A/N: Story has been revises so many times that author's notes are just worthless.
Chapter Two
By: Mirei
Kagome yet again refused to wake the next morning. But the disturbance of her sleep wasn't her three year old daughter but her father. He stood at her door knocking, but then when she didn't answer his calls, he stormed in with water and threw it on her. Miles away a piercing scream could be heard.
"Dad! Why did you do that?" she yelled while he stood at the foot of her bed with a grin on his face.
"I warned you." He said with his arms folded. She gave him a glare but got up.
"Fine I'm awake now could you please exit the room. I promise I'll be down in the dojo in ten."
"Five kid." He left the room while Kagome huffed over being drenched. She dressed in her workout clothes and met her dad outside. He had said to meet him in the dojo but first they had their balance training. Then they would move on to hand to hand combat once balance training was finished, but first things were first, she had to meet her dad who was waiting by the oak tree.
"I finished in five minutes." She said happily. Her father approached her.
"Ah but you are two minutes late. Let us begin." He led her to bamboo sticks stuck in the ground. She stood on one of them while her father pulled off his shirt and stood on one in front of her. "Now Kagome today we need to work more on your speed. You have balance down but if you wish to become a strong fighter then you need speed as well. If you want to strengthen your demonic side then I suggest that you practice more."
"I don't have the time for practice dad. Come on can't we wait until I'm out of school before starting up training again? The last time I went back to school sore."
"How do you expect to get any stronger if you complain Kagome? You won't get anywhere in life unless you work on what you're bad at. Practice doesn't always make it perfect. Perfect practice makes it perfect. Doing this right will allow you to do this on your own time. I do remember that there is a dojo at Tokyo University, so why do you not use it?" He was usually a peaceful man but when it came to training he was all business.
"Because I don't want anyone to find out about my powers. Come on dad. We are freaks of nature, and though I think that it's so cool to be able to jump up high in the air and run really fast, I don't want people to know about this." His face softened as he saw that his daughter was being open with him about her feelings.
"Just think about it okay Kagome. You can go when others aren't there. You don't even have to work hard, I just want you to build up your muscles."
"Dad, I can beat up every girl and boy in my school; I'm a total freak now. I can't even get a date."
"Then that's good. No boy deserves my baby."
"Dad! I'm not a baby anymore!" she blushed a little though at the thought of actually being a baby again.
"I know but to me you shall always be." He got into a fighting stance and so did she. "Now enough talk. Come at me." She looked around her for a moment and then came up with a plan. She crouched down so that both her feet were touching the flat surface of the bamboo stick. She then leaned backwards so that the bamboo stick would bend a little. Her father gave her a questionable look as to ask what she was up to. She gave him an innocent look but he knew better than to fall for her face.
Kiki Higurashi stood in the kitchen cutting up carrots when she heard the doorbell ring. She was about to go and answer it when the phone rang. She called for Uri to answer it while she got the phone. The child ran to the door and opened it. She looked up at the tall man that she'd met in the bookstore.
"Hi mister what are you doing here?" He looked down at the child and raised an eyebrow.
"I'm here to see your mother. Where is she?" She let him in and closed the door.
"Mommy and grandpa train in the dojo in the morning. I'm not allowed out there. Grandma says that grandpa and mommy could end up hurting me or each other but they don't listen. Grandma doesn't understand why mommy wants to train. Come on mister I'll show you where mommy is." She led him to the back of the house to a sliding door. Once he opened the door he could hear Kagome and her father going at it.
"Come on dad! Don't tell me you're wimping out. What happened to strengthening my speed?"
"You Kagome are going to make a man really lucky one day."
"Dad I can't hold onto a guy long enough for that. I scare them remember." She jumped up and flung herself to a bamboo stick behind her father. She then kicked him from behind which caused him to fall forward, only he grabbed two bamboo sticks with his hands and flung himself back upright.
"Kagome are you playing around with me again? I told you that training isn't a game, so stop this right now and fight me!" he scowled.
"Dad you and I both know that I could finish you off on these things. My balance is perfect, but I know for a fact that if you stay up here to long you tend to lose your balance."
"I guess I've taught you well. Know your enemies better than you know yourself."
"Ah but dad you aren't my enemy, see this is why I can't train like this. You and I are different ages."
"Are you calling me old Kagome?"
"If the shoe fits dad." She gave him a grin and then flung a bamboo stick at him. He was then pushed off of the bamboo stick that he was preoccupying and fell onto the grass. She grabbed a kendo stick from the ground and jumped off of the bamboo. She did one flip and landed above her father. She then proceeded to point the kendo stick at his throat.
