Chapter 31: To Tranquil For comfort
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"Well, I guess we better be going then, are you sure you guys don't wanna go?" , Kagome stood next to Inuyasha, backpack over her shoulder, in the entrance to Kaede's hut.
Sango absent mindedly put one hand over her stomach, as if protecting the unborn child from any threat there might be, "No…um…the forest fires..remember?"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes, "Oh right…the 'forest fires'.."
Ever since Miroku had found out that Sango was with child, only yesterday afternoon, he had become even more protective than Inuyasha, and, now was no exception, "Inuyasha! Kagome! Are you insane?!! Time traveling might kill the baby!!", he came up behind Sango and folded his arms across her belly, resulting in a groan of irritation from the demon exterminator.
Inuyasha and Kagome stared at the two blankly, Inuyasha, knowing this wasn't going to go anywhere, grabbed Kagome's back pack from her shoulder, and left, "I'll be at the well Kagome."
"Um..ok..I won't be long.."
As soon as she knew that her mate was surely out of hearing distance, her face grew serious, "Miroku, Sango…I really really think you should go with us…I feel…like something bad is going to happen..Everywhere I look I feel a deep foreboding…please reconsider?", she smiled at the two half heartedly, "I'm sure the forest fires will be ok for just a day or two…"
Sango hesitated a moment. She didn't want to admit to Kagome, much less herself, that she had been having the same feeling…Kagome was right…things just didn't feel right..But no, that had to just be her imagination..and it wasn't like she couldn't take care of herself! She was a demon exterminator! She even had Miroku to help her out…besides, it was probably just maternal instinct kicking in anway..right?
"Don't worry Kagome, me and Miroku will be just fine! You don't have to worry about us! Your probably just imagining things..what do we have to worry about anyway? The Shikon no Tama is gone..and so is Naraku…we'll be fine..Right Miroku?"
Miroku didn't know who to agree with. Shouldn't they just go with Kagome to be on the safe side? Sango WAS carrying HIS child..shouldn't he protect it? Make sure it wasn't in the least bit of danger? And Sango was practically his wife now too! Didn't he have some kind of responsibility over her? He needed to protect his family..but at the same time, what Sango said made since too. Naraku was dead, and the Shikon no Tama was gone..who would bother them now? Minor Youkia? He had taken care of them on his own before..granted, he had the help of a hole in his hand that sucked things up..like that thing Kagome had..a..a..what was it called?
"Um…RIGHT Miroku??"
"A Vacuum! That's it!"
"What?", Sango and Kagome stared at the houshi, Sango reached her hand back to see if he had a fever.
"Oh..um..I'm fine..I don't know Sango..Kagome DOES have miko powers…don't you think we should take what she has to say seriously?"
Sango broke away from him angrily, "Miroku! Kagome is just *imagining things*, she's probably just used to bad things happening, so her mind is telling her that something SHOULD be happening bad..so she's *imagining* it…RIGHT Kagome?"
Kagome looked back and forth between her two friends. Maybe Sango was right…she must have been right, she probably WAS just imagining things..it made sense..and if no one else thought anything felt wrong..why worry? Or piss off an already angry pregnant woman? "Your probably right Sango..Just my imagination..I guess I'm gonna go then before Inuyasha gets mad..Bye.."
Miroku sighed, not sure whether or not he had made the right decision…if he had even had any part at all in the decision.."Bye.."
Sango smiled brightly, it seemed forced, but she smiled anyway.."Don't worry Kagome, We'll be *fine*! We've even got Kirara to take care of us! We will be *fine*, Bye!"
Kagome hesitated a moment, was it really just her imagination? 'Of course it is..don't be a baka..'
Kagome left.
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"Took ya long enough!", Inuyasha was pacing in front of the well.
Kagome stifled a giggle, "Inuyasha, I think this is the first time you've ever said that actually referring to going *TO* my old time."
Inuyasha shot her a glare, "What took you so long?"
The girl looked at the ground, "um..nothing….?"
"Sure, and Miroku and Sango really ARE watching for forest fires..Lets just go, if your not gonna tell me.", Obviously, Inuyasha wasn't too happy about Kagome keeping something from him.
Before Kagome could even apologize, she was tugged into the well, and in she fell..into the future.
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"Mom?", Kagome opened her front door, Inuyasha was a few steps behind her, he hadn't said a word in the few minutes since they had 'jumped' into the well, even if it hadn't been that long, Kagome knew he was mad at her, and it was really annoying her, "Look Inuyasha..Why are you mad at me?"
"feh."
"OH SWEETY! YOUR BACK AGAIN!! You came for your little friend didn't you!? I don't think he's been feeling to well..he hasn't even left your room in almost 2 days now…oh dear..maybe Souta shouldn't have took him to school that day..", Kagome's mom had arrived on the scene, postponing Inuyasha andKagome's argument for now, as always, she was her usual happy bubbly self.Kagome immediately pasted a smile on her face, and, was quite relieved to find that Inuyasha's whole demeanor had changed, he had almost immediately closed the distance between them and was now holding her around her waist, no doubt smiling brightly..well..smiling brightly for Inuyasha.
"Hey mom!..umm..what did you say about Shippo.?"
"KAGOME KAGOME KAGOME!!!", the little kitsune scampered into the room quickly and jumped up into Kagome's arms, "Oh Kagome, I was sooooo scared you were gonna leave me here for ever! These people are so scary! They made me go to 'skkkooool', and they scream a lot, and they pinch my cheeks and and..it was so scary.."
Kagome secured her hold on Shippo, wandering just what he had been put through.
