Innocent Kisses in the Rain
September 15, 2004
Kagome walked down the near deserted street to get home. It was always like this when she neared the shrine. People were like that.
Kagome tossed her head back to enjoy the cool mid-afternoon breeze, closing her eyes contentedly, listening to her shoes clap against the concrete.
Wind whistled in her ears and puffed her hair back absurdly. The school girl uniform danced about her undeveloped hips.
Her misted, cocoa-in-the-snow eyes fizzed with calmness, shooting root beer sparks out at the slightly gray world.
Silence pervaded her senses, but Kagome wasn't disturbed. Sometimes silence was good...
But then, not when you could feel eyes upon your back, and hear the echoing of slightly muffled footsteps in your wake. Kagome was just about to whirl around when it happened...
GLOMP
Kagome yelled in fear and surprise as she tumbled to the ground, twisting to see the face of her predator.
"Good afternoon, 'Gome!" Said the familiar voice in her ear. "Sorry if I scared you." As if it wasn't obvious!
"Eri! You don't sneak up on people like that!" Kagome tried to keep the sting out of her voice but adrenaline rushed through her veins and her heart was still pounding in her ears in a most annoying fashion.
"Oh, Kagome! Don't be so paranoid!"
Eri was such a fool sometimes.
"Yuri and Ayumi are here too. Hey didn't want to do the dirty work." Eri tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear. She spoke so casually. As if dirty work was the most natural thing in all the world.
Kagome counted to ten and let out a gigantic sigh, massaging her eyes back from saucers to almonds.
'Don't glare. They really didn't want to kill you. It's okay Kagome...'
"So, what's up?" She tried to phrase the question in the most laid back, forgiving way possible, but her tone gave away her annoyance.
Of course, they were as oblivious as ever.
"He's cheating on you Kagome." Was the solemn, sunken, matter-of-fact answer from Yuri.
"Who is?" She acknowledged tiredly, carefully.
"You know who!" Yuri exclaimed at the same time that Eri whispered -
"Inuyasha."
Kagome blinked, puzzled. What?!?
"We've been apart for quite a while. He's allowed to do what he wants. He's not cheating on me." Kagome huffed. Is this what they knocked ten years off her life for?
"Kagome! Don't back down!" Eri chastised.
"It's okay to want him back." Ayumi spoke softly.
"Don't fight it, Kagome! We know you! And because you're the best friend in the world..."
A dramatic sigh from the three...
"We've hashed it out already, and... The first step is to become friends again." Eri opened her eyes and a slow, enlightened smile spread across her lips.
"Don't worry about a thing, Kagome-chan! You don't have to be sad anymore!" Ayumi giggled, hugging Kagome.
Kagome, meanwhile, was saucer-eyed all over again, caught between being shocked and appalled at her friends train of thought...
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September 17, 2004
Kagome listened absently to what the teacher was saying at the head of the class, staring into space...
"... This will most definitely be on your finals!" His voice rang out into her abstract thoughts.
Kagome blinked awake and looked in surprise at his wide hand gestures and enthusiastic explanations. Had she just paced out during class?
Turning bewildered eyes over to her nearest friend - Eri - she was met with a suggestive wink and grin. Kagome wasn't sure whether she should blush or seethe.
Her eyes found themselves flitting pleadingly to gentle Ayumi, who responded to her mental screaming much the same as Eri had.
Kagome sighed and twisted back to her notebook, full of little scribbles and half notes...
Sesshoumaru wouldn't misunderstand her this drastically - he would never make her world such a mess with such a playful air!
A vision of his honey amber eyes, pale skin, muscular, lanky body, and long silver-gold hair fluttering in wind before the swelling sunset made her breath catch. A hesitant, awkward smile tugged at his lips in sync with her own growing smile, his tall frame and natural beauty hurling her back into her dream world again.
Of course, that didn't go unnoticed by her friends, who took it much the wrong way...
And, of course, it didn't go unnoticed by the annoyed teacher, who promptly called her on it before asking he curtly to answer the question. Which she didn't know in the wake of moon-texture eyes...
Later on, that same day
Kagome finally complied to her friends ragging, walking briskly over to catch Inuyasha before he left. She had wanted to make amends and be friends with him again anyways.
"Inuyasha!" She called out cheerily, jogging up to catch him. He visibly tensed, but waited for her.
"Inuyasha." She smiled again, slowing into step with him.
He nodded nervously in return, too alienated to manage a glare... Which was frightening, when you thought about it.
"You wanna be friends again?" She cut right to the chase. Maybe it was her natural character that allowed her the courage to plunge so readily into such a remark and suggestion, or maybe it was her heart going to the defense, cold steel masking her true emotions as she put on a cheery façade for the occasion.
In all cases, he blinked in puzzlement, completely taken by surprise. He turned darkened honey eyes on her, and she hummed friendlily into the chilled air. She no longer saw Sesshoumaru behind Inuyasha's expressive eyes.
"Eh..." He began, and Kagome's eyes automatically clouded over.
"No? Would Kikyou be... So upset?" Her voice was almost a whimper, getting softer with each word, but gaining some self-preserving, numbing strength that she tried to bring to life in her voice as she felt her momentum leave her with a 'whoosh.'
"No!" Was his automatic response - almost a plea. "It's fine. I don't mind..." He blushed prettily at the words...
