InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Half and Half ❯ chapter 9 ( Chapter 9 )
[ P - Pre-Teen ]
By: fire feline 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Drama / Comedy / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 01.06.2004 | Pages: 4 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 200 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Drama / Comedy / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 01.06.2004 | Pages: 4 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 200 | Status: Completed
Disclaimer* I don't own Inu Yasha and the gang. I didn't write the first nine chapters of the story. Naoko Cat Girl had the honor of doing that. This is the last chapter written by her. After this chapter it was all me. So here you go.
Chapter 9***
"NANI???"
The monk and the youkai exterminator tried to calm the frantic fox kit.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S A HANYOU?"
Miroku sighed and tried to explain the spell and what had gone wrong, but his
audience had disappeared.
"I'm gonna go find them!" The kitsune cried, and ran off in the general
direction of Kaede's hut.
Sango tried to stop him, but he was gone in a flash.
"Well, I suppose there's nothing we can do but follow him," she sighed.
"I dunno, I can think of a few more interesting things we could do instead."
Miroku said, his quirked eyebrows hinting at what he had in mind.
Whap
"Ouch."
"Once a pervert, always a pervert." Sango growled.
***
Kagome peered over her cards at Inuyasha. She grabbed the card he passed to her,
looked at, then passed it along. Her hand snaked towards the center of the
table, lightly grabbed a spoon, and snaked back. She continued to pass the cards
and wait. Souta noticed the missing spoon first, and quickly grabbed another.
Inuyasha was trying to deal with all the cards in his hand at once, his eyebrows
slanted in frustration as he threw a handful of cards to Kagome.
"Slow down." He growled to Mrs. Higurashi, who grabbed the next spoon. Ji-
chan looked up next and grabbed the last spoon. Kagome burst into a fit of
giggles.
"What're you laughing at, wench?" he growled at her, then noticed the
spoon in her hand. He looked to the table, but the spoons were already taken.
"Da-" he barely stopped himself from cursing, seeing the disapproving look
on Mrs. Higurashi's face.
"That's another O for you!" Kagome shouted happily. "The almighty hanyou
with the super senses, losing a game of Spoons," She laughed.
"Where'd you learn this card game anyways?" Souta asked.
"Uh, I think it was an American foreign exchange student in my class a year or
two ago," Kagome replied.
"Well I think it's stupid." Inuyasha said gruffly.
"That's just cause you're a sore loser." Kagome stuck out her tongue.
She hadn't lost a round yet. In fact, Inuyasha had been the loser for all the
past rounds except one, when he happened to look up at just the right time to
grab the last spoon right before Souta did. Oh, how he had gloated after that,
sitting with his smug 'I'm better than you and I know it,' look, which
only amused the family instead of intimidating them like it was supposed to.
Inuyasha hadn't quite understood the point of these card thingies. They
didn't seem to serve much purpose, you couldn't eat them, or use them as
weapons, and when you won a game, you didn't get any sort of prize or anything
for your trouble. Kagome said they weren't supposed to serve a purpose, that
they were just for 'fun.' In fact, a lot of the things from her time seemed
to be just for fun, like those video game thingies on that possessed 'TV'
box. Inuyasha was still confused how the things inside the box were there
without smell, and Kagome just went into an even more confusing explanation that
involved strange words like 'satellites,' and something about a picture
being sent by some kind of waves. Inuyasha got bored and changed the subject.
Kagome eventually gave up trying to explain the things of her time, as the
technology was unimaginable to anyone from the Sengoku Jidai, so she just
attributed it to a different kind of magic. Inuyasha really didn't care too
much anyways. The black box was loud and annoying and not nearly as useful as
that 'stove' thingy he had made the ramen on.
"Inuyasha, what do you want to do now?" Kagome asked when the card game was
over, Inuyasha inevitably losing, with the word 'spoons' written in English
letters with blue ink on his hand.
"Can I get this stuff off my hand now?" Inuyasha asked.
"Sure. Come on."
Kagome led him into the bathroom and showed him how to use the sink. She
wrinkled her now-sensitive nose as she entered.
"I never realized how much this room really smells." She said. It was true,
the intermixing smells of bleach, urine, air freshener, and soap made it quite a
pungent place. They had gone almost unnoticed by her human nose. That reminded
her.
