InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Heart's Wish ❯ What to Do ( Chapter 2 )

Author: Red Falcon

e-mail: red_falcon0001@yahoo.com

 

What to Do:

 

“Mama, I'm home!”

 

“Oh, hello dear,” Mrs. Higurashi said sticking her head out of the kitchen doorway. Kagome dropped her yellow pack inside the doorway and headed to the kitchen.

 

“Where is everybody?” she asked sitting down at the table.

 

“Souta went to help your Grandfather exorcise a demon. It's nothing serious, but it makes him feel useful,” Mrs. Higurashi said smiling as she put away the last of some clean dishes. Noting the expression on her daughter's face, “How about I make you some tea and you tell me what is bothering you.”

 

“That would be great mama,” Kagome said softly. “I could use some aspirin too. I really have a headache.”

 

“I'll just go get you some then,” her mother said as she put the tea on. She hustled out into the hallway and down to the bathroom.

 

Kagome closed her eyes and laid her head on her arms. She couldn't give up her family. She loved them too much. What would happen if she decided to start her own family and she didn't have her mother to help her? She couldn't choose between her childhood home and her new one, but what could she do about the jewel? Mrs. Higurashi bustled back into the kitchen muttering about messy boys and senile old men.

 

“I swear, between your brother and grandfather, I don't know which one makes a bigger mess in the bathroom. Here you go,” she said setting the pills down on the table. She sat down across from her daughter and said, “Now tell me what is bothering you.”

 

“It's the jewel. Do you remember how I told you about how it will grant a wish?” At her mother's nod, Kagome continued after swallowing the pills, “The jewel's power will be gone when the wish is made. The well will close when I make the wish.”

 

“I think I understand. You don't know which side of the well you want to be on,” Mrs. Higurashi said smiling gently. She rose from her seat to take the whistling tea kettle off the stove.

 

“It's not just that. I don't know what to wish for either,” Kagome stated. “I don't even know where to start.”

 

“That's not your only problem, sweetie,” Mrs. Higurashi said smiling as she set the tea down in front of her daughter.

 

“What do you mean?”

 

“Honey, you don't think I haven't noticed, have you? Your feelings towards Inuyasha are apparent to anyone with eyes to see them.” The older woman smiled and said, “I see the way you look at him. I see the way your day is so gloomy when he's not here.” Mrs. Higurashi smiled again at the pink now staining her daughter's cheeks.

 

“I don't… I mean, he doesn't… oh crap,” Kagome stuttered letting the blush have full force on her face.

 

“Kagome, dear, I know how you feel about him. I also know how he feels about you,” Mrs. Higurashi said as she sipped at her tea.

 

“He doesn't feel anything for me, mama.”

 

“Maybe you don't see it because you're afraid to see it? If I could show you how he acts when he's here and you're at school, I would. I wish you could see how he mopes around the shrine bothering Buyo and your grandfather. His ears get all droopy and I want to just hug him,” Mrs. Higurashi let out a surprisingly girlish giggle.

 

“His ears are irresistible,” Kagome agreed, sharing the giggle.

 

“Do you want to know what perks him back up?” Mrs. Higurashi continued, “It's you. As soon as you come home the difference in him is night and day. He just hides it behind a gruff exterior.”

 

“But mama, that doesn't help!” Kagome sighed.

 

“Why does having that boy pine for you not make you feel better?” Mrs. Higurashi said frowning. “A cute boy like that moping when I wasn't around would do wonders for me.”

 

“Oh, mama, even if Inuyasha came up to me right now and said he loved me more than life itself and he couldn't live without me, I still don't know what to do with the jewel. I have to purify it. It's too dangerous to keep. The problem is having to choose where I want my life to go. The well would close. If Inuyasha loved me, we would have to pick. How can I choose between you and the rest of the family and my family there?” Kagome said beginning to cry. Her throat was so tight that it felt like she wouldn't be able to breath for hours. “I don't want the well to close!”

 

Mrs. Higurashi looked at her daughter and frowned. She then said, “My dear, why don't you just wish for the well to stay working?”

 

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AN: Okay I lied. I did another revision. Maybe it really is bad. Everything seems very clichéd to me now. My new story is a little more original. You'd think that my writing would be better seeing as how I'm so picky about what I read. Ah well, it happens. Happy writing!

 

-Red