Well everyone, I'm sorry about this being a day late but I kind of got swamped with Math homework. Not to mention because of bad weather, I came close to killing myself while driving. My car did a 810 degree spin while coming around a turn down a mountain. My luck held up though as nothing bad happened. Not even crashing my car but it did bum me out the rest of the day and put me in no mood to write. But I'm back to my oldself, I'm even a little happy cause I now have a cable modem. I'll mention this again before the story starts and maybe at the end but if anyone ever wants to chat with me online, I only use AIM and can find me under IM name: spiderfan13.
shiroryu of the moon - Well the fluff just seems to come to me as I write. I did happen to read one of your stories, "Arms Wide Open." I must say you did a great job on that.
LadyJynjr - Wow, took you three hours to read my entire story. Well I'm glad you decided to read it and I'm also glad you liked it. And yes, the Yakuza = Japanese mafia
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Mystery man/ new guy - well everyone seems to enjoy making guesses as to who the guy is. Some people just ask me right out who but do you really think I'm going to tell. I said before, about 2-3 chapters down the line will learn more but not enough. I'm thinking this story has about 10 chapters or so left and about halfway we'll find out everything about this guy.
Okay a few final things before I start the chapter. I know I said there would be the possibility of fluff in this chapter but you won't find it. As a matter of fact, its the exact opposite. Also some people have been asking me to read and review their stories. If you ask this, I will goto your profile and read the summary. If I don't find it too interesting, I probably won't read it cause I really don't have much time anymore between this and school. If its a small oneshot I'll usually check it out. If its longer and interesting, it depends on if I'm free, if I'm not I'll usually bookmark and come back to it. If your story has Kagome pair with anyone other than IY, I won't read it. Sorry I'm just like that. I also said I'd re-mention this: if anyone wants to chat with me on AIM just message: spiderfan13. Okay now enjoy the chapter.
Disclaimer: My new cable modem gives me great power but not enough to own Inuyasha. Sorry
Chapter 24: Midoriko's Gift
It was just the previous night when Kagome found out her father was alive once again only to be hunted by yakuza. Inuyasha had easily beaten them and sent them away with a warning. Hopefully they wouldn't be back but Inuyasha doubted that. The fight had woken up Souta and Kagome's grandfather who then found out about Mr. Higurashi. They all decided to call it a night and go to sleep. There was a small argument as Inuyasha demanded to sleep in Kagome's room to protect her while her father thought otherwise. Luckily Kagome's mother intervened and convinced her husband that it was alright and Inuyasha wouldn't try anything.
It was now about noon as Inuyasha sat at the Higurashi table and groaned. With Kagome and her mother's help, they had explained about Kagome's adventures within the past 2 years. Unfortunately though, they had to explain it almost 3 times before he full understood everything.
"So you're actually a hanyou from the Feudal Era?" Mr. Higurashi asked.
"Yes," Inuyasha said. "Please tell me you understand everything now. I don't think I can tell this again."
"I think I got everything," he replied.
"Good, I'm going outside. I need to stretch," Inuyasha said as he walked outside. Kagome's father followed him. When he got outside, Inuyasha was already stretching out and jumping around a bit to get the stiffness out of his muscles.
"Inuyasha, I want to apologize for last night," he told Inuyasha, who just looked at him a little confused. "I should have known you wouldn't try anything with Kagome especially after being so willing to protect me and my family. It seems everyone really likes you particularly Kagome." Inuyasha just blushed a little at this but tried to hide it. "Ever since, I saw that young man die I've been a bit paranoid. The fact that you were part demon was what had me mistrusting you. I'm sorry about that. I should have trusted you and thank you for protecting my family."
"Don't worry about it. I've gotten used to not being accepted because of being a hanyou," Inuyasha told him flat out. "As for your family, I'm not about to let anyone hurt Kagome, whether it's physically or emotionally."
"Well I'm not saying that I didn't accept you, just last night I didn't trust you but I was wrong. I'm glad you're here," Mr. Higurashi told him. "You know from what I heard about you this morning, I wouldn't think that you're usually this open with people."
"I'm not," Inuyasha said slightly angry because he didn't happen to notice what he had been saying.
"That's Kagome's doing," he told the hanyou. "She has a way of getting to people. I see it took 2 years for her to soften you up."
"Feh," came Inuyasha's reply. "I guess, I'll head back inside." Without saying more, Inuyasha walked back in the house. When he walked in he noticed that Kagome was no where around. Following her scent he realized she went back to her room. As he got close to the door he could hear her groaning. He quickly hurried in, "What's wrong?"
Kagome jumped from the seat at her desk as Inuyasha rushed in. She then turned at him angry. "You scared the hell out of me!" she yelled at him. "Why the hell did you come rushing in here like that?"
"Because I heard a groan and I thought something might be wrong. Forgive me for worrying!" Inuyasha yelled back. "What the hell was wrong?"
"Since I spent most of the last 2 years in the feudal era rather than school, I'm quite a bit behind. I barely passed last year so I'm trying to spend this last month before school starts to learn the stuff I don't know or remember," Kagome told him. "I've been trying this problem for the last 10 minutes and I can't get it. That's what has me angry."
Inuyasha didn't know what to say so he just walked over and watched Kagome work at the problem again. When she finished she checked her answer and once again it was wrong. "Argh, is this damn school against me. I just can't do this!" Kagome yelled at no one in particular.
