Kagome looked across the table at her little brother who was currently at war with the broccoli on his plate. She sighed as she saw him continue to stare at it menacingly as if it would disintegrate before him. "Just eat it."
"No, it's a grows substance that never should have been created." he continued to glare holes into the plate
"Souta, it's not just going to disappear, you are going to have to finish it, you haven't eaten any greens all day."
Kagome watched as he poked the green food with his fork. "You don't know that, it could randomly combust, and who needs vetchtables anyways?"
Kagome soon decided that there was only one way he was going to eat the broccoli, she quickly sat up and walked over to the cabinet, pulled out a large bowl and a spoon. She placed them down on the table and walked over to the fridge. When she turned back around, closing both doors with her foot: she held in her hand ice cream, whip cream, chocolate and strawberry syrup. Grabbing a banana from the stand she placed everything down in front of her, and more importantly, Souta.
She discretely watched as his noise tilted upwards and his eyes shifted from sweet to sweet. "Watcha doin'?"
She smiled as she cut the banana in two. "Making desert." she didn't look up once, when she was done she placed the whip cream on top, remembering to lick her fluffy white sugar covered fingers longingly. She saw him lick his lips out of the corner of her eye.
"You going to eat all that?" he sounded eager, good.
She smiled again, licking her fingers again from the strawberry sauce. "Yup, all because I finished my dinner."
He slumped down in his chair. "You're cold, you know that?"
She lifted her spoon and scooped a large piece of ice cream into her mouth. "As is this ice cream."
"Do you live to torment me?"
She made a groaning sound, "Mmmm, I love strawberry."
"Grrr," Souta sat up and marched over to the microwave and tossed his plate in, starting the timer for 30 seconds. "I hope you're happy."
She finally lifted her gaze, "I don't know what you're talking about."
Inuyasha stared at the contraption before him. He gazed deeper completely mesmerized. "So how does this thing work?"
"Hell, why are you asking me? It's a woman's job to be in the kitchen and a man's to…well…sit and eat whatever they bring them." Kouga continued to look at the small medal box before him.
Miroku, desperately trying to break the silence, made a drastic move and pressed one of the buttons. Immediately the metal thing turned on, with it making a small humming noise and a somewhat bright light which came from inside it. The three boys surrounding it instantly jumped, or flew, backwards.
Inuyasha peered over from the counter at the contraption, the only thing visible past the counter were his fingers, which tightly clung to the counter, and the top of his head, leaving only his eyes visible to look over. Next to him was Miroku who held a pan in his hand, ready to attack should the machine make any sudden movements. Kouga had managed his way over to the other medal box, which was uncommonly large. Inuyasha looked over at Miroku, "What the hell did you do?" he asked ferociously
"I don't know, you know me, I've never been able to keep my hand to myself, blame my family curse," he wined out.
Kouga gave Miroku a glare, "You know, I suddenly realize why Sango hits you."
Miroku gulped, "Would someone please just explain why Inuyasha's father can't figure this out, and not us?"
"Because either we do this or we're all sleeping outside."
The three immediately turned around to see Sesshomaru standing in the door way. Inuyasha was the first to respond, after his heart went back down to its normal rate that is. "What the hell is your problem Sesshomaru? I fucking thought one of these blasted machines was alive or something."
"You've seen a few too many horror flicks then," his elder brother smirked at what he obviously deemed as his younger brother's stupidity.
"Bastard."
"Mutt."
"Ahhhh! It's got me, it's got me, help!"
Sesshomaru, Inuyasha and Miroku all turned around to see Kouga having an all out battle with the large metal object he had earlier jumped towards. Inuyasha and Miroku both ran over and pulled the squealing man away from the beast which had snagged a piece of Kouga's shirt.
Kouga grabbed his chest as his labored breath slowly became an even pace. "This place is cursed or something."
Suddenly the timer on the microwave went off, leaving a distinct chime echoing through the room. At the sound all four boys jumped, coincidently Kouga went strait back towards the previously encountered object. His back hit the object causing a large metal door to come falling down on top of him, knocking Kouga to the ground. "We're under attack, we're under attack!"
