Homu watashi ashite.
(Home I love, I love home)
Kagome stretched and yawned. Looking over, she smiled when she saw the two guys asleep, smiles on their faces as they embraced each other in their sleep. She got up and looked out the window. They were on a train that was headed to San Francisco. The three of them were going on a tour of the country. Getting out her phone card she had bought right before she left, she called home.
"I'm sorry, but we are away on vacation now. We will not be getting back until January 12, so unless your message is not urgent, please, do not leave a message." Kagome's mother played. The beep played.
"Hello, mom, Grandpa, and Sota. I'm taking a trip around the country, trying to find myself. I'll call you everyday, but I will probably be back the first of February. Bye, Kagome." She left the message and headed back to the guys.
Snago sighed, and looked out her window. The snow covered the ground and looked perfect at the moment. She saw new message flashing on her machine and pressed the button to play.
"Hey cuz, I bet you're back now which is why I'm calling. I took your advice, as you can tell. Well, I don't know when I'll go home." He paused for a moment. A girl's voice asked him something, and Sango thought it sounded like Kagome's. "Well, I have to go, my train's boarding, plus, there's donuts!" And with that, Kage's voice clicked off. The machine played the time, which was right after she went to bed.
Inu Yasha looked at the door that used to be his home. He sighed and knocked on it. It opened and a young woman, no older than thirty appeared, a young girl in her arms. A baby, the girl was, and an older girl stood behind the woman.
"Hello, this is the Akemi residence, what do you want?" Asked Dani Akemi, Inu Yasha's stepmother.
"I want many things ma'am," Inu Yasha replied.
"Listen, I have a husband and I don't need trouble from some hooligan," she threatened.
"Oh, don't worry, I just want to speak to Mr. Akemi," Inu Yasha chuckled. She looked at him warily and asked why. Inu Yasha said it was about Mr. Akemi's son.
"What about my stepson?" She questioned.
"Let him in dear, otherwise, you're going to make yourself and the girls sick," a very familiar voice, yet so different from the last few years, said. She stepped to the side and allowed him to walk into the house. Inu Yasha looked around and was in awe. The house he had grown up in was clean and looked so different from the way he remembered it. He half expected to see his mother walk down the stairs.
"So, what do you want?" Asked Katsutoshi when the two were seated in the kitchen.
"Please, do not get offended by what I am about to say, but it's something you need to know," Inu Yasha started off to say. "Do you remember your second wife, the one that died due to pneumonia?"
"Yes, but everything after that is hazy," Katsutoshi replied.
"Do you remember your son, not your first, but your second?" Asked Inu Yasha.
"I only have one son and that is Sesshoumaru," replied Katsutoshi.
"You have two sons!" Yelled Inu Yasha. "I would know, I'm the other one! You can ask my half brother, you're son Sesshoumaru, even! Ask the neighbors if they remember both of your sons!"
"Young man, I will not tolerate your yelling in my house," his father replied.
"One question, have you ever gone down to the basement?" Inu Yasha got up and left. "Oh, and if you want to reach me, just call your employer at his house." He was gone.
Miroku yawned and looked out his bedroom window. Inu Yasha was out at his brother's for the week, Sango was looked in her room, paranoid about something and Kagome had seemingly disappeared. But, Miroku knew better. Kagome had told him what happened, who she was with and where she was going. She called him, or emailed, him whenever she arrived somewhere new, telling him her location. She could always confide in him best.
Most people did end up telling Miroku things they wanted lifted from their chests. He was the "Secret Keeper" so to say. But then, where did he turn to his secrets or when a secret to large for him to handle appeared. He keep them looked up safe within the confines of his soul and they weighed heavy on him sometimes.
The phone rang and he jumped. Picking it up, he said, "Hello, Botan residence."
"Miroku, is that you?" Asked an all to familiar voice.
"Why are you calling me?" He questioned. A voice yelled in the background.
"Are you busy?" Asked the voice.
"Not particularly, why?" Questioned the teen.
"Can you come over? I have a secret."
"Sure." The phones clicked at the same time.
Sango looked at the songs and felt a tear slid down her cheeks. She roughly wiped them away and hugged her notebook tight to her chest. A sob wracked her body as she gazed upon the ruined paper, the memories destroyed.
"What is this trash?" Her father asked, waving the papers that held her dreams in front of her face. "I did not raise you to be some kind of hussy who wants to shake her goddamn ass in men's faces! I raised you to be a respectful girl who followed whatever her man told her to do."
"I would never do either of those things! I'm not your slave, so don't force your stupid, backwater ideas on me!" She shouted back. He slapped her face and ripped her dreams in half.
"You little bitch!" He spat out.
"Now I know why mom left you. I wish you were the one dead that she was alive!" Sango yelled.
"Your mother, the cheating whore, the one that allowed your brother to be raped, the one that almost let you be raped, just so she could have money for herself, so she could get high?" He looked at her in pure disgust. "That mother?"
"Mom would never do anything like that, you're lying!" Sango yelled. She punched him and fled, running out the door and into her twin. She knocked him down but kept running.
"Sango, what the!" Naraku's voice yelled but she didn't stop.
"Thanks Mrs. Botan," Sango said, taking the hot chocolate. The older woman sat next to her and hugged the girl that was like a daughter to her close.
Kagome sank into the seat, and leaned against the window. With a sigh, she soon headed off into slumber land.
A/N: Hello, and here I am with another chapter of the ongoing series that started at in the summer of '04. Something I noticed as I referenced some info from Nagataka, is that Nagataka introduced us to this little world I have created and the people that inhabit it. It also tells you about some of the things that have already happened. Kimi watashi ga natsukashi played along with Nagataka's storyline and showed us what happened next. It really had no aim to it, like Nagataka and this one, Homu watashi aishite, did and will have. And now, Homu watashi ashite is here to continue the storyline, but also, it will answer the questions left unanswered in it's predecessors, and to fill in the gaps that where not filled in. The questions left unasked include who is Koryu's father, why did Inu Yasha's father kick him out of the house, why does he not remember his younger son, and more.