REVAMPED

As fast as the night left, the Morning rose just as quickly. Because of the odd shape of the building, Kagome's window was only able to receive a small view with a hint of sunlight every morning. Most of her view was looking at another student's window.

Unmoved and still in her clothing from yesterday, Kagome's eyes slowly cranked open. The lids separating sent small waves of pain through her head due to her eyes drying from her crying. The small tube of light shining through her window was enough to make her pupils feel like hell. She shut them again and turned her head to the other side. Her neck was the only thing she could physically move at the moment since the rest of her body felt like a rock.

After opening her eyes again, she was met with the decorated white wall. Normally in the mornings she would check the time before staring into blank space and waiting until the last possible second to get up but today was different. Sleeping on the conversation with Kouga made it slightly easier to cope with what he said but the after effects of her body going into shock made her feel sick to her stomach. Luckily for her the campus was still in the middle of transition week so classes weren't starting until next Monday. This meant that there was no rush for her to get up or get over all the emotions flooding her mind.

'So what was all that about anyway? Was it his way of breaking things off with me? How could he? We just went to my prom three months ago. How could he just throw three years away like that? Was it my fault?' These thoughts raced through her head, adding on to the migraine that had already formed in her head.

'Worst part is I cut a lot of people off for Kouga so it's not like I have anyone to talk to or distract me. It was me and him against the world and if no one wanted to understand that, then I didn't have time to bother with them, but had I known Kouga felt this way...'

She was all alone. There wasn't a person she could dial up and get everything off of her chest to. There wasn't anyone that she could call a friend. For a long time, she thought that was for the best due to Kouga and his short fuse. Now she was in bed after a long night of sobbing and denial.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

And now she was being forced to socially interact in her current groggy physical state.

"Yes?"

"it's Inuyasha. Are you decent?" He called through the door.

'Well my boyfriend of three years technically just dumped me, my mother is halfway across the country away from me, I haven't had breakfast, my throat hurts, my eyes burn, my head aches, and now I'm being forced to talk to you in the middle of this so you really wanna know if I'm decent? Because I certainly am not in the slightest.'

"Yeah I am." She responded.

"Can I come in?" He asked.

Kagome almost gave him the green light before seeing herself in the wall mirror across from her bed. Her hair was tossed and tangled, her eyes were blood shot red, and her face was paler than normal. She touched her skin with her fingertips and was met with newly forming acne. She grimaced at the sight.

'I look a hot mess but I can't say no to him. That would be rude...but I look awful! Well, on the other hand why should I care what he thinks. I'm sad dammit. My boyfriend left me! Ugh! Whatever! Screw it! I don't owe him my vanity.'

"Yeah sure." She said pushing herself up and running her fingers inside her hair trying to make it look partially presentable.

Inuyasha opened the door and saw her fixing herself. "Hey, I'm about to go grab breakfast. You wanna come?"

She looked up with an eyebrow raised. "You're asking me before Miroku and Naraku?"

He chuckled. "No. Not really. It's just that everyone in here is kinda hungover after getting wasted last night. I wanted to see if you were too because by the looks of it, I thought I was the only one that didn't go to that stupid party last night."

She flapped her hands down after fiddling with her hair and relaxed her face. "Well I don't really do parties so you'll never see me at one of those."

"Well Kouga must be lucky to have you. Every ex I've had wouldn't let me go to any parties or at least not without them."

Kagome's heart skipped a beat at Kouga's name but decided it was best to not make the situation anymore awkward than it was. As far as Kagome knew, Kouga wasn't a big fan of parties either. That's what he told her at least.

"Um, yeah. Well just give me a second to get dressed and I'll be right out." She said.

"Okay, cool. See you in a bit." And with that, he closed her door.

'Okay Kagome. Keep it together. There will be plenty of time to cry later. Don't embarrass yourself.'

Inuyasha took Kagome to a spot a block down from campus. Although the campus buses run early, he was too impatient to wait so he took his car. It was a silver 2011 Honda accord. Inuyasha received it as a high school graduation present so it was nothing special to him at this point in time; however, to Kagome, it was a new experience considering Kouga had a personal driver to take them everywhere.

They arrived at Carl's Shack and were immediately seated. The casual eatery was decorated with high tables and stools that had chickens on the back. There were only two or three couples at the restaurant which made being waited on a much smoother process. Once they had taken their seats, a waitress was already in front of them with a pen and a pad out.

