InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Heart Breaker Higurashi ❯ Tides Turn ( Chapter 6 )

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Authors' Notes: I'm so sorry for the delay, my (unwanted) excuse is at the bottom of the chapter... I'm really sorry!



Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha. I don't even own the DVD's or manga! (It's all about the downloading... kukuku....)



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Heart Breaker Higurashi

Chapter Six



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The drive back to the college was calm and quiet. Inuyasha had changed the radio station to something more light, which eventually soothed Kagome to sleep. It was a very long and uneventful ride, and he did not want her to be bored. The only cure for that was sleep.


As he reached the parking lot of the dormitories and parked his car, he silently watched her in her peaceful state. She looked so innocent, and to Inuyasha, that just made her even more beautiful... if that was even possible. Inside his mind he was conflicted. He debated on whether to let her sleep until she woke up because she was uncomfortable, or to just wake her up and walk her to her dorm room to get a much more comfortable rest.


After watching her for five minutes or so, and seeing her move, trying out new positions to be comfortable, he decided on the latter, and reached out to wake her up. Before he could even touch her though, her eyes opened wide as she stared at him slightly horrified.



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'You want to kiss him again? What kind of a thought is that Kagome...? He is still a man. Don't you forget that. Remember that men are just heart breakers!' Miyou said.


'Don't listen to that Kagome! Ignore that! If you keep continuing this, you will be even worse than Bankotsu. Stop now before it's too late.' Kitsuke argued.


'Are you really asking for a broken heart girl? Men just give it out to women anyway. Might as well save yourself the trouble. You can't let this guy take over your emotions like this! You're stronger than that! You know that men are the heart breakers! You, as a woman should just give them what they deserve! Haven't you already seen and heard it all? He's simply acting like all your other courtiers. Why is he so special...?' Miyou growled.


'Not all men are heart breakers! Kagome... Kagome... Listen. This might just be the last chance you have for a man to mend your broken heart. You have feelings for this boy and you know it! Why don't you just let them grow? After that break up with Bankotsu, no other man you have dated has come even remotely close to receiving the feelings that you have for Inuyasha right now. Why don't you just let him in? He can help you...' Kitsuke continued.


'Pity... I thought you were stronger than that...'


Kagome had no idea what to think anymore. Both parts of her conscience were fighting for her choice furiously. It was true that she had feelings for Inuyasha... but that could change. Just a few harsh words would need to escape from her mouth and the whole thing would be over. She couldn't possibly grow any more feelings toward Inuyasha. She had already received one painful heartbreak. Besides... she had always been afraid of pain after what she had gone through.


She felt herself get pulled back to the conscious world as the blackness that swirled around began to dissipate. Her eyelids quickly opened as she remembered just where she was.



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Inuyasha became confused from her sudden movements. Did she just have a bad dream?


"Kagome...?" he asked, looking into her eyes with concern. "Are you okay?"


Kagome averted her eyes from his. This was the first time ever where she felt so lowly compared to a man. How could she feel that way? He was supposed to feel inferior compared to her! Him! She was the respectable woman around here!


His amber eyes couldn't decipher her thoughts but he knew that she was somehow conflicting inside. What was he supposed to do now? "Kagome..." he tried again instead. He reached over to touch her shoulder but she moved away toward the little space in which she could cram herself into.


"Don't..." she said, trying to open his car door but failing. "Stupid door! Open!" she yelled.


Inuyasha could tell she was on the verge of some emotional breakdown. He couldn't help but feel pain at seeing her like this. For the past two weeks that he had known her, she had always been fiery - very argumentative, happy and sometimes even easy going. This was a completely different look for her. He hesitantly pressed the unlock button of his car and Kagome stumbled out of the car.


She turned back around to finally try and bravely face him, as her midnight hair flowed around her and her chocolate brown eyes looked up to meet his amber ones. "Thank you for today Inu... Inuyasha... It was... umm... It was a good birthday present."


He couldn't believe it! She looked so damn nervous! How the hell could that be?! Why was she nervous of him? Wasn't he slowly breaking down her walls? The past three days she showed that he was slowly succeeding... and a bit of this day too when they were both lying on the field and he gave her that kiss...


What could possibly have happened now...?


"I have to go..." she said and took off as quickly as she could toward the main building. She needed to get to the other side of the building to the other students' parking lot. She needed a drive to clear her thoughts... That was all.


He couldn't let her go without an explanation. She needed to know that he wasn't anything like Bankotsu. Even if she didn't choose to be with him in the end, he wanted to prove to her that not all men were bad and that she should give them a chance. But he couldn't help but a feel that...


'She looks like Kikyo... Maybe... Maybe... You can have her and she would make up for the loss of Kikyo...' a voice inside his head told him.


