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"Souta!"
"Kagome..." Kagome's little brother Souta stared at his sister from the doorway like he had seen a ghost. "I didn't think you would come back after what Mom said to you..." he continued to stare.
"Shut your mouth, Souta," said Inuyasha, reaching out and tapping Souta's bottom jaw back up to click against the top.
"Is Mom at home?" Kagome asked. Souta snapped out of it and began talking like a normal person again.
"No. She should be home soon, though. Did you come to talk to her?"
"Yeah. Why else would I have come back?" Souta moved aside for them to come in.
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Kagome, Inuyasha, and Shippou sat on the couch, and Souta went upstairs to do his homework. It felt strange to Kagome to be in her house. She guessed it was the modern-ness of it all.
'I wonder if she's going to yell at me again. I have a few things to say to her...like whether or not she cares that I didn't even choose to be pregnant...' She was jerked sharply out of her reverie by the sound of her mother entering the house through the kitchen door.
"Souta, I'm home!" she called. Setting the groceries on the counter, she walked into the living room. Small surprise that she screamed bloody murder when she saw her daughter and the one who she thought got her daughter pregnant sitting on her living room couch.
"What are you doing here?!" she yelled. Kagome stood up.
"Mom, I—"
"Oh, this is perfect. Not only does my former daughter come back to a house from which she has been banished, but she brings that...that...mutt here with her!!" Inuyasha adopted an insulted look but kept silent. Shippou, however, was not so wise.
"Hey! You leave him alone!" He bounded up onto Inuyasha's head and from there to Kagome's shoulder. Mrs. Higurashi stepped back. "Who are you?" she asked. "Another demon?"
"I'm Shippou, Kagome's friend."
"Leave him alone, Mom. I came to talk to you, and if you'll just listen to what I have to say, I'll go back to the Sengoku Jidai and leave you alone forever." Sighing heavily, Kagome's mother sat down and allowed her daughter to speak.
Kagome told the whole story. About how much she had cried, about how Inuyasha promised to take care of her and the baby, how Sesshoumaru kidnapped her, and about how Kouga got mad at Inuyasha for letting all this happen in the first place.
She cried part of the way through, and Inuyasha put his arm around her, never saying a word. When Kagome finally got finished telling the story, Mrs. Higurashi found her voice.
"It sounds to me like the whole thing was Inuyasha's fault..." she said quietly. Inuyasha looked at his girlfriend's mother with honesty in his eyes. Kagome came to Inuyasha's defense.
"Mom, if he had had the choice, he would never have let this happen! He's a good person. Sure, he can get a little childish at times, and he's the most jealous and competitive person I've ever met in my life, but he's really a good person. I love him."
Mrs. Higurashi looked from Kagome to Inuyasha to Shippou and back.
"If your friends...your life...is in the Sengoku Jidai, why did you come back here?" she asked.
"To let you know the truth, of course," said Inuyasha. "You would have gone on hating your own daughter for the rest of your life, believing that it was all her choice."
"What do you know anyway, you mongrel?!" Inuyasha suppressed a growl.
"I spent most of my life without my mother. If I could have chosen, I would have spent that time with her instead of letting her die. Kagome was going to spend the rest of her life in the Feudal Era with us just because you said you didn't want her to come back here! Even when you disowned her, she did what you wanted her to!" he said.
Mrs. Higurashi cast her eyes upon Shippou. "And I suppose you feel the same?" Shippou thought of his parents and of how at least one of Inuyasha's had survived longer than the other.
"Both my parents were murdered. Inuyasha and Kagome got revenge for me."
"Oh." There was a pause.
"Well?" said Inuyasha.
"I don't hate you, Kagome. I suppose I was just...angry. That this could happen at all, not even whether or not it was your choice."
[Ah, yes. Insert warm chick-flick-reunion-y scene here. I'm no good at writing those. On with the story, when Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippou return to the feudal era:]
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"I'm glad your mom's not mad at you anymore, Kagome," said Shippou.
"Me, too," she said, looking up at the stars through the leaves overhead.
[A/N: That was...short. Was it? It seemed short to me. I'm trying my hardest here, and the next chapter will hold Naraku's plan to kill Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, and Kagome. Dun-dun-dun! I'm out of school for the summer now, so I should be able to write more. If you want to contact me in some other way than reviewing or e-mailing me, IM me (MSN messenger) at saotome131hotmail.com.
Ja ne, I suppose.]
