InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome's Realization ❯ Chapter 14b ( Chapter 18 )

"Who is that spying on Belle's home?" Said Inuyasha when the scene went from black to a view of Belle's house from behind a bush.

"Oh, boy, Belle's going to get the surprise of her life huh, Gaston?" Lefou said.

Oh, thought Inuyasha, this guy again.

"Yep. This is her lucky day." Gaston said letting go of the branch he was holding so he could look at Belle's house and smacked his servant in the face leaving him with leaves in his mouth.

"It looks like a party." Inuyasha said, when Gaston came into a clearing that was very nicely decorated with flowers and there was even a table. Inuyasha spied the three blondes.

"I'd like to thank you all for coming to my wedding."

"WHAT??" Said Inuyasha.

"First I better go in there and propose to the girl." Gaston laughed with everyone but the blondes who were crying miserably.

"You planned your wedding without being engage first? Baka." Inuyasha said, shaking his head, this out to be good.

After a few instructions to Lefou regarding his band the scene then switched to Belle who was busy reading the book that she got that morning. A knock on the door interrupted her reading.

"Just keep reading." Inuyasha advised and totally understood her look when she pulled down the most interesting instrument that seemed to be able to look through the door and saw a smug, though oddly shaped Gaston.

Inuyasha watched quietly as Gaston walked into Belle's house without a come in and started strutting around, like he was Kami's only gift. His conceit showed through though when he stopped talking to look at himself in a mirror that caught his side vision.

"This is that day your dreams come true." Only if your dreams are nightmares.

"What do you know about my dreams, Gaston?" Yeah?

"Plenty. Here, picture this:" Sitting down in Belle's seat he plopped his muddy boots on her book. Asshole. "A rustic hunting lodge." Rustic or Rusting? "My latest kill roasting on the fire." Muddy boots came off to show socked feet but one toe stuck out. "My little wife messaging my feet." Toes wiggling.

"That's disgusting." Inuyasha said and laughed when he watched Belle grab her nose at the smell. "He'd probably make me sick with his feet."

"While the little ones play on the floor with the dogs." Belle held her nose till Gaston stood and she pasted a smile on her face. "We'll have six or seven."

"Dogs?"

"No, Belle. Strapping boys like me." Looking cocky.

"Imagine that." That's all it is; imagination.

Grabbing her now muddy book Belle turned her back on Gaston.

"And do you know who that little wife will be?" Coming up behind her.

With and oh my god look on her face, "Let me think."

"You, Belle." Trapping her in the corner.

It's time to be afraid.

"Gaston. I'm. I'm." Escaping his trap and moving behind her rocking chair finding then suddenly finding her back against the door. "I'm speechless. I really don't know what to say."

Say no idiot and Inuyasha watched as Gaston, with the usual smug look on his face, boar down on her knocking her furniture out of his way. She's wasting her time trying to be nice about it; the guy is a complete jerk.

Again trapping her, "Say you'll marry me."

"I'm very sorry Gaston, but but" reaching behind her grabbing the handle while Gaston move in to kiss her. Inuyasha's mouth dropped open. "I just don't deserve you." WHAT DID SHE SAY?

And with a wave goodbye Gaston went flying out the door into an awaiting puddle, and as promised Lefou struck up the band.

Inuyasha died laughing when Gaston's butt and socks were all that could be seen from the muddle puddle he found himself in.

"That's what you get." Inuyasha laughed and laughed some more when Lefou went to stand next to the puddle Gaston was in when a pig came out on top of his head. He's just letting himself into everyone's home today.

"So, how'd it go?" Do you even have to ask?

Inuyasha watched an angry and embarrassed Gaston make a pledge while holding his servant by the neck, again, "I'll have Belle as my wife. Make no mistake about that!"

After Belle, who came out of her house when the coast was clear, saying to the chickens on her way to the chicken coop. "Is he gone? Can you imagine? He asked me to marry him. Me, the wife of that boorish, brainless…" and started singing again Inuyasha turned to Kagome.

"I don't understand." Inuyasha said.

"What?" Kagome asked, slightly confused, she had forgotten Gaston's terrible proposal to Belle, Inuyasha questioning her suddenly caught her off guard.

