InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Therapy of Each Other ❯ Protector ( Chapter 20 )

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Chapter 19: Protector.

Kagome had never gotten used to having to be separated from Inuyasha at school, plus it did make it harder he was a Senior and she was a junior, the youngest one in school, being 16 for still a few months. This Friday was Inuyasha's birthday, he'd be 18...and Inuyasha worried about whether not to let her go to the party. Kagome got too know her her “friends” better and found out why she was their best friend. They had many stories about them and Hojou, whom moved last year to Kyoto. Kagome just looked forward to arriving at the shrine to Inuyasha's open arms.

Without his friends around, as he walked from Biology to Math, he was free to stop at his locker and stare at Kagome. She'd stand with a shy smile, talking to her friends as she wore the school uniform. It was the standard Sailor-style... long sleeved-shirt, short skirt, knee-high socks and brown loafers for outside, white slippers inside. He knew many men loved the innocent schoolgirl look...including him, though as much as he loved the way her skirt bore most of her Karate high-kicking firm legs, he observed other guys liked it too, which made him uncomfortable. The temptation grew by the day to just walk up to her and make some gesture to the public to cry “hands off, she's mine!” But he'd sigh as his human logic for popularity overruled his overwhelming, growing infatuation and emotion of her. Myouga warned him about after he turned 18...Would he control it? He thought about how bad Kouga was, he remembered first meeting Kouga at the zoo when he tried to take Kagome. When Kouga arrived at his school just a week before Kagome arrived, they were rivals. Kouga was determined to get Kagome to be his in any way. But what was his own youkai blood capable off? It worried him, but then he spotted Kagome looking at him, gushing from catching his stare. He smiled at her and closed his locker, nodding and walking the other way. Her friends watched the scene, aware that Inuyasha and Kagome grew feelings for each other over the course of Kagome's recovery, but it angered them what he did with her at school. Eri furrowed her brows and said,

“There must be something we can do to notice you more.”

Kagome looked confused,

“He notices me a lot, besides, I'll see him when I get home...”

Yuka sighed,

“But still...I think it's really mean how he stays away from you at school...it's very mean...”

Kagome sighed then Ayumi chirped up,

“I have an idea! Why doesn't Kagome come to my house before the party and we'll dress her up...give her a make-over.”

“Yah! Then we'll make you look like something that even Inuyasha couldn't resist.”

Kagome gulped and looked uncomfortable...scared of what they meant. Then she spotted Inuyasha in the crowd as he didn't give one look too her, knowing she was there, then she nodded,

“Yes...Let's do it...”

The girls giggled and immediately thought up the plans for it.

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Friday rolled around and Inuyasha took the day from school to plan the party that was held that night. His older brother was out of town, so he was free to take advantage of their 5 bedroom house that was set on the Tokyo outskirts, out where houses became a bit more common, but expensive. He put new water into the large bathtub, since he had the old style “no soap allowed in the tub, scrub yourself on the stool” type bathroom, unlike Kagome's house which had the more western style single-person bath tub and shower, though in Japan, to take a shower was very rare, but Kagome seemed to favor them over baths he noticed at the nursing home. He thought for tonight's party, some of his guests would enjoy having a “group bath”. He remembered how many he had in his past, but tonight, he was not excited about it like he usually was until he imagined Kagome in the tub with him. He shook it off and blushed.

“Kagome's not going to want to do that any time soon...besides...It only be me and h...”

He shook it off. She was the only thing on his mind, but it made his mind and body in turmoil. He did permit her to come tonight, only if she stayed near her friends. Tonight, somehow, he'd be able to be able to hang out with her, even for a moment. Maybe he could make up some superficial lie to his friends about her body was to hot to hurt and he could find himself having “another” kind of fun. He gagged at himself...putting Kagome on a low level to save face. Kagome deserved better respect then that, plus she was still so young and innocent in nature. He couldn't help but to try to reason with both sides of feelings, but lust was the last thing he wanted. He continued preparing the house. He made sure there were plenty of drinks, the DJ was hired and all the other essentials for a guy turning 18...though one aspect he thought he'd love, but now did not want were videos his friends were bringing over. It had never bothered him really till now. He sighed and got mad. He knew what it was and it was ruining the youth he wanted. He wanted to be wild, trouble making, living it up, getting crazy with a multitude of woman...but that was out of his mind when “she” came into his heart. He looked at the clock, the party started in 4 hours.

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Kagome walked home to Ayumi's house with the other girls. They were going to make it a sleepover. Kagome's mom already dropped off Kagome's night bag.

