InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Death, No Reason To Forget Love ❯ Before the Ceremony ( Chapter 9 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha! I only own the story! But wouldn't it be good if I did own the show? Or the manga? Hmm… Anyway, I hope you enjoy! This kinda took me a long time to write. But besides my meaningless rambling, Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.

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Orangeberrys: About the security cameras… *Chuckles* I just had to add them in there for some reason… It mixed in with the scene, though. And sometimes they do report deaths on the news, but usually it's about a celebrity… And Kagome's not a celebrity but… yeah… Anyway! No, Nea is not Ms. Higurashi's real name. I'm just very fond of that name and I wanted to place it in.

Inuyasharules56: Please don't cry! *Hugs* although there were some moments I either cried or felt like it, too…

Twinstaar: Don't worry; I already have this story completed. I'm actually very proud of how I put the funeral, and I think you'll all be pleased on what Inuyasha has to say .

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Black fire angel: About Kagome's mom… Maybe I did make her a little insensitive… But she's a mother, she needs to be strong! Man, that sounds corny… Where do you think Souta is being cheery? I'm just trying to keep the characters in character the most I can. And really I wouldn't know what it would be like to loose an older/younger brother or sister since I'm an only child…

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Death, No Reason To Forget Love

Chapter Nine: Before the Ceremony

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Inuyasha moaned as he awakened the next morning, rolling over to his side, nuzzling his cheek into the soft sheet that was under him. Really not remembering what had happened the night before, the hanyou slightly opened one of his amber eyes. Along with seeing the color pink almost everywhere, his nose also got active, Inuyasha's ears lowering on his head as he smelled the sweetness of Kagome's scent. That's when he remembered. 'Her scent… It'll never leave this room,' he thought, sitting up with a yawn. Standing shortly afterwards, he stretched before walking over to the window beside the night table, the same window he had came in earlier before hearing of Kagome's death. Pushing away the curtains with his clawed fingers, he looked out at the shrine, seeing Ms. Higurashi outside dusting off some spots on the shrine grounds with her broom as Souta sat off to the side, flipping through his rather large deck of trading cards.

Glancing upward at the same moment, Ms. Higurashi smiled as she saw Inuyasha, motioning to him with her hand for him to come outside. It seemed that she was trying to say something, though Inuyasha couldn't hear her through the thick glass.

Getting the hint, Inuyasha brought his hand back down to his side, letting the curtains fall back over the window, the room becoming darker from lack of sun. Turning, Inuyasha walked out of the room and down the hallway again, looking into Souta's room to see a neatly made bed and a large pile of dirty clothes stacked in the corner. Walking further down, he saw the study area where the household computer was still on, Inuyasha having the strongest urge to go check out the strange new technology. However, this urge was stopped short in fear that he would break something. A small camera followed his movements as he walked down the stairs. Passing the kitchen, his stomach growled in hunger, demanding that it wanted food. Ignoring this need for food, Inuyasha walked forwards a bit more, pulling back the sliding glass door and shutting it behind him as he walked outside.

"Inuyasha!" Souta called out, placing his trading cards into a small metal tin so they wouldn't blow away with the wind, running over to the young man who would've been his future brother-in-law.

"Good morning, Inuyasha," Ms. Higurashi said softly, looking up at him with a smile. "Now that you're up, can you watch Souta as I go inside and make some breakfast? I bet you two must be really hungry."

"Sure, no problem." Inuyasha started as he picked up the 11-year-old only, only after ruffling his hair, putting Souta on his shoulders. "It's been a while since I've really seen this kid!"

"Hey… Call me Souta!" he demanded, laughing as he grabbed Inuyasha's ears after ruffling his hair as well, laughing as Inuyasha's face became soft for a second, eyes half-lidded from pleasure. But after he realized he once again had two sets of eyes focused on him, he growled lightly in his throat, putting the boy back down. "Don't… Touch… My… Ears!" he growled, remembering the picture in Kagome's room before he started chasing Souta who had started running away.

Ms. Higurashi laughed, watching the boys for a couple seconds before returning inside, closing the door behind her. She then walked to the kitchen, getting the materials out to make breakfast. "He's something…" Ms. Higurashi sighed, smiling as she looked out the kitchen window to the clear blue sky. After getting some dishes and silverware from the same cabinets as the night before, she went across the room and into another cabinet, pulling out two large pans and put them on the stove, then walking over to the fridge and got out the egg carton, breaking the eggs into a pan.

