InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Tangled Webs ❯ Happy Birthday Pt 1 ( Chapter 5 )

AN: Hey everybody. ::cowers upon seeing all the readers pick up large jagged rocks:: okay, okay, I'm sorry about the months long wait for the update but I have tones of great reasons, but since you probably just want to read the chapter you've all been waiting so long for, I'll just say this. My life sucks. It is a complete and total mess, and I'm surprised I have the mental stability to actually write a chapter, forget posting on a remotely regular basis, though I do actually use what little mental stability I do have to post these chapters. A thousand pardons and I humbly ask for everyone's forgiveness.

Although it's okay if you don't forgive me, just as long as you keep enjoying the story.

As an apology I put a bit of a treat for everyone at the end of the chapter. I was gonna draw it out for a few more chapters, but I figured everything is set up nicely for it to take place now. I've gotta do something to earn your forgiveness, right?

If work lets up on my schedule, I'll probably have the next chapter out within a week.

In other news, I just started working on a new story (just figuring out the plot and a few key elements) so it looks like that Mir/San story I was going to start is gonna be pushed further back on that burner of mine. Speaking of which, that burner is getting pretty packed. Maybe I should get off my lazy ass and start working on a few of those now that I've been off school forever. Unfortunately, I tend to spend any free time I have off work with my friends or sleeping. Oh well…

Tangled Webs

Happy Birthday Inuyasha

Inuyasha sat on his bed, his headphones firmly placed on his ears and he sketched out a picture. Later, if he drew something he liked, he would draw it again, perfecting it for his Illustration course. Right now though, he was just trying to avoid Miroku. The guy was driving him crazy, trying to set up a party around him and keep it a secret from him at the same time. He might as well just give up the charade and admit that he was throwing a party. It would probably save them both a lot of grief.

Suddenly, beyond the music, he heard a faint beeping, and upon removing the headphones he realized that it was actually a loud noise coming from outside his window. He quickly got up and made his way to the window, sticking his head out and immediately spotting Kagome sitting in a burgundy LeSabre, hanging half out the window and waving her arm to get his attention. When she spotted his head out the window, she called, "YO! Yasha! Get your lazy ass down here! We gotta go!"

Grinning broadly, he went to put his shoes on, then though better of it and changed out of his gym shorts and into a pair of dark blue baggy pants, as well as slipping a blue button up on over his white t-shirt, a grey-blue knit jammed onto his head. Then he quickly put on his blue on white Uptowns and shoved his wallet into his pocket before making a mad dash to get outside. When he finally reached the car. Kagome was leaning against the car, wearing an amused expression on her face.

Actually, Inuyasha found what she wearing to be very appealing. A black hoodie dress with yellow pieced mesh, Baby Phat cat pendant as the zipper pull, and black on white Phat Farms, leaving a wide expanse of leg for him to ogle. Her hair was swept up into a ponytail at the back of her head, her bangs and a few wisps of hair framing her face. She had a sexy sporty look going for her while still staying modest and covered up. Needless to say, he had to concentrate on not drooling.

"So, can I be the first person to wish you 'Happy Birthday'?"

'Miroku already did that with his squawking' he mused, but thought better than to mention that to her, simply replying with a nod of approval. He was immediately rewarded with a tight hug and the words "Happy Birthday, Inuyasha," being mumbled into his chest. With that done, she pulled back and grinned mischievously up at him. "So, are you ready for your big day?"

"I doubt it,"

"Well, too bad. Get in the car,"

"So, who did you pawn this ride off of?" he asked as he walked to the passenger side and slipped in, quickly followed by Kagome on the driver's side.

"It's Yuka's. She, Eri and Ayumi decided to lend it to me as an apology for making me wear that get up last week," she said, starting up the car.

"Get up? Most of the guys thought you looked hot," he said, failing miserably at hiding the irritability in his voice

She raised an eyebrow at the comment but didn't say anything as she pulled out of her spot. The ride passed in relatively comfortable silence, the radio set on rock station and the odd joining in on the lyrics. It wasn't until they had made it out onto the highway that she said, "What about you?"

Inuyasha, having completely forgotten what he had said earlier, he looked at her in confusion and said an intelligent, "Huh?"

"Did you think I looked hot? In that outfit I mean,"

"Oh... um, you looked.... nice,"

"It was a yes or no question Inuyasha,"

"Oh..... well, um, yeah, you looked good. Really, really good....." he trailed off, staring out the passenger side window, and completely missing the bright smile passing over Kagome's face. A few moments passed before Inuyasha started to actually taken in what he was looking at. "Kagome... where are we going?" he asked, turning his head to look at her.

Kagome just looked at him and smiled before turning her eyes back to the road and leaving Inuyasha to ponder his thoughts about her horrible driving and lead foot.

No point in wondering where they were going. It was a surprise.

