A/N: Thanks for the reviews guys! Squeals Me sho excited! Cough I mean, uh, yeah, that's coo'…

Anyhoo, I'm not gonna reply to them since one, I'm too lazy, and two, I have nothing to say separately to each…

Disclaimer: DAMMIT! I DON'T OWN INUYASHA! I DON'T OWN IT! I DON'T!

(Editted: 10 Jun 2005)

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Chapter Nine: Margaritas

A few days after the prom, our gang graduated high school. The school had a little 'party' for the graduated seniors, and after it had ended, Ayame and Kouga drove home. Since Miroku didn't bring his moped, and Kagome and Sango didn't have their own cars yet, Inuyasha offered to drive them home. And so starts chapter nine.

"Well, this sure is an awkward silence, wouldn't ya say?" Sango said, tapping her fingers on her own lap.

Miroku, who was sitting next to her in the back seats, said, "Inuyasha. Pop this in," handing Inuyasha a thin, black, CD case.

Inuyasha took it with one hand, the other on the steering wheel. He looked at the case and read 'Miroku's Mix', and made a face. 'Weirdo…'

He opened it up and put in the CD.

It started playing…

Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her butt. It is so big… (A/N: Disclaimer: I don't own Baby Got Back either. Hahaha…)

"Oh no…" Sango said, rubbing the temples of her head.

"What? No way, I am not listening to this," Inuyasha said annoyed…-ly?

Assuming it was a 'mix', Inuyasha clicked to the next track.

Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her butt. It is so big… I like big butts and I cannot lie…!

"What?" Inuyasha repeated.

He pressed the button to the next track, then the next one, then the next one, then through all of the tracks. All were the same song.

"Miroku! How is this a mix if it's like, twenty tracks of the same song?" Inuyasha yelled, glaring in the rear-view mirror.

"Well, actually, it's nineteen tracks-" Miroku replied awkwardly.

"Ugh!" Sango said in disgust. She quickly took out the CD and flung it through the open window on Kagome's side at the passenger's seat.

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The Saturday after that, Kurisutaru called Inuyasha. She told him to come to the apartment that night, and to bring Kagome, Sango, Ayame, and 'the boys'.

They split up in threes into Inuyasha and Kouga's cars, and headed off towards Kuri's place.

Kagome knocked on the door, getting a solemn "Come in…"

She opened the door, to see Kuri sitting on the couch, her face red.

Her face showed both anger and sadness.

"What's wrong?" Ayame asked.

"Ooh, nothing… Me and Fluffy just had a bit of an argument…" she responded.

"About what?" Sango questioned.

Kuri took a moment and closed her eyes and frowned, then said, "I found this!" and held up a silver CD that looked oddly familiar to four particular others.

Three of those four looked around nervously at each other.

"Aren't you wondering what it is?" Kuri said. The others nodded ineptly. "It's a mix CD with twenty of the same track! And you know what that track was? Baby Got Back! I never knew…" Kuri put her hand to her mouth melodramatically.

"Uh, well, actually, it's just nineteen tracks… Not twenty…" Miroku corrected.

"Wha? How did? Wait- What?" Kuri said suspiciously.

They all turned to stare at Miroku.

"Well, I, erm, uh, um, errr…" he started. "I'll just, uh, take that…" Miroku said, snatching the CD from Kuri's hand. "Heh," he added.

"Okaaay…?" Kuri said skeptically.

"Soo, is that why you brought us here, or…?" Inuyasha said.

"OH RIGHT! I wanted, actually, to invite Kagome, Sango, and Ayame for a little 'party', if you will... Anyway! Um, Sesshy's out, Rin's at a friend's house, Haru's with Mai… Hm… And uh… GIRLS' NIGHT OUT!" Kuri said excitedly.

She took the girls' wrists and pulled them into the living room, then pushed the guys out the door, saying, "I guess it's boys' night out too! Hah! Whooo…"

"Oh well, I had to go anyhow…" Kouga said, and shrugged.

"Okay then! Slumber party anyone?" Kuri said, smiling excitedly.

