InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sketch Pad ❯ Tempera ( Chapter 4 )

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Sketch Pad

Chapter 4: Tempera



"You get to do what?!" Miroku exclaimed as him and InuYasha sat in the booth of their favorite Saimin place.

"I have to model for the art class this semester."

"Damn, I should've stayed. I would have happily took the job for you." Miroku said as he gazed into mid-air. "Just think...an all female class drawing you naked."

InuYasha almost spit out the iced tea that he was sipping. "Why would they be drawing me naked? That has to be illegal, right?"

Miroku shrugged. "I don't know. You'll find out before I do."

InuYasha sighed. This was going to be very uncomfortable. Don't get him wrong, he was proud of his body because he lifted weights constantly and wore snug "Anderson Cooper-ish" shirts to show it off. It's just. He didn't like the idea of a class of girls staring him down....studying every inch of him.....it unnerved him. "I hope I don't have to be naked."

"I'm pretty sure your mystery girl would enjoy it. So, she can bust the myth about your....um..." Miroku said before pointing downward, refering to his crotch.

InuYasha perked at the thought of this. "You think she'll be there."

Miroku nodded. "She would have to be. Mrs. Ishibashi only let art students in that room to paint. Like I said before, it's only one art class."

"We didn't see her today."

"She could've been absent or you could've overlooked her or....." Miroku said as he left his sentence dangling in the air.

"Or what?" InuYasha asked falling into the trap.

"Or maybe your mystery girl is in fact....Higurashi!"

"Shut up, man! It wasn't Higurashi." InuYasha said before reaching over to punch him in the arm.

"Okay, damn!" Miroku said holding his bruished shoulder. "I was just joking."

"Sorry, man." InuYasha said after realizing how much of jerk he just acted for a small comment.

"It's cool...I guess. But what if it was Higurashi?" Miroku seriously asked.

InuYasha shrugged. "I don't know. She's pretty weird." He started to draw circles on the table. "She's kind of cute though." He said under his breath hoping Miroku didn't hear him.

"Cute?!"

But he did.

"What? She is cute....like in an original way. She's different."

Miroku scoffed. "She's different alright."

"Just drop it." InuYasha said not wanting to engage into an argument about Higurashi.

"I can't believe you just said that she's cute. I mean, Sango is cute. Kikyo is cute. Higurashi? Not so much."

"I said, drop it!" InuYasha said as he physically tensed up. "It's not Higurashi anyways."

Miroku held up his hands in defense. "Fine."

InuYasha relaxed against the leather cover of the booth before he started to drum his fingers on the table. "Speaking of double trouble, where are they? They're late."

As soon as InuYasha said that the restaurant door opened sounding a ring from the bell making the two guys avert their eyes towards the door.

Sango and Kikyo walked inside of the restaurant searching for the guys.

"We're over here!" Miroku yelled as he waved them over.

The two volleyball stars smiled before walking over.

"Hey, babe." Sango said as she kissed Miroku on the cheek before sliding to sit next to him. "Hey, InuYasha."

"You guys are late."

"We're sorry. Practice went about an hour over." Kikyo said as she slid in to sit next to InuYasha, brushing her thigh against his.

The subtle touch made InuYasha blush. "It's fine now....I guess."

Kikyo smiled. "Thanks, Yash, for understanding." She said as she slung her arm over his shoulder making him turn bright red.

"Keh." He said before folding his arms....restraining his feelings.

"Let's order!" Sango said clapping her hands together.


Kagome sat at her desk trying to do homework, but couldn't get the fact that InuYasha had her sketch pad out of her mind. Or the fact that he was going to be a live model for her art class.

"I wonder if he's going to be naked." Kagome thought before blushing hotly. "I think that's illegal."

Just the thought of it made chills run up and down her spine.

"Kagome?" A small voice sounded as Kagome's bedroom door creaked open.

"Yes, Souta." Kagome said acknowledging her little brother.

"Can I come in?"

"Of course. Don't forget to take off your shoes before you come in."

Souta took of his house slippers. "I didn't forget." He said before entering.

"What do you want?" She said putting her pencil down and turning around to pay attention to her brother.

"I have a question I wanted to ask you."

"Okay, ask it."

