Disclaimer: Ok is anyone else a little pissed off at Adult Swim for keeping the third season of Inuyasha off air? I am. How many times have they been replaying the first and second seasons? A lot. Anyways I don't own them.
Man im so mad that im not farther along in the fic b/c I've just heard "Miss you" by blink 182 and I love that song but I can't put it in just yet. Anyways here's the person I know all of you were anxiously waiting to enter the fic!!! That's right it's…oh hell im not that easy. You gota read the fic.
~Scribbler~
If I was invisible…(wait I already am.)
Ok I hate Clay Aiken but you'll see why it's so important to have this song in the fic. Lol
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"Please Inuyasha!"
"No."
"Pretty please?"
"Nope."
"Pretty please with sugar on top and whip cream and ice cream and a cherry?!"
"How old are you again Miroku? I haven't heard anyone say that in a good fifteen years. And the final answer is no. We cannot hire another girl. The only reason I hired Kagome was because you have been bugging me for the better part of 6 months that it wasn't fair to have Sango out numbered by us two guys."
That's total bullshit and you know it. Inuyasha's mind told him. You hired her because 1) she's a great dancer 2) she brings in a good size crowd that pays good money and the last but most important you LIKE her.
Inuyasha shook his head at this thought and tried to focus on his argument with Miroku but he still whined.
"But now we're equal. Two boys and two girls. That's still uneven for me because you and me both know that Sango has rejected me more then I care to remember and we all know that Kagome is off limits."
"Why is that?"
Miroku looked at his friend like he was insane. Inuyasha likes Kagome, right? Yeah. He had to. Sango said that Kagome had talked to him within 24 of meeting him and that's one hell of an accomplishment when you're talking about Inuyasha.
"Dude, she's yours right?"
"Feh. She's ok I guess. I'm not going to go all out just to get her attention."
Miroku decided to see if Inuyasha really cared about Kagome or not. He slowly smiled and said, "Well if ya don't mind I do have some things I would like to do with her. How many boyfriends do ya thinks she's had? I hope she's experienced. Ah well it doesn't really matter because when I'm through with her she will be so…"
Miroku was cut off by Inuyasha slamming his face into the bar and being rewarded with the satisfying sound of Miroku's nose popping out of place.
Miroku looked at Inuyasha a little annoyed and just popped his nose back into place with a gross sounding 'pop'. (A.N. you can pop your nose out of place and pop in back in. My orchestra teacher does it to freak us out.)
"So you do have feelings for Kagome don't you?" replied Miroku with a smirk in a semi nasally voice.
"No, I just don't want you to get your filthy hands all over her and it's not good for club members to be dating each other. People who lust after someone…like maybe a club dancer perhaps…like to think that they have a chance at going out with them. If you and Kagome were dating she would be less popular with the male crowd."
Miroku nodded and his comment and remarked, "Insightful but let me get this strait. It's wrong for me to go out with her because of the customers but once Kagome and you finally go out it will be ok because you're the club owner correct?"
"Right…wait…what! I never said I wanted to go out with her!"
"Did to."
"Did not."
"Did to.'
"Not."
"What are you two arguing about?" Sango asked as she came from the upstairs room with Kagome trailing at her heels.
It was a Tuesday afternoon and none of them had classes so they all decided to go and clean up the club for a little bit while Sango showed Kagome around and got her acquainted with the rooms and where the drinks go and how to serve mix drinks if it was necessary.
"I heard a 'pop' sound and I only hear that sound when Inuyasha takes it upon himself to break Miroku's nose."
Everyone looked at Inuyasha before looking at Miroku's nose.
"Seems ok to me." Said Kagome.
"You don't know the whole history behind it do ya?" said Sango.
"Can I tell her? Please Sango can I?" Miroku begged.
"Calm down before you hurt yourself. Go ahead and tell her."
