InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ So Crazy in Love ❯ A Few Surprising Kisses ( Chapter 11 )

Chapter 11

A Few Surprising Kisses

Kagome walked in silence, the child she had brought with her was now riding on Kilala, almost asleep. InuYasha looked back at Kagome, he wanted to talk to her, to apologize again. But he was also angry and confused that she had protected Sesshoumaru and even seemed to talk to him like he was a friend. He turned back and continued walking ahead of them, deciding that he would talk to Kagome sometime when he could get her alone.

Kagome walked back in silence. She needed to go home soon, it had been nearly two weeks since she had been, well killed, and it had been almost a week before that that she had gone home. She missed her family and her friends, but she also knew that she had an obligation to Rin now. She couldn't just leave her at the village, she had promised Sesshoumaru that she would make sure that she was safe, and leaving her with InuYasha would probably classify as unsafe in his brother's eyes. Kagome shook her head and then a thought popped into it, `Rin could go back home with me.' Kagome smiled at the thought and realized it was perfect. She would love to show Rin some of the things from her time.

She continued the rest of the way to the village in silent rejoice that she would be able to return home. When they reached the village, InuYasha approached her and asked if he could talk to her alone.

Kagome looked at the form of the sleeping child and nodded while saying, "I need to go put Rin to bed first."

When she came back out, InuYasha was waiting by the edge of the forest and Kagome walked over to him. He looked at her with sadness in his eyes and then turned to walk into the thick foliage, knowing that she would follow him.

They walked in silence and finally InuYasha turned and stopped in front of her. She looked up at him, waiting for him to blow up at her for protecting Sesshoumaru, and she would get mad at him, and then she wouldn't feel bad about leaving tomorrow.

He looked deep in her eyes and said, "Kagome, are you okay?" His simple statement shocked Kagome and she dumbly nodded her head before she could think.

"Good, I was so scared. I thought that you had gone back home, and I didn't want to go after you. After what happened, I thought that you wanted to be alone, but then I went back and found out that you never made it home. I was so scared, because by then, you had been gone for a week. I thought that I had failed you again. I couldn't stand losing you again." With that he took her into his arms and held her close to him and buried his face in her hair.

Kagome looked up at him, astonished tears in her eyes. Her eyes widened slightly as he brought his lips down to her, gently moving against hers in tenderness. She allowed her eyes to close, enjoying the sensation of knowing that InuYasha was actually kissing her, and thought about what he had said. `I couldn't stand losing you again.' Kagome groaned at the pain this thought caused, and InuYasha took it as permission to deepen the kiss. Kagome closed her eyes tight as his tongue moved in, stoking her own shyly, and Kagome saw the face of Sesshoumaru in her mind, smiling at her and Rin as though they were his family. Kagome opened her eyes wide and pushed InuYasha back away from her.

InuYasha looked at her with hurt in his eyes as Kagome shook the thought from her mind. When she looked up at him again, she too had a look of hurt in her eyes.

"Kagome? Did I do something wrong? I thought-" InuYasha stopped there, obviously confused and hurt at her rejection.

Kagome looked up with sadness in her eyes and smiled through her tears at him. "InuYasha, I think that you know how I feel. I think everybody knows how I feel, and I think that's why they get so mad at you sometimes. But InuYasha, do you know how you feel?"

InuYasha looked at her blankly, not exactly sure what she meant, but having a good idea. She took his hands in hers and smiled up at him again.

"InuYasha, you are the person I care for most in this world, and my own," his eyes lit up, and she continued, "but I know that you don't feel the same way about me. Who were you talking to when you said that you couldn't stand to lose her again?" InuYasha's eyes widened and she lowered her head and her voice, though InuYasha could still hear her perfectly fine, "And who were you just kissing?"

InuYasha opened his mouth to begin to deny her assumptions, but Kagome merely put a finger over his mouth.

"InuYasha, it's not me who needs to know that answer. I already do. I think that you need to make yourself see it." Kagome released his other hand and turned away from him, walking back towards the village. He could still smell her tears, and it tore him apart inside. No matter what he did, no matter how much he cared, and how much he tried to protect her, he always brought her the most pain. He always brought her to tears. InuYasha hung his head down and stayed where he was, until Kagome's scent was far away, and the feel of her lips seemed like a dream.

