"Alright, remember what we rehearsed?" Mrs. Higurashi asked as he got out of the car.
"Yes." He said, picking up the roses and box of chocolates.
"What are the main points?"
"Apologize, don't come on too strongly, be friendly, remind her of the good times, and tell her all the little things I like about her."
"Good job! Now go get her, son!" Inuyasha blushed slightly, shut the car door and headed up to Kagome's room.
As Inuyasha got in the elevator, he found himself surrounded by a group of silly teenagers. They had strange clothing with fake animal parts.
He pressed the 3 button.
"Oh that's my floor too." said a girl with a cat ears headband. "Are you in town for the anime convention?"
Inuyasha shrugged, wanting very badly to get away from them.
"You must have come a long way to get here, you don't look Japanese. You know, with the white hair..." She rocked back and forth while blushing.
He didn't know how to answer this. "I am Japanese, but... I'm in my seventies, so it's understandable that I have white hair." He thought this was a good excuse.
The girl giggled. "Aww, you're so cute! Can I call you grampa then?"
"Sure..." He said as the door opened on the second floor.
"I hope you stop by my room later, Grampa. I'm in room 307." She winked at him.
He jumped out as the doors were closing.
"Why are you getting out on the second floor?" She asked right as the doors separated them.
"I'll take the stairs! Bye!" He shouted. He sighed with relief and located the staircase.
He walked down the hallway. "Room 308, 307 (shudder), 306, 305, landry?, 304, 303, 302! Here we go."
He saw the doorbell, but ignored it. He knocked.
"Who is it?" Kagome called.
Inuyasha was afraid to reveal himself so he knocked again.
"I'm coming!" Kagome shouted.
He waited, and finally she came to the door. It didn't really take all that long, but... because he was so nervous it certainly felt like a long time.
When Kagome came to the door, he saw that her eyes were bloodshot, her hair was wet and she was wearing a baggy sweatshirt and some old blue jeans. "Inuyasha!" she gasped. She tried to slam the door, but he stopped it from shutting using his arm.
"These are for you," he said, holding out the goodies but still leaning against the door.
Kagome did not take them. "What are you doing here? How did you find me?"
"I wanted to apologize. I'm really sorry that I tricked you. I want to make it up to you." He truly did look sorry.
Kagome took a post-it note and a marker and started scribbling on it. "Listen, Inuyasha, you did not TRICK me, you broke a promise! You held me prisoner, and it wasn't fair. Now you've shown up at my home expecting me to forgive you and come running back! Well guess what, BUSTER, I'm not that easy!" She slammed her post-it note on the frame of the door.
"Kagome, I don't expect you to forget all this so soon, I just want you to know that I'm sorry. I lost my mind for a little while there. Please, give me a second chance to make things right..." He tried to push the door further, but it shocked him. "What the hell?"
"It's o-fuda, stupid!" She drew up another one and held it up for him to see. "You think I can't make my own o-fuda? You must really think I'm weak. I know you think I'm weak, but come on, Inuyasha! I'm not stupid!"
"Kagome, there's no need to get insulting, I said I was sorry!"
She threw the new piece of o-fuda at him. It hurt just a little bit, but it mostly just startled him.
He jumped back a little ways, out of the doorway.
She slammed the door. "Now stop bothering me at home!" she screamed through the now closed door.
"Oh Kagome! Don't be that way!"
Kagome turned up the TV to it's loudest setting to prevent any comments of his from leaking through the walls.
Inuyasha sighed at his defeat. He flopped the flowers and chocolates into the bend of his left arm. He didn't care about them anymore. A lot of good they did. He slowly went down the stairs.
He left the building. He noticed Mrs. Higurashi in the parking lot. He gave her a thumbs-down sign.
"I failed," he told her.
She frowned briefly, just to acknowlege him. Then, she looked up, smiling. She patted his arm. "Don't worry, son, try, try again!"
"I can't get in the door! She cast me out! She put a spell on her door!" he told her in dismay.
"That's why I always have a back-up plan!" she declared. She popped open her trunk.
She pulled out a small trampoline.
"What are you going to do with that?" he asked.
"The question isn't what I'm going to do with it, it's what you're going to do with it."
"And what's that...?"
"You are going to use it to talk to her via window. You just jump up and down on it and you'll be able to talk to her a few seconds at a time." She sounded proud of herself for her great plan.
"That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard," he told her.
"Well, then what do you intend to do, then?" she asked, aggravated that he rejected her fine plan.
"...... alright... set up the damn thing."
She smiled as she moved the trampoline to a spot directly below her daughter's window.
Inuyasha sighed and jumped on. He flew up into the air. As he passed Kagome's window he shouted: "Kagome!" Then he was above the window. He reached the fifth floor before he started to decend.
Kagome walked up to the window, intrigued.
On the way down Inuyasha tossed the flowers and candy onto Kagome's sofa. "I want to tell you how I feel about you!" He yelled so that she could hear him.
Kagome watched him.
