It's the second chapter! Thanks for waiting.
And I decided to change Aurelia's name to Katsumi, because the western name didn't make sense to me after a while.
Disclaimer-I do not own Inuyasha, or any of its characters. I do, however, own Katsumi, Goku and Samira. I also do not own any of the websites I have mentioned here. Don't sue me.
The Babysitter
Chapter-2
Within half an hour of his phone call, the doorbell rang.
"Yes! Sanity is mine!"
Inuyasha practically ran to the door, giddy with joy. In the background, Samira was still wailing, but it was not so loud now.
The kids had tried to calm her down and stop her crying during the entire time he tried to open the oven, throw the burnt food out the window and fan the horrible burnt smell out of the house while they waited for the replacement sitter to show up. But they had failed miserably. There still was an odd smell in the house, and their dinner was burnt and sitting in the bin out the window. Inuyasha had totally forgotten that he had started the oven in hopes of having an early dinner and putting the kids to sleep early so they wouldn't have to put up with the air raid siren. But now, all that he could do was hope that whoever was coming could cook, because the only proper restaurants that delivered to the door step were the ones that were outrageously costly, and there was no way Sesshoumaru could know that his precious daughter had eaten anything as common as pizza, no sirree.
Opening the door, he found himself standing face to face with the prettiest girl he had ever seen. She had long black hair, and beautiful brown eyes and a nice smile.
"Hi! I'm Kagome. My friend said you were having problems with your kids and wanted a baby sitter?" She asked.
Inuyasha sighed. "They're not my kids. I'm watching them for a friend. I'm Inuyasha by the way. Come in…" he stepped aside, allowing Kagome to pass through.
As soon as she stepped inside, she heard Samira's wails. "How long has she been at it?"
"Almost an hour. Although she's much better now compared to half an hour ago…"
"Oh. That's sad. She must be really uncomfortable then. Let's see now…" She removed her grey trench coat to reveal a navy blue sweat shirt and a sky blue miniskirt. She set it down on the couch along with her bag. "Where is she?"
"In the bed room, right over there…" he indicated with his hands to where the door was.
Kagome took two steps, and stopped. "What the heck is that smell?"
Inuyasha turned red in embarrassment. "I forgot that I had dinner in the oven, it got burnt… Heh…"
"Oh… So I guess that means you have to start dinner all over again, huh?"
"Um, about that…"
Kagome's eyebrow twitched. "You don't know how to cook, do you?"
"I don't."
"Gosh, that' bad…"
"Don't tell me… you can't cook either?"
She nodded solemnly.
"Oh CRAP! Damnit damnit damnit! AARGH!" He sat down on his haunches, clutching his head in his hands.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Kagome hurried over to him, sitting down so she could see eye to eye.
"HOW can you NOT know how to COOK? He screamed right into her face.
She got mad. So she screamed into his face.
"WELL, WHY don't YOU know how to cook?"
Inuyasha stood up, so he could look down at her. "THAT'S DIFFERENT! YOU'RE A GIRL!"
Kagome stood up too. "AND YOU'RE SEXIST!"
"AM NOT!"
"ARE TOO!"
"You're not only sexist; YOU'RE SHORT TEMPERED AS WELL!"
"I am NOT SHORT TEMPERED!"
"I thought adults were supposed to be more mature?" Interrupted Goku from the doorway.
"Goku, go back inside. NOW." Inuyasha snarled at him over his shoulder.
He shrugged and vanished to where he came from.
"I don't believe you snarled at a child.!"
"He's my friend. He won't be offended."
"How can you be so sure?"
"Because this has happened before!"
"Aha! So you are short tempered!"
"I give up!" Inuyasha sat back down. "What the hell am I gonna do? What'll we eat for dinner? I can't let the kids starve…" He looked so forlorn and lost kagome felt her anger melt away.
"Hey, its ok, we can order from a restaurant!"
"I don't have any money."
"WAAAAAAAAAAHH!"
"DAMN! We forgot about the baby!
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After the long and combined efforts of all of them put together, Samira was finally pacified and fed and put to sleep.
"Would you believe that this angelic baby can raise all of hell with her wail?" Inuyasha wondered aloud, looking at the cherubic little bundle of pink curled up contently on her side, sucking her thumb looking more innocent and adorable than ever.
"I normally wouldn't have, but now that I have first-hand experience, I know it wasn't a joke when people say appearances can be deceiving." Kagome agreed.
"So uncle Inu, what are we gonna do about dinner?" asked Katsumi, rubbing her stomach worriedly.
"Inuyasha, please don't tell me you are gonna cook! You do remember what happened the last time you-"
"Oookay, what's past is past! Why do we need to bring that up again? Right? Good boy… Heheheh…" Inuyasha had a fake grin on his face as he sweat dropped nervously.
Kagome and Katsumi looked at him weirdly.
"So… what are we gonna do?" Goku asked.
"I wonder what father will have to say when he finds out I was left to starve?" Katsumi looked at Inuyasha pointedly when she said this.
