Title: Tie Me to the Future
Author: Tsubasa Kya
Disclaimer: Sorry, I do not own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho people. I'm just a fan.
Chapter seven: Planned Desertion
-Monday-
Kagome soon found that her mother really did have this planned for quite some time. Atsuko cleaned out the third bedroom for Kagome and Kagome's things were moved from the trunk of the car to the third bedroom. Kagome found that her mother had packed all her favorite clothes, all her schoolbooks, and some of her things from the feudal era up and brought all that along. Here weapons were not there, so she couldn't do as Sesshoumaru had asked.
So, Kagome unpacked in her new temporary room, having a new bed to make since Atsuko had given her red sheets and black comforter and pillowcases for the bed, a new dresser and closet to fill, a new bookshelf to litter, and a new desk to clutter. Her mother had at least been smart and didn't forget to pack the shards of the jewel of four souls. Kagome set those on her desk, right next to her silver desk lamp.
Kagome looked around her room when she had finished unpacking. The closet was full of clothes that required to be hung up. The bottom three drawers to the dresser were filled with clothes that required be folding and putting away – including Kagome's towels and wash clothes were in there. The top two drawers were filled with Kagome's various healing herbs and poisonous plants—each one either bottled up in a glass bottle or else in little clothes bags—some were even ground up after having been dried.
The bookshelf was littered with various charms that Kagome had made with Kaede over the years, and it even had a few rosary bead necklaces like the one that Inuyasha wore. The shelves also held some of Grandpa's old spell books, ones that he had given to Kagome in hopes that she would read them and aspire to become a shrine-girl.
Next to the book shelf was a door that went out into the hallway – this room was meant to be another apartment, but halfway through making it, people changed their minds and just added a door to the main apartment instead of an entire kitchen and bathroom.
On the desk were Kagome's schoolbooks, all lined up neatly at the back of the desk, standing in between two book holders shaped like cats. Her pens and pencils were in the middle top desk drawer. Her notebooks were in the top left desk drawer. A few random things were in the other desk drawers.
When Kagome stood from the bed after looking around, she sighed. She had school. It still made her really angry that seemingly everyone except her was in on this little 'transfer'. Kagome guessed it would be a week at most until Inuyasha got angry and came for her. So that was a week that she would have to deal with the modern era before she could return home.
Wait... when did she start thinking of the feudal era as home? Sighing, she grabbed one of the books her grandfather had given her. She might as well use study hall productively and begin fulfilling her promise to Sesshoumaru. But she didn't want to wait a week. He had to come get her early because Sesshoumaru's true coronation was in a week. With a grunt, she exited her new "room".
She wished she was back at Kaede's village, arguing with Inuyasha; watching Sango and other villagers slap Miroku for his incessant groping; keeping Shippou from being beaten up by Inuyasha; watching Seirra get into debates with Sesshoumaru over political issues; watching Inuyasha and Kouga argue over her; heck, she even missed training with Sesshoumaru, Kouga, and Inuyasha already and it had only been a couple days.
Stop wishing; it won't change anything! She berated herself, getting up to go shower. She took off her dirty clothes, putting them in the dirty laundry hamper and wrapped a towel around her body, exiting her room to go to the bathroom, knowing that no one would be up. Her new clock had said it was five thirty am, so she'd doubted that her Aunt would be up, and Yusuke was the type to sleep till noon in most cases.
She showered, unable to bathe because there was no bath. It was just a shower. Soon as she was done, she dried off mostly so that she wasn't tracking water all through the apartment, and went back to her room, dressing. She put on a black tank top; layering that with a second tank top, gray in color. She put on the slightly torn gloves to hide the tattoos.
Her pants were loose around the legs and form fitting around her waist, black in color. She brushed her hair and left her room, looking in the cupboards for something healthy to eat for breakfast. She saw minimal healthy food, and frowned. "Doesn't Aunt know how to read health labels?" She wondered aloud when she saw that nearly everything was junk food.
Kagome shoved her new set of keys in her pocket. She was not going to listen to her mother. Her mother gave her away, despite she knew of her responsibilities. Her mother would expect her to pay attention in school. So what? She wasn't going to.
