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Miroku's Song: Bed Intruder Song
Sango's Song: Heights
Kagome's Song: Misery Business
Inuyasha's Song: …...Cheater Cheater
Inuyasha: F you!
Graceful Mistake
Chapter 20
Thank You
Today was the day where everyone just relaxed at their own houses, Ayame and Rin were hanging out at their hotel. It had been the third day since Rin and Ayame were in Tokyo and now everyone was just taking a break. Kagome and Inuyasha were just chilling at their apartment, eating a pint of Strawberry Shortcake ice cream.
To put it lightly, they were bored as hell. It was seven in the morning and they were up watching TV. It had been two days, but Kagome still couldn't believe she was going out with Inuyasha. Aside from him greeting her in the morning with a good morning kiss, they did everything they normally did when they were just best friends.
They normally held hands and pecked each other on the cheek; the kissing on the mouth was just a bonus. They had never gone on a date unless her birthday surprise at the small lake was one. Other than those things, there was no indication that they were going out.
Kagome took a spoonful of the ice cream that was in between them and shoved it in her mouth. When she was about to open her mouth to talk she felt a tickle on her nose.
"Achoo!" She sneezed into the sleeve of her long sleeved shirt.
"Bless you." Inuyasha said before sticking his spoon in the ice cream.
He pulled the blanket over her shoulder more before he went back to eating ice cream. Kagome looked at him; she could tell he was just as bored as she was, but then again, there was nothing for them to do. Inuyasha wanted to play his game systems, but Kagome stated that she sucked at those so she would just watch; he only played for two seconds before he decided that they should do something the both of them could do when he saw the bored look on Kagome's face.
Kagome didn't have any ideas besides playing board games, but Inuyasha, being the cold person that he was, didn't have any bored games. What teenager doesn't have board games? In the end, they decided that watching TV with ice cream in between them was best.
Kagome sneezed into her sleeve and listened to Inuyasha say bless you again. Inuyasha looked at her before moving the ice cream onto his lap.
"If you're sick then you can't eat ice cream, I don't want to get sick too." He said as he stuck a spoonful of ice cream into his mouth.
Kagome rolled her eyes. "I'm not sick, it's just because the ice creams cold." Kagome took the ice cream off of his lap and moved it back in its rightful spot between them.
"Since when does cold ice cream make you sneeze?"
Kagome answered by sticking a scoop of ice cream into her mouth. Before she could stick her spoon back in the container, Inuyasha snatched the ice cream from her and put it on the other side of him. Kagome simply stuck out her tongue at him and looked at the TV. She hadn't noticed that the show Hot In Cleveland had changed to I Dream of Jeanie.
She let out a squeak of surprise when she felt herself being moved to her right. Now she was leaning onto Inuyasha's left shoulder with his arm wrapped around her waist. She blushed. Inuyasha had done it plenty of times, but not when they were going out.
'I'm thinking into it too much.' She thought.
"So what do you want for Christmas?" Inuyasha asked.
"Didn't we go over this?"
"When I tried to ask you, you answered with a stupid answer." Inuyasha changed the channel. "So what do you want?"
"Hmmm…." Kagome thought about it. "A good present would be to spend the whole day with you."
"That, I can do."
"What do you want?"
"I don't know. To spend the whole day with you?" Inuyasha tried. He hadn't even thought of what he wanted for Christmas yet.
"Lame, it sounds like something out of a book." Kagome stood up and stretched. "I'm going to take a nap, so I'll see you later."
"You just said that to me, hypocrite! And you could sleep right here." Inuyasha said while patting the spot next to him.
Kagome shook her head before walking into her room. Inuyasha watched her quietly close the door behind her. He shrugged his shoulders before turning to the TV, Kagome could be weird sometimes. He grabbed the remote and changed the channel.
He had a lot of things on his mind. He wanted to take Kagome on a date, but he didn't know where, and he still had to get her a present. He was going to spend the day with her, but what else should he get her?
He had already gotten her jewelry and crap, so that wasn't an option, plus there were the other loads of crap she got for her birthday. What would be the perfect gift for her? What else do girls like that he could afford?
He thought about it for ten minutes before deciding that he'd have to think about it another time. He was about as bad at choosing presents as he was at making snowmen, which was very bad. He didn't understand how people made them so circular, and perfect. His snowmen normally looked like a constipated raccoon.
He flipped the channel and watched as a commercial came on. A student and a teacher were in the classroom.
"Cuantos anos tienes? (How old are you?)" The teacher asked.
