InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Therapy of Each Other ❯ Vocal Training & Video Tapes ( Chapter 12 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

AN: I dunno why I have a fire for this story again. I'm sure none of you are arguing, ne? I officially announce “Time for the growth of fluffiness to commence”… I'm going to try not to rush it to much, but make it still sweet/ cute/ gushy…LOLOL

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Chapter 10-11 (too even the chapter numbers)

Vocal Training & Video Tapes

2 weeks of walk therapy had passed. Though Kagome still can not walk on her own, Inuyasha had gradually graduated her to the walker. Sango and Miroku informed him that since she was on the walker to focus on her speech, which he had to admit he was slacking off greatly. In time of Speech Therapy, he'd cook up some popcorn and sit by Kagome's bed in a chair while she lay in bed and they'd quietly eat popcorn and watch movies together on Kagome's wall-mounted T.V. The back of his mind, which was still fighting with him about his past lust for hatred rationalized the less he spent contact with her, the better.

Kagome lay in bed and looked at picture books that Kirara had given to her and occasionally read to her. She looked at the pictures and the characters of the letters. They were basic Hiragana and a few 3-5 stroked Kanji here and there, but not without Hiragana above it to tell what it was. Kagome did not know how to read yet. They were more concerned on her speech. She turned the page and noticed a white dog with white, pointy ears. She touched them softly and said,

“Inuyasha…”

“What?”

She dropped the book and looked at him in utter surprise. He said in a low, almost mono-toned voice,

“Sorry, didn't mean to scare you.”

She looked at the cards in his hand and recognized them and gave a small sigh. He said,

“I know, I know, but Kirara and Sango have caught us and will not let us off anymore. So sit up so I have some room.”

She sat up as straight as she could and crossed her legs and Inuyasha sat acrossed from her, knees touching. She felt so comfortable with him. She felt a warm smile come acrossed her face. He was her very best friend and so much more. She had grown more aware of his mad moods and his temper, but she had grown used to it by now. She sighed and he looked up from shuffling the cards to meet her warm smile. He paused.

“What?”

Her smile remained as she shook her head as in saying “Nothing”

Inuyasha looked around then said.

"Ok, let's get started."

Kagome's face straightened as she cleared her throat, showing Inuyasha that she was determined to learn. He flipped through and found a word. He held the card up.

“Train”

Kagome looked nervous.

Inuyasha sighed and thought `here we go again' but tried again. He pointed at his mouth,

“Watch my mouth. TRRRR-AIIII-NNN”

Kagome licked her lips, which tensed Inuyasha, but he remained focused. She didn't make a sound but her mouth tried to imitate his. Her lips clumsily moved and her tongue seemed to trip over itself, which made her frustrated. Inuyasha was just memorized by her mouth, but encouraged her,

“It's ok, keep trying.”

She took a big breath and tried it again.

“TUW…TUWA…TT…RRR”

Inuyasha sighed and said,

“Let's try another.”

He flipped through the cards. He said,

“You can say my name, why nothing else?”

She wished she could answer that. In her mind she thought, `because you are the only thing on my mind'.

He straightened up and held up a card,

“Ok, try this one. Mizu (water)”

Kagome nodded and tried again.

“MMM…MMM…”

She got frustrated. Inuyasha once again made her watch his mouth,

“Mi-Zuuuu. Miii-zuuu”

Kagome sighed and surprised Inuyasha when she had an idea. He knew she was a “hands on” learner, but this was almost drawing the line. She scooted more toward him and put her fingers on his lips. He panicked and paused and said as he felt his face heat up and his breath shorten. Her touch was silky soft on his lips, he even had the stray thought of

`if her fingers are this soft, how soft are her lips' but he ignored it.

“Ano…What are you…”

She furrowed her eyebrows and pointed to the card. He nodded quickly and said it slowly as Kagome had her fingers study his lips and her eyes studied his tongue. Breathlessly almost, he repeated,

“MMMii-ZZuu”

He was bright pink from her intent eyes on his mouth. He had to fight his eyes from closing under her sweet touch on his seemingly sensitive lips and the few stray thoughts of kissing her, which he tried to shush. She placed her other hand on her lips and tested it. Finally she tried it.

