Disclaimer: Aye, I do not own this thing you be callin' Inuyasha. I be
sorry 'bout that.
Author's note: I'm back! From where, you ask? Well, I took a break from writing but now I'm back! I took my exams and I am hoping I did good but to get my mind off of that (and work), I will be writing!! Plus, now I'm going to try to make the chapters longer! Not as long as the ones in my other story, White Hair Pirate (go read it!!), but some what like that. Well, enjoy!
Chapter 21 Times are hard
"I'm sorry Mrs. Higurashi, I don't know what's wrong with your daughter." And older man with a puffy white bead, thick glasses and a brown suit said with a sigh. "I am very sorry that I can't do anything more." He rubbed his shinny head, letting another sigh escape from his aged lips.
"Are you sure doctor?" Mrs. Higurashi asked as her eyes seached him for a possible. Though, deep in her heart she knew that this doctor would not be any better then the others.
The doctor nodded sadly as he started for the door. "Just give her some rest, that is all I can say." He replied as he grasped the metal knob and pulled the door open. "Again, I am sorry that I could not be of anymore assistance."
Mrs. Higurashi frowned, lowering her head as she closed the door behind the old doctor. She sighed deeply as leaned her back against the door, closing her tired eyes.
Inuyasha pushed back some stray strands of his silver locks as he watched Mrs. Higurashi from the stairwell. His frowned deepened as he watched Mrs. Higurashi walk past him and into the living room, looking rather depress. 'She looks so sad....' He thought, leaning back against the wall. This was the tired, or was it the forth? Oh well, doctor after doctor had come to the Higurashi shrine to see what was wrong with the young school girl, Kagome. They all left saying the same, 'Give her some rest'. Inuyasha snorted as he glanced up the long stair case that lead to Kagome's room.
"Don't worry," Grandpa's voice echoed from the living room as he tried to comfort his daughter. "We don't need any doctors, we'll figure something out."
[A/N: Personally, I don't know if Kagome's grandfather is Mrs. Higurashi's father or not, she I decided it to be Kagomes' mothers' father.]
"Thank you dad." Mrs. Higurashi said weakly as she sat her self down on the couch.
Inuyasha huffed angrily and started up the stairs toward Kagome's room. Once walking threw the hallway, he reached her room. As usual, it smelled of strawberries, it smelled of Kagome. He took a deep breath in of the sweet aroma before he opened the door. He looked around the dark room, finally resting his gaze on Kagome's bed. She still laid in the pink covers, asleep.
"Inuyasha? Can you come here for a moment?"
Inuyasha sighed lightly as Mrs. Higurashi's voice reached his ears. He closed the door behind him as he left to go see what Kagome's mother wanted this time. As he came down the stairs, his heart seemed to stop for a moment once he saw Mrs. Higurashi's sadden face smile up at him. "Y-yeah?" He inquired as he now stood in the doorway to the living room.
"Inuyasha, could you do me a favor?" Mrs. Higurashi asked cautiously as Grandpa just huffed angrily.
Inuyasha raised a brow, a bit confused on how nervous Kagome's mother was being. But, being his normal aloof self, he shrugged, "Sure, I guess."
Mrs. Higurashi smiled from ear to ear. "Thank you, Inuyasha." She brushed back some brown strands of hair that persisted on sitting in front of her eyes. "You see, my father and I are going out of town to see if we can find a doctor to help Kagome."
"And I come in..... where?" Inuyasha asked, wondering if he should have reconsidered agreeing or not. Though, once he saw Mrs. Higurashi's face fall a bit, his heart sank. 'Well, this is for Kagome.... so I guess I can do this.' He thought to himself.
"All we need you to do is to look after Kagome and Souta while we're gone." Mrs. Higurashi stood up, brushing off some invisible dirt off her skirt. With a small smile, she walked over to Inuyasha and placed once of her small hands on his shoulder. "Please, I hope you don't mind."
Inuyasha nodded slowly and opened his mouth to say something, but Kagome's elderly grandfather interrupted him. "I still don't trust him." Grandpa grumbled, walked past both of them.
