InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Lot About Love ❯ Breathing space ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter five

Breathing space

 

“Oh god, I'm late!” Kagome rushed down the stairs, pulling her socks on, on the way down the stairs.

 

Not paying attention, only to the door to her car, she tripped over a shoe and landing smack into the wall.

 

“Clumsy woman, would you stop rushing.” Nope, definitely not the wall, she thought.

 

Kagome stood up, brushing herself off. Looking up, she realized she just ran into Souta's guest, Inuyasha.

 

“Sorry.” She blushed.

 

“Keh.” Kagome missed the slight blush of cherry red on the hanyou as he exited the room.

 

“Kagome, shouldn't you be gone already?” Kagome looked up after ridding herself of her momentary blush, as she saw Souta standing there with a slice of toast in hand.

 

“Yes, but I didn't wake up to my alarm.” Kagome sighed loudly. Kagome noticed the boy's backpack and jacket. “Where are you heading?”

 

“Uhh, if you haven't forgotten, I've got school like any other ordinary teen my age.” Souta smiled. “Are you sure you're capable of getting to work on your own?”

 

“Yes, I'm fully capable.” Kagome eyed the piece of bread still in her brother's hand. “Now if you don't mind, I'll be taking that.”

 

And with that, she grabbed the bread and walked out the door with a screaming Souta behind her.

 

Kagome unlocked her little car and got in, started the engine, and she was gone for another day at hell…or work, whichever you preferred to call it.

 

~*~

 

“Hey Souta...” Inuyasha called from the kitchen table.

 

“Yeah?” The boy answered as he popped in another slice of bread into the toaster.

 

“Where does your sister work?” Inuyasha asked as he slurped up his milk he had added to his cereal.

 

“Why do you want to know?” Souta finally looked at Inuyasha, as if for the first time.

 

“Just wondering.” He smirked.

 

~*~

 

“Kagome, why are you late?” A woman asked the girl as she ran into the building, huffing and puffing.

 

“My alarm…it didn't wake me up.” Kagome squeezed out as she placed her bag on her small cubical desk.

 

“You know the boss is not going to like this…” The woman placed her hands on her hips. “This is the fifth time since the summer.”

 

“I know, I know, you don't have to remind me, Kikyou.” Kagome said bitterly.

 

“Remember, if I am to be recognized as the assistant manager who restored this old dump, all my employees must be up to speed, including you.” Kikyou stated with a certain air in her words. “This place is as fast as its slowest person.”

 

Then Kikyou left without another word, leaving Kagome to her tasks.

 

Kagome sighed angrily, and then continued to set herself up to work.

 

~*~

 

Inuyasha opened the door to the bathroom, watching the heat rush out ahead of him. His towel folded around his hips, he entered the guest room he was occupying.

 

“Now what shall I wear?” He jokingly asked himself, a finger placed at his chin, deep in thought. “Aha!”

 

He ducked down and pulled out a dirty pair of jeans and button up dress shirt.

 

Pulling them on, he walked into the kitchen, grabbing himself a bite to eat, and grabbing the slip of paper Souta had written the address he needed on, and then he was out the door.

 

~*~

 

“Kagome, you have a visitor.” The girl lifted her head above the cubical walls to see the smiling secretary.

 

“Who is it?” She asked.

 

“Your boyfriend.” Kagome was a bit shocked. First of all, she had no boyfriend and second, she never had visitors, even from her own family.

 

“Did you get a name?” The secretary shook her head. Kagome huffed, dropping her pen; she walked down the hall and towards the entrance.

 

`Somebody better be dead…' She thought as she took the stairs instead of the busy elevator.

 

Pushing the heavy metal door, she slammed face first into someone.

 

“Oh my god, I'm so sorry…” She trailed off when she got a good look at the man she walked into. “Inuyasha?”

 

“Hi there.” He smirked.

 

“What the hell are you doing here?” Kagome hissed.

 

“I got bored.” He simply shrugged.

 

“No, how'd you get the address?” Kagome repeated.

 

“Souta gave it to me this morning.”

 

“Why would he do that?” Kagome asked, more as a rhetorical question.

 

“Don't know, maybe it had to do with the fact that I asked him?” Inuyasha said sarcastically. “Come on, I'm here to rescue you.”

