Title: We meet again
Disclaimer: Yeah not mine, I don't even own a car. How can I afford the whole Inuyasha series?
Summary: It has been one year since the shikon-no-tama was finished and Kagome has returned to modern times. She is ready to take on college at Tokyo U. but comes across familiar faces. Including one Sesshoumaru who is disguised as Kagome's professor. Kag/Sess! NOT AU
BEFORE YOU READ: This is not AU! Sesshoumaru and blah blah blah whoever else survived 500 years up to Kagome's time.
Please read the author's note at the bottom.
Chapter Four: How many sons?
Last Chapter:
"Yeah! You two are to meet me at Caesar's Pizza ((Sorry I had to think of some restaurant/food place)) in two hours. And you have to go. And yes, Shippou if you have to, beat Sesshoumaru into coming." She smiled at the last part and yelled a 'ta-ta!' to them as she skipped happily past them and towards her dorms, an excited feeling at the pit of her stomach, knowing that her life would change from this point forward.
Meanwhile, with Sesshoumaru and Shippou.
"So should you tell Kouga or should I?" They said simultaneously.
Ring…ring…
Sesshoumaru waited impatiently holding the phone in his hand, waiting for the person to receive the call at the other end.
Ring…ring…
He silently cursed Sesshoumaru for making him do the talking.
FLASHBACK
"I'm not calling the wolf." Sesshoumaru just didn't want to deal with it. He knew that Kouga would be jumping off the walls once he muttered the two words 'Kagome's here'. Life would be better off without that action, thank you very much.
"But then that would leave me to talk to that pesky wolf! And you know how much he adores Kagome! Anyways this job should be given to you… I uhh, have to watch the kids…"
Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow.
"Shippou, your kids are more than 100 years of age. I'm sure they'll be fine." He said, with his mouth in a straight line.
"But Sesshoumaruuuu." He whined.
"Stop that. My ears will overflow with that infectious whine of yours." He countered with a scowl.
Shippou would always be Shippou.
The kitsune youkai straightened up.
"Let's 'hand, paper, scissors' it." He said with a smile.
"…"
A nervous laughter escaped Shippou's mouth.
"C'mon, Sesshoumaru. This game solves anything!"
"I refuse to play your silly game." He turned to leave.
"Sesshoumaru you're forgetting something…" Shippou said seriously
"And that is?"
Shippou dangled set of car keys in his hand.
Sesshoumaru's mouth fell open.
'How did he get that? Not the Toyota Prius… He wouldn't dare.'
Shippou nervously laughed as he saw Sesshoumaru's eyes narrow, his piercing gold eyes staring straight at him and his mouth moved in a deathly way as if to say 'try me'.
Sesshoumaru stepped forward, toward the stumbling Shippou.
'Do I dare?'
He gulped down hard.
'I've got no choice.'
He ran as fast as he could towards the parking lots, using some of his demon speed. Sesshoumaru ran just as fast if not faster. Shippou yelped as Sesshoumaru grabbed his hair and pulled him back. The white-haired demon stared at him immensely and with great malevolence.
To a student passing by, this would be quite an engaging event. Students watched as the teacher and the other adult battled it out verbally. They only understood a few words and heard things like 'you have to do it!' 'I'm not doing it!' 'rock paper scissors it then!'
They noticed groups of passing students and other teachers and quickly straightened up.
"Detention for all of you if you don't get to your next class." Sesshoumaru said loud and firm.
'Even in modern times I still have power.' He smirked.
Once all students and passer-bys left the two bickering youkai alone they continued to "converse".
"C'mon Sesshoumaru!" His eyes twinkled, "I still have your keys..." Smooth, Shippou, smooth.
"Fine. Let's get the game over with then." He countered with a growl.
"Rock. Paper. Scissors!"
"Agh! Can we pretend I had paper and not scissors? Or that you didn't have rock!"
Sesshoumaru smirked as Shippou wore a small frown.
"Have fun talking to the wolf, kitsune." He smirked and said as he turned, grabbed his keys from the sulking red-haired youkai's hand and headed for his car.
'Damn. You. Sesshoumaru.'
END FLASHBACK
Ring... Ring… "Moshi Moshi! … Konnichiwa?"
A woman answered with a peppy voice.
Shippou could hear a faint 'who is it?' from the background.
"Hey Ayame, its Shippou."
"Shippou! How's it going?"
"Great, good! Can I speak to Kouga?"
"Sure!" He heard her yelling "Kouga get your ass over to the phone it's Shippou!" Then he heard some whining, more yelling and what sounded like a 'why'd you hit me with the remote, woman!'
Finally the other line picked up and the wolf boy himself answered, "What do you want!"
