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I'll post on your reviews from last chapter with the next update. Hope the play was alright, really wasn't sure how to wright that. Oh well. By the way thank you so much for the reviews, they make my day, and phooey on those who just select story alert. Meany heads.
3 things I need from you my lovely readers.
Where should kagome and inuyasha go for a 2 day honeymoon?
What gifts should the wedding guest give kagome and inuyasha?
What should the old house kagome and inuyasha movie into that was inherited from kagome's mother's family? (I'm thinking something of a western style and BIG.) Photo's would be welcome, just send me a link or tell me what you think would be neat for the house to have.
Mr. Wiegrauber and Ms. Higurashi present the thanksgiving installment in Shippo's Wish.
Shippo's Wish
On bended knees.
Chapter.7
Read the stuff underneath the bold words before you read this story. Hint. Look above.
Kagome was still ignoring him. She hadn't come down for dinner last night, nor did she go to school with him the next morning. She had told her mother she was ill, but inuyasha knew better, she was ignoring him. She'd even gone as far as to lock her window last night and it had remained locked since. He knew this because he'd been trying it every couple of minutes on the off chance that she would unlock it. No luck, and now he'd been sent by her mother to fetch her for thanksgiving dinner, he wasn't having much more luck at this either. She refused to even speak to him.
With a heavy sigh and a heavy heart, inuyasha slid down the wall he had been leaning against crossed from kagome's door and sat, watching the door for any sign of movement. Inuyasha wasn't even sure what he would say if she would open the door. 'Hey kagome, glade to hear you weren't running around with any other jerk but me and oh yea did my demonic side knock you up is that why you won't answer me, just wondering.' Yea that was a real winner, inuyasha thought sarcastically. If he asked her like that he wouldn't blame her for not talking to him for the next year or two.
"Hey inuyasha. Sis still not coming out of her room?" Sota asked as he came up the stairs and sat down besides inuyasha, copying the half demons position on the floor.
"I think I made her little angry." Inuyasha replayed lamely with a shrug of his shoulders. He didn't know what else to say.
"Maybe, any way mom says she'll bring kagome up some food afterwards, so come on." Sota said, hopping back up onto his feet as he led the way back down stairs.
"Oh one more thing" Sota said twisting around to look at inuyasha over his shoulder. "Mom says not to forget to ask grandpa before we eat, okay?"
"Okay." Inuyasha repeated, giving kagome's door one more glance before he followed Sota to dinner.
Inuyasha stopped in the door way of the dining room to watch the proceedings. Kagome's mother was bussing about putting dish after mouthwatering dish on the table, Grandpa was spouting off a story of some ancient artifact, a story no one was listening too and Sota was playing with his silverware while he waited for the green light to dig into the food. Fortifying his nerves, inuyasha made his way to the head of the table where grandfather sat.
"Grandfather Higurashi, I inuyasha son of the general of the western lands, ask for the hand of your granddaughter kagome Higurashi so that I may wed her." inuyasha kneeled before kagome's grandfather he remembered kagome's mother telling him to kneel when he asked, but her could remember if she meant when asking kagome or her grandfather. He had thought long and hard about how to ask kagome's grandfather, he hoped he picked the right ones. Kagome's time was so complicated, inuyasha almost longed for his time were when a man wanted a wife, and he'd give the father of the bride ample livestock to make a fair trade. But since inuyasha had no livestock in the past or present to trade kagome's grandfather maybe it was best that in kagome's time they did it this strange way, inuyasha supposed.
Grandfather stood up to regarded inuyasha's request, he studied inuyasha for several long minutes, contemplating his response before he spoke "yes, yes I give her hand but you're going to have to earn my blessing boy!"
"Good, good, now that that's settled, inuyasha save the kneeling for proposing to the bride and let's eat!" Kagome's mother cut in before more squabbling could break out between the two males. Handing the knife to Grandfather she nudged him to cut up the turkey. Unbeknown to any of them kagome had finally been drawn out of her room by the decedent smell of her mother's cooking and overheard inuyasha asking for her hand. Enraged that they would choose her life for her without so much as asking her opinion, kagome pushed off the door way she had been leaning agents and swept into the room with furry at her heels.
"I how could you all! It's my life don't I get a say in how I live it? Or have you already singed my name in blood for me. Do I not get a say in when I marry or at least who I marry. What are you all planning next? Deciding how many kids I'm going to have? Picking out their names? What about how I feel? Don't I get a say? I haven't even graduated high school yet!" kagome raged agents the injustice of it all. It wasn't right that they treat her like an invalid; she was a grown woman of the modern age. She was just as capable of making her own choices as they were...
