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A Matter of Trust
By:
TuxedoUranus89/InitialA
Disclaimer: I don�t
own InuYasha!! I swear it!! If I did, I wouldn�t have to rub these ears I
bought on a headband� *pout* Oh, and I don�t own any
of the brand names or companies listed in this chapter either. (or Mitsubishi, obviously)
Author�s Note: Ahhh,
I need to get out of this four-page-chapters thing. I suppose something is
better than nothing (and yes, on Word it shows four pages, I know on MM it says
one page per chapter� I don�t know why either, it�s not like MM shows actual pages
or anything. *rolls eyes*) Sorry for more groundwork last chapter, I like
building tension and seeing where all that sexual frustration will go. It has
an interesting, twisty path, like a river with exotic creatures. Dammit, now I have
the urge to play Pok�mon Snap. XD Oh, and all replies
to reviews are going to be at the end of the chapter. =)

The scent of frying eggs, with
traces of different spices mixed in, filled the apartment. Still shaking the
water out of his hair, his stomach growled in response to the interesting
scents. Getting creative with the spice
rack, from the smell of it. He thought, wrapping his towel firmly around
his waist and going into the master bedroom. He fingered his way through his
dress shirts, ties, and slacks, thankful that his car, his apartment, and the
office were air-conditioned. These were nowhere near as arid and cool as his
old firerat had been in the summer. Absently, he opened the drawer that
contained the garments. On top of the folded red cloth was the beaded necklace
she�d cursed him with for so long. He lifted it, fingering the worn, violet
beads. How he�d hated it, the curse it put on him; but how naked he felt,
still, not wearing them. He�d been shocked when she had removed them, some
months before they�d mated, saying she didn�t want to hurt him anymore. He�d
put the necklace back on later, telling her he didn�t feel right without it�s
familiar weight; he also privately told her that he felt less connected to her
without it. She�d wryly suggested putting the spell back on him, but he�d
silenced her with a look, and said having it around his neck was enough. He
knew she�d regret it later, the next time he irritated her, but in his own
defense, he was trying harder not to
get on her bad side. Now, he weighed the beads in his hands, remembering the
last time he�d worn them. How he�d taken them off a year or so after her
disappearance, and storing them away. He�d already felt disconnected, a gaping
hole in his heart, so he was trying his best to forget, and erase the hurt. Without
thinking he slipped the necklace over his head, and moved his hair out of the
way. A knot loosened in his chest that he�d never noticed before; the familiar
weight of the beads was comforting.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kagome was humming to herself as
she fixed the omelets, a light blush staining her cheeks. She couldn�t get the
image of him, hair mussed from sleep and completely bare, out of her head. She
wondered when her modest hanyou had started sleeping sans clothing. He�d done
so before, but only in their three days together, and for obvious reasons. She
thought about asking him, and the blush deepened. Her arousal wasn�t going
anywhere either, and she worried about what his reaction might be. Especially after what he said last night�
It wasn�t that she didn�t want to share his bed, nothing like that. She was
concerned about how she herself would react to such closeness after so much
time apart. She couldn�t deny that she wanted him, but it most likely wasn�t in
the best health interests of the baby if Mama and Papa suddenly started dancing
the horizontal mambo. She nearly groaned as the thought of it excited her more,
and steadied herself against the counter. This wasn�t going to be an easy day�
�Did you use the whole spice rack?�
The man she was currently trying not
to fantasize about waltzed into the room. She squeaked, and remembered her
omelets might be burning. �No!� She exclaimed, her voice a little higher than
normal. �I did not, it�s just my new recipe!� He smirked, chuckling, and left
the room. She heard the door open and close, and his footsteps returning as she
quickly flipped and folded the eggy-mixture and slid it onto a plate. InuYasha
reached up past her for a mug as she fumbled with the glasses, his hand
brushing hers, and causing her to blush again. �No caffeine for you?� He asked
softly, going to start the coffee maker. She shook her head, and observed the
options in the fridge. �No, it�s not good for me right now. Don�t you have any
orange juice, or apple juice, or mango juice� anything?!� She exclaimed,
holding up the half-empty carton of milk in one hand and the pitcher of
filtered water in the other. He looked at her. �Mango juice? What is that child doing
to you, wench?� She tried to ignore the chills she got at being called �wench�
again. �Nothing, I�ve always liked mango juice. I suppose I�ll settle for
milk.� She said, more for herself than anything. �I�m going grocery shopping
later though, your selection of foods is pitiful.�
He rolled his eyes as the scent of
fresh-brewed coffee reached his nose, waking him more than the hot shower had.
