Hitori ni Sasenai
by Lady Mac
Let's start this one off with: A massive Author's Note! I'll get to the meat n' taters eventually, I promise.
Sasha: None of the series sites I've been to give Kagome's mom a name, and every fanfic uses a different one. Some don't even try and just call her "Mama" which gets confusing sometimes. But I read one in which she was named Kaiya and I think it's a pretty name so I used it.
Tairi Soraryu: I luv ya too, gurly! And I'm glad you love my story! As for your questions: voltaire2003 is my boyfriend, and Inu and Kag will be looking at baby names in the future. However, I've already chosen a name, as well as an additional eighteen or so (yeah, i know) for future characters. So you can suggest names if you want, but I probably will stick with what I've got. Also .. heh heh... I wouldn't know if Mama acts that way in the manga because I haven't read it! All i know comes from the anime, the web, and Well.. and But that's kinda the same, ne? And ... chapter four is funny? ..... well, i guess it is, kinda. Heh. Mommy, mommy, look! I maked a funny! Oh yeah... and as for the English slang (this is just rambling now, isn't it?), I just used it because it had the right feel for the character and the situation. I'm pretty sure no one in 14th century Japan would say he "knocked up" a girl or went off by himself to "jack off." But I tried the whole period-appropriate dialogue thing with Macbeth and I just don't like it. Too much like school. Besides, that's how Inu talks in the dub AND the sub. The others have a little more decency, but that's why we love our inu.
I wish you guys would give me more suggestions instead of just reviewing! It's hard to do this all by myself ... If you want, you can go back to some of the suggestions in reviews and expand on those. That makes my job a whole lot easier and makes the chapters go up quicker! (hint, hint, "update soon" people!) I know, I know, I'm "unsubtle."
(Pouts) And v2k3 is on vacation so I can't call randomly and bounce ideas off him ... it's just me and the brats for now.
I am also ANGRY that I live in the Midwest (never thought I'd say that!) because if I was at San Diego Comic-Con International I could audition for a role as an extra voice in Inuyasha! OOOHHHH!! That makes me really angry, especially since I have family in LA ...
I finally got a Chorus Line CD from the library! Yay!! "Singular Sensation" is well on its way. "One thrilling combination, ev'ry move that he makes..."
Heh. I got my hair cut (again) so it's not hanging down the back of my neck anymore and I got the front layered so it doesn't go POUF at my jawline - instead it goes POUF around my whole head. Y'know, in case you cared.
Don't you hate it when you're typing and you accidentally type two capital letters in a row? Especially when it's a two-letter word so WordPerfect doesn't change it automatically for me.
Have you guys ever seen Martian Successor Nadesico? It so rocks! I got it from Half Price Books and it's so cool!
Wai, wai! takes .wpd files! Scoreness!
Good God, this is turning into a blog. ENOUGH ALREADY!!! I'm supposed to be writing a story!
Also, please note the changed email address. Send all correspondence from now on to: . It's funny, though, because a few hours after I changed my email with I got two author alerts! Y'all rock.
deep breath...
On with the fic!
Disclaimer: Try as I might to amass a huge enough fortune to buy the rights from Ms. Takahashi, failure seems to be my lot in life this week since I only make five bucks an hour babysitting and I need that for a band trip to New York in spring. Pfui.
Chapter Seven
Apologies
Kaiya Higurashi was frightened half to death. She had never expected to fall through the well into the past, and had no idea what to do. Her first instinct was to jump back in and go home, but she stopped herself. "No," she said. "You're here now. That means Fate wants you to find Kagome and apologize." She looked down into the well. "And besides, if you do go back there's no promise it'll let you through again."
Her second instinct was to start walking and hope she found someone, but that just seemed foolish. She knew there would be all sorts of youkai in the forest, and she was simply not capable of defending herself against them. But then again, she was a sitting duck if she stayed at the well. As foolish as it might be, wandering aimlessly seemed to be the best option.
