Crossover Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Entrap Me ❯ If Only: Tamaki/Kagome ( Chapter 5 )

Title: Entrap Me-- If Only
Author: Kage Otome (Shadow Maiden)
Archived: Currently on Fanfiction (dot) net and Mediaminer (dot) org
Summary: Sometimes Tamaki wondered what could’ve been, if only he’d stayed in France. But in the end the duty and love he held for his mother won out and he left it all behind. Left her behind. The girl who he always knew would always hold a part of his heart. If Only....
Rating: Teen.
Crossover: Ouran High School Host Club and Inuyasha.
Pairings: Tamaki/Kagome
Feedback: Preferred.
Beta’s: None.
Disclaimer:I don’t own Inuyasha or Ouran High School Host Club and make no profit from this story.
A/n: This is my first time using OHSHC characters, or rather one character really. I’m not really sure where this idea came from, I know I was doing a paper for English...and bam, it just hit me. I’m not quite sure how this turned out or how many people have actually seen or read OHSHC, but we’ll just have to see.

*If Only...*

By: Kage Otome (Shadow Maiden)

Tamaki was not Tamaki. Well he was Tamaki, he just wasn’t acting like Tamaki.

He was not being flamboyant, or princely, or even obnoxiously annoying. He was completely silent and melancholy. He had this distant look in his eyes, a look of someone lost in the past, a wistful, nostalgic look. A look of someone who had lost something very dear to them.

Tamaki sighed, ignoring the odd looks he’d been getting from the rest of the host club and students all day. He wasn’t always chipper and upbeat, even he had down days. And to be honest, none of them really knew him, not like she did. Not even Kyouya knew about her, and what she meant to him. Summertime was coming around. He both loved and hated summer. He loved it because it reminded him of her, and hated it because that was when he’d been forced to leave her, them behind. Blue eyes closed in thought as he pictured girl who had touched him, cared for him, loved him for him. The only girl besides his mother he ever really could say that he ‘loved’.

Sometimes when he was alone, he wondered what things may have been like if he’d stayed in France. Even though it would’ve been impossible--his mother needed the financial aid his father’s family could provide. Still...Sometimes he couldn’t help but wonder, would Kagome be there right by his side as she had been since he was a child? Would their relationship have grown and blossomed, like a flower during the spring? He couldn’t help but wonder.

He sat quietly all through club activities, his responses rather strained and forced. His customers observing him with worried eyes. When club activities were over he was the first to leave. Ignoring or just not seeing the concerned stares of his fellow hosts. As he sat in the back of his limo, he thought about Kagome, a memory coming to mind of just a few months after she and her family had arrived at the mansion.

Flashback

“Kuma-chan? Kuma-chan, where are you?” A frantic six year old Tamaki cried, tears pouring from dark blue eyes as he ran back and forth threw the halls looking for Kuma-chan, his stuffed bear. The maids had been trying to get him to stop running and crying for about ten minutes, yet still he continued his relentless pursuit of ‘Kuma-chan’.

That night, for the first time in his six years of life, Tamaki fell asleep without Kuma-chan, his exhaustion and tears taking it’s toll on his young body. Later that night, the door to his bedroom opened quietly and a small dark head popped through the opening looking around.

“Tami-kun?” The soft childish voice called as the little figure approached the bed where Tamaki had been moved upon his enter to dream world. Crawling up onto the bed, a little girl with dark blue-black hair and large blue eyes gently shook Tamaki awake whispering ‘Tami-kun’.

Tamaki opened woke up with a yawn rubbing his eyes tiredly as he stared at one of the maids daughters, his friend--Kagome. He heard her call, ‘Tami-kun’, and smiled a cute adorable tilting of lips, when she first came here, she had been unable to say his name ‘Tamaki’ and somehow Tamaki became “Tami”.

“Tami-kun forgot Kuma-chan! Mama said to give him to you to-to-ma-” her brow furrowed, “To-ma-roll? But I know Tami-kun can’t sleep good without him. So I snuck out to bring Kuma-chan back to Tami-kun!” Kagome said a big grin decorating her features, as she pulled out Kuma-chan from the backpack she had on, holding him out to Tamaki.

Tamaki let out a cry of delight as he hugged his missing friend to him, before pulling Kagome into the hug with him, a bright smile adorning his face. Kagome couldn’t help but smile back. Five minutes later two small bodies lay curled together, one hand clutching each other and the other wrapped around a small, brown, stuffed teddy bear.

End Flashback

He remembered that night clearly, and remembered his mothers reaction upon finding them that way. She smiled, and then she’d spent the entire day playing with the two of them. Yes, his mother had liked Kagome a lot. Kagome had come to them with her mother and younger brother from Japan. Her mother was the cook in their household, she had been in debt after her husbands death and his mother, moved her and her two children up to France, and cleared her debt, in exchange her mother became a cook for the family and when she wasn’t doing that she was his Nanny.

“Tamaki-sama? We are here.”

“Aa, Arigato!”

Tamaki removed his shoes walking into the house--wishing that Kagome was there to greet him like she used to do in France. Walking up to his room, he sighed, pulling a hand through his thick blonde hair. He absently thought to himself, ‘Kagome loved my hair.’

They had shared so many good times together. They’d been through the thick and thin together, while his mother was sick, she was right by his side doing whatever she could to help him (and his mother, whom she had grown fond of) They had shared many ‘firsts’ together, gotten through so many of them-- first big dinners, first boat rides, first horseback riding lessons, Tamaki’s eyes closed, their first kiss...He smiled softly remembering that day.

Flashback

“Happy Birthday, Tami-kun!” Tamaki smiled brightly at his best friend, enveloping her in a hug. Even after all these years she still called him Tami-kun...

