Disclaimer: Still don't own Inuyasha. Still belongs to Takahashi-sama... she's so great...
-dreamy look- I admire her stuff so much.... okay, enough of that. Hopefully, this chapter
will actually go somewhere. Sorry that the first one was so slow. Read and Review,
please? Again, I used Japanese, so here's another key.
1.) 'nee-san- an abbreviation of "onee-san" which is an honorary term for older sister
2.) Inu-no-nii-chan- Souta's way of referring to Inuyasha, basically means "Inu older
brother"
3.) Ittekimasu- "I am going" or "I will be going now" a term used when one leaves the
house or current place they are staying
4.) Itterasshai-(not sure I spelled this one properly) "Have a safe trip" more or less, the
response to 'Ittekimasu'.
5.) tadaima- "I'm home"
6.) okaeri- "welcome home"
7.) mou- basically 'jeez' or 'man' or something along the lines of that... a sort of
complaint, if you will.
Cherry Pajamas- Chapter Two
~In Which Kagome Realizes Something Isn't Right, and Goes to Investigate Her Theory~
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"Yoshi..." Kagome smiled. "I got a good amount of studying in, I feel so much better
now. I should be able to pass that make-up." She pumped her fists into the air, beaming.
Then she sighed, and set to the task of filling her over-sized tan-ish colored backpack.
"Good thing I finished when I did, Inuyasha should be here soon to come get me... Maybe
I can leave and get there on my own before he does. That should put him in a good
mood.... maybe then he'll let me leave next week without a fight." she thought about it
for a minute. "Hah, yeah. In your dreams, Kagome..."
"Ah, 'nee-san!" there was a knock at the door.
"Hai, Souta, come in, its open." she called, and her little brother walked in, Kagome's fat
calico Buyo clinging to his back like a bookbag.
"Anou, 'nee-san..."
"Hai, what is it, Souta?" she asked, not looking up from her bag-packing.
"Are you going back to see Inu-no-nii-chan again?" he asked.
She nodded.
"Yeah, and I hope to get there before he comes here to get me." she said absently. "Is
there something you need?" she glanced up at him a moment before returning to her bag.
"No, Mama just wanted to know. She heard you rustling around in here."
"Ah," Kagome nodded. "Well yes, tell her I am, when you see her. I'll be back by next
Wednesday though, I have a make-up test."
Souta smiled.
"Okay," he pat Buyo on the head. "I'll go tell her."
"Thanks, Souta."
With that, Souta turned around and left Kagome's room. She continued packing her bag.
"There, all done." she snapped it closed and hoisted the bloated bag onto her back.
She headed down the hallway and walked out the back door.
"Ittekimasu!" she called, waving to nothing in particular.
"Itterasshai!" her mother called from a different part of the house.
Kagome walked out into the warm evening and walked to the well-house. Sliding the
door open, she was half expecting to see Inuyasha on his way out of the well, peeved as
usual for her lac of punctuality. But she didn't see anything. Nothing but the old, dried
Bone-Eater's Well and the rickety old steps leading to it. She furrowed a brow, then
smiled.
'Well now he won't have as much to gripe about... sure, I'm late. But he didn't have to
come and get me.' She sat down on the edge of the old well and swung her legs over.
Using her arms she hoisted herself up a little and slid off the lip of it into the darkness
below.
She closed her eyes as the sudden floating sensation filled her senses, and she opened
them again just as the bottom of the well came into view from the blue-ish purple light
that was fading away. She landed neatly on her feet, and looked up.
'That lazy boy, he must be sleeping or something.' she rolled her eyes. 'Oh well.' She
jumped up out of the well and made her way toward Kaede's hut. She crinkled her nose a
bit. 'Wow, it's really hot out here. It wasn't this warm at home... that's odd. Oh well.'
She smiled at the familiar site of the hut, and quickened her pace.
"Tadaima!" she called when pulling aside the mat used as a door.
"Ah, Kagome-chan, okaeri." Sango said, looking up. "You're just in time for dinner.
Houshi-sama and I caught some pretty big fish, see?" she held up a stick with six fish
strung on it. Kagome smiled.
"Wow. Those are some big fish." she smiled again. She glanced around the room, and
noticed Inuyasha was not in the hut. She quirked a brow.
