Prejudice
Written By: FranceGamble
Corrected By: Trinity-33, Gigi-chan
Chapter Five
He opened his golden eyes and realized quickly that a blanket covered him. He sat up swiftly, making the comforter fall down to his waist. InuYasha's eyes fell on the girl who was looking right at him. InuYasha asked, "Are you feeling better?"
She smiled slightly, "I'm sorry for the stuff I said to you while you were taking care of me. I didn't know where I was..."
"It's okay. I understand. You had a fever and were seeing things. It's understandable," he interrupted. "Thanks for the blanket," he said as he picked up the edge of the object.
She looked down at her bed and away from him; "It's the least I could do for taking me off of the cold tile floor."
He nodded and brought himself closer to her bed. Slowly he reached up and touched her forehead. Her eyes snapped up to look at him in shock. "Just checking to make sure you don't have the fever any more," he explained. She smiled even wider, and he brought his hand away from her. He swallowed the fresh lump in his throat and said, "Nope. You don't have a fever, but you should stay in bed for a while. The flu is horrible this time of year."
"The flu? I thought I had a cold," she replied.
"Most colds don't get fevers that severe," he said as he went to the blanket that had covered him and started to fold it. He thought for a few minutes on how to ask his next question tastefully, "Uhm, Ms. Higurashi, can I ask you a question?"
"If you stop calling me Ms. Higurashi like I'm an old lady," Kagome snidely remarked back as she rolled her eyes.
He nodded, "Who's Kael?"
Kagome's small smile dropped fully off of her face as she stared right at the youkai. She opened her mouth a couple of times only to shut it again as she obviously searched for something to say. InuYasha sensed her uneasiness, "Stupid question. You don't have to answer that. I really am in no position to..."
"He killed my father," Kagome stopped him. She didn't look at him as she continued, "He was a youkai my father had cleared from a jail sentence in the United States. The youkai got frustrated, or something, and just killed him."
InuYasha nodded, "That's why you hate us." She nodded. He sat down on the floor, "I have never killed anyone."
Kagome looked up at him and said, "That monster had never killed anyone before my father either. I'm sorry, but I've learned that youkai can be dangerous even if they seem nice." Her now solemn attitude became aggresive as she now glared at the white haired dog youkai. "You've been nice to me, but what if I piss you off someday and you kill me?"
InuYasha again nodded, "My mom was killed by humans. She had fled to China to get away from the racist people, but someone found out where she was. We received the letter a few days after she died."
Kagome looked at him again, but this time in a different way. He had lost one of his parents, just like her, and by the opposite side of the whole silent war. "Why don't you hate humans?" she finally asked.
He looked up at her, "I did for a long time."
She nodded for him to continue. He sighed, "My older brother knew my resentment towards them, and then started to date a human. When I told him of my ideas, he very roughly showed me that they weren't all bad. Sesshomaru and Rin are now married and going to have a child soon. They actually live in the old town where my mother died."
"InuYasha, I didn't know that. I'm sorry," she said. She slowly made her way off the bed and sat down in front of him. "I'm bored. Wanna play a board game?"
"Which one?" InuYasha said with a smirk on his face, "I usually win in any of them."
"Oh, we can be conceited too!" Kagome said as she pulled herself up to open her closet. "Pick one!"
*** ^_^ ***
The next day was filled with InuYasha doing his chores outside, and Kagome sleeping a lot. He had forced her to stay in bed the whole time. This made her very annoyed at first, but she never disobeyed him, except when nature called. He came up during breakfast, lunch, and then at dinner to bring her something to eat. It tasted wonderful, and she actually asked where he learned to cook.
A small blush covered his cheeks, "My dad works for a restaurant. He taught me." She smiled, and yawned. Her hand covered her mouth to be polite. "Hey, if you're too tired to eat then you should go to sleep. I'll just make you a really big breakfast."
"No, I don't want this good food to go to waste," she said as she took another bite of the rice. "I can go to sleep after I eat, and I've been sleeping all day anyway."
He shrugged his shoulders as he also ate another bite of his food. He ate more, but faster than her and was soon just watching her eat. She caught him staring at her, "InuYasha, it's hard to eat when someone is checking you out." This time she was sure he blushed, and giggled.
