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Chapter 6!
The familiar tingling feeling surrounded Kagome and a sigh of relief escaped her as the ground disappeared to be replaced with darkness for the time being. As she felt herself going through the well and to her own time, her tiny hand reached to her waist to make sure that Sesshoumaru was still there with her and going to her time as well, she really hoped he was still there.. She didn't even want to think of how mad he might be if he hit the bottom of the well.
Sesshoumaru couldn't help but gasp as the ground disappeared. It felt like they were falling yet it was somehow comforting....like someone had taken his hand and was guiding him. waitaminute... He glanced down and blushed as he saw Kagome's hand on his own.
A few seconds later Kagome's feet touched the ground again and she couldn't help but sigh in relief, they were now in her time. Her gaze turned to Sesshoumaru, a huge smile on her face. "It worked!" She giggled a bit, just happy to be home. A few seconds later though a soft blush touched her cheeks when she realized she was still holding onto Sesshoumaru. Embarrassed, she let go of him.
He stood there blinking stupidly as he tried to comprehend what had just happened. Shaking his head a couple of times quickly brought him to reality. He turned to see that Kagome had let go of him and was blushing. His eyes quickly widened as he realized he was still clinging to her. He detached himself and hoped he hadn't embarrassed her too badly. He looked around blinking. "This looks a lot like the bottom of the well. Yes. This is definitely the bottom of the well. So what are we doing still here? Are we going to explore now or what?" He smiled at her softly. "Shall we go up?"
Kagome nodded her head, smiling. She easily climbed out, having had much practice doing it. Once she was out she was in the small room of the 'Well House' as they liked to call it. Her gaze traveled about the familiar room. It was small really and was in need of some cleaning. It was very dark because the windows were dusty and stopped some of the sun's rays to come in and there were thick wooden steps leading outside. Kagome was smiling brightly as she looked back to Sesshoumaru.
He easily hopped out of the well behind Kagome. He looked around quickly and blinked. "You put wells in huts now? How strange..." His ears twitched as he began to hear lots of new, different sounds. He glanced at Kagome and noted that she wasn't fazed at all. He decided it was some new future sounds and ignored it. He then took a huge whiff and quickly covered his nose in disgust. "What is that smell?! Whooaa...I should not have breathed so deeply..." He coughed trying to clear the scent. He glanced at Kagome who apparently was used to the smell since she wasn't reacting to it at all. "You cannot smell it?!"
Kagome smiled sheepishly. "I'm sorry.. It's just this place, it's all dusty and needs to be cleaned.. I think that's what you smell anyway.. Here, come outside, it should be better there." Kagome practically skipped up the wooden steps and walked outside. The sun was bright and the wind was blowing gently, running through Kagome's hair which made her smile softly. Her house was next to the 'Well House', not sure how Sesshoumaru would act to something that looked to different, her gaze turned to him to catch his reaction to all the new things that were laying about, which was her younger brother's toys and a few modern day things like a lawn mower that her grandpa kept out.
He stumbled up and out of the little hut frantically. The smells were overwhelming. He couldn't help but cough as he took another deep breath trying to clear his senses. He plopped down onto the ground and took in all that was around him. He noticed that the grass was gone, the trees were few. He looked up and found the sky to be the same. He leaned back onto Kagome's pack as he stared at all of the different things lying around. He took another deep breath as he slowly adjusted to all of the different smells bombarding his sensitive nose. He smiled sheepishly up at Kagome. "Wow. Now that was a first impression that I will not easily forget. There are so many new things here that I got overwhelmed! There is a first time for everything..."
She grinned and nodded her head. "I can imagine.. Everything is very, very different here, just about everything has changed." Kagome sat down next to Sesshoumaru, drawing her knees up to her chest and wrapping her arms around them. Her head was resting on top of her folded legs as her eyes looked about. She seemed to be in heaven.. It had been far too long since she had been home. A small smile graced her face as she looked at her house.
He turned to her and pouted slightly "...You have no idea how much this has changed. You cannot smell all of the things I can. It reeks of ...I do not even know what it is! But it smells bad! Yuck!" He sticks out his tongue as he scrunches up his face in disgust. He turns to look at what he assumed to be her house. "Is that where you live?" He tries to act like it is normal for him to stick out his tongue and say 'yuck'.