Kagome's fiery gaze singled out her grandfather first. "It's not the olden days any more, you can't just marry a girl off, trade her for a sack of rice! Girls pick their own husbands when they are ready to marry!"
Her gaze then slid over to her mother who stood closer to kagome. "Mama how could you stand by let them do this! You had a choice when you got married to Daddy, you weren't forced into it. How can you let them push me into this?" kagome demanded her voice shaking from the force of her emotions
"And you!" kagome's ire shifted onto inuyasha. "You chauvinistic jerk! I can't believe you're going along with grandfather on this! And here I thought we were friends! Do you think I'm so week as to need to be passed from own man's protection to the next, too stupid to make up my own mind! Do you even care how I feel! Or is it all about you and or sense of obligation? And what about kikyo, don't you love her anymore or do you not feel obligated to fallow her to hell anymore!" kagome shouted at inuyasha, dragging the word love out scornfully.
"Kagome- "Inuyasha began to say as he tried to reach out to her. Kagome was not having any of it as she spun out of his reach.
"No inuyasha! Don't you touch me not after what you said yesterday! How could you think so little of me?" Kagome snapped and if looks could kill, inuyasha would be a burnt crisp on the floor from the heat in kagome's glare.
"Kagome dear, please understand." Kagome's mother tried next, she could understand kagome's view point but she also felt bad for inuyasha who was only trying to do what was right. Kagome's mother, like inuyasha was shot down by kagome's anger.
"No mama, I don't understand and I am not about to! this isn't fair!" kagome shouted as she turned and ran from the room dinner forgotten. Moments later the door slamming shut was heard.
"Oh dear." Kagome's mother said worriedly. Inuyasha stared at the empty door way where kagome had been, still frozen in place from when she had shunned his touch.
"Harrumph!" was grandpa only comment on the situation as he sat down to eat.
Meanwhile crossed town three girls sat conspiring together having escaped the festivities at their own homes. They had set up an emergency meeting at the nearby coffee house to discuss the love life of the forth girl to their group. They all agreed that kagome's love life was in dire need of help, and it was up to the three of them to put it all to rights.
"Alright so I heard from a friend who helps in the office at school, who overheard the teachers talking about this inuyasha guy from Alaska that is betrothed to kagome!" Ami squealed excitedly as she shared the latest bit of gossip with the other two.
"And get this this inuyasha fellow from Alaska just happens to be the same the two-timing violent chauvinistic boyfriend of kagome's we've been discussing for the last several" Yumi added having found out as much from her own sources.
"Oh how romantic, the guy she's secretly been seeing all this time turns out to be the same one she was unknowingly promised to at birth." Said Erika as she sighed dreamily
"I don't know, I thought we hated this secret boyfriend of kagome's and were trying to break them up and make her go out with hojo?" Ami asked rather confused now about the turn of events. Both Ami and Erika turned to the ring leader of their group, hoping Yumi would have a better grasp on the situation.
"oh forget about hojo for a moment, don't you two see kagome and dog-whateverhisname are star crossed lovers destined to meant together?" Yumi said pausing to sigh dreamily before she continued with her latest plan. "We are going to have to help bring kagome and inuyasha together."
"But what about how they feel? What if inuyasha is a tool?" Ami asked as she stole Erika's drink.
"But how, we don't have any of his classes, we don't know where he lives, and every other time we've seen him kagome's been by his side. We can't just ask her to cover her ears while we girl inuyasha and if we asked to speak with inuyasha privately, kagome would know something was definitely up" Yumi mussed out loud.
"Well there goes a perfectly good chance to ask him alone." Erika commented pointing out the window to where they could see inuyasha running down the side walk. While they were distracted by the sight, she took the opportunity to steal her drink back from Ami.
"Right, good ideal Erika." Yumi said before leaping to her feet and dashing to the door way hoping to catch inuyasha before he was too far down the street to hear.
"Inuyasha!" Yumi bellowed out the door way. Inuyasha ground to a stop, wishing he still had his dog ears as he hunted for the direction his name had come from. Hearing his name being shouted again inuyasha twisted around relising it was coming from some were behind him. His eyes scanned the side walk and shops behind him finally came to rest on one of kagome's friends franticly waving at him.
"Have you seen kagome? Is she with you? Your one of her friend's right? Is she here?" a worried inuyasha asked, throwing the questions at Yumi in rapid sensation. After the fight during dinner every one had assumed kagome had shut herself back up in her bedroom, and it had been her bed room door to slam. It wasn't until kagome's mom when to bring food up to her that they revised it hadn't been her door but one of the door leading outside to slam shut.
