Thank you everyone for reading my story and the favorites. Here's the second chapter for my story Hesitant Love.

Disclaimer: Takahashi Rumiko-san owns all copyrights to Inuyasha.

Becoming Acquaintances

Sango's pov (it will be in different pov's after this chapter, to get the story started I wrote in Sango's pov)

I sighed as I sat up on my bed and checked the digital clock on my nightstand. It read 11:48 a.m. There was actually still a week until I started college officially. It had been two days since I moved into this apartment with Kagome. Kagome seemed to be a very innocent and kind, gentle girl. She did all the cooking but I sometimes offered to help and she would agree only after I made a fuss to help her. It seemed she was getting used to my stubborn nature.

I saw a head peak into the room, I always made sure to wear guy shorts and a long sleeved t-shirt underneath a short sleeved t-shirt and as an extra precaution I always wrapped a bandage around my chest to flatten it making me look like a guy even more, and she smiled seeing me on my bed. "Hey! I was just wondering if you wanted any lunch Kaoru-kun. So how's that sound?" she asked me excitedly. I felt my heart flutter slightly seeing her outfit seeing as she stood in my open doorway now. She was wearing a sleeveless light blue shirt and a pair of shorts that accentuated her curvaceous figure even though they weren't that short.

I looked away and nodded my head slowly and before she could leave, I asked her if I could help. She just nodded and waited for me to fix my hair in its usual fashion, a ponytail accompanied by a cap, and walk out of my room. She smiled as we walked side by side and I blushed a bit. "So … uh … I was wondering … what's it like to … go to college?" She looked at me confusion clearly showing on her adorable heart shaped face. "Oh … um … I never mentioned this to you earlier? Although there was schooling in my village … I was usually too busy training so I was home school and learned things usual by teaching myself. Is it … hard? You know … working with other people and … learning the material? Do they provide books or do I have to buy them myself?" I asked just as we got to the kitchen. She smiled at me kindly and laughed a bit, as I asked question after question in succession. I play pouted at her causing her to blush a dark red. I remembered during these times that I was pretending to be a guy, and I was a good looking guy at that the way girls had looked at me on my way here and guys throwing me envious looks.

She stood there for a few more seconds before answering my questions. "Hmm … well. I haven't yet gone to college yet myself but from my experience in high school and what I've heard, college is a not as strict as high school nor as hard unless you get into a prestigious school. You did apply and make it into Tokyo University, which is a very prestigious school that a many students send applications to but this university only accepts about 1000 applications total and out of those 1000 applications only a little over half are actually accepted into this school." She paused, put a finger under her chin, and stood in a thinking pose. She startled me out of my thoughts when she continued, "well I'm not sure if it's going to be hard for you to work with others but you do need to buy some books for whatever subjects you will major in. You need school supplies as well such as pencils, erasers, paper, notebooks, folders, binders, and if you choose to use a lead pencil extra lead, and a little pencil box would help too." She ticked things off with her fingers she paused a moment before her face brightened up and she said cheerily, "I'll help you go buy school supplies later if you want?" I nodded quietly trying to hide my blush miserably and she giggled again. "Oh … um do you know what subjects you are majoring in Kaoru-kun?" she asked me curiously.

I nodded and quietly said, "I'm pretty much majoring in different martial art styles, archery along with a bit of history on the side and also ninja arts, for whatever reason they've got that for I can do it." I stood in thought for a moment before I shook my head letting her know that I didn't have anything else. She smiled again before a bright pink blush enveloped her cheeks, "hey what's wrong? You okay?" I asked, concerned I brought my hand up to her cheeks to check how warm they were. She flinched back, shook her head, and waved her hands if front of her face. I was confused I left my hand where it was but made no move forward.

I waited for her to answer, "um … well … I just … um was wondering …" she broke of for a moment and I nodded my head in encouragement, "if … you would … um teach me … s-some m-martial arts." She finished quickly and quietly.

I pulled my hand back and smiled widely, "of course that would be no problem … hmm … except maybe finding an area large enough to train and such so I can teach you without too much constraint," I said, thinking before an idea struck me, "are there any forests or woods around here?" I asked excitedly. "I still have my training equipment and weapons with me." She smiled at my excitement.

