Chapter 6
Inuyasha looked at the house with pleasure, whipping his forehead with his arm, "I did a pretty good job." Souta stood next to him open mouthed, "What?"
"'YOU' did a pretty good job? What about WE did a pretty good job?" Souta had to help Inuyasha all the way through the process of building the extension to the house, considering Inuyasha failed at building.
He looked at Souta with dismay, "Don't.. ruin this." So Souta decided to keep his mouth shut and let Inuyasha bathe in false glory. They both walked into the kitchen were Kagome was making some snakes and washing things up, "Haha, just where she should be." Inuyasha said chuckling. Kagome's happy aura turned extremely dark; which Inuyasha and Souta caught on to quickly.
Kagome turned her head to look over her shoulder, sending piercing needles from her eyes. "What do you want?" she said harshly. Inuyasha felt his whole body relax from going without his usual punishment. Him and Souta sat down at the table and chatted about nothing in particular, Kagome set a small plate of finger food and a tall glass of Lemonade in front of Souta. She walked back to the counter, finish up what she was doing before they came in, then cleaned up the counter putting some dishes in the sink and others in the dish washer. She wiped her hands on a cloth and walked out of the room.
Inuyasha looked back at Souta then to the door and back at Souta, "What the hell?" They heard foot step coming down the hall way, the door slide open again and Kagome pocked her head in.
"Don't you dare touch my fridge or food. If I come back and there is even a millimeter missing, you will regret it." Kagome looked into Inuyasha's eyes intensely, "Oh yeah, Souta we need to talk about other things considering the house. Can you come find me when you're done, and if you feed any of your food to him you'll regret it too." with that she stomped off.
Sango investigated the extensions. The walls were still bear of paint, so it gave it a rough broken down look still, The floor was topped with a temporary rug, the windows were fitted perfectly and the wood cut was amazing the placements and exact. Inuyasha defiantly did not do this. At the moment it was still just a giant no rooms, but there were stairs in the room that led up stairs, she was about to go up them when Kagome and Souta walked in.
Kagome's face light up once she saw Sango, "Just the person I needed. We need help deciding some things. now that we've got the need housing we also need the other things." She spook as they walked up the stairs.
"What kind of other things?"
"Kitchen, dining area, bathrooms, things like that." she said. They got to the second floor and basically was the same down stairs, just a big room, but this one already contained rooms from before the extensions but just Souta's old room the bathroom and Kagome's parent's old room.
"Well, what do you need to figure out?"
"Well, first we would need to figure out the rooming arrangements, so we know exactly how many rooms we need. All we can afford for bath rooms is two medium sized, maybe small extra's if we spend wisely. How big the kitchen needs to be and where we should place the bath rooms. Have you seen Shippo and Tora, we'll need them in this decision as well?" Kagome briefed them over the basics.
"Yeah, I think they're down in the court yard, by the tree; Do you want me to go get them really quick?" Sango said while walking toward the door, Kagome smiled and shook her head.
They were sitting under a tree, Tora was laying down in Shippo's lap, his lags on both sides of her, they were talking and giggling. They still reminded her of kids even though Shippo's 26 and her 22, Sango admired them because she feels that they will never grow out of this. "Hey guy," she said approaching the two lovers, "Sorry if I'm interrupting anything, but Kagome needs to talk with us, I'm guessing it's important."
Smiles both erupted from them when she came over, "Hey, yeah don't worry about it, and we'll come right now, just give us a couple seconds. We'll be right behind you." Shippo's deep voice rumbled. Once Sango turned away and started walking back Tora sat up and let Shippo get up, which then he helped her up. They held each other in their arms and just blushed, looking at each other mesmerizing every part of their faces- with everything that happened they realized they needed to do this, and spend any given time together that they could. Tora's eyes were like ice, but more of the first fall of winter and you walk out and the sun is lighting everything up and even though it's cooled it still has the beautiful, warm touch; that's what Shippo always thought of when he looked into her eyes. He kissed her and she kissed him back and they stayed like that for a couple minutes. Shippo pulled away and smile at her, his canine teeth pointy and slightly larger than what they should be, "Come on my baby, we better not keep them waiting." and he rapped his arm around her shoulder and she placed her arms around his waist and walked toward the house.
Kagome, Souta, Shippo and Tora, and Sango all sat in a circle looking at the new blue prints for the new house and a note pad filled with complicated notes, sketches, and numbers.
"Okay, so first things first, we need to figure out living quarters so we can know what we need instead of wasting money and supplies for the unnecessary." Souta said, "My sister and I, we have discussed this several times, but we also need your opinions for everything, since you are living here too." Souta grabbed some papers that were sitting behind him. "Okay, Shippo and Tora, Kagome and I were wondering if you guys would like to live in this house, OR we could build another small house on the other side of the yard for you?" He pulled out a folder of papers and handed it to them, "If you decide you do the second house, here are some idea's you can look at that is in our budget, and let me know sometime this week if you want to or not." he turned to Sango, "Now what we were think is, on this side of the building, once we can renovate the side of the house that hasn't been touched, was to put Yours and your husbands, Kagome and her husband's rooms over here. Since you guys are have partners we would make them into Master Bedrooms and a couple other rooms. The other side of the building would be dedicated to the children."
Kagome looked at her younger brother in surprise, he was able to take control but still keep everything open to compromise and opinions . He really did grow up since she's been gone. He was very organized and ready for anything. She barely even knew her own brother, she didn't know what high school he went to or collage, or what his profession was. She never even asked about him.
