"OSUWARI! OSUWARI! OSUWARI! O! SU! WA! RI!" Kagome pedaled away, leaving Inuyasha in a large crater.
"What do you think he's done now?" Kagome heard Shippou say behind her.
"One word. Five letters." Miroku said dryly. "I'll give you one guess.
"Ki-" Sango started.
"Not until she's gone!" Miroku hissed.
Kagome scowled at her friends, and was briefly cheered by the sound of a loud slap. 'Go Sango!' Kagome thought, 'But it's still not as effective as the necklace.'
Of course, now that she had reduced Inuyasha to a suffering pile of hanyou, she felt bad about it. She shouldn't have gotten so angry with him. He couldn't help the fact that he was worried about Kikyo. He was in love with her.
"Osuwari." Kagome said again, just for good measure, pulling her legs over the rim of the well. A satisfying thud answered her and she leapt in.
Safely back on the other side of time, she brushed herself off and climbed up the ladder. She was going to stay in her own time for a few days. There were things she needed to do, other than save the world from an evil quasi-demon. She needed to finish high school. Somehow, whenever she was mad at Inuyasha, high school always seemed so much more important than it usually did.
"Mom! I'm home!" She called out, taking her shoes off in the entrance way to the house. Her mother walked out of the kitchen, apron on, with a spatula in one hand. She looked at her daughter, surprised.
"So soon? You just loaded up on supplied a few days ago."
"Aren't you supposed to be happy to see your daughter?" Kagome said, feeling her anger flare up again. Her mother seemed to realise her mistake and had started to inch back into the kitchen.
"Of course I'm happy to see you." Her mother replied nervously. "You didn't have any trouble on the other side of the well did you? With Inuyasha?"
"Of course not mother, why would I possibly have trouble with that arrogant selfish jerk. I'm going to go do my homework now." Kagome said calmly, and raced upstairs. Sighing, she sat down and opened her math textbook. She wondered if an osuwari would carry across time too.
It was just that...every time she thought about Inuyasha and Kikyo she felt a whole plethora of emotions, none of which she liked. Usually, she was able to keep any problems with the two at the back of her mind, but when Inuyasha went after Kikyo, or vice versa, all the emotions came screaming up at her, making her feel small and insecure. Taking her frustrations out on Inuyasha only helped for a little while, and afterwards she always felt a little guilty about it. Inuyasha couldn't help that his old girlfriend had come back from the dead and was hell bent on killing him. Inuyasha couldn't help his emotions.
But Kagome couldn't help hers either. She...really wanted to be able to stay by Inuyasha. She wanted to be with him, without the confusing problems that Kikyo presented. For now, quietly (or not so quietly) tolerating it, she could do, but she worried about the future. And while picturing a future with Inuyasha gave her butterflies, she wanted the picture she saw to be a happy one. Without Inuyasha also picturing a similar future there was no way it could be. Inuyasha was too busy with his worries over Kikyo to even think about the future.
"We might not have a future," She said aloud. Naraku might just get the better of them one day. A solution to her problems, but a very bad one. Slamming her math book shut she went over to the window and leaned out of it.
"Where is Inuyasha!?" She demanded to know from the sky. It twinkled down at her cheerfully. Kagome wondered if that last sit had done the poor hanyou in. Usually by now he was sitting in her window, complaining about her being gone and ruining her attempts to pass high school math. Maybe he had finally gotten fed up with her temper.
"KA-GO-MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Souta yelled from the hall. "Dinner's done!"
"I'll be there in a second!" Kagome said. She hoped they were having oden. Wonderful wonderful delicious oden. She could smell it now....
"Oden, oden, oden!" She said, skipping down the stairs and sitting in front of the table. "Yummy delicious heavenly oden!" She picked up her chopsticks. "Itadakimasu!"
".....You said she was in a bad mood. You didn't tell me she had gone crazy." Kagome looked up, the joyous oden forgotten.
"I-Inuyasha?" She said.
