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I don't know how many reviews I got saying "Just tell him at once!" about Kagome's revelation! Sorry if this doesn't match your expectation but I've decided to wait a little more until then... You just have to keep reading it! (Ehehehe - evil laugh!) ^.^
Sorry to have taken so long, but University has officially decided to kill me with work! I'll try and update the next chapter as soon as I get it written!
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I'm sorry for any mistakes that might appear. English is not my original language!
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Chapter 17 - Say it... Or Not?
Kagome didn't know what to say. The words simply weren't coming to her head. She stuttered a few times.
"I'm waiting, Kagome…"
"I... I needed it…"
"For what?"
"I don't have to give you any kind of explanations, Inuyasha!"
"Kagome…"
She quickly walked in his direction, grabbed the pot and moved to place it on its rightful place. However she forgot that, by doing so, she would be exposing her back to Inuyasha.
Her whole body jolted when she felt Inuyasha's chest leaning on her back, both of his arms trapping her against the counter, giving her little space to move.
"Kagome, please… tell me…" - he said, his breath dangerously close to her ear.
"Inuyasha, get back."
"Not until you tell me…"
Kagome turned around to face him.
"There's nothing for…"
"Bullshit! You don't have that at home, just because!"
"…"
"Please… you know you can trust me…"
Kagome, who was seriously thinking about spelling the truth, suddenly went rigid.
"Trust you? I can trust you? What are you playing at? You're the one who didn't trust me from the beginning!"
"That was a completely different matter…"
"No, it wasn't… it's all about trust! You didn't trust me when Kikyo was around and now, after you've been gone, you expect me to trust you?! Just like that?!"
"Kagome…"
"Look, I'm really, really tired… I appreciate you taking care of me and my son but I really want to go to bed, so…" - she said, trying to end the matter and pinching her nose to hold in her patience.
"…"
"Inuyasha?"
"… what?"
"MOVE!" – she said, as she tried to push him away. She noticed his eyes lessening into a playful gaze and the smirk forming in his mouth.
"… no."
"Inuyasha, this isn't funny…"
"I think it is…"
"You can't just turn a discussion into a…"
"Into what? A more mischievous way to discuss?" – he said, as he lowered his mouth to her ear. Without consent, Kagome felt her whole body vibrate with the sound of his voice. – "If you'd only let me, I could show you how I can end this fight as quickly as… AH! AH! AUCH! WHATCH IT!"
Kagome had a firm grasp on his ear and was slightly twisting it. Despite the pain, Inuyasha noticed that she had blushed quite a bit.
"You're just an oversized grown kid…" - she said as she tried to step around him.
"But you like it…" -he said, trapping her once again. Kagome looked anywhere but his eyes and tried to reach for his ear once more but Inuyasha was faster. He ended up grabbing her hand on the air, twisting her arm to his back and lacing his fingers between hers, thus coming even near her.
Kagome could feel his breath upon her lips, his gaze upon her face and the more than evident "happiness" of Inuyasha against her body. She forced herself not to give in to the sudden urge she had of kissing him. She knew very well where they would end up if she kissed him…
"Say it, Kagome…"
"Say what?"
"Say that you like me…"
"Inuyasha, stop…"
"Just say it…" - he said, nibbling at her ear and making her shiver. – "Just say it and…"
"… and?"
She could feel him smirk against her ear, while he whispered in low a deep tune:
"Just say it… I promise I'll make even your deepest and wildest dreams come true…"
Oh, she didn't doubt he would. Inuyasha had already shown her once how wonderful he could be… if she said she wasn't tempted, she would be lying.
She knew he had the body of a Greek God and the stamina of a stallion. She highly doubted that much had changed in the last years or that the fact that the last time they were together he was drunk had something to do with the number of times she had reached heaven, that night;… if she recalled correctly… three times?
"You've no idea what… eh?"
"What?" - he said, leaning slightly away from her. Her eyes were glued on to the kitchen table where his cell phone was now violently vibrating. Inuyasha followed her gaze, then turned to look at her once more; her gaze now seemed sadder.
"You'd better pick that up…"
"No."
"Inuyasha…"
"I said I won't…"
She didn't utter a word, just kept her glaze away from him.
"Please… let's just stop…"
"Stop what?"
Gulping hard, she finally locked eyes with him and he could see that she was on the brim of tears.
"Stop pretending we're a couple and that there's no one else in the middle…"
"There is no one else!" – he said, now almost growling in her face. – "Just say the word and we'll be…"
"We'll be what? Together? What about Kikyo?" – she asked, now already crying.
