Chapter 10
Disclaimer: Roses are red, violets are blue, I don't own Inuyasha, but neither do you.
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Inuyasha sighed, leaning against the elevator wall, phone next to his ear. "How long until they call you back?" Miroku answered him, causing Inuyasha to sigh again. "So basically you still don't have a job and I can expect to see you here every day when I get home still?"
He marched down the hallway towards his apartment, ignoring Miroku's protests. Inuyasha unlocked the door and opened it. The phone fell from his hand.
For a moment Inuyasha thought he was delusional. There were two Kagomes sitting in chairs, glaring at him. After a second or two he realized that one of them wasn't supposed to be there.
"Ki-Kikyo? What are you-" He was cut off as the woman stood up from her chair, strode across the floor, and kissed him full on the lips.
Kagome also jumped up, but she grabbed Inuyasha's phone and continued out the door. "Miroku? I need you to pick me up. Right away." And she hung up. Kagome slammed the door on the couple in the apartment and went down to the lobby to wait.
When the car pulled up outside, Kagome went out and climbed inside. "Hey, Kagarific! How's it going?" Kagome glared at him and then turned towards her window.
They drove in silence. Miroku was tempted to turn on the radio to create some noise, but he didn't. They were almost at Miroku's apartment before Kagome said anything. "Why didn't you tell me that Inuyasha is engaged?"
"What?" Miroku swerved towards oncoming traffic, pulling the car back amidst angry horns.
"I said, why didn't you tell me that Inuyasha was engaged?"
Miroku pulled into a parking lot and parked before he answered her. "What makes you think that he's engaged?"
Kagome gave him a flat look. "His fiancée waltzing into the apartment tends to do that."
"Fiancée … fiancée … who could … wait, was her name Kikyo?"
She turned back to the window. "See, you know her."
"Kikyo is highly delusional and mentally unstable. She stalked Inuyasha at work for two months after he broke up with her. She hasn't been around in a while … I was kinda hoping that she'd died somewhere or something." Miroku patted Kagome's shoulder. "Don't worry, we're not hiding anything from you."
She looked at him out of the corner of her eye. "So he's not engaged?" Miroku shook his head and started to pull back out onto the road. Kagome settled into her seat. "She looks just like me."
Miroku didn't answer for a moment. "I think we should go to Sango's house. You could meet her brother." He maneuvered them through traffic quickly. Kagome managed not to comment on his speeding.
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The boy who opened the door was tall and thin, with dark hair and dark eyes and an obvious resemblance to Sango. He smiled as he saw them. "Hey, Miroku. How are you? And you must be Kagome. I'm Kohaku. Come on in." He struck Kagome as being extremely mature.
Miroku and Kagome sat down on the couch as Kohaku put his school stuff into his bag. "Oh, Happy Birthday, Miroku. It was just a couple of days ago, right?" Miroku nodded. "Sango should be home soon, she's actually running a little late."
"How's school going?" Miroku asked.
"I can't wait for Christmas vacation. Just a month left, now. But it's alright, I guess. We don't really learn much." They heard the keys in the door. "Ah, Sango's home!"
She took one look at the faces of Miroku and Kagome and her eyes narrowed. "Did that bitch show up again?"
"She told Kagome she was his fiancée!" Miroku put his face in his hands.
"You owe me fifty bucks, then. She's not dead, and she came back. Fifty bucks." She walked over and sat down next to Kagome. "You're upset."
Kagome shook her head. "What would I be upset about?" She looked at Sango out of the corner of her eye.
"Oh I didn't mean anything by it, just, you know, it must have been horrible spending an entire day with her."
"No, I enjoy spending time with my clones." Sango drew back slightly. "Is that why Inuyasha let me stay?"
Miroku pulled her into a hug. "Don't insult yourself, Kag-bear." She sighed and hugged him back. "We love you for who you are, not who you look like. If it was me, basing it on your appearance, I'd kick you back out into the street."
There was a knock on the door, and Sango let Inuyasha inside. He collapsed into a chair and closed his eyes. "Trouble?" Miroku asked him.
"My landlord says that I can't change my locks, because he has a master key that works on all the rooms, and if I change mine then his master key won't work. I took the key that she had, but I'm pretty sure she still has more copies." He sighed. "So she'll probably be back. I had thought she had given up."
He opened his eyes and caught Kagome's flat look. "Are you mad at me?" he asked, confused. She just smiled wryly. "You are mad at me. Why?"
"You don't have crayons." Inuyasha's jaw dropped slightly. He looked to Sango and Miroku for help but they were just as confused. "I just wanted to draw, ok? And I was looking for crayons and I couldn't find them. And then she showed up and I ended up getting interrogated all day by someone claiming to be your fiancée, which I had never heard of so I thought you had been lying to me this whole time, and I just wanted crayons!"
Miroku patted her shoulder, trying not to laugh. Inuyasha was in shock. "She said she was what?"
Kagome crossed her arms and turned to Miroku with a glare. "Don't laugh at me. I know you're laughing, don't deny it, I can see your face."
Inuyasha's shock dissipated. "I have crayons. Somewhere. I'll find them for you." He got up and held out a hand. "Go home now?"
She took his hand and let him pull her off the couch. They said goodbye and left the apartment together. As soon as they left, Kohaku came back into the room. "So how long have they been together?"
Sango shook her head. "Oh, they're not together, together. They just live together."
Kohaku nodded. "Right, I'll believe that. So what are the bets on how long it'll take them to get together?"
"I'll give them a month," Miroku said.
Sango bit her lip. "There's a lot going against them, I'll give them two or three." She smiled. "If they even figure it out themselves."