lostmoonchild: Okay, I know I said two reviews at least but I've decided to dedicate this story to a friend of mine who died last night. Marshall, we're gonna miss you and if you were here, you'd probably be laughing your ass off at this story which is why I'm dedicating it to ya. I'm pretty sure you liked Inuyasha since you got into a few discussions on what would happen if Jake killed me and a girl brought me back with Tenseiga so I'm gonna make sure this fic gets finished for you. I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters.
Chapter Thirty Three
When they got back from the mall, they were surprised to see Souta sitting on the stairs quietly. "What's wrong?" Kagome asked with a knowing look.
"Mama's crying."
"And you left her alone?"
"No. There were two men with her. She kept crying something and hugging one of the men." Souta said looking up at his sister.
"What was she crying?" Kagome questioned.
Souta made a face and made an attempt to copy what his mother was crying. "What does that mean, Sister?" Souta questioned.
"My beloved, oh my beloved, how I've missed you." Kagome said starting up the stairs.
Everybody went up the stairs and when they got to the top, saw a slightly muscular man holding onto Mrs. Higurashi tightly. "Get a room already." Kagome said with a disgusted look. "Geez."
"Kagome! Look at you! You've grown up so much!" The man said.
"Hana and Shippo, Kurama will be coming by later to take you two to that new kids' place. How about a nap before he comes?" Kagome suggested.
Hana nodded and carried Shippo inside. "Kagome, aren't you going to say hello to your father?" Mrs. Higurashi questioned.
"What father?" Kagome questioned starting to walk inside. "I was just one of nature's accidents."
"Kagome.." Mr. Higurashi started.
"Forget it." Kagome said her eyes showing anger and hurt. "I have a pretty good idea how Spirit Detectives think so you can save your explanations for somebody who's willing to show pity and listen."
They watched as Kagome walked into the house and Inuyasha looked confused. "I thought she was proud of you." Inuyasha said confused.
Mrs. Higurashi smiled and said, "Kagome's just uncertain now how to deal with her father being home again. She can sound proud of him but sometimes its hard for her to know exactly how to feel."
"NOT PROUD!" Kagome shouted through one of the windows. "HELPS WITH NOT BEING CONCEIVED IN LOVE!"
Mr. Higurashi rolled his eyes and shouted, "YOU WERE TOO!"
"yeah right! Sorry, 'daddy dearest', but your daughter has to take a nap so she's not attempting to strangle a bunch of children who were conceived in the heat of the moment!"
Mr. Higurashi looked ready to strangle his daughter but forced himself to calm down. "She's your daughter." Mrs. Higurashi said with a small smile. "That's how I remember who exactly her father is."
"Charming, love, charming."
Half an hour later Kagome heard a knock on her bedroom door. "Kagome? May I come in?" A voice asked.
"You didn't bother to ask if you could walk out or walk back in, why are you asking if you can come in?" Kagome asked, turning away so she wasn't facing the door.
She heard the door open and close and felt somebody sit down on her bed. "Listen, I know it's been hard for you, growing up without a father." Mr. Higurashi said trying to make his daughter understand.
"Yusuke's a spirit detective. I dated a friend of his for a while, it didn't work out. I'm a nanny, the guy was a Spirit Detective like Yusuke." Kagome said with an emotionless tone. "I work three jobs. One deals with kids, the second deals with pretending to be a whore."
"And the third?"
"Takes me away from everybody."
"Kagome, then quit if you're unhappy."
"I can't. If I quit then this world is most likely dead. I won't abandon my family."
"Kagome, your family is here."
"Let me put this into terms you'll understand. I have a son and a daughter. You are a grandfather." Kagome snapped. "I didn't have a father to tell me to keep my clothes on around guys. Mama told me, but I didn't listen! I wanted to hear it from my father!"
Mr. Higurashi sighed and said, "Kagome, I'm sorry that you didn't get the childhood you wanted…"
"Ever since you walked out I thought it was my fault! If somebody asked me where you were, I had to tell them that you were on business! They asked when you were coming back, I said I didn't know! My friends all think you walked out, that you said you had business to attend to just to get away from us!"
"If I had known…"
"You knew! It wasn't easy for mama, ji-chan, or me! But we at least had memories of you. Souta didn't! He didn't have a father to show him how to play catch or anything! He had to depend on Yusuke to show him and he had to depend on ji-chan."
By now tears were rolling down Kagome's face as she screamed at her father. She wanted him to know the hurt she felt inside, that she had hidden from everybody just to make them think she was okay with him having left. When she had finished screaming, having been overwhelmed by tears, Mr. Higurashi hugged his daughter.
"I didn't want to leave the way I did." Mr. Higurashi said. "I wanted to explain that I was in trouble and couldn't endanger my family."
"You abandoned us! I was watching when you left! You didn't even do anything!"
