10 – I'm here
Kagome and her mom drove back to home. They left their shoes next to the door and Mrs. Higurashi put the lights on. She got her cellphone and turned to Kagome.
"What kind of a pizza would you want?"
"I dunno... Let's say Frutti di mare."
And so the pizza was ordered. Kagome sat on the sofa, looking miserable. And Inuyasha saw this. He was sitting right next to her. He was thinking of a perfect moment to show up to her.
The doorbell rang – the pizzas were there. After doing the payment, Mrs. Higurashi brought them to the living room.
"Here you go, darling", she smiled and handed over the warm box of pizza to her daughter. They started eating together as Mrs. Higurashi turned the TV on. Kagome didn't really concentrate on it, when suddenly...
She turned her face next to her and...
Saw Inuyasha.
Kagome almost choked on her pizza and started coughing hard.
"Are you alright, darling?" Mrs. Higurashi asked, worried, and pat the girl's back. Kagome couldn't keep her eyes opened as she couldn't stop coughing.
"Drink this", Mrs. Higurashi said helped Kagome drink her Cola. Finally Kagome could stop coughing... But Inuyasha was gone. She had a short pause eating her pizza. What was going on? Was she really going insane?
She carried on eating.
After both Higurashis' had finished their pizzas, Kagome thought it was time to have a moment to herself. She hadn't told her mom about those strange visions of Inuyasha that she's been having.
Now she stepped in her room and closed the door. There she stood – in the middle of her empty room. All alone. After a while she finally turned her eyes to the window. Nowadays, she always kept it open, so that Inuyasha could come in.
But now, Kagome didn't open it. Inuyasha wouldn't come. He was dead.
She laid down on her bead on her back and closed her eyes. She just stared at the ceiling and breathed slowly. This took a while.
Then she sat up and opened the drawer of her nightstand, taking out the rosary Inuyasha always wore. Even as a dog. She put the rosary down on the table and got up. It was getting quite late, so she took her pajamas out of her closet and changed to them.
Inuyasha was sitting on her table. He spread his wings, trying maybe if she could hear it. But she clearly didn't. She brushed her hair and got in bed. She curled up in her blanket and laid there, eyes open. But as she had had a rough day, she was tired and fell asleep fast.
Inuyasha was sitting at the window. He had opened it. Maybe Kagome would realize he had been here. While, actually, there was this chance of Kagome just getting more scared of being insane. But Inuyasha wanted to give it a shot. He flew through the room and sat down in the bed's foor. Now all he could do was to wait.
He was patient. He sat there, stroking the girl's ankle, but, of course, she wouldn't be able to feel it even if she were awake. But suddenly he felt the girl moan and move a little. She turned on her side and opened her eyes... seeing the window - it was open!
Kagome gasped and quickly sat up... And saw Inuyasha, sitting right there at her feet. Inuyasha's ears shot up. Now it was the time!
"I-I-Inuyaaaaaa-!" she screamed, but Inuyasha shot to her over the bed and covered her mouth with his hand. Kagome stared at him with her eyes wide, tears coming to her eyes. Inuyasha shushed her, but didn't say anything.
After a quiet moment Inuyasha finally removed his hand from her mouth. Kagome still stared at him.
"Inuyasha... Is it really you Inuyasha...?"
"It's okay, Kagome", Inuyasha said quietly. "It's me. I'm here."
Inuyasha moved to her side and placed his wing over her shoulders. The girl felt the feathers and stroke them.
"Wings... What are these for? Why and where did you get them? Where have you been all this time? I thought you were dead! I have been having hallucinations of you! I-!"
"Slow down, slow down", Inuyasha calmed the girl. "There's not much to tell you..."
"Oh but you have So Much to tell me! So much weird things have happened since you died... Or did you even die? How can you bere here, sitting next to me if you died over a month ago? How-?"
Inuyasha sighed. Oh how he wished he could the girl's questions. He just wasn't allowed to.
