On Vacation
Tobi Tortue
Chapter 3: In Which Inuyasha is Lost, Found, and High
"I wish Kagome was here," Shippou pouted. He turned to Kirara. "I want to show her the pictures I drew."
The fire cat mewed in sympathy, looking at one of the pictures. It portrayed the young kitsune destroying Kanna with a burst of kitsunebi.
"See? Aren't they great?" he asked, pride clearly evident. The little feline started to purr for Shippou, but the suddenly spun around and growled. Her fur stood on end.
"Kirara?" Shippou asked nervously, gathering his crayons and pictures before taking a few steps backward.
The cat youkai bounded forward a few feet and then transformed in a burst of flames. Shippou continued is retreat toward Kaede's hut.
Sango's voice rang out over the scene, calling her feline companion's name. She wore her demon slayer's outfit and carried Hiraikotsu over her shoulder. Running past the young kitsune, she leapt onto Kirara as the fire cat took off into the skies.
"Sango!" cried a surprised monk, running out of the hut. "Wait!" he yelled at her retreating back. He stopped next to Shippou.
They both stared as Sango disappeared over a hilltop, Shippou with eyes wide, and Miroku with eyes full of worry.
Then the monk broke free from staring and he ran after the woman he loved.
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Kagome stayed around the house in the morning. She walked out onto the porch and sat in her favorite spot on the railing, her back against the wall. After sitting there in the sun with a stiff ocean breeze in her face, she wondered where Inuyasha was. He had not been in the house, and she was sure he would have caught her scent by now.
"Inuyasha?" she queried. There was no reply, but she decided to go on anyway. "If I made you mad somehow, I'm sorry. And if you think I'm mad at you, I'm not. So you can come down now. Please?"
Still, there was no reply. She sighed, already in a bad mood, despite the fact that it was still morning and she was on a tropical island.
She hopped off her perch, and walked inside, lingering in the doorway for a moment, hoping her hanyou would appear.
He did not, again.
"Breakfast!" Souta yelled to her as she entered.
As the family of four sat down to scrambled eggs, bacon, and (lo and behold) oatmeal, Kagome wondered again where Inuyasha was. He wasn't the type to miss a meal, especially if her mother cooked it.
"Has anyone seen Inuyasha?" she asked after a few moments.
"Oh, I saw him earlier this morning," Mrs. Higurashi answered with her usual smile. "He was walking down to the beach." She took a small bite of oatmeal. "Mmm! Did you get any of that dried mango, Kagome? It's delicious! You have some too, Souta."
The four resumed eating, but for Kagome the food had become rather tasteless. She was too worried about Inuyasha to enjoy breakfast. As soon as she was finished, she excused herself and changed into a swimsuit, with a sarong and an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt.
"Oh good!" her mother exclaimed when she walked out of her room. "We were just going to go to a park. It supposedly has the best swimming on Kaua'i."
"But Mama! Inuyasha!" she said quickly, trying to get her point across in the least amount of words necessary, as if a long conversation would slow them down in a search.
"Don't worry, Kagome," she soothed. "He told me that he's over 200 years old, so he's probably quite capable of taking care of himself."
"But this is this era, Mama! And he doesn't even speak the language!"
"Then how he managed in his own era is beyond me," she said, raising her eyebrows. But then her eyes softened as she looked back down at her daughter. "I'm sure he's just fine. And from what you've told me, he can fin you anywhere, if he needs to. Let's just go to the beach and have fun!"
Kagome sat down on a couch as her mother went off to change. Souta arrived and sat next to her, chattering away.
"And there's all these fish, and sometimes people feed them, so they aren't scared of people. And they swim all around you, so you can almost touch them! Isn't that cool?" he asked, breathless with anticipation.
"Yeah," she agreed, but her heart wasn't in it and Souta could tell.
"What is it Kagome?" he questioned. "Are you still worried about Inuyasha?"
She didn't answer, but that in itself was enough of an answer for the boy.
