A/N: I'm doing a revised part to this, and I would like to thank the only reviewer I have for this fanfic. Thank you Random Unicorns. Anyways, this is revised version for this.
Dedications: I would like to dedicate this chapter to my friend Rachel, even though we haven't talked much; she's always been there for me, during good times and the bad ones.
Disclaimer: Right now I would be Hawaii, relaxing, and not busting my brains, if I did own Inuyasha.
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A Christmas Tale
By: AngelMiko278
Chapter 1
'You just think that Christmas is just another holiday, were you just get presents from your parents. But that's wrong, this is also a time of year, you can change, and also miracles big or small can happen, all you have to do is wish…..'
-Memoir of Kagome Hiragishi
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A boy around the age 18 trudged through the snow his violet eyes down cast, and he was wearing a large black- bluish overcoat, and was wearing coal black boots, passing a large group of carolers that were singing 'The Little Drummer Boy'
'Come they told me
Pa, rum, pum, pum, pum,
A new born King to see,
Pa, rum, pum, pum, pum,
Our finest gifts we bring
Pa, rum,pum, pum, pum,
To lay before the King
Pa, rum, pum, pum, pum,
Rum, pum, pum, pum,
Rum, pum, pum, pum,
So to honor Him
Pa, rum, pum, pum, pum,
When we come.'
At the corners of boy's mouth curled and he passed by them. He always did like the song 'The Little Drummer Boy.'
He turned to a corner and then he stopped at a house that was huge. No, let me rephrase that, HUMOUGUS! The house looked beautiful especially in the winter. The fountain's water looked like time just stopped it, but the fountain itself looked in great condition. The pond was frozen, and the house was white but dozens of lights and reefs covered the entire house.
The boy pushed the gate, and then walked inside. He stepped onto the porch steps, his violet eyes tracing very decoration of the house, as he took a sliver key out of his pocket and then opened the door.
He met with a glorious sight. A large tree that was as big as the floor up to the ceiling, decorated with ordainments and a beautiful angel on top of it. But that wasn't the glorious sight. In the corner, there was his brother sitting in a chair, making out with his girlfriend in his lap.
"Ahem… You guys…." The teen started. The kissing couple jumped up, their face bright red with embarrassment.
The girl around the age 21 was fumbling at the hem of her dress and started to mumble.
His brother smirked, "Why Inuyasha I didn't know that you were here yet…"
Then the boy, or Inuyasha smirked, "And I didn't know that Sessomaru, you and your fiancé was giving a show to the neighbors".
The woman blushed to a deeper shade of red.
His brother glared at him.
Inuyasha chuckled slightly. "Hey Rin, how's your mother?" he asked as he threw his coat on the coat rack and walked to the fire place to warm up.
The woman, known as Rin, stopped blushing and replied back to her brother-in-law, "She's fine. She can't wait until Christmas however. She has been Christmas shopping since Easter."
Inuyasha smiled at her. "That sounds like your mother. She always liked the Christmas season." He paused, as he saw a letter on the table near by. "Hey, what's this Sess?"
Sessomaru looked at the letter that was never opened, and shrugged his shoulders. "How am I supposed to know? Rin put over there, when she warmed herself by the fire." He turned to his fiancé, "What is in it anyways?" he asked.
Rin giggled, "do you remember I told you that mom had a sister that lived in the Sunset Shrine?'
Inuyasha nodded as in remembering. "Oh yeah… I remember… It was when Sess finally (See how he stressed finally) popped the question, and you mentioned that you had an aunt that lived nearby."
Sessomaru nodded, finally remembering. "Yep. So what does that have to do with the letter Rin?"
Rin grinned, "Well, my aunt and my grandfather are big on tradition. They love holding a family reunion a week before Christmas Eve. They first get in this huge get together, and then we buy gifts for each other. We meet again, on Christmas Eve and exchange the gifts. That letter is an invite… Or so what my cousin told me."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes, "Sounds like a crappy tradition to me" he muttered, as he ripped open the envelope, and quickly skimmed through it.
"Your aunt lives at a shrine house Rin… How the hell is she supposed to fit more then a dozen of family members!" exclaimed Inuyasha as he put the letter back where it was before.
"Do you remember the Shinto Shrine that everyone keeps talking about? Well, my aunt lives there with her two kids, and her grandfather." Rin said as she brushed off the imaginary dirt from her dress.
