AN: Hello everyone, so very very sorry. I didn't mean to take so long updating, more than a month....damn. If you caught the author's note in What Tangled Webs we Weave before ff.net deleted it, then you know my reasons for not updating. If not, I'll put it simply for you....I was INCREDIBLY busy. I could barely schedule in time to sleep. Anyway, the point is, it's Christmas break, and I finally had time to finish off the story, so for all of you that have waited for so long...I am incredibly sorry.
Also, my story Never Piss of an Author, was also deleted during the ff.net 'clean up'. I suppose they just deleted anyting that had the word 'author' or 'notes' in the title. Too bad to, I was planning on letting my anger out on Kikyou next. In a Red Riding Hood parody my friends would be proud of.
Okay, now I just have to say this. I heard very recently that 'yasha' actually means 'female demon'. If this is so, does that mean Inuyasha's name means 'female dog demon'? If so, then we now all kow why he's so fond of the word bitch. I'm not sure if this is in fact true, but I found it interesting, so there you go.
Anyway, on with the story ^_^
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It Takes Two to Tango
by Salami Maker
Chapter 5: The Joys of Dogs and Makeup
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Barking, talking and laughing. If you listened to what was going on around you in the public park, that's what you would hear. If you really listened hard, you ould catch snippits of conversations going on around you, creating a kind of kaliedoscope soap opera. Most people would find eavesdropping (especailly the kind where your being blatant about it) quite rude and intrusive. Fortunately for Kagome, she didn't have that problem.
"What do you mean it was nothing?" asked a redhead standing a few feet away from the bench Kagome was seated on.
"I mean it was nothing," said the boy she had spat the comment at. "It didn't mean anything to me,"
"The whole school seeing you grope and maul Urami is nothing?!"
"I wish you would just-!"
But she didn't get to hear what the boy wished she would do, because at that moment, she heard a loud 'BOO!!' in her right ear and then the background noise of a large barking dog. She turned to see Sango take a seat on the bench, her fluffy brown German Sheppard lazily placing it's head on Kagome's lap. "Eavesdropping again,"
"Why yes, yes I was," she said as she absently scratched behind the dogs ears.
"Kagome you seem.....tense,"
"More thense than usual?"
"Well, yeah, considering the fact that your usually pretty mello,"
"I'm just--did you just say I act like I'm high?"
"No...." she said, wondering where her friend had gotten that idea.
"Because I never get lifted you know. Never in my life,"
"See.....? Tense,"
"I'm just....worried.....about the next prank Inuyasha's gonna pull,"
"Oh?"
"It's been almost a week and nothing's happened yet,"
"He's probably just waiting so he can get you on the field trip tomorrow,"
"Sango! That's not helping!"
She laughed at her obviously exasperated friend and said, "Look, maybe he's just....given up,"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, maybe he's just decided that this isn't fun anymore,"
"I doubt it. Inuyasha's not the type to give up....on anything,"
"You never know,"
"No, I know him," she insisted.
"Hmm...." she hummed as though she had just been let in on a big secret.
"What was that?"
"What was what?"
"That 'hmm'. What was that 'hmm' about?"
"I'm not sure I know what your talking about,"
"Don't play games with me Sango. I know you to well. Now tell me what you meant or I'll sick Logan on you,"
"You do know he's my dog, right?"
"But you know he'll do whatever I tell him to,"
Sango considered this for a minute, then sighed, "Sad, but true. I don't know how he got so attached to you. I think he's attracted to your scent,"
"Don't change the subject,"
"You know who else, I bet is attracted to your scent? And I mean in a -big- way,"
"Stop avoiding the topic at hand,"
"I think Inuyasha really likes you,"
"Sango stop--what did you just say?" she asked in a hushed voice, as though afraid someone had just heard what she had said.
"I said that I think Inu-baby has got the hots for you,"
"Y-you're joking, right?" she spat out, managing to only stutter once. She failed, however, at keeping the blush from her cheeks.
"I mean, why else would anyone keep going in a prank war for this long?"
"To get back at the other person," she said, her cheeks steadily getting redder.
"It stopped being about that a long time ago, and you know it,"
"I'm not sure I know what your talking about, " she said, mimicing Sango's earlier tone. "Besides, I've been continuing this battle of wits just as much as he has,"
"Gee, I wonder what that could mean," drawled Sango.
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"Um, the meaning is.....forest arrows scare wet dogs," declared Inuyasha, with a triumphant smile. That is, until Miroku snatched the paper away from him and peered down at it.
Then he laughed.
"You idiot, it says 'My dog went swimming in the lake by the forest'. You suck at translating English."
"Well, it's hard, they don't put anything in the proper order. It's all jumbled up,"
"Poor Inuyasha afraid he can't do it?"
"Keh. Whatever," he said, before pulling a rather large crate out from under his bed..
"What the hell is that thing?"
"This?" he asked innocently as the crate gave a violent shake on it's own accord. "Why, this is a gift for Kagome,"
"Your still on that? I thought you had given up the war and come back to the side of sanity,"
"What would make you think that?"
"Well, you've been rather civil to her for the past week,"
"I've just been biding my time,"
"Oh, is that the reason? I thought it was something else,"
"Oh? And what did you -think- it was?" he asked, a warning glint in his eyes.
"I thought you had developed a crush on Kagome," he said, rather bluntly.
"W-what? I don't kn-know what your talking about," he spluttered, just managing to keep control of the red tinge creeping up his neck.
"So, then, I must have imagined all those times I saw you sneaking a glance of her when she wasn't looking." It wasn't a question.
"It's called checking out the enemy,"
"You were checking her out all right,"
"That's-I-that's just so....EWW!"
