InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Dashed Hopes ❯ Akitas and Fiancees ( Chapter 10 )
[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
By: Fay-of-Faerie 
^^ Sorry no demons in this story. Kagome finds the love of her life-- in Inuyasha's dog. And the whole mix up with Miroku and this 'fiancee' of his is cleared up...sort of...And Kagome sees someone again that she'd rather not have.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure / Drama / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.01.2004 | Updated On: 08.01.2004 | Pages: 5 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 759 | Status: Completed
^^ Sorry no demons in this story. Kagome finds the love of her life-- in Inuyasha's dog. And the whole mix up with Miroku and this 'fiancee' of his is cleared up...sort of...And Kagome sees someone again that she'd rather not have.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure / Drama / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.01.2004 | Updated On: 08.01.2004 | Pages: 5 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 759 | Status: Completed
Still a bit of a bad mood. Most of the chapter should be pretty normal but I might end up putting the disturbing stuff in later on.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Nor do I own an Akita, but my dad’s girlfriend’s mother has had four. I love them so much!
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Dashed Hopes
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--- Last Chapter ---
Sango tried to gulp in air as she heard the statement. But soon, everything went black.
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Chapter 10: Akitas and Fiancées
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Kagome clapped her hands together in front of her as she stared at the breathtakingly beautiful beast in front of her.
“She’s gorgeous. No! That’s an understatement. She’s a goddess!” Kagome gasped.
Inuyasha looked worriedly between the young woman and his dog.
Yes, all this commotion over his dog.
Sesshoumaru stalked out of the office and watched the scene too. Souta stood shaking his head and Shippou blushed at his mother’s actions.
It was a dog!
Rin watched curiously as her new friend, that she had dubbed ‘Aunty Kag’, stared in awe at the family dog. “Does Aunt Kag like Miko?”
“Yes, Rin. Very much so.” Kagome breathed, “I’ve always wanted an Akita.” Then to the younger boys’ dismay, she launched into a long detailed report on Akitas. “They were originally from Japan, but in the early 1900’s Helen Keller was given one to bring back with her to America. Before that, only emperors were allowed these gorgeous animals and used them to fight bears. This one is a snow-white female the size of a male!”
Kagome’s eyes glazed over as she watched the beast sit and cock her head in Kag’s direction to study the new addition to the small family. Golden eyes that matched Sesshoumaru’s, only with emotion, sparkled with intelligence. Long fur streamed all over the dog’s body, soft as a cloud.
Kagome’s eyes went back to normal as she turned to Inuyasha. “Miko? Odd name for a dog that is owned by two men with the last name ‘Youkai’, don’t you think?”
Inuyasha blushed. “We let Rin pick out the name.”
Kag laughed. Turning to Rin, she praised the girl. “Good! I love it!”
Kagome wanted so much to walk up and start stroking the massive being. But an Akita was raised to guard only those she grew up with since puppy-hood. Miko was trained to attack anyone who meant harm to Rin, Inuyasha, or Sesshoumaru. She shouldn’t feel the need to protect new additions, which was abnormal for a dog of her kind.
Sesshoumaru nodded the young woman forward. “Miko is a rather accepting animal. If she approves you, you’ll officially be apart of the--- household.” He stumbled over having to say so many words.
Kagome nodded and cautiously stepped slowly toward Miko, extending her hand slowly out in front of her. Miko sniffed slightly at her hand before rubbing her head against Kagome, almost in a cat-like fashion. Kagome breathed a sigh of relief.
“And the boys?”
Inuyasha shook his head. “Miko loves children. She’ll protect any child no matter what.” Inu then watched as the puppy that he had talked his brother into buying for Rin attached herself to Kagome’s side.
Guess Miko has a new best friend.
He didn’t mind. Kagome needed as much protection as possible. He had been glad to notice that Kagome had slowly become a bit less jumpy and less likely to go into mood swings.
The longer she stayed away from Naraku, the more she seemed to stay cheerful. Inuyasha had the sneaking suspicion that this was her natural personality: happy but protective with those near to her. Stubborn and less likely to do as she was told. Intelligent, but a bit ignorant.
Kagome suggested to the kids that they go out to look at the garden and they agreed immediately. They walked off with Miko prancing next to her.
