InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Dangerous Assumptions ❯ All in the Family ( Chapter 4 )

Note= Sorry But I had to do some little angst on Shippo's part. Some people will feel he's a bit OOC, to explain his situation is this= He sees Kagome as his mom, who likes Inu-Yasha. Even if Shippo doesn't like him, since Kagome does, it sort of gives Inu-boy an honorary dad role. And since Momma (Kagome) likes Dad/boyfriend (Inu), if Dad/boyfriend goes away due to an argument over child (Shippo) then child feels like it's his fault instead of the adults.

I've seen this happen often with young children when I worked with preschoolers. Therefore, this is the take on what's going on with Shippo.

In addition, Kagome & Souta may seem OOC during the flashback that is because they ARE younger in flash back.

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Chapter 4All in the Family

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Shippo looked over to where Kagome and Kouga were talking. He didn't want to admit it but he's nervous about Kagome wanting to learn about how youkai discipline their young. 'I don't cause Kagome that much trouble...do I?' The kit's eyes widen as he remembered the times he chomped on Inu-Yasha's ears. 'NO! That can't be it; I've done that a lot in the past. Kagome hasn't gave me "The LOOK" for some days so I hadn't done anything bad...right?' He sat down to think of what he may have done that would make Kagome upset. "I wish I could hear what they're saying."

Suddenly a voice spoke up right next to the kit's ear. "Now why do you wish that for?"

"IIEEEEE!" Shippo was so startled that it caused him to shoot up in the air, doing a summersault and landing on his back. Upon opening his eyes, he could see the guilty party was Ginta who is sitting, still propped up on one elbow at the rock Shippo previously sat on.

"Hey little guy, you tell us what's wrong?" Spoke another voice just to the left. Sure enough, when Shippo turned around, he saw it was Haggaku. It seems that the two are never far apart from each other. Shippo learned the truth a month ago, when Kouga and his entourage stopped by to check on Kagome. It was revealed that not only are Ginta and Haggaku are brothers but twins, to precise. They are not identical but they are twins nontheless.

Back when Kouga first stated that he wanted Kagome as his mate, the young wolf twins started to think of her as their sister. Although the rest of the clan didn't accept her until the final battle with the Gokuraku-chou when she saved Ginta from the bird demons and helped Kouga escape from Inu-Yasha. Although they don't exactly word it that way, especially when Kouga is in hearing range since he's still angry that his men carried him away from a battle for the woman he's chosen. Instead, they say that Kagome helped them `retrieve' their fearless leader from a worthless battle so he could heal faster and go `rescue' her from the inu hanyou.

Since then, the two young wolf youkai have seen how protective their ningen sister is of the orphaned kistune kit. Logically, if she is their sister (by adoption) and the kit is her son (by adoption) then the kit is their nephew and they have a responsibility to see to his welfare.

Taking a second look to the far side of the cave, Shippo told them of the latest fight between Kagome and Inu-Yasha. "Now Kagome has came here to talk to Kouga about how youkai discipline their young." With a heavy sigh and slumped shoulders, Shippo turned his gaze back to Ginta and Haggaku. "I guess I shouldn't make so much fun of Inu-Yasha. Maybe then Kagome wouldn't be asking about such things. I try to behave for her, really! After all she's done for me, I don't want her to be disappointed in me."

Unbeknownst to the kit, Haggaku gave a look to his brother as he bent over to pick Shippo up. "Hold on, little guy, I don't that is what the problem is."

"Yeah, you got it all wrong." Ginta added as he patted Shippo on the head.

Shippo was curious of what they meant, he didn't complain of the soft but firm pat on the head. Both fox and wolf youkai have close-knit family relations. A pat like that was usually for close family only. Given by a parent, aunts, uncles and grandparents. `As Kagome would say, DUH!'

It didn't take long for Shippo to realize that whenever they crossed paths that the wolf brothers acted as if they saw him as family. `They see Kagome as a sister, me as her kit. It's only natural since wolves are pack oriented. …Does this mean they're my uncles?'

After Shippo sat there confounded for a few moments until Ginta's voice brought his out the daze. "You said that Inu-Yasha had hit you before sister decided to find out about youkai parenting. I think that you did nothing wrong, but it's Inu-Yasha that made the mistake."

