"Where are we?" Kagome asked.
"Welcome to my house." Was his simple reply.
Kagome slowly stepped inside the fairly large house. It wasn't furnished beautifully, but it looked pretty cool. They seemed to be in the livingroom. It had one black love seat and one blood red couch. The blinds were closed even though its was pretty much pitch black outside. There didn't seem to be many lights inside and only one small dim lamp was on the middle of the coffee table. She slipped off her shoes so she could go in and get a better look around and InuYasha also pulled off his black lace-up boots and walked in. Kagome surveyed the room. It looked pretty homey. Suddenly a question popped into her head and she mentally kicked herself for not thinking of it earlier.
"Hey, why didn't you take me to my house?"
"I don't know where you live." He said like that explained everything.
"But you could've just asked!"
"Well, we had all those guys following us so if you went home they might have followed you there."
"Thanks then." Kagome said with a small smile.
"I was actually thinking that you might have to stay here for a little bit now that they've seen your
face." He said
"So what if they saw my face? That doesn't matter."
"Well, they saw your face and you were seen with me. Their group is out to kill me. If you were with me then they're gonna try to kill you too."
"You're kidding me right? But my mom is probably gonna start to worry about me! I'm supposed to be home soon!" Kagome said starting to worry.
"You can just phone her, I do have a phone you know." InuYasha said as he flipped out his cell phone. "Or you can use the home phone if you want, doesn't make a difference to me."
"Yea, but what do I tell her? Oh, hi mom! I was chased by some maniac with a gun and I was saved by a complete stranger and now I'm gonna spend the night with him. Is that okay with you?"
"You might need to stay like 2 weeks if you ask me."
"2 WEEKS? I have school y'know!"
"Well I could give you a ride there.And could ya keep it down a little bit? There are others asleep in this house."
"Ugh...I'm not gonna win this am I? How many others and what time is it?"
"Um... It probably like 11"
"11 already? Here, pass me that phone, I guess I'll have to phone my mom.. I'll just tell her I'm staying at Ayumi's"
InuYasha tossed the phone to her and she almost didn't catch it. She gave a glare towards InuYasha as he held in a laugh at the way Kagome almost dropped the phone and the look on her face. She dialed her number and put the small phone up to her ear. It rang twice before a small voice answered it.
"Hello, Higurashi residence, Souta speaking."
"Souta? Why are you up so late and why are you being so polite?"
"Oh, hi Kagome. I'm always polite, just not to you and it's the weekend remember?"
"Oh yeah! Okay! Put Mom on."
"Fine, whatever. Just a sec."
She heard some rustles in the background and her younger brother calling their mother. After what seemed to be a long time but really wasn't, a voice came into Kagome's ear.
"Hello?"
"Hey Mom, it's me."
"Kagome, where are you? I've been really worried. Why didn't you phone earlier?"
"Um...I'm at Ayumi's and we started to watch a movie and I totally lost track of time. Sorry."
"I have been sitting here waiting for you to phone. It's not like you to do this, you always make sure to tell me where you are and I think you should--"
"I know, I know but coming to the reason why I phoned you,I was wondering if I could--" Kagome started but never really got to finish her sentence.
"Don't you interrupt me, and let me guess...You want to sleep-over, right? You always make arrangements at last minute... Try starting to warn me first, okay?"
"But it's okay with you right?" Kagome said while kinda hoping it was a no so she had an excuse to go home.
"I guess so, but don't ever do this again, okay?"
"Fine, I won't. I'll see you later then I guess, love you" she sighed.
"I love you too, now don't stay up too late and tell Ayumi I said hi, okay?"
"Okay, bye."
Kagome flipped the cell phone closed and looked up the guy standing across the room staring at her, waiting to hear the reply.
"She said it's okay."
"Good,because I was gonna make you stay whether she said yes or not."
"Yeah, whatever, I'm just wondering though.." she walked around the stand in front of him as she spoke "how am I gonna stay here for so long with not one bit of my stuff, even if I pick some up tomorrow, I have nothing for tonight."
"Well, you could alway's use Sango's stuff..." InuYasha scratched his head as he began to think "but she would pulverize me if I went into her room at his time 'cause she's probably asleep right now.. I guess you could borrow something off me?" he said like he was asking her as he stared at her.