"Shut up brat, don'tcha know its rude to say mean things about someone's family? Unless of course its Seshoumaru…"
Kagome's mom seemed to have paid no mind to Shippo's comments, "Oh sweety, How long do you and your,", Kagome's mom let out a girlish giggle, "'mate' plan on staying here?..you were soooo quick to leave last time.."
Kagome blushed, remembering just why she had to leave so soon last time, Shippo tensed in her arms, probably remembering as well, Inuyasha's smile only got bigger.
"Umm..Inuyasha…How long are we going to be staying.?" Her voice came out sickeningly sweet, the fake smile not wavering an inch.
"Feh."
Okay, that was too much, if he was going to smile and hug her like everything was alright, just for show, why ever the heck he was doing that, than he could also answer her questions.
"What was that dog boy said sweety?"
Shippo buried his face further into Kagome's shirt, he could tell they had had a fight, he wasn't quite as dense as Kagome's mom, and right now, he knew the best thing to do was stay out of it.
"Oh mom..I *think*", Kagome took a few steps away from Inuyasha, "That he said 'sit'"
"OOMPH.", 'Do not call her a bitch in front of her mother, do NOT do it..do NOT do it..you can get her back later…DON'T DO IT!!", Inuyasha tried his best to talk himself out of letting out the string of curse words he was accustomed to in this situation.
"Wow Kagome, your mate is kind of clumsy isn't he..", Kagome's mom leaned down and patted Inuyasha on the head.."Why isn't he getting up?"
"Um..I dunno, I guess he just likes the floor."
Shippo laughed into Kagome's shirt, hoping it would muffle out the sound..It didn't. Inuyasha growled.
"Why is he making that weird noise Kagome? He's upsetting Buyo!", Kagome's cat darted across the room with a hiss.
"Um..That sound just means he's hungry..Why don't you make some dinner?"
"Dinner!? That's a *wonderful* idea!"
Soon, Kagome was left standing in the entrance hall with Shippo and Inuyasha.
Kagome sniffed at the air, "that's odd..I don't smell Souta..or Jii-chan.."
Inuyasha pried himself off the ground, completely ignoring Kagome. He stood sulking, still mad about whatever he was mad about.
Shippo finally relinquished his hold on Kagome, "Souta went with Jii-chan to the den-tist…"
"Weren't you in my room all day?"
Shippo pointed to his ears, "Er..Kagome, I've got pretty good hearing, remember? Sheesh, hanging around dog boy is starting to mess with you mind."
Inuyasha promptly grabbed Shippo from Kagome, held him by the tail, and flung him into the wall.
"Inuyasha!!! Why did you do that!?"
"Feh"
"INUYASHA! Why are you acting like such a jerk all of a sudden? You were so nice to me for such a long time, and now your back to being mean again! Ugh, sometimes your infuriating!", With that, Kagome stormed off to her room and locked the door.
"Gee, what'd you do this time?", Shippo inquired as he too followed Kagome, barely dodging Inuyasha's reach for his tail.
Inuyasha wandered off into the kitchen, after all, this wasn't HIS fault..so what if Kagome didn't understand all the rules of being a mate..it still wasn't HIS fault…"stupid girl", 'Now she's all mad and shit…Its not *my* fault..she'll calm down in a little while, she always does.
However, Kagome didn't come out of her room, she stayed up there for hours, catching up on schoolwork she had no need for. She didn't even let Shippo in, she wanted to be alone..She knew she was overreacting, but she was really stressed, she was really worried about Sango and Miroku…and then Inuyasha just had to be such a jerk! She was probably still hormonal anyway, this being the first day she was off of heat and all.
Inuyasha ate dinner with Kagome's family, Jii-chan and Souta having returned. Currently, he was sitting down watching the 'Tee.Vee' with Souta, whilst worrying about Kagome, He didn't bother her, being to stubborn himself to apologize, they had just had a little fight anyway…it wasn't like she was going to leave him! She couldn't do that..'Could she?', as soon as that possibility entered his mind he was off the couch and on his way to Kagome's room in a second.
Mrs.Higurashi, assuming that he was going to bed, it was late after all, bid him goodnight.
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Inuyasha was surprised to find Shippo asleep against Kagome's door, he had thought he was with her, if he had known she was alone he would have been there all along. Now he truly felt guilty..He had just been being a jerk, it wasn't Kagome's fault that she didn't know that much about being a youkia mate..
He knocked lightly on the door, knowing full well that it would be impossible for her not to notice with her hanyou ears, "Kagome?"
No answer.
"Kagome?"
No answer.
He nudged Shippo with his foot, "wake up brat, what's she doing in there?"
Shippo growled stubbornly, having been having a delightful dream involving a world full of candy, all for him, "I dunno, she won't even answer me..What did you do to her?..Is she alright?", Shippo was now fully awake, as various scenarios in which Kagome had died tragically in her room flashed in his mind. "Inuyasha! Save her!"
Inuyasha looked at the little fluff ball at his feet quizzically. He picked him up by his tail, but, instead of flinging him into a wall, he held him out at arms length, as if he were the most disgusting piece of garbage around, but he had to pick him up anyway, "Shut up! I'm trying!"
"Kagome! I KNOW you can hear me! Now let me in..
A moment of silence, and then.."No."
"Why the hell not??!"
"Feh"
"HEY! YOUR NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY THAT!! That's mine! Open the door Kagome or I'll eat Shippo!"
Shippo shuddered, he wasn't in the mood to die.
A strangled giggle came from Kagome's room, but that was the only response he got.
'Damnit, she trusts me too much..' Inuyasha squeezed Shippo's tail until he knew it was painful, "Be still, I'm not gonna eat you! And, unfortunately Kagome knows that too…OPEN THE DOOR!"
