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Kagome Higurashi and Inuyasha Takahashi sat on the living room floor, facing each other. In between them was about every type of junk food possible. Munching on a chip, Kagome asked,
"Okay! Shippou's been put to bed, and the house is spotless. So what do you wanna do?"
"Hmmm…. I don't know. Just talk, I guess." Inuyasha replied, taking a gulp of his coke.
"Ah! I know lets play 21 questions!" Inuyasha stared at her.
"Keh! That's lame…." Kagome frowned.
"Well alright Mr. Cool of cool, what do you have in mind?" Inuyasha sighed and rolled his eyes. "Fine. But don't be stupid and ask boring questions"
"I'm not stupid!"
"Oh really? I would have never guessed!"
"Yeah well, with your vocabulary I would guess you dropped out of elementary school!"
Inuyasha's eye twitched. "What's that supposed to mean!"
"It means you're more stupid than me." Kagome said, crossing her arms.
"Ha! You just called yourself stupid! I win!"
"Ah! T-that didn't count!"
"Who's stupid now wench!" Kagome pouted as Inuyasha almost choked on a donut with his laughter. After calming down, he wiped a tear from his eye and said, "Okay, alright, let's play."
"Finally," Kagome muttered. "Alright! I'll start, since you're so mean." Inuyasha smirked and Kagome went on. "What to ask, what to ask…okay! What's the most indecent thing you've ever done to yourself?" Kagome finished with an evil glint in her eye. Inuyasha instantly blushed a deep red.
"What kind of question is that! I refuse to answer that!"
"Inuyashaaaa, you have to answer it's the rule!" Kagome whined.
"Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not a perverted freak. I don't do things like that." Kagome rolled her eyes.
"Come on Inuyasha everyone does it..."
"Oh yeah? So you do it?" This time it was Kagome's turn to blush.
"I-I didn't say that idiot! I just meant all guys do. Never mind, I'll ask a different question. Okay, what's the most embarrassing thing anyone's ever done to you?"
Swallowing a chocolate chip cookie, Inuyasha replied, "Well, when I was in high school a girl ran up to me, took her top off, pulled my pants down and yelled "Take me now!" In front of everyone! The stupid bitch had everyone telling me how nice my pocky boxers were for the rest of the year!" Kagome almost spit out her coke.
"That's so funny! I would never have the nerve to do that…" Inuyasha smiled and said, "Okay my turn. What's the farthest you've ever gone with a guy?" Kagome's eyes widened and retorted, "I don't think that's any of your business!" In a horribleimitation of Kagome, Inuyasha said, "Come on Kagome, It's the rules!"
"Fine, alright I'll answer." Blushing a little, she continued: "the most I've ever gotten was making out with someone." Inuyasha's jaw dropped.
"That's IT! I can't believe it, you're a virgin!" Kagome nodded sheepishly. Inuyasha eyed her warily. "You're not one of those, sex until marriage people right?" Kagome shook her head "No-no-no! I just never really had a lot of boyfriends, and the one boyfriend I had, well" Kagome got that look of emptiness in her eye once more as she drifted off into thought. Snapping back to reality, She continued, "Anyways, I'm really embarrassed, everyone I know has done it thousands of times and I haven't even taken my clothes off in front of a guy, ha-ha!" Kagome blushed as she finished and looked up at Inuyasha. But Instead of finding that sarcastic grin she had grown to love, she met concern. He stood, stepped over all the junk food, and sat down next to her. "Kagome, what happened with this ex-boyfriend of yours? You promised me you would tell me." Kagome blinked and sighed. Looking down at her hands she thought, 'I've only been working for him for a week, and already I'm about to tell him everything about me. But something tells me I can trust him. He's different.' Looking up she started,"When I was a senior at high school, I was pretty much alone when it came to guys. All the guy friends I did have only saw me as a little sister kind of thing, you know?" Inuyasha nodded, and Kagome continued. "Well, I was pretty lonely, and I was starting to think that I was about to end up growing old by myself with nothing but a dozen cats as company, when I met this guy, Hojo. He was everything you could possible want in a guy. He was sweet, funny, andprotective. In short, I fell in love with him. But there was a problem: He had a girlfriend. Well, to make a long story short, he was basically cheating on her with me. Don't get me wrong, we weren't doing anything drastic, but everyday he would tell me how much he loved me, and hated his girlfriend." Kagome stopped, fearing she wouldn't be able to go on. Softly Inuyasha spoke, "Go ahead. What happened?" Kagome looked down at her hands and went on.