“MMMM”

Inuyasha started to repeat,

“MIIII. MIIIIII”

She softly began to repeat it softly,

“MIIII…MIIIIIII”

She smiled and Inuyasha blushed furiously when the hand she used to touch her own lips, she placed on his lips, but he began,

“ZZZZUUUU. ZZZUUU”

If you've ever heard a Japanese “U” is sounds extremely detuned and almost silent. This was hard for Kagome to get so her face got closer to his to get a closer look at inside his mouth. Under normal conditions, Inuyasha would be frightened off, but he couldn't help but just…stay…even enjoy it. He almost began to pant as he felt her breath on his face. Kagome began to look a bit concerned. She did not know better. Finally she said,

“ZUUU- ZUUU”

Inuyasha nodded, and then she said it.

“Mi-zu…Mi-zu… MIZU! MIZU! ”

Inuyasha felt a burst of excitement fill him,

“You did it! You said it!”

Kagome got excited and jumped and laughed and for the first time ever, she heard Inuyasha laugh. She paused a moment at this, but saw this as great and with a squeal jumped from her knees and tackled him with a hug, flying him backward onto the bed, an excited Kagome holding him tightly, excitingly saying,

“Inuyasha! Mizu! ”

Inuyasha felt a bit uncomfortable, but this was her triumph. He didn't know really where it came from, but he threw his arms around her tightly, one hand on her lower back and one between her shoulder blades his fingers intertwined with her silky hair and he gently breathed into her ear after instinctively breathing in her sweet scent, sending a shiver through her that startled her for a moment.

“Yes, Kagome… You did it…”

She rose up just enough to look as him with a big smile , his shimmering, amber eyes trapped in her cobalt-tinted brown eyes before they heard something at the door. They looked to see a surprised. They saw but a sly - looking Miroku. They just stared at him before he said,

“Well, Inuyasha.. I'm glad you learnt, but I didn't know you'd take it this far!”

Inuyasha just growled at him and he left. Kagome looked at him absolutely clueless and Inuyasha pushed himself and her up off him. His heart was raising as he looked at her surprised look. He then had a new thought as he looked into her clueless look,

`Why does she have to be so innocent?' As he was recomposing himself and Kagome, Miroku was walking down the hall with “the sly look”. Sango caught him and looked worried,

“What is it?”

He smiled at her and said.

“I don't think you'll have to worry about Inuyasha hurting Kagome anymore.”

Sango panicked and fled down the hall yelling,

“Inuyasha! Kagome! Don't…”

She raced around the corner into Kagome's room to see them normally doing calm therapy. Inuyasha growled,

“Don't do what?”

Sango got a sweat drop,

“Nothing”

and left. Kagome and Inuyasha looked at each other and he chuckled as she giggled, but blushing.

Inuyasha sat in the garden by himself, watching the watch to see when he was to pick Kagome up from "Group". He leaned against a huge maple tree and sighed. His thoughts filled with Kagome. He had only had only a month and a half left. What will happen between now and then and even beyond? Would he have to wean himself from her? She seemed to only respond to him. And what about last evening when she said "Mizu" and pounced onto him? He wanted to forget and put in the furthest corner of his mind that it...not for a better word...aroused him. He shuddered. Since when was Kagome able to arouse him in body or heart? Even just thinking about the event, as innocent as it and she was, made him feel heated and shaky. He sighed,

"Miroku's right..."

He admitted it, but to his surprise he heard a,

"Of course I was"

Inuyasha jumped and looked up to Miroku, who was settling to sit by him.

"Miroku! You bastard! Don't scare me like that!"

Miroku sighed,

"Sorry. But I was right, ne? About Kagome-san?"

Inuyasha sighed.

"Yah."

Miroku smiled, but got a smirk and asked,

"What was that yesterday?"

Inuyasha glared at him and growled,

"Nothing. She got excited that she said her first word."

"Besides Inuyasha."

Inuyasha looked up in the tree branches.

"Hai, besides Inuyasha."

Then they heard giggling and laughing. They looked over to see Kagome's group on the nearby lawn. He held his breath as Kagome spotted at him and waved childishly at him. He gave a small wave back. Miroku looked at him.

"Well, it seems that you are the only one she truly sees when you are around."

Inuyasha cringed a bit and said,

"Keh"

But he continued to watch her. He looked somewhat depressed. Miroku asked,

"What's wrong?"

Inuyasha sighed,

"Just look at her."

Kagome was sitting on the lawn, playing with butterfly streamers they made in Arts and Craft, giggling and having the eyes like a small child. Miroku looked back to his intent eyes.

"What? What about her, except her being cute?"

Inuyasha glared at him,

"Watch it!"

Miroku sighed and asked again,

"What's so wrong?"

Inuyasha sighed and said,

"Look at her....so innocent....so childish. When any type of "feelings" arise I feel sick like I'm some pedophile after a little girl. Sure she has a body...beautiful body...of a 16 year old girl, but her mind is so .....young."

