The next day at school, Miroku kept bugging Kagome about what she was going to do after school while Kagome tried with all her might to avoid him. She would have succeeded if it weren't for the fact that they shared a class together and that class happened to be study hall and his seat was right next to her.
"Why won't you answer me?" he questioned, frustrated.
"'Cause I have nothing planned. You worry more than Mom," she said with a small sigh.
"You know that I worry about you. And if your mom knew, you know she would be worse than me. So don't give me that," he said.
"So what do you have planned for you and Sango?" she asked, trying to change the topic.
"The fair is in town, so I thought that I would take her there and then to dinner," he answered thoughtfully.
"Sounds like fun," she said.
The rest of the day flew by. When the last bell rang, everyone rushed out of class happily to get out of the mental prison they called a school. Kagome met Inuyasha at his locker. Waiting until most of the student had left, they took another exit, just to make sure that they wouldn't run into Miroku as they walked to Inuyasha's house.
The walk to Inuyasha's house was quiet, as neither knew what to say. But they were both glad that he didn't live to far from school, and it didn't take long to reach his house. Once they made it to his house, they stood outside for a few moments. Kagome was looking over the house as Inuyasha was nervous about what she would think of his family.
"Ready?" she asked, noticing his hesitation.
With a deep breath from Inuyasha and a small giggle from Kagome, they made their way to the front door. Once they entered the house and walked into the living room, they were greeted by a tall man that looked a lot like Inuyasha. The man was a little taller than Inuyasha with longer silver hair. He had cold golden eyes and he had a crescent moon on his forehead with two stripes on each of his cheeks.
"Sesshomaru, this is Kagome. Kagome this is my brother Sesshomaru," Inuyasha introduced, somewhat grudgingly.
"Hello, it's nice to meet you," Kagome said with a smile.
Sesshomaru looked at her with a brow raised before taking a seat and picking up the paper to finish reading it. Kagome stood there, unsure of what to do as she shifted awkwardly from one foot to the other. Inuyasha grabbed her hand and gave it a light squeeze as she turned to look at him.
"I did say sorry ahead of time," he reminded her softly with a small smile.
"It's alright." She returned his smile.
"Well, Rin is in the kitchen. Rin is Sesshomaru's mate. I don't know if you want to sit in here with Sesshomaru, meet Rin, or we can do something else…," he said.
"How about meeting Rin?" she suggested.
Inuyasha led Kagome to the kitchen where they found Rin working around the kitchen, humming to herself as she prepared dinner. She was a little shorter than Kagome but looked a little older by a year or two. Her shoulder-length black hair was pulled up into a side ponytail away from her dark eyes. When Rin saw them, the smile on her face grew as she walked over to them.
"Hi, Inuyasha," Rin greeted him and then turned to Kagome, "And you must be Kagome, it's nice to finally meet you."
"It's nice to meet you too, Rin," Kagome said with a smile.
"Hey Rin. Do you mind if we hang out here?" Inuyasha asked with a pleading look. "Sesshomaru is in the living room reading."
"Sure, but you should try to get along with him once in a while," Rin scolded lightly, sighing.
"So, Rin, do you need help?" Kagome questioned after a short silence as she walked over to the sink to wash her hands.
"Sure, if you don't mind. Could you cut these up?" Rin asked, handing her some vegetables with a knife.
Smiling, Kagome helped Rin finish preparing dinner as Inuyasha sat at the counter watching the two as they chatted and occasionally threw a towel around at each other. When the food was almost ready, the girls volunteered him to set the table. Once everything was set up and the food was in place, Rin went to get Sesshomaru from the living room.
Now they all sat around the table piling food on their plates. The only sound that could be heard was the clinking of silverware against porcelain and the loud ticking of the clock. The silence was comfortable and welcome at the moment as they all got ready to eat. Once they started to eat, Sesshomaru started the conversation.
"So, Kagome, I see that my brother was finally able to talk to you," Sesshomaru stated as he glanced at her, his tone emotionless.
Kagome raised her eyebrows as Inuyasha and Rin said, "Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha nearly growled it while Rin's tone was chiding. Inuyasha was unable to hide the light pink blush that now colored his face.
"I suppose so," Kagome said through barely contained giggles.
The rest of the dinner was interesting, to say the least. Sesshomaru had picked on Inuyasha through the whole thing while getting yelled at by Rin and growling could be heard from Inuyasha. Kagome, on the other hand, was trying her hardest not to laugh at the whole thing. It was just too funny.
Once they were done eating, Rin dragged Sesshomaru into the kitchen to help with the dishes while Inuyasha and Kagome went into the living room. Inuyasha showed her where the movies were and she picked out the movie 50 First Dates. They sat on the couch.
At the end of the movie, Inuyasha walked her home. So there they are. Standing on Kagome's porch. Neither was sure what they should do. But Inuyasha figured he would wait on the porch until she entered her house so that he knew she was safe in her house.
Kagome, in contrast, couldn't decide if she wanted to run into the house or kiss him. She was leaning toward the latter. So with the last of her currently microscopic courage, she kissed Inuyasha on the cheek before whispering a quick goodnight and went into the house with a red face.
After a few moments, she still didn't hear movement outside, which meant that he was still outside her door. So, as curiosity took over her, she looked over the window to see Inuyasha with a silly smile on his face, touching his cheek lightly. Kagome jumped when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Is he still out there?" her mom asked.
"Yes," Kagome answered her in a whisper.
"Well, you should invite him in," her mom said with a smile.
"No, that's alright," Kagome said quickly. "Let's just leave him."
"Okay, dear," her mom chuckled, leaving Kagome to continue her nervous staring.
When she looked out the window again, Inuyasha was gone. As she went up to her room, her cell phone started to ring. She knew who it was even before she looked. Once she made it safely to her room, she answered.
