InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome's Realization ❯ Chapter 13 ( Chapter 16 )

"Please." Begged Kagome. Her and Inuyasha had been standing by the well by he said no and she said yes for nearly five minutes.

"Kagome, we still have to find Naraku and the rest of the Shikon no Tama. Can't you just reload on your supplies and come straight back?" Inuyasha was trying not to be a tyrant about the whole situation but she would delay their search five days and who knew when Naraku would regain his strength and be on the search again for the jewel shards.

"Three days, then. It's been two weeks since I've home, we've been searching that whole time and haven't even so much as a heard a rumor that might lead to Naraku's whereabouts." Kagome countered. Please, please, please, her mind pleaded.

"Make it two and you've got a deal." Inuyasha said giving in.

"Okay, but only if I get back in four days for two more days." Kagome said putting her foot down. "Take it or I'll forget the whole thing, `o' you and be gone the whole five days."

Inuyasha glared at her with hating eyes, but inside he was quite content. "Fine. You got two days, Kagome."

"Hai, hai." Kagome said sitting on the well prepared to jump in. "I'll be back in two days."

"You better be." Inuyasha well when Kagome disappeared from sight.

On the other side of the well, Kagome gently landed and smiling she climbed out of the well. "We finally negotiated for once." And with her yellow backpack on her back she ran for the house.

"I'm home." She called when she came in.

"Hello." Said Mrs. Higarashi, coming out of the kitchen, apron on, drying towel in hand. "I was just making breakfast for Sota. You want some?"

"YES. I'm starved for something other than Ramen." Kagome said following her smiling mother into the kitchen.

"Are you going to school today?" Mrs. Higarashi asked pulling down another plate from the cabinet.

"Hello Buyo." Kagome said, walking over to the counter and stroking his head. "How are you feeling?"

"Meow." Buyo said purring loudly.

"That good huh?" Kagome said laughing at him.

"He's much better, though I still keep him confined to the house." Mrs. Higarashi joined her daughter.

"Yes, I plan on going to school today and tomorrow and then I'll be back for the weekend." Kagome said, taking off her backpack and taking a seat at the table.

"You'll be alone then. Your grandfather's retreat is this weekend, Sota is going over to his friends with Sneaks, and seeing as everyone is going to be gone I let Sonya talk me into going to a nice little resort for animal lovers, so even Buyo is going to be gone." Mrs. Higarashi said placing Kagome's breakfast in front of her.

"Who's Sneaks?" Kagome asked, looking up at her mother.

"Sota named his puppy Sneaks, he is such a quite thing. He literally sneaks up on you." She said smiling.

"Speaking of Sota, where is he?" Kagome said, looking up from her plate to Sota's empty seat.

"Right here." Said a groggy voice. "Welcome home." Sota said, giving his sister a quick hug before taking his seat and taking a drink of orange juice his mother set before him.

"Thanks. You don't mind my staying alone this weekend?" Kagome said, taking her first bite.

Mrs. Higarashi considered her daughter as she joined her children at breakfast, coffee cup in hand, "Your old enough. I think you're responsible enough for me not to have to worry about you burning the house down."

"I think I can manage that." Kagome laughed.

"If Inuyasha happens to come over and ends up staying the night, I would prefer it if he sleeps in Sota's room." She said, turning slightly taking a drink. Sota looked up at his sister and smiled. Kagome blushed.

"You don't have to worry about Inuyasha, mother, I plan on using the quite has as a good time to study and catch up on my homework." Kagome said, staring at her food.

"Speaking of homework, the school sent you some. There it is, in that manila envelope behind you." She said, pointing just beyond her.

Kagome turned around and snatched it up. Ignoring Sota and her mom talk about his activities for the day she opened the envelope to see how much she would have to make up.

Too much math, Kagome thought with a sigh, Eeek a history test tomorrow, good thing I've been studying in the other world. Let's see, what else. Kagome's eyes skimmed over the history assignments she missed and took a look at the math problems. Then science, literature, and grammar worksheets. The last page caught her undivided attention.

