CHAPTER TWELVE
If you don't I won't care. I'll pull down you underwear.
Kagome giggled as she stuffed another piece of candy into her mouth. She glanced around Sango's average sized brightly lighted bedroom. There were trophies everywhere. Kagome glanced over at Sango as she walked back into her room from her bathroom wearing another one of her 'possible costumes'. For the past hour and a half, Kagome and Sango had been having a costume parade, searching for the right outfit for Inuyasha's party tonight.
"How do I look." Sango sniggered as she glanced down at her 'Morticia Adams' getup.
"Very scary...though I think you should lose the wig."
Sango nodded and removed the long silky black fake hair from her head. "How about now? Is that better?" She quickly jumped into a Marilyn Manroa pose cracking Kagome up.
"Very sexy-sexy, now all we have to do is straighten your hair a little at the bottom and it'll be perfect…I brought my sister's flat iron, though I have no idea how to use it." She pulled the devise out of her book bag and handed it to Sango.
Sango smiled as she unzipped the long form fitting black dress and slipped it down to her ankles, swiftly kicking it off before she grabbing another costume lying on her bed and took off towards the bathroom. "Don't worry I do, thanks for bringing it like I asked." Sango called.
"No prob."
* Fifteen Minutes later. *
"I'm so glad you're coming with me tonight, Kagome. It's just not the same without you there." Sango walked back into the room dressed like some kind of dark goddess; she had her hair pulled back into a bun with multiple ringlets left down framing her face, her makeup was dark but clean and simple. Giving her a frozen and empty look to her, rather like the undead. Her dress gave the impression of being from like the Greek mythology. It looked like a black sleeveless toga decked with a purple shawl tied around her waist and over one of her shoulders draping across her chest, and covered with extra fragments of wine colored fishnet wrapped around her like a spider web. Sango's face and bare arms sparkled lightly with the tint of glitter.
"Well…what do you think?" Sango twirled around so Kagome could see the back. Kagome's eyes widened as she stared at it. "I think it kind of looks like some kind of evil goddess, don't you think?"
"I LOVE IT…where did you get it, I want one." Kagome glanced over at her pathetic dog costume lying in the corner. "I wish my costume was that pretty." Kagome growled under her breath as she thought about the cool Kimono Shippou had brought her, she had wanted to wear that, but Kikyo had in the middle of her rage at Kagome for not letting her go to Inuyasha'' part had ripped one of the sleeves off. Kagome had beat the crap out of her, but that still didn't change the fact that the Kimono was ruined until she could get it fixed.
"Good." Sango said smiling mischievously. "Cause it's yours."
Kagome's jaw dropped. "What?"
"What…I'm going as Morticia Adams along with Miroku, my husband, Gomez; I just had to make sure you liked this outfit before I gave it to you."
Kagome jumped up and wrapped her arms around Sango's waist, hopping up and down happily. "It's mine?"
"It's yours."
"Thank you so much it's so pretty." Kagome released Sango and smiled admiringly at her friend and her costume. "What would I ever do with out you?"
"God only knows…Kagome, are you sure you're alright with going to Inuyasha's party, after…"
"What? After the whole Yusuke thing…no way. I'm totally okay, I mean it, I'm glad it happened." Kagome flashed Sango a fake smile. "Besides if I hadn't said no to Yusuke and he hadn't have said all those things to all those people I might've never met you. And I'd rather have you, and Miroku, and Katsumi, and Duo, and Spike, and Asuka, and Kouga, and Shippou, and Kenji, and even Inuyasha than anything else in the world…you guys are my family."
Sango sighed. "But Kagome he's done so much to you, how can you be so merciful. If he'd done all those things to me, I would have…I don't know what I would have done…I would have hired a hit-man to go after him or something, I wouldn't just let him get away with it. I couldn't just act like it was nothing. You can't just forget that he tried have you beaten, Kagome; he, and half of his friends from Youkai tried to kill you almost. If you're not going to do anything at least let me kill the bastard for you."
"How did you know about that?" Kagome shrieked.
"I'm your friend…Spike told me…come on Kagome, please just let me hurt him."
"How did Spike find out?" Kagome asked impatiently.
"Please…I know I can take him."
"No! It's all in the past, even though I admit I want him dead, I'm not going to start a war over it…that's what he, Naraku, and all of Youkai want…a reason to fight. They just want me to be scared of them, and I refuse to do that. I'm supposed to stand up to my fears…aren't I?" Kagome hugged Sango before she quickly changed the subject. "So where did you get this costume anyway, it's so beautiful."
Sango sighed. She new what Kagome was trying to do, part of Sango just wanted to persist the on the matter at hand, but she decided to just give up and follow Kagome's hint. "I made it in Economics class last week."
"Sweet."