They had checked the well and the outer shrine buildings and even the god-Tree. But to no use as kagome was no were to be found. Inuyasha had set off for town trying to fallow the light sent trail kagome had left while kagome's mom tried calling her friends to see if she had gone over to one of their houses. Inuyasha was being to grow frantic as the sun dipped lower in the sky and it began to grow cold. Kagome in her anger hadn't taken her coat when she stormed out and while inuyasha didn't know much about babies nor pregnant women, he knew at least enough to know that getting cold wasn't good for them.
"Alright, alright, slow down with the questions. You answer our question's first and then will answer yours. Deal?" Yumi said as she began to steer inuyasha out of the chill November weather and to the table where the other two still sat. Forcing him to sit, Yumi pulled up another chair and began the interrogation.
"So you've been kagome's boyfriend since she was 15?" Yumi asked slowly, deciding to start the questions off easy at first. Inuyasha nodded his head, figuring that was probly when they first met and making a mental note to ask kagome what a boyfriend was since her friends kept calling him that.
"Would you ever hurt kagome?" Ami asked rather bluntly. Judging by inuyasha's expression, the girls took it to mean it was a definite no. feeling better about kagome's choice in guys, they had one more question to ask before inuyasha got the thumbs up from them.
"What about your old girlfriend?" Yumi asked next, her gaze searching.
"My old what? Who?" inuyasha asked confused as to what they were asking, he was being to grow inpatient with them, he wished they would get their questions over with and tell him where kagome was.
"You know Kinkyo? The girl who wants to drag you to hell?" Erika supplied, they weren't sure what kagome had meant when she had told them that but they figured inuyasha would know. And as the look of confusion faded into one of understanding they knew they had guessed right.
"I laid her to rest." Inuyasha finally answered. The three girls glanced at each other unsure what he meant by that, the desited to clarify a bit more.
"so you're not going to abandon kagome to go running around with kikyo no more? Right?" Ami asked to make sure they were on the same page. At the nodding of inuyasha's head, the girls smiled. Erika smiled dreamily, Ami grinned big and Yumi smirked. Things for kagome were looking decidedly up, the girls thought.
"How do you feel about kagome?" asked Yumi
"What feel-"inuyasha began to ask but was cut off by another question.
"Do you love her?" Erika asked next
"Love?" inuyasha repeated the word alarmed, but before he could say more he was interrupted again.
"We know you and kagome are betrothed but do you want to marry her?" asked Ami.
"I, well we uh wedding she uh and her grandfather said." Inuyasha stuttered his mind spinning its self in circles as he tried to keep track of the questions, his answers what he could or shouldn't tell them and who asked what questions. Finally fed up with it all stood up from the table and nearly shouted "that's it! I'm done! Where is kagome?"
The girls barely reacted to his outburst, they mealy glanced up at him for a moment as if to read his face and then when back to whispering amongst themselves, not even bothering to answer his question..
"oh he's got it bad."
"real bad."
"Mmhmn definitely."
"what have I got?" inuyasha asked confused as he slumped back down into the chair, knowing kagome's sent was lost with so many people on the streets today along with the wind and these three girls were probly his best bet of finding kagome. "Never mind, just tell me where kagome is"
"We don't know" Yumi said, but as inuyasha then made to leave she quickly added "we may know were you can find her, if you tell us what happened."
"And agree to let us help you with kagome."
Inuyasha nodded his head agreeing, not knowing what he was getting himself into when it came to these three friends of kagome's. Their expressions suddenly became very pleased as they pinned him in his chair with their sharp eyes making inuyasha fidget nervously feeling suddenly like pray as he glanced from one egger face to the next as they waited from him to begin his tale.
"Kagome and I got into a Fight yesterday and." inuyasha began, the girls nodded remerging the argument she and him had as they were going home. Inuyasha paused as he thought how to tell the rest, thinking fast inuyasha tweaked the truth a bit, unsure if he should mention kagome being pregnant as to the reason she had been so upset with him but seeing as how kagome reacted to the ideal yesterday, he thought it might be best if he kept his mouth shut. He told them next of how he had asked her grandfather for her hand and of kagome walking in afterwards. "She's still mad at me, and I think upset about being forced into marriage all of a sudden."
The girls nodded their heads in sympathy. After they heard inuyasha's tale they knew they just had to help kagome and inuyasha's love trump all. The girls spent a minute whispering into each other's ear before they finally settled on a plan of action. "Alright inuyasha we think we know were kagome is, but first you need to be armed, you can't just go in empty handed when kagome's this angry."
"Armed?" inuyasha questioned their sanity, he couldn't see how brining weapons was going to help him with kagome, maybe if he gave kagome the weapons to kill him with but inuyasha hoped the girls had something better in mind than that.
