InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Wish ❯ No Matter What ( Chapter 13 )

A/N: Finally! It's done! I know it's been forever and a day, but luckily I was inspired today. And thus, a new chapter for you all to read. Enjoy!

P.S.- Please go read my newly updated story, YinYang. I promise it's much better than before. I need feedback.

 

Remember: I love Inuyasha but unfortunately do not own him. When do you think he'll be put up on e-bay?

 

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Chapter Thirteen: No Mater What

 

Kagome stared at the chalkboard and tried to make sense of the notes she was copying down. After a few minutes, the only thing she knew for certain was that she hated math.

 

`Stupid formulas, stupid triangles,' she grumbled mentally. She glanced up at the clock high on the wall. Twenty minutes remained of the school day and Kagome sorely wanted out of there. Groaning softly, she thumped her forehead against her desk.

 

Shifting her neck so she could gaze out the window, Kagome wondered how Inuyasha was doing now. She giggled to herself when she thought about how she dealt with the Ho From Hell. `I am so not going to forget the look on any of their faces for a long time. Especially Inuyasha.' The memory of the bewildered hanyou, unsure of what the hell his girlfriend thought she was doing, was too much and Kagome burst out laughing.

 

“Higurashi.” Unfortunately, she was still in class. “If you feel the need to not pay attention, please stand in the hall.”

 

Flushed with embarrassment, Kagome mumbled a quiet “sorry” and stood up. As she was walking to the door, her friend Ayumi caught her eye. Ayumi winked at her and, when Kagome passed her desk, slipped her a wad of paper. `At least I'll have some reading material,” Kagome thought, sliding the door open and stepping into the hall.

 

The hallway was quiet; the vague murmurings coming from closed off classrooms the only real sound. Kagome crossed to the row of windows lining the opposite side of the hall and pulled one open. A slight breeze ruffled the girl's hair and birds sang out to one another. Leaning against the casement, she closed her eyes and turned her face up to allow the sun to warm her. It was a beautiful day. Clear skies with only little whispies of clouds floating by. The sound of nearby traffic was muted, only barely audible. Kagome watched as kids from the school across the street played in their playground, their shouts only adding to the tranquility of the afternoon.

 

`Man, everything seems so much nicer now,' she thought. `Not as crowded or polluted as before.' Of course the world was still the same, it was Kagome who had changed. She had read, in silly romance novels, how the world could take on a rosy hue after finding your `true love', but she'd never really believed it. In fact, she'd only read the stupid, gushy, soft-porn novella because there had been nothing else to read. Now, she wasn't quite sure what to think. `God, I hope I wasn't as sappy as some of those girls can get.' Horrified that she might have been, Kagome reviewed her actions over the past day.

 

`Okay, good,' she thought in relief, hand against her heart, glad that she hadn't reacted like any of those stereotyped goose-girl heroines. The crinkle and prick of something in her hand drew her attention downward. `Ayumi's note.' Kagome exposed the intricately folded letter. A brow rose at the sight of a crane/flower/bear/whatever the hell it was. “Doesn't she have something better to do then origami the hell out of note paper?” she muttered, frustrated as she tried to undo her friend's handiwork without tearing the paper.

 

Finally, after an age it seemed, the note was ready to be read. Kagome glanced up quickly to make sure there was nobody (especially teachers) around. Satisfied that there wasn't, she read on.

 

Hey Kagome.

 

Sorry about this morning. You know how Yuka and Eri get at the thought of new gossip. They would've apologized at lunch but you ran off so quickly. Had to meet up with your boyfriend huh? Wink wink. JK. Hey, why don't both of you come with us to Wac's after school? Unless you've got something better planned. I promise to sit on the others so they don't jump your boy. Though I don't blame them. I mean, we've heard loads about him but haven't actually talked with him much. Plus, he's hot! Anyway, let me know when school gets out, k? I've got clean up duty. Again.

 

TTFN,

Ayumi.

 

`Hmm, this could be interesting.' Kagome wondered if Inuyasha would think so too. She soon lost herself in imagining all the different ways such a gathering could go wrong.

 

The sound of approaching footsteps interrupted her cheerful musings. Kagome glanced to both ends of the hallway yet saw nothing. The footsteps were definitely coming closer but they were somehow muffled, like someone was walking on the other side of the classroom wall. Since that was impossible, thanks to the nice solid dividing walls between classes, Kagome was stumped. `What the heck?' She swiveled her head around one more time, but still no evidence of a living being treading the hall.

 

A shiver rolled down her spine. There were always stories running around school about the various ghosts and spirits haunting the place. Kagome had never put much faith in those tall-tales. That was until she fell into a well leading back to feudal Japan where demons and ghosts ran amuck. Now she was a firm believer in all things supernatural. And especially since Kaede had trained her to be a miko. Calming and purifying evil spirits was just part of her job description now.

