Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.
It's up to fate
By natsumi no tsunami
Chapter 4
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
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Bored eyes absorbed in the sights of the busy city flying past him. He turned his head towards the front of the seat, where he saw his mom and Sesshoumaru, the man from the restaurant, who was also driving, taking turns to gaze at each other and then turning away before the other noticed.
"What?" Sesshoumaru suddenly asked when he felt Kagome's gaze lingering on his passive face.
His mother turned away from the man who introduced himself to Kouta as his father earlier on. Kouta could obviously tell that his mom was still sore from this morning, that's why she resorted to not talking to the man because it had happened to him whenever he gave his mom wake up calls. They were currently driving to his school in his father's black Saleen S7
'Oh boy, this is going tobe a long ride.'
Kouta thought back to this morning and how they had met Sesshoumaru again.
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Flashback
Ding Dong! Ding Dong! Ding Dong!
Kagome dug her head under a pillow trying to trap the hateful noise of the door bell out. She had been sleeping in her large and warm king size bed when the door bell had begun to ring. Kagome was usually a morning person but a certain someone in her mind wouldn't allow her to fall asleep so obviously she had a very late night.
Ding Dong! Ding Dong!
The noise suddenly stopped. Slowly, Kagome moved her head from under the pillow because of the absence of the hideous noise but only to shove it back under when loud thunderous noise came towards her room. The door opened and crashed into the wall with a loud bang.
"Mom, mom, granny told me to call you. It's 7:45am already. Granny said that if you don't get up soon, you won't have enough time to eat breakfast before going to work." Kouta said quite loudly so that the sleeping Kagome would get the message.
Kouta sat patiently at the end of Kagome's large bed as he waited for a reaction from his mother. He was dressed in his school uniform, which consisted of a navy blue blazer, navy slacks, a white shirt and a yellowish gold silk tie tied loosely around his neck.
"Mom, get up! Granny refuses to serve me breakfast unless I manage to get you up and I'm starving now so hurry up." Kouta whined when his sleeping mother refused to budge from her nice warm bed.
Thinking of an effective idea to wake his mother up, Kouta ran out of Kagome's room and only to return shortly with an extra large water gun filled with icy cold water. It was one of the many presents aunt Sango and uncle Miroku had given him last Christmas. Smiling cheekily, he moved towards his mother slowly so that his mother would remove her head from under the pillow and onto the pillow where he had a much better chance of hitting her. After a couple of seconds standing there, Kagome moved just as Kouta predicted. Kouta tried to decide on whether to shoot the face or the exposed neck. Making up his mind on the neck, he aimed the water gun and closed his eyes. Counting down in his mind.
'Three, Two, One! Fire!'
"Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh! IT"S COLD! IT"S COLD" Kagome screamed bloody murder as she shot up into an upright position on her bed.
Kagome grabbed the top of her pajama top and began waving around because of the water leaking from her face into her pajama in her current upright position.
"About time you got up mom." Kouta exclaimed as he moved to hide his water gun behind his back.
Kagome's head zapped towards him when she heard her son's voice. With a deadly glare at her son, she got up from the bed and slowly in a predatorily way, she stalked closer to him. Kouta sensing danger began to back away from his mother, not really looking where he was backing into.
"Kouta, why are you backing away? Come, give mommy a hug." Kagome said in an overly sweet voice with a very vengeful smile on her face.
"Uh uh!" Kouta shook his head as he answered his mother.
"What do you mean uh uh? Come, don't disappoint mommy. Come give mommy a morning hug." Kagome repeated her instructions once again.
Suddenly, Kagome's expression changed from a tamed look into a full blown feral smile, complete with a hyena's laugh. Gulping, Kouta took in his current escape routes, only resulted into finding one that was behind his mother.
"Kagome, hurry up and get up, there's someone here to see you!" Kaede called from the kitchen.
Kagome suddenly paused and walked to her ensuite and started a shower, totally forgetting about torturing her son. Kouta suddenly let out a breath in relief.
'I wonder who would come and look for mom so early in the morning?
Kouta decided not to wait for his mom and proceeded back to the kitchen. Arriving at the kitchen, Kouta looked around, looking for the person who was in turn looking for his mom.
"If you're wondering where the guy went, he went back next door and asked Kagome to go over with you once you're done with breakfast." Ginta said from the table, where everyone in the households usually ate their breakfast.
"How did you know I was looking for someone?" Kouta asked curiously, wondering how in the world did, Ginta get to know him so well.
"I've been around you long enough that you are forever one very curious puppy, very much like your mom." Ginta commented again with an arrogant smile.
