Improv-ninja: Alright guys I was reading my reviews and someone left one on a previous chapter that got me thinking. I haven't made Kagome and Kikyou fight in a while. I must change that! I got a few ideas from people here and there but one I think will be nice is from a friend of mine who reads my chapters before I post them gave me an idea. Let me know what you think please! Hopefully soon my cures commonly known as writers block goes away. Oh! One more thing, the song I use in this chapter is originally a song in Spanish called "Un Mundo de Caramelo" (A World of Caramel). I tried my best to translate it so that it makes sense but that was hard since it has words that in some cases just don't sound as nice in English as they do in Spanish. I don't own the song nor do I own the one Inuyasha sings (which is 'You and Me' by Lifehouse) or the manga/anime Inuyasha. But one day I will get permission to use a song in this story. More information about that later; right now here's chapter 15, Kagome's Birthday and Yumi's video.
Inuyasha and Miroku woke up the next morning to a knocking, no pounding, on the door.
"Wake up guys!" Songo yelled."
Inuyasha stepped out of his room at the same moment as a sleepy Miroku.
"Is she trying to get herself evicted?" Inuyasha asked. Miroku shrugged and walked to the door.
"Do you want the people in the United States to hear you?" Miroku asked when he opened the door.
"Well it would be cool if Yumi heard, but that's not why I was yelling. Kagome's birthday is next Saturday. We have to plan something!" Songo replied walking in and using her "inside voice" (tee hee, inside voice :P like when we where young). Inuyasha looked at her.
"Rin said Kagome hates her birthday." Inuyasha said, "Rin said she and Souta was planning a small party thing on Saturday for her anyway."
"Yeah, but only so more than four people can actually remember Kagome's birthday. We need to do something too. It's her sweet 16th birthday, we should make it special."
Inuyasha and Miroku nodded in agreement. The three sat down on the couch and started brain storming.
"Hey who is that one cousin Kagome has in the States again?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yumi." Songo replied.
How close are they? Kagome and Yumi, that is."
"Closer than two dots of paint on a picture. And if you're planning on trying to get her here for her birthday forget it. Rin and I already tried."
"I wasn't, I was thinking we do a video chat with her or something."
Songo thought about that for a moment. "I think she does that every year." She said.
Inuyasha mumbled a damn under his breath.
"You a girl Songo, can't you just make her a cake?" Miroku said. Songo gave him a 'what the fuck' look.
"Oh so just because I'm a girl my mind is programmed to know how to make a cake!" She yelled at him. Miroku knew at this point that he just set himself up for a fight he couldn't win.
"No that's not what I meant!"
"It sounded like that was what you meant." Inuyasha said.
Miroku shot him a look. "Not helping man!" He said.
Inuyasha laughed and got up. "While you to sort this out, I'm going to see Kagome." With that he left.
When Inuyasha got to Kagome's house everyone was outside. Kagome's mother and grandfather were cleaning the yard. Souta was under the old god tree on his laptop with headphones on working hard on something. Rin was here with Kagome both on the porch playing a nice melody on their acoustic guitars.
"That sounds very nice." Inuyasha said. Kagome looked up and smiled at him.
"Thank you" She said still smiling.
"It's something we heard on the internet this morning." Rin said looking up, "It's easy, so we thought Kagome could learn it fast. We were right."
Inuyasha smiled. Before he could say anything else Souta took his headphones off and called out to his sisters.
"Kagome Yumi wants to know what you're going to do for you're birthday." He said.
"We're having a small party in the back yard." Rin said. Souta typed her response. Rin looked at Inuyasha "You're coming right?" She asked. Inuyasha nodded and Kagome smiled.
"Now she wants to know what you want for your birthday Kagome." Souta said.
"For my favorite cousin to come visit." Kagome replied. Souta typed the response.
"Just put her on a video chat!" Rin called. Souta obeyed and sat next to the girls with his laptop. Inuyasha sat down as well. Within a minute a girl appeared on the screen. She had the same facial features as Kagome, Rin, and Kikyou. Inuyasha was amazed at how dominate their family characteristics were. Yumi looked more similar to Kagome than Kikyou.