"Fine I give." He said slipping out from under her trap.
"Come on dad you aren't that old. Where's the challenge?"
"Maybe it's time that you met a friend of mine. He will prove to be more of a challenge for you."
"Is he another old guy?"
"No he isn't. He's actually around your age. I can call him next time you're home."
"Dad are you trying to pull something?" she said helping him up. He put his arm around her shoulder and led her to the dojo.
"Who me, I'm not trying anything." She gave him a suspicious look.
"You're not talking about that Koga guy again are you? Dad I've told you so many times that I'm not interested in him."
"But he's a nice boy and he's liked you for some time. His father is my best friend and it would be great if you'd get to know him."
"I do know him remember? He goes to TU. Dad I don't want to train with him." She whined. She removed her long sleeve shirt and revealed her tank top.
"There isn't anything wrong with him."
"Except that he acts as if I'm property. Dad you can't expect me to marry someone like that. I plan to be independent anyway. I don't want to be left alone with a bunch of kids and a stack of bills."
"I respect your decisions but I don't want you to end up alone."
"Dad I'll be fine. Why do you guys worry so much? I can take care of myself."
"Come here Kagome and sit with me, forget training for today." She looked at her father strangely but did as he asked. They sat in the middle of the room in silence for a moment.
"Um dad what are we going to do if we aren't training?"
"We are going to try and be a normal family."
"Aren't we as normal as can be?" she said sarcastically.
"I want you to know how proud I am of you Kagome. You've done something that I feel makes you a woman. I know that it isn't easy for you to be away from home. I also know that you worry yourself over the prospects of her father coming to get her but he cannot."
"How do you know that? He's tried before and almost got away." Her hands were clinched to her sides. She then turned her head towards the door.
"What is it?"
"Someone's here." She whispered. "How about we continue this conversation another time dad, I think it's time for me to train my mind a little." She stood and was about to leave.
"You know that I admire you my child. One day you might realize that you are truly a special girl. I just wish that you'd allow yourself to feel a little more." She gave her father a peck on the cheek.
"Dad I'm going to make you a cake tonight when mom goes over to the temple down town. But you can't tell her."
"Uri told me something interesting this morning." She stopped at the entrance to the dojo.
"Oh no she didn't did she?" He gave her a nod. "She promised that she wouldn't tell."
"Ah but she wasn't supposed to tell her grandmother, she knows that I have a sweet tooth and your mother means well but I have to have something sweet."
"You are a sneak old man aren't you?" She said laughing and then headed out into the garden. Her father stayed in the dojo to set up for visitors. When she left the dojo she found Sesshomaru standing there.
"Took you long enough."
"Hey I didn't tell you to come over so early, besides I still need to do ten minutes of balance training." She walked past him and jumped up onto the bamboo. He stood there watching with a bored look on his face, but inside he was mildly impressed by her skill. She moved in a way that seemed flawless. She stopped suddenly and looked over at him. "Um Sesshomaru could you toss me that kendo stick please." He picked the kendo stick and threw it to her. She caught it without looking at him and began to use it for balance. After she finished she flipped upside down and started to balance on her hands for a few moments. Then she leaned backwards on one of the bamboo sticks and allowed herself to be flung onto the grass where she landed on her hands and flipped upright. She headed for the house with Sesshomaru following closely behind. Her mother was on the phone still when she walked in.
"Oh hold on Tojin she just walked in." Her mother gave her a cheesy grin and handed her the phone. Kagome shot her mother a confused look but took the phone.
"Hello, Tojin?" She gave a sideways glance toward Sesshomaru.
"Hey you, I was wondering if you'd need a ride up to the university tomorrow."
"Actually Akina and Yuki are going to travel up together. Sorry."
"That's alright, guess what?" she leaned against the wall and folded her left arm underneath her right.
"What?" she clinched the phone in her right hand.
"I got a job at your university isn't that great?" she let the smile she tried to contain spread across her face.
"No way really!" she squealed with glee.
"Yes and I start in a week, I thought that I'd go up with you since you still have another week. I can't believe that you have to return so early just to set up you dorm."
"I know but Sesshomaru's brother's going to be one of our new roommates. You remember the last guy."
"Yeah I remember you mentioning him in your letter. Listen I know that I wasn't there for you, but I want to be. I just hope you'll forgive me." She stopped for a moment and looked straight ahead thinking.
"You know Tojin that I can't really stay angry with you; in fact I forgave you a long time ago. Plus Uri would never forgive me if I stayed angry with you."