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“Sango, are you sure you are feeling all right?” Kagome asked again to the young woman sitting on the edge of the hospital bed.
“Yeah, I’m fine. It just surprised me a little to meet Miroku’s fiancée.” Sango smiled weakly.
Kagome scrunched her eyebrows together in concern. It looked like Sango had been dragged by wild horses through a briar patch.
The young brunette from the Sakura Hide-Away had immediately rushed Sango to the hospital once the blackness had overwhelmed her.
Inuyasha stood beside his life long friend and watched her worriedly. Kohaku sat pale in a chair nearby.
Kagome watched them all quickly. She had known Sango the least and thought she should leave the rest to spend some time with the woman.
“I’m going to go get some coffee,” Kag excused herself to leave the room. The others didn’t seem to notice her disappearance.
Carefully, Kag made her way through the crowded halls and searched for a specific room on the floor above.
“Kouga!” Kagome called as she stepped into the bright room.
To the young man inside though, it seemed like the room brightened all the more. “Kag!”
Kagome knelt beside her old friend and gave him a reassuring smile. “Good to see you! You look a lot better!”
Kouga smiled softly. “Of course I do. Nothing could keep me down for too long.”
Kagome smiled.
“Have you seen him again?” Kouga asked, suddenly very serious.
Kagome returned the expression. “No. Yesterday Souta, Shippou, and I moved into a new friend’s house. We should be safe there for a while. Security is pretty tight and I doubt Naraku knows much about my new life.”
Kouga nodded and opened his mouth to say something, but Inuyasha suddenly burst into the room.
“Kagome! You scared the shit out of Sango when you disappeared from her room!” He growled.
Kouga scowled at this man’s interference. Before he could tell the ebony haired man off, however, he felt Kagome squeeze his hand a little tighter.
“Tell Sango I’m sorry. I told everyone I was leaving but no one must have heard me,” Kagome explained softly.
Inuyasha scowled. The only reason he had been able to find her was because of the nurse outside had recognized Kagome from her visit before.
Kagome went back to her conversation with Kouga, ignoring Inuyasha’s presence in the room.
“Lets go, Kagome!” Inuyasha ground out. He didn’t trust this ‘Kouga’. Especially when he was back in Tokyo instead of Kyoto where he should be helping Kagome.
Kagome had kept Kouga’s confrontation with Naraku from everyone else, afraid they would over react.
“Shut up, mutt!” Kouga growled. “Me and Kag need to catch up. And I need to make sure she’s safe at where ever she’s staying. Naraku, that bloody bastard did this to me, and I want to make sure it doesn’t happen to Kag.”
“Mutt?!” Inuyasha growled, making the insult all that more convincing. “Kagome needs to make sure her friend is okay. Quit acting like such a wolf and taking all her time!”
Kagome rolled her eyes at the men’s fight. “Inuyasha! Leave Kouga alone! He’s hurt and I don’t need you making it any worse. Plus, Kouga’s my friend, and I need to speak with him. He went through one of Naraku’s beating just to keep me safe!”
Inuyasha blanched at Kagome’s words. “You’d rather help him, than Sango?”
“No,” Kagome answered simply. “Kouga needs me more right now, I’ll talk to Sango in a few minutes.” She turned back to the brown haired man and picked up their conversation where they’d left off, completely blocking out the fuming man behind her.
Inuyasha threw up his hands and stomped out the door. “Fine.”
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“Sango!” Miroku shouted as he rushed into the room. He went to throw himself at her feet to make sure she was okay.
And he would have too, if it weren’t for the woman who instantly attached herself to his arm, holding him back. “Miroku! I’ve missed you so much!”
Miroku irritating tried to pry the petite girl off him to check on his good friend, but she refused to budge.
“When shall the wedding be?” she chirped lovingly up at him.
Miroku stiffened and all of the members of the room turned to stare at him (Inuyasha, Kohaku, Kagome, and Sango). “What wedding?” he asked nervously staring down into her hazel eyes.
“The wedding I was promised!” she answered, oblivious to his questionable gaze. “Oh, Miroku! Don’t tell me you were silly enough to forget our wedding? It’s been set up since I was eleven and you were fifteen!”
