A Satirical Inuyasha Romance
Aislin Oriel
The blizzard had calmed down for almost the entire trip back and started back up with great vengeance near the end. They braved the conditions, Kagome clutching tightly onto Inuyasha and her blanket-cloak for warmth. They finally made it back to the Higurashi shrine and took them no time to warm up.
Kagome immediately called out to announce their arrival.
Of course, completely unexpectedly, the house was dark and empty, and as they made their way to the kitchen (which we all know is the epicentre of the house) they saw that there was a note on the table from Kagome's mother.
"Dear Kagome,
Grandpa, Souta, and I spontaneously decided to go visit one of your never-before-mentioned relatives in Osaka. I pre-emptively stocked the cupboards with instant ramen. We should be back tomorrow unless I call then and say we can't make it because of a freak snowstorm.
Love, Mama
"They sure do seem to visit a lot of unknown relatives…" Kagome mumbled. "Oh well!" she perked up, "What should we do this time Inuyasha? Another all-night-movie-marathon?"
"Bleh," he sighed in boredom.
"We could bake something again," she brightened with an idea, "Cookies Inuyasha?"
"Nah,"
"But I thought you liked them,"
"I did at first, but then those little chocolate chip things made my stomach hurt…" he reminded her.
"Oh, yes I forgot,"
"Why was that again?"
"Chocolate is poison to dogs."
"It was like eating saimyoushou…" he commented introspectively.
"Well, we could always make a cake; we have vanilla cake mix!" she triumphantly held up the box.
"Cake – can't I just have my ramen!" he groaned exasperatedly, his stomach echoing in reply.
"Don't worry, we'll just whip this up and get it in the oven in no time flat, then while it bakes you can have your ramen," she smiled cheerfully.
"Alright!" Inuyasha agreed enthusiastically, motioning to push up his non-existent sleeves.
Several minutes later, the entire kitchen was covered in cake batter. (Which was a strange feat considering that there wasn't that much mix in the box…)
Inuyasha and Kagome were both also doused liberally in a fine coating of powdery, sugary, mess.
Inuyasha's face was covered in flour.
"How in the world did you get flour on you? We didn't even use flour!" Kagome asked in confusion as she wiped a glob of vanilla batter off the tip of his nose.
"Eh," he shrugged, leaning down to look in the modern "fire pit". "Wah…" he stared gape-mouthed as he watched the batter slowly cook and bubble.
Kagome rolled her eyes and began to clean the room.
Inuyasha finally snapped out of his revelry and turned to watch her expectantly.
After feeling his eyes on her back for about 5 minutes, she turned to face him, placing a cup of steaming beef-flavoured ramen in his hands.
She returned to scrubbing the mess off the countertop and washing the dishes they'd used.
Inuyasha said nothing, but turned around and sat down at the table before he began scarfing down the noodles straight from the cup.
Slurping and cleaning sounds were heard for a while, then a "ding" signalling that the cake was done.
Inuyasha's ears flattened to his head and he quietly mumbled about "damn dinging noises". But that was all the non-one syllable words from him.
Kagome worked about the kitchen after setting the cake out to cool, and tidied up the last few batter splatters (rhyming is fun!) plastered to the walls.
Inuyasha set the empty cup down in front of him and leaned back to watch her. Kagome took one brief sidelong glance at him and just let out a sporadic laugh.
"What?" he looked annoyed, arching one of his thick, black eyebrows.
"You, you're filthy – you need a bath and a new change of clothes. Just a second," she disappeared from the room and headed upstairs, returning moments later with an oversized white t-shirt and some Hawaiian-print shorts.
"Huh?" Inuyasha eyed the outfit suspiciously.
She tossed the clothes at him and instructed, "Go clean yourself up – don't use such hot water this time. Make sure to get all the flour out of your hair, and put your clothes in the hamper in the bathroom closet to be washed. Oh, and Inuyasha?"
He turned to look at her as he was making his way to the washroom, "Yeah?"
"This time, put on the clothes before you come out."
"Keh," he dismissed the comment and went upstairs.
AN: Is this time for a quiet albeit strange evening at home, or will something annoying happen to ruin it? Just how many unknown relatives does Kagome have? Who here would pay to see Inuyasha in Hawaiian-printed shorts? Bidding starts at 10,000 yen. Who wants me to skip quickly to the Feudal Era and all the fun stereotypical antics that go on there? I have a strange(-er) break-like chapter that I'm thinking I'll post soon (like in 2 or 3 chapters) – and believe me, it stands for nothing but to cause ridiculous giggles. But most likely will just make you say what? But I'm going for either one. R/R pleases! AO