AN: OMG! I actually broke 100 reviews! *glomps all her readers* Thank you
so much! ^_______^ *grins* please review this chapter too! ^^. Hmm, this
chapter is sort of long because the other one was short ^____^
-_-_-_-
The little boy put his small hands into Kagome's, he stared off at his mother that sped away from the house and started to cry. He didn't know what to do, everything was way too rushed, nothing seemed to make sense. Kagome bent down towards him and looked into the child's soft brown eyes; she pulled him in a hug, surprising him, but in all, managing to make the kid feel better.
"What's your name?" Kagome asked kindly, a smile on her face.
"S-Shipou. . ." he said shyly. During his school days, he normally got teased because of he stuttered. It was a life-time thing, the speech doctor said, unless he managed to cure his fear of people. At least he hadn't developed any kind of phobia. . .at least not yet.
"Come on! I'll show you upstairs, looks like you're going to be staying here for some time now!" Kagome nodded at the little boy and patted him on the head, making him smile and even manage to laugh a little. She could tell he was shy, and that he was afraid; but she hoped that it would all go away in due time.
"OK, Shippou, you stay here for a while," Kagome pointed to her room and moved Shippou over to her bed. "First of all, you lock the door from the inside, and when I knock and say the word, Kagome, you open it, OK?" Kagome asked the boy, she was afraid that when she told Inu-yasha, he would barge into her room and beat the hell out of the little kid.
"But why?" Shippou asked, his eyes wide open.
"Because, umm, it's hard to explain, I'll tell you later, deal?" Kagome asked the little boy and saw him nodding his head, "Yosh!"
Shippou closed the door and Kagome heard a little click from inside the room, signaling that he had done as she said.
Kagome crept over towards Inu-yasha's room. The walk towards death.
-_-_-_-
It was one hour later, Kagome stood stiff outside Inu-yasha's room, clenching her teeth together, her skin had lost all of its color.
Suddenly, the door bursted open.
"AHHHHH!!!" Kagome screamed, slapping the person that just went out of the room over and over again.
"OI! What the hell is wrong with you?!" Inu-yasha asked, infuriated at Kagome, so she was a girl, but her punches hurt like hell.
"Umm, Inu-yasha, umm, I have umm, something to tell you."
Inu-yasha lifted his head, interested suddenly. He looked around nervously.
"Umm, it's important," Kagome fumbled with the words, her fingers started to get a tingling feeling within them.
"I know! What the hell is it?"
"There's a kid that's going to be staying with us for a month or more." Kagome gulped.
"What?"
"Kitsara-san's kid, she dropped him off here, and now he's staying with us for a while."
"No way!"
"Please, Inu-yasha? He has no-where to stay!" Kagome pleaded to Inu-yasha, hanging onto his shirt before he started to run away from her.
"Get your hands off me!" Inu-yasha brushed off Kagome's hands violently, he hmphed and started to march down the stairs.
"Inu-yasha! Think about it!" Kagome screamed out. She reached out towards Inu-yasha frantically.
"WHY THE HELL SHOULD I? I've been having a bad day and everything you say makes me so mad that I just want to kill somebody! So stop talking! God! And add a kid to the problem? That would be like living with two of you! It's the end of the world, that's what it is. By just looking at you I want to vomit like hell! Living with you I want to die, plus living with a kid that's just too much to handle!" Inu-yasha smirked at his response, clearly knowing that it had gotten to Kagome's nerves.
"Fine then." Kagome whispered softly.
"What?" He wasn't sure if he heard right, Kagome never agreed with him, never.
"FINE, then, Inu-yasha," Kagome said coldly, "I'm out of here."
"What do you mean?!" Was she running away from home?!
"I'm OUT of here! As in never coming back, and I'm going to bring the kid with me. That way, you won't have the trouble of living with a girl that makes you want to throw up at the sight of her face! And you won't have to take care of an annoying kid! Are you happy now Inu-yasha?!" Kagome raced up the stairs, knocking on Shippou's door. The little kid came out and she lifted him up on her back.
"Shippou? We're leaving."
"Why, Onechan?"
"Just call me Kagome." Kagome grimaced a little. "And we're leaving because I want us to leave." She smiled angrily.
"OI!" Inu-yasha screamed out to her, had he finally taken the last step to driving her out? He had lived with her ever since they were kids, everyday, seeing her face. Seeing her laugh, seeing her mad. He knew that he hated her, that was for certain. But what would he feel if he would never meet her again?
Loneliness?
That wasn't the right answer, it was to simple to explain things.
Depression?
No. . .
