InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Falling for the Baby Sitter ❯ Falling into the Morning Routine ( Chapter 4 )

<Three days later, Early in the morning>

Kagome smiled at the sound of pattering feet heading down the hall past her room and into Inu Yasha's. She knew by now that it was at least eight o'clock in the morning if they were already awake. She kept her eyes clothes and reached her arms over her head and stretched. It was so peaceful here. It was as if she never truly existed until she'd moved into this house with this family. She cracked one eye and glanced at the clock. 7:30.

"Man... I swear those kids get up earlier and earlier everyday," she grunted and flung back her comforter. She shook her head in disbelief and rolled out of bed, pulling on her slippers, not even bothering to change out of her drunken monkey pants and black cami that she had slept in and she stumbled towards the door, scratching her stomach and stretching in a rather unladylike manner.

Inu Yasha was still laying in bed, his braided hair was hanging from the bed and one of the cats that had gotten locked in his room last night sat below the bed, batting at the loose tassel, keeping him half awake for the past 3 hours. So, when the door opened and the patter of footsteps sounded on the carpet his eyes immediately creaked open in an attempt for self preservation.

"Souta...." he groaned his voice cracking with sleep. "What do you want?"

Souta bounced on the bed and then bounced onto his back which knocked the breath out of him. Inu Yasha sucked in shallow breaths of air and restrained himself from shooting a glare at Souta. "Yash, I want something to drink," the little boy said with the cutest pout he could manage.

Inu Yasha groaned. "Why didn't you ask Kags to get you some? That's what I'm paying her for."

Souta shrugged, "I don't know.....get me some juice, Yash ...please?" Souta pouted till Inu Yasha couldn't take the guilt anymore and he drug his ass out of bed to stumbled out of the bedroom.

Kagome came out of her bedroom just as Inu Yasha and Souta were coming down the hall, and ran right into the taller man, "Oompfh!" she exclaimed as she fell back onto her rump, "Gomen ne! I-I didn't mean to run into you!" She rubbed her face where she'd run into him. She could almost swear his arms were made from solid stone. Most of the time she thought this was a wonderful, except in times like these. The narrow hallway was hard enough to navigate without her chronic clumsiness that seemed to plague her.

Inu Yasha rubbed his eyes and yawned smirking a little bit at the position Kagome had fallen into with her hair thrown every which way. "Sorry, I didn't see you either," he mumbled through his yawn and he tugged at his gray sweat pants, stepping over her. "I would help you up, but I have a mission to get juice, and it takes priority." He went to the fridge and opened it to look for some juice for the monster that ate his sleep.

She watched his back slightly irked, but stood up anyway. Just as she got to her feet, Shippou came pelting out of his room stark naked, and ran right into her leg, making her topple over again, knocking her head on the wall. She yelped more in surprise than in pain, until she realized that her head was now pounding in a rage. She looked up to see a very nude child sitting in front of her giggling.

Inu Yasha handed Souta his juice when he noticed Shippou's naked state. "Oh shit, there he goes again.....Kags, put some clothes on the nudist, will ya?"

She growled at the man in the kitchen trying to bite back her early morning bitchiness. "Yea I'm fine, thanks for asking," she muttered as she carefully scooped Shippou up into her arms and took him back into his room dragging out some black shorts and a Pikachu t-shirt.

Inu Yasha rolled his eyes as he sat down at his computer and pulled out his lighter and his pack. "I don't remember asking..." he grumbled back. He lit a cigarette and yawned, then took his first pull off of the nicotine that morning.

Kagome walked out of the room just in time to hear his mutterings, and her eyebrow started twitching, in irritation as her last restrains on her control snapped. She growled under her breath, and walked over to sit Shippou in his highchair, getting him some Cocoa puffs and a sippy-cup of apple juice. "Hence the balatant sarcasm," she snarled at him.

He grumbled under his breath mocking her, used to this after the first day. He wasn't exactly a morning person either by any means. "Yes, ma'am. I will make a mental note of that …not." He took another draw off his cigarette and he turned on some music in an attempt to drown out the coming tirade.

She suppressed the urge to flip him off and string a bunch of curses out him, and instead looked over to Souta. "Ok, big guy, what do you want for breakfast?" She asked through a yawn.

Inu Yasha sat there and put his headphones on, ignoring the psycho nanny. He turned the music up as loud as he could stand while he surfed the net.

Souta looked up from the TV he had been zoning out in front of, suddenly realizing she was talking about food, and his eyes lit up. "Ummm…I want ...I want ...ummm ...pancakes and more juice!" He walked over to the table and took a seat.