"You know it's true,"
"No, I don't. I have no such intentions towards Kagome," he said, though the deep blush had already made it's way to his cheeks.
"She does the same to you,"
That made him stop in his tracks, and for a second, the only thing that could be heard, was a low hissing sound, emanating from the box on the bed. "What?" he asked, his voice a whisper.
"She's always looking at you when your not looking. Then when you look up, she looks away rather quickly. I think she has a thing for you. It would explain this overly long fued,"
"And how would you know this?"
"I have my ways," he said, with a lecherous grin.
This, at least, sobered Inuyasha up. "Meaning you were checking out her ass and you just happened to notice she was looking at me,"
"You think so low of me,"
"What I think of you is not even as low as you really are,"
A hand flew to his chest, as though he had suddenly been skewered through the heart and said, "You wound me," in mock pain.
"Notice the concern on my face," he drawled, before sitting dow on the bed to face Miroku, who was seated at his desk.
"So, from your reaction, I'm guessing the news that Kagome likes you is quite a shocker,"
"I thought she hated me," he said, more to himself than to anything else.
"And of course, you tried to hide the pain of that thought by attackingher physically andemotionally," said Miroku, in true 'Dr. Phil' style (AN: I hate that show.)
"Huh?"
"Well, you like her, so like a lot of idiotic Neanderthal-like highschool boys, you decided to take the 'pull her hair and run' route,"
"I don't like Kagome,"
"Of course you don't,"
"I DON'T!!"
"Whatever you say, you good buddy of mine,"
"Your disgusting," he said as the box beside him gave another slightly-less violent rumble.
"What's in that thing anyway?"
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"I can't beleive I'm witnessing this," Kagome mumbled under her breath.
She and Sango were sitting with the rest of their drama class in the cafeteria, waiting for the okay, and Inuyasha and hs buddies were...well, Miroku would have been proud. First, they would argue on which girls were hottest, then if the girl walked in, they would ogle her for several minutes before one of them got up and and grabbed her ass 'Miroku-style'. Despite his aversion to being too much like his best friend, Inuyasha ogled along with the rest of them. It was way to early in the morning for this kind of stuff.
"What?" asked Sango
"No, nothing. So, you ready for this?"
"No! My partner is Miroku. He'll probably lead me into a dark closet or something,"
"Oh no, he won't bother. He'll just grope you in public,"
"Gee, thanks for your support," she said sarcastically, though it didn't faze Kagome at all.
"No problem. Anytime,"
Mrs. Taoshi walked into the cafeteria and said "Okay, find your partner and get on the bus."
Kagome and Sango walked out to the bus, where Inuyasha and Miroku found them. "Hey partner!" called Miroku, grabbing Sango's arm and dragging her onto the bus with him. It was a good thing her hands were clenched in his because his other hand was groping her ass as they climbed up the school bus steps.
Inuyasha turned to Kagome and said, "Shall we?"
"Whatever," she said following him onto the bus. She sat down beside him in the last row of the yellow bus behind Sango and Miroku. She leaned her head back against the seat and flicked at the duct tape on her seat, putting her foot onto her backpack. Mrs. Taoshi's first period class was packed into the bus right behind them. Sango looked back at Kagome with a pleading look on her face and Kagome looked at her watch. She leaned forward and whispered into her ear, "Don't worry, it's only six and a half more hours until three o'clock."
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They reached the Soulpepper Theatre at nine, the play started at nine thirty and it lasted two and a half hours. They were let go for lunch and that's where Kagome and Sango were now, in WacDonald's scarfing down burgers before they had to go back and meet their partners.
Kagome wiped the mayo, or at least she thought it was mayo (you never can tell with fast food), from her mouth and pulled a pack of Corets breath eliminator from her bag, throwing two of the small white gums in her mouth. Sango watched her and said, "What you wanna make sure your breath smells good when you kiss Inuyasha?"
"No..." she said, the pink from the day before returning to her cheeks.
"What is it?"
"Well, um, it's possible that Kouga is picking me up after school,"
"What?! Kagome, I thought-,"
"I know, I know. But my mom said it was okay if he just picks me up and drops me off at home,"
"Still..."
"You act like he's going to hurt me or something. Kouga has never laid a hand on me unless I told him it was okay,"
"I know but he gives me the creeps and-- Wait a minute! Said it was okay? You didn't...you know...did you?"
"Did I what?"
"You know...did you do...it,"
"No!" cried Kagome, "Geez Sango, I'm only sixteen."
"So, Kikyou is only sixteen and she's already been around the block...several times,"
"Do I look like Kikyou?" she said with a definite sneer etched into her voice.
"Now that you mention it...yeah,"
"Sango, if I had done...that, I would have told you, right?"
"Right,"
"Therefore, I obviously didn't. But listen, I promised Inu-baby I'd meet him at the theatre concession stand at one. So I've got like five minutes," she said getting up from her seat
"Yeah, I told Miroku I'd meet him at one at that giant statue outside the theatre,"
"Aren't you coming?"
"No,"
Kagome shook her head, grabbed her things and walked into the wide building. She saw Inuyasha standing by the gates talking to Kikyou, who once again was dressed in a miniskirt way too short, and sighed. 'Why do guys always fall for that skank?' she asked herself as she leaned against the wall to the side and across from him. Then she realized she had just answered her own question.
"Come on Inuyasha, I just wanna go for a little walk," said Kikyou, leaning on his shoulder.
"I know Kikyou but I have to meet my partner."
"Isn't your partner that ugly Kagome girl? Ditch her," she whined.
"I don't think I can, our marks depends alot on this,"
"Since when do you care about marks. I just wanna go see some of the older parts of the building. I hear they're pretty freaky,"
"Don't you have your own partner you could go with?"