He bounced again. "Remember how you let me sleep in your lap when..." he flew up past the window, and on the way down he shouted, "we fought the spiderheads?"
He sunk down towards the trampoline.
Kagome smiled warmly at the memory he brought back.
He rose to window level again. "Remember how you didn't force me to choose..." He passed her window.
He returned. "...between you and Kikyo? You were content just to be with me!"
Kagome smiled a little bit more, and edged closer to the window. People were starting to come out and gawk at him because he was yelling so loudly. Kagome turned off her TV.
"We had a million little happy moments, Kagome!" He shouted as he went for another pass. "I completely like you!" He told her on the way down.
Kagome pulled up a chair and rested her arms on the window's frame.
"I like the way your eyes sparkle when I make you happy!" He rose past her again. "I like your tiny little waist!"
She looked down and blushed, but she continued to smile. She followed him with her eyes. "I like the way your hair flows down your back!" He flew up again.
And on the way down he shouted, "I like the way your butt shakes back and forth when you walk!"
Kagome turned bright red. She slammed the window shut and closed the blinds. This sound was heard simultaneously with the sound of Mrs. Higurashi's hand slapping against her forehead.
Inuyasha hopped down off of the trampoline. "What did I do wrong? I was telling the truth."
"It's kind of an invisble, unspoken rule. You are supposed to like Kagome's body. But... there are only certain times in which you can get away with admitting it."
"I'm confused. She didn't get mad about me talking about her waist, or her eyes. Why is her butt different?"
"There's no actual reason... it's just a sociatal faux pas. Okay, I'll make this simple: You know that two-piece bathing suit she has?"
Inuyasha blushed. "Yes..."
"Alright, you must be careful when talking about anything which that little bathing suit covers."
"So that little bit of her back... I can't talk about that?"
"No, what I mean is..." She embarrassedly covered her face in her hands. She looked up and tried again. "What I mean is that... you can't talk about... her breasts... her butt, her vagina... that kind of stuff. I mean... I guess you can talk about them sometimes, but you really shouldn't scream about them. Just make sure that Kagome gives you the go-ahead."
Inuyasha looked skeptical. "So mean she's just going to say one day, 'Okay, Inuyasha, you can talk about my butt now.'?!"
"No, no! You have to kind of read her mind a little. It's all part of moving slowly, you have to test the waters a little bit at a time, understand?"
"No."
"Oh, nevermind!" She threw up her hands in frustration. "Let's just go home. You'll watch Friends until you understand."
He sighed, and with that they got in the car and returned to the shrine.
"Yes." He said, picking up the roses and box of chocolates.
"What are the main points?"
"Apologize, don't come on too strongly, be friendly, remind her of the good times, and tell her all the little things I like about her."
"Good job! Now go get her, son!" Inuyasha blushed slightly, shut the car door and headed up to Kagome's room.
As Inuyasha got in the elevator, he found himself surrounded by a group of silly teenagers. They had strange clothing with fake animal parts.
He pressed the 3 button.
"Oh that's my floor too." said a girl with a cat ears headband. "Are you in town for the anime convention?"
Inuyasha shrugged, wanting very badly to get away from them.
"You must have come a long way to get here, you don't look Japanese. You know, with the white hair..." She rocked back and forth while blushing.
He didn't know how to answer this. "I am Japanese, but... I'm in my seventies, so it's understandable that I have white hair." He thought this was a good excuse.
The girl giggled. "Aww, you're so cute! Can I call you grampa then?"
"Sure..." He said as the door opened on the second floor.
"I hope you stop by my room later, Grampa. I'm in room 307." She winked at him.
He jumped out as the doors were closing.
"Why are you getting out on the second floor?" She asked right as the doors separated them.
"I'll take the stairs! Bye!" He shouted. He sighed with relief and located the staircase.
He walked down the hallway. "Room 308, 307 (shudder), 306, 305, landry?, 304, 303, 302! Here we go."
He saw the doorbell, but ignored it. He knocked.
"Who is it?" Kagome called.
Inuyasha was afraid to reveal himself so he knocked again.
"I'm coming!" Kagome shouted.
He waited, and finally she came to the door. It didn't really take all that long, but... because he was so nervous it certainly felt like a long time.
When Kagome came to the door, he saw that her eyes were bloodshot, her hair was wet and she was wearing a baggy sweatshirt and some old blue jeans. "Inuyasha!" she gasped. She tried to slam the door, but he stopped it from shutting using his arm.
"These are for you," he said, holding out the goodies but still leaning against the door.
Kagome did not take them. "What are you doing here? How did you find me?"
"I wanted to apologize. I'm really sorry that I tricked you. I want to make it up to you." He truly did look sorry.
Kagome took a post-it note and a marker and started scribbling on it. "Listen, Inuyasha, you did not TRICK me, you broke a promise! You held me prisoner, and it wasn't fair. Now you've shown up at my home expecting me to forgive you and come running back! Well guess what, BUSTER, I'm not that easy!" She slammed her post-it note on the frame of the door.
