InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome's Realization ❯ Chapter 14a ( Chapter 17 )

Author's note: WARNING, WARNING, this chapter is not completed. I found that in writing this chapter "Inuyasha watches his first movie", that to do it the way that I envision it might take me several days and so I am going to split it into two, maybe three sections. So this is Part A. I really hope you like *Types nervously.

Kagome came downstairs carrying four pillows; she took them into the front room, tossed one at Sota and one on the comforter chair that he was leaning against for mother. She tossed one on the couch for herself. When she held the last pillow she looked at Inuyasha.

"Where are you planning on sitting?" She asked, moving out of the way as her mother went to the DVD player and put the movie in to start it.

"Where are you sitting?" he asked, standing to one side of the room, arms crossed, watching everything with interest.

"I'm laying on the couch." Kagome said, and she did just that.

"Then I'll sit here." Inuyasha said, taking a sit on the floor, his back barely touching the couch. He was sitting far over enough so that Kagome could see from her lying position on the couch but not to far as to be setting next to her feet.

"Be comfortable." Kagome said. She took the last pillow and shoved it in between Inuyasha and the couch. "Now, lean back and stick your legs out in front of you. There you go, that's better, right?"

"I guess." Inuyasha said. He felt less strain on his back now and granted that was more comfortable but he wasn't used to sitting like this so he couldn't say that it was better.

"Let's begin." Said Mrs. Higarashi, and the Disney music came in loud and clear from the surround sound speakers.

"WOW" Said Inuyasha as a beautiful forest appeared on Kagome's TV

Narrator:

Once upon a time in a far away land a young prince lived in a shining castle. Although the prince had everything his heart desired the prince was spoiled and unkind. But then, one winter's night an old beggar woman offered him a single rose in return for shelter.

"Those are just drawings. I thought you said they moved?' Inuyasha said.

"Shh. It's coming." Kagome said, thankful that the sound was up loud; nobody seemed to notice Inuyasha speaking.

Repulsed by her haggard appearance the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away. But she warned him not to be deceived by appearances for beauty is found within and when he dismissed her again the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress. The prince tried to apologize, but it was too late for she had seen that there was no love in his heart and as his punishment she transformed him into a hideous beast and placed a powerful spell on the castle and all who lived there. Ashamed of his monstrous form the Beast concealed himself inside his castle with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside rose. The rose that she had offered was really an enchanted rose that would bloom until his 21st birthday. If he could learn to love another and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell then the spell would be broken, if not he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years past he fell into despair and lost all hope for who could ever learn to love a beast.

"This is a sappy movie." Inuyasha said to Kagome over his shoulder as the opening title appeared. "Why should he have let some stranger in his home?"

"Because it was the kind thing to do, Inuyasha."

The scene changes to a little cottage and a young girl walking carrying a basket. The music changes.

"Little town, it's a quite village. Everyday like the one before. Little town full of little people waking up to say" Bonjour, Bonjour, Bonjour, Bonjour, bonjour.

"There goes the baker with his tray like always, the same old bread and rolls to sell. Every morning just the same since the morning that we came to this poor provential town."

Inuyasha looked absolutely terrified, singing??? What the hell? He watched amazed as people went around singing to each other instead of speaking. But it seemed like there was talking in between for the woman with the basket was speaking to what appeared to be a bookman. Oh, more singing.

"Look, there she goes, that girl is so peculiar I wonder if she's feeling well. With a dreamy far off look and her nose stuck in a book."

And again the woman was singing, now about her book, seemed like a sappy book from what he gathered it was about.

"Kagome, what is all this singing?" Inuyasha said, after he watched sheep being herded away and a fat woman trying on hats started singing.

"Now, its no wonder that her name means beauty her looks have got no parallel."

Inuyasha did a double take when the woman threw off one hat, with her hair attached, and immediately placed on another one.

"We call this a musical, Inuyasha. There are going to be several songs." Kagome was trying not to laugh as she watched his reaction to the movie more than the movie itself.

"So people are going to just sing songs to each other at will?" Inuyasha said, worried that the answer was yes.

"Yes. This is for my music appreciation class and the topic is music in movies." Kagome smiled at the look on Inuyasha's face. This was nothing to the one that he made when Belle started singing just after she first appeared. And watching all the villagers singing to one another was also a Kodak moment.

"Your mom didn't tell me that." He said turning back to the movie.

