A/N: OMG! I should go jump off a bridge. I haven't updated in like forever, because my computer died (like seriously my mother board crashed and burned) and I had like two chapters almost ready (although I like this revised version of them). Well throughout the process of my computer going bad I went through my depression as well as my parents fighting/speaking of divorce/cheating (It's kind of personal).
Around December or something like that I finally acknowledged the fact that I like women as well as men. I'm pretty sure most of you know I'm a girl; my mother is catholic (and a homophobic), I don't care much for my father (he's probably the reason I turned to girls). What should I do? (Gosh, I never thought I'd be in the closet but here I am)
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Chapter: 10
The two young demonic children sat outside, large blue eyes watching the silver haired man inside pace. The smaller and paler of the two turned around and leaned on the stone cobbled wall, but the jet black haired boy remained watching as the woman inside comforted the man by holding him tight in her arms. "Why do people do that?"
"Do what?" Shiru looked up at Kyou tugging at his tail.
"Hug and stuff, when you feel like crying someone goes and gives you hugs and kisses." He leaned his chin on the stone, nose against the window palms pressed against the glass.
"Because people like each other, when you wanna show it you gotta do that stuff. It's just, you know, love"
He looked down at her, "That's lame. Hey, I'll betcha can't climb that tree!"
"Nuh-Uh!" the two children raced to the well sized tree and the black haired boy managed to claw five feet up the tree before falling back onto his bum. The girl giggled.
"Ah, what's so funny?" he growled lightly at her, "You think you can do betta?"
"Ya I can do better than you." She twirled in her long shirt, "cause I'ma lady." As she began her climb he held her jacket.
"You're not a lady, you're just a girly-girl." She laughed and kicked his hand off. Then she paused and looked at the cold horizon, "What's the matter?" she jumped off the tree to his side and hushed him.
"Shush, I hear a car coming."
"I don't hear a—"
"That's cause you're talking!" the young demon boy looked over, they remained silent. Just as Shiru had said a car came driving up the driveway, it was pure black and longer than a five seat car. As the gravel moved to allow the car to move over it Shiru hid herself behind Kyou's back, a smell quite familiar yet a negative feeling came with it.
When the car pulled over a man came out the front driver's seat to open the back passengers' seat, an old woman walked out and around the car. Kyou felt his skin crawl which was more than he could say for the young silver hair behind him, her heart was erratic and strange. The thumps paused midway and sometimes didn't finish but continued on into a new pattern.
The old hag, she wasn't the nice give-a-cookie grandma type of person; rather she was that angry and bloodcurdling get-off-my-lawn lady. Kyou remained surprised that this woman was the one who had raised Shiru's mother, whom—at least how the hanyou put her—was only spoken with thanks and praise like a goddesses of good nature. The woman looked at the two and then huffed away "Disgusting little rats"
The tough little demon growled at the woman "We're not rats! We're dogs!"
She turned and looked at the boy and girl, "And who called you a rat, young man?" he starred at her strangely; he had sworn he heard her say they were rats. "Good day to you." She walked away old bamboo cane in hand.
He looked over at his play mate, "I heard her say we were rats, you did too right? Well Shiru? You heard her right?"
The small hanyou shook her head, "I didn't hear anything…" a pained look crossed her face "My chest feels funny."
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The door bell rung and the good hearted Otonashi opened the door, when the old woman walked through the door she asked her in a kind voice "Would you like me to remove your coat ma'am?"
The hag smacked her hand away "No thank you," a bitter scowl crossed her face. "This will not take so long." The maid backed away, just as Inuyasha has said the woman was callous and semi rude, she wondered how the sweet little Shiru would have survived against her.
She glared over at Kagome, the petite woman held out a hand for her to shake "Hello I'm Kagome Higarashi, Shiru's legal—"
She smacked her hand away as well but she was obviously angered by her for she used the cane rather than her own hand. Kagome's pulled her hand back somewhat but it remained up "Guardian I know. I don't see how one such as you can find such a loophole in the system, look at you slouching!" she smacked her back and Kagome straightened up. "You're rather small, but still strangely proportioned, your hips are small but your waist is round. Good lord this woman is who has been trusted to care with my young Shiru."
"You're face is far too child like, why do you still have freckles on your cheeks!? Your eyes are large, and this blue color is terrible. What did you do to your hair? It's a mess, do you comb it!? And get that hand away from me!"
