InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Heaven and Hell ❯ Date? WTF? ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.

Kagome walked from her math class with a sigh. This day sucked and after how weird last night had been she was not sure she would be up for her shift tonight. All three of the girls worked shifts in the club even though they were all part owners. It saved them on hiring too much extra help. Plus renovating the upper part of the factory into an apartment had been a bit of inspiration on Legion’s part. Living at the shrine after her family had died was impossible. She had closed it up and moved in with Sango. Shaking her mind from the dark thoughts, she returned to the events of the night before. A friggin’ dog demon, but he hadn’t quite felt like a demon. Oh well, hopefully, he would take the hint and never come back. She glanced down at her watch checking the time. An hour for lunch and then she had her history of medicine class at one-thirty. She hoped the university cafeteria would have oden. She smiled just thinking about her favorite food. Oden, oden, oden!

Kagome’s introspection, however, prevented her from noticing the person following her. She might have ducked into a bathroom and snuck out the window if she had. She reached the crowded cafeteria pushing through the tables to the line. Quite a few students had laptops out making use of the university’s new wireless Internet. She would have liked to have a laptop, but until the three of them had the bank note on the club paid it was necessities only. Books, papers, and trays covered the tables. As the line moved, her spirits soared as she saw that oden indeed was being offered today. Her normal smile returned to her face. It made her ten times more beautiful although she didn’t think she was anything impressive. Others would argue that.

After getting her oden and a drink she struggled through the heavy lunch crowd to find an empty table. Luckily as she moved towards the windows a couple got up to put their trays away. They motioned that they were leaving. She smiled gratefully to them as she sat down at the little two- person table. Digging through her backpack, she found her notes from last session. She wanted to skim them in case the teacher decided to give them a pop quiz. She ate and looked over her notes at the same time. Someone sat down on the opposite side of the table bringing Kagome abruptly out her reverie. She brought those chocolate brown eyes up to meet a pair of unfortunately familiar golden orbs. She wanted to cry. ‘Why me? What did I do to deserve this twice?’

Kagome felt her smile and good mood disappear. She refused to speak to this jerk again. She made to gather up her things when his hand shot out and grabbed her wrist. Inuyasha gave her smirk, because he now had the advantage. He knew who she was, where she was from, what was studying, etc. She still didn’t know who he was or how much power and leverage he had to get the answers he wanted. Kagome was beginning to get angry again. Did he have to grab her by the wrist like that? “Let me go,” Kagome said softly with a touch of threat in her tone. She was in no mood to put up with another argument with a stupid jerk.

“Oi, bitch,” Inuyasha said with a smile. “I just wanted to talk to you.”

“My name is Kagome, not bitch, baka.” Kagome managed to get past her gritted teeth. All this anger and tension had to be hell on her teeth. The jerk across the table only seemed to get a bigger grin. Inuyasha watched her jaw clench when he called her bitch. She was cute when she was angry.

“Bitch,” he said just to see how far he could push her.

“Stop calling me that!” Kagome was trying to count to ten, but she kept losing count.

“No, Bitch,” he said with a smile and he would have crossed his arms across his chest, but letting go of her would have been mistake.

Kagome finally had enough. “MY NAME IS KAGOME! K-A-G-O-M-E! KAGOME! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?! NOT BITCH!” She made to stand up and stomp off, but she had forgotten that Inuyasha was still holding onto her wrist. So he nearly gave her whiplash when she got jerked back by it. Her eyes were full of fire. The entire cafeteria had gone silent at her outburst, but she didn’t seem to notice that. She stood there fuming when Inuyasha started laughing.

“You know you really shouldn’t cause such a scene.”

“Baka!”

“Now, Now, Ka-go-me, that isn’t nice,” Inuyasha said. “You should really calm down.” Turning and looking at some guy that was staring at them. “She is such a drama queen. I never understand what makes her so angry. Women! You know how it is?”

The other guy who was thinking about how his own girlfriend did the same thing, said “Yeah, my girlfriend is the same way.”

Kagome looked at the two like she had entered the twilight zone. “I. Am. Not. His. Girlfriend.” She punctuated each word.

Inuyasha and the guy smiled knowingly at one another. “Good luck with her,” the guy said with  a friendly wave. By this point the rest of the cafeteria had found their food more interested than the argument between this strange silver haired man and his girlfriend.

“Kagome, sit down,” he smirked smugly at her.