She stood in her thinking pose again before she also smiled excitedly, "I think I know the perfect place! We can go check it out after we buy you some school supplies and bring them home! … but how are you going to hide your weapons and equipment?" She looked thoroughly confused and worried. I smiled again. Her adorable disposition really showed at times like this. I really wanted to pinch her cheeks and run my hand over those cute cheeks and … 'agh what am I thinking again? I've only known her for what … two days and I'm a girl for god sake … but that's right she thinks I'm Kaoru, a boy' I racked my brain for a way to explain to her how I carried my weapons even now without her knowing.

I looked up again, having not realized I had bowed my head when I was deep in thought, I said to her mysteriously, "oh don't worry about that. It's not a problem hiding my weapons since I'm so used to them. I can take them along so you don't have to worry your pretty little head over that." I looked right into her eyes as I said that and at "pretty little head" she blushed, a dark red color and she looked away for a split before her eyes landed back on my face and we locked eyes again.

"W-well … um … l-let's um … go and … um m-make some lunch." She stuttered so adorably too, I found out she was cutest when she was flustered and stumbled over her words, stuttering nervously. I couldn't help my smile as I nodded my agreement. "S-so … what do you … t-think we should make for lunch?" she asked me still flustered but she seemed to calm down a bit at the end. I thought it over for a moment before I answered.

"How about we make some macaroni and cheese Asian style?" I asked her brightly. "Do we have any ground beef? Oh and some peppers mixed in would give it a wonderful spice to it as well as the sweet beef. So how about we do that Kagome?" She giggled and smiled brightly at my excitement and nodded to each question I asked. "So let's get started shall we?"

With that, we proceeded into the kitchen and we each had different tasks assigned to us. I was to ground the beef and flavor it, I placed the thawed out meat in a bowl and put ¾ of an ounce of sugar on top of it as well as ¼ of an ounce of sweet powder, (I don't know what the American name is for this Vietnamese ingredient but it literally translates to "sweet powder" because of its' sweet taste) and lastly a pinch of ground pepper on top of the mix. I then started grinding the mixture together to evenly spread the powders with the meat. Kagome was done boiling the noodles and had already put them in the microwave after thoroughly cooling them off with water at a neutral temperature. I smiled at her and offered to wash the large metal pan she had used to boil the noodles with and she paused for a moment before she sighed tiredly and nodded her consent. When I finished cleaning it I wiped the bottom of it so that I could put on the stove while it was still warm and I added a little oil and waited a little bit before I swished it around so that it covered it's entire length of the pan with a thin layer of oil and dump some garlic I had Kagome cut while the noodles were cooking. I let it alone for a little bit before it started to sizzled a little and added meat to it and I grabbed some butter at the ready and added an ounce of it to the meat as I separated them into smaller chunks with chopsticks. After they only had a little red in them I added three slices of cheese to it. Kagome came over with the macaroni and held it so I could get it on the pan. It was quite the painstaking task but it was worth it when I finished cooking it and mixing the macaroni around with the meat and garlic.

We ate at least four small bowls of it before we were full. It was so good. We lazed around on the couch for half an hour so we could digest the food a bit before going to a store to buy my school supplies. "So … um do we walk to school or drive or what?" She smiled gently before turning to me to answer. I wondered about that smile for a moment before I heard her voice.

"Hmm, well the campus is about a ten minute walk from here so I'm thinking we walk from here. Oh did you ever get a tour of the campus yet Kaoru-kun?" I slowly shook my head in response. "Then do you want me to give you a tour? I pretty much remember where everything is because for most of the first week after I finished high school I walked around the campus and was allowed to live in the campus dorms because I had a full scholarship to the university. So how does that sound to you Kaoru-kun?" I smiled at her kind sincerity and nodded my head enthusiastically at her and she giggled causing a furious blush to run across my cheeks. "You know, you seem like a really shy person Kaoru-kun. You blush a lot." She said making me blush even harder.

"N-no I don't," she laughed at my response and she tried to talk but couldn't get a word out because of her laughter, "well d-don't laugh so hard. You know what if you're going to laugh at me I'm going get revenge." I said as I started tickling her sides only causing her to laugh harder than ever and louder too. She tried to push me over through her shaking body and laughing but I would not relent. She sat up abruptly and knocked me over and I was about to fall on the table before I could do anything I felt the hard wood connect with my head. I remembered her, seeing her face hovering over me before everything went black.

