InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Decisions ❯ Lightning Strikes Twice: Kagome's many Disasters ( Chapter 9 )

Chapter 9: Lightning Strikes Twice: Kagome's many disasters

“Damn it” Kagome muttered as she opened the bonnet of her car and looked inside. She had no idea of what she was looking for of course but none the less she felt compelled to take a look inside in the vain hope that she would know what to do. She was not having the best of luck.

Souta would know what to do, but unfortunately she had forgotten to put him in her pocket when she left the house...

To be short she was slowly losing it.

She had broken down in what appeared to be the back arse of nowhere, with three small children asleep in the back in the middle of what seemed to be a small typhoon it was raining so hard.

She had looked quite presentable, but now she seemed to resemble a half drowned rat and her hair was sopping and stuck to her head and shoulders. She had also had the idiocy to get out of the car in the pouring rain with a white shirt on. The shirt had proceeded to quite gleefully go see through and display her red lace bra to any passing wildlife who was interested in such matters.

She slammed the bonnet down again and glanced into the back of her car at her sleeping cargo. Her son was currently asleep in between the two car seats that held Sango's twins. They were also asleep with Kei holding onto a lock of Ranmaru's hair in his tiny hand and Megumi still chewing on her own fist in her sleep.

At least they're dry, she sighed in a hard done by sort of way. Not that Ranmaru preferred being dry. In fact he never slept in the car because it was too dry, the only reason he had managed it was because it was raining. (At home he slept on a water bed because it was the closest thing to sleeping underwater). The sound of the pouring water was soothing to the young Kelpie.

She flipped her head and tossed her hair off her face wincing as it hit her back with a sickening slapping noise. She glared up at the sky grumpily and then quickly regretted it when she got rain in her eyes.

This was so annoying. It reminded her off a clique romance scene in a romantic movie whereby the heroine was stranded in the middle of nowhere in the pouring rain and then her hero appears and takes care of it for her. It was enough to make you swoon, or barf.

She knew that her knight in shining armour was probably going to be a stray chicken farmer on a midnight excursion to shoot himself some foxes.

Speaking of foxes one was watching her from the hedgerow and they looked at each other for a moment.

“Can you help me?” she asked

The fox gave her a look which said `crazy human, I can't even speak and you're asking me for help?' turned tail and disappeared into the night once more.

“And now I'm talking to foxes” she mused aloud as she went into the car to pull out her phone to call for help. She rooted through her bag and discovered it wasn't there...

So where was it? She dug through the front of the car tossing random junk that for some reason she felt the need to keep in her car though it provided no use in any shape or form except for insulation when it got cold and the heater was shot. She glanced into the back seat and groaned.

Megumi had it. In fact Megumi was not sucking her fist, oh no, instead she got gone for the culinary delights of Kagome's cell phone. There was baby drool on it.

“This keeps getting better” she muttered as she attempted to gently prise the phone from the child's drool covered hands.

Megumi was not letting go. She gently attempted yet again to pull the phone out of her mouth but the baby drool was not helping grip and Megumi appeared to have it in a death vice.

“Come on” she muttered as she leaned over the driver's seat and tried again to take it from the sleeping child without waking her. Every time she tried the child would make a noise of discomfiture and roll away from Kagome's hands in the car seat.

Her fingers slid from the slippery phone once again and she sighed sitting back on her haunches in the seat only to over balance and fall of the seat and end up with her legs in the air and her head on the brake pedal.

This was not her day. She pulled herself from the uncomfortable and embarrassing position to glare at the baby who had managed to win the battle of wills with her.

She was distracted from the bizarre and pointless battle with the sleeping child when she heard the crunch of gravel under tires and the flash of headlights appeared in her peripheral vision... ah her chicken farmer to the rescue.

The car parked up next to her and she couldn't help but wonder where she knew the four by four from...

And then when her rescuer got out of the car it hit her, and it wasn't lightning.

“Hojo-san?” she was shocked and kind of confused

“Higurashi-san!” he sounded happy to see her and her see through blouse whereas she was wondering if god hated her for something. “What are you doing here?” he asked

She rolled her eyes “Stargazing” she told him dryly

“Really?” he sounded excited and she sighed as she realised he wasn't one to understand satire.

