Oi! It's me again! Here's chapter 2 of Songs! I know I'm going to like this fic a bunch. If only you knew what I had brewing up in this little head of mine! –laughs insanely- It's good! So, so good! Well, to those of you who reviewed… THANK YOU! I hope you review for this one too! That'd be so great! I DON'T OWN INUYASHA! Read and enjoy!)
SongsChapter 2: Dreams, Family, and Dancing Oden
"Higurashi! Higurashi!" Kagome grinned as she ran up to the teacher's desk as he held up a test marked with…Can you guess? An A! Her fellow students cheered as she waved it around over her head. They started clapping and the teachers waved a pair of fans with the Japanese flag design on them around. Kagome pranced back to her seat with tears in her eyes and her friends patted her back and wiped their own tears away.
"I wish I was like you, Higurashi!"
"You're so great, Higurashi!"
"Will you sign my notebook?"
And on and on went the comments. The door burst open and more students streamed in. Soon people cheering her on surrounded her. And then she saw a pair of silver ears above everyone's heads. She blinked and watched as they bobbed past others. They came higher and she saw curious golden eyes for a split second. She stood up as they suddenly disappeared and pushed through all of the people following them. A flash of silver around the door told her person had gone that way. She ran out into the hall and saw them go outside. Opening the double doors the slowly padded out and looked around.
"H-hello?"
"What do you want?" someone growled and she jumped. Looking up to her once met savior InuYasha.
"InuYasha! I'm so glad to see you!" He turned his head and snorted, the low hanging branches hiding his face if his unruly bangs didn't. She huffed and marched up to the base of the tree and craned her neck upward to get a good look at him. "Talk to me!" she demanded and he snorted again.
"I told you to get away from me. You promised." He said glaring at her. "Don't make you hate me!"
"But I want to talk to you! I don't care what other people think! Please…" She saw an instant change in his face and he looked away, face red.
"L-liar!" he yelled jumping up. "I hate it when people lie to me! Stop it! The stupid preps are putting you up to it, aren't they! Tell me!" She took a step back and gave him a hurt look.
"What are you talking about?"
"Bitch. Stay away from me. I should have never saved you. You're just like Miss. Kinky Ho over there. Picking up stray guys for fun," he hissed pointing at her and his eyes darkened. Tear gathered in her eyes and she shook her head.
"No… No! I'm not like that! I care about you InuYasha! I don't know to well, but I want to take the time to! Please…!" she cried falling to her knees. She closed her eyes and sobbed.
"H-hey… Stop crying… Please. I'm s-sorry!" He grabbed her arms and she looked up. He pulled her up and quickly wiped her tears away with his thumb. She gaped and he smirked. "I am not something anyone should cry over. Don't waste tears."
"But… You are worth every bit, InuYasha, and don't say you aren't! I want to be your friend…" He stared at her with wide eyes and caught her gaze. She felt him search her eyes as if he was looking. Trying to find that slightest bit of twinge that would tell him she was lying to him. That it was just a cruel joke from the others. But he didn't find it. She smiled and let out a happy sob. "I don't lie, InuYasha." With a dazed look in his eyes he leaned down a little and she blinked. He slowly lowered his head low and just as his lips were about to touch hers…
"HIGURASHI!" A ruler came down on her desk with a slap and she jerked awake. "This is you're first day of school and you're already falling asleep in class! And your mother told you were a good student too. I'll give you one more chance. And one more thing…" the teacher bent down to her ear and whispered, "Who is this InuYasha fellow? He sounds like quite a man. Making you do that! But please. Don't do it in your sleep! Not in my class at least." Her entire face went red and everyone burst into fits on giggles.
"Way to go, Higurashi! Fingerings even in your sleep!"
"You should join Kikyo's club. Whores Across Japan!"
"Sorry, Honda-sensei…" Kagome mumbled and pulled her history book up over her face. "Ugh! I can't believe that just happened! At least most people didn't know it was the InuYasha here at school! They'd pick on him even more!" she thought and felt her face grow even redder. School is a nightmare.
"Now! Back to the matter at hand! Oda Nobunaga! One of the great hero's of the time—blah blah blah blah…" The rest came out a jumble as Kagome's mind slipped again. Before she knew it…
"Five! Four! Three! Two! One! Bingo!" The bell rang. The loud metallic shrill made her head hurt. She got up with a groan and stumbled out through the stream of other kids. After lunch she'd had a pretty normal day. She'd found, to her luck, that she was indeed related to the school whore. Kikyo Higurashi. Maybe that was why InuYasha hated her. Well, he hadn't hit her when she'd kissed his cheek. Maybe he was tolerable…
"Sweet cakes!" She froze. That name. It rang a bell and not the school one!
