REVAMPED

Three days had gone by since anyone had seen Kagome come out of her room. Her door was locked, and she didn't respond when anyone had called her name through the door. Although she hadn't asked him to, Inuyasha kept Kagome and Kouga's breakup a secret. Kouga never texted him back nor did he speak to Inuyasha whenever he came home. Inuyasha could only assume Miroku or Naraku said something to him first, but he didn't rely on that because Kouga hadn't physically spoken to anyone since he broke up with Kagome.

Miroku and Naraku spent a lot of their time outside of the apartment together during majority of the week. Half of their time was spent hanging out and the other half was spent trying to pick up girls. Kouga on the other hand was nowhere to be seen most of the time and he wouldn't speak a word to anyone whenever he was around.

That Friday morning, Inuyasha slept in for the first time that week. He had planned to enjoy the day to himself because he'd spent his week running last minute errands. He went grocery shopping Wednesday to stock the house, and had brought brand new house supplies on Thursday. Naraku would only buy supplies when necessary and Miroku was too laid back to get up and buy anything at all. To avoid running into any problems with the two of them this year, Inuyasha decided on buying everything ahead of time. The only thing left to get off the list was his personal shopping.

Halfway through the afternoon, the half demon boy awoke to a mostly silent house and an overwhelmingly cold room. He had fallen asleep on his stomach in nothing but a pair of sweatpants with the A/C on full blast. Even with the cooling unit making noise, his ears tuned into a sound coming from the bathroom. Although the walls had poor sound proofing, it was odd for the noise to be as clear as it was over the already loud machine.

He propped his body up with his right hand and rubbed the crust out of his eyes with the other. Figuring he had to get up sooner or later, he rolled out of his bed and aggressively yanked the door open. Upon approaching the bathroom, he saw Kagome hovered atop of the toilet wheezing. She was still in the same clothes she had worn to get breakfast with him a few days prior. As he walked forward, the smell of vomit became present. He covered his nose with his hand trying to filter the smell as he kneeled beside her. He then began rubbing her back. "It's gonna be okay." He assured her.

Kagome's head was so far in the toilet, she didn't even know who had come up behind her to touch her back but as soon as she realized it was Inuyasha and not her ex, she continued crying out her pain. She'd been surviving off a glass of water for the past three days. Although it was unhealthy, she couldn't find the strength to move from the fetal position in her bed. All she could do was rock herself to sleep every night hoping for a better tomorrow.

Unfortunately, not eating anything came back to haunt her this morning when her stomach began to twist and turn. The minute her throat lost all feeling, she darted out of her room and into the bathroom where her stomach poured out nothing but the small amount of liquids she drank. The stomach acid shot through her twice before Inuyasha had come to her side. Then as he patted her back, another round came up.

Inuyasha's strong sense of smell began to pick up on the other scents around him. To him, her natural scent was like the smell of cotton candy or vanilla. It was a highly sugary and saturated scent that smelled heavenly to a demon's nose. This time around, that sweet smell was covered by something musky. It wasn't overbearingly awful, but it wasn't as clean smelling as it should be. Kagome hadn't come out of her room since the day she passed out meaning she hadn't had a shower or a bath yet.

She started coughing again into the toilet while holding her stomach with both of her hands. Inuyasha sacrificed the hand he had been using to cover his nose to reach behind him and turn the water on in the tub. He breathed through his mouth while proceeding to rub Kagome's back. He wasn't quite sure if it was helping much but it was the most he could do at the moment.

After what had seemed like forever, Kagome finally lifted her head out of the toilet. The color in her face was gone and her eyes carried dark colored bags underneath them. Her eyes appeared irritated as if she had been rubbing them for hours at a time. Her breathing started to slow down as her chest inflated from the amount of air she took in at a time.

"How does your stomach feel?" Inuyasha asked her.

"Mmmm…" She groaned.

The water was still running in the background. Inuyasha felt under the water to make sure it was warm enough. After being able to hold his hand under for more than five seconds, he thought the temperature was just right. He then turned the shower knob all the way to the right for the highest pressure.

"I'll bring you one of my towels because I don't want to go in your room while you're not there. When you're done, I'll have something to eat waiting on the counter for you. Okay?"

"Mhmm…" She groaned again, this time closing her eyes and falling into his chest. He held her shoulders to make sure she didn't fall.

"Come on Kagome, I need you to stand for me." He pleaded, grabbing the inside of her armpits and pulling her to her feet. He held onto her shoulders again until she stopped wobbling. Being face to face with her, he got an even closer look at the damage that had been done to her face. The depression kicked her hard. It reminded him of someone he used to know.

