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Graceful Mistake
Chapter 21
Merry Crimbo
Christmas Eve. 6 pm
"Kagome!" Inuyasha called out.
"What, no need to yell I'm right here." Kagome answered while moving a green ornament out of the way.
"Pass me a blue ornament." Kagome picked up a blue ornament covered in silver sparkles. She happily handed it to him before going back to hanging up the silver banners around the apartment.
It was the day before Christmas and Kagome and Inuyasha were rushing to put up Christmas ornaments. The whole group would be coming over tomorrow to celebrate and they wanted to make sure that the house was ready. They had spent the whole day cleaning, shopping, and decorating.
Kagome climbed onto the ladder and put up another banner. 'Just two more to go.' As she was stepping down on the ladder she felt a familiar tickle on her nose. "Achoo." She nearly tripped while coming down.
Inuyasha came up behind her and steadied her. "Hey, be careful."
Kagome stepped down all the way. "Will do."
She moved the ladder to another corner and went to hang up the last banner. Inuyasha watched her for a while before going back to the tree. Everything was looking nice. It was hard to believe that they had waited to the last minute to do everything. Literally the last minute.
"Okay." Kagome picked up the note book that lay on the coffee table in the living room. "Food, done, it just needs to be cooked tomorrow. Decorations, nearly complete, we just need to put the star on the tree, hang up the mistletoe, put up the wreath, hang up the stockings, put up the Christmas lights around the house, put the presents under the tree, and...that should be it aside from cleaning a little more. Oh and you have to set up the long table."
"That's nearly complete?" Inuyasha asked while hanging another ornament.
"Considering all of those things will only take about 50 minutes to do, I'd say that's nearly complete." Kagome grabbed the wreath. "I'll go put this outside."
Inuyasha just nodded his head and put more ornaments on the tree. He took a couple of steps back and stared at his master piece. "If I do say so myself you are a mighty good looking tree. The way the ornaments highlight your waist make you look delicious. I've made you perfect."
Kagome laughed. "Talking to trees now?"
"Eh, it's a hobby."
"Wow, there's so much I don't know about you. Where's the Christmas star?"
Inuyasha put on a huge smile. "In my apartment, we don't have the Christmas star...or angel."
"Then what do you have? Do you have anything?"
"We have a better ornament that goes on the top of the tree." Kagome raised an eyebrow. "Just look."
Inuyasha pulled Kagome to the couch, made her sit down and then ran into his room and grabbed a container before running back. He lifted the top off carefully before slowly taking off the tissue around the ornament. Kagome didn't think Inuyasha could be so careful with an ornament, let alone anything. With the way he was throwing around the small ornaments she would've never expected him to be so...gentle.
After moving around some popcorn, (not popcorn..it's like some white popcorn stuff..idk what it's called.) Inuyasha pulled out the ornament. When Kagome saw it she started laughing. She took lol to a whole new level.
"You have got to be kidding me!" Kagome wiped a tear from her eye.
"What's wrong with it?"
"What's right with it?" Kagome asked. "That is so...unique."
"I had it custom made, touch it, it's made of glass."
Kagome rubbed her hand over it. Sure enough, it was glass, really smooth glass.
"Who buys an ornament of ramen?"
"I do." In Inuyasha's hands was a huge ramen cup made out of glass. "I've been using it for years."
Kagome stood up and walked to a box that held many Christmas items inside it. "You need help, some serious help; just put it on the tree."
"You don't want to put it on? It's an honor to do it."
"I'd rather put the stockings somewhere. Where exactly can I put the stockings?" Kagome asked while taking them out of the box.
"I normally don't put them up...I guess you could put it over there." Inuyasha pointed to a spot near the window.
Kagome grabbed the tape and went to start her job. "So...Are you ready for Christmas?"
"I'm as ready as I'll ever be for getting presents. I can't wait to give Kouga his present." Inuyasha said with a snicker.
"Be nice, I don't want you guys fighting when you guys should be giving hugs and rejoicing in joy." Kagome walked to the box and grabbed the mistletoe. "Yay! This is the last thing. I'm going to bed after this."
"Wait, chooooootto. Don't you remember saying that you'd watch Christmas movies with me?"
"Did I?"
"You did."
-Flashback-
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-End of flashback.
"You liar! I don't remember ever saying that! You never asked!" She said while grabbing the ladder.
"Well, I meant to, I just kept forgetting."
Kagome hung the mistletoe on the ceiling. "How are you going to say you asked when you clearly didn't?"
Inuyasha walked over to her. "Well, I'm asking you now, do you wanna'? I rented a bunch of Christmas movies. I even got your favorite, The Nightmare Before Christmas."
"I'll think about it." She stepped down from the ladder and moved it to the side. "Alright, that should be it. We can decorate the house in Christmas lights tomorrow."
Inuyasha looked at the mistletoe. "Wanna' see if the mistletoe works?" He pointed at it.
Kagome looked at it. "Uh..." Inuyasha started leaning in close. "I'm going to go...take a shower now." She rushed to her room, grabbed her clothes, and then ran to the bathroom all in one second.
Inuyasha stared at the bathroom door. "That's the fifth time she denied a kiss from me, am I ugly?...Nah." With that thought left alone, he went to the kitchen to get a drink.
Kagome sighed when she was in the bathroom.
"That's the fifth time he asked for a kiss and I said no, I feel soooo bad." She looked at her appearance in the mirror. "I look even worse though."
The reason why Kagome has been denying Inuyasha a kiss for the past week was because she had felt herself getting sick. It started with a small sneeze, and then escalated to a tickle in her throat, then a cough and a runny nose, and then just a full fledged fever.
She thanked Kami Inuyasha hadn't noticed she was sick yet. Make up worked wonders on the skin. If Kagome had slept in like she planned on, Inuyasha wouldn't have completed anything and they would've been rushing the next day to do everything.
