disclaimer
I, Kagura Fuujinnomai do not own Bankotsu, Jakotsu, or any of the other characters associated with the Inuyasha series.
(Although I wish I did own those adorable, wonderful, super kawaii, sexy little sons of...ahem! anyways)
I get nothing from writing my Fanfics.
I am simply a fangirl who wishes to share her passion with the rest of the world.
- sincerely,
Kagura Fuujinnomai

(AN. My very first work of AU! This is a gift for Skittlez. Only she could inspire something this weird... So she and any shounenai fangirl lucky enough to come across this fic can Read, Review, and most importantly, Enjoy. )

Never Again

Chapter Seven: The Best Piece of Filth You'll Ever Meet

Inuyasha knocked on the door of the house for the fifth time, wishing he'd remembered to make a copy of Bankotsu's door key.

"Damn it, where the hell are they?.." Inuyasha mumbled, more to himself than the two girls standing behind him.

"Well he can't be anywhere else..." Kagome pointed out, turning to look at Bankotsu's car, which was parked where it always was.

"Maybe they're both asleep?" Sango suggested.

"Yeah..." Inuyasha sighed, looking down at his watch.
"Nine fifteen, we're two hours late."

Sango sighed frustrated, at his side. "Well we wouldn't have been late if that damn Tsubaki had stayed like she was supposed to. Then she could've given Miroku a ticket since she wasn't using them!"

"Like Tsubaki would ever do something that cheritable. I'd bet you anything she sold the damn things..." Inuyasha mumbled.

Kagome smiled, disagreeing with him. "I think it helped alot! It gave us an excuse to go out to eat to make it up to Miro-chan right? It was fun, and the food was good too!"

"Yeah..." Inuyasha shrugged, his mind wandering to the deluxe T-bone dog snacks that were still waiting for him on the kitchen table.
He pulled out yet another ziplock bag and poured the rest of his snack into his mouth.

Kagome snatched the bag from him. "This is no time to be eating dog food, dogboy!"

Sango turned quickly to her, staring in horror at the ziplock bag. "Is that what that was!"
Kagome nodded, tossing the bag back to its owner, who caught it as if afraid it would break if he let it hit the ground.

"I thought it was just some kind of weird nickname..."

Inuyasha shrugged. "Might as well, cuz either way... We're still locked out, and my smartass room mate is probably dead sleep by now. He has classes at 5 tomorrow."

"Well then all we'd have to do is wake him up, let's just knock on the window." Kagome suggested.

"That is why I love you," Inuyasha commented, hurrying over to knock on the window of his and Bankotsu's room.

"Well damn..." He sighed once again after getting no reply.

"Do you lock the windows?" Sango asked, reaching up and pushing the window up. But the window locked itself into position after sliding only a few centimeters.

"Yeah that one...' Inuyasha answered, trying to think of what window might be unlocked.
He grinned as he realized that he'd, for once, gotten something good out of taking Tsubaki out.

"Hey if you're gonna be emptying a room you might not want to leave the window open..."

He hurried over to the window of his old room and sure enough,
it was halfway open. He reached up and carefully slid it the rest of the way open, hoping his new roommate wasn't trying to sleep.

He glared for a few moments, perplexed, at the small opening before remembering his two companions.

"Hey Kagome," he whispered, turning to her. Kagome nodded before he even asked the question and he lifted her up to the window, whispering for her to be careful and quiet, just in case.

Kagome crawled easily through the small window and stood in the dark room.
She took a step forward, nearly tripping on the many photos scattered on the ground, and hadn't even taken another step before the unmistakeable sound of hissing met her ears.
She looked down at the ground, thankful for the streetlamp outide, which slightly illuminated the room, as her eyes fell on a very large snake. It lie still on the carpet, coiled up, and glaring at her.

Keeping her eyes fixed on the snake, Kagome put a hand on the bed to hold herself steady and tried to kick some of the photos from her path, slowly making her way toward the door until her hand brushed against something sharp and metal, causing her to yank her hand from the bed and turn to see what'd cut her.

Her eyes widened and she clapped a hand to her mouth to try to hold in a gasp.

She lowered her hands slowly as the slight charm of the sight before her presented itself. Bankotsu lie on his side, curled up against Jakotsu's chest, his arms wrapped tightly around his new room mate as if trying to keep him from rolling backward off the side of the bed.

Kagome examined the pin in Jakotsu's hair, recognizing it as the thing which had earlier cut her hand. She admired the 'sleeping baby faces' of the two men, before her eyes traveled downward, causing her hands to return to her mouth as another gasp threatened to escape.

She raised an eyebrow at their rather intimately entwined legs before backing up a bit as she was reminded of why she was there by a loud knock on the front door.