"Leave Kagome alone," the silver haired man growled and gripped her cane before Kagome could be struck again, "It's me you should be hitting not her." He gave her back the cane and walked her over to the kitchen table. He stopped Otonashi before she asked if they wanted anything to drink or eat asking her to call in Shiru and Kyou.
"I want you to understand your position; you may think that you've dodged the bullet, but if we can find just enough reasons to deem you an unfit parent we'll take you into court and expose that Shiru is the rightful heir to my family's corp. If you manage not to get sent to jail, along with your tramp we can call it even and merge our companies." She spoke like a hissing snake ready to bite.
Inuyasha smiled, "No, we're not merging. I'd sooner die than give you part of my father's company."
"Then so be it."
The two children walked in holding hands, Kyou's face twisted into a scowl. The old woman looked at her granddaughter and then at the boy who held her hand, "Hello Shiru, how have you been recently? How is school?"
"Fine. Good."
"Who is this young boy?"
Shiru answered her, "This is my best friend Kyou-Kun, we go to school together and Kagome-chan's his aunt 'cause he's adopted by her brother; Ma'am."
"Yeah, and what's it to ya? Shiru can play with whoever she wants ta"
"This Rude boy is your nephew, keep him on a leash. That's how good demons are controlled." she looked over at Kagome and pointed an old finger at the boy.
She walked over to him and pulled him away, "behave Kyou-Chan" she spoke in a hushed voice as she walked him away.
When they were halfway across the room he spoke up again "I don't like sour hags!" he let go of her hand and ran away out of the room, she allowed him to do so. She didn't like sour ladies either.
Shiru stood alone suddenly, she looked to her grandmothers old grey eyes. The words she spit were like acid in a wound "I do not want my granddaughter hanging around such a rude boy. Who knows what he'll do to her? How he'll touch her!?"
"Kyou-Chan is very trusted, he's never done anything to Shiru and I believe that with all my soul"
"You just saw what he did, he disobeyed what his aunt told him to do."
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow, "I know Kyou, he's honest and does what he wants and say's what he means. That's why I'll take his word no matter what he says." He nodded over to the room, he knew the boy was listening in "I like him very much, he's a good boy."
"You're very bias, you trust you intuition far too much. That's why my daughter became so rebellious! Hanging around a half breed mutt, it's no wonder she ruined her life. I just can't understand why she didn't change back to normal when she left you, she didn't get rid of that thing that Hanyou inside of her and now she's dead! She could be a happily married woman with beautiful human children. But the only child she could ever have was a small pathetic halfy!"
Shiru shook with fear as she shuffled closer to her father; he lifted her into his arms and held her face to his neck. She felt his low growl build up in his chest and felt safer, he stroked her hair and ears as he stared intently at the old woman in front of him.
"Had I been only a fling in her life, a short unwanted rebellious stage, she would not have held onto Shiru through your fury. She would have gone back to the sad girl she was when I met her." He paused to look at Shiru's blue eyes, her energy transferring to his and his golden specs to her. "But she traded you, safety, a life time of easy life just to take care of Shiru; all alone. I'm sure she was afraid, I'm sure she wanted to cry but I'm also sure she'd attack you to keep her child alive and happy."
"That's what you think, but what would you know. She was only with you for a couple of years."
"Her best years."
"YOUR best HER worst. Shiru is nothing but a mistake."
Shiru spoke up looking at her grandmother's black eyes, "Mama Loved Us." The two adults watched Shiru intently, both with great interest; both with different idea's. "Mama never said she hated me, she never said she hated Inuwasha. You're lying 'cause mama isn't here no more, but she didn't hate nobody. She don't even hate you and she told me not to too."
"Really, she told you heself with her own voice, not to hate me?" Shiru nodded biting her bottom lip. "So how do you feel about me? Do you like me or hate me?"
"I don't hate you, 'cause of you Mommy was born and made me born. I like you, even if you don't like me." She didn't look away from her grandmothers eyes, this time it was the human who caved first. The willful silver haired child smiled and spoke in a cheerful voice "Mama said you have a pretty smile."
The woman stood and walked away, leaning on her cane, allowing Otonashi to open the door without a word she left.
He smiled at his daughter and kissed her cheeks, "You're pretty, super cute! I love you so much!" she giggled as he kissed her all over her head. They danced around in joy; the woman would have to leave them alone for a long time without a single fuss to be made.
He placed her down and she began walking towards the room where Kyou and Kagome had hidden themselves away, "When grandma was walking away I think that—she" the child paused and her face turned pale she almost fell to the floor but her father caught her just in time.
