Kagome skipped down the road, Shippo looking over at her in amusement. It had been three days since Light got into College, and Sesshomaru had contacted Sachiko, because Shippo had been going nuts, wanting to take her out to a new amusement park that had opened up.
Honestly, Kagome didn't really want to go, but he was so excited to see her again, and spend time with her.
She admitted to herself that going with him would allow her Aunt to be less weary of them and allow her to go with them again, which could allow her to get some more work done without the creeping thought that Light might find out about all of her work one day.
"Shippo, you better buy me some sweets while we're out." She spoke calmly, gazing at him out of the corner of her eyes, he sighed.
"You're going to have run me out of house and home by the end of the day, aren't you?" He sarcastically asked her, watching in amusement as she stuck her tongue out at him.
"Says the one who kept asking me for sweets when he was younger." He froze at that as he remembered his young self begging the six year old for sweets, especially the lollipops. She had gotten him so many that he reckoned that it had cost a lot more than she should have had at that age.
After a few minutes of standstill back and forth retaliations, they started to move again, they moved faster once they saw the large rides come into view, Kagome grinning like a maniac as she saw a very tall and long roller coaster and remembered that he didn't like them. Once they had paid for their day tickets, she tugged on his sleeve and pointed at the ride.
"Let's go on that!" She laughed as she saw him pale, and she was glad that if she had someone ride with her who was tall enough, she was allowed on, the same with all the rides at this park. "You did say that I could pick the first one, after all."
"But Kagome, it's so high!" He whined like a little child, she just pulled him over to join the line.
Shippo glared at Kagome as she laughed when he had gone over to a bin to throw up once they had gotten off the roller coaster. It had been too much for him to handle, he was jealous that she, a six year old, could handle something that he, a five hundred and twenty seven year old couldn't.
"Awh, come on Shippo, lets go get something sugary sweet to eat!" He frowned as she pulled him along to a stall that sold both fresh doughnuts and ice-cream.
"You made that rhyme on purpose." He pointed out.
"Yes, I did." She said as they got over to the queue. Kagome's eyes scanned the menu for something that she wanted. Her eyes landed on a certain item.
"I think I'm going to have a single scoop or raspberry ripple, what about you, Kagome?" Shippo asked her.
"I want the doughnut and whippy ice-cream tub." She spoke. It was two fresh doughnuts with a large mass of soft machine ice-cream.
Shippo sighed as they sat down to eat their treats, as they planned the next rides.
By the end of the day they had gone on 5 roller coasters, 2 water coasters, which Shippo was glad they had packed a spare change of clothes for. Been in their haunted house, gone on the Ferris wheel, twice, been on three toboggan rides, two large slides and he had won her an obnoxiously large fox teddy, hell, it was bigger than her!
She had seen it as a prize for the ring toss, but she had a terrible aim when throwing things, which was ironic, considering her accuracy when it came to archery, so she had begged him to try. It had taken half an hour and a ton of money before he actually won it, by which time, she was pretty much asleep on her feet.
They had then walked back to the parking lot, which was about a five minute walk away from the park and he had taken her home, where she proceeded to eat dinner and then collapse on her bed.
Light stared as a stranger bought his cousin home, he had been told about a 'Shippo' coming to spend the day with her, but he didn't like it. She was practically dead on her feet and he was carrying a huge stuffed fox. He watched as she rubbed her right eye, yawning as she dragged herself over to the dining room table and sat down, the man then took the fox up to her room, spoke to his mother about something and then left.
He watched as Kagome struggled to keep her head up throughout dinner, then tiredly make her way up into her room.
He believed that it was odd for her to be so tired, it just didn't suit her, she was meant to be this energetic ball of pranks, he didn't like it.
Light made his way up into his room, before sitting at his desk, getting ready to write more criminals names down into his Death Note, Ryuk laying on his bed, playing video games on his TV, as he turned on his computer to watch the news.
At this time, Kagome would normally be doing something totally unpredictable, like messing with his stuff over the rest of the household, or playing with Sayu's makeup, for some unknown reason.
Light felt like it was too quiet.
Or at least he did before he heard panicked screaming coming from her room.
Abandoning his stuff, he made his way across the hall and into her room, and stared in shock to see her curled up into a ball, staring at the wall opposite her, crying.
"Kagome, it was just a bad dream." He spoke cautiously as he made his way slowly over to her shuddering form.
Once he got to her, he sat on the end of her bed and took her into his arms. It was times like this that he remembered that she was just his six year old cousin, who seemed to be more intelligent because she was very mischievous, not because she was a genius, or at least that was what he actually believed. She seemed so small in his arms, he looked up to the door to see his mother standing there before smiling and walking away.
Light stood up and scooped her into his arms.
"Looks like you're sleeping in my room tonight, because I'll chase away your bad dreams." He spoke softly to her, she didn't respond as she was still calming down, but he knew from the past three times that this had happened that she would not want to be alone throughout the night.
When he got into his room once more, he laid her into his bed, before walking over to his desk and placing the Death Note back into it's hiding place.
The criminals could wait until tomorrow to get punished. His family was more important to him.
