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Chapter 10: Full filled and exciting night!

"This is going to be so much fun," Kagome exclaimed. She was in her purple Pajamas swinging her legs over the bed.

The girls had been planning a slumber party that night. At least that's what they referred to all of them staying over as. It had taken Sango forever to understand a slumber party. But they'd finally gotten her to understand. Megumi had already arranged a schedule of what they'd do first. And first was that they watched some horror movies.

 "Good, what are we watching?" Kagome asked.

"It's something on Pay-per-view called 'Whispers of Death'."

"Oh. I hope it's good!"

The boys were back in their hotel room. Inuyasha was on the floor sitting Indian-style as usual with his back against the wall. He claimed he didn't trust those beds although Miroku had informed him of how comfy they were; he still remained on the floor. Shippo was in there with them sitting bored on the bed flipping through the channels with the volume on mute.

Inuyasha had told him that he didn't want to hear any noise but silence. But Shippo couldn't go to sleep. He was bored.

"This is boring," Shippo said for the fifteenth hundred times.

"Then go to sleep," was Inuyasha's answer just as it had been the first time Shippo asked it.

"I don't even know why I'm over here, instead of with the girls. It's boring!"

"THEN GO TO SLEEP! If you're tired be quiet and go to sleep!"

"I don't want to."

 "We should go check on the girls," Miroku suggested, sitting up in his bed with a smile. "I bet that wouldn't be boring, huh, Shippo?" Shippo nodded excitedly. "And this 'foam' is going to get us to them." He pointed to the phone. He examined the instructions. "It says here to call somebody else in this hotel is to punch in the room door and it'll connect. What's the number?"

Inuyasha was growing confused, he'd told him to punch in the room door and now he was asking something about a number. Miroku saw the confused look on his face and explained again, "No, I have to dial it in the foam and it'll get me to them. What's their number?"

"That's stupid," Inuyasha said finally after comprehending. He left out the door and looked at Kagome's door, then walked back inside. "Their number is 516."

"And wouldn't you know, guys, that I saw this commercial that gave me an idea…" Miroku punched in the number.

"Wait, Kaori, don't!"

"I'm not going! You are!" The girl on the TV screen pushed the man off the balcony.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" he screamed the whole way and there was a sickening thud.

The girls huddled close. Megumi could barely keep her eyes open.

RING RINGGGGGGG!

"AAh!!!!" The popcorn bowl flipped out of Ai's hand going all across the room and then when Sango got ready to answer the phone her Sprite flipped over. "Hello?"

"Hello," a low voice said. "What are you doing?"

"Who is this?" Sango asked again impatiently.

"I can see everything you're doing. The popcorn and drinks…"

"Where are you?" she asked in a frightened voice.

The girls had turned to look by this time thinking it was just like the horror films. The threatening phone calls… The unsuspecting victim…

"Don't worry about where I am; just know that I can see you. I'll see you when you're walking outside, and when you're in the bathroom—"

"Stop! I know who this is."

"Who?" the voice was starting to lose his composure.

"Is this Miroku?"

"No, who is that?" the little voice asked trying to hide giggles.

Sango, frightened, handed the phone to Kagome. "Who is it?" Kagome mouthed.

"I'll be over there in a little while. Don't bother to run either. I know where you're at at all times," a more menacing, growling voice said.

Then all she could hear was the dial tone…

The girls started looking over and replaying to Megumi and Ai what happened on the phone line before they had finished explaining, someone was knocking on the door.

 "Lock the door!" Kagome yelled.

"You're closer!"

Then the door opened.

There stood Miroku, Inuyasha, and Shippo. The girls ran over screaming and yelling.

"What the hell is going on?" asked Inuyasha over all the commotion.

They finally managed to tell the story and Miroku nodded his head, his hand resting underneath his chin, "For you to be concerned about a killer, your door's unlocked," Miroku said.

"Yea well, we were coming to lock it."

"Now, since the men are here to protect us, the 2nd thing on the schedule is to play Truth or Dare," Megumi said.

Knock Knock!

"The killer!" the girls said at the same time.

"Get the door, Inuyasha," Kagome said pushing him.

"Why? I ready know who's there," he said annoyed. "I can smell them. Somebody hasn't taken a bath in a while."

"Who is it?"

