InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Game ❯ Chapter Ten ( Chapter 10 )

A/N: AAAHHHH!! I'm SO SORRY!! See, I went camping for THREE WEEKS, then got back and went camping with my family, then I got a laptop and I had to set it up and crap then I went back to school and it's been kinda really hectic... anyways, I'm just gonna write until I get carpal tunnel or pass out or something as an apology.

 

 

 

“BAKA! Childish, arrogant, rude, jerk!”

 

“Hey sis! Have fun with Inuyasha?” Souta greeted his sister with a wink.

 

Kagome glared at him and stormed up to her room. She slammed the door, walked to her closet, grabbed another hairbrush, and plunked herself down on the bed. (A/N: Sorry for interrupting, but PLUNK!! That is the second best word ever.)

 

“Can't believe he does that… Winds me up for his own sick amusement! I ought to never go back!” She realized that she'd been pulling the brush through her hair a bit too fiercely and winced.

 

She sighed. `You want to go back and you know it. Plus it's just as much fault you're here. Why did you get worked up over a hairbrush? You could have just sat him to begin with…' with another sigh, Kagome fell back on the bed. Well, she tried but she ended up falling only to have her head come into contact with the wall.

 

“Ooooww…” She moaned and rubbed her head. “Great, now I have a lump on my head! Funny how the little things seem screw up your day the most.”

 

Once she had finished pondering aloud, Kagome walked to the kitchen to grab an ice pack.

 

“Kagome dear! Welcome back!”

 

“Hello mama! It's good to see you!” She briefly hugged her mother who was deep in the process of making dinner, then continued to the freezer. She hissed when the ice pack touched her scalp. (A/N: SCALP!! That's almost as good as plunk. Sorry, I'll stop now, I swear.)

 

“What happened, Kagome?”

 

“Oh, nothing mama. I just hit my head upstairs.”

 

“Oh, good.” After seeing Kagome's sharp look, she chuckled. “I meant `good' that you didn't get hurt fighting a giant mosquito or some other ungodly creation.”

 

Kagome giggled. “I don't think there are mosquito youkai, mama.”

 

“Well, weren't you telling me about a flea friend of yours?”

 

Kagome thought for a second. “You're right… And there are moth youkai, and certainly spiders… I guess it's possible.”

 

“Sweetie, you were dragged back in time by a giant bug and met a boy with dog ears.”

 

Kagome giggled at her mother. “I guess I shouldn't file anything under `impossible' anymore, ne?”

 

“…Yell at her? No, she's used to that. Um… did you wreck something of hers? Her textbook? May the Kamis help you if you did! I accidentally tore one of the pages once, and -”

 

“Yeah, ok, that's enough, kid. KAGOME! YOU IN HERE?!”

 

Kagome sighed and sank down into a dining chair.

 

Inuyasha soon flung the door open, and was followed by Souta, obviously just glad to be around Inuyasha.

 

“Why the hell did you run off like that?”

 

“Gee, I wonder!!” the irate girl retorted. “You were only trying your hardest to annoy me to death!”

 

“I was only joking! Geez, you're too sensitive! Pathetic human.” The hanyou crossed his arms, huffed, and turned his head to examine a particularly interesting piece of wall.

 

 

“May I remind you that this pathetic human can bring you down with one word - by the way, osuwari. And I'm the only one in our group that can sense the sacred jewel, so without me you'd pretty much be lost.”

 

Inuyasha lifted his head from the ground and placed his chin on his palm. “Keh! We could manage without you.”

 

“How, kill everyone in the world and search them for a jewel shard?”

 

“…Maybe!” He knew it was a bad comeback, hell it wasn't even a comeback, just a pitiful excuse for a defense.

 

Kagome rolled her eyes while her mother clapped her hands together. “Break it up you two. Now, who wants oden?”

 

Kagome raised her hand. “I do! Ooh! Me! Pick me!” she said playfully.

 

Inuyasha picked himself off the floor and scoffed. “Pick me! Pick me!” He said in a mockingly high pitched voice.

 

Kagome turned to him. If looks could kill, Inuyasha would be disemboweled, buried, and half digested by worms now. He flinched. “Don't say it!”

