InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Heart Breaker Higurashi ❯ Along Came Kagome ( Chapter 3 )

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Author's Notes: I'm sorry about the mix-up with the chapters and everything. I was constantly changing little bits of the summary and I didn't realize that it's been updating while I did that. Apologies to people who were confused.

Thank you everyone for your reviews and patience. I've been busy with school work and everything because our grade has currently begun the Sophomore Project (which is a really big deal by the way. Every sophomore must do it). It will probably take me every other week to update, so if you're still interested, check in every other week... Maybe even less!

Um... and there's this review that I received from MM, and I have no idea whether it's a flame or what... Anyways... I try and put a little bit of comedy in it, and no, I'm not trying to kill you. Please calm down. o_O;. Umm... also... I don't appreciate the ordering around very much... It is my fanfic by the way and I want to put as much comedy as I think is appropriate. Besides, I doubt I'd want to alter it because of the fact that I've already finished this story in my notebook. Please feel better, and please explain to me if you hate this fic for not having enough comedy, or if you like it because your review can be read two ways. I'd very much like to hear what you think about it although I will not alter this story.

Oh yeah, I made this chapter pretty long just for you all... Maybe it's foreshadowing the fact that I might not be able to update for a while...

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha. I don't even own dirt... How sad...

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Heart Breaker Higurashi

Chapter Three

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After going through a tragic break up almost a year prior with his high school sweetheart, Inuyasha believed that no one would ever intrigue him again.

Then, along came Kagome.

Although it was true that he did not appreciate her attitude towards him, it was that particular attitude which had partly captured his attention. He believed he had enough evidence to conclude that she was hiding something from everyone... and he was going to figure out what that little secret of hers was.

He already selected a few of her actions that struck him as peculiar. For one, when Sango had vented out her frustration on Miroku when the lech first met Kagome, she left enough detail to prove that Kagome was interested in him during the encounter... but after he came along, she completely ignored his friend as if she was never interested at all... Girls just didn't do that very often...

Another curious moment happened just last night as he met up with her to give her his invitational tour. Her mood swings and actions seemed to contrast greatly with each other. One minute she was acting over-bearing, and the next, she was submissive.

The last unusual action was when he found out that she had willingly chosen to have a room at the all girls' dormitory.

The other part that completely caught his attention was the fact that she looked so much like Kikyo...

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It was her first 'school day' at Goshinboku University, and she was actually happy to have received the tour from Inuyasha. If she hadn't - seeming as the university grounds were so enormous - she definitely would have been lost.

She walked slowly towards the end of the hallway where her class was situated, looking around and admiring the art decorations that adorned the white walls. The paintings and glass-encased sculptures could have easily been passed off as one of Picasso's paintings or Michael Angelo's sculptures, although they were truly created by the students of her new university.

She had ten more minutes, so she decided to stall. She took her time to read a little biography on the artists when she heard it. That dreadfully familiar voice calling out to her, "Kagome? Kagome Higurashi? Is that really you?".

This couldn't be happening... Not on her first day... Not on any day! The gods decided that being on her side today would probably turn out to be futile... They were all against her...

'Run! Run while you still can! If that idiot knows better, he won't chase after you!' Kitsuke encouraged her.

'Don't be a coward. You could have listened to me, and none of this would be happening right now, but since you went off and listened to Kitsuke, you should face the remains of your 'work' Kagome. Face it like a woman... Unless your such a coward that you can't face a heart broken man...' Miyou bullied.

She would prove her wrong. She could face this. She could seriously do this... But...

She screwed her eyes shut and reluctantly turned towards the source of the voice.

"It is! It's really you! I've missed you so much Kagome! I had been counting the days when we were to meet again... Then my happiness would return!" an excited, handsome young man, with neatly parted sand-colored hair said. His brown eyes were glowing with joy.

"Hojo..." She was too stunned to say much else. Never before had one of her ex's come up to her and say that. She knew that they probably still thought of her every now and then, but she would hurt them badly enough so that they would not want to come back for more pain. She had no idea what to do or say. So many things had happened at such a short period of time that had never happened to her before... and they all happened since she met Inuyasha... Now the boy would definitely get it from her.

He continued with that stupid, petty, little smile of his, then he hugged her.

Kagome quickly pushed him away. "Who the hell do you think you are? We were over such a long time ago Hojo. Get over it!" she yelled.

He stared at her with a surprised and confused look for a second, then quickly switched to his 'unfazed' mode. He was a determined man. "I still love you Kagome, and I know that we belong together," he spoke with clarity as if he were delivering such a prestigious speech.

