Author's Note: I can't believe I am over 60 reviews and it is only the fourth chapter in! That blows my mind! Thanks everyone and here is the new chapter, I hope you like it.
Edited: 12/29/13
Chapter 4: Another Kagura!
"Kyo?" Kagome asked as they both entered the kitchen. "Why do you want to beat Yuki so much?" In that moment Kagome could feel his aura change into disgusted. "Well?" She pressed.
Kyo glanced at Kagome, "It is none of your business woman!" It is none of your business! Inuyasha's voice sang through her head. Yup it was official, Kyo and Inuyasha had the same type of attitude, the only difference, Kyo was a cat and Inuyasha was a dog.
The word sit almost passed her lips. Kyo could see the flash of anger cross Kagome's eyes. "I was only asking a simple question you jerk!" The miko swore at her distant cousin, she was pretty sure like 30th or something. "Why do you always have to be a pain in the ass?!" In that second, Tohru walked into the room and froze. Kagome's heart stopped, she did not need Tohru's innocence shattered because she cursed at Kyo.
Kagome groaned. "Tohru…"
A few minutes as they all sat down to breakfast, Kagome sat on the opposite side of the table, ignoring Kyo completely. Strangely he didn't like that he was giving her the silent treatment. "What's your damn problem?!" He bellowed. "Why are you ignoring me?"
Kagome just shut her eyes and eat her food in silence. That made Kyo even angrier. He was about to yell at her again when house began to shake violently. Kagome felt a spike in the air, it was an aura much like the other Sohmas. Yuki and Shigure sat around calmly while Kyo looked as though he was having a heart attack."Sounds like she's here early." Shigure said looking up from his newspaper.
"You're expecting someone?" Tohru asked when she heard the front door open.
When Kyo heard it too, he tried to make a dash out the back door behind Shigure but Shigure caught him by the back of his blue jacket, "Ah-ah, not so fast Kyo."
"Tohru, why don't you get the door?" She nodded and went to open the sliding door that lead to the front door. For a while it seemed that no one was there until a young girl with shoulder length brown hair in a green dress appeared shyly behind the corner of the door.
"Excuse me…I'm Kagura Sohma…please…I heard that Kyo was here." She said with twinkly eyes, "Please tell me that it's true."
"Yes, Kyo's here. Would you like to see him?" Tohru said politely moving out the way so Kagura could get a better view of Kyo trying to escape.
"Kyo?" Kagura whispered a little shocked to see him.
"Kagura!" Kyo shouted in horror. Honestly, why is he afraid of such a cute little girl? She looks harmless.
"Kyo! Kyo!" Kagura cried slowly frolicking across the living room to get to Kyo. When she reached him, he fell on his butt in fear, "Why did you run away for so long? You didn't call me…or send a card…"
Kyo practically trembled in fear so some odd reason. Is he afraid of little girls on the brink on crying?
"…where were you? Oh, darling…" She whispered tenderly before her personality completely changed, "I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!" Her eyes went white with rage as she struck Kyo across the face with such a force it knocked him all the way through the screen door and into the yard!
Tohru froze while Kagome just stared wide-eyed. "Love! You had me worried sick!"
"Oh geez…" was all Kagome could utter when she ran out there to grab Kyo by his ankle and swung him around like a lasso.
Yuki stared at the broken door with a blank expression, "Well, it looks like we'll be needing another door, doesn't it."
Shigure hung his head in sadness, "Sometimes it seems that the whole world is conspired to destroy my house." He whimpered. Lately it does seem that way.
Why do I know of two Kaguras with such raw power? Kagome thought to herself. Shigure is just like Inuyasha, perverted. Kyo is just like Inuyasha, hot headed, who fights with his polar opposite, Yuki, like Inuyasha fought Koga. I also have someone who likes cats; Tohru is a little like Sango.
Weird
"Here we go again." Kagome whispered in awe while watching Kagura beat the crap out of Kyo with Tohru, "Do you think Kyo's okay?"
"This is Kagura's normal way of showing affection." Shigure explained.
"She must like Kyo a lot then." Tohru lightly joked.
"It's especially true when it comes to Kyo. You may not believe it, but she's actually two years older than us." Yuki told us, "She's also a member of the Zodiac."
"Really?" Tohru's blushed with happiness, "So which animal is she?"