"Yeah, but Shinji ditched me to go hang out with Yuka,"
"That's too bad, but I think--" he spotted Kagome leaning againt the wall, watching them and wondered why she didn't come over and save him. "Kikyou, will you get off of me?"
"Why?"
"Because Kagome is right there. I have to go meet up with her,"
"She obviously wants to give us time alone,"
He caught Kagome's eye and fixed a pleading look on his face. She slowly pushed herself off the wall and walked grudgingly towards them. "Come on partner," she said, grabbing his wrist and pulling him away, "We have an assignment to do." She pulled him out of view of the sulking Kikyou then let go of him. "Happy?"
"Very. So, where do we start?"
Kagome opened her map and said, "We can go to anywhere on this map but we're not allowed in the highlighted areas." The map had two highlighted sections. One was a an old wing that they were doing construction on and the other was a corridor that wasn't even labelled.
He stared at the map and pointed to the highlighted corridor and said, "Let's go there,"
"I just said we can't go there,"
"Why not?"
"I don't know, we just can't,"
"Do you always follow the rules?"
"Obviously not, considering everything I did to you,"
"Let's not bring that up. Okay, let's just go here," he said, pointing to a something labelled the practice room. As they walked, he said, "I've been wanting to ask, how'd you get my car into my room?"
"You mean how did a girl take a car apart and rebuild it in working order?"
"Well...yeah,"
"Well, Sango and Eri have taken alot of shop classes. Kouga taught me alot about cars and...wait, why should I tell you?,"
"Kouga. That's the guy that dropped you off in his jeep, right?"
"Yeah,"
"He's your boyfriend, right?"
Kagome looked up at Inuyasha as they arrived at the room and opened the door without answering. The practice room was a large room with full length mirror taking up the west wall. There were three couples already in there and Kagome and Inuyasha sat down to start writing. Fifteen minutes later, when they had written everything they could, they got up and left the room. Their next destination were the actor's dressing rooms.
Kagome looked into the large vanity mirror, surrounded by light bulbs and looked at all the makeup on the counter. She looked back up at the mirror and saw Inuyasha come up behind her with industrial sized skin cream in his hand, an evil grin on his face. She jumped out of the way just as he dumped the jar in the seat. She grabbed a container of unpacked foundation and, grabbing handfuls of it, she started throwing it at him. Inuyasha copied her attempt and began to throw the drippy cream at her.
She grabbed a sprinkler of blue body sparkled dump them in her hand before she jumped on Inuyasha back and sprinkled it into his hair. He grabbed a some lip stick from the vanity and grabbed her around the waist, spun her forward and brought her down to the floor where he pinned both her hands with his left one. He opened the lipstick with his teeth, rolled it up and held it out in front of her. "I give up! No! No! You win! You win!" she cried in mock fear as the lipstick came toward her.
"No point in screaming little girl. No one can hear you," he said, in an over bearing voice. The lipstick was about to touch her lip when she opened her eyes and looked up at him, realizing just how close he was. His gaze flicked from her lips to her eyes and back again before he saw them coming slowly closer.
It was only when he was inches away did he realize that he had been leaning into her. So, in an attempt to save face, he brought the lipstick to her lips before colouring them and drew in circles until she had giant clown lips. Then he drew a star on one cheek and a heart on the other. He let her up and said, "What do you think? I think it suits you,"
(AN: a friend, who happens to be a guy, told me that guys get turned on when they watch chicks put on lipstick. And even more so when they do it for them...wierd @_@)
She took one look in the mirror and started laughing. Her hair was grey with powder and her clothes were covered in cream. Inuyasha came up beside her and she laughed even harder. His hair was overed in blue sparkles and his clothes were covered in an array of makeup. There was also a mascara streak on his cheek. "Wow, we look great," said Kagome sarcastically and they both left the room laughing. They found a few people standing outside waiting for them to come out, and that just seemed to make them laugh even harder as they went down the hall to find bathrooms.
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Kagome stood infront of the bathroom mirror, her wet hair dripping over her shoulder. She had scrubbed the lipstick off her face, wiped up as much of the cream as she could and thanked the lord that the school uniform top was white, then she had started wetting her hair to get out the foundation and cream. As she rung out her wet hair and twisted it to tied up, Kikyou walked in and sat on the sink counter beside her, the uniform skirt hiked up muc more than necessary.
"Kegme, can we talk?" Kagome twisted her hair up, clipped it with a a blue hair clip and fanned her hair out in the back of her head. "Excuse me, Kegme, I'm talking to you,"
"Good thing my name isn't Kegme," she said, drying her hands and pulling out some napkins to wipe up the droplets of water on her shirt.
"Oh, right, Kagome, my bad. We need to talk,"
She didn't answer, simply gave her a tired look and went to wipe the eyeshadow out of her eyes. (A/N: Yeah, that's right, I typed it)
"Look, Inuyasha is mine,"
"Why exactly would I care?"
"Just stay away from him. He's my man,"
"Look, you can have Inuyasha we're just partners. Once this assignment is over, I'll probably never talk to him again. Un;ess he actually thinks he can win this tug of war," she said, swinging her bag over her shoulder and throwing the napkin in the trash.
"As long as we understand each other,"
"What I don't understand is why you think the whole world wants to see the colour of your underwear," said Kagome before she walked out of the bathroom. She dropped her bag on the floor, leaned against the wall, and slid down to the floor.
She had to wait several minutes for Inuyasha to come out, and he didn't look much different from when he had gone in. He had gotten most of the sparkles out of his hair and had wiped up the cream and foundation, though it was still visible on his dark blue uniform shirt. The mascara streak on his cheek hadn't changed at all, though he looked like he had washed his face several times. It was raw red.
She stood up and said, "Um...what exactly did you do in there for so long?"
