I left school at the end of the day with Gingitsune and Kirara, feeling more than a little disgruntled. Royama-san had approached me and told me I needed a tutor. What am I, an idiot? Why would I need a tutor? I professed this quite clearly to her, but still, she insisted I get one. Finally, I agreed and she told me she had a pretty effective one. It was implied that this tutor was female, so I agreed again, more fervently. With a smile, Royama-san said I could meet the tutor in the private—emphasis on private—study hall during lunch.
So, you ask, why am I disgruntled?
Because guess who the tutor is.
I'm not even going to waste precious pencil lead and paper writing that thing's name. I mean, fucking honestly! That is all the hell I need right now! First she's better than me at athletics; now math?! What's next: she can read better than me?!
"Dude, cheer up." Gingitsune grinned, after having laughed her ass off at Inuyasha's predicament. "It won't be that bad. At least you'll be great at math. That chick's a whiz at it, apparently."
"Shut up, Tsune-chan." Inuyasha grumbled.
"I don't understand, Inuyasha. Why can't you just like Kagome?"
"What reason do I have to do so?!" The vampire snapped. "None, that's what! None whatsoever!"
"Alright, alright, fine..." Kirara sighed, rolling her eyes.
"You'll feel better once we get some food."
"I have no taste for food."
"Don't be such a funky bunny!" Gingitsune huffed, glaring over her shoulder at him. "What do you want?"
"I don't know." He shrugged, picking at his nails, though the glint in his eyes spoke volumes to her. She blushed slightly and turned back around.
"Uh...how about a movie? I've been wanting to see Shutter for a while." Kirara's cell phone buzzed in her pocket and she withdrew it, reading the text message.
"I've already seen it." Inuyasha yawned indifferently, prompting another glare from Gingitsune. "But I didn't understand it. I guess there's nothing wrong with a rerun."
"Whatever...what about you, Kicchan?"
"Sorry, but I can't. Track team meeting. Kagome just called it." Inuyasha gave her an annoyed look at the mention of the hated girl, but she merely shrugged. "See you guys tomorrow." She dashed off, and Inuyasha moved to Gingitsune's side with a languorous smirk.
"Guess it's just me and you, then."
"Don't try anything funny, Dracula." The girl warned. "I might not have a boyfriend, but that doesn't mean I'm some easy jumper."
"I would never assume that." Inuyasha murmured innocently.
"Besides, we just met today. Maybe in a few weeks after we know each other better." She sniffed, and he shrugged again.
"More resilient than you have tried. But I find that apparently I'm virtually irresistible."
"Ooh, somebody's confident."
"As well I should be." Inuyasha's eyes traveled down her well-rounded body and he felt a shudder of desire course throughout his own. "But don't worry; even after I leave you begging for more pleasure, I still want to be your friend."
"Don't be stupid." Gingitsune pinked, but something inside her told her he was right. "You know, the real world is a lot different from that village you're used to. You can't just go around fucking everybody on a whim, Inuyasha."
"...Why not? The way I see it, it's exactly the same." Inuyasha shrugged. "Hell, no one's stopped me before."
"Well, mine is the iron will. I don't care what you've been doing, but it won't work on me."
"We'll see." Inuyasha chuckled, letting his finger drift over the clothed flesh of the neko's behind. Gingitsune stiffened and punched him in the shoulder with an angry blush, but he only laughed. "Today's going to be so fun."
They came to the movie theater, the line for which, strangely enough, was extremely long. Inuyasha sighed, slightly annoyed, and Gingitsune shared the sentiment.
"Lines suck." She complained.
"They really do."
"And just how much do you wanna bet that these same people are in line to see the movie we wanna see?!"
"A lot."
"Is this movie even really all that great?"
"I couldn't say."
"Hmm...you know what? Movies suck."
"I agree."
"Let's go someplace else."
"Okay." Gingitsune and Inuyasha stepped out of the line and left, wandering the streets aimlessly.
"Where do you wanna go?"
"I dunno. Where do you want to go?"
"I dunno." Gingitsune groaned, pulling on her hair. "This is unbearable! Why the hell can we never find anything to do?!"
"Mm-mm." Inuyasha shrugged.
"Okay...wanna go to the coffee shop?" Inuyasha grimaced.
"I'm not particularly fond of coffee."
"Yeah...now that you mention it, neither am I. How about the mall? You can buy me something!"
"Uh...no. I don't think so."
"Wanna go get pizza?"
"You know, the more suggestions you throw out there, the more this is beginning to sound like a date. Is this, perchance, a date?" Inuyasha grinned. "Because if it is, we could just skip the foreplay and go right to my house."
"Oh-ho-ho, no." She chuckled. "I don't think so. We'll go to my house, where you'll have absolutely no chance of getting any because there's a family reunion going on. It's packed." Inuyasha shrugged.
"I've done it in more packed places before. The fuller, the better." Gingitsune scoffed.
"Gross..."
"Tsune-chan, why be so resistant to my charm? I know you're attracted to me. You know you're attracted to me. Nobody has to know what we do behind closed doors, do they?"
"The point is that I'll know, and it'll show all over my face, and every guy within a six-mile radius is going to think I'm the easiest girl in the Orient."
"But I was under the impression that obstinate people like you and I were above what people thought." He slipped an arm around her waist and stroked her plump lips with the smoother side of his index claw.
"I am. That doesn't mean I have to screw you just to prove it." She mumbled, and Inuyasha spun her into the dark alley between two buildings, pressing her body against the brick wall.
"Give in to your desires, Gingitsune." He breathed sensually against her extrasensitive ear, his eyes glowing in the darkness. The already spellbound Gingitsune stared into their burning golden depths and felt her inhibitions lowering, despite her meekly mumbled protests. Inuyasha trailed his fuchsia tongue over the soft spot in her neck, exhilarated by the feel of her hot blood coursing through her jugular vein.
