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Crimson Amber
Where we left off.
["Later Yasha!" Miroku and Sango waved.
"Bye InuYasha!" Kagome peeked up with a big wave and happy face.
"Feh, see ya." he huffed gruffly. The tough guy. As soon as he got inside his camero though, on his face shown a smile that was truly genuine. But that was soon interrupted by an even bigger and devious smile. "Now time to go home and GET SOME RAMEN!" he revved up the engine and sped out of the lot.]
Chapter 5
"Arrangements and a Look at What Is To Come"
Kagome opened the door to her house,
"I'M HOME!"
She walked into the kitchen to find Shippo and Sota on the floor looking up at her mom who was currently on the phone.
"Hey mom," she greeted her happily.
Mrs. Higurashi smiled sweetly at her daughter before she talked back into the phone, "Yes, we can watch her over the weekend. Kanna will be here two weeks from Saturday. Okay." The two little boys looked at each other with smiles on their faces before dancing around. Mrs. Higurashi laughed lightly. "That sounds great. The boys will be happy. Yes. Mmm Hmm. You too. Bye." The woman turned around to bend down and talk to the boys who had stopped to look back up at their mother. "Now, you two need to get back into bed! You stayed home sick!"
"Aw, but Moom!" Sota whined.
"We're all better now!" Shippo said before breaking out into a small series of coughs.
"Yes, better. Now, up to your rooms!" she patted them on their bums and the two boys rushed up the stairs. The older woman smile contently before turning around to her eldest child, "So, Kagome, how was your day at school?"
Kagome was busy getting a bag of ramen from the top cupboard. "Ugh, horrible. We got a new student."
"Wow! A new student! It couldn't have been that bad." She exclaimed as Kagome jumped off of the counter and started to open the bag as the water was coming to a boil.
"Oh yes it was. He is just such a-"
"It's a boy!" Higurashi exclaimed. 'Maybe this will be the one! Kagome really needs a man in he life! Sure, Hojo is great, but he's such a pansy! She needs a strong man!'
"Feh! Yeah." She was pouring in the noodles and disposed of the bag.
"Sooo, what's he like." 'He can't be all she's making him out to be.'
"He's a self centered, moronic, egotistical, garbage thriving freak." A pale hand stabbed the even paler noodles with a fork.
"He thrives on garbage?"
"Yes." -_-
"Okay, well.. that's, um... nice." 'so he made a bad first impression. First impressions never count.' "So, what does he look like?"
'God, she's worse than a pre pubescent schoolgirl! But, he is pretty hot.' Kagome smiled a devilish smile. "Well, he has long silver hair, and he's tall-"
"Always a plus!"
Kagome laughed. "And nice tan skin. Manly eyebrows-"
"That's one thing every man should have! Nice manly eyebrows. Your father had good eyebrows." She was getting carried away. 'Your father was a hot hot man Kagome..'
"Yeah, and his eyes! Oh mom! You have got to see his eyes! They are like this light caramel color! Like, like, molten lava or, or.."
"Amber?"
"YES! His eyes are a beautiful shade of amber! He's so gorgeous!" she was daydreaming again, she shook her head. "But, that doesn't even make up for HALF of the good attitude he lacks!" she huffed.
"Well, Kagome," She stood behind her daughter, rubbing her shoulders, "you just need to give him a chance. After all, you've only just met him."
Kagome sighed, "I guess you're right mom."
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A clawed hand was bringing up steaming noodles when, all of a sudden, a sneeze erupted and the noodles splashed back into the bowl of steaming hot broth, splattering all over InuYasha' face.
"OW! Feh, what's up with all these people talking about me? It's getting on my friggin nerves!" The hanyou sighed heavily before setting down his bowl next to several creased pieces of paper.
'So, we know that there is 6 of Naraku's puppets or offspring or whatever the are, watching out at the high school. There's more though. I know it. He never has that little of people watching over something. Unless it's an easy task of course. But, she is, "The Chosen One" as Miroku explained. So, there is at least 5 others posing as students.'
His phone rang.
"Huh?" He looked at his clock as it ran again. "Who could be calling at this time? Feh, WHO could be calling this house?!!" He shook his head wondering who would have this number and not his cell. "Feh, Hello?"
A familiar voice sounded, "InuYasha. Hello!"
InuYasha sighed a sigh of relief, "Hey Takahashi."
"I told you I wanted to speak to you."
"Yeah, I know,.. so?"
"So, we will speak."
"Heh, sorry to burst your bubble old man, but over the phone isn't quite the safest place to talk to me."
"Then we will meet somewhere."
