InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ All But One ❯ Tears, Fears, and Dreams ( Chapter 6 )

All But One (by S'revan - inspired by *Shichan)

Kagome's willing to do almost anything to get Inuyasha's attention. Problem is, he's not interested… but others are.

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Chapter Six: Tears, Fears and Dreams

Finished with her stomach, Kagome thought he would stop. Instead, he moved to the last area that needed to be covered - her upper chest and a good deal of cleavage.

Her collarbone was okay… if a little disturbing. And the outsides of her breasts she could also accept, although it was harder. But once his fingers dipped between her breasts, she said, "Sess, I really don't think--"

He froze and met her eyes. "I told you about that name," he said huskily, and before she could react, he knocked her back into Fuji and was kissing her.

It took Kagome a while to get past all the sensations: Sesshoumaru's mouth on hers, sucking at her lips, the one hand that was still curled around a breast, the warming aloe providing a slight sting, the elbow of his other arm almost touching her waist, Fuji's breasts pressed into her shoulders, her knees pressed a little uncomfortably into the backs of her thighs, the additional discomfort of having her bottom only partially supported - Fuji's hips were too high, looking at it one way, and too low, looking at it another - the way the other girl was trembling slightly from suddenly having to support extra weight, the way Sesshoumaru was leaning into her…

Then Fuji's breath caught suddenly and she let out a choked whine and suddenly Kagome's support was all gone and rolling away to curl around herself and bury her face into the pelt. Kagome fell back uncomfortably, then sat up almost immediately as Sesshoumaru leaned back and shifted to the side, turning his attention to Fuji.

"Are you alright?" Kagome asked.

Fuji was silent, still. Then another short whine escaped her and her shoulders shook once.

Sesshoumaru watched.

Fuji drew in a breath, her shoulders shook again, and her fingers curled tighter in the fur. A few moments later, there was another whine.

"What's wrong?"

She lifted her head, opened her mouth, choked, and cried again. She started to shake more often, the gasps and whines increasing as well.

Sesshoumaru lifted her and turned her into him. Her arms came suddenly around him and clamped onto him with desperate strength, and she buried her face into his shoulder. He rocked her gently.

After she seemed to calm down a bit, he said, "Now, what's wrong?"

"I don't know!" The thought seemed to make her more miserable.

"Do you want to talk to Kaede?"

She shook her head against his neck.

"Does it have anything to do with me or Kagome?"

"Uh uh. I thought it was funny - and then I just got really sad."

"Does your chest hurt?"

She shook her head again.

Kagome watched, feeling helpless.

"Here," he said, making as if to get up.

Her arms stiffened and she refused to let go.

"I'll be right back."

"Uh uh."

"You can hold onto Kagome."

"Uh uh."

He sighed and settled back onto the bed. "Kagome, could you grab that glass over there and fill it with water from the fountain."

"I don't know where the fountain is," Kagome said nervously.

"There, you see? Hold onto Kagome while I get you some water." He got up more firmly this time.

Fuji reached immediately for him. "No! Don't leave me alone!" She latched onto his arm.

"You won't be alone. Kagome is here."

"Don't leave me," Fuji repeated.

Kagome moved behind her and hugged her gently, disengaging Sesshoumaru's arm from her grip. "I'm right here," she said. "You're not alone."

Fuji turned into her and gripped a shoulder, but kept her face turned to watch Sesshoumaru as he picked up the cup and left the room. She was trembling.

"What's wrong?" Kagome asked, hoping to distract her.

"I really don't know. I'm just really sad and my throat hurts and I'm getting a headache."

"Do you know why you're sad?"

"No."

"Does it happen often?"

Fuji shrugged, her eyes still on the door. "Twice, maybe three times a year."

"That's not good."

"It's because I don't like to cry."

"Eh?"

"That's what one counselor told me." Sesshoumaru returned, and she reached for him again, snuggling against him like a child and letting him give her water in small sips.

After a long while, he asked, "Feeling better?"

She nodded against his chest.

"Does this happen very often?"

"A couple times a year." She shifted a little to get comfortable and started staring out the window. "I've seen a couple people about it. None of them agree - it could be anything from really drawn out bipolar to emotional constipation. Only I think she really meant just sadness."

"And fear, probably. You don't let yourself feel anything that might make people think you're weak."

"If that's the case, I'm completely unaware of the process."

"Hn."

"Do you have any asprin?"

"I think so. Shall I go check?"

"No, it can wait." Fuji sighed. "It's been so long since I got a hug."

"Wouldn't your parents--" Kagome asked.

