MATURE CONTENT: FOR CUSSING
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA THIS IS MERELY A FAN FIC AND IS ALL MADE UP! NOT ALL THE CHARACTERS FROM THE MANGA/ANIME WILL BE IN THIS AND THIS IS ALSO A CHARACTER BUILDER FOR ME SO I CAN MAKE MY OWN ANIME'S AND STORIES! SO IF YOU READ ANY OTHER STORY WITH MORIKO IN IT, UNDERSTAND THAT INUYASHA MIGHT NOT BE IN IT. Thank You! Lolz
Chapter 6: America's birthday blast!
The day had finally come, it was now the 4th of July; Moriko and Inuyasha hurried to set up the outdoors with decorations since they were left with that job. Being teenagers they of course went all out and made it look almost like a Childs' birthday party, and when Sesshoumaru and Kagura came out they just laughed at the sight of the streamers and balloons.
"So whose birthday is it?" Sesshoumaru asked joking around.
"It is the birthday of America!" Moriko said cheerfully, "Although I'd rather live in Canada or Australia. Come to think of it, Europe isn't that bad either."
"What about Japan!" Inuyasha added in.
"Yeah that will work too." Sesshoumaru and Kagura sat there confused for a second and then shook their heads and walked off onto a little trail in the woods near by.
"I have to call my daddy! I will be right back okay?" Moriko half informed, half asked.
"Yeah, go see what time every one is going to be here so I know when to start cooking the food your dad brought."
"Alright, I'll be right back." Moriko ran inside the house and dialed her number on the phone. Minutes later she came running out and informed Inuyasha of the time every one was going to be there and who was bringing what.
When everything was completely set up both Inuyasha and Moriko went inside, sat on the couch and let out a big sigh of exhaustion. Both of them were tired and decided to leave the cooking to Sesshoumaru and Kagura since all they did was go and play around in the woods; the two tired teens went and lied down in their bed and fell fast asleep, of course they had their alarm clock set to the time that people would be showing up but still needed the sleep to stay wide awake for the whole night.
When people finally started to show up, Moriko was ready to great them with hugs and a big smile. She didn't get to see her other family too much but still acted like she had always known them and acted as her normal self. All of Moriko's cousins and her little brother played around in the field while the adults sat down and talked with each other taking a small plate of appetizers to make the talking easier and to have an excuse for not commenting back on something. Moriko went back inside for a little bit to take another nap since she was still tired, and Inuyasha decided that he was going to go and play with the kids; he was still a kid at heart since he had to grow up so fast and loved to play around like the children did. Moriko woke up just in time to see Inuyasha playing hide and go seek with the kids and laughed at the site of him acting like he didn't know where they were (Even though he could smell them all). Inuyasha caught a glimpse of Moriko giggling and waved to her smiling back; Moriko blushed and slightly waved before running back into the house to hide herself.
"Dinner time!" Frank yelled out to the chattering family, and it almost seemed like every man there formed a stampede to get to the food. Moriko waited for her elders to get food first and by the time it came her turn there was almost nothing left to get; a tap on her shoulder turned her around and Inuyasha was there holding two plates of food, one for her and one for himself. Moriko once again blushed and thanked Inuyasha before sitting down next to him.
"So Moriko, you never introduced us to this nice boy you've got here." Moriko's grandma Jane asked hinted to her that she wanted to know.
"Oh, this is Inuyasha." Moriko said hoping that the embarrassment that she knew was going to happen wouldn't happen.
"He sure is a hottie; you did find yourself a good one." Grandma Jane congratulated.
"WHAT!" Both Moriko and Inuyasha screamed in unison.
"Well you are going out aren't you?"
"NO!" Once again they both screamed their words together.
"Then why are you two hanging around each other so much?" Grandma Jain had a good point and left Moriko and Inuyasha speechless.