“Ok girls! We have only 2 hours to get ready!”

Kagome was confused as in a rush they got themselves ready. Kagome sat in a chair and watched them scurry like chickens to find the right cloths and make-up, styling their hair and such. Then, an hour later they were ready. Ayumi dressed pretty and simple, Eri looked a bit on the tougher side with jeans and a black, wide-necked long-sleeved shirt, Yuka was in a nice sweater and a nice pair of slacks. They then stared at Kagome.

“Ok, girls, we have a lot to do to make her Inuyasha's dream girl.”

Eri announced. Kagome said in pure confusion,

“Dream...girl...?”

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Inuyasha stood in the middle of the room, holding a beer that a friend brought, planning to ditch it when Kagome arrived... if she arrived. Guests packed the house, but Inuyasha just kept an ear at the door. The party started nearly an hour ago. He started to feel a tinge of disappointment inside at the thought of the possibility of her friends not letting her come. He tried to continue to have fun. He already got some presents, his generous brother gave him a Toyota 4-Runner...since he got his liscence that morning and loved to go up to the mountains to camp during the warmer months. Then finally the door opened to reveal 3 girls. Inuyasha stared as he saw Yuka, Eri and Ayumi walk in. He almost dropped his drink when she saw who cam in next. Kagome shuffled into the house, blushing at the stares and it was evident she felt bit uncomfortable as she covered her chest area shyly to hide the plunging neckline of the shirt. Inuyasha's mouth dropped as he looked at her. She wore a tight, black, lace-fringed shirt with a neckline that plunged to show a great amount of clevage...a bit too low for her, being how young at mind she was, to be wearing in public...though as much as Inuyasha found himself enjoying it, he found himself grow increasingly paranoid about his friends that were not shy about being sex-hounds. Then it looked like the girls squeezed her into the tightest pair of jeans they could find. Her hair a bit teased and it framed her face very nicely. Her make-up was humble, but accented all her appealing features. Inuyasha didn't think she needed make-up, but the accents did look nice, especially the lip gloss that made her already luscious lips even more appealing. He stared at her but looked around as he heard a few boys cat call her, making a heat of fury raise inside him. He felt the hairs on his body raise and a growl trying to escape his throat. She spotted him and gave the shyest smile he'd ever seen. He felt warmth rush to his face as he smiled back. He felt a bit sorry for her. She looked around at all the staring faces and her smile wiped as she became pale and fear covered her face. Inuyasha put down his drink to greet her, till he was stopped.

“Inu-chan...”

Yura stared up at him with a sly, seductive smile. Inuyasha looked past her and said blandly,

“Oh... yo, Yura”

Yura put her hand on his lower stomach to stop him and get his attention. He looked quickly down at her as she looked up at him with a fake, innocent look.

“Inu-chan, you haven't paid any attention to me tonight.”

She attempted a pout, which looked pathetic to Inuyasha. He was scared that Yura would do something to scare or offend Kagome. Inuyasha was glad her friends were chasing off the guys that came close to her. Yura grabbed his hand and said,

“Why don't we go have some fun...”

She looked toward the stairs and winked at him. A year ago he would have swept her off her feet and high-tail it to his room, but he looked over to a confused, almost hurt-looking Kagome, her friends glaring at him. He stopped Yura and said,

“Sorry, but not now.”

Yura looked somewhat surprised. Never had she been denied, and she was anticipating getting Inuyasha with her. She couldn't understand it. Inuyasha closely watched Kagome as she sat on the leather couch with her friends, guys surrounding them. Then he saw his friends wave him over to the other side of the room. When he hesitated, Kenji pulled him over to talk. The music was loud, so Inuyasha couldn't listen in on Kagome.

The party raved on as music blasted anything from trance to metal. People dancing, drinking, bathing, exploring the rest of the house. Inuyasha, being the birthday boy, was constantly surrounded, he kept getting the shy and lonely looks from Kagome and glares from her friends. The next song started and Eri recognized it. Good Charlotte's “I Just Want to Live”. She knew it was a fun song to dance to.

“Come on, Kagome! Time to get you noticed!”

Kagome got dragged to the “dance floor” while mildly protesting,

“But He already notices me!”

She yelled, since she has been catching his smiles and stares all evening.

Eri stopped and placed her in front of her, Kagome's back to Inuyasha, whom Eri made sure had a perfect view.

“That's not enough, Kagome! Now do what I do.”

