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Between The Lines
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Between The Lines

By: Maggz

Disclaimer: InuYasha and Co. � Rumiko Takahashi. I'm just a poor woman with an overactive imagination.

Author Note: Hey guys! Sorry for the late update� I wanted to finish with chapter 11 so I could upload them both. I'm not sure if I'll be able to update again before Christmas, so just in case happy holidays to all� As for this double update, all I can say is: lots of fluff and confrontations *mwahahaha*

Read, enjoy and don't forget to review!

Maggz
Chapter 10

Kagome sat in her car, on the passenger side, window rolled down and feet up in the seat. Kouga pulled his sunglasses down over his eyes as he walked out the front door of the house and stopped in front of the car, his eyes on her.

"You want me to drive?", he asked.

"You are so smart, Kouga, that at times you must surprise yourself!", she said with a smirk and then jerked her thumb toward the driver's seat. "Drive. I don't feel like it.", she said.

"I'd say you and I are making a right bit of progress, Kagome. You trust me to drive your car. Cool!", he said and started the engine.

She just shook her head, sighed and turned to stare out the window. He backed the car out of the space and looked at her as he moved out of the parking lot. He wondered what InuYasha had said or done to make her so sad. He started to say something, to ask her if she was OK and just shut his mouth. He knew her well enough by now to know when to say something and when to keep his trap shut. This was one of those times and he didn't need hitting over the head to realize that.

He took one last look at her and drove toward the village giving her the space she seemed to need. Turning into the first 24 hour breakfast place he knew of, he cut the engine and sat back.

She turned to look at him and he saw the confusion and pain in her eyes. He lifted his hand to her cheek and stroked down it. "Hungry, Kagome?", he smiled.

"Mmm, yeah. Wonder will we get sick eating this stuff after we drank like sailors last night?", she asked him and reached for his hand. He was sure she would take it away, he was used to that by now from her and it didn't deter him in the least. He KNEW she cared, she was just confused. Well, so was he� they should get along just fine in the world. Instead, she held his hand against her face and closed her eyes for a moment. Everything in his body told him to kiss her, just lean forward in the damned seat and KISS HER. But something else told him not to and he sighed.

"Let's go get sick together. Then if you're a good girl, I'll let you lick spray cream off me!", he grinned, winking at her as he slid his hand away from her and got out of the car.

"Damn, Kouga, now THAT just makes me sick right there!", she shuddered playfully and he laughed, watching as she walked around the car toward him. He smiled at her and put his arm around her shoulders, walking with her toward breakfast.

They waited to be seated and found themselves standing in front of the jukebox, arguing over what song to play.

"Play Drowning by the Backstreet Boys!", she said, trying to take the coin from his hand.

"Hell no!", he frowned, pulling the quarter higher than her head and laughing when she reached for it.

"Kouga, I love that song�", she whined and started to dig in the pocket of her shorts for her own money.

"Spare me the mushy girlie details. Play some REAL music, some Journey, Bon Jovi�", he said as he quickly slid the coin into the slot. She leaned over him quick as a flash and having remembered the numbers to key in for the song, pressed them.

"Well, FUCK!", Kouga shouted and several heads turned toward them.

Kagome laughed and pressed her hand across his mouth. He glanced around the place and smiled quickly in apology before taking her hand away and squeezing it in his own.

"Thank you, Romeo.", she smiled sweetly as their table was readied.

"You owe me a freaking dance tonight at the club then. No going back on it, I mean it.", he said as she sank down in the seat. "Can I sit beside you or do you want me across from you?", he asked.

"Hmm, tough choice. If you sit across from me I have to look at you while I eat. But if you sit beside me, I have to worry about those busy hands of yours.", she said with a look at his hands now stuffed into his pockets. He was looking down at her, his lower lip just barely poking out and she closed her eyes and smiled.

"Sit beside me but if you TOUCH me...", she warned and he grinned, having got his way with her.

"I will NOT touch you� if I can help it.", he added as he slid in next to her.

"Something to drink?", the waitress asked and Kouga looked up, smiling.

"Got hot chocolate?", he asked, grunting as Kagome elbowed him. "Sorry, Coke would be good for me. Kagome?", he asked, turning to grin at her.

"Milk. Large. With ice, please.", she said and looked at Kouga as he made a face.

