Chapter 4: Our First Kiss.
I continued to stare at the blanket covering my legs as everyone continuted to stare at me. I hear someone moved, I was guessing it was mom, but then I heard the sound of dragging wheeles, like the ones on the Ivy stand. I glanced up from the bed and saw Inuyasha staring directly into my face, he'd moved to the bedside and just stood there.
"Inuyasha, do...do you know what you just asked of this girl, you've only met!" Miroku said as my eyes snapped to him, he was in shock, some how Sango had gotten off the bed and moved to Miroku's side. My eyes then traveled to Sesshomaru, he was even staring at us in disbeliefe.
"How did you two meet?" Sesshomaru asked as he changed his gaze to me. Our eyes locked as he raised his eyebrow in question.
"Inuyasha and I meet about a year ago." I stated as I looked to Inuyasha, he was staring at me with his kind eyes. "You can sit down Inuyasha." I said as he smiled kindly and sat down next to me, his hand capturing mine.
"How is that possible? My brother has been in a comba for three years." Sesshomaru said as I looked down at my lap.
"We never met until yesterday, in real life." I said as I squeezed Inuyasha's hand, I knew they wouldn't believe me.
"How is that possible? You act as if you've been dating for years." Sesshomaru said his voice was still filled with confusion. I looked at him, I could see the disbeliefe in his eyes.
"We met in our dreams. I met Kagome two years into my coma, she was crying in her dream. I thought it was real life but then it stuck me as odd that such a beautiful young woman would be crying in a dirty ally way." Inuyasha said, I remembered the dream, my ex-boyfriend, Bankotsu had left me for another girl, said I wasn't right for him. I'm sorry for this but, I can't help but remember such an event.
The whole place I sat in was dark, the wall were a black red, the sky black blue, the street was a blackish gray color. I was crying, I had been with Bankotsu, but he disappeared, that's when I knew that I was dreaming. Bankotsu had dumped me three days before on the 23rd. I didn't know why I was dreaming this now, but I was, and it hurt, a lot. My heart was braking and I was all alone in my dream, no one was with me, or so I thought.
Rain had stared to pour down on me as I sat sobbing in the allyway, I didn't want to move, I thought t would hurt if I moved out of the rain. The rain was numbing my body as I sat there on the ground. I heard foot steps to my left, farther down the dark wet allyway. I couldn't see right, my eye sight was clouded with salt as I continuted to cry as the rain fell. The foot steps began to get louder and quicker as if someone was running towards me. A small flicker of hope that it would be Bankotsu was clicked then died when I saw the man, he had black hair but it wasn't braided like Bankotsu's hair. Bankotsu never let his hair out of the braid, said it was to much of a hassle. The man with black hair stopped in front of me, his shoes were black Nikes. I followed his dark wet, jean pant legs up to his wet black wife beater tee-shirt, to his worried looking face. His violet eyes were kind as he stared down at me.
"Hey, you ok?" His voice was kind as well, the only way I could discribe this man was kind. He had stopped for me, when he looked as if he were out in the rain for a long time. "Hey Miss?" he asked as he knelt down to my eye level.
"Please, don't stop for me," I could barely hear my own voice. I knew I wasn't in any good shape to be out in the rain, but didn't want to be safe somewhere inside. The man with black hair grabbed my arm and pulled me to my feet while I stared unclearly at him, I didn't even realized he had pulled me to my feet until I noticed I wasn't stand but in his arms. The rain continued to fall as the man carried me to a house. I didn't reconize the house, it was a large three story house, I briefly saw a two large bay windows on the first and third floor. A balcony was on the third floor below the bay window.
"Ok, um, let me find you a change of clothing and then, um, I'll get you something warm to drink and eat." the man said as he laid me down on his couch. I heard his feet dash though his house and came back with a large, beach towel. He sat me up and dried off my hair before giving me the towel to dry myself off. "I'll be right back." the man said as he left me once more and I was started to dry of my body off as my host looked for clothing for me. I allowd my eyes to drift over the house, I saw pictures of my host in various stages of his life, but the other people in his photos were faceless in a sense whe I could not make out what they looked like.
