Disclaimer: Why must I write this still? I do not and will never own Inuyasha and co.
The next morning Miroku and Sango arrived for breakfast again except this time Sango carried a big box.
"Ooh, Life, I love that game!" Kagome exclaimed.
"Me too," Sango agreed, "I figured we'd need another game break today, so I came prepared."
"Good thinking!" Kagome told her with a smile.
Breakfast passed relatively quickly as Kagome and Sango chatted and Miroku teased Inuyasha by insinuating all the things Inuyasha and Kagome could have done last night. Luckily Kagome and Sango weren't paying attention to Miroku or he would be unconscious on the floor. Inuyasha tried to ignore Miroku as he ate his breakfast, but by the time everyone was finished, his face was beet-red from embarrassment and anger.
"Shut up already!" Inuyasha burst out. Kagome and Sango turned to look at him. One look at Inuyasha's red face made them instantly curious.
"Shut up about what?" Sango questioned.
"About his living situation with K…" Miroku started smiling mischievously before being cut off by Inuyasha.
"Nothing," Inuyasha ground out shooting Miroku a death glare.
"No, really, I want to know," Sango persisted.
"It's none of your business," Inuyasha growled.
"Won't you please tell us Inuyasha?" Kagome pouted.
"No," Inuyasha said sounding less severe than he wanted too.
"Please?" Kagome continued to pout.
"I'll tell you Kagome," Miroku said, "I was asking Inuyasha wh—" He began before Inuyasha punched him in the head.
"Oh no you don't!" Inuyasha interjected cracking his knuckles as a further threat.
"Maybe we should get back to the books in the Priest's room now," Kagome suggested, giving up on whatever conversation Inuyasha was trying to keep secret.
"Might as well," Sango concurred; she would ask Miroku later and then tell Kagome.
They set off back to the Priest's room. A question popped into Kagome's head as they passed Sesshomaru's room.
"Hey Inuyasha, how come we never see Sesshomaru?" Kagome wondered.
"Because he doesn't like to hang around with those that he thinks are lower than him. He eats after us and avoids being in the same room that we're in at all times," Inuyasha sneered, a scowl gracing his features.
"Oh, so what does he do all day?" Kagome asked.
"Who knows? He probably reads or something, that's the only thing you can really do here," Inuyasha replied with a shrug.
They arrived in the Priest's room and after Sango set down the game of Life, they all resumed reading the books they began yesterday.
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Inuyasha sighed loudly for the billionth time.
"Inuyasha, do you mind?" Sango growled, "I'm trying to read here!"
"No, I don't mind," Inuyasha goaded her, hoping she would put up a good argument so that he wouldn't be so bored anymore.
Sango gritted her teeth together, but kept silent knowing that answering him wouldn't help anything.
Inuyasha started whistling random tunes as he looked around the room. His book lay discarded next to him.
"Okay," Kagome smacked her hand against the wood floor, making a loud noise to get everyone's attention, "I understand we all aren't exactly enjoying ourselves—"
"Cough cough Inuyasha cough cough," Miroku cut in.
"So I figure," Kagome continued as if Miroku hadn't interrupted her, "that we can skim the books, but really read the parts where it says anything about sealing and spells. Does that sound good to you guys? This way we can get through the books faster and ignore some of the books on the shelf."
"Sounds good," Sango agreed, "Why don't we keep going a while longer and then play Life?"
"How about we play now?" Inuyasha modified her plan.
"Good idea Sango," Kagome replied before turning to Inuyasha, "Inuyasha, stop acting like a child! You should be all for reading these books anyway, you've been stuck here longer than I have."
Inuyasha merely rolled his eyes.
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"I'm ready for a game of Life," Kagome said, "What about you guys?"
"Finally!" Inuyasha exclaimed.
"I'm ready too!" Sango agreed.
"Count me in," Miroku told them.
Sango and Kagome quickly set up the board while Miroku took the job of explaining Life to Inuyasha. Kagome volunteered to be the banker and she swiftly dealt out the loans of forty-thousand dollars that everyone needed since they all were going to college first. To figure out what order they would go in, they all spun the spinner once. Whoever got the highest number went first. The order ended up being Kagome, Inuyasha, Sango, and then Miroku.