She stood and surveyed her surroundings. The clearing was slightly oblong, with the well near one end. At the opposite end there seemed to be a small trail running into the woods and out of sight. In fact, it seemed more and more promising as she drew nearer. The twigs and brambles were had been pushed aside, and ... yes! There were unmistakable bicycle tracks. Since it was the Sengoku Jidai, the only bicycle in Japan belonged to Higurashi Kagome.
Jewel shard firmly in hand, she set off down the path.
She hadn't gone very far before the trees began to thin and she saw the top of the Goshinboku rising above the foliage. She hurried towards it, and soon the village came into view.
As she neared, a group of men looked up and noticed her nearing the outskirts. They said something inaudible, then rushed into the village, presumably to tell someone about her.
It struck her then how absurd she must look to these people. She was wearing a pair of plain grey sweat pants, flip flops, and a blue t-shirt that read "UCLA Varsity" in English. Kagome had bought it for her as a joke during her college search days - before she had decided to ... well, to forego higher education in favor of starting a family with Inuyasha in Japan's distant past.
Kaiya shook her head. Her clothes weren't absurd, her entire life was. She was a widowed mother of two who lived in a Shinto shrine with her father-in-law, and her seventeen-year-old daughter - who happened to be the reincarnation of a powerful miko - spent most of her time in 1550's Japan and was pregnant with the child of a seventy-year-old "boy" who was, incidentally, half-youkai. And here she was now, in said 1550's Japan, to find said seventeen-year-old daughter, and confront her about said child. Her life was a total mess.
She sighed, and looked up as an old woman in miko's clothing came out of the village towards her.
"Come no closer!" the woman commanded, and Kaiya froze. "Identify yourself! Be ye friend, or foe?"
"F - friend!" Kaiya stammered. "I - I seek Higurashi Kagome."
"Kagome-sama!" said the woman, looking at the man and woman who had followed her. The man was tall and wore the robes of a Buddhist monk, and the woman was only slightly shorter and dressed in a plain pink-and-purple yukata.
"Shall I fetch her?" asked the man.
"Iie, Houshi-sama," said the younger woman. "Kagome-chan said specifically not to be disturbed while she was tending to Inuyasha."
"Please!" Kaiya tried. "She is my daughter, and I must speak to her!" She took a step imploringly.
"I said, come no closer!" the old woman commanded again, and she stepped back quickly. "If ye are a demon, ye shall never overtake our village or Kagome-sama!"
"She's not a youkai," said a little voice, and Kaiya noticed the small ... thing for the first time. It looked like a three-year-old with bright red hair, green eyes, and a fluffy tail. "She's a human. I can smell it."
The old woman looked at her suspiciously, then nodded. "All right then. You may enter the village, but you may not see Kagome-sama until she is finished tending to her mate."
Kaiya bowed low. "Thank you."
"I am Kaede, this village's miko," said the old woman, turning back to the village. "The houshi is named Miroku, and the taijiya is Sango. The kitsune is known as Shippou."
"Hajimemashite," she said humbly, and they replied in kind.
She followed the elderly miko through the street to her hut, trying to ignore the stares of the villagers. "Kagome-sama is within with Inuyasha-san. You may wait with me in the garden," said Kaede. "I have work to do there, and you may help me if you wish."
"Thank you, Kaede-sama, I will."
They went around to the back of the hut and began working on the herbs that grew in a small fenced-in area.
"Kaede-sama?" Kaiya asked a while later.
"Yes?"
"I was wondering ... has Kagome said anything since she returned?"
"Nothing of consequence," the miko answered. "Why?"
"Well, it's just ... that I drove her away, and ... I don't know."
"You drove her away?"
Kaiya nodded. "I said some terrible things to her and Inuyasha that I really didn't mean." She looked down at her hands in the dirt. "By the way, if it isn't too bold to ask ... what did Sango-san mean when she said that Kagome was ... tending to Inuyasha?" She hated to think what it could mean, hated to think what her daughter might be doing just on the other side of the wall.