"Well as you well know, Kagome, Inuyasha and I have been good friends for a long time and I found out at a young age that he expresses his discontent threw anger. The first time he smashed my head into a tree trunk it was because he was mad that I said his mom had a nice ass."
Sango raised an eyebrow to Kagome who just nodded in response.
Everyone notice though how Inuyasha growled slightly under his breath.
"Well she did. Anyways after about the ninth time he broke it my nose had healed wrong and it could pop in and out of place at will. Thus leading to this." Miroku held his nose and popped it in and out of place much to the girls' disgust.
"Dude, how many times do I have to tell you? That does not impress the ladies." Inuyasha sighed.
"Can I inquire on why Inuyasha was popping Miroku's nose out of place this time?" Sango asked.
Inuyasha had to remember why he had knocked Miroku's head into the bar. One look at Kagome and it all came flashing back.
Miroku seemed to notice Inuyasha's expression as he remembered but spoke before Inuyasha could.
"We were just arguing about if Inuyasha really likes…" Miroku was stopped by having Inuyasha's hand clamp over his mouth.
Inuyasha giggled apprehensively as the girls looked at him with a weird expression.
He traced his mind trying to come up with the perfect lie and it was only getting harder to do as Miroku decided to lick the inside of Inuyasha's palm with his tongue in an attempt to get his hand off.
"What Miroku was about to say is that…" There was only one successful way to get out of this with both Kagome and Sango believing him and to get Miroku off of his back. "We were just arguing about if Inuyasha…I mean I really like the idea of getting another waitress to work at the club."
Inuyasha dropped his hand from the startled Miroku and looked him strait in the eye as if saying You tell Kagome the real truth and we'll kiss the waitress idea goodbye.
"Isn't that right Miroku?" asked Inuyasha cautiously.
"Yup. Absolutely right my dear man." Replied Miroku as Inuyasha sighed in relief.
"I can't believe you finally caved into that idea Inuyasha, and here I thought you had more balls then that." Sango said disappointed.
"Oh trust me Sango dearest," said Miroku, "Our Inuyasha here has plenty of balls. Don't ya sweetums?"
"Do you want a new waitress to paw on or not?"
"Yes."
"Then shut up and start making flyers to hang in the windows." With that Inuyasha turned around and went upstairs into his office. Within 5 min everyone could hear Led Zeppelin being blasted form the stereo up in his office.
"What's wrong with hiring another waitress?" Asked Kagome curiously.
"Miroku has a bad reputation to sexually traumatize any walking women on the face of this earth. It got to be so bad that my grandma needed to put a restraining order on him."
"For you?" Kagome asked.
"No, for herself!"
"Ok it was totally an accident Sango and you know it. It's not like a really meant to grab your grandmas boobs. It was just that I was falling and I need something to support myself."
That answer seemed to be acceptable by Miroku's standards, but if anyone else was watching they would have notice Kagome and Sango slowly but swiftly inching away from Miroku.
"Well the best of luck to you on finding another girl to work here. We all have such bad reps that it's a wonder this place is so open."
With that Sango left to go show Kagome where the beer was kept while Miroku started making 'HELP WANTED' posters.
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A week had come and gone with the club being as busy as even now that Kagome was the new dancer. It was another weekday afternoon and instead of just cleaning the club the four were actually decorating it for the big mix-off that was going to take place in a week.
One was held every year in the most popular club in town and this year Club Inferno was chosen to hold it this year.
Everything seemed to be looking up for the workers at the club. Kagome had a new kick ass dance to perform at the mix-off and Inuyasha had the perfect battle song picked out. (A.N. don't worry the mix-off will be explained more thoroughly in further chapters) Sango had a nicely stocked bar with every drink imaginable to man in it.
Yup things were looking great…
"Why oh WHY do only the ugly girls reply to the ad?" moaned Miroku. "I mean is it so much to ask for a hot, sexy, tight assed…"
"Miroku would you shut the hell up? No one replied because they knew they'd have to work with you." Sango stated.
