higurashi?" he asked, his voice sounding amused.

"Of course I'm Kagome Higurashi!" the girl shouted angrily squirming.

"But I heard Kagome Higurashi was beautiful…" Inuyasha murmured softly.

"I HEARD THAT!" Kagome screamed.

Inuyasha smirked and leaned down towards the girl. "What would you do if I were to believe you?" Inuyasha whispered into her ear.

"What do you mean?" Kagome whispered.

"What I mean is -"

"Kagome!"

Inuyasha turned around, as well as the girl, or at least as much as she could turn what with Inuyasha pinning her to ground and all.

An old man, accompanied with twelve guards, was walking towards Inuyasha and Kagome.

"Jii-chan?" Kagome groaned. She slumped in defeat.

"Kagome! What are you doing out of the house?" the old man said, his voice laced with worry.

"Being pinned to the ground?" Kagome muttered darkly.

Inuyasha hastily released Kagome and pulled her up. The girl shot him a dirty look before turning to her grandfather.

"Gomen nasai jii-chan," Kagome said quietly.

"Sir," one of the guards said in a low voice. "We had better head inside where it's safer."

The old man nodded and two guards grabbed Kagome by her arms and escorted her back to the manor.

"You come as well boy," the old man said in a tone Inuyasha couldn't decipher. Was he in trouble or were they grateful for his performance in protecting Kagome?

Inuyasha followed the rest of the guards and the old man back to the manor. He was curious to see what the inside of the manor would look like, but he was more worried about what was in store for him inside the manor.

"Have a seat, Mr Takahashi."

Inuyasha sat down on one of the plush leather sofas. He had expected to be dragged into the office of Mr Higurashi, but he was surprised to be seating in a living room. Mr Higurashi took a seat across Inuyasha, staring with curiosity.

A maid stepped into the room carrying a silver tray with a pot of coffee. The maid placed the tray onto the coffee table in-between the men before bowing and making her exit. The aged man reached over and poured some of the coffee into a mug.

"Coffee?"

"No thank you."

Mr Higurashi took a sip of the coffee and then continued to stare at Inuyasha. The only sound now was the sound of the old grandfather clock in the corner, ticking away.

"May I ask why I'm here sir?" Inuyasha asked nervously after a few seconds.

The old man smiled and Inuyasha closed his mouth. Obviously, this was one of those moments where you wouldn't find out what was going to happen till after it happened.

"I think you know," Mr Higurashi replied.

Inuyasha cocked his head slightly, pondering over what the man had just said. His thoughts were disrupted by a timid knock on the large oak doors.

"Come in," Mr Higurashi said pleasantly.

The doors opened and a beautiful girl stepped into the room. She was wearing a white dress with spaghetti straps. The skirt reached just above her knees and was layered. Her long black haired with the dark blue highlights was placed into a loose bun. She was beautiful and resembled…well, her.

The girl bowed and walked into the room and took a seat next to the old man.

"Well, since we're all present now, I might tell you why you're here, Mr Takahashi."

Inuyasha starred curiously at the girl, who was staring at her lap blushing. Why did she look so familiar? Why did she look like her?

"My granddaughter is in need of a bodyguard. Unfortunately, none have been able to connect with her like Kouga did. When my granddaughter takes a dislike in a bodyguard, she tends to, well, she is rather picky about who protects her.

"A lot of men today would never risk his life to protect someone from a bullet."

"Your point sir?"

"I want to hire you as a bodyguard for my granddaughter."

Inuyasha gaped. No way…is this guy kidding? Why the hell would I want to protect that…girl everyday!

"No!"

He looked up to see the girl standing up. That was when he saw it. It was that Kagome girl. Well, she looked more like a girl now.

"Y-you're Kagome!" Inuyasha yelped jumping up as well. Now he could see why people said she was beautiful.

"Who the hell did you think I was?" Kagome shouted.

Inuyasha opened his mouth to say something, but saw her grandfather staring at them with a smile tugging at his lips.

"Keh. Does it matter?"

Kagome turned to her grandfather with a face that said only held one thing: anger. "Why him jii-chan?" the girl protested, reminding Inuyasha of a five-year-old couldn't get what she wanted. "Couldn't you have picked anyone else?"

"He risked his life to protect you earlier, and he didn't even know who you were by the looks of it," her grandfather replied calmly.

Kagome was about to protest but looked down at her grandfather's glare.

"Well, it's settled then," the old man said clapping his hands with a smile.

"Hey! Don't I have a say in this?" Inuyasha suddenly shouted. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Kagome relax slightly. "What if I don't want to protect the wench?"

