Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ From Dusk til Dawn Starts a New Day ❯ Chp. 8 Family Time ( Chapter 8 )

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IMPORTANT/FUTURE OF STORY:

Lately, I have been thinking of discontinuing my fics.

I just haven't been in a writing mood lately. Every time I start, I get discouraged and sidetracked. I'm either using my time for my artwork, or I'm working on my original stories, and I find myself just wanting to stop fanficiton.

At first I was just planning of going on a hiatus, but the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of just stopping. But I will not be deleting my stories off the site or off my computer, for I may comeback one day. But until then...it was nice writing for you.

~Courtney

Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Drama / Comedy / Adventure / Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 03.25.2007 | Updated On: 04.14.2007 | Pages: 8 | Words: 8.5K | Visits: 964 | Status: Work In Progress

Chp. 8 Family Time

They weren't bad kids, just a little misguided.

This is the conclusion that Kagome came up with as soon as the twins stopped their pledge. Misguided by her anger at her death. She felt the guilt rise and hid it behind a smile. She had corrupted the kids, but she would make it up to them. She wouldn't destroy the three world's like they were hell bent on, but she wouldn't outright deny them. She would gradually break it to them that she wasn't angry anymore.

They were good kids, just confused.

They looked no older than 8 or 9, but the way they held themselves and spoke made them seem their actual ages. They were creepy, but she took that as her fault too. They called her mother, they devoted themselves to her, they wanted to destroy the universe, but no one's perfect, and they had waited for her for over 500 years. She couldn't turn them away. So after their pledge to her, she had smiled sweetly, told them that it wasn't time, and they had accepted it without question. They now currently occupied her couch, watching cartoons and eating poptarts.

“What are you going to do about them?” Gumer asked as he bounded onto the counter next to her.

“Don't know. I guess…I don't know…I'll try to do right by them.”

“What about the detectives? You know how they randomly pop up whenever. What if they pop up while your illegitimate children are here?

“Haven't thought about that…they do scream `Demon Children' don't they?” Absentmindedly scratching Gumer behind the ears, Kagome observed the kids as they stared at the cartoons as if in a trance.

“Hey, come here.” Kagome called out, and a second later they were standing at attention next to her.

“What is your wish mother?” The girl asked in her monotone voice, her face void of any emotion.

“Is it time?” the boy asked.

“No.” Kagome stated simply before placing a hand on both their heads.

They seemed to swell with masked pride at her touch, and she smiled at them as she concentrated, then she blew on them. The effect seemed to look as if she had blown away their whole visage, which was blown away like dust in the wind. In its wake stood two bewildered human children. They're eyes were warm chocolate, their hair a muddy brown, and skin the color of caramel. The boy's hair sat in a curly mop on top of his head, while the girl's wore two pigtails. Their clothing had also been changed to that of simple children's clothes. There was nothing demon about them anymore.

“Aww, look at them!” Gumer cooed from his new position around Kagome's shoulders as he looked at the twins with a genuine smile. “The creepy little munchkins look halfway adorable. Bless their little black hearts. Now all they need now are souls and they'll look like the real deals. Look at them, with their little dead doll eyes. Creepy bastards.”

“Gumer!” Kagome snapped as she plucked the furry demon in the head. “Watch how you speak to them.”

“I'm just calling them like I see them, baby.” Gumer replied as he rubbed his sore head, “And why you hit so hard? I think I have internal bleeding.”

“Why have you degraded us?” The boy asked as he shared a glance with his sister.

“Have we displeased you?” the girl asked with slight worry on her face as she absentmindedly pulled on her plaits.

“No, not at all.” Kagome answered quickly. “It's just that…we are in the human world, and we need to blend in.”

“But you've taken our powers.” The boy continued.

“No, just shut them away, they lay dormant within you. You've waited for me for 500 years, you should know that there are some humans that can feel or sense a demon's presence.”

“Oh, forgive us mother but we've only just arrived here to this world. For the past 5 centuries, we've laid dormant between the three worlds. We knew not which one you would surface in.”

“Dedicated little twerps aren't they?” Gumer mumbled.