“Arigato, Kagome-chan!” The newly turned thirteen year old grinned, accepting the gift wrapped in brightly colored paper and releasing his friend. A maid approached them, asking for a picture (for his mother, who was ill and unable to attend the party, but she told him to enjoy himself today--it’s not everyday her little boy turns into a ‘man’ she had said making him blush). Turning the two friends smiled brightly at the camera, arms wrapped around each other.

The party was small and intimate with mostly just the children of some of the servants, simply because Tamaki had never really had the chance to make friends. But he had a good time, spending most of the day with Kagome and her younger brother Souta who would occasionally come around from playing with the other younger kids. They had all come together to eat some cake by the pool. Kagome being her mischievous self had grinned and smeared some of her cake onto his face, and backed away laughing at the expression on his face, it was quite comical, especially with the bright white and green frosting smeared over attractive features.

Tamaki grinned and proceeded to chase his best friend around the pool, only to slip on a banana peel and go flying through the air right into Kagome, who, being unprepared for this was unable to stop their plight into the pool behind her. Servants bustled back and forth concerned about the young master, their concerns were needless though, as both he and Kagome arose from the blue depths of the water, holding onto each other laughing hysterically. Resting his forehead against hers Tamaki smiled at his best friend, which she returned beautifully. It was only then that things seemed to snap into place between them as the smile faded from their faces.

Tamaki became aware that he was no longer just a little boy and that she was no longer just a little girl. The differences were becoming noticeable. Tamaki wondered to himself when did that little girl who used to climb trees and take him on all these crazy adventures turn into such a pretty girl, with beautiful sapphire eyes, and hair that seemed so soft. Looking down he blushed, unable to help but notice she was also beginning to, uh, develop, which was quite noticeable as her white t-shirt was now see through, revealing the black bikini top she had on, he turned bright red.

As if reading his thoughts Kagome blushed deeply as well, so they both resembled bright red cherries with blue eyes, one with blonde hair the other with blue-black. Kagome had her hands placed on his chest, and his own hands were loosely circling her waist, realizing their position they both attempted to pull back, but one of Tamaki’s hands got caught in her hair, jerking her forward pressing her face up to his chest. By now both of them were highly embarrassed, the red spilling from just their cheeks, to their ears and neck. Unknown to them was the camera catching this all on tape and the amused mother watching from her bed, glad that her son was having fun instead of worrying so much.

As he began to lean down to try and remove his hand, Kagome jerked her head up to look at him and both froze as their lips touched, meeting in a soft, unexpected kiss. Both pulled away from each other significantly redder than before, coughing and stuttering apologies. Kagome began untangling Tamaki’s hands from her hair, ignoring everyone else around her, determined on her task, and Tamaki glanced at her shyly from beneath his lashes. Kagome bit her lip and snuck a side glance at Tamaki only to find him looking at her too. Both blushed again, having been caught staring at the other.

End Flashback

His eyes filled with warmth. They had been so embarrassed for days afterward they couldn’t help blushing whenever they saw one another, but that kiss didn’t break their bond. In fact after the initial awkwardness of the ‘after accidental first kiss’ scene, they began spending more time together, and eventually with all the awkwardness of a thirteen year old boy, he asked her out. He could honestly say, she was the first girl besides his mother that he loved. And a part of him would always love that girl--the girl who knew who he was, and accepted him for that. A girl who always encouraged him, and spoke her mind. A girl who was as much of a free-spirit as he himself. But she was just that a girl who he’d left behind.

Pain seized him at that thought.

‘Kagome...I miss you so much.’

Flashback

“Kagome? Please...say something.” A fourteen year old Tamaki pleaded as he stared at the vacant look on his best friend, girlfriends face. He had just told her of the deal he’d accepted with his grandmother, pleading with her to understand.

Kagome looked up at her long time friend, and boyfriend of one year, tears clouding her vision, blurring his handsome face to her. Most people would never understand the relationship she and Tamaki had, it wasn’t the type of puppy love where your in love one day and the next your not. It was a love that had built up since they were children and although they were still technically ‘children’ (13 and 14 years old respectively) there was something special about their bond. A bond she didn’t want to give up, but still--she knew what she had to do. She stood up, walked over and hugged him, squeezing him tightly to her, burying her face in his chest as her body shook with sobs. Tamaki’s eyes filled with tears, and he held her, he held her as if he’d never let her go. She pressed her lips to his neck and looked up at him. Nothing but understanding and acceptance in her eyes, covering the pain she felt like a sharp knife through her heart. And Tamaki cried some more, as she leaned up to press a soft, chaste kiss against his lips.

“I love you Tamaki. I know they may think that it’s just a child’s love, but I love you Tamaki. And I always will. I understand why your doing this, but promise me one thing.”

“Anything.” Tamaki whispered brushing his lips against her forehead.

“Promise...you’ll never forget me.” Kagome paused, clutching him a bit tighter “Promise that no matter what, even if you fall in love again someday, promise you won’t forget me, us. But more importantly, promise me you’ll be happy...and true to yourself.”

“I promise.”

And that day, they parted--each feeling their hearts break, knowing they may never see each other again.

End Flashback

He wanted so badly to hate his grandmother for making him leave them, but he couldn’t, he just didn’t have it in him to hate. Tear after tear fell from his eyes now. He needed nothing to make himself tear up, like the twins did. All he had to do was think back on the day he lost the two most important people in his life. Tamaki buried his face in his hands and cried, heartbroken sobs escaping his mouth as his shoulders began to shake.

‘If only things had been different.’

...If only...
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A/n: It’s a bit shorter than I intended but, it was more of an experimental piece between the two series. I rather liked how it turned out. I debated going with a happy ending, but decided this one was one of those ‘sad/bittersweet’ one-shots. So...did you like it?