He shook his head. She may look like Kikyo, but her personality was nothing like Kikyo's... He might still love Kikyo, but he couldn't deny that he was growing feelings for Kagome. He was attracted to her personality... and her sad story with that asshole Bankotsu. He was determined to be the one to piece her together... He couldn't imagine any other man getting this close to opening her heart.


No.


This was his job. His wanted burden. He was going to succeed no matter how many times she tried to run from him. If he had to act like an asshole to complete his 'job', by hell he would act like the biggest asshole in the universe.


He jumped out of his car, locked it and quickly ran after Kagome. Being the track champion for more than nine years straight helped him reach her much faster than any ordinary person could.


His amber eyes found her running through the main building toward the other side of the students' parking lot. If he called out to her, it would be hard to get to her so he decided to just speed up. He reached her just before she touched the exit, and he trapped her against the wall just adjacent to the door.


"Hello," he smirked.


Kagome couldn't believe her eyes. How in the world did he reach up to her so quickly? "Let me go Inuyasha," she demanded, as she tried to struggle against him.


He grabbed both her wrists lightly but firmly, and placed them on either side, right next to her head. "No."


"Let me go! I swear I'll scream."


"You'll just embarrass yourself. There's no one here," he said a matter of factly.


"Gahh! Why do you have to be to infuriating?! Just let me go!" Her voice rose a notch higher.


"Tell me what's wrong..." he sightly asked although his voice held something more demanding.


Silence evaded the space between the two for a mere half minute as Kagome tried to gather her thoughts together.


"You wouldn't understand..." she finally answered as she looked down at the ground.


"Try me."



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Sango had just returned from the club along with Miroku. After a drive along the west side of the students' parking lot and finding no space, she drove her car to the east side, although this way, they would have to walk across the main building to get to their dorm building without having to freeze outside.


The pair stepped out of the car after questioning each other of Inuyasha's absence. No one at the table knew where he went off to but they believed that Kagome was a part of his plans. Ever since he met the girl she was all that was in his mind, with the few exceptions of when he met up with Kikyo. They noticed this after their long, daily chats together at Miroku and Inuyasha's dorm.


"Do you think he's back now?" Sango asked as the two slowly walked side by side to the main building.


Miroku turned to look at her and smiled that little hentai smile that only he could conjure while still looking surprisingly innocent.


Sango closed her eyes for a few seconds knowing just what perverted thoughts were running through his mind right now about Inuyasha's whereabouts.


"With his luck he's probably busy at *Dogenzaka Hill in some love motel," he said. "What a lucky man..."


She couldn't believe it. Sure Miroku was a pervert, but he never before truly implied that he really wanted to have sex. In fact he would say to some of the women he met that he 'appreciated their figure' but he never really told his friends the real 'dirt' on him. She was suddenly curious whether he was a virgin or not, but for some reason she was afraid of what his answer would be.


'He's a pervert, that's all he is. He doesn't have any real feelings Sango. Just ask. It's not like it means anything to you if he really isn't one,' she decided, but deep down she knew... she just knew she would feel some pain if he spoke the 'wrong' answer.


He stopped when he realized that she stopped a few steps behind him. He turned around and gazed at her questioningly. "Is there something wrong Sango?" he asked as he stared appreciatively at her. He had to admit that although he had dated quite a few beautiful young women before, he couldn't help but think that the one he couldn't have, had broken all his other thoughts of what he thought beauty was. Sango was just too hard to describe in words, in his view.


Even if she was gawking at him like that like an idiot.


"Sango?" he tried again. This finally got her mind out of wherever it must have been.


She shook her head. 'Should I ask?' she thought curiously. Then she made up her mind.


"Let's go to the dorm and we can make up a whole story about Inuyasha's possibly wild night," he suggested.


Sango blushed at the slightly vulgar implication of sex by Miroku, but this just made her all the more curious. "Miroku?" she heard herself call.


"Yes?"


As blunt as she could possibly ask the question, "Are you a virgin?"


He couldn't believe what she had just asked him. He didn't think that Sango would be the type of person to ask things like that, but here she was asking him if had ever had intercourse before, and for once in his life, he felt ashamed of himself and nervous.


She didn't like the silence that surrounded them as Miroku shuffled dirt beneath his shoes. She was surprised to see that for once he wasn't the carefree man who always somehow held himself up with elegance... no matter how uncomfortable his remarks were to some people who were used to hearing such blunt implications of sex.


Never had she imagined that she would see Miroku's shoulders sag, looking like a guilty child caught having his hand stuck right in the middle of claiming a cookie from the jar. Just then, he looked up into his eyes, and she knew the answer.


'Oh' was all she could force herself to say. She knew she shouldn't have asked. Now she felt the pain. She didn't even know why she felt it. Maybe the fact that she was just taught that both people in a relationship were to remain pure until they were married... Such ancient customs.


