InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Setting Them Straight ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )

Wo0t! Okay, first off, this story will be having two new characters in it… one of them is mine, and her name is Kitty. The other is Shio, and he belongs to Scorpiogal (who is an awesome writer, btw.) He is her slave OC. Kitty is mine. Shio is Scorpiogal's, Kitty is Gummy's. Mine. And Shio is hers. You want to use them, you ask permission.

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…Any questions?

Haha, okay, well now that that's out of the way… I just had to drill it into your heads so that you won't take our characters without asking.

Oh oh I almost forgot, this takes place after Kagome has been going to the feudal era for three years, so she's 18 in this story.

Now read!

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"I just can't believe him! After everything that happened, Inuyasha still went and tried to pick a fight with Kouga! He's such a jealous idiot! Kouga didn't even mention anything about me being his woman this time, and he still blew up! What is it with him?!" Kagome ranted to her mother.

'They really need to go to couples counseling…' Kagome's mother thought to herself. Kagome had come home yet again to get away from Inuyasha for being a jerk, and now it was just getting old. Sometimes if she waited it out, she would eventually be able to distract Kagome from her murderous thoughts on the hanyou by asking how Shippo, Sango and Miroku were. And speaking of the rest of them… it's a wonder that Kagome hasn't gone insane yet! What with Shippo and Inuyasha always fighting, then with Miroku always groping and Sango always screaming 'HENTAI!' anyone else probably would have lost it by now.

Either they're such good friends that Kagome just puts up with it, or they all need help.

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Later, during dinner (oden), Mrs. Higurashi was telling Kagome, Souta and their grandfather about an upcoming family reunion. One of her sisters had called earlier that day, and she had waited until dinner to bring up the subject, when they would all hear about it.

"It's going to be next Sunday, and I offered to host it here at the Shrine," Mrs. H. explained. They all groaned. Come on, who actually wants their entire family to be gathered at their own house for a day? Might as well have a banner made that says 'loony convention'.

"Oh, it won't be so bad," she in an attempt to avoid getting them into bad moods.

"Well maybe not for all of you; you'll have plenty of people your own ages to talk to, but I'll be the only 18-year old person there!" Kagome whined.

"Now that's not true. I heard that your aunt Hitomi and uncle Saburo over in the states have an American foster child, and she's your age! Her name is Kitty, and she'll be flying over with them."

"Well that's great, mom, but she's American- how am I supposed have a good time with her when neither of us will be able to understand the other?"

"Calm down, she speaks Japanese, too. I'm sure you two will get along just fine."

Satisfied that Kagome now looked less annoyed about it, Mrs. H. dropped the topic for the rest of dinner.

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After much arguing, shouting, bickering, yelling, sitting, some grumbling and more shouting, Kagome finally convinced Inuyasha to let her stay home for the next week plus Sunday. But the thing was, she had to meet him half-way- which meant that she had to bring him plenty of ramen, and she would have to return right after the reunion was over without doing anything else.

But at least her grandfather wouldn't have to tell her classmates that she had a temporary case of AIDS for that week…

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Kagome sighed for what had to have been the hundredth time. She hadn't gotten Inuyasha's ramen yet, and since mostly every guest that was expected had already arrived, she wouldn't be able to go out and get it before she had to return to the feudal era.

So far, she still hadn't seen Kitty, the American girl who was supposed to be there. She had seen her aunt Hitomi and she said that uncle Saburo was driving with Kitty in a truck they had rented, and must have gotten caught in traffic. So it would only be a matter of time until they arrived and Kagome would have a chance of getting her mind off of her ramen situation.

Speaking of time, she really wished that she had some before the reunion to get Inuyasha's ramen. He wouldn't be too happy that she didn't hold up her end of the bargain… Kagome sighed yet again.

"Hey, are you Kagome?" A voice asked her.

When Kagome turned around to find who was talking to her, she came face-to-face with whom she assumed to be Kitty. After all, she was American, and did look to be around Kagome's age.

The girl in front of her had black hair about the same length as her own, and the ends were dyed bright pink (I'd love to have hair like that… hehe). Even her bangs that framed her face were dyed on the ends.

But besides her hair, Kagome noticed her clothes. She was wearing a black t-shirt with pink sleeves, and her jeans were black with pink stitching. They weren't odd clothes, and Kitty pulled off the colors better than she thought anyone else could, but Kagome, for some reason, thought that a kimono of some sort would suit her better… but not even she knew where that thought had come from.

Lastly were her eyes. They were such an intense yellow-green color that it looked almost unnatural.

"I'm Kitty," she said with a smile when Kagome didn't answer her, and extended her hand.

Kagome looked at her outstretched hand and snapped out of her daze and answered in a friendly voice, "Yeah, I'm Kagome. Nice to meet you."

"You too," Kitty said. "Hey, is something wrong? While I was making my way over here I noticed that you kinda looked bummed about something," she observed.

"Oh, it's nothing," Kagome assured with a smile. "Nothing that I won't get over, at least."

