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Chapter 19:
Previously…
"Aunty Emiko!" Miroku exclaimed as he wriggled his way around to hug Inuyasha's mom.
"Miroku!! My pumpkin! You've grown so much!" Emiko squeezed Miroku.
"Aww… all thanks to you Aunty!" Miroku grinned.
"Oh, cut it out Miroku! You're hogging my mom!" Inuyasha complained.
"Oh, Inuyasha I brought someone to see you." Emiko ushered the woman to come. "Inuyasha remember Rin? You two were going to get married!"
A short petite woman stepped out from behind Emiko. She had long brown hair that curved slightly against her face, bringing out her milk chocolate brown eyes that shimmered with a hint of green in a different direction. Her skin was fair and her smile was charming, at least to Kagome.
Inuyasha gawked at his mother, then at Rin, then finally at Miroku who gave him an "Oh my God" look.
"Inuyasha, go on… tell Rin how much you've missed her." Emiko calmly insisted, smiling at Inuyasha. Inuyasha cringed slightly at his mother's warm yet murderous grin.
"Mom…" Inuyasha started but Miroku cut him off.
"Aunty Emiko…" Miroku put his arm around his bestfirend's mom. "Doesn't my wife Sango look beautiful tonight?" Miroku asked holding out his arm towards Sango who was blushing from embarrassment and anger.
"Oh my, Sango!" She cried. "You and Miroku…" She giggled madly, reaching to Sango, crushing her in her grasps. "I'm so glad for you!" She squealed. Sango replied in an utter, choking from the perfume and the crush lock Emiko had on her. Emiko finally let her go, Sango gasped for air.
"Thank cough you." She choked out, grabbing her neck as she coughed.
Emiko suddenly turned dark, "Now, when was this wedding? How come Rin and I weren't invited?" She demanded, making everybody cringe. Rin flushed at the term, 'Rin and I'.
"Um…" Sango and Miroku stalled, looking around thinking for a fast answer. Obviously it wasn't fast enough.
"Oh, well it was very busy week and we…" Sango trailed off, nervous at Emiko's blank stare.
"Well…" Emiko looked uncertain but soon smiled brightly, "It's ok dear, I understand." Sango and Miroku let out a heavy breath.
"Well, I think we should leave Inuyasha and Rin alone, they have much to catch up on." Emiko grinned, pulling Miroku and Sango away by the arms. She stopped right in front of Kagome. "Now, I've never met you before! You must be Sango's or Miroku's friend!" Emiko said cheerfully, sticking out her hand at Kagome. Kagome, startled, flushed a slight red.
Kagome didn't know what to say. "Um…" Should she tell her, 'I'm Inuyasha's wife, sorry about Rin'?
"Aunty… this is Kagome." Sango introduced her to Inuyasha's mom.
"Kagome, what a nice name!" Emiko complemented. "What relations do you have with these people?"
Miroku stepped in. "Aunty! Would you like a drink?!?"
Sango butted in also, "Yes, coke, sprite, water, or wine?" She asked nervously.
"Water, thank you." She replied and Miroku dashed to the refreshment table. "You kids, interrupting all the time! Now Kagome dear, please answer my question." Emiko insisted.
"I'm married!" Kagome blurted out.
Emiko's face lightened up. "Oh really? Who?"
"Me." Inuyasha stepped forward, his mother's face fell.
"You?!?" Both Emiko and Rin exclaimed eyes and ears astonished.
Inuyasha awkwardly put his arm around Kagome. "Yes, I am married to Kagome."
Sango shrunk back into the crowd, hoping Emiko wouldn't notice she was gone. She did. "Sango! How come this has happened?! I put my son's in your supervision and you let him run off and marry some… bozo from the streets!!!" Emiko shrieked.
Sango smiled weakly, gulping, "Now, aunty! Kagome isn't a bozo."
"I am most certainly am not!!" Kagome cried.
Emiko flashed a glare at Kagome. "I can't believe this. You stole my son from his fiancée! They were very much in love!"
"That is not true!" Inuyasha protested.
Emiko glared at Inuyasha, "You mean to tell me, that six years ago you told me that you loved Rin was a lie?!?" Emiko bubbled with anger, while Rin stood behind her shocked at all the announcements.
"First of all, mother, I was seventeen six years ago. I probably didn't even know what love was. Hell, I don't know what love is to me now. Second of all, I never said I loved Rin." Inuyasha explained but his mother wasn't listening.
"Rin, I am so sorry. I know you love Inuyasha so much and I am going to find a way to make him marry you!" Emiko said to Rin.