He rolled his eyes, just like she had done the day before. "Why do you have to tease me?"
"It's fun," she said.
"Yeah, well, as long as you're smiling and not spitting, I'm fine with it," he said as he stood to bring his plate downstairs.
"Did I mention how sorry I was for all that?" she asked.
He looked at the ceiling as if remembering, "About...twenty-six times now." She smiled. They both laughed, and he took her plate and left the room.
'He's really nice, and sweet. Why did I think he could be mean?' she thought in the lonely room. She knew the answer to that, but refused to even think it. "He even saved me from that awful Onigumo. And he has only been nice and kind and normal," she said out loud.
"I am normal," InuYasha said as he walked into the room. She gasped and clutched her chest. He smiled, "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. You know, talking to yourself will make people wonder about your sanity."
"I'm wondering about it right now," she commented. "How did you hear me?"
"Well, I don't have these ears for nothing," he said as he moved both of his white dog-ears, "And I was just in the hall when you started your talking to the ghosts."
"I wasn't talking to ghosts," she yawned.
"Okay, spirits of the dead," he supplied as he smirked at her.
"Whatever," she rolled her eyes. She pulled the blanket up and covered her whole body up. "Night InuYasha."
"Good night, Kagome," he said. He reached over to the light switch and flicked it down. The moon shinned into the room and he sat down in the moonlight. Her eyes closed and she went to sleep almost instantly.
*** ^_^ ***
"Now, your sister is probably asleep, so let's be quiet," Mrs. Higurashi said as she opened the front door. Souta yawned and nodded. "Good," she whispered. "Go to bed; it's late."
"I'm not going to argue," Souta yawned. The woman smiled as she brought in her quiet grandfather and watched him stumble into his room.
She came up the stairs right behind her son, and watched him walk into his room. Making her way to the end of the hall she slowly opened her daughter's room.
She smiled as she looked at the two sleeping teenagers. InuYasha was sleeping against the bed, his head resting on his crossed arms. Kagome had one of his hands in hers. The mother hated to wake either of them up, but InuYasha needed to get home to his own family.
She stepped to the bed, and saw one of his ears swivel towards her. She smiled as she kneeled down and whispered, "InuYasha, c'mon dear. Time to go home."
He opened his golden eyes and looked over at her. "It's not..." he protested
"I know," she said. She stood up and walked out of the room. She wound up in her room lying on her bed looking at the ceiling. "Thank you InuYasha," she whispered to the dark.
*** ^_^ ***
Two Days Later
He breathed a sigh of relief when the wind came rushing through the shrine grounds as he raked the yellow and brown leaves into a big pile. It cooled him down and he actually liked the shivers that ran through him.
His ears shifted through the howling element. He thought he heard some sobs coming from the shrine steps. InuYasha turned in time to see Shippo's red head come over the stone step's peak. "Shippo!" InuYasha called out. The little boy turned to him and ran on all fours to reach him. At the last minute the little kit jumped and landed roughly on the white haired youkai's chest.
"He's dead!" Shippo cried. After that said he sobbed into the young man's shirt for comfort.
InuYasha shook his head, "Shippo, you're going to have to..."
"Mr. Takoshi! Your papa!" Shippo cried against the red shirt. "He's dead. He's dead!"
InuYasha felt his legs go weak and he let gravity pull him to the ground. Slowly he reached up with one clawed hand and held onto the little boy. "Are..." his voice quivered and he swallowed the lump in this throat before he continued, "Are you sure?"
Shippo nodded his head. He looked up at the older youkai. Green eyes seeked comfort from gold that didn't know how to give it. "InuYasha, what are we going to do?"
InuYasha stared at the city away from the calm shrine. 'I don't know.'
*** ^_^ ***
She stood behind the large tree in the shrine grounds. Kagome had seen the kit come barreling up the steps.
"Mr. Takoshi! Your papa! He's dead. He's dead!" she heard the young voice yell out. Her hand flew to her mouth as she watched InuYasha collapse onto the ground.
