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Sweet Surrender	By : inumom Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 7748 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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4. Ways and Means

Although I still limped a bit, the hole in my leg had essentially closed. I looked around at the faces of my family assembled around the dinner table. They looked at me with curiosity as I paced nervously back and forth, the hanyou leaning against the wall behind me providing moral support. �I guess you�re all wondering why we�re here.�
Mama and Souta exchanged a look I couldn�t identify, then simply nodded slowly. Jiichan kept glancing out the window as though he wanted to be anywhere but there. �I guess it�s time for me to explain. I�m sorry, Mama--I know that you were hoping I�d someday have some kind of great career, but that�s not going to happen. I�m leaving school. Not right this minute--there are some things I want to do first--but very soon. I�ll be taking as many different textbooks as I can when I go. I figure that I�ve got enough of a general background that I�ll be able to teach myself anything else I need to know.�
I think Mama sort of understood, but Souta didn�t. �What do you mean, nee-san?�
Although they hadn�t said anything, I could see the same question in the eyes of the rest of my family. Moving carefully to my silver-haired companion, I stood next to him while he placed a hand at the small of my back to offer his silent support. �Inuyasha has asked me to be his mate, and I�ve agreed. Naturally, we�ll be living in his world, but I�ll be able to travel back for visits now and again. That�s why I�m taking all those books with me--I want to be able to teach our family, when we have one.�
I looked from one to the other, reading their reactions. Souta was thrilled. No surprise there--he�d always thought of the hanyou as the big brother he�d never had. I wasn�t too sure about Mama�s reaction: she was smiling, but I thought I could see the glimmer of tears starting to form in her eyes. Jiichan was another matter entirely. Even though he�d gotten rather used to having someone who was part youkai around, he wasn�t about to let this go unchallenged. �Absolutely not!� he roared, pulling out a couple of his totally useless seals and flinging them at Inuyasha. �Kagome is the daughter of a shrine family--for her to be consorting with demons is completely unacceptable! I forbid--�
That was the last straw! Even though I hadn�t always believed the things he�d told me, I had always respected Jiichan. Maybe that�s why it was so hard for me to interrupt. �Jiichan!� I yelled. �This is my life, and I�ll live it the way I want! First of all,� I said, really getting up a head of steam now, �Inuyasha is not a demon. He�s hanyou, which means that he�s as much human as he is youkai. Second, I�m not �consorting� with anybody! I�m going to be his mate--that�s just like being married in this world. Third,� I said, my voice dropping to almost a growl, �If you even think of trying to stop me, I�ll disappear and you�ll never see me again--and you know I can do it. Finally,� and my expression softened a little at this point, �I don�t really have any choice, because I love him.�
Jiichan shifted his attention from me to the hanyou standing at my side. �What do you have to say about all this?�
To my complete and utter surprise, my future mate flashed a toothy grin at the old man. �Not a damn thing, Jiji. I think that Kagome said it all.�
I was even more surprised when my grandfather cracked a huge grin and threw his arms around us. At that point, seeing that things were apparently resolved, Mama stood up and joined us. �You�ll be getting married here before you go, right?�
We simply looked at each other. Personally, I didn�t really care at all, but I could see that the ceremony meant quite a lot to my mother. We exchanged a moment of a sort of wordless communication, then he nodded. �Sure. We can do that if you�d like. When do you want to set it up?�
Mama got this kind of scary vague look in her eyes, as though she had gone off to some other dimension. �It�ll probably take a few weeks to arrange. After all, this is a family matter, and we should make certain that everybody is invited.�
The hanyou�s normally pale skin whitened further. �Everybody--?�
Mama reached out a hand to lightly touch his shoulder. �Don�t worry so, dear. I�m not planning anything very big--just family and a few close friends. No more than seventy-five or a hundred people.�
I could almost feel the panic bubbling up in my fiancé. �Gods, I love the sound of that!� I thought as I gripped his arm in what I hoped was a reassuring manner. �Don�t worry, love,� I whispered. �Even though quite a lot of people will get invited, many of them won�t come, either because they�re not really that close to the family, or because they live too far away to make the trip easily, or because they don�t have enough notice to change plans they�ve already made.� I turned back to my family with a brilliant smile. �I think I�d better take him back upstairs. This has all been quite a shock, and it�s going to take me a little time to explain everything.�

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�What was all that down there?� I had never seen anything like Jiichan�s performance before, and I couldn�t understand how somebody I�d known all my life could have acted that way.
The hanyou sitting on the bed next to me smirked. �The old geezer is a lot brighter than I gave him credit for. That was a lot like what usually happens when youkai decide to become mates--the outsider male is challenged by the male leader of the female�s group. When he gave you all that crap, that�s sort of what he was doing. Only it was a different kind of test than the ones I�ve heard about before--he was testing both of us.�
That was something I hadn�t considered. �What kind of testing are you talking about?�
He shrugged. �The tests were different for each of us. He was testing you for your level of commitment. I think he wanted to make sure that you weren�t going to throw your life away for nothing. He was testing me for something entirely different. Most male youkai tend to dominate their mates. When I told him that I didn�t have anything else to add to your little speech, that seemed to convince him that I wasn�t planning on going down that particular road.�
I nodded slowly. Everything seemed to make perfect sense now that he had explained it to me. �Are you okay with all this? I know Mama can get a little carried away sometimes.�
�Don�t worry about it. How complicated can it be?�
I didn�t even want to think of answering: my cousin had gotten married about a year earlier, and it had taken months of planning and preparation, not to mention all of her savings, to arrange. Of course, this wasn�t going to be anywhere near as elaborate as that had been--she had married into one of the most prominent families in this part of the country, after all--but the problems inherent in the diverse nature of those involved would more than make up for it. �I�m sure Mama will try to keep things as simple as possible.�
Even I didn�t find that answer especially reassuring.
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