His attention span plus the small fact that he wasn't even sure what to cook for Christmas dinner weighed in. He wouldn't have even had a list made if it weren't for her.
She turned on the water and waited for it to get warm before getting in. After taking a shower she changed into warm pajamas,and tied her hair in a bun. She looked in the cabinet and grabbed a bottle of Benadryl. If she wanted to be better before Christmas, sleep wouldn't cut it. She drank a good amount of Benadryl before walking out.
'This is going to be a goood sleep.' She could already feel herself getting tired.
Right when she was about to walk into her room Inuyasha stopped her by putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Mmmmmooooooovvvviiieeessss." He droned.
Kagome had completely forgotten he had even wanted to watch movies. "How about we go to sleep, wake up early, and then watch them in the morning?"
"Nooooo, it's not the same as watching them at night. It doesn't have the same effect."
'Oh my god...I just drowned myself in Benadryl and now he wants me to stay up? Fat chance of that.' Kagome looked at Inuyasha. "How many movies did you rent?"
"Just 8."
'Just?' She thought. "Okay...How many do you plan on watching?"
"8."
"Tonight?"
"Yes."
Kagome looked at him as if he he were crazy. If they watched ALL 8 movies, they'd be up through the whole night. There was no way in hell that was happening.
"How about this? I will watch one movie with you tonight and then we can watch alllll of the movies we want with the gang tomorrow when they come over?"
"...No..."
"Excuse me?" Kagome asked.
"At least watch 4 with me."
If only he knew just how crappy she felt. Her head had been pounding since morning. She felt cold when she didn't have something wrapped around to keep her warm, but when she had something on her it was too hot. It hurt to swallow, it even hurt a little to talk, and she was beyond tired.
She was sure if he knew, he'd send her to bed, but she didn't want to ruin his Christmas spirit. He had been so happy through the whole day. Nothing but smiles, smiles, and more smiles. Who was she to ruin his fun?
"I will watch two with you, we can watch some with the gang, and then when they leave we can watch more. Deal? That's my final offer."
Inuyasha thought about it. "Deal."
"Good."
"We can watch it after I take a shower."
Kagome sighed. If he was taking a shower, that'd mean she'd have to stay up longer and wait.
"Okay."
She walked to her room, grabbed a blanket and sat down on the couch in the living room. She stared blankly at the television screen before grunting.
'I want to sleep!'
Sleep had never appealed more to her than now. She knew that if she were to fall asleep now it'd be a waste because Inuyasha would come out of the shower in a couple of minutes. She turned her head to look at the Christmas tree.
'Christmas...and then New Years...A new year?'
Kagome couldn't believe all of the drama that had happened over the past year. Her brother showing up, Kenrou's death, Kikyou's arrival and departure, her friends finding out about her secret, moving into an apartment with her best friend, dating said best friend...A lot of things.
Kagome felt her head begin to slowly drift forward before she jerked it back up. She was tired. She looked at the bathroom door from her position on the couch.
'Why did I have to get sick the night before Christmas?' She thought while rubbing her stomach. Now her stomach was beginning to hurt; she had tried her best to eat what she could during the day, but she didn't have an appetite for anything.
She decided after a while of rubbing her stomach that even a few seconds of sleep would be good at the moment, so she closed her eyes and waited for sleep to take her.
Right when she was on the brink between the dream world and reality she felt a plump on the couch.
"Don't fall asleep now, the movie hasn't even started!" He turned on the TV.
Kagome sat up and looked at him. She couldn't help, but smile. Inuyasha took the saying, like a kid waiting for Christmas, to a whole new meaning. His cute dog ears twitched back and forth in excitement, his amber eyes shined with Christmas spirit and joy, and Kagome adored the smile that was on his face.
"Ne, Inuyasha, why are you so happy? I don't remember you ever getting this excited for Christmas...ever." Kagome couldn't keep herself from asking.
"Well, this is the first year that I'm spending Christmas with you as boyfriend and girlfriend, and I want it to be the best Christmas ever." He said with a blush. "...Plus I'm excited to give Kouga his gift."
Kagome smiled, that was such a sweet answer. "You have succeeded in making this the best Christmas so far. I'm really happy to spend it in your house with you."
Kagome wanted to hug and kiss him at the moment, but her damn cold prevented her from doing it.
Inuyasha's blush deepened. "Keh." He pressed the play button on the remote and watched as the menu screen went to the FBI warning screen. "Oh, did you want any popcorn or something?"
Kagome felt herself turn green at the idea of even looking at popcorn. "No thank you."
He sat Indian style and pulled the blanket over him. "Alright then."
Kagome switched her eyes from Inuyasha to the television screen. She had a feeling that she'd barely even make it through the first ten minutes of the movie.
"Twas a long time ago-" The TV blared.
'This is going to be a looooong night.' Kagome thought with a mental sigh.
"What a brilliant nose you have!" Jack said to the dog thing. Kagome slowly awoke from her sleep. "The better to light my way!"
She looked over at Inuyasha, he was so into the movie that he didn't even notice she had fallen asleep. Kagome sat up a little more in her current position. The last part she remembered from the movie was the first couple of words from This Is Halloween.
Inuyasha looked over at her and smiled before turning back to the TV. Kagome sighed, she wanted to get proper rest in her room, not on the couch even though it was comfy.
"Inuyasha, is it okay if I go to sleep now. I promise I'll get up with you early and finish the rest of the movies with you tomorrow."
He frowned for a second before smiling again. "Fine, but don't forget you said you'd watch it with me."
"Okay, thanks. It's only an hour or so before Christmas day so I'll just say Merry Christmas now. Merii Kurisumasu." She said with a warm smile.
"Merry Christmas." He replied.
Kagome walked to her room and then closed the door behind her. She sighed in comfort when she had her head on her pillow and was safely tucked under her sheets. Nothing felt better than laying on her bed right.