"Who are you?" I whispered as I stared at the most recent photo of my host.
"I don't know." he answered from behind me. I jumped nearly to the ceilling as I spun around to looked at him.
"I-I'm sorry, I didn't know you were there!" I said as I looked down at the floor, they were a deep cherry oak, probably imported from the US or some other country.
"It's ok, no harm." My host said as he held out his hand with a large tee-shirt and a pair of pajama pants. I stepped forward and took them from him.
"Thanks," I said softly my eyes casted down to the floor again. I watched the man's feet as he walked to the side of me, I was guessing to the photo. I was right, when I looked up I saw him running his hand over a photo of him when he was little. A man and woman, and another child were in the photo, I couldn't see who they were, I was guessing neither could he, by the painfull look in his eyes as he looked at the photo. "You've lost your memory?" I asked.
"Yes. I know this is the dream relam, but I just can't wake up. I've meet people hear, they all wake up, but I never wake, I stay here, in this lonely dream world." he said, his voice was braking my already broken heart.
"You should be the one crying, not me." I whispered as he turned around to look back at me. I froze under his stare, it was so lonely, so utterly hopeless. I don't know what over came my body, but I wrapped my arms around his waist, buring my face into his chest as tears began to fall from my eyes again. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." I sobbed into his chest, I didn't know why I was appologizing to him, but I knew that he couldn't be hurtting so bad. He had helped me, he probably helped in the past, but it seemed like no one had tried to help him in return. "I'm sorry." I whispered once more before I felt his arms wrap around me. I flet his head against mine, his breath hot against my scalp as he panted as if crying with me. I turned my face to look at him, he was crying, he was crying with me. "It's ok, it's ok."
"I want to see my family again. I miss not being able to see thier faces." He cried as we somehow got on to the couch. His head was resting on my shoulder as I laid my head against his. "I miss them." He whispered as he sat up and looked at me, we looked each other in the eyes.
"It's ok, I'll try my best to help you. I'll try to find you when I fall asleep again." I said softly, I was smiling again, hope flickered in his eyes with my promise.
"Thank you..." he trailed off, I saw the bewildered look in his eyes.
"Kagome. My name is Kagome Higurashi." I introduced as I smiled at Him. "Do you mind if I name you? Ah! Like a nickname! I don't want to just call you 'that man', or just 'you'." I said as my face felt hot under his stare. He smiled at me, I felt my face burn even hotter at his smile. It was so beautiful and so breath taking.
"Sure." he said as his smiled stayed on his face.
"O-ok." I whispered as I forced myself to look away and think of a name. "Is there a name you remember that you liked?" I asked as I glanced back at him.
"I thing, something that stared with a Ta, or some thing like that." he said as I watched him look at the couch. I smiled as I thought of a name I alwasy liked for a boy.
"Tatsuki. How bout Tatsuki?" I asked as Inuyasha rested his forhead against my shoulder in though.
"It's not a name I remember, but if you like it Kagome, I'd like to be called Tatsuki." The newly nicknamed Tatsuki said as he looked into my eyes, his own showering me with warmt.
"A-are you sure you're ok with it?" I asked nervosly at his closeness to me. I felt my face burn agian. Tatsuki laughed at me, I made a sour face at him before he placed his hand on the side of my face, cupping my cheek.
"You're disappearing." Tatsuki said as I looked down at my hands, they were see through.
"Oh, but! But!" My voice was vanishing, I tried to grab Tatsuki's shirt but my hand went right through his chest. "Tatsuki!" I tried to shout as everything went black and faint.
"Ka...me...Kago...Kagome." I heard someone's voice flutter to my ears as I looked around, Inuyasha stat beside me, his hand squeezing mine, trying to get my attention.
"Huh? Y-yes?" I asked as he's eyes were filled with worry.
"Are you ok?" Inuyasha asked as he raised a hand to my forehead. I smiled and pushed his hand away.
"I'm fine, just dazing out." I said as I looked from him to the others. "What were we talking about again?" I asked looking back to Inuyasha.
