Please forgive all the extra spelling and grammar errors. My husband whom usually would have checked over my stories for me is not feeling up to it, has been sicky. He started to with this chapter, hint all the : but he did not finish.
Also anyone know inuyasha birthday? Also Kagome's, mother's first name?
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Shippo's Wish
Chapter.4
Things that go bump in the night.
Kagome was hiding in the bathroom. That was for certain, the why of it, not so much so. Inuyasha mused, the morning had been a few hares short of a zoo, but after breakfast the day had gone rather well. Kagome's grandpa had disappeared off to go visit one of his friends, Sota had wanted to go play with his friends as well, Kagome's mother had agreed to drive them both as she had to stop by the store. She had left only after many sharp looks and a long list of chores, that neither he nor kagome would be able to complete in one day. Inuyasha swept the shrine yard and did other odd chores while kagome took care of the strange ones. Like the vacuum, inuyasha thought with a shake of his head, that was a strange tool, he still believed there was a small wind demon inside of it no matter what kagome said.
It hadn't been until dinner that things had gone divisively downhill. Kagome's grandfather had returned with a pile of papers that had something to do with him being legal and kagome's school. Inuyasha had missed most of that conversation since the family cat was attacking his feet. Once inuyasha had finally gotten the cat to leave him alone, kagome was poking at her food and Sota was franticly trying to get his attention. Inuyasha thought back trying to remember just what had been said.
"eh, what eating you?" inuyasha asked having finally glance up and saw sota trying to beam whatever was on his mind at inuyasha's thick skull.
"Did you kill the monster yet?" sota asked nervously, at inuyasha blank look he quickly went on in a rush of words "the demon inuyasha, ya know the one I told you was in kagome's room last night. The really scary one that woke me up, I told you this morning. It was banging around in there all night and it made this awful noise." Sota finished with a sheepish look on his face as he glance over at his mother hopping she wasn't too mad with him not telling her first, but to his surprise he wasn't the one receiving her dark look. Instead her glare was split between kagome and inuyasha.
"A monster in kagome's room you say." Grandpa said ominously as he stabbed his chopsticks into a chunk of meat. "Banging around all night…" he continued, his eyes becoming fiery daggers as the glared into inuyasha. "Making odd noises!" Kagome's grandfather finished in a shout, pointing the chopstick with the skewered bit of meat accusingly at inuyasha.
"You have one week inuyasha, you will ask me for her hand before thanksgiving. And that's final." Grandpa declared before furiously gobbling up the rest of his rice. "The two of you will be marring before the year is out." And with that said he marched out of the room, muttering something about demons, shotguns and new spell papers.
Kagome was looking franticly between her grandfather's retreating back and her mother's misleadingly calm face. She couldn't believe what her brother said, nor what the rest of her family believed. She would remember doing THAT. Kagome shoved all her doubts out of her mind as she turned plead her case with her mother.
"No kagome." Kagome's mother said, holding up her hand to forestall whatever else was about to spill off her daughters tongue.
"I was going to speak to your grandfather after he cooled down," kagome's mother said as she began to gather up the dirty dishes. "But," she said pausing again; she glanced at her younger son.
"Sota, would you please make a bed for inuyasha in your room?" he hurriedly ran off to do as bid, not wanting to be around for any lectures in case he might be next. Mrs. Higurashi waited until he was out of ear shot.
"As I was saying, I was going to speak to him. But after hearing about Sota's 'monster', I don't think so young lady." She shook her finger disapprovingly at her daughter. "I agree with your grandfather on this, if you're going to play like adults then you will act accordingly. And I do not want to hear a peep out of you other than yes mama."
"Now inuyasha do you have a ring?" she asked him, quickly jumping to the task at hand. At the shaking of his head, kagome's mother clapped her hands together and then muttering something about heirlooms and such she left the kitchen. The only thing inuyasha's bogged mind had truly understood was the stay command she had issued just before disappearing down the hallway. Inuyasha was too flabbergasted to think, let alone move, so he stayed put until she returned.