Grandpa suddenly entered the room. "Let's go, children," he cried to them. "The beach is waiting!"
They all piled into the car, and zoomed off to the park. The parking lot was crowed, and they were lucky to find a spot close to the swimming area. They unpacked their towels, snorkels, and boogie-boards, and found a shady spot under a palm tree.
As soon as their things were deposited under the palm, Kagome and Souta raced to the beach, dodging smaller children and their sunbathing parents. They splashed into the water, shocked by its pool-like warmth.
The waves were calm, if they could even be considered waves. In a half circle from the shore was a long pile of rocks. The ocean waves crashed against those, and all of their power was lost by the time the water gently swelled through. The shore was transformed into a shallow beach filled with sand, fish, and tourists.
Kagome and Souta waded into the water, and shoved their masks onto their faces and snorkels into their mouths. They plunged their heads into the water and remained that way for the better part of half an hour.
The fish didn't seem to be amazingly colorful or oddly shaped, but they were still wonderful. First a school of gray-backed fish swam around the legs of the Higurashi children. There were at least a dozen of the fish that ranged between seven and twelve inches long. As they moved deeper into the water, and closer to the rocky barrier, Souta spotted a zebra-striped fish. It had a yellow dorsal fin and was soon joined by others of its kind. They found a fish of a color that Kagome declared as "seafoam green," and (Souta's favorite) a black fish with neon blue and red on its fins and gills. When they lifted their heads to exclaim about all of the fish, Kagome pointed out little black crabs on the rocks.
The two then made their way out of the water and stopped when they saw their mother, with a foam noodle, floating serenely in the soft swells. She opened her eyes to her children's calls of "Mama!"
"We want to go to the open beach," Souta explained, speaking of the life-guarded portion of the shoreline that was open to the waves. His mother nodded, closed her eyes, and leaned back once more.
They ran up to the shore and took their boards from near their grandfather, who was sleeping and snoring loudly. Laughing with excitement, they charged across the sand. Kagome was oddly reminded of that one American show she once watched with Inuyasha; it had been called "Baywatch,"
Little did she know that, farther up on the beach, Inuyasha was thinking much the same thing, as was evident by his rapidly spreading blush.
Kagome and Souta charged into the waves, trying to jump over the first white water crash.
"Ready?" Souta yelled over the surf, and they turned to face the shore in preparation for boarding. "I think I see a big one!"
Kagome looked behind her, and sure enough, Souta was right. A huge wave was building, and it looked ready to break just before it reached them—perfect!
They both turned and lay halfway on their boards, then pushed off the sand beneath them as the wave broke. The wave rushed them forward, side by side, as they shrieked with laughter.
They ground to a halt in the sand, as another waved came over them, pushing sand into their suits, and Souta off his board.
Kagome pulled herself up to all fours, and noticed a pair of bare feet in front of her. A pair of very familiar feet, actually.
She looked up, and their was Inuyasha. He was dressed in his shorts, red t-shirt, and hat. His hair was wet, as if he'd been swimming, and his shirt, although fairly dry, clung to his chest, darkened in a striped, zigzag pattern.
Kagome gazed up into his golden eyes and smiled. Suddenly his cheeks turned very red and he turned around, walking up out of the surf. That's when she realized she must have given the hanyou a very nice view… down the top of her swimsuit.
She blushed a little herself, but got to her feet and ran after her hanyou, dragging her board, which was attached to her wrist, with her.
"Inuyasha!" she yelled. "Wait!"
He stopped, and looked back at her, his face not as red as before, yet still a pretty pink. He stood there stubbornly, waiting for her and refusing to walk to meet her.
"Where have you been all day?" she asked as she drew closer.
"Keh," he replied, looked off down the beach. He moved as if he was about to cross his arms, but then dropped them down to his sides.
"Well, what have you been doing all this time?" Kagome moved in front of him, forcing the stubborn boy to acknowledge her.