"It wouldn't come off," he said, pointing to the streak on his face. She sighed and pulled a small light blue bottle and a white handkerchief out of her bag. She opened the bottle and put a bit of the liquid onto the handkerchief then walked toward him. "Wait, what are you going to do with that?"
"Don't worry, it won't hurt, much. I'm kidding come here," she said wiping his cheek, the streak coming off into her handkerchief. When she was done, his cheek was clear. "It's eye make up remover."
"Oh. What about my shirt?"
"What do you think I carry a washing machine around in my bag? Take it off it bothers you so much. But," she said turning back to her bag, "I can give you a brush to get out the rest of those sparkles." She put the handkerchief and the bottle back in her bag and pulled out a clean brown brush. She turned back around and dropped the brush.
He had taken off his uniform shirt and underneath he wore a t-shirt that showed his toned chest and washboard stomach. He bent down and picked up the brush, and said, "Wow, you sure are one clumsy bitch. Thanks," before he went back into the boys bathroom. As he walked through the doors, she looked toward the girls washroom and saw Kikyou scowling at her.
"Hi Kiki," said Kagome sweetly.
"I thought I said-,"
"You mean you can't remember what you said a few minutes ago? God, your stupider than I thought," They glared at each other with hate until Inuyasha came back out and dropped his bag loudly on the floor.
"Oh Inuyasha! You ready for that walk now?" asked Kikyou as Kagome turned to clean her brush of the silver hair, dumping them in the trash and putting it into her bag.
Inuyasha looked at Kagome then back at Kikyou, "No, we still have a bunch of places to write on. We got sidetracked,"
Kagome shook her head slightly and swung her bag over her shoulder, just as her cell phone rang. She pulled it out said into it, "Hello? Hey," she said, "Yeah, that's fine...No...Yeah, I'll find one. Calm yourself, will you? Okay, okay, if you can come, come. You you can't, don't...okay, bye, talk to you later. Call me late though, okay? Before you come. Yeah, okay, see ya," she said hanging up the platinum cell and putting it in her bag. She looked at Inuyasha and was about to ask him if he was ready to go, but instead, found Kikyou once again hanging all over him.
She also couldn't see one of Kikyou's hands, and she would have bet money that it wasn't in exactly the most wholesome place.
"Um, I think I should leave you two alone," she said. But she might as well have been talking to the wall behind them for all the response she got. With a soft sigh, she walked away from the couple and began roaming around the building, looking for one of her friends. Maybe, if she was lucky, she could get one of them to let her be the third wheel.
She was walking towards the stage when her cell phone rang again.
She pulled it out, still walking, and said into it, "Hello?"
"Hey, Kag, it's me," said Sango's voice back.
"Oh hey..."
"Um, listen, I was wondering if I could join your little scavenger hunt,"
"How come?"
"Well, Miroku is sort of, lying on the ground, twitching,"
Letting out a heavy sigh, she said in a monotone voice, "What'd he do?"
"That moron did the most unbeleivable thing. I swear to god, he's lucky I didn't kill him for being such an Neanderhtal,"
"Okay, calm down, what did he do?"
"Well, first he grabbed my hand and shoved me into the closet,"
"Uh huh..."
"Thenk he jumoed in with me and tried to grope my ass,"
"Right..."
"Then when I tried to get out, he felt up my skirt. Panties and all."
"And what did you do?"
"I bit him to a bloody pulp, what do you think I did?"
"How badly?"
"I can't decribe it any better than bloody pulp,"
"Okay...is he there?"
"Yeah, but he's not moving,"
"Is he conscious?"
"I don't think so. He probably blacked out,"
"Wow, okay, where are you?"
"Um, in front of the cafeteria,"
"Alright, I'll be there in a few," she said, hanging up the phone. She looked back the way she had come, and sighed, then changed courses for the cafeteria.
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By the time they had to go meet the rest of the class at the bus, they had explored and written up reports on almost the entire building. Sango stood beside Kagome on the curb as the rest of the students began to slowly file onto the bus and said, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I can wait by myself, Mrs. Taoshi said it was okay since I gave her the note,"
"I know but..."
"Nothing is going to happen so just calm yourself,"
"Okay...bye. Call me when you get home," she said before she fell into line for the bus.
Kagome looked down at the ground and was suddenly surprised by a clawed hand on her shoulder. She almost jumped out of her skin before she turned and looked up into Inuyasha's face, "Geez! Don't do that!"
"Do what?"
"Don't sneak up behind people!"
"Maybe you shouldn't be so jumpy,"
"I'm not jumpy,"
"Yeah, and a zebra doesn't have stripes,"
She smiled and said, "What's up?"
"Well, I was wondering....did, did we have fun in today?"
"I think so...." she said cautiously, unsure were this line of wuestioning was going to go
"That's what I thought," he said, before he gave her a pretend shudder.
She rewarded him with one of her brilliant smiles and said, "Your an okay guy, Inuyasha. But if you tell anyone I said that, I'll skin you alive,"
"Watch me shake in my boots,"
"Your wearing sneakers,"
"You know what I mean! So, listen, maybe, sometime, we could all hang out together, like civilized people."
"You? Civilized?"
"Compared to you, I'm nobility. So, what do you think? I haven't hung out with Sango in the longest time for fear of you. And you seem.....alright,"
"Oh..well I-," she suddenly heard a loud persitent honking and turned to see Kouga seating in his jeep, a scowl on his face as he gave Inuyasha cut eye. "I gotta go, Inu-...I'll t- bye," she finally got out before she walked up to Kouga's jeep and got in. Before driving of, Kouga sent him a menacing smile that clearly said 'stay away from her'.
Inuyasha snorted as he walked back to the bus. That's when he realized he had forgot to set off his mid-day surprise.