'No time to think about that now.' He thought.

"I'll be out here if you need me." He told her, shutting the door behind him. Almost simultaneously, the front door sounded through the halls.

Inuyasha paid it no mind and kept forward. When he turned the corner into the dining room, Kouga was standing at the front door texting on his phone. He only gave it a second of his attention and continued into the kitchen. He opened the fridge door and looked around for something he could make Kagome really fast. Not finding anything he considered filling enough, he moved his way on up through the cabinets, letting the fridge door close by itself.

'Let's see…I need something filling enough to hold her but light on her stomach. Maybe some soup?'

The only food close to soup Inuyasha had stocked up on had been ramen noodles. He had every flavor the store offered. He decided that it would do for now considering it was quick to make and Kagome's stomach practically was crying for food. As he poured water into the cup of noodles, he heard footsteps behind him. Those footsteps were quickly followed by a door opening and closing immediately after.

"Yo. Where's Kagome?" Kouga asked Inuyasha while leaning on the counter in the dining room.

"She's in the bathroom taking a shower. Leave her alone. She's tired." He told her as he out the noodles inside the microwave.

"Don't tell me what to do with my girlfriend. Stay in your lane bro."

Inuyasha punched the start button on the microwave and spun on his heels to face Kouga. He had one hand on his hip as any patience he had left slipped away instantaneously.

"Well since you're here, I can talk to what I needed to talk to you about. You don't have to front because Kagome already told me you broke things off with her."

"W-what? No I did not! I would never break up with her!"

Inuyasha's face was relaxed and but he wasn't buying his attitude. "So you're calling her a liar now?"

"No! But she ain't telling the truth!"

"I call bullshit Kouga. You been waiting to dump her off since you got to this damn school."

He walked around the dining room table and into the kitchen to stand in front of Inuyasha. His hands were balled up at his sides. "Who the hell are you to tell me about my relationship." His pitch in his voice dropped and his eyebrows tensed together.

"Oh, you mean the relationship no one on campus knew about? The relationship everyone found out about a few days ago? That one or is there another one referencing to?"

"You're treading in the wrong waters Inuyasha. Mind. Your. Damn. Business." He threatened inching closer and closer to Inuyasha's face.

Inuyasha lifted his index fingers and pushed Kouga's forehead back with it. "First of all, back the hell up. Secondly, you shouldn't cheat so publicly if you want people to stay out of your business. Third, too late anyway because I already told her you cheated on her dumbass."

"What the fuck?! Are you kidding me?!" He raged.

Inuyasha expected him to try and swing on him but the punch never came. Instead the wolf demon backed up, and paused momentarily. The pause didn't last long as he reached to grab the closest thing to him which just so happened to be a chair. He grabbed it, and without hesitation, threw it in Inuyasha's direction. Easily dodging the object, Inuyasha's eyes flickered against the top of his eyelids as he let out a tired sigh.

"Throw all the tantrums you want Kouga. I'm not going to sit here and let you or anyone else close to me damage another girl. You all really don't think of the repercussions of what you're doing to people. As a friend, you'll thank me later-"

"Fuck you Inuyasha! Miroku was right about you. You're always butting in where you don't belong, and I should've stayed away from you from the jump."

"You wasn't feeling no type of way when I told you about that girl you were gonna do raw had an STD so don't act like you didn't know who I was Kouga. Y'all only like me when I fit your personal benefits and needs but I'm not that friend. I'm that friend that's going to look out for you even when you don't want it and even when shit hurts your feelings."

Kouga stormed out of the room huffing and puffing. Next thing Inuyasha heard was Kouga banging on the bathroom door. Then the microwave beeped.

"Kagome! Open this fucking door! Why did you tell him we broke up? Do you want to leave me because I won't let you! You promised me forever-"

SMACK

Kagome thrusted the door open in a red towel and slapped Kouga across his face so hard, he stumbled backwards. "Don't you fucking tell me anything about promises when all you've been doing is making me look stupid in front of everyone!"

She pushed him and stomped back into her room. Inuyasha flinched when she kicked her door closed. 'Did she hear everything?'

Kouga followed shortly after mumbling words under his breath. He felt in his pockets for his keys and threw the front door open. Inuyasha called out to him just before the door closed.

"I'm always here whenever you're ready to talk Kouga. Bye."

Inuyasha finished preparing Kagome's noodles and set them aside to cool. She called out to him letting him know that she would be out in a few minutes. When she joined him, she had her hair down and a big t-shirt on that went all the way down to her knees.

Inuyasha poured her some water to go with her food. When she sat at the table, he put the delights in front of her but surprisingly, all she did was pick at it with her fork.