Kagome on the other hand, was not as dazed by the events of the night to react. Practically emanating waves of fury, kagome tore out of the kitchen and down the hallway. Since she didn't follow the same path her mother had taken, he assumed she was either going to kill her brother or grandfather, probably her grandfather he thought as he listened to the shrieks and howls coming from deeper inside the house.
Just when inuyasha thought he might be up to putting things in order in his head, kagome's mother returned. She was holding a small box in her hand. The box was tiny, it might have been as wide as kagome's palm and equally as long, but it was hardly an inch deep. Tilting his head inuyasha stared at it in wonder, from how she was carrying it he knew it must be something precious to her, but inuyasha just couldn't understand how some things small enough to fit in that box could mean that much.
"I don't know how marriages are performed back in your time, but now we exchange rings" inuyasha snapped his attention back to her as he relished she was suddenly speaking to him.
"Do you know about the exchange of rings or vows?" she asked him wondering how much she would to explain to him. Seeing him shaking his head and the blank expression on his face. She sighed and sat down at the table.
"Have you ever been to a wedding?" she asked then, and another negative shake of the head.
"Do you know anything about weddings?" she asked next. Inuyasha nodded his head, a light blush forming across his cheeks.
"Good, what do you know?" she asked happy to hear he was completely ignorant of the subject.
"Uhh, you have to get drunk to get married and then have pups and you have to give her family cows or something." Inuyasha spoke quickly, feeling quite weird about having this conversation with kagome's mother.
Mrs. Higurashi sighed at his answer, never mind what she had thought before, it would have been better if he had been completely ignorant. Talking a deep breath she prepared herself mentally, it was going to be a long night.
"Alright inuyasha, first off, no you don't need to get drunk before you marry, yes babies come after your married and we don't trade livestock for brides any more, we simply ask the father, or grandfather in this case for permission to marry the bride. Alright see these inuyasha these are rings, engagement ring, bride wedding band and grooms wedding band" she explained holding up each ring as she named them. "After you get permission to wed…"
Kagome's mother had talked to him for what felt like days, explaining every detail of courtship, engagements, weddings and marriage, putting particular emphasis on when and when not to engage in baby producing activities. Inuyasha's head reeled with all the information that had been crammed into his thick skull. He yawn as he stumbled up the stairs, he had almost began to fear he would never leave the table. Finally having reached Sota's room inuyasha pulled of his shirt before flopping face first onto the bed Sota had made-up for him, too tired to bother with removing the rest of his clothing for his sleep clothes.
Inuyasha had barely been in bed for five minutes before he realized he had to pee. Getting to his feet with a tired groan, he forced himself toward the bathroom. After reliving himself inuyasha stumbled through the door and once again flopped down on the floor to sleep. But in his sleep clouded mind had failed to take notice that he had stumbled into Kagome's room, not Sota's and lain down amidst the pink blankets that had still been on the floor since this morning and not the freshly made bed in Sota's room.
It was some time after that when kagome made her way to her bed room after having completely lost the argument with her grandfather. Having changing into an oversized shirt she liked to sleep in, kagome felt her way toward her bed to sleepy to bother with the lights. Her foot suddenly caught on the blankets on the floor, in her attempt to free her foot kagome had lost her balance.
Inuyasha was startled awake as a sudden weight descended on him, feeling the living weight squirming on top of him, he reacted on instinct. Growling inuyasha Flipped them both over, he now had her pinned to the floor underneath him. Inuyasha's growling slowly petered off as the familiar sent of kagome shampoo reached his nose. Confused now inuyasha lowered his head closer to hers to get a better sniff.
"Kagome, what are you doing in Sota's room?" inuyasha asked peering at her in the darkness.
