Hi! After hearing so much positive feedback from All-Nighter and some requests for a sequel, I decided to go ahead and continue the story. I hope you guys like it!

As always, enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or its characters.

Chapter 1: Just a Fluke

"You want to open them together on three?"

"Heck yeah. One, two, three!"

Sango and I opened our identical envelopes from our respective schools. We were fairly certain that these were the letters informing us if we were on the Dean's List at our schools, so we'd been freaking out since I'd brought in the mail only minutes earlier.

After nearly ripping the envelopes to shreds in our excitement, Sango and I pulled out the letters and read them thoroughly.

"Yes!" Sango shouted. "I made it!" I gasped.

"I did, too!" I replied. Sango shrieked as we hugged each other excitedly.

Man, we're nerds.

"I'm really surprised," I admitted. "This semester was really hard." Sango sighed.

"It really was," she replied. "But we did it!" I grinned.

"One step closer to graduating," I said. Sango whooped.

"Okay," she said as she composed herself. "I gotta go call Miroku." With one last smile, she went to her room to grab her phone and call her boyfriend.

A certain silver-haired boy popped into my mind, but I banished him as soon as the thought came.

Instead, I pulled out my own phone to call my mom and tell her the good news.

Later that night, Sango and I were sitting on the couch in our living room talking about her recent phone call with Miroku.

"He said he was really proud of me," Sango gushed. "And he also said that the best thing about this semester was meeting me, and he's driving out here tomorrow morning so we can spend the day together," she said. I smiled.

"Then I'll vacate the apartment," I replied. "Give you guys some space." Sango blushed.

"Thanks," she said. "But we probably won't spend a whole lot of time here. He wants me to show him around town." She looked at me pointedly. "And he also asked if you wanted the guy to come." My smile faltered.

Miroku told Sango that he had a friend that I might be interested in. Apparently, Sango told him about me and he assumed that this random guy and I would hit it off. Sango has been encouraging, well, I say encouraging but it's more like forcing, me to meet him. She hasn't even told me his name. Not a good sign.

"Sango," I began, "you literally know nothing about this guy. What has Miroku told you about him?" Sango frowned.

"He said that he's nice," she replied. "And…some other good qualities. Sorry, Kagome. It's hard to remember what he said since he brought it up after kissing me goodbye last week." Even though I was still skeptical, I couldn't help but laugh.

"Must have been some kiss," I teased. Sango blushed. "You better believe it was," she replied honestly.

Despite the fact that she trusted Miroku enough to take his word on this guy, and that I trusted Sango enough to trust whomever she did, I was still hesitant for a potential blind date. It just seemed a little weird.

And plus…I wasn't sure if I still wanted to try this thing out with Inuyasha.

In all honesty, he'd sort of become an off-limits topic for the last two weeks in my and Sango's apartment. After pulling an all-nighter together, he had kissed me…twice. We'd swapped numbers and texted once the next day, but that was it. During that one conversation, neither of us mentioned getting together.

So I've been thinking that maybe that night was an exhaustion-induced fluke.

"I don't know…" I replied honestly. "I don't think that would be a good idea. I mean, I don't know how I feel about The Fluke and I think it would just be weird..." Sango frowned.

"Come on, Kagome," she replied. "You keep calling him a 'fluke,' but I heard how happy you were when you called me after your final. I know I keep encouraging you about Miroku's friend, but in all honesty, the way you talked about that other guy during those first few days after you met him definitely implies that he's way more than that. What was his actual name? I know you told me and it was weird, but you keep calling him 'The Fluke.' I'm pretty sure that's not his name."

"Like it even matters," I muttered. "We haven't even seen each other since then. He's probably forgotten about me." Or found another girl that bakes for him…

Sango shrugged. "Okay," she replied. "So then you have nothing to lose by meeting this other guy. Who knows…he could be way better than 'The Fluke.'"

"You have a point," I admitted. "But no." Sango shrugged and grabbed her keys.

"Whatever," she teased. "I'm gonna go to the store. I told Miroku I would cook him dinner tomorrow night but all we have here is ramen. Do you need anything?" I referred to the mirror by the front door where we kept a dry erase board.

