Chapter Twenty Three
That night, Miroku and Sango slept in their sleeping bags, next to each other this time. They thought if Inuyasha and Kagome could handle sleeping in a bed together while still despising each other, Sango could trust Miroku sleeping next to her in separate sleeping bags without getting Miroku any ideas.
Obviously, she was wrong...
"GAH! YOU LITTLE PERVERT!" Sango got up and slapped him with a pillow, and since that wasn't affective, she simply slapped him.
Kagome sat up and stretched. She said wearily, "Do you have to scream every time you slap him? I mean, you knew it was coming, he knew it was coming; even Inuyasha and I knew it was coming, so you REALLY didn't have to wake up all of us. But since we're all awake, mind telling us why'd you sleep with him in the first place?" Kagome bent her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them waiting for her answer.
"NEXT to him, not WITH him!" Sango turned red.
Inuyasha was already sitting up, "So Miroku, what idiotic thought were you having to have the urge to grope your girlfriend?"
"Uh, nothing..." was all that Miroku could reply with Sango glaring at him with daggers in her eyes.
"Sure..." Sango got up with her sleeping bag and pillow and moved over to the other side of the room. She screamed across, "I hope you're happy!"
The rest of the night went pretty well after everyone settled down...
The next morning they got to school early, sothe girls went off to the library while the guys whined. "If you don't want to be here, you don't have too." Kagome said.
"Yeah, we might actually get some peace and quiet to study instead of listening to you two babies whining." Sango said, still fixed on the book in front of her.
"Fine, we'll be around, see ya when the bell rings." Inuyasha waved back to the girls while leaving with Miroku. They saw a whole bunch of people crowding around the bulletin board on the way to the cafeteria.
"Heh, people never look at that board, I wonder what's so interesting." Inuyasha pointed out.
"Come on; let's see what all the fuss is about is." Miroku said. They pushed their way to through the crow to see a poster, "Just another school dance but not just any dance, the Sadie Hawkins dance." Miroku grinned.
"So? What's interesting about it?"
"Don't you know what kind of dance that is?"
"Yeah, where the girls ask the guys out, so what?"
"So what? Don't you want to know who's going to ask you?"
"I already know Kagome's going to ask me."
"You sound so confident." Miroku smirked.
"Well who else would she ask?"
"A certain Hojo, perhaps?"
"Eh, whatever, I might even go to the damn thing."
"Just because you're not going with Kagome, you're not going to go all together?"
"NO! Not because of her, because I think this is stupid!"
"Whatever."
News spread fast of the dance. As the day continued, Miroku had been asked to the dance 5 times, and each time was harder than the last. "Argh! I can't take it anymore!"
"What?" Inuyasha looked at him curiously from across the lunch table. The girls went to get their lunch while everyone in the cafeteria stared at them.
"Beautiful girls asking me to that dance, I turned every one of them down, do you know how hard that is?!"
"Maybe Sango doesn't know about the dance or something.." Inuyasha shrugged.
"Well what about you?"
"What about me?"
"Come on, you're titled as the hottest guy in school, how many girls have asked you?"
"Uh, I rather not say."
"Come on, tell me."
"Let's just say I lost count"
Miroku had that that gapping look if disbelief and shock. "And you turned ALL of them down?!"
"Yeah, so what?"
"You must really like Kagome then."
"She's my friend, why wouldn't I like her?"
"I mean more than that." Miroku winked.
Inuyasha looked bored and scoffed, "I'm just surprised that Kikyo hasn't asked yet."
"You WANT her to ask you?"
"Yeah, right. You're kidding right? Remember last time I mentioned her?"
"Oh yeah, so you're still waiting for Kagome to ask you?"
"I suppose, unless she already asked someone else."
Miroku smirked, "Here they come."
"Hey guys, what are you two talking about?" Sango sat down next to Miroku.
"Oh nothing. Hey, did you hear about the dance?"
"Yeah, so? What of it?" Kagome swallowed her food.
"Nothing." Inuyasha replied simply.
"Ok." Kagome shrugged.
Earlier...back in the library...
"Hey, you know about the Sadie Hawkins dance?" Sango asked.
"Yeah? So?" Kagome looked up from her book.
"Are you going to ask a certain someone?"