“Right, well here, most humans do not know about demons. So we stay in hiding. Understand?”

“Yes, mother.” They recited.

“Good, now…what are your names?”

The question seemed to surprise them for they glanced at each other with widened eyes.

“My name is Odi.” The boy answered first before nodding to his sister.

“And my name is Cali.” She answered after a slight pause.

“Great.” Kagome exclaimed excitedly as she clapped her hands and smile pleasantly at the children, “and my name is Kagome.”

~___~

“What the hell do you mean you're moving?” Yusuke yelled angrily, his voice causing several people stop in their tracks and pay attention. He ignored them as he kept his angry eyes on the girl who had caused him to pop veins in his neck.

“Exactly what it sounds like. I'm moving.” Kagome recited to him with a sigh as she set the heavy box down in the back of the moving truck.

“And why the hell would you need to be doing that?” Not giving Kagome's ears a rest, Yusuke bounded up the stairs behind her.

“My apartment's too small, I need a bigger one.”

“A bigger one? A bigger one! You're just one person, how much damn room do you need?”

“Well,” Kagome started as she stopped and turned to look at him. “You haven't been around lately, so you don't know about…”

“Where too, mother?” a young voice interrupted her as Odi and Cali came up to them with boxes in their arm.

“Just lay them by the truck.” Kagome instructed to them with a smile.

“Mother?” Yusuke voiced as the children continued pass them. “I haven't been gone that damn long, Kagome! What's going on?”

“It's going to be great having you at home, Kagome. I cleaned out your room and everything just like you like it.” Whilst Yusuke had been about to yell about Kagome's infidelity, a large, broad-shouldered, brown haired stranger had walked pass, also carrying boxes and addressing Kagome on friendly terms.

As the boy passed without a glance his way, Yusuke stared scandalously behind him, and without turning towards Kagome, began to follow the boy out. “And who the hell is that?”

“Being a bit nosy aren't we?” Kagome intervened as she grabbed Yusuke's hand a jumped into his path.

“Been a bit busy have we?” he retorted back at her.

“You know…” Kagome began with a huff, “you need to get laid, because all that built up tension you have makes you a very unpleasant asshole. Go out and get a girlfriend or something.”

“I don't want a girlfriend.” He told her quietly, as he looked her dead in the eye.

She smiled. “A boyfriend maybe?”

To her surprise, he laughed. “You know, Kagome? Sometimes I just want to…” fading off, Yusuke wrapped his hands around an invisible person's neck and squeezed the life out of it venomously, and then easing up, he began shaking it vigorously.

Kagome watched this open display of violence with mixed emotions: amusement, concern, and confusion.

“Yusuke,” she called as she placed a comforting hand on his, “It's not okay to go around strangling invisible people, and we're going to get you the help you need. Ritalin may be necessary.” Giving his hand a quick squeeze to let him know that she cared, Kagome walked off towards her apartment to finish packing.

Yusuke stood frozen to his spot, not sure what to make of the situation or what emotion to feel. He decided on anger. “I'm not through with you yet!” he yelled and making a move to follow her, he found out anger was the right emotion to be feeling, for just as he turned to follow her, his communicator went off.

Perfect timing, now he truly had something to vent his anger out on now. Invisible people were good stress relievers, but there were only so many you could catch at the right time.

~___~

“That's the last of it!” Kagome exclaimed happily as she hopped into the passenger side of the truck with Sota at the wheel.

“Great, so what do you want to do now? Take this straight to the storage shelter and then home, or get something to eat first?”

“Let's get some ice cream, then take this to storage, then finally home, by then we'll be good and hungry and ready for some of mom's cooking. I've missed it so much.”

“Ice cream it is then.” Sota agreed as he started up the truck.

“Mother?” Cali asked from the backseat.

Kagome turned to look at her curiously.

“What is I Scream?” Odi finished for her.

“Its ice cream and it's a delicious cold treat that humans, and most demons, tend to enjoy on regular bases.”

“Is it like the poptart?” Cali asked with a shy hint of eagerness.

“It's better than the pop tart. Compared to this, the poptart is trash.”

