Chapter 9: The Wedding Day
The day was young (7:00 AM) and everyone was rushing around the house. The guys were gone and the girls were home. The wedding was in 5 hours and they haven't even started to get ready. Kagome woke up from the walking around and voices both downstairs and upstairs. Mrs. Higurashi opened Kagome's room and gave her daughter instructions. Kagome's first task was to take a shower and get dressed in a half hour and so she did. After that was done, her mother and grandmother had to take their own showers so while one was in the bathroom, the other was trying to help Kagome get ready. The showering was finished and next was working on their hair. Tsuyashi put Kagome's hair up into a pony tail and left a small amount of hair in the front on each side. She then took the left over hair and wrapped it around Kagome's head to the back and tied it with the pony tail. Her make up was done by her mother and she wore pink lipstick, pink eye shadow, white eye liner, and black mascara. Next was her nails but they were just painted clear to look nice. All that took at least 2 hours to do. Three hours were left on the time and they hadn't completed the last of the tasks. The maidens needed to get ready, Kagome had to put on her dress, and they had to take a half hour to get to where the wedding was being held.
"It seems like there isn't much time to get ready!" Mrs. Higurashi exclaimed as she rushed through the halls.
"Settle down my child! Your not the one getting married and you act like you are" Tsuyashi said as she came up the stairs.
"I know but-" Mrs. Higurashi began.
"Don't say anything and just get ready. We are wasting valuable time talking about something that isn't important" Tsuyashi implied.
"Are you okay mom and grandma?" Kagome asked as she came out of her room fully ready.
"Awe Kagome you look beautiful!" Mrs. Higurashi hugged her daughter.
"Don't avoid the question please" Kagome pulled away.
"It's just I didn't think I would have to worry about getting ready for my baby's wedding this early!" Mrs. Higurashi began to cry.
"Oh mom don't cry. Please don't cry" Kagome demanded.
"Now lets get you girls ready" Kagome got the make-up and dresses.
"Oh sweetie we are going to get ready by a professional now" Mrs. Higurashi replied.
"Oh you get to have some one with experience and I get my make-up and hair done by you girls! That's not fair" Kagome complained.
"Stop your whining and lets go and Kagome you weren't suppose to put on your wedding dress until we get there" Tsuyashi said.
"Now you tell me" Kagome went back to her room to get changed.
"First time..." Mrs. Higurashi said and went downstairs.
...2 and a half hours later!...
Mrs. Higurashi, Tsuyashi, and Kagome drove to where the wedding was being held, over by the ocean. They arrived and went to the renting house to get ready till the wedding started. The wedding is going to start in exactly thirty minutes and her mother was still a nerves wreck. She was so nerves that she forgot the bouquet of flowers at home, so Mrs. Higurashi had to take the ten minute drive back to the shrine and back.
Jumping to the Feudal Era and Back:
"Inuyasha I'm begging you to go see Kagome again. Maybe she changed her mind!" Shippou annoyed Inuyasha as they made up the hill to get to the Bone Eaters Well.
"She doesn't want to come back Shippou. I already told you all that" Inuyasha pushed Shippou off his shoulders.
"I don't understand Inuyasha" Shippou began to fill with tears.
"What's to not understand?" the hanyou sat against the well.
"I thought you love her and I know you miss her a lot since you always visit the well every day" the little fox demon sat next to the hanyou.
"Feh, love. There is no love to be found in our relationship. It's all based on fighting and heart break and most of it is all my fault. Why should she come back when she can get better with that guy she is with now?" Inuyasha did have a point but it wasn't good enough.
"She loves you Inuyasha. She really does and you never noticed it. That is what this is all about. Love and trust. You didn't show her love back and the trust goes along with the love" Shippou explained.
"And what would you know about love anyways Shippou. You're still just a small kid" Inuyasha looked at Shippou funny.
"I know this because the way my parents respected one another. That's before they were separated by fate" Shippou looked down at the grass.
"I would like to be alone if you don't mind Shippou" Inuyasha said in a gentle voice.
