Shippo's Wish.
Chapter.3
Little ears.
The silence was deafening in wake left behind from kagome's grandfather exiting the kitchen. Then tension so thick not even a steak knife would have been able to cut thru it. Inuyasha doubted that even his sword would have been able to pierce through it.
The only one seemingly uninfected by it was kagome's mother, she hummed about the kitchen as if suddenly nothing was amiss as she made preparations for breakfast, as if all worries where suddenly gone from the world. Witch was probly true for her, for once her father-in-law had come thru with a sound solution that was really quite suitable for such a problem. Not only that, he had only thrown one sutra and not called any one a demon throughout the whole confertation, it was quite an achievement for him. She was quite proud she decided with a nod of her head as she began cracking several eggs.
Kagome could not believe this, it was just so unfair. Her life had just been decided for her without so much as a care for what she wanted. What if she had had plans, she might have wanted to go a college far away or possibly even go on a date that didn't end with inuyasha crashing in wanting to hunt for jewel shards. She sighed unhappily relising that she probly wouldn't get into any collage with her high school record and she didn't even know what she would do on a date let alone what she would talk about with a guy from this time period. With a heavy sigh kagome admitted how pathetic her life her in this time was. And what about inuyasha wishes as well, who knew what he had planned for the jewel, he's probly majorly upset about being told he would be stuck to her in her time, and with her of all people. With a dejected groan, she slumped forward letting her head thunk heavily agenst the solid wood of the table.
Inuyasha blinked as the sound of kagome's head hitting the wood woke him from his stupor. Inuyasha wasn't sure what to think, yesterday he could have become anything his heart desired with the jewel, today he was being accused of all kinds of things and now he was to be married. Married he thought with a snort, husband, wife and all that. Half-demons were not meant for such roles he thought bitterly. He had tried once to reach for the stars, and the stars had burned him good for that.
Glancing over at kagome his expression changed, he couldn't ruin her life too. He would sort out this mess, prove to her family that he had not tarnished honor and then he was going back down the well and get far as possible from her grandfather. Somehow he would fix this, somehow he would, he just had too. And then he'd get shippo and beat him throuly. he wasn't sure what shippo's wish had done, but there had to be some way out of this mess, there just had to be and then he was going to get shippo back for this. His head was still reeling when kagome suddenly jumped up from her seat and began shouting.
"Mama, I cannot get married not now!" kagome wailed, abruptly leaping up from table and latching onto her mother arm "please mama talk to grandpa, really this is just a big mistake. Please talk some sense into grandpa, this is crazy, I can't be forced to marry in this day and age. I can't just be married off and sent to live in some old house out in the middle of nowhere for something I didn't do, I have dreams, lots of them." Kagome pleaded with her mother, presenting the biggest pair of puppy-eyes inuyasha had ever seen.
"keh, like I'd marry you." Inuyasha said with a snort as he stood up. He knew half demons weren't ideal mates, but still he wasn't that bad. He had kept her fed and safe, even sheltered when it was possible while they were hunting for the jewel. "whatever, I'm gonna go find shippo…" inuyasha said letting his sentence drift off as he made his way to the well house, leaving kagome to her family.
Inuyasha's thoughts contuied on their downward spiral as he aproched the well house. Who did she plane to marry then, was she holding out for that weakling Hobo, Hojo or was it Hoho, he couldn't remember. How was that weakling gonna keep her safe form demons, was he going to kill them with herbal remedies and Band-Aids. He thought sarcastically, throwing open the well house doors with more force than necessary. She acted like it was a death sentence for her to be wed to me, well it's not like I wanted to be stuck with her either, stupid girl attracts trouble. Inuyasha thought bitterly, ignoring his stinging pride as he launched himself down into the darkness of the well.
Expecting to drift gently through time, inuyasha was caught quite off guard by the solid ground that rose up with surprising quickness to great him. Not having prepared to land at the bottom of the well so soon, Inuyasha's knees buckled under him sending him tumbling forward he banged his head on the opposite side of the well. Letting lose a foul word or two, he sat down cross-legged rubbing the now sore spot on his head as he stared in confustion at the well, still in kagome's time.
Sota, upon having heard such a loud thud coming from the well house quickly ran to see what was going on, morning chores all but forgotten in his rush. Poking his head in thru the still open well house doors he peered around in the semi-darkness
"inuyasha?" sota called out hesitatingly. "Are you in here?"
"Yea, in the well." inuyasha called up distractedly, still trying to figure out why he wasn't going through time.
"Oh man inuyasha, I'm so glad you're here! There was a monster in kagome's room last night, it was mega scary inuysah" Sota rambled animatedly, feeling much better about said monster since his hero was now here. "yea you have to get rid of it, I didn't tell ma cause I didn't want to scare her too, but you got to help me inuyasha please" Sota asked leaning over the edge he watch inuyasha bonce up and down at the bottom of the well. "It was making all kinds of awful sounds and banging around in kagome's room. It sounded like this" he told inuyasha as he began to make the sounds he heard last night, to inuyasha it sounded more like a someone trying to drowned a cow.
