DISCLAIMER: Nope, I don't own Inuyasha or anything to do with it.
You're not Alone
By: Of Memories Past
Part VIII
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"She's being impossible."
Mrs. Higurashi nodded thoughtfully, placing a steaming cup down in front of the annoyed man. "She's very good at that sometimes."
"Thank you," Inuyasha murmured. He lifted the cup to his lips and took a sip of the hot tea before speaking again. "She won't even let me explain!"
"About Kikyo?" Mrs. Higurashi smiled.
Inuyasha paled and looked worriedly at Kagome's mother. "She told you?"
Musical laughter floated through the air, calming the nerves of the young man sitting across from her. Mrs. Higurashi reached across the table and grasped his hand, forcing his gaze up to her own. She smiled inwardly when she felt his grip tighten around her hand. Underneath the tough exterior was a man who needed as much reassurance as anyone else.
"I know everything, Inuyasha. I couldn't rightfully be called a mother if I didn't." She grinned at the smiled that appeared on his face. "But that doesn't change my own opinion on things." She stood up and took their empty cups to the sink to wash them. "I know what happened in the past, but I also had the opportunity of watching you with my daughter for a few years. That in itself is more than enough to let me know you tell the truth," she referred to the story he had just told her. "And, Kagome should not have overreacted like that, no matter the circumstances. She's just a bit sensitive to everything since she just got you back. Anything can feel like a threat to her right now because she doesn't want to lose you again."
Inuyasha sighed and drummed his claws on the kitchen table. "I'm a jerk, aren't I?"
Mrs. Higurashi grinned. "Yes, but you're a very loveable jerk." She smiled at the grin on his face. Walking over to him, she lightly rubbed his ears, glad that he felt comfortable enough to take off that concealing chain, before taking his face in her hands and giving him a very motherly kiss on the cheek. "Now go and talk some sense into that stubborn daughter of mine."
Inuyasha stood up and hugged the woman he had come to look at as a mother. Smiling, he looked down at her. "Thank you."
"Get," Mrs. Higurashi ordered, grinning.
Inuyasha was gone the next second, his footsteps heard running up the stairs.
"Oh, goodness." Mrs. Higurashi leaned against the counter and put a hand to her heart. She found that she loved him as much as she did her own children. It was hard not to. "Marry my daughter."
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"Kagome, let me in," he growled. This had been going on for over ten minutes now.
"Go away, Inuyasha," an angry voice called from the inside. "I do not want to talk to you right now."
He looked helplessly at the woman who had just come up the stairs.
Mrs. Higurashi crossed her arms over her chest. She had listened to the shouting coming from her daughter's room for long enough. After the sound of a vase crashing and shattering against the wall and Inuyasha's patient coaxing turning to growling reached her ears, she decided that some motherly intervention might be necessary. And, now she saw, or rather heard, for herself that it was indeed her daughter that was being unreasonable.
She walked up to the door next to Inuyasha. "Kagome," she called, "let him in."
"NO!"
Well, then. Mrs. Higurashi stood back, fixing Inuyasha with an expectant look.
"What?" he asked clearly confused.
Mrs. Higurashi nodded to the door. "Rip it off."
Inuyasha grinned and pushed his sleeves up before grasping the door. He knew he liked her. "Kagome, I'm coming in!"
The angry girl in her room gasped and watched with wide eyes as her heavy door suddenly came off its hinges and was casually set aside in the hallway. Left in its place was one ticked off hanyou.
"Kagome," he growled dangerously, "you're coming with me."
Kagome screamed when he crossed the room and effortlessly threw her over his shoulder. She pounded his back furiously, shouting angrily the entire way out the door.
"Give it up, Kagome," he warned.
"Mama!" she yelled, sighting her mother. "Help!"
Mrs. Higurashi simply waved as Inuyasha deliberately started down the stairs with her daughter. "Have fun, honey!"
Kagome continued shouting all the way out the door, not caring at the moment that her raucous could draw unwanted attention to the silver-haired demon carrying her. Her shouts turned to a shriek as Inuyasha entered the well house and promptly dropped into the ancient well. But unlike the many times before, they hit the bottom of the well.
Inuyasha sat down on the soft earth and pulled the angry female into his lap, positioning her so that she was facing him. He showed no surprise when Kagome lifted her hand and slapped him hard across the face. He simply kept his amber eyes focused on her while she ranted and beat on his chest.
Soon, tears began flowing down her cheeks, and her shouts and beatings became less violent until they had virtually disappeared. However, her tears kept coming. She turned a tearful gaze to Inuyasha, more filling her eyes at the understanding look in his own, before collapsing against him and hugging him tightly.