"Well, well. I leave you alone for a few years and this is what you've condescended to? Tempting pretty young girls in dark allies?" Inuyasha's eyes flickered lazily to the side, though he knew the voice of his young charge before even seeing him. Gingitsune's face reddened considerably and she shrank away, embarrassed at being caught in such an act by her own cousin.
"Shippou?" The two said with varying intensity.
"The one and only!" He smirked, and Inuyasha respectfully backed away from Gingitsune, turning to Shippou with an expressionless face. "What, mad I prevented you from getting some?" Gradually, a wide grin made its way across Inuyasha's features and he grabbed the lanky boy, embracing him with a laugh.
"You little bastard, where the hell have you been?"
"Ah, you know...getting away from my roots." Shippou mock-grimaced as Inuyasha playfully ruffled his tufted hair. "Jeez...what are you, my dad or something?"
"Can I go now?" Gingitsune whined, her face still red.
"You might as well; there's no way you two are gonna be screwing like piggies on my account." She glared at the younger boy, shoving him out of her way before stalking out of the alley. Inuyasha leaned casually against the brick wall, looking critically at Shippou.
"Okay...so where have you really been, Shippou? Or should I say, Kogane?" He drawled, and Shippou pinked.
"So you know about that?" He mumbled.
"Yes. I do know. And I'm extremely disappointed in you: what are you, insane?"
"But you don't understand, Inuyasha. I had to leave the village because I couldn't bear the change any longer. I had to escape, or I was gonna do insane."
"Shippou, you're not that much older than me, and you saw it when I went through the change. It wasn't that bad, was it?" Shippou cast him a dry look and he merely smirked as they left the alley, heading for Inuyasha's apartment. "Okay, so maybe it was a little difficult."
"Sesshoumaru had to nearly drown you in cold water, dude. That sounds more than a little difficult to me."
"Well, you can't run from the change. I learned that the hard way. Did you?"
"...Kinda...I was on a sexual rampage for an entire twelvemonth, taking different forms for flexibility...it finally proved to be too much for me and I lay half-dead on the side of the road in canine form." Despite the despondence of the subject, Shippou couldn't help a smile. "It wasn't long before I met Kagome." Inuyasha scowled.
Even my faithful follower practically worships the ground that bitch walks on.
"I don't think I want to hear this part."
"Oh, come on, Inuyasha—you've got to be a little curious."
"I'm curious about castration as well, but that doesn't mean I want to hear about it."
"You are?"
"Shippou..." Inuyasha growled.
"Well, I just thought you would at least want to hear the story, seeing as you're heading for her house."
"I'm not heading for her house. The bitch just resides in my complex, that's all."
"Oh. Well, let me tell it anyway!"
"Fine, you whiny little runt!"
"Thank you." Shippou beamed. "Kagome loves animals, more so than anyone I've ever seen before, so naturally, she would help me out. I woke up in her mother's house and nearly bit her, but then I saw her for what she was and submitted in deference. No matter how crazy I may get, I know better than to try a stunt like that."
"Mm." Inuyasha mumbled, remembering himself when he tried to get Nanako to sleep with him.
Damn, that woman's hard-to-get.
"We talked a while, while my raging blood cooled, and I found even more reasons to love Kagome—she treated me like a normal person, even after she found out what I was."
"Mm." Now the gears in Inuyasha's brain began turning. "You know she's adopted, right?"
"Adopted?" Shippou frowned. "No, Nanako's her blood mother, for lack of a better term."
"Of course..." Inuyasha mumbled, clenching his fists.
Well...at least that explains why she's faster than me...possibly.
"And what about her father? That's who Miroku said she was living with over here."
"..." Shippou was quiet, which was blatantly unusual for him, and stirred suspicion within Inuyasha. He quirked an eyebrow.
"Her father is a kyuuketsuki...right?"
"Inuyasha, please don't tell Sesshoumaru about this." Shippou pled and Inuyasha's features tautened in disbelief.
"She's a half-breed!" He yelled, and Shippou quickly shushed him, looking around nervously. "Shippou, what the hell?!"
... Inuyasha was unable to form a proper train of thought. I...I was bested...by a half-breed?!
It was a major blow to his ego to know this, but more importantly, the more malicious part of him knew just what he could do to get rid of her.
"Just...keep it under your hat, please, Inuyasha!"
"Uh-uh!" Inuyasha laughed evilly. "I hate that wench, and this is the perfect opportunity to dispose of her!"
"But why, Inuyasha?!" Shippou cried. "What did Kagome ever do to you?!"
"She challenged my word." The older vampire crossed his arms, referring to Kagome's instant mistrust of him, even after he promised himself he wouldn't hurt either her or Miroku. "She's a disrespectful harlot, as well as annoying, and in all honesty, why should I like someone who clearly doesn't like me?" Shippou looked at him strangely for a while, then broke out into a knowing grin.
"Oh! I get it now! You don't like her because she's not interested in you!"
"...Excuse me?" Inuyasha muttered dryly, laughing derisively. "That's funny, though. Honestly, worried about one girl's opinion—a halfling, at that—while hundreds of others are just waiting to fall helpless at my feet."
"Well, it's hard not to think highly of Kagome. She's beautiful, intelligent, loving—"
"Expected of a half-human." Inuyasha waved him off flippantly. "Much too emotional for my liking."
"Oh? This from the man who just hugged me not five minutes ago?" Shippou teased, and Inuyasha scowled, crossing his arms.
"You can't prove that." However, even with his constant denials, a small part of Inuyasha had to wonder...could that really have been the cause for his seemingly inexplicable hatred?
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