Prejudice
Written By: France Gamble
Chapter Nine
The morning came fast for Kagome. The bright sun had already started to come through the blinds, but she didn't wake until her alarm went off. Quickly she snapped awake, and shut off the music that came through the clock. Cautiously she looked at her mother; the woman was still sleeping. Sighing, she stretched on her wonderful hotel bed, and then proceeded to get ready for the day ahead of her.
When she came out from the bathroom fully clean, dressed, and ready to go, she was surprised to see her mother awake. The woman was sitting against her head board reading a book. "Hey, mom."
"Hello dear. Going somewhere?" her mother asked kindly. Her face never came out from the book she was reading.
"Yeah, InuYasha and I are going to explore a little today," Kagome said as she tied her hair up into a high pony tail.
"Okay, be back by lunch so we can spend it together," her mother told her. "Noon, no later, understand?"
Kagome smiled, "Yeah, no problem mom." She headed out the door and turned to get the youkai from his room. She was surprised when they door opened before she could knock. Looking at the boy in front of her she thought maybe she was in the wrong place. He was tired, looking like he hadn't slept in years, and his hair was a mess.
"Give me five minutes, okay?" he asked in an exhausted voice. She nodded. He closed the door. Exactly five minutes later she was sitting against the wall counting the holes in the ceiling when his door opened again. He looked slightly better, but still beyond tired.
"Didn't you get any sleep last night?" she asked as they walked down the hall. He didn't say anything, so she took that as a 'no'.
^_^
Hong-Kong's streets were a large maze, but luckily Kagome had remembered to bring a map with her. InuYasha yawn beside her, and saw her shake her head. He hadn't slept because he had been so nervous. If this really was his mother's address, and she really wasn't dead, then what would happen to him? What if Sesshomaru was just doing this to be mean? All of these questions ran through his mind all night long and he had stayed awake listening to the odd answers that followed them. He heard the two boys as they laughed and giggled in their bed, telling secrets or something, and then when their breath had evened out meaning they were finally asleep. Now they were going to trek halfway through the huge city, and he was tired.
"Okay, left here, then one more block, and we should be there," Kagome said. He voice snapped him out of his sleep walk. He nodded, still unable to speak without a slight slur of sleep. The information that he was just five minutes away from the answers to all of his questions the night before. He stopped, standing right in front of a chicken vender. Kagome realized he wasn't right next to her anymore, and turned around, "What's wrong?"
"What if it's not her?" he asked. His voice wasn't coming out as confident as he would've liked it to be.
"You mean what if it is?" she asked back. He nodded slightly. "InuYasha, this could be the wrong information. We won't know until we check it out ourselves." She went to him, and grabbed onto the sleeve of his light jacket. "C'mon, it won't hurt to find out the truth." Pulling slightly on his arm, she was able to guide him down the street towards the high buildings of apartments and businesses.
They stopped in front of one of the oldest buildings on the street. "This is it," Kagome said as she looked at the piece of paper and back to the address on the building. She pulled on his arm as they walked up the stone steps to the door.
"I don't think I can do this," InuYasha admitted. She nodded, then reached her own hand forward and rang the bell.
An old woman answered the door and looked at them. She said something in Chinese.
"No, we speak Japanese. Do you?" Kagome asked.
The woman nodded. "What is it you wish child?"
Kagome spoke up again, "We're here to see Mrs. Takoshi."
The old woman looked down, "I'm sorry, child, but Mrs. Takoshi is dead."
"I knew it," InuYasha muttered. He turned and stormed off, 'Damn you Sesshomaru, you're an asshole.'
-_-
"Sorry, Mrs. Takoshi is his mother," Kagome informed the woman.
The woman thought about that for a minute, "Dear, I hate to say this, but I don't think Mrs. Takoshi could be his mother."
"What? But she had to have been," Kagome said. She looked back at where the boy had run away. "His brother said this was where she was living, and you just confirmed that."
"You don't seem to understand, child. Hana Takoshi was a human. She couldn't have bared a youkai," the old woman said.
"Human?" Kagome asked. "...How did she die?"
"She's had cancer for years. She was admitted here to the permanent care facility by her husband about thirteen years ago. About four days ago we went to check on her, and she was dead," the woman answered.
