InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Dogs in Tokyo ❯ Chapter 5 ( Chapter 5 )

As things turned out Inuyasha and Kagome's grandfather did not arrive at the house for some time. Inuyasha's eye had been caught by some window displays at the Ginza station and Higurashi-Jijii insisted on them exiting to view the tanuki statue at the entrance. From there they were drawn along with the teeming crowd of pedestrians to one of the trendy clothing stores crowding the area where Inuyasha caused a minor sensation in the store staff. As he buzzed through the racks first for clothing for himself and then for several outfits for Kagome, Jijii-Chan stood back and thoroughly enjoyed the various expressions of the shop girls.

Inuyasha seemed completely oblivious to all this and merely brushed aside suggestions that he try anything on. When one of the bolder girls offered to model his choices for Kagome he frowned and said, "Feh, you're the wrong shape and you'd just stink the clothing up."

This little piece of rudeness won them some needed space and gave Jiijii-Chan some time to give a quick overview of Japanese money and change. Inuyasha listened with patience and proceeded to surprise everyone at the checkout by plunking down the clothes on the counter and swiftly peeling of notes from his envelope announcing the amount of his purchase and the expected change back. Higurashi-Jijii exclaimed and the shop girls laughed but Inuyasha snarled and insisted they would find him "Able to count just fine, damnit!"

Ringing the purchase up proved him right and Inuyasha gathered his bundles to stalk out of the shop with triumphant arrogance and a deflated Jijii-Chan trailing behind him. When they reached the house however, Jijii-Chan got a little of his own back as a bored and fuming Kagome dropped the paper wedding favors she was folding and shipped Inuyasha off to a hot bath. He got to tell his own, carefully edited, version of just how the morning had gone.

Kagome listened in pleased surprise as Jijii-Chan told his story of one or two small items that had been sold so Inuyasha could buy a gift of clothes for her. She was more surprised at the news that Inuyasha could do very rapid mental arithmetic but had to admit that the subject had just never come up in all their travels together. She went through the bags and praised the clothing but what were all these slips of paper with handwritten notes in the pockets? They seemed to be girls names with phone numbers! Jijii-Chan convinced her it would be wise to just ball them up and throw them out and to treat all such future notes the same way.

~*~

Inuyasha dutifully stripped off the borrowed clothing and tossed it into the washer, belt and all. That done he slid the inner door open and eased himself somewhat warily into the bathing chamber. The tub was full of water and waiting but first came the scrub on the little stool with soap. He dowsed himself with warm water that had been ready in a bucket but knew he wanted to do this properly.

" O.K, so, soap up and rinse. Yeah, that's where the problem was the last time." He muttered to himself. He surveyed the array of bottles in the basket dubiously. "'Damn-most of them have writing on them that is not even kanji! Shit!" he dove his arm into to the basket and finally came up with a bottle he thought he recognized.

Wrenching the top off he up-ended it over his hand pouring a thick stream of pearly liquid over his palm. 'Gods how ecchi.' He thought, slapping the stuff over himself and working up a rich lather.

"Eh?!" The lather was very rich and kept foaming until it was dripping in great glops off of his skin and onto the floor. So, next, the hose-thing. He stood up to take up the hose and caught sight of himself in the mirror.

"Bwahahahaha!!"

Laughter exploded from him at the soapy image. There was the clang of a dropped pot from the kitchen and the sound of anxious questions but Inuyasha ignored them to grab the spray and aim it at the wall, letting of a powerful steam of water. No burning the hanyou this time.

Satisfactorily rinsed he clambered into the tub to sink up to his nose in the warm water and take a nap.

Sometime later, there was a timid knock at the door followed by Kagome's voice. "Inuyasha, dinner is ready, you clothes have been waiting out here for a while."

He hopped out of the tub and splashed cheerfully over to the door. The water had gone cold anyway. He slid the door open to face a somewhat startled-looking Kagome and swept her against his wet self for an enthusiastic kiss.

"Inuyasha, there are towels in there."

"They're no good -- all wet." He kissed her again for good measure and turned to root around in the clean laundry for more towels.

She stepped past him and gasped at the state of the bathroom. He was right. The towels, sitting unused in their basket were soaked. As were the walls and the ceiling. Thank the gods for floor drains. She sighed and let the water out of the tub.

Maybe she should have helped him? She felt an instant heat in her groin at the mere thought. No, maybe not. Mother was tolerant but...

