InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Stronger Than Yesterday ❯ Chp. 9 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ( Chapter 9 )

 

Chp. 9 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

 

 

 

 

“Holy Chester Cheetos.” Kagome muttered as she looked at herself…every which way she turned.

 

She was on everything: portraits, tapestries, pottery, sculptures, and the occasional plate. Most were of her in her school uniform, but some…some showed her in clothing she knew she had never worn before. She fully entered the room, her eyes roaming over everything in wonderment. In display cases she found an old broken bow of hers, she found a necklace she had lost eons ago, and she even found her old bike. Walking around the room she looked at the paintings and tapestries.

One painting was of her helping Jenenji in his garden. A tapestry showed her standing on a bridge. Another had her standing on a cliff by the ocean with an inner light that showed out brightly and beautiful white angelic wings on her back. The next painting she saw was a pin-up of her. She was lying on a red couch, her black hair done up in curls lay splayed out over her. She wore a black corset on top of a black, firm fitting dress, with high slits that showed all of her exposed thigh, which were shrouded in white fishnet stalkings

 

“Yeah…he wishes.” She mumbled as she went to the next painting.

 

The next painting was more accurate, although it was probably just as made up as the last two. She wore her school uniform and held a bow in her hands just as she let loose an arrow. From the arrow, and all around her, her miko energy flared widely as it struck the horde of demons in the picture. The rest of the pictures went on like this, and even some statues held a likeness of the pictures.

In the middle of the room hung a large tapestry and the sight of it had her halting in her tracks. On it was a scene she could remember doing almost everyday. It was her and the whole group, sitting down in a clearing, having a good time. She was the main focus of the tapestry she noticed, sitting in the middle, playing with Shippo, Sango and Miroku on either side of her. Miroku with his arms inside the sleeves of his robe, looking at peace, Sango with Kirara in her lap, looking at her and Shippo with a smile, and in the tree above her, almost out of shot, was Inuyasha, managing to frown and smile at the same time. A trait only he could muster.

She couldn't help but smile at them. Happy times. She looked the tapestry up and down, down and up, and then her jaw dropped.

On the ceiling, was a mural. A mural with her looking like a goddess. She was naked, with a large ribbon floating around her, covering up important parts, barely, and she was looking, and holding her arm out to, Lui. Who was in a similar state of undress and looking at her, their outstretched arms connecting at the finger tips. All around them were fluffy, supple clouds.

 

She burst out laughing. “Oh my god,” she laughed hysterically, “I've got to get the hell out of here.”

 

“Oooh! Yeah, you weren't supposed to see this room.”

 

Turning on her heel, she saw an embarrassed looking, Lui, standing in the doorway.

 

“Yeah, I got that! Now…umm….what the hell is that?” she asked pointing at the mural.

 

“Yeah.” He laughed coming to stand by her. “My girlfriend hated that one.”

 

“You have a girlfriend.” Kagome asked.

 

“Had. She's dead. I killed her….but it was by accident.” He quickly corrected. “Yeah it was an accident. She didn't mean to cheat on me and I didn't mean to shoot her…4 times…in the head…splattering her fucking brains all on the wall…the bitch.” By now, Lui voice had gotten dark and angry.

 

“She was like `oh, it was an accident. I tripped and fell on him, and I was naked because when I tripped my clothes got ripped off, and he was naked because he's a nudist.' Bitch…bet she won't cheat now…because there isn't any cheating in hell. Which is where I put her…Kagome?” Lui suddenly noticed her absence.

 

“Kagome, wait let me explain!” he yelled, as he ran out the door after her.

 

~___~

 

 

“I should have just gone and killed Hiei, and then none of this would be happening.” Kagome mumbled as she ran up and down the hall, looking for a way out. “What are the chances that I would meet up with my stalker out in the middle of a snow storm? I mean COME ON! Why is this happening?”

 

“Kagome?” she heard him call out from somewhere behind her.

 

She looked to her left and looked to her right. Nothing to hide behind and all the doors were too heavy to open and close quickly enough, so she went to basics. Running over to the wall she threw her hands up into awkward positions and stood stock still. “I…am a tree.” She muttered to herself, throwing up an illusion just before Lui appeared in sight.