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Katsumi cautiously readjusted the arm of the lifelike skeleton she had hung up in a corner of the ceiling before she carefully climbed down her ladder and stood off at a distance to observe her 'masterpiece'. They had really done a good job on the decorations it would have put Spencer's to shame. So far, they had at least an ocean of fake cobwebs draped and hung in every corner of the room and dangling from the ceiling, some was even arranged on the floor near the base of the walls to add that 'abandoned' look. The casket, Katsumi had brought was sitting in the corner opposite the doorway with an incredibly hideous skeleton, with all of his guts still intact, standing up inside it. And that was just the beginning.
"Very cute, Kitty." Spike laughed as he glanced up at the 'bird shooting body of bones' that Katsumi had hanging from the ceiling.
"I thought it was befitting." She gave him a big smile. "How's the stereo equipment coming?"
"Why don't you listen for your self…Shippou hit the music."
"As you wish." Shippou flipped a switch and pushed up the volume button. "And God said 'let there be sound'."
Suddenly the large, hardwood floor, black painted walled, basement filled with the echoed sounds of witch chackels and people screaming, the hum of bat's flying and monsters moaning followed by a song played by some loud anonymous band.
"Awesome! You guys rule…you really hid the speakers well I can't see them but it sounds like they're right in my ear." Katsumi twirled around as the loud music engulfed her and she began singing along.
Spike grinned as he gave Shippou a thumb's up. "Well we have one happy customer."
"Hey Inuyasha." Katsumi giggled during a pause in the chorus. "Just how many people are coming tonight anyway?"
"I 'dunno' around two to three hundred I guess, why?"
All of a sudden, the music stopped as piercing silence filled the room.
"What?" Katsumi shrieked, bursting everyone's eardrums.
"Yeah, I pretty much invited half the school, but I know not all of 'em' are going to show up since Nanami Masaki is having a party at her dad's nightclub tonight too."
"Yeah but three hundred…you've never had that many people here, I mean like a hundred and fifty has always been our maximum."
Inuyasha just shrugged his shoulders as he handed Duo a rubber bat to put beside the fake dead body lying on the floor against the wall. "Well now it's three hundred."
"How in the heck does a bunch of misfits like us have a party and all of a sudden three hundred people just show up...people who don't even like us." Katsumi gasped.
Miroku grinned, "I think we owe our popularity to Mr. Gigilo over there." He motioned to Inuyasha, getting a smack across the head in reply.
"Seriously, Inuyasha." Spike groaned as he collapsed to the floor, dog tired from all the 'work'. "How did a bunch of WEIRD-O's like ourselves get so many people at our party?"
"Simple." Asuka sighed as she laid down on the floor next to her boyfriend, Kenji and lied her head on his chest, her camouflage pants meshing with his black ones. "People may not like us but they like our parties."
Miroku sighed as he flopped to the floor resting his back against the only 'web free' wall. "Am I the only person in here who thinks we should charge a five dollar admission fee."
Everyone raised their hands.
"Yeah well at least everything is done." Kouga moaned as he took a seat on one of the basement steps.
Duo nodded as he fell to the floor like so many of his friends had done already, staring up at the black ceiling decked with hanging bats and streamers. "So what about our Yusuke problem…he is coming isn't he Inuyasha."
"Him and his sister…I made sure of it."
"Good." Duo sighed. "Everything's going according to plan."
Katsumi giggled happily. "He's going to wish he'd never heard Kagome Hirugashi's name…I love vengeance, It's so…so…so vengeful."
"AMEN!"
~*~*~*~
Kagome and Sango grinned excitedly as they drove up to the gate entrance to Inuyasha's subdivision. They handed the man in the small building their invitation and he let them pass. They slowly drove around until they found a parking space in the parking lot across from Inuyasha's house. The second they were parked the girls hopped out of the car and took off at lightning speed towards their party.
Kagome walked in the 'left open' front door and glanced around at the huge living room, she was amazed at how much had changed since the last time she'd been here; the high ceiling was even higher than she remembered it.
Kagome felt someone tap her on the shoulder, she turned around to see 'Gomez' smiling back at her, with his 'wife' by his side. "Party's this way Kag." Miroku grinned. "My don't we look lovely tonight." Miroku took Kagome's hand in his and gave it a small kiss.
Sango giggled. "But darling she didn't even speak a word of French." She added in a dramatic voice taking on her costume's character.
Miroku chuckled, "Ah yes…that is because no one can speak it like you do 'Tish'."
"Such a charmer isn't he?" Sango snickered to Kagome as they followed 'Gomez' to the basement.
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"Wow!" Kagome exclaimed when she reached the final step. She took a few steps onto the hardwood floor as she marveled at the room's scary décor. It was amazing; she had never seen a place this well decked out, only in movies. "You guys did an awesome job. Is that Katsumi's coffin over there." She pointed at the skeleton stuffed casket.
