InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Family Trip ❯ Dinner Time! ( Chapter 2 )

 

 

Chapter 2 Dinner Time!!

 

InuYasha jumped out of the well and the second his feet touched the ground Kagome jumped out of his arms, grabbed his wrist and ran across the yard dragging him to the back door. He blinked in surprise as Kagome took control and was now pulling him across the shrine where she lived. She pulled the back door open and yanked InuYasha inside then quickly shut the door behind her. While telling her mom that she was now home, “Hey mom I'm back!”

 

Her mother had heard them come in and was almost to the back door when she heard Kagome yell. She then came around the corner and smiled as she saw InuYasha, “why hello InuYahsa I'm glad that you could make it and come with us.

 

InuYasha looked at her and then just Feh'd as usual. Kagome rolled her eyes and then elbowed InuYasha in the ribs again, which were still a bit sore from when Kagome had elbowed him just a few moments ago. While saying “oh loosen up a bit InuYasha this is going to be fun!” InuYasha just gave her a look and then turned to look at Kagome's mom who had just stared speaking.

 

“Hey, you two would you like to help me make some dinner? I was just about to start it when you came in.” Kagome's mother asked.

 

Before InuYasha could say anything Kagome piped up, “sure we'd love to!!”

 

Her mom then said “oh good, could you and InuYasha start he fried rice for me and ill start he fish.” also before InuYasha could interrupt to say he didn't want to help.

 

He never did get his chance, at that moment Kagome handed him a strangely marked glass container and said, “Ok InuYasha, I want you to fill this with 4 cups of water and then get the minced vegetables out of the refrigerator, okay?”

 

InuYasha just stood there and blinked trying to absorb and make sense of everything that Kagome had just said to him. Kagome had her head in the pantry and was muttering something about where the rice had run off to. InuYasha sighed and was about to say something when Kagome stood up again and looked at InuYasha, “what are you doing? Go get the water.”

 

At first InuYasha just stared at her but then he said, “Kagome what is “4 cups” and what is this thing you gave me?”

 

It was now Kagome's turn to blink in surprise this time and then it hit her…'duh!! InuYasha doesn't know what a cup is and he defiantly doesn't know what a measuring cup is of how to use it…sorry InuYasha' “oh sorry InuYasha I forgot that you don't know about the modern era at all.” InuYasha just rolled his eyes and Kagome smiled, she deserved that one. “Ok InuYasha” Kagome started to explain, “this is a measuring cup” she places her hand on the top of the cup. “It measures how much of a liquid you have, see the red lines on the sides? Well those are measurements, this is one cup” she said pointing to the line that has a 1 next to it on the cup scale. “And since we need 4 cups we need to fill it up higher to get to the 4 cups that we need ok?” InuYasha nods as he takes in what Kagome is trying to explain to him, then she continues “Do you know were the 4 cup mark line is?” InuYasha thinks, using what Kagome had just told him and a little common sense he point to the 4-cup line. “Yea, you go it right InuYasha.” Kagome praises him. “Now to properly measure you full the water up to were you think 4 cups is based on the line and then place it on the counter and wait for the water to get almost exactly calm and measure if it is not a 4 cups then add of get rid of water till you have 4 cups...it doesn't have to be exactly perfect but it has to be pretty close, ok?”

 

InuYasha nods to show he understands and then walks over to the sink were Kagome had told him to get the water from. Kagome's mother was currently working in the sink but smiled as she saw him walking over. InuYasha started, “Kagome sent me over here to get water and asked me to get it while she get the rice out of the pantry-”

 

Kagome's mother smiled again and said, “I know dear, now come over here so I can show you how the sink works.”

 

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Kagome's mother had been watching Kagome and InuYasha the whole time and thought `how sweet, she had mentioned something about him being “nicer” to her...ha Kagome you...' she let out a soft sight and smiled. `So they are finally starting to get a bit friendlier to each other.”

