Konnichiwa, minna-san, watakushi Megu-chan to moushimasu! Hello, everybody, I'm Megu-chan! This is my second fanfic so please everybody review and let me know how I'm doing, just so I know somebody is reading. And to add to the fact I've decided to rewrite this chapter. Only because I reread it and see that it does have too much dialogue. So the same incidents happen but it's different. Get it?
Disclaimer: Inuyasha-tachi belongs to Takahashi Rumiko-sama, the greatest anime artist there ever was. Now, on to the story.
Chapter 1: We're going to the future!
"Alright, I better get going," Kagome got up and prepared to exit through the well. She'd been in the Feudal Times for a week now and growing tired of taking baths in a river or lake. She wanted her nice bathtub and her bath salts. Not to mention there were quite a few tests she had to take. She couldn't imagine what excuse her Grandpa had used about her this time.
"Hey, you can't leave!" Inuyasha cried running after her.
"Why not?" she asked as she sat on the edge of the well.
Inuyasha was searching for a reason to stop her from leaving and said the first thing that came to his mind. It wasn't like he would or could for that matter say, 'No, you can't go because I'll miss you.' Yeah, that'd go over big. "Because there are better things to do than those tests! Like look for the rest of the shards!"
"Look, Inuyasha, I barely spend time with my family and I know they must worry about me. You know?"
Inuyasha sighed. "You figure you can go do anything you want."
"C'mon, Inuyasha. Don't be sad," she said sympathetically. The way he said it sounded so heartrending that she almost didn't want to leave him. She would have maybe even considered it if it hadn't been for his next comment.
"I'm not sad, not over a stupid girl like you!"
"Well, I'm glad you feel that way!" Kagome huffed.
"Kagome," the little fox demon scurried over to her. "Bye, and come back soon, okay?"
Shippo. At least there was somebody who cared about whether she left. And if Inuyasha did, why didn't he say so? Yeah, she knew. He was too big and manly to admit his true feelings. Right? That was a question she was unable to answer. "Sure, would I ever leave and not come back?"
Shippo smiled and hugged her. "Bye."
Inuyasha was still looking upset. It annoyed him to see her chatting to Shippo like he wasn't there or something. But just so he was trying to think of something to say, he didn't have enough time though because Kagome's voice interrupted his thoughts.
"Inuyasha, I said that I would be back!" Kagome protested.
"Yea, sure. But just to be sure, I'm going with you!"
"What?!"
"Yea, that's right!" There, that was the ticket. Since she claimed she was going to leave, he'd go with her. There'd have to be some reason why she didn't want him to come and he was going to find out. Other than that, he'd have some time with her to himself. Or so he thought…
Miroku looked over, "Well, if Inuyasha gets to come along, I'd be more than happy to join you."
"Wow, a trip to the future. Sort of like a wonderful vacation in the future," Sango said smiling. "That would be so cool!"
"Busybodies," Inuyasha said a little upset that they had ruined his plans.
"Well, I don't know," Kagome said. She didn't know how her mother would react with all the new guests that would be staying with them. Still, she figured that it would be pretty fun… "All right!"
"Cool, the future," Shippo said smiling. "I want to see this especially since Kagome always brings home chocolate and cookies and stuff."
"I'm supposed there will be plenty of women willing even to bear my child," Miroku said glancing at Sango.
"Feh! Why the hell are you people so excited for? It's confusing and full of sh--," Inuyasha said.
"Sit, boy!" Kagome said.
"Bitch!"
"Would you stop calling me that? And stop cussing!" she scolded.
"Will we be attending your school?" Shippo asked excited.
"Yes, but Shippo, you've too young to go to high school," Kagome told him.
"Oh."
"But maybe you'll be able to attend Souta's school."
"Sure! I don't care."
"Finally a look into what Kagome's always running off to," Sango said with a smile.
"School, sure! I'm staying my ass at home!" Inuyasha said.
"But Inuyasha, if you stay at home, you won't be able to see the tests," Kagome reminded him. Just a moment, why the heck was she trying to persuade him into going. It would only cause trouble. Plus the fact that, would the world be ready for a dog half-demon, fox demon, lecherous monk, and a demon exterminator?
"The tests?"
"That's right."
"Humph! Well, I'm going destroy this "test" and then you won't have to go home anymore."
"Okay sure," Kagome said smiling. Just wait till he found out what a test was. He'd probably be angry with her. Oh well. Everyone was in such a wonderful mood that she didn't want to spoil it. "Everybody ready?"
"Yes," the group replied.
"Then let's go!"
They hopped down the well and got ready to begin their adventure.
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"Are we there yet?" Shippo asked as they were transferred to Kagome's time.
"Yep," Kagome said.
They took a while to hop out of the well and look around the shrine.
"Wow! Where's the forest?" Sango said.
"We're in the future, remember?" Inuyasha said a matter-of-factly.
"Come on," Kagome said leading them to her house.
Fascinated by all the new objects, they walked inside of Kagome's house.
"Welcome home, Kagome," Ms. Higurashi said approaching the front door. She noticed the crowd of people that were with her. "And who are all these people?"