"Kagome, I don't expect you to forget all this so soon, I just want you to know that I'm sorry. I lost my mind for a little while there. Please, give me a second chance to make things right..." He tried to push the door further, but it shocked him. "What the hell?"
"It's o-fuda, stupid!" She drew up another one and held it up for him to see. "You think I can't make my own o-fuda? You must really think I'm weak. I know you think I'm weak, but come on, Inuyasha! I'm not stupid!"
"Kagome, there's no need to get insulting, I said I was sorry!"
She threw the new piece of o-fuda at him. It hurt just a little bit, but it mostly just startled him.
He jumped back a little ways, out of the doorway.
She slammed the door. "Now stop bothering me at home!" she screamed through the now closed door.
"Oh Kagome! Don't be that way!"
Kagome turned up the TV to it's loudest setting to prevent any comments of his from leaking through the walls.
Inuyasha sighed at his defeat. He flopped the flowers and chocolates into the bend of his left arm. He didn't care about them anymore. A lot of good they did. He slowly went down the stairs.
He left the building. He noticed Mrs. Higurashi in the parking lot. He gave her a thumbs-down sign.
"I failed," he told her.
She frowned briefly, just to acknowlege him. Then, she looked up, smiling. She patted his arm. "Don't worry, son, try, try again!"
"I can't get in the door! She cast me out! She put a spell on her door!" he told her in dismay.
"That's why I always have a back-up plan!" she declared. She popped open her trunk.
She pulled out a small trampoline.
"What are you going to do with that?" he asked.
"The question isn't what I'm going to do with it, it's what you're going to do with it."
"And what's that...?"
"You are going to use it to talk to her via window. You just jump up and down on it and you'll be able to talk to her a few seconds at a time." She sounded proud of herself for her great plan.
"That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard," he told her.
"Well, then what do you intend to do, then?" she asked, aggravated that he rejected her fine plan.
"...... alright... set up the damn thing."
She smiled as she moved the trampoline to a spot directly below her daughter's window.
Inuyasha sighed and jumped on. He flew up into the air. As he passed Kagome's window he shouted: "Kagome!" Then he was above the window. He reached the fifth floor before he started to decend.
Kagome walked up to the window, intrigued.
On the way down Inuyasha tossed the flowers and candy onto Kagome's sofa. "I want to tell you how I feel about you!" He yelled so that she could hear him.
Kagome watched him.
He bounced again. "Remember how you let me sleep in your lap when..." he flew up past the window, and on the way down he shouted, "we fought the spiderheads?"
He sunk down towards the trampoline.
Kagome smiled warmly at the memory he brought back.
He rose to window level again. "Remember how you didn't force me to choose..." He passed her window.
He returned. "...between you and Kikyo? You were content just to be with me!"
Kagome smiled a little bit more, and edged closer to the window. People were starting to come out and gawk at him because he was yelling so loudly. Kagome turned off her TV.
"We had a million little happy moments, Kagome!" He shouted as he went for another pass. "I completely like you!" He told her on the way down.
Kagome pulled up a chair and rested her arms on the window's frame.
"I like the way your eyes sparkle when I make you happy!" He rose past her again. "I like your tiny little waist!"
She looked down and blushed, but she continued to smile. She followed him with her eyes. "I like the way your hair flows down your back!" He flew up again.
And on the way down he shouted, "I like the way your butt shakes back and forth when you walk!"
Kagome turned bright red. She slammed the window shut and closed the blinds. This sound was heard simultaneously with the sound of Mrs. Higurashi's hand slapping against her forehead.
Inuyasha hopped down off of the trampoline. "What did I do wrong? I was telling the truth."
"It's kind of an invisble, unspoken rule. You are supposed to like Kagome's body. But... there are only certain times in which you can get away with admitting it."
"I'm confused. She didn't get mad about me talking about her waist, or her eyes. Why is her butt different?"
"There's no actual reason... it's just a sociatal faux pas. Okay, I'll make this simple: You know that two-piece bathing suit she has?"
Inuyasha blushed. "Yes..."
"Alright, you must be careful when talking about anything which that little bathing suit covers."
"So that little bit of her back... I can't talk about that?"
"No, what I mean is..." She embarrassedly covered her face in her hands. She looked up and tried again. "What I mean is that... you can't talk about... her breasts... her butt, her vagina... that kind of stuff. I mean... I guess you can talk about them sometimes, but you really shouldn't scream about them. Just make sure that Kagome gives you the go-ahead."
Inuyasha looked skeptical. "So mean she's just going to say one day, 'Okay, Inuyasha, you can talk about my butt now.'?!"
"No, no! You have to kind of read her mind a little. It's all part of moving slowly, you have to test the waters a little bit at a time, understand?"
"No."
"Oh, nevermind!" She threw up her hands in frustration. "Let's just go home. You'll watch Friends until you understand."
He sighed, and with that they got in the car and returned to the shrine.