"Fine. But I'm not giving up. Have fun burning in hell dog shit! See ya, sweet cakes!"
Oh yea… Koga jumped out in front of her and grinned like an idiot.
"And how was your first day of school?" he asked putting his arms over her shoulders. She shrugged it off, stomped on his foot, and walked off.
"Dog shit, huh? Go away, Murry the Mulester!"
"That's Koga, SWEET CAKES! KOGA!" he yelled after her and she snorted. She kicked the double doors open and stomped out, plowing through the crowd of people. They gave her odd looks, but went back to their idle chattering with their friends. The big old tree where InuYasha had been perched in before was now empty and she sighed. She'd hope to see him again. Just so she could ask him if he'd walk home with her. She didn't feel like going through that again. Not like it's the first time though. At least she still had her virginity. Attacked who knows how many times, but not once had they broke that thin little barrier inside her. Trudging up the cracked sidewalk she let her mind drift again. She focused on the tiny cracks in the old cement.
Each one had it on life. Born at different times or from different reasons like a car smacking in to it or the endless wave of feet that walked over it. But sometimes one was bigger then others and that made it different. Just because it stuck out it was picked at the most. People dug the toes of their shoes into it of stuck gum in it just to get it out of the way. Like it didn't matter at all. But she was careful. She didn't step on the cracks at all. Because they could get angry and suddenly grow huge right under her feet and she'd fall into an endless hole. Right into America on the other side of the earth! That and she didn't want to break her mama's back.
"Stupid! Haven't you ever heard of watching where you're walking? You're going to get attacked again!" She looked up just as she bumped into…
"InuYasha!" He snorted and grabbed her hand, quickly pulling her across the street. She blinked and then frowned. What is he doing! She yanked her hand out of his and he turned around in surprise. "What are you doing! I thought you told me to leave you alone?"
"Who cares what I said. Now let's go!" he growled and took her hand again, but she jumped back.
"Why are you doing this?"
"Because! Now come on!"
"No!" He smacked a hand to his forehead and groaned.
"Fine… I'll carry you if I have to!" Before she could blink he had her over his shoulder and he was carrying her down the sidewalk.
"InuYasha! Put me down! People can see up my skirt! InuYasha!" Suddenly she feet his hand on her butt and screamed. "Pervert! Let me go!"
"It's so people don't see up your skirt, idiot! So stop screaming!" She clamped her mouth shut and huffed.
"You can put me down now…" she grumbled. He stopped and set her down. "Will you let me why you're doing this now?"
Taking her hand and leading her down the street, he said, "Kaede wanted me to walk you home. She said you live near by. So today's incident didn't happen again." Kagome blinked and smiled.
"Really…?" she asked with a grin. His face went red and he glared at her.
"Yes, really!"
"Oh…"
"In a way…!" he added quickly and she burst out laughing.
"I'm not stupid, InuYasha! Yes, I know! I'm hot! Got the body of a model as most of my stalkers say. I'm surprised you haven't tried anything yet either! Oh, and what's with the Reroy thing?" His face was beat red by then and had covered it with his hands.
"Nothing…" he mumbled through his hands and groaned. She giggled and stood in front of him. She pulled his hands away and smiled as he blinked down at her.
"Do you want to know something about me?" she asked and he dumbly nodded. "I really am a model. Well, in a way. Ex model. That's how you should say it!"
"You are!" She laughed and nodded her head. His mouth dropped and he stared at her like she'd grow another head. She took his hand this time and started off with him follow her like a lost puppy. He came out of his little stat of shock and shook his head. "Then you worked with Kikyo!" he blurted and she stopped.
"Yes. I did, but regret it. She is a little bitch, but it was for my uncle. And it was only for a year so don't bring it up again. Please!"
"O-okay…" She looked back to give him a smile and started off again.
She's a MODEL! Holy crap! His head was spinning as she led him down the street, giving his hand a tug if he slowed down. Ex Model. Lord…
"Here we are!" He looked up at a tidy little house, about three floors by the look of it, and painted in the oddest color for a house. Green!
"This… Is your house…?" he asked pointing at it. The door suddenly swung open and he jumped back in surprise. A young woman with short raven hair came out in a frilly pink apron and pink house slippers.
"Kagome, dear! You're home. And who's you're friend?" Kagome groaned and glared at the woman.
"Mama! Why do you have to dress like that! Ugh… Forget it. Mama, this is InuYasha. I met him at school today. InuYasha, this is my mama," she said gesturing to each person. Mrs. Higurashi smiled and wrapped InuYasha in a big hug. His face went red and he began to stutter aimless things.
