Whoo. Hard work is never done. –wipes sweat-

Hello Again

The smell of Strawberries and Champagne had awoken Inuyasha. He shot up…in a bed he did not know. He was in a house he didn't recognize. The last memory he had was the possibility of seeing Kagome. Then there came a knock on the door.

"Inuyasha? Are you awake? It's me Kagome."

His heart thundered in his chest. It was real? You mean that the sight Kagome first sees of him after thirteen years was of him being high and drunk?

"It's your house." She entered the room, wearing her pajamas and holding a cup,

"You scared me when you passed out! I had my friends help me to get you here. I didn't want to leave you like that." She offered him the cup. "Want some water?" she offered. He took it from her and took a drink.

Inuyasha kept feeling his phone vibrate in his pants. Of course he knew it was Bankotsu, but…that had to wait.

"Why are you here?" he asked.

"For school, I got accepted into an art school up here, and I'm living here with my friend and her boyfriend." She smiled as she looked at him. Had he grown! His features sharpened drastically, safe to say, he was still cute as ever!

He eyed the locket. "You still have that shit?" he scoffed, even though he was beyond elated on the inside.

"…Of course I still have it…you told me to keep it…I wanted to keep it too of course." Kagome touched it.

"Would you fuck me if I told you to?" he got off the bed. She was offended by that, but only at the vulgarity…she decided not to respond since she honestly didn't know how to answer that. He sighed hard and rubbed his forehead. "I should get out of here…" he faced her.

"…oh…ok then…I was hoping we could talk more. But if you have to go…"

"Talk? Talk about what? There isn't shit to talk about…"

Kagome couldn't believe her ears. "There's plenty! I thought once I came up here…and if we found each other…that—"

"Everything would presume? Go back to how it was? Tough luck. The Inuyasha you met those years ago died a long time ago. This is me now."

"I…won't believe that…I think you're still the person I know… I think he's just…" Kagome looked him square in the eye, "he's trying to run from me."

Inuyasha scowl deepened. He walked over to her and gripped her face tightly within his grasp and got within kissing distance. "There's nothing, I repeat, NOTHING I run away from. You keep your mouth shut about shit you don't understand." Being so close to her like that, her scent was engulfing him, enticing him and yet, disgusted at the same time.

"Why…why are you like this…?" she whispered. She feared that maybe she mis-understood him...or that maybe her impact on him wasn't as strong as she hoped it was.

"Time. That's why I'm like this." He let her go and walked to the door. He turned to see her still sitting in that one spot…almost frozen, a beautiful statue. "Don't look for me, I don't want to see you." and he left.

She couldn't believe it. Her heart was slowly ripping and tears formed at her ducts. How empty she felt…Inuyasha didn't want her around anymore? Her hope of meeting him again was all in vain? The tears strolled down her cheek as she clenched the locket.

"No…don't tell me that Inuyasha…" she opened the locket to look at his picture. "Please tell me it isn't so? You forgot what I told you didn't I? You forgot about me…" she fought tooth and nail not to cry out loud, so she wouldn't wake up Sango and Miroku.

Sighing as she wiped her eyes, she stood up and crawled in between the sheets of her bed.

"…I guess I was wrong…" was her final thought before drifting to sleep.