Sorry it took me so long to write. I hope I didn't lose anybody's interest. But I was in New Hampshire and my story is back here at home on my laptop. But I kept writing every night in a notebook so now I have up to chapter 4 done so I'm putting them all up tonight. :) Sadly I didn't write for Amber Eyes. I just got sucked into this story and it got the point where I could barely bring myself to stop writing. More fun to come too.

Thanks to firehottie, darkwindwarrior, and SuNsHiNeXrOsEs. I only just got this many reviews on my other story and I have five chapters for that one. So thank you for reading and reviewing already. I really appreciate it.

Here's chapter 2, hope you enjoy.


Chapter 2-The Cur and the Wench

"So? How was it?" Kagome said, switching the phone to her other side while she brushed her hair up into a ponytail.

"I actually had fun. Can you believe it?"

"Yes."

Kagome tossed the brush onto her desk and flopped down on her bed. She had already locked herself in her room. She had arrived home and her mother was already gone. For once she had some sort of luck.

"I've been telling you to go out with him for ages. He's a nice guy."

"He's a womanizer."

"Did he do anything last night?"

"No. He was a gentleman. He didn't so much as look at anyone else. It was so strange."

"He was only doing it before to make you jealous." Kagome said knowingly.

"Oh no he didn't." Sango snapped but Kagome knew she was blushing, Sango blushed a lot.

"So what did you do?" Kagome changed the topic before Sango went into an angry rant.

"We got something to eat, went to a movie."

"Did you talk a lot?"

"Mmmhm."

"Are you going out again?"

Silence on the other end. Kagome sat up and switched the phone to the other side again.

"Sango?"

"Yeah, we are."

"Good I-"

But Kagome lost her train of thought when the front door suddenly slammed shut. She was home early. Why was she home so early? Kagome scrambled off the bed and pressed her free ear up against the door. She couldn't possibly be drunk already. She heard heavy footfalls in the living room, they went from slow to fast randomly, as if the person were stumbling. She heard a thud and a soft clinking sound, the person must have run into one of the end tables causing the lamp to teeter on its perch.

Kagome's mother hadn't been following normal pattern lately. She didn't usually go out two nights in a row, she usually didn't come home this early. It was like she was adapting to her new environment, like animals. Her mother was adapting to an environment where her pray was learning fast how to stay out of reach. It was a good thing Kagome had already barricaded herself in her room. She had caught her off guard last night, but tonight she would have a breather.

"Kagome? Hey! Are you still there?" Sango's voice finally penetrated Kagome's scrambled thoughts.

"Uh, yeah, sorry Sango." Kagome answered as she moved away from the door, she could hear footsteps coming slowly up the stairs.

Fall, just fall for once.

Kagome was trying to keep her breathing calm, praying that her mother would take a tumble in her drunken state. But as wasted as she was she never gave Kagome the satisfaction, she always made it up the stairs. Kagome knew the shouting was coming.

"I have to go Sango."

"But Kagome-"

"Let's go out tomorrow or something. I'll call you then." Kagome rushed, then hung up the phone before she got an answer.

The halls at school on Monday seemed louder than usual, and made the throbbing n her head worse. Kagome rubbed her already bloodshot eyes with her right hand. It had been a long night.

"You look tired." Sango said, glancing at Kagome as she pulled another binder out of her locker.

"Yeah. Me and my mom had a fight last night." Kagome didn't notice but as she said this she touched her left arm.

"You're arm hurt?"

"What?" Kagome asked snapping out of a daydream. "Oh, yeah, I think I must have bumped it on the way to the shower this morning, or I slept on it funny, something stupid like that."

"Let me see, is it bruised?" Sango reached out taking a hold of her sleeve, starting to pull it up.

"No it's ok. It's nothing bad." Kagome said sliding her arm out of Sango's grasp as calmly as possible, if she lost her cool Sango might wonder.

"Alright." Sango shrugged and went back to sorting her locker. "So you hung up really fast on Saturday, then you didn't call me back on Sunday. Didn't you get my messages?"

"Oh yeah. Sorry, I had to finish doing some chores and my mom was really mad so I had to hang up. I wasn't home yesterday, then last night, the fight. I just figured I'd talk to you today." Kagome said, making sure her voice was light.

"It's no big deal. So what was the fight about?"

"Oh it was nothing big. So what kind of stuff did you and Miroku talk about? When are you going out again?" Kagome asked, swiftly changing the subject.

"Everything. Movies, music, all that stuff." Sango said, a little smile crept onto her face.

