Kagome tapped her finger on the dash board repeatedly, trying to calm herself down. The passing cars went by as she kept herself in her seat and stopped her own shaking. Kaome Higurashi was nervous, and this only happened on rare occasions: When she was meeting new people or when she was going into life threatening situations.
She was about to do both.
"Kagome!" Sango hissed from the drivers seat, her eyes trained on the road, looking for the exit. "Stop that tapping, it's getting irritating." Sango turned onto the exit for the airport, knowing that they only had a couple miles to go. She slapped a hand onto her thigh as to stop her leg from bouncing, a habit she had picked up from being bounced on her own fathers leg. It probably wouldn't turn out too well if she started bouncing her foot on the gas.
"Sorry Sango... I just," Kagome scratched her head in frustration, her eyes shut tight with anxiety. "These people... they hate Inuyasha, don't they?"
"Um..." Sango stalled, trying to find the right words to say this. "They don't hate him, really... I don't think."
"I can't blame them if they do." Kagome groaned, sinking in her chair. "He had been an ass."
"Yah..." Sango agreed, nodding. "But he's not now! He's back to his old self, so..."
"Sango, they might not forgive him that easily. I'm surprised you were able to." Kagome pinched the bridge of her nose, trying to see how this all was going to work out. No way it was. "I can't believe I'm dating him. And because of that, they're probably not going to like me too much."
"Kagome, they'll love you!" Sango exclaimed, trying to console her friend. She liked to think of Kagome as her best friend, but in reality, they hadn't known eachother that long. Not even a year. "They're not one to judge, they won't that against you."
"How are they on grudges?" Kagome asked, peaking an eye open.
"Well... grudges they'll hold for a while."
"Great. This isn't going to work Sango, I don't even know why we're trying!" Kagome whined, covering her eyes with her hands as if she could hide there.
"Ok, Kagome. These people aren't that smart. Sure, two of em are book smart, one is a trained marksman-er, woman- they're violent, bad tempered, and scary, but damned gullible." Sango reached over from the wheel, and patted Kagomes shoulder. "I mean, who was able to get Inuyasha to stop acting like a moron frappe with douche cream?"
"He did that on his own."" Kagome replied hesitantly.
"Your suppose to say 'me'." Sango chided. "Lets try it again. Who fought off life threatening demon poison?"
"Okay, that really was Inuyasha."
"Fine!" Sango huffed. "Who was able to hot wire the mall security guards golf cart, ride it up a down escalator, launch it off the balcony and into the country club next doors pool?"
"Present!" Kagome cheered, finally sitting up straight, hand high in the air. "Man, Sesshomaru almost killed me."
"He would've if you hadn't doused a guy who is always stealing the company's business."
"What does the company do anyway? I still have no idea."
"Neither do I."
Kagome laughed, and felt a little calmer. Sango was like Kagomes soul sister, they were so alike sometimes. Sango was always able to relax her and make her feel better, even in the weirdest ways. But then again, Kagome really wasn't one to talk.
"Ok, theirs the airport." Sango sighed. "You ready for this?"
"No..." Kagomes groaned as she got out her cellphone. She texted Inuyasha that they were at the airport, his condition for her going on this dangerous mission. He was so protective, it could get to the point of annoying sometimes, but was actually really sweet too. He had such a double personality, callous and caring, passionate and nonchalant, macho yet... completely sensitive. Could Kagome have found the perfect guy or...
"Or a lunatic?" Kagome breathed.
"You say something Kags?" Sango asked.
"Not really, just thinking out loud."
"Ok, well, here we go..." Sango
Sango was bouncing her leg again, and it was driving Kagome nuts. Seriously, up and down, up and down, bouncing the whole damned bench!
