InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Go Home Kagome ❯ Great Expectations: ( Chapter 11 )

Eleven

Great Expectations: When worlds collide

 

Kagome rolled over and put her head on Inuyasha's chest. He opened one golden eye and traced the shell of her ear with a claw tipped finger.

 

“Inuyasha?”

 

“Hmmm?” Kagome's ear was against his chest and his answer was slightly muffled.

 

“Why didn't you write me, or call?”

 

He frowned then remembered where he was and his face softened. “There wasn't anything worth writing about.”

 

Kagome lifted her head and kissed him softly. “We have this and you couldn't think of a single thing to say to me?”

 

“Feh, you are making too much of this. I express myself better in actions anyway.” He laid his head back on her pillow and closed his eyes.

 

His words resonated through her mind. Actions not words…How many times has he saved me?

 

The she remembered Souta's letter and the lock of hair. She propped her head up on one elbow looking down on his face. “Did you give Souta a piece of your hair to send me?”

 

Inuyasha opened one eye and frowned showing the tip of a fang. “Yeah, what of it?”

 

Her eyes shined with the beginnings of happy tears and he felt his stomach twist. She wrapped her arms around his neck. “That meant so much to me. I... still have it.”

 

Inuyasha gave a half grin and announced confidently, “I know.”

 

“So…” She trailed her finger down his chest as she spoke. Inuyasha's attention was starting to wavier. “You were here my first night back.”

 

“Yeah but you were asleep.”

 

“You could have woken me.”

 

He raised a black eyebrow. “Who says I didn't”.

 

She turned beet red. “You were watching me sleep!”

 

He avoided her eyes. “Yeah so?”

 

Kagome was annoyed. We've been through this countless times. Either wake me or leave! I hate not knowing he was here…

 

“Inuyasha! It's not…” She paused as she realized they were both naked together in her bed and she was embarrassed he'd watched her sleep. She felt ridiculous.

 

Inuyasha saw her eyes move in the directions of where his bare chest met the covers. “It's not what Kagome?” He asked in half serious tone.

 

“Oh it's nothing really…” She said in the high pitched tone she used when she realized she'd screwed up.

 

He sat up and pulled her into his lap. “Oh but I think it is.” He growled low into her ear.

 

“You've been yanking my chain ever since the first day I met you and it's time to pay up.”

 

Kagome froze and tried to back out of his embrace. “I really didn't mean to…” Her eyes locked on the prayer beads he wore.

 

“Yeah I think ya did.” His claw fingers lightly skimmed down her bare sides. She saw his ears perk and his face lit with an evil grin baring every fang in his mouth. Kagome twitched and tried to roll away but he held her down.

 

“Justice is such a bitch.”

 

Her back was facing him. He held her in place with an arm wrapped around her thin shoulders. His other hand lightly tickled her sides. He started slow then sped up and in moments Kagome was shrieking and begging him to stop. She flipped her head and he caught a face full of her hair. Tears ran freely down her face.

 

“Please…my family they'll hear…”

 

Inuyasha laughed. “They ain't here. It's Sunday you stupid vet. They knocked on the door to see if you wanted to go somewhere and when you didn't answer they left without you.”

 

Kagome raised a finger in the air. “Inuyasha, Veterinarian is a title not an insult.”

 

His clever claw tipped fingers moved lower down her body. “Like I care.” Then he pushed her away, leapt in the air and pounced on her. All of Kagome's questions and concerns fell to the floor at the touch of his body on hers.

 

An hour later Kagome sat at Inuyasha's feet while he ran a comb through her wet hair. She refused to let him bathe with her as it seemed to be taking things a little too far. But he'd insisted on combing her hair and she gave in. He was surprisingly gentle and the motion was magic on her head. She was a puddle of herself at his feet. Without missing a beat while combing he asked her a question that blew her away.

 

“So Kagome, who was he?” He tone was even but serious.

 

“What are you talking about?” Kagome's heart turned to stone and dropped from her chest straight to her stomach. Here it comes…my worst nightmare. But maybe I'm wrong and this is about something else…

 

He stopped combing and she heard the clink of the plastic comb on her wooden nightstand. Inuyasha's hands grasped her shoulders. She wondered if he'd chosen to ask her this while she was sitting this way so she couldn't see his expression.

 

“I…wasn't your first.” It was a statement not an accusation. Yet.

 

She sighed and not knowing where to begin decided to start with the honest truth. But first, “Was I yours?”

 

She felt him stiffen. “There was one other; it was before I met Kikyo. Sesshomaru… he killed her.”

 

Kagome was shocked. This was the first time she'd heard of this other girl. No wonder the brothers hated each other. She continued on shaky ground.

 

“You never told me how you felt Inuyasha. Even when I asked you pushed me away. I thought you didn't want me. You had Kikyo.”

 

Inuyasha was silent.

 

“So while I was away, I met…someone.”

 

“Where is he now?”

 

Kagome wrapped her arms around her knees. “I don't know.”

 

“He left you after knowing you?” His hands tightened on her shoulders.

 

“Yes he did.”

