Disclaimer: We've gone through this already...I don't own Inuyasha...
Sunshine
By: Princess Lali
Part Two
"Cinderella in a cellar, went to the castle to kiss a fella'" A little girl matched each word to the beat of the rope.
Mid-night hair swung with each jump as she went faster and faster to reach her ultimate goal of 20 this time.
"Yuka-chan swing it faster!" Eri cried.
Ayumi giggled and little Yuka glared in determination.
"Made a mistake and kissed a snake. How many kisses did she take?" Ayumi sang while becoming confused as Yuka swung faster and faster…and faster still.
Little Ayumi couldn't keep up.
"One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine." Yuka gritted out, still determined to swing it faster. Kagome was trying her best to keep up, but she was so afraid of falling.
Yuka was going way too fast!
"10. 11. 12." She kept going, the numbers coming out as one word.
Eri stopped cheering and convinced herself that the rope didn't disappear. It was gong so fast it was becoming hard to see.
Ayumi yelped. "Yuka-chan stop! It's slipping!"
Yuka didn't hear her as her small hands kept spinning it, and spinning.
"27. 28.29.30.31.32.33.34.35.36." Her words were getting higher with volume and becoming more and more incoherent.
Kagome was wide eyed and shieking now, her little legs were going at a speed that she didn't know she possessed.
"Help me!" She screeched.
Before anyone knew what happened, Ayumi let go and the rope went once more under Kagome's sneakers and flying up into the air…
"It's FLYING!" Ayumi gawked.
"Ropes don't fly, baka!" Eri corrected, using a word she had learned on the television.
"Hey! No name calling!" Ayumi pointed a finger at her, although having no idea what 'Baka' meant.
Yuka still had her hand fisted for holding the rope and soon tears her eyes…
Kagome was panting and placed her hands on her knees to regain normal breathing.
Her hair clip had been slid off in the progress of jumping at an in-human rate and she got up to get it again.
It was new after all.
Eri and Ayumi momentarily stopped bickering to catch a glimpse of Kagome running out to find her clip, and Yuka's shoulders shudder in a silent cry.
"WAH!" She finally yelled. Tears spilling everywhere. "I tired so hard!"
Kagome meanwhile looked in bushes and around trees, finding nothing. Then she something shine yellow, and she turned to gasp a happy noise.
There it was!
…In the middle of the street.
She clapped her hands, her 4 year old mind not comprehending that she would have to disobey her mother and walk onto the street.
No cars were in sight, so she didn't suppose it mattered much.
She skipped to the street, and crouched down to pick it up. He small fingers wrapping around the object of her attention. It was a sparkly yellow sun and it was one of her favorites.
Her mother had just bought it for her to match with her yellow patterned sun dress, she was currently clad in.
Her mother also warned her not to take it off or lose it. So of course when Kagome picked it up she tried her best to place it back in her hair.
But the contraptions were so difficult. Her nails hurt when she tried to unclip the metal lever and it slapped the outside of her hand when she did so.
"Ouch!"
A little boy turned his head at the sound and rolled his eyes.
He had heard them from here and now the girl who was doing the insane jumping was closer.
Girls were soooo stupid.
How can anyone find jumping over a rope, fun
He huffed and turned from his view in his tree house.
He spent his whole day up there, watching and waiting for something interesting. He didn't have much friends, and not many wanted to be his friend cause of his orange hair.
It wasn't his fault.
He was born like it. They didn't have to call him carrot head, or nasty names that he hadn't even learned because of it.
His eyes were bordering on orange as well, and his mother always said that made him special…
He didn't have any parents anymore…foster parents took care of him.
And he hated them…so most of his days he stayed there. In the little house his mother had helped him build.
It was his own secret hide out.
Then he was thrown from his thoughts when he heard the unmistakable sound of a truck turning the corner. He froze momentarily. Being thrown into those memories never helped any.
He turned to make sure the girl was gone. She was still there. Both hands trying to ptu something in her hair.
That was when he noticed she was clad yellow, and with the beam of the sun being blocked by her, she almost seemed to replace the giant golden ball.
His eyes widened and brushed some cookie crumbs of his mouth, and placed the other chocolate cookie back on its chipped plate.
The sound of the engine was coming closer.
He found his voice and tried to warn her. "Oi!"
She didn't turn no make any sign that she heard.
He growled.
"OI GIRL!"
The truck was getting closer by the second.
He was 5, but was experienced enough to jump out of the tree house and run over to the street.
But the sound of the truck froze him…no, not again.
Those stupid trucks wouldn't take another person.
So he ran, and with a surprised squeak from her he grabbed her and both rolled over the opposite hill, next to the road.
She was holding something in her fist and seemed to be wincing because of the pain it was causing her hand.
The truck passed right by them and her dress was smeared with the grass they were rolling on.
