AN/ So... How've you guys been? Me, I've been a little depressed, so I figured writing about someone else's depressing life would make me feel better! Think it'll work...? Yeah, me neither. It's whatever. So, for this story, let's shoot for at least 100 reviews by the end, ok? That would make me SO happy.
Anywho, if you haven't read The Trouble with Eggs, you'll probably be fine. I mean, it'll make more sense if you read it, but it's not nessecary. There might be some references to it, but The Trouble with Murphy's Law pretty much has its own seperate story line. As opposed to being about Kagome and Inuyasha, The Trouble with Eggs is about Sango and Miroku.
The Trouble with Murphy's Law
Chapter One: James and Eliza
Her own hurried footsteps seemed to be the only thing Kagome could hear as she took the first step into the school's car garage. The smile fell off her face as a wrench hit the floor in front of her with a loud 'clang'; Kagome stepped back in surprise. "Inuyasha?" She asked, letting her presence known.
Inuyasha whipped his head up from staring at the floor and quickly walked over to retrieve the wrench from where it had landed. "Sorry about that. I just got frustrated, 'cause of the whole broken wrist thing." Inuyasha apologized, and picked the wrench up in his left hand. "I'm practically useless with this thing on." He held up his right hand, which was covered in a black cast.
"Don't worry about it." Kagome replied, and then curiosity got the better of her. "How did you break it, anyway?"
For a moment, Inuyasha didn't respond -didn't even look at her. When he finally met her gaze, Inuyasha gave a wry smile, and said, "Murphy's Law. That's what always happens to me." It was his normal excuse; the one he'd given the doctor. The phrase was so simple, but everyone thought it explained so much. Really, it was just a way to get out of dealing out blame.
Kagome's head tilted to the side in confusion. "What's that?"
Raising an incredulous eyebrow, he demanded, "You've never heard of Murphy's Law?" When Kagome shook her head, Inuyasha let out a snort of disbelief, and shook his head sadly. "That's 'cause people like you don't have problems. Murphy and me are great friend's -have been for years. See, he's got this rule that some people's worlds revolve around."
"What's his rule?" He'd grabbed her attention. Inuyasha smirked at that, and sat down on a bench along the wall. When he pointedly glanced to the seat next to him, she sat down at his left.
"Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong." Inuyasha replied as a grin spread across his face.
Kagome's brows furrowed together. "That doesn't explain why your wrist is broken. Come on, what happened?" She demanded, turning a glare on him.
Instantly, the teenager moved his gaze to the floor in front of him. She wasn't supposed to ask questions. Kagome was just supposed to be this continual, bright, shiny thing is his life that made his day better with a smile. She wasn't supposed to get invovled. Instinct?
Push her away.
"It's non'a yer damn business, Kagome, so lay off!" He shouted, and pushed up from the bench. Walking over to his toolbox, Inuyasha threw the wrench in, and glanced over his shoulder at her; she was still sitting on the bench. "Your notes are in the passengers' seat."
Letting out a noise of frustration, Kagome stomped over to his precious car, yanked the door open, and retrieved her notes. She slammed the door closed, harder than nessecary, and Inuyasha shot her a glare.
"You didn't have to get an attitude about it!" Kagome retorted, marching up in front of him. Lightly, she smacked him in the stomach with the back of her hand, and Inuyasha sharply drew in a breath. With that, Kagome stormed out of the garage just as the bell rang.
Inuyasha slowly sank to the floor with a wince, and ground his teeth together. Why in the hell did she have to go and do that? Wasn't he in enough pain right now? Carefully, Inuyasha lifted up the hem of his shirt to reveal a dark purple bruise, streaked with green, spread across the right side of his torso. "Fuck it all..." He muttered darkly, and let the shirt fall back into place.
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Frustrating. If anyone had asked her one word to describe Inuyasha, it would have been that. He always overreacted about the littlest things, and he absolutely refused to let Kagome get close. Inuyasha had to be one of the most insufferable people she had ever met!
So, why couldn't she seem to stay away?
Kagome huffed in annoyance as she plopped herself into an uncomfortable, blue, plastic seat, and scooted closer to her desk of the hour. He was a nuissance, but a nessessity- an annoyance, but an addiction.
In all honesty, Kagome had never really paid him much attention, before Miroku started this thing with Sango. He'd just been That Kid with Anger Issues, who happened to be somewhat attractive. When she had met him, really met him, it was over a very dangerous game of Monopoly. They had argued with the highest intensity, and insulted each other on every level, but it was the most fun Kagome could remember ever having.
Being around Inuyasha was confusing...
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Kagome just couldn't understand that some people didn't want to share their life's story with her -that people were allowed to have their secrets. She was obnoxious, but he couldn't seem to push her away, like he did everyone else.