 

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“Oh, dear” Kagome's mother said to InuYasha “this is what turns the water on and off as well as adjusts the temperature” she then gestured to the handle that came out of the top of the sink next the faucet. “You pull it up to get turn water on and push it down to turn it off, then if you rotate it to the right a little bit it heats the water up and if you rotate it to the left the water get cold. You have it dear?” InuYasha noded to show he understood as he filled up the measuring cup with cold water and Kagome's mother then went back to work on the fish but not before tweaking one of InuYasha's ears. InuYasha groaned but put up with it.

 

He turned back to were Kagome was standing and placed the water on the counter opposite from were she was still struggling to pull the abnormally large bag of rice out of the pantry. InuYasha laughed and leaned over and pulled the bag out with no problem leaving Kagome sitting on the floor panting. InuYasha places the bag of rice down next to her and Kagome gives him an evil glare but then said “Thank you InuYasha” as he helped her to her feet.

 

“Ok, we now need to pour enough of this rice into the pan over there to fill the bottom of it.” She looked at InuYasha and then at the bag. “Hey InuYasha would you lend me a hand and carry the bag of rice over to the pan and pour it for me..It's a little bit heavy.” InuYasha smirked and said “yea sure.”

 

Kagome grabbed the stick of butter that was sitting on the counter and unwrapped it as InuYasha carried the bag of rice over to the frying pan. “Ok InuYahsa pour it nice and slow so I can tell you when that is enough.” InuYasha nodded to show he understood and then started to pour the rice into the pan and when he had the pan about half full with a small pile in the middle Kagome told him to stop. He did so and she flattened the pile of rice out a little bit and praised him, “This is perfect InuYasha you did a good job.” She then dropped the butter into the pan and helped InuYasha put the rice away. On her way back to the frying pan she reached into the refrigerator and pulled out a small Ziploc bag of cut vegetables and put them in the pan as well. With InuYasha watching intently Kagome tuned on the burner under the frying pan and the pot with the 4 cups of water that InuYasha had measured earlier, Then started to fry the rice and vegetables until the rice was golden brown, once at that point Kagome took the rice and poured it into the now boiling water keeping the vegetables behind to cook some more.

 

Kagome was explaining everything that she did to InuYasha so that he would understand…the only thing he knew from the modern era was how to add hot water to instant Raman. She laughed at this thought and InuYasha took a break from his thinking to look up at her and growls since he didn't want to be disturbed while he was thinking so hard, “what now wench?”

 

Kagome just laughed, “That is another thing we have to work on, your vocabulary...I don't want grandma to think your from the Stone Age” InuYasha glared at her and Kagome realized what she had said, “oh sorry InuYasha I didn't mean it like that its just that grandma wont be able to tell the difference between the stone age and the feudal era.”

 

InuYasha feh'd just as the buzzer went off and Kagome yelled, “Rice is done mama!” Then her mother came into the room and said “the fish is done as well, now will you to be good and go get Souta while I finish cooking the rice with the fish?”

 

Kagome responded first, “k mom, I'll go get him, is he up in his room?”

 

“Yes Kagome” her mother retorted.

 

Kagome then walked out of the room with InuYasha following her and up the stairs and then walked to just outside Souta's. Kagome stepped up to the door and knocked softly, “Hey Souta dinner is ready, and mom wants you to come eat with us.”

 

“Ok Kagome, tell mom I'll be down in a minute, I'm in the middle of a math problem.” came Souta's reply from within his room.

 

“K, I will Souta” and with that Kagome started to walk back down the stairs with a now boarded hanyou following behind her.

 

Kagome and InuYasha both helped set out the silverware and the food, and as they were all about to sit down Souta walked in and looked around the kitchen, then saw InuYasha, “InuYasha! Awesome you finally brought InuYasha home with you sis!”

 

“Yea Souta I brought InuYasha with me,” she smiled smartly “how else would he be able to go on our trip with us?”

 

Souta's jaw dropped “he's coming with us?!” Kagome nodded. “WOW, awesome!!! Yes!!” Souta then turned to look at InuYasha, “great, it is going to be so fun hanging out with you InuYasha!”