"Don't call me puppy! Nearly everyone in my class knows my nickname ever since that time when mom accidentally called me puppy in front of some girls. Some of the girls even started a fan club devoted to me called 'Puppy Lovers' even though we're only in grade 3." Kouta shivered at the thought of those freaky girls. They were even freakier than his mother when she was feeling predatory.
"Really? Do you think those girls will let me join the fan club?" Kagome asked teasingly as she entered the kitchen.
"Mom!" Kouta shouted indignantly.
"I was kidding." Kagome said putting her hands in the air, surrendering.
"So, who's looking for me?" Kagome asked questioningly at the three of them.
"Ohh, we have a new next door neighbor who moved into the mansion the Bentleys use to live in, you know the one on our right side." Kaede said she moved from the stove with two plates of scrambled and bacon slices.
"Oh, was there anything he wanted?" Kagome asked as she moved to sit in a chair at the table.
"Yeah, he asked you to meet him after you have breakfast in his house. Apparently he said he had something to tell you." Ginta answered for Kaede.
"Alrighty, we better hurry up then if Ginta's to drive you to school on time." Kagome smiled at Kouta.
It only took Kouta 5 minutes to eat and wash down his breakfast with a cup of orange juice, his mother finished only seconds behind him.
"Mom hurry, come quickly to meet this neighbor so I can go to school already!" Kouta urged as he walked from the font door of their house. Quickly making there way over the large front garden, Kagome reached to press for the door bell only to be stopped by a hand smaller than her already pressing it. Kouta smiled cheekily at her.
The door opened to see a short little man who looked he was in his late 40's and was wearing a crisp, ugly brown colored suit.
"Yes, may I ask who you're looking for?" he asked then with narrowed eyes and a rather high pitched voice than for someone his age.
"Sorry to disturb you, we're your new neighbor. You asked to see us before we left. So was there anything you wanted?" Kagome asked with a polite voice and a small smile.
"I've never asked such a thing, now be gone on you way, my master wouldn't like the likes of you appearing at his door." The short little man exclaimed turning to shut the door.
Kagome and Kouta turned to leave only to be stooped by a very familiar male voice.
"Wait! I want to speak to you Kagome!" He commanded quite loudly from behind the little short man. He suddenly turned his gaze upon the little man in front of him who was suddenly cowering.
"Didn't I tell you I was expecting guest a few minutes ago Jaken you fool." Sesshoumaru scolded and shot the man in front of him called Jaken with a withering glare.
"What do you doing here Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked in a rather shocked voice.
"What does it look like, I'm your new neighbor." Sesshoumaru answered Kagome's rather ridiculous question.
"And just why did you move right next door to me?" Kagome asked with a frown starting to appear on her face.
"Well I was just driving by last night and I saw this empty mansion for sale so I rang my assistant here and secured everything after that." Sesshoumaru answered in a very bored tone.
"Hpmh!"
With that said Kagome took Kouta's hand and turned to leave only to be stopped by Sesshoumaru's voice once more.
"As a payment for that trick you pulled, you will allow me to drive you to your office and Kouta to his school." Sesshoumaru said in a voice that left no room for argument.
"Won't your wife mind?" Kagome questioned, trying to worm her way out of a sticky situation yet again.
"No, now go grab your things and then come back here." Sesshoumaru commanded yet again with a now passive face.
End Flashback
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"We're here!" Sesshoumaru said as they arrived at Kouta's school.
"Bye mom. Bye dad." Kouta said as he unbuckled his seat belt and move to get out of the car.
Kouta closed the door behind once he got out of the sleek car. He saw many students gather around the front gates to see such an expensive car arriving in front of school. The window of his mother's seat which was the window closet to him rolled down.
"Your mother and I will be here to pick you up after school alright?" Sesshoumaru asked the boy in a voice slightly warmer than how he usually addressed other people.
"Alright. Bye" Kouta bid his parents goodbye.
Kouta watched as the car's window rolled up and sped its way quickly towards the exit of the school grounds.
'I've always wanted my father as a next door neighbor.'
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TBC
Lol. That last line was a desperate attempt at a joke to get people laughing. It's when someone gives you a rather weird present and you say "I've always wanted those!" to not make them fell bad. Anyways, I'm very sorry for the late update but I had a bit of writers block so I couldn't really think of what I could put in this chapter but luckily after rereading my chapter hundreds of times over, I've finally come up with an idea. I'll try to get the next chapter up quicker hopefully. Thanks for reading and reviewing.
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