Three: The Reunion
There wasn't another hotel or even a motel in Sunset Falls, but luckily for them Miroku still had some extended family in the area and they were willing to let the three of them sleep on the living room floor.
For a price.
"Fuck, but this is more expensive than the hotel," Inuyasha grumbled from his spot wedged between the end table and the wall.
"Well it's not like we could go back there after the shit you pulled. When will you learn to keep your fucking mouth shut?"
"I think this is great," Miroku said. He just happened to be the only one not on the floor, having claimed the sofa on sight since it was his family's house they were staying at. "Back to basics. It would do us good to get a little humble before the reunion. Remember our roots and all that."
"I still don't get why we didn't just drive to Shikon Hills and stay at the Hilton."
"Because then our fuzzy-eared friend would tear into the pillows out of separation anxiety being so far from his owner, Kōga, and that would just give the Shippers more things to hate about us."
"Will the two of you shut up!?" he hissed at his giggling friends. "I'm trying to sleep."
"The girl at the supermarket said the reunion is going to be like prom. People are asking other people and everything."
"Ah, remember prom? The golden days of our youth? The sweet aroma of adolescent－"
Inuyasha cut off whatever dumbass thing Miroku had been about to say. "We didn't go to the fucking prom. Who cares?"
"This is our chance!" Kōga said. "We're not dateless losers anymore. We could fly in supermodels and A-list actresses and socialites to be our dates. That'd show 'em."
"And I could go with my lovely Sango! I always wondered what it would have been like if we had met in high school."
"She would have hated you, Butt Boy."
As his two friends and business partners bickered and discussed the women they wanted to bring to the tiny shithole that was their hometown, Inuyasha drifted into a state of half-sleep.
Kagome. She had gone to every dance with Hojo. The sole reason he had not attended any dance, not even stag or with a girl as a friend, was because he didn't want to see her make out with that moronic jackass. But now they were older. She was single and he no longer had the confidence of a particularly vulnerable insect when it came to women. He could go to the diner and see her and maybe after a few drinks he would finally be able to talk to her.
He felt himself begin to become erect, and as discreetly as possible got up and went to the bathroom.
Inuyasha hadn't been prepared for how seeing Kagome would make him feel. Everything had come flooding back and it was like he had never left. Like all the time in the lab, all the networking and conferences, all the other women were just one big blur of a dream. She was all that was real.
It pissed him off.
What kind of power was it that she had? This wasn't normal. He had everything and more. He shouldn't want some townie with just a high school diploma. But the fact that his hand was on his cock and the way she looked bent over in those shorts was on repeat in his brain proved that he was indeed her slave. Maybe she wasn't the problem. Maybe it was him.
"Hurry up, I've gotta take a fuckin' piss!"
Inuyasha growled in frustration. This lack of privacy was not going to go well. The reunion couldn't come soon enough. And neither could he.
He flushed the toilet and tucked his erection into the waistband of his pajama pants. Getting to sleep was going to be next to impossible now. He opened the door and pushed past Kōga. The wolf demon grabbed his wrist before he could get too far.
"What's your fuckin' problem now?" He sniffed and glanced down at Inuyasha's crotch, a grin on his face. "You too, huh?"
"Leave me alone," he grumbled, thoroughly miserable.
"I don't have to." There was something in his voice he didn't like. Something mischievous. "We could try and help each other out."
"Keh, like there are any decent escorts in this town."
"That's not what I meant."
"I don't give a fuck what you meant. I'm going to try and fall asleep and hopefully have a very graphic wet dream. We can talk in the morning when we're one day closer to getting out of this dump." And hopefully one day closer to finding his voice and sweet-talking Kagome out of this town and permanently into his bed.
"Inuyasha, I'm trying to—"
"I said good night!"
O\o/O
The next day found them awake bright and early, right when one of Miroku's many cousins took off for his job at a factory in Shikon Hills, slamming the door on his way out with obvious intent. It barely mattered to Inuyasha, who had slept maybe a few non-consecutive hours.
Kōga hadn't come back after going to the bathroom. Inuyasha guessed he had been successful in his hooker hunt. As for him, he was pretty sure that by the time the reunion rolled around, he would be horny enough to go for a local, too. At least he had his coke back. Funny, but he didn't feel like he needed it like he had for the past few years.
"Good morning!" Miroku chirped. "Isn't it a beautiful day, my very best friend in the whole entire world? I made you a whole package of bacon and maybe thirty pancakes."
"What the fuck did you do, Miroku?" he questioned as he untangled himself from the blankets. Fuck, his back was killing him.
"Hey, Inuyasha."
The voice was feminine and just a tad sheepish. He froze. Oh fucking hell, why now?
"Hey, Sango."
She was sitting at the kitchen table and looked as out of place as he felt. Her sunglasses were too big, her hair was too sleek, and her make-up suggested she didn't even know what a drugstore was.
Sango Taijiya was a fifth-generation oil billionaire. She'd gone to all the right schools, wore all the right clothes, attended all the right parties. All of that almost made up for the fact that she had been raised by a rabid survivalist outdoorsman father and could hunt and shoot and trap and kill with the best of them. Her fellow elites forgave her eccentricities, like carrying a giant boomerang around everywhere she went and dating a no-name gadget geek from the middle of nowhere, as long as she continued to occasionally participate in the general snobbery people of her breeding were compelled towards.
"My honeypants couldn't go on any longer without coming to see her lovebug," Miroku cooed in a voice he absolutely never wanted to hear again.
"Miroku asked you here so he could show off to the townies, huh?"
Sango nodded but didn't respond, too busy sucking face with her boyfriend to bother.
"Uh, I'm just gonna grab something outside, I guess." He just hoped that Miroku's family wouldn't be too pissed off about all the stains their couch was going to accumulate during the rest of their stay.
Inuyasha didn't even bother to change. He just grabbed a hoodie, put on some flip flops, and walked until he ended up at the diner. It wasn't something he acknowledged to himself on the journey there, but ever since he had watched her walk away, he'd been wanting to see her face again. Some hot food and maybe even some banter with her would make everything seem okay. And if her shirt was as tight as it was last night, she was definitely getting a big tip.
The diner was mostly deserted. The few faces that were there he didn't bother to try and place. It didn't matter if he recognized anyone here, he was no longer the boy they thought they knew. Sliding into a booth, he ignored the menu on the table. What he wanted was not between its pages.
"She's not here."
Inuyasha scowled in annoyance. Kōga sat across from him, mischievous grin on his face.
"She's not here," he repeated. "Think about it. She closed last night so there's no way she'd be opening."
Deflating, he buried his face in his hands. "Then why are you here, huh?"
