Familiar Stranger
Chap. 3
The sun rose bright and early that morning. Kagome had already been up. She was in the kitchen, making herself pancakes.
'I wonder how everyone is doing back in the feudal era. I can't go back now! My dad can't find out.'
Her thought were quickly interrupted by a smash in the living room. Kagome jumped in fright and rushed into the living room. Her dad was sleeping on the couch, wearing closed given to him by Jii-chan. She looked around the room until she noticed some knocked down boxes. Her father must have hit them with his foot while he was sleeping.
With a sigh, she walked back into the kitchen being as quiet as she could. Not trying to wake anyone.
"Smells good! Can't wait to eat 'em!" She whispered.
She then got the proper utensils for eating and syrup from the fridge.
About five minutes later, while she was eating, she was greeted by her smiling father.
"Good morning Kagome." She only grinned at him.
"Yumm smells good! What'd you make?"
"Pancakes"
"Hmm, mom's little chef. You always liked to cook when you were younger." He gave out a small chuckle. Kagome forced a smile.
"So where do you like to go around town?" Her father asked as he sat at the table across form Kagome.
"Ummm…" Kagome didn't really know. 'I'm always in the feudal era.' "I'm not to sure, I don't go out much. But we can ask Souta when he gets home. He goes out more than me."
The night that their father came back, he had already been over a friend's house and stayed the night.
"Well, I wish thinking of going to a pizza parlor so we could talk." Kagome's father insisted. "When I was coming into town, I drove past one that looked good."
"Yah. Ok sounds great."
"Ok, how about we leave around lunch time?"
"Alright." Kagome nodded.
"Inuyasha? How many days is a couple?" Shippo asked.
"Uh, two or three. But, I think Kagome will be longer."
"Hmm…Why are you being so calm about Kagome being at home?" Shippo said with a look of curiousness on his face.
"Feh." Inuyasha spat out and turned his head. Shippo then jumped up on his shoulder and started to examine Inuyasha's facial expression.
"What's the matter with you?" Shippo asked.
"Nothing! Now get off of me!" With that said the hanyou grabbed the fox demon by the tail and threw him into a tree.
"OWW! INUYASHA! You bully! I'll have Kagome 'SIT' you when she gets back!"
Inuyasha ignored that remark and only stared at the direction of the well.
"Kagome!" Her father yelled. "Come on lets go!"
"Ok!"
It was roughly 12:30 p.m. and it was tome for Kagome and her father to go out for lunch.
Kagome had already showered and got dressed. She was wearing jeans and a light pink tank. Before she left she grabbed a light coat to cover her exposed arms.
"Ok, we can go now."
"Alright." Her father said opening the front door.
"Over here's my car."
Kagome walked over and opened the passenger door of the medium sized silver car.
They both buckled their seatbelts, of course for safety reasons.
He turned the keys in the ignition and pulled the car on the road.
They were heading to a pizza parlor about ten minutes away from her house. The ride was silent the whole way.
"Oh hey, were here!" Mr. Higurashi said.
The silver car pulled up to a small building with a giant pizza on the top. Kagome was the first to walk into the building and waited for her father to lock his car and put the alarm on.
As soon as he got in, he was greeted with a young perky waitress.
"Good afternoon! Welcome to Pizza Palace! Table for two?" She said in an excited manor.
"Yes, please." Mr. Higurashi answered.
"OK! Right this way."
The girl led them to a two-person both right next to window that showed a beautiful garden next door. Kagome looked around her surroundings and out the window once more.
"Here are your menus. I'll be back in a little while to take your order. But first, would you like anything to drink?"
Kagome took her stare out of the window and up to the waitress.
"I'll have water." Kagome said
"And I'll have anything orange"
"Ok."
With that said, the waitress hurried away to greet new customers waiting to be seated.
Kagome then took her menu and looked at both sides of book of food. "So what kind of pizza do you like?" Kagome's father asked curiously.
"Uh, any kind really."
"Ok then. How about half cheese half meatball?"
"That's fine." Kagome said not sounding too interested.
