InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ One Last Summer ❯ The Beach ( Chapter 3 )

 

 

 

 

One Last Summer

 

Chapter Three

 

7:24 A.M, Saturday, May Thirteenth. (Taishou Manor)

 

Walking up the steps of the porch and towards the doorway, Kagome turned around at hearing the sound of a car pull up. Sure enough, a bright red car passed through the iron gates at the bottom of the driveway, and pulled up in front of the fountain that was in the center of the circle-shaped driveway. A ragged looking InuYasha stepped out of the car, swaying as he made his way to her.

 

"Hey Yash. You just getting home?" Kagome asked, putting a steadying hand on his shoulder, and he nodded. InuYasha yawned, making her yawn, and so on, and so on…

 

"Didn't you leave at five yesterday? Gosh, did you just get back from a fourteen hour rave?" Her eyes widened in surprise, and he swayed in tiredness and yawned again.

 

"Yeah… but I had breaks in-between. I'm just…" Before he could even finish his sentence, his golden eyes closed, and he leaned more deeply onto her shoulder, snoring, fast asleep.

 

"H-help!" Kagome cried as she collapsed under his weight. Her head slammed onto the cobblestone-paved driveway, and she groaned. Sleeping soundly, and even drooling ever so slightly, was InuYasha, his long silver hair draping over her stomach like a curtain.

 

After a few minutes of trying - unsuccessfully - to push InuYasha off her, she cried out in frustration. "Argh! Oh come on. Your body is cutting off my air supply!" Kagome yelled at him, once again trying to push him away.

 

Just as she was about to cry out at the top of her lungs, a cry that Sango and Kikyo would hear, even though they were two miles away, someone opened the front door to the mansion and stepped out. The short, balding man wore the plain, but fancy garb of a butler. A broom at hand, he stood at the top of the staircase that led up the porch, and began to sweep away all the dirt and mud.

 

"Uh…" Kagome groaned, but realized that he could help her up. "Hey! You! Do you think you might be able to help me up?" She called out to him, and he looked up at the sudden interruption from his sweeping.

 

"Oh. Don't tell me, another girl scout - oh! Lord InuYasha! Are you alright?" Plain and outright ignoring the girl underneath 'Lord InuYasha,' the man rushed to the fallen InuYasha, pulling at the sleeve of his shirt.

 

After a while of only receiving snores as responses, he finally noticed the girl that was trapped underneath InuYasha. "Hello there! When did you pop in?" He asked cheerfully, now poking at InuYasha's face. Kagome sweat-dropped, and would have fell over in shock if she had been standing up. But she wasn't she was trapped under all one hundred twenty and up pounds of InuYasha.

 

"Let's see… I think I got here… RIGHT BEFORE INUYASHA CRUSHED ME." She was sure that the only way anyone in the house that could have slept through that loud a yell would have to be deaf, or dead.

 

Either one, she didn't think inhabited any space of the mansion. The man winced, and helped Kagome push the male off of her, only making him snore even louder than before. Without even asking her to, Kagome helped the man drag InuYasha into the house and to the bottom of the large marble staircase, where a sleepy-eyed Rin now waited. She grinned at seeing Kagome.

 

"Kagome! You are here!" She yelled, and bounded down the rest of the stairs until she reached the older girl. Wrapping her arms around Kagome's waist, Rin held on for dear life, grinning like no tomorrow.

 

She hopped off when she saw her uncle on the floor, the servant trying to lift him. "Oh! Myoga! What happened to Uncle Inu?"

 

Kagome and Myoga were at a loss. They couldn't tell Rin that he had passed out from alcohol over usage, or from just being way too tired. Last time he had said that, Myoga had had to stay up late, looking out to windows with Rin until it was two in the morning, waiting for Uncle Inu to show up, so Rin could make sure that she tucked her uncle into bed.

 

"Uh… ah, you see… um, well… Uncle Inu… uh, he… he… he went BOOM! And fell over." Kagome stated simply, smiling at the end of her sentence. Myoga slapped a hand to his head un frustration, but was surprised when Rin stared up at Kagome, her eyes wide and believing, her small mouth in the shape of an 'o'.

 

"So… he exploded?" Rin asked shyly. The two adults toppled over with exhaustion. Not only from carrying InuYasha up the stairs, over the porch, into the front hall and onto the bottom stairs, the young girl just had to question them. Kagome shook her had, moving to her knees, and stared into Rin's face.

 

'Maybe this will work better…' She hoped, and opened her mouth.