Miroku shivered. "God, it has a mouth. Oh hell, I know this thing, this is what ate those two kids Hansel and Gretel," he immediately ducked behind Inuyasha "this is how we're going to die isn't it?"
Inuyasha stood up causing Miroku to fall flat on the floor and on his face. He silently tip towed over to the smaller metal box and looked at it closer. "You know, when I was younger I think I remember seeing Kagome use on of these before. She said that it would heat things up fast, give me something."
Kouga stood up, carefully avoiding the open mouth of the oven and tossed Inuyasha a whisk. Inuyasha's eye twitched. "A piece of food you dumb wolf!"
Sesshomaru walked over to a door and opened it to pull out a pack of hamburger buns. He undid the casing and tossed Inuyasha one. Placing it, Inuyasha pressed a few buttons and closed the microwave, finally pressing the start button. With that it started up again. Inuyasha smirked, "See nothing to it. This whole living without women thing isn't so hard. Hell, if I had to guess the goddesses will probably realize how stupid this decision is and will forget the whole thing."
"Maybe you're right, we have nothing to worry about." said Miroku reassuringly
Inuyasha turned back around and looked at his bread roll; the four boys soon found themselves staring at the object before them, as it continued to heat. Suddenly, as if the bun sensed their desperation and enjoyed their torment, right before their eyes the bun burst into flames, extinguishing all former hope.
"The house is on fire, the house is on fire!" yelled Miroku, he immediately ran over and grabbed a cup and filled it with water from the faucet. Running back over he splashed the water over the machine. The fire was not out, in fact, the water had been reflected off the microwave and right onto the four surrounding gods.
He looked at his fellow comrades, "Oopps?"
Sesshomaru's eyes snapped open murderously, "Miroku, before you do that again, try opening the damn door."
"So can I have my desert now?" asked Souta as he pushed his empty plate forward
Kagome eyed him suspiciously. "Why are you still hungry?"
"Yes! I have just enough room for desert," answered the naïve little boy.
"Well, if you're still hungry then I guess you can just have some more broccoli and we'll see how you feel after that." She reached over the table and scooped another spoon full of the green substance onto his plate, leaving a rather annoyed boy left to stare at her in disbelief.
"So what do you think this thing does?" asked Miroku as he pointed to the large metal object which had previously tried to devour his friend. "You know, besides eat people and attack Kouga randomly."
Everyone swung their heads towards Sesshomaru, supposedly the god of knowledge. "Why are your pathetic excuses for brains having you direct your attention toward me?" asked Sesshomaru
Inuyasha was getting annoyed and hungry, that was never a good combination. "You're the damn god of knowledge, fucking use it you bastard!"
Sesshomaru glared at his younger sibling. "Contrary to what you may believe Inuyasha, I do not posses the knowledge of the world." Sesshomaru's eyes went wide at his statement. Had he just said that? That was impossible, he knew everything, he was superior to everything and everyone. That had always been a personal philosophy of life, yet, he just stated out loud the very opposite.
"Bet Wisdom could do it," he heard Inuyasha growl.
"Then why don't you call her?" said Sesshomaru defensively. The room was hit with a sudden silence, captivating the room in Sesshomaru's personal battle raging within his body.
Kouga, slightly taken back by the awkward predicament swirling within the room took a slight step back wards, resting his palms on the top of the large box. As he sat there, contemplating the same thing Sesshomaru was dealing with, his hand slipped off the counter and giving him a live interview with the hardwood floor. "Shit! Why is this happening to me?"
He looked up to see three curious and slightly amused faces staring directly at him. "What? It's not like I'm meaning to do all this!"
He reached back up to the counter but Miroku walked over and helped his friend back on two feet before Kouga could continue his personal struggle. Miroku, pulling up Kouga with one hand and supporting himself with the other immediately jumped away as he felt something burning his skin.