Understanding brightened his violet eyes. “Koharu Furuto?”
“Of course!” Koharu answered, surprised.
Sango paled again. She hadn’t believed it to be true. “Out!” she roared to Miroku and his fiancée. “I can’t believe you would never tell me –us- that you were engaged. Your own best friends!” she screamed, tears just starting to shine in her eyes.
Miroku opened his mouth to explain, ask forgiveness, anything to make Sango feel better but she pointed to the door and clamped her jaw shut. With one last glance at the glare of hatred Sango was giving him, Miroku weakly walked out the door, Koharu still hanging off his arm.
Kagome glanced at the two males left in the room and then at the young woman looking like she’d start sobbing any moment. “Out,” she ordered quietly to Kohaku and Inuyasha. “Sango isn’t in a very man-friendly mood right now. I suggest you leave now and allow me and her some girl bonding time.”
They mutely nodded and left to go back to Inuyasha’s.
“Hey Sango,” Kagome cooed as she sat next to her friend and drew soft soothing circles on the older girl’s back. “Let’s go and I know exactly what we can do.”
Sango looked at her with hurt filled eyes and Kagome immediately winced. For once, she wasn’t happy to be right. Looks like Sango did feel for Miroku a little more than she let on, but that was what was hurting her at the moment.
Kagome put on a cheerful smile and grabbed Sango’s hand to drag her out the door.
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“Oh, Kagome! Thank you! How’d you know?” Sango gasped. Her magenta eyes now filled with pure happiness, the sadness completely dispersed.
“Woman’s intuition?” Kagome offered as she finished paying, with her own money, for the ball of fur now nestled in Sango’s arms.
“I don’t know what to name her!” Sango suddenly exclaimed about the white cat with black markings in her embrace.
Kagome started to name off suggestions. “Joo (queen), Ojo (princess), or Tora (tiger)?”
Sango shook her head and led them to the ice cream cart parked in the middle of the mall and then bought them each an ice cream, even a vanilla for the cat. Sitting down, she joined with the guessing, “Raion (lion) or Ashi (paw)?”
“Jaga (jaguar)?” Kagome asked.
“Hyo (leopard)?”
“How about one that goes with your name? You know, a sea one, for coral?” Kagome asked.
“Like what?”
“-Er- how about Hitode (starfish) or Kai (seashell)?”
Sango shook her head. “I don’t know. I think I want just a name, nothing that means anything.”
The two girls sat quietly as they thought deeply, and were watched carefully by the smart, red gaze of the neko before them.
“Kasumi?” Sango tried one for the sixth time. Finally one just seemed to fit perfectly, “Kirara!”
Kagome looked doubtful for a moment before realizing it worked for the furry feline friend. “Perfect.”
Sango nodded her head resolutely. “I now have a cat!”
Kagome mirrored her nod and began to lead them out the doors so that she could drop Sango off home before returning to the Youkai’s.
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“Aimee is still sick,” Inuyasha told everyone after he got off the phone. He was talking about their elder, gray haired cook who had caught the latest wave of influenza.
Sesshoumaru shrugged, indifferent.
Souta, Shippou, and Rin stared at Kagome pleadingly but the charcoal haired female shook her head. “I am so not cooking!” she announced to their disappointed faces.
“Fine, we’ll just have to go out.” Inuyasha concluded gruffly.
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“Hey, I’m going to go to the little girls’ room,” Kagome excused herself politely, standing up from the cushion she had been sitting on.
Everyone nodded, his or her mouth too full of expensive food to answer.
Kagome smiled brightly as she wound her way around the tables, cooks, and customers. Finding the long dark hallway, she made her way to the thick oak door marked ‘ladies’.
The hallway was completely deserted and the shadows were foreboding, but in her content mood she failed to find the atmosphere threatening.
Taking her time, Kagome finished her ‘business’ and stood in front of the mirror and scrubbed her hands clean.
Stepping back, the young woman adjusted her navy blue, silk, floor-length gown and smoothed out the wrinkles of her snug, long sleeved, button up sweater. Undoing the buttons to let the top hang loosely around her dress, she smiled at the appearance.
Opening her purse, Kagome took her time reapplying pink lip-gloss and mascara. Bushing her hair and then pulling it back into the chopsticks, she seemed pleased.
