Author's Note:Chapter 3, just like I promised! ENJOY YO! Oh, and just as a small disclaimer because I know how anal the government can be, I do not own InuYasha or any other InuYasha related characters.

Near Misses

Ch. 3

"Hey man, let's go! Grab your girlfriend and come on!" a young, teenage boy calls to me. The boy's head is covered in thick layers of straight black hair that hangs down past his lean shoulders; what sobriety he has left shines dully in his hazy, glowing carmine eyes. He sits on the edge of a white marble counter and motions for me to hurry up in a gesture that seems half sincere and half trying to keep his self balanced on the table's edge.

"She ain't my girlfriend Naraku, you fucker," I say as I flip the red eyed teen off. Naraku flips me back, grabs his bottle of vodka and stands up, grabbing his baggy black jeans and the table as he sways uneasily on his feet. He shakes his head rapidly as if to gather himself and then takes a deep swig from the bottle.

"Hey, Naraku wants to go so come on," I say as I walk up to a young girl no older than myself. Her long, pink and black hair is tied back in a loose bun, and the deep ebony that falls from the bun stands out starkly against the tight neon pink tank top she wears. From were her shirt ends to where her tight black jeans start is a beautiful red rose with black thorns that wrap around the name "Kohaku,"tattooed on the skin of her lower back. As she turns towards me, the scene abruptly changes. Naraku, the girl, one of my closest friends, InuYasha, and I are all in a car driving down a dark stretch of road in what seems to be a rather nasty snow storm.

"Hey InuYasha, dude, I gotta piss like fuckin' crazy! Pull over would ya?" Naraku slurs from the backseat.

"Can't you hold it till we get to my place? And back the fuck up, your breath smells like you went and ate some rotten ass pussy!" InuYasha says as he swats Naraku out of his ear. Instead of sitting back down, Naraku falls headfirst into InuYasha's lap. InuYasha's amber eyes flash red in anger as he grabs Naraku by his long black hair and throws him back into his seat. Smoothing his white hair from out of his face, InuYasha's white dog ears that sit atop his head twitch as he hears Naraku's slurred voice again.

"Nah man, I gotta go badly. I'm gonna piss all over your back seat if ya don't pull the fuck over," Naraku says as he begins to unzip his pants.

"Shit! Pull the fuck over InuYasha, man! He's really gonna piss back here!" the young girl says as she practically jumps into the only remaining persons lap; my own. As she presses herself up against me, I grab her around the waist and pull her closer. I can feel the smooth curve of her waist as I wrap my arms around her. I'm not to sure why I want her so close, but she doesn't seem to mind. Her now loose hair smells of kiwi and her smooth white skin smells of coco. Having felt me pulling her closer, she turns her body and looks at me through a curtain of hair. I still can't see her face, but I can see her beautifully bright green eyes, flecked with hazel, peering curiously, yet playfully at me through a screen of pink and black.

"What gives boy?" she says softly as I feel her eyes burning into my mind. I can't explain the feeling in my chest or why my mind seems to have shut off but is simultaneously running at the speed of light; sure, I can explain the tightening of my pants, but the way I can't stop looking into those jade eyes baffles me.

"I…you're…you smell good," I finally manage to say, but I can't seem to find the words I really want to say because I'm not really sure what they are. It's probably because I'm to drunk and horny is what I finally decide my problem is; or at least that's what I'm leading myself to almost half-heartedly believe.

"Thanks…" she says as her pink shadowed eyes begin to close slowly as our faces grow closer. I raise a hand to brush away the hair from her face when I hear Naraku swear in his usual drunken slur.

"Fucking zipper. I'm gonna pants in my favorite pair of piss…right?" he says as he stops fumbling with his zipper and sits there, seemingly dumbfounded by his own question.

"InuYasha you idiot, pull over before he either gets his pants down or he pisses himself and your car smells like a fucking hobo slept in here for the next week!" she says as she swings her head around, her hair lashing against my face, but I'm so transfixed by what almost took place to notice anything. I can almost taste her on my lips and the thought of that turns me on in a way I never knew existed. All I know is that I like it; like it (her?) a whole lot.

"Fine!" InuYasha says as he veers off the road, gets out of the car, rips open the back door and drags Naraku out into the snow storm with him.

"You coming man or not 'cuz I got some shit to show you," InuYasha calls from somewhere in the blinding blanket of white that relentlessly falls from the sky.

"You'll be cool here alone, right?" I ask her as I turn to her. She now has her black and purple hoodie on and the hood is pulled over her face.

She nods and motions for me to get out and close the door behind me. I'm a bit puzzled by her sudden coldness but brush it off and get out of the car, closing the door behind me as she had wanted me too.

I don't walk far before I loose sight of the car. As I keep walking, I can hear Naraku singing drunkenly and I soon see him swaying in the bitter cold wind that whips around us. I see InuYasha standing near by with his back turned to Naraku; he's rocking back and forth, trying no doubt, to not freeze where he stands.

"What did you want to show me?" I ask as I approach the peculiar looking, golden eyed teen. InuYasha turns around and I almost immediately recognize the smile on my best friend's face.

"What did you do?" I ask as InuYasha reaches to his side and pulls out a long steel blade; the surface reflects the moonlight off of its smooth surface and my heart stops and my blood runs cold as I recognize the sword that InuYasha holds.

"It's my brother's new sword; Bakusaiga. Ain't she a beaut'?" InuYasha says as he holds it in front of him and runs a clawed finger delicately over the blade, admiring its craftsmanship.

"Sesshomaru is gonna fucking kill you if he finds out you have that shit," I say as InuYasha looks at me doubtfully.

"Don't worry 'bout Sesshomaru. As long as there no scratches or stains and I bring it back in one piece, he ain't never gonna know about this," InuYasha says as he turns his head and holds the sword out to his side as if he's going to slice through an invisible person standing beside him.

"I gotta go," I say as I start to walk away from InuYasha.

"Where you going man? Oh wait; you're going back to Her aren't you?" InuYasha mocks from behind me. I stop and turn around and I can see that InuYasha is still holding the sword out at his side; though the hand with the sword in it now seemed to slump under its weight.

"No, I'm going back to the car before I freeze my ass of needlessly," I say as I hunker my shoulders in a half shrug, half trying to keep warm type of gesture. InuYasha shrugs and motions for me to continue my journey back to the car.

"Whoa, a sword; let me try!" comes Naraku's voice from somewhere behind me.

"No Naraku, stop!" InuYasha yells and that's when I hear the slice of the blade through the air; I stop dead in my tracks as I realize the sound was right behind, closer than it should have been. A sudden pain rips through my body as I fall to my knees; I can see the snow underneath my knees staining a bright red and I vaguely wonder whose blood it is. I kneel there for a few seconds before the wind finally pushes me over and as I hit the ground, I can feel another hot stab rip into my chest; I know then that I'm going to die.