Yelping as he instantly jumped back a couple of feet, leaving Kouga to once again meet up with the floor, he stared at his hand. It was slightly red, as if it had just been burned. Looking back over to the counter he saw that it wasn't a counter at all, but now possessed a small fire protruding from one of the metal circles. He had been burned.
Dragging himself over to the sink he put it on cold water and let the fluid wash over his hand till his skin reached its normal temperature. He looked back over to Kouga who was currently rubbing his neck, trying to relieve some of the day's building tension. "You know, this is ridiculous, there is no way any one room is this evil, do you think the girls are behind this one? Maybe they are in the back smiling, knowing all that they are putting us through. Hell, maybe this whole kitchen is rigged."
"Right, that's it Kouga. Do us a favor and stick to sport." Inuyasha rolled his eyes as he looked over at his friends. "Ok, considering the fire coming out of this thing, if I remember correctly, this is a stove, and the other one is a microwave, the one below, which attacked you, is an oven. I remember once, when Kagome and I were younger and at her house, we were watching a movie and…damn, I can't remember what she did! Sesshomaru, Miroku you were there, think, it was back in fifth grade, Sesshomaru you were in sixth."
Inuyasha could see the two trying to remember, it had something to do with kernels, was it corn? That's right, popcorn! He snapped his fingers indicating to his fellow comrades his victory. "Popcorn!"
Sesshomaru's eyes lit up. "Right, get a pan or something, Kouga go look in that back room for a bag of popcorn cornels…" Kouga didn't move, "it will say popcorn kernels."
Kouga nodded his head and moved to the back room searching the pantry for the uncooked popcorn. Inuyasha walked over and grabbed what he remembered to be a pan and placed it on the fire. Soon, Kouga came back around the door frame, arms full. He dropped a large bag into Sesshomaru's hands that read, 'Popcorn kernels'. Inuyasha, grabbing the unopened bag and tore it open leaving hundreds of unnoticed kernels to decorate the floor. Rushing over he poured the remainder of the bag in. The four boys watched, anticipating something, anything.
Nothing happened.
"Um…something is wrong, Kagome did something else," said Miroku as he peered over the large dish.
"Your right, she probably had more kernels, do we have anymore kernels Kouga?"
"Well, we do have these," he revealed six microwavable popcorn bags. Sesshomaru reached over and slashed the first one open; out poured half the bag of kernels once again onto the floor. The four gods looked at each other once again. Together they opened up the bags and poured each of the contents into the pan, until it was at least halfway full of kernels. They once again peered over; watching, waiting, for anything.
Nothing happened.
"I really thing Kagome did something else," said Miroku once again.
"Didn't she add butter?" Sesshomaru looked around and walked over to the fridge, deciding this would be the best place to look. After about a minute's worth of searching he finally pulled out a box of butter sticks. Opening it up he pulled out four unopened and sealed sticks. "Butter, that was it."
Opening one of them up and throwing the paper casing on the ground he walked over and dropped the stick into the pan. They sat and watched, hoping, praying.
Nothing happened.
"What the hell is wrong with this thing? I say we trash it, I'm sure we've got some shovels in the back," yelled Inuyasha as his anger grew tenfold.
"I know we're forgetting to do something Inuyasha…I-" but Miroku was cut off at the sound of something, something popping. The four looked over to see one of their very own kernels changing into something great, something they had done, something eatable. They watched as it piece by piece transformed into a white fluffy piece of popcorn, right before their very eyes.
Then another thing happed as another popped into a delicious white treat. They immediately turned around and high fived each other at their accomplishment. See, this wasn't so hard…famous last words.
Inuyasha suddenly felt something hard hit a tiny spot on his back, it kind of felt like a little bullet. Seeing Kouga was the closest to him he immediately hit the wolf in the arm. Kouga grabbed his arm. "Hell, what was that for? And do you have to hit the same spot that Ayame did? She may not look it but she's strong."
"Well what you did wasn't exactly pleasant," replied Inuyasha.