Ok, Sango was an exception to that rule. To be fair, he didn't even tell her everything that went on. Sango only got the sketchy outline that Inuyasha had meticulously edited for her viewing. Kagome would reject that same sketchy outline; she'd want the details.
Inuyasha couldn't give those.
He slammed his locker shut, and leaned heavily against it. With the halls empty of their usual clamour, Inuyasha felt a sense of relief. Finally, he had the chance to think... Too bad he had to get to Pre Calculus. Definitely no time to think in there -at least, not about anything other than math.
As Inuyasha slid into his assigned seat, he couldn't help but let his eyes slide towards Kagome, sitting two seats to his left. She caught his eye, and folded her arms stubbornly across her chest with a glare eminating from her eyes. Obviously, she was still angery about earlier. Inuyasha shot her a glare of his own, and turned his attention to the teacher.
Two seats away, Kagome sighed heavily in her seat, and followed Inuyasha's lead. If he didn't want to explain things to her, she would just go and get the information from someone else...
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"Explain it to me!"
Sango jumped at the sudden voice behind her in the lunch line, and whirled around to find Kagome tapping her foot impatiently. Curious, she raised her eyebrows, and questioned slowly, "What exactly am I explaining to you, Kagome?"
"Inuyasha! Explain him to me! I just don't get it! One minute, I'm having this normal conversation with him, and the next, he's shouting at me for no reason! Explain it!" Kagome demanded, throwing her hands into the air as she spoke.
With laughter bubbling from her throat, Sango shook her head. "Kagome," she replied, "I don't think either Inuyasha or you could get through a conversation without shouting. You're both very...vocal." As she spoke, her eyes rolled at the understatement of the year.
"Should I be offended by that?" The sternness of Kagomes' voice would have been convincing if it weren't for the evident mirth showing in her eyes.
With a smile, Sango retorted, "Only if you can't accept the truth. On a different note, I don't even understand Inuyasha sometimes. He's not someone you can explain in a minute, or less. I could tell you his favorite car, his favorite color -hell, I could tell you who he would go gay for -but I can't explain his outbursts."
"He's hiding something, though... He got all defensive when I asked about his wrist..." Kagome stated quietly, and folded her arms across her chest, the humor in her posture having left.
Sango turned her gaze nervously away as she paid for her lunch food, saying, "It's not your job to find out what he's hiding, Kagome..."
"I know that, but I'm still curious... Wait a minute, who would Inuyasha go gay for?" Kagomes' brows knit together in curiousity, and Sango couldn't surpress the flood of laughter that escaped her.
When she managed to catch her breath, Sango replied, "If you come eat in the garage with us, I'll tell you..." Kagome was nodding her head before the other girl had time to finish speaking her sentence.
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"Hey, Miroku, get your ass over here, and help me with something!" Inuyasha called as he leaned over his car. He heard Miroku sigh heavily somewhere behind him, and couldn't help but roll his eyes. He added, "Help a cripple out, would ya?"
This got an undignified snort from the pretty boy, and he replied, "Crippled my ass. You just like the attention, you hypochondriac." When Miroku arrived at his side, Inuyasha socked him in the shoulder with his usable hand.
"Just help me, ya moron." Inuyasha muttered, and handed Miroku the wrench. Pointing to the cars' inards, he instructed, "Tighten that up, will ya? I can't get it with this useless thing."
"What'd you do to it, anyway?" Miroku asked in curiousity, as he tightened what Inuyasha had pointed to.
Inuyasha tensed at the question, and answered curtly, "I fell, and landed on it wrong. It's not a big deal. I don't know why everyone's so damn curious about it."
The other boy shrugged his shoulders as he finished, and handed the wrench back to Inuyasha. "You just seem to get hurt a lot, but it's not like you're a klutz, or something. It's just weird, is all." Miroku answered, and plopped himself down on the ground a few feet away, sitting with his legs sprawled out in front of him.
"It's not a big deal." Inuyasha repeated in a harsh murmur. Miroku held up his hands in defense, and didn't mention it again.
A few minutes later, Kagome and Sango walked into the garage in a fit of uncontained laughter. The two boys glanced first at eachother, at the girls, and then back again. "What are you two smoking, and does it come in packs of ten?" Miroku questioned, his eyebrows looking like they were about to shoot up off of his face.
Kagome managed to get her laughter under control first, and turned to Inuyasha. "So," She began, and surpressed a giggle, "James Marsters, huh?" When Inuyasha's face turned a dark shade of red, Kagome burst into laughter again, as did Sango.
Turning an incredulous glare to Sango, Inuyasha, in a cracking voice, demanded, "You told her? How could you tell her?! You said that would stay just between us, Sango! What kinda friend are you, anyway?!"
"I'm -ha, ha - so sorry, Inuyasha, but I just couldn't -ha, ha - resist! And the look on your face! You should've seen it!"
