InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Dark Past ❯ Simply Because ( Chapter 33 )

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-Police men knock on door-

I meant don't! I meant don't! I meant don't!!!

A/N: It's been way too long! Gomenasai!!!!! I didn't mean to make you wait this long!!!

 

AGE:

Inuyasha: 19

Kagome: 18

Kouga: 19

Naraku: 19

Miroku: 19

Sango: 18

Kaede: 65

 

A Dark Past

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Chapter Thirty-Three: Simply Because

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Inuyasha gave a few choice curses, cheeks turning slightly pink. `Don't you know what shut-up means?'

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Inuyasha, for once, looked happier than ever.

 

“What?” Kagome asked, slipping through the door.

 

He stared at the tray, ready to drool. The nurse blinked in surprise before looking down at his lunch. Her nose wrinkled. “You like this crap?” she asked, placing the tray on the stand nearby.

 

Kagome turned to face Inuyasha only to find him kneeling by the stand, nose sniffing merrily. “Like is such a weak word,” he mumbled.

 

“It's ramen. Ramen. The crap that- - -”

 

Inuyasha's head whipped in her direction. “Never,” he said in a low voice, “insult ramen. It's the best thing to happen to this world since. . . Well, since me.”

 

Kagome gave him a dry look. “Ramen was made before you were born.”

 

“So?” he retorted, gaze going back to the ramen. `Ramen. . .'

 

Kagome made a disgusted sound. “Well, you know what? I still have to ask you a question before you get to eat- - -”

 

“Hurry up and ask it then, wench, cause if you don't act fast, that ramen's going to be gone and you'll be standing there looking like an idiot,” Inuyasha cut in, impatient that she was making him wait longer to eat.

 

“Fine, fine,” she replied. “Hmmm. . . Let's see now. . .” She made a show of tapping her chin and making a thoughtful face.

 

Inuyasha growled. `She's making this difficult!' he mentally snapped.

 

`Oh, shut up,' he youkai retorted. `She looks kinda cute like that.'

 

Inuyasha blinked in surprise before thoroughly looking her over. He swallowed before thinking, `No-No she doesn't. . '

 

`You can eat your `holy ramen' any day, but you can't see this every. . . Actually, if you play your cards right, you could.'

 

`Hey,' Inuyasha thought in a what-a-good-idea-why-didn't-I-think-of-that? type tone.

 

`Thought you said she didn't look cute.'

 

Inuyasha turned slight pink. `How `bout you shut up?'

 

`Sorry, it's in the job description to be annoying.'

 

“- - -Inuyasha,” Kagome cut into his thoughts.

 

“Wha?” he muttered, coming back to reality.

 

“Did you hear what I asked- - - Wait, why are you blushing?”

 

“I am not!” Inuyasha argued.

 

“Are too!”

 

“Are- - -” Inuyasha let off with a growl before changing the topic. “What was your question?”

 

Kagome's eyes narrowed, knowing what he was doing, but answered, “I asked if you'd ever kissed anybody.” She gave him a glare that promised she was going to go back to that earlier topic whether or not he liked it.

 

“Yes,” he answered in a semi-triumphant tone.

 

Apparently, she hadn't expected that answer because her glare immediately disappeared and she gaped, mouth opening and closing. “Who?” she finally sputtered. “Who'd be stupid enough to do- - -?”

 

“You,” he interrupted curtly. “Don't you remember?”

 

Inuyasha was pleased to note that she was the one blushing at this point. “I see you do,” he said in an amused tone.

 

“Shut up!” she whined. “You were the one who kissed me!”

 

It was then that Inuyasha's facial color darkened to a red that threatened hers.

 

“I see you remember, too,” she said in a teasing tone, face still flushed.

 

“I must've been drunk,” he muttered, “to be stupid enough to do that.”

 

Kagome's mouth opened in shock. “P-Pardon?” she sputtered. “You kissed me. And there is no alcohol allowed here at all. So, what you were drunk on, I've no idea.”

 

`I do,' a certain annoying voice piped in.

 

`Shut up,' Inuyasha warned.

 

`It was you, Kagome,' his youkai continued in a high, mocking tone - quite resembling a hyper six-year-old girl gone hyper - ignoring Inuyasha completely.

 

Inuyasha's cheeks flamed. `Don't you understand your own language?' he grumbled.

 

“Now why are you blushing?” Kagome demanded, amused once more.

 

“I'm not!” he protested weakly.

 

Kagome examined him for a second before giggling. “Whatever you say,” she finally murmured.

 

“Keh, can I eat now?”