Mr. Higurashi sighed a little and saw everybody was watching from Kagome's doorway. "Kagome, if I had known how much you'd be hurting…"
"Just do me a favor. Don't act like a father to me. I can easily pretend that you're just some guy who's sleeping with my mother. Trust me, I do it enough times already at work."
"Let me ask you something."
"What?"
"Why in the hell are you hanging around demons and half breeds?! Don't you know that…"
"GET THE HELL OUT OF MY ROOM!" Kagome screamed jumping up and shoving her father out of her room. "AND DON'T YOU EVER SAY 'HALF BREED' AROUND ME AGAIN!"
Clearly irritated, Kagome shot her father a look her friends recognized as the kind that Naraku usually had when he saw them. A look of hatred and the desire to destroy. But Kagome wasn't like Naraku, not at all!
Wasn't she?
A few hours later Kurama came by to pick up Shippo and Hana. "Remember, no candy before bed." Kagome said having calmed down after a couple hours.
"Yes, Ka-ka." Hana said with an innocent look.
"I mean it, fox. Don't you dare give them candy before bed. If you've gotta, have one of your plants guard the candy." Kagome said giving Kurama a warning look.
Kurama smiled a little and said, "Don't worry. Now why don't you tell me what's wrong?"
Kagome shivered a little when Kurama slipped his hands around her waist and closed her eyes as she felt his breath on her face when he pulled her to him. "None of your business. Yusuke will let you know soon enough." Kagome murmured knowing that Inuyasha and the others were watching.
"Can't you?"
"I calmed down an hour ago, Kurama. Don't make me get riled up again."
"Somebody say the H-word?"
"Yes."
"Who?"
"Who's one of the people that went after you, my baka kitsune?"
"Ah… so you're housing one of them…" Kurama said with a grin. "If I had known you swung like that I would have offered…"
"HEAD OUT OF THE GUTTER!" Kagome shouted slapping Kurama on the head. "Hentai baka kitsune!"
Kurama laughed as he rubbed his sore head before saying, "Offer will stand if you get bored."
"If I get bored I'll let my koi know. Not my ex."
"If you've got a 'koi', dearest daughter, then I deserve to know." Mr. Higurashi said coming into the room.
"Oh crap. Look, I want them back no later than nine tomorrow morning. Call if you have plans on keeping them late."
Suddenly, a ringing came from Kurama's pants pocket. "Your mother." Kagome said with a sigh.
Kurama answered his cell phone before nodding. "Yes, Mother, I'll be right there." Kurama said before hanging up. "Can we take a rain check?"
"Might as well. Besides, I'm afraid now what you would have taught Shippo that you haven't already taught Hana." Kagome answered with a laugh.
Kurama smiled a little and kissed Hana on the forehead before giving Kagome a quick kiss much to Inuyasha's displeasure. "Call if you need anything." Kurama said.
"A decent vacation would be nice. Know any nice places?"
"I can think of one but I'm not sure your koi would appreciate me stealing you away for a few weeks."
Kagome pretended to pout and said, "I know. Try to steal me away some other time though."
"Plan on fighting?"
"Get Youko to play nice and I won't."
Kurama laughed a little and bid everybody goodbye before leaving. "Would he really steal you, Ka-ka?" Hana questioned with an innocent look, not looking at all disappointed at not being able to leave.
Kagome laughed and hugged her two children before saying, "Sooner or later, the King always gets what he wants. But he'll have to wait until later."
A few hours later Mr. and Mrs. Higurashi took Souta to get some clothes. Unwillingly, Ji-chan went as well since he needed to have a few things picked up. Since Hana and Shippo were sound asleep and the group had been watching a good movie, they decided to simply stay behind.
Suddenly, they heard a pounding on the front door along with a voice shouting, "GIVE ME MY DAUGHTER, YOU WHORE!"
Hana and Shippo woke up with a start and looked at the door with fear. "Upstairs." Kagome said, her voice barely above a whisper as they all hurried upstairs.
"What's wrong?" Miroku asked.
"All of you, in Hana's room and stay there." Kagome said giving Hana the phone. "If I'm not back in ten minutes, I want you to call the police."
Hana started crying in fear and nodded as Kagome shut the door and locked it. "KAGOME!" Inuyasha shouted trying to break the door open but found himself getting shocked.
"Ka-ka put wards on the door." Hana sobbed looking scared. "They're special. No demon or human can break through unless Kagome wants them too."
Nobody moved as arguing was heard downstairs. "SHE'S NOT YOUR DAUGHTER ANYMORE! SHE'S MY LITTLE GIRL!" Kagome screamed, her voice showing both anger and fear.
"YOU DIDN'T RAISE HER FROM A BABY!"
"THE HELL I DIDN'T!"
"FROM WHAT I HEARD, SHE WAS KIDNAPPED FOR A WHOLE DAMN YEAR AND YOU DID NOTHING TO FIND HER!"
