InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Risky business ❯ Chapter two ( Chapter 3 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of its characters.

 

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The door bell rang and I was so shocked I dropped the box. I quickly closed it and put it back in the pocket and rushed over to open the door. He was there, just as he had been not twenty minutes ago. “Um, here's your jacket.” I said turning around and walking out of the hallway expecting him to just leave. Wishing he would so he wouldn't see the tears in my eyes.

 

My world was crumbling, and it was happening at such a break-neck speed I felt like holding onto the wall for support. But that would come later, when I was alone, when he couldn't see what this was doing to me. Right now I just had to be happy for him…..and her…..and try not to curse them both to hell.

 

“Kagome, what's wrong?” So he was still here. Bastard..

 

“Nothing's wrong, why would something be wrong?” I asked quickly walking onto my balcony hoping there would be a strong gust of wind to just blow me away from here.

 

The cool night was a welcome change from my currently suffocating apartment. I pulled my robe tighter around myself tucking my crossed arms as close to my body as I could get them.

 

It wasn't two seconds later that I heard his steps behind me. I knew what he was going to say, and I knew I didn't want to hear it. “You never were a good liar Kagome,” he said with a small laugh in his voice.

 

Somehow though there was nothing funny about it. So I decided to be childish and just ignore him, maybe he'd change his mind about telling me that he was going to marry her.

 

“You saw it didn't you.” His tone more of an accusation rather than a question.

 

I felt stupid, why was I being this way when I had known all along that he was always going to love her and not me. I was just his mistress, the one that he went to when he needed to get laid, not the one he planned on spending the rest of his sharing his bed with.

 

I let my anger start to get the better of me, if this was going to be our last night as lovers I wasn't going to hold anything back, why should I?

 

“Yeah, so when are you going to ask her? I'm sure she'll be real happy to know that she won.” I said without even turning back to face him, knowing that if I did I'd crumble maybe ask him not to leave me.

 

“Won? What's that suppose to mean?” Somehow he seemed less happy than he should have been, after all he was about to get what he'd always wanted.

 

“Well I assume that by asking her to marry you, you'd decided on becoming a human, just like she wanted.”

 

There was silence, I was feeling uncomfortable again, Inuyasha was many things but he was never a quiet person. Seeing his silence as an invitation I continued rambling, “But I guess this means you win too though, you finally get a family.” Taking in a deep breath I waited for him to jump in at any minute but he never did.

 

“I'm happy for you Inuyasha; I hope that she makes you really happy.” I felt the tears coming faster, and my resolve breaking. When I felt his hand on my shoulder I knew it was time.

 

So I turned to him and buried my face into his chest. One I didn't want him to see me crying and two this was probably the last time we'd ever be this close. If he was getting married I'd be a good friend, but there was no way I was going to live here to see him with her everyday, I'd have to put in a transfer to America as soon as possible. I felt him stroke my hair and broke.

 

I cried into his chest clutching his now damp white shirt, “Kagome.”

 

“Don't say it Inuyasha, I know okay, and all I want is for you to be happy, I just hope you don't regret it later.” I pulled away from him wiping my face as I went. As I stood in front of him I saw a sad expression on his face, as well as confusion.

 

“Let's just stay best friends okay? I don't want you changing now that you're going to be tied down. I still want the entire gossip okay?” My voice was wavering and I knew he had to leave, I had to be alone. I walked back into my apartment and into my room; it was suddenly very hot and hard to breathe.

 

While ruffling through my drawers for some clothes my fingers found a sweatshirt……it was his sweatshirt. After he ripped mine our first time he brought me his saying it was only fair….Pushing it deep behind my others I found a t-shirt, undies and boxers went to the bathroom to change. I pulled my still damp hair into a high ponytail and made my way back to the living area.

 

I was surprised to see him sitting on my couch, his elbows on his knees and his head bent. When I noticed he had that damn box in his hand I felt my heart break all over again. Why did he flaunt it? I know you're getting married and won't see me again now get the hell out it hurts me just to see you.

 

Of course I would never tell him that, “Inuyasha what are you still doing here?”

 

I joined him on the couch tucking my legs to me as if in protection from his words.

 

He mumbled something and I had to strain to hear him, “What did you say?”

 

“I stopped seeing Kikyo a month ago.” He repeated, never looking up from the floor.

 

I didn't say anything; I didn't think I could if I wanted to. I was just speechless. What in the hell was going on? All kinds of scenarios were running through my head.

 

If she rejected him why would he bring her ring here? Was he going to ask her for forgiveness by asking her to marry him? Why didn't he tell me he had stopped seeing her!

 

“You what?” I didn't mean to sound so rude, but I had to get to the truth.

 

He looked up at me and his eyes mirrored a hurt in them, much like my own. “I haven't seen Kikyo in a month.”

 

Okay, I got that much but this was still getting no where fast. “What happened?” Or more importantly why in the hell did you keep this from me!

 

“It's a long story.”

 

“I've got time.”

 

He gave me a soft smile and I was relived a bit to know he wasn't completely torn up about it. He took a deep breath and settled himself deeper into my couch putting his hand on my knee as he did so.

 

“About a month ago Kikyo gave me an ultimatum, I had to choose to be with her or keep my demonic powers. We argued a lot, but I finally told her the truth, that I didn't want to give them up. She was pretty pissed off to say the least. She accused me of stringing her along and then she blamed you.”

