Chapter 9
With Friends Like These...
Heart pounding, Kagome's small, pale hand raised to knock twice on the dark oak door. She could hear the loud music booming from within the home. She was shaking as she struggled to knock again, this time even quieter than before. She wasn't sure if she was more nervous about the fact that a certain brown haired school boy she knew may be waiting inside or the fact that she was going to a party with a boy she still had temptations to touch.
"What's your problem?" Inuyasha spoke up from behind her, making the miko twitch with the realization he was still there, watching her every move.
He leaned over her, chest barely brushing against her back as he reached over her and shoved open the door. It was surprising that he wasn't the one with buckling knees as he entered the house to be blasted with deafening Japanese rock and the overwhelming scent of alcohol and stale food, and even the brilliant disco lights strung about as if their sole purpose was to blind them.
The hanyou stepped ahead of Kagome, amber eyes wide at the people crowding the inside, dancing, laughing, conversating. And as the miko stepped farther inside she could see that some of them were drinking and obviously intoxicated. Maybe this wasn't a good idea…
"Inuyasha, I-"
Kagome didn't have the chance to say a word before in three very familiar voices, her name was shouted almost louder than the music. Without a warning, Eri, Ayumi, and Yuka crashed into her, throwing their arms over their much missed friend and bringing her down in a laughing squealing heap on the floor.
"Kagome! Oh my, it's been forever!" Ayumi cried out. It was strange how the trio never visited anymore. Or, at least, the lack of people grandpa used to list that had tried to come visit her when she was out with illnesses.
"Hey hey was that Inuyasha that I saw come in?" Eri questioned in that teenage girly way, nudging the miko eagerly as the three struggled to stand up once more and pull Kagome to her feet. She was about to answer that, hazel eyes flashing around, when she realized that the hanyou was nowhere to be seen. Was that a surprise? He was dead scared of the three wild friends, always swarming him, making sure he was still treating their girlfriend right, like they were together.
"Yeah." She murmured, her cheeks flushing slightly. "Speaking of him, I think I should go find him before he gets himself into trouble."
Kagome pulled from the small huddle of her friends and began twisting her way through the throbbing, dancing, laughing crowd. She had to duck under the joined arms of dancing couples and poke her head in-between people. It was quite awhile before she spotted that familiar mane of white hair near a tall bookcase. His clawed hands fumbled at something on a shelf. Whatever it was, Kagome knew she better get to him soon before he broke it.
"TRUTH OR DARE! TRUTH OR DARE!" Someone shouted.
Squeals of excitement released into the air. The sound of the music was muffled with the pattering of feet as crowds of teens rushed to the center of the room, jumping and shouting, eager to play the game. Before Kagome had a chance to react, she had been pulled down into the large ring of kids that had organized on the floor. She sat, squeezed tightly between Eri and Yuka.
"Ok who's first?"
"Me!"
"No, me!"
"Me, me, me!"
"ME!"
Her hazel eyes flashed quickly around the wide circle until she spotted her hanyou friend. He was smashed between two flirty girls who seemed to be pinning him down so he would play along. Kagome sighed. This wouldn't be pretty.
"What the hell is truth or dare?" He asked in frustration, being tugged on endlessly by the two girls. The miko's face was already flushed of color. What if he got dared to do something bad? What if those girls dared him something she just couldn't stand to watch?
"Ok, ok, YOU!"
A finger was pointed to a shaggy haired boy sitting near Kagome. Her eyes switched quickly to him. He was eyeing another girl carefully, a smirk on his lips. She could already tell this truth or dare game would be more like spin the bottle or seven minutes in heaven.
"But what is truth or dare!" Inuyasha shouted, making a disruption in the circle of playful party teens.
"You mean you've never played this game before?" Eri asked curiously from beside Kagome.
"Keh. Does it look like I know what the hell you're talking about?" He retorted irritably. He was busily trying to rip away from the two girls, who just weren't about to give up.
A couple of the kids laughed and snickered.
"Where've you been? Livin' under a rock?"
"SHUDDUP!" He snarled, irritated even more so by this unneeded comment on him not knowing what this simple game was.
"Hey I've never seen you around here? Were you even invited?" Someone else asked
Inuyasha was getting redder by the moment. Not only was he being tugged on by two smitten girls, but he was now being gawked at and snickered at like he had sprouted a second head from his hip.
"Ok, chill out. Since you obviously have never been to a party or anything ever before, I'll explain." Hiroko, the host of the party, stood and said kindly. "Truth or dare is a game where one person chooses another person from the circle and asks them 'truth or dare' the person chosen has to pick either one. Truth means the asker gets to ask a question and the chosen person must answer it truthfully. Dare means the asker gets to dare the chosen person to do something and they have to do it."
Inuyasha cocked a brow. "Why?"
"It's just how the game is played." She explained with a soft sigh. "Get it?"
She sat down, all heads turning back to the shaggy haired boy, his grin slowly returning. He chuckled as he pointed a finger towards the girl he had been eyeing flirtatiously.
"Truth or dare?" He asked.
"Dare."
"I dare you to kiss me."
Well that was expected. Kagome rolled her eyes, her cheeks reddening a bit as well.
