A Twist of Fate

Disclaimer: The characters of Inuyasha are not mine, they are property of Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan, Yomiuri TV, Sunrise, and Viz. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Hey, hope you guys liked the first chapter, this is the last chapter that will be posted tonight, and hopefully from there I can start to work on them again...XD

Chapter 4

When it finally hit 7:30, Kagome nearly went running out of the Onstar building. She couldn’t wait to get home, and go to sleep. The reason was, she hadn’t managed to sleep much the day before, because of a certain someone, known as Hojo, getting separated from her and Sango at the mall, meaning they had to spend more time there then she would have liked, but whatever, she had 2 whole days off, and one of them was her birthday. She was so excited, because she knew that she was going to get to see that Inuyasha guy, the one who had stopped in to see her the other night at work, to thank her for saving him.

When she pulled into the driveway she was just glad to be home, and couldn’t wait to go upstairs to bed. She walked into the house, said her usual good morning to her roommate, as he was walking out the door to go to work himself, and headed upstairs to her room. As she rounded the corner, she suddenly heard the sounds of someone knocking over a glass, or something in her room. She was so glad to be home that she had completely forgotten that Hojo was sleeping in there. The problem was though that when she tried to open the door, Hojo wouldn’t get out of the way.

“Hojo, why are you standing in front of the door?” She asked as she looked at him through the crack of the door.

“Don’t worry, I’ll clean it up.” was all he kept saying as he continued to try an stop her from getting into her room.

“Clean what up?” she continued as she managed to push him out of her way and into the room.

“I’ll clean it up” was all he kept repeating.

“What on earth...”she started, ready to yell at him, but then noticed that her sock was wet. “That’s weird.” she thought; “if he spilled the water over in the other corner, then what am I stepping in?” That’s when she decided to turn on her light and look down on her floor. When she looked down she realized what he was talking about, it seems that her reasoning was correct last night, and that he had been sick from the alcohol that he had consumed, sick alright, all over her bedroom floor. Not to mention at least one pair of jeans, her pair of fleece pants, and also her brand new jacket, which was bought by her mother at Christmas.

“What the HELL happened!” she nearly screamed when she saw the mess.

“I said I would clean it up.” was all that Hojo kept telling her.

“You had damn well better! Don’t forget to rinse of the cloth and put them in the corner, I’m going be doing some laundry today.”

“Ok, no problem.”

With that, Kagome turned and left Hojo to his cleaning. When she went up she realized that he was truly cleaning up the mess, however, he was using one of her hair towels in order to clean it up with. She was about to say something but then decided that it just really wasn’t going to be worth it, and instead grabbed her laundry basket, and went back downstairs in order to start the laundry that she had been planning on doing that morning anyways.

When she put down her basket and started to pull things out, she realized that something was a little weird about what she was seeing in her laundry basket. The cloth that Hojo had managed to hit in his stupidity last night where now sitting on top of all of her other clothes, and this included all of her white work, and dress clothes, and not only that but they had also not been rinsed off, as she had asked him to do either.

“For crying out loud!” she screamed, “Can that man not do anything right?”

With that she proceeded to throw only the stuff that had vomit on it in to the washing machine, and turned it on. With that done she went into the living room to sit and work on her computer. It had been awhile since she had written anything in her journal, so she decided that it would be a good idea to vent some of her frustrations from the morning out into the lines of her journal. She also decided that she had to get her anger out another way, and that meant besides trying to kill the man upstairs, who had managed to ruin her first day off, so she decided that she was going to write a story about everything that was happening to her at this point, and post it online. She had actually gotten some really good reviews from her previous stories, and figured that it would be ok to write another one, seeing as really needed to vent her frustrations, and seeing as murder is a crime, you can see why she had no other alternative. With that thought in mind she started typing.

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Inuyasha was staring out the window of the office building that he was currently working in. He just couldn’t stop thinking about that girl, the one who had saved him when he crashed, and who had also invited him to her birthday.

“What’s wrong with me? I have met hundreds of girls, not to mention this isn’t the first time I’ve crashed my car, so why her?” He muttered to himself while still starring out the window.