"Inuyasha-san was very weak and tired when they returned. Kagome-sama wished to get him settled in to rest for a while, and insisted that he not be disturbed. She has told us nothing of what happened, so we must trust her."
"Oh," Kaiya said, blushing. "Then ... they're not ..."
"Oh, heavens, no!" said Kaede, laughing a little. "They have never engaged in ... intimate relations within the village. Had they their own hut I am sure they would, but even as it is one can sometimes hear them from the woods. I am sure that will be a large issue for Inuyasha-san to work with when they finally decide to marry."
"He asked me for my permission to have her," Kaiya said.
"What did ye say? Surely ye agreed."
She shook her head in shame. "I didn't. I don't know if you know this, but ... Kagome's pregnant, and Inuyasha acknowledges that he is the father. I was too frightened to let him do what was honorable. And, as if that wasn't bad enough, I told Kagome she had to get rid of the baby."
"Get rid of it?" Kaede echoed.
"Yes. In ... in our time, there is technology, medicine that can ... can kill an unborn child. I was afraid it would endanger Kagome's safety to have a child at her age."
"Most girls are married with children of their own by Kagome-sama's age," the miko said. "I am sure it would be quite safe for her to bear the child."
"I know," Kaiya said. "I know. I just ... I'm so afraid."
"That is understandable," Kaede said, then looked up as the girl in question rounded the corner of the hut.
"Kaede-sama, Sango-chan said that..." She trailed off at the sight of her mother kneeling in the dirt. Several emotions flickered through her grey eyes before she spoke. "Why are you here? I don't want to see you."
"I came to talk to you."
"Well, I don't want to talk to you. You can't control me anymore, Mama. I have my own life here and you aren't part of it." She turned sharply and walked out of the garden.
"Kagome!" Kaiya jumped to her feet and caught her daughter by the arm. "Please, honey, I came to apologize to you for what I said at the hospital."
Kagome was silent for a moment. "Apologize?"
"Yes." She took a deep breath. "I ... I was far too hard on you, and I shouldn't have said what I did. The choice was yours to make, and I respect that."
"Which choice are you referring to, Mama? My choice to marry Inuyasha? My choice to keep the baby? My choice to do as I see fit, even if it means I choose to have sex outside of marriage with some dog from the past?"
Kaiya was taken slightly aback by her daughter's words. "I ... I didn't call him that."
"Yes you did. Now answer the question."
She sighed. "They .. they're all your decisions, Kagome. I see that now. You're a woman now, you're not my little girl anymore. I can't protect you like I once did. You want to start a family of your own - I can't take that from you. Inuyasha loves you too dearly to let me do anything to harm you. And ... and since you've made your decision, I want you to know that I still love you. I love you so much. And I love Inuyasha as my son-in-law, and I love ... I love my little grandchild."
Kagome closed her eyes and drew a shuddering breath. "You ... you do?"
Kaiya took her daughter gently by the shoulders and turned her around. "More than anything, Kagome. I wouldn't lie to you about that. All those things I said were a product of surprise, and fear, and worry. But I've let that go, and all I want is for us all to be happy again." She looked into the girl's eyes, then placed one hand tenderly on her abdomen. "Please. Don't cut me out. I want us to be a family."
Kagome stared at her for a moment, then threw her arms around her neck. "Oh, Mama, I love you too!" Great sobs burst suddenly from her throat, and she clung to her mother with all her might. "I love you, Mama."
The hut was dark and empty when Inuyasha awoke. He sat up, afraid that he had slept to long and kept the others out, but then realized that something had been hung over the window. "Heh," he said to himself, climbing easily to his feet. "I should have guessed." He lifted his arms above his head and stretched, then pushed the reed mat aside and stepped out into the bright sunlight.
Several female voices were coming from Kaede's garden behind the hut, so he followed them and nearly fell over at the sight that assaulted him.
She was there.
