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charlie i timed myself... it took me THREE HOURS to type all of this up, and i know i didn’t even include everything or go as in depth as i could’ve :’) is anyone gonna read this whole thing? i doubt it - but YOU might, which is all that matters <3 @gcshinboku
&& kagome and inuyasha met randomly at miroku’s yoga studio one day after class, when he swung by to (unbeknownst to the girls) pick up the yogi for a doctor’s appointment. kagome had been hearing all about miroku’s childhood best friend for WEEKS, and she’d been genuinely interested to meet the man behind the myth. but when the day finally came? her first impression was wildly better than her second.
despite living in a world full of unreasonably attractive influencers, kagome swore she’d NEVER met anyone as handsome as inuyasha. with his long silver hair, visible sleeve of tattoos, and seemingly effortless air of COOL? it was impossible not to be drawn to him, and she’d felt her heart skip more than a few beats. but the whole effect was RUINED the minute he opened his mouth - it was clear from the dismissive and frankly arrogant way he spoke to her that inuyasha thought kagome (thanks to her job title) was nothing more than a vapid, shallow BIMBO.
not one to take KINDLY to people underestimating her, kagome clapped back and the two immediately butted heads. it seemed likely that sango and miroku would have to ABANDON their hopes of ever having a nice meal or a trip to the movies with just their best friends present - not unless they wanted to clean up the blood bath afterwards. the pair interacted here and there when their paths happened to cross, but they both ACTIVELY tried to avoid spending any time together alone.
&& that all changed one night at a PARTY when kagome found herself at the drunken mercy of the moronic ‘thunder bros’ - a pair of brother influencers known for their offensive and controversial “prank” videos who didn’t seem to have NO in their vocabularies. backed into a literal corner with a dead cell phone and no exits in sight, kagome had braced herself for the WORST ... but it never came. instead there was inuyasha, fangs barred and eyes narrowed at the brothers with the very real threat of VIOLENCE crystal clear in his body language if they didn’t leave kagome alone.
apparently all the brothers’ bravado on camera was an ACT - to this day kagome has never seen two grown men run away faster in her life. inuyasha could tell, despite her insistence on being alright, that kagome was pretty shaken up by the whole incident and offered to drive her home. it was there, on the drive back to her place, that the two of them had their first GENUINE conversation. not bickering, not trading barbs, just talking. and they found, to both of their great surprises, that they actually got along fairly well. that they might even LIKE each other, which was far more than they’d ever thought possible. there was an understanding between them now, a silent peace treaty signed that opened the door to ... OTHER feelings.
once they arrived back at her apartment building, kagome invited inuyasha inside for a drink. she didn’t really know what she was implying with her offer - just a glass of wine or something MORE. all she knew was that for the first time since they met? kagome didn’t want him to LEAVE. and while inuyasha wasn’t exactly eager to go either, he didn’t think going inside was a good idea. the air was too THICK between them now, a tether pulling them towards each other - a possibility for something to happen that they wouldn’t be able to take back.
kagome was not just another girl inuyasha could fuck and forget - he didn’t know exactly WHAT she was to him anymore, but he at least knew that much. so he declined, off-handedly commenting that they could hang out some other time when she wasn’t so upset. that’s when kagome took his phone and gave him her number, texting him before he even left her parking lot with an IOU for a drink. as a thank you for the rescue, of course... definitely not anything MORE.
&& as if he somehow sensed inuyasha and kagome’s growing affections for each other closing his own window of opportunity, a new player in the game made his move - KOUGA, the so called ‘alpha male’ of instagram. after meeting kagome literally once for five minutes at a press event, he had decided to make her HIS. after all, she had everything the wolf demon was looking for - she was beautiful and had hundreds of thousands more followers than he did. that was it. THAT was the entire requirement list; she would look good on his arm and she would help to grow his own power and influence. what else was there to want in a woman?
while kagome was looking for significantly MORE than that, it didn’t seem like the new object of her affection wanted to provide it. while her relationship with inuyasha had vastly improved, the two of them texting frequently (and sometimes FLIRTATIOUSLY) during the week and hanging out harmoniously on the weekends, he didn’t appear interested in pursuing anything MORE. he routinely took home random girls from the parties they attended together, much to kagome’s silent but palpable disappointment, and was careful not to make much PHYSICAL contact with her for any reason.
whether she did what she did out of JEALOUSY or LONELINESS kagome couldn’t say. what she did say was YES to kouga, agreeing to several high profile dates with him over that summer. dates which immediately got under inuyasha’s skin; he could see kouga for who he really was, what his true intentions were. kouga didn’t KNOW kagome the way inuyasha had grown to, nor did it seem like he intended to learn. didn’t really care about her beyond what he thought kagome’s influence (and her body) could do for him. kouga was using her, and it PISSED INUYASHA OFF that kagome didn’t seem to realize it.
