Kagome was preparing for her date with Hai a few hours ahead of time as she was trying on different clothes. No one was home so she left her bedroom door open. She only had two dresses to choose from but the choice was so hard when she had never been on a date to begin with. "Figures I don't date until I am almost thirty." She whispered as she wore one of the dresses looking into her tall mirror.
Shiho walked by as she looked over to see Kagome twirl in the dress she wore. Shiho let out a bark at her.
"Oh hey Shiho, which do you think? The blue or the black?" she asked holding the other one up next to her.
Shiho just walked in and lay on her bed watching her decide.
"Here let me try the other one on really quickly." Kagome said as she unzipped her dress she currently wore. Shiho put her head down as if she didn't want to see. "Come on, we are both girls." Kagome laughed as she started to put on the blue one.
Shiho watched as she slowly worked the dress over her bandage from the gun wound.
"There we go. Which one?" Kagome asked. Before Shiho could answer Kagome said, "Why am I talking to you like this? You can't understand me." Kagome laughed. "I think I am going to go with the blue one." She whispered as she put her hands on the side of her hips.
Shiho let out a whimper and rolled on her belly.
"Would you like to get pet?" Kagome asked sitting down next to Shiho.
Shiho wagged her tail and stretched as Kagome rubbed her belly.
"Can I tell you a secret?" she asked. "This is my first date. I haven't been on one…ever."
Shiho let out a low gruff as if she understood.
"I don't know how to act and I am afraid of saying something stupid…do you think he will be able to tell if it is my first date?"
Shiho got up and licked her cheek and nuzzled into the girl.
Kagome laughed, "Thanks Shiho."
Kagome walked downstairs as she passed the photo of her and Inuyasha sitting on her computer desk. She picked it up tracing Inuyasha's features, "Sorry Inuyasha, I hope this is alright for me to do." She whispered before bringing the photo upstairs and putting it away in her dresser. She sighed as she closed the dresser door.
When she heard her phone ring she quickly picked it up to looked at the collar Id. "Its Hai!" Kagome said to the dog before answering, "Hello!" she said happily before her smile went to a frown. "I see…alright…no I understand…yeah we can go a different night…don't worry about it." Kagome hung up her phone looking at Shiho. "He canceled." Kagome whispered as the dog whimpered.
When the front door opened and closed Kagome heard her mother yell, "Kagome we're home!"
"Yeah mom, we are home." Yasha said up the stairs.
Kagome came to the bottom of the stairs whispering, "He canceled."
"What's that dear?" her mother asked coming to the stairs.
"Hai canceled our date tonight."
"Why?" her mother asked sympathetic.
"He said that something happened at the restaurant and they need him."
"Why don't you take Yasha and Shiho and go down to see if there is anything you can do?" her mother winked.
"That's a great idea!" Kagome yelled excitedly. "Come on Yasha we are going out to eat. You too Shiho." Kagome said enthusiastically running to change into more casual clothes before getting her car keys.
"Mom do I have to go?" Yasha whined.
"Come on hun, it can be fun." Kagome said as she brought the two out of the house.
"Fine." Yasha sighed as he buckled up as Shiho got in. They chose not to buckle Shiho in this time; it was only down the road.
Once at the restaurant Kagome got out of the car with Yasha and Shiho. They started to walk to the front when Kagome stopped in her tracks. In the window were Hai and another girl laughing together. They were sitting at the table both with plates of food so there was no way she could be a waitress who he just chose to joke with. Her eyes started to fill up with tears as she saw him allow her to try some food from his plate.
Yasha noticed how his mother was acting, "You okay mom?"
"I am not going through this again." She whispered as she walked back to her car. "I am not going to be second."
Yasha was extremely worried as he walked behind her with Shiho trailing.
Kagome got into her car as she stared ahead.
"Mom you okay?" Yasha asked again.
"We will go to Mcdonalds for dinner." Kagome said not wanting to bring her son into her relationship life anymore than he had to.
They quickly went through the drive through as Kagome sped off back home. No one made a noise knowing that Kagome was unhappy. Once they stopped at the house Kagome got out and slammed the door as she walked into the house without talking or smiling.
"Kagome, hun what's wrong?" her mother asked as she came in.
Kagome just looked at her mother teary eyed before going upstairs.
When Yasha came through the door with his food and Shiho behind him his grandmother was waiting for him, "Yasha what happened?"
"We were going to the restaurant like you said too but we saw Hai with another girl. Mom said 'not again' and then we got Mcdonalds." He said holding up the bag.
She nodded as she went up to her daughter's room. Kagome's mother slowly opened the door looking in on her daughter. "Can we talk?" she asked.
"There's nothing to talk about." Kagome whispered as she looked at her feudal era photo album.
"There's always something up when you look at your album." Her mother said sitting on the opposite side of the bed. "Yasha told me what happened; did you actually talk to him?"
"No, I don't have to. I always attract the jerks into my life. The two timing, cheating, lying jerks." Kagome yelled throwing the album against the wall next to her. The album hit the wall and then settled on the bed still close to Kagome as she turned away from it.
Her mother looked at the album sit on the bed flat open. "You know what? I think you are taking this too seriously. Who's to say that she isn't a long lost friend or a family member?" she asked grabbing the album.
"You weren't there." Kagome mumbled, acting more like a teenager than a thirty year old.
