InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Heart Breaker Higurashi ❯ Kisses ( Chapter 7 )

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Heart Breaker Higurashi


Chapter Seven



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It was as if being bored in class was never such a big deal to Kagome anymore. Her classmates were beginning to get a bit suspicious at her actions for she seemed a lot happier than she did the last time they had class. She also seemed to be much nicer to the guys, and she didn't act hostile once, when a man accidentally stepped on her foot.


What brought out this sudden change in her?


Many wondered the same thing, as Kagome just continued to lightly hum a familiar tune as she sketched and shaded a piece of balled up paper in front of her.


Sango stared at her new friend, knowing exactly what brought on the change... to be exact... who brought out her change. It had already been a week since that scene in the main building, but she couldn't help but think back to it every now and then. Inuyasha never acted like that. Not even with Kikyo. He would comfort her, but usually he would keep his mouth shut and just stay by her side knowing that his mouth wasn't the best comforting tool.


Why had he acted so differently with Kagome?


He had only known her for two weeks back then, so he couldn't have possibly loved her. Besides, it was Inuyasha. It took him months to even begin noticing his true feelings for a person.


Maybe... Maybe... He-


"Sango? Could you please pass me that grey charcoal there?" Kagome asked her friend, who was sitting at her immediate right.


Sango snapped out of her reverie. "Oh... Of course..." she said, handing the said object with a light smile.


"Thanks," the stormy-eyed woman said, continuing to sketch and shade once more.


The teacher stood from his desk, noticing that time was running out. He began to investigate his students' attempts at sketching various objects around the room, and stopped at once particular student.


"Sango. What... exactly are you attempting to draw?" he asked.


His student seemed to jump a bit at her teacher's voice, and blushed with embarrassment as she noticed her doodling for the first time since she pressed her charcoal pencil against the white of the paper.


Kagome looked over at the two conversing and began to get a bit curious. She moved her chair slightly closer to Sango's side in order to see what the hold up was and smirked when she saw it.


"Sango... Is that... Miroku?"



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When the bell rang, Sango had never more embarrassed in her life. She let a crumpled piece of paper leave her fist as she passed by a garbage can, to dispose of her 'mindless doodling'. Kagome wasn't as silent as Sango hoped she would be. Instead, the girl was trying to hard to hold back her laughter, but managed to fail every now and then.


"I can't believe you drew him! You weren't even paying attention to it either!" she exclaimed.


'Kill me... Just kill me now...' the embarrassed young woman thought, as she covered her face in her hands.


They finally reached the parking lot and Kagome seemed to have more control over herself. Maybe she was just tired of laughing so much, or maybe it was because Inuyasha was standing right there, and she didn't want to look like a psycho... Sango would never know.


"Hey," the silver-haired young man greeted the two.


"Hi Inuyasha," Sango waved.


Kagome just simply smiled at the man she was now officially with and walked over to his side. Her friend and classmate looked over at her watched and began to hurry away at a quick pace.


"I'm sorry you two, but I've got another class in six minutes!" she called after them. "Bye!"


Kagome and Inuyasha answered Sango with an 'okay' and a 'keh', then waved goodbye to her retreating back, before they turned to face each other.


Although they had been truly 'seeing' each other for the past week, they still couldn't help but feel a bit awkward around each other. Now that Kagome knew that Inuyasha had known her secret all along, and after she had broken down in front of him a week ago, she couldn't help but feel self-conscious around him.


Inuyasha had felt a bit awkward too because now that he had finally gotten Kagome to come out of her 'hate all men' mode, he didn't know where to go from there. They barely talked to each other for the past week knowing very well that uncomfortable silences would occur at any given time during the conversation, and for the three days that they had been out to fast food restaurants, they mostly just ate their meals in silence.


The only time when the two didn't feel so awkward were those very many times when they would finally look at each other, look into each others' eyes, and kiss.


Kagome looked over at her boyfriend. "We need to talk Inuyasha."


The said boy looked over at her with a curious glance. Talk? She wasn't... she wasn't going to... break up with him was she? Sure he wasn't being all too interesting, but... he had told her that he would help her. He knew that she wasn't completely healed yet, and when they were together, a part of her was still closed off... if he only knew that she just felt so conscious around him.


