A/N: Big thanks to the following people for their encouragements! : lannamoo, IlonaBliss, XxMYfanFICSxX, Alechaos Ogigio, Sora7, and MANGA1! I want you all to know, that, while I love you all, I will only be posting on Saturday, and Wednesday. I'm sorry, but I can't write any faster due to school, cross country, volunteering, and piano! Thanks you all so much for your comments. I'm aiming for 100 (hint hint) and hope you enjoy this chapter! :D
Inuyasha POV:
"Come on, it's obvious you like her, go ask her on a date and get to know her!" Miroku practically shouted. A couple of people turned out way and snorted as I shuffled my feet nervously.
"You know it ain't that simple! Firstly, she's a priestess. Secondly, I'm a half-demon." Miroku banged his head repeatedly against his locker.
"You're hopeless! I give up!" Two weeks had passed and Kagome sat with Miroku and me every day now, which pissed Sesshomaru off greatly. I had a feeling he was going to say something to Kagome soon. Unbeknownst to me, Miroku and I weren't the only ones arguing that morning.
Kagome POV:
"Kagome! I've told you again and again, he's a bad guy!" Sango said sternly.
"And what would you know about it Sango? You won't even give him a chance!"
"He's done things that are unforgivable!"
"Like what?"
Sango lowered her tone and looked into my eyes coolly. "I'm not the one who should tell you that." She said as she walked away. I took a breath. I was going to ask Inuyasha Taisho out. It was now or never. I worked up my courage and found him having a heated debate with Miroku. The black-haired boy dropped his books and began to beat his head against a locker. Weird. I stepped up and took a deep breath.
"Hey Inuyasha." He glanced at me strangely. I thought I heard him mutter something along the lines of 'speak of the devil' but I couldn't be sure.
"Hey, what's up Kagome?"
"I was….wondering if you would…want to…" I swallowed. "Go out sometime?" He stared at me in shock for a moment, looked at Miroku, who looked at him, and they both started laughing. Inuyasha leaned up against the lockers he was laughing so hard and I felt my face redden at the cheeks and my eyes burned with tears. Miroku was in on it too!
"Fine!" I yelled at him. "Just…fine!" I balled my hands into fists and stalked away.
"Wait! Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted after me, but I kept walking. If only I had known that Rin was having boyfriend issues that morning too, we could have gotten together to rant about the evils of men.
Sesshomaru POV:
I inhaled Rin's heady scent as she sat nestled on my lap in the school court-yard. She was wearing a bright orange sweater and jeans with a daisy tucked behind one ear as her hands swiftly braided more flowers together to make a chain. Her quick fingers paused for a fraction of a second, but I caught it.
"Yes, Rin?" she smiled at my uncanny perception and ability to read her emotions.
"It's nothing really…but I wanted to ask you to be nice to Kagome. You know, that new girl that sits with Inu….I mean, your brother." She said. I nodded slightly.
"Why?"
"She's my friend, that's why! I know you don't like people who like your brother, but that's something else I wanted to talk about!"
I stayed silent and stared off into the distance for a moment before she impatiently burst out.
"Why do you hate him so much anyway?" The curiosity lacing that question was mixed with a lingering sadness that I couldn't put my finger on.
"He is a half-breed, a tainting to my father's noble blood." I replied shortly. She suddenly jumped out of my lap, the daisy chain falling to the dewy grass.
"Is that what it is? Because in case you hadn't noticed, I'm human! If we have kids, they'll be half-breeds and they'll taint your father's noble blood Sesshomaru! You had better think about what you want!" Rin shouted at me before running into the school. No doubt she was going to pester Jaken. She always did that to vent her anger. Damn… I thought to myself slowly before following her through the double doors.
Sango's POV:
No matter how many times I told her, Kagome always went to accompany the mongrel. I didn't understand it at all. I walked through the halls and heard Kagome shout.
"Fine! Just…fine!"
I shook my head and almost ran into Miroku. Oh crap.
"Ah, Sango! Just the girl I was looking for!"
"Ah, Miroku!" I mocked, "Just the perv I wasn't looking for!" Miroku chuckled imperturbably. His purple-gray eyes were mesmerizing, like rippling pools of shifting color, with his ruffled black bangs falling over his eyes as he laughed.
"Sango, Sango, Sango that is no way to speak to your date!" I balked.
"What…date?"
"Why, the one that I was about to ask you on!"
"And if I were to say…no?"
Miroku turned his hypnotic gaze on me and I knew that there was no way I could say no. His hand suddenly snuck around and touched my backside.
"PERVERT!" I screeched as I slapped him. "But yes, I'll go with you. Don't pull anything funny! Where are we going by the way?" I secretly was happy with the attention he was paying me.
"Well, I just thought I could take you to dinner this Saturday night at around 8:00." He grinned. I could see my hand-print glowing like a coal on his face. Maybe I shouldn't have hit him that hard. Or maybe he shouldn't have touched my butt. Whatever.
