InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Freedom of Choice ❯ Reflections ( Chapter 3 )

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Disclaimer: Sadly to say I do not own Inuyasha, but I would like to; maybe someday in the near future………yea right like that would ever happen! @_@

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Chapter 3: Reflections

Kagome sat by a patch of herbs picking the ones that were needed and putting them in a basket beside her. She had felt her friends arriving the village, but thought that she would finish here before going to see them, though she knew Inuyasha would find her sooner than the others.

Just then, she felt the familiar presence of Inuyasha and she knew he would find her soon. She felt a whoosh of air before something red settled right beside her in a crouching position like a dog. She turned towards the dog demon with a smile on her face.

"Hey Inuyasha!" She said, but was met with silence. Kagome looked at him while he stared back at her with a serious look on his face. Her smile faltered a bit.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"What are you talking about?"

"What I'm talking about is that you're here early!"

"Ya, I finished and I was going to stay the extra week with my family, but decided to come here instead."

"Oh, so nothing's wrong."

"Nope, nothing is wrong. I would tell you if something is wrong Inuyasha, but thank-you for the concern."

"Feh," Inuyasha said settling down beside her with his head turned away from her, but secretly watched her from the corner of his eyes.

This comfortable silence lasted for some time before Kagome decided to break it.

"You know, I finished school now."

"Ya, so how did those exams go?"

"They went well, I passed!"

"Well, um………that's good. Must have been easy then."

`That's gotta be Inuyasha's way of congratulations.'

"Well, thanks Inuyasha."

Inuyasha shook his head at Kagome's comment.

`How did she know I meant to congratulate her?'

"Feh, now you don't have to go to that stupid school for two months."

"Well………um………Inuyasha?"

"Oh no, don't tell me you have to go, Kagome!" Inuyasha whined.

"No, I don't have to go to school."

"Then what?"

"I finished high school completely. I graduated from it."

"Grad-u-ated?"

"That means I passed all the school subjects, so I'm done!"

"Wait, does that mean you don't have to go to school anymore and now could stay here without going back to your time?" Inuyasha said, perking up at the idea of staying with Kagome. He suddenly felt happy to know that Kagome would be staying with him.

"No, after high school, you go to college or university." Inuyasha's ears drooped at this answer.

"So you're going to this coll-ege thing." He said sadly, keeping the bitterness and hurt from his voice.

"No, I decided not to because I can't keep missing so many college classes since it's harder and I'll really fail." Inuyasha was surprised at this answer since he remembered Kagome telling him education was very important in her time, because it got you a job.

"But don't you need to go to college?'

"Ya, I'll go back later. It doesn't matter how old you are, you can go whenever you want to. I'll go when Naruku's dead. We can't let him keep getting the shards or he'll get stronger."

"Oh, I see. So, you're gonna stay here from now on."

"Inuyasha, if I did that I would miss my family a lot and we'll run out of ramen."

"Dammit! Fine, we'll go back to your time, but not so often as before since you don't have any school anymore."

"Sure, Inuyasha." She smiled at him as she finished picking her herbs.

`Kami she's beautiful.' Inuyasha thought as he stared at the young miko he had fallen in love with. The sunlight glistened off her ebony hair giving it a bluish tint that matched her eyes.

All Inuyasha wanted to do was take her in his arms and tell her how he felt about her, but he couldn't. He was too nervous and afraid that she would reject him. So, he kept quiet and admired her from where he was.

Kagome's voice brought Inuyasha out of his thoughts and he focused on the girl beside him.

"Remember when I first met you?"

"When you fell by the God tree because Mistress Centipede was chasing you?"

"No, actually I met you before that………"

"Huh? When?"

"I have a confession to make. After I climbed out of the well, I walked into the forest and there I saw you stuck to the God Tree."

"Oh, let me guess, the villagers came and attacked you. That's so like them."

"INUYASHA!!! They were just protecting their village."

"Feh."

"Well, before they came I walked up to you and saw your dog ears and………promise you won't laugh?"

"WHAT? Fine fine."

"Ok, well, when I saw your dog ears I had an urge to touch them, so I climbed to where you were stuck and startedtorubyourears!" Kagome finished quickly, shutting her eyes and mentally trying to get rid of the blush that had crept onto her face.

Inuyasha however, with his super hearing, heard every single word Kagome spoke. His face flushed at the thought of Kagome touching his ears. With that thought, his ears started twitching, wanting her to touch them.

Kagome, waiting for Inuyasha to say something, thought his silence meant that he thought she was crazy. However, she was surprised at his response.

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why did you want to touch them?"

"Because they looked fuzzy and cute and I wanted to pat them."

Inuyasha almost chocked at her answer.

`She thinks my ears are CUTE! I thought she would find them repulsive, they mark me as a hanyou, but she doesn't care that I'm a hanyou. That's probably what I love most about her, she accepts me as a hanyou and doesn't care that I am one. I don't know why though, hell she isn't even afraid of me in my youkai form. She always gets me back to my own self. My own self………is it my hanyou form? Do I still want be a full demon? No, I'm strong without becoming one, I don't have a reason to become one anymore. Well that's final, I'm not gonna use the Shikon no Tama to become a full demon.'

Inuyasha was yet again snapped out of his thoughts by Kagome's voice.

"I know it was stupid of me to pat your ears, because you probably hate it when people do that and now………" Kagome stopped her nervous rambling when a pair of cute, fuzzy ears popped in front of her.

"Eh?" was her smart remark to the situation.

"I know you want to pat them, so go ahead." Inuyasha said in gruff voice, masking his nervousness if she neglected to touch his ears.

"Really?"

"Really."

She gave a squeal and started rubbing his ears. They twitched in response. She kept rubbing until she heard a deep rumble from Inuyasha.

"Kami that feels so good." He thought as he unconsciously started to purr.

"Inuyasha are you purring?" Kagome whispered.

"No………" He mumbled out as he placed his head down on Kagome's lap.

`OMG, he has his head in my lap! Does he know what he's doing? Probably not. He's in love with Kikyou stupid. Oh well, just enjoy it while you can.'

They stayed like that for a couple of minutes until they could hear Rin's voice calling them for lunch.

Inuyasha quickly got up and started walking towards the hut, but Kagome saw the blush that had formed on his cheeks.

`Maybe he did realized what he was doing.' Kagome thought.

"Come on." He said before walking away.

Kagome picked up the basket of herbs and ran to catch up to him while secretly reminding herself not to talk about the patting of the ears because he probably would get mad at her and wouldn't let her do it again.

`Maybe he might let me pet his ears again if I don't talk about it. He did seem to be enjoying himself.' She thought as she caught up to him.

They walked side by side in silence towards Kaede's hut where their friends would be waiting for them.

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