Here is the first chapter of my rewrite of my old fanfic. It's nice to write again, and I do say, I enjoy this chapter much better than my older one. I hope this becomes as successful as the original.
DISCLAIMER: I of course do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters related to this story. Those are all property of the very talented, Rumiko Takahashi. Also, the name of school I created is not meant to be a real school, so any likeness of the name or description is unintended.
Chapter I –Dare Tactics
It was nearing the end of summer, and the temperature was a sweltering ninety-two degrees. In a local fast food restaurant, two best friends were attempting to cool off with some milkshakes, while enjoying the public air conditioning. Miroku and Inuyasha, good friends from high school, were lazily sipping chocolate milk shakes while scanning the room. Inuyasha's long black hair was sticking to his back from the humidity, and Miroku's shorter black hair was sticking to his sweaty forehead. Inuyasha was seventeen, and going into his senior year of high school. Nineteen-year-old Miroku was heading into his first year of college, and this school year was going to be the first that the two of them would not be in the same school since they met.
However, Inuyasha was planning on moving into an apartment with Miroku before the school year started. He was tired of living at home. He and his older brother Sesshomaru were occupying the household that they shared with their parents when they were alive, but now the place held depressing memories. Besides that, Inuyasha and his brother never got along. They were always fighting, and it normally got physical. Inuyasha was just tired of it all, and was ready to leave. He spent most of his time at Miroku's as it was anyways.
While Inuyasha was imagining life away from his brother, Miroku was eyeing two girls who had walked into the restaurant with skirts that were almost too short to be considered clothing. He nudged Inuyasha with his elbow to get his attention.
"Hey, check out those girls over there," Miroku said quietly.
"Hm, what?" Inuyasha looked over and chuckled, "Wow, they are just asking for some pervert to pick them up." He looked over at Miroku and smirked.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Miroku asked.
"I'm just waiting for you to go try to pick them up."
Miroku raised an eyebrow, "Are you trying to call me a pervert?"
"Well, you do hit on most anything in a skirt, and they're barely in one."
"Hah hah, funny," Miroku said sarcastically, "however, I'm pretty sure they're underaged."
"When has that ever stopped you?"
Miroku thought for a second stirring his straw in his milkshake, "You're right. But now I'm not going to just because you're expecting it."
"Didn't think you had the balls to do it," Inuyasha said smugly, slurping his shake.
"What? I certainly have the nerve to go talk to them, I just don't want to on principal now. They obviously are expecting to have someone hit on them. Why else would they wear such short skirts."
"I bet you when they sit down, their bare skin touches the seat."
Miroku just starred, imagining the scenario.
"Ok, Miroku, you have to prove to me that you aren't a complete wuss. I dare you to go up to those two chicks, but not to pick them up, but to tell them that their asses are hanging out." Inuyasha grinned wide.
"Do you want me to get my face smacked off?"
"First you can't talk to them, now you can't take a little dare?"
Inuyasha knew that Miroku would take the dare up. They always got into, what they called, dare battles. One of them would start with a tiny dare, then the other would get them back with a bigger one. They normally escalated until one of them cried uncle and let the other claim victory. They normally started these battles out of sheer boredom, and today was another perfect day for an epic battle.
Miroku took a big sip from his milkshake, slammed it down, and stood up, "I'll do it."
Inuyasha watched as Miroku walked up to the two girls and started talking. Inuyasha was sipping on his shake, but nearly spit it out as Miroku quickly got punched in the face by one of the girls and they stormed out of the restaurant. Inuyasha was laughing loudly when Miroku walked back to the table with a big red mark on his face.
"Well, I wasn't her to have such an arm on her…" Miroku said taking a big slurp from his milkshake.
"That was priceless!" Inuyasha said loudly, barely able to control his laughter.
"Alright, I have a dare for you now, but we have to go down the street to the convenience store."
"I'm up for any dare you throw at me!" Inuyasha said proudly.
"You think so? We'll see."
After three hours, Miroku and Inuyasha had gone through several dares all together. They ranged from eating crazy concoctions to running down the street naked. After Miroku's naked run, he returned to where Inuyasha was waiting behind a building. He was holding Miroku's clothes so he could make sure he really ran without them. Miroku had a proud look on his face as he strutted back to Inuyasha.
"Ick, put these back on!" Inuyasha said throwing the clothes at Miroku.
"Nah, maybe I'll just stay like this for a little bit longer. Not having clothes is very cooling."
"Put your clothes back on and save my eyes from this view!" Inuyasha yelled.
Miroku laughed, "Fine, fine." He put on his boxers, jeans, and tee shirt, then put his hands on his hips. "Alright, I have a dare for you. This one's going to be epic, you won't be able to top it."
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow, "Better than running naked past the all female glass gym?"
"Oh, much, much better. I had plenty of time to think of it on my jog, and it's a doozy. It's one that will take a lot of preparation and good acting skills."
"Go on, I'm interested."
"I dare you to switch schools for your senior year." Miroku said crossing his arms with a smug look.
"That's it? Just switching my school? That's nothing! It's much worse to be running around with your sweaty junk hanging out in front of all the women in the glass gym, and whoever else just happened to be unfortunate enough to see you jog by."
"Oh but wait, there's more. I pick the school, and have to buy all your school supplies which you have to use, and you have to shake hands with me to seal the deal. Also, you have to stay the entire year or I will post photographs of you from the school online."
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow, "That doesn't sound bad. Let's do this. If I get it, you have to refer to me as supreme dare master."
Inuyasha extended his hand and Miroku shook it. "Ok then, dare master, you have to transfer to Matron Saint Claire Boarding School."
Miroku smirked, looking at Inuyasha. Inuyasha raised an eybrow, and then dropped his mouth open, "That's an all girl school!"
"There we go! Smart boy," Miroku said clapping his hands together.
"How the hell am I supposed to get into an all girls' school? If you haven't noticed, I'm a guy."
"That's debatable," Miroku chuckled and Inuyasha smacked him over the head. "Kidding, kidding!" Miroku said rubbing his head. "But, don't worry, I know people there. A friend of my father works there, Mushin. He's the head of admissions, and he's normally drinking, so he won't pay attention to detail at all. If we just get all the minor information together, and you look like a girl, he'll believe it."
"So, how long have you been planning this, really?" Inuyasha asked.
"Three weeks. I did swear revenge after having to ask that convenience store clerk on a date."
"That was a fun dare," Inuyasha smiled thinking about the uncomfortable face Miroku had while talking to the clerk.
Miroku cringed, "Well, I think I have come up with a fantastic dare to top that one. I have a shopping list already made of everything we need to buy to make you look like a girl. You'll just have to use some good acting to keep up the façade that you're a girl."
Inuyasha sneered, "It really has to be the whole year? I have to stay in the boarding room with some whiny girl for a whole year?"
"Unless you want me to post pictures of you dressed like a girl online, and I will be taking many, many photos. Also, you can't back out on a dare unless you really want to be ridiculed for be a wuss and therefore admitting that I have more balls than you. Which, I will taunt you about daily."
Inuyasha closed his eyes and sighed, "This year's going to be some kind of ridiculous."
There's the first chapter! I hope anyone who reads this will check out the second chapter when I get it out. Until then, thanks for reading! ^.~