Chapter 3: Excuses
(Inuyasha and Others)
Kagome tightly shut her eyes and took a deep breath before going to the kitchen. She walked in and was confused when she didn't see Inuyasha or Shippo anywhere. Her mother sat on a chair holding her foot.
"What happened?" Kagome asked.
"Oh, I just stepped on a small piece of glass. I'm fine." she smiled. "It was from the Memmi bottle."
Kagome shifted her eyes to the floor past her mother where a broken bottle of Memmi (noodle soup base) lay in a dark puddle.
"I'll clean that up." she walked over to the cabinet under the sink to grab a rag. But when she opened it, she saw Inuyasha squished inside it with a bottle of mayo in his mouth. Kagome quickly pulled a rag out and closed the door.
"Thank you, dear." Mom set the groceries down on the counter and started pulling things out while her daughter cleaned up the floor.
She quickly finished to help out her mother. She still had to find out where Shippo was hiding.
"Could you put these in the freezer please?" Mom asked Kagome.
"Sure." she grabbed the frozen meat and veggies to put in the freezer. When she opened it, she saw Shippo shivering inside eating Pocky. She quickly shoved the stuff in the freezer and shut the door.
"I'll be right back to make dinner." Mom walked out.
Kagome grabbed Shippo from the freezer and let Inuyasha out of the cabinet.
"Here," she shoved a bunch of snacks in Inuyasha and Shippo's arms. "Take them and go upstairs in my room and eat them there, and stay there!!"
She shoved them out of the kitchen.
"Kagome!!" Mom called to her. She quickly ran to the living room. Living room. That's where Miroku and Sango were...
"Yeah?" she walked in and saw her mother staring at the two.
"Who are these people?? And what happened to this room??" she asked.
Kagome had to make up an excuse quickly.
"Uhh..." Kagome thought nervously. "Uhmm... Mom! You seriously don't remember?"
"What?"
"Don't you remember? I told you a million times that I volunteered to have two exchange students to stay at our house for a while."
Miroku and Sango stared at each other blankly.
"Oh... I'm sorry. I must have forgotten." said Mom. "So... who are they?..."
"Miroku and Sango... uhh... they're siblings and they're from... uhh... Thailand."
"Oh... they broke the TV... and made a mess..."
"Uhh... they're not used to so much advanced stuff, like TVs and stuff... uhh... they come from a small village."
"Oh, I see... Well, show them the spare bedroom then. And please clean this mess up while I make supper." Mom walked out.
Kagome sighed.
"Exchange students?" Miroku asked.
"Siblings? Thailand??" Sango asked.
"Well, I had to make up something. Exchange students are people from other schools in other countries that exchange places with a person in another country for a while. And yes, just pretend you two are siblings. And Thailand is a country. Now I'll show you the spare bedroom where you two stay until I get things figured out."
"Okay..." Sango and Miroku followed Kagome into a room with two beds.
"Just... stay here for now. I need to talk to Inuyasha." Kagome shut the door and left the two. She ran upstairs and found the two demons munching away at the snacks.
"Okay, Ive decided to hide you two and hide Sango and Miroku as a couple of friends."
"Kagome!!" Mom screamed.
"What now..." Kagome groaned and ran downstairs and into the kitchen. There she saw Kilala licking at a chopped tomato.
"What is that??" Mom shrieked.
"I found a stray cat, and see how skinny it is? I wanted to bring it home and keep it..."
"What's wrong with it's eyes??"
"It has red eye, kinda like pink eye for us... it's not contagious, mama. And it's not dangerous either, don't worry. It'll be like that for a while."
"Well... can you take it... away from the kitchen??"
Kagome took Kilala and ran into the spare bedroom. She now had an idea to keep the others a secret and not let them look out of the ordinary on the streets. She dragged Miroku and Sango to her bedroom to explain her plans.
"Okay, listen up. I thought of an idea. I'm going to take you all shopping tomorrow to get some clothes for you so you don't look weird out on the streets since I cant really keep you all alone here. I'll ask my mama for money and we'll go at noon... err... sometime tomarrow... got it?"
"Shopping? Noon??" everyone looked confused.
"Just forget it. I'm going to take you guys out to get present time clothes. Okay?"
"Sure, whatever." Inuyasha smirked.
"How long do you plan to keep this a secret?" Miroku asked.
"As long as possible. We'll have to figure out an explanation about this, not even. We just have to figure out how to get back to past time."
"But... what if we're stuck here forever??" Shippo whined.
"Well... then I guess it'll have to be that way."
It was silent for a while after that.
"Dinner's ready!" Mom called.
"Uhh... Inuyasha and Shippo, I'll bring you two some leftovers later. Miroku and Sango, let's go."
She pushed the two out of the door and closed her door. They walked into the dining room to eat. Mom had everything set up on the table. Miroku set down his staff and Sango rested her boomerang on the wall before they sat down. Kagome sat down by herself on one side. Grandpa and Souta came in after them.
"Oh, I didn't know we had guests." Grandpa sat down next to Souta who stared at their funny looking clothes.
"This is Miroku and Sango, exchange students from Thailand." Kagome said nervously.
"Ah, I see."
Mom served rice to everyone and they began to eat after saying thanks.
"Mmm! What is this? It's delicious!" Miroku munched on the pickles.
"That's Takuan, it's pickled daikon." Mom replied with a smile.
(Takuan is a yellow pickled radish basically, it's sweet. And daikon is a white 2 foot long radish.)
"And what about these?" Sango asked pointing to the gray jello like thing.
"It's konyaku. It's made from a certain type of potato, and seasoned."
(Konyaku is a gray jello thing with what looks like peppers inside it... you might have seen it before on an anime or something...)
Kagome tried hard not to laugh while Miroku and Sango asked what all the food was. It was funny that they didn't know about everyday food in present time.
"So Sango, what's that huge thing you were carrying around?" asked Mom.
Kagome had a "uh-oh" face on.
"Uhm..." Sango thought. "It's just something passed down from my family, I usually carry it around with me everywhere."
"Oh, how nice. What about that staff thing of your's Miroku?"
Kagome turned to Miroku.
"Same reason as Sango." he replied.
"And that arm wrap?"
"Uhmm..." Miroku thought. "This?"
He lifted his right arm where the purple wrap was with blue beads strung around it.
"Yes."
He thought.
"I... several years ago, I was caught in a fire, and I ended up burning my arm."
"Nice." Kagome thought.
"Oh, how terrible!"
The table was silent for a bit now... everyone finished quickly. Kagome volunteered to do the dishes so she could bring the leftovers to youkais.
"Hey I brought dinner." Kagome went into her room with a plate a food. She set it down in the middle of the floor.
"Oooh!! I hope it's good as the snacks!" Shippo said before diving in. Inuyasha and Kilala joined him after.
Kagome sighed and left the room. She went outside quietly and walked to the well. It was really foggy and hard to see. She looked down the well, then quickly left and looked around outside. She thought it was really weird for it to be foggy that she couldn't see clearly. She walked into the fog and kept on walking, not knowing where she was going. She walked for what seemed like forever, then saw something. She then ran to the figure...
"No..." Kagome stared in shock.
She arrived at her house, but she had been going the opposite way from it. And there was no way she walked in a circle. Something was definitely wrong.
End of Chapter 3.
NOTE: Ooooh... getting a little weird.
