Are we there yet? I'm not sure. How about now? Maybe. Really? Sure.
Okay, now seriously. This chapter is also not the original, but again, it's better in comparison. I couldn't find the original, so I had to write it again, and it's hard remembering the exact words, so I just made it all up, but of course, it goes along with the story, I hope.
Chapter 10
Darkness welcomed them in, silence embracing the two with long and open arms. Kagome stepped in, and reached for the lamp, clicking it's switch on, but nothing happened. The lamp was disconected and she had no light to connect it again. Inuyasha was close by, not trusting the darkness, even though he could see perfectly, as long as it was close. Kagome groped her way to the wall, and inched herself to the kitchen's entrance.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha's loud whisper reached her, and she called back.
"Inuyasha, I'm over here, in the kitchen."
"What's the kitchen?" Inuyasha called back, stupidly. kagome slapped her forehead with the palm of her hand, and reached for thr light. Of course, it had to not work either. She placed her hand on the table, and felt boxes scattered on the surface. She brought one to her face, and saw that they were lightbulbs.
" Only Toshio could ever think about changing the lightbulbs now." Inuyasha was walking towards the kitchen, when he stepped on a very hard object, causing him to yelp out in a howl. Kagome jumped and ran to the entrance as fast as she could without running into the wall. She heard Inuyahsa curse, and hit the table next to the sofa, and then heard a loud crash of a body and a lamp fall to the ground.
"Owwww!" Inuyasha was cursing none stop under his breath, and Kagome followed them behind the couch, to where a pissed off hanyou lay, intwined with the lamp's cord. She nearly laughed out loud at the sight off the disgruntled Inuyasha, holding his foot up to his chest and rubbing it, while he rolled and howled out his insults to whatever he stepped on.
"Inuyasha, watch your mouth!" Kagome's loud whisper hushed Inuyasha and he sat up, still rubbing his feet. Kagome reached behind him, and grabbed what brought the great Inuyasha down to the ground crying and howling. A litlle action figure of a soldier, with his gun squished down, defeated by a giant foot.
" That's what I stepped on?" Inuyasha growled, ready to chew the toy to pieces.
" Exactly. This is what made you cry like a baby." Kagome teased.
"Hey, that thing hurts!" Kagome laughed and helped Inuyasha up. Straightening his kimono, a sudden noise upstairs brought Inuyasha out of the gutters. Kagome jumped behind Inuyasha and grabbed his sleeves tightly. Inuyasha's hand placed itself on the Tetsuiga(?), waiting for an attack. He walked closer to the stairway, which was completely cloaked with shadows. Kagome walked simultaniously with Inuyasha, not wanting to be left behind.
"Inuyasha, what if there's a robber in the house?" Kagome's nervous whisper reminded Inuyasha of Kagome's safety. He made his way to the first step, and called out.
"Who's there?" Another noise replied to his question. And then a creak of the floorboards. They stopped right at the top of the stairs. Inuyasha was about to step closer, when kagome pulled him back. He fell a second time and hit his bottom. Kagome gasped at what she ahd done, and looked up into the hallway. a figure stood, tall and slender, with a stick in hand.
"Ahhhhhhh!" An ear piercing scream resounded through the house, and then she heard a scream as loud as hers call back. The man dropped the stick and put his hands up to his ears, and Inuyasha was now out of it, too much for his ears to handle. A light flickered on, and a bright light made Kagome bring her arms up to her face to cover her eyes.
"Kagome?" Kagome looked up, and saw the figure of a woman standing next to the man. She nearly cried out in relief. She stepped forward, and saw that Toshio was the tall and slender man that was holding a stick.
"MOM!" A cry came out of Kagome's lips,a nd her mother raced down to enfold her daughter in her arms.
"OH Kagome, I was so worried. You left and you didn't even tell us, and then you come back in the middle of the night. your going to give me a heart attack!"
" I'm sorry mom, it's just I wasn't thinking clearly, and I needed to be alone for a moment. Forgive me mom, please." Kagome's wrapped her arms around her mother, and kissed her cheek, feeling terrible about what she put her through.
"I'm glad for you, I am, but, YOU MIND GETTING OFF ME!" Both women looked down to see a very grumpy Inuyasha beneath them. They both burst into nonending sorry's and forgive us, apologies, that Inuyasha didn't have time to yell, being covered in hands pulling him up, and dusting him off. Of course everything was done in darkness, so this was very uncomfortable.
" Uh, would eitheir of you bother telling me who this is?" Toshio called from the stairs, completely confused about the situation. The girls stopped and stared up at him, when they realized that he knew nothing about what has been going on. Toshio looked at Kagome, who had entered with this man, and had a feeling that she spent a lot of time with him, for her mother to know who this was, enough to forget that they were alone, together in the dark.
"Uuhhh..." Kagome was speechless. How was she going to explain this one. Silence creeped inbetween the group, and Kagome knew that she could not hide the truth from him any longer. But...
" How about we go into the kitchen and talk this over tea?" Kagome nearly sighed in relief, happy that her mother had made the first move. toshio followed, now apprehensive to hear the story they would tell him. Kagome's mother tried to turn on the light, but of course, they didn't work. Toshio smiled sheepishly at the group, and went to go fix the lightbulbs. After the small delay, and after hot tea was brewing on the stove, Toshio finally finished, and Kagome was now dreading what was coming up.
A couple more chapters to go before I reveal my new one!