"Milk with ICE? God, Kagome. That sounds� dunno�", he said.

"Well YOU aren't drinking it are you, Kouga?", she said.

"Nope, I'm not.", he said and pushed himself comfortably down in the seat.

"You said you wanted to sketch today?", he asked.

"Yeah, do you mind?", she asked.

He looked at her hand, lying on the table and slid his up to cover it.

"You know I don't. I like spending time with you, you know that. It's fun, you keep me on my toes!", he smiled. "But can I ask a favor?", he said softly as he looked down, then back up at her thru his lashes.

"Kouga? Do you DO things like that on purpose?", she smiled.

"Do what on purpose?", he asked her, tilting his head.

"That! You know� THAT!", she said and he shook his head in confusion.

"Don't TELL me you don't know what I'm talking about, that makes me think for sure you're nothing BUT a player!", she laughed.

"But I DON'T know, what do you mean?", he laughed.

"That eye thing, that flirty shy thing you do. It's so� hmm� Sorry, I'm not gonna fall for it, forget it!", she said, shaking her head.

"Fall for what?", he asked.

"You just want me to say something like that so you can hold it over my head later! I know you!", she laughed.

"Kagome? I'm confused!", he huffed.

"But so cute when you are.", she laughed. "What were you going to ask me BEFORE you did the EYE thing at me?", she asked.

"I� well� Shit, I forgot now!", he said.

"You said you didn't mind posing for me today. Then you asked me for a favor, NOT one of the sexual kind!", she grinned.

"Oh, yeah. I wanted to ask you if you'd go ride go-karts with me. Would you?", he asked.

His eyes had lit up at once when he'd told her what he wanted and she couldn't help but think how much like a little boy he seemed. Go-Karts. It had been ages since she'd done that. It sounded like fun.

"Yeah, I'll race Karts with you! Sure!", she smiled and watched as the waitress sat their drinks down in front of them. Kouga took a sip of his Coke and looked at her from the corner of his eye when he felt her staring at him.

"What?", he asked, sitting his drink down.

"Nothing.", she said and smiled.

"Tell me.", he insisted.

"Oh, I was just wondering how long it had been since you'd been to bed with a girl without actually doing the deed!", she laughed and leaned over to sip her milk through the long pink straw that had been placed in it.

He watched her lips slip around the straw, kept his eyes on her as she closed her eyes and swallowed and felt himself stiffen.

"Jeez, Kagome.", he said and looked away from her. Sometimes he wondered how he could keep his hands off her when all he wanted to do right at that moment was TOUCH her and kiss her and love her up right.

"So? Are you ever gonna tell me about HER?", she asked, reaching over to tuck a few strands of stray fringe behind his ear. He closed his eyes, breathed deeply, then opened them and looked at her.

"After we eat. Then I'll talk.", he said. He watched her eyes change color, from the soft chocolate brown they were to dark brown.

"What do you two want to eat today?", the waitress asked as she came back to their table.

"Bacon, eggs, toast and jam.", Kouga smiled.

"The same.", Kagome said when it came her turn.

Kouga watched the waitress walk away, his mind a million miles from where he now sat, drifting�

"�Every time I breathe, I take you in. And my heart beats again. Baby, I can't help it. You keep me drowning in your love. And every time I try to rise above, I'm swept away by love, baby I can't help it, you keep me drowning in your love...", Kagome sang the chorus of the song she'd stolen at the juke box and he turned to grin at her.

"I can't imagine life without your love. And even forever, don't seem like long enough�", she smiled at him as she sang. He leaned over impulsively and placed a kiss on her mouth just as she started into another verse.

"What was THAT for since I told you no touching?", she asked, her eyes twinkling.

"I don't know.", he said and looked down at his drink.

Kagome looked at him, his face in profile as he kept his gaze down. What made this man tick? What made him do and say the things he did and what was behind the pain she sometimes saw in his blue eyes? She badly needed her heart to slow down, needed to take the time to figure out what it was between she and Kouga that kept them "at" each other but not able to stay away. It was as if they were drawn together and she could feel the restraints she'd placed on herself very long ago, snapping loose.

"Here you go�", filled plates being sat down in front of them broke her train of thought as she picked up her fork and dug into the steaming plate of food.

"Hungry, baby-girl?", Kouga smiled as he shoveled his own into his mouth.