"Nothin'," he replied with his don't-care-about-anything attitude.
"What?" she exclaimed, her ire and disappointment rising. " 'Keh' and 'nothing' is what I get for worrying about you? I haven't talked to you since yesterday! You just disappeared, Inuyasha. And when you didn't come back, I thought something had happened to you…." Tears filled the girl's eyes, and her words became less distinct as her sentences were punctuated with loud sobs and hiccups. "I was so… worried… about you."
Inuyasha realized with alarm that Kagome had begun to cry. He slowly reached a hand toward her cheek, and attempted to brush away a tear. "Don't cry," he said, worry filling his voice. "Especially not on your vacation-thingy." When her sobs didn't recede, her cringed and drew his hand back. "Kagome…" he began.
"I just wish…" she started, making him shut up immediately. "I wish that you could tell me things. After all this time, don't you trust me?" Her watery eyes peered up at him.
"Kagome, I…" he began again. But his voice failed him when he saw her misery. His eyes softened, and she could see the unhappiness he felt at beholding her sadness.
"Oh, Inuyasha," she cried, falling against his chest and clinging to him. Inuyasha winced and gasped as if in pain. The girl stepped back quickly and moved to wipe her eyes with her hand, but stopped.
A small smudge of red was smeared in her hand.
Fear gripped Kagome as she looked at where her hand had been. The darker spots on Inuyasha's shirt… it was blood, not water.
"Inuyasha," she breathed. He looked away. Then she had already formed an idea and began to take control of the situation.
"Go to Mama, and tell her it's time to leave. Make sure Grandpa knows too. I'll get Souta and meet you at the van. I'm going to look at your wounds when we get home.
"And you're going to explain to me what happened."
She didn't give him a chance to argue, because she raced off into the water to get her little brother.
The hanyou did as he was told, and found they adults relaxing on the beach. At the request of Kagome's mother (who didn't know he was injured), he even helped them pack their things into the van, wincing and only using his left hand.
Kagome and Souta arrived, and they were all in the rental on the way to the house in a matter of moments.
"Mama," Kagome asked from the back seat she occupied with Inuyasha. "Can we stop at a pharmacy?"
Her mother nodded, and turned into a shopping plaza. Kagome squeezed out and walked with her mother to the store, disappearing inside.
"You know," Souta complained, "if you hadn't been missing all morning, I bet Kagome wouldn't have made us all go home." He stared pointedly at the hanyou in the seat behind him.
"That's right," chimed his grandfather from the passenger seat. "When you came, we all had to leave," he pouted. "Why is that?"
"Didn't you want to be on the beach too?" Souta asked the dog demon.
Inuyasha 'kehed' and looked out the window. A Chihuahua in the car parked next to them barked like mad. The demon growled and the dog quickly whimpered and hid under the front seat.
Souta and his grandfather stared, but made no comment.
Thankfully, the women returned soon, complete with a huge bag of something. They entered the car in silence and continued driving that way.
Once there, Kagome dragged Inuyasha behind the garage to the outdoor shower.
"Strip," she commanded, gesturing for him to turn on the shower as well.
The hanyou's eyes went incredibly wide. Behind her, Souta and her grandfather's eyes did the same, while her mother hummed and unlocked the back door.
"No wait!" Kagome cried, finally realizing her mistake. "I meant take off your shirt! And wash your wounds!" However, it was too late to undo her words, and she could feel her face burn.
"Wounds?" Souta asked, peeking from behind his sister.
"Go inside, Souta, " she ordered, turning to face him. She didn't want her little brother to see his hero hurt, and she didn't know how bad the hanyou's injuries were.
"No!" he yelled, probably more than a little upset. "I didn't know he was—I didn't know you were hurt!" he cried, deciding to speak to Inuyasha himself halfway through his message.
"Souta, just go. You don't need to—"
But both stopped, and stared. Inuyasha had peeled off his shirt.