Kagome laughed softly, feeling her patience slowly return as she watched Shippou throw Cocoa puffs at the cat rather than eating them. "Ok kid, coming right up," she said and turned around to rustle through the cabinets for the proper ingredients. A rather insulting song by Bowling For Soup came on called the Bitch Song came on, and Inu switched the headphones over to the main speakers, and looked at Kagome pointedly. She picked up a sizable apple from the fruit basket and weighed it in her hand for a moment. When he turned back to the computer, never suspecting a thing, she chucked it at Inu Yasha, and watched it smack him in the chest before falling into his lap. "Hey! Ye ol' deaf one! How about you eat a healthy breakfast for once?" She yelled at him so he could hear her over the music, and went about fixing Souta's pancakes.

He looked at the apple in his lap and grunted. "Bite me," he grumbled as he picked up the apple and took a bite pointedly. How far could he push this girl before she snapped seriously?

Kagome looked over at him suddenly and put down the spatula. She walked over to him, causing him to roll his chair back in alarm. He threw his arm up to protect himself as he was sure she was going to smack him, but she just caught his arm and raised it to her mouth glared at him over the top of it. "Still want me to bite you?"

He scowled at her, trying to look as menacing as possible. This woman needed to understand who exactly owned this house. “Hell no, I don't want you to bite me, cause personally, I don't know where you have been," he smirked rakishly at her knowing damn good and well she was going to be beyond pissed.

Her eyes narrowed and she had to remind herself he didn't' quite understand how grave that comment might be, so when she went to bite his arm anyway, and dug her teeth in, she actually stopped one layer of skin away from drawing blood.

He glared down at the blood welling just under a layer of skin on his arm and he snapped more at the insult than the injury from it. "BITCH ....who in the hell do you think you are, biting the fuck out of me like that?!" He stood up and got into her face, the suddenness of his actions knocking his chair back. "You are really getting on my last fucking nerve,” he snarled at her his eyes flashing, red rimmed from the lack of sleep.

She stared at him right in the eye until he understood completely that she was absolutely not frightened of him, or at the very least she was not going to back down and she reached up to yank on his ear and tug him into the kitchen where she forced him to sit. She sat some food in front of him and slammed a mug in down with it and poured him some coffee, sloshing some over the sides and getting her fingers. She didn't let go and bit back the pain trying to focus on that more than the anger that threatened Inu Yasha's very life right now. She released the coffee cup with trembling hands and put the coffee pot back and then shoveled another pancake onto Souta's plate.

She looked up to see Inu Yasha still glaring daggers at her, but now a look of barely restrained concern made him much less threatening. She turned her eyes away and hid her hand behind her back. “If you don't hurry and eat, you are going to have to go to work in your pajamas." She shook her head in exasperation as the dawning of realization crested over his face. She turned back to the fridge, getting Shippou some more juice.

His eyes darted to the clock and he felt himself begin to panic. "Oh shit…" He swallowed a pancake whole and washed it down with his scalding cup of coffee and then ran to his room to get changed before Kouga got here to pick him up.

Kagome looked over at Shippou who was giggling and hiding his face behind his cup, and then she looked at Souta who was making a sticky mess with his pancakes, "He's crazy, ne?"

The man in question ran out in a pair of faded jeans and a black tank top frantically searching for his shoes, turning over furniture and animals alike. "If I'm crazy, then woman, you're a damn psycho!" He got down on his hands and knees looking under the couch desperately.

She looked over at his cyclone of destruction and growled. "They are by the door! Don't forget your wallet, either,” Kagome chided and she shook her head in disbelief that he hadn't made the huge mess on purpose. She sat down with the boys and sipped her coffee looking at her homework, choosing to ignore his mess for the moment.

He growled, unsatisfied with her ignoring his antics, but he was running late, and it was all he could do to rush out the door. He got up and looked by the door, finding his shoes instantly. Inu Yasha grumbled a thank you as he shoved his feet into them and double checked to make sure his wallet chain was fastened to his belt.

Kagome yawned and looked up, covering her mouth, tears springing to her eyes. "You're welcome. Keys?" She prodded him verbally as she looked over at him and pointed to the counter where they lay by the door.

He scowled and grabbed the keys, to hide the small smile that threatened to break his crappy mood. "Thanks…" He shoved them into his pocket and then grabbed his cell phone from off the couch and double checked his reflection in the screen door, causing Kagome to giggle. "Ok, do you need anything before I go?" he asked, ignoring her snickering.

Kagome looked up at him and shook her head, smiling at him. "But don't forget I have to go into the school tonight, so please try to be home on time."

Inu Yasha sighed, cancelling his impromptu plans with Kouga after work. "What time do I need to be back?" He looked down at his watch making a note of the time.

She looked through her assignment notebook, and eyed him, "Well, I think I can stay until 11:00, but it'd be nice if I could get there on time tonight."

He nodded and tore his eyes from her face that was collecting the morning's sun rays before the strange welling in his chest could be recognized and named. "Call me on the cell and remind me so I don't forget." He shot a look at Shippou and Souta, "And you two runts, don't kill, maim, or torture anything," he opened the door and stepped out, pausing for a moment in the doorway. "Unless it's Kags." He bolted down the stairs and into Kouga's waiting car before Kagome could retort.