"Have you ever...." He sighed. "Have you ever been in love?"

Kagome blushed as she watched her thirteen year old brother flushed face.

"Why are you asking? Are you in love with some girl at your school?"

Souta nodded. "I think. Well, I don't know. That's why I'm asking."

Kagome sighed. "Yes. I've been in love." Well, she was in love, but she didn't feel like Souta asking her questions.

"How did you know that you were in love?"

"Well, my heart started to beat really fast, but at the same time really slow every time I saw him."

"That's how I feel!" Souta exclaimed.

"Well, maybe you're in love."

Souta sighed. "How should I handle this?"

Kagome shrugged because she didn't even know how to handle her out of control feelings for InuYasha. "Maybe you could just tell the girl how you feel."

"I can't do that!" Souta shouted. "She's perfect in every way. She'll laugh at me."

Kagome smiled wholheartedly before ruffling her brother's hair. "She can't laugh at you. Any girl would be lucky to have you interested in her."

"Sis, I'm serious!"

"So am I. Just tell her."

Souta sighed. "You just don't get it. You're no help at all." He said before storming out of her room.

"You left you shoes!" She shouted.

Souta ran back before picking up his shoes and storming out again.

Once her brother was gone, Kagome giggled. Her brother was such a character, but she hoped he would take her advice. She just wished she could take her own advice.


"That was really good." Sango said before leaning back against the booth and into the embrace of her boyfriends arm.

"I know. I never thought salsa picante saimin would be so delicious." Kikyo said agreeing with her bestfriend.

"We told you this place was amazing. InuYasha and me have been coming here ever since we were in grade school."

"Really?" Kikyo said nudging InuYasha.

He just nodded.

"That's cute. Sango and me have a place also. It's a ice cream parlor. The mochi ice cream is so good there."

InuYasha ears perked at this. "Mochi?" He asked.

"InuYasha loves mochi." Miroku chimed in.

"Really?! We should go some time." Kikyo said. "What about this Friday?"

"Cool with me." InuYasha said. "Is that alright for you, Miro?"

Miroku quickly nodded. "Ye--!" Before he could finish his sentence, he felt a sharp pain shoot through his leg. He looked over to see Sango's expression and he quickly understood why she kicked him.

"You okay?" InuYasha asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine. But this Friday seems pretty swamped for me. I have to help my parents do something."

InuYasha looked over to the bouncy brunette. "Sango?"

Sango quickly shook her head. "I have something to do, too."

"I guess it'll be you and me, Yash." Kikyo said making InuYasha blush.

"I guess."

"Cool." Kikyo said as she looked over InuYasha with a twinkle her in eye.

InuYasha looked over Kikyo in her simple burgandy tank top and dark skinny jeans. His groin tightened at her frame. Playing volleyball definately did her body right. It was toned, but looked womanly and supple. Her long, silky dark hair was pulled up into a high ponytail, accentuating her elegant, swan like neck. It was no doubt that Kikyo was really pretty. She was upbeat, too. She was funny and playful which made her easy to talk to you, but he couldn't easily talk to her because of the fact that was she gorgeous.

"Yash?! Earth to InuYasha." Kikyo said poking the boy next to her.

"Huh?"

"What's your deal? You were spaced out for a minute."

"Yeah, he's been doing lately. Evey since he ran into this mystery girl at school."

"Mystery girl?" Sango asked as the mention of a girl peaked her interest.

"Nothing. It's nothing." InuYasha said quickly.

"Hey, maybe you girls can help." Miroku said. "We can't seem to find out who she is?"

"What does she look like?" Sango asked.

"InuYasha?" Miroku said looking over to his friend.

InuYasha blushed before looking down. He never thought he could be so embarassed. "Well, she has long, dark brown hair. She has...um...light blue eyes and she's really petite."

"I don't know if there's a girl at our school with light blue eyes. That's odd. Kikyo, have you ever seen a girl like that at the school?" Sango asked

Kikyo just shook her head. "I don't think so. Whoever she is, she sounds pretty." Kikyo said in a melancholy tone.

InuYasha noticed Kikyo's change of demeanor and looked over to her, trying to decipher her thoughts by her facial expression

"How did you meet her?" Sango asked.