Miroku rose a brow and smirked,

"So finally you put it behind you? Your past hatred?"

Inuyasha sighed.

"I fought as much as I can with it, but when she looks at me now....touches me now....it's like she's a new person with an old, familiar aura....And to tell the truth, I enjoy it."

He looked at the ground, mad at himself. Miroku sighed,

"You still fight it, deep inside. You've programmed your mind to hate her... but take a closer look at her."

Inuyasha looked up at Kagome, who made eye contact with him and smiled so sweet and innocently. Inuyasha's tension melted and he got a dreamy look. Miroku laughed,

"See? You really can't fight it anymore can you? You've realized you are her world...And you like it."

"That's why I want to be mad at her...That she did this.... over such a short period. It's not just her new look either, though I know it's shallow that's a huge part of it, but her innocence, her full reliance and trust on me....Like there's no one else on the planet."

As Inuyasha continued to stare at her, Kagome began to gush. Miroku laughed,

"Looks like her body and mind are remembering how to react to the man that she cares for most."

"Will you stop that!?"

He paused and remembered the sweet smell her body released yesterday...Pheromones. Females of almost all species release this smell when smitten or even aroused, but Kagome was too innocent to be the later... Then Miroku snapped him out of it,

"No...It's true and you know it! It upsets you that you enjoy it so much. She's so innocent and childish now, but it's fading. Before you know it, you can have her curled up lovingly in your arms."

Inuyasha sighed at the thought then shook his head,

"How are you so sure I want that?"

"Inuyasha...Just stop fighting it. You've fallen for her. Face it."

Inuyasha closed his eyes and sighed,

"I don't know if it's that simple....especially with her."

Kagome continued to play childishly and Inuyasha smirked. Miroku sighed,

"You know I shouldn't be telling you this...."

Inuyasha looked at him,

"Why?"

"Because patient-trainer relationships are against the rules."

Inuyasha sighed but paused when Miroku said,

"But... I think you both have a special case. It's her dependence and adoration of you that has made her progress many times faster then predicted or I've ever seen....This is very unusual for her type of injury to be progressing this fast. I've never seen anything like it...AND... You came in here a little juvvy with no heart and didn't care about anything but yourself."

"Hey!"

"Sorry, it's true, but you two are the best therapy for each other.... Just let her depend on you... And depend on her...And you still need to be nicer to her...She looks up to you so much."

Inuyasha sighed,

"I know....And...To be frankly honest...I don't mind."

Miroku got up and stretched.

"I have a beautiful car accident victim to train, so excuse me. Just remember what you are too her...and just stop fighting it... You need her as much as she needs you, but Jaa (see ya')"

And with that Miroku left. Inuyasha hated how much he made sense and the ideas he put in his head. He kept his eyes on Kagome.

"I need her as much as she needs me?"

He sighed as she smiled at him once more,

"Kagome...what have you done to me?"

Inuyasha strolled down the hallway to go to Kagome's room for something "special" Sango and Kaede wanted him to do with Kagome. His thoughts ran rampid in his mind. Why did she do this? He's been there for now 5 and 1/2 months. They passed like lightning, since he found himself the past 4 months to actually look forward to spending all day with Kagome. How did he hate her for years and then within a few short months he's fighting to want her to be his. His? What happened? Was it an instinct from his Canine Youkai blood that triggered some reaction? His human heart change over puberty to something more fragile. It drove him nuts trying to figure it out. He did feel kind of shallow, even for him, that her new body was a big part of it. It was so perfect and attractive. As a male he'd be crazy not to notice. He finally arrived into her room with video tapes piles on the table beside a napping Kagome. He read the note beside the tapes,

"These are Home videos of Kagome's past that her mother brought to her to help with her memory. They range from when she was 12-16, please stay with her to answer any questions she may have since you've known her in this time. Please play them in order,

Nurse Sango."

Inuyasha gulped very loudly. Did he want to watch these? Would they bring back memories that will change how he felt? But wait! Didn't he want those feelings back anyway? He smirked a bit, but looked at Kagome. She was asleep, peacefully. He couldn't help but to sit on the edge of the bed and look at her.

'So beautiful, innocent...So unlike the Kagome on these tapes.'

There was a strand of hair that fell over her nose and she began to twitch it. Inuyasha smiled to himself and lightly with his claw drew it away, tucking it behind her ear, but he felt bad when she opened her eyes slowly. He looked at her guilty,

"Sorry."

But that didn't stop her from scooting to him and holding him around his waist, her head snuggling into the side of his thigh as she sweetly whispered with a sweet smile,

"Hmmm...Inuyasha..."

