Random quote of the day: 'Don't worry......I'm still not wearing underwear!' Todd's dad from Suddenly Susan.

I'm so sorry that I haven't posted in a while! I sorta hit a writer's block......But, here is a nice long chapter for you to sink your teeth into! (not really to sink your teeth into......more like *read*. But, uh, whatever you are most comfortable with I guess!) Enjoy!















Chapter Four

In which Inuyasha and Kagome finally meet, and Miroku is finally murdered.











"See ya later, Mom!" Kagome called as she ran to the door of her house.

"But, you just came home!" Her mother called back, successfully stopping her daughter at the door.

Kagome shrugged. "I had to bathe, but now I'm going over to Miroku's."

Ms. Hirugashi raised an eyebrow at her daughter, a slight smirk on her face. "You're going over to that charming young man's house? Kagome, dear, do you have a new boyfriend? I thought you were dating that Hojo fellow."

"Oh, eww," Kagome responded, flinching at her mother's choice of words. "First of all, I am not dating Hojo, he is just my vice-president. And secondly, Miroku is not my boyfriend, and he is the opposite of charming---- making him........not charming, or, un-charming, or whatever the opposite of charming actually is."

"Than why did you bathe before going to his house?" Her mother questioned.

Kagome rolled her eyes. "Did you not see me when I came home? I was Mashed Potato Girl for Pete's sake. Never in my life have I seen that much mashed potatoes. The carnage was everywhere! You couldn't escape it!"

"Food fight at school?"

"Yeah." Kagome nodded, her hand turning the door knob slightly. "So, now I gotta go over to Miroku's and bake." Slowly, she opened the door and smiled when the sun light hit her face.

"Well, have fun!" Her mom told her before turning and walking back into the kitchen.

Kagome sighed contently and walked out the door to her shrine house and down the many, many steps from her house to the street. When she reached the street, she paused to look up at the large shrine----or, Sunset Shrine, whatever title you prefer.

They had moved in with her grandfather in the middle of her sophomore year, after her father had....

'I still miss him so much,' Kagome thought as tears filled her eyes and she turned away from her home, walking down the side-walk that would eventually lead to Miroku's house.



'He taught me everything he knew, from how to fix a car, to archery and baseball.......but he left us way too soon. Every time I string a bow, I swear I feel his presence, and it's just so overwhelming that I can barely even breathe. So, that's why I gave it up. It's just too hard without my dad. He was so young when.....'

The tears that had filled her eyes moments before were now streaming down her face. Angrily, she wiped them away. Now was no time to be a big baby and cry!

He's dead, get over it! He is never coming back! So, focus on your Student Council work. Nothing else really matters right now.

She hugged herself as she walked down the familiar path. 'It's just..........he was the first man I ever loved. And if a girl can't have her daddy, what is she really left with but a big, empty whole in her heart?'

Now you are getting just *way* too corny.

'I can't help it! I loved my daddy! He was a great man!'

Yes, that is agreed. But would he want you to be blubbering like a whale?

'Well, technically, whales don't blubber. They *have* blubber to keep them warm-'

Got the point, smarty pants. However, my point is: wouldn't your father want you to be happy?

'Yeah......I guess so.'

Besides, you have that road trip to look forward to! Next weekend! Nothing but you, that beautiful convertible, and the wind in your hair.

'Daddy always loved the Corvettes.....in fact, he had been saving up to by one.'

Yes, well, your father had been saving up to buy an old one that he would fix up.

'Same difference.'

It is not the same difference. It is in fact very, very different.

'I think I'm insane.'

Yeah, big surprise there. Wait, how can you think you're insane? If you have enough intelligence to register the fact that you might be insane, I think that means you're not insane.

'What? Look, just go away! Besides, I'm almost at Miroku's house now.'

Yes, and what a fun time you'll have all alone with Miroku for hours on end!

Kagome shuddered before hugging herself tighter. She saw Miroku's house in the distance. Boy, she wished Sango would be there to protect her from Miroku's perverted hands.....





*~*~*~*



"Listen," Inuyasha almost burped as he set his feet on Miroku's dining room table, "no one knows I baked, understood? If anyone found I baked for a school fundraiser, it would hurt my image."

Miroku rolled his eyes. "What image? No one even knows you exist at school."

Inuyasha nodded. "Exactly."

"That makes no sense." Miroku stated. "How can it ruin your image if you don't have an image to ruin? You have a NON-image!"

"Exactly," Inuyasha nodded again.

"But..........but how can your image be ruined if there's NOTHING TO RUIN?!" Miroku wondered exasperatedly.

Inuyasha was about to answer when the door bell rang.

"Thank God," Miroku mumbled standing up and walking towards the door. "Moron was about to make my brain explode."

"I heard that!" Inuyasha called after him.

He was flicked off.