"Yeah?" Kagome grinned and poked her friend's arm playfully.

"We're going out again on Friday."

"That's great!" Kagome practically squealed.

"He wants me to eat lunch with him."

"What?" Kagome felt her stomach plummet.

"He wants you to come too. Deep breath." Sango said laughing. "I wouldn't abandon you."

"Right." Kagome said, taking a breath she didn't remember holding.

"It'll be ok."

"That's familiar. Since when are you the rational one?"

Kagome knew she should have taken her car out and hit a drive through the second she got out of the lunch line. She followed Sango across the cafeteria, glancing wistfully at their usual table. She felt her heart pounding, the sound of it beating loud in her ears. Miroku saw them coming and he smiled his familiar, charming smile.

Sango slid into the seat next to him, staying a safe distance away. Kagome felt awkward standing there with her tray of food searching for somewhere to sit. She couldn't sit next to Sango, she was sitting on the end. She would have to settle with sitting across from her. Kagome looked to aforementioned seat, and felt like crawling under a rock.

Inuyasha was looking back at her, and his expression wasn't too inviting. There were no other options though. She wasn't about to sit alone. It was the only seat near Sango so she would be damned if she let him scare her away. She took a deep breath and sat down, as far away from Inuyasha as possible.

"He won't bite." Miroku said, noticing Kagome's discomfort.

"I'm not that convinced."

Sango and Miroku looked at her in shock. Kagome was shocked herself. Sango knew that Kagome was painfully shy, and Miroku hadn't heard her speak much, their shock was understandable. Kagome wasn't shocked by what she had said, she was just being herself. She just hadn't meant so say that out loud. But when Miroku started laughing Kagome made up her mind not to hold back. If Sango was going to keep dating Miroku she was going to have to get used to these people, and they were going to have to get used to her.

Kagome took a chance to look at Inuyasha. She was almost dreading what she would see. He was simply looking at her in disbelief. Kagome was praying that he had a sense of humor as well as good looks.

"What did you say wench?"

"Oh calm down Inuyahsa. It was funny." Miroku said, still chuckling a little.

Kagome looked over at her savior. She noted that Miroku and Sango were sitting a lot closer and Sango looked unbelievably happy. Kagome smiled. 'Thank you.' She mouthed. He smiled and winked, then leaned closer to Sango, starting a quite conversation that Kagome knew wasn't for anyone else.

"It wasn't that funny." Inuyasha grumbled, he said some other things but he was speaking softly and Kagome didn't quite catch them.

"So are you always this friendly?" Kagome said turning to face him, her only option for social interaction.

"Are you always this annoying?" Inuyasha looked like he couldn't believe she was sill talking to him.

"I'm sorry I didn't realize talking to you was so annoying."

"Well it is."

Kagome turned her attention back to her lunch, hoping that Sango would realize that she was here soon because Inuyasha wasn't exactly itching to keep her company. She took a sip of her soda and pushed some of her food around with a fork, not exactly hungry. A tiny smile graced her face. She had made a joke at Inuyasha's expense. She had spoken to him! Kagome couldn't remember a time she felt more satisfied.

Kagome had showed up for her first day of high school and that's when she saw him for the first time. He was standing across the room, by Miroku's side as always. She had been enamored with him the second she saw him. He was so different, so handsome. His silver hair, his striking facial features. But most of all his amber eyes. She loved his eyes. But then she heard him speak. He was yelling at some little, defenseless kid one day, she couldn't remember exactly when, but that ruined it. He may be handsome but he was a jerk.

Jerk or not though, Kagome couldn't keep her heart from beating a little faster when she saw him.

"You're in my art class, aren't you?"

"Hm? You're talking to me now?" Kagome turned to face him again, and he was looking at her with a puzzled expression, as if he were trying very hard to remember something.

"And English. I'm right aren't I?"

"Yes, so glad you noticed."

Art classes were extremely small. There were only about twelve people in the room at a time as a maximum.

"We've only been in the same class for two months now." Was she really that invisible?

"Don't get all pissy. You're just really quiet, can I help it if I didn't really notice?"

"There are only ten other people in that class!"

"I guess I just concentrate more on my work than I do on the people in the class." With that he took a huge bite out of his sandwich.

Kagome stared at him, not knowing what to feel. Sad, disgusted, angry. In the end the only thing she knew was that she wasn't hungry anymore. She got up from the table and threw away her barely eaten lunch and wished she didn't have to go back.

"Kagome, you didn't eat anything!" Sango reprimanded as Kagome took her seat again.

