InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Wish ❯ Evil Plots and How to Avoid Them ( Chapter 10 )

A/N: Hey guys! I am soooo sorry that it took me so long to update (bows profusely). My inspiration wouldn't let me work on anything but the rewrite for YinYang. Once I got started on that though, POOF! A new chapter for His Wish. Also the beginnings for the next one. Here's hoping you Enjoy! P.S. Anytime you see the asterix and parentheses (* *) it means a mini A/N.

 

Reminder: Wild inu-hanyous are notoriously hard to capture and tame. The only known captive specimen is in the care of one Rumiko Takahashi, where he is forced to perform tricks. Free Inuyasha! (I went Animal Planet and activist for some reason.)

 

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Chapter Ten: Evil Plots and How to Avoid Them

 

Just outside her bedroom door, Kagome paused, her hand on the doorknob. A moment ago she'd been willing to bust down her own door in order to interrogate Inuyasha. Now, she wasn't as sure. She thought back to every other time she'd tried to pry vital information from the stubborn hanyou. Kagome cringed as she remembered how many sits it usually took to get Inuyasha to talk.

 

`Why am I worrying about this now? It never seemed to bother me before.' she wondered. Maybe it had more to do with the fact that every other time hadn't been right after both teenagers had confessed their love. Yeah, that made sense. Now Kagome had the sudden overwhelming urge to hide under some kind of large rock when she thought back on how she had dealt with her hanyou.

 

Figuring that caution was the better part of valor in this situation, Kagome leaned forward and placed an ear to the wood of the door, hand still ready to turn the knob. She listened carefully for any sound that might give away Inuyasha's activities in the adjoining room.

 

A minute, or maybe it was ten minutes, passed and Kagome heard nothing. `Seems too quiet. He should be moving around at least.' Finally she decided to just open the door.

 

Putting only enough pressure to crack the door an inch or two, Kagome scanned what she could see of her room. Surprisingly, she could see quite a bit. A majority of her bed, her desk, and the window were all in her line of sight. Unfortunately, Inuyasha was not visible. Slightly worried, Kagome pushed the door wider and slipped into the room.

 

The bed sheets were lightly rumpled from when they had been sitting on it earlier and the homework on her desk looked as if someone had rifled through it. Kagome frowned as she moved further into her room. `Where'd he go? Surely not out the window?'

 

Normally when Inuyasha departed through windows, he tended to leave them standing wide open after him. And seeing as her window was closed, Kagome rather doubted that he had gone that way. But just to be sure, she approached the fixture to see if it was still locked or not.

 

“Huh,” she huffed. “Locked tight. Maybe he ran downstairs for a snack or something.” She turned so she could go and check if Inuyasha was in the kitchen fixing himself some ramen. And came face to face with an enormous white dog.

 

It appeared to be a Husky, only rather larger than any sled dog that Kagome had ever seen. The top of the beast's head was above her waist and that was when it was sitting on its haunches. Pure white coat, only somewhat shaggy, and one blue eye and one brown. A bushy tail the size of a small child was laid out behind the animal.

 

Kagome froze. She liked dogs, mostly the small yippy variety, because ever since Sesshoumaru had transformed into his demon form and tried to step on her way back when, Kagome found herself terrified of big dogs, especially white ones. It didn't help that she had no idea how the dog could've gotten into the house, much less her room, without alerting some member of the family. And where was Inuyasha? Kagome was almost tempted to think that the dog had eaten him.

 

'Ok, have to get to the door. Then I can make a run for it. Or maybe just lock it in here until I find Inuyasha.' She began inching her way towards her door.

 

“Nice doggy, good doggy. You don't want to eat me,” she whispered to the animal, praying it would understand her. Suddenly, the dog stood up. Kagome flinched as she pressed herself as far into the wall as she possible could. When the beast made no further move to attack, she continued her painstakingly slow trek to the door.