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Meanwhile&helli p;

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"Can't catch me!" Souta called out, hiding behind the sacred one thousand year old tree.

"I can do better than that," Inuyasha chuckled, soundlessly jumping upward onto one of the lower branches of the tree, then jumping to a higher one. Looking down at Souta, who had been looking around wondering where his dog-brother had went, Inuyasha reached down with his clawed fingers and grabbed Souta by his shirt collar, pulling him up, lucky to not have ripped some holes in the shirt's fabric. "Gotcha."

"Hey!" Souta whined. "That's not fair! I can't jump in trees like you can!"

Inuyasha shrugged, letting the boy loosen from his grip as Souta jumped down from the tree, Inuyasha following after and started another chase.

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Soon…

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"Boys, breakfast is ready!" Ms. Higurashi called out, opening the front door to the house, laughing, as she was amazed at the scene before her eyes. Souta had been leaning against the wall of the old storage house that had been rebuilt after it had caught on fire because of the Noh Mask, looking through his deck of training cards again. While Inuyasha, however, had been lying on the roof of the storehouse, snoring lightly. Although she was quite far away, she laughed again as she could tell that the two boys were exhausted, being all played out before they even had their first meal of the day.

Souta, turning his attention to his mother, jumped up as he realized what she had said. "C'mon, Inuyasha!" he called out, running inside while Inuyasha sat up, smiling to himself as he could smell the warm food inside. Carefully leaping off the top of the old storehouse roof, he landed on his toes before running inside.

From inside, the house smelled like bacon and eggs. Inuyasha and Souta sat beside each other at the kitchen table, Mother sitting across from Souta after she placed the plates of bacon and eggs on the middle of the table.

"Please, Inuyasha," Ms. Higurashi started, placing an egg and one piece of bacon and everyone's plates. "You can have more than this, but just take your time eating this morning, okay?" Inuyasha nodded, picking up the piece of bacon on his plate and putting it in his mouth, smiling as he found the bacon crunchy. Ms. Higurashi let Inuyasha swallow before she went on. "You might not be able to eat until very late tonight, we still have to attend Kagome's funeral which starts this afternoon."

Souta gasped and carefully scooted his chair to the right, away from Inuyasha as he watched Inuyasha beside him, whose eyes went shut as he looked down at the table. Souta could see Inuyasha's hands clenching into tight fists, and he could hear Inuyasha taking a deep breath before slowly standing up. "Excuse me," he said lightly, leaving his place at the table as he then ran out of the kitchen, up the stairs and back into Kagome's room. Even though he had only one piece of bacon, it was able to hold him over as he curled up on her bed, trying what looked like to fall asleep again, only to fail as he heard footsteps approaching.

"Inuyasha, I'm sorry," Ms. Higurashi said softly as she walked in, sitting at the foot of the bed as she reached out and stroked Inuyasha's hand. "It's okay, we know you can't accept Kagome's death… I don't really think any of us can. But you know that she loved you dearly, and I know that you loved her also. You will come to her funeral as our special guest, and I'm sure that Kagome would be very proud of it. I'm sure that in time you'll be able to move on."

"No, I won't be able to move on…" Inuyasha's voice broke in softly, refusing to look what would've been his future mother-in-law in the eye. "I can't. Too many people have died that I cared for. First my own mother, then Kikyo, now Kagome…"

"Then don't think about them. I know it'll be hard, but if you do think about the good times you had with that person… and think how they would want you to be happy."

It is still hard to describe what happened next, but for the next hour Inuyasha never left his spot on Kagome's bed as he sat there and thought, except to turn around and hug Ms. Higurashi, while tears came uncontrollably down his face, as he spoke of the good times with the ones he loved, where Ms. Higurashi could only hug him back, smile, and listen while trying to comfort him the best that she could. (A/N: Sorry if I'm sort of getting Inuyasha Out Of Character!)

After Inuyasha had finally stopped crying, he sat up straight, leaning against the wall with a smug expression on his face, acting like nothing had ever happened. Ms. Higurashi could only laugh as she watched him try to imitate a confident man.