 

He grabbed her hand and started to drag her out of the building.

 

“Wait, I can't leave!” Kagome shrieked; a little surprised at the sudden movement.

 

“I already let them know, that whore you guys call a boss said it'd be okay...” Kagome gasped at his rude language, but he did have a point, she was a whore.

 

“How did you get her to let me come with you?” Kagome asked as they exited the structure that she dreaded.

 

“A bit of persuasion and she was putty in my hands.” Kagome gulped, she didn't like what he was getting at, but she wasn't about to start complaining.

 

“So, what do you have in mind?” Kagome folded her arms, waiting for an answer as she tapped her foot against the sidewalk cement.

 

“What do you mean?” Inuyasha turned to look at her.

 

“I mean, you pulled me out of work for a reason, right?” Kagome glared at the hanyou when she saw him falter.

 

“Give me a break, I'm new to the city, I have no clue in hell what goes on around here.” Inuyasha held his hands in a defensive position.

 

“So you mean to say that you dragged me out of work without even glancing around at this place?” He nodded. “Let's go.”

 

“You mean…you're not going to throw some hissy fit?” he asked, almost surprised.

 

“What, you barely know me and you think you can start to expect--oh just shut up and get in the car.” Kagome all but slammed the car door behind her as Inuyasha winced.

 

~*~

 

“Oh you've gotta be kidding me.” Inuyasha sighed as they pulled up to a large building.

 

“Don't you start, you pulled me out of work, now I'm gonna have some fun.” Kagome opened the car door and started to walk towards the main entrances, crowded with people. She glanced back and saw Inuyasha, still sitting in the car. “Are you coming or what?”

 

Inuyasha grumbled something about `pushy, selfish wenches' and `why didn't he just stay in bed…' then hopped out of the car, following his host into the mall.

 

~*~

 

“That's wasn't so bad now was it?” Kagome giggled as she watched the hanyou behind her carrying a few too many bags.

 

“And how'd you come up with that conclusion?” Inuyasha growled through the plastic of a `GAP' bag.

 

“Oh my god, I can't believe it!” Kagome shrieked.

 

“What?” Inuyasha asked in a startled tone.

 

“I haven't been in one of these in years!” Kagome scrambled off towards the bright lights of the arcade.

 

“Kagome…?” Inuyasha asked, not being able to see through the bags he carried. He tried to move his head around, trying to find the girl that ran off without him. “Kagome!”

 

~*~

 

“I totally kicked your butt!” Kagome said with a small laugh as she opened the door to her house.

 

“No way did that count, you cheated!” Inuyasha followed the girl with a pout on his face and his arms folded at his chest.

 

“I won and you're just too stubborn to admit it.” Kagome giggled and dropped her bags of clothes she purchased at the few stores they had stopped at before they blew all her coin at the arcade games she came across.

 

“You did not, tying doesn't count as winning, wench.” Kagome sighed and they both entered the living room.

 

Unknowing to them, but Souta had been home, listening to the latest argument.

 

“What happened now?” He said making Kagome jumped ten feet in fear. Souta had to stifle a giggle at the expression on his sister's face.

 

“What are you doing here?” Kagome asked after her minor heart attack passed over.

 

“If you haven't forgotten, I live here too, remember?” Souta folded his arms together watching Inuyasha walk in trying to find out what all the ruckus was about. “Now if you guys don't mind telling me what's going on?”

 

“I kicked Pouty face here at an arcade game at the mall today.” Kagome stated proudly as she poked the hanyou in the stomach, causing him to jump at the touch.

 

“But why did it take you so long to get home then?” Souta glanced at the clock. “It's already eight and I haven't eaten supper yet.”

 

“Well excuse me Mother, but I was out having fun with our guest and you can cook for yourself too, you know?” Kagome huffed then grabbed her bags. “Now, if you all don't mind, I'm going to bed.”

 

With that, Kagome headed for the stairs, leaving the guys downstairs.

 

“How to you deal with that woman on a day to day basis?” Inuyasha asked, pointing towards where the girl had left.

 

“Actually this is the happiest I've ever seen her.” Souta grinned.

 

 

 

 

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Inuyasha characters, anime of manga. Rumiko Takahashi does and I'm glad she had the imagination to create such amazing characters to play with.