InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bishies Without Shirts ❯ Dinner and Dessert ( Chapter 27 )

Chapter 27: Dinner and Desert

Inuyasha looked at his brother is if he couldn't decide which was better; staying here and beating the crap out of him again and risking ruining his news clothes or going back downstairs to the giggling idiots his koibito called her friends. Fortunately the matter was decided for him when he heard Kagome coming up the stairs to see what happened to him.

"Inuyasha? Are you sure you're alright? You're awfully quiet up there…"

"He's fine Wegome and he was just leaving. Sota and I were playing with his whistle that makes no sound…but apparently it does and my poor Oto-chan heard it. We had no idea it would make him feel so ill." He called out to her as she made her way to Sota's room. "See he fine now. I will see to it that Sota-kun doesn't play with it anymore. You know what… here Wegome," he handed her the offending whistle as she entered the room. "You'd better keep it and then we can be sure no one will touch it. By the way how long is it until dinner? Sota-kun and I are hungry. Would it be alright if we came downstairs for a snack?" he said in his most innocent voice.

"Uh…sure…Inuyasha ummm… let's go back downstairs before I have to explain why my door is missing…" Kagome tugged on her koibito's arm and half dragged him out of there.

"I'm gonna kill that son of a bitch! He had Sota blowing that stupid dog whistle! I thought my ears were going to explode!" he muttered as Sota and Sesshomaru walked passed them on their way downstairs.

"Please….Inuyasha we can deal with him later. Come let's just forget him and go hang out with my friends." She pleaded as Eri called up the stairs, "Everything alright?"

"Yes Eri! He's fine now…Inuyasha is still feeling a bit sick…. Ummmm…I don't know."

"I'm fine Eri-chan! I just needed some of that tyleno-stuff for my head, which Kagome just found for me. We'll be right down, ok?" Inuyasha took Kagome's hand, which made her smile and they went back downstairs to join everyone. Inuyasha however found that he wished he had actually taken the stupid stuff as there was Sesshomaru sitting at the table with Yuka hanging all over him before Eri rushed in to get her fair share of hanging on too.

"Feeling better Oto-chan? I hope you both don't mind if we sit here and have some of your snacks. Sota-kun and I are a bit hungry, aren't we?"

"Ummm…yes Sessho-kun. Kagome can you get some more chips? I'd get them but I'm showing Ayumi my drawing of Goku and Sessho-kun doesn't know where they are. Thanks Nee-san!" turning back to Ayumi he showed her one that Sesshomaru had made earlier. "And this one Sessho-kun made for me! It's Vegita!" Kagome gave him a look like he suddenly grew another head, but left anyways and was soon back with the chips as well as another two glasses in case Sesshomaru or her brother decided they were thirsty.

Inuyasha meanwhile sat there as everyone ignored him in favor of his older brother and 'adopted' younger brother. "I can't believe they are drooling over him like that! And the stupid asshole is eating it all up too. Geeze this is sickening! Gotta think of something to get rid of him and fast…" he thought as he watched his older brother sit there and giggle along with the girls like the mindless idiot he always claimed Inuyasha was.

"So do you like have a girlfriend or something?" Yuka asked as she sat there gazing into his eyes while Eri tried her best to get Sesshomaru to look at her.

"No…not at the moment. The only …"

He was cut off by Inuyasha who said just a bit too loudly, "He doesn't like girls, do you Sesshomaru?" He sat back and smirked as everyone looked at Sesshomaru.

"As a matter of fact…Inuyasha is right. I don't really care for girls…I prefer women…because they are so much more experienced…" At their disappointed looks he added, "It is merely because I have a young daughter waiting for me at home…" he looked pointedly at his brother as he said that. "And she needs me…and well she needs a woman to look after her when I can't. And no Inuyasha, I don't feel Jaken, he's a friend of mine by the way… is capable of looking after her properly." He sighed. "It's just that I needed a babysitter on such short notice… I mean I have these stupid chicken spots and well I just didn't want to make my little Rin-chan sick…and Jaken offered to look after her for me as he's done it before. You do think I did the right thing by leaving her at home with her friends, while I came here to recover?"

Cries of "oh yes, yes!", "you poor thing! It must be sooo hard to be a single parent!" and "oh how sweet! You must be soooo worried about her!" were heard as Kagome's friends jumped to reassure the Youkai that he did the right thing. However Sesshomaru was starting to find all the fussing and especially the touching a bit trying. The fact that they were "ningen idiots" didn't help either, but he put up with it the best he could as he knew it bothered the hell out of Inuyasha.

After a while when he was becoming dangerously close to losing his patience, Higarashi-san came in to announce that dinner was almost ready and she wondering if someone would help her set the table. Sesshomaru of course jumped at the opportunity to escape the nattering for a few minutes and Inuyasha silently laughed at him as he got up to help. "It's alright Sessho-kun, you're a guest…" Higarashi-san started to say.

'But I have taken advantage of your hospitality for far too long, and it would give me great pleasure to help you."

"We'll help you too Higarashi-san!" the girls cried as Sesshomaru inwardly cringed. Stealing a side long glance at his younger brother, Sesshomaru was annoyed to see him enjoying himself. He would have dearly loved to have been able to wipe that smug self satisfied look off Inuyasha's face; however he couldn't and what made it worse was the fact that Inuyasha knew it too. So bowing to the inevitable, he followed Higarashi-san into the kitchen and in turn was followed by Kagome's friends. He was to find that there really wasn't anything for him to do as the girls insisted on doing everything. He found that to be a good thing too, as it gave him a few minutes peace alone in the kitchen with Higarashi-san.