"Um, Kuri, girls' night out sounds great and all, but we kind of have to call our parents and—" Ayame said nervously.

"Oh, you can call them on the phone," she pointed towards a phone placed down on the kitchen's counter, "while I go upstairs to get you guys some clothes to wear!"

They gave Kuri odd looks.

"What? You can't wear your day clothes to sleep."

Their odd looks got even stronger.

"Well you can wear—You can't go to—Eeeeh!" Kuri rushed and ran down the hall in a fake scared/whiny manner.

They shrugged and conversed deciding on who should call home first.

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"Alright, I'll see you guys later," Kouga said, waving and heading towards his own vehicle.

"What? Where?" Inuyasha was confuzzled. I mean, um, ahem, confused.

"Oh, didn't I say?"

Miroku and Inuyasha gave him looks as if saying 'Um, NO!'

"Oh, um, I'm filling in for my cousin –Ginta, you know him– at this delivery place my uncle owns. Just for tonight.

Not exactly sure what to say to that, Inuyasha mumbled, "Um… That's good, I guess…"

"Nah, not really. I mostly just get a bunch of screaming girls' sleep-over parties." Miroku's eyes lit up. "It gives me a headache every time I fill in…"

"Girls' sleep-over parties, eh?" Miroku smiled. "Mind if I come with?"

Totally not getting Miroku's drift, Inuyasha said, "Keh. Why do you want to help?"

Entirely making it up along the way, Miroku responded, "Oh, I was just thinking what I would do as a major and I thought to myself, 'maybe I should go into the delivery and pick-up field…' "

As Miroku and Kouga walked towards Kouga's car, Inuyasha went his own to go off to… who knows where.

Whilst Inuyasha slid into the open door into the driver's seat, he heard the distant conversation of Miroku and Kouga.

"You know that I meant little kiddie parties, right? The kind with tea parties and pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey…"

"What's so kiddie about that?"

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"Okay, thanks Mom. Bye—What? No, Mom, I do not need you to stay over at Kuri's too—Mom! No. Mom. Mom! No. Bye," Ayame rushed, nearly slamming the phone back onto the counter. "Mothers…" she sighed to her two friends.

Just at that moment, Kuri came hopping down the hall with a stack on clothes. She set them on the couch.

"Okay, Sango, you can wear this," Kuri said, glancing up at the person nearest to her before saying a name, then handed said person an over-sized grey cotton shirt.

"And, Ayame, you can wear this," Kuri indicated to Ayame with the bundle of clothes she clenched in her hand. Ayame took the fire-patterned pajama pants and white sleeveless top.

"And Kagome, you can wear this." Kuri handed Kagome some baggy red sweatpants and a white T-shirt with a print of some Hush Puppies. (Disclaimer: Don't own Hush Puppies either!)

"They're Inuyasha's. I hope you don't mind," a grinning Kuri said.

"Oh, um, I don't mind. Heh," Kagome replied nervously, taking the clothes while Sango added, "Inuyasha likes Hush Puppies? Freaky."

"Okay, well one of you can change in Rin's room, another can change in Inuyasha's room, and someone else can change in my room," Kuri instructed while pointing to each room as she labeled them. "And I'll go change in the bathroom!"

The four split into different directions. After Kagome, Ayame, and Sango had come out, fully dressed in their borrowed PJ's, they sat on the couch, waiting for Kuri. The bathroom door was open, but there was no one inside. Maybe Kuri had gone elsewhere? After all, it was quite a large apartment.

After a bit, they heard some clanking of glass in the kitchen.

Kuri came bouncing out from the kitchen.

"Who wants margaritaaaas!" she exclaimed happily. She came out with four margarita glasses and a pitcher filled with slushy pink drink.

The three looked at each other like Kuri was crazy (not that she isn't… ..:cough:..).

"Kuri! We're not of legal age to drink yet!" Kagome reminded.

"Feh. Stop being such a good-goody," Kuri whined in an annoyed manner.

"Kuri!"

