A/N: Hurrah! This is the ninth chapter, and yet the couple still haven't kissed. Wow. That's all that I can say. Wow. When do you think that they should kiss? Well, anyway, tell me what you guys think.
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Kagome: Well, what can we say? It's another chapter.
Sango: And still no Kilala
Jassy: Oh my gosh, I'm sorry. I swear the next time I start to review my writing, I'll put her in. I promise
Miroku: So do I get to go to the same village twice and meet all of the fair maidens again?
Jassy: -rolls her eyes- No Miroku, you get to go to Naraku's lair all by yourself and get yourself killed. Of Course you do!
Miroku: oh, phewph.
InuYasha: Quick question for ya though.
Jassy: What?
InuYasha: Why is it that the Kagome and Kouga scenes keep on getting longer and longer, yet mine keep on getting shorter and shorter? HELLO! I AM the main character here, aren't I? Isn't that why I have a show named after me?
Kagome: InuYasha, OSUWARI!
InuYasha: -falls two feet into cement- OoW!
.o0O0o. .o0O0o. Chapter nine
Family reunions over, now it's time to…
Meet the Friends. .o0O0o. .o0O0o.
Souta and Kouga had been playing video games all day long, whilst Kagome was out doing something unimportant to Souta. Kouga was too distracted by the little people inside of the screen to really concentrate on his woman.
Kouga, being completely new that anything electrical, was losing pathetically at the PS2 game. Even though Souta had grown up playing video games, and usually had no mercy towards his opponents, he decided to take it easy on Kouga, since he obviously likes his sister.
Hours later, when Kouga had finally gotten the game underwing, Souta stopped being so merciful towards hopefully Brother-In-Law. Just thinking that made Souta happy. Kouga did have a slight upper edge though, being a predator himself, and easily found all of the weaknesses and flaws in Souta's oh-so-high-and-mighty playing abilities. Souta was kind of mad at Kouga, but Kouga gave Souta's hair a slight ruffle, and laid back onto the bed. Images of Kagome flooded to his mind.
Kouga gave a soft groan. He would like nothing more than to spend all of his time with his woman, yet she seemed to love the Mutt-Face. Kagome was so perfect in everyway, and it was a wonder how Dog-Turd could turn her down.
'Must be really blind. I mean to go after a walking talking body of clay, over Kagome? That isn't just dumb, it's idiotic.' Kouga unconsciously looked around the room for his perfect woman, yet she was not there. In her place was her little brother. Souta just blinked at Kouga.
"Uh…Kouga? You feeling okay?" Souta asked, not knowing what to do if Kouga said no, and then nearly died on his bed. Kouga gave a slight nod of his head, but Souta saw right through him.
"Kouga, why don't you just tell her?" Souta moved closer to his newfound friend. Kouga just looked at the kid with the "What would you know about this, kid?" look on his face. Souta almost read his mind.
"Well I do know that Kagome likes guys that actually tell her things, and that don't just hide their emotions and secrets in denial. I know, I know. What would I know? I'm just a little kid. But I've been with Kagome all of my life, and I know of the guys who try and hit on her," Souta chuckled when Hojou came to mind. Kouga just gave Souta a glance that was clearly confused, yet shocked at the same time.
"Souta, does that mean that Kagome has a mate in this time?" 'I highly doubt it. She smells nothing of other men, but still. I don't know everything about this strange world in which Kagome calls home.'
"If you mean mate as in boyfriend, of course not! There is Hojou, but-" Souta got cut off by a loud growl coming from Kouga. "But, I don't think Kagome likes him. I mean by the way he acts, he's apparently pretty desperate. He's asked Kagome out quite a few times, and Kagome acts all happy about it. Kagome used to like Hojou, and Hojou likes Kagome. But now that she keeps on living in your time, InuYasha keeps them from going out on their dates. Kagome isn't the happiest about that, let me tell you," Souta finally finished.
Kouga needed to think about this "Hojou" person. Kagome wouldn't take a weak human to be mated to while he was around. 'It's obvious that Kagome hasn't been mated yet, or even marked. But that can change rather quickly,' Kouga gave a slightly mischievous smirk. Kagome wouldn't be able to resist him.
"Uuh…Kouga? You-still there?" Souta noticed the spaced-out wolf demon and started waving his hand in front of Kouga's face. Kouga snapped back to reality when he heard a sharp buzzing sound coming from downstairs. Kouga jumped at least three feet into the air, and then rushed towards the demon making this battle cry.