"How is she?"
"The same as always."
"That's good, I worry about her sometimes, and you too. I should have called you right away when I got returned instead of waiting for two years."
"It's alright, really. I'm sure that you were busy. Besides my mom and dad have everything under control."
"Has he called you?" she inhaled a little.
"Um…"
"Kagome you told me that you'd tell me if he called."
"I know, but I hung up on him."
"Good, he's going to ruin her life if he shows up and tries to spend time with her." He said but then he heard his mother in the background. "Oh I have to go. I'll see you Sunday, and maybe we could go do something to catch up."
"Sure, how about we go for coffee?"
"Okay, I'll talk to you tomorrow then."
"Okay bye." She placed the phone on the receiver.
"Kagome why don't you go up to your room to work? Some of the ladies from down the street will be coming over for our weekly reading circle." Came Kiki's voice from the kitchen.
"Are you sure?"
"Why do you think your father's hiding out in his dojo? Don't worry we don't mind if Sesshomaru's here, it's not like he hasn't been here before." Kagome gave Sesshomaru a glare but led him upstairs. Her room wasn't the best room in the world, but she had a view of the back yard. She turned on her computer and allowed it to log in. He looked around the room and found that it had changed dramatically since the last time he'd been there. Her bed was much smaller and was against the opposite side of the room when he had last stepped foot in the room. The pink walls were now draped in tan paint. On the northern wall she had a set of five antique swords. She had a desk which her computer sat on and above her bed a bookshelf could be found. She plopped onto her bed and he sat down on the edge of it.
"Here, I brought your papers back." He handed over her notebook and she flipped through it then looked up at him with disappointment dancing in her eyes.
"Why didn't you make corrections or add your own input? Sesshomaru why did you bother taking it if you weren't going to help out?" she folded her arms over her chest and glared at him.
"I didn't want to scribble on your work, besides we are using your ideas because I refuse to subject myself to writing about silly whimsical nonsense."
"So you think that my dream was silly?"
"I didn't say that, but I don't write things such as that."
"You know you didn't have to come over here. I could have rewritten it on my computer and turned it in."
"Like I could trust you with something this important; I will remain here until this is finished." He folded his arms and turned a little so that one of his legs were propped on her bed while the other hung over the bed.
"Hey why don't you give me your opinions on this, I don't want it to be just on me if it sucks."
"I would like to know why exactly you chose to write about demons and another time." She thought about it for a second.
"Well I had this weird dream and I saw this female demon there and she was battling this guy who turned into mist. It was so weird but it felt real." She blushed a little. "Um forget what I just said."
"Continue I would like to hear where this is going."
"There was a guy with long silver hair and he had makings much like the female demon. He kept banging on this barrier and yelling something about her being foolish. I can't really make out what he's saying but he's upset about something. The woman watches as the mist starts to surround her. The silver haired guy watches on with a shocked expression. She turns her head to the side and smiles at him, she then mouths something and he falls to his knees. It's just weird that I'd dream of this. It feels so…"
"Real, like déjà vu." He said without thinking, she looked up at him shocked. "What?" He asked her when he noticed her facial expression.
"It's just that, oh never mind let's just get this typed up and then I can get packed for tomorrow."
"I also have other things to do." She went over to her computer and started to type.
"You got a hot date or something?" she joked, but found that she didn't think it was very funny. She shook her head and went back to typing.
"You know Higurashi you should just quit school and think about opening a comedy club; you'd sell out." He said with each word dripping with sarcasm.
"Very funny, why don't you just go to sleep and let us smarter people work." She retorted and finished her tenth paragraph. She turned around an hour later to find that he was fast asleep on her bed. "I didn't mean it literally." She muttered underneath her breath and finished up her last sentence. She found herself growing tired and then without warning her eyelids closed and she soon fell asleep on her computer desk.
Sesshomaru woke a few hours later and found that he was in Kagome's room still. He looked around him and found that she had fallen asleep at her computer. He rubbed his head and stood. She shifted her head a little and then snuggled into her arm a little more. She started to mutter things in her sleep.
"Azulu, what are you doing here?" she drifted off again and stayed silent for a moment or two. "Yeah right, look he and I gave up our silly dreams a long time ago. He couldn't bring himself to say the words and I refuse to be the fool." She moved her head a little and he could see the angered look on her face. What in the hell is she talking about? Who is Azulu and who's she talking about?
