By: Patche
Disclaimer: Umm I do not own/am not in any way affiliated with… Inuyasha, the song "Stay" or any songs I think fit the story perfectly.
The Holiday Cheer
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It was Christmas Eve, the first night of break from school. We usually only had about a week off, and Christmas Eve was the first night of it. Ironically enough, it was snowing for the first time all winter.
School had been quite boring ever since Inuyasha and I became an item. I only looked forward to the time we'd spend together… the 45 minutes of class time were the pain.
But everyday after school, he'd meet me by my locker and walk me home. It hadn't snowed all year, though, so walking wasn't really a problem until today.
And all I had brought to cover up was a light sweater.
"Are you cold, Kagome?" I heard Inuyasha ask dryly in between the chattering of my teeth.
"Nnn….nnooo….www…what would….mmm…mmmake you….tt…hink…..thhhat?" I asked him slowly. It had to be something below zero with how cold it was.
"I have no idea…" He mumbled taking off his coat and putting it around my shoulders.
"Inuyasha, I told you… I wasn't…"
He just glared at me. "I can't kiss you if you get sick, silly." He said ruffling my hair.
I just smiled and buried my chin in his coat. "Thank you…" I said softly linking my arm with his.
"So, what are you doing tonight?" I asked him as we walked off the school property.
He shrugged. "I have every intention of sleeping the night away." I smiled and stopped him by stepping in front of him.
"Well, my mom actually wanted to meet you and I thought maybe you could stay for dinner… and stuff…" I said sheepishly.
He looked at me strangely for a minute.
I waited for him to speak until a snowflake fell right under my eye, causing me to jump.
"Ooh… it's a snowflake…" I said giggling as I began to pull my hands our of the coat pocket.
Inuyasha smirked and cupped my face with his two hands, running his clawed thumb over the snowflake and kissing my lips.
"That'll teach him a lesson…" He joked after pulling away from me.
"So… would you want to come over?" I asked, making a pouty face.
"Keh…" He started, but then took a glance at me.
"Ugh… FINE!" He sighed and we continued our walk to my house.
By the time we reached my house, the light snow had become a blizzard.
We took a tiny break on the porch as I dug through my purse for my key.
I could feel Inuyasha staring at me as I dug. It wasn't annoying, but just… noticeable.
I glanced at him through the corner of my eye and noticed he was no longer watching me, but scanning my whole porch.
"Are you alright?" I asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yea…" He mumbled still intrigues by my porch's treasures.
"What's this?" He asked grabbing a wire frog from off my doormat.
"Ooh." I said looking at it. "It must be new. See, my mom has this thing for… umm… lawn furniture…" It came out so awkwardly but it was such a weird thing. Just looking out into our yard made her seem somewhat psychotic.
Three giant Santas, once reindeer, lights around anything that could hold them…
"I noticed." Inuyasha said setting the frog down.
"My mom really is nice… I promise!" I said in her defense. I had made her out to be some crazy lady.
Inuyasha glanced over at me. "I never said she wasn't… I just haven't ever seen this much stuff in one yard before."
I nodded and unlocked the door with my key only to be met with my bouncy, over-loaded with sugar brother, Souta.
"Hey Kagome!" He said smiling. "Who's that?" He asked running up to Inuyasha.
"That's my…" I stopped noticing Souta just gawking at the two dog-ears on the top of Inuyasha's head.
"What are you, an alie…mph" I grabbed Souta's mouth before he could continue.
"Souta, go inside and tell mom I'm home and that I brought Inuyasha with me. Okay?" I asked calmly.
"But Kagome!" He tried to protest. I furrowed my brows and pinched his arm.
"OOW!" He shouted. "Fine!"
Once Souta had disappeared I turned to Inuyasha. "I'm really sorry about him… he kind of has this addiction to sugary things… and he gets pretty hyper after school… plus it's Christmas… he didn't mean it."
Inuyasha's eyed were wide. "Didn't mean what?"
I tilted my head to the side. "The thing… about you being an alien…"
Inuyasha shook his head and rolled his eyes. "I'm not sensitive, Kagome… I've heard worse…" He muttered, walking past me and into my house.
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My mom had prepared a little tiny meal… not exactly what I thought it'd be. Luckily I had no taste for whatever it is she cooked and gave Inuyasha my plate. He seemed to enjoy it.
The whole time we sat there, my mom would ask him weird questions about his life and where he lived and what he wanted to be when he grew up.
His responses usually were muffled because of his stuffed face.
However, my mom had decided to ruin the whole night by asking one ridiculous question.
"Kagome, dear… whatever happened to your Taro boyfriend. You two were very serious… I liked him."
My face paled. I could just tell Inuyasha was staring at me, waiting for a reaction… but I couldn't even speak.
This was by far the worst thing she could have asked… not only was it an extremely sore subject for me… but I knew Inuyasha didn't want to hear about it.
"I need some air…" I said softly, slipping out of my chair and walking outside.
I sat down on the porch and buried my head in my hands.
Inuyasha would probably hate me now… my mom didn't like him, obviously… my brother thought he was from another planet… and here I was crying over my ex boyfriend being mentioned at the dinner table.
I heard the front door open and close behind me.
I looked behind me to see Inuyasha walking up to me. He sat down next to me and took a deep breath before saying anything.
"I'm so sorry…" I mumbled. "I didn't know she'd say something like that…"
Inuyasha just wrapped an arm around me and rested my head on his shoulder.
"Kagome, I don't care, okay? I don't need your family's approval. I mean, yea… it'd be nice… but I'm in this for you, okay?"
I smiled softly and closed my eyes. "Okay…" I whispered. He reached into his coat pocket that I was still wearing and pulled out a little box.
"I actually am glad I got to see you tonight… I had this to give to you." I lifted my head up and inspected the box.
"A Christmas present?" I asked. He smiled and nodded.
I opened the box and found inside there was a beautiful silver necklace with a little charm dangling from it. The charm had a cat and a dog curled up next to each other, sleeping.
I smiled and slipped it around my head. "I love it…" I said smiling, giving him a light kiss on the cheek.
"Good…" He said nodding. I rested my head on his shoulder again and laced my fingers with his.
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A/N: I'm really sorry for not updating sooner, everyone. I just got out of surgery a couple days ago so it took me awhile to get back into non-anesthized mode. Hehe. Anyway, here's a little squishy chapter to pass the time, right?
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