An arm slung around her shoulder and she looked at her cousin Yusuke with an annoyed look. Something in her cracked—her heart?—and she found no reason to be argumentative. She could take whatever was thrown her way. She could, and she would. She would find a way to make it back to the well, before the coronation ceremony. She would not be the one to disappoint Sesshoumaru.
"So, cous; what's this about a gang?" Yusuke asked her. "Mom says to keep an eye on you because you hang with dangerous people." Kagome looked at Yusuke. He kept his hair slicked back with gel. Kagome's own wet hair was down so that it could dry. It soaked the back of her tank tops but she didn't mind. What she did mind was the bruising that was still on her inner thighs.
"Someone's got to do it." Kagome muttered, shrugging him off her. She grabbed one of Atsuko's bottled waters—about the only thing in the entire apartment that was healthy—and twisted the top off, downing much of the contents in one gulp. Her mind moved to the feudal era; to the place that had become her life in the past few years.
"You're really involved in a gang?" Yusuke's eyes widened. "You? And what's with the tattoos?" Kagome didn't answer him. She picked up her broken backpack and made her way to the apartment door. "Kagome!" He yelled.
"What?" She stopped with her hand on the doorknob. "You're wasting my time." She almost winced at the sound of her voice. To her, she sounded pretty well close to the emotionless Sesshoumaru. What had caused this drastic change? Was it the oath? That had changed her eye color not just once, but twice now. They were a light blue now instead of dark blue.
Kagome felt abandoned by her family. Maybe that was it? She had always said that nothing like that could happen to her. But perhaps she was taking it better than most because she hardly even knew her family anymore. Her family was in the feudal era. All she had to do was make it to the well. Find someone with a car who would give her the ride for free.
He followed her to the door. "I'm supposed to walk with you." That was it? All he wanted to do was make sure she didn't leave without him? With an inaudible sigh, she just left. He could catch up if he wanted. She headed for the elevator, pushing the down button. "You're comin' to my school?" She heard him say when he caught up. Kagome nodded. "Oh, well then I'll introduce you to a few people who are okay to hang out with."
Kagome felt her mood lighten suddenly. It was almost as if Yusuke had unknowingly lifted a burden off her shoulders. Her whole family didn't give up on her! At least, it seemed that way. She chuckled a bit and said, "Still protective of me, just like when we were little, eh Yusuke?"
Yusuke had a grim look on his face, as he looked her over while they walked to school. He hadn't bothered to grab a backpack or anything, she'd noticed. "You're a lot better looking than the last time I saw you." He told her. "You're hotter. I'm not going to let some bozo come hit on my cousin who is weak and frail." He grinned then, playfully.
Kagome rolled her eyes. "Now, Yusuke, if I'm supposedly involved in a gang, don't you think I'd have been taught to fight and defend myself at least to some extent?" She watched him think about that as cars drove by on the street. People walked by with briefcases, dogs, cats, shopping bags, and rode by on bicycles.
"Good point." He said suddenly. "But still; I'm your cous, so it's still my job to protect you."
"Just shut up and let me protect you!" Inuyasha had shouted that first fight against Sesshoumaru.
Kagome gave Yusuke a forced smile. "Thanks." Inuyasha... She added mentally.
As they talked, 'catching up' on what they'd been up to in the past few years since seeing each other (both omitting many things like being a Spirit Detective and/or traveling back and forth through a well to the Feudal Era), Kagome's mind wandered back to Inuyasha. She missed him a lot. She hoped he came for her soon. She wanted to see him. He was her first love, and even if she couldn't be with him; just seeing him was enough.
She knew that up against weaponry of the future, he would be at a loss. Half-demon or not, he would probably die against modern weaponry since he wouldn't know what he was up against, or else he would end up in a lab somewhere, poked, prodded, and pinned to a scratch board and tortured while scientists cut him up and experimented on him.
"Are you even listening to me Kagome?" Yusuke asked irritably.
Kagome threw herself back to reality. "Oh, sorry. Something caught my attention. What were you saying?"
That's just crazy. But sexy crazy. Haha!
