InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Jungle Gym Affair ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

Kagome held her boyfriend in her arms, wondering what she was going to do. Inu-Yasha was in a state of confusion, as was she, but she knew it was much harder for him. His father had been murdered. He'd returned home from one of their evening meetings and found his father laying dead in the living room. The memories of finding his mother that same way had flooded him, and left him frozen in the doorway for a good five minutes.

The first thing he did was dial Kagome on her cell phone. She had just reached the gates of her family estate when the ring she had designated solely to Inu-Yasha went off from her purse.

"Inu-Yasha?" she answered, unsure why he was calling her so soon after they'd parted.

"Kagome..Kagome.." he couldn't say anything aside from that, but he didn't need to.

Kagome immediately turned around and took off toward his house. She'd been there a few times whenever his father wasn't around, but that was enough to have the place memorized. She ran faster than she ever had before, not knowing what could have happened to Inu-Yasha to make him sound so desperate.

At first she thought his father may have hit him, but if her calculations were right, Inu-Yasha had just gotten home. 'Maybe he got hurt on the way...' she thought, as she picked up her speed. She was already out of the park that they would spend their nights in, and she'd entered the rather run down neighborhood on the other side.

Within seconds she was at Inu-Yasha's open door. The scene that greeted her took her breath away, and made her knees buckle. The furniture was turned over, and his living room was a mess. Inu-Yasha sat by the phone, staring blankly into space, and laying in the middle of the room, was Inu-Yasha's father, Naraku Akunohihi.

And he was dead.

There were bullet holes in the walls, and there was blood pouring out of what Kagome knew had to be several bullet wounds.

She ran to Inu-Yasha, taking the phone from his hands and hanging it up. She ran her fingers through his hair, and snapped him out of his trance.

"Kagome..." he clung to her, burying his head in her shoulder.

She let him cry, knowing he needed to. As he sobbed, she reached for the phone, and dialed 911, beginning to talk before the operator could even ask what her emergency was.

"I," she said, before looking around her and choking back her own sob, "I need to report a murder. My boyfriend, his father, he's dead! Someone's killed him! We're at 1244 Winter Lane. You have to come now!"

She slammed the phone back down on its base, and held Inu-Yasha. She'd never seen a dead body before. She hadn't even seen a crime scene. She closed her eyes and tried to block out the blood and the dead body laying only feet away from her.

The police arrived, questioning them, but it went by in such a blur, neither of them really remembered the questioning afterwards. Kagome made a note to bring Inu-Yasha in to the station with her the next day for a formal report, and to ask where he planned on staying tonight, but she shoved the memos to the back of her mind in favor of comforting her boyfriend.

Inu-Yasha was torn. He wanted to be happy. He was free. The man who had made his life a living hell was gone. But he was dead. Dead. Even Inu-Yasha could not be happy that a man had died, no matter how much he wished for it every day.

He remembered Naraku before he started drinking, but barely. Naraku had taken up the habit when his wife Izayoi died. Both of the men were devastated at her death, but Naraku took it harder than even Inu-Yasha had. He was only four at the time, and at first he thought she'd be coming back. By time he realized what death really was, his mother had been gone for quite some time. In that sense, he never got to mourn for his mother.

"They're both gone," he said, as he realized that he was now completely alone in the world.

Kagome wrapped her arms around his torso, and as if she'd read his mind she told him, "You're not alone Inu-Yasha. So don't think that for a minute."

He nodded, and put his normal smirk back on and let his hands wander down Kagome's back. She sighed and looked the boy in the eye.

"It's never too late to mourn Inu-Yasha." she said seriously.

She knew he was upset. He wasn't going to talk about it, or face it, but he would. He would have to. She pulled her arms back and stepped out of his hold.

"So, where are you staying tonight?"

"Ah, with my friend Miroku. He has an apartment downtown." he answered, reaching in his pocket to see if he had the keys to his car.

"Want me to come with you?" Kagome asked, not wanting to leave him just yet.

"Would you? Your parents wouldn't mind or anything?" he asked, looking at her unsurely. He didn't want her to get in trouble.

"Pssh. They're not even home. They'll be back tomorrow afternoon, and then they're taking Souta to Europe for a week. They're trying to 'nuture' his so called skills."

He grinned as he grabbed onto his car keys, and led her to his car. Kagome motioned one of the investigators over to the car with a wave of her hand.

"Hi! We're going to be staying downtown tonight. You need us at the station at five tomorrow, right?" she asked.

The man ran a shaky hand through his red hair, and Kagome could tell he was probably a rookie.

"Um, yeah. Five is good, that's what they said."

