InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Falling For the Baby Sitter ❯ Decide Between Dresses ( Chapter 25 )

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Kagome opened an eye looked up at the sunlight intruding on her sleep. She grunted slightly and attempted to roll over, only to find three kids surgically attached to her and a cat curled up in her hair, using it as a nest. She opened an eye and tilted her head to look at the cat, and arched a brow when she found it wasn't Buyo. At the moment, however, she was too tired to think about it and just grunted and closed her eyes.

The older girl simply groaned and gave up on trying to move with the four bodies pinning her down and let her body sink back into her awake but still sleeping state.

Inu Yasha rolled over and wrapped his arm over Kouga's waist and yawned as the sun crawled under his eye lids. "Good morning..." he mumbled as he buried his face into a pillow.

Kouga rolled over and gave Inu Yasha a good morning kiss. "Good morning Inu Yasha," Kouga said happily.

Inu Yasha cracked an eye open to look him. "What in the seven hells are you so happy about?" he asked as he sat up and stretched.

Kouga smirked and got out of bed. "You will see later tonight, I promise." He gave him an evil smile as he walked out of the room and downstairs.

Inu Yasha slowly followed him rubbing his eyes. He looked at the group in the floor a couple of times but decided not to ask and followed Kouga into the kitchen.

Kouga stood in the kitchen pouring two glasses of orange juice and giving one to Inu Yasha. "Here, drink this," Kouga said as he sat down next to Inu Yasha at the kitchen table. Inu Yasha took the juice and drank it in silence.

Mayu sat up and rubbed her eyes a little bit peering around the room. She yawned and crawled out of the crook of Kagome's arm that she had settled into. Still rubbing her eyes she padded into the kitchen in her oversized jammies and walked over to Inu Yasha, crawling up into his lap and curling up against him.

Inu Yasha sat there and blinked down at the small girl.

Kouga laughed quietly. "She really is quite taken with you, Inu Yasha."

She scratched her cheek and yawned, closing her eyes, nuzzling his chest. The seemingly chibi version of Kagome was sitting in his lap, her face still red and flushed with sleep.

Inu Yasha stood up slowly with the girl in his arms and he walked into the living room. "Kagome..." he whispered, "You lost one..." He knelt down and laid the small girl next to her mother and stood back up.

The one he had spoken to cracked an eye open. Her voice still shaky in the morning tumbled out of her dry lips. "Can you get the fuzzy maraca out of my hair?"

Inu Yasha rolled his eyes and picked the fur ball up from her hair and carried it to the kitchen.

Mayu opened her eyes and sat up scowling. She poked Shippou and Souta awake, prodding them with her little finger and motioned at the kitchen, "Let's go get Inu Yasha." She giggled tiredly and stood back up.

Shippou rolled over and hugged up to his blanket. Souta looked up at her. "It's too early." He yawned as he sat up.

She blinked and looked outside. "It's morning time, though."

Souta nodded. "But I'm hungry. Where's grandma?" He asked looking around.

As if summoned, Inu Yasha's mother came back into the house and kicked off her shoes, traveling to the kitchen, and smiling warmly at the site of the children surrounding Kagome. "Are you guys hungry?"

Shippou sat up and smiled seeing his grandma. Souta chirped, "Yeah I'm hungry grandma."

Inu Yasha looked back at his okaa. "Yeah, we are all starved where's breakfast?"

Kagome sat up slowly and yawned.

"Inu Yasha, there is this little thing I could have sworn I beat into you when you were younger. I believe its called manners, where did yours go?" his mother asked him irritably as she walked into the kitchen and pulled the biscuits out of the oven.

Inu Yasha shrugged. "Have no clue." Kouga lowered his head and let his hair fall around his face hiding the smile that was plastered on his face. "I'm just hungry and still half asleep this morning, sorry, okaasan."

His okaa rolled her eyes and pulled the gravy off of the stove and walked over to the fridge. "How you get by without me smacking you upside the head damn near every hour is beyond me, boy."

Kagome walked into the kitchen, her sleep shirt bunched up around her waist and her hair a complete rat's nest from sleeping and from lending it as a bed for the cat. "Need any help, Muuona?" Kagome asked yawning, standing a few inches away from Inu Yasha.