Then Kagome closed her menu and put it at the edge of the table.
"So Kagome, did anything important or exciting happen when I was gone?"
'Uh, I feel down a well into feudal Japan, where I have a group of friends who are trying to find the real shikon no tama. Plus, I fight not your usual bad guys every time I go.' Kagome thought, and smiled. "Um… nothing that I can think of on the top of my head. But a lot happened to Souta!"
She looked at the expression he gave when she said Souta's name. He had no interest; he gave the look of boredom.
"Oh, well, do you have a boyfriend or anything?"
He looked into her eyes, and saw uncertainty and pain. "Well, not exactly." Kagome managed to say without getting upset. 'He's still hung over Kikyo.' She thought sadly.
"Uh, never mind you don't have to tell me." She only nodded.
Then there was more silence. About a minute later, Kagome broke the ice.
"Why did you decide to come back?"
"Huh, oh well… I'm not quite su-" He was cute off by Kagome.
"So, you were just in the neighborhood and decided to spot by after 12 years?" She said bitterly.
"Wha-"
He was cut off again by the waitress coming back.
"Can we leave? I lost my appetite."
"Uh, I guess." He turned to the waitress and told her that they weren't going to be ordering anything, and got up and walked out.
The waitress stood there speechless. It must have been the first time it happened to her, because she had the face of disappointment on her face.
Kagome stormed out of the parlor and waited for her father to unlock the car, so she could get in the backseat. She didn't want to sit next to him right now.
He started the car and headed home.
"Listen Kagome, I'm sorry, I really am. It would be a big shocker to me too, if someone left for a long time then came back suddenly. To be honest, you're taking this better than I thought. I didn't think you would even want to be seen in public with me."
Kagome only stared out the car window, not planning on responding to his confession.
"Since, your not hungry now, do you want to go for a walk in the park?"
'I do want to stretch my legs out a little. And I just can ignore everything he says and enjoy the walk pretending he's not there.' She thought to herself.
"Fine."
"Great!" With that said Mr. Higurashi took a U-turn and parked his car on the side of the street. They just happened to be driving past a park, when he brought up the idea.
The two got out of the car, and headed for the main entrance. When they reached there, there was a sign that read, Central Park.
They started to walk the path to the right of them. It was silent to Kagome since she was blocking out everything she heard. On the other hand, Mr. Higurashi had smiles on his face as they went past kids playing, and heard their laughter.
They first walked past a tiny river. It was filled with tiny little fish, and on the surface there were fallen cherry blossom pedals. This gave the whole scenery a peaceful feeling.
"So, Kagome how's school going for you?"
She just happened to hear this one, the one she wanted to avoid.
'Oh man…I haven't been there in a while! If one of my friends come by and see me..! They'll tell my dad I've been sick.' She now had a worried expression on, but that soon changed when he noticed him look at her. "Well. I have my good days, and of course my bad. But you know about that, right?" Kagome said, a little more coolly at the last part.
"Yeah, I would." He said with a sigh.
"Hey dad?"
"Whoa! You're calling me dad!" He was in shock.
"Well, you are my father. Or are you not?"
"Oh no I am! It's just…never mind. Uh, what where you saying before?"
"Huh, oh yah. What do you do for a living? What's your job?"
"Well, I work for the government, so I can't tell you what I exactly do. But I basically do what people tell me too. Nothing bad of course!"
"Oh."
'Oh boy. He can't find out about the well now! What if they seal it! That can't happen. He must never find out about it or about Inuyasha.'
For the rest of the walk and ride home it was mainly quiet. Kagome didn't have anymore to say. Her life was pretty much wrapped around one thing, and he couldn't find out about that.
When they got home it was about 4 and Kagome's legs were exhausted. She started to head for her room.
"Hey Kagome?"
"What?"
"I had fun today."
"Yah." She said and forced a smile.
With that said she headed up stairs and collapsed on her bed. About fie minutes later, when Kagome was daydreaming and thinking about the day, her mother called to her.
"Kagome! I'm going to hey Souta! I'll be home soon!"
OK Thats another chap done...