 

“Of course!” Kagome answered.

 

Inuyasha needed no prompting. It only took three seconds for him to grab the cup of noodles, rip off the lid, and take a bite.

 

“Oi!” he cried. “They're cold!”

 

Kagome gave an innocent smile. “How'd that happen?”

 

“You took too damn long to ask a question is what happened!” Inuyasha barked in reply, taking another bite. He winced before giving her a pissed glare. “You ruined the good name of ramen,” he informed her.

 

Kagome shook her head, grinning. “You're something else, Inuyasha.”

 

“Keh, yeah, well you better get me something else for lunch. . Preferably another cup of hot ramen,” Inuyasha retorted.

 

“How about I make you a deal?”

 

Inuyasha plopped the ramen on the stand before giving her a look. “What?”

 

“I'll get you another ramen for lunch and one for dinner, if - and only if - you answer two questions at dinner.”

 

“Sure,” Inuyasha agreed. “So long as I get some edible food.”

 

“The food is fine, it's your tastes that aren't right,” she told him seriously.

 

“Right,” he remarked sarcastically.

 

“Anyway,” Kagome paused to flop onto his bed, “wanna do something fun and waste some time?”

 

“Sure.” Inuyasha sat down by her, leaning back on his hands. “What do you want to do?”

 

Kagome grinned a grin that threatened the Cheshire cat's. “I brought a game with me.”

 

The hanyou shot her a look. “Where? I don't see you carrying anything.”

 

“It's in my mind, baka.”

 

“Then you didn't bring it with you,” he corrected.

 

“Oh, whatever. Do you want to play or not?”

 

“Sure, what the hell. What game is it, dare I ask?”

 

“It's something we have to go outside to do,” she answered. “Ready to go?”

 

The look he gave her was past suspicious. “Just what do you plan on doing out there?”

 

“You'll see,” she replied as innocently as possible.

 

“. . . Fine, I'll go, but if it's something I don't like, I'm coming right back inside.”

 

Kagome shrugged. “Sure.” With that, she hopped up, made her way over to the door, slid her card through the reader, and allowed Inuyasha to open it for her. “Thanks,” she said cheekily as she walked through. Inuyasha grumbled after her.

 

She led him down the hall where she had to, once again, unlock a door and where Inuyasha had to, once again, open it for her. She passed through with another cheeky “Thanks.” Inuyasha grumbled a few choice curses.

 

They had only taken a few steps when Inuyasha growled in frustration.

 

“What is it?” Kagome stopped and turned to look at him.

 

Golden eyes narrowed before a hand enveloped hers, fingers lacing with hers. “Better,” he muttered.

 

Kagome merely looked down in confusion at their hands before looking up into his eyes. There was a three second pause and Inuyasha suddenly remembered his place - and wondered what in hell possessed him to do something so stupid. Something hard and cold fell into his stomach when he realized that she could just pull her hand away - and never look at him in the same light.

 

But, instead, she merely looked at him for a few seconds, blue eyes foggy with confusion, before shrugging and continuing, swinging their hands slightly.

 

*

 

“Now what did you have in mind for this game?” Inuyasha asked when they opened the front door and stepped outside.

 

“Just hold your horses,” Kagome commanded. “Give me a few second to get around back.” She took him out to the back of the building where the Outdoor activity field was. She led him to a gate that was padlocked, entered the code - a little clumsily since she wouldn't let go if Inuyasha`s hand - and went inside, closing the gate behind them.

 

“Alright, wench, I've waited patiently. Now what are we going to do?”

 

In reply, Kagome took a deep breath, slowly pulled her hand out of Inuyasha's grip and turned so that her body faced his. He quirked an eyebrow at her. She then lifted her right hand and put it on his left shoulder. “Inuyasha,” she said slowly, “you're It.”

 

And then she took off like a bat out of hell.

 

Inuyasha stared for several second before grinning like a madman. “I should've guessed it was going to be something stupid like this,” he told himself before taking off after her.

 

*

 

He wasn't exactly sure why he was doing this. It was stupid; it was childish; it was. . . for lack of a better word, it was entertaining.

 

He shook his head to clear away his stupid thoughts as he slinked through the patch of sparse trees. `Where the hell did she go?' he wondered.

 

`Just use your nose,' his youkai dryly commented.

 

`Oh!' he mentally exclaimed, and then proceeded to sniff the air. He veered to the left and took off. `I forgot about that option. . .'

 

`Merely shows how much of an idiot you are.'