 

Kagome growled before she realized what she was doing.

 

Inuyasha looked at her oddly. `Did she just… growl at me?'

 

Souta just laughed. “You totally just copied him, sis! And Inu-nii-chan, I've heard about your battles. How is it that you're scared half to death of a girl?”

 

“Wait till you find one who could kill you with a purifying arrow in a second if she wanted to and you'll know.”

 

`Does Inuyasha actually fear my powers?' Kagome thought for a fleeting second. Then she laughed at her thoughts.

 

“What are you laughing at, wench?” He scowled.

 

Kagome laughed harder. “Now I just have this mental image of you swinging Tetsusaiga, wiping out Naraku, Sesshomaru, Kagura, all your enemies with one swing, then looking over to me and cowering in fear.” She managed to get it out before basically falling off her chair she was laughing too hard.

 

Inuyasha's eyebrow twitched. “You have one weird imagination.”

 

Mrs. Higurashi smiled at the couple, and placed four bowls on the table. “There's ramen for you, Inuyasha.” She saw his face light up and laughed lightly before taking the long forgotten ice pack and placing it back in the freezer.

 

“So, what exactly happened over there, you two?”

 

“He was trying to wind me up, mama.” Kagome shot a look at the Hanyou. Or she would have if the sight of the mighty Inuyasha with his mouth stuffed full of instant noodles hadn't been too great of a mental challenge.

 

Inuyasha scowled at the giggling girl. “She started it.” He mumbled through the food.

 

Kagome recovered from her laughing fit at this comment. “How exactly did I start it? You were the one who took my hairbrush!”

 

“You got that worked up over a hairbrush?! Here I thought he'd done something terrible like destroy your text books! Like that time I ripped one - I was just telling Inu-nii-chan outside - and you completely flipped out at me! I thought you were gonna skin me alive!”

 

“Thanks for having faith in my restraint, Souta.” Kagome responded sarcastically. “And I know it was a stupid reason for a fight, but tell the arrogant baka over there!”

”Hey, it's not my fault it's fun to make you mad!” After catching Kagome's glare, Inuyasha leaned over the table. “Hah! If you say it now, I'll break your furniture!”

 

Kagome sighed and rubbed her temples.

 

“He just does it because he thinks you look cute when you're angry. Right Inuyasha?” Souta piped up, sticking his tongue out at his sister.

 

“Souta!” Kagome blushed.

 

Inuyasha growled, and of coursed blushed too, before chasing Souta out of his seat.

 

“Inuyasha! Don't kill my brother over a joke! Osuwari!”

 

“Nguuh… I wasn't gonna kill him…” `Only scare him within an inch of his life.' He wouldn't admit even to himself that it only bothered him because the kid was right.

 

“He's only mad I got it right.”

 

`When did the kid start reading minds?!' The hanyou thought angrily before the spell wore off and he could sit back down.

 

Mrs. Higurashi just smiled at her children. Well, her two children and the hanyou that may as well be her son. “I'm going to be outside with Jii-chan helping with the shrine duties.”

 

“Ok mama!” Kagome replied happily.

 

After a few minutes of quiet conversation (In the Higurashi household, quiet conversations involve questions about battling demons of course.) the phone rang.

 

Inuyasha growled and flattened his ears against his head. “Stupid bell…”

 

Kagome got up and grabbed the receiver. “Higurashi shrine.”

 

“KAGOME!” An excited voice yelled to her causing the girl to cringe and hold the phone at least three feet from her ear.

 

“Erm, Eri? Is that you?”

 

“We're here too!”

 

“Yeah!”

 

“Hi Yuka, Ayumi… I'm guessing I'm on speakerphone.”

 

“Sure are!” Ayumi shouted happily. “We're so glad that you're not too sick again! We always miss you around school when you're not there. Anyways, wanna come hang out with us, `Gome? We have popcorn!”

 

Kagome laughed at her friend's enthusiasm. Apparently there was a lot of sugar as well as popcorn… “As much as I'd like to join you guys, I have company.”

 

Inuyasha's ears perked. `She's turning down an invitation to go with her friends to stay with me?'