"Alright, alright, I got it." Inuyasha said finally giving up on going through the well for now, he jumped out and landed besides a still talking sota, he ruffled the boy's hair affectionately.
"just let me talk to your sister first." Inuyasha mumbled, his mind full of new worries as he lead the way back toward the house, as inuyasha stepped out into the light sota noticed something odd about inuyasha.
"Hey inuyasha, where are your ears? I thought you were only human at night" sota asked confused as he remberd the few times inuyasha had stayd in this time during the full moon. "is it like a leap year or something for dog demons and you switch day for night? Because I got a friend whose birthday is on the 29th of February, and he only has a birthday every four year"
Sota stumbled backwards after having bounced off inuyasha after he had unexpectedly halted in mind step. sota peeked around inuysha looking for the reason that had caused the half demon to stop so suddenly like that. Not seeing anything ahead of them, he then looked up at inuyasha who happened to be patting the top of his head in an almost frantic manner, as if he had lost something. Confused sota was about to question inuyasha about it when suddenly inuyasha leapt into the tree, landing on the branch that grew near his sister's window and disappeared inside.
"I don't get it, did I say something wrong…" sota mumbled even more confused now as he continued inside through the more common means, like the back door. He wondered if his mother would know. But such thoughts were forgotten after he smelled the breakfast she was in the mist of cooking.
"KAGOME!" inuyasha howled as he came in suddenly from the bedroom window. He was nearly half way into his frantic ranting when he noticed a very red kagome, a very wet and blushing kagome in a very short pink bath towel. Who just happened to also be a very angry kagome, inuyasha gulped. He could already see the word forming on her lips.
"SIT. Sit, sit, sit, sit." Kagome shrieked, her cheeks burning from the embarrassment. Once she was sure inuyasha wasn't getting up for a moment, She hurriedly grabbed her clothes and ducked into the bathroom to dress, before anyone could come by and accuse them of anything else this morning. After unsessesfully trying to plead with her mother, she had been sent to her room, where she had thought to take a hot bath believing she would have plenty of time, since inuyasha had said he was going to the past. She had assumed he'd be gone for a while.
After several minutes, the blush had finally left her face and she was calm enough to reenter her bedroom, what she found truly surprised her. A very human inuyasha sat at her vanity table examining himself thuraly. First he would pull at his human ears, then his hair, then he would scan his still golden eyes, which was followed by him pulling at his moth as he tried to examine his teeth, after that he would begin the whole prosses over again and again. Finally kagome could not stand to watch him scrutinize himself in front of the mirror no more.
"Inuyasha, what happed, are you okay?" she asked gently coming up behind him to place her hand lightly on his shoulder so not to spook him, he looked frightened enough already, she thought as she looked at him thru the mirror. He looked like her inuyasha, yet not quite, it he had got caught half way between human and demon. His half demon ears had been replaced by human ones, but his hair and eyes had remaind the same as when he was his normal self, but his other demonic features had been dulled down, his claws weren't as sharp, they more resembled human finger nails then claws, but not quite. Kagome discovered as she ran her fingers a crossed the edges of his nails. His teeth though where still pretty canine, just not as noticeable if you weren't paying attention.
"Is it that time of the month?" kagome asked, dropping his hand as she went to the window and then to her calendar trying to figure it out. Inuyasha who had been momentarily mesmerized by kagomes actions as she had ran her hands thru his hair looking for his ears and stroked his fingertips while contemplating the change, shook his head viciously to clear his mind off the effect she had on him.
"ofcrose its not, wench, its board daylight." Inuyasha snap at her, unable to stand sitting still any more, he got up and began to pacing in the small room while kagome sat at her desk. "This just doesn't make sense", inuyasha thought aloud while he was pacing, "I don't feel any less demon, I can still jump like I normally do and my nose still works, nothing seemed different, but my ears were all wrong."
Kagome chouse to ignore inuyasha sharp tongue, having learned over the years she spent shard hunting with him that he rarely meant things like he said them when he was agitated. Sighing kagome gave up on the calendar seeing as today was nowhere near the new moon or even an eclipse. Watching inuyasha's denim clad legs walking away from her for the 6th time, a thought popped into her head.
"why don't we ask myoga? He atta know something about whats happing to you, he ushaly does." Kagome said hopefully, jumping to feet she begain to geather up her yellow back pack but inuyasha shouk his head. Confused kagome left the bag half packed on her bed as she turnd her full ation to him.
"what do you mean 'no' myoga's always knows some thing. Fine we wont go looking for myoga, keade or sango might know what happened too, we could ask them instead" she suggested, and again inuyasha shook his head.
"the wells not not working" inuyasha said, having nearly forgotten about all about the well after the discovery of his new earless satus.
"The well's. Not. Working?" kagome reapeated slowly after him not sure she heard right, even less sure if she wanted too. "what do you mean not working"
" I mean not working, as in I jump down and hit dirt. No blue light, no time gate. Dirt." Inuyasha said irritated wondering what part she didn't understand.