*

"Are they gone?" Miroku asked, coming up behind her

"Yeah, Kagome just drove away," she said as she moved away from the window and picked up the box of packaged snacks.

"Do you know where she's taking him?"

"She didn't tell me. Although she did pack a really big bag..... wonder what that could be about,"

"Maybe she's taking him on a picnic," he mused, lifting the keg with difficulty and setting it in the tub of ice.

"Oh my god, that wasn't a perverted thought!" She exclaimed, incredulously

"It wasn't.... hmm.... well, they'll probably sleep together then,"

"Miroku!" she said, setting the box on a table before climbing up a ladder already being held by a boy with spiky light grey hair.

"Sorry, sorry, do you know when they'll be back?" he said, taking Spike's place as he was called to help set up the stereos.

"She said that she has her cell phone on her, and I told her I would call her when it was time to come back." She reached down to receive the banner, instantly going rigid when she felt a soft caress on her hind quarters. The flashing of her eyes and convulsive clenching of her fists were his only warning.

*

"Okay, I'm definitely confused now,"

Inuyasha was currently leaning against the side of the car, as he stared into the forest she had brought them to. Kagome was trying to pull her monstrous yellow bag out of the back seat. When she finally pulled it out, she made her way over to him and shoved the bag into his hands. "There, you carry that,"

"Hey! I'm the birthday boy. Don't I get preferential treatment?"

"Yes, you do. But your strong and like you said, my arms are so thin they could snap under the smallest of strain. So your carrying the bag," she said before starting down the path into the forest. Inuyasha quickly caught up with her, sliding the strap of the bag over his shoulder as he fell into step beside her.

"So, where are we going?"

"Into the forest. Don't be dense, Inuyasha,"

Shaking his head, a small smile twitching at his lips, he followed her deeper into the forest. Soon the trees became more sparse and spread out until they came to a break in the trees. However, the usual clearing or lake was not what they came upon as Inuyasha had expected. They arrived at a cliff face, the precipice leading down to a river, a grassy bank just by it. The ledge the stood upon dropped about ten to fifteen meters down on two sides. One straight into the water below, and the other a much more gradual drop, almost like a path, to the bank.

"Okay, now I'm really confused. What are we doing her Kagome?"

"We," she started as she got onto her knees and began rummaging through her bag, "are going swimming,"

He watched her back for a moment, a confused look on his face, then he grinned and said, "Sorry, as good looking as I am, I just don't think I'm ready to show you my bits and pieces,"

"I thought I told you not to be dense. I said we're going swimming, not skinny dipping. Now, put this on," she said, throwing something at him, which dutifully landed on his head.

Pulling it off, he found that he was holding a pair of black swim trunks that would come to his knees. He heard to flops on the ground near him and looked down to see a pair of men's black swimming shoes, and just his size. When he looked up at Kagome she had stood up and swung the bag over her shoulders, watching him with a look of suppressed amusement. "Oh, Yasha, don't tell me your embarrassed to change in front of me,"

His cheeks took on an adorable pink shade and she smiled in triumph, turning towards the path to the river bank. "I'll be right back, you change while I'm gone. I'm just gonna put this down there so I don't have to come back up for it," she said, before disappearing down the path.

Slightly overwhelmed by everything that had just happened in a matter of five minutes, he began stripping himself of his clothes. By the time he had changed into the trunks and slippers, Kagome was making her way back up the path carrying a plastic bag and light green ladies swimming shoes. Quickly she stripped out of her dress, revealing her bikini underneath.

It was light green with white over laying swirling lines on both the top and bottom. The bottom was cut so that it went straight across the hips, not hiked up towards the waist, and the top tied off with strings behind her neck and back. She quickly took off her shoes and stuffed both those and her dress into the plastic bag before throwing it to Inuyasha and sitting down to slip her swim shoes on.

She stood up and took the bag back, which Inuyasha had put his stuff in. She quickly tied it off and slipped the handle around her wrist then turned to Inuyasha as she backed away from the cliff edge. When she was far enough away, she said, "I hope you don't mind your stuff getting a little wet," before taking a running start and doing a swan dive off the cliff.

Inuyasha stared on in amazement. In all the years he had known Kagome, she had never swan dived off of anything except for the jumping board at the local swimming pool. He had a feeling this day would just be full of surprises. So, following suit, he took a running start and leaped off the ledge, doing a 360 before splashing into the water.

He quickly resurfaced and was ready for a bit of banter.... .but Kagome was no where in sight. He couldn't see her head bobbing around anywhere and she wasn't on the bank, so he submerged himself once again, but he couldn't see her in the water. Considering he could only see a few feet in front of him that probably wasn't so bad. He resurfaced and called out, "Kagome! Where the fuck are you bitch! This isn't funny!"

