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Recap:

"Do you want to hang out around town? Sango's back in town and I was thinking that she and Miroku can hang out with us. What do you say?"

"That sounds like fun," she replied with a smile.

Broken Wings

Chapter 6

Movie Relief

"Damn it, where could they be?" InuYasha mumbled to himself as he looked around the mall. Kagome sat behind him on a bench, watching his doggie ears and nose twitch in an attempt to find his friends. She giggled silently to herself every time his ears twitched like that.

Someone tapped InuYasha's shoulder, the sudden gesture made him jump. The familiar voices of his friends snickering and giggling at him from his reaction came to his ears. He turned to see his friend Miroku. He was a tall man with coal-black hair tied into a small ponytail and had ocean-blue eyes. His outfit consisted of a plum colored t-shirt, black pants and matching shoes.

There was a pretty girl standing next to him. Sango had long, flowing brown hair tied into a high ponytail. She had a set of gorgeous brown eyes. She wore a tight black t-shirt with electric-green sleeves and black pants.

"What the hell took ya so long," InuYasha greeted the pair rudely. They didn't mind; they knew this was just his way of saying 'nice to see you'…or so they hoped.

Sango was the first to speak.

"Cool your jets, InuYasha…we're only a half hour late," she said rather calmly.

"I wanted to introduce you to a new friend of mine," he stated gruffly. "I was expecting you to make a good impression, though." Kagome was still sitting silently by the bench, waiting to be introduced.

"Well now, where is your friend?" Miroku chided. "Oh, I wonder what her bra size is?" the rather perverted boy asked to himself rather loudly as his eyes glazed over in a dreamlike state. Both InuYasha and Sango smacked him on the back of the head. The poor boy fell forward onto the floor with two large bumps on his head.

The pervert hesitantly stood up, dusting himself off. The man now had an idiot grin plastered to his face.

"Don't be so crude," Sango advised Miroku.

"I wasn't…I…I would only like to confirm our friend's gender," Miroku said while looking around for InuYasha's new friend, his eyebrows wiggling happily.

"Don't get any nasty ideas; I'll make sure you don't corrupt her," InuYasha warned dangerously, cracking his knuckles in threat.

"So your friend is a girl!" Miroku stated joyfully, jumping up and down like a child. Sango and InuYasha sighed and walked away from the excited black-haired human, now too embarrassed to be seen next to him.

"Kagome, this is Sango," InuYasha introduced. Kagome stood up and offered her hand, which Sango shook.

"It's nice to finally meet you," Kagome greeted with a friendly smile. "I've heard only nice things about you." Sango smiled back; she could tell she liked this Kagome girl already.

Unexpectedly, Miroku jumped up behind Kagome and wrapped his arms around her waist. Kagome jumped up quickly, suppressing a surprised scream, and leapt away from the touch into InuYasha's embrace.

InuYasha rolled his eyes at his friend's feeble attempt to greet Kagome.

"And this perverted person would be Miroku," he sighed out to Kagome. "I would advice you stay an arm's length away from him." The hanyou glared at the pervert for scaring his girl.

'Wait, she isn't my girl…is she? Gah! What am I thinking?' InuYasha thought to himself, trying not to blush.

"I think I will avoid him," Kagome said with a nervous smile.

"Aw, InuYasha!" Miroku whined. "You ruined my chances with this new beauty…now she'll never come near me!" he pouted dramatically. Kagome blushed at the sudden complement. InuYasha noticed her flushed composer and subtly punched Miroku in the shoulder.

"You never even had a chance with Kagome," InuYasha bragged. "She's mi…err…I mean, you just never had a chance perv," he tried to cover. He felt his cheeks flare up and turned away from the group.

"So, Kagome," Sango asked almost mischievously, "How long have you been hanging around with InuYasha?" Kagome, now blushing harder then before, slightly flinched at the way those words were implied.

"We aren't dating or anything," she explained, waving her hands in front of herself for emphasis. "We meet in the school hallway some weeks ago and became quick friends…that's all we are, friends."

Sango grinned to herself, noticing the growing blush on the girl's face. 'Just friends, huh? Yeah, and I guess Miroku's a gentleman, too…' her mind scoffed out, entertained by her own analogy.

By four o'clock they had wondered around to the side of the mall where the theater was. After agreeing on a movie, they all went to the line to buy tickets.

"That'll be five bucks ma'am," said the rather groggy voice of the casher. Kagome pulled out her wallet, about to pull out a five when InuYasha beat her to it and gave the lady his money instead.

"Don't worry, I got it covered Kagz," he said with a smile. Kagome blushed slightly and hesitantly put her wallet away.

"Are you sure?" she asked, though the ticket was already bought and handed to him.

"Yup," he stated with another grin. They continued the walk over to the different movie hallways. Sango had been watching Kagome attentively, noticing how she would blush every time InuYasha would do something nice.

