AN: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :: looks at calender:: Two days late from when I said would be the deadline for an update. ::sobs:: It's not my fault! You'd think that on a holiday that you'd get some time to relax and do whatever you feel like...but not for me. I wasn't home for a few days (visiting family) and during that time I was really irritable due too not being able to do this chapter. When I finally got home, I was brain dead for two days and than when New Years feasting started I had to help in the restaurant while dog-sitting for my sister. All in all, I've practically had no time to do any work whatsoever and it's driving me crazy, especially since school is starting again in two days.

Finally, when I got the time to finish this chapter, I couldn't find the file I had started. I nearly cried because the chapter had been already half finished. In the end I had to rewrite the whole thing.

So I'm sorry that this chapter wasn't put out sooner, I just didn't have time. It couldn't be helped.

As for if Inuyasha being a jerk the whole time...yes, well at least most of the time. It's hard to picture him any other way (ignoring the way I made him in CP, the character he was in that story just didn't fit him correctly, when the rewrite comes out he'll be more Inuyasha-like).

Now, on a happier note, Sango has finally made her appearance! Yay!
-Air Angel

Chocolate Wishes

Chapter 4: Greetings

If looks could kill, I would've been roasting over a fire...in hell, probably charred to an extreme. Why he was staring at me like I was the most disgusting thing he had ever seen was something I didn't understand. After all, I hadn't even met him before. The only excuse that I could think of was that he had seen me watch him yesterday, but even so, his glare today seemed much more venomous than back on the beach.

"Are you...Inuyasha?" I asked hesitantly. I was pretty sure that was him, after all, he knew who Kanna was.

He grunted, "And you are?", he said icily.

"I'm Kagome, nice to meet you," I stuck out my hand, maybe he wouldn't be so cold if I showed that I was a nice and happy person.

A moment later the doors behind me swung open and I stared at my empty hand. He ignored me, he completely and utterly ignored me. I felt my eyebrow twitch as my hand clenched into a fist.

I decided to vent my anger to Kagura, "What the hell is his problem!? I was only trying to be nice and he blew me off!"

"Why are you asking me? It's not like I've met the guy before."

I remained silent.

"Now if you're done having your anger spurt, we have to go. They'll probably leave without us if we don't get moving."

Slightly ashamed by the way I had acted, I nodded and followed her out to the car waiting outside. Kanna had already taken the front seat beside the driver so I had the unfortunate experience to sit beside Inuyasha. As soon as I sat down, he scooted further toward the door he was beside, probably unnoticeable by the others, but not missed by me. I itched to grab him somehow and bang his head on the window while demanding to know why he seemed to not want to even be in my presence. Yes, I'm the violent type. Especially when it comes to rude jerks, who may look good, but are just evil bastards in the end.

Ten minutes and we were outside of a convention centre or auditorium of some sort. I didn't get a chance to see where exactly we were before getting pushed inside.

I gawked at the building. To say I had never seen anything like this was an understatement. There were stands and booths of chocolate everywhere! I could practically feel myself salivating while being pulled along by Kagura. We went behind a stage and into a backroom where a crew of people were waiting.

"Kagura, you barely made it on time," a man walked up to us.

"Don't blame me, it wasn't my fault."

"Suurre it wasn't," the man replied sarcastically.

Kagura narrowed her eyes and pulled me along to a chair, "Sit."

"What are we doing?" I asked while doing as commanded, "We're not going on stage are we?"

"No, not yet," she said while walking away.

I blinked and moved to stand-up, "Wait, where are you going?!"

"Sit back down," she ordered, "I'm just going to talk to my supervisor. I have to confirm we made it here safely, without any distractions aside from you not being up on time and your little fit you had before we left the hotel."

Sighing, I slumped back into my seat and pouted.

Kagura rolled her eyes, "Look, if you're going to be whiney about it, go wander around the convention centre for awhile. I'm only giving you fifteen minutes though, if someone comes up to you and asks if you're a winner, I want you back here as soon as possible."

