Chapter Three

I pat my mom softly on her back until she calms down a little. After about thirty seconds she told me to go call Inuyasha do for dinner. I walk slowly up our creaky stairs, recalling every moment that had just happened. Mom can be a strange person sometimes, but she is my mom. I am obliged to listen to her, well at least until I graduate.

I finally reach my room and I slightly push open my door to see Inuyasha waiting for me on my pink bed. "What's the matter Kagome? I heard yelling from the kitchen." I put on a false smile and lie through my teeth.

"Oh nothing, we were yelling about something completely stupid."

"Like?"

"Um," I had to think of a good lie quick." Like…brussel sprouts. Yeah that's it. You can never have enough brussel sprouts." (I'm not sure if Japanese people eat brussel sprouts, but it was the only random thing I could think of…) Inuyasha cocks his head in confusion. (Get your mind out of the gutter )

"Well that's stupid, fighting over a vegetable."

"See I told you it was stupid." Sweat is falling down my cheek. I can't believe he fell for that! I lead Inuyasha down stairs and into the kitchen. My mom is sitting in her usual spot waiting for me and Inuyasha.

"So what are we eating?" asks Inuyasha.

"Gyudon." Inuyasha sits on the floor right next to me and I sit across from my mother. Even though I am going to stay she gives me a look that says, you even think about leaving I will kill you.

Inuyasha's voice breaks the silence. "Ah, Kagome?"

"What is it Inuyasha?"

"What's this?" He picks up a fork off the table and shows it to me.

"Oh, that's an American eating utensil."

"Where are the chopsticks?"

"Sota is using them for a school project." My mom says, as she butts into the conversation. "We had American food yesterday and had the left over silverware so we might as well use it instead of our hands." My mom looks up to see Inuyasha never even considered eating with a fork. He had already started eating his food with his hands. I felt embarrassed.

Inuyasha! My mom is already upset with you! Don't get yourself into deeper trouble! Of course he didn't know this; he was not there for the argument. I kick him under the table and mouth, Use the fork. He looks at me shocked, but obeys. I try to hold back giggles as he tries eating his eggs with a knife.

After eating thirty minutes in silence I stare at my mom across the room. Any time now mom. If you want me to stay Inuyasha must stay. She had seemed to get my message. "So Inuyasha ever think about getting a job here?"

He swallows the food in his mouth and replies, "No."

"How come?"

"No need. I'm always in feudal Japan what good would your money do there?"

"I suppose." I give my mom a look that says, try harder! "But what about the time you're over here, Kagome not always with you and what if you get in trouble."

"What kind of trouble?" he asks as he gobbles down his food. It takes my mom awhile to think of something.

"Maybe when you walk around one day you'll see something in the window that you just need to get." She smiles up at Inuyasha.

"Peh, unlikely." He goes back to eating his food. She looks at me like, what else am I suppose to do? So I decide to help her out.

"Well Inuyasha, I'll take the job." Both my mom and Inuyasha look at me with a puzzled look on their faces. "I could always use more money. When I come here my friends always want me to buy them food from Wac Donald's. I should stop asking my mom for money one day."

"But Kagome, this is a dangerous job. That's why I asked Inuyasha."

"How dangerous can it be?"

"You can fall of the roof." My eyebrows twitch. I face a much more difficult foe in Feudal Japan than a roof you know mom. But it seems that it caught Inuyasha's interest.

"What! Kagome's life would be in danger! No, no she is not doing this!"

"Calm down Inuyasha." I say to my lover. "Don't worry, I won't take it." Inuyasha gives a sigh of relief. I giggle. Inuyasha is so protective of me; this is why I love him so much. After we ate dinner Inuyasha and I went to bed in my room.

"Good night Inuyasha. Tomorrow I'll show you the places I like to go."

"Feh, whatever Kagome." I lay my head down on my soft, comfy pillow. Maybe if I can get him to like it here he might not want to go back to Feudal Japan. I roll restlessly in my bed and stare at the ceiling for hours. Oh what's the use? It'll never work. I have to…I yawn…I have to find…a way…to keep him… I fall asleep.

I wake up to some one pushing me. "Come on Kagome, the sun is up. Time to wake up." I wrap the blanket over my head. I do not want to be disturbed. After poking me for a couple of minutes I give up my foe sleep and turn to look at Inuyasha. He is inch away from my face and I push him aside. "Ow, what was that for?"

I take hold of my clock next to my bed. "Inuyasha, it's six o'clock. Over here it's safe to wake up later in the day."

"Well you have to stay in the habit waking up this early or when you go back to Feudal Japan you're going to be cranky." That is…if I'll be able to go back with you. "Come on Kagome, let's go for a walk."

In my opinion it is too early to take my "dog" for a walk, but now that I'm up I won't be able to fall back asleep. I put on a cute little blue skirt with a turtle neck. I walk down the hall and press lightly on my mom's door. I look in to see her still sleeping. Well I won't wake her to tell her I'm leaving for a little while.

I go down my stairs and enter the kitchen to see Inuyasha waiting for me. "Ready to go?" he asks. I nod with a smile. I slide the door behind me as I leave, yawning once in awhile. I look around and notice that no one is awake yet. Figures. It's Saturday, why would anyone be up this early.

Inuyasha and I walk hand in hand slowly as we make our way into the towns of Tokyo. It's so early that even the stores aren't open yet. Inuyasha, never seeing these kinds of stores, had to look at every window to see what is inside. He presses his nose and leaves an imprint on the window. "You know Inuyasha in French they call that faire du léche-vitrine."

"What does that mean?"

"To do some window licking." (This is true…)

"Oh…" We continue on walking along when something catches my eye, a beautiful cubic zirconium ring. I look at it with sparkling eyes.

"I wish I had a ring like that" I mummer to myself. I continue my walk until I notice Inuyasha is not following me. I turn back to see that he's still looking at the window. "What are you doing Inuyasha? Come on." Inuyasha comes out of his dazes and grabs my hand. We continue the walk back home…