Disclaimer: back from England and I couldn't find an Inuyasha to buy…but there are plushies at media play that I might buy.
OK so im back form England and I have the next big chapter already planed out and if this one wont rock your socks I don't know what will. Ill try and make this one good to make up for bad chapters in the past. Here we go.
~Scribbler~
Phones and Flats
A.N. like apartment flats.
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"Inuyasha, are you gonna be mad at me all night?"
The full blown smile was permanently planted on Kagome's face and she was still giggling about how Inuyasha was going to be her slave for the next week.
Sango and her were skipping ahead of the boys while Miroku was dragging his feet behind with Inuyasha, trying to tell him that she really wouldn't be to hard on him and that they would find a new apartment for him sooner or later.
Just when Inuyasha thought that his life couldn't get any worse he heard Kagome's nagging voice utter the first of many commands to come in the next week.
"Oh look Sango, a really big puddle. I would walk though it but I just bought these new shoes and I don't want the to get wet. If I only had a nice gentleman to come over her and offer to help me across."
Sango was laughing as Kagome's mock acting skills and even Miroku couldn't help but chuckle…that is until Inuyasha jabbed him in the ribs and gave him a death glare.
"Oh slave boy!" Kagome looked over her shoulder, smirked and said in a perfectly pleasant voice, "come."
Inuyasha reluctantly walked towards his new 'master' and stood defiantly in front of her waiting for the chain of commands to start.
Kagome fingered the material of Inuyasha's jacket and said, "Is this suede? Man, it must have coast you a fortune. But I know you'll put it over that puddle so my new shoes don't get ruined…right?"
"Are you crazy!! This IS suede. Do you have any comprehension of what water does to suede you crazy, psycho bit…"
"Hush Inu. I command you to put your jacket down…now." Kagome couldn't get enough of this power rush. She knew she was being a total bitch to Inuyasha but hey, he deserved it. He toyed with her feelings.
The string of curse words were on the tip of Inuyasha's tongue but he decided to save them for later. If she wanted to play the game of alpha male he was glad to play right along because he knew her one weakness that would turn things all around.
With that in mind he took of his jacket and herd Sango and Miroku gasp as he tossed it into the puddle like it was a cheap piece of cotton, not the 300$ suede coat that he loved.
Kagome too was a little stunned at the fact that he was acting so submissively but she wouldn't let this small act taint her vengeful plot.
She looked down at the now drenched jacket and pouted at how there was still at least 5in of water visible that she would still have to walk though. She looked back up at Inuyasha who was looking strait at her and said, "Oh no Inuyasha, there's still some water left. What will I do?"
She held her arms out in a questioning stance and shrugged her shoulders. Then she got a look of mock enlightenment and raised her eyebrows in excitement.
"I know! Why don't you lay down in the puddle so I can walk on you to the dry street? It's a perfect plan, don't you think?"
"Kagome don't push it just yet." Sango warned, "You've been in control for 20 min and already to poor guys jacket is ruined."
Kagome was starting to reconsider her last command when Inuyasha started to bend down.
Kagome opened her mouth to say that she was just kidding but instead of laying down in the puddle Inuyasha hooked an arm under her knees and put the other arm behind her back, hosting her up into his arms bridal-style.
He then proceeded to walk strait through the puddle, over his jacket, and placed Kagome genially on the other side. After he was done he went back to the puddle, fished his jacket out, wrung it dry and tossed it on over his shoulders.
"Was that satisfactory for you, oh master of mine?" Inuyasha loved the silence that followed. He also loved how Kagome's gasped a little when he picked her up and how her heart quickened the slightest bit.
"Damn Kagome, a girl like you could get use to this kinda treatment 24/7 hun?" asked Sango.
Kagome just dumbly nodded.
"Get use to it so much that you would probably like to have Inuyasha around almost all the time? You know like when it's in the middle of the night and you want a snack, wouldn't it be nice just to have a little bell you ring and Inuyasha would come scampering in and make anything you want."