"What? You think I had my first drink when I was 21? Puh-lease." Kuri rolled her eyes.

"Well…" Ayame and Sango said uncertainly to Kagome.

"Kuri… You know we can't—"

"Oh come on! No one tell! It won't do any harm! It's just a few drinks, maybe order some pizza later, nothing wrooong!" Kuri said.

After quite a bit of persuading, they all agreed to have drinks, but not enough to get ridiculously dizzy handovers. Or so they though. Eheheheh…

Each had about one and a half glasses, and were putting in their share of money to order the pizzas.

Ayame looked through her wallet. "Hey," she started, "Let's tip the pizza guy one yen…" She dropped the only coin she had in the bright green fold of thick fabric.

The other three giggled slightly drunkenly. "Okay!" they all agreed. So then they called and ordered.

Just then, an idea popped into Kuri's head.

"Oi! Let's play a round of Truth-Or-Dare!"

They all nodded.

"Okay, who wants to go first?"

"I will!" Sango said, just finishing her second glass. "Hey, these are pretty good," she added, pointing to the empty glass.

"Okay, truth or dare?"

"DARE! Toootally…"

"Okay…" Kuri bit her lip anxiously. "I dare you… to flirt with the pizza guy!"

"Alrighty then," Sango said nonchalantly. "So when does the lucky fella get here?"

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Ding dong.

"Alright! That must be our pizzas!" Sango jumped up, swaying from the head rush (and alcohol).

Ding dong. Ding dong ding dong ding ding ding ding diiiing dong…

"Oh my, how impatient," Kagome giggled, who happened to be pretty much drunk herself.

Sango wobbled to the door scooping up the money from the table to pay with.

Ayame and Kuri followed Sango to peer through the door's little window and spy on Sango's work as Kagome refilled the empty pitcher.

Sango turned the doorknob and opened it.

"Okay, so two large cheese and a—" the delivery guy started. Then he looked up. "Oh, hey Sango! I forgot that you were here! In fact, I forgot that Kuri lived here… Wow, I even forgot that this was Inuyasha's address… Huh…"

It was Kouga… apparently.

"Hey Kouga! Wassup, man!"

"Um, yeah, but uh, Sango, are you all right?"

Not forgetting her dare (even though she was drunk), she said," Oh, yeah. Ooooh, yeah… I'm great. Great, great, great…"

Kouga raised an eyebrow.

"Actually, I am better than great, I am good. G-U-D. Well… Actually… I'm a little hot…" she continued flirtatiously.

She didn't even notice Miroku leaning against the wall a few feet behind Kouga, gaping. Partly at Sango's wardrobe – that baggy T-shirt that came down to her mid-thigh, then was bare from then down – and at the fact that she was flirting with Kouga. It was a feeling of half wow-ness, and half WTF-ness.

But he was not the only one confused. At the window, a girl peered out with eyes as fiery to match her hair. The other girl –the one with black hair and silver streaks—stood cross-armed and very amused.

"Uh, yeah, I'm getting kind of uncomfortable so I'll just take the money and leave…" Kouga said nervously, glancing back at a very… very… very angered Miroku.

"Oh? Oh, of course…" Sango pulled out folded bills from the neck of her collar - from her bra.

She handed the money with a grin on her face to Kouga, who took it very hesitantly, examining it as if the paper were covered in leeches.

Miroku and Ayame steamed even more, almost as much as Kuri smirked.

"Oh! And… here's a tip." Sango winked her left eye whilst revealing a single coin from behind her back, then adding it to the small pile of money in Kouga's palm.

Unnoticed, Miroku had, by now, stalked up to right behind Kouga, his face red and eyes shooting daggers into the back of the wolf's head.

Ayame had twirled around to sit against the wall, face also red, ears steaming.

Kouga looked at Miroku and shrugged uneasily as if to break the tension between Miroku and the back of his head.

He looked back at Sango. Then back to Miroku. Then back to Sango, who was now wiggling her thumb and pinky at her chin, mouthing, "Call me."

Then he turned back to Miroku.