"I told them how we've been seeing each other." Inuyasha said as I looked to the ceilling, that's just what I was thinking about.
"I remember, it was rainning, you took me to your house, the large three story, two large bay windowed place." I smiled as I rested my head on his shoulder. "I named you Tatsuki." I whispered as Inuyasha laid is head against mine.
"Because you cared enough to come back for me, you named me." Inuyasha's voice flowed over my scalp as his spoke. I smiled and turned my head to his, kissing him briefly.
"Because I wanted to see you again, I came back to see you." I whispered as he smiled and kissed me back. I heard someone gag and then the sound of someone lossing air in a swift whosh. I glanced over at Sango, Miroku was on the floor cleching his stomach. "Wow, Sango, you're really strong."
"You ain't seen nothin'. When she gets really mad, she nearly kills him, but he stays with her." Inuyasha said, his tone slightly envious of Sango and Miroku's relationship. I smied and leaned against Inuyasha's shoulder.
"Inuyasha, I'm starting to get sleepy. What time is it?" I asked, I felt really sleepy all of a sudden. I left Inuyasha move his arms and laid me down against the bed pillow.
"It's late." Inuyasha said as I glanced at everyone.
"I'm really happy to have met you all." I said as my vision blurred. "Sesshomaru, Sango, Miroku, could you please take Inuyasha to see Twilight?" I asked, I could tell my voice was going. "Momma, will you go too?" I asked looking to my mom's blurring figure.
"Yes, we'll go see Twilight." Mom said as everything went dark, I could still hear voices but they were distant now, I couldn't make out what was said, but I could hear thier voices, at least for a little longer before the noise was gone and all that was left was darkness.
What's that noise? I-I don't know what's going on. There's no light, no faces, just the noise. I looked around, the world felt as if it were water, and I was floating in it. I began to swim in a direction, the direction of the noise. What is the noise? I kept going in the direction of the noise, it began to sound like people talking, like conversation between two or more people. "Hello?" I called out, no one answered back, but the converstion kept going.
Soon an I could see again, there were two people, one was Inuyasha the other, it! It was me! I was watching my own conversation with Inuyasha!! Wait I know this! This is the night Inuyasha kissed me for the first time!!
"Tatsuki, do you think we'll ever meet in the real world?" I heard myself ask. Inuyasha was playing with a lock of my hair as he stared at me. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
"I hope so. I've grown used to you these past months." Inuyasha said, his had was still playing with my hair, twirling it, braiding it, playing with it. I smiled as I watched myself blush under his gaze.
"R-really? I have too." I stumbled before blushed a brighter red and said, "I-I mean, I've really gotten used to being here with you.." I saw myself look to the ground and twidle with my fingers together. I saw Inuyasha smile. His hand swept the hair he let loose behind my ear. I smiled at the image of us two playing shy.
"Kagome, do you like me?" Inuyasha asked, I saw the surprised look on my face when he asked the question.
"Y-yes." I said as he kept his smile.
"Would you hate me if I kissed you?" he asked as I watched my face turn even brighter. I shook my head no.
"I-I wouldn't hate you." I whispered as Inuyasha leaned to my face and kissed me. I remembered the feeling of his lips for the first time. It sent butterflies fluttering wildly in my stomach. I never remembered having such a strong feeling like that before, not even with Bankotsu. I smiled as I watched the two of us kiss for what seemed like a long time. When he pulled away I was the reddest I'd ever been in my life, he just laughed and kissed my nose.
"You're so cute." He said as he wrapped his arms around my shoulders, turning me around and pulling me into his lap. "Kagome,"
"Yes Tastuki?" I asked.
"I think that I'm falling in love with you." Inuyasha said as I smiled and laid my head sideways to hear his heart.
"I think that I'm falling in love with you too Tatsuki." I said back as he kissed the top of my head. I smiled as the image began to blur away, darkness over coming my eyes again, this time though, I was waking, I knew I was, I could feel my real body start to stir as the urge to go to the rest room. Yepp, the wonderful functions of the body.