 

“Damn.” He muttered, seeing that she was gone. Sighing exasperatedly he slumped. “I have to pee.”

 

Her eyes widened. `He wouldn't.'

 

He caught sight of her, and after looking up and down the hall, to make sure no one was watching, he bounded up to her, put one hand on the wall and the other went for his pants.

 

`He was.'

 

Without dropping her illusion, she struck him in the head and took off down the halls.

 

“What? OH! Oh the trees! OHH! Oh! They're fighting back!” Scared out of his mind, Lui ran in the opposite direction.

 

~___~

 

 

She had found it. At long last she had found the door, but it wouldn't budge. She pulled with all her strength and it didn't even groan. She kicked and cursed and yelled and fumed, but it never moved. Breathing heavily she glared at the door and backed up a few paces. Taking a deep breath she pulled her hands to her side and drew up a mass of her miko. She was going to blast her way out.

She let her powers burst forward and she guided it towards the door.

It hit it dead on.

A barrier.

Her eyes widened.

Her powers ricocheted off the shield.

It headed straight for her.

She sighed and closed her eyes. There was no way she could dodge it…so she silently cursed Hiei and accepted it.

It hit her dead on and sent her flying.

POW! (Sound effects. Pretend like it sounded authentic.) She hit the wall…18 feet off the floor.

 

“Ow.” She moaned from where she was plastered against a portrait of Lui.

 

Speak of the devil.

 

“Where are you, you damned tree? I'm not afraid of you and I have to pee!” Lui yelled as he ran onto the foyer, stopping, coincidentally, under Kagome, with an axe in his hand.

 

`This is just getting weird.' Kagome thought just before she felt herself slipping.

 

He smelled her before he heard her, and the odds of Kagome falling from the ceiling were 1 to a million, so he disregarded the smell and searched frantically around for her, only to get landed on.

 

“Kagome?” he called out, before he was silenced from an elbow being plowed into his back.

 

“Stay away from me, or I swear, I will bring this place come crashing down!” Kagome threatened as she scrambled onto her feet and got into a fighting position.

 

“Wait, wait, just wait and hear me out!” Lui pleaded as he backed up.

 

Kagome cracked her knuckles menacingly.

 

“Okay…Ms. Hostile…how about I give you this, for a few minutes of your time to explain myself.” Luis offered as he pulled forth from his a pocket, a rock. A very familiar rock. It was a relic, and a mistake on Lui's part.

 

Kagome sized him up in a second. The best form of attack would be to catch him off guard and rush him head on.

Lui faltered. This was not what he had been expecting. He started to run, when a thought struck him. Standing his ground, he gave Kagome the saddest, puppy dog eyes he could muster; stopping her mere inches from ending his life with the sword she held at his neck. They stood frozen in fear and confusion.

 

“Umm…where'd you get the sword?” Lui asked nervously as he dared not move.

 

“From behind my back, how'd you do that?” Kagome answered, shaken up about the sudden rush of emotions she had just experienced.

 

“It's the `all seeing eye'! A defense mechanism against my opponent. It feels my opponent with whatever emotion I desire of them!” he answered automatically. “Could you please, take the sword off my neck, I think I'm bleeding.”

 

“Give me the relic first.” Kagome demanded as she held out her hand. As it fell into her hand, she frowned and pressed her blade deeper into his flesh. “Where's the other half?”

 

“The bastard I call father has it.” Lui growled in response.

 

“Where can I find him?” she asked savagely.

 

“You can't, he has wards around his house that makes it so that if you don't know exactly where it is you can't find it.”

 

“Then you'll take me to him.”

 

“Like hell I will! You might as well kill me now. I'm never going back there!” Lui said defiantly.

 

Kagome hesitated a moment before sighing in defeat and putting her sword. “Fine, I'll find it myself.” Pocketing the relic, she turned her back on him and scampered down the steps.

 

“Wait!” Lui called out as he jumped over her head and landed a few steps down from her. “You're leaving.”

 

“Yep.” She answered as she trotted pass him without a glance in his direction.

 

“But…but what about me?” he whined following on her tail.

 

“What about you?”

 

“Aren't you going to hear me out?”

 

“You got till I reach the doors.”

 

“But you're already halfway there.”

