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Authoress' Note: oh my goodness, I'm pretty excited about all the reviews! 11 of them! Yay! And I'm also glad that people thought it was funny cause I'm not going to lie, that's exactly how I see Kagome and Inuyasha being…a lot like how my family is. And I thought it was pretty funny myself so yeah.

Harder Than Life
The Invitation

"Wake up Souta! I'm bringing you to the university today so I can pay for your books." Kagome said, knocking on his bedroom door.

"Go away! I'm sleeping!" Souta called from his bed in a half-asleep state.

"Souta Higurashi! Get up right now or you can pay for your own books, and since you couldn't afford housing I'm pretty sure you need me to pay for your books!" she waited at the door and heard him getting out of bed and she smiled, knowing she could always win an argument with Souta, "I'm going to get dressed, be ready to leave in 20 minutes."

An indistinct mumble was heard on the other side of the door and Kagome knew that was "half-asleep-Souta-language" for "okay"

Kagome walked back into her and Inuyasha's bedroom, where Inuyasha was still in bed. She went to the closet and pulled on the closest pair of jeans. She took off her large sleep shirt and looked around in her closet for something inconspicuous to wear. She pulled the Tokyo U shirt she had purchased when she knew Souta was coming off of its hanger and put it on. She slipped on a pair of black flats and walked out of the closet. Seeing that Inuyasha was still sleeping, she didn't bother to ask how she looked; instead she just walked into the bathroom to finish getting ready.

She washed her face and brushed her teeth quickly; wanting to make sure she was done before Souta was. She brushed out her tangled hair and fastened it into a high ponytail. She walked out of the bathroom and saw that Inuyasha had woken up and was still laying in bed, looking at her.

"Do I look inconspicuous? I mean, I'll be wearing my glasses too."

"You look like a college student…"

"Awesome! I'm taking Souta to buy his books and then I'm going to take him to lunch. We'll be back later, okay?"

Inuyasha shrugged, "Well in that case I'm going back to sleep."

Kagome shook her head and walked over to give him a kiss, "Lazy bones"

"It's why you love me" he said with a smile.

"Oh…that's why…I've always wondered."

She walked to the doorway and looked back at Inuyasha, "Bye. I love you"

"Love you too. Have fun, don't kill Souta."

Kagome laughed, he knew her so well, "no promises" she said as she walked out of the room and closed the door behind her.

"Souta! Are you ready to go?!" she called as she went into the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water.

Souta came out of his room, still groggy from being woken up, he trudged into the kitchen and took a muffin out of the breadbox and took a bite out of it. He looked at Kagome, who was drinking her water with a big smile on her face.

"How are you awake? And cheerful for that matter?" he asked.

"Do you remember those shots of me on the beach that I sent to mom? Where I'm wearing the maroon bathing suit?"

"Yeah…but I don't see what that has to do with getting up early…"

"They were taken at five in the morning. It's when the best light is. I'm pretty used to being awake early, you just get used to it."

Souta shrugged and finished his muffin, "I guess. Let's get going."

Kagome grabbed her purse, keys and sunglasses off of the table. She put the glasses on and looked in the mirror one last time before leaving the apartment with Souta behind her.

They walked the short distance to Tokyo University and after minimal confusion found their way to the bookstore.

"Do you have your class list?" Kagome asked as they walked down to the basement where all of the books were kept.

Souta pulled the paper out of his pocket and they walked up and down the aisles of books, and after a half hour of searching they successfully found all of the books Souta needed. As they stood in line Kagome began to get nervous, looking at the cashiers at the school story she began to realize that anyone one of them could recognize her.

"Souta, I don't think this is wise. Someone could…"

"Don't worry about it sis. You look like any other college student, and the cashiers here are so out of it they don't even pay attention to the people they check out."

They were called out of line and they walked to the first cashier who waved them forward. Souta put his books on the counter and the girl quickly rang them up and bagged them. Kagome handed the girl her credit card and was handed the receipt to sign. Souta took the bags off the counter and Kagome signed quickly and handed the receipt back before the girl could read the signature. They walked out of the bookstore and disappeared into the crowd.

"See sis? I told you, no sweat. And besides, models aren't as famous here as they are in Italy."

"It's not me I'm worried about. I'm afraid someone will recognize me and follow me home to…" Kagome let her sentence hang, not wanting to say Inuyasha's name out loud in case someone was listening to their conversation.

"Oh…yeah. That would be bad." Souta said, understanding where his sister was coming from.

"Well, let's get something to eat for lunch and then go back to the apartment, okay? We need to get lazy ass out of bed."