Three of wolves that sat around them whined and gave small barks, agreeing with Ginta. Haggaku put Shippo on a tall rock so he could look eye to eye with him. "Yeah, sister isn't angry with you, she's angry with Inu-Yasha. He's the one she doesn't believe. So, you can calm down. Enjoy the visit!"

Suddenly a small white streak shot past, which was followed by three small russet streaks, which raced around the cave. Laughter quickly echoed across the cave as several more wolves joined in the chase. The yips, barks and wagging tails all indicated that they did not feel hostile but friendly to their newfound playmate.

Try as they might, the wolves could not catch the speedster. The laughter roared when the white one jumped over four wolves only to have one enterprising young wolf wait until that moment to jump at her, only for her to use his snout as a springboard. Now she was jumping on everyone's head as the excited wolves were jumping up in a fruitless attempt to catch her.

*~*~* Meanwhile, back with Kagome and Kouga *~*~*

"I remember one time when I was thirteen, my little brother Souta had sneaked into my room and took some of my…aah…undergarments. There was a boy that liked me, he paid Souta to steal my clothes." Kagome paused, thinking of that day when her friend Yuka told her that Souta sold Kagome's unmentionables to Akira, Yuka's older brother.

Kouga gave a soft growl, he didn't like the idea of some boy getting a hold of Kagome's underclothes. Although he couldn't stop the smirk that formed at the thought of her notorious temper. "If you slapped me for putting my hand on your lower back and saying `you're my woman', what did you do to that boy and your brother?"

After she gave a short chuckle, Kagome returned the grin. "Well the boy's sister is one of my best friends, so she tricked her brother one day. I ended up hitting him so hard that I broke his nose. Then I chased Souta all over the shrine grounds. That was when mama came in." Kagome gave a small grimace at the memory. It was the only time that Kagome had yelled at her mother.

***********FLASHBACK*****************

"Souta, come back here you little brat! If you don't come here right now, I'll make certain that you'll never go to primary second year!" Thirteen year old huffed as she chased her six years old brother.

As her hand reached out to grab the boy's shirt, he ducked and turned to the right, avoiding capture. Souta's sudden change in direction surprised Kagome as she looked at his retreating back she failed to see the discarded broom that he dropped when she first confronted him.

##Wham##

"Owww! SOUTA!"

The boy's black haired head peeked out from behind the Goshin-boku. "No way! If you catch me then you'll make it so I won't live to the end of first year! Whoa!"

Kagome rushed to catch the annoying pipsqueak. Souta reacted fast as he twisted our of his sister's quick grab. For the next fifteen minutes, the chase continued until Kagome tackled him. She quickly dragged him to the ground, ignoring his cries of `I won't do it again".

"Souta, this is the SECOND time you've gave some boy my underwear. I'm sick and tired of it. You need to learn!" Kagome took Souta by surprise when her arm that was behind his shoulders suddenly pressed him down and over her knee. He could not see the raised hand.

##Swat##

"Ow.."

##Swat##

"OWW"

"Kagome! What are you doing? Let Souta go right now." At the top of the shrine steps stood Mama Higurashi, the forgotten shopping bags at her feet.

"Mama, Souta gave my undies to a boy AGAIN! He…" Kagome did not get to finish the sentence for her mother cut in.

"I'll talk to him, Kagome. I promise I will. Now let him go; you are not the mother, I am. Discipline is my job, not yours…" This time it was mama who was interrupted.

"Then DO your job, Mama!" The distraught teen yelled to her flabbergasted mom.

"What!? Young lady, you watch your tone!" Was the heated reply.

It was then that the emotional damn broke for the eldest Higurashi child. "Just because Souta is only six is no reason for him to get away with everything! You said that you would talk to him last time. That was only two weeks ago and he already did it again! Not only that but he sold, yes SOLD, several of my matching bra and panties this time! Wait, it gets even better than that. Akira brought a pair to school today He said that he scored with me and was charging other guys to sniff them! The entire male population at school was sniffing my panties! Do you have any idea how embarrassing that is? I'm not going back there! EVER!" By now the mortified girl stood there with tears pouring down.

By now her mother could see why Kagome was so upset. "Now Kagome, you know that Souta had no idea of what that boy would do. If he knew, he would never have done it…" She tried to reason with her daughter, only to be interrupted by an unsuspected source.

