InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The More Things Stay The Same ❯ Morning Dear ( Chapter 6 )

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Kagome had gotten up early. She had become used to Shippo waking her at daybreak and arising early to make everyone's breakfast was a difficult habit to break. So, at six am, she found herself shuffling down the stairs and into the kitchen to begin to boil water. She hadn't the faintest idea what she would do with it, but boiling water was something she had done every morning for tea for some time and it just seemed the thing to do.

With stovetop started, she grabbed the newspaper from the back door and sat at the table to read it while she woke up.

Earthquake of .1Magnitude RocksCentral Japan, Mild Tsunami Warning Issued

 

Lottery Winner Weds Girlfriend From Virtual World (True love conquers Orcs)

 

Stabbing Victim Found in Washroom of Furikawa High School

 

Furikawa high school was a school not far from the shrine, in fact it had been an option of Kagome's to attend there, and it was where Houjo was enrolled. She said a quick prayer for her old friend's safety and turned from the headlines to find the monthly horoscope page.

 

Pisces: As Venus shifts positions in three of your houses your average life is about to become more complicated in matters of work and love. Try to keep a level head in the wake of chaos.

 

Someone had stumbled into the kitchen, interrupting Kagome's stolen moment alone. She peeked over the top of the newspaper. It was Inuyasha.

He stood near the doorway and stretched his arms over his head. Kagome's white T-shirt did fit him, if a bit tightly around his muscles, but she hadn't anticipated that it would be shorter than his undershirt, and the sides of his hakama were open to his skin, exposing his hips. Kagome blushed and hid her face behind the paper while she waited for the moment to pass.

 

“Keh!” he said simply as he sat down across from her.

“Upset that someone woke up before you?”

“Your house is so… stifling, I couldn't smell anything outside to wake me up.”

“It's called weather proof. Want some tea?”

“Onegaishimas?”

“Its already started, I'll get up and get it when it's ready.”

“Do you always get up at sunrise?”

What an obscure question for Inuyasha to ask. As though he hadn't spent the better part of two and a half years of mornings with her.

“I mean when you aren't in Sengoku Jidai” he finished.

“Actually I used to have the habit of sleeping in, but I've gotten used to waking up to watch the sun rise and make breakfast for everyone. Old habits die hard I guess”

“I've always woken up just before, gone on patrol and watched it come up on my own. There's something… fulfilling about the warm sun on your face after a cold night…”

Kagome laid the paper down on the table and looked at Inuyasha. This was a side she had never seen of him before.

“Nevermind… it's stupid. You said something about tea?”

Kagome got up without a word to pour the boiling water over the leaves, and brought the things for morning tea to the table with her. She poured both cups and handed one to Inuyasha. His hand brushed hers and they both flushed.

Kagome picked up the newspaper again.

“What is that anyway?”

“It's the newspaper. Every morning it gets delivered to the door. It has all the news about what is going on in Tokyo and across Japan.”

“Good news, or bad news?”

“A little of both. Yesterday there was a small earthquake that could cause tsunamis, and there was a stabbing in a high school near here.”

Inuyasha grunted. He didn't like the sound of that.

“There's also columns, puzzles, comics, in fact; what month were you born in? I'll read your horoscope.”

“Horo-scope?”

“It's like a fortune based on star positions.”

“Is it anything like Miroku's cheesy fortune telling?”

“Similar, but the newspaper won't ask you to bear its child.”

“Ok read it.”

“What month were you born in?”

“I don't know… I was a little too pre-occupied to ask at the time.”

“When did you become such a smart ass?”

“About the same time” Inuyasha shrugged.

Kagome sighed. “Make an educated guess.”

“After summer, before autumn festivals” Inuyasha smirked.

“'Happy Birthday Libra, The moonless night brings changes and…'”

“No shit.”

“Hey, I'm not done! `…brings changes and you must take time to examine who you are, and who you wish to become. Always bring your umbrella; you never know who you might share it with when the rain begins to fall.'”

“What does that mean?”

“Well, it can be literal, like its going to rain and you'll meet a new person, or it can be metaphorical; like things are going to happen… and it might bring you closer to someone.”

Inuyasha looked at her across the table.

“Kagome……”

“Nande?”

“Did you… just….. Say something about… breakfast?”

Kagome berated herself for thinking Inuyasha might have more on his mind than his stomach. She threw a nearby dishtowel at him.

“If food was your mission, you should have said so.” She got up and began rooting around the kitchen. “Miso?”

“Gross.”

“Fish?”

“We always have fish.”

“Omelette? It's still my specialty.”

“I thought you said you'd never make that for me again?'

“You've been good” she said with a shrug.

“If that's what you want.”

 

Kagome took out a pan and eggs, and started breakfast. Inuyasha watched her bustle around the kitchen, taking out some implements, putting away others, turning on the stove, pouring more tea.

