+Epilogue+
Kyasha ran through the forest, she was late, and she was going to be dead if she didn't make it home in time.
Today was Daitan's graduation, a very important date to her mother's eyes. It seemed Kami was against her that day as she finally reached the well and hopped through, hoping her family hadn't left yet.
She pushed open the shrine doors and made her way to the Higurashi temple to see her family.
"Kyasha, nice to see you." The hanyou smiled at the warm smile her grandmother gave her with a quick hug.
"Same to you." Kyasha returned with a quick kiss as she walked around. "Where's everyone?"
"Actually, you're not late, if you're wondering." Kyasha smiled, sometimes her grandmother knew too much.
"Where are Papa and Mama?" Kyasha asked.
"They ran into town for me, they'll be back shortly." Kyasha smiled, but frowned when she heard Daitan walk in.
"Kyasha took you long enough, how's Kooketsu?." Then the hanyou stopped as Kyasha predicted. "Kyasha….you're…"
"Shut it boy, or I won't be coming at all." Kyasha gave her brother a warning glance. "Kooketsu, he's fine."
"Kyasha, don't be rude to your brother." Kyasha sighed, so much for keeping it a surprise, knowing her grandmother knew already.
"Just please, don't tell Mama or Papa, I want to let everyone know after the grad party." Kyasha sighed.
"Papa's gonna be pissed." Daitan smiled in a singsong tune.
"Keep your mout--"Kyasha was interrupted when the front door opened.
"Kyasha, good you here. We have to leave now, Daitan, you don't have you robes on yet." Kagome groaned. "You're going to be late for your own graduation ceremony."
"Mama, I don't even want to go." Daitan sighed.
"Dai, your mother wants to go, so you go." Inuyasha winced when he felt Kagome punch him in the arm, warning him.
Inuyasha caught a smell in the room; he glanced at Kyasha then stifled a gasp.
"Kyasha?" he asked.
"Papa, so nice to see you again." Kyasha ignored the fact that he knew already about her little 'surprise' but hugged him to change the subject. "Let's get going."
Kagome smiled in agreement, as she pushed Daitan down the hall to his room so he could change.
Kyasha gulped when she noticed her father growling just loud enough for her to hear.
'Just a little longer…remember, this is Daitan's day…' Kyasha thought to herself as she bounced from foot to foot as she waited impatiently for her younger brother to dress in his graduation robes and be ready to go.
She glanced at her father and noticed his flexing fists in aggravation, she sighed.
This was going to be a long day.
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Daitan watched his sister in her chair; she was jumpy, almost constantly moving.
'Kyasha's nuts…' Daitan thought as they waited for the ceremony that he was dreading to begin.
Eighteen years of age didn't mean he was mature enough to sit in one spot for more then two hours as they called each name up to present them with a slip of paper telling everyone in the world that they had completed high school like the other half of the working force had.
"Daitan, are you ready?" He sighed, his mother was the only reason she was here for this stupid thing anyway.
He noticed how tense his father was getting, possibly because of his sister and her new awaited drama and angst that she would be announcing as soon as this nightmare was over with Daitan.
'Then Papa will yell, and then Mama will calm him or be happy for Kyasha…' Daitan smiled. His family was always so interesting.
"Hello and welcome to the grad of 2023." A woman said through an overly static microphone. "We're here today to celebrate the remembrance of so many years in school for the graduates here today."
Daitan really hated this woman; she never liked him anyway, throughout high school.
"I'd like to start with calling up the valedictorian for this wonderful year, Izayoi Daitan." Everyone started to clap, and Daitan sighed in embarrassment when his mother started to cry.
Daitan took a deep breath and pulled out his speech,
"Hello everyone, and welcome to freedom!" Everyone laughed a bit before he continued. "Thank you, I'd like to say a thank you, and instead of making it ten hours long, I'd just like to say a big thank you to everyone who's even said 'hi' to me in my life…"
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"Oh Daitan, that was awesome." Kyasha laughed.
"Yeah, yeah, it wasn't that great." Daitan brushed off his sister's comment.