“Jerk,” Kagome said, but sat down with a huff. She slumped in her chair and glared at him. “What did you want?”

Inuyasha smiled at her his fingers starting to caress the soft flesh of her wrist. “I wanted to take you out, as an apology for last night.”

“No..o,” Kagome said, trying to figure out what he was doing to her wrist. It was sending some very strange feelings throughout her body making her feel a strange warmth in her lower abdomen. She wanted to pull it away, but then again she didn’t. It was distracting her.

“That doesn’t sound very convincing,” Inuyasha said softly in his oh so sexy voice a lazy sexy grin on his lips. ‘Caution! Warning!’ filtered into Kagome’s brain, but she was effectively being seduced by molten gold orbs and the gentle caress of this dog demon.  “It is just dinner. That’s all.”

“I don’t kn..ow,” Kagome said wavering. A real meal, not cafeteria food, or her roommates’ attempts at cooking was so very tempting. “Just dinner?” she asked staring innocently into Inuyasha’s eyes. He was mesmerized by that look so innocent, so trusting. So fiery and yet so untouched by the world. Amazing. “Inuyasha?” Kagome said when he didn’t respond at first. He nearly groaned out loud when he heard his name on her lips. Lips that he was suddenly aching to kiss. What was he thinking? He wasn’t suppose to be the one getting sucked in.

“Yeah, just dinner,” Inuyasha said removing his hand from her wrist. This was starting to get out of control. Out of his control at least.

“Ok,” Kagome said wondering if maybe she was signing her own death warrant. “When? What should I wear?”

Inuyasha managed to cover up his surprise with a classic Inuyasha smirk. “6:30, a dress.”

“Tonight?” Kagome wrinkled her brow. “I can’t. I have to work.”

Inuyasha watched her scrunch her face up as she thought. “Tomorrow. Same time.”

“Ok,” she was beginning to sound like a broken record. She noticed the watch on his wrist. “Kami-sama! I’m going to be late to class,” she said with a yell. She gathered up her books.

“I’ll give you ride over to class. My car’s just in the lot outside,” Inuyasha said after recovering from her sudden mood swing. Kagome looked at him blankly for a second, before a huge smile covered her face. She seemed like she was lit from within. ‘Beautiful!’ was all that Inuyasha’s brain registered.

“Thanks, Inuyasha.”

“No problem.”

She no longer felt so depressed as she walked beside Inuyasha out to his car. Maybe this wasn’t going to be so bad after all. But how was she going to explain this all to Sango and Legion? She would worry about that later. Now, she was just going to enjoy to ride to class. 

As they reached Inuyasha’s car, Kag was startled to see that it was an expensive European car. It was a brilliant red that matched his red shirt and black slacks. “Um, Inuyasha?”

Inuyasha looked over at the woman standing beside him as he unlocked the door and held it open for her. She looked up at him so innocently. “Yeah?”

She looked at the car and then at him again before asking, “Who are you? I mean what is your last name? I don’t want to be going around with a complete stranger.”

“Inuyasha Takeda.”

“Oh, ok.” She had a pensive look on her face as she slid into the bucket seat of the car. Inuyasha closed the door and walked to the other side, slipping in and cranking the engine. Kagome was trying to place where she had heard that last name before. It wasn’t that it was uncommon, but it wasn’t the most common either. She was beginning to wonder who exactly this dog demon was. Fancy cars. Last name Takeda. Who was he and what was she getting herself into? Well, the best way to find out was to ask? It never hurt to ask, right?

“So what do you do, Inuyasha Takeda?”

Inuyasha had to think about that for a minute. What exactly would you call what he did? “I’m in the protection business.”

Kagome wasn’t exactly sure what that meant. It sounded illegal, but she wasn’t going to jump to any conclusions. Jumping to conclusions was a bad thing. She was just going to trust her instincts on this one. And they were telling her that this dog demon was trustworthy, she wasn’t sure why, but he was. The rest of the ride was fairly quiet except for Kag giving directions. She smiled at him as she got out.

“Thanks for the ride, Inuyasha. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

Inuyasha watched her walk away, long black tresses swaying slightly with the movement of her steps. She walked with a bounce. He was beginning to wonder if maybe he wasn’t getting himself into something that he wouldn’t be able to get out of. This girl made him want things that he had never allowed himself to want before. How she had managed to get under his skin so quickly he wasn’t sure? Of course, when she found out that he was an inuhanyou she would run screaming in the other direction. That was the way of it. Inuyasha growled in frustration and slammed an angry hand against the steering wheel before putting the car into gear and leaving.