Kagome looked very amused when he had stuck his tongue out. And stopped herself just in time from giggling at the sight. He had looked just like a little boy for a few seconds. "Yup! That's my house! Wanna go inside?" She grinned as she looked back to Sesshoumaru, excitedly.
He practically jumped up at her question. "What a great idea! Let us go now!" He slings her pack over one shoulder and Kagome over the other. He happily runs over to her house and goes into the first door he sees. He curiously looks around as he stands in the doorway. "Oooh....yes. A lot has changed...."
Kagome was laughing by now as she looked at the room that they were now in from his shoulder. They were in her living room, full of couches, tables, chairs and a big screen television. On the far side on the white walls was hanging a small cabinet with glass on the front so anybody could peer inside, which had a bunch of knickknacks such as a glass Pegasus and other magical creatures. Kagome's small hands were holding onto Sesshoumaru, making sure that she wouldn't fall, but she had a huge smile on her face from his playfulness.
He gently put Kagome and her pack down. He smiled apologetically at her. "I am terribly sorry about that. I got kind of excited!" He slips off his shoes and places them aside. He peers around cautiously not wanting to do anything wrong. "I am amazed at how things have evolved. Oooooh... can I go look at that?" He points excitedly into her living room as he bounces from one leg to the other.
She laughed and nodded her head. "Of course! You can go anywhere that you want in the house, I want you to, I'm sure there are a few things that I have that you might like." She grinned excitedly and took off her own shoes and slipped on her own pink fuzzy slippers that looked twice her size because of all the fake fur, and walked into the living room.
He took off quickly, wanting to see everything. He zipped around the room quickly, touching, poking, and staring at anything and everything in his sight. He was like a child in a candy store. He flopped onto the couch then sat in every chair. He tapped on the glass cabinet as he stared at the knickknacks inside. He stopped in the middle of the room, dropped to the floor, and rolled around on the plush carpet. "Oh wow! This place is amazing! It is like nothing I could ever imagine!"
Kagome had stood back and watched Sesshoumaru, a huge smile on her face. "Glad you like it!" She laughed and sat down on one of the couches facing the TV and grabbed the remote to it and turned it on. The TV instantly sprang to life and showed a man in a very professional suit and a woman right next to him, it was the weather channel. Kagome looked to Sesshoumaru, wanting to see how he would react to
this.
He sat up quickly and watched the TV closely. He glanced at Kagome and saw her watching him. He thought a moment before scooting closer until his nose touched the screen. He pondered this a moment before tapping on the screen. He then tapped his chin thoughtfully before scooting back a bit from the TV. He noticed the buttons along the bottom of the screen. Curiously, he started the buttons. Finding this very amusing, he keep up his assault on the buttons as he watched the screen flicker from channel to channel.
She grinned as she sat back in her seat. "It's called a TV. Do you remember that picture I took of you before? It's kinda like that except this one records movement and plays it back at different times on the TV. Its here for just entertainment, just something to watch and get daily news from." She explained. She loved watching Sesshoumaru discover all of the new things in this time.. He really was just like a curious child that wanted to touch and see everything. She smiled softly at the thought, it really was cute.
He stopped and turned to look at her. "This thing remembers stuff then lets you see it again? You are just watching the past? What a silly thing to have. It is impossible to move forward if you are always watching and remembering the past." He shrugged his shoulders and resumed his button pushing frenzy. "Oh well! It is still amusing!"
Kagome shook her head a bit, deciding that she should show him a movie sometime so he could fully understand the world of television. Kagome got up from her couch. "Want to see our Kitchen where we make all of our food?" Her head titled to the side questioningly as she looked at him.
He turned and smiled at her. "Sure! Those instant noodles I had earlier were kinda dry. I would love to see how food is prepared in this time!" He gets up and follows her as she makes her way to the kitchen. He doesn't pass anything without at least touching it before going by.
She grinned at Sesshoumaru as she stood in the middle of the big kitchen. It had average things which almost every kitchen had...a blender, stove, microwave, sink. Fruits were laid out in a bowel in the middle of the dinner table and bags of chips and soda's and a few chocolate things. There were even picture frames on some of the walls of when Kagome was little and when her baby brother was just that, a baby, and several pictures of the entire family. Her kitchen had a very homey feeling to it.