 

InuYasha just sighed and rolled his eyes up into his head, “that's great kid”

 

Souta was slightly discouraged by InuYasha calling him kid but he just smiled and said, “my name is Souta you know”

 

InuYasha sighed and said “yea I know, but kid is simplier” he added with a smirk as he walked over to stand next to Kagome.

 

Kagome smiled and said “yea and I had InuYasha cook dinner, what do you think of that Souta?”

 

Souta's eyes widened in surprise, “You cooked? Wow I bet it tastes great!” he responded as his face broke out into another grin.

 

Kagome smiled “yea I hope so,” she says to her little brother. “Hey mom, are you ready for Souta to go get grandpa?”

 

“Yes can one of you go get him?” Her mother responded.

 

“Ok mom, I will” Souta calls back as he runs out of the room.

 

Kagome turned to InuYasha “I wonder what my grandfather will do when he sees you?” Kagome wonders aloud.

 

InuYasha just eyed her and said, “Feh, what do I care? All he ever does is yell and throw those scraps of paper at me.”

 

Kagome inwardly rolled her eyes and sighed knowing that InuYasha was right, all her grandpa ever did around InuYasha was yell about him being a demon and throw his scrolls at him...which InuYasha was greatly annoyed by. Kagome sighed as she heard Souta return with her grandfather and braced for the explosion waiting to take place as her grandfather and Souta came around the corner.

 

Kagome's grandfather looked up and saw InuYasha, “DEMON!!!!! Get away from my family you evil being!!!!” he yelled as he reached into his robes and grabed his scrolls. “Demon begone!” he chanted as he threw his scrolls all over InuYasha.

 

InuYasha gave him a dead look and stared at him with a murderous glare for a few seconds until finally saying “and what was that supposed to do besides annoy the hell out of me?!”

 

Kagome sighed as she looked to her grandfather, “Hey grandpa please don't throw your scrolls at InuYasha anymore, it doesn't effect him and it gets him a crankier mood.” she pleaded.

 

InuYasha gave her a dark glare and responded, “I am not cranky!”

 

Kagome sighed and grabed InuYasha's arm as she pulled him into the kitchen calling back to everyone else “come on or dinner will get cold.” She sat down and InuYasha ploped down next to her, now in a sour mood. Kagome just smiled as the rest of her family sat down to start dinner, her grandfather still glaring at InuYasha. “Please pass the fish,” she asked her little brother as he finished serving himself. Kagome scooped some of the rice onto her plate and then slid a portion of fish onto her late next to her rice, she then went on to serve InuYasha who still had a sour look on his face but once the food was on his plate her dropped the look and started to eat.

 

After a bit Souta spoke up, “wow InuYasha, you did a good job on this rice.”

 

InuYasha looked up in surprise, and Kagome's grandfather all but dropped his fork.

 

“InuYasha...cooked...this?!” Kagome's grandfather stuttered in disbelief.

 

Kagome had been watching the conversation waiting for a time to enter and here it was, “Well InuYasha didn't do all of it, I helped him and mom cooked the fish, but yes InuYasha did cook the rice.”

 

Kagome's grandfather managed to croak out, “demon food...”

 

Kagome and her mother scowled at him, “Grandpa, InuYasha did a good job and I think that you should give him a break...I mean he may be a demon but look at how he has protected me for these last few years, I'm still in one piece and it's all thanks to him.” Kagome almost growled at her grandfather.

 

Kagome's grandfather was taken aback but recovered, “well, he is still a demon and therefor should not be trusted.” He argued.

 

Kagome shot him a look that could kill and yelled “GRANDPA” and was about to continue but her mother yelled the same thing at the same time so it was enough to shut him up without getting into an all out argument.

