Disclaimer- Sorry I had to change the title...but Inu ain't mine
Chapter 31- You can't Take me Away!
The sun was hardly able to be seen as two figures now waited anxiously in front of the camp, looking anywhere but the other person. The first brushed her ebony hair from her face, trying to keep her hands occupied. The other, who was less fidgety, simply stared at the road in front of them. Neither said a word, as if they were alone with the slightly cool breeze.
As for the rising sun, it seemed to hide from the tension that sizzled in the air. Covered by clouds, the dark day creating a whole new set of shivers to run down Kagome's back. She bit her lip lightly before glancing back at the road, sighing when no car came into her view. Inuyasha seemed to mirror her actions, though for a completely different reason. His mind wandered towards the morning, when he had tried to clean the entire cabin before the others work up.
His attempt hit the fan. Literally. When he had gotten mad at the piles upon piles of clothes that were scattered across the floor, Inuyasha had irritably thrown one of Miroku's shirts into the fan, causing it to deflect and hit the owner in the face. Needless to say, Miroku had gotten a quick awakening, falling out of the bed and knocking over the set of clothes that Inuyasha had tried to fold.
Through much persuasion, Inuyasha had unwillingly passed his duty of cleaning the cabin for Kagome's mom off to Kouga and Miroku, who promised that the cabin would look fine. Trying to determine what the two considered 'fine', Inuyasha could only imagine the disgusted look on Kagome mom's face as she stepped into filth. What really bothered him was how he could already see the disappointed look Kagome gave him when they exited the cabin, making his heart ache.
But it's not like she's judging the camp by how MY cabin looks, I'm only a small part of this whole thing. Besides, even if the room is a mess, I don't really give a damn. I'm only doing this because Kagome has to leave if her mom isn't convinced.
Inuyasha had given up a long time ago in trying to keep his feelings at bay, though that didn't mean he would be the fountain of emotions. Mountains would move before anyone else found out his thoughts, much less hear them from his lips. As far as he was concerned, the only person who needed to know was himself. The others could try to pin him with as many feelings as they liked, but he would never agree with them.
Kagome was nervous for a completely different reason. As she let her eyes move back to Inuyasha for what seemed the thousandth glance, the same question popped into her head. Will mom like Inuyasha? She couldn't detach her teeth from the bottom of her mouth if someone used the Jaws of Life on her. Uneasiness could be seen on her face without even looking.
Even though Kagome and her mother had gotten into a fight before the camp, she still loved her more than anything. Her mother was one of the most important people in her life, and she wouldn't think twice about taking her own life for her mother. She had been there though everything, even when Naraku had cheated on Kagome. And her opinion of Inuyasha was soon becoming more important to Kagome than the true reason for her mom coming to the camp.
What bothered her more than anything was that Inuyasha hadn't said one word to her other than 'see ya', which had been the night before. His blush had been slightly darker than most moments of embarrassment when she sent him a smile before walking back into the cabin. After getting bombarded with questions from her friends, Kagome forced herself to sleep, but not before thanking every god she could think of.
But when morning came, it seemed Inuyasha couldn't keep his eyes on anything other than the ground, which was slowly becoming obvious. He had come in the morning, slightly before the time of her mother's planned arrival. Never saying a word, the two had managed to fight off lingering webs of sleep while moving to the front of the camp, where they now stood in silence.Surprisingly, Kagome was more concerned about Inuyasha's thoughts at the moment than the decision her mother was planning to make. Though it was very important to Kagome, worrying over it didn't seem to take a huge part of her mind up, even as her heartbeat raced. Knowing that the kiss they had shared was not just a strange dream, she didn't have a clue as to where they went from there. Were they still friends? Did he want anything more than that? Would he talk to her before camp was over? And why wouldn't he look at her!
Getting tired to Inuyasha's childish antics, Kagome reached over and pulled one of her own. Grabbing the skin of his arm, Kagome pinched it between her fingers, receiving a comforting response.
"Ow! What'd the hell you do that for!" He asked, glaring over at her. She sighed in comfort, shaking her head slightly.
"No reason." She replied. A blank expression stretched across his face.
"What makes you think you can just pinch someone like that? Especially when I didn't even do anything! I hauled my ass out of bed in order to come wake you up and walk your slow butt over here, and that's the thanks I get? I don't see you pinching Sango or Miroku, and they didn't even bother to come!"
"Well that's because they're too busy cleaning up the cabins. Besides, I told them not to come." Another emotionless expression passed on his face as she giggled.
"So you're telling me that you just didn't 'inform' me that I didn't have to come?"
