InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Heart Breaker Higurashi ❯ Art ( Chapter 8 )

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Heart Breaker Higurashi


Chapter Eight



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Is it only in the surface?


Take a deeper look...


Is everything all in your plain sight?



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Everything was going great. The two had somehow managed to get to know each other better despite all the arguments that erupted every now and then. It was as if both were the last puzzle piece in each others' lives. For Kagome, she was finally beginning to open up again - finally able to trust. As for Inuyasha, he had finally found someone who could instantly burn up the flame of frustration in him, yet blow it out all in one minute. He had also found someone who would and could finally tolerate - and many times - win arguments with him.


He had never had that with Kikyo.



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It had been one whole month since the two had first met... Since they had their first argument... Since they had their first kiss, but if a stranger were to pass by the two, it would seem to them that the two had known each other since the first day they opened their eyes.


The random kisses were gone, replaced by hugs and the occasional kiss on the cheek. Somehow, they had both silently agreed to take things slower - to finally lay the first real 'step' towards beginning a somewhat 'normal' relationship. They decided that they liked things better this way.



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"I c-can't f-f-eel m-my f-fe-eet K-K-Kag-g-ome!" Inuyasha complained while shivering from the intense cold that began at the soles of his feet, and traveled up his legs to almost everywhere in his body.


"Ssshhh... Quiet Inuyasha. Just a couple more minutes okay?" The raven haired young woman asked her impatient boyfriend.


She had decided that drawing random feelings and emotions would be a good way to exercise her art skills, and thought that Inuyasha would make a great model.


How wrong she was.


He had been complaining from day one of her exercises in which she wanted Inuyasha to just lay there on the sofa as comfortably and as content as he could. She didn't think that it would be so hard for a lazy guy like him to lay his bum on the couch for more than two hours while he got to watch the television behind her. Every thirty minutes, she would even let him take a five minute break from laying so still.


He complained for the duration of those two hours beginning with: 'Why the hell do I have to model for these stupid exercises anyway? It's stupid you know, your professor never told you that you had to do it but nooo... you just want to make life harder on yourself and me! Besides! Do you have any idea how much time you're wasting just doing this?'


... And it ended with a session cut twenty minutes shorter than it should have been, and a drawing only eighty percent finished, with the words: 'Screw this damn it! Stupid wench! I have better things to do with my time...'... and the slamming of the dorm door.


Kagome looked at Inuyasha angrily. "If you don't keep your mouth shut for at least twenty minutes, I will personally shove that ice down your pants Inuyasha. I know that my art professor didn't ask us to do this but he highly recommended it because in two weeks we're going to start sketching and painting live models who he said will each hold a certain emotion on their faces or body. I just want to do my best on this Inuyasha. Art is important to me!"


The only words that reached Inuyasha's ears were 'We're going to start sketching and painting live models'...
"You're going to do what?!" he growled.


"What are you talking about?"


"What the fuck did you say about live fucking models? Do they happen to be men Kagome?!"


Kagome didn't understand. Inuyasha had never acted this way before. "Umm... Well I'm pretty sure that there will be some male models for us to-" she began before he rudely cut off.


"Are they going to be fucking naked?!" he asked harshly, his voice was beginning to carry an edge to it.


"Yeah... Professor Fujuki also told us that we were going to begin getting comfortable with drawing the human anatomy-"


"Yeah well why can't you use a freaking dummy with parts huh? Same thing isn't it? Just make it pose or something. There's no way in hell I'm letting you draw some naked perverted asshole who couldn't keep his clothes on in a room full of women!" he said hysterically.


Something behind Kagome's eyes lit up. Now she got it... "You're jealous, aren't you Inuyasha?" she asked suspiciously, yet teasingly.


"Who the hell said that?" he argued.


"Why don't you want me seeing naked men Inuyasha? It's for art! It's not like I'll have time to enjoy looking at them-" she paused. That didn't come out right...


"Who the fuck cares what it's for? And even if you did have the time! You're implying something you know!" he continued.


She shook her head and couldn't help but smile a little. "I'm no pervert Inuyasha. I'm not comfortable looking at naked men and I highly doubt I'd even be comfortable drawing them... But..."