The class stared at the young man, waiting for his answer. "Que pasa mi amigo en…taco? Si, te amo mi amore….Me gusto mucho mucho …wasabi (What's up my friend in ...taco? Yes, I love you, my love...I really like a lot ...wasabi?)" The student said to his teacher.
Students started laughing. "I asked for your age….not whatever you just said to me."
"Cinco? (Five?)" He said holding up 5 fingers.
A box of Rosetta Stone fell onto the kids desk and they stared at it. A picture of the kid on the internet flashed before it showed him back in the classroom.
"Yo soy diesiseis. 16." The kid said with pride.
"Perfecto!" The teacher clapped and balloons fell from the ceiling and confetti sprang from the sides.
"BUY ROSETTA STONE TODAY!"
Inuyasha sighed, commercials were getting stupider and stupider, he did admit that he enjoyed the commercial though.
"Let's go mess with Kagome." He said while getting up.
One good thing about having a roommate is getting to bother them. He stood up and quietly walked to her room. He opened the door slowly before advancing to a sleeping Kagome.
Inuyasha snickered when he saw a bit of drool coming out of her mouth. That would be a good picture for black mail. He poked her cheek lightly with his claw and watched as she twitched and then fell back into a relaxed face.
He squatted down onto his knees to be face to face with her and poked her cheek again. The joys of messing with people when they were sleeping were infinite. When he put his right hand on the floor to balance himself he felt something brush against his hand.
He looked down at a slightly crumbled up piece of paper that was sticking out from her dresser. He looked at Kagome to make sure she was knocked out before he reached for the paper and spread out the paper on his knee. When it was making too much noise and almost woke Kagome, he quietly left and shut the door behind him.
Once he was back in the living room, he looked at his newly found paper.
"Oh, it's a photo." Inuyasha said to himself.
He looked at the torn and wrinkled photo. It had Souta, her father, her mother, and a headless body that Inuyasha assumed to be Kagome. He wasn't sure who cut out her face or who had torn it, but he had a suspicion that since Kagome didn't do it.
He knew she loved photo's and that she wasn't the type to actually cut people out even if she hated them; cutting herself out was something he doubted she'd do. He rolled his eyes.
'It must' have been her damn father.' Inuyasha folded the paper up and put it in the back pocket in his pajama pants.
He smiled to himself when an idea struck him. Kagome would love him for the plan he was scheming in his head. He couldn't wait until Kagome was up.
Kagome woke up and did a quick stretch. She sighed in content when her stiffened muscles relaxed. That had to be one of her best naps yet. She grabbed her red blanket from the end of her bed and pulled it over her shoulder before walking out of her room.
She walked into the living room expecting to see Inuyasha watching TV, but wasn't too surprised when she saw he wasn't there. If he was in his room she didn't want to bother him so she sat in the living room and turned on the TV. She laid down on the couch and pulled the blanket over her to completely conceal her body.
It was hard to believe that it had been so warm outside the day of her birthday party, but now it was colder than cold. Even if she was inside the house it was still really cold, she was glad she wasn't going outside.
She looked at the red out lining on her blanket. She loved putting blankets over her head and staring at the blanket. It was boring, but fun in her opinion. She traced over the seam before dropping her hand to her side and curling up into a ball.
'It's so warm.' She thought.
It was warm and cozy inside her blanket, it almost made her want to go back to sleep. She stayed like that for a couple of minutes before pulling the blanket off of her head.
"Cuantos anos tienes? (How old are you?)" The TV blared.
'Oh, a new commercial.' She sat up and started watching it. At the end of the commercial she started laughing.
"Kagome!"
Kagome turned around quickly. Inuyasha was walking towards her fully dressed.
"Are you going somewhere?"
"No, but we are."
"Excuse me?" She asked turning her body all the way around.
"Hurry up, get dressed."
"Why?"
Inuyasha did a dramatic sigh. "Do you want to go on a date or not?"
Kagome's eyes widened. "Da-date?"
"Yea, either you hurry up and get dressed in ten minutes or I go on a date by myself."
Kagome rolled her eyes. "Yea, let's see how that goes."
She got up and trudged to her room before shutting the door. She smiled to herself.
'Oh my god….I'm going on a date. Is this real?' She pinched herself lightly. "I guess it is."
She found it weird that she had just been thinking about a date earlier that morning and now she was actually going on a date.
"Oh, and wear red or pink or something." Inuyasha called through the door.
"Why?"
"Because I said so."
Kagome looked through her clothes and sighed. She still had a long way to go before her clothes would all be done. A lot of her clothes were still ripped.
