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And now for this next chapter of this oh so fun story. I�m
sure a lot of you are a little bit ticked that it�s taken so long but I didn�t
have my writing files for two weeks and then I didn�t feel like writing and so
now, I�m sitting down and writing this update.
Note: The timeline right here is a tad bit off. It�s the
same day that Sango ran into you-know-who but earlier in that same day. Yeah.
Disclaimer: I don�t own Inuyasha or well�anything.
Warnings: The usual.

Fanning the Flames

Chapter Five

The alarm
clock that I had borrowed from Ayame went off. It was a one in the afternoon
and my whole body wanted to go back to sleep before I had to get up and work
but there was something I wanted to do.
I had
debated with myself over it for long enough and it kept nagging at my mind so I
decided to just go for it and call the number that Kouga had written on the
dollar bill. Kanna was sleeping peacefully and for a second after getting
dressed I watched her sleep. I put my hand on her forehead, I don�t know why;
it just seemed like what I should do.
I closed
the door quietly so I wouldn�t disturb her and went to the elevator. I waited
in the elevator as it went down and I felt my heart thumping. Why was it doing
that? I suppose it was because I had never had anyone to call before. I was
glad that no one noticed me leaving, just because I didn�t want to have to talk
to Goshinki or anyone else.
At the
corner of the street that the building was sitting on was a pay phone that
amazingly enough had not been vandalized to the point of disrepair. It had
graffiti all over it and inside it didn�t seem clean at all but I was used to
this sort of thing.
I put some
money into the phone and dialed the number, waiting while it rang. He probably
wasn�t even home and then I could give up and say that I tried to call. Yes,
then I wouldn�t have to call him again, no obligation there.
�Hello?�
Dammit. He was home.
�Hello.� I greeted
the voice and then I remembered that I was supposed to on. �Is Kouga there?�
�That�s
me.� The voice sounded sleepy and I wonder if I had woken him up. Well excuse me. �Who�s this?�
�Kagura.� I
answered, feeling a bit irritated. Why had I called? Why hadn�t I just spent
the dollar or something so I could lie and say I had lost the number and would
have been unable to call?
�Kagura?!�
He sounded awake now. �Hey, how are you?�
�Fine I
suppose.� I yawned. �I called.�
�Yes you
did.� Kouga sounded rather pleased. �What are you up to?�
I was sleeping from a long night of having
sex with strangers, and yourself?
�Nothing.� I said instead.
�I�m not
doing anything either.� Kouga�s tone was kind of wheedling and I wondered if he
was going to ask me something. �Do you wanna hang out?�
�Um�� I
thought about it for a moment. Kanna was sleeping and I would get back before
she woke up. �I guess.�
�Okay, do
you want me to come by wherever it is that you live?� Kouga questioned in a
jovial voice.
Come to the whore house on�
�No�why
don�t I just come to you?� I suggested. He gave me directions to his apartment
and I hung up the phone. Should I go? I suppose since I already said I would I
should.
Why am I going though?
Don�t I have something better to do?
What about Kanna? She�ll be fine,
she�s just sleeping.
Finally, after five minutes of
standing in the phone booth thinking to myself, someone rapped on it with their
fist and I got out so some impatient guy could use the phone. I didn�t really
have anything to lose.
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Kouga lived
in a pretty shitty apartment building that wasn�t far from the coffee shop
where we had met. I climbed the stairs (no elevator) to the fourth floor and
looked for apartment 2D. It was right there on my left. I took a deep breath
and knocked on the door.
You may
wonder why I was a little nervous. But I think it was mostly because the last
time I had trusted a stranger, I ended up a prostitute.
�Hey.�
Kouga opened his door and I stood there for a second unsurely, looking at his
clear blue eyes. �It�s a little messy, I hope you don�t mind.�
The
apartment was messy, but not horribly so. It was the sort of comfortable
messiness that comes from any lived in place. Well, any place that was lived in
by someone who wasn�t a neat freak.
�It�s
okay.� My heels clacked on the linoleum of the small kitchen area which was
really part of the living room/bedroom. There was only one door and I�m pretty
sure it led to the bathroom.
�It�s not
much.� Kouga shuffled his feet. It struck me that Kouga actually wanted to
impress me and was wishing for a bigger apartment at that very moment. I
couldn�t for the life of me figure out why though.
Unless�
Unless he just wants to sleep with
me.
This made perfect sense in my
head. I had grown into the idea that the only thing people wanted from me was
my body and it was just the way the world worked.
�What do
you want to do?� Kouga asked me. �We could watch a movie; I don�t have a whole
lot of �em.�
This might
sound strange but I had never been asked that question before in my life. I had
never really gotten to pick anything in my whole life. It felt alien to me that
someone wanted to know what I wanted
to do.
�Movie�s
fine.� I went with his suggestion.
�Great.�
Kouga grinned. �Are you hungry? I could make some macaroni and cheese or some
instant ramen, that�s pretty much all I live off of.�
�Either�s fine.�
I shrugged.
�You look
like an instant ramen kind of gal.� Kouga said after a moment of considering
and it made me laugh because his expression was funny. �Make yourself
comfortable on the couch.�
The couch
was also a bed and I knew this because it was pulled out at the moment. I
questioned his real intentions for the billionth time as I sat back on all the
cushions piled up so a person could sit up and not be uncomfortable.
�The
water�s heating up.� Kouga told me as he came and sat down next to me. There
were a few minutes of silence between us and I couldn�t bring myself to look
over at him. It was strange but for the first time in a long time, I was