"Oh, come on," Kitty said with a sympathetic look. "I don't mean to pry, but maybe I can help f you tell me."

Kagome was already starting to like Kitty since she was trying to help her with Inuyasha, even if she didn't yet realize what she might be getting herself into. She decided to see if Kitty really could help, and told her about her pickle over her lack of the ramen that Inuyasha demanded.

When she finished, Kitty looked at her with slight amusement. "Is that all? That has to be the easiest thing to solve that I've encountered in a long time."

"What do you mean?" Kagome asked.

Kitty smiled at her and explained. "Well, your aunt and uncle and I rented a motor home and we're going to stay in it in this area for about a month… but knowing them, they could stretch it to five months… just so they can visit the rest of your family. So of course, we have a LOT of food out in the truck we rented all stocked up in there. I'm positive that we have at least four crates full of ramen, and you're welcome to take as much as you think Inuyasha will want."

Kagome was looking at Kitty with gratitude for the offer and shock that she had so much ramen evident on her face. "Are you sure you wouldn't mind losing some of it?" she asked in disbelief.

"Oh it's no problem at all," Kitty replied, proud that she had already managed to fix something in a person's life for the day. "I'm just happy to help."

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Kagome spent the rest of the reunion with Kitty (no surprise there) and got the feeling that she was just one of those people who got along with everyone. Or at least she tolerated everyone.

At one point during the reunion, Souta and some cousins his age were having a Twisted Metal 4 (which the authoress does not own) tournament, and Kitty had somehow gotten Kagome and herself into playing it. Kagome had never really found video games to be very fun, but that was probably because the only person she had played with was Souta.

Kitty somehow even got on grandfather's good side by listening to the history of this and that, and even asking questions (gasp)! How she managed that, Kagome would never know.

The reunion lasted for most of the day, and after helping Kagome's mother make some more onion dip for the chips, Kagome and Kitty went up to Kagome's room for a while.

Much of the time they spent talking included Kagome asking questions about America, and Kitty happily telling her about it. But while Kitty was talking about how she thought it was weird for people in the south to have redneck accents (which she talked about with a redneck accent, just for giggles), she spotted the shikon shards in a small glass jar on Kagome's night stand.

Switching to pirate slang, she asked, "Aye, Kagome, what be these scraps of booty 'ere?"

Kagome didn't really know how to answer that, so she stretched the truth a little. "Uh… they're from a necklace I used to have. The pendant on it was made of glass and it broke."

Kitty inspected the shikon chards for a bit more, then said, "Shiver me timbers, that reminds me of one of the tales yer gran'daddy told me about a shikon jewel. Said it was shattered 500 years ago, he did. T'was very interesting." She continued to talk about the previous subject, but continued to look at the shikon jewel shards in the jar.

'Oh great. It's nice that he has somebody to listen to him, but I just hope he doesn't tell anybody any more about the shikon jewel,' Kagome thought.

Suddenly, Kagome's mother came into the room. "Kitty dear, I've offered for aunt Hitomi and uncle Saburo to park your motor home here at the shrine, in case you were wondering why you haven't had to leave yet."

"Huh?"

"You didn't know? The reunion was over two hours ago. It's eleven right now," Mrs. H. said.

"Oh, okay," Kitty said with a smile. Mrs. H, left the room, and then Kagome suddenly panicked.

Outside of her window was a very ticked off hanyou, and she still didn't have the ramen from Kitty yet.

Just as he was about to open her window, Kagome yelled 'sit' at the top of her lungs.

Kitty looked at her in confusion and then out the window when a string of cuss words was heard. "What?" 'I missed something…'

Kagome put on a smile and laughed nervously. "Aha… I just remembered that I have to go see Inuyasha! So, um, it was nice meeting you! Bye!" Then Kagome high-tailed it out of there and made her way downstairs, as much as she hated to rush out on Kitty like that.

"Er… bye?" Kitty said weakly. She then shrugged and walked out of Kagome's room, still obliviously holding onto the shikon shards.

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Kitty had gone to the truck to retrieve some ramen for Kagome, deciding that half of what they had would be enough. She then went over to the motor home and, leaving the boxes outside of it near the door, walked inside where she found her foster parents.

"Oh there you are, Kitty. Saburo and I were just going to get some sleep, but I supposed you'll be out as usual?" Hitomi asked.

"Yeah, I'll try to stay close by though. Oh and that reminds me, I need some more 'ingredients'. I only have enough right now to last me another day, maybe less."

"Okay dear, I'll make a run to the pharmacy tomorrow morning."

Kitty smiled at her in thanks, and bid her and Saburo goodnight before leaving the motor home.

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*gasp!* What's Kitty up to during the night? Will Kagome survive Inuyasha's wrath?? What sort of 'ingredients' does Kitty need?! Oh the suspense, oh the angst!

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Whatever. No need to get your panties in a knot, I'm either in the process of writing the next chappie as you read this, or it's already up. See you soon ^_^