"I should slap you!" Kagome hissed marching up to Kikiyo, "Why the hell are you here?"
"I came back from America just six months ago. I've tried getting a hold of you." Kikiyo defended herself.
"You stole my internship!" Kagome screamed jabbing her finger to the taller raven haired woman, "I told you to change the date and the next thing I know I'm getting a call saying that, and I quote 'Your twin came in your place, so we don't need you. We'll send you the paper work so you can apply again.'"
"Look Kagome, I was only going to sta-" Kagome cut Kikiyo off with a slap.
"Don't!" Kagome looked at Inu Yasha, "I'll see you at work, Yasha."
Kagome left her food sitting on the table untouched. Kikiyo looked at Inu Yasha and smiled sadly.
"You were a red head last time I saw you." Inu Yasha said quietly.
"I also had weaker cheek bones, my eyebrows were lower and my nose was the same as Gome." Kikiyo said quietly
"Leave." Inu Yasha looked up at her. "Leave now and go."
"Yasha-" Kikiyo reached for him but held her tongue when he pulled away.
"Kikiyo what you did to Kagome, and t-to me, that's wrong. You were so wrong to just, god please just leave." Inu Yasha said
"Yasha, I am sorry." Kikiyo said, "And I want you to tell Kagome the same-"
"You left him! Had Kagome break up with him and then you left, and we were the ones that watched him! We are the ones that still go visit him every day in the hospital! I'm the one that reads and sings to him because he said that he loved my voice!" Inu Yasha choked on tears.
"You left because, why? Because you were the one afraid of commitment! And we suffered for it!" Inu Yasha screamed tears slipping down his face. "Leave."
Kikiyo nodded and walked out of the apartment. Inu Yasha took a small step then collapsed onto his sofa. "Kikiyo is a common name, I wasn't thinking."
"Inu Yasha, what's going on?" Sango asked looking at the boy.
"It was before you two meant us. Back when we had just turned seventeen." Inu Yasha said, "Kikiyo was seventeen and about to marry Naraku. But at the last minute she asked her sister if she would call off the wedding. Kagome agreed. But on a single condition. You see Kagome had just received word that she had received the paid internship for Dolce and Cabana in New York.
"I was about to go to Julliard on a full ride scholarship as was Naraku. He was a great pianist. He had finally admitted his feelings to Kikiyo just six months before asking her to marry him. And she agreed." Inu Yasha smiled
"It was a happy time, Naraku's older brother had flown in from the Spanish Conservatory in Madrid to play piano while I sang. Kagome was the maid of honor." Inu Yasha said, "Kagome had talked to her sister and found out that Kikiyo wasn't ready to marry Naraku. So Kagome took him aside only two hours before the wedding. He took it well."
"Until, that is, Kagome got a call telling her that Kikiyo was going to take her place as a paid intern. Naraku got hit by a car on his way to give Kikiyo a piece of his mind. He was paralyzed from the neck down and put in a coma. He's been in it for the last three years." Inu Yasha collapsed on his couch tears streaming silently down his face.
"Are you okay?" Kouga asked unsurely.
A laugh came from Inu Yasha, "Not really, but sweet of you to ask."
"Maybe we should go?" asked Shippo as Ayame nodded behind him.
"No, it's-your fine. Just a lot of drama that I wasn't expecting to confront today." Inu Yasha said, "Finding my dad, and brother. Kikiyo. It's been one hell of a day." Inu Yasha smiled sadly
"That's for sure." Sango agreed making herself heard for the first time.
.o0o.
It was the next day. Eight sharp when Inu Yasha's alarm screeched out annoyingly to wake the sleeping boy up. Inu Yasha lazily threw his arm over to his bedside table to pound the clock's sleep button. It wasn't till he heard a loud knock at the door that he actually woke up.
Slipping on only his gauze white robe he walked to the door and opened, "You're late bitch." He said smiling think it was Kagome on the other side. He paused when he saw Inu Tashio, His mother, and a boy he vaguely recognized.
His smile dropped, "What do you want?" His hissed
"Well for you to get dressed would be great." The tall stoic boy with silver hair said standing behind his mother.
"This is my house." Inu Yasha shrugged, "And I'll do what I please thank you very much."
"Yasha is that-" Kagome peeked out of her door, "Oh."