Inuyasha began to sweat and feel a bit heated a bit especially when her pheromones release a light, sweet scent. He drew his clawed hand through her silky hair without any thought as he smiled,

"Kagome..."

She smiled and held him tighter, but he realized the scene and the tapes and he sighed down at her,

"Kagome, you have to let go of me. Your mother brought us some tapes to watch. They are of your past"

Sadly she gave him one last snuggle, which made him gulp and fight to breath. She sat up in bed and nodded sweetly, but kind of sad to him. She loved the times she got away with being able to hold him, he did too. But she still worried about the feelings she'd get when he was near. The shivers, heart pumping, tingling, the overwhelming feeling to want to get closer. Closer then close. Inuyasha popped in the first tape and the VCR began to play it as he sat down in the chair near her bed. He looked a bit sad he did not come back to her bed. Inuyasha tried to ignore it when an image he remembered all too well popped up on screen, which made him jerk in the memory of loathing. 12 year old Kagome sat in front of a cake. She was how he remembered her. Pudgy, glasses, braces, greasy hair and annoying laugh. He looked over at the puzzled Kagome and said lowly,

"That is you when you were younger."

Kagome looked at him in shock, pointed at the screen then to herself. He reverted his eyes back to the screen and nodded. Kagome felt confused. Inuyasha then saw something he recognized. Her left hand was in a cast. He had a flashback of him pinning her down as she screamed for help with a tear-stained face and he pummeled her handle with all his strength with a brick, right onto her hand. Inuyasha shook his head of the thought and saw yet another injury. A slash acrossed her cheek where he ran his pocketknife's blade. He looked over to Kagome and barely saw the scar. Kagome stared at the screen, her eyes big as it seemed she may have been registering it. Inuyasha asked,

"Remember any of this yet?"

She didn't answer. A panic ridden thought occurred,

'What is she remembers me? All the nasty stuff I did to her? Will she hate me?"

He squirmed and remained to watch the videos. On the 5th tape, Kagome was 14 and the plumpest she ever got. Inuyasha found himself feeling hatred and repulsiveness...mostly the memory of these feelings. But he was shocked to look at Kagome. She was hugging herself and would look down at herself. Inuyasha knew she was becoming self conscience and uncomfortable with herself and she brought her knees to her chest and looked over at him, almost embarrassed. Inuyasha just turned his head and continued to watch. Finally the 8th and last tape came. It was a long gap between her 15th birthday to a few weeks before school started, just two weeks before the accident. It was Kagome's Karate competition. She was a Brown belt. He gapped as the changed, firm, charismatic Kagome beat the crap out of many guys. His jaw dropped.

'Maybe I should be happy I wasn't able to bully her.'

He looked over at wide-eyed Kagome, out of her insecurity ball. She recognized herself. She smiled at how powerful she was, but seemed puzzled when it was 'her' that stood up straight and talked clear and fast. Inuyasha felt his heartstrings pulled when he noticed her sad face.

'She's depressed now'

He couldn't help but say,

“'Don't worry, You'll be kicking guys butts in no time and speed talking.”

But his focus went back to the TV as it was a video of Cheerleading practice. Kagome tumbled and flew through the air with ease as she was tossed about like a living hackysack. Inuyasha could not believe what he saw. It was a totally different Kagome then usual anyway. Inuyasha slapped himself for regretting not being able to take that challenge he looked so forward too. He looked back at the Real Life Kagome as she stared. He asked again,

"Do you remember anything on these tapes?"

His heart shifted and skipped a beat when she gave a nodded and then shrugged,

"Some?"

He asked. She nodded. He didn't know what to do. Be happy for her, or be scared for him. He gulped and hesitantly asked,

"Do you remember me? Back then?"

To his relief she shook her head. The only thing she remembers about him is him hovering above her, his amber eyes filled with slight worry. It was outside and night.

The tape finally went blank and he quickly got up to put it on rewind. He looked down at her in her bed. She looked confused. He was worked up about seeing the past her, but this last tape calmed him down a bit. She looked up at him, like she was waiting for some answers. All Inuyasha could do or say was sigh and say,

"Just sleep now. Let it seep in, I know it was a lot to go into your mind. I'll get you in the morning."

She watched him, confused as he said,

"Good night" and rushed out of the room.

He was sweating, worried, puzzled and confused himself..

A/N: I bet you all are so happy! Next chapter will be full of...humor and tension wink wink, just to let you know, the next chapter is called, "Adult Feelings and 'The Talk'" LOLOLOLOL