InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Challenge ❯ Chapter 13

Aloha everybody! How's life? Lol I'm trying to update faster now because I feel bad for delaying the last chapter… Sorry again by the by. Well I hope this chapter isn't too sad… it's probably going to be WAY different from my usual style of writing but I won't tell you why because that'll spoil the chapter! Lol so with out any further ado ON WITH THE CHAPTER!

 

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha… *pout*

 

The next morning at around 11 o'clock there was a knock at the front door of the suite where our beloved main characters are staying. Miroku walked over to the door and opened it.

“Hi! Is Kagome there?” a cheery tall guy asked.

“Uh… Ya… just a second.” Miroku said as he led the guy into the living room. The guy sat on the couch and started looking around happily. Miroku raised an eyebrow and went to go get Kagome.

`Oh she's going to be pissed… I have to wake her up!' he thought as he made his way to Kagome and Sango's room. He knocked twice and when there was no answer he just opened the door. Both girls were fast asleep. Sango looked much better according to him… she wasn't sprawled over her bed, nearly falling off like Kagome was. He sighed because he REALLY didn't want to do this. He sat on the edge of Kagome's bed… well as much as he could with out sitting on the poor girl. He gently shook her shoulders and poked her in the stomach. Kagome giggled in her sleep but only rolled over. Miroku sighed again and resorted to the one thing that he KNEW would wake her up.

 

SLAP!!!!

 

“MIROKU!!! KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME!” Kagome screamed.

“I'm sorry Kagome… You wouldn't wake up though and there's a guy here to see you… he kind of creeps me out. He's overly happy…” Miroku explained. Kagome narrowed her eyes at him.

“I hope you realise that Inuyasha's going to castrate you for that!” she grumbled as she put on her pink fuzzy bathrobe. Miroku gasped in mock terror and left the room. Kagome sighed, brushed her hair, and went into the living room.

“HOJO!?!” she screamed as she laid eyes on her ex-boyfriend.

“Hi Kagome! I missed you!” or so she thought…

“Hi Hojo…” she said slowly. Hojo jumped up and hugged her tightly. She squealed and tried to pry him off of her. He looked at her in confusion.

`Didn't I break up with him?' she asked herself.

“What's wrong Kagome? Don't you know who I am? I'm your boyfriend remember?” he laughed as he waved his hand in front of her face. She smiled weakly and let him hug her tightly again.

“WHAT IN SEVEN HELLS IS GOING ON HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” was suddenly heard throughout the whole hotel. Kagome's head snapped over to where Inuyasha stood griping the doorframe, and looking livid.

“Inuyasha!” she gasped.

“WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY!!!!!!!!!” Inuyasha roared. Kagome shuddered and couldn't look at either of them.

“Kagome? Who is this very angry guy?” Hojo asked quietly, so as not to upset the `very angry guy'.

“I'm her boyfriend that's who I am!!” Inuyasha bellowed. Hojo took a step back in shock.

“But… I'm her boyfriend…” Hojo said slowly. Inuyasha turned to look at Kagome, who had jumped out of Hojo's embrace as soon as she heard Inuyasha's voice. She couldn't look at him. She turned and ran towards him, but instead of hitting him, she ducked under his arm and dashed toward the bathroom. She slammed the door and slid down it onto the floor. Then she broke down into a crying mess.

“Kagome? It's Sango let me in.” Sango suddenly said as she knocked lightly on the door. Kagome got off the ground and opened the door quickly, pulled Sango in and slammed the door again.

“Didn't you break up with Hojo a while ago?” Sango asked quietly as she sat on the edge of the bathtub. Kagome shook her head and a new wave of tears came crashing down. Sango stood up immediately and hugged her best friend as she cried.

“Kagome… You know that you have to break up with him now if you want to stay with Inuyasha… don't you?” Sango asked quietly as she held her best friend. Kagome nodded but the tears didn't stop.

“Do you want to do it now or in a little while?” Sango asked.

“Now… might as well get it done now so I can move on…” Kagome whispered. Sango nodded and pulled away from Kagome. Kagome wiped away all her tears, stood up tall, stuck her nose in the air, and opened the door. She walked like this the entire way to the living room. But as soon as she caught sight of Inuyasha she turned around. Sango was behind her though, she grabbed her shoulders and turned her around again. She heard Kagome whispering in fear.