"Knew you'd come."
"Might as well have some breakfast. The food any good?"
The wolf demon shrugged. "I dunno. I was waiting for you to get here."
Inuaysha eyed him suspiciously. "Where'd ya go last night, anyway?"
His smile, truly wolfish, made him all the more anxious. "Around."
"You didn't."
"I dunno what you're talking about." He opened the menu, trying to look innocent.
"Kōga, please tell me you didn't do it."
"What does it matter if I did? You didn't wanna hang out with me."
He slammed his fist on the table. "We agreed it would always be both of us!"
"We're not kids anymore." Lowering his voice and leaning in, he continued, "I play to win now."
Inuyasha traded glares with him for a moment. "Fine. If that's how you want it, then I'll head over after I get my breakfast. To go."
"In the daytime?" he said, stunned.
Marching up to the counter, he ordered a sandwich and large coffee. He stayed standing there, ignoring the wolf demon who had stolen his table. Kōga didn't care that he was pissed off and came to wait next to him.
"Go ahead," the wolf demon said. "Ask."
Inuyasha sighed in defeat. "Did she…?"
"Did she what?" His grin was absolutely demonic.
"Did she look okay?" he asked, finally allowing the worry to show. "Her house is okay? She's doing well?"
Stunned, he said, "That's what you wanna know? Not what she was wearing or if she took care of some frustration?"
"Like you said, we're not kids anymore." Inuyasha grabbed his food and drink. "Now let's go spy on Kagome Higurashi."
They had started this—habit? Tradition? Addiction?—back when Inuyasha had first moved to Sunset Falls. Back then, he was scrawny and had a bad attitude. He treated the new school like prison. Go in, keep your head down, do your time, and get out. And then his weird emo lab partner had started to sit next to him at lunch.
"Fuck off," Inuyasha had said then, glaring at the wolf demon.
Kōga didn't even blink. "Your lunch smells good. Did your mom make it for you?"
He nodded.
"Lucky. My mom packs my lunch, too, but it's just crap like this." He turned his lunch back over on the table and out spilled beef jerky, chips, and soda.
Inuyasha's mouth dropped open, but it didn't have anything to do with the mess on the table. No, his eyes were on the angel that had just walked in. His nose twitched rapidly, trying to scent her, picking apart all the disgusting scents of the other teens and shoving aside their body odor and arousal to fixate on her.
The brunette beauty limped inside the cafeteria on crutches. She was surrounded by guys and girls he recognized as the cool kids even though he was new to the school. They were the same everywhere. But she was different. She smiled and laughed, eyes sparkling brightly, but there was something inside that she was holding back from the swarm.
Their eyes locked and for that half a second everything clicked in place and he swore he could hear music.
Then she stumbled and half the cafeteria ran to catch her and her attention was directed elsewhere.
"Who's that?" he asked, barely able to form the words.
Kōga glanced at the scene behind him and turned back, brow raised knowingly.
"That, my friend, is Kagome—Fucking—Higurashi."
"Kagome," he murmured, still unable to look away even though she had since sat with her back to him.
He laughed. "Oh fuck, you've got it bad. Maybe the worst." Tearing into his beef jerky, he continued with a full mouth, "She sprained her ankle on the last day of summer cheer camp. She missed the first week, that's why you never saw her before."
"Where does she live?"
Kōga stopped chewing. "The fuck?"
Inuyasha felt himself flush. "I mean, uh, where…"
The wolf demon grinned. "This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship, Inuyasha."
From that point on, the two of them made it out at least once a week to peep at Kagome through her windows. Since she partied a lot with the rest of the chosen few, it was rare that they actually got to see her for more than a few minutes. But they made the best of that time. When she changed for a party or out of her cheer uniform, they hurriedly beat their meat in unison to the sight of her bare back and half a glimpse of sideboob.
The memory of it was still more erotic than most of his sexual encounters with women who weren't her.
Back in the modern world, Inuyasha ate his sandwich as angrily as he could while walking with Kōga. Kagome's house wasn't far away, hell, nothing was far away in a town this size, but he had gotten used to driving and being driven wherever he went. Being back in this shitty town came along with so many downgrades it hurt.
"You're gonna choke if you keep chowing down like that."
"Fugg ov."
When he saw the peeling paint and the weather-damaged pile of wood that was her house, his heart clenched. It looked even worse than it had back in high school. Back then, he had thought of Kagome as a princess trapped in a tower of garbage and had envisioned himself as her knight. But she hadn't had the same vision. Fuck, she had never even thought of him at all.
Maybe now things would be different...
Inuyasha shook his head to clear those too familiar thoughts from his brain. The most pathetic part of himself accused the rest of him of going after success only so that Kagome Fucking Higurashi would notice him. He should be past this. There were so many women out there and he had been with a lot of them, so why did he keep coming back to this waitress with only a high school diploma in the middle of bumfuck nowhere? Was it because she was his first?
Was it because he wanted her to be his last?
The crappy car in the driveway let him know she was home. Inuyasha couldn't stop himself from taking a deep breath of the air, tasting her scent on the wind. His eyelids came down halfway and his posture relaxed, seduced.
Kōga chuckled. "You don't change."
Going around back, the two of them swiftly climbed up the giant tree in front of Kagome's childhood bedroom. To his immense relief, she still used it. Even though it was close to noon, his princess still slumbered, turned on her side with one creamy leg out of the covers.
He could barely breathe. Kagome Higurashi slept naked now.
It was such a shock that he didn't even realize when he began to fall off the branch.
"Fuck!" Kōga hissed, scrambling to grab him.
Inuyasha just barely managed to retain his balance and took a deep breath. What the fuck was wrong with him?
A knock on the glass.
Kagome stood there, beaming like the cheerleader she had been, only naked and with a gleam in her eye that both scared him and stirred something deep in his gut.
She slid the window open. "Come on in. I'll let you make me breakfast."
The half-demon grabbed the pantleg of his friend who was already crawling through.
"B-but you're na-na-naked!" he stammered.
Kagome rolled her eyes and blew her bangs out of her lashes. "And? You've seen it all before."
Heart pumping, he followed Kōga into the window, praying and hoping that she both would and wouldn't slam it shut before he got there.
"Nice to see you in the daylight again, Kagome," the sleazy wolf said, already holding her hands. "You outshine the dawn."
Inuyasha barely retained the presence of mind to snort in disdain. Kagome was naked. Naked, naked, naked. Kagome Higurashi. And he was in her house. This was how so many of his wet dreams had begun. Now that they were coming true, he couldn't even move his arms and embrace her, instead keeping them crossed over his chest as he glared at her body.
She was perfect.