"Inuyasha, are you going to take me to learn how to track and stuff today?"
Inuyasha looked at her in surprise. "I thought you would want to stay with
your family for the rest of the day."
Kagome pouted. "But I really wanted to go today!"
Inuyasha looked at her in disbelief. "Kagome, you haven't been with your
family in weeks. You always like to come back."
"But I can always come another day," she said. "Why are you wanting me to
stay here? You used to never want me to come back."
Inuyasha looked to the ground.
"That's because... I used to be afraid that if you came back here... you
wouldnâ't ever come back to me. You had so much here, I never could believe you
would actually want to stay in my age with me."
Kagome looked at him in wonder. "Really? But I always came back!"
"That's why I eventually came to trust that you would stay with me," he
said quietly. "Stay with your family today, who knows, it might be a while
before you see them again. Plus, you have to make plans for that 'party'
thing of yours."
Kagome nodded. "That's right... Okay, but we can go tomorrow, right?"
Inuyasha nodded. "Of course."
She smiled and went off to find her mom. Inuyasha watched her leave, and sucked
in his breath. He hadn't told her the real reason why he wanted her to stay.
Watching her and her mother together, seeing the was Souta adored her, and
Jii-chan was protective of her, he saw that she belonged. She had a family, a
real one. The one thing he had never had. He wanted her to enjoy it, not waste a
minute of it, because it was more precious than she knew.
And, maybe, by watching them, he could pretend he was a part of it.
***
"Kagome, do you think you'll be back again before your party?" Souta
asked.
"No, why, Souta?"
"Cause, if you aren't coming back, when are you and Mom gonna go
shopping?"
Kagome sucked in her breath. She had forgotten; it was tradition, every year her
and her mother would go out on a huge shopping spree as an early birthday
present. She and her mother would often spend all day at it, hitting the malls
and boutiques, enjoying themselves immensely. She wondered why her mother
hadn't mentioned it before. No, wait, of course Mama wouldn't mention it.
She wouldn't say anything, and let Kagome spend her time with Inuyasha,
thinking she would much rather be with the dog demon than her dried up old
mother anyways. Kagome sighed. Her mother was always so self sacrificing,
willing to give up her own time with her daughter for Inuyasha and her Sengoku
companions. Kagome knew how much her mother enjoyed the little shopping trips
they took together, ones that Kagome hadn't had time for of late. Well, she
would fix that. She left the puzzled Souta to go find her Mom.
She was in the kitchen, washing up the dishes from the waffles they had eaten
earlier. Kagome glanced at the clock. It was still early enough, before noon,
they could leave now and still have time to shop till they dropped.
"Hey, Mom, leave those dishes for later. Come on, lets get ready."
"Ready? For what?"
"For our shopping trip, remember? You owe me my birthday spree, if I am
correct."
"But what about-"
"About what? Come on, let's go."
Mrs. Higurashi smiled.
"Alright. Well, let me change, and get my purse. But, Kagome dear, what are
you going to do about Inuyasha?"
"What? I heard my name." Inuyasha popped out around the corner, a Pocky
sticking out of his mouth.
"Hey! That was my secret stash!" Kagome yelled.
Inuyasha grinned.
"Well, it's not a secret anymore, now is it?"
Kagome swatted at the dog demon, who playfully ducked under it, cruching the
rest of the chocolate covered biscuit stick before sticking his tongue out at
Kagome.
Kagome sniffed the air.
"And you got into my Botan rice candy too!"
Inuyasha grimaced.
"That sticky stuff? It was too sweet, and stuck in my teeth."
"So where's the rest of it?"
"Oh, I didn't like it, so I gave it to that fat cat."
"Inuyasha!!!"
"Just kidding." Inuyasha smirked, and held out the bag with most of
Kagome's candy stash still intact, though depleted of chocolate.
Kagome glared warily at him, but he just grinned infuriatingly. Mrs. Higurashi
chuckled at the pair.
"So what are we going to do about him?"
Kagome smirked. "Let's make him really suffer for his candy theivery.
Let's..."
Inuyasha sweatdropped.
"...take him shopping with us!"