�My food selection is fine, thank you. I told you, you�re not obligated to be
my maid, or my housekeeper or anything. I have some chit who comes and cleans
the place twice a week, and that�s more than enough because she always moves
things, even when I tell her not to. I never find anything when she�s done, and
by the time I do, she�s back again. And it�s never in the same place twice.�
Kagome frowned. �Why do you keep her on then, if you don�t like how she works?�
He shrugged. �No one else will do it. I scared �em
off. And I�m never home enough, or have all the spare time in the world to
clean the place myself.� That made sense, but Kagome still doubted he spoke the
truth about it. She�d figure it out later: she was starving, and feeding for
two, and the omelets were still warm. �Come on, mister big-shot businessman,
let�s get you fed before you go on and take over the world.�
He followed, letting the hot liquid
pour down his throat. She was setting the table in the same way she had the
night before, and gestured for him to sit. Almost immediately she was devouring
her breakfast. InuYasha had barely sat down, and could only blink at her.
Thinking it was better not to make any kind of comment,
he simple spread the paper out on his side and scanned the headlines. He
absently speared a piece, and almost immediately regretted taking a bite as
soon as the array of spices hit his tongue. He forced himself to not spit it
out for Kagome�s sake, and quickly downed half the cup of coffee, not caring
about his scalding tongue: if it was burned, it meant that the
non-complimenting flavors wouldn�t linger. �Do you like it?� She asked
brightly, and he was floored to see her entire plate was clean; not only that,
but she didn�t look ill in the least. He coughed several times. �Uh� Kagome,
what exactly did you put in there?� She thought about it. �You didn�t have
everything I normally use� Oregano, cinnamon, some ginger, a bit of garlic, a
dash of fennel, nutmeg, salt and pepper of course� I don�t remember exactly.
Tastes good though, doesn�t it?�
He hid a shudder as she ticked off
about half the spices listed in a common mixture for curry. �It�s... good,
yeah.� He lied. �I�m really not that hungry though, never am first thing in the
morning. I should get going though, I left a mountain of paperwork last night,
and that bastard will have my balls if I don�t get it done. I�ll see you
tonight, and no shopping, got it?� He told her as he grabbed his suit jacket
and black leather briefcase. She huffed at him. �It�s not shopping, it�s food. You can�t boss me around.� He
cocked an eyebrow at her. �I�m not bossing you around, I�m just telling you��
�Telling me what to do is the same thing!!� He frowned. �Fine, then please don�t go shopping. Or food-getting. Or whatever the fuck you wanna call it.� She pouted. �But I was going to make oden
tonight�� His stomach, still unpleased with the meager offerings of disgusting
food, nearly growled at that thought. �I have vegetables. You�ll spend too much
money.� She frowned back at him. �I won�t, I know how to budget my money!� A
muscle in his jaw jumped. �I don�t want you spending your money on food that�s
going to be at my place!!�
Kagome stood,
a fire alight in her eyes. �And I don�t want to spend your money!� �I have more
of it than you do!� �I�m still not spending it!� �Who said I was going to give
it to you!?� �You just did!� �Well,
who said I�d let you go shopping with it!?� �I did! I�m going whether you like
it or not!� He fumed, and slapped a credit card down on the table in the front
hall. �While you�re at it, get more chicken-flavor, we�re running low!� He
shouted, and slammed the door behind him. It wasn�t until he was halfway to the
office building that he thought, Wait,
what the fuck just happened? He pulled out his cell phone and called the
apartment. Instead of saying �Hello�, Kagome greeted him with, �What just
happened?� He couldn�t help it; he started to laugh.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
�Rin, don�t even tell me he has no
idea about this.� He said wearily into the phone. �InuYasha-niisan, you doubt me?� Rin�s cheerful voice asked. �Sesshy knows nothing. If he did, he�d be attempting to get it out of me.� He sighed,
wondering how his sister-in-law managed to pull the wool over his brother�s
