Ai ga subete – Our era starts from here

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I just read through my first two chappies and recognized something that's quite terrible.
I wrote the original version on Word and used '…' for speech and something else for thoughts. But you can't see the something else!
(I don't know what it's called in English. Looks like a star…)
I already recognized this when I posted the chapters. I fixed it and they could bee seen in the preview. But it's still not working! I'm sooooooooo sorry! Because of that I thought of a small change. "…" means speech and '…' means thought, now.

Mysterium

PS: Inuyasha doesn't belong to me. He belongs to Kagome! ;-)

Ai ga subete – Our era starts from here

Chapter 3: Hatching a plot

"Di-did you just say 'boys'?" he asked shaking with anger.

Now it was Mrs. Higurashi's time to gulp. The way he hissed these words sent a shiver down her spine. His eyes were glazing dangerously.
"Yes, I said 'boys'. Is there anything wrong about it?" she replied, acting like she didn't know the reason for his behavior, after she had composed herself again.

Of course she knew about his feelings for her daughter. And, frankly speaking, even if she hadn't, who wouldn't have guessed what he was feeling only from the way he acted right now?

Inuyasha's thoughts were all messed up. He just couldn't think of anything else than
'Kagome', 'hot springs' and 'boys' for a moment, feeling jealousy rising inside of him.
(A/N: Remember, he is even getting jealous at Shippou!)
'Mind your temper!' he reminded himself when he noticed the somewhat strange sound of Mrs. Higurashi's voice.

He tried to shake of his thoughts about Kagome and 'boys' (not all of them were suitable for under-17s).
Suddenly noticing that his reaction might have caused her mother to get a wrong idea of the relationship he and Kagome had, he turned away from her, slightly blushing. He decided that it would be better not to let another growl or a rash comment escape his lips again.
When he was back in a rather good shape he finally dared to speak, still not looking at the woman sitting opposite him.
"It's just … Kagome didn't tell me that there would be any boys on this trip" he said, nearly whispering as he tried to get his voice under control. He was still trembling and spoke with a …well… kind of hurt tone.
Mrs. Higurashi was a little surprised. "But I already told you that she is going on this trip with her classmates. That's of course including her male classmates."
"WHAT!?" Inuyasha yelled as he jumped to his feet, casting his good intensions to the winds. Mrs. Higurashi looked at him more serious than before.

"I-I mean … there are boys in this class-thing, too?" he asked, forcing himself to speak more quiet this time. Mrs. Higurashi nodded in response, asking him to sit down again at the same time. "Something wrong about this?" He blushed again.
"It's just that Kagome never told me about it…" His voice trailed of as he kneeled back down, still avoiding to meet her eyes.
Of course she had already told him of this 'Ho-ho' guy and that he went to the same school as she did. But living in a time where girls were educated totally different from boys, he never even thought it was possible that Kagome would learn the same things as the boys of her time did. Inuyasha could hardly remember the years of his childhood, but in his mind's eye he was still able to see how the lads, who had lived in the castle of his mother's family, were taking fencing lessons. And he knew that they'd been taught writing, reading and other things, too.

But girls had to learn how to cook, dress, dance, make up and things like that back then.

He hadn't been taught like those boys himself, because he was still very young when he lived there. And nobody would have wanted to teach him besides. All he knew back then were the things his mother had taught to him. She'd been quite well educated and was even able to read the characters Chinese people used, even if it wasn't suitable for most of the women in those days.

"I…" Inuyasha finally began. But Mrs. Higurashi cut him of again.
"So you don't want to leave her alone with those boys, do you?" she asked friendly. He simply nodded, his cheeks reddening in embarrassment.

Kagome's mother sighed. "It's a great pity that I had to promise her that I wouldn't tell you where she is going." Inuyasha lowered his head. Of course he did this because he was kind of disappointed, but it was also supposed to hide the blush her words caused. She slowly got up.

"Do you know what a coach is?" she asked. He only shook his head still looking to the ground. But nevertheless he pricked his ears up, curious why he should know what a 'koatch' was.

"Well, it's something like a really big car with room for many people, you know. Tomorrow morning there'll be a coach picking up Kagome and her classmates and take them to their hotel in the mountains" she continued, walking to the door.

