InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Engaging Enemies ❯ Chapter 4 Moving In? ( Chapter 4 )

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Well, here's the next chapter of EE. I-Ku-Yo!

 

Chapter 4 Moving In?

 

"Kagome? You've been pretty quiet lately. Something wrong? Kagome?"

 

"Huh? What did you say, Houjou?"

 

"I said you've been really quiet. Are you not feeling well?"

 

"No, I'm okay. I've just been upset over something. I…" Kagome sighed. She looked out the window of Wacdnald's. She had asked Houjou to meet her after school a week after her grandfather and Kanashii told her she was engaged with Inuyasha. She had yet to tell Houjou, afraid of how he would take it.

 

"NO WAY!!!" Ayame, Eda, Rin, Sango, and Yuka said after Kagome confessed what her evil grandfather and friend said to her and her fiancée.

 

"You've gotta be kidding me," Yuka said.

 

"You were engaged since birth?" Rin asked.

 

"How come you didn't tell us you were supposed to marry Inuyasha?" Ayame demanded.

 

"I told you, I was just told randomly two days ago that I was supposed to marry the mutt."

 

"Is that why you hate him so much?" questioned Sango.

 

"If you were already engaged, then why did your mom let you go out with guys?" Eda inquired.

 

"I feel happy for you, Kagome-chan." Everyone looked at Ayumi. FYI, next to Rin, she was one of the smartest girls in their class, but she wasn't always on the bright side, always being something of a ditz. "Wha-What? Was it something I said? Why are you all looking at me like that?"

 

Everyone sighed as Ayumi was clueless to the obvious. "You know you're gonna have to tell Houjou, don't you?" Yuka asked.

 

"Yeah," agreed Rin. "How are you gonna tell him?"

 

Kagome moaned. "That's the thing. I don't know how I'm gonna let him off without hurting him too much."

 

She sighed. Kagome had summoned enough courage to ask Houjou to meet with her. Now, all she had to do was summon some more so she could tell him. She sighed again. Who was she kidding? She might as well have said that she didn't want him to know, but she had to tell him eventually. "Houjou…" She didn't know how to start.

 

"Kagome, is something wrong? You don't seem to be too happy. Are you not having fun?"

 

"No, don't get the wrong idea or anything. There's just something that I gotta tell you."

 

"Oh, are you sure? Maybe you're just feeling a little under the weather."

 

Kagome tried to smile. "I'm sure, Houjou. It's just… I… I'm…"

 

"Yes?"

 

"I'm…glad to have someone like you to be with me, especially with all the stress that I've been going through lately with school and other things."

 

"Oh. Yeah, Yuka told me all about your situation with Inuyasha."

 

"She-She did?"

 

"Yeah, she said that Inuyasha and Kikyou were in all of your classes and they were annoying you nonstop."

 

"That's all she told you?"

 

"Yeah. Was there something else I was supposed to know?"

 

"No." `Not yet, anyway,' she thought to herself.

 

Houjou grabbed her hands. "I understand how you feel right now and I'm here to help if you ever need any."

 

"Domo. Houjou, do you think you could walk me to my house? I'm feeling kinda tired."

 

"Sure. Anything." After paying the bill, Houjou and Kagome walked to Higurashi shrine and Kagome left Houjou at the foot of the steps. She started climbing after she waved Houjou goodbye when she turned back around and gave Houjou a hug.

 

"Domo arigatou, for everything," She whispered sadly.

 

Houjou was confused but acknowledged the thanks. "You're welcome, Kagome."

 

She forcefully brought herself back and smiled painfully at him before running up the steps two at a time.

 

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"You couldn't tell him?"

 

"No, I didn't want to hurt his feelings. What else am I suppose to do?"

 

"Well, I can't help you too much there except say that you gotta eventually tell him before he finds out on his own. If he does, then he might be hurt worse than if you had just told him in the first place."

 

"I know. I should have just told him right then and there but he's like a puppy dog. So eager and innocent and adorable but so fragile as well."