"Mhmm� so good�", she mumbled as she sipped from the straw once more.

"Kouga?", she asked, once she'd swallowed.

He glanced at her and kept eating.

"Never mind.", she said and turned her attention back to her plate.

"You know, Kagome. THAT is a pet peeve of mine. Somebody starting a conversation and then giving me the "never mind". I HATE that!", he frowned.

"It goes with the subject matter we'll discuss after we eat, I didn't wanna ruin your appetite.", she said matter-of-factly.

"Good.", he said and busied himself with finishing off his plate of food.

Stomachs full, they left the restaurant and drove toward the park. Kagome pulled her backpack from the back seat of the car and started walking toward the big tree that'd sat at a few days before. Kouga watched her walking ahead of him, head up, eyes straight ahead, hips swinging from side to side for his pleasure.

"Ok, sit for me.", she said, turning to him and pointing to a spot underneath the tree. He sank down, crossing his feet Indian style and pulling at the grass.

"Lean against the trunk.", she said as she dug around in her pack. She soon had a fresh pencil and her pad in her hands and she sat across from him, placing her pad on her knees.

She looked at him and he could tell she wasn't really THERE with him anymore, just like she hadn't been really THERE with him for a bit of the night before when she`d sketched him. He could feel it; it was like a change in the air. She was in her own little world and he realized it bothered him. Where did Kagome go when she pulled herself away? Why could she hide so easily inside herself when she felt the urge to? Didn't she feel safe enough with him to let herself just go freely?

"How did you meet her?", she broke into his thoughts, startling him.

"Meet? Oh, well� I moved to America last year to live with my uncle who owns a steel manufacturing plant there.", he said.

"Oh, so money is in the Shimura family then�", she frowned down at her pad, looking up at him once again to get her view exactly as she wanted it.

"Not scads but yeah, he's got money. I'd never traveled to America and I felt the need to get away for awhile so I did. I ended up working in the plant for him, saving my money, enjoyed myself. He's my favorite uncle, you know. It had been five years since I'd seen him.", he smiled.

She quickly moved to sketch his mouth and filled in the smile on her pad.

"So how did you fare with the American girls?", she asked him, working on the tilt of his head.

"Girls? Same as here, really� played the field� yeah, I was a PLAYA!", he teased her and she looked quickly at him, smiling. She was back in his world now and he loved it. He loved it so much he crawled quickly across the grass to her and knocked her gently to her back, amid her protestations, of course.

Leaning over her he brushed the hair from her eyes that had escaped from her headband and reached down, taking the sketch pad and pencil from her hands, placing them beside her.

"I have to kiss you. You know that, right?", he asked, his voice low and husky as he brought his face closer to hers.

"No, I didn't know that� but I think I do now.", she whispered, cupping his face in her palms.

"Kagome�", he said softly as he laid against her and pressed his lips to hers. He could feel the pressure of her fingers against his jaw, then the movement as they slid up to his ears and into his hair. She sighed into his mouth, opening it up to him. He wrapped his arm tightly around her waist - and pressed himself against her hip, slipping his tongue carefully against her lips as he prolonged the kiss.

Her mind was racing, her body fevered. She WANTED him. More than anything she'd ever wanted before. Something in him just pulled at her very core. Something she couldn`t comprehend. He fascinated her, everything about him just ensnared her further and further into his very being.

He moaned into her mouth, sending shivers down her spine. She could feel his hands moving over her back, sliding underneath her top and connecting with the soft skin there. She gasped. If just his touch could affect her that way- his KISS- then what would happen if he made love to her� all the way?

"K-I-S-S-I-N-G!", interrupted their sweet moment. Kouga looked up quickly, seeing three pairs of eyes on them.

"What the HELL are you doing standing right there?", he growled. He was stiff, swollen inside the confines of his jeans; he wanted her mouth underneath his again� right then!

"Playing ball.", one of the three young boys that had broken into their moment grinned.

"Play somewhere else!", Kouga said firmly.

"That's gross!", one of the other boys chirped.

"It is, aye? Then why're you standing looking at it?", Kouga asked.

"Our ball rolled over here, right THERE!", the last boy pointed. Kouga turned to look and sure enough, the blue soccer ball lay against the trunk of the tree.

"Get it and go away.", Kouga said.