He sweat dropped and looked away. He didn't even want to think about that now.
"This is so depressing…" Goku mourned from where he was sprawled on the couch. Katsumi was sitting on the other chair and Inuyasha had slumped to the ground in defeat. Kagome was sitting on the loveseat, deep in thought.
"I know!" Kagome snapped her fingers suddenly, standing up.
"What?" All three of them chirped, their faces lighting up in hope.
"Why don't we see if there are any cookbooks? I'm sure there must be some recipe that we can try out? And I've helped my mom out in the kitchen before so I'm not totally inexperienced either! We can do this!" And she pumped her fist in the air in enthusiasm.
Vigor returned to everyone at the thought of food, and they were quick to catch up with Kagome's enthusiasm.
"I know where my Mother keeps 'em!" Goku volunteered. "Follow me!"
They marched over to Miroku's study, where there was a big wall mounted bookshelf replete with encyclopaedias, novels, dictionaries, puzzles, and you guessed it, cookbooks.
There were around five of them and two of three were around an inch thick, and they looked intimidating.
The first book's title read 'Your party pastries.'
"Ok, that's out of the question." And it was set aside.
The second book was 'The guide to Authentic Asian cuisines' which had a lot of pictures and looked extremely difficult to execute.
Book 3: Simply Asian by Neil Perry.
Not a chance. Toss it aside.
Book 4: Food and travels Asia by Alastair Hend.
Just looking at it made their heads spin. Toss that away too.
Book 5 was more of a folder filled with clip outs from various magazines which everyone felt too tired to look through.
"This sucks!" InuYasha whined.
"Yeah! And looking at those pictures just made me hungrier!" Katsumi all but wailed.
"If we could access the internet I could at least play Games and I wouldn't feel so hungry then…" Goku looked wistfully at the sleek monitor that sat on his father's desk. "Ever since dad locked my account I haven't been able to use it without his permission. Sigh…"
"That's it!" Kagome snapped her fingers excitedly for the second time that evening. But it wasn't received with much enthusiasm. "Goku, does your dad have a laptop?"
"Yeah but it's strictly off limits. I'm not supposed to touch it unless the house is on fire and even then its ok only if I'm rescuing it. Or something like that." He shrugged.
"Ookay… but you know where it is right?"
"Yup."
"Can you bring me it's charger then?"
"What would you do with the charger?"
"So I can use it on my own laptop silly! You bring it and I'll get mine." And she skipped off to where she'd left her satchel.
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"Why fear when Google is here!"
"You said it sister!"
"Enter 'recipes for beginners'!"
"Ok! So let's see…"
there were a lot of sites, and Kagome clicked on one that seemed promising.
RED VELVET CAKE popped up on the screen, followed by a picture of a red cake with white icing which looked like something out of a fairy tale. All four of then began to salivate as their stomachs made loud rumbling noises.
"Make it go 'way Kagome…" Goku tried to shield his eyes from the tantalising picture.
"Ohhhh caaake, cooomme toooo meeee… I summon theeeee…" Katsumi was moaning.
"Kagome… too weak… can't take it… this is torture… pleeeeease stopppp…" Inuyasha clutched his stomach and fell on the floor with and exaggerated moan "noooooo…"
Kagome clicked the back button with much difficulty and a "sigh…"
…Only to be redirected to a page with 'DELICIOUS BROWNIES' and a close up of a tray of brownies dripping with chocolate sauce sitting in the middle of a couple of scoops of chocolate and vanilla ice cream.
There was a collective "NOOOOOOOO!"
Overcome by guilt, she quickly entered "easy recipes for beginners" in the search box.
She came across a website called 'Simple recipes for students' which she clicked.
The site said it was for students by students, so she thought maybe it could work.
There were many divisions like Dinner, Snacks, Dessert, and such. Then she saw a search box which asked for the name and of an ingredient so it could list out all the recipes which used that ingredient.
"Hey Goku, what ingredients do we have to work with?"
"Lemme go see…"
5 minutes later…
"We have Eggs, onions, rice, bread, tomatoes and a lot of other vegetables."
"Ok… So let's try entering Eggs in the search box…"
Most of the recipes included chilli and one of the recipes was 'hard boiled eggs'
Kagome closed the site.
"This isn't working out at all!" Kagome put her head in her hands.
"Here, let me have a go" Inuyasha took the laptop from her hands and entered 'Japanese recipes for beginners' and hit the search button.
"Aha! We found our dinner!" He announced triumphantly.
His discovery: FRIED RICE MADE IN A FRYING PAN.
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Red velvet cake really does exist. And I couldn't look away, it looked so damn alluring… I wish I could cook... Sigh. Then I could make my own cakes. I luuurve sweets! (Who doesn't, right? ^^) yummy!
Again, so sorry for the long delay! I hope it was worth the wait… Please tell me what you think, 'cos reviews are always eagerly welcomed and appreciated! (Sheesh, I wonder where I picked up this line… It sounds corny… but it's true… so I like it! Heh. Weird aren't I?)
Now on with the next chapter…