No longer as toned as she was in high school, she had developed into a beautiful woman he would beg to paint if he had any skills. Her breasts were still high and firm and he wondered if they tasted the same. Perfect skin of the palest gold stretched over her soft stomach he wanted to cover in kisses. Her hips were a delightfully wider surprise and he wanted to cup her bubble butt in his hands as he ground his cock into her pussy topped with the tiniest perfect little bush—
"Hello! Inuyashaaa!" Kagome said, waving a hand in front of his eyes. "Are you in there?"
"Uh, huh?"
"Don't worry about it, Kagome. We'll meet you downstairs."
She gave him another look that was almost like concern before marching down the hall to the bathroom.
Inuyasha collapsed on her bed.
"Shit, are you dead?"
"She... She was... Kagome was... With us! In her house!"
Kōga paused for a moment before exploding into laughter. "Come on, idiot. I promised Kagome we'd start breakfast while she showered."
Since Inuyasha was useless, he sat down at the table while the wolf demon did the entire thing, going through the fridge and cupboards like it was his own place. Normally, he would have been suspicious of a man being that familiar with her home, but he knew the layout just as well. It was burned into his brain from his days of being an ardent teenage lover from afar—AKA a peeping tom.
"You want anything?"
Inuyasha shook his head. If it wasn't Kagome making it, then he was full.
"Hey," Kōga said abruptly as he whisked the eggs. "Does Kagome seem different to you?"
"It's been like ten years. Of course she's different. She's had a whole life without us watching her through the windows," he said, morosely playing with the salt and pepper shakers.
"No shit. But more than that, though. The last time we saw her wasn't exactly her best night. And we just... After what we did, we just left her. Alone."
Inuyasha bristled. "That's what she wanted, remember?"
"I'm not disputing that. But I don't think it was what she needed."
"What are you trying to say?" He got up and started to pace. "That we shoulda cuddled? Given her some aftercare?" He barked out a laugh. "You remember, Kōga. She was the only one of us who had any experience. We had no fuckin' clue what was going on or why! All I knew was she didn't fucking want me there!"
He dumped everything into a pan and turned to face him, leaning against the counter. "You sure seem awfully dedicated to being rejected by her."
"Smells good!"
Inuyasha had been a split second away from punching Kōga, going so far as to get to his feet and raise his fist in the air. However, the second he heard Kagome's voice, he froze.
Her hair was damp and she was sitting at the small table in an oversized sweatshirt and ratty sweatpants like nothing was out of the ordinary. No make-up, no revealing clothing, and he still wanted to crawl between her legs for the rest of his fucking life.
"Where's Miroku?" she asked, sipping the cup of tea that Kōga set in front of her like a diligent maid.
Off-kilter from the normalcy of the situation, Inuyasha slowly sat down across from her.
"S-Sango." He cleared his throat, tired of sounding like a bitch. "His girlfriend came to visit. Gonna be a while before they leave the house."
"Ah, a girlfriend." Her gaze flicked from him to Kōga and back again. "Are your girlfriends coming to town for the reunion, too?"
"We're single!" Kōga said hurriedly.
Inuyasha shot him a look. Ayame was going to be fucking pissed if she ever found out what they were doing here. He was about to open his mouth and remind the wolf about his fiancée when Kagome smiled and he forgot other things existed.
"You mentioned the reunion..." Inuyasha began, fingers nervously twisting under the table. "You're going?"
She shrugged. "Not much else to do around here." That look was in her eye again. "Until you showed up, that is."
"I was, uh, wondering, if you were, uh, going with anyone or what because maybe, I don't know, I could give you a ride and stuff..."
"...In what car?"
Kōga snickered over the eggs.
Kagome smiled. "How about my date and I give you a ride!"
His heart sank to the floor. Fuck, he knew it. All the fame and money and success and things and still he wasn't good enough for her. Kagome Fucking Higurashi would always inhabit a kingdom far out of his reach, laughing at him tantalizingly just inches beyond his grasp. Even though he had touched her, he had never had her.
"I think we'll have time for that," Kōga said, setting the plate down in front of her. "Do you want to come get drinks with us afterward too, Inuyasha?"
"Us?" he spat out. "You!?"
"Yep! Kōga asked me when he came over last night."
"Last night?" he echoed. The murderous rage of his aura was so great he was surprised the utensils weren't rattling on the table.
The wolf shrugged, the glint in his eye daring him to do something about it.
"Oh goodness! Were you planning on asking me too, Inuyasha?"
She was so pretty and smelled so good that his one remaining brain cell couldn't think up a lie. "Yeah."
This time when she smiled, it was almost predatory. "That actually sounds like fun! I would love to have both of you as my dates to the reunion."
Inuyasha and Kōga looked at each other, unsure if they had won or lost. All they were sure about was Kagome was weaving a web and they were no more immune to it than they had been a decade ago.
O\o/O
By the time Friday rolled around and the reunion was happening, Miroku's family's house was very crowded. Sango and Miroku somehow managed to share the sofa together, which was good because it left just enough room on the floor for him and Kōga to stretch out, but bad because they did things while they thought everyone else was asleep. It had been days since Inuyasha was able to look Sango in the face.
"How in the fuck did you manage to bring that with you?" Inuyasha asked Miroku.
The man straightened his bowtie while Sango ran a lint roller over his tuxedo. "A man of fashion must be prepared for every possibility, my friend." His eyes ran over Inuyasha. "Er, did you want to borrow something?"
Inuyasha looked down at his jeans and plain white shirt with a tomato sauce stain on the hem. "Why? It's just a dumb high school reunion."
Miroku sighed and motioned for Sango to leave the bathroom. Giving Inuyasha a look caught between pity and mirth, she closed the door.
"My friend, exactly how long have you had a heart boner for Kagome Higurashi?"
"Fourteen years." Even Inuyasha cringed at his automatic response. Half his fucking life.
He put a hand on the half-demon's shoulder. "Your 'dating' experience, if we want to call it that, has been rather...limited."
"Huh?"
"By that I mean you have only pursued one type of woman for one type of relationship, which isn't even a relationship at all."
It took him a minute, brow furrowed in thought. "Are you saying I don't know how to get a girl?"
He sighed. "No, Inuyasha, I'm saying you don't know how to keep a girl. To be fair, you've never really wanted to before."
"What does this have to do with my clothes?"
Miroku raised his eyes to the ceiling and took a deep breath, taking his time releasing that. "Do you think Kagome is going to show up in jeans and a t-shirt? Or will she wear a pretty dress?"
"...A dress?"
"So since she's dressing nice, make some fucking effort for once and do the same."
"Hey, I haven't gotten any complaints!"