 

“Is it the two-timer?” Yuka asked rather obnoxiously.

 

“He's not a two-timer! But yes, Inuyasha is here.”

 

“Aww, you're defending him! That's so sweet! Go give her a kiss Inu-nii-chan!” Souta called out loud enough for the three girls on the phone to hear.

 

“Souta!” Kagome growled and tried to grab him as he ran away. “Get back here you little brat!” Seeing him run outside, she gave up and turned her attention back to her friends who were currently giggling to themselves over Kagome's predicament.

 

“Ya know Kagome; you could always bring Inuyasha with you! We'd love to meet him. I mean, more than basically `hi' then you two running off into a dead end alley…” Ayumi said in a rather lecherous tone.

 

“Ayumi!” Kagome blushed. “You sound like Miroku…” She let slip before she remembered that her three friends have no idea who Miroku is.

 

“Miroku?” Three voices chimed.

 

“Er, yeah, he's one of my friends from… the hospital ward I have to visit sometimes!” She made up, grasping for anything that might make sense. “He has a disease in his hand and it must affect his brain or something.”

 

Inuyasha scoffed. “I don't think the hand has anything to do with how messed up he is.”

 

“OOH, IS INUYASHA THERE WITH YOU?! HIII!!”

 

Kagome cringed and held the phone out again. She turned to the also cringing hanyou, ears plastered to his head.

 

“Eri says hi.” She said with a playful smile.

 

`These girls are really starting to bother me.' Inuyasha got a wicked gleam in his eye. He walked over to Kagome and grabbed the thing from her hand.

 

“Sorry girls, Kagome has to go now. You're ruining my plan of keeping her trapped in her bedroom all day. If you'd excuse us I have a job to do now.”

 

Kagome, blushing heavily snatched the phone from the smirking hanyou. “Inuyasha, go sit in the living room would you?”

 

The muffled squeak and loud thump could barely be heard over the laughter of the three girls on the other end of the line.

 

“Sorry girls, Inuyasha's just being a BAKA!” She sighed. “Per usual. I should actually go though.”

 

“Have fun in your bedroom, `Gome!” Yuka said in the same lecherous tone Ayumi had used before.

 

“NO NO NO NO! Don't leave yet! We still want you to come over! Inuyasha too!”

 

“I don't know you guys…”

 

Inuyasha was now even more annoyed with the girls. He once again took the receiver from Kagome's hands. “We have to go.” He said with a growl and put the phone back on that plastic platform it came from, hoping that would stop the three girls from talking.

 

Kagome rounded on the hanyou and glared. “You're having fun with this little `let's embarrass Kagome in front of her friends!' game, aren't you?”

 

`Oh shit…'

 

“You also seem to enjoy the `let's piss Kagome off every possible minute game' too! Should I even bring all your other problems with me into the mix? What is wrong with you? Why is ruining my life so fun to you?!”

 

Inuyasha realized he had been backing away from the infuriated woman when he hit a wall.

 

“If you enjoy these games so much, maybe I should play some of my own. Maybe the `let's see how many times we can subdue Inuyasha before his back breaks' game? Or the `let's leave Inuyasha without Kagome to clean up his own messes' game? I kinda like that idea!” She advanced on the rather terrified hanyou, pushing him further into the wall, still closing in to the point where their noses were almost touching.

 

Inuyasha knew he had to shut her up. `How do I shut her up?!' He did the first thing that came to mind. He grabbed her arms and kissed her.

 

 

 

A/N: AAAHHHH!!! Sorry, I always do that. I should really stop, ne? So, heh, I actually have carpal tunnel. Hooray for hands feeling completely numb! Meh, I had fun. But I am completely making this up as I go along. You all know that perfectly well, I'm sure. But anyways, I don't know how long I can continue to tap the inspiration well for this fic. I'll try to bring it to an end before I end up just… stopping in the middle of everything. Well, nothing's really going on so in the middle of nothing? Jebus Tari, don't try to make sense at 12:30 at night. Wait, GODDAMNIT! I haven't done my math… Ok, anyways, loves you all must go now please review and chew this to death. Constructively. Bye!