Summary: InuYasha/DBZ crossover. Basically a weird alternate InuYasha where the characters are put in the DBZ plot with a few twists. I've had this idea stuck in my head for a while now. It's my first fanfic so all flame will be given to Shippo to power his foxfire attack against Kikyo! Inu/Kag, Sess/San,
Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha, Rumiko Takahashi does. I don't own DBZ, Akira Toriyama does. I don't own anything except my mind. But I lost that a long time ago.
CH 3: Reminiscing with Friends
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*Cut to Inside of House*
Sango and InuYasha took Sota and Kohaku's suitcases and placed them in Sota's room. Then they, along with the others, gathered in the living room to talk about what has happened to each other since their last get together.
"So how was school this year, Sota?" Grandpa began the line of questioning.
"It was good. Junior year was tough, but fun." Sota replied. For some reason, InuYasha began picking up a scent from Sota.
"What were your marks this year? You better not have slacked off at the end like last year." Mrs. Higurashi warned.
"Don't worry mom, I got high marks. Four A's, two B's, and a C." Sota replied. (AN: I don't know anything about the Japanese school system, therefore I'm basing this on the American grading system. I apologize for my stupidity.)
"A 'C'?!?!? How could you get a C???" Mrs. Higurashi screamed. "I thought you said you were making 'high' marks at school! A 'C' isn't a high mark."
Sota saw disappointment in his mother's face. "Don't worry, Mom, the 'C' was in my advanced English course. I wanted to finish my foreign languages credits this year. I checked with the other students in the class, only 5 students received above a 'C'. It's one of the hardest classes in the school. I was lucky to have passed at all." Sota tried to reassure his mother, but she was still a little disappointed.
Mrs. Higurashi sighed. "Well, I guess you will have to take care of it next semester."
Shippo looked over to speak with Kohaku. "So Kohaku, did you make the baseball team this year?" Shippo's eyes went big with hope as he asked.
"As a matter of fact I did. I'm the starting right fielder." Kohaku was proud of this fact, as was Sango.
"That's no surprise, you developed a strong throwing arm after all of your training throwing that chain hook of yours." Sango gloated. "I'm glad to see your training pays off here in the future."
"Feh!" InuYasha spat at Sango's gloat.
"InuYasha!" Kagome snapped to face the hanyou. "You should be more considerate to our guests. We haven't seen Sota or Kohaku in 6 months."
"I know but-…" InuYasha started but was cut off by an upset Kagome. He sniffed the air again to try and figure the smell. A smell that smelled strangely human.
"But what?"
InuYasha got a smirk that strangely resembled one made by a certain monk when he got a certain idea. "But ever since Sota got here, he's-…" The doorbell rang. InuYasha's smirk went to a firm scowl as he was interrupted once again. Shippo went to the door and answered it. At the doorway stood the monk himself.
"Hi Miroku! You're late, Sota and Kohaku are already here. Everyone is in the living room. Come on." Shippo motioned to follow him to the living room. Miroku was led into the living room where he was greeted by all but Sango who just showed him a look of anger.
"Hi Miroku, what took you so long?" Mrs. Higurashi asked covering up the fact she knew about his and Sango's argument.
"I missed the subway that would've taken me here so I had to wait a while for another," Miroku said. In truth, he had to delay himself or face Sango's wrath. 'I hope Sango didn't say anything to the others yet,' Miroku thought as he took a seat next to Shippo.
Kagome could sense the tension between her two friends and tried to change the subject. "Um… Kohaku, do you have anymore games this season?"
"Sorry Kagome, our final game was last week."
"Oh, I apologize for not coming. We didn't know." Kagome spoke with disappointment in her voice that she did not keep in closer touch with her friends.
"It's quite alright, Kagome." Kohaku looked toward her in understanding. "Even if you would have known, you probably wouldn't have been able to get tickets. The stadium was packed with alumni."
"Did you meet any pretty girls?" Miroku asked Kohaku. Sango began to growl silently at Miroku for asking such a question. Kohaku started laughing.
"Of course I did," Kohaku laughed. "You tend to meet a couple of them when there's at least 20000 girls that attend the university." Miroku smiled widely.
'Maybe I am finally rubbing off on him,' Miroku thought proudly. He was thinking so hard about the possibilities of his influence on Kohaku he nearly missed what Kohaku said next.
"But with all of my time spent on school and baseball, I haven't had time to think about the girls." Miroku's ego was deflated by these words.
'I guess he isn't like me yet.' Miroku thought disappointedly.
While Miroku was hoping for an heir to the monk perverseness, Sota had been hoping the group would not begin to ask him the same questions. 'Oh no, I hope they don't come around to me yet,' he thought. Since Miroku's 'pretty girls' question, Sota had a small blush on his face. To most humans, the blush would go undetected. However, they were in the presence of a hanyou with very good senses. InuYasha was trying to piece together Sota's not-so-subtle hints. He developed a smirk as he was so close to figuring it out.