Kagome smiled at him, before opening the car door and jumping in. She fumbled around in the dark trying to buckle her seat belt, trying not to let her mind wander to other things. Lately, she'd been so afraid she was going to say something to Inu-Yasha that she wasn't really sure she should.

She remembered that she'd almost let it slip a month before when he'd ran into her at the business district.

-

"Hey Kagome!" he said, running up beside her.

She jumped up, managing to suppress a scream. She turned and saw her boyfriend standing beside her, grinning from ear to ear. She smacked him on the arm playfully, before putting her hands on her hips and glaring at him.

"And just what do you think you're doing sneaking up on me like that?" she asked, hoping that he wouldn't notice what really had her so upset.

"I was just hanging around down here taking my car for a test drive." he said defensively.

"Oh, cool! Now you can show it to me, right?" she asked hopefully.

Inu-Yasha had been talking about his car for a week, but had neglected to drive it to the park, for fear of waking his dad by starting the engine. Kagome had been curious to see what his new most prized possession looked like.

He displayed the attention-grabbing red coloured car to her with a sweep of his hand, and Kagome smirked at it, a habit she'd picked up from Inu-Yasha.

"So," she said, walking around it and looking it up and down, "I take it you're the new one in my man's life. Hmm. You know, he's taken up valuable amounts of our time talking about you? How pretty you are, how fast you can go, how good you feel. Well, you don't look that special to me."

She giggled at herself, and Inu-Yasha grinned at her.

"Ya know Kagome, you're pretty at night, but you're even prettier in the daylight."

She blushed at the unexpected compliment, but she realized for the first time that this was in fact the first time the two of them had seen each other during the day. She took a closer look at him, and noted the things she couldn't quite make out in the dark.

"And you look happier," she said.

"Wanna go for a ride then? Or do you have to go back home?" he asked.

"I'm free for the whole day," she said, "so let's go!"

-

Kagome blushed as she remembered that they hadn't gone very far before she was giving him directions to her family's penthouse downtown. The crimson stain on her cheeks darkened when she remembered how they'd spent their time.

She suppressed the thoughts that surfaced and focused instead on the road ahead of her. She wasn't sure where she was going. Inu-Yasha had mentioned in passing that he had some friends that rented an apartment downtown, and that he'd sometimes crash at their place when he needed to get away from home, and she supposed that one of them was the Miroku that he had mentioned earlier.

She was tired, but she knew that they'd probably arrive at Miroku's in minutes, and that she only had that much longer to go before she could sleep. She only had so much longer to go before she would be able to rest.

"Kagome? Kagome snap out of it, we're here." she heard Inu-Yasha whisper.

She looked up and saw herself in front of an fairly familiar apartment complex. She remembered driving past it with her father on a few occasions, watching the people on the balconies and their back patios, and wishing she could join them.

Inu-Yasha drove into the lot, before parking in front of one of the many buildings. The one he'd parked in front of was labeled with a large "04". He turned the car off, and unbuckled his seatbelt. She followed his lead, still in the trance she went into when she was half asleep and being brought to a new place.

She followed behind him, not having a clue which of the four doors she was expected to be going into. He walked up to '403' and knocked once before yanking a key out of his pocket and unlocking the door.

"Miroku? Sango? I'm staying at your place tonight." he shouted as he tossed his coat on one of the chairs.

A disgruntled male voice came from somewhere above her and yelled back down, "Then sleep on the couch as usual you ass."

"Aww, Miroku," Inu-Yasha said sarcastically, "you know, it's those kinds of comments that make me think you guys just don't love me. Besides, I can't take the couch, I've got a guest."

This time it was a female voice that screamed down, "A guest? Inu-Yasha, this is not a place to hide the bodies."

Kagome winced at how loud they were being, wondering if they were going to wake up any neighbors. Inu-Yasha noticed how she shifted and wrapped an arm around her.

"My little princess. So delicate. YO SANGO? WHY ARE YOU IN MIROKU'S ROOM?"

Inu-Yasha snickered as his girlfriend glared at him and punched him in the arm. When what sounded like an argument drifted down from upstairs, he grabbed Kagome's arm, and led her up the staircase with a grin.

There were two doors - one was open, revealing a bathroom, and the other was shut. Kagome assumed it was a bedroom, and when her boyfriend swung the door open she saw that she was right. What she also saw was a young woman who looked to be about twenty or so, trying to untangle herself from a mass of sheets and a man of about twenty-three. And they were both naked. She let out a squeal and hid herself behind Inu-Yasha, not looking at the couple, though she was a bit curious.

But not curious enough to look at the two of them as they argued, unlike her brazen boyfriend, who stood laughing at the both of them.