"Oh…. I see" muttered Inuyasha as he stared at the fire.
"BUT MOM!" groaned a 17 year old girl, her raven hair swishing wildly behind her. The girl had grayish, brownish eyes, wearing a red sweater with a Santa Claus on it, and a long dark green skirt.
"No buts Kagome. We are having guests over tonight, and I expect you to be polite and orderly as possible" commanded her mother.
The girl named Kagome sighed in exasperation. "But mom! We don't even know these people!"
Kagome's mother, Asami, or other wise known as Mrs. Hiragishi sighed at her oldest child. "Rin is coming over with her fiancé, and her brother-in-law. I heard that he goes to the same school as you, and an added bonus, he's about the same age as you."
"Fine… But this is only for Rin's sake" Kagome mumbled as she stood up from where she was sitting, and took her overcoat from the rack.
"Where are you going Kagome?" asked Mrs. Hiragishi, watching her daughter grab her purse.
Kagome paused only for a minute to reply back to her mother. "I'm going Christmas shopping! I'll see you in an hour!" after that, she slammed the door.
Mrs. Hiragishi sighed and glanced over to a picture. "My dear husband, Kagome certainly has your stubbornness." She murmured as walked into the kitchen.
"Well… this sucks…" muttered Kagome as she shuffled her feet into the snow. She stared into the sky and watched some of the snow falling. She was currently now outside of the mall, where the colorful lights from the inside shone brightly against the snow.
Kagome stepped in and was in awe. In the middle of the mall, a huge Christmas tree was lit, with ornaments adoring each branch with a dull glow. An angel was on the top with a halo and feathery wings. She gazed at the tree for a while, and immediately shook her head out of the trance. She sighed as she went through the bustling shoppers that were heading back and forth through out the mall trying to get early Christmas presents.
"Might as well start on Souta's gift…" Kagome thoughtfully said as she stood in front of a toy store. She glanced in and gulped in fright. The store was PACKED with parents and teenagers. She sighed and thought 'wish me luck…' and she plunged into the store without a second thought.
"I'm going out Fluffy. Don't wait up!" yelled out Inuyasha as he pulled on the same coat that he had worn earlier and laced his boots.
"Where are you going?" yelled Sessomaru from the kitchen.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "I'm going Christmas shopping Fluffy. I want to get some presents done before the last few days of Christmas. It's gonna be hectic if I don't get some now."
Sessomaru's head peered out and nodded to his younger brother. "Okay Inuyasha. But DON'T EVER CALL ME FLUFFY!" he yelled as he saw Inuyasha's coat disappear after the door slammed.
Inuyasha chuckled as he heard his brother curse from the other side of the door. He walked to a nearby mall and stopped in front of a Santa Clause waving a bell asking for donations.
He smiled and took out his wallet from the front pocket of his coat and took out a twenty and placed inside the bucket next to the Santa, knowing that it would go to a local charity nearby.
The Santa's eyes widen as he saw a black- haired teen, put a twenty dollar bill inside the bucket. 'What a generous young man… I wonder….' The Santa thought, as he stopped ringing the bell as he watched the teen walk away and go inside the mall.
Inuyasha wondered around until he got in front of a toys store. He looked up and saw the name of it, and immediately sweatdropped at the title. It read 'Pink Dinosaur'.
"What the fuck…" muttered Inuyasha. He glanced the inside of the store, and saw more then a hundred people, crammed in the store.
"Might as well get something for Shippo while on the way…" he murmured a she stepped forward.
'He better appreciate this…' was his last thought before he lunged into the crowd of people.
After a few minutes, he was spat out again, with two shopping bags in his right hand. His coat was lopsided, and this shirt was slightly wrinkled with dirt patches around them, as if he was stomped on a group of people.
"This is definite… Even though it is going to be Christmas soon, I am never ever going to that damn store again." He said, as he walked off to another direction.
As soon as Inuyasha was spat out, Kagome then suddenly appeared, her hair mussed up, and her overcoat, ready to slip from her small shoulders she also had a wrinkled bag with her. She sighed and ran her hand through her already messed up hair.
"Damn… what a crowd!" she said out loud. She fiddled with a strand of hair and again sighed. "Might as well get Rin's present while I'm at it…"
She left the store and headed the opposite direction of where our favorite main character headed.