"Well… Umm…" Moriko tried to think of a reason and just when she had one Inuyasha butted in and said, "We're kinda like a brother and sister; we have to help each other out and keep each other safe." Those words broke Moriko's heart and she didn't know why, or at least she wanted to make herself believe that she didn't know why.
"Mmhmm… That's how it always starts out." Moriko's grandmas said under her breathe. Inuyasha was to busy listening to Frank explain why Moriko was staying here and Inuyasha wanted to help tell the story. Moriko remained quit for most of dinner except when she had to show and explain her scarred arm.
"Ah, it is finally night time." Inunotaisho said stretching out as he awoke from his slumber. He went outside and introduced himself to every one and lied that he had worked late the night before and needed some extra sleep.
Inunotaisho, Frank and Sesshoumaru all went down to the end of the field and set up the fire works. The first ones to be set off were the sprinklers for the little kids who had to go to bed by 11:30 pm. (They would sleep in the living room of Inunotaisho's until the show was over.) After all the small fireworks were over the children were sent to bed and the big artillery was brought out. Moriko sat by herself in front of every one. She had forgotten to bring her coat out with her and didn't want to miss anything, so she sat there cold and shivering. Inuyasha took notice to this and came over and wrapped his fire rat kimono around her. Moriko was slightly shocked at this but remembered his words 'We're kinda like a brother and sister; we have to help each other out and keep each other safe.' And then she shrugged it off and sat there still gloomy. Inuyasha was confused and thought that she was mad at him, so he kept his distance.
Moriko's night was pretty horrible with the thought of Inuyasha only considering her as a sister lingering in her mind, and she hardly noticed the fireworks. Down at the end of the field the three guys were getting ready to light off the final fireworks and start the finally; Inunotaisho notice a rift in the air and tried to stop Frank from lighting the firework but failed since he couldn't get his words out in time. The fireworks went up with their usual bangs and all seemed fine, though Inunotaisho was still worried and suspicious. He told Sesshoumaru and Frank to go take shelter and told them of the possible danger and they did as told. Inunotaisho started up to the others in a run, and just as the last firework went off he sensed the rift again and seen a tunnel going from the fire work straight towards the family.
"Get to the house! Every one!" The family looking confused but did as told.
Moriko was still in her heartbroken daze and didn't hear anything that Inunotaisho had said. Inuyasha turned to see the firework heading towards them and seen Moriko just sitting there starring right at it.
"Moriko!" Inuyasha screamed running towards her. "Get down you psychotic bitch!" He threw himself over Moriko covering both of them in his kimono. Moriko came out of her trance and nearly jumped up at the site of fire surrounding the outside of the kimono; Inuyasha held onto her tightly and wouldn't let her go. After the fire had gone he stood her up and starting yelling at her telling her how stupid it was of her to sit there and wait for death. Moriko had a confused look on her face and then brought her hand up to her ear and snapped her finger; Inuyasha then became confused to and shut up. Moriko started to freak out and tears began to swell up in her eyes.
"Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!" She repeated.
"What's wrong? Tell me!" Inuyasha was now very worried. Moriko just looked at him and was quit for a second. Then she began bawling and fell into Inuyasha chest. "Moriko you have to tell her what's wrong." Moriko felt the vibrations of Inuyasha's voice and knew almost what he had said; she looked up at him and tried to pull herself together.
"I—th-h-h-ink I- a-am de-af…" She stuttered as she was panting heavily thanks to her crying. Inuyasha's eyes widened and he tried asking if she was sure and then realized that it wouldn't work. Moriko's family gathered around to see if it was true and started yelling her name and Moriko sat there wondering what was going on and what they were all saying. She soon got fed up with it and ran into her bedroom. Inuyasha stood there still comprehending that this was all real and that Moriko may never hear again. After a few hours and after all of Moriko's family, except her dad, had left to go home; Inuyasha decided that it was about time to check on Moriko. He went into her room and found her fast asleep on the bed; she was worn out from all the crying that she had done. Inuyasha informed Moriko's dad that she was asleep and that he would inform him of Moriko's condition in the morning since her little brother Osu had to get home and go to sleep.
