InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ First Class Dog ❯ Escaping Ikume ( Chapter 3 )

Author's Notes (July 16, 2010): Updated with spelling/grammar fixes.

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InuYasha was close to going crazy. He could smell food, and Kagome would not let him plow through all the people in front of him to get to it! He thought it wasn't fair. All those humans could get to the food before he did! Even half demons eat more than humans do it should be his right to get food ahead of the rest of them. InuYasha noted that the people at the front of the crowd were waiting. After a while a man in what Kagome called a “suit” would seat a couple at a table, soon it was their turn to go.

“Smoking or Non?”

The half demon had to wonder if they set people on fire. But he reasoned that things were different in Kagome's world so perhaps it meant something else. He also told himself that if anyone tried to do that to him or Kagome that he would shred that person in a second.

"Non." She said.

The second the two had been seated and provided menus a high-pitched squeal rang out from the other side of the room. Even under the hat InuYasha pinned his ears down to his skull. Both he and Kagome recognized from whom the voice had come.

“Oh InuYasha-chan!”

InuYasha tried to hide his head behind the menu, across from him; Kagome was slouching and hiding behind her menu. Neither wanted the noisy blonde's attention, nor did they want to bring attention to themselves. Ikume waved her hand frantically at them, almost begging them to come over to their table. Kagome had to kick Inu Yasha from growling back at Ikume. The cranky half demon glared at the super-spastic blonde. From across the room Shiro gave an embarrassed shrug and waved his companion to settle down. Ikume pouted at Shiro but complied and sat back down.

Both Kagome and Inu Yasha gave a short relieved sigh and rubbed their ears a little to clear out the ringing sounds in them. The miko blushed as the entire restaurant stared either at them or Ikume and Shiro, just as she thought her embarrassment could never end the eyes turned back to their food and there was no further problems for the rest of dinner.

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However, after dinner was an entirely different story. Ikume and Shiro met up with InuYasha and Kagome just as they were about to enter their room. InuYasha had just started to feel like they were home free when he heard Ikume's high squeaky voice.

“Oh Inu-chan! There you are lovey!”

His ears immediately flattened under the baseball cap and muttered, “Oh god's kill me now.” under his breath. Out of the corner of his eye he could see Kagome pinch the spot high up on the bridge of her nose. She had told him once that she did it when she was close to getting a headache. Only now did he understand why. He could feel the pressure build just behind his forehead as his unwilling ears picked up Ikume's irritating voice.

“Kagome, unlock the door. Quickly, before she gets here. Please! Hurry!”

InuYasha's urgent whisper surprised her and she almost dropped they keycard to the door. InuYasha? Begging?

“Come on! Hurry! She's coming!”

He almost whimpered. If he had to listen to that crazy girl all night his ears would fall off! Kagome fumbled with the card for a moment, swiped it wrong the first time, and then a second time, finally, just as Ikume was getting close to them she managed to swipe it right and open the door. In his rush to get inside InuYasha forgot that Kagome was standing in front of the door and tripped over her, sending them both tumbling into their room. The youkai shifted over Kagome and managed to kick the door closed just as Ikume stepped up to it.

InuYasha grinned in triumph when he heard the door thud into something that was most likely her face. His happy grin quickly changed to a look of shock when he realized he hadn't landed on the floor.

“Get… off… me.” Kagome groaned beneath him.

The half demon scrambled to get off of Kagome, but in his shock and haste he stood too soon, and got his feet tangled in her legs. The unfortunate dog-demon yelped as he crashed to the floor a second time. Fortunately, he didn't land directly on Kagome the second time. She might have sat him if he had. Kagome lifted herself from the mess of tangled limbs and pressed a hand to his chest so that he couldn't sit back up. Her voice held that scary wavering tone to it that threatened to break into an all out scream if he didn't behave himself.

“If you hadn't pushed me for a good reason I would have said the s-word by now. I hope you know that. But I'm glad you warned me.”

Kagome shuddered. She really didn't like Ikume at all. The miko couldn't place what exactly turned her off to the girl's charms but something just didn't feel right with her. It made Kagome feel apprehensive… InuYasha interrupted her thoughts gruffly. He truly didn't want to anger her but he wanted to at least find something soft to land on if she did sit him.

“Can I get up now?”

He curled his clawed fingers around her wrist to move it away from his chest. Kagome looked down at that moment. There was a long silence, then something clicked in Kagome's head and she blushed, yanking her hand away from his grasp quickly.

“Er… Uhm… There you go.” She muttered quickly and stood, walked over to one of the window seats in the room, and sat down. Her small hands moved to her burning cheeks, hoping to rub some of the red out of them.

InuYasha could never understand girls. One second they were raging the next they were embarrassed. Perhaps it was the reason why he had so many problems in the present with women. First (and still) Kikyou, and now Kagome. He stood and watched her rub her cheeks, then yawn. Golden eyes turned to the window, checking the time by the height of the moon. It was late, possibly 11:00 or so.

Kagome's head drooped and clunked against the window. She twitched but didn't move after that. All he could think about was how in a matter of minutes she'd managed to get angry, embarrassed, and fall asleep all at once. He smiled. That was the way Kagome was, so full of energy and life. Kikyou had never been energetic like that. Sure, she hadn't been so much of a hassle when she was mad but now, Kikyou was an angry walking corpse. That was worse.

Kagome had begun to slide down and InuYasha rushed to catch her before she hit the floor. She made a noise when she plopped into his arms and he rolled his golden eyes. She would have died long before if he hadn't been around. That was for sure. Kikyou would have been able to save herself. He admitted, though, that he liked being in charge (even though that was only when he was fighting and sometimes not even then). The dog demon grunted and set Kagome on the bed, then sat in a nearby chair and settled down.

Having nothing better to do he just watched the sleeping girl. He could smell her scent from there. It was a nice scent, though he only told her that once. It made him drowsy and peaceful and before hanyou had known what hit him he was asleep. The silent train full of sleeping occupants rolled on.