Just My Luck

Disclaimer- I don't own any of the Inuyasha characters.

A/N- thanks for all the wonderful reviews and it seems many people want this to be a 20+-chapter story... so I guess I will be writing this for awhile. But I also have a few really good ideas for a new story once I'm done with this one. Don't worry I am going to finish this story before I even start to write the prologue for my other story ideas. I'm not going to drop this. Also sorry if the new pen name has caused any confusion it won't change for a really long time now... hopefully. Now that that's over let's get back to the story. Naples, right? Well I will apologize a head of time but I think I may be way too lazy to look up Naples on google and get information so Naples may fly by in like... 4 pages. Sorry.

Chapter 11- Naples and Home

Inuyasha allowed a small smirk come to his face. "Well of course you fell for that jackass. How could you not? He's sexy, amazing, and a real charmer but you won't believe what I've had to put up with."

Kagome let out a little laugh. "What happened to you?"

"Well a couple weeks ago this amazingly beautiful girl moved to our school. Now I put on all the charm I could and asked her to go out with me but she said no! Can you believe that? Someone actually said no to me and I really needed her to go out with me to get Kikyo off my back. To tell you the truth I didn't like her all that much. So guess what I did?"

"What did you do?" Kagome faked innocence and wonder and covered up the slight bit of hurt she was feeling. So he really did just need to go out with her cause of Kikyo?

"Well I did absolutely everything I could to get her to fall for me. I called her, talked to her, gave her rides to school, watched out for her, I mean I did everything and she still wouldn't fall for me. So when I found out we were going to Italy I decided that I would not leave Italy without her liking me. So I went out of my way to be alone with her as much as possible, but as the time went by I found myself starting to actually fall for her instead of her falling for me. And when I saw her at the garden in Venice I knew that I actually really cared for her. I don't know for sure yet if she likes me or if she will go out with me but I know for sure that I definitely like her." Inuyasha leaned over filling the space between them and captured her in another wonderful kiss. "Yea I really like this girl."

"Do you really have any doubt in your mind about how she feels about you? I mean it sounds to me like she does like you." Kagome batted her eyelashes jokingly at Inuyasha.

"Well..." Inuyasha wrapped his arm around Kagome's waist pulling her closer to him. "She never did say yes or no to the whole boyfriend girlfriend thing."

Kagome winked at him. "Maybe you'll get your answer soon."

Inuyasha just leaned his head back a bit and laughed. He captured her lips in another chaste kiss. "Well I better get that answer soon."

"You know what I'll ask her next time I see her about it." Kagome smiled up at him having fun with all the light teasing.

"I'll be waiting." He gave her another wink before he turned to listen to what Miroku wanted to say to him. Damn Miroku, completely ruined the fun.

Kagome blushed a bit; damn she had blushed more in the past few days then she has in her whole life. But how could she not blush with all the kisses and comments this guy was making. "Well Naples here we come." She sent him another smile and leaned her head against his shoulder once the bus started moving. She could hear Kikyo hissing from a few seats up at her but she didn't care too much. No one was going to scare her away from where she was. How could she have fallen for this jackass?

"So Kagome how was the plane ride?" Sango was slurping rather loud on a slushy while they waited on the curb for their late bus to hurry up.

"Please Sango, I'm trying to forget about any and all airports I've ever been in. I hate airports..." Kagome was sitting on her flashy suitcase with a sigh.

For some reason on the last plane ride the group had been split up. Inuyasha ended up having to sit next to Kikyo, and believe me Kagome was still laughing at him, Miroku was sitting next to a boy that Kagome didn't know but was apparently in Inuyasha's gang so Miroku had it easy. Sango was stuck in front of Miroku so she wasn't able to get a minute of sleep that whole flight just in case he tried anything funny. Rin was by Sesshomaru and she almost died of happiness when she found out. I swear the girl is becoming a stalker. Ayame was next to Ginta. None of them knew him before but apparently he was Koga's cousin, how weird is that? So Ayame was more then happy to talk to him. And where was Kagome in all this? She was next to Hojo, which was the single most awkward flight. Sure Hojo was nice and all but he was so dull compared to Inuyasha. Of course most people tend to pale when standing next to him.