Dear Higarashi,

I was very sorry to hear that you have once again been hospitalized for your anemia. Hope to see you in class soon but since you've been out you have missed an assignment that for grade purposes, must be made up. I wanted to show you how music effects movies, not only with words but also with the music. Please rent a copy of Disney's Beauty and the Beast and write a short paper considering how one song of your choice affects the characters or atmosphere. When I next see you in class when can discuss the due date, till then rest and relax and if your up for it watch a cartoon.

Hagomoto

An assignment that involves watching TV, I can work with this, was Kagome's thinking. "I need to rent a movie." Kagome said to her mother how nodded.

"Kagome?" Said Mrs. Higarashi.

"Yes, mom." Kagome said, placing her homework back in its envelope.

"You know that I am fond of Inuyasha. We all are." She said, waving her hand towards Sota who looked up and nodded. "But when is your quest going to be finished?"

"I'm not sure, why?" Kagome asked slowly, laying her bread on her plate.

"Now you know that I would never forbid you and Inuyasha from seeing each other, or his spending the night, but I think it's time you focused on your life. Focus on your future, here at home with us in this time." Mrs. Higarashi reached across the table to take her daughters hand.

"I can't do that. Not till the jewel is fixed. I am responsible for that and it is my duty to protect those who will be hurt by what I've done." Kagome said, worried that her mother was going to try and restrict her going to the other world days sometimes weeks at a time. She had enough trouble getting Inuyasha to leave her be when she was gone for only three days after being with him for over a week.

"I know, and I'm not saying it's something that has to happen right this second, but your school work and attendance are hurting as well and I don't want to see that make things harder for you in the long run. I just want it to be understood that when you've corrected your mistake and righted things I want to see better grades. I don't want your grandfather making up stories for the rest of his life." She patted Kagome's hand and grabbed the abandoned plate in front of her, taking it to the sink.

"I agree with mom. I want you to be around more. It's not the same without you here all the time." Sota chimed in.

"I miss you guys too." Kagome said, looking from one to the other.

"Oh, man, look at the time. I'm going to be late for school." Sota whipped his mouth with his napkin and took off.

"Don't look so sad, Kagome." Mrs. Higarashi said, coming to stand beside her daughter. "Everything will work out as it is supposed to in the end, you'll see."

"Will I?" Kagome said, doubting her mother's words.

"Yes. Now what about a movie?" Mrs. Higarashi said, remembering Kagome said something along those lines before she sidetracked the conversation.

"What?" Kagome said confused. "Oh, yes it seems that a movie was showed in one of my classes and I've missed it. He sent me a letter saying that I should rent it and watch it. He wants a paper based on the movie."

"What movie?"

"Beauty and the Beast." Kagome said, trying to smile for her mother though she didn't really feel it.

"Oh, that sounds like a nice movie we can all watch together as a family. Tell you what I'll rent it on my way home from work and we can all watch it tonight, okay?" Mrs. Higarashi said.

Kagome nodded not looking at her mother; her mind was too filled with the thoughts that someday she would have to reduce her time spent with her second family.

It was with these thoughts that she went to school with. She barely acknowledge the fact that she was taking notes and she could barely remember talking to her Music Appreciation teacher, telling him that as soon as she watched the movie and wrote up her paper she would turn it in as soon as possible. The only thing that registered in her mind was the fact that she didn't have her history book. I must have left it on the other side of the well, Kagome thought after some consideration, I'll have to make a trip over there tonight if I want to be able to study for my test.

"KAGOME." Came Sota's voice, interrupting her daylong trance, as she made her way up the steps of the shrine.

"What is it?" She said, not hurrying herself.

"Inu-ne-chan is here." He said, jumping up and down.

"Here?" Kagome said, rushing up the last few steps. Why, she wondered.

"Yeah, he's inside with mom." And before Sato could say anything else Kagome was running to the house.

"I'm home." She called, tossing aside her backpack, looking from room to room. Finally she found them in the kitchen.

"Here you go, Inuyasha." Said Mrs. Higarashi, placing bowel of Ramen in front of him. "Hello, Kagome." She said looking up and smiling. "How was school?"

