Chapter 4
After the two had said their goodbyes to the two smirking occupants left at the restaurant, Kagome and InuYasha made their way down the street towards a park that was on the way to Kagome's apartment.
It had gotten chilly and Kagome had on her pea coat while InuYasha just simply wore his suit jacket. Kagome looked over at him and shivered. "Aren't you cold?"
"Not really, I don't get as cold as other people do," he answered. "You look cold though with that coat all bundled up."
"Just a little, but this coat is so nice and warm. So how was your dinner?"
"It was ok."
"I love eating," admitted Kagome laughing. "I don't know why, but I usually scarf everything down!"
InuYasha laughed. He had seen her eat before, and sometimes it was just ridiculous, she was a monster. Her kids were just like her as well. "I like ramen a lot. I love it so much that I bet I could probably eat ten times more than you can."
Kagome laughed. "I'll take you up on that sometime and we can see if you are right or not."
InuYasha smiled as they continued on down the pathway of the park in a terribly comfortable silence. They soon came to a row of benches amongst some trees that were starting to turn color. "You wanna take a seat?" InuYasha asked.
Kagome contemplated for a moment. She had to get home soon, but what would one little break hurt? "Sure," she smiled.
They sat down together and InuYasha clenched his clawed hands together in nervous anticipation. "So, your children, how do you manage to take care of them?"
Kagome winced at that question. He probably expects me to say they have a father. "Oh, I work it out. Sango and her younger brother help me a lot and so does my mom and my aunt; somehow, it just kind of works. I spend as much time with them as I can, but sometimes its hard."
"That sounds nice. I'm sure they love you for that and when they get older they will appreciate all that you've done for them."
"I hope," Kagome smiled looking up at him and once again his beautiful golden eyes captured her. His eyes are just like Mizuki's. She then looked up at his ears quickly and smiled. And his ears and hair are just like Itaro's, fascinating. "Hey, can I do something real quick?"
InuYasha looked confused. "Uh, sure?"
"Ok!" Kagome instantly flew her hand up to his head and started to rub his ears.
InuYasha instantly relaxed and felt as though he were in heaven. This feels incredible…
Kagome started to giggle softly at the dreamlike expression on his face and the gentle purring noise he was making. "I take it you like that.
InuYasha instantly snapped out of his daze and swatted her hand away. "Keh," he grumbled, as he looked the other way with a faint blush tinting his cheeks.
"Oh, don't turn into a sulker," she smiled as she grabbed his hand, but immediately tensed up. She knew that hand, she had felt it before and she couldn't place exactly where.
InuYasha felt the spark once again and could sense Kagome's aura tense up and flare to figure out who he really was. "Are you ok?"
Kagome shook her head to try and clear it from all her senses overloading at once. "Uh, yeah, yeah I'm fine."
InuYasha was about to say something when all of a sudden there was a large explosion that rocked the very bench they were sitting on.
"HOLY SHIT!" Kagome screamed as she jumped into InuYasha's arms scared.
He reveled in the touch of her arms around him for just a second until she started screaming. "OH NO! THE KIDS!!!! OH MY GOD!" She cried as tears began to fill her eyes as she pointed at the smoke filled sky that was right where her apartment was.
InuYasha immediately sensed the aura of his kids in danger and immediately jumped into action. He knelt down in front of Kagome with his back to her. "JUMP ON!"
"What?!" She yelled at him as sirens ripped through the air.
"Get on, we are going to go save the kids!"
Kagome immediately did what he said and InuYasha immediately began running towards her apartment. Kagome held on to him with all her life deadly afraid that InuYasha would drop her. "AHH!" She screamed as InuYasha then jumped up into the trees and then began running through the air. It was like flying to her and Kagome, besides the situation, never felt so alive.
"Don't let go Kagome, it will be ok! I'll protect you!" He said as he jumped off of a skyscraper he jumped on to get to her apartment faster.
Kagome's world instantly froze. She had heard that before, she knew that voice, and the feel of his hands on her thighs felt all to familiar, but lucky for InuYasha she didn't have time to put two and two together before she saw her kids and Kohaku sitting outside of their house watching the building beside them burn.