He wrapped his arms around her and held her close as she cried, gently rocking her back and forth. While he still believed that she had overreacted, Inuyasha understood where the stress and anger came from. He placed a clawed hand against the back of her head, lightly stroking her hair in a soothing manner as he continued rocking her.
"I'm sorry," she finally whispered. "But I don't want to lose you again. I don't think I could stand it."
Inuyasha pushed her back a bit so he could look at her. "You're not going to."
"But Kikyo…"
"I don't want Kikyo!" he growled, wishing the girl would get it through her thick head how he felt about her. "You never let me explain."
"You never tried!" she cried. She sat back against his arms
"You can be angry at me there," he answered. "I should have told you sooner, but that doesn't meant that I wasn't going to at all!"
Kagome crossed her arms. "Than start talking now."
So he did. He explained everything that had happened with Kikyo over the past five hundred years. He admitted to being drawn to her a few times the first two hundred that they had lived without her, but nothing had ever happened. But then things had stopped. It became evident to him that Kikyo was not the one who he wanted.
"I wanted you, Kagome," he whispered. "I missed you."
"I'm sorry," she whispered in return.
"Yeah, me too." Inuyasha looked down. "She is still around, Kagome."
The young miko nodded. "You said that. But where? What is she up to now?"
Inuyasha smirked. "You thought a miko with purifying arrows was scary, try one with purifying bullets."
Kagome's eyes grew wide. "What?"
He shrugged and reached up to play with her hair. "We've had a few close encounters. But Sesshoumaru says she's here now. Things are going to be kind of hard now trying to keep her at bay."
Kagome nodded. "That and we have to purify the jewel."
He bit his lower lip and nodded his own head before letting it fall back against the well wall. Arguing with her had been quite an exhausting experience.
"We'll be ok," Kagome murmured. She reached forward and began to lightly scratch his ears, smiling when Inuyasha pulled her forward to rest on his chest.
She continued scratching. "You know, I read another letter from each of them."
Inuyasha looked down at her and grinned. "What did they say?"
Kagome held back tears. "Miroku says hi and that if you haven't kissed me yet he's coming back to haunt you." She smiled as she listened to the chuckling that came from deep within his chest.
"And Sango?"
"Sango says hi also and that Kirara loves having her belly scratched. So, we're not supposed to forget that." She laughed. "Says that an angry fire-cat will go from being angry to docile if you scratch their belly, especially Kirara."
Inuyasha smirked. "I'll remember that. Kaede?"
Kagome smiled warmly, remembering the old woman. "Kaede, like the others, says hi. But she also says that she'll be watching out for us always. And, she tells you to be nice to Shippo."
He grunted. "I'm nice to the brat."
"He's my baby. You had better be nice," Kagome warned, pushing a finger into his chest.
Suddenly, Inuyasha grabbed her hand and smiled at her roguishly before bringing it up to his lips. Then, the same smile still on his face, he used his knees to lift her up to his face. The look on his face softened as he looked at her dark eyes.
"He's your pup?"
Kagome licked her lips, a bit nervous as the closeness. But she smiled and fixed him with a lighthearted glare. "He's my pup."
Inuyasha brushed his lips across hers lightly and then leaned back again.
Kagome's own look softened as she brushed his bangs back from his face. "What's wrong?"
"How would you feel about more pups?" He tightened his hold on her
Her eyes widened. "More? Inuyasha…"
"Be mine, Kagome," he whispered. "Be my mate, marry me, or whatever you want to call it. Just be mine."
"I'm so young," she said more to herself, dumbfounded. He had just proposed to her. Not what she had been expecting… "How would…"
"We will work it out," he answered quietly. "But it's up to you. I can wait another five hundred years if I have to."
"That's just it, Inuyasha," Kagome said sadly. "I won't be here in another five hundred years. You'd be alone."
"Not if you're mine."
Kagome's eyes widened. "What?"
"Once your blood is mine and mine is yours, you're life expectancy becomes that of a youkai. You'll still be human, but you'll live forever— unless you're killed."
"But how do we do that?" she asked confused. But the smirk her gave her answered her question, and she blushed. "Oh."
Inuyasha held her closer and rested his chin atop her head. "Be mine, Kagome? I'll get down on one knee if I have to."
"You don't have to," she whispered, "because I'm saying yes." She wrapped her arms around him as tightly as she could. "I…"
All speech was cut off as he silenced her with that kiss that Sesshoumaru had said he had better give her.
A/N: *Singing* Going to the chapel and their gonna get married… Lol. Sorry, couldn't help myself. Hope that you all enjoyed. Review please, and God Bless! ~Of Memories Past