He about to look under water some more when he felt something close around his ankle and yank him down. Resurfacing once again, he found Kagome laughing hysterically at his expense. Dunking back under the water, he quickly swam towards her, discreetly fitting his head between her legs before he grabbed her shin, shoved his shoulders into her thighs and shot up out of the water like a rocket, sending her upwards and back so that she slammed into the water.

He grinned as she righted herself, laughter in her eyes as she came towards him and whacked him in the chest with bag still on her wrist. "Bitch! There are shoes in there,"

"Yeah, so be thankful I didn't hit you in the head. It would have scrambled what little brain cells you have,"

"Why you little-,"

"Wait!" she said, stuffing the bag in his hands, "Put this on shore for me?"

He stared at the bag, looked at Kagome, gauged the distance between him and the shore, then looked back at Kagome. Making up his mind, he turned his back to her, facing the shore, then began to swing the bag over his head like a propeller before he let it fly through the air. IT landed safely on the river bank, right before he felt a hand on his head, shoving him into the water.

He came back up for the fifth time since getting in the water and turned to see Kagome had swum a good distance from him in the time he had been underwater. She always was a good swimmer.

*

"Did you order the pizzas yet?" Miroku asked. He was currently trying to untangle the wiring from the big speakers he had brought over from his parents house and Sango was leaning against one of the said speakers.

"Yeah, I got the deal. Four large pizzas, a bucket of twenty chick wings and two 2L bottles of Pepsi, for only fifty bucks,"

"You sure that's gonna be enough?" he asked, setting aside a line of red and back wiring he had just disentangled to look up at her.

"How many people did you invite, exactly?"

"OH... just some friends. Acquaintances, that I know,"

"Let me guess. You invited the whole building,"

"Well any one who wanted to come. But we're only four stories, so that can't be to many people,"

"And.... did you invite anyone from any other dormitories on campus?"

"Um.... maybe a few," he said, averting his eyes.

"And any.... one from off campus?"

No answer.

She let out a sigh of long suffering and said, "I'll go order a few more pizzas. Gotta get ready for all the pretty girls you invited." She stalked away, a dark aura surrounding her. Miroku didn't know what her problem was. It wasn't like he had only told girls to come. He had invited a couple other people from the male species, so what was her problem?

*

Inuyasha took another bite of his apples, taking a sip of his soda as he did so, effectively canceling each other out. After they had tired from swimming all day and dried off, Kagome had put on a pair of cut off denim shorts and set a blanket out on the grass before she started the process of laying out their food. When Inuyasha had slipped on his t-shirt and given up his internal struggle of whether or not to change back into his clothes now or later (opting to go for the lazier decision, he looked up at the food she was setting out and his mouth watered.

She had made four sandwiches, two chicken salad, and two ground beef, which were sitting on paper plates she had set out. She'd also brought fries, chips, grapes, carrots, apples, Caesar salad, yogurt, juice, and soda, all of which had been set out on the blanket before they had devoured it all. Now, all that was left was some chips, the apple Inuyasha was munching on, carrots, grapes and a few drinks.

He wasn't sure when exactly it had occurred, more than likely while he was stuffing his face, but Kagome had pulled a large white hoodie out of the bottomless bag and slipped it on, leaving her legs as the only skin for Inuyasha to ogle. While the cut off jeans showed more that most of her skirts, at least then he could see her curves.

Well, it was probably better this way. Now he didn't have to worry about anything...... hard.

So here she was, dressed in a frumpy hoodie and denim shorts, leaning back on the blanket, her palms pressed flat against the ground as she watched the sky darken and lighten at the same time..... who was he kidding? She even looked hot like that.

Thinking back on it, Inuyasha couldn't think of a single time he'd seen her that he hadn't had the primal desire to jump her bones. She looked away from the now pink sky, her hair glowing red in the light, and said, "So, tell me the truth Inuyasha, why are you moving out now? Why couldn't you wait the week until the semester ends?"

"Honestly, my brother said I had to," he said simply, not bothering to elaborate on the topic as he looked up the sun, slowly lowering towards the horizon.

Kagome looked like she wanted to say more, but she knew he wouldn't say more than he had, especially not if she pushed. So, in an attempt to make conversation, she said, "You know, me and Sango are moving out too,"

"Really?" he said, returning his gaze to her face.

"Yeah, at the end of the term, we're moving into an apartment,"

"How come you didn't tell me?" he asked. That wasn't like her...

"Well, the apartment we wanted only became available recently, even though we've been looking for awhile. Sango paid half this month's rent already so that we could get it. We're going to Summimasen Heights,"

"That's a nice neighborhood. You're going to live there next school year?"

"Yeah, and you're welcome to come over any time,"

"Well, thanks for the formality, but I would have come over any time even if you hadn't invited me,"

"IS that because your a rude, inconsiderate jerk?"

