InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Roommates ❯ Change of plans ( Chapter 1 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters. And I do not intent to gain any kind retribution of for this work of fanfiction.

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Change of plans

It was a sunny morning, just like any other morning when something started to make Kagome nervous. She looked at her best friend and roommate Sango, she was acting weird. Weird not as if something inside her head wasn't working as it should, but as if Sango wanted to get on her good side. And that was scary, really scary.

Sango had woken up early than Kagome, itself was a remarkable situation because Kagome's classes started at 7am while Sango's didn't start until 1pm. And today, Sango had woken up early, made breakfast and coffee. Two things that didn't mix well with Kagome's friend. Sango always asked for the afternoon classes because she was up most part of the night and she always said that she didn't believe in breakfast. That was part of why this whole ordeal was weird and scary.

"What's wrong with you?" Kagome asked as she was pushed, rather forcefully to her favorite chair by the small of her back.

"Ohh! Me? Nothing!" Sango waved her hand in front of Kagome's face.

"Is someone sick? Are you gonna tell me bad news?" Kagome's mind was racing, thinking about every other possibility. "Are you in trouble? Is Miroku in trouble?"

"Nah! Don't worry!" Said Sango again, but Kagome noted she was nervous. Kagome knew that if she didn't push Sango to tell her, this would take hours, hours that she didn't want to waste.

"If you don't tell me now, whatever it is, I'm going to say no." Kagome used her most serious face and used the voice that made the unruliest child listen.

Sango sat down in the other side of the bar and looked at Kagome's blue eyes with the best pleading eyes she had. "I want to live with Miroku…"

After the admission the house was filled with silence. The youngest woman's head started turn thinking about what that would mean for her.

Around the things that popped in her head was: the rent, she didn't make enough money to move out, this complex was really cheap because it was for college students and really close to the campus. She didn't want Miroku to move in with them, according to the lease agreement only two people were allowed per apartment, and after some unpleasant occasions where she found them naked on the kitchen and living room, Kagome had asked them Miroku to keep their apartment business free.

Kagome suddenly thought about something that was sure to make Sango think things better. Sango's father!

Kagome smiled internally knowing she had the best argument.

"But Sango. What about your father?" Sango's shoulders slumped as her friend kept talking "You know the only way he let you move out of the family home was because I was going to be your roommate, your only roommate. HE is not going to let you move out."

Sango looked at her with a serious look in her eyes. A look that told Kagome her friend was dead serious about her decision "Kag, he doesn't need to know…"

Kagome was left speechless, Sango had never, not even once in her life, go against her father wishes. Instead of going behind his back and do something she really wanted. She pestered her father until he allowed her to do it. It had been like that her whole life. Even when they wanted to move out, it had taken her months to get his father approval. Only then they moved out.

But now, now she wanted it so much that was thinking of do it behind his father's back. That fact scared Kagome the most.

"Sango…" she grabbed the oldest woman's hands in her own. "Are you sure?" Sango only nodded once.

Kagome let out a tired sight, and looked at their joined hands, thinking she would regret this. "If you go, then I need to move out or put an advertising looking for a roommate. I can't afford this alone"

She expected an empathic expression to be shown in Sango's face, but she was beaming with happiness. "Don't worry Kagome!" the woman said patting her friend hands "we have the solution for that"

Sango stood up and walked to the kitchen, where she picked up a plate with pancakes and syrup. "Eat, and don't worry. We will take care of your roommate situation.

Maybe it was the secretive tone she used or the fact she used "we". She wondered if that should make her feel nervous or not.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Two streets down another pair of friends were having the same conversation, but with different methods.

"What the fuck are you suggesting, Miroku?" Inuyasha shouted across the table with his mouth full or Ramen.

Miroku had woken up early too, and he knew that the only thing he could cook to make his friend happy was Ramen, and he presented three bowls on the table along with a hot water after preparing himself a bowl.

The hanyou had smelled the ramen and came out of the room half-dressed and sat down without asking and prepared his meal.

Miroku waited until his mouth was full of noodles and had blurted out Sango and him wanted to live together and were she was planning to move in at the end of the month.

For a moment the hanyou had remained speechless and Miroku used that opportunity to tell him Sango was happy to live with them.

"Oh! NO! No! I won't fucking live with you both!"

The hanyou pointed his chopsticks to his roommate as he went on.

