East of the Moon
Chapter two

Somewhere over the east coast, Private jet, 11:48 a.m., July 8:


Inuyasha stared out over the window of the private jet in shock. Even after almost six hours, he could not get over the fact that he was in a private jet designed for a king, or a celebrity.

"Hey, Dad?" he asked as he continued to stare at the land below.

"What?" His Dad asked curtly from his position where he was reading his newspaper.

"Am I going to be famous?" Inuyasha asked as his father looked at him over an article on the upcoming presidential election. "I mean, if I'm supposed to save the world from utter destruction, won't I kind of be a hero...or an idol...or something...?"

The older of the two demons shook his head. "I'm afraid not. The White House wants to keep this under wraps. Imagine if some one were to discover that the world may be coming to an end? Who knows what they'll do...?"

Inuyasha sighed and looked out the window. "I guess I'll have to find another way to talk to girls..."

Inutaisho stared at his son before smirking, "Oh, you won't need to worry about that."

His son cast him a blank look, but simply shook his head.

"Are we going to be there soon?" Inuyasha asked with a sigh.

"We're nearly there. About fifteen minutes," Inutaisho said calmly as he went back to his reading. Inuyasha stared out the window again before sighing.

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Hall in the White House, Washington DC, 1:44 p.m.:

"Now, when you meet the presidential family, you will treat them with respect and dignity; they do run our country, after all."

"What about the vice president? Do I have to be nice to him?" Inuyasha asked skeptically.

"Yes. In fact, whoever you see here you must treat with dignity and respect. I will not have my son insult and embarrass me in front of the most influential people of the free world!"

"Hey wait a moment," Inuyasha halted in his hurried walking. With every two steps his father took, he had to prance or run to just keep up. "Me insult you? Is that what you're so worried about? That I'll make you embarrassed? What do you care; you can just tell them it's my mother's upbringing, because heaven knows that you haven't lifted a finger to even have a relationship with your son."

"Don't you talk back to me, young man," Inutaisho said crossly.

"So I'm not supposed to express my feelings? Isn't that part of being in the free world?"

"You're just a teenager!"

"So therefore my opinions don't matter?" Inuyasha snapped angrily.

"That's not it. You just have to obey me because I'm your father and I know what's best for you," Inutaisho said crossly as he glared at his son.

"Ha!" Inuyasha snorted and then mumbled something.

"What?" his father leaned in closer.

Inuyasha snapped his eyes up and glared at his dad. "I said that I have no father." He turned his head away. "So where am I supposed to meet this lame ass family?"

Inutaisho, with less pride than when he started, escorted his son to the blue room.

As Inuyasha awaited the presidential family, he was able to plop down onto a chair and relax. The blue room wasn't as blue as he expected, in fact, its walls were a yellowish. He peered around the blue room with a critical eye. "There's something purple in here," he muttered to himself.

"Yeah, that's my fault." Inuyasha jumped when his eyes locked with a girl about his age. She had black, shoulder length hair and bright blue eyes. She was dressed formally, but Inuyasha expected that since this was, after all, the White House, and because of that you'd probably have to dress up any time you were within five feet of the White House. But none the less, the girl was very beautiful and he found that it was very hard to breath or even produce enough sound to say 'hi' or 'oh, is that so?'

"Uh." He mentally cursed himself. He'd just given the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen the stupidest comment he'd ever heard. 'Who is she?' he wondered.

"Yeah, it was four years ago; I bought the purple lamp because the blue room gave me a headache when all I did was stare at blue." She shrugged. "There's a pink porcelain cat in the red room, and a yellow plate in the green room, if you want me to show you."

"I was kind of waiting for someone." Another stupid thing to say. When a hot girl asks you to go somewhere you don't say you're waiting for someone. "The presidential family, I guess." He shrugged. He wasn't exactly sure where his father went, but he assumed to get the president...

The girl grinned at that and Inuyasha felt his heart stop again. 'Damn it...'