"No, of course you had to come. If you hadn't, then I would have been lonely."
"Isn't that what a best friend is for? I'm sure Sango would have been much easier to greet your mom with, at least Sango knows her." Kagome smiled slightly as Inuyasha finally moved his gaze back towards the road.
"Are you nervous?" She asked slowly, moving to stand closer to him. Though the sun was rising, the cold of morning still got to her. She shivered slightly, pulling her jacket closer to her.
"You really are stupid sometimes, you know that? Your flimsy jacket isn't going to keep you warm at all." Swinging his arm around Kagome, he pulled the girl closer to him before muttering to himself. "I swear I wonder if she has a brain."
"Hey, I can hear you! I do have a brain, and it's much bigger than yours." She said, crossing her arms.
"Oh really? The day you're smarter than you is the day Kouga becomes Queen of England!"
"Well then you better start kissing his feet, because he's getting the crown pretty soon." Inuyasha glared at her, receiving the same treatment from Kagome. A soft laugh entered the air, causing the teens to tear away from their argument.
"If you wanted to stay for this, then I would have to say you have a much stranger idea of fun than I assumed." A women in her thirties now leaned against a deep red car, smiling at the two. Her brown eyes were shining in amusement as she sighed, laughing once again when Kagome started to shout.
"Mom! I'm not staying here for him!" Kagome's blushed before she moved away from Inuyasha and walked towards the older woman, immediately being enveloped in a hug. She smiled brightly when her mother pulled away.
"Well I wouldn't blame you if he was the reason, he's a cutie." Though her mother whispered to Kagome, Inuyasha's face darkened with color as he moved his weight between his feet. "Well, are you going to introduce us, or are you going to leave me to wonder?"
"Mom, this is Inuyasha." Kagome managed to move back to Inuyasha, grabbing his arm and pulling him towards her mother. Without thinking, Inuyasha pulled himself out of her grasp.
"I have two legs and a heart beat (Anyone remember when he said this? Whoever answers it right gets a shout out in my next chapter!) I think I can manage walking to your mom." He said, keeping his voice calm even as Kagome raised hers.
"You know you don't have to be such a jerk all the time." He ignored her comment as he looked up at her mother, awkwardly crossing his arms.
"It's nice to meet you Inuyasha. You can just call me Ayomi, though I doubt I'll be seeing much of you today. Kagome told me about Rin's tour around the camp."
"You're letting Rin take her around?" Inuyasha looked back at Kagome, who nodded slowly. He nodded slightly before returning to Ayomi. "She's a really responsible counselor, much better than mine. Probably one of the best there is around here actually. Kagome's lucky to have her."
"You mean you actually like Rin?" Kagome asked, shocked at the information.
"She's one of the only people who actually gets me. We usually talk now and then when we're not doing any activities."
"I just learn something new every day." Kagome said humorously, laughing at her own joke. Inuyasha fought back his smile as he kept his gaze lingering longer than should be allowed.
"Alright mom, I should probably bring you over to where Rin told me to meet her." Kagome glanced up at the sky, her smile disappearing at the sight of dark grey clouds. "Let's hope the rain holds out until the end of the tour."
"I'm sure it will." Ayomi said, keeping her eyes on Inuyasha. "It was really nice meeting you; I hope we get to see each other again."
"Um...nice to meet you too." Inuyasha's words came out slowly, as if unsure how to respond. In all honesty, he was trying hard not to burst. This couldn't be the same woman who refused to let Kagome stay. She was so nice, and yet it wasn't an act or charade. Why wouldn't she let Kagome stay?
"I'll meet you back at your cabin, Oka?" Kagome grabbed her mother's hand, walking away from Inuyasha and moving towards the counselor's cabin. She only prayed that the day would not end as sour as the weather.
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"Jesus, it's raining cats and dogs out there! How could anyone stand to be in such crappy weather?" Kouga shivered slightly before pulling Kikyo closer to him, burying his face into her hair. She rolled her eyes at the action, though didn't stop him.
"I don't know, I kind of like the rain." Sango replied, gazing out the window which was now being slammed by rain.
"I only like it in the summer. It's always so hot; it's nice to be able to run through a giant sprinkler now and again." Miroku placed his impute on the topic into the air, glancing at Sango. He only was able to look for a short time before he met her own eyes. Locking eyes for a brief second, Miroku casually looked towards the couple, who was now staring at them.
"Sometimes I wonder..." At Kikyo's unfinished thought, Miroku's eyebrow quirked up.
"You mean you can actually take your mind off Kouga and shopping?"
