Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha or any of the characters from the series. If I did I wouldn't be rolling in thousands of dollars worth of student loans.
Chapter 1
Kagome woke with a start. Something was wrong. She sat up and scanned her room. Turning around she encountered a pair of angry, golden eyes. Panicking, she did the first thing that came to mind.
"SIT!" She yelled, sending the poor half-demon crashing to the floor, face first. "Whoops" she said as a string of muffled curses mad its way from the subdued Inu hanyou.
"What the hell did you do that for?" InuYasha shouted as soon as the spell wore off.
"What the hell are you doing here?" she yelled back, thoroughly annoyed at being woken up at such an early hour. Ok, so it was already 8:00, but it was Saturday. Eight' o'clock is way too early for a Saturday.
"Feh," said InuYasha as he sat up on the floor, "you're late."
"Uhhh… No I'm not." Shoot, she had prayed he wouldn't notice. Yeah right, she thought, it's more likely to snow in Hell.
"What do you mean 'no I'm not?'? " InuYasha yelled, jumping up and bracing himself on the bed. "You were supposed to be back two days ago!"
"InuYasha, I…" Kagome started but was cut off when her door opened. In the doorway stood Souta, his eyes the size of dinner plates.
"Mom!" he yelled as he took off down the hall.
As it finally dawned on the two teenagers as to what their position must have looked like they both leaped up to chase after Souta. However, disaster ensued as the two tried to go out the door at the same time and only succeeded in getting stuck.
The two teenagers struggled for a while and finally managed to dislodge themselves from the doorframe and took off towards the kitchen. There, Souta was already seated at the table describing the scene that he had walked in on to his mother. Kagome did her best not to panic.
Hearing the others enter the room, Mrs. Higurashi turned around and fixed her daughter with a warm smile. "Hello, dear, you're up early."
"Don't believe a thing he says!" Kagome replied, pointing to her brother, who was happily working his way through a bowl of cereal. So much for not panicking.
"Oh, calm down. Maybe you should go upstairs and take a shower and you can yell all you want later. InuYasha, would you like something to eat?"
Kagome grumbled and went back upstairs to get ready for the day, leaving her mother to deal with the boys. If the morning was any indication, the rest of the day didn't look too promising.
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"It's not what it looked like!" Kagome tried to explain. She looked at InuYasha for help but got none as the hungry hanyou currently had his face buried in a large bowl of Ramen. Kagome rolled her eyes and looked back to her mother.
"Of course it wasn't." Mrs. Higurashi replied, giving her daughter a reassuring smile, "I'm just surprised to see InuYasha here, that's all."
"Huth?" InuYasha said, looking up from his now half empty bowl of Ramen.
"Well, I thought that you weren't expecting Kagome back until tomorrow. After all," Mrs. Higurashi added, turning to her daughter, "you did agree to spend the day with Hojo." InuYasha shot a glare at Kagome and the girl visibly paled.
"Who's Hobo?" InuYasha asked with a dangerous glint in his eye.
"He's Kagome's new boyfriend!"
"Shut up Souta!" Kagome yelled as she launched a Coca Puff at his head. "He's just a friend, all right?"
"Sure, whatever you say sis."
Damn it, Kagome thought, how do I get myself into theses messes? I can't cancel on Hojo again! What am I going to do?
Sensing her daughter's distress, Mrs. Higurashi came up with an idea.
"I know, why don't you take InuYasha with you?"
"You can't be serious mom." Kagome replied, giving her mom a deadpan look.
"Oh come on, It'll be fun!"
"I'm not sure 'fun' is the right word"
"Don't be so dramatic…"
InuYasha sat at the table looking from mother to daughter. Go with her? He thought, Could I actually do that? Just then, the doorbell rang.
"Oh no! It's Hojo, he's here!" Kagome all but screamed while Souta ran for the door, laughing all the way. Kagome jumped from her seat and raced after him. Who knew what the little brat would try to tell Hojo if no one else was around to stop him. She caught up with her brother just as he was opening the door.
"Hey, Kagome. How are you?"
"I'm just fine." Right, excluding the rude wake up call and Souta's antics. "Um, listen. Something's come up and…" She trailed off as InuYasha walked down the hall towards them.
"You're not cancelling again, are you?" Hojo asked, his smile fading.
"No, no that's not it. It's just that a friend of mine from out of town showed up and I really can't just leave him here by himself."
"And?"
Kagome sighed. "Well, I was wondering if it would be all right if he came along."
"Oh, well I don't see why not."
"Thank you. We'll just be a minute. Make yourself at home." Kagome turned around to head back to the kitchen but ran into something solid. The only thing that kept her from falling backwards into Hojo was a strong hand on her shoulder.
"Watch where you're going will ya?"
"Uh, sorry InuYasha." Kagome responded as she righted herself. "Ummm… I think you might want to change before we go."
"Into what?" Souta asked with a confused look on his face.
"Kagome, I think there are some of your dad's old clothes upstairs."
"Thanks mom! C'mon InuYasha." With that Kagome grabbed InuYasha by the wrist and dragged him upstairs.
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"It's no problem, really." Hojo said, giving Kagome his award-winning smile, "I'm happy to have him along." Kagome just grumbled and continued ahead of the boys. Hojo stayed behind and tried, unsuccessfully, to make conversation with the jealous hanyou. InuYasha couldn't believe that he had to share Kagome with this… this human, not that he would ever admit it of course.
