InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Season of Wishes ❯ Chriss-mass? ( Chapter 1 )

Yes, I know it's May, but this is a VERY late (or very early, take your pick) Christmas present for Feulner (and anyone else who enjoys reading it)! Hope it's up to the usual standards!

 

Just another quick Japanese lesson for those who don't know:

`Oshougatsu' is New Years. So now you know when someone says `Hey, lets go celebrate Oshougatsu' you can say `Hell yeah! I'll just go prepare the osechi!' ;)

 

BTW (Osechi - pronounced OH.seh.CHEE - are the first meals of the New Year. Try googling it).

 

Don't own nothing. (Good Engrish, no?)

 

 

 

 

The Christmas Wish

 

 

 

Inuyasha paced back and forth around the Bone Eaters Well.

 

He had by now created a deep indentation of his bare footsteps in the three-inch thick snow. `What the hell is taking her so long?' he grumbled to himself. He looked to the sky, blanketed in a thick grey cloud. It would probably snow tonight. He sniffed the air. And it would be a heavy snow fall too. Perfect. Of all nights…

 

He looked back down to the well as he resumed his pacing. `Hurry up, Kagome!' What he wouldn't give for her to be back already.

 

He stopped. Didn't she say something about this being the day for wishes to come true? He squatted down and stared squarely at the side of the well as if it was his nemesis. Narrowing his eyes as if in challenge he concentrated on one thought over and over again in his mind.

 

Kagome Kagome Kagome Kagome Kagome Kagome Kagome

 

He stayed squatting silently still for a moment.

 

No Kagome.

 

“GODDAMMIT!!” he screamed.

 

He wanted to punch the stupid well. He wanted to punch himself! How could he believe in something so childish like that? Pouting, he slumped down, his back resting on the side of the wooden time portal and crossed his arms in a huff.

 

Should he go get her? Did she know how long she was taking? She would probably just get mad. She had told him she wanted everything to be a surprise. But what if he went and said he just came to see if she needed anything to be carried? He could feel his eyebrows knitted together and angrily sighed. Goddamned Kagome.

 

He paused for a second. Taking his hands out of his sleeves, he reached into the fold over of his haori and took out the long coiled material he kept close to his chest. He looked at it for a second and inhaled. Her scent seemed to flow into him. What had she called it? A skaarf? He sighed again. Stupid Kagome. She'd been gone since yesterday…

 

 

*****

 

 

“It's a good thing we agreed to return,” said Sango. “It looks like tonight will be a cold one. Best for us to be indoors.”

 

Miroku shivered and hugged his body. “Yes, indeed. Brrr! I wonder if it will be this cold until the New Year?”

 

“Quit your whining,” grumbled Inuyasha. “This is nothing compared to a blizzard. Humans are so weak…”

 

The four of them, plus one fire cat and fox boy (sitting snug and warm inside Kagome's jacket) walked slowly into the village, tired and weary from their last trip. Trying to stay warm was taking most of the humans' strength and so the group had decided to take a break back at Kaede's village for the time being. Of course, this left a highly energetic hanyou (who didn't feel the cold) frustrated with the early return.

 

“Speaking of humans being weak, aren't you gonna turn into a weak human tomorrow tonight, Inuyasha?” teased Shippou.

 

“Why you-!” Inuyasha gritted raising his fist. He wasn't going to bring it down. He couldn't while Shippou was safely tucked away inside Kagome's coat. `Crafty little bugger. I'll get him the second Kagome goes home.'

 

That reminded him of something. He looked up at Kagome and narrowed his eyes.

 

“You better be back here by tomorrow.”

 

Kagome frowned.

 

“Inuyasha, I already told you. I'm not coming back until the day after tomorrow.”

 

Inuyasha's eyes bulged. “What?! What the hell will take you two days?! You told me you didn't have any school right now!”

 

Kagome looked like she was trying to ignore a twitch in her left eye. “I don't. And the reason why I don't have school is the same reason why I'll be staying home fore the next two days!”

 

His eyes narrowed suspiciously. “What's the reason?”

 

“Chriss-Mass!” said Shippou

 

Inuyasha blinked at them.

 

“What's Chriss-Mass?”

 

“It's my favourite holiday, second only to Oshougatsu!” she smiled clapping her hands together excitedly.

 

“You're saying you're only going back to celebrate some holiday? We could be searching for Naraku!

 

“Inuyasha!” she scolded frowing. “We're not just returning for that! It's the new moon tomorrow! You couldn't go searching for Naraku anyway!”