"Four days ago? She didn't die thirteen years ago? And she's a human?" Kagome turned the information around in her head. "Four days ago Mr. Takoshi was murdered...how could they die on the same day?"
The woman sighed, "Come in, child. We have her things still anyway, and need someone to take it." She turned so that Kagome could walk into the building. "My name is Kaede."
"I'm Kagome; Nice to meet you. Please don't mind InuYasha. He's had it rough," Kagome said as she walked into the building.
"From what you're saying, his life is going to get worse," Kaede told her as they went into the living room.
"What do you mean?" Kagome asked.
"Well, if Mrs. Takoshi was a human, and her husband was a youkai, then InuYasha would be..."
"Oh gods, he's a hanyou?" Kagome said as she sat down on the couch. Her legs had given out. "That would explain some things, but he's alive. How can a hanyou live?"
"I don't know how they were able to keep it a secret, because at the time InuYasha would have been born there wasn't a place on Earth that didn't despise youkai/human marriages. He's probably the only hanyou alive at his age," Kaede folded her hands in front of her. "He probably doesn't even know it."
Kagome thanked the woman, "I have to find him and tell him. He needs to know."
"Come back later and pick up her things, okay?" Kaede asked the teenager. Kagome nodded and ran out the front door.
-_-
He knew where he was going. He could smell his brother and knew the house that he stopped in front of was Sesshomaru's. He clenched his fist and walked up to the front porch of the house. Banging on the door, he waited impatiently until it opened. The young girl who was with his brother at the airport stood there. "Rin, where's Sesshomaru? Get him now!" The girl wasn't scared.
"He had to go to work, InuYasha. He's not home. He won't be home 'til tonight," she informed him calmly.
"Fine, you tell him that he's a fucking liar. Tell him that if he ever does what he did to me today, again, I will fucking kill him, dismember him, then throw him into the Pacific Ocean!" he yelled at her.
"I'll be sure to tell him," Rin said, again she was really calm.
He stomped away, leaving a young woman shaking her head and closing her door.
-_-
When she finally found him, he was sitting in the sand next to the swings in the park down the street from their hotel. "InuYasha," she said as she sat on one of the swings.
"He told me she was still alive. He said I could find her there," InuYasha said in a small voice. He wasn't angry anymore.
"InuYasha, can you push me?" Kagome asked. He stood up slowly, and went behind her. He started to push her forward, and waited for her to return before he pushed again. "I talked to Kaede for a little bit after you ran away."
"Who's Kaede?" InuYasha asked.
"The woman who takes care of the place where...where your mother stayed," Kagome said slowly. She couldn't see him; that was one of the reasons she had wanted him to push her on the swing. If she couldn't see his reactions then she could continue. "InuYasha, your mother, Mrs. Takoshi, was a human. Kaede says that she believes that if Mrs. Takoshi is your mother, then you have to be a hanyou." He stopped pushing her. She looked over her shoulder to see him walking around to stand beside her.
"Hanyou don't exist," he said firmly.
"There have been a few cases, but they never reach adulthood," she said back. "Until now."
"I can't be a hanyou. I was born in Japan. I would have been killed the moment I breathed," he reminded her.
"InuYasha, maybe she hid you...she died four days ago, so what ever secrets she had she brought them with her," she sighed, "Maybe Sesshomaru knows the answers, and that's why he gave you the address. He wanted you to find out the truth."
"What's the truth?" InuYasha asked. He finally looked at her.
"You're a hanyou, and your father was keeping you and your mother alive," Kagome said. "I don't know how he was keeping her alive, but she died the same day he did...
"Bonding," he said.
"What?"
"He made a youkai bond. Probably when she got sick, he bonded with her. It meant that when he died she would, but since he was a youkai he should have lived for another hundred years or so. She would have stayed alive just as long. He probably didn't expect to be murdered, or he would have cut the bond and let her live for how many ever years she had left," InuYasha sat down again on the sand again.
"That would explain that, but what about you being a hanyou?" she asked.
"I thought I had a disease..." he admitted.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"I wasn't as strong as my dad or brother, and once every month I'd loose all of my youkai abilities...I become a human," he looked at the sand again. "I'm a hanyou, but why didn't anyone tell me?"