Inu Yasha looked at Kagome and burst into a wild fit of laughter. Kouga looked at him and started laughing as well. Inu Yasha wiped tears from his eyes. "I love your hair, Kagome..." he said in between fits of laughter.

Kagome growled and made a face at him. Hiking her shirt up more, exposing her red and black underwear, she stuck her butt in his face and promptly told him to kiss it.

Muuona's eyebrows shot up and she burst into laughter as well.

Inu Yasha made a face and turned his head. "No, thanks..." he grumbled.

Kouga smirked and swatted him on the leg. "Oh, I do believe Inu is embarrassed."

Inu Yasha just sat there red faced, not saying a word.

The tired teenager straightened up and walked over to the sink and washed her hands. Passing Inu Yasha on the way back to Muuona, she flung water at him then darted out of the line of fire, giggling, to help Muuona fix the waffles and toast.

Inu Yasha shivered from the water. "You're asking for it, Kagome..." Inu Yasha spat out as he glared at her.

"Ignore him, Kagome, he isn't a morning person," Kouga said as he reached out and tucked a stray string of hair in behind Inu Yasha's ear.

Kagome walked out of the kitchen, sashaying her hips and acting like a bubbly maid. "Why, yes, Lord Kouga, I don't see how I ever could have seen that before!" She set the heaping plates in front of the two men and beamed at Kouga, bending over and putting her hands on her knees so her butt was again pointed at Inu Yasha. "Can I get you anything else?" she asked, bouncing and swaying from side to side just to agitate the poor boy.

Kouga looked over at Inu Yasha. Inu Yasha's eye twitched as drew back his hand and hit her ass. "Oi, wench, get that out of my face," he said as he looked at her.

Kouga looked shocked as he scolded him, "Inu Yasha! Apologize!"

Kagome yelped shot up rubbing her butt which now had a red handprint on it. She wrinkled her nose and breathed out of her nose loudly. Turning on him, nostrils flaring she spied the look on his face, then forced herself to calm down and plopped into his lap, scooping up a forkful of biscuits and gravy. "My, my, Inu-kun, if you must whine like a child, I suppose I must hand-feed you like one as well," she said in a chirpy but reasonable voice, a dangerous look in her eye as she looked at him.

Inu Yasha glared at her. "Get out of my lap, now," he said through clenched teeth.

She stood up and walked back into the kitchen with Mayu and the boys just blinking at the interaction between all of them.

Souta looked at her and Inu Yasha. "Ohm they had a fight..."

Shippou nodded. "Fight, fight."

Mayu wrinkled her nose. "It looked like Inu Yasha wanted to touch her butt to me, and that's why he hit Mommy."

Souta and Shippou laughed as they watched him get up from the table and go upstairs.

The little girl blinked and crawled out of her seat and rushed up the stairs after Inu Yasha.

Inu Yasha walked into his bedroom and opened his closet, looking for half way decent clothes when he heard foot steps. "Who's there?" he asked.

Mayu peeked into the door way, a sad look on her face. "May-Chan's sorry, Puppy. She didn't mean to make you sad."

Inu Yasha looked at the girl and then back to his clothes. "Don't worry about it, Mayu, go back downstairs and eat with the boys, ok?"

She ignored him and walked over to his closet and stood, looking at it in the same position he was. After a while she whispered, "What are we looking for?"

"I'm getting clothes and you're going downstairs to eat," Inu Yasha stated as he pulled out a black dress shirt and some slacks of the same color. "Now, go and eat, Mayu."

She made a face at him. "You're a crab-head today. Bad Wolf did something to make you bad too, didn't he?"

Inu Yasha shook his head. "No, he didn't, he is good to me," he said with a smile. "Now, go downstairs so I can change out of my P.J.'s."

Mayu stood there for a minute, not convinced, but turned around and tramped down the stairs. When she reached her seat, she crawled up into it between Souta and her mother. All the time while she ate, she glowered at Kouga, sure that he had given Inu Yasha a 'bad mood pill' when he wasn't looking.

Kouga got from his seat. "Excuse me," he said as he walked out of the kitchen to Inu Yasha's room. He walked into see Inu Yasha changing into his slacks. He walked in and shut the door. "Hmmmm..." was all that he said to get Inu Yasha's attention.

