Chapter 3: Trying to Get By
Izayoi is confused. "Did something happened while I was gone?" She looks at Hige for an answer. "It's just that Kagome just through a terrible time about a week with a guy." Hige could only tell her. Izayoi frowns to realize it. "Oh, I'm sorry that she had to go through all of that." Hige shakes his head. "No, don't be sorry. You just didn't know about it." He said as he grabs the plates and cups from the cabinets.
Ai is standing outside of Kagome's closed door. "Kagome." She knocks a few times. "Go away." Kagome shouts back. Ai sighs and goes in. She sees Kagome lying on her bed. "I said go away, mom." Kagome tells her seriously. Even though she knows that Kagome is being serious, she boldly steps over her daughter's boundaries. "Sweetie, Izayoi had no idea about your past. Besides I was my fault to bring it up." Ai sits onto the bed to calm her down. "Mom, you should've kept your mouth closed." Kagome muffles into the pillow. "Am I'm sorry about that. I thought that you might've gotten over him. It's been a week since then." Kagome turns around to show how puffy her eyes turned. "And I won't get over him. Not what he did to me." Ai knows that it's time to drop the subject.
"Why not come down and join us for dinner." She rubs her daughter's back to calm her down from her crying. "I'm staying put." Kagome refuses to leave her spot. Ai nods with a sad look. "Ok, I'll bring you a plate though." She leaves her daughter alone. When the door closes, Kagome gets into one of her boxes to pull out a picture that has her and guy in his arms. The guy in the picture look so hot for any girl would die to have as a boyfriend. He has long black hair in a high ponytail. He has striking icy blue eyes. 'Why would you do that?' Kagome asks as she places the picture back into the box it came out of.
Ai comes back into the kitchen to see everyone looking at her. "She won't come down. I'm sorry you won't get to meet her Inutaishou." She tells silver haired man. Inutaishou nods. "It's ok. I can wait until she's ready to meet me." He waves it off. Ai looks to get a plate and fills it up with the food the Inutaishou brought for them. "It takes time for a teenager to get used to a new town. I can assure that there's others who live around who would be more than willing to help her out." He advices her. Ai nods and goes upstairs to give Kagome her dinner.
A few hours passed that Inutaishou and Izayoi decide to take their leave. As such the family decide to keep the rest of the food for leftovers for the upcoming nights. "Sota, you can stop your stuff for now. You need your rest for school tomorrow." Ai tells him as she pats his back to have him go upstairs. Sota nods and goes up. She goes to the master bedroom to see Hige putting away a few of his clothes into the walk in closet. "Do you think Kagome will be able to survive tomorrow?" Hige asks her as he comes out. Ai gives him some of her clothes to hang up. "I hope so. There's no telling what that school holds for her." Hige then came out. "Speaking of school, does Kagome have to wear a uniform or is it uniform free?" He asks her. Ai holds her chin. "I think it's uniform free. However there's been a dress code that she has to follow though." She answers him. "Like what exactly?" Hige sits onto the bed. Ai goes into the box that has the school's brochure that Kagome's going to. "First off the length of bottoms are to be to the knee and no higher. According to the school, there's been a problem with them being too short to show the girls' legs which made the boys distracted by it." She explains for what she heard so far. "And what about the tops?" Hige asks her. Ai reads the brochure's on page. "No cleavages are allowed for the same reason."
"Let's just make sure that Kagome's clothes aren't that revealing. I'm not fond of girls doing such a thing. It's disgusting." Hige comments to her. "I had to go through her clothes to get rid of them. I don't like the kind of bottoms she has." Ai agrees with him. "For now you have a big day to go to work at your new job." She reminds him. Hige chuckles. "Indeed I do." They decide to call it a night get some sleep.
Back at the Takahashi house, Izayoi is getting herself changed to get ready for bed. "I'll go check on Inuyasha." Inutaishou offers to check up on their son. "Please do." Izayoi calls out to him. Inutaishou goes up to his son's room. He opens the door to see his son is sleeping like the dead. The position he's sleeping in is so funny that Inutaishou pulls out his phone to take a pic of him. To make sure he doesn't make a sound, he taps the button on the screen and sees the results. 'So funny.' He smirks triumphally. "Dad, delete it now." Inuyasha said to him all of a sudden. "Delete what?" Inutaishou asks him innocently. "Don't play dumb. I knew you took a pic of me sleeping. I know your tricks. I may be sick, but I haven't lost my senses." Inuyasha stares at him. Inutaishou shows the pic. Inuyasha looks at it. "Get rid of it." He repeats the demands.
"Nah, I'm keeping this one. It'll be your profile pic whenever I get a call from you." Inutaishou refuses but he does delete the picture though. "I just wanted to let you know that the Higurashi family have been fed with the traditional dinner." He tells his son. "Ok. So what are they like?" Inuyasha asks him. Inutaishou pulls up his son's desk chair to sit on. "Well the parents are very nice when you meet them. They have two kids. A teenage daughter a kid son." He gives the details so far. "I only met their son. However their daughter didn't join us for dinner." He tells his son. "Really? Why?" Inuyasha asks him curiously. "Let's just say she's trying to get over something that happened to her. Only your mom met her." He explains to him.
'Getting over something?' Inuyasha asks himself. "I'll leave you alone to get some sleep. You should be able to get to school tomorrow." Inutaishou suggests him before leaving the room. 'What could have the girl be going through?' He asks himself. Maybe his friends might have the answer. He repositions to go back to sleep.
The next morning, Inuyasha slowly opens his eyes to see the sun is shining into his room. A knock on his door alerts him. "Morning, Inuyasha." Izayoi comes in. "Hey, mom." He replies as he stretches his body. Izayoi smiles to see him feeling much better. "Looks like you can go to school after all." She said as she takes his hamper to do some laundry for today. Inuyasha waits until she leaves his room so he can get dressed. When the door closes, Inuyasha gets out of bed and goes into his closet to find something to wear. He puts out a faded pair of jeans, and a red short sleeved shirt. He gets out to groom his long head after being tangled by the bedhead. As such he had to be careful with his claws when he does so that he won't scratch his ears onto of his head.
Inuyasha goes down to the kitchen to meet his mom to see what she made for breakfast. He smiles after sniffing the aroma from meat and eggs. As he comes in there's a boy around his age enjoying the meal that Izayoi put onto his plate. "Ah, Inuyasha. It's good to see you on your feet again." The boy spoke to him. Izayoi puts another plate onto the table next to the boy's. "I should've known as much, Miroku." Inuyasha replies as he begins to dig in.
Miroku Houshi is Inuyasha friend since pre-k. Miroku is quite smart for his age, but he has knack of being a pervert whenever he sees a cute girl. "So the cold is done with you?" Miroku asks Inuyasha as he gets his backpack. "Yeah. I owe it to my mom. No one like her can pull off the best remedy." He smiles at Izayoi as she makes a batch of pancakes on the frying pan. "Oh Inuyasha. You know that it's a family recipe that no one can duplicate." Izayoi blushes at that comment.
"But it weren't for you, mom. I'd be a dead dog for sure." Inuyasha begs to differ. That's when he saw the raised her one eyebrow. "It's true." All Izayoi is chuckles. "Thanks son." She smiles before resuming the cooking. Inuyasha sighs as he finishes his drink. "We might as well get going. I'll see you later." He tells his mother as he gets his backpack from the floor and heads out the door with Miroku right behind him.