 

InuYasha was completely surprised by this, `is Kagome defending me? Against her family?…What is going on?…Am I imagining this?…no Kagome was always kind to me it was me who pushed her away…What?! What am I thinking “pushed her away”!?!? Wait I'm arguing with myself…I'd better stop or ill drive myself insane…'

 

Kagome continued the conversation by saying; “I hear the Souta is going out with some friends tonight”

 

Once her mother heard this she seemed to remember something else, “oh I almost forgot, Kagome I have to go out and take Souta and his friends out, and we wont be back until late.” Her mother then looked to Kagome's grandfather to continue but he was in a bad mood from losing to Kagome and her mother about InuYasha to notice what was being said. So her mother continued for him, “and your grandfather has some errands to run that need to be done tonight, so in short you and InuYasha will be here by yourselves until late.”

 

Hearing “you and InuYasha” along with “by yourselves” Kagome's grandfather sprang back to reality. “Those don't need to be done tonight I can stay and watch Kagome”

 

Kagome's mother scowled and said very sternly, “yes, they do need to be done tonight”

 

Kagome cut in, “I don't need to be babysat by you grandpa, I can take care of myself”

 

Her grandfather had been waiting for this, “You I trust, him I don't” he said gesturing to where InuYasha was sitting. InuYasha scowled. But her grandfather continued, “I don't want that boy alone with you Kagome, he's-“

 

Kagome cut him off, “I have been alone with InuYasha loads of times...yea I mean we are usually with Sango and Miroku but I'm alone with InuYasha often enough to know that he is not a threat! If anything I am extremely safer around him than alone.” she finished as she gave him a look to stop while he was ahead.

 

Kagome's grandfather shot InuYasha a look knowing he was defeated, but would never admit it.

 

Kagome just then remembered something, “Oh mom, InuYasha doesn't have any clothes except for his kimono.”

 

Her mother looked puzzled for a moment and then said “we need to go shopping tomorrow anyway so just write up a list and well add it to the one we already have.”

 

Kagome nodded and said, “k mom, may InuYasha and I be excused?”

 

Her mother nodded, “of course, and just leave your plates in the sink, I'll get to them when I'm done”

 

InuYasha picked up his long finished plate and followed Kagome out of the dinning room and into the kitchen where she put her plate into the sink. InuYasha followed doing the same. When Kagome walked back into the dinning room her grandfather was arguing with her mother, and when her grandfather spotted her walk in he glared at her and said, “He's coming isn't he?”

 

Kagome blinked in surprise and then remembered that he didn't know yet, “oh, sorry grandpa, I forgot you didn't know, well yea he is so you'll just have to learn to get along with him,” she turned around to face InuYasha, “that goes for you too.”

 

InuYasha glared and then said “feh” but the look on Kagome's face made him restate, “whatever”

 

Since that was the best answer that she knew that she would get out of him in that mood she settled with that and didn't push it.

 

She then sprinted out of the room before her grandfather could say anything else and stopped in the living room to wait for InuYasha to walk in and then stared up the stairs, InuYasha still grumbling from the goings on of downstairs.

 

Kagome smiled and said, “well that went well” as an attempt to lighten he mood.

 

InuYasha just said in a very annoyed tone “is he that irritable?”

 

Kagome sighed and said, “fraid so, with you at least.”

 

“Why me” InuYasha wondered out loud.

 

Kagome smiled as she opened her door to her room letting the hanyou pass her and walk into the room before walking in and closing the door behind her to keep her grandfather or any other member of the household for that matter from disturbing them.

 

Kagome walked right over to her desk and opened the second drawer. She reached in and pulled out a pad of lined paper.

 

InuYasha watched her as her sat down cross-legged on her bed, thinking to himself `if the rest of this trip is anything like dinner, it is going to be a long few weeks…'

 

Then Kagome came over and sat next to him saying, “ok lets get started on this packing list of yours…”

 

A/N: ohhh what will InuYasha think when they start to make a list of things that he hasn't even heard of? And how will the hanyou learn to get along with Kagome's grandfather?….In the next chapter of Family Trip!!!

Ok what do you all think of chapter 2? Did I keep in good character? How was grandpa? I had trouble with his character since I don't really know much about him…or Souta or her mom for that matter...but oh well, what did you think of the plot? REVIEW!!!Plz!