The half dressed man laughed. "No, not now…later," he said as he fastened his belt and pulling the dress shirt on.

Kouga sat on the bed. "I'm happy just to sit here and watch."

Inu Yash buttoned up the shirt and pulled on a silver cross. "I know you too well, Kouga."

Kouga winked at him. "You know me and I know you." A sly smirk on his face, Kouga lay back on the bed. "Can't blame me for wanting to keep you close to me at all times."

Kagome was clearing away the plates a while later and stretching her arms when she heard Nazuna clamber into the house again.

"INU YASHA!!!!!!!!! MIROKU'S HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!" she yelled at the top of her lungs, trying to get her brother's attention.

Inu Yasha sighed. "OK, BE RIGHT DOWN!!!" he yelled back at his sister. Kouga jumped up and pulled off his pajamas. "Damn, he is early," Kouga muttered searching for some clean clothes.

Inu Yasha laughed. "No, you're just running behind."

Kouga pulled on a pair of faded jeans and a pair of sandals when they both heard a knock on the door. "Will you two stop fucking like rabbits and let's go?" Miroku grumbled through the door.

The kids rushed by the door as Nazuna darted past Miroku, a half dressed, dizzy Kagome in tow. Nazuna laughed and pushed her back onto her bed. "Ok, mall crawling attire.... hmmmm." The girl stood in front of her before snapping her fingers and throwing open the closet, blinding Kagome in a flash of pink.

Kagome looked warily at the clothes that Nazuna was sifting through. "Umm... Nazuna... I appreciate this, really, but the last time I wore all pink, I wound looking like a Pepto-Bismol bottle... do you have anything that isn't pink?"

Nazuna laughed and nodded. "Of course! My ex-boyfriend hated that I wore all pink, so he always bought me clothes of other colors, trying to say they were gifts from his heart, when they were really gifts to himself to stall the headaches he got from staring at my clothes."

Nazuna dug around and found a pair of low-riding black dress pants that had chains linked around the waist, draping off of the hips, and flared bottoms. Kagome smiled in relief and took the pants gladly and went over to the closet with her to pick out a shirt and shoes.

Moments later, Kagome was pushed out of the room with her hair twisted up and held in a messy bun by three silver combs and was wearing the aforementioned pants, black ankle boots, and a red, off the shoulder sweater with a black bra-tank underneath. Nazuna gave her a thumbs up as she walked down the hall.

Kouga, Miroku, and Inu Yasha stood down stairs. Miroku was rubbing his head from the beating Kouga gave him.

"I don't care if the door's closed; that means don't come in!" Kouga shot out at Miroku as he pulled on one of Inu Yasha's old AC/DC shirts.

Inu Yasha looked up at the girls. "Are we ready to go?"

They both nodded and rushed down the stairs. Nazuna, herself was wearing a pink tank-top, white pants, and pink tennis shoes. Kagome shook her head, trying to stop seeing pink and smiled at Miroku. "Hey, you!"

"Hey, Kagome," Miroku said as he straightened out his black tank top. Kouga and Inu Yasha walked out the front door and towards the car. "Well, my ladies, I think we need to be on our way," Miroku said with a smile as he motioned for them to go first.

Kagome hugged Mayu good bye and waved as she hopped out the door and down the stairs of the porch, Nazuna doing much of the same.

Miroku followed them out shutting the door behind them. Kouga was sitting in the driver's seat and Inu Yasha was in the front passenger's seat. Miroku ran towards the car. "Well, lucky me, I get to sit with the girls."

Kagome grunted. "Yea, lucky me, I get to be squashed in the middle." Nazuna popped on her headphones and leaned her head back, listening to her music.

"Its ok I will sit in the middle," Miroku stated with a sly grin. Inu Yasha and Kouga just looked at each other; both knowing what was going to happen.

She slid out and let him climb into the middle, then hopped back in, leaning her head back and closing her eyes.

Kouga started the car and backed out of the drive. Inu Yasha yawned and flipped on the radio while Miroku sat in the backseat with his arms across both girls' shoulders.

"Now, when we get to the mall, we are going to Hot Topic first," Inu Yasha said as he rolled down the car window. "I want to see if they have anything new in."