"Feh."
"Stop saying that! YOUR NOT ME!"
"Now open the door or I'll break it down!"
This time he heard her sigh, which was followed by footsteps and the unmistakable sound of a door knob turning.
'Good..at least she knows I'd do that..'. The door opened and there stood Kagome, white hair and ears, but wearing her school uniform.
Inuyasha stared at her, afraid that she really was going to leave him. "your..not…leaving me..are you?", Inuyasha's voice was trembling.
"Eh?", This had caught Kagome completely off guard, 'leave him? What did mom put in the ramen?'
"Leave you? Why would I leave you?", she glanced down at her attire, maybe that was what was bothering him, "Um..my Kimono's in the washer, my mom wanted to wash."
Inuyasha shoved past Kagome and into her room, not about to get locked out again. Kagome turned around and locked the door.
"Um..Inuyasha? What are you doing with Shippo?"
Inuyasha noticed the squirming kitsune still in his grasp, he threw him to Kagome and grinned sheepishly.
"Why did YOU lock me out?!"
"Why were YOU mad at me?"
" WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME!!?"
"What?", 'When did I lie to him?'..
"You said that you weren't doing nothing back with Sango and Miroku! You were talking to them about something important, you were just waiting on me to leave so that you could discuss it with them!"
"How do you know that?!", Kagome was shocked that he could know all this, tired of standing, she went over and sat on her bed.
"Feh! Your scent!"
"My scent told you ALL of that? Then why in the hell did you not know things like that a month ago? Why couldn't you tell I loved you 'just by my scent' for all those months?! What the heck was wrong with your nose then!?. Kagome was growing angry, just the thought that he had known things like that since he met her..and never told her..it was infuriating!
"No baka! I can only read your scent so well cause you're my mate! Don't you know ANYTHING about being mated?"
Kagome sighed, "Inuyasha…I've been human up until just recently, I can't say that I know that much about youkia mating habits.."
Shippo clutched onto Kagome, he hated being in the middle of fights, and he knew that right now it was wise to be quite, and hope that you were ignored. He also knew that Kagome was getting sad! And it was all Inuyasha's fault.
Inuyasha sat beside Kagome and wrapped his arm around her, "I…I'm sorry..I guess you don't..which makes my reason for being mad at you pretty stupid.."
"Well, what was it?"
"umm….mates don't ever keep important things from each other Kagome…ever.."
Kagome relaxed into Inuyasha's hold, feeling slightly guilty, she only kept it from him because she didn't want him to worry.." I'm sorry too.."
"What was it?…that you were keeping from me…"
"Your gonna think I'm stupid but…I just feel like something's not right..like something bad is about to happen..I thought Sango and Miroku would be safer with us.."
"Feh don't worry about it……….your probably just imagining things, and besides, Miroku and Sango can take care of themselves."
"Yeah..that's what Sango said…but..I don't know..I'm sorry for keeping it from you.."
"Don't worry Kagome! Sango and Miroku will be fine!", apparently Shippo had decided it was safe for him to talk now.
"Oh Shippo! I forgot you were here! Hey, guess what?", Kagome patted the kitsune's head affectionately.
"Oh yeah..I'm sure he'll be real excited about this.", Inuyasha rolled his eyes.
"SANGO'S PREGNANT!"
Shippo didn't seam the least bit surprised, "Yeah, I figured she would be."
"W-what?", Kagome looked at Shippo in disbelief.
"Well, after all the times her and Miroku were doing the 'adult thing', she'd have to be barren to not get pregnant yet."
Kagome and Inuyasha were beginning to seriously doubt his so-called child-like innocence.
"What?! You knew!? What?! AHH"." Kagome gaped at him in shock, unable to complete an intelligent sentence.
Deciding that maybe that hadn't been the best thing to say, Shippo switched the subject, "so, I guess they'll be getting their own house soon?"
"House? What?", Kagome, as well as the others, had not yet realized that with the Shikon no Tama complete and Naraku dead, they had no need to wander around aimlessly anymore..they could finally settle down.
"Oh..yeah.", Inuyasha stared dumbly at the kitsune.."If she's having a pup then they'll have to get a house to raise it in.."
Kagome stared accusingly at Inuyasha, "What about us Inuyasha!? Why don't we need a house??"
Inuyasha made a big show of sniffing at Kagome, "Nope, your not pregnant, no need for a house."
"What?!?"
Shippo felt compelled to explain, "Kagome…youkia like Inuyasha don't usually ever..'settle down', they usually just wander around unless they're having a pup, and then they settle down only until the pup's old enough to wander with them…"
Kagome stared at Inuyasha in shock. "what?!"
Inuyasha crossed his arms defiantly, "well where's the adventure in just staying in one place your whole life?!"
Kagome was astounded, "HAVEN'T YOU HAD *ENOUGH* ADVENTURE IN YOUR LIFE!!?"
"Feh."
"Inuyasha! I'm NOT going to wander around my whole life! We are going to have a house!"
"Kagome, I don't think your aware that your life span has increased a whole lot, your gonna get bored after a while."
Kagome thought this over and realized he was right.."Well..how about we have a house..but we wander around…but we still have a home that will always be ours? That we can raise our…", Kagome blushed…"pups in? speaking of which…"
Inuyasha snorted, "Fine, that's what I *planned* to do anyway!, you shouldn't listen to everything the little whelp says! And I already told you, your not pregnant, you should be in not too long though…probably after your next heat..usualy it doesn't take on the first heat…but..the second is a different story..", he smiled, he looked forward to the day that he and Kagome would have their own little pup's running around..one's that looked NOTHING like Shippo..