"U-uh! He-hello! Nice weather? Uh…Uh, uh!" Behind him Kagome smacked a hand to her forehead and groaned again.
"Lord help me… That's enough, Mama!" Mrs. Higurashi let go, but InuYasha stood there stiff as a board and blushing like a tomato. Kagome went up to him, took his arm, and led him inside. "Sorry about this…" she mumbled glancing over her shoulder at her mother, "She usually only does with guys she thinks are good for me." And with that her own face went red. "What did I just say!"
"Sis!" Yet another raven haired family member ran up holding a DS in his hand. "Who's this? Another boyfriend?" The eleven year old boy gaped up at InuYasha who shyly returned his look.
"No, Sota! He's just a friend! And Hojo was not a boyfriend. Stalker is more like it," Kagome hissed and pulled InuYasha into the kitchen. She set him in a chair and pulled a kettle out. "What kind of tea would you like?" she asked.
"Uh… I don't care what kind…" he mumbled and looked at his lap.
"Mint it is then!" He watched her out of the corner of his eye as she rushed from stove top to cabinet as she set out cups and packages of tea bags. Setting the two cups, bags in the cups, down on a tray, she went to sit across from him at the table. "I'm sorry for dragging you in here. My mama likes to have anyone new that I know over for at lest one cup of tea. Kind of a Higurashi tradition. I just hope Gramps doesn't blow his top about me having a guy in the house."
Finally able to relax a bit, he found his voice and asked, "Why would he blow his top?" Kagome giggled and shook her head.
"Gramps thinks he's the only man we need around the house. If I have a friend that's a guy he thinks I'm about to get married or something and freaks. Usually he scares them off with creepy stories about how our family is some how cursed. But don't worry! It's not!" He nodded and settled back to staring at his lap. Suddenly the kettle started screaming and Kagome jumped up, rushing to get it. She poured the steaming water into the cups and put it back on the burner. She took the tray over to the table and set a cup in front of InuYasha. Putting her own down she put the tray away and sat down with a sigh.
Finally breaking the silence, InuYasha spoke up again. "Where is your grandpa?"
"He's on some trip for the shrine. Some other priest in Kyoto needed a hand doing some thing. He's supposed to be back in a few days."
"Kagome! I need your help with something!" Mrs. Higurashi called from somewhere.
"Coming! I'll be back in a minute, InuYasha," she said and ran out.
"Nice family…" InuYasha mumbled and blew on his tea. "Wish I had one. Stupid mother's probably throwing a fit because I'm not home to make dinner. Servers her!" He gazed around the kitchen and smiled at the homely feeling he got. The walls were covered in pictures crowded with people or simple little drawings from Sota, he guessed, and the wooden frame that hung from the ceiling had pots and pans of all sizes dangling from it. All were worn from plenty of use too. The cabinets looked ready to burst with dishes or simple boxes of food. He saw a few packages of ramen stacked up against a coffee maker. Defiantly homey. Jumbled and stuffed with all the essentials to living a happy life with a nice family. Maybe he should be friends with Kagome… Loud footsteps jerked him from his little fantasy as Kagome stumbled in holding three paper grocery bags stuffed to the rim with food. He jumped up and took two from her before she dropped them all.
"Thanks. Thought I'd fall over with the bags!" she said with laugh and set her bag on the table.
"Yea. Good thing you have a 'man' around here," he said setting his bags down too. They both burst out laughing and Mrs. Higurashi came in.
"What's so funny?" she asked and started to pulling items out of the bags.
"Nothing, Mama. Oh! Why don't you stay for dinner, InuYasha? Were having oden tonight! With a special touch from yours truly!" Kagome asked pointed at herself.
"Sure. Why not. I'm sure my mother would care. She's probably busy anyways," he said and went to work helping Kagome put things away. "That's half true I guess… She probably is busy. With some man off the street! Won't even notice I'm not there until that damn cat of hers dies from starvation," he thought.
"Oh, wow! It looks great! Where did you learn to cook like that, InuYasha?" Everyone one was sat around the table with a pot of steaming oden in the middle of the table.
"I have plenty of practice at home. My mother doesn't like to cook so I usually do," he said and picked up a pair of chopsticks.
"Really? Is she sick or something?" Mrs. Higurashi asked spooning some of the food into bowls.
"Oh no. She's just busy a lot. Never has much time."
"Maybe we should invite her over sometime!" Kagome said with a smile and popped a piece of oden into her mouth.
"Uh, I don't think so. She's out on a business trip now! I don't know when she'll be home."
"That's to bad. I would have loved to meet her. She raised a very charming young man!" Mrs. Higurashi said and InuYasha blushed.
