Chapter6: Busted!
Holy cow I got like five revues! I'm soo happy and I thank you all. (looks left and groans) do I really have to say it? (camera left lawyers nod yes) humph fine I don't own Inu-Yasha how was that (lawyers nod and leave) well now that that's done with on with the story!
"It looks ridiculous but I guess that it hides my demon ears well enough." Kagome sighed, looking in to one of the many ponds around the village. As she looked in to the mirror like water she could see the full extent of her changes. Besides the obvious white dog ears on her head, which were hidden from view with the use of the hat she was wearing. She could also see that she now had golden eyes like Inu-Yasha's instead of brown ones which she had before. Her hair had also changed in to a silver color. 'I'm too young to have grey hair!' Kagome thought as she heaved a sigh. She opened her moth to reveal her new fangs, once again similar to those of Inu-Yasha. She sighed as she knelt by the water, trying to get use to her new reflection tilting her head from one side to the other looking to see any other changes.
"Come on it isn't that bad." Inu-Yasha said from the top of the tree right beside her.
"Ya. You know, your right." She said. 'It's not too bad being a hanyo. I can do all kinds of things that I couldn't before right?' she thought to herself. She took off the hat that covered her fuzzy ears shaking her head and let them flip back in to their usual position on top of her head, if you could call anything about the situation usual. She then put a hand on her new ears and said, "There kind of cute like yours." She said then rapidly covered her mouth 'Stupid why did you go and say that?' she thought. She didn't turn her head to see what Inu-Yasha's reaction to her comment was because of her bright red face. Finally when she managed to get her red cheeks under control she looked up to see his reaction, and what she saw was one very embarrassed Inu-Yasha.
'Did she just say my ears are…cute?' he asked himself with a slightly reddened face. When he finally got over the fact that she thought his ears were cute he jumped out of the tree to try and save what was left of his pride, but slipped on the damp grass around the pond and fell in to the water, smashing all possibilities of regaining his pride and splashing Kagome, getting her soaked from head to toe.
Kagome glared at Inu-Yasha. Inu-Yasha closed his eyes and braced himself for the oncoming 'SIT' that he was sure to get, but it never came. Instead he herd a small giggle and then a laugh. Kagome thought Inu-Yasha looked really funny with a peace of green pond scum on the top of his soaked hair, and his hair and his clothing clung to him as he sat in the water.
"What's so funny!" he snapped, but Kagome just kept on giggling, covering her mouth to at the least try to stop. Inu-Yasha hauled himself out of the water, soaked from head to toe and dripping all over. He began to dry himself off by shaking. Kagome laughed even harder as she was soaked even more by the spray of water coming from Inu-Yasha. She turned and headed for Kaede's hut to get a change of dry cloths, giggling all the way.
Inu-Yasha finished drying himself off and leaped back up in to the tree. He leaned back with a 'Feh', and shut his eyes for a short nap, he needed one after that, and he drifted off not soon after leaning back angst the tree.
"Wake up Inu-Yasha!" a voice called from below, as a peace of fruit hit his head. Inu-Yasha woke up and nearly fell off of the branch he was on. He looked down to see Kagome dressed in the entire of a priestess and then he did fall off the branch he was on, but caught himself on another.
Inu-Yasha hug off of the branch by both arms and stared at Kagome. She reminded him so much of Kikyou, and yet she had a much softer, more comforting feel when she was around. The wind blew lightly through her hair as the sun set behind him shining an orange light off the water around her and her silver hair giving her an almost angelic like glow. (I'm trying, but this is the best I can come up with sigh --!) 'You know she really dose look quite beautiful as a hanyo. Especially in that, it suites her.' He thought as he gazed at her. Though he never wanted to admit it he had grown fond of Kagome and maybe even fell in love with her. She was the one person who had ever accepted him for who and what he was and after every time he messed up or fought with her, she always returned to him completely forgiving him. He dropped out of the tree, being careful not to slip, and continued to stare at Kagome.
Kagome tilted her head to the side with a questioning look on her face.
