By: Patche
Disclaimer: Do not own Inuyasha… only this story.
Human
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"Hitomi was your average high school student until her fifteenth birthday."
"Ja ne, Okaa-san!"
"When she fell into the well behind her house and transported herself…"
"Where am I?"
"Five hundred years in the past!"
"gasp"
"Now she must team up with a half cat-demon to help save the feudal era of Japan. There's just one problem…"
"Keh! Dumb wench! Watch where you're walking…"
"You don't need to push me, you jerk!"
"They can't get along in the slightest."
"Now this unorthodox pair must travel across Japan and fight for the Ichikon jewel."
"slash-boom!"
"NEKOYASHA!"
"Hitomi!"
"Nekoyasha!"
"HITOMI!"
"NEKOYASHA! A Feudal Fairy Tale! Coming soon to a theater near you."
"That looks so ridiculous…" Sango said dryly to her husband as they sat on the couch.
"I think the story looks interesting." Miroku commented, reaching down to throw some popcorn in his mouth.
"He reminds me of daddy!" Mayu commented, digging for popcorn herself.
Sango and Miroku chuckled. "He even has a disturbingly similar name." Miroku said.
Mayu giggled. "It's like daddy, just with cat ears!"
Sango sighed. "Gosh, I've seen so many previews, I forgot what movie we were watching anyway…"
"I think it's that one about the puppy that saves the city from some dictator mayor…" Miroku said as another preview started.
"It's not a puppy, it's a kitten, Uncle Roku!" Mayu corrected him.
"Right, because that's so much more logical…"
Sango punched him lightly on the arm. 'Don't make fun of it…' She mouthed.
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"Oh my gosh! They sound exactly the same as they did in high school!" Kagome laughed as she and Inuyasha walked out of the club Spinister played in.
"They sounded like that back then?" Inuyasha asked in disbelief. "I didn't think people liked that kind of music in the sixties…" He said, catching Kagome's reaction out of the corner of his eye and letting a confident smirk grace his lips."
Kagome gasped. "How old do you think I am?"
Inuyasha shrugged. "I don't have a clue. But, you can't be younger than forty, right?"
Kagome chuckled and shook her head. "You are such a jerk!"
Inuyasha smiled.
"I'm twenty three…" She said. "You don't need to make fun of it."
"I know." He said as he continued to walk. "We're the same age."
"That's a little hard to believe." Kagome muttered.
"Oh? Why's that? I'm so mature for my age?"
Kagome laughed. "As if! I was thinking more the opposite…"
Inuyasha froze. "Hey! I'm totally mature for my age!"
"Well…" Kagome spun around to face him. He watched as her black hair and skirt twirled from the sudden movement and finally bounced into place. Her dark hazel eyes held a confident smirk in them. However, once Kagome caught sight of his bewildered stare, her eyes softened and then averted their gaze.
"What? Forgot your snippy remark?" Inuyasha asked as he came back to reality and tried to soften the blush burning through his cheeks.
Kagome smiled to herself and continued walking. "No, you just looked so preciously confused, I figured I'd let you believe what you want."
Inuyasha caught up to her and kept pace as they continued to argue. "You know… you started off so nice and quiet and sweet and innocent… What the hell happened?"
Kagome laughed some more. "I don't know, but you started it!" She said poking him in the arm.
"Hey wait!"
Inuyasha and Kagome both turned around to see a tan man with long black hair chasing after them.
"Oh my gosh…" Kagome started, trying to cover her face as he caught them.
"You were at the concert tonight?"
"Uh… yeah. We were…" Inuyasha said, looking down at Kagome's pitiful attempt to hide from this guy. "You're Kouga, right? The drummer…"
The man smiled. "Yeah, Kouga's the name… Drumming's my game…" He said and followed with a laugh to represent the amount of working brain cells he still had in his head.
'Kagome dated this guy…?' Inuyasha thought to himself with a look of disgust as Kouga continued to crack himself up with his very cliché jokes.