That's nice, she finally pays attention to me only to yell at me.

"I wasn't hungry."

"Let her go Sango. She could stand to lose a few pounds." Inuyasha said, not looking up from his sandwich.

"What?" Kagome leapt to her feet.

"Inuyasha!" Miroku shouted.

"I was joking." Inuyasha looked at Kagome as if he didn't know why she was so angry. "What?"

"You self-absorbed, obnoxious little cur!"

"Cur?"

"It's a dog you moron!"

"I know what it means you pretentious bitch!" Inuyasha shouted shooting to his feet as well.

"Guys! Cut it out!" Sango jumped to her feet, she looked furious.

Kagome felt so guilty when she saw the look on Sango's face. Sango really like Miroku and wanted to spend time with him, but now Inuyasha and Kagome had ruined it. Then she saw more than just Sango's eyes were on her. The entire cafeteria was watching.

Oh God. How loud was I?

"Oh Sango, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to embarrass you." Kagome felt like crying, she hadn't just embarrassed herself she had embarrassed her friend too.

"It's ok." Sango said sitting back down, Miroku following.

"I really was only joking." Inuyasha said, not sounding too apologetic.

"It's ok. Sorry I called you a cur." Kagome said making an effort to sound genuine.

The awkward silence that followed was thankfully broken when the bell rang for the next period. English, the only class that all four of them had together.

Great, now we can continue with this love-fest.

"English, huh. Aren't you in my class?" Kagome turned to Inuyasha.

"So funny." Inuyasha grumbled getting to his feet.

"Behave." Miroku pointed at Inuyasha, then he and Sango went on their own way, leaving Kagome and Inuyasha to follow.

"What's with you?" Inuyasha asked, turning to face Kagome as they headed towards class together.

Kagome realized with a start that she had been chuckling quietly to herself. She hadn't thought he would hear, but apparently his hearing was better than she had anticipated.

"Behave!" She said, dissolving into giggles as she imitated Miroku, pointing a finger in Inuyasha's face. "It's like what someone says to a dog when he's being bad. Don't you think?"

Inuyasha was practically growling with anger, further building on Kagome's initial cur, and dog insults. BY now Kagome was practically dying of laughter. She was holder her side and tears were slipping down her cheeks.

"You...should...see...your face!"

Inyuahsa's lip twitched and Kagome could tell he was holding back a smile. But he turned away and crossed his arms across his chest.

"Hmph. Whatever wench." He said as they entered the classroom and sat down.

Well, I survived.

Sango folded her hands in front of her so she wouldn't start wringing them. She stared at the smooth, shining surface of the table, anywhere but Miroku's violet eyes.

"I really have fun with you Miroku."

"See? Now don't you wish you had said yes sooner?" He said taking one of Sango's hands in his own.

"What are we going to do about Inuyasha and Kagome?" Sango sighed and looked into Miroku's face, his touch giving her more confidence.

It had been close to three weeks since the famous blowup in the cafeteria. Everyday there was a repeat performance. Nothing quite so big as that first one, mostly just bickering and childish name-calling.

"Don't worry about it. That's just the way Inuyasha is. He's only getting used to her. Besides Kagome's got a lot of spirit. She isn't exactly helpless, she can handle herself. She's a big girl."

Sango bit her lip and looked away form him again. She couldn't help feeling guilty. This was the third weekend in a row that she had gone out with Miroku. Ksgome had been practically pushing her out of the door, telling her it was alright, but she felt really bad anyway. She was neglecting her best friend.

"That's not all that's bothering you."

"No." Sango smiled, Miroku was so perceptive. "I just feel bad. I like spending time with you but I haven't spent any time with Kagome in a while. We talk on the phone, but it's not the same."

"All you had to do was say something. I understand."

"I just didn't realize how hard it would be to juggle." Sango said with a sigh.

"I know what you mean. Inuyasha's been extra sulky lately. As much as he likes to look like he's a loner he enjoys the company."

"We could all hang out together more if they didn't fight with each other so much."

More like, if Inuyasha could behave.

"I don't think they hate each other or anything. They're both just stubborn. Inuyasha reminds me of a child of divorce when he meets his parents new boyfriend or girlfriend. I know I acted out when my mom started dating again."

"You make it sound like he's your child." Sango giggled.

"He can be pretty childish." He smiled. "But let's stop talking about them. I think if we drag them with us enough places things will work out alright."


There's chapter 2. Good times. The next one is one of my favorites so keep reading, and keep writing.