"Maybe." Kagome replied without interest, and then perked up a bit, "are you?"
Sango blushed, "You know who I'm going to ask, but I don't want to let him off the hook for last night just yet."
Kagome grinned, "I have an idea. How about you let him suffer, don't ask him until the day of the dance, or better yet, the last minute, he'll explode, and plus, you'll see how much he can handle it, and if he says yes to anyone besides you, you'll know he's not worth it."
"Great idea, Kagome. You're pure genius!" Sango squealed and hugged Kagome. Everyone in the library shh-ed her.
Inuyasha went back to his lunch and Kikyo went over to their table, "Hey, Inuyasha, would you go to the Sadie Hawkins dace with me?" Kikyo fluttered her eye lashes.
Inuyasha looked blankly at her and opened his mouth full of chewed up food.
"Ew, that's disgusting." Kikyo turned around and walked back to her table. After she left, Inuyasha swallowed him food and everyone started laughing with him.
"Hopefully she took that as a no." Inuyasha kept on laughing.
"So taking that you turned down Kikyo, how many other girls have you turned down?" Sango asked.
"I dunno, I lost count after 20." Inuyasha shrugged.
"So are you even going to that dance?" Sango wondered.
"Maybe, maybe not, who cares?"
"It's not like YOU'RE going to ask him are you, Sango?" Miroku asked with a bit of worry.
"Why would you care if I do?" Sango teased.
Although Miroku didn't see the sarcasm and panicked, "Sango, you can't ask him, you just can't!"
Sango just laughed, "How many girls have YOU turned down?"
"Uh, 5." Miroku replied.
"Oh, ok." Sango smiled.
Miroku gave up and sighed, "You're torturing me aren't you?"
Sango smiled, "Of course not!"
"Kagome, you've been quiet today." Inuyasha said.
"Huh? Oh, hi." Kagome snapped out of her thoughts.
"I thought you would be happy that I turned down Kikyo." Inuyasha said sincerely.
"Wait, you wanted me to be happy, sure I'm happy you turned her down, but I want you to be happy too, so if you wanted to go to the dance with her, go already before she asks someone else." Kagome said casually like it didn't bother her one bit, "You're my friend; your happiness comes before mine." She smiled.
"You're weird; I wouldn't go to the dance with that wench if you paid me anyway." Inuyasha replied and scoffed. "So, are you going to ask anyone?"
Kagome swallowed her food, "Don't know."
"Well you know there are plenty of guys waiting for you to ask them."
Kagome tried hard not to smile, so she said casually, "Like who?"
"Do the math Kagome, you're a smart girl, and you're titled as hottest girl in school. Guys are probably biting their fingernails when you pass them wishing that you would turn around and ask then to the damn dance." Inuyasha got up to throw away his tray. He was in plain view of a radius of all the girls in the cafeteria.
"STAMPEDE!" Miroku warned Inuyasha.
Inuyasha turned around at all of the girls running at him. He sighed and replied, "No, no, no, no, no..." to every girl that asked him the same question he's been hearing all day 'Will you go to the dance with me?' It was getting old.
The lunch bell rang and they all went of to class. Kagome just sat there in class listening to Inuyasha turn down every one of his offers to the dance. She couldn't take it anymore, until she finally heard a different question
"Are you declining every offer you have because you're waiting for a certain someone to ask you?" It was her friend, Eri's voice. Kagome had been wondering the same too. So she was listening carefully to his answer.
"Well, I don't know, I guess all of these offers didn't really make me feel anything. It's hard to explain, the person I am willing to say yes to, has to make me feel a certain way, I guess. All of these offers were empty you could say, they don't have a soul in them. They were just questions. They were all empty." Inuyasha said.
'Wow, he sounded so sincere, like he really put some thought into it.' Kagome thought.
"Hey, Kagome, can you get my pencil? It's under your desk." Inuyasha said.
"Huh? Oh sure." Kagome picked it up, "Here."
"Kagome, you've been spacing out lately, are you ok?" Inuyasha sounded worried, why was he worried? He's been acting odd.
"Well, you've been acting strange too." Kagome pointed out.
"Feh. You're just imagining things."
The week passed by quicker than everyone expected, there was only a month of school left and tonight was the dance. Miroku still panicked," SANGO HASN'T ASKED ME AND ITS TOO LATE TO GET A DATE! GAH! I'M GOING TO EXPLODE! WHAT WILL I DO?!"