eyes time and time again. �Well, I�ll still be glad when this is over� I did
remember to tell you the florist fears for his life, right? And how I really
don�t think Sesshou-maru would want flowers in the first place?� �Of course you did, silly. And the flowers
are for the ladies to appreciate. It�s a hostess� job to appeal to everyone.� InuYasha
barely had a chance to think why he
was doing all the work if she was
playing hostess when she turned serious. �You
really should try to find Kagome, you know. It reflects badly on the family
that you�ve abandoned your mate. And at this big of a party, there will be
whispers�� He closed his eyes, rubbing the bridge of his nose. He hadn�t
gotten around to talking about that with her, as many times in the last few
weeks she�d been pestering him about last-minute details. Apparently he wasn�t
snapping back at her as fast as he�d normally done, because she asked quietly,
�Did something happen?�
He decided it would be better to just get out with it. �I did find her.� He
ignored Rin�s excited gasp. �It was purely accidental
too. She was fainting in the middle of the road about three weeks ago and I
caught her. I had no idea it was her, I just thought it was this crazy,
pregnant lady wandering around in the middle of the city.� �Pregnant? She didn�t� did she?� �It�s mine��
He said quietly. �The well closed for her only seven months ago.� �You�re such an idiot.�
Rin told him. �You didn�t even know? Or
did you just not care enough to find out?� He didn�t answer. He didn�t know
how to. He heard a sigh on the other end of the line. �Well, figure it out, and fast, because if she�s with you again, she HAS
to come to this. Pregnant or not. In fact, it�s better that she�s pregnant, that� He growled. �Rin�
please shut up��
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It was very late when he came home.
He smelled the lingering odor of oden, and heard the TV crooning some sappy
love ballad in the middle of a movie. Feeling a bit guilty, he saw she was once
again fast asleep on the couch. There was a note on the table, along with the
card he�d left behind:
�� I~
�� Left you some
oden in the microwave if you were hungry
�� at all
when you came home. And I didn�t go overboard on the groceries,
�� just
enough to last us for another week or so. (and I
bought extra chicken
�� Ramen for you too)
�� Love,
�� K
He ran his thumb over the character
�love�, his face unreadable. Turning off the TV again, he gently picked her up and
carried her into her room, as he�d done the night before. She stirred when he
laid her down. �Inu�Yasha?� She murmured, sleepily opening her eyes. �Hey��
He said quietly, pulling the covers over her. �What time is it�?� She asked. �It�s
late. I�m just going to eat the leftover oden and go to bed myself. Go back to
sleep, Kagome.� He said softly, brushing the hair off of her face. She smiled,
and curled up with her pillow. �G�night�� He started
to leave the room, and whispered, �Good night� as he closed the door behind
him.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
They were developing a pattern, he
decided over breakfast a few days later. She would be up before sunrise, and
take over the bathroom first thing, waking him when she was done. It was almost
a test of wills, to see how long they could torment each other before finally
thrashing it all out in bed; he noted that the smell of her arousal seemed to
linger around her body longer and longer each morning, and he�d taken to
relieving himself during his own morning showers, just to make it through the
day without wanting to break something out of frustration. He�d also decided to
actually request something for breakfast, after that first horrid morning. He
tried to keep it simple, something she couldn�t experiment with, to save his
poor taste-buds more agony. They�d have an argument, usually over something
small and insignificant; it also seemed to be a test, to see how well they
could still set each other off without seriously hurting the other. Usually
those arguments left him more befuddled than the old ones had: Kagome�s
increase in hormones and mood swings also seemed to add to her lack of ever
making any sense at all to begin with. Oh yes, then there were the mood swings.
