After a review, I've decided that Inuyasha won't have Kikyo as a girlfriend, but he will take her to the movies (coughtoplaystalkerandfollowKagomeonherdate). He needs an excuse for being seen at a chic flick. But you'll see. So don't freak out, it's an InuxKag fic, promise. Also, sorry for the long time without updates. My computer died and we had to play computer doctor and bring it back to life. So I couldn't update because I couldn't get to the saved chapter. All is better in the world now. Thanks to people who went through listings and reviewed though it was probably far back!
Summary: AU Kagome and Inuyasha meet each other much earlier on in life. Try, first grade? Yeah. They grow up together, and they inevitably change. InuXKag, MiroXSan, RinXSess, ShippoXSouten. Rating for safety and it may go up. Probably won't though.
"Yeah, I know I promised not to make a big scene, but it's really all this twerp's fault." Inuyasha insisted, flicking Shippo in the forehead.
"Well, come in and introduce your new friend." Kagome said, ushering them in the door and closing it behind them.
"Actually, he's my new little brother." Inuyasha admitted, sounding unsure of how approach the topic. His father said not to bring up anything painful about Shippo's parents.
"Oh, you adopted! How wonderful! What's your name?" Kagome asked the kitsune in non-patronizing voice.
"Shippo. Who are you?" he wondered.
"I'm Kagome, Inuyasha's friend." she told him sweetly.
"Oh, you mean the one he wants to-" Shippo was cut off as Inuyasha clapped a hand over his mouth.
"Inuyasha, what did he want to say?" Kagome inquired curiously.
"Um…that I want to…tell you…how much I hate my new little brother." Inuyasha spat the last part at Shippo with a bonus glare.
Kagome raised an eyebrow questioningly at him. "Somehow, I don't believe you. Oh well."
Sango, who had been listening from the couch, was holding a Mountain Dew and looking in a terrified way at the screen. The horror movie they had been watching was on pause at a very suspenseful part. Sango looked kind of scary overexcited and was moving quickly in a twitchy way. Now she shouted, "Inuyasha, help! The dreaded beast banana from Mount Death is coming to kill us all!"
Kagome smiled innocently. Inuyasha now noticed that Kagome seemed kind of hyper once she returned to the couch and picked up her own can of Mountain Dew. Inuyasha frowned. "Kagome, have you been feeding your addiction?" he asked in a reprimanding tone.
"No!" Kagome told him defensively, holding her can closer. She looked like a crazed animal, who, if cornered, would lose the ability to discern friend from foe.
"Inuyasha? What's going on here?" Shippo wondered in a nervous voice, and he subconsciously stepped closer to Inuyasha.
"Kagome has a problem with Mountain Dew. She almost got me hooked on it the first time I spent the night here." Inuyasha informed him.
Shippo had an impressed look on his face. "Whoa, you slept with her already?"
Inuyasha bashed him particularly hard on the head. "No you baka! Are you sure you're in the eighth grade? You're about as hentai as Miroku is! We were six and we slept in separate sleeping bags on the floor!"
"Oh. So what's with the Mountain Dew thing again?" Shippo asked.
"Kagome will drink so much Mountain Dew that she won't get any sleep and she's like a walking zombie the next day (AN: Too true, I know this from personal experience). I thought she kicked the habit but apparently it has come back with a vengeance." Inuyasha stated sadly.
"So what are we supposed to do?" Shippo asked, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly.
"You don't have to do anything. You can hang out with Sota while I try to get her to stop. Hey Sota!" he called, making Shippo jump and making Kagome and Sango leap a foot into the air with their caffeine jitters.
"Hey Inuyasha I-oh sis, not again!" Sota cried tragically. He had just appeared at the top of the stairs. "Inuyasha, you have to do something before we lose her for good!"
"I'm on it. You, meanwhile, can get to know my new little brother Shippo. I'll take care of Kagome, so don't worry." Inuyasha assured him.
"I know. C'mon Shippo! We can play some video games." Sota told the little kitsune as he climbed up the stairs. Shippo and Sota disappeared and Inuyasha heard a door close.
Inuyasha turned to the task at hand. Sango and Kagome were bouncing nervously in their seats and the horror movie was playing again. Shrieks of terror and the sound of gushing blood were coming out of the TV, and Inuyasha decided that had to be one of the first things to go. He took the remote from Kagome and hit the power button.