"Oh shut up, Miroku. What you do is stay home with me, Kagome, and Sango, it won't be that bad." Inuyasha said getting his book from his locker to move on to the last class of the day, "Hey, who knows? Maybe she'll ask you when we get home. Hey, do you know what the theme was?"
"There was a theme?" Miroku wondered.
"Moron, of course there's a theme. And this year's theme is moonlit garden type thing."
"Oh."
Kagome was at her looker getting her book, Sango was standing next to her, "You know what?"
"What?" Kagome closed her locker and started to walk down that hall with Sango.
"Miroku has turned down every girl this week...and so had Inuyasha" Sango winked.
Kagome blushed, "Oh shut up! So are you going to ask Miroku in art then?"
"I suppose, but how would I go upon doing that?"
"Just ask him; with all the torture he's been through this week, I don't think he'd mind HOW you ask him just that you do." Kagome laughed.
"So, are you going to ask Inuyasha?" Sango grinned.
"Eh, why not? We might as well go since you and Miroku are going. No point staying home with the mood swinger." Kagome laughed. They got into class and started working on their projects.
Sango was still rolling her clay when she asked, "Hey, Miroku, you wanna go to the dance?" Miroku jumped up with glee and 'accidentally' slammed his hands on her clay. "Great, now I have to start over" Sango sighed, "I take that as a 'yes' then?" All Miroku could do was nod ferociously.
Inuyasha and Kagome rolled their eyes. Kagome opened her mouth to speak, but Inuyasha's voice came out first, "Hey, Kagome, do you wan to go to the dance with me?" And of course on reflex, all the girls in the room stared at him, Kagome most of all was baffled.
"Aren't I supposed to ask you? It's the Sadie Hawkins dance, not just a regular one."
"Yeah, I know, but you were taking forever to ask me, so I decided to ask you."
"So, you rejected every girl, just waiting to ask me." Kagome blinked, "Well, what about that speech you gave Eri?"
"Oh, that? Well, what I said was true, but I'm an impatient person, so will you go with me?"
"Oh gods, why do you even bother giving me the puppy dog eyes?"(No pun intended) Kagome sighed, "Why DID you turn down all those girls... for me?"
"I didn't do it for you, I just was thinking not to go, and if Sango didn't ask Miroku, I would have, but since they are, there's no point on staying home on a Friday night. And I wouldn't think you'd ask me anyway so I just asked you instead."
"How do you know I didn't ask anyone yet?"
"DID you?" Inuyasha's eyes were wide open.
Kagome smiled, "Maybe."
"Oh come on Kagome, stop torturing him." Sango said.
"What do you mean torturing me?" Inuyasha said with a blank face.
"Kagome and I both have been torturing you two. We waited as long as we could to ask you both to the dance, and if you two already had dates, then you aren't worth shit." Sango grinned.
"So you've been stringing us along this whole fuckin' week?" Inuyasha's temper was rising. "I've dumped more girls this week than I can count for you to wait until the time is right, and you've been planning to ask me for a week?!"
Kagome shrugged, "Yeah sounds about right. So you want to go to the dance with me?"
"Sure, but why is it so easy for girls to ask out guys, but it's so hard for us to ask girls out?" Inuyasha said.
"It isn't, it's just easier to ask morons out." Sango piped in. Kagome nodded in agreement.
Inuyasha sat up in realization, "Wait, so you were going to ask me anyway?"
"Yeah, if you didn't have a date already." Kagome shrugged.
"Why are you so casual about this? You seem like you don't even care about this dance" Miroku said.
"I don't, I'm in the same position that Inuyasha's in. You two love each other, and are going to the dance, and we don't want to be home alone, so, think of it as a Plan B."
A/n, a bit longer than usual, but that's ok with all of you isn't it? Well, You're all very lucky that I got this chapter up this fast, usually takes me 2 weeks with the slacking off I've done lately ; So I don't know when the next chapterr will be up. Yes, this story is going SOMEWHERE, but so far it's been pointless fluff, eh? Well, I've always been a person who loves fluff, so yeah. To see how far I'm with a chapter, go to my profile page, and it'll say how far I'm with it Ja ne.
