We Can't Be Friends
Chapter Fourteen: Horseplay

Kagome laughed as the water flew over her head and pulled her under. She kicked and kicked until she was at the surface, a huge smile on her face. She felt a tug on her hand, and looked down at Inuyasha. He wore the same ridiculous grin she did. With a laugh, she smiled brightly down at him, before looking up at the scowling couple by the water edge.

"They look peeved" Inuyasha muttered. Kagome shook her head in agreement, slyly removing her hand from his and swimming up to her fiancé. With a devilish grin she turned on her back and kicked water at them. Kikyo shrieked and jumped back, death in her glare. Sesshoumaru just looked somewhat amused at her behavior. She's always been playful, but never THAT playful. Not so friendly. Always reserved, making sure only what she wanted people to see, being seen. All that seemed lacking at the moment. Her focus was on having a good time and escaping an overdue 'talk'.

"It's a beautiful day!" Kagome called to him. "Turn that frown upside down."

"No thank you." Sesshoumaru whispered heading towards the outdoor bar. Kikyo followed after giving Kagome a 'look'.

Kagome laughed, now looking for Inuyasha to gloat over the victory. She called after him, but didn't see a trace of his long ebony hair. She thought briefly of the flutter in her belly upon seeing him earlier. The look of his slick skin, washboard stomach and muscular thighs gleaming in her line of view.

Suddenly, Kagome was violently jerked under the water. She flailed anxiously and tried finding air in the chlorine water. After kicking whatever her feet came in contact with, using them as stepping stones, she resurfaced. She was greeted by angry faces and voices of the people she'd kicked...and a very handsome very amused Inuyasha. With a growl, Kagome was upon him, effectively pinning him under the water.

While they played, Sesshoumaru and Kikyo looked on, not a bit pleased.

"He's such a child!" Kikyo whined, still wiping water from her dress. Sesshoumaru nodded in agreement.

"Kagome is the same now a days."

"I don't like your fiancé at all." Kikyo hissed at him. Sesshoumaru chuckled, picking up his hulk. (An Incredible Hulk, is as a drink. You mix Hypnotic and Hennesay. If you're not over 21 you don't' know what I'm talking about (hopefully))

"And I hate admitting that yours is blood related." He said with a straight face. Kikyo laughed herself, and they clinked their glasses together in a toast. They glanced over at them, still dunking each other and playing more than the children currently in the pool did. Sesshoumaru gave a disgusted sigh, and Kikyo snorted.

"They sure look close." She observed.

"It's important for all family to get along. And whether I like it or not, Inuyasha will be in Kagome's life now. And their previous relationship will come back in play-"

"You don't think they were once intimate do you?" Kikyo asked almost choking on her drink. Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed.

"Kagome would've told me."

"Inuyasha would do the same. He wouldn't frolic around with an ex when I'm here...would he?"

"He's notorious for his numerous affairs."

"But he said he'd given that life up years ago."

"He's still young, he might miss those days. He's about to be married. No more harmless flirting, no more loud parties. He'll have children to take care of-"

This time Kikyo did choke on her drink. "Children!?" she shrieked.

"Inuyasha wants children......you didn't know that?"

"It never came up. We're both so busy; I have the law firm...we wouldn't have time for kids! If he wants companionship we can get a dog!"

Sesshoumaru laughed. "A dog doesn't satisfy a man's need to create offspring."

"You make it sound like it's some damn scientific ritual. It's sex gone wrong."

"Just rutting now and then isn't going to make him happy."

"I'm not in this for happiness. This is nothing but a business deal."

"So you can deny telling him you love him?"

"Inuyasha likes that stuff. I do it to keep him quiet. He'd get all suspicious if I stopped saying it."

"You're lying. You adore him." He sneered. Kikyo's face went beet red. She finished the rest of her drink.

"Ok, so I do like him- Wait, what about you and Miss Bubbly? I haven't heard you once tell her you love her. And you were fighting when we got on the ship. You seem like a happy pair." She said voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Kagome and I ARE happy. We just don't see eye to eye most of the time. I'm a lawyer myself." Kikyo's eyes lit up, and a greedy smile plastered itself on her face.

"Really."

"Yes."

"Of what law firm?"

"Bryant's." Kikyo's mouth dropped and Sesshoumaru smirked. Bryant's was an extremely prestigious law firm. Only the best got in. Kikyo had tried getting into it for years. Every time she'd been denied, though she was the best of the best. It was a sexist place. All the secretaries were women, all the lawyers, but one, were male.

"For how long?"

"I own it." He said with a wicked grin.

"I thought that Taisho guy did!" she said voice rising with excitement. Sesshoumaru extended his right hand to her.

"Taisho Sesshoumaru." Kikyo took his hand, eyes round.

"You're kidding me! Inuyasha knows how much I want to get in there! Why didn't he tell me it's in the family! I could've been had a job!"

"He's mentioned you a few times to father. I haven't had need of new staff."

She gave him a death glare. "You wouldn't hire your brother's wife?"