He could do one of two things; leave now and completely forget the assignment or lift her up and place her in her bed. The latter won. He pulled out the chair and placed one hand under her head so that she wouldn't smack it on the desk. Once the chair was successfully moved he lifted her up in his arms and moved toward her bed. But before he could move she started to talk in her sleep again.
"How is it possible that everything embarrassing happens in this room?" she was silent for a second. "What's with you people? He isn't anything to me but a troublesome guy whose job is to protect me. I don't think you guys need to worry though okay." She muttered and turned into him. He looked down at her with utter confusion.He understood now what she meant about her dreams. She kept talking about a guy, but then she mentioned one name that sounded familiar to him. But he'd never known anyone by that name. He laid her down and watched her for a moment, trying to figure out her dreams, but he couldn't place any of it together. She turned over and smiled to herself as if she were dreaming of something wonderful. "You shouldn't say things like that. I'm just like everyone else, and if you were to change it would be because you want to. But if you were to change at all then you wouldn't be the man I fell for would you?" She snuggled into her pillow as if it were the silver haired man. "Do you think you'd love me in four hundred years?" he heard her suddenly ask. She curled up into a ball on her bed. She must be insane! What does she mean by four hundred years? Why does she speak of love so openly? He walked toward the door and opened it. Glancing once more he left the room completely missing her last whisper. "Sesshomaru…"
"Oh come on tell us about it please." Cried Yuki who was currently leaning against Kagome's seat.
"Would you stop doing that? You're going to make me lose my concentration." Akina sat up in the front passenger seat and turned her body so that it was facing both Yuki and Kagome.
"You had Sesshomaru in your room and you didn't do anything? I don't believe you."
"What's to believe, he came over to work on our damn assignment which I ended up rewriting, he fell asleep on my bed and I feel asleep at my computer. The weird thing about it is that I don't know how I got to my bed." Both her friends laughed. "What?" she asked confused.
"He must have moved you. Isn't that sweet he must have not wanted you to get back pains."
"I didn't think it was possible for an ice cube to feel."
"Would you two shut up? See this is why I don't tell you guys anything." She turned her attention back to the road. They were on their way back to campus. They still had a week left but since they were getting two new roommates they had to get the rooms and place set up. Yuki didn't really have to go back but she refused to spend another minute with her feuding parents.
"When was the last time she actually had a normal conversation with the guy?" asked Yuki.
"You remember, it was before Yuri died. After she died I really didn't talk with anyone, I broke up with Hojo a few months later." Replied Kagome
"I know but you and Sesshomaru always seemed like you could be civil to one another. He hardly talked to anyone in high school."
"Was he always so hot?" asked Akina suddenly. They both looked at her.
"I refuse to answer." Kagome said as she pulled into the student parking lot. She stepped out and grabbed her bags from the trunk. "It doesn't really matter what I thought of him anyway, we aren't friends." She said as she walked up the stairs to their dorm.
"But you must have thought something. He's the only boy you ever had in your room and that was more than once."
"I'm not that type of girl. Damn Akina is that really what you think of me?" she pretended to sound hurt.
"I didn't mean it that way but he used to go over to your place every other week in high school and I just thought that some sparks would have flown." Yuki stopped at her dorm and entered while Kagome and Akina headed for theirs. Once they reached their dorm they entered to find that someone had already been in there.
"I wasn't accusing you of anything, I just meant that you made it sound as if I went around sleeping with guys at random and I don't." Kagome stated dropping her bags onto the couch and heading for the kitchen. "Oh my god, look at this mess!" Akina heard Kagome's voice coming from the kitchen. Akina headed over to her friend who stood between the kitchen table and the sink.
"What kind of fiend would do something so evil?" Akina said sounding like a really cheesy comic book sidekick.
"Come Robin and we'll fight the evil that lay in our kitchen sink" Kagome laughed when Akina gave her a confused and worried look. "What you're the one who sounded like a bad comic book dialog."
"What did I say?"
"Never mind. Come on let's get this cleaned up." She walked over to the sink and started to rinse the dishes off. She then handed them to Akina who placed them in the dishwasher.
"Hey Kagome what do you say to some karaoke?" Akina asked after placing the last dish in and rinsing her hands.
"I don't know. We aren't really alone in this place anymore." Kagome went back into the living room and opened the blinds a little.
"Oh come on just one song. I promise that I'll keep a look out for anyone." She pleaded with her friend. Kagome gave a sigh in defeat.
"Fine but just one song, I really hate my voice." Akina gave Kagome a glare. "What did I say?" she asked.
"You have enough talent to get a record deal. Now get your ass up there and start singing." She pushed Kagome over to the karaoke machine.