"Hasn't anyone replied yet Miroku?" asked Kagome thoughtfully.
"Yea actually a couple girls did. But Kagome let me tell you these were no ordinary girls. It looked like they came outa hell. On girl named Urasuea looked like she climbed out of her grave just for the job interview."
"Hey guys, can you all come in here? I need to talk to you for a sec." Came Inuyasha's voice form his office.
The three ran up the stairs and came bounding into Inuyasha's office. With a look of discontent Inuyasha looked up to them all and started talking.
"Now we all know that Club Inferno has been picked to host the mix-off in a week and I just want you guys to know…" from downstairs the little bell hanging on top of the door twinkled announcing that someone had just walked in.
"A potential girl for me to grope!!" squealed Miroku as he bounded out of the office and down the stairs, taking them two at a time.
"Was I just talking or am I imaging things again?" asked Inuyasha a little annoyed.
"No you were talking but when it comes to Miroku, no offence, but you're at the bottom of his sex appeal and we all know that that part of his brain is what functions first."
Inuyasha gave the two girls one of those "ohhh" faces and they all waited to hear the satisfying sound of a smack and the door opening again to announce that someone was leaving…but it never came.
In fact none of them could even hear Miroku talking.
All they could hear was the faint humming of Clay Aekin's song Invisible, and that was quite disturbing to all of them.
"Oh no." Kagome whispered and she ran out of the office and down the stairs closely followed by Sango and Inuyasha.
But they all didn't get too far because Miroku was still at the entrance of the stairs looking out at whoever had just walked in causing everyone to bump into him.
Miroku was looking out at the newcomer with wide eyes and a fully hanging jaw. Kagome, Inuyasha and Sango quickly followed suit and looked out to see who was there. But much to their surprises there wasn't a girl sitting at the table Miroku was gawking at but rather a boy.
A fairly tall boy with brownish hair and brown eyes was sitting at one of the tables in the club looking at the 'HELP WANTED' sign in his hands. He was wearing blue jeans, tennis shoes and a white shirt with Clay Aekin's face on the front.
Miroku looked like he was about to cry from disappointment and Inuyasha had to keep his laughing down to a low chuckle as to not give away the workers hiding spot. Sango just gave an I-don't-know-what-the-hell-to-say look but in reality she knew exactly what to say.
"It takes a very secure man to wear another guy's face on his shirt." Sango stated bluntly.
"Yeah, that or a very gay one." Inuyasha tried to hold down his laughter. "Who the hell is this clown?"
"I think he came here for the waitressing job that Miroku put an ad out for." Sango said motioning to the flyer in his hands.
Inuyasha turned to Miroku and pointed and the singer-wanabe in the bar. "Is this your doing?" he asked.
"How was I supposed to know that the poster child for Gay and Proud would show up? It says right on the flyer 'waitress.' I thought that meant girl." Miroku said just as shocked as Inuyasha was.
"He's not gay." Sango stated bluntly.
"How can THAT not be gay?" Inuyasha pointed to the boy who was sitting at the table cross-legged and checking out his nails.
"Easy. Kagome dated him. Thus leading to him not being gay."
The boys quit listening after they heard the juicy little part about Kagome dating this Fabio and stared at Kagome with wide eyes.
"What?" Kagome said innocently.
"You dated that Dennis Rodman impersonator?" Inuyasha was already starting a whole new set of giggles and Kagome hastily tried to explain herself.
"I don't know if you could actually consider it a 'dating' since it was only one date and it was with his whole family and me. He took me to a Clay Aekin's concert. I even got a complementary hat with Clay's face on it that his dad made me, even though it never made it to my house since I decided put it out of it's misery by burning it. Besides…" Kagome said looked over to the boy, "Hojo's not gay. He's just…delicate."
Inuyasha snorted.
"Come on, I know delicate. Hell my brother prances around in tights for Christ sake and this guy, flobo or what ever, is just about one step away form marrying himself."