"No problem madam!" I said saluting her as I stood up once more and headed back out the door.

She just rolled her eyes, "Children..."

I wove in-between booths and people, sampling chocolates and other candies. It turned out that the announcement of the contest winners was to take place at some type of candy convention, luckily, pay at the door only. I had long since forgiven chocolate from the pain it had put me through in exchange for the trip, so eating my full in chocolate once more could, hopefully, only lead to another stomachache and maybe something nice afterwards.

Munching on few caramel treats, I inspected a lollipop booth.

"Hmm...red or blue," I said to myself before smiling and reaching over toward them, "Why pick when I can have both!"

Just as I was about to take the two suckers in my hand, someone grabbed my arm and pulled me through a crowd of people. I was surprised, it had only been about five minutes, I shouldn't need to go back yet.

I tried to look at who was pulling me but the amount of people surrounding us blocked my view. I was getting tired when we finally stopped in a less crowded area. Leaning forward, I caught my breath in huffs.

"Alright, you've got some explaining to do."

Blinking in surprise, I looked up to see Inuyasha standing in front of me with his arms crossed, "Wha...?"

"You heard me, what the hell are you doing here?! Follow me all the way here in hopes for something?"

"Wait a minute," I said straightening up, "I think you've got the wrong person."

He glared at me, "What's wrong Kikyo, gotten used to your new persona? What did you call yourself this time? Kagome?"

"Kikyo? Now I KNOW you have the wrong person. My name is and always has been Kagome Higurashi. You're a youkai, you should be able to smell the difference!"

Suddenly he was only an inch away from my face, "Do you think I couldn't recognize you stench?" he sneered, face seeming to come even closer, "Who do you think yo-"

Now he was pretty close to me, and if it's something I didn't like, it was when people invaded my personal space. Without permission of course. Now what do you do when someone invades your personal space? Easy, you slap him, and did I ever hit his face good.

He stumbled back a few stepsand stared at me shocked.

I breathed deeply before speaking, anger lacing my voice, "Listen here, I'm not whoever this Kikyo person is. If you have something against her, don't take it out on me. Are you really a youkai or are you just pretending to be one? Can't you tell I'm not the same person!?"

We stood in silence for a few momentsbefore he looked at me smugly, "You're right, you're not her."

Nodding, I was a little confused about why he was being so easy going now, yet still seeming to be a jerk.

"I mean, Kikyo was much prettier," I blinked, "much more elegant," once more, "and had class, she wouldn't have bothered trying too win a contest to get in touch with me, she would've bought out the whole thing if she couldn't get her way for it too only be the two of us."

Stunned, I just stared at him. Did he just insult me three, no four times in one sentence?

He slowly walked by me, "Oh and one last thing, your breath stinks," and in what seemed like an instant, he was gone.

I swung around trying to find where he went but gave up. He was a youkai after all. He probably had unbelievable speed. Looking around a bit, I determined where the stage was and started to head toward it. After that encounter, I had lost my candy-eating mood and just looking at all of it everywhere was beginning to make me feel sick.

As I neared the back door, I saw Kagura waiting outside the doorway.

"It's about time you got back."

Glancing at a clock at a nearby stand, I looked at her questioningly, "But I'm still a couple minutes early..."

She motioned me into the room and shut the door, "I said ten minutes,"

"No, you said fifteen."

"No, I said ten."

I sighed, "Okay, ten, whatever," I sat in the chair that I was in earlier, "What's going on now?"

"We're waiting for the other winners to take their seats so we can talk to them."

Blinking, I took notice that there were three empty chairs located around where I was sitting, "Ah...Where are they?"

"Who knows, we're early."

I stared at Kagura exasperated, "We're early? You made it seem like we were late all the time!"

"I like to be earlier than scheduled, if that means telling you we're late, than it does," she said staring at me blankly.

