A/N: Thanks for the reviews, minna!  I'm sorry! I had no idea that I wasn't accepting anonymous reviews!  *sighs* I'm such an idiot.  Honestly though, I don't remember checking that box.

            Anyway, here's some shout outs to all of you beloved reviewers!

            This is just for chapter 2.

            ChibiHorsewoman: Yeah, I know.  I didn't think the movie was all that great, but I felt like writing a cliché fanfiction, which is very un like me. So I don't know how this will turn out.

            Hanyou punk chick: lol ok!

            Kikyo-san: thanks for the review!  Well, I hope you like this, but I'm writing this at 3:03 a.m. right now, and I just had a concussion three days ago so I'm not too sure of the outcome.

            Demongirl6381: LoL.  With a guy as arrogant as Inu-baby, I do too.  *sighs* …….. Aw but he's so cute!

            LuckySpirit: Yeah, I don't like begging other people either.  Thanks for doing that though, not many do! ^_^

            Animemistress419: My style of writing?  What, you mean a crazy girl like me trying to write from the POV of a guy?  LoL.

            Anit [.] Poptarts: Thanks! ^_^

            Khepri: Yeah, I know.  But I did say that she was going to be out of character.  And no, I love constructive criticism, as long as it's not something like, 'Kagome doesn't act like that you bitch! Damn, you SUCK!'. So, as long as it's not that, I'm grateful. ^_^

            Animme-crazygurl16: aw.  Tank uuuu!

            Fox Rox my Sox: Thanks, but I don't think I deserve that!

            Thanks to all of you! *cries* Just. So. Kind.

            Sniff.

            ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*It's All in the Game of Love~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~

            [Last time]

            "Oi, Sakata." I turned to see a strained Kagome standing there, holding the little egg.


"Yes, sweetie?" I asked, smirking, sure I was walking on thin ice, but the way her face looked, as if straining just to speak to me was just priceless. After all, we were a married couple right?


Instead of daggers I intended to receive by her glare, she closed her eyes in obvious frustration. I could almost here her telling herself, 'Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm.'

Mentally in that twisted brain of hers.


Her face strained even more as she spoke again. "I. Wanted. To Know. If. You. Are. Going. To. Come. After. School. To. Work. On. The. project." She asked, just barely making out every word.


"Of course sweet heart." I told her, that arrogant smirk of mine really making it's way to her nerves.


She stalked off, once again muttering incoherent words.


'Oh, this is going to be fun.' I thought.


Well, let the games begin.

            *~*~*~*~*~*~*~Chapter 3 Eggs Are Supposed to Be Fried*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~

            "I say we fry it!"  I announced, eyeing the egg which I held in my hand.

            Silence.

            I frowned at her.

            "So, where do you live?" 

            Silence.

            "Uh-huh.  So, what does your mom do?"  Trying to spark a conversation with Kagome Higurashi is like trying to get me out of bed without using the whole ice water tactic.

            I think that after about thirty unanswered questions, people like me get pretty annoying to people like Kagome.  So, finally, she gave in and spoke, "She's a nurse."

            "Cool." I was walking her to her house that day.  Not that I wanted to of course, but the fact was that there was a project which needed to be done and of course, that lousy bet.  I had to admit though, this was quite amusing, give or take a few quirks.

            Walking her home, I'm sorry to say, is an understatement, it was more like walking a marathon.  Honestly, how far did this girl live away from the school?  I had no idea the town was even this big.  Didn't she have a car or something?  These thoughts ran through my mind as I thought bitterly of my car which was still parked back at school.

            I tried to get her in the car, but she simply walked away.  'Damn Kouga.'

            As if walking with me would ruin her reputation, she seemed content to trudge a few yards in front of me.  She had carefully evaded all of my questions up until then, this, I mean was done by ignoring me. That was ok with me, I guess, at least this way anyone who didn't know about the bet wouldn't see us.  As much as I wanted that gun, I still had a reputation to maintain, in and out of our school.

            "So what does your dad do?"  I asked, breaking the rather uncomfortable silence.

            Her answer was rather unexpected. 

Kagome came to an abrupt stop, and I would've run into her had she been a bit closer.  Instead, I stopped beside her.

At first, I thought that she had simply liked stopping suddenly while walking, hey, she was a strange girl, and I had a strange way of logic.  But then, I noticed her body shaking ever so slightly and I saw her fists clenching.  I'm not quite sure how I noticed these things, but she was so close.

'Did I say something wrong?'  I thought, watching her curiously.  She stood there for a moment, nothing transpiring except for her breathing which was growing steadily heavier.

I couldn't see her eyes, but it didn't really take a genius to realize that she was rather upset, even if it were Kouga.

She began walking again, a pace faster than before, "He's dead."  She said simply.

The words. Oh Shit came to mind as I rushed after her.  "Hey."  I told her quietly.  "I'm sorry." 

As she turned to look at me, I expected to see sorrow and pain in those eyes. 

But all I saw were those sapphire orbs that I would only later realize how beautiful they really were.  Never, out of the seventeen years of knowing her had I realized how interesting her eyes were.  Seriously, how many people had ebony hair and blue eyes? It just didn't seem too common.

Still, her eyes held no emotion whatsoever, no matter how long I gazed at them. 

I mean, not that I wanted to gaze into them.

It's just………they were……..there?

Anyway, her voice seemed to awake me.  "He was a bastard."  She spat out, before continuing on her trek home.

I must have had a rather stupid expression as she walked off, again getting ahead of me.

