Kagome flinched knowing she should have expected as much from Yusuke. Fidgeting she tried to reply, "I… err… umm… well, you see uh-"
"SPIT IT OUT ALREADY!!!!"
She felt herself snap, "THEN SHUT UP AND LET ME EXPLAIN!!"
"OKAY, HURRY UP WITH IT THEN!!!"
"I WILL SO JUST SHUT UP!!"
"TOO BAD, NOW'S MY RANT TIME!!!" Yusuke shouted in return. Every one else in the room watched the fight between the two siblings as if they were following the route of a ping pong match.
"I see Urameshi found his match…." Kuwabara stated slack jawed.
"P-poor Kagome-chan…." Boton sighed as Keiko tried to stop the fight.
"Well, you have to admit, the girl's faulted as well," Shizuru spoke up, "Even so, Yusuke's being kind of harsh on the poor girl…"
"WELL WHAT ABOUT MY FEELINGS?! WHAT ABOUT MY NEEDS KAGOME!!?" The sudden loud exclamation caused everyone to jump in fright, but ask Hiei and he'd say he didn't, little liar.
Kuwabara started laughing at what Kagome said next. "YOUR NEEDS DON'T EXIST DIMWIT!!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH BEING BEHIND AT SCHOOL YOU STUPID CUR!!"
"I must admit, this is very amusing," Kurama smiled trying not to laugh.
"I WANT TO BE PISSED, SO QUIT APOLIGIZING!"
"TOO BAD DUMBNUT!"
"I HATE YOU, GO TO HELL! NONE OF US WANT TO BE HERE, WE HAVE TO THOUGH BECAUSE YOUR MOM ASKED US TO!"
Kagome flinched back from Yusuke who was still panting in rage. "Oh… well, I'm sorry then," she snarled holding in her tears. Angrily she ran back up the stairs leaving behind a group of shocked persons behind.
Stubbornly, Yusuke turned around and stormed off as well leaving behind a group of very confused people.
"Did he-"Boton asked
"Yes" Kuwabara replied slack jawed.
"Is she going to be okay?" Yukina asked fretting.
"The fox's already going to check," Hiei supplied. Everyone in the room turned to where Kurama had previously been sitting only to see he really was gone. Sighing and rubbing her head Shizuru headed to the kitchen to prepare dinner, the rest of the girls soon followed suit while Hiei and Kuwabara went to check up on Yusuke.
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.The soft knocking on the door surprised Kagome. Yusuke was still too angry at her to knock so gently. Sniffing, she walked over to the door and slowly opened it to see Suuichi standing on the other side. "May I come in?" Kagome nodded and sat back on the bed as he closed the door behind him.
"Are you okay?" he asked. Kagome felt choked up by the gentle question coming from him.
"Yeah, I'm fine…" she sniffed.
Smiling gently, he reached over. Kagome was surprised when she saw the small drop of water clinging to his finger,"It doesn't seem that way to me…"
Wiping her eyes frantically, Kagome tried to put on a smile, "Seriously I'm fine-"she stopped as her words became muffled. Kurama held her gently as she slowly relaxed into him. Kagome hesitantly curled her fingers into his shirt as she held onto him. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. All I've been is a pain in the butt this entire time." She sobbed holding on to him.
"No Kagome, you have not," he tried reassuring her. He could feel Youko's worry at her behalf and for some odd reason, he too felt angry at Yusuke. "Why don't we go talk to Yusuke? He didn't mean any of that, I'm sure of it."
She peeked up at him, "Really?"
He chuckled at her childlike question, "Yes, really Kagome."
"Okay," Kagome stood up. "Let's go see if we can get my brother to listen to me…" She grabbed his arm and dragged him along, "You're going to help me!"
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Kagome fidgeted nervously in the doorway. She was right, her onni-chan was still angry at her! He was looking away from her purposely and totally ignoring her! Kazuma-kun looked at her sympathetically as Hiei gave an annoyed sigh. "Listen to her detective, or I'm sure she'll stand there all night like a lost rabbit." She wasn't even annoyed at his rude remark.
"Onni-chan…. Onni-chan….Onni-chan…!" Kagome tried over and over again to no effect.
"Urameshi, I think you should listen to her," Kazuma-kun tried to sway him, endearing him even more to the desperate Kagome.
"Fine, but make it quick," Yusuke grumbled out.