"She obviously doesn't want to marry the guy, so why didn't she just say no straight out?" Inuyasha was very confused about this; he was still shocked over the fact that Belle had actually told Gaston that she didn't deserve him.

"She was trying to be a lady about it."

"Feh, doesn't she know that won't work with people like him? You cannot be a lady and be nice and subtle when you're dealing with someone who is a conceited baka who thinks the best of everything should automatically be his. She reminds me of you."

"Me? You think so?" Kagome said, smiling slightly, she liked to think she was as good a person as Belle, though she couldn't see herself singing and birds coming up to her and resting on her extended hand before taking to flight again.

"I want much more than this provincial life." Belle's voice rang through.

"I'm not complimenting you so take that satisfied smirk off your face." Eyes glaring at him. "That's better. That Gaston character reminds me of Kouga. He goes around knowing and trying to further impress on people that he's the best. The best hunter, the best fighter, the best leader. It's easier for you to be nice and subtly condescending, stroking his ego more, than to be honest and tell him that he's full of himself and where to get off. You endure his." Inuyasha looked over and saw that Sota was following their conversation with interest and so he decided to choose his words wisely and lowered his voice a couple of notches. "Charms, if you want to say he has any, because it's the easiest way to deal with him. It keeps him coming around thinking he can act that way, thinking that he's in the right, because you don't say anything. As for Belle, whom you seem to want to be like, insulted herself by saying that she didn't deserve him. No one deserves to have to deal with either of them."

No he didn't, thought Kagome whose eyes could barely be seen as she glared at her friend who was being saved from an oswari because the whole family, except for grandpa who was asleep in is room after saying that watching a cartoon was to young for him, was together watching a movie. "I'll have you know that I slapped Kouga across the face, in front of his followers." Eyes switching to lay on Sota before going back to Inuyasha, "and made it abundantly clear that I had no interest in having any form of relationship other than that of an acquitance. He is in complete understanding of my feelings but he chooses to ignore it thinking he can win me over anyway." Kagome's mind reminded her that Kouga had guessed at her being in love with Inuyasha but he told her that he didn't care and his death would put him out of her heart. "Belle knows what I know. She knows that it isn't necessary to be hurtful and cruel to someone who knows your heart but wants to try for it anyway."

"This Kouga guy likes you that much, neechan?" Sota said, leaning up onto the couch so he could hear better.

"Mind your own business." Kagome said to Sota, who immediately turned back to the movie. "And."

"Why don't you talk about it later, you're missing the movie." Came Mrs. Higarashi's voice.

"You must promise to stay forever." The Beast was saying when a miffed Kagome turned her attention back to the screen.

"Come into the light."

What the hell, she's gonna stay there? Inuyasha was thinking as he watched the Beast come into the light so that Belle could see that she wasn't dealing with a human. Would she really stay with a Beast? Forever.

"You have my word." Belle said, stepping into the light.

"Done." Belle collapses to the floor.

"No, Belle, listen to me. I'm old. I've lived my life." Papa ran up to her.

He's old; he's lived his life. Inuyasha agreed, thinking that he couldn't do what Belle was doing, till the image of Kagome flashed before his mind. Inuyasha watched as the Beast ripped father and daughter apart without so much as a goodbye and tossed him into a carriage that moved without a horse pulling it.

Inuyasha stared at the TV but didn't really see the picture, the noise of the movie dropping into a background. She sacrificed her life's freedom for the person she loves the most and she didn't even get to say goodbye. His heart filled with utter sadness and despair. Since he had thought of Kagome in that instance he felt the horror of what that would be like. To have sacrificed his life's freedom for her and then to be denied a proper fair well. All the things he knew he wanted to tell Kagome and things that he didn't know he wanted to tell her flooded all his senses.

"Since the girl is going to be with us for quite some time I was thinking that you might want offer her a more comfortable room."

The candles words barely found there way into Inuyasha's thoughts, who at this point was lost in a sea of confused emotions. Feh, why would I want to have anything to do with him? Because of him and his thoughtlessness and hard heart Kagome is gone from me and I didn't even get to say goodbye. It was the realization that he was thinking as if he were Belle that snapped him out of his mixed thoughts.

"Yes." Said Inuyasha's conscience. "You should snap out of Belle's place because that is Kagome's. You are the beast."