Two, miniscule, identical smiles blossomed onto their faces, and they both said in unison: “Then we would like to have this ice cream too, mother.”

“Okay, Kagome, what's the deal with the mutants in the backseat, they are seriously creeping me out.”

“Why do people keep saying that? They're not creepy, you're not creepy.” The last was directed at the children, who didn't seem affected by the comments anyway.

“They're not mutants either.” Kagome grumbled as she righted herself in her seat again, arms across her chest. “They just need love and affection, and to be treated like ordinary kids.”

“We are not ordinary.” Cali stated.

“We are mere tools for your use.” Odi continued.

“We are not ordinary human children.”

“We are demons of your making, and we will be destroyers of worlds.”

“Along side you mother.”

“We are dispensable.”

“You are children of the corn.” Gumer stated, as he materialized on the dashboard.

“Whoa, was it that?” Sota yelled in alarm as he barely managed to keep the truck from swerving into oncoming traffic at the sight Gumer's appearance.

“This is Gumer, he's a demon I transformed into…whatever the hell he is. He's the mutant.” Rounding on the twins in anger, she ignored how they quaked and shrank away from the anger in her aura. “And you are not tools! You are children! Demon children, but children nonetheless! You are not dispensable! Stop thinking so little of yourselves!”

“Yes mother.” Odi answered her automatically, with wide eyes and a small nod of his head.

“Good, now when we get to the ice cream parlor I'm going to get the biggest bowl they have and load it up with every kind of ice cream. This being your first time with it, I'm going to make sure you find a favorite kind and get you hooked on the stuff, won't that be fun!” Kagome squealed in delight at the adorable picture she got in her head of her and two messy faced twins devouring a mountain of ice cream.

“My Ladies a bit bipolar.” Gumer muttered to Sota who smiled in return.

“She's always been.” Sota whispered back.

“I can hear you both.” Kagome whispered at them both.

~_____~

“What the fuck is this shit!” Yusuke and the others had just returned from a short mission and had been enjoying a little stroll when Yusuke just so happened to look up and across the street into the ice cream parlor and saw, to his utmost horror, Kagome, the two kids, and that guy, sitting in a booth together. He wouldn't have thought too much of it, besides the fact that Kagome was moving in with the soon-to-be-dead bastard, but she was smiling at him.

Smiling…at another guy…the way she never smiled at him. She never looked that happy when he was around. She never smiled at him with such adoration, and she never took him to get no ice cream. But this guy popped up while he was away on a mission and stolen all of it from him.

He'd show him, he'd pulverize his face, and then he'd love to see how much Kagome smiled at his grotesque mug then. He took a step towards them, but a laugh from Kagome stopped him.

“Yusuke.” He heard Kuwabara call out warningly to him.

Yusuke ignored him, because he was fighting the inter-turmoil within his head. He could beat up this new guy and chase him away like he did any other guy interested in Kagome, or he could leave them alone. Kagome had never smiled at any of those other guys in this way either. She never looked so happy. The guy was pretty joyful too. They loved one another; that he could tell. Kagome was in love, and it wasn't with him. The thought drove him crazy, he felt like killing something, and since Kagome's happiness was more important than his, he turned away from them, and then froze again.

He wasn't done yet, he was never the guy to sit back and let things go. He was a doer, he made things happen. He still had a chance, he could get rid of the guy and take Kagome as his, and once she realized how he felt about him, she would gladly love him in return.

He smiled in satisfaction and turned back towards them, but again he stopped.

He didn't know what to do, he was confused, and he was getting angry! “Damnit!” he yelled in frustration as he stormed past his companions and down the sidewalk.

“The detective is like a woman with his emotions.” Hiei noted boredly as they watched Yusuke speak into his communicator angrily before smashing it against the wall, breaking it into pieces and damaging his hands while at it.

“I've never known women to break their hands by punching walls in fits of rage.” Kurama added with a quirk of his eyebrow.

“I meant by how he displays them so openly.”

“What? He should bottle them up like you?” Kuwabara asked.

“That would benefit him.”

“That would be a tumor in 3 years. Good luck with that.”