"I haven't seen them since August."

"You didn't go home for Christmas?"

Fuji shook her head, looking sad again. "It's cheaper to stay here."

"It is," Sesshoumaru said quietly. "You can stay with me if you like - I don't even go home over the summer."

"Or with me," Kagome said. "I'm sure my family would love to meet you, so long as you don't mind Grandpa mistaking you for a demon of some sort."

"Isn't one of the older words for foreigner youkai? In a way, it'd be true." Fuji grinned.

"I can just imagine it." Kagome giggled. "'Halt! Begone, demon!' `Ah, you've found me out!'"

"'I'm really a vampire,'" Fuji continued. "'But it's okay. I can make do with regular food, so long as I get some meat every now and then.'"

"He'd believe you. He'd try to put ofuda on you."

"In that case…" Fuji bit at Kagome.

The door opened. "Oh, sorry, Sesshoumaru," Inuyasha said. "Wait. What are you doing to Fuji, you bastard?"

"No matter how many times you say it, my parents were still married when I was born," Sesshoumaru said.

"I don't give a damn about your lineage. It's your personality I'm talking about. Why is she on your lap?"

"Because I freaked out when he started kissing Kagome. He's keeping me here so I won't try to kill them both."

"I'll help you."

Fuji rolled her eye. "I was joking, you idiot. Well, they were kissing, and I did freak out, but it wasn't because of that and I don't want to kill any one except maybe Naraku." She held out her arms imperiously. "Come here and give me a hug."

Inuyasha dropped his bag and books just inside the door and walked to the bed. He leaned over and hugged Fuji.

"Uhm…" Fuji said, pushed Inuyasha to sitting, and transferred laps. "There. Now I'm on your lap. Better?"

"Much," Sesshoumaru said, and stood up to shake out his legs.

Fuji stuck her tongue out at him. Then she twisted to look at Inuyasha. "So why are you here?"

"I need some help in PoliStats, and I'm supposed to meet with Sesshoumaru anyway."

"Okay. Wait: PoliStats, as in political statistics, right? Not statistical politics."

"No. Dad's gonna teach me that himself." He made a face.

"Your Dad's making you take a lot of courses you don't seem to like."

"He's training me to take over the company, but I'm going to double-major that with Art & Choreography, so I get to do at least some of what I want to do." He looked expectantly at Sesshoumaru. "So how `bout it?"

"Very well. Are you girls going to stick around or…"

"I need to reapply the aloe in an hour or so,' Kagome said. "Besides, it sounds kind of interesting."

"And that Intro to Stats class I took last year was really just about voting and stuff, so I may be able to help out. Sure, I'll stay."

Sesshoumaru smiled. With Fuji to back up at least some of what he said, Inuyasha wouldn't be so challenging - especially if he did have a crush on her like he said back when they went Naraku-dumping.

"All right. What do you need help with?"

Inuyasha grabbed his bag and pulled a notebook out of it. He flipped that and a book open and took the pencil out of his hair. "See that?" he asked, pointing. "How am I supposed to translate from that to this?"

"Okay, it works like this…"

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"That's the last one. Thanks." Inuyasha packed his bag back up and slung it into a corner.

Fuji stretched. "Wait, it's Saturday. Why are you doing homework on a Saturday?"

"I've got lots of it."

"Heh. Sucks to be you. I'm happy with my all-humanities courses."

"I'd rather do math than papers."

"And I'd rather do the occasional paper or project than any kind of science. Besides, most of it's reading, and that's easy."

Inuyasha stuck his tongue out at her.

"Um."

Everyone looked at Kagome.

"Since you three all know English, do you think you could help me with that?"

"Sure, sure, no problem. Right, Sesshoumaru?"

"Right. But first I want to know your middle name."

"Middle name?" Inuyasha looked confused. "You have a middle name?"

"Sure I do. Remember graduation?"

"It was just an initial."

"Thank whatever for that."

"So what is it?" Kagome handed the tube of aloe back to Sesshoumaru to put away.

"It's longer than the rest of my name put together. And it's not pronounceable in Japanese. Why do you want to know?"

"Because I'm curious. Tell."

"You'll have to pay the toll."

"Fine. Whatever." Kagome tossed her head and was surprised when, for the second time that day, she was unexpectedly kissed.

Fuji was much gentler about it, and didn't make any move to deepen the kiss. After a moment, she sat back and smiled. "Alright?"

Kagome blinked and tried to orient herself. "Alright."

"Alright. Prepare yourself for an earful. My full name, Western style, is Fuji Lothlorienmoria Viktraust."[1]

"Gak," Inuyasha said.