He drew Tetsusaiga, which transformed obediently into its most menacing form. "Don't move, bitch." The statement was a feral growl more than anything, but its meaning was not lost on the humans.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome screeched. "What are you doing?!?" She jumped and rushed to him. "Put that away!"
"No!" he said, staring down his enemy, who was cowering on the ground. "I can't believe you came near her again after what you did! Some mother you are! I should cut your fucking head off!"
"Inuyasha! Don't make me.."
"If I even hear you looked at her, I swear, I will remove your fucking head from.."
"OSUWARI!"
He hit the ground with a resounding thud, and Tetsusaiga dutifully obeyed gravity's call and hit him on the head. "Fu-u-uck, wench!" he moaned, slowly turning his head to face her. "What the hell was that for?"
She pressed her heel into his cheek, popping his lips apart. "You're impulsive and foul-mouthed. If you had been listening instead of swearing, you would have heard me tell you that Mama is sorry for what she said to us and didn't really mean it. We made up while you were asleep, stupid."
"Oo ade uh?" he said, incredulous.
"Very good." She released him from her shoe and he sat up grudgingly. "Now you'd better apologize right now or I'll say it again."
He picked up the rusty sword and slid it back into its sheathe. "Gomen nasai, Higurashi-san," he said. "I shouldn't have attacked you. It was rude and impulsive of me." He stood and looked down at her.
Kagome's hand hit the back of his head.
"Oww! What?!?"
"Help her up!" she said in a stage whisper. "She is your mother-in-law. Try being nice!"
Inuyasha frowned a little, but stretched out a hand to help the woman to her feet again. She accepted, and smiled gently. "I'm glad we're friends again, Inuyasha. That makes being family a whole lot more pleasant."
[A/N]
Just some language things. "Iie" = no, "houshi-sama" is a respectful name for a Buddhist monk, "hajimemashite" means "pleased to meet you," and yes, I did use Kaede's "ye" from the dub even though I hate it. And if you think this is the end of the f-bombs, think again. Inuyasha is a world-class potty-mouth.
Coming soon: Kouga!
by Lady Mac
Let's start this one off with: A massive Author's Note! I'll get to the meat n' taters eventually, I promise.
Sasha: None of the series sites I've been to give Kagome's mom a name, and every fanfic uses a different one. Some don't even try and just call her "Mama" which gets confusing sometimes. But I read one in which she was named Kaiya and I think it's a pretty name so I used it.
Tairi Soraryu: I luv ya too, gurly! And I'm glad you love my story! As for your questions: voltaire2003 is my boyfriend, and Inu and Kag will be looking at baby names in the future. However, I've already chosen a name, as well as an additional eighteen or so (yeah, i know) for future characters. So you can suggest names if you want, but I probably will stick with what I've got. Also .. heh heh... I wouldn't know if Mama acts that way in the manga because I haven't read it! All i know comes from the anime, the web, and Well.. and But that's kinda the same, ne? And ... chapter four is funny? ..... well, i guess it is, kinda. Heh. Mommy, mommy, look! I maked a funny! Oh yeah... and as for the English slang (this is just rambling now, isn't it?), I just used it because it had the right feel for the character and the situation. I'm pretty sure no one in 14th century Japan would say he "knocked up" a girl or went off by himself to "jack off." But I tried the whole period-appropriate dialogue thing with Macbeth and I just don't like it. Too much like school. Besides, that's how Inu talks in the dub AND the sub. The others have a little more decency, but that's why we love our inu.
I wish you guys would give me more suggestions instead of just reviewing! It's hard to do this all by myself ... If you want, you can go back to some of the suggestions in reviews and expand on those. That makes my job a whole lot easier and makes the chapters go up quicker! (hint, hint, "update soon" people!) I know, I know, I'm "unsubtle."
(Pouts) And v2k3 is on vacation so I can't call randomly and bounce ideas off him ... it's just me and the brats for now.
I am also ANGRY that I live in the Midwest (never thought I'd say that!) because if I was at San Diego Comic-Con International I could audition for a role as an extra voice in Inuyasha! OOOHHHH!! That makes me really angry, especially since I have family in LA ...