Sesshoumaru's eyes got a mischievous gleam to them as he looked around noticing that his new best friends were every where...buttons...and he couldn't wait to start pressing them all. "Wow...do all of these devices flicker and change too?"
Her eyes widened a bit at that. "Nooo.. You have to be careful with some of these buttons.. Like that.. " She pointed towards the stove. "That's what we cook on, we don't cook like you do over a fire. Instead the fire is inside that and we just place our food in pans and cook it on that. You shouldn't mess with the buttons on that.." She replied, looking incredibly amused.
"Oh?" He touched the stove curiously. "Where do you put the wood?" He began opening all of the cabinets trying to find the wood. He noticed the microwave. "Here it is!" He opened it up then shut it. Something had caught his eye...more buttons. He smiled happily and began pressing buttons. He jumped a bit as the microwave made noise each time he pressed a button. He eventually got use to the noise but jumped again as it sprang to life. The microwave began humming and glowing. He peered into it again to see a light inside and watched as the carousel turned itself around in its never-ending path. "Wow. This is incredible!" He stared for a while longer watching the thing go in circles. "...what is it doing anyway?"
"It heats food and drinks up without the use of fire. You just place something on the inside and hit these buttons for how long you want it to be in." She explained as she pointed out each thing that she spoke of. "And to get it to stop or get your food.. " She leaned over and hit the large button at the bottom which popped open the door to the microwave and all sound from the microwave stopped. "Cool, huh?" She smiled, looking to Sesshoumaru. "These have been around for a lot of years now.. "
He blinked. "...heats up things without the use of fire?! How is that possible?" He was about to complain some more but noticed that the blender had buttons too. He looked over it carefully and decided to play this one safe. This thing looked dangerous with the blades and all. Buttons or no buttons, he was going to be very cautious about this one. He stepped back a couple of feet, reached over and with the very tip of his finger pushed a button. He quickly hid behind Kagome as the blender started up noisily. He covered his head foolishly. "Ack! I did not mean to break it! Make it stop before I smash it myself!"
Shaking her head a bit, Kagome turned the blender off. "You didn't break it.. That's what it's supposed to do.." She laughed a bit. "It helps to make drinks or to make a mix to cook with." She smiled reassuringly at him and let her fingers gently brush his right ear, amazed at how sensitive they were. "Sorry.. I should have warned you.. Certain things in the house can be really loud." She shrugged sheepishly.
He rubbed his ears trying to get rid of the ringing. "Well that is not very reassuring. I do not want to hear that your house needs a warning sign on it! That is it! I am not pushing anymore of those demonic push knobs! I will just play with the fruit..." He reached across the table and snatched the bowl of fruit. He sat down and began to examine all of the different fruit. Soon enough he had arranged the fruit according to color. Sighing, he snatched up a banana and expertly balanced it on the end of his nose. "Well. The fruit has not changed. I can still do this!"
Kagome bursts out laughing as she watched him. "How did you do that?" She looked a bit closer, trying to see if there was a certain trick to that before she tapped her own nose with her long index finger, trying to figure out if she could do that, mostly just because she was curious if she could.
He grinned at her. "It is simple enough. You just have to find the right banana! This banana has just the right amount of curve to it. See how it is straight at the bottom but just slightly curved at the top? The curve makes up for our slightly crooked noses allowing the banana to stand up." He handed the banana to Kagome. "Go on...you try!"
Shrugging her shoulders, Kagome held her head straight, not moving it at all and placed the banana on her nose just as Sesshoumaru had done and slowly moved her hands away from it. Much to her surprise, it actually stayed. Kagome smiled brightly at that but as soon as she did the banana fell off from the sudden movement. Kagome's quick hands caught it though before it fell to the table. "That was cool.. Thanks for showing me!" She giggled a bit before she placed the banana back into the bowl.
He smiled and laughed as she balanced the banana but brought it down by her own smile. "Great job! Inuyasha would be very upset that you can do that! He never could get that banana to balance!" He laughed as he remembered all the times that Inuyasha had tried to imitate him.
Kagome was grinning brightly, apparently proud of her new trick even though it hadn't worked the way she wanted it to. "Want to see my room now?"
Ta daaa! Yeah yeah.. I know.. I picked on Sesshoumaru a lot... I mean.. geez.. how bad can you get? -.- -sigh- I hope you guys (Takalasee) enjoyed this chapter! Help me out! Review!!