![]() ![]() Kagome sighed and gathered her backpack and tray. If she only had a clue where she did stand with InuYasha. ![]() She'd given up trying to convince them that they were wrong. Seeing how often and badly upset she was sometimes, though, her overzealous friends had decided that InuYasha was to blame, and that they were right in their original assessment that InuYasha was way too jealous and way too much of a 'bad boy' to ever make a suitable boyfriend for her. They'd met InuYasha once, and they had liked him well enough then. At least Houjou is nice and doesn't try to control you," Eri accused. "I think you're better off with Houjou than you are with InuYasha. "That's good! You can't build a lasting relationship without having a firm foundation of friendship," she insisted. Her inward grimace surfaced when Eri and Yuka muttered, "Aww."Īyumi smiled. When her friends all winced, she grimaced inwardly, knowing that her forced show of bravado had failed. Shoulders slumping as her chin dropped, Kagome shrugged in what she hoped was an offhanded way. "But you've been seeing him for years, Kagome. " No!" she yelled then cleared her throat as her friends' eyes widened at her vehement denial. The flush that flooded Kagome's face was intense, immediate, and painfully hot. "Eri asked if you've kissed InuYasha since you won't say whether or not you've kissed Houjou." With a start, Kagome blinked and gasped when she realized that Ayumi was waving her hand two inches from Kagome's nose. With a shiver, Kagome forced the unsettling feeling away. As though someone was still there, some sort of malignant power. She had chalked it up to the sage's lingering presence. You should have felt it long before I ever did." Didn't you sense it? You're the one with spiritual powers. She didn't have to look at him to know that he was giving her that sidelong stare of his. "I'm sure there's someone else who might know something. " The sage's death bothered you, didn't it?" she finally asked. He'd barely said more than two whole sentences to her on the trip back to the village, and while he hadn't seemed angry, he had seemed very worried about something. so accommodating about my school work."Ĭontinuing along in silence, Kagome pondered the unexpected change in his behavior. " trailing off as he narrowed his gaze on her, Kagome quickly hurried to find a better way to state what she had been about to say, ". "Of course not! It's just not like you to be so. "Since when do you not care how long I stay gone?" She stopped abruptly and shot him a worried stare. That old man can't be the only one with some idea about the jewel." " No hurry, all right? I'll check around for some clues while you're gone. ![]() "I'll try not to be gone too long," she offered, raising her face to catch some of the filtered sunlight. She frowned since she didn't believe him but didn't call him on it, either. " Is something bothering you?" she asked as they headed into the forest along the well-worn path. After that, he offered to walk with her to the well, and he'd been. He hadn't even tried to stop her when she told him that she had to go home to finish up her term papers and study. There was something bothering him and even though she'd tried to coax it out of him, he hadn't told her a single thing. True enough, he'd been even more quiet than normal on their way back to the village. "InuYasha? Oh, no!" she managed between bouts of coughing. ![]() Coughing furiously as her face rushed through the gamut of shades of increasingly-darker reds, she nodded gratefully as Ayumi thumped her back with the palm of her hand. Kagome blinked in surprise as she choked on a sip of soda. "It wasn't that bad boyfriend of yours, was it?" "He said you had to go visit a friend who's in some sort of trouble," Yuka remarked a little too nonchalantly. "Anyway, I'm not going to date Houjou-kun again." She sighed, grimacing as her friends' expressions took on varying degrees of hurt at her abrupt answer. "Does it matter?" Kagome snapped as heat stole up her cheeks. "Kagome! Don't keep us in suspense! Did you kiss him?" Eri pressed, clasping her hands together as she begged for more information. Kagome felt her face heat up under their collective scrutiny. "Eri! You know a lady never kisses and tells!" Yuka chastised. "Did you kiss him?" Eri asked in a loud whisper. "He's such a sweetheart!" Yuka exclaimed with a giggle as she munched a French fry. "Houjou said you two had a terrific time on your date last weekend," Ayumi remarked as the girls sat in their regular booth in WacDnalds, their favorite after-school haunt. ![]()
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