"Oh..ugh," I shook my head and leaned back, "I give up! Today is not my day," Thinking back on it, I could only hope that something good would happen. If the 'talk' I had with that Inuyasha guy was the bad thing that came after eating the chocolate earlier, something good had to happen, right?

I heard the door open and close, and I looked over to see who it was. Groaning, I clutched my hands to my head. The good thing better be damn good, because my day was seeming to get worse and worse.

One of the chairs scrapped against the floor and I glared at the occupant. Inuyasha just sat there unphased by me, actually he looked pretty bored.

Looking over to see that Kagura had left to speak with the man from earlier, I leaned over towards Inuyasha.

"Hey."

He didn't respond.

"Hey!"

Again nothing, I finally reached over, grabbing one of the puppy-like ears on his head and pulled, hard.

He jerked away, "What the hell do you want?!"

I tried to look sincere, "Look, I know we've gotten off on a bad start with the whole you thinking I was another person thing, but let's not let it ruin the trip, okay? Can we try to get along, or better yet, just pretend we didn't met the first time!"

"Is this suppose to be some type of truce?" he said raising an eyebrow, "I did nothing wrong."

I looked away, "Well you WERE the one who accused me of being that Kikyo person who you obviously had some sort of grudge or dislike for..."

"What the hell?! GRUDGE!? Why would I have a grudge against...against HER of all people?!" he growled.

Shifting a little in my seat, I hesitated before speaking again, "Well with the way you were acting earlier and the way you're acting now, it's kind of hard to think of it any other way."

"Oh, please, she isn't worth even a millisecond of my time."

Blinking, I smiled and leaned back over to him, "Nee, did you LIKE her or something?" I whispered.

If his face turned red from embarrassment or anger, I didn't know. What I did know was that with the look in his eyes, it seemed like I had better get as far away as I could.

I jumped out and practically ran over to where Kagura was standing, hoping that he wouldn't make a scene when he realized that there were other people in the room.

Boy, was I ever wrong.

"GET BACK HERE!"

"Hold still"

"Itai! Be careful with that thing, it hurts!"

Kagura just shook her head, "It's only a cotton swab."

"Yeah, only a cotton swab doused in that evil liquid-stuff of doom!"

"It's only hydrogen peroxide."

"Only hydrogen peroxide?! Would you be saying only hyrdogen peroxide if you were the one getting treated here?!"

She hit me over the head with the hydrogen peroxide bottle, "Stop being such a baby and suck it up."

I pouted and rubbed my abused head as she went back to swabbing my knee. If I think back on it, the whole incident on how I got hurt in the first place was probably entertaining to everyone except me and maybe Kagura. Me because I was the one who got hurt, and Kagura because she was the one who had to take care of me.

What happened? Well it all started with Inuyasha making a lunge at me out of his chair, me running around the room a few times trying to stay out of his clutches, tripping over some of the equipment, such as a few chairs, and finally sliding across the floor only to hit a wall. In the end, the only real injury (in my mind) I got were skid cuts so deep that they didn't stop bleeding immediately. Other than that, I was just pretty sore, both physically and mentally.

I glared over at Inuyasha who sat smugly in his chair with a happy look on his face. As soon as he had taken in the fact I had smashed against the wall, he had burst out laughing. That jerk.

"Don't make a face like that, it might get stuck like that. Wouldn't want you to be more hideous than you already are," he said happily.

"I should say the same to you, don't want people thinking you're an escaped psychopath, now do we?" I shot back before Kagura hit me on the head again.

"Stop acting like children."

"He started it," I whined, half jokingly but the look that Kagura gave told me to stop.

"Really, what did you do to him anyways?"

I shrugged innocently, "I didn't do anything, he just went crazy!"

"Why you-"

"Mr. Kaneme ," Kagura cut in, "You're just making it worse. Remember, you'll be spending the next two months together! Please be civil, for your own sake and for the other two who will have to put up with you."

"Don't bother Kagura," I said looking at the ceiling, "I already tried to make a truce, he didn't accept. He probably-"

"And you, Miss. Higurashi, also need to follow what I've just said. As they say, it takes two to tango."