"I am not." Inuyasha said trying to deny the truth of his own confessor.

"You are so. Kouga is Gaston and you are the Beast. And like the Beast you're willing to rip Kagome from her world without so much as letting her say goodbye because it is what you wish."

"I would let her say goodbye." Inuyasha said to his conscience grumpily.

"See you are like the Beast. The only real difference between you is that you care for Kagome where the Beast doesn't know Belle because he doesn't know her. Belle willingly offered herself in her fathers place but Kagome offered herself because it was her duty."

"She doesn't stay with me because it's her duty. You know that she cares about us."

"Yes, after a while she came to see past our rough exterior and saw the person we deny even to ourselves. But her feelings changing towards us doesn't deny the fact that she is sacrificing her life for the sake of the jewel and like the Beast you are thoughtless and cold hearted about it."

"Inu-no-nechan." Sota pulled Inuyasha from his thoughts, nudging him with his elbow. "Don't you think it's funny?"

Inuyasha's focused on the TV and he watched the Beast angrily beat on a door.

"I though I told you to come down to dinner."

I am like the Beast.

"I'm not hungry."

"You come out, or I'll-I'll break down the door."

Sounds as demanding as me.

"Master." Came the candles voice, which suddenly sounded like Miroku, "I could be wrong but that may not be the best way to win the girl's affections. "

"Please, attempt to be a gentleman." Added Sango.

"But she is being so difficult."

Yup, that's me all right, putting the blame on the other person when it's all me.

"Gently, gently." Came Keada's voice.

With a look that Inuyasha really felt like making now that he had realized how much he acted like the Beast, "Will you come down to dinner?" Trying at politeness.

"No."

"You can't stay in there forever."

"Yes I can."

"Fine, then go ahead and starve!" Roared the Beast. Looking to his servants. "If she doesn't eat with me than she doesn't eat at all." He storms off

Inuyasha started breathing harder as he realized that he would be so cold as to do something like that. After becoming harsh from a harsh upbringing Inuyasha fantasized about being able to have such control over people. All those who wanted to hurt him or look down on him would be his to do with as he pleased. He would make them realize that they shouldn't have been so mean and evil even to someone who was in fact stronger than them. He would show them that he would no longer cower to the fear and self-hatred they wanted to inflict on him.

"Oh, no"

"Oh, yes."

"Oh, no!"

"Oh, yes, yes, yes."

"I've been burned by you before."

Inuyasha snickered to realize that he was right; the candle was just like Miroku, as he romanced a feathered stick.

Kagome observed Inuyasha from her position on the couch. Though at first she was more than willing to be mad an Inuyasha for sometime for his earlier comments, her anger soon gave way to worry as she watched the sudden change in his attitude towards the movie. When he didn't ooh and aaah and Lemiere's song "Be Our Guest" Kagome gave in to her urge.

"What's the matter?" She asked, leaning in real close to where her face was mere inches from his.

Inuyasha jumped at Kagome's sudden closeness. "Yeah."

"It's the movie isn't it?" Kagome pushed further, it has to be the movie.

"Baka, it's only a movie."

"They can still give off powerful emotions, Inuyasha."

"Do you homework." Inuyasha said, turning back to the movie.

Belle was walking through a destroyed room, looking here then there when a ripped picture caught her eye. She tried to place it together enough to make out the face when saw the enchanted rose and was about to touch it when suddenly, the Beast appeared.

Moving quickly he replaced the glass lid Belle removed and looked at her with hatred.

Could that be it, Kagome thought watching Inuyasha's face fall more.

"Why did you come here?"

"I'm sorry." Backing away scared.

I've scared Kagome like that.

"I warned you never to come here."

"I didn't mean any harm."

No, Kagome didn't mean any harm but I attacked her anyway.

"Do you realize what you could have done?!" The Beast breaks another object in the room.

Yes, I could have killed her if Keade hadn't interfered.

"Please, stop."

"Get out!"

Belle takes off running, just like Kagome did when he tried to steal the jewel from her when he first meet her.

"Promise or no promise I can't stay here another minute."

"Hey, wait." Called Kagome, sitting up on the couch. "Where are you going, Inuyasha?"

But Inuyasha didn't respond, he simply left the room.