Don't Leave
by bittersweet-memory
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Or Barbie. So nyeh.
::looks around and sees a random tumbleweed blow by::
Ehehe....I guess I was a tad bit late posting this up. My muse has been a bad, bad boy.
Tendency for OOC
Forgive me?
Part Fourteen
"All right ladies, gentlemen and Inuyasha! Let's get this game started. This volleyball game will decide the slaves and the masters." Miroku leered at Sango when he said this, causing her to clench both fists at her side from her defensive stance across the court.
"We will play one game consisting of three sets. Each set will be played until a team reaches 15 points. It's rally-play so any mistake counts. Best three out of five sets win the game, and the bet. Representatives, please come forward."
He and Sango made his way to the center of the ring. The latter seemed to be trying to break the bones of the former with as much discretion as possible. After a good two minutes, she let go and walked away, leaving Miroku to nurse his injured appendage. Thankfully, he didn't say anything else.
Next to Miroku, Inuyasha stifled the usual acidic retort. He and Kagome had agreed to save their revenge plans until AFTER the bet had been settled.
Since the girls had won the coin toss before the game, they had first serve. Ayame had already informed the girls of their battle strategy.
They were going to use every drop of the feminine wiles the gods had gifted them with. They guys would never know what hit them. For this purpose, each donned the most revealing swim suits they'd brought along. Kagome was wearing a one-piece, blue bathing suit that would have been rather ordinary if not for the strips that had been tastefully scattered across the navel. Sango had pouted when Ayame had first told her of the plan but when she thought about all of the evil things she could make Miroku do...
Well needless to say, she was a happy (if not slightly uncomfortable camper) in her pink and black two piece bikini.
Rin had outright refused to wear a bikini. Instead, she settled on a slightly-translucent white maillot.
And as for Ayame....
Well, it was safe to assume that Kouga would be sufficiently distracted.
Kagome walked to the makeshift service-line and stood in the standard bow-and-arrow position. She raised her left hand and tossed the ball in the air, hitting it squarely in the center when it came back down.
The perfect ace.
"Nice shot Kagome!"
The ball was heading for Kouga and he was already in the perfect position to bump it back over the net. Inuyasha ran to the center to set the ball up and Miroku got ready to hit. Sesshoumaru stayed where he was in the back, in case Kouga's pass went in the opposite direction.
Kouga received the ball successfully, passing it to Inuyasha who in turn set it for Miroku's spike. Sango, seeing that this was where they could easily gain the upper hand, reluctantly bent over and pretended to search for something in the sand. Miroku saw and well...
He ended up crashing into the net.
"You idiot! Keep our eye on the ball!"
Flashing golden eyes glared at Sango angrily.
"And I now you just did that to distract him so stop it!"
She glared back.
"You're the idiot! Do you honestly think I would bend over in front of him" she gestured at Miroku, "for no good reason?"
"Feh!"
When he turned around, Kagome shot her a secret smile and mouthed the words good job. Another pair of alert golden eyes caught the exchange. But he didn't say a word. He knew that even if he did lose, his punishment would not be half as bad as the other "bumpkins" around him. And it would do his brother good to be brought down a step or two.
Maybe he'd get rid of some of that excessively hot air.
But then again...
He did so hate to lose.
Inuyasha's left eye was twitching.
They had already lost the first set and he couldn't understand why. According to statistics, the men should have taken this game easily. Sango was strong but she lacked the speed needed to be good in this game. Ayame had the speed but not the skill. Kagome had the skill but not the strength. And Rin was average in all three categories.
Kouga had the speed and the skill. Sesshoumaru (damned perfectionist that he was) has all three down. Miroku had the skill and the strength. And he was pretty good in all three as well.
So how the hell had they lost...
His thoughts trailed off as he saw Kagome wet her lips for what seemed like the tenth time in this set. Behind her, Sango was serving up aces. Ayame was making goo-goo eyes at Kouga. In fact, Inuyasha was surprised that the he wasn't already drowning in his own drool.
Something was definitely up.
Sesshoumaru suddenly signaled for time out as Sango polished off her tenth straight point. He called them over to the farthest corner of the "court" and began to talk to them calmly, though there was definitely more than just a hint of anger beneath the surface.
"Have you simpletons not caught on to their strategy yet?"
They shook their heads in the negative.
Sesshoumaru blew a piece of hair out of his face and rolled his eyes upward.
"I am surrounded by idiots. Don't you see? They're using their femininity as a weapon. They're distracting you and making you all lose what little focus you first had! Now what are you planning to do about it?"
Miroku, who's eyes had glazed over at the word "femininity", gave a dreamy smile, indicating that he no longer knew what was going on around him.
"Enjoy it?"
Kouga whapped him on the back of the head which sent him flying back down with a resounding crash.
"No idiot! We have to resist! Now that we know their strategy, there's no way we're going to let them catch us off guard."
