InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Dirty Dancing ❯ Another Round ( Chapter 9 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Kagome awoke in layers. The first thing she noticed was her throbbing head. She would have to get something for that later. The next thing she noticed was that she felt heavy. She would have to sneak that blanket home if she remembered. Kagome moved to pull the blanket to her chin and froze. She patted around and noticed that her new comfortable blanket had hair and arms. Kagome screamed and started flailing her arms. Whoever had their arm around her fell off the other side of the bed with a grunt.

"Wha..what the hell?"

Kagome stopped screaming. "Yasha?"

"What the hell are you screaming for?" Yelled Inuyasha as he jumped up from the floor. He could smell Kagome's fear rolling off of her in waves and it bothered him.

"What are you doing on my bed?"

"I was...trying to keep you warm."

"What for?" Kagome clutched the sheet closer to her.

"You were sick. I was bringing you out from the woods and took you to Sango's. After we thought you were better I brought you back here."

Kagome visibly relaxed and blushed.

"Thank you."

Inuyasha stuck his nose in the air.

"Keh. You humans are so weak and pathetic."

He never saw it coming. Inuyasha flattened his ears to his head after the over-stuffed pillow made blow after vicious blow to his skull. He pounced on the bed and grabbed another pillow and started wacking Kagome with it. She screamed and tried to protect herself but it was no use. Inuyasha was a lot stronger than she was and in an instant he had stolen her pillow to use against her.

"Mercy! Mercy!"

"In this game there is no mercy.!"

Inuyasha tossed the pillows and sat on Kagome, claws at the ready. Inuyasha went for Kagome's most vulnerable ticklish spots, which happened to be her ribs and stomach. Kagome never laughed so hard in her life. Tears were streaming down her face with each poke to her ribs. Inuyasha found it amusing that between laughing and trying to control her breathing that she tried to get him to stop with mercy and please. It only added to his entertainment that he finally had the upper hand. Everything was going pretty peachy until he was attacked again. He never saw it coming either. One minute he was tickling Kagome senseless and the next he was kissing carpet. Inuyasha jumped up in lightening speed to face his attacker...a kid.

Kagome tried to stop laughing. "Inu...yasha. This is my brother, Souta."

Inuyasha stared the kid down who sought refuge behind his sister on the bed.

"What were you doing Sota?"

"I thought he was hurting you. I heard you scream too."

"We were just playing." Kagome tried to reassure her brother.

Sota nodded and hopped off the bed to move to the door.

"Oh. Mom wants you to come eat dinner with us. She says she hasn't seen you much lately."
"Ok. I'll meet you in the dining room then."

Sota smiled and let himself out.

"Would you like to join us?"

"I don't want to intrude on family time."

"Please?" Kagome stuck her bottom lip out and pouted.

Inuyasha gritted his teeth. How was he supposed to say no to the puppy dog pout? It was an evil way to get someone to give in to the desires of the person giving the look. He sighed.

"Ok ok. Stop with the pouting. I'll go."

Kagome squealed in delight and would have made it to hug Inuyasha but she had forgotten about her bruised ankle. While she was trying to get herself untangled from the mess of sheets and blankets that their rough housing had made, she had jumped off the bed with her sore ankle and yelped in pain. Kagome got ready to hit the carpet but a pair of strong arms stopped her descent.

"I said it once and I'll say it again. You're clumsy."
"My ankle is killing me."

Inuyasha gently set Kagome on the edge of the bed and inspected her foot. After a couple pokes to her ankle and a few swaps to the head from Kagome, he let her go.

"I wouldn't walk on it for a few days if I were you."

"What am I supposed to do the rest of my vacation?"

"Let's see. You can sit and watch people play in the lake, watch people play other games, read, sleep..."
"Stop."

Kagome got up with Inuyasha's shoulder as a prop and hobbled her way over to the bathroom.