"Those girls that approach you in the club aren't like Kagome. No one is like Kagome," he said, a small smile twisting his mouth. "You didn't have to impress them. Your reputation preceded you. With Kagome, you're going to have the scrub the scrawny nerd you were from her brain."
Miroku left the bathroom, leaving Inuyasha standing there staring at his horrified expression in the mirror under bright fluorescent lights.
Did Kagome still see him as that mathlete virgin who had once paid the yearbook photographer to get him pictures of her bare feet?
Fuck, but this was going to take way more than a nice suit to fix.
A knock on the door. "Get out, mutt. Kagome just texted, she's waiting by the curb."
Inuyasha began to panic. The only nice clothes he had brought with him he had worn to the meeting with Hojo. They were stained with alcohol, coffee, and blood from when he had punched the Thunder Brothers. For the past couple days, he had been wearing this outfit. Shit, he never thought he'd start acting like a girl over having nothing to wear, but now he was freaking out.
"Help me!" he growled, opening the door and tugging Kōga in.
"What the fuck!" The wolf was dressed not in a tux like their human friend but in a tailored charcoal gray suit. "Hurry up, she's waiting."
"What is she wearing!?"
Kōga grinned. "What does it matter when we're gonna get her clothes off by the end of the night?"
"Look at me, Kōga! Kagome cannot see me like this."
The wolf took a minute to look concerned. "...Do... Do you want me to brush your hair, orrr...?"
Fuck, he hadn't even thought about his hair.
"You're one of those prissy guys that goes on the cover of magazines, right?" Inuyasha grabbed his friend by the shoulders. "Fix. Me."
Had he been any less serious, it was certain Kōga would have just made a joke and laughed it off. But Inuyasha couldn't fake the sweat and shaking hands, so his friend took pity on him and they had their own makeover montage at demon speed. By the time he walked out of the bathroom five minutes later, he was like a new man.
"Here!" Kōga tossed a bottle of spray cologne at him. "Get it everywhere. Chicks fuckin' love it."
He sprayed from his head to his toes and even stuck the bottle down his pants. It made his eyes water and he could barely hold back the coughs, but he was determined to be worthy of the girl he had wanted since he had learned what it meant to want.
"You look good," Kōga said, eyeing him up and down.
"Good enough for her?"
He snorted. "I said good, not great."
Kagome smiled at the both of them from the driver's seat. He was too stunned to see her there, actually see her, that Kōga won the passenger side again. Defeated and wishing he had thought to pregame, Inuyasha sat in the backseat glaring at the back of his rival's head.
"You guys are going to be the best-looking men at the reunion," Kagome said, glancing at Inuyasha in the rearview mirror. "And the only ones not in their Sunday best khakis."
She herself was wearing a simple white cardigan and a red sundress with eyelets. Simple. Sweet. Like a maraschino cherry.
Inuyasha suddenly wished he had stayed in the jeans and dirty shirt. He cared too much. She knew it. The power was all hers.
Why did he like it?
"Gods, Inuyasha," Kōga said. "What did you spray on yourself? You reek!"
It took everything in him not to yank off his stupid fucking ponytail. He settled for a growl.
"Don't make me turn this car around!" Kagome said cheerfully.
"My apologies, Kagome."
"Get bent, wolf," he muttered under his breath fully knowing Kōga could hear him.
When they arrived at the school, Inuyasha was prepared to beat his friend to helping Kagome out of the car. He had sat behind her and had his hand on the handle the entire way. Just as the car began to roll to a stop, he tugged, only to have the door stay put.
"What the—"
Kōga leapt out and opened Kagome's door for her, taking her hand and giving her an extended once over before he opened Inuyasha's door.
"Child lock," he said with a smirk.
Inuyasha decided to have a very long conversation with Ayame when they got back home.
"Be nice, boys," Kagome said, taking his hand with her right and Kōga's with her left. "Please tell me you brought alcohol."
"What for? Don't they have some there?"
She shook her head. "Old Totosai's still the principal, and you know what a hypocrite he is. He's half-drunk from sun-up to sundown and still claims liquor's the root of all evil."
"How is he even still alive?"
Kagome ignored Kōga and looked up at him. "Why, Inuyasha, you're shaking like a leaf. What's got you so nervous?"
He could barely hear her over the pounding of his heart. Kagome was holding his hand. They were going to a party together and she was holding his hand. It didn't even matter that she was doing the same thing with Kōga because she was with him and that was more important.
For the first time in a long time, he got up the courage to look her in the eye, stomach twisting.
"I'm looking forward to the afterparty." He pointedly stared down at the small bit of cleavage her dress revealed.
Kagome looked away, cheeks pink. For a second, he thought he had won, but there was something about her smile that made his palms sweat.
The high school gym was done up with fairy lights just dim enough that you had to squint to see the tread marks and scratches on the floor. There was a table with refreshments, but to his disappointment it was all generic store brand juice boxes and cheese and crackers. Fuck, what he wouldn't give to have a bowl full of spiked punch all to himself right now.
"I'm going to say hi to my friends!" Kagome called over the loud music.
Inuyasha moved to go with her but saw that although he knew them, they didn't know him, and therefore any conversation was going to be awkward and unwanted. Kōga stuck with him and the two of them piled their cocktail napkins with stale food.
"Looks like Kagome's still the shit out here," Kōga commented, mouth spraying cracker crumbs into the half-demon's ear.
He didn't need any light to see how animated she was and how everyone's attention had immediately centered on her, drawn to her presence. Slowly, the names came back to him, and he remembered each and every one of the group he had envied and wanted to be a part of if only to be closer to her. But someone was missing.
Hojo was across the room doing the exact same thing they were, mad dogging Kagome. His wife, Ayumi, was heavily pregnant and looked exhausted. Meekly, she tugged on his sleeve. The mayor shrugged her off and took a flask from his jacket pocket, his Adam's apple bobbing eagerly as he downed the liquor. It looked like Kagome had kept their friends after the break-up. How in the fuck had that idiot ever thought it was worth it? Just because the Higurashis were a bunch of dirt poor backwards freaks? Kagome was nothing like the others!
"This place blows!" Sango said.
He jumped. Fuck, when had she showed up?
Miroku put his arm around her and held a juice box to her lips. "Give it a chance, honeypants, we just got here."
Her glare softened at the nickname. "Okay, I did promise you an hour." Miroku yelped and stood straight up and Inuyasha realized Sango had grabbed a certain part of him. "But then we get going and you give me my hour."
"Didja miss me?"
Inuyasha gasped. Fuck, if not for the mass of unwashed and overly cologned bodies (like himself) plus the pounding music, he would have sensed her coming from a mile away. Kagome was looking up at him so temptingly, hands clasped in front of her, big eyes looking up at him from beneath long black lashes. And fuck, her tits were fantastic.
