Chapter?: The Mondo Kawaii Mode
Kagome saw her mother waving through the window and motioned for her to come outside. Mrs. Higurashi nodded and left the window, appearing again opening the door, accompanied by Souta and Jii-chan . Souta breathed an all to audible sigh of relief at seeing his sister alive, he really had been worried about her. Jii-chan smiled, just as comforted by his granddaughters appearance as Souta. Mrs.Higurashi's reaction however, was quite different, and what would prove to be a terrifying experience for Miroku.
She squinted. Her daughter and friends were still a pretty large distance away, and her eyesight had never been quite perfect. But it wasn't that, it was the fact that she almost couldn't believe her eyes. For, her eyes were telling her that right in front of her was the single most kawaii thing she had ever seen, actually, in front of her, was a group of extremely kawaii things, some she had seen before, some that were new. She clasped her hands together in a way to school girlish fashion.
Kagome could see the look her mother was getting in her eye all to well with her enhanced vision, and it didn't take a genius to know why it was there. There was a reason she and the rest of the group had been just standing outside the well house, rather than going up and greeting her family.
Inuyasha and Shippo both new why Kagome had stopped, both of them had felt the wrath of Kagome's mother. Sango and Miroku weren't too sure what was going on, but neither one liked the way Mrs.Higurashi was looking at them, practically drooling.
Then Kagome saw what she had been dreading, just as she had feared, her mother was beginning to open her mouth, a squeal already emanating from it.
"Quick everyone, cover your ears! Now!"
Detecting the severe urgency in Kagome's voice, each one of them covered there ears tightly, save Kirara, who had never hated her feline body more than she did right that minute.
"KKKAAAAAAAAAAAAWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Shippo whimpered. Inuyasha grimaced. Sango and Miroku cursed there sensitive ears. Kirara considered suicide. Kagome sighed. Souta rolled his eyes, and Jii-chan had never been more thankful for his old age and lack of money to buy a hearing aid.
Mrs.Higurashi ran right up to the still recovering group and for a minute, she looked like she seemed lost. In reality, she just saw so many cute things at once, she didn't know what to do. It was like an overload of cuteness, she almost fainted. Unfortunately, logic took over her (Mrs.Higurashi Logic at least), and she did what she considered to be rational.
She giddily went and played with Miroku's ears.
Never before had the touch of a female been so unsettling to Miroku. This woman, that he barely new, had just came up and was now touching, no petting his ears. Now what would be the dignified monkly thing to do in this situation?
"erm…um.." Probably not that.
Sango didn't really know what to do either, after all, usually, she would just hit the offender with her boomerang, but this was Kagome's mother! She couldn't do that. So what could she do? 'Mrs., can you stop playing with my mates ears?'. She just couldn't bring herself to say that.
"umm…" Oh yeah, that was much better.
Shippo didn't care if Miroku's ears were being fondled, hey, it was every youkai for himself, which pretty much summed up Inuyasha's point of view as well.
Luckily, for Miroku at least, but most definitely not for Kirara, Kagome came to the rescue.
"Mother! mom! Look here! Look what I have! It's Kirara!", she proceeded to basically shove the now growling feline into her mother's face.
At the sight of the two tailed adorable kitty, her mother dropped Miroku's ears at once, now glomping onto Kirara.
And Kirara was meowing miserably. Can't..Breathe!..A..little…help..here!?
Sango pretended to ignore her, opting instead to undo her pony tail so that her hair hid her ears better. She tried in vain to hide her tail as well. However, her tail didn't seem to want to cooperate, sticking straight up with it's hair straight on end. Sango damned her feline tendencies.
Once again, Kagome took care of the problem, "Erm mom, why don't you let her down! She can do a trick! It's really erm.. neat! "
"A trick! I wanna see!" Kirara fell to the ground as Mrs.Higurashi once again clasped her hands together.
Kirara didn't need Kagome to ask her again, she obediently transformed into her larger, scarier form, and hoped to whatever was good and holy that Kagome's mom did not find it cute too.
By now, Souta and Jii-chan had arrived on the scene.
Jii-chan dug in his clothes, looking for a seal, only to prove, yet again, that they were anything but useful.
Despite Kirara's prayers, Mrs.Higurashi seemed to find this form just as cute, if not cuter, than the last one, as she was now petting her.
Sango..PLEASE!
"Wow..cool!", Souta was definitely impressed with the gigantic Kitty, and Sango saw this as her chance to save herself, Kirara, and Miroku from certain doom.