Kagome looked over at her mother and brother. Sota was happily watching the cartoon and her mother had Buyo lying on her lap, cleaning himself and every now and then would look at the TV to see what was happening. A gunshot from the movie brought Kagome's eyes back to the screen and Inuyasha laughed as a short fat guy holding a big sack with a huge smile on his face failed in capturing the bird that was struck down with the bullet. He laughed more when the guy quickly stuck the bird in the bag anyway looking around to see if anyone saw his mistake.

"Wow, you didn't miss a shot Gaston. You're the greatest hunter in the whole world." The short guy said, running up, to what Inuyasha thought, a formidable human, where several other bags lay. But Inuyasha immediately took a dislike when he heard.

"I know." He said, with a cocky grin on his face. Walking away carrying only his gun, leaving his servant to follow behind him.

"No beast alive stands a chance against you." Short man said, carrying the load of kill, laughing. "And no girl for that matter."

Grabbing him by the back of the neck, the stronger of the two held up short man, squeezing him by his neck. "It's true Lefou," another cocky smile, `and I've got my sights set on that one." Pointing his gun.

"How rude." Inuyasha said with furrowed brows.

It pointed to the woman Belle.

"The inventor's daughter?" Short guy named Lefou said.

"Yeah right." Said Inuyasha, smirking at the dumbass. Like anyone, especially her would want to marry you.

"She's the one-the lucky girl I'm going to marry." Choking his servant more then dropping him.

"But she's" he said on the way down.

"The most beautiful girl in town." Brushing back his hair like a woman.

"Don't know about that." Commented Inuyasha.

"I know, but.." Lefou takes a hit to the head with the muzzle of Gaston's gun.

"That makes her the best." Grabbing Lefou by the front of his shirt, "and don't I deserve the best?"

Again he drops the short guy and more singing, Inuyasha thought wrinkling up his nose when the tough looking human busted into song.

"Right from the moment when I met her, saw her I said `she's gorgeous,' and I fell.

Admiring himself in a mirror, "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me. So, I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle." Looking around because he lost her while admiring himself in the mirror.

"He's kidding, right?" Inuyasha said looking back at Kagome. Kagome just shrugged and smiled at him.

"Look, there he goes, isn't he dreamy?" Inuyasha saw three, very pretty, blonde humans singing around a water pump. "Monsieur Gaston, oh, he's so cute. Be still, my heart, I'm hardly breathing." Inuyasha laughed at Lefou being soaked by the ladies.

Inuyasha watched amazed as more people where walking about singing things to each other that could just simply be spoken. To it all Belle seemed to not notice, she's weird Inuyasha concluded.

"There must be more than this provincial life." Belle said, going around in circles.

"Just watch I'm going to make Belle my wife." Gaston declares before an interested crowd who then proceed to block his way.

Inuyasha couldn't believe that Belle could walk away so nonchalant as people sang about how strange she was literary just behind her back. I wish could be more like that, he thought to himself and then gasped, shaking the thought from his mind.

He watched as Gaston shows up next to Belle and takes her book, flipping through it like an idiot wondering why there are no pictures then watched appalled as he tossed it in the mud and said

"It's about time you got your head out of those books and paid attention to more important things," running to stand in her way while she tries to retrieve her book, "like me." Another cocky grin only this time the three blondes swoon with him.

"Always want what they can't have." Inuyasha commented shaking his head , just like Kouga.

"The whole town's talking about it. It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking." Gaston continued with a disgusted look on his face.

"Gaston, you are positively primeval." Inuyasha `feh' at the comment, just like Kagome, instead of telling him what for she opts for niceness.

"Why, thank you, Belle." Belle and Inuyasha share the same expression at the fact that he missed her subtle insult and rather took it as a compliment. Behind him he could hear slight laughing coming from Kagome.

"What do you say you and me walk over to the tavern and take a look at my trophies." Inuyasha felt his blood boil at Kouga grabbing Kagome, I mean Inuyasha said in his brain shaking his head violently, Gaston grabbing Belle in such a familiar way. And he couldn't believe that the three blondes thought she was crazy simply because he was `gorgeous' and were closing to fainting again.

Pulling away from Gaston, "Please, I can't. I have to get home to help my father."

Jaken, no Lefou Lefou there out of nowhere throws drown the sack of birds jumping on it laughing and mocks her, "That crazy old loon, he needs all the help he can get."

Both laughed. Inuyasha realized he was growling when Kagome nudged him on his shoulder.

"Don't talk about my father that way." Hands on her hips and eyes flaring, you tell them Belle.