'Red or pink?' She thought.
She went through the drawers with her good clothes that weren't ripped; it took a while but she finally found something pink. After getting dressed, she stepped out into the living room. Inuyasha turned his head in her direction and smiled. Simply put, she looked cute.
She had on a pink boat-neck long knit top with dark wash skinny jeans, and in her hands were white slipper boots that folded into a cuff. She straightened her hair and swept her bangs to the side. The ring he had given her was on her finger and the same silver necklace Kenrou gave her was on her neck.
"Is this a good outfit?" She said doing a twirl.
"Perfect, you look pretty."
"Thank you. If I may say so, you look mighty good yourself." Kagome said placing her shoes at the door before walking into the kitchen.
"I know I do." Inuyasha said going into the kitchen.
He was in a long sleeved green Ralph Lauren shirt, a pair of dark skinny jeans, and green baseball boots (aka: Chuck Taylors. Another aka:...Converse.)
Kagome pulled an apple out of the refrigerator. Before she could take a bite out of it Inuyasha snatched it out of her hand and placed it on the counter.
"Let's go get lunch at that cafe you like."
Kagome smiled. "Okay."
She ran back to her room and grabbed her white Silent and Noise hooded jacket and then slipped on her shoes. Inuyasha put on his jacket before opening the front door. Kagome walked out and Inuyasha locked the door behind them.
Kagome giggled. "It's like we're a married couple."
"Yup, because we live together, eat together, and sleep together…sometimes. All were missing is kids." Inuyasha said stuffing his key in his pocket.
"What if I don't want kids?"
"Then we are officially divorced."
"Well, that was a quick marriage." She lightly coughed into her hands.
Inuyasha rubbed her back. "Are you getting sick?"
"No, I take very good care of myself."
"Good, I don't want you getting sick at my place, I don't feel like getting sick."
Kagome lightly shoved him. "Shut up."
"This is the life." Inuyasha said while chewing on his blueberry muffin. "Best effin' muffin in the woooooooooooorld."
"Don't talk with your mouth full." Kagome said while biting into her own cinnamon danish.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "What are you, my mother?"
Kagome just shook her head in response.
Kagome and Inuyasha had arrived at the cafe after a while of walking and ordered the first thing they saw that looked good. They were currently chowing down on the deliciousness in front of them. Inuyasha knew he was coming back many many times after today.
"Hey, you wanna eat at moms tonight? She asked yesterday, but I forgot to ask you?"
"I can't talk to you when you have crumbs all over your face." Kagome said grabbing a napkin and wiping his mouth for him. He rolled his eyes, but let her continue to wipe his mouth. "Now that that's taken care of, sure; that'd be nice."
Inuyasha response was to shove more muffins in his mouth. 'So damn good!' He thought.
When he looked up from his muffins he saw Kagome staring out the window with a dazed look. Something was on her mind, he could tell. He picked up one of his muffins.
"Kagome."
Kagome jerked her head towards him. When she did that, Inuyasha tried shoving the muffin into her mouth. Kagome's mouth was tightly shut so the muffin just mashed into the corner of her mouth and part of her cheek. She swatted his hand away.
"What is your problem? ! You're like a freaking two year old!" Kagome grabbed a napkin and used it to wipe her mouth.
"Well, when you're making a face like that I'm gonna' think somethings wrong. And don't get mad at me! I sacrificed one of my muffins for this!"
Kagome rolled her eyes. "That's still no reason to shove a muffin in my face, and I wasn't making a face."
"You were to making a face!" Inuyasha said helping her wipe some of the crumbs off of her mouth.
"I wasn't."
"You were to! How are you going to tell me? What's on your mind?" Inuyasha asked taking a sip of his mocha.
"...I'm thinking about my dad."
"Why?"
"I don't know, he just popped into mind. This would be the first Christmas I would've spent without a parent of mine."
Inuyasha didn't really know what to say. "Well, what's even better is that you can spend it with me."
Kagome smiled. "That's true, actually, the whole group is getting together, so that's perfect."
"Are you trying to say you'd rather spend time with the whole group rather than me, just me, the sexy me, your boyfriend me?"
"...How you take what I said is none of my business." Kagome said leaning back in her chair. "You done eating?"
"Yea, let's go."
Inuyasha helped Kagome out of her chair. They left the cafe with a smile, they'd be coming back soon.
"Lucky for us, this cafe is near where I wanted to take you." Inuyasha said grabbing her hand.
"Really?"