"Hey guys!" The girl called out waving at them.
"Hi Yumi!" Kagome, Rin, and Souta called.
"Who's that?" Yumi asked pointing to Inuyasha.
"This is my boyfriend Inuyasha." Kagome replied.
"Ah. Ra'c lida" Yumi said smiling. Kagome nodded. "Jano" She replied.
"Not that again!" the group heard a boy call in the background. Yumi and Kagome giggled.
"Enough with that secret language of yours!" The boy called out.
"You can learn it to Logan." Kagome said.
"Yeah it's Al Bhed. There's tons of Al Bhed translators on the internet." Yumi said tuning to the boy.
"That's her boyfriend, Logan." Kagome said,
"And you two actually took the time to learn how to speak Al Bhed from Final Fantasy X?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yup" Yumi and Kagome said in unison.
"Ra'mm kad icat du ed ajahdiymmo" Yumi said.
"Rubavimmo." Kagome replied. Rin rolled her eyes.
"Don't you two ever get tired of speaking in that made up language?" Rin asked.
"Right?!" Logan called.
"Nope" Kagome said.
"I don't." Yumi said, "Well I gots to go. I'm going to see Logan's band play right now."
"Isn't it like one in the morning over there?" Souta asked.
"No. It's two. They're doing this all night concert at a teen club right now. We just came to get some things when I saw Souta was on."
"Oh ok, have fun and good luck Logan!" Kagome called. Logan called out his thanks and Yumi waved bye before she logged off the video chat.
"Well that was a nice little chat." Souta said grabbing his laptop and getting up, "Back to work." He left back to his spot under the tree.
"Kagome what do you want for your birthday?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yeah you haven't really said what you wanted." Rin said.
Kagome shrugged. "I don't know. I don't want anything."
"Come on there's got to be something you want." Rin said. Kagome shook her head.
"You guys don't have to get me anything. Really, I don't want anything."
"Fine then, I'll get you something I want to give you." Rin said. Inuyasha nodded in agreement.
"Even better. I get a surprise." Kagome said.
"And you're going to like it." Inuyasha said. Rin giggled and nodded in agreement. Kagome smiled.
"Go crazy then guys. You too Souta. This outta be good" She said.
"Ok." Rin said and thought for a moment, "I got it!" She got up and put her guitar in the black case behind her. "I'll see you guys on Saturday!" With that Rin took her guitar to her car and left.
"I'm kinda scared as to what she's going to get me." Kagome said, "Last year she got me my cell phone. She even pays for it now. I don't want her to spend so much on me."
"I'll tell Sesshomaru to make sure she doesn't" Inuyasha said, pulling out his phone and texting his brother.
I'll try but promises. She's crazy when it comes to presents. Sesshomaru replied. Kagome let out a sigh.
"No! My present isn't complete yet!" Souta said running inside with his laptop calling "charger, charger, charger…"
Kagome smiled. "Such a fuss over one day." Kagome said.
"It's a special day though. It's the day you came into this world. We have to celebrate that." Inuyasha said, making Kagome blush. "Hmm… I've got something." He said. Kagome looked at him,
"I know what I'm going to do for your birthday. I've got to go." He kissed Kagome cheek.
"What are you going to do?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha started to leave.
"If I tell you it wouldn't be a surprise." He said and left in a hurry.
"And now I play the waiting game." Kagome sighed and went inside.
That Friday Inuyasha headed to Kagome's house at night. It was 11:45 at night when he got there. He noticed that there was a dim light coming from Kagome's window. Probably from her computer which meant she might be awake still. He climbed up to her window and saw Kagome in a black tank top and blue plaid pajama bottoms on her computer. It looked like she was typing something. Probably the essay they got in history class today. Carefully Inuyasha knocked on her window. Kagome turned and smiled when she saw him.
"What are you doing here?" Kagome asked when she opened her window. She moved a little bit back so he can get in.
"I wanted to be the first to tell you happy birthday in person." He said,
"What are you doing up?"
"I have this feeling that tomorrow I wont be able to do my history essay and if I might not want to do on Sunday so I figured I might as well finish it today. I'm almost done."
