The Way I Feel Inside
Chapter Eleven
She couldn't help that she was pacing, but she was starting to get nervous. It had been over 20 minutes since the show ended and no one had come by but the crew members. Wait. What if he's one of the crew? It'd fit perfectly. Anyways on the road for work and been to so many shows he lost count. Sango watched as Kagome paced. For a moment, she thought she might have put two and two together as she stopped suddenly, but then she shook her head and went right back at it. Sango smiled lightly. Don't worry, Kagome. He'll be here soon enough. Shippo and Kouga left the wardrobe about the same time and Miroku came out moments after them.
"Shut up, you two." He warned as they approached the awaiting group. They went quiet as they sat down in the chairs lining the hallway, but began whispering among themselves and looking at Kagome frequently. Miroku shook his head as he sat down next to Sango, pulling an arm around her shoulders.
"They know?" She whispered to him. He looked at her and nodded, taking a moment to kiss her cheek. Shippo looked at Kagome again.
"She's all nervous over him. She has no idea that he's not worth that." Kouga said. Shippo grinned.
"Why don't you go calm her down?" It was obviously a dare. Kouga just nodded, standing up.
"Did you enjoy the show, Sango and- um- sorry, I never did get your name." Kagome stopped pacing and looked toward him when she realised that he spoke to her.
"Hm. Oh, Kagome."
"Delighted. I hope that you enjoyed yourself tonight."
"Oh, yes. It was a blast. I've always heard that you put on a stellar live show."
"Oh?" Kouga said, leaning against the wall. "It was your first show?" While all this was going on, Shippo leaned over to Miroku.
"Fifty bucks says Inuyasha freaks out when he sees this." Miroku shook his head.
"That's one bet that I'm going to have to pass on." They laughed secretly as they watched.
"Yes. unfortunately. I'll definately be catching more." She couldn't stand still. She kept shifting her weigh from one side to the other.
"If you let us know, I'm made sure that we play a song for ya." He said. Down the hall, the door opened. Miroku elbowed Shippo and nodded down the hall. Shippo turned in time to see Inuyasha freeze up. He snickered childishly. Inuyasha collected himself in time and shook his head. All of a sudden, a smirk passed over his face.
"Ooh, this is going to be good." Shippo said. Inuyasha pushed the wardrobe door open.
"Kouga?" Upon hearing his name, he turned around.
"Yeah?"
"You can't leave this mess in here." He said, looking into the room. Kouga, unbeknowst, fell for the trap.
"What mess?" He asked, walking down the hallway to the room. They both disappeared into the room. Shippo and Miroku were the only one's close enough to hear Kouga grunt. Inuyasha emerged from the room. As he passed, Shippo couldn't help himself.
"Where's Kouga?" Inuyasha smiled secretitively.
"Cleaning up his mess." He said. To that, they laughed outright. As Sango caught on, she shot him a look, to which he gave a guilty smile. Fortunately, Souta came from the stage area and took the seat next to Shippo. They began talking and Miroku and Sango began whispering to each other. Inuyasha took a moment to gather himself. She was pacing from the doorway leading to the stage, through the hall where everyone was sitting into another doorway. She must be really nervous. He looked out to the front of the stage. The lights were all down and the audience had cleared out. As he went over to his computer, his throat went dry. It was the moment of truth. He saw the message was in his imbox. Taking a deep breath, he opened it, reading it's contents.
Inuyasha,
I have to say - meeting you is a big risk for me. It's not something that I'd usually do. I'm not really sure why I kept talking with you on the internet. That wasn't exactly normal for me either. But I feel like these chances must be taken. I don't know why, but there's something about this that makes me feel like everything will be okay. Due to an extreme streak of luck, I can make it to the show and my backstage pass is still open for me to take. I'm not quite sure what else to say, but I'll see you soon.
Kagome
Inuyasha thought his heart leaped out of his chest for a moment. She had accepted him, both as himself and the rockstar. He knew why she had to take the chance. It was the same in his case. It had to be taken, because there was a special bond between them that couldn't be broken by risks. With all the confidence in the world, he headed toward the doorway where she was pacing.
"Kagome?" She didn't hear him. He only came to two conclusions. Either the concert left her hearing temporarily limited or she was in a daze. He looked back and made sure the others weren't paying attention before he made a move. Seeing that they weren't paying any attention, he waited for the right moment and crossed her path. As she walked into him, he took a moment to steady her.
"Whoa. You alright?"
"Yeah. Sorry." He waved it off.
"It's no big deal. You sure you're okay? You look like you're expecting someone." She laughed lightly, not responding at all. It was a subtle hint. "So, did you enjoy the show?"
"Oh, yeah. It was awesome!" She said as she stopped pacing.
"What was your favorite part?"
"Oh, I can't pick. Your setlist tonight had all of my favorites."
"I thought you might enjoy that." He said. She looked at him, but shrugged it off. He looked down at the shirt in his hand, turning his back, he slid it on. When he turned around, she was looking up the hallway, expecting him to walk up at any moment. "Your brother did a good job. He seems to be doing a whole lot better." Kagome looked over at her brother, who was laughing at something Shippo had said.
"Definately. He had gone through such a rough time."
"I know. You told me." She looked directly at him. He thought she finally realised it.
"I did?" She asked. He nodded. "Oh- I don't remember that." Oh, come on! I didn't think it was that hard to believe. He tried to think of something else to throw out there.
"What do you think about the song we premiered? The demo."
"It was beautiful. I thought it sounded really good." Inuyasha took a breath.
"It's kind of funny. I wrote it about this girl that I've been chatting with. I'm not quite sure how she feels, though." He said, looking directly at her. Well, now I know that it's not mutual between us. Kagome thought.