"Yeah? And where'd you hear that? Your personal psychic?" she spat out.

He looked at her for a second, with surprise. "How did you know?" he questioned, bewildered.

There was silence for a mere five seconds.

She gave him a disbelieving look. "It was a joke! Hojo, get over it. It's been the end for us such a long time ago. Don't bring back the past. I hate it, and when I told you I never wanted to see you again... I meant it." She was a young woman who had not a care in the world for the emotions of men. She particularly didn't believe that they even had feelings...

He would not back down though. Ever since she had broken up with him a couple months ago during their senior year in high school, he could not stop thinking about her. Ever since he found out about her college whereabouts, he had taken the liberty of studying extra-hard to be with her in the same campus. "Kagome..." he began.

"Look. I have class in three minutes... I have to go..." she said, as she turned her back towards him and walked towards her classroom.

"How about we talk about this later? Let's meet at the Café de Choco... Um... Kagome...?" He looked around at the deserted hallways...

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Inuyasha walked away from that confusing scene that he had just witnessed. So that guy was her ex-boyfriend huh? He could use him for a bit of answers later on if his curiosity grew... But there wasn't much time left for thinking right now. He had heard a beginning of a new argument, with that same familiar female's voice...

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Kagome was sure that she escaped Hojo's incessant pleading, if only for a while... but what she came across next proved to her that the gods were attacking her from the heavens above...

She had just been innocently walking the rest of her way to her class when she had suddenly been pulled gently, but firmly towards someone...

"Kagome. I knew you were going to be here... I just knew it! My woman can't go on too long without me now can she?" an arrogant voice prodded.

She pulled away from the man's body, and looked at him. He stood five inches taller than her; his midnight hair, tied into a low pony tail against his back; his piercing black orbs glaring at her.

"Didn't I tell you that you would be hopeless without me? You're my woman Kagome. I thought that after your senior year, you'd figured it out?"

"Kouga... I don't want to deal with this..." she sighed, exasperated.

"Well you'll just have to deal with it. You were the one who left me!" he began to yell at her.

It was early in the morning, and she had not even had a proper breakfast. She didn't have enough energy to battle off two ex's in a matter of just six minutes... so she began to walk away.

"This will be the last time you turned your back on me Kagome! There will be no next time if you do this! I'm not going to willingly take you back then! You're going to have to beg!" he growled at her.

"I don't want you back Kouga. Now if you excuse me, I have to go to class-" she said, continuing her venture to her classroom.

Kouga was steaming. How could she not see that she was his woman? She was to be submissive to him dammit! There was no way in hell he would let her disobey him again. "Dammit Kagome!" he yelled, grabbing her arm and pushing her against the wall.

Inuyasha had too much of this. He had never liked the idea that women should be submissive to men. It just wasn't the way twenty-first century people thought. That guy... Kouga was probably still thinking back to the feudal era...

Within in the hallway, a flash of silver was seen, before the man named 'Kouga' fell over on his tail bone. "Excuse me, but were you hurting my girlfriend?" He stole a glance over at Kagome who instantly caught his drift.

"Kouga... Can't you see that maybe I have someone else?" Kagome spoke up, walking over to Inuyasha and grabbing his hand. "Let's go..." she said, as the two headed down the hallway.

Kouga was still flat on his behind, as he stared, confused at the two retreating backs.

'What just happened here...?' he asked himself.

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As soon as the two reached Kagome's classroom, which wasn't too far from the 'crime scene', they paused right outside the door. Now how did that go again? Oh yes... 'Thank you...'...

Kagome looked up at Inuyasha gratefully. "I just wanted to thank you for doing that back there. Yeah... That's all..." she said nervously. She had no idea how to act around guys in this way. She never had to say 'thank you' to them for a big deal before... and now she was become seriously pissed that she had so much 'first-timers' with Inuyasha, and she had just met him yesterday.

"Don't mention it. Just don't get yourself into trouble... Who were those two anyway?" he pressed on.

She stared at him with her stormy orbs, before casting them towards the ground. "Look, I already said thank you okay? It doesn't mean that we're going to start being really good friends." With this, she lifted her chin back up to stare at him directly in the eyes.

Inuyasha's 'argument switch' had turned back on right then. "Dammit you wench, I practically saved your ass out there, and you don't have the decency to at least reject my question nicely? Where the hell were you brought up in? The damn ghettos?"

This ignited a spark in Kagome's eyes, that Inuyasha would later find out, only lit up when an argument was made. "For you information, no I was not brought up in that type of neighborhood. It's just that I don't like it when people try to pry into my private life!" she yelled.

