My Daughter!
The following people I'm about to mention in the story are taken from various anime's I like. That's all.
Chapter 4:
That morning, everyone woke up early, leaving Kagome still cooking for the very hungry campers. It was uncomfortably silent, even for Inu-yasha and Miroku. It seemed that everyone still haven't gotten over what happened last night. All that time Sango along with Miroku and Shippou had stayed silent, afraid to interrupt the scary scene.
It was early at dawn and still very cold. Kagome shivered and so put on her baby blue blanket as she poured hot water into the ramen. Inu-yasha sat at the roots of a tree nearby, watching Kagome as she waited. Something disturbed him about last night that didn't leave his thought even until now: last night, before everything went sour, while Kagome and Haruko sat beside Sesshoumaru…they actually did look like a family. He didn't like it one bit. Kagome's smile, her eyes, even her trademark hard-headedness combined with Sesshoumaru's fine features, royal taste of clothing and heart of ice…it made a pretty strange person.
At first he thought Haruko was plum loco. But since last night, he started seeing her as strange…mysterious…but mostly strange.
Speaking of the devil, Haruko came into view, walking briskly yet calmly, like Sesshoumaru. She seated herself beside the Tayoukai, seeing as there was no where else to sit. Kagome saw her and smiled, "Hey, Haruko-chan! Wanna have some ramen?" she asked cheerily.
Haruko smiled weakly as if she just woke up and proceeded to undo the knots in her hair. Sesshoumaru didn't even turn to her, looking out into the forest and sitting comfortably under the shade of a tree. Kagome soon came and offered the ramen to Haruko then turned to Sesshoumaru. "How about you, Sesshoumaru? Do you want some ramen?"
Sesshoumaru just raised a brow at her then proceeded to looking away. Kagome, feeling insulted, put her hands to her hips angrily. "You can always answer yes or no, you know?" she said angrily.
"Fathe—I mean, Sesshoumaru-sama," Sesshoumaru and Kagome both turned to Haruko, surprised. Suddenly Haruko's warm call of father turned into an icy call of Sesshoumaru-sama. It sounded so wrong. Haruko smiled that depressing smile again; as if her true happiness was reserved, hidden. "Try the ramen, Sesshoumaru-sama. You'll like it a lot."
Sesshoumaru raised an arrogant brow and Kagome asked, "How would you know that?"
"I'm your daughter, of course I know that. And besides," her smile widened, turning into Kagome's trademark smile. "Whenever you guys fight, mama would always cook ramen to make things all better! Then, father would—uh, I mean…" she realized she said father and started crawling back into her shell. Her smile faltered and returned to the first smile, the one that didn't reach her eyes. "Nevermind…" she turned back to her ramen and started eating quietly.
Sesshoumaru stared down at her. Yes, it was his fault that everything went wrong last night. He knew enough to admit to himself that he was wrong. But he'd never admit that to anyone else. He had his pride and his half-brother of a hanyou watching over him. Of course he'd never apologize!
And yet, seeing her so withdrawn seemed as if he had just killed a hundred youkais in front of Rin. It ate him inside and he didn't like that feeling at all. He turned to Kagome, "What are you waiting for?"
"Huh?" Kagome asked.
"Ramen. Now." He ordered calmly and turned back to what he was looking at earlier, noticing how Haruko turned her eyes to him but said or did nothing else. Suddenly, Haruko stiffened and screamed, slapping the person beside her!
Miroku fell onto the floor with a dainty red mark on his cheek. His foot tweaked and his eyes were large swirls. Haruko panted, frightened to have felt his hand at her butt. At first she was angry but when she saw the poor monk, she knew she hit him too hard.
"Ha! That's what you get you hentai!" Inu-yasha remarked with a large grin.
"Really, houshi-sama, when will you ever—" Sango started.
"Gomenasai!" Haruko said, kneeling down beside the hentai monk and looking worried. Sango faltered, seeing Haruko apologize to the pervert. "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to! D-does it hurt? Are you alright? I—"
"Hey! Why are you apologizing to him!" Inu-yasha asked, standing from his tree root and walking over to inspect the clearly hurt monk.
"Oh, no. I guess my hand has gotten away with me again." Miroku sang, sitting up and rubbing his sore cheek.
"I'm so sorry, Miroku-san!" Miroku was more than surprised and pleased at the same time when Haruko took his hands in hers and looked up at him pleadingly. "I-I didn't mean to hurt you! I just—"
"Oh, thank heavens for sending down such a caring angel into my life!" Miroku started wailing, staring up into the sky. He turned his passionate eyes back down upon the beautiful hanyou and said, "Oh dear angel, tell me…" at this point, Haruko had already raised a brow at him. Maybe she hit him too hard. "Will you bear my child?"
Before he knew it, he had a black eye and a large bump on the head, plus a bleeding nose. It was all made possible with the help of Sango, Sesshoumaru and Inu-yasha. "Shut up, you hentai!" the two said. Sesshoumaru said nothing but made sure to keep Haruko near him at all times from then on. Which, Miroku found, kind of cute. For someone who claims not to care, he was surely overprotective of the girl.
While they've been walking, Kagome started to strike conversation with Haruko to know just where Haruko was really from. "Haruko-chan? How was your sleep last night?"
Haruko gave a quick smile then turned back to the sight in front of her saying, "Fine. Thanks."
"So uh," Kagome decided to go more blunt. "Tell me about the future. Tell me about your friends."
"Oh, my friends! I only have a few best friends who keep close to me. Hm…There's Akito, Touya, Seiya, Yuki, Tasuki, Chi, Lei, oh and I would never forget about Aki." Her smile grew wider with the mention of every name as if they were such sweet memories. "Oh, those guys were the best friends a girl could ever ask for." She commented.
"Uhm…Haruko-chan…don't you have any girl friends around?" Kagome asked, curious.
"Girls? Hmmm…" Haruko put to thought. "Well, I guess I should consider Aki as a girl since he likes guys but…other than him? You!" she smiled.
"You mean you don't have any girl friends at all?" Sango asked, she couldn't help over hearing their conversation and couldn't believe a girl as beautiful as Haruko would spend so much time with men.
Haruko gave a small laugh. "Father was always protective of me, seeing as I was his only child. So he gave me three body guards, two servants and—well, Aki, Chi and Lei are all Rin-sama's helpers but I get to meet them more than often."
"Well, that can't keep you from having girl friends, can it? So why don't you have any girl friends?" Sango urged on.
Haruko flushed, looking unsure how to answer. Instead she gave an apologetic smile, "That's very top secret. I'm sorry but…it's kind of personal."
"What do you mean it's kind of personal?" The two women asked, desperate to quench their curiosity. Haruko turned back to the road and walked faster, catching up with Sesshoumaru.
"I'm really sorry, mama, Sango-san." She said before she left. Sango and Kagome heaved a disappointed sigh and continued to walk along the road with pouts on their faces.
When Inu-yasha turned to them, he looked perplexed. "What's wrong with you two? You look like a couple of ugly horses—"
"SIT!" and his face connected to the ground. As they passed him, the vengeful Sango stepped on his head, digging his face deeper to the soil. Inu-yasha gave a yelp of pain but was ignored. He mumbled something incoherent and probably so bad it would make my ratings go from T to M.
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