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A Run for Your Money

Chapter Nine: Situations

By: Ashley Dawn

By Sunday night we had thanked Koga's father and were back at his dorm. As soon as we opened the door we found InuYasha (laying on the floor) and Miroku on the bed with another body up against his naked form, which was thankfully hidden underneath the covers. Even though it was only eight, the boys appeared to have slept all day. The room was a mess, very untaken care of, with trash lying everywhere. I cringed at the smell. Koga was disgusted as well. "What the hell did you idiots do? Wake up!"

He gave InuYasha a light kick in the side, just enough to hurt. InuYasha glared up at his friend. "Shut up and leave me alone. Can't you see that I'm sleeping? We didn't get a chance to clean up yet, big deal. You still have like a maid or something, right? Besides, Miroku was the main planner of all the parties and everything that have been happening."

The form next to Miroku woke up to look at her surroundings. I gasped. "Sango!"

"Ayame?" she groaned, sleepily.

I couldn't believe it. One of my good friends had simply hopped into bed with this player! Sango was always the most reasonable out of our group of friends, when we got together, so it was breathtaking to see this. This wasn't my friend; this was an alien controlling her body! She had been drugged or... or something! This wasn't my Sango! "Koga your stupid friend raped my friend!"

"What? No, he didn't rape me." Sango slurred her words and rubbed her eyes.

"Sango, sweetie, you don't have to lie, he's not going to hurt you any more." I reassured. Before she could say anything more I ran over to the side of the bed. He lifted his hand towards her and opened his mouth. I wasn't about to let him hurt my friend or even say another word. I was too protective so I let out a scream and smashed my elbow into his face.

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"I can't believe you broke my nose." Miroku sighed in a higher pitched octave than usual. He had a big white bandage plastered over his nose and the doctor assured that it was, indeed, broken. I mean, I didn't think I hit him with that much force. I figured he must just have had a sensitive nose. Or maybe I got too caught up in emotion and didn't realize the force I was using...?

I rolled my eyes. "I said sorry."

"Oh it makes everything so much better now." He said sarcastically.

"There, thatta sport." I smiled and patted his back. (A/N: sorry, but thatta is a sort of slang for 'that a')

"You broke my boyfriend's nose." Sango whimpered.

"Boyfriend?" the three boys said in unison.

"Um, yeah. Did you think I'd sleep with you if you weren't?" she raised an eyebrow to Miroku. He gulped. There was a whole lot of fear clouded in those violet eyes. I could pinpoint a big problem right there, without even having to know his past. Miroku obviously had commitment issues and wasn't very good at keeping to just himself... or even just his girlfriend. "You mean we're not together?"

"No, no, we're together." He said quickly, looking at the tears in her eyes.

"Ayame, we need to talk." Koga said before dragging me off to the side, away from everybody.

"Isn't that cute? They're a couple!"

"Adorable. Now make your friend stop manipulating him!"

"She's not!"

"She is!"

"She's not!"

"She is!"

"You're so stupid Koga. Can't you just let them be happy?" I pouted and asked sadly.

"Now you're doing it!" he growled.

"Doing what?" I asked innocently.

"Manipulating me!"

"Koga," I said softly and sweetly as I stroked out a crease on his white tee, slowly dragging my hand over his chest. I looked up at him with big eyes, "I was just trying to talk to you... I didn't think that was such a bad thing. I'm sorry; I won't try to talk to you anymore. It's probably better if I keep things to myself anyway." I sighed and dropped my hand as I looked at my feet.

"Fine, whatever! Let your psycho friend have her fun, she's going to regret it." He warned.

"You're warning is appreciated but not heeded." I smiled.

"Whatever, it'll be your own pity." He scuffed.

"By the way... I believe you owe me a check. And we need to get back to school because we have classes in the morning." I pointed out.

"I'll give you a check but I hope you know I'm deducting his hospital bills off of it." He replied as he pulled out a checkbook from his back pocket. Grabbing the attached pen he scribbled quickly on it, then tore it off and handed it to me. It was amazing how quickly people could just hand away money when it was benefiting them.

My jaw dropped at the check. "Four hundred dollars?!"

"Yeah. Now hurry up, we gotta get back since we have classes tomorrow."

"Wait, what are Yash and I supposed to do?" Miroku asked desperately.

"You can stay with me Miroku!" Sango exclaimed happily. "And he can come too and sleep in Kagome's bed!"

"Sango, are you sure this is a good idea?" I inquired.

"She doesn't get back until next week." She shrugged.

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By the time we got to Koga's dorm room, I was too tired to even make it to my own. It was already midnight and our class started at six in the morning. I groaned and flopped down onto Koga's bed in a pair of his boxers and a long tee shirt after my shower. Knowing that I couldn't grab spare clothes in the morning I hand washed my underwear, not wanting to wear a dirty pair, and hung them over the rod of the shower. Koga had gotten a shower before me and was already in the bed.

I turned on my side to face him. He was already sound asleep. I curled up against his warm body and feel asleep myself.

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