"I wouldn't hire ANYONE simply because of family relations. You have to DESERVE a spot."

"I won the Naraku case last year!"

"I've heard."

"That isn't deserving?"

"You managed to get a serial killer back into today's society. A great feat to some, especially with so much evidence pointing at him. But you did unleash him on the rest of the world. I respect talent, but you lack morale."

"WHAT!" she yelled.

(Meanwhile)

"It's getting late!" Kagome called over Inuyasha's splashing. He stopped suddenly, glancing over at the bar.

"We can sneak out, and they don't even have to see us." He whispered a familiar mischievous grin on his face. They swam over to the ladder, Kagome going before Inuyasha, giving an excellent view of her backside. Kagome stepped over to the right allowing him to pass. In her trying-to-be- sneaky-and-not-looking-where-she's-going state, Kagome stepped to close to a bit of construction being done on the railing. She stepped down right on a nail, a BIG one.

"Ow!" she whimpered, lifting her foot gingerly. Inuyasha turned to look at her, and his eyes bulged at her tearing eyes and bleeding foot.

"Aw shit! Whatcha do!" he hollered. A bit of commotion started in the pool. Someone called the medic, someone else started shrieking over the amount of blood dripping from the wound. Inuyasha went to her, lowering her to the ground and in his lap. He took her foot in this hand, looking at the nail quite deep in her flesh.

"Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. God it hurts." She murmured. Inuyasha nodded, leaving it alone and pushing her wet hair from her face.

"What's going on!" Sesshoumaru said now at their side. Kagome lifted her foot, showing him. What she wasn't expecting was for him to grab it and yank out the nail in one fluid motion. The hot sensation caused Kagome to cry out. She turned and buried her head into Inuyasha's chest. He held her, glaring daggers at his brother.

"Ya could've waited until the medic came, lessened the pain. Damn you're such a prick!" he growled. Sesshoumaru was shocked at the sudden outburst of emotion from his baby brother. He felt all his anger rise. Something Inuyasha did often.

"It had to come out!"

"It could've waited! You don't know what type of bacteria and shit is flying around the air. What if the wound gets infected because you're so damn careless!"

"That's impossible!" Sesshoumaru growled a bit unsure.

"It's possible, and if she needs to get her foot hacked off because of gingivitis-"

"Gingivitis is in the mouth you nitwick!"

"You know what I'm talking about!"

"I don't speak moron!"

"But you speak dick very well!" Sesshoumaru lunged at his brother, knocking Kagome away from him, and sending them both into their crowd. Kicking and punching like frat boys, the two brothers fought for what seemed like no reason. Kagome watched on horrified and shocked. Kikyo, well she glared death at Kagome. Inuyasha's reaction to her pain had been more than just friendly. That was too obvious to a female.

To both their dismays, the boys rolled right into the ocean. Though calm, it was dangerous. The Man-Overboard bell was rung, and a few 'sailors' came out to help, buoys in hand. Kagome shrieked, calling her fiancé's name, as Kikyo did the same. And then they switched, Kagome calling Inuyasha, Kikyo calling Sesshoumaru. Once they were safely aboard, Kagome's anger rose to new heights. Using a young man for support, she hopped over to them, both shivering in their blankets.

They both looked up at her, looking for sympathy. They only found anger, and words that stabbed.

"I can't believe that you two just did that! What the hell was that all about? Inuyasha? Can you answer that?" Sesshoumaru smirked, but she turned her anger on him just as quickly. "What about you Sesshoumaru? My fiancé! What the hell did you hit him for? You fell in the damn ocean! What if some shark had gotten to either of you? What would I have done! Do you think I'd cry over your stupidity? I WOULDN'T! If you two ever fight again, I'll disappear from your pathetic lives."

"You do that well." Inuyasha sneered. Kagome's mouth dropped open, and she hopped closer to him. When she was right into his face, she gave him a slow smile. A freaky, scary, watch out smile.

"I don't need an excuse to leave you. Remember that you have a fiancé. Besides, I left because of-" she moved right to his ear, using the railing for support. "STUPID BEHAVIOR LIKE THIS!" She turned and hopped off, eyes burning with fire.

Inuyasha, in an attempt to get away from Kagome's screaming, fell right back into the water.

(End Chapter)

BGLI: I wasn't planning on a fight! I really wasn't! I had another ending to all of this, but two hot brother frolicking in the ocean......over one girl, that was too delicious to pass up!

Michelle: Disclaimer: We don't own Inuyasha......yet.

Lawyers: pinch

Michelle: OUCH! We don't own Inuyasha and never will.

BGLI: Sorry for the delay, I'm in Chicago visiting family. Their internet is hooked up to the phone line, so......it' s hard to update. It's hard to get on period with four kid cousins running around this house!

Michelle: That and not bringing the entire story.

BGLI: Sorry.

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BGLI: I've started a new story, Dog Days. It won't be updated until I get home, around the second week of July. Well alrighty! LOVE & PEACE!

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