InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Wish ❯ The Morning After (out of the gutter people) ( Chapter 11 )

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Chapter Eleven: The Morning After (out of the gutter people)

 

The incessant buzzing right by her ear was what woke Kagome the next morning. She lifted her upper body off the mattress, and barely registered slapping the clock and knocking it to the floor (where it continued to ring) before flopping back down, her face buried in her pillow

 

`Ugh. Darn alarm, darn school. Interrupting a perfectly good dream.' She pushed herself over to her back and clasped her hands over her stomach. `If it hadn't been for that giant dog, that would've been a perfectly wonderful fantasy.' She grinned and covered her face with her hands in joyous embarrassment. `Inuyasha confessing his love and saying he wants to be with me. What a dream.'

 

Slowly the muffled ringing of her alarm clock reached her through her daze and Kagome sighed. She rolled to her side and pushed herself into a sitting position. When her feet touched the floor, she was surprised to feel paper rather than carpet.

 

`Huh?' Kagome picked both clock and paper off the floor. After shutting off the alarm and replacing it on her bedside table, Kagome examined the paper. Or rather, the note.

 

`OH. MY. GOD. It wasn't a dream.'

 

For here was a note, for her, from Inuyasha. It read:

 

Hey, Kagome.

 

I'm writing this note cause you fell asleep on me last night. Literally. I'm sorry I can't stay the night, but I have to go home and change, if nothing else. I will see you at school in the morning. Meet me at the entrance at 7:30. See you then.

 

I love you,

Inuyasha

 

Kagome let her hands fall to her lap in shock. `Everything really happened. Inuyasha's here. And he loves me.' She couldn't help herself. She covered her face with both hands and note and tried to keep from screaming at the top of her lungs. Still, a squeal worthy of any fan girl managed to squeeze out. When that didn't relieve her excitement, rolling around, kicking her feet in glee, and laughing like a maniac was the order of business. Soon she was out of breath and still trying to laugh. “Gods, I think I'm crazy,” she gasped out loud. `Crazy in love,' was the mental response.

 

Suddenly, Kagome's daze was broken by her mother shouting, “Kagome! It's almost seven! Breakfast!”

 

Kagome shoot up like a shot. “Ah, crap! It's seven already. That means I've got, uh,-” Math was not her best subjects, even on the most coherent of days. “Uh, a half-hour to get to the school. Crap!” And with that last eloquent statement, Kagome was out the door and in the shower.

 

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`Crapcrapcrapcrap' This mantra was what drove Kagome to Olympic worthy running, just to get to the school gates on time. Since school started at 7:45 (*author shrugs*), that would leave only fifteen minutes to see Inuyasha, even if she got there on time. Her watch already said it was 7:25 and she was still at least ten minutes away.

 

“Oo, shortcut,” she said as she passed by the park near the school. Dodging past young children (`why aren't they home asleep?') and their parents playing on the playground, Kagome raced across the grass.

 

A few more minutes blind, outright running, brought her to the school entrance. Slowing to a stop just inside the grounds, Kagome bent over her knees trying to catch her breath. A glance at her watch showed 7:32. `Made it!' she thought triumphantly, still attempting to keep her heart and lungs inside her chest.

 

“Gods, Kagome, what took you so long?”

 

At the sound of his voice, all thoughts of catching her breath and keeping her heart where it was flew out of her head. Whirling around revealed the same platinum blond, hazel-eyed boy from yesterday morning. Taisho was back, only with Inuyasha's smirk and attitude.

 

Kagome flung herself into his arms, heedless of her classmates who had stopped to stare.

“Inuyasha,” she practically sobbed onto his neck. “I thought it'd been a dream.” She pulled back so she could see his smiling face. “You have no idea how glad I am that it's not.”

 

“Well, yeah, I kinda think I do,” he said as he released her and rubbed his neck, grimacing in feigned pain. “Didn't realize you had such a nasty grip there, Kagome.” Inuyasha laughed and ducked out of the way when she tried to swat him.

 

“Don't make me say it, Inuyasha,” Kagome mock snarled, too happy at being with him to care if she couldn't got a shot in. She stumbled slightly when he stopped avoiding her and pulled her to him.

 

Inuyasha's hazel eyes burned gold as he wrapped his arms around his Kagome. Lowering his voice to a sultry tone, he growled softly, “I can think of something that will keep you from saying that word, koishi.” She gasped at the petname and his veiled and completely welcome `threat`.

 

Inuyasha was about to make good this threat when the most dreaded of all sounds came to Kagome's ears. The sounds of her friends talking and giggling. Sudden squeals of “Kagome!” rang through the morning air as the poor girl and hanyou were pounced upon by three giggling schoolgirls.

 

“Kagome, who's this?”

 

“What happened to your other boyfriend?”

 

“When did this happen?”

 

“Hey, it's the new transfer!”

