Chapter 14

Yay Christmas...in the story...unless your reading this on Christmas which I doubt you will...actually it's Christmas Eve if you wanted to get technical...which I would...but yeah...Christmas in the story...now im just rambling...someone slap me now...OW THAT HURT!

Chapter 14 FOR REAL

It was a beautiful Christmas Eve Morning (in the story). All living things seemed to glow with angelic light for what better day was there then Christmas. I mean, who couldnt like a holiday where you got presents? I mean...it's about the thought and family...definatly not presents...definatly not.

Kagome was frantic. The pressure was really getting to her. Who wouldnt be stressed, what with hosting Christmas and then introducing her boyfriend to her family.( I cant even imagine introducing my boyfriend to my parents...but theres reasons for that)

She was pacing back and fourth the house, mentally checking off her invisible to do list. She finally relieved a sigh when she was finished. She flopped down onto the couch and relaxed.

All morning Inu-Yasha had helplessly watched from the sidelines. He hadnt had a real Christmas since before his mom died. After she died his dad had taken them out for supper at this pizza place and then they built a snow fort in thier front yard and spent the night in it. Then after he died it was like Christmas no longer existed. Sesshomaru wanted nothing to do with him until a few years ago when they finally admitted they were being stupid about it all.

Now he was in his element, calming down Kagome. Without her hearing, he crept around to the back of the couch and gently began to massage her shoulders. She jumped at first but then relaxed and began to get lost in his touch. She really needed this, she had been walking around stiff as a board all day. The tension just flew out of her. But she wasnt the only one enjoying the experience. The smell Kagome was giving on was nothing short of arousing. He found himself breathing in deeper to inhale as much of this intoxicating smell as possible. "mmmm Inu-Yasha..." she moaned. he was on his brink. That lustful voice of hers sent him sky rocketing so thats when he decided to stop. He lowered his head and whispered into her ear that he was going to go have a shower. And she almost had half the mind to follow him..but knew she couldnt. he couldnt even handle a little bit of making out, what would happen if she followed him into the shower? So she decided to watch some of the horrible Christmas shows that she had seen every year since she was 5 while she waited for her turn.

Inu-Yasha was nervous as ever. He wasnt even that nervous during battle of the bands. he was also very VERY excited, but for only one reason. He couldnt wait to meet Kagome's father. When his father died it had left an empty whole inside of him, he was hoping that having a father figure could help him. But Oh...did he not expect what was to come...but that will come later.

With 30 minutes to spare they finally were ready and dressed. Inu-Yasha was wearing a nice red button up shirt with black jeans that were not exactly dress pants but he made it work. Kagome wore a green V neck shirt and a black skirt. So with everything all ready and in place the only thing left to do was sit and wait. Now, if anybody has ever been nervous and they had to sit and wait you should know that those 30 minutes would seem like an eternity. A seemingly endless amount of time in some kind of vortex to suck you in for EVER! MwAHAHAHAHAHAHHA...ahem. yes well.

"Is it time yet?" he asked. No was her reply, "how bout now?" once again she said no, "Not even now?"

"Inu-Yasha, I'll tell you wen its time!" she said, loosing her patience.

A silence followed her sudden outburst and Inu-Yasha we tempted to say 'Is it time yet?' once more but decided against it. He didn't need her all angry at him for Christmas.

So 30 very long minutes later the new couple showed up, Miroku the father to be and the impregnated Sango. Sango was wearing her hair in its normal pony tail with a tight green shirt and baggy black pants while Miroku wore his traditional purple shirt and black pants along with it. Not 5 minutes later, Rin showed up in a bright pink shirt, along with Sess in a white shirt and black pants (once again, Rin is the odd one out!).

"Didn't you bring Jaken?" Kagome asked as he entered, "It is Christmas you know."

"And your family doesn't know about our kind do they?" he replied.

She made a puzzled face before replying, "Good point."

Before they knew what was happening a huge pink bubbly with huge eyes and small little legs bounced in through the window. Kagome screamed while the rest found it quite funny. She cowered behind Inu-Yasha who was doubled over from laughing "I haven't seen that in ages!" he manages to gasp out.

Then suddenly there was a loud poof noise and a bunch of white smoke appeared in the air around where the pink thing was. Before she knew what had happened, a perky Shippo in blue pants and a green shirt appeared out of no where.

"Sh-Shippo?" she stammered.

"Merry Christmas!" he exclaimed in his usual happy voice.

Kagome looked around questionably, hoping for answers. Inu-Yasha, after finally stopping laughing, realized her confusion and said, "Shippo is a fox demon, he changes into things with fox magic."

She made an "OOHH!" face that she understood and laughed. "You really scared me Shippo!" she lightly punched him in the arm while wondering why she didn't know this about Shippo.

She had a strange bond with Shippo. He was like a brother to her, a brother with no similar features though. He was almost preserved in a child like state that she never could quite understand although he was only 16.He was a playful guy and was always happy which was almost odd from all the things he had gone through in his life. His mother had died while giving birth to him which never really left him scarred because he never knew her, just the fact that he never had a mother made him sad. But it's what happened to his father that was the worst by far. He was 12 at the time and his father worked for a computer company. The babysitter couldnt watch him so Shippo got to go to work with Dad.