"Now is that a way to treat an old friend, Kouga?"
"You never call unless there's something… Are you trying to mooch money off me again!"
"Kouga if there's anyone who will mooch money off someone, it's you."
"Why you little-"
"Whatever. That's not why I'm calling. I've got news you'd want to hear."
"Oh really? Are you trying to get me into one of those pyramid schemes. You know they don't work, Shippou…"
"No!" His voice suddenly turned serious. "Kouga, Kagome's here."
"…What?"
"You heard me!"
"Kagome from Sengoku Jidai, Kagome? 'My Woman!' Kagome?" Shippou chuckled as he heard Ayame yell something incoherent from the other line.
"Yes, that Kagome."
Kouga snorted and said disbelievingly "I don't have time for your silly games Shippou."
"You don't believe me?"
"Of course I don't."
"Fine. Trust me or don't trust me. It's your loss if you don't. But let me just say this… I adore Kagome and I wouldn't lie about this" He said seriously and continued. "Take Ayame and meet us at Caesar's Pizza, I trust you know where that is, tonight at 5."
Shippou hung up and sighed.
'Well that wasn't so bad."
"Kouga, Kagome's here."
Is the Kitsune joking? No, he wouldn't…
So what if he didn't feel the same about Kagome as before? She would always be his beloved human friend even though he still had Ayame. Seeing Kagome would be a dream-come-true. After 500 years…
He smiled.
"Ayame? You don't have to cook dinner."
His wife looked bewildered.
"What? Why?" She said with a frown.
"We're having pizza tonight."
Kagome entered her dorm room and dropped her book bag. With a delightful sigh she plopped onto her bed and replayed the early day's events.
What a day.
If someone were to ask her how she felt at the moment, the first thing she would've done was attack them and eat their head. Or something. How dare they ask her how she felt? You see someone who you haven't seen in a year or so, and who hasn't seen you in over five hundred years. By golly, how would you feel?
She felt the need to italicize everything at the moment.
Other than that…
She was ecstatic beyond belief! She was high up in the clouds with a bottle of joy in her hand. She could run through a tunnel of fire and her grin wouldn't lose its gleam.
Man, was she happy.
Though she was still so overwhelmed. Nothing would be the same from now on. Were Shippou and Sesshoumaru going to be a big part in her future? Of course they would. How could they not? Shippou was her little baby. Well not anymore, of course.
Then there was also Sesshoumaru… He didn't seem to change much. Exactly what she would've thought he would be in modern times. Although Kagome sort of expected him to be really super old-looking by now, she was caught by surprise when she noticed he looked the same as ever. His face with that sophisticated 'I'm in my late-twenties' modern youthfulness. And then his hair… oh my, his hair! It no longer looked like a woman's now that it was short and clean-cut. No offense or anything, she always thought he was attractive in a 'beautiful' way… but this Sesshoumaru now is hot!
'Kagome! I can't believe you just thought that! Smack!' She cleared her thoughts of that really quickly but they came back again just as fast.
She laughed at herself as sheremembered he looked like one of those guys in a Japanese Playgirl magazine.
'Kagome how would you know what guys in playgirl magazines look like?' A part of her asked curiously.
The more temper-headed part of her countered, 'It's not my fault I like to pass through the magazine section in the grocery storesometimes! You know… the workers there really need to stop getting the playgirl magazines mixed up in the Japan Weekly section.' That last part sounded too nervous for Kagome's liking.
'Sure Kagome, sure.'
I really need some therapy right now.
Sesshoumaru sat on his large bed, glancing at the clock that was pinned to the wall.
4:15
He glanced down at himself. Then at the clock again. Repeat this five times.
4:16
'Should I go?' he mentally asked himself.
He would have it tomorrow if he didn't go and Kagome would badger him about it after class.
He was asking himself the wrong question, though. Of course he would go. The real question was: Did he want to go?
He scowled at himself for a part of him actually did want to go and spend time with the human. He couldn't help himself. 500 years of modernizing made some part of him a little human. Just a little. Only a smidge…
4:18
He tapped his finger on the bed, then circled his finger on the forest-green, silk sheets.
'Hmm. I need new sheets.'
Tap, tap. Circle…
'Fuck it.'
He got up and made his way to the shower, muttering silent cursesabout a kitsune and a human.
"Aiko did you call the kids?"
The female kitsune sighed.
"Hai, calm down. Sit down will you? Ever since you got home you've been prancing around like mad. The last time you did that was when you heard about Y2K and you were cursing the humans."
Shippou sat down beside his love and laid his head on her shoulder.
