InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Happy Holidays Inuyasha! ❯ Ho! Ho! Ho! ( Chapter 2 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Happy Holidays, Inu-Yasha!!
Disclaimer: This is fun! Inuyasha is about to find out what Christmas is. Hmm… a holiday that is about giving gifts and traditions and is important to Kagome…. This should be interesting. I don't own Inuyasha! Ok on with Chapter two.
Chapter Two: Ho! Ho! Ho!
Inuyasha ran in the house all wet and then pulled on a robe over the onesy swimsuit. Kagome's grandpa was struggling to heave a large pine tree in the house. Sota and Kagome were excitedly watching.
"Ha…Ha…Hey Could you give me a hand there?" the old man beckoned to Inuyasha. The demon walked over to the tree and pulled it from the elder's grip easily with one hand. "Ah, thank you!" the old man groaned in stiffness. "Could you put it over there in the corner?"
Inuyasha tipped the tree upright and extended it out in the corner. "Like this?" He asked.
"Perfect!" Kagome acknowledged. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at her in confusion.
"Kagome, what's this about?" He asked. "Has the old man gone crazy?"
"Never mind, Inuyasha," Kagome replied. "It's just a traditional holiday. We set up a tree in the house and decorate it." She smiled and passed him by while tying her wet hair up in a bun.
"What holiday is that?" He asked Sota when Kagome disappeared upstairs.
"Christmas!" Sota excitedly yelled as he jumped up and down on the couch. "You get a tree! Then Santa Claus comes and gives you presents! And you also get presents from other people like friends and family, and you give presents to them!" The kid was bouncing off the walls.
Inuyasha only just gave him a weird look then went back up stairs to find Kagome. He followed her scent to the small room at the end of the hall with a loud mechanical, humming echoing through the room. He found her examining her bloodstained shirt in front of a washing machine. She was wearing nothing but a white towel and her hair was still tied up. She sighed heavily at her shirt, knowing that the blood will never come out.
Inuyasha didn't want to startle her so he just stood there without a sound, watching her for a moment. Kagome next pulled Inuyasha's red haori (his shirt basically) out of the dryer.
'Hmm…' Kagome pondered as she held the clothing up to examine it. 'The fabric regenerated itself. The hole is completely gone. I wonder how it feels.' She decided to try it on. She let her towel fall to the ground, once the red top was pulled over her. The fire-rate shirt was just long enough to cover her thighs. The girl turned her head to the open door to the hall to make sure no one was watching. Inuyasha dodged her eyes quickly, straightening his back against the wall right outside the door. His hope of amusement decreased as Kagome closed the door of the laundry room.
'What is she doing?' Inuyasha asked himself. Again he got curious and pressed one of his dog-ears against the door and heard her laughing on the other side.
"Feh! I can take Naraku all by myself!" said Kagome, imitating Inuyasha. "Oh! Kagome, I need your help. Even though I'm too stuck up and manly to admit it!" A fuse sparked in the demon, he couldn't take Kagome making fun of him. He busted open the door shouting.
"Hey! I don't sound like tha-…Huh?" Inuyasha paused. Kagome wasn't in his clothes at all. She was dressed in a white blouse and black jeans, with her hair back down. She looked over to him with his clothes in her arms.
"Inuyasha, what are you doing?" She asked him, rolling her eyes. "Here." She handed him his clothes with a sigh. He only stared blankly at her when she passed by him to return to her room. "Weirdo." She added with a sly smirk that he didn't see. The half-breed decided to let it go, knowing that she'll never admit to trying his clothes on. He took a sniff at his newly fresh and clean clothes, only to catch her scent on them.
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Feudal Japan:
The galloping hooves of an orange horse pounded the snow. It's nostrils pushed and pulled at the air with wild snorts. Miroku was riding the unusually small animal.
"They disappeared," the monk huffed out.
"We're dead!" Shippo exclaimed, currently carrying Miroku as a horse with his fox magic. "Why did you make that stupid bet, Miroku?"
"I couldn't pass it up! It's a great opportunity. Sango and I would finally join together as a couple," Miroku replied dreamily.
"Why did it have to be boys against girls?!" Shippo whined.