 

Inuyasha growled in annoyance before suddenly coming to a stop, perplexed. `Wait. . . Her scent comes to a stop right here.' Confused, he looked around, thoroughly inspecting the area. `Yeah. . . She's not here. . .' He pinched his nose. `But there's no way in hell she could just vanish. . .'

 

`Think of where you are,' his youkai instructed.

 

Inuyasha, after swearing off the voice, did so. `I'm behind that stupid center. . . I'm in a huge area. . . I'm around a lot of trees. . . In fact, I'm under one,' he noted, looking up. There was a three second pause before Inuyasha realized something. `Wait!' He squinted, looking up at the tree. `Aha!'

 

He leaped up into the nearest branch, planted his feet in the bark of the limb, and then pushed off again, jumping almost halfway up the tree, and landing almost next to Kagome.

 

“Wow,” Kagome breathed, turning to face the hanyou, face a mix of wonder, awe, and something that couldn't be called anything but affection. “Inuyasha that was. . .” she stopped, making hand gestures, attempting to show him what she meant. Finally, after seeing the blank look he was giving her, finished with a pathetic, “well. . . amazing.”

 

Inuyasha snorted. “I didn't do anything worthy of your praise,” he muttered a little darkly.

 

“But. . . But that was. . .”

 

“Merely my hanyou abilities,” he snapped, expression darkening. Kagome could see him mentally retreating into a safe place. She was incredibly confused as to why.

 

“What's. . . wrong?” she asked, scooting closer.

 

Inuyasha gave her a glare before pointedly moving away. `She can't get near.'

 

`Why?' his youkai asked easily.

 

“Inu. . . yasha?” she hesitantly asked, lifting her hand and slowly reaching out to touch him.

 

He flinched like she hit him and reversed even more to the middle of the long branch.

 

`She can't get near me,' he echoed.

 

“What are you doing?” Kagome murmured, looking a little hurt. “I didn't do anything.” `What's he doing?'

 

Golden eyes narrowed dangerously at her. “Sure, you didn't, but that doesn't mean that others didn't.”

 

Kagome frowned at him, thoroughly perplexed. “I don't know what you're talking about, and if I don't know what you're talking about, how can I help?”

 

“By leaving me alone,” he hissed.

 

`She can't get near me,' he repeated again.

 

She winced at his tone. “Inuyasha, please. . . what's wrong?” Slowly but surely, she was inching over to him. Inuyasha shifted uneasily.

 

`She can't get near,' he thought again, a little more desperate this time.

 

`Why?' his youkai asked again, this time more demanding.

 

`Because. . .'

 

“Inuyasha?” Kagome breathed softly. She was mere inches away. “Please. . . please tell me what's wrong.”

 

`Because. . .'

 

He gave her a look that nearly tore Kagome's heart right out of her. He looked like he was torn between decisions and no matter what he decided it was going to hurt. `What the. . .?' Kagome thought before closing the last few inches between them and laying her hand on his arm. He jumped but didn't move away this time.

 

“What wrong?” she murmured to him.

 

“N- Nothing,” he breathed, looking away from her.

 

Kagome frowned, lines forming on her forehead. `if it was `nothing,' as you say, you wouldn't be acting like this, now would you?” She crossed her arms, not unkindly, but merely to show him she wouldn't take crap for an answer.

 

He sighed. “It's just. . . nothing.”

 

“I told you, it's not nothing, because you wouldn't be like this over nothing.” She gave him a look, hoping to mentally tell him that she'd listen, no matter what. And she'd understand, not pushing him away.

 

`Simply because. . .'

 

Inuyasha visibly swallowed. “People aren't too fond of my abilities,” he started. “They think that it proves how much of a freak I am, being half human and having the abilities of a youkai. You already know how much people dislike hanyou's, but. . .” he sighed. “First my very first year of school, I attended an actual academy. But. . . my teacher decided that she was going to. . . tell me how much she liked my youkai abilities. Usually, at recess, she encouraged me to do something with my abilities. I, being a stupid little brat, did so. Usually, when she saw me do something, she immediately praised me, telling me how amazing I was and such. . . But after a while, word got around that the school was teaching a hanyou and the principal asked my teacher to talk to my parents. He wanted my teacher to. . . persuade my parents into pulling me from the school. She refused. . . So, the principal decided he didn't want a weakling, who couldn't got rid of a simple hanyou.” He let off and drifted his gaze towards Kagome's hands, which were clasped in her lap.

 

“So. . .” he continued, “he got rid of her.”

 

`She can't get near. . . because. . .'

 

Kagome cocked her head. “You mean, fired her?”

