A Summer With A Goddess
By Jade Dennis
Disclaimer: I do now own the characters of Inuyasha, they are the sole property of Rumiko Takahashi-sensei and the wonderful people at Viz Productions. (Yeah, I'm a professional suck-up) I am not exploiting these characters and am making not profit from my work. (although I wish I was)
Summery: The Inu Gang defeat Naraku and Inuyasha makes the wish for the Bone Eater's Well to remain open. With the portal forever open, he decides to spend a summer in modern times with Kagome. What will he find there and what secrets will be revealed? Inuyasha/Kagome
A/N: I don't have a beta reader right now and my Microsoft Word is being really gay. Can you tell? I'm working out of notepad as of right now. So please bear with the grammar and spelling mistakes. But I am looking for a beta reader and if anyone is interested, give me a jingle!
Chapter Two
The sun set gracefully over the city of Tokyo as yet another day passed by. Mothers began to tuck their small children into bed and fathers returned home from a long day of work. Families prepared themselves for another night of peaceful dreams of romance and fun. The nightlife of college students and local ravers woke up and slowly leaked into the brightly lit city.
At a small shrine just outside of the hustle and bustle of the rampant city, Kagome Higurashi sad deep in study at the desk in her room. The subject was American Lit and it was relatively easy. It was mandatory for Japanese students to begin learning English in grade school. She knew all of the work, passed all of the tests, and yet she was stuck decaying in summer school. They told her that it was because of her massive number of absences throughout the school year, but they didn't understand that she was too busy saving the world. If it wasn't for her, there wouldn't even be a school for her to study at in the future. In fact, there probably wouldn't even be a future!
Her train of thought was abruptly derailed when she heard something loud crash against her bedroom window. Putting down her pencil and forgetting her daydream, she tried to act nonchalant as she walked over to the glass window.
"Gee, I wonder who that could be." She sarcastically thought aloud, purposely trying to annoy they hanyou that she knew was waiting for her below.
"Kagome, let me it!" Inuyasha shouted when she reached the window. He would've opened it himself, but it was unusually locked.
"Why on Earth would I do a thing such as that?" Through the glass Inuyasha put on his infamous 'sad puppy' face that Kagome could never refuse. "Oh, fine. Come on up." She sighed and gave in to the hanyou's mock-begging.
Climbing over the edge, Inuyasha stood for a moment, enjoying the soft cushion of the carpet beneath his bare feet. However, his eyes never left Kagome's glowing face. He basked in the golden beauty that radiated from her like the sun itself. She was a goddess, and he was not worthy of her love. He eventually had to look away with a flustered face from the heat radiating from her body.
"What are you staring at? Do I have something on my face?!" Kagome panicked and ran to the mirror while rubbing her cheeks ferociously in embarrassment. That was his Kagome, all right.
"No, you have nothing on your face." He came up behind her and wrapped his strong arms lovingly around her petite waste. They were just gazing at each other in the mirror before them. "I was just looking at you. You are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen."
"Seriously?" She asked, blushing and stumbling away from the mirror. They gazed deep within each other's eyes, still in the loving embrace.
"Seriously." He answered and began to kiss her passionately on the lips.
Their lips pressed together tightly at first but quickly roamed freely. Inuyasha's tongue explored every inch of Kagome's mouth fiercely as she began to melt in his embrace. He then began to lightly kiss her neck on a circular pattern while his hands traced shapes around her bellybutton. She wrapped her arms around his waste and pulled him affectionately to the ground with a slight 'thump'. Just as their bodies hit the plush carpet, Kagome jerked away sharply.
"My homework!" She yelled in annoyance. She completely ignored the very confused hanyou on top of her. It seemed as if she was always doing that. Just as soon as they started to get intimate she would pull away and bring up school or chores. It was almost as if she was avoiding something. As if she was afraid of him; afraid of commitment.
"Just leave it for later." He said into her ear softly, not letting her go. He began to kiss her again but she didn't kiss him back.
"But-"
"Shhh…" He once again placed his lips over hers and began kissing her deeply. She took one last glance at her desk before giving in to temptation.
"Wow, Kagome, you're look great today!"
"What did you do differently?"
"Did you cut your hair?"
"Tell us all about it!" Kagome's best friends all gathered around her excitedly as they walked with Kagome to her summer school class.
"All about what?" She asked a bit shakily. Her friends were great and all, but they were always prying into her personal life. All they thought about were boys and movie stars. Kagome supposed that was what normal girls gossiped about, but she really didn't know.
"Oh, come on, Kagome! You're practically glowing!"
"What?!"
"It was with that Inuyasha guy, wasn't it?"
"What? No!"
"Hojo-kun?"
"NO!"
"So it was the selfish, sarcastic and mean one?"
"Slow down, people!" Kagome yelled at the top of her lungs, standing firm before her friends. "There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, going on between Inuyasha and me."
"You can't fool me!" Her friend Ayame stared her strait in the eye. "Kagome, we've been friends since second grade, I know you all too well. You're no longer a virgin are you?"
"Well, I…" She searched her mind desperately for the right words to say but her friends already knew that it was true. She knew that whatever she said, her friends, especially Ayame, would see right through it. "No, I'm not."