"I've found you two rutting in the bathroom WITH the door opened, in living room, and even in the fucking kitchen, Miroku! I couldn't eat here for almost a month! A MONTH!"

His roommate listened quietly knowing everything that he said was true. They had been caught having sex in various parts of the house, but that actually gave Miroku another argument.

The older man raised his hands in surrender "I know. I know… and that was unpleasant for all of us, I assure you Inuyasha."

The hanyou only narrowed his eyes as his clawed hand pulled the top of another ramen cup.

"I think we can find a middle ground and make the best for the three of us…"

"Yeah! The middle ground is staying as we are…"

Miroku scratched his head. "Well… what about something else that can make you happy too?"

Inuyasha closed the lid and put his chopsticks on top and waited, still glaring at the other man.

"The thing that would make me happy is having a roommate" he stretched the word "that doesn't say stupid things so early in the morning"

"We can arrange that…" he muttered.

"What?"

"Oh! Nothing, nothing." The older man said.

The silver haired hanyou started to slurp his third cup of ramen ignoring everything else. Miroku knew he had to do something before his secret weapon arrived.

"I'm serious Inuyasha, Sango is going to move in. Is something we have been thinking for a long time and I think it can work. WE think it will work. That's why you need to listen to the alternatives."

Inuyasha growled. "There's no way I'm going to live under the same roof than you two perverts!"

"You made that point clear, thank you…"

"Good!"

Inuyasha's ears swiveled and pointed to the door a moment before someone knocked on the door. With a smile that was lost to Inuyasha, Miroku started to get to the door but before reaching it, the door opened and a woman with a bright smile walked in.

"Hello!" She said in chirping tone.

"Hi, beautiful." Answered Miroku before taking a box she was carrying and take it to his room.

Sango walked to the kitchen where Inuyasha was preparing his last ramen cup.

"Hello Inuyasha" She said taking the seat Miroku had occupied earlier.

Using his chopsticks to make point to her face "I'm not living with you two!" He declared.

She slapped the chopsticks to the side. "I know that!"

"Good!"

Miroku walked out of the room in time to see his roommate face change from smug to shocked as Sango said "It IS great! Thank you for agreeing to move out. I actually found your new apartment today"

It was the first time Sango watched Inuyasha discard his ramen to do something else, even if that something else involved opening and closing his mouth repeatedly without uttering a sound before growling.

"I'm not moving out!"

Miroku ran closer to his girlfriend and explained his current roommate had not agree to their plan and slowly moved her away from the growling hanyou.

He wanted to keep her safe and wait for Inuyasha to calm down, but after all, this was Sango. So she slapped his hands off her shoulders and came back to the kitchen.

"Why not?" She spat as she stood in front of him with her hands on the hips.

"Because I don't wanna?" He answered with a mocking tone.

"That means that you prefer to live HERE" she motioned the place with a hand "with us, being really uncomfortable. And don't try to deny it, I know you don't like to be around when I come to visit…"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes "Wasn't going to… you two are gross."

Sango leaned closer with a menacing glare. "We are gross! But even with that you don't what to move out!"

Inuyasha backed up a little but not because he was afraid of the woman in front of him. He did it to protect his ears from her high pitched voice, it was totally because of that reason only.

"I tell you Inuyasha! You are the most stubborn man I've ever met! We…" She reached back with her right hand and pulled Miroku closer. "We are trying to live together, and actually YOU have the best end of this deal! The place we've been trying to get for you is closer to campus and your job. The rent is cheaper! Your new roommate is really considerate, clean and actually cooks edible things, not only white rice!"

Miroku gave her an outraged look but she kept going.

"And the best thing is that you would not be worrying about me barging in…"

Sango pointed at the hanyou with her well-manicured finger.

"All this things only for you! But you are too stubborn to actually consider it an option and as the stupid proud man you are, the possibility of this change is not even in your head. You go directly to shouting 'no'! And then we end up getting yelled at by you!"

Without being noticed by Sango, Miroku had started to walk back, slowly getting out of both of the other two occupant's reach.

"Keh! I could do that, if your stupid boyfriend had told me any of that information!"

"What?"

Now the accusing eyes of both, his current roommate and his soon-to-be roommate, were fixated on him waiting for him to say something.

