InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Well La De Frickin' Da ❯ A Hard Day ( Chapter 5 )
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By: Dreamer6164 
I do not own InuYasha
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Drama | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 09.01.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 958 | Status: Work In Progress
I do not own InuYasha
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Drama | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 09.01.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 958 | Status: Work In Progress
Chapter Five
If felt like Kagome had just closed her eyes when she heard her father banging on the bathroom door. She didn’t think she could bare a beating this early in the morning, so she jumped up right when he opened the door.
Naraku walked over to his daughter and grabbed her upper arm and dragged her out of the bathroom then into the kitchen. He roughly let go of her and glared at her. “Do you see this mess you made last night! I want this house spotless!” he yelled as Kagome quickly got busy. “I’m having very important people coming over tonight and I want this house sparkling!”
Kagome rushed around the kitchen cleaning all the utensils she used last night for dinner. When the dishes were clean and put away she went to clean up the fish he had thrown across the room. By the time the she got around to doing the whole house it was already late in the afternoon.
Kagome plopped down onto the couch in exhaustion. Naraku walked up to her with a hard look on his face. “You’re not allowed to be here tonight.” he stated.
Kagome looked up at him in confusion. “Where do you want me to go?” she asked timidly.
Naraku slapped her across the face. “I don’t care! As long as you’re no where near this house I don’t care where you go!” he yelled as he walked into the kitchen.
Kagome let out a jagged breath. Now what was she supposed to do? As if on cue the phone started ringing. “Girl, you better stop the infuriating sound!”
She jumped off the couch and ran towards the phone, then quickly picked it up. “He-hello?” she asked as she intertwined her fingers in the phone cord.
“Hey Kagome, are you going to come to the mall with us before we go to the movies?” Kagome heard Sango’s voice on the other end of the phone and her blood ran cold. What if her father had answered the phone? She would have been beaten to death.
“Ho-how did you get my number?” Kagome asked quietly not meaning to sound rude, but she was just concerned about her father finding out about her “friends”.
Kagome heard Sango snort on the other end. “That’s easy. Miroku hacked into the school’s computer and looked up your information.” she said as if there was nothing wrong with that.
“Couldn’t you get in trouble for doing that?”
Sango paused for a moment. “If anyone found out, but there’s no way they ever will.” Sango replied confidently. “So, are you coming? Do you need a lift?”
Kagome looked toward the kitchen and spotted her father cursing at the newspaper article he was reading. She found it odd that he wasn’t drinking and what was even stranger was that there were people coming over later. He never had people come over, but Kagome wasn’t going to question his judgment. Not again. “Um . . . yeah sure, but could you pick me up at the neighborhood playground?” Kagome asked. She knew full well that if her father found out about this he would be furious. Kagome couldn’t remember the last time she did something without his permission. It sent a chill down her spine.
“Why do you want us to pick you up at the playground? I mean, that sounds kinda weird. Why not at your house?” Sango asked.
Kagome sighed. “My dad is having people over and I want to get out of the house. The sooner the better.” Kagome replied. She wasn’t lying. She needed to get out of the house as soon as possible.
“Oh. Alright. Miroku will pick you up there then. I’m going to be running late. My dad wanted to tell me something important before I went out. So, he’ll pick you up first.” she explained.
“Okay.” was all Kagome could say.
There was an awkward silence before Sango said, “Well, I guess I’ll see you later then.”
“Kay, um bye.” Kagome said as she hung up the phone. She looked toward the kitchen to see if her father was becoming suspicious of her being on the phone so long, but he was still reading his newspaper.
Kagome was about to sigh in relief when he ordered her into the kitchen. She immediately went to him. He looked at her with disgust. “You are to be nowhere around this house tonight, Girl. I don’t care where you go. You could go sit underneath a bridge for all I care just don’t come back until well after ten o’clock. Got it?” he asked and she nodded in response.
Naraku looked back down at his paper and said, “You have ten minutes.”
Kagome looked at him in confusion. “Ten minutes for what?”
She was expecting him to lash out at her, but he continued to read the paper. “To get out of the house.” he said calmly and it scared Kagome more than it did when it was fierce. She scurried toward her bedroom and put on a different set of clothes then ran to the bathroom and applied her daily amount of makeup before grabbing her purse and rushing out the door. She walked down the sidewalk until she came across the playground she told Sango she’d meet Miroku.
