Caving In
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A/N- thoughts are in italics… hint hint. I will update as soon as I am able. Please review either at the end of chapters or when you are finished completely, either is fine w/ me. Thank you for choosing to read this fanfic! It is the first I've ever posted. I appreciate all types of feedback!
Chapter 4: Phone Call
"Hm. You should have been more careful, human." A rough voice said.
He was clothed in a tan fur and an earthy smell rose off of him. His black hair was tied back in a high ponytail and his built arms were what had prevented her from cracking her skull on the hard, gray floor. He sniffed the air and smirked.
"Nice perfume. I'm Kouga." He helped Kagome to her feet.
Kagome kept her eyes on her feet, "Th-thank you. I-I have to go." She began to walk to Ayumi when Kouga gently grabbed her arm.
"Hey. Give me a call sometime." He slipped his hand into her backpack and wrote a number on a piece of paper, then slipped it back into her bag. The wolf youkai winked at her and then disappeared in the crowd.
With her face beet red, Kagome shuffled over to her friends. Their faces smug, they surrounded her to ask questions when Kagome's cell phone rang. A rarity that only happened once in a blue moon, Kagome took her phone from her pocket and answered it, her friends eying her in curiosity.
"Hello?"
Her friends watched her as she replied with nods and 'alrights'. After ten minutes on the phone, Kagome hung up and slipped it back into her pocket.
She turned to her friends, "that was my professor… He said that I passed my finals, but to return to school this afternoon…."
They all looked at one another for a while trying to get a grip on reality, then the three other girls bear-hugged Kagome. Laughing, they all dragged Kagome out for some coffee to celebrate.
Coffee shop
"So… do you have any idea of where you're gonna work now that you are out of college?" Her friend Eri asked. "Kagome?"
"Uh? Japan to Kagome. Are the lights on upstairs?" Ayumi gently rapped her fist on Kagome's forehead.
The glazed look in her eyes shifted back to the bright twinkle she usually exhibited.
"Huh?"
Kagome had been reminiscing on her younger, much brighter childhood. Her chin had been resting on her palm and, as usual when she thought, her friends feared that she was spacing out again.
Ayumi and the other two sighed, "Kagome… maybe you should get going. It's almost twelve."
Ayumi looked at her Hello Neko watch, the thin hands just past a quarter 'til noon. Kagome still confused, agreed quickly after she took a glance at her own watch. She apologized that she couldn't stay longer but they just sent her on her way.
Tokyo streets
Racing to the crosswalk, Kagome checked her watch again.
'Shoot! I've only got five minutes left to get back on time!' She panicked to herself.
Thankfully by the time she reached the crosswalk, the little green man for 'Walk' blinked on the sign. She sighed.
'Hopefully I'll make it. How I wish Sota didn't break my bike last week!'
Kagome remembered the previous week when her brother "borrowed" her bike for what he called 'Demolition Derby', in which he played Chicken with his friends and their bikes. Unfortunately, neither Sota nor his friend chickened out when it was their turn to face off, due to the Higurashi children's stubbornness and their adrenaline.
"Only at the last second did we know we were gonna crash. So we jumped off of the bikes and… yours kinda got the worst part of it. Sorry sis."
Kagome thought on the story her brother had given her and sighed. She had experienced worse, but fought against the urge to dwell on those immature memories. Nearing the university, Kagome grinned when she checked her watch for the next to last time.
"Yes! It's only eleven fifty-seven. Three minutes. I'm gonna make it!"
Sprinting now, she shoved her way in through the slow revolving door. She hurried to the elevators while she waved at the receptionists in the circular desk- positioned in the center of the lobby. Slowly the chime of golden doored elevators sounded and she rushed in. The doors were just about closed when a clawed hand reached in to stop them. Kagome looked up from the buttons to find the very man who called her step inside. She smiled up at Sesshoumaru and the doors whispered tightly shut.