Sango nudged Inuyasha, who had been hiding behind Kagome with Shippo, both of them trying to make themselves as least noticeable as possible. "Hey, Inuyasha, who's the little boy?"
Inuyasha pressed his finger to his lips, shushing her. He couldn't draw attention to himself!
Shippo hopped over to Sango's shoulder, perfectly willing to answer her question, after all, this might be his escape too.
"That's Souta, Kagome's little brother."
Sango nodded and stepped over to the little boy, smiling brightly. "How'd you like to take a ride on her?"
"Really! You'd let me do that!?"
"Sure! We do all the time!"
Miroku finally realized where Sango was going with this and joined in. "Yeah, it's really fun too, especially when we get really high in the air."
Souta's mouth fell open. "In the air? COOL!". Alas, then realization dawned and caused the boy to become crestfallen, as it often does. "…but flying cat youkai isn't something people are used to in present day Japan…".
Sango and Miroku both pretended to act as disappointed as he was. Of course, that didn't last long, as Miroku all of a sudden smacked his forehead and looked as if he had just gotten a wonderful idea
"I've got it!, you can come with me and Sango to the Feudal era for a little while and ride her!", before he could go on enthusiastically about how great the feudal era was, as he had planned to do, he was hit upside the head in a not at all subtle manner by Shippo. "Um… and.. Shippo will come to.. because.. um.. because.."
"Because I'm just so cool!", Shippo supplied.
Sango nodded, "Right.. because.. he's.. just.. so cool.."
Now Souta really wasn't an idiot, and he could see straight through their charade. However, he wasn't gonna let that get in the way of going to the past and riding on a gigantic cat demon high in the air with a kitsune and two other demons, one with a cool boomerang. Besides, he couldn't say that he blamed them anyway, his mother could be.. well.. strange. He would just play along.
Of course, there was the matter of whether or not Jii-chan and his mother would allow him to go to a demon infested era and ride above the tree tops on a cat demon with two people he only knew from his sisters stories about her adventures. Actually, his mother wouldn't really be a problem, and Jii-chan could probably be persuaded, in reality, It was really a question of whether or not his sister would let him.
"Um.. Sis?"
Kagome took a break from trying to persuade Inuyasha to come out of the well house, where he had taken up hiding at, to look over at her brother.
"Yeah?"
"Erm…", He stared at his feet, honestly doubting his sister would let him go, "Can I.. go to the Feudal era and ride the cat with your friends?"
Kagome took in the situation, under normal circumstances, she would never allow her brother to go to that time, without herself at least. It wasn't that she didn't trust Miroku and Sango, no, she knew they could protect him, and he would be safe with them. It was just that they didn't understand how different the two times where as much as she did. They wouldn't understand all the simple things that seemed normal to them, but might actually scare Souta out of his wits.
But this wasn't normal circumstances. Her mom wouldn't stop becoming attached to random kawaii beings, and currently wouldn't stop petting Kirara, who she could tell was definitely getting annoyed.. Not to mention a grandfather throwing seals and scrolls all over the poor cat youkai. She had a hanyou hiding in a well house for all he was worth, simply because her mother had went into mondo kawaii mode. And then she had three other people who would like nothing more to be anywhere but there.
Sure, she wanted her friends to meet her family, but now wasn't the time. Her mother needed to calm down a little first. And right now, Sango, Miroku, Kirara, Shippo, and Souta going away for just a little while seemed like pretty good solution.
She took one last look between all three scenes. The seal throwing, the arm she was trying to tug out of the well house, the petting, the growling, and the three pleading faces.
"Um.. sure.. but I'll be back for you in thirty minutes!"
Souta could hardly believe his ears, his sister was letting him go there? Sango and Miroku were equally surprised, they really hadn't thought it would work. But, however surprised they were, they weren't going to wait around for her to change her mind. Kirara transformed back, and dashed past Inuyasha into the well house, followed by Sango, Souta, and Shippo.
Miroku stayed back a second, knowing he always would have to be the rational one. "Kagome? Are you sure we can go through the well without you or Inuyasha?"
Kagome stopped pulling vigorously at Inuyasha and looked to Miroku, surprised that he was actually still there. "Huh? What? Oh sure. Should work, it's your true time and all, but it's not Souta's, so make sure someone has a hold of him or he'll get left behind. I'll come back and get you all in thirty minutes.
Miroku nodded and joined the others. Shaking his head all the way as he tried to figure out just how Kagome always managed to be able to remain so calm in any situation, well, at least how she could talk coherently while fighting with a stubborn inu youkai.
