You Can't Change the Past

-Chapter 6-

Why?

Inuyasha just woke up, laying on his side. He felt warm, maybe the blanket is on him or something. Or is there extra blanket on him. He sat up to look around and to try and think of what happened last night. Oh yeah! Kagome became homeless and she just moved along in his home. But the scary part is that she has to sleep in the same bed as him.

But where is she?

He heard something stopped in the bathroom. He slowly got the blanket off and walked to the bathroom door slowly. He put his hand on the knob and opened it slowly as well. When he opened it, steamed filled the room. The window was steamed up; the walls were wet, and a hand slipping out of the curtains to reach the towel...!? Uh-oh! The curtain was removed to the side, and Inuyasha saw something he thought he would never see...

"Ah! Inuyasha! What are you doing!?" Kagome quickly wrapped the towel around her body, blushing beat red. "Well!? Aren't you going to answer!?"

"Uh...Sorry....I didn't know you were in here," said Inuyasha.

"Look! I know you're my professor, but it doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with me just because I'm living here."

"I understand that! You don't have to tell me!!"

"Forget it! Please excuse me, I have to get dressed, dry my hair, make breakfast and..."

"You make breakfast?"

"Yeah, why? You don't?"

"I don't eat it, I don't even make it!"

"But breakfast is the important meal of the day because you need it to start your day. It's okay to skip lunch and dinner but not breakfast."

"Hey! You're not my mother! So don't talk about breakfast with me!!"

"Well hello! I have to make breakfast for Shippo! Sango is going to come here later to look after while we're both at school."

"Why should she baby-sit him here? In my house!?"

"Cause Sango can't take him at her apartment."

"Whatever! Go ahead and make breakfast...like I care..."

"Fine!" Kagome just walked out of the bathroom, slamming the door behind her. Leaving Inuyasha in the steamy bathroom. Inuyasha took his shirt off and then was unzipping his pants. But then he just thought of something...

"[Did I just saw her in the towel?]" Inuyasha lightly blushed and decided to forget about that. So in the next few minutes, he started the water and grabbed the soap.

(Living room/kitchen)

"Mom? Is that what I think it is!?" Asked Shippo. He just woke up, smelling the food as he enters the living room, which is next to the kitchen.

"Yup! It's pancakes!" Answered Kagome very happily.

"YAY!!! My favorite!!!"

"It's almost done Shippo. Just go ahead and get the milk in the refrigerator," said Kagome softly.

Shippo was smiling happily, opening the fridge, and then the smile turned into a frown. There was no milk. "Mom, there's no milk..."

"Really? What do we have?"

"We have juice, soda and this other stuff that don't know what it is. You wanna see?"

Kagome had a concerned look on her face. She stopped for a second and quickly walked up next to Shippo and bend over to look in the fridge. She was shocked....she took the bottle of beer out of the fridge and looked at it for a second. She never knew a teacher who drinks.

But when Kagome heard something coming downstairs, she quickly put the beer bottle back and quickly got the juice out. She whispered to Shippo before she did anything else. "Don't tell your father that we saw that, okay?"

"Okay..." he whispered back.

When Inuyasha came down and walked into the kitchen, he saw Kagome putting all the pancakes on one plate. She grabbed a couple of plates out and put them on the table. She helped Shippo on one chair and handed him a pancake. Inuyasha was kind of admiring this moment. His own mother use to make pancakes for him...it was his favorite food of breakfast...he never knew how to make it. That's why he doesn't make breakfast.

His mother died when he was young...and he promised his own mother to become a college professor and to teach the class a year they won't forget...Well, it's what he has been doing, scaring the students. Teach them on how to be a good person...that's not what Inuyasha is...now he feels really guilty!

"Hey, dad! Want to have some breakfast with us?" Asked Shippo happily.

Kagome looked at Shippo and then back at Inuyasha. Noticing on how his silver hair shines in the light. She loves the shine...

"Sure...whatever," said Inuyasha.

Kagome was surprised; she thought he doesn't eat breakfast. But she ignored that and got up to get a plate from the cabinet. She put it beside Shippo's plate and put two pancakes there for him. She gave him a knife and a fork to cut it up. She didn't say anything else after that. She only poured juice for Shippo, herself and for Inuyasha. The one thing Kagome is happy about is that Inuyasha is eating breakfast.

(On the way to school)

Inuyasha was driving to school in his red car, with no hood, with Kagome in it. Kagome stopped him half way there before they even got there.

"What do you want?" Asked Inuyasha.

"I want you to drop me off at least two blocks away from school," she answered him.

"Why?"

"Because, people will get the wrong idea about us being in the same car. You don't want that to happen right?"

"I don't want that either. Alright, whatever!"

"Why do you always say that?"

"Because it's my favorite word."

"You can say something else you know?"

"I don't have any other word to say to you."

"Hey!"

"What did I do now?"

"Nothing...I need to ask you something when we get home..."

"Who said my house is your home?"

"I live there right?"

"Until you get a job! Once you have enough money, you're out to rent an apartment!"