She sat on the jungle gym for about five minutes before see recognized Miroku’s black sports car pull up. He honked his horn to get her attention as if he didn’t already have it and she ran over to him.
“Hey.” he said as he rolled down the passenger side window. “You ready to have a good time?”
Kagome stared at him for a minute. She couldn’t remember the last time she just went out to have fun. It had to have years. “Kagome? Hey Kagome, are you okay?”
Kagome shook herself out of her thoughts and nodded. “Yeah. Let’s go get Sango.” she said as she attempted to get in the back.
“You know you could ride in the front with me. I don’t bite.” Miroku said and Kagome’s face flushed.
“I know I just thought Sango might want to ride in front with you.” she replied as she scuffed her shoes on the sidewalk.
Miroku chucked. “Well you could always get in the back when we get to Sango’s, but if you’d rather sit in the back that’s fine. I’ll just sit up here. All by myself.” Miroku said as he laid on the guilt trip.
Kagome sighed with a smile as she opened up the passenger seat and got in. “We wouldn’t want that now would we?” she asked as Miroku chucked some more.
“Well you certainly become more open since we’ve became friends.” he said as he pulled out onto the street. “Did you have a quiet side around your old friends or is this something you picked up recently?”
Kagome didn’t answer right away. “I . . . I didn’t have any friends at my old school.” she replied. “As for the quiet side, I’ve always been that way.”
Miroku looked at her sadly. “You didn’t have any friends? That seems very unlikely for someone as nice and pretty as you.” Miroku said with a smile and Kagome couldn’t help, but look away with a blush spread across her face. Miroku looked back toward the road when his cell phone started ringing. He smoothly answered with a, “Hello my lovely Sango.”
Kagome watched his smile fall to a frown. “What a minute Sango, calm down! You’re rambling . . . you’re father? . . . Yes I knew they were close . . . yes I also knew you had a problem with it. Sango if your father loves her . . . maybe he should have ran it past you first but . . . Just take a deep breath. We’ll talk about this when we get to the mall, okay? . . . Alright, talk to you in a sec.” Miroku concluded as he hung up and sighed.
Kagome watched him intently before asking, “Is Sango alright?” Miroku sighed again.
“It has to do with her father. You see a couple of years ago Sango’s mother died of breast cancer.” Miroku explained as Kagome’s eye’s widened. She had no idea. “It was last year that her father met Itsuka, his girlfriend, and Sango’s never been too fond of her. Well, apparently her father told her that Itsuka and him are getting married.”
Just as Miroku finished explaining, he pulled into Sango’s driveway where Sango was already waiting for them. She hurriedly opened the backseat door and hopped in before Kagome could change seats with her. “Drive.” was all she said and Miroku not wanting to make his girlfriend anymore upset pulled out of the driveway.
The ride to the mall was in silence. No one knew what to say as Sango glared out the car window. When they finally got to the mall, InuYasha and Kikyo were already there. “Get, just what I need.” Sango muttered to herself as she got out of the car.
InuYasha walked over to greet them, but Kikyo stayed at the bench she was sitting on as she finished putting on her makeup. “Hey guys, what’s up?” he asked as he noticed Sango’s mood. “What’s with her?”
“Shove it InuYasha.” she said as she pushed past him and walked over to one of the public picnic tables and sat down.
InuYasha just stared after her for a moment before looking back at Kagome and Miroku. “Someone going to fill me in?”
Miroku sighed. “Her father’s marrying Itsuka.” was all Miroku had to say as InuYasha groaned.
“No wonder she’s pissed off.” InuYasha replied. “Bet that conversation didn’t go over too well.”
“I was just going to ask her how it went.” Miroku said as he walked over to Sango with InuYasha and Kagome following.
Miroku sat down opposite of her as InuYasha sat down next to him and Kagome next to Sango. She didn’t look up at him, instead she just glared at the table. He took her hands in his causing her to look up at him. “This isn’t the end of the world you know? You still have us and it’s not like your father’s going to stop loving you and Kohaku.” Miroku said then adding, “Her brother.” to Kagome.
“I don’t want him marrying anyone else.” Sango said as she tried to keep her tears back.
“I know you don’t,” Miroku whispered to her, “but your father lover her and Kohaku seems to have no problem with this. As far as I know, he never had a problem with Itsuka. Why does it bother you?”
“Because,” she choked out, “she’s trying to take mother’s place.”
“Oh come on Sango. You know that’s not true.” InuYasha said causing Sango to glare at him.