But Inuyasha refused to answer and continued to be stubborn. He even had the nerve to sit down with them and play their game. Kagome shook her head and started to the door but Houjo's voice interrupted them. He had come to see if they were alright. He had heard their screams all the way on his floor. Miroku thought that was pretty unlikely, he figured Houjo must have been strolling the hall hoping to run into one of the girls

"He can't know that a bunch of boys in here," Megumi said, "Or he'll tell on us for sure."

Kagome took it into her hands to settle it. "We're fine, Houjo," she yelled back, "You can rest assured."

"O.K., but if you have problems my room number is 416."

"Kay." Ai rolled her eyes. "Now let's play."

The game had been pretty uneventful at first and they had to stop several times to re-explain the rules to anyone who claimed to understand but really didn't. Then it was Sango's turn. She had been asked why she disowned Miroku sometimes.

"Disown? I don't own Miroku so…"
"You know what I mean. You two are supposed to be going out and Miroku is pretty cute."

While Sango was busy stumbling looking for some sort of answer, Kagome was thinking. She was worried that someone would call her and give her some type of dare that dealt with Inuyasha. But before she could object then she was called.

"You're next, Kag-chan," Ai said. "Truth or Dare?"

Funny, Kagome hadn't recalled hearing Sango's answer, but that was probably because she was thinking so hard. "Uh… Truth… no dare!"

"I dare you to go in the closet with Inuyasha for 5 minutes."

"That's a joke, right?"

"Nope. Go!"

"What's the big deal? It's just a closet," Inuyasha said. Sometimes humans do such stupid things.

They walked into the closet, and everyone outside dashed to put their ears against the door.

"What kind of stupid ass idea is this? To be in a closet with you? And just what are we supposed to be doing?"

Kagome wasn't about to answer that. "Let's not worry about that. The question is why did you choke Houjo?"

"Dammit, Kagome. Why do you care so much? It's over."

"Because that was a horrible thing to do. Trying to kill someone. Why don't you like him?"

"Cause he's gay."

"He's not gay because he likes me."

"WHAT? Yea, now I've got a real good reason to kill him!"

"Calm down. Is this jealously rearing in, Inuyasha?"

"Feh! What's there to be jealous of?"

"About Houjo liking me, and me maybe liking him," she teased.

"What? You like him?!" Inuyasha was hurt; he couldn't believe Kagome had said that. He hadn't seemed to pick up the teasing in Kagome's voice either. Kagome noticed his face and quickly told him that she was just joking.

"Well then I guess its okay that I like Kikyo."

Kagome immediately turned silent and turned her back to Inuyasha. He regretted he'd said that, "Hey, it was a joke!"

But she was still silent and serious, "Just a question, Inuyasha, but what am I to you?"

"W-what do you mean?"

She knew Inuyasha would never get her meaning. "It's nothing."

He knew what she meant though. Why couldn't he say it…? "Look, Kagome, you mean the world to me. I just want to protect you."

"Inuyasha…"
"Because you're too dumb to protect yourself." The last part he just had to throw in.

"Sit, boy!"

"What was that for?" he asked as he greeted the floor.

"I'm not too dumb."

He sat up and started at his wrist. "Dammit. Isn't 5 minutes up yet?"

"No, we have…" She glanced at her watch. "2 more minutes."

"Great. So how long are we staying here? In your time?"

"I don't know. For a while, I'm always spending time in your era…"

"But that's more important than this and those test things."

"Yea, but I do have a life here. So sometimes I have to leave."

"You stay so long with this Houjo. I know you're with him when I'm gone right? Let's just stop talking because every time we do it always lead s back to that boy and it's really starting to piss me off." He folded his arms and got into his usual sitting position.

Kagome couldn't believe it. The Great Inuyasha was jealous of somebody like Houjo. She could probably tell why. Houjo was popular, smart, well-liked, a gentleman, nice—shoot! She could go on forever. Kagome looked over at Inuyasha. He looked deep in thought.

And he was deep in thought, what the hell does that 'Houjo' got that I don't? Does Kagome like him better than me? Maybe I should ask her… No, cause then she'd think I like her. But do I?

"Why do you keep looking over here?" Inuyasha asked irritated.

"I can look wherever I want to."

The door opened. "Hey, you crazy lovers…" Ai stopped when she saw they were a few feet apart from each other.

"Did you two have fun?" Megumi asked. "Anyways, we're done playing Truth or Dare. It's time to karaoke."

"Great, anything to be away from you," Inuyasha said hopping up. Inuyasha wasn't about to admit that he had actually enjoying being in her presence.