"So, hey… girl… I know you, don't I?"
Kagome peeked up at him from her makeshift mask.
"Umm…"
A look of recognition hit his face as his blue eyes met with her hazel orbs. "Oh my GOD! Kagome Higurashi… No fucking WAY! Man, this is some crazy shit! I swear, I've done some messed up stuff all my life. But I've been sober for a whole three weeks now. There's no way. You're dead, right?"
"We should get going…" Inuyasha started, grabbing Kagome's arm and turning from Kouga.
"No, bro! I'm not crazy. I know this is her!" Kouga said, swiping Inuyasha's hand away from Kagome.
Inuyasha sneered at him. "Don't touch me…" He threatened.
Kagome saw the pathetic fight that was about to start up over some one having too much of a temper and another someone not having the capacity to understand that he was actually upsetting the other.
"Okay, first of all…" Kagome intervened. "You're almost forty, Kouga. Don't say 'bro'. Secondly, yes… I am Kagome Higurashi. Maybe if you had sobered up a little bit after high school, you would have realized that I was not the Kagome Higurashi that was murdered so many years ago, but instead the Kagome Higurashi that dated you… pathetically enough. "
Inuyasha looked stunned. This fire had just erupted out of the girl. She never acted spunky, and she'd been living with him for a month. She was always so kind and innocent.
Kouga smiled. "Same old Kagome! Jesus, you look exactly the same too. I can't even imagine you're my age… You look like jailbait! Fucking hot!"
Inuyasha shoved himself in between the two.
"Like I said, we're leaving!" He said, turning Kagome around and pushing her away from Kouga.
"Maybe she'd want to spend the night with a real man, just like the old days, huh, Kagome?!" Kouga shouted.
'Kouga's clearly drunk… this can only end badly…' Kagome thought to herself.
"What?" Inuyasha asked turning around. Kagome tried to tug on his arm to ignore Kouga, but went completely unnoticed.
"Don't get all upset because someone thinks you've got a hot girlfriend… half breed."
Kagome reached out to grab Inuyasha, but was too late. She watched in horror as his fist collided with Kouga's face.
Kouga snarled and punched Inuyasha in the stomach, causing him to double over, just before elbowing him in the nose.
Inuyasha grabbed Kouga's legs and knocked them out from underneath him. Kouga fell to the ground and scrambled to get up. He and Inuyasha were both on their feet now, face to face.
Kouga smirked and head butted Inuyasha. The half demon fell backwards as Kouga ran away, shouting obscenities until he was out of earshot.
Kagome managed to catch Inuyasha before he fell in her arms and gently lay him down on the ground.
"Please be conscious…" Kagome said to him, noticing his closed eyes.
She dug through her purse searching for anything to wake him. "Shoot!" She shouted realizing there was nothing in her purse to help with the situation.
"So, I was right… you are forty…"
Kagome looked up to see Inuyasha sitting up on his elbows and smiling weakly.
"You are such an idiot!" She shouted to him. Inuyasha's ears folded downward due to the unexpected noise.
"I just got the shit kicked out of me for you, and you have the audacity to call me an idiot?" Inuyasha asked, hurt by her comment.
Kagome sighed loudly. "Yes! I did not ask you to punch him in the face. That was your own doing. I tried to stop you, but you wouldn't listen to me and you only wanted to punch him because he insulted you and it made me feel bad for you and I had to lie to him which means I'm not going to get to go back to heaven and I was worried about you and your nose still hasn't stopped bleeding and I thought you could have died because it sounded really painful and I'm not forty!" Kagome blabbered out as tears rolled down her cheeks.
"Jesus, woman…" Inuyasha said, sitting up. "Don't cry about it. I'm fine and he's fine and you're fine."
Kagome looked up at him, her eyes still brimming with tears.
"And you're only twenty three…" Inuyasha continued.
Kagome gave a pathetic laugh and wiped the tears away from her eyes.
"Oh my goodness… I'm sorry about all that. I forgot what it was like to cry for no reason…" She said laughing at herself.