Inuyasha stood in front of a nearby store, that read 'Purple Fluff' in huge letters with purple bold print. Inuyasha sweatdropped for the second time that day. "What kind of person makes up these weird titles?" Inuyasha muttered, exasperated by the titles. He walked away from the store, and his eye caught a store that was nearby.
'White Flower' it read.
'It seems normal… Isn't this the store that Rin keeps jabbering about?' he thought as he started to slow down.
Kagome, in the meanwhile, went past a store named 'Kitten Goods' and soon saw another store right around the corner. Clutching her bag, she hoped that it was the store that she was looking for.
She peered at the title, and saw the name of the store was 'White Flower'.
"This has to be the store that Rin was talking about all this time." Muttered Kagome. As she was about to head inside, she found herself, collide with something warm, and landed on the floor, her bag went scattering over the floor, things flying out.
"Hey! Get off of me!" she yelled as she tried to push the heavy body off of her.
Inuyasha soon realized that he was on top of someone who was currently yelling at him to get off. He stood up and wiped some dirt off of his clothes.
"Hey next time watch where your going bucko!" the feminine voice yelled.
Inuyasha scowled, "then next time don't stand there stupidly looking at the sign of the store wench!" he yelled angrily as he saw that his bags were strewn all over the floor. Some toys that he bought came out of the bag as well.
Kagome looked up and frowned angrily at the teen. She stood up, brushed some dirt from her coat, and started to pick of her bag and the things that fell off during the collision. "One, my name isn't wench, two, maybe you should have watched where you were going, instead of colliding into everyone that just wanted to admire the store… Something that guys can't seem to do!" she screamed.
Inuyasha looked at her with a raised eyebrow and growled at her, as he picked some of his stuff up.
They both soon stood up, every thing picked up, and headed to the store.
"What are doing? Stalking me" she asked snidely as she saw him enter the store behind her.
"One, no, and two, I'm not that stupid to even try to stalk you, three, who would want to stalk you out of all people?" he replied back.
Kagome glared at the teen and stuck her chin out and headed toward a random direction.
Inuyasha went to the opposite counter, and looked through the various eye shadow and make up things that he should get for Rin.
Kagome in the mean while saw that she was in the dressing isle. She went to a rack of clothes and skimmed through them, trying to look for Rin's size and a good looking outfit.
Inuyasha in the meanwhile, was having a little trouble finding the right shade though…
"No, I don't think this will look right on Rin… But it might as well… Just in case! Damn why is looking for makeup so hard!" he complained. He looked through some bottles and some foundation as well.
"Who would want to wear this nasty crap anyways?" Inuyasha asked sourly. (Sorry for all those who wear make-up! Well… That'll be me too… But anyways, continuing on with the story!)
"Apparently, most of the female population" a voice said behind him, a little rudely.
Inuyasha swerved around to see the owner of the voice, and glared. "Oh… it's only you…" he muttered as he swerved back around again. "What are you doing here bitch?"
Kagome pursed her lips at the guy. Her annoyance rising. "Well, I just saw that you were having trouble with the make-up. I just wanted to help. Well, it seems that you don't need any help!" she abruptly shouted as she started to walk off.
Inuyasha was soon stuck with two choices. To not ask the bloody wench to help him, or ask her to help him that was the question… Ah hell! He groaned and turned around once again.
"Oi wench! I need help!" he shouted. The other customers looked at the two, and an old lady glared at Inuyasha with distaste.
"My name isn't wench baka. It's Kagome. KA-GO-ME! You get it?" she replied. "And I'll be glad to help you, just tell me your name."
Inuyasha sighed and rolled his eyes. "It's Inuyasha. Now can we please hurry it up? My brother is expecting me to actually come to dinner this time."
Kagome sighed and sat next to Inuyasha. "Okay, what is she like?" asked Kagome as her hand got ready to pick out the product needed.
Inuyasha thought for a moment. "Well… To my brother, she's cute; she has a pale cream skin. With big brown eyes, and likes to act like a child at times, she's funny and a klutz as well. Also she has straight black hair, that is somewhere around her shoulder, oh, and also, she's a huge blabber mouth as well." finished Inuyasha.
Kagome bit her lip, as her eyes scanned the make-up. 'That's sounds just like Rin… but I shouldn't jump into conclusions' she thought as she chose a color that she thinks that the girl that is eerily sounds familiar would like.
