(A/N: OMG!! I have got a lot of reviews for this story! I'm sorry I didn't update sooner, but I had some problems with my schoolwork, writer's block, and I've kind of been really, really, really, really, really, really lazy. Those were pretty much the only things that kept me from writing. Sorry that it took so long. Soo. . . .here it is!!)
Thanx for reviewing! Now here it is!!
Chapter Four Date?
Kagome was walking back to her apartment. 'It's been so long. What went on between him and Kikyo? So would this be a date or-? No! It's too soon to say we're dating! Besides, he already got out of a relationship. And I'm sort of…in one. Kami! I hate these little internal conflicts I have with myself! Stop it Kagome!'
As she walked home, she failed to notice the strange looks people were giving her for the display of emotions that were plastered to her face.
That's when all of a sudden, a black viper pulled up beside her. The person she wasn't in the mood to see came out of the car and rushed up to her.
It was Koga.
"Kagome, what the hell happened last night?! Where did you go?! Were you just going to leave me there unconscious like that?!" he said pissed off.
Kagome sighed in frustration, "Koga, I'm sorry, but I was trying to deal with my own little situation that night too! If you hadn't noticed, that guy nearly raped me!"
"You still didn't answer me. Where were you?"
"Not that it is any of your business, Koga, but I was with a friend."
"What friend? Who is she? Or is it a guy?"
"I told you! This is none of your damn business!!" she started to walk away, but then she was stopped. Koga had a strong hold on her wrists.
"It is my business to know where you are, what you are doing, and who you are with." He said in a very stern tone.
"Koga, let go! Oww! You're hurting me!" she said as Koga's claws dug into her skin.
"And what if I don't, then what are you going to do about it? You know that as long as you're working for me, you belong to me." he smirked.
'I should just scream. No! He'll do something worse later on when I come back to work. I can't risk anything with him.' Kagome thought. 'My whole future rests in his hands.'
Starting to notice the suspicious eyes that were staring at him, Koga hesitantly let go of her wrists; they were left very red and turned blue as they started to bruise. He had his reason for letting go; he already had quite a record and he didn't need to make it worse.
"Don't forget. If you want to get what you want, you're gonna stay with me. Otherwise, you'll get nothing!" Koga then saw her wrists "That looks bad." He said as he took something out of his pocket "Don't you say a word," He threatened as he handed her a five dollar bill "just cover that up with some bracelets. I don't want any questions."
Kagome she looked down at the money in her hands. She put her head up and gave him a cold glare before walking home.
He lightly growled. 'I will have you, Kagome. You would do anything to get what I have. And that's the advantage I have over you.' He thought with a sly grin appearing on his face.
On the way back home, Kagome stopped at 'The Sacred Shop' and went in. It was supposed to be a jewelry store, but instead, the owner made it a jewelry/magic/knickknack store. The store was painted black from the inside with neon colored glowsticks hooked to the walls that lit up the place pretty well.
"You know the rules; don't touch, don't steal, don't ask stupid questions, just buy something and leave." The woman stated from down behind her desk.
"You're customer friendly." Kagome said in sarcasm.
A woman got up from under her desk with a ton of silver necklaces on each arm. "Higurashi. What brings you to my little shop of horrors?"
"Cute nickname for it, Kagura."
"Cute sarcasm." Kagura shot back while walking over to a fake plastic tree with tiny hangers sticking out all over it. "So why are you here?" she hung the necklaces to the hangers.
Kagome was about to speak, but Kagura stopped her when she grabbed her wrists.
"You need bracelets." Kagura said plainly while looking down at her wrists "Wait here." She walked over to another sales rack, picked up two brown leather bracelets and walked back over to Kagome "They match your eyes."
"Thank you, Kagur-"
"Ten fifty." Kagura said quickly.
"Ten fifty?! Just for both of these?!"
"Leather isn't cheap anymore. Now pay up!"
Kagome went to check her pockets and remembered she was wearing boxers. 'Oh shit.' She thought. "Uhh…I don't really have any-"
"Pay me back tomorrow. Any later and I'm calling the authorities."
"You know I'd never cheat you out of your money."
"I know, but I'm just so used to making that threat with all my customers who've had to do this."