"Mama! You're embarrassing him!" Kagome said and Mrs. Higurashi smiled.
"But he is, Kagome. I'm glad you're friends. I won't have to worry about those nasty boys bothering you at school any more!"
"It's alright, Kagome. I'm kind of used to it. School is a good place to learn I guess…" he said and gave them a fake smile. He didn't want them thinking he was a freak. He was surprise that her mother didn't freak out. Maybe they didn't really know about the whole hanyou thing. But Kagome's grandpa was a priest. "Well, I'll make the best of it I can until they do find out. Then I'll just have to deal with Kagome being against me," he thought with a sigh.
"Is something wrong, InuYasha?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.
"No. Just savoring the great taste of this food!" She smiled and looked over at Sota who was picking at his food.
"Eat, Sota! Kagome and InuYasha made this meal so show some respect. This old woman is and they took the hard burden of my shoulders!" She laughed at her words and pointed at Sota's almost full bowl. "Now, eat."
"But Mom!"
"No buts! You will finish all of that food and like it or no games for a week!" Sota's pure look of shock gave InuYasha the idea that he liked video games a lot. He sighed and pulled a piece of oden out and gave it a disgusted look. With a glance at his mother's stern face he put in his mouth and chewed it with a twisted face. He swallowed and stuck his tongue out.
"S-see, mom! I'm eating. Even though it's going to kill me…" And with that Mrs. Higurashi smacked the back of his head. He huffed and continued eating to his discomfort. Kagome giggled and passed her now empty bowl to her mother.
"More please!" InuYasha's soon followed and he asked for the same.
"My! You two must be really hungry to day! But Kagome. You can't go eating too much. You know what oden does to your figure. You might get another request soon so we need to keep you in shape. And have you found out if there are any athletic clubs going on at your school?"
"Um… No. I haven't really had any time. Do you know if there are any, InuYasha?" Kagome said and passed InuYasha his bowl back.
"Our school doesn't really have any sports. The only thing is football and cheerleading. That and an all boys baseball team. And all of them are full for the year," he answered and stuffed some oden in his mouth.
"That's to bad. Well, maybe next year then, dear!" Mrs. Higurashi said and got up with the now empty pot in her hands. "I'll clean up. Why don't you three go do something for a little? Unless you have to go home now, InuYasha."
"Yea. I think I should go now," he said and got up. Kagome got up too and lead him to the door.
As he slipped on his shoes she asked, "So why have you decided to stay around me? I thought you didn't want my rep to be ruined by being around you."
"Since you are a model I didn't think it'd hurt you that much. And Kaede said it'd be better since you live around here and all. Plus your mother seems to be happy that I'm your friend. So it's official. We're friends," he said and stood up straight. She smiled and quickly hugged him.
"That's great! I'm so happy! But you do have to tell me some things tomorrow." He nodded his head and opened the door. He gave her once last wave and slipped out the door. Kagome sighed and turned back to go up stairs. She quickly shuffled to her room and looked aroundher blue clad sleeping quaters. She flopped down on her bed and closed her eyes. Sleep soon overcame her and can you guess what she was dreaming about? Walking oden.
"And where have you been all night! You were with that slut getting laid again, weren't you! You little shit!" InuYasha cringed at her harsh words, but stood his ground as his foster mother screamed at him. She of course was in a silk bath robe with her hair a mess and the obvious sent of arousal all over her. He could still hear her moans ringing in his ears. He'd came in just as they were getting started in the living room on the coffee table. He shivered at the thought and finally focused back on the lady yelling at him. She lifted her hand and brought in down across his face. He stumbled back and held his hurt cheek as his foster mother growled at him. "I tell you to come home right after school so you can make dinner and you disobey me!"
"I was at a friends!" he yelled back, golden eyes flashing. "Back off!" Her face twisted even more into a snarl and she reached for the belt hanging from doorknob near by.
"Don't talk back to me, you little bastard! I don't know how you are your mother's child! She was such a nice girl too. Now lift your shirt or it'll be harder!" He backed up as she pulled the cracked leather belt taunt between her hands. She raised it and brought it down across his chest and he fell to the ground. "Do it know!"
"No! He yelled and growled at her. She brought it down again, but on his face.
"Then I'll just beat you until you do!" Each hit brought even more pain to him as he tried to protect his face. She stopped for a second and he moved his hands to see her turning the belt around. The brass buckle glinted in the dull light and he could already feel the pain. She slung it at his head and he rolled back, the black creeping up on his vision. The blinked to try and clear it away, but it enveloped his senses and he black out.