"So who is it for Inuyasha?" asked Kagome as she chose out another color of the same product and bit her lip and looked at Inuyasha. "What do you think this would look on her?"
Inuyasha laughed. "It's for my brother's fiancé, and I don't really care. Just choose the product and color that you think will look good on her. She's been raving on and on about this place." He chuckled. "She was about to force my brother to come, but he refused and said that he would never step into such a feminine place."
Kagome chuckled. "Then what are you doing here?" she asked as she picked up another product and passed to Inuyasha who put it into one of the shopping baskets.
"I'm getting a Christmas gift for her early, and that way, I'd avoid being trampled by lunatic parents who forgot it was Christmas." He replied.
Kagome nodded. "That's a good point. I just had to get out of the house since mom said that we were going to have guests tonight, including my cousin's brother-in-law, and also her fiancé."
Inuyasha lifted an eyebrow. "What a coincidence… Me, my brother and his fiancé are also going to dinner tonight…" he muttered softly.
Kagome nodded in agreement, as she picked up a few other products and grabbed his basket and shoved them in there. She did the same process for while, while Inuyasha watched her.
After a few moments, she tossed the basket to the half sleeping Inuyasha. "Here you go. You might want to stuff them into a gold box with white tissue paper and then actually wrap it and tie it up with a bow." Kagome instructed curtly.
Inuyasha deftly caught the basket, with a surprised look on his face. "Thanks… I guess… I owe you one Kagome." He said as he walked to the check-out counter.
Kagome sighed then grumbled "Well there my good deed for the day. Now to find some clothes that Rin will like…"
She got out of the seat, and went back to the rack of clothes. Soon, she found a sweater, dress, a small hat with a bell at the tip, a shirt, and some pants. Kagome headed to the check-out counter and placed them in front of a girl snapping her bubble gum and stared bluntly at her.
"What ya want?" she growled.
"I need to check these out please" replied Kagome in a curt tone.
The girl nodded and then rang them up, as soon as Kagome saw the total, her eyes popped out of their sockets.
"What the hell?" she muttered. It was a total of $104.95, and she only had $41.00 left for Rin's present. She put the money down and was about to take out a lot of the items out, when a calloused hand slammed some money down.
Kagome glanced up and saw Inuyasha, grinning at her madly. "Here's the rest of the money that is needed…" he paused as he took a glance at the name tag, "Hari." He smiled at the check-out counter girl.
The girl's eyes widen in shock as Inuyasha lifted his hand and found that it was all in cash in ones and fives.
"S-s-sir… Do you know how long it's going to count all of this!" she exclaimed in shock.
Inuyasha shrugged. "Well good luck then. Hope you're good at math. But I've already checked and keep the change. Can you please ring these items up for this girl that is gawking at me?" he asked as Hari dumbly nodded and took out a paper bag and folded the clothes in the box and handed Kagome the receipt.
"Thank you and shop here again any time sir!" yelled Hari.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes, and heaved his bags of things that he bought. He stared at Kagome whom he dragged out of the shop, and had placed the brown bag in her hand.
"Well? Why are you staring at me!" he asked finally annoyed at the staring.
Kagome started to speak slowly. "Why did you do that Inuyasha?" she asked.
Inuyasha grinned, loved seeing the surprised expression on her face. "You helped me get the gifts for my soon to be sister-in-law, and I helped you with paying for your gifts. Now I don't owe you anymore!" he said as he started to walk off.
"Thanks Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled at him, her surprised expression now gone. Inuyasha decided to rely back by flicking her off.
And soon earned him a huge bump afterwards…
Little that Kagome and Inuyasha knew, Inuyasha, his brother and Rin were coming to the Shinto Shrine that night… Otherwise known as Kagome's house….
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A/N: I'M DONE WITH THE REVISED PART OF CH 1! YAY! After 5 months of working on it, trying to improve on it, I finally finished it:-D Please R&R! Also on another note, if anyone of you are interested for beta reading this story… Please tell me when you review or email me! That will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
My sister: Oi… you just finished the first chapter… that's not anything to celebrate about, airhead…
Me: SHUTUP! (I'm sorry how the Chapter looks kinda werid, it's b/c won't let me do anything to space it! Please tell me if any of you guys know how to space this!)