 

“The bastard abandoned you after making a pledge like that…” She heard a growl emit from deep within his chest.

 

Kagome bit her bottom lip. “We were only dating. What he did was wrong but my world isn't like yours. There were no pledges or bonds. I …just made a mistake.”

 

Inuyasha hissed. “You belonged to him, another man and he threw you aside.”

 

Kagome closed her eyes. “Does this mean you and I are…?”

 

“I don't see how you can belong to two men at once.” His tone was cold.

 

“But I never was yours. I wanted to be but you...”

 

“I tried to do what was right! I gave my pledge to Kikyo and then she died and then she came back. There wasn't anything I could do. I honor my word. What was I supposed to do?”

 

Kagome rested her chin on her knees. “She's not herself, not the same woman you knew. She's reanimated clay not flesh and blood. If you still feel this way, than why are you here now with me and not her?”

 

“Because I don't anymore. You're right she isn't the same woman.”

 

“Does she know?”

 

“No, I couldn't find her. She's gone off somewhere again.”

 

“Oh. But Inuyasha, what happened was well over a year ago and this is the modern age. I am not his property. Besides if you felt so strongly about this than why did you jump me again earlier?”

 

“I was caught up in the moment. It hit me while you were in the bathroom.” How could he explain how her scent intoxicated him?

 

Kagome rolled her eyes. “Are you insinuating that had I let you in there with me, then we wouldn't be having this conversation?”

 

Inuyasha shrugged and answered honestly. “Yeah.”

 

Kagome jumped to her feet. “Inuyasha, you are such a hypocrite!”

 

He rose from the bed and they stood facing each other nose to nose. He was so pissed his eyes had a slightly youki reddish hue to them. Kagome's face was stained with tear tracks.

 

He spoke between clenched teeth. “I cannot bare the thought of you with another man.”

 

“Where does that leave us?”

 

“Whatta mean where does leave us?” he spat.

 

Kagome shot back. “You don't want me now?”

 

Inuyasha's eyes widened and he sputtered, “I never said that!”

 

“Than what is it?” Kagome shock her fist at him “Don't mess with me; I'm still not beyond using the S-I-T word!”

 

Inuyasha was offended. What kind of man does she take me for? “This man is gone and now I'm here. And I stand by my honor.”

 

“Which means what?” Her face was turning red.

“You are mine now, forever.” Inuyasha reached out to Kagome and pulled her to his chest. He placed her ear to his heart. “Hear it? My life, my heart beat…belongs to you.”

 

Her breath stopped in her lungs. All the years she'd waited to hear these words and when they came they were born from anger. Then something else occurred to Kagome. It was a dark nagging thought she'd spent the morning dodging.

 

“Umm…does this mean we are the feudal version of married?”

 

Inuyasha looked thoughtful. “We could marry if you wanted like mortals. But in the youki world Myoga would describe it as steadfasted or” he smiled lewdly “mated”.

 

Kagome's head rolled off her shoulders and fell to floor by her feet. Well actually she just felt light headed and had to sit down.

 

Her first words were, “I don't think my mom will let us live here in my room.”

 

“Fine by me, I don't think she likes me that much anyway.”

And he couldn't have mentioned that three years ago!

 

“Do you have a…house back beyond the well?”

 

He frowned. “I've been staying with Kaede and Kikyo.”

 

Kagome swallowed. “Okay that answers that question.” Cause that would be just a bit awkward.

 

“We could stay with Miroku and Sango for awhile.” Inuyasha seemed pleased with this solution.

 

She thought for a moment. “We really should have a place of our own don't you think? Wait. Did you just say Miroku and Sango are…together?”

 

“I think it might be a secret.”

 

“Wow, that's really something.” She was happy for her friends but that didn't help uncomplicate the situation.

 

“Inuyasha I'm not sure what you want me to do. We're not in a good place to settle down right now, and you still live with Kikyo!”

 

He frowned and muttered. “I already told ya I'm gonna fix that.”

 

“And besides, you never asked me if I wanted to freaking marry you! Don't you think this is going a little fast?”

 

He gave her a pointed look and flattened his ears. “I asked you last night if you were sure.”

 

“Yes but you never said this meant you were moving in for Christ sakes!” She paused and realized now she was sounding like Booger. Inuyasha never asked who Christ was; he was too worried Kagome was going to push him away.

 

“I mean you don't have a job. I'm just starting out and I'm flat broke. You don't even have a modern identity! You can't even rent a movie on your own! And forget about getting a driver's license.”

 

Inuyasha straightened his back and raised his chin. He glared down at Kagome. “I can provide for my family.”

 

Family? What the hell? “Please don't tell me you want start having children too!”

 

He bent down before her and stroked her flat belly. “With luck it may have already taken.”

 

Kagome groaned and fell back on her bed with her arms out. Whoever invented the pill, I thank you! She elected not to mention this to Inuyasha.

 

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Notes: well what did they expect? Twenty first century morals meets fifteenth century expectations. Ever wonder just why Inuyasha is so angry? Poor guy's repressed. He's got to spend all that time near Kagome in that silly short skirt and still keeps his hands to himself. Ha!