“You know talking to yourself is a bad sign, Inuyasha.”

“Oh, shut up Sesshomaru, nobody asked you.”

“Your right, no one has asked me, but maybe you should.”

“Why should I talk to you about anything?”

“Because in 2 days you have gotten almost no work done, and I’m the one that’s going to get in trouble for it.” Sesshomaru replied, while still maintaining a calm exterior, although inside he was truly worried about his brother, even if he would never admit to it.

“Well I’m fine!” Inuyasha replied, irritated that his brother had come to complain at him about his work. Although he did have to admit that he really hadn’t managed to get much done, since having met Kagome 2 nights ago, in order to say thank you for having sent out the ambulance to the scene of his accident, but he still couldn’t figure out why she was on his mind so much.

To be honest, she was pretty much an average girl, she had long black hair that went just past her shoulders, brown eyes, average breast size(although he did prefer them bigger, they seemed to match her stature), a small waist, and nice curves, in all she was pretty, but still average, not like the girls he usually would think about.

“Inuyasha, have you thought about what you’re going to get her for her birthday yet?”
“Not a clue.”

“Well seeing as you aren’t getting any work done at the moment, maybe you should take the rest of the day off, and see if you can find something for her. If I recall properly, you said that the dinner was going to be tomorrow night, so had better start looking for something.”

“I know that Fluffy, but I still don’t know what I should get for her.” Inuyasha replied, while using the nickname that Sesshomaru hated the most.

“Well then I suggest you start looking.” Sesshomaru replied, trying as hard as he could not to throttle Inuyasha, he really hated that nickname.

With that Sesshomaru returned to his office, and left Inuyasha alone to ponder what he should get for Kagome, as both a thank you present and a birthday present.

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As Kagome sat typing on the couch, she realized that while she was either sleeping, or even while she was at work, Hojo, could always open her laptop and go snooping through her files, and maybe even find her journal, or worse, the story she was currently writing. She decided it would be safer for her if she put a password protection on the computer. It wasn’t so much she was worried about him reading the story, seeing as she was planning on posting online anyways, it was that if he saw it on the internet, after having seen it in her computer, then he would be really angry that people around the world would know what had happened.

Just as she had saved the first chapter of the story and closed the lid of the laptop, Hojo came down stairs, showered and dressed, looking as if nothing had happened last night while she was at work.

“Kagome, can you give me directions to mall, I need to go and get a few things and I figure that you’re going to want to go to bed, seeing as you worked all night.”

“Sure.” Then she proceeded to give him the street names, and directions that he would need to follow in order to get to the mall. From her place it was actually really easy.

After Hojo had left, Kagome went to the laundry room to finish working on the stuff that needed to be washed. She still couldn’t believe that he hadn’t rinsed the stuff like she had asked, and worse that he had put it with the rest of her clothes, which for the most part where her work clothes.

“Some days I wonder if he ever really uses his brain.” She thought as she finished loading another load of wash in the machine. Instead of starting it however, she left it set, and went upstairs to make sure he had cleaned everything properly.

When she walked into her room, all she could smell was vomit. This in turn made her somewhat ill, but she went in making sure to step over the spot that had been the scene of the crime, as she thought of it, and walked over to her bookshelf, which is where she kept all of her Wicca stuff. She then lit the charcoal and waited till it was ready for her to put some scented oil on it. She chose to use apple blossom, because it had the nicest, and the strongest smell out of the oils that she had and added it to the burner. The scent of apple blossom soon filled the room, with that out of the way, she returned to the entrance to her room, and looked around to make sure that he hadn’t actually gotten any on the bed. “Thank the gods, its clean,” she thought as she continued to look around the area.

After she made sure that everything was as clean as it was getting, that is at least until after Hojo went back home, she headed for the bathroom, so that she could have her shower, and try to somewhat relax.

“He is so paying for the dry cleaning on my jacket.” She thought as the water started to poor onto her head.