“Never mind! I want to do it later! When he's not so mad!” she whispered over and over. Sango just shook her head and pushed her into the room. She sat her down on the couch and indicated for the guys to sit on the couch across from her. The guys obeyed but Inuyasha was glaring daggers at Hojo. Sango left after she was sure that Kagome wasn't going to run away. Kagome sighed. She kept staring at her knees.

`Since when has that scar been there?' she thought o herself as she examined her knees. Then Hojo cleared his throat. Kagome's head shot up to look at him, but then her eyes welled up with tears.

`How could I cheat on Hojo?' she thought to herself.

“Well? Who is this guy?” Inuyasha asked as calmly as he could considering he was royally pissed off.

“I'm Hojo! Who're you?” Hojo said happily as he stuck his hand out to shake Inuyasha's. Inuyasha glared at his hand and he immediately took it back.

“Inuyasha.” He stated bluntly. It was easy to tell that he was very close to ripping Hojo apart. Kagome could hear it in his voice so she decided to actually say something.

“I'm sorry… both of you.” She whispered to her knees. Both guys turned to look at her. Inuyasha's look softened a bit at the sight of her but not by much, he was still REALLY pissed.

“He's the only one who's got something to be sorry for!” Inuyasha growled as he intensified his glare on Hojo, who inched away from him slightly.

“No… I do… I- I cheated on Hojo…” Kagome whispered, still staring at her knees.

“So? You're with me now so this guy needs to get a clue!” Inuyasha shouted at her. She flinched and wanted nothing more than to sink through the floor.

“Um… Hello? I'm still here you know! And I am still technically Kagome's boyfriend so I must ask you not to shout at her like that.” Hojo spoke up. Kagome shook her head.

“No… I disserve to be shouted at… and actually a whole hell of a lot more…” Kagome mumbled. Inuyasha growled at her.

“Can you just stay out of this Hobo? She doesn't want to be with you anymore so just get lost before I have to kill you!!” Inuyasha bellowed at Hojo. Kagome winced and had half a mind to dash out of the room again, but she stayed.

“Inuyasha… I need to talk to Hojo for a minute… can you wait outside for a second?” Kagome asked quietly.

“I sure as hell won't! He might try and touch you again!!!” Inuyasha roared. Kagome lifted her teary eyes to his.

“GO!” she screamed at him. Inuyasha growled at Hojo in warning and turned to leave from the room. Kagome knew she didn't have a lot of time before Inuyasha decided he could come back in so she wasted no time staring at her knees.

“Hojo… I'm so sorry… I was in such a rush to get here that I didn't say goodbye to you before I left, and then I went and cheated on you while I've been here… I feel lower than dirt right now…” Kagome said quietly. Hojo got up and sat next to her.

“Do you want to break up?” he asked, sincerely hoping she'd say no. When Kagome nodded he stood up and walked to the door.

“Ok Kagome. But soon enough you'll realise that this Inuyasha character isn't good enough for you. When you do give me a call.” Hojo said as he opened the door, causing Inuyasha to fall to the ground. Apparently he had been listening the entire time. (A/N: who could blame him?) Hojo made a point of glaring at Inuyasha on his way out. Inuyasha almost kicked his legs from under him but decided against it. Instead he gave Hojo a Charlie horse.

“Oww!” Hojo shouted.

“That will be your only warning.” Inuyasha warned him menacingly, cracking his knuckles. Hojo let out a little yelp and quickened his pace to the doorway. Kagome was sitting staring at her knees again. When Inuyasha didn't come sit with her as she thought he would she looked up. He was standing over her offering a hand to her. She took it and he pulled her off the couch.

“Do you hate me?” she asked quietly. (A/N: damn this girl is quiet today!)

“No.” he said bluntly. She could tell he was still seething inside, no matter how hard he tried to hide it.

“Yes you do…” she mumbled as she turned away from him to go to her room. She was stopped mid-step by Inuyasha's hand on her shoulder. He turned her around to face him again.

