InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Grudging Loss ❯ Interlude Over the Weekend ( Chapter 17 )

Chapter 17: Interlude Over the Weekend

 

A shiny red convertible Mustang pulled up to the steps of the Sunset shrine late on a Saturday night. In the front seat of the car the driver looked perplexed, his fuzzy white ears twitching left and right as he stared down at the girl who was asleep beside him. Kagome's hair originally was in a messy bun, but now her long ebony tresses were cascading over her shoulder and onto the seat beside her. Dark feathery lashes covered her eyelids in shadows, her cheeks were burnished red from drinking and her rose colored lips were shiny in the dim light.

 

Inuyasha sighed as he ran his hand through his long silver hair and resisted the urge to do the same thing with Kagome's hair. She was so peaceful, lying there beside him, breathing in gently and evenly, a small smile on her parted lips that seemed to convey that everything was right in her world.

 

“Oi. Kagome!” he muttered. He looked down at the woman beside him again and his heart seemed to warm as he looked at her gentle sleeping face. But he steeled his nerves again and said her name again, this time in a much louder voice. “Kagome!” he yelled.

 

Kagome only muttered next to him, her eyes still closed and now her lips twisted in annoyance. “Need…to…sleep…,” she chided him as she emphasized her words by nuzzling in even closer to him in his front seat. Inuyasha soon felt her arm propped up behind his back and her head and long locks of ebony hair were resting right up against his lap. “Better…,” she murmured happily.

 

Inuyasha was trying to be annoyed with her. Annoyance would cause him to get rid of the girl quickly and then he could be on his way, back in his apartment, sleeping in his own bed, next to that smelly wolf and…he swallowed…without Kagome around. His previous annoyance quickly left him and his hand drifted down to her hair. It felt wonderful to stroke her thick tresses with his clawed hand. His hand lingered over the silky softness before tracing her cheek and then her lips. Red rosebud lips called to him and before he knew it his face was inches away from hers. With featherlike softness his lips brushed up gently to hers. She sighed happily against him as her lips parted with an “Oh” and his tongue found a haven within her mouth. He didn't want to wake her, so it wasn't a deep or penetrating kiss. It was light and gentle. All too soon he was done and he pulled away to look again at the angel sleeping beside him in her silky black dress that clung so deliciously to her curves. “Ash,” she murmured again happily.

 

Her words were like icy melt water being thrown on his face. He was now annoyed! He quickly moved to unbuckle both himself and her. Soon he was outside of his car and had managed to pull Kagome out of his car, carrying her bridal style up the long steep steps in front of her house. He quickly decided that jumping would be quicker and with two quick bounds he was right at the front door of the Higurashi household. Inuyasha dropped one arm, which allowed Kagome's legs to drop to the ground while his other arm still held her by her waist, propping her up.

 

“Oi. Wench,” he yammered in annoyance. “You need to stand up on your own. Wake up!”

 

Kagome turned briefly to look at him with a silly smile plastered on her face before her eyes rolled shut and then her body fell against his. She was unconscious next to him and was refusing to wake up. Her lithe body was boneless against him. If he thought about it he might have enjoyed the feeling of her soft curves pressed up so intimately against his harder planes. However, he was still a little upset for her saying Ash's name when he kissed her. So she was a little drunk, she should still know that it was Inuyasha who was taking her out on a date, not Ash.

 

`Now what do I do?' he thought to himself. `It's not as if I can just ring the doorbell and drop off a drunken Kagome. They would never let me see her again.' He ruminated silently to himself trying several possibilities over in his mind until the idea came upon him to secretly stash Kagome inside of her room without her family being aware. Inuyasha picked up Kagome again, bridal style as he surveyed the second story of her house. A light was on in a room which had Kagome's brother within it on a computer, then there was a dark room and then another room with a light on it with a matronly woman walking within it. The woman looked like an older version of Kagome, the same height, but with shorter hair and more mature features. `That must be her Mom,' he thought. `Perhaps the room with no light on is Kagome's room.'

 

Gently Inuyasha knelt down to prop up Kagome against her home and then he leapt up to the roof. Sliding his body down the roof his head hung over the side of the roof to dangle upside down to look into the dark room. His eyes adjusted to the dim light and he was able to make out a bed with a pink comforter, a study desk with music and math books and a chair that had a lacy red bra dangling on it. `Gotta be Kagome's room,' he thought triumphantly. He leaned further down to pull her window open and when he was satisfied with his exploit he jumped back down to pick up his girl. With Kagome again in his arms bridal style he leapt up effortlessly into her room all in one bound. He then walked over as silently as he could to her bed in order to place her down onto the pink bedcovers. Kagome quickly curled up into a ball, tucking her legs up underneath her.