"Akira told me that he was going to show them off at school and make the other boys pay to touch them. He said that I would get point 0009 of the money he makes. How much is that?" Both mother and daughter face-faulted at the mixed nature of the youth. How can one be so naïve and yet know what s going on? Yet he knew he had to do something fast or he would be the one in trouble. Rubbing his bottom, he gave a teary look to his mama. "Mama, why did Kagome hit me so hard on my butt? Now it's hurting and I'm going to have trouble sitting `cause of her."

"Souta go inside and play some video games. I need to talk to your sister about her behavior…"

`I cannot believe my ears. That little monster ruins my image at school and I'm the one getting in trouble?' Unnoticed to anyone, Kagome's eyes begin to twitch.

"Kagome, you have no right to spank your little brother. I can't believe that you would abuse the trust I have in you…"

Kagome did not wait to see what else her mother would say. "It's not fair! You yell at me all the time. Every time something goes wrong, it's MY fault! It's never Souta's fault, oh no he's a perfect angel! He can never get into trouble! He never misbehaves. I wish he was never born! Then you wouldn't be so unfair to me!"

"KAGOME! Don't say such a thing! You know that you don't really wish for tha…"

"NO, I wish I died with grandma in that wreck, she was never so mean to me! I HATE YOU!" With that, the hysterical girl ran to room, barricading herself in.

********** End Flashback***********

Once Kagome stopped her story in order to take a breath, Kouga looked at her with a touch of pity. "Did you actually mean that? That you hated your mother and wished to be dead?"

"At that moment yes, I did mean it. At thirteen my…ah… chest (blush) was…ah…. more developed than most other girls. When that baka, Akira, took my underclothes he let the entire school see them, therefore my classmates knew what size I was. They teased me about it and I hated it." Stopping for moment, Kagome tried to get her blushing under control. `I can't believe I'm telling Kouga about the most humiliating experience I ever had. Why I am telling him? Oh yeah it's because it's the one time that discipline became a major factor in my family.'

"Well, what happened after you told your mother that? Did she punish you for yelling at her or did she punish that brother?" Kouga prodded her as he gave her a cup of water.

After giving a sigh, Kagome looked up at him. "I stayed true to my word, I refused to go back to the same school. Mama argued with me for two weeks about it. After the third week, I talked to Grampa. He went and enrolled me in a different school, the one I'm currently attending. He also talked to mama about Souta needing discipline. It turns out that during the three weeks that I refused to go to the old school, Grampa decided to discipline Souta. My brother was grounded to the shrine grounds, which mean that Souta could not leave the grounds except for school, he could not go to a friend's house or have friends over. After the talk between Gramps and Mama, Souta didn't get away with so much." Kagome paused at the memory.

That argument with her mother is one of the top three worst memories that she had of her family. The car crash that took her grandmother's life and left young Kagome without a physical scar was another. Kagome shook her head to clear her head of the worst one of all.

Kouga had sat there listening to her story, there were a few things about it that bothered him. For one thing was the way the grandmother died. `A wreck killed her? How in the word would a wagon tipping over kill her grandmother? The old lady must have been in bad health or the wagon fell off a cliff or mountainside. And what about the other thing she kept on mentioning? Hmmm maybe `classmates' were similar to pack mates.'

Looking deep into Kagome's blue-gray eyes, Kouga decide to ask about it.

"Kagome, what is school?"

**Thud**

~~TBC

A/N= LOL I couldn't help it, I had to end it with Kagome doing an anime face fall when Kouga asked her that. Hehe She told him the story and forgot that `schools' were part of her world not his.

Ok next chapter Kouga will tell a story of his childhood. Kagome has a nightmare. At the end, Sesshoumaru may finally make an appearance.

Also, I am going to try to write a lemon for the nest chapter. Due to the fact, it will be my first time to write one, I will try to take some time to write it, 2-3 weeks. If I get finished before hand, I'll post it.

I respect the rules at FanFiction.Net so the lemon scene will NOT in the chapter at FF.N instead it will have a notice saying that it will be in the version posted up at MediaMiner.Org. If I can, I may try to post at AdultFanFiction.Net, depends if I can get the formatting to work in that site. If not, then I will wait until I have time to type it up.

=^.^=~~ Katzztar