"Oh, gods..." she slowly walked over to where he sat on the ground. He missed her presence but the young child saw her. She smiled sadly at him, "Shippo, come here, 'kay?" She held open her hands. He looked at InuYasha and saw that he had finally seen the young human. The dog youkai dropped his hand, a silent gesture to say that it was all right. The young boy jumped into her arms, and she hugged him tightly. She sat down next to the white haired teenager, "InuYasha, stay here with me?"
The boy in question looked at her, "Kagome, they killed him."
"I know," Kagome said as she leaned on him to give him comfort. "Stay here now."
His eyes turned away from her as he looked to the sun high in the sky. "They killed him with the sun still up. How could they kill him in the daylight and no one stop them?" Kagome had the same thoughts running through her head. He shook his head and stood up quickly. "Tell your mom I'm sorry," he said before he took off at his full speed down the steps.
"InuYasha!" Shippo screamed from the young girls arms. "InuYasha, don't leave me! Come back!"
Kagome looked at the crying kit, "Could you catch him?"
"I'm not fast enough. He's way older then me," he said. He looked at her, his eyes still leaking their salty grief. "What's going to happen to us?"
"You're both going to stay with me and my family," Kagome said as she stood up with the kitsune in her arms. "My mom will say yes, I know it."
*** ^_^ ***
InuYasha stepped into the small house. He half expected to see his dad come out from his bedroom and greet him, but only silence did the welcoming. "He's just at the store," he told himself. "He'll be back any minute, and yell at me for leaving work early." Even though he said this aloud he still knew deep inside that what Shippo had told him was true. He walked through the whole house, finally ending up in his father's room. There wasn't a body in there but the smell of blood filled his nostrils. "Dad..." he whispered. It had been cleaned, but he could still see the marks. Some of it smelled like his father, but the room reeked of human. He pulled back the tears that he wanted so bad to shed. "I hope you will see the freedom."
"InuYasha?" a female voice asked from behind him. He turned around ready to strike whomever it was. He growled when he saw her, and backed himself against the wall. "InuYasha, c'mon. Shippo is really distraught. You have to be there for him." Kagome walked forward and stopped when he growled louder, "InuYasha stop it! I mean it! I know what you're going through!"
When she snapped at him, he realized what he was doing. He stood up straight and again let gravity take him. He slid down the wall, and crumpled into a fetal position. He started to shake.
"InuYasha, I'm sorry. I do know what you're going through though. Please, please, come home," she said as she kneeled in front of him. He looked up at her. She had thought he had been crying, but he didn't have a tear in his gold eyes. Without warning he reached out and pulled her into him.
"I didn't mean to scare you," he said as he hugged her. "I'm scared, Kagome."
"I know," Kagome said, her heart pounding with sorrow for him. Her mind flashed memories of her own father laying in a casket in the funeral home. "I'm scared for you too."
For a half an hour they sat that way just holding each other. Then InuYasha slowly started to stand up. "Let's clear this place out, and go to your house."
"If you're going to live with me there's a couple of a rules," Kagome said with a small smile on her face. He tilted his head like a confused puppy. "Rule one: It's not my house anymore. It's our house."
"And rule two?" InuYasha asked.
"Only one rule," she smiled at him. Sighing, she reached over and hugged him. "Only one."
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A/N: I promised my cousin that I would advertise her story. She writes on ff. net. I corrected the story, so you should read it. I'm even in it, but not yet. It's called The Quest For Yuki's Cure. It is a mixture of a lot of anime's and InuYasha and Kouga will be in it, and so will I.
Sailor Black 666: http: //www. fanfiction. net/ read. php? storyid =1675337 (Take the spaces out.)
Answers to Questions:
KatFay: He's a youkai, and they live in a country where youkai are considered evil. People still don't see what Kagome now sees. And it's hard to change someone's point of view.
Elyndewen Startree: Thanks. A lot of people *Glares at cousins* think that I'm going too slow on my plot. But things are going as they are writen out in my outlines. ^_^ Thank you!
GMGirl: I actually like it when my stories are predictable. That way, later in the story when you think you've predicted something, and I change it! I feel wonderful. ^_^
France
Oh, exactly one month and I'll be 19! Woohoo!