"Yea, all we have to do is walk is bit farther a head and were there. Thank Kami for chain shops."
"So where are we going?"
"We're like two steps away from it you can wait." Inuyasha stopped walking. "We're here, I told you; we were literally two steps away from it."
"What is this place?"
"Why don't you look at the name of it and figure it out?"
Kagome rolled her eyes before looking at the sign above them. "Capture The Moment?...A place to take photos?"
"Bingo."
Inuyasha held open the door and let Kagome walk in. Kagome looked around her. The place had black walls and a black marble floor. The only thing that decorated the place was the pictures of all the people that had been there.
Kagome stared at a picture of a baby and it's mother. It brought a smile to her face. There was no denying that this place took really good photos. There was only one problem wrong.
"Alright, ima' go pay." Inuyasha said pointing to the front. Inuyasha noticed the look on her face. "What's wrong?"
"I'm happy to be here in all, but...I still have the burn mark on my face." Kagome said rubbing her hand over it.
"Oh yea, I didn't think about that." The burn mark was healing nicely but it was still very much noticeable even with the cover up she put on. "Sorry, uh...they can edit it out."
"..." Kagome shrugged her shoulders. "Okay, I guess."
"We can do this another day, it's all good. It doesn't seem okay from the look your making."
Kagome put on a smile. "I'm okay with it; i'm happy that you took me out and that were spending time together. Go ahead and pay, I'll be looking at the pictures."
Like Kagome said, she started looking at pictures. It was interesting to see how happy the people looked. There was a picture of a happy family that really caught Kagome's eyes. It reminded her of her family somewhat. There was a father and a mother and then an older sister and a younger brother.
They were all smiling happily. Just like in the photo Kagome had before it got destroyed. Kagome couldn't help, but smile at it. The smiles on each of their faces were true and genuine; they weren't just smiling for the picture, but just because they were happy to be in each others presence.
Kagome knew a smile would naturally come to her face when she would take the pictures with Inuyasha.
"Kagome." Inuyasha waved her over. Kagome turned around and walked over to him. "They said we could go in now" Inuyasha put a nervous hand behind his head. "Sorry again, I wasn't really thinking when I had the idea."
Kagome's smile brightened. "Don't worry about it; I'm actually excited to take pictures, no need to apologize."
"Really?" Inuyasha asked.
"Most definitely."
"Alright then, lets go."
"Just go to the back door on you're right. The photographer is really nice, you'll really enjoy him. Have fun you two." The lady at the front desk said.
Inuyasha and Kagome both nodded their heads before going to the back. When they opened the door and walked in they were greeted by the photographer.
"Welcome, go ahead and put your coats over there." He smiled and shook their hands. "What a cute couple? If only my wife and I were your age again. Anyways, chop chop, I'll stop boring you with my talk. You two are going to be taking 26 pictures today. You're background will look like this after I mess with it a little." He typed something into his computer before turning the computer screen towards them. "This is the one you choose right?"
Inuyasha nodded his head. Kagome looked at it, it was a nice brownish blackish color.
"Okay, continuing on. You guys can choose the poses if you want, I'll just suggest some things to make it look better after you get in your pose, then I'll snap the photo and then we'll move onto the next pose. Sound good?" They both nodded their heads. "Okay, now both of you just step over there and begin posing, if you look to your right, you'll see a pedestal right there and a column close to it." He pointed to a pedestal not to far from them.
Inuyasha and Kagome looked to their right. There was a cream colored pedestal and a pale white Greek looking column close to it.
"If you want to use one of those as props for your photos just tell me and I'll move it to a spot convenient for ya'." He typed in a couple of more things before picking up his camera and smiling. "Ya'll good to go?"
"Yes." They both replied.
"Alright, just tell me when your in your poses."
Inuyasha and Kagome looked blankly at each other. "Can you just choose the poses for us?" Kagome asked.
"Sure thing, oh, wait." He ran back to his computer and turned on music. "Sorry, I normally put on some music for when I take pictures." Under The Sea started playing. "I have two little girls at home, you best believe this is all I listen to at home." He said while shaking his head.
Kagome started laughing. Kagome just pictured him singing and dancing to Under The Sea, it was a funny idea. Before she knew it there was a snap, and then a flash of light. She looked at the photographer.
"That was a nice photo."
"Can you delete that, please?" Kagome asked. She was sure it looked horrible. She hated surprise photos.