"They're good girls Sessho-kun, really they are…it's just that teenage girls don't know when to…uuhhh… shut up as it were." She smiled and laughed in an effort to lift his spirits.

"I know that, Higarashi-sama or else you wouldn't let your daughter be friends with them… and they do remind me a bit of my Rin-chan….she too on occasion, will chatter away like that." He looked so sad and wistful at the mention of Rin's name.

"I'm sure you'll be home soon…it must be hard being here worrying about her without a way to contact her." She reached out to touch his arm in a motherly way and he found that this he didn't mind the contact this time. Changing the subject to clear the silence that hung in the air between them, Higarashi-san went on, "By the way I'm making tempura as I think that would be the easiest for you to manage comfortably. I know you had a bit of trouble last night…and well since there are other dinner guests today instead of just family…"

"Arigatou, Higarashi-sama…I appreciate you taking my feelings into the matter….. Anno…is there anything else I can help you with?"

"Ummm…here take this and put it on the table for me." She said as she handed him a tray with various dipping sauces as well as a few bowls of pickled vegetables which she instructed him to put in the center of the table. When he had everything carefully balance in one arm, he left followed by Higarashi-san with a tray of tempura.

"Itadakimasu!" everyone said as they began to pass the food around. Sesshomaru was grateful to find he was sitting between Higarashi-san and Sota, much to the girls' disappointment, and the meal passed quickly. Once again the girls tried to help Sesshomaru clean up, but Higarashi-san told them to go sit and enjoy themselves as Sota will help too, much to Sesshomaru's relief.

So without the older brother to fuss over, Kagome's friends turned to the younger and Kagome found that she was going to have to do something special to make it all up to Inuyasha. She could see that he was starting to get the same glazed look in his eyes, Sesshomaru had earlier as her friends chatted on about school which led the conversation around to Hojo and the school dance.

"So are you taking Kagome-chan to the dance this Friday night, Inuyasha-kun?"

"Yeah, you know it was a good thing Hojo-kun asked you to go this morning as I don't think we would have ever gotten the chance to meet you. For some reason..." Yuka looked at her friends and winked. "Kagome-chan wanted to keep you all to herself! I can't imagine why…seeing as you're so sweet and all, not like the monster she likes us to believe you are, right Kagome-chan?"

'Heeeh…Yuka-chan I never said anything like that!" She flashed her friends a look that said 'I'll kill if you so much as hint anything like that, true or not!' before turning to her koibito with a smile. "You see now why I didn't want to introduce you to them, Koishii…look at how hard they're trying to steal you away from me. As if I'd ever say anything bad about you?" she crinkled up her nose and shook her head slightly as if they were rubbing noses together. Leaning her head on his shoulder she went on, "You know I was thinking of taking him to the dance…but seeing as how you three are trying hard to steal my Inuyasha away from me, how can I manage with a whole gym full of girls trying to do the same thing? So as much as I'd love to be there showing him off I can't. And don't think of getting Hojo-kun to ask me to go with him either! We all know I told him about Inuyasha, so it wouldn't be fair of me to get Hojo-kun's hopes up by going with him, so I guess I'll just have to miss it…" she leaned back into Inuyasha which caused him to kiss the top of her head. This made the other girls giggle and call out 'Kawaii!' while Inuyasha sat there with a silly grin plastered on his face.

"Speaking of 'kawaii'…care to join us Sessho-kun?" This was said as the tall Youkai passed by on his way upstairs to play with Sota.

"Noosankyuu. Sota and I are off to play with his ahhh…what do you call those things again?"

"Transformers. Or we can play with my Gundams if you want?"

"Ainiku…but as you ladies can see I'm rather busy…perhaps another time?" with that the two of them left and headed back up to Sota's room.

They chatted on about nothing in particular and after a while Inuyasha wished he could have escaped along with his brother and Sota. Higarashi-san too, made a brief appearance as she checked to see if they wanted any more snacks or drinks before going outside to help Jii-san move a few things around the small shop at the shrine.

Thankfully before he died of boredom or Sesshomaru put Sota up to any more mischief, the girls left.

"Well what did you think of them?"

Not wanting to chase away the smile on Kagome's face, Inuyasha paused to think before answering. "They're ummm…interesting?"

"Interesting? These are my friends here Inuyasha, not some species of toad we're talking about here." She frowned.

That did it, for he really hated to see her upset, so he told the first thing that popped into his head. "No they're really very nice…I just didn't want you to think they were stealing me away from you; that's all…."

That did the trick and he was rewarded for all his troubles that evening by her launching herself into his arms. After standing there and kissing for what Inuyasha was sure was too short a time, she took him by the hand and led him upstairs.

"So can we …do that thing again? You know the one you called 'making up' or was it 'making out'?"

She giggled. "My… aren't we the impatient one! I never realized what a little horn-dog you are! In fact I think you're worse than Miroku!" She teased as he grabbed her again; this time in a tighter embrace and kissed her. "Inuyasha! Careful or we'll have Sesshomaru in here again yelling at us! I really don't want them playing in here when I want to play with my little Horn-dog in private!"

He growled at her again in defeat for he knew she wasn't giving him any idle threats; they both knew Sesshomaru would be here in an instant if he thought they were up to no good. Trouble was Sesshomaru's idea of 'no good' was Inuyasha's idea of 'very good to excellent.' When it sounded like they were headed for the bath he seized the opportunity, glad that the sound of the shower would drown out any noise the two of them made.