 

"Uncle Inu is very… heavy. And he was just… so heavy that he couldn't stand it any more, and just fell over. He went BOOM, because he landed on top of me." Kagome explained, and Rin had the same expression as last time.

 

"Oh. What does heavy mean?" The young girl asked, and the two adults almost fell over again. What were the teachers in school teaching these kids? Everybody's a happy person once they are drug free?

 

'Well, that's a good thing, but come on. Don't tell me they don't know the definition of heavy yet!' Apparently someone had already told her, for Rin stood there, a curious and contemplating look on her face.

 

"She means fat." A voice called from the open doorway. Kagome and Rin's head swiveled to the doorway, where two figures stood, their faces shadowed with the glare of the rising sun behind them. From two years of experience, Myoga already knew whom it was that had made their entrance.

 

They did something like that every time, if it was making a strange noise, scaring the pants off one of the servants that answered the door, or just plain old blow the door off. Although, glancing out of the corner of his eye, he only saw two of the normal trio standing there. Which meant that one of them was probably coming in via the back door…

 

'Oh shit!' Myoga cried mentally as he scrambled to his feet and took off towards the kitchen, where the back door was. Pulling herself to her feet, Kagome walked over to the boys and closed the door behind them, only in order to see their faces more clearly. Rin laughed and stood up as well, but didn't rush over to hug them like she usually did. They sighed dejectedly.

 

"Kohaku, Uncle Inu is not fat." Rin giggled again, and looked around expectantly for the third member of the group to show up. Kagome stopped when she heard that name. There was only one person she knew…

 

"And who's this young lady over here?" The second, taller boy asked, motioning towards Kagome. She smirked and walked up to Kohaku, face to face.

 

"Aww… Kohaku, I'm so sad that you don't remember me!" Kagome cried, her lips twisting into a small pout. Kohaku's eyes widened when he realized whom it was he was staring in the face.

 

"Kagome!" He yelled, and wrapped his arms around the older girl. Not being one to not greet and old 'friend' correctly, Kagome used the strength she had acquired to pick him up and swing him around, almost throwing him into the staircase once. The other boy laughed at the expression on Kohaku's face, which had gone from gleeful to fearful.

 

Suddenly the two collapsed to the ground in laughter, Kagome hanging onto Kohaku's shoulders. "Alright Kohaku, now where is he. I know he's here, I can practically smell him." Kagome commanded, her posture straight now.

 

"He's out parking the car." The other boy said, not wanting to be left out. He was the attention hog of the group after all, and that was why he was the leader. His auburn hair pulled back in a short ponytail, he gazed at the older girl on the ground in front of him, hugging his friend.

 

"WHAT?" Kagome screamed, and immediately burst into a ranting rage. " I told him he couldn't park any cars anymore! I'm not paying for Sesshomaru's cars if he crashes into one of them. Blood or not, I swear I'm not related to him if he destroys anything…" And on, and on, and on…

 

"Kidding!" The boy said, holding his hands up in front of him as Kagome jumped to her feet. "We took the bus. He's back in the kitchen." The angry girl stopped her ranting and waited for something.

 

A large, ground-shaking crash ensured her that he really was in the kitchen. Picking up the young girl that had been silent throughout the whole greeting, the four rushed to the kitchen, where a young boy in a chef's hat and apron and Myoga were covered in a sticky concoction, from head to toe. Even the ever-tired InuYasha had awoken at that one, and came striding into the kitchen, yawning.

 

"What the hell?!" he shouted, opening his eyes and gazing around. Rin knew that when Uncle Inu went into a swear-fest, there was nothing one could do besides sit back and wait it out.

 

"Rin's heard that one." She mumbled at the word 'hell'.

 

"What little piece of shit did this to my kitchen?"

 

"Rin's heard that one." She mumbled at 'shit'.

 

"Why the fuck did you have to make it look like crap? Couldn't you candy-coat it?"

 

"Rin's heard those two." She mumbled at 'fuck' and 'crap'.

 

"I didn't mean -" The pancake batter-covered boy started, with a fearful look on his face, but was interrupted.

 

"My ass you didn't -" This time, InuYasha himself was interrupted.

 

"InuYasha, shut up!" Kagome cried, smacking him upside the head.

 

"Rin's heard that one." She mumbled at 'ass'.

 

"What?" Rin heard Kagome ask her, the question directed towards her mumblings.