He shook his head. "Trust me, when were done I'll show you the picture, it's a masterpiece. Anyways, chop chop, let's move onto the next pose. Mr. Boy can you be so kind as to move right here." He pointed to a spot and Inuyasha moved there. "And now Ms. Lady can you walk to the front of him, turn your back to the camera and look to your right." Kagome did as he said, or at least what she thought he said. "Now just look relaxed and smile, Mr. Boy, put your right hand on her waist. Ms. Lady, now put your hands on his chest."
"Perfect!" He snapped a couple of shots. "Okay, nice nice. Hmmm...let's do a classic couples photo. Now just face the camera. Mr. Boy put your right arm around her waist, Ms. Lady just clasp your hands in the front of you and lean your head on him."
They did what he said and watched as he moved his finger to the corner of his mouth and moved them up. They both smiled and took the picture.
"Now, Ms. Lady and Mr. Boy please step back. They stepped back and watched him bring the pedestal towards them. He let out a quick 'phew'. "Okay, Ms. Lady please sit down on the pedestal and smile with those pearly whites. Mr. boy will get his own shot in a second."
Kagome sat on the pedestal and crossed her legs before resting her hands in her lap and smiling with her teeth. "Now if that isn't just the prettiest smile in the world I don't know what is." He snapped a couple of shots before helping her off of the pedestal and moving it to the side. "Mr. Boy, if you could sit on the floor right here." He tapped his foot on a spot.
"Just put your hands behind you lean back and put one leg up. Don't forget to smile." Inuyasha did what he said and let the man take the pictures.
"Alright." He moved the pedestal back to where he had it after Inuyasha stood up. "If you could come here Ms. Lady and sit like you were doing before that would be nice. Mr. boy if you could do the same that would be good." He said while messing with his camera.
Kagome smiled down at Inuyasha. "Thanks a bunch for thinking about doing this. It really means a lot."
"Anything for you." He said while smiling back.
Snap
Inuyasha and Kagome jerked their heads to the camera. "Best picture I've seen in a while." He said while looking at his camera. "I can't wait to show you guys this one. Anyways, oh wait, this is my song. Hakuna Matata. What a wonderful phrase."
Kagome and Inuyasha both looked at each other before laughing. Inuyasha was happy he decided to take Kagome out. To see such a bright smile on his girlfriends face and to know he caused it brought him a lot of pride.
Inuyasha, Kagome, and the photographer were staring at his lap top, looking over all of the photos. They had just got done taking photos and now it was time to choose which ones they wanted to keep and blow up.
"You guys can blow up 5 of them."
"Cool, I really think this one should be blown up." Kagome said pointing to a photo of them holding hands.
"Okay." The photographer clicked that photo and added a check mark.
"I like this one, you were right." He said while looking at the photographer. "It's stunning. I can hang it on my ceiling and just stare at it until I fall asleep." Inuyasha said pointing to the picture of Kagome laughing.
Kagome lightly shoved him. The photographer clicked that one and added a check mark. Kagome had to admit that the photo was impressive, he got it at the perfect angle, at the perfect time.
"How about this one, if we have a single shot of me, let's get one of you." She said before pointing to the picture of Inuyasha smiling while sitting on the floor.
"Alrighty." The photographer said repeating his actions.
"What about that?" Inuyasha asked. "It's nice." Inuyasha pointed to a photo of them leaning on the column and staring at each other with light smiles on their face.
"I love the way your eyes shine in this one, that is a good picture."
That had to be one of Kagome's favorite pictures. She loved how the amber in his eyes really sparkled and how the body language was so relaxed.
"Alright, last one."
"Hmmm...What about that one?" Kagome pointed to one other photo.
"Nah, I don't think it's worth blowing up. What about that other picture of you?" Inuyasha pointed to another photo.
"No thank you, what about that one?" Kagome pointed to another.
"How about you guys choose this one? To me, this is the best photo." The photographer scrolled down and enlarged a photo.
It was the photo of Kagome sitting on the pedestal and Inuyasha sitting on the floor. They were both laughing and looking at each other.
They looked at each other before nodding their heads. "That's the one." They said in unison.
"Alright, ya'll are good to go. Come and pick them up in 7 days." He scribbled something down on a piece of paper before handing it to Inuyasha. "It was a pleasure working with you guys. Please come back again."
"Will do." Inuyasha said grabbing his and Kagome's jacket.
"Thank you." Kagome said with a bow.
They walked out of the studio after putting on their coats.
"Wanna' just walk to mom's place from here? It's already late."
"Sure."
"Alright, let me just text them saying that we're on the way."
"K."
