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(AN: Sorry for the lack of updating. Hope you like.)

The Golden Rule

Chapter Four:

The Plan Set In Motion

Yesterday night had been the best night Kagome had had in a while. Seeing Inu Yasha made Kagome feel happy and carefree, like she had been before. Both of them had stayed until the late hours of the night to just talk about each other, and how it was like for them to be separated for 8 years.

It was now about mid-day, and everyone in the castle still seemed to be asleep. It seemed like they had a pretty good night as well.

Kagome was one of the first people to wake up due to lack of food. In her dream, she dreamed that she was eating a whole feast. But when she woke up, all she found was a little puddle of drool on her pillow.

She got up very quietly and decided to take a bath. When she was done, she put on simple clothes, nothing fancy since she wasn't in the mood to be dressed in gold and perils and things like that. When she left her room, she went down the corridor to the guest rooms. Kagome didn't remember what room Sango was staying in, and then remembered that she was to put something on the handle as a signal. She found a little pink ribbon tied around the handle.

Kagome knocked on the door and a female voice said to come in. Sango was on her bed just staring at the ceiling. She seemed like she was having loads of fun.

"Something interesting up there?" Kagome asked, making Sango sigh.

"I've been awake for about an hour and still no one has woken up. Man, how long where we up till?" Sango asked still tracing the pretty pattern on the ceiling. It looked like a chicken of some sort.

"I think up until 6 a.m. I'm not sure. Anyways, if you were awake this whole time, why didn't you come to my room? It's only down the hall a couple of doors down. Why didn't you come? Don't you love me anymore?" Kagome said, acting stupid as usual. This made Sango avert her gaze from the ceiling, and giggle with delight at Kagome.

"It's never too early for stupidity is it?" She said still giggling a little.

Kagome smiled at her best friend who seemed to have something on her mind. "What's wrong? You seem… I don't know, kinda worried?" Kagome guessed. She seemed to hit the jackpot when Sango decided to sigh and lay down on her bed again.

"I'm happy." She said simply, smiling along also. "It's because of that guy…" Sango trailed off.

"Miroku?" Kagome guessed, since it was the only guy Sango seemed to have a pretty good time with. Since she had introduced Sango to Miroku, they seemed to have hit it off very well. 'I am a genius' Kagome thought and smiled. Soon there were going to be little Sango's and little Miroku's running around the castle. 'Awww' was all that was going through Kagome's mind

"Anyways," Sango said, trying to avoid the question about Miroku. "Your mother did tell you that a lot of people were staying in your home right?"

Kagome had no idea of this and made a weird face. "No, she didn't mention anything. Guess she might have forgotten…"

"Well, it's nothing to worry about since it's only like 2 more people…" Sango's voice trailed off. It seemed like it was kind of awkward.

"Well, who else is staying here?" Kagome insisted, signaling to Sango to go on.

"Well one of them is Miroku." Sango said with a warily smile. "I think you know who the other one is" She said, winking to her.

Kagome smiled. "I thought Inu Yasha left home when I went to sleep. He said he was going to stay up and wait for his parents to get tired. I felt bad for leaving him, but I was so tired…" Kagome said to Sango in a low voice. It seemed like if she was talking to herself.

Sango smiled. "Well he's in the next room if you want to see if he's awake. Or you could wait till after breakfast, or lunch, or whatever the hell we're going to eat to see if he's still sleeping." Sango offered.

"I think I'll see him later, besides when I woke up, I saw a puddle of drool next to my pillow!" Kagome said, sounding excited. Sango could only laugh at her friends' stupidity.

"Something to be proud of? Huh? Kagome?" Sango said teasingly, both girls now descended the steps to go into the kitchen and scout for some food.

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Meanwhile, it seemed like everyone in the Higurashi household was stirring. Miroku who was next door to Inu Yasha was getting up at the same time as him. Unfortunately for them, they had to share a bathroom. What most people didn't know, was that Miroku and Inu Yasha knew each other for quite sometime, of course this could be demonstrated by they way they would fight over who would get to use the bathroom first. 

"Miroku! Stop being an ass! I was in the bathroom first!" Inu Yasha yelled. He was careful at pounding at the door, since he knew that his brute strength would tear down half of the castle.

"You left the bathroom! So I get to use it first!" Miroku yelled back. He had to put at least 3 chairs behind the door so Inu Yasha wont push the door down.

Inu Yasha calmed down a bit and decided to reason with him. "Ok, I'll give you 10 minutes. If you're not done, I'm coming in there and throwing you out the window. I don't care if you're butt-naked or not!"

Miroku had a smirk on his face. He knew that Inu Yasha wouldn't do that, not especially with what he was going to say. "Oh, you mean you don't care if Princess Kagome sees me naked?"

