Summer Snack Shop

By SexyBod

...and her older sister Psychocynic

Disclaimer: Inuyasha and it's characters do not belong to me, though everything else (including Summer Snack Shop + the original story) belongs to me.

AN: Now I'm going to try my hand at a story. Go read A Piece of Potato Passion, another story my sis Psychocynic and I work on. But she's the dominant writer for that, so we're doing one for me, with the roles switched. And most importantly... I love ice cream and summer too!

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Chapter One

Ice Cream Crisis

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"School's out! Ooohhh yeaaaah!!" Kagome hooted, bouncing energetically, a grin splitting her face.

"No more evil exams!!" Kikyou crowed with extreme enthusiathism, clapping her hands together in glee.

"No more snotty teachers!!" Sango added, thinking of her own, shooting a fist into the air.

"It's finally SUMMER!" they all cried in unision.

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The three friends raced around town looking for an ice cream shop to soothe their sudden craving for it.

Well, Kagome raced.

The other poor helpless two were being dragged like sacks by the bouncy, overenthusiatic energy ball.

Finding...

"NONE?!" shrieked Kagome after an hour of searching, "How could there be no ice cream shop in this scorching summer weather?!"

"Well, I guess we can settle for some shaved ice..." Kikyou sighed.

"Yea, and I see The Popsicle Corner just around the corner," Sango muttered.

Kikyou and Sango headed towards The Popsicle Corner, but Kagome leapt in front of them screeching, "I want ice cream!! Not a popsicle!!"

"Stop yelling! Besides, there's no ice cream shop aroun--" Sango started, but Kagome had already whisked away Kikyou and sprinted off to the nearest grocery store.

More like, practically carried the startled girl on her shoulders, like an ox transporting his old rice farmer.

"HEY!" Sango cried, panting and trying to catch up, "Wait up!"

But tripping halfway there.

SMACK!!

"Ugh..."

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By the time Sango had caught up, Kagome and Kikyou were already exiting the grocery store, carrying bags bulging with cans of ...

"Ice cream!" Kagome said happily, " We can eat it right out of the can!"

Kikyou looked tortured. One could automatically tell that Kagome had loaded her unwilling sidekick with the stuff.

Kagome shoved a wobbling tower of ice cream cans into Sango's hands, which promptly toppled over the latter's head the moment it touched her fingers. Kikyou accidentally dropped a few VERY HEAVY looking bags, of which she strained in vain to try and heave back up. Then they struggled towards Kagome's house-shrine, except for Kagome, who seemed to be skating on the very soles of her shoes.

"Ahh...Kagome-chan?" Kikyou said hesitantly after they arrived, " Isn't this a little too..."

"...much?" Sango finished for her, "I mean, who can eat this much? You're kind of greedy, Kagome-chan."

'Kind of greedy' was an understatement.

For they were staring unblinkingly at the huge heap of cold cream before them.

"Greedy? ME?!" Kagome rounded on Sango, "We aren't going to eat this WHOLE mountain of cans by ourselves, you know!"

"Then who will?" Sango countered.

"Er--umm..." Kagome thought quickly in an attempt to cover up for herself (for she HAD planned to eat it all), "They're for...for customers!"

"Customers? What customers?" Kikyou asked, bewildered.

Apparently, Kagome hadn't thought this through. "Uhh...customers for our..our shop, of course! Our ice cream shop!"

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After some planning and careful thinking, Kagome had reluctantly trudged in and out of the shrine-house and set up a flimsy blue carnival booth used for selling New Year's charms. She sighed heavily as Sango opened up a few folding chairs and an old decrepit shoe box for a cash register, as Kikyou set up a table, then leaning thoughtfully against it.

Only to fall down a few seconds later, as Kagome angrily pounded a few cans on top of it.

Her precious priceless ice cream!! She didn't want to let it fall into the hands of weird people!!

"Ermm..." Kikyou said from her less-than-dignified position on the ground, knowing that Kagome would try slamming a few more cans upsettedly (and probably breaking the whole table altogether). "What to name our little booth?"

"How about Ice Cream Corner?"

"I bet there's a shop named exactly that in the next town!"

"Dessert Delight?"

"Too plain..."

"Fine, how about The Snack Shop?"

"It needs more syllables in it."

"Super Snack Shop!!"

" 'Super' is too overused. Like, the 'supermarket.'"

"Then... how about Summer Snack Shop?"

"I guess that works!!"

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The 'Summer Snack Shop' emblazoned paper banner tacked to the booth flapped irritatingly in the hot, sticky, wind.

"Our first customer is here!"

Their first customer was a fat, overweight lady with pimples and moles. Yuk...

Kagome gritted her teeth and twitched her eyebrows and served her beloved ice cream to the obese 'thing' standing there.

Kikyou wiped the sweat off her brow, face grim, as Sango made a few choking noises once the woman was out of earshot.

"The second customer..."

Sango snapped her head up eagerly, as Kagome veered her gaze towards the customer, eyes promising a painful death devoid of ice cream.

A snotty, bratty, hateful kid with stains all over and a fistful of cash sneered in front of her.

She painfully scooped out a blob of melted glory and slapped it onto a cone.

Then made the exchange, scowling as the brat's icky hand contacted her own dainty ones as they moved to pick the money with two unhappy fingers.

Sango blew a whiff of relief as the kid trotted off. Now, she thought, usually in stories, number 3 is the magic one...

But her thoughts were betrayed as a skinny nerdy stick wobbled to them and left.

What was the point of selling ice cream anyway, if these were their sort of customers?!

"It was in hopes that some hot guys would come and we could all hang out!!!"

"Uh, excuse me?"

Sango stopped in mid-thought.

She HADN'T just voiced that out loud did she?!

"No, it couldn't have been."

"I believe this IS an ice cream booth, am I not correct?"

Sango froze and Kikyou turned, surprised, to face the speaker.

Nearby, Kagome raised her head in impatience, ready to tell off whoever the sick, deformed, messed up freak it was that they would be getting none of her golden cold cream and just beat it!! She was to enjoy her OWN ice cream, in her OWN house, with her OWN friends!!...

Except it WASN'T a sick person.

DEFINITELY NOT a derformed one.

NEVER a messed up freak.

He was flanked by three other guys, but she paid no attention.

Her eyes were glued to the one before her, whose pale face was starting to twist in annoyance.

Snowy hair fluttered charmingly in the breeze.

The most gorgeous dude was standing there, radiating light like a Buddha.

"SEXY!" her mind screamed.

Oh, wait... but did she just voice that out loud?

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