That night, Miroku and Sango slept in their sleeping bags, next to each other this time. They thought if Inuyasha and Kagome could handle sleeping in a bed together while still despising each other, Sango could trust Miroku sleeping next to her in separate sleeping bags without getting Miroku any ideas.
Obviously, she was wrong...
"GAH! YOU LITTLE PERVERT!" Sango got up and slapped him with a pillow, and since that wasn't affective, she simply slapped him.
Kagome sat up and stretched. She said wearily, "Do you have to scream every time you slap him? I mean, you knew it was coming, he knew it was coming; even Inuyasha and I knew it was coming, so you REALLY didn't have to wake up all of us. But since we're all awake, mind telling us why'd you sleep with him in the first place?" Kagome bent her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them waiting for her answer.
"NEXT to him, not WITH him!" Sango turned red.
Inuyasha was already sitting up, "So Miroku, what idiotic thought were you having to have the urge to grope your girlfriend?"
"Uh, nothing..." was all that Miroku could reply with Sango glaring at him with daggers in her eyes.
"Sure..." Sango got up with her sleeping bag and pillow and moved over to the other side of the room. She screamed across, "I hope you're happy!"
The rest of the night went pretty well after everyone settled down...
The next morning they got to school early, sothe girls went off to the library while the guys whined. "If you don't want to be here, you don't have too." Kagome said.
"Yeah, we might actually get some peace and quiet to study instead of listening to you two babies whining." Sango said, still fixed on the book in front of her.
"Fine, we'll be around, see ya when the bell rings." Inuyasha waved back to the girls while leaving with Miroku. They saw a whole bunch of people crowding around the bulletin board on the way to the cafeteria.
"Heh, people never look at that board, I wonder what's so interesting." Inuyasha pointed out.
"Come on; let's see what all the fuss is about is." Miroku said. They pushed their way to through the crow to see a poster, "Just another school dance but not just any dance, the Sadie Hawkins dance." Miroku grinned.
"So? What's interesting about it?"
"Don't you know what kind of dance that is?"
"Yeah, where the girls ask the guys out, so what?"
"So what? Don't you want to know who's going to ask you?"
"I already know Kagome's going to ask me."
"You sound so confident." Miroku smirked.
"Well who else would she ask?"
"A certain Hojo, perhaps?"
"Eh, whatever, I might even go to the damn thing."
"Just because you're not going with Kagome, you're not going to go all together?"
"NO! Not because of her, because I think this is stupid!"
"Whatever."
News spread fast of the dance. As the day continued, Miroku had been asked to the dance 5 times, and each time was harder than the last. "Argh! I can't take it anymore!"
"What?" Inuyasha looked at him curiously from across the lunch table. The girls went to get their lunch while everyone in the cafeteria stared at them.
"Beautiful girls asking me to that dance, I turned every one of them down, do you know how hard that is?!"
"Maybe Sango doesn't know about the dance or something.." Inuyasha shrugged.
"Well what about you?"
"What about me?"
"Come on, you're titled as the hottest guy in school, how many girls have asked you?"
"Uh, I rather not say."
"Come on, tell me."
"Let's just say I lost count"
Miroku had that that gapping look if disbelief and shock. "And you turned ALL of them down?!"
"Yeah, so what?"
"You must really like Kagome then."
"She's my friend, why wouldn't I like her?"
"I mean more than that." Miroku winked.
Inuyasha looked bored and scoffed, "I'm just surprised that Kikyo hasn't asked yet."
"You WANT her to ask you?"
"Yeah, right. You're kidding right? Remember last time I mentioned her?"
"Oh yeah, so you're still waiting for Kagome to ask you?"
"I suppose, unless she already asked someone else."
Miroku smirked, "Here they come."
"Hey guys, what are you two talking about?" Sango sat down next to Miroku.
"Oh nothing. Hey, did you hear about the dance?"
"Yeah, so? What of it?" Kagome swallowed her food.
"Nothing." Inuyasha replied simply.
"Ok." Kagome shrugged.
Earlier...back in the library...
"Hey, you know about the Sadie Hawkins dance?" Sango asked.
"Yeah? So?" Kagome looked up from her book.
"Are you going to ask a certain someone?"
"Maybe." Kagome replied without interest, and then perked up a bit, "are you?"