"How many didn't pay?"
"All five are serving time for shoplifting."
Kagome was a little scared.
"Those aren't your clothes." Kagura observed.
"No, they're uhh….I-Inuyasha's."
Kagura's eyes all of a sudden went very wide then she calmed down. "I'm sorry, I thought you said they were Inuyasha's clothes."
"Yea, you heard right."
"Well, well, well…" Kagura sang "It seems that stripperella is finally resigning." She walked behind her counter "Or are you now a hooker?"
"No!" Kagome tried defending herself. "Have some faith in me, Kagura. I'm not that low."
"So, you two are an item then?"
"Well, no, not really."
Kagura looked at Kagome questionably. That's when there was a crash of glass breaking. Both girls looked to where the noise came from.
The small wan girl stood in the doorway that led to the backroom. "My mirror broke." She spoke in a softly saddened voice.
"Kanna!" Kagura said in irritation as she walked over to where the little girl stood. "You aren't hurt, are you?"
The pale white girl shook her head. "My mirror broke." She said again.
"I can see that." Kagura sighed as she walked passed her "I'm going to go get this cleaned up. Don't brake anything else!" then she turned to Kagome "It's ten fifty. Have it by tomorrow." Then she walked into the backroom.
Kanna brought her attention up from the broken mirror to Kagome.
Kagome was always a little shaken up whenever Kanna stared at her like that.
Kanna walked over to Kagome and said "Leave him. You'll get hurt if you stay."
"What are you talking about?" she asked.
Kanna took a hold of Kagome's bracelets that covered her wounds. "This." She answered.
Kagura walked back in the room with a dustpan and sighed "My advice: never have kids." She scooped the bits of glass into the pan.
Kagome said nothing and left quickly as she could.
Kagura raised an eyebrow at Kanna "You know we lose more and more customers whenever I leave them alone in a room with you. Why is that?"
Kagome finally got to her apartment and started to unlock the door. 'Finally! I'm home! Now can change to get ready for my date and-'her thoughts were interrupted when she opened the door to a very angry Sango.
"Kagome, where were you last night? You said that you would be home at eleven and never came home at all!" Sango whined.
"Well, I-"
Kagome was cut off "I was so worried that something happened to you. Why didn't you call?!" Sango said with much anger along with some worry on her face. "And that's not your t-shirt either!" she noticed "Neither are those boxers……Oh my god! Kagome, how could you just give it up like that?!"
"No, Sango! I didn't do anything!"
"Where are your clothes then?!"
"Let's just go inside and I'll explain everything." Kagome said trying to calm her down.
Sango glared at Kagome a little then sighed as she turned around and walked back in the apartment.
She felt guilty that Sango had spent all that time worrying about her. "Sango, I'm sorry that I worried you." She said as she walked in behind her. "It will sort of be kind of a shocker when I tell you what happened, so you might want to sit down for this. It could take a while."
Back at Inuyasha's apartment, Inuyasha sat down on the couch and explained to Miroku who the girl was that he had spend the night in his room.
"That was Kagome?! Kaggie? Angel? 'Gome?" he stated all her nicknames and almost fell out of his chair when Inuyasha told him "The valedictorian of your class? Your best friend? The high school crush? The one whom you wanted so badly, yet something was always holding you back from asking her out; that girl was-?!" Miroku's expression showed that he was pretty surprised that the girl in the scanty bikini was the sweet and innocent angel that his friend told him about.
"Hey, I was going to ask her out sooner or later!" he snapped.
"So why didn't you?" Miroku asked anxiously.
"I grew really close to Kagome and I thought that I would ask her out, but then Hojo asked her before I could."
"Whoa! Hold it! You went to high school with Hojo? Secretary of state, Hojo Akimoto?"
"Yea." Inuyasha answered uninterested "Anyway, I believe I was talking."
"Ok! Ok, go ahead! Finish enlightening me your highness!" he said with a phony bow.
Inuyasha just glared at him and then walked into his bedroom.
"Hey, where are you going? You didn't finish!"
"I've got better things to do." Inuyasha said gruffly.
"Oh yea. Your date with Kagome." he said with a sly grin.
