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Enemies or Lovers
Chapter 19
I promise you I didn't like the idea of having to sleep with you anymore than you do!
He didn't say anything about not liking the idea of sleeping with her. Although, he really didn't like it…or does he?
Oh really…cut it off. He chided.
He didn't like it and was livid with the idea of sleeping beside her in one couch but couldn't help but feel hurt with what she said.
And take care!
She told him to take care. That surely means, she's not that pissed off with him right?
"Cut it off…" he whispered to himself, turning to his right side, his mind reeling with his rebellious thoughts. "Just have some damn sleep…"
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"Turn off the lights! I'm trying to sleep…and keep quiet…" she said sleepily as she tried to cover her eyes with her pillow.
But no one did what she ordered, cause technically, no one could turn off the sun and no one is in her room right now except for her.
Giving up to the brightness of the sun and the musical chatter of birds, she sat up and looked around her groggily. She stretched her arms and rubbed her eyes as her morning ritual and finally got out of the tangled mess that was her bed.
Kagome looked at her clock: 9:30…
"Oh damn…hope I'm not too late for breakfast." She spoke to herself as she walked to her window and opened it to let the morning wind pore over her and her room.
She then went to the bathroom and washed her face before going to the dining room, still in her pajamas.
"How was it Kagome?" was her mother's greeting from where she was washing the dishes.
"Am I late already for breakfast? What am I to eat?" Kagome asked in a lazy voice, walking towards the table.
"There's some toast there, dear, and some jam and peanut butter in the food cabinet." Akira answered. She entered the connecting dining room, wiping her hands on her apron. "So, how was it?"
"How's what, mum?" Kagome blinked innocently, pausing from scooping up some jam from the jar.
"How's sleeping with your fiancé? And how come when we woke up, he not here anymore and you're sleeping peacefully in your room? What did you do?" Mrs. Higurashi cleared for Kagome to understand, her eyes narrowed mischievously and a smile tugging at the corners of her mouth.
Kagome blinked three times to absorb what her mother was asking her and along with that short moment of blinking, she felt her face heat up. She looked down on her toast to continue spreading strawberry jam on her toast while she spoke with the elder woman. "I knew it. You're the one who set it up, huh?"
"No, of course not. You're the one who did it to yourselves. You were already sleeping peacefully on that couch when we saw you two. And—"
"You thought not to wake us up, huh? Well, yeah, mom…that's the explanation I'll most likely get from you…" she cut in, as she felt that her ears are also taking up the heat of her face.
"If that's your point of view…I'll not mess it up anymore." Akira said with a smile. She pulled a chair and then sat with her daughter. "You still didn't answer my question, Kagome?" she added, rather insistently.
Kagome prayed to whomever was listening that her blush already backed down as she looked up to answer her mother. "Well…I'll answer you last question first, okay? We didn't do anything…When we woke up, we just stupidly pondered as to why we were in that situation but thankfully we figured it out before I murdered him, as I'm really pissed off that moment. We didn't want to be in that situation, I promise. It's just that, you left us to sleep there, you dragged us in that." Kagome looked at her mother as she bit a part of her toast.
But Akira didn't hear any of this. She still looked at Kagome with those playful, narrowed eyes, as if she's done something very, very naughty.
Kagome rolled her eyes (and swallowed her food) before continuing. "How it feels like?…Nothing, well…we're sleeping right? How can you feel any emotion when you're sleeping, unless you're having a dream or something? We were both confused and pissed off when we woke up, so, maybe that can answer what I, or we, felt at that moment. Then, he said he has to go home. I let him. Then he's gone and I'm off to bed." She finished.
"Really?" Akira pressed.
"Really." Kagome took another bite of her bread and another and another until it's all consumed. Mrs. Higurashi continued to badger her as she stood up and got milk from the fridge. Kagome poured some of it in a glass and drank it in two big gulps.
"I'll start my homework mom. See you later." Kagome said, very eager to escape her mom's eyes and clutches.
"Then I will question you again later, Kagome." Akira threatened with a joking air.
The raven-haired girl smiled. "You wish, mum."
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"Wake up sleepy head! It's ten in the morning already. You missed breakfast and don't tell me you don't have homework to do." Sesshoumaru threw a pillow square on Inuyasha's face, his voice filling the room.