"Fine. You remember the old place?"
"Yes. I believe I do."
"K, I'll see you there in 20."
"Fine. Goodbye."
"Later," he hung up the phone.
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"So, who's Kanna? I've never heard of her."
Mrs. Higurashi sat across the table from Kagome as she and her daughter ate ramen. "She's a new student. Her parents are leaving to go out of the country for a weekend. Important business they say. So, I've agreed to watch Kanna over the weekend. Plus, the boys will love it."
"Speaking of them, I thought they were staying home sick today."
"They were!" she said with a big smile.
"Mom, they didn't seem to sick a few minutes ago." If she couldn't miss school, they couldn't either.
Mrs. Higurashi stood to put her bowl in the sink. "Kagome, you were the same way when you were younger."
Exclamation, "But I was sick!"
Mrs. Higurashi chuckled to herself, "Maybe in the beginning of the morning. But by lunch time you were able to run around the house and were up to getting some WacDonalds to eat."
"I'm a fast healer." she mumbled.
"Well then, I guess, they are too." she turned around and smiled warmly at her daughter before taking up her bowl. "Now, go do your homework."
"Yes mom. Love you." and she left the kitchen to make her way upstairs to her room.
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As they spoke, InuYasha and Mr. Takahashi replaced their normal shoes for bowling ones. Lane 16.
"So, do you mind explaining to me why you are here?"
"Feh, why do you think?" InuYasha stood with perfectly tied size 12's as he then made his way over to fetch a bowling ball.
Mr. Takahashi appeared beside him. "Well, I could guess that you are still up to bidding for Naraku, but that guess does not seem correct being that you have came in contact with Myself and the group."
The hanyou picked up a dark blue and light blue swirled bowling ball and dragged it over to the lane. (okay, I don't know what those bowl holder things are!) "No shit."
"We are not going to get anywhere if you keep acting like this." Mr. Takahashi said calmly as he placed his green ball on the black rails connected to a machine of which the balls returned.
"Acting like what?" he asked aggressively. With a step back he sat to enter their names as the elder man went to the snack bar behind them to order beer and fries for the two.
"You know what." he said before he left.
InuYasha rolled the ball and hit a strike. As he turned around, Takahashi was returning. He set the beverage pitcher, cups, and fries down.
"I ask you a question, I expect an appropriate answer. It's the least you could-"
"Oh don't give me that 'It's the lest you could do' shit again. I've said I was sorry for killing them and you got over it. You yourself said that if I hadn't done it, then you would have. I just got to there before you. Besides, I was brainwashed." The half demon hated it when the old man brought up when InuYasha had killed his family. But, Takahashi would have done it himself if Naraku didn't order Inu do to it before.
Takahashi was both mentally and physically abused by his family. Not mention neglected as well. It was only a matter of time before all those emotions would pop. The night he planned to take the butchers knife from the family shop and butcher each and every one of those slimy bastards, Inu came threw the door and decapitated them all. A young Takahashi watched as crimson droplets spewed everywhere. He remembered the hanyou almost missing him, for he was hiding in the closet; InuYasha seemed to smell him and turned around to face the 14 year old boy. Takahashi remembered the blood spattered all over the hanyou and his amber eyes were blank, as if he was unconsciously killing everybody. He was sure he was about to die but InuYasha saw the knife in the boys hands and smiled, blood from his victims planted in a unrecognizable pattern all over his face before jumping out of the window, into the neighboring tree, and off into the cloudy night sky.
The young man looked down at the bodies that laid skewn across the floor, and smiled. It was over. Finally. No more. No more fighting, yelling, beating. As his eyes followed the river of blood to his mother's lone head his eyebrows furrowed. No more mom. His eyes seemed to dart to his father. No more dad. No More.
"No more." A single tear ran down his cheek. No matter how harshly they treated him, and no matter how many times they told him to go to hell or how much they hated him, somewhere, deep down in there, they loved him.
"That's not the point." the, now aged, Takahashi said as he rolled the ball down the lane and knocked down all but one pin: the middle one. "Dammit, I always seem to miss that one." he mumbled under his breathe.
"Well, Shinji, if you have to know," He turned his head to look down at the other people bowling further down on other lanes, "Mr. High and mighty is planning on killing her."
Shinji Takahashi's green ball went straight into the gutter before he turned around.
"What!?" he whispered harshly.
Calmly, he turned his head to look at his old friend. "You heard me."
He went to take a seat at the table InuYasha was currently residing at. "Kag?"
As he took his ball, Inu nodded. "He was going to get yours truly to do it."