"Hiraikotsu!" The monk and fox-demon uttered in alert. The giant boomerang propelled through the air and dove down to them. Shippo yelled in panic to blow up into a large ball, throwing Miroku into the air. The boomerang sank into Shippo's large body and bounced out back in the opposite direction. Miroku landed in a snow bank.
Kirara dove out of the trees mounted by Sango in warrior attire. Sango caught her returning weapon and swung it over her back once more.
"Kirara! Get the fox!" Sango requested as she leaped off the demon-cat and onto the ankle-deep snow. Kirara obeyed her and flew after the young demon that just ran screaming into a pile of bushes. Sango stood there in the quiet snow glaring around for the monk that disappeared.
'Where did that pervert go?' She wondered as she dropped her boomerang and drew her katana.
"Wind tunnel!" Miroku's voice echoed through the mountains. </SPAN>He stood about thirty yards away in a fighting stance with his cursed hand exposed towards Sango.
"What?!" Sango shouted in surprise. "I didn't think he would use it! Damn it!" The black vortex pulled the warrior towards the monk but ceased as soon as she grabbed onto a small tree. A low chuckle escaped Miroku's throat as he drew back the tunnel with his prayer beads. Sango took her stance again, irritated with her katana raised.
"Getting a little reckless aren't we, Miroku?" She taunted with a smile.
"No more than you," He replied, grounding his staff. "I think Inuyasha may have rubbed off on us. Are you sure you want to go through with this? I wouldn't want your flawless body get hurt."
"I think I can manage!" She lunged forward to the monk and strikes her blade at him. Miroku swung his staff up for impact.
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Television:
"Wishing to capture her heart this holiday season? Get her something she'll remember for years to come. Victoria Secret holiday gift cards are available now."
Inuyasha, in is regular attire, sat two feet from the TV, glued to this amazing wooden box with moving and talking pictures, especially the Victoria Secret commercial with women dress in strange outfits that never seemed to cover a dang thing. The hanyou turned to the boy on the couch.
"Maybe I should get Kagome a present. Since this holiday means so much to her and all. I don't want her to get mad at me." He suggested.
"Hey! That's a great idea!" Sota said. "It'll show her how you really care about her beliefs and feelings."
"Yeah, the monk said that I really needed to work on that. Maybe she wouldn't 'sit' me so much. Hmm what should I get her?"
Sota sat back and pondered for a moment. "Well, first things first. You'll need some money to get the gift. That means you need to get a job."
"Yeah right!" Inuyasha exploded. "Remember last time? You told me I should do extra work for the old man so I could replace Kagome's bike that I wrecked. I ended up breaking stuff when Kagome threw out her spell on me!"
"Then just find a job away from the house, Kagome wouldn't be around much." Sota suggested. "You should go to the mall. People over there are hiring like crazy for Christmas."
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The mall:
"So…Inu…Yasha? Do you have any questions for me?" The shoe store's manager asked.
"Um…" Inuyasha thought blankly, with his ball cap covering his dog-ears. "What are socks?" Sota, who stood beside him let out a sigh.
"Let's go," Sota tugged his sleeve, almost dragging him out of the store. The two walked slowly down the walkway of the humongous mall, probably the biggest building Inuyasha has ever been in.
"What about that pet shop?" Sota suggested as they were passing by. The hanyou gave a sniff towards the shop, and then turned his head away.
"No," He sighed. "Too many felines." Sota sighed with him as he stretched his short arms behind his neck. He then paused at a sign that was decorated with string lights.
"Hey! Come look at this!" He beckoned. Inuyasha leaned over to read it.
Santa and Helpers wanted for Christmas pictures..
"You kind of look like Santa, with the red suit and white hair and all." The boy smiled.
The next day:
"Merry Christmas! Who's the next brat?" Inuyasha sat slumply in the chair scratching his chin under the fake, curly beard. A rather unusually tall elf picked up the two-year-old boy who was next in line. The child started to scream bloody-murder as he was carried toward Inuyasha. "Give 'em here" He demanded with a sigh taking the child onto his knee. The little boy immediately stopped his screaming and looked up at Santa with big watering eyes.
"And what would you like for Christmas? Hmm?" Inuyasha asked in the lowest tone of voice he could. The flash of the camera startled the child, sending him into the biggest fit of a scream that seemed deafening to Inuyasha's sensitive ears. The hanyou stood up with the child in his arms, returning him to his mother. His doglike ears twitch under his Santa hat to a couple of familiar voices.
