Knock-knock-knock.
'Souta? Are you in there?'
There was a series of thumps, before the door opened, to reveal one third-grader in his pyjamas.
'Oh, heya Onee-chan, InuYasha. What's up?' Souta said through a mouthful of something, as he eyed up the two standing outside his door, his eyebrows raising only a fraction as he noticed they were holding hands.
InuYasha, was looking slightly confused, and very suspicious, Souta knew perfectly well the hanyou would have had his arms crossed had they not been otherwise occupied.
'Could we borrow your globe?' Kagome asked.
'My globe? Sure!' He said, turning back into his room, leaving the door open, where he went over to his desk and climbed on top of it, retrieving a multi-coloured globe from the top of his bookshelf, then leapt down. 'Here you go.'
'Thanks.' Kagome said, taking it in one hand and started pulling InuYasha down the hall with the other. 'Come on, InuYasha!' She said a little excitedly, leaving Souta looking confused at his doorway.
'Okay,' Kagome said as she strode into her room, and sat the globe down on her desk, span it once to have Asia facing her, and stuck her finger to Tokyo. 'Here's where we are now.'
'What is that?' InuYasha frowned at the spherical object.
'This, InuYasha,' Kagome said in her most mystical voice, wiggling her fingers, 'Is a map.'
'But it doesn't look like anywhere I've seen.' InuYasha said, examining it closely.
'That's because it's got a lot on it. See? Here's Japan, where we are now.' She brought to his attention. 'And over here's the continent.'
'The distance is bigger than that.' He said stubbornly.
'Well the people who made this had to make it that small, because if you look in this direction,' she span the globe slightly, 'here's America.'
'There's nothing beyond that sea.' He said. 'It just goes on and on, like the continent.'
'Do you really believe that?'
'Well, no, but,' he turned the globe in the other direction towards Europe. 'So it does end?'
'Yes. Here in our time, we call the people who live over there the "westerners", because they came from Europe and Africa.' She pointed them out.
'Were they there back then? As in, when I'm from.'
'Yes, actually, they were there before we came here. Anyway, my cousin, Tsuki, is marrying a guy from over here,' she pointed to England, 'and their wedding is in the style of one from his country.'
InuYasha was silent as he examined the globe, sitting down and leaning against the side of her desk, turning it over in his hands.
Kagome rested a hand on his shoulder and pecked his cheek, smiling a little. 'You don't need to worry about it, so don't look so serious.' She said, sitting down next to him.
'Do people live here too?' He said, turning the globe on its end and pointing to an upside-down Australia.
'Yes, people live all over the world.'
'And this is a map of the whole world?'
'Yep.'
'It's huge!'
'Yes, yes it is.'
'Are there demons in these places too?'
Kagome opened her mouth to respond, but then suddenly looked not so sure of herself. 'Well, I'm pretty sure there aren't, but I used to say the same thing about Japan, before I met you.'
InuYasha dragged his gaze away from the globe to look at her for a long moment, his expression unreadable, before looking back.
'Anyway,' Kagome said, 'about this wedding, you'll be fitted with the other groomsmen and the groom tomorrow, the rehearsal's in three days, the wedding's in nine days.'
'What are groomsmen? Sounds like something to do with horses.'
'They're some guys that are usually friends with the groom help support the groom during the wedding. The guy you're replacing broke his foot, so he'll be in hospital, so he couldn't make it, and he was one of the groom's best friends.'
'And "bridesmaids" are girls who help the bride?'
'Yep, that's the one. It'll be easy, you don't have to worry about it.'
'There are a lot of things I suddenly shouldn't worry about.'
'You'll also be wearing a, tux.' She almost drifted off, staring at him a little dreamily.
He stared back for a second. 'What's a "tux"?'
She did not answer him for a moment, she was too busy getting that starry-eyed expression. 'It's a style of clothes that we have nowadays. You'll look, great.' She sighed a little.
He, however, raised an eyebrow at her, slightly concerned for her sanity, shifting a little uncomfortably under her staring.
'Are, you alright there?'
'Perfectly fine.' She said, biting her lip a little, as he turned his attention back to the globe.
He glanced up as she moved to say something else, but she opted to remain silent, her hands half raised, her lips half forming the words she seemed to want to say.
'If you've got something to say, then say it.' He said a little shortly, setting the globe down and looking at her.
'I just,' she shook her head, her cheeks dusting pink. 'It's nothing.'
'Spit it out!' His temper was rising a little, but he was honestly curious, suddenly noticing something decidedly odd about her scent that he could not quite place, but it piqued memories that turned his face red.
She sighed greatly, then clapped his shoulders with both hands, a woeful grin on her face, the oddity about her scent fading. 'Don't take this personally, but you're an idiot sometimes.'
'What do you mean?' He was starting to get frustrated by this girl. 'How am I an idiot? I don't understand.'
'Don't worry about it.' She said disappointingly, looking away.
'Hey.' He said, taking the top of her arm. 'If you don't tell me, then I'm not going to know. I'm not a mind reader, you know.'
She blinked, looking back around at him. 'That was unexpectedly wise of you.' She said slightly surprisedly.
'Hmph.' He did not let up gazing at her intently, waiting for her response, and she reddened again, her scent changing a little again.
'I'm just, kind of,' she was flushing greatly, but she was leaning a little closer, that starry expression back, 'right now,' she hesitated, 'wanting you a little b-'
Suddenly her door opened to the sound of 'hey, Nee-san! I need your-what are you doing on the floor?'
Souta had entered the room, and Kagome in her shock had fallen over, whilst InuYasha had pushed himself backwards, hitting his head painfully on the corner of her desk.
Right. This runt's going on the list too. InuYasha thought agitatedly as he rubbed his head unimpressedly.
I'm not really sure what's going on with the world at the moment, but why on earth isn't "disappointedly" a part of the english language? I was so sure it was, but right now my chrome spell checker clearly has a red line underneath. It does as well for "agitatedly", "surprisedly" and "unimpressedly" (as seen above), of which I have the same opinion about.
Maybe it's just not politically correct at the moment (but god knows what is or isn't any more).
Anyway, I've got to keep this short, I don't have a lot of time, so Nycorral, you'll just have to wait and see for the next chapter :3 .
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