Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ From Friends To Lovers... ❯ Chapter 7: Common Ground ( Chapter 7 )

This chapter is dedicated to Hakufu who gave me many idea’s for this story and was a great help to my major writer’s block. THANK YOU!

*From Friends To Lovers*

Chapter 7: Common Ground

Kagome winced as she heard a loud bam from the bathroom, no doubt Yusuke trying to remove the horrid orange dye from his hair. She distinctly heard him mumbling about his reputation and how orange hair made him look like Kuwabara. She almost shuttered thinking about Yusuke looking like Kuwabara. That was a scary thought. When he’d woken up he had seemed to be in a much better mood then he’d previously been. Of course he could just be pretending.

That’s what she had done so many times before.

While she was thinking she didn’t notice the very ticked off teenager standing in front of her. Blinking she realized she was face to chest with Yusuke. Looking up at her friend, she paled. He looked aggravated, annoyed and very combustible. Yup. She was almost certain he was going to kill her. Not really kill her, but, you know how it is.

“Uh, Hi Yusuke.” Kagome greeted weakly.

The door was only a few feet away if only she could...

...Yusuke grabbed her arm.

Darn. Her plans foiled. She pouted.

Yusuke was sorely tempted to laugh. He was reminded oddly enough of a few nights ago when Keiko had made her appearance. In fact it had been four day’s since he had contact with anyone other then Kagome. He had been so deep in his depression he didn’t notice how it was affecting the people around him.

~*~*~*~Flashback~*~*~*~

Cautiously walking into the room she approached the still figure lying in the bed motionless. He’d been in there for three days now and was seriously beginning to worry her. He hasn’t eaten, slept, or even talked in the last three days. That was very un-Yusuke like. Normally he was a very verbose person, with an opinionated mind. Of course that often led to arguments and then to fights. But the silence was shattering.

“Yusuke?” Kagome sighed, knowing she wouldn’t get a response.

As she stood in the doorway she retrieved the fuji apple laying in her coat pocket, she’d picked it from the tree, it was ripe and ready to be eaten. Kagome tossed it in the air a couple of times before smirking to herself. It wouldn’t do good, for anybody if Yusuke starved to death, would it?

“Here Yusuke, eat this, don’t want anyone to think I’m starving you or you’ve come upon a disorder like anorexia. That wouldn’t be to good for either of us.” She said casually before tossing him the apple, just as he unfortunately turned to face her. Pity for him Kagome was already out of the room and the air bound, red projectile was coming towards him.

BAM.

Ow.

That must’ve hurt.

~*~*~*~End of Flashback~*~*~*~

“Kagome...”

Shaking her head, Kagome blinked up at the still orange haired Yusuke. It looked so wrong, she almost couldn’t conceal her wince. Perhaps she should’ve chosen a more flattering color, of course no color came to mind. Except his natural black.

“Uh yeah?”

“I’ve been calling your name for the past ten minutes!”

“O-kay...So what do you want?”

Letting out a frustrated noise he repeated his earlier question, which was unheard by Kagome.

“What kind of dye did you use and how do I get it out?” He spoke slowly in clear precise words making Kagome scowl fiercely at him. She was not a child, she certainly did not like being spoken to as some child. Hmph. If he was going to be that way then she wouldn’t tell him anything. Pausing at that thought she shook her head. That would be childish.

She mumbled something under her breath.

“What?”

“Hi-Octane Orange and Napalm Orange, by Special Effects.”

“You used two?”

“I wasn’t sure if just one would work on your hair. You’re just lucky I didn’t use bleach instead.” This was said with a slight pout.

“And how do you purpose I remove it from my hair?”

“Uh... Clairol Men’s Choice Hair Color-Natural Black?” Kagome said with a shrug.

“Where do I get some?”

“The drugstore.”

“You expect me to go out in public like this. Are you kidding, people will see me!” She forgot about that.

“I think I saw some in Jii-san’s room.” Kagome replied weakly.

“Keh.”

She almost couldn’t stop the tears the welled in her eyes from that one word. It wasn’t so much the word as the way he said it with his arms crossed over his chest looking like a petulant child. He reminded her of Inuyasha. Shaking her head she told herself firmly, he was not and never would be Inuyasha. Besides Inuyasha betrayed her and as far as she was concerned, he betrayed her friends as well. Yusuke was far better. Yusuke would never hurt her.

“Ahem!” Kagome jumped at the sound so close to her ear.

Looking at Yusuke who was glaring at her clearly irritated, she remembered what she was supposed to retrieve.

“Um, Yes, Hair dye, Uh, Bye!” Kagome darted out of the room and quickly into her Jiichan’s old room. Inhaling deeply she couldn’t hold back the tears now, they just started flowing down her cheeks. Jiichan, her old, senile, lovable Jiichan was gone. She’d never see him, listen to his boring stories, nothing. Burying her face in her hands she cried, softly, hoping no one would hear her.

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He paused in front of the door to the room, he could clearly hear someone’s soft sniffles, like they were trying to hide their tears. Curiosity got the best of him and he slowly opened the door to Kagome’s grandfathers room. After his eyes adjusted to the room’s darkness they found a sniffling Kagome in the corner.

“Kagome, are you all right?”

“I’m fine, thank you.”

He gave a deep sigh. Sitting down next to her, he was slightly surprised she didn’t move away from him. Looking down into red rimmed glassy eyes he pulled her small frame into his larger one offering what comfort he could. Startled, Kagome almost pulled away, but it was nice, being hugged. After a few moments Kagome pulled away reluctantly.

“Thanks Kazuma.” Kagome offered a watery smile.

“No problem!” This was stated with an enthusiastic grin.

“Who died?” Kagome asked curiously as he turned to leave. His grin dimmed a few watts.

“My parents.” Kuwabara replied softly, lost in the memories.

Flashback

“Sissy?” A younger four year old Kuwabara tugged on his older sister’s pants. Shizuru and Kuwabara were playing a board game when a call interrupted their fun. It had been almost five minutes since she’d left. Kuwabara being quite curious decided to follow her.

“What’s wrong, Sissy?”

Shizuru looked down at her baby brother with a trickle of tears down her face. Panicking Kuwabara didn’t quite no what to do, his strong sister never cried. She was his hero! He’d never in all his life seen her cry. And he didn’t know what to do.

“Did someone hurt Sissy?”

“Kazuma, Mom, Dad, their-”

Little Kuwabara’s eyes widened.

“No, no, no. Mama and Papa are fine. I’ll prove it to you!” Halfway to the front door he was scooped up in his sisters strong arms.

“That was the hospital, ‘Bara, their dead.”

And they cried.

End of Flashback

“I’m sorry Kazuma, I meant no harm.”

“It’s all right, they died in a car accident, Head on Collision.”

“The ME said, they died instantly, no pain.”

“How did your family die?”

“A car crash, my mom and jiichan's died instantly.”

Kagome paused.

“My brother suffered.” She turned to face the window.

“It seems we both have something in common.”

Kagome smiled bitterly.

“Yeah. We do.”

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