Well, there was always tomorrow.
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Sorry about the long wait and the shortness of the chapter. Well, it's not that short but it's shorter than the last one. Anyway, I'll update as soon as I can.
Also, my story Never Piss of an Author, was also deleted during the ff.net 'clean up'. I suppose they just deleted anyting that had the word 'author' or 'notes' in the title. Too bad to, I was planning on letting my anger out on Kikyou next. In a Red Riding Hood parody my friends would be proud of.
Okay, now I just have to say this. I heard very recently that 'yasha' actually means 'female demon'. If this is so, does that mean Inuyasha's name means 'female dog demon'? If so, then we now all kow why he's so fond of the word bitch. I'm not sure if this is in fact true, but I found it interesting, so there you go.
Anyway, on with the story ^_^
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It Takes Two to Tango
by Salami Maker
Chapter 5: The Joys of Dogs and Makeup
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Barking, talking and laughing. If you listened to what was going on around you in the public park, that's what you would hear. If you really listened hard, you ould catch snippits of conversations going on around you, creating a kind of kaliedoscope soap opera. Most people would find eavesdropping (especailly the kind where your being blatant about it) quite rude and intrusive. Fortunately for Kagome, she didn't have that problem.
"What do you mean it was nothing?" asked a redhead standing a few feet away from the bench Kagome was seated on.
"I mean it was nothing," said the boy she had spat the comment at. "It didn't mean anything to me,"
"The whole school seeing you grope and maul Urami is nothing?!"
"I wish you would just-!"
But she didn't get to hear what the boy wished she would do, because at that moment, she heard a loud 'BOO!!' in her right ear and then the background noise of a large barking dog. She turned to see Sango take a seat on the bench, her fluffy brown German Sheppard lazily placing it's head on Kagome's lap. "Eavesdropping again,"
"Why yes, yes I was," she said as she absently scratched behind the dogs ears.
"Kagome you seem.....tense,"
"More thense than usual?"
"Well, yeah, considering the fact that your usually pretty mello,"
"I'm just--did you just say I act like I'm high?"
"No...." she said, wondering where her friend had gotten that idea.
"Because I never get lifted you know. Never in my life,"
"See.....? Tense,"
"I'm just....worried.....about the next prank Inuyasha's gonna pull,"
"Oh?"
"It's been almost a week and nothing's happened yet,"
"He's probably just waiting so he can get you on the field trip tomorrow,"
"Sango! That's not helping!"
She laughed at her obviously exasperated friend and said, "Look, maybe he's just....given up,"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, maybe he's just decided that this isn't fun anymore,"
"I doubt it. Inuyasha's not the type to give up....on anything,"
"You never know,"
"No, I know him," she insisted.
"Hmm...." she hummed as though she had just been let in on a big secret.
"What was that?"
"What was what?"
"That 'hmm'. What was that 'hmm' about?"
"I'm not sure I know what your talking about,"
"Don't play games with me Sango. I know you to well. Now tell me what you meant or I'll sick Logan on you,"
"You do know he's my dog, right?"
"But you know he'll do whatever I tell him to,"
Sango considered this for a minute, then sighed, "Sad, but true. I don't know how he got so attached to you. I think he's attracted to your scent,"
"Don't change the subject,"
"You know who else, I bet is attracted to your scent? And I mean in a -big- way,"
"Stop avoiding the topic at hand,"
"I think Inuyasha really likes you,"
"Sango stop--what did you just say?" she asked in a hushed voice, as though afraid someone had just heard what she had said.
"I said that I think Inu-baby has got the hots for you,"
"Y-you're joking, right?" she spat out, managing to only stutter once. She failed, however, at keeping the blush from her cheeks.
"I mean, why else would anyone keep going in a prank war for this long?"
"To get back at the other person," she said, her cheeks steadily getting redder.
"It stopped being about that a long time ago, and you know it,"
"I'm not sure I know what your talking about, " she said, mimicing Sango's earlier tone. "Besides, I've been continuing this battle of wits just as much as he has,"
"Gee, I wonder what that could mean," drawled Sango.
^_^
"Um, the meaning is.....forest arrows scare wet dogs," declared Inuyasha, with a triumphant smile. That is, until Miroku snatched the paper away from him and peered down at it.
Then he laughed.
"You idiot, it says 'My dog went swimming in the lake by the forest'. You suck at translating English."
"Well, it's hard, they don't put anything in the proper order. It's all jumbled up,"
"Poor Inuyasha afraid he can't do it?"
"Keh. Whatever," he said, before pulling a rather large crate out from under his bed..
"What the hell is that thing?"
"This?" he asked innocently as the crate gave a violent shake on it's own accord. "Why, this is a gift for Kagome,"
"Your still on that? I thought you had given up the war and come back to the side of sanity,"
"What would make you think that?"
"Well, you've been rather civil to her for the past week,"
"I've just been biding my time,"
"Oh, is that the reason? I thought it was something else,"
"Oh? And what did you -think- it was?" he asked, a warning glint in his eyes.
"I thought you had developed a crush on Kagome," he said, rather bluntly.
"W-what? I don't kn-know what your talking about," he spluttered, just managing to keep control of the red tinge creeping up his neck.
"So, then, I must have imagined all those times I saw you sneaking a glance of her when she wasn't looking." It wasn't a question.
"It's called checking out the enemy,"
"You were checking her out all right,"
"That's-I-that's just so....EWW!"
"You know it's true,"
"No, I don't. I have no such intentions towards Kagome," he said, though the deep blush had already made it's way to his cheeks.
"She does the same to you,"
That made him stop in his tracks, and for a second, the only thing that could be heard, was a low hissing sound, emanating from the box on the bed. "What?" he asked, his voice a whisper.
