InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ In The Mirror ❯ Tough mama ( Chapter 18 )

 

 

 

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In the Mirror: Seventeen. Tough mama.

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Moon light was shining off the lake as I looked out over the hills. It's been a month and three weeks since Kagome left. And I don't know how muck longer I can take being away from her; it's driving me crazy! The only relief I get anymore is when I go to her time at night to watch her sweep the grounds around the shrine, and sometimes if I feel brave enough, to watch her sleep at night. But about two and a half weeks ago my worst nightmare came true.

 

I got caught.

 

I was setting in the god tree again just watching her sweeping the grounds when a rock hit me right in the head. I turned around ready and willing to yell at the person, that is until I saw who was standing there with her hands on her hips.

 

Kagome's mother Hitomi.

 

I wanted to crawl into a hole and die. I knew what was coming, Kagome and her mother were VERY close, and there was no way in hell that she didn't know what happened between us. For the past three years I've looked at Kagome's mother like my own. I didn't have many memories of my mother, and the ones I did have she was always crying or looked sad. I guess that's how you always look when you have a hanyou for a son. But I really liked Kagome's mom, or mom as I've been instructed to call her, but I highly doubt that she would appreciate me calling her mom now.

 

Well this is it. I thought to my self. I've never see either of them again. I got ready for the worst headache of my life. I was sure my ears would be ringing for weeks after she was done yelling at me.

 

`'Come down here young man. I wish to speak with you.'' She said just loud enough for me to hear her. I guess she didn't want Kagome to know I was here.

 

After hesitating for a minute I jumped down to the ground about five feet away from her. I didn't want to be close enough to her so she could pull my ears right off my head. I kept my eyes to the ground, I'm sure I looked like a puppy that had just been kick in the head, but for some reason I couldn't bring my self to look her in the eyes. I heard Kagome walking towards the house and then a door shut. It was just Hitomi and me now, and nothing to save me from her wrath.

 

She walked over to me and grabbed my ear and dragged me over to the bench underneath the god tree.

 

`'Sit.'' She said. I sat right down. I guess it runs in the family. She sat down next to me looking at the stars above us. `'I've been working all day at the shrine and I don't feel like yelling at you at the moment. So instead I'm going to ask you calmly what happened.'' She said looking at me. I still couldn't look at her, but I wasn't going to answer her either. I was going to walk out there with at lest some of my pried attached.

 

But she had other Ideas. She grabbed my ear again and yelled in it.

 

`'Answer me young man! I've seen you for the past three nights sitting up in that tree watching my daughter, and I want to know why you wouldn't go talk to her if you miss her that much! I've heard her side of the story, so now I want to her yours.''

 

I had to get out of there and fast. Kagome never told her mom the kinda dangers we faced back in my time so she wouldn't worry, and I couldn't tell her that this all started because I thought I couldn't protect her. That's right THOUGHT I couldn't protect her, my talk with Shippo really left me thinking about that, and I realized that she was what gave me my power to fight, and as long as I have her with me then I'll have the power to save her when I need it. The reason I was sitting in that tree in the first place was because I was trying to figure out just how to tell her I was sorry without getting sat into oblivion. Okay, like I said I had to get out of there fast, so I resorted to my old self.

 

I looked at her and became a jerk.

 

`'I don't have to tell you anything Hitomi, what happened between me and Kagome is our business.'' I turned away and crossed my arms. She hit me in the back of the head. I hate dealing with Higurashi women, there all the same when they don't get what they want. They resort to violence. `'What D'ya do that for?!''

 

`'You were being rude. And it is my business since my baby has spent the last month crying her self to sleep.'' She said pulling at my last nerve, and hitting me again.

 

`'All right all right, I'll tell ya if you stop hittin me!'' So I did, I told her what happened and why I did what I did. She didn't seem to upset about the youkai parts of my story, which I couldn't explain. I finished, and she smiled and hugged me. I thought she went crazy.

 

`'I knew it! I knew it I knew it I knew it! I knew you wouldn't do anything to hurt her. I just didn't understand what had happened. I thought maybe you were possessed by a youkai or maybe it hadn't been you at all or-`'

 

`'Wait a minute, what D'ya mean you thought I was possessed? I thought Kagome didn't tell you about all the youkai we fought?'' I asked her. She pulled away from me to smile.

 

`'Of course she didn't tell me, but I've lived long enough with my father to know what kind of things went on back then and what kind of youkai roamed the lands then, and probably now to. I mean I've never seen a youkai walking around on the streets but I'm sure there somewhere here. The whole youkai race couldn't have just disappeared in five hundred years.'' She said with a giggle. I thought I was going to straggle her.

 

She made me so fucking worried that I was revealing Kagome's biggest secret to her that I almost shit my self. But then she has to go and tell me that she's known all along. Damn bitch, the only thing keeping me from killing her was that I liked her and Kagome would kill me for doing it. I guess she read my mind, did I tell you that Higurashi women could do that? Because they can. Anyway, she looked at me and said.

 

`'Don't tell me you were scared of telling me all of that, were you?''

 

`''Feh, I wasn't scared, I just didn't want you to yell at Kagome for not telling you about all that youkai stuff. I've done enough of that for the both of us.'' I whispered that last part to my self, but she still heard me. She sighed and started rubbing the ear she had been pulling on earlier; Kagome and her mom were the only people that were aloud to do this, anybody else tries it and I'll cut off their arm.

 

`'Yes that you have, but that doesn't mean that you can't make amends. I know Kagome misses you as much as you miss her, and I'm sure that if you explain to her why you pushed her away and apologize she'll forgive you. I am her mother after all, I know these things.'' She said with a smile.

 

`'I wish I could, but it's not that easy. There's other things I'm involved in that complicate things with me and Kagome.''

 

`'You mean that Kikyo girl?'' I looked at her in shock. She knew about Kikyo? `'Oh don't give me that look, there's been other nights that Kagome has come home in tears you know.'' I guess I should have, like I said before they were close and told each other everything. I looked down shamefully.

 

`'It's not like I'm in love with her anymore, I mean I still do have some feelings left for her but, there not as strong as they use to be, but I told her that I'd avenge her-`'

 

`'Exactly, you said that you'd avenge her. You didn't say you'd die for her, do you?''

 

`'Not in those exact words.''

 

`'Well then there you go, go on and avenge her, but I wouldn't die for her. And I think your smarter then that. If worse comes to worse have a talk with her, and maybe she'll understand. It couldn't hurt could it?'' I looked at her.

 

`'I guess not. Thanks Hitomi.'' I said. She got up and smiled at me.

 

`'I told you before, call me mom.'' She turned around and walked back to the house, but before she when in she said just loud enough for me to hear. `'Your always welcome to come to me if you want to talk.'' Then she disappeared into the house.

 

Now I'm sitting here in one of my favorite spots looking over the lake that I first saw Kagome bathing in, by accident of course, thinking about what I was going to say to her when I saw her. My patience wore out. I'm going to see her tonight, and I'm not leaving until she forgives me.

 

I just hope I don't fuck things up again.

 

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I REALLY don't remember what Inuyasha said to Kikyo and I'm to lazy to go looking it up so if it's wrong call me stupid and keep reading. And for Inuyasha calling Kagome's mom bitch, you have to remember that he's a dog youkai and a bitch to him is just a female, so he wasn't saying that to be mean. Okay? Is everybody happy? Good. Review! PLEASE?! It would make my day, really. Love y'all!