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Authoress' Note: HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here it is my friends, this is my present to all of you!! The long awaited (well, maybe not long awaited, but hopefully awaited) sequel to "Easier Than Love" this story takes place a year after the epilogue of "Easier Than Love" which means it takes place two and a half years after the main events of the story. For a little bit it's just going to take place in Tokyo with Inuyasha and Kagome, but don't worry: everyone else will be in it in due time. So I hope that people are actually reading this. And otherwise, just enjoy the chapter!

Harder Than Life
Chapter One
The Move-In

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"This is the last of them" Inuyasha said as he put the box down in doorway of the spare room. He gave the pile of boxes a little push with his foot, sending all the boxes falling to the floor and got them out of the hallway.

"What was that?" Kagome asked, coming out of the kitchen, ringing her hands on a dish towel. She looked at what Inuyasha had just done and frowned at him, putting the towel over her shoulder. She walked over to the boxes and turned back at her fiancé. "You shouldn't do that Inuyasha! You could break something! We don't know what's in the boxes!" she scolded.

"Chill out sis. There's nothing really important in any of those boxes. You don't have to yell at Inuyasha." Souta said, coming up the stairs and closing the door behind him.

"Sorry, I'm just a little stressed out. Mom and Grandpa have been on my back since we offered to have you come live with us while you're going to college. They think I'm going to corrupt you or you're going to get stabbed on the bus or…God knows what. I'm a little wound."

"It's nothing new" Inuyasha said and Kagome threw the towel at him, wrapping itself around his face. Inuyasha took the towel off of his face and put it over his shoulder and looked to Souta, "Don't mind her please. She's been exceptionally crazy since your stuff started arriving from Kyoto."

Souta shrugged, "It's fine. I lived with her for the majority of my life; I know how she gets."

"Stop ganging up on me!" she whined. "Or else…I don't know what but it'll be bad!"

Inuyasha put his arm around Kagome and gave her a kiss on the cheek, despite her refusal to corporate, "I love you" he said and she shook her head, "Well, I don't like you very much. I'm going to go make dinner. Help Souta with his room."

She walked into the kitchen in a huff and Inuyasha and Souta looked at each other, after she was in the kitchen they both stiffened laughter.

"You made her mad" Souta said.

Inuyasha shook his head, "No, she'll be happy again by dinner." He put his hand on Souta's shoulder, "Let's go unload some boxes so Kags doesn't get angrier."

The two walked into what was now Souta's room and began opening boxes.

"For an 18 year old guy, you have a lot of stuff. Everyone knows a real man can live out of a backpack if necessary."

"Inuyasha I don't think all of your hair products would fit in a backpack, let alone enough stuff to live off of." Kagome called from the kitchen, having overheard the conversation. "Souta, don't let him tell you anything, he has just as much stuff in this apartment as I do. I have a better chance of living out of a backpack than he does."

"Don't get mad because my hair is softer than yours!" he yelled into the kitchen before turning back to Souta, "She always gets angry about that, she's really jealous."

"Inuyasha, I'm a model! I'm not jealous!"

"And I'm a movie star! You should be jealous!"

"Why did I decide to move in here?! I could have lived in a dorm, like a normal college student, but noooo! I decide to save money and move in with the crazys!" Souta said to himself as he continued to unpack.

"We're not crazy" Inuyasha said, closing the door so they could unpack in peace. "She's crazy. I'm perfectly sane. Usually."

They both laughed and opened the rest of the boxes. They did as much as they could before Kagome called them in for dinner. They all sat down around the table, as family-esque as they could be as Kagome brought the dinner into the dining room. She placed the plate of chicken parmesan in the center of the table and she sat down across the table from Inuyasha as he began to serve the food.

"So…Souta, are you excited for your first day of classes tomorrow?" Kagome asked.

"Yeah, I've wanted to go to Tokyo U ever since I started high school…and ever since mom and gramps decided that if I didn't go to college I was pretty much going to be disowned."

"Yeah, I'll take the blame for that one. Sorry."

"Don't worry about it sis. I'm glad that I'm going to college. I don't think I could cut it as a model like you" he said jokingly, taking a bite of his meal.

"Well, then you should have gone into acting. Anyone can do that." Inuyasha said with a smile.

"Yeah, he's the prime example of that" Kagome said, laughing at her own joke.

Inuyasha and Souta both looked at her and she stopped laughing, "What?" she asked.

"Honey, I'm sorry to tell you this…but…" Inuyasha faked being emotional and placed a sympathetic hand across the table on hers, "you aren't very funny"

Kagome pulled her hand away and gasped, "That's a lie!"

Inuyasha and Kagome both looked over to Souta, both of their eyes begging him to side with them.

"Don't look at me. I'm not here to be your argument ender. I'm here to go to school. How about we change the subject?"

"So, are you going to tell people who you're living with?" Inuyasha asked, "Because I don't want a bunch of college people running around."

"Don't worry. I'm not going to advertise the fact that I'm living with two famous people. as if school isn't going to be hard enough I'm still surprised that the paparazzi hasn't figured out you guys live here yet."

"Don't jinx it!" Kagome and Inuyasha both shouted, knocking on the wooden table.

"Are all famous people crazy?" Souta asked no one in particular. "I am in for a long college career"

Authoress' Note: so here is the first chapter of the sequel. I hope you like it thus far! Please review!