"No I wasn't but if I was, I would tell you the same thing I told you fifteen years ago, something you never did. Tell him what you saw and how you felt. And do it soon, you never know how much longer you will have with him." she whispered as she pulled out a photo of Inuyasha glaring at the camera and put it down in front of her daughter. "Sometimes men are stupid and we need to tell them what to do. Think of it as training them. If we don't tell them what we want then there will be no way for them to know how we feel. Remember- men aren't mind readers, no matter how helpful that will be. They are slow and dimwitted. And even if they knew half the trouble they gave us, they would still act the same way."
Kagome smiled, "Thanks mom. So are you saying I should take him back?"
"I am saying talk to him and make sure you have both sides of the story straightened out."
Kagome nodded, "Thanks."
Kagome didn't hear from Hai at all that night as she fell asleep with the phone next to her just in case he called.
The next day Kagome came home early from work to a dead house. She had to come back early, the wound in her shoulder hadn't fully healed and she still couldn't lift anything up making it impossible to work. She smiled as she went to the living room to relax for a few minutes. Shiho was in the living room the only problem was somehow she got into Yasha's old paints. Kagome couldn't believe the mess as Shiho seemed to try and paint with her paw. Shiho's ears went back as she heard Kagome scream.
"You stupid mutt. You are going to die for this one." Kagome yelled as the chase started.
Shiho jumped at Kagome's voice as she grabbed a full tube of paint and ran. At first she tried to limp on all threes avoiding the paw with wet pain on the floor but when Kagome started to catch up she booked it on all fours leaving behind her a painted path of just one paw print.
"Get over here. You aren't going to see the light of day again." Kagome yelled as Shiho looked frantically for a door as she bolted into Yasha's room.
Shiho put her two front paws on the door making it close and then locked it with her nose as she went back to her job at hand…or paw.
Kagome followed the dog up to Yasha's room as she slammed on the door. Kagome tried to open it to find it locked. Was the dog this intelligent or was it merely a coincidence that the door locked when the dog closed it? "Get out here Shiho." Kagome tried to make every pitch Yasha had taught her hoping one of them would work. "This is why I tried to get a full bred Samoyed instead of a freakin mutt."
Shiho finally got through half her message as Kagome seemed to stop struggling at the door. Shiho whimpered knowing she didn't have much more time.
Kagome went to get a bobby pen to open the door. Maybe the dog just locked herself in on accident.
Shiho finally finished her message as she heard the bobby pin hit the doorknob. She quickly ran for anything she could use to help get her message across.
Kagome smiled as she finally got the door open. "Never underestimate having a bobby pin lying around." She whispered as she put the bobby pin down to fully open the door. She got so mad at what she saw. "Shiho put down the tetsuiga." She yelled as she ran up to her and started a full on game of tug-o-war. "Drop it." Kagome yelled through clenched teeth as Shiho growled and pulled the opposite direction. "Don't ruin it." Kagome yelled as Shiho let go.
Shiho walked over to the message trying to gain Kagome's attention.
"Get the beads from around your neck. You stupid dog." Kagome yelled going after the dog as it seemed to look down at its message. Kagome looked down at the painting. What she saw made her stop in her tracks. "You can't be." She whispered as Shiho walked over and nuzzled up against Kagome's legs. Kagome sighed, "Let me clean this mess and then you can explain." She whispered as Shiho followed her out.
The phone rang as soon as Kagome got some towels from the closet, "Great if I didn't have enough on my mind." She mumbled. "Hello?" she answered the phone.
"Hey Kagome, it's Hai, I just wanted to say sorry again about canceling the date last night. I had someone come into town and I had to talk to them."
"Who is that?" Kagome asked looking at Shiho, right now this was the last problem she wanted to talk about. She stared at Shiho who grabbed a towel from the closet that Kagome had open as the dog walked down the hall. Kagome stared at the dog as it pranced with the towel in its mouth back to Yasha's room.
Kagome followed Shiho back as Hai started to talk, "It was my cousin."
"I saw you with her last night." Kagome said. "Why did you lie? Why did you tell me that you had something going on with the restaurant?"
"That's a funny story. She knows one of my waitresses and told the waitress to say that they were really backed up and needed someone to help. I took the lie and when I came by; my cousin was there to greet me. I promise I didn't want to lie to you."
Kagome watched Shiho try her best to clean the mess as Kagome grabbed the towel from the dog and started to clean the mess herself. "Alright, I believe you." Kagome said smiling now that she knew the truth.
"Yes, I wish you had come in. I told her I met you and she really wanted to meet you but it was getting late to call you up." Hai said laughing nervously.
"Alright, well I actually have to get going. I came home early and Shiho decided to make a mess everywhere."
"Oh what mess is that?" Hai asked.
Kagome tried to think of something, saying my dog decided to paint a message for me into my floor probably wasn't the best thing to say, "She got into the trash."
"Oh, alright, I will let you go. Don't get to bad at her. Talk to you later." Hai said.
"Talk to you later." Kagome said hanging the phone. She looked at the dog who was watching her clean the floor. "You are going to have a lot of explaining to do when I am done cleaning this mess." She mumbled to the dog as she kept cleaning the floor.
Another chapter bites the dust! I was debating on leaving it here or continuing but it felt like a good place to stop!
Who or what do you think Shiho is? I need to know what others think! I have been leading into different view points for a while so I think it will be interesting to see who has been catching on and who is falling behind.
Please review and let me know what you thought of this chapter! I tried to make it funny.