"Hi, my name's Alexa and I'll be your waitress this lovely morning. Can I start you two off with something to drink?" She said quickly.

"Coffee's fine." Inuyasha said.

"Yeah same." Kagome agreed.

The waitress placed their menus down and wrote down their choice of drinks. She excused herself to go get their coffee.

While Kagome skimmed over the menu, Inuyasha took another look at her noticing how well she cleaned up. She had on sports shorts and a tank top this time with her hair in a messy bun. Her face had been cleansed and her eyes were back to their regular color.

'She was a mess when I came in…was she crying this morning or last night?' He thought to himself. He found himself wanting to ask her simply out of curiosity but he didn't want to intrude.

'But put yourself in her shoes Inuyasha, wouldn't you want to know?' He asked to himself.

"Alright, here you two go." Alexa said, sitting their coffee mugs in front of them.

"Thank you." The two replied in unison.

"Have you decided what you wanted to eat yet?"

"Yeah, it'll just be a stack of pancakes for me today." Inuyasha told her, handing her his menu as she took his order down.

"And you sweetie?" She turned to Kagome.

"Um, the Belgian waffle with powdered sugar and strawberries on top please?" She said with a smile, handing Alexa the menu.

"Alright, your food shouldn't be too long. I'll be back to check on you."

The waitress walked off and that left Inuyasha to make his decision.

'Okay, it's now or never.'

He leaned his body over the table, the smell of the vanilla scented coffee hitting his nose. "So, you have a major sweet tooth huh? First pineapple soda and now waffles with sugar on top" he said with a smirk.

She rolled her eyes at him. "Yes, I do thank you very much. Nothing wrong with it."

"I bet the dentist had a field day with you."

"They sure did. I needed 7 fillings by age 11, and a whole tooth replacement at age 14." She happily announced, grabbing her mug, and taking a sip.

"Well, I guess that's how Kouga lured you in. He used sweets to get to your heart?" He asked curiously, trying to lean into his big question.

She almost choked at the sound of his name but still kept her composure. She tapped on her chest pretending that the choke was due to the heat of the coffee. "Well, no actually," she started "he used corny jokes… and then sweets."

"Well then, that explains a lot."

"What do you mean?"

Inuyasha took a deep breath. In that breath, he recalled everything that happened from the night previous.

After leaving Kagome in the kitchen, Miroku was finally done with his shower meaning Inuyasha could have his turn. He grabbed his personals from his room and headed straight to the bathroom before Naraku could steal it.

He hasn't been in the bathroom that long due to him being sleepy. While washing his hair, he thought he heard yelling coming from outside the door but paid it no attention. After he'd finished, he left the bathroom in only his towel. As he left out of the bathroom, Kouga was leaving from Kagome's room.

"Hey, wassup." Inuyasha said out of habit.

"Nothing. I'm gonna go out with Miroku and Naraku to the party. You coming?"

"Nah. Need some sleep." Inuyasha said continuing onto his room at the other end of the hall. "Have fun though." He shouted closing his door behind him.

His night went on just as planned. He played around on his phone until he fell asleep. He had awoken in the middle of the night due to rowdy noises coming from the hallway. He had assumed everyone was home and he simply dismissed the sound of women's voices thinking they were for Miroku.

That's why when he went to ask Miroku about breakfast, he was shocked. Miroku had blacked out and was fully clothed when Inuyasha found him. Naraku wasn't all the way passed out but him and a few other guys were dizzy and piled on his floor. When he went to check on Kouga, he had a pretty solid case going on in his head.

Opening the door to see Kouga and two naked women wasn't a surprise to Inuyasha. What was a surprise is when he went to check on Kagome and she was completely out of it. Her hair looked worse than a simple case of bed head. Her face was heavily tear stained and it looked as if someone had poured bleach in her eyes. To top it all off, she didn't even know Kouga went out last night meaning those tears had been from an entirely different situation.

And whatever that situation was is why Inuyasha felt compelled to help.

He let go of the breath he had been holding.

"I know it's none of my business and you don't have to tell me but is everything ok? With you and Kouga?"

Kagome gulped. "Yeah, everything is fine. Why do you ask? Because no offense but you seem to ask about him and I a lot even though we just met." She felt her throat begin to close and her eyes tear up. She just wanted him to stop mentioning that name.