"It's just… I'm so overwhelmed! I haven't seen her in five hundred years! And she comes barging into my life once again a day ago and today she demands we celebrate our meeting! It's just…"
Aiko frowned, "You're nervous about later when the kids and I meet her, aren't you?"
Shippou looked her in the eyes.
"I just don't want her to feel bad that she wasn't there to watch me grow and to see…" he waved his hands up frantically "this all."
Shippou felt an assuring hand on his shoulder.
"She'll love it. She'll love us."
After the Kodak moment she slapped him upside the head and reprimanded him to get ready.
"I'm hungry for some pizza!"
"WHERE IS MY COMB!"
She looked through her dresser. Never had she ever thought a simple object could be so hard to find!
Her roommate looked intimidated by Kagome at that moment. She didn't dare approach her for she might attack her! That murderous face as she tried looking for that comb looked deadly. Rawr.
Best to back away.
So Kagome was left to look for that comb all by herself. She could not, would not, leave the room with a frizzy uncombed afro! Sorry, this was not the way this girl rolls.
'Comb… COMB! WHERE IS MY COMB? That's a brush, that'll make it worse… Hmm… oh so there's where my belt is…god why does being a college student have to include being so messy and unorganized!' she thought as she rummaged through piles of… things.
Aha! It was under her… shoe? Whatever. Mental note: Organize a place to keep her combs.
She quickly combed her hair and allowed the wet locks to be dried by the air as she dressed into casual jeans and top. She covered herself modestly with a jean jacket and put the finishing touches as she fitted her feet into her shoes. Kagome grabbed the car keys and her purse as she headed outside to the parking lot.
She entered her not-too-shabby old Toyota and drove to the closest Caesar's Pizza. She hoped to god that they met her up at the right one. She parked and glanced at her watch.
5:13
She cursed herself and muttered incoherent things about messes and stupid combs as she made her way into the restaurant.
Why am I always late?
Sesshoumaru hated himself for many things. One of them was for always arriving first at engagements such as so. Oh how boring!
Waiting for people who usually arrived 10+ minutes after he. Cannot people make arrangements and actually abide them?
He scowled as he sat alone at the large table. The sounds of families and children conversing and joking and comparing whose pizza slice was the cheesiest almost made his ears bleed. Almost.
Of all places! She could've set it up in a high-class restaurant, sure it would've costed a few extra bucks, it was better than this place. He didn't even like pizza that much. Oh what was he kidding? He had to admit, pizza was one of the few produces he could've appreciated from humans. That was why he tried to stay away from places such as so.
The tasty goodness of cheese, toppings of pepperoni, some olives, don't forget the bell peppers! Sesshoumaru couldn't help but drool at the thought that he would soon have a bite of that delicious-
He felt a tissue being thrown at him. He glared at the wolf youkai who threw the wretched thing. If looks could kill, Sesshoumaru would've mutilated half of Japan by now. And then some.
"You might want to clear some of that drool, Maru." He frowned at himself as he did notice that a glob of wetness rolled down his mouth.
"Kouga." He growled. He noticed his wife, and acknowledged her, "Ayame."
"So wait, Shippou told you, too?"
He rolled his eyes, "I was the second to know, half-wit."
"Hey, I didn't know! Anyways, I'm surprised you came…" He trailed off; knowing Sesshoumaru and Kagome weren't exactly in best terms before.
"I would never receive the end of it if I hadn't had come." He replied non-chalantly.
"Oh? Explain."
Sesshoumaru explained to both about how Shippou told him and how he found Kagome in one of his classes early that day.
"Did I hear my name?"
Speak of the devil. And he will come…
…with his wife…
…and 9 of his sons.
"Hey!"
The Kitsune looked around and frowned.
"Kagome's not here yet?"
Sesshoumaru snorted. "Obviously."
Shippou rolled his eyes and took a seat next to his wife. Kouga got the idea and he and Ayame took a seat near them. Shippou's nine sons followed.
'Well at least he didn't bring all 23 sons… or was it 37? With Shippou, he never knew. Do they not know when to stop mating? And have they no idea on how to use protection?' The white-haired demon shook his head.
Once everyone was settled they conversed a bit with some 'how are you doing?' 'how are the kids?'. Well actually that was just Aiko and Ayame.
Shippou, Kouga, and Sesshoumaru conversed quite awkwardly.
"How was your day?"
"Oh the usual, I got to see someone who I haven't seen in oh say five hundred years." Sesshoumaru replied nonchalantly.
"Can you be any more of a jerk?"
"…yes."
"…"
Meanwhile Shippou's 9 kids fought over the breadsticks and buffalo wing appetizers.
Sesshoumaru checked his watch.
5: 15
He sighed disdainfully and got up to leave until he heard a voice.