Kagome just sat down on the couch, the comfy, fluffy couch, as she began to think of all that just happened to her. Why was she going along with all of this? Why didn't she just go home, go to sleep, and forget this ever happened?
'Because this is what you were dreaming...This is your dream, and you can't turn back now.'
She put her head in her hands and leaned onto her legs as she began to drown in her thoughts. She needed to figure out what she was gonna do. Kagome didn't know whether she could trust this guy or not. He seemed to have pure intentions, didn't he?
"Sure, I guess so." She said out loud while she began to stand up.
"Okay, then follow me." he answered her while turning around and walking through the kitchen and then down a long hallway.
Kagome hurried after him and stared around at the house around her. It was decorated similar to the livingroom, with all the drapes and blinds pulled tightly closed.
Kagome was so absorbed in looking at everything around her she didn't even notice that InuYasha had stopped walking and stopped in front of a door. She bumped into him lightly and suddenly snapped back into reality as she looked up at him.
"This is my room, if you don't mind I guess you'll have to sleep in here since, like I said earlier, Sango is in bed, and I really don't feel like getting her all pissy at me tonight."
Kagome only nodded as he opened the door and they started to walk in. His bedroom was plain and simple, but looked really nice at the same time.
"Here, I guess you can sleep in this... Sorry, it might be a little big..lemme just find you something to wear on the bottom." InuYasha said as he chucked a shirt at Kagome and continued to root through drawers of clothes.
She opened up the shirt to find it a plain hunter green T-shirt with a gold sun on the top left part of it.
Suddenly something else was flung at her... A pair of boxer shorts.
"Boxers...?"
"Sorry, it's the best I can give you, I'm not used to having to lend my clothes to girls."
"Thanks then." Kagome smiled. "Um, where do I change?"
"There's a bathroom across the hall, but be careful. One of the guy's who stays here is a major pervert... You'd probably be better off changing in the corner of this room, I'll turn around and cover my eyes."
She looked at him cautiously, not knowing whether or not to believe his words.
"Is there anywhere else I can change?"
"Not really, unless you wanna take the chance of being groped or something."
"Are you serious? Or are you just trying to ge tme to change in your room?" Kagome said almost accusingly.
"Me? I couldn't care less. It's you who should be caring, but whatever you wanna do."
"Fine, just turn around and don't look!"
InuYasha turned around and covered his eyes just to show her he was gonna peek. She just stood there for a minute actually wondering if she was gonna do this. After a while she heard InuYasha's impatient voice.
"You done yet?"
"Not yet."
"Well hurry up, I'm really tired and I wanna go to bed."
Kagome checked one last time that he was looking before she quickly pulled her shirt off and changed into the giant T-shirt, then quickly changed into the boxer shorts.
"You can turn around now."
"Finally."
He turned back around and almost laughed at how she looked. The T-shirt went down to her knees and you couldn't even see the boxers. It looked like she was wearing nothing but this huge, gigantic T-shirt.
"It's not that funny." Kagome said when she noticed the look on InuYasha's face.
"Hey, at least the green looks good on you.'
"Yeah, yeah, whatever... "
InuYasha pulled off his shirt and pants and in nothing but his boxers crawled into the nice, big, fluffy bed. As Kagome yawned and watched InuYasha get comfy athought popped into her head.
"Hey, where am I supposta sleep?"
"Um...Where else? The bed?"
"But you're in it!"
"Really? I never noticed that before. You got a problem with me wanting to sleep in my own bed?"
"Well I have to sleep there."
"So get in bed then. I'm going to sleep now and I don't feel like arguing any longer, so good night." He said as he turned over and stopped talking to her. Kagome grabbed her clothes off the floor, folded them and put them on the dresser. She made up her mind that she would sleep in the bed. I mean, how is it gonna hurt her? It wasn't. She gingerly got into the bed and lay on her side.
"Night." Was all she said.
"Night." Was his tired response.
As she closed her eyes, all she could think about was how did she end up in this kind of problem, and how was she going to solve it. Her eyes slowly started to droop as she was slowly losing her mind to the numbness of sleep.