"Kouga�", Kagome admonished gently, a smile playing about her lips. He looked so darned cute when he was angry, she wondered briefly how to get him to pose for her with the same look she saw on his face at that particular moment.

He looked down, saw her smile and kissed the tip of her nose.

"YUCK!", all three boys chimed in together. Kouga's head shot up once more.

"The BALL!", he growled, pointing toward the tree. Giggling and sneaking looks at Kagome, they approached the tree slowly, as if afraid Kouga would suddenly make a move toward them. Once the tallest of the three had the ball in hand, they all shot off in the direction they had come.

Kagome lay looking up at Kouga as he watched them run into the distance and reached up to touch his face. He looked down at her and held her gaze for what seemed a very long time to her but was more likely mere seconds.

"Is it NOT meant for me to be with you at all, Kagome?", he asked softly.

"Kouga! Those were just children. I'll bet you did the exact same thing when you were small!", she frowned up at him.

"Kiss me again?", he asked.

"I'd love to but if we do, I'm afraid I'll never get this sketch done and time is running out, Kouga. I need to work on my masterpiece this coming weekend!", she said.

"You fancy having me naked, eh?", he grinned and swooped down to kiss her quickly anyway.

"Mmm, I won't complain but YOU must behave!", she said as he sat up and pulled her into a sitting position.

"I have a proposal for you.", he said as he settled himself back down into his original position against the tree trunk. "How `bout when I POSE nude, you WORK nude? You know, sit there naked and draw me.", he grinned wider.

"Kouga Shimura. I'm not going to give you the reply you seem so determined to pull from me. I have one word for you and that is, NO!", she said as she pulled her sketch pad to her knees once more.

He kept his eyes on her this time, wanting to SEE when she dropped away from him. As she lifted her gaze to his face, he felt it� felt it more than SAW it and his heart ached for some strange reason.

"So, go on with your story, Kouga. Back to where you said you had many lovely American girls ripe for the picking over there but only ONE that captured the true heart and soul of Kouga.", she murmured as she bit her lip and started to work once more.

He took a breath, looking out over the park. Keeping his eyes on the three boys that had destroyed his romantic moment with Kagome and he started to speak.

"Yeah, I worked for my uncle in the plant. I saved my money. I don't think I ever meant to STAY there, to LIVE there, but I had no definite plans for anything really. I dated around, went out with my friends too. Just had lotsa laughs. It was great.", he said.

"But then you met her.", Kagome said lowly and he cut his gaze back quickly toward her then, hoping to read in her expression that she was back with him. She wasn't but she WAS listening. He continued, hearing the sounds her pencil made as it scratched over the pad.

"Then I met her, yeah. Ayame.", he said and she heard him take another deep breath, this one much deeper and somehow more profound than the others since he'd started to speak. She debated on whether to stop him, wondered if it was as painful as it seemed to be. But the artist in her was soaking up every emotion he was offering and it was coming straight to the paper right before her very eyes.

"Ayame, nice name.", she said.

"Mmm, yeah, I suppose. Not pretty as Kagome by a long shot but nice.", he said. She smiled, not lifting her eyes from the paper. She was on a roll.

"I met her, she worked in my uncle's office. Do you remember when you were a little girl, Kagome? When you found something so special, so sweet, so perfect that you just wanted to hide it and keep it for yourself? You couldn't think of sharing it. It would somehow spoil the preciousness of it?", he asked her. She only nodded; she knew that feeling well and it made a lump come into her throat.

"That was what I felt with her. She was different somehow. I had no need to brag about her to my friends. I never offered or asked to bring her round them when we went out club hopping, she was MINE and I wanted it to be that way forever.", he said.

"You fell in love.", Kagome said, her heart in her throat.

"I don't honestly KNOW, Kagome. I'd never been in love before but I couldn't for the life of me figure out WHAT I felt for her. I knew I never wanted to be away from her, I could even see asking her to spend the rest of our lives together, it felt just� that� right.", he said and she noticed his hands clenched into fists at his sides as she quickly glanced up at him and back down. He was in his own place then, she let him continue.