"There, feel better?" Ms. Higurashi asked, smiling as Inuyasha nodded. "Like I said earlier, sometimes it's okay to cry… You just can't help it," she said softly, noticing that she herself had been crying too. She gently padded Inuyasha, who had turned his head to look away, on the back before standing up. "C'mon, we need to get you ready for the funeral."

Inuyasha, Ms. Higurashi and Souta were now standing in Ms. Higurashi's bedroom. Since she had moved into Granpa's old room after he had passed away, she still kept some of his old things, such as pictures and priceless knickknacks. Opening the closet door, Ms. Higurashi stood on her toes to reach up and grab a large box. Pulling it down, Souta and Inuyasha could see the word 'CLOTHING' written along the sides of the small cardboard box. Opening it, some dust particles flew out, making both Ms. Higurashi and Inuyasha cough. Ms. Higurashi from being so close and Inuyasha with his sensitive nose. Rustling through the clothes that were in the box, she pulled out his old white outfit, folding it and setting it off to the side before digging into the box again, soon pulling out a small black tux. Inuyasha eyed it suspiciously, like if it was going to attack him or something.

"Granpa's old tux?" Souta said, confused. "Will he [Inuyasha] be able to wear that?"

Ms. Higurashi looked from Inuyasha to the suit, then to her son as she stood up, walking over to Inuyasha. "If he could wear it, it'd be a close fit… Inuyasha, what do you think?"

Inuyasha looked down at the tux again, then looked into the mirror as Ms. Higurashi pressed it up against his body. "Well, it seems a little small…"

"Yeah, mom, it'd just be too tight!"

"Do you want to try it on then?" Ms. Higurashi said nicely, jamming it into Inuyasha's hand as he shrugged his shoulders, really never having a choice. Inuyasha wrapped his clawed fingers around the fabric and walked out of the room and down the hall towards the bathroom. After getting inside, he shut the door and pressed a small button locking the door.

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Half an hour later…

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Inuyas ha was still in the bathroom. Ms. Higurashi was getting a little concerned, while Souta was practically pacing around because he really had to go to the bathroom. Ms. Higurashi shrugged to herself, there were two different bathrooms in their house, including one that had been redone, but yet Souta had been holding it in because he didn't want to run upstairs and miss Inuyasha. "Souta, go check on Inuyasha, would you please?" She asked softly to her son.

Souta nodded and in less than a second he had ran out of the room and started banging on the still-locked bathroom door. "Inuyasha!" he cried. "Are you in there?"

"Yes. I still am." Inuyasha said from behind the other side of the door, his voice sounding unsure and ticked off.

"What's the matter?" Souta asked, curious.

"Nothing!"

Looking down at the lock, Souta smiled as he pulled out a small pencil from his pocket, putting it in the little hole on the other side of the door and forcing it in lightly, making the bathroom door unlock. He took a deep breath as he opened the door, stepping inside and staring at his dog-brother, who had a death glare plastered all over his face. All Souta could do was laugh as he saw Inuyasha. He laughed so hard he almost wet his pants.

"What are you laughing at?" Inuyasha screamed as he saw Souta once again looking over him. Granpa's old suit really didn't fit Inuyasha that well. The shirt and jacket were too tight to his chest so you could see his muscled abs and the pants were just, said in the nicest way possible, painfully too tight. Inuyasha's muscled arms had ripped some small parts in the sleeves, and he was hunched over like a hunchback, afraid to move, preventing the suit to get tore any more. "Ms. Higurashi!" he screamed.

Ms. Higurashi quickly ran into the bathroom, and had to laugh as she saw Inuyasha. "Oh, dear." she said, walking over to him. "Stand up straight, please." she ordered calmly, nodding her head as Inuyasha looked up at her in surprise. "I can always mend the damages."

Inuyasha then nodded his head, shutting his eyes as he stood up straight, hearing more rips. He then gasped in surprise as he felt Ms. Higurashi's hands on his chest. "Now, lets get you out of that suit before you permanently ruin it to the point where it's useless, hmm?"

For the next couple hours, Ms. Higurashi had taken Inuyasha out on a shopping errand, to find something for him to wear.