Kagome was starting to like the idea of this more and more. What she didn't know is while her and Inuyasha were arguing over the puddle Sango and Miroku formed a plan to get Kagome to let Inuyasha move into the new apartment with her.
"Yeah, Sango does have a point." Said Miroku, "And with the extra room you have in your new apartment it would make the perfect servant room. Don't you think so Sango?"
"Absolutely Miroku."
"Whoa, whoa. What are you two doing? You want me to live with her?" Inuyasha pointed at Kagome who in his eyes had suddenly turned into the wicked bitch of the west.
"Yeah man. Come on, just think about it for a sec. The whole slave thing is only gonna last for a week. Then you get to live with Kagome. And don't even try to tell me that the song you sang for her back in the club was fake. I know that you're totally into her." Miroku tried to sound convincing without saying that he was getting kinda tired of Inuyasha leaving his dirty cloths in the bathroom and banana peals on the coffee table.
Inuyasha thought about this for a moment but before he could fully come up with a decent answer for himself, someone already made one for him.
"Brilliant. That's bloody brilliant. I'll have you first help me move my stuff form Sango's house and set it up in the new apartment and you can move into the spare bedroom. Plus I could use some help with the rent. It's pretty steep."
Kagome looked over at Inuyasha waiting for his reply, even though it really didn't matter but hey, she wasn't totally heartless.
He gave her a look over and put his hand to his chin as if to symbolize him debating a great dilemma in this life.
"Fine. I need a new place anyways and there's no way that you can be any messier then I am so I will always know the rest of the apartment will be clean."
He held out his hand for her to shake, sealing the deal forever.
Kagome took his hand in her and gave a firm shake. She was already mulling over how many commands she could dish out at him by the end of the night. Not wanting to waste anytime she started immediately.
"Ok, well now that that's settled, Sango can I have the keys to your apartment?" Kagome turned to her friend, waiting for a reply.
"My keys? What for?" Sango said confused.
"Well I need my stuff and I need it pronto. There is no way im going to be getting him up at the crack of dawn so I'll do it tonight while he's still hyper. Isn't that right yasha?" Kagome ruffled Inuyasha's hair as she said the last part.
"Yea yea. Just you wait till this week is over. Im not one to forgive and forget. And now that were living together I can't wait to hear you scream when you find out what kinda of disgusting things I can put into your bed at night."
Kagome stared him down and in a defiant voice challenged, "I dare you to."
Inuyasha rose to the occasion and as he bent his head next to her ear he whispered in his best husky whisper, "seven days."
Kagome jumped and pushed him away laughing. "Very original you dork. Now come on lets go. I have a lot of stuff to lug over to my new place and in the morning we'll get your stuff."
Kagome turned to Sango who in response dug around in her purse for the spare keys to her apartment and tossed the to Kagome. She and Inuyasha waved goodbye to Miroku and Sango and made there way to Sango's place, laughing and pushing each other playfully.
"We just did them a huge favor, didn't we?" Miroku asked as he came to stand by Sango.
"We sure did. And it helped both of us out at the same time. Inuyasha out of your apartment and Kagome out of mine…not that they were getting annoying or anything."
"No one likes a liar and there's no one around to lie for. I work with Kagome too and I know how much of a slob she is." Miroku said as Sango giggled in response.
Silence enveloped the two as they started to walk away from the club. It wasn't the uncomfortable kind, but exactly the opposite. These two enjoyed each other's company. They felt like it was a comfort zone.
"Um…so what ya doing the rest of tonight?" asked Miroku curiously.
"Well I wasn't really planning on doing to much. You know I have class tomorrow and well I need my…oh damn. Kagome and Inuyasha are going to be moving her stuff all night. Well there goes my beauty sleep for the night."
Sango gave the ground a scuff as she realized that she was going to pull another all nighter due to her current best friend. That's you Kagome she though sweetly.
"Well you know…if your not doing anything and your place in going to be occupied. Maybe be…ya know…we could…ohf."
Just as Miroku was going to finish his sentence some one pushed past him and walked put next to Sango. He was a tall, good looking guy. With long black hair and a soft face. He gave Sango a once over which didn't go to well with her.