The rest of Kagome’s day past by without a hitch. She caught the bus back to the club. She tossed her things onto the floor by the door as she kicked off her shoes. Legion walked out of the kitchen a Smirnoff’s in one hand and a sandwich in the other. Sango was in the living room watching TV, having gotten back from her own classes earlier that day.

 

“I’m home,” Kag yelled as she padded across the floor. “Anything interesting happen today?”

Legion and Sango gave her a funny look. Kagome wasn’t very good at hiding things from her best friends.  “No, you?”

“Well, kinda, sorta,” Kag said as she gave them a half smile.

Sango raised her eyebrow at that. “Kinda, Sorta? What does that mean?” Legion took a swig of her Smirnoff’s before giving Sango a knowing grin.

“That means it was an interesting guy thing. Spill it, Kag.”

“OooOOoooh, a guy thing.” Sango said with an equally knowing look. “Who? What? When? Where? Why?”

Kagome was watching her two best friends decipher the situation and then begin the interrogation. “Well, you remember last night…”

“Yes, we remember you losing your temper and going ballistic before Sango and I rescued you from the evil clutches of the handsome, but rude dog demon so creatively named Inuyasha. Followed by Sango’s fist knocking out his equally handsome, but perverted friend,” Legion quickly summarized.

“Yeah, well, the handsome, but rude Inuyasha, found me today at school.”

Two sets of eyebrows reached hairlines. “Oh, really? Did he now? Do tell us all?”

Kagome noticed the expressions on their face. She was feeling very self-conscious. “Really, really. Anyway I was grabbing lunch when he sat down at my table. Thenheprocededtopissme offandsomeguythoughtiwashisgirlfriend.” She paused for breath before continuing her run-on sentence. “AfterthatheaskedmetodinnerasanapologyforlastnightandHewasrubbingmywr istand

itwasmakingmefeelreallyreallywierdsoIaccepted.” She paused for another breath and then started it again. “StupidIknowbuthewassoconvincingandthenhegavemearidetoclass. So to make a long story short, we are going out to dinner tomorrow night and he said to wear a dress.”

“Rubbing your wrist?”

“Girlfriend?”

“Dinner, dress?”

Legion and Sango looked confused. Legion was the first to put things together. “So let me get this straight. He showed up in the cafeteria while you were having lunch. Pissed you off, then said you were his girlfriend. Asked you out and made you feel weird while he was rubbing your wrist. After you accepted his date, he gave you a ride to class.”

Kagome who was still trying to process everything herself said, “Yes, No. He didn’t say I was his girlfriend, he implied it to some guy who thought I was his girlfriend. But yes to everything else.”

“Are you sure about this? He is a dog demon after all. You’re not exactly a demon’s best friend, well,” looking at Legion who stuck her tongue out at Sango’s comment, “you know what I mean.”

“Yeah, I thought about that, but my instincts are telling me that I can trust this demon. I don’t know why, but even though he pisses me off, I feel safe with him. Let’s just give it a chance.”

“Besides, he’s a hanyou not a full-blooded demon. Rare, but not unheard of,” Legion popped in helpful as she finished off her sandwich and drink and headed towards the kitchen for another one.

“Hanyou?!” Kag asked confusedly as Sango said it with surprise.

Sango looked at Kag and said, “A hanyou is half-demon and half-human. He isn’t really wanted by either side of his blood.”

“Look why don’t you take the cell phone with you tomorrow just in case you need us. We are doing really well so I think we can afford to hire another person to be here in case we have to go. Besides Hojo seems to be able to handle the bar pretty well, despite being completely dense. So does that suit everybody?” Legion offered as she returned with another Smirnoff as well as one for Kag and Sango.

Sango nodded her head, but she still had a look of concern on her face.

Kagome said with her typical good cheer. “Works for me!”

“Good! So you going to hook Sango up with his perverted friend? She seemed to like him,” Legion said with a laugh as she dodged a pillow that was thrown at her head. This, of course, required retaliation which turned into a silly pillow fight that lasted for about thirty minutes until they broke a picture on the wall. After they cleaned up their mess they plopped on the couch to watch Friday afternoon cartoons, before they either had to work or in Sango’s case went to the hospital to sit with her brother. It was a normal ritual.