"You have no idea how much it hurt, seeing him with her. He would constantly hug her, and give her kisses, and tell her how much he loved her. But, then, he would turn around and do the exact same to me! It was so confusing, and I cried almost every night. Every time I asked him, "If you love me so much, then why are you with her?" he would always look away, or avoid the question. Deep down I always knew that he was lying to me, he was one of those guys that felt that the more girls that liked him, the better he would feel about himself. But, I would ignore that thought, putting it in the back of my mind, and told myself this was real. If I loved him, sooner or later he would realize that I'm the one for him. That I was the one that always loved him, and stayed by his side. Well, it worked. My patience paid off, and he distanced himself from his girlfriend. Eventually he broke up with her and I got my wish. We started going out. But, to my horror, it all went wrong. He was using me, to get closer to my best friend at the time, Yuka. I didn't notice at first, but she would always hang around us. I thought it was a little odd, but I shrugged it off. I started getting worried when she confessed that she was in love with him. I reassured her and told her I wasn't mad at her, that you felt what you felt, you know? You can't change what your heart tells you." Inuyasha nodded, watching her intently. "Well, soon after that, he stopped calling. Then he would act annoyed whenever I hung around him. But oddly enough, he seemed at perfect ease with Yuka. I kept telling myself that it was my fault, that I was suffocating him, and that I was a terrible girlfriend. So I backed off a little. Then, I got really sick. I had to stay home, and around the time that our school got out, I got a phone call. It was Hojo's ex-girlfriend.
-flashback-
"Hello? Is Kagome there"
"Yes, this is her, who is this"
"This is Kyoko"
"Ah, Kyoko-san!" Kagome was surprised. 'What was she calling her for?'
"Kagome, I'm sorry, I really didn't want to be the one to tell you, but I don't think its fair." Kagome's heart pounded painfully against her chest. Had what she feared come true?
"What happened?" She asked quietly.
"Well, first I should ask, have you broken up with Hojo"
"No, were still together." Kagome said slowly 'what's going on'
"Well, today I saw Hojo and Yuka all over each other. I thought it was a little strange, but I thought that maybe you two had broken up. But I guess not." Kagome almost dropped the phone, and she felt a sickening feeling pooling in her stomach.
"W-what do you mean all over each other"
"I mean they were hugging each other ever five seconds, and they were together the whole day, from what I saw. I don't have any classes with them, so I wouldn't know"
She paused, and then went on. "I'm really sorry Kagome-chan." Tears pooled in her eyes, but she held them back, and replied with a steady voice," No, Thank you very much Kyoko-san. I-I got to go." Before letting her apologize once more, Kagome hung up. She sank to the floor, letting the tears pool over her dark brown eyes. After a moment Kagome picked the phone back up and quickly dialed her other friend, Eri's number. Five minutes later, a broken hearted-Kagome hung up the phone once more. Eri had sad that while at p.e., Hojo had told Yuka that he loved her. She couldn't believe it. Without thinking, she dropped the phone, rushing into the bathroom. After a few moments, Kagome found what she had been looking for: her sharp nail filer. Shaking, she brought it down to her wrist and cut herself for the first time in her life. She carved into her skin repeatedly until she saw a tiny drop of blood slip out from under her skin. Sobbing uncontrollably, she threw the nail file and grabbed her head, rocking back and forth. "Where did I go wrong? Why me? I'm so sorry Hojo, please forgive me"
-end flashback-
Inuyasha stared at her. 'What a fucking bastard! I can't believe that son of a bitch, making her do that?' He was pulled out of his thoughts as Kagome's voice continued, a little shaky this time.
