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Chapter Three

"What do you want me to do about it Kagome? Have the girl stop tutoring me?"

The classic "she's just my tutor" line, how unoriginal. She sighed, not wanting to believe his obvious lies, but still wanting to give him his millionth chance to make things right between them. She'd had enough of their long argument; she just wanted to see him.

"Yeah, I believe you. Now, to make up for missing my game you have five minutes to get over here."

By the way his voice sounded she could tell he was grinning. "Gotcha."

In the next five minutes he made it to her house; he must've run.

As soon as the door was opened to allow him entrance he gripped her waist and pulled her into his chest. She giggled at his enthusiasm. They gave each other a long kiss, Kagome pulling back when she felt that it was too much.

"Hi Ms. H." Koga said removing his hands from around Kagome's waist.

"Hi Koga. Nice of you to stop by." She nodded her head at him and continued to walk past them.

Kagome rolled her eyes. Her mom had never seemed to like Koga all that much, but she never voiced her worries out loud. She was much too nice for that. But she didn't exactly make him comfortable either.

"Mom still not warming up to me huh?" He asked scratching his head.

"Not in the least. Come on. Let's go in the backyard."

The couple made their way to the back, silently reaching out to take the other's hand.

"So what'd you do after the game?" Koga asked as they sat down on the hammock that was tied between the two cherry trees.

Kagome laid her head across his chest.

"Inuyasha took me out to eat. And then we went dancing."

She didn't have to look at him; she could already tell by his stiffness that he was angry about this small detail.

"Why?" His voice was intensely strained.

Why didn't these two idiots like each other? It really made absolutely no sense. They were friends, carefree and rough, the only boys were friends. Then when they got to high school Inuyasha and Koga suddenly stopped talking to each other.

"Don't get mad at me. It would've been you if you hadn't ditched me for the tutor."

"I told you-."

"Yeah! I heard the first time you lied! All I'm asking is that you don't be a hypocrite!"

Again there was no need for her to look up as he tried to steady his breathing.

"I. Didn't. Lie."

A lie in itself.

A couple seconds later she heard him sigh.

"Did you have fun with that mutt?"

"He's not a mutt and yes I did. I also met these kids Miroku and Sango, but they both go to a different school than us."

"Really?" Really he wasn't interested.

"Mmhm. And-."

And his phone went off in his pocket. His hand flashed down, pulling it out, and putting it up to his ear.

"Hello?"

Kagome kissed his jaw line, reaching up to tug the end of his brown ponytail. Her hands fluttered across the skin of his neck.

"I did huh?"

He shuttered, unintentionally biting his lip with fang.

"Yeah, sure, I'll be there in a sec kay?"

He snapped the phone shut and brought Kagome's face to his lips. He caught her bottom lip in his mouth and nipped it lightly. Kagome pulled back, her eyes widened in surprise.

He chuckled and licked the line of blood that had started a trail over her bottom lip.

"Don't do that! What the hell was that?"

He kissed her hard while laughing.

"I gotta go okay? I'll see you tomorrow babe."

"Okay bye."

He got up and jogged to her back door, disappearing behind it.

"Have fun with your tutor." She mumbled.

She sighed and lay back against the hammock.

'There's no way I can prove that. It's just…a hunch.'

She pulled her phone out of her pocket.

"Hello?" A man on the other end answered.

"Hey you wouldn't happen to be in the mood to play some basketball would you? It is basketball season and you wanna keep in shape don't you?"

There was a silence on the phone that had Kagome thinking that the man had already hung up. Not ready to face her anger or her sadness.

"Ditched you again didn't he?"

"Inuyasha, please, don't."

There was another long silence before he answered her request.

"Meet me at the park in an hour. And you better be on time, got it?"

The phone line went dead before she had time to answer or thank him.

"Kagome, dear, I hope you're not planning on going anywhere because I have chores for you."

She looked up towards the back door where her mom was standing; holding a large plastic basket of what was, no doubt, wet laundry. She shook the basket at her and set it on the patio for her to get it.

Kagome frowned at the basket and picked up her phone again, typing furiously.

"Change. Of. Plans. Mom. Is. Making. Me. Clean. Up." She spoke as she typed.

She shoved the phone back into her pocket and trudged over to the basket, trudged over to the wires, and grudgingly began hanging the sheets up.

After what seemed like twenty minutes of hanging and swatting two large sheets Kagome felt two hands press against her eyes.

"Who is this?"

"Kags we don't cancel dates. Either I do what you're doing or you do what I'm doing. Simple as that."

She removed the hands from around her face and turned to face him, placing her hands in his.

"Am I stupid Yash?"

"Yes."

She closed her eyes and looked down, willing the tears not to come.

"Only an idiot would take all this damn time to hang all these humongous sheets and covers when they have demon friends at their disposal. It goes much faster, trust me."