Mrs. Higurashi giggled lightly as she took her hand off of Inuyasha's shoulder. "Thank you Inuyasha." She took a deep breath in, glancing up towards the stair well, her old smile returning to her lips. "My father and I are already packed as I thought something like this would come up."
"Come on, the taxi is here." Grandpa impatiently said as he stood at the door with two bags at his side. He crossed his arms over his chest, eyeing Inuyasha. "You better not mess up." He grumbled.
Mrs. Higurashi sighed as Inuyasha glared daggers at the old man. Ignoring their little war, Mrs. Higurashi turned to Inuyasha and spoke, "Now, make sure Kagome gets a lot of rest and that Souta gets to school on time. On, and make sure Souta goes to bed at 8:30, no later! And-"
"Come on Mae! The taxi is waiting!" Grandpa grumbled as he grabbed on of her arms and started to pull her towards the door, the bags in his other hand.
"All right, all right.... Inuyasha, good luck!" Mrs.Higurashi waved her good-bye as she closed the wooden door behind her, leaving Inuyasha all alone.
Inuyasha sighed deeply, letting his shoulder slump. 'Well, at least Souta is at that thing call... school? Well, for now.' He thought as he looked around the nearly empty house. Nothing stirred, nothing moved, nothing happened. He blinked, turning around a bit before asking himself, "What now?"
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"I'm home!" Souta chirped as he flung open the door. His happy, everything- is-right-with-the-world smile soon faded as he realized on one had come to greet him. "Mom? Grandpa?" He called out as he walked down the hall, leaving his scooby doo backpack at the door.
"They're not here right now."
"ACK!" Souta screamed as he dropped to his knees and covered his head. "Please...... please don't eat me...." He whimpered.
A dark figure sighed deeply as it jumped off the table it was crouching on. The figure rolled it's golden eyes as it knelt down next to the smaller boy. "Don't be such a big wuss. It's me, Inuyasha." He gave the small boy a toothy grin as he rested in head on one of his hands. "Plus, this is your house."
Souta blinked as he slowly lifted his head to look at the man claimed to be Inuyasha. He smiled as he recognized the fluffy, white puppy ears that sat upon his hero's head. "Inuyasha!" He jumped forward and hugged the unexpecting hanyou, knocking them both back to the ground.
Inuyasha blushed lightly, not sure what to do with the kid. "Uh....... yeah?" He sat up, sitting the boy up as well.
Souta frowned, looking at the ground as if answers would spring up out of no where. "Inuyasha, where is mom? And grandpa?"
"They're out of town for a while." Inuyasha replied as he stood up, slightly stretching out his back. He rubbed his nose as he walked past the boy and into the kitchen.
"Oh." Souta sighed sadly, as he too stood up and went into the kitchen. "So, your gonna look after us?" His face seemed to lighten up a bit as he watched his dog-eared friend look around the kitchen.
Inuyasha nodded his silent reply as he hopped up onto the counter top. He moved over to one of the wooden cupboard and opened it. At first, he just crouched there, sniffing the insides. Finally, he started to pull out random items as he sniffed each of them. He reacted badly to one called 'black pepper' and tossed that to the side.
Souta blinked, watching the small bottle crash against the wall. "Um.... what are you doing?" Souta asked, turning his attention back to Inuyasha.
"I thought I saw it in here....." Inuyasha mumbled with his head still in the cupboard.
"Saw what?" Souta asked, now trying to get on the same counter that Inuyasha couched upon. After a while of trying to jump onto it, or climb, the small boy finally gave up on the counter.
"I thought I saw raman up here...." Inuyasha sighed, sitting back on the counter. He sniffed the air, starring at the many cupboards that lined the wall.
"Oh!" Souta smiled and ran over to a bottom cupboard that sat by the fridge. Soon, after pulling out a few items, he came back out with a couple instant cups of raman. "They're right here!"