Clearly confused, Miroku glanced back and forth between the two. "Wait... What exactly is so funny about James Marsters...? Wasn't he an actor on Buffy the Vampire Salyer?" His brows knit together as he looked quizzically at Sango.
"James Marsters is who-" Kagome started, but before she could finish, Inuyasha clamped a hand down on her mouth.
"That's really not something Miroku needs to know, don't ya think?" He demanded.
"That's who Inuyasha would go gay for." Sango finished cheerfully.
Mirokus' eyes widened, and he asked, "Seriously?"
"Sango!" Inuyasha screeched, and lunged for her. Before he could get far, Kagome latched her arms around his waist. This, combined with Inuyasha's surprise at Kagomes' attack, and his own momentum, caused them both to fall to the garage floor.
"Run, Sango! Run!" Kagome shouted with a laugh, and Sango didn't waste a second running out of the garage, at full speed. She then glanced down at Inuyasha, who was now beneath her, quite literally. Inuyasha glared up at her, and tried in vain to move out from under her.
"Ya mind getting off of me? I have a best friend to kill, ya know. Then, I've gotta go through the trouble of lookin' for a new one, and all that crap." Inuyasha said with a scowl clearly written upon his face.
Kagome sat up half way, adjusting her legs so they straddled his hips. "I'm starting to like Sango, though. I wouldn't want you to kill her. Plus, then I've gotta worry about Miroku finding a new girlfriend. It's not an easy thing -he's got high standards."
At Kagomes' last statement, both men snorted in disbelief, and Kagome grinned. "I was trying to be nice."
"You know, Kagome, you really shouldn't be laughing about who Inuyasha would go gay for. I remember a certain conversation where you confessed something equally crutial..." Miroku replied with a cheerful smile, and Kagomes' own look of cheer instantly melted away.
"You wouldn't dare..." Kagome challenged as her eyes narrowed into slits. Underneath her, Inuyasha was vigorously nodding her head.
Miroku raied an eyebrow in disbelief, and asked in a confused voice, "Really? I wouldn't? I think I would. Inuyasha, would you like to know who Kagome would go lesbian for?"
With a shout, Kagome threw herself at Miroku, tackling him to the ground, and covered his mouth with both hands. She then felt two arms wrap securely around her waist, pulling her away. Desperate, Kagome dug her fingers into the cloth of Mirokus' shirt, but the only result was the sound of tearing cloth.
Once his mouth was free, Miroku triumphantly smiled, and said simply, "Eliza Dushka."
With a chuckle, Inuyasha replied, "Hey, Kagome's got pretty good taste." To Kagome, he added, "I'd do her, too."
Defeated, and still in the firm circle of Inuyashas' arms, Kagome answered, "That's fair. I'd do James Marsters, if I had the chance."
Mirokus' brows knit together in confusion, and he, needing to feel included, said, "You guys are freaks. So, I'll leave you to your freakish-ness, and I'm gonna go find my girlfriend." With that, Miroku walked out of the garage in hopes of finding Sango.
A feeling of awkwardness suddenly seeped into the garage, and Inuyasha let Kagome with a nervous cough. Taking a step back, and turning to face him, Kagome smiled in an attempt to keep the atmosphere light.
"About this morning..." Inuyasha started suddenly, turning his gaze to the floor, and Kagomes' attention was on him in a second. When he didn't continue, she realized how hard in must be for him to appoligize, so she decided to help him out a bit.
"I shouldn't have been prying..." Kagome replied, trying to keep him talking with open-ended statements; it worked.
"You shouldn't have been," He agreed, "But I didn't have to yell." Kagome smiled softly, knowing it was as close to an appology as she was going to get from him, but that was all right with her. The message was clear.
"If you really wanna make it up to me," Kagome said slyly, knowing this was finally her chance, and unwilling to give it up, "You can take me to see a movie this Friday...on a date."
Inuyashas' golden eyes shot up to hers in surprise, and he stared blankly at her for a moment. When he didn't say anything, it was Kagomes' turn to focus her eyes on the ground. "I mean, if you don't want to, that's fine... I should go." She quickly turned around, and made a bee line towards the door.
Her hand was poised over the door handle when he finally found his voice, and called, "I'll pick you up at eight!" Turning her head back to look at her, Kagome smiled brightly, and nodded. As she exited, Inuyasha was almost certain there was a skip in her step.
When he was finally alone in the garage, Inuyasha wandered over to a bench, and sat down heavily, letting his head fall into his upturned palm. This wasn't going to go well. There wasn't even a chance of this going well, and all because of Murphys' Law -whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.
That was the trouble with Murphys' Law, though. It always showed up, no matter what you did to try and prevent it. Stupid Murphy...
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AN/ Just so you know, James Marsters and Eliza Dushka(sp?) are both characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and are undeniably attractive people. James Marsters played Spike, a vampire, and Eliza Dushka was Faith, the 'evil' slayer.
