InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Surf, Sun and Slippers! ❯ Never a Dull Moment ( Chapter 14 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

A/N: Hey everyone! I'm back with another update in only a week's time. (yay!) And I have a little bit of news. In general I've never wanted to do a picture gallery to go with a story because I think the point of the story is to write the imagery, and not rely on photos. But because this story focuses a great deal on the island of Kauai and the places I'm naming are all real I thought some of you might like to see them, because it really is the most beautiful place in the world in my opinion. So I created a photobucket for this story that can be found here: http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l164/surfsunslippers/

Or you can find it by going to photobucket.com and searching for surfsunslippers. Let me know if you all like them! And if you see some pictures you don't remember hearing of…well that's a little sneak preview for you :D

Lexi: Thank you hehe -blush- truth be told I'm not very good with citrus stuff, or more specifically being graphic, just doesn't suit me hehe. And I hope it doesn't disappoint you but the sleepover is just that…sleeping. Inu is too much of a nice guy and Kagome is too much of a good girl, doesn't mean it'll be that way forever though hehe ;) Thanks for your review!

So yea, just to clarify so no one is disappointed, they didn't do what you think they did :p As much as even I would enjoy that, I couldn't see Kagome being truly comfortable with giving herself up to someone she might never see again (no matter how sexy :p). -Ducks from possibly pointy objects- Have faith in me everyone! Ja! Laurell~

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Sunday morning Kagome's eyes fluttered open blinking a few times from the pale sunlight filling her room. Shifting on her pillow she smiled at the familiar arm casually curled around her side and pulling her close. Twisting carefully to try and not disturb him Kagome grinned moving on of her hands up to pat his messy hair sticking up around his pillow. She bit her bottom lip trying not to giggle at how cute it looked in his eyes and untidy.

Happily cuddling up closer she sighed when his arm around her back pressed her tighter to him even in his sleep. She could tell it was still early and as eager as she was to start her day she wasn't about to wreck such a peaceful moment.

She heard her bedroom door click open and soft footsteps of Sango knowing her wake up call was here. What she didn't expect was Sango still half asleep and probably at least a little dim from last nights drinking to crawl up in bed with her and to slump under the covers. Her eyes flew open at that.

“Sango!” Kagome hissed trying not to wake Inuyasha and save her friend some embarrassment.

“Mmm…” Sango groaned ignoring her to turn over and tuck farther into Kagome's pillow.

“Sango! Sango….Inuyasha.Is.Here!” She chopped out each word tilting her head back frantically to gesture at him. Said surfer suddenly let out a yelp when Kagome's frantic head twitch caught him in the nose.

“Inuyasha!” Kagome cried turning over quickly her hands flying up to his face.

“Inuyasha?!” Sango squealed bolting upright in bed.

“Merkou?” Inuyasha incoherently said under Kagome's and his hands clutching his nose.

Sango spun around to see Miroku standing in the door his mouth hanging open. “It's not what it looks like!” She squealed.

“Oh this is so not fair! How could you guys not invite me?! I mean honestl-”

“MIRO!” A blushing Kagome yelled cutting him off before he started to get graphic with whatever perverted ideas of his had gone out of control with this one. Inuyasha next to her collapsed back onto his pillow with a groan.

Still muttering in annoyance Miroku walked to the bed shoving Sango over and climbing in himself. Sango squeaked something while blushing and trying to push him back out. Inuyasha mumbled to his pillow “NOT how I wanted to wake up!”, and Kagome burst out laughing falling back against her own pillow Sango was sharing.

`Never a dull moment…'

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After the battle of trying to find something suitable for breakfast in their hotel room Kagome managed to escape with two bagels and a carton of orange juice out to the balcony. Sitting down on their patio furniture Kagome took a deep breath letting her eyes travel out to the beach and the sun above them, she never got tired of looking at this.

“Thank you,” Inuyasha said plucking the bagel out of her hand and taking a large bite out of it.