"This is Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Inuyasha."
"Oh, yes." She smiled. "I remember that one." She pointed to Inuyasha.
"They'll be staying with us for a while. I hope you don't mind, mom."
"Well, I don't, but I don't believe that we have enough beds."
"We'll figure something out," Kagome reassured her mom.
"If it comes to that then Sango and I can share," Miroku offered.
"Not on your life, buddy," she said.
"Inuyasha can sleep on the floor," Kagome said.
"Me, why me?" Inuyasha looked from the pictures that he was looking at. There was a picture a little girl that almost looked like Kagome, but Kagome was huger than that…
"Because you were the one complaining about this, so it's only right."
"And I can share with you, Kagome?" Shippo asked hopping up and down.
"Sure."
"What?" Inuyasha said averting his eyes from the strange object. "No way! I don't think so." There was no way in hell he was going to let that little fox demon sleep with Kagome while he had to sleep on the floor. To him it just wasn't fair. Why should she play favorites?
"Why?" Kagome asked. "Jealous of Shippo?"
A look crossed his face. "No, why would I be?"
She just shrugged. "You are the jealous type."
"Ha-ha! I can't wait to see more of Kagome's future stuff," Shippo said staring at some of the figurines that were lined up in a glass case.
"Speaking of which, Kagome, you'll have to teach us of these new items I am seeing," Miroku said.
"That's right. I will, but we'll worry about that tomorrow. We should get some sleep for now," Kagome said. "Today's Saturday so on Sunday we can go shopping and other cool things."
"I knew this would be a good idea," Sango said excitedly.
"I'll show you all to your rooms," Kagome said. "Inuyasha and Miroku, you can stay in the family room."
They eyed around the room. There was a nice little 3 seater sofa that was a sort of black lacquer kind of color and gold Hiragana over it and a love seat with the same design. It looked pretty comfy. The T.V. was in front of the chair. And on the end side of the room was a huge window with nice curtains.
Miroku cleared his throat. "Actually, Kagome, I was hoping that you would pair Sango and me together."
"Yea, right," Sango said rolling her eyes.
"Me and Shippo in my room and Sango, you can have the guest room," Kagome said.
"Wow! Thanks," Sango said.
"Well, goodnight, people," Kagome said as her and Shippo headed off to her room.
"What is a 'family room'?" Miroku wondered.
"This room, dunce," Inuyasha said.
"Sure… Well, I guess there's nothing better to do than to make myself comfortable on these things called 'furniture.'" Miroku said taking another glance around the room.
"This was a bad idea…" Inuyasha said almost wishing that he hadn't wanted to come so bad.
The next morning
Kagome walked into the family room to see Miroku asleep on the sofa. Where is Inuyasha then? She walked into the kitchen and saw an angry Inuyasha. He was there amidst the giant mess he had made. There were drawers pulled open, almost to the point where they'd break off if pulled any further. The cabinets were open and there were canned goods spilling out.
"What's wrong with you?" she asked not wanting to believe the mess.
"I want ramen! Something you don't seem to have!"
"I do, you just don't know how to do anything." She looked around the kitchen, but couldn't find anything herself. Then she spotted a note on the refrigerator.
Kagome, we're out of groceries so I decided to go shopping. I left some money for you to go order something. It's on the table. Love, Mom.
Well, I guess we'll be eating out today, Kagome thought. She looked around on the island for the money and spotted it. She was surprised that Inuyasha hadn't knocked it over.
"See?" Inuyasha said. "Stupid wench, we don't got any food."
"Well, that's what we have money for," she explained calmly. "We'll just go to McDonalds and order something."
"Mick Don os? What is that?"
Miroku opened his eyes. He hadn't forgotten he had plans on checking on Sango. He smiled to himself and got off the sofa. He stopped when he heard Kagome calling him. At first he was thinking of ignoring her, but decided against it. "Yes, Kagome?"
"We're going out to eat, so get ready. I'll go get Sango and Shippo."
"There's no need to have to do that. I'll go get Sango and you can go get Shippo," Miroku offered.
"That's really sweet of you, Miroku, but I can go get them." Kagome disappeared down the hall.
Miroku cursed to himself. His whole mission 'Wake up Sango for a little sumthin sumthin' was ruined. Oh well. They'd be other chances and other mornings. Maybe he could even try while everyone was asleep. Yeah, that would be perfect. A smile found its way to his face.
"Why aren't we so sneaky in the morning," Inuyasha said observing his smile.
"I was merely trying to help Kagome out," Miroku answered smoothly.
"Sure, by spying on Sango."
Miroku grinned. "Well, when do we eat?"
"Kagome is trying to get us to eat at some damn future place."
"Is that so?"
Kagome knocked on Sango's door. "Hey, Sango, it's me, Kagome. Can I come in?"
"Oh sure." Sango opened the door. "Hey, Kagome, where exactly can I wash myself?"
"In the bathroom." She showed her the way.
Sango looked around in awe. The bathroom was painted a soft creamy color and almost all of the accessories from the soap dispenser to the towels were a burgundy color. "And how exactly do you operate this?" she asked looking over at the trimmed sink knobs.