Megumi had rented a karaoke machine from the staff room downstairs; she'd purchased the rental with her so called 'allowance' money. Ai had decided to sing first and grabbed the microphone. While she was singing, Miroku nodded, "That's a nice voice she has. Wonder if she'd sing if you were to—"

"Shut up, Miroku," Sango said already seeing where that conversation was coming from.

 "Yea, we listen to some girl that tries to sing," Inuyasha with a laugh. "Can't wait to see you up there, Kagome. You probably can't sing either."

"Be quiet, Inuyasha. I can't wait to see you up there. It's not like you can sing."

He wrinkled his nose. "How would you know? And who says that I'm going to 'sing' for you people?"

"Well, you entered the room. Once you enter, you play by our rules," Megumi butted in.

"And who the hell asked you?"

"Don't be rude, Inuyasha." Kagome turned to Megumi. "He's not used to being around other human beings. We'll have to work on his people skills."

"I guess you're right," Miroku said his hand reaching for Sango.

She clobbered him before he could fully touch her. "I promise I will break your arm off."

He insisted his hands had a mind of its own. He claimed that was part of the curse Naraku had placed on him. Of course, Megumi didn't know what he was talking about and Kagome had to quickly cover his mouth before she asked question.

Shippo looked over at Kagome when he thought no one was paying attention. "This is kind of fun, even if you're just listening. Can't me and Kirara talk yet?"

"But Shippo…"

 "I could be one of those talking ones."

"That responds to everything?"

"Yea. Please…" He continued to beg until Kagome finally decided to give in.

"Lock! My door and my heart," Ai finished. "Who's next?"

"How about you San-chan?" Megumi asked.

"Okay…" She flipped through the karaoke book hoping the beat of the music would help her to figure out how to sing the song. "I have it. Number 3."

The music started. "Seven whole days. And not a word from you. Seven whole nights. I'm just about through. I can't take it, won't take it, can't take it no more. I had just about enough of you. I'd rather be on my own. Yes, on my own. Darlin' Darlin'"

Miroku started smiling. "She's singing this song to me," he whispered to Inuyasha and Kagome.

"You know if you cared anything about me," Sango continued. "You woulda been front and center. Lovin' me and touchin' me. Honey, honey, you know if you knew anything about me. You woulda been much more tender. Ooh squeezin' me, caressin' me. You coulda had about anything you wanted but you messed it up. You had to be tough. You told your friends you had me wrapped around your finger. You were talking kinda cocky like you had it goin' on. All the while you knew that things were kinda shaky. You knew that you were wrong. Dead wrong to be mistreating me. How can we go on?"

Kagome looked at Miroku. "Uh…"

"Sugar, sugar, you know if you knew anything about sweet. You woulda kept talking to me. Every day. Seven days a week. Baby, baby, you shoulda been givin' me a little more time. But you were just much too busy abusin' me and usin' me. I woulda done about anything for ya. I was crazy bout you. When I was sittin thinkin' I was kinda special you were runnin' round hittin' every other girl in town."

Inuyasha looked over at Miroku. "Yea, she's talking about you all right."

"How could you love me when you knew you played me funny? You knew that you were wrong. Dead wrong to be mistreating me. How can we go on? Deep in my heart, you were number one to start. But then you changed. You threw my heart away. Told your friends that you runnin' thangs. Why'd it have to be that way. You' re wrong, dead wrong, tell me how, how can we go on?"

And that was when Miroku took the microphone from Sango, he couldn't take to hear anymore. "Kagome, your turn!"

"Uh… I don't know... How about we sing a group song?" She wasn't quite comfortable with singing in front of a huge crowd.

"Yea!" Megumi bounced up and down. "All of us, including the boys. We can make up our own lines. Ready?"

"No! How about no more songs? You're boring all the readers," Inuyasha said.

"Fine."

"Since that has been said," Ai said. "We shall tell ghost stories." They gathered around in a circle with a flashlight, Ai had flicked off the lights and with the flashlight underneath her chin, it gave her face a gaunt look and she began…

It had been a while and Ai was still telling the story about a wife that was frightened of her husband because he was a serial killer, but she wouldn't leave him and decided to cheat on him with some other guy…

"And so she heard something, something was upstairs. She has remembered she left her boyfriend up there. Frightened she ran up the stairs to find her boyfriend and her husband. Her husband carrying a deadly weapon. Take it over, Inuyasha."