"Where's Inuyasha...?" she asked after setting her bag down.
"We haven't seen him all day, Kagome. We thought he'd gone to get you." Shippou
chirped, hopping onto Kagome's shoulder.
"Aa..." She gnawed on her fingertip.
'That's odd... first, Inuyasha doesn't come to get me. Then, I get here and no one has
seen him all day. Where could he be...?' she shrugged and set Shippou down.
"I'm gonna go look for him, okay?" she said and began to turn around. "Ittekimasu."
"Itterashai." came the collective response.
Kagome stepped out into the humid air again and glanced around. 'Now where would I
be if I were Inuyasha...?' she mused to herself.
Walking toward the nearby forest which contained the Goshinboku, a God tree that still
stood in Kagome's present time, and the well that she traveled through.
She walked toward the Goshinboku, glancing around, trying to catch a glimpse of
Inuyasha's crimson clothes or his silvery hair. Neither of which found their way into her
sight. She sighed, and sat down on the roots of the Goshinboku, right beneath where she
had first met the hanyou. She lay her chin her hands, her elbows resting on her knees.
"Where is that silly Inuyasha, anyway. I made an effort to get here so he wouldn't have to
come get me, and he's not even here when I arrive. Mou."
Then something caught her senses. She heard something, or, more likely, someone that
wasn't too far away from her, and it sounded like they were choking, or coughing. She
blinked, and decided to go see what was going on. Listening, the sound slowly got louder
as she walked around to the left side of the Goshinboku tree.
"Hello...?" she called after a moment. The sound suddenly stopped. She blinked. Well,
whatever it was, it didn't want her to find it. "Hello?" she called again. "I won't hurt you,
why don't you come---" she stopped short as she nearly ran into something.
"Of course you won't hurt me, you couldn't if you tried."
She looked up.
"Inuyasha!" she smiled at him, stepping back. "Where have you been, Shippou said they
couldn't find you earlier." she voiced, suddenly forgetting about the noises she had heard.
He shrugged.
"I was out." was his short reply. "And besides, where were you all day? You're late as
anything." he seemed a bit less offensive as usual.
"I was studying with Yuka-chan, sorry. I have a test to make-up next Wednesday." she
turned around. "Come on, let's go back to Kaede's, Sango's making dinner." she waved
her hand for him to follow her and began walking back toward the hut.
"I'm not hungry..." he said after a moment, a little quieter than she would have expected
him to respond. She turned around.
"Well come home anyway. Kaede-ba-chan might have something she needs to talk about,
and if so, you should be there to hear it."
"Yeh." He thought for a second about what she said. 'Come home anyway'. 'Come
HOME'. The words rung in his head for a minute, and he started after her. Could
Kaede's really be considered home to him? He smiled inwardly. 'Well, I guess...' He
quickened his pace to be in step with Kagome.
"Oi." he said, not looking at her.
"Hn?" she looked up at him, flapping the front of her blouse a bit, trying to cool herself
down some.
"Do you really think that I could consider Kaede-ba-baa's... like... a home?" he said,
completely seriously, as if it were something she should have expected.
She blinked.
"Well, yeah! I guess..." she paused in thought. "You can consider anywhere I am to be
home, ne?" she smiled at him, and he finally looked at her. He flushed lightly.
"I... I suppose..." he turned away, flushing a little deeper and folding his arms over each
other.
Kagome watched him for a moment, then one of her arms through his arm closest to her
and clasped her hands together, clinging to him.
He stuttered.
"K-Kagome... what are... what are you d-doing...?" he flushed an even brighter shade,
staring at her, his eyes huge.
She shrugged.
"Come on, walk faster. It's nasty out here."
He nodded.
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Second Chapter: ~owari~
A/N: Okay bit of Inu/Kag fluff. This one was longer, too. Yaye me. But, still really not
going anywhere. I have this whole story planned out, I just have to get to typing it all. It
will go somewhere. And it *could* be long. I'm estimating about... maybe 7 to 10
chapters... maybe. I'm not sure. And yes, the Cherry Pajamas thing WILL be significant
later. ^_^ Please review, flames still welcome. They always will be, because if someone
doesn't like my story, I want them to tell me. But please, if you're going to flame, give a
reason, so I can work on making it better? Arigatou! ~ ^_^ ~ ciao for now.