Scoffing, I bit my lip to keep me from making a comment.

After I was cleaned up and band-aided,I stayed in my seat, trying to avoid looking over at Inuyasha. I was afraid that if I did look at him, he would make a rude comment, I would retort, and we would end up back at the beginning once again.

"Listen, can I use the phone PLEASE! It's important."

I rolled my head and saw a girl, probably a year or so older than myself, speaking to the man that was talking to Kagura earlier.

"We don't have time for that."

"Please Musou, I need to make the phone call!"

I stood up and walked over, "Is something wrong?"

The girl turned to me, "Yes there is, he won't let me make a phone call to my family!"

A phone call to her family?...I should do that also..., "Can't you use a payphone or something?"

"That's just it, HE," she said pointing at Musou, "won't let me out of this room! How am I suppose to get to a phone when he won't let me near one!"

"So Musou, why won't you let her have a phone?"

He sighed, "She can't leave now, we're only waiting for one more person, if she were to leave and the other arrive before her return, it would hold things up more than they already starting to now."

"One more person...Oh!" I stuck out my hand, hoping that this time it would be shaken, "You must be one of the other winners, I'm Kagome Higurashi, I won the last ticket."

She stood there for a moment before smiling a little and taking my hand, "I'm Sango Natsuame, I won the first ticket. I'm glad that the rumors were true."

"Rumors, what rumors?" I asked confused.

"That there was another winner that was female, I don't know if I could've handled this trip if it had three guys."

Laughing, I let go of her hand, "If it were my friends back home, they would've loved the idea of three guys."

"Mhmm, I know some people just like that," she said nodding, "Oh, right, Musou!"

I glanced over to where Musou had been before my introduction to realize that he had fled the area and joined a conversation with a few others, "Don't worry, I'll ask Kagura, she might be able to get a phone for you."

Smiling in gratitude, she gave me a small hug, slightly embarrassing me, "Thank you so much."

"Ah, before I forget," I motioned to Inuyasha who was still sitting in his chair, now looking half asleep, "Don't mind that guy, he's another winner but it seems like there's a stick stuck up his butt. I got the scraps on my knees from him also."

She just laughed, "Don't worry, it can't be as bad as someone I met earlier."

"Really? You met someone worse?"

"Yeah, back at the hotel I was staying at."

I stopped her before she continued, "How about you tell me later, first we should get to work securing you a phone to use."

"Right, thanks again."

"No problem," I said smiling, "Just remember to let me use it after you're done."

Translation Notes:
Names are, in fact, put together by myself. If the name already existed (probably) I didn't know that and was just going along with what I thought of.

Youkai - Check Chapter Three

Itai! - Ouch!/Ow!/It hurts!
- Just a simple expression that almost anyone whose watched Japanese anime has heard atleast once. Often used after falling, tripping, and getting hit on the head by others.

Kaneme - Gold(en) Eye(d/s)
- Kane has a few meanings, one being gold. Me means eye. Put it together and you get Kaneme or 'Gold Eye'.

I thought the name was fitting because he does have golden/amber eyes and so does Sesshoumaru (he'll make an appearance...but not for a long time). Since it's both their last names, it seemed to work well.

Natsuame - Summer Rain
- This one was easy. Natsu means summer and ame means rain. So, obviously, Natsuame means Summer Rain.

Why I used that for Sango's last name? I thought it was pretty! Just kidding. Think of rain in the summer, it can be both good and bad. Such as, when it's raining and you want to go out and play, but your parents won't let you with the excuse that you'll catch a cold, that's depressing (not that it ever stopped me from going out in the rain), yet, if the summer had been really dry so far, the rain would be a nice change and would make the grass greener and the plants...grow more. Now its connection to Sango, her character in the manga and anime series has gone through good things and bad things just like everyone else, but she sometimes has it the hardest, like her undead brother. Yet, even so, she tried to ignore the rain (the bad things), and still enjoy the summer (the good things).