Kagome could tell Kagura was a boar. Just by her aura but she didn't want to ruin the surprise. When Kyo fell to the ground in a bloody bruised heap, Kagura finally snapped out of her rampage to see the damage she had done…only she didn't know she did it…
"Oh, Kyo, darling, what happened? You're hurt!" She grabbed his head and held him close to her chest, "Speak to me! Who did this to you?"
"You did it." Shigure, Yuki, and Kagome told her.
After the door was somewhat fixed (there's a giant hole in the middle) everyone settled down in the living room for tea and snacks.
"It's cold in here…" Yuki stated nonchalantly.
"Yes, I noticed that as well." Shigure agreed.
Kagura turned back into the sweet innocent girl from before, only this time everyone knew she wasn't as innocent as she made people believe, "I'm sorry, but when I saw Kyo…all my love just came out at once…I couldn't help it." Then she pointed a look at Kyo, "But it is your fault too, Kyo…if you had just remembered to call me I wouldn't have missed you so hard."
Kyo sat with his back to her, nursing his bruised cheek with a cold towel, "Who said I forgot? Maybe I didn't want to call you."
Kagura smiled softly, "Oh, silly, yes you did. We are getting married after all."
Kagome's stomach did a slip and she spat out her tea when she announced that. When Tohru heard, she had a big grin on her face.
"Since when?"
"You mean you don't remember? When we were kids you asked me to marry you."
"Only 'cause you were going to kill me if I didn't!" Even as a kid she was violent?
"So you're engaged?" Tohru exclaimed, "That's wonderful!"
"Congratulations!" Yuki said in unison.
"You guys!" Kyo yelled in disbelief that they were turning on him.
"Kyo!" Kagura exclaimed getting close to him again, "Be honest with me! Do you love me? Do you hate me? Because I love you! I love you more than anything in the entire world! I'll prove it! I'll cook for you every day! I'll do anything!" She rambled quickly, not giving him a chance to protest, "Even if you cheat on me, I can forgive a onetime fling! No one else loves you this much do they? No! Just me! We should always be together, don't you think?" When he didn't answer fast enough, she grabbed him by the collar, "I just told you what you think! Now say something, dammit!"
'Kagura!" Shigure said putting his hands on Kagome's shoulders. "Didn't you also come to meet our long lost cousin?"
That snapped Kagura of her rage. "Oh yes!"
"This is Kagome Higurashi; her grandmother was the youngest daughter of the pervious cat." Shigure introduced her. Kyo just stared at Kagome and shrugged.
Kagura just froze for a second before looking between Kyo and Kagome. "So you are related to Kazuma Sohma?"
Kagome smiled. "I suppose so."
Kagura suddenly embraced Kagome around the waist. "It is nice to meet you! I am Kagura Sohma, your 30th cousin." Kagome blinked. The Sohma family was really big after all. "Kyo is also your 40th cousin I think."
It was a very confusing family tree.
"It pains my heart, but moving on…Tohru, aren't you a bit of a cat lover yourself?" Shigure asked me curiously.
A red sign went up somewhere when he asked that question. "Yeah. I'm the year of the cat fan club."
Suddenly Kagura was in Tohru's face, teary eyed and flustered, "A rival! I'm not going to lose! Tohru what do you love best about Kyo? Because I like everything! Everything!"
"Hey."
"The good things! The bad things! I like them all! I love Kyo no matter what, even if he changes into his other for-" Her rambling was cut short when Kyo's hand slapped against her mouth.
The air suddenly darkened ten-fold when he cut off her sentence. Kagura was apparently going to say something that probably shouldn't be said since Kyo threatened her.
"YOU'LL DO WHAT, LOVE?" She exclaimed sitting on Kyo's back, twisting his arm in a way I don't think should be twisted.
"You should really call 'mercy', Kyo." Yuki supplied dully.
Not sure of what else to do, Tohru went to go do the laundry, "Kagome, can you help me?"
Standing up Kagome decided to follow her out the living room and into the laundry room. Before Tohru was in charge of doing everyone's laundry, but to help her out depending on the week they exchange laundry shifts. This week she's doing Yuki's clothes while Kagome did Kyo's. For Shigure's they rock-paper-scissors…
Lifting up the lid she pulled out one of Yuki's white shirts and stretched it out to get out some of the water, "Kagura really is interesting, huh?"
Kagome helped her move Yuki's clothes into the basket that goes outside for hanging, "She is spirited, I'll give you that. She is the second Kagura I have come to know." Kagome almost laughed at the thought of how this family reminded her of her friends. She picked up one of Kyo's black shirts and she felt Kagura's aura approaching.
"That's not Kyo's shirt is it?"