"Wha-! N-no! It's not a date. J-just a simple meeting with an old friend." He stammered a little.
"Whatever you say, my friend. Whatever you say."
Inuyasha growled at him and slammed the bedroom door.
After informing Sango about what happened, she started to react like this. . .
"Ok, you got to see Inuyasha?" she squealed, "I can't believe it! We haven't seen him in years! Where did you say you saw him at?"
"At work." She mumbled.
"Oh Kagome!" she sighed. "Please tell me you didn't give him a lap dance!"
"Sango! Must you always have hentai thoughts when it comes to my job?" she looked to see Sango's face that was still waiting for an answer. "And no I didn't give him one."
"That's good." She got up from her chair and sat next to her friend on the sofa. "So what's going on?" she asked her best friend.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean. . . tell me what's up! Is he single? Where is he living nowadays? Where is he working?……I want to know these things Kaggie!"
Kagome answered all of her questions in order "Yes. I think so. In an apartment. And I thought I told you to stop calling me Kaggie!"
"Why not? Can't I give my Kaggie a nickname?" she teased as she started poking Kagome.
"Sango!" she giggled "Stop it!"
"No!" she smiled and then started to tickle Kagome's sides, but Kagome striked back They both soon fell off the couch laughing. Kagome had Sango pinned to the floor by her wrists and her knees had Sango's legs trapped in between "Beat you again." Kagome smirked.
Sango sighed in defeat "Ok. I give up. You win."
Kagome got up off of her. "I always do!"
"Don't get too cocky." Sango said as she got herself up still sitting on the floor. "So are you thinking about going out with him?"
"Inuyasha?" she asked rubbing her right arm.
"Yea. Why not try it? I've been trying to get you with some guys and ever since we've known him, he seemed like an 'ok' guy."
"This is some funny advice coming from you."
Sango rolled her eyes "As much as I'm not the biggest fan of the male gender, I still want to see my best friend happy. Even if it means having her date a few pig-headed jerks once and a while….."
Kagome smiled at her friend "Thanks, Sango. It that really means a lot to me."
Sango smiled back and then realized "So he isn't with Kikyo anymore?"
"They broke up about two days ago."
"So are you sure he up to this date?"
"Well, I don't know. I thought that he might have needed some time, but he was the one who asked me."
"Then maybe it isn't a date. I mean did he say it was?"
"Well I-……It's probably not a date. Maybe he just wants to catch up on things, ya know?"
"That's probably it because I don't think he's one to get into another relationship so soon. I mean he just got out of an old one that lasted about….two or three years was it?"
"It was three." Kagome corrected "You're probably right. Just catching up is all were doing, right?"
"Yea." She was silent for a couple seconds then said "So what are you going to wear?"
"I was thinking of wearing that red dress, but now that I know it isn't a date…."
"Oh! I love that dress!"
"But it doesn't have much too it."
"Kagome, trust me. That dress has more cleavage than anything else you've worn in public."
Kagome glared a little at the last comment.
"So is that the only reason you didn't ask her out? Just because that Hojo guy got to ask her first?" Miroku asked as Inuyasha picked out a black shirt and denim jeans from his closet.
"Yea, I mean I couldn't just ask her out when she already had a boyfriend!" Inuyasha said while changing his shirt.
"Well, you just witnessed him asking her out, right?"
"Right." He sat down on his bed.
"Then tell me, did you witness her saying 'yes'?"
"Uhh…"
"Jeez, you are such an idiot! All this time, and if you just asked her out then you two could have been married by now!"
"Hey, how would you know that would've happened?! Did you ever think that things might not have worked out?"
"And what if it did?" he said casually leaning against the doorway.
Inuyasha then got up "Get out of my room!!" he yelled sternly
Miroku sped out and slammed the door behind him.
Kagome stood in her room, looking in her second drawer for some time in her bra and Inuyasha's boxers(A/N: ). Then Sango came in and said "Debating? It's been a while since you've done that."
Kagome then asked herself aloud "To thong or not to thong?"
"I thought this wasn't a date." Sango pointed out "And if it was why wear one? It's not like you are going to fuck him after the first date."
Kagome sighed "You're right." So she pulled out a navy blue pair of "Low rise panties!" she said proudly.
