InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Hanyou Reborn, Kagome's Change of Heart ❯ Are Those Dog Ears? ( Chapter 8 )
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By: BlueDayDreamer678 
Here is chapter eight, enjoy. And Please review!!!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Drama / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.25.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 1.7K | Status: Completed
Here is chapter eight, enjoy. And Please review!!!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Drama / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.25.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 1.7K | Status: Completed
“YOU!!,” Inuyasha shouted. He pointed a clawed finger at the startled man. “DAMN YOU KOGA!”.
Kagome became extremely nervous by his reaction and quickly jumped in front of Corey’s fear stricken body. She glared at Inuyasha.
“No Inuyasha. Calm down,” She said to him warningly. He just stared at her, his hands falling to clench at his side. Behind her the Koga look alike watched him with wide fearful blue eyes. Inuyasha gave a satisfied grunt, before he reached out and grabbed Kagome. She gave a shriek as he pulled her to him in a fierce hug.
“Don’t even think of touching her. She’s mine,” He growled fiercely. Kagome’s cheeks grew red with both embarrassment and anger, as she pulled away from him. Inuyasha looked at her surprised, but the look on her face soon gave him the impression he had done something terribly wrong.
“Inuyasha, You jerk”. She glared at him angrily and punched him in the chest, as hard as she could. He winced, backing away from her an indignant look on his face.
“What the hell was that for, Bitch!!,” He yelled at her. Her glare intensified and Inuyasha looked at her fearfully, as she opened her mouth again.
“Inuyasha, sit boy!”. As soon as the words left her mouth Kagome knew she had made a mistake. Inuyasha hit the floor with such a force his baseball hat flew off his head, and landed at her feet. Kagome stared wide eyed at the hat, and then at the hanyou laying on the floor before her.
“A-Are those dog ears?,” Came the dreaded question from the male behind her. She turned to him, and met his gaze.
“Um…,” Was her response. Corey just looked from her to the hanyou on the floor with interest. His blue eyes came back to her and a large smile light up his once confused face.
“Are they real?,” He asked. Kagome blinked.
“Well, um…,” She fumbled for a response but before she found one for him, a grumbled string of curses behind her gained her attention as Inuyasha got to his feet, rubbing his chin where it hit the ground.
“What the hell, wench?!?,” He said incredulously. Kagome ducked down to the ground to pick up his hat and then shoved it back on his head.
“Please Inuyasha just be calm,” She begged him.
“I won’t be until you tell me why the hell you’re always saving his ass!!,” He shouted back at her. Corey approached the fuming hanyou, and offered him his hand.
“I am very pleased to meet you. My name is Corey,” He said to him happily. Inuyasha regarded him with a queer look, before he crossed his arms over his chest and grunted in his irritation.
“I can say I’m not so pleased to see you. You wimpy-,” He stopped himself though, as he realized what the man had said. He sniffed the air, his eyes widening. “You’re not him,” He concluded, staring at the man before him. Corey just smiled and dropped his hand.
“Kagome, your friend here is quite rude,” He said to her. Kagome laughed.
“He’s not into art,” She told him bluntly, and then her look turned to one of worry as she continued, “ Corey, could you please just keep what you saw today to yourself?”. Corey gave her a kind smile.
“Oh, of course. I was just surprised is all. I‘ve never met anyone with such, interesting appendeges,” He said to her. His eyes were trained on Inuyasha, well more like Inuyasha’s head. He turned back to Kagome and leaned closer to her ear.
“Might I…look at them again?,” He asked her. Kagome bit her lip pensively, and then caught Inuyasha’s eye. He glared at her furiously and she just shook her head.
“I think not. Inuyasha doesn’t like to flaunt his appendages,” She told him. Corey nodded, a flicker of disappointment crossing his features.
“I see,” He replied. Inuyasha growled at him, before he turned his back to them completely. Kagome could tell he was mad about her closeness to Corey and the fact she had sat him.
“Corey, would you be so kind as to show me around your studio?,” She asked. A smile found it’s way back onto his face and he gladly agreed. Kagome left Inuyasha to himself, so to give him time to calm down and perhaps to forgive her for losing her temper.
Corey showed her each painting in the studio, going into full detail about the inspirations and the reason he chose the colors he did. He was very passionate about his work, and Kagome admired that about him. She couldn’t help but wonder how Koga’s reincarnation could be so calm and open minded, where Koga had been so gruff and violent at times. But then she thought of how he had always treated her so kindly and cared for her, and she thought it was nice his better qualities were present in Corey.