 

Inuyasha paused to look at her in the dim shadows. Creamy long legs erupted from under the silky black dress that was now bunched up at her waist. If she could just move a little more he might have been able to see more than just her upper thighs. He licked his lips as he looked over the sleeping girl and was about to walk over to her when he heard a knock at her door.

 

“Kagome dear. Is that you?” asked an older woman's voice from the other side of the door.

 

In a panic Inuyasha quickly plastered himself against the wall on the side of the door that would open. He breathed in deeply and tried to stay silent as the door gently pushed open and golden light diffused into the darkened room. A long shadow filled the center of the light as a petit middle-aged woman walked into Kagome's room.

 

“Why is your window open?” she asked as she walked to close the offending window. Then she turned to see Kagome sleeping on her bed. “I never even heard you come in,” she said to Kagome as she bent over and tucked the pink comforter around Kagome's sleeping form. Inuyasha was sad to see that a fluffy pink comforter now covered her long legs.

 

Kagome's mother then kissed Kagome sweetly on her forehead before walking back out the door and shutting it silently behind her.

 

Inuyasha started to breath again. `That was too close,' he thought. But luckily now that her mother knew where Kagome was, she probably wouldn't check back in on her until the morning. That would give him a little more time with Kagome and besides, he probably shouldn't re-open the window until he was sure that everyone at the shrine was asleep. He flicked his ears to listen to the sounds around him. Souta was yelling at his computer and the sounds of warfare erupted from his PC, he could still hear Kagome's mother's footsteps walking downstairs and he could also pick up some very loud snoring that was coming from the far end of the hall. `That must be her grandfather,' he thought.

 

He turned to look at Kagome again. She was sleeping peacefully and soundly. Neither her mother's entrance nor her leap with him into her second story room had roused her. She must sleep like a rock he mused. Her ebony locks hair were arrayed messily around her head, her cheeks were rosy and her lips looked soft. He sniffed. Her scent called to him, wrapped around him and beckoned him to be close to her.

 

He wasn't even mindful of what he was doing until he felt his form curve up behind hers on the bed to hold her close to him. A clawed hand wrapped around her waist to draw in her warmth. She only sighed and snuggled in closer, seeming to enjoy the contact. Instantly, his gut clenched and his body reacted to her as heat started to pool in his lower abdomen. He shifted uncomfortably in an attempt to adjust himself. Kagome let out another soft sigh and he really thought this was going to be the end of him.

 

It was torture to be so close to her, but he really couldn't stay away if he wanted to. He nuzzled his nose into her hair to breathe in her scent deeply. He smelled the scent of strawberry shampoo, the unmistakable scent of her own salty sweat that lingered on her body in trace amounts and the sweet smell of jasmine and cherry blossoms that followed her wherever she went. His hands cradled the warmth of her form and he felt oddly at home. It was as if this was where he was supposed to be. He wasn't supposed to be sleeping in his bed at his smelly apartment, sharing a room with an even smellier wolf. No, just laying here next to Kagome was where he should be. He sighed with contentment with Kagome in his arms.

 

He thought about what he loved about Kagome. He loved her gentle scent, he loved the way her eyes sparkled, he loved the sound of her laughter, he loved to gaze at her, he loved to hear her sing, he loved the way her body was pressed in close to his, he loved that even thinking about her when she wasn't there warmed him inside. He…he loved her. All of her… When did that happen?

 

His breathing slowly became more ragged as he considered his new revelation. How did she get under his skin, how had he even fallen in love with this human wench? This wench who constantly had him worried, who was always on his thoughts, who he wanted to possess heart and soul--the wench who really didn't even know who he truly was. That last thought depressed him, but he tried to make it bittersweet by running his clawed hand back through her hair again. Running his hand through her silky hair released more of her scent and it wrapped around him to envelope him like a warm soft blanket. He didn't really intend to let down his guard and fall asleep, but he was too content, too warm, and too happy to hold her in his arms.

 

All too soon filtered white-yellow beams crept in past his consciousness calling to him. He tried to fight the wakefulness at first, but there was something in the back of his mind that was akin to panic. Something was telling him to wake up and wake up quickly, but he brushed those thoughts aside. It was so nice to lie here with her warmth nestled up close to him, where she belonged.

 

“She?” he thought as he opened one amber colored eye to see raven haired locks interspersed with silver hair spilling down across the pillow and pink comforter.

 

Panic crept into his waking mind as adrenaline surged through his brain. Flight or fight screamed into the muddled part of his mind and he hastily pulled away from the warmth and scent that he had been so happily entranced by. He gulped as he stared down at Kagome. Moist rosy lips curved gently into a smile, closed eyelids looked peaceful with her dark lashes fluttering against her burnished cheeks.

