Inutori: I just founded the IFOAC two seconds ago, if anyone wants to join me in my quest for…well, I won't tell you just yet…tell me, I may consider letting you in on my new club!
Kagome: You liar, you just made that up! I bet IFOG or whatever doesn't even stand for anything.
Inutori: You're halfway right, actually. I did just make it up, but you're still wrong, IFOAC stands for Idiotic Fans Of Anime Club…*looks at all of the readers and starts crying*…I wasn't supposed to give that away yet! It was my secret! Now I have to go hang myself from the deck by my ears!
Inuyasha & Kagome: O.o
Inutori: Go read the story before I jump off! *sitting on railing of deck with strings tied to ears* I will! *tying other ends of strings to metal railing* Oh, BTW, thank you all you special people who reviewed the last chapter! *falls of railing while doing a peace sign to past reviewers*
Chapter 6
Medicine
Inuyasha jerked awake and looked wide-eyed at Kagome. "Wha?"
She sighed, trying to contain her laughter at the drool on the side of his mouth. "You fell asleep in my class."
"Oh," was the most intelligent answer he could muster as he adjusted his hat on top of his head to make it more comfortable for his dog-like ears.
Inuyasha followed Kagome out of the classroom and stood there waiting while she locked the door. She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and became slightly irritated. "Class is over, Inuyasha. Unless you have a specific question, please be on your way."
He shrugged and turned around. "I do have a question, next Friday, are you busy?"
"Why?" Kagome eyed his back suspiciously as they both stood there.
"I was just wondering if, you know." He didn't know how to put it without flat out asking her to go on a date.
"No, I don't know. Indulge me."
"I wanted to take you out to dinner and stuff as pay back for the lunch you bought me, you know."
Her eyebrow cocked as she processed his words in her head. "Next Friday, huh? Well, I'll have to see. I may be doing something with my little brother."
Inuyasha turned around and looked at her. "You have a brother?"
"Yeah, he goes to high school in Tokyo." She smiled at him before walking past to leave the building. Her heals clicked on the tile floor in a steady rhythm, until she stumbled and almost fell forward onto her face.
Inuyasha chuckled behind her as she regained her composure and continued walking out of the structure. "And here I thought you were a graceful priestess."
"…" She scrunched her delicate nose at him and continued to hurry away from the dog on her heals. "So I'm a bit of a klutz, big deal." They reached her jeep and she quickly unlocked it to get in.
Inuyasha climbed into the passenger seat, leaving Kagome to stare blankly at him.
"What do you think you're doing in MY car?" Her delicate eyebrows furrowed and she continued to stand just outside the driver's side with the door wide open.
"Getting a ride back to my apartment, what does it look like?" Inuyasha leaned back and made himself comfortable.
"Did I offer to give any hanyou jerks a ride?" She said it coolly, trying to contain the building flames within her body.
"Nope, you were volunteered." Inuyasha smiled at her evilly, knowing full well that he could beat her any day.
"Well, jerk-face, consider this the last time I will give you a ride."
"So now who's degraded themselves to the point of name-calling, hmm?" Inuyasha smirked in triumph as Kagome started the engine and began maneuvering her way out of the parking lot.
She grumbled a bit as they drove down the road towards Inuyasha's apartment complex. "Dirty hanyou." The car turned into the parking lot and Kagome parked in front of the stairs that led up to Inuyasha and Miroku's shared residence.
"So you want to come in for some tea?" Inuyasha twiddled his thumbs, not making any movement to get out of the car.
Kagome hesitated a moment before answering, as if contemplating what to say. "I-I guess that would be alright." She unbuckled her seatbelt and removed the keys from the ignition. Opening the door, Kagome stepped out and stood up straight.
Inuyasha followed suit and climbed out of the passenger seat to join her in the ascent to his dwelling. He unlocked the front door and beckoned for Kagome to go on in.
"Being a proper gentleman, now are we?"
Inuyasha jerked around to look into the kitchen where a girl with long black hair stood drinking a glass of milk. She was wearing a green schoolgirl-uniform skirt and a cream colored blouse with a sailor scarf. A black and gold bandana was tied around her head, holding back her hair and hiding her ears from view.
"Inutori?" His eyebrow cocked as he looked at her. She looked slightly different from when he had last seen her.
"Yup!" Her expression brightened, then turned mellow in a matter of seconds. Looking to the floor, she clasped her hands behind her back and spoke. "The spell, I'm sure you've noticed that it's lifted."
"Of course I have. But I thought that the spell would be permanent until-"
"-the one who cast it died. I know." She looked mournfully at him with her piercing golden eyes. "She's dead."
Inuyasha looked taken back by this statement. "Impossible."
Kagome looked between the two people, wondering if she no longer existed or something. "You know, I'd like to be in the loop."
The girl called Inutori slowly moved her gaze from Inuyasha to the short miko standing next to him. "Who are you?"
The young prodigy huffed up in indignation as the teenager in front of her seemed to size her up. "I should be asking you that. And what are you doing in Inuyasha's apartment?"
"I have every right to be here, seeing as how Inuyasha is my elder brother."
Kagome looked to Inuyasha to see if the girl was telling the truth. "Inuyasha?"
"But you on the other hand, are intruding." The girl's eye seemed to be twitching and a vein began to protrude from her forehead.
Inuyasha spoke up to throw in his two cents. "No she's not Inutori, I invited her in."
"I told you a long time ago that you were to keep away from Inuyasha. You're married now, Fluffy wouldn't be too happy if he found out you were having an affair."
Little question marks popped up around Kagome's head as she looked at Inutori. "Married…Fluffy…an affair?" She didn't get what Inuyasha's little sister was saying to her. Bringing up a hand, she scratched her scalp in confusion. "I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about." Her statement was completely honest seeing as how she really didn't know what Inutori was getting at.
Inuyasha once again stepped into the conversation, obviously having to be the linguist between the two women. "Inutori, this is Kagome Higurashi, she works at the school shrine. Not Kikyou, I thought the same at first but this really isn't her."
Kagome looked back and forth between the two siblings, getting more confused by the minute. Maybe she should have declined Inuyasha's offer to have some tea after all.
"Hmm…I see." Inutori looked at her considerably different after Inuyasha's clarification, but it didn't help Kagome's confusion. What exactly was going on here?
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Inutori (me): Well, I've finished this chapter…finally.
Inuyasha: Yeah, it took you long enough.
Inutori: And why did you suddenly throw me into this story, I already have my schedule full shooting the scenes for Another DogDemon.
Inutori (me): Because I felt like it. You'll see what you're purpose in this story is eventually…buwahahahahaha
Kagome: O…K…
Inutori (me): Has anyone seen Pirates of the Carribean? It is SO funny. I love Captain Jack!
Inuyasha: And you don't love me?
Inutori (me): You wish…Anyway, everyone go review, I have to have…*counts on fingers*…ten reviews in order for all of you to get the next chapter.
Kagome: Do giving a required number of reviews needed for an update actually encourage people to review? *shrugs*