A/n: This series actually sprung to life from the title, which came to me at a random one day. This will be a series of drabbles, which I think will be easier for me to handle. I already have a few ideas in mind but if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears!

Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from Inuyasha. All of them belong to the amazing Rumiko Takahashi.

Modern Man
Scent

"Gods, Kagome, what is this place?"

The young woman turned around and looked at him with a look in her eye that was almost a plea. "It's Veronica's Tryst…"

"What the hell kind of name is that?" the hanyou asked her, covering his nose with his hand. Kagome sighed and stopped her trek, almost right outside the store. She stood close to him so he wouldn't have to shout so much. He was already gathering attention as it was, a few people breaking their necks to get a glimpse of the silver haired man who was shouting.

"It's just the name of the store, I have no clue why," she said, silently agreeing that it was a rather silly name. "You can just stay out here if it's so bad."

"Keh. We made that bet and I'm sticking to it," Inuyasha stubbornly said, his eyebrows setting into a glare directed at the miko. Kagome sighed, recalling the memory of Inuyasha arrogantly declaring that her world was nothing to be afraid of. In the heat of the argument, Kagome blindly challenged him to stick around for her errands whenever she went back to her time. Of course, presented with a challenge, Inuyasha took it.

And that's how things ended up where they were – the two of them outside of Veronica's Tryst, her out of the normal school girl outfit, and him in a pair of modern clothing. Sneakers, fitted jeans, an old t-shirt from Tokyo U, a grey zip up jacket, and a baseball cap to top everything off. Kagome had to admit, it was a very interesting – and equally appealing – twist to the Inuyasha she saw on the other side of the well.

"Okay, if you complain, you lose," Kagome said in a sing-song voice, pointing a finger at him. Inuyasha grit his teeth, gold eyes flashing. He accepted the challenge. "I'll be going in to get a present for Eri's birthday. I'll try to be quick and you try not to wander off…"

In the middle of the store, Kagome put a finger to her lip, lost in thought concerning which smell her good friend would like. Her eyes scanned the shelves of orange, pink, purple, red…and she was about to see how Firefly Dust would smell like, when she turned to see her companion had gone missing. A small surge of panic awoke within her as she weaved her way around the displays of perfume and lotions, her head turning left and right for a hint of where he went.

There!

He was in the less fragrant area of the store – not surprising. She found her way to his mane of silver, her mouth ready to reprimand. When she saw what he was so intent on looking at, her mouth fell a little open.

Inuyasha was staring at a sale bin, filled with a pile of colored unmentionables. He slowly picked up a pair that happened to be more like plain string than the others, and let it hang off his claws. When he pulled apart a bit it looked like a poorly constructed spider's web, made with bright red webbing. His concentrated gaze turned into a frown.

Kagome noticed the women around were starting to look at him warily and, blushing, she walked forward to claim him. "Inuyasha, what did I tell you about wandering?"

"Kagome…" he said, ignoring her. How serious his voice was made Kagome forget about scolding him. "What kind of store sells nets these small?"

She stopped in her tracks and let out a laugh. At their bet, his question, and at his attraction to lacy underwear – though unconscious.

"It's actually, um, an undergarment," she slowly said, blushing lightly. She watched his face as the new information hit his ears. He turned a grimace down to the thing in his hands, and threw it back in the bin, seemingly scathed by it.

"Who in the hell would want to wear that?" Inuyasha asked, backing away from the bins. Kagome gave a nervous laugh in response to some people around them, though some guys with their girls seemed to agree with him.

"I don't know! Some women do!" she said, taking hold of his arm and starting to drag him away. "Now let's go back to-."

Her sentence was cut off by one of Inuyasha's own, still refusing to let go of the matter that had been in his hand. "You can't wear that shit, it's too small to cover anything!"

Astonished by his desire to keep this conversation going, and hoping what she would do next would keep him quiet, she pointed at something as they passed. "That is how women wear it."

Inuyasha's eyes boggled at the manikin clad in only a piece of lace that could pass as dental floss. On the back there were three strings on each side, how the hell it would work, he didn't know. But he finally noticed where it would fall on a woman's hips, and where one string in the back would fall between… He gulped, flushed, and suddenly had a hard time looking at Kagome.

Satisfied with his silence, though still blushing as well, she dragged him back to the fragrance area. There, Kagome went on spraying a little of each on her wrists, arms, and neck, politely asking him to smell each one. Each time his nose got close to her skin, he picked up the hitch in her breath. He kept silent but told her which had a better chance of attracting favorable mates, to which Kagome sweat dropped.

Fifteen minutes later, they were out of the store – Inuyasha taking gigantic breathes of fresh air and grumbling about it being "Miroku's heaven" while Kagome walked beside him, rolling her eyes but laughing.

"Thanks for helping me weed out the gross smells," she told him, looking up at him with her big brown eyes. Inuyasha looked at her out of the corner of eye, and scoffed. A curious thought got to her. "What was your favorite scent?"

"My favorite scent?"

Inuyasha thought back to his earlier testing, keeping his eyes on their path. It took him hardly a few seconds to answer, and when he finally said it, his voice was sure.

"Yours."

A/n: So there it is, the first chapter of Modern Man! I hope you all enjoyed! Can anyone guess what Veronica's Tryst is related to? Keke. The next chapter will talk about what exactly is at stake with the bet they made. Thank you so much for reading and pleaaase review!