Wait a minute... Relationship?! When did that come out?


"Sango. Never had I imagined being in such a conversation with you. I never wanted to tell anyone... or you for that matter. I was ashamed of what I did and I swear-" he tried, but she held up her hand to stop him.


She quickly brought her guard back up and steadied her voice. "Miroku. You and I aren't together. What makes you think that you would ever need to apologize for something like that? Especially to me? We're friends here. I just wanted to know. I mean, friends tell each other everything don't they?" she smiled. She couldn't help but feel a bit betrayed though. She couldn't help it, and she knew that she didn't have the right to feel anything about her new knowledge of Miroku. "I just feel a little curious as to why you've never told us this before."


"You never asked- I never wanted to tell you..." he admitted he knew of the way Sango was brought up and he knew about her beliefs... Maybe that was why she liked to reprimand him whenever his eyes and hands wandered around...


"Why? Of all the people we're friends with, why should I matter? Tell me anything Miroku. We're the best of friends from our group, I can absolutely say that you're the closest friend I ever had." Why in the world did she feel like just breaking down right now?


Silence once again caught up with them for a second before Miroku opened his mouth and began to speak.


"Because Sango I-"


Suddenly a flash of silver caught the attention of the two and they noticed that it was Inuyasha and he was... running after someone?


"What's going on?" Sango asked, deciding to follow him.


Miroku stared gloomily at her retreating back. She was never really one to have such a deep conversation with, and for once he had gathered up all his confidence and courage to tell her how he truly felt about her without... showing her physically, and she... she just dismissed it without a second thought to find out what was going with Inuyasha.


He sighed. Sango was Sango. He was saddened that he had to answer he was not a virgin, but he was more saddened by the fact that she wouldn't listen to him speak.


He was always a man who was sexually open, but when Sango had given him that look when he didn't answer her... he felt so dirty right then and there and he wished that he could take it all back if it meant that he would have a chance with her. Curse old customs.


Gathering up his usual posture once again, he forced a smile to his lips and hurried after her. "You walk so fast Sango! But I thank you for such a great view!" he exclaimed once he caught up with her.


He was met with a whack on the backside of his head as the two silently walked into the main building where Inuyasha fled to... just as if nothing so intense had just occurred.


What their eyes met with was a crying Kagome and a usually gruff Inuyasha trying desperately to calm her down with such soothing words that were so uncommon of him, that they have never heard him speak it even when he had tried to cheer Kikyo up.



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"Let me go! I don't want to tell you anything! I don't have to! Just let me go you big jerk!" Kagome clenched her jaw and gritted her teeth.


"Jerk? Oh so now you're calling me a jerk after-" No... This wasn't the right way to go. He calmed down and looked straight into her eyes. "Why can't you just tell me what's the matter Kag," he asked.


Just then her stormy eyes opened wide as she looked at him shocked. "Don't you ever call me that!" she yelled.


Inuyasha became confused. What was her problem? It was just a nickname... No... Now wasn't the time. "Kagome..." he tried again. "Listen."


Kagome turned her head away from him and averted her eyes, but he took her chin and gently but forcibly made her face him again.


"I know about your plan. I know what you do to those men Kagome... Why can't you let me help you?"


She growled and stared straight back into his eyes. "Help me? You? You're a man and all men are-" she tried to shove him away but he wouldn't budge. "JERKS! Big, heartless, cowardly JERKS and I hate each and every one of them! I don't understand how women could love such degrading creatures-" she began yelling.


Inuyasha grabbed the hand that he let free when he turned her to face him, and he placed it back on the side of her head against the wall. He leaned down and gently brushed his lips against hers and this caused her to stop her sentence. "Just give this one degrading creature a chance..." he silently asked.


Kagome turned her head again and became silent for a minute. Inuyasha sighed that it was all over, but was startled to find himself flat on his behind the next second as Kagome towered over him. "You just couldn't leave it alone could you? How could you even care for a person like me? All my friends back in that high school told me that I needed to move on... That I was crazy for letting him take over my life... but they left me alone. Then you. You come along and barge into everything! Why do you care? Why should any man care about a woman? Why..." she looked down at Inuyasha's surprised facial expression and whispered, "What have I done...? I let him take over me..." she turned around and looked straight into one of the windows where the light hit just right so people could clearly see their reflection. "I've become a monster... I've become the exact thing I've hated..."


He slowly rose up from his fallen position and looked over at her reflection; his golden eyes practically piercing a hole through the glass. "Kagome..." he said as he walked over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. She flinched but didn't move away as he expected her to.


"I... I don't deserve what you're doing for me..." she said softly.