“I don't hate you.” He said slowly, as if talking to a two year old. Kagome nodded in understanding and walked away. Inuyasha sighed.

`She didn't believe me…” he thought to himself. He got the mad urge to go beat something up so he went to the hotel's gym to beat the crap out of a punching bag. Meanwhile in the girls' room.

“Are you ok?”

“Ya…”

“No you're not.”

“Yes I am.”

“No you're not! You're all sad and mopey!”

“OF COURSE I AM!!!”

“Ok I'm sorry!”

“Damn straight.”

“What?”

“Nothing”

“Well did you make up with Inuyasha?”

“Maybe…”

“What the hell does that mean?”

“It means that I don't know!”

“Well tell me what happened!”

“I asked him if he hated me and he said no… but I think he does…”

“What the hell is wrong with you?”

“Excuse me?”

“Sorry but you have to be REALLY stupid not to realise that he could never HATE you! No offence or anything but you're really stupid this morning!”

“Oh thanks…”

“Sorry but it's true!”

“So he doesn't hate me?”

“OF COURSE NOT!”

“Why doesn't that help? Both him and you have told me that he doesn't hate me but… I still feel like a whore…”

“Would you stop putting yourself down! Honestly!”

“Well you asked me to tell you!”

“I didn't tell you to start calling yourself a whore!”

“Well it's how I feel!”

“Well stop feeling that!”

“HOW?”

“I don't know! Go talk to Inuyasha or something!”

“I can't… not yet…”

“Ya that makes sense…”

“I want to take a nap… night Sango.”

“Night Kagome.” Sango said as she walked out of the room. She walked into the living room where Inuyasha was sitting, staring at his knees. (A/N; these people must have some interesting knees!)

“Hey Inuyasha.” Sango said as she sat beside him. He raised his head to look at her, then looked down again.

“Hey.”

“Are you ok?”

“Sure.”

“Don't lie to me.”

“I'm not.”

“Yes you are! Both you and Kagome are being all sad and mopey and I don't like it!”

“Is she ok?”

“NO! She thinks she's a whore, and she thinks you hate her and she's all…. Sad and mopey… like I said.”

“She thinks— god DAMN IT!”

“Don't shoot the messenger!”

“I'm not shooting anybody…”

“Good!”

“Why the hell does she think she's a whore?”

“Because she cheated on Hojo with you.”

“SO?”

“He was her boyfriend before you were so you don't know what went on between them!”

“What did he do to her?”

“NOTHING!”

“Good… I don't feel like going to jail just yet.”

“She's not ready to talk to you yet so don't go barging in there ok?”

“Since when do I barge?”

“Since always.”

“Fine… Was she crying again?”

“No she kept her composure… I don't know about now though. She said she was going to take a nap and I left, so she may have been crying I don't know.”

“Go find out.”

“What? Why?”

“Just go!”

“FINE!” Sango shouted at him as she stood up and stomped to her room. She calmed down when she reached the door, just in case Kagome was asleep. She opened the door slowly. She saw Kagome, sprawled over her bed, as usual. She giggled quietly at her best friend and closed the door again.

“She's asleep.” She said as she sat back down with Inuyasha.

“Good.”

“Ya I guess you could say that…”

“I just did so ya I can.” Inuyasha said roughly and Sango laughed a bit.

“Ok… I'm going to the gym again… I need to beat something up…” Inuyasha said as he stood up.

“You do that… Where's Miroku? He kind of disappeared when Hojo came.” Sango asked.

“I don't' know. Check our room he might be in there looking at Playboy or something like that.” Inuyasha said as he walked out the door.

“Oh he won't be… not if he knows what's good for him!” Sango mumbled as she made her way to the guys' room. She did find Miroku… but he thankfully wasn't looking at dirty magazines… he was drawing something.

“What are you drawing?” Sango asked as she sat beside him on his bed.

“Nothing worth looking at.” Miroku said while hiding his picture from her prying eyes.

“Let me see! I'm curious now!” Sango said as she tried to get the paper away form Miroku.

“Nope! It's crappy I don't want you to see how bad it is!” Miroku said. He jumped off the bed and held the paper above his head. Sango scowled and tackled him onto Inuyasha's bed. She snatched the paper and looked at it.