~~~~~*****----------------------------------------*****~~~~~
Okay so I had nothing else better to do and uploaded every chapter from the original story. DO NOT expect me to type th rest of the story so quickly. I have the rest written but not typed so it will take a little while for me to do it I do have a life other than fanfiction. (even though it might seem otherwise sometimes) I will get to work on it. And don't forget to review its what keeps me typing. So go ahead...push the button. you know you want to.
Chapter 9***
"NANI???"
The monk and the youkai exterminator tried to calm the frantic fox kit.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S A HANYOU?"
Miroku sighed and tried to explain the spell and what had gone wrong, but his
audience had disappeared.
"I'm gonna go find them!" The kitsune cried, and ran off in the general
direction of Kaede's hut.
Sango tried to stop him, but he was gone in a flash.
"Well, I suppose there's nothing we can do but follow him," she sighed.
"I dunno, I can think of a few more interesting things we could do instead."
Miroku said, his quirked eyebrows hinting at what he had in mind.
Whap
"Ouch."
"Once a pervert, always a pervert." Sango growled.
***
Kagome peered over her cards at Inuyasha. She grabbed the card he passed to her,
looked at, then passed it along. Her hand snaked towards the center of the
table, lightly grabbed a spoon, and snaked back. She continued to pass the cards
and wait. Souta noticed the missing spoon first, and quickly grabbed another.
Inuyasha was trying to deal with all the cards in his hand at once, his eyebrows
slanted in frustration as he threw a handful of cards to Kagome.
"Slow down." He growled to Mrs. Higurashi, who grabbed the next spoon. Ji-
chan looked up next and grabbed the last spoon. Kagome burst into a fit of
giggles.
"What're you laughing at, wench?" he growled at her, then noticed the
spoon in her hand. He looked to the table, but the spoons were already taken.
"Da-" he barely stopped himself from cursing, seeing the disapproving look
on Mrs. Higurashi's face.
"That's another O for you!" Kagome shouted happily. "The almighty hanyou
with the super senses, losing a game of Spoons," She laughed.
"Where'd you learn this card game anyways?" Souta asked.
"Uh, I think it was an American foreign exchange student in my class a year or
two ago," Kagome replied.
"Well I think it's stupid." Inuyasha said gruffly.
"That's just cause you're a sore loser." Kagome stuck out her tongue.
She hadn't lost a round yet. In fact, Inuyasha had been the loser for all the
past rounds except one, when he happened to look up at just the right time to
grab the last spoon right before Souta did. Oh, how he had gloated after that,
sitting with his smug 'I'm better than you and I know it,' look, which
only amused the family instead of intimidating them like it was supposed to.
Inuyasha hadn't quite understood the point of these card thingies. They
didn't seem to serve much purpose, you couldn't eat them, or use them as
weapons, and when you won a game, you didn't get any sort of prize or anything
for your trouble. Kagome said they weren't supposed to serve a purpose, that
they were just for 'fun.' In fact, a lot of the things from her time seemed
to be just for fun, like those video game thingies on that possessed 'TV'
box. Inuyasha was still confused how the things inside the box were there
without smell, and Kagome just went into an even more confusing explanation that
involved strange words like 'satellites,' and something about a picture
being sent by some kind of waves. Inuyasha got bored and changed the subject.
Kagome eventually gave up trying to explain the things of her time, as the
technology was unimaginable to anyone from the Sengoku Jidai, so she just
attributed it to a different kind of magic. Inuyasha really didn't care too
much anyways. The black box was loud and annoying and not nearly as useful as
that 'stove' thingy he had made the ramen on.
"Inuyasha, what do you want to do now?" Kagome asked when the card game was
over, Inuyasha inevitably losing, with the word 'spoons' written in English
letters with blue ink on his hand.
"Can I get this stuff off my hand now?" Inuyasha asked.
"Sure. Come on."
Kagome led him into the bathroom and showed him how to use the sink. She
wrinkled her now-sensitive nose as she entered.
"I never realized how much this room really smells." She said. It was true,
the intermixing smells of bleach, urine, air freshener, and soap made it quite a
pungent place. They had gone almost unnoticed by her human nose. That reminded
her.
"Inuyasha, are you going to take me to learn how to track and stuff today?"
Inuyasha looked at her in surprise. "I thought you would want to stay with
your family for the rest of the day."
Kagome pouted. "But I really wanted to go today!"