Inuyasha smirked and jumped down from the counter top. He knelt down next to the younger boy, ruffling up his hair. "Thanks kid-"
DING DONG
Inuyasha blinked, looking to where the sound originated. After a moment of staring at the door in confusement, he turning to Souta, looking for some kind of help. Souta on shrugged, motioning him to go to the door. The hanyou sighed lightly, standing up and walking to the door. With a long creak of the rusty hinges, Inuyasha opened the door to see....... Hojo.
"What do -you- want?" Inuyasha snorted, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Uh....." Hojo just stood there, starring blankly as his snowy whit puppy ears. His jaw seemed to drop as the human boy could not come up with an explanation for this taller boy's weird feature.
Inuyasha glared dagger at him, getting very annoyed at his blank stare. "What do you want?" He repeated, his voice rising with every word.
"O-oh....." Hojo smiled weakly, taking his gaze away from the ears. "I'm here to see Higurashi. Are you the fellow who is from Canada? Higurashi's friend told me about you!" He grinned, extending a hand for Inuyasha to shack.
Inuyasha ignored the hand, for right now his mind was on something else. At first, Inuyasha had no clue in hell what he was talking about, but then realization his him like a brick wall as he remembered his earlier encounter with Kagome's friends.
"Yeah." He snorted, watching as Hojo's gaze wavered from his ears to his fangs, and back again.
Hojo blinked, regaining his composure. "So, can I see Higurashi?"
"Nope."
"Huh? Why not?" Hojo asked, looking a bit dumbfounded.
"Because you can't!" Inuyasha snapped, glaring at him. Already, the first few moments of meeting this boy, he did not like him! Not one bit!
"Who are you really?" Hojo asked, raising a brow as he looked him over. "And what are those on your head?"
"My ears!" Inuyasha growled as he stepped back. "Now, go away ya stickin' kid!" He grabbed the side of the door and started to close it in Hojo's face.
Hojo stepped forward, putting one of his foot in the doorway to stop him. "Hey! I still need to see Higurashi!" He persisted, glaring back at the golden-eyed hanyou.
"Well, sorry to disappoint you but you ain't seein' her"
"Who are you to her, you dog-eared freak?!"
That comment, especially coming from the kid made Inuyasha's youkai blood boil in rage. His teeth grinded together as he tried to keep himself from ripping off Hojo's head. "What.... did you call me?" He growled, his claws digging into the side of the door.
Hojo gulped, but held his ground. "Y-you know what I called you!" He yelled, puffing out his chest, trying to look braver and bigger then Inuyasha.
BAM
Inuyasha's fist collided with the side of Hojo's face, knocking him back to the ground. Hojo stared in shock at Inuyasha as he slowly lifted his hand to the side of his face, which already was starting to bruise.
Inuyasha grinned, cracking his claws in a mocking kind of way. "Don't -ever- come back!" He spat as he took a step back and slammed the door shut.
"In-inuyasha?"
Inuyasha froze. He knew who's voice that was and he knew what might be coming for him. He might be kissing the floor in a moment from now. He took a big breath in as he slowly turning around to meet dark brown eyes starring at him. "Ka-kagome...." He cringed lightly, preparing himself for a 'sit', thought something totally different happened. Instead of crashing to the ground which he had expected, Kagome was now in his arms, holding him tightly.
"Thank you Inuyasha!" Kagome cried, hugging him even tighter. "I could never get him to leave me alone! He just keeps.... well, being annoying." Her voice went down to a whisper as she snuggled down into his chest. "Thank you."
Inuyasha blushed lightly as his praise. He never knew that kid was bothering her, so why didn't she tell her that? He could have taken cared of the brown-hair freak ages ago! Though, he decided not to ask at the moment because right now he was enjoying the moment with Kagome.
"Ew...." Souta moaned as he wrinkled his nose at the scene of Inuyasha and Kagome hugging. "Do you really have to do -that- here?"
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waterdoragon: Well, I hope that was a long enough chapter for you!! I loved writing Mrs. Higurashi, though it was a sad moment for her. And Hojo, oh poor Hojo. Oh well, he deserves it for calling MY Inuyasha a dog-eared freak! So, NAH!!!! Another thing, I don't really know Mrs. Higurashi's real name so I looked some names up and picked the shortest one that I thought would work with her. Anyway, please R&R.