Inuyasha clenched his teeth together and clasped his hands together behind his head. He then let his hands fall onto the table. "Kagome. I can't. I'm sorry. This has been bothering me since you got here."

'Yeah. I can't do this anymore. I'm really not the type to hold back my tongue.'

"Okay so I don't know how you're going to take this or if you're going to even believe me. To be honest, you don't have to, but I think I have a really solid argument here. We are at the most just strangers but if you're looking to ever be friends with me in the future, I'd hate to be that fake ass friend that watched you get played to your face Kagome. Real shit."

Kagome shifted around in her stool trying to adjust herself in a comfortable position. She had a bad feeling about what he was about to say."

"Kagome," He said, reaching his hand out and grabbing hers from across the table. He looked her in her watery eyes and said, "He is cheating on you and has been the entire time he's been here at this school."

Inuyasha's words slammed against her ear drums as if he had whispered those words right next to her. She was still and for a second, she even stopped breathing. Her throat had gone numb again, and her body soon went limp afterwards. The world went upside down and all she remembered after that was everything going pitch black.

When Kagome began to wake up, she heard people talking around her.

"Fuck you mean she didn't know? She didn't see the signs? Did I not tell her he was out here fucking and ducking bitches?"

"Naraku, that doesn't matter. We didn't know about her for a whole year. What makes you think she would know about all of these females for the past year. Shit, for all we know he probably been cheating on her long before he got here. All we can vouch for is what he's been up to while he was here."

"Even still Inuyasha. You kinda broke bro code. You snitched on him when it had nothing to do with you. Your loyalty should be with Kouga, not Kagome. We all just met her anyway."

"Fuck Kouga! I'll say that to his face too! I thought he was just a hoe that was a cool person because getting around ain't gonna make me unfriend somebody. What you do with your body is your business but this ain't about him doing that Miroku. He is a disrespectful hoe!"

"He didn't disrespect you though!"

"This girl been with him for three years Miroku! He disrespected her by having her out here looking dumb in front of us. We're all thinking she's just some dumb girlfriend, but something told me she wasn't that dumb and that she didn't know and guess who was right?"

"Kouga is going to beat your ass."

"Miroku. Listen to the words that are coming out of my mouth…Are you listening?"

"Yeah!"

"Fuck Kouga! I can't respect a man that does his woman like that. Just because you guys have normalized cheating doesn't mean I have to condone the foolery. My parents raised me better than that."

"Woah. Don't partner me with Miroku and Kouga. I'm a faithful bitch. I'm faithful to me, myself, and Jesus." Naraku chimed in.

"Don't bring Jesus into this. He doesn't want anything to do with your fuckery." Inuyasha scoffed.

"Look Inuyasha. I tell all my women what it is before they even get with me. If they aren't cool with an open relationship, then that's fine. I'll be on to the next one. I'm too beautiful to be with one person."

"Ugh. I'm not talking about an open relationship Naraku! They were together for three years! You guys don't find that disrespectful?"

"We're not saying it's right Inuyasha but we knew Kouga longer and we've all been riding for each other for the past year." Miroku added.

"You mean the same Kouga that hid he had a long-term girlfriend from us? Remind you she didn't ask for him to hide her. He didn't even want her around us! As far as I'm concerned, he broke bro code first!"

"Clearly because he knew you were a snitch."

"Miroku shut the hell up because when your last girlfriend cheated on you freshman year, you broke down crying in the bathroom until I came and got you so don't even feed me that one."

Kagome's mind was foggy, and she struggled to remember what had happened prior to her blacking out. Hearing everything around her made her mind come back to a clear understanding. Kouga cheated on her and has been cheating for the past year. She brought her hand up to her head to try and stop the pounding the presumed inside.

"Oh my head." She moaned in pain.

The sound of her voice made everyone in the room stop. Inuyasha was the first to her side. He felt her head to make sure she wasn't growing a fever. "Hey, you passed out back at the place. You okay?" He asked. He was a little concerned because she fell out of the high bar stool.

"No. My head is throbbing really bad." She struggled to speak. Her throat had not recovered from its numbness.

"Can someone get me some water? It's really hard to breathe right now."

"Yeah, I'll get it." Miroku had offered. He left the room to get a drink. Although Miroku thought Inuyasha was in the wrong, he still thought Kouga was just as wrong.