"Sure." I said with a quick nod. "I'll be ready by then. I live one floor below Inuyasha, the third door you come across. See you!" I paused and turned around. "Who was Kagome yelling at?" Miroku looked uncomfortable.
"Well, Inuyasha…" he began, and after he explained what had happened, I couldn't help but laugh too.
Kagome's POV:
Inuyasha caught my arm and by now I was crying visibly. I swung around and hit him across the face with splayed fingers and he looked shocked. He let go of my arm to rub his cheek.
"Hey!" he complained. "What the hell was that for?"
"What did you want, a hug?" I asked sarcastically through my tears. "If you didn't want to go you could have just said so, but you had to laugh!" He continued to stare at me.
"What?" I asked irritably as he smirked.
"We weren't laughing at you; we were laughing at the irony!" I glared at him suspiciously.
"What do you mean by that?" His smile grew.
"Right before you walked up Miroku was trying to help me work up the courage to ask you out for Saturday. I wasn't going to go, but you walked up and asked, so…"
I felt a stunned and embarrassed look spread across my face. Oh crap. I just acted like a total brat and hit Inuyasha Taisho across the face. Luckily for me he didn't hit back. Not many people would have gotten away with that. He kept talking, smirking slightly at the look on my face.
"So, are you up for a date on Saturday?" I smiled widely.
"Yes."
The next few days passed blindingly fast and pretty soon the anticipated day was upon me. Inuyasha had told me to be casually dressed by 10:00 A.M., and so here I was in a grass green tee and khaki cargo shorts, my unruly black curls left down as I pulled on brown Rocket-dogs. Sota ambled into the hall and looked at me.
"Where are you going?" he asked curiously, still in his blue stripped pajamas, Buyo cuddled in his small arms.
"Inuyasha's going to be here in a few minutes to pick me up for a date." Sota looked taken aback.
"I thought that albino guy was just your friend!" At that moment, the 'albino guy' in question knocked on the door. I pulled it open to see him wearing a black shirt with a gray zip-up sweat shirt, and a pair of jean shorts with his customary red base-ball cap. Come to think of it, I had never seen him without it. I made a mental note to ask him about it. He smiled easily at me and nodded to Sota. Buyo leapt out of my brother's arms and scurried to Inuyasha's feet to begin rubbing against his legs.
"Hey!" he said amiably to the fat feline as he scooped him up and scratched him behind the ears. He looked back at me as I regained my feet. "You ready to go?"
"Yep! Where are we going?" He gave me a mischievous smile. I never noticed how over-long his canine teeth were. I wonder if he needed dental work for that…
"That's for me to know, and you to find out!" he cried laughingly as he put Buyo back on the ground. He turned away and motioned for me to follow. I stepped out the door after telling Sota goodbye. We raced down the shrine stairs and Inuyasha won of course. We strolled down the streets chatting about school, upcoming boxing matches, my cat, Inuyasha's job, and other random things and we soon reached a park. It was gorgeous and wooded on one end. We decided to hike through the woods, even though it was only about a mile until we ran into the road again. We walked for half an hour before Inuyasha suddenly halted and stared at something in the trees. Koga leaped out the branches and landed before us.
"Hey mutt-face. What's going on?" he asked nonchalantly. Inuyasha made a low sound in the back of his throat that sounded distinctly canine. I glared at Koga.
"What do you mean by calling him that?" I asked. Koga smiled in malice.
"Inuyasha, take off your hat and show the girl why don't you? Or are you afraid she'll run away screaming and treat you like the freak you are?" I turned slowly to face the silver-haired boy.
"Show me what?" I asked softly as Inuyasha averted his gaze. He looked sad, and angry, and I wanted to console him. But I had to know what he was hiding. Koga's hand suddenly shot out and snatched the cap off Inuyasha's head.
Inuyasha POV:
I winced as the ball cap was whipped off my ears, tugging them ever so slightly and heard Kagome's gasp of surprise when she saw the white dog ears I had. I saw understanding blaze in her eyes as she took in my silver hair, my claws, my eyes, my teeth, and lastly my ears. He gaze fixated on them and I stood stock still. Koga smiled cruelly beside us.
"You've got ears." She said blankly.
"Yeah." I mumbled.
"You've got dog's ears." I looked steadily at the ground as waves of anger and hurt threatened to overwhelm me. I made a quick mental note to kill Koga. Shouldn't be too hard to remember. I was suddenly almost knocked off my feet as Kagome jumped me and began to rub my ears.
"You've got ears!" she squealed like a giddy school girl. "They are so cute!"I had to resist the urge to ask her to scratch a little bit to the left. Koga looked staggered. His face had that total 'WHAT THE HELL?' look allllll over it. A thought suddenly occurred to me. Kagome isn't running away screaming. She doesn't think I'm a freak. She's not shooting me with priestess lightning. She's not trying to hit me. She….doesn't care. She doesn't care that I'm a half demon. I knew I'd find the perfect girlfriend one day. But I didn't think it would be a Kikyo look-alike. Crap. At least Kagome doesn't act like Kikyo, 'cause if she did, that would be way too damn creepy. Another thought hit me. Do I love Kagome?