InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ I'm On The Outside ❯ Things That You Put Me Through ( Chapter 4 )

AN: Okay so I hadn't planned on taking so long to write this chapter and the chapters for my other stories. Unfortunately I've got a professor who is a homework Nazi so I haven't had much time to write. Luckily I was dog sitting this weekend and had time to myself so I wrote a few chapters of different stories.

 

As always, read and review. Hopefully I won't be so long with the next chapter or two.

 

I don't own anything but the plot of this story and any original characters that may come in time.

 

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Age 15

 

Kagome sat on a swing in the park. She and Inuyasha had just had the fight of all fights. They had started going to high school a few weeks earlier and with that came new people. Inuyasha had started dating a girl named Kikyo. No one knew this girl, she had moved from a different city, but everything in Kagome's soul screamed that something about this girl wasn't right.

 

First of all she had made their school uniform shorter than it was. Kagome's skirt was already mid thigh thanks to her long legs, and Kikyo's had been much the same. That hadn't been the only thing that she did though. She had also taken in her school uniform shirt to make it tighter, and she wore copious amounts of dark make up. But even that didn't really bother Kagome. The girl was down right rude.

 

She was the typical high school female that knew men found her attractive, giving her an ego that could easily be shared by a dozen people. That was what Kagome didn't like. And yet, Inuyasha went after her like a dog in heat.

 

“Well, he is a dog demon, and he is in puberty.” She muttered to herself kicking at the small pebbles. She sighed and buried her face in her hands. “What am I going to do?”

 

He had asked her to come to his house to hang out, but when she got there Kikyo was lounging on the couch. She looked at Inuyasha in shock, but he didn't seem to notice. He introduced them and the two girls said hello through fake smiles and forced cheerful voices. When Kagome said that she had a headache and wanted to go home, Inuyasha followed her.

 

“Okay, what the hell is going on?” He hissed as Kagome pulled on her shoes.

 

“I told you, I have a headache.” Kagome told him, really not wanting to get into a fight with him in front of Kikyo. The last thing she needed was to give her more ammo.

 

“So then I'll get you some Tylenol or something.”

 

Kagome shook her head and pulled on her hoodie. “Look, I just want to go lie down in a dark room and get some sleep.”

 

Inuyasha glared at her and tapped his foot impatiently. “Yeah right.” He muttered. “I can tell something is going on here. Do you have a problem with my girlfriend?”

 

Those words cut through Kagome's soul. She felt betrayed that he could go out with someone who was so two faced, someone who hated her. She had called him a few choice names before running out the door. She didn't feel like going home so she went to the park and sat on her swing. The only downside about being here was that if Inuyasha searched for her, he'd easily find her. But she couldn't think of a better place to go, at least if Inuyasha phoned and told her mother that they had been in a fight she wouldn't worry about Kagome.

 

“Like he'd do that anyway.” She said, kicking more stones.

 

She almost screamed when someone pushed her back, sending the swing forward. She leapt off gracefully and turned to face the person who had done it. “Inuyasha you creep!” She shouted

 

Inuyasha stared at her silently for a few moments before stepping closer to her. He pulled her closer to him and breathed in her scent. He hugged her tightly, cutting off most of her oxygen. “I thought for sure I pissed you off bad enough this time to make you stop talking to me.”

 

“Inuyasha, if you don't let me get some oxygen I will never talk to you again.” Kagome said. “It's kind of hard for the dead to talk.”

 

Inuyasha immediately released her. “So are you still mad at me?”

 

Kagome sighed and crossed the playground to the slide. She climbed up to the top and sat down while Inuyasha sat at the bottom facing her. It was a position they had sat in plenty of times when they were children. They could sit and talk like this for hours, annoying the people who had brought them to the park to play, and the other children who wanted to use the slide.

 

“It's not that I'm mad at you.” Kagome said. “Well that's a lie, I am mad at you. But that's because you were a big jerk tonight! And I still can't believe that you're dating Kikyo.”

