Special Moments In Time
House Call
"Ayumi Higawa"
"Here"
"Kagome Higurashi"
"…"
The teacher looked up from his attendance sheet when he received no response, "Is she absent again?"
"Hai sir, she still hasn't recovered from her recurring rheumatism" Yuka answered.
Mr. Shori arched an eyebrow but said nothing. Shori sensei was a young handsome man in his late twenties; he taught art and was also Kagome's class' homeroom teacher.
'Its really not good for Kagome to be taking so many days off from school', he thought. Kagome was one of his most favorite students, she was very talented with the brush and had a mind boggling imagination. He would never forget the assignment she handed in for her term project. They had to create a mythical creature that might have existed in olden times. She'd drawn a two headed demon horse like animal and had even named it Ah-Uhn. He was quite impressed.
'Maybe I should pay her a little visit; after all, it is the holiday season…'
"Come on Inuyasha be reasonable" Kagome argued. Honestly, this was getting ridiculous; no person should have to beg to go see their family, it was Christmas for Christ's sake!
"But you just came back" the stubborn hanyou stood his ground, there was no way in hell that she was leaving hi—uh, going home.
Kagome's eyebrow twitched, "I've been here for a whole month!"
"My point exactly!"
"What? Do you want me to stay here forever?!"
"That would save us a lot of trouble" he mumbled.
Kagome narrowed her eyes at him, huffed, turned around and stalked away in the direction of the well.
"Hey where the hell do you think you're going wench?!" Inuyasha barged after her, trudging through the snow covered ground. "Don't you dare turn your back on me!"
The miko walked straight up to the bone eaters well, threw one leg over the rim and hopped in. The blue light surrounded her, numbing out the profanities Inuyasha was screaming at her until she couldn't hear him anymore. She let out a sigh; she was getting too old for this…
"This must be the place" Shori sensei squinted as he looked up at the Higurashi shrine entrance, and then slowly lowered his gaze toward the many shrine steps. He sighed as a bead of sweat rolled down the side of his face. "I wonder how they do this everyday?" he asked no one in particular before pulling his jacket tighter over his body and trudging on up those steps.
"Stupid stupid stupid Inuyasha" Kagome opened the well house door muttering to herself, "can't even let me spend time with my family during the holiday season"
She stomped on the fluffy snow with her foot once, leaving a gaping footprint in it, to relieve some frustration before heading toward her house's front door.
"Kagome?"
She froze on hearing her name being called and by a familiar voice nonetheless. She turned slowly in the direction of the source.
'Finally!' the young teacher wheezed a sigh of relief on reaching the top, he really needed to exercise some more.
He stopped at the top step for a few minutes to catch his breath, when he saw, to his surprise, the reason for his little visit coming out of some wooden shack with a, huge was an understatement, yellow bag slung over her shoulder.
He quirked an eyebrow in confusion as he saw the teenager walking briskly across the shrine grounds muttering under her breath with a scowl on her face. Then she stopped for a second and stomped her foot down hard on the snow, spraying the ice, before resuming her long strides.
'Now what was that about?'
He then straightened up and called out, well might as well find out the reason, "Kagome?"
He took one step forward before he saw her whole body go rigid. Then she slowly started to turn toward him. He walked up to her and came to a stop in front of her.
"Hi Shori sensei" she greeted him with a sort of nervous smile.
"Um…sorry, I didn't mean to scare you"
"No, it's just surprising that you're here…at my house…now" she started fiddling with the strap of her bag, "Why are you here?"
"I just thought that I'd pay you a little visit. I mean you've been sick from school for almost a month now and I was getting worried." he said, giving her a once over. "Also it's Christmas, you know, the time of giving and spreading cheer."
"Oh…yeah" this just couldn't be happening; lucky she picked now to force her way home. Who knew what would have happened if he had shown up when she was in feudal Japan? Her family would have had to cover for her. That thought sent a shiver down her spine.
"Speaking of which" he continued, "You look quite healthy now; you're even able to carry that heavy bag. Is your rheumatism alright?"