"Kagome, shut up", he said, but not like he used to. His voice was calming."I can tell you some things."
Kagome stared at the boy her eyes wide, quiet.
"First, I did die. Since then I have been following you as your protector, guardian angel. Then I-"
"But why didn't you show up to me earlier than today? My life has been hell since you died and..."
"Let me finish", Inuyasha said. "The dog you met Was me. I somehow managed to turn into a real dog just to make you feel better. But then things got too complicated and I died – again – and now that I have turned into a high-level guardian angel, I can protect you so that you can even see me."
"Th-this is..." Kagome stammered and threw herself into the boy's arms, hugging tight. Inuyasha's eyes widened, but he hugged back. He loved feeling the warmth of her body. He had missed it so much.
"But now we have to show you to mama!" Kagome answered after their cuddle-moment had ended. "If it's okay with you."
"I guess so", Inuyasha shrugged. "But you must not tell about me to anyone else than your family. And as I told you, I'm following you everywhere... Well, I have my breaks... But this was something I guess I shouldn't tell you. As I was saying, I follow you to school as an angel, but just like before, in my invisible mode. Never, Ever tell your friends about me."
Kagome was more cheerful than ever. She walked down the stairs with Inuyasha floating right after her.
"Mama!" the girl cheered after seeing her mother, sitting on the sofa with Kagome's little brother Souta next to her. As it was getting quite late, all the best TV programs were on. And then... The duo on the sofa could see Inuyasha. Souta flinched and Mrs. Higurashi gasped, her hand in front of her mouth.
"Inuyasha!" Souta shouted happy, jumped off the sofa and hugged the dog boy. Mother got up too and slowly walked to him. She waved her hand in front of his face and touched his forehead.
"Is it really you, Inuyasha?" she asked, astounded. Inuyasha nodded with a smile.
"What is goin' on in here?" said an old man's voice from the hallway. Soon their grandpa stepped into the livingroom. His reaction to the angel-Inuyasha was the same as everyone elses'.
"Am I really seeing a dead person? Can you see him?" he asked everybody. Everyone nodded with a smile.
"We must celebrate this!" Mrs. Higurashi clapped his hands together. "I will cook some ramen as supper!"
"No no, we dead persons don't eat in this world", Inuyasha said.
"... If not here, then where?" Kagome asked.
"Forget it."
Mrs. Higurashi still made ramen. The whole Higurashi family sat around the table. Inuyasha sat there too, just watching the family eat.
"Can you still go through the time?" Kagome asked her mouth full. "Everyone would love to see you!"
"Sure. We'll be on our way right after you have eaten."
Even though it was getting a bit dark, the teens decided to go. Kagome hadn't packed her backpack this time, as this visit to the Feudal era would be short.
"I really wish you could answer my questions..." Kagome mumbled as she walked through her home yard towards the old shack, with Inuyasha flying next to her.
"Me too", Inuyasha nodded. "All I can say that these things are very complicated."
Kagome was standing in front of the dried well. Inuyasha was sitting on it.
"Wanna ride on my back?" the boy grinned. Kagome nodded and smiled. Inuyasha spread his wings, and so she got on the boy's back. Inuyasha jumped down, and in a flash of light, they were there – in the Feudal era. Inuyasha flew out of the well and flew straight up to the skies.
"I wonder how they will react after they see you..." Kagome thought out loud.
"I'm sure they will totally freak out", Inuyasha said, calm. "I actually expected you to act even more hysterical than you did when you saw me for the first time."
"Oh but you have no idea what I have been through after your, eh, first death."
"Trust me, I do."
And so they flew all the way over the tree tops, towards Kaede's village. When they were getting closer, Inuyasha did the same thing he did to get visible to Kagome – put his hands together and created a strange pulse.
"Kya!" Kagome cried out when she felt the pulse. "What was that?"
"Don'tcha worry. I'ts okay."