 

"Rin has - I mean, I have heard those words before." She shrugged and looked down at the ground, not seeing the sad look that came into Kagome's eyes as she said it.

 

'No matter where from, or who from, no child should know the meanings of those words at that age…'

 

"Rin…" Kagome started, but was cut off as the young girl showed her the brightest smile she could muster at the moment.

 

"Can we go wake up Sesshomaru-sama?" Rin asked, her smile growing brighter at the thought.

 

"Alright, as soon as we get Souta cleaned up." For the first time since she had entered the room, Souta looked at her. He gasped.

 

"SIS!" He yelled, and rushed over to jump on her. They laughed and fell to the ground, everyone except Rin and Kohaku staring down at the pair oddly. They would each do the same if their favorite relative had appeared out of nowhere; Sango for Kohaku, and Sesshomaru for Rin.

 

"Uh… yeah. Hate to break up his joyful reunion, but now you're both covered in pancake batter." InuYasha spoke sheepishly, rubbing the spot on the back of his head where Kagome had hit him.

 

"Souta! Now there's two things we know you can't do. Drive a car, and cook." Kagome laughed, and pulled herself to her feet, along with her younger brother. She gave him another hug, startling him.

 

"It's good… to see you too… but… I can't BREATHE!" His voice rose at the end, Kagome let him free with a laugh.

 

"Now. Before we go wake up Mr. Late sleeper, may I ask why you are here, and who is that?" She interrogated, pointing to the auburn-haired boy who had remained silent through the whole kitchen 'experience'.

 

"We're here because we are friends with Rin. And that is -"

 

"Someone who can introduce himself." The auburn-haired boy spoke. "My name is Shippou Takeshi. Now who are you, and why are you here?"

 

"Hi! I'm Kagome, and these are my younger brothers." She smiled, and wrapped an arm around Kohaku and Souta's shoulders. "And I am here, simply because I work here."

 

"Uh… I thought you only had one older sister, Kohaku…" Shippou responded, although hesitantly. The three laughed.

 

"No. I only have one older sister, which is Sango. You know how we're all so close, we're almost brothers? Well, Kagome is Souta's older brother, and you know… Sango and Kagome are best friends, and everything…" Kohaku rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

 

"Yeah, uh huh. Let's go and wake up Sesshy." Shippou stated, and walked out of the kitchen and towards the stairs. Myoga walked over to Kagome, and began speaking to her.

 

"I'll bring you a robe to wear while we clean your clothes, Miss Higurashi." He said, and pulled a fluffy, white bathrobe out of a cabinet. He shoved her into a bathroom, where she changed, and came back out, handing him the oversized T-shirt, and the short black shorts that couldn't be seen when you were wearing the oversized T-shirt, thanks to the fact that they were very short, and the shirt was very large.

 

"Wait up!" She called after them, following them out of the kitchen and up the stairs. InuYasha parted with them when they reached the top of the stairs, mumbling something about being woken too early in the morning. The group of five, which consisted of the three boys, Rin, and Kagome, sneaked through the long hallway and down to Sesshomaru's room.

 

"Damn." Kagome whispered upon entering the room. If there were only three words to describe it, those three words would be Big, Bigger, and Biggest. It was a Big room. Bigger than her own. Actually, it was the Biggest room she had ever seen in her whole twenty-three, going on twenty-four years of life.

 

"You said it, sister." Shippou whispered, and Kagome looked at him, surprised he had heard what she had said. He blushed as their eyes met, and Kagome almost smirked at the effect she had on the young, eleven-year-old boy.

 

In the center of the far wall, was a humongous bed, with a lump in the middle of it, softly snoring. Stars began to shine in Kagome's eyes as she gazed at the gigantic bed, a small twitch appearing above her right eye; no one was itching as much as Kagome just to go, run, and pounce on the fluffy bed. Rin giggled at seeing the look in her baby-sitter's eyes, and she pushed the older girl forward.

 

Without another thought, the two girls ran forward and jumped on the large bed, Kagome on the side of Sesshomaru, where the wife would lay sleeping, and Rin on top of Sesshomaru. The silver-haired man grunted, and opened a sleepy, golden eye. His eyes widened when he realized that the ebony-haired beauty that he looked at was indeed not Rin, but the one and only baby-sitter, Kagome.

 

"Nice to see you're awake, Sesshomaru-sama." Kagome laughed in his face, and he felt three other bounces at the end of the bed. Lifting his head slightly, he saw that the three on the end of his bed were the three he didn't want to see this early in the morning. The terrible trio, he called them.

