The Shadows of Dreams

|Meduza|

Chapter Five: Engagements- The Hell Rises Again

The doctor told her to stay in the bed for a while, just in case. So she did as he asked, not that she had a choice.

She wanted to meet that weird boy again... the one that kept her from drowning in the pond. The one that the feeling of sinister familiarity kept him in her head.

She had visitors from time to time, Sota, her mother, her friends, but the one she really wanted there... –

Well, the idea was clear in her head.

She looked at her nightstand which was filled with books for days like this, or for nights. She took a book and flapped through its pages without thinking, just feeling the texture.

A knock was heard.

"Come in," she said, still flipping the pages, but now, without any notice.

Her mother came in, and after her, a grumpy white haired and gold eyed and dog eared... a demon. And the one who'd save her.

She noticed what she was doing, and stopped.

Mother motioned the demon to sit down, and he sat in a chair next to her bed. Her mother sat on the bed, looking at her daughter. "I think you two already met," she said, "But I would like to introduce you to each other properly."

Kagome looked at the glaring stranger.

"This is my daughter, Kagome," she said to the stranger. "And this is Inuyasha, Inutaisho's son, and your fiancé."

Kagome gaped at him. He just continued to glare.

"I think I shall leave you together." Mrs. Higurashi said and left the room.

Why? Kagome thought, panic taking over her brain. Why now right after I nearly drowned, in bed, with no option to run away, or even to comb my hair. She didn't even tell me!

"Ah..." Kagome started. "Hi..." she tried to smile. "Thank you for –"

Inuyasha shook his head. "Look, you. I don't want to marry you. I really don't. So don't start talking about ---"

"What?!" Kagome shot straight. "Start talking about what? I don't want to marry you either, so don't start to act so high and mighty because you think you're the only one who's in on this stupid marriage and that I accepted it!"

"I didn't say that!" He stood up, angry. "You are the one who act so high and mighty here, Wench!"

She couldn't believe him. How could her mother choose him from everyone else? "What do you mean 'high and mighty'? You came here with the thought that I actually want to be married to someone like you?"

"You're the one that when she slept started to move and moan and sigh and say my name!" He roared.

"I what?"

"Exactly what you heard!"

"Osuwari!"

She waited a second, staring hard.

Another second passed by.

Inuyasha looked at her, puzzled, and cocked his head. "What was that supposed to mean?" He asked.

"I... don't know..." She sweatdropped. "It was supposed to do something!"

"Really?"

Kagome nodded.

"Then let's wait and see what it was supposed to do..."

-*-

"Fuck! Bitch!" Inuyasha glared harder than any other Inuyasha could when he rose to his feet. "You're sleeping, damnit! You're not supposed to do such things!!!"

-*-

Inuyasha and Kagome waited, glaring at each other.

"Oh, enough with that nonsense!" Inuyasha cried out.

Kagome sighed. "Anyways, I refuse to marry you!"

"Me too! Goodbye!" He stalked out of the room.

"And don't you dare to come back!" Kagome yelled to his back. "I don't want to see you ever again!"

^*^

Inuyasha left her room, glaring murderously at any person that dared to move. He was going to his home, and no one, no one was going to stop him.

"Inuyasha!" Well... no one his ass.

He sighed. "Yes, Father?"

"Where are you going?" The great lord asked.

"Home."

Inutaisho pondered, wondering what answer he would give his son. "You can't", he finally said. "It's being furnished at the moment. Besides, don't you need Kagome to go to your house?"

"House? I mean home! I'm going home!"

"Didn't you mean to yours and Kagome's?"

"Why would I mean to that house, when we're not even going to marry each other???"

"Not going to marry each other?" Inutaisho growled. If Inuyasha was smart, he should have gotten the clue. But, unfortunately, as nature had so deviously fated, Inuyasha wasn't smart.

"No. We're not."

"You will, Inuyasha. You won't dare to leave this place until the wedding takes place."

"But –"

"No," his father shook his head. "You will stay here. If you will not, I don't care if your brother or I will not be able to come out, I will ask that the house would be sealed."

"You... you wouldn't..."

Inutaisho grinned. "Try me." And left.

Inuyasha sighed, defeated, and changed his course. He walked to the garden, the one that the pond was in.

He sat next to it, not even wincing when the water touched his clothes.

~*~

He just arrived at that moment. He looked around, only to see a girl muttering under her breath.

"That's Kagome." Inutaisho has said. "Go to her and talk."

"It won't hurt you just to talk, Inuyasha." He added when he saw his son's face.

"Fine." Inuyasha agreed, not wanting.

His father went inside, and he started to make his way to her. She started to move to the ground, but fell before she made it. Inuyasha leaped to catch her so she would not drown.

"Now what do I do?" He questioned the air.

*

"Inu... yasha..." She sighed in her sleep when he carried her wet form to somewhere that someone would take care of her. He stopped in his place. Is she dreaming about... me?

~*~

^*^

Kagome and Inuyasha sat next to each other, moving their chairs away from the other's.

"We wanted you here," Mrs. Higurashi said, "because we needed you to know something." She looked at Inutaisho and his mate.

"We would like you two to marry tomorrow." They all blurted out together while lowering their heads, avoiding their eyes at the same time.

Kagome and Inuyasha looked at each other, then at their parents, and then at each other again.

"What?!?!" They yelled in unison.

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"Everything will be fine, Kagome. You'll see." Her mother told her cheerfully.

Kagome lowered her head and said, "Excuse me for not believing it."

"Come on," Inuyasha, her husband, said. "I don't want to see them."

"For some reason, I agree." She said dryly. "Let's finish this whole thing and then I'll run away."

"Me too."

"How sweet!" Inuyasha's mother cried. "They agreed on something!"

Inutaisho chuckled. "About time."

Kagome's mother, though, said quietly so the young couple won't hear, "I hope you were right and that they will learn to love each other..."

Ack. I can't believe I forgot about this fanfic... *sweatdrops* Sorry. Although it's not my best and even if I still didn't write a chapter from the sequel... you deserve to have this chapter. Sorry!! . .