InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hopelessly Devoted ❯ I'll Meet You At the Top ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Author's Note: I hope that you enjoy my first ever, Inuyasha fic! ^_^.




Disclaimer: What Inuyasha fan fiction author wouldn't wish that Inuyasha was theirs? I mean seriously. If they weren't obsessed with the show, they wouldn't be writing about it. In other words, this implies that I too wish that I own Inuyasha. Dammit Rumiko! Sell him to me for free please? Pretty please? I don't have money, but I have the love and dedication-


Man at a street corner: Oh shut the hell up!


-And that I promise with all my heart that I will not abandon my responsibilities on running the show every week-


Man at a street corner: Dammit. Walks up to me and hurls his fist.




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The birds were happily chirping away on a beautiful day. The sky was clear of any hovering clouds, and the wind only occasionally blew a pleasant gust of wind. Everything seemed so perfect. Seemed. Only seemed.



Two figures were seen sitting against an impossibly ancient tree, known to the town as the 'God Tree'. There were fits of laughter echoing throughout the forest, but it soon died out along with the music of the birds, as they flew away to another perch.



"I-Inuyasha...?" asked a pretty, young girl with charcoal-colored hair, and unusual gray eyes. The look of content slowly faded away as she continued to stare at the silver-haired teen sitting next to her.



"Yeah? What is it?" the boy called 'Inuyasha' answered, turning to the side to meet the gaze of the girl.



"Remember about a week ago... When I told you that my dad requested that my family move away-" she began.



"... Yeah, 'cause he found out about me... A stupid, weak low-life hanyou..." the boy said, cutting her off quickly.



"Don't put yourself down! I don't want to see you so down cast before I leave-" she tried again.



"Wait a minute... What are you saying?" his voice became some what panicked and desperate.



"My dad... Or 'Father' as he would like me to call him... He saw us again yesterday when we went out catching fireflies in the night. He threw a fit and decided immediately that we should leave. As in today. He was debating on it for the whole week since he suggested it, but I think that seeing me disobey him again was the last straw for him... He didn't even ask me to pack my things. When I came back home... He already had my stuff packed up..."



The boy curled his fists up into a tight ball. The ass. He couldn't do this. Not to Kagome. Not to him. She was the only other person to care about him besides his mother... and surprisingly now, his brother. He had half a mind to go to the Higurashi residence and beat the living shit out of the guy. "Bu- But you can't go! Kagome! How about you climb on my back and we leave this place... Just you and me. We can find someone else to take care of us-" he began, as desperately as his eyes shown.



Kagome gave a little smile at this. "You know that I love my family-" she said, before she was again, so rudely cut off.



"Yeah, but you're my best friend. That's gotta count for something!" the boy complained.



"Look, Inuyasha, the reason why I came here was not for you to complain and possibly yell at me... I... I wanted to tell you something... Umm.. I wanted to say something important before I leave..." she said, poking her forefingers against themselves, as she stared down at the ground.



"Uh huh..." Inuyasha urged on.



"I-I know that I'm only thirteen... and you're... well... we just celebrated your fifteenth birthday a couple months ago by racing the frogs that we found by the pond..." she said, reminicing about fond memories. "B-But... I... I think that..."



"Yeah..." the silver-haired boy stared again, impatiently.



"Will you quit with that? I'm trying to tell you something important and you keep cutting me off!" she scolded, pulling at one of his furry, triangular dog ears, perched atop his head.



"Yeah so...? You're taking too damn long!" he complained.



"Yeah? Well, with that, you're making me lose my courage! Well... You know what?" she asked, her voice still a little raised.



"What?" he yelled back at her.



"I'm just not going to tell you anymore! You pompous jerk!" she 'huff'-ed, crossing her arms over her chest.



"No! Wait! I want to know!" he said, shifting his position, so he could fully look at her face.



Kagome turned her face to the side, a little blush emerging from either cheek. "I-It's nothing..." she answered.