Kagome glared at Inuyasha, and looked pointedly at the kitsune grinning In her lap.
"Kagome, I don't think you gotta worry to much about Shippo's virgin ears, he's already proved that they're pretty tainted."
Shippo started sulking so she brought him up to her face and nuzzled into his neck, without even thinking about it, she bit into the nape of it. And then, just as quickly, threw the kitsune a crossed the room in a manner reminiscent of Inuyasha.
"WHAT DID I JUST DO THAT FOR!? OH KAMI!? I DIDN' T JUST CLAIM HIM AS MY MATE OR ANYTHING DID I?!?"
Shippo sat on the floor, grinning from ear to ear.
"Damnit Kagome! Damnit Damnit damnit…why did you have to go and do that?!", Inuyasha pounded his fist upon the bed every time he said the word damnit.
Kagome was beginning to get scared, she wasn't sure what had made her compelled to do that, and she had no idea what it meant..but Shippo sure was happy about it.
"Come' ere you little whelp.", Inuyasha demanded, sighing, he knew what he had to do, now that Kagome had gone and done 'that'.."
"Ugh.."
Shippo, though timidly, approached Inuyasha, the hanyou picked him up by the tail. Inuyasha sat him on his knee and inspected the bite marks on the nape of his neck. Shippo sat there obediently, still smiling.
"Damnit Kagome.", Inuyasha brought a finger up to his mouth and sunk his fangs into it. He rubbed the blood into the wound on Shippo's neck.
Kagome was, terrified.
Inuyasha continued to rub the blood into the bit marks until Shippo, and his own, youkia skin healed over. Once that was done, Shippo looked at Inuyasha, somewhat surprised. The hanyou shrugged, and, after having that *deep* (sarcasm) conversation with Inuyasha, Shippo glomped onto Kagome.
"What did I do…?", Kagome asked, dreading the answer, she just knew she had done something absolutely terrible.
"Damnit Kagome, you proclaimed Shippo as your own."
"W-What?"
Inuyasha tried to think of an analogy he could use for Kagome, then he remembered something he had been watching on the tee.veee today, "Kinda like on that comm-ersh-al I was watching today that was talking about those a-dopt-ons.
"A-dopt-ons? Adoptions?! I just adopted Shippo?", Kagome breathed a sigh of relief, that was not near as bad as all the other possibilities there were, in fact, that wasn't bad at all.."So..what were you doing with your finger and all?"
Inuyasha grumbled something inaudible.
"Eh?"
"I…um…adopted him too..ONLY cause you did! I couldn't have my mate having a pup without me! That's just not right! Everyone would think that you had went off and mated with a kitsune or something.."
"And by everyone I suppose you mean Sango and Miroku…oh and lets not forget Kirara!", Kagome's voice was layered with sarcasm."
Inuyasha ignored her and pointed to Shippo, he was sleeping soundly in his new 'mother's' lap.
"Lets just go to bed Kagome, you barely got to see your family today, so I guess your gonna want to stay another day right?
Kagome faltered a minute, her thoughts falling back to her worries for her other friends five hundred years away..'Just my imagination…that's all..'..
"Right Inuyasha…I want to stay another day.."
After all…what harm could it really do?
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"Rin, remind me to kill the god's next time I get a chance.", Sesshoumaru had stopped in his tracks suddenly.
"Why Seshy-shou-maru-sama.?". Seshy-maru winced, but didn't reprimand her, they had agreed that if she had to call him anything BUT Seshoumaru-sama, Seshy-shou-maru-sama was the next best thing..just as long as she didn't use it around anyone else, especialy his half breed brother.
"Because, we finally arrived at where that damn Kagura was supposed to be, and she's not here! Her scent is fresh…we JUST missed her.."
Rin patted Seshy-maru on the head, careful not to mess up his pretty hair, "Okay, I'll remind you.."
Seshy-maru had the smallest of smiles on his face as he continued on his hunt for the wind woman…of course, it could have just been a twitch, or maybe a bug flew to close to him or something..but it looked kinda like a smile.
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Sorry it took so long to get this out, I've been busy, and I have also been revising the first few chapters of this story, proofreading, ect. It needed it..I'm still not done with that, but I figured I should get an update out since I'm gonna be out of town for the weekend. That means no update on this till after I'm back, Of course, I will be updating 'Wish Away' first…even though it doesn't have much reviewers..but oh well…This is my longest chapter yet…Not including the authors not it had 3736 words..Thats a lot for me.
I AM SO HAPPY TO SAY THAT I HAVE FINALY RECEIVED MY FOUR HUNDRETH REVIEW
Lord Agamus was my 400th reviewer, so, for that, he gets a prize *sends Lord Agamas an imaginary
Inuyasha*
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Okay. Like I said, I have been revising old chapters, so, if it says that my fic has been updated, and there isn't a new chapter, its because I reposted an old chapter, they are, much better if I do say so myself, and, Tsukinoko, I did what you asked regarding their sleeping positions in chapter 3..or 4 whatever it was…Okay. Bye bye.
Oh, and by the way..did you notice the foreshadowing?
foreshadowing:
adj : indistinctly prophetic
n : providing vague advance indications
Yeah, in case you didn't notice, Something BAD is going to happen..
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"Well, I guess we better be going then, are you sure you guys don't wanna go?" , Kagome stood next to Inuyasha, backpack over her shoulder, in the entrance to Kaede's hut.
Sango absent mindedly put one hand over her stomach, as if protecting the unborn child from any threat there might be, "No…um…the forest fires..remember?"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes, "Oh right…the 'forest fires'.."