"Alright. The boyfriend's name was Bobo and the husband was named Yasha. The girls name is Kakue. I'm just giving them names so you'll understand when Yasha beats Bobo's ass. So Kakue goes up there and sees it. Bobo had been annoying, trying to make moves on Yasha's wife, and he wasn't up for it. Yasha was going to murder him."

"Why?" Kagome asked. "Why does he have to murder him?"

"Cause he's a serial killer, didn't you hear what Ai said? Anyhow, Yasha grips Bobo's neck and strangles him, causing him to choke."

"That's impossible; you can't choke because someone strangles you."

"Shut up, this is my story."

"Not anymore. You're too violent for this story. Let me take over," Kagome said grabbing for the flashlight.

"No, no. Let him continue, Kagome, I think this is gonna get good. I love a gruesome tale," Ai said.

"Thanks." Inuyasha started back up. "Houjo—I mean, Bobo was starting to feel sorry that he had been a little bastard and been with Kago—I mean, Kakue. He begged for mercy, but it was too late. He was going to give it to him… sweet death. He pushed Bobo in the bathtub and filled it up with water. Then he started to place his head under the water and held him there until he wasn't breathing anymore...

"Still not satisfied with that being the end, Yasha grabbed his wife's air screamer and—"

"Blow dryer," Kagome corrected.

"I don't give a damn. "Blow dryer" and threw it in the water. That kills a person, right?"

"If you don't know, don't say."

"Well, it electrizes him."

"Electrocutes him."

"Would you stop correcting me, Kagome?" he asked annoyed. Damn, he swore he couldn't say any more than 3 words before Kagome had something to say.

"I have to make sure everyone can understand you."

"You just don't want me to kill Bobo."

"Inuyasha, don't be silly. He's just some created character in a horror story."

"That's what you think. Take it over, Miroku."

He nodded and a smile formed on his face. "Alright, Kakue decided that what he had done wasn't right and that no one deserved to die like that. She wanted to leave, but she had promised to bear his child and she figured it was time to pay up. She grabbed him and led him to the bedroom…"

"This is getting too wild," Sango butted in.

"No, it's not. I'm just going to tell about all the things we do."

"We don't DO anything. So your story ends right there. My turn. The wife led him into the bedroom so she could do something she had been dying to do forever. She was going to kill her husband because he was an arrogant jerk that grabbed her butt all the time."

"But they're married," Ai interrupted. "They're supposed to do that sort of thing."

"Well, the husband is never home enough and whenever she gets home expecting a bit of solace she always spots some girl scantily clad slipping out the windows of the house, so she feels that way. So she grabs for the candlestick and gets ready to bring it to his head and shatter his skull into a million pieces. Take it over, Kagome."

"But she couldn't do it. She dropped the candlestick and fell to the floor crying. Before she could react then her husband, Yasha, fell down, dead. Kakue turned to see Bobo there, evidently not dead."

"What the hell? You can't do that! I killed Bobo!" Inuyasha complained.

"Hey, this is a suspense/horror. Bobo's back just like on those Chucky movies."

"Who's Chucky?" he inquired, confused.

"Nobody, and then she asked in a low voice 'How? But Yasha killed you?' And he replied… take it over, Megumi."

"I'll try. And he replied, 'It doesn't matter'. So Kakue and Bobo got married and had two little boys. Owari!"

"Owari?! That ain't the end! What a stupid way to end it!" Inuyasha yelled, still eager to continue it the way he desired. "Yasha had rose from the dead and became a bakemono to invoke harm on the family… his first target was gonna be their son and his name was Shippi. So he grabbed Shippi and tied him to a ceiling fan and let it spin until his neck broke off. Then he killed everybody in the house except his wife, Kakue, who he should have killed anyway, but didn't for some strange reason. Now you can say it."

"Owari."

"Why does it have to sound like Shippo?" Kagome asked.

"Because that should happen to him."

"Don't be so cruel. I hope you're joking."

"I still don't think that's a good ending either," Ai said. "But it can't be helped."

"Now what are we going to do?" Megumi asked.

"Let's um… I don't know, let's just do whatever and listen to music. I'll have something later…"
"Ooh! Your hair is so pretty," Megumi said looking at Inuyasha.

"Yes, but he doesn't know how to take care of it." Kagome grabbed a brush and began to brush his hair.

"What are you doing?"