"What is it Inu-Yasha?" she asked him. Inu-Yasha simply shook his head.
"Nothing…I was just…well…feh. It's nothing." He answered.
"Oh ok well I really should get going if I want to make it home before dark." Kagome said as she looked at Inu-Yasha, and then turned to go.
"Where is your hat?" asked Inu-Yasha with a smile, pointing to Kagome's dog ears to emphasize his point. (Wow so many big words!-) "I don't think that you want anyone to see those." He added as Kagome felt her head for her cap.
"Oh! Your right. I don't really need to explain this to my family, though I think that they will notice my other demon features. I don't think that they would get too worried." She said as she picked up the hat which lay on the ground where she had left it earlier. She brushed it off and placed the hat over her ears "Okay I'm all set!" she exclaimed and walked off towards the Bone Eaters Well with Inu-Yasha fallowing close behind her, thinking as always.
'She really dose look beautiful.' he thought
'Wait what are you thinking she doesn't even like being a hanyo! Once she gets back from her time she will set out to find a way to transform back to a human. Face it. She hates being a half-breed like you' his demon conscience said to him. Inu-Yasha just ignored his 'other half' and continued to fallow Kagome.
They reached the well in no time and Kagome climbed up on the edge of it. "I shouldn't be any more than fifteen minutes." She said looking at him.
"Okay, but if your one minute slower I'm going to come get you." He said not wanting her to know that he really didn't want her to go anywhere. Kagome sighed, nodded and dropped down the dark well.
Once on the other side of the well Kagome reached for the ladder she used to get in and out of the well, but as she grabbed it she realized that she could just jump out of the well like Inu-Yasha did all the time. She let go of the ladder and looked up to the top of the well, she crouched down and leaped right out of the well. She landed gracefully at the top of the well with a smile of satisfactory on her face. She then proceeded up the well house steps. She could hear rain hitting the roof of the well house and the smell of rain was heavy in the air. She quickly stuffed her long silver hair in to her clothing. 'Just in case any one sees me I don't want my hair to attract their attention.'
She carefully opened the door just enough to look out. She couldn't see anyone around, but the wind was blowing quite hard and it was of coerce raining out. She flung the door open and made a mad dash for the God Tree. She stopped under its thick leaves for a break from the rain, which had already soaked her.
'I know! I can go through my window like Inu-Yasha dose. That way I won't have to explain anything to my family.' She thought with a sigh 'Especially grandpa. I'll just leave a note to let them know I'm all right.' Her mind added. She was about to leap in to the tree to get to her bedroom window but froze when she heard a familiar voice coming from the shrine steps.
"Hi Kagome!" She looked over her shoulder to see the three people that she didn't want to. All three of her friends Yuka, Ayumi, and Eri stood at the top of the shrine steps, all wearing yellow rain coats. Her friends ran over to her and joined her under the protection of the tree.
"Hey what are you doing wearing those old fashioned cloths for?" Ayumi asked pointing at her friend's odd looking clothing. Kagome thought for a second and answered.
"It's my grandfather, he wants me to 'look the part' so I've got to were priestess clothing today." She said with a smile to hide her nervousness. The wind was blowing fiercely now and was threatening to blow Kagome's hat off her head, but before it could she grabbed it and pulled it down tightly against her head. She flinched as the pain of having the hat crush her ears reached her brain. She let go of her hat to talk to her friends.
"So how are you feeling?" Eri asked, looking at her.
"Yah. You know you shouldn't be out side with your chronic arthritis," Yuka said "I've herd that bad weather can make it even worse." Kagome let out a sigh. 'Looks like grandpa has moved on to other sicknesses' she thought. (Sorry best that my poor, over used brain could come up with.)
"No I'm fine. Really, I don't have…"All of a sudden a large gust of wind blew the hat that Kagome was wearing to conceal her dog ears off her head. The hat was carried away with the wind, leaving Kagome with nothing to hide her ears. "Ha no!" she yelled as she desperately tried to grab for the hat but it was long gone. Kagome's friends gasped at the sight of the pair of inu ears, which blew in the strong wind. Kagome closed her eyes 'Oh no! Now they will find out what I've been doing all this time… and not only that they will notice that I'm now a half demon!' she thought to herself in bitter defeat. Suddenly she felt someone touch her ears. Her eyes snapped open to see her friends reaching up to the top of her head and playing with her ears, giggling at the way they felt.