"You're not-"
"Relax old man." His sleeved arm came back and, in one fluid motion, swung forward, letting go of the bal, as his right leg seemed to bend behind his left, leaving him slightly crouching. Bandana man stood back up and turned around as the sound of ten falling pins thundered behind him. "I'm not doing that no more." Shinji eyed him suspiciously causing InuYasha to roll his eyes as he took a seat across from Takahashi. "Look, I decided to end it, once and for all with Nary. (AN: I gave Naraku a nickname!) The day I quit, I read the report first so that I could protect whoever from the rest of his filthy puppets. Just so happened that it was she who was next in line. He needs her out of the picture if he is going to succeed in taking over this place."
Shinji's face was white like the snowcaps on the mountains as he looked down at the table, away from InuYasha's piercing eyes. "So, the time has finally come." he said softly.
"What do you mean? This should just be another thing for her." InuYasha said, a little confused.
"No," His old blue eyes finally looked up to match the gaze of the younger looking man before him, "it was foretold that when the Prince of Darkness, who was made by one thousand demons, would come forth to take The Chosen One's soul, The Lord of the Western Lands would come forth as well as two other evil perpetrators."
"Lord of the Western Lands? Than that means..."
"Sesshoumaru, yes."
A growl emerged from the mans chest, "Do you know of the two others?"
"No. Not as of yet. I have Jack and Jill working on it right now."
"Jack and Jill?" he repeated contemptuously with a raised eyebrow and half lidded eyes.
The weathered man smiled, "Yes. They decided they wanted to be called that when being referred to to another being."
InuYasha's eyebrows raised as he nodded slowly, "Whatever."
"Haha, yes. But, I do not expect Fluffy to appear before the first two or three. Now, if we could quickly find out exactly what the two might be.."
"Fluffy?"
"Sesshoumaru."
"YOU NAMED HIM FLUFFY?!!!" he yelled, standing up. People in the bowling alley stopped and looked over at the man who had shouted, before throwing their glasses up and yelling, continuing their games.
"Yes. Now, let's finish our game. How in the hell do you keep getting strikes?!!"
He blew on his nails before 'buffing' them along his sweatshirt. "What can I say? I'm a natural."
"More like a cheater." he said flatly as he rolled the ball.
InuYasha smirked, "And it's only taken you 20 years to figure that out!"
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Kagome slipped on her jacket before heading downstairs. "BYE MOM!" she yelled.
"FINISHED YOUR HOMEWORK?!"
"YES MOM!"
"ALL RIGHT! BE CAREFUL! TELL SANGO I SAID HI!"
"I WILL MOM!" she smiled to herself.
"BYE KAGOME!" Shippo yelled as he and Sota appeared at the top of the stairs in their matching nighties.
"See ya Sis."
"Bye Shippo and Sota. I'll see you guys later!" and she was gone walking in the twilight down to Sango's house.
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InuYasha had whipped Shinji Takahashi's hairy arse at bowling. They had went three games and he was now sitting on his balcony.
'Naraku will soon appear. I can smell the tension. And if Kagome isn't careful-'
A ring tone to the tune of 'The Bad Touch' by the Bloodhound Gang rang through the air. (you and me baby ain't nothin'but mammals!')
"What the hell?" He took his phone off of the rot iron table in front of him and read the caller ID, "Miroku?" He hit Talk, "Yeah?"
"Hey, It's Miroku."
"Hey."
"You up for some demon huntin' tonight?"
He rolled his eyes. "Sure."
"K, we're meeting up at Sango's. She lives on the corner of Subterranean and Alice."
"Kagome's all ready there?"
"No, not yet. She's on her way though. She just started walking-"
"She's walking?"
"Yeah, she does every night."
"Okay, I'll see ya there."
"Bye."
"Later."
He hit End and hopped off the balcony onto rooftops and trees sniffing for Kagome's scent.
"Stupid Girl."
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Shorter, no? lol. So, I've gotten two chapters in this three day weekend! WOOO! Oh yeah, go me, go me. Did you expect them to meet at a bowling alley? lol. I dunno where that came from. I just typed it in there. I'm sorry if the InuYasha murdering Shinji's family got to anyone. It wasn't supposed to. And you might be wondering how they could be friends. Well, umm... I would like to tell you, but I think I might put that in somewhere. Maybe, if I don't than maybe I'll tell you some other time. This chapter, didn't go so hot with me. Not enough, uhh.. dunno. It seemed to be missing something. *shrugs* oh well. This chapters gay and I'll have to make a better one to make up for it! Aren't you guys (gals) happy?
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