Chapter One:

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"Ugh…." Kagome slowly opened her eyes to try and assess what the hell was going on. She was on her couch in her living room of her one bedroom apartment. She sat up to realize that the banging she heard was not the sound of her head throbbing from the excruciating headache of her massive hangover, but someone at her front door. Slowly she got up from the couch. As she moved, the mountain of empty beer cans and bottles of wine clanked and echoed in her sensitive ears as they fell and hit the ground. As she made her way to the door she kicked and shuffled through the meadow of hollow coffee cups and empty fast-food bags.

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"Fuck, I'm coming! Hold on! Damn!" Kagome screamed, not caring who was at the door, she just wanted the banging to stop. She opened it to be greeted by her four best friends in the entire world: Sango, Rin, Kirara, and Ayame. "Shit, I should've known." She said with a hardened smile.

"Kagome Higurashi, it's nearly two in the afternoon! You needed to wake your ass up and you know it!" The lovely Sango snapped. Kagome rolled her eyes.

"Have no fear, my dear! We brought gifts!" Ayame smiled as she held up the drink carrier full of coffees. Kagome gladly stepped aside to let them in.

"Girl, you need to quit drinking long enough to clean this place. The damage you can do in a week is out of this world." Kirara laughed as she went to the kitchen to get a garbage bag to clean up the mess in Kagome's living room.

"Oh, whatever. You know I'll be back to normal in a week or two, so you bitches can get off my case." Kagome giggled. She knew how bad everything looked but she didn't care. Normally, she's a neat freak but when she's binge drinking to get over a break-up, like what she's doing now, her care for tidiness goes out the window. Last week, she finally left Hojo after dating for 2 years. The first year and half were great, until he starting beating the shit out of her every night and calling her names like 'whore' and 'slut' and 'bitch' all because he found out she wasn't a virgin. She actually broke down and told him her horrible story about being raped when she was 14 by a man named Naraku, feeling like he cared enough about her to understand and let her open up to him. Instead of understanding like a normal person, he totally said it was her fault, and the beatings started for 'tricking him into thinking she was a nice girl.' That was a mistake for sure. Whatever, she was moving on. She always could get over the worst of times when she had alcohol to fuel her senseless emotions. Before Hojo, she had dated Hiten, and he was worse. He would knock her around and even forced himself on her and in her once before she broke a bottle over his head and left him for dead. Unfortunately for her, he survived and still tries to come around, telling her he loves her or some bullshit like that. Men were pathetic, but Kagome never called herself the victim. She knew she had chosen these men and had just accepted how they all turn out as her luck. Outside of these four girls in front of her she had sworn to secrecy, no one even knew of her terrible past. She wanted it that way because pity enraged her, especially when it was taken on her.

Kirara had just finished picking up all the trash from the living room, and it actually looked clean in there. They sat talking about the previous night, sipping coffee. Kagome chugged a bottle of water and popped a handful of ibuprofen to combat her hangover, then started on her second cup of coffee. "Someone tell me what happened after we left Ice." Kagome begged. She had blacked out sometime last night but knew all too well she had kept conscious like a drunken and hilarious zombie. The last thing she could remember was leaving Ice, a popular club downtown.

"You were blacked out because you love mixing you liquor like always." Kirara giggled, her sandy blonde hair with black streaks bounced in her fluffy pulled back pony tail. She was a beautiful cat demon with huge green eyes.

"Yeah, you went from Vodka and Cranberry at Ice to buying a fifth of Tequila and killing it as we walked around the block to Medusa's." Rin explained. Rin was human and beautiful. All the guys chased her, but none of them interested her. She had big chocolate eyes that could melt the coldest heart and long black/brown hair that flowed down her back.

"Shit…" Kagome knew that tequila meant drunk dialing from the courage and rage the drink filled her with. She checked her phone, and aside from the couple of calls from her girls, she had a total of 17 missed calls from Hiten and Hojo. "Great… Who let me drunk dial?"

The girls laughed. "You disappeared for an hour once we got inside Medusa's! You know if we could have found you, we would have stopped you. Friends don't let friends dial drunk!" Sango was hilarious. She was a beautiful human with brunette hair that hung straight and long. Her big blue eyes could stop any man in their tracks along with her vivacious curves that were a little more pronounced than the other girls, excluding Kagome.