"oi, hey wench where think you're going?" inuyasha asked as he caught back up with kagome after she had suddenly ran out of her room.
"to the well" she shot back at him as she opened the door that led out from the kitchen. Inuyasha grunted, giving up on making her understand as he followed her out to the well so she could prove it to herself.
Kagome just couldn't believe what he was saying, the well couldn't be closed. Shippo was still in the feudal period, and so was sango and miroku, she didn't want to think about never seeing them again, not knowing if they were okay. Kagome held her breath as she launched herself over the edge of the well, ignoring inuyasha's startled yelp as she disappeared into the darkness. The wind was knocked hard from her lungs as she hit hard packed dirt at the bottom of the well instead of the familiar blue light that let them drift from one time period to the other.
"I told ya so" inuyasha called smugly down to kagome after she had hit the bottom with a resounding thud.
"do you believe me now?" he asked jumping down to gather kagome into his arms. He jumped back up then, perching on the lip of the well inuyasha while set kagome back down onto her feet.
"maybe if we did it together" kagome muttered just before she suddenly grabbed inuyasha's hand and leapt back into the well.
"Oi, kagooff!"Inuyasha groaned having rather painfully landed on his back at the bottom of the well. Lifting his head he looked up at kagome, who had somehow ended up straddling his waist in the fall. Without his notices, his hands instinctively moved up along the smooth flesh of her thighs to come to a rest on her hips, holding her in place there. There being where his demon side thought she outta stay. Squashing his inner demons ideals about their new predicament, inuyasha kept his hands there fearing if he moved him now, kagome might notices them. he lifted his head to glare at her.
"you had better believe me now, woman" growled out inuyasha sounding very much irritated as he glared at her and struggled shut his demon side out of his thoughts.
Kagome suddenly burst into tears as she realized that she might never go throgh time again, thought of being separated forever from her adoptive family, shippo name alone, nearly crippled her. she would miss both sango and miroku terribly, but they could take care of themselves, unlike shippo, who was hardly more than a baby. Sure he was a demon, but was still just a child even to demon standers. He didn't know how to take care of himself, he'd always had kagome to care for him, and inuyasha to hunt for them and the rest of the gang to look out for him too.
"No, no, don't cry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry just please stop crying kagome" inuyasha was nearly panicking as kagome continued to cry. He didn't know what to do when she cried. He always felt awful when she did, and it was normally his fault she was crying too, still he couldn't stand to see her crying for any reason. Gathering her up into his lap, he tried to rock her back and forth soothingly, like he had seen her do with shippo, after he had a nightmare. Abit he was clumsier about it seemed to be working as her sobs slowly turned into hic-ups.
"b-but, sango and miroku and and sh-shippo are all on the other side" kagome suddenly wailed, bringing a fresh onslaught of tears.
"They'll be fine." Inuyasha said trying to reassure her. "sango will rebuild her village, and miroku probly repopulate the whole village just by the two of them, if she don't castrate him first" he added trying to cheer her up.
"and shippo's just fine and dandy, probly all cuddle up with his mother and father, he made the wish on the jewel, remember?" inuyasha added with no small amount of jealousy.
"see, every things okay, so don't cry okay" he said staring into kagome's teary eyes as he held her face in his hands whipping away the signs of her tears, she gave a small nod and hic-up. Once he was certain she wasn't going to bring out the waterworks again, inuyasha released her face and stepped back.
"Well come on then, I'm hungry" inuyasha announced as if she hadn't been cry and he hadn't been all soft and human-like. Picking her up inuyasha quickly leapt out of the well for what felt like the hundredth time that morning and set her on the ground. He was nearly out of the well house, when he felt that kagome wasn't walking besides him. Glancing back at her, he made motions for her to hurry up.
"Coming" kagome said giving him a wobbly smile as she stepped into her place at his side. Kagome no longer felt alone, knowing inuyasha was always at her side.
3,006 words! I had planned more but this was such a lovely place to end the chapter.
Anyways, hope this chapter was a little more fun than ch2. I promise I'll start having more exciting chapters, I just need to get a few things out of the way. I know I haven't mentioned the pregnancy, but I will in a few more chapters, I got plans, big plans. But before kagome gets morning sickness I thought it might be fun take inuyasha to school. ^.~ that'll happen next chapter or so. Mwahaha.
Anyways Anways someone asked about the light flashes, sorry if I confused anyone else.
Okay Light flashies. It's the jewel. 1, Flashed in the valley where the wish was made. Then 2 it flashed again after kagome inuyasha got sent to future and had the your naked! Moment. Because the jewel desied at the last moment to dull inuyasha's more half demon features so he would be less of a target. And also it wanted to check and make sure kagome was pregnant with shippo yada yada.
If I've confused any one on how she got pregnant, the jewel overrode them, had them mate and that is why inuyasha's demon is going to become increasingly more present. Its ticked it didn't get to claim his mate.
Under stood? Yes okay good. That's it for today class, please leave your reviews on my desk and have a nice day.