On the one other night he�d actually worked a nine-hour day instead of the
usual twelve or so, he�d watched, bemusedly, as she�d gone from perfectly
cheerful to cold-shoulder, to piping mad, and finally ending in an hour long
crying jag that refused to be soothed by him, the strangely large supply of Ben
and Jerry�s ice cream she�d been compelled to buy (all of which seemed to be
either Chocolate Fudge Brownie, or Stephen Colbert�s AmeriCone
Dream), or even a bath. He also had no idea if he had been the one to cause all
of these strange, disconnected adventures through the female mind, or if it had
just been something she�d seen on TV or read in a book or magazine that day. InuYasha
felt it was better if he didn�t ask. The days he hadn�t made it home early, she
was usually found asleep on the couch, with a note on the table about dinner. He
always carried her to bed, and more often than not she slept through the
transfer. It was a nice pattern, he realized. They could settle into this way
of doing things, this system, and easily do it the rest of their lives.
He still had yet to tell her about Rin�s extended invitation towards her. He supposed, with it
being this coming Friday evening, he should tell her about it, but he hadn�t
figured out a way to bring it up, and she�d never mentioned it. He felt a
little guilty about not saying she would be welcome to come when he�d first
mentioned it; in his own defense, he couldn�t see how he would have thought of
it at the time. She smiled as she walked into the dining room with the tray,
this morning�s meal being instant-oatmeal, (again, something she couldn�t
experiment with). He decided it was now or never. �Kagome� you remember that
stupid party is this weekend, right?� She nodded, blowing on a spoonful of the
stuff to cool it off. �With how many times that office phone rings and messages
from various event-coordinators every day, it�s hard to forget.� He swallowed
his own spoonful. �Well� er� you know that you�re
invited, don�t you?� She didn�t say anything for a few minutes, and he wondered
if he could have said it more tactfully. �Are you� sure that�s alright? I mean�
I�m hardly in the right kind of shape for such an event�� He frowned, cocking
an eyebrow at her. �I don�t care what you look like.� He told her. �I think you�re
beautiful, Rin wants you to come, and we can get you something decent to wear
for it.� He ticked off the other two questions he felt would come next. Kagome
was staring at him, her eyes brimming with tears. �Y-You think�� He panicked. �Aww, c�mon, Kagome, don�t cry about it!� Goddamnit, it�s to fucking early for her to cry!!
She smiled, and dabbed at her eyes with her napkin. �I�m sorry� it�s just� it�s
been so long since you�ve��
He felt his ears go back in guilt,
though she couldn�t see them under the spell. Have I really not called her beautiful since we met again�? �Well,
I should�ve said it sooner. You�re beautiful anytime, but now� I dunno�� He turned red, fumbling on how to say his thoughts.
It�d been too long since he�d finally opened up, and then shut back down; it
was hard to open up again. �You� er� it�s like� uh��
She smiled in encouragement, and suddenly, that was all he needed. �You glow.�
He stated simply, and blushed furiously. She stared at him, lost for words. He
watched her nervously as she stood, putting her empty bowl and glass on the
tray again. She moved like she was going to take his half-eaten dish, but
instead cupped his cheek and lightly kissed him. He was, if possible, even
redder when she pulled away, and was relieved to see she was also a light shade
of crimson; he could also smell her arousal returning with full force, which
didn�t help the tightness growing in his pants. �Thank you.� She said simply,
and took his empty mug and the bowl back into the kitchen on the tray.