Inuyasha watched her silently, and began to think it might be nice…

“Ne, Kagome…”

 

“Oh-hi-oh Inuyasha! Good morning Kagome!” Mrs. Higurashi swept down the stairs and into the kitchen. “I hope I'm not interrupting anything” She said with a wink.

“Mama!”

“Finish making breakfast for you and Inuyasha, then I want to talk to you both together before you get away. Are you using all that hot water? I'll take Ji-chan some tea in the temple. He's fasting again so he won't want breakfast for at least another two hours.”

Ever energetic Mrs. Higurashi made the tea while speaking, and saw herself out the back door in time to say; “be right back!” in her next breath.

“Talk to us both? What does your mother want Kagome?”

“You think I know? It sounded like we were getting `the talk' or something.”

“What is; `the talk'?”

“Nevermind.” Kagome served the omelette with some sliced bread and the two ate in silence.

 

“I'm back!” Mrs. Higurashi slipped out of her shoes and left them by the door before entering the kitchen, and seating herself at the table. “Now then, Inuyasha, please explain why you are here right now.”

“Nani?”

“Why did you come to our time again?”

“Ano……. okonafu….”

“To do…… what?”

“To watch Kagome?”

“Good boy! Which brings me to the point. You heard the news about Furikawa High School I take it?”

“Hai.”

“I am asking, as a mother, that you accompany Kagome to school as long as she remains here.”

“Nandato???”

“As your bodyguard dear. I am sorry to interrupt what should be a small vacation for you Inuyasha, but I fear for her safety, even in our own time. More so in fact.”

“Mama!?! I'm 17 years old! When I'm not studying I purify demons in the feudal era of Japan!”

“Kagome, you have been away so much, I don't think you understand what the world is now. Pollution, violent crime, and the perverts on the subways! I don't think it's safe for a young woman to wander Tokyo alone any more.”

“You can't be serious??”

Kagome's mother turned her attention to the Hanyou once more.

“Inuyasha, I know your mother died when you were young, but surely you know enough of mothers to understand me? Onegai, Inuyasha-kun?”

Inuyasha was trapped between a rock and a hard place, do as her mother asked, and risk displeasing Kagome and damaging whatever progress he might have made lately, or let her go off and do as she pleased and willingly let her go into harm's way. His choice was obvious, in that light.

“I will do as you ask, Higurashi-san.”

“Over my dead body you will! You are not babysitting me during classes! I already have enough trouble with my family reputation! My classmates all think I'm a religious psycho that locks herself in closets all day to meditate!”

“Kagome, you should respect your mother's wishes. At least you have one.”

“I knew I was fond of you Inuyasha” Mrs. Higurashi stood up from the table and patted him on the head on her way out to the living room.

“You shameless kiss up!”

“Shouldn't we be getting ready for school?” Inuyasha smirked.

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“Tell me the rules again.”

“Da-amn Kagome! I know for the last time!”

“TELL ME.”

“Wear my hat at all times, don't talk, don't ask questions, and don't disturb class.”

“AND???”

“And leave Tessaiga in its sheath. THERE!”

“Just follow me, and for Godsake, be good.”

 

“Kagoooooooome-chaaaaaaaaan!!”

“Oh my God, here comes Ayume.”

“Inuyasha-kun? Wow! It's been a long time since I've seen you! You haven't changed at all! How are you?”

“I am well Ayume-san.”

“Are you two back together?”

“Iyayo!!” shouted Kagome, a little too quickly. She coughed to cover for her effusive answer. “No. My mom is being crazy and is making Inuyasha be my bodyguard this week after the thing at Furikawa.” They began to walk down the street.

“Oh a ceremonial bodyguard kind of thing… that would explain the robes. Wow! You're probably the only girl in school who's had a bodyguard! Like a celebrity!”

Kagome laughed nervously. “No, no it's nothing like that.”

“What's he going to do during classes?”

“He's going to watch quietly.” Kagome shot him a dirty look for emphasis and Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

Ayume watched the exchange with wide eyes, then opened her mouth wide to say something.

“Ne, I got my letter! I'm going to be going to America next fall on foreign exchange!”

“Sugoi!! Do you know where you're going yet?”

“No... I'm actually surprised my English was good enough. I just hope my host family speaks Japanese!”

“You'll be fine…. You're the only person in class 4 that gets the el and ar sounds right. Or laughs at the examples Stuart-Sensei shows us of bad english…I could never get away like that, I'm so jealous!”

“Why can't you? Its not like you have to worry about schoolwork… Everyone has just accepted that you're this phantom student” Ayume laughed.

“Yeah Kagome, why can't you?”

“Shut up” she muttered out the side of her mouth at him. “My health… and my training.”

“Have you learned how to bend spoons with your brain yet?” Ayume laughed yet again.

“Very Funny” Kagome punched Ayume lightly in the arm.

Ayume began to chatter on about all manner of senseless school related things all the way there, while Inuyasha followed the girls sullenly with his hands in his sleeves, glaring at any man on the street that dare consider looking at Kagome's knee-socked legs.