Sesshoumaru looked amused. "Lothlorienmoria?"

"Yeah. Lots of nickname possibilities, and after reading Tolkien, it's not a name you forget either."

"I can't pronounce it," Kagome admitted.

"Then you need to work on your English." Sesshomaru said coolly. "Let's get started, shall we?"

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[1] Lothlorienmoria is Lothlorien and Moria run together. It actually sounds kind of nice to me. Viktraust is pronounced German-style: Week-trhawst, or something like that. It's Norwegian, a combination of vik (creek) and traust (trust), meaning something along the lines of Trust in the Creeks. It's not a real last name so far as I know.

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^So… `Even though everyone had fun, I sat alone because I was sad,'^ Kagome said. "Did I do that right?"

"Yes, that was fine."

"A little simple, but you got the right meaning. Yay!"

"Ah, that was hard! Working out when to say everything, and how to conjugate…"

"I guess. It's always been a sort of second nature to me."

Sesshoumaru smiled. "French has over thirteen different ways to conjugate."

"That's too many!"

"I thought so too," Fuji said. "Are we done?"

"I suppose."

"I want to go to a party," Inuyasha said. "It's Saturday night. We should."

"This could be a party," Fuji said, leering half-heartedly.

"It's not a party…" he whined.

Sesshoumaru reached under the cabinet and took out a bottle of sake, which he waved at him. "Now it is."

"Where'd you get that?"

"I'm of age, don't make that face. It's the leftovers of when Shanks decided that this room was ideal for hosting one of his get-togethers. There's about four and a half bottles of various stuff under there."

"What about mixing the drinks?"

"Inuyasha!' Kagome said.

"What?"

She gave up and shook her head, sharing a glance with Fuji. Men.

"There's orange, apple, and grape juice in the fridge. They're technically not mine, but the people who borrow space know they might lose their stuff."

"Alright! What else is under there?"

Fuji got up and left, returning shortly with a bottle of cola and a bottle of orange soda pop. She set them down on the floor between her feet.

"Here," Inuyasha said, handing Kagome a glass of orange juice without looking at her.

"Is this for me?"

"If you want it."

She took a sip. The top and back of her mouth tingled. She took another, larger sip. The same thing happened, and she suspected that it was spiked with something, though she couldn't taste it. But she was in a good mood from her improvement in the English language, and she felt she deserved it. Besides, a glass or two won't hurt, will it?

Inuyasha tried to hand another glass, this time with apple juice in it, to Fuji, but she told him to "keep that to yourself, unless you want me throwing up all over you," so he took it back. She opened the cola drink, snagged a clean glass, and filled it, raising it with everyone else in toast.

"To the people we do our best for," Sesshoumaru said. They drank.

"To Naraku! May he die slowly," Inuyasha said. He hated Naraku more than he hated Sesshoumaru. They drank.

"To the goals we will reach," Kagome said. They drank.

Fuji smirked. Kagome, still thinking partly in English, thought she understood it all: ^To old friends, lost loves, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us give the devil his due.^ [2] They started to raise their glasses, but she held up a finger. "In other words, to dreams!" They drank.

Wow, Kagome thought. I think I like alcohol.

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Fuji: Whee, they're all getting drunk.
S'revan: And then--
Fuji: Oh no. You're going to do something nasty to us, aren't you?
S'revan: Well…

[2] `To old friends… give the devil his due' is a quote from Neil Gaiman's Sandman, volume 4 (Season of Mists). Since this series affected Fuji greatly (see ch2), it's entirely appropriate that she would use it here.

If anyone's confused, you can vote as many times as you like, and each separate idea will be given its own count. But you can't vote for the same thing twice. Sorry.

Currently
Inu/Kag - 2
Sess/Kag - 11
Fuji/Kag - 4+
Nar/Kag - 1
Inu/Kik - 2
Nar/Kik - 1
Ship/Kag - 1

Sess/Kag/Inu - 2
Sess/Kag/Fuji - 1
Inu/Fuji/Kag - 1
Inu/Fuji/Kag/Sess - 1
All/Kag - 1

Nar chasing Kag - 1
Inu chasing Kag - 1
NOT Sess/Kag - 2

Zaxlan - ah, my apologies, my apologies. Yes, I currently have about 80 characters named, with a chance to using each of them, plus one more character who has since graduated but will be mentioned at some point because I said so. Each of these characters has their year, gender, and most of their relationships worked out. It's their choice, however, if they want to get involved.

Cinyve13 - OOC = Out of Character. Just like most of this story.