"Is that okay? Was there something else you wanted to eat?"

Kagome's head shot up and she shook her head. "No, no, no! You're fine, it's fine. I just haven't been in much of an eating mood lately. I know I should but…I just can't stop everything from replaying in my head and I just lose my appetite at the thought of it. Kouga makes my blood boil but at the same time he makes my heart cry." Her voice was hoarse as if she had just finished screaming her lungs out on a roller coaster.

Inuyasha pushed a chair out from under the table and made himself comfortable. He crossed his arms over in front of him and stared down the what he considered a beautiful girl in front of him. Her eyes had a natural double eyelid and were almond shaped with the innermost corners proportioned facing downward, and the outer corners positioned slightly above the inner counterparts. Her hooded, hazel eyes were the first feature he took in the most about her, not that he would ever tell her that.

He continued on in this moment, staring down her long button nose that was rounded at the tip. This feature sat well with her subtle cheek bones that didn't protrude out too far. Her head was an average size for a round face, and her jaw lines were lightly angled which made her chin round at the bottom just enough. Although they were still acquaintances at best, he couldn't deny that she was eye candy to him.

So caught in his staring, he hadn't realized Kagome had already started eating. She started with small bites and worked her way into taking bigger forkfuls. She couldn't remember a time when she had found instant ramen to taste as good as it did. She slurped the noodles swiftly into her mouth and used her tongue to swirl to catch whatever hung loose. It was this visual that pushed Inuyasha further into his thoughts. Her slightly plump lips which were lightly pink colored sunk under the weight of her tongue licking across them. Kagome thought she was just licking the sauce off of her lips but to a half demon that hadn't had sex since the month previous, it was a skill looking to be showed off.

Smacking her lips, the popping noise caused Inuyasha to blink himself back into reality. He quickly turned his attention to something else in the room hoping she hadn't noticed him. Although he felt his pants stretching out beneath him, he quickly flexed his arm to get his curious boner to calm back down. He thanked whatever supernatural force there was for a table or Kagome's eye would've seen a nice surprise.

"Mmm, oh my gosh that was yummy. I would get some more but I don't need anything else to going to my thighs." She said and proceeded to drink her cup of water.

Inuyasha couldn't help himself. "Kagome my dear. Thighs are a gift from nature and any women should feel blessed when she is granted thickness." He held a hand over his chest as if he was royalty. He even spoke with a slight british accent.

Kagome shook her head and swallowed her water. "No, thighs are a curse that causes a girl to struggle to find a good pair of jeans and then the curse proceeds to wear and tear the only good pair of jeans she could find because chaffing is a bitch."

"Well clearly nature is telling you not to hide your gift from the world Kagome. Let the magic thighs be free my dear." He said switching back to his normal voice.

"It's a no from me Inuyasha. Besides, I let myself go over the summer. I can get smaller than this if I wanted to, but I stopped ice skating after my graduation because I got tired of keeping up with my figure."

Kagome threw her empty noddle cup into the trash and tossed her drink cup in the sink before going into the sunlit living room and waving for Inuyasha to come join her. He got out of his chair and sat in the loveseat to the right of the room while Kagome took the three-seater to the left of it. She planted her body on the couch and spread her long legs across it. It was a shame that the plush couches felt better than the standardized beds the school provided them with.

"Why were you so worried about your figure anyway? You look fine to me." Inuyasha asked out of simple curiosity. He never could figure out why girls obsessed so much over their weight.

She looked over at him, bare chest and all. "I wasn't always worried about my figure and kinda fell into losing weight in an unhealthy way. Figure skating became my escape away from my school, but it required me to be fit so I would exercise more and eat less. I didn't consider the stress people were causing me at school which made me lose twice as much weight twice as fast. I was so happy when I was finally a size 8 but that was the smallest I ever dropped to. Not to mention Kouga was really happy too and he had never complimented me so much before. Then the doctor told me to worry about consuming more carbs if I was going to be putting in that much work but I couldn't bring myself to do both, so I just gave up on the skinny dream. Maybe that's why he stopped finding me attractive over the summer."

Inuyasha snarled in disgust. "I fucking hate that ya know? I hate when guys make their girls feel like they have to change just to be with them. I mean, I like to spoil my women so that's probably why I'm like that but still. If a man knew what he was dealing with when he got with you, I think it's petty of him to want to change you in the long run."

"Well change isn't always bad. You can change bad habits into good ones."

"No, change isn't always bad but from my point of view, a lot of people don't necessarily change. They grow and discover themselves while others hide who they are. The right environment will do that to people. Give someone the opportunity to do anything they could without repercussions, and you'll find that you don't know them as well as you think."

