InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Jungle Gym Affair ❯ Chapter Three ( Chapter 3 )

Kikyou glanced at the girl from the corner of an eye, trying to keep her focus on the road. Kagome had been under her care since she was a small child, and her parents saw no need in hiring a nanny when their cook was already on the payroll. Kagome had taken an immediate liking to Kikyou since she had began working for them when the young girl was only three.

"Kagome, you still haven't told me what's going on," she reminded her, not expecting her to answer.

Kagome sighed, and pressed her forehead against the cool glass of the car window. It was one of hers - her mother had bought it for her a year ago, not realizing Kagome wouldn't be able to drive it for at least another year. She scowled at the imprint she left on the window, and made a mental note to get it washed later.

"Just keep going Kikyou, okay?" she said, noticing that the park was just up ahead.

Kikyou nodded, and kept going.

--

Inu-Yasha sat at the very top of the jungle gym, staring off into the opposite direction of Kagome's house. He couldn't take looking over at the small opening between the trees, as the illusion of Kagome kept running out at him. When he'd heard Kagome say she was pregnant, he'd been shocked...but he was happy.

The sound of a car approaching startled him a bit, but didn't shake him out of his depression. He knew whoever was in that car had to have much more money than he did. It was a Phaeton, he could tell. They were at least around 65 thousand, and he could tell this one had more than just the basics.

The blue-green car pulled to a halt next to his own dark red Ford Cobra convertible. The passenger door opened and his girlfriend got out of the car. She leaned over to say something to the driver, before slamming the door and running over to him.

"Inu-Yasha!"

He refused to meet her eyes, or even acknowledge her presence, but he knew that wouldn't be enough to get her to leave him alone. She began climbing up the jungle gym, refusing to be ignored.

"Inu-Yasha you idiot," she whispered, before launching herself at him, wrapping her arms tightly around his unmoved frame.

:"Inu-Yasha, I haven't slept with anyone else. The baby is yours you moron," she said, the cool she'd managed to keep fading away.

She knew he'd forgive her, and they'd laugh about how stupid he was - it wasn't that she doubted that. But telling Inu-Yasha this, suddenly made it all that much real. A real human life was growing inside of her.

"But, you said that.."

She cut him off with a sigh, and crawled into his lap, straddling him so that she could press her forehead against his.

"Inu-Yasha, they don't start counting from when you had sex, they count from your last period,"

He looked relieved, but he was still afraid. Kagome shook her head, before grinning slightly. She knew how to convince him.

"Besides," she whispered, maneuvering her hips just right above him, "you took my virginity, remember? You were my first, Inu-Yasha. My only."

He smirked at that, and wrapped his arms around her, "I'm sorry I'm such an idiot Kagome," he said, regretting his actions, "I should have trusted in you."

She shook her head, and kissed his cheek, before backing out of his lap and climbing off of the jungle gym.

"That's okay," she called up to him, "you're just not used to trusting people. Now, if you do something like this a few years from now, we may have a problem, but...I can forgive you now. Besides, who knows when I'll actually get you to admit you're wrong about something again? This is a cause for celebration."

He grinned back at her, and climbed down as well.

"So...who's the broad staring at us?" he asked, glancing over in Kikyou's direction.

Kagome gasped, and buried her head into Inu-Yasha's shoulder, as she realized she just put on a mini-display in front of the woman that pretty much raised her.

"Um, that would be Kikyou" she said, "our cook."

He grinned at the blushing girl next to him, and decided to mess around with her a bit. He lifted her up and threw her over his shoulder, before marching over to the woman beside the car.

"Pleased to meet you Kikyou," he grinned and held out his hand, "I'm Inu-Yasha."

Kikyou raised an eyebrow at the boy, but shook his hand none-the-less. Inu-Yasha let Kagome down and grinned at her.

"Inu-Yasha, you shouldn't do that!"

"Why not?" he asked, "I won't be able to in a few months, right?"

Kikyou suppressed a grin. 'So, Kagome has finally gotten a boyfriend, huh? I was beginning to wonder...'

"You can go on home Kikyou," Kagome said, "I'm going with Inu-Yasha."

She looked at Kagome doubtfully for a second, before smiling and nodding. She trusted her to make good decisions, and in the end, it wasn't really up to her anyway. 'Besides' she thought, 'I should let her have fun before her parents break the news to her.'

"Ah, Kagome, your parents have moved Souta's trip back a bit. Stop by in the next couple of days, why don't you? It is your home after all, and...your parents need to talk to you."

Kagome looked worried, "Is it serious?"

'Yes,'

"It can wait Kagome...but come home for awhile, okay?"

Kagome nodded, and flashed Kikyou a grin, "No problem! See ya later."

The two parties got in their cars, and drove in opposite directions, and into different worlds.

-

She waited outside the door, listening to what was happening inside. The sounds of labored breathing and incomprehensible words and phrases being moaned out left no doubt in her mind as to just what Inu-Yasha Taisho was doing in there with the heiress to the Higurashi fortune.

She smirked, before taping the letter to the door and stalking off. According to her sources, the penthouse belonging to the Higurashi family had only been used twice recently, both times by Kagome. 'Must mean he doesn't have any other pressing matters' she thought, before picking up her cell phone and dialing her boss's number as she snuck down the fire escape stairs.

"Hey, Jakken, it's Rin, send me through."