Before she could even say anything, she was waving at Sango and introducing herself.
"Are you one of Inuyasha's 'models'?" Sango said, voice dripping with disdain.
Kagome glanced at him, confused. "Uh, no? We knew each other in high school. Inuyasha and Kōga were kind enough to be my dates tonight."
Something changed in the heiress' expression and she glanced back and forth between the much shorter woman and her boyfriend.
"Wait, you're that Kagome? The cheerleader?"
"The waitress, now."
"...And you got to know my boyfriend particularly well on grad night?"
Kagome gave each of the guys a look, her smile bringing the night he had lost his virginity to her back in vivid color.
Sango slapped Miroku's shoulder. "I thought you were making it up this whole time!"
"You told her!?" Kōga asked in amazement.
Miroku shrugged. "That's what made her go out with me in the first place."
"When I heard Miroku's first time was with the hottest girl in school and two other girls, all his flirting seemed less creepy and more suave."
Inuyasha and Kōga gave Miroku a look. Two other girls? Fuck, if only.
"Yes, I've got mad game, we know, we know," Miroku said, waving his hand dismissively. "But that's all in the past. Now, I'm forever devoted to the beautiful Sango. Speaking of my love for you, will you—"
Kagome put a hand on his arm. "Don't do it now. Honeypants deserves better."
Inuyasha wondered what she was talking about, but then he noticed the sweat on Miroku's brow and the ring-shaped bulge in his pocket. He almost wished she hadn't said a thing because seeing Sango kick her boyfriend's ass for daring to propose to her at some backwoods attempt at reliving prom would have been hilarious.
"We should dance!" Miroku piped up, dragging away a very confused Sango.
"That sounds like fun!" Kagome clapped her hands. "Come on, Kōga, I love this song."
Then he was alone.
Inuyasha grabbed a juice box and stabbed the flimsy straw inside of it. Instantly, he was covered in fruit punch. Fuck, his grip had been too strong and he had squeezed the entire thing all over his face and borrowed suit. Hoping the lights were dim enough that human eyes wouldn't notice the faint red stains, he chewed on the straw and watched Kagome have the time of her life and owe it all to the wrong guy.
It wasn't fair. He had loved her for over a decade and had stayed in his own personal version of hell just to get close to her, and she still chose a jerk over him. All he had ever wanted was just for her to love him the way he loved her and realize—
"Thought you yuppies would've left by now."
Inuyasha kept his eyes on his dream. "Whaddya want, Hojo?"
He said nothing, instead turning to face the same scene. "How long have they been seeing each other?"
"They're not!" he returned a little too forcefully. "Why do you care, anyway?"
Hojo sighed. "She looks happy. I'm glad. I haven't seen her really smile in years unless it was with her son."
It took him a second to figure out what he was talking about but then he remembered Kagome's brother.
"You mean her brother, Sōta? How much have you had to drink?"
Hojo raised a brow. "Brother? Oh, that's right, you've been away since then. No, the kid's definitely hers."
"You and Kagome had a kid together?" His mouth was dry and suddenly it was way too warm.
"I wish." His expression shifted, as if deciding whether he should continue or not. "No one talks about it, but everyone knows it's her son and not her brother. After graduation, she locked herself up and didn't come out of that shack they called home. Guess our split really did a number on her." Was it his imagination, or did the fucker actually sound proud of that? "There was a fight. Her mom left for months. Kagome was all alone, just her and her father. The kid was born next year."
It took him a second to figure out what he was trying to say. "Are you telling me she... That her own father...?"
He nodded. "You know what he was like. When he wasn't on drugs he was trying to hatch some get rich quick scheme or wandering around like a madman talking nonsense. You know he robbed my house?" He laughed and it was sad. "That's why I had to break up with her. My parents said they'd kick me out and I'd have nowhere to go but with that lunatic. Kind of wish I did now, if it would have stopped that from happening."
"I don't believe you."
"What?" Hojo blinked at him first in disbelief and then in anger. "You calling me a liar? You, the fucking half-breed?"
"That's right. 'Cause you know what, Hojo?" He grinned and leaned in. "Your dad sold the whole town the same story about my mom when she left him for my dad. Wasn't until I was born that everyone figured out it was a lie."
His face turned red and he began to stammer nonsense.
"Runs in the family, I guess," Inuyasha said with a shrug.
"You fucking scum." Hojo's voice was low and dangerous. He got in his face. "No good trash! First you try and steal my hotel and now you're trying to steal my girlfriend? It won't work. I won't let you!"
Inuyasha shoved the guy back a few steps. "She's not yours, you fucking prick! Never was and never will be!"
"No one wants you here!" he yelled. "No one wants a fucking half-breed in this town. Not even your whore mother wanted you! What makes you think you can just waltz in here and—"
Kagome and Kōga's dance had brought them circling back to the refreshment table and judging by the look on their faces, they had heard every word. The wolf demon grabbed Hojo by the collar and shook him, opening his mouth to spew some sort of insult, but didn't even have time to draw the breath for it when Kagome slapped her ex across the face. A slow song was blasting through the speakers, but everyone had stopped dancing, eyes on the scene.
"Come on, Inuyasha. Let's have that afterparty."
Kagome grabbed his hand and marched him out of there.
"Uh, where are we going?" he asked.
She whipped around and glared at him, both hands on her hips. "What were you and Hojo talking about?"
Inuyasha stared at his shoes. He didn't want to tell her what the mayor said about her brother. "...He still has feelings for you. Thinks Kōga is a threat."
Her face went blank and then she started to laugh. "He thinks Kōga's a threat? A threat to what!? I haven't even looked his way in ten years!"
Relaxing a little, he said, "Thanks for back there. I mean, I coulda handled it, but that was nice."
"No problem. I've been wanting to slap his face off since we were dating," she said. "It was either me or you and I figured I have a lot less to lose."
"Are you sure it's okay? I mean, you live here and he is the mayor."
She smiled. "At least he's not a teen idol. Tonight, he's no one's mayor. Just some douche bag whose best years are behind him." Eyes sharpening, she studied him. "Was that it? Was that really all you talked about?"
Inuyasha was saved from having to lie to her again by the reappearance of Kōga and the two lovebirds.
"I think assaulting a public official is as good high note to end the party on as any," Miroku said.
Sango laughed. "It's strange but I did have a lot of fun!"
"We got no hotel, no public support..." Kōga said. "Fuck, it would suck if this trip was all for nothing."
Inuyasha didn't like the way he said that. His intuition proved true when the wolf continued.