As Inuyasha finished talking, Kagome was staring at him squinting her eyes and poking her lips out at him. "Ok, what is your major sir? You've been speaking some really good words to my heart but it's lowkey scary how knowledgeable you sound."

Inuyasha pinched his lips together to avoid laughter falling out. "Well my dear Kagome, I am a psychology major. My mom is my biggest influence which is why I act mostly how I do."

Kagome's face expressed her peak in interest. "Do go on."

"She went to school to become a physical therapist but after she did that for a while with me as her baby sidekick from time to time, she felt like she had more insight to offer. This led to her opening her own office for regular mental therapy. As of last year, she started to expand her brand by employing and paying physical therapists that way those patients were to report directly to her, or she was to go to them."

"So, you want to be a therapist?"

"It would be a nice side job but I'm aiming to be a psychological consultant."

Kagome sat up, cocking her head to the side. "Now, I've never heard that before. Look at you thinking outside the box."

"Whatever. My mom just really got me into the capabilities of our bodies after she showed me the power of adrenaline and how it works. Since then, I've just become more and more interested in how our brains functions.

"Hmm. Nice."

Inuyasha was enjoying his conversation with Kagome. It wasn't all too often that he found himself lost in time with a female. More than often, his encounters were quick conversation and then right down to business. He hadn't had a girl that sparked his mind in a while; someone that was able to hold a meaningful, thought-provoking discussion.

"So, what are you here for?" He asked her, as he got up and sat beside her on the huge three-seater couch.

"Who? Me?" She pointed to herself.

"Pfft, no dummy. I was talking to my penis."

A smile corked up on the side of her face and she patted his leg. "Oh, that's alright Inuyasha. It's always good to give the little guys some encouragement."

He smacked her hand off. "Oh hush. Just because it's little doesn't mean I can't do anything with it."

Her hand flew over her mouth. "Wait. It's really little? I was just playing."

Inuyasha could only shake his head at her comments. "I already told you my size doesn't matter. I can do a lot with it. You'll see once school gets started and I bring all the girls I want here."

"I won't allow it. There shall be no more hoeism in this household or so help me I will put laxatives in all of the food!" She declared pumping her first into the air but of course Inuyasha didn't take her playfulness seriously.

"Really Kagome, what's your major. I really wanna know." He spoke softly as he leaned his cheek against the couch cushion.

He gazed into her eyes awaiting that special glare. It was a look anyone had when talking about their passions and dreams. He wanted to see if Kagome had that spark about her too.

"Well, I know most don't decide this early or they change their minds but I am an astronomy major. I've ALWAYS wanted to know how things work inside and outside of the world. Plus considering that demons and spirits are among us, imagine the type of contact we could make with beings outside of our galaxy if they exist. Even better, figuring out how this whole universe thing started to begin with would be awesome. I don't know why. It's just always been something that fascinated me ya know? Maybe I'll change my mind but for now, I'm super sure that this is what I wanna do."

Kagome began to think back to the time when she had witnessed her first meteor shower and a piece of one of the space rocks had fallen into her backyard. She kept it a hidden secret to avoid her mother or anyone else taking it from her. Her fascination with science in the sky grew at a fast pace. When her grandfather had taken her family to see the aurora lights, she felt in her heart that there was more to the planet than what human discovery had already found; however, the only way in her mind to find out was going on was to study space. To uncover information about animals, most zoologists would start at the area the animals were located in and to Kagome, that's how she wanted to treat the earth. She wanted to act as if she was the zoologist and earth was her animal of interest.

Inuyasha felt his chest warm up a bit at the sight of Kagome clasping her hands together when she talked. It was as if it was something she wasn't able to let out for years. He appreciated the gleam in her eyes that seemed to shine brighter after every word she said. Even though he met her on edgy terms, he was elated to be able to have a couch conversation with a someone that he could just vibe with. Although he was enjoying her company, he expressed his true feelings inside every time his heart tried to do something crazy.

'She is off limits. I don't want to date anyone right now and I for sure don't want that type of drama. Besides, she is only looking for a distraction. Her heart still belongs to Kouga no matter how hard she tries to hide it.'

They had continued talking for about an hour more before Kagome got a call from someone. She excused herself and went to answer her phone that had been ringing from inside her bedroom. Picking the phone up from her nightstand, she saw an unfamiliar number. She prayed to the heavens that Kouga wasn't trying to reach her from another person's phone.

"Hello?" She said holding the phone to her ear, placing her hand on her hip.

"Kagome! Hey cousin!"

"Sango? Is that you!"