"Because if anyone besides us know then you might be hunted. Humans will hate you, but you're used to that. Youkai will hate you as well. You won't ever live a peaceful life," Kagome told him. She dragged her feet and stopped herself. "You have to live."
"I'll live...we do need to talk to my brother though. I don't know how I'm going to approach him now..." InuYasha laid back and looked at the bright sun overhead.
"We can think about that later, right now its noon. I promised mom that we would be back for lunch. Try and act happy for her," Kagome smiled at him. He stood up and she did too. "Just don't think about it, and live happy."
"You're an odd girl," InuYasha told her. She smiled and jumped at him. He flinched and caught her. "Very odd," he said as she was being held by him.
"I know. I'm like this because I know it makes you happy," Kagome said happily as she pulled herself away. "C'mon I'm hungry." She grabbed his hand and led him back to the hotel; they never let go of each others hands.
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A/N: Well, there you have it. Another day, another chapter! ^_^ Wow, I've never written this fast in my entire life. And again, I'm hoping I'm not ruining the story. I'm trying to take my time and hurry up. It's getting more confusing thinking about it. Anyway another chapter will be up tomorrow!
Answers to Questions:
Akutenchi: There will be enough fluff later in the story. I'm still trying to set more of the stage for something to happen.
Sailor Black 666: I haven't been online because I've been really busy. You know what my life is like now? No, well, let me clarify. I have only two weeks then I'm going to be placed in all seven chambers of Hell. ^_^ Anyway, just appreciate these chapters.
makkurona*inu*punk: I don't really know exactly how many chapters I am going to write of this story. My outline actually stops on this chapter. I'm now going to write it from my mind, and not by following what I had planned out. I am going to follow my original outline, which isn't as detailed as the one I use to write the chapters with. I write two outlines. One saying all the characters, and what is going to be the main points in the story. The second one is an outline of every chapter. I finished the first outline, but didn't really work much on the second one. So, now I'm going to just write. I don't think this story will exceed twenty chapters, because I don't have much time to write these.
France
Written By: France Gamble
Chapter Nine
The morning came fast for Kagome. The bright sun had already started to come through the blinds, but she didn't wake until her alarm went off. Quickly she snapped awake, and shut off the music that came through the clock. Cautiously she looked at her mother; the woman was still sleeping. Sighing, she stretched on her wonderful hotel bed, and then proceeded to get ready for the day ahead of her.
When she came out from the bathroom fully clean, dressed, and ready to go, she was surprised to see her mother awake. The woman was sitting against her head board reading a book. "Hey, mom."
"Hello dear. Going somewhere?" her mother asked kindly. Her face never came out from the book she was reading.
"Yeah, InuYasha and I are going to explore a little today," Kagome said as she tied her hair up into a high pony tail.
"Okay, be back by lunch so we can spend it together," her mother told her. "Noon, no later, understand?"
Kagome smiled, "Yeah, no problem mom." She headed out the door and turned to get the youkai from his room. She was surprised when they door opened before she could knock. Looking at the boy in front of her she thought maybe she was in the wrong place. He was tired, looking like he hadn't slept in years, and his hair was a mess.
"Give me five minutes, okay?" he asked in an exhausted voice. She nodded. He closed the door. Exactly five minutes later she was sitting against the wall counting the holes in the ceiling when his door opened again. He looked slightly better, but still beyond tired.
"Didn't you get any sleep last night?" she asked as they walked down the hall. He didn't say anything, so she took that as a 'no'.
^_^
Hong-Kong's streets were a large maze, but luckily Kagome had remembered to bring a map with her. InuYasha yawn beside her, and saw her shake her head. He hadn't slept because he had been so nervous. If this really was his mother's address, and she really wasn't dead, then what would happen to him? What if Sesshomaru was just doing this to be mean? All of these questions ran through his mind all night long and he had stayed awake listening to the odd answers that followed them. He heard the two boys as they laughed and giggled in their bed, telling secrets or something, and then when their breath had evened out meaning they were finally asleep. Now they were going to trek halfway through the huge city, and he was tired.