“I have one I just started working on. I think you might like it,” He told her. She smiled at him as he lead her to a small room that was stacked with blanks canvases and paints. He lead her to a covered canvas and then stood her before it as he went to unveil it.
Kagome gasped as a familiar face came into view. It was a portrait of her. The colors were of blues and violets, mixed with reds and oranges. She could tell it wasn’t finished, but still she stared at it, feeling tears form in her eyes.
“Oh, Corey it’s beautiful,” She said. Corey smiled at her.
“I started sketching it after we first ran into each other. You were so beautiful and inspiring. I had been hoping to get you down here so I could finish it,” He told her. Kagome smiled.
“It looks so much like me. And you were just going by the few times we saw each other. You truly are a talented artist,” She said in wonder. Corey blushed just faintly at her comment and turned to stare at the painting.
“Thanks,” He replied. A moment of silence passed between them as they admired the art and then Kagome sighed.
“I guess we should go and find Inuyasha. I’m sure he’s done fuming by now,” She said. Corey nodded, and followed Kagome out of the room and back into the large studio. Kagome saw that Inuyasha still standing in the spot where she left him. He was gazing intently at the large painting before him, an almost saddened look on his face.
“Inuyasha?,” She called to him. He turned to face her the sad look quickly replaced by a scowl. She approached him and stood beside him looking at the painting.
“Reminds me of the past,” She said quietly. Inuyasha huffed and turned to face the glass doors. Kagome sighed and faced Corey, placing a gentle smile on her face.
“Thank you so much for sharing your paintings with me. I really enjoyed them,” She thanked him. She leaned forward and gave him a quick hug before she left, Inuyasha following close behind. Corey watched them go, feeling a pang of jealousy toward the male who left with her, but it faded and he went to work on his painting of Kagome.
Inuyasha refused to talk to her the whole way home, and then even when they arrived back at the apartment. Kagome felt she deserved his cold shoulder, but still she couldn’t help but feel sad that he was so angry at her. She made them dinner, Ramen and chicken and then she retired to bed leaving Inuyasha to himself.
As Kagome sat in her room she could here Inuyasha flipping through the television channels, pausing ever so often to watch something, and then switch it. She laid back in her bed, and tried to concentrate on anything but the hanyou sitting in the other room.
‘I can’t believe Corey was so calm after seeing Inuyasha’s ears,’ She thought to herself. She had to wander though if he would truly keep their secret. He seemed to be kind and trusting, but sometimes that can be misleading. She had no choice but to trust him, besides it’s not like someone would believe him, right?
Inuyasha sighed to himself. He was bored of watching television, but he didn’t want to go to his room, it was too empty and lonely. He wanted nothing more then to make up with Kagome and tell her that he wanted to stay in her room. But he was being stubborn, he wanted to teach her a lesson for humiliating him in front of that Koga look alike. But he felt that this punishment was mostly affecting him. She had retired to bed hours ago, and he had heard no noise from her, suggesting she was sound asleep.
He sighed and turned off the TV as he got to his feet. He picked up his empty Ramen bowl and went to throw it away in the kitchen before he headed to his room. He stripped down quickly and put on a pair of loose sweat pants and a baggy night shirt. He sat down on his bed, and glanced at Tetsusaiga hanging on his wall.
“This is stupid,” He muttered to himself. He looked out the window and saw the half moon hanging low in the sky. He knew he had done wrong by reacting as he did, and he felt a pang of hurt in his chest as he thought of how Kagome had jumped protected that human, and how she had so easily left him so to look at paintings with that guy. Kagome should of told him he was going to meet Koga’s reincarnation, because then he could of flat out refused. But perhaps she had wanted him to meet the man, surely he was far different from the wimpy wolf, but still just his obvious attraction to Kagome was enough for him to hate the guy. Inuyasha knew that brooding over it wasn’t going to make Kagome talk to him again, so he slid off his bed and crept down to her room.
Her door was ajar and he pushed it open, standing there for a moment to watch her sleep. She was sleeping in the middle of the large bed, laying on her side facing the door. He smiled at the peaceful look on her face as he crept closer to the bed, and crouched beside it. He rested his chin on it’s edge and just watched her for the longest time.