"You two are such dorks," he said, before grabbing Kagome's hand and turning around again, "I'll be sleeping in your room then Sango."

She followed him out of the room, and couldn't help but give them a backward glance, and blushed out of relief when she saw they were both appropriately covered this time. Inu-Yasha was the first boy she'd ever seen naked, and that was just once. Their interludes at the park usually required keeping most of their clothes on in case they needed to part quickly - and that was in the dark. She'd only really gotten a good look at him when she spent the afternoon with him in the penthouse.

She blinked as she realized Inu-Yasha had gotten her down the stairs and into what appeared to be Sango's bedroom. It was neat - too neat.

"Well," Inu-Yasha said, running his finger along a dresser, which was collecting dust, "I guess she's been sleeping with him for awhile. Aw, do you blush at everything Kagome? I never noticed that in the dark."

He advanced on her, letting his hand wander up her side, grinning as he watched her lean into him. She frowned though, and pushed back from him, looking up at him accusingly.

"Inu-Yasha, your dad just died. We can't have sex on the same night that your father died!"

He sighed, and pulled her back into him, wrapping his arms around her frame tightly, "I don't see why not. My father died the first time he hit me. He's been dead for years Kagome. So, let's get it on."

She rolled her eyes at him, and gave him a peck on the cheek.

"Fine, you may be horny, but after all that blood, there's no way I could get in the mood," she said, walking past him and looking at the bed.

It was a full, so there would be enough room for both her and Inu-Yasha to sleep on it comfortably. 'You could do a lot of stuff on there comfortably' the perverted part of her mind that Inu-Yasha had caused to develop snickered. She resisted the urge to groan. She had lied to Inu-Yasha - she was entirely in the mood even as she spoke. But she didn't feel comfortable knowing that she would be having sex with her boyfriend not even an hour after finding his father dead. The thought freaked her out, but did nothing to subside the slight needing feeling she felt.

"So, what am I supposed to sleep in?" she asked.

Inu-Yasha looked thoughtful, before grinning, "Well, you're about Sango's size, but you've got bigger boobs, so any of her clothes would probably be too tight on you and you'd stretch them out. So you can wear one of my shirts."

He walked over to the closet and yanked out a top that looked like it was big even on him. He tossed it to Kagome and smirked.

"You know, come to think of it, I've never slept next to you before. Wouldn't it be fun to make love together and fall asleep in each other's arms?" he asked hopefully, while giving her a perverted look.

"Inu-Yasha, I never knew you were so damned horny," Kagome snickered as she peeled her t-shirt off and put his on quickly, not giving him a chance to let his stare linger on her partially exposed breasts.

"Yeah, I'm turning into a regular Miroku," he said, frowning at how quickly Kagome had gotten her shirt off.

"Eh? Miroku's a pervert?" she asked, unbuttoning her jeans and laying them down next to her shirt.

"Total pervert. I should warn you, he has a habit of letting his mind wander...and his hand."

"His hand?"

Inu-Yasha smirked, "Yeah, his hands. He gropes women. You want a demonstration?"

"That's okay Inu-Yasha, I get the gist of it."

Kagome pulled thick comforter down from the bed and crawled under it. She watched as Inu-Yasha threw his clothes off, not even putting them in a messy pile, but tossing them in different directions letting them lay wherever they fell.

"So, tell me more about your friends Inu-Yasha," she said, hoping to keep him on that topic.

'I suppose it is a bit wrong to punish him for not being able to cope properly, but...'

"Well," Inu-Yasha began, not letting the smirk leave his face as he told her about Miroku and Sango. He knew what she was trying to do. 'I won't be so easily deterred,' he thought. He knew Kagome thought that he should deal with his father's death, but he realized he wasn't really sad. He'd never had a bond with Naraku, and he never really loved him. Besides, it was like Kagome said. He wasn't alone.

And so what if he was replacing any need to mourn with sex? He let his hand travel down Kagome's body and suppressed a snicker as she shivered. Didn't seem so bad to him.

-

The two of them didn't wake up until three the next afternoon. Kagome woke first, stretching a bit and glaring at Inu-Yasha for breaking her resolve the night before. 'I can resist you Inu-Yasha, but I can't deny you.' She looked around trying to find where he'd thrown the shirt she was wearing, but she couldn't find it. She sighed, before remembering that she'd put her clothes by the bed, and she could just re-wear them.

Inu-Yasha woke just in time to see her tugging her shirt back down. He was going to make a fuss at her for not letting him watch, but he had a better idea. He left his eyes closed, and controlled his breathing, knowing Kagome would think that he was still sleeping. Maybe he'd get something interesting from this...

