Summary:In which Kagome dreams of the most terrifying combination yet.
Characters: Kagome and Souta
Fifteen- year old Kagome Higurashi collapsed onto of her bed with a deep sigh of contentment. She enjoyed her time in the Feudal Era and wouldn't miss spending time with her companions there for the world. However, spending night after night with nothing separating you from the floor but a mat, blanket or a sleeping bag from her own time if she could spare room in her bulging backpack, made Kagome appreciate the comforts of her soft mattress all the more.
Snuggling deeper into the covers, it didn't take long for the exhausted girl to fall asleep. If only her consciousness took into account how desperate she was for a good night's sleep.
Thick fog lay before her eyes, clinging to her clothes and cloying her senses. Kagome blinked rapidly, trying to clear her vision just a little. It did nothing. The blanket of fog remained with a dark figure that was quickly making its way towards her… wait, what?
Kagome rubbed her eyes again, thinking she was just imagining things, but when she opened them the figure in the mist was still there, and close enough she could make out two pointy ears on top of their head. Her breath caught in her throat at the familiar sight and she took several cautious steps forward. She didn't dare hope it was him, yet who else had such an appearance?
She was still debating on whether to wait for him to come to her or just close the space between them all the quicker when he broke through the fog bank and came to a halt right before the confused girl.
"Inu… yasha?" Kagome wondered aloud.
Flamboyant red clothes that screamed 'come and get me you bitches', complete with fire-rat haori, Tetsusaiga at the hip, long, silver hair topped by dog ears and golden eyes all pointed out that this person was indeed Inuyasha and Kagome would've believed so easily… if he didn't have glasses balanced precariously on the bridge of his nose and he wasn't holding books in one hand.
Not once in the time since she first met the hot-tempered hanyou had Kagome see him even open a book- at least not willingly. Yet, here he was, silent and motionless, merely watching in possession of what she could now tell were textbooks.
Hmm, now that she was trying to read the title the books seemed rather familiar. Kagome squinted and gradually saw what exactly Inuyasha was holding.
There was a reason why she recognized those books- they were her math textbooks!
The observation that Inuyasha still hadn't spoken a word may have struck Kagome as strange, if she wasn't so focused on why he had her math textbooks.
"Inuyasha, why do you have those?"
An impassive silence.
"You know those are mine right? My name is in the inside cover."
More silence and Kagome's patience was just about spent.
"Inuyasha! Are you listening to me? I-"
Just then, the hanyou that had been staring at her emotionlessly turned around and began to walk away, back into the fog.
"Ah! Inuyasha! Give them back!" Kagome demanded and ran after him so the mist swallowed them both whole.
Suddenly, Kagome popped out in her own bedroom. Yet, she didn't notice at first, her frustration with Inuyasha at the forefront of her mind. "I need those Inuyasha! If you don't give them back I'll-"
A piece of paper crinkled underneath her foot. She lifted her shoe and bent down to see what was written on it. The paper trembled in her hands as she read and progressively got worse until her gaze rose over the edge. Her room was scattered with similar sheets of paper, though the condition of the said paper varied. A few were mostly intact like the one she held, some were wrinkled, more were damp and limp, still more had chunks torn off and the majority were shredded.
This has to be a dream, Kagome's thoughts tried to find a way out of the despair. But, she made the mistake of looking at the chaos once more.
And right in the middle of it all was Inuyasha, happily destroying Kagome's math textbooks, along with her homework and notes, no page being left unturned. Her hard work, all that pain, stress and suffering for nothing. Tears sprang to her eyes and she bit down on her fear. Now she would never pass her math class.
"Inuyasha."
Kagome's voice was quiet, nearly a whisper as she gazed at the perpetrator. He glanced up from his destruction with a battered and torn book in his mouth and his ears perked.
"INUYASHA! SIT!"
She looked up from her angry outburst expecting to see a Inuyasha shaped hole, but finding the fog instead.
What's going on?
Kagome's rage was gradually abating into confusion when her vision began to blur and it seemed as though everything around her was shaking violently. She fell to her knees with a cry and attempted to brace herself.
The last thing she saw before it went dark was a familiar, silver-haired hanyou romping in the grass while chasing after math formulas…
"Nee-chan! Nee-chan!"
"Ah!" Kagome snapped awake to find her younger brother shaking her and her breath coming in gasps.
Souta leaned forward with concern plain upon his face. "Are you okay, nee-chan?"
His sister managed to slow the beating of her heart and turned to him with a shaky smile. "Yeah, Souta. I'm fine. Why?"
"Well…" he drew back and seemed to think of what to say. "You were moving around a lot and mumbling in your sleep. When I came in to check, you screamed…" Souta watched for Kagome's reaction, but she continued to sit on the edge of her bed.
Was I really that obvious?She wondered.
"Were you having a nightmare?"
Her head jerked up and she saw how worried Souta really was. He did know firsthand what kind of terrifying things she dealt with on a daily basis.
"Oh! It's nothing! Don't worry about me, Souta!"
When her brother finally left her alone again, Kagome hugged a pillow to her chest and fell back onto the covers.
I don't think I'll be able to see Inuyasha for a while,she realized. Not as long as he's associated with math.
In the end, Kagome couldn't think of anything worse than the hot-blooded hanyou and geometry- together.
