InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome's Realization ❯ Chapter 29 ( Chapter 34 )

Chapter 29

Kagome wiped the foggy bathroom mirror till she could see her reflection. She moved her wet hair out of her face and stared at herself. She turned her head left then right and then left again. She leaned forward to take a closer look at her face, she looked her mouth, her cheeks, her nose, her forehead, and then finally her eyes. She stared hard into them, not sure what she was looking for but hoping she would find it there.

"I look exactly the same." Kagome said moving back to stand up right again. She moved back and threw her head forward and wrapped a towel around her wet hair. After she checked to make sure her towel wasn't going to drop she left the bathroom and humming softly to herself she made her way to her room.

Kagome stopped short at the doorway to her room when she saw her mother standing beside her bed, inhaling the scent of her nightshirt. Her face was buried in it, her shoulders shaking slightly.

"Momma?" Kagome said flinching when she jumped and yanked the shirt away from her face, tears shining in her eyes.

"You enjoy your shower?" Kanya Higarashi asked smiling sweetly.

"It was heavenly." Kagome answered walking over to stand in front of her mother.

"Here." She held out the shirt. "You must be chilly."

Kagome looked at her mother, then slowly she dropped her gaze to her shirt, and slowly she reached out and took it. She held the shirt out in front of her for a moment before smelling it the same way that her mother had.

"It holds your smell. It's been washed since the last time you wore it and yet I still can smell you." Kanya said fresh tears rising.

Kagome pulled her shirt back, "It smells clean to me."

Kanya's expression turned sad, "To me it smells like you." Tears fell from her eyes and ran down her face.

Kagome threw her arms around her mother and hugged her tightly. "Don't cry."

"I shall cry." She replied hugging her daughter tighter, "For six days I waited and worried and waited for word." She pulled back from Kagome but she didn't release her. "I got home and found the well house in ruins and blood. You weren't here and you didn't leave a note, I didn't know what to think."

"I'm so sorry that you went through that." Kagome said shedding her own tears.

"No, no." Replied her mother reaching up and wiping away her tears. "I'm just so glad that you're okay."

"Did Inuyasha tell you what happened?" Kagome questioned.

Kanya shivered and stepped back from her daughter. "I don't want to think about what Inuyasha said happened."

"What did he tell you?" Kagome asked, she felt that she knew what happened, basically, but no one was giving her any information.

"MOM!"

Both Kagome and her mother turned at Sota's shout.

"I'm in Kagome's room."

Sota came bursting into the room. "Nee-chan!" He shouted and ran to hug his sister. "Grandpa said that you were finally awake. I'm so glad."

Kagome hugged her brother with one arm while the other kept her towel from falling off. "I just finished taking a shower."

"Yes, so why don't we give Kagome a chance to get dressed? Hmm?" Kanya said gently pulling Sota away from Kagome.

"You'll come downstairs when you're finished?" Sota asked walking backwards out of the room.

"Yes." Kagome said smiling at him sweetly. Kagome listened till she couldn't hear their footsteps anymore and went and shut her door. She stared at the shirt in her hand.

"She knows I died and came back." Kagome said out loud. She tossed her wet towel on the back of her desk chair and put on her shirt and pants.

Kagome was straightening her pants when she heard a female voice ask, "What do you want?" very close to her ear.

Kagome jumped a few inches off the ground and then spun around to find herself alone in her room.

"You know what I want." Came another voice close to her ear.

"Who's there?" Kagome asked bringing her trembling hands to her face.

The sudden noise of her window sliding open caused Kagome to scream in surprise.

"Aaaahhhh!" Kagome screamed.

"Aaaahhhh!" Inuyasha screamed. "What are you screaming for? I always come in through the window." Inuyasha said shutting the window behind him.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome said relieved and threw herself into his arms.

Inuyasha instinctively wrapped his arms around her but became alarmed when he felt her trembling. "What happened?"

"I just heard two people talking to each other." Kagome said with her head buried in his chest.

"Where? In here?" Inuyasha asked looking around and sniffing the air but smelled only Kagome and her family.

"Yes, one said "what do you want?" and the other said, "you know what I want.""

"I don't smell anyone."

"No one was here." Kagome replied pulling away from him.