"Hey." He said
"Hey to yourself."
Sango was differently not to enthralled by this exciting conversation and Miroku looked like he was about to have a bitch off with this guy for stairing at Sango's body so bluntly.
"I really liked the song you sang. It really touched me. You know what im saying?" The mystery man said.
Sango snorted as Miroku tried not to laugh strait out at this bloke.
"Yea sure sparky, just like when you'll be feeling my foot when I kick you in that very spot." Sango smiled at him as her words set in. now Miroku had to turn his head to keep from laughing.
The guy put his hands out in defense, "Whoa, whoa, don't get me wrong, I just meant that I really liked it and ok so I'm not that great at attempting to flirt, but I just wanted to ask you if you'd like to go get a drink with me or something?" the guy smiled weakly as he watched sango's expression turn to surprise.
"Oh, god, I'm sorry, um well you see the thing is-" sango was trying to search for an excuse when she heard Miroku finally crack. She looked over to him, " What's so funny?"
Miroku, after regaining composure, said "He's asking you out? He thinks you're like one of those girls who dates or something, " Miroku laughed, he then turned to the guy in question, not seeing Sango's emotions change from shock to anger, " Yeah, well the thing is man, she's not really interested in-"
"On second thought," sango interrupted and turned to the surprised Miroku, and said, "I'd love to go get a drink with you." With that sango stepped up to the guy linking her arm in his, "I'm Sango."
"I'm Tesuigaua," he said sort of surprised, as he looked from Sango to Miroku, feeling the tension, "uh, well lets go then I guess," tesuigaua said still unsure as to what was going on, as him and Sango turned and left.
Miroku just stood there as Sango took one last look at him smugly, a little taken back by the hurt look in Miroku's eyes, but just brushed it off as nothing.
"And then there was one," Miroku mumbled as he headed home, taking a glance in the direction Sango had left.
Miroku started to walk down the now empty street towards his apartment but then stopped to think. He then reached down into his coat pocket, fished out his cell phone and speed dialed number 1. He let it ring for a while before someone picked up on the other line.
"Hello?"
"Hey Kira, it's Miroku. I was just wandering if you wanted to come over to my place…"
As Miroku talked on his cell phone he slowly made his way down the street, back to his now Inuyasha free apartment.
~*~
RING…RING.
Kagome rolled over in her newly assembled bed to hide her head deeper into the pillows. Why is the phone ringing…and why am I sleeping with a big, smelly, drooling…OH MY GOD.
Kagome boiled up and looked over at her side to find none other then Inuyasha cuddled up next to her. She was going to scream her head off out of protest but then remembered that the phone was ringing.
As she got up to get it Inuyasha was just starting to stir from the noise the phone was making. He rolled over on to his back and stretched. After mumbling for a while he cracked open an eye to look at the person who was rummaging through stuff to find the phone.
Inuyasha smiled as he saw Kagome in the tight tank-top and shorts she wore to unpack in last night and started to remember what happened.
After they got most of her stuff from Sango's apartment they came back here to start unpacking and putting things in their proper place. They assembled the bed first because they figured if they collapsed from working to hard at least they would have a bed to collapse on.
Good thing they did because that's exactly what happened. They were in the middle of putting together the electronics like Kagome's T.V., her stereo system and her phone when a wave of exhaustion hit them both.
As Inuyasha finished hooking up the last cords to Kagome's phone he rubbed the tired out of his eyes and looked over his shoulder to find Kagome already past out on the couch they had set up.
Original Inuyasha was support to sleep on the couch tonight until they could get his stuff from Miroku's place but it look like Kagome had taken it. However Inuyasha wasn't that much of a prick to let Kagome sleep on the hard couch all night long so he picked her up and brought her to the bed in her room.
As he started to lay her down he thought about the events that happened that night that had lead him to live with Kagome, and he smiled in contemptness. As he looked down at the girl sleeping in front of him he realized that Miroku was absolutely right.
He was head over heels for the girl.
Maybe, just maybe Kagome could heal the wounds of his past and showed him what real love is.