Suddenly Kouga too felt the small bullet like feeling coursing through his back muscles, soon another, and then another. Knowing it couldn't have been Inuyasha, for he was standing in front of him arms down, he turned and faced Miroku. "What the hell was that for?"
"What the hell was what for?" asked Miroku, as he turned to face his friends, suddenly Miroku felt a stinging pain hit his neck. It was brief, but enough to get his attention. "Oww," he slapped his neck, thinking maybe it was a bug.
"What are you three idiots doing now?" asked Sesshomaru as he walked over to Supreme, Jest and Sport. While they had been high fiving each other like the primitive animals they were he went to check the fridge for anything else they could eat. Suddenly he felt something hit his left cheek. It stung, brief, but enough to piss him off.
Reaching down to the floor his picked up the object he had trailed down to his feet. Standing back up he placed the small slightly slippery object between two of his fingers, determined to inspect it further. Holding it up into the light he realized he was holding a popcorn kernel in his hands. His eye's shifted to his surrounding fellow gods, together their gazed moved towards the bowl of kernels which was shaking slightly.
Kneeling closer they eyed their formerly announced success suspiciously. Individually they watched as the kernels seemed to vibrate, as they started to shake harder, and harder till they suddenly stopped, standing completely still. Inuyasha raised his eye brow at the dish of uncooked corn before him. What was going on?
Then it happened, the hundreds of kernels which had previously been silent burst into action. The four immediately ducked as the kernels, cooked and uncooked, fired themselves around the room, attacking everything in sight. Inuyasha tried to stand up but was immediately pelted in the side with the tiny projectile. Not moving fast enough he found himself hit again near the same spot. He grabbed his side trying to ease the pain but found he was being hit in to many places. Trying to cover himself from the destructive little capsules he dropped to the floor, rubbing his arms, trying to ease the sting.
Looking up he saw Kouga trying to block the shells while yelling profanities each time he was hit. "Shit", "Fuck", "Bastard", radiated through the room, molding with the overwhelming sound of the popping noise of the popcorn. Out of no where he heard a loud and distinct humming sound. Covering his head, so as not to be knocked out, he turned to see Miroku cowering in the corner by the microwave trying not to get hit. Falling backwards on the kernels decorating the floor, he had accidentally pressed the on button.
"Mother fucker!" he heard from Kouga's direction, he turned again to see Kouga covering his face, randomly running into objects just to move his arms again to cover himself from the merciless attacks.
Deciding this had to end he turned around in attempt to knock the dish over but immediately pulled back when his hand was attacked by flying popcorn. Finally mustering up the courage to try again he stood up and tried to move forward, but found himself falling flat on his face due to the hundreds of kernels they had paid no attention to while opening the bags. He tried to stand up again only to have his feet slide a bit only to fly out from under him.
Turning to his brother for any form of support he could muster, he saw a sight he would never forget. Sesshomaru, desperately trying to reach the pan as well, stepped on the paper wrap for the butter he had previously thrown on the floor, while he was trying to dodge a group of kamikaze kernels. Inuyasha watched as his older brother wide eyed slid halfway across the room on the two inch wide scrap of a piece of paper, only to loose balance and land flat on his ass with a loud thump. Inuyasha watched as the god of Knowledge reached for the nearest object for stability and support. Inuyasha watched as the nearest object was the radio volume knob which was turned to full blast as Sesshomaru once again fell to the floor, a complete and utter wreck. Inuyasha watched as the elegant, always perfect, superior above all older brother of his, hair started to vibrate from the pounding sound of the music. Inuyasha tried not to laugh. He really did, but a guy can only take so much.
Even as he saw his brothers legendary death glare thrown his way with more malice than he had ever seen mustered, he found himself withering in pain on the floor because he was laughing so hard.
"Damn ass pieces of shit!" he heard Kouga yell
"Why is everything attacking me?" he heard Miroku shout
He heard another thumping sound come from Sesshomaru's direction.
