Chapter 4:

oOo Ex-Girlfriends oOo

The rain was wet as ever, and Kagome glanced up at Inuyasha, repeating the lines he had said two years ago.
"We will always be friends right. The best of friends won't we?"
Inuyasha stared at her, "Yea, we've been friends since the seventh grade." Inuyasha chuckled. "Six years, and I don't think I'm about to get rid of you any time soon… Why you asking?"
Kagome took a deep breath.
"I got accept to Harvard…"

"That's great! That is awesome! That's... on the east coast." Inuyasha's enthusiasm had weakened and he could only stared at her, "Massachusetts. That's a ways from California."

Inuyasha looked down to the football stadium.
"I'm sure your girlfriend will be thrilled." Kagome muttered to herself.
"Why do you say that?" Inuyasha's voice was off in the distance, somewhere far away.
"She hates me Inu. She doesn't like me hanging around you or talking to you all the time. And when she found out I always hang out with you, she was really pissed. She doesn't let me see you if she can help it." Kagome sighed, "I'm trying to make friends with her Inu, I really am."
"She also hates the way you call me Inu."
"Well maybe it is a good thing I am moving. I won't lose you this girlfriend."
"That's kinda why I wanted to talk to you" Inuyasha started, "I have had every girlfriend since freshman year break up with me because they don't like us hanging out. At first I thought you must be going through the same thing, but then I realized you've never had a boyfriend- not one."
Kagome blush.
"You've always supported me. No matter what I do, what stupid ideas I have, or crazy schemes. Do you know what Kikyo told me yesterday?
'Inuyasha I want to have a word with you! Why is that girl always hanging around you?" His impression had a high scratchy voice, and Kagome couldn't help but giggle. He continued with it, glad to know he could make her laugh. "You tell to pack her bags and that you have girlfriend.'
"When I told her I liked hanging out with you, that made her fly off the handle.
'Inuyasha! I will not have my boyfriend hanging with trash!'"

Kagome bit her lip and looked down. "Well, I promise I won't lose you this girlfriend."
Inuyasha stared a Kagome unbelievingly.

"Kagome, I swear you the nicest damn person in the world. But you hafta tell me if someone is treating you like that."
"Well you said you really liked her and well I tried to push it aside. I didn't want to lose you another one."
"I wouldn't have liked her so much if I knew how she was treating you! I don't appreciate people calling my friends "that girl" or "trash". Miroku says she isn't the first to treat you so rudely. You didn't cause the break up between Kikyo and me or any other girlfriend." He sighed and took her hands in his. "All you did was show me girls don't handle jealousy. None, but one."
They hadn't realized how close they were sitting together. Kagome's cell phone vibrated in her pocket and they both jumped. She pulled it out and answered it, talked quickly.

"I'm sorry. She said placing the phone back in her pocket. "I have to pick up Sota from soccer."
Inuyasha sat there. "Ok, see you." He stared at Kagome as she walked off. Damn it, why couldn't I just tell her?

Inuyasha had once taken a major chance and revealed to her his most kept secret. He had expected her to be disgusted or horrified at the fact he was part youkai. But she had accepted him in a heartbeat. That day he had also discovered he had feelings for her, far beyond friends, but he couldn't and wouldn't risk it. He did not want to even imagine the possibility of loosing Kagome, not after the night he revealed himself to her. He believed that it was a miracle that she had been so open hearted to accept him as a half-demon. The only other humans to know his secret was his best friend Miroku and his parents. But they had always been close.

He watched Kagome until she turned a corner and was out of sight. After that night when he had revealed his secret he had been slowly falling fin love with her. He tried to ignore his feelings for her, he went out with other girls but could never keep one because of his friendship with Kagome. His latest girlfriend was a Kagome look-a-like, but no matter how similar they were, she was no Kagome. He took out his cell phone and pressed the speed dial.

"Hello?"
"Inuyasha? Where are you?"
"Miroku, I'm coming home, can you send a car to pick me up?"

Inuyasha had lived with Miroku since his mother died. He didn't have any memory of his father. He moved in with Miroku's parent when his mom passed, and they had accepted him with open arms. They were extremely rich and powerful people. And they knew Inuyasha's secret, they took very good care no one discovers it, unless Inuyasha wanted them to.

The morning he came home with a gash in his arm they had looked at him worriedly. When he told them Kagome now knew, they weren't completely shocked. They suspected some thing between him and her but kept it to themselves knowing that Inuyasha would deny it to them and to himself.

Inuyasha looked up to see his ride waiting for him, he step into the car and motioned the driver to go. So they drove off.