"I DID A HELL OF A LOT MORE THAN YOU EVER WOULD HAVE! YOU TRIED TO KILL HER BECAUSE SHE'S BLIND! I MADE SURE SHE WAS PUT INTO A GOOD SCHOOL AND GOT EVERYTHING SHE NEEDS!"
There was silence for a few minutes before a few gun shots were heard. Hana screamed and started crying loudly as she turned the phone on and pressed a few buttons. "Ka-ka's been shot!" Hana sobbed into the phone. "Daddy's here and he's really, really mad! I think he's going to kill everybody! We're at the Higurashi Shrine, please hurry! I don't know how badly Ka-ka's hurt! She locked us up in my room so Daddy couldn't get us but he's really mad right now!"
Inuyasha held onto Hana and Shippo, growling softly as he looked at the bedroom door. He could hear somebody coming up the stairs and crash against a wall a couple times. "Is everybody okay?" Kagome shouted.
"Ka-ka!" Hana shouted tearing away from Inuyasha and stopping a few feet from the door.
Inuyasha pulled Hana away from the door, not recalling ever hearing the front door close. Besides, he could smell alcohol coming from the other side. "Inuyasha! Let me go! It's Ka-ka!" Hana shouted trying to get away.
"She's not alone." Inuyasha growled handing Hana over to Sango. "Get those two back."
Sango nodded and backed into the corner with Hana and Shippo safely in her arms, watching quietly as the door opened.
Kagome's eyes widened when she saw Inuyasha charge and ducked, shuddering when she felt warm blood on her neck. She looked up and saw that Inuyasha looked less than pleased with the man he had managed to shove his hand through. Hana's father growled in annoyance and pulled away before running down the stairs and out of the house. "You okay?" Inuyasha asked helping Kagome up.
Kagome winced a little and nodded, keeping her hand over the bullet wound in her side. "I'm okay." Kagome said leaning against Inuyasha. "What about everybody else?"
"We're fine, Lady Kagome. Shippo and Hana are just scared, that's all." Miroku said.
Kagome knelt down and hugged the two children tightly. "It's okay, he's gone now." Kagome said with a soothing voice.
"You're bleeding."
"I'll survive. People with youkai blood ain't that easy to kill, you should know that by now."
Within half an hour, the police had come and gone and Kagome had quickly patched up two holes in the wall where the bullets had gone in. "None of this happened." Kagome said seeing her family coming towards the house. "I don't want mama to get worried and really don't want "daddy dearest" to get mad."
"Why?" Miroku questioned.
"Trust me, when he gets mad the only place I find is the safest is up in the God Tree." Kagome answered. "But now if he gets mad, I might as well just punch him and call it good."
"You act hostile towards him."
"That's how I dealt with every guy who's stepped foot into this house trying to act like he's the one who I'm supposed to call "dad." I'm sorry I haven't been acting like I normally do but I can't apologize for dealing with my father the only way that I know how." Kagome said with a sigh. "Just like I can't apologize for trying to survive by one of the only ways that I know."
"Something happened here, young lady, tell me what?" Mr. Higurashi said coming into the house.
Kagome made an innocent face and said, "What makes you think that?"
"Don't you dare lie to me!"
"I have no idea what you mean. Come on, kids, bedtime. Say goodnight to everybody and head upstairs. I'll be up in a few minutes to tuck you in." Kagome said gently pushing Hana and Shippo towards the stairs.
Hana and Shippo nodded before heading upstairs. "I want you to tell me what happened."
"Absolutely nothing. We watched some good movies, that's it."
Mr. Higurashi looked at his daughter and was about to say something when Mrs. Higurashi intervened. "Now, dearest, if Kagome says they didn't do anything then I trust her on that. She and her friends wouldn't do anything they know is wrong. Now why don't you all head upstairs. Don't you have a big day tomorrow?"
"Hai, mama. Miroku and Inuyasha, we cleaned Souta's room up so it's tolerable." Kagome said with a grin. "So you guys don't have to sleep down here."
Miroku and Inuyasha nodded and follow the girls and kids upstairs, each of them more than ready to go to sleep. A couple hours however, they could hear arguing downstairs but decided just to try to sleep. When the arguing had died down, sleep came but only until a terrified scream woke everybody up. After that, three people didn't go back to sleep mainly because one was too afraid to go back to sleep and the other two were trying to assure the one that was afraid that nothing was going to happen. Not while they were around at least.
But that was a promise that held little to no meaning. Things happened whether you wanted them to or not. That was one of life's many rules and nothing was going to stop it.
lostmoonchild: Okay, that chapter is done. Like I said, this story is now dedicated to Marshall Ealy, a Lyman High School student who gave us all the honor of knowing him and being his friends. In his honor and memory, I will complete this story and I hope you all with offer a prayer for Marshall and his family. Marshall, you had better wait for us in Heaven or attempt to come back to us and you had better keep that sense of humor of yours or else I'm gonna deck you! Read and review, flames are accepted.