*~*~*~*





Kagome forced a smile on her face when her dear, dear friend (yeah right) Miroku opened the door. She readjusted the straps on her backpack as he looked her up and down, an almost graceful smirk possessing his features. He was beginning to creep her out.

"Hey, Kaggie!" He greeted. "I'm glad you came. Inuyasha and I would have been lost without you."

"Inuyasha?" Kagome questioned, her nose wrinkling in confusion as she stepped threw the door he had held open for her.

Miroku nodded. "Yes, he is a very close friend of mine who.....uh....*volunteered* to help." Miroku decided it was best to keep his Corvette deal under wraps until the baking was done with....or he died. Whatever came first.

"Oh," Kagome nodded. "Well, let's get started!"

"Okay, but first," he took her arm and led her into the dining room, totally taking the girl by surprise at the sudden physical contact, "Kagome Higurashi----I would like you to meet my dear friend Inuyasha Asari."

Their eyes locked from across the table, and it took everything in Inuyasha not to fall of his chair. That was the girl! This Kagome girl was the girl from lunch! And for some reason, he couldn't take his gaze away from her blue-gray eyes.

She smiled unsurely, oddly feeling very nervous. She pulled away from Miroku, all the while looking directly at Inuyasha, and walked over to him. As delicately as she could, she offered her hand to the sitting boy---- fully aware of how handsome he was.

"It's nice to meet you, Inuyasha. I'm glad Miroku and I will have help with the baking."

He stared at her hand for a minute before reaching his own out and shaking hers. He pulled away quickly, a shocked look on his face as he suppressed the strange and overwhelming urge to giggle.

Feeling incredibly stupid, for no man, neigh no demon, should ever want to *giggle*, Inuyasha shook his head and stood up quickly. "Yeah, whatever. Just remember I am only doing this for the car."

Kagome blanched, slightly disappointed in the boy's attitude. It figures; all handsome guys were either perverts, meat-heads, or jerks...........or, they were married or something. Never did a handsome guy fall madly in love with you, with only one look. That sorta stuff only happened in corny movies or stories.

Then, his words registered in her brain.

"Car?" She questioned, her nose wrinkling again. It is truly amazing the things that girl can do with her nose.

Miroku cleared his throat loudly, magically appearing at Kagome's sighed.

"Uhh," he began, his two friends looking at him quizzically, "Kagome!" He exclaimed, turning to her so quickly it made Kagome jump. "You can't tell anyone Inuyasha was helping us bake!"

"What?" Kagome asked, throwing Inuyasha a confused look.

"See," Miroku started again, regaining his composure after he realized he had saved himself from dying momentarily, "Inuyasha is scared that baking for a school function might ruin his image."

"Oh," Kagome smirked at Inuyasha, nodding slightly. "You're a tough guy, huh?"

Inuyasha glared evilly at Miroku before crossing his arms against his chest and giving an indignant, "Feh."

"Well, in that case," Kagome smiled slyly, taking off her back-pack and putting it on the dining room table, "I have a special apron for you."

She unzipped her yellow back pack quickly before pulling out something that was frilly and pink and tossing it at Inuyasha.

He caught it fairly easily and stared in shock at the obstruction in his hands. It was a bright pink apron.

Miroku burst out laughing as he tied his own normal, white apron around his waist. "IT HAS RUFFLES!"

Inuyasha glared at Kagome. "I AM NOT WEARING THIS!" He yelled at her.

She smiled up at him before putting her own, also normal white apron on. "Oh, yes you are. Or, I tell everyone at school that the tuff Inuyasha Asari was baking for a school fundraiser in a pink apron."

"WITH RUFFLES!" Miroku added, still very content in laughing like a hyena.

"However," Kagome continued, "if you wear the apron, no one knows about this little incident but you, Miroku, and I. The choice is yours, Inuyasha."

Alright, it's official. He was gonna this get the Kagome girl. He didn't how, or when, but boy was she gonna get was coming to her. Making *him* wear a pink apron with ruffles! Ooooh, this meant war.

He growled angrily as he put the apron on and stormed into Miroku's kitchen.

Miroku and Kagome looked at each other, smiles on their faces, before shrugging and following him to the kitchen.





*~*~*~*







For the past two hours, Kagome had been baking non-stop with Dumb and Dumber----literally. The two boys had decided it would be fun to act out random scenes of the movie while baking.



Fun; possibly.



Annoying; definitely.



At the moment, Miroku was stirring batter much too hard, causing most of the contents of his bowl to fly about the room.

Inuyasha, being too good for normal stirring, had hooked up the electric stirrer.

Now, Kagome was no idiot and she knew what Stupid Teenage Boy + electric appliance equaled, however, she did not stop the inevitable.

Inuyasha, being the oh-so-intelligent person he was, had of course set the stirrer on a very high speed. So when it hit his batter, the batter splattered everywhere! Including, on Kagome. In fact, Kagome got most of the splatter, and it covered her almost completely.