"Hey these look real." Eri said as she gave Kagome's ears a rough pull.
"Ow!" Kagome yelled as she put her hands up to cover her ears from any further torment. Her friends stepped back in shock. Kagome rubbed her sore ears.
"Hey! What's going on here!" all of them yelled at the same time, pointing at her ears as they continued to blow in the harsh wind. They all looked more closely at their friend, forming a circle around her.
"Hey you changed your hair too!" Eri squealed. Kagome had tucked her hair in to her cloths so it would not attract attention, but with the hat gone her hair was in plane sight.
"All right…What did you do?" they all asked in unison.
'What can I do?' Kagome thought 'I can't exactly tell them that I have become half demon! And that I've been traveling to Futile Japan through the old well! I doubt they'd believe me any way.' "Well I… uhh…" she started. Unknown to her however was her grandfather walking up behind her, the harsh wind howling in Kagome's ears was preventing her from hearing him as well as blowing away his sent. Hearing Kagome's friends talking, more like yelling he had come to see if he could sell some more of his 'talismans'.
"Kagome!" he exclaimed seeing her "What are you doing here?" he questioned.
'Oh great! Just what I need, more attention!' she thought as she turned to face her grandfather.
"I thought…" the old man stopped in mid sentence, as soon as he saw the two fuzzy ears on the top of Kagome's head. He gawked for a few seconds and then screamed "DEMON!" as loud as he could, scaring Kagome's friends who were standing around her.
"I'm not a demon!" Kagome shouted at the hysteric old man, stomping her foot. All of a sudden Inu Yasha came barging out of the well house, almost ripping the door off as he slammed it open.
"Kagome I thought I told you to be quick! Not to talk, and lounge around. We need to get back." He grumbled as he walked up to the group, ignoring all the other people there and getting soaked as he calmly walked up to them.
"YOU AGAIN!" Kagome's grandfather yelled. "What did you do with my granddaughter!" he demanded.
"I didn't do nothin' old man!" he yelled in defense, getting in to a fight with the man. Mean while Kagome's friends proceeded to ask her every question under the sun.
"ENOUGH!" she yelled, getting tired of the fighting and the questions from her friends. "Grandpa, enough. Inu-Yasha SIT BOY." (Wham!) Inu-Yasha hit the ground face first, Kagome's friends, now really shocked were silent as well.
"Would you stop with that!" Inu-Yasha snapped getting to his feet.
"Okay! You want to know what happened then I'll tell you, but let's go inside first." Kagome said as she headed toward the house. All of them wanted to know what was going on so they fallowed the hanyo to the house, all with puzzled looks on their faces. Inu-Yasha stayed right where he was.
"Hey! We don't have time for this." He yelled "We need to get back!" Kagome stopped and looked at Inu-Yasha.
"I know, but I have to make up some sort of excuse." She whispered to him in a tone that only he could hear. Kagome turned back to the door and went in to the house, were she immediately ran in to her mother who was setting the table for a late dinner.
"Hello dear how are you?" she asked with a warm smile. She walked over to her daughter, the first thing that she noticed was her daughters hair had changed color and as she looked over her she could see she had ears just like the ones that Inu-Yasha had, and just as every one else had done she grabbed hold of them and pulled them to see if they were real.
"Mom! Not cool!" Kagome grumbled with a look of embarrassment and aggravation on her face, as she tried to pull away from her mother. When Mrs.Higurashi realized that the ears on top of her daughters head were real she didn't look completely shocked, but she was a bit concerned about what may have happened to Kagome. Kagome could tell right away that her mother wanted to know what had happened to her. 'I know that I owe my mom an explanation but I can't tell her the truth until Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi leave… and that could take a wile.' Kagome thought and mentally sighed 'Why is it when ever I don't want something to happen it happens?' she though as she stepped in to the house.