Inuyasha looked at what she had written. "I see what you problem is," Inuyasha told her. "Alternate interior angles are congruent not complementary."
"What?!?" Kagome asked him dumbstruck.
"In other words, these angles are equal. They don't add up to 90 degrees," He told her simply.
"I understood what you said; I just want to know how you know it. I've never known you to know basic algebra, let alone geometry." Kagome told him.
"I didn't know it before," Inuyasha said not totally sure. Just then Inuyasha remembered something.
"You'll know when the time comes." He'd been told that by Midoriko.
"She couldn't have," Inuyasha thought to himself. He then quickly turned his attention to the problem that Kagome had been working on. He picked up the pencil and started to work it out. He wasn't totally how sure but he found himself knowing how to do the problem. In just over a minute, he finished the problem.
Kagome just watched him work out the problem. When she saw him finish, she checked the answer. Sure enough he had gotten the right answer. "How?" was all Kagome could manage.
"I'm not totally sure but I think this was the gift Midoriko gave me," Inuyasha said. He then got up and had an evil grin on his face. "Now not only am I stronger than you but I'm smarter than you as well," Inuyasha teased.
Kagome got angry at his taunting. "Just because you got one problem right doesn't mean much. I bet you can't do it again," Kagome challenged. Inuyasha accepted and Kagome gave him a much harder problem though Inuyasha solved it with ease. Kagome then gave him another but Inuyasha had no problem. Then she tried some of her other subjects from school. He seemed to know them as well. The more and more questions Inuyasha got asked, the more he got right and the more he teased Kagome about it. Finally after asking him a chemistry question and he answered correctly, she had had it with his tease, "Inuyashaaaa…" she seemed to groan out. "SIT!!"
Inuyasha braced himself for the impact but surprisingly it never came. He looked at Kagome a little weird. "Shoot!" she yelled, "I forgot that the disguise overrides the subduing spell."
Though Kagome said the last part under her breath, Inuyasha could still hear it. "I'm free. No more being smashed into the ground," Inuyasha would have jumped for joy if the room had been big enough. Inuyasha then decided to continue his teasing, "You can't sit me anymore. You can't sit me anymore."
Kagome's anger just continued to increase. Without have the subduing spell to shut him up, she decided she need to do it the old fashion way. She stood behind him and pushed him towards the door. When he was practically through the door way Inuyasha said back, "You know I'm stronger so I could have easily stopped you from pushing me."
With one last growl, Kagome just shoved him as hard as she could out into the hallway and slammed the door to her room closed. "STAY OUT!!" she yelled.
Midoriko gave a small giggle as she patrolled the village with Sango. Sango heard her and turned to her, "What's so funny, Midoriko?" Over the past two weeks Midoriko had finally gotten Sango and Miroku to talk to her like a normal person rather than some great legend.
"Nothing much, just that no matter how much knowledge Inuyasha ever has, I don't think he'll ever have any common sense," Midoriko told her.
"I agree," Sango said with a laugh, "but what makes you bring that up."
"Well it seems that Inuyasha has discovered his gift that I gave him. Needless to say, it's swelled his ego and that has made Kagome angry at him."
"I could have seen that coming but how did you know that?" Sango asked her.
"If you remember my soul spent 15 years in Kagome body, so I have a bit of a link with her. I also have a link with Inuyasha since he made the wish on the jewel. Its nothing big like I can't tell you what he's doing right now but I can sense some things." Midoriko told Sango. "I also have a small link with you and Miroku because of the hunting for jewel shards. It's just that you link is a bit weaker. Not to mention, I don't need it since you're both here in the village."
"So what was the gift you gave Inuyasha?" Sango asked.
"Well I knew that eventually Kagome would go back to school in her time and that would leave Inuyasha to sit at her house with nothing to do for about 8 hours. I didn't want him to become bored so I gave him the knowledge I learned from being around Kagome when she went to school. That way he'll be able to go with her," Midoriko said. "I should really teach you some of the stuff I learned from her time, it's rather fascinating."
"I would definitely like that and you never know how useful it could be," Sango said as they continued they're patrol.
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Well now you all know the gift that Midoriko gave IY. I said it wouldn't be big but it would help him. Well I decided to end it there. I know its a little short but I wanted the fight in the next chapter. The make up is also going to be in the next chapter. If you can't tell by the title of the next chapter, I'm making that one into a song chapter. I'm going to make the song Karaoke. I know some said background and I said I couldn't please everyone but I might have another song chapter with the song in the background. As for what song I'll use next chapter, I know what one but I'm not gonna tell. I'll give you guys some hints. No one has guess it so far. It was sung by one man, who had just happened to break up with his band. Even though he was with them for quite a while they replaced him. Anyway it also was part of the soundtrack to a movie. I believe the song and movie came out at about the same time which was mid 80s. I'm sorry I really like 80s music but that doesn't mean I don't listen to newer stuff. Now for my referral:
From Friendship to Love by Inuyasha's Princess17 storyid=1473309
really nice story. It becomes a little angsty towards the end but it isn't over
yet and I'm expecting a happy ending.
Well that's about it for this chapter. Once again feel free to message me,
Spiderfan13, anytime on AIM. Well its almost 4 AM so I'm going to bed. Come back
next time for:
Chapter 25: A Song From the Heart