"Are you Inuyasha East?" She asked with her beautiful blue eyes twinkling.

"Uh...yes...who are you?" The girl seemed mildly surprised at that question. She cocked her head to the side and peered at him before giggling.

"I'm Kagome Higurashi Jones," she said and then it hit him like a ton of bricks.

'Kagome Jones. She's the president's daughter, their only daughter...wow, I never knew she was so pretty...' He blinked in surprise.

"Inuyasha East, so we finally meet." She paused and stared deeply into his golden eyes, making him feel uncomfortable. "You have your father's eyes."

"Yeah, and I have my Mum's nose... but the rest is all yours," he joked, though a small blush appeared on his cheeks when he said it.

Kagome blushed as well and giggled. "Well, I see the best parts are already accounted for then," she said with a twinkle in her eyes. He laughed bashfully and she smiled brightly.

"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, Kagome," Inuyasha said, remembering that his dad said he had to behave. He stuck out his hand and Kagome took it with practiced ease. They shook.

"The pleasure is all mine, Inuyasha." Kagome smiled and pulled her hand back to her side. Inuyasha's flopped lifelessly beside him.

"Mrs. Kagome Higurashi Jones!" came a new voice and the two teenagers turned to see Inuyasha's father walking towards them. "Your father requests your audience in the Oval Office. He also wishes for Inuyasha's presence." He nodded towards his son.

"Yes, Mr. East," Kagome said quietly, almost meekly. She lowered her head and averted her gaze.

"Father," Inuyasha said coolly.

"Son." The response was equally as cold.

Kagome cast Inuyasha a look before retreating from the blue room. Inuyasha followed her with his dad bringing up the rear. He caught up to her and glanced behind her shoulder. "Are you okay?"

"Sorry," she murmured, "But I don't like your dad..."

"That makes two of us." Inuyasha shrugged. "What'd he do to you?"

"It's not that, I just hate all the bodyguards that follow me around...Mr. East watches my mother, and it's a little known fact that he's quite smitten with her," she whispered.

"He what?" Inuyasha almost yelped and cast an inconspicuous look at his father, who was discussing something with a bald man in a black suit.

"Shhh," Kagome hushed him. "This is the oval office," she murmured gesturing to the large doors in front of her. She let out a loud sigh and rubbed her temples.

Inuyasha's father reached them and he ushered the two teenagers inside. Inuyasha's eyes landed on a tall man and a petite woman, who he assumed was the president and the first lady. Kagome walked over to them and stood at her father's left side.

"You must be Inuyasha East," the president spoke and Inuyasha nodded his head. He was never really into politics, and therefore didn't know much about Jones except that he was a democrat who had been voted in four years ago. He couldn't vote, so therefore he didn't care...

"Yes sir," Inuyasha spoke when his father nudged him.

"I am Andrew Jones, this is my wife, Kikyou Higurashi Jones, and this is my daughter, Kagome. I assume you've met?"

"Yes sir," Inuyasha repeated when his father nudged him yet again.

He glanced at his father and saw that behind the dark glasses he wore, he was staring right at Kikyou...the first lady. She was pretty, but in his hormonal, angsty teenager ways; he decided that Kagome was much prettier. Though, he was relieved that his father wasn't smitten with a teenage girl...

"Inuyasha East, we are aware of what the prophecy says, and in order to protect the free world, we request that you speak of this to no one but the people present in this room." Inuyasha glanced around and noticed about ten bodyguards were standing at different points in the room. He glanced at Kagome and the girl offered him a timid smile. "Furthermore, to insure your protection, and that you're at the right place at the end of this summer, you shall stay in the white house with us—"

"Awesome!" Inuyasha couldn't contain himself, "Can I sleep in Lincoln's bedroom?" His father slapped him at the back of the head. It wasn't so much he wanted to sleep in Lincoln's bedroom, it was just the fact that he could sleep in a room where a famous president slept.

