AN: A New Year and a new chapter!
I've been wanting to write this scene down ever since November, but I just never got around to it. Life and my grandmother's funeral and my new job got in my way. Well, that and my tendency to just stare at a word document for hours and not actually start writing before I get distracted by something.
Then, after a while and a few weeks or months have passed, you start to feel like you have to make some masterpiece to make up for not updating and letting all your readers down.
I have another scene stuck in my head, but it may be a little while before I finally get around to actually writing it down. Oh well, that's pretty normal for me. At least I got this written down.
I hope you all like it!
Caught by Mother
Kagome had been sleeping on her bed when she was awoken by the sound of her mother opening the door to her room and entering. Ignoring the noise, she rolled over onto her back in order to go back to sleep.
She heard her mother ask, "Inuyasha?"
Confused, Kagome opened her eyes, looked down at her mother and groggily said, "Mom? Wha… Where's?" Her mother had this look of confusion on her face that quickly changed to an understanding smile. Kagome wondered why her mother had mentioned Inuyasha, and why she was looking at her like that.
Kagome's mother walked over towards where she was lying and said, "It's ok, we all need some quiet and a safe place to relax sometimes. You don't need to feel bad for falling asleep on her bed."
Now really confused, Kagome sat up and looked around for Inuyasha. Oh. She suddenly remembered what had happened that afternoon. Her mother was talking to her, thinking that she was Inuyasha.
Kagome sighed. She really didn't want to deal with this right now. All she wanted to do was rest and de-stress after such a crazy day.
Her mother asked her, "Inuyasha, how's Kagome doing? She isn't hurt, is she?"
Internally wincing at the half-truth, Kagome said, "No, she's fine. She's on the other side of the well at Kaede's, probably sleeping." Her body was at Kaede's but it was Inuyasha inhabiting it, not her.
Exactly why had she thought that running to her room to sleep on her bed as Inuyasha was a good idea, again?
Whatever, she needed to get out of this conversation and fast. She didn't think she could keep this ruse going for too much longer. Kagome decided to make a break for the window, knowing that in Inuyasha's body she could make the jump safely. After all, she'd entered her bedroom that way earlier.
Kagome got up and walked over to the window and began to open it.
Her mother walked closer to her and said, "Inuyasha, you know that you're always welcome here, right? I won't turn you away for just being you."
Kagome paused for a moment, before climbing onto the windowsill and leaping out onto the ground below. Kagome wished that Inuyasha had been the one to hear that. He deserved to hear it, especially considering he really didn't have that many people willing to see past the demonic exterior to the person underneath.
Oh well, maybe she could tell him what her mother had said. Hopefully he would believe her. After all, she was in his body, so the way people reacted to her was how they reacted to him.
AN: I hope you all enjoyed what I wrote! I would love to hear what you thought of it!
As I said in the first note, it's been a fully-fledged blot bunny scene that I've had bouncing around in my head for months, so... yeah...
Also, a strong theme in this particular scene is acceptance. I feel like Kagome's mother is very accepting of both Kagome and her adventures and Inuyasha and all his idiosyncrasies. Acceptance like that is hard to come by, and should be cherished for the relief and comfort it can bring those who need it. Especially for those who have been hurt for who and what they are, for things that they didn't choose but were born with.
I may end up writing a part two with Inuyasha in it, but that will come at a later date. I'm already trying to work on the FanFic that Chapter 1 - 'Truth of Love Shown Through Time' became.