 

Inuyasha pouted and looked away. “So what's so good about this Chriss-Mass thing anyway?” he sulked.

 

“Presents and food!” cried Shippou, his head poking up from Kagome's warmth.

 

“Every year people get together and they do all sorts of things together,” said Kagome factually. “You decorate the Christmas tree, sing songs, and of course eat Christmas cake. It's really popular in other countries! It's also a special time for wishes!”

 

“And you get presents too! Don't you Kagome?” asked Shippou.

 

“Sometimes. That's what they do in other countries.”

 

Inuyasha looked at her as if she was mad.

 

“Why would you decorate a tree? That's so stupid.”

 

Kagome sniffed. “It's not stupid. It's tradition. It's just what you do at Christmas!”

 

Not satisfied with the answer Inuyasha scoffed. “So why do you like this holiday so much?”

 

He nearly jumped back when she rounded on him, her fists clenched. Crap. He hadn't read the signs and now her patience had clearly run out.

 

“Because!” she yelled. “It's the time of year when you spend time with the people you like the most! Idiot!”

 

“Aw, man!” said Shippou. “I wish I could go to Kagome's time and celebrate Chriss-Mass.”

 

“Well, how about I bring Christmas here? Tomorrow?”

 

Shippou's eyes lit up and a huge smile beamed across his face.

 

“Yeah! Bring Chriss-Mass! That's great! I can't wait!” he chattered excitedly as he jumped out of Kagome's jacket and began running around her feet. Kagome looked to the others smiling.

 

“So what do you think? Would you like to try some Christmas food tomorrow?”

 

“That sounds wonderful, Kagome-sama. A big feast is just what we need in this cold weather!” said Miroku

 

“I'd love to,” said Sango beaming. “We probably won't be here for New Years Eve so we should at least have some celebration.”

 

Kagome clapped her hands together eagerly. “Alright! I'll go home right now and start preparing!”

 

Inuyasha, who had been recovering since Kagome's outburst, crossed his arms and began walking in the direction of the well.

 

“Hurry up then. If it's so important to you,” he said.

 

Kagome gave a quick goodbye, asking them to tell Kaede about the party they would have tomorrow and jogged off to Inuyasha's side. They walked in silence up the familiar trail to the well. Inuyasha was half afraid to say something, in case she was still mad and decided to sit him in the snow. Actually, she would probably do that too…

 

He started pacing further behind her, watching her warily as if she were a bomb about to go off. Kagome, who had been lost in her own thoughts about the feast she was going to make, looked up to see the well in the middle of the clearing.

 

“Oh,” she said. “That's right. Before I forget, Inuyasha…” she began as she turned around. She was shocked when she saw the hanyou peeking at her from behind a tree twenty paces away.

 

“What are you doing all the way over there?”

 

“N-nothing…”

 

Looking at him strangely, she took off her back pack and began to rummage through her belongings. Curious (and relieved she wasn't angry) Inuyasha walked forward to see what she was pulling out. She wrapped a long red piece of material around his neck and began knotting it in front of his chest. It was the same weird thing he had seen her knitting on and off for the past week.

 

“An early Christmas present. This is a scarf,” she said patting it on his chest. “It's to keep you warm during winter.”

 

Inuyasha frowned. “Youkai don't feel the cold.”

 

“I know,” she said cheerfully. “But you can use this on the nights of the new moon, when you aren't half youkai. Give it a go tomorrow night!”

 

She smiled at him as she turned and climbed into the well.

 

 

*****

 

 

Inuyasha played with the scarf in his hands. Kagome had made it for him. Even if she hadn't been the one to hand it to him, he would have been able to tell by her scent deeply embedded in it. At least it could serve its purpose to pulse with Kagome's smell. Although right now it was only making things worse. It was just fuelling his irritation more with her absence! He glared at the knitted object as if it offended him and shoved it back inside his haori. So much for it being the season of wishes…

 

Suddenly her scent heightened in potency as he heard a thump from within the wooden panels of the well. Leaping to his feet he peered down inside. There, Kagome stood with her hands on her hips looking up expectantly at him, a big smile on her face. Inuyasha's mouth lolled open as he stared at the massive piles of food covering the dirt floor.

 

“Oh good!” she said. “You're here, Inuyasha. I need some help carrying things.”

 

“What the hell is all that?!”

 

She wagged her finger at him and winked. “This is Christmas!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A/N: There will be moar!! (chapters to this, I mean)

 

:)

 

GoldenDust xx