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Visiting Family
Kagome awoke to the feeling of gentle fingers stroking her hair.
She sighed in bliss, feeling the Doctors aura soothingly against hers.
Opening her eyes, she met the Doctors worried gaze.
"How are you?", he asked carefully.
She blinked at him, sitting up.
"I feel fine, honestly. The main reason for my fainting spell was that I charged way too many talismans last night. Coupling this with the burns weakened me greatly. But seriously, I've had worse.", she explained, well aware that he tended to overreact whenever she was somehow injured.
Really, she was probably lucky that he had only seen her surface memories when he had read her mind.
He didn't know even a fraction of the injuries she had suffered over the years.
"You... Kagome, do you have any idea how worried I've been?", he asked quietly.
She blinked up at him, unsure how to respond.
She didn't need to.
"You are literally all I have, apart from the TARDIS.", he said.
Kagome laid her hand on his cheek and he leaned into her touch.
"Doctor, I can't die. I won't ever leave you.", she said vehemently, hugging him closely.
"But you can get hurt.", he growled.
He was aggravated that she didn't seem to understand that he couldn't see her hurt.
She winced.
"I know.", she whispered. "But all this time living in the Sengoku jidai, I just... learned to not care anymore. It was perfectly normal to get hurt, with all the fighting that was going on back then, the training I had to go through..."
He squeezed her tighter into him, as if to keep her hidden in himself.
Finally, he realeased her.
"I will be fine.", she whipered, kissing his cheek.
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"So, where are we going now?", she asked, clapping her hands together.
"Well you did say you wanted to visit you family,so...", he said grinning at her.
Kagome blushed a little over the fact that he had remembered something like that.
"Your family? Where are you from?", asked Rose curiously.
Kagome beamed at her.
"Oh, I'm from Tokyo!", she said brightly, excited to go see her family.
"So, japan?", she asked wide-eyed.
Rose had barely left London before, and she wasn't sure if the trip to armageddon counted.
"Exactly. Hold on tight.", was all the Doctor said.
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Kagomes family was... different.
Rose was certainly surprised at Mrs Higurashi's easy acceptance of them.
The Doctor was painstakingly removing her grandfathers sutras from his head, grumbling about crazy apes, while the little brother flitted around them, firing question after question.
"So, how about dinner?", asked Mrs Higurashi brightly, unfazed by the chaos around her.
Dinner was interesting.
Kagome kept chanting 'Oden' under her breath, staring with sparkling eyes at the cooking stew.
The Doctor was waiting patiently ( for once ) tinkering with some sort of device in his hands.
Kagomes grandfather was droning on about the sacred history of vegetables, either oblivious or just not caring about the blatant disinterest he received.
Souta, her little brother, was staring in awe at the trinket the Doctor had handed him, probably to shut him up, and told him it was a musical instrument from a far off planet.
He then challenged him to learn it a little till the next time they came for a visit.
Souta was ecstatic.
Kagomes mother stirred the food, humming contentedly under her breath before asking everyone to gather at the table.
Rose stared dubiosly at her chopsticks, watching everyone, even the Doctor handle them with ease before picking them up.
She grinned when she managed to scoop up some of the food and carefully ate it.
She liked it.
"So, what have you been up to?", asked Mrs Higurashi, Kagomes two male relatives instantly perking up.
"Well, we did visit this marketplace on Holo 7 the Doctor was telling us about, remember? Anyway, that's were we got Soutas instrument. Then we picked up a sign of the Nestene and followed it to London. That's were we met Rose. On another note, we were also followed by creepy plastic mannequins.", said Kagome, and drunk some tea.
The Doctor nodded along, not lifting his eyes from his device.
"That's nice, dear. Which year?", she asked casually.
Kagome frowned for a second. "Oh, 2007-ish?", she guessed, having forgotten the exact year.
"I see. Anything else?"
"Well, then, the Doctor took us to see the sun explode five billion years in the future. If you leave out the murderous killer trampoline from hell and her creepy spider minions it was actually a rather nice trip.", said Kagome pleasantly.
Rose choked on her tea, shocked at the blasé way Kagome summarized the adventures they had.
"Don't forget the burnt-to-the-bone hands.", the Doctor commented casually, an edge to his carefully calm face visible to anyone who knew him.
"Oh dear, again? You know, after the one time you came home with a fist-sized hole in your stomach, nothing really shocks me anymore.", said Mrs Higurashi ruefully.
"What? When did that happen?", demanded the Doctor, regretting that he only went over Kagomes surface memories that night she had let him see her mind in it's entirety.
Kagome flushed, avoiding the Doctors accusing and Rose's horrified gaze.
"There was a youkai some years back that ounched a hole into me. I healed pretty fast though, I only needed rest!", she explained in a rush, cringing internally at the Doctors expression.
"Ara, did I say something wrong?", asked Mrs Higurashi innocently, a hand in front of her mouth.
"No, Mama.", reassured her Kagome before she turned back to the Doctor.
"Life threatening injuries have alway quickly healed to a manageable level, even before I was made immortal. I got this injury when I was fifteen. It healed up easily enough."
The Doctor sighed in annoyance. Kagome would never understand that it didn't matter to him that she healed fast or was immortal. That was just a bonus, really.
What mattered to him, was that she was hurt at all.
He hated it when she so much as scratched herself.
It brought him pain to even think of her in any state of pain. Heck, he always had mild panic attacks whenever she got her ladies week and spent it practically moaning in pain.
Rose decided to intervene now.
"So, what are youkai?"
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The visit ended soon thereafter and they went back into the TARDIS.
Rose excused herself, feeling a little drained after the day. Kagome looked at the Doctor expectantly and he rolled his eyes, following her into the movie room.
He watched her look through the DVD's determindedly, before pulling out something historical.
"You know, I reall like the 1800's." she commented offhandedly.
He grinned. Well, he knew where their next trip was going to be.
Or, rather, when.
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Hi, guys!
I'm sorry for the really short chapter, but I felt it was enough for this one.
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