Oooh's and aah's let out as the girl gave a naughty smile. The two time travelers couldn't take their eyes off the pair as they both leaned forward and their lips met in a kiss that grew deeper and deeper, rougher, naughtier, heavier, hotter.
"Oh my…"
"OK NEXT PERSON!"
They broke apart, smiling, cheeks red, and another person was chosen. Girl this time.
"Truth or dare?" They asked sheepishly, nodding towards a boy close to her that she had obviously tried to sit close to.
"Truth." They replied, kind of annoyed.
"Do you…." She stopped, like she was nervous, and then seemed to change what was her original question she was thinking of in her mind. "Is it true that you have a girlfriend?"
The boy nodded, and the girl looked away. Another person was chosen. A boy who laughed heavily and threw an empty plastic cup at a friend across the circle.
"Truth or dare?"
"Truth, man, I don't even wanna know what you'd dare me." The friend replied.
"Alright, is it true you have testicular cancer?"
"NO!"
The crowd burst into laughter, hardly able to stop even after someone else had been picked to truth or dare someone else. It was a rebel looking girl with short, choppy black hair and dark makeup. She smiled devilishly.
"Truth or dare?" She asked a geeky looking boy.
"Uhhh…dare…" he kind of whispered.
"I dare you to kiss Kiyoko!" She replied, gasps rising from the ring and eyes flashing to a preppy looking girl.
"OH GROSS!" She complained, shaking her head as the nerd boy flushed and looked down.
"You gotta do it. I dared you." The rebel said to the geek, pushing him, making him, reminding him he had to. And eventually, getting nervous from the silence, he decided to just do it. He leaned forward, towards the preppy girl, staring blankly at her through thick rimmed glasses. Quickly, like her lips were made of hot coal, he kissed her, and pulled back with a red face.
Everyone awwwww'd.
Then the thing the miko hoped wouldn't happen, happened. Someone who had just picked 'dare' from a friend was dared the one thing Kagome knew she couldn't stand.
"I dare you to make out with the new dude."
Kagome felt her cheeks burst into flame, her eyes prickle, her lips part in shock and horror. Where they possibly talking about…?
Yes.
A blonde haired girl, obviously not even from Japan, brought herself close to Inuyasha, willingly. Her fingers spread over the hanyou's chest. His eyes widened, body stiffening. He wasn't quite sure what was happening until he felt her mouth collapse over his. The surprising touch of her tongue sent him recoiling from the kiss from the stranger.
"WHAT THE…"
He wanted to yell at her or at someone but he couldn't think of anything to say. He was speechless. The miko sat in a sudden jealous depression, eyes down on the ground, fists clenched in her lap, but she had no say in it. They weren't together anymore. Trickles of electricity ran through her body. Shock. Jealousy. That kiss was supposed to be hers. Inuyasha had no reply. No words. So the game moved on…
"Truth or dare?"
"Truth."
"Have you ever picked your nose?"
"No."
"Liar!"
"Shut up!"
Well there was ONE good thing about this party…
…no Hojo…
The rest of the players in the game weren't given a single glance from the miko or hanyou. They didn't care anymore. They weren't paying attention. When Eri and Yuka raised from their miko friend's side, seeing how sad she was, she wasn't even phased a little bit. Oh they knew. They were the ones who thought she still went out with him, even after she had explained to them a few times that they were just friends now.
"She needs to live a little." Eri whispered to Yuka as they made their way from the ring of teens and into the kitchen were the drinks and food were. They poked their heads out the door to take another glance at her and Ayumi. "Really, she does."
"I know. I wish there was something we could do to help her loosen up a bit." Yuka replied with a sigh, eyes scanning back over the kitchen.
Then grins spread over their young schoolgirl faces as their eyes rested on two six packs of beer sitting on the counter. Suddenly, the two girls had a perfect idea to use them up, since they seemed to be sitting there, so lonely.
"Quick, Yuka, get two cups and some of that punch. They'll never know. A little at a time, just a pinch of the stuff mixed in with the taste of the punch, they'll never know."
The hanyou and miko just didn't suspect a thing, eyes on the other people in the circle being truthed or dared. They didn't suspect anything as the two girls returned with wide smiles and two cups filled to the brim with watered down red punch.
"Here Kagome, Inuyasha." They said, forcing the drinks into the hands of the only two people in the circle who weren't drinking something, whether it be alcohol or punch.
"Uh…thanks…" Kagome replied to them suspiciously, looking over to Inuyasha who was already slurping down the stuff without a grateful word to the two. Her eyes narrowed at him. Such a rude little…. She couldn't help but smile even at those antics of his.
Then she started thinking about him, absentmindedly taking a few big gulps of her drink. Kagome had never had beer before, mind you, and the taste of the punch smothered it, but it was there. Her eyes sent down to it with a slightly pleasured smile.
"Mmm! This is good!" She announced to her friends, like it was something more special then punch. Maybe she was just trying to say something positive, to lift her own mood.
She drowned her greatening sorrow in the "punch" until it was gone.
"Eri, Yuka, could I have another?" She asked politely, relishing the taste on her tongue.
"Yeah me too!" Inuyasha shouted over the roar of the ongoing game.
The two friends squealed with excitement. With friends who slip beer in your punch to get you to loosen up, who needs enemies?
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FINALLY! The party chapterrrrrr!! There's more to come, too!
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