I just finished writing two chappies for my first story and now I can feel the guilt wash away and the writer's block coming in. better write this before I lose all my writing abilities.
Disclaimer: I own Inuyasha's drunken uncle (although I don't want him!) and I own a copy of 'king of the wind' but the cover is torn off so I don't know who wrote it. I feel kinda bad, but you could always go to your local library and find out why Inuyasha and I both like it so much.
"Here we are. Grab your things and we'll meet your foster parents!" the head S.W. said.
I grabbed my paper bag of books, a toothbrush, and donated clothing. Then I followed her in after I slammed the car door really, really hard. I had to show them I did not want to be here and nothing they said could change my mind.
She had taken me to some old shrine. Did she think I was gonna become a monk? Who would live in this molding antique anyway? But I followed her up the many steps until we finally reached the top and then across the grounds to what was the main building. She knocked on the door and I found myself hiding behind her. I didn't know why I was scared; it's just some more stupid humans. But then I knew. The door opened and the lady who welcomed us in was none other than Kagome's mom!
"Kagome! Souta! Come help your new foster brother with his things," she called. Now do you see why I hate humans? They always have this knack at making a difficult situation even more confusing!
The said children came down some stairs and the younger one, a boy, practically tackled me, grabbed my bag and ran back up the stairs. He was yelling about how I was going to sleep with him. I didn't pay attention. I was trying to ignore the fact I knew Kagome and the look on her face when she saw me.
We had an intense staring contest, and it only ended when Kagome's mom nudged me inside along with the S.W. lady. They two adults talked about some crap and then the social worker left.
"Do you two know each other?" Kagome's mom asked Kagome and me.
"He's that jerk from school!" Kagome shouted at her.
Normally that would bug a person, especially if they had just escaped with their life and was being forced to live in another unfamiliar home. What did bug me was that my left ear itched so badly, and if I did scratch it, the spell would break again. This girl would hate me even more and probably blab to the whole school about it if I let my guard down. I was about to go nuts! I tried twitching it, I tried moving it against my head to try and scratch it that way. I tried everything. But it kept getting worse and worse.
"You can scratch your ear. I can see past that stupid spell," Kagome yelled at me. I wasted no time and relieved myself of the itch. Man that felt better!
"Stupid demon," she muttered.
"I heard that!" I snapped at her.
"Now, now children. Kagome, that wasn't very nice and Inuyasha, you didn't have to be so angry. We have to get along while we live together. Kagome, show Inuyasha to his room and then get ready for bed. It's past 11:00!" Kagome's mother scolded lightly.
And once again, I hate humans. I hate them; I hate them; I HATE THEM!!!!!
Kagome grudgingly led me up the stairs and then Souta took everything from there. In a matter of minutes we were all ready for the bedtime inspection. Souta had filled me in on it. Apparently, it is a tradition in their family, that when you are ready to go to bed, you line up in the upstairs hallway and wait for Kagome's mom to make sure you did a good job. Then you go to bed and wait for you turn to be tucked in. I didn't mind the inspection part, but hell would freeze over before anyone would 'tuck me in.'
We were inspected and sent to our rooms. Souta had already set up a futon for me and he wouldn't shut up about how happy he was to have a brother. Bla, bla, bla! This kid could be used as a weapon. You take him to the front lines and then give him a lollipop or something and the other side would be talked to death!
Kagome's mom finally came in and tucked Souta in. thank god she left me alone. Then she turned off the lights and told us to go to sleep and not talk the night away. Then she blew us both a kiss and left. I hate this place. It reminded me of too much. Things I had spent years trying to forget. I couldn't sleep at all.
I eventually snuck out of the house and gave myself a tour of the shrine. There was a little well house and tons of trees, but one tree was set apart from the rest. It had a tiny gate around it and some paper inscriptions on a string that was tied around the trunk. I decided to sleep there tonight, it wasn't too cold and the slight breeze whistling through the branches was almost like a lullaby. I thought about how things might have been different if there hadn't been that fire as I finally fell asleep.
"INUYASHA! WHERE ARE YOU?" I woke up to the lovely screeching of Kagome's voice. It wasn't really like waking up at all. More like falling out of a tree. Yeah, that was it. I fell out of a tree to Kagome's shouts.
"Wha?" I groggily asked. I'm not a morning person.
"Breakfast is ready," Kagome, said cheerfully, all anger at me gone like dust in the wind.
"Oh, be right there," I said/yawned. I hate mornings.
"Hurry up sleepy head or we'll be late for school!" she said happily.
"That's nice," I didn't even hear her.
"Hmmm. FIRE!" she was the devil incarnate!
"Aaaaaah! Where?" she was pure evil! I'll get her back for that.
"Hurry up!" she said, delighted in the fact she had tricked me. Probably why she wasn't mad anymore.
I just growled for a minute and followed her to the kitchen. I could of just smelled my way there. It was delicious. Bacon, toast, waffles, and milk! I think I had three helpings before I was ripped from my spot at the table and forced to get ready for school. Then there was the morning inspection where Kagome's mom handed us our lunches instead of tucking us in and sent us out the door instead of to bed. As we were walking out the door I noticed that Kagome was staring at me.
"What?"
"You forgot to put on the spell that's all," she said.
I searched my pockets frantically, trying to find it, but the paper was gone! I ran back to the house and almost destroyed my stuff, found it, used it, and ran back. Kagome had a stopwatch and clicked the button just as I got back to where they were standing on the sidewalk.
"Good work! You made it in 30 seconds! You sure are fast!" Souta said after he saw the time.
"Well, we are going to be late if we don't start walking now! I want to meet up with my friends at the curb!" Kagome whined. She then broke into a run while I stood there wondering what had just taken place while Souta pulled at my sleeve. Then I had the perfect idea! I grabbed Souta's arm and ran after Kagome, dragging Souta behind me.
I managed to catch up with her even if she had a head start and I was towing a little kid behind me. Then she talked with Sango and Miroku some more and then we all headed for the middle school while Souta turned the corner and ran off with his friends to the elementary school. What horrors would await me today? It couldn't be worse that yesterday I thought. I have never been more wrong!
Sorry to leave you with yet another cliffie, but once it reaches 7 pages, I stop. Sorry. Review and I might make the chapters longer.