The Woman Who Loved Naraku
Chapter Two: Baby Naraku
Naraku was standing in shock, looking around.
"It's magic, we're in the future now." Explained Kagome. She dragged him up the stairs. InuYasha stayed put.
"I'm leaving. I don't want to stay around that meenie." Said InuYasha, except he didn't exactly say "meenie."
"Sit boy!" said Kagome, because it wasn't a nice word. He sat…all the way through the well. Kagome explained about the well, and about the necklace around InuYasha's neck.
"Isn't that humiliating?" asked Naraku.
Kagome dragged him into the house.
"Hello dear! Who is this?" asked Mom.
"Uh, he's…well…Naraku."
Silence.
"Uh, I can explain." And explain she did.
"Well, um, I guess you should get him some clothes."
They gave him a coat to cover his outfit, and Kagome took him to the mall.
After A Few Grueling Hours Of Shopping
At last, they had FINALLY found something Naraku would wear. Jeans, a shirt- he would not wear a t-shirt- and a black windbreaker.
It was a dinner at WacDonalds that he popped the question. No, he did not ask for her hand in marriage, I mean he asked a question he had been wondering for days.
"What have I done? Who am I? Why does every body hate me?" Kagome choked on her soda.
"Umm, it's a long story."
"I have the time."
"Well…" Kagome explained everything that he had done. Naraku was stunned.
"But then why am I not evil now?"
"Well, nobody's born evil, so now that this is a new beginning...hey, were you that purple blur that saved that boy who was drowning?"
"Maybe."
Kagome stared.
Naraku had to sleep on the couch. In the dark, he realized that he had had a crush on Kagome when he was Onigumo. Well, apparently, he still had one. When he fell asleep, he had dark dreams of his past.
Kagome did not tell him about Kohaku or his stealing of her powers.
Well, we- that is, people who think Naraku looks at least ok- all know Mr. Narky is, well, ok looking. According to InuYasha, so is Kagome. EVERYBODY knows that Onigumo liked Kikyou, and thus Naraku kind of likes Kagome is some bizarre way. So, it was no wonder that our Naraku reborn thought that Kagome was pretty.
In the morning, after breakfast, Naraku helped wash the dishes.
"Here I'll help." He said, and started to clean up. Kagome Souta and Mom all froze and looked at each other. Grandpa came downstairs.
"Who are you young man?" he asked.
"Naraku, from the well."
"The villain? Kagome is bringing more and more sob stories into this house…nice to meet you."
Kagome had to go back to the well, but instructed Naraku to say behind and out of trouble.
As it turned out, he did indeed keep out of trouble, sort of.
When she came back two days later, after getting a jewel shard very easily, she found out that Naraku had learned how to beat Souta at all his Nintendo games, had washed the dishes, and had invented very colorful sicknesses for Kagome that even Grandpa had not thought of.
She decided to take him to the movies.
"The what?"
Kagome had to explain that through some magical scientific way they could copy people's actions, and replay them, sort of, and blah blah blah.
"Oh, wow."
Naraku was blown away when they got out.
"That was wicked!" he shouted.
"You should see the Imax." She said, and snickered into her hand.
Suddenly, her three annoying Hojo-fan friends showed up in the lobby, and rushed over.
"Hey Kagome, who's your new friend?"
"Uh…this is, well, Naraku."
"Wow, your name means "underworld?" Cool! Are you new around here?"
"Yes." He said, a bit ticked off at these girls. He could tell it was one of those deep instincts from before, so he tried to suppress it.
That night, InuYasha arrived, asking when Kagome would be back. They had the usual fight, complete with sits. Naraku watched in fascination, and once again he felt that strange bubbly happy feeling of happiness that other people were suffering, especially InuYasha. He did not like it.
Two weeks went by, with Kagome going back and forth from era to era. Naraku was very nice, and he was starting to get used to doing nice things without having a small moral battle in his soul, you know?
Kagome noticed he was nice, and a small ray of hope shined in her. If he really turned nice, perhaps he could undo some of the evil things he had done, like free Kohoku, and fix the Wind Tunnel…
They STILL (they as in InuYasha and Kagome) hadn't told everybody about the Naraku situation, but InuYasha said he would soon.
Naraku was pretty happy about his situation at the moment, nobody was trying to kill him, nobody was screaming at the sight of him, and he was learning how to do Souta's math.
He was a big hit with the Higurashi's. He did chores for mom, played with Souta, had a vast array of diseases from his past for Grandpa, and was all in all a very nice kid.
However, he was to movies that InuYasha was to Ramen.
