InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Friends and Lovers ❯ I think He Likes you ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer- I don't own Inuyasha & Co. I thank Rumiko Takashi for the use of her characters.

Chapter 2- I think he likes you

They chatted on the way to the club. Inuyasha kept watching Gia from the corner of his eye. He couldn't seem to get enough of looking at her, or listening to her. The thought of the two of them alone together made him grow hard. "How am I going to explain to Kagome that I want to be with her friend?", he thought. Then Kagome caught his eye and winked. She knew and she seemed ok with it! He gave her a big grin.

Sesshomaru saw the exchange between Inuyasha and Kagome. He was surprised that Kagome wasn't angry at the hanyou for being attracted to her friend. He had always thought they would mate after Naraku was dead, but Kagome went home, and Inuyasha bugged him for the next 500 years.

When they met up a few years ago, they never mentioned mating. "This Sesshomaru will find out what has happened between them. I distanced myself from Kagome, because of Inuyasha, now I am unsure of their relationship. If Inuyasha is unwilling to mate Kagome, then I will have her.", he thought to himself.

Gia startled him from his reverie by saying, "Just remember, ignore all the names these assholes are going to call me. I am the HATED one. You would think they would be nicer, but they don't think I can stop them from going in."

"Why do they hate you?", Sesshomaru asked.

She gave him an evil grin and said, "I'm head of security. I deal with these idiots after they have gotten drunk and stupid."

"YOU, head of security? Now that's funny.", Inuyasha laughed.

"You think?", Gia asked, dead serious. "Bet you fifty dollars, I can kick your ass."

"Yeah, right.", he snorted.

Kagome looked at Inuyasha, "If she can't kick your ass, she'll give you a work out. Don't forget, I know you both well enough to be a judge of each of your abilities."

Inuyasha looked at Gia, "You're on. How about tomorrow?"

Gia gave him an almost feral grin, "About four o'clock ok with you? I have to work in the morning."

"This Sesshomaru doesn't understand. I thought you worked at a club, they are only open at night. If you work two jobs, why do you still live is such a dangerous neighborhood?", he asked.

Gia crossed her arms in front of her. "Kagome, did you tell them anything about me?", she asked. At her negative response. She continued, "This security job isn't permanent. I'll keep it until I graduate. Right now, it is my main source of income. My other job doesn't pay well. I'm an intern at General Hospital, where I'm training to become a doctor. So with both jobs, I can afford that small house, without having a room mate. I like living alone, I don't have to deal with strange men in my room. I had that too much when I lived in the dorms. Kagome knows the shit those dorm rats put me through. So there you have it. It was either stupid dorm rats or dangerous neighborhood, and as you can see the hood won."

Inuyasha felt his anger building when Gia talked about men coming into her room. He didn't like it one bit. His strong reaction to what she said confused him. Kagome was the only one who ever invoked such reactions in him. His youkai spoke up, "It's because we want her to be ours, and no one else's. I'm choosing her to be our mate."

Kagome was enjoying watching the emotions playing across Inuyasha's face. Gia was getting to him already, and she was glad. After all that he had been through, he deserved someone who would love him unconditionally. Her only problem now was Gia, how did she feel about him? Kagome had noticed the little glances Gia had been giving Inuyasha. But those could mean different things, she decided to get Gia alone and ask.

They pulled up in front of the club, and the screaming began when Gia got out. "Look the bitch is here. OOOOOOOOO, Rich bitch rides in limos now? ", she ignored the comments coming from the line waiting to get in the door. Until they heard, "Look the queen brought her pretty boys tonight. Going to fuck them later, honey?"

Gia walked up to the man, who was smaller than her, picked him up and threw him out of line. "YOU are permanently banned from the premises. I've warned you before about your attitude, and you chose to ignore me. So, you lose.", she ground out. She turned to her companions and said, "Please ignore him. He suffers from little man syndrome."

Sesshomaru looked at Gia, "What is little man syndrome?"

Gia laughed, "It happens when guys are small in stature. Their egos grow big to make up for the outside, and they try to push everyone around. Especially women."

Sesshomaru laughed, "Why haven't I met any of these men before?"

"Your size, and the power you exude is enough to scare the little shits off. They wouldn't push you at all.", she said., "Come on, let's go in." She walked through the VIP entrance and into the club, her companions right behind her.

The noise was deafening. Gia walked up to a man, and he pointed up to the balcony. She came back over to the group and crooked her finger for them to follow. They went upstairs and into a little room that was made of glass. The furnishing were modern in design black leather, chrome, and glass. Kagome moved to sit down on the couch, and Gia stopped her.

"Wait, Kagome, You don't know who or what was done in here last.", she said. Walking to a small closet, she pulled out some sheets and covered the furniture. "I could tell you some real horror stories about these rooms. Joe has all these "stars" coming here and they think they have a license to be crude.", she said.

A waitress came and took their drink orders, and Gia excused herself, saying she had something to do.

A few moments later, a thud and a feminine scream was heard coming from the room next door. Inuyasha looked at Kagome and she mouthed, "Go." He was up and out the room in a flash, looking for Gia.

