Alright, for all of you who wanted more of this story…well, sadly I'm missing chap. Three, and I don't have all of the chapters of this story sadly. My computer crashed, and they weren't very well typed out, since it had originally posted some of it on a Quizilla account. So, sorry.
As always I don't own this story and have made as few changes as possible, if only to make it slightly easier to read. "Trapped" belongs to Moonsilver, who is uber, uber awesome, and we all wish they would repost this story themselves…I hope I, nor the Quiziller were the reason they took down this story. That would be devastating.
Perhaps if we all begged, they would repost it, and it's sequel, both of which we here wish you all could've read. In the mean time, though, enjoy chap 4.
Inuyasha's feet didn't make hardly a noise on the floor as he walked to the kitchen. He looked in the archway to find Kagome peering into the refrigerator.
"What are you looking for?" he asked.
Kagome straightened, shut the refrigerator door quickly, and said, "Nothing!"
Inuyasha shrugged. "Well, I'm looking for breakfast. Miroku woke me up."
Inuyasha walked to the refrigerator and pulled on the freezer door.
"He said you wouldn't be up for an hour," Kagome said, hesitantly stepping aside so he could look for his first meal of the day.
"Yeah, well, he woke me up. Said you were up and I should keep you company."
Inuyasha pushed the freezer door shut and went to the cupboard, scrounging for the cereal box.
"He shouldn't have done that," Kagome said strongly, "I don't need company."
Inuyasha paused in getting a bowl down.
"You don't?" he asked. Kagome shook her head.
"Then I'll get my cereal and take it to the living room." He lifted a bowl from the stack and stared at it.
"I always wondered why they gave me a full set of dishes when I'm the only one here."
Kagome looked at the open cupboard and saw that he had the four bowls, four plates, four cups set just as standard.
"It does seem strange," she admitted.
"Aren't you hungry?" Inuyasha asked, pouring cereal into his bowl. "You haven't eaten since yesterday. Unless you got up and had a midnight snack."
Kagome grimaced.
"No, I haven't eaten."
"Can't find anything you want? Miroku could get you a sandwich from the vending machine downstairs if you want." Inuyasha offered.
Finding the cereal level perfect, he folded the tabs down on the box and put it back in the cupboard.
"I-I don't know where anything is," Kagome said, looking down at the floor and blushing. "It's yours and I-"
Inuyasha waited for her to finish her sentence.
"What?" he asked finally, unable to hold in his curiosity.
"I don't want to intrude," Kagome whispered. She glanced up at him to find him wearing a weird expression.
"What is he thinking?" she wondered.
"What an idiot," Inuyasha thought. He shook his head.
"Kagome, if it makes you feel better, you can eat anything in the kitchen that you want. You're not a guest, you know. I don't know what you are, but treat everything as if it was yours."
He paused.
"You do use bookmarks, right?"
"Huh?" Kagome said brightly.
"When you read, you use a bookmark," Inuyasha repeated. Kagome nodded.
"Yes." She frowned, "But it's your house."
"And I just gave you permission to do whatever you want. You're going to be here a long time. We'll share it." Inuyasha told her.
"Besides, you can have stuff, too. I'll just have to make room for it."
Kagome blinked.
"Then I guess Ill get myself some breakfast." She looked around.
"Cereal will do." She mimicked Inuyasha's movements with the cereal and bowl while Inuyasha found the milk in the refrigerator. After his bowl was filled, he held it in both hands and started to walk toward the living room.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome said before he had gone three steps away.
"I changed my mind. I want company." He shrugged and walked back. They sat down to the small table and ate. Inuyasha finished first and got a second bowl of cereal and poured himself a glass of orange juice.
"Kagome, you want something to drink?" he asked over his shoulder.
"What are you having?" Kagome said, her spoon pausing in front of her mouth.
"Orange juice. I usually have it with breakfast."
"That's fine." Inuyasha carried the juice to the table and then went back for his cereal. Kagome finished her breakfast and looked at him.
"In the sink," he said, jerking his thumb in that direction, "I looked at dishwashers, but I don't make enough mess."
Kagome nodded and put her bowl, spoon, and glass in the sink. She stood there for a moment, unsure of what to do. She looked down at her shirt to make sure she hadn't dripped cereal on herself and sighed.
"Somethin' wrong?" Inuyasha asked, picking up his bowl. His chair moved back and he got up.
"I wish that I had a shirt to change into. I wear my jeans two and three days at a time anyway because they don't really get dirty, but I don't like wearing shirts two days in a row," Kagome fussed.
Inuyasha put his dishes in the sink and turned the water on. He put a little bit of dishwashing liquid in the washcloth and held it under the water. Squeezing it to work up a bit of bubbles, he turned and looked thoughtfully at Kagome.
"If you rolled up the sleeves a bit, you could wear one of mine. I don't think my jeans will fit and I can't do anything about the rest…" Inuyasha blushed thinking of women's under things.
Kagome's face lit up.
"Really?" she asked eagerly. "That would be wonderful." Then she frowned.
"I'll need other clothes, though. We can ask Sango for your, uh, under things." Inuyasha said awkwardly.
He turned to the sink, grateful for something to do. Kagome shrugged.
"I hope she gets the size right. I can send it back if I don't like it, right?" Inuyasha shrugged noncommittally.
"Why wouldn't you be able to? They allow that sort of stuff all the time."
Kagome let out a sigh of relief.
"I was hoping you'd say that. Having another woman choose your clothes can be a trying experience. My mother would mess up every now and again and buy something too tight."
Inuyasha frowned and glanced over his shoulder from wiping the bowl clean. One bowl was already done and in the other sink drying.