The old man smiled. "Come with me, Inuyasha, and we'll discuss the terms in my office."

Kagome stared in horror as she watched her grandfather take her new bodyguard away.

Kagome paced nervously to and fro in her room. She was secretly hoping that this Takahashi guy refused the job. She did not want him to be her bodyguard. So what if he did save her life earlier? He pinned her on the ground afterwards. True he didn't know who she was at that time and she probably did look like an intruder, but that's still no reason to attack a girl! Who was dressed like a boy…

Kagome groaned and sat down on a chair. Damn…he was going to take the job – she knew it. Damn it.

There was a knock on her door. Kagome's eyes widened. Please let it be jii-chan saying that he needs to find me another bodyguard. Please!

Kagome timidly walked over to her door and turned the handle. The person on the other side burst through the door, almost knocking Kagome off her feet. She stepped back and saw Inuyasha surveying the room.

"You!" she gasped. "What are you doing in my room?" she snapped stressing the word 'my'.

Inuyasha smirked. "I'm your new body guard."

"I kind of figured that," Kagome said raising an eyebrow and crossing her arms. "I guess you're the kind of guy that's interested in money."

"What?"

"This job that you've just taken is a total bore. All you get to do now is escort me to the mall so I can hang out with my friends."

Inuyasha opened his mouth to comment but Kagome smirked and continued.

"In a way, I'm sort of glad you decided to be my bodyguard. It means that now I can get out of the house and hang out with my friends. I've also been missing a lot of archery lessons and I haven't been out shopping in ages."

"Maybe if you weren't so picky with your bodyguards, you would be able to go out more often," Inuyasha commented leaning against the wall.

Kagome ignored him. "Your room is across the hall," she said glaring into his dark eyes. He didn't move, much to Kagome's disappointment. "So take a hint and get out."

Inuyasha's gaze narrowed into a glare before he stalked out of the room. Kagome gave her door a reassuring slam as he left, making her smile. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad after all.

"Oi! Inuyasha! Wake up!"

Inuyasha groaned and buried his head under the mountain of pillows lying on his king-sized bed. There were some good aspects of moving into a huge manor: a large bed with tons of pillows, for instance.

"Another five minutes mum," Inuyasha murmured as someone began hitting his back. Whoever wanted him awake sure sounded desperate.

"All right! I'm up!" Inuyasha shouted throwing off his blanket and a couple of pillows.

He groggily opened his eyes to see who had woken him from his sleep, only to see a bouncing, bubbly girl with a little boy by her side.

"Huh?" he yawned, stretching his arms.

"I'm Souta! Remember me? We met during dinner last night," the little boy squeaked.

That's right, Inuyasha thought rubbing his eyes sleepily. He was not a morning person. Who could forget this kid's voice? I can't wait to see what happens when his voice breaks.

"O yeah, I remember you, kid," Inuyasha said climbing out of bed. "Why'd you wake me up before ten? Hell, it's not even seven!"

"We have school," Kagome remarked darkly. "You have to drive me to school and you have to join me as well."

"What? Aren't you safe in your school?" Inuyasha groaned shuffling to his wardrobe. The Higurashi's had sent someone to his apartment and had brought all his clothes and belongings to the manor. They also had folded and placed them neatly in his room.

"What if I were to play hooky?" Kagome suggested. "I could get kidnapped."

"Gee," Inuyasha said sarcastically rolling his eyes, "it sounds so like you to play hooky. Why, you're the model for the rebel bad girl."

Kagome threw a pillow at him, but Inuyasha dodged it with incredible speed that almost looked, well, unhuman.

"Don't try that again wench," Inuyasha spat grabbing a pair of jeans and a shirt.

"You have a uniform, and don't call me wench," Kagome added. "Your uniform is in the closet."

"I have a uniform?" Inuyasha cried. "Who the hell came up with that crap idea?"

"Me," Kagome replied smugly.

Inuyasha pulled at the tie around his neck. Damn that stupid wench. Uniforms? Just when you thought the job couldn't get any worse, the wench had to make it sound so much better. This had better be worth it.

"Stop fidgeting."

Inuyasha looked to his right and saw Kagome staring out of the window of the limo.

"What?"

"Stop fidgeting," the girl repeated. She removed her gaze from the tinted windows to her dark green school skirt. She smoothed out a wrinkle and tugged at her blouse.

"Stop fidgeting," Inuyasha mimicked.

Kagome shot him a glare and continued to look out of the window. She wasn't smiling – in fact she looked worried.