"Moron! You're in mine" kagome hissed back at him, angry at inuyasha for having given her such a fright. But before she could say anything more the bedroom lights suddenly flickered on.
And thus was how they were found, inuyasha without his shirt pinningkagome who wore only a night shirt underneath him, with their faces a mere inch away.
From what inuyasha understood, kagome's fall had woken sota up, who had gotten their mother up and kagome's grandfather had woken up somehow as well. Had all arrived to gather on the scene. There was a lot of shouting, kagome locked herself in the bath room after screaming its-not- what-it-looks-like again and inuyasha was beginning to prefer the relationship he and his brother shared. The whole rule of kill on sight was a lot less painful on his ears.
After a while he had slipped out kagome's window while everyone but sota, who had also desisted to disappear while the rest were yelling. Which is where inuyasha found himself now, perched on a comfortable tree branch as he thought over the day. Even he knew what it looked like, he wasn't that dense. Still he wished he could make kagome's family understand that it wasn't that. As it were he saw no way out of the wedding. Inuyasha thought as he pulled the engagement ring out from the depths of his pocket. He guessed it was a pretty ring; the band was plain sliver, with a tiny clear stone attached to it, the stone kind of shaped like those hearts he'd seen kagome and shippo drawing with those colored sticks of hers.
The memory brought with it an unexpected twinge of sadness. Not that inuyasha would have admitted it. The fox demon had gotten under his skin. At first inuyasha had resented the small fox, having felt it was invading on his time with kagome. He'd even been jealous of the runt, kagome gave shippo so much attention, and she was even nicer to shippo then she had ever been with him and she was always brining treats back for shippo. But over time the runt had worked his way into inuyasha's heart. He'd even begun to see shippo almost like his own pup.
Where ever shippo was, inuyasha hoped he was happy with his parents. He would grudgingly miss the runt even after shippo had stolen his chance to wish on the jewel himself. Closing his eyes, inuyasha settled down to sleep the night in his tree, not daring to return to the house for tonight.
The next morning dawned bright and much too early for the occupants of the Higurashi household. Life resumed with more yelling, a few spelled scrolls being thrown and a new uniform for inuyasha.
Inuyasha stared aghast at the blue uniform he had seen on that hobo person. He shook his head in denial as he backed away from kagome's out stretched hands as she advanced on him with the awful thing.
"No, kagome no, I'm not putting that on, there's no way, nuh-uh." He said backing up until his back was flush against the wall.
"Inuyasha put it on. You have to wear this to go to my school." Kagome repeated for what felt like the hundredth time already that morning. Growing tired with this game, kagome finally forced the clothing into his hands "just go shower and get dressed. I still have to get ready too."
Kagome gave inuyasha one final shove toward the bathroom be for heading for her own room. She sighed seeing the mess her bedroom was, having spent most of the last four years in the futile land had not left a lot of time for cleaning. And now her yellow backpack was lost to the past too. With a disgruntled groan kagome began digging around in her closet; she knew she had her old backpack form middle school somewhere in here.
"Ahah!" with a cry of delight, kagome pulled out almost a duplicate of her yellow backpack, only this one was slightly smaller and pink. It was a bit worn out, but it would be okay, kagome decided as she began shoving her school books into the bag.
She had only managed to find and shove 3 of her books into the bag, when she all of a sudden heard inuyasha shout her name. Fearing the worst kagome took off running for the bath room, praying that he hadn't tried to thrust his sword down the toilet again. Kagome flung open the door and slid across the bathroom floor in her sacks.
"Inuyasha! it's not a demon, don't-ackk!" kagome's shout ended in a sudden screech as she slid hard into inuyasha broad chest, which sent them both tumbling over the rim of the tub. Landing in a tangle of limbs in a tub with just enough water to reach her ankles had she been standing up, kagome gasped as the luke warm water began to seep into her clothes. Scrambling to get out of the tub, she accidently elbowed inuyasha in the chin.