There were groans and outraged noises from both girls. "Watcha do that for Inuyasha!" Kagome demanded. She pouted childishly, and she also seemed to sound a lot younger too.
"Well, I did it because…um…" Inuyasha stalled and tried to think of something they played when they were kids that used to wear Kagome out. "It's time to play jump rope!"
"Jump rope, yay!" Kagome and Sango shouted simultaneously. They ran to find a jump rope. Inuyasha sweat dropped in a relieved way. He had really dodged a bullet. For a second there, he had thought they were going to turn on him.
Kagome and Sango had successfully ended their search for a jump rope. They must have because they were giggling and pulling Inuyasha out the door and onto the shrine grounds. Kagome threw one end of the rope to Inuyasha and the other to Sango. She stood in between them and they started to twirl the rope. They kept going faster to the point that Kagome was panting. Inuyasha could see the drops of sweat on her face and hear her heart racing from the exertion. She tripped.
"My turn!" Sango cheered. Kagome took the handle gratefully, as she was tired and starting to return to her normal self.
Sango wasn't jumping too long before they heard a sickening crash. They all looked towards the steps of the shrine and saw Miroku face first on the sidewalk, with his legs in the air and his bicycle had crashed into a garbage can. Suddenly he zoomed to the top of the steps and tried to act casual.
"So, mind if I watch you play jump rope?" he asked in an all too innocent tone.
"Um, I guess not. But why would you…" Kagome trailed off. She had gotten off of her caffeine high thanks to Inuyasha's ingenious idea to play jump rope. Now she was thinking. Why would Miroku want to watch them play jump rope? Kagome knew there were ulterior motives at work here. But why… "Miroku you hentai!" Kagome shouted, slapping him.
"How is jump rope hentai?" Miroku asked defensively.
"Because to play it, a girl has to bounce." Kagome replied, emphasizing the last word.
Inuyasha looked angry. "Pervert! We're not playing anymore jump rope!" He threw the jump rope over his shoulders. Having used too much "enthusiasm" (aka rage), it landed up in the Goshinboku.
"Inuyasha! That was my jump rope!" Kagome told him indignantly.
"I can get it for you later." Inuyasha said dismissively.
"So I imagine this is the lovely Kagome's house since I don't think Inuyasha is pure and chaste enough to live at a shrine." Miroku surmised.
"Take that back! I have never done anything with anyone, so you take that back!" Inuyasha shouted, grabbing Miroku by his neck and lifting him, gasping, into the air.
Kagome looked alarmed, while Sango let out a dramatic gasp and then a giggle like it was all a joke, not being rid of her caffeine high.
In truth, Inuyasha didn't want Kagome to think any less of him. She had always prided herself on saving herself for the man she would marry, and Inuyasha had taken that to heart and made the decision that his first time would be with the one woman he was truly meant to be mated to.
"Miroku, Inuyasha is telling the truth. If he had been with anyone, he would have told me. We've been best friends for most of our lives." Kagome told him in a haughty tone.
Inuyasha looked at Kagome. 'She trusts me so…entirely.' This made him have thoughts about what he could do with that trust. Disgusted with himself, he shook his head suddenly in an attempt to rid the thoughts and images that had crept into his mind. The monk must be contagious.
It was getting late. What Miroku had been doing riding a bicycle at this hour of the night was unfathomable, but Kagome found herself not caring. She was just so tired! Everything felt unreal and her senses were greatly dulled. It was like walking through a haze or some fog. She quietly said Inuyasha's name before her legs gave out on her completely.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted worriedly, running to catch her before she hit the ground.
"Well, maybe I really should be going." Miroku said thoughtfully. He walked down the shrine steps and waved goodbye without turning around.
Inuyasha held Kagome and pulled at Sango's hand to get her to come inside. Kagome had crashed so Inuyasha would stay and look after her and confiscate the Mountain Dew so Sango wouldn't bounce off the walls and deprive Kagome of her much needed rest.
Well, there's the eighth chapter. Hope you liked it. Actually, I really hope it made up for the long delay in updating. I've gotten another story idea. --' So there may be a slowing even more in updates. Summer is ending soon and school is on the horizon! I'm disappointed yet excited. So confusing. Tell me what you thought!