Ever since Miroku had found out that Sango was with child, only yesterday afternoon, he had become even more protective than Inuyasha, and, now was no exception, "Inuyasha! Kagome! Are you insane?!! Time traveling might kill the baby!!", he came up behind Sango and folded his arms across her belly, resulting in a groan of irritation from the demon exterminator.
Inuyasha and Kagome stared at the two blankly, Inuyasha, knowing this wasn't going to go anywhere, grabbed Kagome's back pack from her shoulder, and left, "I'll be at the well Kagome."
"Um..ok..I won't be long.."
As soon as she knew that her mate was surely out of hearing distance, her face grew serious, "Miroku, Sango…I really really think you should go with us…I feel…like something bad is going to happen..Everywhere I look I feel a deep foreboding…please reconsider?", she smiled at the two half heartedly, "I'm sure the forest fires will be ok for just a day or two…"
Sango hesitated a moment. She didn't want to admit to Kagome, much less herself, that she had been having the same feeling…Kagome was right…things just didn't feel right..But no, that had to just be her imagination..and it wasn't like she couldn't take care of herself! She was a demon exterminator! She even had Miroku to help her out…besides, it was probably just maternal instinct kicking in anway..right?
"Don't worry Kagome, me and Miroku will be just fine! You don't have to worry about us! Your probably just imagining things..what do we have to worry about anyway? The Shikon no Tama is gone..and so is Naraku…we'll be fine..Right Miroku?"
Miroku didn't know who to agree with. Shouldn't they just go with Kagome to be on the safe side? Sango WAS carrying HIS child..shouldn't he protect it? Make sure it wasn't in the least bit of danger? And Sango was practically his wife now too! Didn't he have some kind of responsibility over her? He needed to protect his family..but at the same time, what Sango said made since too. Naraku was dead, and the Shikon no Tama was gone..who would bother them now? Minor Youkia? He had taken care of them on his own before..granted, he had the help of a hole in his hand that sucked things up..like that thing Kagome had..a..a..what was it called?
"Um…RIGHT Miroku??"
"A Vacuum! That's it!"
"What?", Sango and Kagome stared at the houshi, Sango reached her hand back to see if he had a fever.
"Oh..um..I'm fine..I don't know Sango..Kagome DOES have miko powers…don't you think we should take what she has to say seriously?"
Sango broke away from him angrily, "Miroku! Kagome is just *imagining things*, she's probably just used to bad things happening, so her mind is telling her that something SHOULD be happening bad..so she's *imagining* it…RIGHT Kagome?"
Kagome looked back and forth between her two friends. Maybe Sango was right…she must have been right, she probably WAS just imagining things..it made sense..and if no one else thought anything felt wrong..why worry? Or piss off an already angry pregnant woman? "Your probably right Sango..Just my imagination..I guess I'm gonna go then before Inuyasha gets mad..Bye.."
Miroku sighed, not sure whether or not he had made the right decision…if he had even had any part at all in the decision.."Bye.."
Sango smiled brightly, it seemed forced, but she smiled anyway.."Don't worry Kagome, We'll be *fine*! We've even got Kirara to take care of us! We will be *fine*, Bye!"
Kagome hesitated a moment, was it really just her imagination? 'Of course it is..don't be a baka..'
Kagome left.
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"Took ya long enough!", Inuyasha was pacing in front of the well.
Kagome stifled a giggle, "Inuyasha, I think this is the first time you've ever said that actually referring to going *TO* my old time."
Inuyasha shot her a glare, "What took you so long?"
The girl looked at the ground, "um..nothing….?"
"Sure, and Miroku and Sango really ARE watching for forest fires..Lets just go, if your not gonna tell me.", Obviously, Inuyasha wasn't too happy about Kagome keeping something from him.
Before Kagome could even apologize, she was tugged into the well, and in she fell..into the future.
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"Mom?", Kagome opened her front door, Inuyasha was a few steps behind her, he hadn't said a word in the few minutes since they had 'jumped' into the well, even if it hadn't been that long, Kagome knew he was mad at her, and it was really annoying her, "Look Inuyasha..Why are you mad at me?"
"feh."
"OH SWEETY! YOUR BACK AGAIN!! You came for your little friend didn't you!? I don't think he's been feeling to well..he hasn't even left your room in almost 2 days now…oh dear..maybe Souta shouldn't have took him to school that day..", Kagome's mom had arrived on the scene, postponing Inuyasha andKagome's argument for now, as always, she was her usual happy bubbly self.Kagome immediately pasted a smile on her face, and, was quite relieved to find that Inuyasha's whole demeanor had changed, he had almost immediately closed the distance between them and was now holding her around her waist, no doubt smiling brightly..well..smiling brightly for Inuyasha.
"Hey mom!..umm..what did you say about Shippo.?"
"KAGOME KAGOME KAGOME!!!", the little kitsune scampered into the room quickly and jumped up into Kagome's arms, "Oh Kagome, I was sooooo scared you were gonna leave me here for ever! These people are so scary! They made me go to 'skkkooool', and they scream a lot, and they pinch my cheeks and and..it was so scary.."
Kagome secured her hold on Shippo, wandering just what he had been put through.
"Shut up brat, don'tcha know its rude to say mean things about someone's family? Unless of course its Seshoumaru…"
Kagome's mom seemed to have paid no mind to Shippo's comments, "Oh sweety, How long do you and your,", Kagome's mom let out a girlish giggle, "'mate' plan on staying here?..you were soooo quick to leave last time.."
Kagome blushed, remembering just why she had to leave so soon last time, Shippo tensed in her arms, probably remembering as well, Inuyasha's smile only got bigger.