Author's note: I'm back! From where, you ask? Well, I took a break from writing but now I'm back! I took my exams and I am hoping I did good but to get my mind off of that (and work), I will be writing!! Plus, now I'm going to try to make the chapters longer! Not as long as the ones in my other story, White Hair Pirate (go read it!!), but some what like that. Well, enjoy!
Chapter 21 Times are hard
"I'm sorry Mrs. Higurashi, I don't know what's wrong with your daughter." And older man with a puffy white bead, thick glasses and a brown suit said with a sigh. "I am very sorry that I can't do anything more." He rubbed his shinny head, letting another sigh escape from his aged lips.
"Are you sure doctor?" Mrs. Higurashi asked as her eyes seached him for a possible. Though, deep in her heart she knew that this doctor would not be any better then the others.
The doctor nodded sadly as he started for the door. "Just give her some rest, that is all I can say." He replied as he grasped the metal knob and pulled the door open. "Again, I am sorry that I could not be of anymore assistance."
Mrs. Higurashi frowned, lowering her head as she closed the door behind the old doctor. She sighed deeply as leaned her back against the door, closing her tired eyes.
Inuyasha pushed back some stray strands of his silver locks as he watched Mrs. Higurashi from the stairwell. His frowned deepened as he watched Mrs. Higurashi walk past him and into the living room, looking rather depress. 'She looks so sad....' He thought, leaning back against the wall. This was the tired, or was it the forth? Oh well, doctor after doctor had come to the Higurashi shrine to see what was wrong with the young school girl, Kagome. They all left saying the same, 'Give her some rest'. Inuyasha snorted as he glanced up the long stair case that lead to Kagome's room.
"Don't worry," Grandpa's voice echoed from the living room as he tried to comfort his daughter. "We don't need any doctors, we'll figure something out."
[A/N: Personally, I don't know if Kagome's grandfather is Mrs. Higurashi's father or not, she I decided it to be Kagomes' mothers' father.]
"Thank you dad." Mrs. Higurashi said weakly as she sat her self down on the couch.
Inuyasha huffed angrily and started up the stairs toward Kagome's room. Once walking threw the hallway, he reached her room. As usual, it smelled of strawberries, it smelled of Kagome. He took a deep breath in of the sweet aroma before he opened the door. He looked around the dark room, finally resting his gaze on Kagome's bed. She still laid in the pink covers, asleep.
"Inuyasha? Can you come here for a moment?"
Inuyasha sighed lightly as Mrs. Higurashi's voice reached his ears. He closed the door behind him as he left to go see what Kagome's mother wanted this time. As he came down the stairs, his heart seemed to stop for a moment once he saw Mrs. Higurashi's sadden face smile up at him. "Y-yeah?" He inquired as he now stood in the doorway to the living room.
"Inuyasha, could you do me a favor?" Mrs. Higurashi asked cautiously as Grandpa just huffed angrily.
Inuyasha raised a brow, a bit confused on how nervous Kagome's mother was being. But, being his normal aloof self, he shrugged, "Sure, I guess."
Mrs. Higurashi smiled from ear to ear. "Thank you, Inuyasha." She brushed back some brown strands of hair that persisted on sitting in front of her eyes. "You see, my father and I are going out of town to see if we can find a doctor to help Kagome."
"And I come in..... where?" Inuyasha asked, wondering if he should have reconsidered agreeing or not. Though, once he saw Mrs. Higurashi's face fall a bit, his heart sank. 'Well, this is for Kagome.... so I guess I can do this.' He thought to himself.
"All we need you to do is to look after Kagome and Souta while we're gone." Mrs. Higurashi stood up, brushing off some invisible dirt off her skirt. With a small smile, she walked over to Inuyasha and placed once of her small hands on his shoulder. "Please, I hope you don't mind."
Inuyasha nodded slowly and opened his mouth to say something, but Kagome's elderly grandfather interrupted him. "I still don't trust him." Grandpa grumbled, walked past both of them.