Moriko slept in until noon the next day and she still couldn't hear a thing. At first she was afraid that every one went some where and left her behind but then found Inuyasha in the living room sitting on the couch starring at the wall. This was strange behavior for Inuyasha and Moriko felt worst for him then herself because she was making him worry so much. She sat down beside him on the couch and looked at his face which was blank and hurt looking. Moriko touched his arm and he jumped a little; Inuyasha turned towards Moriko and tried to find a way of asking if she was okay. Moriko nodded her head 'yes' once Inuyasha had found a piece of paper and pencil to write on. Inuyasha started to write on the paper again and asked 'Can you hear?' Moriko of course shook her head 'no' and Inuyasha's ears very slightly drooped.
"Do you think you can take me to the doctors to see if this is permanent?" Moriko asked Inuyasha worried about talking to loud or and quit.
Inuyasha nodded his head 'yes' and wrote down that he would call her dad to have him pick them up and take them there.
Moriko smiled and said, "Thank you Inuyasha, I am sorry that this had to happen." Inuyasha gave her a sad and confused look as to say that it was him that was sorry that all this happened.
Inuyasha called Frank and both he and Moriko were picked up to go to the hospital. At the hospital they had to wait in the emergency room to be seen by a nurse who would first evaluate the client and ask them questions; Frank tried to answer all the questions he could but some of them were about Moriko's personal issues. The nurse soon led the group to a waiting room so they could be seen by a doctor, who took about a half hour to get in there even though there weren't any patients to be seen before them. The doctor was on break and apparently emergency patients aren't that important. When he finally came in he did the routine tests on her ears and told them that he would need to have a cat-scan of her ears to check for damaged tissue and see how bad things were. The three of them had to wait another hour before Moriko could go in and get the cat-scan and then they had to wait 45 minutes before the results came back; When they did, they were all pleased to hear that Moriko should get her hearing back in hopefully a week or two but they would have to give her some meds to kick up the healing process.
Frank dropped Inuyasha and Moriko back off at Inuyasha's house and left to go relieve his sister, or Moriko's aunt, Jessie. Moriko was tired from the whole day and the radiation put out from the cat-scan didn't help, so she went to bed to take at least a nap. When dinner time came Inuyasha brought her some food and a bed tray to put it on; Moriko was happy to have at least a few of her senses increase and woke up to the smell of the food as Inuyasha walked up the stairs towards her. Moriko shoveled her food down and thanked Inuyasha for bringing it up to her. After she was done she felt tired again and went into the bathroom to wash up and get ready for bed; when she was done she hopped into the bed and fell asleep fast. Inuyasha came in not long after Moriko had fallen asleep and lied down next to her. He whispered words about something, though Moriko had woken up when he lied down but still kept her eyes closed and, having this as another increased sense, she could understand the words he was saying just from feeling his voice vibrate. Moriko smiled and fell right back to sleep.
The next morning Moriko was awakened by nudging and opened her eyes to Inuyasha holding a cup of milk and her medication that the doctor prescribed to help boost the healing process of her ear drum. Moriko moaned; she didn't want to get up yet but knew she had to or else she wouldn't get better. Most people would think that sleeping helps to heal some one, and they're right but if you aren't active for a good amount of time then it will take longer to heal and Moriko was taught this early on by her father.
"Alright, hand it over." Moriko said after sitting up in bed. She popped the pills in her mouth and drank all the milk down to get rid of the horrid taste that they left behind. "So what are your plans for today?" Moriko asked Inuyasha who pulled out from behind his back a portable dry erase white board and dry erase marker.