"Okay, left here, then one more block, and we should be there," Kagome said. He voice snapped him out of his sleep walk. He nodded, still unable to speak without a slight slur of sleep. The information that he was just five minutes away from the answers to all of his questions the night before. He stopped, standing right in front of a chicken vender. Kagome realized he wasn't right next to her anymore, and turned around, "What's wrong?"
"What if it's not her?" he asked. His voice wasn't coming out as confident as he would've liked it to be.
"You mean what if it is?" she asked back. He nodded slightly. "InuYasha, this could be the wrong information. We won't know until we check it out ourselves." She went to him, and grabbed onto the sleeve of his light jacket. "C'mon, it won't hurt to find out the truth." Pulling slightly on his arm, she was able to guide him down the street towards the high buildings of apartments and businesses.
They stopped in front of one of the oldest buildings on the street. "This is it," Kagome said as she looked at the piece of paper and back to the address on the building. She pulled on his arm as they walked up the stone steps to the door.
"I don't think I can do this," InuYasha admitted. She nodded, then reached her own hand forward and rang the bell.
An old woman answered the door and looked at them. She said something in Chinese.
"No, we speak Japanese. Do you?" Kagome asked.
The woman nodded. "What is it you wish child?"
Kagome spoke up again, "We're here to see Mrs. Takoshi."
The old woman looked down, "I'm sorry, child, but Mrs. Takoshi is dead."
"I knew it," InuYasha muttered. He turned and stormed off, 'Damn you Sesshomaru, you're an asshole.'
-_-
"Sorry, Mrs. Takoshi is his mother," Kagome informed the woman.
The woman thought about that for a minute, "Dear, I hate to say this, but I don't think Mrs. Takoshi could be his mother."
"What? But she had to have been," Kagome said. She looked back at where the boy had run away. "His brother said this was where she was living, and you just confirmed that."
"You don't seem to understand, child. Hana Takoshi was a human. She couldn't have bared a youkai," the old woman said.
"Human?" Kagome asked. "...How did she die?"
"She's had cancer for years. She was admitted here to the permanent care facility by her husband about thirteen years ago. About four days ago we went to check on her, and she was dead," the woman answered.
"Four days ago? She didn't die thirteen years ago? And she's a human?" Kagome turned the information around in her head. "Four days ago Mr. Takoshi was murdered...how could they die on the same day?"
The woman sighed, "Come in, child. We have her things still anyway, and need someone to take it." She turned so that Kagome could walk into the building. "My name is Kaede."
"I'm Kagome; Nice to meet you. Please don't mind InuYasha. He's had it rough," Kagome said as she walked into the building.
"From what you're saying, his life is going to get worse," Kaede told her as they went into the living room.
"What do you mean?" Kagome asked.
"Well, if Mrs. Takoshi was a human, and her husband was a youkai, then InuYasha would be..."
"Oh gods, he's a hanyou?" Kagome said as she sat down on the couch. Her legs had given out. "That would explain some things, but he's alive. How can a hanyou live?"
"I don't know how they were able to keep it a secret, because at the time InuYasha would have been born there wasn't a place on Earth that didn't despise youkai/human marriages. He's probably the only hanyou alive at his age," Kaede folded her hands in front of her. "He probably doesn't even know it."
Kagome thanked the woman, "I have to find him and tell him. He needs to know."
"Come back later and pick up her things, okay?" Kaede asked the teenager. Kagome nodded and ran out the front door.
-_-
He knew where he was going. He could smell his brother and knew the house that he stopped in front of was Sesshomaru's. He clenched his fist and walked up to the front porch of the house. Banging on the door, he waited impatiently until it opened. The young girl who was with his brother at the airport stood there. "Rin, where's Sesshomaru? Get him now!" The girl wasn't scared.
"He had to go to work, InuYasha. He's not home. He won't be home 'til tonight," she informed him calmly.
"Fine, you tell him that he's a fucking liar. Tell him that if he ever does what he did to me today, again, I will fucking kill him, dismember him, then throw him into the Pacific Ocean!" he yelled at her.
"I'll be sure to tell him," Rin said, again she was really calm.
He stomped away, leaving a young woman shaking her head and closing her door.