 

"Hurry up and get dressed, Sesshomaru-sama! We all want to get to the beach as fast as we can!" Rin chirped from her seat on Sesshomaru's legs. He growled and pulled a pillow over his head rolling over so his back faced Kagome, and that Rin fell off his legs and onto Shippou, giggling.

 

 

 

10:48 A.M, Saturday, May Thirteenth. (Taishou Beach)

 

 

 

Needless to say, Kagome was almost shocked to death when she learned that the Taishou's had there own beach. She had known that they had a strip of beach behind their house, but she hadn't known that the strip was the beach that went all along the coast for ten miles, and it was named after the Taishou's themselves.

 

It had taken a total of fifteen minutes to get Sesshomaru out of the comfort of his bed, and another twenty minutes to get him showered and dressed. Then they had had to wait an hour for Sesshomaru to finish up some work for the day, and then finally they had left. Only to return when Kagome had realized they had forgotten the picnic basket. Sesshomaru insisted that they forget about it, but the kids argued that they would starve to death if they didn't have it.

 

Twenty more minutes until they all finally reached the part of the beach they wanted, the one inhabited by locals and tourists. After all, Kagome had argued, why would they want to be on a secluded part of the beach when they could be soaking up the sun with the rest of Japan, meeting and greeting new friends, enjoying the loud cries of the happy people on the beach?

 

During the time that Sesshomaru was busy finishing up his morning work before they had left for the beach, Myoga had finished cleaning her clothes and drying them, and had brought them back to Kagome. Once again she had been shooed into a bathroom, and had changed out of the robe and into her short shorts and oversized T-shirt. Now it was time to take them off and enjoy the water, letting the world see her new swimsuit!

 

Half the male population at the beach was drooling at the sight of Kagome in her swimsuit, once she took off her oversized T-shirt and shorts. Souta and Kohaku turned away, both of them 'ewing' at the sight of their older sister. Well, even if they weren't related, for Kohaku it was like seeing Sango do that. Shippou blushed and tried to find something else to occupy his vision, while Sesshomaru's eyes had been closed the whole time since they had reached the beach.

 

"Oh shut up, you two. It's not like you've never seen me in a swimsuit before. We used to have a pool, after all." Kagome stuck her tongue out at them, and the three boys then decided that it was time to race to the water.

 

Rin giggled and stuck her toes in the sand, sitting on the sand next to Sesshomaru. He wore plain black swim trunks, and that was all. A beach umbrella was stuck into the sand next to him, shading his pale skin from the burning sunlight, and dark, designer sunglasses adorned his eyes. His hair was pulled back at the nape of his neck in a loose ponytail.

 

Taking off her own over clothes, Rin laughed again and went over to where Kagome was sitting on the sand, letting the water run over her legs each time the waves rolled onto the beach. She sat next to the older girl, sticking out her own legs to feel the waves rush against them.

 

"Kagome-chan, will you help Rin - I mean, me build a sand castle for Sesshomaru-sama?" She asked tentatively, her large chocolate brown eyes gazing up into Kagome's own beautiful brown ones.

 

The older girl smiled down at the younger one, and replied, "Sure! We'll make it over here, where the waves can't reach it, and where Sesshomaru won't see it until we take him to see it!" The two girls walked over to where the Kagome had pointed, which was right behind where Sesshomaru was laying.

 

"Okay! Where to start!" Kagome chirped, and they began making the body of the castle.

 

Half way through, Sesshomaru seemed to notice the constant giggling behind him, and stood up and walked over to where they were making the sand castle. He lifted his sunglasses slightly so they rested on his unmarred forehead, and knelt down next to Rin.

 

"Sesshomaru-sama! Look! We are making you a sand castle!" Rin cheered, smiling. "Kagome-chan is helping me!" Sesshomaru was glad the grammar lessons were paying off finally, and that Rin was stopping speaking in third person.

 

"I'll go get some more seashells for the decorations, okay?" Kagome spoke, smiling at the interaction between Sesshomaru and Rin. He nodded.

 

"Don't get eaten by a shark, Kagome-chan!" Rin laughed, as did Kagome. The older girl left the other two, walking down the sandy beach, zipping in-between people laying on the sand to the dark water. She bent down in the water and picked a few up, when she noticed something: The deeper she walked into the water, the larger the seashells were.