"Okay. But where can we eat where you can wear your glasses inside? Without them peoplewill know who you are."

"We'll eat over there" Kagome said, pointing to a restaurant with an outdoor patio area, "We can eat outside. I've gotten pretty good at finding ways to stay incognito."

They ate a fast lunch on the patio before paying and leaving to go back to the apartment, mostly because Kagome didn't like being out in a crowd for a long period of time, afraid for Inuyasha's privacy. They walked back to the apartment, Kagome stopping to get the mail from the mailbox before walking up. When they got back inside the apartment, Souta took his bags into his room and then came back out and sat down in front of the TV for a day of vegging.

Kagome took the mail and went into the bedroom where Inuyasha was sitting up in bed with his laptop. She climbed up into bed beside him and looked over his shoulder.

"Whatcha doin'?" she asked.

"Stuff" he replied, "Work stuff"

Kagome began to flip through the mail, passing Inuyasha the things addressed to him and placing her mail in her lap. The last thing in the pile was a small card addressed in calligraphy to both of them.

"Look how fancy this is Yash. What do you think it is? There's no return address."

"Open it and see" he said glancing over at the card and then returning to his work on his laptop.

She opened the envelope and pulled the card out and another envelope fell out of the card. Kagome looked at the card, which said "You're Invited" in the same fancy calligraphy on it.

"It's just an invitation, probably another benefit thing" she said with a hint of disappointment in her voice. She opened it up and read it and had to stifle a scream. She bounced up and down on the bed until Inuyasha looked at her.

"What is so exciting?" he asked.

She opened the card and read what it said, "Mr. Miroku Kashi and Ms. Sango Takai cordially invite you to their wedding on the first of September!" she exclaimed. "They're getting married Yash!"

Inuyasha took the invitation from Kagome and read over it again and smiled, "That dog" he said with a laugh, "He finally did it" he looked at the envelope that had come in the invitation sitting in Kagome's lap, "What's in that?" he asked.

Kagome shrugged, "I don't know." She opened it up and pulled a small card out of it and read what was written on it, "Kags and Yash, please come help us! We need you! Love Sango and Miroku"

"They would need our help." Inuyasha said with a smirk, "No one can function without us."

Kagome looked into the envelope and was surprised at what she found inside. "Yash, look at what they sent us" she said, pulling the plane tickets from the envelope. "A flight to Italy. It's in a week." She said, looking at the tickets.

"But the wedding isn't for a month"

"They said they wanted help from us. Why would they fly us over closer to the wedding if they wanted help? There's a month left before the wedding so I would understand why they would want us there soon."

"What do you want to do? Souta's here and going to school and I don't want to abandon him."

"I know you miss Milan Kagome, we should go. And if you don't want to leave Souta, I'll stay here and fly over the week of the wedding. I have some stuff I need to do here anyway."

"Are you sure? I don't you to think I'm abandoning you."

"Of course not, your best friend needs you to help put the finishing touches on her wedding. You fly out in a week and I'll fly over on the 30th, I'll call the airline right now and change one of the tickets."

Kagome leaned over and hugged him tightly, disregarding the laptop that was still in his lap. "Thank you."

Inuyasha smiled and handed Kagome her cell phone from the bedside table. She flipped it open and dialed Sango's phone number.

Inuyasha watched Kagome's face with a smile as Sango picked up.

"Sango!" she exclaimed "I'm coming! Well, my brother moved in with us to go to school so Inuyasha's going to stay here with him and fly out on the 30th. Sango! Of course I'll be your maid of honor! Okay, no, I won't tell him, I promise. Okay, I'll see you in a week! Bye!"

"Maid of honor? That's a big deal" Inuyasha said, having heard one half of the conversation, "What else did Sango say?"

"Just that she's excited that I'm coming and that we'll talk more when I come. Oh Yash, I'm so excited!"

Inuyasha put his laptop on the bedside table and pulled Kagome close to him, "I know you are, I know you are."

Authoress' Note: and here is chapter two! Please review! That rhymed, did anyone else notice that? Well anyway, I'll try and get the next chapter in as soon as I can but I've been a little frazzled lately.

Response to Reviews:

PureShikon: yes, the media does know that Kagome and Inuyasha are a couple. I alluded to that when Kagome was worried about people knowing where Inuyasha lived.

Ihaveweirdfriends: yes, Inuyasha gave Kagome the ring. They are engaged but they have yet to start planning a wedding because they are both very job-oriented. And no, at this point in time Souta isn't going to be paired with anyone, he's kinda just…there in this story but I'll see how it goes!

And thank you to my other reviewers:
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