"Hang out with you?" Moriko asked while reading the sentence that Inuyasha had written on the board. She blushed and felt butterflies float around in her stomach. "Uh… Okay." Inuyasha grabbed onto Moriko's hand and pulled her out of bed to the playstation2 and made her sit down and play while he went and made breakfast for the two of them; Sesshoumaru and Kagura had left to go get groceries in town and Inunotaisho was asleep of course, so Inuyasha and Moriko were basically by themselves for most of the day.
"Do you want to go outside?" Moriko read the white board again and nodded 'yes' to Inuyasha's question and they both got dressed and went outside. Moriko walked out over towards the area that the firework went off and the parts that she missed now came into her mind; she started to have a panic attack as she relived the whole experience and an image of a demon made of fire coming right at her. The demon grabbed onto her head and made a very loud and high pitched screech which made her scream and grab her head; she blacked out and then the whole thing was over.
As she was having her panic attack Inuyasha tried to contain her and make sure that she didn't hurt herself and tried his hardest to get threw to her to calm her down. When Moriko finally came to she looked around for the demon that she had seen, and looked up at Inuyasha and clung to him tightly begging him protect her from the demon and to kill it.
"Demon?" Inuyasha asked himself; he had no memory of seeing a demon and thought that Moriko might be talking about the fish demon that first attacked her and put her in his house in the first place. He wrote on his white board and asked her to explain what she was talking about; Moriko explained in her own way what her memory was like. After hearing her story, Inuyasha took her into his dad and informed his dad about what Moriko had seen; Inunotaisho smacked himself in the head and started cursing to his self for forgetting to deal with the demon. He has been too busy trying to calm every down, he forgot to go search for the demon and it had gotten away.
"Where is Sesshoumaru?" Inunotaisho asked his youngest son.
"He is in town; why do you ask?" Inuyasha asked back.
"He and I are going to go search and destroy the demon of fire."
"Why can't I come and help!" Inuyasha asked in a tone; he didn't like getting left behind to feel useless and wanted to go kick some demon ass.
"Because you need to help watch Moriko. Plus, this is no ordinary demon; Instead of being a demon that manipulates fire or has guard against fire so it can use it for attacks, this demon is literally made from fire. It has no parents and no siblings; it truly is one of its own. The demons made from the four elements are most dangerous, and can kill even the strongest of demons. Plus I believe that there is another demon that was a part of the ambush; I believe it was the demon of air. That one will be the hardest to beat and we will need to watch how the air is reacting to see where it may be."
"So if they can kill you why are you going after them!" Inuyasha asked, now worried about losing his father again.
"Remember son that I am a spirit and have the advantage. As for Sesshoumaru, he is going to be the bait and I won't let him die." Inunotaisho reassured his son.
"As if I was worried about Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha snarled at that thought.
"You'd better watch it boy…" Inunotaisho growled at Inuyasha as a warning.
"Sorry…" Inuyasha apologized solemnly.
"Get me the phone; I am going to call Sesshoumaru." Inuyasha ran to get the phone as his father requested. Inunotaisho gestured Moriko over and made her sit on the bed. He placed his hands on her head and started meditating; as he was meditating his whole body started to glow and so did Moriko's; this freaked her out a little, but she trusted Inunotaisho and let him do what he needed to do.
"There," Inunotaisho had finished and let go of Moriko's head. "Now you can hear the thoughts of every one around you, and as you should know, when we speak, we think about the words we are speaking."
"Oh my god." Moriko grabbed her ears and noticed that she still couldn't hear any other sounds but could here the words that Inunotaisho was saying. "How did you do that?"
"I used my spiritual energy to give the gift of telepathy. Now you can understand what we are all saying." Inunotaisho explained.
"Well, thank you very much." Moriko gave Inunotaisho a hug, since he was now like a second father to her.
"You're welcome." Inunotaisho patted her back and sent her off.
Inuyasha came in not to long after Moriko left and went to her room, where she danced around with joy that she could finally hear every one.
"Here you go dad." Inuyasha handed the phone over to Inunotaisho who called Sesshoumaru and got himself prepared for a battle.