"Only you can finish a two page essay due in a week in a day." He said wrapping his arms around Kagome's waist and pulling her close.
"I'm not going to finish tonight aren't I?" Kagome asked putting her hands on his shoulders. Inuyasha shook his head and kissed her, "You can do it later." He kissed her again.
"Is this my birthday present?" Kagome asked.
"Not even close. Is your mom and grandpa asleep?" Inuyasha asked.
"Grandpa sleeps downstairs and mom had a business thing to go to. She should be back on Sunday." Inuyasha nodded. And when Kagome asked why he simply smiled. They sat down on Kagome's bed. At the stroke of midnight Inuyasha whispered happy birthday into Kagome's ear, and not even a second later her cell phone began ringing that she had text messages. Her computer suddenly had about five IM's opened and a video chat was opened. The text and IM's all said "Happy birthday Kagome!" they were all from family and Songo, Miroku, Ayame and even Kouga. Yumi was on the video chat Along with a lady who looked like she might be her mom and a boy about Rin's age who might be her older brother all singing happy birthday. Kagome smiled and Inuyasha smelt salt water.
"Those better be tears of joy Kagome." Inuyasha asked when Yumi and her family was done.
Kagome nodded smiling and wiped away a tear. "I love you guys!" She said sitting down on her computer seat, "The day started two minutes ago and it's already the best birthday ever!"
"And it's only going to get better form here." Yumi said. Inuyasha nodded in agreement.
"I don't see how. Like ten people have already said happy birthday to me. That's more than usual right there!"
"It's going to get better. Trust me" Inuyasha said.
"Yeah listen to your man! I gotta go to school so I'll talk to you later!"
"Ok, bye Yumi! Thanks again!" Kagome said.
"Any time Kagome. Oh and really quick we found a video a few days ago. We had to convert it from a VHS to a DVD. I sent you a pice of the video. I think you might like it. Bye!" With that Yumi left.
"Wonder what video she's talking about." Kagome said opening up her e mail. She did have a message from Yumi with an attachment on it. The e mail said "I hope you remember this. I didn't till I saw this."
"Now I wanna know what it is." Inuyasha said as Kagome downloaded the video.
"Now this is a party!" A man who sounded like he was holding the camera said as he looked around with the camera. The setting was in Kagome's back yard. Souta who looked about three was wobbling around being chased by ten year old Rin. Their parents laughed. Suddenly the camera was pointed to a lady who looked like Yumi's mom.
"Happy Birthday honey." The man holding the camera said. The lady blushed.
"Hey Ayanna!" Kagome's father called, "What's my favorite sister-in-law want for her birthday?" He asked.
"To know why my little Yumi has been humming a song every time she comes back from your house." Ayanna said. the man with the camera laughed.
"You really wanna know?" Kagome's father asked. Ayanna nodded.
"I think everyone here wants to know." The man holding the camera said.
"Well Alright. Kagome!" Her dad called. A Six year old Kagome came running. "Go get my guitar and Yumi. We're going to sing your aunt the song we've been practicing." He said.
Kagome smiled and ran off again.
"I think I remember this" Kagome said.
When Kagome came back she had her dads acoustic in one hand and a six year old Yumi was following her. She handed the guitar to her dad and he tired to get every ones attention.
"Yumi and Kagome would like to sing you guys a song they wrote."
"You helped them write it daddy!" Rin called out.
"I never said they wrote it on their own. Anyways, here are Yumi and Kagome singing a song." Every one clapped as Kagome's father got ready to play. He asked the little if they were ready. The girls nodded and Kagome's father began to play. (Underlined means Yumi is singing, bold font is Kagome and Italic font is both of them)
Make me a world of candy
Have the air filled with cotton
And the candy fall from the sky
The stars are piñatas
Suddenly, all the joys
Seem to come from the heart
Yes, I like kissing life
Chocolate there are the dreams
For all that is good
Always on the verge of the nougat
If the candy's are different colors
The memories are too
Popcorn at the movies
For the heat we'll drink smoothies
Hot chocolate made by Grandma
To warm up our hearts and our souls
A little spicy the life
A little sweet is the love
Snow flakes smile at me
That gave me a glimmer of sunshine
Some rice pudding please
To live
To give a flavor for all that soon
Is sad, is lonely
Oh, oh, oh...