Well, okay, maybe it wasn't just Sangos leg bouncing, but also the fact that they had been waiting for almost an hour, and that they were picking people up Kagome had never met, and for the all in all the fact that Kagome hated airports. Every since she could remember, she had hated flying and the entire airport system. They wait to fly out for like twenty minutes before they even get on the runway, and then add on another thirty waiting for it to taxy when you actually land. Then you have to wait for the snobs in the first class seats to get their rich asses off the plane-it was at the moment thinking this that one of those bastards might've been her boyfriend- and then you had to find your damned luggage and ride or get on one of those smelly parking buses... not to mention always having to wake up at god awful hours to get your friggin flight on time! Seriously, why were all flights at, like, seven AM? What's wrong with the sky during human hours? So yah, Kagome may have been anxious because of the god awful airport.
Still, Sangos lef bouncing wasn't helping.
"Sango, would you quite it?" Kagome snapped for the third time. She had asked the first two through out the hour, but Sango always started up again. Did she even notice?
"Quite what?" Sango asked, quickly coming out of whatever trance she had been in.
"Your leg." Kagome pointed to the shaking limb. "Your bouncing it again."
"Oh. Sorry... just anxious." Sango shrugged, and visibly tried to stop her leg from shaking. "Man, their flight is late."
"Its just the stupid airport system. They have to land eventually... right?" Kagome and Sango were almost hopeful, and then the intercom announced the flights arrival. "Of course."
"Well..." Sango sighed, turning her attentions straight ahead, "look at eh escalator, they'll becoming down it."
"Well, characteristics to look for, maybe?" Kagome asked, kneeding her forhead. She was floating on dangerous water, and she wondered if there was a shark coming to get her. Or maybe she was the shark.
"Trust me. You'll-"
"YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSE TO GET OFF THE PLANE YET!" a young womens voice shrilled.
"Like we'd white for you to taxi!" called back another young girls voice, although this one had the slightest irish accent, and a laughing undertone.
"Would you quit smiling already!" asked a small boys voice.
"Yah, you're so not happy!" A small girls voice followed.
"And... that would be them." Sango laughed nervously. Kagomes eyes widened, then turned to the escalator, alert for what might come down it.
One minute passed in silence.
"Sorry Lady, we're just really impatient!" A young girl in black, studded shorts, a red shirt with the cheshire cat smile, and black net sleeves, ran down the up escalator at an amazing speed. She had pointed ears, green eyes with red around her black pupils, and red and black streaked hair.
Soon a boy with red hair, and greenish blue eyes was hopping down the stairs after her, wearing black hoody and torn up skinny jeans. He grabbed her hand pulled her onto the down escalator, kissing her cheek softly.
"You shouldn't apologize Kirara." He smiled, hugging her tight. "They're faulty system that got us here an hour late. They can't expect us to wait for them to pull up to the gate."
Suddenly a whirlwind was coming down the turn and down the escalator to the two, and when it dissipated, a girl stepped out. She had her hair into multi-colored pigtails, with the base color being the same red as the other two. Her eyes were a bright green, like evergreen, and she had two eyebrow piercings on her left eyebrow. She was wearing a long sleeved green shirt with slits down the sleeve, and black jean shorts.
"We are demons after all!" She laughed, grabbing them both of them in a hug, and smiling evilly. "It's not like the same safety rules apply to us!"
"Oh dear god..." Kagome gasped, feeling glued to her spot. Over the past eight months, Miroku had been teaching her exstensively on auras, and the one before her scared the bejeezus out of her! They were birght green and firery orange and made her feel inferior just looking at them. "We have to trick them!" Kagome asked Sango.
"Come on Kagome, calm down!" Sango hissed, sweating herself. It was very hard to be confident when you couldn't even see your own aura. "They invented the ability to smell fear!"
"You kids are in big trouble!" a women in a flight attendants niform shouted, two big security guards behind her.
"Hmm..." Sango smiled. "This might be easier!"
"Huh?"
"Follow my lead!" Sango winked at her, then turned back to the escalator, where the demon were looking for an escape. "Guys! Over here!" all three demon turned around, recognition and relief showering their faces.
"Sango! Hey!" the girl called Kirara waved.
"You guys need a ride?" Sango asked, her tone joking. The group looked over their shoulders at the approaching airport personnel, then gave Sango the universal look of 'der'. "Well get your sorry asses down here, you morons!"