... and maybe, just maybe, he was wishing it was HIS arms she was falling into at night.
the two argued about her new suitor FREQUENTLY, the old antagonistic fireworks from their first days of knowing each other going off once more every time kouga’s name popped up on her phone. until one night, unable to control the JEALOUSY and RAGE bubbling away in his chest, inuyasha couldn’t take it anymore. sick of listening to her try to defend kouga’s behavior, he roughly pressed kagome into the nearby wall and captured her lips with his own. just to shut her up.
and it worked. until twenty minutes later when he had her beneath him, CLOTHING and CARES discarded on the bedroom floor, and the only word she seemed to remember was his name.
&& it didn’t take long for kagome to fall in LOVE once their relationship became official. to be honest she’d already been most of the way there long before inuyasha ever kissed her, so she didn’t have far to go. but her opportunity to TELL him came the night he revealed himself as a hanyou - a half demon, an outcast. a social status that he believed (with some assistance from the horrible people in his past) made him UNWORTHY of genuine affection or kindness. everything had to come with a price, he believed - even love. until kagome. until she spread her arms wide and loved him HARDER because of who he was, not in spite of it. she told him virtually every day how much she loved him, never once expecting to hear it in return. their love wasn’t transactional - she felt it, so she said it. that was all.
though he might’ve FELT it sooner, inuyasha didn’t find the words for himself until about a month later. kagome stirred in the middle of the night, half conscious, to find inuyasha watching her in the dark. it was then that he breathed out the words, whispered tenderly into her hair, which lulled her right back into the best sleep of her life.
it was so effective, it turned out, that the next morning kagome thought the whole encounter was nothing but a DREAM. which only served to give inuyasha a complex in his panic, wondering why she wasn’t making a big deal out of the fact that he’d said those magical three words. had he totally fucked up?! had she NOT wanted him to say it?! it took another few days for him to EXPLODE at her out of anxiety, demanding to know what the hell was her problem, before either one of them figured out the misunderstanding.
kagome LAUGHS about it now; inuyasha has yet to find the humor in it.
&& inuyasha had been CLEAR their whole relationship that he didn’t believe in marriage. though it definitely shattered one of kagome’s deepest desires, she knew that if the options were to be married to someone other than inuyasha or spend the rest of her days as HIS girlfriend? she’d pick the latter every time. she had to - he was her soulmate.
since they were never going to have a wedding, kagome and inuyasha decided to buy a house together instead; a DIFFERENT kind of lifelong commitment, but it counted all the same. that is, if you could even CALL what they bought a ‘house’ - with its massive size, marble floors, and olympic sized swimming pool the property was more accurately a mansion. perhaps it was a little extravagant for just the two of them on a day to day basis, but to kagome it was PERFECT. with a place like this, she’d pointed out to inuyasha as they toured it together, they could take care of all of their loved ones forever. she could see backyard barbecues for the summer holidays, birthday parties for miroku and sango’s children, a christmas tree OVERFLOWING with gifts for their family and friends in the oversized living room... they could build a LIFE here, one they could share with all the people they loved.
kagome was THRILLED when the deal closed, insisting that the two of them have a picnic together in the empty home the minute the keys were in their hands. while waiting for their food to arrive, she’d taken inuyasha on a mini tour of the various rooms, laying out the furniture ideas she had or discussing paint color options. it was in their master bedroom, when she’d turned around to ask what he thought of adding more shelves for her wardrobe, that she found inuyasha down on ONE KNEE.
she didn’t even let him get a syllable out before screaming saying YES. thank goodness he insisted on stumbling through his little speech anyways, because it was one of the most romantic things she’d ever heard. would that be true to just ANYONE listening? no, probably not. but it was to her, and that’s all that mattered.
&& having already changed his mind about the whole MARRIAGE thing, inuyasha had tried to put his foot down about having any kids. but it didn’t seem to matter that he did, since kagome was having a hellish time trying to get pregnant anyways. after YEARS of failed attempts and broken hearts, kagome gave up on the idea all together and entered school to become a midwife - if she couldn’t have any kids of her own, at least she could help other women who could. she was DEVASTATED, and though he had never really wanted to be a father? inuyasha was devastated for her.
that is until MOROHA unexpectedly arrived and changed their entire world. she was their MIRACLE baby, and seemed to know it from the moment she opened her eyes. with every passing day she grew more and more into the spitting image of her father (in every sense of the word), with only the slight softness to her features and her heart revealing kagome’s influence. inuyasha had thought they were COMPLETE, this little family of three. but kagome pushed for one more - her relationship with sota had always been so SPECIAL to her, and she wanted the same for their daughter. how could inuyasha refuse an argument like that?
or rather, how could he refuse it for long?
their son, just like his big sister before him, came as a SURPRISE a few years later - while taking a pregnancy test in solidarity with a nervous sango, kagome had been stunned to discover it came up positive. not more stunned than her HUSBAND, of course, despite the changes in her scent and her eating habits having tipped him off a few days earlier.
but then, THEN they were done - a complete family of four.
and inuyasha got the surgery to make sure of it.
... ok i might not write anything else for like, a MONTH after all of this. hope you’re happy. also hi @houshiled && @slayerled if you made it this far, what troopers.
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