I finally got a Chorus Line CD from the library! Yay!! "Singular Sensation" is well on its way. "One thrilling combination, ev'ry move that he makes..."
Heh. I got my hair cut (again) so it's not hanging down the back of my neck anymore and I got the front layered so it doesn't go POUF at my jawline - instead it goes POUF around my whole head. Y'know, in case you cared.
Don't you hate it when you're typing and you accidentally type two capital letters in a row? Especially when it's a two-letter word so WordPerfect doesn't change it automatically for me.
Have you guys ever seen Martian Successor Nadesico? It so rocks! I got it from Half Price Books and it's so cool!
Wai, wai! takes .wpd files! Scoreness!
Good God, this is turning into a blog. ENOUGH ALREADY!!! I'm supposed to be writing a story!
Also, please note the changed email address. Send all correspondence from now on to: . It's funny, though, because a few hours after I changed my email with I got two author alerts! Y'all rock.
deep breath...
On with the fic!
Disclaimer: Try as I might to amass a huge enough fortune to buy the rights from Ms. Takahashi, failure seems to be my lot in life this week since I only make five bucks an hour babysitting and I need that for a band trip to New York in spring. Pfui.
Chapter Seven
Apologies
Kaiya Higurashi was frightened half to death. She had never expected to fall through the well into the past, and had no idea what to do. Her first instinct was to jump back in and go home, but she stopped herself. "No," she said. "You're here now. That means Fate wants you to find Kagome and apologize." She looked down into the well. "And besides, if you do go back there's no promise it'll let you through again."
Her second instinct was to start walking and hope she found someone, but that just seemed foolish. She knew there would be all sorts of youkai in the forest, and she was simply not capable of defending herself against them. But then again, she was a sitting duck if she stayed at the well. As foolish as it might be, wandering aimlessly seemed to be the best option.
She stood and surveyed her surroundings. The clearing was slightly oblong, with the well near one end. At the opposite end there seemed to be a small trail running into the woods and out of sight. In fact, it seemed more and more promising as she drew nearer. The twigs and brambles were had been pushed aside, and ... yes! There were unmistakable bicycle tracks. Since it was the Sengoku Jidai, the only bicycle in Japan belonged to Higurashi Kagome.
Jewel shard firmly in hand, she set off down the path.
She hadn't gone very far before the trees began to thin and she saw the top of the Goshinboku rising above the foliage. She hurried towards it, and soon the village came into view.
As she neared, a group of men looked up and noticed her nearing the outskirts. They said something inaudible, then rushed into the village, presumably to tell someone about her.
It struck her then how absurd she must look to these people. She was wearing a pair of plain grey sweat pants, flip flops, and a blue t-shirt that read "UCLA Varsity" in English. Kagome had bought it for her as a joke during her college search days - before she had decided to ... well, to forego higher education in favor of starting a family with Inuyasha in Japan's distant past.
Kaiya shook her head. Her clothes weren't absurd, her entire life was. She was a widowed mother of two who lived in a Shinto shrine with her father-in-law, and her seventeen-year-old daughter - who happened to be the reincarnation of a powerful miko - spent most of her time in 1550's Japan and was pregnant with the child of a seventy-year-old "boy" who was, incidentally, half-youkai. And here she was now, in said 1550's Japan, to find said seventeen-year-old daughter, and confront her about said child. Her life was a total mess.
She sighed, and looked up as an old woman in miko's clothing came out of the village towards her.
"Come no closer!" the woman commanded, and Kaiya froze. "Identify yourself! Be ye friend, or foe?"
"F - friend!" Kaiya stammered. "I - I seek Higurashi Kagome."
"Kagome-sama!" said the woman, looking at the man and woman who had followed her. The man was tall and wore the robes of a Buddhist monk, and the woman was only slightly shorter and dressed in a plain pink-and-purple yukata.