"Souta, what is that demon? It seems to be stuck to the wall." Kouga stopped dead in his tracks as he saw the doorbell chimes. Souta had to quickly take Kouga back upstairs before he opened the doors to see who was wanting the Higurashi's.
Souta's face paled as he saw who was at the door. Ayumi, Eri and Yuka were at the door, with shopping bags in their hands.
"Hey Souta, where's Kagome?"
"She's in bed. She's still not feeling that well," Souta lied. 'Thank god I can keep a straight face when I lie,' Souta thanked no one in particular.
"Oh, well then we'll go and see her. We came with a few…gifts from Hojou."
"Yeah, he gets really nervous if he comes around her house. I wonder what goes on in that head of his anyways whenever somebody says 'Kagome' around him,"
"Well I think that she still likes him I mean look at how the two blush when they're around eachother!" The three girls continued Jabbering just long enough for Souta to hide Kouga in Kagome's bed.
" School just let out, and Kagome's friends are here," Souta stole a glance at the nearest clock. "They're downstairs talking about Kagome's personal life and all, so just get under the covers, quick!" Souta urged Kouga to get in Kagome's bed. Souta pulled up the covers to Kouga's chin, and turned him to face the wall.
"What am I supposed to do?" Kouga asked Souta, not liking where this was going. Though he didn't mind being in the place that smelt so much like Kagome.
"Just lay there, face the wall, and don't speak. If you do have to talk to Ayumi, Eri or Yuka, use the girliest voice you can muster. Kagome's supposed to be sick, so act sick." Kouga barely had time to raise an eyebrow before Souta had run downstairs and was ushering the girls towards him.
"Kagome!" Ayumi exclaimed, not liking that her friend was yet again sick. "Are you okay?"
"Maybe she's still being tested for SARS." Yuka spoke to Eri.
"No, really I'm fine. I just need-" Kouga started
"Wow Kagome! Are you really all right? Your voice sounds like it's changed completely! Do you have strep-throat?"
"That's gotta be it," the other two girls chorused. Kouga sweatdropped.
"Yes, that's what I have. Strep-throat." Kouga gave a fake cough. Souta noticed the fake cough.
"Well girls, it looks like Kagome needs her rest. Just listen to that cough of hers. C'mon sis, let's go get you your medicine," Souta was pushing the girls out of Kagome's room. "So sorry that you couldn't stay longer. Isn't that right, sis?"
"Y-yes. It really is a shame," Kouga tried his hardest to use his girly voice. Once Souta had shown the girls to the door, he returned to his sister's room.
"Good Job Kouga! It's a miracle Eri didn't look under the blankets when she was about to! And lovely girly voice! It's a good thing Yuka thought that you had SARS," Souta exclaimed, waving his arms.
"Well sorry! But I don't see you getting under the covers acting like your sister! And at least I tried! And it worked didn't it?" Kouga picked up the tyke and pushed him on the bed. Not forcefully, but just hard enough to knock the little kid off his feet.
"Yeah, I guess," Souta moped. "Hey, why don't we try to see what other games that I rock?!" Kouga groaned. He knew that in order to make him woman happy, he was going to have to get along with her family. But why did her family have to be like this?
"C'mon. I'll show you my newest game," and with that, Souta, and a wolf demon being dragged behind him, went off and played more videogames.
.o0O0o. With Ginta and Hakkaku .o0O0o.
"Ginta, are you sure this is where Kouga's supposed to be?" a slightly doubtful Mohawk blonde asked his two-tone grey haired friend.
"Well this is where his smell's leadin' us," Ginta started. "And there's some of Sister Kagome in the air here as well. It's gotta be those two."
"Yeah, but there's also the smell of another demon, and fire. In case you haven't noticed, all of the trees and grass have burned down. Looks like someone was peeved," Hakkaku stated looking around the place.
"And the wolves don't look too happy 'bout the place either. If ya ask me, I sense some magic used here," Ginta looked at the wolves.
"But Kouga and Sister are down there!" Hakkaku pointed to the bottom of the well. "We've gotta go and get the two."
So the two wolves and their fellow comrades jumped down the well, unsure of what would happen to them. The only thing they knew was that if their leader and his mate were on the other side in danger, they had to go help him.
.o0O0o. With InuYasha. .o0O0o.
"Hey Miroku, maybe you could get us a tavern to sleep and eat in for the night?" InuYasha said rather gruffly. It wasn't a question. If anything it was more like a demand. Miroku sighed, and nodded his head
"Of course InuYasha. How close is the nearest village?" Miroku had to know at least the name of the village. If he ever stepped foot in the same village twice, then all of the beautiful young ladies might make a fuss over him again, and he certainly didn't want to disappoint any of his admirers by having to chose one of them.