nervous around a man.
�Can I ask
a question?� Kouga finally spoke up. My mouth twitched as I tried not to smile.
Always asking questions.
�Go ahead.�
I glanced over at him and saw that his gaze was focused towards the end of the
bed where both our feet were.
�Do you
always wear those shoes?� He asked.
�They�re my
nicest shoes.� I defended my six-inch heels. �And yes, I do.�
�They just
don�t look comfortable.� Kouga commented. �You can take them off if you want, I
don�t care if you go barefoot.� I found myself sitting up to take them off when
that question popped back into my head and before I could stop myself, it
popped out of my mouth.
�Do you
want to sleep with me?� The tone was bordering on accusation. His face flushed
immediately and he clearly hadn�t been expecting this question.
�What?� He
raised his eyebrows and had a slightly confused look on his face. Obviously he
thought this question had come out of nowhere.
�That�s why
you invited me here, right?� I pressed him.
�No.� Kouga
shook his head. �I invited you over to get to know you better and hang out with
you.�
�So you
don�t want to sleep with me?� I eyed him suspiciously.
�That
question�� Kouga looked uneasy as his hand went up to scratch the back of his
head. �That�s kind of a double-edged sword. If I say I don�t want to sleep with
you, it would be kind of a lie because�well, you�re really, um, attractive. But
if I say I do want to sleep with you
that sounds sleazy because we�ve only just met. Do you
understand what I mean?�
�I�guess��
His answer did make sense. But then I was kind of put off-kilter because of him
saying I was attractive. Eck, that sounded weird. So
someone said I was attractive, no big deal right? I had to look away from him.
�I�m sorry�I just��
�It�s
okay.� Kouga actually sounded a little amused. �Naturally you�d be suspicious
of a stranger. Especially a strange male. I think the water is boiling.� And he
got up to go check on the water. I felt kind of bad for asking but at the same
time, I felt justified.
A few
minutes later, we were watching a movie and each had a bowl of instant ramen
noodles. They weren�t bad and somehow I felt comfortable sitting there with
Kouga. The movie ended eventually and I checked the clock on the wall.
�I should
probably be going.� I said out loud. �I have to go to work.�
�Where do
you work?� Kouga asked and I didn�t want to answer.
�Thanks for
the ramen.� I got up from the couch-bed.
�Are you
going to call me again?� Kouga also stood up.
�Why does
it matter?� I countered. I wasn�t sure I was going to call again. It would be
better if I just said no. He can�t be in my life, where would he go? But at the
same time, there was something about his eyes that was inescapable.
�Because I
want to spend more time with you.� Kouga stopped me with one hand, grabbing a
hold of my arm. I turned to look at him, a scowl on my face.
�I don�t
get it.� I looked straight up at his face. �I don�t get you.�
�I don�t
get you either but I think that�s why I like you.� Kouga gave me a smile that
can only be described as sexy. �That�s why I want you to come back and visit
me. �Cause I like you.�
�Well�I
don�t like you.� My nose twitched as I said it and it didn�t come out very
strongly at all. It felt like I was lying. �You�re irritating and
annoying�and...� I think the real reason I trailed off was because Kouga bent
his head down and caught my mouth in a kiss.
It was a
chaste kiss and yet I felt like my whole body had caught fire at that moment. I
thought stuff like this wouldn�t affect me at all after all the stuff I had
been through. So why did this feel good? It felt�right. Like I was involved and
it was okay.
He pulled
away from me and I realized that I had closed my eyes as I opened them again.
�Call me?�
He gave me a little smile.
�Yeah�yeah I
will.� I nodded my head, feeling a bit dazed. �I�have to go.�
�I know.
I�ll see you later.� Kouga let go of my arm.
�Yeah, see
you.� I looked away and went out the door. After I closed it, I leaned against
it for a moment, wondering what this strange feeling was. Then I realized I
needed to hurry back to Kanna.
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When I
opened the door to my room, I was surprised to see that Kanna was not in her
bed. I looked around the room and didn�t see her. That was strange. Where could
she be? It wasn�t like her to leave by herself. Had she woken up and found me
missing and then went to go look for me?
�Kanna?� I
closed the door behind me. �Now where did you go?�
�Kagura?� A
small voice asked and I looked around in confusion before realizing that it had
come from under Kanna�s bed. I dropped down to my hands and knees to peer under
Kanna�s bed.
There she
was, curled up under there.
�Kanna, why
are you hiding under the bed?� I asked her. She was quiet for a long time.
�Goshinki came.� The words were very small and I could hear
the tremor in her voice that suggested the little emotionless girl would
actually start crying.
�What?� I
asked sharply. �What did he do?� I wanted to kill Goshinki.
Kanna said nothing more and so I just held out my hand to her. �Come on Kanna,
come out from under there.�
Her little
hand took a hold of mine and she crawled out from under the bed and into my
lap.
�I�m sorry Kanna�this
is all my fault isn�t it?� I felt horrible. I
shouldn�t have left Kanna here by herself. �It won�t happen again. I won�t
leave without you anymore.�
Kanna
didn�t say anything but I got the feeling she understood. I tried to think of
something to make her feel better.
�Gotta look out for my little sister.� I tried tentatively.
�Am I
really your sister?� Kanna wasn�t looking at me, just at her hands.
�Well we
aren�t related to by blood or anything�but yeah. You are now.� I assured her. And
there we sat in comfortable silence before it was time to go to work.
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And next
time�Sango�s impregnator�which sounds like the name of a robot. Like The
ImpregnaTOR. Yeah, that was wrong but for some reason funny all at the same
time. Shutting up.
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