Kagome watched silently. She knew how Sango felt. Well, not about the marriage thing, but about her missing her mother. Kagome still woke up in tears in the middle of the night crying out for her mother. Kagome slowly put an arm around Sango’s trembling shoulders. Sango looked up at her with confusion. “I know how you feel Sango. I lost my mother when I was nine. She . . . She died in a car accident.” Kagome said as the memory of the dreadful night flashed through her mind. “I wish my father would try to remarry. Although, I don’t see that happening anytime soon. You’re lucky.”
“I’m so sorry Kagome. I didn’t know you lost your mother too.” Sango said as she threw herself against Kagome’s bruised shoulder causing her to wince a little. Sango sobbed against Kagome for awhile before Kikyo got annoyed of sitting alone while her boyfriend sat with his friends and walked over.
“InuYasha why don’t we go shopping for a bit?” she asked as InuYasha gazed at Kagome and Sango.
“Not right now Kikyo.” InuYasha replied. “Sango’s having a bad day.”
Kikyo let out an irritated sigh. “You know, I’m tried of hearing about Sango and Miroku and even that new girl. I’m your girlfriend. I need some attention too!” Kikyo said loudly.
InuYasha looked up at her crossly. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
Kikyo flipped her hair. “Isn’t that obvious. It’s either me or them. Make your choice.”
Sango had had enough. She stood up and glared at Kikyo. “You listen here! How dare you make InuYasha choose between you and his friends! Then accuse him of not spending enough time with you when we all know he spends to much time with you! You’re just a control freak!” Sango shouted them took off into the mall. Miroku glared at Kikyo as he followed her inside.
Kagome sat there with InuYasha, who staring at Kikyo with disbelief. “Can you believe them?” she said as she sat down next to him then looked at Kagome. “Well, what are you waiting for? Leave.”
Kagome was about to get up when InuYasha stopped her. “No, stay where you are Kagome.” he said as he kept his gaze on Kikyo. “Sango was right. You are a control freak. You’re trying to rip my friends out of my life. If that’s the way you want it then I don’t think this is going to work out.”
Kikyo looked at him incredulity. “What? You’re dumping me?” she asked and when he didn’t say anything she turned around and walked off swearing the whole way.
InuYasha sighed as he turned toward Kagome. “Well, I think we should go find Miroku and Sango.” he said as she nodded and they walked into the mall together.
If felt like Kagome had just closed her eyes when she heard her father banging on the bathroom door. She didn’t think she could bare a beating this early in the morning, so she jumped up right when he opened the door.
Naraku walked over to his daughter and grabbed her upper arm and dragged her out of the bathroom then into the kitchen. He roughly let go of her and glared at her. “Do you see this mess you made last night! I want this house spotless!” he yelled as Kagome quickly got busy. “I’m having very important people coming over tonight and I want this house sparkling!”
Kagome rushed around the kitchen cleaning all the utensils she used last night for dinner. When the dishes were clean and put away she went to clean up the fish he had thrown across the room. By the time the she got around to doing the whole house it was already late in the afternoon.
Kagome plopped down onto the couch in exhaustion. Naraku walked up to her with a hard look on his face. “You’re not allowed to be here tonight.” he stated.
Kagome looked up at him in confusion. “Where do you want me to go?” she asked timidly.
Naraku slapped her across the face. “I don’t care! As long as you’re no where near this house I don’t care where you go!” he yelled as he walked into the kitchen.
Kagome let out a jagged breath. Now what was she supposed to do? As if on cue the phone started ringing. “Girl, you better stop the infuriating sound!”
She jumped off the couch and ran towards the phone, then quickly picked it up. “He-hello?” she asked as she intertwined her fingers in the phone cord.
“Hey Kagome, are you going to come to the mall with us before we go to the movies?” Kagome heard Sango’s voice on the other end of the phone and her blood ran cold. What if her father had answered the phone? She would have been beaten to death.
“Ho-how did you get my number?” Kagome asked quietly not meaning to sound rude, but she was just concerned about her father finding out about her “friends”.
Kagome heard Sango snort on the other end. “That’s easy. Miroku hacked into the school’s computer and looked up your information.” she said as if there was nothing wrong with that.
“Couldn’t you get in trouble for doing that?”
Sango paused for a moment. “If anyone found out, but there’s no way they ever will.” Sango replied confidently. “So, are you coming? Do you need a lift?”