'She passed out after finding out he cheated on her. There is no way someone emotionally detached from a person could do that. Was Kouga really stringing her along this whole time?'

He returned with her water moments later. Inuyasha put his hand on her back to help her sit up. Miroku handed her the cup, but she could hardly hold it with all the fidgeting her hands were doing. She chugged the entire glass of water as if she hadn't drunk anything in days. Her throat appreciated the gesture but hardly made an effort to clear up.

Inuyasha took the glass from her and sat in on the nightstand beside the bed. Kagome recognized her pink alarm clock and realized that she was in her room. She realized she'd been passed out for over an hour.

"I'm out of mascara so I'm going to take a quick run to CVS. She need any medicine? Girl you good?" Naraku asked in his regular monotone voice.

"Just grab her some advil or something. Matter of fact, just grab everything for headaches and body pain." Inuyasha told him.

"Um, I was only offering to buy one supply of medication. Not the entire CVS."

"I wasn't asking you too. Just take my blue credit card out of my wallet and get her everything she needs."

"…Does she need all of it?"

"No, but just in case. I've never had to deal with a passed-out person before."

"I'm fine Inuyasha." Kagome interrupted him and Naraku's conversation. "I'm good. I keep some Motrin inside of my top drawer anyway."

"See Inuyasha. She's okay so if you or Miroku would do me the honors, can one of you drive me to CVS. I really need to restock like this is an emergency."

"I'll take you because I don't feel obligated to take care of anyone here right now." Miroku said staring at Inuyasha as he walked out of the door. Inuyasha flipped him off as Naraku strutted behind him.

"Ok, well that's fine with me. Feel better Kagome." Naraku told her, closing the door behind them.

Inuyasha switched his attention back to the pale Kagome. "Yeah, sorry about that." He said, scratching the back of his head.

"It's fine but what was all that about?"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Nothing too serious. Miroku just feels like I shouldn't have told you anything because we're Kouga's friend but at the same, It's not like you're just someone who comes to visit from time to time. You're probably going to be our roommate up until we graduate, and I think it's phony to smile in your face and act like everything is okay when it's not. Besides, I would call them out on their bullshit all the time back in high school. I was always the first person to tell them whenever someone was mistreating them behind their back regardless if I was cool with the person or not. He's just mad because he feels like this is gonna put a dent in our relationship with Kouga."

Inuyasha had Kagome's full attention while he was speaking. His voice had become so passionate in a matter of seconds and the way he looked her in her eyes when he spoke made her chest hum. Within the past year, it had become hard for Kouga to look her in her eyes. Although it was a small change, it clearly meant a lot more than he was leading on.

"Thank you Inuyasha. That's really sweet and I appreciate you for that. I am not sure if it would cause too much of a fuss with Kouga because I can't break up with him." She said while looking towards her window. Once again, memories of the night before cut through every inch of her mind.

Dumbstruck, he leaned back on the bed with his eyes wide in astonishment. "What? Are you kidding me? Why? He's been cheating on you all of this time."

'Kagome, don't tell me I wasted my breath even speaking to you about this.' Inuyasha thought beginning to doubt his decision. 'I know she's been with him for three years but still.'

"Before you get the wrong idea Inuyasha, no I don't condone cheating and had I known, I would have left but he didn't give me the opportunity to."

Had there not been a wall behind Kagome's bed, Inuyasha would have fallen off the other side of the bed. His mouth hung open as if he had lost the power in his jaw to close it. "Kagome you can't be serious?" He asked her.

"Yeah. He broke up with me last night. After hearing what you had to say, it makes sense. I thought it had to do with me disobeying him when he told me to stay away from you guys and not to leave my room. Hearing he was cheating on me for a long time probably means his heart left this relationship a long time ago."

Inuyasha opened his mouth to speak but Kagome put her hand over his chest to stop him. "Inuyasha. Thank you again, really. But right now, I just need some time alone."

He immediately nodded his head. "Of course. Yeah, I just wanted to make sure you were okay. I'll be in my room if you need anything."

He got up to leave but as he opened the door, he heard a sniffle from behind him and the smell of salt hit the air. He wanted to help but knew the right thing would be to give her time. With that thought, he closed the door shut behind him and returned to his room. When he got inside, he pulled out his phone and sent a text to Kouga.

Hey, we need to talk. Let me know when. Its serious

'I'll be dealing with you Kouga because I have some choice words for you asshole.'