Disclaimer: I will only be writing one of these. I do not own 'Inuyasha' or 'Love and Basketball'.

Of Love and Basketball

Chapter 1- The Beginning

As Kids

She was new in the neighborhood and not very into making friends. She walked down the suburban street watching the little girly girls jump rope and the little boys argue over something unimportant. Ugh! The whole scene was so typical and cliché it made her mentally gag.

See, Kagome Higurashi was 12 years old and very mature for her age at that. She was smart and very pretty with long wavy black hair that reached her waist, though you would never know it because she always had it tucked under a fitted hat. She also had a nice figure, but it never showed through her baggy boy shorts and NBA jerseys. She was a tomboy.

Kagome loved basketball. She could play too and was very talented at it. That was why she was presently walking down this street, to look for a basketball court.

Finally" she breathed. There right in front of her was a basketball court. It was a little hidden because of all the trees, but she'd found it non-the-less it was like she'd found an oasis. Kagome jetted over to it in three seconds flat being the fast runner that she was. She stopped short at the sight of four kids on the court, three boys and a girl on the side. They had all stopped what they were doing to look at her.

"Hey, who are you?" asked a boy with silver hair.

"Who are you?" asked Kagome with a little attitude.

"What's with the tone?" the silver-haired kid was ready to punch kagome in her face, mainly because to the naked eye she appeared to be just another boy.

"Inuyasha calm down" another boy with black hair tied in a rat-tail came up to them.

"Hello my name is Miroku…excuse my friend here he's a bit rude."

"I am not rude! He is!" Inuyasha crossed his arms ad turned his head away from them.

"Whatever Inuyasha… what's your name?" asked Miroku ignoring Inuyasha's juvenility.

Kagome felt no hostility from the boy called Miroku, so she responded "I'm Kagome and I'm a girl retard" she indicated Inuyasha as she pulled of her hat letting her hair fall its length and revealing her pretty face.

Inuyasha and Miroku's jaw dropped and Miroku began to drool. A girl with brown hair came over to them and slapped the two upside the head. They regained their composure and Miroku wasted no time in asking her to be his future wife.

"What!" yelled kagome but before she could punch him a brown-haired girl did it for her.

"Excuse him he's a pervert, my name's Sango."

"Kagome"

"So… you must have just moved here" Implied Sango.

"Yeah and I was bored out of my mind so I decided to go look for a basketball court" replied Kagome.

"You play?" asked the other boy with silver hair who decided to come over to all of them finally.

"This is Sesshomaru" said Miroku coming out of his unconscious state.

"Yes that would be my name… anyway…do you play?" he repeated his question with his trademark stoic expression of indifference.

Inuyasha had intervened before she could answer. "Are you sane 'fluffy' girls can't play basketball."

Sango and Kagome glared at him. "Excuse me… I bet the sneakers on your feet that I could beat you by at least eleven points" retorted Kagome.

"OOOoooo!" cooed Sango and Miroku in unison.

"On my own" she continued coolly.

"Oh you think so?" Inuyasha right retorted.

"Like to find out?" she was challenging him. No one ever challenged him and walked away victorious.

"It's a bet… my sneakers if you beat me by eleven points or more which I highly doubt and if I win which I will, you have to be my slave for a week" He smirked at her.

"Bet" she pulled her hair into a high pony-tail and asked Sango to hold her hat. Miroku and Sango went and sat on the side lines as kagome walked to the middle of the court with Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru.

"First to 21 wins" announced Sesshoumaru as he held the ball in the air between the two. "I'll keep score…Ready! 1…2…3!" and he threw the ball in the air. Kagome and Inuyasha jumped for the ball…

Inuyasha and Kagome were on top of each other wrestling. Sango was trying to keep Kagome from killing Inuyasha and fluffy was trying to pry his brother from under Kagome's death grip.

5 minutes before that Kagome was about to win and Inuyasha was behind by 12 points. So he pushed kagome so she couldn't make her last shot. She landed on the concrete and her face got cut on the bottom of the right side of her chin. She had scrapes on her knees and the side of her right arm. When she saw the blood she jumped on him and they wound up wrestling because Inuyasha was trying to protect himself. He wouldn't hit a girl no matter what.

Once Sesshomaru and Sango pried the two apart Sango and kagome started yelling at Inuyasha.

"What the hell did you do that for!"

"Do what…what are you talking about she attacked me!" he yelled back making it seem like he did nothing.

"You know damn well what you did so don't front!" barked Kagome.

"Yeah Inuyasha… you cheated and pushed her on the stinking ground." Sango added

"You put a damn scar on my face and scrapes on my arms and legs. I only needed one more point to beat you. You cheated and I should've won that's why I attacked you so gimme your sneakers cuz a deal's a deal" said Kagome calming down a little.

"Hell no! I didn't put no scars on your body, you're just clumsy and sorry but that ain't my fault!" he was starting to feel guilty looking at the scrapes and cuts on her. Damn she bruised easily.

"Sesshoumaru do something about this before she attacks him again. He knows he cheated… now he's just making an ass of himself." Miroku said with laughter in his voice. "Plus she's cute…cute girls shouldn't have ugly marks like the ones he gave her" added Miroku feigning hurt for Kagome.

"Always a pervert" Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes and walked up to Kagome, Inuyasha and Sango, "Inuyasha…"

A moment later Kagome and Sango were walking in front of Sesshomaru talking as Inuyasha's shoes swung around Kagome's neck and Miroku walked next to a pissed and sneakerless Inuyasha. They stopped at a corner.

"So I'll see you tomorrow when we start school I'll come pick you up at 8 aright?"

"Cool" replied Kagome, Sango waved at them and turned to walk down another street.

"I live that way too, later" Miroku waved also and followed after Sango "Sango wait up!"

Kagome began walking towards her house which was 3 blocks the opposite way of Sango and Miroku. "See you later Sesshomaru" she waved at him and glared at Inuyasha.

He nodded since he wasn't one for many words. He turned to Inuyasha as she began walking away. "Walk with her and apologize." He said before he walked another direction towards their house. "…and don't come home until you do or I'll tell your mother that you hurt a girl." He threatened.

Inuyasha gulped and ran after Kagome.

"Hey Kagome hold on."

"What do you want?" she asked bitterly.

He thought for a moment as to how he would answer but his mind wasn't fast enough to catch up with his mouth. "I just wanted my shoes back" was what came out.

"Ugh! You are unbelievable…you draw blood from my body, you don't apologize and then you have the nerve to ask for your sneakers back…feh you're bugging." she turned away.

He mentally smacked himself, "I meant to say I was sorry" he blurted out. "No hard feelings okay?" he extended his hand

Turning she eyed it for a moment then shook it. "No hard feelings." They walked to her house. They got there and she walked up to the door opened it and went inside but before she closed the door she said, "Good night Inuyasha".

"Uuh Kagome can I have my sneakers back now?" she turned to him and smiled. "Nope, they're my souvenirs… I bust your ass!" and with that she closed the door in his face and laughed. Even though he was ticked, Inuyasha smiled. He never met a girl like her.

Hope you all liked the beginning of my second story. No I didn't abandon 'Chronicles of a bad girl' and I'm not getting lazy, it's just that the idea for this story wouldn't leave me alone… and the possibilities were so tempting! So I just had to write it. Anyways read and review and tell me what you think!

-Lata- Phoenix T.