When I came to I noticed something cold pressing against my forehead and I thought for sure I was lying on the softest pillow in the world. It was so soft and warm. I wonder what kind of pillow this is. When I opened my eyes I saw a face full of regret and I felt warm breathing against my face. My eyes opened wide as my vision was enveloped by her face. Startled I jerked my body forward, almost hitting her face in the process, into a sitting position. My vision blurred for a moment and my dizziness got to me and I fell back into her lap, which I figured was the softest pillow I'd ever lain on.

I waited for a moment longer before I spoke to wait for the dizziness pass. "What … uh happened?" I asked still a little light headed. She looked extremely guilty for a moment and looked at me for a moment.

She said with a guilt-ridden voice, "I accidentally knocked you over when I tried to get you off of me and you knocked your head against the table. It doesn't look like you've got a bump or anything but you do have a bruise on the right side of your forehead. I hope you don't mind but I took your cap off." Only after she said that did I realize that I wasn't wearing a cap I almost panicked but then I noticed that she didn't look any different or surprised by my appearance. I did have to admit that my appearance was a bit androgynous due to my years of training since I was at the young and tender age of five and up until the day my village was slaughtered. I had a muscular physique and although I was female my face had somewhat sharp features and yet the skin of my face was still soft to the touch and flawless. I also wore no make up because in my village even though we had primitive make up I had no need, desire, nor time to even think about it. My voice was slightly deeper for a girl too so I used that to my advantage in this situation by deepening my tone a bit for a slightly masculine sounding voice.

I looked up into bright blue eyes and smiled, "you are not at fault Kagome. I was the one tickling you so I suppose this is karma. In any case it is my own fault for tickling you and seeking out revenge. I suppose I will have to wear my cap for a while so no one can see it, right? Or else everybody will ask me what happened and I'll have to tell them the truth or tell them I was beaten by a girl, right Kagome?" I said with a smirk at her blush and she nodded her head looking away for a moment. She turned back to me and crossed her arms and fake pouted at me. "You'd better not be pouting Kagome," I smirked again when she asked me why my smirk grew wider and I continued, "well maybe … I just have to wipe it off your face," I smirked and paused for dramatic effect and continued ominously, "by biting your lips!" I shouted the last part causing her to blush a deep, almost, crimson and I just continued to smirk when I heard her mumble something under her breathe that sounded a little bit like 'what if I want you to' but I wasn't sure. "Huh, what were you mumbling under your breathe Kagome?" I asked her innocently enough but her face flushed an even brighter red than it already was. She seemed to want to look away from me but our eyes were locked and her blush seemed to lessen under my gaze. "Well Kagome," I gently pressed her for an answer, "you don't have to tell me what you said if you don't want to, it's just a question." I smiled gently.

She looked at me indecisively for a moment before she seemed to have reached a decision. "I said 'what if I want you to'." She didn't blush, except a slight pink tint to her cheeks, she looked at me seriously. I sat up and said I needed to see if I was still dizzy, and if I was to what extent. The second I stood up the room started spinning and I was falling back but this time Kagome caught me in her warm arms. "Don't push yourself too hard Kaoru-kun. One step at a time, baby steps too." She smiled at me brightly. She only looked hurt for a moment when I sat up from her lap to try to walk. I felt guilty seeing her face like that, but I was a girl and she thinks I'm a guy. How would she react if she found out that I was a girl? I didn't want to think about it.

After a few tries I was finally walking on my own but she stayed by my side in case I fell over again from dizziness. I headed to the bathroom without much trouble aside from tripping into her a little bit because I swayed for a moment. I told her it was fine if she wanted to go in with me because I was only going to look at my bruise to see how bad it was. I flinched when I moved my stray hairs to the side and saw a light blue/purple bruise. I frowned at my reflection disbelievingly. All those years of training, were they for nothing if I couldn't even react fast enough to catch myself so this little beauty didn't have to appear? I sighed and then I heard one mirroring my own just behind me and remembered Kagome was standing behind me. I smiled at her through the mirror and then looked around for my cap and then I realized I didn't know where it was. "Um … Kagome … do you know where my cap is? I don't remember seeing it on the couch or table." She gasped and nodded and ran out of the bathroom and turned to the right. I figured she was going to my room seeing as that's the only place she could really go other than the little closet across from my room. I sighed again. I'd have to make due with trying to spike my hair over to one side to hide this bruise or wear a cap all day long. Either way I knew girls were going to flock all around me. She came back within a minute and tried to put my cap on me, she did so successfully, and smiled at the surprised expression on my face, I assumed that was the reason anyways. "So … um do we also walk to the store to buy my school materials Kagome?" She thought about it before she spoke.