Kaome looked at her like she was insane, but saw the demon laughing and sighed. Why was she freaking out? She was a strong miko who manifested her aura through physical blows that were almost as good as super strength! Besides, hey had no reason to hurt her.
Yet.
Kagome took off running, knowing pleasantries would have to wait. Kagome used her aura as a boost to keep up with Sango and the others, as they easily out ran the guards. Kagome didn't think they could make it to the car though, since that was all the way in the airpot parking levels.
Then Kagome spotted a cart, and smiled. She turned to it, gesturing for everyone to follow her.
"Girl whose name I don't know!" The girl with pigtails called. "What the heck are you doing!"
"Kagome, you genius!" Sango said, hopping on the cart. Kagome opened a compartment beneath the steering wheel.
"Ok." Pigtails said, coming up the cart. "What is Kagome doing?"
"She's jacking this cart!' Sango smiled, lying back in a seat. "I have never met anyone who can hot wire faster then Kags."
"Really, she can do that?" Kirara asked.
"It worked at the mall." Sango shrugged nonchalantly.
"Story for another time!" The boy said, jumping on. "I'll be glad to hear it when we are away from arrest."
"Scaredy Cat." Pigtails rolled her eyes.
"Got it!" Kagome shouted, then punched the gas.
"Holy shit!" Kirara screamed.
"Sorry..." Kagome sighed., "I assumed fast is better then safety..."
"So you were willing to get us injured so we could escape the law?" Pigtails asked Kagome, crossing her legs and folding her arms over her chest.
"Eh..." Kagome shrugged, trying to grasp adrenaline. "I figure you'd heal faster then the time you'd spend in prison."
"Well, that works for me!" She smiled, then extended her hand to shake Kagomes. "Ayame Koutobuki."
"Kagome Higurashi." Kagome took her hand, and the cart almost swerved into a food court table.
"KAGOME!"
"Sorry..."
"That was the most reckless driving I have ever seen!"
"I said I was sorry!"
"Sorry doesn't cover the expenses of a heart attack!"
"Oh, quit being such a drama puff, Shippo!" Ayame chuckeld from the back seat. "Your tail popping out is not the equivalent of a heart attack."
Kagome laughed at the not so distant memory. She didn't necessarily get why his tail popping out in the middle of G-67 had been such a travesty, but it had been hilarious to see Shippos face. Screw intimidation! There was something about seeing a guys tail that made him more approachable!
Was that why they hid them in their pants?(A/N:Pfftt...)
"I say that was fun, Shippy!" Kirara laughed, curling a hand on his shoulder, causing his face to soften a litte. He looked so cute and cuddly when e wasn't pissed. "Oh, Kagome, don't let this guy pull the tough guy act on you! He's really just a big softy!"
"He's tail looked soft..." She snickered in the drivers seat, then got a nice kick from behind. "I'm just joking Shippo."
"He's really sensitive about that powder puff on his butt." Ayame exlained, leaning forward to look in Kagomes eye when she spoke. "Every since he was a tiny twerp!"
"You'd be sensitive about it too if your mother used to use you to dust on her foundation!" Shippo shouted at Ayame, then proceeded to pout in the corner of the car.
"Haha, seriously!" Kagome laughed. She fell in her seat a little picturing an orange butt putting makeup on some ladiea face. She almost pee'd.
"Totally!" Kirara laughed equally hard. "Back in Ireland at school, people would complain because he got powder everywhere!"
"Oh jeez..." Sango chuckled behind the drivers wheel.
"So," Ayame started, leaning back into her seat, "where we going?"
Kagome and Sango looked eachother with mirrored expressions. Shit . . .
"Um, uh... Kagome needs to get something from her, uh..." Sango stuttered, trying to word this perfectly.
"My boyfriends house!" Kagome shouted quickly. She didn't want to lie to these people. Sure, they weren't nearly as scary as before, but she still didn't want to lie to them if she could. That went along very closely with living if she could.
"Um... ok..." Kirara said with a confused expression.
