InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hanging by A Moment ❯ Chapter 11 Confusing Situations ( Chapter 11 )

Hanging by A Moment

by Lor

Thanks Fire Witch1, and crazytomboy1 for the great ideas for the chapter! Though they might now show up in this chapter....probably the next one or the one after that. When I started writing this I ended up getting side tracked with other ideas.....

Sorry it took so long to update, I've had like NO free time. All my fics are updated now! WHOOT!! I'll start writing the next chapter in the next few days.

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' .... ' thoughts

" ..... " dialogue

~ ...... ~ flashback or dream sequence

Oh one more thing!! Fluff warning........

Chapter 11

Confusing Situations

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"What do ya'll need them for?" Emi asked as she led them to a section towards the back of the store towards the right side. "We're going swimming with some guys," Rin replied, her amused laughter under was finally under control. Emi smiled and got a small sparkle in her eyes, "With some guys? Fun...." Kagome's eyes went wide, "not like that you pervert!" Which caused Roru to explode into laughter, "It's just some friends and Akio." "And Akio?" Emi said an eyebrow raised with a laughing smile gracing her lips. Sango had been going through a rack of one piece suits, now she stopped and looked over, "What don't want anyone to know he's your boyfriend?" She said with a teasing smile. A very faint blush blew across Roru's cheeks, "We aren't officially together....he hasn't even kissed me yet." "You two were so cuddly together last night..." Kagome said goating her on. "I could say the same thing bout you and Yash," Roru said turning the tide on her cousin. Kagome's face turned a deep red, "Let's just shop." Emi laughed, "I know the perfect things for ya'll." She handed each girl a swim suit, and shoved them each into a separate dressing room, before they even had a chance to complain.

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Miroku sighed, now completely and utterly bored from watching Yash eat ten bowls of oriental ramen. "Haven't you had enough of that stuff yet?" Akio asked the gobbling Inu Hanyou. Sesshomaru looked up from his cup of Hazelnut coffee, "He hasn't even had his twentieth yet, he won't be done for another half hour." Shippo had split away from the group nearly thirty minutes earlier. His intent was to go spy on the girls and report back with his findings. Yash slurped up the last of the ramen from his eleventh bowl and set it down on the tray in front of him. "Guess I'm done...out of ramen." Akio rolled his eyes as he leaned back in his seat. He looked around the food court for a sign of Shippo returning. Instead he spotted someone else...

Yash's head whipped up form stacking the ramen cups, a single word left his lips, "Kouga." Miroku slapped a hand against his forehead, "Great....just great. They'll trash the entire place. "Yo dog turd! Where's my woman!?" Kouga yelled as he pushed through the foot court, his friends followed in his wake. Yash's eyes narrowed as she stood with a growl, "You have no woman wimpy wolf!" Akio sighed knowing what was coming next; he pushed back his chair and stood next to Yash. Kouga glared and lunged at Yash to punch him in the gut. Yash side stepped leaving Kouga to slam into a large white stone tree planter. Sesshomaru was the only one in the group that was still seated; he was calmly drinking his coffee. "Baka can't even hit something. It's not fair to hurt something smarter than you," Yash said with a laugh gesturing towards the now broken tree planter. Kouga got up from the ground glaring, "Prepare to die yarou!"

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The girls walked out of Frozen fifteen minutes later. Each of them carried two ice blue shopping bags. "I can't believe she talked us into buying all that!" Sango exclaimed. "It wasn't that much. Only a swimsuit, sandals, two new outfits, and I got an adorable hat!" Rin said as she adjusted the dark gray floppy hat on her head. Sango sighed, rolling her eyes, "that's not the point! We only had gone in to get a swimsuit each!" "oh lighten up, Emi did let us use her employee discount," Roru said. Kagome wasn't paying attention to them, instead she watched people rushing past them. "Where are they all going?" she asked suddenly. "Huh?" Rin said looking over. She had been looking at the shop windows they walked past to her how her hat looked. "Looks like the food court," Sango answered as she stood on her tip toes to see over the crowd. All four girls stopped in their tracks and in unison said, "The guys!" And with that they ran towards the food court, pushing people out of their way.

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"Guess what I..." Shippo's voice trailed off as he watched Yash throw Kouga into a cement pillar on the opposite side of the food court. "Oh good throw!" he said with a laugh. Kouga he just fallen to the group with a thump. By this time Yash had broken into a slight sweat, a small cut was over his left eye, blood slowly dripped out. Kouga was in far worse condition, he had bruises all over his body, and no one in the crowd would disagree with the idea that he at least had one of his bones broken.