"But, we have to know what we need, so you also need to make a list of what you feel you need. Kagome will help with that since you guys don't really come from here, and I'll run the list over and see if you've missed anything, or if we can save something for a later time to afford it."
"Can I ask you something?" Sango says after surveying the blue prints and some of the notes, Souta nodded his head for her to go on, "How are we paying for all of this. We're obviously not putting money in."
Souta rubbed the back of his head, obviously disappointed that the subject came up even though it was inevitable, "Well... I have a steady job, a large savings, and yeah, stuff like that." Kagome set her papers down staring at her brother open mouthed. "Guy's, it's okay. I have nothing else to do with the money, plus this place needed work anyway, while Inuyasha and I were expanding I saw that a lot of the wood was rotting, and the pips are starting to rust, almost beyond the health hazard limits. You guys are family and you guys have nowhere to go, so just don't worry about this. Okay?"
No one said anything and just looked down at the paper's they got and tried to ignore the feeling of guilt. Kagome felt even worse, he was her LITTLE brother, she should be taking care of him not the other way around.
"Okay, now that we have that out in the air, do you remember the things I said I needed you to do?" He looked at everyone, they all nodded their heads, "Okay. Now, please go and do that now. I would be amazing if I could get the list by tomorrow, but it's okay if I don't, but please get them to be by the end of the week, so we can get this done and have our own rooms. Don't forget about the housing arrangements, " then he turned to Shippo and Tora, "And you two, don't forget to look at the other housing and decide what you want to do, and as the same as everyone else, tell me or Kagome what you want to do by the end of the week with the list of things you feel you'll need." He smiled with everyone and stood up, he glanced at his watch, "I have to go to work, and I suggest you do the same!" clapped his hands at headed to his temporary room carrying that messenger bag and a stack of books. "See you guys after work!" he called out as he headed down the stairs.
All the kids sat around in the court yard laying in the sun and under the trees while the adults discussed the housing. As usual the kids formed into their own groups: Haru, Hiroshi, Taiki, and Jiro (who sit a little away from Haru and Hiroshi trying to refuse to believe that they all hang out). Then there's Tomi and Chizu playing in the dirt; while Hitomi, Chika, Yukio, and Kyo sat all huddled in their usual positions- Hitomi on Yukio's lap, Chika on Hitomi's stomach, and Kyo nestled in the crock of Hitomi's arm. And Ami and Kichi sat under the sacred tree.
Ami was sitting cross legged next to Kichi who was laying down playing with a dandy lion. Ami started hitting her sisters arm repeatedly, "Look, look, look." Kichi just kept hitting her back, "No LOOK!" Ami said pointing toward the stairs leading to the public.
Kichi sat up suddenly, looking toward the stair, Souta stood at the top of the them digging threw his pockets and papers flying out. He was dressed in jeans and a wife beater shirt, with the messenger bag strapped on his shoulder, and a large stack of books by his feet. His dark hair swayed in his eyes and he pulled out a buddle of chains and some other unknown crap, he gave a nod of his head and shoved the bundle back into his pocket. The twins watched as his head disappeared behind the stairs, they both looked into each other's eyes and giggled ferociously.
"He is amazingly hot!" Kichi giggled.
Ami screeched with laughter, " I know, right!" They stared at the stairs that held only the air and just gazed at it as if Souta still stood there. "Kichi... wipe yourself!" she giggled and threw a little chunk of grass at her. Kichi laughed at wiped up the drool that was going down her chin, laying back with a sigh, going back to sleep.
The dirt spilled threw Kyo's hands, the sun hugging his back. He could hear the laughers and snoring from his brothers and sisters; a little smile crept to his face, feeling that warm feeling inside again felt amazing and he hated what he had done to get rid of it before. He felt a gentle tug on his tail and another one on shirt sleeve then another one on his hair. He let out a small giggle when the fingers doing the pulling tickled his neck under his ear, then by his arm pits; laughs erupted from him and the tickler when they got to his sides and his body flung out in different directions from the nerves message shooting threw his body. "Stop it!" he managed to say between gasps. Hitomi's laugher burst through the air as she watched Kyo fling around on the ground while Chika tickled him.
Kagome sat on the porch looking out at the court yard, it was amazing what had happened to Kyo in such a short time. She glance down at her wrist, the bruise was still there, but it seemed to be getting worse, Usually in a week bruises start to turn yellow and green and fade away, not this one. It was a nasty black and purple with a surrounding of irritable redness.
"What's that?" Inuyasha's voice came from behind her, she quickly pulled her sleeve down, glancing up at him with a shy smile.
"Hey. What's up?"
He sat down next to her glancing at her arm and giving her a stern look. "I don't know, why don't you tell me."
"Inuyasha why don't you just chill? It was an accident and you don't need to worry about it, it's going to go away in time. So there's no need to worry about it or what happened." she puffed up her face in frustration.
"Kagom-" She gave him a death glare which always signaled the leading of something else. She stood up and went to the sliding door, she turned her head to him, his back was still to her his ears twitched slightly toward her, she gave a sigh and opened the door.
"Kagome I -"
"Sit boy!" she closed the door behind her has Inuyasha slammed into the deck at the wood boards sprang up at awkward angles. She glanced behind her and saw his face planted into the dirt that was below the deck, poking her head out of the door, "You're fixing that." and walked away.