"Wh-why are you telling me this?" Inuyasha asked obviously surprised.

She turned back and faced him with a friendly smile. "I guess it's the only way to go with her, isn't it? You should be fast enough to follow the coach. And if you're not… well, from what Kagome told me you could simply jump on top of it. But you have to make sure nobody will see you till you arrive, especially not Kagome" she finished and left the room.

"Wa-What!?" This time he was even too stunned for blushing again.

For a few seconds he wondered why Mrs. Higurashi did something like that. He would have expected her to be angry with him because he acted all weird. After all he had tried to take her daughter away from her. He would have expected her to shout at him, telling him to leave Kagome alone because he was nothing else than a bloody half breed.
But sending him on a trip with Kagome, without even telling her daughter about it?
That was sure something he would never have expected!
But it didn't really matter now, did it? He was going with Kagome! He would be able to watch over her like he always did and protect her from any harm. But above all he would be able to keep away every boy who dared coming near to her.

"Inuyasha!" Mrs. Higurashi called. "Do you want to root or something? Come on. We have to search for some clothes for you. You would attract too much publicity with those you are wearing all the time." Her voice cut off his train of thought.

"Coming!" he replied, quickly getting to his feet and hurrying to where her voice was coming from.

He entered one of the rooms he had never been in yet. But from the scent and the way it was furnished he could tell it was Mrs. Higurashi's room. There was a rather big bookshelf, a bed that was at least twice as broad as Kagome's, a bedside table with some pictures of Kagome and Sota on it and a huge cupboard. Buyo, the fat cat, lay purring on the bed.
Kagome's mother kneeled in front of the opened cupboard, rummaging for something, when he noticed Inuyasha standing behind her.
"Ah, you're here. Well, let me take a closer look at you…hmmmm…your nearly as tall as deceased husband. I think there are some clothes that could fit you." With that she devoted to her rummage again. Inuyasha sat down on the bed Indian style and lifted up the purring cat.

After half an hour there was a bag packed with gear for Inuyasha. There were two plain T-Shirts, one just as red as his haori the other one black, a beige sweater, a white shirt, two blue jeans and another black one, two pairs of trainers, a dark blue bandana , a pair of brand-new black swimming shorts, and a black baseball cap. Apart from that there was another small bag called 'purse' or something like that. Mrs. Higurashi had told him he would need it for him and Kagome buying some new clothes for him.

During picking out the clothes for him she had been talking about what he should do or shouldn't do at the hotel and also she'd explained some of the modern things to him.

"Huh, it's quite late, isn't it?" she said finally zipping the bag shut.
"You can sleep at Sota's. But make sure Kagome won't see you in the morning!"

Inuyasha nodded and said goodnight.

He entered Sota's room, trying not to wake up the sleeping brat. He took of the upper half of his red kimono and lay down to the ground, using it as a pillow. He looked up to the ceiling, his arms folded behind his head, the tessaiga lying next to him. Staring into the darkness he started to think about the nightly events so far.

He just couldn't believe what had happened. At first he had had an argument with Kagome, then he'd followed her to take her back with him and finally he'd been given permission to go with her by her own mother. It seemed just totally implausible to him. 'I hope this isn't just a dream', he thought. One second later he stopped thinking about it and wondered what the following week would be like. Just when he imagined him and Kagome sitting near a quiet lake in the mountains at sunset, he heard a faint muttering.

"Inuyasha…ani chan."

Inuyasha sweatdropped.
'Is everybody in this family talking about me in their sleep?' he wondered, then turned to his left side and closed his eyes.

Well, that's it. I know it's rather short and I don't think it's that good, but I don't have enough time to do any better at the moment. Well, Christmas break is over and I got so much homework. I had to write two poems and draw up a list of all the stylistic methods I used and write down why I used them! And there are lots of tests, too.

I did most of this chappie during my English lesson.
Some of you might have thought that Inuyasha's wish would be to go with Kagome (Kitty 222). But why should he waste his wish if there's somebody like Mrs. Higurashi, plotting against her own daughter ;-)

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