"Was that supposed to be funny? Because, Miroku, I frankly thought it was uncalled for." Kikyo said, pouting slightly.
"Look he's sorry, and would love to know about what you were thinking." Sango saved Miroku from a tantrum, knowing she would have to endure the high screams too.
"I was just going to say I'm having a hard choice deciding about whose going to get together first, you two or the other idiots." Kikyo explained, watching the two faces in front of her light up. Feeling extremely evil, she pushed on. "I mean, both couples act like they're already going out. It seems only natural that they're going to get together before the end of the camp. What do you think, Kouga?"
"Well if I had to bet, I'd say that Kagome and dog breath would hook up first. I mean, these two have been in the same spot for the past three weeks. At least Inuyasha and Kagome have made some progress." Kouga paused, as if considering his decision. "Yea, I bet ten bucks that Inuyasha and Kagome get together first."
"But what about the stubbornness factor? They wouldn't push past that to ask each other. Nope, I'm saying Sango and Miroku." Sango's face felt on fire as she covered it with the closest thing around her. Sadly, it only added to the situation. "See, they're cuddling already."
"Uh...Sango?" As if Miroku was an inferno, Sango pushed herself away from him, staring at him with horrified eyes.
"I'm sorry!" She said, covering her cheeks with her hands. He glanced at her, trying to send her a calming smile. He wasn't too confident it had helped her.
"Its fine, don't worry about it." He kept his smile even as he placed his arm around her waist, pulling her back to him. Keeping his arm in place, he moved his eyes from Sango to Kikyo and Kouga. "So, what were we talking about again?"
Scene Change
"I'm worried." At the awkward sentence, Inuyasha glanced over at Kagome, who was staring out the window of the cafeteria.
"What for, we already saw your mom and Rin go into the counselor cabin. They aren't in the storm, they're fine." Over a half hour ago, Inuyasha had spotted the two women running through the rain and into the cabin. Since both Kagome and Inuyasha had been instructed to stay in the cafeteria, they didn't know if the tour had been cut short or not.
"I'm not worried about them; I'm worried about what my mom thinks of this place." Slowly moving away from the glass of the window, Kagome made her way back to Inuyasha, stopping in front of him. She didn't sit, making him look up at her. "What if she tells me that I can't stay?"
"Then you go home, that's what you were planning to do last night anyways. You go home and then wait for the summer to end so that you can see Sango again." Inuyasha replied, blinking when she shook her head. "What do you mean no?"
"I mean I don't want to wait until the end of the summer. There is still a good three weeks of this camp left, I don't want to go home yet." She paused for a moment before she stared at the floor. "I can't leave yet; I'm not done with being happy."
"What the hell are you rambling about?" Although his words were harsh, Inuyasha gently pulled Kagome to sit on one of his legs, moving her head so she could look at him while he spoke. "You don't need a camp to be happy. This isn't what makes you want to stay; it's the people that are here. And three of those people you go to school with anyways. You'll see them all when this all ends."
"But what about the other two? You and Miroku don't go to my school; I'll never get to see you!" Her voice seemed strained. "I knew Kikyo and Sango before this, why would you think that was why this place made me happy?"
"Kagome, stop worrying about what's going to happen Oka?" He said, sending her a confident smile. "Besides, me and Miroku can break into your school any time you want us to. Remember, Miroku's got someone in that school that he couldn't live without now. So you're always going to be connected to us."
"How can you be so sure? What if it all doesn't turn out how you're saying it will?" His eyes held pain, even when his smirk filled with contentment.
"It's not like you're dieing or anything, so don't make it sound so final. If I knew you were going to be so dramatic, I would have hauled you into your mother's car myself." A laugh bubbled passed Kagome's lips.
"You know, when I first came here I thought that this was going to be the worst summer of my life. Now I'm fighting just to stay here. What a twist in the plot, huh?" Inuyasha nodded slightly.
"Hold you breath, here they come." Kagome looked at the door, which was now opening to reveal the two women. Kagome made a move to leave Inuyasha's side, though the tightening of the arm around her waist stopped her from leaving. She soon realized that this action was for the better, because she leaned back against him, feeling her nerves rest.
"You two actually did what I told you. I'm surprised." Rin smiled before moving to sit in front of the two teens, looking back at Ayomi. "Are you ready to tell them what you've decided to do?"
"Yes, I believe so." Ayomi sat beside Rin, crossing her legs and looking at Kagome. "Kagome, Rin was able to show me most of the camp before the rain started, which left me with a different view of the camp."