Inuyasha looked at her in disbelief. "Kagome, you haven't been with your
family in weeks. You always like to come back."
"But I can always come another day," she said. "Why are you wanting me to
stay here? You used to never want me to come back."
Inuyasha looked to the ground.
"That's because... I used to be afraid that if you came back here... you
wouldnâ't ever come back to me. You had so much here, I never could believe you
would actually want to stay in my age with me."
Kagome looked at him in wonder. "Really? But I always came back!"
"That's why I eventually came to trust that you would stay with me," he
said quietly. "Stay with your family today, who knows, it might be a while
before you see them again. Plus, you have to make plans for that 'party'
thing of yours."
Kagome nodded. "That's right... Okay, but we can go tomorrow, right?"
Inuyasha nodded. "Of course."
She smiled and went off to find her mom. Inuyasha watched her leave, and sucked
in his breath. He hadn't told her the real reason why he wanted her to stay.
Watching her and her mother together, seeing the was Souta adored her, and
Jii-chan was protective of her, he saw that she belonged. She had a family, a
real one. The one thing he had never had. He wanted her to enjoy it, not waste a
minute of it, because it was more precious than she knew.
And, maybe, by watching them, he could pretend he was a part of it.
***
"Kagome, do you think you'll be back again before your party?" Souta
asked.
"No, why, Souta?"
"Cause, if you aren't coming back, when are you and Mom gonna go
shopping?"
Kagome sucked in her breath. She had forgotten; it was tradition, every year her
and her mother would go out on a huge shopping spree as an early birthday
present. She and her mother would often spend all day at it, hitting the malls
and boutiques, enjoying themselves immensely. She wondered why her mother
hadn't mentioned it before. No, wait, of course Mama wouldn't mention it.
She wouldn't say anything, and let Kagome spend her time with Inuyasha,
thinking she would much rather be with the dog demon than her dried up old
mother anyways. Kagome sighed. Her mother was always so self sacrificing,
willing to give up her own time with her daughter for Inuyasha and her Sengoku
companions. Kagome knew how much her mother enjoyed the little shopping trips
they took together, ones that Kagome hadn't had time for of late. Well, she
would fix that. She left the puzzled Souta to go find her Mom.
She was in the kitchen, washing up the dishes from the waffles they had eaten
earlier. Kagome glanced at the clock. It was still early enough, before noon,
they could leave now and still have time to shop till they dropped.
"Hey, Mom, leave those dishes for later. Come on, lets get ready."
"Ready? For what?"
"For our shopping trip, remember? You owe me my birthday spree, if I am
correct."
"But what about-"
"About what? Come on, let's go."
Mrs. Higurashi smiled.
"Alright. Well, let me change, and get my purse. But, Kagome dear, what are
you going to do about Inuyasha?"
"What? I heard my name." Inuyasha popped out around the corner, a Pocky
sticking out of his mouth.
"Hey! That was my secret stash!" Kagome yelled.
Inuyasha grinned.
"Well, it's not a secret anymore, now is it?"
Kagome swatted at the dog demon, who playfully ducked under it, cruching the
rest of the chocolate covered biscuit stick before sticking his tongue out at
Kagome.
Kagome sniffed the air.
"And you got into my Botan rice candy too!"
Inuyasha grimaced.
"That sticky stuff? It was too sweet, and stuck in my teeth."
"So where's the rest of it?"
"Oh, I didn't like it, so I gave it to that fat cat."
"Inuyasha!!!"
"Just kidding." Inuyasha smirked, and held out the bag with most of
Kagome's candy stash still intact, though depleted of chocolate.
Kagome glared warily at him, but he just grinned infuriatingly. Mrs. Higurashi
chuckled at the pair.
"So what are we going to do about him?"
Kagome smirked. "Let's make him really suffer for his candy theivery.
Let's..."
Inuyasha sweatdropped.
"...take him shopping with us!"
~~~~~*****----------------------------------------*****~~~~~
Okay so I had nothing else better to do and uploaded every chapter from the original story. DO NOT expect me to type th rest of the story so quickly. I have the rest written but not typed so it will take a little while for me to do it I do have a life other than fanfiction. (even though it might seem otherwise sometimes) I will get to work on it. And don't forget to review its what keeps me typing. So go ahead...push the button. you know you want to.