She choked out a laugh and looked up at him.

"What the hell are you standing here for then? Let's get crackin' so I can get outta here."

They were almost done. They had a long, long, very long, very disturbingly long, line of sheets and covers hanging on the strong lines of wire tapered by wooden clothes pins. Kagome stretched on her toes as she finished her last thick blanket and let out a gasp of breath when she finally managed to hook the clothes pin on it. She yawned, looked around, and found herself to be quite confused.

"Yash?"

She pushed back one particularly wet sheet, watched another wave by in the breeze, turned her head back the way she'd come, let a gasp-more like a shriek-escape as she watched a hand move towards her, was thrown into a rug behind her, rolled into a silky pink sheet next to it, latched onto it with her hands, pulled it down on top of her. And on someone else. Inuyasha.

His laughter bellowed around her, over her pants of breath.

"What! Are you doing?"

"Playing with you. Of course."

Pass his head she could see one piece of the sheet that was still latched to a pin.

"So you decided to ruin the sheet that was just washed."

He grinned. "Yup."

She rolled her eyes. "Jerk."

He rolled off of her onto his back. It was silent for a long moment before his mind spoke.

"What happened?"

Her voice went business like, like she was speaking of a paper they had to go over for school.

"He came over and we talked for a little and someone called and he hung up, made-out with me and left."

"Don't see why you put up with it."

"Me either."

Brief, quick, to the point. No room for emotion.

He put his arms around his head, turning his face to look at her.

"It'll be okay if it's over Kagome. The world's not gonna come to an end. You're young and pretty and smart and tough and kind. There are other guys out there. Other dogs in the allies."

She chuckled at his analogy. Her head moved to his arm so their heads were put together.

"Thank you for saying all those things, but they're mostly only half true."

His ear twitched against her head in curiosity at her statement.

"Of course I'm young, but I'm not that pretty, not pretty enough. And sure, I'm smart, but not intelligent enough. Yes, I am tough, but I'm too tough, not feminine enough. I'm kind, but my view on things are not soft enough. It's not enough for him, but I can't keep away."

His body had gone stiff. If he wasn't growling slightly, she would've thought he'd gone and turned into a statue.

"It's true."

"It is not true!"

He turned to face her, leaving his arm under her head, and pulling her face around to him with his unoccupied hand.

"You have a brilliant mind and you are sweet! Too sweet sometimes, like a fucking angel, I swear! You are feminine in body, but you are tough in strength and that's what I love about you! And your beauty is on a level of goddesses!"

Her eyes widened in disbelief. Did he really think so much of her?

She could feel her cheeks begin to softly burn as his angry comments sunk into her brain.

Her eyes roamed over his face. His eyebrows, she noticed were straight and black and thick, slightly shadowed by his contrasting and purely and abnormally pearl colored silky bangs, structured perfectly over his almond shaped, golden colored eyes, that were framed by long and thick eyelashes, brushing over his cheek bones that rose and fell to meet and form the perfectly straight nose which angled over his full lips, curved into his chin and swooped around to his jaw, angled slightly, and left him looking as a boy would.

She followed the trail back up only to be distracted by his lips. Her distraction was only interrupted by his hitched breathing which had her eyes flashing back to his. Gold and stormy gray, deeply contrasting colors, immediately melded into each other. The moment grew tense with every silent breath breathed.

And suddenly the cover was thrown off of them, throwing the tenseness of the moment along with it.

A taser was shoved between their bodies and the two jumped apart.

"Every time you two get together something of mine gets destroyed. Of course my expensive sheet isn't irreparable, but I would appreciate it if I wasn't the one to have to clean it off again Kagome."

Inuyasha rolled to his feet while Kagome sat up.

"Uh, sorry Mom. I'll…I'll get that for you."

Kagome took the small amount out of her hand from her spot on the ground. Yai turned to stalk away.

"Inuyasha, I don't mind if you stay here and help my daughter, but don't distract her with your romantics kid."

"Yai-I-I wasn't…that's not…"

"It's ok."

She stopped at the door and turned to look at them with a smile.

"I need grandchildren some day I would much prefer it if you were the one to give them to me."

She winked and Inuyasha's eyes widened.

"Mom!"

"Yai!" The two shouted at the same time.

They watched her shut the door and a brilliant smile light up her face, her mouth moving in a way that suggested she was laughing quite loudly.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes, the two of their mothers had been saying that for years, and looked down at Kagome, who wasn't looking at him, but he could see the pink color her face had taken on.

What were they to each other really?

"C'mon Kags. Do you want to go play a game or what?"

He gripped her by the shoulder and hauled her up successfully bringing the cover along with her.

Without looking for any face expressions, he dragged her into the house towards the sink, and they began to manually clean the thing.

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