"Yes armed to the teeth." Ami said with a snicker as the dragged inuyasha off the corner store to have him properly armed before he faced kagome.
Fifteen minutes later they had inuyasha properly armed, or so they said. In one arm he had a bouquet of flowers the other held a small stuffed animal rabbit, in his pocket were two movie tickets and they had made him eat several little white things that tasted like a whole tube of toothpaste packed into one tiny droplet that was small even kagome's pinkie nail. The astringent taste of them had made inuyasha's eyes water.
"What good is this going to do me again?" inuyasha asked disdainfully, he didn't see at all how this ridiculous stuff was going to help him.
"Just trust us will you? you've got to give kagome the flowers and tell her your sorry, if flowers don't work give her the bunny and then ask her to go on a date to the movies with you!" Yumi snapped growing tired of inuyasha's attitude. They were trying to help him and all he could do was gripe. If they had more time to work with inuyasha she was tempted to put him in a suite and chop of that ridicules white and knotted mop on his head that he claimed was his hair just to give him something to really whine about. But the sun was going down and they were running out of time so she would reframe from such tactics today.
"Now that you're geared for battle of love, kagome's probly at the old park on Nobie Street that we used to play on as kids, she still likes to go there and swing sometimes when she's really upset." Erika said pointing him in the general direction of the park. Inuyasha gave a nod of his head and a grudging thank you to them as he took off in that direction.
"Don't forget to give her the kiss of true love inuyasha!" Ami shouted after him while waving energetically
Inuyasha shook his head, kagome's friends were crazy but they had been right about were kagome was he saw as he finally came in sight of the playground. He just hoped they were also right about this stuff getting kagome to forgive him.
"Kagome?" inuyasha called out as he approached the swing set that kagome was sitting on. Her head was tilted down, her raven locks falling like a black waterfall over one shoulder swaying to and fro as she swung listlessly in the swing. Her head snapped up at the sound of inuyasha's voice, the reddish tint to her eyes that bespoke of tears felt like a dagger to inuyasha's chest.
"kagome, I …brought you flowers" inuyasha said quickly as he trust the flowers forward as he tried to remember all that the girls had told him.
"and umnn..." inuyasha cursed as he begain to franticly search his body wondering what he'd done with the stuffed rabbit creature since he was no longer holding it in his other hand.
"You! You! oh!" kagome screeched leaping out of the swing to point at him accusingly she then bent down to retrieve several of the pine cones that littler the ground around her feet.
"You jerk!" kagome shrieked at him throwing the first pine cone at him.
"You chauvinistic" kagome shouted throwing two more at inuyasha as he walked toward her.
"Prone to violence" another pine cone was thrown as inuyasha took a step closer to her.
"Bossy!" another pine cone for another step.
"Overprotective." and another.
"Stubborn" the last pine cone fell out of kagome's hand as inuyasha embraced her.
"You're cold kagome." Inuyasha said softly as he swept kagome up into his arms, holding her as close as he could using his body heat warm her up.
"Inuyasha?"
"Yeah?" inuyasha looked down her so he could gaze into her eyes as she spoke to him.
"I'm sorry." Kagome mumbled quietly. She had been so wound up lately, she didn't know what was wrong with her, she hadn't meant to be so mean to everyone but her emotions kept spinning out of control at the least bit of provocation.
"Feh, truce?" inuyasha asked hopefully.
"Yeah, truce." Kagome agreed with a wobbly smile for him.
"Good, then let's go to the movies." Inuyasha said as he began to walk in that direction.
"The movies? Inuyasha wait, I didn't bring any money with me and we need to tell mama, she's probably worried…." Inuyasha shook his head dispelling kagome's worries. "Your friends gave me some help, Yumi said it was all part of some plan of hers. I was to give you flowers, then this fuzzy rabbit thing and take you to the movies. I'm sure one of them also called your mother and told her you're with me." Inuyasha told kagome, dangling in front of kagome's eyes the somewhat misshapen rabbit that he had shoved into his pocket along with the two movie tickets. He decided not to mention what Ami had told him to do, that was best left unsaid.
"The flowers kind of got messed up" inuyasha muttered as he saw what was left of the mangled bouquet. They seemed to have taken the brunt of kagome's pine cone attack. Selecting the only flower left that had managed to keep all its petals, inuyasha tucked it into kagome's hair just behind her ear.
"Oh" gasps kagome surprised, a light blush staining her cheeks. She would have to remember and thank her friends later, or maybe kill them depending on what they were scheming, But still it was really nice of them and inuyasha.