Knocking Lefou on the head, "yeah don't talk about her father that way." Too late dumbass.

EXPLOSION and tons of smoke from behind.

"HAHAHA" laughed Inuyasha, right along with Gaston and Lefou.

Inuyasha watches with intrigued eyes and tries to take in everything as Belle runs around looking for her father, who seems to have gotten blown into a barrel. Inuyasha tried to focus on all the knickknacks and contraptions laying about the room. He also saw books and papers, a shiny ax, I'd like to try that out, and other things he couldn't begin to name.

"And become a world famous inventor." Inuyasha looked at an up close father and daughter moment.

"You really believe that?"

"I always have."

Inspired, "Well what are we waiting for?"

A violin.

"I'll have this thing fixed in no time."

Inuyasha's head tilted to the left, then the right and back again as he saw what the jiji was working on.

"What the hell is that?" Inuyasha said out loud.

Kagome laughed, she was hardly seeing any of the movie, she knew she would have to watch it twice but it was well worth it to be able to experience Inuyasha truly see something new and experiencing a new enjoyment. He had so little in his short well long life. Kagome remembered Inuyasha saying he was 112.

"OOHH" Inuyasha sat forward a little to see what tools where in the tool box Belle was digging in absentmindedly for her father.

"Did you have a good time in town today?" And echoed voice said.

"I got a new book"

Inuyasha eyes followed, intrigued as to where they might lead, the spiral red tube. Is that the back of a chair I see?

"Papa, do you think I'm odd?" The tool slinking around in her hand.

Papa appeared with bulging eyes and a chipped cup on his head. "My daughter? Odd? Where would you get an idea like that?"

I wonder chuckled Inuyasha.

"Oh, I don't know."

Sure you do, it's the jiji.

Admiring new book "It's just that I'm not sure if I fit in here."

You don't, I should know.

"There isn't anyone I can really talk to." A sadish looking coming to Belle's face.

Inuyasha felt mixed emotions about her look, get used to it. His head jerked when he saw a pair of mismatched socks and more strange tools lying on the floor.

"What about Gaston? He's a handsome fellow."

"Get real, jiji." Inuyasha said, he was going to ask Kagome about what types of tools he was working with, surely she should know, when Belle's father caught his attention.

"He's handsome, all right, and rude, and conceited, and" plopping down, "Oh papa he's not for me."

"Feh" Inuyasha said when he saw the nasty pot behind Belle.

"Well don't you worry `cause this invention is going to be the start of a new life for us. I think that's done it." Taking the weird glasses off his face, "Now let's give it a try."

"All right." Inuyasha sat up into Indian style position when Belle's father reached to pull the lever that would set his contraption into motion. A whistle sounded and Inuyasha laughed some more as Belle and her dad ducked down for some cover. The contraption started shaking, gears started clanking and movie. The teapot seemed suddenly hot and a bubble swirled down the red tube, causing more gears to spin.

Whack, whack, whack, chopped the ax into a piece of wood lying on top of different wood and more gears. A spring reaction caused the cut piece to toss over to the woodpile and land perfectly in line.

"All he did was create a lazy way, using parts from around his hut, to make a lazy way to chop wood?" Inuyasha asked to no one in particular, with a disbelieving look on his face. Prime example of people coming up with ways to avoid doing any actual work. "What a lazy ass."

Inuyasha wasn't aware that he had said that last part out loud as well till he heard, "I'll ask you to watch your language, Inuyasha." Mrs. Higarashi said.

Inuyasha reddened in embarrassment and then swelled with anger some as he listened to more laughter from Kagome.

"Quite and watch the movie." She added, turning back to the movie.

Inuyasha clamped his mouth shut and watched as more wood flew to the pile and laughed as quietly as he could when the inventor got whacked in the head by a piece of flying wood.

Horse and carriage, now that is something I can recognize. Inuyasha watched intrigued as Belle's father proceeded to get lost and try to take his unwilling horse down a creepy path instead of the sun lit one. He nodded his head in agreement when the horse tried to go his own way anyway. Good horse.

Inuyasha felt the creepiness of the dark and foreboding trail, same as Philipe, and he jumped when the wolf flashed by the screen. Inuyasha complete understood the horse's instant fear as he started to back up.

"This can't be right." The can't navigate inventor said. "Where have you taken us Philipe?" Some nerve, he tried to tell you. "We'd better turn around." First smart thing you've said since I meet you.

But it seemed to late as Philipe reached the point of bolting when he backed into a tree and bats swarmed over their heads.