~___~

“Aww! They're even less freakish when they're asleep.” Gumer gushed from around Kagome's leg, as she sand Sota each carried a sleeping twin up the shrine steps.

“Shut it, before I turn you into a rat.” Kagome hissed threatenly as she shook him off her leg.

After eating ice cream, the four of them, plus Gumer, had taken the truck to the storage center and used up all their ice cream energy on unloading the truck, by the time they had gotten done, the twins were tired out.

“Hey, Kagome,” Sota asked as they finally reached the landing of the shrine grounds.

“Yeah?”

“Who was that guy? At the apartments, you were talking to him and he looked pretty upset, who was that?”

“No one, just a friend of mine. His name's Yusuke.”

“Friend, as in boyfriend?” Sota asked with a smile as they reached the door and he fumbled with his keys, along with trying to hold Cali upon his shoulder.

“No!” Kagome laughed as she took Cali from him so he could open the door. “He's too thick minded to think of me in that way and I'm not interested in love at the moment. But he does think he owns me though. What about you? Are they're any girls coming up here pretending to be interested in the shrine.”

Sota didn't even blush as he turned towards his sister and smiled wolfishly. “Plenty!” Just then, the door swung open and their mother stood at the door, eyes glued to the sleeping children.

“Kagome…” she said after a pause. “You've been busy!”

“Mom!”

“Kagome!”

Sota laughed.

“Sota!” Mom reprimanded him.

“Mom!” Kagome tried again.

“Gumer!” Gumer added as he materialized on Sota's head.

“A squirrel too, Kagome?”

~____~

After the initial shock of their meeting. The happy family had gone in and had a nice supper, minus too children, who were immediately sent to bed by their new grandmother.

During supper, they had talked and joked and played around. Talking about mother's slightly plumper figure, to grandpa's wrinkles, to Sota's and his fan girls, and finally to Kagome, her two kids, and the boy at the apartments.

“What do you mean you're not interested in love?” mother asked in shock.

“I'm just not. Even though what happened between me and Inuyasha was centuries ago, its sill fresh on my mind.”

“We fell asleep!” Odi commented from the stairway as he rubbed his eyes and made his way over to Kagome, flanked by Cali.

“Is it time?” Cali asked innocently as she stopped shortly behind her brother.

“Not yet, are you hungry?”

Looking to her brother for confirmation, Cali nodded her head.

“Don't get up, Kagome. I'll fix it.” Mother offered with a smile as she hopped, or grunted, up from her seat and disappeared into the kitchen.

“Now about this boy, Kagome.” Grandpa mumbled, looking at her with a reproachful look. “Have you gone and gotten yourself involved with another demon.

“How'd you guess? Him and his friends are demons, well except one. But they're all demons, good job grandpa.”

“Now Kagome. You should know better than to go off and get hooked up with more demons now that I want some jello.”

“Jello? What are you…Sota?” Looking to Sota for an explanation.

“Alzheimer's.” Sota explained simply with a shake of his head.

“Nothing's wrong with me, I just want jello, and a porkchop! Bring me a porkchop woman!”

“Coming grandpa.” Was his reply.

“The old one doesn't speak coherently.” Odi said bluntly.

“He never did.” Kagome whispered to him.

“He doesn't have it this bad; he just uses it as an excuse to act out.” Sota told them with a suspicious glance towards his grandpa, who was currently ordering his mother to chew the porkchop up good for him.

“Have a seat.” Kagome said to the children as her mother came in with two plates in her hand and no porkchops.

“Here you go dears.” Mother said pleasantly as she sat the plates in front of them before taking her seat again, ignoring how grandpa glared at her.

“And where the hell is my porkchop and jello.”

“You ate it.” She answered sweetly.

“Oh. It was good. Best one you've made in a while.”

“Now, Kagome, about these friends of yours. These demon friends. Do they know about you?”

“No, but I'm going to break it to them slowly.”

“Oh?” Mother asked interested.

“Yes, I'm going to have an accident.”

“Accident?”

“Yes, ma'am. I'm going to have an accident where they're going to be, but all they're going to do is watch and be helpless.”