Chapter 4: Secrets
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I fiddled with my fingers, sitting next Sango...I mean Onigumo...right across from the pizza place at the food court. I kept thinking about how hard it would be to continue this. It's easy to make a profile and come up with who a person is, but to come up with anew personality and keep it consistent in front of people you really want to punch seemed nearly impossible.
"What time is it, again?" I asked Sango, who leaned in her seat, wearing some cool gold watch she stole from her brother's drawer.
She lifted her wrist to meet her eyes, "2:48."
I didn't understand how Sango could pull of acting so cool. I was psyched about this yesterday after the little victory, but any moment they might walk in and start talking about us and in that time, we had to create the depths of our characters. Based on how we acted today, we had to act for the rest of this prank.
I let my eyes roam the mall. Would I be a bad boy? No. That would attract girls not Inuyasha and them. Well, I had to be manly, right? But not too macho either. I needed some sort of decency to score points with Miroku. But I couldn't be as sophisticated as him either. I had to be a bit stubborn. Maybe that would win points with Inuyasha. I had to be funny, too. Sarcastic. Inuyasha likes sarcasm when it's not being used on him.
"What time is it, now?" I asked again, slouching in my chair.
"2:51." She said, "And stop asking me, man. Ya ain't nervous, are ya?"
Sango had done it with Onigumo. She created him. She has been in character since we put the necklaces on. While I've still been struggling not to call her Sango.
"Not nervous." I lied, trying to sound calm. I looked over and saw a group of guys hanging in front of Hot Topic. I studied their movements, trying to pin point which ones seemed extremely boyish. One stretched his arms up and crossed his wrists behind his head. Very boyish.
Still focused, I copied the movement, to which I was granted a look from Sango, who grinned. Guess it looked into character. I gotta remember to do that when the guys-
"Here they come." She whispered. Of course, that whisper gave me chills because it was the a man's voice grazing my skin, but hopefully I'll learn to get over that.
"Hey Naraku, Onigumo." Miroku greeted, extending his hand. I shook it hard. He gave me a weird look which I'm guess was because I might have held his hand too hard. I never bothered to try out my new man strength.
"Hey Miroku." I said, then looking to Shippo and Inuyasha who both stood behind Miroku. I nodded to both of them.
Inuyasha scoffed. He didn't want to be here. Befriending him would be harder than I thought.
"Hey guys!" Shippo smiled.
We all sat together, eating some pizza in silence. When we were all done and full, Miroku decided to ask us some questions.
"So, got any sisters?" He asked, grinning devilishly.
Sango's face looked a little irritated. But it was no surprise. His perverse nature always bothered her.
"No." I said in her place, while she composed herself, "It's just us."
"Yo but where are all the cute girls?" Sango blurted out. She looked a bit embarrassed after asking, but she didn't retract her question.
I decided to take her lead on this, "There were these girls we saw earlier. Two of em walking together. One had her hair in a ribbon, real schoolgirl like. With pink eyeshadow and a nice body."
Sango got that I was describing her. It was the perfect start for getting revenge (in my opinion). She continued, "The other had like wavy black hair and big brown eyes. Real curvy, too."
"Huh?" We got weird looks by the three, which made me nervous. I didn't want them to think we were horny freaks. (Miroku can't really judge but...) In the end, I realized they were really thinking about who we could be talking about. I let out a sigh of relief.
Inuyasha's face turned red all of a sudden, "Did they both of hair in their face?" He asked (well almost demanded.)
"Bangs? Yeah, both." I grinned. Pretty sure he figured it out.
"Well, stay away from em." He barked, "If it's the two I'm thinking, I don't wanna see neither of you near them."
Miroku caught on, "I would hate to talk ill about them, but they did stir up a bit of trouble last year."
"You mean, they're talking about Kagome and Sango?" Shippo asked.
"Well, of course!" Inuyasha crossed his arms, "Who else could it be?"
I held back a laugh. Our descriptions could mean anyone. But somehow, Inuyasha knew it was us we were describing.
"What could some girls possibly have done?" Sango asked, out of pure curiosity. I was eager to see how they'd describe the situation as well.
"The two bastards were just some stupid drama queens." His ears twitched.
The other two didn't say anything and I frowned. That's all he had to say? We're just drama queens? I didn't expect he'd spill the entire story in front of strangers, but how dare he insult us like that!
"When I introduced myself, they were pretty chill." Sango countered, but she was doing a terrible job of hiding her anger.
Inuyasha slammed his fist onto the table, "What'd you expect? For them to come out and say they're stupid little-"
"So, you talked to them?" Shippo asked.
"Y-yeah." I answered, "I didn't quite get their names before they had to go, but they were real friendly..and shit."
"How are they?" Shippo asked, smiling.
I looked over at Sango, seeing the sincerity in Shippo's question. Shippo was always the least filtered when it came to his curiosity.
"We didn't really get to talk to them." I swallowed. Did Shippo miss us or something?
"Keh, good." Inuyasha mumbled.
Miroku hit him lightly on the shoulder, "Well, let's go show em around, shall we?"
They took us to the local skate park, some bars they sneak into (of course now we're expected to make fake IDs), and an empty field they hang in. The field was the highlight, in my opinion. It was in the forest behind the park we all used to hang in. It was almost as though they all didn't want to abandon the memory, but didn't want to get caught hanging in the past. It made me smile although not a single one of them would admit the significance.
Next stop: Inuyasha's house.