She gave him a penetrating look before realizing what he probably thought she meant. "I- I don't mean it like that! No... I mean... How.. How do we end this whole... not talking to each other thing? It's getting a bit irritating if you ask me... and it's getting a little ridiculous. I mean, we've both dated before, and now here we are acting like inexperienced pre-teens," she stated forwardly.


Inuyasha couldn't help but smile at this. "Keh. Don't you think I know that? Why can't you just go and start up conversation like you did before this whole thing became official?" he glared.


"Oh, so now the silence is my fault?" she asked in a low, threatening voice.


He crossed his arms over his chest and stared smugly at her. "Yeah. It is," he replied.


She balled her fists and he could have sworn that he saw steam come out of her ears. "How can you say that you jerk?!"


He continued with his smug stare. "You should know better. I suck at starting up conversation. You're the better conversationalist here and so far, you haven't proved to be a very interesting girlfriend."


She growled right then and there. "That is not a liable excuse you idiotic, haughty, selfish, egotistical, ignorant-"


She stopped then, because his mouth had completely covered hers. When he pulled away, she couldn't help but blush.


"... You may not be very interesting right now, but you're one hell of a person to look at."


This caused her to blush all the more.


"I hate you," she replied.


"Never said I liked you very much either," he countered.



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"How the hell do you strike conversation up with a girl?"


Sesshomaru stared blankly at his brother, who currently had his feet crossed on the desk.


"This is interesting. Asking advice from your brother now are you Inuyasha?"


"Keh, don't act so cocky. Miroku's still in class and I'm bored," he quipped.


"No need to become defensive little brother. I'm just surprised to see you finally imply your lack of communication with the opposite sex."


"Asshole. That's not what I'm trying to fucking imply."


The older of the two brothers studied his brother carefully. "I'm hoping that one day you will find someone who will finally be able to wash that foul moth of yours with disinfectant," he returned.


This seemed to set Inuyasha off even more, but he just received an amused stare from his brother. "Just answer the question cow shit."


"If I'm not mistaken, you're the one who asked me for help in the first place. Now if I'm disrespected again, I may just not answer that question of yours."


Inuyasha made a move to stand up. "Fine then. I'll just wait for Miroku to finish his class."


Sesshomaru raised a brow. "You will actually ask someone who has possibly less experience on how to court a woman? I would have thought that you actually liked this girl and not want to ruin the relationship so easily."


Inuyasha settled back to his original position. "It's not like you care anyway. Who even said that I liked this girl that much huh? I offered to help her. That's all."


"Oh yes, and by 'helping' you mean kissing and becoming her boyfriend?"


This made Inuyasha blush. "Shut the hell up."


Sesshomaru walked across the room to the windows where he began to look out from. "Do you truly like her?"


How could he answer that question? Most of the time that he had known her, she was faking her actions. He still had no idea who the real Kagome was. "I can't answer that..."


As if he had read his little brother's mind he replied, "Figure out who she truly is first, then when you realize the answer to my question, you can ask me for help."


Inuyasha looked up to his brother. "She's really gotten into you didn't she?" he smirked.


"It's not like I had planned it."


"You're getting soft big bro."


"Shut your mouth or I will refuse to help you."


Inuyasha became quiet. He had told Kagome that he would help her, and he needed help with someone who could actually hold a concrete relationship with a girl. He needed help from Sesshomaru, and that was a big deal. His brother was a bastard, but when he really needed it, Sesshomaru would always help him out. "Uuuh... Fine. So as long as you'll help."


Sesshomaru turned around to face his brother, with a rare hint of a smirk on his lips. "For a moment there I thought you might actually say those two forbidden words, 'thank you'," he said.


"Keh. I'd rather kiss a toad's ass."


Pinching the bridge of his nose, the oldest brother sighed. "This is what I get for agreeing to help you. So be it. You were always an ungrateful prick in my view."


There was a neutral silence for a quick five seconds in the room, then Inuyasha began to laugh. Sesshomaru couldn't help but finally complete his smirk, then there was silence again.


Then... "Inuyasha."


"What?"


"Get your feet off my desk."



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Kagome just returned to her dorm, after her last class for the day. She sat down at her desk, preparing herself to do some work, but her mind became distracted as she stared at her wallet sitting right in the middle of the desk.