"Ha, it was better then my grad, everyone was drunk in less than twenty minutes." She grumbled.
"Oh, I think you have something to tell us." Daitan smiled knowingly at his sister as Kyasha felt stares from everyone in the room.
'Just get it over with…' she told herself.
"Okay…uhh…" Kyasha gulped.
Kagome walked in and felt the tension in the room, sitting down she realized everyone was looking at Kyasha.
"What's wrong?" Kyasha looked over seeing her mother walk in to join them.
"Mama…"
"Yeah?"
"I'm pregnant."
There, my story is done, the first one done and I still have tons of other ideas to get out on paper. Look forward to writing the sequel, just be patient, I'd like to get at least one story finished before I start that project.
However, here's a little sneak peak I've been working on for the first chapter to my work on the sequel, 'Anxiety 2: New Chapter'…
Chapter 1
Where we are
Rushing down the stairs, he had to make it to the doors before they closed. Pulling on the doors of the gloomy building, he sighed.
Too late.
'Damn, why can't anything come my way?' He asked himself. Daitan stood and wandered the sidewalk.
A trip to the bank, on a Sunday, he asked himself with a small snicker to himself.
He almost made it to his car as his cell phone rang. He grabbed it and sighed when he glared at the caller id.
"Izayoi." He stated.
"Daitan?" He started to feel his throat vibrate as he calmed himself from the need to growl.
"What is it this time?" he pushed back the thought of tossing the cell phone down the drain at his feet.
"I'm sorry, but we need your help back at work." A woman stated calmly, almost as if the thought of him angry hadn't crossed her mind.
"What did I say?" He sighed in exhaustion.
"Yes, but if you want this place to go bankrupt then you'll get your ass down here." Then the phone went dead. Daitan felt like ripping his hair, just to watch it grow back again.
He clicked the phone shut and walked to his car. Slipping in, he quickly dialed the familiar numbers.
"Hello?" He smiled.
"Mama?" he answered.
"Daitan, I was wondering where you've been, where are you?" Kagome asked.
"I'm sorry, I was on my way but I got a call from work." He heard Kagome place her hand on the receiver and heard the mumble of words as he guessed she was talking to Inuyasha.
"Daitan, what were you saying, sorry?" Kagome came back on the phone.
"I was just saying that I can't make it, I got an important call from work and I was heading over there right now." Daitan explained as he started the car.
"Really?" He frowned when he heard his mother sigh. "Okay, if work needs you tonight, then you get going; are you going to be alright tonight?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine; I've been alone on these nights before."
"Okay, just…be careful." Kagome said sadly. "You're father and I are worried you're over working yourself."
"I know, but this has to be done, I won't be too long, do you want me to come over?" Daitan asked as he pulled to a stop at an intersection.
"Oh no, only if you want to, just get home and relax for once." Daitan smiled. "I'll talk to you later."
"Yup, bye Mama." Daitan clicked the phone off and turned down another few roads as he made his way to the place he dreaded most.
He pulled up and sighed as he got out of the driver's seat and walked up the narrow steps.
Daitan pressed the up arrow at the elevator as he waited for the big metal doors to open.
He jumped when he saw someone already in there, "I'm going up."
"Same." The woman said as she let him press the buttons he needed.
Daitan glanced at the woman, she looked tired, he smiled when he saw her pulled the binder she held closer to her chest, a bit naïve but she looked okay.
He noticed a small slip of paper in between her and the black binder, he quickly read the signature the manager, Nikki Benjiro, also his boss.
"Are you the new intern?" Daitan asked casually. The girl looked up and nodded shyly. "You're in for a ride." He said before he stepped out on the floor he needed to head to, Daitan smiled to the woman then walked off leaving her worried and flustered.
"Hello Mr. Izayoi." An elderly woman smiled his way.
"Good afternoon, have you gotten a hair cut, something's different about you?" Daitan smirked. He always had a way with woman, young and…old.
"Oh, thank you for noticing." The woman chuckled, "Your mother must be proud to have such a nice mannered boy in her house."