Kagome slid back in bed next to him, and ran her fingers down the side of his face. He really did look so much different when it wasn't nighttime. He always seemed so much more guarded at night - probably because he was, after all...the environment was so much different when there was light shed upon it.

"You're so cute," she whispered, as he stuck out his bottom lip, only to scream when his eyes shot open and his lips had pulled into a feral grin.

"So are you," he said, snickering at his girlfriend who had obviously been shocked.

"Don't..EVER...do that again Inu-Yasha. NEVER!" she screamed, throwing a pillow at him.

"Oh," he said, grabbing the pillow and beginning to advance on her, "I don't think you want to start a pillow fight with me little girl."

Kagome grinned, already recovered from her scare, and grabbed another pillow, "Why, 'cause I don't want to see my boyfriend lose?"

"Because if you two don't tell us why you're here, and who she is, it's going to be two on two, and even Inu-Yasha can't beat Sango here at a pillow fight," Miroku said from the doorway, "I'm sure the fact that Inu-Yasha is also ass-naked doesn't help matters either."

Inu-Yasha through his pillow at Miroku, and Kagome shut the door, allowing Inu-Yasha to pull on his boxers and his jeans before opening the door for the couple on the other side.

"So," Sango said, "I'm only going to ask once, and once only. What happened this time? If your dad hit you again, I don't know if I'm going to be able to hold off from calling the police this time Inu-Yasha. And who's your...friend?"

"Sango, I'd like you to meet Kagome. Kagome, this is Sango and Miroku, my two best friends. Kagome is my girlfriend." Inu-Yasha said as he searched for his shirt.

"Girlfriend? Aww! Yashy's first girlfriend!" Miroku said mockingly, earning him a glare from the boy.

"How long have you been together?" Sango asked curiously.

"Well..um..we met six months ago," Kagome said, realizing she wasn't quite sure when she'd became Inu-Yasha's girlfriend.

'Yeah,' she said to herself, 'would it be when we kissed or after I had sex with him on the jungle gym?' She thought better of mentioning her doubts outloud though.

"SIX MONTHS?" Miroku and Sango asked together.

"You didn't tell them?" she asked him, frowning a bit.

"I did, they just weren't listening. Not my fault." Inu-Yasha responded, finally spotting his shirt on Sango's dresser.

"Ready to go Kagome?" he asked.

She nodded, and followed Inu-Yasha who led her out of the room.

"You didn't answer the other question." Miroku said pointedly, beginning to worry.

"Oh yeah, about that," Inu-Yasha said, opening the door for Kagome, "my dad died."

The door slammed as Sang and Miroku processed what he'd just said, a perfect symbol of how the news had hit them.

"Dead? You don't think..." Sango said, trailing off, not wanting to finish her sentence.

"That he killed him? Maybe." Miroku said, looking concerned.

"I was going to ask if you thought he was serious, but way to make a bad situation worse Miroku," Sango said, hitting his arm and sighing into the air.

"Either way," Miroku said, looking at the front door, "I hope he's going to be alright."

-

Kagome and Inu-Yasha stepped out of the station and were greeted by several reporters, cameras, and microphones.

"Inu-Yasha Akunohihi, we've heard from a reliable source that you were the first to witness the murder of your father, is this true?" one of them asked.

Another one had advanced on Kagome, "You're Sen Higurashi's daughter, right?"

"You're the one that made the 911 phone call, yes?"

"What was it like to see your father's body?"

"Do you have any idea who could be responsible for this?"

Inu-Yasha was beginning to look overwhelmed, and angry. Kagome looked at him apprehensively - he looked like he was about to hurt someone. In this case, KAgome didn't think she'd mind so much, but she didn't thnk it would be wise for him to do so on camera.

-

He turned on the television and switched it to the news.

"LEAVE HIM ALONE YOU JERKS!" a girl was screaming at the cameras.

"His father just died last night, and you're being a bunch of insensitive-"

He snickered as the camera turned to the reporter, but it died in his throat at the woman's words.

"And that's the latest we have from Inu-Yasha Akunohihi on the murder of his father Naraku. This is Mary-Jane Bellums from the Sengoku Police Station, Bob and Karen, back to you."

"Inu-Yasha...you're still alive?"

A/N: Well, another chapter put up here at Media Miner. Yay? There are three chapters and a prologue so far, and I'm starting the fourth chapter already. XD

Zelix: Thank you, I think. (The word 'Heh' tends to throw me off ^^; )

Coca: Thanks. ^^; I didn't especially like the lemon but I'm glad you did.

YasashiiAme: "Eager" Aww, that made me happy.