The boy wasn't much of a gentleman so he didn't care if the girl landed safely or not.
He saved her from the truck, that was all.
They landed and next to each other. The boy sucked in air through his teeth and felt tears corner his eyes at the pain in his knee.
He heard sobs from next to him and bit
He noticed it was scraped. his lip.
No one was gonna see him cry. Never the less a stupid girl.
She wiped her nose with her dirty hand and buried her head in her dress.
He didn't know what to do…he didn't know her name…A name…a name…
He thought about it for a good few seconds. As if a little boy deciding what to name their puppy.
She was all yellow.
And the clip next to her was a sun…
"Yo, Sunshine. Stop the water works." He demanded.
She looked up from her tears, took a good look at him.
She gasped. Orange hair?
And his eyes…
"Who-who are you?" She stuttered though her sobs.
He carefully stood up, minding his scraped knee and huffed.
"The guy who saved your but is who." He rudely responded.
She glared. But then smiled.
"Um…" She thought for that word her mother told her to use when someone gave her a cookie or something she was…
"Thank you."
His eye brow quirked…no one ever thanked him for something.
He shrugged.
She attempted to get up, but she started to cry again as she saw blood on her elbow.
She didn't like blood.
He looked confused at to what to do, and decided to help her someway. Not that he cared of course.
He suddenly kneeled in front of her.
She was taken aback and wondered what this strange boy was referring to when he kneeled like that.
"What ya waiting for!" He asked with some sort of anger. "Get on!"
She reached her hand and placed her small frame on his back, suddenly gasping as he grasped her legs and hoisted her higher upon him. She didn't weigh much, but he didn't either so he sucked in some air to keep from falling over.
After a few seconds it became normal and he walked carefully up the hill.
Kagome suddenly remembered he didn't answer her question.
"New friend, what is your name?" Her voice was emphasized and struggled as if she was just starting to learn full sentences.
He looked shocked. His grip on her almost dropping in surprise.
…Friend…?
He smiled.
"Yuudai"
Her head rose and she brought a finger to her lips in thought.
"Great hero?" She questioned, mostly to herself. He stopped…his mother used to…
"Uh…yea…How'd ya know?"
She giggled, compeltly forgetting about the pain in her arms. " Jii-chan's always goin on bout names and stories."
"Oh…"
After a while Kagome scowled…
"You don't know my name."
He pursed his lips and thought, not liking to be ordered.
"I already know it."
She looked perplexed…she never told him her name.
"What is it then?" She pressed.
He smirked.
"Sunshine."
She sneezed.
"You're sick."
"Am not"
Silence.
He sneezed.
"You're sick."
"Am not."
Silence…
They both sneezed.
"I told you!"
Both voices exclaimed.
"I had something in my nose."
"Well, dust makes me sneeze sometimes!"
"That's the stupidest exuse ever, Sunshine!"
"It's true!"
"Is not!"
Suddenly they sneezed again, and Mama Higurashi walked in with two bowls of chicken noodle soup.
"Now, now you two." She attempted to calm with a smile.
They both seized at the warmth of having a table placed over them and hot soup filling their noses. Although becoming very hard to smell, due to the mucus.
They ate their soup in silence.
When they were done he glanced at her.
"We're both sick." He admitted.
She nodded. "Yea…but 8 or 9 year olds aren't supposed to get sick…"
He gave a quizzical scowl. "Why?"
"Cause we ain't 7."
"Obviously."
"Obviously?"
"Yes, obviously."
"…"
"What?"
"What's obviously mean?"
He sighed.
"Sunshine-"
She growled. "Don't you sunshine me! I saw you mister!"
"It was just a kiss, what's it mean to ya anyway!"
"Nothing!"
"Then why are you mad!"
She stomped her feet in anger. Being 13 can really pull some strings on your mood. And your feelings.
"I'm not mad! I'm angry!"
"Same damn thing!" His eyes flashed. So he had kissed the girl at the dance, what gives!
It wasn't even a real kiss. He didn't kiss her back. She jumped on him…and obviously Kagome got a good view of it.
"No it is not!" She defended. "You don't even know the girl, never the less be ready to kiss her!"
He fisted his hands. "I decide that not you!"
"Who says?"
"I DO! It's my freakin' life!" He yelled. She was acting completely stupid and he knew it.
But he wasn't acting so smart either…
Tears cornered her eyes and hurt momentarily flickered in them.
There were no people around, so she couldn't pull the "You're making a scene" card.
"Well somehow our lives keep getting mixed up! So I think I have a say in who you kiss!"
"What about me! Do I have a say in who you dance with? Or who you go on a date with?"
That was one of the last straws. Had he forgotten the last time she went on a date and he got the same way?
"I don't really have a choice in that manner!" Her voice was growing hoarse from the yelling, and she really didn't have the strength to keep fighting with him.
He was going to keep going on about what the hell she meant, but he saw that familiar hurt in her eyes and the voices died down.