The two boys laughed as she wiped her eyes clean and spit what was, at one point in its existence, cup-cake batter out of her mouth. "Think of the 'Vette," she told herself in a sigh, trying to release the overwhelming urge to kill Miroku and Inuyasha-----mostly, of course, the urge to kill Inuyasha..........that one was the strongest at the moment.

"What did you say?" Inuyasha questioned, his laughter ceasing immediately.

Kagome glared up at him before pouring some cake batter into a baking pan. "I was trying to remind myself that my being here serves a purpose."

"Coulda fooled me," Inuyasha told her sarcastically, leaning on the counter nonchalantly. "But, seriously, what did you say about the 'Vette?"

Kagome shrugged. "I get Miroku's 'Vette Columbus Day Weekend."

Miroku gulped and decided now would be the best time to slowly back out of the kitchen and run to the safety of, oh, I don't know, Canada.

Inuyasha's eyes narrowed dangerously thin at Kagome. "Nah-uh."

"What?" Kagome asked him confused, wiping her battery hands on her apron.

"*I* get the 'Vette Columbus Day Weekend," he growled angrily.

"No," Kagome corrected, "I do. Miroku promised it to me."

"He promised the car to me FIRST, bitch." Inuyasha growled, standing up strait and towering over the girl.

"Do not call me bitch," Kagome warned, un-phased by their massive height difference, "And, how do you know that? Unless you have physical evidence that Miroku did indeed promise you the car first, I cannot believe you. For all I know, you are lying about this. You don't really seem like the most honest person in the world."

"Don't judge me, *wench*," Inuyasha told her threateningly.

"THEN DON'T CALL ME NAMES!" Kagome exploded, shoving her finger into his chest.

"I will call you whatever the HELL I WANT TO, BITCH!" Inuyasha exploded right back.

Kagome shook in anger before grabbing a bag of flour off of the counter and dumping it on Inuyasha's head. "My name is Kagome! Ka-Go-Me," said girl growled.

Inuyasha spit flour out of his mouth, glaring daggers at the girl.

He opened his mouth to say something rather vulgar, but Miroku tripping over his own feet and landing with a loud THUMP on the hard, tiled, kitchen ground, caused both Inuyasha and Kagome to turn and look at him.

Miroku gulped loudly, becoming very nervous----the looks Inuyasha and Kagome were giving him were none too friendly.

Slowly, Miroku stood and backed away to the kitchen door, all the while keeping his eyes on Kagome and Inuyasha. "Uhh," he began unsurely, "Gasp!" He said, "There appears to be an angry.......and uh........rabid uh........donkey terrorizing the.......uhh......neighborhood! I must save the children!" He turned on his heel and ran out of his house.

Inuyasha and Kagome slowly turned to look at each other.

"I say," Kagome began, picking up a nearby rolling pin and giving it an evil smirk, "we team together and kill Miroku."

Inuyasha nodded before brushing past her. "Sure, sure. But I get a piece of him first!" He took off in the direction Miroku had gone.

"Hey!" Kagome called, jogging after him, "WAIT FOR ME!"







The children in the neighborhood talked for years to come about the events that happened shortly after that.



Miroku had gotten a decent head start, but Inuyasha had caught up with him quickly and the only way for Miroku to dodge him was to run threw people's backyards.



Now imagine, for a moment, that you are just sitting in your living room, playing Playstation, when all of the sudden, through your window, you see a young man screaming on the top his lungs run threw your backyard. Then, of course, that screaming young man was followed by what appeared to be a disfigured snow man in pink, yelling obscenities on the top of his longs. And then, let's not forget, about Pudding Woman, who was covered in some sort of batter, and was chasing the two young men with a rolling pin raised in the air finally goes running past.



You would be slightly alarmed and would even possibly vacate your home, putting your game on pause of course, and would maybe even wander outside to see what was happening.



So, now that you are outside, you see those three odd people running down the middle of your street. Finally, the snow man in pink catches up to the screaming young man and tackles him to the ground, punching him while Pudding Woman goes to Screaming Young Man's side and starts hitting him with the rolling pin.



You then, after several long moments, get tired off this odd display and wander back into your house----only to find that your little brother erased your game. AND YOU WERE ON NINTH LEVEL ABOUT TO DEFEAT THE NINJAS! So then, you kill your little brother and for the rest of your pitiful excuse of a life wonder what exactly those three weird people were doing........and if Young Screaming Man survived.







DUN DUN DUNNNNNN















A/N: It's 3:47 in the morning and I just finished typing this! And, I'm not even tired yet! I can't believe I actually posted, and Shani you weren't even here to read it! Hehe.

PLEASE FORGIVE AND SPELLING AND/OR GRAMMATICAL ERRORS

Anyway, review and tell me if this chapter totally sucked or not......I need some pepsi.











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