They only had three more days left of Italy before the two weeks were up and they were back to Japan. She really did miss Tokyo and being able to understand what most people were saying, but so many good things have happened here. Her and Inuyasha got... closer. And Ayame found Koga, well he found me and I kind of forced them together but that's not the point.

"Hey earth to Kagome. The bus is here, come on. Stop daydreaming about Inuyasha." Ayame and Rin had already boarded the bus.

"Sango I was not daydreaming about him!" Kagome jumped to her feet and followed a laughing Sango onto the bus. When they were all seated comfortably Kagome spoke up again. "So do any of you know what we're doing here?"

"Nah. Although they will probably take us to Pompeii one of the days because it is just outside the city. Hey is Sango awake?" Ayame leaned over and poked Sango on the shoulder gently to see if she responded.

"Let her sleep. She had to sit in front of Miroku on the plane remember? She was awake the whole time." Rin herself let out a little yawn. "I didn't get much sleep either."

"I don't think any of us really did. It was a rough plane flight." Kagome leaned back in her seat and her rolling a little to the side before she was out too.

She felt someone shaking her a bit. "Hey Kag-chan we're at the hotel wake up."

She blinked back her sleepiness and looked up into Inuyasha's own tired gold eyes. "We're here already?"

"That's what I said wasn't it? Now come on, get up." Inuyasha pulled her to her feet a bit and held unto her shoulder while she gained her balance and tried to wake herself up enough to stand on her own. Kagome followed Inuyasha off the bus and retrieved her suitcase before going inside and finding her room. Inuyasha had to head down the other hallway so she walked half asleep and alone down the hall to her room. When she finally found it and dropped her stuff on the floor she noticed that the others were already asleep. Smiling a little to herself she crawled into the bed and was out again as soon as her head hit the pillow.

"Kagome you awake?" Kagome's blearily opened to see Sango leaning over the bed with her head slightly cocked to the side.

"Well if my eyes were closed and I wasn't moving, guess what? I wasn't awake." Kagome sat up slowly and stretched realizing with a groan that she had forgotten to change into some pajamas last night before collapsing. Sango let out a little laugh at her.

"Well Sesshomaru said we were going to Pompeii today while the other groups relax so the last two days will be pretty much ours. I don't know what he has planned but he has to be way too lazy to watch us all three days, right?"

Kagome just gave Sango a little nod before falling out of the bed and pretty much crawling to her suitcase to get dressed. "Hey Sango after we get back we only have a couple more weeks of school right?"

Sango looked over her shoulder at Kagome. She stopped her make-up application for a minute. "Yea, I think that's right. Then it's summer! I can't wait!" Sango smiled brightly before going back to putting on her eye shadow.

Kagome let out a little smile. Summer, she always did love summer. Last year Ayumi, Yuki, Eri, and herself took a road trip. But this year... she had no idea what was going to be in store for her. "All right, I'm ready let's go!"

They all headed down the winding staircase to the first floor. "Hey why did we just walk down five flights of stairs when we could have taken the elevator?"

"Kagome, you should have realized by now that we aren't exactly the smartest people in the morning." Sango smiled at her jokingly before waving to Miroku and Inuyasha. They joined them on the curb while the bus driver talked to Sesshomaru about a few minor details before they went.

"All right everyone, it isn't that long of a ride but it's not going to be short either so be patient. Once we get to the site we will be able to walk around the city. Now because many of the people in Pompeii never escaped there are occasional voids in the ash layer had been found that contained human remains. These voids were filled with plaster so now you could see the people's profiles. What resulted were highly accurate and eerie forms of the doomed Pompeiani who failed to escape, in their last moment of life, with the expression of terror often quite clearly visible. I just thought I would mention that to you." Sesshomaru turned around after his little speech and got onto the bus followed by the rest of the group.

"I don't know if I want to see the people..." Rin visibly cringed at the thought. She wasn't really one for anything that depicted torture or gore.

"Don't worry Rin, they are only plaster. It's not like they are the actual people... just amazingly accurate and completely true statues of them."

"I don't think that helps Ayame. Besides it is technically really them. I mean after they were buried under all the ash they must have decomposed with the ash turned to rock. When they decomposed it left the voids in the rock leaving their exact images, everything from what they were doing at the moment to their expressions."

"Kagome, How did you know that?"