It was the middle of the first verse and Eri began to dance, simply rocking from side to side, swaying her hips. Kagome innocently followed. Eri instructed,

“ Now loosen up, just move loosely to the music.”

Kagome looked around at all the staring eyes, Inuyasha not one of them, she panicked and asked,

“But everyone is looking!”

“Ignore them... now move like this and look over your shoulder, tossing your hair once in a while... look straight at him... Now go!”

Kagome followed Eri's advice and found her body knew how it wanted to move, by the chorus, she was moving like a partier, but had more a sultry, slithering movement as she'd wiggle down and up and sway her hips like Eri was doing. When she tossed her hair to look over at her shoulder...jackpot. Inuyasha was staring at her like she's never seen him look at her before. As Innocent-minded as she was, all she knew was he was staring, it was working, so keep doing it and have fun. Eri noticed as well and taught her a few more other moves, like rubbing her hands up and down her body, telling Kagome to pout her bottom lip when she'd look at Inuyasha...Eri knew what Kagome's dancing was supposed to do, but no one had a clue about what Inuyasha REALLY was feeling. Inuyasha was stiff, his mouth hung loosely open, a small drop of drool became to escape, his eyes heavy and other parts of his body, quickly, began to react, but nothing was compared to what he was feeling on the inside. It was happening. With every toss of her hair, every sway of her hips, every contact made with her chocolate eyes and her shimmering, luscious lips. Inuyasha found himself, licking his own. His chest felt like it was caving in. But then Myouga was right, This was almost unbearable. Right now... He either could watcher her forever, or run to her, chomp down on her delicate, sweet-smelling neck and run upstairs. Never before had he felt this way. It was like Slow motion as he watched every inch of her move to the music, kind of sad she didn't know what it was doing to him. He began to pant, but something snapped him out of it. One of his friend, he didn't bother too look, since the only thing that was in his sights was Kagome,

“Wow, Look at the retard, looks like there are some things she can do... If she can move like that on the dance floor...”

Inuyasha looked at all the guys, every male eye in the room was on her... Inuyasha felt himself tense and grit his teeth. Red tinted his eyes as subconsciously, he spread his claws. He heard in his mind a low, scary voice said,

'I'll rip their eyes out! SHE'S MINE!'

Then before any males could reach her, he sprinted and pulled her against him, grabbing her upper arms tightly as he dangerously growled at Eri,

“What the HELL do you think you are doing!”

Then he looked at the males around that looked at him angerly and some commented rudely at him and why he stopped her dancing. He bore his teeth, then snarled as his friends backed up. He looked back at Eri, Kagome trembling in his grip.

“Why are you teaching her to move like that?”

Eri glared at him,

“It was the only way for you to pay attention to her!”

People began to stare as Inuyasha glared back at her and growled,

“I was! If you haven't noticed, there are a lot of people here!”

Eri gruffed and when she tried to reach for Kagome, instinctively Inuyasha snarled and pulled him behind her as Kagome snapped,

“Inuyasha!”

Inuyasha said to Eri,

“Leave her alone...”

Eri backed up at the dangerous look on his face and the venom dripping from his voice. People began to whisper. When Eri backed off, Inuyasha turned around and grabbed Inuyasha and held her tightly against him, snarling at the guys, telling them to back off. Inuyasha looked down at a very confused and horrified Kagome. She was so pretty and sexy, but Inuyasha tried to look past that to her fear. She squeaked,

“Inuyasha?”

He grabbed her hand and yelled,

“Party on, I'll be right back.”

People hooted as Inuyasha basically dragged Kagome up the stairs. Her friends cried her name as the rest of everyone whistled and cheered.

Inuyasha pulled her into his room and sat her on the bed, going back to close and lock the door. He turned around to see her quietly sitting on his bed. Maybe this isn't where he should have taken her. She asked oh so sweet and innocently,

“Why did you get mad at Eri? Was I doing something wrong? Are you mad at me?”

Inuyasha stood there a moment, panting and trying to gain his control as he said with a husk to his voice,

“I yelled at her because the way she had you dance... I know you were having fun...but they way you danced makes guys think of...you know...” Kagome stared and studied him a moment, before seeing the one thing that made her face flare red and she quickly looked away,

“Oh, I'm sorry!”

Inuyasha would have blushed, but his mind was not so innocent right now. He was 18 and Myouga wasn't lying, but Kagome looked, confused, scared, and lonely. Before he knew it, he sat by her, pulled her on his lap and held he tightly, breathing her in. In a very husky voice he said,

“Don't...Don't be sorry...”

