Books all look the same and yet all so different if you look at them from afar. It's almost that if you stand far enough, they will create one colossal picture; maybe the section you are standing near was the eye or mouth. Dragging her fingers across the spine of the books, Kagome can feel the imprints of letters. She wondered why story these letters would make if they all came other, like the colossal picture their covers make.

What would her story be...

"Excuse me miss, do you know where-" An older woman had touched Kagome's upper arm to get her attention; she locked eyes with the older woman and prepared her routine. Just as she predicted, the woman left as soon as she realized. Kagome left out a sigh, stories help feel the void when she is feeling lonely, but books can only go so far.

Stretching her arms above her head, she decided that she had enough of the library. Maybe she will see if any exciting events were going around on campus. Her roommate/ best friend Sango would know the answer, but she is in the middle of finals and didn't want to distract her because they had been studying all week. So to the bulletin board, it was; she was shocked that people still posted things to this board because most if not all announcements where digital.

Again, running her fingers along the smooth surface, the letters were not indented like the old hardback books. She dragged her finger slowly until a colorful flayer caught her attention.

Hmmm... the tutoring center, huh.

She repeatedly tapped until she got to the name that she was looking for, there was a lot more of "Rs" then she would have liked. However, once she selected his name and signed in that was when she noticed him, the ASL tutor sitting at the table in the middle of the room. His phone ding the moment she logged in, his ear twitching form the high pitch noise. That was when their eyes locked, he looked from his phone towards the computer. Kagome could feel her cheeks begin to burn as the color darken to deep blush. She was taken aback; she was half expecting an old man who was bolding and wore glasses. But this guy was maybe two years older than her at most, and he was nowhere near bolding anything time soon, as he had long white hair tied back in a man bun.

He arched his brow as he watched her settle in the chair in front of him across the table. A smirk spread across his lips as he decided that he was in a teasing mood and what was more teasing then to make other students uncomfortable with how he signs.

Inuyasha holds up one hand in a fist at chest level as he held up the number four with his other hand, placing it behind the other hand and sliding it left and right a couple of time. He then points to his wrist at the location where people wear watches and tap his wrist twice. He continues by finger spelling the words "can," and points at Kagome then make a fist with both hands in front of him and set his thumbs together, the tips touching; the hands thrust in short movements forward and back twice.

(Busy time, can you keep up?)

Kagome furrows her brows, wow they were just going to jump right into. She puffed up her cheeks, clearly annoyed that this guy didn't even bother to interduce himself to her, and just looking at her with that cocky smile with his chin resting on his hand. She could feel her eye twitch as she had a strong desire to smack that smug smile off his face, but that wouldn't be the best of first impressions. He must be testing her, he must do this with other students and freak them out with the challenge of fast signing. Well unfortunately for him she was born for him at this moment, to embarrass him to all hell, for Kagome was born deaf.

Now it was her turn to be cocky as a smug smile spread across her lips as she signed, pointing at herself then putting the tip of her thumb into her chest with her hand open. She couldn't help but chuckle as she noticed how bewildered he became, his smile dropping as she signed on. She finished off by putting her three middle fingers to the front of her chin; then extended her hand towards him.

(I'm fine, thank you)

He didn't respond since he stared at her in awe, she reached across the table with a smile on her face and tapped on his hand, his claws pricking the inside of her palm. He tilted his head to the side as he watched her pulled back her hand, placing it flat against his chest; his ear twitching. This caught her attention, his ear just moved; meaning that its possible that it's reacting to sounds in their environment. Kagome wondered if he was a person of hearing, his sign form what little she had seen was spot on, she would need to ask him. She removed her hand from her breast and pointed her index and middle in both hands, tapping them in an "x" motion. As quickly as him she fingerspelled out her name. She made the same "x" motion then face her palms up and moved them inward and outward at the same time.

(My name is K-A-G-O-M-E, what is yours?)

Inuyasha signed the same as she did earlier, signing his name at the same speed as her. He was quite impressed, most of the students who come here for ASL tutoring would have been scared off by now by his signing skill and the fact that he is also a demon tutor, well half-demon still makes human students nervous. But here was this girl, Kagome just signing with him like nothing, like what he was didn't bother her.