He turned her around and grabbed both of her hands placing them in the same position once again, against the wall. "I'm a stubborn guy Kagome and I thought you've figured that out by now. I made up my mind to help you and I sure as hell won't back down from that choice."


She looked up at him, her eyes becoming glassy with moisture.


Inuyasha saw so much intense pain and regret in those eyes that he just wanted to look away, but he had to prove his point. "Dammit woman. I've only known you for two weeks and you've made me act like someone I've stopped being a while ago. I promised myself that I wouldn't go back to the way I was 'cause back then I was just some idiot sucker who would fall for anything..." he chuckled. "If my idiot brother were here, he would probably snap his head from nodding and agreeing so much... I'm not a total idiot anymore - ignore that my brother would disagree. I've done my research on you before acting on attractions."


Kagome couldn't believe what she was hearing. Was this the same guy who didn't want to talk about his past just that morning in the restaurant?


"...But," he continued to explain. "I'm a sucker again, and I have to admit after these two weeks, not caring about you - no matter how big a bitch you can really act at times -"


"Thanks," she mumbled.


He ignored that and continued. "It's impossible. It's impossible not to care about you..." he blushed. Should he really reveal all this to her? Yeah... it was probably for the best. If he didn't, she definitely wouldn't let him prove to her that not all men were like Bankotsu. Some actually had feelings. "... It's also impossible not to think about you. I talked to Jinenji-"


Kagome gasped a surprise.


"He told me something interesting... He said something like how you seemed to be some kind of goddess or was that nymph? Whatever... He told me that you were like - one of those - and it seemed as if you casted a spell on every man who was your target so that they would never stop thinking about you. Ever since I've met you, I-" he really didn't want to admit it.


"Thought about me?" she asked, finishing his dreadfully embarrassing sentence for him.


He looked down at the ground all the while still holding her hands on either side of her head. "Yeah," he blushed. "Don't you dare tell anyone about this..." he warned.


Kagome's gray-blue eyes lit up now as she gave a little laugh at that. "Thank you Inuyasha..." she said gratefully. "I promise I won't tell anyone else-"


"Anyone else? What's that supposed to mean?" he asked in a slightly playful annoyed tone.


"Well... there's always Yuka, Eri and Ayumi to tell..." she began listing off the top of her head. "Now they'll see just how 'flawless' you really are Mr. Sucker."


"You wouldn't dare..." he growled.


"Try me," she said simply, throwing his previously said words right back at him.


Inuyasha leaned his head back down and took her in a deep kiss.



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Sango glanced over at Miroku looking slightly uncomfortable. "Should we be watching this?" she asked.


"Of course!" Miroku answered. His violet eyes dancing with excitement as he thought of all the possible words he could say in order to blackmail his friend into practically anything he wanted.


She glared over at him now, her chocolate eyes burning at him. "You... You are such a vouyer!" she exclaimed, although her voice was still hushed so their hide out wouldn't be found by their two friends.


He looked at her offended. "I am not!" he defended. He decided to explain. "I could use this as black mail-" he began.


"Oh no you don't!" she argued.


"Yes I can Sango. The only two people who can change my mind are either *Muushin or a girlfriend of mine," he stated. "Now Sango, if you don't want me to start black mailing our friend here, you have to become either Muushin or my girlfriend. Which one will it be?"


Sango sighed and began retreating back to the west parking lot. She certainly didn't want to interrupt Inuyasha or Kagome. She knew their tempers and... Lets just say that she wanted to graduate college... physically... not spiritually. "It's your choice vouyer, to commit suicide when I thought you loved life so much. Now, I'm going around and to my dorm. You still have to come with me if you don't really want to die."


Miroku looked over from Inuyasha and Kagome to Sango and back again. He sighed. He guessed living was better than black mailing.


Besides... he had enough material to last him at least until they reached their third year of college.



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Author's Notes: I apologize greatly for not updating in... what was that...? Three weeks? Two? I really don't want to count the dates, but I thank you so much for continuing to read. I took my spring vacation last week and during the other two weeks, I've been busy with the end of my Sophomore project. It's all over, and hopefully my growing writer's block for this story won't continue to grow so that I can write more chapters for you all.



I'm sorry for not having such a lengthy chapter out for you all to make up for my delayed chapter, and I'm sorry for such a crappy ending for the chapter, but as I've mentioned, I am really starting to grow a writer's block for this story, and although I know about how everything's going to end, and all the events between this chapter and the ending, I have to admit that it's becoming harder and harder for me to type them down in so many words. Outlines really can't help with that.



***Dogenzaka Hill is situated in Japan's teen hangout city, Shibuya. At around twelve midnight, some teens go back home using the trains, go to the clubs or love motels which Dogenzaka Hill is famous for.

***Muushin is/ was Miroku's guardian in the show.



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