 

"Well, in any case, you ought to tell him as soon as you can before something bad arises from it."

 

"Okay, Sango. But could you make sure the others don't blurt out anything to him? It's hard enough as it is."

 

"Sure. Gotta go. Talk to you later."

 

"Bye."

 

Kagome hung up the phone and sprawled herself across her bed. `How am I gonna tell Houjou? And what if he gets the wrong idea and thinks I'm dumping him? But, basically, I am dumping him. I hate my life.'

 

"Kagome! I need you to come down. It's important!" called her mother.

 

"Coming!"

 

Kagome ran down the stairs and into the kitchen. "What is it, Mama?"

 

Mrs. Higurashi was pacing the floor madly, looking very worried. "Kagome, dear, it's Aunt Reika. She's very sick and the doctors say that it could be very serious. Your uncle Suichi can't make it because he's in India and there isn't going to be another flight from India to Osaka for another two weeks. The doctors called saying that it's very urgent that one of Reika's relatives be there. I have to leave tomorrow night at the latest and your grandfather said he'd come with me."

 

"How long are you gonna be gone?"

 

"I don't know exactly, hopefully until she's feeling better to go home."

 

"Don't worry, Mama. Souta and I will keep the house and the shrine in good shape while you two are gone."

 

"That's the thing, dear. You and Souta are gonna have to stay at someone else's house while we're gone. Souta is gonna stay with his friends, Taru and Suikichi. You're staying at the Kanashii's."

 

Kagome almost choked on the grape soda she was drinking. "WHAT?!!! I have to stay with whom?!"

 

"You heard me. You'll have to stay with Inuyasha until I get back."

 

"Why can't me and Souta stay here at our house? Don't you trust us enough to not tear the place down?"

 

"It's not that I don't trust you two staying here at the shrine. There's just too much for only you two to do here while managing school. And I'm also worried that someone might try to break in and hurt one of you two without anyone else knowing."

 

"Well, why did it have to be Inuyasha's house for me to stay at? I could have asked Sango or someone else to stay with."

 

"I called Sango's mother earlier and she said she wouldn't be able to since one of Sango's cousins along with her one of her aunts and uncles are coming to stay with her and things were pretty hectic trying to prepare for their arrival. Ayame's mother has enough problems dealing with six other children so she has her hands full. Rin's mom doesn't have enough room for you unless you want to sleep on the couch of the living room. She said her whole apartment is filled with paintings and glass sculptures."

 

"So, it's not enough that I have to marry him? You now want me to live with him while I still have some freedom and liberty away from him?!"

 

"Don't think of it like that. Think of it as getting to know your future husband. You two might even learn to like each other a little more than how you two used to."

 

"Like that'll ever happen," Kagome mumbled.

 

"Your brother's already packed so you need to go ahead and do that right now. Pack enough for at least three weeks."

 

"Whatever." Kagome went back up the stairs very slowly and when she got to her room, she plopped on her bed, grabbed her pillow, buried her head in it, and screamed, "I hate my life!"

 

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Kagome parked her car in the driveway and took out her bags. She walked along the pavement leading to the front doors and rung the doorbell. When the door opened, she saw Sesshoumaru standing by the front room peculiarly as his grandmother greeted her.

 

"Hello, child. We're happy to have you over despite what happened last time."

 

"Domo. I'm glad you've allowed me to stay here in your humble abode. I appreciate it very much." Kagome tried to place on a very convincing smile but knew Sesshoumaru would see right through it. The old woman fell for it though.

 

"Right, right. Come this way and I'll have Inuyasha take your bags."

 

"No, that's okay. I've got them."

 

"Feh, it's you're damn back."

 

Kagome shot Inuyasha a bad look as he appeared by the staircase, but Old Lady Kanashii spoke before she could retort. "Be silent, my son. That is no way to talk to a young woman, especially you're future bride."