"Aren't you a little too old to sit on Santa's lap?" Sota asked his fifteen-year-old sister. Inuyasha turned over to Sota and Kagome who were standing next in line.
"Sota, you've been asking me this ever since I was twelve. And I give you the same answer every year. It's a tradition to sit on Santa's lap and tell him what you want for Christmas. It's really only for the picture."
"Santa! Are you ok?" The tall elf came to Inuyasha's aid, which just experienced a helping of fake snow and wood from Kagome's binding spell. (Ah! The holidays! Gotta love 'em!) But nonetheless, Santa brushed himself off and returned to his chair. After the next couple of children, Sota ran and practically jumped onto his lap. "Oof!" He grunted.
"Ok! I want a skateboard! And a razor scooter! And a rocket! And a locomotive!" Sota went on with his Christmas list full of things Inuyasha didn't understand with a flash of the picture camera. Sota leaned in and whispered in Inuyasha's ear. "Don't worry. I didn't tell her. She has no idea that it's you!" This only made the hanyou nervous, thinking that she could possible find out very easily. Sota happily hopped off and waited for his sister's turn.
"Ho! Ho! Ho!" Inuyasha greeted Kagome as she approached him with a smile. "And what's your name little girl?" This made Kagome laugh in amusement when she replied in an answer he already knew. He never beckoned her to sit on his lap, he felt to nervous to do so. But Kagome invited herself to do so. He placed one hand on the small of her back and the other on her knee for the picture. He was glad that he was wearing gloves or else she would have noticed his long fingernails.
"Santa?" Kagome called. He look up and noticed her face was a little sad. "I think I only want one thing this year, but it's a little complicated."
"Well, what is it?" He asked in his low voice.
"Well, there's this guy I like…"
'A guy?!' He thought. 'She never said anything about liking any guy. I bet it's Kouga!' He continued to listen.
"…and well he's kinda reckless, moody, and did I mention how jealous he gets? The nerve of that guy! Anyways, all I'm asking is that if you could just help me out a little?"
Inuyasha hesitated in thought before replying, "I'll see what I can do."
"Oh thank you, Santa!" See threw her arms around his neck and gave him a tight hug that made his hat slide off an ear. FLASH! The photographer took the Kodak moment.
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Kagome knew Santa Claus wasn't a real breathing creature currently walking the earth, but every year when she told the mall Santa what she wanted, she always got in some form of it. Every year she'd ask for a miracle. Always for someone else: Her grandpa's health, her mother's happiness without a companion, her brother's emotional strength. But this year was different, for what seems to be the first time in her life, she asked for something for herself. She truly believed in Christmas miracles.
Sota and Kagome exited the closing mall into the snowy night. "That was fun!" Sota admitted waving the Santa pictures around excitedly. Kagome gave a gentle smile in agreement.
"Hey, Sota! Give me my picture," she demanded. Sota paused to study her picture for a moment then immediately became reluctant.
"Um… you don't want this one. It's not your best photograph," he tried.
"Wha? Hey, it's my picture now give it here!" as predicted, she became instantly hostile. Sota vocalized in fear and began booking it down the street, followed by his rage stricken sister screaming at him from behind. "You little twerp! Get back here!"
Kagome was far faster than her brother and eventually tackled him down in the snow. He still was resistant but failed when she eventually pried the Polaroid from his icy fingers. "Crap…" he sighed.
"What are you talking about? I look just fine in-" Kagome instantly recognized that Santa's eyes were a strange, but familiar orange color and since when did Santa have dog ears? "Inu….Yasha?"
"Kagome, what are you doing lying in the snow like that? You're going to get yourself sick." Kagome looked up at the half-demon with a ball cap on. Because of the situation she was in, she began blushing ferociously forcing herself to dig her face into the snow so Inuyasha wouldn't notice her embarrassment. "Kagome? What's wrong? C'mon, your clothes are getting wet. You'll be sick for sure." He offered his hand to her. She lifted her head at his gesture with her nose all red from the ice. She softened her eyes to his kindness and placed her cold fingers on his rather warm palm. He helped her to her feet and examined her shivering, wet body. With a sigh, he pulled off his haori and wrapped it around her.