Nazuna ignored him and stared out the window at the passing scenery and bopping her head to the music, paying Miroku no mind. Kagome twitched a bit and jabbed Miroku in the side. "Must you act like you're a pimp and we're your whores?" she grumbled irritably.

Miroku looked hurt, "Why, I am offended that you apply that term to me, Kagome." He removed his arm from around her shoulders but left the other one around Nazuna.

"Hey, kids, no fighting back there," Inu Yasha replied to the soon to be argument in the backseat, "Or I will make Kouga turn around right now, and go back home."

Miroku snorted. "Yes, Daddy."

Inu Yasha growled. "I'll show you Daddy, damn it!" He reached over the seat and hit him on the head.

Kagome growled as Miroku's head cracked against hers, and rubbed her skull. "Dammit, Inu Yasha," she grumbled, still seeing stars, "First my ass, now my head; what's next, are you going to play the bongos on my tits?"

Kouga punched the gas at her statement and started driving like a bat out of hell. "Kagome, shut up." Inu Yasha muttered as he looked out his window.

Miroku lay in the back seat, semi-conscious. "Look at the little birdies, Mommy," Miroku said as he pointed up at nothing.

Kagome gripped the handle above her door and her eyebrows shot up, and then blinked, seeing Kouga's face in the review mirror. Her gaze flicked across Inu Yasha's as well and a soft, "Oh..." came from her lips.

"Gomen," she whispered and looked out the window.

Kouga drove down the interstate looking for the exit to the mall. "Inu, what's that exit again?"

Inu Yasha licked his lips. "It's exit 366, and then after you get to the main highway, take a right, and go straight, and the mall is on the right."

Kouga nodded. "Alright."

Miroku's head nodded forward and back from falling asleep.

Nazuna opened her eyes and saw how fast they were speeding. She pulled her head phones down, "Where's the fire?"

Kagome shook her head slightly, and sighed checking on Miroku, pulling him towards her chest so she could inspect his head.

Kouga fake smiled. "There's no fire, I just need to get out of this car and stretch my legs."

Inu Yasha looked over at him with a curious expression.

Miroku slept peacefully in Kagome's arms.

"He normally falls asleep like that, Kagome, don't worry about him, he is fine," Kouga said as he looked at her through the rearview mirror.

She didn't meet his eyes and stroked Miroku's hair a bit, making sure he was comfortable.

Nazuna arched a brow around at the people in the car, then shook her head and sat back with her headphones.

Kouga pulled into the mall parking lot. "We're here," he said as he parked the car. Inu Yasha slowly exited the car and closed the door as he looked up at the sky. Miroku sat up with a shot. "Mall...food court...anime...."

Kagome tumbled out of the car as fast as she could. Nazuna got out, spotted some of her friends, and bolted towards them, almost forgetting that they were there. The girl left behind arched a brow and smoothed her pants, then walked up towards the doors of the mall, not wanting to run into a confrontation with Kouga.

Miroku bounded towards the doors like a kid just let out of school for summer break.

Kouga and Inu Yasha walked slowly inside and looked around at all the people, mainly teenagers.

"Damn, all the teeny boppers are out today," Inu Yasha said with disgust.

Kouga laughed. "Yes, it is a Saturday, Inu."

Kagome laughed as Miroku rushed past her and shook her head. She looked over her shoulder at the two guys, and a strange look crossed her face. Looking forward again, she bolted after Miroku, catching up with him in a brief amount of time, and hopping onto his back. "Gimme a piggy back!!"

Miroku hooked his arms under her knees. "As my lady wishes." He smiled as he walked through the mall with her on his back.

She laughed and linked her arms around his neck, and rested her chin on his shoulder, people watching her as she rode him through the mall.

Kouga and Inu Yasha walked into Hot Topic and started looking around. Kouga spotted a leather collar and some new finger armor right off the bat while Inu Yasha looked at some jeans.

Kagome pulled on Miroku's hair a bit. "You aren't wearing it in a ponytail, today," she observed as he headed into Hot Topic.

Miroku nodded. "I decided to let stay down today." He walked into Hot Topic and started looking around.

Kagome's eyes lit on a pair arm bands that were connected in the back with criss-crossing chains. Her eyes went sparkly and she started making monkey noises and pointing at it excitedly.