(My name is I-N-U-Y-A-S-H-A)

Kagome made a confused face with a smile, she fingerspelled the first three letters of his name. She pointed to her head with her index finger, quickly bring her hands together at chest level like she was rubbing a crystal ball. She giggled as she patted her hip and then snapped her fingers twice.

(I-N-U? Dog?)

Inuyasha could feel his cheeks burning up along with his ears as they stood upright. Kagome's laugh was sweet, cute even. Students would have slipped up and mistakenly started talking at this point, but she was doing great; she was just laughing. He nodded his head as he rolled his eyes, a genuine smile growing on his lips while he held up his fist with his thumb in front of his index and middle finger; making a knocking motion while he used his other hand to pat his hip and snap his fingers as Kagome did previously.

(Yes, yes, dog.)

She smiled more, her cheeks were starting to hurt as she let out a sigh. She hadn't had this much fun in a conversation in a long time. There weren't that many deaf people around her age in the deaf clubs they have close to her home, so it was nice to see that this campus offered classes for sign language. She was hoping there would be ASL tutoring for students so that way she would be able to make some more friends that spoke it outside of her intermit family. Now here she was having a great time with someone her age who didn't seem to mind her teasing. It was also a plus that he was nice to look at too.

Kagome's attention was ripped away from Inuyasha when she felt her phone begin to vibrate on the table. She looked at it confused, feeling the vibrations tickle her fingers. She had forgotten that her phone on the table and had placed an alarm on it so that she wouldn't creep too long in the tutoring center and she promised her mother that she would come home soon. Frowning, she clicked the button hard, returning her attention to Inuyasha whose eyes were on her; his ear twitching again. How cute.

He furrow is brows while bringing his hand up to his face, closing his fingers; leaving the thumb and pinkie erect making a "Y" while he rested it on the front of his chin. He brought his hand away from his face, turning his palm upward and brought his fingers together, making a tear-drop shape.

(What's wrong?) (Leave?)

She's signed out as she gave a half smile, nodding her head. She was enjoying herself, but she did promise her mother that she would be on time this time. Gathering her stuff, she hurried out of the room, strangely feeling quite embarrassed for having an alarm set to remind her that she needs to go home.

Inuyasha watched her as she hurried out of the room, once she was out of his sight he closed his eyes and let out a yawn as stretch his arms above his head. Wow, she was excellent, like perfect, sighing like a natural. His ear twitched as he heard the rough vibration against the table again; peeking his eye opened he notice that she had left her phone.

Kagome fumbled with her ID card as she tried to swipe out from the computer while she held her backpack awkwardly. Why she didn't put this thing on her properly the first time, she will never know. Once she finally got a decent hold on her card, something obstructed her view as her backpack started ascending into the air in front of her. All the while she felt a hand on her shoulder, forcing her to turn around. Once she turned around, she saw Inuyasha holding her bag in his hand; talking. To her. The problem is, Kagome didn't know how to lipread. Well, she could understand a little if someone was talking really slow to her and with limited words. But Inuyasha was speaking full sentences to her. She tilted her head to the side, trying her best to keep up with his lips until she was totally lost. Why was he talking to her? Was he just signing to her a few minutes ago?

Kagome shook her head as she extended her left hand, palm, upward then sharply brought her open right hand down to her left palm at a right angle. This cause Inuyasha to stop, his eyes widening with realization.

(Stop!)

Rattled, Inuyasha touched his finger on his cheek near his ear would be if he was human, then move his finger in a small arch and touch it near his mouth. He formed an "A' with his right hand and rotated it on his chest in a clockwise motion while quickly pointing to his forehead with his other hand with his fingers together; then pushing it away from him as he shook his head and shrugged his shoulders.

(Deaf?) (I'm sorry, I didn't know)

She took her index finger together with her middle finger and tapped them along with her thumb as she shook her head with a smile. She touched his upper arm to reassure him that his mistake was okay as she placed her thumb to her chest.