"Why do you have to be the one to wake me up? And I don't need anyone to wake me up, anyway. I'm not a child." Inuyasha retorted, rubbing his eyes and looking at his older brother.
"Yeah, but you think like one."
"Dammit, Sesshoumaru. Just get out of my room!" Inuyasha shouted, throwing the same pillow Sesshoumaru used to wake him up a while ago.
Sesshoumaru made his way out of the hanyou's room but turned around as though he forgot something. "Mother wants to talk to you."
"'Bout what?" Inuyasha asked, starting to fix his bed.
"when have you learned to fix your bed?" Sesshuomaru remarked, raising an eyebrow.
The hanyou answered as he rolled his eyes at the youkai. "What is it that mom wants to talk about?"
"No idea… Just get your ass down the hall, will you?" the dog youkai said as he closed the door of the bedroom.
Having fixed his bed, he went to the bathroom to have a quick, refreshing wash. Inuyasha splashed the cool water at his face then looked at his reflection on the mirror. His bangs are dripping some of the water and his whole face is wet. His reflection looked back at him with those same amber eyes. Those amber eyes he got from his father…a daiyoukai whom he was with for only a fourth of his life.
A complete stranger, if you ask me…At least mom acts like she's my real mother whereas father… Inuyasha thought to himself with a bitter laugh. I wonder when he'll show up again…
Picking up a towel near the sink, he dried his face and got out to talk to his mother. What could be up now? Surely… He sighed inwardly as he walked down a corridor and a staircase to the living room.
"Good morning Inuyasha! Come have some breakfast while I ask you some things." Minami said, pointing at the tray, placed on the table, filled with food and a glass of juice.
"I'm not hungry mom." He answered as he sat himself in a couch opposite his mother.
"But you missed breakfast. Surely, you want to eat?" she insisted, pushing the tray towards her son.
Inuyasha then took a piece of bread from the tray then looked at his mother, expecting her to ask about yesterday.
"I hope your activity yesterday was fun?" Minami inquired with a childish smile on her face.
"Yeah, quite." He replied, taking a bite off the bread.
"We did you decide to spend the night there?"
"No I did not! I just fell asleep! I was meaning to go home last night!" he answered indignantly.
"Oh of course you did." His mother exclaimed, not really hearing what her son said to her.
"Akira called me last night and said that you were sleeping…with Kagome." Minami remarked with a calm but quite accusing face.
A red colored tint found its way to Inuyasha's cheeks making him duck his head so his mother won't see. "I—we didn't mean to. And n—nothing happened! I swear…you really shouldn't think about things mom. I just felt tired, and maybe so did she, then we accidentally fell asleep together in that blasted couch in their living room." He explained, giving enough emphasis on the word 'accidentally' to prove his point.
"Oh…okay. I believe you." Mrs. Sutoushiro said to her son.
"You—you do?" Inuyasha asked, looking up. The he saw his mother shaking in attempt to stop her mirth. Inuyasha's eyebrow ticked—he's pissed. "You do." He added as his eyebrows ticked more.
"S—sorry, Inu-chan! I j-j-just—haha…I---hahaha!" her mother's mirth gave way.
A vein throbbed in Inuyasha's right temple as he used all his self-control to not destroy the table in front of him right now.
"Oh come on Inu-chan! Don't—don't be s—so angry…" Minami told her son as she slowly got hold of herself.
Inuyasha sighed exasperatedly as his expression slowly softened to just an irritable look at his stepmother. "Don't call me Inu-chan. That sucks!"
"Alright…Inu-chan." Mrs. Sutoushiro teased, wiping the tears from her eyes. "You're really like your father. Inutaisho gets easily pissed and he's really cute when teased."
"I need to do my schoolwork now mom." Inuyasha said in a cold voice as he stood up from the couch and walk out of the room.
"Okay then." Minami simply said, looking at her stepson with a small sad smile. Then, she suddenly remembered something. "Wait!"
Inuyasha turned around giving his mother a quizzical look.
"Your father said he'll come when it's time for your wedding. But I guess he wants it to be mating instead of a wedding. So, we might celebrate both ceremonies separately…with the mating first before the wedding, as Inutaisho said." Minami informed her son.
"How nice. Now Kagome will really freak out when she learns that we have to be mated first before we are wedded." Inuyasha said in a sarcastic voice. "Anyway, why the separate ceremony?"
