Chapter 10;
Home Sweet Home
I felt a soft heat caress my face, and a warmth wrapped around me. Slowly, I opened my eyes. The sun's rays were shining through my window onto my bed and throughout my room, making my face feel warm and lovely. The warmth around me was a combination of things; the heavy comforter of my bed, and Inuyasha's arms. He was behind me with his arm wrapped around my mid-section. I slowly turned, careful not to wake him if he was still sleeping. When I finally made the 180-turn I was able to see that he was still asleep. How peaceful he looked! He had already gone back to his normal self. The sun playing in his silver hair made me smile and realize something. I love him. The half-demon bossy ass that he is, and I still love him. But, after last night I know that I also love him as a human. A part of me feared that after he turned into a full demon, all these fillings would dissolve, and I don't want that. I want to spend the rest of my life with him. And if he turns into a demon, what will he think of me? Last night he shows that he cares for me, that he likes me. But how do I know if he loves me like I him? People kiss all the time when they only like each other, this was my first kiss and I loved the man. Man I'm clingy!
I noticed a soft stir in him, slowly, he opened his eyes and blinked a few times. Then he let out the possibly cutest yawn I have ever seen and blinked a few more times. Then all the sudden he sat up, and rubbed his eyes. Golden topaz stared into my chocolate brown orbs, I felt lost, but found at the same time.
"Kagome, what happened last night?"
I could feel the frown find a home on my face, how could he not remember? That was the greatest night of my life so far, we had finally kissed. And that damn guy couldn't remember?! He must not feel anything for me. I could feel disappointment and despair settle in my stomach, the taste of bile was coming to my mouth. I couldn't handle such disappointment. I thought that we would finally be together, guess I was wrong.
"Well, that depends, what all do you remember?" I was extremely timid when I asked this, I really hope he didn't notice.
"Oh, well…ummm." He put his pointer finger on his chin and looked around as he thought a little. This only made my emotions and feelings even worse, simply because he looked adorable. "Well, I know I wore clothes from your time. And you were in a dress, and then we went to the big magic box place and got food to eat. But that's all that I remember." He grabbed his shirt and began to put it on as he got up off my bed. "So how long are we going to be here today? I'm back to normal and I'm not gonna waste any time, we need to look for the jewel shards."
I rolled my eyes and felt myself get angry with him, the words came out of my mouth, slowly and one at a time. "Inuyasha. We. Just. Woke. Up. We. Need. To. Pack. First." When the last word got out of my mouth, he took a step back, I guess he could tell that I was getting frustrated with him. It's bad enough for me that he didn't remember the intimate parts of last night, especially our first kiss. But now he wants to leave quickly? I had to fight back hot, steamy tears.
"Oh, ok. Well, let's go ahead and pack…and I guess eat before we go?" By the way he spoke to me, I could tell that he definitely knew I was angry at him. But, this fixed it a little bit.
I took a breath to make sure I was calm, "Ok, that sounds good. I'll go ahead and gather the items I need to pack. Go ahead and go downstairs that way mom knows we're up. She'll make us breakfast before we leave." I shot him a smile so that he would know I was no longer mad at him. He gave me a slight smirk and left the room. When I heard his feet pounding down the steps I began to dress myself and pack. When I knew everything we would need was packed, and I was completely ready to go, I threw my door open and ran downstairs. Even though he was being nice, I know if I take too long he'll become angry at me.
As I reached the bottom of my stair case, I could hear my mother talking and the ticking sound a pan makes when a utensil hits it. It sounded like a spoon was stirring something in bowl. I entered the kitchen to see Inuyasha in my mother's 'Kiss the Cook' apron, he was stirring some batter. My mother was smiling and looked up at me.
"Good morning Kagome, I hope you slept well. Did you two have a good night out last night?"
"Good morning mom. Yeah, I always sleep great when I'm home in my bed. I think it's from camping out in the feudal era all the time. I had fun last night. We saw a GI Joe, and ate at Wasabi. The movie was great and the food was alright." I smiled back at my mother as I set my bag back on a nearby chair. Then I glanced over at Inuyasha who was still mixing away, it was a cute site. He had some of the batter on his cheek. I had to stop myself from taking a finger and rubbing it off. I was just itching to touch him. "Inuyasha, do you want me to get you something to drink with breakfast?" I grabbed two glasses from the cabinet next to the fridge.
"Yeah, thanks."
I was surprised he didn't say want he wanted, so I looked over at him again. With my mother's directions he was carefully pouring some of the batter onto the pan that was sitting on the stovetop. He must have been concentrating too much to talk. He was engrossed in all the coaching my mother was giving him with his cooking. I don't know why it just came to me, but it's strange that he's cooking. He never, ever has. Not even over our camp fires, I'm always the one cooking or if I'm busy; Sango will take over the responsibility.
I watched as my mother flipped the first pancake to show him what to do. Then she handed the spatula over to Inuyasha who copied her exactly. The flip was perfect, I was quite impressed.
"Kagome, aren't you going to get the two of you something to drink?"
My mother broke me of my trance; I jumped because she startled me. "Uh, yes. I umm, forgot." I opened the refrigerator and grabbed the carton of orange juice. It's one of my favorite drinks to have with breakfast. I poured some into each of our cups and put the carton back into the fridge. Then I brought the drinks to the island in the middle of the kitchen and sat down. My mother grabbed us each a plate and fork, as Inuyasha brought all the pancakes to the counter. I took two pancakes for myself and put three on Inuyasha's plate. My mother grabbed herself the remaining two.
"I'll be in the living room. I haven't watched the news in a few days, I need to catch up." She shot each of us a smile as she exited the kitchen and went into the living room. The t.v. was a murmur of sound.
"These are really good Inuyasha. I can't even tell it's the first time you've cooked." I meant what I said. The pancakes were perfect. They weren't too soft nor too crispy. I took a sip of my OJ and looked over to Inuyasha. He was already almost done eating.
"Thanks, I've never had pancakes before either. Usually you would bring omelets."
"So, what made you cook? I didn't expect you to ever do anything like this." After a moment I glanced up at him just to make sure he was still there. When our eyes met he seemed startled and looked away. Then he looked back at me.
"Well, you know. Your mom said she needed help. And you were taking forever to get ready, and stuff." When the last word escaped his lips he looked away again and started to drink is orange juice. It seemed like he was trying to hide something from me. I didn't want to push it though, I'd like to be on good terms when we go back home. Home. Ha, I just called his time my, home.