"Hey, Kagome," Kōga said, going over to her and taking both her hands in his. She watched him with a polite smile on her face. "How do you feel about going to your place and recreating that night? You could stick it to the bastard again and Inuyasha and I would pay you good this time."
Silence. Kagome's eye twitched. Inuyasha said nothing but had an obvious bulge in his trousers.
Miroku stepped in. "I think what Kōga is trying to say is that he enjoyed your company and would be glad to conclude the night at your place. The money is merely a gift."
Kagome snatched her hands back from the wolf. "You three leave for a few years, make a little money, and think you can just buy people?" A sharp laugh. "Say what you want about this town, but no one has tried to make a prostitute out of me here but you. You're awful. Hojo was right. Take your 'afterparty' and shove it." She said the last words while glaring at Inuyasha and he felt his heart be pierced by her anger.
The four of them watched in silence as she drove off.
"You guys just shit the bed on that one," Sango said.
"Indeed," Miroku nodded. "And after everything she did for us!"
Sango slapped the back of his head. "You too, moron! Apologize to her before our flight leaves tomorrow. No cash, no gift baskets. Nothing you give her could make up for what you just did to her pride." She glared at the men. "All three of you better make this up to her or I will give my shares in Tairokumi to my father."
The three of them shivered in fear. If that technologically-impaired survivalist got his hands on their stock, no matter how little, he would immediately act like he had control and try and get them to manufacture elite bunkers and robot guards and shit.
"But I didn't do anything!" Inuyasha said.
"Exactly! That's why you hurt her most of all."
The thought that he had hurt Kagome made him wish the Thunder brothers were around to kick his ass.
O\o/O
Inuyasha left the house bright and early the next day. Miroku and Kōga had already been picked up by Sango and were probably having breakfast at the hotel she'd angrily checked into last night in Shikon Hills. As for him, he hadn't been able to sleep and certainly wouldn't be able to eat knowing that Kagome was suffering because of him.
On the walk over to her place, he thought about how hard it must be for her to stay in that town. Potential squashed, people she had known her entire life spreading and believing in horrible rumors, working for shitty tips at a shitty diner. It didn't have to be that way. Inuyasha knew he had all that money for a reason. Now he could finally be her knight and she would recognize that they were meant to be together.
After all, why else would he be so obsessed for her if it wasn't the strings of fate tying him to her?
Inuyasha knocked on her door, eyeing the fried yellow patch of grass in her mostly dirt lawn. There was a lawn chair on the porch with one arm broken off. A crack in the window. The bottom of the door splintering off.
The door creaked open and there she stood, arms crossed and face impassive. Waiting like a queen. Inuyasha took a second to admire her, his eyes running over her bare legs and remembering just what lay underneath that tiny skirt and how perfect it felt.
"Are you here for a reason other than eye-fucking me?"
He cleared his throat. "Yeah. Sorry. I, uh, wanted to apologize. We... I shouldn't expect anything from you." Taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes and powered on. He couldn't see her reaction to the next part. "This town brings back some shit memories of my past self that I keep trying to escape, but when I look at you, I don't even want to anymore. I just... There's no excuse for how I treated you."
"Thanks."
"Kagome, I really mean it. I'm sorry about last night, but I'm also sorry about that night. I never shoulda left. You... You were so hurt, and I just used you, and I wish I had stayed and fought. I... I made some calls and arranged to pay for your brother's education. Just so you have one less thing to worry about."
Kagome opened the door wider and he saw Miroku and Kōga sitting at the tiny table, smirking over what they'd heard.
"Kōga is paying my bills for the next year and Miroku paid off the house. Join the party."
Inuyasha followed her inside and sat at the table. How was it everyone was drinking tea and acting like this whole thing was normal? Was he the only one she could unsettle to the core?
"Really, Kagome, I cannot apologize enough for last night," Kōga said, reaching across the table to grab her hand. "It was stupid. I forgot what it was like to be around you. One look and I'm that same kid again."
"Guys, it's fine." She withdrew her hand and Inuyasha released the breath he was holding, shoulders relaxing. "Honestly, I think I overreacted. Seeing Hojo act that way with Inuyasha just set me off."
"I just wish there was something we could do for this place," Miroku said. "Maybe a clinic or something, but honestly, I think Hojo set everyone against us to the point they wouldn't even accept that."
"Maybe you could talk to them," Inuyasha said to Kagome. "I mean, if you wanted. People like you. They'll listen to you. If it's you, we could get the support we need from the community to bring Tairokumi here."
Kagome leaned over and smiled at him. "You just want an excuse to come and see me, huh?"
His face colored. That was exactly it.
"Hate to disappoint, but I've got enough on my plate with my jobs and taking care of my brother."
"I could use a hot new secretary," Kōga said. "If you came back with us, you'd never have to worry about a thing ever again."
Kagome laughed. "If I came back with you, you'd never get any work done. The company would fail and I'd be worse off than when I started."
"Come on, please? I promise, we wouldn't make it weird."
"I don't think you can help it." Her lashes lowered. "Do you...think about that night a lot?"
"All the time," Miroku said.
"I even dream about it."
Inuyasha forced himself to speak. Maybe telling her the truth would set him free. "During every single other sexual encounter I've had since it happened."
She smiled and there were dimples and his heart ached. "That good?"
"The best night of my fucking life!"
Kagome bit her lip and gave them all a heated look. "I've dated around a little, but nothing so far has topped you."
"R-really?" Inuyasha croaked.
She nodded. "You're the only ones who did it right. Who made my fantasy happen in real life." That light was in her eyes again. "I bet you've picked up a few things since I took your virginities, haven't you?"
Inuyasha's mouth was dry. The three of them were too stunned to even nod.
"Well?" Kagome continued, getting to her feet. "Aren't you going to come up and show me?"
The entire walk up the stairs and to her room was spent in a dream-like state. There was just no way this could possibly be happening. Then they were in her room and she was on her bed and everything was suddenly so clear and real that he felt the past decade must be the dream and he was finally awake.
"Come here." Kagome held out her arms and he gave himself to her.
He was stretched out on top of Kagome Fucking Higurashi on her bed in her room where he had spied on her for years. With a groan, he kissed her, his hips pressing into hers.
"I can only watch," Miroku said, voice strained. "Sango and I have an agreement."
"There's not a lot to watch," Kōga said grumpily. "Just Inuyasha about to dry hump her another couple times before he fills his pants with cum."
Kagome laughed and broke their kiss, giving his ear a gentle tweak. "Come on then, Kōga. I don't mind sharing."
Inuyasha glared at the smirking wolf as he lay down beside Kagome, disgusting hands running over her legs and up to her breasts.