"This is just great. Five days left of my vacation and I'm stuck doing nothing because I was stupid enough to run out in the rain and slipped in the mud and hurt myself. I was going to dance in the dance..." Kagome stopped and remembered what Inuyasha had said to her last night. "Nevermind."

Kagome looked into the mirror to catch a glimpse of Inuyasha still sitting on the floor at the end of the bed. His cute little ears were drooped and he had a faraway look in his eyes. It made Kagome feel bad but he was the one that had cancelled the dance with her because his ex was back at the resort. For what reason she didn't know. Kagome finished brushing her teeth and running a brush through her hair then walked stiffly back to the bed. Bottom lip tucked between her teeth, she reached out and tweaked one of Inuyasha's ears. Instead of pulling away and yelling at her like she thought he would, he simply leaned into her hand and started purring with half lidded eyes. Kagome smiled.

"What am I going to do with him?"

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"So Inuyasha, Kagome? How is it going with your dance routine?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.

Inuyasha sputtered on his food and Kagome paled.

"Well, Mrs. Higurashi..."
"We aren't dancing anymore mom." Kagome looked down at her food and picked at it with her fork.

"Why not dear? You were so excited about it." Mrs. Higurashi's worried expression was not lost on Inuyasha.

"We can't practice because Kagome hurt her ankle earlier this morning. It doesn't look like it will be healed by the time of the dance competition."

"Oh Kagome. You worked really hard too." Mrs. Higurashi patted her daughter's hand and gave her a small smile.

"Its ok mama." Kagome smiled back.

"If Kagome were to heal by that time then, if she wanted, we could practice a couple more times and then try to compete." Inuyasha said all of this while staring at Kagome.

Kagome looked back at her food.

"What am I going to do? I want to dance but I can't with my ankle and I don't want to be hurt by him again. Man. The drama of being a high school student never ends."

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Yoshiro clapped as Kikyo and Naraku finished a stunning dance routine that would surely win them the dance competition.

"You two make a great team. Competition looks fierce this season though. We have a few new couples entering."
"They shouldn't be too much of a problem." Naraku replied.

"Well, you two do your best and I will see you later tonight. I do have guests to attend to. Naraku. Kikyo."

Yoshiro excused himself from the private dance room he had reserved for his son.

"The only problem we have with winning the competition this Sunday would be Inuyasha."

"No he won't."

"What do you mean?"

"Did you see the look on his face when he discovered my return? Knowing that puppy he won't dare compete with me here unless I'm dancing with him which won't happen since I'm with you."

"Are you certain?"

"Positive."

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Inuyasha carried a worn out Kagome on his back to her cabin. Mrs. Higurashi and Sota hung back to go to the auditorium for a brief slide show about the history of the resort. Waste of time in his opinion. A brief tug on his ear brought him back to the present and the girl currently hitching a ride.

"Hm?"

"Did you mean it?" Kagome asked sleepily.

"Mean what?"

"That you would dance with me again? If I got better?"

"Yeah. I didn't mean to do that to you Kagome. Miroku got me thinking though and I learned that I need to let the past die and move on. I guess I wasn't really in love with Kikyo. More like infatuated with her since she was the only one that I ever considered a friend that wasn't a guy."

"I see."

Kagome was momentarily distracted when Inuyasha rubbed his hands across that backs of her knees.

"Are you sure you want to dance still? With Kikyo in the competition?"

"I guess so. I like dancing. Pretty much the only thing I know how to do and have fun with. It would be kinda interesting to compete with someone that danced with me previously."

Inuyasha got a cocky grin on his face and turned his face towards Kagome's.

"Are you up for the challenge?"

"Of course. What kinda girl do you take me for?"

Inuyasha laughed and monuvuered his way into Kagome's room.

"Well, here you are Princess."

"Question, Inuyasha."

"Yeah?"

"Aren't you supposed to be teaching that woman how to dance in less than five minutes?"

"Oh Shit! I completely forgot about her. I gotta go."

Inuyasha planted a quick kiss on Kagome's cheek after he placed her on the bed.

"See ya bright and early tomorrow Kagome!"