Sango blushed, "You know who I'm going to ask, but I don't want to let him off the hook for last night just yet."
Kagome grinned, "I have an idea. How about you let him suffer, don't ask him until the day of the dance, or better yet, the last minute, he'll explode, and plus, you'll see how much he can handle it, and if he says yes to anyone besides you, you'll know he's not worth it."
"Great idea, Kagome. You're pure genius!" Sango squealed and hugged Kagome. Everyone in the library shh-ed her.
Inuyasha went back to his lunch and Kikyo went over to their table, "Hey, Inuyasha, would you go to the Sadie Hawkins dace with me?" Kikyo fluttered her eye lashes.
Inuyasha looked blankly at her and opened his mouth full of chewed up food.
"Ew, that's disgusting." Kikyo turned around and walked back to her table. After she left, Inuyasha swallowed him food and everyone started laughing with him.
"Hopefully she took that as a no." Inuyasha kept on laughing.
"So taking that you turned down Kikyo, how many other girls have you turned down?" Sango asked.
"I dunno, I lost count after 20." Inuyasha shrugged.
"So are you even going to that dance?" Sango wondered.
"Maybe, maybe not, who cares?"
"It's not like YOU'RE going to ask him are you, Sango?" Miroku asked with a bit of worry.
"Why would you care if I do?" Sango teased.
Although Miroku didn't see the sarcasm and panicked, "Sango, you can't ask him, you just can't!"
Sango just laughed, "How many girls have YOU turned down?"
"Uh, 5." Miroku replied.
"Oh, ok." Sango smiled.
Miroku gave up and sighed, "You're torturing me aren't you?"
Sango smiled, "Of course not!"
"Kagome, you've been quiet today." Inuyasha said.
"Huh? Oh, hi." Kagome snapped out of her thoughts.
"I thought you would be happy that I turned down Kikyo." Inuyasha said sincerely.
"Wait, you wanted me to be happy, sure I'm happy you turned her down, but I want you to be happy too, so if you wanted to go to the dance with her, go already before she asks someone else." Kagome said casually like it didn't bother her one bit, "You're my friend; your happiness comes before mine." She smiled.
"You're weird; I wouldn't go to the dance with that wench if you paid me anyway." Inuyasha replied and scoffed. "So, are you going to ask anyone?"
Kagome swallowed her food, "Don't know."
"Well you know there are plenty of guys waiting for you to ask them."
Kagome tried hard not to smile, so she said casually, "Like who?"
"Do the math Kagome, you're a smart girl, and you're titled as hottest girl in school. Guys are probably biting their fingernails when you pass them wishing that you would turn around and ask then to the damn dance." Inuyasha got up to throw away his tray. He was in plain view of a radius of all the girls in the cafeteria.
"STAMPEDE!" Miroku warned Inuyasha.
Inuyasha turned around at all of the girls running at him. He sighed and replied, "No, no, no, no, no..." to every girl that asked him the same question he's been hearing all day 'Will you go to the dance with me?' It was getting old.
The lunch bell rang and they all went of to class. Kagome just sat there in class listening to Inuyasha turn down every one of his offers to the dance. She couldn't take it anymore, until she finally heard a different question
"Are you declining every offer you have because you're waiting for a certain someone to ask you?" It was her friend, Eri's voice. Kagome had been wondering the same too. So she was listening carefully to his answer.
"Well, I don't know, I guess all of these offers didn't really make me feel anything. It's hard to explain, the person I am willing to say yes to, has to make me feel a certain way, I guess. All of these offers were empty you could say, they don't have a soul in them. They were just questions. They were all empty." Inuyasha said.
'Wow, he sounded so sincere, like he really put some thought into it.' Kagome thought.
"Hey, Kagome, can you get my pencil? It's under your desk." Inuyasha said.
"Huh? Oh sure." Kagome picked it up, "Here."
"Kagome, you've been spacing out lately, are you ok?" Inuyasha sounded worried, why was he worried? He's been acting odd.
"Well, you've been acting strange too." Kagome pointed out.
"Feh. You're just imagining things."
The week passed by quicker than everyone expected, there was only a month of school left and tonight was the dance. Miroku still panicked," SANGO HASN'T ASKED ME AND ITS TOO LATE TO GET A DATE! GAH! I'M GOING TO EXPLODE! WHAT WILL I DO?!"