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As he walked through the mall, Inuyasha was still consumed with the girl who had saved him from the car crash. Well that and what he should buy her for her birthday. He decided that he would look at the music store, to see if maybe he could find something there. Even if he didn’t know what she liked to listen too, he did know that she liked to listen to music, because when he had met her, she was listening to her I-Pod.

While he was in the store, he decided that he would take a quick look in the Anime section, to see if maybe he could find something for himself while he was at it. You see, Inuyasha had only one weakness in life(other than always losing to his older brother) and that was that he loved to watch Japanese Anime. Of course he would never tell anyone else that. Just as he rounded the stack of cd’s that led to the Anime section of the store, he bumped into a young man, who in his surprise dropped the box set of DVD’s he had been carrying.

“Oh, sorry about that, guess I should really be watching where I’m going.” The young man replied as he bent to pick up the DVD’s.

“Nah, don’t worry about it.” Inuyasha replied with a casual shrug. That’s when he noticed that the young man was carrying the N.O.I.R box set. He had never gotten the chance to watch that particular series, but he had wanted to see it.

“I just hope that the DVD’s are ok, if it was something I was buying for me then it wouldn’t be a problem, but this a gift for a friend of mines birthday.”

“It should be ok.” and with that Inuyasha left the young man to go and pay, while he went to check to see if there was another copy of N.O.I.R on the shelf.

After he finished looking at the Anime, and having found one other copy of N.O.I.R, Inuyasha proceeded to continue to look at the cd’s. He still had no idea what to buy for Kagome, but come hell or high water he was going get her something, even if it killed him.

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When she finished her shower, Kagome went back downstairs, and turned her laptop back on, and continued to work on the new story that she was writing. She hadn’t felt this excited about a new story in quite some time, and it also seemed to flow right from her as she wrote.

She was so into her typing that she hadn’t heard the door open, when Hojo got back from the mall. Had he not said anything when he came in, she most likely would not have known he was standing in the doorway of the living room.

“You find the mall ok?” She asked without really looking up from her computer.

“Ya.”

“Ok.” Was all she said before she turned the volume back up on her music, and continued with her story.

“Ah, are you mad at me or something?” Hojo asked, seeming a little confused at the short answers that Kagome was giving him. It wasn’t normal for her to be so quiet, normally she would talk for hours if you let her.(A/N Mind you, that’s only a misconception that people have about me, which in truth is completely false.)

“What do you think?” She asked him without looking up, even though she had stopped typing after he had asked her the question.

“I don’t see why, you should be asking me if I’m ok, which I am, but that’s not my point.”

“I don’t see why I should be worried, the only reason you were sick was because of the alcohol that you drank last night, which might I remind you, I said was going to do that.” She pointed out as she finally looked up from the computer screen. “Not to mention that because of this, I still haven’t been able to get any sleep, and I am completely exhausted.” She continued.

“Why do you think I walked to the mall instead of asking you for a ride, I figured that you would have gone to sleep once the house was empty.”

“In a room that still smells like vomit, sorry but that’s not something I think I would enjoy, not only that but I doubt I can go to sleep till the smell is gone anyways.”

“I cleaned it up, and I can smell your incense from down here, so it can’t smell bad in there anymore.”

“You just don’t get it do you?” She asked him pointedly. “My room is the only place in this house that is mine, and mine alone. Its where I can be myself, where I can be alone, where I can think, and you took that away from me!”

“I didn’t take it away from you...” He started, but Kagome cut him off.

“Yes you did! I have a photographic memory, which means every time I go into my room, all I will see when enter my room, and all I will smell will be your vomit!” She screamed at him.

“Look I have already apologized, what’s done is done, and there is absolutely nothing I can do to change that.”

“That doesn’t mean that I am going to forgive you so easily, but again that doesn’t mean that I won’t eventually forgive you, but right now I’m angry with you because I had only wanted to come home and sleep, and now I can’t.” And with that she proceeded to continue typing on her laptop, which for Hojo was as good as any sign that she didn’t want to talk anymore.

A/N Ok here is the next chapter for you guys! Pls read and Review!