"Fine." Kagome said, not even looking at her mother. Her eyes were locked with Inuyasha's, who had chopsticks and noodles hanging from his mouth. "Why are you here?"

"SLURP" Was his initial response.

"I was going into your room to put away some clothes when I found Inuyasha there." Mrs. Higarashi said.

Kagome looked at her mother confused and then turned her attention back to Inuyasha, whose head was turned and ears tucked low. "Why were here?" Kagome asked again.

"Nothing." Inuyasha said standing up and turning to face her. "You forgot something so I was putting it in your room for when you got home. I wasn't going to stay."

"But when I saw him I insisted that he stay for a while." Mrs. Higarashi said, eyes closed her usually happy smile on her face. Inuyasha was nodding his head furiously while pointing his finger at Mrs. Higarashi.

Kagome smiled at the scene before her. A soft laughing escaping when she pictured her mother hovering over Inuyasha when she found him in her room, which reminded her, "What did I forget?"

"Oh, our history book." Her mother said, producing it on cue.

"Good." Kagome said, taking it happily. "Thank you." She said, turning to smile at Inuyasha. "I was going to come and search for it there and you saved me a trip. Where was it?"

"At Keada's." He said, crossing his arms. He lied; he had actually snatched it the night before when Kagome said that she wanted to go home. He had planned on her being home when he brought it back but apparently his timing was off. He was deciding if he should leave it or just come back later when she was home when her mom walked in.

"Thank you." Kagome said again.

"I invited Inuyasha to stay and watch the movie with us tonight." Kagome's mother said, walking over to the counter and picking up the movie from where it lay.

"It's in English, though." Kagome said, taking it.

"I looked into that already, the DVD has Japanese dub." Mrs. Higarashi flipped over the DVD and showed Kagome on the back.

Kagome looked at Inuyasha who just stood there and watched her with an unreadable expression. "You've never seen a movie before. Did my mom explain what the movie was to you?"

"Yes, but I still don't understand so I've decided that I will find out for myself. Is that okay with you?" Inuyasha took on a concerned expression. He was interested in seeing what a movie actually looked like. He had been told by Mrs. Higarashi that a movie usually had real people in it but that this one was a cartoon, which she said to be drawings that where alive. He was actually excited about the whole thing, to see a movie let alone a cartoon was too much to pass up, but at the same time he knew that Kagome's time at home with her family was very important to her and he didn't want his presence to upset her. She was usually studying when he came over and he didn't want his first oswari since his last one to be because he was disturbing her concentration.

"As long as you understand that I have to study after the movie is over it's fine with me. Actually it will be interesting. I hope you'll like it Inuyasha." Kagome said, holding up the front cover of the DVD which had a woman, a fancy dressed beast, a candle stick, a tea pot, and a tea cup, all of which where smiling.

"The candle, tea pot, and tea cup have faces on them." Inuyasha said taking the movie from Kagome, studying it. "And who's this guy?"

"They are all humans that have a spell on them." Kagome said, that was the easiest explanation. She'll wait till the rest come when they watched the movie.

"Figures." Inuyasha said, laughing.

"What do you mean?" Asked Mrs. Higarashi.

"Oh, nothing." Inuyasha said thinking that he better remember that he was around Kagome's mom and didn't want her thinking he didn't like humans too much.

"Okay. Well let's eat dinner first. Kagome, why don't you go and change out of your uniform and come and help me. Inuyasha, eat your Ramen before it gets cold." Mrs. Higarashi stop to pet Buyo who was happily out of his box and lying on one of the table chairs as she made her way to the sink to wash her hands and start supper. And Inuyasha sat down and to eat his Ramen and Kagome left to go and change for supper. Tonight will be Inuyasha's first and maybe last movie. This ought to be an interesting night, she thought to herself smiling as she went up to her room.

Author's Note: I appreciate all the positive reviews and feedback I have gotten from all of you. I love them all, and I hope you keep them coming it definitely puts me in the mood for writing. As for the next chapter, it may take me a bit to get the image I have in my head, some of it due to inspiration from my friend Ai, typed up into a chapter so I hope your patience with me will be worth it when I am finished.