"I wanted to tell him… But he kept cutting me and telling me he was not going to let you move in and I couldn't go past it until you said it, and all this…" he motioned to the three of them "…started." He gave them a small smile that was not reciprocated. "But now that you have all the facts, Inuyasha. You can think about it."

The hanyou only growled and didn't say any other word before grabbing his backpack and walking to the door.

Miroku and Sango smiled. This was a better reaction than what they expected.

"What did you bring?" Asked the man nonchalantly…

"Something for our room." She turned to her boyfriend. "Don't think I forgot how you evaded telling him we wanted him to move out…"

He watched her walk to the soon-to-be their room.

-.-.-.-

Inuyasha growled again, and one more time before opening the door of his new apartment. He looked for the key trying not to drop the boxes in his hands. This boxes along with what he carried in the oversized yellow backpack that Sango lend him were the last belongings of his former apartment.

After the 'negotiation' that he would better call it harassment, he had caved in and agreed to move to another apartment. But not before making a settlement where Miroku would pay for Inuyasha's part of the rent for the first four months and an unlimited supply of cup ramen for six months.

He tried the last key of the few Sango had gave him a couple of hours before. Turned the key and pushed it open, unintendedly letting one of the boxes slide to the door. Slowly he lowered the boxes to avoid the crash on the floor.

The apartment distribution was close to the one he used to live in. To the left of the entrance was the kitchen, along with a little bar and stools. In front of him and extending to the right was the living room with a T.V. on the wall, a coffee table and a sofa big enough to sleep in, he liked that. On the right wall was a bookshelf. The doors to the two rooms where in the back wall. The bathroom door was at the far left, behind the kitchen and on the opposite end was the door to the laundry room.

The first impression of his new apartment was that it looked clean and it smelled… He sniffed the air again. It smelled clean, flowers and sweet bread. He followed his nose to the kitchen and there were a few cellophane bags of his favorite brand of red bean and melon bread. His mouth watered, they looked so fresh and delicious. He reached for a bag but stopped midair, it was better to wait for his roommate to give permission to eat it.

He really wanted to start with the right foot and eating other's food was not the best option to do it.

Inuyasha went back for his boxes and walked to his room, it was the room to the right, easy to identify by smell. Opened the door and left the boxes by the door. Everything was set and ready to be used, it was comfortable for him to just arrived and rest in his room but also a little unnerving knowing that his ex-roommate and his girlfriend had touched everything inside.

The hanyou shook his head to avoid going deeper into the subject and opened the closet that covered half of the wall on the right, the other half was the desk, the wall in front of the door had his oversized bean chair and on the left wall the twin bed with his sheet set all ready.

After placing his backpack on the desk chair, took out his headphones and lied down on his new bed. It was barely after noon and his new roommate, Kagome, arrived home at 8 p.m. according to Sango.

It was way too hot to lie down on his jeans and hoodie. It wasn't because he was nervous about meeting his roommate. Of course it was not about that, he just needed to slip out of the jeans and top to lie down.

He checked his door was locked and went back to the bed and placed his custom-made headphones on and turned on the music.

He laid on bed relaxing with the sweet smell of sweet bread, much different from the overwhelming smell of male perfume and the noise of the couple on the bedroom next to him. He let out a short laugh. The latter was the real reason why he got those headphones.

Inuyasha closed his eyes and breathed in deep again and without realizing he fell sleep.

-.-.-.-.-

This had been a long day for Kagome, she was really tired, had not slept normally for the last two days and the only thing she wanted was a lazy dinner, a long bath and go to bed… maybe some alcohol involved in-between of those steps.

Two nights ago was Sango's last night in the apartment and they had a girl's night, talking and drinking most of the night. Remembering the good moments of their life as roommates, and even as the last part of the party was kind of hazy and she was sure they fell sleep crying, it had been amazing.

After that night Sango moved out and Miroku and she had been moving things to their new apartment. According to her best friend the new roommate would get in touch over the weekend.

That meant that she had at least three more restless nights alone in the apartment, waking up with every noise.

Finally she was home. She had somehow managed to go home three hours before she normally did and she needed those three hours.

She opened the door and took he shoes off, feeling the cool floor on her feet and sighing. She walked to the living room and left her purse on the couch and on the coffee table the milk bread given to her at work.

