InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Freedom of Choice ❯ Friendship ( Chapter 4 )

A/N: Thanx for all your support! ^_^ Here's the next chapter, still full of fluff, but the story will progress soon!

Disclaimer: (looks at Rumiko Takahashi) Do you have to ask?

Translations:

Hentai: pervert

Nani: what!

Miko: priestess

Houshi-sama: monk

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Chapter 4: Friendship

Kagome and Inuyasha stepped into the hut to come upon a familiar sight. In one corner slept Shippo oblivious to what was happening around him. In another corner, sat a fuming Sango glaring at a certain monk sitting in another corner rubbing his right cheek that had a red handprint on it.

"Ah………I missed this." Kagome said happily skipping towards Rin who was filling up bowls of ramen.

The others just looked at her like she was crazy, but Kagome just brushed them off. She picked up the bowls and started handing them to the others including Shippo who had woken up at the sound of Kagome's voice and had pounced on her before settling down with a bowl of ramen.

Lastly she took two bowls and settled beside Inuyasha, giving him one of the two bowls. He looked at her and nodded in appreciation when she gave it to him and started slurping down the noodles. Kagome started eating as well, hiding her blush with her bowl because of Inuyasha's sign of appreciation.

`What am I doing? I'm blushing like a school girl.' Kagome scolded herself mentally at her foolishness, all the while looking at Inuyasha in the corner of her eyes before turning away.

Inuyasha meanwhile was looking at Kagome in the corner of his eyes and saw the blush that formed when he had nodded at her in thanks. He mentally cheered at himself for causing that kind of reaction out of Kagome. (AN: Aaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) He also noticed that every once in awhile, Kagome would look at him in the corner of her eyes, thinking that he didn't see her. He wanted to do a jig when he noticed that and had to will himself not to smile. (AN: Inu doing a jig, hehehe)

After lunch was over and everything was cleaned up, the group of six sat in the hut to catch up on things.

"So how was those `tests' and `exams' Kagome-chan? Did you pass?" Sango asked the miko sitting next to the hanyou, who was leaning against the wall, where as she and Miroku leaned on the opposite wall with Rin. Shippo had fallen asleep in Kagome's sleeping bag that she forgot to put away that morning.

"They went well. I passed them, so I graduated." She was given a blank look from her friends.

"That means I finished school." She explained to her confused friends. They all broke out in grins at that statement.

"Well done Lady Kagome." Miroku said.

"Congratulations." Sango and Rin said to her.

"Thanks! I also got my graduation pictures done too. Want to see them?"

"Pictures. Those are portraits that you take with that little, black box, right Kagome-chan?" Sango asked.

Kagome nodded while she handed out her pictures. They all commented on how beautiful she looked except Inuyasha, who just kept quiet while looking at the pictures.

Inuyasha flipped through the pictures, which were being passed around. From time to time he would look at Kagome who sat beside him.

`She looks good in the pictures, but the real thing is better, not like I'm gonna tell anyone.' With that said he came across a picture of Kagome without the graduation robe on and was dressed in some normal clothes. It was one of the personalized pictures and it was a close-up of her with her hand under her chin with her elbow propped up against a table or something. It was the best one Inuyasha had seen of Kagome. She had that smile that she often used on Inuyasha and he had always felt like melting when he saw that smile, especially now when he saw the picture. Inuyasha glanced around the room and noticed that nobody was paying attention to him. He quickly and quietly placed the picture in his haori. After that was done and settled with, they went back to their original seating.

"So, did you find anything on that shard rumour? I don't sense any shards on you guys." Kagome asked when they were settled.

"Feh! It was just a weak demon, nothing special. All that time wasted!" Inuyasha snorted out. Miroku and Sango just shrugged their shoulders at this.

"True, I guess. We did waste that time and didn't come up with any shards in the two weeks that you were gone." Sango explained to Kagome.

Kagome smiled a knowing smile, pulling out her shards' pouch.

"Actually when I came here yesterday, I sensed a demon with two shards and took him down. So, we did actually get two shards even though I'm the one who got it." Kagome grinned out.

"NANI!" The others shouted with their jaws hanging open.

"What? You guys don't think I can take down a demon!? I can too and I proved it to you guys." Kagome fumed at her friends. The others nodded dumbly to her.

"Well, you've gone a long way with your miko powers, Lady Kagome." Miroku said while his hand inched towards a certain exterminator's butt.

SLAP!

"HOUSHI-SAMA!" Sango screamed at the unconscious perverted monk as she pummelled him.

"My dear Sango, how can I resist you and your lovely body?" Miroku grinned a perverted grin, before pummelled by a blushing Sango.

"Will he ever learn?" Sighed Rin as the others rolled their eyes at Miroku's perverted, yet predictable behaviour.