 

“Wasting time Lui.” Kagome informed him as she reached the landing.

 

“Okay, okay…just two minutes. That's all I ask for and then you can leave me all alone in this house with a mutant piece of bread that wants…”

 

“Two minutes and counting, Lui.” Kagome sighed as she stopped and folded her arms in annoyance.

 

“Alright…it um…all started when I was little. My father had this huge tapestry of this woman in his castle. I was very young, but I knew it wasn't my mother, so one day I finally asked him about. He told me she was the greatest female warrior he had ever known personally. That's all he said. The bastard, I was a curious child with an unsatisfied thirst for knowledge. He wouldn't tell me anymore, he didn't give me a name, if she was human, demon, or something else entirely. It was infuriating. I had to know, I kept asking, he never answered me. The years passed and I got older, kept asking more questions, kept getting no answers till he finally hit me on the head, threw me out the castle and told me to find out for myself. Bastard, I was only a child; he threw me out on my own into the countryside. I've never been away from home before; I didn't know how to defend myself. I was running for my life everyday, I bet he enjoyed it too, the sick son-of-a…”

 

“LUI!” Kagome yelled, snapping him out of his reverie.

 

“I'm sorry…um…I blacked out for a second, what happened?”

 

“You were just telling me that your father told you…”

 

“To find out for myself, right. Well, anyway, he finally gave me a name: Kagome. Going from village to village I found out about you, little by little. Getting descriptions of you, getting stories about you and your friends. I met this old woman who told me you were a time traveler. I thought she was crazy at first, but then as the years went on and learned more and more about you, I couldn't doubt it, nor could I accept. Over the years, I found and collected objects that you had lost or left behind in villages, in hopes that they would clue me in on who you were, and gotten the best artist I could find to create your likeliness from the descriptions that people gave. And you know I couldn't just throw them away, hence the shrine MUSEUM…museum upstairs. You turned from a question, to enigma, to obsession, and finally into a hero for me. I wanted to meet you, and figuring that you were a time traveler, I hoped to one day, that I would meet. And now here you are…a hostile, schizoid, who dashes my hopes to the ground, threatens me, and is cruel enough to leave me alone with the mutant under my bed that's out for my blood.” Lui sniffed sadly; by the time he was finished and gave Kagome a look.

 

Kagome was overcome with guilt, and not knowing if it was her own doing or Lui's, she smiled reassuringly, not believing she was about to say this: “Um…I can't stay here, but if…you'd like…you'd could…”

 

“Come with you! Great, I'd love to! Let me just grab my bag!” Excited beyond words, Lui grabbed Kagome and pulled her into a hug, before bounding up the stairs, 5 at a time, but upon reaching the top he stopped and looked down at her. “Oh, and I forgot to tell you…I've loved you since I found out your name.” and with that said, he smiled and darted down the hall. Leaving Kagome speechless.

 

~___~

 

Laughing loudly, Yusuke climbed from the dryer and fell to the floor a dizzy heap. “Okay,” he laughed, trying to compose himself as he crawled and stumbled to the side of the room. “Your turn Kurama.”

 

For the past few hours, without supervision, the boys had been busy doing anything that popped into their heads to stop the boredom. Currently, they were taking turns riding in the dryer, and Kurama, who had waited patiently for his chance, was finally able to go.

 

“What are you guys doing?” a female voice sounded off from the laundry room door.

 

All taking innocent stances, four pairs of eyes turned to face a suspicious looking Kagome.

Glancing from their innocent faces to the open dyer door and sniffing the odor of burnt hair, she narrowed her eyes. “What were you doing?”

 

“Nothing.” Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara answered simultaneously, while Hiei just hned.

 

On hearing him, Kagome turned towards him and scowled, which he was more than happy to return.

 

“Where the hell have you been? Why didn't you tell us you were leaving?” Yusuke suddenly asked.

 

“I'm sorry; I didn't know you were my daddy.”

 

“You can call me daddy if you want.” He muttered under his breath with a sly smile.

 

“What?” she asked confused.

 

“You ever rode in the dryer before?” Kuwabara questioned.

 

“Is that what you've been doing?”

 

“What happened to the collar?” Kurama interrupted before anyone could say anything.