"Kagome, tell me you didn't call them…" Ayame's voice was scared because she knew exactly who Kagome had called. She just didn't want to believe it. She was a wolf demon with bright red hair that she mostly wore in pigtails unless they were going out and green eyes that reminded you a murky mountain lake. "Are their voicemails?" Ayame cringed as Kagome nodded.

The girls had finished their coffee and Kirara was banging some pots and pans around in the kitchen making lunch for everyone. Kagome just stared at her phone, not wanting to hear what the messages said, or threatened most likely. Kirara exited the kitchen with five plates of sandwiches and chips for everyone.

"Get your own damn drinks! Kagome wait and play those when we get done eating. You know how those two make me wanna gag and I'm hungry dammit!" Kirara wasn't joking. That's the sad part. All of Kagome's friends hated those boys with a passion and weren't afraid to say it. The only reason the guys didn't come after Kagome when they broke up was because of her friends and just how scary all five of them together were.

"Ok. Ok. How about we eat these then head down to Kaede's? We can listen to them over a round." Kagome suggested. They were all junior's in college and lived in the same apartment building that just so happened to have a bar on the first floor. They were really lucky. The place rarely had openings. Ayame and Kirara were roommates and Rin and Sango both lived in one bedroom's like Kagome's. They would have all lived together if they could, but they building only had the apartment's they're currently in available.

"It's not even five yet!" Ayame scoffed. "But, shit. Why not?" They all giggled together. Kagome knew how lucky she was to have such good friends to support her drinking habits right now. Normal people would have tried to commit her to AA by now but her friends knew she wouldn't be like this for long. They just had to watch her until then, because she was going to drink whether they were with her or not and they didn't want her finding another pathetic asshole. This time, they would make sure she found a good man. Kagome doesn't stay single for long. She's just not good with being alone.

"So, anything interesting happen to y'all after I blacked out last night?" Kagome asked.

"Ask Sango!" Rin beamed. She had a grin ear to ear as Sango's face turned bright red and she backhanded Rin on the arm.

"Bitch, you weren't supposed to say anything!"

"Oh come on Sporty Spice! You can't keep that from them!" The girls had many nicknames for their pack: the Spice Girls, the Pussy Patrol, the Fantastic Five, and (their favorite) Quarts Quints (emphasizing their love of drinking together).

"Look here, Baby Spice, I need you to shape up before you use your mouth to get us all in trouble. I swear, telling you something is like training to catch water in a pasta strainer." She giggled. In reality, Sango knew Rin just told the group their secrets, but she was Baby Spice for a reason. She could drink more than anyone, but had yet to lose her virginity. Anytime a guy would make a pass at her or try and hit on her, she was oblivious. Her friends thought it was a riot.

"Ginger Spice needs to know!" Ayame demanded.

"Scary Spice is about to whoop your ass if you don't start talking, bitch!" Kirara growled.

"Alright! Alright! I might have met someone and taken him to my place to fuck his brains out last night." Sango spat out as she threw her tomato red face into her hands.

"Not just anyone," Rin was just teasing her now.

"Sango? Posh spice will attack you in a drunken rage." Kagome threatened.

"It might have been Miroku…"

"WHAT?!" The girls were shocked! Miroku was a frequent of the bar downstairs along with his friends Inuyasha, Shippo, and Kouga. They lived a couple buildings over in a really nice apartment building because Inuyasha was loaded. I mean, his family probably owns Japan on top of every piece of technology that comes out of it. Back to Miroku though: he was the biggest perv on the planet. He supposedly had a 'cursed hand' that fondled every woman's bottom it came near and Sango frequently smacked the living shit out of him and put him on the ground. The fact that she banged him after four years of his shenanigans was unfathomable to the girls.

Sango was holding her breath for their reaction. "So, how was it?" They all asked at once, then started to laugh uncontrollably.

"Oh, I've found a new fuck buddy, that's for sure. And I'm still gonna slap him for groping me and anyone else. This is going to be fun." Sango could be wicked sometimes.