 

She had just gotten to the halfway point of her bed (the dog was standing just outside her open closet), when the dog bared its inch long teeth in what was undeniably a smirk. Then, it pounced. Or maybe pounce was too light a word. Pounce was something Buyo would do to a mouse. This monster of a canine launched its self at the frightened schoolgirl. Kagome screwed her eyes shut, screamed as loud as she could, and fell into a dead faint.

 

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“Kagome”

 

Someone was shaking her by the shoulders. 'Get off. I want to sleep,' she thought hazily.

 

“Forgive me, Kagome. I didn't know you were scared of dogs.”

 

`Dogs? What the-'

 

Awake instantly, Kagome shot up from her prone position on the floor. She glanced around wildly, searching for the beast of a dog and coming up with only a guilty and apologetic looking Inuyasha. Since the hanyou rarely wore either expression, a suspicion began to grow in the back of her mind.

 

“Inuyasha, where did the dog go?”

 

His twitch at the accusing tone of her voice solidified the suspicion. `No, he couldn't… he wouldn't-' Kagome thought in despair. Her inner turmoil was disturbed by Inuyasha embracing her.

 

“I'm really sorry, Kagome. I didn't mean it. It was a stupid thing to do. You know I'd never intentionally hurt you, right? It was a mistake, a stupid mistake.” Inuyasha was babbling. She hated it when people babbled, so she reached a hand up to cover his mouth. He stopped talking and just stared at her desolately. Once she was sure that he wouldn't start his prattle up again, Kagome removed her hand.

 

“Inuyasha,” she said firmly, wondering if she really wanted to know what had happened. “Inuyasha, tell me what you did.”

 

Inuyasha cringed and pulled back from her. He ended up under the window, back pressed against the wall, with his knees pulled to his chest. He remained silent, but appeared to be contemplating how to phrase his next words. Kagome waited, patient as always. Finally, he spoke.

 

“I don't know why I did it,” he confessed. “Maybe I thought it'd be funny. Maybe it was a type of revenge, I guess, for all those `sits'.” He glanced up into her eyes, searching for something. When he didn't find it, he averted his eyes and continued, “It was your shirt that gave me the idea.”

 

Now she was confused. “My shirt? What do you mean?” She peeked down at the garment, not having made the connection. When she saw the picture and the words, everything clicked. “Ohh. I see now. You thought the dog- and then- oh, Inuyasha, I'm sorry, too.”

 

He blinked in bemusement. “What- no, Kagome, it was my fault. I didn't think and-” His protestations were cut off by Kagome's hand over his mouth again. She crawled over to him and pushed his legs down into a cross-legged position. Then, after removing her hand and shushing him with a finger to her lips when he made to speak again, she clambered into his lap, her back to his chest. She also grabbed both of his arms and wrapped them around her waist. It took him only a moment to shake off his stupor and tighten his arms about her. His face then went into her hair, where she could only just make out the barest whisper of “I'm sorry” once more.

 

Kagome sighed and began stroking the top his forearms with her fingertips. “Don't be sorry, Inuyasha,” she said. “You were right when you said you didn't know I was afraid of dogs. I never told you.” She felt Inuyasha raise his head from her shoulder.

 

“But why didn't you tell me?” he whispered, his breath wafting past her cheek and raising gooseflesh along her arms. She shivered and he pulled her closer.

 

“I didn't tell you, because I was embarrassed. I thought you would've laughed at me. Don't deny it,” she insisted when he made to protest. “Back then, you would have found it very amusing or possibly even insulting.” Kagome changed her grip on his arms so she could lace her fingers with one of his hands. She then brought the combined appendages up to her face so she could examine the long claws on Inuyasha's fingers. She watched as he flexed the digits and felt him lightly scrape the back of her hand. On an impulse, she kissed each claw once then lowered their hands back to her lap. She leaned back until her head was on his shoulder and closed her eyes. A moment passed.

