Chapter 14
She sat in the small bus with her headphones on, she was trying to forget what her parents had told her when she had gotten home and she was trying to forget about the small girl that was now intended to Haku. Although she had stopped going out with him since she didn't want to live her life in hiding, a part of her still longed for him. But soon all of her thoughts were placed on hold when she felt someone reach for her mp3 player. As she removed her headphones and opened her eyes, Kagome hissed out, "Touch it and be prepared for a whole lot of hurting."
"We're stopping at a gas station. Do you need anything?" Kagura growled back.
"No, but I think I'll get down so that I can stretch my legs." Kagome answered.
"By the smells of it, you're still hurt, you shouldn't be moving if you don't have to." Kagura pointed out.
"Therefore we'll review what I am going to be teaching you and what is going to be expected of you." Kikiyo was heard as she took a seat next to Kagome.
"Do you want me to bring you anything?" Kagura asked.
"No, I'm fine." Kikiyo answered.
Once the wind demon had gotten off the bus, Kagome turned to Kikiyo and said, "You told her didn't you?"
"Well she asked and she is my best friend, so yes, I did tell her. Is that a problem?" Kikiyo answered.
"No, but I didn't want her to change her attitude of me over some stupid reason." Kagome replied.
"It is not stupid being related to me, now we're going to have to make sure you know how to dance and know how to speak properly." Kikiyo stated as he got off the subject.
"I still remember everything I learned when you forced your mother to let me join you in your lessons so don't worry. I just chose not to use it is all." Kagome stated in a tired voice.
"Then during this time you'll have to prove it otherwise I'll just sleep over at your hour for a while." Kikiyo replied with a grin on her face.
"Fine, I'll act proper for you and the others for show but when I'm alone I will do what I want and talk how I want with my own family." Kagome hissed.
"Ah, right, so is that how you got them to change our rooms?" Kikiyo asked.
"How did you know I did that?" Kagome asked.
"I called in to make sure that they would put an extra bed in the room for you but they told me that they could not since the logging we had was already big enough for a family of ten." Kikiyo explained.
Before Kagome could say a word, the others got back in the bus and took their seats. While Kikiyo stood up to go and sit by Kagura, she was replaced by Inuyasha with a bag of chips and some drinks. Before she could say a word, Inuyasha looked at her and said, "You need to eat something."
"I know but I can't have junk food with the stuff Rin has me drinking." Kagome stated.
"That's why I bought you a fruit." Inuyasha answered. "So do you want an orange or banana?"
After looking him over, Kagome turned away from him, reached for his school coat and said, "Give me the damn orange and I'll give you your coat back."
"Keep it until we get back, you can use it if you get cold." Inuyasha stated as he tossed her the orange.
"I don't get cold easily." Kagome replied as she dropped the coat onto her lap just in time to catch the orange.
"I said just in case didn't I?" Inuyasha growled as he leaned back.
"So you did." Kagome whispered before she began to peel the orange.
The last hour to the spa was quick and quiet. No one was talking anymore; Kagura had realized that Sesshomaru had no intention of speaking much so she and Kikiyo just sat together doing each other's nails. Inuyasha sat next to Kagome with his eyes closed and Kagome just looked out the window and took in the sight of the mountain they were on and the forest that had been left untouched.
'Maybe I could go hiking while we're here…that's if auntie and uncle don't need help.' Kagome thought as she moved to stand up. But just as she had tried to stand up, she felt one of her wounds that had been stitched up stretch the wrong way. Just as she was about to hit the floor, Kagome was caught and placed back into her seat gently as she heard Sesshomaru say, "You shouldn't move while the bus is in motion." as his tail let go of her waist.
"I'm tired of sitting." Kagome hissed.
"Well if you would have waited a bit longer or kept looking out your window you would have noticed that we are pulling up into the entrance already." Kagura was heard.
"Would you all just shut up, I'm fine and don't need to be treated like a fucking child." Kagome hissed out in anger before placing her head phones back on so that she could tone out the world.
Once the bus had completely stopped, Kagome stood up, jumped over Inuyasha, no matter how much it had hurt, and stormed out of the bus knowing that she would probably had to go and see the medic they had here so that he could stitch her wound back up. Once she had entered the lobby, Kagome walked up to the front desk and said, "I'm here to check into a room. I'm from the student council."
