Live for Tomorrow
Kagome glared at her homework. History might have come easy to her, but science definitely didn't. "Who cares how many valence electrons are in an atom anyway!" she grumbled. She spent a few more minutes staring at her textbook, the facts her eyes were absorbing beyond her.
Finally Kagome closed her book with a snap, and collected her papers. This was going nowhere. She needed. Kagome shuffled downstairs, her school work in hand, and walked right out of the house.
"Where are you going?"
Kagome looked to her left to see her father sweeping the entrance to the family shrine. "Just going to get some help on my homework." She replied, "I'm hopeless, I swear!"
Souta laughed, nodding towards his daughter. "Alright then." He said, "Hope you get everything figured out."
"I will." Kagome assured him.
She hurried down the hundred or so steps to the main road and turned right. There in front of her was a house. It was much larger than her own, done in a Victorian style. In front were three cars: a black Jaguar Xke, a red Voltswagon Beetle, and a white Porsche Boxter with a bike leaning against it. So his brother was home visiting from college.
Kagome walked up to the front door and rang the bell. A few minutes later a girl a few years older than herself opened the door. She wore a black pair of pants and a black short-sleeved shirt. Her blond hair was pulled up in a high bun. This was the family maid and just all around helper. "Hi Emily." Kagome said smiling.
"Kagome." The girl said nodding towards her, "What's up?"
"Nothing much." She replied holding her schoolbooks, "I just need a little help with my homework. Is Inuyasha here?"
Emily laughed. "The first day and you already need help?" she asked.
Kagome blushed. "Afraid so. I've never been good at science."
"He's up in his room." Emily replied, "You can go right in."
"Thanks." Kagome walked through the door and made her way down the hallway to the staircase.
"Kagome!" She turned to see a woman sitting in one of the rooms that were attached to the hallway, smiling kindly at her. This was Inuyasha's mother, his father's second wife. It wasn't unusual for Kagome to come over unannounced and Inuyasha's mother always greeted her warmly. "I thought it was you talking to Emily. How was your first day at school?"
"Not bad, Mrs. Taisho." Kagome replied, "I had a little problem with some of the school bums, but Inuyasha helped me out of that."
Mrs. Taisho nodded. "That sounds like my son." She caught sight of Kagome's books. "Homework trouble?"
Kagome nodded.
She laughed. "Then I better stop talking and let you go see Inuyasha." She said, "Hope you two can figure it out!"
"Thank you." Kagome replied, "Nice seeing you."
"And you too honey. Oh by the way, would you like to stay for dinner? I'm making it tonight. Spaghetti and meatballs. Sound good?"
"Sounds good." Kagome said grinning, "Count me in!"
The girl made her way down the rest of the hallway, and straight up the stairs. She stopped outside a room with the door open. The room was dark except for a small lamp on a very orderly desk, facing the open door. Inuyasha's older half brother from his father's first marriage was sitting at the desk, bent over some papers.
"Hi Sesshoumaru." Kagome said cheerfully.
Sesshoumaru looked up from what he was doing. "Hello Higurashi." He said in his usual calm, cool tone.
"How are you?" she asked. Sesshoumaru had a habit of never speaking anymore than he had to. It was Kagome's game to get him to say as much as she could.
"I am fine." He replied, "And you?"
A hit! He had said two words without having to! "I'm good." She told him, "So are you home from college?"
"I am."
"Why? School just started for us."
"That is your school. This is mine."
"That makes sense."
"Yes it does."
"What are you doing?"
"Work for school."
"But you just got home, right? Why are you doing it now?"
"Procrastination has never been one of my problems."
"That's good. It's one of my problems."
"That is too bad. Perhaps you should work on that."
"Perhaps I should. Do you have any ideas to help?"
Sesshoumaru sighed. "Higurashi." He started, "Would you please go irritate my brother like you came here to do? As I said, I've got work."
He had beaten her. But only after saying a lot of extra words to get her to go away. The real victory went to Kagome "Alright." Kagome said nodding, "Nice talking to you Sesshoumaru."