After several minutes of being carried down the sidewalk, kagome began to fidget in inuyasha's arms. "You know I could walk just fine, I'm not p-"
"you promised a truce, and you would slow us down, we'll get their quicker if I carry you." inuyasha said cutting kagome off, he wasn't going to admit that he like carrying kagome like this, and that he also had been worried about her. She was still a little too cold for inuyasha's liking. He wasn't putting her down till he was sure she was warm again. If it wasn't for the fact that kagome's mother had threatened him with no ramen for a week if he used any demonic abilities while in public, he'd have ran with her to the movie. With a small sigh kagome gave in to the resolve of inuyasha's stubbornness and snuggled up to enjoy being held close by inuyasha.
By the time they made it to the movie house the opening credits for the movie were playing. As inuyasha and kagome walked into the darkened theater, they relied with growing dismay it was nearly full, there were no two empty seats left near each other and only there was only a handful of empty ones. As inuyasha scanned the crowed for any other options, he saw a few couples that seemed to run have into the same problem him and kagome were in. they had solved it by having the girl sit on the lap of the guy.
"Inuyasha, what are you doing? There is only one seat there" kagome whispered to inuyasha as he began to drag her to the nearest empty seat.
"Shh, I have an ideal" inuyasha shushed her, intent on his ideal. Reaching the seat inuyasha sat down first and then tugged kagome down until she sat on his lap, much to kagome's embarrassment. He then proceeded to wrap kagome up in his coat with him, his arms wrapping leisurely around her as he made himself comfortable as the moving began to play in earnest
"Stop wiggling Inuyasha growled softly in kagome's ear a few minutes later as she began to fidget in his lap. There seating position had been fine, right up to the point were kagome started grinding her bottom against him. He knew she was doing it unintentionally as she tried to get comfortable, but his body didn't care why she was doing it, only that she was. Inuyasha's demon side stirred to life at the contact, his demon blood was restless, throwing unhelpful ideas at inuyasha that didn't at all ease his current state.
Inuyasha whimpered as kagome shifted again. It was pure sweet torture, if inuyasha didn't know better he would almost believe Kagome was tormenting him on purpose. Inuyasha wrapped his arms tighter around kagome's middle as he tried to keep her from moving, he was almost sorry that he had. With kagome's movements no longer distracting him, his instincts were fully awake now and wanted more. Inuyasha knuckles turned white as he fought the urge to touch her. The soft underside of her breast brushed agents his forearm every time she drew in a breath, teasing him. What drove him truly crazy was knowing what kagome wore under that short skirt of hers. If he was to move his hand just the tiniest bit lower and he would be able to feel the silky material. Material that came up over her hip then fallowed the curve of her body down between her slightly parted legs and all inuyasha would have to do was move his hand just a bit. And he would…
With an effort inuyasha shook the thoughts from his mind and forced attention away from kagome's body. His demon side howled angry at being denied once again and tried to push inuyasha's instincts in to over drive. Irritated with the half demon continued idiocy his demon blood went back to sleep after inuyasha refused to listen to the demands of his demon side. His demon blood knew what was right; it was the week human blood that always got in his way thought inuyasha's demonic side.
When the movie finally let out, inuyasha and kagome were one of the first ones out of the theater. It had been a long movie and inuyasha head felt every moment of it, each and every heartbeat, sigh and tiny movement during it. It had been pure hell, pure sweet lice smelling hell. Inuyasha flexed his knuckles surprised they still worked after being numb for so long while he had a white knuckle grip on his errant body, afraid to relax lest his body take opportunity and control of his hands. Inuyasha mentally cursed at himself, next time he got a bright ideal he hoped kagome would sit him before he could act on it.
"Wasn't that a good movie inuyasha?" kagome asked over her shoulder as she led the way back home from the movie theater.
Inuyasha gave his head a firm shake after catching himself staring at kagome again, watching as she walk, her hips swaying in time to her steps. With a groan inuyasha picked up his pace until he was walking besides her. Inuyasha then took off his jacket and wrapped it around kagome, it was too cold in November after the sun went down for her to be running around without one.
"Movie good? Bad? Earth to inuyasha" kagome teases as she tapped on inuyasha's forehead.
"Alright, alright. Yea, good movie." Inuyasha snapped, halfheartedly beating away kagome's hand while he tried to keep his eyes to the road ahead of them and not on the girl besides him who was driving him crazy in more ways than one.
"Thank you" kagome said softly kissing inuyasha on his cheek. Placing her small hand in inuyasha's larger one, she hummed happily as they contied the trek home holding hands.
Inuyasha felt his whole face flame, she still had no clue how much she affected him, and inuyasha grimaced. He was going to need a real cold shower if he wanted to get any sleep tonight.