Miroku's Daydream
Miroku was surrounded by plenty of the village beauties. All of them were either staring at his stern face, or his hand tracing across the lucky maiden's hand that he would just be reading.
"Oh! And aren't you a lucky lady? I predict that you will marry a handsome young man and have plenty of his offspring!" The fair maiden giggled embarrassed, and then turned away, hands upon her cheeks to cool off her heated cheeks.
"Okay, who's next?" The monk asked the group of ladies, and they all started jumping on him, praising him. Miroku gave a content laugh.
End of Miroku's DaydreamMiroku gave a drunken sigh. This didn't go passed Sango, who turned around to face the monk. Miroku just stared at her, as if he had recently been drinking.
"Monk? Are you- okay?" The Demon Exterminator asked, not taking her hand off of her Hiraikotsu, just in case the monk tried to do something funny like he usually did when he was dreaming of women.
"I'm fine Sango dear," Miroku sounded drunk again. Sango sighed. 'musta been a doozy of a daydream. Wait a minute…it had better not have been about' Sango grabbed her Hiraikotsu, and whacked the lecher in the back of the head with enough force to knock him unconscious.
"Serves you right, monk," Sango huffed off. Kikyo, who had of course seen all of this, sighed with a slight smile.
"They really do love each other," she faced InuYasha when she said this. InuYasha just gave her a look that clearly stated that he was not following. Kikyo reverted her eyes back to the unconscious monk.
"They way they act. Can you not tell that they are truly in love? They will never admit it. It is probably forbidden. I feel for the girl," Kikyo had been right on the money. Sango of course had heard everything that Kikyo had said of course, and was blushing three shades of red.
She was about to yell out "I don't love that Lecher," but something stopped her. It was a pang in her chest. Sango thought these words in her head, I don't love the Lecher,' again and again, until she finally tried a different phrase. 'I don't love…Miroku,' Even in her own mind, to herself, she had problems getting those words out.
"Could it be true? Do I really have feelings for Miroku?" Sango whispered quietly. So quietly in fact, that even InuYasha couldn't hear it. Though he did manage to hear the girl's voice. He dismissed what he heard immediately.
.o0O0o. With Kagome .o0O0o.
"Souta, Kouga, I'm home!" Kagome yelled up the stairs, as she had to push the door open with her body, and close it by kicking it. "Stubborn thing."
Kouga heard Kagome's voice as clear as if an angel had spoken to him. That was undoubtedly his woman, and by the smell of it, she was tired. 'what could she have been doing all day that made her tired? If she did something tiring, then why didn't she ask me for help?' Kouga asked himself. He was about to run down to his woman and aide her in anyway possible, but the little kid was in the way, and the hallway that the two were running down had only space enough for one person to go at a time.
Kouga sighed, knowing that he couldn't knock down the little kid to get to his woman, because then Kagome would yell at him for hurting her little brother, yet he couldn't rush past him in such a tight area. So he did the only thing that he thought of. He picked up the kid, and ran down the stairs towards his woman.
Kagome was exhausted! She had just come home through the front door to find no one there to help her, so she had to drop all she was carrying and try and open the door. Big surprise, it was locked. So Kagome had to search herself for her keys. What seemed like an eternity later, Kagome finally found her house keys, opened the door, and carried in all of her bags.
She had put all of her bags down to catch her breath, and take off her shoes. She locked the door, and quickly turned around to find a Souta being carried by the waist, petrified. Carrying her brother was Kouga. He quickly put the kid down, and sped to his woman's side.
"Kagome! Why did you not tell me you were doing something tiring? I could have helped you!" Kouga took Kagome's bags and brought them halfway up the stairs.
"Thanks Kouga, but it's not really tiring, just long," Kagome sat down on the bottom of the stairs. Kouga just looked at his woman. He then sat down next to her, flashing his woman a cocky grin. Kagome had a distressed look on her face. She put her hands between her knees, and stared at the floor.
"So what did you and Souta do while I was gone?" Kagome asked in a cheery tone of voice. Kouga who was also slouched over, trying to look at whatever Kagome was looking at, just turned his head and stared at Kagome straight in the eyes.
"We played this…game as he called it…where we commanded little people in the black box. Kagome, there were people crying for help in your box!" Kagome arched an eyebrow, then burst out laughing.