"Well... I had to study Pompeii for a project before so I guess I learned a lot about it." She gave a slightly embarrassed smile to Sango.

"What a minute Kagome. You said they were frozen doing exactly what they were doing right before the explosion?" She looked over her should behind her where Inuyasha was sitting.

"Yea...why?"

"Well in Rome weren't they kind of into... erotic stuff?" Miroku immediately caught on to what Inuyasha had said but it took the girls a minute.

"Inuyasha you are disgusting! They probably didn't make plasters of people having... sex when the eruption went off. I can't believe you even thought about that!"

"Oh come on Kagome I'm a guy what did you expect?" He winked at her while she just rolled her eyes at him. Even in the face of major death and destruction they can still be perverts. I was like a gift or something, perverts.

"All right everyone here we are! Get off the bus, look around, then get back on the bus. No messing around cause if you break something here they'll kill us." Sesshomaru let out a frustrated sigh imagining what would happen to him if one of these brats happened to break a plaster of a person or something.

"Come on Sesshomaru what are we going to do to this city that an earthquake and a volcano couldn't do?"

"Inuyasha shut up and get off the bus..." Inuyasha just flashed his brother a smirk and hopped off the bus and joining his friends at the entrance to the city.

Everything went smoothly at Pompeii. The girls seemed genuinely interested in the city while the guys just trailed behind genuinely bored. After spending most of the day at Pompeii and at a restaurant on the way back from the destroyed city everyone was pretty much ready to just lay around the hotel for the last hour of the day.

Naples seemed to just fly by. Kagome was content to know that Naraku had it seemed officially returned to Japan after Venice because he never did pop up again. Ayame and Koga seemed to be constantly on the phone with each other every time she had a spare minute. Miroku grabbed Sango's ass once every five minutes they were near each other, which is a vast improvement. Unfortunately because Sesshomaru had them busy looking at tourist sites the whole three days, I guess he was making up for his lack of responsibility is Rome, Inuyasha and Kagome didn't get to spend that much time together. Inuyasha had a feeling in the pit of his stomach that Sesshomaru was only doing this whole chaperone them around Naples thing just to torture him, the bastard.

Sadly enough the next morning they were loading up all their things and getting ready to get on the plane back to Japan. Kikyo and her posse seemed more then happy to go back claiming that Italy heat was bad for their hair, the idiots.

"Sango I don't want to go back yet!" Kagome collapsed in her seat on the bus taking them to the airport.

"I know what you mean. I was getting so used to having no math homework." Sango flopped down next to Kagome with a sigh.

"All good things must come to an end..." Sango and Kagome nodded in depressed agreement to what Rin had said.

"But hey a lot of good things happened while we were here right? I mean I met Koga, Rin met Sesshomaru, and Kagome finally admitted she wanted to pounce on Inuyasha and have sex with him."

Kagome had started to nod in agreement not really listening to Ayame when the last statement registered in her head. "Ayame!"

"Wow Kagome, I didn't know you wanted to have sex... you know you could have just come to my room." Kagome turned a thousand shades of red when Inuyasha leaned over across the aisle to give her a light kiss on the cheek.

"I don't want to have sex with you! Ayame was just being mean to me..." Kagome turned even brighter before leaning so far back in her seat it looked like she was trying to make it absorb her. "Stupid Ayame..."

They just laughed at her for another minute before talking about what they were going to do when they got home. Deciding that going on a major shopping spree as a 'congratulations you survived a foreign country' was a great idea. Unfortunately for the guys they were probably going to be dragged into it somehow so they could carry the bags for the girls. Inuyasha and Miroku were discussing the gang though. They had been out of touch for awhile and there were probably a few loose strings that needed to be fixed up.

"Another security line, another hour of my life wasted." Kagome leaned back against Inuyasha using him as support so she could give her feet a little break. "You know they are just going to tackle me again cause that metal detector hates me! I swear that when I was born my mother said 'Hey doctors, put a metal plate somewhere in her head so she can never go through an airport without being tortured again.' I swear she said it!"

"Poor Kagome. Don't worry maybe this time you'll get lucky... but probably not."

"Sango must you be so cruel to me?" A laugh was all she got in response.

"Don't worry Kag-chan, It'll be over soon then we can just make-out on the plane and maybe join the mile high club since you want to pounce me and have sex." Kagome turned another thousand shades of red and hopped away from Inuyasha like he was contagious or something.

