InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Control ❯ Personal Space ( Chapter 5 )

Disclaimer: M-must I…? *Sigh* Fine. Inuyasha has not yet been put up for sale and I have yet to find enough money for an appropriate bid. But I'm saving up!! *Faint music* Oh!!! Ice cream man!!

*Comes back with ice cream*…shit.

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Last Time:

'That cat, Ejineko…' Sesshoumaru thought. 'He knows too much about this to not be involved in some way. I must keep a closer eye on this demon.'

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Chapter Five: Personal Space

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"So, genius, what are we going to do this project on?" Sesshoumaru asked, bored.

"I'm not the smart one, you are. That's the only reason I'm doing this." Naeomi scowled.

"Yesterday I was an idiot."

"When you're dealing with everything else but school, yes!!" she was getting frustrated. "Look. Can we just be civil for an hour and get started on this? I, for one, do not want to fail my last year in high school!!"

Sesshoumaru felt his anger growing with hers and struggled to keep both of their anger combined under control. 'Come on Naeomi. I couldn't have pissed you off this much…could I?' His mild surprise seemed to be enough to calm both of them down.

Sesshoumaru gave her a mildly curious look. "How could I have possibly made you that angry, woman?"

"There you go again. What is it with you and my name?!"

"Is that what made you so mad?"

"How can you possibly be this ignorant?!" she sighed. "It was combination of everything. My name, hurting me, confusing me, calling me a miko, and accusing me of putting you under some spell. Altogether, I'd say it's just you in general that pisses me off."

Sesshoumaru didn't speak for a while after that.

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"Huh. I guess she really must hate you then, right?" Inuyasha grinned. Sesshoumaru just went up to his room and locked the door.

"I shouldn't care about what she said. If that's her opinion of me, fine. But…I still…don't like the fact that she…"

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"I was so rude to Sesshoumaru today…w-well, he deserved it! He shouldn't have been such a jerk!" Naeomi still felt guilty. 'He was upset. You saw it. You hurt him pretty bad.'

"…I'll apologize tomorrow…"

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"Sesshoumaru!" Naeomi finally caught up to him. Sesshoumaru, I…"

He just turned away and kept walking. "I have no time for your insults this morning."

"I'm trying to say sorry, you jerk-" she caught herself. "I would like to apologize to you, Sesshoumaru." She bowed slightly. "I was very rude to you yesterday. Gomen nasai."

Surprised, he would've tripped if he'd been paying less attention. 'She didn't mean it?'

"Hey, Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha rammed into Sesshoumaru with his shoulder.

"Ow!" was all Naeomi had time to yell before the former Lord of the Western Lands fell on her. "Sesshoumaru! Get off of me! I would like to have some personal space, please?!"

Sesshoumaru stood up, pulling Naeomi up as well by her upper arm. "Inuyasha. Watch where you are going."

'The stupid hanyou made me hurt Naeomi as she was apologizing…'

"Sesshoumaru…do you think you could let me go now?" Naeomi was red again. Once he let her go, she gave him a narrow-eyed look. "Okay. From now on I need at least two feet of personal space. You got that?!" She glared at everyone around her, daring them to get closer.

Ejineko watched her eagerly from the crowd, snickering. 'This is funnier than I ever imagined!!'

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"Hey, Sesshoumaru, this book looks like it might have a lot of information!" Naeomi jogged up to her partner. "What do you think? Will it help us on the project?"

Sesshoumaru didn't hear her, deep in his own thoughts. 'Ejineko is following us way too closely. Something's going on that he knows about and no one else. He's the one who did this to us…but how?'

"Sesshoumaru?" Naeomi tapped him, and Sesshoumaru was forced to listen to her.

"What?"

"I wanted you to flip through this book and see what you thought about it." She seemed slightly offended. "What's the matter with you?"

"Nothing." He jerked the book from her. Sitting down with it, he tried to read the first line, but he kept thinking about Naeomi, and what Ejineko had done to them. 'When did this start…?' His eyes widened. 'That day, when he called us into his office! He made us drink something…that has to be it!'