She gasped when she was spun, and
his lips came crashing down upon hers. She moaned as his fingers raked through
her hair, and rested against her neck, tipping her head back to deepen the
kiss. She grasped at his shirt, feeling weak at the knees, and his other arm
wrapped around her back, holding her upright and fitting what he could of her
against him snugly. They were panting when they broke, and stared wide-eyed at
one another, faces flushed; the heady scent of arousal was heavy in the air.
After swallowing once or twice, he said quietly, �I�ll be home� early tonight.
Really early� s-so we can find you something to wear.� She could do nothing but
nod, and he cautiously kissed her forehead before fleeing, leaving her standing,
dumbfounded, amidst the morning dishes.
Some hours later, Kagome was still
reeling in shock from the passion she had felt, and doing nothing more than
reliving the moment over and over again in her mind as she lay on the couch.
There was an empty bowl and a spoon sitting next to her on the floor, evidence
from an ice cream craving earlier (Chocolate Fudge Brownie today). She was
brought out of her daydream by furious knocking at the door, and dim voices on
the other side. �Coming!� She called faintly, and
fought her way to her feet, resting a hand on her swollen stomach as she went
to the door. She peered out the peep-hole and was surprised to see two people
with shockingly red hair on the other side. Curious, she opened the door. �Hello,
can I help� you�?� Her eyes widened. The man was staring back with just as much
amazement. His voice was faintly familiar, but much deeper now with so much
age. �Oh my God� Kagome?� She gripped at the door,
looking between the man and the woman. �S-Shippou?!�

((Aaaaahhhhhh, I wanted to end at the kiss,
but I decided to go another paragraph to bring Shippou into things. =3 Poor
little guy needs to show up eventually, ne? (though he�s
not quite so little anymore!!) And I have no idea if a girl�s best friends (Ben
and Jerry�s!!) sell outside of the US� I�m going to guess that it�s probable?
But they probably wouldn�t sell Stephen�s ice cream brand in Japan. XD But it�s my own little tribute to an amusing TV persona, so
whatever. =D Oh, and I promised I�d do reviewer
responses, so here�s some of that:
Chikyu ~
Reviews make me happy. =) Oh I have plans for a ton of sexual tension, don�t
you worry about that. *evil grin* Oooo, skiing
vacation abroad, that sounds like fun!! I hope you have fun and I hope this is
worth the wait!! (and no breaking anything!!)
Xagzan ~
Ha, while I�m not going to be pregnant for several more years (let�s hope so
anyway), I�m pleased that you and the other reviewers have liked my take on it
so far. And I try to throw some guy-humor in, like how girls never make sense
when we argue. I hope you enjoyed this chapter as well!!
Tricia1224 ~ Aww, thank you!! =D
i_heart_inuyasha ~ I
know. *tear* There�s a few other layers to the cake of InuYasha (this cake is
NOT a lie!!), so he�s got some emotional problems to sort out here � again.
Poor Kagome�s going to be going mad within the next few chapters,
I might have to throw in a bit of citrus for her sake soon. =)
LadyCash ~
Well, lemonade is sweet, (as I sip my own bottle of it), so maybe it�s the
whole �when life gives you lemons� thing� or maybe this is just a really bad
pun gone too far. Thank you for reading!!
Kagomesdouble07 ~ They�ll
eventually share a room, but I�m not sure how I�ll introduce that. It won�t be
for another few chapters. It�s all a part of the master plan, don�t you worry.
=)
CatLover260 ~ Yes, there�s
some form of patience behind that adorable scowling face. I suppose he would�ve
had to learn it, or his company wouldn�t be quite as thriving� he�d�ve killed the first person to
piss him off. ^__^ Slowly but surely things will fall
into place; it�s not an IY/K story for nothing!!
THANK YOU EVERYONE SO MUCH FOR READING!! Even all the hits it�s received,
so overwhelmingly large for only being up for about a week!! *tears up* I�m so grateful, you make a girl getting over writer�s block so
happy to be writing again!!! See you next time!!))
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