Kagura watched Kagome glance up at her. "That depends…if I said they were…you probably rip them from my hands anyway."
Kagome actually gave Kagura the basket of clothes. She didn't feel like fighting this Kagura today. "Don't worry! I'll do it! It's okay with you two, right!"
Tohru looked at Kagome unsurely. "Since she insists, I guess it wouldn't be all bad."
"Yay! Thank you so much!" Kagura cheered before running out of the room, leaving Kyo's basket, surprisingly.
"Don't mention it…" Tohru mutters.
Kagome went through the dry clothes and grabbed Kyo an extra pair of clothes. "Better safe than sorry. I'm going to hang on to these as back up clothes just in case." Kagura left the room before Kagome grabbed them, so Kagura wouldn't lose them.
Kagome took her time to see Kyo running off shirtless, and she had to admit he looked good. "Must work out a lot."
Later on that day Yuki and Tohru went out to shop for dinner while Kagome stayed behind for damage control. Shigure was hiding away somewhere and Kyo hasn't come back yet. Kagura was bustling around the house like a happy house wife thinking of Kyo.
'Her determination to make him happy was admirable, I'll give her that.' Kagome went into the laundry room to check on Kyo's clothes to find that Kagura had beaten her there. She taken out the jacket Kyo was wearing earlier and happily sang that the smell was gone.
"Maybe I should wrong it out to make it dry faster!" She twisted the shirt so tightly that it ripped in two from her strength!
Kagome stood there open mouthed, "How are you going to explain that to Kyo?"
"Ah! Tell me you didn't just do what I think you did!" Kyo shouted staring at his ruined jacket.
Kagura stared at Kyo with love in her eyes, "My love…"
"My shirt!" he snapped taking it away from her, "and I really liked this one too…"
From behind Kagura, Kagome saw the washing machine shaking violently. Kagura apparently didn't turn it off when she took out his shirt and now the bubbles were starting to spew from it, "Uh, guys?"
"Is there anything of mine you didn't wash?"
"…your pants…"
"What am I supposed to do now? Go around half-naked?" Kyo snapped at her unaware of the growing soap mound behind them.
The bubbles were getting higher! Kagome ran into the hallway as the soapy water engulfed them both and carried them into the hallway. Shigure stood behind Kagome, unsure of what to make of the situation.
"Kagura, how much detergent did you use?"
"All of it!"
Shigure then sniffed the air, "Is something burning?"
Kagura's head popped up out of the sea of soap, "Oh no! The tea!"
Kagura ran through the sea of bubble to get into the kitchen. When she touched the tea kettle it burned her hands causing her to drop it on the floor on the edge of the stove. The bottom of the kettle was still burning hot and it caught fire on the appliance that was flammable.
"Fire!" Kagome yelled grabbing a dish towel to flame out the flames while Kyo used the remains of his blue jacket to help her.
"Coming through." Shigure sang hosing everyone with the fire extinguisher.
After the fire was completely put out, along with the rest of the kitchen, everyone all sat in the living room covered in foam. Kyo and Kagome weren't happy about the entire situation, but Shigure found amusement in it.
"My, don't we look lovely?"
"I can't believe you're laughing." Kyo said dead panned.
Shigure picked up an anger mark and placed it on his head, "Right. Now I'm mad." He may have the mark to prove it, but he sure didn't sound it.
"I'm sorry." Kagura apologized for what seemed like the hundredth time since she had arrived. "I didn't do it on purpose.
Shigure removed the anger mark, "I know that, Kagura."
"You still did it!" Kyo snapped at her.
"I'm so sorry, Kyo." She whimpered on the verge of tears again.
"Sorry isn't going to get us a new kitchen."
Kagura's frame shook slightly before she grabbed Kyo and pulled him into an arched position that badly cracked his spine.
"I have a headache." Kagome groaned.
After Kagura had let him go Kyo high-tailed it to the safety of his room. Kagome came from outside with an extra pair of clothes for him. Knocking on his door, Kagome heard shuffling on the other side before it went deadly quiet. Sliding the door open, she peeked inside to see Kyo trying to make his escape to the roof.
"Don't worry, Kyo. It's just me." Kagome told him walking into his room with his clothes on her arm.
"Well, I obviously can't be too careful with Kagura here!" He snapped at her, "It's only going to be a matter of time before she finds me up here."
"She is just trying to make you happy." Kagome growled before handing him in clothes. "Be grateful that someone cares for you."