"What's so funny? There were tiny people inside your house! I tried to get them out-"
"You did WHAT?" Kagome cut off Kouga. 'If Kouga tried to let the people out of the TV, how did he do it?' Kagome dreaded the answer. She ran straight into Souta's bedroom and screamed when she got there. There was the family's television, smashed straight down the middle. Wires and chords were hanging everywhere.
"Oh Kouga, tell me you didn't," Kagome trailed off. She was clearly disappointed. Kouga was a little disappointed as well. He thought his woman would be proud of him for saving those little people crying for help inside the black box.
"Did I do something wrong?" Kouga asked apologetically. He gave his cutest little puppy dog eyes when Kagome looked his way. She couldn't help but giggle. She shook her head.
"Never mind. It's okay," Kagome sighed, tucking some of her hair behind her ear. Kagome looked up the stairs; feeling like someone was watching her. She was truly disgusted when she saw someone staring at the two, nearly cheering the couple on to make the first move.
"SIT BOY!" Kagome called on instinct. Realizing that this had no effect, she scrambled up the stairs and chased after her little brother. Souta cowered into his room, and slammed his door in his sister's face. Kagome punched the door in a sad attempt to get it open, and then calmed down. She turned around to find Kouga rather close to her. Kagome nearly jumped out of her skin.
"Kouga, don't do that to me! You nearly scared me to death," Kagome clutched at her chest, trying to calm her racing heart.
Kouga just gave a slight smirk. But the smirk had left his face as soon as it had come. There was a question that Kouga had been wanting to ask Kagome 'Why not now?'
"Hey Kagome, where'd you go all day?" Kagome snapped her head to the side to face him. She gave a slight 'Hn' to say that she didn't understand what Kouga was asking her.
"Where were you going that you couldn't possible take your little brother with you? When you asked me to baby-sit the tyke, and then you just rushed out the door. What didja do when you were gone? And what's with the bags?" Kouga asked again, this time in more detail. What Kouga was asking finally sunk in. She answered with a mischievous little smile,
"One must keep the Shopping Gods happy!" Kagome smiled. Kouga blinked twice, and tilted his head. What she said made, yet again, no sense what so ever, but he let it slide.
"C'mon, I'll show you what I bought. Most of it's for you, actually," Kagome pulled Kouga up the stairs. Kouga, yet again, let the lecherous thoughts flood his mind when they both entered her room. Kagome took a quick step outside, brought in the shopping bags, and closed the door.
"Here's what I got you Kouga!" Kagome exclaimed happily as she laid down all of Kouga's new clothing on her bed. Kagome even put them in little piles, to show what the different articles of clothing are. Kagome picked up a pair of boxers, a button up shirt, and some pants. She nearly shoved them in Kouga's hands.
"Here Kouga, put these on. I hope they fit," Kagome said kind of worried that she had gotten the wrong size. Kouga took all of the clothing, and just stared at it, slightly disgusted.
"What am I supposed to do with them?" Kouga asked Kagome. Kagome fell over anime style, and then hurried over to Kouga. She pulled the boxers out of his hands. The boxers were royal blue, with a design that consisted mostly of grey wolves howling at the moon.
"You take off your pants, and then put these on. I'll leave you to dress," Kagome walked out the door.
Kouga had no problem of slipping on the boxers, and decided to give the pants a try. Though it felt extremely odd to Kouga to have his legs covered by cloth, Kouga tried to put the shirt on.
"Kagome?" Kouga stepped outside. What Kagome saw before her was the last thing she ever thought she'd see.
There was Kouga standing in front of her with a white dress-shirt on, unbuttoned, and a pair of extremely baggy cargo pants, hanging so low that you could basically see the whole boxer shorts. (A/N: -Drool Drool- lol) Had Kagome's jaw been hanging any lower, it would have gone straight through to the basement.
Kouga grinned. 'So she likes what she sees,' Kouga noted mentally as Kagome turned around and blushed. Kouga took Kagome's wrist, and put on his helpless face again. Kagome couldn't say no to that, and faced Kouga. Kouga looked guiltily downwards, and Kagome saw the problem immediately.
Kagome quickly bent down, away from the intense, yet oh-so-adorable, stare from Kouga. She went on one knee, and saw that Kouga hadn't yet learned how to do up buttons! And the pants were so low, and Kouga was nearly hanging onto the pants so they wouldn't fall off. Kagome put her hand on Kouga's thigh, right next to his groin and then concentrated on the button. 'Just like InuYasha for the first time,' Kagome laughed at herself
She then realized what she was doing, and shot up onto her feet. She gave Kouga a quick slap across the face. 'So she knew,' Kouga smiled, baring his fangs. "That's my woman."