 

He shook his head and sighed. “It looked like an accident. . . But it wasn't. He- He hired someone professional to get rid of her and make it look like she merely slipped with a knife while slicing her dinner.”

 

Kagome swallowed a gasp. “He killed her. . .” she breathed.

 

“Had her killed,” Inuyasha corrected, voice blank, void of all emotions. “It wasn't until later that I found out who did it. . .” His voice drifted off.

 

Kagome took a deep breath before asking the question she really didn't want to. “Who was it?”

 

Inuyasha looked at her and in that second, when his eyes met hers, a warm, tingling sensation flooded her senses. In that moment, a feeling Kagome had never before experienced was born in the depths of her emotions. In that second, Kagome suddenly wanted to cling to Inuyasha in a hug and never release him. In that second, Kagome realized what he was going to say.

 

And, indeed, he said it.

 

His golden eyes bore into her cerulean eyes. “MenouMaru.”

 

Kagome inhaled slowly. “I had a feeling,” she murmured, resting her chin on her knees. The light breeze played with her hair. Inuyasha stared at her idly.

 

`It's. . . because. . .'

 

He stopped himself from reaching out to her. Stopped himself from embracing her in a hug. He stopped himself from showing much emotion as he ripped his eyes off of her and stared blankly out at the surrounding lush, green grass. He shifted his position on the branch so his one leg was up against his chest while the other dangled.

 

`It's simply because. . .'

 

Kagome looked over at him and bit her lip. She couldn't help but wonder how she would feel if someone was murdered because of her.

 

`Like crap,' she immediately answered herself. `That's how he must feel. . .'

 

Kagome sighed before placing a hand on his forearm. “Inuyasha,” she murmured to him. “Look at me.”

 

He didn't respond.

 

“Inuyasha,” she said in the same gentle tone but a little louder this time.

 

His eyes didn't even flicker in her direction.

 

Kagome grew desperate. `I need to show him I care. . . I need to tell him he's not alone. . . I need to. . .' she let off and her heart started hammering wildly. Her cheeks flushed. `Wuh- Why do I care so much?' she wondered, a little afraid of the feelings in her stomach. `Like butterflies. . '

 

And suddenly, she knew how to make him understand; how to make him see she cared; how to bring him out from in himself.

 

With shaking hands, she reached up and placed a hand on either side of his cheeks. Then, she gently pulled his face so she was looking into her eyes.

 

“Inuyasha,” she whispered.

 

And then she gently placed her lips on his. Gently kissed him. Gently stroked his bottom lip with her tongue. Gently told him what he didn't want to hear verbally - or more like, didn't want to hear.

 

This time he heard her. This time he reacted. This time he understood. And responded.

 

`Because. . .'

 

Kagome's stomach was full of butterflies when she closed her eyes. Her lips were tingling from the contact. She suddenly felt like she had never kissed anyone before - though the one four-second kiss with Hojo didn't really count - and she found herself wanting more. When Inuyasha asked entrance, she granted it and opened her mouth, giving him it to him, allowing him to do whatever he wanted.

 

Inuyasha delved his tongue into her moist cave, memorizing ever nook and cranny it seemed. The feel of Kagome was simply. . . intoxicating. He was giving and taking. Living in the moment - a moment that he never wanted to end. All too soon, he found he needed to breathe and slowly pulled back, allowing them both to gulp down the oxygen they needed to appease their starving lungs.

 

Inuyasha stared at her, golden eyes hazy with affectionate feelings. Kagome swallowed at the intensity behind his golden orbs.

 

He closed his eyes, relishing the warm sensation his lips were experiencing. There was only one thing going through his mind. And nothing else seemed to make sense at the moment except that one thought:

 

`It's simply because I love her.'

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(E/N: ~cries dramatically!!!~ OMG that was sooo…sad or maybe happy hmm… ~looks perplexed~ Well maybe it was both but it was great!!! I was like awe then omg and the awe again!!! This chapter is my favorite!!! Anyway, school has started or is starting soon so that means homework for everyone :( that is never fun… Anyway I'm getting off topic, Review please I thought this was AWESOME!!! Okay well night, night all I'm going to bed.)

 

-Collapses- I wrote this all in one sitting… Okay, so how was it? I think I really screwed this chapter up, but… hey, at least a certain someone finally came to terms with his feelings! OH! And I got third in the Feudal Association for best AR/AU. Yay! -Beams for a full minute before something sinks in- OmG! I think that there are only 10 or 11 chapters left and then this Fic is OVER!

 

-Not sure how to react so just collapses again-

 

R&R!

 

Ja ne!