The truce that inuyasha had struck with her almost a week ago was wearing thin. Kagome rubbed her temples as she tried to count to twenty before she killed someone, a particular someone with golden eyes and long silver hair that was currently blocking her way.
"Inuyasha move!" kagome snapped, her foot tapping impatiently.
"no." inuyasha barked at her folding his arms crossed is chest as he struck up his typical stubborn pose.
"Inuyasha if you do not move, I'm going to throw you through that door." Kagome warned her blue eyes glaring daggers into his golden ones.
"Keh! I'd like to see you try." Inuyasha shot back, he wasn't about to let her out this door. That the weather outside had turned bad was an understatement. The clouds had swarmed and blotted out all of the sky turning angry and dark. Lighting leapt from cloud to cloud, striking with wanton abandonment. The wind blew in cold and harsh from the north throwing the rain hard against whatever happened to be in its way. They felt a thousand needles pelting you from the sky; inuyasha had quickly learned this after he had walked from the house to the trash cans and back, having offered to take the trash out for kagome's mother. It was cold, wet and no place for a pregnant woman to be out mucking around in.
"Inuyasha!" kagome shirked in anger "we have to go now! The play at the school is starting soon and we have to be there ten minutes early to get changed into our costumes, now move!"
Inuyasha yelped as kagome suddenly bull charged him, falling backwards against the door he heard kagome's shout of trump right before the door behind him swung open and they both fell out onto the small covered porch of the Higurashi front door. Inuyasha propped himself up on his elbows to glare at kagome, who was awkwardly straddling his right leg with her hands and chin resting on his chest. She smiled sheepishly at inuyasha.
"Ready to go now?" Kagome asked cheerily once she had gotten her feet back under her. Inuyasha growled at her without comment as he stood glowering at the storm.
"I'm going to leave you if you don't come on already" Kagome warned as she was about to step off the porch and into the rain, inuyasha's arm suddenly shot out catching kagome around her rib cage just under her breast and pulled her back to him.
"No you're not. I'm carrying you." inuyasha said as he scooped her up into his arms.
"Mom said no acting demon like remember." Kagome warned as she attempted to free herself from inuyasha's hold.
"I don't care. it too cold and wet for you to walk all the way there without catching a cold and no one is going to see me anyway." Inuyasha argued while he made sure kagome's rain coat was cover as much as her as possible. Once inuyasha was sure kagome was as protected from the rain as he could manage, inuyasha took off at a sprint with kagome safely tucked against his chest.
They made it to the school in record time and were quickly ushered into separate dressing room to be dressed up for their part in the play. There was only minutes to spare before the play began.
The curtains drew open as Quiet music began to play and the narrator spoke the first lines of the play.
Once upon a time, in a quant village lived a girl and her father, the girls name was beauty, for she was the prettiest girl in all of town and her father was a merchant who traveled quite often. One fine day, before the father left for travel he speaks with his daughter.
The audience hushes as the lights on the stage turn on, showing Beauty as played by kagome and beauty's father played by Hojo as the father makes ready to leave for travel.
"Beauty, dear child what would you have me bring you from by trip?" the father ask
"Nothing but your safe return father" kagome replies sweetly
"You have that anyway, but there must be something you would like?" father asks with a laugh.
"A rose then father if you must"
"A rose it is" the father promises as he throws his pack over his shoulder and walks off the stage. As he is leaving Gaston played by Koto and his lackey played by another student approaches Beauty.
"Ah my beauty!" Gaston played by Koto calls out.
"Hello Gaston," Kagome returns the greeting, her cheerfulness forced.
"Will you marry me today and become my bride?" Gaston asks as he tries to steal a kiss from beauty
"Not today Gaston," beauty says shutting the door on Gaston's face before he could steal the kiss...
Gaston lackey laughs and Gaston shoves him off screen, as the curtains draw closed so the next seen can be readied.
A storm had struck as beauty's father was on his way home. Unable to see the road Beauty's father had become lost in the woods, seeking shelter he had come upon the cursed castle of the beast. Not knowing better he wondered inside. The narrator's voice is heard as the seen slowly opens to reveal the father wondering around in the entrance hall of a dark old castle.
"Hello?" the father shouts into the darkened stage.
"maybe its abandon…yawn" Hojo playing as the father pretends to grow tired and fall asleep in a nearby chair, as he is sleeping a tray of tea and food rolls up beside him. The stage slowly lightens and birds chirp to give the ideal of morning as the father awakens and he sees the meal
"Hello? This for me?" he ask but receives no answer so he eats. After he finishes the meal, the father begins to wonder around the castle hall, its then that he sees roses growing in a pot that's being lit up by one of the stage lights to draw attention to them.