Kagome looked toward the kitchen and spotted her father cursing at the newspaper article he was reading. She found it odd that he wasn’t drinking and what was even stranger was that there were people coming over later. He never had people come over, but Kagome wasn’t going to question his judgment. Not again. “Um . . . yeah sure, but could you pick me up at the neighborhood playground?” Kagome asked. She knew full well that if her father found out about this he would be furious. Kagome couldn’t remember the last time she did something without his permission. It sent a chill down her spine.
“Why do you want us to pick you up at the playground? I mean, that sounds kinda weird. Why not at your house?” Sango asked.
Kagome sighed. “My dad is having people over and I want to get out of the house. The sooner the better.” Kagome replied. She wasn’t lying. She needed to get out of the house as soon as possible.
“Oh. Alright. Miroku will pick you up there then. I’m going to be running late. My dad wanted to tell me something important before I went out. So, he’ll pick you up first.” she explained.
“Okay.” was all Kagome could say.
There was an awkward silence before Sango said, “Well, I guess I’ll see you later then.”
“Kay, um bye.” Kagome said as she hung up the phone. She looked toward the kitchen to see if her father was becoming suspicious of her being on the phone so long, but he was still reading his newspaper.
Kagome was about to sigh in relief when he ordered her into the kitchen. She immediately went to him. He looked at her with disgust. “You are to be nowhere around this house tonight, Girl. I don’t care where you go. You could go sit underneath a bridge for all I care just don’t come back until well after ten o’clock. Got it?” he asked and she nodded in response.
Naraku looked back down at his paper and said, “You have ten minutes.”
Kagome looked at him in confusion. “Ten minutes for what?”
She was expecting him to lash out at her, but he continued to read the paper. “To get out of the house.” he said calmly and it scared Kagome more than it did when it was fierce. She scurried toward her bedroom and put on a different set of clothes then ran to the bathroom and applied her daily amount of makeup before grabbing her purse and rushing out the door. She walked down the sidewalk until she came across the playground she told Sango she’d meet Miroku.
She sat on the jungle gym for about five minutes before see recognized Miroku’s black sports car pull up. He honked his horn to get her attention as if he didn’t already have it and she ran over to him.
“Hey.” he said as he rolled down the passenger side window. “You ready to have a good time?”
Kagome stared at him for a minute. She couldn’t remember the last time she just went out to have fun. It had to have years. “Kagome? Hey Kagome, are you okay?”
Kagome shook herself out of her thoughts and nodded. “Yeah. Let’s go get Sango.” she said as she attempted to get in the back.
“You know you could ride in the front with me. I don’t bite.” Miroku said and Kagome’s face flushed.
“I know I just thought Sango might want to ride in front with you.” she replied as she scuffed her shoes on the sidewalk.
Miroku chucked. “Well you could always get in the back when we get to Sango’s, but if you’d rather sit in the back that’s fine. I’ll just sit up here. All by myself.” Miroku said as he laid on the guilt trip.
Kagome sighed with a smile as she opened up the passenger seat and got in. “We wouldn’t want that now would we?” she asked as Miroku chucked some more.
“Well you certainly become more open since we’ve became friends.” he said as he pulled out onto the street. “Did you have a quiet side around your old friends or is this something you picked up recently?”
Kagome didn’t answer right away. “I . . . I didn’t have any friends at my old school.” she replied. “As for the quiet side, I’ve always been that way.”
Miroku looked at her sadly. “You didn’t have any friends? That seems very unlikely for someone as nice and pretty as you.” Miroku said with a smile and Kagome couldn’t help, but look away with a blush spread across her face. Miroku looked back toward the road when his cell phone started ringing. He smoothly answered with a, “Hello my lovely Sango.”
Kagome watched his smile fall to a frown. “What a minute Sango, calm down! You’re rambling . . . you’re father? . . . Yes I knew they were close . . . yes I also knew you had a problem with it. Sango if your father loves her . . . maybe he should have ran it past you first but . . . Just take a deep breath. We’ll talk about this when we get to the mall, okay? . . . Alright, talk to you in a sec.” Miroku concluded as he hung up and sighed.
Kagome watched him intently before asking, “Is Sango alright?” Miroku sighed again.
“It has to do with her father. You see a couple of years ago Sango’s mother died of breast cancer.” Miroku explained as Kagome’s eye’s widened. She had no idea. “It was last year that her father met Itsuka, his girlfriend, and Sango’s never been too fond of her. Well, apparently her father told her that Itsuka and him are getting married.”