"Well do you think you can walk for about 15 minutes ok? If not why don't I just drive you to the store and then to the campus? You know, give you a little more time to recover?" She asked me, her concern and worry clearly showing through. I thought for a moment before I nodded thinking that would be the best decision so nothing bad could happen to make her worry and feel even more guilt. I decided I hated to see her feel so guilty and sad, it wasn't her. She seemed to be a very happy cheerful person kind of person. She also exuded kindness and an adorable personality. "Did you want to get changed before we go out or are you ok with how you're dressed Kaoru-kun?" I thought for a moment I saw a light tint of pink across her features but it disappeared too fast for me to tell if it was there or not.

"Do you think it is ok for me to just go in these shorts? It doesn't look like it is too hot outside but what do you think?" I didn't think much of the question but she looked a little nervous? I also saw that slight pink blush appeared on her cheeks and as fast as it had appeared it disappeared.

"I think your shorts are fine. Well then why don't you … um ... sit on the couch while I change into something a little more … appropriate." She seemed to be thinking about something else while she spoke. She confused me. She made me curious. She made me wonder what was going on in her head. She headed out of the bathroom in the meantime to go to her room and change. I headed out a moment after and sat on the couch but not for long before she reappeared at the foot of the hallway in an outfit that made her look … no other word for; sexy. The outfit itself wasn't revealing in any way but it definitely brought her already stunning blue and showed off her sexy and muscular looking legs. She wore a light blue button up blouse and left the top button alone but the rest was buttoned. The top button only revealed the muscles of her neck and nothing more, which looked incredibly sexy in my opinion. Her bottom half was covered by a knee length white skirt accentuating her curvaceous figure. She looked so sexy and stunning I hadn't heard her calling my name, when I finally snapped out of it she looked worried, probably thinking my head was bothering me so much that I hadn't heard her.

"I'm sorry Kagome, what were you going to ask me?" She looked even more worried at that. I looked at her and apologized before she could try to blame herself. "Kagome I'm sorry for spacing out on you like that." She looked relieved at that, I smiled at her and she smiled back.

"I asked you if you were ready to go, I think it's obvious but I'm driving," she said and then it seemed she had remembered something just now. "Do you have a drivers permit or license or any driving experience at all?" I shook my head no to all of her questions. "But … then how did you get here all on your own? Wait did you walk all the way over here from your village?" I nodded and I felt a slight dizziness from all of my head nodding and shaking, "then you must have done a lot of walking huh?" I nodded slightly so my head wouldn't start throbbing. "Oh is your head bothering you? Well let's head out to my car after I grab my purse. Do you have any money Kaoru-kun? Or do you need me to lend you some?" She was just too kind and adorable for her own good.

"I still have quite a bit of money left over from my families' secret stash. I'm sure I'll be fine. I do have some money in my pockets too so there's no need to worry about me Kagome." I smiled at her and she turned to get her purse and smiled at me. She held her hand out, and for whatever reason I took her hand in mine. Oddly enough I felt at ease when I held her small hand in my own. My hands were very large for a girl, large enough to be mistaken for a boys' instead. My hands weren't very rough but at the same time they weren't soft either, they were somewhere in between. I liked how soft her hands were though, they felt good and smooth in my rougher hands.