I want a world made of candy
Where everything is better
And that child we carry within us
Can escape from inside our heart
To play with her friends
And laugh with the whole world
The laughter of all children
Is the music of love
Make me a world of candy
Have the air filled with cotton
And the candy fall from the sky
The stars are piñatas
Suddenly, all the joys
Seem to come from the heart
Yes, I like kissing life
Chocolate there are the dreams
A little spicy the life
A little sweet is the love
Snow flakes smile at me
That gave me a glimmer of sunshine
Some rice pudding please
To live
To give a flavor for all that soon
Is sad, is lonely
Oh, oh, oh…
I want a world made of candy
Where everything is better
And that child we carry within us
Can escape from inside our heart
To play with her friends
And laugh with the whole world
The laughter of all children
Is the music of love
Make me a world of candy
Have the air filled with cotton
And the candy fall from the sky
The stars are piñatas
Popcorn at the movies
For the heat we'll drink smoothies
Hot chocolate made by Grandma
To warm up our hearts and our souls
Oh, oh.. Uuu…
I want a world made of candy
Where everything is better
And that child we carry within us
Can escape from inside our heart
To play with her friends
And laugh with the whole world
The laughter of all children
Is the music of love
Popcorn at the movies
For the heat we'll drink smoothies
Hot chocolate made by Grandma
To warm up our hearts and our souls…
(A little spicy the life
A little sweet is the love)
When the girls finished everyone clapped. The girls smiled. Yumi's mom was crying and applauding the loudest by far.
"Now that was wonderful baby!" The man behind the camera said to Yumi who's smile widen.
"We have some very talented little girls." Ayanna said wiping away a tear.
"That we do, Ayanna that we do." Kagome's dad replied.
"I remember that." Kagome said. "Dad was playing the guitar one day and we told we wanted to be singers. 'We wanna sing daddy' I told him. I remembered he smiled and said he'd help us write a song. 'Let's try to get it down by your aunt Ayanna's birthday' he said."
"So what your telling me is that you both are basically the most identical identical twins on the planet? With the same physical characteristics and interest?" Inuyasha asked. Kagome laughed.
"We'd have to have been born the same day and from the same woman for that to happen, but as far as identical cousins go yeah. We have the same dark eyes and skin tone. Rin was unfortunate enough to share those traits with Kikyou even if that's all she shared with her."
Inuyasha laughed. He stayed for a few more minutes then left to get some sleep before the party at noon.
When it was time for Inuyasha and Miroku to head off to the party Songo and Ayame had already left. Their timing could not have been better. Once they stepped on the backyard all they heard was Kagome cry "Bitch" and suddenly she was on top of Kikyou beating the living hell out of her. Sesshomaru was holding on to Rin who wanted to join Kagome. He actually looked like he was struggling to hold on to her. Everyone else was screaming and watching.
"Who invited her here anyway?" Inuyasha asked trying to get Kagome off Kikyou.
"Grandpa." Souta responded angrily. Inuyasha finally got Kagome off Kikyou and was now struggling just as much as Sesshomaru was with Rin.
"Man, and I thought I was the demon in the relationship." Inuyasha said.
"I was just about to say the same thing little brother." Sesshomaru said.
"That's not fully true Inuyasha." Kikyou said slowly getting up, "Their blood just isn't as tainted as yours is."
Sesshomaru and Inuyasha looked at her for a moment then at the angry Souta.
"Don't you dare say that again!" Rin and Kagome yelled.
"Our great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandpa on our dads side married a hanyou. So we have a small amount of demonic blood." Souta said staring at Kikyou.
"A disgrace to our family now!" Kikyou said.
"Do you wanna die?!" Kagome shouted.
"Oh no I am starting to lose my grip. I do not know how much longer I can hold on to Kagome" Inuyasha said in a slight monotone.