Kagome brightened instantly. "I'm sorry Onni-chan! I didn't mean to disappear on you! I just had something to do, and I couldn't tell you, and I'm sooooo sorry!!!!"
Yusuke sighed irately, "Fine, but I'm coming with you next time!"
"NO!"
"Why?"
"Err, you just can't!" Kagome shouted out. Yusuke grinned suddenly causing everyone to panic. 'Th-that smile's just creepy…'
"Fine, but each time you disappear on us, you have to let me do one thing," Yusuke smiled evilly.
"Like what?" Kagome asked narrowing her eyes suspiciously.
"Like let's say no more saying 'no cookies Yusuke'"
"Fine," Kagome agreed.
"Yeah, free cookies for me!" Yusuke cheered racing out of the room. His head popped back in to stare quizzically at everyone, "C'mon you dweebs, I'm gonna get me some food!"
Kagome couldn't help but laugh at that and heard Kazuma and Shuuichi join in. "C'mon guys, let's hope they didn't mess-up the kitchen!"
Kagome felt her eye start to twitch as she entered the kitchen. "Exactly what happened here?" She asked a nervous Botan.
"Well, you see," Botan explained fidgeting, "We sort of tried to cook Udon, but that got burned and –"
"How do you burn Udon Broth?" Kazuma asked confused and on the edge of laughter.
"It was the noodles!! We weren't watching them so when we got back the pot was all black!"
"Keiko-chan, don't your parent's own a noodle stand?" Kurama asked turning to Keiko.
It was her turn to fidget, "Well… I sort of got distracted and convinced everyone to go outside and have some fun and do stuff for ten minutes, and when we came back in the noodles were all shriveled and black…"
Kagome sighed and went to the fridge pulling out an assortment of ingredients, she stumbled and looked over to her left when she felt the pile ease. Suuichi was carrying the other bunch of items. She turned back around and picked up the pot of rice. " I was going to save this for later, but I guess we have no choice. Okay everyone, it's make your own sushi day!"
Keiko smiled, "I can handle that!"
As the night wore on and dinner wore long, everyone had fun. Kagome laughed at the rest of them various times for various reasons.
"Kazuma-kun, that's too much wasabi!"
"Urameshi, these are supposed to be sushi not rice balls!" Kuwabara laughed.
"So what?! I like my rice balls!"
"K-Kagome, I think I need some help!" Kurama had shouted out when the rice got tangled up in his hair. Kagome laughed at the familiarity of the situation. Kurama laughed at Youko's annoyed ~Great Red, use my trick why don't you? ~
"Woah, Yukina you're rice balls are amazing!"
"Uh Hiei, you don't put ice cream on sushi," Kagome absentmindedly pointed out to him.
When dinner was finally finished and everything was cleaned up, the entire group went to bed with full tummies and happy smiles. "Aaah…. I wish life could always be this good!" Kagome stretched happily on her bed. A soft knock at her door made her stand up and open it.
"Oh, hi Suuichi," Kagome smiled.
"Ano… hi Kagome…. About my hair…." He finished blushing. Kagome had to laugh at that.
"Okay, sit down," Kagome gently raked her hand in his hair marveling at the soft and silky texture of the ruby strands. The rice grains were hard by then and she kept giving soft apologies when she accidently pulled out some hair with it. She was surprised when he didn't flinch at all.
"I'm done!" she declared. As he stood up, she was surprised when she managed to drag him back down. "I'm not totally done, I lied." Kagome was appalled when she saw the amount of damage she had done to his hair. She had unknowingly tangled the long strands and decided that it was better to fix it now than to leave the poor guy to deal with it in the morning.
Kagome reached over only to find that the brush was out of reach. "I could have sworn the brush was there…" she frowned to herself unable to see Kurama's smirk. Sighing, she ended up running her fingers through the red mass and gently pulling them out of the knots.
She winced for him when she ended up pulling out hairs seeing how he just didn't seem to care about it. When she was sure that his hair was totally fine, she stood up and looked down at him. Kagome stared in surprise when he seemed asleep. Deciding that it was totally unintentional, she pulled him back until his head hit her pillows.
Closing her eyes she snuggled up to him and sighed. Kurama felt a grin slowly spread across his face.
~I'm influencing you way too much~ Youko grumbled in the back of his mind as he surged forward to wrap his arms around her sleeping body.
'Yes, you are.'
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-Tsuki no Tennyo