-

Inu-Yasha smirked down at Kagome, who was trying desperately to catch her breath. The two of them had driven almost immediately to the penthouse, and Kagome had made a call telling the staff not to bother them for the rest of the day. His smirk widened as he thought 'I do believe I've just been ravaged,'

"Again Inu-Yasha," Kagome said, nuzzling against his neck.

"Again," he agreed, "and then we can get something to eat, hmm?"

Kagome's head shot up, as she remembered the food she'd made that Sango and Miroku had no doubt already finished by now. 'Those would have been sooo good!' she thought sadly.

"Food! Yes, let's eat now!" she cried out, running from the bedroom, into the kitchen.

"But..." Inu-Yasha said, looking down at the spot where his girlfriend had just been laying, "I thought we were going to do that after-"

He was cut off by the sound of his own stomach growling, and he sighed. 'I guess there's no helping it.'

-

'Inu-Yasha..'

The ringing of his private phone line snapped him out of his daydream, causing him to snap his back up rigidly as he answered the phone.

"Hello?"

"...ga...It's...can you...Rin! Bastard...wouldn't...blame Jakken...but..I just...your letter...se...a..ouga!"

He blinked, trying to string together what Rin had said. He knew it was something regarding the letter he'd instructed her to send Inu-Yasha, but an annoying static noise broke up most of her message. He did understand one part clearly though.

'Blame Jakken '

"Jakken!" he bellowed, knowing his assistant would run in soon, probably scattering a few papers along the way.

'As long as he picks them up again,' he smirked to himself.

"Yes! Can I help you sir?!" Jakken cried out, before tripping over his feet in front of his boss's desk.

"Yes. Why did I just get a call from Rin on my private line, where the only discernable words were 'Blame Jakken'?"

The man gulped, knowing he would probably be getting in a lot of trouble for this if he didn't have a good explanation. From the look on his boss's face, there probably wasn't one good enough.

"Well, sir, you see, I didn't know that you wanted her call to come through. You know Rin, sometimes she's been known to use the phone lines for unprofessional reasons..."

"I'm well aware of her calls to Sesshomaru, Mr. Jakken. Those are none of your business. Rin has a much higher position than you do, both in this company, and in my personal life. I'd suggest you don't question her again. Now, did she say why she was calling?"

"Yes, yes sir! Something about delivering a letter, and wanting you to know everything went smoothly."

'Ah, good. It's only a matter of time, Inu-Yasha,'

"Good. Leave me Jakken."

-

Inu-Yasha watched in amusement as Kagome went back and forth from searching the refrigerator to kissing him, with most of her ill-aimed pecks landing everywhere but his lips. Finally, she gave up on her search for something edible.

"We never keep any real food here. We don't come often, so most of it is stuff that will last a long time. We tend to eat out here. But I don't feel like ordering room service," she whined.

"Why not, isn't it easier than trying to make something decent in here?"

She scowled, "Yeah right! And have to deal with those bitter busboys and room service maids? Keh. Ooh! I know, you can run out and get us something!" she said happily, clasping her hands together and looking at him hopefully.

He barely glanced at her puppy eyes before slumping his shoulders and resignation. 'No use fighting it' he thought, 'I'm a gonner.'

"Alright baby, what do you want?"

"Hmm...DONUTS! The glazed kind, that have chocolate on them, with rainbow sprinkles. And the regular glazed kind too. With chocolate sprinkles. Aaaand...ooh, those kind that have the fruit stuff inside! I want a lemon one! Oh! And one of those sausages in the bread."

Inu-Yasha blinked, before deciding to grab a pencil and paper and take notes.

"Uh...Kagome, you do know that it's fairly late in the afternoon, right?" he asked.

She looked at him with a classic 'So what?' expression on her face, and he shook his head. He'd find a donut shop that was open, if only because she wanted him to. 'I mean, there has to be at least one, right?'

Kagome watched him leave, and her eyes widened when she realized that he had-

"HOLY FUCK!" he screamed, running back in the penthouse.

She tried her hardest to suppress a giggle as Inu-Yasha ran back to the bedroom to grab his clothes. While he was in the bedroom, searching for the clothing that had been thrown in random directions, Kagome noticed something quite out of place - a letter taped to the door.

She grabbed it off of the door - there was no name on it, and she wondered if it could be from the staff. After all, she had told them not to bother her. The sneaking suspicion in the back of her mind however, did not quite believe that. There was nothing written on it, not even a name, much less any hotel insignia.

She opened the envelope with hesitation, almost as if it could be one of those Howlers from the Harry Potter series (not that she read them, of course), but when she pulled the letter inside of it out, it was still just a regular piece of paper, and the apartment was as quiet as before, until Inu-Yasha came back into the room.

"Inu-Yasha..." she said, before he could get back out of the door.

"Yeah, what else do you need?" he asked, still embarrassed about his indecent exposure earlier.

"You've got a letter," she said simply.

At first Inu-Yasha didn't see anything wrong with the situation, especially not anything that would be so wrong as to make Kagome's face as pale as it was. But then he realized one important fact: no one knew he was there. Even better, aside from Sango and Miroku, who were most definitely clueless as to their location, no one cared or knew Inu-Yasha enough to bother sending him a letter.

He wanted to toss it out right away, but Kagome had already began reading it.

"Dear Inu-Yasha," she began, "I know you don't know me, but I can imagine that we'll be getting to see each other a lot soon. You might want to sit down - you too Kagome - because I've got a lot to say here."

A/N: I've been informed that counts as a cliffhanger. Sorry! ^^