"You done yet," Miroku gritted out through his teeth.

"Uh, yeah—"

"Let's go."

Miroku grabbed Kouga's arm and dragged him down and out of the hall, with Sango waving and winking at Kouga, still unaware of Miroku.

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Sango closed the door with pizza boxes stacked on her flat palm with a smug look.

"Well that was suuure fun!" Sango was probably the most drunk out of all four.

"Psssssht," Ayame disagreed out-loud.

"Wha-a-aaaat? Just 'cos you liiike Kouga don't mean I gotta drop a da-are!" Sango put the pizzas down onto the coffee table.

"Now, noooow. Let's not talk about boooys. It's girls' night oooout, 'member?" Kuri said, breaking the about-to-be argument up.

"Yeah, okay, so whaddah y'wanna talk about—" Sango started.

"Kagooooomeeeeeee!" Kuri poked Kagome in the arm.

"Whaaaaaa-aaaaaaat," Kagome replied, imitating Kuri's tone.

"How come you didn't want to tell me how you and Inuyasha me-e-et?"

"Yeah, thass not talkin' 'bout boys a'all!" Sango said, not being sarcastic, surprisingly.

"Oh," Kagome said taking a sip out of her glass, "it's nothing. I just have this weird thing about it. It's nothing ba-ad."

"So what happened?" Kuri said, then took a deep breath.

"Oh! Righto!" Kagome said after taking yet another drink. "We were in 6th grade and I had just moved…"

-FLASHBACK-

Kagome walked through the wide halls of her new school. It was much bigger than the old school she went to. Kagome ogled at the huge glass windows. Her old school had barely any windows. She stopped walking under a huge dome of glass. Her mouth was dropped in fascination, while all of the other students pointed at the strange acting girl. Kagome didn't care though. She didn't even notice. Not even what some of the boys were saying.

"Hey, Miroku, check out that chick. She's pretty hot."

"I think she just transferred in this morning. But yeah, she is sort of cute."

"She looks kind of dumb, though," Kouga said, pointing at the girl still standing with a slightly open mouth, and dazed off eyes.

"So what? I don't know about you, but I don't work too well with the smart ones. The naive ones are my specialty."

"Whatever, I'm gonna go get me a date."

Hearing this conversation, a hanyou thought about those boys that called themselves 'playboys'. 'Keh. Those two dudes are always trying to get girls. What whack-jobs.' (A/N: A'ight, now, since they're only in 6th grade, Inuyasha isn't really friends with Kouga and Miroku. Just a little FYI.) 'Losers. I'd like to see that Kouga something try…'

"No, no, my friend, let me go and see what this new girl is like. After all, I do have a better chance." Miroku but his hand in front of the wolf.

"Chyeah, in your dreams. I'd like to see you try…"

'Oh come on, the perv-guy is going for it? He's probably gonna grope her like he did that Sango girl. Holy friggin' crap, he's gonna grope her!' Inuyasha thought. He didn't know why, but he felt like he had to stop the hentai.

Inuyasha sped towards the girl leaning against the wall in the corner. He stopped immediately in front of her and slammed his fist into the wall above the girl's head, positioning his arm slightly bent above her, and glared at the two approaching boys.

Kagome looked up at a sudden sound. There was a hand, an arm, connected to… Her breathing quickened, looking around frantically. But not moving from her spot. She stood there, often glancing at the silver-haired boy in front of her.

"Um, on second though, Kouga, I think I'll go. I'm gonna be late to class," Miroku said as his smirk cleared away from his face.

"Hey, hold it," Kouga grabbed Miroku's arm and looked back at the dog hanyou, "what's going on? Who in the hell is that?"

"That's Inuyasha Taisho. I heard he beat up a bunch of guys that were just making fun of his hair, and I don't like that glare he's giving us. I don't wanna die, Kouga, I'm too young to die!"

"Oh, come on. That mutt doesn't look so tough. He's just a puppy, he couldn't hurt a fly," Kouga sneered.