"Sometimes I think you need this more than I do," he said. "C'mon, let's get you home." Kagome only nodded in response and walked along his side, clutching the picture against her chest.
Disclaimer: This is fun! Inuyasha is about to find out what Christmas is. Hmm… a holiday that is about giving gifts and traditions and is important to Kagome…. This should be interesting. I don't own Inuyasha! Ok on with Chapter two.
Chapter Two: Ho! Ho! Ho!
Inuyasha ran in the house all wet and then pulled on a robe over the onesy swimsuit. Kagome's grandpa was struggling to heave a large pine tree in the house. Sota and Kagome were excitedly watching.
"Ha…Ha…Hey Could you give me a hand there?" the old man beckoned to Inuyasha. The demon walked over to the tree and pulled it from the elder's grip easily with one hand. "Ah, thank you!" the old man groaned in stiffness. "Could you put it over there in the corner?"
Inuyasha tipped the tree upright and extended it out in the corner. "Like this?" He asked.
"Perfect!" Kagome acknowledged. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at her in confusion.
"Kagome, what's this about?" He asked. "Has the old man gone crazy?"
"Never mind, Inuyasha," Kagome replied. "It's just a traditional holiday. We set up a tree in the house and decorate it." She smiled and passed him by while tying her wet hair up in a bun.
"What holiday is that?" He asked Sota when Kagome disappeared upstairs.
"Christmas!" Sota excitedly yelled as he jumped up and down on the couch. "You get a tree! Then Santa Claus comes and gives you presents! And you also get presents from other people like friends and family, and you give presents to them!" The kid was bouncing off the walls.
Inuyasha only just gave him a weird look then went back up stairs to find Kagome. He followed her scent to the small room at the end of the hall with a loud mechanical, humming echoing through the room. He found her examining her bloodstained shirt in front of a washing machine. She was wearing nothing but a white towel and her hair was still tied up. She sighed heavily at her shirt, knowing that the blood will never come out.
Inuyasha didn't want to startle her so he just stood there without a sound, watching her for a moment. Kagome next pulled Inuyasha's red haori (his shirt basically) out of the dryer.
'Hmm…' Kagome pondered as she held the clothing up to examine it. 'The fabric regenerated itself. The hole is completely gone. I wonder how it feels.' She decided to try it on. She let her towel fall to the ground, once the red top was pulled over her. The fire-rate shirt was just long enough to cover her thighs. The girl turned her head to the open door to the hall to make sure no one was watching. Inuyasha dodged her eyes quickly, straightening his back against the wall right outside the door. His hope of amusement decreased as Kagome closed the door of the laundry room.
'What is she doing?' Inuyasha asked himself. Again he got curious and pressed one of his dog-ears against the door and heard her laughing on the other side.
"Feh! I can take Naraku all by myself!" said Kagome, imitating Inuyasha. "Oh! Kagome, I need your help. Even though I'm too stuck up and manly to admit it!" A fuse sparked in the demon, he couldn't take Kagome making fun of him. He busted open the door shouting.
"Hey! I don't sound like tha-…Huh?" Inuyasha paused. Kagome wasn't in his clothes at all. She was dressed in a white blouse and black jeans, with her hair back down. She looked over to him with his clothes in her arms.
"Inuyasha, what are you doing?" She asked him, rolling her eyes. "Here." She handed him his clothes with a sigh. He only stared blankly at her when she passed by him to return to her room. "Weirdo." She added with a sly smirk that he didn't see. The half-breed decided to let it go, knowing that she'll never admit to trying his clothes on. He took a sniff at his newly fresh and clean clothes, only to catch her scent on them.
*********
Feudal Japan:
The galloping hooves of an orange horse pounded the snow. It's nostrils pushed and pulled at the air with wild snorts. Miroku was riding the unusually small animal.
"They disappeared," the monk huffed out.
"We're dead!" Shippo exclaimed, currently carrying Miroku as a horse with his fox magic. "Why did you make that stupid bet, Miroku?"
"I couldn't pass it up! It's a great opportunity. Sango and I would finally join together as a couple," Miroku replied dreamily.
"Why did it have to be boys against girls?!" Shippo whined.
"Hiraikotsu!" The monk and fox-demon uttered in alert. The giant boomerang propelled through the air and dove down to them. Shippo yelled in panic to blow up into a large ball, throwing Miroku into the air. The boomerang sank into Shippo's large body and bounced out back in the opposite direction. Miroku landed in a snow bank.