At that time Kagome stirred a little in her sleep and mumbled some thing. Inuyasha bent down lower to her what she was saying.
"What did you say Kagome?" he asked softly.
"Inuyasha?" She was still in the dream world but she could still tell it was him from his voice. She slowly smiled as she finished the sentence, "Go get me some water. I'm thirsty."
She giggled as Inuyasha playfully shoved her and said in his best bad guy voice, "Get the water yourself you little lazy bum."
Kagome stretched out on the bed, and then contracted hard when she was done. She looked over at the boy next to her and said, "That couch out there is really uncomfortable. If you want you can…sheeepl ifn shihs fbed honigf."
Kagome rolled over so her face was smashed against a pillow for the last part of the sentence, but Inuyasha still made it out clearly. She didn't mind if she slept in the same bed as her tonight.
He was going to double check with her just to make sure but when he went to face her he found out that she was already asleep again.
Inuyasha just shrugged his shoulders and crawled under the covers to have a good night sleep next to a beautiful girl.
RINGThe phone ripped Inuyasha out of his memories from last night and he now directed his attention to Kagome who was feverishly looking for it.
"Hey Inuyasha…" Kagome asked over her shoulder. "Do you know where we put the phone last night? I can't seem to find it anywhere." Kagome put her head back down in a last attempt to find the ringing villain and to her surprise she actually found it.
"Ah-ha!" She exclaimed happily. "Take that ya little ass. Think you can hide from Kagome do ya? Well ya got another thing coming." Kagome finished her little victory dance and looked over her shoulder to find Inuyasha looking at her strangely.
"Did you just call the phone a little ass?" Inuyasha was laughing as he asked her this question.
"And what if I did? What ya gonna do about it you little mutt?" Raising an eyebrow Kagome got into her defensive stance and look down at the shirtless guy who was on her bed.
"Well then I have to say you're the biggest loser in the world…and that you've been holding that ringing phone for at least 5 min and you still haven't answered it." Inuyasha said smugly.
Kagome looked down at the phone in her hand and threw a death glare at Inuyasha as she pressed the 'PHONE' button and started to talk into it. She walked out of the room and into the bathroom so she could have a little bit of privacy.
Inuyasha was just going back to sleep when he heard Kagome's voice gain a tone of worry.
"Oh my god! Where are you?"
Inuyasha could hear mumbling of the other person on the line and Kagome's urgent answer.
"Ok Ok. Just stay where you are and I'll be over there right away ok."
Inuyasha heard Kagome's footsteps run towards the living room where her boxes of clothes were and heard a ripping noise of one of them breaking. Then he heard Kagome struggling to find something warm to wear and ran into the bathroom to change.
When she finally came back out she was fully dressed in jeans and a hoodie with a worried look on her face. She had her cell phone in one hand and her car keys in the other.
Inuyasha sat upright in the bed and looked at her nervously. "Kagome," He started, "What's wrong? Who was that?"
Kagome just gave him a look and said "It'd no big deal but I gotta go out for a while, but I'll be back by morning ok. Don't do anything to mess up my apartment and I'll see you later."
With that she shut the door and hurried outside to her car.
Inuyasha was still a little uneasy about Kagome's abrupt change in moods but sleep was starting to take him over again. As he layed his head back down on the pillow he heard the sound of a car tearing off into the night to go retrieve the mystery person on the phone.
~*~
Inuyasha woke up to find himself alone on a bed that was not his. He would have been a little concerned about the position he was just in but even though he was in the wrong bed, he was in the right place.
He opened up his eyes to look over to the other side of the bed to see if Kagome did in fact come home last night as she promised to do. Much to his disappointment he found the other half of the bed, along with the rest of the apartment empty.
He was a little concerned about her well being but at that particular moment a big hunger burst hit him. So he did what any normal male would do who was hunger. He went to the kitchen to raid the fridge.
He thought it was a pretty good idea until he walked over to the refrigerator door and opened it to find…absolutely nothing.
There were two things Inuyasha really hated in life. More then anything else, and since that bastered Kouga was no where to be found at the moment that only left one other option.