Emptiness?
Maybe. . .
"OI! Listen to me!!" Inu-yasha chased after Kagome, a mixture of thoughts forming inside his head. What the hell am I doing? He thought, am I actually asking her to come back? Inu-yasha widened his eyes in realization of that simple truth. . .
"Why should I? Wouldn't you like life without me? And without this kid that you don't even know?" Kagome spun around, cloudy mists forming in her eyes.
"Umm. . ."
"See? Even now, you're still deciding! Well let me tell you back, I don't need to stay here! I don't need to depend on people anymore!"
Inu-yasha lowered his gaze and closed his eyes. There was still a matter of pride, his stupid pride that got in the way of everything. . .he wouldn't just ask her to come back. . .that just wasn't right, at least not to him.
"Where are you going to stay?"
"At Sango-chan's" Kagome hmphed in triumph and continued to walk to the door.
"See? You're still depending on someone. . ."
No response.
"What are you going to do if she says no?"
"She won't."
"What if suddenly she has to move houses? And you have nowhere to go?" Inu- yasha asked softly.
"Then I'll live underneath a bridge."
Inu-yasha chuckled underneath his breath.
"You can't live like that. I know it. I can imagine it, living in a cardboard box, and I know you'll steal food from the grocery. Like when you were three. . .stealing that lollipop from the store because I stole your original one from you. . ."
Kagome's eyes softened a little at the mention of the childhood.
"And you'll have a keychain, even if you didn't have a lock, just for the sake of it. . ."
"And I'll drink water from sewage because I don't have money to buy any. . ."
"You won't even go to school, you'll stay there the whole day. . ."
"Telling stories to Shippou. . ."
"And dreaming up thoughts. . ."
"Of what my life would be like years later. . ."
"Yeh. . ."
" . .Well I should go now. . .build my cardboard box, find my bridge. . ."
"Stay."
"Why?"
"Because. . ."
"What?"
"Because I don't want to. . ." Inu-yasha sighed, "Because I don't want to live alone. . ."
Kagome smiled, tears streaming on her face, she put Shippou down on the floor and hugged the little boy.
"Thank you, Inu-yasha."
"Yeh. . ."
"I mean it, I really do this time."
-_-_-_-_-
It had been three days since Shippou had resided with Inu-yasha and Kagome, of course, those two always got into fights with each other, they were having one now.
"You should respect Kagome!" Shippou screamed out, hitting Inu-yasha.
"Feh! Why should I?" Inu-yasha picked up Shippou by the back and gave him a murderous glare.
"Because she does everything around here! The housework, cooking, cleaning!"
"I can do that myself!" Inu-yasha growled.
"Oh, like last week when you made your clothes all pink and green because you put in your smiley-faced boxers with your white shirts?" Shipou mocked him.
"Hey! Those smiley-faced boxers were special!"
"Now they don't even HAVE faces!" Shippou stuck his tongue out and bit Inu- yasha's arm, he ran towards Kagome and hid behind her.
"FEH!" Inu-yasha shook his hand, that kid had a strong bite, his teeth nearly pierced his skin. He could've been a vampire in the past life or something.
"Inu-yasha," Kagome came up from behind him.
"Don't you dare be violent to Shippou."
Shippou welled up fake tears in his eyes as he laughed silently at Inu- yasha.
"But. . ."
"There are no exceptions. This is your last warning." Kagome walked down the stairs.
Inu-yasha shivered.
-_-_-_-
Kagome hummed a tune as she heard the phone ringing, she dropped her mop and picked the receiver up.
"Moshi moshi." She said.
"Moshi moshi, Kagome-chan!" a crackling voice said on the other line.
"Higurashi-san!"
"Kagome, I'm going to get straight to the point." The voice turned gravely dark.
"What is it?" Kagome asked, curious.
"There's bad news." Mrs. Higurashi sighed, "We met your birth parents. . ."
"Really?" Kagome asked, surprised, she hadn't shown any interest over the years to her birth parents, maybe it was because she felt so much at home with the Higurashis. But generally, she just wasn't curious enough to ponder about the matter.
"Yeh, and when you were a baby," Mrs. Higurashi's voice cracked a bit, "we signed something on the adoption form. . ."
Kagome was too focused to ask questions.
". . .That if your birth parents ever wanted you back. . ."
Silence.
". . .We would be forced to give you up to them. . ."
"And?" Kagome feared the worst, a bad feeling started forming in her stomach.
"They want you back. . .Kagome, they want you back. . ."
Thos words lingered in her mind for an eternity.