"Shall I fetch her?" asked the man.
"Iie, Houshi-sama," said the younger woman. "Kagome-chan said specifically not to be disturbed while she was tending to Inuyasha."
"Please!" Kaiya tried. "She is my daughter, and I must speak to her!" She took a step imploringly.
"I said, come no closer!" the old woman commanded again, and she stepped back quickly. "If ye are a demon, ye shall never overtake our village or Kagome-sama!"
"She's not a youkai," said a little voice, and Kaiya noticed the small ... thing for the first time. It looked like a three-year-old with bright red hair, green eyes, and a fluffy tail. "She's a human. I can smell it."
The old woman looked at her suspiciously, then nodded. "All right then. You may enter the village, but you may not see Kagome-sama until she is finished tending to her mate."
Kaiya bowed low. "Thank you."
"I am Kaede, this village's miko," said the old woman, turning back to the village. "The houshi is named Miroku, and the taijiya is Sango. The kitsune is known as Shippou."
"Hajimemashite," she said humbly, and they replied in kind.
She followed the elderly miko through the street to her hut, trying to ignore the stares of the villagers. "Kagome-sama is within with Inuyasha-san. You may wait with me in the garden," said Kaede. "I have work to do there, and you may help me if you wish."
"Thank you, Kaede-sama, I will."
They went around to the back of the hut and began working on the herbs that grew in a small fenced-in area.
"Kaede-sama?" Kaiya asked a while later.
"Yes?"
"I was wondering ... has Kagome said anything since she returned?"
"Nothing of consequence," the miko answered. "Why?"
"Well, it's just ... that I drove her away, and ... I don't know."
"You drove her away?"
Kaiya nodded. "I said some terrible things to her and Inuyasha that I really didn't mean." She looked down at her hands in the dirt. "By the way, if it isn't too bold to ask ... what did Sango-san mean when she said that Kagome was ... tending to Inuyasha?" She hated to think what it could mean, hated to think what her daughter might be doing just on the other side of the wall.
"Inuyasha-san was very weak and tired when they returned. Kagome-sama wished to get him settled in to rest for a while, and insisted that he not be disturbed. She has told us nothing of what happened, so we must trust her."
"Oh," Kaiya said, blushing. "Then ... they're not ..."
"Oh, heavens, no!" said Kaede, laughing a little. "They have never engaged in ... intimate relations within the village. Had they their own hut I am sure they would, but even as it is one can sometimes hear them from the woods. I am sure that will be a large issue for Inuyasha-san to work with when they finally decide to marry."
"He asked me for my permission to have her," Kaiya said.
"What did ye say? Surely ye agreed."
She shook her head in shame. "I didn't. I don't know if you know this, but ... Kagome's pregnant, and Inuyasha acknowledges that he is the father. I was too frightened to let him do what was honorable. And, as if that wasn't bad enough, I told Kagome she had to get rid of the baby."
"Get rid of it?" Kaede echoed.
"Yes. In ... in our time, there is technology, medicine that can ... can kill an unborn child. I was afraid it would endanger Kagome's safety to have a child at her age."
"Most girls are married with children of their own by Kagome-sama's age," the miko said. "I am sure it would be quite safe for her to bear the child."
"I know," Kaiya said. "I know. I just ... I'm so afraid."
"That is understandable," Kaede said, then looked up as the girl in question rounded the corner of the hut.
"Kaede-sama, Sango-chan said that..." She trailed off at the sight of her mother kneeling in the dirt. Several emotions flickered through her grey eyes before she spoke. "Why are you here? I don't want to see you."
"I came to talk to you."
"Well, I don't want to talk to you. You can't control me anymore, Mama. I have my own life here and you aren't part of it." She turned sharply and walked out of the garden.
"Kagome!" Kaiya jumped to her feet and caught her daughter by the arm. "Please, honey, I came to apologize to you for what I said at the hospital."
Kagome was silent for a moment. "Apologize?"