Kagome expected her friends to gasp in shock and call her a slut, but the reaction that she got was not the one she anticipated. They jumped up and down excitedly like the school girls that they were, not stopping with their barrage of annoyingly innocent questions.
"What was it like?"
"Did it hurt?"
"Was it romantic?"
"Are you guys in love?"
"Are you going to get married?"
"Wow, guys." She had to stop for a moment and take a deep breath; the persistence of their interrogation was wearing her out. "It's kind of a personal thing, if you don't mind."
"No problem-o, Kagome!" Ayame answered with a gigantic grin spread across her youthful face. "But you know; now we totally have to meet him!"
It was odd. Kagome had been telling her friends about Inuyasha for quite some time, minus the whole demon thing, and yet they had never met him. He had come to her world on several occasions but she would never allow him to speak to her friends. Part of her told her that it was because they would never understand his appearance and would probably take him as some kind of freak. They hadn't even seen the pictures she had of him. Inuyasha always told her that he didn't want to meet her friends because they were 'pesky humans', but she knew otherwise. She could see in his eyes that he wanted desperately to fit in. But he was scared, both of others and himself.
"Well, that's not entirely my decision." She stopped when she came to the doors of Takai Yama Summer School and gave a subtle sigh of relief. "Well guys, this is my stop. Too bad we can't continue this conversation. Thanks for walking me!"
"Oh don't worry; we'll continue our little conversation later." Ayame winked at her as they walked away.
"I never get tired of them." Kagome whispered and walked into the massive prison of a school.
"What could be taking her so long?" Inuyasha growled angrily as he paced in Kagome's backyard. "I thought she was only going to school! It's been three hours! School can't possibly take this long!"
He continued to pace for another five minutes when he heard a car pull up in the nearby driveway. 'Oh great, just what I need.' He thought to himself.
Jumping into a neighboring tree, Inuyasha watched as Mrs. Higurashi began to carry some groceries into the house. On her second trip to the car she stopped and faced the tree.
"I know you're there, Inuyasha. You can come out now." She spoke softly in the direction of the shaded figure hiding in the tree.
Jumping gracefully down from his spot in the tree, Inuyasha went over and began helping her bring in the groceries without a word being exchanged nor a question asked. He would do anything to get on Mrs. Higurashi's good side. He didn't understand why, but she seemed to strongly dislike him. She didn't thank him for his help, but he knew that she was grateful.
"So, what are you doing here, Inuyasha?" She finally asked as they sat down at the kitchen table and she served him some hot tea. He wiggled around the in the chair for a moment, trying to get comfortable in the modern furniture.
"Just visiting." He shrugged. Something was wrong. Normally she would have shooed him out the door with the broom by now.
"Oh. Do you have another big mission to go on?" She noticed that he wouldn't tear his eyes from the steaming cup of kocha before him. He was obviously deep in thought about something, but his blank facial expression gave no hint as to what it was that plagued his mind.
"No, ma'am. There won't be too many missions for a while. We've defeated Naraku, as I'm sure Kagome told you, and there isn't much for us to do anymore." He answered calmly.
"Oh." It baffled her. He spoke of demons and battle as if they were a normal occurrence. Of course, to him, they were. But it all seemed so mystic and taboo to her.
"Mrs. Higurashi, ma'am, may I ask you a question?" He was now staring into her eyes. She nodded a slight 'yes' with a bit of worry in her movements. "What did I do wrong? To make you dislike me so much?"
The question came out of nowhere and shocked her to the core. She never expected him to actually care so much about the way she acted around him. She was wrong.
"Well, Inuyasha, the truth is, it's not really you that I dislike." He gave her a confused look and willed her to continue. "I just worry about Kagome. You come here and take her away from me. I get so afraid each time…that she might…"
"She's a miko, Mrs. Higurashi." Inuyasha cut in when he noticed the tears welling up in her aging eyes. "It's her destiny."
"I know, but what does it have to be my daughter?! She's only a teenager and already she has seen so much death and destruction. She's still my baby girl." She was crying freely now, unable to keep back the onslaught of tears that broke through the well. It was something that Inuyasha had never seen her do before. "I'm so worried that one day…she won't come back."
"You don't have to worry about her, Mrs. Higurashi. She's strong, and she gets her strength from her mother." He placed a comforting hand over hers and they made eye contact once more. "I will never let anything happen to her, Mrs. Higurashi."
They shared a soft, hopeful smile for what seemed like an eternity when Sota burst through the front door.
"Inuyasha! What are you doing here?" Inuyasha gave the boy a soft smile and he continued before the hanyou had a chance to answer his question. "Mom, can I have some friends over tonight?"
"Sure, honey." She answered and he ran excitedly up the massive oak stairs. She waited until she was certain he was out of earshot before turning back to Inuyasha. "Arigatou, Inuyasha. I guess you're not so bad after all."
"Truce?"
"Truce."
A/N: Hey guys! I'm a first time writter so I would really appreaciate all the reviews I can get. I just wanna know if I'm any good or if I should continue writting or not. Thanks!