 

“You wore a collar? That's sexy!” Lui said with a smile as his head appeared in the door, but as he got a look at the room's occupants he frowned. “I didn't know you lived with four guys.”

 

“It's all strictly platonic, don't worry. I wouldn't fool around with these guys, I merely work with them.” As the sentence left her mouth, an uncomfortable silence filled the air and the lights seemed to dim on everyone but Kurama, who fidgeted under the stares, glares, and scowls.

 

“You sicken me.” Yusuke and Hiei said in unison.

 

“Right…” Kagome continued. “besides…their all defected…that one's a schizo, that one's an antisocial homicidal maniac and closet perv, that one is rude, angry, loud, and has a girlfriend, and he's a sweet heart, but is in love with someone else. So you see…I'm a free woman.”

 

“Cool…so where's my room?”

 

“Your room!” Yusuke yelled. “What's he talking about?”

 

“He's my guest.” She said haughtily as she draped an arm around a beaming Lui's shoulders and guided him out the door.

 

“This is not a hotel.” He yelled as they marched out behind her. “You didn't ask our permission…” he started, but just then, Lui turned to face them and they halted in brief fright.

 

Smirking at them, Kagome and Lui interlocked their arms and headed up the stairs.

After a moment, the boys' fear completely vanished and they looked at each other in confusion.

 

“…What the fu…?”

 

~___~

 

 

“So?” Kagome asked the pale haired boy on her bed. “Do you have anything you want to ask me? Since I'm your hero and all.”

 

 

Lui, who had been busy soaking in Kagome's scent, turned his head to look at her. “Of course I have questions, but I won't ask them?”

 

“Why not?”

 

“Because, my past is your future. The random pieces of information I have on you aren't in any particular order. I don't know if it happened yet or not, and if I ask a question that hasn't yet occurred I could disrupt the space time continuum and the universe could implode on itself. And it'll all be my fault, just like that bastard said. Then all through the afterlife, everybody'll point at me and say “that's the kid who destroyed the universe. His father was right; he should've listened to him.” And I will not risk having that bastard be right about something.”

 

At the end of his rant, Lui was breathing in and out heavily in anger, while Kagome smiled in wonder. “I can't wait to meet your father and see if he's as bad as you make him seem.”

 

This seemed to sober Lui up, for he then sat up with an annoyed look. “You'll never meet him if I had a say in the matter.”

 

“Why? Think he'd be too horrible to me?”

 

“The opposite, actually.” Lui muttered.

 

“What was that?”

 

“Let's not talk about him, let's talk about us.” Lu stated as he grabbed her hands and held them tenderly.

 

“Us?” She said with mock innocence as she smiled at him. “What about us?”

 

“You know what.” He answered suavely, as he spun her on her knees and slammed her back into his chest and he embraced her. “I've won your heart; now all we have to do is mate and have a horde of children to grow up and hate their grandfather with a passion.”

 

“What makes you think you have my heart?” Kagome asked as she looked at him over her head.

 

“You mean I don't?” he asked scandalized. “Then why the hell are you leading me on?”

 

Kagome's smile then dropped for a sec before she replaced it with an obliviously fake one. “I don't know.” She shrugged, as she got up from his embrace. “I guess it kind of felt nice. Listen…I have to go cook dinner or else we'd be eating burnt ramen again.” Giving him a sham of a smile she left the room and headed downstairs.

 

As she shut the door, Lui sighed in defeat before flopping back onto Kagome's bed, inhaling her scent and dreaming of killing his father.

 

~___~

 

 

“HEY!” Yusuke yelled as Kagome emerged from the stairway.

 

“Why are you yelling?” she asked him in aversion.

 

“Because I have issues.”

 

“Don't we all?” she muttered under her breath. “What did you want?”

 

“You know? I don't even know any more, oh yeah. HEY KAGOME!”

 

She sighed. “Yes Yusuke?”

 

“Where you going?”

 

“I'm going to go cook. Why? You want to help?” she asked, knowing the answer.

 

“S'kay. I'll let you handle that.”

 

“If you wouldn't mind the company; I'd be happy to assist you.” Kurama offered, standing up and offering her a sincere smile.