“Kagome! Didn't we have some orange juice left?” Sango yelled from the kitchen and Kagome quickly grabbed and hide the carton that was nearly empty.

“Um, I don't know.”

“That's ok! Bacardi Orange works just as well!” Kagome laughed at Miroku's response and the strangled moan that came from Sango after.

“So you're leaving Friday right? What haven't you done yet that you want to?” Kagome sighed taking a bite of her bagel to avoid answering Inuyasha a little longer.

“It's almost a week! If you count Friday…but we're leaving pretty early in the morning.”

“Don't get down about it Kagome. Let's just be sure to plan the rest of this week really well.” Miroku smiled sitting down next to them with Sango.

“After we've all recovered today at least, please nothing strenuous.” Sango whined rubbing her temples. Miroku rubbed a hand up and down her arm and she smiled at him.

“Well before we go we need to snorkel here at our beach, Inuyasha said it's actually got some really great reefs over deeper past the surfers. And we have to go out to one really nice dinner.”

“Oh, so the places I've taken you haven't been nice?” Inuyasha taunted picking up the orange juice. Sango glared at the carton and Kagome gave a giant fake smile shrugging.

“No of course they've been nice, but I mean a fancy meal!” Kagome giggled.

“And we haven't been to a Luau yet! That's practically a requirement.” Miroku chimed in.

“Oh I know a good one of those on this island. At the Grand Hyatt they do luaus on Sundays and Thursdays I think, and the hotel is right down the road in Koloa.” Inuyasha said before shoving the last quarter of his bagel in his mouth. Sango glared at him and looked away with an ill _expression.

“That would be perfect! We could do it on our last night.” Kagome clapped her hands happily. “We should write this stuff down.” Sango got up from her deck chair and disappeared into the living room returning with her carry on back pack. Pushing aside the remnants of their breakfast on the small table the four friends huddled around her day planner and the pile of broachers she dumped out on it.

After a good hour of deliberating and many tips from Inuyasha they decided on the last places they wanted to visit that week. Scribbling notes all over the entire book Sango gave it a firm nod of approval.

“Perfect. And we can still choose what beaches we want to go to tomorrow and Tuesday. We've yet to all go to any together.” She gave Kagome and Inuyasha a quick suggestive glare and Kagome stuck her tongue out.

“We left today open though so what should we do?”

“Want to try some snorkeling at our beach while it's still early and peaceful out?” Miroku asked letting the three pause to deliberate. Kagome peeked over at the beach spying the inviting blue waters beyond it.

“Definitely!”

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Kagome dove into their familiar small strip of beach and started swimming working hard to keep up with her three slightly more athletic friends, especially Inu. Her mask on and eyes searching everything in sight they kept swimming until the bottom slopped down and the reefs began appearing in the deeper waters.

Inuyasha reached back to grab her hand and pull her up closer to the group as the four friends stopped to hover over the schools of fish floating below them. There were tons of them in every color and shape she could have imagined and Kagome was grinning like an idiot pulling on Inuyasha's hand to point to all of them. Raising her head above the surface and treading water Kagome loosened her mask to defog it and Inuyasha popped up next to her.

“If you stop smiling so much the seal on your mask will hold.” He said in a muffled voice from his own large diving mask in place. Between the huge plastic mask and how Kagome and Sango had tried to put his hair back in a ponytail for him Kagome busted out laughing.

Inuyasha gave her a strange look. “Wat?”

“Nothing, you just look so silly in that.”

“Yea and you look like Miss USA right now too.” He grinned sticking his tongue out before putting his snorkel back and diving down to join Miroku investigating the coral.

“Come on Kagome!” Sango surfaced and grabbed her hand. “Come check out these schools of fish down here! Miroku saw a turtle too!” Putting her gear back on the two girls dove down suspended in the water gasping in delight at the sea life around them.

`Amazing, absolutely amazing! I would have never guessed this was all down here!' Kagome thought in awe of their surroundings. She reached her hand out to some passing fish which quickly dodged around her and continued on their way. Looking up over the coral that Sango had swam down next to Miroku to see Kagome squinted her eyes in her mask trying to make out a shape nearby.