"Daddy, can I have a candy?" he innocently asked while eyeing up the bowl on his fathers office desk.

"Sure, help yourself kiddo," he replied.

Shippo's father was a naturally kind man. He cared and loved Shippo very much. he was all that mattered to him. Shippo thought of him as his best friend and his dad thought the same. It's a rare thing to find, a father son relationship that strong, but Shippo was a shy child and spent his time at home.

It was late, 12 at the earliest. Shippo was being carried in his dad's arms, he was extremely tired, never staying up this late ever. His father never bothered to buy a car because he prefered to walk.

They were in a not so nice area of town when they heard a noise come from the ally way. The noise startled Shippo and he woke up. "Dad, what was that?"

"Shh..." he replied. He continued to walk very quietly but with speed. He knew that bad gangs hung around this area of town and it was dangerous at night. He regretted taking his precious Shippo down this road immediatly. But there was no time for regret, all he had to do was walk for a couple more minutes and he would be safe. He didnt have a couple minutes.

All of the sudden they saw a streak of lightening in the sky and 2 guys seemed to appear from no where. He recognized them from the paper, it was a famous gang, the thunder Brothers. They showed no mercy to any who cross their path.

"Hey old man, this is our street. Do you know the penalties?" asked one of them.

"Now boys..." he replied, "I'm sorry, im just trying to get home, could you let me pass?"

"No can do," replied the other, more ugly one, "What shall we do brother?"

"What we do to everyone else who truspasses."

Before either of them knew what was happening, the thunder brothers were attacking. The less attractive one grabbed Shippo and held him tightly while his brother brutally beat Shippo's father.

"Daddy!" Shippo cried out. He was held in place and could not help his father, nor could he get away.

The one thunder brother held a gun to his head, "I love you Shippo, take care of yourself." he managed to say before he was shot in the temple. Shippo screamed out for his father and then feared for his life.

"What shall we do with the boy?" asked the ugly one.

"We'll kill him." he started to advance on him, ready to strike. Before he had a chance a blur of silver flew by, punched him in the face, kicked the one holding Shippo in his large stomach, grabbed Shippo and was gone.

"What happened Manten?"

A crying Shippo was brought to a safe are when his savior asked, "Are you ok?"

Shippo nodded while the tears still came. "Wheres my father?"

The boy didnt know what to tell him so he said nothing, "C'mon, I'll take you to the police station. Whats your name?"

"Sh-Shippo." he managed to choke out.

"Alright Shippo, my name is Inu-Yasha."

And thats how Inu-Yasha met Shippo. The memory of his father's death still runs in his mind. he can remember his father's cries as they savagly beat him for no reason and he can remember the sound as the bullet was shot into his head. It had taken over a year of therapy to cure him and then half a year before he was ever happy again. Now he is as you see him, a happy, carefree 16 year old with lots of friends. The Thunder Brothers were captured and arrested, then sentenced for life. It's to bad they were both killed in a jail fight between a demon who was nicknamed mistress centipede who was then accidentally beaten to death by prison guards. No one is very sure how the Thunder Brothers were killed by Mistress Centipede who isnt, shall i say wasnt that strong.

Shippo was adopted into a nice family in a nice area of town. They treated him well and got him into the best of everything. Since that day that he had met Inu-Yasha, he had been friends with him and the rest of the gang. The whole group was very protective of Shippo and always watched his back. Everyone was afriad to mess with Shippo just because they knew they would have to deal with the rest of them.

Shippo gave everyone his usual greeting hug and said "Sooo..." then turned to Kagome.

She laughed and replied, "Theres candy on the table in the kitchen Shippo."

He smiled brightly and ran off while saying "Thanks Kagome!"

Now that Shippo was here there was only one more group of people coming, the parents. With the happy moment gone the stress was back. Inu-Yasha slightly tensed, took in a deep breath, told himself it would be fine, then exhaled. he fiddled with his rosary around his neck as he paced the room back and fourth. Kagome was chatting with Sango and Miroku about their future child. They both seemed excited, it had only happened recently and they were already discussing names.

"I still cant see why we cant name it Sake." Miroku told them.

"You seriously cant see why I dont want to name our child after alcohol?" Sango shot back.

"No I cant." he told her before turning his head in protest. Sango didnt care, their kid was not gonna be called Sake no matter what he said. She had 9 months to convince him it was a bad name, that or she'd beat him until he said it wasnt a good name.

'I will make her see that Sake is a beautiful name!' he thought to himself and then started plotting how to come about this all. But then it came to a stop when the doorbell suddenly rang.

Nobody moved at first, expecially not Inu-Yasha. Kagome smiled and got up and headed to the door. To Inu-Yasha it took a lifetime for her to reach that door and he almost had half the mind to stop her.

She grabbed the doorknob and opened it...

ok, ok, ok! I know what your all thinking, "What the hell took so long!" ok, my comp had so many problems. I kept having to reformat my comp and i kept forgetting i had my story on it before i did it so i kept accidentally deleting it, then i had to start over and then i reformatted again and had no way to save it so i restarted again. Then i went on a 4 day trip to Calgary/Banff with the band and choir. Then I had a test. Then a big social project but I'm finally done! ok, review. Thanks.

Sayonara Jenn