Chapter 2: "They're leaving again! They haven't been around for at least 4 years and now that I have a chance to see them again, they run off to their damn meetings!" Inuyasha thought.
The Lecture
"How can I be so stupid? I've never frozen up in front of someone like that" Kagome stuck in the simplest thought, her vein popping, "and yet I did... not to mention Sango wanting me to go to the party at the Takahashi's." She looked up from her downed position and shouted out, "Wait! I'M SULKING AROUND ABOUT THIS? I've got to get home!" She ran home remembering that she had promised her mother that she'd be home from school as soon as possible, so they could go to a reunion.
Kagome ran like there was no tomorrow. Her sweat dropping, legs becoming heavier and sorer by the second. Her lungs trying to catch her breath, and her heart was suddenly pounding in her head. At last after a 10 minute run, she finally got to her home known as the "Higurashi Shrine".
"I'M HOME! I'm sorry I'm late, I'll- "her mother interrupted and finished her sentence in a cheerful tone.
"You'll get ready as soon as possible." her mother's head turned slightly and she smiled knowing that, that was exactly what her daughter was going to say, " Kagome, no need to be in a rush, I laid out your clothes on your bed, you just go ahead and get ready dear." Her mother said, letting out a sigh of relief when Kagome left the room.
Kagome groaned and was annoyed not only about the fact that she had totally forgotten about the gathering, but that she had to run all the way home.
"Hello Kagome!" Her grandfather shouted out to her as Kagome walked up her stairs to get to her bed room.
"Hey Grandpa." Kagome said in a groanful, yet tired voice.
As Kagome got to her room she placed her backpack on her desk, turned slightly and saw the clothes that were laid out for her on her bed. She examined them and knew that the outfit that her mother picked out was the complete opposite of what she was thinking of wearing.
Sango was on her bed sitting Indian style and planning on how she should convince Kagome to go the party at the Takahashi Mansion.
"I know! I can just say were going shop—"Sango thought, she stopped then looked down at her hands that were on her lap, put her right index finger out in the air, then continued," OR maybe I can say were going out to eat with my family! Wait a second… That won't work, father, mother, and Kohaku are attending the party" Sango looked clueless for a moment, and then came to a conclusion, "the only thing to do, is to do something sneaky. Something she won't have a clue about. Something that'll trick her and end up making her go to the party as well... Yes, that's my only option!"
Sango's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of her father's knock on "her door. This of course had a little rhythm to it.
"Huh?" Sango looked puzzled at the strange knock, but then her father walked in, "Oh father it's you. You startled me."
Sango's father looked taken back (in a playful way), his hand on the center of his chest, "My daughter Sango, scared? But she has a black belt in Taekwondo, how could this be?"
"Father" Sango said, a smile on her face, the tips of her fingers on her lips to keep her from laughing, and then she went into a serious mode, "I think I have a plan to get Kagome to come to the party at the Takahashis'."
"Sango why do you need to do such a thing? You could just give her a polite and generous reason for going. There shouldn't be a "plan" involved." He said, his index and middle fingers imitating quotation marks.
"I know. But she won't go because Inuyasha's going to be there." Sango looked down, and felt guilty for telling her father the reason why her best friend didn't want to go.
"Sango…"Her father put a hand on her arm and started his lecture, "if you REALLY want Kagome to go, then you should at least be a little less sneaky. Just tell her you want her to come, if she denies then let her be. You as her best friend should support her decision. Although, I get what you're coming from, I too wanted a friend of mine to go somewhere he didn't really want to go to. Can you guess who it is?" Sango's father said in a soft tone.
"Umm, Inutaisho Takahashi? Inuyasha's father?" Sango had a confused look on her face, but smiled after.
"Indeed yes. I wanted him to go to the Kaze No Kizuato Mall with me to go check out the girls—"Sango interrupted her father, "WHAT?!" she then burst into laughter, held her tummy, and closed her eyes tight shut then continued into her sentence, "You father!? Check out girls!?" She continued laughing, but trying to catch her breath before another burst of laughter suddenly occurred.
Sango's father gave her a glare, but continued on, "As I was saying, Inutaisho was in a relationship with Inuyasha's mother Izyaoi at the time, but stupid me didn't care whether he didn't want to go or not. I just dragged him along without consulting him. This caused a big fight between Inutaisho, Izyaoi, and I." Sango gave her father a confused look then said her sentence.
"Your point is?" She looked at her father giving him a face that told him to continue.
"My point is if you do that plan of yours, or try to drag her along" Sango's father gave a sigh and patted her arm, "well you know the rest. Think about it." He stood up and continued, "Well I've got to get going. Remember what I said okay Sango?"
Sango thought about the last words her father said then looked up and stuttered, "Oh, uh, y- yes father." And Sango's father left the room.
She looked down at her lap as the last sentences of her father's lecture seeped through her mind once again, "My point is, if you do that plan of yours, or try to drag her along… well you know the rest. Think about it Sango." -
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MarleneGee