"Umm..Inuyasha…How long are we going to be staying.?" Her voice came out sickeningly sweet, the fake smile not wavering an inch.
"Feh."
Okay, that was too much, if he was going to smile and hug her like everything was alright, just for show, why ever the heck he was doing that, than he could also answer her questions.
"What was that dog boy said sweety?"
Shippo buried his face further into Kagome's shirt, he could tell they had had a fight, he wasn't quite as dense as Kagome's mom, and right now, he knew the best thing to do was stay out of it.
"Oh mom..I *think*", Kagome took a few steps away from Inuyasha, "That he said 'sit'"
"OOMPH.", 'Do not call her a bitch in front of her mother, do NOT do it..do NOT do it..you can get her back later…DON'T DO IT!!", Inuyasha tried his best to talk himself out of letting out the string of curse words he was accustomed to in this situation.
"Wow Kagome, your mate is kind of clumsy isn't he..", Kagome's mom leaned down and patted Inuyasha on the head.."Why isn't he getting up?"
"Um..I dunno, I guess he just likes the floor."
Shippo laughed into Kagome's shirt, hoping it would muffle out the sound..It didn't. Inuyasha growled.
"Why is he making that weird noise Kagome? He's upsetting Buyo!", Kagome's cat darted across the room with a hiss.
"Um..That sound just means he's hungry..Why don't you make some dinner?"
"Dinner!? That's a *wonderful* idea!"
Soon, Kagome was left standing in the entrance hall with Shippo and Inuyasha.
Kagome sniffed at the air, "that's odd..I don't smell Souta..or Jii-chan.."
Inuyasha pried himself off the ground, completely ignoring Kagome. He stood sulking, still mad about whatever he was mad about.
Shippo finally relinquished his hold on Kagome, "Souta went with Jii-chan to the den-tist…"
"Weren't you in my room all day?"
Shippo pointed to his ears, "Er..Kagome, I've got pretty good hearing, remember? Sheesh, hanging around dog boy is starting to mess with you mind."
Inuyasha promptly grabbed Shippo from Kagome, held him by the tail, and flung him into the wall.
"Inuyasha!!! Why did you do that!?"
"Feh"
"INUYASHA! Why are you acting like such a jerk all of a sudden? You were so nice to me for such a long time, and now your back to being mean again! Ugh, sometimes your infuriating!", With that, Kagome stormed off to her room and locked the door.
"Gee, what'd you do this time?", Shippo inquired as he too followed Kagome, barely dodging Inuyasha's reach for his tail.
Inuyasha wandered off into the kitchen, after all, this wasn't HIS fault..so what if Kagome didn't understand all the rules of being a mate..it still wasn't HIS fault…"stupid girl", 'Now she's all mad and shit…Its not *my* fault..she'll calm down in a little while, she always does.
However, Kagome didn't come out of her room, she stayed up there for hours, catching up on schoolwork she had no need for. She didn't even let Shippo in, she wanted to be alone..She knew she was overreacting, but she was really stressed, she was really worried about Sango and Miroku…and then Inuyasha just had to be such a jerk! She was probably still hormonal anyway, this being the first day she was off of heat and all.
Inuyasha ate dinner with Kagome's family, Jii-chan and Souta having returned. Currently, he was sitting down watching the 'Tee.Vee' with Souta, whilst worrying about Kagome, He didn't bother her, being to stubborn himself to apologize, they had just had a little fight anyway…it wasn't like she was going to leave him! She couldn't do that..'Could she?', as soon as that possibility entered his mind he was off the couch and on his way to Kagome's room in a second.
Mrs.Higurashi, assuming that he was going to bed, it was late after all, bid him goodnight.
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Inuyasha was surprised to find Shippo asleep against Kagome's door, he had thought he was with her, if he had known she was alone he would have been there all along. Now he truly felt guilty..He had just been being a jerk, it wasn't Kagome's fault that she didn't know that much about being a youkia mate..
He knocked lightly on the door, knowing full well that it would be impossible for her not to notice with her hanyou ears, "Kagome?"
No answer.
"Kagome?"
No answer.
He nudged Shippo with his foot, "wake up brat, what's she doing in there?"
Shippo growled stubbornly, having been having a delightful dream involving a world full of candy, all for him, "I dunno, she won't even answer me..What did you do to her?..Is she alright?", Shippo was now fully awake, as various scenarios in which Kagome had died tragically in her room flashed in his mind. "Inuyasha! Save her!"
Inuyasha looked at the little fluff ball at his feet quizzically. He picked him up by his tail, but, instead of flinging him into a wall, he held him out at arms length, as if he were the most disgusting piece of garbage around, but he had to pick him up anyway, "Shut up! I'm trying!"
"Kagome! I KNOW you can hear me! Now let me in..
A moment of silence, and then.."No."
"Why the hell not??!"
"Feh"
"HEY! YOUR NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY THAT!! That's mine! Open the door Kagome or I'll eat Shippo!"
Shippo shuddered, he wasn't in the mood to die.
A strangled giggle came from Kagome's room, but that was the only response he got.
'Damnit, she trusts me too much..' Inuyasha squeezed Shippo's tail until he knew it was painful, "Be still, I'm not gonna eat you! And, unfortunately Kagome knows that too…OPEN THE DOOR!"
"Feh."
"Stop saying that! YOUR NOT ME!"
"Now open the door or I'll break it down!"
This time he heard her sigh, which was followed by footsteps and the unmistakable sound of a door knob turning.
'Good..at least she knows I'd do that..'. The door opened and there stood Kagome, white hair and ears, but wearing her school uniform.
Inuyasha stared at her, afraid that she really was going to leave him. "your..not…leaving me..are you?", Inuyasha's voice was trembling.