 

Taking a deep breath, she closed her physical eyes and opened her inner eye just as she had been taught. The world shifted from its natural hues and shapes into streaks of color. Kagome expanded her awareness further. Flashes of red, blue, and yellow told her of the emotions her fellow students were feeling. Anger, sadness, and fear were predominant, but bubbles of bright pink, happiness, over powered the individual negative emotions. Kagome `looked' around, searching for the sickly yellow-green color that signified an angry spirit.

 

The footsteps had stopped right before they'd reached her, so she was going on feeling alone. There was a familiar tint to the air that she couldn't quite place, a silvery aura that she'd felt somewhere before. A look of confusion crossed her face as a light breeze lifted her hair up and over her shoulder. The gentle pressing of lips against the nape of her neck sent Kagome flying a foot in the air and a most undignified squeak past her lips. Eyes now wide open, she spun around and ended up face-to-face with a smirking hanyou.

 

“You jerk!” she whispered/yelled, smacking him over the head as hard as she could. “You scared the crap out of me!”

 

Arms still protecting his invisible and sensitive ears, Inuyasha merely grinned at her. “Sorry. I was standing outside my social studies class just down the hall when I caught your scent.”

 

“And you thought you'd come freak me out?” Kagome threw her hands up in frustration, but was hard-pressed to keep the answering grin off her face. “What am I supposed to do with you, koishi?”

 

Inuyasha lowered his arms, confident that he'd been forgiven, and answered cockily, “Buy me a present?” Kagome took a mock swing at his head, but her hanyou was too quick and pulled her into an embrace. Leaning over to touch his forehead to hers, a ritual she was fast becoming accustomed to, he whispered seductively, “But I'll settle for a kiss.”

 

A shiver of a different sort swept over her and she closed her eyes again, all too aware of his presence and the fact that they were making out in the hallway. Her inner eye snuck open and registered that the silvery aura she'd felt before was Inuyasha's. Kagome smirked to herself. He would never be able to sneak up on her again.

 

An eternity, or maybe just a few seconds, later, Kagome's mind picked up on something Inuyasha had said earlier. Breaking their lip-lock, she pulled back and tapped her hanyou on the shoulder. He blearily opened his beautiful hazel eyes and blinked down at the girl in his arms. Kagome's breath hitched slightly at the muted passion in his gaze. Swallowing the lump that had somehow wedged itself in her throat, she slid away from his warmth and faced the still open window. Placing her arms against the sill, Kagome leaned out the window, allowing a light breeze to cool her flaming cheeks and help her think straight again.

 

A solid body positioned itself next to her. A sidelong glance showed her Inuyasha's back. She cleared her throat. “So, why were you in the hall?”

 

He shrugged. “Nothing big. Teacher caught me talking with Hojo.” He cocked his head to the side, his hair falling over Kagome's shoulder. “Come to think of it, he's still standing back there.”

 

Kagome grabbed a lock of his errant hair and held it in front of her nose. Even this close up, she could only see the illusionary blond. Something else occurred to her to ask. Waving the tuft of hair under her nose, she asked, “How did you sneak up on me? Did you use your watch?”

 

He turned around, somehow managing not to pull the hair out of Kagome's grasp, and leaned out the window with her. “Nah. I just walked along the ledge here.” He pointed down at the two-foot ledge that ran right underneath the window. `At least that explains the footsteps,' Kagome thought.

 

DING! DONG! DING! The school bell suddenly rang, announcing the end of the day.

 

“Oops,” said Inuyasha. “I've gotta get back and get my stuff. Wait for me here?” he asked, pushing away from the window.

 

“Sure,” Kagome answered, copying his movement. The sound of crinkling paper under her foot reminded her of Ayumi's note which she had dropped when Inuyasha startled her. “Hey!”

 

He turned from halfway down the hall and jogged back. “What's up?”

 

“Ayumi-chan wants us to go with her, Yuka-chan, and Eri-chan to WacDonald's today. You up for it?” She grinned evilly up at him. “Or are four schoolgirls too much for the mighty hanyou?”

 

Inuyasha frowned humorously at her. “Very funny, koishi.” He swooped down for a quick kiss. “But remember, I still have to show you the rest of your birthday present,” he practically purred. Then he was gone.

 

Kagome furrowed her brow in confusion for a moment, paying no attention to the flow of students leaving for the day. Slowly comprehension dawned on her as she remembered what he had said that morning. 'He can't really mean that, can he?' she thought despairingly. `Then it really will be like some trashy romance novel.' She clasped her hands to her face, feeling the blood rush back to her cheeks. “Nooooo,” she moaned, earning a few strange looks from the stragglers in the hall. Completely ignoring those looks, Kagome rushed into her classroom to get some much needed advice from her friend.

 

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A few minutes later, Kagome exited her class feeling no better than when she'd gone in. Ayumi had been helping put desks and chairs up for the night and Yuka and Eri were sitting in the corner gossiping (as usual). As soon as she'd entered, the two girls had basically attacked her, spewing apologies and random quips left and right. It took a minute to calm them down long enough to tell them that she and Inuyasha wouldn't be able to go for food today. That set off another round of questions. When she said that she was going over to his house instead, both Yuka and Eri got identical looks on their faces. The look said 'Ooo, someone's gonna be a bad girl'. Kagome was flustered enough thinking about what might or might not happen later with Inuyasha, so she did not need that look from two of her best friends.