"InuYasha!" He looked up from his spot under the slide to see a little girl run up. Her silver hair streamed behind her as she jumped and landed right next to him. He flinched and scooted away. "What's wrong?" she asked, blinking her big golden eyes.
"N-nothing…" he murmured and hid his face in his arms.
"Really?" she asked again and poked his side. He squirmed and giggled, falling back to lie out on his back. "See! Now let's go play!"
"We can't, Ke-Beci. The other people will yell at us," he said and sighed.
"But no one is out there now! Mommy always used to let us play when no one was around."
"But Mother isn't her anymore, Ke-Beci. You should know that. She's gone and she's not coming back!" he yelled sitting up. Ke-Beci sniffed and frowned at him.
"She is too! Why do you have to be so mean! I hate you!" she cried and got up. She ran away and disappeared into the thick line of trees surrounding the abandoned playground where they slept. InuYasha jumped up and ran after her shouting.
"Ke-Beci! Ke-Beci, get back here!" He saw her stop and fall to the ground crying, her hair now black. He ran up next to her and laid his hands on her shoulders. "I'm sorry, Ke-Beci. I didn't mean to sound mean. Now change back and we can go play. Alright?" he said softly. The five year old looked up at him with violet tear filled eyes and nodded.
"Okay…" She got up, hair changing back to silver, and took his clawed hand in her own clawed hand and smiled. "I'm sorry for running away."
"We're both sorry! Now let's go!" he said with a smile and picked her up. She squealed and laughed as her seven year old brother ran back to their little home.
With a groan, he opened his eyes the clamp them closed again as a searing pain shot through his body. He cracked one open again and lifted his arm to see a dark red line run down it and formed a droplet that fell into the puddle that surrounded him. Blood. His blood. Memories of his foster mother's beating came back to him and he groaned again. She'd used the buckle this time. He forced himself to sit up and hissed and a breeze blew over his wounds. Back raw and cut he stood up and hobbled to the bathroom to get a look of the damage done. He looked into the dirty brown tinted mirror to see his face was bruised and a thin dried line of blood ran down from under his fuzzed silver hair. His arms were purple and black with even more bruises and some were even turning yellow and oozing some puss. He felt like he was going to barf. The sight was horrid. He stiffly pulled his blood soaked shirt off and grimaced as he saw all the long cuts that were still bleeding a little. Some were cake over with dried blood or fresh scabs, but other were raw as the skin had been rubbed of from the constant whippings.
A loud cry from the other side of the house told him his foster mother's man friend was still here. He glanced at the clock on top of the toilet that blink four thirty. He had enough time to clean his cuts and try to cover up as many of the bruises as possible before getting an early start for Kagome's house. He wanted to get out of here as soon as possible. So the bitch he had to call mother could beat him any more. Pulling out the Peroxide, he kept his ear alert for any sounds of her stopping her fun. Just in case she was still in a bad mood. He cleaned the cuts as best he could and wrapped his chest and stomach in bandages. He locked the bathroom door and pulled out the bit of makeup he'd stolen from his foster mother to cover up the bruises on his face.
After a long five minutes he looked at his face and shrugged his shoulders. It looked good enough. If he needed to he'd put more on at school. He snuck out to his room and pulled out a partially clean shirt and pair of jeans out. And to top it all off, a black hoodie with a fiery skull on it. To try and avoid any odd looks today at school he pulled a beanie with a Spitfire on it. As he stared as his reflection in the mirror his thoughts drift to the little girl in his dreams. His sister. He couldn't remember her very well even though he'd been pretty old when they'd been separated. He'd forced her to keep herself human so she could have a good life. Unlike him, she could change from human to hanyou at will, but he had to wait until a new moon to change human and even then it only lasted the night. He just hoped that she was happy at least. Happier then him for sure. Another cry from his foster mother jolted him back out of his thoughts and he sighed. He peeked out the door and the sounds of the two's moans and groans hit his ears. Ugh! He wanted to barf again! He slipped outside and finally smiled for who knows how long.
He took a whiff of the smoggy air and sighed. It my be polluted, but it was better then his mother's aroused scent. It made him sick to just think about it again. Maybe today would be better. He'd be able to spend most of it with Kagome so it defiantly was going to be better then usual. Maybe he'd finish his song today too.
(So? It's good right! It's going to get better! Kagome an Ex Model. Cool. That and that girl Ke-Beci. Who is she? Is she in the manga or Anime? Nope! She's not in either! I made her up! She's in a few other fanfics of mine. Their on my Profile if you want to read them. She's a cute little thing really. Oh! And a DS is as in a NitendoDS. It's a kind of new thing if you don't know. And for a little advertising!
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