Mrs. Higurashi giggled lightly as she took her hand off of Inuyasha's shoulder. "Thank you Inuyasha." She took a deep breath in, glancing up towards the stair well, her old smile returning to her lips. "My father and I are already packed as I thought something like this would come up."
"Come on, the taxi is here." Grandpa impatiently said as he stood at the door with two bags at his side. He crossed his arms over his chest, eyeing Inuyasha. "You better not mess up." He grumbled.
Mrs. Higurashi sighed as Inuyasha glared daggers at the old man. Ignoring their little war, Mrs. Higurashi turned to Inuyasha and spoke, "Now, make sure Kagome gets a lot of rest and that Souta gets to school on time. On, and make sure Souta goes to bed at 8:30, no later! And-"
"Come on Mae! The taxi is waiting!" Grandpa grumbled as he grabbed on of her arms and started to pull her towards the door, the bags in his other hand.
"All right, all right.... Inuyasha, good luck!" Mrs.Higurashi waved her good-bye as she closed the wooden door behind her, leaving Inuyasha all alone.
Inuyasha sighed deeply, letting his shoulder slump. 'Well, at least Souta is at that thing call... school? Well, for now.' He thought as he looked around the nearly empty house. Nothing stirred, nothing moved, nothing happened. He blinked, turning around a bit before asking himself, "What now?"
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"I'm home!" Souta chirped as he flung open the door. His happy, everything- is-right-with-the-world smile soon faded as he realized on one had come to greet him. "Mom? Grandpa?" He called out as he walked down the hall, leaving his scooby doo backpack at the door.
"They're not here right now."
"ACK!" Souta screamed as he dropped to his knees and covered his head. "Please...... please don't eat me...." He whimpered.
A dark figure sighed deeply as it jumped off the table it was crouching on. The figure rolled it's golden eyes as it knelt down next to the smaller boy. "Don't be such a big wuss. It's me, Inuyasha." He gave the small boy a toothy grin as he rested in head on one of his hands. "Plus, this is your house."
Souta blinked as he slowly lifted his head to look at the man claimed to be Inuyasha. He smiled as he recognized the fluffy, white puppy ears that sat upon his hero's head. "Inuyasha!" He jumped forward and hugged the unexpecting hanyou, knocking them both back to the ground.
Inuyasha blushed lightly, not sure what to do with the kid. "Uh....... yeah?" He sat up, sitting the boy up as well.
Souta frowned, looking at the ground as if answers would spring up out of no where. "Inuyasha, where is mom? And grandpa?"
"They're out of town for a while." Inuyasha replied as he stood up, slightly stretching out his back. He rubbed his nose as he walked past the boy and into the kitchen.
"Oh." Souta sighed sadly, as he too stood up and went into the kitchen. "So, your gonna look after us?" His face seemed to lighten up a bit as he watched his dog-eared friend look around the kitchen.
Inuyasha nodded his silent reply as he hopped up onto the counter top. He moved over to one of the wooden cupboard and opened it. At first, he just crouched there, sniffing the insides. Finally, he started to pull out random items as he sniffed each of them. He reacted badly to one called 'black pepper' and tossed that to the side.
Souta blinked, watching the small bottle crash against the wall. "Um.... what are you doing?" Souta asked, turning his attention back to Inuyasha.
"I thought I saw it in here....." Inuyasha mumbled with his head still in the cupboard.
"Saw what?" Souta asked, now trying to get on the same counter that Inuyasha couched upon. After a while of trying to jump onto it, or climb, the small boy finally gave up on the counter.
"I thought I saw raman up here...." Inuyasha sighed, sitting back on the counter. He sniffed the air, starring at the many cupboards that lined the wall.
"Oh!" Souta smiled and ran over to a bottom cupboard that sat by the fridge. Soon, after pulling out a few items, he came back out with a couple instant cups of raman. "They're right here!"
Inuyasha smirked and jumped down from the counter top. He knelt down next to the younger boy, ruffling up his hair. "Thanks kid-"
DING DONG
Inuyasha blinked, looking to where the sound originated. After a moment of staring at the door in confusement, he turning to Souta, looking for some kind of help. Souta on shrugged, motioning him to go to the door. The hanyou sighed lightly, standing up and walking to the door. With a long creak of the rusty hinges, Inuyasha opened the door to see....... Hojo.