"Feel free to keep doing what you were doing," he said, lips attaching to Kagome's neck.
She moaned and Inuyasha felt his stomach twist with jealousy and arousal. Shifting her, he made it so that she was on her side sandwiched between the two of them. He inwardly rejoiced at his quick thinking. This way, Kagome was pressed up against him. Going back to her mouth, he kept his eyes open in slits, watching her as she grabbed Kōga behind the neck and brought his kisses to her throat.
The wolf's mouth was too near his own and he growled, warning him off. Not this time. They could both fuck her, but they weren't going to fuck each other. Their friendship and partnership wouldn't survive a second time.
Her leg was thrown over his hip and she ground her pussy against him. With shaking hands, he reached down and felt her. No panties. So wet. The wolf's hands disappeared under her shirt and he played with her breasts, causing her to make the most arousing sounds yet.
Kagome used his lust-induced state of distraction to flip him onto his back, straddling him. The two demons looked up at her, blinking in confusion. Her lips were swollen from fanged kisses and her cheeks were pink. Slowly, she took her top off, revealing her bare breasts topped with hard nipples. Flinging the shirt in Miroku's face, she leaned over and dangled her tits over his face.
"Suck."
When he didn't immediately obey, dazed by the sight of her above him, she tangled her fingers in his hair and brought his head up, quieting his moan by stuffing her nipple in his mouth. Inuyasha's body was humming. Never had he been this turned on before, maybe not even back then. Drool left his mouth in an amount that should have disgusted the both of them but just made them hotter for each other.
A now naked Kōga knelt behind Kagome and clawed off her skirt. His expression could only be called wolfish as he probed between her legs with his fingers.
"Fuck," he breathed. "Your pussy is sucking me in."
"Get me ready for Inuyasha's cock," she ordered, mewling when the half-demon switched breasts. "He's so big that I'm going to have to be wetter than rain to take him."
Inuyasha's cock twitched at her words and he ripped through his clothes, nicking his skin bad enough to bleed in a few places. What was once his t-shirt and jeans lay in tatters on the bed around him and Kagome gasped, running her hands over his muscled torso.
"You're hurt!" she cried.
"Kiss it better?"
That moment was right when Kōga's tongue hit her pussy and her eyes changed from concerned to that barely controlled fire that had struck him from the first moment he saw her. Giving him a quick, hard kiss to the mouth, she quickly broke away and ran her tongue over the bleeding cut on his right pectoral muscle. Goosebumps rose up everywhere on his skin and he arched his back into the feeling of her tongue swirling hearts all over his chest.
Kagome turned around and put a hand on Kōga's ponytail, directing his movements. Her other hand dug into Inuyasha's shoulder and he shivered at the sight of her face. Eyes shut tight, brow furrowed, mouth open. Little puffs of air from her panting breaths hit his sensitive skin and made his nipples achingly hard. More. He wanted to see more of Kagome, wanted to see her lose it. Inuyasha brought both his hands to her breasts and squeezed her nipples between his fingers.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome cried out. No longer able to support herself, she collapsed on top of him and rode out her first orgasm of the day.
"Think you're wet enough?" he asked in a strangled voice. Fuck, but he could feel the mess she made all over his legs and the bed.
Kagome chuckled and kissed him again. "Lube's in the nightstand, Kōga. It's your turn to have my ass."
While the wolf demon fiddled around in the drawer, Inuyasha got to work on getting his dreamgirl horny to the point of wildness again. She didn't need much help, being the kind of person she was, and it wasn't long before his slow, loving kisses and languorous touches were met with sharp love bites and wanting mewls.
When Kagome rose to her knees again and grabbed him by the cock, he choked, every cell in his body anticipating the moment he would be whole again. Never once did her eyes leave his as she lowered herself onto him. Inuyasha grit his teeth, hands on her hips to assist her. Finally, he was fully inside her, feeling every tiny twitch and flutter and squeeze of her divine pussy gripping his cock.
Kōga came up behind her, cock shining with lube. The bottle had an applicator and he kissed Kagome's neck and shoulder, dragging his fangs along her skin while he prepared her ass to take him. Kagome moaned and rocked her hips, putting a hand on the back of Kōga's head and kissing the tip of his pointed ear. Inuyasha thrust up inside her, jealously reminding her of his existence.
Kagome smiled and turned her gray gaze back on him, where it belonged.
"Down, dog boy," she said, running the tip of her finger over his left ear. "We have time."
The wolf smirked at him on his way inside and he gasped when he felt his friend's cock rub up against his own through that thin membrane. Kagome was trembling and Kōga made soothing noises as she adjusted to him, kissing the side of her face and playing with her breasts.
At some unspoken, unseen signal, the three of them began to move. Kagome's hands were on his chest and his remained on her hips while Kōga kept his grip on her breasts to steady himself. Pulsing with lust and rage, Inuyasha watched as the wolf ran his tongue down over Kagome's neck right in the spot he had always talked about marking her.
"You feel so good," she whimpered. "So big. That's right, touch me, both of you."
Inuyasha carefully shifted them and got on his knees as well. He wasn't going to be outfucked by that fucking wolf. He had learned a whole textbook's worth of sex in the time since he had last been in town and he had always hoped that he would be able to show her. Now that he was here again, it was time to stop acting like an overwhelmed virgin and seduce her the way he had seduced so many others.
His determination faltered when Kagome tugged him to her for a fierce kiss. Everything he was disappeared and then there was only a need to please her and by so doing receive his own pleasure. She broke first, as she always did, biting his shoulder hard as she had her second orgasm but certainly not the last. Inuyasha grinned with pride and looked at his partner over her shoulder.
Kōga's pupils were dilated to the point that the blue was nearly eclipsed, the thinnest circle. His gaze clashed with the half-demon's and the wolf reached out faster than eyes could track, snapping Inuyasha forward and bringing him in for a kiss.
For a second, Inuyasha froze. It threw off the group rhythm and Kagome looked up. Immediately she changed from upset to pleased.
"Yes!" she moaned, moving her hips in a way that made Inuyasha growl into the kiss.
Like that time before, he no longer cared who was doing what, only that it felt good. Closing his eyes, he continued to move inside Kagome, both she and the wolf moving in unison in a way that seemed specifically designed to keep him enthralled and make him lose his load all the faster. His tongue unfurled inside Kōga's mouth and he traced the wolf's fangs, sucking on his lower lip and nibbling before accepting the same.
"That's right," Kagome said followed by a gasp of pleasure. "Isn't it good, Inuyasha? Remember what it felt like to have him inside you while you were inside me?"