Daitan smiled and waved bye. Heading for the dreaded office, Daitan's pictured several different places he'd rather be at that moment; the nice sunny beach, running through a forest…doing the dishes for said mother.
Taking a deep breath, he knocked on the large wooden doors.
"Come in." The voice said, though it was mostly incoherent due to the office walls.
Daitan pushed the door open gently, wincing at the sound the rusty hinges made, "Hello, you wanted to speak to me Mr. Kane?"
"Yes, come in." He gestured to the chair before his desk as Daitan sat back.
"What is it, sir?"
"I've noticed your lack of…oh, what shall we call it, attendance." The man said as he glanced back and forth from a piece of paper, trying to read and talk to him at the same time. Some respect he showed.
"Yes, and I'm terribly sorry about that see--" Daitan started but was stopped when Mr. Kane rose a hand.
"I've heard all the excuses in the book, and quite frankly, it's inexcusable." He cleared his throat and paused, "I'm sorry to say, but it seems that you've finally met your end in this business."
Daitan's jaw went slack, not again, "No, I'll make it up, I sw--"
"Please clear your desk and leave the facility immediately." Daitan sighed; Mama wasn't going to be too happy about this.
He nodded then got up and left the room, not skipping the chance to slam the door in the man's face while he was walking.
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Daitan sighed.
Carrying his laptop in one hand and a bag of office supplies, he walked up the long, narrow, and very familiar stairs up to the Higurashi shrine.
He breathed in the welcoming air and dropped his things as soon as he stepped his last step.
Picking his things up again, he took one leap and landed just in front of the front doors. It was so much easier when you were a hanyou.
"Daitan, glad you're home, can you help me with these groceries." He smiled at hearing Mrs. Higurashi's voice, ran over, and helped her with a few brown bags. "Thank you."
"No problem, have you seen Mama or Papa around?" He asked.
"Your mother's inside and Inuyasha…I haven't seen him since lunch, must have left to see your friends in the well." Daitan smiled and nodded. Placing the groceries on the kitchen table, he heard someone walk down the stairs and join them.
"Daitan, how's work." Kagome smiled and held her arms out, ready for a nice hug from her son.
Daitan gave her a big hug then pulled back, "Same old."
"That's nice," Kagome started to help her mother unpack the groceries for supper. "You just missed Kyasha and the boys."
"Oh, how long were they here this time?" Daitan sat at the table and fumbled with a few papers and files.
"Not too long, they had to get back for another thing, can't quite remember though." Kagome handed Mrs. Higurashi a can then continued, "Did you know that Mashiro's starting school soon?"
"Wow, time flies." Daitan giggled.
"I know, I mean, I can still remember him being born and raised." Kagome smiled.
"Yeah, Tenjiro's getting there as well." Mrs. Higurashi added.
Daitan nodded and stood up, "I'm gonna go find Papa."
"Alright, oh, and bring him back when your done, supper's here this time." Kagome yelled as he left the house.
Daitan smiled as the familiar tingling sensation overwhelmed him as he hopped into the well, dragging himself back five hundred years. He remembered all the tales his parents told him, every night as he fell asleep.
Jumping into the familiar forest, he ran to the village to meet all his friends and Papa.
"Daitan, nice to see you." Hanna smiled as she watched the hanyou run passed.
"Hi Hanna, do you know where Papa is?" he halted his movements.
"I think he was with father, but that was this morning." She shrugged, "Sorry."
"Oh no problem." He smiled, waved bye, then left to find Inuyasha.
Hanna watched her childhood friend run off and smiled to herself, then walked down to the river where she knew her mother to be.
"Mother?" Sango looked up and smiled.
"Yes honey?" Sango stood and waited for her daughter's question.
"Daitan is here, he was looking for Inuyasha." Hanna said.
"He's with your father." Sango gathered the food items she was cleaning, "They were heading to a village, another youkai disturbance."
"So, you're saying he'll find them." Hanna smiled when her mother nodded assuring.
To be continued…