InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sedirea ❯ The Gum Incident ( Chapter 5 )

The Gum Incident

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Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha

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C&C&C&C&C&C

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“My roommate hates me.” Kin slumped over the chair limply. “And I couldn't care less if she's not so- so damn beautiful.”

 

Yutaka almost choked on his sandwich. “You're at it again!?”

 

“Huh?” Kin looked at him questioningly.

 

“You said you'd try going steady, and I almost believe you when your relationship lasts for ten months, but now you're saying you want out? Jeez, what a surprise.” Yutaka said mockingly, and then he resumed eating.

 

“Who says I want out? I'm just saying-”

 

“Yeah, sure. Whatever.”

 

“What's the matter with you? You're behaving like a bitch.” Kin's eyes widened. “You're behaving like your bitch.”

 

“Shut up!” Yutaka snapped. “It's always been the same with you. You have to make up your mind someday, you know.”

 

“You're acting weird. Why are you so into my relationship?”

 

“Because I'm tired being the only one with a steady girl while you always bring a new girl with you all the time.”

 

“Jealousy? Is that it, Houshi? You're jealous?” Kin asked him incredulously.

 

“Me!? Jealous of you!?” Yutaka sputtered. “I'm jealous of somebody who called himself dog demon ever since he was twelve and still is proud of it? Yeah, sure Inuyasha.” He shook his head and snorted.

 

“How many times do I have to tell you? I am Inuyasha!” He stood up abruptly.

 

“Sit down, Inuyasha. No need to cause a scene.” Yutaka bit in his sandwich.

 

At first Kin held his stance defiantly, refusing to sit down before he heard an apology, until he heard some girls sitting behind him in the café giggle, and one of them whispered to her friend something about a couple fight. He immediately fell back down to his chair with a horrified expression plastered on his face.

 

“Now, I want you to listen to me. Try to preserve your relationship with Sachiko at least until Friday two weeks from now.” Yutaka calmly drank his soda.

 

“Again, who says I'm going to break it off!?” Yutaka passed him a look, and Kin sighed heavily. “At least tell me why I have to wait two weeks? Not that I'm really going to break up with her or anything. I'm just curious.”

 

“Nozomi is planning to cook us dinner on that Friday; she already told Sachiko and Mai about it, and if you're ruining it, she's going to kill me, but I'll be hunting you down, dog-boy. Got that?” After he finished his drink, Yutaka wiped his mouth with a napkin. “Now what's this problem about your roommate?”

 

Kin suddenly was feeling blue again. “She hates me.”

 

“Poor Inuyasha, it must be your first time.” Yutaka snickered. “Mark this revelation, Inuyasha, not all girls tremble over puppy face.”

 

“Could you just shut the fuck up and be nice for a moment?” Kin yelled in frustration.

 

“Now you're talking like a bi-” Yutaka shut his mouth the moment he saw his friend started twitching. “Carry on.”

 

“Well, she doesn't like ramen.”

 

Yutaka shook his head in disbelieve. “So?”

 

“You don't get it, do you? Nobody hates ramen. It's just that she doesn't want to eat with me.” Kin's eyes were suddenly vulnerable. “Maybe she is repulsed by me.”

 

Yutaka wanted to laugh out loud, but seeing his friend in true dilemma, he choked his amused roar back. “Hey, it doesn't have to mean she hates you. People sometimes and strangely hate good stuff or aren't allowing themselves to love them. You remember when Nozomi said she hated chocolate, and then I made the mistake trying to convince her to change her mind by bringing her that expensive Belgian Pralines. O God! I'd kill to erase the memory of that sight from my head.”

 

“That's not the case, Houshi; she really hates me. There was this one time she was holding a glass of milk, and then I came in the kitchen to grab something to drink when suddenly I saw her gripping the glass until it shattered; she didn't just drop it; she clenched it so hard that it broke.”

 

“What!? When did that happen?” Yutaka asked him dubiously.

 

“That was the second day after she moved in.”

 

“And? Did something else happen?”

 

“Nope, nothing. But that's because I didn't get to see her at all after the incident. I think she's trying to avoid me.” The last sentence was said dejectedly.

 

“And she's been avoiding you since…?”

 

“Since two days ago.”

 

Yutaka smacked him in the head. “That's not avoiding, stupid! She just didn't get to see you by chance. Jeez!”

 

When Kin didn't respond to the smack, Yutaka realized that his friend was truly upset. “Look at you; you're living with her for only what- four days? And she's already torturing you? That's not a roommate, Inuyasha; that's a wife.”

 

And to Yutaka's surprise, instead of being alarmed Kin had this dreamy look on his face. He was very much in shock to see his friend considering the word `wife' as something unthreatening that he missed the sudden bright expression on Kin's face.

 

~*~

 

Kagome entered a small café to get a cup of milk-coffee for takeaway; she was looking for a gum in her boho bag (AN: no, not hobo, boho stands for bohemian) when she felt a prick on the back of her neck.

 

She touched her naked nape and found that some of her strand had fallen from the twist-bun; she carefully tucked the strand in. And there it was again; the prick on her nape. She shrugged and continued looking for her gum.

