Winds of Change | By : Pumayaton Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 2996 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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When Kagome woke the next morning she was acutely aware of a light pounding behind her temples. The morning sun made her squint her eyes as she slowly became aware of her surroundings and realized that she had fallen asleep sitting up and that there were a pair of muscular arms surrounding her waist. She moved, trying to break free of Inuyasha’s grasp and felt her head pound again. His arms turned her, pulling her into a kneeling position in front of him so he could see her face, still lightly veiled in sleep.
“Good morning.” he said with a coquettish smile on his face.
She groaned and rested her forehead on his collarbone in an attempt to block out the evil sun’s rays. He pushed her back gently by both of her shoulders and kissed her again, just briefly brushing their lips together. She half smiled, half grimaced.
“Good? I feel like warmed over death.”
“Keh. Baka! Perhaps you shouldn’t have drunk so much.” He leapt to his feet and offered an outstretched hand to so she could stand. She shielded her eyes as she took it, and he swung her gently onto his back. “Come on. We’ll get you a real bath back at your house, and then you can talk to your family all you want. I won’t even bitch that you’re taking too long”
She grimaced again at the thought. It all was happening to fast. The only thing that tempered the thoughts of leaving her family behind and saying goodbye to her home was the thought that she could hopefully stay here, with Inuyasha and her friends, in the past. The thought of a real bath enticed her too, and since she had recently run out of the toothpaste she usually carried with her, it seemed like an added bonus. She almost wished she were a coward, and that she could stay without having to break her family’s hearts, but she knew it would be wrong.
She lay her head on Inuyasha’s shoulder as they darted through the forest to the well.
Today would be a long day._______________________________________________________________________________
Mrs. Higurashi sighed as she listened to the water in the bathtub upstairs slosh as her daughter hummed a song while enjoying her bath. She had known this day would come for some time now. Her son had gone to a friends for the afternoon, and Jii-chan had left to hide somewhere on the property as soon as he saw the hanyou. The way Kagome had hugged her as she entered the house had brought tears unbidden to her eyes.Mrs. Higurashi rose from the dinner table, leaving her steaming cup of untouched tea behind, and walked into the courtyard towards the Goshinbuko where Inuyasha sat, eyes closed, and hands folded into the sleeves of his haori.
“Inuyasha! Can you come down here please?” A loud thump was her answer as he landed before her. “You shouldn’t do that you know with your ribs the way they are.”
“Keh, Higurashi-sama, they healed just fine yesterday. Kagome is just a worry wart.”
“Oh, well, I have something I need to show you.” She turned on her heel and marched across the courtyard to the storehouse and opened the door. Dust clouded the air for just a moment as she pulled two large, unsealed boxes from the front of the small building. She opened them for Inuyasha to see the contents. The first, contained soap and shampoo bottles neatly lining its edges, along with toothpaste and brushes alongside boxes with labels for bandages and anti-septic ointments. Through the gaps he could see that all these products sat on top of books with the same strange symbol that graced the old medical kit Kagome carried with her everywhere. The second, was filled with bolts of cloth, kimonos, and bits of clothing from Kagome’s time.
“Why would we-“
Mrs. Higurashi cut him off,”My daughter loves you Inuyasha. I still feel the ache of losing her father, and I would never have my baby girl live through that sort of loss. I want you to take these back with you. While they won’t last forever, they will keep her from homesickness for a short while at least. There are photos of us in there too, for her to remember us by. One more thing,” She pulled a silver ring out of her pocket, “When the time is right, you give this to my baby. You take care of her.”
Inuyasha gently took the ring off her palm, careful of his claws and inspected it. The band was woven of dozens of thin silver tendrils that looked like tree branches, occasionally giving way to small oval emeralds, making the effect of a tree in spring. “You know Mrs. Higurashi, if things go the way I plan, you’ll see your daughter again. For her it will be five hundred years, when I bind her life force to mine. For you, hopefully, things won’t take so long.”
Mrs. Higurashi smiled. “I won’t hold you to that Inuyasha. You could be very busy in five hundred years.”
“Keh.” The hanyou smirked, showing off his fangs, and tucking his hands back together under the sleeves of his haori. “You act like I could keep Kagome away.”
“I hope you’re right Inuyasha, I hope you are right.”
The lady suddenly felt old as she looked at her daughter’s love. Her outstretched hand reached out and once again lightly tugged one of his silver ears, as the wind whipped his hair past her hand. Surprisingly, he didn’t complain, even leaned in to allow the woman access without standing on the tips of her toes. Catching the look of surprise in her eyes, he smirked again showing a slight crease beneath his bangs on his brow.
“I figure I won’t see you for a while, it’s the least I can do.” He stood up, and walked back to the house carrying the two boxes on his shoulders.
Mrs. Higurashi smiled, looking up at the sun. “They’re gunna do just fine.”____________________________________________________________________________-
Author’s Note-Oh, you who light up my life,
I just couldn’t leave you for a week with naught but three chapters. It seemed cruel in my eyes. Almost as cruel as you are being my dears.
Not one of you has done me the honor of writing a review to tell me how much you hate my writing.
How it breaks my heart.
I will, however, not hold it against you.
I wait here, longing for your sweet words my darlings.
Pumayyaton
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