No food.
Inuyasha slammed the fridge door shut with a heavy sigh and walked back out into the living room. He looked around at the new apartment and took everything in at once.
He didn't realize how nice it looked in the morning, when the sun came pouring in through the double bay windows, drowning everything in a golden sea. He could get use to living in a place like this.
He walked over to the box of clothes Kagome has ripped open last night and started to sift through them. I wonder where that girl went in such a hurry. I hope everything's ok. Inuyasha suddenly dropped the item of clothing that he had in his hand as if it burned him and stood up quickly.
I can't even believe I though of that. I've only known this girl for what…two, maybe three weeks and already she's having this kind of effect on me. The kind where I'm actually worried that she's alright and that everyone in her life is fine too. Damn, I gotta pull myself together.
Inuyasha stretched out the kinks in his body for a while before deciding to take a nice, long shower to clear his head. He would never admit to anyone ever that he was caring for Kagome…and that he liked it.
Inuyasha walked into the bathroom and turned on the hot water. He peeled of his pants to leave him standing in only boxers, which he hooked his thumbs under to pull down as well just when the phoned rang.
He heaved a sigh and went outside the bathroom to go searching for the retched thing.
~*~
Kagome sat on the couch and waited patiently for Inuyasha to pick up the phone.
"Hello?"
Kagome smiled at Inuyasha's gruff morning voice.
"Hey Yasha! It's me Kag."
"Hey! What's up? What happened last night? You said that you would be back by morning." Inuyasha's voice went form sleepy to charming in .5 seconds flat.
"Yea, sorry bout that. I'm just over at Sango's house now because I forgot some stuff and I decided to pick it up." Kagome hoped the lie sounded real.
"You decided to pick up some of your stuff from Sango's at 2 am last night?" Inuyasha sounded skeptical.
"No, no silly. I did what I had to do for the phone call and then I just crashed at Sango's." Kagome knew she had to change the subject soon or else it was going to end bad, "But anyways I was wondering, since there's no food in the house and I'm hungry why don't we go out to eat somewhere?"
Inuyasha's stomach growled at the thought of food. "Yea! That sounds great!"
Kagome was so happy that guys' minds were so easily distracted.
"Great! I'll get Sango up since she's still sleeping and you can call Miroku. How bout we meet at Denney's in an hour?"
"That sound's good. See ya then. Oh and don't forget. You're helping me with my stuff today."
"Am I now? I was pretty sure I was the one who won the apartment and a slave for a week, not you."
"You cold hearted bitch." Inuyasha said sarcastically
"That's me!" replied Kagome cheerfully.
"Bye."
Inuyasha hung up the phone and quickly called Miroku. When food was on the line Inuyasha could be pretty swift at putting plans together.
RING…
RING…
"Hiya!"
Inuyasha took the phone away from his ear and held it in front of him to see the number that he dialed. Yup, it was Miroku's number…so why was a girl answering it?
"Hi. Um…is Miroku there?"
From somewhere in the distance Inuyasha heard "Kira! What are you doing answering my phone? I told you not to touch any of my things while I was in the bathroom."
"Sorry Roku baby. It just woke me up."
Inuyasha could hear the phone being transferred from one person to the other and finally a male voice said, "Hello."
"MIroku, who the hell is that?" Inuyasha practically yelled.
"Yo Yasha, buddy. Don't you remember Kira? She came to the club a while ago and we all went out for drinks together."
"Don't you mean YOU went out for drinks with her?"
"Maybe that was it." Miroku thought for a moment.
"Yea whatever. Anyways were going to get breakfast in an hour so I suggest you take your little playmate and get rid of her. And take a goddamned shower while you're at it. You know Sango has a nose for sniffing out other girls perfumes."
"Ok, ok buddy. She's going out in 5 min. I'll call you back after I'm done taking my shower to get more info on breakfast kay?"
"Yea. Talk to ya later."
"Bye."
As Inuyasha hung up the phone with his best friend he wondered if Miroku even had the slightest inkling about how much the bartender liked him.
~*~
Done.