The president chuckled. "Unfortunately, Lincoln's bedroom is being renovated. Kagome will show you your room later on, right Kagome?" The said girl nodded.

"Anyways, Inuyasha, we are unsure as to what this force that will kill us is, so in order to prevent your demise." Inuyasha blinked at that. "You shall be trained by your father and select others so you can be in your peak condition."

"Uh...ok." Another slap at the back of the head. "I mean, yes sir!"

"I know this will cause you a great deal of pressure, but, the outcome of the world rests in your hands. You are our last hope." The president smiled at the teenager. "I have confidence in you."

"Thank you, sir," Inuyasha said softly.

"Right then, sorry Inuyasha, but I'm afraid that I will have to depart now; I have a meeting I must attend." He kissed his wife good bye and squeezed his daughter's shoulder and then left the room. Several amounts of bodyguards followed him out.

Kikyou smiled and began walking out in the other direction, towards where Inuyasha assumed was her room. Inuyasha's father seemed a little too eager to follow, as did a number of bodyguards. They left Inuyasha, Kagome and her two bodyguards.

"Well then, would you like me to show you to your room?" Kagome asked sweetly and Inuyasha nodded, following her with his dog ears twitching. Kagome glanced at them and grinned. Seeing this, Inuyasha's ears flattened against his skull, hidden beneath his silver hair. "Are they real?"

He glanced at her. "Yeah."

Kagome nodded and they kept walking until they reached his room. "Huh, I guess this is ok." He shrugged. "I don't know how to compare them to anything else, and after all, this is the white house..."

Kagome giggled and smiled at him. He wondered briefly why she thought he was so hilarious. Back in Seattle, he rarely was given the time of day...

"My room's right there; you can compare them, if you'd like." Kagome pointed beside his door to another door. Inuyasha paled. 'A girl just invited me into her room...ok, stop being horny, you stupid dog, she said you can see it, she didn't say "take me, I'm yours!", though that would be nice.' He shook his head furiously. 'Damn me and my hormones...'

"Hello?" Kagome said and smiled brightly when he snapped out of his daze. "Come on," she grabbed his hand and dragged him into her room. It was similar to his; only this one looked more lived in. It had stuff that was obviously Kagome's. There were posters everywhere, little knickknacks, and an open closet that obviously had all of her clothes.

"Legolas?" he asked as he located the poster on her ceiling, right above her bed. Big mistake.

Suddenly, Kagome was squealing and throwing herself onto her bed and staring up at the poster, all the while giggling and squealing. "Yes! Oh god, I love him so much!" She sighed dreamily and stared up at the poster. "Marry me!"

Inuyasha, slightly amused and slightly disturbed, watched this display of affection towards a poster. "It's a poster, Kagome."

"I've met Orlando Bloom before," Kagome sighed, "He was so dreamy..."

Inuyasha stared at her, and then looked around the room looking for some way to distract Kagome. "So, what music do you like?"

Kagome, sadly torn away from her Legolas poster, hopped off her bed and watched the awkward boy standing in the center of her room. "I like most things. Except country and rap. Yuck!"

Inuyasha laughed. "I like classic rock."

Kagome smiled brightly. "Tell me more about yourself."

"Ms. Jones," said a bodyguard. "It is time for you and Inuyasha to depart for the day; you have places to be."

Kagome sighed sadly and shook her head. "We can talk later, Inuyasha! Good bye!"

"Good bye, Kagome," Inuyasha said as the bodyguard happily ushered the teenager out, his gaze staying on Kagome's.

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Inuyasha's room, White House, Washington DC, 9:30 p.m.:

'Only six thirty at home,' Inuyasha thought sourly as he glanced at his watch. 'I hope I get used to this time zone soon, or else I'll be sleeping in until six at night...'

He was currently out on the balcony of his room (and he was very thrilled when he learned that he had a balcony) and staring at the smog that is the east coast. 'Wow, makes you realize just how clear and refreshing Washington is...' he thought with a small sigh escaping his lips. The sun wouldn't set for another half an hour or so.