"MOMMY!" The two children yelled as they watched the man with the dog ears and long hair fall from the sky with their mommy on his back.
InuYasha dropped down and couldn't believe what he saw. The children were out in the open without their concealment bracelets. Kagome noticed this as well and immediately tried to hide them behind her.
"Well, thank you, but I think I should tend to my kids now," Kagome breathed out as she tried to keep them from being seen, but they were still poking their heads out behind her
"Who is he, Mommy?" Mizuki asked pointing at InuYasha as she noticed his gold eyes. "He has my pretty eyes!"
InuYasha smiled at the kids. They were adorable. "He has ears like me too! Mommy who is he?"
Kagome sighed and turned around to Kohaku. "Kohaku, take the kids inside please. They need to get away from this smoke before they inhale too much of it."
"Ok," nodded Kohaku as he quickly scooped up the kids even though they tried desperately to get back to InuYasha.
"You know, you don't have to put them back inside," tried InuYasha. He really wanted to spend time with them more, to be able to be with them in real life.
"No, no they do. They shouldn't be outside and they know that," Kagome sighed frustrated as she began walking up the steps to her apartment. "It was a lovely evening though."
"Kagome, can I stay with you guys just for a little bit longer?"
Kagome looked back at him and his pleading eyes, which were so much like Mizuki's. His ears were slightly lowered and he felt sincere enough. "I just don't know…" She breathed looking down.
InuYasha got the hint right away. She was trying to protect her children and their appearances from the outside world. InuYasha smiled sadly, "Thank you for this evening, Kagome; it was fabulous. I'll never forget it." He then immediately jumped into the air and off he went above the skyscrapers and Kagome could barely see him he was so fast.
Kagome could feel tears coming it her eyes but quickly shook them away as she headed in to her house.
InuYasha was perched up on top of a building waiting for the commotion to die down before he went back to Kagome's, when his cellphone rang.
"Hello?"
"Hey, how is everything going?" He heard Miroku ask from the other end.
InuYasha scoffed. He probably just wants to know if we've done anything perverted. Damn Monk! "Aren't you supposed to be on a date, Monk?"
"Sango's little brother called telling her what happened, so she is off right now talking to Kagome, but from the sounds of it, you aren't with Kagome anymore."
"Nope," sighed InuYasha dejectedly.
"I'm sorry…"
"No, its ok…really it is. She was just protecting her children. They didn't have there concealment bracelets on when they ran outside, so it made kind of a…"
"Well, that's great…umm…yeah tomorrow sounds fine! Ok, talk to you later!"
"Bye?" InuYasha asked confused but then must have figured that Sango had just come back. "Oh, fuckin' well," he sighed. He looked down at Kagome's and decided that now would be a good time to go back and watch over her.
"Who was that guy?" Kohaku asked as Kagome started making a snack for them.
Kagome blushed. "That was Takakashi," she smiled to herself.
"Takakashi you say?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Oh, it just sounds strangely familiar for some reason, that's all. So did you have fun?"
"Yeah, actually I did. He was so great to be around."
"It seemed like you two were pretty happy before you made him leave, which by the way, why did you do that? He's a half-demon too ya know."
Kagome set down a plate of celery and dip and sighed. She knew it all to well that he was a hanyou but for some odd reason she felt a need to hide them from him, to not let him know what they really looked like. "I don't know, I mean he seemed so nice and everything, but there was just this feeling that overcame me telling me to hide them. I wish I hadn't, his feelings looked really hurt, but I just had to."
"You know," started Kohaku with a mouthful of celery. "He's the first guy who has ever been totally excepting of you having kids. Don't you find that strange? Plus, there is something weird about his aura…like it's a bit familiar."
"You got that feeling too," asked Kagome surprised. She knew Sango had, but Kohaku too? There had to be something going on she concluded.
"Yeah, I did and its not exactly a bad thing, but oddly enough it mixed well with yours," shrugged Kohaku as he got up and went into the living room with the kids.
He's right, thought Kagome to herself. He did feel so good, and whenever he had me in his arms, Jesus….was that not fabulous or not. Takakashi feels so familiar…almost too familiar in a way, but then again, maybe that is just a good thing. Maybe this will actually progress into something more… Kagome smiled and stood up looking at her kids playing in the living room with their toys. "They are my life…" she mumbled as she soon joined them.