“I’m sorry Kagome,” He muttered to her sleeping face. She stirred then, her brown eye fluttering open to meet his gold ones. He half expected her to sit him, but then relief flowed over him as she smiled at him kindly.
“What’s wrong?,” She asked him. He sighed, looking into her eyes.
“I’m lonely in my room”.
Kagome became extremely nervous by his reaction and quickly jumped in front of Corey’s fear stricken body. She glared at Inuyasha.
“No Inuyasha. Calm down,” She said to him warningly. He just stared at her, his hands falling to clench at his side. Behind her the Koga look alike watched him with wide fearful blue eyes. Inuyasha gave a satisfied grunt, before he reached out and grabbed Kagome. She gave a shriek as he pulled her to him in a fierce hug.
“Don’t even think of touching her. She’s mine,” He growled fiercely. Kagome’s cheeks grew red with both embarrassment and anger, as she pulled away from him. Inuyasha looked at her surprised, but the look on her face soon gave him the impression he had done something terribly wrong.
“Inuyasha, You jerk”. She glared at him angrily and punched him in the chest, as hard as she could. He winced, backing away from her an indignant look on his face.
“What the hell was that for, Bitch!!,” He yelled at her. Her glare intensified and Inuyasha looked at her fearfully, as she opened her mouth again.
“Inuyasha, sit boy!”. As soon as the words left her mouth Kagome knew she had made a mistake. Inuyasha hit the floor with such a force his baseball hat flew off his head, and landed at her feet. Kagome stared wide eyed at the hat, and then at the hanyou laying on the floor before her.
“A-Are those dog ears?,” Came the dreaded question from the male behind her. She turned to him, and met his gaze.
“Um…,” Was her response. Corey just looked from her to the hanyou on the floor with interest. His blue eyes came back to her and a large smile light up his once confused face.
“Are they real?,” He asked. Kagome blinked.
“Well, um…,” She fumbled for a response but before she found one for him, a grumbled string of curses behind her gained her attention as Inuyasha got to his feet, rubbing his chin where it hit the ground.
“What the hell, wench?!?,” He said incredulously. Kagome ducked down to the ground to pick up his hat and then shoved it back on his head.
“Please Inuyasha just be calm,” She begged him.
“I won’t be until you tell me why the hell you’re always saving his ass!!,” He shouted back at her. Corey approached the fuming hanyou, and offered him his hand.
“I am very pleased to meet you. My name is Corey,” He said to him happily. Inuyasha regarded him with a queer look, before he crossed his arms over his chest and grunted in his irritation.
“I can say I’m not so pleased to see you. You wimpy-,” He stopped himself though, as he realized what the man had said. He sniffed the air, his eyes widening. “You’re not him,” He concluded, staring at the man before him. Corey just smiled and dropped his hand.
“Kagome, your friend here is quite rude,” He said to her. Kagome laughed.
“He’s not into art,” She told him bluntly, and then her look turned to one of worry as she continued, “ Corey, could you please just keep what you saw today to yourself?”. Corey gave her a kind smile.
“Oh, of course. I was just surprised is all. I‘ve never met anyone with such, interesting appendeges,” He said to her. His eyes were trained on Inuyasha, well more like Inuyasha’s head. He turned back to Kagome and leaned closer to her ear.
“Might I…look at them again?,” He asked her. Kagome bit her lip pensively, and then caught Inuyasha’s eye. He glared at her furiously and she just shook her head.
“I think not. Inuyasha doesn’t like to flaunt his appendages,” She told him. Corey nodded, a flicker of disappointment crossing his features.
“I see,” He replied. Inuyasha growled at him, before he turned his back to them completely. Kagome could tell he was mad about her closeness to Corey and the fact she had sat him.
“Corey, would you be so kind as to show me around your studio?,” She asked. A smile found it’s way back onto his face and he gladly agreed. Kagome left Inuyasha to himself, so to give him time to calm down and perhaps to forgive her for losing her temper.
Corey showed her each painting in the studio, going into full detail about the inspirations and the reason he chose the colors he did. He was very passionate about his work, and Kagome admired that about him. She couldn’t help but wonder how Koga’s reincarnation could be so calm and open minded, where Koga had been so gruff and violent at times. But then she thought of how he had always treated her so kindly and cared for her, and she thought it was nice his better qualities were present in Corey.
“I have one I just started working on. I think you might like it,” He told her. She smiled at him as he lead her to a small room that was stacked with blanks canvases and paints. He lead her to a covered canvas and then stood her before it as he went to unveil it.