"Ah, everything is ready for you, your bags will be taken up shortly so place wait a while here in the lobby." The man told her.
"Thank you, are the owners on the floor or are they somewhere else?" Kagome asked as she looked around for her relatives.
"Did I do something wrong?" he asked thinking that he had upset the girl.
"No, I'm related to them, I just wanted to see them is all." Kagome answered.
"Oh, you're Kagome-sama." he stated.
"Just Kagome is fine. Where are they?" Kagome replied.
But before he could answer her, Kikiyo and Kagura came up alongside her and asked, "Is everything alright?"
"Just fine, you guys can go up in a minute once our belongings have been sent up. Just wait down here." Kagome told them.
"Can we go walk around the spa?" Kagura asked.
"Go right ahead, we have a nice garden to your right with some excellent choices of tea." The man was heard.
"Kagome you will join us right? This is the perfect time to practice." Kikiyo stated as she paused.
"I will be joining you in a while, I have some matters to take care of." Kagome answered in the way she was expected to answer so that Kikiyo would see that she just didn't want to act like her at all.
Once the two were gone, the man smiled and said, "They can be found in the kitchen, one of our chiefs recently got very ill and we haven't been able to get a new one brought in."
"Thank you, there is an inu hanyou and his brother an inu demon that also with us, please send them up to the room or tell them to look around but do not tell them where I have gone." Kagome ordered before taking her leave.
After a checking in with her relatives and spending her first few hours of the spa helping them prepare meals and the meals that had been planned for her and the rest of the student council, Kagome walked into the living room/dining room of their grand room just in time to hear Kagura growled out, "That lying bitch is going to make it difficult for us and you know it."
"This lying bitch was preparing our meals since they were underhanded in the kitchen." Kagome hissed out in anger as she began to place the first tray down in the center.
"Do you need help bringing the rest in?" Sesshomaru offered.
"No, I'm fine." Kagome answered as she turned to leave only to ask, "Wait, where is Inuyasha, why isn't he here?"
"He has yet to return either; he said something about going out and taking a walk." Kikiyo answered.
"Feh, I ended up helping." Inuyasha was heard as he walked into with two more trays and with Kagome's uncle behind him.
"Uncle?" Kagome called.
"He offered to help your aunt since he noticed her struggling with it. It's been a while since we had to do such a thing." He explained.
"Please enjoy your meals; you have your own hot springs to yourself if you just open the door at the end of the left hall." Her aunt was heard.
"However it is not divided since this room was meant for a family so you will have to work out your own schedule between the boys and the girls." Her uncle added.
"We will, thank you." Kagome was heard as she gave them a slight bow.
"Have a nice night…" her aunt was heard before the two took their leave.
Once they were gone, Kagome turned to her student council and said, "As we eat I'd like it very much if we all could talk about something we all have in common."
"Why should we do that?" Kagura asked.
"Because if we don't leave here at least understanding one another better then what we do now, then this would have been a waste of money. Money we could have used for the upcoming event we are currently planning." Kagome answered.
"Well, there is the fact that we are all from noble families." Kikiyo pointed out.
"I'm your cousin, that doesn't count." Kagome pointed out as she took a seat next to Inuyasha and Sesshomaru and in front of Kikiyo and Kagura.
"I believe it does count, Miroku is our cousin and is considered a part of our family." Sesshomaru pointed out.
"What about music?" Inuyasha offered.
"Are you kidding?" Kagura replied. "I don't like that junk she listens too."
"You would if you would just give it a try." Kagome suggested.
"I refuse to." Kagura answered.
"How about we finish whatever business we have left over of the student council before we start enjoying ourselves." Sesshomaru offered.
"Good idea." Kikiyo stated. "I agree."
"I second." Kagura added in.
"Alright, well I was thinking of making it a masked ball. Everyone is allowed to go in without a date but once you think you have found the person you want to spend the whole night with you'll be tied together." Kagome suggested.
"But how long will we give them to find someone?" Kagura asked.
"We can give them a short amount of time otherwise it won't work and there will be people that will end up with someone that they hate." Kikiyo pointed out.
"We could give them one hour to chose." Sesshomaru stated. "that's all they would need since there will be people, like couples, who will tell each other what it is they are going to be wearing."
"That's true, but what about everyone else?" Kagome asked.
"Why not announce this on Monday and give them that week to couple up. Those that haven't will have an hour to find somebody in the lobby before they are allowed to go in." Inuyasha stated.
