EDIT (12/21/11): Woo boy... It's kind of hard to believe how long it's been since I posted this story. Since it has been so long, and my writing has changed heaps, I'm going to go through this with a fine-picked comb (not really) and edit so that it's a bit more in-line with my current writing style. The story's still the same but it'll hopefully look better!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own InuYasha.
An InuYasha Valentine
Chapter 1
Inuyasha was upset. And why was he upset? Because Kagome had gone home, that's why. The hanyou was sitting in his perch in his favorite tree outside Kaede's hut. He growled, thinking about what transpired in the morning.
Flashback:
Kagome stood outside the hut while Inuyasha berated her for leaving.
"Why're you leaving?" Inuyasha asked angrily. "You barely got back here and now you're telling me you have to leave again?"
"I already told you, idiot!" Kagome snapped, her patience wearing thin. "I have to go back for a special holiday!"
"What holiday is this?" Inuyasha inquired suspiciously. "The holiday of special tests?"
"No, stupid! It's Valentine's Day!"
"Valentine's Day? What's that?"
Kagome explained impatiently, "It's a special holiday when friends, family, and lovers get together and give each other presents to tell each other how special the other one is." Kagome looked at Inuyasha hopefully as he was mulling over this new tidbit. Maybe he'd let her go now.
"No," Inuyasha said finally.
"WHAT?" Kagome shouted, unable to believe what she heard.
"You heard me," Inuyasha said hotly. "I said no."
"I can't believe you would make me do this!" Kagome fumed. She took a deep breath and shouted, "Osuwari!"
"AARGH!" The purple beaded necklace Inuyasha wore glowed brightly and pulled him to the ground with a resounding crash. Before Inuyasha could get up, Kagome had sped off to the well which connected her era to Inuyasha's.
End Flashback
"Stupid girl," Inuyasha mused. "Why'd she have to say that anyway?" His dog ears twitched.
'Because you weren't going to let her go,' his conscience said.
'It's her fault anyway!' Inuyasha argued. 'She barely came back for a few days before deciding to run off again!'
'For good reason,' his conscience said, before becoming silent again.
"Inuyasha!" The hanyou's ears pricked up at the voice. "Aren't you going to come down?"
"Feh," he said. "What's it to you?"
The man who had called him sighed. He had a staff in his right hand which was covered with a glove; prayer beads covered the glove.
"There's a youkai," Miroku said. "It's strong so it might have a jewel shard."
Inuyasha hopped down and started pestering the monk with questions. "Really? Where is it?"
"How am I supposed to know where the jewel shard is?" Miroku asked. "I was simply wondering if you could get Kagome back here."
"No way am I going to get her!" Inuyasha shouted. "I'll just destroy the youkai myself."
Inuyasha ran off, leaving Miroku in his wake.
Miroku sighed and said, "He'll never learn will he? I'd better go before he destroys the jewel shard with the youkai."
At a much more leisurely pace, Miroku set off after the hanyou.
Her room looked like a maze with the amount of garbage, clothes, and bed sheets strewn about on the floor as she rummaged through her closet, looking for something.
"Aargh!" she said. She tied her black hair out of the way and rolled up her sleeves. Kagome was in a foul temper. "This. Is. All. Inuyasha's. Fault!" she grunted, accentuating each word with a grunt as she pulled out another box from her closet.
For the life of her she couldn't understand why it was Inuyasha's fault but since she was angry at the hanyou she simply reasoned it was Inuyasha's fault.
"Need any help, dear?" Kagome's mother called, looking into the door at the mess in her daughter's room.
Kagome stepped out of the closet and smiled at her mother. "No, Mom. I'm fine, thanks."
"Oh, Kagome, your friends are at the door," Kagome's brother said. Sota looked at Kagome's room in amazement. "What're you doing? Spring cleaning?"
"They're at the door?" Kagome repeated. Sota nodded to affirm this. "Tell them I'll be right there."
"Yeah." Sota moved out of sight and went downstairs.
"Mom, you don't mind me leaving this until later, do you?" Kagome asked. She untied her hair and picked out a navy blue sweater along with a blue jeans.
"No, Kagome." Mrs. Higurashi smiled. "Go have some fun with your friends."
"Oh, and, Mom?" Kagome looked beseechingly at her. "Could you give me some money please?"