Then they arrived above the village. Both teens felt a bit nervous... And then they saw her – a woman with beautiful dark hair, pink kimono with a long, green skirt, and a baby in her arms. Kagome smiled and waved at her, smiling and shouting:
"Sango-chan!"
And so that woman turned her face towards the noise from the sky – and after seeing what the girl was riding...
"I-Inu..." and she almost dropped the baby. Inuyasha landed and Kagome hopped down from his back, landing in front of her. Inuyasha got on all fours and shook himself like a dog. Sango was so astounded she was shaking a bit. Slowly she stepped closer and reached her shaking hand towards the boy, and felt his shoulders, chest and forehead.
"B-but how can this be...? I mean..."
"Let's get in", Inuyasha just snorted, sounding maybe like the 'real' Inuyasha – a bit arrogant. And so they walked into the hut. And the reacts were very varying.
"...Inuyasha!" Shippo shouted, bouncing up and down and hugged the angel's leg.
Kaede dropped her porcelain cup out for amazement and just stared and him.
"Dear Buddha..." Miroku whispered and got up. Just like his wife, he also he felt Inuyasha from here and there – he was real.
"We have so much to ask you..." Miroku said. "First..."
"First!" Shippo shouted out, smiling like the sun. "First, would you want some soup?"
"Well that is a question I Can answer. No. But as for other questions..."
"He can tell very little. Believe me, I tried to question him, but no good", Kagome sighed.
"But I can tell you that the dog that was here for a few weeks Was me. I'm so sorry I caused you so much sorrow by dying again but..."
"We can forget about that cuz now you're here!" Shippo smiled, playing with Inuyasha's wing. "And you'll never leave, like always!"
"Wait, wait", Inuyasha calmed everyone down. "I can't be with you always. Actually, not very often. My job is, yes, to protect you all, but mainly Kagome. And Kagome, I can't do it to you in my visible form... So I can't be with you very much... Sorry 'bout that..."
"But when Kagome-chan comes here, you can come with her, right?" Sango ensured. Inuyasha nodded.
"But what if we get into an another fight and you die for the third time?" Shippo asked, horrified. Inuyasha just grinned, maybe a bit amused.
"Don'tcha worry. I am not fully physical like I was as when I was a dog. I'm completely dead already. I can't die anymore."
"B-but that means... You can be our invincible weapon in fights!" Miroku snapped his fingers.
"Well, I guess I now have to tell you one more thing I'm not sure I'm allowed to tell you..." Inuyasha sighed. "I can't prevent you from dying. Everyone has their moment of dying, which can''t be changed, unless one commits suicide, and That is what we spirits and angels do – guarding our protege from suicide."
"Where do you get those rules from?" Miroku raised his eyebrow. "Where on earth do you live nowadays?"
"Uh... Man you're cornering me!" Inuyasha shouted out and shook his wing to get Shippo off his feathers. "Okay! Okay! I'm not 'living on earth', but in the Afterlife! With mom and dad and hundreds of thousands other dead souls! I started watching over you, Kagome, right the next day since my death, and nowadays I'm the highest level of a guardian angel, so that I can protect you all and even show up to you. There! Happy?"
Everyone just stared at the boy they eyes wide. They couldn't say anything.
Kaede dished out the soup for everyone alive, and they all ate in a creeping silence. Finally Inuyasha sighed and spread his wings.
"I guess I'll be going. But don't worry Kagome. I'll come to your side later. I'll protect you."
Inuyasha had just turned towards the door, when suddenly Kaede said:
"Wait, son!"
Inuyasha looked over his shoulder towards the old lady, tweaking his ears.
"Have you seen my sister Kikyo?"
Inuyasha felt a weird pulse within him. Kikyo? How could he have not seen her? The only answer could be she was still alive.
"...No."
Everyone had got ready for Inuyasha exiting the hut through the door, but they almost choked in their soups when Inuyasha simply flew through the wall. Everyone rushed out from the door and saw Inuyasha flying towards the moon finally disappearing. His friends looked at each-other.
"What a day..." Kagome said, quiet.
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