Kagome turned to walk away but Kyo stopped her. "Hey…I am…sorry about earlier."
She stopped and offered him a smile. "It's okay."
Kyo watched her walk out of the room before he chuckled. "She is something."
"Shigure…" Kagome came into his study.
"Yes?" He looked up from his computer.
Kagome sat down next to his desk. "I am planning on visiting my mom for a few hours tonight. It isn't that long of a walk and I miss her."
Shigure smiled. "It's alright with me."
"Thank you."
Kagome walked out of the study and towards the kitchen. Kagura was busy cleaning the kitchen and Kagome didn't want to bother her. Kagome grabbed her jacket and headed out of the house. "Hey!"
Kagome turned around. It was Kyo standing on the edge of the roof. "Where the hell you think your going?"
Kagome just wanted to say the sit word so bad! "I am going to visit my family. I miss them."
"It is getting late." He said.
"If you are so worried, how about you walk with me?"
Kyo jumped off the roof. "Maybe I will." He strolled up next to Kagome. "Let's go."
They both walked in silence for some time before Kyo coughed. "So why did you move to Shigure's house?"
Kagome sighed. "I was in a deep depression and my mother thought a change of scenery of in order." She crossed her arms to protect herself from the cold. "My father aliened himself from the Sohma family a while ago; however he still talked to Shigure because they were best friends in high school. After he died, Shigure kept in contact with mom in order to see how we were doing. Mom told him what was happening and they came up with the arrangement of me living with him for a while."
Kyo nodded. "That's good that your mom cares about you so much."
"I miss her, grandpa and my little brother a lot." Kagome sighed.
"Your little brother?"
"Yeah his name is Souta." He's eyes softened as Kagome began to tell him more about her family. It was nice to hear about a good family life with someone in the Sohma family. It was hard to come by.
They managed to come to the shrine as dinner rolled around. Souta was helping grandpa with the shrine cleaning when he saw Kagome coming up the stairs. "Sis!" He dropped his broom and ran to Kagome.
The miko ran to him and they embraced. Kyo could tell they were really close. "What are you doing here?" Souta asked.
"Visiting," She answered before she turned to Kyo. "Souta I want you to meet one of our various cousins, Kyo Sohma. Kyo this is my little brother Souta."
Souta smiled. "Nice to meet you."
Kyo shook his hand. "You too kid."
"Kagome?" Mom came forward with a bright smile on her face.
"Mom!" Kagome rushed into her mother's waiting arms. "I've missed you." A tear came down her face.
Kagome's mother just held her tightly. "Me too." She looked up at Kyo and smiled. "Hello Kyo, my you have grown so much. I remember you as a baby."
Kyo stepped back. "You knew me as a baby."
"Why yes," Her mother smiled. "You were the cutest baby ever and turned into the cutest kitten when I held you."
Kyo and Kagome froze. Mom knew all along! "Come inside and let's make some tea I want to hear all about the last few weeks."
The very next morning was eventful. The visit with mom went great. Mom and Souta loved Kyo while grandpa kept away. He sensed demons Kagome thought she heard him say. Kyo even came home with a smile on his face.
Today though was a different story.
"Kyo, darling! Good-bye my love!" Kagura gushed, hugging Kyo from behind while he was brushing his teeth. "Take care of yourself while I'm gone!"
"I wouldn't have to take care if you would just stay away!"
Tohru cleaned up the table while watching them, "It's good to see she cheered up."
"Yeah." Kagome agreed helping her with the cups, "by the way did you figure out what Zodiac animal she is?" She already knew but it wasn't her place to tell.
Tohru frowned, "No, I forgot to ask her last night. We were so caught up in fixing the door that-"
"Kyo! Be nice or I'm not going to kiss you good-bye!" Kagura cried.
"Who needs it?" Kyo retorted not caring that he hurt her feelings.
"That's it! Kyo you jerk! I'm leaving you!" She declared stampeding out the front door and how unfortunate for us that the paper boy was right there in her line of fire. Everyone panicked when they came in contact with each other, but Yuki came out of nowhere enchanting the paper boy away with his charms and a hard shove.
From the brown smoke Tohru picked up Kagura, "Hey! I figured out Kagura's Zodiac animal! She's a boar!"
Everyone sweat dropped at her, 'That's cheating…'
When it was all said and done Kagura went home without much of a fuss or a beating for Kyo. She actually left happily waving to us good-bye promising she'll come back for another visit. Kagome dearly hope that Shigure has insurance on that house. Who knows how much abuse it'll be able to endure.