"I went to school the next day, pretending that nothing had happened. Once again, Yuka was next to Hojo's locker talking to him as I walked up to him. I smiled at him and told him good morning. He looked at me like I was the shit on the bottom of his shoe and said hi back. Later on during the day, he somehow found out about what I had done. He was furious. He said that, I was a freak, and that he couldn't possibly go out with me, because people would talk about him behind his back, saying that he was "un-cool" for going out with an emo chick. He also said that there was no way he could hold my hand, that I could probably give him a disease." Subconsciously, she scratched at her wrist, and Inuyasha watched her, his mouth half open. "He told me I was disgusting, and that he was crazy for ever going out with me, that I was fat, and horribly ugly. That was the worst day of my life. I remember never feeling quite the same after that day. He ended up going out with Yuka, and doing the exact same thing to her, that he did to me and Kyoko-san. I felt this incredible urge to tell her "I told you so!" but I didn't. That would have been too mean. I remember that I felt even more hurt by the fact that my own best friend, the one I shared everything with, the one which was like, my long lost sister, she had betrayed me. She chose him over me, and left me without a best friend. Well, we graduated, and everyone moved on. Except for me. I never got over him. I kept cutting, and blaming myself for everything that happened. And of course, since he had said so, I thought I was horribly fat and ugly. I never talked to Yuka again, and frankly I don't want to. I will never forgive her for what she did." She paused for a second, and then looked up into Inuyasha's eyes, her own flooding over with tears. "I'll never get past this, Inuyasha. He's right, I'm a freak! I kept telling myself that he was just some arrogant bastard, but it's no use! I still love him, and I'd give anything to have the old Kagome back! The one who woke up with a smile on her face every morning, and who was happy to be alive! Not this, this monster!" She started sobbing and Inuyasha's heart twinged at the sight of her crying. Without hesitation he pulled her into a hug and held her tightly. Inhaling her scent, he whispered, "Everything that bastard said was wrong. You'll never be a freak for being so in touch with your emotions, and you're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen! And if you got any skinnier you would disappear. You shouldn't beat yourself up over some sick guy, Kagome." Hugging her closer to his chest, he let her cry herself out. She hung onto his shirt, burying her face in it. 'I can't believe this happened to her, its horrible' soon her sobs turned into hiccups and he brought her face up to look at him. Her face was red and blotchy, but she was still breathtaking. "Kagome, don't ever worry about being alone. I'll always be here." And without thinking, he bent down and placed a soft kiss on her lips. Kagome was surprised at first, but then a wave of joy replaced the terrible feeling she had inside. She returned the kiss, and it felt like an eternity before Inuyasha pulled away. "i-im sorry, I don't know what happ-" Kagome shook her head and smiled.
"It's okay. We were just in the moment." Sadly she knew that this was true. At least she thought so. He still loved Kikyou, so there was no way he would like her. The wave of happiness was gone and replaced by emptiness. Inuyasha blinked. 'Is that true? Was I really caught up in the moment? Or have I fallen in love with Kagome?' He gave her a small smile and hugged her close to him once more, rocking her until he heard her breath even out, knowing she was fast asleep in his arms.
PHEW! -wipes brow- that was a long chapter! And oh dear its 1:47 in the morning --' How'd you like that fluff eh? Was it too much too soon? I don't know…hmmm…ah what the heck I felt romantic today, ha-ha. Well! I hope it was interesting, please! Don't forget to keep reviewing! They mean so much to me! -cries- p.s.-sorry for any spelling erros, i try my best to correct them! well review review:)