"We hang a lot at Inuyasha's house, especially to watch football and play videogames, because he has a huge TV in his basement." Shippo commented. I remembered that TV. It wasn't like some rich movie theater in his basement. Inuyasha wasn't rich. Just at the more upper end of the middle class. But it was still better than anyone else's, even if not by much.
"And his parents are never home because they work." Miroku added.
"Is Sesshomaru there?" Shippo turned and asked the silent Inuyasha.
Inuyasha scoffed, "Ya know Sesshomaru is almost never there. He hates being home. I bet he's off hanging on the other side of town with the rest of the human hating demons."
That's right. Inuyasha's older brother hated being at home because he shared it with Inuyasha and Inuyasha's human mother. He even dropped out of school because no one would pay for him to go to an all demon academy. In fact, when I used to go over Inuyasha's house, Inuyasha would stand inbetween me and Sesshomaru at all times.
"Your brother hates humans?" Sango asked. She was already aware of the situation as we all were, but I guess she really wanted to sell her character, Onigumo, by acting as confused as an other person would be, "But if you're half, wouldn't he be, too?"
"Keh, no idiot." Inuyasha barked, "I'm half. He's full. We share different mothers. Mine being a human, his being some dog-demon. Guess the pure blood makes him cocky."
More than that. Sesshomaru is the scariest person I've ever met, even though he has never directly said a word to me. He's talked about me to Inuyasha while I was there, but never has he spoken to me. I was kinda happy he wasn't gonna be there. Even though Naraku and Onigumo were demon disguises and Sesshomaru wouldn't have a problem with us personally, his glare would surely give me a heart attack.
"Damn, that must suck." I sympathized.
He just looked over at me, "Not like I could miss having an older brother when I never did."
That's exactly what Inuyasha would say to me whenever him and Sesshomaru argued. I would sympathize and he would brush it off. I've always wondered whether or not it did bother him that Sesshomaru hated him so much.
I slowed my pace a bit, letting everyone but Sango pass me. We weren't exactly far behind them, but I was able to shoot Sango a look without anyone noticing. I felt bad all of a sudden for doing this. Inuyasha hasn't had the easiest life, and here I am plotting to make it worse. I should be ashamed.
Sango looked at me right back. She didn't feel as bad.
"So, where do those two girls live?" Sango asked bravely. She was doing to spite me right now, I could tell.
"Keh, I said leave the wenches alone, got that?" Inuyasha growled, "They ain't nothing but an annoying pair of idiots, anyways."
Idiot? Me? Sango was right. Even though I did still feel bad, I deserved to get an apology from him, even if it is late. And an apology I would get, no doubt about it.
Everyone continued to march down the streets until we came upon a nice brick house.
We stepped into Inuyasha's humble abode. I recognized the place almost instantly. I recognized the pictures hanging on the wall, the kitchen, the staircase that led up to the long hallway with off-white walls and hardwood flooring. Amongst the many rooms upstairs was Inuyasha's, with blue walls, his bed on the right hand corner, directly across the dresser, with a meduim sized tv sitting on top. I used to force him to watch comedies with me, but he would force me to watch actions, especially when they were based on true stories. He liked that kind of stuff. But we both liked scary movies. He had a collection under his bed that I would get to chose from whenever I stayed over late at night.
"C'mon Naraku." Sango's voice pulled me from my thoughts. Everyone was heading down to the basement. Guess I just got caught up looking around.
Nothing had changed. The walls were still the same maroon color. There were still the same leather couches. And the same TV sitting in its same spot. I took my rightful seat on the couch in the middle, just where I always sat. Don't care who I disguise myself as, this is always my spot.
Sango sat next to me, slouching in the seat, and letting out a nice sigh, "So, what's the plan?"
"There ain't enough XBox controllers for all 5 of us." Inuyasha said, pulling out a big case of movies, "And I ain't a fan of taking turns."
We were gonna sit back and watch a movie, just like always. I glanced over at Sango, who was grinning. I wasn't the only one going down memory lane right now.
"You guys seen the new Wolverine movie?" Shippo asked, slamming his body in the other couch, "That's a good ass movie."
I nodded, but noticed Inuyasha pulling out some scary movies. I almost got excited, but remembered that getting scared in front of the guys wouldn't be a good idea. I scream...loud. And hide behind people. It's appropriate when I'm a little girl, but it's gonna be awfully suspicious when I'm hiding behind Inuyasha's shoulders.
"I wouldn't mind watching it again." I quickly said, watching Shippo's face light up.
"You heard the man." Miroku grinned, "Let's watch it."
Watching the movie was far from torture. I loved it, but halfway through, Sango took out her phone (which she disguised behind a new case) and whispered to the group that she and I needed to step out for a bit. I shrugged and followed her out of the room, upstairs and near the door. Inuyasha didn't bother to pause the movie on our account, which in a way was a good thing. We didn't have to worry about them hearing us.
"Kagome, this is fun..." Sango started, surprisingly calling me by my actual name, "But we haven't gained anything."
I sighed. She was right. It was more like us trying to be friends with them instead of us getting revenge. We had to get something on them. We have to work on gaining trust.
"Well, what should we do?" I asked, "It's not like we can just ask for their secrets."
"Maybe not directly." Sango grinned, "Maybe we could reveal some of ours."
"What?" I questioned, but Sango's smile only widened across her face.
"Make up some sad thing about us. Or something emotional and tell them." She continued, "Like I don't know my girlfriend cheated on me. Something like that that could spark some of their own stories."
"Oooh! But not too sad! I don't want some childhood tragedy surfacing." I said, "I'd feel too bad."
She nodded in agreement, "Let's go back...and follow my lead."
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