"Kikyo is not important anymore…"
"Yes, she is… as long as she is in between us, she'll always find a way to split us… just as she did before…"
Inuyasha slowly let go of her and Kagome cleaned her tears, quickly.
"There are clean sheets on your bed… but don't feel indebted to sleep here. Just close the lights when you leave. 'Night…" - she said, as she moved towards her bedroom, her cold tea forgotten on the table.
Inuyasha simply stood there, unable to react for a while and with only the annoying sound of a vibrating cell phone.
"Damn it…" - he said, as he picked up. – "What?!"
"Inuyasha, where are you?!" – said a high pitched scream on the other side.
"Out."
"I had already realized that or I wouldn't be calling you!? Where exactly?"
"None of your business…"
"Wha…"
"I'll not be sleeping at home…"
"Inu…" - he cut the call abruptly and turned his phone off. He moved in the direction of Kagome's room but, as he was about to knock he lowered his hand and proceeded towards his own room.
Her words kept spinning once and again in his head as he undressed himself to go to bed. Kikyo… it seemed that it all revolved around her… at least, he thought with a little bit of hope, she hadn't been thinking about that mangy wolf as a candidate to be between them. Not that he stood a chance…
Tomorrow… he would talk to her tomorrow…
The next morning he awoke to the sound of voices and the smell of… pancakes?!
He was about to get up when he felt someone enter his room. He decided to stay still and pretend to be asleep just so he could figure out who was it. There were a couple of giggles as his ears turned the direction of the sound and then a mighty roar came from his mouth as he grabbed the daring hanyou who was about to tackle him in his sleep.
As Hiroyuki skirmed and laughed in his arms, Inuyasha couldn't help the smile from his face and even giggled.
"I caught a little spy, trying to attack me in my sleep…"
"Ehehhee… sorry! Ehehe…"
"No way, you'll receive the higher punishment…" - Inuyasha said, stopping for a few minutes. Hiroyuki, who was currently hanging upside down on Inuyasha's shoulder seemed confused but was smiling.
"What is the higher punishment?"
"Death…" - Inuyasha said, creating suspense before continuing - "… by tickles."
"No! Ahaha… ahah" – Hiroyuki screamed, in a high pitched voice. It didn't take long for them to be mercilessly wrestling among Inuyasha's bed sheets and they were only stopped by Kagome's voice at the door.
"Well, as soon as you both finish playing "bed-tag", breakfast is ready…"
"Yeah! Inuyasha, let's go! I helped Mom make pancakes… she said they were your favorites so…"
"Hiroyuki!" – Kagome shouted, embarrassed. That wasn't supposed to came out…
Inuyasha grinned from his spot at the bed and ogled her sleeping outfit (blue shirt plus grey shorts) in an approving manner, making her even more self-conscious.
"I supposed that call wasn't as important as it seemed…" - she said, trying to change the subject of their "silent conversation". It was only after the words left her mouth that she realized what she had said and she mentally scolded herself. What the hell was she thinking?
Last night, despite going to bed in tears, she couldn't sleep right away; she lay under the covers, silently crying and hoping not to hear the door close to hint that Inuyasha was gone. She had heard agitated whispers from the kitchen but then she had ended up sleeping.
She had been the first to wake up and, unable to resist, she had ended up peaking from the door to find him asleep in the bed at the other room.
"Nah… it wasn't important…" - he said, his gaze fixed in her. – "Perhaps a few years ago… but not anymore…"
"…" - her eyes clashed with his, surprised and even searching from some kind of doubt.
"In fact, that person still hasn't realized that she already has no more place in my life… or anywhere else…"
Hiroyuki glanced from one to another, completely confused as both adults stared at each other. Kagome quickly recovered, her cheeks flushed.
"Come on, Hiro. Let's leave Inuyasha to get dressed…"
"Ok, Mom."
"… How do you know I sleep naked?" – he asked, smirking. – "Have you been peeping?"
Kagome's answer was to start walking away, redder than a tomato.
"Kagome!"
"What?!" – she said, turning around.
"… Good morning." – he said from his sitting position in the bed, his bed sheet hanging loose around his hips and a knowing smirk on his face.
Grasping Hiroyuki's hand, she quickly walked away, letting him chuckling to himself at her shy reaction.
It was only after a while, when he was getting dressed, that he noticed there was a strange scent in the room. A scent that seemed of his and Kagome's deeply mixed together…
Well, how was it?
I tried to keep it a little bit more in a view of Kagome and Inuyasha's relationship... did it work? :)
See you guys next chapter!