"It's gotta be something if you're blushing about it Kag!" he said, tantalizing the poor girl.



"I- I'm not... It's just hot! That's what!" she argued back.



"Just tell me dammit!"



"Fine!" she yelled, utterly annoyed. She didn't stop to think of what she was just about to do, so she just continued yelling, "I like you! I like you very much! I just wanted to tell you that before I left. I wanted you to know! I really, really like you Inuyasha..." there, she said it, although first it was a yell, but then it became softer until it was barely a whisper. It was a good thing that he had seven times better hearing than normal humans or else he wouldn't have heard what she just proclaimed to him.



"I-I..." he stuttered. He didn't know what to say. He liked her too, but his position was different. He was fifteen whilst she was thirteen. He doubted that at that age she would feel anything besides friendship for him. Boy was he wrong.



"You don't have to say anything... I know that it's sudden, but I just didn't want to leave with knowing that you had no idea how I felt..." she said. Her voice held overwhelming sadness in the under tone of it though. She really did want him to reply.



"No... I'm just surprised is all. Look... Kagome. I just didn't think you'd feel the same way. You keep hitting me upside the head when I say something you don't like, and I thought that all you felt for me was friendship... I didn't want to look like an idiot..." he explained. Damn this girl. She could make him proclaim that he slept with a little pink doll to the whole entire world if he wasn't careful with her. She just made him spill his feelings out like that.



She looked up with hope in her eyes, as she met contact with his eyes. Then she gave him a mischievous smirk. "But you always look like an idiot Inuyasha. That's why I keep hitting you in the first place!"



Inuyasha glared at her playfully.



Then there was silence.



Pure silence.



Uncomfortable silence.



The crickets were heard chirping, as if it were the peaceful night time.



After a whole period of silence, Kagome spoke up. "D-Does this mean... Th-That we kiss now...?" she asked, nervously.



Damn. That girl had been reading too much romance novels. But a first kiss and possibly the last, from the girl whom he really, really liked didn't sound like such a bad idea. "Uh... If you want..." he said just as nervously as her.



"Um... So how do we do this...?" she questioned, curiously.



"Don't look at me! It's not like I know any better than you!" he defended.



"Yeah... But the whole town thinks otherwise. The mothers are tearing their daughters away from the streets as we speak, afraid that you might come up and kiss them," Kagome explained. This was the truth. Inuyasha was known as the 'heart breaker hanyou' of the forest.



"Oh yeah..." he challenged. "But you know me better than those stop gossipers do! You're the only person who's the closest to me when it comes to friendship. Don't tell me you believe those stupid town bitches..." he really hated those gossipers. He hated everything they spread about him.



"Inuyasha! Have some respect!" she scolded. "Look. I was just kidding... I know that you're not like that at all!"



"Okay okay..." he said, calming down. He really just wanted to get back to their earlier topic. "Where... Where were we...?"



Kagome blushed at his forwardness. She began picking at the soil beneath her, avoiding eye contact.



"Look. You don't know what to do. I don't know what to do... Maybe if we held hands...? Maybe it'll all come to us then...?" he suggested.



"Okay."



With this, the two awkwardly held hands.



Yet, nothing happened.



"This is getting us nowhere..." Inuyasha plainly stated the obvious.



"Kagome! Kagome! You're father's looking for you! Get back home immediately!" a mother's concerned voice called out to her preoccupied daughter.



"Well this makes things easier..." the hanyou smiled.



"Kagome!"



"What do you m-" Kagome was about to ask, just when her best friend's mouth clumsily made it's way over hers. 'So this is how a first kiss feels like...' she thought. 'A little clumsy I think...'. She smirked at both of their innocence.



"Kagome!!"



Inuyasha took less pressure away from her mouth, and now, gently began innocently caressing his lips with hers. This was better.



"Kagome!!!"



Kagome only wished that time would stop right then and there. Too bad she didn't have a close relationship with time. When they pulled away, they both slowly opened their eyes to look at each other for what they both wished wasn't their last time. "My... My mother's calling me..." she said quietly, as she picked herself up.