At first glance she thought it was another person snorkeling but as it got closer a clearly non human gray colored shape came into view. Sucking in a breath she dove down to Inuyasha grabbing his arm and fiercely tugging. He looked back at her confused and she pointed frantically to what was coming closer. Inuyasha's eyes widened before he put a hand on her arm softly stilling her.

Coming closer into view Kagome's calmed down slightly when she realized it wasn't a shark like she first thought at all. Out of breath she rushed back up to the surface with the others.

“What is that!?”

“It's just a monk seal; they don't usually bother humans unless you agitate them.”

“Oh…” Kagome said her cheeks a little pink at how worked up she had gotten over a seal. Readjusting her snorkel she looked down into the water watching it swim through some of the nearby coral and swim off towards the beach.

“Why is it headed away from the water?” Sango tugged on Miroku's arm and asked.

“They sleep up on the beach in the sun.”

“This means they're also going to rope off most of the beach now because they're really endangered.” Inuyasha noted towards the few people looking at it with some wonder as the frumpy animal started to wiggle up onto the sand.

“Well there go our plans for laying out.” Kagome laughed with Sango who shrugged.

The group continued snorkeling around the area staying in their groups of two to be careful of the current until Kagome could feel her back and shoulders probably starting to burn and her legs started aching.

“You ready to head in?” Inuyasha asked her seeing her come up to the surface again twisting around to try and see her shoulders.

“Yea, I think I'm done for the day. I'm in the mood for a nice hot Jacuzzi now.”

“Seconded!” Miroku said swimming past them with Sango.

“It's settled then. Hang onto my shoulders Kagome, I'll swim back.” Instantly perking up Kagome pounced on him locking her arms around his chest.

“Thanks,” she whispered softly in his ear causing a tiny shiver to run through him. Inuyasha ignored this best he could choosing to focus on swimming back to shore instead.

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Rolling her not-so-aching-now-shoulders as they walked back from the Jacuzzi Kagome sighed happily. It was another painfully perfect day outside, where she couldn't think of anything bad possibly happening and Miroku and Sango were even holding hands in front of them looking quite the peaceful couple. As far as Kagome could tell Hawaii was a miracle state.

“Not to spoil our fun but could you give me a ride back to our place after this? I want to get a change of clothes and take a quick shower if we're doing dinner or something.”

“Yea that sounds good. Okay if I borrow the jeep for a bit guys?” Miroku smiled and nodded going back to his conversation with Sango. Kagome walked the rest of the way to their private condo on the outskirts of the hotel grounds in silence, determined to take this all in. She made a mental note to also start bringing her camera and to take more pictures the rest of this week.

`I'll need something to remember him by,' she reminded herself with a painful tug on her heart.

“You okay?” Inuyasha gave her a worried look from the grim _expression she had on.

“Yea let me go grab the keys real quick, just wait here.” Darting inside Kagome picked up her purse with her license and the keys sitting on the table. “Be back in a few!”

“Take your time- ow!”

“Miroku!!!”

Rolling her eyes with a chuckle Kagome closed the door behind her bouncing down the steps and walking to the parking lot. Unlocking the jeep they both hopped in and headed down Poipu Road to Inuyasha's place.

“Listen, thanks for staying with me last night and well…you know; not trying anything on me like most guys would have.” Kagome blushed lightly behind her large sunglasses using the road as an excuse to not look at him.

“No problem. Thanks for inviting me; your friends are certainly…interesting.” Kagome laughed.

“Yea like three pro surfer bachelors living in a beach cottage in Hawaii is so boring I'm sure,” she teased sarcastically and Inuyasha chuckled watching the ocean as they drove. He promised himself he would surf again tomorrow; it had been too long since he had.

“Want to come in? I won't be long and the guys are home.” He asked when she pulled into the dust driveway.