Kagome stiffened and her eyes got big. Inuyasha began to nuzzle her neck and breath in her hair,

“Hmmm, Kagome...You...smell...so...”

Kagome pulled quickly away. Sure, this was Inuyasha, but these were things she remembered Sango told her guys did when they had a certain event on their mind. She looked in his eyes with worry and said,

“Inu...Inuyasha?”

He didn't snap out of it, he was breathing hard and her body began to react, but it was making her worried. His lap became uncomfortable and she felt lost. He shook him,

“Inuyasha? What's wrong? Are you ok?”

Inuyasha nodded slowly and said in a low growl, making Kagome freeze and shiver in a mix of worry and something else,

“Nothing...Nothing is wrong...Ka...Go...Me... I...”

He grabbed her by her upper thigh and held her behind her neck as he gave a shiver and closed his eyes, rushing in to give her a long kiss, his body and the new feeling fighting all reason, but before he could reach her lips, she rolled out of the way and stood up, unsure of what was happening.

“Inuyasha...I told you...I...I won't...You aren't acting normal...”

He stood up and stared at her in the dim light, her messy hair and how irresistible she looked. He grabbed her and held her into him close, breathing her in, trying to calm himself, trying to snap out of it,

“I'm not normal, Kagome...Something is happening to me and what you did down there...”

He gave a shiver,

“...Kagome... don't dance like that infront of any other guy, ok?”

“You liked it. I could tell... I won't dance like that again...not for a while anyway.”

He smiled and rubbed his hand over her back to sooth her.

“Sounds good to me. Kagome, forgive me...I'm going through something I can't tell you about...but soon I'll let you know.”

She nuzzled into him and nodded,

“I hope you feel better.”

He ran his claws light through her hair, reflecting on what he just did. He was going to...if she didn't do anything, just froze...he would have. He cringed.

'I'm just as bad as Kouga'

He sighed and stroked her spine lightly with his claws, causing her to shiver.

“I feel just fine, now Kagome. As long as you are with me, I'll be fine.”

He smiled and sighed at her giggle. He didn't want to risk anymore mishaps tonight, especially with that shirt.

“Kagome...Never wear that shirt again, please...Not around guys.”

She nodded,

“I didn't want to wear it, but my friends said you'd talk to me if I did.”

He felt a stab in his heart...That wasn't right.But if she didn't wear that...do that dance...would he have been able to ditch his pride and even say one thing to her? But then he got a strong whiff of her scent. The scent past the shampoo or perfume...her scent...He felt it rise in him again. He tensed and gulped and said,

“Let me take you back to Yuka's house.”

“Can't I stay here...right here...a bit more?”

Inuyasha sighed, if they did that, she'd leave with to scars on her neck. She was his... He sighed and said,

“I wish I could, I want to hold you...closer then this...I want...but Not now, not tonight, let me drive you home, I have a car now.”

Kagome sighed and pulled away. Inuyasha gulped as he had a perfect view of that beautiful cleavage. He gently took her arm and had her cover it. She blushed and nodded. Inuyasha then said real low,

“I'm sorry...For a bit earlier...like I say... your dancing...and I'm going through some changes...”

“...Inuyasha...it's ok...I...”

She looked down and rubbed the back of her neck,

“It felt like my body knew...but I'm scared...it's new...I wish I knew more about it...”

Inuyasha felt like he was setting himself for trouble, but he raised her chin and looked into her beautiful eyes,

“Don't let me rush you...but when you remember...or when you feel more comfortable...I...”

“Inuyasha? Do you...have a crush on me?”

She asked so innocent and little kid-like that it brought him back to reality. He smirked at her and said,

“Why? Do you have a crush on me?”

Kagome gushed and turned bright red, trying to deny it like a little school girl. It was so cute... Inuyasha took the opportunity and drew her to look at him. He smiled and said,

“Kagome...you can't hide it...and...”

He whispered in her ear,

“And yes, I have a crush on you, too...”

Kagome froze and blushed bright red. Inuyasha smiled, he actually was having fun talking like little kids, but she was so drop dead cute. She looked up at him and smiled shyly. Then that unfightable feeling of tenderness over came him as he drew her in, but then 3 girls barged in the door, one holding a bobby-pin they used to pick the lock. They yelled,

“Kagome! Stop! Inuyasha! Don't!”

With their eyes closed. Inuyasha got an annoyed look and said,

“Oi”

They looked to see a bewildered Inuyasha and Kagome standing, holding each other. They blushed and Inuyasha sighed.

“Let me take you guys home...”