'Well alllrighty then.' I thought, before once again running after her. 'This is one strange girl.'

The rest of the walk transpired in silence.  For once I got the hint to shut up. This, I would learn, should've been a historical event.

It turned out that Kagome didn't live in some deserted castle and slept in a coffin.  Of course, I didn't think that, no, it was just a little bet Kouga and Miroku had going on.  It seemed that bets truly ran our lives back then.  If you have money, and if you had a mouth, you used them, both to your advantage.

Well, Kagome Higurashi lived on a shrine.  Sure it was far away from the school, but it was a rather nice place to live.  She wasn't as rich as us, and we all knew that, but her place had a mystic feel to it.  It was one I can still remember.  As if everything were watching you, speaking to you.  Though it wasn't in a freaky kind of way, just comforting. 

The shrine was obviously old, probably dating back many years ago. Still, it was well kept and beautifully furnished.  In the middle of the many small structures of her land, was an old man sweeping the grounds.  It didn't seem like much sense really, sweeping the ground. It was winter after all, a broom will hardly do anything. 

As we approached, the man pointed his broom up to us, well, me to be more exact.  He began to wave it around, spraying us with the snow that had gathered upon the bristles of the straw.  "Demon be-gone!" He started shouting.

I stood there shocked.  Usually, when walking a girl home, you don't expect to be in the center of an exorcism.  I looked over at Kagome for some kind of explanation.

"Jii-san."  She moaned, almost whining as she held her head in one hand.

I looked over to her grandfather once more as he began whacking me with the broom.  I growled at the senile old freak. He's worse than an overprotective father!

After many wacks, yells, and 'YOU OLD FREAK!'s, somehow, Kagome had me in her living room. 

After many years of knowing her, never had I conversed with her as much as I had done in this one day.  The knowledge of that led me to believe that I was getting a bit closer to my goal.

She wasn't glaring anymore, she wasn't smiling either come to think of it, but she the fact that I couldn't read her emotions was something I took as a good sign.

"Drink?"  She asked, playing the host.

I smiled at her.  "Heineken please." 

For a moment, she looked a bit surprised, then shrugged and disappeared into the kitchen.

"Have a seat."  I heard her voice from the kitchen.  I jumped to lounge on the couch just as she came out.  Her eyes rolled as I grinned up at her. 

She handed me a can.  "Coke?"  I asked, raising an eyebrow. 

"I'm sorry, my cat drank the rest of the beer."   She informed me, looking and sounding dead serious.

Not wanting to know about the rest of this girl's family, I nodded, popping the can open and taking a swig.  The truth was that I didn't really like beer, I merely wanted to see if the girl would really bring me one. What was it Miroku said, ah yes, "True love is a couch, a woman, and a beer." 

When I brought my thoughts away from my perverted friend, I saw white.  Literally, in front of me was a giant egg.

"Hellllo?"  I heard Kagome's voice as she moved the egg in front of my face.

Feh!  Wench!"  I grumbled, pushing the thing out of my face.  

SPLAT!

Both of us stared at the result for a moment.  The shattered shell and yolk lay sprawled on the white carpet.

"It should have been fried anyway."  I told her, one of the things that I hate the most is awkward silences, especially when I know that I'm in deep shit.

I was a bit afraid to look at her.  "I………uh………..um." 

She closed her eyes for a moment.  I could almost hear her thoughts again.  'Stay Calm, Stay Calm, Stay Calm.'

Had this been any other girl except for Ms. Moody over here, I would've been laughing my head off, but there was just no humor in this. 

"Idiot." She finally mumbled, walking into the kitchen. 

I sighed.  This is going to be realllly hard if I keep messing up. 

She emerged once more, holding a pail of water and Simple Green and a sponge.  Leaving me standing there like a true 'idiot', she got on hands and knees and began to scrub at the mess. 

She wasn't even making me do the work?

            Guilt took over as I watched her.  But, no, I couldn't show it.

            I would not show it.

            No way was I going to help Kagome Higurashi clean up the………

            "Uhh………You need help?"  But, when a damsel is in distress………

            "Shut up."  She growled.  I stared at her in shock.  She dared?

            My expression turned into a glare as she continued to scrub at the carpet. 

            One hour had already gone by and we had done absolutely nothing but ruing our project.  So here we sat, at the kitchen table, eating.

            Fried eggs in the afternoon really isn't that bad.

            Okay, so maybe I ruined the project as she pointed out, but it was still just an egg.  "Dammit woman, it was an egg. Just grab another one and Ms. Kaori will never know the difference."  I growled at her, as she proceeded to yell at me for ruining her carpet as well as our only chance at an A.

            This was not going well, how am I supposed to juggle making a girl like her like me, much less love me?  It just couldn't be done. 

            Sure I'd lose a hell of a lot of money, and the 'secret task'  Koga had mentioned earlier, but this was truly just a lost cause.

            "We're eating my last two eggs right now!"  Kagome stated, poking at her plate.

            It was then that the doorbell rang.  Kagome got up, obviously not in the best mood.  I took the opportunity to spoon some of her eggs into my plate.

            "What are you doing here?"

            A/N:  *sighs* This really isn't going too quickly is it?  But I promise, fluff will come.  I just wanted it to develop a little slowly. 

            Next Time on It's All In The Game Of Love:  The questions from earlier have STILL gone unanswered due to the idiotic authoress. But they will be answered next time!

DUN DUN DUUUUN!

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