Okay. Here's ch2. My sister wouldn't let me write anything else until I wrote this. She's younger, but I'm afraid of her. Getting kicked hurts... Anyway- here u go!
Bittersweet
Chapter Two:
"InuYasha!"
The hanyou sighed as he sat down in the fire- lit hut. It was midnight, and he wasn't in the mood to deal with anyone else right now. After his conversation with Kagome's mom... Well, life wasn't going the way he planned.
"Where's Kagome?" Shippo demanded. InuYasha wondered why and how the hell he was still up.
"She's back in her time," he said, closing his eyes. Shippo jumped onto his shoulder and pulled up and eyelid.
"Why?" InuYasha grabbed him by the back of his shirt and threw him at Miroku.
"Because Kagome has a future; she had friends before she knew us. She's got a life there, and it doesn't include us. She has a chance for a family, a job, and a lot of opportunites. She had a life before us, and I can't give her what she deserves. So she's staying there," InuYasha said, cracking an eyelid to reveal an angry golden eye. Both Miroku and Sango stared in amazement at him.
"You really do love her, then," Sango said quietly.
"Yeah," he said, smiling bitterly, "I guess I do."
"It seems that you've been enlightened InuYasha. What brought about this change in you?" Miroku questioned as he looked at InuYasha intently.
"Kagome's mother," he replied. "Now can you all shut the hell up and let me sleep?!" he shouted, snapping his eyes shut tight. He was greeted with silence and knew they were all staring at him, and for once, he didn't care. Heartbreak's a bitch.
"So, Mom, did anything happen last night?" Kagome said as she and Ayumi bounced happily down to eat at the ktichen table. Ayumi had spent the night. True, she had already fallen asleep with a pile of jellybeans on her stomach and caramel popcorn stuck in her hair when Kagome got home, but that didn't matter.
"Not really," her mother replied. Ayumi arched an eyebrow at this. She had heard the entire conversation between InuYasha and Mrs. Higurashi but remained silent. If Kagome's mom didn't want Kagome to know about his visit, then who was she to tell her?
"Oo!" Ayumi squealed. "Omelettes! All we ever have at home is poptarts!"
"I've never had a poptart..." Kagome trailed off, and Ayumi looked at her as if she had sprouted two heads.
"Never?!" Kagome shook her head, and Ayumi looked to Mrs. Higurashi. "How could you have deprived her so?" she wailed with a mask of sadness that didn't reach the smile in her eyes. Kagome laughed.
"You definitely deserved the lead in the play," Kagome smiled, helping herself to the delicious foods.
"No, I definitely did not," Ayumi expostulated as she piled half the omelettes onto her plate. Souta glared at her, but she just stuck her tongue out at him and dug in. "You were so good, Kagome! You should get a career in acting."
"That reminds me!" Kagome's mother said suddenly as she began rummaging through her purse. "An agent gave me his number after that. He wants you to be in some movie or another." She pulled out a business card. "Why don't you call him after breakfast?" Kagome took the proffered card.
"I don't know-"
"Yes! She will!" Ayumi said, snatching the card from Kagome. "He's American?" Her eyesbrows lifted.
"Yes. From Parment or something," her mother replied, stabbing a pickle with her fork.
"Paramount Pictures," Ayumi corrected, handing the card back to Kagome. "You're going. I'm going to live my life vicariously through you." Kagome sighed.
"I don't have a choice, do I?" Kagome said in defeat before shoving a forkful of potatoes down her throat.
"Nope," Ayumi said. Kagome stared as her friend then swallowed down the rest of her six omelettes while draining down her glass of milk. "I say we go shopping!"
"Go ahead and get cleaned up. I'll join you," she said, still staring at the now clean plate.
"Okay!" And she gallavanted off up the stairs. When Kagome joined her, Ayumi was already dressed in a pair of jeans and a most becoming pink tank top, and she'd already picked out clothes for Kagome. "Wear them. They're cute!"
"Are you on drugs?" Kagome narrowed her eyes suspiciously. Ayumi smiled and shook her head. Maybe she was overdoing the happy, but it was better than Kagome knowing her secret about hearing the conversation between Mrs. Higurashi and InuYasha.
"Nope! I think it was the jellybeans!" She giggled, and Kagome rolled her eyes and picked up the clothes Ayumi had picked out. She appraised them briefly. It was her favorite jean skirt and a very cute red top the revealed a little bit more cleavage than she was comfortable with, but hey- it was cute.
"All right," Kagome said. She slipped on the denim mini skirt and lacy red shirt that showed a little more cleavage than she was comfortable with and surveyed herself in the mirror. "It is cute."
"Let's go to the mall, now! I already called Yuka and Eri," Ayumi said, grabbing her purse. Kagome sighed.
"This is going to be a long day..."
It's short because I'm lazy, and I need to be working on Tainted and my untitled Labyrinth fic.
