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Sheer Mischief

snowxflower

Chapter 1
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

6:17 p.m.

Inuyasha's Living Room
(Still)

"So…" Inuyasha begins, unable to bear the silence any longer. He is uncomfortably aware that they are all still staring at that white stick, something one of his friends had to piss on just a few minutes (or maybe hours) ago. He purses his lips and looks around at the group gathered in his living room, wondering whether anybody would own up to the damn thing.

"Not mine!" Sango shouts suddenly, as if they are arguing over who is going to drive her obnoxious, verbally abusive, people-hating grandmother around town for the day. The other girls groan in disappointment, like this is some sort of competition and the last person to say 'not it!' is all of a sudden the guilty party.

Wait.

Is this even something to feel guilty about?

"Guys, there's nothing to be ashamed of—" Sesshomaru starts, once again trying to be the mature voice of reason. The girls aren't having any of it, though. An intense glare from Kagura shuts him right up. From across the room, still sandwiched between the women, Shippo has to bite his lip to keep from laughing again.

He knows that the… relationships between his friends are rather complicated. Okay, try really complicated. However, this is certainly an unexpected plot twist. Shippo scans every single one of the guys for an unusual (well, maybe not unusual, given the situation) level of panic. The first person his vision focuses on is Sesshomaru.

The thought alone is almost enough to cause the giggle to finally erupt from his lips. Still, the teenager bites down harder and tries to imagine the stoic Sesshomaru as a father. Maybe of a baby girl. Sesshomaru cooing at a little baby girl in his arms and making funny faces—

The dam bursts.

Shippo is dying of laughter all over again.

Miroku has his eyes fixed on a woman. Her long brown hair is tied up in a high ponytail, her bangs framing her heart-shaped face and highlighting her delicate feminine features, her eyelids are coloured with just a touch of purple, and her lips sparkle due to a thin layer of gloss (probably raspberry flavoured).

Normally, Miroku would be staring just a few inches south of her face. Today, he was staring even further down. His gaze travelled down from her chest to her waist… and then her round hips—

Whoops. Got a little distracted there.

He focuses his attention back on her abdomen and he begins to wonder. Does the pregnancy test belong to Sango? If so, she is being pretty nonchalant about it…

"It's Kagome's!" She shouts for the second time that night, surprising everyone all over again. "I just know it!"

"Sango!" Kagome shrieks, looking completely appalled at the accusation. "It is not mine." She refutes, folding her arms over her chest and leaning back into the couch.

"Oh yeah? Are you suuure?" Sango teases, dragging out the last word of her sentence in a mocking tone. "Well then, what about that guy who left our apartment really late the other night? Yeah. You thought I was asleep, right? Well, guess what, the egg is on your face because I wasn't and I heard him!" Kagome gasps, raising a hand to her open mouth.

"He—I—"

"Oooh, Kagome-chan has a lover!" Rin giggles, ripping up a sheet of nearby paper and tossing it into the air like confetti. The wavy-haired woman flushes a deep crimson, trying her best to counter the allegations being made against her. She nervously casts a glance over to Inuyasha, who is oddly focused on the floor.

"You're the one in love with a man who's already spoken for!" Kagome defensively hurls across the room at Rin, who stops laughing. "Yeah, I went there!"

"Hey, leave her alone." Kagura pipes in, putting down her drink.

"Oh I'm sorry, but aren't you late for an AA meeting?" Sango mocks, gesturing to the empty vodka bottle next to Kagura's now empty glass.

"That was uncalled for," Kikyo states, rolling her eyes at Sango's immaturity and pettiness.

"Oh, look who has an opinion. What a surprise, Kikyo!" Kagome says sarcastically.

"Hey Kagome, what does it feel like to be the biggest bitch in town?" Kikyo throws back, without missing a beat.

"What did you just say?"

And suddenly, the girls are screaming insults at each other and the men just sit on their side of the room, watching in absolute horror. Should they break up the cat fight and risk getting their balls chopped off, or should they just let their friends fight to the death?

In their minds, they unanimously vote for the latter option and cover their genitals protectively.

"At least I didn't sleep with Bankotsu, the jerk with a reputation, at our high school reunion in the freaking coat closet!" Sango shouts, glaring at Kagome.

"I didn't sleep with Bankotsu!"

"Oh my god, when I opened the door to get my coat, everyone could see his hands down your pants!"

"Kikyo used to date Naraku!" Rin says out of the blue, and when the attention focuses on her she smiles sheepishly. "What? I know secrets too!"

"Ew, you dated Naraku?!" Kagome whirls around and tosses Kikyo a judging look.

"Hey! Naraku was just misunderstood—"

"Misunderstood? He is the biggest creep on the planet! I thought you said you hated him?"

"Yeah? Well, when Kagome was my roommate, she used to ask me to go to the bathroom with her at night because she was too afraid to pee in the dark!"

"Well—" Kagome blushes again, but concentrates on finding a comeback. When she is unable to think of one for Kikyo, she focuses her anger on her other friends. "At the beginning stages of their relationship, Kagura said that she was just gonna toy with Sesshomaru a little bit and then drop him like a rock!"

"What?" The taiyoukai asks, glancing over at his girlfriend of six years.

"…You bitch." Kagura narrows her eyes at her younger friend, who sticks out her tongue in a mocking gesture.

"If I'm going down," Kagome says, "I'm taking you all with me."

"Kagome-chan, that was horrible!" Rin comes to Kagura's defence, saying that that was years ago and it shouldn't matter now.

"Oh, quit acting like such a saint." Sango says with a wave of her hand. "You're only super nice to Kagura because you feel guilty that you're in love with her boyfriend."

"What?" Sesshomaru repeats.

"Oh, please. State the obvious, why don't you." Kagura shrugs, refilling her glass with whatever kind of liquor is nearby.

"What?" Now it's Rin who is appalled. "You knew?" Kagura's eyes widen.

"Sango had sex with Hojo two hours after he and Kagome broke up!" She blurts. Kagome's jaw drops and she turns accusingly towards her best friend.

"The only reason I did that was because I felt sorry for the guy! Come on, Kagome, you dated the poor schmuck for a year and he never even got to see either one of your boobs!"

"Hey, just because I'm not a slut—"

"How is sleeping with your boyfriend going to make you a slut, you moron?!" Sango shrieks, and the men, almost as if they had planned for an event like this, push the couch back with their feet as they sat… watching the whole thing unfold before their very eyes. It is like some kind of horror movie—a little bit of humour but at the same time, completely terrifying.

But then it happened.

"Oh yeah?! At least I didn't turn down an amazing guy's marriage proposal for a certain Tokyo U professor and won't admit it!" After the words leave her lips, Kagome knows she's made a mistake. The room is silent again and she clasps a hand over her mouth. Her eyes wide with surprise and embarrassment, Kagome wishes she could swallow the words back down her throat and pretend like she never spoke them. But the damage has been done.

Especially since out of all the people they all knew, there is only one Tokyo University professor in their group of friends.

Everyone's gaze falls onto Miroku, who's jaw drops.

"Fuck you, Kagome." Sango shakes her head and storms out of the living room, escaping to the solitude of Inuyasha's guest bedroom. Kagome groans and sinks back into the couch, burying her face in her hands.

"…So," Inuyasha breaks the tense silence again. "Anyone up for guacamole?"

—TO BE CONTINUED—

Notes: This chapter took quite the unexpected turn… but hey, I've got into fights over less.