Kagome grabbed the microphone and turned it on. Akina flipped through a few songs until she picked out one for Kagome to sing. The tune started out slow and Kagome caught on to what it was.
"How to stay paralyzed by fear of abandonment, how to defer to men in solvable predicaments, how to control someone to be a carbon copy of you, how to have that not work and have them run away from you."
She looked around nervously but her voice was flawless. She then pulled her hair tie out and flung her hair around.
"How to keep people at arms length and never get to close; how to mistrust the ones who supposedly love the most, how to pretend you're fine and don't need help from anyone, how to feel worthless so fast you're helping. I'll teach you all this in 8 easy steps; In the course of a lifetime, I never forgot; I'll show you how to in 8 easy steps; I'll show you how leaderships were taught by the best; how to hate women when you're supposed to be a feminist; how to play all highest when you're really a hypocrite; how to hate god when you're a player and a spiritualist; how to sabotage when you're in tough seas. I'll teach you all this in 8 easy steps; In the course of a lifetime, I never forgot; I'll show you how to in 8 easy steps; I'll show you how leaderships were taught by the best; I've been doing research for years; I've been practicing my ass off; I've been waiting my whole life for this moment, I swear to you; Culminating just to be this well versed leader before you." She stopped for a moment and then started to move her hips to the song.
"I'll teach you all this in 8 easy steps; In the course of a lifetime, I never forgot; I'll show you how to in 8 easy steps; I'll show you how leaderships were taught by the best; how to lie to yourself and thereby to everyone else; how to keep smiling when you're thinking of killing yourself; how to know them all the too well by going with them; how to stay stuck in your life hating them; I'll teach you all this in 8 easy steps; In the course of a lifetime, I never forgot; I'll show you how to in 8 easy steps; I'll show you how leaderships were taught by the best." Akina stood up and applauded.
"That was so great! You have to sing one more please."
"I'm done I hate singing."
"Please Kagome don't be a spoil sport!" She pushed the microphone into her friend's hands. "Sing Ironic, please." Kagome glare at her friend but turned up the song. The tune was so soft at first so she dived right into the words.
"An old man turned ninety-eight; he won the lottery and died the next day; it's a black fly in your Chardonnay; it's a death row pardon two minutes too late; isn't it ironic, don't you think."
She gave her friend a raised eyebrow when she asked the question.
"It's like rain on your wedding day; it's a free ride when you've already paid; it's the good advice that you just didn't take; and who would've thought, it figures."
She breathed in and then calmed down for the next verse.
"Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly; He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye; he waited his whole damned life to take that flight; and as the plane crashed down he thought; 'Well isn't this nice'; and isn't it ironic...don't you think" she thought of the words for a moment and then heard the music pick up a little.
"It's like rain on your wedding day; it's a free ride when you've already paid; it's the good advice that you just didn't take; and who would've thought, it figures."
She up her hands up as if to say 'go figure'. "Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you; When you think everything's okay and everything's going right; And life has a funny way of helping you out when you think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up in your face. A traffic jam when you're already late; a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break; it's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife. It's meeting the man of my dreams; and then meeting his beautiful wife."
She stopped for a moment and looked at Akina and almost laughed. She gave her a look as if to say, 'this is so your story'. "And isn't it ironic, don't you think; a little too ironic, and yeah I really do think. it's like rain on your wedding day; it's a free ride when you've already paid; it's the good advice that you just didn't take; and who would've thought, it figures; life has a funny way of sneaking up on you; life has a funny, funny way of helping you out; helping you out…"
The music faded out and she heard more than one person clapping, she looked around to find both InuYasha and Sesshomaru standing at the entrance to the living room. Akina looked behind her to see them and then back at her friend whose face was the color of her sweater.
A/N: Lol um well I thought it would be cool to have Kagome have a talent that showed a different side to her. I don't own any of the lyrics that I may use so don't sue! I found this was the easiest chapter to write but I kept getting interrupted so it took forever. Oh plus I had her sing in the other story. You'll find out sooner or later about what her family hasn't told her. But that won't be revealed a while. As you all can tell Kagome's having dreams of her past, she doesn't know the names of the people that she sees in her dreams but Sesshomaru's name is something that comes to her in only one of them. The next chapter is going to be posted soon I promise, I just have to write it! So the question now is how you people like this? I found that it was much more fun writing it with him as a student. I'm sorry if some of you hate the idea but a lot of people actually liked the idea of him as a student. So I'll get that next chapter up as soon as possible, just please review so that I know people are actually reading this!
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