"I'm sorry" He finally muttered.
Her eyes snapped open…did he just-?
Apologize?
"Come again?"
He stepped closer.
His orange eyes met hers, and her world faded away.
"I ain't saying it again."
"Well I didn't hear you!" She argued.
He groaned not this again.
"Yea ya did!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did no-"
And that was when he kissed her.
…Being a teenager was sure gonna be hard.
She sniffed. Tears threathening to fall.
"Do y-you have to?" She questioned once again.
He sighed, feeling just as sad as she was.
"I'm so sorry sunshine…" He pulled her into a hug as she shuddered in tears.
It wasn't right that she had only spent one year as his girlfriend and he was leaving.
It wasn't fair. It wasn't fair.
Why were the fates so cruel?
"My mom can take you in! Yuka's parents? Ayumi's! Please you don't have to go!" She attempted.
He held her tighter, kissing her forehead.
"No, sunshine…It doesn't work like that. The law says I have to go with licensed foster parents…" He tried pushing the tears away.
He was getting new foster parents, the past ones having had him long enough, and it was sure already that he wasn't getting adopted.
Being 15 and all…
"Yuudia I don't want you to leave me…" She cried, and buried her face in his chest, he placed his chin on the crown of her head. His orange bangs, now highlighted with some black tips, covered his eyes.
"I don't want to leave you either…" He sadly stated, his words leaving an unspoken sadness hanging in the thick air.
She was so sad. And he was always their to dry her tears…
When her dad died.
When she lost her favorite clip.
When Buyo had run away.
When she had seen him kiss that girl.
Other small things…but this was something else.
Something quite big and through the heart.
Yuudai was really leaving. America they said.
"Then take me with you!" She lifted her head, showing her puffy eyes and wiping her nose with her finger. "Please! I won't make such a fuss! I promise! And I can make you Ramen! It's your favorite!" She rambled.
A sad smile graced his features. Her hopeless words left a sad hole right in his heart.
She really…would she miss him this much?
But he shook the thoughts away. She needed to get over him. Move on. He couldn't stand seeing her like this. Or having the knowledge that she was like this.
"Kagome…"
Her real name fled from his lips in a last request and she stopped.
He rarely ever used her real name when referring to her.
Probably a maximum of three times in her 14 years of life.
This being the fourth.
"I'm…gonna miss you…" She gasped in between the sobs to regain her breathing. "so…much…"
He pressed his lips to her forehead again, and muttered an "Me too"
She never wanted to let go. It wasn't fair.
It wasn't fair.
The old tree house was their secret sanctuary at that moment, and he felt nothing could touch them. But reality was soon to come when he realized this may be the last tim he would ever hold her like this.
Hold his Sunshine in his arms.
His Sunshine.
She did everything she could to control her heart rate to normal again. She sweared she could faint at that moment.
His voice.
It was him.
"Yuudai…" She whispered.
Quickly, although too slow for her liking, she turned to face a pair of orange eyes.
He wasn't sure what it was. Maybe the way she held that look in her eyes. Or perhaps that she wasn't exactly jumping into his arms.
Never the less, she didn't have that same over powering feeling towards him that she held before. His curiosty and nature wanted to kill the guy who had taken her heart. But…it was his own fault.
"Hey…" He let his greeting still the air for a second. He hadn't said her name in such a long time.
He hadn't even uttered the word sunshine since the last time he had referred to her.
But seeing her again…running all this way through the rain, and then just coming face to face with her…
"You ain't even gonna give me a proper greeting Sunshine?" He playfully chided.
She gave a light glare.
"Still rude I see." She teased.
He quirked an eyebrow and lightly chuckled.
"Likewise Sunshine."
She almost melted. Kagome here, Kagome there.
Sunshine him.
And she loved it.
End of Part 2. Part # will come tomorrow at the minumum. I hope. Lol. Ok. So this was mostly a bit of enlightment on who exactly this mystery boy is.
IMPORTANT:
I tried mixing Inuyash'a personality with this guy's. Don't get mad at me! I have my reasons! lol. So...lets think on this part of the oneshot...Who's Yuudai?
Obviously he's a child hood love of Kagome's and he's come back…for how long? No one knows.
Okay so next part is about how they have a short talk. And Kagome is left to decide on who she goes with. Yea…she's still in love with Yuudai…but Inuyasha…she's…in love with him too…damnit Kagome! Lol.
Ok…so…review if you can. I'd greatly Appreciate it!
I didn't have time to edit this part either. But I still another day. Hope you're enjoying it so far. Next part is where it's al climaxed and ends.
Lol.
So…till next part.
Love your one-n-only,
Princess Lali
Of
Spain and England.
P.S. Don't forget to leave a review and really sorry if you found this story a total waste of your time…I was just bored and I had to write the idea down before I forgot it.
