Chapter Four
Waking up to a pair of golden eyes staring at her is a new thing for Kagome. Usually her and Inuyasha's bed sharing was very platonic, and he would be up cooking, cleaning or whatever it is he does in the more morning long before her. A stark contrast to when he first arrived. Back when her jittery movements couldn't let her sleep. The prospect of being next to a unknown person making her heart race in all the worst ways. It reminded her too much of her time with Daniil. Even though he was half a world away. But pushing away her thoughts after her first night, Kagome had become rather comfortable with the extra body in her home. Even if he wasn't female.
"You could take a picture. It would last a lot longer." Kagome whispered to him. He was unresponsive, aside from a blink of the eyes. She then rolled hers. "You know." She said, "We should really start considering getting you a bed of your own if you want."
Inuyasha quickly pushed himself up a bit and exclaimed, "But I like sleeping with you!"
At the raise of Kagome's brow, Inuyasha figured out what he just said and blushed a bright red before settling back into the covers. "I didn't mean it like that." He grumbled, pulling the sheet and comforter up to his nose to try to hide his embarrassment. Kagome giggled and pulled it away from him.
"Then what did you mean?"
"Ah.." Inuyasha squirmed under her scrutiny. "I just…it's good to have company. I never thought it ever would be but it's…nice."
Kagome narrowed her brows in confusion, "Explain please."
Inuyasha went to get up, "Well, look at that time we should go make breakfa-"
Kagome grabbed his arm and pulled him back into bed.
"It's Sunday. We have all the time in the world. And now that I think about it, I don't know much about you. About your past. And honestly, I'm never one to pry, because it's your business, but I'd enjoy to get to know you better." She blushed. "Just a bit. If you don't mind."
He settled back into the bed next to her and clasped her fledging hand, grinning a bit. "I guess I could share some insight. If, you agree to share some of yours."
Kagome hesitated at that, running over the idea in her head. "I suppose just a bit."
With that he settled in to tell a bit about his life.
"Well, first off, when I was a kid I was always alone."
Inuyasha was maybe four, or five at the time of the accident.
The car rolled over — him strapped inside — as if in slow motion.
'Mommy?..Mom?"
He saw the view of his mother turn back to him — as slow as the car spun — and smile. She said something. Everything went black.
"My mom died in an accident when I was around six…and basically ever since I lived with my dad."
"Mommy!"
"It was a head on collision into the side of the vehicle with a semi—"
"Didn't stand a chance."
"Hello? Anyone alive in there?" A pair of EMT's were crouching into the demolished vehicle looking for signs of life.
Could they not hear him screaming?
"Mommy! Please wake up. This is not the time to be sleeping Mommy! The car is burning!"
Izayoi's body was limp against the car seat, and Inuyasha's shaking did nothing to rose her lifeless body.
"Theres a boy!—looks ten, maybe twelve—maybe younger seems to be of youkai descent"
"Mommy!"
The paramedics proceeded to pull him out.
"What are you doing? My mom's in there! There is something wrong she won't wake up!"
"There's been a casualty."
Kagome's eyes looked into his as Inuyasha was dragged backwards into time. It was as if it was a new memory. Not one years old.
Kagome looked at his solemn expression and smiled sadly at him.
"Hey maybe this wasn't such a good idea? Lunch? We can go over to Mangos."
Inuyasha looked at her in a new light. She was pulling on clothes.
"Come on, get dressed! We don't have long before the city starts waking up!" Kagome said to him, rousing his still body into action as he stumbled into the shower to wake himself up.
-IY-
"You know, it's not quite often I get to eat here. Bills ya know? But now with two incomes it.." She was rambling. To fill a silence left from this morning. Maybe he'd forget her offer— maybe..
"What if I told you I was a hanyou?" Inuyasha said to her, breaking out of his trance for the first time since confessing his accident.
"What do you mean? I already knew that." Kagome answered, quite confused.
"What?" Inuyasha looked utterly flabbergasted in the most raw sense of the word. He seemed to lean forward in his seat, his golden eyes widening at Kagome's mixed expression. "W-what do you mean by that?" He said leaning over the table.
Kagome looked at him and chuckled. It was maybe a laugh. She was laughing.
Grabbing his hands; leaning towards him as if sharing a secret; Kagome looked outwards towards the other patrons in the establishment in which they were sitting.
"How many hanyou do you think are in this room?" She whispered to him, her face so close that her breath tickled his bangs.
"One."
She threw her head back then, guffawing at his innocence. "No silly!" She admonished, and touched his nose, "There's one." She said, and turned out to the patrons. She pointed to a long haired scaly dragon youkai in the corner of the restaurant. "Two." Another — wolf hanyou this time — "Three."
She continued. Ten in the end. Ten in the tiny room in which they were sitting. "Not counting the other half of the restaurant and the employees." She finished.
"Inuyasha. Outside of your world — hanyou are much, much more common."
"My world?"
"The realm of business. Basically. I could only assume — that's the only place where one of your mixed race would be ridiculed."
Inuyasha smiled at her then. A real and true smile. He felt as if all this weight was lifted from his shoulders.
"Inuyasha, you can be whatever you want here — do whatever you want. You're just a person like the rest of us, the fact you're part youkai doesn't change that."
He looked into her eyes. Those large blue orbs which contained so much he couldn't explain. He felt a tie to her. A pull. He knows it's early, and that he shouldn't feel this way: but he does.
-IY-
After their conversation which changed Inuyasha's world view, Kagome decides to show him more since she's inferred much of his past and how that's effected him now.
Inuyasha looked over at her as they walked through the park; her hair up in the messy bun which made half of it hang out anyway, her clothes baggy and comfortable — she was completely at ease with him. Hanyou were common here, normal, is what she said.
He stops her in the middle of the path their taking. His hand glides across her cheek, stopping her mid sentence. Mid thought. He pulled her close and whispered, "You're unlike anyone I've ever met. Kagome…what about a hanyou and a human though? Could that be normal too?" He whispered to her and she smiled against his thumb.
"No, but who cares about normal anyway."