He adjusted his daughter into his arms, as Kagome and Kyou looked towards him, she was breathing which was good, but as he felt her pulse the irregularity of it worried him. Kagome was first to respond to his face "Otonashi-San, call for an ambulance!"
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The silver haired man sighed loudly, the boy in his lap leaned on his arms like a pillow. "He seems happy." the blue haired woman walked into the room holding three cans waking the young demon in the hanyou's arms.
"Thanks Kagome-San."
"Yeah, thanks aunty-Nee-Chan."
The human gave them both a smile and a nod, not questioning the name Kyou had given her, she passed the man a cold lemon iced tea, the boy a citrus orange iced tea, while she herself drank a thick peach and strawberry juice. It was funny; as people watched them they seemed like a family of three, although none were related. When the doctor finally came out he seemed relaxed and nonchalant.
"Shiru-Chan is perfectly fine." They all seemed to sigh and relax, "she fainted likely due to the irregularity of her heart beat, it all happened very fast I'm sure."
The little dark skinned boy explained as it happened in his memory "Totally one minute we were happy and dancing around cause the old lady left and then she just fell and fainted." He nodded his head as he spoke.
"She has a disorder called Arrhythmia fibrillation, to put it simply her heart was so irregular that deoxygenated blood was sent around the body, already oxygenated blood was sent back to the lungs and so on and so forth." He explained it for the family, it doesn't seem like anything was affected, which is extremely lucky for her brain. She likely fainted from the pressure of carbon dioxide. We did a CAT scan on her and I'd like to show you something." He led them to a room and placed the images down on the wall, turning off the lights a blue backdrop appeared behind the photo's.
He pointed to the back of Shiru's brain, "This part here controls sight, what do you notice when you look at it?"
"It's got black specks all over."
"Exactly, I think Shiru may have some visual defect, I took a couple of picture of her Retina. The only Disorder I can think of is Retinitis pigmentosa, now this usually only affects the XY chromosomes' for a male child, but does anyone in her family' happen to blind?"
"Her mother's side, her father, His father, her brother… and I think two of her grandmother's brother and my mother's father… but they're all men"
"And the gene was likely to have been recessive but because both of you carry it she was born with it." The doctor gave him a face, "There's really nothing you can do about it, and it's very unlikely that she would have noticed. So at the progression she can be fully blind from any time between her 60's or 90's. Oh, and I'd get a nightlight for her. It'd help her maneuver around her room in the dark." He mulled over what else could be done to improve or nullify the feeling of blindness "I'd be a great help if she got use to a seeing eye dog. Some people have trouble in later life because the dog feels like a stranger to them. A dog could help keep her safe from a lot of things."
"But, if Shiru-Chan couldn't see why didn't she say nothing?" Kyou asked the doctor, arms crossed over his chest.
"It's not that she can't see it's that she sees things a bit differently. Like if you hold your hand out in front of your eye, and look through the holes between them, she's seeing the world like that." Kyou tilted his head to the side still confused.
"But she can see?"
"Yes, she'll be able to see for a long time."
"Ok then. That's fine." He nodded, he did not wish to lose his interesting playmate yet; or anytime soon.
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When the young child finally awoke, she rubbed her eyes and blinked rapidly looking to her right where Kyou sat. "Where's Inu and Kagome?" she asked.
"They're talking with the doctor." He looked at her blue eyes with his purple ones, "Shiru… you see things funny…"
"Uh? How? Doesn't everyone see things funny?"
"Well yeah, but, you got this thingy in your eyes and you see like black spots right?"
"Don't you?"
"No, doc say's you got some eye condition thingy and you see funny."
"Is that bad?" she tilted her head to the side and watched the boy as he leaned back on her pillow in his green jersey.
"Not really, but when you get like super old you'll be blind."
"Cool!"
"No, Shiru, that's bad."
"But if I'm old when I get to be blind I won't have to see it when I die. I'll have already seen everything, so why see it again?"
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That night Shiru crawled into bed with her father, she had grown accustomed to hugging a pink pillow close to her chest as she sleep. He watched her radical breathing, just as the doctor said her heart beat was slowly becoming steady. Every so often, if she wiggled around for comfort, her heartbeat would change again. Yet it was not so worrying.
She could see, she could live, she was fine; and she would enjoy every sweet moment of seen life.
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BTW give me feedback on the new line breakers do you like these or the old fashion 'line'?