Mrs.Higurashi looked to where the gang of cute things had stood just seconds before. Where did they go? For fear of going into withdrawal, she latched onto the first cute thing in her line of vision, and it certainly wasn't Jii-chan.
Kagome jerked around as something grabbed onto her ears, altogether abandoning her struggle with Inuyasha to see who the offender was, not that there was really much of a chance it was her grandfather, unless of course he was trying to cut them off of her.
"Mother! Let go! That hurts.", She whipped her head around though as her hearing detected someone making a mad dash for a certain time period. "SIT!"
CRASH
She really had to love those ears.. those ears that someone had finally reluctantly let go of.
"BITCH!" Even now, mates and all, there were still times that Inuyasha showed his less than pleasant side, mainly after a sit.
"YEAH I AM ONE!" Of course now, Kagome had a bit of a different response for it. Hell, what was she supposed to do? Argue with the dictionary?
It was strange too, how just that tiny different reaction gave her at least and extra thirty minutes of free time to her day. Before, she would have just sit him again, and he would bitch her again, and the cycle would have continued until (a) Inuyasha stopped moving (b) She had to stop because of a Shikon shard presence, or (c ) The unlikely event that he apologized. But now, just that simple admittance of yes, she was in fact a bitch, at least by all technical standards, effectively ended the argument. Just as it did this time, as Inuyasha walked begrudgingly out of the well house, rubbing his back for that 'I still don't forgive you.. but I really do' effect.
Jii-chan and Mrs.Higurashi stared between the two. Well, Jii-chan did, Mrs.Higurashi was really just staring at there cute ears.
Jii-chan shook his head sadly, "How awful.. you've only been together less than a month and already so many fights.. you should probably just give your relationship up now.." He wiped a tear from his eye.
Inuyasha, who had already joined Kagome at her side, and wrapped an arm around her waist, looked at him as if he hadn't the slightest idea what he was talking about.
Actually, it even took Kagome a minute to figure out what he was talking about.. it been so long since she had stopped thinking anything of these little quarrels.
"Oh, you mean the 'sitch'?" Kagome referred to it with the term she had started referring to it in her head a long time ago without even realizing it. Mainly, the term had been used for the sake of her and Sango's conversations. Some times when the two had been just talking, they would discuss Kagome and Inuyasha's fights. Originally, they had referred to it as the Sit bitch, but that had only led to major back aches for Inuyasha, usually when he was just within hearing range, but minding his own business. Thus, it had became know as sitch, a perfectly harmless word.
Jii-chan shook his head again, this time confused. Mrs.Higurashi amused herself with a butterfly.
"..sitch?"
Kagome shook her head for a yes and got ready for a hasty explanation, taking a step to the left of Inuyasha."Yes, Sitch. The 'si' for sit."
CRASH
"and the tch is for.."
"BITCH!"
"Exactly."
Jii-chan finally began to understand. "Oh.. well then yes, I mean the sitch."
Kagome smiled a comforting smile, "The sitch is nothing to be concerned about Jii-chan. It happens all the time and means absolutely nothing. I sit him when he's being stubborn or rude, which doesn't really cause much pain or damage, considering he's a hanyou, and then he calls me a bitch, which is correct, considering I am a female of the dog species."
"Um.. right."
Inuyasha pried himself from the group, looking none too happy. "Did'ja really have to give him a demonstration?"
Mrs.Higurashi sighed as the butterfly eluded her grasp yet again, this time flying too far away for any hope to be left of catching it. Coming to terms with the fact that yet another cute thing had gotten away, she resigned herself to the two cute things left.
"Sweety! What brings you here?"
~~~~~Authors Note~~~~
SUMIMASEN! SUMIMASEN! SUMIMASEN! (hmm..I think I just turned into a certain character from Fruits basket)
This has been my shortest chapter in a long time. Only about 2,500 words. I know I promised you a long update (7000 words) But things have changed. I ended up taking much longer than I expected at my dad's and was computer less the whole time. Now I'm back and I have lots of things going on right now. But that isn't going to get in the way of my writing, the only reason this is so short is because I really wanted to post something for you guys to hold you over. I promise to update again with a 5000 word post (to complete my 7000 word promise) within the next two days. I PROMISE! So wait patiently like good little reviewers.
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There should be more author talks to reviewers in my next chapter. Oh, and I'm sure some of you are wondering, or at least one of you, what ever happened to my favorite reviewers list. Well, they were getting to be too long and I got tired of typing it all out, so now, theres a new contest, the all time most favorite reviewer ever, will be mentioned in a special dedication page at the end of this story. There will be a top five greatest reviewer awards. so theres something to strive for.. so..
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