Hi pipz! Sorry for the really late update! My schedule is a heck of a time! We have soooo many homework!! Waaaa!!! Not that I really hate it, hihi I don't really mind homework except mandarin, I really hate that subject!
Now on with the story!
Chapter 4 – a change of life
"Kagome wake up."
"Ugh later..." Kagome groaned groggily and turned to the owner of the voice, unconsciously she mumbled "Sesshoumaru".
Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow at hearing his name, 'How did she know it was me? Or perhaps she's dreaming of me?' he thought amusedly, he tried to wake her up again.
"Kagome, it's time for school." He shook her shoulders gently, but in vain, he tried harder this time. He leaned forward and was about to shout at her when she suddenly grab his collar and hauled half of his body on top of her.
He groaned at the feeling of her chest brushed against his, his face turning unconditionally crimson, 'Oh god why do you torture me like this?' he groaned and tried to stand up only to be pulled down again, she mumbled something some heavy animal pounced on her and was tickling her.
"Kagome wake up!" he yelled at her, her only reaction was cringing slightly but continued sleeping. 'I didn't know she sleeps like a pig.' He sighed heavily; the door creaked slightly followed by a gasp. Mrs. Higurashi stood there with her hand covering her mouth in a shocked manner.
"Oh my god, Sesshoumaru! I didn't think you would-"
"I assure you I didn't do anything, I was just trying to wake her up when she suddenly hauled me like a mad girl." He whispered, his eyebrow twitching madly. Mrs. Higurashi let out a relieved sigh and withdrew her hand from her mouth.
Sesshoumaru mouthed, "help" and Mrs. Higurashi giggled, she nodded and gestured him to tickle her. His eyes widened at the brilliant idea and nodded, the elder woman gave him two thumbs up and exited the room for their privacy.
Hearing the door closed, Sesshoumaru managed to disentangle himself from her before he tickle her, preventing her from thinking anything bad.
He experimentally pokes her ribs and chuckled when she let out a squeak, another and she practically squirmed. He smirked and began to tickle her mercilessly, she began to giggle and wriggle in her sleep.
"Stop please!" she muttered, waving her uninjured hand like mad in order to stop the movement, a hand came in contact with Sesshoumaru cheek and the attempt stopped.
He placed his palm on his left cheek, 'That hurts.' How he wanted to kiss her now so she would wake up, 'Maybe someone cast a spell on her like sleeping beauty.' He thought amusedly. However, a condition came back into his mind.
"Don't take my first kiss."
'Oh yeah I promised.' Now he wishes he hadn't made that word, he searched for something to use to wake her up. His eyes stopped at her teddy bear, 'Hmmm this is a good idea.'
He grabbed the bear and pressed it on her lips rather roughly, her eyes immediately snapped open and punched the offending thing away. It flew directly on Sesshoumaru's face and smacks its hard plastic nose on his nose bridge.
His nose felt numb, 'That really hurts damn it! No more Mr. Nice guy.'
Kagome sat up groggily, squinting her eyes at the brightness of the room. She could make out a fuzzy figure and narrowed her eyes.
"Why the hell did you kiss me you pervert! I'm going to call the police! I'll charge you of sexual harrassme-mphff!!!" Sesshoumaru shoved the bear on her lips to muffle her accusations.
"Then charge this bear of yours." He smirked when she sputter some furs.
"What? What the heck do you mean?" Kagome growled and her swipe her fingers to straighten her messy hair while mumbling incoherent words.
"I do intent to keep my word to you Kagome." He stared at her seriously; she abruptly stopped mumbling and huffing.
"Oh. I get it." She lowered her head to hide her embarrassment, as quickly as it is, she looked up and glared at him, "But that reason is not a enough to shove that bear in my mouth! I would have died of suffocate!"
"Look here missy, you left me no choice. I came in your room trying to wake you up, you mumbled my name and suddenly drag me on top of you. Then I began to tickle you and you slapped me. I thought you were acting like 'sleeping beauty' and was about to kiss you but I remembered about the pact, so I shoved the bear instead." He crossed his arm in a sexy way that she almost drooled, well, almost.
"Oh wow. That must be a heck of a morning." She shrugged and stood up, Sesshoumaru sat on her sofa and followed her figure enter the bathroom with his eyes.
She hummed cheerfully as she brushed her teeth, she almost fell back when Sesshoumaru popped out his head without any noise. She spit out the bubbles and glared at him, her bandaged arm on her hips, the other one holding her toothbrush.