She ducked down as the two on the bed stirred a bit, but thankfully did not wake. The smile returned to her face as Bankotsu cuddled a bit closer to his companion, almost resembling a child snuggling up to his parent.

She tore her eyes from the strange yet adorable sight, and headed silently for the door farthest from the snake on the ground, which was still keeping a close eye on her. Turning the knob slowly, she found it to be locked but thought nothing of it, pushing the button to unlock it and sliding into the hallway.

Kagome crept from the room and had hurried all the way over to the kitchen before realizing why the door to the room might've been locked...

Maybe Bankotsu and Jakotsu hadn't wanted anyone to see them like that...

She looked around, trying to find a way to wake them up without anyone suspecting that she'd done it on purpose.

Her eyes fell on the kitchen table, where many bottles of sake were arranged, some of them noticeably closer to the edge than others. She quickly swiped three of them off of the table, plugging her ears as they shattered against the refrigerator, the broken glass clattering loudly to the ground.

She uncovered her ears just in time to hear the thump of someone in the back of the house, presumably Jakotsu, falling to the ground.

Her task completed, she hurried over to the front door and unlocked it, allowing Inuyasha and Sango to finally step into the house.

"Oh, damn it!" Inuyasha whined as his eyes fell on the remains of the sake scattered all across the kitchen floor.
"Can you not do anything without destroying everything you touch along the way!"

"Well excuse me for tripping in your dark house!" Kagome replied, indignantly as she crossed her arms across her chest.
"Like you need that much sake anyway..." she mumbled, attempting to count the many bottles on the table.

"Oh damn it!"

Everyone turned toward Bankotsu, who'd just walked out from the hallway and stepped on a piece of glass from the shattered bottles.

He sat on the carpet to examine his foot and Kagome marveled at how quickly he had gone from lying asleep in the bed, wearing nothing but boxers, to wide awake and fully dressed.

She stared at him; her suspicions being confirmed as her eyes fell on his lips, which were stained redder than usual. She even noticed the pinkish tint on the sides of his lips, remembering how Miroku usually looked when he dropped Sango off after a 'friendly' trip to the movies.

She almost giggled when she turned around and realized that Inuyasha was too busy worrying about his wasted sake to even notice Bankotsu.

"Hey Bankotsu!" Sango greeted him as she walked over to where he was sitting.
"Inuyasha said we could come back here and meet that friend of yours..."

Bankotsu flicked the piece of glass he'd pulled from his foot into the kitchen wastebasket, standing back up.
"Sorry." He shrugged. "He went to bed twenty minutes ago."

"Awe." Sango frowned slightly, turning back toward Kagome. "Guess we should just go then." She suggested.

Kagome took a glance at Bankotsu, surprised at how easily he was able to fool Sango, one of the most perceptive people she knew. "Yeah okay." She nodded in agreement and they walked out of the house, Inuyasha finally snapping out of it and following them.

He bid farewell to Kagome with an affectionate hug and headed back inside.

After closing and locking the front door, Inuyasha turned around to see two black-headed men standing near the kitchen table.
The taller one peered nervously out over the shorter one's shoulders before standing straight up.

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at this strange behavior and Bankotsu stepped forward, coaxing his new roommate out of hiding before explaining that Jakotsu, who was in his bedtime apparel, didn't like for women to see him in any state of undress.

"Perverted filth..." Jakotsu mumbled, glaring at the door as Bankotsu bowed apologetically to Inuyasha.

"Well, this is my older best friend Jakotsu, Inuyasha." Bankotsu said, happy to see that Inuyasha hadn't heard what he'd mumbled about his girlfriend. "And Jakotsu, this is my newer best friend, Inuyasha."

"Nice to meet you." Jakotsu greeted him, extending a hand toward his new room mate.

"Yeah..." Inuyasha shook it a bit awkwardly before heading to the back of the house to take a shower.

(AN. When one meets someone new, despite what they may have already heard about them from others,
one is left to judge the new acquaintance for themself.

First impressions, whether good or bad, are unimportant.
What is important is the amount of effort one puts toward better understanding and bonding with such an acquaintance.

If one is dedicated with true intentions, a strong relationship can be established, however fate may have other things in store.)

(2nd AN. Yesh, another ending AN. I feel I owed it to you guys... My loyal precious babies, to post just one last chapter before I start out on the long, widing road to restoring Never Again.
Sorry about leaving you at such a suspenseful point...
As you probably all know, chapters 9-15 have been deleted from my hardrive due to a virus. I'll be offline trying to restore the fic for a while. We're talking about a month tops, I won't keep you a second longer than I need to.

You can use the author alert options to keep up with me, it's accesible in the same box you use to submit reviews and is very handy. If I post on either of the stories which are ongoing, you will receive an email letting you know!

So here's my final, formal farewell. :Takes a bow:

Ja matta ne! I love you all!

Kagura-hime )