He would not back down though, and something she said rose up his curiosity even more. "Private life? So there's something about these guys that make them part of your private life?"

There was silence for a few seconds before Kagome realized something.

"How do you know that there were two?"

He froze. He couldn't very well say that he had been eavesdropping, but what else was there to say?

Only one thing came to mind, and yet, it was still pretty lame.

"I was just passing by... Heard you yelling at some guy and it didn't sound like that Boga guy..."

She narrowed her eyes and glared. She was still suspicious, but what proof did she have that this guy wasn't stalking her? "Okay... Well I've said my thanks, I'll be going now... I'm late to my first day in class as it is..." she said as she opened the door to the large, leveled classroom and walked away.

The beginning events of that day just sparked Inuyasha's interest about Kagome even more.

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During the after class that afternoon, Kagome trudged back towards her dorm. When she opened the door, she was happy to find no one there. She wanted to sulk right then.

Ever since she began her 'master plan' of breaking mens' hearts, she hadn't had many deep thoughts about Bankotsu. Everything that she thought about him were just her feelings on the surface, like 'he was an ass'... She had refused to think deeper about his kind actions to her, his scent, his eyes, the way he made her feel when she was near him...

Just as usual, there was another first-timer, thanks to Inuyasha.

Bankotsu was a benevolent guy... up until someone irritated him, of course. By then, he would throw out curse words as if they were spoken everyday, as part of everyones' vocabulary. He was one of the few who argued with Kagome, and sometimes - if not all the time - won against her.

She had never thought about these for such a long time that they almost faded away... They were so close to fading... but Inuyasha just reared his big ugly head, and bam! The thoughts of Bankotsu came back. Inuyasha just reminded her so much of him, especially their attitudes.

She shook her head. This was leading her to no where. Besides, she hadn't cried for three years now, why should she begin again? Crying didn't bring anyone anywhere... but she couldn't help it. That painful twinge in her heart began to make itself apparent again after three years of disappearance.

A light knock on the door was heard, and as Kagome turned around, she found one of her room mates standing there with a concerned look etched upon her face.

"Hey Eri..." she greeted, as she hurriedly wiped away her tears. Her effort was futile though, as she could not control her tears from falling down.

"Kagome... Kagome? What's wrong?" the girl named Eri asked, as she walked over to where Kagome was seated.

The raven-haired girl sniffed, and turned to face her more properly. "It's... It's nothing..." she lied.

Eri gave her a look of disapproval. "Now, now Kagome... We mustn't lie!" she said, as she held up her index finger and began waving it in motions that windshield wipers in a car needed to take.

The crying girl gave a weak smile and placed her feet atop the desk she was sitting on. She sniffed again, but this time, she was ready to speak. Since so many first-timers were being made during the expanse of barely two days, she might as well just go with the flow. She had never spoken to anyone about her feelings and her history with Bankotsu, but somehow, she felt ready to speak...

"I don't know how to begin... So I'll start from the beginning..."

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A day with no classes usually meant 'Lazy Day' for a certain, silver-maned young man, but this particular day would be different for him. This day, he had planned on finding out exactly who Kagome was... Starting with those two men that Kagome argued with just that morning.

As he walked towards the same building that Kagome had her encounters at, students came flowing out of the corridors. Inuyasha made a quick search around to see if any of the two were there, but no faces seemed familiar. He then walked towards another building... They must be around here somewhere... That Kouga guy was in his grade and he had seen him walk around this area before, this time and day. The Hojo guy was another deal. He was in the same grade as Kagome, and would most likely be harder to find considering the thousands of students on this already, enormous campus.

He walked around the area towards the third closest building and finally found Kouga walking out of his latest class. Now how was he suppose to approach him? There was just one way...

"Hey," he greeted as casually as if they were old friends, and as if he had not just pushed him down on his behind earlier in the day.

Kouga turned to face him, and gave an undistinguishable smirk. "It's you," he put simply.

"Yeah... About this morning..." Inuyasha began.

Kouga waved him away. "No need to apologize," he said haughtily.

Inuyasha's look darkened. "I didn't even think about doing that." Just as simply as he stated that fact, he added, "So how do you know Kagome?"

"She's my woman." It was stated as plainly as if he were talking to a blind man about the colors of a rainbow.

"Okay... Not that what you said makes any sense at all... Were you two close?"

"What is this? Are you trying to stalk her or something? You're already her new 'boy toy', why don't you ask her about it? Oh yeah... Just a little tip: When she tells you that you two need to talk, prepare yourself for one hell of a heart break."