-_-
When she finally found him, he was sitting in the sand next to the swings in the park down the street from their hotel. "InuYasha," she said as she sat on one of the swings.
"He told me she was still alive. He said I could find her there," InuYasha said in a small voice. He wasn't angry anymore.
"InuYasha, can you push me?" Kagome asked. He stood up slowly, and went behind her. He started to push her forward, and waited for her to return before he pushed again. "I talked to Kaede for a little bit after you ran away."
"Who's Kaede?" InuYasha asked.
"The woman who takes care of the place where...where your mother stayed," Kagome said slowly. She couldn't see him; that was one of the reasons she had wanted him to push her on the swing. If she couldn't see his reactions then she could continue. "InuYasha, your mother, Mrs. Takoshi, was a human. Kaede says that she believes that if Mrs. Takoshi is your mother, then you have to be a hanyou." He stopped pushing her. She looked over her shoulder to see him walking around to stand beside her.
"Hanyou don't exist," he said firmly.
"There have been a few cases, but they never reach adulthood," she said back. "Until now."
"I can't be a hanyou. I was born in Japan. I would have been killed the moment I breathed," he reminded her.
"InuYasha, maybe she hid you...she died four days ago, so what ever secrets she had she brought them with her," she sighed, "Maybe Sesshomaru knows the answers, and that's why he gave you the address. He wanted you to find out the truth."
"What's the truth?" InuYasha asked. He finally looked at her.
"You're a hanyou, and your father was keeping you and your mother alive," Kagome said. "I don't know how he was keeping her alive, but she died the same day he did...
"Bonding," he said.
"What?"
"He made a youkai bond. Probably when she got sick, he bonded with her. It meant that when he died she would, but since he was a youkai he should have lived for another hundred years or so. She would have stayed alive just as long. He probably didn't expect to be murdered, or he would have cut the bond and let her live for how many ever years she had left," InuYasha sat down again on the sand again.
"That would explain that, but what about you being a hanyou?" she asked.
"I thought I had a disease..." he admitted.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"I wasn't as strong as my dad or brother, and once every month I'd loose all of my youkai abilities...I become a human," he looked at the sand again. "I'm a hanyou, but why didn't anyone tell me?"
"Because if anyone besides us know then you might be hunted. Humans will hate you, but you're used to that. Youkai will hate you as well. You won't ever live a peaceful life," Kagome told him. She dragged her feet and stopped herself. "You have to live."
"I'll live...we do need to talk to my brother though. I don't know how I'm going to approach him now..." InuYasha laid back and looked at the bright sun overhead.
"We can think about that later, right now its noon. I promised mom that we would be back for lunch. Try and act happy for her," Kagome smiled at him. He stood up and she did too. "Just don't think about it, and live happy."
"You're an odd girl," InuYasha told her. She smiled and jumped at him. He flinched and caught her. "Very odd," he said as she was being held by him.
"I know. I'm like this because I know it makes you happy," Kagome said happily as she pulled herself away. "C'mon I'm hungry." She grabbed his hand and led him back to the hotel; they never let go of each others hands.
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A/N: Well, there you have it. Another day, another chapter! ^_^ Wow, I've never written this fast in my entire life. And again, I'm hoping I'm not ruining the story. I'm trying to take my time and hurry up. It's getting more confusing thinking about it. Anyway another chapter will be up tomorrow!
Answers to Questions:
Akutenchi: There will be enough fluff later in the story. I'm still trying to set more of the stage for something to happen.
Sailor Black 666: I haven't been online because I've been really busy. You know what my life is like now? No, well, let me clarify. I have only two weeks then I'm going to be placed in all seven chambers of Hell. ^_^ Anyway, just appreciate these chapters.
makkurona*inu*punk: I don't really know exactly how many chapters I am going to write of this story. My outline actually stops on this chapter. I'm now going to write it from my mind, and not by following what I had planned out. I am going to follow my original outline, which isn't as detailed as the one I use to write the chapters with. I write two outlines. One saying all the characters, and what is going to be the main points in the story. The second one is an outline of every chapter. I finished the first outline, but didn't really work much on the second one. So, now I'm going to just write. I don't think this story will exceed twenty chapters, because I don't have much time to write these.
France