 

"I'll say this again, I'm not marrying that bitch and there's nothing you can do to make me. You already got me to agree to let her stay, enough as it is. But I still ain't marrying the wench, no matter what you say or do."

 

"Stop your nonsense and show Kagome to her room before I decide to show you to the door to the outside." Kagome was about to reach into one of her bags but decided not to as the old woman knew how to take care of this as Inuyasha began to walk up the stairs.

 

"Come on, wench." Kagome bore daggers into his back as she followed him up the stairs and around the corner to the hallway. They walked all the way towards the middle of the hallway and came across two doors, one on the opposite wall of the other. Inuyasha turned back to Kagome. "Here's your damn room, wench."

 

Kagome opened one of the doors and saw a big, black darkness. She felt for the light switch and turned it on. What she saw pissed her off. He had shown her to a room with a sink, toilet, bathtub, and shower cubicle.

 

She turned around to face Inuyasha and whacked him hard on his head. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU TAKE ME FOR?!!!" she yelled.

 

"What the fuck?! THAT'S NOT YOUR ROOM!!! THIS IS THE BATHROOM, IDIOT!!! THAT IS YOUR ROOM, GENIUS!!!" he yelled while pointing to the other door.

 

"Well, why didn't you say so?!" Kagome yelled back, trying to hide her embarrassment.

 

"I woulda thought you figured out that by yourself, bitch."

 

Kagome was finally fed up with this half-breed talking bad about her. She whipped out a small piece of paper with some writing on it. "Osuwari!" she yelled and the paper glowed before Inuyasha went crashing to the floor. "I'm tired of you bad-mouthing me and calling me a bitch. Say it again and I'll make sure you'll pay."

 

"What the hell?! What did you just do to me, bitch?!"

 

"Osuwari! It's an incantation that I can control. Now I dare you to say bitch again and you'll go flying out the window this time."

 

"Why you bitchy-ass, mother-…"

 

"OSUWARI!!!" Sure enough, Inuyasha levitated in the air for half a second before flying out the open window in the bathroom. There was a loud thud outside a second later insuring Kagome that Inuyasha had hit the large tree in the back yard. Kagome placed the paper back in her bag and walked into her room.

 

Sesshoumaru walked up to Inuyasha outside looking amused. "It seems, dear little brother, that you have met your match. Might I interest you in some advice?"

 

"Fuck off, Sesshoumaru," Inuyasha mumbled into the ground.

 

"I will continue anyway. Best it be wise for you to not anger a miko as powerful as Kagome or you may end up worse than what you can imagine." With that, Sesshoumaru walked off to the door as Inuyasha cursed him quietly.

 

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"Kagome, was it just me, or did I see Inuyasha fly out a window to crash into a tree in his backyard yesterday?" Rin asked.

 

"Yeah, that was him alright. I threw him out the window," Kagome said nonchalantly as she started to twirl a celery stick in her dressing.

 

"Why and how did you do it? Was it because you had to move in with him for a while or just because he ticked you off again?"

 

"Both; watch this and you'll see how he suddenly became a bird." Kagome searched the school yard and found Inuyasha inside the building, conveniently by an open window. She pulled out the incantation talisman from her backpack and said, "Osuwari."

 

Rin and Ayame watched amazed as Inuyasha suddenly glowed simultaneously like the talisman's pulse of light and flew all the way from the window to a tree across the grounds. "COOOOLL!!!" Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi yelled together as Inuyasha smashed faced first into the big oak.

 

"How did you do that, Kagome?" Sango asked.

 

"It's an incantation in which I made two nights ago. I knew I was gonna have some problems with him so I made this little talisman which is really much like a spirit ward that priests use to seal off evil demons and apparitions. It allows me to control Inuyasha in which I can make him smash to the floor or crash into anything of my choosing. I just have to say the word that's written on here and put some dog demon's name on here. Really it's a submission spell."

 

"Oh, oh, Kagome-chan, can you make one for me so that I can bring my Sesshy to me whenever I want."