Walking out of the room, Kag closed the door silently behind her and starting to walk back to her table.
Stepping smoothly from the shadows, a young man walked behind the startled female and wrapped his arms gently around her narrow waist.
“Hello Kagome,” Naraku breathed into her ear.
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Inuyasha frowned as the waitress took away their empty bowls. Except for Kagome’s, which was still steaming and full.
“What is it with females and taking their precious time?” he ground out.
Sesshoumaru shrugged and gently scolded his adopted daughter so she’d stop blowing bubbles in her milk.
Inuyasha sighed and stood up, “I’ll go find her.”
Walking back to the East Side of the restaurant, Inu rounded the corner.
He paused in shock at the sight in front of him.
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Kagome stiffened at his touch. “Naraku?” she ground out breathlessly, knowing the answer.
“Yes, my sweet Kag, it’s me.”
“W-what are y-you d-d-doing here?” Kagome tried, and failed, to keep her quiet voice steady.
“To get back what’s mine,” he whispered as he stroked a finger up and down her side.
Kagome suddenly had the unbearable urge to whip around and slap him for assuming he owned her like a possession.
It surprised her.
It scared her.
She had never before wanted to hurt the young male standing behind her. Not once had she felt like hitting him just like he hit her. ‘I deserve it, he doesn’t!’ she whispered fervently in her mind.
But she was starting to realize that maybe, just maybe, she didn’t deserve to be hurt by the man she loved.
She discarded the thought quickly. That was the way it always was, always would be. It wasn’t for her to change the rules.
Naraku kept his constant stroking and then started to gently kiss her cheek and nuzzle her neck. “Come on Kag, let’s go back home.” He pleaded darkly as he began to nibble her ear.
The affection, she realized, no longer pleased her.
It was freaking her out, now.
It was disgusting her. His touch on her skin sickened her.
But Kagome couldn’t move; she couldn’t step away and run to someone who would help her. She couldn’t run to Inuyasha.
“Kagome?” Naraku questioned as he held her cold, stiff body closer to his chest.
But Kagome said nothing, lost in her thoughts of running to Inuyasha, to safety.
Then she saw him, Inuyasha turned into the hall and stopped to stare at her.
She saw his mouth open slightly and his hands close into fists.
He saw her pale skin and wide eyes. Fear filled eyes.
And anger overtook him.
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A/N: I know this is a much shorter chapter than they have been for the longest time, but I needed to end it here or I’d make this chapter too longer and the next one extremely short.
Would it disgust you to have Naraku hanging all over you? ::shivers:: It would to me.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Nor do I own an Akita, but my dad’s girlfriend’s mother has had four. I love them so much!
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Dashed Hopes
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--- Last Chapter ---
Sango tried to gulp in air as she heard the statement. But soon, everything went black.
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Chapter 10: Akitas and Fiancées
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Kagome clapped her hands together in front of her as she stared at the breathtakingly beautiful beast in front of her.
“She’s gorgeous. No! That’s an understatement. She’s a goddess!” Kagome gasped.
Inuyasha looked worriedly between the young woman and his dog.
Yes, all this commotion over his dog.
Sesshoumaru stalked out of the office and watched the scene too. Souta stood shaking his head and Shippou blushed at his mother’s actions.
It was a dog!
Rin watched curiously as her new friend, that she had dubbed ‘Aunty Kag’, stared in awe at the family dog. “Does Aunt Kag like Miko?”
“Yes, Rin. Very much so.” Kagome breathed, “I’ve always wanted an Akita.” Then to the younger boys’ dismay, she launched into a long detailed report on Akitas. “They were originally from Japan, but in the early 1900’s Helen Keller was given one to bring back with her to America. Before that, only emperors were allowed these gorgeous animals and used them to fight bears. This one is a snow-white female the size of a male!”
Kagome’s eyes glazed over as she watched the beast sit and cock her head in Kag’s direction to study the new addition to the small family. Golden eyes that matched Sesshoumaru’s, only with emotion, sparkled with intelligence. Long fur streamed all over the dog’s body, soft as a cloud.
Kagome’s eyes went back to normal as she turned to Inuyasha. “Miko? Odd name for a dog that is owned by two men with the last name ‘Youkai’, don’t you think?”
