InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Duty Calls ❯ Fireworks ( Chapter 5 )

Duty Calls
Chapter Five
Fireworks

Disclaimer: You've read these things a million times now, you should know what they say. But for the ones slow on the uptake(like me :D), I don't own InuYasha.

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Kagome sighed. She was sitting outside of the Kaede's hut, staring up at the star strewn sky. Kagome was the only one up, everyone else resting peacefully inside.

It'd been almost a week since the "moment" in the Goshinboku. She sighed yet again. It seemed as if she sighed every few minutes nowadays, she must have set some sort of record by now.

In the past week, InuYasha had been more closed off towards her. He wasn't completely rude with her, but he seemed a little more gruff than usually. She could sense turmoil coming from him, and it caused conflicting emotions with in her as well. She wanted to be, and should be, angry with him. She slightly was, but at the same time, she understood, somewhat, his feelings. She had never expected them to become even slightly closer than just friends, nor had she ever expected him to forget Kikyo, she still didn't expect that of him.

Kikyo was his first love. It's hard to let go of any love, especially your first. Kikyo would always have a hold over InuYasha that no one else had, and that made Kagome slightly envious. Even if InuYasha cared about her, in that way, his heart would remain Kikyo's. And she would never make him chose between a friendship or his love. But she couldn't help but feel forlorn. He would go with her, to hell. He cared too much about her not to. She wanted to stop him, to give him reason to stay. But truthfully, there was none, except her own selfish desires, but she hardly counted that as reason. His happiness was more important.

She couldn't suppress the wetness that came to her eyes. Sadness was a difficult emotion to deal with, it crept up on you, at any given time. Without warning it tormented you, endlessly. Right now, it was starting it's torture, slowly and painfully. She could feel the contraction of her heart, the same feeling she got everytime he ran to Kikyo. She couldn't even imagine what it would be like when he left for good.

She was brought out of her musings by a gruff and slightly irritated voice behind her.

"Wench, the fuck are you doing?"

"Star gazing. I couldn't sleep."

"Are you trying to get yourself killed, coming out here by yourself?"

And there it was again, a sigh. An annoyed sigh. "InuYasha, I'm not even 5 feet from the hut. Can you honestly tell me that someone would have been able to attack me without you hearing or smelling it?"

"Keh!"

She grinned. She won the argument. InuYasha lost. And that was saying something. InuYasha… losing? He never lost. When and if he did, he always fought it, or sought revenge. Or, in these cases, denied it.

InuYasha sat down beside her. Their bodies barely touching. Kagome was amazed, she was sure this was the closest he had been since last week. She smiled. Hopefully he was returning to his old self. She looked over to him and couldn't stop from staring.

His face was turned upwards, the moonlight illuminating his features, reflecting in the depths of his eyes. His body was relaxed, as opposed to his normal tensed state. His hair had a shine to it, seeming even more silver in the moonlight. Her gazed dropped to his lips. His mouth was relaxed, jaw slacked, instead of in a snarl, scowl or pout.

Kagome wondered, as she often did, what it would be like to kiss him. Sure, she had kissed him once before, but she doubted that counted as an actual kiss. She remembered her mother saying that, when with the right person, kissing was like fireworks. Beautiful, enjoyable, heated, thrilling.

She brought her eyes back up to his, and noticed, with a blush, he was staring at her. He had an odd gleam to his eyes, an unreadable emotion showing freely in his gaze. She kept eye contact with him, trying to read the emotion. It was someplace around love and longing. She could only say it was…care. She doubted it was love shown there.

That's when she noticed something else, somehow, they had become closer. They were now side by side, directly touching instead of a soft brush, a whisper of a touch. It sent electricity coursing through her body, igniting something in her. Their gazes were still locked, as they both leaned forward, mere inches away. The distance between them closed, as their lips brushed, shy and gentle.

It became more intense, when he added pressure, pressing his lips against hers and she tilted her head, deepening the kiss. Lights when on behind their eyes, bright and lively. A rush of emotion coursed through them, the same electricity as before, only stronger causing a thrill of excitement, adrenalin.

Fireworks.

Goshinboku: Sacred Tree

A/N: Another chapter. I was so brain dead when trying to write this chapter, but I eventually came up with this. If you already haven't, please check out my other story Kansou. Thank-you.

Naishin no Miko: Not a bad story, but it could use a little longer chapters. As for Kagome--her name is written in hiragana in the manga, and the characters translate into "basket weaver." I would know since I named my own daughter, Kagome (after this Kagome, of course, and my love for everything Japanese). There is a way to spell her name in kanji that means "divine protection," and if anything, Inuyasha might think her name is spelled with the kanji (as that was used mostly in his time to spell names, such as his own), so he might agree with the whole "divine protection" meaning. ^_^

Night: Thank you so much for telling me the translation! FINALLY someone knows what it is! Since Japanese cannot be directly translated into English, and of course the difference in kanji, I've heard many many many different meanings for her name. They were all in the general area of "bringer of light" and some other ones that come close.