Long, curvy lines striped his back, which was facing them. The lines were thick and black, with crusty blood and sand etching them. His right shoulder and upper arm was red and raw and if some caustic substance had burned off the skin.
Souta gasped, while tears formed once again in Kagome's eyes. Inuyasha turned and looked back at the siblings.
The same marks were engraved across his chest and stomach.
"What?" he said, clearing unaware of the effect his wounds had on them. He turned back to the shower nozzle, banged on it with his fist, and growled, "How the hell does this thing turn on?"
Kagome quickly rushed over to help him. She glanced back at Souta and shooed him inside. He rapidly obeyed, having no desire to see Inuyasha's wounds more clearly.
Inuyasha winced as the cold water poured over his wounds. The water didn't make them look any better.
"Try to, uh, clean them a bit," Kagome offered, truing to stop the nauseating feeling she got when she beheld the long lacerations on her Inuyasha.
"Yeah, whatever," he replied. He carefully brushed away bits of sand from his chest and stomach. Kagome nearly threw up when she saw little crumbles of dried blood flake off with them.
Usually his wounds, although sometimes much worse, were clean cuts. And even when Naraku's miasma had infected his wounds, they were much more visually appealing.
She moved to the house so she was behind him and didn't have to watch. After about half a minute, she turned around, expecting to face his back. Instead, she faced the front of him, complete with watery red rivulets trailing from points on his wounds.
She closed her eyes, repeating in her mind that she had seen worse, she had seen worse.
"Are you done, Inuyasha?" she asked loudly, making sure he had heard her over the shower. "I still need to bandage you up."
She heard the water turn off, as well as her hurt hanyou's voice. "It's not that bad, wench," he said in his usual arrogant tone. "It's just healing abut funny, so stop worrying already. You sound like a bitch."
She took the insult with only ground teeth (because moving her mouth would release several painful osuwaris), and opened her eyes to see him striding over to her. She walked up to the steps at the back door, sat down on the top one, and motioned for him to sit between her legs.
"Now, you explain, and I'll bandage," she said as he sat down on the step beneath her. She pulled out a roll of gauze from the sopping bag her mother had left by the door.
"There's nothing to explain, wench."
Her eyebrow twitched angrily, and she slapped some gauze onto a reddish ribbon on his shoulder.
"Ow!" he yelled, flinching. "Damn bitch! That hurt!"
"You're supposed to tell me what happened, Inuyasha," she said, feeling a little hurt herself because he had not decided to tell her the first time.
"Keh." He looked down in from of him. "If I have to tell you or else you'll hurt me… damn miko shit.
"Whatever," he said dismissively, "I'll tell you, I guess. I met this youkai on the beach. End of story. Ow!"
Kagome slapped on another bandage. "I want details, Inuyasha. And why didn't you tell me this earlier?" she berated. She shook her head. "Don't you know I worry about you?"
Inuyasha stood up, and turned to face her. "You worry about me too damn much." He crouched down in front of her, the lines across his chest and shoulders rippling. "You should stop worrying so much about me. Just have a good vacation thingy."
Kagome shut up and gently bandaged the hanyou after that. He hadn't wanted to tell her because she would worry, and worrying would ruin her vacation. She tried to hold back tears that threatened to come when she thought about his stupid way of caring for her.
"Don't you know I'll always worry about you? Because I—"
"Just try to stop. And keep bandaging," he said hastily, cutting her off.
She tried to do as he said, but only succeeded halfway. When the bandaging was finished, the two went inside.
"Oh, good," Mrs. Higurashi exclaimed. "You're done. We were just going to get some pizza. Would you like to come with us? Grandpa said he spotted a place earlier."
Souta walked into the kitchen, and stared in awe at the white bandages covering Inuyasha from his neck to his hips.
"Are you gonna be okay?" he asked hesitantly.
"Keh," the cocky hanyou replied. "I'll be fine."