Inu Yasha stood motionless. He had forgotten that this was Kagome's house. His shoulders slumped and he simply grumbled to himself how he was going to kill Miroku afterwards. "Fine! Just hurry up! You're not the only one who wants to use the bathroom." He grumbled. "You damn pervert"

After about 30 minutes, Miroku decided to finally leave the comfort of the bathroom to go change. Of course by this time, Inu Yasha was trying to kill him (AN: 2 words: Anger Management!  ^-^).

It was now Inu Yasha's turn to go ahead with the grooming part of the day. Funny that when Inu Yasha was done bathing, he smelled like wet dog.

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Downstairs, were all the parents in a meeting, it seemed like a secret one at that since the door was closed and the window blinds have been closed off, not letting any of light shine through. You would think that parents are the more mature ones in this story…

All four sets of parents had already decided one thing: that their children should wed. Kagome and Inu Yasha's parents were in favor that they should marry each other, while Sango and Miroku's parents agreed that they should wed too.

"How does everyone suppose we are going to speed up this little process?" Chiharu, Kagome's mother, asked. She, along with the other mothers, was very nervous about the whole ordeal.

"What if we decide to lock up our children in a dungeon and make them marry each other?"  Yurika, Sango's mother said. Let's just say she isn't the brightest person there. Everyone decided to ignore that comment.

"No, what we need is a very clever idea; something that they wouldn't think that we're pushing them." Sotaru, Inu Yasha's father said. Now there's a man… err… youkai with brains!

"Let's leave" Daisuke, Miroku's father said. "It's the simplest thing to do. We just say that all of us have important business to attend to outside the country and we wont be back for, lets say, a month?"

There was mumbling inside the room, and then they seemed like they agreed. "Fine, that idea will do! Besides, we can think of it as a little vacation for us as well" Hiroshi, Kagome's father said.  Soon all the parents stood up with him and started yelling for joy.

While in the middle of the celebration, Sango and Kagome decided to see what was all the commotion about. They opened the door and stared at the spectacle inside. Seeing your parents with their friends acting like adolescents can scare you.

The room went quiet in a heartbeat. All the parents had sweat drops on their heads. Yes, they were embarrassed. Both girls simply bowed their heads and closed the door very, very slowly.

"What do you think that was about?" Kagome asked Sango in a hushed voice.

"I have no idea" Sango said, and they went back to the kitchen to get a cup of water.

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Inside the kitchen were Miroku and Inu Yasha eating breakfast, or what was left of it since Kagome and Sango got to it first. They ate in silence until they heard giggles coming from the hall. The door opened and Kagome and Sango waltzed right into the kitchen.

"Hey guys" Both girls greeted and continued giggling, remembering the sight they saw earlier with their parents.

Miroku and Inu Yasha just stared at each other. They thought that Sango and Kagome didn't have enough sleep last night, so they were delusional. But they were wrong.

"Are you ok?" Inu Yasha asked Kagome, she quickly shut up and smiled at him. This made his heart melt.

"Yeah, of course. It's just that we saw something funny, and well… kinda disturbing." Kagome said smiling.

"What did you see that was so funny?" Miroku asked. He felt a bit neglected.

"It involved our parents. ALL of our parents" Sango said, still giggling at the thought.

"Ohh" Miroku and Inu Yasha said in unison. Kagome and Sango stopped laughing and stared at each other. Then they busted out laughing all over again.

Inu Yasha leaned over towards Miroku. "I think they ate too much sugar today." He whispered. Miroku only nodded his head in agreement. Those girls are one weird couple…

A maid came in and called the four teenagers. "Lady Kagome, Your father would like to speak with you in the library. That goes for everyone else as well. All your parents are gathered there." She bowed and quickly left.

Kagome just looked at where the maid was very weirdly. "What could he want now?" She mumbled to herself, and left. Everyone else followed in her footsteps.

Kagome and company entered the library. Different from before, this time the window blinds were open, letting light shine through. There were all the four sets of parents, each of them sitting at a different couch.

"Please sit." King Higurashi said, also signaling to sit at the empty couch. All four of them sat down, Inu Yasha next to Kagome and Miroku next to Sango.

For the next hour all of the parents decided to explain what was going to happen. King and Queen Higurashi had accepted that all four teenagers would stay at their kingdom for the time being. All of their parents would leave the country for urgent matters.

This seemed way too familiar to Inu Yasha, who now remembers why. His parents had set up the exact same thing with his older brother Sesshomaru. He smirked to himself. 'Maybe this wont be as bad, besides, Sesshomaru is now happily married with the woman he loves…'

(AN: There you go, chapter four. I'm sorry I haven't been updating as much as I would like, but it was all because of family! Well anyways, I hope to have the next chapters for "Life Isn't Fair"  and this one real soon, but don't quote me on that…)