Kagome felt arms wrapped tight around her even in her sleep and she could feel the soft vibrations of his chest against her back and it comforted her during the nightmare she was just having. Soon the arms slid off of her and she could hear a man basically whimpering and she could feel wet drops fall on her face. Slowly, she opened her eyes as she heard: "Don't worry, I'll protect you…" She then saw a flash of bright gold eyes staring back at her.
Kagome laid still in bed as the dream replayed itself over and over again in her head. She could barely make out the demon that had its arms around her, but she could feel them, almost if they were really there. The voice was all too similar…all too much like that of someone she knew, but couldn't place.
What am I doing? InuYasha asked himself as he sat outside of Kagome's window and watched her lie awake in her dark room. I need to just leave her alone, stop watching her all the time. I should focus more on the kids… InuYasha's eyes then got a glazed over look on them as he remembered seeing them for the first time with them looking at him as well. He couldn't believe the feeling that over took him, pure bliss and love…much like the feeling he got every time he talked to Kagome.
It had been a week since their dinner date and InuYasha still couldn't figure out what to do, he knew what he wanted to do.
"Yasha, I am so sick of you moping around all day! Go talk to her!" Miroku yelled at him as they sat in their office together at work.
"I can't," grumbled InuYasha as he typed harder on the keys hoping to tune Miroku out.
"Yes, you can. Hell…you could even tell her that you were the father of her children. You could honestly tell her that everything that you've done since that day, but you are driving me insane! Please go out with her again at least!"
InuYasha turned to him with sad eyes. "I want to be apart of that family and being with her the other night was just a huge tease. She would never want to be with me, Miroku. Plus, once she finds out that I'm the awful beast that did that to her…she is going to purify the shit out of me and send me straight to hell."
"No she won't! I was talking to Sango last night and she told me that Kagome had a real good time with you the other night and that it seemed like Kagome wanted to see you again."
InuYasha's ears slightly perked up. "Really?"
"Really, really. Now why don't you call her or something?"
"I don't have her phone number and it would be weird if I just showed up at her door."
"How about this? How about I call Sango since they are probably at work as we speak and I just ask her if she can hand off the phone to Kagome and then you two can chat. Does that sound ok?"
"It sounds stupid," grunted InuYasha turning back to his computer.
"Well, I'm going to do it because you are driving me up the frickin' wall and I'm sick of it."
"Keh."
"Don't be so stubborn, Yash! I mean come on… This is ridiculous that you haven't talked to her since then. You go there every night!"
"That's to watch over her and the pups."
"Wouldn't you rather be there on the inside with them instead of on the outside?"
"Keh."
"Exactly my friend!" Miroku smiled triumphantly picking up his cell phone. "I'm going to call my lovely lady friend right now."
"Keh."
Miroku dialed the number and soon got the sweetest voice he ever heard.
"Hello?"
"Hi, my sweet!"
"Hi, Miroku," Sango replied distractedly. "What's up?"
"Well, I was wondering My Dear, if I could get Kagome on the phone because I have a certain hanyou over here that is currently driving me insane with his ignorance."
"Kagome?" Sango asked surprised.
Kagome looked over with wide eyes. "Takakashi?" She mouthed over to Sango.
Sango nodded her head and Kagome's whole face lit up. She was afraid that he hadn't liked her at all.
"Sure, I think that would be doable."
"Great!" Miroku replied handing the phone over to InuYasha, who of course, took it grudgingly.
"Hello?" He asked uncertainly.
"Hello!" Kagome replied in her angelic voice and InuYasha's heart almost stopped at the sound of it.
"How have you been, Kagome?" He asked trying to hide behind his desk and Miroku's perverted glances towards him.
"Oh, I've been good. I never got to thank you again for that crazy lift back to my place the other day."
"Oh, it was nothing, don't worry about it. How are the children? I hope they didn't inhale too much of that smoke."
Kagome smiled to herself. He remembered the children! "Oh, they can handle things like that…no worries at all. So how have you been?"