"If that's the case we'll have to hand out invitations so that those that are already coupled will be allowed into the event without having to wait." Kagura added.
"I like it." Kikiyo spoke up.
"But where are we going to host this thing and how are we going to do all of the invitations?" Sesshomaru asked.
"We are not doing all of them. I'll call a meeting with the student council of the first, second, and third years. They will have to do their part as well." Kagome stated.
"So where are we going to host this?" Kagura asked.
"It has to be somewhere big and with a lot of space." Kikiyo pointed out.
"True." Inuyasha stated.
"How about the Majestic ball room? That's a good and big place." Kikiyo offered.
"The two story plus a basement hall? Do you have any idea how long it will take to have that place decorated?" Kagome asked.
"Well that will give us a chance to have everyone speared out." Kagura pointed out.
"Do you have any idea how much that is going to cost?" Sesshomaru growled out. "We don't have that kind of money in our budget."
"We won't need much," Kikiyo answered.
"Oh, why is that?" Kagome asked.
"The owner of the club owes my family a favor. I'll talk to my father but I know he'll say yes." Kikiyo explained.
"Well than get an answer before we finalize anything." Inuyasha stated.
"Agreed." Kagome added.
"Is that all?" Kagura asked.
"No, there is still the matter of how we would decorate that place." Kagome stated.
"We can always come up with a decorating committee." Inuyasha suggested.
"Oh and how would we do that, no one is going to want to help once we release the location to everyone." Kagura pointed out.
"Actually I do know some people that would help." Kagome stated.
"What those friends of yours? Really I still don't see why you even hang out with them when you are better than they are." Kagura growled out.
But before Kikiyo could tell her to shut up, the whole room was filled with tension when Kagome threw her knife and grazed the side of Kagura's cheek before standing up and storming out of the room while leaving a shocked and open mouth Kagura behind. After reaching her room, Kagome placed the 'do not disturb' sign and got ready for a dip in the hot springs. After getting ready and leaving her things out to get dressed after her dip, Kagome walked out of her room and straight toward the back, left door that would lead her to the hot springs.
Glad that there was no one there; Kagome dropped the towel that kept her covered from the cool night air and made her way to the edge so that she could ease her way into the hot springs. It wasn't until she was knee high in the water that she realized that she was not alone. With a grin on her face, Kagome quickly jumped into the water as she said, "Take a picture it'll last longer."
"I have very good memory." A low growl was heard.
"I'm sure you do, now what do you want." Kagome hissed out as she made her way to the deepest part of the hot spring.
As she allowed the water to heat up her wounds, Kagome locked eyes with the inu hanyou before her as she said, "What do you want?" when he didn't answer her.
"I'm going into the hot spring." Inuyasha growled as he dropped his towel to expose himself to her thinking that she would look away.
"Loving the view but I got here first so you can just get lost." Kagome hissed out as she leaned against the rock while minding her wounds.
"Make me." Inuyasha growled as he began to lower himself into the water.
To relaxed and tired to do a thing, Kagome closed her eyes and said, "I would if I wasn't hurting so much."
"You should have rested more, let me look at your wounds." Inuyasha growled as he approached her.
"I wasn't talking about my wounds but ok." Kagome whispered as she began to let herself go so that the water mixed with her miko energy would heal her wound and any other body injuries she had secretly.
Ever since she was little, all she had to do was sit in a tub of water or in a hot or cold spring and she would heal herself of any and all wounds she may have. All she would have to do was close her eyes and focus so that she would not get caught using her miko energy while the water helped her heal her wounds from the inside and out. Kagome was brought out of her thoughts when she heard Inuyasha asked, "Then what were you talking about?"
"I was talking about all of this, I shouldn't be here. I should never have been made into one of you." Kagome whispered as she slowly began to drift to sleep.
"What were you suppose to be then?" Inuyasha asked as he kept the shock from his voice as he watched her wounds disappear from sight.
With a smile on her face, Kagome answered, "A misfit all the way," before she completely fell asleep in the water.
Not wanting her to drown and not wanting to get out just yet, Inuyasha pulled her toward him so that she could rest against him so that he could relax a bit longer in the water. There was that and he still had to figure out if he was going to tell his brother what he saw happen with her wounds or if he was just going to keep it to himself. After all, it was law that the king knew about any and all miko's in the kingdom.