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Between The Lines
By : inumag
Category: InuYasha > General
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Between The Lines

Summary: Sometimes the lines between love and friendship
disappears.

By: Maggz

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

Author Note:

Hello everybody

What has been going on with my life, you must be wondering. Well, things
haven�t come out exactly as I expected... I�ve been sick and I lost my job a
couple of days ago. But I have to go on... and thanks to the support of my
friends and my family I�mtingting over it already. The good thing is that at
least I�ll have more time to rest and work on my stories �til I find a new
job.

As you know I�ve been working on Innocent Beginnings; but apart from it- and
some new projects in spanish (with my friends Leslie and Poodlez), I�ve been
dedicated to revise my other published stories; and as a result some of them are
in edition process right now. The truth is that after checking them again, my
point of view has changed, and therefore the result doesn't satisfy me as much
as it did before. It�s the life of a writer, constantly coming up with new
ideas...

Now is No Strings Attached turn, which has been thru an intense revision and
edition process, generating significant changes in the plot, and also in the
characters. Some things will remain the as they were in the original version,
you will notice this as the story develops. Some others will change and new ones
will be added. Along with these I�d like to mention:

The title changes from No Strings Attached to Between The Lines.

It�s no longer a Kouga/OC pairing and becomes an InuYasha/Kagome/Kouga

As you can see in my previous stories, InuYasha has always been human but
keeping his hanyou characteristics (silver hair, amber eyes). Nevertheless, in
this one he�s still human, but just like he looks in the original series when
he�s in human form: black hair, violet eyes.

I think that those are the most important just now. Besides, this story will
keep its comical tone. I guess it�s the best after all the drama we had in
WHWM.

Well, enough rambling...

Enjoy the story...

Chapter 1

"Kagome, why are you sitting there looking out the window like that?"
InuYasha asked as he tugged on the end of her ponytail. She looked away from the
window and up at him, sticking out her tongue before answering him.

"I'm thinking, InuYasha. Maybe you should try that sometime." she said.

"We both know I'm no good at thinking... better at DOING!" he grinned and
flopped down in the chair with her. She scrunched herself up into the corner of
the big chair to make room for the two of them and sighed, resting her chin on
her crossed arms.

"I thought you had research to do." InuYasha said, laying his head against
the back of the chair in order to get a good look at her face.

"I do. I just... don�t want to.", she said.

"What's the problem?", he asked.

"I've no idea who or what to use as my subject for this last grade, InuYasha.
I've gone over it and over it a thousand times and can't make my mind up. It
must be PERFECT! 80% of my final grade depends on it.", she said.

"So? You said you needed a subject to draw, right?" he asked, leaning back a
little further to look at her. She nodded, not taking her eyes off the scene
beyond the closed window. "So draw me!" he said, spreading his hands wide and
smiling.

She didn't take the bait. They'd been down that road before.

"Kagome? Earth to Kagome? Did you hear me? I said draw ME!" he said and
pulled his big feet up in the chair, turning toward her.

"InuYasha... I... NO! And I'm not discussing this with you again. Just leave
it alone. I'll figure something out.", she said and with a huff of breath,
turned in the chair and scrambled over his lap. He watched her go, his face a
mixture of confusion and amusement. Were all women this complicated? Surely
not!

He got up from the chair and followed her into the kitchen, leaning against
the fridge as he watched her pull a box of cereal from the cupboard.

"I told you, you wouldn't have to PAY me. I'd be cheap work and I'm not at
all ashamed of my body!" he grinned in spite of himself, scratching his tummy
underneath his t-shirt.

"...Now THAT is the understatement of the year if I ever heard it,
InuYasha... PULEEZE!" she frowned and walked toward him, bowl in hand.

"Well, it's true. Where in the world are you gonna find somebody willing to
take their clothes off just so you can draw them? Tell me! Just how do you
approach somebody and ask him or her that?" he said as he dipped a finger into
her bowl and grabbed a cornflake.