"Mom Emiko, its ok…" Rin started to say but Emiko just shushed her.
Emiko turned to Inuyasha and Kagome, "Inuyasha, as your mother, I demand that you divorce her right now!"
Kagome and Inuyasha dropped their jaws at the ridiculous demand. "I'm afraid that is impossible." Kagome snapped, she was angry at Inuyasha's mother for putting her down.
Emiko sneered. "Anything is possible." She looked at Kagome who was fuming now.
"No, not when Inuyasha and Kagome are in love." Miroku blurted out of no where. Inuyasha, Kagome, Rin, Emiko, and Sango glared at him causing him to shrink back.
"Tell her Inuyasha, you love Kagome don't you?" Sango said bravely. Inuyasha gaped. "Inuyasha... tell them." Sango gritted between her teeth as she jerked her head towards Emiko and Rin.
"Uh…"
Kagome jabbed him in the sides as hard as she could without anybody noticing. "I love Inuyasha very much." Kagome forced herself to say, glaring at Inuyasha to say so to.
"Yeah, I love Kagome a lot." Inuyasha finally said.
Emiko sniffed, "Then why do you two look like you want to kill each other?"
Inuyasha and Kagome jumped up and hugged each other, planting a fake grin on each other's face. "No we don't! We love each other so much." Kagome planted a kiss on Inuyasha's cheek.
Emiko still wasn't convinced. "Sure…" She said as if she was bored of the situation already. "Well, I really don't care if you 'love' each other." She made quotation marks with her fingers as she emphasized 'love'. "Inuyasha you still are responsible for Rin because you made the poor girl fall in love with you. Now you must repay her and marry her."
"Mom Emiko…" Rin tugged on Emiko's arm.
Emiko ignored Rin's pleas. "Rin not now."
"But-.."
"Later!" Emiko hissed.
"No! Now!" Rin protested. "Mom Emiko! It is fine. Inuyasha doesn't love me! We should just leave these two be."
"No Rin, I promised your mother I would find you a good husband when she died. You are going to marry Inuyasha!" Emiko said firmly.
Before anybody could say anything further, the banquet started and everybody was seated. Unfortunately, Emiko and Rin were seated next to Inuyasha and Kagome.
"Inuyasha, why is your mom so persistent?" Kagome whispered to Inuyasha. Emiko glared at them, never lifting her eyes away from them for a second.
"I don't know, she is so attached to Rin, I think she loves Rin more than she loves me." Inuyasha murmered, sipping his soup.
"Kagome," Emiko called out. Kagome dropped her spoon in surprise. She quickly picked it back up clumsily. "Do you ever cut the crust off Inuyasha's bread because he hates crust?" She smiled sweetly at Kagome who shuddered.
"No, I did not know that." Kagome mumbled.
Emiko giggled highly, "Rin knew that. You do set his bath water at the luke warm don't you?"
"No…" Kagome mumbled again, becoming agitated at all these questions.
"Oh." Emiko sneered. "I hope you at least fetch him the newspaper in the morning and set his clothes the night before!"
Kagome gritted her teeth. "What am I suppose to be? Inuyasha's wife or slave?"
"Now, Kagome, the most perfect wife would know that answer." Emiko giggled sinisterly. "You have to be both."
Kagome gawked at Emiko's answer. What kind of person was she? She was controlling and she expect so much from her daughter in law. This was unheard of to Kagome.
"Excuse me, but I thought this was the 21st century." Kagome said, pretending to be astonished.
"My sons only deserve the best and personally, I think he did a bad job in choosing his future mate!" Emiko exclaimed.
Kagome looked horrified. How dare anybody say that to her, the Princess of Japan. Of course Kagome was the most suitable, maybe to good for Inuyasha. It couldn't get any better than this. "How?"
"First of all, his wife doesn't know squat about him. Second of all, she loves to talk back. Third, she doesn't respect the position of a wife."
How did things get this far? Kagome glared at Inuyasha's rude and arrogant mother. Kagome was Inuyasha's wife but then again she wasn't. She could just tell Inuyasha's mother the truth for Kami's sakes. Kagome looked at Inuyasha, anger flickering in her eyes. Inuyasha automatically knew what Kagome was thinking. He shook his head sternly. She could not tell his mother about this, this is top secret. Sacrifices have to be made for the future of Japan.
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Like it? Finally, I write huh.. ok.. so.. REVIEW!!! REVIEW!!! Me no like Inuyasha's mom. So controlling and won't accept Kagome and Inuyasha… little does she know that Rin doesn't even like Inuyasha…