Kagome gasped as a familiar face came into view. It was a portrait of her. The colors were of blues and violets, mixed with reds and oranges. She could tell it wasn’t finished, but still she stared at it, feeling tears form in her eyes.
“Oh, Corey it’s beautiful,” She said. Corey smiled at her.
“I started sketching it after we first ran into each other. You were so beautiful and inspiring. I had been hoping to get you down here so I could finish it,” He told her. Kagome smiled.
“It looks so much like me. And you were just going by the few times we saw each other. You truly are a talented artist,” She said in wonder. Corey blushed just faintly at her comment and turned to stare at the painting.
“Thanks,” He replied. A moment of silence passed between them as they admired the art and then Kagome sighed.
“I guess we should go and find Inuyasha. I’m sure he’s done fuming by now,” She said. Corey nodded, and followed Kagome out of the room and back into the large studio. Kagome saw that Inuyasha still standing in the spot where she left him. He was gazing intently at the large painting before him, an almost saddened look on his face.
“Inuyasha?,” She called to him. He turned to face her the sad look quickly replaced by a scowl. She approached him and stood beside him looking at the painting.
“Reminds me of the past,” She said quietly. Inuyasha huffed and turned to face the glass doors. Kagome sighed and faced Corey, placing a gentle smile on her face.
“Thank you so much for sharing your paintings with me. I really enjoyed them,” She thanked him. She leaned forward and gave him a quick hug before she left, Inuyasha following close behind. Corey watched them go, feeling a pang of jealousy toward the male who left with her, but it faded and he went to work on his painting of Kagome.
Inuyasha refused to talk to her the whole way home, and then even when they arrived back at the apartment. Kagome felt she deserved his cold shoulder, but still she couldn’t help but feel sad that he was so angry at her. She made them dinner, Ramen and chicken and then she retired to bed leaving Inuyasha to himself.
As Kagome sat in her room she could here Inuyasha flipping through the television channels, pausing ever so often to watch something, and then switch it. She laid back in her bed, and tried to concentrate on anything but the hanyou sitting in the other room.
‘I can’t believe Corey was so calm after seeing Inuyasha’s ears,’ She thought to herself. She had to wander though if he would truly keep their secret. He seemed to be kind and trusting, but sometimes that can be misleading. She had no choice but to trust him, besides it’s not like someone would believe him, right?
Inuyasha sighed to himself. He was bored of watching television, but he didn’t want to go to his room, it was too empty and lonely. He wanted nothing more then to make up with Kagome and tell her that he wanted to stay in her room. But he was being stubborn, he wanted to teach her a lesson for humiliating him in front of that Koga look alike. But he felt that this punishment was mostly affecting him. She had retired to bed hours ago, and he had heard no noise from her, suggesting she was sound asleep.
He sighed and turned off the TV as he got to his feet. He picked up his empty Ramen bowl and went to throw it away in the kitchen before he headed to his room. He stripped down quickly and put on a pair of loose sweat pants and a baggy night shirt. He sat down on his bed, and glanced at Tetsusaiga hanging on his wall.
“This is stupid,” He muttered to himself. He looked out the window and saw the half moon hanging low in the sky. He knew he had done wrong by reacting as he did, and he felt a pang of hurt in his chest as he thought of how Kagome had jumped protected that human, and how she had so easily left him so to look at paintings with that guy. Kagome should of told him he was going to meet Koga’s reincarnation, because then he could of flat out refused. But perhaps she had wanted him to meet the man, surely he was far different from the wimpy wolf, but still just his obvious attraction to Kagome was enough for him to hate the guy. Inuyasha knew that brooding over it wasn’t going to make Kagome talk to him again, so he slid off his bed and crept down to her room.
Her door was ajar and he pushed it open, standing there for a moment to watch her sleep. She was sleeping in the middle of the large bed, laying on her side facing the door. He smiled at the peaceful look on her face as he crept closer to the bed, and crouched beside it. He rested his chin on it’s edge and just watched her for the longest time.
“I’m sorry Kagome,” He muttered to her sleeping face. She stirred then, her brown eye fluttering open to meet his gold ones. He half expected her to sit him, but then relief flowed over him as she smiled at him kindly.
“What’s wrong?,” She asked him. He sighed, looking into her eyes.
“I’m lonely in my room”.