Once Souta heard his sisters voice coming from down stares he turned off the game that he had been playing for the last four hours and went down to meet her. As soon as he reached the bottom of the stares he could see Kagome and everyone trying to get dried off from the soaking that the storm had given them.
"I'm sorry I didn't realize that I was blocking the door." Apologized Mrs. Higurashi as she handed Yuka a dry towel.
"That's okay. We were wearing raincoats so the rain don't get us as wet as him." Giggled Yuka as she pointed to a sopping wet Inu-Yasha, his hair and cloths draped over him and soaking wet… once again.
"HAY!" Souta exclaimed as he ran up to Inu-Yasha, greeting him.
'Not a gain.' Thought Inu-Yasha 'I know that the kid likes me and all, but he drives me crazy.'
Then Souta looked over to his equally wet sister. He looked at her as a passing glance, but did a double take when it finally clicked in that she had something VERRY different about her. He finally realized that she looked exactly like Inu-Yasha.
"What happened to you?" he exclaimed with his mouth hanging wide open.
"I'll explain it in the living room. Okay." She said hinting to the young boy not to say another word, as she pushed everyone in to the room.
After everyone had taken a seat in the room, and was sitting comfortably, Kagome tried to think up an explanation that would convince them as to why she had dog ears on top of her head and why her hair was a different color than normal, along with all of the other changes.
"Well you see…" she started while everyone stared at her, waiting for an explanation to her new looks. 'Come on Kagome think! Why would you and Inu-Yasha look like you came from a crazy costume party?... That's it! We were at a party!' "I was at a party with Inu-Yasha." She said as convincingly as she could manage.
"What about your hair?" Eri asked.
"Ya and those ears on your head?" added Yuka.
"It was a costume party. I dyed my hair this color, and I've glued the ears on my head so they wouldn't fall off." She explained "I also used contacts to color my eyes." She added.
Inu-Yasha knew nothing about what Kagome was saying so he decided to stay quiet for the time being. He could see her friends were buying the story even though it wasn't near any of the other festable times or holidays that he knew about. Kagome knew that her family would not accept that lame excuse considering that she changed while she was in the Futile Era. Her grandfather just sat there on the couch starring at her.
"Hay! Next time you go to a party, let us know okay. I would have gone too if I had known that there was one going on." Yuka said disappointed.
"Ya! There was probably a lot of really cute guys there." Eri added in.
"I didn't think that you were well enough to go to a party?" Ayumi questioned looking at Kagome.
"Ya I was a little sick, but I'm feeling much better now." answered Kagome.
By this point Kagome's friends had all forgotten about Inu-Yasha's little face plant in the ground when Kagome had said 'Sit', but she didn't care. It was just one more thing that she didn't have to explain to them. Things just seem to go in and out of their heads.
"Wait a minute, your Inu-Yasha?" Yuka asked pointing to the hanyou.
"Ya, what's it to ya?" Inu-Yasha asked. The three girls grouped around him and started to examine him.
"Kagome, you never said that he was this cute!" squealed Eri as she looked Inu-Yasha right in the face, getting about one inch away.
"Hmmm, so this is your over protective, hot headed, jerk of a boyfriend?" asked Ayumi "He is kinda cute, I can see why you put up with him Kagome." All this time poor Inu-Yasha sat there looking confused at Kagome, while Kagome looked embarrassed at her friends as they ogled Inu-Yasha.
"Umm, guys…heh, heh…" Kagome laughed nervously then fell in to an embarrassed silence while her friends looked at her waiting for her to continue.
"Well seeing as how you are all here, why don't you have dinner with us?" asked Mrs.Higurashi, getting to her feet. Mean while Kagome was shaking her head and waving her ands in a no way fashion behind her friends.
"Sorry but we already have plans." Eri said as walked over to the door. Kagome stopped waving her hands and sighed mentally.
"Ya. We're all going out to dinner with Ayumi's family. We just came to check up on Kagome, but I can see she is just fine." said Yuka with a smile.