"I don't know why you still bother to keep that stupid picture Kagome... It's been years now, and you still refuse to let it go..."


"If you can just let go of everything that's happened in your past, then you'll finally be able to have a healthy, normal relationship with someone else..."


How cold her mother say such positive things like that? Her husband had broken her heart many times before, when she found clues now and then that he had been cheating on her... This had continued until he just decided to abandon his family for his secretary.


"Why does what Bankotsu did to you affect you so much Kagome?"


She never thought that what happened to her mother would ever happen with her and Bankotsu. She thought that they would grow up, get married and grow old together. She never once doubted his love for her... until she had found out that he probably never cared about her.


Why did his action affect her so much more than the average girl?


She couldn't help but curse out every man after what she found out he did. She couldn't help but let the thought that all men were cheating jerks invade her mind. Maybe it was because after her dad had left her family had a huge financial crisis, for he was the only one in their family who had worked then. Everyone had relied on him for everything. When he left, her family had struggled so much.


Then Bankotsu came... and she came to rely on him. It was all about him. Then she found out... she found out... She became devastated again. She for once wanted men to rely on women and hurt them. She wanted them to feel the pain that two very important men in her life had made her and her family feel.


She grabbed her wallet and scoured around for the picture, and when she found it, she took it out and laid it flat on her desk and stared at it.


'Now what Kagome? Are you finally going to throw it away? You're finally getting 'help' from Inuyasha.'


What was she going to do with it? She should have thrown it away a while ago, but she somehow couldn't help but hold on to it. It was as if she had fun torturing herself with his image, every time she looked through her wallet. She could finally let go... couldn't she?


She grabbed the picture and took both her hands to tear it apart. It was over. Not all men were like him and her dad... Well at least certainly not Inuyasha... right? She would just have to wait and see.


She took the torn remnants of the picture and threw it away.


"Now. That wasn't so hard was it?"



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Kagome stared at Inuyasha across the short span of the fast food diner's table.


"You know kisses are just one of the pluses of being in a relationship," she said, as she grabbed a fry and dipped it into a cup of ketchup before sticking it into her mouth.


"Yeah well, there's really nothing to talk about with you-" he began.


"Oh, and before that whole incident at the main building... Was I really this boring? 'Cause you sure made one hell of an effort to strike up conversation," she rolled her eyes at him.


"Oh so now the pressure's on me huh? After I tell you that I'll help you, this is the thanks I get!"


She crossed her arms and shot him a dark glare. "Uh huh. So just because you say you're going to help me, I'm the one who has to go and keep this stupid, good for nothing relationship from burning to the ground?"


No she was pissed. "I... I didn't mean it that way- Well maybe bu-"


"No but's Inuyasha. You are a jerk," she turned her head to the side so she wouldn't face him.


"Kagome... Hey... Don't do this-"


"Oh, so it's my problem?"


"No! Look... Let's just pretend that I didn't say all that shit that I just said okay? It's just that this whole thing is kinda weird to me and everything. I've only had one other real relationship... and that worked out like shit for me. What I meant to say instead of all that other crap, was that if you could help me out a little here then I'll be fine," he explained. He still never really was one to apologize, but somehow he managed to get around those words 'I'm sorry' successfully.


Kagome sighed and looked down at the table. "Okay. Fine. Let's start this day over..."


"Yeah... I'd like that," he said, smiling up at her.


She looked at and smiled at him too. "You know... something really interesting happened yesterday during art."


"Yeah? Hey, isn't Sango in that class too?"


"Uh huh. Speaking of her... she's kinda what I wanted to talk to you about. You know, she and Miroku really have potential."


"Potential? As in what potential? Sango's potential to kill Miroku if he touches her again? 'Cause I've already known that."


"No... No. I mean... Potential... together... You know?"


Inuyasha bursted out laughing. After some five minutes or so, he settled down enough to speak. "Hah! You're kidding me right? Sango and Miroku? Miroku likes every girl he sees ad Sango's more likely to commit a murder when he's around. I've known them for years, and there's no way that they have," he held both hands up and quoted, "'Potential'."


Kagome sighed.


"I'm serious. It's ridiculous!"


