InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Un cuento de dos amores(A tale of two loves) ❯ recollections5 ( Chapter 5 )

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“Kagome can I ask you something?” His voice held its same coolness while his amethyst eyes seemed to grow softer.

 

“Sure you can Inuyasha.” I tried my best to sound sincere but the way he looked sitting there across from me, the diminutive lighting giving him an earthy glow while holding a masculine poise that made me want to turn and run, or kiss him.

 

He took a deep breath and seemed to be debating within himself of his question. “Do you ever feel as if though you're missing out on your life here?”

 

He was giving the impression of extreme discomfort and I was still unclear of what he was getting at. “What do you mean?”

 

A new emotion reached the surface, a very familiar one- annoyance. “You know good and damn well what I mean, do you wish you could just stay here and have a boyfriend and do that date thingy you mom was talking about and be a normal girl.”

 

His gaze took on more of the temperamental hanyou, and then I realized why he was asking me this, could he actually be serious? My mother had struck a nerve with him. Oh how in the hell was I going to approach this one while still being truthful?

 

Reaching across the table I took his hand in mine, trying to reassure him as best as I could, “Inuyasha I'm going to be honest with you about this and I want you to let me finish before you jump to any conclusions. There were times when I was younger that I did wish I had not caused so much chaos; after all if I had never been pulled into the well the jewel would have never shattered, then there wouldn't have been so many demons out hurting people to gather the shards.

 

But I quickly realized something, something very important,” giving his hand a tighter squeeze I braved myself for my next confession.

 

“If I had never been pulled into the well, I would never have found you or the others. In no way do I ever wish to have not met you, because now I see that you were the best thing that happened to me, I've grown in so many ways and I have a friendship with you Sango, Miroku and Shippo that I know no one could every diminish.”

 

Letting go of his hand I sat back, proud of myself for telling him part of my feelings while kicking myself for not telling him that I didn't want to date unless it was with him.

Watching him sit there with a blank stare proved to be amusing; I couldn't help but wonder what it was exactly that he was thinking, had I said too much? Been to straight-forward?

 

“So basically what I'm saying is no, I don't want to just be normal because let's face it here I'm not normal, I'm a miko with powers. And I don't want to date because chances are that I'll never settle down with any of these guys; I don't think they could ever understand me and what I've been through. After everything is said and done with the jewel, I'll probably just graduate college and take over the shrine, but don't tell Grandpa yet.”

 

Laughing I could just imagine my grandfather being thrilled at the fact he could retire and still be passing down the shrine to a Higurashi. He'd probably begin leaving me in charge that same day.

 

His expression seemed to be more relaxed but he still seemed apprehensive. “Don't listen to my mother about this, she tries to sympathize but she can't comprehend what exactly it is I want. So she just assumes I want what all the “normal” girls want and tries to push me to get it.”

 

And just when I had thought I was getting somewhere his expression went right back to a hardened one. “What do you want?” he asked.

 

There he went again, pulling the rug right out from beneath me leaving me speechless. I opened my mouth to speak and then shut it again. What do I say? Then my salvation arrived in the form of a waitress with the bill. “Here you are sir is there anything else you two need?”

 

Jumping in before he had the chance to realize what had happened, “No that's it thank you.” Standing up I pulled Inuyasha to his feet and dragged him to the cashier to pay and hopefully stop the questions until I had some answers.

 

The walk home had been a bit unnerving; I tried to strike up everyday conversation to help prevent serious talk and he appeared to clam up.

 

Making our way into the house I heard the clicking away of Sota playing on his PS2 in the living room. Peeking in I saw him sprawled out in front of the TV in pajamas trying to kill some vampire looking creature. “Sota where's Mom?”

 

“I'm right here sweetie, how was dinner?” Turning to her voice, she was descending down the stairs tying her robe securely around her.

 

“Oh it was fine.” I wasn't lying it had been fine, it would have been spectacular if Inuyasha hadn't turned everything so serious. That was just an unspoken rule between us, we don't ask stuff like where we were headed, or how we felt and we sure as hell didn't mention Kikyo.

 

“How was the shopping?” Now was a question that I could answer with confidence.

 

“It was fun! We didn't have a problem at all finding Inuyasha clothes and he even tried some American food.”

 

“Those shoe things are hell.” Came his input.

 

“Inuyasha! Don't curse in front of my mom!” I joked slapping his arm lightly.

 

Her gentle laughing brought us back to reality, “Well I'm glad the two of you had fun.”

She turned into the living room and shouted, “Sota you need to go to bed you have school tomorrow and Inuyasha needs to go to sleep.”

 

“Why would it matter if the kid was awake or not?” he asked.

 

“Well his game gets pretty loud and the couch is right in front of the television, Sota now!”

 

Shrugging his shoulders he added, “It don't matter to me I'm not sleeping on the couch anyway.”