"Well maybe another time then." Mrs.Higurashi said as she went to help the three girls get their rain coats, fallowed by Kagome.
"I hope that you will be at school on Monday Kagome." Eri said as she turned to go.
"Don't worry I'll be there." Kagome answered.
"Well I suppose that we'll see you soon." Yuka called back over her shoulder as the three of them ran off across the shrine grounds and down the stares.
"I'm glad that's over with!" Kagome sighed as she closed the door and leaned up ageist it then slid to the ground in exhaustion. After a few seconds she picked herself up and headed back in to the living room where her family was waiting to hear what really happened to her.
Souta was not really all that interested in what happened to Kagome he thought that she really had been to a party on the other side of the well, all he wanted to do was play videogames with Inu-Yasha. He was bugging Inu-Yasha to come and play with him when Kagome came back in to the room.
"Okay I'm coming." Inu-Yasha said, finally giving in to the boy, he didn't really want to be yelled at by Kagome's family for turning her in to a hanyo, even if it was by accident. Souta got up and pulled Inu-Yasha up out of his seat and drug him up the stares to his room. Kagome laughed as her brother hauled the sulking Inu-Yasha off to his room. Kagome sat down on the couch in the living room, across from her mother and grandfather.
"Kagome what really happened to you while you were in the Futile Era?" her grandfather asked starring at her with an 'all knowing eye'. Kagome had to tell them the truth, but she had decided to leave the fact that she had no idea how to get changed back out of her explanation, she didn't need them to worry them selves sick.
'Well hear goes nothing.' Kagome sighed inwardly. "Well…" she started, "We found all of the shards of the Shicon No Tamma and destroyed Naraku…and when we made the wish…" Kagome trailed off. She knew that there was no good way to say 'We made the wrong wish and I'm a demon now'.
"It's okay dear, you can tell us." Her mother said in a loving and comforting voice, giving her daughter a smile.
Kagome lowered her head and looked down to the floor where her obese cat Boyo was laying, purring at her and tried to continue.
"When Inu-Yasha and I tried to make the wish we had no clue how we would use the jewel. Inu-Yasha thought of some ridicules wish in his head and the jewel reacted and I was accidentally turned in to a hanyo." she said in one breath.
"What!" her grandfather shouted. He shot up and went completely crazy. He ran around in circles for a bit then sopped in front of Kagome, starring at her. He then quickly shuffled off to his room.
Inu-Yasha heard Kagome's grandfather yell and used it as an excuse to get out of playing videogames with Souta. He ran out of Souta's room, down the stares, and in to the living room. He looked at the two girls bewildered, but he was relived to get away from the TV as it hurt his sensitive eyes.
"I heard some one yelling down here." Inu-Yasha said looking at Kagome.
"It was nothing, just grandpa going crazy at the news." Kagome sighed waving her hand passively at him. Just then the old man came running in to the room holding a handful of sutras and wards. Inu-Yasha watched as he once again started to run in circles around Kagome placing sutras everywhere on her.
"There that should do it!" he exclaimed as he placed one more of the paper wards on Kagome's face.
"Do what!" Kagome yelled as she peeled the sutra off of her face in disgust.
"Your not suppose to be able to move!" he exclaimed "I made those sutras my self! They are one hundred percent demon proof." he exclaimed as he stared in awe as Kagome proceeded in peeling the rest of the sutras off of herself.
"I thought I told you old man you stupid sutras don't work, they an't even real." Inu-Yasha said crossing his arms. The old man's head sunk down as he moped off to his room. Inu-Yasha turned his attention back to Kagome who was still trying to get rid of the remaining pesky sutras. Kagome sighed 'My grandfather is so wearied!' she thought as she finally removed the last of the papers.
"Well come on Inu-Yasha we should get the supplies." Kagome said as she got in to the kitchen.
"Why do I have to help?" Inu-Yasha wined as he fallowed her in to the kitchen.
"Because I'm not the one who eats all of the food that I bring to the Futile Era and for being impatient, I still had ten minutes when you came barging through the well." 'Even though you helped get me out of the odd situation I managed to get myself in to.' she thought to her self as she started to gather the things they were going to need for their journey.