Even though she was comfortable something was bothering her now. '...Since when did Inuyasha become so understanding?...I clearly remember him acting like a brat about the movies earlier ago...Eh, it must just be the Christmas spirit making him be all understanding.'
Leaving that thought alone, she slowly fell asleep.
12 AM
Kagome slowly stirred awake. "The hell?" She sat up in her bed with a grunt. Her head was still killing her.
She looked to the right of her. What had woken her up was a movement from the right side of her bed. She leaned over her night stand and turned on the lamp. She nearly screamed when she saw Inuyasha next to her.
"What the hell are you doing?" She asked. If he gave her the wrong answer she had her hand in a position ready to slap him.
He smiled. "Remember how I asked you what you wanted for Christmas?" Kagome nodded her head. "You said you wanted to spend the whole day with me. The day just started about 2 minutes ago."
Kagome cocked an eye brow up. "So this is basically an attempt at you trying to be romantic?...Ne?"
"You could say that, now turn off the lights so we can go to sleep."
Kagome rolled her eyes. "Just don't try anything with me."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes in return. "I don't plan on it." He leaned closer. "Your face looks flustered...or are you blushing or something?"
Kagome turned away from him. "It's just that I'm thirsty." She threw the covers off of her and stood up. "I'm going to get something to drink.
As she walked to the kitchen, she beat herself up mentally.
"I can't believe Inuyasha almost found out that I'm sick. I've got to be careful." She whispered to herself.
She sighed as she looked for what to drink in the fridge. Kagome was feeling a bit worse now. If her head didn't hurt like hell before, it did now. Her stomach still hurt, and she felt hotter than she did before she went to bed. At this rate, she didn't think she'd be better in a couple of hours.
Kagome grabbed the orange juice from the fridge and then went to grab a glass out of the cupboard. She stood on her tip toes and grabbed a cup that was closest to her hand and then slowly took it out and headed towards the counter where she had set the juice down. As she was walking to the counter, she began to feel unsteady and lightheaded all in one second. Before she knew it, she was on the floor and glass was around her.
Inuyasha came into Kagome's vision a couple of seconds later. He ran towards her.
"Be careful there's glass on the floor." Kagome said shakily as she tried standing up, but ended up feeling dizzy when she did.
Before she could drop to the floor Inuyasha caught her and made her lean on him for support. It wasn't until then that he noticed that she was hot to the touch.
"Kagome, you're burning up!" He walked her over to the dining room, sat her in one of the chairs, and then got down to her level on his knees. He slipped his hand under her bangs and frowned even deeper. "You're really hot. Were you not feeling well today?" Kagome stayed silent. "Why didn't you tell me?"
Kagome turned away from him. "That's not an answer." He said while looking at the side of her head. He took her hands in his. "Why didn't you tell me that you weren't feeling well? I can't come up with a reason for you being so dumb and not telling me, now you're really sick."
"I didn't because you seemed so happy for the past week." Kagome said, still not looking at him. "You've been so happy and I didn't want to ruin your mood. I thought I'd be better by Christmas time."
Inuyasha pulled Kagome into a hug. "Keh, you should have just tried to focus on feeling better. Looks like we'll have to cancel the Christmas party. Come on, the faster you get to sleep the faster you can get better." He tightened his grip on her hand a little before standing up.
Kagome's eyes widened at that, she shook her head and held his hand in place in front of her. "Don't do that! I know that everybody's been looking forward to this!"
"Well, I'm not just going to have the party while you're sick! That would be like excluding you out of the group and I want to help you get better anyways."
"You can and you will do it! All I'm going to do is sleep today so it shouldn't be a problem. I'll help you cook a little and then I'll spend the rest of the day getting better. Please don't cancel the party." Kagome looked at Inuyasha with pleading eyes.
He sighed. "Fine." He looked at her hands. "Did you get hurt anywhere when you dropped the glass?" Kagome shook her head. "We'll throw the party, but you won't help with anything. You need to stay in bed and get better." Kagome was about to complain about not helping, but stopped when she saw that she was pushing her luck with him. "Alright, I'll clean up this mess, but first lets get you to bed." Inuyasha helped her up and walked her to her room.
When he was sure that she was in her room and comfortable he walked to the kitchen and began cleaning up.
'Damn it! How am I supposed to help you if you don't tell me anything?' He thought.
"Yea...Kagome's sick..." Inuyasha said into the phone.
It was one in the afternoon and Inuyasha was cluing Miroku in. Inuyasha was dressed in his ready to do work clothes since he knew he'd be doing a bit of work before the party.
"Is the Christmas party still going on?" Miroku asked.
Inuyasha peeked into Kagome's room and looked at her flustered face, it pained him to see her like that. He quietly closed the door. "Yea, just remember to show up at six with presents."
"Alright, do you need any help with anything?"
"Nah, I just gotta' make some food and put up some more decorations and I'm done."
"K', just call me if you need somethin'. I'll let everyone else know that she's sick."
"Thanks, I'll talk to you later."
"Eh, maybe." And with that, Miroku hung up.
Inuyasha sighed, he could really use the help with cooking. He looked at Kagome's closed door and shook his head.
He wished his girlfriend could confide in him more. It made him feel useless if she was going through things alone right in front of him and he couldn't help.
He walked into the kitchen and went to the pantry. The least he could do was make her some breakfast. He pulled out a can of chicken soup and started preparing it. It wasn't long before the soup was warmed and put in a bowl.
He walked to Kagome's door and slowly opened it. She was sleeping non to peacefully from the looks of it. He set the soup on her night stand and sat next to her sleeping body on the bed. He slipped his hand under her bangs and frowned, if it was possible, she was even hotter than he remembered.
He walked to the bathroom and grabbed a thermometer. When he walked back to her room, he sat the thermometer down and slowly stirred Kagome awake.