He did. Inuyasha remembered all too well. The memories came back like a punch to the head and he broke away from Kōga, desperate to have the taste of the one he loved in his mouth when he came. Kagome obliged him more than eagerly, her lips crashing against his and making him ache to the point that he couldn't bear it anymore. With a growl and a whimper, he came, the explosion of his orgasm setting off another one of her own. Kōga wasn't far behind and then they were gasping for breath, tangled together on her small bed.
When they were separated, Inuyasha, still feeling like he was a soul floating above his body rather than actually present in a world that had never been so kind to him, was about to offer to grab a towel. But Kagome was so warm and soft and she was cuddling him like she actually liked him.
Kōga, silent and looking just as blissed out as the two of them, loomed over Kagome and kissed her softly on the lips. She moaned into the kiss and Inuyasha watched her eyelashes flutter. He now knew what a good kisser the wolf had turned out to be and didn't try and steal her attention back this time. Little by little, Kōga kissed and licked his way down her body until he arrived at her sloppy pussy. Eyes lit up in delight, he snaked out his tongue and began to clean her from the mix of her and Inuyasha's cum.
"Oh gods!" Kagome cried, leaning up on an elbow to watch him. "That's so fucking hot, Kōga. Keep going."
One of her hands was on the back of his head and the other caressed the side of Inuyasha's face, bringing his attention away from the show. Reading her need in her eyes, he kissed her again. He didn't think he'd ever get tired of doing this. Her plush pink lips trembled under his and he swallowed every pretty cry and mewl.
"Your poor little pussy's going to get quite the beating today," he murmured, thumb scraping over her nipple. "What made you think you could take two horny demons?"
Kagome moaned at his dirty talk. "I can take it. I've been waiting for this day for so long, there's no way I'm stopping."
He rewarded her with a kiss and a twist to her nipple. Fuck, she had been waiting and wanting too? The sound of Kōga's eating got louder and louder and so did her moans. After just a few minutes, she was coming yet again, crying Inuyasha's name even though he was only holding her and not the one giving it to her. That did something to his insides and he knew the thread between them had been strengthened to the point that it would be impossible for him to ever break free.
"Your turn," Kōga said, pinning the half-demon down.
Inuyasha knew it was just a show for Kagome, just another gift, but it was still hard for him to go through with it. He had never wanted to lose control again like he had that time, yet here he was moaning loud enough to shake the house with his hips rising off the mattress. Fuck, but Kōga had a damn fine fucking mouth on him. It was almost like he'd been practicing blowjobs along with kissing and fucking.
Kagome kissed him, smiling into the contact. Her hand was working between her legs even though she'd only just come. She kissed his chin, his jaw, his cheeks, along his brows, the middle of his forehead. Then she was at his ears. Inuyasha experienced another full body shiver at the touch of her tongue outlining his furred ear. With his dick being sucked by a pro and her tits hovering so temptingly in his face while she teased his secret erogenous zone, he was embarrassingly close to his end.
Nearly in tears from how good it felt and how conflicted that made him, he sucked her nipple into his mouth at the same time she sucked the tip of his ear into hers. Kagome was still frigging her clit like mad and he reached down to help her. Taking her wet fingers, she smeared her sweet juice on the nipple that wasn't in his mouth, and he quickly switched, mouth covered in her pussy juice and his own saliva. Just the barest tickle of his claws while he worked her clit had her coming and she thankfully muted her cries, still working on his ear with her lovely mouth.
Kōga had taken him all the way down his throat and was working those muscles, playing with his balls. He was close, fuck, he was so fucking close. In just a couple minutes he was going to—
Kōga wiggled a finger inside his asshole and he shot his load into his business partner's stomach.
"Wow," Kagome said with a giggle. "This is going to be the best day!"
O\o/O
After Miroku had masturbated to the three of them in every heterosexualish position they could manage, he declared it was time to call it quits. While he phoned Sango, Kōga went to wash up. They had only a few more minutes together.
Inuyasha couldn't bring himself to leave the bed he shared with Kagome, not even to wash off the crusted evidence of everything they had done. They had tired her out, that much he could tell by how limp she was, but the fire was still there in her eyes and he knew she could take so much more. Wanted to, even.
"I don't want to go," he murmured, lips brushing against hers.
"So don't. You can stay with me a couple more days and we can have more fun."
He sighed, imagining that life. "The deal fell through. We've gotta get back and get to work on what we're gonna do next. But... I mean, maybe you could, I dunno. Maybe you could come with me."
Silence. The light of the setting sun coming through the window turned the gray of her eyes into a sparkling mist.
Kissing him on the forehead, she said, "You know as well as I do that we can't have anything real outside of this town. Remember me though, okay? And maybe come back to visit. I'll always make time."
They stayed curled together until she fell asleep. Inuyasha knew enough to know that there was no way she was going to leave Sunset Falls. There was no way he could come back here, either. If he came back, he'd have to leave everything behind, and he wasn't sure it would survive without him.
By the time the limo arrived at their jet, the three of them had again silently agreed to never talk about the passion they had shared with Kagome Fucking Higurashi. Sango was looking at them suspiciously, but he knew Miroku was likely to pop the question on the flight back and that would knock everything else out of her head. There was no need to worry.
Inuyasha stretched out in his seat, reclining and closing his eyes. If he pretended to sleep, no one would bother him. And maybe he would actually be lucky enough to fall asleep without the booze and the drugs and he could see Kagome again. At least this time he had a whole day's worth of memories to last him the next ten years.
His phone vibrated in his pocket. Annoyed, he almost shut it off, but then he saw the area code.
Sunset Falls.
Suddenly, he could barely breathe. Had she changed her mind? Was she calling him back to her? Could he finally save her from that horrible habit of barely existing she had been dragged into?
He answered the call, trying to sound cool. "Hello?"
"...It's me."
When he heard it was a man's voice, he nearly threw the phone on the floor and stomped on it.
"And who the fuck is 'me'?"
A deep breath. "Akitoki Hojo. Look, I wouldn't be calling if I weren't desperate, so hear me out. My wife... The reunion... I'm getting a divorce and I'm willing to sell."
Inuyasha stood up and grinned. "We'll be right over."
Note: So this is going to be a pretty short story, like maybe 10 chapters. It's going to get naughty and barely have a plot, so yeah. Enjoy.
Anyhoo, how are you guys? I'm working on yet another story that has really gotten me caught up in it. It's not my usual stuff and is more plot-driven and may not even feature explicit sex, at least not until pretty much the end (still fuzzy on that). Is that something you would be interested in reading from me?
Also FUCKING INUYASHA SEQUEL WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK I AM SO DAMN HYPED! This shit even got me to post on tumblr for like a single day and I fucking hate tumblr.