 

She regarded him with unease for a second before returning his smile. “I wouldn't mind at all.” She said as she headed for the kitchen, closely followed by a relieved Kurama, who ignored the looks being thrown at his back.

 

A while went by and the sounds of pots and pans clattering around filled the house, so Yusuke and Kuwabara turned up the volume on the TV while, Hiei went to brood outside.

A tromping on the stairs got there attention, and turning in their seats, they saw an annoyed looking Lui coming down the stairs, and without a glance there way, headed straight for the kitchen.

 

“Hey, Lui!” they heard Kagome greet cheerfully, “You want to help us?”

 

“Anything for you beautiful. So what are we making…Kurama?”

 

They couldn't hear what Kurama said, but from the way Lui pronounced his name, Yusuke and Kuwabara knew there were some looks being thrown over the miko's head.

 

“I bet you ten dollars Kurama comes out in the next five minutes.” Kuwabara stated as they returned to watching the TV.

 

“Don't be stupid. Kurama's not that weak. I'll give him seven.”

 

~___~

 

 

The boys were wrong not to give Kurama more credit than that. In fact; he lasted way longer than both their time combined. He lasted a little more than 15 minutes.

He came from the kitchen looking frustrated and annoyed; and with a sigh he flopped down on the couch beside Yusuke.

 

“…he scared you, didn't he?” Yusuke stated, rather than asked, a while later.

 

Kurama shot him a look.

 

“Sorry. Let me rephrase that, he did that eye thing, didn't he?”

 

Kurama sighed again, meaning yes.

 

“It's creepy. I don't blame you for running away.” Kuwabara added with a shudder.

 

Kurama shot him an icy stare.

 

“No, no, Kuwabara.” Yusuke reprimanded him, “you have to rephrase it.”

 

“Oh, right. Sorry. His gaze is quite unsettling and he made you uncomfortable and so to ease your…constitution, you departed the room.”

 

Kurama frowned at them, meaning yes, while Yusuke applauded Kuwabara for his wonderful rephrasing.

 

Kurama glared at them from the corner of his eye as they burst into laughter.

 

“I'm going to find Hiei.” He announced as he got up and headed outside.

 

“Yeah, Kurama…before Lui comes back in here and OW!” before Yusuke could finish his taunting; the end of a whip has caught him in the mouth. “Not cool, Kurama!”

 

~___~

 

 

Dinner had been a bit unsettling. After finally managing to finish making it, no thanks to Lui, who, found it far more entertaining to tickle Kagome when she had no way to defend her, she had to endure a quiet, tension induced meal, with everyone glaring at everyone, or Lui.

To make matters worse, Lui's constant flirting actually had an affect on her. She liked it, she responded, she blushed, she giggled, and she flirted back. What was she becoming? She was so focused on him, that by the time she noticed Kuwabara and Yusuke stealing off her plate, it was all gone. Having that to sober her up, she brought up the subject of the missing half of the relic.

Scowling, Lui started on yet another rampage about his father, never really answering her question.

Sighing, she propped her elbows on the table and put her chin in the palm of her hand and let her eyes drift. Not a second later, she met the stare of a crimson-eyed demon. She scowled at him, which he returned, but she found she couldn't hold it for long. She wasn't angry with him anymore, he was rude, angry, and a bastard, but the anger simply melted away. A small smile flitted across her face, and he scowled harder in confusion.

She laughed aloud at his confusion, catching the attention of the others, and missing the glances that were thrown. Yusuke glanced at Kuwabara and made the universal sign for crazy. Kurama glanced at Hiei, who returned his glance, and Lui glanced, then scowled, at Hiei and Kurama both.

 

Kagome caught his glare and cooed. “Oh what's the matter?” she asked, putting a hand to his cheek, which he immediately melted into, and caressed it.

 

Without answering her, he took her hand and kissed it…starting the flirting process all over again, but not before smirking at Kurama and Hiei, who scowled and glared back at him.

Kagome currently found herself in a predicament. After dinner, she and Lui had returned to her room, she was going to go to sleep, he just followed, and were discussing, or she was discussing, on how to retrieve the other half of the relic…when loud snores interrupted her.

 

“Lui? Lui? LUI? Wake up!” she growled, shoving and poking him, but he slept on.