Mrs. Higurashi smiled and handed Kagome a wallet full of cash. "Here you go, Kagome! Get some presents for your friends in the feudal era."
"Thanks, Mom!"
Ten minutes later, Kagome hurried down the stairs clothed in a navy blue sweater and blue jeans. She had a bag hanging by her side where she had placed her wallet in.
"Kagome!" her friends called. Kagome grinned as she saw them wait for her by the stairs outside.
"Coming!" she called back.
Kagome walked with her friends to the mall. She smiled ruefully as she saw them chatting away.
'So much has happened,' she thought. 'After the jewel is complete and Naraku vanquished, will I ever be able to return to normal?'
"Kagome? Are you feeling all right?" Eri asked.
"Yeah, did you recover from those dreadful toe cramps you had?" Yuka inquired.
'Oh, Gramps!' Kagome implored mentally. Outwardly she smiled nervously and said, "They're better, thanks! I'm just thinking about Valentine's Day."
"Oh, yeah," Yuka said, as if being reminded. "What about that boyfriend of yours? You know, Mister two-timing, possessiveness?"
"Oh, him!" Kagome laughed nervously. "He's doing fine." She waved a nonchalant hand. 'Why does he have to interfere HERE, too?'
"No, I mean about Valentine's Day!" Yuka said. They had both stopped and were looking at Kagome.
"He doesn't celebrate it where he lives," Kagome said sadly, thinking of the feudal era. "He didn't even know what I was talking about!"
"But does he know now?" Eri persisted.
Kagome groaned silently. 'Can't they leave the subject alone?' Exhaling heavily, she said, "Yeah, he kinda does."
"So?" they both said simultaneously.
"So what?" Kagome said nervously, sure of what was going to be asked next.
"Is he going to get you something?" Yuka asked impatiently.
"I doubt he'd even know what to get me," Kagome said. 'I know what Koga would get me… The head of Naraku.'
"You mean that you spend all that time together and he doesn't even know what you like?" Eri said disbelievingly.
'Oh no,' Kagome thought, horrified. 'I've said the wrong thing.' Searching for something to cover up her mistake, she said hurriedly, "Can we get to the mall? I've got some stuff I need to get."
Reluctantly, her two friends gave up the subject of Kagome's violent two-timing boyfriend and moved onto another subject Kagome hated: Hojo.
"Does he know yet?" Yuka said.
"Know what?"
"About your boyfriend!"
"Ah."
"You mean you haven't told him?" Eri said.
Kagome fidgeted. "I've been meaning to."
"Speaking of Hojo," Yuka said, "he's been looking pretty down lately."
"Why?" Kagome asked. In her mind's eye, she saw Hojo in a hole (literally).
"You've been missing school and all your diseases are infectious so he can't see you," Yuka explained. "Speaking of which, how's your battle with the head lice going?"
'I'm gonna kill you, Gramps.' Repressing a twitch in her eye, she said, "Most of it is gone now."
"Ah! Here's the mall," Eri announced, pointing to a large building.
"Finally," Kagome muttered. Without another word, she rushed off to the mall to do some shopping.
Her two friends looked at each other.
"Do you think we should have asked her about her depression?" Yuka asked.
"Or about her psychological disorder that made her think she was a cow?" Eri asked.
They both looked at each other and said, "Nah." They followed their "insane" friend into the mall.
Inuyasha picked through the remains of the youkai he had just defeated. Despite Miroku's assurances that the youkai did have a jewel shard he had yet to find one. His silvery-white hair glistened in the sun as he used his fang, Tessaiga, to pick through another organ.
"Are you sure this youkai had a Shikon jewel fragment?" Inuyasha asked for the tenth time.
"Pretty sure," Miroku said confidently.
"Why do I have such a hard time believing you?" Inuyasha muttered, shifting through the youkai's brain. "It got killed off pretty easily by my Kaze no Kizu."
Another tense ten minutes went by as Inuyasha finished his inspection and by then he was covered with blood and grime and thoroughly disgruntled. Miroku knew he was in trouble.
"Well, monk?" Inuyasha snapped at Miroku. "Where's the fragment?"
Miroku laughed. "Oh well, it must have been the wrong youkai!" He noticed the death glares Inuyasha was sending him. "Er…I'll be off now!" Miroku dashed off.
"Hey!" Inuyasha shouted after him. "I'm not finished with you yet!" The irate hanyou set off in mad pursuit after Miroku.