-_-_-_-
AN: Well, I know it was rushed, but hey! I tried. . .ne?? ^___________^ thank you again for all the reviews, and please review again!
-_-_-_-
The little boy put his small hands into Kagome's, he stared off at his mother that sped away from the house and started to cry. He didn't know what to do, everything was way too rushed, nothing seemed to make sense. Kagome bent down towards him and looked into the child's soft brown eyes; she pulled him in a hug, surprising him, but in all, managing to make the kid feel better.
"What's your name?" Kagome asked kindly, a smile on her face.
"S-Shipou. . ." he said shyly. During his school days, he normally got teased because of he stuttered. It was a life-time thing, the speech doctor said, unless he managed to cure his fear of people. At least he hadn't developed any kind of phobia. . .at least not yet.
"Come on! I'll show you upstairs, looks like you're going to be staying here for some time now!" Kagome nodded at the little boy and patted him on the head, making him smile and even manage to laugh a little. She could tell he was shy, and that he was afraid; but she hoped that it would all go away in due time.
"OK, Shippou, you stay here for a while," Kagome pointed to her room and moved Shippou over to her bed. "First of all, you lock the door from the inside, and when I knock and say the word, Kagome, you open it, OK?" Kagome asked the boy, she was afraid that when she told Inu-yasha, he would barge into her room and beat the hell out of the little kid.
"But why?" Shippou asked, his eyes wide open.
"Because, umm, it's hard to explain, I'll tell you later, deal?" Kagome asked the little boy and saw him nodding his head, "Yosh!"
Shippou closed the door and Kagome heard a little click from inside the room, signaling that he had done as she said.
Kagome crept over towards Inu-yasha's room. The walk towards death.
-_-_-_-
It was one hour later, Kagome stood stiff outside Inu-yasha's room, clenching her teeth together, her skin had lost all of its color.
Suddenly, the door bursted open.
"AHHHHH!!!" Kagome screamed, slapping the person that just went out of the room over and over again.
"OI! What the hell is wrong with you?!" Inu-yasha asked, infuriated at Kagome, so she was a girl, but her punches hurt like hell.
"Umm, Inu-yasha, umm, I have umm, something to tell you."
Inu-yasha lifted his head, interested suddenly. He looked around nervously.
"Umm, it's important," Kagome fumbled with the words, her fingers started to get a tingling feeling within them.
"I know! What the hell is it?"
"There's a kid that's going to be staying with us for a month or more." Kagome gulped.
"What?"
"Kitsara-san's kid, she dropped him off here, and now he's staying with us for a while."
"No way!"
"Please, Inu-yasha? He has no-where to stay!" Kagome pleaded to Inu-yasha, hanging onto his shirt before he started to run away from her.
"Get your hands off me!" Inu-yasha brushed off Kagome's hands violently, he hmphed and started to march down the stairs.
"Inu-yasha! Think about it!" Kagome screamed out. She reached out towards Inu-yasha frantically.
"WHY THE HELL SHOULD I? I've been having a bad day and everything you say makes me so mad that I just want to kill somebody! So stop talking! God! And add a kid to the problem? That would be like living with two of you! It's the end of the world, that's what it is. By just looking at you I want to vomit like hell! Living with you I want to die, plus living with a kid that's just too much to handle!" Inu-yasha smirked at his response, clearly knowing that it had gotten to Kagome's nerves.
"Fine then." Kagome whispered softly.
"What?" He wasn't sure if he heard right, Kagome never agreed with him, never.
"FINE, then, Inu-yasha," Kagome said coldly, "I'm out of here."
"What do you mean?!" Was she running away from home?!
"I'm OUT of here! As in never coming back, and I'm going to bring the kid with me. That way, you won't have the trouble of living with a girl that makes you want to throw up at the sight of her face! And you won't have to take care of an annoying kid! Are you happy now Inu-yasha?!" Kagome raced up the stairs, knocking on Shippou's door. The little kid came out and she lifted him up on her back.
"Shippou? We're leaving."
"Why, Onechan?"
"Just call me Kagome." Kagome grimaced a little. "And we're leaving because I want us to leave." She smiled angrily.
"OI!" Inu-yasha screamed out to her, had he finally taken the last step to driving her out? He had lived with her ever since they were kids, everyday, seeing her face. Seeing her laugh, seeing her mad. He knew that he hated her, that was for certain. But what would he feel if he would never meet her again?
Loneliness?
That wasn't the right answer, it was to simple to explain things.
Depression?
No. . .
Emptiness?
Maybe. . .