"I wrote some stuff down," I replied. "I was planning on going to the store later today." I grabbed my purse and fished around for some money. When I found the correct amount, I handed it to Sango. "Here's my half." Sango took it from me and put it in her purse.

Whenever we needed groceries or items for the apartment, we always split it. Living with Sango was great; we had a great system for everything and we knew each other better than anyone else. I guess being best friends since toddlerhood will do that to you.

"Thanks," Sango said as she opened the door. "See you later." I waved as she left the apartment.

I sighed and looked down at my phone on the couch next to me.

Should I text Inuyasha? I asked myself.

I picked up my phone and nearly began to type out a message to him.

But I quickly shook my head and tossed my phone back on the couch.

Even so, he didn't leave my mind. I could still feel his lips on mine, his hands on my hips, his woodsy smell cascading over my senses.

Ugh. I sound like a teenager.

"Stupid boy," I said to myself. "Flirting with me, kissing me…ugh."

So I made a decision: forget about him.

Which is why when Sango got home about two hours later, I told her that I was up for meeting Miroku's friend.

"The Fluke is obviously just that: a fluke," I said. "So sure, I'll meet Miroku's friend."

"Yay!" Sango chirped. "Oh, that's going to be so great! I'll text Miroku right now." I forced a smile and tried to be open to the idea.

The next day, Sango and I woke up early to get ready. I didn't want to get all dressed up for a guy I didn't know, so I just slipped on something comfortable that Sango deemed "semi-presentable." I couldn't help but laugh at her wording.

"They'll be here at ten," she said as she brushed her hair for what seemed like the tenth time.

"I can't wait to meet Miroku," I replied sincerely. "I'm so glad he makes you this happy." Sango smiled brightly at me.

"Thanks," she said. "Me, too."

Not too much later, a knock came on our door.

"They're here!" Sango announced happily. Bracing myself, I followed her to the door and waited a few steps behind her.

Here goes nothing…

No, I was not expecting Miroku to have a small ponytail, nor was I expecting him to have his ear pierced.

I was also not expecting myself to wind up face-to-face with familiar golden-eyes, but sure enough, there he was.

Inuyasha was standing right in front of me after following Miroku inside the apartment.

As Sango quickly kissed Miroku in greeting, Inuyasha and I stared at each other.

"You must be Kagome," Miroku said to me, breaking me from my trance with Inuyasha. I peeled my eyes away and looked at my best friend's boyfriend.

"Uh, yeah," I replied. "Nice to meet you." Miroku placed a hand on Inuyasha's shoulder.

"And this is Inuyasha," he continued.

Inuyasha and I locked eyes again.

"Yeah," Inuyasha said. "We've met."

It was unbelievably awkward.

I turned to Sango and looked into her eyes meaningfully.

That's when realization dawned on her.

"He's the fluke?" Sango asked me.

"She's the fluke?" Miroku asked Inuyasha.

I glared at the silver-haired boy. "You've been calling me a fluke?" I asked angrily. Inuyasha frowned right back.

"Obviously you've been calling me the same thing," he shot back.

"Well, you're the one that kissed me twice and never called," I countered.

"You kissed me back!"

"That doesn't matter!"

"Yeah, it does! And there you go shouting again!"

Before I could fire another argumentative statement, Sango placed her hand on my arm.

"Kagome," she said reproachfully. I frowned at her but tried to calm down.

"Why didn't you tell me that Inuyasha was the friend?" I asked. Sango frowned.

"You never told me you knew him," she replied. "You've been calling him a lot of other things except for his name." She looked at Miroku.

"Did you know about it?" she asked. Miroku shook his head.

"Inuyasha didn't tell me anything about a girl," he replied.

Okay, I had to admit that hurt a little bit.

I glared at Inuyasha. "Wow," I said dryly. Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, I did," he corrected Miroku. "But no, I didn't include how we met…or tell him your name…oops." I rolled my eyes.

"Why not?" he asked. Inuyasha crossed his arms over his chest.