Growling at her, inuyasha wrapped his arms tightly around her to keep her from doing him any more unintentional harm. It worked somewhat, since she didn't have much room to move now that he had her flush against him unfortunately for inuyasha he could feel every wiggle she made while he held her so close. He growled at her again hoping she'd take a hint and just stop moving.
"I know it's not a demon wench, I wanted you to show me how to make it pour warmer water." inuyasha ground out threw gritted teeth, trying to ignore how she was starting to affect him. Maybe a cold shower was not a bad thing after all, inuyasha thought grimly as he pulled a now damp kagome and himself out of the tub.
"Oh" kagome said surprised, leaning back over the tub kagome reached for the knobs on the wall, explain this and that.
Inuyasha groaned as she suddenly bent forward, presenting him with a lovely sight in a short green skirt, that now clung to her wet back side. Inuyasha traced the trails of water down her leg with his eyes. Following it across the smooth expanse of her thigh just below her skirt, watching as it dipped in the hollow behind her knee and then downward along her toned calf all the way to her ankle. She was trying to tempt him he swore she was.
"Inuyasha?" kagome asked curiously, after not having heard any sarcastic remarks as she explained the shower, kagome had turned around to see if he was even listening, only to find him staring at her oddly. Nervously kagome shifted her wait from one foot to the other wondering what was going on in his head.
Inuyasha's head snapped up as he heard his name being called, but before he could respond his eyes were caught once again by kagome's figure. This time it was the front of her that had him spell bound as he watched her breasts bounce slightly from her shifting. Her wet school shirt was nearly transparent; he could see the soft curve of each breast and the odd undergarment that cupped them, pushing them upwards and putting them on display for his eyes. With a strangled groan inuyasha threw a towel at her.
"You'll catch a cold like that" inuyasha said gruffly as he pushed her out of the bathroom and shut the door behind her. He was tempted to make the water cold again, but decided against it as he climb into the shower.
Kagome stood outside the door for a long moment, trying to figure out just what was with inuyasha. With a shake of her head kagome decided to leave that Pandora's Box for a day when she so pressed for time already. With a sigh kagome went to change again.
Kagome was sitting at the table munching on a piece of cold toast when inuyasha finally joined her. Kagome nearly choked on her last bite when she saw him. He' had his coat buttoned wrong, and his shirt wasn't tucked in, but kagome had never seen a guy look so handsome in that uniform. It was almost criminal, kagome thought, a deep blush speeding across her cheeks at her mind's internal conversation.
"Uhmm your coat…is ah…here" she stumbled over her words, finally giving up on speaking kagome went too him and began fixing his clothing.
Inuyasha was frozen where he stood. Kagome's hands were all over him, brushing against him there, pulling here, and tucking this or that. He was sure his face was crimson, all he needed was Miroku to walk in on kagome dressing him, and the monk would have a field day. When kagome finally stepped back to admire her work, inuyasha swore she was blushing as well.
"There, much better. Blue looks well on you inuyasha" kagome said trying to lighten the suddenly heavy air. Kagome turned around unable to face him any longer, trying to find something to busy herself with; she caught sight of the clock. She gasped at the time, they were late, and she still had to help inuyasha register for school. Grabbing her bag up from the floor, kagome spun on inuyasha. Shoving a piece of cold toast in his mouth as he was about to speak kagome dragged him out the door.
"We are so late. Late, late, late. We are beyond late" muttered kagome under her breath as they ran for the tram station. They made it just in time, the trams doors had just slid open to allow the latest flood of commuters. Kagome was suddenly jerked back against a hard male's chest just as she was about to board. Tilting her head back, she looked at inuyasha questioningly.
"I don't like it." Inuyasha muttered looking at the ominous white thing that people were getting in and out off.
"It's fine. It's a tram, it will get us to school fast and we need fast, we are already late as it is." Kagome told him, tugging on his arm in the direction of the tram.