(No, I'm fine)

Inuyasha's cheeks were on fire from embarrassment. It all makes sense now, Kagome's signing was the best that he had seen, and only observed that with the deaf community. Why didn't he put two and two together, of course, Kagome was deaf. He shook his head with a nervous smile as he scratched the back of his head. His ears twitched once as he heard Kagome's giggle, it relaxed him somehow then again once he felt the vibration of her phone in his front pocket. Inuyasha tapped a "c" hand to the upper part of his cheek twice, near the ear a human would have. He reached and pulled the phone out of his pocket, grabbing her hand and placing it in her palm.

Her face went several shades of red before her mind finally cracked. She formed an "A' with her right hand and rotated it on her chest in a clockwise motion then quickly held her hand in front of her forehead, then pulled her hand sideways across the front of her head as she changed the handshape from a loose flat hand into an "A" handshape with her thumb sticking out. She also touched her fingers to her chin and jerked her fingers forward quickly.

(I'm sorry) ( I forgot) (Thank you)

Kagome held her phone to her chest with a smile, turning around while Inuyasha helped her put on her backpack. He tapped her shoulder, indicating that he was finished and she could turn around again. She was greeted with a smile on his face, almost like he was proud with his work of her backpack. Kagome stared at him, unable to conceal the smile growing on her lips as she studied his face. She never noticed until now how beautiful his eyes are since she was always distracted by his cute ears twitching everyone once and a while; she wondered what was able to get their attention; what did they hear?

He tapped on her shoulder again, noticing that she was apparently distracted by something else. He made a short slicing motion forward through the air from his face.

(Will I see you later?)

Her eyes widened as she finished reading his sign. Did he want to see her again? Wanted her to come back to the center? She felt the blush deepen on her face as she studied his to see if he was joking or not with her. But his face just shows her how serious his question was. She fumbled her hand, trying to get ahold of herself as she pointed at him and she repeated the sign back to him, quick and short. A large smirk grew across her lips as she signed with the back of her hand facing herself and the back of her other hand faced towards Inuyasha next her two hands "meet" in the middle with both her index fingers sticking up. Then with her fingers still up, she held her left hand away from her body, towards him as she kept her right hand towards her chest. Hesitating, she questioned herself if she should sign what she had in mind. Would he mind? Would he think I'm making fun of him? She shook her head a bit, no she wanted to tease him. She cradles her right hand in her left and slowly moves it left and right like she is rocking it; then finishing it off with two snaps sneaking in one last sign at the end.

(You will... Nice to meet you, puppy)

The whole room could hear Inuyasha's mind break at the silent comment as he was consumed with a deep blush. Kagome couldn't help but laugh as she patted his shoulder as she passed him; making sure that he knew that she was just teasing him. She didn't look back as she pushed through the door because he would see that her face was just a red as his.

The cold air felt nice on her hot skin, she had a perfect time and wished she could have stayed longer. Tucking her hands into the pockets of her jacket she felt her fingers brush against her phone. Her eyes widen once realization hit her, she totally fucked up, you don't flirt that hard and not get a number. She forgot to get his number! Whipping out her phone she looked at it like it betrayed her like it was the one that forgot to tell her: "Girl you need to get those digits!" She closed her eyes and shook her head, laughing at the thought of her phone talking. The vibration of her phone startled her, forcing her eyes to open; she wasn't expecting anyone to contact her and was sure that there wasn't another alarm set. The blinking light and floating envelope on the screen cause her heart to race, she clicked on it, the white screen illuminating on her face as her smile returned while her eyes dance across the screen.

Inu:

06:30pm / Today

[Hi, so I might have added my number to your phone without you knowing...]

[Coffee? Maybe next week? ]

Kag:

06:38 pm / Today

[That would be fun and would like that very much.]

[How about Wednesday? At Fushimi Inari Shrine? In Kyoto?]

[I know its a bit out of the way, but I love how calm it is there and how you can lose yourself]

Inu:

06:44 pm / Today

[Sure as long as you promise me that you won't murder me]

Kag:

06:45 pm / Today

[Boo]

[Taking the fun out of everything]

[Fine no murdering on Wednesday]

[I'll meet you in front of the first gate]

[See you there!]

Inuyasha shook his head as he smiled at his phone as he fingerspelled:

It's a date then.