"Same here little brother," Sesshomaru said in the same tone, "I think I've got ten seconds before Rin can escape my grasp." They looked at Kikyou who started limping away, everyone laughed.
Kouga went to the area that had speakers and other musical devices. "Alright now that that's taken care of, lets get this party started!" He said. Kouga plugged his ipod to the speakers and the yard was filled with music. Everyone started to have a good time.
"You know, that's kinda hot." Sesshomaru said who was still trying to calm Rin down.
"Right?! You girls having some demonic blood even if it's not enough to show a physically. That's hot." Inuyasha said. Sesshomaru nodded in agreement. Kagome and Rin blushed a little bit.
The rest of the party was better with Kouga and Ayame dj-ing it and a bunch of kids from school having fun. Souta made Kagome a video with pictures and clips of her life. Rin got her a guitar case with Kagome's name embroidered on it. Songo, Miroku, Kouga and Ayame all pitched in and got her a black and white standard fender strat, and to make it better Sesshomaru took the liberty of getting her an amp for it.
"I'll give you my gift later." Inuyasha whispered to Kagome as they were going to Kagome's room to put her new items away.
"You didn't have to get me anything." Kagome said, "I've gotten plenty already. What more can I ask for?"
"Good question. My present may not be as nice or as expensive as everyone else's, actually it didn't cost a dime, but I think you'll love it."
"And now I play The Waiting Game yet again." Kagome sighed, It wasn't until after everyone left that Inuyasha gave Kagome her present. When she went up to her room after saying goodbye to Rin and Sesshomaru she was surprised to find Inuyasha with an acoustic in his hand.
"I thought you went with Miroku already." Kagome said when she saw him. "Just to get my lucky guitar." He said, "I wrote something for you."
Kagome smiled and sat down next to him while he started to play.
what day is it?
and in what month?
this clock never seemed so alive
I can't keep up
and I can't back down
I've been losing so much time
cause it's you and me
and all of the people
with nothing to do
nothing to lose
and it's you and me
and all of the people
and I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you
all of the things that I want to say
just aren't coming out right
I'm tripping inwards
you got my head spinning
I don't know where to go from here
cause it's you and me
and all of the people
with nothing to do
nothing to prove
and it's you and me
and all of the people
and I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you
there's something about you now
I can't quite figure out
everything she does is beautiful
everything she does is right
you and me
and all of the people
with nothing to do
nothing to lose
and it's you and me
and all of the people
and I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of
you and me
and all of the people
with nothing to do
nothing to prove
and it's you and me
and all of the people
and I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you
what day is it
and in what month
this clock never seemed so alive
When he finished singing Kagome almost couldn't wait for him to put the guitar down before she practically threw herself at him.
"That was beautiful!" She said kissing him. Inuyasha pulled away from her smiling.
"I'm glad you liked it." He said putting a hand in his pocket.
"Like it. I loved it." She said, smiling. Inuyasha smiled and took his hand that was now holding a small box out of his pocket.
"This wasn't in the original plans. Actually I bought this right after I left." He handed her the box. Kagome opened it and stared. Inside was a necklace with a heart. On one side of the heart there were four little diamonds tracing the shape of the hearts side. Kagome kissed him again.
"I love it." She said. Inuyasha helped her put it on. Kagome smiled.
"This is one of the best birthdays ever." She said.
"I'm glad." Inuyasha whispered as he wrapped his arms around her waist and held her close to him. He kissed her and she put her hands on his neck. His slipped his tongue in her mouth as he pulled her closer to him. He started kissing her with more passion and wanting then ever. As if he needed her to live. When they pulled apart Inuyasha looked into her eyes.
"Has anyone ever told you that you have beautiful eyes?" He asked. Kagome blushed. He kissed her one last time before leaving.
"Oh yeah. Defiantly the best birthday ever." She side.
Improv-ninja: Damn I think this is the longest chapter I've ever written! 14 pages! Wow! I hope you guys like it and I've got some ideas for other chapters including Inuyasha's birthday, Songo's first original solo song, and more Ayame and Kouga who are just friends. At this point… maybe. So yeah let me know what you think! Bye guys!