Written By: FranceGamble
Corrected By: Trinity-33, Gigi-chan
Chapter Five
He opened his golden eyes and realized quickly that a blanket covered him. He sat up swiftly, making the comforter fall down to his waist. InuYasha's eyes fell on the girl who was looking right at him. InuYasha asked, "Are you feeling better?"
She smiled slightly, "I'm sorry for the stuff I said to you while you were taking care of me. I didn't know where I was..."
"It's okay. I understand. You had a fever and were seeing things. It's understandable," he interrupted. "Thanks for the blanket," he said as he picked up the edge of the object.
She looked down at her bed and away from him; "It's the least I could do for taking me off of the cold tile floor."
He nodded and brought himself closer to her bed. Slowly he reached up and touched her forehead. Her eyes snapped up to look at him in shock. "Just checking to make sure you don't have the fever any more," he explained. She smiled even wider, and he brought his hand away from her. He swallowed the fresh lump in his throat and said, "Nope. You don't have a fever, but you should stay in bed for a while. The flu is horrible this time of year."
"The flu? I thought I had a cold," she replied.
"Most colds don't get fevers that severe," he said as he went to the blanket that had covered him and started to fold it. He thought for a few minutes on how to ask his next question tastefully, "Uhm, Ms. Higurashi, can I ask you a question?"
"If you stop calling me Ms. Higurashi like I'm an old lady," Kagome snidely remarked back as she rolled her eyes.
He nodded, "Who's Kael?"
Kagome's small smile dropped fully off of her face as she stared right at the youkai. She opened her mouth a couple of times only to shut it again as she obviously searched for something to say. InuYasha sensed her uneasiness, "Stupid question. You don't have to answer that. I really am in no position to..."
"He killed my father," Kagome stopped him. She didn't look at him as she continued, "He was a youkai my father had cleared from a jail sentence in the United States. The youkai got frustrated, or something, and just killed him."
InuYasha nodded, "That's why you hate us." She nodded. He sat down on the floor, "I have never killed anyone."
Kagome looked up at him and said, "That monster had never killed anyone before my father either. I'm sorry, but I've learned that youkai can be dangerous even if they seem nice." Her now solemn attitude became aggresive as she now glared at the white haired dog youkai. "You've been nice to me, but what if I piss you off someday and you kill me?"
InuYasha again nodded, "My mom was killed by humans. She had fled to China to get away from the racist people, but someone found out where she was. We received the letter a few days after she died."
Kagome looked at him again, but this time in a different way. He had lost one of his parents, just like her, and by the opposite side of the whole silent war. "Why don't you hate humans?" she finally asked.
He looked up at her, "I did for a long time."
She nodded for him to continue. He sighed, "My older brother knew my resentment towards them, and then started to date a human. When I told him of my ideas, he very roughly showed me that they weren't all bad. Sesshomaru and Rin are now married and going to have a child soon. They actually live in the old town where my mother died."
"InuYasha, I didn't know that. I'm sorry," she said. She slowly made her way off the bed and sat down in front of him. "I'm bored. Wanna play a board game?"
"Which one?" InuYasha said with a smirk on his face, "I usually win in any of them."
"Oh, we can be conceited too!" Kagome said as she pulled herself up to open her closet. "Pick one!"
*** ^_^ ***
The next day was filled with InuYasha doing his chores outside, and Kagome sleeping a lot. He had forced her to stay in bed the whole time. This made her very annoyed at first, but she never disobeyed him, except when nature called. He came up during breakfast, lunch, and then at dinner to bring her something to eat. It tasted wonderful, and she actually asked where he learned to cook.
A small blush covered his cheeks, "My dad works for a restaurant. He taught me." She smiled, and yawned. Her hand covered her mouth to be polite. "Hey, if you're too tired to eat then you should go to sleep. I'll just make you a really big breakfast."
"No, I don't want this good food to go to waste," she said as she took another bite of the rice. "I can go to sleep after I eat, and I've been sleeping all day anyway."
He shrugged his shoulders as he also ate another bite of his food. He ate more, but faster than her and was soon just watching her eat. She caught him staring at her, "InuYasha, it's hard to eat when someone is checking you out." This time she was sure he blushed, and giggled.