"Where are you going, Sesshoumaru?! We still have a project to work on!" Naeomi called down the hall when she realized he was gone. Sesshoumaru walked at a steady pace, not drawing attention to himself. 'I knew he was up to something…'

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Ejineko was waiting for the taiyoukai when he reached his office. "I was wondering when you'd figure it out, Sesshoumaru," he said cheerfully. "I thought you would've come to see me sooner than this."

"Hmph."

"You want me to stop the spell, ne?" the mischieveous Ejineko smiled. "Too bad there's no option other than to wait for it to wear off."

"WHAT?!" Sesshoumaru couldn't stand the thought of feeling Naeomi's emotions and injuries any longer.

"It's very amusing to watch you try to keep each other from getting upset."

"I-"

"Sesshoumaru! Come on! And quit getting so pissed off. I can hardly think!" Naeomi came up and dragged Sesshoumaru away. Reluctantly, he allowed himself to be pulled down the hall by the angry demoness. Ejineko waved and looked smug. 'I'll get you later,' Sesshoumaru thought bitterly.

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"What's gotten into you, Sesshoumaru?" Naeomi slammed her pen onto the table. "Normally you're more focused than this."

"There is nothing wrong with me," Sesshoumaru growled. He stared at his paper…his very blank paper. 'What is wrong with me?…Naeomi's right. I need to focus.' He glared at his pencil, as if it was its fault for his lack of inspiration.

Naeomi stood up. "I'm going to go buy something to drink," she announced. "I want to see something on your paper by the time I get back, okay?" she sounded a little exasperated. "I'll see you in five minutes."

Sesshoumaru snorted, and yet found himself watching Naeomi as walked away. 'Why does she draw my attention this way? It must be some side effect of the spell…isn't it?' He filled in a few lines on his paper while she was gone. 'I can't even think!'

"Here, Sesshoumaru. Have a drink," Naeomi threw him a can of soda.

"…Thanks…" He couldn't look at her.

"Sesshoumaru, you're so quiet. Are you feeling okay?"

"Why would you care? It's none of your business, anyway."

"Oh, excuse me! I just thought I should ask in case it was affecting your schoolwork so we could get you to the nurse or something." She huffed, turning back to her notebook.

Slightly ashamed but not letting it show, Sesshoumaru got her attention. "Naeomi, I-"

"Don't bother wasting your breath. I know you don't mean it." Naeomi stood, grabbing all of her things and averting her eyes from his. Sesshoumaru could feel that she was slightly hurt at his assumption that she didn't really care if he was feeling well or not.

'But why does she feel this way?' he thought as she left the library.

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Naeomi leaned against the cool brick wall of her school, fighting back the anger she felt because of Sesshoumaru. 'Why did he assume I didn't really care? And an even better question is why do I care that he did that?'

"Naeomi!" Sesshoumaru jogged lightly over to her. "Naeomi, I really am sorry that I upset you."

"Right." She slid down the wall and sat on the concrete. "Just…never mind."

Sesshoumaru sat down next to her. Closing his eyes, he tried to help the girl next to him calm down.

"Sesshoumaru…"

"Hm?"

"I thought I said I needed two feet of personal space."

Smiling, he calmed Naeomi fairly quickly after that. He noticed she was shivering, and jumped when she unconsciously moved closer to him.

"It's pretty cold out." Naeomi yawned. 'Wait a minute…I thought he was farther away from me…did I move closer to him?!' She blushed, trying to put more distance between them without him noticing.

Naeomi flushed a deeper red when Sesshoumaru grabbed her arm and turned her face toward him. 'Wha-what's he doing?!' She struggled a little, but then she felt a familiar feeling come over her. She was so engrossed in trying to find out what it was she almost didn't feel Sesshoumaru's lips cover hers.

'What am I doing…?' Sesshoumaru asked himself, but he couldn't stop.

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Ejineko watched the two demons, smiling. 'My work here has been done. The spell should wear off now…"

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Okay, okay, so I lied. I posted the next chappie anyway. Damn my soft ways!!!