"Eh?", This had caught Kagome completely off guard, 'leave him? What did mom put in the ramen?'
"Leave you? Why would I leave you?", she glanced down at her attire, maybe that was what was bothering him, "Um..my Kimono's in the washer, my mom wanted to wash."
Inuyasha shoved past Kagome and into her room, not about to get locked out again. Kagome turned around and locked the door.
"Um..Inuyasha? What are you doing with Shippo?"
Inuyasha noticed the squirming kitsune still in his grasp, he threw him to Kagome and grinned sheepishly.
"Why did YOU lock me out?!"
"Why were YOU mad at me?"
" WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME!!?"
"What?", 'When did I lie to him?'..
"You said that you weren't doing nothing back with Sango and Miroku! You were talking to them about something important, you were just waiting on me to leave so that you could discuss it with them!"
"How do you know that?!", Kagome was shocked that he could know all this, tired of standing, she went over and sat on her bed.
"Feh! Your scent!"
"My scent told you ALL of that? Then why in the hell did you not know things like that a month ago? Why couldn't you tell I loved you 'just by my scent' for all those months?! What the heck was wrong with your nose then!?. Kagome was growing angry, just the thought that he had known things like that since he met her..and never told her..it was infuriating!
"No baka! I can only read your scent so well cause you're my mate! Don't you know ANYTHING about being mated?"
Kagome sighed, "Inuyasha…I've been human up until just recently, I can't say that I know that much about youkia mating habits.."
Shippo clutched onto Kagome, he hated being in the middle of fights, and he knew that right now it was wise to be quite, and hope that you were ignored. He also knew that Kagome was getting sad! And it was all Inuyasha's fault.
Inuyasha sat beside Kagome and wrapped his arm around her, "I…I'm sorry..I guess you don't..which makes my reason for being mad at you pretty stupid.."
"Well, what was it?"
"umm….mates don't ever keep important things from each other Kagome…ever.."
Kagome relaxed into Inuyasha's hold, feeling slightly guilty, she only kept it from him because she didn't want him to worry.." I'm sorry too.."
"What was it?…that you were keeping from me…"
"Your gonna think I'm stupid but…I just feel like something's not right..like something bad is about to happen..I thought Sango and Miroku would be safer with us.."
"Feh don't worry about it……….your probably just imagining things, and besides, Miroku and Sango can take care of themselves."
"Yeah..that's what Sango said…but..I don't know..I'm sorry for keeping it from you.."
"Don't worry Kagome! Sango and Miroku will be fine!", apparently Shippo had decided it was safe for him to talk now.
"Oh Shippo! I forgot you were here! Hey, guess what?", Kagome patted the kitsune's head affectionately.
"Oh yeah..I'm sure he'll be real excited about this.", Inuyasha rolled his eyes.
"SANGO'S PREGNANT!"
Shippo didn't seam the least bit surprised, "Yeah, I figured she would be."
"W-what?", Kagome looked at Shippo in disbelief.
"Well, after all the times her and Miroku were doing the 'adult thing', she'd have to be barren to not get pregnant yet."
Kagome and Inuyasha were beginning to seriously doubt his so-called child-like innocence.
"What?! You knew!? What?! AHH"." Kagome gaped at him in shock, unable to complete an intelligent sentence.
Deciding that maybe that hadn't been the best thing to say, Shippo switched the subject, "so, I guess they'll be getting their own house soon?"
"House? What?", Kagome, as well as the others, had not yet realized that with the Shikon no Tama complete and Naraku dead, they had no need to wander around aimlessly anymore..they could finally settle down.
"Oh..yeah.", Inuyasha stared dumbly at the kitsune.."If she's having a pup then they'll have to get a house to raise it in.."
Kagome stared accusingly at Inuyasha, "What about us Inuyasha!? Why don't we need a house??"
Inuyasha made a big show of sniffing at Kagome, "Nope, your not pregnant, no need for a house."
"What?!?"
Shippo felt compelled to explain, "Kagome…youkia like Inuyasha don't usually ever..'settle down', they usually just wander around unless they're having a pup, and then they settle down only until the pup's old enough to wander with them…"
Kagome stared at Inuyasha in shock. "what?!"
Inuyasha crossed his arms defiantly, "well where's the adventure in just staying in one place your whole life?!"
Kagome was astounded, "HAVEN'T YOU HAD *ENOUGH* ADVENTURE IN YOUR LIFE!!?"
"Feh."
"Inuyasha! I'm NOT going to wander around my whole life! We are going to have a house!"
"Kagome, I don't think your aware that your life span has increased a whole lot, your gonna get bored after a while."
Kagome thought this over and realized he was right.."Well..how about we have a house..but we wander around…but we still have a home that will always be ours? That we can raise our…", Kagome blushed…"pups in? speaking of which…"
Inuyasha snorted, "Fine, that's what I *planned* to do anyway!, you shouldn't listen to everything the little whelp says! And I already told you, your not pregnant, you should be in not too long though…probably after your next heat..usualy it doesn't take on the first heat…but..the second is a different story..", he smiled, he looked forward to the day that he and Kagome would have their own little pup's running around..one's that looked NOTHING like Shippo..
Kagome glared at Inuyasha, and looked pointedly at the kitsune grinning In her lap.
"Kagome, I don't think you gotta worry to much about Shippo's virgin ears, he's already proved that they're pretty tainted."
Shippo started sulking so she brought him up to her face and nuzzled into his neck, without even thinking about it, she bit into the nape of it. And then, just as quickly, threw the kitsune a crossed the room in a manner reminiscent of Inuyasha.