"Do you always want to scare the shit out of me?" Kagome asked annoyed, glaring holes on his face.
"Would you rather I didn't?"
"What?" Kagome raised an eyebrow, what the hell is he talking about?
"Would you rather I didn't shove that bear in your mouth?" He repeated.
"Eh?" Kagome's face suddenly turned bright crimson at the thought of him invading her mouth. Sesshoumaru smirked at this and leaned on the doorframe, examining her.
"Thought so. Now hurry up or we'll be late." He mumbled under his breath and walk towards her desk.
"Hn, who told you to come over here then? It's certainly not me." Kagome shouted, grabbing her uniform from the cabinet and going back to the bathroom to change. Sesshoumaru chuckled and shook his head.
He caught sight of the book that lay on top of her math book, curiosity got the best of him and he pick up the book.
"Make a wish yourself." He read aloud, he opened it and his eyes caught a poem written in a sloppy handwriting.
A crescent moon that wishes to calm me when I'm depressed,
A demon that wishes to see me smile yet when I'm down,
But if ever this wish don't come true by means of the beads,
Then faith would be the one to decide when it should be done.
"Hmmm..." he was silent for a moment, pondering about the poem that intrigues him at this moment. Kagome suddenly banged the door open and marched towards him.
"What now? Harassing my property?" she mocked happily, Sesshoumaru glared at her and returned the book back to its place.
"I was just curious what got in your way from finishing your algebra assignment." He pointed at the open notebook with only number one question in it when the upper part says 'Assignment tomorrow 1-10'.
"Oh my god!" She gasped, "I totally forgot about that!" She quickly grabs her algebra book and opened it to the page of her work, trying to answer as many as she can. But her mind was crowded with the incident this morning, and being tense doesn't help a bit.
"Don't worry I'll help you out with that. You're the same class with me in math, and our math schedule is after recess so we would have time to do i-" he didn't finish his sentence for Kagome suddenly wrapped one arm around his neck and hugged him tightly.
"Thank you thank you thank you very much!!" she laughed merrily, Sesshoumaru nodded and was tempted to hug her back but she quickly withdrew. Blushing madly.
"Er- heheh sorry about that! Uh... I guess we should be going!"
"I believe so." Kagome was about to sling her backpack behind her back but Sesshoumaru lifted it off her. "I'll carry this." He went ahead of her and went down the stairs, Kagome just gaped at the empty door.
"Is he really taking this seriously?"
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"When I say kiss, kiss me on the cheek." Sesshoumaru said, his eyes focus on the road.
"WHAT?! Hey we didn't-"
"We have a pact remember?" Sesshoumaru reminded her with a sigh, she remained silent for a while and nodded.
"But don't take it for granted! I don't want to be called a slut!" Kagome huffed stubbornly.
"I know what I'm doing. And whoever called you a slut won't live long." Kagome glance at him for any sign of joke but found that he was looking serious. She gulped and smiled nervously.
"Okay..." she mumbled, there was silence in the car and she can't bear it any longer. She pulled out her cellphone and decided to text Sess.
(A.N. now I really hate this part, why the hell is my txt symbol always getting mixed up? I already change it many times and I hate it! From now on I'll just put their name! Grrrrr....)
Kag: Hi hi hi hi hi!!! Morning! Wacha doing?
Kagome smiled at her silly antics, she's a young lady now and she's still this childish. She then remembers about the bracelet, she began rummaging her backpack with her uninjured hand.
The stoplight went red and Sesshoumaru took out his cell phone, he smiled slightly.
Sess: I'm driving my girlfriend to school.
He felt proud when he typed "my girlfriend" there, it seems like he's the luckiest person in the world to have her, yeah well, it's fake and we know it.
"Aha!" She whispered happily when she found what she's seeking for, she smiled even brighter when her cell phone vibrated. She opened the message and was somewhat jealous of the girl he had. 'Oh come on Kagome! Grow up! He's just a textmate! Why do you care of his personal life?' her mind lectured her, she decided not to counter back for she knew herself that it was useless.
Kag: Heh okay, I'll text you later. My boyfriend is driving me to school too!
She was tempted to say "pretend boyfriend" but shook her head, what if this boy is a guy studying in their school? Then their plan would be a disastrous one!
"What's that?" Sesshoumaru's surprised her that she almost banged her head on the windowpane.