"What? Uh…oh yeah, my rheumatism is much better, grandpa gave me some herbal medicine for it"
Rheumatism, that was ironic. Considering she spent half her time in feudal Japan running around, fighting demons and more or less protecting the world from mortal danger. Yeah, that was as much physical exercise any teenager could hope to indulge in.
"That's good to hear. Does that mean you'll be coming to school soon?" he asked.
"Well…" she hesitated. That was one ofthe reasons she came back, but she still hadn't gotten the 'okay' from Inuyasha and that usually meant he'd be concocting some way to stop her from going.
She deliberated by casting her eyes across the shrine grounds, trying to come up with a valid answer. 'Hey…wait a minute'. Was that a flash of red in the well house just then? Oh kami, don't tell me Inuyasha's here now. What the hell did she do to deserve this?
"What the hell does that bitch think she's doing?" Inuyasha growled. He takes his eyes off her for one second and she goes off to talk to some strange man. Honestly, does she have no sense of self preservation?
He scoffed at that, she was way too gullible and trusting for her own good. That was why he was nervous about letting her go off on her own anywhere, and that included her house too.
The jerk she was talking to, was now asking her something. What was with the hesitant look she was giving him? Just what did he ask her? He felt another growl bubbling up his throat.
She was looking around the shrine grounds now and… 'Oh shit'
He ducked behind the door. Even if he was extremely ticked off at her right now, her anger was quite formidable, especially since it triggered off those 'pain in the ass' sit commands.
Maybe he'd have to beat that guy up some other time.
"Uh…could you wait here for just a second? I'll be right back" Kagome said, not waiting for an answer before stalking toward the well house with her fists curled at her sides.
Shori sensei looked after her, a confused expression his face, "Um.. Ok"
"Inuyasha!" Kagome hissed, "What are you doing here?" she closed the well house door behind her.
"I should be asking you that" Inuyasha hissed right back.
"This is my house!"
"I didn't say you could go home!"
They glowered at each other for a few seconds before Inuyasha broke the silence, "Who was that man anyway?
"Man?" Kagome asked distractedly, "Oh, that was Shori sensei. He's an art teacher at my school"
"What's he doing here?"
"He came here to see whether I was well enough to go back to school, because somebody wouldn't let me come back once in a while" she started glaring again.
"So this is my fault?" Inuyasha growled, "Fine, then I'll go fix it" he cracked his knuckles.
He pushed past her and slid open the well house door and headed outside.
"Wait Inuyasha, you can't let him see your ears!" the miko shrieked.
"Don't worry; he won't have enough time to notice before the wimp's unconscious"
"No Inuyasha!" Kagome trailed after him, "You can't beat up a teacher, you could get me suspended from school!"
"Good, I'll be killing two birds with one stone"
They stopped at the middle of the shrine grounds, "Where the hell is he?!" the hanyou snarled. A light snow fall descended from the heavens as the irate hanyou looked around.
"He's not here?" Kagome asked in panic, "That could only mean…oh no!" she made a mad dash toward her front door and ran into the family room only to stop dead in her tracks.
"What is it?" Inuyasha asked coming up behind her.
"Kagome!" Shori sensei waved her over, "Come join us, your grandfather was just telling us this interesting story about a half demon pinned to a sacred tree" he took a sip from the cup of tea he held in his hand, courtesy of her mother no doubt, "Now I see where you get your imagination from"
"He he" Kagome laughed nervously.
Shori sensei's gaze then landed on Inuyasha, "Who's your friend?"
Kagome froze up again, was Inuyasha wearing his cap? She didn't have the courage to look back. But he must have been, considering her teacher hadn't had a seizure yet.
"Kagome?" Shori sensei asked again, arching an eyebrow.
There was never a time when she actually thought it would be better if one of the fights with Naraku had actually done her in…until now.
"I'm Inuyasha…What's it to you?!" the hanyou came to, what he supposed was, her rescue.
Where was a natural disaster when you needed one?
Shori sensei didn't seem too taken aback by Inuyasha's rude reply; maybe working in a school full of rowdy teenagers made you immune to such things.
"I haven't seen you around here before…are you from out of town?" he asked, looking the dog demon up and down, the outfits kids wore today were seriously something else.
"Y-yeah, he's uh…visiting…for the holidays, isn't that right Inuyasha?" Kagome nudged him in stomach.