She continued her trip down the hall until she was outside the last room. This door was closed, but Kagome didn't bother to knock when she walked in.
Inuyasha was at his desk like his brother, but his faced a window on the other side of the room. Inuyasha's hat was finally off, revealing two white, fuzzy, dog ears. Kagome immediately walked over and pulled on them with her free hand that wasn't holding books. "Cut that out!" Inuyasha exclaimed, moving his ear so it pulled out of her grasp, but not turning to look at her, "Who let you in!"
"Emily." Kagome replied, "And she told me I could come up. So did your mom." She grabbed Inuyasha's ear again. Kagome was the only one outside of the family who knew the Taisho household's secret. Sesshoumaru and his father were full blooded dog demons. Inuyasha was a half demon, a result of having a human mother. Emily was also a demon, but Kagome didn't know what type. Not even the rest of Kagome's family knew this secret and they were old family friends. The day that Kagome had found the secret out had been awkward to say the least. And finding out had been as simple as her five year old self pulling Inuyasha's hat off.
Inuyasha moved his ear for a second time, but his friend just grabbed it again. He gave up and let Kagome play with the ear. She did this every time he took off his hat around her. "I know you haven't finished your homework yet." Inuyasha said, "So you must need help with your homework. What is it now?"
"Science." She replied, letting go of his ear, "It just doesn't make any sense."
He rolled his eyes. "Pull up a chair." Inuyasha said, gesturing to one in the corner of his room. Kagome put her books down on his desk and went over to get the chair.
An hour in a half later, Kagome had figured out what the crazy world inside an atom looked like. With much help from Inuyasha of course.
"So how many valence electrons are in a inert gas?" Inuyasha questioned.
"There's eight valence electrons in an inept gas!" Kagome exclaimed happily.
"Idiot." He grumbled, "Yeah, there's eight valance electrons, but they're inert! Not inept!"
"Oh." Kagome said laughing a bit. "Whoops."
There was a knock on the door and Mrs. Taisho popped her head into the room. "Dinner's ready." she announced, "Come down in a few minutes." With this said, she left, closing the door behind her.
"You staying?" Inuyasha asked Kagome. It was not an unusual event.
"Yeah." She replied, "I heard your mom was cooking."
He nodded. "Emily's got the night off." He answered, "But she was planning to cook before Emily said she had someplace to go. That was this morning."
"Do you know where she's going?" Kagome asked.
"A date I think." Inuyasha said, "And I told her if it was Miroku pretending to be someone older again, she could beat him up."
Kagome laughed. "I wouldn't be surprised if it was Miroku." She commented, "Well, you ready for dinner? I think I've got a hang of this stuff."
"You better have a grip on it." He grumbled, "We've spent a hell of a lot of time on it."
The two headed downstairs for dinner. In the dining room, five places were set with food and three were already taken. In the bright light of the room Kagome could make out Sesshoumaru's maroon and blue face markings, that were covered with make up in public, better than she could in the dark.
Next to him was his father. "Hey Mr. Taisho." Kagome said politely as she took one of the empty seats. Inuyasha took the one next to her. Mr. Taisho was a nice guy. He shared the same markings on his face that Sesshoumaru did, but opted to keep his long white hair in a ponytail instead of down.
"Hello Kagome." He replied smiling, "Nice to see you around. Izoyoi told me that you were over to get some homework trouble straightened out. How'd it go?"
"Good." She answered, "I get it now."
"An hour and a half later." Inuyasha mumbled. Kagome glared at him.
"Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru said casually, twirling a bit of spaghetti on his fork, "You leaned your bike on my car."
"Yeah?" Inuyasha replied, "The kickstand's broken. I didn't want in lying on the ground."
"My car, is new." Sesshoumaru said a break between the second and third word. He glared at his brother, "There is now a scratch on it."
"Oh well." Inuyasha said shrugging, "Your loss. If I recall you're the one who broke the kickstand off."