"Oh this?" she smiled and pulled the beads and dangled it on his line of view, "I made it last night, the other is for you." They stopped at the school parking lot and at the same time the world came into silence.
Kagome was busy fumbling with the ties that it slipped off her palms and landed on the driver's mat, she reached out and searched for it. Although there's nothing wrong with what she's doing, the outside world was definitely thinking about something else.
Kagome didn't notice that they're inside the school campus and was squealing happily and rambling about the bracelet.
"So Sesshou-kun, one for me and one for you. But before I tie this close make a wish first!" Kagome smiled excitedly, at first Sesshoumaru was making fun of her for believing such nonsense but she insists that it's nice to try; maybe his wish might come true!
"Fine." He mumbled and wished something under his breath, he nodded and Kagome pulled his arm close to her, his hand touching her tummy. Her arm haven't heal that much yet so she can't stretch her arms and needs all the help to tie the knot.
"Now don't tell anyone about that wish or it'll fail, don't remove this even if you're taking a... uh... you know! Hehe..." she laughed nervously, Sesshoumaru smiled at her wariness.
"Now your turn." He snatched the bracelet, Kagome glared at him but closed her eyes. She opened them after a while and thrust her wrist at him, he tied the knot and purposely let his hand linger on her own. Kagome stared at him hotly and reluctantly withdrew her hand from his. He didn't say anything and got off the car, he rounded at her place and opened the door for her.
"Thanks." She mumbled, "Hey are you sure this will work? I'm already receiving weird glances not to mention scary glares." She shivered at the thought of having a war on the corridor again.
"Don't worry, this time no one will touch you." Sesshoumaru growled possessively, silently vowing to himself to protect her. Kagome snickered and elbowed him on the ribs.
"Be careful, I might start believing that you're really serious with this." She chuckled.
"Let's just wait and see." He mumbled and pressed her closer to his body when they entered the lobby, everyone stared at them unbelievably.
"Err Sesshou? I don't think this is really a good idea..." she whispered, the man beside her nudge her and whispered only she could hear.
"Kiss."
She gasped quietly and silently cursed him, 'Damn him, he's making this harder than it is.' She thought angrily and tip toed and kissed him on the cheek, she felt his cool cheek became warm all of the sudden so she withdrew. They could hear gasps and whispers after that.
"Omigod! She already did it with Sesshoumaru-sama!" A girl whispered loudly, she received a glare from Sango. The bitch stared at Sango as she gestured her to look down, Sango raised her middle finger at her and snickered.
"I can't believe you're being such a jerk! You said it on purpose!" Kagome huffed and crossed her arms over her chest. Sesshoumaru just smirked and remained silent.
Kagome saw her friend from afar and bid farewell to Sesshoumaru but he shook his head, she began to pout but Sango came beside her and reassured Sesshoumaru that she'll protect her friend whatever happens. He was reluctant to leave but nodded and kissed her, on the cheek of course!
"Now spill." Sango tapped her foot on the cold cement impatiently.
"Heheh..." Kagome smiled nervously, "Nothing special happened." She yelped in pain when Sango lightly punched her bruised shoulder.
"Oh! I forgot about that!" Sango rolled her eyes sarcastically, "Now will you please tell me what happen?" Kagome grumbled something under her breath.
"As I told you in our chat yesterday, it's all fake."
"Uh huh I know about that! However I remembered nothing about you mentioning about kisses and rides? And how come he acts like he's very protective of you, not that it's bad." Sango whispered as she and Kagome walk silently to their locker, eyeing the others warily.
"We promised because he said that it would be obvious that we're faking if we don't have physical contact, but of course my lips are restricted!" Kagome giggled, earning several glares from the Sesshoumaru fan club, Kagome hid behind Sango, but Sango being the tough one punched the nearby locker with all her might earning several "eeps!" from the girls.
"That's what you'll get from me if you do anything to my friend! Got it?!" she yelled angrily, the girls nodded fearfully and scram towards their lockers. Kagome stared at her with tearful eyes.
"Thanks Sango. You're really a great friend!" Sango smiled at her and told her to go to the comfort room first with her, Kagome nodded happily and bounce her way towards the comfort room.
When they were in the comfort room and no sign of any girls, Sango closed the door and screamed. Kagome immediately covered her ears with her hands.
"DAMN THAT SLUTS! THAT PUNCH HURTS! DAMN THEM ALL!!!!" she yelled and blew her throbbing fist, Kagome removed her hands from her ears and laughed merrily, slightly concerned about her friend.