Just as Miroku finished explaining, he pulled into Sango’s driveway where Sango was already waiting for them. She hurriedly opened the backseat door and hopped in before Kagome could change seats with her. “Drive.” was all she said and Miroku not wanting to make his girlfriend anymore upset pulled out of the driveway.
The ride to the mall was in silence. No one knew what to say as Sango glared out the car window. When they finally got to the mall, InuYasha and Kikyo were already there. “Get, just what I need.” Sango muttered to herself as she got out of the car.
InuYasha walked over to greet them, but Kikyo stayed at the bench she was sitting on as she finished putting on her makeup. “Hey guys, what’s up?” he asked as he noticed Sango’s mood. “What’s with her?”
“Shove it InuYasha.” she said as she pushed past him and walked over to one of the public picnic tables and sat down.
InuYasha just stared after her for a moment before looking back at Kagome and Miroku. “Someone going to fill me in?”
Miroku sighed. “Her father’s marrying Itsuka.” was all Miroku had to say as InuYasha groaned.
“No wonder she’s pissed off.” InuYasha replied. “Bet that conversation didn’t go over too well.”
“I was just going to ask her how it went.” Miroku said as he walked over to Sango with InuYasha and Kagome following.
Miroku sat down opposite of her as InuYasha sat down next to him and Kagome next to Sango. She didn’t look up at him, instead she just glared at the table. He took her hands in his causing her to look up at him. “This isn’t the end of the world you know? You still have us and it’s not like your father’s going to stop loving you and Kohaku.” Miroku said then adding, “Her brother.” to Kagome.
“I don’t want him marrying anyone else.” Sango said as she tried to keep her tears back.
“I know you don’t,” Miroku whispered to her, “but your father lover her and Kohaku seems to have no problem with this. As far as I know, he never had a problem with Itsuka. Why does it bother you?”
“Because,” she choked out, “she’s trying to take mother’s place.”
“Oh come on Sango. You know that’s not true.” InuYasha said causing Sango to glare at him.
Kagome watched silently. She knew how Sango felt. Well, not about the marriage thing, but about her missing her mother. Kagome still woke up in tears in the middle of the night crying out for her mother. Kagome slowly put an arm around Sango’s trembling shoulders. Sango looked up at her with confusion. “I know how you feel Sango. I lost my mother when I was nine. She . . . She died in a car accident.” Kagome said as the memory of the dreadful night flashed through her mind. “I wish my father would try to remarry. Although, I don’t see that happening anytime soon. You’re lucky.”
“I’m so sorry Kagome. I didn’t know you lost your mother too.” Sango said as she threw herself against Kagome’s bruised shoulder causing her to wince a little. Sango sobbed against Kagome for awhile before Kikyo got annoyed of sitting alone while her boyfriend sat with his friends and walked over.
“InuYasha why don’t we go shopping for a bit?” she asked as InuYasha gazed at Kagome and Sango.
“Not right now Kikyo.” InuYasha replied. “Sango’s having a bad day.”
Kikyo let out an irritated sigh. “You know, I’m tried of hearing about Sango and Miroku and even that new girl. I’m your girlfriend. I need some attention too!” Kikyo said loudly.
InuYasha looked up at her crossly. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
Kikyo flipped her hair. “Isn’t that obvious. It’s either me or them. Make your choice.”
Sango had had enough. She stood up and glared at Kikyo. “You listen here! How dare you make InuYasha choose between you and his friends! Then accuse him of not spending enough time with you when we all know he spends to much time with you! You’re just a control freak!” Sango shouted them took off into the mall. Miroku glared at Kikyo as he followed her inside.
Kagome sat there with InuYasha, who staring at Kikyo with disbelief. “Can you believe them?” she said as she sat down next to him then looked at Kagome. “Well, what are you waiting for? Leave.”
Kagome was about to get up when InuYasha stopped her. “No, stay where you are Kagome.” he said as he kept his gaze on Kikyo. “Sango was right. You are a control freak. You’re trying to rip my friends out of my life. If that’s the way you want it then I don’t think this is going to work out.”
Kikyo looked at him incredulity. “What? You’re dumping me?” she asked and when he didn’t say anything she turned around and walked off swearing the whole way.
InuYasha sighed as he turned toward Kagome. “Well, I think we should go find Miroku and Sango.” he said as she nodded and they walked into the mall together.