"She's always looking at you when your not looking. Then when you look up, she looks away rather quickly. I think she has a thing for you. It would explain this overly long fued,"
"And how would you know this?"
"I have my ways," he said, with a lecherous grin.
This, at least, sobered Inuyasha up. "Meaning you were checking out her ass and you just happened to notice she was looking at me,"
"You think so low of me,"
"What I think of you is not even as low as you really are,"
A hand flew to his chest, as though he had suddenly been skewered through the heart and said, "You wound me," in mock pain.
"Notice the concern on my face," he drawled, before sitting dow on the bed to face Miroku, who was seated at his desk.
"So, from your reaction, I'm guessing the news that Kagome likes you is quite a shocker,"
"I thought she hated me," he said, more to himself than to anything else.
"And of course, you tried to hide the pain of that thought by attackingher physically andemotionally," said Miroku, in true 'Dr. Phil' style (AN: I hate that show.)
"Huh?"
"Well, you like her, so like a lot of idiotic Neanderthal-like highschool boys, you decided to take the 'pull her hair and run' route,"
"I don't like Kagome,"
"Of course you don't,"
"I DON'T!!"
"Whatever you say, you good buddy of mine,"
"Your disgusting," he said as the box beside him gave another slightly-less violent rumble.
"What's in that thing anyway?"
^_^
"I can't beleive I'm witnessing this," Kagome mumbled under her breath.
She and Sango were sitting with the rest of their drama class in the cafeteria, waiting for the okay, and Inuyasha and hs buddies were...well, Miroku would have been proud. First, they would argue on which girls were hottest, then if the girl walked in, they would ogle her for several minutes before one of them got up and and grabbed her ass 'Miroku-style'. Despite his aversion to being too much like his best friend, Inuyasha ogled along with the rest of them. It was way to early in the morning for this kind of stuff.
"What?" asked Sango
"No, nothing. So, you ready for this?"
"No! My partner is Miroku. He'll probably lead me into a dark closet or something,"
"Oh no, he won't bother. He'll just grope you in public,"
"Gee, thanks for your support," she said sarcastically, though it didn't faze Kagome at all.
"No problem. Anytime,"
Mrs. Taoshi walked into the cafeteria and said "Okay, find your partner and get on the bus."
Kagome and Sango walked out to the bus, where Inuyasha and Miroku found them. "Hey partner!" called Miroku, grabbing Sango's arm and dragging her onto the bus with him. It was a good thing her hands were clenched in his because his other hand was groping her ass as they climbed up the school bus steps.
Inuyasha turned to Kagome and said, "Shall we?"
"Whatever," she said following him onto the bus. She sat down beside him in the last row of the yellow bus behind Sango and Miroku. She leaned her head back against the seat and flicked at the duct tape on her seat, putting her foot onto her backpack. Mrs. Taoshi's first period class was packed into the bus right behind them. Sango looked back at Kagome with a pleading look on her face and Kagome looked at her watch. She leaned forward and whispered into her ear, "Don't worry, it's only six and a half more hours until three o'clock."
^_^
They reached the Soulpepper Theatre at nine, the play started at nine thirty and it lasted two and a half hours. They were let go for lunch and that's where Kagome and Sango were now, in WacDonald's scarfing down burgers before they had to go back and meet their partners.
Kagome wiped the mayo, or at least she thought it was mayo (you never can tell with fast food), from her mouth and pulled a pack of Corets breath eliminator from her bag, throwing two of the small white gums in her mouth. Sango watched her and said, "What you wanna make sure your breath smells good when you kiss Inuyasha?"
"No..." she said, the pink from the day before returning to her cheeks.
"What is it?"
"Well, um, it's possible that Kouga is picking me up after school,"
"What?! Kagome, I thought-,"
"I know, I know. But my mom said it was okay if he just picks me up and drops me off at home,"
"Still..."
"You act like he's going to hurt me or something. Kouga has never laid a hand on me unless I told him it was okay,"
"I know but he gives me the creeps and-- Wait a minute! Said it was okay? You didn't...you know...did you?"
"Did I what?"
"You know...did you do...it,"
"No!" cried Kagome, "Geez Sango, I'm only sixteen."
"So, Kikyou is only sixteen and she's already been around the block...several times,"
"Do I look like Kikyou?" she said with a definite sneer etched into her voice.
"Now that you mention it...yeah,"
"Sango, if I had done...that, I would have told you, right?"
"Right,"
"Therefore, I obviously didn't. But listen, I promised Inu-baby I'd meet him at the theatre concession stand at one. So I've got like five minutes," she said getting up from her seat
"Yeah, I told Miroku I'd meet him at one at that giant statue outside the theatre,"
"Aren't you coming?"
"No,"
Kagome shook her head, grabbed her things and walked into the wide building. She saw Inuyasha standing by the gates talking to Kikyou, who once again was dressed in a miniskirt way too short, and sighed. 'Why do guys always fall for that skank?' she asked herself as she leaned against the wall to the side and across from him. Then she realized she had just answered her own question.
"Come on Inuyasha, I just wanna go for a little walk," said Kikyou, leaning on his shoulder.
"I know Kikyou but I have to meet my partner."
"Isn't your partner that ugly Kagome girl? Ditch her," she whined.
"I don't think I can, our marks depends alot on this,"
"Since when do you care about marks. I just wanna go see some of the older parts of the building. I hear they're pretty freaky,"
"Don't you have your own partner you could go with?"
"Yeah, but Shinji ditched me to go hang out with Yuka,"
"That's too bad, but I think--" he spotted Kagome leaning againt the wall, watching them and wondered why she didn't come over and save him. "Kikyou, will you get off of me?"
"Why?"