"Kagome, wake up." Kagome slowly blinked before sitting up. She looked at him before moving to get out of the bed. Inuyasha held her in place. "Where are you going?"
"Bathroom." She said weakly before getting up.
Inuyasha watched her walk out of the room. He could hear her brushing her teeth from his position on her bed. When she came back, Inuyasha helped her get into bed and made sure she was comfortable.
"Here." He handed her the thermometer. "Take your temperature." Kagome stuck the thermometer in her mouth and closed her eyes. She hated being sick more than anything. When the thermometer beeped Inuyasha took it from her mouth and looked at it. "...103."
"It's okay, I just need rest." Kagome said while smiling.
"It's not okay! Damn, why do you always keep stuff to yourself? !"
Kagome looked at him softly. "Inuyasha, it's okay and I'm sorry. It's just that you looked really happy and I didn't want to ruin all of the fun you were having...I guess I did the opposite. I'm sorry."
Inuyasha sighed. "Sorry, I didn't mean to yell, just...get some rest. Are you hungry, I made soup?" She shook her head. "Are you going to try to eat something today?" She nodded her head. "Okay, just call if you need anything, I'll put this in the fridge."
He stood up and grabbed the soup. "Wait, under the bed." Her sentence died out as she talked. Inuyasha could tell how much it strained her to talk so he just sat the soup down and looked under the bed. He stuck his hand underneath and pulled out a present. "7."
He thought she meant that there were 7 presents so he kept digging his hand under the bed until he pulled out 7 presents. "When did you get all of these?" He had been around Kagome basically 24/7 so he didn't see how she could get all of the presents she had without him noticing.
"I went...out..alone." She said before closing her eyes.
She knew how he felt about her going out alone. He wanted to yell at her about it, but he could tell she was on the brink of falling asleep so he just took the presents and the soup and left. He placed the presents under the tree and put the soup in the fridge before looking at the list.
"So...food...lights...table. Lights is easiest." Inuyasha went to the box next to the Christmas tree and started hanging the lights around the house. After ten minutes of doing that he plugged in the plug to the circuit and watched as the lights came on. "One down, a couple of more things to go."
He went into his room and into his closet. "Where is the damn thing?"
He searched around before pulling out a folding table. He picked it up and put it in the dining room area. After moving his old table out of the way, he set up the fold able table and smiled at his work.
'This was easier than I thought.'
He put the small dining room table in his room and then went back in the kitchen.
"Now, cooking."
Christmas Cooking List
MAKE
-Christmas Tree pizza
-Regular Salad
-Christmas Sherbert drink
-bruschetta
-Sour cream dip
-Mini Sandwiches
BUY
-Buy Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
-Cup cakes
-Buy crackers for dip
-Chips
-KFC Fried Chicken
-Christmas Cake
"Keh, that's not too hard...What the hell is a bruschetta though...and sherbet drink?..." Inuyasha looked at Kagome's door. He contemplated waking her up for a second before quickly throwing that idea out the door. She needed her rest and he wasn't gong to keep her from getting it. "Here's where google comes in."
He went to his room and put his lap top on top of the bed. He typed in bruschetta and looked at the results. "Easy, and the sherbert drink...It's just melted sherbert ice cream. This is realllly easy." He took the lap top off of his lap and put it to the side before looking at the clock. "1:47. That's enough time to get in a nap."
He got into a comfortable position and closed his eyes. It wasn't long before he was out.
When Inuyasha stirred awake he checked his phone. "Mother of fucking pearl."
It was already 4:58. He quickly dialed Miroku's number.
"Hey, -" Miroku started.
"Shut up, I need your help."
Miroku smiled on the other end. "I knew you would, what's up?"
"Uh...I need you to pick up some KFC fried chicken and...if possible a Christmas Cake..Japanese style, and uh...That's it. I have to get the rest myself."
"Okay, no problem."
Inuyasha hung up on him and then grabbed his keys. He slipped on his shoes and then walked to Kagome's room. He was surprised to see her sitting up and staring blankly at the sheets in front of her.
"Kagome?" He asked, she hadn't acknowledged him yet. "Kagome?" He called her name a couple of more times before he decided to walk up to her. He placed a hand on her hand. It wasn't until then that she noticed him.
"Oh, hey."
"Are you okay, you kind of zoned out."
Kagome nodded her head. "Sorry, I'm fine though, I was just thinking."
"Anything you want to talk about?"
"Nah, I was just thinking about something I dreamed about."
"Okay, do you feel any better?"
"Yea, it's not a strain to talk anymore and I don't feel as hot. I think I'm pretty much all better." She said with a smile.
Inuyasha shook his head. He slipped his hand under her bangs. "You're still hot, just stay in bed and get some sleep. I'm going to run to the store."
"Why?"
"No reason."
Kagome looked at her clock and then at him "You didn't start cooking yet, did you?" Inuyasha's silence was taken as a no. "Inuyasha, you're going to need help making all of those foods if you want to be done before 6."
"Kagome, no; I got this."
Kagome simply rolled her eyes. "No, you don't." The look in her eyes let him know that she would definitely be getting up and helping.
"Kagome, promise me you'll stay in bed." Kagome didn't answer. "Kagome, I'm serious."
"Why should I make a promise I know I'm not going to keep?"
Inuyasha sighed. "Kagome, how do you expect to get better if you don't rest? Plus you'll probably get everyone else sick if you try to help with the food."
"I told you I'm feeling better now, and I'll wear a mask and wash my hands a bunch of times."
"You're so stubborn, just rest...please." Kagome seemed to like when he added in the p word, he'd say it a billion times if it meant she'd just stay in bed.
"No." Was her simple reply. "You're wasting time, you could've been to the store and back already."
Inuyasha grunted. "I'm not leaving until I know you'll stay in bed.
"Well, then I guess you're not leaving." Kagome got out of bed and walked out of the room.