He rolled his eyes, just like she had done the day before. "Why do you have to tease me?"
"It's fun," she said.
"Yeah, well, as long as you're smiling and not spitting, I'm fine with it," he said as he stood to bring his plate downstairs.
"Did I mention how sorry I was for all that?" she asked.
He looked at the ceiling as if remembering, "About...twenty-six times now." She smiled. They both laughed, and he took her plate and left the room.
'He's really nice, and sweet. Why did I think he could be mean?' she thought in the lonely room. She knew the answer to that, but refused to even think it. "He even saved me from that awful Onigumo. And he has only been nice and kind and normal," she said out loud.
"I am normal," InuYasha said as he walked into the room. She gasped and clutched her chest. He smiled, "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. You know, talking to yourself will make people wonder about your sanity."
"I'm wondering about it right now," she commented. "How did you hear me?"
"Well, I don't have these ears for nothing," he said as he moved both of his white dog-ears, "And I was just in the hall when you started your talking to the ghosts."
"I wasn't talking to ghosts," she yawned.
"Okay, spirits of the dead," he supplied as he smirked at her.
"Whatever," she rolled her eyes. She pulled the blanket up and covered her whole body up. "Night InuYasha."
"Good night, Kagome," he said. He reached over to the light switch and flicked it down. The moon shinned into the room and he sat down in the moonlight. Her eyes closed and she went to sleep almost instantly.
*** ^_^ ***
"Now, your sister is probably asleep, so let's be quiet," Mrs. Higurashi said as she opened the front door. Souta yawned and nodded. "Good," she whispered. "Go to bed; it's late."
"I'm not going to argue," Souta yawned. The woman smiled as she brought in her quiet grandfather and watched him stumble into his room.
She came up the stairs right behind her son, and watched him walk into his room. Making her way to the end of the hall she slowly opened her daughter's room.
She smiled as she looked at the two sleeping teenagers. InuYasha was sleeping against the bed, his head resting on his crossed arms. Kagome had one of his hands in hers. The mother hated to wake either of them up, but InuYasha needed to get home to his own family.
She stepped to the bed, and saw one of his ears swivel towards her. She smiled as she kneeled down and whispered, "InuYasha, c'mon dear. Time to go home."
He opened his golden eyes and looked over at her. "It's not..." he protested
"I know," she said. She stood up and walked out of the room. She wound up in her room lying on her bed looking at the ceiling. "Thank you InuYasha," she whispered to the dark.
*** ^_^ ***
Two Days Later
He breathed a sigh of relief when the wind came rushing through the shrine grounds as he raked the yellow and brown leaves into a big pile. It cooled him down and he actually liked the shivers that ran through him.
His ears shifted through the howling element. He thought he heard some sobs coming from the shrine steps. InuYasha turned in time to see Shippo's red head come over the stone step's peak. "Shippo!" InuYasha called out. The little boy turned to him and ran on all fours to reach him. At the last minute the little kit jumped and landed roughly on the white haired youkai's chest.
"He's dead!" Shippo cried. After that said he sobbed into the young man's shirt for comfort.
InuYasha shook his head, "Shippo, you're going to have to..."
"Mr. Takoshi! Your papa!" Shippo cried against the red shirt. "He's dead. He's dead!"
InuYasha felt his legs go weak and he let gravity pull him to the ground. Slowly he reached up with one clawed hand and held onto the little boy. "Are..." his voice quivered and he swallowed the lump in this throat before he continued, "Are you sure?"
Shippo nodded his head. He looked up at the older youkai. Green eyes seeked comfort from gold that didn't know how to give it. "InuYasha, what are we going to do?"
InuYasha stared at the city away from the calm shrine. 'I don't know.'
*** ^_^ ***
She stood behind the large tree in the shrine grounds. Kagome had seen the kit come barreling up the steps.
"Mr. Takoshi! Your papa! He's dead. He's dead!" she heard the young voice yell out. Her hand flew to her mouth as she watched InuYasha collapse onto the ground.