"Did you recognize the voices?" Inuyasha asked brushing her hair out of her face before placing his hands on her shoulders, messaging them gently.

Kagome's eyes rolled into the back of her head as she savored Inuyasha's comforting touch. "I don't know. I was too busy being surprised." Kagome's head tipped to the side Inuyasha's hand just barely brushed her cheek. "Do you think one of them could be me?"

Inuyasha's hands froze at Kagome's statement. "You?" He asked pulling his hands away.

Kagome caught one and held it to her cheek, kissing the palm. "Yes."

Inuyasha turned bright red at Kagome's intimate gesture. How was he supposed to think when she was making his stomach do flips. "You think it's you and Kikyo?"

Kagome let go of his hand and turned away from him to find her hairbrush. "I don't know what I think."

Inuyasha stared at Kagome as she brushed her hair. He didn't know what to say. What could he say? "Kagome, I…."

"Nee-chan, MXC is starting."

"I don't want to think about it right now." Kagome said turning around and forcing a smile. "Come on, you'll like MXC. Its people doing crazy stunts and most of them getting hurt."

"Oh." Inuyasha said as he let Kagome take his hand and lead him downstairs. There he spent the next hour trying to figure out why people would try to out maneuver boulders, run across sinking rocks, or across rolling logs. It seemed that they wanted to get hurt as nearly everyone either got run over by boulders or went head first into dirty water.

Inuyasha would have voiced his opinion on how silly this was but the sight of Kagome snuggled up with her mother kept any rude remarks he thought to say to himself. He felt his heart swell as he watched the contentment on their faces. And smiled when they laughed as yet another contender fell off the rolling logs and head first into the water. Things are as they should be, Inuyasha thought to himself turning his attention back to the television.

"And remember DON'T GET ELIMINATED." The people on the television screamed.

Mrs. Higarashi switched off the set. "Sota it's time for bed."

"Aww, mom." Sota whined from the floor.

"I let you stay up late as it is so no `aww, mom's' tonight, okay? You have school tomorrow." Mrs. Higarashi said while she stood next to the sofa looking down at her son. "Go and change and I'll be up in a minute."

"Come on, Sneaks." Sota said sullenly as he made he was up to his room, his dog trailing happily behind him.

"I'll say goodnight to you now, Kagome." Mrs. Higarashi said smiling back at Sota then making her way to stand in front of her daughter and pull her into a tight hug. "I won't wake you for school tomorrow but I don't want you to stay up late."

"I won't." Kagome said hugging her mother just as tightly before pulling back.

"I want you to get plenty of rest, food, and fluids. Understood?" She asked looking back and forth between the two of them.

"Understood." Kagome and Inuyasha said in unison.

"Speaking of food, I'm hungry again." Kagome said.

"Good." Her mother said smiling. "There is plenty of food in the kitchen."

"Have you eaten, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.

"Not since this morning." Inuyasha answered.

Kagome frowned at this, this morning huh? Pulling herself from her thoughts Kagome smiled at her mother. "You better make sure he's getting ready for bed. He's probably trying to teach Sneaks a new trick." Kagome looked up at the ceiling.

There was suddenly a loud bang and a rolling sound, soon followed by a bark from Sneaks.

"He's been trying to teach him to play football." Mrs. Higarashi said looking up at the ceiling too.

"Really?" Asked Inuyasha.

"The dog is very smart and seems to understand what is wanted of him. He's learning quite fast." She answered which was immediately followed by sound of breaking glass.

"Not fast enough." Kagome remarked.

"Oh, I bet the was his bed side lamp." Mrs. Higarashi said quickly walking over to Inuyasha. "In the morning, any time you want, I'll make you some breakfast. Just let me know, okay?" And she hugged him.

Inuyasha blushed red and after a few shocked moments passed he moved his arms to return the hug. "Oh." He said in answer.

"Goodnight." She said to the two of them before rushing upstairs to Sota's room.

"Goodnight." Kagome called after her before looking at Inuyasha in surprise.

"Don't ask me." He said to her unasked question. "Didn't you say something about eating?" He asked suddenly remembering he was hungry.

"In the kitchen." Sobering at the thought of the last time she was in there. "I'm sure there are some Ramen noodles in there." And she led the way to the kitchen.