 

Sota immediately peeked at this,“Are you sleeping with me Inuyasha? Please we can play games all night and you can tell me more stories of how you destroy-

 

“Sota go to your room please.”

 

Watching him march up the stairs I realized he may have been growing up, but Inuyasha was always going to be his idol. “So where are you sleeping then?” my mother asked.

 

“Keh, I'm sleeping with Kagome of course.”

 

“You're sleeping where?!”

 

If there was ever a time I wished I had a camera on hand, now would be the time, the look on my mothers' face was priceless, and the color immediately drained from her and her eyes looked as if though they would bulge from her head.

 

“Mama why don't you go on to bed I'll take care of this okay?”

 

She only nodded as she made her way towards her room; meanwhile I was left with a sleeping dilemma. “Why is she making such a big deal about this? I use to sleep in your room all the time.”

 

Nodding my head in correspondence we made our way up the stairs and to my room. Throwing him a pair of sweat pants and plain t-shirt he had acquired over the years here I turned to get my pajamas from my drawers while throwing my shoes into the closet. They may have been flats but they were not walking shoes.

 

“Inuyasha I know that you usually sleep with me, but most of the time she just assumes you sleep on the tree or go to the den. But now that she knows we usually do this maybe it would be best if you slept on the couch today.” I turned around expecting to see him dressed and agreeing but instead my heart dropped to my tummy.

 

There he was wearing only his gray sweats with his loose hair tied back into a low pony tail. Must have pure thoughts, must concentrate on pure things.

 

“I don't understand what's so wrong with my sleeping in front of your bed; it's my job to protect you.”

 

Oh boy was this going to be a long night. “Inuyasha it's more complicated than that. Remember what I was telling you about my mother? She tries to be protective of me and in this era it's just not proper for a young lady to sleep with any man in her room besides her spouse. Not to mention that there's been a huge rise in teen pregnancy and she may be just a tad bit paranoid.”

 

Walking into the bathroom I began changing into my puppy boxer shorts and tank. Eri had bought it for me for my 16th birthday saying `since your boyfriend is such a dog you might like this.' And I had, the little white puppies reminded me so much of Inuyasha that even though it didn't fit as loose as it once had, I still wore it every chance I got. (When not in feudal era).

 

“Are you sure that's why you're agreeing to al of this?”

 

“What's that suppose to mean?” I shot back.

 

“I mean that you sure are in a big hurry to throw me out of your room.”

 

“Oh give me a break Inuyasha I just don't want to upset my mother, after all we're going to be here a while so it might be best for you to stay on her good side.” Making my way back into my room I saw him looking more dejected and making his way towards my door.

 

“I see.” He half whispered as he opened the door.

 

“Inuyasha wait.”

 

“Kagome just answer me this one thing, it's not because I'm human is it? I can still protect you.”

 

“What?” So that was what was bothering him, he thought I no longer needed him because he wasn't as strong as a human. I made my way towards him and closed the door and stood between them. “Inuyasha you are not weak and this had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that you're a human, I know that human, hanyou, or full demon you would always try to protect me. I'm just sorry that others just don't really understand us as well as we do.” I gave him a hug in hopes of soothing his hurt feelings, I had forgotten how easy it was to do that when he was human, mostly because he just couldn't hide it as well as he could hanyou.

 

He wrapped his arms around me and the realization of how close we really were and our lack of clothing on both parts was starting to get to me. Thank god he didn't have his demon senses or he might have been able to sense my change in scent. I pulled away and held his bare arms, to try to regain some sanity. “Listen, I'll make you a deal, if you bring in that old futon from down the closet and place it beside my bed then you can still sleep in my room. Deal?”

 

“Are you sure that it'll be okay with your mom?”

 

Smiling I answered, “You let me worry about her, chances are if she does peek in she'll feel better if you were in a completely different bed. Okay?”

Nodding his head his face seemed to take a cheerier one as he made his way down the hall still topless. Why did he have to be so damn hot? And now he would be sleeping not 3 feet away from me and Kaede expected me to not have inner conflict, oh yeah this was going to be a piece of cake.

 

Inuyasha had returned and he threw the futon on the floor and I threw an extra pillow and blanket towards him. I turned off the light and turned to tell him goodnight kissing his cheek in the process.

 

“Goodnight.” He had said back with no comment on my action.

 

Meanwhile my heart was pounding as I laid in bed. Why in the hell had I done that? Who cared that it felt right; this was not the time to be hitting on Inuyasha. Oh god why did I have to be so stupid? Around an hour later I heard the steady deep breathing of my companion letting me know he had fallen asleep.

 

It took me many a couple of hours before sleep finally claimed me allowing me to escape my inner conflicts and torment of emotion.

 

And the worst part about it was that chances were that my mother was going to make me go to school tomorrow.

 

Great. Just great.

 

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Hello everyone, sorry I didn't update as soon as I promised but stuff came up.

 

I hope this chapter wasn't too disappointing or short and once again thanx for your reviews! Until next time.

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