"Who knows? I think he just acts like that to cover up that he's in love with Sango." Shippo, who had woken up from the noise, said innocently.

This made Sango stop immediately and the unconscious monk to wake up, both of their faces red. They couldn't look at each other in the face and Miroku didn't even deny it.

The rest of the group consisting of Inuyasha, Kagome and Rin snickered at the red couple quietly. Shippo was just confused and didn't know what was so bad about what he said.

"What did I say?" Shippo asked the others. This halted the snickering and a long awkward silence followed the statement.

Miroku, who couldn't handle the silence and awkwardness, did the only sensible thing he could think of to get the normal atmosphere. He groped Sango.

"HENTAI!" Sango shrieked as she felt Miroku's hand on her bottom. She knocked him unconscious with a punch, resulting in the awkward atmosphere to diminish.

"You think he would learn by now." Kagome giggled at the unconscious monk lying sprawled on the floor of the hut, while Sango jabbed her fist into him repeatedly.

Kagome looked at her friends around the hut and smiled to herself. She realized that her life was blessed to find friends like them. She had never in her wildest dreams thought that she would have a friendship this tight that they would face death together and risk one another's life for each other. That was true friendship. She hoped that these days would never end. Even if the jewel was completed and Naraku was dead. She still wanted to be with her friends.

Kagome couldn't help herself and looked towards Inuyasha. He was leaning against the hut's wall, with his eyes closed, yet his ears twitched back and forth from the noise the others were emitting. Kagome faintly heard Rin asking Shippo to come with her to help Kaede in the rice fields in which he agreed, as the fighting between Sango and Miroku annoyed him. Once they left, Sango was still at it with Miroku until she gave up and stormed out of the hut leaving an unconscious, monk or so it appeared. After a few moments later, the perverted monk got up, dusted himself off and calmly walked out of the hut.

With him gone, Kagome found herself alone with the love of her life, whose ears were still twitching back and forth. She couldn't take it anymore and one of her hands reached out to rub one of his velvety, soft ears. He stiffened at first, but after Kagome's careful ministration, he slowly calmed down and leaned his head into Kagome's hand. She got bolder and started rubbing both of his ears just like she did before when she was collecting herbs. (A/N: previous chapter) That's when she heard a deep rumble coming from Inuyasha, which she heard from his chest because she was leaning towards him while rubbing his ears. The deep rumble came out of him and Kagome realized that Inuyasha was purring again! All of a sudden, Inuyasha laid done and put his head on Kagome's lap, just like he did when he was human and poisoned by a spider demon. By this time, Kagome's face was so red that it could rival a tomato, but she kept on petting his ears. She was just about to tease him about his purring when she caught the look on his face. It was the calmest, most content look she ever saw on him and didn't have the heart to disturb him. She kept looking at his face when she noticed Inuyasha sniffing at her, lightly so she wouldn't notice it and if she weren't observing him, she wouldn't have noticed it. She noted that after taking in her scent, a lazy, yet content smile appeared on Inuyasha and Kagome couldn't have been happier to see that smile because she knew she was the cause of it and that Inuyasha rarely smiled, so it was a sort of gift to her, in which she was grateful.

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Inuyasha couldn't have been happier! Kagome had started rubbing his ears, though he tensed up first, but then he had got into it. He couldn't help himself and let out a content dog growl and settled himself on Kagome's lap. He couldn't help but take in her wonderful scent. `Mmmmm………………lavender and something I love, Kagome's unique scent.' He hoped Kagome didn't notice him taking in her scent, but her scent put a familiar feeling across him. He felt peaceful and calm. Her scent always did that to him. No matter how hard Inuyasha tried to deny it, it always calmed him down. A lazy, yet content smile broke out across his face and he finally relaxes, the first time in a long time.

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The two stayed like that until they both unconsciously fell asleep. They wake up to a bunch of noise coming from outside the hut and the noise indicated that it was Sango and Miroku, the clue being the sound of a slap. The two got up from their spot facing away from each other, their faces bright red from noticing their position in how they woke up. They were in the same position, but somehow Inuyasha had turned his face and nuzzled into Kagome's stomach and had his arms around her waist too. Kagome had one of her hands cradling his head to her stomach and the other was placed on his back, since he was sleeping sideways because of his head nuzzling Kagome.

Kagome, trying to get rid of the blush, started making dinner while the others trudged into the hut, since it was past evening. Shippo told everyone when they were there that Rin had already left with Sesshomaru and would visit soon. They quickly finished dinner and settled for a quiet night and a nice, peaceful sleep.

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A/N: FLUFF ATTACK!!! @_@ That was one of my fav. Chapter, don't you agree? LOL! ^_~ Well review to let me know what you think. If you have any suggestions, feel free to add them too when you review!

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