Inuyasha followed behind her. "Where are you going?"
"To the shower or are you going to make me promise to actually be in the shower?"
She closed the door behind her and turned on the water. Inuyasha decided that if he hurried he could be back before she got out of the shower. He ran out of the house and to the store as quickly as he could. He hoped he'd be back before she got out.
Inuyasha sighed as he walked into the house.
"You have got to be fucking kidding me."
Inuyasha probably took the longest he'd ever taken at the store. Considering he only normally went to the store for eggs, water, ramen, chips, and bread; he didn't know where some of the stuff on the list was. There were only a couple of things he couldn't find, and that's what took the longest. He didn't bother asking a worker or someone around him because of his pride, so he ended up walking around looking for things on the list for a looong time. When he finally found everything he got in line behind a lady that decided to pay in what felt like nickels and pennies.
The lady practically scanned her purse for pennies instead of using dollar bills. Inuyasha wanted to kill her, he had never seen anything like that. Who looks for pennies and nickels when they have perfectly crisp dollar bills they could be using?
He closed the door behind him and stopped in his tracks when he reached the living room. He took in a big whiff before going into the kitchen. Sure enough, there was everything on the list of things that they had too make layed out before him.
He dropped the grocery bags in the kitchen before going into Kagome room. There she was sleeping like a baby. Inuyasha wanted to wake her up so badly, but didn't have the heart to. He just closed the door and then walked back into the kitchen to finish things up.
By the time 6 rolled around people had started coming into the apartment. Inuyasha left the door open until everyone was finally in the house. When he looked at the Christmas tree, he noticed all of the presents under it. Since there were 8 people and all of them had bought presents for each other, the tree was over loaded with presents.
"Merry Christmas!" Ayame yelled.
"Shhhh, Kagome could still be sleeping." Inuyasha replied.
"Oh yea." She frowned. "It won't feel like Christmas without her with us, I was really looking forward to spending it with her this year."
"She's not dead, she's just in the other room." Sango said while looking at the door. "Let's go bother her."
"Yea."
Inuyasha shook his head. "No, let's not. Let her sleep." Sango and Ayame ignored him and walked up to her door. Rin got up and followed them. "Rin!"
She shrugged her shoulders. "If you can't beat them, join them; and you obviously can't beat them."
The girls walked in and closed the door behind them. Inuyasha sighed, those girls would be the death of him. He walked into the kitchen and set out some plates. Miroku followed behind him.
"Guess what?" Miroku asked Inuyasha with a huge smile.
"What? Let me guess, you're hungry and you want to eat?"
"No...but how'd you know? What I was going to say is that I asked Sango out."
"Congrats, welcome to the club now." Inuyasha said with a nod of his head.
"I never said she said yes."
"Would you honestly be smiling that much if she said no?"
"No."
"Exactly then."
"How's it going with Kagome?"
"Eh, it's alright I guess, she doesn't tell me anything. I had to find out for myself that she was sick. She said she didn't want to ruin my mood, but still."
"She was just trying to be thoughtful, can't blame her." He heard the girls giggling softly in the room. "When you're in a good mood, I can't say I would want to be the person to ruin it either. When you're happy you have this kind of smile, it's creepy, but it's like a smile you kind of want to come back. It's almost like a deceiving smile now that I think about it, I'd rather not see that smile. Anyways, my point is she just likes when you're happy and she'd do anything to keep you happy."
"So now my smiles ugly? Thanks, and Kagome knows I'd be happier if she'd confide in me."
"No, you're smile is beautiful, dazzling almost...It's hard to explain, just know sometimes when your happy your smile creeps me out. Let's just stop this conversation, I'm not trying to make this a homo convo."
"That works for me."
"Hey ! Can we choose who Santa will be this year?" Kouga called from the living room.
"Fine." Inuyasha and Miroku walked into the living room and sat on the couch.
"Okay, so who shall be Santa this year?" Kouga asked with a smirk.
"It can't be me, I went last year." Sesshomaru said. 'Worst Christmas ever.'
"Now it's down to the last 3. How shall we settle this?"
"Last year we played that game with the long stick and short stick, I say we do Jan-ken-po. Whoever wins doesn't have to be Santa." Miroku suggested.
"Agreed." Inuyasha said while holding out his hand.
"Jan-ken-Po!" The boys hollered as they held out their attacks.
Miroku frowned. "I actually wanted be Santa this year, why did I have to win?"
"Take my place!" Inuyasha said. He had never been Santa and he didn't want to...ever.
"This means war. I'm going to win." Kouga also hated the idea of being Santa.
"We'll see...Jan-Ken-Po!" Inuyasha tried to catch him off guard.
They both looked at their hands shaped as rocks.
Kouga gave a chuckle. "Tried to be a little sneaky, too bad it didn't-Jan-Ken-Po!"
They looked at their scissor shaped hands. Both were formidable opponents. They went back and forth for a while before someone lost.
Kouga looked at his hand. "Oh my god, I-I-I won! I won! ! ! ! I knew you'd lose."
"Shut the hell up."
Kouga shook his head. "Now is that something Santa would say? Ill go get the outfit out of my car." Kouga happily left the house and went to his car.
"I hate Christmas." Inuyasha said while leaning back on the couch.
"Now you know how I felt last year." Sesshomaru said with a nod of his head.
"What's so bad about being Santa? You get pretty ladies on your lap telling you what they want for Christmas."
"The fact that all of you guys will be sitting on my lap doesn't sit well with me. I'm not looking forward to this."
"At least you got one special lady to look forward to."
Inuyasha sighed; now that he thought about it, was what they talked about earlier technically an argument? It could be one...or could it not? He was sooo confused.
Kouga walked in and handed Inuyasha the costume. "Go get changed Santa."
Inuyasha looked at the costume before going to his room, there was no way in hell he would be wearing that without making some modifications to it.