"Look out" They both cried.

"WHOA" Inuyasha said when Philipe finally bolted and almost ran off a treacherous cliff.

"Back up, back up, back up." Inuyasha chanted to himself softly along with the inventor. This is so exciting.

Wolves howling only further disturb poor Philipe when he finally managed to turn around. Rearing back, he tossed the inventor and his lantern, shattering it into a short lived engulfing flames. And Philipe burned out, with two wolves hot on his trail. The poor inventor was left alone and in the dark with his cloak draped over his head.

RUN, BAKA.

"Philipe" he whispered on all fours.

Give it up, the horse did the smart thing and burnt out.

Inuyasha really felt sorry for the cartoon human when thunder started rumbling and wolves growled signaling their arrival to the dinner table, YOURS. SO RUN BAKA.

Inuyasha willed the too fat to run inventor to stop looking behind him and just focus on haling ass. Inuyasha urged him more when memories of being chased like that flashed before his minds eye. He saw himself running, tripping and falling over roots that were hidden by the grass, and with a quick look over his shoulder to see his pursuers hot on his trail he took off again.

"Hello?" Inuyasha was snapped out of his thoughts to see the inventor entering a dark castle dripping wet and cold. "Hello?" Just a little louder this time. I don't like the looks of that place.

"Poor fellow must have lost his way in the woods." Came a soft voice. Who said that? Inuyasha's ears perked up.

"Keep quite, maybe he'll go away." Said another voice. Inuyasha spies a candle and clock on the table behind the inventor.

"Is someone there?" You hear it too don't you?!?

Suddenly a close up view of the clock and candle and Inuyasha's eyes bulge when he sees eyes and a nose of the candle, and eyes and lips coming out the of side of the clock face, then it speaks, "Not a word, Lumiere; not one word." I hope not, talk to me and you just might get demolished.

"I don't mean to intrude but I've lost my horse and I need a place to stay for the night." Poor fellow.

Apparently the candle thought the same thing, "Oh, Cogsworth, have a heart."

"The candle sticks are his arms." Inuyasha said aloud when Lumiere started moving them around in hand like gestures.

"Yeah." Said Sota who suddenly appeared sitting next to Inuyasha, "It's the spell."

"Oh. When did you move over here?" Inuyasha said looking down at Sota.

"Just now." He smiled and turned his attention back to the TV.

"SSHH" Apparently the clock was determined the candle shut up so he put his metal arm over the candles wax mouth. With a devilish look in his eyes the candle holds one of his candlelit hands underneath his.

Inuyasha and Sota laughed looking at one another when the clocks hand turned red and he started hopping around blowing on it.

"Of course, Monsieur, you are welcome here." Full of politeness for a candle.

Surprised by the voices, the inventor grabbed the candle looking around.

"Who said that?"

"Over here." The candle moved in his hand.

"Where?" The candle knocked on the inventor's head.

"Allo." And was flung to the ground.

"I love this part." Sota said, nudging Inuyasha with his arm.

"Incredible."

"Well, now you've done it. Splendid, just peachy." The clock jumped of the table, and due to lack of proper legs hopped across the floor.

Inuyasha wished he were the inventor when he picked up the clock and inspected it. "How is the accomplished?"

"Put me down at once!" the clock said with indignation

Inuyasha laughed with a huge smile on his face as the inventor, in checking the stand the clock sat on, tickled the clock. "Stop that." Hehehe, "Stop that I say."

The clock then found himself being shock upside down with the candle trying to hide his amusement on the floor.

Everyone laughed when the inventor started twisting the arms on his clock face, looking like it hurt.

Apparently the last line had been crossed when the inventor opened the little window that held the chime. "Sir, close that at once. Do you mind?" Slamming the inventor's hand in his door, a crossed look on his face.

"I beg your pardon. It's, it's just that I've never seen a.." The inventor was stopped short by what appeared to be a sneeze.

"Watch out clock, he's going to blow." Inuyasha said, laughing, waiting with anticipation. And blow he did, right into the clocks windowed face, misting it up. The first and second hand whipped it away.

"You must be soaked to the bone. Come, warm yourself by the fire."

"That candle sure does seem small compared that that room he is standing in." Inuyasha said to Sota

"Yeah, I'll say, that castle is huge." Sota said back. "Oh, look, it's the beast. See him? See him?" Sota pointed to the screen.

"Yeah, I see him. I think Belle's father is in trouble."