"Okay, let's start," Kagome said cheerfully.
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"I hope I get a good job," Kagome crossed her fingers before grabbing a career card, "Teacher, yay!"
"That's a stupid career," Inuyasha scoffed.
"That explains your intellect," Kagome muttered.
"Hey! I heard that," Inuyasha yelled.
"Oh, sorry, did I hurt your feelings?" Kagome asked sarcastically.
Inuyasha glared before taking his own turn. He stopped for the Job Search.
"Hah! Police officer! Better watch your spins or you're going to have to pay me five-thousand dollars!" Inuyasha cheered.
"Ugh!" Everyone groaned at the same time.
"Athlete, cool," Sango said content with her job.
"Doctor, hmm. Sango, dearest, as an athlete you must be in good shape so why don't you come see me and I'll make sure you're healthy," Miroku suggested before adding, "I'll give you a check-up free of charge."
"Not in your life, you damn pervert!" Sango shouted smacking Miroku upside the head.
As Kagome took her next turn she passed a Pay Day and realized that they had forgotten to choose their salaries.
"Eighty-thousand, that's pretty good," Kagome approved as she saw her salary.
"What, I want to pick again!" Inuyasha exclaimed, "I am so not going to have only a thirty-thousand dollar salary!"
"Too bad Inuyasha, stop complaining. It was the luck of the draw and your luck just sucked," Sango reprimanded.
Inuyasha looked over at her salary card, "Uh! You're just saying that because you have the one hundred thousand dollar salary! This is so unfair!"
"Life isn't fair, Inuyasha. Haven't you heard that before?" Kagome questioned.
"Don't worry Inuyasha, I'm with you. I only got a fifty-thousand dollar salary," Miroku patted Inuyasha on the shoulder.
"Argh! You still get twenty-thousand dollars more than me!" Inuyasha shouted.
"Moving on," Kagome muttered as she took her turn.
The game continued and they stopped to Get Married.
"Sango, my love, will you marry me?" Miroku asked.
"NO!" Sango shouted and then grabbed Miroku's car. She was in charge of adding people to the car when necessary. Sango stuck in the small figure and put his car back.
"Thank you dearest Sango," Miroku started, "but I think you had a little mix-up. You see, you put a blue figure in the car next to me." Inuyasha and Kagome snickered.
"Yes Miroku, I'm not color blind, I can see what color person I put in your car," Sango replied.
"But Sango, I'm not gay!" Miroku answered.
"You could've fooled me," Sango said coolly as she picked up his car and replaced the passenger blue figure with a pink one.
Miroku was still sulking by the time they had to stop for Buy A House.
"Aw, I got a cute Country Cottage; it's the perfect price too!" Kagome cheered.
"What? A Split-Level! What did I do to deserve this?" Inuyasha grumbled.
"Hey, at least you can afford it on your salary," Miroku teased. A glare from Inuyasha quickly shut him up.
"I didn't do much better," Sango commented, "A Mobile Home isn't really what you would call luxurious."
"Yeah, my Beach House would have been good if it didn't just wipe out most of my money," Miroku complained, "Not to mention it's only fifty yards from Monsoon Beach and the roof of the house is blowing away in the picture."
They all rolled their eyes.
The game continued without much complaint, but that soon ended with the help of Inuyasha.
"For the love of—!" Inuyasha threw his hands up in frustration.
"What is it now Inuyasha?" Sango asked.
"First I land on Baby Girl, now I land on Twins! What's with all the kids?" Inuyasha complained.
"What are you whining about Inuyasha, every time you land on those you get a life card that gives you money," Kagome explained.
"Really?" Inuyasha asked, perplexed.
"Yep," Sango said as she handed him two life cards.
"Cool, let's see. Pulitzer Prize $100,000 and Save Endangered Species $200,000. Awesome!" Inuyasha exclaimed.
They took their turns until again, it reached Inuyasha. He spun.
"Wait a second, Kagome did you just spin a ten on your turn?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yeah," Kagome answered.
"Hah! Pay up then! Five-thousand dollars for speeding!" Inuyasha looked triumphant.