When he walked out he was clad in a white collared shirt under the huge santa shirt. He tied a belt around the center and wore his red skinny jeans. He put on the Santa hat and walked out. That would be the closest he was getting to Santa.
"You're not Santa." Kouga said dejectedly.
"And you're not the tooth fairy, thanks for pointing out the obvious."
"You at least need the beard." He replied.
Inuyasha walked back into his room and looked through his drawer. He smiled when he found what he was looking for.
Mustache.
He took the back part off of his mustache and pasted the sticky part of the mustache above his lip. He knew those machines in front of Krogers would give him something useful one day.
He walked out and smiled.
"You look more like Mario."
"Keh." Inuyasha sat on the couch.
"I'll get the girls." Sesshomaru said while standing up.
"This is going to be awesome! I can't wait to record this years, I call first on Santa's lap!" Miroku said with a huge smile.
"You're having way to much fun with this."
"I'm not supposed to?"
Miroku whistled when he saw Sango. She always looked gorgeous, especially in the silver dress she was wearing.
All of the girls filed out. Inuyasha's eyes couldn't leave Kagome when he saw her. Kagome's couldn't leave him either. She bust out laughing when she saw him. He blushed and looked away from her. She walked up to him.
"You look cute, Santa."
"And you look mighty fine yourself. You should be in bed though, you don't look well."
Kagome was dressed in a red off the shoulder shirt that was tucked into a black mini skirt and had black knee highs that has red bows on the side of them. Her hair was down and straight and she only had on mascara.
"I know, I know. I'm going to sleep in a while. I still would've been sleeping if some people hadn't decided to try straightening my hair while I was doing that." She looked at Ayame, Rin, and Sango.
"Sorry." They said.
"So...Why are you dressed as Santa?"
Inuyasha had completely forgotten that Kagome hadn't spent a Christmas with them yet.
Before he could answer Ayame answered for him. "He's dressed like Santa because all of us are going to sit on his lap and tell him what we want for Christmas."
"Sounds cool." Kagome said with a sneeze.
"See, you should be in bed."
"I'm okay."
"Awwww, that is sooo cute. He's worried about her." Ayame cooed. "Why can't you be like that Kouga?"
Kouga glared at Inuyasha. "Why are you glaring at me, she said it."
"Okay, let's get this Santa thing on with." He held up the video camera. "Who wants to sit on Santa's lap first?"
"Me!" Miroku raised his hand. Kouga hit the record button on the video camera.
Inuyasha grunted, he hated being Santa. Sesshomaru pulled a chair over for Inuyasha to sit in. Inuyasha sat down and waited for Miroku to sit on his lap.
"I love you Santa."
"Just sit your ass down."
Miroku sat on Inuyasha's lap with a grin. "Ask what I want for Christmas."
"If you don't tell me what you want for Christmas I'll hurt you."
"Thanks for asking." Everybody laughed. "I want...money for Christmas...No, I want Sango for Christmas." Kouga turned the camera to a now blushing Sango.
"Miroku, say something realistic." Sango replied.
"Ohhhhhh." Everyone went.
"Cough, cough, burn, cough." Kouga coughed.
"That hurt Sango." Miroku turned to Inuyasha. "I want something to repair my broken heart."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Yea, okay, get a band-aid; bye now. Who's next?" He said while kicking Miroku off of his lap.
"Me." Rin volunteered.
She happily sat on Inuyasha lap. She looked up at him with her big brown eyes, waiting for him to ask a certain question.
Inuyasha sighed. "What do you want for Christmas, little girl?" Rin was just too cute for him.
She squealed in delight. "I want for Sesshomaru to show me more smiles." She looked at Sesshomaru, he simply blinked at her. She sighed and got off of Inuyasha's lap. Maybe that was too big of a present to ask for?
"I'm next!" Ayame sat on his lap. "Ask me what I want for Christmas, old man."
Inuyasha scoffed. "There's no reason to ask, girls like you only get coal."
Ayame, lifted her hand, grabbed his cheek, pinched it, and then starting twisting. "Wanna' say that again?"
"That's my girl!" Kouga cheered from behind.
"What would you like for Christmas?" Inuyasha quickly asked.
Ayame let go of his cheek and smiled. "I want money."
Inuyasha rubbed his now sore cheek, this girl would get nothing but coal if he had anything to say about it. "Okay, get off."
"Sesshomaru, why don't you go next?" Kagome asked while looking at him.
He gave her a raised eye brow before walking up to Inuyasha.
Inuyasha stared at him before he decided he couldn't take it anymore. "You gonna' sit down anytime soon?"
"Sit, sit!" Rin said from her place next to Kagome.
Sesshomaru heaved a heavy sigh before sitting on his lap.
Inuyasha chuckled. "What do you want for Christmas young man?"
"I want to make more income in the future and have more business opportunities."
Sango shook her head. "You ask for the same thing every year."
"Because I always want the same thing every year." He got off of Inuyasha's lap and walked away from him.
"Someone take the camera, I want my turn." Kouga said while holding it out.
"I got it." Miroku said while taking the video camera.
Kouga plopped down on Inuyasha's lap. Inuyasha grunted. "What do you want for Christmas, young man?"
"I want the madgab game."
"The what?" Inuyasha asked.
"None of your business."
"Okay, you told me what you want now get off."
"And if I say no?"
"You won't get what you want for Christmas."
"Touche." Kouga said while getting up.
"What?"
"My turn, let's save the best for last." Sango said while looking at Kagome, Kagome blushed in response.
Sango sat on his lap. "What do you want for Christmas?"
"I want clothes, shoes, a new blanket, and a guitar. What about you?"
"See, someone here is nice, they actually think about what I want for Christmas."
"No one asked because no one cares." Sesshomaru responded.
"And that's why your business won't prosper next year. Anyways, what I want for Christmas is some new games for my system and lots of ramen."