The younger boy nodded slowly, as if unsure of the truth of the statement. But he accepted it nonetheless, and sat down at the table in the chair closest to the door.
"Inuyasha," said Mrs. Higurashi suddenly. "I have another shirt for you. Your red one's in the wash. Here." She disappeared into her bedroom and returned, tossing a white t-shirt at the hanyou.
He took off his hat ad pulled the shirt on over his head, Souta and Kagome giggled when his ears were the only things visible, but stopped as soon as Inuyasha had it on farther, and was able to glare.
Grandpa walked into the kitchen, and rubbed his hands together in excitement. "Let's go get some pizza!"
The group walked to the van, and climbed in. Inuyasha tried to get away with refusing to wear a seatbelt, complaining that it rubbed against his wounds, but Kagome forcibly buckled him up.
"You'd be a lot worse off it we crashed and you flew through the windshield," she explained stubbornly.
He kehed and looked away, letting her click the seatbelt secure.
Kagome's mother drove, while her grandfather sat in the passenger's seat, calling out directions to the pizza place.
They pulled into a dark parking lot that was almost completely filled up.
"Must have good pizza, huh?" Souta stated, looking around.
"Mm," Kagome replied, sensing one of those "adventurous" moment approaching. She had a feeling that the family wouldn't be forgetting this event soon.
Her grandfather opened his door and then hurried everyone else out. Everyone except for Souta was hesitant.
"He makes pizza's out of his van," Grandpa explained, pointing to a big van that was colored like it was still in the sixties in America. They carefully followed Grandpa closer to the van, and behind it, a tall palm-fronded Hawaiian hut or shack-thing that had the words "Spiritual Pizza" on it in rainbow colors.
"What is that smell?" Inuyasha asked, wrinkling his nose.
"I don't smell anything," Souta said, glancing back at the hanyou.
"'Course you don't," Inuyasha answered arrogantly, getting a quick glare from Kagome that was just a quickly ignored. "You can't smell anything, human."
Kagome shushed him, and grabbed his arm, pulling his next to her so they walked together. If he had any more comments that would reveal his non-human origins, she would theoretically be able to stop him.
They were passing the front of the van, which was on the right. On their left were about seven people, sitting on a porch swing adorned with palm fronds. They all were leaning back and slouching, and looked like a bunch of old hippies.
"Those people are so weird," one of them said in a loud whisper, gazing at the Higurashis and Inuyasha.
Kagome scooted closer to Inuyasha, and continued to follow her grandfather.
Suddenly a man popped out in front of Grandpa, a man with his gray hair pulled back into a bushy ponytail and his beard grown out. His eyes shone bright blue.
"Hey, good to see ya," he said loudly. "We're just about to get started with music." He gestured behind him and to the right at a guy with long dreadlocks who was beginning to squeeze out the first few notes on an odd woodwind instrument. It sounded like drugged-up cross between a frog and a clarinet. "And our first pizzas are coming out of the oven. And it's not just any pizza…
"It's spiritual pizza." The man's eyes went freakishly wide at this point.
"Let's discuss it if we want some," Mrs. Higurashi said hastily. She tapped her father-in-law's shoulder and turned to her children. "I don't think so…"
"There's pizza!" Souta resisted.
"Does anybody else hear that sound?" Inuyasha asked suddenly. Kagome nodded and stared and him hard as the "music" rose in pitch.
Inuyasha's eyes weren't exactly focused. He sniffed the air, and looked around in fascination. Kagome stared at the hanyou in concern as his unfocused gaze swiveled toward the stage where the dreadlocked musician eased out some more notes.
"Inuyasha?" she asked slowly.
"Shhh…" he whispered loudly. Then he suddenly yelled. "Whoa! Did you see that flash?"
That's when Kagome became very worried.
"What flash, Inuyasha?" She stood on her toes so he could look only at her face. He blinked more than necessary, and his eyes seemed to slowly focus on hers.
