Disclaimer: "Inuyasha" was not my imagination at work; it was Rumiko Takahashi's brilliant one.
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Kagome
scrunched up her eyes and then slowly opened them to see a white
ceiling; and then felt something cold and dry on her forehead; she
jerked herself up from her laying down position on a dark navy blue 3
seat sofa and gasped making the face towel drop down onto her lap,
she looked around frantically, only to see unfamiliar surroundings,
then she thought, Where
in the world am I?? Before
she could continue her thoughts, a voice behind her spoke, "Well
finally you have come to; it's been almost 2 hours." Inuyasha
walked over to Kagome, offered her a glass of water, and held his
hand out and added "The face towel." Kagome turned to Inuyasha,
handed him the face towel and then took the water gratefully, after 2
quick sips and gathering her bearings, common sense told her she was
in Inuyasha's house. Kagome then asked a question that she already
knew the answer to, "Um….what happened to me???" Inuyasha
replied after sitting on a nearby stool and placing the now dry face
towel neatly on the ground for the time being, "You were being
attacked by some guys; I beat the hell out of 'em, you fainted, and
I brought you here." Kagome blinked, "Oh, okay…thank you for
rescuing me." Inuyasha blushed slightly and suddenly became very
interested in examining his claws and then a long awkward silence
slipped between the two, until the silence was broken by the sound of
faint footsteps on the floor, Inuyasha with his keen nose already
knew who was the one who had broken the awkward silence, so he
continued examining his claws, while Kagome looked up to see
Sesshomaru in a long white bathrobe with a white towel rolled at the
tips of his wet-looking hair , he stopped and looked at Kagome, then
said slightly irritatingly, "Your still here?" Kagome decided it
was a rhetorical question, so she didn't answer and just continued
staring. He then said with the same irritated tone, "Seeing you at
school is already torture enough, and now I have to see you at my
home." With that, he proceeded walking toward, what Kagome assumed
was the kitchen, he opened the refrigerator, and while he did this
Inuyasha looked up at Kagome and said, "Oh, don't mind him, he is
just angry because Father told him for, like the twentieth time since
last month, that he couldn't have a big Birthday party this year
like he always does and since his birthday is in a week from now, my
bro. is really getting crabby." After taking out a Dasani water
bottle and closing the door of the refrigerator, rather loudly,
Sesshomaru let out an angry low growl, walked in Inuyasha's eye
range, and said simply and coldly, "Inuyasha?" Inuyasha looked up
with an evil little smile, which soon turned into a huge angry frown,
when he witnessed Sesshomaru putting his towel to his side and
shaking his head annoyingly and forcefully, causing drops of water to
splash along the kitchen floor, the water droplets spread in a huge
variety of places, considering the length of Sesshomaru's hair,
after doing this, Sesshomaru smiled evily at Inuyasha and Inuyasha
said angrily, "Hey, what the hell is your problem I just mopped the
whole floor, you fucking bastard!!!" Sesshomaru replied, "Your
point??" With that, he walked back toward what Kagome assumed was
his room, leaving trails of water behind him. Inuyasha grinded his
teeth and said angrily, "That asshole, I swear, one day I'm
gonna…." He stopped, remembering Kagome's presence, he turned
to look at her and with his tone slightly softer he said, "Sorry
about that." Without waiting for a reply, he got up from the stool
he was sitting on, picked up the face towel from the ground and went
off to Kagome hadn't decided where yet. After a couple of seconds,
he came back with a mop that had a yellow handle, Kagome watched as
Inuyasha carefully mopped up the areas where Sesshomaru had left
water, all the while grumbling things to himself that Kagome could
not make out, Inuyasha felt her eyes on him and he turned, at that
exact moment she quickly placed her eyes on her glass and took in a
gulp of water, in order to avoid anymore awkwardness. Inuyasha went
back to mopping and Kagome continued sipping and gulping, she
realized that she was quite thirsty, indeed. Inuyasha then walked in
the same direction he had went to before, and then came back without
the mop, walked over the parts of the kitchen floor he had just
mopped, sat back on the stool he was previously sitting on, and
watched Kagome and waited for her to finish drinking, sensing that
she was about to say something, and alas, his trusty senses did not
lie, Kagome removed the tip of the cup from her lips, took a breath
and asked, "If you don't mind me asking, where is your Father??"