Sango got off of his lap. "Let's hope you get that then, Kagome you're up." She grabbed Kagome's hand and sat her down on Inuyasha's lap.
"What do you want for Christmas, little miss?"
"Uhh...I'm not sure...I guess I could use a cell phone or maybe some glasses. No, I actually want for everyone to be happy next year...and then a new pair of glasses."
Everyone awwed. "That's sweet, let's hope you get what you want for Christmas."
Kagome smiled and got up. "Yea, well I'm going to take me a good ole' nap, wake me up when you guys open presents."
Inuyasha grabbed onto her hand. "We're about to eat, do you think you can eat anything?"
Kagome shook her head. "I'm afraid not. Right now I still don't feel well enough to eat, I'll try to eat later on."
"Okay." He watched her walk to her room and close the door.
It sucked that she was sick on Christmas day.
"Ugh, I wish Kagome wasn't sick, I really wanted to goof off with her." Ayame complained.
"On a happier note...Let's eat." Kouga said before walking to the food. It'd be an understatement to say he, as well as everyone else, was just a little hungry. They all grabbed a plate, sat down, and began digging into their food.
After eating was done, it was time to open presents. Inuyasha quietly opened the door to Kagome's room and closed it behind him. He had changed out of his Santa outfit and into a pair of jeans and a red polo. She was in a deep sleep from the look of it. He sat on the bed next to her and waited.
He didn't want to wake her up when she was sleeping so peacefully, but he knew he'd feel her wrath when she got better if he didn't wake her up to open presents. He lightly took one of her shoulders and shook it. She slowly stirred awake and sat up.
She yawned. "Presents?" Inuyasha nodded his head. "Let's go then."
She motioned to get out of bed, but Inuyasha grabbed her hand. "Why don't you trust me?"
"Inuyasha, I do." Kagome swung her legs out of the covers and over the side of the bed.
"Then why don't you tell me anything? It makes me feel like crap when my girlfriend can't even confide in me."
"I do, it's just that I really didn't want to ruin your mood."
"No, you always keep stuff to yourself, it's not just today. Like when you were having problems with Kenrou before he passed away, and I even had to find out from Kikyou what your father used to do to you."
"What was I going to do, ask you to help me take care of a guy you don't even know? And I already told you, I wouldn't have known how to tell you, it's not something you want to tell people."
"Still, I could've done something. I get that, I'm just saying you could trust me a little more, when have I not pulled through for you?"
Kagome thought about it. "You always do, I can't think of a time at the moment."
Inuyasha took her right hand in his left one. "Exactly, why can't you see that? Something as small as getting sick is something you should easily be able to tell me."
Kagome nodded her head. "Yea, you're right; I'll try to tell you more things."
"Good." Inuyasha turned Kagome's body so that she was facing him fully. He put his head against hers and sighed. "You're still hot."
Kagome could barely contain her blush. "Uh-huh."
Inuyasha tilted his head up and kissed her nose. "After the presents go to sleep."
"No complaints with that."
Kagome and Inuyasha walked out of the room hand in hand and sat on the couch. Everyone sat in a circle and separated their gifts.
"Ladies first." Miroku said as he handed the last gift to Rin.
"Wanna' go first?" Ayame asked Kagome.
Kagome shook her head. "Why don't all of us girls open them at the same time?"
"Good idea."
The girls began opening their presents. They each shared laughs and smiles as they saw what they had gotten.
"Rin, what the hell am I supposed to do with this?" Sango asked as she held up her invisible playing cards.
"Open the pack." Rin said with a smile.
Sango opened the pack. "Ohhhhhh, cool, thanks for the gift." Sango said as she examined the cards fully.
Kagome blushed as she looked at what was in front of her, Ayame laughed. "Why would you get this for me?"
"Because I thought you would need it." Ayame answered as she ate some of the candy she got.
"Love dice, really? I'll never use them."
"If you don't want to use them, I'll take it." Miroku said.
Sango gave Kagome a serious look. "Don't give those to him."
"I'll think about it." Kagome started unwrapping Inuyasha's present, when she opened the box she smiled. "Awwww, Thanks Yasha'." Kagome said as she hugged the huge teddy bear he had gotten her.
"Dig farther down in the box."
Kagome stuck her hand farther in the box and felt around until her hand touched something soft. She pulled it out and began laughing. "Wow, wonder woman boxers? I love it."
"And I have Superman boxers, so we can match."
"Amazing idea, okay, now it's the guys turn."
The girls moved their presents out of the way and let the boys open their presents. The boys began ripping the paper off like animals, all aside from Sesshomaru.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Kouga let out a laugh as he held up Sango's gift. "Too funny Sango!"
Sango laughed as well. "Well you said you wanted it so I got it for you."
Kouga held beer gut footie pajamas in his hand. The outline was of a grease stained tank top and a pair of sweats. There was a compartment in the center stuffed with a pillow to look like a beer gut. All Kouga said he wanted was a pair of footie pajamas, Sango went all out.
Sesshomaru sighed as he glared at Ayame.
Ayame smiled, "It's perfect for you."
"I don't like this gift." He said as he set it out the floor.
Ayame had given Sesshomaru a stripper bobble head, it came with a pole and everything. "Press the red button."
"No."
"Press the red button." When she saw that Sesshomaru wasn't going to press it, she pressed it for him. Naughty Girl by Beyonce had started playing. The stripper grabbed the pole and began twirling around it. "Pretty cool right?"
"No." Sesshomaru said as he opened more gifts.
"Aww, thanks Yash', it's just what I wanted. An Intercourse Cook book, now I have some ideas for my lady." Miroku said as he gave Inuyasha a hug.
Sango glared at him. "Why?"
"I thought he'd want it." He said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Why does it seem like most of the gifts for the guys are perverted?" Kagome asked with a laugh.