Ok Kagome was starting to get a little mad now. She knew that Hojo was well…different but Inuyasha didn't have to be so mean about it.
"Oh like you can figure all this stuff out just by looking at a guy can ya?" Kagome said challengingly.
Right then they all heard singing and turned to see Hojo tapping his top on the ground and singing "Dancing Queen."
Everyone looked back to Kagome who turned to face the other way and mumbled. "I plead temporary insanity."
They all looked at her doubtfully.
"Ok that's it. I can't take one more minute of that song." Inuyasha said as he barged his way out of the stairwell.
"Hey you. What part of the waitress sign don't you under…"
"Kagome!!!"
Was everyone blowing of Inuyasha just to piss him off or was it some sort of a trend? First Miroku about the door opening and now this dolt about Kagome.
"Hi Hojo." Said Kagome politely. She may not like the guy but Hojo was always very nice and sweet to her.
"I heard you were working here and I thought it would be great if we could work in the same Disco." Hojo said enthusiastically
"Club man, the word is club, not disco." Grumbled Inuyasha.
"Who is he?" asked Hojo.
"Oh he's Inuyasha. The club's manager and scribbler." Said Sango.
Hojo turned around with a delighted look on his face and ran up to give Sango a great big bear hug.
"San-San! You work her too?"
"San-San?" Miroku said with a giggle.
"Yes Hojo I work here too and just for the record, let's keep your little pet name for me on the down low."
"So what night do you two work? I should coordinate my schedule to the night that you work so I can work with you!"
"Whoa whoa whoa," said Inuyasha. "Who said you could work here?"
Hojo looked a little taken aback by this.
"Well you guys shouldn't put up a 'HELP WANTED' sigh if you're not hiring." Retorted Hojo.
"We are hiring…waitresses." Inuyasha said.
"Yeah…that's why I'm here."
Inuyasha just looked at Hojo with sheer amazement.
"Ok," Said Miroku standing in between the two. "There is only one way to solve the problem of Hojo wanting to work here."
Inuyasha and Sango groaned simultaneously while Kagome gave them a what's-going-on look.
"We will decide by…ROCK, PAPER SCISSORS!"
Kagome laughed out loud while Inuyasha gave into Miroku's stupid way of solving complicated situations. It was weird. It was the stupidest game in the world but some how it always settled problems.
Inuyasha sat across Hojo at the table, shook his and out and put it in a fist getting ready to select his item.
"Ok gentlemen," said Miroku, "best 2 out of 3. Ready…1 2 3 shoot."
"Wait! Im confused. Kagome what's going on?" Hojo was looking strangely at Inuyasha's fist as it made the shape of a scissors.
"It's a game Hojo. You know…rock beats scissors, paper beats rock and scissors beats…"
"Wait wait Kagome. I don't think I should be playing a game that involves scissors. My mom always said that scissors were dangerous and to never play with them in a game." Said Hojo responsible.
Inuyasha just looked down at his scissor shaped fingers and shook his head in totally disbelievement.
Miroku ran his fingers through his hair and said "Ok for the sake of Hojo we will decide this easily…Hojo's in and were all karaoking tonight."
"What the hell?" sputtered Inuyasha but they were all out of the door by the time he full processed what had just happened.
Man, first Sango started hiring people at her own will and now Miroku is picking random gay guys off of the street to make him look good.
With a heavy sigh Inuyasha hurried out of the club, locked the door and followed his friends for a fun night of karaoke.
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Wow. That chapter was totally pointless but it was funny as hell and it sorta introduced the mix-off which is going to be a very important part of the fic later on. Well I'm going away to Cleveland for a long weekend, so I wont be near a comp for a while and I just want to tell all of you that I would love to see a lot of reviews when I get back. And to Ks-starshine yes the answer is Kouga!! Congratulations to you! You can pick your prize and write it to me in a review and I'll try to make it happen.
Anyways g2g all. Ta ta for now
~Kamiyasha~