Kagome glanced at the clock. It read 5:57. 'Can it really be almost 6:00? Time really does fly. We should start dinner soon,' she thought. "Hey everyone, why don't we start dinner. I'll go set the table," she said to everyone. "Please, relax. Enjoy yourselves. Dinner should start in about 15 minutes."
Mrs. Higurashi saw the opportunity to get her, Kagome, and Sango alone to talk. She got up. "Here, sweetie, I'll give you a hand." She glanced over to Sango. "Would you come help us, Sango?" and motioned slightly toward the direction of the other room.
Sango got the hint. "Sure, I'll help. Would you excuse me everyone?" She said.
Sota, wanting to get out of there before anyone asked him any more questions. "Hey Sis, I'll give you a hand too."
Sota was a step away from being out of sight when InuYasha remembered about Sango wanting to talk to Kagome. InuYasha had to take quick action so the girls could get some time to talk. "Hey Sota. Wait! I think the girls have the table covered. But if you want to help, give me a hand with the food in the kitchen." InuYasha said hastily as he couldn't think of a better reason to keep Sota away.
Sota looked at InuYasha a little startled. 'Why did InuYasha stop me? He usually wouldn't unless something was up.' Then he realized InuYasha had also given him an excuse to be away from the group, but most of all, the questions. 'Oh well, I'll just go with it.' "Sure InuYasha." Sota said relieved he was going. InuYasha and Sota walked to the kitchen.
*Cut to Kitchen*
The two began to sort the fruit. Occasionally they threw one out when InuYasha smelled a rotten one. InuYasha thought to himself. 'Wow, I can't believe that worked. Hey, this is the perfect time to ask Sota about that smell.' InuYasha stopped going through the fruit and turned to face Sota. "Ok kid, I've smelled a different smell other than yours on you ever since you came in."
Sota kept sorting the fruit trying to ignore what InuYasha said. "What do you mean, InuYasha?" Sota began to sweat hoping InuYasha would drop the subject.
InuYasha smelled the sweat and continue to prod into Sota. Karma was against Sota today. "You know exactly what I mean. You started blushing when Miroku…" InuYasha figured it out and had a huge smirk on his face. "…when Miroku started asking Kohaku about girls."
Sota sweated some more. "I don't know what you're talking about, InuYasha."
"Yes you do. Look at you, you're sweating and it's not even hot in here." InuYasha said. He took a deep breath of realization before speaking again. "It's like you're embarrassed for anyone to know you have a mate."
Sota got bug-eyed. 'Does he know?' He looked toward the hanyou and saw a smirk on his face. 'Yep, he knows.' "Ok, I do. So what if I don't anyone to know. Remember all the fuss Mom made when you and Kagome started living here. I just didn't want that to happen to me."
InuYasha nodded and chuckled in understanding. "Alright, alright. I remember that too. I won't tell them anything. This will just be a man-to-man issue."
Sota gleamed. "Really? Thanks InuYasha," Sota said and hugged InuYasha.
InuYasha wasn't expecting the hug quickly pushed Sota off. "Alright already. Now hurry up and let's get through these fruits."
*Cut to Dining Room*
Mrs. Higurashi, Kagome, and Sango were setting the table. No one had said a word yet. Finally Sango broke the silence. "Um, Kagome."
"Yes Sango?" Kagome said placing all the forks in the right position.
Sango decided it was probably best to blurt what she needed
to know out now otherwise she would never have the nerve. "Do you think I take
it too easy on Miroku?" she said quickly.
Kagome looked up confused and not knowing what to say to her friend. "What
brought this on, Sango?"
Sango looked down trying to lock her gaze on a spoon she laid down at the table. She tried hard not to look up to her friend's face, but couldn't. As she gazed at her worried friend, Sango burst into tears. "I found out Miroku was cheating on me!" She wailed and ran to her best friend's always comforting shoulder.
Kagome reached out to grab Sango. "Now, now. It'll be all right. Sit down and tell me what happened." Sango and Kagome took seats at the table with Mrs. Higurashi sitting across from Sango. Sango then began to go through a long explanation. Ten minutes later after Kagome and Mrs. Higurashi took in all Sango had said in silence, they finally offered their advice.
"Sango. Listen to me. It's time for you to make a decision," Kagome said.
Sango looked up. Her tears had finally stopped. "What do you mean?"
"I mean you must make a decision about Miroku," Kagome said sternly.
"Dear, Kagome's right," Mrs. Higurashi said. "If I had known it had gotten this bad between you two, I would have told you to break up with him a long time ago."
"But I still love him," Sango said trying to defend him and her honor for choosing him in the first place.
"We know that, Sango." Kagome said to her friend trying to be comforting. Her face went from comforting to dead serious. "But there comes a time when you have to make a decision. You can either stay with him even though you know he's going to cheat on you and break your heart or you can move on with your life and break up with him."
