Chapter 5: Two Old Friends

"Aaagggghhhhh!!!"

Lauren screamed as she was attacked by a hyperly bouncing girl with black pigtails. The taller girl pulled Lauren into a very tight hug, squeezing the smaller red-head. Lauren sighed as the girl then began to pet her reddish-golden locks, muttering what sounded like, 'My precious! My precious!' to Inuyasha's very sensitive dog ears.

Lauren pushed away enough to finally see the face of the bouncing girl and shrieked as her suspicions were confirmed. Lauren gasped and hugged the taller girl back. The two girls shrieked together, then jumped up and down at the same time.

"Eva! EVA! EVA!!! What the hell are you doing here?" Lauren asked, her eyes colored bright with stunned disbelief.

The black-haired girl smiled down at Lauren with a deviously sneaky grin.

"What am I doing here!?! What are you doing here?!? I came to track you down to look for you! During second period I heard that a teacher had found your school books on the sidewalk in front of the school. So I got my tracking kitty and came after you!"

Lauren blinked, her mouth opened.

"No! you don't mean that. . . You brought her here! With you! Kilala!?! Are you crazy?!? She'll get eaten by one of those fucking demons that are running around!"

Eva smiled, snapping her fingers.

"Actually she won't. She is one of 'those' dangerous demons."

Lauren's eyes bugged out as a small flying fuzz-ball leapt into her arms. She looked down at the smallish yellow cat with large red eyes that stared back, black markings that was in a strangely symmetrical pattern, and two tails that danced merrily in her happiness. The cat's paws resting on her collar bones, Kilala licked Lauren's face in greeting.

Lauren blinked as if waking from a dream and buried her face in the soft fur. She clutched the cat-demon close to her chest. Eva smiled and petted the cat.

Inuyasha peered down at the small creature with a almost fiery glare. His gaze suspiciously watching where it put it's tiny claws and miniature fangs. Kilala narrowed her tiny eyes at the half-breed and hissed at him.

"A little touchy isn't it?" he said hotly to Lauren. The teenage girl rolled her eyes and soothingly stroked Kilala's back.

"Well, you know what! If you didn't look at her like you were about to try and kill, maim, or eat her, she probably wouldn't hiss at you!" she retorted.

Kilala began to purr and arch her back into Lauren's hands gently. Miroku edged around Inuyasha, inching closer to the pig-tailed girl. Inuyasha growled back at Lauren.

"I was not looking at her like I was going to try and kill, maim, or eat her! Besides cat-demons aren't anyone's idea of a delicacy. Except for maybe mortal's with a serious death wish," Lauren raised an eyebrow.

Miroku smiled at Eva and stepped closer. Eva looked up with wide eyes, regarding the handsome monk.

"Eva? Is it?"

"Uh. . . yes," Eva held out her hand, expecting him to shake it. But he took her hand and kissed it gently, kneeling on one knee before her.

"Would you bear my child?" Miroku smiled dazzlingly. Eva's jaw dropped, then she blushed. Snatching her hand away from the monk's grasp, she crossed her arms over her chest.

"No!" she cried out, now glaring down at the kneeling monk.

Miroku just stood up, moving closer however, pretnending perhaps that he hadn't heard her angry shout. He stood beside her a moment and Eva turned away from him. Lauren watched as her best friend's eyes widened and she slapped the monk across the face hard enough to knock him down. At Lauren's inquiring glance Eva blushed even more brightly.

"WHAT!?! He touched my butt! The pervert!"

Lauren's gray-blue eyes widened again and she stared down at the lecherous monk who started to get up. He rubbed his face and smirked snidely, even daring to wink at Lauren again, hoping that Inuyasha didn't catch it.

"But it was worth the pain!"

"Why you!" Eva fumed, picking up what looked, to Lauren, like a giant wooden boomerang. "You dumb perverted monk!"

She hit the monk over the head with it. Lauren burst into laughter. Eva then tied the huge wooden boomerang behind her back, crossing her arms again with a huff. Miroku slowly sat up, rubbing the large bump on top of his head.

Inuyasha smirked down at the young monk, unable to help himself. Eva turned towards him and pointed a finger at the silver-haired boy.

"What the hell are you laughing at hanyou!?!"

"You, of course," he chuckled coldly. Lauren began to tap her foot as he turned to the monk, who was finally making it back to his feet, "And him."

"Watch it!" Eva snarled at Inuyasha, "I'll hit you too, every bit as hard as I hit him. Kilala and I have killed youkai more powerful than you before, and we most certainly can do it again!"

Kilala growled at him, jumping from Lauren's arms to Eva's shoulder. Her tiny red eyes glaring heatedly at Inuyasha as her two tails wrapped around Eva's neck lightly.

"Yeah, right!" Inuyasha scoffed at the girl.

"You- you bastard! I-"

"Wait! Hold on a sec! What in the fucking hell is a hanyou and a youkai?" Lauren asked, confusion visibly swimming in her bluish-gray eyes. Eva tapped Lauren on the head a couple of times, hard, with her index finger.

"Hello! Is anyone home? He's a bloody hanyou," she pointed a finger at Inuyasha, "And Kilala's a youkai! You know, him, half-demon. Kilala, demon!"

Eva wiggled her index finger in Lauren's face. Lauren, much to Inuyasha's surprise, growled loudly and snapped at the offending finger that was in her face. Eva snatched back her hand and scowled.

"Hey! Don't try to bite my finger! It's mine! Bad Lauren!"

Lauren snickered.

"Well, keep it the fuck out of my face! You know good and well that I hate it when people stick things in my face!" Inuyasha raised an eyebrow when Miroku chuckled ever so softly.

A bad omen by anyone's means.

"Really? What kind of things?" Miroku laughed, dancing away from Lauren as she glared at him. Eva began to giggle as well, her eyes sparkling in amusement at Lauren's and Inuyasha's flushed faces.

Miroku's laughter then doubled as he hid behind Eva, ducking Lauren's death glare.

Eva giggled loudly, holding her heaving sides, her arms wrapped around herself. Suddenly she yelped, jumping more than a couple of feet into the air. Eva, when she landed again, quickly turned around to slap Miroku. But he dodged.

He ran around Lauren and leapt over the foot she stuck out in front of him, trying to trip him. The monk winked at the red-head, then ducked the large boomerang that came swinging straight at his head. Eva snarled, bringing up the boomerang for another swing.

Inuyasha growled and snatched up the monk as he ran past him. Clutching the monk's robes, Inuyasha pulled Miroku off his feet to leave the monk's toes showing from under his robes, hanging in mid-air.

Lauren smacked her forehead with a sigh, her anger momentarily forgotten. Eva dropped her boomerang and it hit the ground with a loud thump. Her eyes growing wide as she stared in shock at the jealous hanyou.

"Inuyasha! Put him down! You jealous oaf! I'm not even yours! I belong to no man!" Lauren proclaimed, slapping Inuyasha's arm.

The silver-haired teenage hanyou dropped the monk onto his butt and grabbed Lauren's wrist. Then he pulled her closer to him, within the circle of his arms.

"Don't you?" Inuyasha's breath was shallow.

Lauren glared up at him, their faces mere inches apart as they stared into each other's eyes. Bluish-green eyes snapping up at angry golden ones. Inuyasha's eyes suddenly softened and Lauren's eyebrows lifted in surprise. The hanyou pulled the teenage girl flush up against his taut body and covered her lips with his own. His hard mouth began taunting her tongue in a bruising kiss.

Lauren's eyes widened in shock before she felt herself melt against him with a sigh.

TBC. . .