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The next day dawned and Kagome was awoken by the shrill scream of her younger brother. She and Rin had passed through the well last night, partially so that Rin wouldn't have to stay with InuYasha, and partially so that Kagome wouldn't have to stay with InuYasha. Kagome went to her brother's doorway, and laughed when she saw Rin sitting on the end of his bed, and Souta lying with his blanket pulled up to his chin.

Rin was talking avidly, completely unaware of Souta's obvious discomfort, and Kagome came in to assist her younger brother.

"Rin, why don't you go back into our room to get dressed?" Rin bounced up happily and ran out of the room giggling.

Kagome turned back to see him blushing and said to him, "I'm really sorry, Souta. Rin's from the feudal era. She's not used to this time." Kagome then giggled and added, "And I'm pretty sure she's not used to boys like you." Kagome giggled again as her brother's blush deepened, and left to help Rin into some of her old clothes.

While they were eating breakfast, Hojo showed up to offer Kagome some kind of odd remedy to one of her non-existent illnesses, and Kagome accepted it as graciously as she could. When he asked her if she would like to spend the day with him, she was able to use her friend's daughter, Rin, as an excuse to decline.

"Well, she could come along with us. Your brother, too. I'm sure that they'd love a day in the city. We could see a movie, then the mall, and then the carnival later tonight." There was hope in his voice, and when Kagome turned to look at Rin and Souta, she could see it mirrored in their faces.

Kagome turned and said brightly, "That would be great, Hojo. I think that they would like that." Rin squealed and Souta yelled "cool" as Kagome mentally sighed.

Hojo took them to a new action movie that had just come out, full of explosions, fighting, blood and just all around gore. His obvious intention was that Kagome would have been frightened at some of it and leaned closer to him. Unfortunately, all of her time in the feudal era with InuYasha made her a lot less queasy than most girls her age. His plan did seem to work for Souta with Rin, though. However, it seemed that Souta was once again less than comfortable with the girl clinging to his arm.

Kagome thought that he was going to grab his arm away and yell at her, but he surprised her by tapping her hand lightly and leaning over saying, "Don't worry, it's not real. It's all fake." Kagome covered her mouth to hide her giggle as Rin looked at him and nodded her head. She relaxed her grip on his arm, but didn't relinquish it completely, and stayed like that they whole movie. She silently rejoiced that her little brother wasn't like InuYasha in his complete insensitivity.

While they were wondering through the mall, Kagome ended up buying Rin some clothes that she could wear while they were here, and she allowed Rin to buy Sesshoumaru a bouquet of plastic flowers that she had been amazed to find out would never die. Kagome also bought Souta a new game for his Game Boy, and it kept him beaming the rest of the shopping trip. Kagome tried to decline a beautiful necklace from Hojo, but he would hear nothing of it, so she took it with a smile and a peck on his cheek.

After Hojo recovered from his embarrassment, they headed off to the carnival, leaving their bags in Hojo's car. Rin dragged them on all of the rides after she got over her initial fear of them. They had ridden just about everything there (some things more than once), when Kagome and Hojo left Rin and Souta to play games while they went to get more money and bring back some ice cream.

Souta was trying his hand at the ring toss, when he actually won. He looked up at all the humongous stuffed animals to choose from, and then looked over at Rin.

"You can choose one, Rin."

She looked at him excitedly and said, "Any one of them?!" Souta nodded and Rin chose a white dog.

As the man got it down, Rin turned to Souta and threw her arms around his neck saying, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you." She then turned and quickly pressed her lips to his cheek in a small peck and turned back to the man who held out the dog with a big smile on his face.

Kagome returned with the ice cream to see a furiously blushing Souta and a Rin carrying a huge white dog stuffed animal, the irony of which was not lost on her. She randomly wondered if Sesshoumaru would be threatened by it and banish it from his castle.

The thought of Sesshoumaru being intimidated by a stuffed animal caused Kagome to burst out laughing, only brought out of it by an angered Souta yelling, "What are you laughing at? Just shut up, Kagome!"

Kagome looked up, confused, and saw both Rin and Souta blushing now, and wondered what exactly she had missed.