"Because their boys." Rin said as she pushed some of the gifts out of the way.
Inuyasha began opening his gift from Kagome. When he opened the box he nearly dropped dead. "This, this is." He could barely contain how happy he was. He pulled Kagome into a hug and kissed her on the cheek.
Kagome giggled. "I take it you like the gift."
All Inuyasha could do was nod his head as he stared at the card and badge in front of him.
"Whatch'd you get him?" Ayame asked as she pulled the card out of his hand. "Ohh la la, a year long pass to Ra-Ra-Ra-Ramune Emporium. Ohh, you are one lucky guy, Yash." Ayame stood up and examined it.
"I know, give it back." Inuyasha said as he set his ramen shaped badge in it's box.
"What if I cut up the card?" Ayame asked as she bent it.
Inuyasha jumped up. "Don't."
"Calm down, I didn't plan on doing it."
"Okay, give it back." Inuyasha said as he reached for it.
Ayame held it out of his reach. "Say please."
"I shouldn't have to say please to ask for my things back."
"Say it and you'll get it back."
"Ayame, just give it back before he starts crying, someones gonna' get hurt." Rin said with a shake of her head.
"I'm not gonna cry!" Inuyasha said as he reached for it.
Ayame backed up into the Christmas tree. The ramen ornament leaned to the side slightly before falling off the top off the tree slowly.
Inuyasha was frozen to the spot as he watched his favorite ornament fall to the floor. It all unfolded in front of him in slow motion. He reached out to grab it but knew he wouldn't reach it in time.
"NOOOOOOO!" Inuyasha screamed as he watched it hit the floor slowly and break into a million smaller pieces. He dropped to his knees.
Ayame slid the gift card to him on the floor. "...Here's your card." She hid behind Kouga after that, she wasn't too sure what Inuyasha would do.
Kagome, Kouga, Rin, Sango, and Sesshomaru looked at each other before bursting out laughing. (Yes, even Sesshomaru). It was like a movie had played right in front of them.
"I'll buy you a new one, babe." Kagome said as she went to the kitchen to get a broom.
Inuyasha didn't say anything as he looked at the scattered pieces of glass. Ayame was really starting to feel bad about what she had done.
"I'm sorry..." Ayame said as she picked up one of the glass pieces. "It was an accident."
For a second, just for one second, Inuyasha imagined himself stabbing her to death with one of the bigger shards of glass. It would be an understatement to say he was just pissed off.
He snapped out of his thoughts when he noticed Kagome sweeping up the shards in front of him.
He lightly put his hand over hers. "I'll take care of it, I don't want you to cut yourself."
"No, it's okay, I got it." She continued on sweeping up the mess.
Inuyasha went to the kitchen and grabbed a trash bag before walking back and helping clean up the mess. Once the mess was completely cleaned up, he turned to Ayame. She really did look like she regretted what she did, and it was on an accident.
"It's okay Ayame." He could see her sigh in relief when he said that. He smiled. "...I can't wait to give you your Christmas present next year though, it'll be the worst present ever."
Ayame frowned. "Don't be like that."
"Like what?"
"You know."
"Let's sing! I'll bring out the karaoke machine." Inuyasha said, changing the subject.
"This conversation isn't over." Ayame said as she sat on the couch.
Kagome smiled. "I'm going to head to bed now."
"Alright." Inuyasha pecked her on the cheek.
"Since you probably won't be up when we leave, I'll say my good bye now." Rin said as she hugged Kagome.
Kagome hugged everyone and said her good byes before going into her room, changing into a pair of running shorts and a t-shirt, and going to bed.
Kagome woke up and looked at the clock next to her bed.
"One in the morning." She said aloud as she stretched.
She saw the light on outside in the living room so she decided to get up. It was too quite for there to be anyone in the house, so she assumed that it was just Inuyasha cleaning up. When she opened the door, she wasn't surprised to see Inuyasha moving the living room table back to it's spot.
"Need help with anything?" Kagome asked as she tossed a plastic fork into the trash can.
"Nah, you can go back to bed, I'm almost done."
"I'll help you with the rest. I had a lot of fun today." She said as she put some left overs into the fridge.
"Really? I'm glad. There are plenty of more Christmas's to come."
"Yea, can't wait for the next one. This was the best Christmas ever." She closed the fridge.
"Eh, it was better than last year. A certain special guest came this year and made everything awesome."
"Hmmm...I wonder who that could be."
"I'll give you a hint. She's pretty, and cute, and hasn't given me a kiss in what feels like years."
Kagome laughed. "Your mother? Who knew you could be so needy."
Inuyasha took down the missile toe. ""I would rather get a kiss from another raven haired beauty." He held the missile toe above his head.
Kagome walked up to him. "Hmmmm, will this raven haired girl do?"
"I guess I could change my standards for you." Inuyasha said as he wrapped an arm around Kagome's waist and pulled her closer.
"You'd get sick most likely."
"It's a risk I'm willing to take."
Inuyasha pressed his lips to hers. Kagome kissed him back and slightly smiled underneath the kiss. When they pulled back for air Inuyasha smiled at her.
"If you get sick, don't blame me." Kagome said before walking to her room. She couldn't keep her smile off of her face.
Authors notes:
Christmas at the end of April, how wonderful ^-^
Yup here's the chapter. I hope you enjoyed :D Please review.
Chapter's Remaining: 7 ;)
Summer approaches and i'll be able to update more :)))). This story should be done before the beginning of August. I plan to try to throw out a chapter at least 2 times a month once I'm out of school.
Reviews:
angelstar : I'm really happy that you wrote the view, and i'm glad to let you know that all of those questions will be answered ^-^. I was freaking out when I finished planning out the rest of the chapters, I was like 'Did I answer all of the questions that people could have! ? What if I didn't! ? ! Oh my goodness!...I hope I did.' But yup, all of your questions are answered :D
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