Kirara dove out of the trees mounted by Sango in warrior attire. Sango caught her returning weapon and swung it over her back once more.
"Kirara! Get the fox!" Sango requested as she leaped off the demon-cat and onto the ankle-deep snow. Kirara obeyed her and flew after the young demon that just ran screaming into a pile of bushes. Sango stood there in the quiet snow glaring around for the monk that disappeared.
'Where did that pervert go?' She wondered as she dropped her boomerang and drew her katana.
"Wind tunnel!" Miroku's voice echoed through the mountains. </SPAN>He stood about thirty yards away in a fighting stance with his cursed hand exposed towards Sango.
"What?!" Sango shouted in surprise. "I didn't think he would use it! Damn it!" The black vortex pulled the warrior towards the monk but ceased as soon as she grabbed onto a small tree. A low chuckle escaped Miroku's throat as he drew back the tunnel with his prayer beads. Sango took her stance again, irritated with her katana raised.
"Getting a little reckless aren't we, Miroku?" She taunted with a smile.
"No more than you," He replied, grounding his staff. "I think Inuyasha may have rubbed off on us. Are you sure you want to go through with this? I wouldn't want your flawless body get hurt."
"I think I can manage!" She lunged forward to the monk and strikes her blade at him. Miroku swung his staff up for impact.
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Television:
"Wishing to capture her heart this holiday season? Get her something she'll remember for years to come. Victoria Secret holiday gift cards are available now."
Inuyasha, in is regular attire, sat two feet from the TV, glued to this amazing wooden box with moving and talking pictures, especially the Victoria Secret commercial with women dress in strange outfits that never seemed to cover a dang thing. The hanyou turned to the boy on the couch.
"Maybe I should get Kagome a present. Since this holiday means so much to her and all. I don't want her to get mad at me." He suggested.
"Hey! That's a great idea!" Sota said. "It'll show her how you really care about her beliefs and feelings."
"Yeah, the monk said that I really needed to work on that. Maybe she wouldn't 'sit' me so much. Hmm what should I get her?"
Sota sat back and pondered for a moment. "Well, first things first. You'll need some money to get the gift. That means you need to get a job."
"Yeah right!" Inuyasha exploded. "Remember last time? You told me I should do extra work for the old man so I could replace Kagome's bike that I wrecked. I ended up breaking stuff when Kagome threw out her spell on me!"
"Then just find a job away from the house, Kagome wouldn't be around much." Sota suggested. "You should go to the mall. People over there are hiring like crazy for Christmas."
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The mall:
"So…Inu…Yasha? Do you have any questions for me?" The shoe store's manager asked.
"Um…" Inuyasha thought blankly, with his ball cap covering his dog-ears. "What are socks?" Sota, who stood beside him let out a sigh.
"Let's go," Sota tugged his sleeve, almost dragging him out of the store. The two walked slowly down the walkway of the humongous mall, probably the biggest building Inuyasha has ever been in.
"What about that pet shop?" Sota suggested as they were passing by. The hanyou gave a sniff towards the shop, and then turned his head away.
"No," He sighed. "Too many felines." Sota sighed with him as he stretched his short arms behind his neck. He then paused at a sign that was decorated with string lights.
"Hey! Come look at this!" He beckoned. Inuyasha leaned over to read it.
Santa and Helpers wanted for Christmas pictures..
"You kind of look like Santa, with the red suit and white hair and all." The boy smiled.
The next day:
"Merry Christmas! Who's the next brat?" Inuyasha sat slumply in the chair scratching his chin under the fake, curly beard. A rather unusually tall elf picked up the two-year-old boy who was next in line. The child started to scream bloody-murder as he was carried toward Inuyasha. "Give 'em here" He demanded with a sigh taking the child onto his knee. The little boy immediately stopped his screaming and looked up at Santa with big watering eyes.
"And what would you like for Christmas? Hmm?" Inuyasha asked in the lowest tone of voice he could. The flash of the camera startled the child, sending him into the biggest fit of a scream that seemed deafening to Inuyasha's sensitive ears. The hanyou stood up with the child in his arms, returning him to his mother. His doglike ears twitch under his Santa hat to a couple of familiar voices.