"What do you mean?"
"Sango will be choosing my clothes, won't she?" Kagome asked.
"No!" Inuyasha said fervently.
"Then how do you get clothes?" Kagome said frustrated.
"We order them," Inuyasha told her.
Kagome crossed her arms over her chest and frowned at him.
"Wait a minute and Ill show you." He quickly did the rest of the dishes and left them to dry. He walked out into the living room and sat down at the computer.
"What I meant is that when Sango gets here in," he checked the clock, "a half an hour, you can tell her that you need some things. Be specific as you can and she'll make sure you get them."
He tapped a few buttons, turning the computer on.
"If you want other clothes, you'll have to order them."
The computer booted up quickly and Inuyasha tapped into the Internet. He searched for women's clothing and a lot of sites popped up. He pointed to the machine and turned to Kagome.
"Ordering clothes," he said with a visual aid in front of him.
"Ohhh," Kagome said, nodding. "I order the clothes online and then what?"
"Then we enter the credit card number," Inuyasha slapped his hand on a card above the computer monitor and showed it to her, "the clothes are shipped to a specific address and they're delivered here."
"That'll be a few days, though," Kagome pointed out.
"Overnight delivery," Inuyasha said grinning, "anything you order today will be here tomorrow."
Kagome's eyes lit and she looked at the computer. She bit her lip and looked down at herself.
"Oh, yeah, right," Inuyasha said.
"I don't know what will fit her," he thought.
He shrugged mentally and pulled off his shirt. Kagome blinked and looked away. He held it out to her.
"See if this fits."
Kagome took it from him gingerly and walked away heading for the bathroom. A few minutes later, she came back to the living room, nodded, and handed the shirt back to him.
Inuyasha pulled it over his head as he walked back to his bedroom. When he returned to Kagome, he handed her an identical shirt. She raised an eyebrow.
"It was so comfortable, that I ordered another one," Inuyasha said shrugging.
"Where am I going to put it?" Kagome mused out loud.
"Put what? You've got a bad habit of not finishing your sentences," Inuyasha told her.
Kagome stuck out her tongue at him and left to put on the clean shirt. When she came back into the living room, she found Inuyasha checking the news. He quit the screen and turned back to her.
"Where are you going to put what?" he asked.
"My clothes," Kagome said.
"In the closet," Inuyasha said automatically and then stopped. "But the only closets in the bedroom. Hm…"
"I can sleep out here," Kagome offered. "Maybe a free-standing closet could be put against the wall somewhere."
Inuyasha shook his head.
"Lets think about this. There's one bedroom and two of us. We could put twin beds in there, maybe." Kagome looked shocked.
"It's either that or one of us takes the bed and one gets the couch. Or we could alternate. One of us sleeps in the bedroom, one on the couch on Monday and then on Tuesday we switch."
He shrugged, "I'm comfortable either way."
Kagome hesitated.
"I don't know…"
"If I might offer an opinion?" Miroku said softly. Inuyasha nodded while Kagome looked around for the camera.
"If Kagome sleeps in the bedroom and Inuyasha sleeps on the couch, then Kagome can get up and dressed before you, Inuyasha. But if you switch, then Kagome's going to be up before you and unable to dress."
"So she can have the bedroom and I can take the couch," Inuyasha said amiably.
"No! I'm not putting you out of your bedroom," Kagome argued.
"It's not a big deal," Inuyasha told her.
"Who was it that argued for days the benefits of a queen against a full-size?" Miroku mused as if to himself. "I believe it was you, Inuyasha."
"Either way I won't have a queen-size bed all the time," Inuyasha pointed out.
"That brings me to my next point," Miroku said. "Would it bother the two of you to sleep in the same room?"
"True, you're of a different gender, but it would be like a sleepover. Kagome gets up early so she'd be dressed and out of the room before you awoke, Inuyasha. We could even put up a screen between your beds, if you'd like." Miroku paused.
"And the walls are movable. We can reshape the bedroom about three feet which would let us put in two queen beds."
Inuyasha thought about this. He'd have his bedroom even if he'd have to share it. He was going to share it anyway so what did it matter if Kagome was there?
Kagome's thoughts swirled around. Her main fear was that Inuyasha would see more of her than he was supposed to. A screen would help and she'd love to have a queen bed. She'd only had a full-size before.
The two looked at each other wondering what the other thought.
"Well," Inuyasha began.
"I guess," Kagome said.
They stopped and looked at each other again.
"Shall I request that the walls be moved?" Miroku said tactfully. Inuyasha gave a careful nod when he saw Kagome smile.
"Yes, please," Kagome said politely.
"Then I'd suggest you look for a bed-frame you'd like, Kagome," Miroku said.
"It can be here tomorrow and the walls can be moved back in the two hours outside time."
"Outside time?" Kagome asked, looking at Inuyasha.
"It's where we go out into this enclosed yard to talk and soak up some sunshine," Inuyasha told her.
"Its mandatory that you go at least every other day. Other people in the experiments will be there. Its okay." Kagome looked away and toward the computer. Inuyasha got up and gestured her toward it.
"Its all yours," he said, "If you're going to bookmark anything, make another folder, would you?" He walked away to the bookshelf, selected a book, and sat down on the couch to read.
Bo/N: Borrower note...yeah... HA! Inuyasha took off his shirt! Did you see that?! Haaa, I can just imagine how awkward that must've been for Kagome, and he would probably be like "...What? (realizes what he did)...oh. Uh...right, sorry...(o////o)" okay, maybe he wouldn't say that, but it would be funny! XD