"Not fair! You guys had all the fun without me!" Shippo whined watching from the side lines. Somehow a bag of popcorn had appeared in Sesshomaru's hands. He still sat in the same chair as before, though now he had his feet propped up on the table while he munched on his popcorn watching the fight. Miroku stood a few feet away cheering when Kouga got hurt. When Kouga had slashed Yash over the eye, Miroku tried to get Sesshomaru to stop the fight. Sesshomaru simply replied, "Why ruin the fun? I want to see the wolf get the crap beat out of him."

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The girls got to the front of the crowd in record time. Roru moved towards Akio, who was leaning against one of the columns on the edge of the crowd. "What the hell is going on?!" Roru demanded. "Why are you acting all ticked at me? It's not my fault Kouga showed up yelling bout `his woman' and call'n Yash dog turd," Akio snapped at her. "Oh...." Roru cast her eyes downward. Akio pulled her against his chest and gave her a quick, mind blowing kiss, "It's alright." Roru smiled and rested against him watching the fight.

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Rin, Sango and Kagome had gone over to where the rest of the guys were. Kagome seemed anxious, worried about Yash. "How's he doing?" she asked Miroku. "Kouga's going to give up soon. But we better get Yash out of here before any cops show up." "Then go pull him out!" Sango yelled at him. O.O "Are you nuts?! One of them would slice me in half!" Rin rolled her eyes and plopped into a chair beside Sesshomaru and began sneaking some of his popcorn into her mouth. "Fine then, I'll go get him," Kagome said surprising them. "Are you insane?!" Rin exclaimed a piece of popcorn halted in her hand an inch from her mouth. Sesshomaru glared at Rin, "Why are you eating MY popcorn?" Rin giggled, "Cuz!" Sesshomaru shook his head, "Woman...."

Unnoticed by the others, Kagome had walked right into the quote "fight area" of the foot court. "Ohhh Yash!" she chanted. Yash stopped in mid punch, his fist mere inches from Kouga's face. "What the fuck do you think you're doing!?" Kagome grabbed his arm and started to attempt to pull him away from Kouga. "Saving your ass from cops," she replied simply. Yash yanked his arm out of her grasp, "I don't need saving!" he spat. Kagome glared at him, hands on her hips, "Stop being a moron! If you fight him much longer you'll kill him!" Yash shrugged, "So?" Anger seeped into Kagome's eyes; her aura began to surround her, "BAKA!" Kouga blinked rapidly, "Kagome! My woman!" Kagome's eyes narrowed even more glaring at him, her aura became a visible bring blinding pink; growing stronger from her building anger. "Uh....this can't be good," Kouga muttered under his breathe.

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Roru shook her head as she rolled her golden brown eyes, "Morons. Just HAD to get Kagome totally pissed off." Akio had been watching Kagome and saw Yash along with Kouga slowly back away from her. "You know what's happening to her?" he asked looking at her. Roru shrugged, "Faintly at least," was all she responded with. Akio's eyes narrowed, "Fine keep your secrets." Roru giggled and looked up at him. "What's so funny?" he spat. "You look so kawaii when you're ticked," she replied with a giggle. Akio shook his head slowly, a laughing smile appearing on his lips. `So kissable....' "Going to tell me?" Akio asked breaking Roru's thoughts. "Ummm? Oh yeah! Why Kags is glowing?" He nodded, chuckling softly at how easily she had forgotten. "Her Miko abilities," Roru said simply, as if seeing a ticked off Miko was an every day occurrence.

"She's a Miko?" Miroku asked who was standing a few feet away beside Sango; both of them were now heading towards the couple. "What is that surprising? Kagome's a Miko...gasp...shock," Roru said ending with a fake gasp and with an equally faked expression. "But how is that possible? She's never done anything like this before," Sango said as she turned her attention at the glowing Miko. "It has something to do with being around Yash. That's all I know."

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"Stop her!" Kouga yelled at Yash. "If you claim her to be your woman you stop her!" Yash yelled back at him. Kouga looked between Yash and Kagome, "Huff," he grumbled as he slowly moved towards her. "Ahhhhhh!" he yelled as he was thrown back as soon as Kagome's enlarging aura touched his body. "Let's go!" Kouga yelled to his friends and with a cloud of dust the Ookami youkai were gone. "Well that was helpful," Yash said rolling his eyes as he took a careful step towards Kagome. Instantly her aura flashed a bright white before it slowly began to disappear.

Sango glanced around the food court, "Where did everyone go?" "Huh?" Miroku had only been paying attention to what was happening with Kagome. He had no clue that when her aura had appeared that the crowd had left, quickly. "Oh yeah....guess they left," Miroku said with a shrug. Sango hit him upside the head. "Owww! What was that for?!" she pointed to his hand which was only three inches from her ass. He gave her a guilty look, "Oops?"