 

Inuyasha stared up at her in confusion. “Why don't you like Kikyo?”

 

Kagome gave him her `oh please' look. “She's just rude to me and all the rest of our friends at school. When you're around she's nice because she doesn't want to piss you off.”

 

Inuyasha wisely bit his tongue, knowing that if he tried to argue with her it would only lead to another fight. Kagome didn't feel like fighting again. Instead she slid down the slide and crashed into him, knocking him off the slide.

 

“What the hell was that for?” He demanded, jumping to his feet.

 

“For dating someone that I can't stand!” Kagome told him. “But unfortunately I can't tell you who you can and can't date.”

 

Inuyasha stared at her for several minutes before sighing. “Would you do something for me?” Kagome stared at him and he knew that was her way of asking him what he wanted. “Will you at least play nice?”

 

“I won't bare my claws if she doesn't.” Kagome sighed reluctantly.

 

“Good.” Inuyasha said. “Now that that is settled, I need to ask you a favour.”

 

Kagome groaned. The last time he had asked her for a favour Miroku had grabbed her ass and she had given him a lovely scarlet hand print on his cheek. “As long as it doesn't involve giving Miroku advice again.”

 

“Can I kiss you?” He asked bluntly.

 

Kagome stared at him in shock, her left eyebrow rising slowly. “Did you do some drugs before following me?”

 

Inuyasha glared at her, clearly annoyed. “Of course not!”

 

“Then why would you want to kiss me and cheat on Kikyo?” Kagome asked.

 

“Look, I don't want Kikyo to think that I'm more inexperienced than I am.” Inuyasha told her, his face turning crimson. “I need you to help me learn how to kiss.”

Kagome's jaw dropped in shock. “If you want to learn how to kiss go ask Sango or someone who's actually kissed someone else before!”

 

Inuyasha's face grew even redder. “No! Sango would make fun of me; besides at least with you if I suck at kissing then you have no basis for comparison.”

 

Kagome glared at him. “Oh thanks so much, why don't you just rub it in a little?”

 

Inuyasha whined, completely frustrated with his friend. “Will you just shut up and help me?”

 

“Fine.”

 

Inuyasha moved up and sat beside her. They looked at each other in awkward silence and looked away blushing. They stared anywhere but each other. Finally the tension annoyed Kagome. She reached out and grabbed him by his hair, giving it a sharp tug.

 

“Ow, hey!” Inuyasha shouted, turning his head.

 

Kagome took the opportunity given to her and pressed her lips to his. Their eyes stayed open and they stared at each other in shock. Inuyasha angled his head, deepening the kiss without truly knowing what he was doing. His tongue ran timidly over Kagome's bottom lip and her tongue slipped out to touch his. Inuyasha's demon instincts kicked in and he all but tackled Kagome against the slide.

 

Kagome tore her lips away but Inuyasha didn't stop. Instead he took the opportunity to move down to her neck, licking and nibbling the flesh there. “Inuyasha, stop!” Kagome cried, pushing weakly at his arms.

 

He flew away from her and landed almost the entire length of the playground away from her. She winced as he skidded across the sharp gravel. She stared at her hands in shock, trying to figure out what had just happened. There was no way she had pushed him hard enough to send him flying like that.

 

She thought about their conversation two years ago and the conversation she had with Myouga afterwards. She knew her voice; if not her mere presence was what would calm Inuyasha's demon blood. Myouga had even tried insisting that Inuyasha mark her in someway, just so that the demon would know not to attack her at all. The two teens had refused, insisting that Inuyasha would recognize her no matter what his form was.

 

Obviously her sudden panic that things would go too far and the sound of her voice saying stop was what had sent him flying; his demon blood becoming soothed. Inuyasha jumped to his feet and stalked back over to her.

 

“Can we lose some of the violence?” He shouted at her.

 

“Look, just do what you did and I'm sure Kikyo will like it.”

 

Inuyasha stared at her, not knowing what she was talking about. She watched him suddenly turn red and stare down at his feet, kicking the tiny pebbles. “Sorry, I guess I got a little carried away.”