"No, it's because someone has to make sure you don't get loose, monster,"

"Look who's talking, Koinu,"

"Hey! I thought I told you to stop calling me that!"

"I would, if you weren't such a cute little puppy,"

"Cute? Little! PUPPY?! You're such a stupid wench,"

"Ass,"

"Bitch!"

"Jerk-off!"

"Freak!!"

"Shit-stain!!"

"PRIS BITCH!!"

"ASS!!"

Inuyasha stared at her for a moment, before he burst into small fits of laughter, gasping out something that sounded like "You said ass twice" between breaths. Really, Kagome didn't think it was that funny. They'd had these stupid little arguments in the past, calling each other names without any malice behind it. And true, she'd never sent him the same insult with in the span of six words before, but really..... it wasn't THAT funny.

Thinking that there was definitely something wrong with him, she scooted closer to make sure he was alright. She stopped when he finally looked up and saw all the amusement drain from his face, quickly replaced with something she couldn't quite put her finger on. She didn't know what was wrong until she noticed that his eyes looked awfully big from this distance, bigger than what should be normal, and his nose must have grown because it was really close to hers........

He heard her gulp audibly, realizing how close she had gotten to him, and nervously lick her lips. Of course, this brought his attention down to her mouth and he realized how soft her lips looked from this distant.

"Inuya-,"

Whatever she had been about to see was swallowed into his mouth as it closed over her own. Her eyes widened and she gasped in surprise. Or at least, she tried to, seeing as the sound disappeared into the depths of his mouth. The actual result was her mouth falling open slightly, giving Inuyasha to push his tongue pass her teeth and seek out her own.

As soon as she felt his tongue touch her own she melted into him, her eyes drifting close as she felt his hands slide up her arms, one resting at her shoulder as the other moved up to the nape of her neck, tilting her head to deepen the kiss as he explored the caverns of her mouth with his tongue.

Kagome's arms came up around his neck and shuffled closer, wanting more contact between the two, the sun slowly disappearing behind the horizon as she fell deeper into something she had never thought would actually happen. As for her actual thoughts at the moment.... she didn't have any. Her mind was a blank slate.

Inuyasha, however, was not in the same state. His thoughts went something like, "Holy shit! I'm kissing Kagome! Her lips are so soft..... and her mouth is so warm. God what's going through her head right now? Does she want to be kissing me? She sure seems pretty enthusiastic about the idea. I can't believe I'm kissing Kagome!"

When he felt her knee knock his for the third time, he finally realized she was trying to get closer to him. Slipping both hands to her hips, he lifted her up into his lap so she was sitting with both her legs draped over the side of his thigh. He looked up at her, taking in the glazed look in her eyes, the swollen state of her lips, the way her soft panting brought her chest up and down, and realized he had done all that.

Grinning, he captured her lips again, immediately feeling her hand move into his hair, tangling at the back of his head and bringing him closer.... just a little bit closer....

"Kagome....." he moaned against her mouth.

His hand slipped down, running over her thighs and taking in the soft texture of her skin and the strength and tautness of the muscles underneath. His fingers traced the area until her leg came up, pressing her thigh into his palm and he was instilled with renew confidence. His hand moved under her leg, palming the back of her thigh and coming back up to trace his fingers down the side. The tips of his were fingers lightly glided over her thigh as he enjoyed the way it made her shudder slightly when a shrill sound caused him to stop the movement suddenly.

He pulled away from her and she looked toward her purse near her big yellow bag, where her cell phone was delivered its tone once again. She would have loved it if he had just started kissing her again, but he wouldn't.... he had a girlfriend after all. She was wishing for too much.

Her head fell back and she let out an irritated grunt. Inuyasha lifted her up and placed Kagome right beside him, who had taken to staring at the sky. She expelled a soft curse as she got up and shuffled over to her bag, pulling out the irritatingly cherry pink phone and flipped it open.

"What?" she said into the instrument.

"Kagome? Are you alright?" she heard Sango's voice on the other end, sounding concerned.

Kagome's expression softened, even though she knew the girl couldn't see it and said in a much more calm voice, "Yeah, everything's fine. We were just in the water,"

"Still?" and it was a good question, considering twilight had just set in.

"Well, we just got out, when the sun set,"

"Oh..... okay, well, um, I just called to let you know that everything is ready so you should bring the birthday boy back."

Sighing inwardly, she said, "Okay, we'll be there soon." With that, she closed her phone and looked at Inuyasha, who was looking at her with the same look he had been sending her right before he kissed her. He was such a good kisser......

Without a single word, she began packing up her things.

*

AN: There you go, eleven pages. The next chapter should be out soon. I have roughly 45% of it done. I hope this sufficiently makes up for not updating for so long. I'm really, incredibly sorry.

Next Chapter: Happy Birthday Inuyasha pt 2: Look At What The Wind Blew In