Kikyo, Mireille and the others sat quietly and ate the food Kagome brought them Well everyone except Kikyo and Mireille. They stared at the food on their plates.
"What's wrong? Eat," Shippo pointed.
"I'm not hungry!" Kikyo shook her head. "Not at all! I never needed to eat when I was made of clay. So I don't think I need any now." She was going to turn around, but Sango's hand stopped her.
"Eat. Now." Sango handed her chopsticks. Mireille stared at her daughter who stared at the food on the plate. "You too."
"Me? No, the food looks weird and they came out of boxes. And besides I haven't eaten in years, I can keep going and going and- growl . . . " Mireille's and Kikyo's stomachs growled. Both of the women began punching their stomachs. "Not hungry at all." they lied.
The group gave them a lazy eyed look. "Miroku, Inuyasha." Sango signaled them to Mireille and Kikyo.
They immediately grabbed their arms. "Hey! What are you doing?!" Kikyo angrily asked. Mireille sent Miroku a glare. Kikyo did the same with Inuyasha.
"If you guys insist acting like children we will treat you like children, right Kagome?" Sango looked over to Kagome.
Kagome had a sly smile on her face, "Right." She held the food with her chopsticks and began stabbing Kikyo's mouth with it. Now matter how hard she tried, Kikyo just wouldn't open her mouth. Same thing with Mireille, Sango couldn't put anything down her throat.
Kagome got frustrated and hit Kikyo on the head. Kikyo's head drooped. "Huh? Kikyo?" Kagome asked. Kikyo still didn't respond. Kagome panicked. "Oh Gosh!"
"You killed her?! You evil person!" Mireille struggled not to laugh and put on a serious face..
Inuyasha started shaking Kikyo , "Oi! Wake up!" She still wouldn't wake up. "Kikyo?!"
Mireille couldn't hold her laughter, she let her serious expression fall off. She began pounding the floor.
"Your daughter is almost sorta dead and your laughing?!" Inuyasha kept shaking her awake. Sango and Miroku began helping too. Kagome panicked and Shippo tried calming her down.
"Will you relax already?" Mireille ceased her laughter. "She's going to be fine, this has happened before. If you sit and quiet down I'll tell why these kind of things happen to her." She crossed her arms over her chest.
Everyone calmed down. Kagome looked relieved and Inuyasha set Kikyo down on the stack of hay where Sango and Kagome sleep when Kagome doesn't bring her sleeping bags.
Every one sat in a circle. Inuyasha sat near Kikyo's sleeping body. He turned to Mireille, "Explain."
"Well, it happened on the seventh week after Kikyo was born, she was sleeping or pretending to sleep . . .I dunno. But after I left the room thinking she was sound asleep, she got up and stuck her head through the bars of the crib. An then she wanted to get her head out, but she couldn't so she tried and tried." Mireille laughed.
"So then what?" Shippo asked.
"Oh, I think it was me sensing something was wrong with the infant so I went up to the nursery room and saw her there trying to get out. She didn't even cry or anything. As soon as she heard be come in, she began kicking the bars. She came to an abrupt stop and looked up at me and gave me a weird goofy smile." Mireille rubbed he back of her head. "I tried helping her out of the bars, but her head was too stuck. I tried pulling her back, but still no. I turned around because I thought I heard something. Then I focused me attention back to Kikyo. Her head was out of the the bars. She somehow unstuck herself. I grabbed her and set her on the thin piece of wood on top of the bars. I was so stupid, I forgot she still couldn't balance herself because she was still a baby. She smelled like crap so I turned around for just a sec and put a cloth on the small table so I could change her and the next thing I knew I heard loud bump and saw her on the floor, headfirst. I freaked out so bad."
"No I can see why she dislikes you so," Sango stated.
"Shush! Let me continue! Anyways I freaked out and picked her up and there it was again the goofy baby smile. Just the only difference was that she was asleep. I started patting her back or anything I could think of. But nothing would work. The next day I was still trying to wake her up. She finally did and she was grasping her head tightly with tears in her eyes. I begged her not to cry, which she did. Then I put my finger against my lips, which she copied and finally shut up. Ever since then, her head has been delicate. She doesn't feel the pain the exact moment it hits her. By the time she feels it, it might be minutes or hours later." Mireille sighed when she was done. "There, Fin."
