Discalimer: I DO NOT own Inuyasha

Overtime
Chapter 12

"About time you came-to."

"Huh…" Kagome looked at him, and then around the room. She noticed she was at home but before she could ask about it Inuyasha filled her in.

"You passed out in the boss' office so Kagura brought you to us, Sango found your keys and dropped you off here. She insisted someone had to stay and make sure you were alright so I put you on the couch."

"Oh…thanks…" Kagome thought back to the last thing she remembered. She saw Naraku and…ummm…what was that? A massive pile of papers?

"Shoot!" Kagome sat up quickly.

"Whoa, be careful." Inuyasha turned to face her. 'What is she stupid? She should have listened to me!'

"What about those papers? I was supposed to have them in by…is it still Tuesday?"

"Stop stressing, it's still Tuesday. You've only been out for a couple of hours. " Inuyasha was trying to be as kind as he could, but his words still came out irritated. "And about the papers…" He pointed to the kitchen. Kagome winced. "Naraku gave strict orders to Kagura to make sure you did them anyway, even though everyone sane knows you're in no condition to be working. This has got to be against some kind of human rights law."

"Aw man!" Kagome leaned back into the couch, and turned to the coffee table. She noticed the tea, Inuyasha must have made it for her. Kagome smiled to herself and without moving thanked him for the tea.

"Did you make it Inuyasha?" She was curious.

"Well…you see…" he looked away from her and back to the television. " I can't remember."

Nice save.

"Sure." Kagome rolled her eyes. "But back to those papers." She started to get up, and noticed the small blanket that was resting lightly over her shoulders.

'Who gave me that one?' "They're in the kitchen?"

"Yeah, but I don't think you're in any condition to be sorting papers in alpha—" Inuyasha turned to the couch to find no one in it and Kagome disappearing into the kitchen.

"What are you doing you fool? Do you want to get even sicker." He spun Kagome around to look her square in the eye. "Go back and rest," he commanded.

"I don't have time Inuyasha!" she brushed his hand off her shoulder and sat down on her tiled Kitchen floor in front of the pile. "You know Naraku Inuyasha, I have to have this done by tomorrow and me and you both can see it's already dark out."

Kagome's voice was raspy and she was still feeling a bit faint but she pushed aside her sickness to try and focus on the task at hand.

Inuyasha was getting mad at her carelessness. "Just go rest!"

"I can't Inuyasha. It's fine I can do this."

"I'll do it! Just go rest!"

"You want to do this all by yourself?" She scoffed, "I can't do that to you Inuyasha." She turned back behind her. "This is my job."

"What do you mean 'by myself'? You plan to do this by yourself? I think you're so sick you're delusional." Inuyasha walked over to the other side of the big pile and knelt down looking pointedly at Kagome. "Humph!" he exclaimed, making it clear to her that he wasn't leaving.

"Inuyasha, it's fine. You don't have to do this, it will take all night to finish something this big!" Kagome pleaded with him. 'Is he serious?'

"Fine by me." Inuyasha had already gone through some papers and made an 'A' pile. "If we both work at this then well be done in no time. So listen closely because I'm not going to repeat this: A's go here B's go here C's go beside them and so on. Any papers with numbers will go above the letters in the middle pile here, got it?"

"If you insist, Inuyasha." Kagome gave in.

By midnight they were completely finished. Both of them were exhausted.

"Well…" Inuyasha said getting up, he nearly fell over from the lack of using his legs for the past couple of hours. "I should get going, and you need to get some rest." He walked over to Kagome. "Okay?"

Kagome stood up slowly and put a hand on his shoulder. "Thanks," she smiled. And just realized now that she didn't want him to go.

"No problem," he said, looking at the wall behind her. "I guess I'll see you later then." Inuyasha went to grab his coat but was stopped by Kagome trying to say something.

"What was that?" he said, turning back around.

"Well, if…uh…I think that we both deserve some kind of break after all of that work…so you don't have to…"

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow.

"Leave right away, so. Well, let's put on a movie or something okay? Great." She turned around and went into the kitchen. She was kind of wobbly so Inuyasha wasn't completely convinced he should keep her awake by staying. He loitered at the front door. She poked her head out of the kitchen and pouted. "And you wouldn't want something bad to happen to me if you weren't here making sure I'm alright. I don't think Sango would like that…" Inuyasha considered this after she went back into the kitchen.

"Damnit…"

kagome heard Inuyasha's footsteps as he went into the living room and sat back on the couch. He stretched and Kagome came in with another cup of tea. She went over to the TV and opened a cupboard underneath it.

"What do you want to watch? There's really nothing good in here that I feel like watching now… is TV okay?"

"Doesn't matter." Inuyasha said as Kagome sat next to him, being careful not to touch him. She threw the remote into Inuyasha's lap and leaned back.

"You pick."

He flicked through the channels and stopped at some cartoon.

Kagome gave him a funny look. "Don't you think you're a bit too old for Southpark?"

Inuyasha snorted. "What do you mean old? Southpark is appropriate for all ages." He stuck his nose up and continued watching the show.

"Whatever you say." Kagome turned to the TV.

A fat kid was on the phone with some other kids. "Hello, Bill Gates fan line," Cartman said into the phone.

"Hello, do you know where Bill Gates is?" The kids said to the fat kid across the phone.

"You dumb asses, if I knew where Bill Gates was I would be on the floor licking his balls right now!"

"Cartman, is that you?"

"…" He hung up the phone and slowly backed away out of the room.

"Damnit!" the other kid slammed down the phone.

'What Is this?' Kagome looked at the TV curiously. She started getting sleepy. She leaned back more into the couch. Inuyasha sipped his tea, completely absorbed into the program.

She was completely asleep by the end of the episode, Kagome had slumped so much she ended up falling onto Inuyasha's shoulder and had her arms wrapped around his arm. VERY tightly around his arm.

"Haha! Did you see that! Cartman's making them talk German and inv—huh?" He looked over to Kagome when she didn't respond.

'She's asleep.'

"Uh...Kagome…" She clung to his arm. Her face was so peaceful when she slept. 'Much kinder looking then when she's up and yelling,' Inuyasha couldn't help but think to himself.

He tried to slip his arm out of her grasp so he could leave. "Kagome…" he whispered, trying to be soothing so she would release his arm.

She nuzzled her face into his shoulder, still clinging tightly to the sleeve of his shirt.

"Uh," Inuyasha reddened and tugged harder on his arm. "Please get up, please wake up!"

'Screw not waking her! I'm never going to get out of here …'

"hmm…" Kagome stirred awake and her eyes fluttered open to Inuyasha's free arm and legs flailing and him screaming "Damnit! Damn it all!"

"Woah!" She immediately let go and leaned all the way back to the far side of the couch. Inuyasha stopped flailing his arm and legs. He brushed off his shirt and cleared his throat. "Sorry for waking you," he tried adding politely.

Kagome winced. "Sorry about that."

Inuyasha squinted his eyes into little slits. "No problem. Well, thanks for having me."

"Thanks for helping me, I really appreciate it." Kagome walked Inuyasha to the door and grabbed his coat from the rack.

Inuyasha relaxed. "Stop thanking me already, I got it clear the first time." He laughed lightly.

"Sorry…" Kagome looked down. She was way too sleepy.

"I'll see you around. You should consider taking the day off tomorrow, since you're already done the papers you can have a full day to rest."

"Thank—I mean, sure Inuyasha." Kagome looked up at him and smiled.

"Goodnight," Inuyasha leaned down and pecked her on the cheek. She leaned into his lips but he was gone in an instant. He waved back at her smiling.

"Later…" She whispered.

End chapter twelve