As promised, we got an update before the weekend ended :p

To our Two Guests, BlueRoses93, and LovelyPolkaDots; thank you very much for reviewing.


Some story insight,

This idea came from watching Markiplier's Let's Play of The Evil Within and it was just too hard to resist.

As a warning, this story will get darker once we hit her third year in Krimson City and on. Anything NSFW will be posted on AO3 but not here.

Kagome is 27 and her family is back in Japan. She is on an internship in Krimson City, which she specifically chose, after hearing that's where Joseph lived and worked.

NOTE: Yes! There are some changes! Some editing and fleshing has been going on try and help with inspiration!


Timeline: A few peeks into her first month


II

Getting Familiar

He leaves his sugar in a clear glass container between the stove and a far fancier coffee machine than she'd ever owned or used - a Keurig -, a spoon sitting on a dish in front of a rack of K cup pods. Three mugs and two travels mugs lined up on the other side. Most days, she's noticed he forgets he has a travel mug and just ends up taking one of the other cups instead. The really harrying days she helps him get his coffee set up and knows the deeper his eye-bags, the faster his sugar goes.

Cute pastel rice bowls sit in a row to the left of the mugs, each with different little candies piled in them. A sticky note is stuck to one of them, a reminder to buy some Asian candy for when 'Kagome gets homesick and her sweet tooth gets out of control'. She bites back a smile.

A cutting board hangs on the wall between the cabinet and door, an inspirational message written across it in a flourishing, gaudy font.

Maybe a gift from one of his friends?

The giggle bubbles up out her and Kagome purses her lips, idly swinging her apartment key around as she leans back against the table. Her furniture had arrived a few hours ago and while she had a guess that her okaa-san might have sent too much, there was definitely more than she was expecting. So, the question was — where to put it?

She shrieks when her keys fly off her finger and hits one of the bowls, heart beating out of her chest as she looks around. It's not that she's expecting anyone to show up, it's just a reflex but still, she rubs her face in embarrassment.

With a deep breath, she grabs the keys and goes to put them in the newly designated key bowl after the nth time losing them.

~2~

Getting Familiar

~2~

Standing here, in this room, under these modern lights was proof that she'd made it to this point. Made it this far. She'd faced demons and bandits and the living dead. Went through high school exams, college exams, job interviews, she could do this.

She. could. do. this.

Eyes roaming over the instructions, she lifted a hand to change the settings, but her fingers stalled just over it… —

Nope, she couldn't do this.

Kagome scuttled out of the room, promising to ask Oda-kun when he got home. She'd even offer to clean his clothes to, in return. And if she had enough time, she'd pop around the corner to the store and buy some nori. There hadn't been any she'd seen in the cupboard when she'd started looking around.

Why couldn't his washer be as simple as hers back home?

~3~

Getting Familiar

~3~

Oda-kun asks her to call him Joseph his next day off, eyes a little brighter than usual after getting a good set of hours to sleep and helps her with the washer and dry as well as the actual laundry.

It makes her blush and laugh but it also makes her happy.

She has missed calling him Joseph.

It maybe also makes her a little bold.

End.


Hope you all like the new changes! I, apparently, am not very successful at keeping things under a certain limit. It's one of my flaws. We went up about 200 words!