God, he couldn't stop! He ducked again as he saw another group of kernels come flying at his direction. Deciding the only way they were getting out of this was if they retreated he took a large breath and yelled. "We're fucking retreating, this place is possessed!"
Jumping up back on his feet, and desperately trying to ignore the pelting sensations hitting him, frantically trying to pass up Miroku who was 'ingeniously' trying to smack the kernels way, he skidded over to the swinging door, grabbing Miroku's collar in the process, dragging him outside.
Falling to the ground panting the two gods looked at each other in desperation, for once they truly, honestly and deeply found themselves missing women. Finally managing to stand up, shakily, they grabbed the nearest object for support and stared. Inuyasha turned around when he heard a slight chuckle. Seeing Miroku standing there with a huge grin on his face trying to contain his laughter was too much. Inuyasha once again found himself laughing at their predicament, which really wasn't something to laugh about.
But the harder Miroku laughed, the harder he did.
Out of no where two figures came tumbling out of the doorway, literally. Kouga landed first, panting and out of breath, soon followed by Sesshomaru, whose hair was ratty and out of place and with a look suggesting he had just faced the devil himself. Tumbling through the door Sesshomaru, very unsophisticated like, fell on top of Kouga, smashing the poor wolf with an 'oomph'.
"Remind me to kill the goddesses when we figure out who they are," said Sesshomaru as he stood up to face an ear to ear smiling Inuyasha. "Shut up."
"I didn't say anything," said Inuyasha mockingly
"Shut up Inuyasha," he growled
"Are you kidding me?" he grinned back
"God, the one time you have to be calm,"
"Calm about what?" asked Miroku
"Ya? I mean I'm all for the mutt never talking again but what did he do?" asked Kouga as he pushed himself off the floor.
"I didn't do anything." said Inuyasha wickedly
"Why father didn't stop at me will forever be a mystery. Now hurry, we are going to have to search the house for a take out number or something, I don't care if we have to tear this place down, I am not going back in there."
Inuyasha watched as his brother tried to change the subject. "Whatever, as long as it's greasy and preferably with lot's of butter." He dodged as his brother took a swing in his direction but missed the second uppercut heading his way. He grabbed his chin as soon as the confrontation was over. "What the hell was that for bastard?"
"What, your reflexes not fast enough? Second born, second best," mocked Sesshomaru
"Said the man who can't even walk strait!"
Kouga looked at Miroku, "Got a feeling we missed something?"
"You got that notion too?" answered Miroku
"I'm not entirely sure I want to know what it is."
"With you on that one, hey, I remembered what we forgot…we forgot a lid."
If Miroku hadn't of looked so proud of himself, Kouga would have hit him.
Mrs. Toshio sat on her king sized bed as she thought about her family. Her husband, yes, wasn't the same self centered, egotistical womanizing ass he had been in high school, but that didn't mean he was perfect either. He still sometimes treated her as an inferior, no matter how much she loved him, and still managed to pass that on to her sons. She knew that the block wasn't just to save her boys, no, it was also to save their father.
She would love her husband till she took her last breath, but, there was only so much a woman could take. It was a shame too, there were, contrary to popular belief, many great men out there and she knew her family fell under that category…when they thought no one was watching.
Hopefully they were getting along ok. She laughed of the thought of them in the kitchen, probably didn't even know what a microwave was, there father only had the slightest inkling as to what it was himself, she had always been there to help him.
She gave out a small giggle.
It probably hadn't even crossed their minds to call in a male chef.
Kagome laid cross legged across her bed, hoping beyond hope something would come to her, but, she was just to damn angry!
Ok, she had moved past the denial stage, past the eating your heart out stage and had just recently passed the grieving stage, now, now she was just fucking pissed!
Who the hell did Inuyasha think he was? Stupid fucking free ass will. He just had to go and be him, god, was the world against her? No, not the world, just men. She did not have time for this, there were way to many things to do.
First she had to finish the layout for the sample pages of the yearbook the newspaper staff was printing, then she had the statewide track meet to plan, then plan yearbook's involvement, then she had Souta's birthday party to plan, now she had to worry about the narcissistic gods who obviously don't give a damn? Why her?