Kagome stormed down the hallway down to her room. Even though that wasn't more than five seconds, it helped when she slammed the door. 'That helped,' Kagome relaxed a little. Kouga was pounding lightly on the door, demanding that Kagome let him in.
"There's a pattern on how he's hitting my door," Kagome noted mischievously. "One, two, THREE!" Kagome yelled to herself as she swung the door open on an unexpected Kouga. Kouga was just about to hit the door full force, when Kagome popped the door open. Kouga could have saved himself from falling by taking a step out, but he figured he'd rather land on Kagome.
"Aah! Kouga, get off of me!" Kagome could barely breath, Kouga was completely on top of her. Kouga was getting quite a good view of his woman, so he got off quite slowly, allowing his hair to slip to the side of his face, veiling both his and Kagome's faces from the outside world.
Kagome felt her heart beat quicken. Her breaths grew shorter and raspy. She had this feeling in the pit of her stomach, yet she didn't know what it was. "K-Kouga," Kagome barely managed to get out.
Kouga could feel his animal's instincts about to take him over. He wanted nothing more than to kiss the girl. He wanted nothing more than to mark her as his own. But he couldn't. He wouldn't allow himself to do such a thing while Kagome still loved InuYasha. 'Damnit! Why now?' He mentally cursed. He clenched his fists; his knuckles turning white.
Kouga sat up abruptly. Neither he nor Kagome wanted to break free of what they were just about to do. But Kouga knew better. 'InuYasha would certainly make another attempt on my life.' Kouga stood up, and took Kagome's hand. Kagome pulled herself up, but couldn't look Kouga in the face.
Trying to ease the tension between the two, Kagome tried to be optimistic.
"Hey Kouga, why don't we catch a night on the town? I was hoping that we could leave tonight, but I guess I spent too long shopping," Kagome placed her hand behind her head in a nervous laugh. "Well anyways, what do you say?"
"Sure?" Kouga didn't exactly know how to respond. All he knew was that he wanted to spend as much time with his woman as he possible could. He knew that once the two went back to his time, they would probable never spend as much time together again.
"Great! I'll go see what movies are being listed!" Kagome squealed and ran out of the room. She slowly came back. Giving Kouga a near death glare. "On one condition." Kouga growled. He did not like having to make compromises.
"That no matter how loud the people in the box ask for help, you do nothing. Understood?" Kagome had to get on her toes to be eye level with Kouga. Kouga gave her an Oh-so-Intelligent respond of:
"What?"
"Just, nevermind. Forget it! Forget I said anything. Let's just go and have some fun!" Kagome ran up her stairs. She stopped halfway, as if waiting for something.
"Well? Aren't you coming?" Kouga dashed over to his woman's side, and walked with her to her room. Kagome snuck a quick glance at her mirror, appalled at her own reflection. She gave a loud sigh. 'Now where is that hairbrush?' Kagome asked herself.
"Ugh, I look a mess."
When she finally spotted her hairbrush, she gave her mane a quick brush, to make it super smooth and silky. She then applied some lip-gloss, just for fun. Kouga gave a slight purr-like sound.
Kagome was completely confused by the noise that Kouga was making. Wolves are in the canine family, so why was he making feline sounds? Kagome just stared at his perfectly sculpted face through her mirror. She gave a slightly depressing sigh.
Kouga noticed she was staring at him, and quickly wrapped his arms around her torso. He buried his face in the crook of her neck, and ruffled her hair with his nose. Kagome gave a slight giggle. She leaned back into Kouga's embrace. Kouga tightened the hug, giving Kagome the certainty that he would never let her go.
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Kagome: Well, at least Kouga and I got SOME time together. .;
Sango: And you still don't have Kilala in it.
Kilala: -transforms into her demon side- GROWL!
Jassy: What are you talking about Sango? There she is!
Sango: That doesn't count! She's gotta be IN the ACTUAL STORY! Understand what I'm saying?
Miroku: -places hand on Sango's shoulder- Sango, Sango. You must keep your temper at bay. Think happy thoughts.
Jassy: -Stares at what she just wrote- okay, yes I admit. That was VERY OOC.
Kouga: Well, I think we'd better give you time do finish your homework. –Tugs on her ponytail-
Jassy: Kouga! It's not like I'm in grade seven! I mean YOU have a ponytail TOO ya know.
Kouga: What are you implying?
Jassy: -Innocent little smile- Nothing. –Hides behind Kouga and yanks on his ponytail-
.o0O0o. .o0O0o. REVIEWS .o0O0o. .o0O0o.
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