"Oh, wow . . .geez you weren't so good with mom stuff were you?" Inuyasha asked.
"No, I wasn't. I still aren't," she turned to Kikyo, who rested peacefully. "The second I felt her kick in my belly, I knew that girl would be trouble."
Kikyo stirred in her sleep. Inuyasha jumped over to her side, she was still asleep. "How long does this take?"
"I dunno it varies," Mireille said dully. "But this time, I'll say . . .it's going to take about twenty minutes."
"Excuse me for asking, but . . . do you recall any other occasions when Kikyo sama has hitten her head?" Miroku asked, surprising almost everyone. "I'm curios about it."
Mireille tapped her temple, "Lemme see . . .ummmm . . ." She started thinking hard. "Oh yes! Almost every little four year old girl dreamed of being a princess."
"Lemme guess, Kikyo was the princess type?" Kagome shrugged.
"No. Not at all, unlike them, she wanted to be a ninja. She often pretended to read samurai and ninja books. But no four year old can read. At first I thought Kikyo was a child prodigy until I saw that she was 'reading' the book upside down." Mireille remembered.
"A ninja?" Inuyasha asked, quite surprised.
"Yes, she always picked out the ninja books and stared at the pictures for hours. One day, she stopped 'reading' and began cutting cloth from my expensive dresses. One day I caught her in my room, cutting away my favorite dress. I was really angry, I started walking up to her, but I guess she sensed me and jumped up. Her hair stood up in fear, it was hilarious, but at that time I was pissed." Mireille said, giggling at the memoirs.
The others listened in even more.
"She put the scissors on the dresser and backed away. I was ready spank the hell out of her and she knew. She quickly wrapped the strand of my dress she cut out and tied it around her head, claiming she was ninja. She jumped on my bed. I quickly jumped to her, but it was too late, she had already started running. I chased her all over the house. She ran up the wall and then she landed on her feet. I have to say, it looked cool. But I was way too pissed for that and I continued chasing her. She tried her 'running up the wall' technique again, but this time she ran up to the ceiling. Because of the gravity, she fell down. I didn't know what was wrong with her until I saw her crash head first on the floor."
Everyone winced and looked over at Kikyo. Except Inuyasha and Shippo who were laughing.
"There was blood running down her forehead. She slowly got up and didn't fell anything. She walked around like normal and then she saw some blood dripping on the floor. She looked at it strangely and touched her forehead and saw the blood and started running around like crazy until she fainted. I had to take her to the local doctor. Hours after she woke up, she started screaming and screaming. I asked her why she didn't cry. 'Because I'm a ninja.' she said, pretty cute, I have to admit. Boy was that kid trouble." Mireille looked over at Kikyo. "Dumb kid."
Kikyo woke up slowly, making everyone jump up.
"Kikyo, are you alright?" Inuyasha asked. Everyone looked over at her, concerned.
"I'm fine. I'll try your food if it makes you feel better, Kagome." Kikyo smiled genuinely.
"That day you played ninja was worse than today, huh?" Kagome asked as she passed Kikyo her plate.
Kikyo looked at the floor, deep in thought. Her eyes widened in realization, "Mom!! What the- Gah!!!!!!" Kikyo headed for her.
"You weren't supposed to tell her that!!!" Mireille reprimanded. Inuyasha and Miroku and Sango grabbed Kikyo, keeping her down.
"Please, don't get mad!" Kagome said.
Kikyo stopped trying to attack her mother. "Fine." Mireille looked incredibly happy. "What's wrong with you." Kikyo gave her an awkward look.
"Oh it's just . . .you called me Mom for the first time I have been here!" Mireille exclaimed happily.
"What?! I don't recall . . . " Kikyo was once again deep in thought. "Don't get cocky!"
"Hehehe" Mireille gave her that weird smile."
"I'm going back to sleep," Kikyo layed back down again.
"But Kikyo you said you would-" Kagome stopped as soon as she saw Kikyo sound asleep again. "Oh well."
4 hours later . . .
"Owwww . . ." Kikyo grasped her head.
Hi guys, I hope I can update this one soon. I had a huge fever, I hope it's gone for good. Heheh/