"She was my secret and I kept her that way for over six months. One day, I was out shopping for underwear, for God sakes. New boxers. I saw her� For some reason, I didn't go up to her. It was like� I don't know, like I needed to just WATCH her� and so I hung back. It felt delicious. I could imagine telling her about it in bed later that night. Seemed somehow dark� but sensual. As I watched, a guy joined her and right before my eyes, they kissed. I was far enough away from her that she could've never spotted me, and I stayed there� watching. I could tell right off that this wasn't just some chance meeting between friends. These two were involved� heavily. I followed them to a small, watching from across the street as they sat at one of the outside tables. They couldn't keep their hands off each other� I couldn't breathe�", he said.

"Kouga�", Kagome spoke up, putting her pencil down along with her pad by her side and crawling to him on her knees. He caught her eyes and smiled, slow and sad, breaking her heart further.

"She was married, Kagome. Always had been. I kinda checked around, found it out and kept it all to myself. Then told my uncle I had decided to travel the States a bit more before coming home to Japan.", he said.

Kagome was at his side now and she reached for his hand, sliding one into both of hers. She sat on her knees, her eyes looking deeply into his.

"I left. Never saw her again. Never wanted to, honestly. I stayed on the road for another four months then came home. End of story.", he said.

"I'm so sorry, Kouga.", Kagome said.

"It's not your fault. It was a lesson to be learned. Everything in this world happens for a reason. I haven't figured out yet what THAT one was, but sooner or later it'll come to me. And I'm ok, Kagome. I really am. Leaving there and coming home kinda put it behind me.", he said as he tugged lightly on her hands holding his own.

"�but it never leaves�", she whispered.

"What did you say?", he asked and slipped his hand from hers, lifting a finger to her trembling chin. Her eyes were dark and wet with unshed tears and when she blinked, one slid down her left cheek like a brilliant raindrop.

"It's not important� Oh, Kouga, I wish I could take it away from you.", she said as she reached for him and threw her arms around his neck. He ducked his face into her shoulder, inhaling the flowery scent of her shampoo. She HAD made it better just by being there, letting him come into her life and become a friend.

"I'm sorry for making you talk about it. I thought� Oh crap, I don't know WHAT I thought. How could I have been so thoughtless!?", she whispered as she stroked the back of his hair.

"You didn't know, Kagome. We do these things to find out about each other, to get to know each other better. I can't find fault or blame with you for THAT!", he said.

"But I know it was hard for you.", she said. "Now I know why�"

"Wasn't so bad once I began telling you. Really. And you're the only person I've ever shared that with. Strange, eh?", he said as she sat back and looked into his eyes once more.

"Really?", she asked.

"Really, honest to God� only you.", he smiled, wiping a tear from her cheek with his finger.

"Forgive me?", she asked.

"Not one thing in this world to forgive you for, sweetheart. Now you know me better than you did before. Right? It's only natural. I don't regret telling you.", he said.

"Promise?", she asked.

"Swear it!", he smiled.

"Then we need to go have some fun. Let's go find the Go-Karts, Kouga.", she said and scrambled up, pulling him with her.

They spent the remainder of the day riding Go-Karts, finding a hotdog stand and grabbing foot long treats, eating each other's ice cream cones, and walking by the duck pond. Late afternoon found them lying under "their" tree once more. Kagome lay on her back, knees up, her head in Kouga's lap as he told her about his family, his plans for the future and his car that he planned to retrieve from his parent's home the following weekend. His fingers busied themselves with pulling the headband out of her hair and letting the softness of her hair fall against his hands as he talked.

She found a small patch of clover where they had stopped to relax against the tree and as he talked, she wove a necklace of clover for him. He laughed when he saw the green grass stain along her fingernails from her work with the necklace, but she only said it matched perfectly with the oil stains from her paints.

Finished with the necklace, she sat up, looping the long strand of clover around his neck and kissing him as she did. He pulled her into his lap and held her there against him, so close she could feel the beating of his heart.

"You up for karaoke tonight, Kagome?", he asked as he kissed the top of her head.

"Mmm�", she murmured, feeling sleepy.

"Do you usually go? Is this a regular thing?", he asked.

"Mmm, yeah�", she answered him.

"You gonna save a dance for me though, right?", he asked.

"Sure, save a dance�", she muttered and pressed her cheek against his chest.

He lay down with her nestled in his arms. The sweet, clean scent of soft grass surrounding them. Happy, faraway sounds of dogs barking, children laughing�

Drifting down into sleep himself, he was smiling�
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