"We're not women, you know," he replied. "We don't tell each other everything or always talk about 'matters of the heart.'"

"That's not even true!" I protested. "Women don't always do that either!"

"Alright, relax," Miroku interjected calmly. "Obviously this has all been a very big…surprise, but let's just try to enjoy our day." Sango smiled at his attempt to lighten the mood.

"Great idea, Miroku," she replied. "Right, Kagome?" She looked at me pointedly. Finally, I just sighed and nodded.

"Yeah," I said. "Uh, it's good to see you, Inuyasha." A civil greeting was all I could muster at that point. Inuyasha just frowned at me and grunted.

How in the world did I actually liked this guy?

Then I remembered the way we'd talked, the way he'd touched me, the way he'd smiled, the way he'd kissed me.
Oh, right. That's why.

Sango looked at the two of us and then to Miroku.

"Alright," she said slowly. "Uh, what would you guys like to do?" I didn't even bother looking at Inuyasha.

"What did you and Miroku have planned for…the four of us?" I asked.

"Well, we were going to start with brunch," she replied. I nodded.

"That sounds good to me," I said. Sango gave me a loaded glance as if checking to see if I was alright. I gave her a half-smile back.

"Then let's go," Sango chirped.

All in all, the day kinda sucked. I tried to keep a positive attitude because I knew that today meant a lot to Sango, but being around Inuyasha was really throwing me off.

I found myself being annoyed with him one minute, and then the next I was very vividly reliving our kisses in my head.

It was driving me crazy.

Finally, after pretty much going all around town showing Miroku and Inuyasha our favorite spots, we decided to head back to the apartment.

I remembered that Sango said she wanted to cook dinner for Miroku, so I pulled her aside in the kitchen when we got home.

"How about I head out for a little while?" I suggested. "You guys should have some time alone." Sango grimaced.

"What about Inuyasha?" she asked. I frowned. Oh, yeah.

Sucking it up for the sake of my best friend, I mustered up all my maturity. "I'll see if he wants to go somewhere," I replied. Sango smiled.

"Are you sure?" she asked. "I know it's probably weird having to spend so much time with him after what happened…" I waved off her concern.

"Don't worry about it," I replied. "Now call your man in here to show him what you're cooking while I talk to Inuyasha." Sango blushed.

"Miroku?" she called sweetly. "Can you come here for a second please?"

As soon as Miroku walked into the kitchen, I smiled at him and walked out.

Inuyasha was sitting on the couch chewing on a fingernail. I tried to keep the frown off my face and be civil.

"Hey," I said as I sat down on the other side of the couch. "I think they want to be alone for a while. Do you want to go see a movie or something?" Inuyasha didn't even attempt to hide his frown.

"What, today wasn't enough for you?" he asked sarcastically. "Seems to me like you can't wait until I'm gone." I rolled my eyes.

"This isn't about you," I replied, trying to keep my voice level. "It's about our two best friends having some time to themselves today. She's been talking non-stop about him coming since he suggested the plan. I know today hasn't turned out how she wanted because the fact that you and I have already met made her ideal double-date totally fail. So I don't care what we do, but we need to go somewhere so they can have a peaceful evening together, okay?"

Inuyasha was silent during my little soliloquy, but then his eyes went from suspicious to almost…tempted?

"Fine," he said. "Let's go see a movie. But don't try to make-out with me at all." I rolled my eyes.

"Don't worry," I replied. "That will definitely not be happening." Inuyasha frowned as I stood up and headed to the kitchen to tell Sango about our plan.

Given the gooey eyes Miroku and Sango were giving each other when I told her Inuyasha and I were leaving, I knew that getting out of there for a while was a good call.

When I returned to the living room, I saw that Inuyasha had stood up from the couch and was waiting for me at the door. "Let's go," I said.

Grabbing my car keys, I opened the door and headed out with him on my heels.

It was going to be a long night.

To be continued…

Shout out to Alannada for giving me a little inspiration from a review on All-Nighter. Thank you!

I've been spending a lot of time on this fic, so the next chapter will be up within the next few minutes…you're welcome…muahaha xD

Much love. :)