Author's notes: Thanks everyone who reviewed and added me to your favorite author's list! . You're comments have been great and very supportive, if I weren't so modest I'd probably be strolling down the halls at school proclaiming, "Hey, I'm a geek who writes fanfiction, but guess what? IM A DAMN COOL GEEK!" . well, actually that made no sense. Anyways, to answer a question many of you asked: Yes, Inu yasha is that dense. Also, because of the stupidity of ff.net, there is a new scene breaker.
Bye Bye, Baby!Chapter Nine
It was one of those days that you knew were going to suck from the moment you got up. At this moment in time, Inu yasha couldn't figure out what had made this the day of living hell. Perhaps it was the annoying squawking of Kagome? Hikari and her evil antics? Moriko's sickening cuteness? Not enough Coffee? Or perhaps it was the indigestion he was getting from the pizza. Either way, in Inu yasha's opinion, today sucked.
Through his musings, he seemed to remember the anomalous position he and Kagome had found themselves in and stared at the girl in disbelief. She was currently laughing so hard that her face was turning into a deep hue of purple and tears were running from her eyes. How she had managed to laugh herself into a coma was beyond him and he'd rather not find out. All he did was stare at her for a few brief moments before her cheeks puffed up and small 'phff' sound came from her mouth before she burst out laughing.
Inu yasha sat uncomfortably on the wooden floor as Kagome rolled around, literally, and clutching her stomach. His eye twitched as her giggles penetrated his ears to the point he was positive his eardrums were going to start bleeding. As a last resort, he stuck his index fingers into his ringing ears and sighed loudly. "Would you please, for the love of all that is sacred and sane, shut the hell up?" he barked at her, louder than he meant to be.
Kagome paused in her laughter to give him a misty eyed look, still hazed with laughter and her drunkenness before she burst into laughter again. Inu yasha sighed disconsolately and stood. "Fine, I'm going to bed," he snapped at her, and Kagome managed to nod.
Seriously, that woman was going to be the death of him…
Inu yasha observed Kagome for a moment before leaning down and picking up the fallen girl. He clutched her in his arms as he made his way towards the bedroom. As he opened it, his eyes fell the on the two sleeping children and he let out a groan of annoyance.
"No room," Kagome muttered, her giggles replaced by a tired, sleepy voice. Inu yasha turned his violet eyes towards the woman who was slowly sinking into sleep.
"No shit," Inu yasha said, mocking Kagome's tone as he closed the door behind him and walked the few steps to 'his' room. He opened the door and was greeted with his messy bed and room. Though it was pretty much empty, his clothes were spread all over the ground, to the point that the floor was invisible. "You can sleep here," Inu yasha said as he practically tossed the drunken woman onto the bed.
"Whatever," Kagome slurred as she snuggled into his pillow. "Smells like you," she said absently.
"Yeah, yeah, don't get used to this woman. I'm not going to start treating you like a queen," Inu yasha grumbled, though his mind was still plaguing over the horoscope. Seriously, why was he reading so much into this? It was a stupid horoscope. Those things were never right…nor were they real.
He pulled the comforter over the already dozing woman and his eyes lingered on her slack face. Her bright blue eyes were hidden behind heavy lids, her long eyelashes caressing her pink cheeks. Her eyebrows weren't knitted together in annoyance and were instead turned in an upward arc. Her lips were slightly parted and her soft breath escaped the pink lips. He blinked and turned his eyes away, feeling like a voyeur.
"'Night," Kagome muttered before sleep claimed her.
"Keh," he snorted and left the room, retreating towards the couch.
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The first thing Kagome noticed when she drifted away from her dreamless sleep was that her head hurt. A lot. When she opened her eyes it felt like a thousand volts of electricity had been concentrated into one single bulb…that was held right in front of her face. With a large groan she stuffed her head under the fluffy pillow her head was cushioned under, but to her, the pillow might as well have been a rock for the amount of comfort it was giving her.
The second thing she noticed was that the bed was much harder than her own. Therefore, through her fuzzy mind, she was able to deduce that she wasn't in her own bed. As she took a deep, steadying breath, her nostrils were filled with an unmistakenably male scent.
Her eyes popped open and she sat up quickly. Which led to her third discovery: When you had a hangover…never sit up quickly.
With a small groan of discomfort she fell back onto the pillow, a head rush sending her grounded. The world went black as blood rushed to her head and the pounding headache attacked her senses.
'Stupid alcohol…stupid Sango,' she cursed her best friend.
After a long moment of Kagome only breathing, she finally managed to sit up. Only to feel something twitch in her stomach…her hands closed over her mouth quickly as she retreated to the bathroom, where the sounds of her hurling carried throughout the apartment.