Sango looked at her friend, who still looked back with a stern face. Then Sango turned to Mrs. Higurashi. Mrs. Higurashi looked at her with a solemn face and nodded her head in agreement. Sango looked down as she was deep in thought. 'What do I do??? I can't just leave Miroku, can I?' Sango just sat there not knowing what to do. Finally, she tried to get her mind off the topic to the other reason she wanted to talk to Kagome. "Um. Kagome, I was wondering if I could stay here tonight." Kagome nodded. "Thanks, Kagome."
"It's no problem, you probably need to get away from Miroku tonight anyway." Kagome went back to setting the table. "You can take Shippo's room. I'll tell Shippo to stay in Nishi's room tonight."
Nishi ran into the dining as the girls had finished setting the table. He ran right to Kagome yelling. "Mommy, Mommy, is dinner ready yet?"
Kagome looked a little surprised at Nishi. Nevertheless, she picked him up in her arms. "Now, now Nishi. Do you remember what I told you? You must be patient. Besides, I said dinner would be ready in fifteen minutes."
Nishi looked a little confused. "But Mommy, it's 6:30."
Kagome glanced at the clock. Indeed, it read '6:30'. 'Oh no. I was so worried about Sango, I forgot the time.' Kagome thought for an instant. "Dinner's ready!" she shouted so everyone could hear.
"OWW Mommy, not so loud." Nishi said clutching his little dog ears. Kagome had forgot all about Nishi being so close.
"I'm so sorry Nishi," Kagome said quietly so she wouldn't hurt his ears again. As everyone piled into the kitchen, Kagome motioned them all to take their seats.
The rest of dinner went along smoothly and uneventful. Everyone talked and caught up with what had happened in the last 6 months. At 9:00, Miroku and Kohaku left the Higurashi home happy they were once again amongst friends.
*Cut to Sango later that night*
Sango was in Shippo's room, trying to go to sleep. But sleep would not take her. She had too much on her mind for sleep. As she lay on Shippo's bed, She thought about her whole life with Miroku. She remembered all the times she got jealous about him asking women to bear his children. All the times she was groped. And all the times she whacked him over the head with the hiraikotsu. She would always treasure those past memories. But it was the memories of his present that were haunting her. He would wake up, get ready and go straight to work, come home from his work at the computer factory, sit at home to eat dinner trying to not speak as few words as possible, then tell her he was meeting some of his friends from work for sake. After that, she wasn't sure. Before, Miroku would say sweet things to her every night. Now all she thought of was if he was going to come home at night. She was caught between two worlds. A world with the Miroku she grew to love and the world that has torn Miroku and her apart.
Her mind now focused on two memories that pushed all others out of her mind. The night ten years ago in feudal Japan where she asked him to come with her to the future was one. The other was quite a bit darker. It was the beginning of the end.
*Memory: Two Months Ago*
Sango had been doing chores all day. She had bought groceries, fed Kirara, washed the dishes, and was now doing the laundry. She had put the clothes in the washing machine without paying much attention. As she took out some of Miroku's work clothes out of the machine, she saw a red stain on the collar. 'Hmm, I wonder why I didn't catch that before I put it in.' Sango thought to herself. 'What is that? Blood?' She began to worry. 'Why would Miroku be bleeding? Wouldn't I have seen it?' she wondered. "Come here Kirara," Sango told the fire cat youkai. "Tell me, is that blood?" She asked Kirara. Kirara mewed a 'no'. Sango was now really worried. 'If it's not blood, then what is it?' Sango questioned herself. The stain had a certain texture and curving that she tried to recognize but couldn't put her finger on. Then it hit her. This was the shape of…"Lips." Sango thought aloud. 'No, Miroku couldn't!' she thought to herself as she tried to shake off the feeling of betrayal. 'Why would he? He loves me. That's right. He loves ME!' she thought in denial. Sango went back to focusing on finishing the laundry and the other chores that still needed to get done. Still, deep down, she couldn't completely shake the feeling that something wasn't right with the picture.
*End Memory*
Sango thought about both memories for a long time. Then her friends comforting words came into play.
'…there comes a time when you have to make a decision…stay with him…or…move on…'
So Sango laid in thought. 'Will Miroku ever change? What if he doesn't and I stay with him? Is Kagome right? Can I make it on my own???' she thought. The last question got to her pride though. 'WAIT A MINUTE! Of course I can make it on my own. I was a demon exterminator, the best of my village! I fought with pride and honor. I cannot allow myself to be taken as a fool. When that monk decided to cheat on me, that was a direct attack on my pride. How could I be so stupid as to let it go all this time?!?!?'
Sango was enraged and furious. Not just at Miroku, but at herself. Now Sango was sure of what she had to do. She had reached a decision. As Sango thought about what she had to do, she laid motionless the rest of the night until she cried herself to sleep.
You like? You don't? Does anyone care? I liked this Chapter. I don't know why I did but I liked it. Sorry. I don't have anything clever to say in the endnote. I used all my material to make a kite. It flew. But then it got ate by a kite-eating tree. I think it's the same one Charlie Brown had trouble with. Review if you want. Flames will be turned into smores for my friends. Next CH: Enter the Toad Wonder.
This is Night Shade V1. Peace.