Vocab: Niisan- Older Brother

Chapter 24

Kagome and Inuyasha decided to stay for dinner. The talk around the dinner table was quite entertaining. Except Grandpas marked absence was bugging Kagome. Something just didn't seem right to her about it.

Kyle was talking about Souta's first home run, and the score he made in his last soccer game. According to him, Souta would be a professional sport player in just a few years.

Noura loved to see them bonding together so easily. She had feared at first, that Souta would rebel against her new mate, refusing to except a new father. But with Lue's betrayal, he seemed to have no problem adjusting, it wasn't like Souta even knew his father all that well in the first place. And Kyle had always wanted children, now he had his own, and a bonus! She just loved to see that sparkle in his eye, as he talked admiringly about her children. There children.

"And swish! Smack dab in the middle of the goal! This kid was born to play!" Kyle insisted, ruffling Souta's hair, right before taking a big bight of his ramen.

Kagome smiled. This was Kyle, enthusiastic about everything, she felt bad about having to leave so soon, but she was needed in the Sengoku Jidia.

Inuyasha looked a little confused, before he finally burst out in annoyance, that he had no idea what they were talking about. Then Kyle and Souta got into a enthusiastic explanation of how you played soccer, and then talking about professional games that were particularly fascinating, both in Japan, and The States.

After dinner, Kagome helped her Mom with the dishes. As the boys continued to discuss soccer at the table. "I guess we'll have to get use to not being the dominate gender in the house anymore." Kagome said jokingly, as she dried off a bowl, and placed it carefully in the cabinet.

Her mother laughed. "I already have! With those two chattering away all the time, sometimes even I forget I'm here!" She replied, but Kagome could hear the underlining warmth in her tone. Her mother was happy.

Again, her grandfathers absence stuck at her mind again, probing her to speak. "Mama, where's Grandpa? Is he alright?"

She almost regretted saying it, the smile almost immediately slipped off her mothers face. And the glow disappeared from her eyes. "He's... in a home. With me and Kyle gone all day at work, and Souta at school, he wasn't getting the care he needed. I...We had no choice. He could have been seriously hurt if he was here all by himself during the day."

Kagome was shocked. Her grandfather must be furious. He hated those places. But her grandfather seemed to be less and less himself, ever since the stroke... A new wave of hatred for her father swept through Kagome, had her mother figured out it was Lue who caused Grandpa's stroke? Should she tell her?

Mrs.Higurashi seemed to read her mind. "I know, I just wish it wasn't so. Grandpa told me, before we took him to St.Margrets."

Kagome nodded. They both seemed to have forgot about the dishes. And the murmur of voices could still be heard from the kitchen table. Only Souta's seemed to be absent.

"Shall we?" Noura asked, gesturing back to the dishes.

Kagome nodded.

AT THE TABLE

Souta yawned as Kyle started explaining about a particularly exciting game he'd seen back in the states. "I have homework. Are you leaving soon niisan?"

Inuyasha looked up in surprise at being addressed as such, before stuttering. "A-as soon as Kagome's ready."

Souta came around the table, gave Inuyasha hug, and then went upstairs.

Inuyasha was looking after the kid in surprise, when Kyles voice rung out. "I know."

Inuyasha swung around, to see Kyle smiling lightly at him. "And of all people, I'm glad it was you."

"W-what was me?" He stuttered. What the hell was wrong with his voice?

"I'm not blind Inuyasha. Neither is Souta, or Noura, we all know you have taken my daughter as your mate. And we all know the means in which it was done." Kyle replied coolly. Inuyasha felt his face burning in embarrassment.

"No need to be embarrassed Inuyasha, unless you are embarrassed of being mated with my daughter."

Inuyasha unstuck his throat. "No! If anything, she should be embarrassed by me!" he cried out indignantly.

"But she isn't. And she never will be." Kyle replied simply. Inuyasha hung his head.

"But she should be." He muttered.

"Why?"

Inuyasha looked up, and locked eyes with him. He'd never met another man like him. He was willingly offering Inuyasha advice, sure Miroku had done the same, but he had never gone around it this way, he didn't have the same aura to it as this man did. Inuyasha almost felt like he was talking to a father. He was, Kagomes father, but not his, not technically. "Because... I don't deserve her. I don't deserve her love."

"Then, why mate her? Why make her lower herself to be with you?" Kyle asked. Inuyasha jumped up from the ground.

"What?" Kyle asked. "The only reason you don't deserve her, is because you believe you don't. And yet, you took her as your mate anyway, why?"

Inuyasha stared at him, never seeing it that way before. He'd always found himself unworthy of her, and yet he'd gone and mated her anyway. Why? "Because... I couldn't leave her. I couldn't forget about her. "

"Why?" Kyle propped farther. He knew he was being harsh, but if Inuyasha didn't get all this crap out of the way now, he'd just end up hurting himself, and Kagome.

"Because... not only would it hurt me... I'd hurt her too. She loves me, and she doesn't care who I am, or what I am, she loves me for those things, they aren't things she has to deal with because she loves me. There things she doesn't care about, or want to change. That's why. I just... never realized before." Inuyasha said, not believing that he had actually said all that out loud. He looked over, to see Kyle smiling approvingly.

"You need to know that Inuyasha. I never want you to ever think that you don't deserve Kagome. Because the heart isn't about what one deserves it doesn't care if you think you deserve it or not, Kagome choose to put her heart, in your hands. She didn't care if you deserved it or not, she just did it. That's what love is, blind faith. And there's no real reason that anyone does it. It just happens, and it happens to the most unlikely people." Kyle stated. He had read to many chicken soup books, he knew too much about this stuff, but finally, here he got to share his knowledge.

"Take me and Noura for an example, The chances of meeting someone in a bar, and falling in love, especially when you live on different continents, and one already has a husband, are astronomical. But it happened, and having a long distance, secret relationship didn't hinder it, it just brought us closer together. All my friends told me, " She doesn't deserve you" and "You deserve so much better" I really hate that word, especially when used in any context with the heart. You never get love because you deserve it, you never get happiness because you deserve it, you just, do."

Inuyasha sat back down, trying to take in all of what Kyle was saying. Some of the words he didn't understand, but he got the gist. Being loved wasn't anything about deserving it, it was all about who your heart chooses. It doesn't matter what they've done in the past, or what there doing in the present. You love them for who they are, not what they've done.

Kyle looked at him suspiciously. "Get it now?"

Inuyasha slowly nodded. "I think so."

"Good. If I ever hear you say that you don't deserve her, I'll make sure you never see her again, got it?" Kyle threatened.

Inuyasha nodded again.

"Well, now that that's out of the way, I have a question for you..."

Sorry I know you all will want to hate me after this, but, I couldn't resist! It was just to tempting! Forgive me!

I had a psychology buff, I had to get it out of my system! I hope you all liked my views! And thank you so much for all your reviews! I got so many this time around, and I'd love to see it happen again! I'm crossing my fingers to hit 700 before my next chapter, But I doubt it'll happen, but still, please help me!

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This chapter is also dedicated to those who lost there lives in Katrina's fury. And to those who lost there homes, there whole lives in fact, in a matter of days. God bless, and good luck to all those who did survive. (Note: All my chapters, and even this whole story, is dedicated to the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. )

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