"I've been ok…"
"Hmm…"
There was then a comfortable silence as the two just sat on the phone with each other, but not talking. It was a natural feeling, but they just couldn't pinpoint why.
I hope he asks me out today. I can't wait to see him again! I almost want him to meet the children too.
I wonder if I should ask her out. I wonder if I should just come out and tell her that I'm the father…no… that wouldn't be good, but I have to tell her sometime. JUST WHEN?
There was more silence until InuYasha finally decided to interrupt it.
"You wanna get some coffee after work?"
"SURE!" Kagome answered excitedly. "I love coffee and plus there is a really great coffee shop that has wonderful pastries."
"How does that not surprise me," laughed InuYasha.
Miroku turned in his desk surprised. InuYasha, laughing?! Holy shit…that is amazing!
"Hey, that's no fair…you probably like them too. I bet you that you would eat more than me!" Kagome teased which surprised Sango.
Who is this guy and why do Kagome and him seem to click so well. I really have to get more information out of Miroku about him. I don't want to Kagome getting hurt again. Sango thought to herself as she turned back to her work.
"I can't eat fifty donuts. That would be ridiculous! I'm definitely not as big as a pig as you, Miss Kagome!" InuYasha laughed out loud again.
"Mr. Takakashi…I beg your pardon! I am not a pig…I'm a swan with a very large appetite!" Kagome tried to say like she was irritated.
"SURE!"
Kagome giggled in the phone had to compose herself as Sango eyed her suspiciously. "Ok, ok. You wanna meet at five-thirty?"
"Yeah, sure. I'll bring my appetite."
"See you then," Kagome smiled sweetly looking up at the clock.
"Bye, Kagome," InuYasha smiled.
"Bye, Takakashi," replied Kagome as she hung up the phone and handed it back over to Sango.
"What was that all about?" Sango asked curiously.
"What do you mean?" Kagome answered with the slightest blush tinting her cheeks.
"Well, it appears that Miss Kagome has a thing for this Takakashi fellow."
Kagome sighed dreamily and propped her head up on her desk with her arm. She looked almost like a high school girl again. "Oh, Sango…I just can't place it. He feels so familiar and it's insane. I mean, he doesn't care that I have children or that they are hanyou and there is just something there….I can't place it, but something he said I'm sure is terribly similar to a dream I've been having lately."
"A dream?"
"Yeah, it was of that night…" Kagome said getting really quiet.
"Like, nightmares?"
"Not exactly," sighed Kagome. "They are weird. They are parts of that whole entire thing that I must have blocked out, but have been coming back to me recently. Like I never knew the attacker's name, but now in my dream, he made me say it. Then another dream I had was that of him afterwards, holding me and promising me that he would always protect me. He was crying too…"
"Are you serious?" Sango asked. "With knowing his name you could finally arrest him! What was his name?"
Kagome bit her lip. "InuYasha, and I know that I could arrest him, but then I think of what happened afterwards and how he was whimpering and promising to protect me."
"Oh, come on Kagome! Look what he did to you! I know he gave you two great gifts, but COME ON! He attacked you!"
"I know, I know, I know…but remember how there is always that presence around the house and if I'm ever out that just makes me feel safe? Maybe it really is him protecting me."
Sango sighed and returned to her work. "Honestly, Kagome, I think you have gone a little soft on this situation. I don't know why you have, but it is ridiculous and you need to open your eyes."
Kagome turned back to her work and couldn't concentrate. She just kept thinking about how InuYasha's eyes where red whenever he told her to kiss him while he was raping her, but then whenever she got the flash of remarkable golden eyes. The same golden eyes of Mizuki. "I just think that something was wrong with him, that's why he did that to me…that's, why he raped me. It was an accident."
"Believe what you want Kagome," sighed Sango.
Kagome didn't say anything; she just kept working, unable to get the whimpering and the soft, yet sad voice, out of her head.
AN: Ok, I'm terribly sorry for the long wait….I know, I've been a terrible author, but alas……my college is like a nazi concentration camp and I had to focus on my artwork for a while. Anywho, thank you again for all of those who reviewed long long ago, I hope to update soon since our finals are almost over…if I don't, please come and kick my butt .