Inuyasha replied back lazily, "On yet another business trip, he
left early this morning, before school started." "Oh, so it is
just you and Sesshomaru, then?" "Yeah, and he left Sesshomaru in
charge, God only knows why, I don't need a darn babysitter, I am 17
years old forgodssakes." Kagome chuckled at that, which made
Inuyasha's heart flutter in his chest. "So do you have any
siblings??" Inuyasha asked. "Yes, my little brother Sota, he is
about 6 in-a-half years younger than I am." Kagome replied
pleasantly. After these words were exchanged, Kagome and Inuyasha
indulged in a conversation of interests and school topics. After
about 45 minutes, Kagome glanced at her watch and gasped, "Oh
goodness, look at the time, its 9:00 already, I must go and I'm
sure I have stalled you from studying for your vocabulary test
tomorrow." "Well not really, I studied in advance starting from
last week, and I am pretty sure everything will stay in my memory,
you don't want to know what Father was goin' to do to me, if I
hadn't studied properly." Kagome paused and stared at Inuyasha
and smiled, "Okay then good for you, but I still have papers to
grade, so I need to go." Kagome stood up, handed her glass to
Inuyasha, and then realized she didn't know where her bag, purse,
and sweater were. Inuyasha told her to wait awhile and in a flash, he
was back with her stuff, he handed them to her gently, and said, "I
can give you a ride if you want." Kagome replied, "Uhh...no, it
is okay, there is another bus that comes around this time so..."
Inuyasha cut her off, "The bus doesn't come around by my house."
Kagome was about to reply, when Inuyasha added, "And no, your not
walking, what if the same thing that happened earlier to you, happens
again tonight?" Kagome looked determined, but after awhile, she
sighed and gave in, "Okay, fine." Inuyasha indicated for her to
follow him and as he put his hand on the front door knob, he yelled
out,
"Sessh, I am gonna drop off Miss H.!" When they were
outside, Kagome put on a slightly confused expression, "Sessh?"
Inuyasha chuckled, "Yeah, that's the nickname I made up one day,
he hates it, but that's exactly why I continue using it, now jump
on." Inuyasha knelt down and bent his body slightly forward. Kagome
looked shocked, "What are you doing??" Inuyasha replied, "What
does it look like I'm doin,' I am bending down waiting for you to
hop on my back, obviously." Inuyasha sensed Kagome's hesitation;
it was spilled all over her blood scent, so he added. "What, you
expected me to have a car, or somethin,' my Dad won't even trust
me in holding a single tire." "Now do you want to stand here all
night, because I got better things to do?" Kagome didn't want to
be a burden, so she hopped on his back, and without thinking, she
wrapped her arms tightly around Inuyasha's neck, he coughed, and
she widened her eyes and instantly let go, "Oh I am terribly
sorry." After recovering, Inuyasha, now slightly pissed off,
replied, "Are you scared of heights or do you want to choke me to
death!!!??" Kagome, being already adapted to his yelling, replied
calmly. "I said I was sorry, now stop yelling, I still have the
authority to suspend you for abuse towards a teacher." "Oh I am
so scared, will you stop fucking around, I am tired you know."
Kagome replied back, "Will you watch it with that profanity??!!"
"Yeah Yeah, whatever." With that Inuyasha jumped off from the
ground, oblivious to what Kagome was about to do. Kagome screamed
loudly in his left dog ear, making him almost double over, he ignored
the painful ringing in his ear and yelled, due to the noise of the
wind, "So your not afraid of heights and you don't want to choke
me to death, you just wanted to make me suffer by causing me to
become deaf before I even turn twenty!" Kagome replied
half-sarcastically "Oh, I am sorry, I just don't normally ride on
people's backs and feel my stomach doing cartwheels on a
rollercoaster ride I didn't want to go on in the first place!!"
"So now I am a rollercoaster, what will they think up next??!!!"
Inuyasha found himself smiling, which wasn't really unexpected,
whenever he would run his full speed in the outdoors the feeling of
wind and freedom that wrapped itself around his face and body, like a
glue sticking to paper, was so wonderful he could not help, but
smile, and on top of that, the feel of warmth and softness the wind
also gave him, reminded him so much of his late mother's loving
touch……
Author's note: Well hope you liked this chapter, hope I didn't take too long posting it up; thanx for reading and stay tuned for the 6th chapter, and remember to review. :)