InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Boyfriend ❯ Phone Calls ( Chapter 8 )

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

Disclaimer: InuYasha, Kagome and anyone else you saw in the manga or anime does not belong to me. Yukio does. If I saw so much as a shiny penny for this story, you think I'd be writing fanfiction still? Okay, I would… Damn other authors and their more interesting universes…
 
Genre: Angst, Romance
Rating: M
Codes: Kag/OC, Inu/Kag
Feedback: Keeps my muse talking and the stories coming! Do tell. But if you have a flame, use it for something more productive, like setting your clothes on fire.
 
 
The Boyfriend
Chapter 8
 
Kagome looked at the phone in her hand and tried to dial it one last time. She slammed it down again. `This isn't the right way to break up,' she thought. `But do I really want to do it on the date tonight?' She walked upstairs to her room and looked at herself in the mirror. She was still blushing at the thought of InuYasha's embrace. She had felt no hesitation, no doubt and no regret. She was always doubting herself around Yukio, always pushing him away and always hesitating. `But what if that's just because I'm in love with InuYasha? Did I ever give him a real chance?' She thought about how well he had treated her, but while kissing him made her heart beat faster and his hand under her shirt made her body react, she didn't get excited to see him. She never had the urge to run into his arms and really had no desire to go any further with him than she had. With InuYasha, she had wanted him to take the next step almost desperately. Just from a kiss.
 
“Kagome, telephone! It's Eri!” Mrs. Higurashi's voice called to her from down the stairs. Kagome jogged down and took it, thanking her mother.
 
“Hello?” she greeted.
 
“Kagome-chan! I tried to call yesterday, but your grandfather said you were at the gynecologist?”
 
“What?” Kagome exclaimed, getting angry. `Wasn't gout and arthritis and diabetes enough? That's getting personal!' she thought angrily.
 
“You haven't done something with Yukio have you?” Eri asked, sounding concerned.
 
“No, why?” Kagome answered.
 
“Oh, no, it's not cervical cancer is it?” Eri exclaimed through the phone. Kagome's eye twitched.
 
“No. I thought I felt a breast lump,” Kagome quickly improvised. “But it turned out to be nothing.”
 
“Oh, good. I was worried. Listen, there's something I need to tell you about Yukio.”
 
“What?” Kagome said.
 
“I found out why he moved from his last school.”
 
“He said his dad got a job transfer or something,” Kagome said.
 
“Yeah, but he had to get the transfer. Apparently, Yukio was kicked out of his last school.”
 
“Why?” Kagome asked, wondering why Yukio never told her that.
 
“I'm still trying to find out,” Eri said. “Yuka said she heard it was a violation of his school's dating policy.”
 
“Well, I know that he was dating a girl at his last school. Except I think he said she was in high school. Maybe that's it. A lot of middle schools don't allow dating at all.”
 
“That might be it,” Eri agreed. “Or maybe a public display of affection. Still, I thought I would let you know, in case you didn't.”
 
“Well, it's not going to matter anymore anyway.”
 
“What? Are you breaking up with him?”
 
“Yeah,” Kagome said. “I'm going back to that guy from before.”
 
“Why, Kagome? I'm sure it wasn't something serious at his last school! He's such a nice guy. Not as nice as Hojo, of course, and he's kinda weird, but—”
 
“I just don't love him,” Kagome interrupted before Eri went into a Hojo-is-great spiel. “And I do love that guy,” she said. There was silence on the other end of the phone.
 
“You really love him?” Eri said.
 
“Yeah.”
 
“Has he said it yet?”
 
“Yes,” Kagome said. “And he kissed me last night.”
 
“You cheated on Yukio?” Eri said, incredulous.
 
“Well, I was kinda cheating with Yukio before. I mean, we weren't definite or anything, but he's shown me over and over that he cares. I was just mad at him for throwing my books in the river.”
 
“Oh, is that what happened to them? Why did he do that?”
 
“To get my attention,” Kagome said, realizing the answer herself.
 
“Well, I know you'll do what you want to, no matter what I say. Just be careful. Yukio really seems attached to you.”
 
“I know. I heard about what happened with him and Hojo,” Kagome said. Hojo had been avoiding her ever since Yukio asked her out and she finally found out it was because Yukio had told him to stay away from her. Kagome had felt so bad that she tracked Hojo down and apologized, but he had barely listened and then left, obviously mad at her. She couldn't blame him. She had blown him off for almost an entire year and then started dating Yukio the first time she met him.
 
“Well… good luck then.”
 
“Thanks, Eri. I'll talk to you later,” Kagome said.
 
“Okay. Bye!”
 
“Bye!”
 
To be continued…