"Kags?" Yash said softly, now only a few feet from her. The aura around Kagome completely disappeared, her closed eyes slowly opened. "Yash?" she tried to step towards him but stumbled into his arms. "You alright?" "What just happened?" The two turned their head bumping noses causing both to get a deep blush across their cheeks. "Sorry," Kagome said softly as she pushed against him to stand on her own.

"That was...." "Too...." "Bloody....." Weird." The four said watching the hanyou and Miko at least until they heard a yell. "You ate all my popcorn!!" Giggling echoed against the walls, "It was yummy," Rin said smiling at Sesshomaru sweetly. "They have serious issues," Miroku said shaking his head, unknown to him, Roru, Sango, and Akio had all gone over to Yash and Kagome.

Shippo sat there watching Sess and Rin fight over the last piece of popcorn. "I want it!" "It's mine!" Rin stole the piece from him and popped it into her mouth then smirked at him. "You asked for it!" Rin's eyes went wide as he leaned towards her capturing her lips with his. `He's kissing me!' Sesshomaru pulled away, a large smile on his face as he ate the popcorn he from her mouth. "Yum." Shippo's eyes were as wide as saucers, O.O, "You people are SICK!"

The rest of the group slowly turned their heads to look at them. "Hi!" Rin chirped acting like nothing just happened. "Let's go back to my house," Roru said shaking her head slightly, but smiled when Akio slid an arm around her waist. Sesshomaru shrugged and stood. "You're not going to walk," Yash said crossing his arms standing in front of Kagome. "I'm fine! I'm not dead or something!" "You're not walking!" "Then how am I suppose...." Kagome's voice trailed off as Yash picked her up and started walking towards the exit, carrying her bridal style. "Awwww," Sango, Rin and Roru said together. "They're such a cute couple," Rin said leading the way behind Yash. "And what me and Akio aren't?" Roru spat glaring. "You admitted it!" Sango said bouncing instead of walking now. "What is she talking about?" Akio whispered into Roru's ear. "Never mind," Roru responded right before she gave him a soft kiss, "Never mind."

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Kagome sat on the couch beside Yash pouting. "I'm perfectly fine you know," she grumbled as she propped her feet up on the coffee table. "That's what you think." "Urg! Like you know anything!" Yash turned and glared at her, "Who said I didn't?!" "Fine then what happened to me?!" Yash leaned back against the couch crossing his arms, "Something." "Something? Something!? That's your brilliant answer?!" Kagome screamed at him, moving so she could glare directly into his face, their noses barely an inch apart.

Roru walked into the basement, a large book with a dark brown leather cover in her arms She was flipping through the pages when she said, "I think this book should...." her voice faded off when she looked up. `Dang! I didn't think they'd hook up that fast!' she thought looking at them. Kagome was nearly sitting in Yash's lap, their faces a bare inch away from the other. Roru smiled and backed out of the room, "I don't want to be interrupting anything." Within a second she was gone. "Interrupting?" Kagome said. Her eyes went wide when she realized the position they were in and moved to sit on the opposite end of the couch in a flash. Both had a dark blush covering their faces. "Uh I'll go see what she was talking about," Yash sputtered out before he sprinted upstairs. Kagome set her face in her hands, curling her legs up against her body on the couch. "What is she thinking?!" she said quietly as she glanced at the basement stairs. `Umm....' something had caught the corner of her eyes. `That would be fun....' Kagome got up from the couch carefully and grabbed the shopping bags up from the floor.

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Akio leaned back against the wall, "You said that that book would figure out what happened to her." Roru looked up and brushed her hair back over her shoulder, "It did help!" Sango rolled her eyes, "Yeah, now we know how to spell Miko properly." "Oi!" Just when Roru was going to throw a pillow at Sango's head, Yash burst into the room and tripped over Sango who was spread out on the floor. "Owwww! Get off me!" Roru screeched. Yash had landed on the bed, partly on top of Roru. "Jerk," Roru huffed once he got up. "What did you find out about Kags?" he demanded. "Well someone seems just a bit worried," Akio said trying not to laugh. Yash blinked, "What the hell are you doing on a bed with her! In her own bedroom!" "Hello their not alone in here!" Sango said waving at him. "Stop acting like a protective older brother. Go back to protecting your lil make-out buddy," Roru said as she poked him. "Make-out buddy?" "Yeah, Kagome. You two were doing something when I went down there." "We were fighting!" "Oh so that's what youkai call it?" Akio said with a laugh.

"How do I look?" The four in the room turned simultaneously towards the doorway. Yash gulped, his eyes never moving away from the sight standing there, "Kags...."

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TADA! There ya go! Don't worry it won't take me so long to update next time. I was actually trying to get this up yesterday, but I'm sick so I ended up falling asleep at like four in the afternoon, (at least that's what my dad said when he tried to get me to clean up the kitchen. I think I actually fell asleep at five.)

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-Lor