 

“Wow, Kagome, you work fast!”

 

“What's your name?” (to Inuyasha)

 

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, guys!” Kagome had to shout to be heard over her friends chatter. “Calm down!” The three girls withdrew slightly, giving their friend a chance to explain. “This is Inuyasha,” she pointed behind her, where Inuyasha was currently hiding. “You met him a while ago, remember?”

 

“Oh, is that him?”

 

“When did he transfer here?”

 

“Why didn't you tell us before, Kagome?”

 

Kagome laughed, “Because I didn't know before. Apparently he wanted to surprise me for my birthday.”

 

All three girls cooed in unison. Inuyasha cringed. Ayumi was the first to notice the poor hanyou's reluctance to face his girlfriend's friends. And rightfully so. They were terrifying.

 

“Hey, Kagome,” the curly-haired girl said. “We'll see you in class in a bit. Just don't be too late.” Then, with a saucy wink at the blushing couple, Ayumi lassoed Yuka and Eri and hauled them (kicking and screaming, of course) off to homeroom.

 

Kagome sighed gratefully, `I owe you one, Ayumi.' Hands on her waist, brought her around to face the no longer cowering Inuyasha. Turning her head slightly to the side and catching his gaze out of the corner of her eye, she intoned slyly, “Gosh, Inuyasha, you`ve faced down hundreds of demons and defeated Naraku, the most evil critter of all time. And yet you hide from three innocent schoolgirls.” At his indignant look, she laughed and continued, “One would think you were almost scared of them, or something.”

 

Inuyasha tugged her closer. “Yes, they're absolutely horrifying. Attack of the Killer Schoolgirls.” He shivered, earning a giggle from Kagome.

 

She wrapped her arms around his neck and lifted her face towards his, intending to finish what they had started before they'd been so rudely interrupted when-

 

DING! DONG! DING!

 

-the school bell rang. Both teens sighed heavily, sweat drops appearing comically against their heads. Kagome gazed up at Inuyasha's disappointed expression and would have laughed, if only she weren't feeling exactly the same way. “We're never going to get a break, are we?” she asked.

 

Inuyasha shook his head, ”I don't think so. At least not this morning.” He glanced up at the school building, arms still around Kagome's hips. “I guess we should go. Don't want to be late on my second day.”

 

Kagome grinned. Inuyasha was nothing, if not punctual. All those times he'd gotten mad at her for being even a minute late. “Okay.” She reluctantly removed herself from Inuyasha's embrace and turned to retrieve her backpack from where she'd dropped it earlier. She`d just slipped it onto her shoulders, when something occurred to her.

 

“Hey, Inuyasha?”

 

“Yeah?” he called from where he was getting his backpack.

 

“What class are you in?”

 

He frowned, “2-D. Why?”

 

“Shoot.” Kagome brought her thumb to her lips and proceeded to chew on the nail. “I'm in 2-A. We won't be in the same classroom.”

 

Inuyasha shrugged, as he steered the displeased girl towards the school. “That doesn't really matter, does it?” He hastily raised his hands in surrender when she shot him a nasty look. “I mean, we'll still see each other at lunch, right?” She nodded, still looking annoyed. “And class doesn't last forever.” She sighed and, sensing the danger had passed, he grabbed her hand. “ And today, after school, I'll take you to where I'm living with Sa- I mean Sesshoumaru.”

 

Having caught the slip of tongue he'd made, Kagome wondered what exactly Inuyasha was still hiding from her. `Nothing horrible to be sure, but still-'

 

They stopped when they reached the doors into the school. Inuyasha was faintly nervous. First off, he'd almost slipped up and said Sango's name. He'd managed a save, but, judging by the expression on her face, Kagome wasn't buying it. And secondly, this was going to be his first day attending classes. Yesterday didn't count because he'd been filling out paperwork right before that stupid teacher had cornered him, and then he'd had to run off after Kagome shortly after that. But one problem at a time. `First Kagome and my stupid slip-up.'

 

Leaning down to whisper in Kagome's ear, he added in a seductive voice, “Plus you'll get the rest of your birthday present when we get there.” Drawing back to examine his handiwork, revealed the brightest blush Inuyasha had ever seen his love produce. She was practically neon with the blood that had rushed to her face. He smirked. `That worked well,' he thought smugly.

 

Kagome was floored. `He can't possibly mean what I think he means. Can he?' One glance at her hanyou's smirking countenance proved it. `Oh no.'

 

DING! DONG! DING!

 

The last bell warning all wayward students that it was time for their butts to be in seats snapped both of them out of their little worlds. Kagome turned to Inuyasha, squeaked a quick “See you at lunch” and scurried off to her classroom. Inuyasha followed at a more sedate pace, still pleased with himself.

 

Neither of them saw the auburn-haired schoolboy, face slack with shock, watching them from the school's bike yard.

 

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