"But Sango looks so...so..."
"Would you like to be dressed up in Barbie clothes, or be made to do some other equally demeaning thing when this is all over?"
Something in Miroku changed, and his eyes were suddenly filled with an unholy light.
"No way."
"Then let's teach them a lesson!"
"Yeah!"
"Show 'em what we're made of!"
"Yeah!"
"Tell 'em that we are the kings of the jungle, dammit!"
"YEAH!"
By now, the girls who had heard everything from their side of the court were giggling.
Oh how the mighty have fallen...
They weren't giggling for long. It seemed that the proverbial "gig was up". The men showed no mercy. Each serve hit the side line and sets turned into vicious spikes without warning. But the girls persevered. They were fair players in their own right and used all of the skills they possessed to retaliate. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough. The men had come back to win the second set and now they were behind in the third, 10-9.
Kouga had service now, and Kagome could tell by the way he was holding the ball, that it would be coming toward her left hand side so she shifted accordingly. What she didn't expect, was that it would be a jump serve. This meant that not only would the ball be coming faster and stronger, it would also have a good shot at hitting the line out. So she was stuck. Would she go for the ball and risk another point or would she just stand and trust it to hit out?
She didn't have the time to contemplate further, as he finally served it and it came rushing at her previous spot. Luckily, Ayame had covered and she bumped it up, allowing Sango to set and Rin to throw out a half-decent spike. Unfortunately, it went straight to Inuyasha who had been read and attacked with a set and a spike.
Which was against the rules.
"Our point! Double-touch!"
"Whatever..."
Kouga smacked Inuyasha on the back of the head.
"Idiot! What the hell were you thinking?"
"Easy, he wasn't."
"Feh! Shut the hell up Sesshoumaru!"
Miroku only shook his head and passed the ball to Rin who had this serve.
Though the other girls were stronger and faster, Rin undeniably had the most accuracy. Her ball always seemed to touch the line and bounce out. But since they landed on the line, they counted as points. Now that the score was tied, another point would do nicely.
She served up two aces.
12-10 in favor of the girls.
Sesshoumaru served two points after they had gotten control and a mistake by Kagome made it 13-10.
Back and forth it went, until both teams were tied at fourteen points. In circumstances like this, it was common for the game to be won by the team who scored another two points first.
Inuyasha had blocked a spike from Sango with ease after Miroku served. Kagome quickly bumped it up and Ayame set. Rin went in to spike again while Sango caught her breath. Miroku set up the ball and Sesshoumaru would have spiked.
Had he not tripped on Inuyasha's foot.
A few bruises later, they were ready to play again. Now the score was 15-14 in favor of the girls. Ayame had service and her ball nearly hit Kouga in the face. Unfortunately, his recovery was not quick enough and he allowed the ball to drop in the sand.
Their fate was sealed.
"We won! Way to go girls! We beat 'em!"
Simultaneously, all four girls turned from their victory celebrations to face their hapless victims (albeit, Rin looked a tad bit apologetic for the torture she knew was coming).
"Oh booooysss..."
"This is all your fault. You realize that don't you?"
"Shut up. At least Kagome didn't make you paint her toenails in alternating colors."
Another, calmer yet still angry voice decided to cut in.
"Well at least Ayame didn't lock you in the bathroom for the entire night and command you to stay there because she thinks you can't control your 'habit'."
"None of you have the right to speak. Rin braided my hair last night and demanded I keep it in for the entire day."
"Yeah that is pretty bad."
WHAM!
"Dammit you don't have to hit so hard!"
Across the hall, in Sango and Miroku's room, the girls were giggling over the first day of servitude.
"They really are being good sports though. I mean, Inuyasha didn't even put up a fight when I asked him to give me a massage. In fact, he seemed almost too eager for the job."
Ayame gave her a wicked smirk.
"I didn't think he'd mind that. So tell us Kags, how far have you gotten?"
Said girl blushed an unnatural shade of red.
"Ayame! We haven't done anything....no thanks to you and Sango! Thank goodness Rin here didn't decide to help you out."
"Sorry Kagome, but had I been here instead of at the beach, I probably would have."
"...Traitors."
"Oh come on Kagome, give it up! Look me in the eye right now and tell me that being in the same room with him doesn't tempt you, and we'll drop the whole thing."
"He does not tempt me."
"Both eyes Kag."
"...damn."
In an effort to take the subject to something safer, she looked at Sango.
"Speaking of which Sango...you never told me what happened between you and Miroku. So start talking."
Ayame and Rin grew increasingly uncomfortable. They were Sango's friends, of course, but they weren't sure if she'd be comfortable sharing her story with them as well as Kagome. They stood up and made a move to leave but Sango stopped them.
"Wait. It's all right. Truth be told, I've been waiting for a reason to talk.
I am so sorry this chapter took so long to write! I hope all of you who are reading it enjoyed. I promise that I'll try to be better with my updates.
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