"Because Kagome is right there. I have to go meet up with her,"
"She obviously wants to give us time alone,"
He caught Kagome's eye and fixed a pleading look on his face. She slowly pushed herself off the wall and walked grudgingly towards them. "Come on partner," she said, grabbing his wrist and pulling him away, "We have an assignment to do." She pulled him out of view of the sulking Kikyou then let go of him. "Happy?"
"Very. So, where do we start?"
Kagome opened her map and said, "We can go to anywhere on this map but we're not allowed in the highlighted areas." The map had two highlighted sections. One was a an old wing that they were doing construction on and the other was a corridor that wasn't even labelled.
He stared at the map and pointed to the highlighted corridor and said, "Let's go there,"
"I just said we can't go there,"
"Why not?"
"I don't know, we just can't,"
"Do you always follow the rules?"
"Obviously not, considering everything I did to you,"
"Let's not bring that up. Okay, let's just go here," he said, pointing to a something labelled the practice room. As they walked, he said, "I've been wanting to ask, how'd you get my car into my room?"
"You mean how did a girl take a car apart and rebuild it in working order?"
"Well...yeah,"
"Well, Sango and Eri have taken alot of shop classes. Kouga taught me alot about cars and...wait, why should I tell you?,"
"Kouga. That's the guy that dropped you off in his jeep, right?"
"Yeah,"
"He's your boyfriend, right?"
Kagome looked up at Inuyasha as they arrived at the room and opened the door without answering. The practice room was a large room with full length mirror taking up the west wall. There were three couples already in there and Kagome and Inuyasha sat down to start writing. Fifteen minutes later, when they had written everything they could, they got up and left the room. Their next destination were the actor's dressing rooms.
Kagome looked into the large vanity mirror, surrounded by light bulbs and looked at all the makeup on the counter. She looked back up at the mirror and saw Inuyasha come up behind her with industrial sized skin cream in his hand, an evil grin on his face. She jumped out of the way just as he dumped the jar in the seat. She grabbed a container of unpacked foundation and, grabbing handfuls of it, she started throwing it at him. Inuyasha copied her attempt and began to throw the drippy cream at her.
She grabbed a sprinkler of blue body sparkled dump them in her hand before she jumped on Inuyasha back and sprinkled it into his hair. He grabbed a some lip stick from the vanity and grabbed her around the waist, spun her forward and brought her down to the floor where he pinned both her hands with his left one. He opened the lipstick with his teeth, rolled it up and held it out in front of her. "I give up! No! No! You win! You win!" she cried in mock fear as the lipstick came toward her.
"No point in screaming little girl. No one can hear you," he said, in an over bearing voice. The lipstick was about to touch her lip when she opened her eyes and looked up at him, realizing just how close he was. His gaze flicked from her lips to her eyes and back again before he saw them coming slowly closer.
It was only when he was inches away did he realize that he had been leaning into her. So, in an attempt to save face, he brought the lipstick to her lips before colouring them and drew in circles until she had giant clown lips. Then he drew a star on one cheek and a heart on the other. He let her up and said, "What do you think? I think it suits you,"
(AN: a friend, who happens to be a guy, told me that guys get turned on when they watch chicks put on lipstick. And even more so when they do it for them...wierd @_@)
She took one look in the mirror and started laughing. Her hair was grey with powder and her clothes were covered in cream. Inuyasha came up beside her and she laughed even harder. His hair was overed in blue sparkles and his clothes were covered in an array of makeup. There was also a mascara streak on his cheek. "Wow, we look great," said Kagome sarcastically and they both left the room laughing. They found a few people standing outside waiting for them to come out, and that just seemed to make them laugh even harder as they went down the hall to find bathrooms.
^_^
Kagome stood infront of the bathroom mirror, her wet hair dripping over her shoulder. She had scrubbed the lipstick off her face, wiped up as much of the cream as she could and thanked the lord that the school uniform top was white, then she had started wetting her hair to get out the foundation and cream. As she rung out her wet hair and twisted it to tied up, Kikyou walked in and sat on the sink counter beside her, the uniform skirt hiked up muc more than necessary.
"Kegme, can we talk?" Kagome twisted her hair up, clipped it with a a blue hair clip and fanned her hair out in the back of her head. "Excuse me, Kegme, I'm talking to you,"
"Good thing my name isn't Kegme," she said, drying her hands and pulling out some napkins to wipe up the droplets of water on her shirt.
"Oh, right, Kagome, my bad. We need to talk,"
She didn't answer, simply gave her a tired look and went to wipe the eyeshadow out of her eyes. (A/N: Yeah, that's right, I typed it)
"Look, Inuyasha is mine,"
"Why exactly would I care?"
"Just stay away from him. He's my man,"
"Look, you can have Inuyasha we're just partners. Once this assignment is over, I'll probably never talk to him again. Un;ess he actually thinks he can win this tug of war," she said, swinging her bag over her shoulder and throwing the napkin in the trash.
"As long as we understand each other,"
"What I don't understand is why you think the whole world wants to see the colour of your underwear," said Kagome before she walked out of the bathroom. She dropped her bag on the floor, leaned against the wall, and slid down to the floor.
She had to wait several minutes for Inuyasha to come out, and he didn't look much different from when he had gone in. He had gotten most of the sparkles out of his hair and had wiped up the cream and foundation, though it was still visible on his dark blue uniform shirt. The mascara streak on his cheek hadn't changed at all, though he looked like he had washed his face several times. It was raw red.
She stood up and said, "Um...what exactly did you do in there for so long?"
"It wouldn't come off," he said, pointing to the streak on his face. She sighed and pulled a small light blue bottle and a white handkerchief out of her bag. She opened the bottle and put a bit of the liquid onto the handkerchief then walked toward him. "Wait, what are you going to do with that?"