"Oh my god I can't believe you! I was starting to think that you're really a macho girl but gods, you're fake!" She continued laughing, Sango glared at her but laughed at herself too.
"Well, that will teach them! Oww..." she groaned and caressed her bruising fist. Kagome smiled and opened the door.
"Come on we'll go to the clinic and get some ice, I'll try to find Miroku to help you to your class."
"There's no need to search for me, for Mr. Handsome is here!" Miroku presented himself proudly in front of them, Sango rolled her eyes and glared at him but was happy that he's here to help her.
"Were you stalking us?" Kagome asked suspiciously, Miroku's eyebrow twitched in response.
"I was merely passing by when I heard Sango yelled, I was really worried." He placed a hand on his heart and removed it; he then luckily reached for Sango's uninjured hand and placed it on his chest.
"W-wha?" Sango's eyes widen.
"See? My heart is beating fast! I was really worried." His brows furrowed together in a fake manner. Sango's brow twitched madly and Kagome held her bruised fist to stop her from attacking the pervert. Sango snatched her hand back from his grasp and glared at him.
"You're lucky for my hand is not in the right condition now or you'll be dead." Sango muttered angrily and started to walk towards the clinic room. Miroku's playful look dramatically turned serious and jogged beside her.
"Why what happen to you? Did anyone hurt you?" his voice sounded very worried that Sango almost felt light headed, 'One minute he's being a pervert and now he's like this, gods help me.' She thought silently, Miroku stared at her worriedly and without warning scooped her in his arms; Sango let out a yelp and quickly attached her arms around his neck.
"Hey put me down! Pervert! Heeeeelp!!!" she yelled, bonking his head with her fist, Kagome giggled at the scene they made.
"Don't worry Kagome, I'll take care of her." Miroku yelled behind his back, Kagome shouted her thanks and walked down the corner and bumped into Sesshoumaru.
"Oh I was about to look for you." Kagome smiled and entwined their hands; Sesshoumaru raised an eyes brow at her.
"I thought you don't want to be too bold?" He shook his head at her confusedly.
"Hehe well, it's only pretend so let's make it happy will it last!" Kagome giggled and leaned her head on his arm and sighed heavily.
'I do hope my wish comes true, if this is all but a dream then please don't wake me up...'
'I think I'm beginning to take this one seriously, I just hope my wishes don't go fiasco.'
TBC
Yay! I know this chapter is kinda short but well... I think it's worth it. About the poem, I wrote it! I know it doesn't rhyme but who cares? Haha!
Review responses: (From now on I won't mention much, just the names of reviewers. Just those who did ask some questions would be separated.)
The Late Dark Nadeshiko, maxi, Lei-yu, j-chan, TortureInLife, eddie4, gina, anim3-for3v3r, Chaos Babe, Lasako, Dragon Rae, Onigiri2, darksesshy, darkmikodemon, ..., OtakuMuses, Rushyuo, Dragonruler212, Chuujitsu, The-piro-16
Aniyuka – about Kouga... hmmm I'm thinking of something now! Hehe tnx for suggesting!
DimmingBlackRose – hmmm Kag is not stupid, it's just that there's so many people in the world and she might make a fool of herself if she's going to ask Sesshoumaru if he's her txtmate. What if he's not?
Sanosuke Hidane – haha it's nice to know you can speak my language! Oh yea I have a friend here (hong kong), her name is Amy Okuno and she's helping me with my Japanese! Really cool!
DemonWicca – actually I find you really funny, haha I have a weird sense of humor and I'm glad I made you laugh, oh yeah Kagome and Sesshy would know each other, I don't know really what I'm suppose to do. Haha.
Hokuikai – about your question, the answer is yes, I have a secret to tell you... errr well it's not a secret now. What I do is I imagine the scene in my head whenever I'm bored or taking a bath, it really helps knowing the scenes playing in your own la-la land. And more effective before you sleep! I don't know about you but I manage to come this far by imagining my story before I sleep, cuz sometimes I dreamt of it. Try it! I hope that helps!
Haha I have a question to all you guys, please answer this on your review!
What would you like to be the first to be revealed?
Txt mate
Chat mate
The whole school knowing that it's all fake, I mean the relationship
If you chose 3 to be the first, then the whole story would likely take so long for them to realize that they're somewhat connected. So I think 1 and 2 would be more accurate.
Review please!
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