 

Kagome said nothing; instead she climbed to her feet and nodded. “It's alright.” She said, rubbing her arms as if she was cold. “Look, Inuyasha, I think I'm going to head home.”

 

Inuyasha climbed to his feet. “Alright, I'll walk you.”

 

Kagome shook her head, “No, I want to be alone.”

 

Inuyasha stared after her as she walked off. He sat down on the slide and stared at the ground. He didn't really understand what had possessed him to ask Kagome to kiss him. He touched his lips gently and grinned to himself. Whatever had been the reason behind his motivation, it had been well worth it.

 

Ever since they were thirteen he had wondered what it would be like to kiss her. In fact he had been tempted by Myouga's suggestion to mark her back when he had told her about his demon blood and what might happen after he turned eighteen. He knew that by marking her no other demon would have any type of claim on her, even though it wasn't a mating mark. The protection mark symbolized that she both protected and was under the protection of someone with Demon blood, this meant that no demon would be able to date her, let alone touch her without his strict permission. Unfortunately it didn't prevent humans from dating her.

 

Inuyasha growled at the thought of Kagome dating someone else. At first he couldn't understand why she had gotten so upset at the fact that Kikyo was at his house when he called her over. But now he understood, or at least he thought he did.

 

He gave Kagome another few minutes before following her. No matter how busy he was, he always dropped everything to follow Kagome home. After all, it was the only way that he could ensure that she got home safely.

 

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Kagome sighed and spotted a pay phone across the street. She ran across the street and quickly dialled Sango's number. “Hey, it's Kagome.”

 

Sango glared at Miroku, who was sporting a rather red handprint on his face. He had always flirted with Sango, in fact, ever since he met her he had hardly left her alone. She had invited him over with the hopes that he could tutor her in math, but it had resulted in her spending half the night trying to keep his hands away from her rear end.

 

“Hey Kagome, what's up?” Sango asked.

 

“Do you think that I could come over for a few minutes, I need to talk to you about something.”

 

Sango watched Miroku's hands carefully. “Sure as long as you don't mind the groping pervert being here.”

 

Kagome grinned but decided to let that slide for the time being. “Okay, I'm a couple blocks away so I'll be there in about ten minutes or so.”

 

She hung up the phone and turned towards Sango's house. Inuyasha followed behind her silently, wondering why she suddenly had to talk to Sango. When they reached Sango's house he jumped up into a tree and over to her brother Kohaku's window. He knew that of all the window's, Kohaku's would be the one unlocked. He slid the window opened and jumped in before creeping to the top of the stairs.

 

“So what's wrong?” Sango asked as she led Kagome into the living room.

 

Kagome didn't answer right away, instead she turned her head towards the staircase, and she could have sworn that she felt Inuyasha's presence in the house. “Kagome?” Miroku asked. “Are you alright?”

 

“I could have sworn that Inuyasha was there, but I'm probably just imagining things.” Kagome said, sitting down in a recliner.

 

“So what's going on?” Sango asked. “I thought that you were hanging out at Inuyasha's tonight, that's why you weren't going to be able to come tonight for the study session.”

 

“Yeah I did go there, but Kikyo was there and I left.” She told them.

 

“Why the hell was Kikyo there?” Miroku asked.

 

“Apparently they're dating now.”

 

Sango's mouth dropped open in shock. “He's actually dating that bitch?”

 

Miroku and Kagome stared at her in shock. Sango never swore unless she was absolutely pissed off about something. “Yes he's actually dating her. I don't know how she can date him when she hates his friends so much, but they're dating.”

 

“So that's the reason why you came here?” Miroku asked, sounding slightly bitter.

 

“No.” Kagome told them. “After I left his place I went to the playground to think and he showed up.”

 

“Did you two fight?” Sango asked.

 

“No, not exactly.” Kagome told them. “We, uh, kind of kissed.”

 

“Oh thank God, I was worried that you were going to say that you killed…” Miroku started to say. “Wait a minute, you guys kissed?”