"Why's that?"
"Kagome, I think you know how hard it is to know how someone feels about you when you can't see thier face." She just held an extremely confused. "It's hard reading emotions online, don't you think?" That hit her like a ton of bricks. She couldn't believe it for a moment. Taking a moment, she looked at his shirt to see the Cure written in big letters. All of those hints that he had been throwing out and she hadn't noticed. It was an overwhelming flood of emotions. She moved to say something, but her voice failed her. She managed to choke something out.
"Inuyasha?" He smiled down at her lightly. That was enough to confirm it for her. Suddenly, she felt limp and began to fall.
"Kagome!" That was when the others jumped up to thier feet. Souta was first at thier side. Inuyasha managed to catch her, putting an arm uner her knees and the other one held her into his chest.Her head fell into his chest, not that he minded, but everyone was now completely aware of them.
"Um- what should I do?" Miroku walked past them.
"This way. There's a cot in the VIP lounge." Miroku opened the door and held it open for him. He immediately set her down on the cot.
"Is she alright?"
"She'll be fine. She just fainted." Miroku informed. Souta moved to her side. Meanwhile, Kouga spoke up.
"Good job, Dogboy."
"It's not like I expected her to faint." Inuyasha said softly as his eyes landed on her form.
"For God's sake, Kouga." Sango said.
"What?" He said as if he didn't do anything. Sango rolled her eyes.
"I never even thought of her fainting. I visualized every other alternative, but I never thought she'd faint."
"That's because she's not the fainting type." Souta said. "She's fine. It'll pass in another minute or two."
"It was probably just the excitment of the show and the worry of you not showing up." Sango said, placing a hand on his shoulder. It didn't remain long. As soon as Miroku said she was starting to pull through, he immediately was at her side. He was watching her face intently. As soon as she opened her eyes, everyone heard his gasp. The first thing she saw was Inuyasha and Souta peering down at her.
"Is there something on my face?" A couple of them laughed. Souta and Inuyasha just smiled. "What happened?" Souta wanted to tell her that little bit of news.
"You fainted." He said, extremely amused by her reaction.
"I did what?"
"You fainted." Inuyasha repeated. She looked at him and then remembered what had happened.
"Inuyasha?" He smiled again.
"Sounds better than 'Dogboy,' doesn't it?" She moved to say something, but then stopped. Everyone's attention was on her at the moment. Her cheeks turn a faint pink as she blushed. He smiled light down at her, so no one else could see it. Suddenly, Sango caught a hold of herself.
"Alright! Everyone out!" There were a few groans, but Sango didn't care. "Go on. Nothing to see." She said. They began heading out the door. Souta was the last one, who stopped at the doorway, as Kagome suspected he would. She nodded at him, telling him it was alright. Souta smiled, nodding back, and leaving them to thier privacy. Inuyasha got up and went to the door, shutting it behind him. By the time he'd turned around, she was back on her feet again. Now that they both knew, neither one of them knew what to say, so they watched each other. Of course, the silence was broken my the more anxious of the two.
"Well?" Inuyasha said.
"Well?" She repeated him. He laughed lightly at himself. Talking had been hard before, but now it was like he was incapable of speech.
"So- uh..." He cleared his throat. "You feeling okay?" She nodded.
"Yeah." There was another silence, which didn't take too long to be broken. "I just have one question." He raised any eyebrow.
"Only one?" She stopped momentairly, but then continued, ignoring his comment.
"Why didn't you come to me sooner? You waited the entire time from the bookstore until now. Did you think that-" She had closed the space between them. He just wrapped his arms around her, pulling her into an embrace.
"It wasn't easy for me, you know." He whispered into her ear. A shiver ran down her spine. She returned his embrace, letting out a sigh of relief. In that moment, they both knew that it wasn't just an internet friendship, but much, much more than that.
As they came out of the room, it was completely silent. All of them just watched as Kagome came out, and then Inuyasha.Both had unreadable expressions. Naturally, Sango was the first to break the silence.
"So?" She said, waiting expectantly.
"So what?" Inuyasha said. He paused for a moment, but didn't allow anyone to speak. "You heard everything while you were listening at the door anyways, right?" Inuyasha didn't look at anyone's reponse, but Miroku. He was the one known to crack under pressure. His face gave it away.
"I swear I told them to let you have your space." Miroku said.
"You're pathetic."
"We didn't hear anything actually. We heard Kagome say something, but we didn't hear exactly what it was, so we went to the door." Sango admitted.
"I can't believe you, Sango." Kagome said.
"I might add that eavesdropping on you wasn't my idea." That surprised them.
"Who was it then?" All of them looked around, but there was one particular person that they all looked at at one point of another.
"Souta!" Kagome said. He raised his hands in defense.
"Now, Kagome-"
"You're unbelievable."
"I'll take that as a compliment." He said, backing away slowly.
"You knew! What secrets have you been hiding from me?"
"Only the one about Inuyasha." She gave him a final glare before turning around. "Oh, and that dent in your old Civic. That was me." He said. Immediately after he spoke, he turned around and ran. Kagome immediately spun around and saw him running. She took off after him, screaming threats and names at him. He ran clear across the stage and took a flying leap off of it, over the rail. Even that didn't phase her as she followed him. Inuyasha made it to the doorway leading to the stage as he watched her chase him down. He felt a hand on his shoulder. Turning around, he met this best friend, who was also watching the scene they were causing.
"I think that your going to have your hands full, buddy." He turned and watched as Kagome finally caught him.
"Miroku, I think your right."
AN: All right. I've made my decision. I'm working on the epilouge for the story right now and am going to try to make it a little lengthy for you. More details coming soon...