Title:  Time Makes A U-Turn

ICAW Writers:  Mosskat, Tarbaby and Leo P.

A fourth ICAW member may make their presence known later on in the story.

Disclaimer:

DUHHH, Inuyasha does not belong to ussss… DUHHHHH. It belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, we've borrowed a few chars is all, okay the MAJORITY of the chars all right?

Remember Souta?  We'll see more of him in this chapter, along with Kagome and Inuyasha.  Burako also (briefly) raises his scheming head in this one.

Author's Note:

BTW, all spelling is done in the British English way.  E.g. favour and not favor.

……………………………………………………………………………………………… Chapter Two: The Hanyou, the Miko and the Pocky

Souta, upon hearing the sound of a car pulling up in the driveway, went out to meet his sister and hanyou brother in law.

"Guys, welcome home!" he said cheerfully, grabbing Burako as the fat thing streaked past.

'It's amazing how fast this cat moves with all that weight.'  He noted mentally.

He reached the car in time to see Kagome removing several bags of groceries from the backseat, relinquishing a box of pocky from Inuyasha's tight grip and slamming the door shut with her foot. 

"That was my POCKY!" Inuyasha yelled as he climbed out the car, his face baring his trademark expression of an irritated scowl.  As usual, this was met by Kagome's trademark reaction: general indifference.

"He doesn't GROW UP!" Kagome growled to Souta as she thrust some of the bags into his arms and strolled towards the house.

"You'd think that if he got married and had a kid, he'd finally gain some degree of maturity but…"

"Well you're still the spoilt little…" Inuyasha retorted with a slight growl, mentally vowing NOT to aid with the groceries until his beloved pocky was returned to him.

Souta wisely kept his mouth shut and meekly followed the (crazy) arguing couple into the house. 

It was after Kagome had begun to pack away the various grocery items, all the while continuously ignoring her husband's whining for his pocky, when she noticed that the home was short one person.

"Where's Kaede?" Kagome asked, picking up Burako and stroking the feline.  No one noticed the sly gleam in the said creature's eyes when her daughter's name had been uttered.

'Oh, I know where she is, stupid human!' He thought maliciously. 'But I'll never tell you!!! And with her gone I, Burako the Mighty, shall…RULE!! Bwahahha!! Ooh, Purina!! Prrrr…'

Burako attacked the cat food that Kagome had given him, all plans of world domination being forced to take a temporary back seat.  Having fed her beloved furry bundle of cuddles, Kagome transferred her attention to her brother.

"Uhh, about that…" Souta commenced. "She was playing around with the Shikon roc…. er… jewel and kind of…um, threw it out of the window. I sent her to go look for it and she hasn't been back yet…" (X-Files theme suddenly plays throughout the room).

Kagome and Inuyasha looked around for the source of the music and then regarded Souta with a level glare.

"Kind of threw it out of the window?" they asked simultaneously.

Souta edged back and nodded, sweating. What were they going to do to him?

"Ah well, it was a stupid rock anyway…" Kagome said with a nonchalant shrug, taking out a head of lettuce and putting it in the fridge.

"Where's my pocky? Inuyasha growled, now shuffling through the bags.  He figured that he may as well help his wife…seeing that it would lead him straight to the pocky.

"That's it?" Souta said incredulously.  He had been worried over that over-sized marble for nothing?!

"That's what, Souta?" Kagome asked, busy with packing away food items into the fridge and cupboards.

"Pocky…" Inuyasha mumbled, throwing something in a glass jar behind him. 

Kagome would later slaughter him for destroying the jar of grape jelly she had been craving for all weekend, but that's a matter for another time.

"Wasn't it kind of important to you?" Souta asked.  After all, didn't she spend most of her time during her teen years looking for the shards of the flipping thing and being kidnapped/almost killed several times in the process?

Kagome shrugged. "It's a stupid rock anyway… can't do anything anymore…"

"Pocky…pocky…pocky!"

"Oh. I see." Souta said with a semi-understanding of his sister's attitude towards the roc…jewel.  Nodding thoughtfully, he eyed his brother-in-law wryly. Inuyasha had finally located the pocky box and was gleefully eating five at once.

5 hours later

"How long does it take to find a rock?" Kagome complained.

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Mosskat: That was the stupidest chapter ever, talk about your dumb page fillers.

Leo P:  What were you expecting?  After all, YOU were the one who wrote it!  You're lucky I'm here to make it a BIT more presentable than that kindergarten-level crap you sent me!

Tarbaby: Uh-oh (braces herself for a cat fight).

All: R/R please!