A/N: Hi guys! Thanks so much again for all the wonderful reviews. Anyway, I want to inform you that I'll be having a vacation in our province and I believe that there's no computer there in that place so I won't be able to update until next week Thursday or Friday. I'm really sorry but I have no choice. I was dragged into this. See you next week after this chap!
As always…please review!
xianora
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Enemies or Lovers
Chapter 15
Kagome prepared to get out of the car but then hesitated, as if she forgot something. Then, she turned to face Inuyasha and gave him a peck on the cheek.
"I'm sorry again for what happened earlier and thanks because you saved me from the uncomfortable situation of talking to Kouga…Bye." After that, she got out of the car and headed to her house.
She certainly caught him off guard. He absent-mindedly touched the part where she kissed him.
His face heated up. 'This is stupid. I still don't like her…in that way. We're just friends and we act civil to each other. It's just that.' Trying to convince himself.'
'And to think that she hates me with her life when we met…' he thought, feeling his face heat up even more.
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"Hey, are you okay? You're red in the face." Sesshoumaru said when he saw his brother on his way to his room.
"None of your damn business." The hanyou answered, his face turning even a darker shade of red.
"Fine." Was all the youkai answered.
The dog youkai was never really that noisy, and his statement regarding his remark about Inuyasha's face is one of the longest he has said in his dear life.
Without bothering to stay there any longer, Sesshoumaru walked on to go outside and leave his brother in peace.
"Sess, where were you this morning, anyway?"
Now, it was Sesshoumaru's turn to blush. "Cornered…" he replied and started to leave.
"Heck! Can you explain further? All your one-worded answers are so frustrating, you know that?" Inuyasha shouted, heating up in an instant.
"You have to live with it. I'm not like you, words tumbled in your mouth and said carelessly." The youkai said, his face still calm, making his brother even angrier.
"Now that's a long one—"
"None of your damn business…" and with that, Sesshoumaru smirked and left as quickly as he can.
"And took my line too…Keh!" Inuyasha said to himself. 'Cornered? What does he mean?'
But for Inuyasha, who has already reached the comforts of his messy room, he shouldn't think on these things on such a long period of time. He's got some things to reflect about:
Why did he blush this morning when Kagome embraced him because of her fright of a cockroach roaming her feet?
Why was he angry to the Kouga when, technically, he hasn't done anything but to be friends with the two girls?…with Kagome? Why was he not comfortable with this guy?
Why did he blush, for the second time that day (take note), when Kagome kissed him on the cheek? It's just a friendly one right? Just for showing thanks?
"Damn this blushing thing…" he said under his breath. "Why should people blush!"
Does all these things prove that they're that comfortable with each other already? Like no conflict ever happened between them?
"Nah…we're just acting civil just like what we talked about. It's just to avoid our mothers being angry with us… Why the heck did they want us to be married in the first place?" the hanyou said, knowing that the situation given to them by their parents gets more complicated at the moment.
"We're just acting civil…" he assured himself. "Yeah…nothing more than that. We're just obeying our mothers and we're just acting civil to each other." He kept saying, although he felt something oppose that, making him blush…again.
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Kagome closed her door. She absorbed her surroundings: her bed, her dresser, her mirror, the door to her bathroom…
"I'M SO STUPID! WHY DID I HAVE TO DO THAT! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP!" she yelled, wanting to yank all her hair out.
"Nee-chan? Are you okay there?" Souta's voice said from below.
Kagome sighed and took a couple of deep breath before she decided to answer. "Yeah…yeah, I'm okay…"
"Mom want's you to help with dinner." He, then, said.
"I'm coming."
"Why did I do that?" she asked herself frantically. "I shouldn't have done that…Now, he will think that I like him…well, that I love him or fancy him…which is NOT true! Oh! What a stupid thing to do!"
Kagome paused for a moment then said, "But it's only on the cheek right? And I meant it friendly…Nothing more than that, right?"
She then stopped as if pondering something.
His reaction.
She hasn't seen his reaction, actually. But she's quite sure what it is. She could actually see in her mind's eye his blush together with the shock of what happened.
"Heck! I'm so done for!"
"Kagome! Can you help me here, dear?" Akira's voice said, along with some clinking sound. She's apparently in the kitchen.
"Okay, mom." Kagome stood up, that worried look still etched on her face.
A few steps down the staircase and she's in the hall.
'I'm so stupid…'
A few steps more and she's in the kitchen already.
'I'm so stupid…'
"Here, Kagome. Please cut this up for me." Her mother instructed.
Kagome took the slicing board, knife and the vegetables to be cut up.
'I'm so stupid…'
"Kagome, are you okay? Are you sick or you just have a natural shade of red in your face?" Mrs. Higurashi asked as she stirred whatever's inside the huge pan.
'I'm so stupid…'
"Kagome, did you hear me?" Akira asked, concern filling her face.
'I'm so stupid…'
"Kagome?"
'I'm so stupid…'
"Kagome?" her mother said, more insistent this time.
'I am so STUPID…'
"Kagome!"
"What!" Kagome said, coming out of her reverie. But before her mother could speak, she shouted bloody murder…for the second time that day.
"WAAAAAAAAHHH! HECK! I CUT MY FINGER OPEN! CRA—"
"Calm down, I'll clea—"
"I freaking hate BLOOD!"
"Now, dear…calm down. It's just a wound…"
Mrs. Higurashi cleaned the deep cut and rid Kagome's preparation area with any traces of her blood. She then applied some medicine to her finger and got out some gauze to cover it while it's healing.
"I think this is better for you wound since it's really deep…" Akira remarked as she carefully put some of the gauze around her finger. "What have you been thinking, anyway? I was talking to you but you never answered. And now, when you finally answered, you cut your own finger. Are you okay dear?" she added.
"I'm so stupid…" she said, more to herself than to anyone else.
"Why are you stupid, dear?" Akira asked, her forehead creasing slightly.
"I…I ki—" then, Kagome looked up and met her mother's eyes. And she was out of her mind's world. "Nothing mom."
Mrs. Higurashi said nothing.
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Yeah…it's short, right? I'm sorry but that's just me. And I can't make anymore than a four or five-page chapter. But, I hope that you still liked it. A few questions are there…
Are they really just acting civil to each other? Will they realize that no matter how they squash that feeling, they really like each other? Will Kouga be a problem for them both…an addition to Kikyou then? What did Sess mean when he said he was 'cornered'?
Well…let's see in the following chapters, when I update the, shall we? For now goodbye…
Please review and no flames, please…Thanks!
xianora