She handed him the bowl and looked pointedly at the fridge door. He
moved.

"You don't just go up and ASK somebody, InuYasha. Students are available to
DO it. I just can't find one that I WANT to sketch is all.�, she said as she
grabbed the milk carton and turned around. InuYasha held out the cereal bowl and
looked at her as she frowned, pouring the milk.

"Why do you have to be so damned hard to please?" he grumbled. "What's wrong
with ME? Why won't you draw me?" he asked her.

She capped the milk, took a breath and looked up at him.

"It's called 'sketching', InuYasha. And nothing is wrong with you. Nothing it
at all. It's... it's ME. I just can't... no, I won't get into this with you
again. Don't PUSH it!" she said and grabbed bow bowl from him as she pushed the
milk carton into his now empty hand.

"And for your information I am NOT hard to please, just very discriminating!"
she said and walked past him and back toward her bedroom.

She sat down at her desk and spooned cereal into her mouth, not really
tasting anything- but the rumble of her stomach earlier had insisted on being
fed and this was as close as she was going to come. She was worried. Her entire
grade depended on this one project and well, maybe InuYasha was right. Maybe she
was just too hard to please, maybe she should relent and just sketch anybody.
She took another bite of cereal and shook her head.

"No, can't do it. If I don't FEEL it, I can't DRAW it. I'll just do some
people watching and see what I come up with. ", she mumbled around the
cereal.

She heard the stereo come on in InuYasha's room and smiled...

�Bless his heart he tries. He just doesn't get it...�, she thought as she
finished up. Taking the empty bowl, she went back into the kitchen and slid it
into the dishwasher. She walked back down the hallway and knocked on his door,
opening it just a crack and peeking in.

"Since when do YOU knock?", he asked as he zipped up his jeans and reached
for a clean shirt.

"InuYasha, I'm sorry. Don't be mad, OK?", she asked.

"Mad? I'm not mad, Kagome. I just don't understand you, but then again I
never did.", he said as he pulled the shirt over his head and grabbed his shoes.
Plopping down onto his bed, he slid one foot in and looked up at her.

"Don't look at me like that, you know it's true. I heard it often enough and
don't say I didn't.", he said as he tied the lace and picked up the other
shoe.

"Been there and done that, InuYasha.", she said with a lopsided grin and sat
down next to him on the bed as he tied the other shoe.

"Yeah, I know... Sorry.", he said, smiling quickly at her and putting his arm
around her shoulders.

"Want to go people-watch with me tomorrow by any chance?", she asked,
wrinkling her nose.

"And again I wanna ask you. Just HOW do you propose to go up to some total
stranger and ask if you can draw- I mean, SKETCH them?", he asked her as he
stood up and grabbed his wallet, pushing it into his back pocket.

"Excuse me, Sir. I'm an artist. I've a project I'm working on and I'd like to
ask you if I can DRAW you?", InuYasha teased in a high falsetto voice and
grinned at her as he continued. "Oh yeah, I forgot. For the last sketch...
SKETCH... you must be totally naked!", he laughed and ducked when she picked up
his discarded t-shirt, balled it up and threw it at him.

"Something will come along, InuYasha. You just wait and see. Or somebody...",
she said.

"Yeah, yeah... whatever.", he said, running a hand through his hair. "I'll
bet you I can find one for you before YOU find one!", he challenged and she saw
the glint of mischief in his eyes.

"NO... not one of your friends, InuYasha. I mean it. I will NOT be put
through that.", she said with a laugh as he stuck out his hand to pull her up
off the bed.

"You might just be surprised, little girl.", he said. "I've got a few
ideas..."

"Oh God! That always means trouble!", she laughed and followed him from the
room.

"I'll be back later. Don't wait up for me, Baby!", he grinned, watching her
as she walked to the sofa and sat down in front of the TV.

"Don't get too drunk. I mean it!", she said, her eyes already glued to the
screen.

"Mmmm...", he mumbled and grabbed his keys, closing the door and locking it
behind him.
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