"Hey Kagome," Hojo called, giving up on his "conversation" with InuYasha and jogging to catch up with the annoyed miko, "What did you want to do first?"
"I dunno," She mumbled by way of a reply
"I was thinking we'd catch a movie."
"Whatever," Kagome said. This was going to be a long day.
As it turned out, Kagome couldn't have been more right. The three went to the movie. It really wasn't all InuYasha's fault, she thought after the movie, after all, how was he supposed to know the monsters weren't real? She continued, referring to how she had to practically sit on the hanyou every time a monster appeared on screen to keep him from attacking it.
Kagome came out of her musings to find that they had reached the arcade. All the lights and sounds appeared to be confusing InuYasha to no end. Who's bright idea was this anyway?
"Hey InuYasha, I challenge you to a game of DDR."
Oh no! Kagome paled
"What's that?" InuYasha asked, his voice dripping with disdain.
"Dance Dance Revolutions." Hojo explained. "The floor lights up and you have to step where the screen shows you to. Takes fancy footwork to win."
Fancy footwork huh? The hanyou thought. I think I'm pretty well off in that department.
"All right." InuYasha agreed, never being one to turn down a challenge, especially not from a rival male.
Kagome couldn't believe it, InuYasha playing DDR. Just the thought made her laugh out loud.
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The crowd clapped as Hojo won yet another game. Poor InuYasha looked more like he was wading through a tar pit and trying to take flight.
"One more." InuYasha said, aggravated that he couldn't beat this puny human at a stupid game.
"I think that's enough." Kagome jumped in after hearing the request. "It's getting rather late."
"Kagome's right. Besides, I'm too pooped to go another round."
"Pooped?" InuYasha asked, looking disgusted. Kagome just rolled her eyes and walked out of the arcade, the boys on her heels.
The walk home was rather uneventful. InuYasha refused to have anything to do with the human who had beaten him at, in InuYasha's opinion, was just some stupid game. Why did humans waste their time with those things? Kagome refused to make the situation any worse than it was and Hojo was, as usual, oblivious to the whole situation.
Kagome sighed in relief as the steps to the shrine came into view. "Bye Hojo, see you at school!" Kagome called from the steps in front of the family shrine. Hojo waved as he began walking down the sidewalk.
"Feh," was InuYasha's reply.
Kagome opened the door and was immediately bombarded by her little brother.
"Did you have a good time with your boyfriend?" he asked.
"He is not my boyfriend!" Kagome screamed and gave chase. InuYasha just stared as the two ran around the living room.
"All right children, that's enough." Mrs. Higurashi yelled as she walked into the room. "Hello InuYasha, how was your day?"
"Err…." The hanyou stammered.
"It was…interesting." Kagome offered.
"Well, glad to hear it. You two must be hungry. There's Ramen in the kitchen." At this InuYasha's eyes bugged and he took off at a run towards the kitchen. Mrs. Higurashi Chuckled as she followed him with Kagome in tow.
Once they reached the kitchen, everyone sat down at the dinning table. InuYasha had placed himself behind a particularly large bowl of Ramen and proceeded to stuff his face.
"So, when will you two be heading back through the well?" Mrs. Higurashi asked as she, too, sat down at the table.
"Tonight." InuYasha answered matter-of-factly.
"Why not tomorrow?" Kagome asked.
"The sooner we're back the sooner we can start looking for more Jewel Shards."
"Oh come on, InuYasha. What difference can one night make? Besides, I still have to pack." InuYasha sent Kagome a stern glare. "Please?"
"Oh, all right. But we leave first thing tomorrow."
"Deal."
"Well, I'll go get the spare bedroom ready. You two should come up as soon as you're done with your snack." Mrs. Higurashi said as she got up from the table.
"Okay, mom."
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"Kagome." InuYasha said as he crouched at the head of the girl's bed. Instead of a response the girl just rolled over to face the wall. "Kagome."
"Five more minutes."
"Kagome!"
"What, what's wrong?" Kagome asked as she sat straight up.
"You sleep like the dead, that's what's wrong."
"What are you talking about?"
"I've been trying to wake you up for the past ten minutes."
"Well, why'd you have to wake me up so early?"
"We have to get going. We're already three days behind schedule, thanks to you. Now get dressed." InuYasha stood up and walked out of the room.
"Yeesh, what bit him on the butt?" Kagome grumbled as she got out of bed. She walked over to her closet to pick out an outfit for the day. After changing, she picked up the bag she had packed the night before and exited the room.
InuYasha was waiting for her downstairs, looking extremely annoyed. "Could you move any slower?"
"As a matter of fact, I could." Kagome said and stuck her tongue out at the irritated hanyou.
"Whatever, let's go."
"Bye mom. See you soon!" Kagome called over her shoulder as she followed InuYasha out the door and over to the hidden well. InuYasha stepped up onto the lip of the well then turned around to help Kagome up. Both teenagers glanced down the well as they prepared to make the jump that would take them back to the Feudal era. InuYasha leapt first and a few seconds later hit the bottom hard, face first in the dirt.
Thus concludes Chapter one of "A Day in the Life." Please take the time to review and tell me what you thought.
CSJ