"Oh, gods..." she slowly walked over to where he sat on the ground. He missed her presence but the young child saw her. She smiled sadly at him, "Shippo, come here, 'kay?" She held open her hands. He looked at InuYasha and saw that he had finally seen the young human. The dog youkai dropped his hand, a silent gesture to say that it was all right. The young boy jumped into her arms, and she hugged him tightly. She sat down next to the white haired teenager, "InuYasha, stay here with me?"
The boy in question looked at her, "Kagome, they killed him."
"I know," Kagome said as she leaned on him to give him comfort. "Stay here now."
His eyes turned away from her as he looked to the sun high in the sky. "They killed him with the sun still up. How could they kill him in the daylight and no one stop them?" Kagome had the same thoughts running through her head. He shook his head and stood up quickly. "Tell your mom I'm sorry," he said before he took off at his full speed down the steps.
"InuYasha!" Shippo screamed from the young girls arms. "InuYasha, don't leave me! Come back!"
Kagome looked at the crying kit, "Could you catch him?"
"I'm not fast enough. He's way older then me," he said. He looked at her, his eyes still leaking their salty grief. "What's going to happen to us?"
"You're both going to stay with me and my family," Kagome said as she stood up with the kitsune in her arms. "My mom will say yes, I know it."
*** ^_^ ***
InuYasha stepped into the small house. He half expected to see his dad come out from his bedroom and greet him, but only silence did the welcoming. "He's just at the store," he told himself. "He'll be back any minute, and yell at me for leaving work early." Even though he said this aloud he still knew deep inside that what Shippo had told him was true. He walked through the whole house, finally ending up in his father's room. There wasn't a body in there but the smell of blood filled his nostrils. "Dad..." he whispered. It had been cleaned, but he could still see the marks. Some of it smelled like his father, but the room reeked of human. He pulled back the tears that he wanted so bad to shed. "I hope you will see the freedom."
"InuYasha?" a female voice asked from behind him. He turned around ready to strike whomever it was. He growled when he saw her, and backed himself against the wall. "InuYasha, c'mon. Shippo is really distraught. You have to be there for him." Kagome walked forward and stopped when he growled louder, "InuYasha stop it! I mean it! I know what you're going through!"
When she snapped at him, he realized what he was doing. He stood up straight and again let gravity take him. He slid down the wall, and crumpled into a fetal position. He started to shake.
"InuYasha, I'm sorry. I do know what you're going through though. Please, please, come home," she said as she kneeled in front of him. He looked up at her. She had thought he had been crying, but he didn't have a tear in his gold eyes. Without warning he reached out and pulled her into him.
"I didn't mean to scare you," he said as he hugged her. "I'm scared, Kagome."
"I know," Kagome said, her heart pounding with sorrow for him. Her mind flashed memories of her own father laying in a casket in the funeral home. "I'm scared for you too."
For a half an hour they sat that way just holding each other. Then InuYasha slowly started to stand up. "Let's clear this place out, and go to your house."
"If you're going to live with me there's a couple of a rules," Kagome said with a small smile on her face. He tilted his head like a confused puppy. "Rule one: It's not my house anymore. It's our house."
"And rule two?" InuYasha asked.
"Only one rule," she smiled at him. Sighing, she reached over and hugged him. "Only one."
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A/N: I promised my cousin that I would advertise her story. She writes on ff. net. I corrected the story, so you should read it. I'm even in it, but not yet. It's called The Quest For Yuki's Cure. It is a mixture of a lot of anime's and InuYasha and Kouga will be in it, and so will I.
Sailor Black 666: http: //www. fanfiction. net/ read. php? storyid =1675337 (Take the spaces out.)
Answers to Questions:
KatFay: He's a youkai, and they live in a country where youkai are considered evil. People still don't see what Kagome now sees. And it's hard to change someone's point of view.
Elyndewen Startree: Thanks. A lot of people *Glares at cousins* think that I'm going too slow on my plot. But things are going as they are writen out in my outlines. ^_^ Thank you!
GMGirl: I actually like it when my stories are predictable. That way, later in the story when you think you've predicted something, and I change it! I feel wonderful. ^_^
France
Oh, exactly one month and I'll be 19! Woohoo!