“Wow… this is good!” she said in awe.

“You think so?” he asked, she nodded. The picture was of her. Apparently he had stolen a school picture of her from somewhere. The picture was from last year when her hair was shorter and she had streaked it red. He made the school uniform she was wearing look better than it did in the picture… actually the entire thing was better than the picture in her opinion.

“Oh my god… Can I keep this?” she asked quietly. Miroku was surprised.

“Uh… sure…” he said. She smiled and gave him a big hug. He was very happy by the end of this hug, despite the fact that he had earned himself a slap. Sango smiled again and went to go put the picture on her wall. While she was pinning it up Kagome woke up.

“Hey Sango…” she said groggily

“Hi Kagome!” she said happily

“What are you so happy about?”

“Look!” Sango shoved the picture in Kagome's face. Kagome's eyes widened.

“Isn't this the picture that you complained for a month over? Who drew this?” Kagome asked in shock.

“Miroku did! Didn't he do a good job?” Sango asked, Kagome nodded.

“Wow… I didn't know he could draw… wow…” Kagome said in awe. She handed the picture back to Sango to pin it on the wall. Kagome sat up in bed and swung her legs over the side. Then she flopped back down when she remembered what happened today.

“Oh man…” she groaned. Sango laughed at her and pulled her off the bed.

“You ready to go talk to him?” she asked. Kagome didn't respond. Sango poked her in the side.

“I said : are you ready to talk to him yet?” she asked again. Kagome grimaced and nodded.

“Good!” Sango said happily. “He's in the gym, said something about needing to beat something up.” Sango said.

“Oh that's a great encouragement! I made him want to beat something up! Just fabulous!” Kagome said sarcastically. Sango laughed and gave her directions to the gym. Kagome got presentable again and left for the gym. When she got there she opened the door and was amazed at how much equipment they had. They had everything for everybody! She looked around the room once and spotted Inuyasha. It wasn't that hard because of his silver hair. He actually pulled it back into a ponytail. Kagome decided that she liked ponytail Inuyasha. She walked slowly over to him, watching as he beat the crap out of a punching bag. She stood behind him for a minute and poked his shoulder, causing him to turn around mid-swing and almost hit her in the face. She screamed and he stopped his fist just before it collided with her nose.

“Kagome!” he gasped. “I didn't know it was you!” he tried to explain himself but she just held up her hand to silence him. She grabbed his wrist and dragged him over to some chairs by the door. She sat down and he sat beside her.

“I'm ready to talk now…” she said quietly.

“Ok…” he said.

“I'm sorry about Hojo… I really did forget I was going out with him… I was so focused on being with you that I forgot everything from home…” she said in one breath.

“It's ok… I forgot about everything too.” Inuyasha assured her. She sighed and leaned on his shoulder.

“I was talking with Sango and she said you said that you thought I hated you… she also said that you felt like a whore. Ok… first things first. I DON'T hate you. I never have, never will, end of story. Next how on god's green earth could you ever think you were a whore?” Inuyasha asked with a hint of anger in his voice.

“I don't know… I guess it was just my cheating on Hojo made me feel like that… I don't know! It makes sense if you're me!” Kagome defended herself. Inuyasha chuckled. Kagome scowled at him.

“Hey! I'm putting my heart on my sleeve here and you're laughing at me!” she half shouted at him. He shook his head,

“No your heart isn't on your sleeve… there would be blood on it if it was! And clearly there is no blood so there is no heart and so your heart isn't on your sleeve…. Now continue.” Inuyasha joked as he inspected the sleeve of her shirt. Kagome pulled her arm out of his grasp and rolled her eyes.

“I'm done now!” she said exasperatedly. Inuyasha chuckled again and pulled her up out of the chair. They walked out of the gym and up to the elevator. Inuyasha was getting impatient waiting for it though.

“Ok… here's the deal. I'm going to take the stairs and you take the elevator and I'll meet you up there ok?” Inuyasha said. Kagome rolled her eyes and agreed. Inuyasha took off up the stairs and Kagome got on the elevator. Kagome stood there tapping her toe for 30 seconds then the elevator came. She dove into it and pressed the button for her floor. Little did she know but Inuyasha was already