"Don't worry, it won't hurt, much. I'm kidding come here," she said wiping his cheek, the streak coming off into her handkerchief. When she was done, his cheek was clear. "It's eye make up remover."
"Oh. What about my shirt?"
"What do you think I carry a washing machine around in my bag? Take it off it bothers you so much. But," she said turning back to her bag, "I can give you a brush to get out the rest of those sparkles." She put the handkerchief and the bottle back in her bag and pulled out a clean brown brush. She turned back around and dropped the brush.
He had taken off his uniform shirt and underneath he wore a t-shirt that showed his toned chest and washboard stomach. He bent down and picked up the brush, and said, "Wow, you sure are one clumsy bitch. Thanks," before he went back into the boys bathroom. As he walked through the doors, she looked toward the girls washroom and saw Kikyou scowling at her.
"Hi Kiki," said Kagome sweetly.
"I thought I said-,"
"You mean you can't remember what you said a few minutes ago? God, your stupider than I thought," They glared at each other with hate until Inuyasha came back out and dropped his bag loudly on the floor.
"Oh Inuyasha! You ready for that walk now?" asked Kikyou as Kagome turned to clean her brush of the silver hair, dumping them in the trash and putting it into her bag.
Inuyasha looked at Kagome then back at Kikyou, "No, we still have a bunch of places to write on. We got sidetracked,"
Kagome shook her head slightly and swung her bag over her shoulder, just as her cell phone rang. She pulled it out said into it, "Hello? Hey," she said, "Yeah, that's fine...No...Yeah, I'll find one. Calm yourself, will you? Okay, okay, if you can come, come. You you can't, don't...okay, bye, talk to you later. Call me late though, okay? Before you come. Yeah, okay, see ya," she said hanging up the platinum cell and putting it in her bag. She looked at Inuyasha and was about to ask him if he was ready to go, but instead, found Kikyou once again hanging all over him.
She also couldn't see one of Kikyou's hands, and she would have bet money that it wasn't in exactly the most wholesome place.
"Um, I think I should leave you two alone," she said. But she might as well have been talking to the wall behind them for all the response she got. With a soft sigh, she walked away from the couple and began roaming around the building, looking for one of her friends. Maybe, if she was lucky, she could get one of them to let her be the third wheel.
She was walking towards the stage when her cell phone rang again.
She pulled it out, still walking, and said into it, "Hello?"
"Hey, Kag, it's me," said Sango's voice back.
"Oh hey..."
"Um, listen, I was wondering if I could join your little scavenger hunt,"
"How come?"
"Well, Miroku is sort of, lying on the ground, twitching,"
Letting out a heavy sigh, she said in a monotone voice, "What'd he do?"
"That moron did the most unbeleivable thing. I swear to god, he's lucky I didn't kill him for being such an Neanderhtal,"
"Okay, calm down, what did he do?"
"Well, first he grabbed my hand and shoved me into the closet,"
"Uh huh..."
"Thenk he jumoed in with me and tried to grope my ass,"
"Right..."
"Then when I tried to get out, he felt up my skirt. Panties and all."
"And what did you do?"
"I bit him to a bloody pulp, what do you think I did?"
"How badly?"
"I can't decribe it any better than bloody pulp,"
"Okay...is he there?"
"Yeah, but he's not moving,"
"Is he conscious?"
"I don't think so. He probably blacked out,"
"Wow, okay, where are you?"
"Um, in front of the cafeteria,"
"Alright, I'll be there in a few," she said, hanging up the phone. She looked back the way she had come, and sighed, then changed courses for the cafeteria.
^_^
By the time they had to go meet the rest of the class at the bus, they had explored and written up reports on almost the entire building. Sango stood beside Kagome on the curb as the rest of the students began to slowly file onto the bus and said, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I can wait by myself, Mrs. Taoshi said it was okay since I gave her the note,"
"I know but..."
"Nothing is going to happen so just calm yourself,"
"Okay...bye. Call me when you get home," she said before she fell into line for the bus.
Kagome looked down at the ground and was suddenly surprised by a clawed hand on her shoulder. She almost jumped out of her skin before she turned and looked up into Inuyasha's face, "Geez! Don't do that!"
"Do what?"
"Don't sneak up behind people!"
"Maybe you shouldn't be so jumpy,"
"I'm not jumpy,"
"Yeah, and a zebra doesn't have stripes,"
She smiled and said, "What's up?"
"Well, I was wondering....did, did we have fun in today?"
"I think so...." she said cautiously, unsure were this line of wuestioning was going to go
"That's what I thought," he said, before he gave her a pretend shudder.
She rewarded him with one of her brilliant smiles and said, "Your an okay guy, Inuyasha. But if you tell anyone I said that, I'll skin you alive,"
"Watch me shake in my boots,"
"Your wearing sneakers,"
"You know what I mean! So, listen, maybe, sometime, we could all hang out together, like civilized people."
"You? Civilized?"
"Compared to you, I'm nobility. So, what do you think? I haven't hung out with Sango in the longest time for fear of you. And you seem.....alright,"
"Oh..well I-," she suddenly heard a loud persitent honking and turned to see Kouga seating in his jeep, a scowl on his face as he gave Inuyasha cut eye. "I gotta go, Inu-...I'll t- bye," she finally got out before she walked up to Kouga's jeep and got in. Before driving of, Kouga sent him a menacing smile that clearly said 'stay away from her'.
Inuyasha snorted as he walked back to the bus. That's when he realized he had forgot to set off his mid-day surprise.
Well, there was always tomorrow.
^_^
Sorry about the long wait and the shortness of the chapter. Well, it's not that short but it's shorter than the last one. Anyway, I'll update as soon as I can.