Kagome flipped over on her back and bit down on the tip of her pencil. She needed to get away, or better yet, find a job where men weren't in any way associated. Where she would be free to worry about her own problems and not the worlds, like a nun. That's it, she would become a nun, they didn't deal with men, hell, they weren't even allowed to get married. Good bye Inuyasha. Ok, ya, they tried to help the world and all, but it wasn't like they had to. Sango would undoubtedly join, and Ayame, boy crazy that she is, after this week Kagome was pretty sure she'd be ok with it. Rin, hell, that wouldn't really be all that big of change for the girl, and she'd have plenty of time to read.
But then again, they would have get up dawn and anyone who knew Kagome knew she preferred nine in the morning to five in the morning any day. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea.
Stupid dumb ass Inuyasha forcing her to make delusional decisions.
It was all his fault, maybe if he wasn't such an arrogant bastard who wouldn't accept a walking stick if he was blind, would probably rather sniff his way around then accept any form of assistance, she wouldn't be so crazy.
Stupid Inuyasha for making her crazy. She was going to kick his ass next time she saw him, probably get put in the loony bin for that one. Hey, there was an idea. Sango would go for it, Ayame too, wasn't too different from Rin's life right now. Maybe she should think about this one.
Mrs. Toshio sighed as she talked on the phone. The person was obviously past the denying stage, past the indulging stage, past the grief stricken stage, and onto pure unadulterated anger. "Honey, you are seriously going to have to get past this if you ever want me to come back home."
Her husband's voice bellowed from the other end. "I can't even trust my own wife any more? She's sneaking behind my back? What happened to our marriage vows? Till death do us part?"
She could feel herself getting frustrated. "That changed when you started caring more about work then your own family, what is Inuyasha's favorite restaurant? What is Sesshomaru's favorite sport? You know, the goddesses asked me for my input before they placed the block on and it wasn't just for your sons but for you as well. Maybe it's time you shaped up, you need this as much as they do, and I swear if I don't find you changed at all by the time this ban is lifted I will convince them to place it on again!"
The woman immediately slammed the phone back down on the receiver, full of rage. She could feel it, with each word he said she had gotten angrier and angrier. Then, as she had started to talk she became even more angry with the realization of what she was saying; those were feelings she had bottled up for years now and hopefully they had made an imprint in her husbands mind.
And if it didn't, well, she could either beat a new one into him or have Kagome do it. She wasn't sure which one at the moment sounded more enticing. Speaking of Kagome, maybe she should give that girl a call.
Mr. Toshio stared at the phone in his hand. He blinked once, mouth still open. His eyes found themselves squinting at the defiant object before them. He leaned in closer for inspection.
Had, had she just hung up on him?
…That wench did! Oh he was going to curse her to hell when he got a hold of her; no one did that to him. Especially his wife!
"Um…dad? You in there?"
He looked up to see his youngest son Inuyasha peaking in through the cracked doorway. He suppressed a growl; he still wasn't over the defiance of his wife. "Not now Inuyasha, I have to tell off your mother."
Mr. Toshio slammed the phone back down on the receiver and started to dial a couple of numbers.
"Well, we um, tried to make some dinner, and well, that didn't work out very well, so, um, do you have any fast food numbers? We'd take the car but mom changed the garage access code before she left, we can't get them out of the garage," Inuyasha looked at his father, wondering if he even heard what he had said, he'd never seen his dad this mad before.
Mr. Toshio continued to tap his fingers on the mahogany desk, he suddenly stopped. "Connect me to room 802 now!"
Inuyasha could make the faintest sound of a woman's voice on the other end, obviously terrified. "Umm, yes sir, right away sir, just one second sir-"
"I said now wench!"
Inuyasha waited as the phone rang, and rang, and rang a bit more, then a sweet, "Hello?"
"How dare you hang up on me, I wasn't done with you ye-" yelled his father into the receiver but was immediately cut off by the deafening sound of the ring tone.