Because Kagome didn't have enough money to always take him to the movies, she took him to the mall, sometimes with InuYasha so that both boys would glare at each other, sometimes alone.
Kagome soon got more and more attached to Naraku. Since he had absolutely no idea of himself, what his favorite food or color was, she was usually the one who talked. Well, sometimes they would discuss a very good movie he had seen, or the weather.
In a desperate attempt to have something to say, he started to become silly.
"Would you rather live in a world where it rained meat, or where it was legal, in fact encouraged, to crucify mimes?"
Kagome started to like him more and more.
Finally, one day Naraku asked a question that had been bothering him.
"What am I going to do? I mean, with my life. I mean I can't exactly live here, I don't belong here. I am eventually going to get my memories back. What if that happens and I'm evil again? I can't be here when that happens!" he said, his head drooping sadly.
Kagome sighed; she had known it would come up sooner or later.
"How do you know you won't be good?"
"I don't, and that's the problem. I just can't risk it. I have to go back to the past, and regain my memories. Maybe if I go back to my castle, then it'll jog my memory. Besides, I'm not really comfortable in this era. It's just not my time."
Kagome sighed.
"Well, it's your choice."
They had been at an open mall, and walked in morbid silence for a while.
"Naraku, do you like me?"
Naraku jumped and looked at her.
"Do I like you? Well, I guess so…"
"I mean…" said Kagome, trying to find the right words.
"I mean, do you REALLY like me?"
"What do you mean?" asked Naraku, taken aback.
"Oh, never mind …"
Naraku turned red. Suddenly, the Annoying Trio showed up.
"Oooh, hi Kagome, whatcha doing?"
"Um…nothing. So, can I borrow your Geography notes?"
"Sure, come by tomorrow."
"See ya Kagome!"
"Bye!"
"Bye you guys!" Kagome called after them.
"Why were you asking that?" Asked Naraku.
"It must have been stress… but Naraku I like you a lot and you've been very nice so far and I don't want you to leave and be EVIL again!"
"Well, if it makes you feel better I like you too."
"Thanks Naraku." Kagome marveled at how weird that sounded. After all, you didn't exactly hear THOSE two words in the same sentence… in the old days.
Now, I think I'll leave them alone for a while. Let's take a peek at Kagome's Annoying Trio friends!"
"Hey, guys, I left my purse there when we were talking to Kagome. Back soon!" called one of them.
"Bye!" the other two called.
Later At Home
InuYasha was waiting for them.
He was about to say hello, when the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it!" shouted Kagome, running for the door.
Instead of the usual glare contest, Naraku looked out the window, blushing.
"What's the matter with you?" snarled InuYasha.
"Hi Kagome! I decided to bring the notes now. Hey, where's your boyfriend?" said the voice of one of Kagome's annoying friends.
"Boyfriend?" she asked.
"You know, the one with black hair that you kissed at the mall. Sorry for being a Peeping Jane, but-"
"YOU SON OF A-!" suddenly Naraku came running out, followed by InuYasha, wielding the Tessaiga.
"That one!" shouted Kagome's friend, pointing to Naraku.
"HOW DARE YOU!" InuYasha shouted, swinging the sword. The two hanyous ran in circles, and superhuman speed made dust clouds. SHHHHT!
The dust settled. InuYasha was standing, holding the Tessaiga touching the ground…between the two slices of couch he had just made. Naraku was in mid-frenzied run, staring at InuYasha.
Souta, who had been there sitting on the couch the whole time, stared at the Tessaiga, grateful he had NOT sat in the middle of the couch.
Kagome's friend- let's call her Jane- stared in shock at them. Kagome had her red ace buried in her hands. Mrs. Higurashi (mom) ran in the room.
"What is going on here?" she asked. Then she saw the couch.
"InuYasha! What have you done?"
"He- that bastard- kissed Kagome!" shouted InuYasha angrily, pointing the sword at Naraku.
"Is there something I'm missing here?" asked Jane.
"Something you're MISSING HERE? ARE YOU CRAZY?"
"Oh, I get it! Are these both your boyfriends? Why does the blonde have a sword?"
Kagome slapped her forehead (hers, not Jane's), wondering why she ever hung with such bimbos.
"Jane, perhaps you should go." Said Mom, carefully. Then, Grandpa showed up.
"What in the name of the seven-headed dragon of Chang Wong is going on here?" he shouted, and Kagome slapped her forehead again.
Naraku ran out, followed by InuYasha.
Kagome ran after them.
"Bye Kagome!" called Jane.
End of Extremly Long Chapter Two
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