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A brush with love and death
When he first realized he was in love with Higurashi it was a frightening revelation and he found himself in a situation where he did not know what to do. Clearly the safest course of action to take would be to do nothing at all, that way everything will stay the same, nothing will change. He and Kagome will continue to have their strange and complicated friendship, she would continue to act just as weird and wonderful around him as always. He would continue to study without having to fear for his life from the Inu no Taisho for being a rival. The pressure that bordered pain in his chest which was heightened when around her would never let up either.
When the Western Lord found out he was in love with Higurashi, or at least, was very interested in her, and decided to do something about it, he had his first brush with death. It turned out Inutaisho was not too fond of his idea of his Kagome gaining any different male's attention. They did not go down to the dojo and battle it out like men, he was not an idiot, and he did not have a death wish. No, Yamazaki, unlike Kouga was challenged in the library, he was up against a bookshelf with a sword at his throat. He'd been warned to stay away and without batting an eyelid, he nodded, not sure there was another option open to him.
He was not scared of Touga, he was a fox, he could worm his way out of any situation he managed to land himself into. That was why he looked him in the eye without flinching when he received his first warning concerning Kagome, and lied. He could not stay away from the young woman he loved, it was hardly his fault that the woman he wanted was wanted by several others, it just comes to show how extraordinary and desirable she was. For some reason the dog demon did not seem to like it that he did not show fear of him.
He was not sure how the Western Lord had figured it out so soon after he had learnt that he had fallen so irrevocably and completely himself. He had been so careful, so restrained; he guessed there must have been little things he'd missed that the Inu Lord had obviously not overlooked. He had always been ultra aware of her, there was no other way to describe it, his eyes followed her every move and he knew when she entered and exited the room, no matter where they were, or, it would seem, who was around to see. Perhaps it was the doting look in his eyes and the goofy grin that never left his face when with her. Maybe it was because he very almost kissed her mere seconds before Touga actually did so.
He kept waiting for the day Higurashi found out he was in love with Higurashi. The day did not come, or if it did, she never gave any signs that she knew, and he did not know whether he wanted her to love him back. On one hand he wanted his love to be reciprocated, he found he liked the idea of being loved back, especially seeming as Kagome was his first love, really, and he did not want to be heartbroken. Yet on the other hand, Inutaisho would inevitably find out and then a horrible rivalry would start. The day he saw Hiroki's eyes follow her, his heart clenched, it wasn't fair, why was it that when he finally did find a girl he wanted as a mate, everybody else had to decide that they were in love with her too?