"Ow! What was that for bitch!"
Oh kami, she wanted to climb in a nice dark hole and never come out. Honestly, a demon tearing through his gut was no problem but one small measly nudge from her made him 'Ow' and curse? What was the world coming to?
That was when Kagome noticed her teacher was giving Inuyasha a reprimanding look. Oh, right, he'd called her a bitch…again.
"That's a nickname" well it was kind of true, in a twisted kind of way.
"I see" Shori sensei didn't look too convinced though
"Sooo" time for a topic change, "how're you doing?" aww crap! That sounded so weird, she sounded like Joey from the 'Friends' show. Does banging your head on a wall give you short term memory loss?
"What the hell!" Inuyasha growled from behind her and before she could comprehend what was going on, he had her pinned against the wall. "Why the hell do you care! You said you didn't like him like that"
Aarggg! It looked like Inuyasha was out to ruin her social life in her time. Hmm, maybe that was his plan, to make it so that she could never show her face in public again. That way she wouldn't have a reason to come back to the present quite so much. She sneaked a peak at Shori sensei, he was giving her this confused stare. Yup, her reputation had gone to a place of no return.
"Answer me wench!"
Wasn't he satisfied with all the damage he'd caused already? This was what happened when you kept an overly energetic half demon locked up in a hut all day on account of a blizzard. Wasn't Christmas supposed to be the season of happiness and perpetual hope? Well she wasn't experiencing any of that…
"Kagome honey" ahh, her mother to the rescue, "Why don't you ask Inuyasha to spend Christmas with us?" Or maybe not.
"Krismaas? What's that?" the half demon gave the girl in front of him a puzzled look.
"Er…right" oh this was just great! Her mom should have known better than to invite him in front of Shori sensei, how was she gonna get out of this one?
"Inu-no-nee chan!" a shout followed by Inuyasha being pushed right off of her didn't make matters any better. "It's so great to see you again!"
"Oof! Get off me you brat!" the hanyou yelled, trying to get the 10 year old off him in the most careful way he could manage, once he figured out his actions were futile, he shot Kagome a pleading look.
The miko stared back at him, it was a vacant blank stare that, to be quite frank, gave him the heebie-jeebies. Her grandpa was jabbering on in the background about the shikonotama, too senile to realize no one was paying attention to him.
Was it possible to put yourself up for adoption? Kagome was already making a list of the necessities she'd be taking with her.
A light pat on the shoulder snapped her out of her convoluted thoughts, "Well Kagome, I think I should get going now"
What?
What?
WHAT!
Seriously? That was it? No awkward questions? Had her teacher always been this dense or was it the meeting with her family that had snapped his poor mind?
Her mother was escorting him to the front door and a light shutting sound confirmed his departure. A slight poke was issued to her arm followed by another.
"Hey…Kagome" Inuyasha had finally managed to free himself from Souta, "Wench…you okay?" he looked at her cautiously, was she possessed or something? Maybe it was her teacher…oh man! He knew he should have killed him when he had the chance.
The miko finally let out a low chuckle, followed by a giggle then drowned in full out laughing. She clutched at her sides that were cramping up from laughing so hard.
"Uh…is she gonna be alright?" the hanyou asked Mrs. Higurashi hesitantly.
"Of course dear" she gave him a cheerful smile and went about her business.
"That was sure interesting" Shori sensei said to no one in particular as he made his way down the snow covered sidewalk. Everyone around him were running around hauling brightly colored packages and bags, Christmas was just a few days away after all.
He never knew visiting students could be so amusing, "I should do that more often" he chuckled to himself.
Pretty snowflakes continued to fall as a holler of "SIT!" echoed throughout the bustling city…
AN: - Well, I know, not like your traditional christmas fic, no tree, no decorations, but what the heck. At least it was funny right?...right? Good. And imagining Kagome saying "How you doin" is just plain hilarious. Aaah, Joey cracks me up. If you guys don't know why she sat him in the end then I suggest you read the story again, and pay attention this time!
Oh and praise for the idea behind this fic goes to kagomesbutterflyfeeling. This is my christmas present to you girl, hope you liked it.
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