"Alright. So you have the underwear down. Now for the rest of it or is that all you're wearing?" Sango sat herself down on Kagome's bed with her hands at her sides.
She frowned a little at Sango for that "You know, I feeling you'd get along with Inuyasha's friend. He has the same sense of humor as you."
"That's funny, Kaggie!" shefake laughed "But you know I don't do men. I don't see why you can't do the same."
"Maybe I'm just not as much of a dyke as you are." Kagome mumbled.
"I heard that!" she averted.
"So what should I wear?" Kagome asked completely ignoring the last comment while looking through her closet.
"The yellow tank?"
"No. I want to look halfway decent."
Sango sighed and walked over to Kagome's closet and pulled out a black shirt with butterfly sleeves. "How about this?"
"I forgot I had that." Kagome said looking at it. She then shrugged her shoulders "I'll have to wear that sometime." And then she turned back to her closet.
'I hate how picky she is.' Sango thought then saw something "You're going to wear this." She picked up a blue button up blouse and handed it to her.
"Are you sure it's-"
"You're wearing it." Sango confirmed.
"Alrighty then." Was all Kagome said before putting on the blouse. There was no use getting in an argument with Sango because she would always win with whatever the topic was, so she decided to save a couple of hours and take her word for it.
"And wear a skirt with it." Sango added.
"The brown or the black one?"
"Black." She said not giving much thought to it.
Kagome took off the boxers and put on….
"I thought we agreed. No thongs!" Sango scolded.
"But I'm so tempted." Kagome whined.
Sango suspected something when she said that and raised an eyebrow at her.
Kagome thought about what she just said "I-it's not what you think!"
Sango grinned.
"I usually wear them! That's what I meant! I wasn't implying that I was tempted by him to wear them cause-"
"Face it. You want to sleep with him." She said calmly.
"No, but I do admit that he is built well."
Sango walked out of the room "I'm going with you just to see how built he is."
"Damn." Kagome muttered 'I'll have to call Inuyasha up and tell him that we'll have an extra guest.'
The phone rang at the worst time. Inuyasha was trying to put his pants on and they got stuck halfway up. 'Damn it, Miroku and your chick magnet pants!' he thought irritated. The phone rang again as he tripped and fell "Damn it to hell!" He said through his teeth. The phone still rang. He picked up the phone and yelled "What?!" into it.
"Someone still has a snappy attitude." A feminine voice said on the other line.
"Oh! Hey, Kagome. I thought it was someone else." He said feeling extremely embarrassed
"I'm sure." She said in sarcasm
"So what's up?"
"Oh, uhh…well would it be ok if someone else could join us?"
'Oh Kami! I knew it was too good to be true. She's taken! And she's asking to bring her boyfriend so I can meet him!' he thought a little scared "Sure. Who is it?"
"It's Sango. She hasn't seen you in a long time and she begged me to invite her along with us, so…what do you say?"
"It's fine with me."
"Great!" Kagome said happily.
"Someone talking to Angel?" Miroku opened the door and walked in the room.
"I thought I told you to stay out!!" Inuyasha yelled at him while holding the phone away from his mouth.
"Jeez! Sorry! I was just curious."
"You mean nosey." Inuyasha muttered "Get out!"
"Ok, ok!" Miroku walked out.
"Sorry about that." Inuyasha talked back into the phone.
"It's ok." Kagome said "Whose Angel?"
"No one." He answered quickly. "So were meeting at six?"
"Yea, that's what time where meeting at Shimmy's."
"Ok, then…" he didn't know what else to say "Well….bye!"
"Bye." She hung up.
Inuyasha hung up as well.
There was a knock at his door. "Can I come in, now?"
"Stop acting like a dumbass and I'll consider."
Miroku took it as a 'yes' and walked in "That was a little harsh." He replied to Inu's last statement "You know, I'd like to meet this girl personally. I mean I've seen her around, but-"
"If you shut up I'll let you come" he cut his friend off.
Miroku listened to him and just smiled.
(A/N: Soo long of a wait, huh? Sorry about that! I'll try to get working on the next chapter ASAP. Now….I guess you can review.)