InuYasha then diverted his attention towards his bestfriend's girlfriend. "I saw her in the art class painting."

"Art class? Well, that narrows it down. All you have to do is go to the art class sixth hour and find her."

"We did that already." Miroku said. "We couldn't find her. InuYasha got in trouble instead."

"Trouble? What kind of trouble?" Sango inquired.

"He broke the art teacher's statue. So, now he has to model for them until the semester ends."

Sango broke out into laughter. "That's hilarious. Will you have to be naked?"

Kikyo was now interested once the topic of InuYasha being naked was brought about. "Naked? I think that's illegal."

"I don't think I'll be naked....hopefully."

"Well, whoever she is, you'll find her by being in the art class every day." Sango said.

"I hope you do." Kikyo said before sighing. "Come on, Sango, I have to be back at home."

Sango looked over to her friend and frowned. She knew exactly what was wrong with her. InuYasha being openly interested in a girl was huge deal because he never discussed his feelings about anybody. So, she knew that this mysterious girl meant a lot to him.

"Um...of course, Kiks. I'll take you home." Sango said scooting out of the booth and adjusting herself to leave.

"You guys are leaving so soon?" Miroku asked in disbelief. "InuYasha didn't even get a chance to show the girl's sketch bo---!" Again, Miroku felt a sharp pain in his leg. It couldn't have been Sango because she was standing up. He looked over to InuYasha giving him a death glare.

"A chance to show us what?" Sango asked.

InuYasha shook his head. "Nothing. Miroku is delusional."

Sango raised her eyebrow. "O-okay. See ya later, babe." She said before giving him a chaste kiss on his lips.

"Bye, San."

"Bye, Miroku." Kikyo said before looking over to InuYasha with sad eyes. "Bye, Yash."

InuYasha felt bad. He knew that Kikyo liked him and he liked Kikyo. So, he knew she felt uncomfortable with them talking about sketch pad girl.

"See you this Friday, Kiks." He said before giving her a gentle hug that caught everybody off guard. Even InuYasha was surprised by his actions.

Kikyo smiled and blushed at the affection InuYasha showed her. "You bet." She said with a more cheerful voice than before.


InuYasha had been dreading this all day. After Miroku teased him the previous hour, in the class that was seemed to be haunted, he was found himself standing inside of classroom full of girls with nothing but a towel and snug black boxers.

At least he wasn't naked.

All the girls whistled and made him feel like a piece of meat. Well, all the girls, except Higurashi becuase she wasn't your typical high school girl.

All she did was hide under her signature hood and sock cap like a turtle in her shell.

Kagome dreaded this all day. She didn't think she could physically nor mentally handle a half-naked InuYasha.

"Okay, ladies, calm down. Don't act like you've never seen a male's chest."

The girls then ceased and desisted.

"Okay, thanks for agreeing to do this InuYasha." Mrs. Ishibashi said.

"I didn't agree. I was forced." He said folding his arms, but this time he was actually expressing his true feelings.

"I'm glad either way. Having a live model is so much better than having a statue. It gives an advantage to my students and an experience that most high school students will never get."

"When you put it that way, I guess I'm glad I can help." InuYasha said relaxing his arms to his sides.

"Face towards the front!"

The girls complied as the turned the easels forward. Every girl except Kagome who was in the farthest back corner of the class.

"Higurashi, can you see back there?"

Kagome nodded.

"I still want you closer. Sit in the front row for the semester."

Kagome eyes widened before shaking her head.

"You can't be in the back forever, Higurashi." Mrs. Ishibashi informed. "Come up here. InuYasha, can you help her carry her canvas and easel.

InuYasha nodded before he started to head back towards the corner of the class.

Kagome's heart exploded as she watched InuYasha clad in nothing but a towel and boxers make a bee line towards her.

InuYasha effortlessly picked up her easel and all before he followed Kagome to the front of the class.

Kagome sat down in the available seat in the front row. InuYasha placed the easel down before winking at her, making Kagome blush.

"Okay, InuYasha, come up to the front."

InuYasha walked towards the front and faced the class.

"Now, InuYasha drop the towel and ladies begin."

InuYasha unhooked the white towel making it pool around his feet.

Kagome gasped. She wasn't overexaggerating.