Miroku nodded. "Yep. You know Kitty, 'If it's for the spirit of Halloween'..."
"She'll do anything." Kagome and Sango chanted.
~*~*~*~
Spike from across the dance floor in the basement watched restlessly in his pirate costume, as he waited for just a glimpse of Kagome. He had on the capri pants, the long socks, the buckle shoes, the eye patch, the loose sleeve white shirt, the sword at his side held up by a belt, and a black bandana on his head; biker style. The second he saw her he felt like his heart stop. She looked…beautiful. He had never seen Kagome with her hair up in a bun with the loose ringlets hanging down framing her face; like she had it now, it suited her. And her costume was beautiful, he thought it fit her perfectly. In Spike's eyes, she looked flawless.
Spike tapped Inuyasha on the shoulder. Inuyasha turned around in his Jason costume; his ski mask on top of his head, to look in the direction Spike was pointing in. His jaw stopped at the sight of Kagome.
"Wow…she looks…." Inuyasha trailed off in his stupor; staring at Kagome in awe.
Katsumi giggled, twirling around in her rag doll costume. She smiled at Inuyasha, forcing the fake stitching she had painted on to stretch, "Watch it Inu, you're drooling on yourself."
Duo snorted, "That's an understatement."
Inuyasha glared at him. "Nice sunglasses."
Duo smirked as Inuyasha eyed his Matrix costume.
"I thought so." Katsumi wrapped her arms around her boyfriend before she shot her tongue out at Inuyasha. "He's my superhero." She giggled.
"Since when did Raggedy Ann date Keanu Reeves?" Inuyasha murmured under his breath.
"I heard that." Katsumi and Duo snapped.
Shippou sighed, from his spot behind the snack table, where he was running things. "Oh come on! You guys suck." He quickly handed some anonymous person a can of Pepsi before he turned back to his friends. "Why do I have to run the stupid concession table." He frowned angrily at his friends in his bartender skeleton uniform that he had borrowed from his uncle.
~*~*~*~
Kagome closely following Sango and Miroku headed over to the others. Kagome smiled happily; she didn't know why but she felt so pretty in her costume. She grinned, at the others.
"Kagome…" Spike began, as he looked her 'costume' up and down. Yeah right.
"You look beautiful." Katsumi commented.
"Thank you." Kagome blushed.
Asuka grinned in her red hot devil costume; "Where'd you get your costume?"
"Sango made it…I like yours."
Spike smirked finally taking his eyes off Kagome. "It's befitting ain't it, I think horns suit her."
Asuka glared daggers at her stepbrother before she turned to her boyfriend, Beetle Juice, or once known as Kenji. "You'll beat him up for me won't you?" She asked jokingly, playing off his bashfulness. Just as predicted Kenji's cheeks turned bright red, as he stood there speechless. She giggled to herself.
Kagome glanced over her shoulder, to see a vampire standing behind her; she smiled, as Kouga held out his hand to her, and she took it smiling all the while. "My dear Dracula, you look positively horrifying."
"Why thank you my dear goddess."
Kagome giggled, "oh please dead sir, please by all means call me, Kagome."
"Ah! The goddess Kagome; please let me have a taste of you 'I want to suck your blood'."
Kagome smirked to herself as she tilted her head to one side revealing her neck to her vampire boyfriend, "There you go, go on and take a big bite."
Kouga's jaw dropped at the sudden seductive confidence in his girlfriend. "Well aren't we the eager one."
She smirked.
Inuyasha growled inwardly. Damn him…she's mine. Holy shit! Where in the hell did that come from?
~*~*~*~
The night ensued filled with dancing and temper fits on Inuyasha's part, he sat on the sidelines watching; rag dolls and men in blacks, devils and Beetle Juices, Adams families, and vampires and goddesses; dance the night away with a pirate at his side.
"What did I tell you." Spike sighed as he pulled his bandana over his eyes and leaned back in his fold up chair. "The untouchable."
Inuyasha glared at his snoozing friend before he reached down, grabbed a leg of the buccaneer's chair, and yanked it out from under him. Sending Spike to the floor with a loud yelp. Inuyasha smirked, as he leaned back in his own chair and laughed at his fallen friend, "what was that, I couldn't quite here you over the noise?"
Spike murmured under his breath, "jackass."
"Hey Inuyasha." Miroku came running over to his other friends, "he's here."
Inuyasha and Spike both turned to look in the direction that Miroku was pointing in.
"Yusuke."
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Okay peoples, I hope you liked this chapter. I worked really hard on it. Okay, I wish you guys would review and tell me what I should have them do to Yusuke and Sakuya…I have an idea but I personally think it's kind of stupid. Also I still need some girls for Kouga and Spike.