Inuyasha blushed. “We let Rin pick out the name.”
Kag laughed. Turning to Rin, she praised the girl. “Good! I love it!”
Kagome wanted so much to walk up and start stroking the massive being. But an Akita was raised to guard only those she grew up with since puppy-hood. Miko was trained to attack anyone who meant harm to Rin, Inuyasha, or Sesshoumaru. She shouldn’t feel the need to protect new additions, which was abnormal for a dog of her kind.
Sesshoumaru nodded the young woman forward. “Miko is a rather accepting animal. If she approves you, you’ll officially be apart of the--- household.” He stumbled over having to say so many words.
Kagome nodded and cautiously stepped slowly toward Miko, extending her hand slowly out in front of her. Miko sniffed slightly at her hand before rubbing her head against Kagome, almost in a cat-like fashion. Kagome breathed a sigh of relief.
“And the boys?”
Inuyasha shook his head. “Miko loves children. She’ll protect any child no matter what.” Inu then watched as the puppy that he had talked his brother into buying for Rin attached herself to Kagome’s side.
Guess Miko has a new best friend.
He didn’t mind. Kagome needed as much protection as possible. He had been glad to notice that Kagome had slowly become a bit less jumpy and less likely to go into mood swings.
The longer she stayed away from Naraku, the more she seemed to stay cheerful. Inuyasha had the sneaking suspicion that this was her natural personality: happy but protective with those near to her. Stubborn and less likely to do as she was told. Intelligent, but a bit ignorant.
Kagome suggested to the kids that they go out to look at the garden and they agreed immediately. They walked off with Miko prancing next to her.
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“Sango, are you sure you are feeling all right?” Kagome asked again to the young woman sitting on the edge of the hospital bed.
“Yeah, I’m fine. It just surprised me a little to meet Miroku’s fiancée.” Sango smiled weakly.
Kagome scrunched her eyebrows together in concern. It looked like Sango had been dragged by wild horses through a briar patch.
The young brunette from the Sakura Hide-Away had immediately rushed Sango to the hospital once the blackness had overwhelmed her.
Inuyasha stood beside his life long friend and watched her worriedly. Kohaku sat pale in a chair nearby.
Kagome watched them all quickly. She had known Sango the least and thought she should leave the rest to spend some time with the woman.
“I’m going to go get some coffee,” Kag excused herself to leave the room. The others didn’t seem to notice her disappearance.
Carefully, Kag made her way through the crowded halls and searched for a specific room on the floor above.
“Kouga!” Kagome called as she stepped into the bright room.
To the young man inside though, it seemed like the room brightened all the more. “Kag!”
Kagome knelt beside her old friend and gave him a reassuring smile. “Good to see you! You look a lot better!”
Kouga smiled softly. “Of course I do. Nothing could keep me down for too long.”
Kagome smiled.
“Have you seen him again?” Kouga asked, suddenly very serious.
Kagome returned the expression. “No. Yesterday Souta, Shippou, and I moved into a new friend’s house. We should be safe there for a while. Security is pretty tight and I doubt Naraku knows much about my new life.”
Kouga nodded and opened his mouth to say something, but Inuyasha suddenly burst into the room.
“Kagome! You scared the shit out of Sango when you disappeared from her room!” He growled.
Kouga scowled at this man’s interference. Before he could tell the ebony haired man off, however, he felt Kagome squeeze his hand a little tighter.
“Tell Sango I’m sorry. I told everyone I was leaving but no one must have heard me,” Kagome explained softly.
Inuyasha scowled. The only reason he had been able to find her was because of the nurse outside had recognized Kagome from her visit before.
Kagome went back to her conversation with Kouga, ignoring Inuyasha’s presence in the room.
“Lets go, Kagome!” Inuyasha ground out. He didn’t trust this ‘Kouga’. Especially when he was back in Tokyo instead of Kyoto where he should be helping Kagome.
Kagome had kept Kouga’s confrontation with Naraku from everyone else, afraid they would over react.
“Shut up, mutt!” Kouga growled. “Me and Kag need to catch up. And I need to make sure she’s safe at where ever she’s staying. Naraku, that bloody bastard did this to me, and I want to make sure it doesn’t happen to Kag.”