"Ah I had almost forgotten beauty's request" the father says as he reaches over and plucks one of the roses.
A loud roar is heard and the beast as played by Inuyasha suddenly jumps down from above the stage.
"This is how you repay my kindness, I shelter you, provided you food and repay my kindness buy ruining my roses!" shots the beast, the father falls to the floor cowering in front of the beast. Inuyasha enjoying it all too much.
"I- I meant no harm g-good sir! It is only for my daughter beauty, she loves me so and she only asked for a single rose I did not think you would begrudge me a single rose when you have so many fine roses."
"A daughter…"the beast mutters quietly while thinks "I will let you live on one condition"
"Yes yes anything!" the father cries
"Give me your daughter as payment for killing my rose"
"No, no not that anything but that. I could not make my daughter pay for my crime."
"Your choice, I will allow you to give your daughter the rose you have already plucked, you'll return here in a three days with your daughter, or to face your death. Take this it will lead you here again" says the beast as he hands the father a magic ring.
"Do not make me come fetch you back." The beast growls as the father runs away from the beast castle and the curtain falls shut.
When the curtains open again it is to a new scene were beauty stands in front of the cottage with Gaston.
"Beauty marry me today, for your father has not returned for many a day." question ask as he leans on a fence in front of beauty's home
"Not today Gaston, my father has not been gone that long and will return soon enough." beauty replies as she walks past Gaston.
"My dear foolish beauty" Gaston says as he grabs her around the waist and pulls her flush against him. Kagome yelped at the unexpected move, this wasn't part of the play. What was Koto doing? Kagome wondered with alarm as she tried to keep with the play.
" Your father-" but Gaston's words are interrupted as beauty's father comes running onto the stage. Gaston steps back to blend in with the back ground as the focus of the stage changes to the father as he falls at beauty's feet.
"A beast! Beauty! A terrible beast!" the father whispers loudly. Beauty crouches besides her father to hear what he is saying and so beauty's father told her of his travels and all that had happened to him, of the beast, the bargain for a rose and the magic ring. Says the narrator
"We'll run beauty. Will run as far as it takes, let's go to sleep for we will need to rise early for travel tomorrow." The father is heard speaking as the stage darkens and the curtains fall shut
The narrator's voice is heard once again with the sound of a horse running in the back ground. "Beauty wasn't as optimist as her father, she believed it would not matter how far they ran, such a beast would find them. She believed it was only right that she take her father's place since she had asked for the rose and her father had only picked it on her behalf. So gathering her courage beauty took the magic ring and a horse, while her father slept soundly in his room none the wiser, and road off into the night letting the magic ring guide her to the beast castle.
The curtains open as beauty is wondering around the darkened castle of the beast. Beauty can just catch a glimpse of what looks like furniture that is moving in the darkness around her.
"Hello? Mr. Beast? I have come in my fathers place, you promised to spar him if I came."
"A girl?" a small voice ask from somewhere on the right side of the room
"A guest!" is shouted from the other side of the room
"A guest?" everyone on the right side ask
" A girl!" The left side of the room shouts back.
Suddenly the lights brighten, and the spelled furniture begins to dance around the room as the sing " Be Our Guest "Be our guest! Be our guest!"
While they are singing beauty is seated at a long table and the spelled server's trolley places a silver tray in front of her and another one at the other end of the table, as the song draws to an end the furniture slowly leave and the beast comes and sits at the table.
"Good evening beauty." The beast says surprisingly polite.
"Good evening beast" beauty replies still frightened of the beast.
"Did your father not come with you?"
"No, I asked alone asked for the rose, so I alone came to pay for the rose."
"Do you love me beauty?"
"What?" beauty exclaims
"It's an easy question, do you love me, just be honest." The beast asks growing impatient
"N-no" beauty stutters
"Goodnight beauty" says the beast curtly as he gets up from the table knocking his chair over in the process and storms angrily away. The curtain falls closed with beauty still sitting at the table alone. Even though inuyasha knew he was just playing the part in a play and they had practiced the lines a hundred times, his feelings still kagome away hurt as he walked off the stage.