 

Kagome nodded. “But he's dating Kikyo.” Sango said.

 

“I know!” Kagome said jumping to her feet. She ran her hands through her hair, trying to work out her frustration. Inuyasha could pick up on the subtle change of her scent because of it. “He followed me to the playground, asked me to be nice to Kikyo then asked me if he could kiss me so that she wouldn't think that he was inexperienced.”

 

The girls stared at Miroku when he snickered behind his hand. “What's so funny?” Sango asked him.

 

“That's the oldest trick in the book!” Miroku said. “He either has been wondering how it would be to kiss you, or else he's trying to figure out who kisses better.”

 

Kagome blushed while Sango smirked at her. “I know that he hasn't kissed her yet, or anyone for that matter.”

 

“Oh yeah, why do you say that?” Miroku asked.

 

“Because he would have told me.” Kagome told him. “And before you tell me that he's a guy and he wouldn't tell me, he would. We don't have a relationship like anyone else does.”

 

“She has a point Miroku.” Sango said jumping in. “From day one Inuyasha and Kagome have had a strange relationship. I mean look at how he lets her touch his ears. Even his mother doesn't touch his ears that much. His mom only tweaks them when she needs his attention, but Kagome can sit for hours and scratch or stroke his ears.”

 

“I am sitting right here Sango!” Kagome said.

 

“I know!” Sango laughed. “I'm just speaking the truth!”

 

“So how was the kiss Kagome?” Miroku asked.

 

“I don't know, I've never kissed anyone else so I have no basis of comparison.”

 

Miroku stood up and moved closer to Kagome, grasping her hand in between his. “Then allow a master to show you how it's done and you'll have a basis for comparison!”

 

Inuyasha was about to run down the stairs and tear him away from Kagome when he heard two loud and presumably very painful slaps. He smirked and settled himself back down on the top step to listen to the rest of the conversation.

 

“So now that he'll stay out of the conversation for a bit, tell me how it was.” Sango pressed her.

 

Kagome sighed and sat down on the floor, pulling her knees and wrapping her arms around them. “It was,” Kagome sighed again, “It was amazing.”

 

Sango burst out laughing. “It was amazing huh?”

 

Kagome blushed. “Well, amazing for a guy who's never kissed someone before.”

 

“So do you think that this will change things between you two?”

 

Kagome shrugged. “I don't know.” She said. “I should get home, I'm tired and I don't want mom to worry about me.”

 

Sango nodded and led Kagome out while Inuyasha stood and made his way outside. He let Kagome get ahead of him and followed her home. He jumped up into the ancient tree that was near her room. Through her closed curtain he could see her light come on. He waited until it was turned off before making his way to her window. He slid the window open and could smell her scent, telling him that she was in the room.

 

“Kagome?” He whispered softly.

 

Kagome's body turned over on her bed so that she was facing him. “What are you doing here?” She whispered to him.

 

“Are we okay?” He asked the question that had been plaguing him since he left Sango's. “This isn't going to change things between us is it?”

 

Kagome sighed. “I knew you were at Sango's!” She muttered, blushing slightly. “You climbed through Kohaku's window again didn't you?”

 

Inuyasha sighed. “Kagome please answer the question.”

 

Kagome fell silent and stared at him for a few minutes. She reached down and pulled the corner of her blanket up. Inuyasha smiled and slipped off his shoes and socks before sliding into bed beside her. This was nothing new to the two of them. While their position was very intimate, it was their way of affirming their friendship. Inuyasha grabbed her hands under the covers, before raising one hand up and placed it on his ears.

 

“Sango's right you know.” Inuyasha said as Kagome started to rub his left ear.

“What do you mean?” Kagome asked, stifling a yawn.

“You are the only one that I allow to touch my ears.” Inuyasha said.

 

Kagome nodded and snuggled closer to him. “I know.”

 

He held her as her breath evened out and deepened. He relaxed into the mattress and let sleep overcome him. He was content and peaceful and decided that at that moment there was no where else he'd rather be.