Sesshoumaru acting like he hadn't heard the last statement. "You'll be paying for the damage of course." He finished.
"WHAT!" Inuyasha yelled.
"You heard me little brother!"
"I didn't ask you to pay for my kickstand when you broke it!"
"That would only take a few dollars to fix." Sesshoumaru retorted, "My car will take hundreds."
"Don't think I'm gonna pay to make your car look all new and spiffy again!" Inuyasha growled.
"Boys!" Mrs. Taisho exclaimed, "Please! We have a guest!"
The two glanced at Kagome. "It's just Kagome." The younger said, "It's not like she's heard us argue thousands of times." Sesshoumaru nodded. For once the two were in agreement.
Their father sighed. "Sesshoumaru." He said, "It wasn't nice to break your brother's bike like that. You can pay for it."
"Yes father." Sesshoumaru said nodding.
"And Inuyasha, it was uncalled for to rest your bike against your brother's car and cause so much damage. You can also pay for it."
"But dad!" Inuyasha exclaimed, "That's not fair! I can't pay-"
"Don't try to tell me you can't pay for it." Mr. Taisho said sternly, "I was just at the bank with you last week and saw that your bank account is more than able to pay for a little scratch in a car."
"But dad!"
"But nothing!"
Inuyasha sighed. There was just no arguing with his father. The meal continued uneventfully.
Inuyasha walked Kagome out of the house after dinner and a desert of vanilla ice cream. "What's up with you?" Kagome asked, "You're usually not such a courteous guy to walk me out. Hey, why not just walk me all the way home?"
The hanyou raised an eyebrow. "Do you want me to?" he asked.
Kagome blushed. "No." she replied, "I was just being sarcastic."
"I wanted to see if I really did scratch Sesshoumaru's car." Inuyasha explained.
"Oh, that makes sense." Kagome said.
Inuyasha leaned over the car where the 'scratch' was. Rolling his eyes, Inuyasha stuck one clawed finger out and wiped the 'scratch'. It disappeared. "A scuff." He determined, "I'll have to go show the idiot accuser and dad. See ya around Kagome."
"Yeah." Kagome said nodding, "See you."
Author's Notes: Yeah, I know that usually the author's note is at the top, but there were a few things I wanted to make notes on... a few that I've wanted to for the past two chapters. -.-;
What in the world is going on! I thought Kagome died! Why is Inuyasha living in the present time with his parents and Sesshy? X.X
If this is still confusing to anyone, Kagome did die. The Kagome in the story is her reincarnation andSouta'sdaughter. That'swhy she lives at the shrine.Inuyasha and his family are also reincarnations... well Inuyasha is. May not the rest of his family. Wow. I confused myself.
You said that Kagome's getting off from summer break in the first chapter. Dummy! Japan doesn't have summer break!
Ah! But you're wrong! They do have summer break in Japan! It's just a whole lot shorter than an American summer break. I don't know how long it is, but I'm guessing two or three weeks. Probably two.
Why is Inuyasha being so nice to Kagome! He's usually a jerk!
Once again. REINCARNATION! Compare Kikyo and Kagome. Nothing alike. But for all your reading pleasure, I gave all of our main characters the same personality as the last time.
Seperate entrances to the school for different grade levels?
I don't know. I made it up. In all the schools I've been to there have been wings for each grade's homeroom and where their lockers were. So I though, 'Hey! Why not just give them different entrances?'
Inuyasha said that he and his friends would help Kagome. Is Inuyasha in a gang?
What makes you think that? He just has a close group of friends!
Wow. Inuyasha's got a Porsche, Jaguar, and a Beetle! They're rich!
You have no idea. Cars are very expensive in Japan as are houses. While Kagome's house was passed down through the family, I'm guessing Inuyasha's dad just bought his. They're filthy rich. No doubt about it.
Why does everyone use the name Taisho as Inuyasha's last name?
In the series, Inuyasha's dad is called Inu no Taisho. No, it's not a name, it means Leader of the Dogs.
