This is the only chapter of this. The idea was teenager issues.
It was past dark and she wasn't home. Kagome's eyebrow raised and she cut her eye to watch her husband pace the floor by the front door. Stirring dinner, she sighed. This was the third time this week that Kaori had defied their rules and stayed out past curfew. Given, it was getting darker earlier due to the time of year, but that did not lessen the transgression.
"Inuyasha, go get Kazuki from his room then come get some dinner. She will be home soon enough. I'm sure she was over at Sango and Miroku's. They will have sent her our way." Kagome sighed, ladeling the thick soup into the bowls before setting them on they trays with the rice balls she would have like help with earlier.
Inuyasha growled, hand instinctively on the hilt of his sword, clutching the wood tightly. "Damn it, Kagome! You act like this is okay! She is late for dinner AGAIN and I swear to the Kami if Miroku's boy's scent is anywhere on her I'll rip his little.." with one stern look from Kagome, like lightning, Inuyasha stopped his angered rambling and stomped back towards the rear of the house and retrieved his son for dinner.
Not even a minute after sitting around the fire did Kaori's scent reach his nose, and he was up at the door frame, bristling with anger. Kagome watched as the hanyou blocked the entryway with his body, arms crossed and ears pinned forward in attention. Then came the vocals. "Now where the hell you been?! Yer mom and me set up these rules to keep you and yer brother safe. And I'll be damned if I'm gonna let you just act like they don't matter!" Before Kagome could calm her raging husband, her 14 year old daughter had shoved her way past his foreboding figure and plopped down onto the cushion and received her tray of food. Inuyasha stood, dumbfounded, as the black haired girl bowed in thanks to her mother and began to eat, her own black dog ears twitching in an irritated frenzy. "What the hell?! Are you just gonna let her walk right in like nothings wrong!?" He growled, seething in his still guarded stance. Kagome looked to him beneath her bangs and spoke quietly, "Any issues we have can be discussed after dinner." Her words were short and precise.. and held no room for argument.
Dinner was eaten in relative silence.. with the exception of 12 year old Kazuki's ramblings of his day. His chocolate brown eyes dances as he regaled them with tales of learning how to fight against Shippo's fox magic and catching frogs in the stream. Kagome smiled at the boy, his shaggy white hair was almost to his chin, completely hiding his human ears, and needed to be trimmed. She then aimed her gaze at her daughter. The golden honey eyes stared dispassionatly at the fire as she awaited the tongue lashing that was promised from her father.. who had not stopped his angry eating to even look her way.
After some hinting, Kazuki took the dishes and left the three to address the elephant in the room.
"Go on. Tell us why yer late again. I can smell Miroku's boy on you." Inuyasha snarled, his arms were crossed tightly, his right knee bobbing in impatience.
As soon as he said it, Kaori's cheeks flushed bright pink. Her thin, nimble hands were clenched into fist on her lap, gripping her yukata in white knuckled anguish. "You don't get it, dad!" She cried, tears stinging the back of her eyes and threatening to run over as she clenched her teeth togther. "Yousuke doesn't like me like that! I'm just like.. like a little sister to him!" Kagome could hear the pain in her daughter's voice as she growled past her small fangs. She could also tell that her husband was caught off guard by the sudden emotion in the room, his ears falling to the side as his wide eyed stare explained that he had lost his steam and was unaware of what to do with this crying teenager.
"He likes Miyuki, okay! We are just friends and he doesn't like me like that and he never will so stop acting like he will!" With that, the girl jumped up, her raven hair hiding her face, " May I be excused, mother." She asked, a hiccup interrupting her request. Kagome nodded and allowed her daughter to flee to her bedroom.
Inuyasha was floored. He sat now, his hands laying limply at his sides, staring after his daughter as she disappeared down the hall. He had all of the appeal of a deflated balloon. "What..what just happened?" He asked, his wife stare finding his wife, searching for for an answer. "She's in love. And he doesn't seem to feel the same way." Kagome sighed, flattening the wrinkles from her hakama as she remembered the time so long ago when she would lay on her bed, crying over the same man asking her for guidance now.
"What.. I dont.. that ain't no reason to act like that!" He protested, pointing toward his daughters direction. "Inuyasha. She's hurting. I was the same way when you kept choosing Kikyo over me all those years ago. I cried a lot. Sango helped me over it and so did my mom. Maybe she needed some time after visiting to get a hold of everything before coming home. Don't act like you've never used that old tree to sort things out when the rest of us were asleep." Leaning over, Kagome layed a hand on her husband's thigh. "She needs her daddy." She whispered, patting his leg gently.
The hanyou looked at her then, his eyes held fear and uncertainty, "What.. what do ya want me to tell her?" He asked, scratching his head. He was never one for sentiment and words were at a loss in this moment.
"Tell her what you would have told yourself back then. She's your daughter after all." With that, Kagome stood and kissed her husband's forehead "and Inuyasha? Don't be a jerk" she added, for safe measure. With that the hanyou was left alone. He swallowed loudly, he could fight demons with his bare hands any day..but how was he supposed to talk to a teenage girl?