"Why can't we go the usual way, I'll carry you, I am fast too." Inuyasha argued, really not wanting to get into the 'tram'.
"Inuyasha, you need to try to be normal today, okay?" kagome said as she counted to tug at him.
Inuyasha let himself be pulled into the thing by kagome. Grimacing as the doors closed and the scent of so many strangers assaulted his noise inuyasha didn't hear kagome telling him to hold on. Inuyasha was nearly sent flying when the tram suddenly lurched forward. Catching himself on kagome, he quickly reached up and grasped the hanging tangle that kagome was holding, before the white beast could throw him again.
Inuyasha really did not like the tram, he decided firmly. Not only did it jerk around without any sort of warning, it was loud and worst of all every time the tram would jostle them, strange males would bump against his kagome, inuyasha thought angrily. He had to do something about this, with a warning growl echoing deep in his chest inuyasha used his free arm to pull kagome flush against him, making her wrap both her arms tightly about his torso.
Because she could not hear inuyasha over the clamor, he leaned in closer and repeated himself loudly in her ear. Reminding her of the fact that he wasn't found of her mod run transportation.
Nearly twenty minutes later, inuyasha was still cursing the tram. Kagome was begun to think he was never going to drop it. She had thought he would when they had gotten off the tram, but he hadn't, he hadn't even paused in his ranking as he tossed poor hojo into the bushes after the boy had run up to greet kagome. Having finally grown tired of his tirade kagome clamped a hand over his mouth, stopping the flow mid word.
"Don't argue about wearing a uniform tomorrow, and we won't ride the tram, deal" kagome asked glaring at him for good measure. Inuyasha nodded his head in compliance, shooting him one last sharp look she slowly lowered her hand once she was sure he wouldn't start complaining again. "Good, now be quite."
Inuyasha grumbled darkly under his breath, slumping back into the chair he fidgeted most impatiently. After they had finally reached her school, kagome had led him in dizzying circles, until they had come to a stop in front of this administration door. Inuyasha was still trying to figure out how they had gotten in here, while kagome was busily trading papers back and forth with the old woman at the long desk that took up most of the room; the rest of the room was taken up by numerous chairs.
"Mr. Wiegrauber?" the woman called, having finally returned from one of the many doors behind the desk. Odd thing was, inuyasha thought while he watched her blankly, she was staring straight at him and began to look a bit impatient with him.
"Oh! Ah sorry, ma'am." Kagome said in a rush, suddenly jumping to her feet and rushing to the counter having realised why the woman was staring at inuyasha. Grandpa had sure made up a strange name for inuyasha.
"He's new, you see he's from…uh" kagome paused, quickly scanning the transcript papers on the counter in front of her. "Ah Alaska! His uh mother was an old friend of my family and she married a German man who, who does taxidermy in Alaska, but inuyasha here, wanted to see his mother's homeland." Kagome explained in a jumbled rush, trying to cover up the fact that they hadn't recognized the name.
"Ah, alright then, does he understand Japanese?" the woman then asked looking at inuyasha curiously.
"A little. He's not used to speaking, he ah still has trouble understanding Japanese at times" kagome explained, stepping on inuyasha foot when he tried to interpret.
Inuyasha stared incredulously at her. He couldn't believe what kagome was telling the woman. He couldn't understand Japanese, was from some strange place called Alaska and his father was German, the stuff she was going on about was madness. He just about had enough and was about to tell her so when she stomped on his foot, and hard. It had actually hurt.
"Mr. Wiegrauber, you are to fallow, Ms. Higurashi you will have the same classes as her." The woman spoke very slowly, as if she was talking to a small retarded child.
All inuyasha could do was stare open mother at the strange woman as kagome forcefully dragged him out of the office.
"okay thank you, wave bye bye to the nice lady inuyasha." kagome said as she pulled him along, giving the woman at the desk a sheepish smile before the door fell shut behind them.