Miroku walked over to where she pointed to. "What is it that you see?" he asked. Inu Yasha was at the register getting what he wanted paid for as Kouga leaned against the counter, waiting on him.

She leaned over his shoulder and plucked it off of the shelf and showed it to him. "Isn't that the most sexually convenient piece of jewelry you have ever seen???" she asked.

Miroku laughed. "If you say so, Kagome."

Inu Yasha and Kouga walked past them. "Meet you guys at the food court," Inu Yasha said as they left the store.

Kagome waved half heartedly and poked the back of Miroku's head. "Ok, time for some serious shopping. I need an outfit for the thing tonight, and since you are a guy who likes to help women in distress, you are the perfect guy to help me!" she whispered excitedly.

He laughed. "Alright, what do you have in mind, Kagome?"

She tapped a finger to her lips. "Gothic, vampiric, temptress," she decided. "But not slutty." She frowned a bit. "Hmm... something that gets guys drooling, but also not something that I'm going to fall out of if I move the wrong way."

He walked over to where the dresses were. "Well, they have a small selection of dresses, or you could put an outfit together."

She snooped around the clothes, poking and prodding the outfits. She blinked and looked around a bit, then looked back up at Miroku. "Ermmm... red or black?"

"Black would be best," Miroku stated as he looked a black dress shirt.

Nodding again, she poked around some stuff, before a dress caught her eyes. Her reaction to it was similar to the one she had to the armbands and she "Yehaw!"ed Miroku over to it. Hopping off of his back, she spun around. The bottom layer of the dress was a black leather mini dress, but it had blood red lace draping off of the hips, and coming up in a V on the front and back. The sleeves were off the shoulder fishnets, and they slunk down to a ring that she would slip on her middle finger. Her eyes danced when she looked up at him, the rest of the red lace brushing the floor in the back of it. "Yes? No?"

Miroku rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, it's for Soryo. He is what they call a master vampire because he has been in the coven so long." He flipped through some more shirts. "It's a party accepting new fledglings into the coven and he is announcing to the rest of the coven that he is taking Ryo as his life mate." He grabbed a dark purple shirt off the rack and threw it over his arm. "So, that means tonight Inu will be accepted into the coven."

Kagome frowned slightly. "Oh." She set the dress down and leaned against the table, and studied the floor quietly, thoughts rushing through her brain.

He looked at her. "What's wrong?"

She folded her arms and shook her head slightly. "I don't know, it just confuses me, really, I guess..." she trailed off quietly. She looked up at the rack. Thumbing through the hangers, she found a elegant black dress that swept the floor, and had a shallow scoop in the neck. The long, tissue sleeves draped down a ways, but nothing too extravagant. She slapped a smile on her face and picked out the dress. "Ok, you ready to go?"

Miroku nodded with a confused look o his face as he walked up to the counter to pay for his things.

Casting a look back at the dress she had been looking at before, she followed him, and paid for her things, then brushed past him to walk quietly to the food court, simply by following her nose.

Miroku followed her as his eyes scanned the food court area looking for Inu Yasha and Kouga. "They have to be around the Japanese restaurant; that's where Inu eats when he comes here."

She nodded, and headed over to the restaurant, and spotted the two guys. She headed over and plopped down in a seat, scooting it as far back from them as she could with out making it look too obvious.

Miroku sat down next to her and glanced at the guys who were eating. "Well, thanks for waiting on us."

Inu Yasha swallowed the mouthful of food he had and shot Miroku a look. "Hey, I didn't eat breakfast this morning. So shut up."

Kagome sat back and watched the milling people, her eyes drifting over the merchandise some people were selling.

Inu Yasha threw a fortune cookie at Kagome's head. "What's with you?"

Closing her eyes, a vein throbbed in her temple as she picked cookie pieces out of her hair, remaining silent.

Inu Yasha looked at her. "Kagome, I'm talking to you."

Kouga continued to eat, remaining silent as he watched the two.

Her eyes met Inu Yasha's for a moment. "I know." After she spoke quietly, she looked away again, a mother with four or five children dancing around catching her eye.

The younger agitated man got up and grabbed his tray, walking over, and throwing the rest of his food in the trash before he walked off into the crowd.

Kagome sighed and stood up, walking in an opposite direction, soon being swallowed up by the throng of people.