He watched as his father, the man who never let anyone get under his skin, the all powerful man who single handedly started his own company in a garage and turned it into a multimillion dollar corporation, get hung up on by his wife. Inuyasha tried not to stare in disbelief, really, he did.
The vein on his father's forehead seemed to have a mind of it's own by the way it was pulsing. Maybe he should leave?
Inuyasha watched as his father dialed again, only to have the same woman answer the front desk. Poor girl. "802 NOW!"
Inuyasha could have sworn the whole house shook.
"Hello? Do you think you could hold, I'm on the other line?" said his mothers voice
"No damit, I will not hold, now we have a conversation to finish wench!"
"Oh…it's you. What do you want?"
"What the hell do I want? You fucking hung up on me, my wife does not hang up on me!"
"Maybe you have the wrong number then, you're trying to reach submissive and obedient without cause, they're two floors down!" he heard his mother argue back.
"You get back here right now and get the goddesses to lift this ban! I know you have the influence to do that."
"Why would I do that when I was the one who had to convince Supreme to do it in the first place? Do you have any idea how miserable the god's have made her in the past three years? If anything they should have done this years ago, before the god's even knew they existed. Now, if you don't mind I have a conversation with Supreme to finish!"
The dial tone went dead again, only this time Inuyasha's father didn't dial back, he didn't slam the phone into the receiver, he didn't even look up to face Inuyasha. He just sat there, shoulders hunched, eye's downcast, body limp.
"Dad?"
Inuyasha saw his father sigh and lift his head towards Inuyasha. Inuyasha watched as his father looked of defeat, that was the word, defeat. His father was giving up, something he had never seen before. "What is it, son?"
His voice was cracking, in all his 17 years he had never heard his father's voice crack. Everything the other god's had urged him to say was gone, everything they had voted on Inuyasha asking, it no longer existed. All that did was Inuyasha and the broken man before him.
"You still love her, don't you?" It wasn't a statement, it wasn't even a reassurance, it was an honest to god question. Inuyasha didn't know.
"Yes, with all my being. But this whole ban thing is bringing up things I never wanted to feel again and the worst part of it is, I know she's right. I want to be mad at her but I can't be, because I know the only person I can be mad at is myself. In all honesty Inuyasha, I don't know what to do."
"I get it dad, really. I feel the same way with the goddesses. I want to be mad at them, I really do, when I think of everything that's happening, but, I know it's not their fault. Kayede pointed that out to me, they didn't even want to do this but we made them. But, I know if I'm not mad at them then the only person left to blame it on would be myself."
Mr. Toshio truly looked at his son for the first time in a long time. He didn't see a boy, no, he saw a young man. He had missed his son's life, there were things he was never going to know, didn't have the right to know. He had missed so many years; his son was a man now. "Inuyasha, what do you say we go re-look for those numbers? I'll help you guys out."
Inuyasha looked at his father, watched as he got out of his chair and walked towards him. Not only had he just talked with his dad in not only the longest conversation they had had in years, but also the most meaningful and now he was going to help search the house? "Um, ya, ok…dad."
"After that, we'll try some combinations for the garage, maybe we can figure something out."
Inuyasha was shocked as his father took his shoulder and led him out the door. Maybe this whole block thing wasn't a total hell hole. Hey, maybe tomorrow he could find the time to visit Kagome, she would probably be happy to see him. I mean really, how long can one girl stay mad?
Firevixen73- I know I know, and I'm sorry for the late update! Life just doesn't understand the importance of fanfics, it just made this chapter harder to write but I think it's still good. I hope it's still good. I'd say I made this chapter longer but I don't think I did, so, ya, still sorry. And I know there wasn't any god/goddess interaction but there will be in the next one, promise. Please review, I promise it does help me work faster. Actually it was a the reviews that helped me right this, every once and a while I would get a few asking me to update, so for everyone who did that you should be proud, who knows how long this chapter would have taken without my reviewers. Thank you to all my loyal readers out there!