"So we're friends again?" She smiled happily, all the hurt melting to swirl back down her throat.
He nodded, embarrassed, and turned slightly away... She grinned and managed a breathtaking smile before turning to skip away.
'I wonder what Sesshoumaru will think?' She wondered to herself, her eyes alight with happiness. 'H won't mind!' She assured herself, smiling.
"We can all be friends." She spoke determined to herself.
Soon she had three friends on her tail once more.
"Step one, accomplished!" Eri exclaimed, hopping excitedly.
"Step two: Make him fall in love with you." Ayumi trilled...
This was their master plan?
Kagome rolled her eyes but bared their ramblings, favoring an image of the white clad figure saluted by smoldering flames of the waning sun...
October 31, 2004
It had been over a month since Inuyasha and Kagome had become friends again and since Kagome had realized her not-so-new interest in his older brother...
Inuyasha was strangely mature when she spoke to him nowadays, and he once told her that he was relieved to hear her voice after speaking so much to the 'clay pot devoid of all emotions' as Kikyou had so meanly been labeled (can you guess by which three individuals?)
So, Inuyasha had kindly been helping her steadily gain the favor of his brother, reporting strange, out-of-the-blue smiles and spacey-ness while Eri, Yuri and Ayumi still plotted to get Inuyasha and Kagome together and Inuyasha still suffered happily with Kikyou.
At the moment, Kagome was retrieving her Halloween costume from her closet, grinning as she anticipated the chilly jaunt that stretched before her this evening.
She would dress as a fairy. A fairy of several different shades. Like a human, only, different.
Kagome smiled as she stripped down and dressed up.
Later on, that same evening...
"Trick or treat!" They called out at once. A smile and a handful of candy rewarded their effortless charm and cuteness, and Kagome smiled happily as she skipped down the steps to go to the next house.
Sesshoumaru acted as cold chaperone while Inuyasha, Eri, Yuri, Ayumi and Hojo tumbled down the steps after Kagome, giggling madly.
Amongst the chaos of the little traveling party, Hojo was having silent, hidden, slightly perverted thoughts while admiring Kagome's cute costume...
Inuyasha was wondering whether he should wonder about Kikyou, gabber on with Kagome, or wolf down his candy while Sesshoumaru was tethered by pride and would not lower himself to exposing his sweet tooth in public...
Eri, Yuri and Ayumi were plotting quietly in the background, developing their 'get Kagome and Inuyasha together' scheme...
Sesshoumaru fought down a smile while Kagome grinned and told him all about what had happened that day in the classroom and afterwards...
Of course, everybody knew about the 'get Kagome and Inuyasha together' scheme, but they were enjoying it in silence, savoring it like a melting mint on the tongue.
Kagome couldn't be sure if Sesshoumaru was amused, but his amber eyes took on an odd glitter and he turned his head to scrutinize the ceiling when Kagome had giggled out the story in hysterics - and she MIGHT have seen a smile touch his lips for an instant.
Inuyasha - well, his reaction was clear. He was boyishly amused, bashing the three girls for being so naive and ridiculous - only laying off when Kagome had hit him playfully across the head. Then he had devised a counter-plan - to get Kagome and Sesshoumaru together. Thus far, his plan was more successful.
Of course, Hojo didn't know. But nobody knew why he was even in the loop in the first place. Weren't Eri, Yuri and Ayumi trying to hook Kagome up with Hojo a while back as well?
"Ai is such a ditzy girl!" Kagome grinned, her eyes shimmering beneath the moon's gleam. "She's so stupid!"
"And she's such a slut!" Yuri broke from their conversation to add into the remark disdainfully...
"Trick or treat!" Rang out down the street.
November 17, 2004
Kagome grinned at Sesshoumaru as she dragged him through the store.
"Red is for passion and love! Don't be ridiculous..." Kagome was saying. "You certainly don't need good luck for that!"
"I know what red stands for." Sesshoumaru grumbled absently...
"Se-shou-ma-ru!" Kagome emphasized each syllable -
"What?" He snapped irritably.
"Don't be such a baby!" She giggled. "If you want a pair of red sweat pants that badly, just get them!"
"I don't need red sweat pants!"
"Then what are we arguing about?"
"You're acting like a child, again. You know nothing of Feng Shui!"
"You're so weird!"
"I don't need good luck in love."
"My point exactly."
"Hn."
"Just saved you some yen, ne?" Kagome grinned.
"I made the decision..."
November 23, 2004
Dear Diary -
I've collected some interesting quotes, all coming from the mouth of ours truly!
"How do you feel about public hot springs, Sesshoumaru?" (Okay, this one was me...)
I think he might have blushed!
He's a traditionalist though. He said so -smiles-
November 26, 2004
"It's unhealthy to be yelling at inanimate objects."
That was when I through a wooden spoon across the room and told it that it was an incompetent fool.
I sounded just like Sesshoumaru!
November 27, 2004
"... He has a sweet tooth."
Revelation moment! Of course, it came from Inuyasha's mouth. Quotes are fun anyway!
November 28, 2004
I bought Sesshoumaru those red sweat pants.
I don't know how we got into that conversation, but he's so cute when he's seething!
All in all, a rather interesting time.
Talk to you later for now!