Disclaimer: I don't own Inu or any of the other chara..
Akward Moments
Kagome was awoken abruptly by the long tweeting of her cell phone. She scrambled to pick it up, luckily for her the blue key pad was flashing. It was now dark, and hard to see anything.
"Hello?" Kagome said in a drunken sleep voice.
"YOU'VE KIDNAPPED INU, HAVEN'T YOU!"
"What? Kidnap- wait, Sango?"
There was a snicker on the other line. "Hey, chick-chick, you and Inu still out?" Sango asked.
"Yeah, we fell asleep or something.."
"AH, You must have fallen victim to the back seat..." Miroku said.
"MIROKU?" Kagome was confused.
"Yeah, I put Miroku on three way. Sorry to not mention it."
"THREE WAY? I see no three way. Where is this three way? Why was I not notified!" Miroku said over dramatically.
Sango was annoyed.
"Don't make me disconnect you..."
Kagome was still confused, and rubbed the sleep from her eyes. Inuyasha was still asleep. Sango and Miroku were now arguing about his perverted ways, and Kagome could hardly get a word in edge-wise. She decided it was best to hang up for now, and call to apoligize later. God knows how long the arguement would go on.. She looked at the time on her cell phone: 9:45. She turned to Inuyasha. He looked so peaceful sleeping.. It was a shame to wake him up, but it had to be done..
She slowly lifted her hand, stuck out her pointer finger, and poked Inuyasha, over and over, and over again.
"OUCH! HEY! STOP IT!" Inuyasha drunkenly laughed.
"Good Morning! It's 9:45." Kagome announced happily.
"MORNING! WHAT?"
"PM, Darlin'." She replied.
Inuyasha sighed. "Don't scare me like that..
Kagome chuckled. Inuyasha began to crawl back over to his place in the front seat and turned around.
"Let me help you.." He said turning to help Kagome clumsly get to her place in front. She snuggled back into the seat and latched the seatbelt.
"You'll have to show me where you live.."
Kagome nodded, and Inuyasha started up the car. The sound of the de-mufflered (A/N: there I go making up words again) "POS" rang into the cold night air, and the car began to move. Suprisingly, the sky was clear. You couldn't exactly see all the stars, but it was still beautiful. Kagome sighed.
"What?" Inuyasha asked.
"Nothing..." Kagome Answered. "I had fun today, thank you for letting me go with you."
"No problem! We'll have to go again when your ankle gets better."
Kagome smiled. Their clothes were now mostly dry, but his hair still had a damp look. She noticed that Inuyasha was still in somewhat of a sleepy state. He kept yawning and rubbing his eyes, pushing his hair out of his vision line. It seemed like his hair was always in his face. Kagome reached over slowly, and pushed the long strands across his cheek, and swept it behind his ear. Blushing he turned to her and smiled.
"My apartment, is up here. Turn into this complex."
Inu made the turn quickly, and menuvred his car through the turns. He was still a little dumbfounded by Kagome's act. He didn't know wether he should take it as a random act, or if it was some sort of chick "likey you" symbol. He finally came to Kagome's apartment building.
"It's the one with the little glowy stars in the window."
Inuyasha parked the car. He got out of the car, and grabbed Kagome's backpack, then made his way over to the passenger side to help Kagome out. She insisted on walking, although Inuyasha offered her his back. Inu held her sholder as they slowly made it up the sidewalk leading to Kagome's apartment.
It seemed like an endless journy. Kagome flinched with every step, but was fully capable of walking faster. In a way, she guess that in some subconsious kind of way, she was trying to pro-long the time with Inuyasha.. It was funny. The day that she had thought would be horrible, turned out to be one of the best days of her life- and it was al because of him... Starting a new school, falling asleep in class, so-called "hazing", possibly breaking her ankle, the weather... Eveything was so perfect.
Finally at the door, Kagome dug though her backpack to find her key. She unlocked the door slowly. The "Ka-chink" of the lock, was enough to snap her out of thought, and she turned around to face Inuyasha. She staried at him for a moment.
"You need help?" He asked.
Kagome shook her head, and Inuyasha looked a little disappointed.
"Well, I guess.. I'll see you later. I should study before bed."
Kagome nodded. Inuyasha turned around, and began to walk to his car. She still stood there, just watching him. When he got to his car and opened the door, he stood for a second and waved. He started to get into the car, and was about to close the door.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled.
He stood back up, a little annoyed that she waited so long to say anything..
"Want to come in?" She asked, blushing, and looking at the ground.
He closed the car door, and rand back up to help her out with her backpack and the door.
"Needed help after all..?" He asked.
"No.. Just company."
He was suprised at her answer, but followed her into the apartment. It was definatly Kagome's apartment. It was decked out with art in every corner and smelled of oil paint and tea. She had a large isle in the main room, with her newest painting drying on it. A solitary figure standing in a room of brilliant color- yet the figure was dull and looked almost lifeless.
"You're art is quite good." Inuyasha said walking over to the work to inspect it further.
"Thank you, but it's nothing really."
Kagome flopped down on her huge pink and brown fluff chair. Inuyasha was inspecting things and found another large stack of filled canvas.
"May I?"
Kagome nodded.
He began going through them, the first few were still a little tacky (a/n: oil paint takes forever to dry ;). The tacky ones were in a sence, depressing. Lonely figures, dull colored, unhappy. He continued to look though the stack, and found brighter, more happy ones.. Portraits of people and places from where she had once lived.
"These are amazing." he commented.
As he flipped through these, he stummbled upon a somewhat self-portrait of Kagome. In it, the background was a brilliant shade of green, and Kagome was sleeping, smiling on some un-named man's sholder.. He remebered the man vegly- he had gone to elementry school with him. He was a little shocked, almost hurt.. 'Why do I feel this way?' He though.
"Who's this?" He asked dazed.
"Who?" Kagome answerd.
Inuyasha turned the painting around, but was unable to face Kagome with his hurt expression.
"Oh.. I told mom to throw that one away... Not to send it to me."
"Who is it, Kagome?"
She fumbled with the pink piping on the chair.
"My ex.. Koga." She explained. "We broke up a little before I moved here.."
He put the painting back into the stack, and left them where he had found them. He stood up and turned around.
"I'm sorry."
"It's okay..."
Inuyasha walked over to the couch and sat down. The atmosphere was now akward. Almost uncomfortable.
"Inuyasha..?"
He looked over.
"You want to know the real reason why I moved here?"
A/N: Chapter 9 is next, already in the works.