-dreamy look- I admire her stuff so much.... okay, enough of that. Hopefully, this chapter
will actually go somewhere. Sorry that the first one was so slow. Read and Review,
please? Again, I used Japanese, so here's another key.
1.) 'nee-san- an abbreviation of "onee-san" which is an honorary term for older sister
2.) Inu-no-nii-chan- Souta's way of referring to Inuyasha, basically means "Inu older
brother"
3.) Ittekimasu- "I am going" or "I will be going now" a term used when one leaves the
house or current place they are staying
4.) Itterasshai-(not sure I spelled this one properly) "Have a safe trip" more or less, the
response to 'Ittekimasu'.
5.) tadaima- "I'm home"
6.) okaeri- "welcome home"
7.) mou- basically 'jeez' or 'man' or something along the lines of that... a sort of
complaint, if you will.
Cherry Pajamas- Chapter Two
~In Which Kagome Realizes Something Isn't Right, and Goes to Investigate Her Theory~
^_^ ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ^_^
"Yoshi..." Kagome smiled. "I got a good amount of studying in, I feel so much better
now. I should be able to pass that make-up." She pumped her fists into the air, beaming.
Then she sighed, and set to the task of filling her over-sized tan-ish colored backpack.
"Good thing I finished when I did, Inuyasha should be here soon to come get me... Maybe
I can leave and get there on my own before he does. That should put him in a good
mood.... maybe then he'll let me leave next week without a fight." she thought about it
for a minute. "Hah, yeah. In your dreams, Kagome..."
"Ah, 'nee-san!" there was a knock at the door.
"Hai, Souta, come in, its open." she called, and her little brother walked in, Kagome's fat
calico Buyo clinging to his back like a bookbag.
"Anou, 'nee-san..."
"Hai, what is it, Souta?" she asked, not looking up from her bag-packing.
"Are you going back to see Inu-no-nii-chan again?" he asked.
She nodded.
"Yeah, and I hope to get there before he comes here to get me." she said absently. "Is
there something you need?" she glanced up at him a moment before returning to her bag.
"No, Mama just wanted to know. She heard you rustling around in here."
"Ah," Kagome nodded. "Well yes, tell her I am, when you see her. I'll be back by next
Wednesday though, I have a make-up test."
Souta smiled.
"Okay," he pat Buyo on the head. "I'll go tell her."
"Thanks, Souta."
With that, Souta turned around and left Kagome's room. She continued packing her bag.
"There, all done." she snapped it closed and hoisted the bloated bag onto her back.
She headed down the hallway and walked out the back door.
"Ittekimasu!" she called, waving to nothing in particular.
"Itterasshai!" her mother called from a different part of the house.
Kagome walked out into the warm evening and walked to the well-house. Sliding the
door open, she was half expecting to see Inuyasha on his way out of the well, peeved as
usual for her lac of punctuality. But she didn't see anything. Nothing but the old, dried
Bone-Eater's Well and the rickety old steps leading to it. She furrowed a brow, then
smiled.
'Well now he won't have as much to gripe about... sure, I'm late. But he didn't have to
come and get me.' She sat down on the edge of the old well and swung her legs over.
Using her arms she hoisted herself up a little and slid off the lip of it into the darkness
below.
She closed her eyes as the sudden floating sensation filled her senses, and she opened
them again just as the bottom of the well came into view from the blue-ish purple light
that was fading away. She landed neatly on her feet, and looked up.
'That lazy boy, he must be sleeping or something.' she rolled her eyes. 'Oh well.' She
jumped up out of the well and made her way toward Kaede's hut. She crinkled her nose a
bit. 'Wow, it's really hot out here. It wasn't this warm at home... that's odd. Oh well.'
She smiled at the familiar site of the hut, and quickened her pace.
"Tadaima!" she called when pulling aside the mat used as a door.
"Ah, Kagome-chan, okaeri." Sango said, looking up. "You're just in time for dinner.
Houshi-sama and I caught some pretty big fish, see?" she held up a stick with six fish
strung on it. Kagome smiled.
"Wow. Those are some big fish." she smiled again. She glanced around the room, and
noticed Inuyasha was not in the hut. She quirked a brow.
"Where's Inuyasha...?" she asked after setting her bag down.