"Boring," he declared. Normally, he'd be playing video games or wreaking havoc amid the apartment complex. But, he was in the White House; you don't do anything bad in the white house. That was probably a crime against humanity. A sin. Plus, his good-for-nothing father would have his head if he so much as breathed funny here.

Not to mention that he could smell Kagome in the next room. He really wished he could sleep in Lincoln's bedroom. That wouldn't smell nice.

He sighed and rested his forehead against the cool iron of the balcony.

That is until the door beside him open and Kagome walked out onto her balcony.

'Shit.'

Kagome, no longer wearing her rich, fancy clothes, was clad in a simple white t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Apparently, she was unaware of Inuyasha' presence, for she didn't give him one of her friendly smiles. Instead, she walked to the edge of the balcony and looked over the edge, before leaning down and grabbing a vine. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow, and an ear cocked in her direction.

Was Kagome sneaking out?

It appeared so.

He let out a gentle sigh as he watched the girl attempt her grand escape. She was going to fail. His excellent hearing detected the cameras moving around, hidden within trees. He'd heard in school that if you so much as stepped onto the front lawn of the White House with a gun in your hand, you'd be shot down in less than thirty seconds. Not that he wanted to go at the White House with a gun; he seriously doubted that would work. Now a tank, a tank would be good.

Shaking his head he jumped from his balcony onto Kagome's (which was a pretty easy feat, the two balconies were not the far away from each other), causing the girl to shriek in surprise and nearly release one of the vines that grew up to their balconies.

"Inuyasha?" she asked as he pulled her up. She blinked before smiling shyly. "God, I thought you were one of my bodyguards."

"Sorry, what are you doing?" he apologized with a smirk.

Kagome laughed bashfully and pointed over her shoulder. "I was going to go to a nightclub."

"Nightclub? Don't you have to be twenty-one...or something?" Inuyasha asked. He seriously doubted Kagome was that old.

"Eighteen and I have a fake I.D., duh," Kagome shrugged.

"I see the president's daughter is a bad girl," Inuyasha joked.

"Nah, this is basically all I'll do. Besides, you can't deny you don't have one too," Kagome accused.

"You caught me." Inuyasha held his hands up in defeat.

Kagome smiled brightly. "Want to come?"

"Huh?"

"Want to come with me?" Kagome shrugged, "The nightclub doesn't open until eleven, so I figure that gives us plenty of time to sneak past the cameras. It takes a while, but I think it's worth it."

"Feh." Inuyasha rolled his eyes and scooped Kagome up into his arms bridal style. She squeaked in surprise and barely had time to register this new position before Inuyasha's foot was planting on the bar around the balcony and his body was tensing.

"Inuyasha, don't you dare," Kagome warned, but it was already too late because Inuyasha pushed off the balcony and they were soaring through the air. Kagome shrieked in surprise, yet again, and grasped tightly onto Inuyasha. "What...?"

"Demon. Duh," Inuyasha smirked and landed outside the iron gates of the white house. He set Kagome down and she stared at him in surprise, her eyes twinkling.

"I learn something new everyday. I hope Dad keeps you around more often." Kagome giggled and grabbed his hand. "Come on, the night is young! That saved so much time!"

And the two teenagers were off!

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- Ok, I made Kagome's middle name Higurashi because, let's face it, it will be a long time before we have a president who is not Caucasian. I don't mean to be racist, or anything, but it's true, our America is far from being completely equal.

- Added the Legolas thing (to those of you in the dark, he's from LotR) because it was too tempting. If she's the president's daughter, you'd think they'd meet celebrities! And who wouldn't want to meet Orlando Bloom? Sure, he can't really act that well, but he's so damn sexy!

- For the record, Kagome is not a bad girl, I just felt like giving her a fake I.D. so she and Inuyasha could have a final destination in mind.

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