Inuyasha heard this, as Kouga intended him to. He pushed off from the wall into and took a step towards Kouga and Miroku –whose smug look was coming back.

"What'd you call me, wolf-boy?" Inuyasha glared towards Kouga.

"You heard me, I called'ya a puppy... mutt-face." Kouga, too, took a step towards Inuyasha. Miroku backed away towards the corner.

Kagome looked back and forth between the two boys.

Then, she felt a shiver go up her spine, something on her lower back.

She turned her head slowly. There was a boy with a dragon-tail, and his hand was on her… You know…

She shrieked, but just then, someone had stopped the boy called Miroku.

"Houshi! You pervert! Going around groping innocent girls at random, what the hell is wrong with you!" A girl with long brown hair had pushed Miroku away from Kagome, and gave him a hard whack on the top of his head.

Inuyasha and Kouga had stopped their little fight to look at the scene the girl was starting.

"Sango, no, I did not do any such thing. How can you go about accusing me of such things?" Miroku said exaggeratedly.

"Oh come on, you liar. I saw the whole thing!" Sango glared at the boy.

He sighed. Miroku then turned around and indicated Kouga to stop and go.

Kouga and Inuyasha finished off a quick stare-and-glare round as Kouga and Miroku headed away in a slight jog, then turned off into opposite hallways while the girl said, "Yeah! You better run!"

Inuyasha turned his head and smiled, watching the raven-haired girl. He turned back and walked on his way.

"Hi, I'm Sango. Sorry about him," the brunette said, stretching out a hand towards Kagome.

"Um, I'm Kagome, and thanks, I mean, um, it's okay," Kagome responded, taking the girl's hand into a quick shake.

"You know, you should be more careful about guys like him." Sango said seriously, then flashed a quick smile.

Kagome smiled back.

-END FLASHBACK-

"Yay! You met Sango at the same time? It's like two in one!" Kuri clapped her hands once.

Kagome sighed sleepily. "Yeah, I guess so."

"Hey, you tired already?" Ayame poked Kagome in the upper arm.

"Huh? Well, sort of…" Kagome replied.

"Me too…" the three others said at the same time, yawning.

Then they all collapsed, snoozing away.

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-FLASHBACK-

Sesshomaru pushed through the glass doors and moved down the sidewalk. 'Another day of hard work gone by…' he thought to himself.

Headed towards his parked car just a few meters ahead, he spotted something under a nearby tree.

He stopped suddenly and glanced down at the thing without moving his head, only his eyes. It was leaning on the tree with one side, and the opposite touching the ground, making it angled at about 60 degrees.

Sesshomaru deftly wedged his foot under the object and flipped it upwards, then caught it.

He examined the disk with barely any interest, then slipped in nonchalantly into his coat pocket.

He started to walk again. The youkai closed car door and started the engine.

Wondering what the CD held, he put it into the opening, and pressed play.

Oh, my, god, Becky. Look at her butt. It is like, so big. She's like one of those rap guy's girlfriends…

Sesshomaru made a face and ejected it immediately and put it back into his pocket.

'If I didn't know that boy better, I'd say this must belong to that friend of Inuyasha's. I'll bring it back and give it to him later.'

-END OF FLASHBACK-

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A/N: Like it? I thought it was messily organized when I read it, but whatever. Hopefully it was okay.

BTW, when I was writing that chapter with all of the meeting flashbacks, I really had no idea of how Inuyasha and Kagome were to meet. Not really, at least. Then me and my friends were watching Fruits Basket and Kuri —I mean uh, babystigmata— had the idea of basing their meeting on a certain event featuring Kyo, Tohru, and two random guys.

Also, that pizza thing kind of happened to us as well. Not the same day as the InuKag-meeting idea, but much earlier. We were ordering a pizza, and as I looked through my wallet to see if I had change, I found a penny and suggested we tip the delivery guy that. 'Babystigmata' also was going to flirt with the guy, but then decided not to, in the way that Sango did with the 'here's a tip ..:wink:..' and 'call me'. Just thought I'd share. Ahahahahahahah…

RR!