"Feh. What, did you expect me to leave you here?" Inuyasha wasn't looking at her, though he was sitting directly across from her. "Your mother invited me to dinner. "
"Inuyasha appreciates my cooking." Her mother said, pointing to the fallen chopsticks and untouched bowl Kagome had left on the table upon seeing Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha." Kagome said.
"What, wench?"
"Osuwari." She picked up her chopsticks and started to eat her oden. Now if only there was a way to figure out how to do that to her mom as well
"What was that for!?" Inuyasha picked himself up off the ground, slamming fists on the table. "I come all the way here for you and you sit me!?"
"Yes." Kagome took another bite of her oden. It was delicious. So very delicious. Delicious enough to allow her to ignore Inuyasha.
"Honestly, I don't even know what you were so mad about in the first place!!!"
Kagome lifted her eyes from her bowl of oden, took another bite, and glared at Inuyasha. He gulped and scooted back a little. Kagome returned to her game of "Eat Oden and Ignore Inuyasha."
"Do you know?" Inuyasha whispered loudly to her mother.
"I have no clue. It was obviously something you did." Her mother replied, spooning more oden into Kagome's outstretched bowl.
"Wench, you'll get fat if you eat that much."
".................now you've done it." Souta whispered, backing away from the table. "I.....I think I'll go call the police.....so they can clean up the mess your corpse makes....." Inuyasha turned the same colour as his hair.
"I'll go clean up the kitchen." Her mother said, dashing off. Inuyasha looked for an escape route, then decided to stand his ground. He leaned over and pointed one claw at her nose.
"You should apologize for sitting me for no reason." He said, folding his arms and looking self-righteous. Kagome slammed down her bowl of oden.
"I'm SO sorry Inuyasha, that I never get to have a good home cooked meal running around in the feudal era, and so I am enjoying this while it lasts. I'm SO SO sorry Inuyasha that I get a little miffed when you go chasing after Kikyo! I'M SO VERY VERY SORRY THAT YOU'RE AN INSENSITIVE JERK!"
".....oh...." Inuyasha squeaked. Kagome gave him a searing glare and stormed out.
A few minutes later her window opened and she hear Inuyasha sit down with a huff.
"I'm not sorry."
Kagome looked up at the hanyou sitting in her bedroom window. She opened her mouth.
"Osu-" Inuyasha clapped his hand over her mouth.
"Can you at least let me finish before sitting me again?" He asked. She nodded. That had been a little hasty on her part. "Anyways, I'm not sorry. I...didn't protect Kikyo while she was alive. The least I can do for her now is make sure she doesn't die horribly twice." He leaned back against the windowsill. "You don't have to come back to the feudal era if you don't want to."
He didn't want her back. Kagome blinked. Inuyasha....didn't care if she came back or not?
"I mean...if it's that much of a pain for you..."
"You don't care if I don't come back?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha looked surprised.
"Feh. Of course I want you to come back. But if you miss your oden too much ya don't have to. " Inuyasha said. "Even if it's your fault this whole thing got started, it doesn't mean I'm going to sit around and let you be unhappy."
".....oh...." It was Kagome's turn to squeak. "I....I'm coming back."
"Good." Inuyasha stood up in her room. "Let's go."
"Eh? right now? I have to finish my math homework." Kagome waved it in his face. He plucked the offending piece of paper out of her hand and looked at it.
"Gibberish." He announced, and shredded it. "Now can we go?" Kagome watched the tattered remains of her homework drift to the floor. Inuyasha's moment of sweetness had officially ended. Which meant hers had too.
"Inuyasha?"
"Hm?"
"Osuwari."
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AN- Thank you for reading, and guess what? There's more! This is not a oneshot. Well, kind of. I wrote a series of stories on Kagome, Kikyo, Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, Rin, Sango, Shippou, Izayoi, and Inutaisho. Instead of releasing each one as a short little blurb, I'm stringing 'em all together in one fic.