"Oh shut up, Miroku. What you do is stay home with me, Kagome, and Sango, it won't be that bad." Inuyasha said getting his book from his locker to move on to the last class of the day, "Hey, who knows? Maybe she'll ask you when we get home. Hey, do you know what the theme was?"
"There was a theme?" Miroku wondered.
"Moron, of course there's a theme. And this year's theme is moonlit garden type thing."
"Oh."
Kagome was at her looker getting her book, Sango was standing next to her, "You know what?"
"What?" Kagome closed her locker and started to walk down that hall with Sango.
"Miroku has turned down every girl this week...and so had Inuyasha" Sango winked.
Kagome blushed, "Oh shut up! So are you going to ask Miroku in art then?"
"I suppose, but how would I go upon doing that?"
"Just ask him; with all the torture he's been through this week, I don't think he'd mind HOW you ask him just that you do." Kagome laughed.
"So, are you going to ask Inuyasha?" Sango grinned.
"Eh, why not? We might as well go since you and Miroku are going. No point staying home with the mood swinger." Kagome laughed. They got into class and started working on their projects.
Sango was still rolling her clay when she asked, "Hey, Miroku, you wanna go to the dance?" Miroku jumped up with glee and 'accidentally' slammed his hands on her clay. "Great, now I have to start over" Sango sighed, "I take that as a 'yes' then?" All Miroku could do was nod ferociously.
Inuyasha and Kagome rolled their eyes. Kagome opened her mouth to speak, but Inuyasha's voice came out first, "Hey, Kagome, do you wan to go to the dance with me?" And of course on reflex, all the girls in the room stared at him, Kagome most of all was baffled.
"Aren't I supposed to ask you? It's the Sadie Hawkins dance, not just a regular one."
"Yeah, I know, but you were taking forever to ask me, so I decided to ask you."
"So, you rejected every girl, just waiting to ask me." Kagome blinked, "Well, what about that speech you gave Eri?"
"Oh, that? Well, what I said was true, but I'm an impatient person, so will you go with me?"
"Oh gods, why do you even bother giving me the puppy dog eyes?"(No pun intended) Kagome sighed, "Why DID you turn down all those girls... for me?"
"I didn't do it for you, I just was thinking not to go, and if Sango didn't ask Miroku, I would have, but since they are, there's no point on staying home on a Friday night. And I wouldn't think you'd ask me anyway so I just asked you instead."
"How do you know I didn't ask anyone yet?"
"DID you?" Inuyasha's eyes were wide open.
Kagome smiled, "Maybe."
"Oh come on Kagome, stop torturing him." Sango said.
"What do you mean torturing me?" Inuyasha said with a blank face.
"Kagome and I both have been torturing you two. We waited as long as we could to ask you both to the dance, and if you two already had dates, then you aren't worth shit." Sango grinned.
"So you've been stringing us along this whole fuckin' week?" Inuyasha's temper was rising. "I've dumped more girls this week than I can count for you to wait until the time is right, and you've been planning to ask me for a week?!"
Kagome shrugged, "Yeah sounds about right. So you want to go to the dance with me?"
"Sure, but why is it so easy for girls to ask out guys, but it's so hard for us to ask girls out?" Inuyasha said.
"It isn't, it's just easier to ask morons out." Sango piped in. Kagome nodded in agreement.
Inuyasha sat up in realization, "Wait, so you were going to ask me anyway?"
"Yeah, if you didn't have a date already." Kagome shrugged.
"Why are you so casual about this? You seem like you don't even care about this dance" Miroku said.
"I don't, I'm in the same position that Inuyasha's in. You two love each other, and are going to the dance, and we don't want to be home alone, so, think of it as a Plan B."
A/n, a bit longer than usual, but that's ok with all of you isn't it? Well, You're all very lucky that I got this chapter up this fast, usually takes me 2 weeks with the slacking off I've done lately ; So I don't know when the next chapterr will be up. Yes, this story is going SOMEWHERE, but so far it's been pointless fluff, eh? Well, I've always been a person who loves fluff, so yeah. To see how far I'm with a chapter, go to my profile page, and it'll say how far I'm with it Ja ne.