Kagome sighed. There was definitely a lot to teach them.
In the car
"This is amazing, a strange type of thing moving," Miroku said inside the car.
"Yea," Sango agreed. "It's kind of like a horse, huh?"
"A little," Kagome said. She was just happy that she had gotten them to get inside the car. At first, Inuyasha was about ready to slice the car in half with his Tetsusaiga when the engine started. It didn't take much to get Shippo in, Miroku and Sango were a little skeptical at first, but better behaved than Inuyasha was.
Inuyasha scowled in the front seat. He didn't get why everybody was getting so excited over Kagome's stupid future stuff. I mean, what is so exciting about something funny-looking. And the fact that it moved so slow, he could run faster than this.
"What does this do, Kagome?" Shippo asked pointing to the radio. And to make him so adorable, Kagome had taken the liberty to put Shippo in Souta's old baby car seat.
"It plays music."
"If you ask me, it's stupid," Inuyasha retorted.
"That's why nobody asked you," Kagome said. "See, Shippo." She flicked the radio on. 'Fukai mori' came out of the speakers.
"Turn that shit off," Inuyasha said. Who ever heard of such noise? And people played it for entertainment?
"Can you ask politely?" Kagome asked.
"NO!"
"Well, then..." Kagome pulled the volume up louder.
Inuyasha growled. Kagome was really starting to annoy him and it didn't help that he had such good hearing. The loud music really hurt his ears.
"Hey, we're here," Kagome said parking the car into McDonalds.
"Eating future food," Sango said. "This is just like a dream or something."
Just as they got ready to walk inside of the yellow and red doors, Kagome stopped Inuyasha for a second and placed a baseball cap snugly over his ears.
"What for?" he asked preparing to snatch the stupid thing off his ears.
"Over here, it's not regular to see demons and people with ears on top of their heads." She proceeded to the front counter, not giving him time to answer.
"Hello. Welcome to McDonalds. May I take your order?" the cashier greeted.
"So what do you guys want?" Kagome looked at them.
She went on to order Sango a McFlurry, Shippo a Happy Meal and a chocolate chip cookie, Miroku a burger and fries, and ordered Inuyasha a Big Mac although he'd said he didn't want anything but ramen. He was gonna eat that Big Mac if it killed her, that was money out of her pocket.
Kagome fished some money out of her purse and paid for the food. As soon as they were served, they took a seat. Miroku and Sango on one side, Inuyasha and Kagome on the other with Shippo between them.
"Alright, here's everybody's food." She placed everyone's meal in front of them.
Inuyasha stared at the Big Mac sitting in front of him and wrinkled his nose. What was that funny looking thing and why did it smell so bad?
"What's wrong?" Kagome asked.
"I didn't want this shit."
"Be glad I ordered you anything."
"Well, I'm not eating it."
Kagome had had it up to here with Inuyasha's attitude. But she couldn't take it anymore. First, the whole wanting to go but then being so grumpy about it. Now this. Sure, Inuyasha was usually this way but somehow it felt different. "Look, Inuyasha. I've tried to be nice to you all day!"
"You? Be nice to me? That's a lie. You've been a stupid wench ever since we got here!" It wasn't all true, but was he going to tell Kagome the truth. No way.
"Hey, you two," Sango said trying to calm them down.
"I just thought that you would want to try something else from the future!" Kagome yelled obviously not hearing Sango.
"Well, you thought wrong!" he yelled back at the top of his lungs.
People were starting to stare. "Um… Inuyasha, Kagome," Miroku started.
"Then starve!!" Kagome said.
"Then I will!!"
They didn't notice the waiter that was walking towards their table.
"Inuyasha! If you continue to argue with me I'll say the 'S' word," Kagome threatened standing up.
"You wouldn't!"
"I would!"
"Excuse me, ma'am, sir," the waiter said tapping Kagome's shoulder.
"WHAT NOW!!!!" Then she realized who was talking to her—the waiter. "Yes," she asked in a more polite manner.
"I'm afraid that due to the language and huge commotion you're causing that we're going to have to ask--no tell-- you to leave."
"Oh," Kagome flashed an embarrassed look.
They picked up their food and walked back to Kagome's car. "I have never been kicked out of a restaurant," Kagome said. She was embarrassed, what if someone at her school had been there to see her arguing with some boy like they were little kids.
"It's your own damn fault. Nobody wanted to stay at there," Inuyasha told her.
"If you hadn't started with me."
"Me, start with you?"
"Yea," Kagome pulled out of the parking space angrily.
Miroku turned to face Sango. "I had a feeling this would be a bad idea."
"What makes you say that?" she asked mockingly. "Still, I like the future. It's pretty cool."
"Yes."
"And this," she pointed to her McFlurry, "isn't half-bad."
Well, minna-san, what did you think of So Called Vacation? I know it's not that much of an improvement, but… Cut me some slack. This is for Eddie, because my chapters are usually so short. Hehe! On Microsoft Word this is 10 pages long. Maybe it's still not long enough? Inuyasha is such a grumpy person. N-E-ways, sayonara bye bye! Megu-chan