"But what?"


"But it's for art. It's art Inuyasha! Haven't you ever been inside of an art museum before? The works there are all gorgeous and dramatic and someone can get completely overwhelmed with all the emotions in just one piece alone, and at times, the men and women portrayed in the pictures aren't very well dressed. It's very dramatic really..." she explained.


Inuyasha gave her a confused look before then shook his head.


"Then... Let's go!" She said, grabbing a jacket and throwing a towel for Inuyasha. "Dry yourself and let's go!" she said.


"Wh-Where are we going?" he asked and he dried his nearly numb feet on the towel.


"You'll see," she smiled as she three his shoes at him. "You're so slow!" she berated Inuyasha.


"Quiet wench," he growled as he finished up and followed her out the door.


As the two reached the outside of the girls' dormitory, Kagome smiled up at the sky. It had begun to get chilly, and as she exhaled she smiled as a puff of her breath came out as fog from her lips. Inuyasha looked her way and smiled.


Kagome caught his glance. "Why? What? Is there something on my face?" she asked automatically bringing up her hand to wipe away any offending dirt.


He chuckled and shook his head. "No, it was nothing... Now. Where'd you say we were going? Or was this just a trick to freeze my ass off even more?" he asked.


She laughed at that, and as Inuyasha had noticed lately, her smiles, her laughs... they all reached her eyes unlike before. "No, no. Come on. I'd rather walk," she said as she pulled her buttoned sweater tighter around her.


Inuyasha stood his ground for a second more, just watching as she walked away from him, with an air of contentment.


"Come on slow poke!" she called out to him from over her shoulder.


He sped up his pace a little to catch up to her.


Kagome smiled at him when he reached her, and as the two walked side by side toward their destination, Kagome took Inuyasha's gloved hand in hers.



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"There's an admission's fee to this place but it's not that much, so do you want to come in?" Kagome asked the awestricken Inuyasha.


He shook himself out of his reverie and nodded. "Yeah sure. Don't worry about it..." he said as he walked up to the booth to pay the entrance fee.


"Oh, you don't have to pay-" she began as she dug through her bag for her wallet, but just as she found the rectangular wallet, Inuyasha had already dragged her away from the booth and toward the entrance.


"Now look who's the 'slow poke'," he quoted.


It took a couple seconds before something registered inside Kagome head, then she began laughing.


"What? The hell's so funny?" he asked her.


It took her a while to calm herself down to answer him. "You... I just never thought you'd be they type of person to say 'slow poke'," she commented.


"Feh."



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T he art exhibit was beautiful... At least in Kagome's point of view. Inuyasha just followed her, eyeing some art pieces but never really commenting. As they passed by one particular painting though, Inuyasha stopped completely to examine it.


"Why? What?" Kagome asked as she looked over at the painting Inuyasha was currently looking at.


It was a beautiful painting with a snowy landscape. One lone pair of foot prints was embedded in the snow that led to a young woman, her back faced toward the viewers. By the way the colors had been carefully placed, although the woman's face had not been shown, one could almost feel inside themselves, the joy that she felt, walking there in the vast powdery landscape.


Inuyasha couldn't help but feel anxious to see winter with Kagome.



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Author's Notes:


(Inuyasha's, and a bit of Kagome's are a bit ambiguous here right now, and I did that purposefully.)


I know that the story kind of breaks off from my other chapters and I'm sorry if it's a great contrast, but as I've been skimming through the chapters, I felt no true emotions emitting from it. That made me disappointed in myself and want to cease writing this story completely, but I couldn't for the sake of my readers. (Not that I'm saying that this chapter hold more emotion that the others... I'm not sure...). I guess I'll just have to do some major editing when I'm finished with this fiction.


I'm also extremely sorry for the delay and the short chapter that I've come up with. The Philippines was great and I had absolutely no time to write a chapter for any of my fics. I'm going to keep trying, but I'm warning you all that my updates will be very slow thanks to my junior year teachers, so instead of going after me, how about getting rid of them first? *Grins*. J/k.


One more thing: I love you my awesome readers! Thank you so much for your patience in me! I hope that you still continue to read despite my delayed updates.