"For the last time I told you I do not want to have sex with you! Ayame was making it all up!" Kagome let out a frustrated sigh and gave Ayame a dangerous glare.

Despite all the encouragement her friends gave her... the metal detecting monster beeped her and once again she was tackled down and dragged away from her laughing friends. She growled at them while she was dragged into a questioning corner. Damn security guards, couldn't they see she was a sweet innocent little girl? Well maybe they couldn't tell cause of all the growling she was doing.

Half an hour later and many poking and prodding later Kagome joined the class about to board the plane. "I told you they hated me!"

This caused Sango, Ayame, Rin, Inuyasha, and Miroku to start up another laughing fit. She sent them another particularly evil glare before taking her seat waiting for their seat numbers to be called so they could take their seats. Once their seats were called they grabbed all their carry on luggage and hopped onto the plane.

The plane ride went by agonizingly slow. After all it was almost 24 hours of just flying and after the first two hours poker loses its fun. And the two hours after that you learn that you never want to see another deck of cards again. So after the first four hours of the flight you have thrown your cards as far away as you can and are now just sitting there. It only takes half an hour after that before at least one or two people in your group break off and start to argue. In our case these people were Sango and Miroku. Another half an hour later and five hours into the flight the weakest link should fall asleep or go insane out of boredom. Rin was out cold. Now that leaves Ayame, Kagome, and Inuyasha still awake and sane six hours into the flight. But it's getting tough to hold on now. Everyone is so bored. Everyone is so tired. Who will be next? Well Ayame was out for the count at seven hours into the flight.

Now we get to the interesting part... Only two people have survived the first seven hours of the flight and you can tell tension is starting to flare up! Snappy arguments start to fly back and forth. Each person trying to beat out the other one in this ultimate survivor test. Then it happens. "So Kagome now that everyone else is gone how about we try that mile high club. I hear it's fun." He sent her a wink.

And there it is folks. The winner of this test is non-other then Inuyasha for Kagome soon rolls her eyes and backs down deciding to choose sleep over more arguments. Inuyasha is the sole survivor after only nine hours in flight. But soon even Inuyasha gives into sheer boredom and falls asleep as well. They wake up back in Tokyo.

"Hey Kagome, Inuyasha wake up we're landing!" The two jump at the yell and glance around. The plane was starting to go into a dive and Kagome quickly popped a piece of gum into her mouth so her ears wouldn't explode. She let out a sigh and leaned back in the uncomfortable seat while the plane came to a fairly smooth land.

"Well we're back home again. Hello Tokyo." Inuyasha let out a sigh blowing a bubble with his own gum before unbuckling himself and standing up to stretch a bit.

"I'm going to miss Italy." Kagome stood as well and stooped down to pull her bag out from under her seat.

"Maybe you'll go back again someday." Inuyasha pulled his own bag down from the overhead compartment.

"I highly doubt that. It was such an expensive trip. I don't know if I'll ever have enough money to do it again." She gave him a little smile before joining him in the aisle and waiting in the slow long line to the front of the plane. She let out a smile, it sure was nice being able to understand everything the pilot or the flight attendant said without having to think too much.

"Come on you guys your mom is waiting in the parking lot for us." Sango ran over to Kagome and grabbed her hand ripping her away from Inuyasha. "We'll see you guys at school on Monday! Bye!"

Kagome managed to wave goodbye to everyone before Sango dragged her out of the airport and into the parking lot where her mother was waiting.

"Hello Sango, Hello dear. How was Italy?" Korari started up the car and pulled out of the airport parking lot and onto the highway heading home.

"It was wonderful."

A/N- OK this chapter was embarrassingly short compared to the last chapter that was what 10 pages long? While this one was just six almost seven... but six pages aren't that bad right? Besides I needed to get them back home and everything. I don't know if I was that happy with this chapter. Tell me what you thought. Review please.

ALL RIGHT I NEED SOME HELP! I have NO idea what I should do with the story right now! I KNOW how I am going to end it but I don't know what to do until then. If you have any suggestions tell me! I might not use some of them if they are going to interfere with how I want the story to end but any idea would probably knock me out of this writing block and I am in a DEEP writing block right now! Thanks, ciao.