"Aren't you a little too old to sit on Santa's lap?" Sota asked his fifteen-year-old sister. Inuyasha turned over to Sota and Kagome who were standing next in line.
"Sota, you've been asking me this ever since I was twelve. And I give you the same answer every year. It's a tradition to sit on Santa's lap and tell him what you want for Christmas. It's really only for the picture."
"Santa! Are you ok?" The tall elf came to Inuyasha's aid, which just experienced a helping of fake snow and wood from Kagome's binding spell. (Ah! The holidays! Gotta love 'em!) But nonetheless, Santa brushed himself off and returned to his chair. After the next couple of children, Sota ran and practically jumped onto his lap. "Oof!" He grunted.
"Ok! I want a skateboard! And a razor scooter! And a rocket! And a locomotive!" Sota went on with his Christmas list full of things Inuyasha didn't understand with a flash of the picture camera. Sota leaned in and whispered in Inuyasha's ear. "Don't worry. I didn't tell her. She has no idea that it's you!" This only made the hanyou nervous, thinking that she could possible find out very easily. Sota happily hopped off and waited for his sister's turn.
"Ho! Ho! Ho!" Inuyasha greeted Kagome as she approached him with a smile. "And what's your name little girl?" This made Kagome laugh in amusement when she replied in an answer he already knew. He never beckoned her to sit on his lap, he felt to nervous to do so. But Kagome invited herself to do so. He placed one hand on the small of her back and the other on her knee for the picture. He was glad that he was wearing gloves or else she would have noticed his long fingernails.
"Santa?" Kagome called. He look up and noticed her face was a little sad. "I think I only want one thing this year, but it's a little complicated."
"Well, what is it?" He asked in his low voice.
"Well, there's this guy I like…"
'A guy?!' He thought. 'She never said anything about liking any guy. I bet it's Kouga!' He continued to listen.
"…and well he's kinda reckless, moody, and did I mention how jealous he gets? The nerve of that guy! Anyways, all I'm asking is that if you could just help me out a little?"
Inuyasha hesitated in thought before replying, "I'll see what I can do."
"Oh thank you, Santa!" See threw her arms around his neck and gave him a tight hug that made his hat slide off an ear. FLASH! The photographer took the Kodak moment.
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Kagome knew Santa Claus wasn't a real breathing creature currently walking the earth, but every year when she told the mall Santa what she wanted, she always got in some form of it. Every year she'd ask for a miracle. Always for someone else: Her grandpa's health, her mother's happiness without a companion, her brother's emotional strength. But this year was different, for what seems to be the first time in her life, she asked for something for herself. She truly believed in Christmas miracles.
Sota and Kagome exited the closing mall into the snowy night. "That was fun!" Sota admitted waving the Santa pictures around excitedly. Kagome gave a gentle smile in agreement.
"Hey, Sota! Give me my picture," she demanded. Sota paused to study her picture for a moment then immediately became reluctant.
"Um… you don't want this one. It's not your best photograph," he tried.
"Wha? Hey, it's my picture now give it here!" as predicted, she became instantly hostile. Sota vocalized in fear and began booking it down the street, followed by his rage stricken sister screaming at him from behind. "You little twerp! Get back here!"
Kagome was far faster than her brother and eventually tackled him down in the snow. He still was resistant but failed when she eventually pried the Polaroid from his icy fingers. "Crap…" he sighed.
"What are you talking about? I look just fine in-" Kagome instantly recognized that Santa's eyes were a strange, but familiar orange color and since when did Santa have dog ears? "Inu….Yasha?"
"Kagome, what are you doing lying in the snow like that? You're going to get yourself sick." Kagome looked up at the half-demon with a ball cap on. Because of the situation she was in, she began blushing ferociously forcing herself to dig her face into the snow so Inuyasha wouldn't notice her embarrassment. "Kagome? What's wrong? C'mon, your clothes are getting wet. You'll be sick for sure." He offered his hand to her. She lifted her head at his gesture with her nose all red from the ice. She softened her eyes to his kindness and placed her cold fingers on his rather warm palm. He helped her to her feet and examined her shivering, wet body. With a sigh, he pulled off his haori and wrapped it around her.
"Sometimes I think you need this more than I do," he said. "C'mon, let's get you home." Kagome only nodded in response and walked along his side, clutching the picture against her chest.