"Okay?" Shippou was utterly confused but he left Inuyasha while he had the good side.
"Shippou's right. I have to tell Kagome again and this time I have to hear what she has to say. I hope she hasn't married that human yet" Inuyasha thought and then jumped down the Bone Eaters Well.
Inuyasha reached the other side and leapt out of the well. He got out of the shrine and ran to the house. A car pulled into the drive way and he quickly hid himself behind the sacred tree. Mrs. Higurashi stepped out of the car and ran to the house. Inuyasha got out of hiding and ran right to Kagome's mother. She dropped her keys and Inuyasha picked them up for her. She was stunned to see him and nerves at the same time. What was she to say? Say that Kagome is going to get married in twenty minutes? She could see Inuyasha blowing up and yelling like crazy. Cursing and saying mean comments about Kagome on how stupid she is. She took the key's from his hands and opened the door without saying a word. He was confused and followed her into the house. She looked back at the hanyou and began to think to herself. She couldn't stay silent for any longer because Inuyasha will start demanding her to talk to him.
"Um Inuyasha...what are you doing here?" Mrs. Higurashi grabbed the flowers and walked out of the house, being followed by the hanyou.
"I'm here to see Kagome. I need to tell her something important" Inuyasha explained as he watched Kagome's mother lock up the house again.
"Your not that late but Kagome is getting married in fifteen minutes" Mrs. Higurashi blurted and got into her car.
"Take me to her now" Inuyasha demanded.
"Oh Inuyasha...talking to her isn't going to help. She's very deeply in love with Sukii" Mrs. Higurashi said and began to pull away.
"Wait!" Inuyasha stood in front of the car to prevent her from driving forward.
"Inuyasha please don't" Kagome's mother pleaded.
"I just want to talk to her before she goes through with this" Inuyasha begged.
"Come on then. Get in the car" Mrs. Higurashi opened the passenger door.
-At the Wedding-Renting House to be exact-
Kagome stood in front of the mirror in the bedroom upstairs. She had her wedding dress on and she twist and turned to look at every angle of herself in the dress. She smiled but then she frowned. What was she doing? Was she really making the right choice? She does like Sukii but does she like him enough to marry him? Once again with the questions and the unfound answers. She sat on the bed and looked out the window beside her. Outside, she saw chairs, a podium with an archway in front of it, relatives and friends, the wedding cake on the tables full of food on the sides of the chairs, the whole place decorated with the Hawaiian scene, and Sukii accompanied by her grandmother. Ten minutes past and the wedding is going to start in five minutes. It almost seems like a dream she began to think and then the door opened. A familiar figure stood in the door way and he came and stood right in front of her.
"Inu...yasha...?" Kagome was stunned.
"Kagome don't do this please" Inuyasha stared into her brown eyes.
"Give me a good reason I shouldn't" Kagome quickly became angry.
"I love you that's why" Inuyasha explained.
"If you love me so much then why am I doing this!" Kagome asked.
"I don't know!" Inuyasha shouted.
"You hurt me Inuyasha and I don't want to feel hurt anymore. I love Sukii now and I'm marrying him" Kagome said as she faced he way.
"Kagome..." Inuyasha didn't know what to do next but he thought of something.
"What?" Kagome looked back at him to get a surprise kiss from him.
Kagome didn't hesitate but kissed him back for only a second to realize what she was doing "I'm sorry Inuyasha but I can't do this. I have to get married now. My mom should be coming for me soon"
"Am I interrupting?" Right on key, Mrs. Higurashi stepped into the room.
"No...is it-?" Kagome began but stopped when her mother nodded.
"I'll head downstairs" Mrs. Higurashi said and left the two alone again.
"This is good-bye Inuyasha" Kagome's eyes began to tear up but she carefully wiped them away.
"Good-bye..." Inuyasha continued to look at her as she disappeared out of the room.
"Are you sure you want to go through with this?" her mother asked once she joined her mother downstairs.
"Yeah I am sure. Being with something that I decided to put in the past will just bring me more and more sorrow" Kagome said and then the wedding song began to play on the piano.
To be continued...