 

Wallowing in deeper so that the water was up to her waist, she realized that the only thing in the water she could see was her reflection, and nothing else. Suddenly, something grabbed her leg, wrapping itself around the limb, and dragged her underwater. Her scream was muffled as the vulgar water found its way into her mouth, stifling her words. Underwater, her gaze met that of an auburn-haired, aqua-eyed boy she knew as Shippou.

 

"Argh! You… you… you twerp!" She yelled when she resurfaced. The three boys were laughing their heads off at the now-soaking wet Kagome. That was, until she jumped and tackled all three of them down under the water. Shippou blushed. Unfortunately, or fortunately, however you may see it, his face had landed right in Kagome's chest.

 

She laughed when she let them up for air, a malicious grin on her face at the sight of them all trying to catch their breath. Their faces were all red, their hair dripping, and she didn't notice the exceedingly fast heat that was growing in Shippou's face. Passing it off as just the lack of breath, she walked out of the water, still laughing.

 

"That's why you don't want to try that again!" Kagome yelled at the coughing boys as she made her way back to the beach.

 

"Hey! Kagome! Is that really you?" A voice bubbled out from behind her, and she turned around to face it.

 

"Hojo!" She cried, surprised to see her old friend after such a long time. He smiled down at her, his hazel eyes kind and caring. He followed after her as she made her way back up the beach and to the sand castle she and Rin were building for Sesshomaru.

 

"I haven't seen you since we graduated high school! How are you?" He asked, his eyes straying to her chest, where her two-piece swimsuit was only semi-modest. She noticed this, and sat down next to the sand castle.

 

'No ring on her finger! Yes!' Hojo cheered mentally.

 

"I'm doing great. Just taking some time to relax and build a sand castle with Rin!" Kagome pointed to Rin, who was a few feet off, laughing with Sesshomaru. Well, she was laughing, he was impassive.

 

"I didn't know you had a younger sister!" He spoke, sweat beginning to drip down his forehead, noting the similarities between Rin and Kagome.

 

"I don't." She stated simply, applying a seashell to one of the outer walls of the sand castle.

 

"So… you mean… she's your -" He gulped as she nodded. 'If you mean she's my charge, then yes.'

 

"And you are…" Another gulp as she nodded. 'Yes, if you mean I'm her baby-sitter, then yes.'

 

"And…" Hojo gulped for what seemed the millionth time that day, and motioned towards Sesshomaru, who was currently being buried in sand by Rin. "He's… is he…" Kagome nodded again. 'If you mean he's mean is he my boss, then yes.'

 

Hurriedly, Hojo left her alone, and Kagome sighed in relief.

 

"Who was that boy?" Sesshomaru asked when Kagome came closer and sat down next to Rin, helping her bury Sesshomaru in the sand.

 

"No one. Just and old friend that will never bother me again." She stated, and Sesshomaru decided to leave her alone. He had overheard her conversation with him, and was wondering why she had done it.

 

"Why did you -"

 

"Did I mention that I made cookies yesterday? I brought some today." Standing up, Kagome strode over to the picnic basket, where she pulled out a towel, which she then laid out on the sand. Putting every item of food out on the blanket - which was a lot - she called the boys over, and they all enjoyed a nice lunch, with wonderful cookies as dessert.

 

 

 

4:17 P.M, Saturday, May Thirteenth. (Taishou Beach)

 

 

 

"Kagome-chan?" Rin whispered timidly as the older girl looked down at her.

 

"Yes Rin-chan?"

 

"May I… may I switch shirts with you? Mine is all wet." Kagome smiled, and took off her over-shirt, handing it down to Rin as the young girl took off her own over-shirt, passing it to the older girl. They both shivered as the bitter afternoon winds nipped at their arms. Their stomachs and chests were covered by their swimsuits, but that was all.

 

Rin smiled as she saw Kagome put on the over-shirt. In curvy lettering, it had 'Fluffy' written on it, yet Kagome didn't know who that was. Sesshomaru had given the shirt to Rin when he had to go way for a business trip, making it seem as he were still there when he wasn't. The shirt made it seem as if Kagome belonged to Sesshomaru. Just like Rin always wanted.

 

 

I'm sorry it took so long for the update, but it's hard because I'm my own beta, and I just don't feel like rereadign it.

 

Dear randomdreams: I have been writing fanfiction since October 12th, a member of FF since September 26th, a member of MM since October 10th, all in the year 2005.

 

My older brother got a 32 on his ACT's. I'm not bragging, just happy.

 

The next chapter will be up soon! Holy crap, my first exclamation point ever used in this story's author's note.