"Souta!"
"Kagome..." Kagome's little brother Souta stared at his sister from the doorway like he had seen a ghost. "I didn't think you would come back after what Mom said to you..." he continued to stare.
"Shut your mouth, Souta," said Inuyasha, reaching out and tapping Souta's bottom jaw back up to click against the top.
"Is Mom at home?" Kagome asked. Souta snapped out of it and began talking like a normal person again.
"No. She should be home soon, though. Did you come to talk to her?"
"Yeah. Why else would I have come back?" Souta moved aside for them to come in.
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Kagome, Inuyasha, and Shippou sat on the couch, and Souta went upstairs to do his homework. It felt strange to Kagome to be in her house. She guessed it was the modern-ness of it all.
'I wonder if she's going to yell at me again. I have a few things to say to her...like whether or not she cares that I didn't even choose to be pregnant...' She was jerked sharply out of her reverie by the sound of her mother entering the house through the kitchen door.
"Souta, I'm home!" she called. Setting the groceries on the counter, she walked into the living room. Small surprise that she screamed bloody murder when she saw her daughter and the one who she thought got her daughter pregnant sitting on her living room couch.
"What are you doing here?!" she yelled. Kagome stood up.
"Mom, I—"
"Oh, this is perfect. Not only does my former daughter come back to a house from which she has been banished, but she brings that...that...mutt here with her!!" Inuyasha adopted an insulted look but kept silent. Shippou, however, was not so wise.
"Hey! You leave him alone!" He bounded up onto Inuyasha's head and from there to Kagome's shoulder. Mrs. Higurashi stepped back. "Who are you?" she asked. "Another demon?"
"I'm Shippou, Kagome's friend."
"Leave him alone, Mom. I came to talk to you, and if you'll just listen to what I have to say, I'll go back to the Sengoku Jidai and leave you alone forever." Sighing heavily, Kagome's mother sat down and allowed her daughter to speak.
Kagome told the whole story. About how much she had cried, about how Inuyasha promised to take care of her and the baby, how Sesshoumaru kidnapped her, and about how Kouga got mad at Inuyasha for letting all this happen in the first place.
She cried part of the way through, and Inuyasha put his arm around her, never saying a word. When Kagome finally got finished telling the story, Mrs. Higurashi found her voice.
"It sounds to me like the whole thing was Inuyasha's fault..." she said quietly. Inuyasha looked at his girlfriend's mother with honesty in his eyes. Kagome came to Inuyasha's defense.
"Mom, if he had had the choice, he would never have let this happen! He's a good person. Sure, he can get a little childish at times, and he's the most jealous and competitive person I've ever met in my life, but he's really a good person. I love him."
Mrs. Higurashi looked from Kagome to Inuyasha to Shippou and back.
"If your friends...your life...is in the Sengoku Jidai, why did you come back here?" she asked.
"To let you know the truth, of course," said Inuyasha. "You would have gone on hating your own daughter for the rest of your life, believing that it was all her choice."
"What do you know anyway, you mongrel?!" Inuyasha suppressed a growl.
"I spent most of my life without my mother. If I could have chosen, I would have spent that time with her instead of letting her die. Kagome was going to spend the rest of her life in the Feudal Era with us just because you said you didn't want her to come back here! Even when you disowned her, she did what you wanted her to!" he said.
Mrs. Higurashi cast her eyes upon Shippou. "And I suppose you feel the same?" Shippou thought of his parents and of how at least one of Inuyasha's had survived longer than the other.
"Both my parents were murdered. Inuyasha and Kagome got revenge for me."
"Oh." There was a pause.
"Well?" said Inuyasha.
"I don't hate you, Kagome. I suppose I was just...angry. That this could happen at all, not even whether or not it was your choice."
[Ah, yes. Insert warm chick-flick-reunion-y scene here. I'm no good at writing those. On with the story, when Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippou return to the feudal era:]
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"I'm glad your mom's not mad at you anymore, Kagome," said Shippou.
"Me, too," she said, looking up at the stars through the leaves overhead.
[A/N: That was...short. Was it? It seemed short to me. I'm trying my hardest here, and the next chapter will hold Naraku's plan to kill Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, and Kagome. Dun-dun-dun! I'm out of school for the summer now, so I should be able to write more. If you want to contact me in some other way than reviewing or e-mailing me, IM me (MSN messenger) at saotome131hotmail.com.
Ja ne, I suppose.]