Inuyasha and Kagome arrived at Inuyasha's parents house in no time. Inuyasha was about to use his key on the door, but the door opened before he could even stick it in.
"Kagome!" Both of his parents said before giving her a hug.
'I feel so loved.' Inuyasha thought while walking inside.
His parents and Kagome followed.
"How are you? You tired of living with the boy yet?" Inuyasha's father asked.
Kagome laughed. "Not yet, I will give him credit for being semi decent these days."
"Just wait another week, you'll see how he truly is at home, the day he asked for his own apartment was a day given by God. I was so happy I went out with my men and threw a party."
Inuyasha just rolled his eyes. "You know you miss me."
"I do?" Taisho asked with a laugh.
"Kagome, come come. Let's go make dinner. I want you to help me cook this really good dish." Izayoi said while grabbing her arm.
Kagome smiled. "Okay."
"Hows the burn? It's clearing up nicely, but still..."
"It's getting better, I just wish it was all gone." Kagome said following Inuyasha's mother into the kitchen.
That left Inuyasha and his father in the hallway by themselves.
"Wanna play Mario Karts?" Inuyasha asked.
"Hell yea, I don't mind beating you at another one of your little games."
Inuyasha and his father went into the living room. Inuyasha turned on his game system and tossed his father a controller.
"So, what's it really like living with Kagome?" His father asked when Inuyasha sat down.
"Better than living alone, I get better meals, someone to mess with, and I don't do my own laundry anymore."
"Is she your maid or your friend? Wait, wait a damn second I call Yoshi!" He said before clicking on Yoshi.
Inuyasha glared at his father. "I wanted Yoshi."
"Yea, well I clicked on him, so suck it up."
"Really now?"
Since Inuyasha had the first controller, he just back spaced, clicked A, and then rushed to get Yoshi. He smiled when he clicked on Yoshi before his father.
Taisho turned a glare at his son. "I ain't playing then."
"Stop being a baby! Suck it up." Inuyasha said mocking his father.
"Don't make me ground you."
"I don't live here! Go ahead and try it."
Inuyasha's father just turned his glare to the screen while nodding his head, he clicked on Mario. "Alright, let's see if you're game system is here the next time you come back."
"Mom!" Inuyasha yelled.
"What, honey?" She yelled from the kitchen.
"Dad said he's going to punch me in the face if I don't give him what he wants!"
Taisho's jaw dropped. "He's lying! I didn't say any of that bs!"
Inuyasha's mother walked into the living room. "Taisho! Language!"
"I said bs! Not bull sh-...the other word."
His wife bopped him on the head with her hand. "Don't even say that! And Inuyasha!" She bopped him on the head next. "Don't lie to me! I would've killed him. What's the real problem here?"
"Dad wants to be Yoshi and I wanna' be Yoshi! Tell him to be the adult and give me what I want! He's acting like a kindergartner!" Inuyasha yelled pointing at his father.
"I come home from a long day of work to this? Tell him to stop being a spoiled brat and just give me Yoshi, it ain't that serious!" His father said pointing at him.
"You're right, it's not that serious. Give me the controllers." Izayoi took the controllers from them and clicked on two Mario characters. "Alright, you're Peach, and you're Daisy. If you even think about changing them, I will turn off the game and no dinner." She said in her warning voice.
They both gulped before quietly turning back to the game and choosing what course they should use.
Izayoi walked into the kitchen and sighed. "Do you see what I have to deal with? They both act like they're little kids, ne?"
Kagome laughed. "True, but it's better to have them acting young rather than acting old."
"Yup, yup." Izayoi hesitated before asking. "Kagome, how do you feel about your father? Please let me know if I'm crossing the line asking this."
Kagome started cutting the vegetables. "You're not...I don't really know what to feel towards him. I know I love him because he's my father, but...other than that love, there isn't really much feeling towards him. I don't want to harbor bad feelings for him because he's not in my life anymore and it'd just be pointless, but other than the bad feelings I could feel towards him, there aren't too many good feelings I could feel towards him."
"Ah, I see." Izayoi said with a nod of her head. "I ask this because I don't want someone as sweet as you feeling hatred at this age. There are many reasons why you could feel hatred or bad feelings, but I'm proud that you don't. I know Inuyasha's not going to ask you how you feel about it because he doesn't want to bring up bad memories of your father, but sometimes it's good to talk about them."
Kagome smiled. "Yea, it's okay though. The reason why I'm okay and why I'm not going into depression or having bad feelings is because I'm around people that love and care abut me. You, Uncle Taisho, Sango, Miroku, Rin, Sesshomaru, Kouga, Ayame, and the list goes on. Inuyasha especially though, I'm happy he cares enough to stick by my side and do whatever it takes to make me smile."