"Brushing your hair, what do you think?"

"Oh…" He had never had anybody brush his hair before and it kind of felt good. Kagome's hands gliding the brush down his silver hair. "Ow!"

"Sorry, there's a tangle here. Inuyasha, do you want me to shampoo your hair, because this is…"

She explained to him what shampoo was and he decided to go ahead and let her.

Miroku stared as the couple walked off to the bathroom. "Sango, don't you want to brush my hair?"

"You don't have any hair."

He pointed to his little ponytail. "I call this hair, Sango."

"You ready, Inuyasha?"

"I guess so."

She sat on the edge of the tub and sat down. Inuyasha sat down next to her. Kagome wet up his hair and then began foaming his hair up with shampoo. It felt kind of good to Inuyasha, the whole scrubbing thing.

"Now, I'm going to rinse your hair." She started the water. "Now lay down."

Before he could ask how, she pulled him on her lap so that his face was facing the ceiling and just enough so that Kagome could rinse his hair off good. Get it? Inuyasha's feet are on the floor, a rather strange position. Inuyasha thought it was rather awkward himself, seeing as anytime Kagome told him to turn his head then his nose would nudge her breast and he'd be looking right at them. Then his face turned scarlet red but she didn't notice. He kind of liked being this close to Kagome. He could breathe in her scent very well.

"Close your eyes."

"Why should I close my eyes?"

"I don't want to get shampoo in your eyes. It'll burn."

"Sure…"

She started the water and washed the shampoo out of his hair. Inuyasha felt like he could just fall asleep, it was so relaxing…

Then she started to put the conditioner in. He could tell he was about to fall asleep. It felt so good, he never wanted to move; he just wanted Kagome to keep working on his hair…

"Inuyasha? Inuyasha?"

"Huh?"

"I'm done."

"Are you sure?" He searched for some reason for her not to stop. "Look, my hair doesn't feel clean."

"Well, it should. I washed it thoroughly. Your hair just needs to dry off and then I'll brush it. Okay?"

"Yea, yea."

She wrapped a towel on his hair and they walked out the bathroom.

"Stop, Miroku! I'm not playing with you!" Sango yelled.

"Yes, you are, come on! You know you want to marry me!"

Kagome and Inuyasha walked in the room to see the gang playing Life. They had finally gotten to the part of the game where you have to pick up a little man or woman piece and place it in your car to signify that you'd gotten married.

"No, I don't."

"Well, when I get there, I'm going to marry you."

They turned realizing that Inuyasha and Kagome were back. "Hiii," Megumi said. "Have fun?"

"What are you talking like that for?" Inuyasha asked.

"No reason."

"Look," Kagome said, she knew her friends minds were already in the gutter. "I just washed his hair and shampooed it so stop acting like that."

"I'm not acting any kind of way. We're playing life, Sango is in the lead, Ai has the most money, I'm in debt, and Miroku keeps cheating, he thinks we can't see him taking money."

"I am the bank, being the banker I should be able to have some of the money."

Kagome pulled out her blow dryer. "I hope you guys don't mind." She turned it on and started drying Inuyasha's hair.

Inuyasha minded though and place his hands over his sensitive dog ears hoping to block out most of the sound. But Kagome was right, in no time she had it dry and was pulling her brush through his silver and now silky hair and Inuyasha started to doze off again.

That morning

Kagome opened her eyes, wondering where she was. Then she knew, she was in the hotel room. On the floor. She was about to get up, but something was holding her down. She looked over to see Inuyasha's head lying on her stomach, his arms wrapped around her waist. But he wasn't on top of her exactly…

There were game pieces all over the place and money in Ai's mouth. Megumi was spread out widely by the door. She looked to find Sango and Miroku. If Kagome and Inuyasha's position was a little 'questionable' Sango and Miroku's was a sight to see. Sango was lying on top of Miroku. Inuyasha opened his eyes slowly. "You were great last night."

"WHAT?!"

Ooh! What did they do last night? Hopefully, not anything besides brushing hair. Sorry the most exciting parts happened after the karaoke, I made you all suffer. Well, hopefully I didn't. Hope you liked the chapter. That moment of "fluffiness" (I hope it was okay enough, I didn't want to pull them that much out of character) was good enough for you Bunny-chan! -Tune in for the next hot and steamy chapter of 'So Called Vacation'. I told you it was gonna be long… 15 pages. Oh my! Megu-chan.