"The perks of being a human girl." Inuyasha muttered as he stood up and held a hand out to help Kagome up.
Kagome laughed. "I'm sorry I called you an idiot. I was just really worked up, I guess…"
Inuyasha smirked. "It's alright. I liked when you bit into Kouga. I never even imagined you could let loose on someone like that."
"Well, if I ever had doubts as to why we didn't work out in high school, they're definitely gone now." She said smiling at Inuyasha. "Thank you for helping me to maintain my dignity."
"Oh, it had nothing to do with you. I really just love punching people."
Kagome playfully pushed him.
'It's so weird, though. It's almost as if I'm becoming more and more human. I haven't argued with anyone like that since my death. And I most certainly haven't cried in years.'
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"She didn't even make it through half the movie." Miroku said in a hushed voice to Inuyasha and Kagome who were there to pick Mayu up.
"I'm going to talk to Sango really quick…" Kagome whispered to Inuyasha. She walked off into the kitchen where Sango was standing over the counter, reading something.
"Sango?" Kagome asked. Sango looked up from her reading material.
"Yes, Kagome?" She asked.
Kagome bowed her head slightly as she thought of how to ask her question.
"I think something is wrong with me." She said softly. Sango quirked an eyebrow urging her to explain. "I just… I'm losing my angelic…ness and becoming more human."
"What makes you say that?"
"I snapped on someone today and I'm actually flirting with Inuyasha! It's just weird. I'm a little worried."
Sango let out a soft chuckle. "Kagome… you're a girl living in the twenty-first century. That's not abnormal. Well, everything but the flirting with Inuyasha bit is normal…" Sango sighed. "Please don't fall in love with him, Kagome. For your own sake!"
'Too late…' Kagome thought to herself. "Why?"
Sango sighed. "He's not… available… emotionally. He has only ever devoted himself to two women and that's Mayu and Kikyou. He just isn't going to love you back. He can't, Kagome. As much as he tries to hide it, he loves Kikyou still. He always has. No one knows why. The truth is sad, Kagome. You don't belong here, though. You belong in heaven and by some freak accident you wound up down here with us. You'll be gone soon enough and Inuyasha's prepared for that. He's not going to open his heart to you under those circumstances."
Kagome couldn't tear her gaze away from the ground. She felt her nose stinging and her throat becoming dry and swollen as she tried to hold back tears.
"You need to focus on getting back, not on winning Inuyasha over."
"I didn't… I mean, that's not why I think I'm here… And I'm not hoping that he will…" Kagome said softly. "I just think we're getting along now and it's nice." She kept her eyes on the ground like a child getting scolded would. 'Another lie. I'm getting good at this, disturbingly enough.'
"I'm just saying you need to be careful, Kagome." Sango said.
A loud banging on the kitchen door broke both girls from their concentration.
"Kagome! We have to go. Mayu woke up and she's going to throw a fit if she doesn't get in bed soon. Come on!" Inuyasha shouted from the other side of the door.
Kagome sniffled and wiped her cheeks. "C-Coming!" She said, her voice breaking as she turned away from Sango.
Inuyasha's ears flattened and he looked at the ground to avoid eye contact when Kagome exited the room. 'Sango doesn't know what the hell she's talking about…' He thought, walking away from the door.
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A/N
Thanks everyone for your kind words. It's nice to know I haven't lost all of you! Anyway, there is a bit of a problem on the horizon… Kagome's becoming more and more human... Uh oh! And don't think Sango's a bitch, guys. She's just being honest…
Oh my gosh, by the way… did anyone else realize there are new episodes of Inuyasha playing on Hulu? I totally didn't. It's called Inuyasha The Final Act. I had a little nerdfest last night and watched all the episodes for 5 hours. It was crazy fun. Go check it out if you didn't know about it already. They aren't really "new" episodes because it's just the chapters of the manga in animated form, but still… they are super good. I freaked out.
Please review. I love to hear what my readers think.
Love always
Patche