"Let's eat somewhere else, okay?" Mrs. Higurashi looked hr children in the eyes, and grabbed her father-in-law by the arm. She began to move toward the exit.
Kagome turned away from Inuyasha and followed. At least, she tried. The girl took two steps and then felt two arms encircle her from behind.
"Me and Kagome are gonna stay here…. You guys can go on ahead," Inuyasha said in a dreamy tone. Kagome wondered what was wrong with him as her family turned around.
"No," her mother said sternly, "We're leaving."
Souta's eye grew very round when he saw his sister in the hanyou's arms, and that of course caused Kagome's face to turn very red. Not that she minded Inuyasha's strong arms wrapped protectively around her… usually. And if he was actually feeling protective. But something was wrong.
Very wrong, she realized, as she felt his breath on the side of her neck. Souta's eyes got wider and her mother looked even more concerned. Grandpa just continued walking towards the car, oblivious to the scene unfolding behind him.
Then Inuyasha kissed her neck, and began placing more, moving up to her ear. She stood completely still in utmost shock for three seconds, until she squeezed her eyes shut and screamed a single word.
"OSUWARI!"
The hanyou dropped to the ground faster than a meteorite and left a deep crater. The group on the porch swing gazed in wonder and nodded. Kagome could feel her face burning red hot as she and her mother lifted the dazed hanyou to his feet and out to the car.
"Hey! Whaddaya…whoa…lookit…ow!" Inuyasha said as they heaved him into the back seat. Kagome refused to sit next to him. Souta, knowing that Inuyasha was not the type to kiss people when he was in his right mind, refused even more to sit next to the hanyou. The siblings sat next to each other in the seat in front of Inuyasha, glancing back at him suspiciously every fifteen seconds.
"Don't worry about him, children," their mother comforted as she backed up and sped out of the parking lot, "he should come back down in a little while."
"Come back down?" Kagome and Souta echoed simultaneously.
"Didn't you see?" Mrs. Higurashi asked. "Well, I suppose that as a mother I should be happy about that," she said to herself. Then to her children she explained in that patient way that only mothers could, "Inuyasha must be high, dears."
She didn't look into her mirror to see the expressions of shock, confusion, and disbelief on the faces of her children.
"He's what?" Kagome asked incredulously.
"Those people by the van were all high, or nearly so. I could tell by the smell. Marijuana." She accelerated after slowing down at a stale red light.
"How do you know this Mama?" Souta asked with a hint of concern.
"Oh, you know, life experiences…" she trailed off and continued driving.
"Look at those lights…" Inuyasha said in wonder as they passed and turned at the Chevron station.
They drove the next few blocks to the house and parked in the back. Souta was out in a flash, not wanting to have to take care of Inuyasha. Grandpa just ignored everyone else as he walked inside. Once again, the women were dragging the hanyou around.
They stopped on the back steps, where Mrs. Higurashi suggested they keep Inuyasha until his senses returned. After forcing him to sit down (it was fairly easy because he was almost completely limp), the tired mother stepped inside.
"Oh, excuse me, Souta," she apologized as she ran into him in the doorway. Kagome glared at him for running and then watching instead of helping. Her mother turned back to her and she immediately changed expressions. "I'm just going to order pizza, okay? You look out for Inuyasha while I call." She slipped inside and the door shut behind her, leaving Kagome and Inuyasha alone.
Kagome suddenly realized that the situation didn't have to be all that bad. She could take advantage of this situation. Recalling what hippies supposedly said about issues suddenly becoming clear, se decided to use this opportunity as best she could.
"Inuyasha?" she asked, a little softly.
"Hnn?" There was a pause. "Whoa. Kagome… it's you…."
Kagome felt like slapping herself in the face and quitting right there, but she went on doggedly. "Who do you like better, me or—"
"You, baka," the hanyou replied instantly.
Despite how she knew he was drugged up, Kagome's heart skipped a beat. There was no way she could know if it was the truth, or if he was even really listening.