 

`Fluttering? Eyelashes?' he thought. `Oh Shit!'

 

Quicker than he ever thought possible, Kagome's window was shoved open and he had leapt out her window to land far away at her Torii gates near the steps of her shrine. He didn't even pause as he dashed into his car and quickly started the engine to pull away onto the streets of `Little Tokyo' on a Sunday morning.

 

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Inuyasha groaned as he was being interrogated by his brother and his coach. This was not the way he wanted to be spending his Sunday afternoon.

 

“Tell me,” said Sesshomaru “what is Miroku like?”

 

“Why do you want to hear about him?” asked Inuyasha bombastically. He was doing his best to answer every question with another question and he knew that it was trying his brother's patience as well as his coaches. But he really did not feel like cooperating, especially if it meant that they might try to do something to Kagome.

 

Sesshomaru growled and Inuyasha was quite sure that his elder brother was about to hit him.

 

“Let me,” said the calmer and more composed Myoga. “Now, Inuyasha. You know that we need this information from you. Please just answer our questions directly. Just tell us the first things that come to mind when we ask you these questions.”

 

“Alright,” answered Inuyasha dubiously.

 

“So again, what do you know about Miroku the monk?”

 

Inuyasha folded his arms out in front of him since he was in a petulant mood. “He's a letch. He's smart, but a complete letch. He can't seem to keep his hands off of women.” Inuyasha chuckled to himself. “But his girlfriend Sango seems to be keeping him in check, he actually seems to like her and seems to be curbing his wandering hands.”

 

“Sango?” asked Myoga in surprise. “The demon slayer is his girlfriend?”

 

“Um, yeah...,” responded Inuyasha. “Doesn't everyone know that?”

 

“No,” intoned Sesshomaru. “Is this something we can work with Coach Myoga?”

 

Myoga paced back and forth in the coach's small office at UCLA. He was so short that he might be mistaken for a dwarf as his little legs wobbled side to side as he walked. “Yes, this might be exactly what we are looking for,” answered Myoga thoughtfully with his hand to his chin.

 

“Perhaps we can hire an actress?” asked Sesshomaru with an arched eyebrow.

 

“Sesshomaru! Great thinking,” responded Myoga with enthusiasm.

 

“What?” asked Inuyasha dryly as he was completely confused by the current turn of the conversation.

 

“Yes,” muttered Myoga as he continued. “Before our last game versus USC at the Rose Bowl we'll have a young actress accost the monk before the game.”

 

“Preferably with the demon slayer in attendance,” added Sesshomaru.

 

Myoga started to laugh. “Oh yes, and let's hire a girl who has a baby as well. Preferably a baby with black hair!” Myoga started to laugh gutturally in hysteretics.

 

“What?” asked Inuyasha again as blood started to slowly drain from his face. “Are you saying you want some bimbo to show up and say that Miroku is a dad?”

 

“Yes!” laughed Myoga as he wiped tears away from his eyes. “That should really throw off the demon slayer and the monk enough to keep them from fighting too effectively during our last game this season.”

 

“But that's so low!” exclaimed Inuyasha his eyes widened in shock.

 

“Oh? What's lower?” asked Sesshomaru in a monotone voice that seemingly begot no judgment. “Having an actress show up saying that Miroku is the father of her child or you having sex with Kagome and then flashing her panties on nationwide TV before the game?”

 

Inuyasha's face reddened and he stiffened in his chair.

 

“Oh!” exclaimed Myoga. “This is good. Have you done the deed yet, my boy?” he said while jabbing him in the ribs. “If you do then every member of their team will be disoriented before the game even begins!”

 

“I…No!” yelled Inuyasha as he stood up and looked at Myoga and Sesshomaru with fury in his eyes. Then he turned and walked out of his coach's office, his fists clenched tightly to his side.

 

“What's wrong with your brother?” asked Myoga.

 

“He's just being his usual baka self,” answered Sesshomaru as his eyes narrowed at the closing of the door as Inuyasha stormed out of the room.

 

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Author's Notes:

#1: I want to mention that I will try to update every Saturday, but I might not be able to do so every week since my work is getting very busy now that the state budget has finally passed.

#2: I already wrote most of Chapter 19 over a month ago. There's some really good stuff happening in that chapter. Hee hee…

#3: I know that Nov. 30th (the day of the concert is actually Sunday in 2008). I guess I'll just pretend this happened in 2007.

 

Next Chapter: USC faces the Cal Bears and someone is going to get hurt…