"I had a feeling that you would think that if you actually came here." Kagome laughed, and if Inuyasha wasn't able to feel her shaking, he'd think she was calmer.
"The matter at hand right now is whether I believe you should stay or come home with me." Ayomi seemed to pause before glancing at Inuyasha. "The people at the camp all greeted me nicely, including some of your own camp friends."
"They knew you were coming, we told them in advance so they wouldn't be so surprised." Inuyasha replied.
"Well they did a wonderful job on the cabins, they looked really good." Rin said, though an unusual expression crossed her face. It was hard to decipher, and Inuyasha had never seen her like this before.
"Mom, what does this all mean?" Kagome finally asked, unconsciously placing one of her hands over Inuyasha's arm. The room fell silent for a moment before Ayomi spoke again.
"Even though the camp was really nice, I just don't feel safe with you here anymore. I've decided to take you back home with me." Kagome's eyes widened slightly, her hand on Inuyasha's arms tightening in shock.
"Wh-what?" The voice that sprouted from Kagome's lips was hardly a whisper as her stare filled with horror.
"Your mother thinks it's best if you go home with her and don't complete the course of the camp with the rest of the campers." Rin stood up, sending the same look from before towards the two shocked teenagers. "I'll go get the paperwork in order for you to sign her out of the camp program."
"Thank you." Once Rin had left the cafeteria, Ayomi looked back at her daughter. "I hope you know that this is only because I'm worried about you."
"This isn't real; you're not really taking me out of the camp, right?" Kagome's plead went unanswered before her stomach drop. Her eyes became glistened with tears before she shook her head. "Mom, you can't do this to me!"
"I'm really sorry; I just can't let you stay here. I don't feel sa-"
"But what about what I want! What if I wanted to stay here? I don't want to go back until the end of camp; you can't do this to me!"
"Kagome, you will drop your tone now." Her mother's voice was calm, it had not changed from what she had been using before, but her eyes could clearly show she was serious. "I am your mother, and you will do as I say. This camp is not safe; I will not put my daughter in danger. Do you understand what I am saying?"
"Mom..." Kagome's voice trailed before she closed her eyes, turning her head away from Ayomi and leaning into Inuyasha. She tried not to cry in front of Inuyasha, knowing that more tears had been shed in front of him than she had ever dropped in her life. Feeling her heart cry in protest, Kagome took a deep breath before pushing away slightly, looking up at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha was not looking at either women, but out of the window that still showed the rain pouring down. His breathing was erratic, though it was easily concealed from the serene look on his face. Though his lips were straight with no emotion, a ball of feelings surged into his body. He was too shocked to try and fight them.
He had tried to be supportive for Kagome's sake, given her steps to take if her mother had made her leave. But he was too wound up to realize that when she left, he wouldn't be going with her. There wouldn't be anything left for them to hold on to, he was losing more than he could have ever imagined. She really was one of my only true friends, and I never got to tell her the truth about me...
Kagome's breath hitched when violent brown eyes glanced down at her. He moved both hands to her face, capturing her cheeks in his hands. Too pent up with frustration, Inuyasha didn't bother waiting until they were out of Ayomi's sight before leaning down and roughly capturing Kagome's lips. Kagome couldn't help but feel a tear in her heart as she willingly returned the intimate gesture, closing her eyes to let two tears stream down her face.
I can't believe I didn't see it sooner...he may be arrogant and mean, and of course he's always stubborn, but...I...Kagome gasped slightly before regretfully pulling away. She stood and ran towards the door, ignoring both Inuyasha and Ayomi's calls. Sobbing as she threw the door open, Kagome pushed herself into the rain, ignoring the chill she received as she ran.
It doesn't matter anymore; I don't care what happens to me! She's taking me away from all of this, when I finally found something, I finally found someone...
"And I didn't even tell him..." She closed her eyes and stopped, screaming up at the sky. Thunder accompanied her shout. Feeling her knees give out, she slowly fell to the soft ground, placing her hands in front of her. She tried to keep her breathing from wavering as she closed her eyes.
"You was always there for me, you never let me down. And...it just hurts so much to leave you because..." She let herself sob for a moment, feeling her heart clench painfully in her chest when she took a deep breath. "Because I...I love you Inuyasha!"
Oh my gosh! Who would ever leave this chapter in an ending like that! Who ever does that must be really really EVIL and cruel!...looks around hee hee...I mean...that's the chapter for you! Oka Oka, so I didn't update as soon as I usually do, sorry about that! But anyways...What will Kagome do now? What's Inuyasha reaction to all of this? Will Kouga become the queen of England! We must know!
Chapter 32- A Final Warning