She became vaguely aware of her hair being pulled back from her face as she gripped the toilet bowl. Soft fingers lightly traced her neck as the hair was piled in a small, messy bun on top of her head.
She bashfully stood and ran to the sink, where she brushed her teeth multiple times, trying to rid herself of the disgusting taste of her vomit. She turned her head when the abnormally large toilet flush drew her from her franticly slurred mind.
Her blue eyes surveyed Inu yasha suspiciously. He leaned against the wall, having flushed the toilet with his bare foot, too lazy to take his weight from the poorly wallpapered wall.
"Uh…thanks…" Kagome said sheepishly. Inu yasha's amethyst eyes turned away from his feet in favor of holding her azure gaze. He smirked softly and shook his head.
"It was nothing," he shrugged as if it truly were nothing. Maybe it was, but the fact that the egotistical, cocky, sarcastically cynical man had been kind enough to hold her hair back was enough for him to earn a few respect points.
"I appreciate it," Kagome smiled, and then felt her stomach turn. For a brief moment she though she needed to barf again, but soon the feeling in her stomach stopped. She was left with an odd tingly feeling that kept returning when Inu yasha smiled.
Wait…
"Did you take advantage of me while I was drunk and now you regret it and are trying to make it up to me?" Kagome shrieked, her mind running away without her. Inu yasha raised a slick eyebrow before chuckling and shaking his head.
"Hardly, why would I take advantage of you?" Inu yasha asked with a grin.
Kagome growled and would have hurt him if she weren't so hung over.
Inu yasha laughed and tilted his head towards the door. "Moriko and Hikari are still sleeping. Hikari's butler phoned and said he'd come to pick her up shortly. Hikari and Moriko were evil last night, they ate pizza, they tried to watch South Park, they tied me to a chair, and then made me read a story to them…yeah, that's about it," he tapped his chin in thought before smirking, "Anything else you want to know?"
"Did Moriko really tie you to a chair?" Kagome asked, eyeing the man with a sidelong glance.
"Yes. And before you even think of asking. No, it was not bondage," he scowled, "And no, I did not touch your daughter or her little sadistic friend."
"Good," Kagome smiled and tried to walk out of the bathroom with as much conviction in her step as humanly possible. (After all, she did have a hang over the size of New York)
---After the 'butler' took Hikari home and after Inu yasha's comments on how he looked like Alfred and if Hikari's dad was really batman, Kagome sat in the kitchen making lunch for Moriko and, sadly, Inu yasha.
The man didn't know how to cook. At all. Well, apart from ramen and other instant food, he was basically lacking in the foods category. Kagome cut some vegetables for Moriko and checked to see if the French fries were finished cooking in the oven. Moriko liked French fries and tater tots; anything that had potatoes and endless amounts of fat and grease was fine with the little girl.
Inu yasha sat at the table, staring as she made sandwiches. His two hands supported his head, both propped up on the countertop as he stared at Kagome's back. He could clearly hear the knife chopping carrots on the cutting board and the small ticking of the timer on the oven. He yawned loudly and scratched the back of his neck.
"Why is this taking so long?" He whined.
"You be quiet," Kagome said crossly and threw a carrot stick at him. "Eat that if you're starving."
"Keh!" His amethyst eyes studied the orange root before he started to eat it.
Kagome smiled tenderly before returning to her cooking. A pregnant pause stretched between them, the only sounds the steady chopping of a knife and the chomping of teeth.
"MOMMY!" Kagome jumped with a small shriek and Inu yasha tilted his head as Moriko marched her way into the room, her little chest puffed out and her hands on her hips. She stood in the middle of the kitchen with her blue eyes glowing.
"Yes, baby?" Kagome asked with a smile, she clutched the knife like a lifeline and appeared to be some mental case from a horror film.
"I have come to an executive decision involving you, Inu yasha and my future," Moriko said as she looked at her hand. Inu yasha raised an eyebrow at the sharp written on her palm. He sighed…what Moriko was saying was sounding suspiciously like something Hikari would say.
All this was lost on Kagome, who was still suffering from a massive headache, "Is that so? What would that be?"
"I'm going to run away and join the circus!" Moriko said proudly.
Kagome sighed, it was going to be another typical day…well as typical as a day involving a complex idiot and her daughter's mind becoming poisoned can be…
She turned around and continued chopping.
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Rant time: I hate the new ff.net quick edit thing, it totally fucks up my spacing, it gets rid of my scene breakers and its fucking-- stupid thank you. I hate it.