 

Finally finding a box of her favorite gum, she went up to the line behind the counter and waited for her turn.

 

The person was still staring at her, she felt. She wanted to turn around and confront the observer but decided not to, and yet the stare was making her self-conscious. She adjusted the tied straps of her embroidered, dark teal cami, smoothed an invisible crease on her deep violet gypsy skirt and checked if she left a trail of dirt under her silver strappy sandals.

 

She finally had it from the unwanted attention and turned around, and when she did, she mentally cursed herself.

 

It hadn't been fully two days yet, and she had to meet him by chance. Her painstakingly thought out plan to avoid him was useless. She forced a strained smile on her face and waved back to him.

 

When Kin motioned her to drop by his table, she tapped on her little wrist-watch to silently tell him she had to rush, but the stubborn Kin stood up, as Inuyasha had been, and his eyes was telling her dangerously that she either came to him or he would drag her to his table. Kagome's smile froze; she then dragged her stony legs to walk towards him.

 

“Hi.” She tenaciously squeezed out small-talks-subjects out of her panic mind, found nothing and clammed up.

 

Kin smiled at her nervously. “So you're getting coffee?”

 

“Yeah, would you like a cup? I'll buy you one if you like?” She stood fidgeting like a prey hunted, in anticipation of a chance to escape him.

 

“No, no.” He stepped yet nearer as if instinctively sensing her apprehension. “Or I'll buy you one. Stay right here and I'll be back soon.”

 

“No-”

 

“Ahem!” The forgotten Yutaka decided that he would be noticed, and then he gave Kin a look of understanding why he was miserable.

 

“Ah yes, Kagome, this is-”

 

A loud gasp interrupted Kin's introduction.

 

Kagome clasped a hand to her mouth as her eyes widened at Yutaka. By now, nothing could actually surprise her; she even half expected to meet Naraku as a dentist. She wanted to laugh out loud but couldn't decide if she should do that in glee or rather in self-pity. But then she looked at Yutaka in the eyes, saw that he didn't remember her, and got a glimpse of the goodness that was him. So she laughed happily.

 

Yutaka, who would like to laugh with her, did so nervously. He glanced at Kin, silently asking him what to do, but his friend had this lethal scowl on his face directed towards him.

 

Kagome's happy laugh simmered down, but she still had this dazzling grin on her face that made Kin scowl even deeper.

 

“I'm sorry; it's just that- it's been so long.” A mist was glazing her stormy orbs; she rubbed her eyes and giggled nervously.

 

Kin was fuming; was that a flirty move? (The beautiful density of his mind)

 

“Hi, I'm Kanai Yutaka.” Yutaka tried, he really tried to save himself from his friend's fury, but it seemed that everything he did worsened the situation.

 

“Kanai Yutaka? Aaw… your name is beautiful; it fits you.” She smiled enchantingly at him.

 

By then Yutaka could feel how Kin's vein popped out of his head and smacked Yutaka on the head.

 

“Wait, my coffee.” Kagome ran to the counter and paid for the coffee.

 

“You know her?” Kin hissed at him. “I swear I'm going to castrate you and then I'll throw your-”

 

“I got my coffee.” Kagome said cheerily. She looked at her watch and shook her head. “Now I really ran late.” She then realized she was holding her box of gums still in her hand. She offered it to Yutaka, who numbly took one, and then looked at Kin, made no offer of the gum and put the box back in the bag.

 

Kin's heart broke a little by that insensitive gesture.

 

Kagome then observed Yutaka with a smile, optioned if she should give him a hug or not, and decided to give him one. She sighed in relief when she felt that he respectably didn't bring his hand on her backside. She would've hated to slap him on that early stage of their meeting. Not that Yutaka would have done it; he was anesthetized from the trepidation of his friend's wrath.

 

After Kagome left, he tried to reason with Kin but was taken aback by the coldness in his eyes.

 

Before he could open his mouth to speak, Kin interrupted him. “Look Houshi, I know you're a really good friend; it's just that I don't wanna see your face right now.” `Without smashing your teeth in' Kin mentally added.

 

~*~

 

“Kagome! I want one of those sweet smelling candies too!” Inuyasha jealously yelled at her as he watched her feeding Shippo one of the candies.

 

“I'm not sure you'll like it.” Kagome said as she held the gum-box. “Shippo knows how to eat it, that's why it's safe- hey!”

 

Inuyasha popped four rectangular shaped candies into his mouth and crunched them. At first it was crunchy and then the mold became annoyingly chewy. He decided to swallow it.

 

“No! Don't! It's still sticky; you haven't chewed the sugar off, and you're not supposed to swallow it anyway!” Too late, he was beyond listening to her.

 

And then he coughed breathily like a dog trying to cough something out. The beautiful density of his mind II: if you choked on your food, put in some more so that it would go down.

 

He took all the gums in the box and put them in his mouth; after chewing briefly he swallowed them. Kagome's throat had now gone sore from all the yelling.

 

On that day Inuyasha learned a painful lesson of a procedure involving a long pair of tweezers.

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*end of chapter*

 

 

 

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