"Yeah." Inu Yasha opened his door more and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Well did you tell them to leave?" She asked cocking her head to the left.
"No actually." Inu Yasha turned toward the boy standing behind his parents point he spoke as if he was speaking to a dog, "Leave."
The boy growled, "Respect your elders, fag."
"What did you call him?" Kagome said coming out from behind the safety of her door, somehow managing to look threatening even in her, pink and blue 'Hello Kitty' sleepwear.
"And you should stay out of this, little girl." The tall boy said waving a hand at her dismissively. Of course when dealing with a woman who put herself through rigorous training of multiple combat styles during her formative years, that was not the best plan.
Kagome grabbed the assholes pinkie and twisted his hand so that he fell to the ground. She put her left foot on the chrome-haired boys back and pushed him down further to the ground.
"Listen, big boy, only two people get to call Yasha a fag, myself and Naraku. Second, this very little girl put herself through training of the most deadly combat styles still practiced today and can pound your ass harder than that robotic dildo, glued to your wall." She said all the while putting slightly more pressure on his back with every word. "Understand."
"Yes." He hissed out then yelped as she twisted his figure more.
"Say 'I understand,' big boy."
"I understand." Kagome let up on the boys back and turned, as did the others, when a new person cleared her throat.
"Hello Miss Johnson." Inu Yasha and Kagome said sweetly.
The woman simply raised an eyebrow at the group, pushed through them while mumbling to her small dog about how, 'Mindless Idiots, pumpkin, that's what they are."
The dog simply growled at Inu Yasha in response. When the woman passed Kagome pushed pass the taller three and took her place besides Inu Yasha. The two began to shut the door on the group when Inu Tashio, the eldest put his hand out to stop the door.
"Please Inu Yasha," He begged, "Let's talk. If you don't like what I have to say, I won't contact you ever again.
Inu Yasha glanced at Kagome, "Don't put tea on," he looked back at them, "they won't be stay long. They won't be staying long at all."
.o0o.
"You what?" Inu Yasha asked dumbly as Kagome stared wide-eyed at the group.
"We want you, and your friends to move into the building with us." Kagome's mouth started to move like a fish until Inu Yasha spoke.
"No!" Kagome's head snapped to Inu Yasha.
"Now Inu Yasha, let's not be hasty! I mean, come on, you could really do a lot there. And did you hear him a floor for each of us." Kagome's eyes widened in daydream joy.
"No." Inu Yasha told her, "I'm not moving anywhere!"
Kagome's mouth went into a line and she looked at the group sitting on the couch. "Give me five minutes and an internship at your fashion wing."
"One up, a paid internship." Tashio smiled
Kagome stood and dragged Inu Yasha to his room. The group heard yelling a smack, more yelling, until Kagome practically dragged Inu Yasha back out.
"Inu Yasha, don't you have something to say?" Kagome raised an eyebrow at him expectantly.
"We'll give it a month." Inu Yasha said
"Well, Miss Kagome," Tashio smiled "you are talented aren't you?"
"With all due respect, Mr. Tashio," Kagome bowed slightly, "that doesn't cover my abilities."
.o0o.
It was the knock at Yasha's door that made him fall. Looking up from his place on the floor he yelled loudly.
"Who is it?"
"Kouga." A voice replied.
"It's open."
"Hey, Inu Yasha." Kouga smiled his best smile.
"Kouga you can call me Yasha, if you want." Inu Yasha replied gesturing to the couch.
"So, how are you?" Kouga asked.
"I'm good."
"Good."
"Yeah."
The pairs eye met, chocolate meeting caramel. Inu Yasha let out a small and shy smile, where Kouga licked his lips. Hands moved to lightly grasp one another and torsos shifted closer.
Their eyes met once more, and to Kouga it felt like he was being pulled into a pot of homemade caramel, to Inu Yasha it felt more like he was falling into a pile of leaves during fall.
Red lips touched peach ones and the pair pulled away.
"I've, never been kissed." Inu Yasha blushed
"Yeah?" Kouga smiled
"Yeah." A large dog, the color of snowm, burst through the door and ate Kouga then looked sadly into the eye of Inu Yasha.
"I'm sorry." It spoke
.o0o.
Inu Yasha woke with a start, "Oh, it's moving day."