"Well, mating is legal for youkais and, as you are a half youkai you will follow that tradition. But, wedding is the legal one for humans. Humans accept the ceremony of mating nowadays but Akira and I want a wedding ceremony!" Minami answered cheerfully.
"That's too costly and time consuming." The hanyou asked, his eyebrows quirked up.
"Oh, thinking of it, are you? I thought you and Kagome are going to find a way to stop this engagement?" Minami retorted.
"Hopefully, but…will you let us?" Inuyasha said
"No, of course not."
"So spoken…" the silver haired hanyou said. "I really have to start working on my homework mom." Inuyasha suddenly stopped and turned around.
"Can I ask you something?" Inuyasha suddenly said.
"What?"
"How come you didn't arrange Sesshoumaru for another marriage? It's not fair that I'm the only one who's going through this kind of thing." The hanyou said, walking towards her mother again.
"Well, his first engagement didn't succeed, as you know, because the girl died of leukemia even before their engagement was announced. Poor girl…And we, Inutaisho and I, thought to just leave him be after that first engement. One arranged marriage is enough. We'll just let him find the girl he wants to marry." Minami explained, standing up and picking up the tray of food.
"Oh." Was all that he was able to say. "I never knew that."
"You never asked until now." Mrs. Sutoushiro answered, turning around to go out of the room. "Go on, do your school work.
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Kikyou opened book after book in Hanabi family's mini library.
"Oh damn…information in this bloody thesis sure is scarce." she said irritably as she walked to a steel cabinet residing at the corner of the room.
"Nice! Some clippings, finally!" Kikyou exclaimed after she took a look at the contents of the top drawer of the steel cabinet.
She got out a stack of very dusty newspapers, both cut and whole and paced it on top of the table where she works. "All this dust…" she whispered to herself as she begins to cough because of the allergens flying around the room.
Kikyou returned to the open drawer to look for more resources. She closed the drawer and opened the second one. "Yuck!" she yelped when the nasty smell cam to her nose. She, then, dared herself to open the third drawer.
When she opened the third drawer, all she saw was pictures…old ones. They lay in a dusty pile inside the small compartment. Dirty though they may be, Kikyou willed herself to egt hold of these photos to take a look at it.
"I never knew mom places some photos here." She said to herself, tipping her head to one side in an inquiring manner. "A short rest can't hurt. Maybe I'll just have a look at these pictures." The raven-haired girl decided as she took her seat at the table.
Most of the pictures showed her father, all healthy and alive. I wonder what would it feel to have my real father here? Not that my stepdad is bad but…I never knew my real father…
She continued to look at the pictures with growing fascination. He's not with her mother but with another woman. Some of the later pictures showed her father with the same woman and a little girl with short black hair and warm blue eyes.
This little girl is…horribly familiar…The last photo was a solo pic of a girl of about four or five years in age.
"This is…She is…Kagome…" Kikyou said in utter disbelief. "What the heck is her picture doing in that dusty steel cabinet drawer?"
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A/N: It is longer than the last chap, right? But it's still two pages short for my liking. But, anyway, what is Kikyou talking about here? And what the bloody hell is Kagome's picture doing in a steel cabinet in her house? What the heck is happening here?…And what will happened to Kagome and Inuyasha in the future? Will they need to kill each other to cancel the engagement?
I know this chap is not that exciting. The only interesting thing here is the ending right? I know what you're thinking about the ending…you might be right…you might be wrong..so, what do you think? Sorry if there are grammatical errors, i just made it last night and under pressure too. Cause it's just a week before school starts here in the Philippines.
I want to tell you this early, this is my second to the last update this summer. My last update might be on Saturday. If I can't update on Saturday, then, this would be my last. I will be lost for four to five months. I'll come back by the end of October or in the middle of November. In my absence, I promise I'll still work on this story.
And to make up to you guys, I will be making a one shot InuKag fic that I will update someday…I really don't know when…When I upload it here, please do read it and tell me what you think.
And, last, if there are any readers of "To Be With You" here, I'm going to change it's story. I've got a new plot pestering me in my mind. As usual, it's AU. I decided to change it because I don't know what the heck I'm going to write next. And the whole plot of the story has gone to a mess.
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