"What's wrong?" Inuyasha asked nervously.

"Why? Curious?" Kagome asked turning to him.

"Not really," Inuyasha said casually.

"I…I don't know," Kagome lied. Inuyasha could tell she wasn't being completely honest with him. He wasn't going to bother her. So what if she wanted to be isolated? It was her fault that she wouldn't have another person in the world to comfort her.

The limo came to a slow stop. Inuyasha looked out through the dark window and saw a large school full of chattering students. Damn…this brought back awful memories.

Kagome stepped out of the car quietly and looking rather depressed. Inuyasha stared at her back as the girl began tottering into the school yard.

He jogged to catch up with her, realising that he was her bodyguard and he was supposed to protect her, and fell into step with her.

"Do you hate school that much?"

"What?" she whispered to the ground. "I love school!"

"Then why do you look like you would rather be anywhere else in the world but here?"

Before Kagome could reply, three girls ran up to Kagome with grinning faces.

"Kagome-chan!" one of the girls screamed. She had thick wavy hair. The other two girls had short hair, but one had a yellow hair band in her hair.

"Ayumi, Yuka, Eri-chan!" Kagome said happily, her face plastered with a cheerful one. Inuyasha stared at her face, amazed at how she could change it from one emotion to the other in a split second without leaving a trace behind.

"Where have you been?" Yuka asked.

"Jii-chan refused to let me out of the house until I got a new bodyguard. Speaking of which, this is Inuyasha Takahashi, my new bodyguard."

The three girls began giggling and one of them whispered something into Kagome's ear. Kagome blushed in response.

Why do I have this feeling like they are talking about me? Inuyasha thought darkly as the bell rang.

He followed the four gossiping girls to their classroom. The girls seemed deep into a conversation about some guy named Hojou and how he was constantly asking for Kagome.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. Obviously this 'Hobo' was blind because Kagome was not beautiful.

Defiantly not beautiful. Not even remotely pretty.

When will this day end? This was the reason why I avoided a teaching career. Who wants to get out of school and then get back into school? Inuyasha thought picking at a cotton fluff on his new black blazer. He felt like he was part of the Men In Black with his black suit, only he didn't get a cool name like Will Smith did, or any cool gadgets…or a cool car either.

"Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha blinked. Damn that Kagome, interrupting his fantasies of killing aliens.

"What do you want wench?"

Kagome glared at him. "Class is over."

The two walked out of the now empty classroom into the crowded corridors.

"You know, I could have left you standing there like and idiot," Kagome commented as they walked side by side.

"You wouldn't have," Inuyasha smirked. "If you did, you would be risking your life. I doubt you would want to die on your first day back in quite a while."

"Oh ha, ha," Kagome snapped. "You know I'm quite capable of looking after myself. I've spent the last month trying to convince my grandfather that I am safe and that -"

Kagome stopped short. She gave a grunt as she landed onto her butt. It appeared while she was talking to Inuyasha, she had forgotten to look where she was going and had crashed into a boy.

"Gomen Higurashi!"

Inuyasha and Kagome's gaze snapped to the light haired boy with the kind face. Inuyasha almost gagged. The boy had a strange look in his eye (no, it wasn't creepy, more like love) and he was making Kagome blush.

Geez, is this girl falling over this nut job? Inuyasha thought resisting a choke.

"H-Hojou-kun?" Kagome stammered.

The boy pulled Kagome up and dropped down to his knees to pick up her books. He handed her a slightly messy pile of books.

"I heard you were back, Higurashi," Hojou said smiling bashfully. Inuyasha was finding it hard to suppress the gag now.

"Yeah," Kagome said casually straightening her pile of books.

"You got a new bodyguard?" Kagome nodded. "What happened to the other one? Um…what was his name? Koda?"

"Um…it doesn't matter Hojou," Kagome said suddenly, her voice going slightly pale. "I-I have to go!"

Before either the bodyguard or the love-struck teenager could react, the girl bolted down the corridor, skilfully dodging the many number of students in her way.

"Are you sure she's back at school?"

"Two limos left the shrine this morning – one for the boy and the other one for the girl."

"But wouldn't she have a bodyguard?"

One of the men nodded. "But she will abandon him. That girl is very predictable. Are you ready?"

"Hai."

"Here she comes."

Author's Note: Cliffie! I know, I hate them as well, but its fun sometimes.

Thank you to my kind reviewers! Thank you ScariMoi, Priestessmykala and SELUSIVE ENIGMA for being my only reviewers. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.