 

"Uh, sorry Rin, but only a priest, priestess, or anybody who holds a great sum of spiritual power can create and use one."

 

Rin made a pouty face and crossed her arms. Ayame laughed at her. "Ha, ha, Rin. You still can't bring Sesshoumaru to his knees for you."

 

"Uh, guys, I think we should run for it. Inuyasha looks like he's ready to kill off someone." Sango pointed at the dog demon, which was searching for Kagome and spotted her but was held off by Miroku and Shippou.

 

"RUN!!!" They all yelled as they dashed for the safety of the school walls.

 

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"Uh, Kagome, can I talk to you for a second?" Houjou asked as he reached Kagome before she got to her car.

 

"Huh, oh, hi, Houjou. Sure."

 

"Kagome, is it true that you've been engaged to Inuyasha?"

 

Kagome froze right at her spot. She turned around to see Houjou looking sad and disappointed. "Wh-Who told you that?"

 

"Kikyou. I tried to call you because I didn't believe it and no one answered yesterday. I decided to walk over to your house and that's when I saw you walk from your car to Inuyasha's house with bags. Please tell me it's not true."

 

Kagome looked away from his pain-hurting eyes, not able to look him in the eye to tell him the truth. "Gomen nasai, Houjou, but yes, I am engaged to him. You see my grandfather and his grandmother arranged for us to marry when I was born, and I was just told this last week. It's not look I want to but we're being forced to. I tried to tell you the other day, but I didn't know how to tell you and didn't want to hurt your feelings. I'm so sorry."

 

"Why didn't you tell me, though? It would have been better if you had told me sooner instead of me finding out from someone else."

 

"I told you. I tried but I couldn't go through with it. I just didn't want to hurt your feelings."

 

"Then why are you letting your parents tell you who to marry?"

 

"They said they couldn't break a commitment like that. It goes again our religion if we oppose what was agreed upon the seal of our faith. You know how much I hate Inuyasha and would do anything to not have to marry him, but there's nothing I can do. Houjou, please understand. I never meant for you to find out about this until I was ready for you to hear it. Can we still be friends?" Kagome looked up, pleading Houjou with her eyes to forgive her.

 

"I-I don't know, Kagome. This is something pretty big. I'm not sure what to do right now. I'll have to think over this for a while." Houjou turned around to walk away.

 

"Houjou, wait!"

 

"Goodbye, Kagome."

 

Kagome's eyes filled with tears as she watched Houjou walk away. `I'm sorry, Houjou. I truly am.'

 

Sorry, but gotta leave ya there for this week. You probably won't get another chapter until next Monday since I'm gonna be working on Say Goodbye, sequel to Lost Memories, and maybeanother fanfic. It depends if I'm not too tired and lazy and bitchy. Hehe.

 

Saturday, I saw R.O.D. (Read or Die) the movie on adult swim. It was the coolest movie that I've ever seen in which I decided to watch not because of the TV show or manga, if there is one. Highly doubt it. Yomiko and Nancy had the coolest powers, though I found the giant paper plane to be kinda weird and strange and weird and strange and… but the movie was cool. I just didn't like the part when Nancy died at the end because she decided that she should die with the one guy she loved though she was never returned with the love that she wanted. My best friend that said she would like for me to help her destroy the creators of Cowboy Bebop and Wolf's Rain was convinced that they are the same creators who created ROD. The very end when Yomiko met another Nancy clone, I'm guessing, was cute because she said that she once knew her big sister and were friends and once helped save the world. The beginning was good too because it really showed how much Yomiko aka The Paper loved to read. Her whole apartment was filled with books, stacks of book, pile of books, boxes of books, anything with books for goodness sake! But good movie, good movie indeed. Now I'm just waiting for Ghost in the Shell and Fullmetal Alchemist to show and for new Inuyasha episodes on December 22, 2004.

 

Well, gotta go wash dishes. Bye bye!

 

(This is the best pie…in the history of pie. -Beast Boy -Teen Titans)