"OH NO YOU DON'T! Sesshoumaru Taisho you sit your ass back down right now!"
'Finally she's here.'
He scowled and sat back down.
"About time, woman. You know, when you make appointments such as so you really must-" He stopped.
Kagomewas too dumbstruck to notice his comment.
"K-K-KOUGA?"
"Kagome! Yeah, it's me!" The wolf replied sheepily.
Kagome twitched. Twitch, twitch. Then…
…faint.
She heard voices calling out to her. Hmm…
Something smells like pizza.
She opened her eyes.
"What the?"
Earlier moments came back to her. 'Oh yeah.'
She noticed wolf-boy was speaking to her.
"Umm… Surprise!" He said with a nervous laugh.
Ayame hit him upside the head, looking at him like 'great going you loser!'
Kagome looked around. She found herself sitting onto a chair, around the huge table were 9 kids that looked like Shippou. She saw Shippou and another woman with him who Kagome thought to be his wife. Sesshoumaru sat next to her, his hand on her back. She blushed at that.
She noticed Ayame, the girl she meet 500 years ago who claimed she was to be Kouga's wife. What was she doing here? And then she noticed wolf-boy himself.
"Kouga!"
She leaped onto him and gave him a hug. Never had she thought she'd be giving him a hug without him giving one to her first!
She let go and sat back down.
"What… what are you doing here!"
"Shippou called! He said you were here! And you are. Kagome you don't know how thrilled I am to see you again! Five hundred years!"
Kagome laughed and smiled, "I missed you too!"
Everyone, except Sesshoumaru that is, smiled and 'aww'd at the display before them. The inu-youkai simply rolled his eyes and cleared his throat.
Kagome scowled at him.
Sesshoumaru glared back.
Repeat.
The glaring contest seemed to have been going on for an hour, actually 5 minutes in which Shippou had ordered 6 large pizzas.
The order came and the smell seemed to call to Sesshoumaru. He resisted the smell and kept glaring at Kagome.
'This Sesshoumaru will not lose.'
"Uhh… the pizzas are here."
"Yeah, Kagome shouldn't we be celebrating instead of, uh, having glaring contests?"
That seemed to attract Kagome's attention and she turned away from him, cursing Shippou for making her lose.
'I'll have to thank the Kitsune later.' Sesshoumaru thought.
Everyone reached for a slice of pizza.
Kagome and Sesshoumaru seemed to make a grab for the same one, their fingers brushing each others.
Sesshoumaru smirked at Kagome's blushing face as he allowed her to take the slice.
They don't call it chivalry for nothing.
She turned away to eat her slice. Obviously still blushing.
'How cute.'
'…Did this Sesshoumaru just use the adjective, cute?'
He shook it off and picked a slice of pizza. The warm, cheesy taste pleased him.
He found himself eating the whole thing in three bites. He grabbed for another. And another. And… well let's just say they had to order three more large pizzas, just for him.
"So Shippou, are you going to introduce me to your family or am I going to have to do it myself?" Kagome smiled.
"This is my wife Aiko" he introduced, who she shook her hand and smiled. Shippou pointed to his nine sons, "These are nine of my thirty-one sons." His sons waved and greeted Kagome as they took bites out of their pizzas.
'Hmm, so it was 31.' Sesshoumaru thought.
Kagome seemed to choke on her coke. ((Haha, choke on her coke. Sorry, just had to laugh at that!))
"Thirty-one!"
Shippou and Aiko nervously laughed.
Sesshoumaru whispered in her ear, "Kitsune youkais like to have their fun."
'Did… Did Sesshoumaru just make a joke?' Kagome thought.
'Did I just make a joke?' He thought.
Kagome chuckled but let it go and said to Shippou, "You kitsunes sure like to have your fun."
Sesshoumaru saw her winking at him and couldn't help but smile.
"Anyways, Kouga…" kagomt turned to wolf-boy anf Ayame and asked them how they've been doing, how they got together, how they were... etc.
"So when do I get to meet your kids?" She smiled. 'I sound like an over eager grandmother!'
"Maybe you already have… she goes to your school."
Kagome was interested. "Oh, really? Describe her!"
"She has long brown hair which is usually in braids. She's tall and skinny. Her name's Kumi and I think she's a freshman like you." Ayame replied.
"Hmm… sounds like my roommate."
A/N: Homigawd! That was loooong. Well atleast in the way I write. Hahah. Well not a lot of action in this chapter. I'm still bringing up the characters and all that junk.
IMPORTANT: As I have said before, I have almost no idea how College life is. So bear with me. Just pretend this is all high school or something. I'm weird like that. Anyways…
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