"What do -you- want?" Inuyasha snorted, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Uh....." Hojo just stood there, starring blankly as his snowy whit puppy ears. His jaw seemed to drop as the human boy could not come up with an explanation for this taller boy's weird feature.
Inuyasha glared dagger at him, getting very annoyed at his blank stare. "What do you want?" He repeated, his voice rising with every word.
"O-oh....." Hojo smiled weakly, taking his gaze away from the ears. "I'm here to see Higurashi. Are you the fellow who is from Canada? Higurashi's friend told me about you!" He grinned, extending a hand for Inuyasha to shack.
Inuyasha ignored the hand, for right now his mind was on something else. At first, Inuyasha had no clue in hell what he was talking about, but then realization his him like a brick wall as he remembered his earlier encounter with Kagome's friends.
"Yeah." He snorted, watching as Hojo's gaze wavered from his ears to his fangs, and back again.
Hojo blinked, regaining his composure. "So, can I see Higurashi?"
"Nope."
"Huh? Why not?" Hojo asked, looking a bit dumbfounded.
"Because you can't!" Inuyasha snapped, glaring at him. Already, the first few moments of meeting this boy, he did not like him! Not one bit!
"Who are you really?" Hojo asked, raising a brow as he looked him over. "And what are those on your head?"
"My ears!" Inuyasha growled as he stepped back. "Now, go away ya stickin' kid!" He grabbed the side of the door and started to close it in Hojo's face.
Hojo stepped forward, putting one of his foot in the doorway to stop him. "Hey! I still need to see Higurashi!" He persisted, glaring back at the golden-eyed hanyou.
"Well, sorry to disappoint you but you ain't seein' her"
"Who are you to her, you dog-eared freak?!"
That comment, especially coming from the kid made Inuyasha's youkai blood boil in rage. His teeth grinded together as he tried to keep himself from ripping off Hojo's head. "What.... did you call me?" He growled, his claws digging into the side of the door.
Hojo gulped, but held his ground. "Y-you know what I called you!" He yelled, puffing out his chest, trying to look braver and bigger then Inuyasha.
BAM
Inuyasha's fist collided with the side of Hojo's face, knocking him back to the ground. Hojo stared in shock at Inuyasha as he slowly lifted his hand to the side of his face, which already was starting to bruise.
Inuyasha grinned, cracking his claws in a mocking kind of way. "Don't -ever- come back!" He spat as he took a step back and slammed the door shut.
"In-inuyasha?"
Inuyasha froze. He knew who's voice that was and he knew what might be coming for him. He might be kissing the floor in a moment from now. He took a big breath in as he slowly turning around to meet dark brown eyes starring at him. "Ka-kagome...." He cringed lightly, preparing himself for a 'sit', thought something totally different happened. Instead of crashing to the ground which he had expected, Kagome was now in his arms, holding him tightly.
"Thank you Inuyasha!" Kagome cried, hugging him even tighter. "I could never get him to leave me alone! He just keeps.... well, being annoying." Her voice went down to a whisper as she snuggled down into his chest. "Thank you."
Inuyasha blushed lightly as his praise. He never knew that kid was bothering her, so why didn't she tell her that? He could have taken cared of the brown-hair freak ages ago! Though, he decided not to ask at the moment because right now he was enjoying the moment with Kagome.
"Ew...." Souta moaned as he wrinkled his nose at the scene of Inuyasha and Kagome hugging. "Do you really have to do -that- here?"
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waterdoragon: Well, I hope that was a long enough chapter for you!! I loved writing Mrs. Higurashi, though it was a sad moment for her. And Hojo, oh poor Hojo. Oh well, he deserves it for calling MY Inuyasha a dog-eared freak! So, NAH!!!! Another thing, I don't really know Mrs. Higurashi's real name so I looked some names up and picked the shortest one that I thought would work with her. Anyway, please R&R.