"Is not! You've known them for years, but you're a guy. You're just too unobservant to notice that Miroku seems to like spending time with Sango even more than the usual pretty girl... and he's also been on Sango's mind very much..."


"That can't be right," he said disbelievingly.


"Oh fine. Don't believe me. But if you ask my art professor which character Sango was mindlessly doodling, he would describe a young man with a small pony tail behind his head, which he's probably seen around, groping the female models he hires for us to sketch," she answered.


He smiled... then his smiled turned into a big grin... which them turned into laughter. Soon after, Kagome followed suit.


"Oh my gosh, Sango was sooo embarrassed, she turned so red, then tore off the paper from the sketch pad. I couldn't help but think 'poor Sango', the whole entire time. It must have been sooo embarrassing for her. I mean, some of the people there knew who Miroku was... More girls than guys..."


"We're talking about the same Sango here right? You know the same abusive-to-Miroku Sango?"


"Yep."


He smiled again then reached across the table to grasp both her hands. This made her look up at him and smile.


"This is fun..." he said with that same smile.


'Yeah... it is."


"You know. I was just kidding when I said you were uninteresting... but... I seriously meant it when I said you're really worth looking at."


This caused Kagome to blush.


"Sooo... can we kiss now? I've been waiting the whole entire date you know," he smirked.


She looked up at him surprised. "You know... this is the first time you asked," she said.


"I know... so can we?"


She stood up from the booth and walked outside of the fast food restaurant. Inuyasha stared at her, confused for a second, but followed her out none the less.


"What's wrong?" he asked, concerned.


She looked down at the ground. "I... I just didn't want our first 'asked' kiss to be inside of a place where all those people could see us..." she mumbled.


He grinned and lifted up her chin to face him. She stared up at him and smiled before he closed the distance between them and kissed her. When they pulled away the same grin was still plastered onto his mouth.


"Kissing is definitely one of the pluses of being in a relationship," he said as the took her hand and led her back to his car.



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"Sango. What in the world are you doing? Not that I mind very much..." Miroku asked, as he stared appreciatively at Sango's behind. Before he knew it, a red hand print began glowing on his cheek.


The said woman turned to face the lecher.


Miroku looked at her confused. "I thought you'd only punish me if it were the doing of my cursed hands my dear Sango..." he questioned. "But... You do seem more violent than my usual animalistic Sango today and yesterday come to think of it... Why is that?"


Sango turned red. 'Oh no... No one told him right? I mean yesterday after all her classes, Kagome just went straight to her dorm and today... well today she's here with Inuyasha...' she panicked. 'I don't think he'll stop groping me after he finds out what I unintentionally in art class yesterday...'


"Sango...?"


"It's nothing okay I just feel like giving out some bonus hits when you say something perverted. And that whole 'animalistic' thing... You meant it to have a double meaning didn't you?" she asked wearily.


Miroku just stared at her guiltily.


A second glowing hand print was added to the other cheek.


A moment of silence was held between them for a minute when Miroku turned back to his first question. "What are you doing anyways my dear Sango?"


"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm trying to make sure Inuyasha doesn't do anything stupid when he's with Kagome. She's had a really bad past before and I just don't think she can handle anything more like that... and Inuyasha's the best person to repeat the mistakes," she explained.


"So spying on them behind the restaurant's bush will ensure that he won't mess up?" he asked.


"Well... Yes... I guess. I mean..."


"And what did you mean by 'Inuyasha's the best person to repeat the mistakes'?"


She sighed. "You know how he's still fawning over Kikyo. It's obvious when we see him talk to her... I just hope... I just hope Kagome will make him forget about that two timing witch..."


Miroku nodded. "I see..." he said, and the two continued to spy behind the fast food restaurant's bush.



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Author's Notes: I know, I know... You can stomp on me now if you want to. I'm sorry for the delay, but I've been having a terrible author's block along with my school work which ended a while ago. I also put as part of the summary that this story was on hiatus. I'm sorry for that, I really am, and I'll try my best to continue on. I really do apologize.


I also apologize in advance because I won't be able to update next month either. I am going to have a vacation in the Philippines, wherein I might not be able to write and post. I really hope that I can find a reliable computer there, and I'll try, but I can't be too sure.


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