"WHAT DID I JUST DO THAT FOR!? OH KAMI!? I DIDN' T JUST CLAIM HIM AS MY MATE OR ANYTHING DID I?!?"
Shippo sat on the floor, grinning from ear to ear.
"Damnit Kagome! Damnit Damnit damnit…why did you have to go and do that?!", Inuyasha pounded his fist upon the bed every time he said the word damnit.
Kagome was beginning to get scared, she wasn't sure what had made her compelled to do that, and she had no idea what it meant..but Shippo sure was happy about it.
"Come' ere you little whelp.", Inuyasha demanded, sighing, he knew what he had to do, now that Kagome had gone and done 'that'.."
"Ugh.."
Shippo, though timidly, approached Inuyasha, the hanyou picked him up by the tail. Inuyasha sat him on his knee and inspected the bite marks on the nape of his neck. Shippo sat there obediently, still smiling.
"Damnit Kagome.", Inuyasha brought a finger up to his mouth and sunk his fangs into it. He rubbed the blood into the wound on Shippo's neck.
Kagome was, terrified.
Inuyasha continued to rub the blood into the bit marks until Shippo, and his own, youkia skin healed over. Once that was done, Shippo looked at Inuyasha, somewhat surprised. The hanyou shrugged, and, after having that *deep* (sarcasm) conversation with Inuyasha, Shippo glomped onto Kagome.
"What did I do…?", Kagome asked, dreading the answer, she just knew she had done something absolutely terrible.
"Damnit Kagome, you proclaimed Shippo as your own."
"W-What?"
Inuyasha tried to think of an analogy he could use for Kagome, then he remembered something he had been watching on the tee.veee today, "Kinda like on that comm-ersh-al I was watching today that was talking about those a-dopt-ons.
"A-dopt-ons? Adoptions?! I just adopted Shippo?", Kagome breathed a sigh of relief, that was not near as bad as all the other possibilities there were, in fact, that wasn't bad at all.."So..what were you doing with your finger and all?"
Inuyasha grumbled something inaudible.
"Eh?"
"I…um…adopted him too..ONLY cause you did! I couldn't have my mate having a pup without me! That's just not right! Everyone would think that you had went off and mated with a kitsune or something.."
"And by everyone I suppose you mean Sango and Miroku…oh and lets not forget Kirara!", Kagome's voice was layered with sarcasm."
Inuyasha ignored her and pointed to Shippo, he was sleeping soundly in his new 'mother's' lap.
"Lets just go to bed Kagome, you barely got to see your family today, so I guess your gonna want to stay another day right?
Kagome faltered a minute, her thoughts falling back to her worries for her other friends five hundred years away..'Just my imagination…that's all..'..
"Right Inuyasha…I want to stay another day.."
After all…what harm could it really do?
************************************Seshys Update*********************************
"Rin, remind me to kill the god's next time I get a chance.", Sesshoumaru had stopped in his tracks suddenly.
"Why Seshy-shou-maru-sama.?". Seshy-maru winced, but didn't reprimand her, they had agreed that if she had to call him anything BUT Seshoumaru-sama, Seshy-shou-maru-sama was the next best thing..just as long as she didn't use it around anyone else, especialy his half breed brother.
"Because, we finally arrived at where that damn Kagura was supposed to be, and she's not here! Her scent is fresh…we JUST missed her.."
Rin patted Seshy-maru on the head, careful not to mess up his pretty hair, "Okay, I'll remind you.."
Seshy-maru had the smallest of smiles on his face as he continued on his hunt for the wind woman…of course, it could have just been a twitch, or maybe a bug flew to close to him or something..but it looked kinda like a smile.
****A/N***************************************************************************
Sorry it took so long to get this out, I've been busy, and I have also been revising the first few chapters of this story, proofreading, ect. It needed it..I'm still not done with that, but I figured I should get an update out since I'm gonna be out of town for the weekend. That means no update on this till after I'm back, Of course, I will be updating 'Wish Away' first…even though it doesn't have much reviewers..but oh well…This is my longest chapter yet…Not including the authors not it had 3736 words..Thats a lot for me.
I AM SO HAPPY TO SAY THAT I HAVE FINALY RECEIVED MY FOUR HUNDRETH REVIEW
Lord Agamus was my 400th reviewer, so, for that, he gets a prize *sends Lord Agamas an imaginary
Inuyasha*
Oh dear god..Here are my favorite reviewers..theres gonna be a lot of them..:Bubbles, Kaylana, Bunny, Vold, diamondtigress, Lady Night,amargo Scribe, Inu-chan, robgirl, admiral biatch, glass of water, confuzzled, sorensen, ssj-gohan, fire demon, Nanaki, Silver Youkia, sakura angel2001, Nicole, Sb1, moonstar, and Inuyasha's love, eddie, aisuru, Azn Gurl , Tsukinoko, Cherry-wolf, Cryxine, ambereyes, Inu-luna, danie, superbakagirl, lilinuyashamunky, hopeless romantic, lyndz.
Okay I *think* that is all of you, *sends every fave reviewer an Inuyasha character of their
choice*
Okay. Like I said, I have been revising old chapters, so, if it says that my fic has been updated, and there isn't a new chapter, its because I reposted an old chapter, they are, much better if I do say so myself, and, Tsukinoko, I did what you asked regarding their sleeping positions in chapter 3..or 4 whatever it was…Okay. Bye bye.
Oh, and by the way..did you notice the foreshadowing?
foreshadowing:
adj : indistinctly prophetic
n : providing vague advance indications
Yeah, in case you didn't notice, Something BAD is going to happen..
Okay..PLEASE review
By the way..did anyone notice I finaly got a program with spell check?
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