"Me… or Kikyou," she finished quietly.
"You, baka," he insisted.
Her chest seemed to constrict and tighten around her heart. "So… you love me?" she asked in a whisper, trying to hide the note of hope in her voice.
"Of course, bitch," he said, a silly smile covering his face at this point. For some reason, "bitch" felt more like a pet name than an insult at that moment. But, her hanyou was high, so maybe he just had difficulties controlling the tone in his voice.
"Why don't you ever tell me?" she asked, looking down at her red polished toes and wiggling them.
"'Cause…why should I?" he said stubbornly. She giggled because he sounded like a tantrumish child.
"Because I like to know these things, Inuyasha," she replied, her voice still soft, but a little lighter than before.
"What…evah…" he countered. He looked over at her and smirked sloppily, adding, "Bitch."
She sighed and stood up. "Tell me again sometime, okay?"
The door behind her suddenly opened, startling her and not fazing Inuyasha.
"I ordered two Hawaiian pizzas," a familiar voice rang out.
"Thanks Mama," Kagome answered, turning around to face her mother.
"How's he doing?" Mrs. Higurashi gestured at Inuyasha.
Kagome paused and thought about it. "Better, I think." She thought a bit more, and then added, "He hasn't said anything about lights for a while."
Her mother nodded and returned inside. Kagome stared in shock at her mother for leaving her alone with a guy who was high for the second time in one night, but then she sat back down next to Inuyasha in defeat.
"What'cha thinkin'?" she asked, staring up at the stars.
"Nothin'," he answered, not quite reaching nonchalance. Maybe he realized it, for he quickly added in a syrupy tone, "Bitch."
"What…evah…" she countered, suppressing a smile. She decided to take another leaf out of Inuyasha's book and added, "Koinu."
The hanyou didn't seem to notice. In fact, he yawned and leaned back against the steps. Kagome wrinkled her nose at how uncomfortable that looked. She was about to ask him just how comfortable he was when she saw his eyes slide closed.
"Koinu-kun?" she asked, sounding like a sixth-grader with a classic schoolgirl crush.
"Hnn?" he answered. His eyes stayed shut.
"Koinu-kun?" she asked again, this time quelling the accompanying schoolgirl giggle.
A soft snore answered her.
A short while later, the pizza arrived, and Mrs. Higurashi took it at the front door, not wanting Inuyasha to be seen by any other eyes. Kagome and her mother moved the sleeping hanyou indoors, as Grandpa made cracks about letting sleeping dogs lie. Inuyasha, however, was out like a light and not about to be woken up. The family watched TV and ate pizza while the hanyou slept on the couch.
Souta decided to sleep in a tent in the backyard, because that was preferable to waking up the sleeping dog. He and his mother took the air mattress they found in the garage, some pillows and blankets, and set up the tent under the moon and the porch light.
Kagome sat through the finale of another black and white movie ("Love is Better Than Ever"), indulging her grandfather until she could stay awake no longer.
She said her good nights and quietly walked into her bedroom. Kagome changed into light pajamas of shorts and a tanktop, and slipped into bed.
Over and over, her mind repeated:
"Me… or Kikyou?"
"You, baka."
"So… you love me?"
"Of course."
End of Chapter 3
So, tell me what you thought. Loves to everyone who's reviewed me and stuck with me despite my terrible uploading habits. I know I'm slow, but I have projects and AP exams coming up. Anyway, for a list of new terms….
I think I only used "koinu" and "kun"
"ko" is "little" and "inu" is "dog, so "koinu" is "puppy"
"kun" is added on to the names of male peers
And in case you were wondering, Spiritual Pizza exists. I described my experience there to the T, except no one got high and no one was kissed. But otherwise, yeah, hope you guys are enjoying my vacation… well, now that Inuyasha has taken over it.
Tobi Tortue
"Je fais ce que je peux." (pronounced "shfay shkuh shpuh", translates as "I do what I can")