The next thing was getting out of the work clothes. Opened her room and without stop walking she slipped of everything except her panties and put on the comfiest sleeping shirt she had, the one that Sango had numerous times expressed the need to throw away, but this was her very faded oversized pink shirt that once belonged to her late father. Meaning this shirt will never be thrown away.

She walked back to the kitchen and opened the fridge looking for cool water and enjoying the cold air and closing her eyes.

Lost to her was the image of the half asleep hanyou walking out of the room directly to the bread she left on the living room.

Guided only by his nose and his half opened eyes he reached for the bag and took a bite of the delicious bread on the table. He munched leisurely letting it melt in his mouth and groaning.

That groaning sound made Kagome turned to the living room with the water bottle still on her mouth. She froze for a second, absorbing the image in front of her.

Inside her house was a half-naked man, eating her food and for his looks he was part youkai.

The sound of the water bottle falling to the floor was lost as she gave the loudest scream her lungs were capable of .

The shrieking sound force the hanyou to go from half-asleep to defense mode, responding with a snarl at the same time he turned to the kitchen. It took him longer than normal to assert the situation.

A petite human woman was screaming at him from the kitchen with a frying pan in her hands. He wanted to laugh at the image but the ringing in his ears quickly evaporate the fun of the situation.

"Hey! Wench! Mind the ears!"

She stopped the shrieking, replacing it for an order delivered in a quivering voice "Go away!" She moved the frying pan as a baseball bat "Leave me alone! I'm going to call the police!"

Her scent reached his nose and his brows lowered, she was really scared.

She watched how the stranger in her living room sniffed the air twice before raising his hands.

"Calm down. There's nothing to be scared. Is just me…"

She pointed him with the frying pan, her hands were shivering from both the emotion and the exertion, she had chosen an iron pan to do this and her arms would not resist much more in this position.

"I don't care who you are! Just go away!"

"Just breathe, Kagome…"

The woman let out a yelp. "How do you know my name?"

The hanyou sighed tired. "Hey! You make it sound like I'm some kind of crazy stalker!"

Her arms finally gave out and the pan was now resting in front of her thighs.

His white ears flicked when her whispered words where uttered. "Aren't you?"

"Of course I'm not!" he used a clawed finger to point at her "Sango didn't tell me my new roommate was this kind of crazy!" His hands rested on his hips as he continued "I arrived a little earlier and fell sleep. No need to scream like this after all it wa-"

His words died when her face changed from scared to furious and banged the pan against the counter. Unconsciously he took a step back when she circled the kitchen peninsula and stood in front of him.

"Sango?"

The man nodded.

Kagome took a deep breath and raised her hand a little higher than her head "This tall, petite, brown hair, bad temper and with a stupid-"

"Stupid pervert boyfriend, Miroku. Yeah, that Sango." He finished for her.

Inuyasha watched quietly as she let out another shriek, this one of anger, and walked to her room without another word. His golden eyes followed her as she looked for something on her room, picking up clothes, reaching down not paying attention to the hem of her shirt, letting him know she was only wearing her panties and the shirt. He turned away blushing and waited for her to come back.

His ears, which were still turned to her even as the rest of his face wasn't heard her groaned again and walked angrily back to him. She passed him and took her purse and took her phone out.

She dialed Sango's number and put the phone to her ear. As she waited for her best friend and treacherous ex-roommate to answer, her eyes came back to the man in her apartment, the one who was studying her fridge with a remarkable focus. Now that his profile was turned to her, and those intense golden eyes where not on her, Kagome used the opportunity to see him. He was taller than her for at least ten inches and he was built, he had attractive masculine features, nothing weird from a youkai. But the doggy ears on the top of his head told her that he was not completely youkai.

His voice took her away from her musings "I think she is not answering… I'm going to try the bouzu"

Up to that moment she had not registered that the call had disconnected, Kagome didn't even know if the call was rejected or even if she recorded a message.

Trying to keep her focus on the call she looked at him as the number was dialed and he waited for Miroku to answer without moving it to his ears. And as both of them expected he didn't answer the call either.

Not wasting anymore time Kagome took her purse and walked to the door, she put on the first pair of shoes she saw. Also now registering the pair of tennis that where neatly placed in the shoe racket.

Her hand was on the door knob when he cleared his throat and she turned to him

"Are… are you goin' out?" He said still not looking directly at her.

"Yeah. I'm going to their home, why?"