We were still holding hands when we were in the store and I could see girls throwing Kagome jealous looks while looking at me like I was a new candy they really wanted. Many of them were already bad enough to throw flirtatious looks at me but some of them actually came up to the two of us and 'accidentally' bumped into me. I was getting very fed up by their attitudes and the way they couldn't take a hint. They obviously thought we were a couple because we were holding hands but it seemed that that didn't matter to them. This one girl was brazen enough to come up to me and ask me if I wanted to date her and acted as if she couldn't see Kagome standing right next to me and holding my hand. I was becoming very exasperated with this situation and I said very coldly to her "if you haven't noticed I'm here with my girlfriend as well as any other girl in this store. I'm becoming very irritated with you girls coming up to me to ask me out even though I'm obviously already in a relationship." With that I pulled Kagome to a different section of the store away from those girls to get some of the materials Kagome had informed me I needed after she looked at my acceptance letter earlier. When I looked back at her she looked very dazed and had a pink blush adorning her cheeks. "Um … Kagome, is this the textbook you said I needed for my history?" I looked at her and she seemed to snap out of it and nodded her head. "I don't need any other books right?" She nodded her head again, "what cat got your tongue?" She nodded in response yet again. I decided to be mischievous at the moment, "Do you like me Kagome?" She nodded again and then her eyes got wide and she looked horrified at her answer.

"Um … there're school materials over there," she said trying to distract me. I smirked and held onto her hand so that she was pulled back against me. She blushed furiously when her back was a mere inch away from my front and I wrapped a hand around her waist, my breathe fanning her neck as I whispered into her ear, "no use trying to distract me Kagome." She turned an even redder shade and let out a shallow breathe. I pulled back after I saw the two girls behind leave as well as the four in front of us. I sighed in relief when they were out of sight. "Sorry about that, there were a couple of girls still following me and well … I didn't want them approaching me again so I had to get you to blush a bit and make it look like … we were … um … having an intimate moment. You're not mad are you Kagome?" She looked a bit disappointed but shook her head and pulled on my hand so I would follow her again.

We left the store with a bag for my book and another for the school supplies I bought. I had plenty of yen left over after that still. We headed to her car again still holding hands. I put my stuff under my feet as I got into the passenger's side and buckled up for the ride. I had been tempted to put an arm around her shoulders to make sure no one tried to talk to either of us seeing as a few guys were looking at Kagome like a pack of hungry dogs, but they thought better of it when they saw the glare I sent their way. They could tell that I had a muscular build seeing the veins that popped out of my arms.

The ride to the campus was short. There were many students around at this time it seemed so they could get to know the campus better. Even here girls stared at me and guys stared at Kagome. I sighed but kept my hand interlaced with hers. We went into the school building and she showed me what various buildings were for. I was very fascinated with the gym full of martial arts equipment and work out equipment. She showed me the field designated for archery practice and my jaw nearly dropped at the sheer size of it. There were several acres of land dedicated to archery. The last building she showed me was the lecture hall for my history class.

When we were walking back to the car I thanked her for being so kind and giving me a tour of the campus as well as helping me buy supplies and help keep those crazy girls away from me. She told me it was no problem for the first two but when I got to the last part she blushed at what I guessed was a memory of what had happened earlier in the store.

As she drove me back to our apartment I unconsciously grabbed her hand after she started driving. She didn't look at me and kept her eyes on the road. I was deep in thought, thinking today's events over.

When we were back in the apartment and sitting on the couch after I had put my supplies away and eating an early dinner it was still 5:28 p.m. We just sat there and I asked her if we could watch a movie on her TV and she agreed. The movie we finally decided to watch started at 6:00 on the TV. We had been watching it for nearly an hour when I noticed her head had dropped down and lay on my shoulder. I smiled gently at the cute little smile she had on her face as she slept. The movie I decided wasn't as fun as watching her sleep.

The movie had only just finished and I looked at my watch to see it was three minutes until eight. I sighed thoroughly bored and turned off the TV. I sat there watching her for several minutes before I looked at my watch again and seeing that it was 8:15 I decided to tuck her into her bed so she could sleep in more comfort.

I picked her up to discover that she was very light and I headed down the hall to her room. As I laid her down to sleep I tried to pull away to find her hand had gripped onto my shirt and she held it so firmly I was afraid I would wake her up if I tried to pull her hand off. I sighed and sat down by her bed after I put her blanket on her to keep her warm. Her left hand still had an iron grip on my shirt. I sighed again and checked my watch to see it had only eight minutes had passed.

I was starting to feel very sleepy at this point but I tried my hardest to stay awake a little longer but I eventually fell into sleeps grip. The last thing I saw was her serene smile before my head hit the bed and I fell into a deep sleep.

Here's the second chapter for those who are interested. Sorry for taking so long. I will however be away for a few days for a funeral for an important family member so I will update when I can. Sorry about the wait and enjoy! ~ Hikaru