'InuYasha is so nice to her,' Sango thought with a smile. 'It's cute the way they unintentionally flirt like that.' Her mental compliments were interrupted by the perv.

"Sango my rose, allow me the honor of paying for your ticket," Miroku said suavely. She snapped her head back to him as he pointed to the cashier. She felt heat rising to her cheeks.

"No, I'll get mine," she said looking away from the corrupted boy. For as long as she could remember he had always done things like this, easily implying how much he pined for her…in retrospect, and to her dismay, Miroku had done things like this for every pretty girl he met. However, whenever he did something for her, it just felt right…so natural and genuine.

In the theater, the arrangement of seats sat Kagome, InuYasha, Miroku and then Sango. The hanyou made sure that he would separate the perv from his Kagome. The movie they had agreed on, though Kagome didn't know why she said yes to it, was a gory horror flick.

From the beginning of the movie to the end (with no plot in-between) there was nothing but blood here, flying limbs there, brain-eating zombies attacking hormone-driven teenagers. No matter how bad the acting or movie effects were, each scary moment caused Kagome to jump from her seat and hold onto InuYasha's hand tightly.

He smiled in the dark room, not minding that she chose to hold onto him for comfort...for a human, her grip was pretty darn tight. He didn't find the film at all scary but enjoyed her clinging reactions.

InuYasha was careful around her arms, making sure he didn't rub up against one of her cuts, least he reopen it.

Kagome secretly was enjoying getting closer to InuYasha whenever possible. She was a smart enough girl to trick him every once in a while, making him think that her feigning of fright was real…unbeknownst to her great acting skills, InuYasha was catching on to her little scheme, smiling all the while.

InuYasha still watched the screen every now and then. His attention was mainly fixated on her, patting her shoulder in comfort from the 'scary moments'.

'Yea! I am finally getting close to Kagome!' his mind practically sang. 'Maybe I really can help her get past her problems…this is good, I have confidence in me. I mean, I know I don't have very good people skills after all, but I am doing this…I can do this! Geez, I don't think it's normal to give yourself a pep talk like this', he figured as an afterthought.

Kagome couldn't concentrate on the motion picture any more either. She was either watching InuYasha intensely or just pretending to watch the movie to get closer to him. She enjoyed snuggling up against him. 'Why does this cuddling seem so familiar?'

She gasped to herself…why was she beginning to think of Hojo now? Why of all times! Those sick feelings of betrayal and hate sank into her stomach, making her feel quite queasy. She needed relief.

'No! I don't need relief…I'll just stay here and watch the movie with our friends,' she thought in conclusion. Even though her mind felt strong enough to deal with the feelings, something seemed to be urging her to take a quick bathroom break…

After the movie was finished, Kagome resisted the need of going into the theater's bathroom. She thought she had the feelings under control but by the time they all reached InuYasha's house for dinner…

"InuYasha, I'm gonna go use the bathroom," Kagome said simply as she walked down the hallway to the stairs, avoiding his eye contact.

"Wait a second," InuYasha ordered and with a bit of annoyance. He put a clawed hand out, palm up, and said "Gimmy."

Kagome sighed heavily, knowing she wasn't going to get out of this. Slinking her head down, she turned and put her arms against the wall, back facing the hanyou. All the while she felt like an arrested gangster.

Sango and Miroku watched as InuYasha put his hands out, ready to frisk the girl.

"Um…should we leave?" Miroku questioned in all seriousness. Kagome and InuYasha both turned their heads to their two friends standing in the doorway.

Kagome was absolutely blushing as she had forgot they were here…InuYasha shared that blush.

"No! I just…" InuYasha started to explain, but smartly stopped himself from revealing Kagome's secret. He also realized that he couldn't search her properly in front of these two without making Kagome very embarrassed.

"Well, um…I have to use the bathroom very badly…so…yeah," Kagome finished as she slid by, wishing she had been invisible at the moment.

She quickly felt her wrist being grabbed as she started to walk up the stairs.

InuYasha turned her a bit so she could look him straight in the eyes. No conversation had taken place now…there was no need for words. Kagome could read what his eyes were trying to say. They were telling…no, more like begging her not to hurt herself.

In this intense stare, she could feel her cheeks heating up fiercely. InuYasha released his grip on her skinny wrist. She nodded her head in response to their silent agreement and continued her journey to the restroom.

"Um, is there something we missed?" interrupted Sango. InuYasha had briefly forgotten his friends were still here.

"N-no!" InuYasha said impulsively, blushing at his lack of thought.

After using the bathroom, Kagome joined her buddies for dinner. InuYasha smiled, knowing that she hadn't done anything harmful to herself.

After dinner, which was Oyako Domburi (chicken, egg, sometimes salmon and salmon eggs, on white rice), Miroku and Sango went home, thanking the hanyou for his hospitality. After the little crowd was dispersed, Kagome stayed there with InuYasha.

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