Disclaimer- I don't own Inuyasha. This applies to the whole fic, since I'm lazy and don't want to write it a bunch of times. -.-
Ch. 1: Wake-up calls, pillow fights, and the scariest words known to Kagome.
'I could really learn to hate that wake-up call...' Kagome Higurashi thought to herself as she sat up in bed, awaiting the arrival of a certain, extremely loud hanyou. She didn't have to wait too long. "What are you doing here?" she asked as soon as his feet hit the carpet below her window. "You're supposed to be back today." Inuyasha stated matter-of-factly as he sat down on the floor of her room, his back to the wall. "NOT at 7 o'clock in the morning!" "Why not?" he asked in that infuriatingly innocent tone of voice that all guys have the ability to use. "AAAAARRGHHHH!!!!" She half growled, half yelled at him as she threw a pillow in the general direction of his head. He caught it before it actually got there.
"You really need to learn to throw better. That was pathetic." He commented with a smirk.
"Why you..." she jumped out of bed, oblivious to the fact that she was still in her pajamas, and started smacking him over the head with the pillow that had remained on her bed.
"Hey! Stop it!" he yelped, before apparently realizing that he was also in possession of a pillow. The one she had thrown at him before. So, he started hitting back (but mostly just blocking). Thus began the great pillow fight, which will live in infamy as being kinda strange to watch.
Kagome let out a small shriek at his retaliation, and jumped up on her bed to get the upper hand once more. Unfortunately, this only works when your opponent doesn't jump up after you. Hers did. And so, the crazy pillow fighting frenzy continued, just quite a bit bouncier. Perhaps too bouncy. The next thing Kagome knew, she was teetering on the edge of the bed, windmilling her arms in an effort to stay upright.
"Eeep!" She squeaked as she lost the battle, and closed her eyes to wait for the bruising that the floor would give her. And she waited. And continued to wait. Then she became increasingly aware of a pleasant warmth at her back and a pair of arms that had wrapped themselves around her waist. She opened her eyes, only to be confronted with a curtain of silver-white hair. She followed said hair upwards to its source, to see the laughing golden eyes of the hanyou staring down at her.
"Daijobu?" he asked softly.
"Um... yeah, I think so..." Kagome answered uncertainly, suddenly aware of the fact that her pajama top had ridden up so far that the top of his arm was just brushing the bottom of her breasts. She blushed about five shades of red and continued, "Um...You can let go of me now, Inuyasha."
"No, I can't." He protested with a smirk, "Unless you want to fall the rest of the way." Kagome then realized that she had been too preoccupied with his arms to notice her feet. They were still on the edge of the bed, guaranteeing that if he let go, she would indeed fall the rest of the way. "Well then, would you at least help me stand up?" she asked sweetly.
"What's in it for me?" he asked, still smirking down at her. It was at this point that Kagome realized that she was still in possession of a pillow. SMACK!
"Ow! Hey!" confused, he removed one of his hands from around her waist to nurse his forehead.
"I won't do that again."
"Huh?" now he was really confused.
"You asked me what's in it for you. I won't do that again." Now it was Kagome's turn to smirk.
"But that's letting you off easy!" he said, with overly dramatic disappointment. He gave her a toothy grin and lifted her up a bit more, revealing even more skin (to Kagome's obvious embarrassment), so that she could get her feet under her. Then he rested his chin on her shoulder and wrapped his other arm back around her waist. "But okay." He whispered softly, right next to her ear. She blushed again, but this time at the tingle that went through her at the feeling of his lips moving on the side of her ear and the feeling of his breath on her cheek. She leaned back into him, eliciting a soft purr and a slight nuzzling of the side of her head. The two of them stood there a moment, savoring the warmth that had grown up between them.
"Kagome!!" her mother's voice broke them out of their trance, or as Kagome thought, back to their senses. "Kagome, are you awake?"
"Yes, mama!" she yelled back.
"Breakfast is ready! You don't want to be late, remember!"
"Yes mama! I'll be right down!"
She turned her attention back to Inuyasha, who hadn't moved at all when her mother had yelled to her. She twisted around in his grip and placed her hands on his shoulders, pushing him back a few inches. "I have to go to school now, Inuyasha." She told him simply, looking him straight in the eye.
"But you said you'd come back today!" he whined, sounding much like Sota when he wanted to stay up an extra half hour. "I will come back! Just... later!" She argued. "My class is going on a trip today, and since I managed to make up so much of my work so quickly, my teachers decided I was allowed to go." She noticed the look on his face at this and quickly continued, deciding to use her one backup when asking and pleading didn't work. Fake crying. "I never get to spend any time with my friends! Every time you actually let me come back, I have to spend all of my time doing my make-up work! You never let me have any fun!" 'And now for the tears...' she thought, focusing on making her expression pitiful and welling up her eyes with tears.
"H-hey! Don't cry!" he panicked, as always. "You can go! I never said you couldn't go!"
'Yes!' Kagome thought, her mind doing a little victory dance.
"But I'm going with you."
'Shit.'