“No Hojo-san my car broke down” she told him smiling and trying to push thoughts of braining Hojo with her handy socket wrench from her mind. “May I borrow your phone?” she asked

“Oh, it's okay” he smiled “I'll be able to fix it!”

“Um... do you have any experience in fixing cars?” she asked cautiously, either he didn't hear her or he pretended not to hear her. She was going for the latter.

He popped the bonnet and bent over to poke around inside.

She glared accusingly at the sky again but the sky was impassive to her discomfiture. It was mocking her.

***

She had no idea how this had happened, she was now sat in a tiny cafe with the children asleep in the back of Hojo's car.

She looked up when he came back to sit next to her again with the coffee he had ordered. There was no one else in the cafe and she was shivering in her wet shirt.

She wondered why he hadn't given her his jacket or something and then realised it was probably because without a jacket he got a good view of her bra and shivering breasts.

She took the coffee from him and sipped at it tentatively... it didn't taste like rohypnol, which is tasteless her brain reminded her. But then he was a nice guy. It did however taste like tap water and dirt disguised as coffee.

“Did you use their phone?” she asked

“Yeah but they won't have anyone to come out here for a few hours, it's off the beaten track” he smiled

Great. “Oh”

“So what were you doing in this neck of the woods?” he asked

“Driving” she said pointedly telling him it was none of his business

“My mother lives out here” he continued conversationally “I went to stay with her and my dad this weekend”

“Hmm”

“Did you know that behind you there is an entire field of cabbage, they're sold in supermarkets and they belonged to my great grandfather before he passed away...”

She was beginning to fall asleep from boredom and because it was half twelve. But mostly from boredom.

“Hey Sesshoumaru-san” a voice said and she spun to see the least likely person in the world stood at the counter conversing with the cook.

“Hey, just came by to tell you this Sesshoumaru is heading back now, and thanks for stocking the place up” he nodded to the cook and prepared to leave when he found that he recognised a scent in the small cafe.

To our poor drowned Kagome he looked like an angel sent from god to save her and she couldn't help but look at him with pleading eyes.

He turned to see the Kagome woman sat at a table with a see through sodden shirt on and a red lace bra looking decidedly wet.

Opposite her was that annoying human... Hojo his name was.

“What are you doing here?” he walked up to her and noticed when he got closer that her eyes were screaming `get me out of here'.

“Oh” Hojo cut off his delightful spiel to look up at the towering Yokai. “You are the man from the park, Sesshoumaru-san right?”

“Most call this Sesshoumaru, Sesshoumaru-sama” he said coldly as he removed the jacket he was wearing and put it around Kagome's shoulders. She smiled and snuggled into its warmth which pleased the Yokai for some reason but he chose to ignore it. “Why are you here?” he directed this question at Kagome but the annoying man answered

“She was having car troubles and I helped her out” Hojo smiled cheerfully. He had decided that this man was far too cold for the happy Kagome and that she would be better off with him.

“Hn” Sesshoumaru glared at the insufferably rude and yet annoyingly cheerful human “And yet you did not remove your jacket to give to a cold lady?”

Hojo blushed a little “Um... I didn't notice”

“This Sesshoumaru was under the impression you noticed too much” his eyes bled red for a fraction of a second as he noticed the human's eyes graze Kagome's chest. He took Kagome's hand and yanked her from her seat.

“Where are we going?” she put the brakes on and dug her heels in

“This Sesshoumaru will take you home” he told her in a tone which suggested disobeying would lead to disembowelment

“But I have to wait for the tow!” she protested

His eyes flashed red again and she swallowed hard as he turned to her. However he merely picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. He dug in the pocket of his trousers and placed a card on the table where a bemused Hojo was still sat.

“Let me down” she banged her fists on his back futilely. He ignored her.

“Tell them to call me when they have fixed her car” he told the startled human before striding from the cafe and out to his car. He opened the passenger side door and threw her inside mindful of her head on the door frame.

“WAIT!” she yelled at him “Ranmaru-chan, Kei-chan and Megumi-chan are in the back of his car!”