Sesshomaru looked at Kagome and said, "You realize that he wants her."

Kagome laughed, "Yes, I do. Why do you think I wanted them to meet? Sesshomaru-sama, Inuyasha and I are friends. Nothing more. Inuyasha sees two people when he looks at me, Kagome and Kikyo, and that will never change. As for me, my feelings for Inuyasha are more like brother/sister, and I just want him to be happy."

Sesshomaru's heart leapt at her comment. "She doesn't want him?", he thought. He looked at her, "What about you? You have no one you are seeing?'

Kagome smiled at him, "Men today are just not the men of the feudal era. They are too soft, and whine way too much. Truthfully, they make me want to scream." She would never admit to the demon lord in front of her, he was the reason that she dated no one. When she met a man, automatically they were measured against him, and always came up lacking.

Sesshomaru smiled to himself. "I wish I had known all this a while ago. I will make up for time lost.", he thought.

Suddenly a woman's voice was heard screaming, "Hanyou, hanyou! Help, he's going to eat me."

Kagome and Sesshomaru raced to the room that the screams came from. Inuyasha was standing in the doorway. A young Japanese girl was staring at him and screaming to the top of her lungs. "Girl, shut the fuck up!", Gia yelled.

Gia was standing across the room, holding a rather large black man against a wall. "Stay there", she said. She walked to the girl and bitch slapped her. "Now, I told you to shut up. Didn't I?", she demanded. The girl nodded and stopped screaming. She turned and walked to the table, where a well known rapper was seated. "I'm telling you to behave tonight, no shit. I also, want this girl's photo id right now. If she's twenty-one, I'm the Queen of England.", Gia's tone brooked no argument.

The man laughed, "You'll just have to trust my word that she's of age. She forgot her bag at my apartment."

Gia snorted, "No, I don't. She walked over and grabbed the girl by the arm. Come on honey, your too young to be here."

He jumped up, "That's my pussy, bitch. You'll leave her where she stands."

Gia directed the girl to Kagome and walked over to the man. Suddenly, she jumped up and gave him a spinning kick to the face. "I told you before, BOY, not to speak to me like that again. Kagome please escort the young lady to our table, until I can contact her parents."

"As for you, I want no more of your stupid shit. You know I will hurt you, and that I can hurt you in more ways than one. So keep playing, you'll find yourself on the outside looking in.", she spat at him, turned on her heel and left.

Gia stopped outside the door of the VIP room. "You can go in. I just need to calm myself before I speak with this girl.", Gia explained to Sesshomaru and Inuyasha. Sesshomaru nodded and went in, but Inuyasha stayed with Gia. He felt he needed to stay with Gia, in case anyone attacked her.

Suddenly, Gia looked at Inuyasha, "What's a hanyou?"

Inuyasha blushed red, and said, "It's a long story."

She looked at him, "Then tell me later, OK?" He nodded. Suddenly, he reached out and stroked her cheek, causing Gia to blush. She gave him a brilliant smile and went in to the room.

As soon as she entered the room, she went to the girl. She looked terrified, and it got worse when Inuyasha came in. She kept mumbling something about youkai and hanyou. Gia gained the girl's attention, "How old are you , honey? Don't lie to me. I'm trying to help you. I'll keep you out of trouble with the law, but, you can't lie to me. No one here is going to hurt you, I swear"

The young girl looked at Gia. "I'm sixteen, Ma'am"

Gia sucked in her breath. "I want to tell you something. Please, listen to me about this. That man doesn't want you, he probably doesn't even know your name. He only wants one thing from you. Then it's see ya bye. Did you hear what he called you? He called you his pussy. Do you think he likes you? Not if he can speak about you like that. You deserve better than him, and I bet you are smart enough to get it. Just don't give the one thing, that only one man can have, to an asshole like him. Do you understand?"

The girl was crying now, and she threw herself into Gia's arms. "Come, Let's call your parents and get you home. At least, you can say you saw a woman kick him in the head.", Gia smiled at her.

The girl lifted her head and smiled back at her. Gia pushed a button, calling the waitress. " Get me a phone, I need to make a call. ", she said.

An hour later, the girls parents were escorted to Gia. They, too, paled and began bowing repeatedly to Sesshomaru, and speaking Japanese. Gia didn't understand a word of what was being said, but they turned and bowed to Gia. They spoke with the young girl, who turned to Gia. "My parents wish to thank you for saving my honor tonight. They say they owe you a debt.", she said.

Gia smiled at her parents and said, "You tell them that the debt is paid, if you have learnt a lesson from this. Look me up in a few years and let me know how you're doing, OK?" The young girl told her parents, and her mother burst into tears. Gia herself escorted them to their car, Inuyasha right beside her. Inuyasha was surprised at how well she handled people. After they pulled away, she let out a long sigh, and leaned against the wall.

"I'm making one hell of an impression, Huh?", she asked him, out of the blue.

Inuyasha was shocked into an answer, "You're impressing me."

Gia turned beet red, "I didn't expect an answer. It's just that I've started two fights since I met you. Not very lady like."