"Awwwwww! !" Inuyasha's mother gave her a hug. "You are so cute! You just said such a sweet thing!"
Kagome blushed. "Well, yea; I consider you my mother figure since my mothers gone; I really look up to you and Uncle Tai."
"Awww, you really know how to pull on peoples heart strings." Izayoi put a pot full of hot water on the stove. "I'm really happy Inuyasha has someone like you in his life."
Kagome laughed. "I'm just as lucky, he's been the best boyfriend to me."
Izayoi jerked her head in Kagome's direction. "Boyfriend?"
"Oh...yea, we started going out."
Izayoi took in a deep breath. "When? What time? How come I didn't know? Tell me all about it! I'm so late!"
"It's only been like four days..." Kagome said with a nervous laugh.
"Tell. Me. Everything!"
"Dinners ready!" Kagome called out after setting the last plate on the table.
The boys walked into the kitchen and sat in their seats. After everybody was settled at the table, they started eating.
"What is this?" Inuyasha asked while looking at the noodles.
"Hiyashi Chuka. I've never made it before, but it looks good." Izayoi said while tasting the noodles. "It's really good."
Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders before slurping up one of the noodles. "It is!" And that's when he started pigging out.
"Thank Kagome, I basically watched while she cooked."
Kagome blushed. "No, we made it together. You did a lot of it."
"Don't be so modest. Oh, wait, Taisho? These to are going out now! Since like...4 days ago!"
"Haven't they been going out since 6th grade?" He asked.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "No dad, get your facts straight."
"Shut up, congrats then. Kagome, I am so sorry you have to go out with this sorry excuse as my son." Taisho said while shaking his head. "I don't know what you see in him."
"It's okay, he can be kind of decent when he wants to be or at least after he's been fed. If he doesn't get his meal then I start wondering why I'm going out with him."
Taisho laughed. "Can I please trade my son in and get you?"
"Why don't you guys just be quiet and eat?" Inuyasha joined in.
Kagome and Taisho silently snickered while they ate.
After dinner, Inuyasha's parents dropped them off at Inuyasha's apartment.
"You guys be safe! And come by soon to have dinner again!" Izayoi said from the passengers side.
"We will, mom." Inuyasha said while grabbing Kagome's hand.
"Thank you so much for having us over." Kagome said with a smile.
"Anytime, if he does something perverted just call me and I'll beat him up for you." Taisho said.
Kagome nodded her head, Inuyasha just rolled his eyes. "I ain't gonna' touch her."
"That's what you think." His father said before driving off.
"I love your parents." Kagome said while opening the door to their apartment.
"Shut up."
"Don't be mad because your daddy and me like to pick on you." Kagome said with a laugh.
"I'm not!" Inuyasha hollered from his room.
"Yea, you are! Stop acting like a big baby!" Kagome said while going into her room.
"I'm not!"
"Oh please, you got mad when you didn't get Yoshi in MarioKarts."
"So did he, what does that make him then! ? A big baby?"
"No, it makes him a cool daddy." Kagome said after grabbing her clothes and going into the bathroom. She locked the door and turned on the shower.
In other words, that meant it was the end of that conversation. After Kagome was done with her shower, she came out and sat on the couch, and then Inuyasha went in to take his. When he came out, he sat on the couch next to her.
They watched TV. For a while before Kagome remembered something."Inuyasha?"
"Ne?"
"Can I use your cellphone to make a quick phone call?"
"Go head'." He pointed to his cellphone on the coffee table in front of them.
Kagome grabbed his cell phone and went into her room. She dialed in the number that she barely even remembered and shut the door behind her.
Ring
Ring
Ring
Ring
She didn't think anyone was going to pick up and prepared herself to leave a voice mail, when someone actually picked up.
"Hello?" Her voice rang through the phone.
"Kikyou?" Kagome asked.
"Kagome, is that you?"
"Yes."
"...What is it, I'm in the middle of something." She lied, the last thing she wanted to do was talk to Kagome.
"...You told Inuyasha."
Kikyou knew what she was talking about as soon as the words left her mouth."..."
"I know you did, he told me."
"So what, are you going to kill yourself now? Huh? Are you? If so, you're a lot stupider than I thought you were!" Kikyou started yelling. "I wasn't just going to let your father keep doing that to you! Do you know how conflicted I was because I couldn't decide between telling or not telling! ? For you to even threaten me by saying that you were going to kill yourself put me in a horrible position!"