They all sat around and gossiped while they finished their lunch, then, after Kagome had a chance to shower and change, they all went downstairs to the bar. It was almost empty, which is how they liked it. It was only about four in the afternoon though. They sat at their usual corner booth in the back after getting a round of beers and Kagome got out her phone to listen to the four messages she had from last night. The first was from Hojo:

"Are you fucking serious, Kagome? You're gonna call me in the middle of the night to tell me how 'tiny my dick is' and then hang up without explaining yourself?!" The girls started dying laughing. "And now you're not gonna answer? That's fine because any chance you had with me, you totally just blew it. I was gonna look past your indecencies because everyone deserves a fair shot but now, you want to say all these vulgar things to me. Excuse the hell out of me if I don't have as big of dick as Naraku…" Kagome's face turned into angry stone as she immediately hit the delete button. The girls looked at her.

Sango chugged her beer, slammed it down on the table, then got up and left. The girls just looked at each other knowing she was about to go unleash some rage on some poor, unsuspecting soul. Sango doesn't drink her frustrations away, she beats them away using someone else as her canvas. Kagome hit play on the next message. It was also Hojo:

"Kagome, I'm sorry. That last message was out of line. I was just mad at you. I know you're drunk and hurting because you lost me, but maybe one day, after I become a rich lawyer and you get busted for prostitution, I can help you out. No hard feelings." Kagome deleted the message and Rin got out her phone to send a quick text message.

The next message was from Hiten.

"I'm not sure if I want to play this one…" Kagome trailed off. She set her phone down and stared at it.

"Oh, you know you want to see what you said." Kirara hit play on the phone:

"Really, Kagome? I haven't talked to you since the night you tried to kill me with a beer bottle and you want to call me to tell me I look like a girl and you must have been going through a lesbian phase?" The girls bust out laughing. "Yeah, to answer your question, I was pissed when Misho told me he wouldn't accept my business anymore…" "The guy that waxs my eyebrows." Kagome interjected. "…but I'm not worried about petty shit. The only one who should be worried it you because if I EVER find you alone without the fucking pussy patrol around, you're gonna need more than a new rug to cover up the blood stains in your apartment, bitch." Kagome just shook her head and tried to smile it off, acting like it didn't bother her. She moved to the last message and hit play. It was also from Hiten:

"Hey, Kagome," The girls scoffed at the sincerity of his voice in this message. "I'm sorry I said all those things in the other message. I was just hurt by your words and let it get to me but I'm not mad anymore and I really want to talk to you. Call me when you get this and we can meet up and talk. I would never hurt you, Kagome. I love-" Kagome hit the delete button.

"On that note, I definitely need a shot." Kagome got up and went to the bar, leaving the other girls just exchanging glances.

"Four shots of Rumplemints and three DosX please ma'am," Kagome said with a smile to Kaede, the bar tender. She was the sweetest lady Kagome knew, and often had heart-to-heart talks with her. Kaede was actually the one that gave her the courage to dump Hojo As she handed her the shots and beer with a smile, Kagome thanked her, and proceeded to drink all four shots then chug one of the beers. Kagome didn't even notice the silver-haired hanyou standing next to her in his baggy jeans and red hoody.

"Shit, Kagome! Slow down!" he said as he grabbed the remaining beers from her.

"Oh, Inuyasha I didn't see you there. And bite me, it's fucking Saturday!" she said as she snatched the beers back and tried to turn when the Rumplemints got her. She stumbled back into Inuyasha's arms.

"I don't care what day it is, you need to slow down. You're gonna hurt yourself."

"Why do you care?!" She snapped as she straightened herself out of his grip. "You've never said two words to me until now, so excuse me for not taking your concern to heart." Kagome was cold hearted sometimes but it serves him right. The entire four years they had been living here, Inuyasha and the boys were here almost every night. In all that time, the other boys flirted, joked, drank, and hung out with the girls, accept Inuyasha, who mainly drank by himself and kept quiet when the girls were around. He apparently had a jealous girlfriend named Kikyo or he was too stuck up to flirt with 'unattractive girls' as he put it on one occasion. The girls were not too found of him.

He watched her walk away and back to her friends with compassion in his eyes. He had been at the bar the whole time and he heard the messages they played on her phone. Being half dog demon and all, his hearing was impeccable. He had never realized Kagome had gone through so much. He thought she was just a bitch, until he realized she was more defensive than his older half brother.

Kagome sat back in the booth and the girls stared at her. "What?"