"I like the fact that you will stand up for what's right. Even if it means becoming physical.", he said.

She smiled at him, "Come on. We came here to have a good time." He reached over and grabbed her hand, holding it all the way back to the others.

Kagome smiled when she the them holding hands. Sesshomaru looked at them and raised his eyebrows at Inuyahsa.

Kagome jumped up and said, "I know you just got back Gia, but do you think you could show me where the restroom is?"

"Sure.", she said. They left together, leaving the brothers alone.

Sesshomaru looked at Inuyasha, "So, what about the miko?'

"What about Kagome?", he asked.

"I thought you would mate her at some point.", Sesshomaru pressed.

"I never felt that way about Kagome. She is aware of that, and she agrees that we shouldn't mate.", he said, "Besides, Kagome is in love with someone."

"Who would that be?", Sesshomaru asked.

"I've sworn an oath not to tell who it is.", Inuyasha smirked.

"Hn", was the response. Sesshomaru became determined to find out who stole Kagome's heart.

Meanwhile...............

Kagome had finally gotten Gia alone. "So, tell me what do you think of Inuyasha."

Gia's eyes brightened and she blushed. "He is so HOT! Where did you find him? He's so different than any man I've met before.", she gushed.

"I guess that means you like him?", Kagome smiled at her, "I think he likes you, too."

"Really? What makes you think that?", Gia asked.

"He's being protective of you. Every time you turn around he's been there, hasn't he?", Kagome asked.

"Well, yes, now that I think about it, he has.", she responded.

"He's only doing that because he likes you. Trust me, I've known Inuyasha since I was 15. You'll know for sure if he tells you his secret.", Kagome said.

Gia's eyes widened, "Ok. I'll trust you. Now, let's go back. I don't want to have to fight any of these stupid bitches off my Inuyasha." Kagome grinned at her, but followed her back to the table.

The evening seemed to fly by, even Sesshomaru lightened up a bit. Too soon it was time to go home, they a piled back into the limousine. Inuyasha helped Gia out of the car, and to her door.

Immediately, they noticed the door ajar. Gia ran back to have Kagome call the police. Then her and Inuyasha went in together. The place was a shambles, Gia motioned that she was going to the kitchen, while Inuyasha went into the living room.

He took one look around and decided Gia shouldn't see this. He stepped into the doorway, just as Gia came out of the kitchen. "No one here.", she said, "Is it bad in there?" Inuyasha shook his head yes. "Let me see.", she said, trying to get past him. She looked at him, "What's wrong? Why won't you let me see?"

She ducked under his arm and ran into the room. She cried out at what she found, "No, not my baby." Kaa had been pinned to the wall by a knife. The snake had been skinned and gutted. The guts were thrown around the room, and the skin was missing. Written, in blood, on the wall was, "Thanks for the new belt, bitch".

Inuyasha grabbed and just held her. She held onto him for dear life, and cried. Sesshomaru came in as far as the doorway, and Inuyasha motioned for him to keep Kagome out. They could here the sirens in the distance, the police would be here soon.

A middle aged black man came flying into the house. A look of relief flooded his face when he saw Gia. "What happened, baby girl?', he asked. Gia took one look at him and said, "They killed my baby, Bob.", and she started crying again.

Inuyasha looked at him and said, "We found everything like this when we came home." Bob gave him a funny look, but noticed that Gia was finding comfort in his embrace. He gave Inuyasha a look that spoke volumes, it was a look that a father would give the young man dating his daughter.

Bob looked at Gia, "Honey, I want you to stay somewhere else tonight. They might come back looking for you. Go pack a bag, I'll get you a hotel room. You can come down tomorrow and give a statement." She nodded and went to the bedroom. He looked at Inuyasha, "What did she do earlier?"

"She chased three young men from the corner. She told them she didn't want them here.", he answered. He looked at the cop and said, "I'm taking her with me tonight. There's no need to find a room for her. She'll be safe with me. On my honor."

Bob looked at him and knew he was telling the truth. "Just let me know where she is. Here's my card with my phone numbers on it. Take good care of her, she's a special lady." Inuyasha smiled and nodded at him.

Gia came back carrying an overnight bag. Inuyasha took it from her, and put his arm around her. "Come Koi, I'm taking you with me. I'll take you to work tomorrow.", he said. He led her from the house to the waiting limousine.

Kagome fussed over Gia until they got to the hotel. Inuyasha insisted that she stay in his room, and soon she was in his bathroom taking a shower. Inuyasha thought he would die when he saw Gia in her nightgown. It was a midnight blue silk number that ended at midthigh and spaghetti straps holding it up, she was stunning in it.

He tucked her into the bed, and went to lay on the floor to sleep. When he heard her voice, "Inuyasha come to bed with me. I won't have you uncomfortable on that floor." He grunted a response, and before he knew it, she joined him on the floor. "If you won't sleep in comfort, neither will I.", she said.

He fixed his golden gaze on her, and shook his head. He stood up and pulled her with him. He picked her up and laid her on the bed. Then he bent and grabbed their blankets. He quickly crawled in beside her, and closed his eyes. He knew this would be the longest night of his life.