"Ya well if I hadn't come then you would have been stuck trying to explain things to your friends." Inu-Yasha said as he stuffed his head in to one of the cupboards.
"What are you doing?" Kagome asked as Inu-Yasha raided the next cupboard in the same manner.
"Trying to find the raiman." he answered simply looking at her before going back in to the cupboard.
"Why didn't you just ask me." Mrs. Higurashi said as she reached in to the last cupboard on the end and pulled out a package of the food. Inu-Yasha got out of the cupboards and ransacked the one with the raiman in it. Kagome sighed as she watched Inu-Yasha go through the cupboard making sure to get every last package.
Once they had gotten all of the food, clothing, and medical supplies that Kagome thought that they would need packed in to her bag they decided to get back to the village.
"Come on Inu-Yasha we need to get going!" Kagome called to the hanyo as she picked her enormous bag up off the floor. Even though it was filled to the pint of exploding it could still be lifted by one of her arms. 'This thing feels lighter than a feather.' She thought as she walked down the stairs to the door, where Inu-Yasha was waiting for her.
"Took ya long enough." Inu-Yasha said in his typically arrogant voice. Kagome just shook her head, not wanting to get in to another argument with him right now.
"Well I suppose that I won't be seeing you for a while now." Mrs. Higurashi said looking at her daughter.
"I don't know, but I'm hoping to be back soon. By then I will have been changed back in to a normal human." she answered before hugging her mother and running out the door toward the well house, her long hair blowing in the strong wind.
Mrs. Higurashi turned to the other hanyo "Take care of her for me." She said in a worried voice.
"Don't worry I will…And I promise I will figure out a way to get her back to normal." He called as he ran after Kagome. The two entered the well house together and jumped from the top step right in to the well.
Back in the Warring States Era they walked as quickly as they could back to the village as it was dark out.
"What took you so long?" Shippo asked running straight at Kagome and leaping in to her arms as the two emerged from the darkened forest just outside the village.
"Sorry we ran in to a little trouble back at my house," she said as she hugged the little kit "Nothing to worry about." Kagome started to go through her bag as she held it in one hand and used the other to search for the promised treat for Shippo. "Here I brought this for you." she said as she handed a candy bar to him.
"YAY Candy!" Shippo exclaimed jumping up and down on the ground.
"You had us worried for a bit." Sango said as she and Miroku, huge bump on his head, walked up to them each holding a torch.
"Sorry we took so long, I had a few more people at home that I had to explain things to, but now we're back and we can get going. I hope that we find a way to change me back in to a human." Kagome said as she turned to leave.
"We can't leave now!" Inu-Yasha half yelled "It's too dark out to travel and I think that we should stay here for the night." he said, not in any rush to get her changed back. Kagome turned around and glared at him. "I mean we don't even know where we should start looking."
"I don't know about you but I don't plan on staying in this form for the rest of my life!" she yelled, wanting to leave right now!
"Why? Is there something wrong with being half demon?" Inu-Yasha questioned, crossing his arms in front of him.
"No but…" she stopped in mid sentence "I just can't stay like this!" she started to yell again.
"Well at least wait till tomorrow and get some rest." Miroku said trying to avoid another fight.
"Maybe we can find out where to go in the morning." Sango suggested in agreement, also not wanting to listen to another fight between the two.
"Fine we'll stay here for the night but we'll leave first thing in the morning okay." Kagome sighed in defeat. She turned and headed in to Kaede's hut.
Well what do you think? Is it any good?
Maru Maru: Thank you soo much for your review and e-mail it inspires me to right when I get reviews like that.
Fiona McKinnon: thanks for the review and don't worry Kagome won't be so hard on Inu-Yasha through the whole story that much I guarantee.
C.A.M.E.O.1 and Only: Ya I totally agree with you there I am trying but I just got to create the right time and place for it, and that's proving difficult, maybe in the next chapter I can put a little more fluff in.
Well that's it for now so till next we meet…