"You kill them. We grill them. Joe speaking," she answered as she sat down on her bed.
"Ha ha, very funny, Kagome," Miroku's voice answered her.
"What's up?" Kagome asked.
"Just checking to make sure you didn't get into any trouble," he said, the paused before continuing. "You didn't, right?"
"Nope, none that I know of," she answered thoughtfully.
"Okay, well I'll talk to you later. Sango's back."
"Is that Kagome? Can't you leave the poor girl alone?" she heard Sango say to Miroku as he hung up.
Tossing her phone to the side, she got up to take a shower before going to bed.
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The next day, Wednesday, Kagome found herself waiting for the final bell to ring. Miroku has been bugging her about what she had done the day before as she kept trying to direct the conversation back to how his date went. She was glad to find out that they had a good time.
When the bell finally rang to let them go home, Kagome was the first one out of the room. Wanting to get home right away so that she could start on her pile of homework, she headed toward the exit. Once the exit was in sight she saw Inuyasha standing there. Trying to sneak past him so that she didn't have to face him, which she wasn't sure she could after the kiss even though it was only on the cheek.
"Hey, Kagome," Inuyasha shouted across the hall.
Sighing, she turned around to go talk to him. When she reached him, she gave a small smile. Just as she was about to say something, she had cut off by a growl. Turning around, she saw Koga standing behind her. Instantly, she ran behind Inuyasha as Koga moved closer to them.
"What do you want, fleabag?" Inuyasha demanded with a growl of his own.
"I got a score to settle with you, mutt," Koga said angrily.
"Don't make me laugh. You're nothing but a wimpy wolf," Inuyasha said cockily.
"Prove that you can beat me," Koga challenged, "half-breed."
"You're on, dog breath," Inuyasha said, getting into a fighting stance.
"Then get ready, loser," Koga said as he lunged at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and jumped out of the way. They landed a distance away as Koga quickly turned to face them as inuyasha and Kagome ran out the building. Inuyasha pushed Kagome behind a nearby tree when he saw Koga came running at them. Koga was going to tackle him, but Inuyasha jumped over him and kicked his back, which made Koga stumble forward and fall face-first towards the ground. He caught himself roughly with his hands before the pavement reached his face.
"What is your problem?" Inuyasha asked with a growl.
"You. If weren't for you, I could have completed my mission and got my reward without all this extra bullshit," Koga said, irritated, as he stood back up to fight.
"What mission?" Inuyasha questioned, trying to find out all that he could from the stupid demon that didn't know when to shut up.
"The one that Naraku sent me on," Koga said, not realizing it was far past time to shut the hell up. "The one where I kill Kagome to get the jewel." Kagome gasped. He launched himself at Inuyasha again.
"You little shit." All attention was brought to where they heard the male's voice.
Looking behind Koga, Miroku stood there, pissed off at what he'd just heard. In a blink of an eye, Miroku was standing in front of Koga In another blink, he had Koga by the throat. Sapphire eyes darken as they stared at their prey, waiting for him to give him a reason not to end it right there. Koga made feeble attempts to loosen Miroku's grip from his neck.
"Why does Naraku what Kagome dead?" Miroku growled, not loosing his grip even ever-so-slightly.
"I don't know," Koga gasped. "He just told me if I did it that I could get what I desire." Her continued to struggle against Miroku's fierce grip.
"Where is he?" Miroku demanded as Inuyasha tried to usher Kagome away from a scene she really shouldn't see.
Koga whispered something to Miroku before something flew through the air and hit Koga in the back. Koga fell slack into Miroku's grip. Dropping the dead weight of the wolf, they all looked around for where the dart, which now stuck out of Koga's back, had come from.
With a quick nod, Inuyasha picked Kagome up and ran from the school. Miroku was hot on his heels and soon took the lead and led them to Kagome's house. They stopped in front of the door. Kagome opened the door and went through, expecting the boys to follow her, but they remained on the porch.
"Aren't you coming in?" Kagome asked them with her head tilted in confusion.
"Not yet. But you go ahead, we'll be a moment," Miroku said with a smile.
"Okay…," she said, unsure of what was going on, but she shrugged it off as she entered the house.
"So, I take it you're going after Naraku," Inuyasha stated once the door clicked shut.
"What's it to you?" Miroku asked with a brow raised.
"I'll come to help kick his ass," Inuyasha said with a smirk.
"Nope, I rather have you here with Kagome," Miroku said seriously.
"I thought you didn't like me," Inuyasha said inquiringly.
"Well, you prove not to be much of a threat. Anyway, you were still going to see her even without my permission," Miroku said with a knowing smirk.
"Permission?" Inuyasha repeated incredulously.
"It's okay," Miroku went on, as if he hadn't spoken. "Just don't hurt her."
"I won't hurt her," Inuyasha said with angry seriousness.
"Good, now get in there. Tell her I will be by later," Miroku said as he took his leave.
Inuyasha walked into the house to find Kagome in the kitchen making some Ramen. Taking a sat at the small table, he watched her as she got out three bowls and then went back to stir the noodles. Inuyasha quietly walked over to her and took the third bowl to put it away. Once the bowl was back in the cabinet, he took his sit back at the table.
"Now why did you do that, Inuyasha?" she asked without turning around.
"Miroku said he had to go. So it's just the two of us," he told her with a smirk.
"Oh really?" she asked as she whirled to face him.
"Yup. Said we can't sneak around anymore," he said with a soft chuckle.
"Hm." She became thoughtful. "And here I thought he would surely kill you for it."
Well, here is the second to last chapter. Yes, sadly there is only one more chapter to go. And I got to say it again, I don't own Inuyasha and friends. Happy Thanksgiving.
~Isabella the White Tiger