"Yes." She took a deep breath. "I ... I was far too hard on you, and I shouldn't have said what I did. The choice was yours to make, and I respect that."
"Which choice are you referring to, Mama? My choice to marry Inuyasha? My choice to keep the baby? My choice to do as I see fit, even if it means I choose to have sex outside of marriage with some dog from the past?"
Kaiya was taken slightly aback by her daughter's words. "I ... I didn't call him that."
"Yes you did. Now answer the question."
She sighed. "They .. they're all your decisions, Kagome. I see that now. You're a woman now, you're not my little girl anymore. I can't protect you like I once did. You want to start a family of your own - I can't take that from you. Inuyasha loves you too dearly to let me do anything to harm you. And ... and since you've made your decision, I want you to know that I still love you. I love you so much. And I love Inuyasha as my son-in-law, and I love ... I love my little grandchild."
Kagome closed her eyes and drew a shuddering breath. "You ... you do?"
Kaiya took her daughter gently by the shoulders and turned her around. "More than anything, Kagome. I wouldn't lie to you about that. All those things I said were a product of surprise, and fear, and worry. But I've let that go, and all I want is for us all to be happy again." She looked into the girl's eyes, then placed one hand tenderly on her abdomen. "Please. Don't cut me out. I want us to be a family."
Kagome stared at her for a moment, then threw her arms around her neck. "Oh, Mama, I love you too!" Great sobs burst suddenly from her throat, and she clung to her mother with all her might. "I love you, Mama."
The hut was dark and empty when Inuyasha awoke. He sat up, afraid that he had slept to long and kept the others out, but then realized that something had been hung over the window. "Heh," he said to himself, climbing easily to his feet. "I should have guessed." He lifted his arms above his head and stretched, then pushed the reed mat aside and stepped out into the bright sunlight.
Several female voices were coming from Kaede's garden behind the hut, so he followed them and nearly fell over at the sight that assaulted him.
She was there.
He drew Tetsusaiga, which transformed obediently into its most menacing form. "Don't move, bitch." The statement was a feral growl more than anything, but its meaning was not lost on the humans.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome screeched. "What are you doing?!?" She jumped and rushed to him. "Put that away!"
"No!" he said, staring down his enemy, who was cowering on the ground. "I can't believe you came near her again after what you did! Some mother you are! I should cut your fucking head off!"
"Inuyasha! Don't make me.."
"If I even hear you looked at her, I swear, I will remove your fucking head from.."
"OSUWARI!"
He hit the ground with a resounding thud, and Tetsusaiga dutifully obeyed gravity's call and hit him on the head. "Fu-u-uck, wench!" he moaned, slowly turning his head to face her. "What the hell was that for?"
She pressed her heel into his cheek, popping his lips apart. "You're impulsive and foul-mouthed. If you had been listening instead of swearing, you would have heard me tell you that Mama is sorry for what she said to us and didn't really mean it. We made up while you were asleep, stupid."
"Oo ade uh?" he said, incredulous.
"Very good." She released him from her shoe and he sat up grudgingly. "Now you'd better apologize right now or I'll say it again."
He picked up the rusty sword and slid it back into its sheathe. "Gomen nasai, Higurashi-san," he said. "I shouldn't have attacked you. It was rude and impulsive of me." He stood and looked down at her.
Kagome's hand hit the back of his head.
"Oww! What?!?"
"Help her up!" she said in a stage whisper. "She is your mother-in-law. Try being nice!"
Inuyasha frowned a little, but stretched out a hand to help the woman to her feet again. She accepted, and smiled gently. "I'm glad we're friends again, Inuyasha. That makes being family a whole lot more pleasant."
[A/N]
Just some language things. "Iie" = no, "houshi-sama" is a respectful name for a Buddhist monk, "hajimemashite" means "pleased to meet you," and yes, I did use Kaede's "ye" from the dub even though I hate it. And if you think this is the end of the f-bombs, think again. Inuyasha is a world-class potty-mouth.
Coming soon: Kouga!