"But what about Shippo? I HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF HIM!!! HE'S MY SON!!!!"

"He can stay but you can't!"

"Hello! I'm his mother! You can't kick me out and leave Shippo there! And besides, how can you take care of him when you can't even take care of yourself!!"

"What do you mean?"

"Shippo found the beer bottles in fridge while looking for some milk! It's a good thing he doesn't know what it is...why are you drinking?"

"That's none of your damn business!"

"But he's a kid...what happens if he decides to take a sip out of it? It'll be your responsibility for not watching him!"

"Shut up! Why were you snooping into my fridge anyway!?"

"Shippo was looking for some milk but you don't have any."

"I don't buy milk..."

"Then what do you drink in the morning..."

"Most of the time....beer! Okay!? Sometimes if I don't have beer I have coffee instead! There! You happy now?"

"What are you trying to do to yourself..."

Kagome saw that Inuyasha turned his head away, she saw him griping on the steering wheel. She was hoping it's something she's not thinking...

"I don't want to talk about it..."

"You can tell me..."

"Please! Even Miroku doesn't know I drink beer!"

"Why do you keep that as a secret?"

"It's nothing! Okay!" Inuyasha turned the key and started to press on the gas. "We're going now."

"But..."

"End of conversation!" Then he drove all the way to school, not caring on to stop a couple of blocks away from school. Inuyasha slammed the door and ignored Kagome all day, not even bothering of asking her questions in class or giving her detention.

But at the end of the school day, everybody was dismissed, at that time, Kagome went up to Inuyasha's desk.

"What!?" Asked Inuyasha furiously.

"I just wanted you to know I'm going to take Shippo with me tonight with Sango," said Kagome.

"What for?"

"Since I haven't been spending time with Shippo much, I'm gonna spend time with him tonight. We'll be home at eight tonight."

"Whatever, I don't really care!"

"I'm just letting you know..."

"I SAID I DON'T CARE!!!"

"Inuyasha! Shippo is also your son! We are connected no matter what! Because Shippo is our flesh and blood! Don't you get that?"

"I don't want to talk about it! Or the fact that you're living in my house. Just leave before I do something stupid!!"

"Okay...:

"NOW!!!"

"Alright!!" Kagome grabbed her things and left the room, leaving Inuyasha there. He was frustrated...with what? Why was he so frustrated? Is he frustrated at Kagome or Shippo? Maybe it's neither...

"Keh!" Inuyasha took the papers for today and left the classroom. But Miroku was standing at the door at that time, so Inuyasha pushed Miroku aside, not realizing what he did to his friend. Too many things were just on his mind right now...So he doesn't have time for anything, does he?

"Something must've ticked him off..." said Miroku softly.

(Inuyasha's house)

The fridge was open; Kagome and Shippo are out until eight...which was two hours from now...All Inuyasha did was staring at the beer bottles he had bought last week. He took all of the beer bottles out and left them on the table. He stared at those bottles for a few minutes, after that, he took one bottle and opened it. He put his lips on the top and started to drink out of the bottle. How long has he been drinking? Probably ever since what happened with Kikyo...but that was six years ago...so why continue to drink when she's ancient history?

As he drank the first bottle of beer, he grabbed a second one and opened it. All sorts of stuff went through his mind when he was drinking the second bottle. The memories of his dad leaving him...leaving him to his half-brother. When he tortured him, called him names...Every time Sesshomaru's friends comes over, they would drink until they all pass out. So usually he would pick up the bottles and wash them and then smash them outside. But it's not why he started to drink.

"Damn...forgot I have to grade those papers," said Inuyasha weakly. He looked at the papers on his desk in the living room. "Heh...I'll grade them later."

He took the third bottle and opened that one too. Memories started to come to him again...the time when Sesshomaru got accepted to a college, he moved out and Inuyasha had the place to his own when he was only fifteen. He started to get a job then, and pay for the electric, water, and phone bills. So he had to start to live in the real world when he was fifteen. He never had enough sleep because of his job. So being a professor is much worse then being a student.

The reason he's drinking: No one knows except for himself.

About an hour later, he drank six bottles of beer. When he opened the seventh bottle, he needed to go to the bathroom. So when he got up, with the bottle still in his hand, he started to walk slowly to the bath room. But his vision was getting so blurry now that he can't see where he's going. He suddenly fell to his knees, his vision getting worse. And the next thing he knew, everything went dark. The last thing he heard was the beer bottle landing on the floor...

(8 PM)

"We'll see you tomorrow, Sango!" Said Kagome as she waved goodbye to her friend at the porch of Inuyasha's house. Shippo was clutching onto her leg, being so happy that he spent time with his mother. As Sango drove out of sight, Kagome looked down to Shippo and smiled. "Ready to go inside?"

"Yup!" Smiled Shippo.

Kagome put her hand on the knob to make sure the door was unlocked, it was unlocked, so when she turned the knob and opened it...she was shocked on what she saw on the floor. Kagome noticed the beer bottle in Inuyasha's hand that was spilled all over the place. He was drinking...as soon as she dropped her things to the floor...she screamed....