"Don't leave Kagome..." the young teen pleaded for the last time.



She smiled at this. She wanted to reassure him. She wanted to say something that would prove that they would see each other again. But she couldn't. "You know Inuyasha..." she began, all she wanted to remember was the good times before she left. "When I was six, all I ever fantasized was me marrying you when we grew up. It was a little childish dream... But... Somehow, I thought I knew that it would happen..."



Inuyasha remained silent. How was he supposed to reply?



"KAGOME!!!"



"I have to go..." she whispered, although her voice was holding a tone of reluctance.



"Don't-" the hanyou tried one more.



"I have to Inuyasha... You know I do..." she explained before looking at him once more, seeing his frame, resting sadly against the God Tree. "I'm sorry..." she said, before she took off into the direction her mother's voice came from.



All Inuyasha could do was stare as she disappeared to the borders of the forest. "I'm going to miss you so much..." he whispered, before blindly racing towards his brother's home.




~*~




"Sesshoumaru!" the young hanyou called out to his half brother.



The man named Sesshoumaru turned around to face his younger, and only other sibling. "What is so urgent that you have to come breaking down the door for?" he asked a little irritably.



The story went, that the Higurashi family would only accept an equivalently wealthy, young bachelor when their daughter was ready for marriage. Inuyasha's instincts knew that Kagome would be the only girl he would ever truly want to be with. It was his youkai blood speaking. He wanted approval from even her parents, and he didn't care just how that would happen. He would make it happen.



Besides. Now, he knew that the family could only become wealthier with the company that Kagome's father was running. The only way that he would possibly ever meet her again was if he too were at the top.



"I want to become known Sesshoumaru. I want to become rich," Inuyasha stated.



"Don't we all?" Sesshoumaru said, all the while raising his brows, with amusement slightly touching his tone of voice.



"No... I mean I have to do this. For Kagome."



That human wench again... That brother of his would be dead for being so damn soft before he reaches the age of sixteen if he kept this up.



"Help me out, please?" the younger of the Inuyoukai begged his brother.



Begging... Hmm... That was the first time his brother groveled for something. This might just be his last. Why pass up the chance? Besides, this plan proved interesting. "It would practically be impossible," the more human-looking brother explained.



"I know that! I know that dammit! Look. She left okay? I don't want her to leave again once I find her, and the only way I can do that is if her parents are okay with me!"



"You must have a strong liking towards this girl for you to do something like this. But I will help you. Besides, governing the youkai's western lands does not truly promise wealth, although it is something that the land truly needs if it wants to still exsist thousands of years from now." Of course, this was just an excuse. He would never truly admit that he felt the brotherly urge to help the guy.



At the brink of their father's death, the great Inuyoukai asked his eldest son to watch over, and care for what little was left of his family. Sesshoumaru couldn't just abandon his father's wishes. Besides, he was beginning to feel a fondness towards his half brother. Although they used to fight more than even youkai's could believe, and before, were even at the edge of ripping each others throats out. After their father died, things began to settle down. The eldest of the Inuyoukai brothers had no more problem with humans. That is, he still would have, if he had not met his potential mate: Rin.



Inuyasha was left speechless. Although inside, his internal organs were practically parading and celebrating, the only internal organ that was still confused was his brain. Sesshoumaru... Sesshoumaru just said 'yes' to him? He had actually agreed to help his own brother?



When did the world start spinning on a different axis? When he first came bursting into the house, he only wished that his brother would agree to help. He truly did hope he would, but he was never really sure that he would. Good. Now it was slowly registering in his brain.



His brother was really going to help.



He would really meet Kagome at the top.




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Author's Notes: Please don't ridicule me! This is my first Inuyasha fic. Although this isn't my first fic, Inuyasha and Digimon have two different concepts. Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed. Please don't flame, but if you do, I'll have many great laughs, and I'd probably thank you. ^_^.




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