The narrator speaks while the scene is being changed once again. And so it fallowed, every morning beast would ask beauty if she would love him today and every evening he would ask her if she loved him yet, and every day beauty would answer the same. Two full moons had come and gone and still she would answer no, until the day…
The curtains slowly open to reveal a garden scene where beauty and beast are sitting in the gardens together. Soft music is playing steadily growing louder until beauty and the beast begin to dance while the music plays ~ there's something there I didn't see before, something sweet and almost kind. But he was mean and he was coarse and unrefined. But now he's dear. I wonder why I didn't see if before. ~she glanced this way, I thought I saw and when we touched she didn't shudder at my paw. No it can't be I'll just ignore, but then she's never looked at me that way before….~
As the music comes to an end inuyasha and kagome find themselves lost in each other eyes. Their lips mere inches away, so close yet so far away they are unable to move forward or break the spell. Some were in the back of their minds they vaguely recall something about lines and other people, but in this moment they are lost to each other. Inuyasha finds himself drifting closer, kagome's eyes flutter shut as inuyasha's lips draw near, but he stops. His lips hover a mere breath apart from kagome's rosy lips, he waits for her to come to him.
And the moment is destroyed when the sounds of battle suddenly interrupt. Abruptly they are thrown back into reality and remember they play. Faces flushed they break away as the student playing Mrs.. Pots yells "We're under attack!"
Beauty and the beast run inside the castle the doors slammed closed behind them. And just in time as a mob of student's dressed up as angry villagers storm the scene. Soon the mob breaks down the castle doors and charges inside.
And just as quickly the mob is seen running back out of the castle as they are being chased by the en-spelled furniture.
A long female cry is heard up on the balcony, where beauty can be seen being dragged out onto the balcony by an angry crazed Gaston. While down in the courtyard beast, who had helped the furniture to chase the mob out, stares up in horror.
"Beauty, beauty you could have had me! But you fight for this beast!" Gaston shouts at beauty while he holds beauty by her arms shaking her in his anger
" I could have made you queen!" he yells right before he forcefully kisses her.
Beast who had been climbing up the castle wall suddenly leaps over the edge of the balcony.
"Let beauty go" the beast growls.
"So you're the beast who beauty chose" Gaston said as he crushes beauty to him. "What if I don't want to let her go beast?"
"Kota what are you doing? This isn't part of the play!" kagome hisses at Kota while trying not to be overheard by the audience.
"I think I kind of liked to keep her." Kota proclaims arrogantly turning kagome toward him, he then smashes his lips against kagome's forcefully stealing a kiss.
Inuyasha enraged attacks with a fearsome growl. He drives his fist into Kota's jaw, seizing hold of kagome as Kota goes tumbling backwards. Inuyasha thrusts kagome behind him as Kota pushes himself back up off the ground. A growling inuyasha is a sign to be wary of, But Kota, like his reincarnate doesn't listen
"Awe does the beasty have a crush on the beauty, what a joke!" Kota mocks as wipes at the blood from his mouth. He then attaches, trying to kick inuyasha's head, inuyasha manages to doge the blow but is caught by the next.
Kagome watches in horror as the play quickly devolves into a brawl between the two. Kouga's reincarnation obviously takes heavily after him, the fight was dirty and viscous and kagome was torn. She wanted to beat Koto herself for kissing her like that, but at the same time she didn't want inuyasha to get in trouble or hurt.
Kagome is saved from having to interfere with the fight that had managed to come off the balcony and cover half the stage when the furniture suddenly leapt on Kota and forced him down the trap stage door, they used a convenient smoke ball to make as if Gaston had gone poof after a savage strike from inuyasha.
Inuyasha stands alone in the middle of the stage not sure what to do now that his anger hand cooled some. That and his beast mask had come off at some point in the fight. Kagome equally at a lost for what they were supposed to do, made an attempt to follow the rest of the script as she came running down from the balcony.
"My Beast! My prince!" kagome cries as she runs into his arms throwing her arms around his neck.
"Yes beauty, one and the same my curse is broken, you have freed me." The beast says as he untangles himself from beauty and goes down on his knee before her. Taking something small out of his pocket, kagome is shocked to see the engagement ring her father gave to her mother many years ago.
"Would you marry the beast?" inuyasha ask as he holds the ring up to here.
"no." kagome says stunning inuyasha. "But I will marry you."
Inuyasha's eyes blinked twice as the words finally sunk throw the frozen parts of his brain. He leapt to his feet taking kagome into his arms he spun them in a circle as she laughed in delight. As the spinning momentum slowed, inuyasha lowered his lips to kagome's sealing the promise with a kiss as he slipped the ring onto her finger. And with that the curtains fell closed.
Shuffling was heard as the narrator hunted for his lines "with loves true kiss, the curse was broken. Life returned to the castle and there was soon a grand wedding at the castle"
The band begins to play a 'tale as old as time' as the curtains open the final time onto a splendid ballroom were all the students that acted in the play are dancing and bowing to the audience. While in the center of the stage inuyasha and kagome still locked in embrace, uncaring of the outside world as they kissed.
