Disclaimer: The characters of Inuyasha are owned by Rumiko Takahashi, but this story belongs to me.

How to Flirt with a Dog Demon

Seduce with a Smile

Don't know what to say? Say it with a smile! That's right, with just the curve of your lips you can seduce your man and send him to his knees.

The thought of Inuyasha being brought to his knees by a smile when he could shake off being run through with a demon tusk, made Kagome shake her head and let out a "Keh".

"Smile slow," Kagome repeated to herself.

With a sigh she picked up the hand mirror beside her on the bed and looked into it, saying, "Show me the beast!"

She plopped her head on her pillow laughed at herself for being silly. Perhaps she had been watching too many animated fairy tales as she was supposed to be studying for her test.

Sitting up, she decided to try again.

This time she sat up and looked in the mirror and tried to smile slowly. It felt clunky and awkward. Did the sides of her mouth always move independently and jerky? Did she always look like she was in pain when she smiled? When did smiling ever seem THIS difficult?

Kagome moved back to the desk and glanced at the next bullet point on the website she had been looking at on her computer.

"Give him a long once-over from head to toe, then bring your eyes back up to his." This information seemed very... familiar. Do these things copy and paste? "Smile ever so slightly to tell him know that you like what you see"

Well, we already know that this information was very likely to backfire on her, she thought to herself.

"Find a reason to walk past him. Slowly turn your head halfway towards him. When you make eye contact, rest your chin on your shoulder and smile."

Kagome sighed. This was unlikely to end any better than the slow once over head to toe look thing. None of this was the information she was looking for!

"Smile when you make eye contact."

With a frustrated groan, Kagome closed the windows on her screen and turned off her computer. These magazines and books and web searches weren't helping! Nothing was helping.

"You okay?

Gasping, Kagome spun around in her chair and saw Inuyasha sitting on her bed behind her. Her first instinct was to yell "sit" for startling her. But she bit her lip after she inhaled.

She didn't do a slow head to toe once over, instead she gathered all her courage and slowly looked directly at his eyes.

Her heart melted just a little at the concern she saw there.

He was always concerned about her.

He... well... he always cared.

Kagome felt her cheeks begin to heat up as she looked at his warm golden eyes. She could feel the corners of her mouth start to curl as she saw his cheeks start to turn pink... but he didn't break eye contact either.

"Hi," she said, her voice more breathy than usual.

"Hi," he said back softly, still holding her gaze.

Her smile grew as they stared at each other and didn't make another move. Something about the moment felt... profound. And very very right.

Maybe she was making this too difficult.

Those books and articles didn't know Inuyasha! They didn't know her! None of these were created for a miko in love with a dog demon.

She loved him.

LOVES him!

It was a forever kind of love, not just a flirtation. There was no need to trick him or try to be someone she wasn't. If one day he decided he loved her back, then she would prefer that he fell in love with her the way she was, not for who she was pretending to be. Since being anything else just seemed to end in horrible embarrassment.

Letting the love she felt for him fill her up, Kagome smiled at him.

And he smiled back.

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Author's Note:

Thanks to Hurricane Harvey I was displaced and living in a shelter for a short period of time. I was evacuated by boat and a good portion of my home destroyed. Someone told me it may be therapeutic to write down what happened... but my first thought was... "Hey, this could be an Inuyasha and Kagome story..."

Priorities, right?

One day I may just do that story... but for now, I'm still working on this one. One more chapter to go, actually.