"We haven't seen him all day, Kagome. We thought he'd gone to get you." Shippou
chirped, hopping onto Kagome's shoulder.
"Aa..." She gnawed on her fingertip.
'That's odd... first, Inuyasha doesn't come to get me. Then, I get here and no one has
seen him all day. Where could he be...?' she shrugged and set Shippou down.
"I'm gonna go look for him, okay?" she said and began to turn around. "Ittekimasu."
"Itterashai." came the collective response.
Kagome stepped out into the humid air again and glanced around. 'Now where would I
be if I were Inuyasha...?' she mused to herself.
Walking toward the nearby forest which contained the Goshinboku, a God tree that still
stood in Kagome's present time, and the well that she traveled through.
She walked toward the Goshinboku, glancing around, trying to catch a glimpse of
Inuyasha's crimson clothes or his silvery hair. Neither of which found their way into her
sight. She sighed, and sat down on the roots of the Goshinboku, right beneath where she
had first met the hanyou. She lay her chin her hands, her elbows resting on her knees.
"Where is that silly Inuyasha, anyway. I made an effort to get here so he wouldn't have to
come get me, and he's not even here when I arrive. Mou."
Then something caught her senses. She heard something, or, more likely, someone that
wasn't too far away from her, and it sounded like they were choking, or coughing. She
blinked, and decided to go see what was going on. Listening, the sound slowly got louder
as she walked around to the left side of the Goshinboku tree.
"Hello...?" she called after a moment. The sound suddenly stopped. She blinked. Well,
whatever it was, it didn't want her to find it. "Hello?" she called again. "I won't hurt you,
why don't you come---" she stopped short as she nearly ran into something.
"Of course you won't hurt me, you couldn't if you tried."
She looked up.
"Inuyasha!" she smiled at him, stepping back. "Where have you been, Shippou said they
couldn't find you earlier." she voiced, suddenly forgetting about the noises she had heard.
He shrugged.
"I was out." was his short reply. "And besides, where were you all day? You're late as
anything." he seemed a bit less offensive as usual.
"I was studying with Yuka-chan, sorry. I have a test to make-up next Wednesday." she
turned around. "Come on, let's go back to Kaede's, Sango's making dinner." she waved
her hand for him to follow her and began walking back toward the hut.
"I'm not hungry..." he said after a moment, a little quieter than she would have expected
him to respond. She turned around.
"Well come home anyway. Kaede-ba-chan might have something she needs to talk about,
and if so, you should be there to hear it."
"Yeh." He thought for a second about what she said. 'Come home anyway'. 'Come
HOME'. The words rung in his head for a minute, and he started after her. Could
Kaede's really be considered home to him? He smiled inwardly. 'Well, I guess...' He
quickened his pace to be in step with Kagome.
"Oi." he said, not looking at her.
"Hn?" she looked up at him, flapping the front of her blouse a bit, trying to cool herself
down some.
"Do you really think that I could consider Kaede-ba-baa's... like... a home?" he said,
completely seriously, as if it were something she should have expected.
She blinked.
"Well, yeah! I guess..." she paused in thought. "You can consider anywhere I am to be
home, ne?" she smiled at him, and he finally looked at her. He flushed lightly.
"I... I suppose..." he turned away, flushing a little deeper and folding his arms over each
other.
Kagome watched him for a moment, then one of her arms through his arm closest to her
and clasped her hands together, clinging to him.
He stuttered.
"K-Kagome... what are... what are you d-doing...?" he flushed an even brighter shade,
staring at her, his eyes huge.
She shrugged.
"Come on, walk faster. It's nasty out here."
He nodded.
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Second Chapter: ~owari~
A/N: Okay bit of Inu/Kag fluff. This one was longer, too. Yaye me. But, still really not
going anywhere. I have this whole story planned out, I just have to get to typing it all. It
will go somewhere. And it *could* be long. I'm estimating about... maybe 7 to 10
chapters... maybe. I'm not sure. And yes, the Cherry Pajamas thing WILL be significant
later. ^_^ Please review, flames still welcome. They always will be, because if someone
doesn't like my story, I want them to tell me. But please, if you're going to flame, give a
reason, so I can work on making it better? Arigatou! ~ ^_^ ~ ciao for now.