Her blue eyes followed his clawed hand as it went up and scratched nervously behind one of his ears. "Dressed like that?".

The woman let out another high pitched yelp as she took off the shoes, dropped the purse on the entrance and raced to her room slamming the door.

She frantically searched for something to wear, deciding on a sports bra, an oversized shirt with no transparency or holes in it and her longest sleeping shorts, the ones that reached mid-thigh.

"Why you didn't say something earlier? You said that you were not a pervert!"

He scoffed on her direction. "Because: One. You started screaming when you saw me; Two. I wanted to calm you not freak you out more; Three. I was waiting for you to slow down to tell you. "

She laughed softly at his explanation.

"Well, I should tell you that you are still on boxers…"

"Wha-?"

She laughed again as the sound of steps and his door closing reached her.

The first one to go back to the living room was Kagome. She saw him emerge wearing black shorts and a red tank top.

Before any of them could say something, both of their cellphones rang.

She reached for hers and it was a message from Sango. Kagome made a sound close to a growl after she finished reading and decided to read it to him.

The message said:

"Hi kagome. Congratulations on meeting your new Roommate, Inuyasha, he is a good friend of Miroku, don't worry, they don't share the same lecherous inclinations. He agreed to live there according to the same rules you and me had, you will be okay. He is a good person. Sorry for not telling you before. Good luck! P. S. We are not at home, so don't try to look for us. XOXO. I'm sorry for this. "

Inuyasha made another growl. Kagome nodded appreciative, that was a real growl.

Without asking he read out loud his:

"Wazzup my friend. I take your call as you met your new roomie, remember her name is Kagome, she gets upset if you call her anything else, doesn't matter how flattering it is. Congratulations! She's a looker right? Not like my beautiful Sango, but she is close… really close. No need to thank me, I did this for you. You deserve it… Just remember, when the time comes... be safe and enjoy ;) BTW… we forgot to tell her you were moving in. Ooppsiies~~ Be confident you are a good catch, show her the best of you, show some skin. ALSO! We are not home at the moment, for obvious reasons. Remember I love you and you are the second love of my life XOXO"

Inuyasha growled again. And Kagome only looked at him, still shocked by the nonchalant way they just declared she was not informed and they expected everything to play out smoothly.

"I'm going to kill the stupid bouzu." He looked at her "You didn't have to go through by all this drama if they had the balls to say things right. They didn't tell you I was moving today"

Kagome let out a dry laugh "They didn't tell me you were moving in. Period"

"Stupid coward couple".

She nodded in agreement and sighed

Her cellphone rang. And she answered without looking who was calling.

Inuyasha looked at her expecting it to be one of their stupid friends. She nodded as she paced around the coffee table saying she was sorry and promising to keep their voices down. He deducted it was the manager or the landlord.

"Yes, we are sorry. Yes we will keep it down. Yes I'm aware the domestic disputes are to remain private. I'm sorry" She gave him a side glance "We are sorry, it won't happen again."

She disconnected the call and sighed again.

She looked up when a pair of masculine feet intruded on her vision field. He was standing in front of her. "I guess we should try to finish this in the normal-est way possible"

As soon of her eyes made contact with his, the man bowed to her. "My name is Inuyasha, your new roommate. I hope we get along fine. Thank you for taking care of me."

She imitated him "I'm Kagome, your new roommate. I'm sure we are going to get along just fine. Thank you for taking care of me."

They stared at each other in awkward silence for a few moments.

"Uh… ah… whan to have something for dinner?" Asked Kagome hesitantly.

He scratched just behind of his right ear. "Dunno, I'm not really hungry… what are you planning to cook?"

She laughed good heartily for the first time since she had seen him today and he found himself smiling at her back as she walked to the kitchen and took a pair of cup ramen from the cupboard and showed them to him.

"I don't feel like cooking tonight…" she gave him a side-looped smile "Long, eventful day y'know?"

He nodded and sat on the stool closest to him.

"Yeah, long day too"

She turned to put water to boil and he smiled at her back again. Maybe this change of plans was not so bad after all.

-.-.-.-

A/N:

This story has been in my head for a while now. It may be a little ooc at times because their personal stories will change a little.

I want this to have a different style than "Memories of us", a little fresher and less angsty.

Thank you for reading, all the reviews are welcomed and appreciated.

Love,

Nanna.