Full Summary
The only plans Kagura had during her last year of high school was to study to get into the University of her choice. One thing she never expected was her best friend to try to set her up with her crush nor expected her crush to actually like her back. Before she knows it, her crush turns into love as she deals with up and down and surprises in her life as she goes through her last year of high school and enters University.
Unexpected Winds
Chapter One
School was over for the day and club activities were letting out. Kagura was getting her stuff out of her locker. It was the beginning of May, a month since the first semester of her final year of high school began. The writing club that she was in ended a few minutes ago and she was getting ready to head home. Kagura closed the door to her locker to see her best friend next to her which surprised her. "Jakotsu, don't scare me like that. What are you doing here? I thought you decided not do club this year." Until recently Jakotsu used to be in the writing club with her, but decided to quit recently.
"Yeah, well I wanted to focus on more important things than club activities. Like my band and fashion designs." Jakotsu said as he and Kagura began walking to the door. "Anyway, what are you doing right now?" Jakotsu asked.
"Besides heading home and doing homework." Kagura said. "Why do you ask?"
"I want you to come with me to that new coffee shop to check it out." Jakotsu said.
"You know I don't like coffee." Kagura said. She'd tried it once and didn't care for it. "Why?"
"Please," Jakotsu was now giving her the look with sad puppy dog eyes. "I know they have hot chocolate and I know you love hot chocolate. So, come with me for a few minutes at least." Jakotsu was looking at his watch.
Kagura was beginning to think that he was up to something. "What are you up to?"
"What do you mean?" Jakotsu tried to act innocently. "Let's go." Jakotsu nudge Kagura to follow him.
Kagura sighed. Whatever he was planning, she would find out soon enough. "Is there a way I can get what you're planning out of you?"
"I don't know what you're talking about." Jakotsu was avoiding eye contact with her.
Kagura rolled her eyes, but the walk to the new coffee shop was short as the new coffee shop was only a couple blocks away from the high school. "Hey when is your band going to play a gig?" Kagura asked as they entered the coffee shop.
"Once we get a gig, you'll be the first one I'll tell, trust me." Jakotsu said and then ordered a coffee while Kagura order a hot chocolate. He paid for the drinks.
"That's all I ask." Kagura grabbed her hot chocolate and took a drink.
"Jakotsu?" A voice said from the corner table of the coffee shop. "Come here and sit."
"Bankotsu is that you?" Jakotsu said, although in his voice he attempted to be shock at seeing Bankotsu only he was failing at it. He nudges Kagura to follow him. Jakotsu winked at Bankotsu when they reached the table. "Kagura remember my band mate Bankotsu?"
"Yeah I remember." Kagura said. She met Bankotsu and the rest of the band once before. She couldn't help but noticed the wink between the two of them. She sat down next to Jakotsu. Okay, whatever Jakotsu was up to, his band mate was in on it. She saw a drink on the table in front of an empty seat.
"Are we interrupting something?" Kagura asked indicating toward the drink.
"My friend will be back in a minute." Bankotsu said. "He went to the restroom."
"Oh, for a minute I thought." Jakotsu shut up and then whisper the rest of the of what he was going to say in Bankotsu ear.
Kagura couldn't hear what Jakotsu and Bankotsu were whispering about. Though something told her she probably would find out anyway. She was about to say something when Sesshomaru sat down in the chair that the drink was in front of. She saw him grab his drink and then she heard the sound of Jakotsu giggling and Kagura looked over at him. Then it fully clicked. "Jakotsu I told you this before." And she has. Jakotsu had tried to get her to go out with Sesshomaru before. At least once or twice. He knew all about her crush on Sesshomaru. But Kagura didn't think that Sesshomaru would ever like her back. Instead she would rather focus on her studies than finding a boyfriend like some of the girls in her class.
"Jakotsu" Bankotsu look at his watch. "I didn't realize how late and we have band practice." Bankotsu patted Jakotsu on the shoulder. "Later Sesshomaru."