She was cleaning a handfull of long silvery hair out of the tub when Inuyasha spoke behind her.

"Well, how do I look?"

Kagome turned and sank back on her heels, hair forgotten and hanging from her fingers. Inuyasha stood in the doorway in human form clad in tight-fitting black jeans and an expensive-looking brown t-shirt. He looked all too good to be true.

"What? You're staring. Is something wrong? These things feel kinda funny." He bounced about a bit on the balls of his feet, watching her from the corner of his eye.

"Inuyasha---segoi! You look perfect!" She exclaimed, all the while thinking; 'Damn, now I'm going to have to fight off all the other girls with a stick!'

Inuyasha blinked a bit but was too busy pulling her to her feet and urging her into the kitchen to respond to the compliment. "Good, I want to go see some things in town. How about you go get dressed in one of the new outfits I got for you and we can get out of here."

"But dinner!" Kagome pointed at the intimate little dinner for two she had set up on the table. Higurashi-Jijii had reopened the shrine shop for the afternoon and no one else was about.

"How long does that take to eat? I want to go out with you."

Put that way Kagome couldn't really find an objection.

~*~

Houjou made his way up the shrine steps carrying a fruit basket and a number of bags. Higurashi-Jijii was manning the shrine souvenir store at the foot of the steps and had sent him on to the house.

"There is someone there who can take them, Houjou-Kun. Too much weight for an old man like me." The old man nodded and smiled encouragingly, waving him on.

'Maybe Kagome is back on her feet and I'll get to see her,' he thought, juggling parcels so he could reach the doorbell.

Inside Inuyasha waited for Kagome, flipping channels on the TV. It was mostly news at this hour. He shifted restlessly. The new jeans were taking some getting used to. And he was not looking forward to wearing the shoes.

The doorbell sounded and he jumped a little, and then sat staring into the hallway for an instant before getting up to answer it. By the time he reached the front door he looked just about as human as anyone.

"Yeah?"

The perspiring boy on the step looked startled and almost dropped the packages he was carrying.

"Uh, hi," he stammered, "I'm looking for Kagome."

"She's busy. Is all that stuff for her?"

Houjou nodded and found himself relieved of his bags in short order. As the last bag was being whisked from his hand he said, "Uh, yeah. Excuse me, are you a family member?"

Inuyasha stopped and bestowed a heart-stopping grin. "I'm her husband. Pleased to meet ya." The door slid shut with a snap in Houjou's astonished face.

"W-what?" he had time to mumble when the door popped back open.

"Almost forgot, in celebration of the wedding. Banzai." The door slid closed again and Houjou found himself holding a wedding favor. After a little while he went back down the shrine steps. The souvenir shop was closed and Higurashi-Jijii nowhere in sight. He was going to have to wait for answers.

Inuyasha took the bags to the kitchen and went through them rapidly. The fruit went into a large bowl and everything else was efficiently crushed and stuffed in the bottom of the garbage. He got a drink and was back to peacefully flipping channels when Kagome came down. She was decked out in one of the new outfits that he had picked and the results were good enough to cause him to reach out and grab her. Pulling her down to the floor.

"Ack!" She gave a token struggle and then relaxed into his lap. "I take it you like the outfit? I've got to admit, everything fits."

"Mmm," he rumbled running his hands over her body in a cursory manner. "Everything but-" She felt a couple of sharp tugs, "that." He held up her bra, neatly sliced in three pieces for easy removal.

Kagome inhaled a furious gasp, "Inuyasha! Sit! Sit! Sit!"

Inuyasha could not restrain a reflexive flinch but then leaned forward to look her in the eye, "Wench, you took those beads off me three days ago."

"Shit!"

"Look, these things are just stupid. You don't need 'em, I don't like 'em, and no one in the ads wear them unless they're selling 'em." He kissed her with lingering warmth as he molded a hand over a breast, circling the nipple with his thumb.

Kagome had the distinct feeling that she was loosing control of the situation but could not quite remember why she should care.

After several melting moments Inuyasha gently tweaked the breast he had been toying with and sighed, "Either we go now or we don't go. There's only so much of this just kissing you thing I can take."

Kagome blinked dazedly and said "O.K."

The hanyou helped her to her feet and disappeared for a moment, reappearing with the plastic trash bag. "See I'm good. I'm taking out the trash."

It just goes to show how off-balance she was feeling that she didn't find this statement suspicious. No, she trailed out after him all starry-eyed over how considerate Inuyasha was being.