“Mutt?!” Inuyasha growled, making the insult all that more convincing. “Kagome needs to make sure her friend is okay. Quit acting like such a wolf and taking all her time!”
Kagome rolled her eyes at the men’s fight. “Inuyasha! Leave Kouga alone! He’s hurt and I don’t need you making it any worse. Plus, Kouga’s my friend, and I need to speak with him. He went through one of Naraku’s beating just to keep me safe!”
Inuyasha blanched at Kagome’s words. “You’d rather help him, than Sango?”
“No,” Kagome answered simply. “Kouga needs me more right now, I’ll talk to Sango in a few minutes.” She turned back to the brown haired man and picked up their conversation where they’d left off, completely blocking out the fuming man behind her.
Inuyasha threw up his hands and stomped out the door. “Fine.”
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“Sango!” Miroku shouted as he rushed into the room. He went to throw himself at her feet to make sure she was okay.
And he would have too, if it weren’t for the woman who instantly attached herself to his arm, holding him back. “Miroku! I’ve missed you so much!”
Miroku irritating tried to pry the petite girl off him to check on his good friend, but she refused to budge.
“When shall the wedding be?” she chirped lovingly up at him.
Miroku stiffened and all of the members of the room turned to stare at him (Inuyasha, Kohaku, Kagome, and Sango). “What wedding?” he asked nervously staring down into her hazel eyes.
“The wedding I was promised!” she answered, oblivious to his questionable gaze. “Oh, Miroku! Don’t tell me you were silly enough to forget our wedding? It’s been set up since I was eleven and you were fifteen!”
Understanding brightened his violet eyes. “Koharu Furuto?”
“Of course!” Koharu answered, surprised.
Sango paled again. She hadn’t believed it to be true. “Out!” she roared to Miroku and his fiancée. “I can’t believe you would never tell me –us- that you were engaged. Your own best friends!” she screamed, tears just starting to shine in her eyes.
Miroku opened his mouth to explain, ask forgiveness, anything to make Sango feel better but she pointed to the door and clamped her jaw shut. With one last glance at the glare of hatred Sango was giving him, Miroku weakly walked out the door, Koharu still hanging off his arm.
Kagome glanced at the two males left in the room and then at the young woman looking like she’d start sobbing any moment. “Out,” she ordered quietly to Kohaku and Inuyasha. “Sango isn’t in a very man-friendly mood right now. I suggest you leave now and allow me and her some girl bonding time.”
They mutely nodded and left to go back to Inuyasha’s.
“Hey Sango,” Kagome cooed as she sat next to her friend and drew soft soothing circles on the older girl’s back. “Let’s go and I know exactly what we can do.”
Sango looked at her with hurt filled eyes and Kagome immediately winced. For once, she wasn’t happy to be right. Looks like Sango did feel for Miroku a little more than she let on, but that was what was hurting her at the moment.
Kagome put on a cheerful smile and grabbed Sango’s hand to drag her out the door.
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“Oh, Kagome! Thank you! How’d you know?” Sango gasped. Her magenta eyes now filled with pure happiness, the sadness completely dispersed.
“Woman’s intuition?” Kagome offered as she finished paying, with her own money, for the ball of fur now nestled in Sango’s arms.
“I don’t know what to name her!” Sango suddenly exclaimed about the white cat with black markings in her embrace.
Kagome started to name off suggestions. “Joo (queen), Ojo (princess), or Tora (tiger)?”
Sango shook her head and led them to the ice cream cart parked in the middle of the mall and then bought them each an ice cream, even a vanilla for the cat. Sitting down, she joined with the guessing, “Raion (lion) or Ashi (paw)?”
“Jaga (jaguar)?” Kagome asked.
“Hyo (leopard)?”
“How about one that goes with your name? You know, a sea one, for coral?” Kagome asked.
“Like what?”
“-Er- how about Hitode (starfish) or Kai (seashell)?”
Sango shook her head. “I don’t know. I think I want just a name, nothing that means anything.”
The two girls sat quietly as they thought deeply, and were watched carefully by the smart, red gaze of the neko before them.
“Kasumi?” Sango tried one for the sixth time. Finally one just seemed to fit perfectly, “Kirara!”