"Oh, I completely forgot." Jakotsu said grabbing his coffee off the table. "As a matter of fact, if we don't leave now, we'll be late and the others won't be happy. See you later Kagura." He and Bankotsu got up and left the coffee shop in a quick manner.
This was the first time Kagura had been left alone with Sesshomaru. She knew his younger brother Inuyasha who is a year behind her in school and his sister Rin who is friend and classmate of her own younger sister Kanna.
Since this was an obvious set up. It shouldn't be hard to get out of it. Even though she liked him, she needed to worry about her studies if she wanted to get into the university of her choice instead of worrying about whether or not Sesshomaru liked her too.
"Um since my friend left, I should probably go too." Kagura said. "I don't want bother you too much." Kagura was getting up when Sesshomaru spoke.
"You're not a bother. In fact, I wanted to speak to you." Sesshomaru looked at Kagura. "Rin said that she had a good time at your house last weekend."
Kagura heart skipped a beat as she sat in her seat again. Although she did wonder what he wanted to talk about. Then when he mentioned Rin, Kagura felt really stupid for getting excited like that. "Rin is really sweet. Kanna had fun too. It was the first time she had a friend over for the night." Something they didn't do at her house due to the amount of people living there already. However, since Kanna didn't ask for much, her parents didn't hesitate to say yes.
"Rin told me that you gave up your bed for her." Sesshomaru said. Rin had also mention that Kagura also played games with her and Kanna. Basically, she kept them entertained.
"I didn't mind." Kagura said. She slept on the floor in her room, not very good, but she didn't mind it if it was for Kanna.
"I'm taking Rin to Karaoke on Saturday, she wanted to invite both you and Kanna to join her." Sesshomaru said.
"Oh, you don't look like a person who go to karaoke." Kagura resisted the urge to laugh. She couldn't imagine Sesshomaru in a karaoke place.
Sesshomaru studied Kagura's face. He could tell that she was trying not to laugh. He couldn't blame her. He didn't normally go to places like that. Rin had begged him to take her and had wanted to invite Kanna and Kagura to come along too. "What would your answer be?"
Kagura took a sip of her drink. "I wouldn't mind. But it'll be up to Kanna if she wants to go or not. But I think she might want to go."
Kagura was walking up to her house over an hour later. She couldn't believe she spent an hour talking to Sesshomaru. Kagura had a feeling they would have talked a little longer if it wasn't for the fact she had realized what time it was.
The moment Kagura had her hand on the door knob, she could hear yelling from inside the house. This was normal from time to time. From the voices, she could tell it was her younger brothers Kageromaru and Juromaru fighting with her parents. Sighing Kagura walked through the door. "I'm home." Kagura said as she closed the door and took her shoes off.
"Welcome back." A voice belonging to her elder brother Byakuya came from the living room. He came out into the hallway to greet his sister. He looked exhausted with his long black hair tied up in a messy ponytail. "Don't ask. Once Mom and Dad tell you, you'll be able to figure out why the twins are arguing with them."
"Well then i'll be up in my room doing my homework." Kagura said before rushing upstairs and into a bedroom she shared with Kanna. She didn't understand what Byakuya meant by that. But right now, she didn't care at the moment. She would find out later if it was important. Kagura sat down at her desk she shared with Kanna and took out her books to begin her homework. Normally the yelling would be distracting to normal people, but the house was usually noisy that it was easy to tune the noise out. Not that there were people yelling every day in her house, but because she had seven siblings. It tended to get noisy until it was bedtime.
At least for her younger siblings. Anyone who was in high school got to stay up a later as long as they kept their grades up. Kagura wasn't the smartest student in her year, but she worked hard and got good grades that her parents basically let Kagura stay up as long as she wanted.
Kagura was focused on her homework that she didn't hear her mother call out to her until her mother used her hand to tapped on her book, putting her hand in the way to let Kagura know she wanted her.
Kagura looked up from her homework to see her mother looking at her.
"Are you okay Mom?" Kagura didn't see her father, but at least it quieted down she finally noticed. Kagura also noticed that her mother looked a little sick. She wondered if there was something wrong.