 

“Wake up!” She yelled this time, as she hopped and elbowed him in his back, he grunted, her elbow was beaming, and he continued to sleep.

 

So that's how Kagome found herself without a place to sleep. She had tried taking the room Lui was supposed to sleep in, but…Lui's things were in there, including, the stuffed horse. She had balked when she saw Lui hauling the mangy thing down the stairs, but he had whined that he never went anywhere without it and that he'd keep it in his room, but here she was…face-to-face with the thing. She shuddered as it stared at her, and quickly slammed the door when she thought she heard it neigh.

She wondered down the halls, hoping that one of the boys had gone to pee, so that she could steal their room, but they were all snuggled in their beds, sleeping soundly; she cursed them all to hell.

She stopped outside Hiei's door. She considered it, she thought it over, and she mulled it around in her head before coming up with a conclusion. She would do it.

Silently she opened his door and crept inside. There he was, just like she was expecting, sitting up against the headboard, arms across his chest, sound asleep. Smiling victoriously, she pulled a big, bat from her sub pocket, and stalked towards him with the bat held high. She felt insane, who would do this? Who would creep into someone's room and bash them with a bat?

She would.

She was at the bedside now, no time to waste she brought the bat down with all the force she could muster, only to have him catch it in midair.

 

“Well hello there.” She greeted, staring up at him as he stood in the bed, towering over her menacingly. “I know this looks bad and all but…you are going to laugh at this later…” she laughed, but Hiei's gaze was hard and humorless.

 

Mid-laugh, a thought struck her, her only way out…she attacked. With her free hand, she aimed for his midsection, but his hand was there to catch her, and before she could counter, she felt herself hauled and tossed onto the bed, her head buried into the mattress.

 

“What are you doing in here, now?” Hiei growled, as he grinded his knee into her back.

 

Hearing him put emphases on the word `now'; Kagome remembered that this would be the second time she had sneaked into his room. She was in the wrong, and she knew it; but she wouldn't admit it. Swinging her leg up, she kicked Hiei in the back of the head, and as his grip on her slipped, she reared back and elbowed him off of her, and as he fell beside her, she pounced.

It was a free for all wrestling match which made Kagome realize…demons were strong and she was only human. And so, due to this dilemma of strength, Kagome found herself on her back, her arms pinned her sides, and an extremely annoyed fire demon straddling her waist with a sword at her throat.

 

She laughed nervously as her eyes roamed over her situation. “This doesn't look good, now does it?”

 

“What are you doing in here, woman?” Hiei asked her in a deadly quiet and slow voice.

 

“Do you want the truth or the lie that might or might not appease you?”

 

Hiei growled in reply and put the sword closer to her throat.

 

“Okay, sheesh…Lui fell asleep in my bed, his room has a creepy, stuffed, demon horse, and I was only coming in here to knock you out, and throw your unconscious body out the window so I could sleep in your bed. Now that I say it out loud it doesn't seem that…smart.” Kagome took a deep breath after she told him and shifted. “Are you going kill me?”

 

“No.” he said in a strained voice, after a pause.

 

“Good. Cause don't just think you can kill me, I'm a beast when it comes to…” suddenly she went quiet as her eyes widened and she looked off into the distance. “Hiei? Um? Wha…what is that on my leg?”

 

“Don't worry girl, it's my scabbard.” He answered her quickly, as he hopped off her.

 

She sighed in relief as she hoisted herself up. “Whew! That would have been…why is it so hot in here?” she suddenly asked as she turned face him, and her jaw dropped in disbelief.

 

“Are you blushing?” she asked loudly, but when he turned to face her with a raised eyebrow, she saw that his face was just as emotionless as ever, not a trace of a blush could be seen.

 

“My bad. Just thought you had a soul there for a second.”

 

“Make sure you don't disrupt anything.” He said flatly, as he got off the bed and headed towards the window.

 

“Huh? You're going to let me sleep here?” she asked suspiciously.

 

Hiei didn't answer her as he hoisted up the window and jumped out, leaving her alone.

 

She dared not move for a while, waiting to see if he would sneak back in, but when he didn't, she laid down. “If I wake up dead in the morning,” she muttered sleepily, “I'm going to kill everybody.”