"Y-yah, we were all hanging last night and she left her... jacket." Sango improvised. They had all been watching a movie.
"I thought you always hung out with..." Ayame made a sound like she was going to hock a loogey. "The traitor."
"The... the traitor?" Kagome asked, more to Sango as if to say 'still that pissed?'.
"Inu-TRASH-a." Kirara classified. "The poser poster child!" Kirara almost spit each syllable, and with each spit Kagome sank lower in her seat.
"If you hang out with Sango, I'm sure you've met him." Shippo said, his voice more hurt then snarky. Kagome wasn't sure which she preferred.
"Um, yah. I met him, you know, once or twice..." I've also slept with him, and we're dating. Oh, and yes, in that order. "He doesn't seem like such a bad dude."
"Ha!" Ayame made an effort to make it loud, and it hit Kagome like a ton of bricks. This was in no way going to be easy. "Of course he doesn't! He's the perfect little actor! Going so far just to get a fuck!" Kagome winced at that, because she knew it wasn't true, and yet she also knew Ayame probably wouldn't see it any other way. She could tell Ayame that it wasn't like that, he had changed on his own, they hadn't done it since the first, and so on, but in Ayame's eyes, inuyasha would be the bad guy and Kagome one of two: the poor sap who didn't know anything, or a slut who wanted to change him and get in good with the popular guy. Kagome knew, because if she was on Ayames side, she would see it the same. "Kagome, you seem like a great girl, funny and all, so just stick to your boyfriend and Sango, avoid contact with Inuyasha Notama-bitchie! He's a liar, a traitor, a poser, and also a friggin moron!"
"Well, I, er, plan by sticking by my boyfriend, heh heh..." Kagome laughed, realizing they had turned onto Inuyasha's street. Please don't notice! "I know thats for sure."
"Good for you Kagome!" Kirara cheered, patting her shoulder. "Hey, do we know him?"
"Uh, yah, I'm pretty sure you do." Kagome nodded, unable to look any of them in the eye. "He used to be a major idiot-"
"Aren't all men?" Ayame laughed, but Kagome sensed a touch of pain beneath it. Yah, Kirara might be resolved easy, and Shippo might follow, but Ayame... dear god, they had work to do.
"But he's changed for the better. Pinky promise!" Kagome tossed her hand with said appendage extended over her shoulder. She relieved when someone took it, so much so, she didn't even check t see who had. "I have a hypothetical question for you guys?"
"Shoot." commanded Shippo, who had reached over to run up the speakers in the back.
"Ok, what if someone was once an ok person, but then turned into a major douche, but had somehow made a complete 360 back to how they were before?"
"Uh... what?" Kirara breathed. No one was following. Good.
"And then that same person had a girlfriend that cared for him soooo much, she would do anything to make him happy?"
"Where are you going with this Kagome?" Ayame asked, then took a look at there surroundings. "H-hey... where the fuck are we!"
"And so that girlfriend went and got his old friends so they could make nice, but didn't tell them that when they got off the airport they were going to said ex-douches house?"
"Sango, what the hell is going on!" Shippo cried out, suddenley hitting against the already sutra-enforced glass of the windows.
"Would those friends that the girlfriend got for the ex-douche go into his house to talk?"
"Sango!" Kirara shouted, kicking her seat with as much force as she could muster.
Sango pulled up the into the driveway, ready to fight hell to get them in the house. She smiled guiltily at Kagome, sorry she was dragged into this. Kagome shrugged back, it was Inuyasha after all, and she wanted to help.
"So... please don't hate me?" Kagome said, smiling shyly as she turned around, her aura building for a fight.
Mizu: Look how fast I got this out, I am the bomb!
Inu: I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die!
Mizu: Oh, suck it up, I won't let you die!
Inu: Ayame's gonna murder me!
Mizu: Quit being such a baby. Ok, so for this story, I plan on it being longer and also it will take alot longer for me to get these all out. No schedule, sorry. I've just been on a roll these past few days. Anyway, review, favorite, and don't feel shy bout emailing me! I lurvs the emails! By~ni!