"Too late for that Inuyasha, it doesn't count once the next person takes their turn and you already spun," Kagome gloated.
"What? That's not fair!" Inuyasha burst out.
"You should have been paying more attention Inuyasha," Miroku chuckled.
"Ugh, this is so stupid!" Inuyasha mumbled.
The game progressed and they had almost reached the end.
"Trade salary card with any player," Inuyasha read, "Yes! Sango, trade."
"Ugh, fine, I hate those stupid spaces," Sango grumbled as she grudgingly handed over her salary card and took Inuyasha's, "This better not make me lose!"
"Don't worry Sango, it won't really affect you since we're right at the end anyway," Kagome reassured her.
The game finally ended after a few more turns and they all counted their money. Kagome seemed happy, Sango looked giddy, Miroku sighed, and Inuyasha's face seemed to fall each time he re-counted his little amount of money trying to pass off the small number as an error. They announced their total and it seemed like Sango won with Kagome in second, Miroku in third, and Inuyasha last.
Inuyasha threw his money down, "This game is stupid!"
"Don't be so pessimistic just because you lost," Kagome chastised.
Inuyasha huffed and crossed his arms.
The four went back to the books and had only been reading for an hour or so when Sango and Miroku excused themselves saying it was late. Inuyasha and Kagome once again headed back to the kitchen for dinner silently, but Kagome was furtively thinking of ways to get Inuyasha to open up. As they began to eat their dinner, a light bulb lit up above Kagome's head, figuratively speaking.
"So, Inuyasha, why don't we play a little game?" Kagome suggested.
"What kind of game?" Inuyasha's eyes narrowed.
"Well, I'll ask you a question about yourself and then you ask me a question about myself. We'll go back and forth," Kagome knew her idea wasn't that creative, but it was the only way she could think of getting Inuyasha to possibly open up.
"What if I don't want to answer a question?" Inuyasha asked, still suspicious.
"We'll each get three questions that we can say no comment and it doesn't count if you reword the question a different way," Kagome explained the rules, making them up as she went.
"Ok, we can try," Inuyasha agreed.
"Alright!" Kagome cheered, "I'll start. Hmm, let's start simple. What's your favorite color?"
"That's easy, it's red. What about you, what's your favorite color?" Inuyasha replied.
"Blue of course," Kagome answered, "How old are you, technically?"
"I just turned eighteen years old before I was trapped in here. You?" Inuyasha responded.
"Seventeen. Is Sesshomaru your only sibling?" Kagome questioned.
"Yes, what about you?" Inuyasha asked.
"I have a younger brother named Souta. I was chasing after him when I got trapped in here," Kagome paused, glaring a bit at Inuyasha before continuing, "Did you have any pets?" Kagome wondered.
"No, what about you?" Inuyasha inquired.
"I have a cat named Buyo. What do you like to do?" Kagome speculated what it could be, not reading for sure!
"I don't really know, fighting I guess," Inuyasha thought about it, "Let me guess, you like to read."
"No, I like to sing, but only when others aren't listening," Kagome confessed.
"Why?" Inuyasha was interested, she always seemed so confident.
"I don't really know if I'm a good singer or not and I wouldn't really be comfortable asking someone if I was because I love to sing and if someone told me I wasn't good at it, I wouldn't sing from fear someone would hear," Kagome explained.
Inuyasha was just about to ask her if she would sing for him one day, but Sesshomaru choose this moment to enter the kitchen.
"Do you mind? I would like to eat sometime tonight, preferably before midnight," Sesshomaru said coolly, his eyes boring in to them.
"Well, I'm getting tired anyway," Kagome said before a yawn escaped, adding effect to her words, "We can talk more tomorrow."
The two swiftly cleaned up their dishes and after a quick goodnight, headed off to their own rooms.
Kagome stretched and then curled back up under the blankets. Today was fun and even though she hadn't learned what she really wanted to know about Inuyasha, it was a start. He seemed interested towards the end of the questions, so maybe tomorrow she'd be able to get some real answers out of him. Kagome drifted off to sleep to a dream starring Inuyasha.
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