"Everything's alright Kagura." Kaguya sat down on her daughter's bed. "Your Father and I have some news. We only just found out ourselves. Normally we would have waited until when everyone was together for dinner. But Kageromaru overheard your Father and I talking and now everyone else but you know."
"What about?" Kagura asked. She was curious. If everything was alright, then what was going on?
"I'm going to have another baby." Kaguya said with a looked delight on her face.
Kagura sat in shock. A baby. Now she understands about what Byakuya meant by what he said. It was simple enough to figure out why. Kagura was one of eight children. Two girls and six boys. It was already crowded in the house. There were four bedrooms in the house. Her brothers had two room. Four in one, the two eldest ones in the other. Since she and Kanna were the only girls, they had the smallest room. While she was shock and concerned about room for a new baby, Kagura wasn't going to be like the twins and make it an inconvenience for her. Besides if things go as Kagura plans, she would be leaving in a year to attend the university of her choice. First things first, she needs to get in.
"Congratulation Mom" Kagura said as soon as the shock wore off. She wanted to support her mother and not be a burden to her. "When do you think you are due?"
"Thank you Kagura." Kaguya was glad that her daughter was taking this better than Kageromaru and Juromaru did. "It makes me glad to hear you say that." Hell, Kaguya was shock when she found out earlier. She didn't think she could get pregnant since her youngest was born. What a surprise was it to her and Naraku.
"Somewhere around late November." Kaguya said. It wasn't very hard to know when she conceived. It wasn't very often when she and Naraku had a special night without the kids not to mention work for her husband. "Anyways dinner is done. Everyone should be waiting."
Midway through a silent dinner, something that was not common for this house. The only sounds that could be heard were that of the family eating their meal. Until her oldest brother Goshinki decided it was enough. "I can't stand the silence. Someone say something already."
"What about the baby? Is it going to be a boy?" Hakudoshi asked. He wanted a little brother since his friend had gotten a little brother recently.
"Or maybe a girl." Kanna piped in. Kanna out of everyone was the mostly quiet one in the family. There are only a few people who she can be quite talkative to. Kagura is one of them and her friend Rin is another.
"Boy" Hakudoshi retorted.
"Girl" Kanna was now determined that she wanted a little sister.
Kagura couldn't help but laugh at this. Not to mention her parents and some of her siblings. The only ones who didn't think this was funny was Kageromaru and Juromaru. Both were still mad.
"How about we make a little bet?" Byakuya said. Everyone looked at him question look on their faces. "We write down who thinks what the baby might be and we'll see who's right and the winner could get a cash prize." Then he mentioned how much the cash prize is.
"I see where you're going with this Byakuya Nii. Should we also include what the hair and eye color the baby might have?" Kagura asked. It sounded interesting. She could see her mother approving the idea.
"Of course." Byakuya said. "Let me get a notebook. I'll be back." It took him no later than a minute and he was back. He was busy writing before he finally asked. "Okay let's start off with the youngest to oldest.
We know that Hakudoshi thinks it's a boy." Hakudoshi looked so confidant. "What color hair and eyes do you think the baby might have?"
"Like me." Hakudoshi said, he had white hair with and purple eyes.
Byakuya wrote it down. "Kanna?"
"I think that baby is a girl with black hair and red eyes like Dad and Nee-San." Kanna said.
"Muso" Byakuya asked.
"Boy, black hair and eyes." Muso said.
"Kageromaru?" Byakuya eyes him.
"I don't wanna." Kageromaru said.
"Are you sure?" Byakuya asked.
"He's sure. I don't fucking want to either. Mom getting pregnant ruined things for us. Let's go Kageromaru." The twins got up and left.
"Ignore them." Naraku said as he continued eating.
"Well Kagura, what do you think?" Byakuya decided to continue.
Kagura had to think for a moment. "Boy with white hair and red eyes. What about you Byakuya Nii?"
Byakuya grinned. "As for me. I say girl with black hair and purple eyes. Nii-San" Byakuya looked over to the eldest brother.
"I don't really feel like playing but since money is involved. I say boy, black hair and red eyes." Goshinki said.
Byakuya closed his notebook. "I say that wraps that up."