"OI! Listen to me!!" Inu-yasha chased after Kagome, a mixture of thoughts forming inside his head. What the hell am I doing? He thought, am I actually asking her to come back? Inu-yasha widened his eyes in realization of that simple truth. . .
"Why should I? Wouldn't you like life without me? And without this kid that you don't even know?" Kagome spun around, cloudy mists forming in her eyes.
"Umm. . ."
"See? Even now, you're still deciding! Well let me tell you back, I don't need to stay here! I don't need to depend on people anymore!"
Inu-yasha lowered his gaze and closed his eyes. There was still a matter of pride, his stupid pride that got in the way of everything. . .he wouldn't just ask her to come back. . .that just wasn't right, at least not to him.
"Where are you going to stay?"
"At Sango-chan's" Kagome hmphed in triumph and continued to walk to the door.
"See? You're still depending on someone. . ."
No response.
"What are you going to do if she says no?"
"She won't."
"What if suddenly she has to move houses? And you have nowhere to go?" Inu- yasha asked softly.
"Then I'll live underneath a bridge."
Inu-yasha chuckled underneath his breath.
"You can't live like that. I know it. I can imagine it, living in a cardboard box, and I know you'll steal food from the grocery. Like when you were three. . .stealing that lollipop from the store because I stole your original one from you. . ."
Kagome's eyes softened a little at the mention of the childhood.
"And you'll have a keychain, even if you didn't have a lock, just for the sake of it. . ."
"And I'll drink water from sewage because I don't have money to buy any. . ."
"You won't even go to school, you'll stay there the whole day. . ."
"Telling stories to Shippou. . ."
"And dreaming up thoughts. . ."
"Of what my life would be like years later. . ."
"Yeh. . ."
" . .Well I should go now. . .build my cardboard box, find my bridge. . ."
"Stay."
"Why?"
"Because. . ."
"What?"
"Because I don't want to. . ." Inu-yasha sighed, "Because I don't want to live alone. . ."
Kagome smiled, tears streaming on her face, she put Shippou down on the floor and hugged the little boy.
"Thank you, Inu-yasha."
"Yeh. . ."
"I mean it, I really do this time."
-_-_-_-_-
It had been three days since Shippou had resided with Inu-yasha and Kagome, of course, those two always got into fights with each other, they were having one now.
"You should respect Kagome!" Shippou screamed out, hitting Inu-yasha.
"Feh! Why should I?" Inu-yasha picked up Shippou by the back and gave him a murderous glare.
"Because she does everything around here! The housework, cooking, cleaning!"
"I can do that myself!" Inu-yasha growled.
"Oh, like last week when you made your clothes all pink and green because you put in your smiley-faced boxers with your white shirts?" Shipou mocked him.
"Hey! Those smiley-faced boxers were special!"
"Now they don't even HAVE faces!" Shippou stuck his tongue out and bit Inu- yasha's arm, he ran towards Kagome and hid behind her.
"FEH!" Inu-yasha shook his hand, that kid had a strong bite, his teeth nearly pierced his skin. He could've been a vampire in the past life or something.
"Inu-yasha," Kagome came up from behind him.
"Don't you dare be violent to Shippou."
Shippou welled up fake tears in his eyes as he laughed silently at Inu- yasha.
"But. . ."
"There are no exceptions. This is your last warning." Kagome walked down the stairs.
Inu-yasha shivered.
-_-_-_-
Kagome hummed a tune as she heard the phone ringing, she dropped her mop and picked the receiver up.
"Moshi moshi." She said.
"Moshi moshi, Kagome-chan!" a crackling voice said on the other line.
"Higurashi-san!"
"Kagome, I'm going to get straight to the point." The voice turned gravely dark.
"What is it?" Kagome asked, curious.
"There's bad news." Mrs. Higurashi sighed, "We met your birth parents. . ."
"Really?" Kagome asked, surprised, she hadn't shown any interest over the years to her birth parents, maybe it was because she felt so much at home with the Higurashis. But generally, she just wasn't curious enough to ponder about the matter.
"Yeh, and when you were a baby," Mrs. Higurashi's voice cracked a bit, "we signed something on the adoption form. . ."
Kagome was too focused to ask questions.
". . .That if your birth parents ever wanted you back. . ."
Silence.
". . .We would be forced to give you up to them. . ."
"And?" Kagome feared the worst, a bad feeling started forming in her stomach.
"They want you back. . .Kagome, they want you back. . ."
Thos words lingered in her mind for an eternity.
-_-_-_-
AN: Well, I know it was rushed, but hey! I tried. . .ne?? ^___________^ thank you again for all the reviews, and please review again!