He rolled his eyes and resisted the urge to cover his ears at the level of noise in her voice; he was surprised someone so small could emit so much noise.

“This Sesshoumaru shall fetch them” he told her in the sort of tone you used to placate a wounded wild animal.

She growled and he smirked. Hojo had apparently come to his senses and was outside the cafe now looking flabbergasted.

“Give this Sesshoumaru your keys” Sesshoumaru ordered. Hojo was still too shocked to do anything other than obey the Yokai and handed over his keys in a trance like state. Sesshoumaru removed the children from the car and placed them inside his own. He used his Yokai speed so they wouldn't notice or get wet in the now drizzling rain.

Hojo snapped out of it “Excuse me Sesshoumaru-san but Kagome and I were only having a coffee, you can't just—”

Sesshoumaru was in front of the human so fast he didn't even have chance to blink whilst Kagome was watching nervously from the front seat.

“This Sesshoumaru suggests that it is in your best interest to leave her alone” he said in a deadly calm voice as his eyes turned red and his feral side demanded the death of their rival. “You will not call her as familiarly as you just did and you will not pursue her anymore”

He paused to let the seriousness of the threat sink in and then rested his poison claws against the human's neck “Do you agree?”

Hojo felt his life flash in front of his eyes and swallowed hard “H-hai Sesshoumaru-sama” he stuttered and Sesshoumaru grinned feeling the red retract from his eyes as he walked away and got into the car.

“He looks like he's going to crap himself” Kagome told Sesshoumaru dryly as he pulled out of the small car-park

“Good” Sesshoumaru smirked

“Thanks” she whispered softly into the collar of his jacket. But he heard her none the less.

“May this Sesshoumaru ask a question?” he said

“You just did” she giggled and he growled shortly but not angrily, he growled to make her be serious “You may” she said

“What possessed you to wear a red bra with a white shirt?” he questioned and smirked as her mouth dropped open with an audible popping noise.

“Hentai” she growled

“If this Sesshoumaru is a Hentai what is that man?” Sesshoumaru questioned wryly not as angry as he should be at being called a Hentai, he had to admit his thoughts on the subject hadn't been pure.

“I don't think about what colour my underwear is” she shrugged

“Fair enough” he said in a tone that contradicted his words

“Can I ask you a question?” she asked

“If this Sesshoumaru can ask you one in turn” he said

“Does this mean we're having a conversation?” she muttered sarcastically

“Ask it” he sighed at her flippancy

“Why were you all the way out here?” she enquired

He nodded, that was an obvious question “There is a huge forest three miles back from the cafe, near there this Sesshoumaru has a log cabin”

“So you're a go out into the woods and think sort of guy?” she was incredulous; this did not fit with the mental image she had drawn up of him.

“No” he replied shortly “This Sesshoumaru goes out there to transform freely into this Sesshoumaru's Inu form”

“Wow” she said “what do you look like?”

“Big, white and covered in fur” he said dryly

“Aw, how cute” she said laughing

“You would not say that if you saw this Sesshoumaru” he told her smiling at the thought of her expression.

“Will you show me?” she asked

“Maybe in the future” he was deliberately vague “so what were you doing out here?”

“Taking Ran to the lake” she shrugged “he loves the water but a public pool has chlorine which is harmful to him”

“Whose children are the others?” he asked glancing back at the two decidedly human children in the back seat. One of them he noticed was sucking on a phone bizarrely enough.

“Keep your eyes on the road” she scolded him “those children belong to Miroku and Sango, I picked them up from their grandmother's house on the way back from the lake, I was supposed to drop them back and the car decided that it didn't want to be a part of my plans” she mentally cursed her crappy car.

“It was no surprise that the car broke” he said coldly but with a hint of teasing in his voice.

“Bad dog” she said

“Baka ningen” he said allowing a small smile to grace his lips she caught the smile, though he vanquished it immediately and she smiled in return.

What a strange Yokai

What a confusing onna

A/N: I do not own Inuyasha, I wrote this chapter inspired by a few words from a reviewer on a different site(fanfiction.net) called llebreknit so this is for them.