Right outside the Window

Summary: She saw everything from her window. How the two brothers had grown up, how they had grown apart, and she'd even witnessed them going their own ways. All she wanted now, was to bring them back together...but how? She was only one person...

Anime/Manga: InuYasha/Prince of Tennis

Genre: Romance/Drama

Pairing: Yuuta/Kagome/Shuusuke

Rated: M

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YEAR: 2000

(Four Months Later)

"Shuusuke! Yuuta!"

The two boys turned to see their first friend made at their new home. The youngest was the first to respond to the girl as he called out her name.

"Kagome has come to play with us again!"

"Hehe, Yuuta, you guys are playing tennis?"

"Yeah!"

"Do you play, Kagome?"

Kagome laughed, "Nope, never even held a racquet before."

The two looked at her in surprise, but said nothing for a while. Finally, Shuusuke smiled and held out the juniors' racquet in his hand. "Here,"

Kagome looked at the racquet with a curious glimmer in her eyes before taking it, "What now? I...I don't know how to play..."

Yuuta laughed, "Brother will teach us! He's awesome!"

Kagome looked at Shuusuke who stood with closed eyes and a smile on his face, it wasn't the first time she'd seen him like this, in fact, she'd never seen his eyes in all the time she'd played with him. "Mm...okay!"

Yuuta held his own racquet out, Shuusuke placed a ball on it and he started to twist his wrist in a seesaw motion, causing the ball to travel in circles around the racquets frame.

'Th-that looks simple enough.' Kagome held her racquet up and watched as Shuusuke placed a ball on her own racquet, well...his racquet, but she was using it. "Like...this?"

"Yeah!" Shuusuke smiled, though, nothing new there. He always smiled; she was starting to wonder if he ever got mad, actually.

Tilting just a little too hard, she cried out as it rolled off, reaching out to catch it, she bumped it up to keep it in the air and watched as it came down above her, a hand took hers and brought the racquet she held up and out, catching the ball in a roll before straightening her arm out and tilting her hand in a seesaw motion again. "Ah...ah!" Kagome laughed, "Shuusuke! I did something! What did I do? You did it, but how, with my hand, how!?" She was practically jumping up and down now, the ball bouncing unsteadily on her racquet from her excitement., which only seemed to excite her more, "It's not falling off! Waaah...YATTA!"

"Haha, you still have a long ways to go, Kagome!" Yuuta smiled as he bounced a ball on his racquet, getting it up about three inches in length.

"...saa..." Shuusuke smiled, he grabbed another racquet from the bag by them and a ball, then started bouncing it in front of the two younger kids. Not a few inches high, but at the least, a foot in length, the ball kept its pace, and place on the racquet.

"WAH! Shuusuke is so cool!"

"Brother, teach me too!"

"Me too, Shuusuke, me too!"

Shuusuke smiled, laughing as he continued showing them how to do the simple, yet complicated bouncing technique.

It took Yuuta a few hours into the day to get it down, though, still not perfect, he could bounce it a few times over before it bounced off or he dribbled it and let it roll on his racquet. Kagome was learning at a much slower pace, but then, she wasn't use to the grip at all. He took her hand and looked at it before frowning to himself and taking the racquet from her hands. "Let's call it a day, we can practice again tomorrow. It's almost noon now, I'm hungry!"

"Ah, food! FOOD! Kagome, come on!" Yuuta pulled her off towards the house, his and Shuusuke's house. Kagome pulled back and frowned.

"Ah...Y-Yuuuutaaa~!" She whined, "You should always ask your mom and dad first, before you bring home friends."

Shuusuke walked up behind her and placed a hand on her shoulders, smiling when she turned to face him. "Kagome can join us, we asked this morning."

Her eyes widened at that, and she smiled as both boys took her hands in theirs and pulled her inside. Kagome never really went inside the Fuji household, she knew Yumiko, having met her a couple times. She would always ask to read her fortune, and would playful predict the weather or the time dinner would be finished. Oddly enough, she was right, she had even predicted that the mail would be late last Saturday, and that she'd face a messy disaster all dressed in white. That was the worst, when her mom had her in a white dress, and running out, she went to show Shuusuke and Yuuta, only for one of the kids nearby playing with them, to push her into the mud. Shuusuke hadn't been very happy, and Yuuta had helped her out of the mud, patting her on the head like Shuusuke would always do him, trying to get her to stop crying.

Yes, that was the worst day of her life, however short her six years were.

"Ah...Kagome, would you like for me to read your future?"

Kagome turned to the pretty seventeen year old and smiled nervously, "Hehe, s-sure..."

Yumiko sat across from Kagome and smiled, "Is there a specific timeframe that you wish for me to take a look into?"

Kagome smiled, 'One I won't remember?' she laughed a little to herself before shaking her head and forcing herself to be serious, "A few months into the future, I guess?"

"...mmm..." Yumiko placed the deck of cards before Kagome and had her split them, then told her to choose a deck, she did, then Yumiko shuffled the chosen deck and spread the cards out in a line in one fluid motion on the hardwood table they sat at as she had Kagome choose three cards.

"This one...this, and...that one."

"Alright," Yumiko never bothered explaining the cards or their meanings, the kids were too young to understand them anyways, she just gave the final prediction at the end of her readings and let them run off to discover her prowess in fortune telling was more than a little game or hobby. "Ah...th...that's strange."

Kagome looked curiously at the boys sister, "What? I'm not going to get a new dress dirty again, am I?!"

Yumiko laughed, "No...nothing like that. I see...a new friend in your future."

Kagome smiled at that, "EH?! Really? Really?"

"Hm, yeah...a..." Yumiko tried stifling a laugh, but couldn't, "I see, a red, acrobatic Neko...in Kagome's future." Both Yuuta and Shuusuke joined in on their sisters' laughter.

Kagome frowned, "Not funny!"

Yumiko silence her laughter and smiled, "Sorry, but it's true, that was my reading...oh, but there is more, and this I hope you pay close attention to. In the coming spring, when you meet this red, acrobatic neko, an accident will occur." Yumiko frowned, "Kagome, the future is not set in stone, until its been made the past...do not get discourages, I'm sure its nothing. Just...be careful...around the roads and cars, come spring..."

Kagome nodded, though she was honestly doubtful about the whole fortune. Who'd ever heard of a red, acrobatic neko? There was no way she'd meet that...right?

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