InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Falling For the Baby Sitter ❯ Drunk Spaghetti ( Chapter 38 )

"Inu Yasha?" Kagome asked softly, peeking around the door.

Inu Yasha lay on his bed with his back to the door. "What is it?"

She stepped carefully into the room and closed the door gently behind her. "Will you please look at me?"

He shook his head. "Just tell me what you want." He quickly wiped tears away from his eyes.

She sighed and looked down at the ground. "I'm sorry I fight with you so much and tease you as much as I do..." she murmured.

He sighed. "I'm sorry, too, but right now, I just want to be alone. Do you think you can watch the kids today?"

Kagome paused, and then nodded, stepping back out of the room and closing the door without making a sound, forgetting he couldn't see her.

Inu Yasha reached under the bed and pulled out a bottle of Bacardi.

"Time to kill the pain," he pulled off the cap and took a big gulp and then lay back on the bed with the bottle in his hand.

Heturned on his CD player and listened to 'Going Under' as he took another gulp of alcohol.

Inu Yasha turned up the bottle and finished it off and the collapsed back onto the bed with the empty bottle in his hand, staring at the ceiling.

He lay on the bed, thoroughly stewed to the gills. His eyes only half open; he reached up and touched his nose, not feeling it at all. "Oh, I am so drunnkk."

She walked down the hall and smiled at the three kids. "Ok, do you guys want lunch?"

Mayu shrugged.

Shippou nodded. "Cheese, cheese!"

Souta flipped through the TV. channels. "Not hungry," he said as his eyes flickered from the lights of the TV.

The older girl sighed and crouched down by Souta. "Souta?" she prompted him.

He looked over at her. "Hmmm?"

"You're really upset with me," she stated quietly.

He shrugged and went back to watching TV.

Kagome shrugged and stared down at her hands. "I know you aren't hungry, buddy, and I know that right now you really think that I should go eat a shoe." She lifted her eyed to study his face, which was tinged blue by the glow of the TV. "But I really need your help. I'm gonna make Inu Yasha's favorite meal for lunch."

Souta looked up at her and nodded. "OK..."

She smiled gently. "Oh and Souta?" she asked.

"What?" he asked curiously.

She wrinkled her nose slightly. "Like I said before," she said standing up, "I love your picture..." She turned around and placed her hands on her hips and looked over her shoulder, first at her butt, then at Souta. "But I think my butt is waaayyy bigger then you made it seem in that portrait.

Souta laughed and fell over in the floor, kicking his feet in the air.

Kagome grinned, grabbed him by his legs and picked him up swinging him around, before plopping him onto the couch.

Souta laid there catching his breath while Shippou laughed.

Kagome smiled and herded all three rascals into the kitchen. "Now, first things first... What IS Inu Yasha's favorite meal?"

"Ummm...he likes pasta," Souta said as he looked around the kitchen.

She nodded and pulled some noodles out of the cabinet. "Any certain kind of pasta?"

"Spa...spaga..." Souta tried to say, but kept getting tongue tied.

"Spaghetti?" she asked, encouragingly.

He nodded. "Yeah, that kind." Souta laughed. "I can't say that word."

Kagome winked at him. "Practice makes perfect. Now," she said opening the refrigerator, "Can you go get me some tomatoes?"

Souta pouted. "Do I got to go out to the garden?"

She laughed and ruffled his hair. "No, there should be some right in the fridge that was brought in the other day."

Souta and Shippou dug into the fridge and pulled out a bag of tomatoes. Shippou laughed and poked them.

Mayu looked up. "What can I do?"

Kagome smiled and handed her a big pot. "You can go fill that with water for me."

She smiled and took the tomatoes from Souta and Shippou. "Ok, now, I just got a loaf of French bread, can you go get it? It should be on the counter over there." She indicated a spot somewhere over her shoulder. She then turned to Shippou and smiled crouching in front of him. "Can you get me some salad, bud?"

Shippou turned and dug into the fridge again and pulled out a head of lettuce and handed it to her.

She grinned and kissed his forehead. "Thanks squirt." Kagome turned around and placed the lettuce on the counter.

Mayu waved at her, "Ok, Mommy, it's all full!"

Kagome smiled and went over, lifting the pot out of the sink and put it on the stove to boil. "Alright, now, can you get me some sausage out of the bottom of the fridge?" she asked as she began cleaning and slicing the ends off of the tomatoes, before putting them in a large bowl.

The little girl hopped to it and Kagome set about pulling out meats and pans and spices, oils, dressings, and butter, and many other things assigning jobs here and there for the kids. Before long, everything was done. She crouched down and pulled the bread out of the oven and set it on the table, opening it up to reveal its delicious aroma.

Kagome beamed over at the kids. "Great job, guys, I think my stomach is going to jump out my throat so it can get to the food, it smells so good!"

Souta and Shippou clapped. "It smells really good," Souta chirped, sniffing the air.

She smiled and fixed them all plates and set the table. "Yea, it does. Now, let me go get Inu Yasha, you guys go ahead and start eating." Mayu leapt up into her seat to start eating even before her mother had a chance to turn around.

Souta and Shippou sat next to Mayu and began to eat.

Kagome laughed and walked down the hall, walking into the bedroom at the end of the walkway. "Inu Yasha?" she asked quietly, not sure if he was asleep or not.

Inu Yasha sat up and looked at Kagome and blinked blankly.

Kagome frowned and sat down on the bed next to him, her head pressing against his forehead. "Are you ok, Inu-kun?"

"I'm fine." He quickly shoved the empty bottle off the bed and closed his eyes, leaning into her hand.