"What was that about?" Kirara asked.

"What?" Kagome turned and looked at Inuyasha still staring at her. She actually had forgotten about it thanks to the shots in the time it took her to get back to the booth. "Oh with Inuyasha? Nothing. He just decided to care today and I gave him a piece of my mind. Nothing out of the ordinary for me," Kagome smiled because it was the truth. The girls just giggled.

"He's really not that bad, Kagome. You should talk to him if he's actually willing. I heard he caught Kikyo cheating on him and they broke up." Ayame always had the scoop because she was dating Kouga, one of Inuyasha's three roommates. Kagome just looked at her.

"Why would that make a difference, Ayame?"

"Because," Kirara, who was dating Shippo, another one of his roommates, "you both need rebounds. You should use each other to get over your break ups then you don't have to talk to him again. Lord knows we just want you to stop binge drinking soon and this will definitely speed up the process." Kagome rolled her eyes and took a sip of one of her beers. Of course her friends would be that bad. There was no way in hell she was going to stop binge drinking just yet. She had way to much pent up aggression to let out.

"Good afternoon, ladies. How are we today?" A familiar voice chimed. The girls looked up to see the incredibly handsome face of the infamous Miroku. He was built very nice and always dressed in jeans and button down. He had shaggy black hair in a small pony tail at the nape of his neck with deep blue eyes. He was a ladies man, but knowing his luck last night, the girls just smirked with shining, all-knowing eyes at him.

"Oh, hey Miroku. How are you today?" Rin giggled. She smiled at her.

"Oh, I'm sure you know I'm fantastic. And where is my lovely Sango?"

"Behind you." He spun around on his heels to see Sango with a thin layer of sweat covering her body.

"I sure hope you don't have more than one 'good friend' my dear Sango. My feelings would be hurt," obviously thinking the worst possible thing that could have caused her to break a sweat, "unless of course it's a female friend, then I would just be upset you were keeping it from me." He smiled his perverted smile as a smack echoed through the bar and he was on the ground seconds later.

Sango slid into the booth with the rest of the girls giggling at the two love birds when Kagome noticed blood on Sango's knuckles. "Sango, where did you go exactly?" Kagome asked as she grabbed Sango's hands to determine it was obviously someone else's blood.

"Hojo might be missing some teeth…" She took Kagome's spare beer and started to drink it.

"Sango, you didn't use the brass knuckles did you?"

"Oh Kagome, you know those are illegal." Sango replied sarcastically and with a smile. "Besides, he crossed the line and deserves no one to feel sorry for him. How dare he stoop so low, I mean really. The nerve…" She just started cussing to herself.

Kagome giggled, "You're such a good friend, Sango." The girls started laughing and Kagome looked up to see Inuyasha still staring a them, but this time he was smiling. It was a devilish smile that Kagome found herself wanting to lick off his face. She had never really looked at Inuyasha before because he was such a jerk and she had a boyfriend. Today, he seems, dare she say, SEXY. Though his clothes were loose, you could still tell he had a chiseled body underneath them. His long silver hair hung down his back and over his shoulders; Kagome thought about how it would form a perfect curtain around them in the throws of love. His eyes was such an inviting honey, gold, she could swim around in the time for eternity. When he had a wicked smile on his face the one he was currently sporting, a tip of a fang poked out the corner of his mouth. It and his sweet little doggy ears on top of his head were the only sign of demon you could see. Kagome blushed and shook herself when she realized she was staring at him back and thinking all those things. Damn him.

"So what are we doing tonight?" Rin asked from across the table.

"I say we go get ready and meet down here in two hours to start drinking then decide."

"Sounds like a plan," everyone agreed. With that, they got up and walked out of the bar, Kagome looking up to see Inuyasha still had his eyes trained on her and followed her as she left.

"Inuyasha!" Miroku broke Inuyasha's trance on the way Kagome's hips swayed when she walked, probably a little more than usual with the alcohol in her system.

"What lech?"

"What are we doing tonight? You really need to be social. You've been sitting in the same place at this bar for the past week sulking over some skank. Let's get you a rebound and get over her already. You're making me sick." Inuyasha smacked the lecher without even looking at him, putting Miroku on the ground for the second time in under five minutes. He was on a roll today.