 

“Me? What did I do?”

 

He offered me another smile before continuing, “She said that you had filled my head with lies, telling me that I would still be able to settle down and have a family even as a half breed. That you just wanted to cause problems between us because apparently you hated her.”

 

“That bitch.” I thought out loud, I hadn't meant to but it just slipped. He laughed and I was relieved that he wasn't offended at me calling her that. “Well it's true! I mean you could settle down and you're not a half breed, you half human and half demon, that only means you're special. After all your mother and father chose to have you.”

 

His arm came around me and he pulled me to him hugging me to his strong form. “Heh, I don't think I'll ever be able to find anyone as understanding and open minded as you, you know?” He stopped placing a kiss on my temple before releasing me and continuing the story.

 

“When I told Kikyo that she was going to far by insulting you then she really through a fit and let's just say that she called you some pretty nasty things, and for some reason it really infuriated me more than I thought. So when she yelled I only yelled back. But to make a long story short, I told her that I couldn't stay with her anymore. When I was walking out of the apartment she yelled out that I had betrayed her by loving you all along and she was only your replacement.”

 

My heart sped up; I didn't care if it was true, only the thought that it could have the smallest possibility of validity kept me from crying.

 

“And you know when I left I really thought about what she said. I walked around town a lot that day, just thinking and somehow I ended up in front of this jewelry store `Shikon Jewels'. They had this gorgeous ring on display and all I could think about what how it would look on you.”

 

I froze, but wasn't the ring in the box an engagement ring? My mind was swarming with questions, hopes and prayers. It wasn't until I felt him move off the couch and crouching in front of me that my reality came crashing down on me.

 

“Kagome, we've known each other for a long time, and I've never known anyone to be as accepting, forgiving and honest as you. Even though we've been best friends for as long as I can remember, I don't ever recall telling you how much you mean to me. I don't know what I saw in Kikyo, I really couldn't tell you, but I know now that she wasn't the one I wanted. She never could accept me for who I was, meanwhile you always did and only embraced my inner demon and seemed to pacify it.”

 

He stopped talking and put a knee on the ground and pulled out the box from his jacket. “Kagome I don't remember when my love changed for you, I always thought I only loved you as a friend but now I know that wasn't true. I love you much more than that and I can't imagine spending a day without you.”

 

I stopped breathing, it wasn't impossible for me to breathe, I was crying too hard/ silently but hard. Was he really about to---?

 

“Will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?”

 

That one question sent a tidal wave of emotions through my body, shock, love, happiness and somehow I ended up collapsed on top of him crying even harder. His arms came around me, trying to console me and when I finally stopped crying I looked into his eyes making sure this was no joke.

 

He smiled, “You never answered my question.”

 

I laughed whacking him on the shoulder as best as I could, “You idiot of course I'll marry you!” His leaned up and kissed me, using one of his free hands to wipe away my tears. “Good, because I don't know if I could have handled you telling me no.”

 

“Yeah right, when have I ever told you no?” I asked sitting up pulling him to the couch with me.

 

“I guess you do have me pretty spoiled eh?”

 

We sat on the couch our hands entwined, questions floating around in my head. “Inuyasha, can I ask you something?”

 

“Sure.”

 

“Why didn't you tell me that you stopped seeing Kikyo a month ago? I mean you never were good at keep secrets.”

 

“Kagome, that day that I left, I knew that I wanted to be with you, more than just your lover and friend, I wanted to be your mate for life, raise a family with you. I knew that if I told you then you would only think that you were my rebound from Kikyo or that I didn't know what I was thinking.”

 

He kissed me, a small kiss on my lips, “Besides, the last month has only made me love you more and made me realize that you really are the only one for me.”

 

I felt my eyes start to water again. “Please stop saying sweet things to me; I don't think I can cry anymore.”

 

He gave me another kiss, probably to shut me up, “Kagome I can't make you any promises but I guess we do have the rest of our lives for me to talk you up.”

 

The rest of our lives…..married….things were slowly starting to sink in and I felt warm and content just being there in his arms. Where I was safe, with the man I loved.

“Inuyasha why did you let me think that you were going to ask Kikyo to marry you?”

 

“To be honest, I wasn't. When I saw you torn up I thought you had figured out that I was going to ask you to marry me and didn't want to, but when you went on about me being happy with her I was confused, and a bit relieved. I never planned on asking you like this, I was coming back to ask you to dinner or take you somewhere more romantic but I couldn't go on letting you think that I didn't want to be with you.”

 

“Inuyasha, there couldn't have been anything more romantic than being alone with you, telling me that you love me.” I kissed him, to make my point and when his kiss became more demanding, I only smiled, something's would never change. And I was glad they wouldn't.”

 

I could definitely get used to having this everyday….

 

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AH HA! I'm done, finito, completo! Yeah baby! Sorry, I'm a bit that I was able to get that story out of my head and into a story. I had been thinking about if for a week now.

 

But anyway, yes, this was an Inu/Kag, sorry I didn't specify, but I always thought that Kagome was better at being there for Inuyasha and understood him for what he was. From the Takashi story line, it just looked like she would always want him to be happy even at her expense and that is where this story came from.

 

I have thought about making a sequel….well a lemon…. And somehow spin it off this one but I'm still not sure I can do it. But your reviews are more than welcome and if you want to flame me that's okay, I'll just cry. ^_^