Kagome looked doubtful for a moment before realizing it worked for the furry feline friend. “Perfect.”
Sango nodded her head resolutely. “I now have a cat!”
Kagome mirrored her nod and began to lead them out the doors so that she could drop Sango off home before returning to the Youkai’s.
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“Aimee is still sick,” Inuyasha told everyone after he got off the phone. He was talking about their elder, gray haired cook who had caught the latest wave of influenza.
Sesshoumaru shrugged, indifferent.
Souta, Shippou, and Rin stared at Kagome pleadingly but the charcoal haired female shook her head. “I am so not cooking!” she announced to their disappointed faces.
“Fine, we’ll just have to go out.” Inuyasha concluded gruffly.
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“Hey, I’m going to go to the little girls’ room,” Kagome excused herself politely, standing up from the cushion she had been sitting on.
Everyone nodded, his or her mouth too full of expensive food to answer.
Kagome smiled brightly as she wound her way around the tables, cooks, and customers. Finding the long dark hallway, she made her way to the thick oak door marked ‘ladies’.
The hallway was completely deserted and the shadows were foreboding, but in her content mood she failed to find the atmosphere threatening.
Taking her time, Kagome finished her ‘business’ and stood in front of the mirror and scrubbed her hands clean.
Stepping back, the young woman adjusted her navy blue, silk, floor-length gown and smoothed out the wrinkles of her snug, long sleeved, button up sweater. Undoing the buttons to let the top hang loosely around her dress, she smiled at the appearance.
Opening her purse, Kagome took her time reapplying pink lip-gloss and mascara. Bushing her hair and then pulling it back into the chopsticks, she seemed pleased.
Walking out of the room, Kag closed the door silently behind her and starting to walk back to her table.
Stepping smoothly from the shadows, a young man walked behind the startled female and wrapped his arms gently around her narrow waist.
“Hello Kagome,” Naraku breathed into her ear.
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Inuyasha frowned as the waitress took away their empty bowls. Except for Kagome’s, which was still steaming and full.
“What is it with females and taking their precious time?” he ground out.
Sesshoumaru shrugged and gently scolded his adopted daughter so she’d stop blowing bubbles in her milk.
Inuyasha sighed and stood up, “I’ll go find her.”
Walking back to the East Side of the restaurant, Inu rounded the corner.
He paused in shock at the sight in front of him.
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Kagome stiffened at his touch. “Naraku?” she ground out breathlessly, knowing the answer.
“Yes, my sweet Kag, it’s me.”
“W-what are y-you d-d-doing here?” Kagome tried, and failed, to keep her quiet voice steady.
“To get back what’s mine,” he whispered as he stroked a finger up and down her side.
Kagome suddenly had the unbearable urge to whip around and slap him for assuming he owned her like a possession.
It surprised her.
It scared her.
She had never before wanted to hurt the young male standing behind her. Not once had she felt like hitting him just like he hit her. ‘I deserve it, he doesn’t!’ she whispered fervently in her mind.
But she was starting to realize that maybe, just maybe, she didn’t deserve to be hurt by the man she loved.
She discarded the thought quickly. That was the way it always was, always would be. It wasn’t for her to change the rules.
Naraku kept his constant stroking and then started to gently kiss her cheek and nuzzle her neck. “Come on Kag, let’s go back home.” He pleaded darkly as he began to nibble her ear.
The affection, she realized, no longer pleased her.
It was freaking her out, now.
It was disgusting her. His touch on her skin sickened her.
But Kagome couldn’t move; she couldn’t step away and run to someone who would help her. She couldn’t run to Inuyasha.
“Kagome?” Naraku questioned as he held her cold, stiff body closer to his chest.
But Kagome said nothing, lost in her thoughts of running to Inuyasha, to safety.
Then she saw him, Inuyasha turned into the hall and stopped to stare at her.
She saw his mouth open slightly and his hands close into fists.
He saw her pale skin and wide eyes. Fear filled eyes.
And anger overtook him.
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A/N: I know this is a much shorter chapter than they have been for the longest time, but I needed to end it here or I’d make this chapter too longer and the next one extremely short.
Would it disgust you to have Naraku hanging all over you? ::shivers:: It would to me.