 

“How long have you been afraid of them?”

 

“Hm?” Kagome turned her head slightly towards Inuyasha.

 

He cleared his throat. “I said, how long have you been afraid of dogs?” His voice was thick with some emotion, which she couldn't pinpoint, maybe remorse. She shrugged gently, more to emphasize unconcern than ignorance.

 

“Ever since we ran into Sesshoumaru the first time.” She sensed Inuyasha's puzzlement, so elaborated. “Almost being stepped on by a giant demon dog would definitely lay grounds for a phobia, Inuyasha. Luckily, I only seem to be afraid of large white dogs. Or” after she thought about it for a moment “unluckily, in your case.” She giggled when she felt him gulp in embarrassment. “Don't worry, koishi. I don't blame you for not knowing. I blame myself for not telling.”

 

“But, Kagome-” he started.

 

“Hush,” she muttered over her shoulder. “I'm comfortable, tired, and truly happy right now. Let me be.” She closed her eyes and sank into the warmth and safety of her hanyou's embrace and promptly fell asleep.

 

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Inuyasha couldn't believe it. He'd just scared the crap out of Kagome (unwittingly though it was) and here she was taking the blame because she hadn't told him the nature of her fear. Of all the messed up- couldn't she see that he blamed himself for having never been able to tell that she'd even had such a fear? He was supposed to notice this type of thing, damn it!

 

Now that he did know, Inuyasha could think back on all the times Kagome's fear had been present. There was that one time, just before they'd met Sango, when a lower level (*I see demons as having two levels/forms. Animal, like the lizards or tanukis, and human/animal, like Sesshoumaru.*) dog-demon had attacked them. He hadn't noticed her fear than because it had seemed naturally considering the circumstances. Then that demon of Tsubaki's that Inuyasha had to fight. The fear was already there so a slight rise in it wasn't noticeable.

 

However, there had been that one instance, a few weeks before they'd defeated Naraku, when the Group had been passing through a village and a large dog had suddenly appeared in front of Kagome. Inuyasha had simply thought her nervousness was from the animal surprising them, not some fear the girl already had.

 

He sighed. `No good thinking about what can't be changed.' He glanced down at the sleeping form of his love. `Still get shivers thinking about that,' he thought, grinning slightly. Just the idea of Kagome loving him in spite of his mistakes wiped away the guilt and embarrassment of his blunder. He grinned wider. She had a way of doing that. The mere thought of her was enough to make everything alright again. He pulled the girl closer. `If I hug her any tighter, we might as well be one person.'

 

His grin soon disappeared though to be replaced by a frown. He needed to get home. He had promised Shippou that he would come back sometime tonight and give him all the `juicy details', as he'd called it, of Kagome's reaction.

 

Inuyasha smirked as he imagined the fox's reaction to Kagome and his confessions. `He'll squeal like a pig, than run around hugging everyone in sight, followed by jumping on and over everything for ten minutes. Than he'll start all over again.' The slayer and monk's reactions would probably be much calmer (in comparison to Shippou that is) and only include congratulations and mild threats to treat Kagome right.

 

That thought made him pause. `I just hope I can.' He placed a small kiss to the top of the girl's head before he attempted to carry her to her bed. A moment of awkward hand placement and wondering how the hell to not disturb her, followed by Inuyasha gently placing Kagome on top of her sheets. He spread the extra blanket that she'd had folded on the end of her bed over her and tucked in the edges.

 

Rifling through her desk produced pen and paper. He wrote out a quick note explaining where he'd gone and taped it to her alarm clock, after setting the alarm so she wouldn't be late in the morning. Just before he left, Inuyasha leaned over Kagome and brushed an errant lock of hair off her face. She stirred, turning over to her side, then mumbled a sleepy “… love… you… nu… sha.”

 

Inuyasha grinned and kissed her temple. “I love you too, Kagome.” Then he was gone.

 

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