InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Silly Human Mating Rituals ❯ Invitations ( Chapter 3 )

Invitations

The next few days had been a blur of activity. Inuyasha and Kagome had accompanied Miroku and Sango to Mushin's temple for their wedding. Miroku had promised Sango to marry her immediately after they had defeated Naraku and nothing was going to keep Miroku from this promise. The next day they were saying their vows in a Buddhist wedding ceremony. Kohaku was there as well to give the blushing bride away. Inuyasha had been so happy for them and couldn't help but to think that they would soon be having the exact same ceremony as well.

 

Once they returned to Kaede's village Kagome was a woman on a mission. Nothing was going to stop her from getting her own wedding prepared. And unlike Sango and Miroku, they had a slightly larger group of people that they needed to invite. Kagome was insistent that they invite everyone on her list. Unfortunately, since some of the invitees lived far away the wedding was to be put off for three more days. The hanyou really didn't want to wait three more days. Demons never waited to mate. The waiting seemed silly. But if it would make Kagome happy, then he would do it.

 

Kagome was the one who wrote out all of the invitations. She had obtained rice paper and a calligraphy set. The set consisted of a cube of dry ink that you would rub into a small basin of water to create wet ink. Then she deftly took an artists brush and wrote out every invitation by hand. Inuyasha was certainly glad that she had a steady hand and could write well. Inuyasha's mother had him tutored on the basics of how to read and write when he was a pup. Since his mother was from a noble family, she was able to get him tutored as a child. That was until she died. He never learned anything more than an elementary education.

 

He peered down to see her smooth hand brushing up some final kanji letters on the invitations.

 

“There!” she said as she clasped her hands together, “That should be all of them.” Beside her were two piles of invitations. One pile was for Inuyasha to deliver and another pile was for her to hand out. “I will hand out the invitations for people who are already in the village. You will need to hand out the invitations for everyone else. Can you do that Inuyasha?” She turned to him and flashed him that brilliant smile of hers.

 

He just sat there staring at her. He really hadn't heard anything she said. He just liked it when she smiled. It always warmed him. “Oh the invites, yes…I'll deliver them…,” said Inuyasha.

 

“All of them?” cooed Kagome.

 

Inuyasha was a little perplexed. “Why wouldn't I deliver all of them?” he thought. He briefly looked through his pile. There was an invite for Sesshomaru, Rin, Jaken, Totosai, Hachi, Jinenji and his Mom, Shirori and her Mom, Ayame and the last invite was for Koga.

 

Normally any mention of Koga's name would put him into a bad mood. But actually this invitation made him smile. “Wait until he reads this!” the hanyou thought as he smirked.

 

“Yes, Kagome. I will deliver all of them,” he simply looked into her eyes again and gestured her for another kiss. She blushed and then moved closer to him. It was a sweet, innocent kiss. It was short, but how he was enjoying this. For the past two days he had been kissing Kagome and holding her in his arms. They had been sitting quietly for hours just holding each other, kissing when the moment seemed right and talking. He was really enjoying the time he spent with her. No fighting--he simply enjoyed the tranquility of her company. He felt the restlessness of his youth quickly fade away. This was how he wanted his life to be. Just spending time with her. “I will have to travel far to deliver some of these invitations . I should be back by tomorrow morning,” he said.

 

“Until then…,” she said. “I will miss you. Please come back soon.”

 

Another kiss, this time it that lasted much longer than the first and he was gone.

 

Inuyasha bounded out the door in long quick jumps. He could cover enormous distances in minutes. All he could do is smile and nothing could really wipe the smile from his face. “Oh, life was so good right now,” he thought and he grinned to himself. “Three more days it would be even better!”