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What Kouga had told Inuyasha just added onto his curiosity all the more, and after he had spoken with Hojo, he was slightly disturbed by the fact that the younger man said something along those lines too.

Somewhere during the conversation, Hojo said the name of Kagome's last 'broken' boyfriend, and Inuyasha had kept that in mind. He also explained that he heard Jinenji apply to a community college close by just to be near Kagome. The only community college that was near-by was Shikon Community College, and that was where curiosity brought Inuyasha. As if by fate, he accidentally bumped into him just as he was walking towards the main office.

The same man who had been rushing out, weeping practically gallons of water on the Goshinboku campus just a day ago picked up the papers that he had dropped and turned to face a grumbling Inuyasha. "Sir, I really am sorry about that. I wasn't watching where I was going and-"

"Damn right you weren't watching where you were going!" Inuyasha snapped. He then raised his golden eyes towards the 'culprit' and saw the face to be familiar.

"I'm sorry sir... I really am... I'm just in a hurry-" Jinenji tried again, just as he began to hurriedly walk away.

Inuyasha was about to just let him go, but his curiosity was rather huge and he couldn't help but ask if the man's name was Jinenji.

"Why, yes it is..." he answered.

A couple minutes had passed and it seemed as if Jinenji forgot about the appointment he was apparently in a rush to get to. The two men had talked about Kagome early on the topic due to Inuyasha's forwardness.

"I've heard so much of the men she previously dated talk so much of her, and I can't help but talk about her. It's like she's some type of goddess who entrances you and sets a curse on you so that you can never forget her... Once she chooses you... You somehow can never stop thinking about her..."

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During that evening, as he returned to his dorm building, he stopped by the last person he wanted to talk to about Kagome. Perhaps she was in one of her classes...

He knocked three times until there was an answer.

His friend Sango opened the door as she smiled at him and invited him inside.

As the two sat on a small little bench with a coffee table in Sango's compact dorm kitchen. "So what brings you here today Inuyasha?"

"I need to talk to you about girls..." he began.

She looked confused. "Wouldn't you rather talk to Miroku about girls?"

He smiled at her but shook his head. "Not like that. I mean... There's this one thing that I need to ask you about... Actually a couple things."

"Spill," she answered as she leaned against the back of the bench.

"Is it kind of weird if a girl has so much boyfriends who I think are all still in love with her?"

Sango looked at her cup for a few seconds and thought. She lifted her eyes back towards his. "It's not impossible, but it's very rare. There are those times when there's just a neutral break up, one of them is cheating on the other, one of them is abusive, or they hate each other... There are countless possibilities. For a girl who's dated a lot of guys before, she must have come across at least some in which she had one of the following break-ups with. Besides, if a girl's had that much boyfriends, she's probably not serious, and the boys would sense that and not be serious either."

Inuyasha took this information in. "Do you know a girl named Kagome?"

Her look of surprise was apparent.

"I guess so..." he answered himself, amused.

"The girl we met just yesterday?" she questioned.

"Yeah."

"I know her, yeah. She's in my literature class, and we partnered ourselves together. Why?"

"How's she like?"

"She's pretty nice actually... But... Well... There were these two guys... Umm.. One of them accidentally bumped into her and she automatically gave him a lecture about respecting girls, and there was another one who tried to be suave and ask for her number. She completely rejected him. It was strange because a girl bumped into her, and they just both apologized."

Now it really seemed as if she hated men. This was the last straw. Inuyasha finally came upon a conclusion.

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'Once she chooses you... You somehow can never stop thinking about her...'

The words that Jinenji told him repeated itself over and over again like a mantra. It was true though. He didn't think it was true. He tried telling himself that it wasn't true, but it was true. Ever since he met her, he had been desperately thinking about her, making up pretend stories about her life. Questioning the reason why it seemed as if she hated men.

It wasn't as if he liked her, but he did have to admit that she completely intrigued him. He was just desperate to know much much more about her.

His conclusion had been what all the clues pointed at as 'obvious'. Kagome hated men. She was some kind of heartbreaker... It was as if she had this all planned out; that she planned on breaking guys' hearts.

'Once she chooses you...'

She had chosen him. Did this mean that she planned on breaking his heart too?

No.

Fat chance.

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Author's Notes: Wow... This chapter's pretty long isn't it? I hope that it makes up for it being more than three days late...

I hope that you all enjoyed!

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Up Next: Nearing the end of the week, Inuyasha meets up with his very own heart breaker... And a... hey... A look on Kagome's 'wild side'... Then another possible first-time experience for the one and only Kagome Higurashi.