Kikyou went on and on about it before ending with. "Well, it doesn't matter, you probably made Inuyasha promise not to tell; you're probably still living with your father anyways, what idiot cou-"
Kagome cut her off. "I don't live with him anymore."
"What?" Kikyou pressed the phone closer to her ear. "What did you say?"
"I'm not living with father anymore." She said once more before taking in a deep breath. "Inuyasha came in when he was beating me and now I'm staying with Inuyasha."
"Really?...So he actually did do something." Kikyou muttered to herself. Kagome smiled slightly when she heard how relieved Kikyou was.
"Ya' know. When I found out that you told Inuyasha, I thought 'I hate her, she's ruined my life, because of her my father is on the run from the police and now I don't have a family anymore.'" Kagome felt tears come to her eyes. "But now I think that because you told him, not only was I saved, but my life is better now. My friends are my family, so I never lost that. I know that I'm safe."
Kagome felt the tears pour out of her eyes as she continued. "I don't have to worry about going home and getting beat for something that I didn't do wrong anymore. I don't have to worry about losing my life if my father went to far anymore. I'm still not sure if what he did is right, but-"
"Baka!" Kikyou yelled.
Kagome could hear Kikyou sniffling on the other line. 'Is she...crying?'
"What made you think you deserved any of the shit he put you through! ? You don't! Okay, you don't! What he did was something no one as nice as you ever deserves, no one mean deserves that! For you to keep quiet and let him do that to you is the saddest thing I've ever seen! Why would you let him do that to you, huh! ? Why didn't you tell someone so you wouldn't have to go through all of that! ?"
Kagome put a hand to her mouth. "Kikyou, I-"
"There's no excuse for that! Do you know how worried I was after I left, I thought for sure you were going to die! I was waiting for one of our relatives to tell me that you were dead because your father went to far! To hear you call me like this, out of nowhere and hearing you sound so well is the best thing in the world. See, now you've got me crying." Kikyou wiped at her tears, but gave up when more kept falling.
"I'm sorry I waited so long to call. I just...I just called to say thank you." Kagome said. "Thank you for finding out what he does to me. Thank you for telling Inuyasha what happened. Thank you for caring so much about me. Than-"
"Stop it! You're gonna' make me cry harder." Kikyou said with a laugh. "I get it, you're really thankful."
"You don't understand just how thankful I truly am. Because of you I feel so much safer. So...thank you, thank you, thank you."
Kagome just kept repeating that word through her tears. There was no way Kikyou would ever understand how grateful Kagome was. It just wasn't possible. There was no way.
They both cried on the phone for a while before both laughing. They talked on the phone for a while before promising to call each other again and hanging up.
Kagome wiped her eyes and waited ten minutes before walking out and into the living room.
She handed Inuyasha his cell phone. "Thanks."
"You really are a good person, I'm sure Kikyou really enjoyed your call."
Kagome smiled before lightly slapping him on the arm. "Stop listening to my conversations."
Inuyasha pulled Kagome onto his lap and kissed her cheek. "My cellphone, so I get to listen to your conversations."
Kagome tried to stand up. "I really need to get my own cell phone again." After a couple of more attempts to get up she broke free and went to her end of the couch. "I'm sleepy."
"I'm tired. Sleepy is such a kindergartner word." Inuyasha said.
"Well then, I'm tired."
"Come to my end." Inuyasha said while waving her over.
Inuyasha adjusted himself so that when Kagome came over, she was laying in front of him. He turned off the TV and kissed her good night.
"Night'." Kagome snuggled into Inuyasha.
"Eh." He said while wrapping his arm protectively around her waist and pulling her closer.
"It wouldn't kill you to say good night."
"Eh." He replied.
Kagome raised an eyebrow. "You wanna' sleep alone?"
"Good niiiiiiight." Inuyasha said with a role of his eyes.
"Night', love." Kagome said with a smile.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! :))) WHOO 16, BABY!
There's always that one bastard who wants the same character as you in MarioKarts, so you end up racing to it before the other person can get to it. Smh. \(-_-)/
I DID NOT CHECK OVER THIS SO...JUST IGNORE ALL OF THE ERRORS PLZ. SORRY! :((( I WAS IN A RUSH TO POST
-don't expect a chapter for a while, I injured my hand (its bloody as I type) :((((. I fell really hard today on the cement when I was running.
20 pages. 2550 words.
Finished typing: October 1st, 2011.