“Yea sure!” Kagome smiled slipping her hand discreetly into his as he opened the unlocked door and they walked inside.

“Aloha!” Inuyasha yelled looking around the empty living room and spotted Kouga and Shippou sitting out on the back patio.

“Hey Inuyasha there you are.” Kouga said when he heard him walk in behind them. “Kikyou just called, I think your girl friend misses you.” He smirked moving to turn around and taunt him more.

“Kouga!” Inuyasha just about screamed trying to cut him off but all Kouga had to do was look past Inuyasha to realize the damage he had accidentally just caused. Inuyasha spun around catching the sight of Kagome's face.

Confusion first crossed her with the sting of betrayal just barely showing on her features. Her eyes narrowed and the corners of her lips tugged down while parted, like she wanted to say something but was completely unable.

“Kagome he was just kidding, it's not like-” Inuyasha moved to touch her and she quickly shoved him back hard on his chest with a force he wasn't expecting. She didn't say a word turning back around and was running out the house in a flash. The dust was settling in their drive way by the time Inuyasha got out there, Kagome's jeep speeding away.

Inuyasha immediately rushed inside to find the keys to the van determined to go after her and settle this but Kouga's sudden grip on his arm stopped him.

“What do you think you're doing?” He said icily.

“Don't do this right now. She's upset, give her some time to cool off she doesn't want to talk to you yet.” Shippou walked inside his _expression worried at his two tense friends, this one wasn't going to end well.

“What the fuck would you know?!” Inuyasha yelled twisting away from him. “This is all your fault! Hell for all I know you planned this! Been waiting for the opportunity to bring Kikyou up and fuck up things between Kagome and me because you've had a thing for her since day one! You just can't take that she choose me over you, is that it Kouga?!”

“Shut up Inu! You're talking bullshit because you're pissed but I'm not your punching bag. It was an accident, if I knew she was back there I wouldn't have said a goddamn word and you know that! So go throw your tantrum somewhere else!” He yelled back storming off back down to the beach.

Inuyasha shot a glare to Shippou daring him to speak up on Kouga's defense. Shippou frowned but didn't say anything, instead just sighing and walking into his room shutting the door behind him.

Inuyasha groaned leaning his head back and looking up at the ceiling as if an answer might have been written there, but of course there was nothing. He was really fucked now, not only had he accused Kouga of something he knew he wouldn't have purposely done…but Kagome.

He saw the keys sitting on the kitchen table gleaming in the light but knew Kouga was right. She wouldn't want to talk to him now, he'd be lucky if she spoke to him again before she left. Walking into his bathroom he started up the shower turning it as hot as it would go and planning to stay in there as long as he could.

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Kagome ground her teeth determining not to cry over this. `What's it matter, you knew you were just his friend.' Her mind taunted her. But it did matter, it mattered a lot if she was just some fling he wanted to have, just someone to cheat on his girlfriend with. `And to think I almost…'

She shook her head quickly pushing those thoughts aside and focusing on driving the short trip back to her condo safely. Parking the jeep she hesitated looking up at their front door but quickly realized she was being ridiculous. `I can talk to them about anything, always.' Grabbing her purse she ran up the steps and inside relieved to see Sango sitting on the couch and giving her a confused look.

“Sango!” She cried pouncing on her friend and hugging her tightly.

“Kagome, what's wrong??” She held her shoulders pulling her up to see tears shimmering in her eyes.

“He has a girlfriend…” Kagome whispered large drops rolling down her cheeks with those words.

“Oh god,” Sango swept her into a tight hug letting Kagome cry softly onto her shoulder.

“What happened?” Miroku asked from the hallway.

“Get me two pints of ice cream and two spoons, NOW!” Sango ordered and he hastily bolted for the safety of the kitchen.

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A/N: I know, I know, it's so overused even I didn't want to bring up Kikyou, but it can't be entirely happy times for our little couple. As the Kauai saying goes `No rain, No rainbows.' Please review if you have the time, see you all next week!