"Yeah."

Kagome watched, only looking at the movie when she wanted to see exactly what it was that Inuyasha was seeing, as Sota and Inuyasha laughed and pointed at the TV. It was a wonderful sight to see. Together, watching the movie, they were about the same age. Inuyasha was reacting to the movie almost the same way that she and Sota had when they first saw it. But it was more interesting to watch Inuyasha; for him it was all so new. He will probably never grasp the concept of a cartoon, even if explained to him in the easiest of terms, because it was to advanced for his time. He's been coming over to the house for months and each time he sees or finds something new and interesting. It was like being a child and seeing your world for the first time. Kagome laughed when they nudged and pointed for each other to look when the dog/foot rest came barking into the room, first spinning the clock around, then jumping around for pettings, till he finally went to prop the mans feet up.

"That's a coat rack." Sota explained to Inuyasha when one appeared and placed a blanket around the inventor.

"What service."

"I'll say." Inuyasha said impressed. The furnishings seem friendlier than real people. Well everyone but the clock.

"All right, this has gone far enough. I'm in charge here." And the respect he was given was showed when a runaway carriage mowed him down.

"How would you like a nice spot of tea, sir?" Said the teapot on the carriage. "It'll warm you up in no time." Pouring.

"It's the teapot from the cover." Inuyasha said, delighted.

The clock again was the unheard voice of reason. "No tea."

"HHUUHH." Inuyasha said, when the teacup that the inventor was drinking out of came to life and started laughing. "His mustache tickles, mama."

"It's a child!" Wonder was on Inuyasha's face.

He seems so innocent, Kagome thought to herself as she laid her head onto her pillow, making no efforts to hide the fact that she was watching Inuyasha. Not that it mattered anyway for no one was paying her any attention.

Kagome jumped, when Sota and Inuyasha jumped when the sounds of a slamming echoed in the front room and on the screen all the candles were blown out. Sota leaned closer to Inuyasha, as if for protection.

"WOW" Inuyasha said when he finally got a good look at the Beast, as he entered the room on all fours, a cape blowing around on his right side, his lower half encased in tattered pants.

"There's a stranger here." Beast said looking around the room.

A terrified candle spoke first. "Master, allow me to explain. The gentleman was lost in the woods. He was cold and wet." He don't care, a gust of growled wind blew out the candle.

"Master, I'd like to take this moment to say. "The clock started, pulling himself up slightly from his terrible hiding place under the mat. "I was against this from the start. It was all his fault. I tried to stop them but would they listen to me? No."

"Now that is Jaken whining there, huh Kagome?" Inuyasha laughed, looking over his shoulder again at Kagome.

She too was watching, and at Inuyasha's words the clock turned into the image of the ugly green toad trying to explain himself to Sesshomaru, pointing out who is really to blame trying to get it acknowledge that he was the voice of reason. But the Beast, actually close to having a Sesshomaru moment if it weren't for the fact that his feelings showed through, didn't care and roared at the clock making him shiver in fear under the mat.

"Yeah. A little bit of Shippo too." Kagome said, laughing at her thoughts.

Everyone in Kagome's living room gasped with the inventor when he was suddenly face to face with the Beast.

I hate that I can't sense it when things are coming, but it makes it so much more exciting. Inuyasha thought, thinking of the rush he felt when he saw the evil look on the Beasts face as he stared down his intruder.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" The Beast got more into the inventors face, forcing him to leave his seat while the Beast simply climbed over it.

"I-I-I was lost in the woods, and, and.."Stammered the inventor backing away from the getting ever-closer Beast.

"You're not welcome here." The Beast said forcefully

"I'm sorry." Don't think that is going to cut it.

"What are you starring at?" Beast lifted his height up till he was towering over the scared human.

"N nothing."

"So, you've come to stare at the Beast, have you?" Getting angrier.

"Dude, he was lost in the woods." Inuyasha said, as if his words would reach the Beast and help the inventor.

"I just needed a place to stay." The inventor said, after failing to run away from the Beast, who easily proved he was the faster by blocking his way with his own body.

"I'll give you a place to stay." Grabbing the inventor and lifting him off the ground. Shadows of the event were cast onto the scared servants as they watched the jiji being carted off.

The screen fades to darkness.

"What are they looking so shocked for, the clock tried to warn them? But would they listen to him." Inuyasha said, mocking Cogsworth, "NNOO."

More laughter.

Author's note: Okay, tell me what you think. If I get a lot of hates it then I might change my style.