 

She was trying to shake off the feeling of impending doom, when Ayumi chimed in with “Give the girl a break. It was her birthday yesterday, so they probably just want to go out on a date by themselves.” Kagome managed to be both relieved and frustrated at the same time. On one hand, Yuka and Eri were no longer looking like disapproving mother hens, but on the other, now they were completely okay with her going off alone with Inuyasha.

 

Kagome sighed heavily. It wasn't that she didn't want to spend time with him. It was just that she hadn't really been alone with him since the big relationship change had happened. In her room and up on the school's roof didn't count because there was always the possibility of someone 'interrupting' them. At his house, it would just be the two of them. Or so she thought. She didn't know a lot about Inuyasha's living arrangements with his brother. For all she knew, Sesshoumaru worked from home and was there all the time.

 

The tension in her shoulders eased up a bit at the thought. `Yeah, maybe he was just joking with me earlier. Besides, Inuyasha isn't the type of guy who's always thinking of that,' she reassured herself. But there was still a part of her that worried about it. That little piece of skeptical mind required her to ask Inuyasha where Sesshoumaru would be when they got to his house.

 

“Hey, you ready?” Inuyasha practically bounced down the hallway, eager to be on the way.

 

“Yeah.” Kagome picked up her pack where she'd left it by her feet and slung it over both shoulders. Inuyasha offered her his hand, which she took, and led her down the hall.

 

They walked together in comfortable silence for a few minutes before she finally got up enough courage to ask her all-important question.

 

“Ne, Inuyasha?”

 

The hanyou didn't slow in the least. He just cocked his head a little to the side to show he was listening.

 

“Um, is-” Her voice cracked so she wet her lips and tried again. “Is Sesshoumaru going to at your house when we get there? I'd like to see what he's like now. Him and Rin-chan.”

 

Inuyasha snorted softly and shook his head. “Nah, he won't be there. He's usually stays at his office until late anyway.”

 

“Oh.” Kagome's hopes sank slightly. Then she perked back up. “But surely Rin-”

 

He grasped her fingers tighter and pulled her up level with him. Once she was right next to him, he released her hand and wrapped an arm around her waist. “Rin probably won't be there either. Besides,” he flashed her a smirk, “they don't live in the same place I do.” His grin widened at the look of shock on her face. He leaned down to put his mouth by her ear and whispered, “That means we've got the place to ourselves, koishi. And I plan to make the most of that.”

 

Kagome felt the blood drain from her face, but Inuyasha didn`t notice. “Come on,” he said. “We can get there faster this way.” Only then did Kagome realize that he had taken them up to the roof.

 

He fiddled with his watch for a second and suddenly Inuyasha was himself again. Silvery hair, golden eyes, claws, fangs, and puppy ears. He stretched his arms above his head and Kagome couldn't help but stare. The muscles moving beneath the white button-down he wore under his unbuttoned uniform jacket held her entranced. `Maybe this won't be as bad as I think,' she thought, still watching him stretch out. He finished his warm-up exercises and turned to Kagome, who blushed and tried to pretend she hadn't been staring.

 

She was so busy looking everywhere but at him that she didn't notice the soft smile that replaced his usual smirk. A quiet `Oi' brought her attention back to Inuyasha. He was crouched down in front of her, his patented pose for carting her around.

 

“Well, you coming or not?”

 

She grinned at the slightly gruff tone of voice he used. Some things never change. Inuyasha would always be Inuyasha, no matter how their relationship changed. Finding a new wellspring of confidence with that thought, Kagome stepped towards her hanyou.

 

She grabbed his backpack that he'd left on the ground, because it made more sense for her to carry the unwieldy thing than for him to carry it and her. Placing her hands atop his shoulders, Kagome whispered in his ear, “Ready when you are, love.” She then kissed the furry appendage, causing it to twitch. She giggled softly at the movement and heard a quiet “shut up, wench” from Inuyasha. This only received another giggle from the girl.

 

Suddenly they were air-born. Kagome gasped. She hadn't even felt Inuyasha grab her behind her knees and leap off of the building. Her surprise was quickly replaced with exhilaration. Wind whipping through her hair, the impression of flight, and knowing that, no matter what happened, Inuyasha would never drop her. Kagome closed her eyes and reveled in the feeling of freedom. No longer restricted to the ground, she could soar with the birds.

 

“It's been too long since we last did this.” Inuyasha's casual comment, thrown over his shoulder, caused her to laugh.

 

“Yes. Yes, it has,” was her answer when the slightly giddy sound finished. Kagome wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed a kiss to his cheek. She felt him chuckle and grasp her legs more tightly. Kagome sighed and a contented feeling swept over her. She knew that everything would turn out all right. No matter what.