(A/N: It seems people really like this, so I'll be trying to update this way more often!)


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Chapter 5: At Shimmy's


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The two men stood in front of the bar/restaurant. The place was built out of bricks and painted in black with the sign that said "ShImMy'S" in light blue, red, green, and yellow neon lights. The man with silver hair looked irritated and continuously looked to both ends of the road. The other man with the short brown hair was leaned against the building with a cigarette in his mouth.

It was now 6:16.

"Where the hell are they?" Inuyasha asked himself with a bit of frustration.

"Girls always take a long time getting ready, so maybe-" Miroku thought over Inuyasha's previous question "They?" he asked.

"Yeah, they." He answered simply.

"I thought you said that you were on a date with Kagome." Miroku said as he puffed his cigarette "Is she bringing someone else with her?"

"Yeah. Sango." He said not feeling like answering any more questions.

"Sango?" he repeated, "Who's she?"

"Our friend."

"What are you talking about? I don't know her, so I don't think I'm her friend." Miroku then mumbled to himself "Maybe later I could be." After a couple seconds of silence, he then asked "Is she pretty?"

"Huh?" he said not paying attention "Uh, yea, I think so." Then he thought about what he said "I actually don't know. I haven't seen her in few years so I don't know how she turned out any different."

"What do you mean?"

"She was….kind of….a little overweight back then."

"Oh." Miroku took a big inhale on his ciggie.

"But I don't know, maybe she lost, maybe she gained." He shrugged his shoulders "Won't know until we see her."

"I'm going to be over here." He walked to the other side of the building.

"Miroku!" Inuyasha said frustrated.

"I don't want to seem shallow at the moment, but what if she falls for me? I can't deal with not loving someone back!" he explained himself "I mean unrequited love is the worst! You don't want her to go through with that if she falls in love with me, don't you?"

Inuyasha looked at him coldly "You're really full of it, you know that?"

"Not my fault. I was born that way." He said simply with a cheesy smile. With that he exhaled smoke again from his cigarette.


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"We might as well just wait another fifteen minutes." Sango said as she drove while the loud music of the metal girl band 'Kittie'.

"Why do you say that?" Kagome asked.

"Don't be stupid. You remember how Inuyasha was never on time for anything."

Kagome got her black purse onto her lap and opened it "He was hardly late for school." She pointed out as she got out her cigarette "And even if he was late a few times, that doesn't mean he is not standing in front of the restaurant right now." She mumbled as she lit her piece of nicotine.

"That doesn't mean he's not late either." Sango shot back.

Kagome inhaled the ciggie "What's your point?"

Sango grabbed Kagome's cigarette and threw it out the window.

"Hey!" Kagome objected to her friend's action "What did you do that for!"

"Smoking is bad for you." Was Sango's reason.

Kagome crossed her arms and frowned at her friend "Bitch." She muttered.

"No, you're my bitch." Sango said knowingly.

She didn't say anything else the whole way to the restaurant because she wasn't in the mood to hear what the smartass in the driver's seat had to say. Before she knew it, they had arrived.


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"There they are." Inuyasha informed his friend.

Miroku dropped his cigarette on the ground and stepped on it to put it out. He saw Kagome walk out of the white sadden. "There's Angel." He said to himself, and that's when he saw the other girl get out of the car from the other side of it. His eye's were stuck on her, being very awestricken at the sight of her. "And that must be….Sango, right?" He looked at her well shaped figure that, to him, represented something sent to him from the gods from where he still stand.

Inuyasha ignored his question and walked to Kagome. "Hey." He greeted.

"Hey-" Kagome was cut off by Sango.

"Hello, Inuyasha!" she walked over to him with a light smile to her face.

"Whoa, Sango…? You look…great!" he said in an astonished voice as he looked her from head to toe.

Sango chuckled "It's amazing how differently people look at you when you lose a few pounds."

"A few!" Inuyasha said shocked "More like a hundred!"

"Watch it…" Sango threatened.

Miroku tapped Sango on her shoulder and was about to introduce himself, but he wasn't expecting her to grab his arm and throw him over her shoulder. "Ahh!" he screamed before landing on his back on the concrete.

"How many times do I have to tell you guys; no, you can't have her number!" Sango put her fist up to threaten Miroku.

Kagome restrained Sango and took a hold of her arm "No, Sango, that's Inuyasha's friend!"

Sango quickly changed her expression and put her hand up to her mouth "Oops…" she said embarrassed.

Inuyasha helped Miroku up off the ground. "That's a…good arm you have there." Miroku observed.

"Uh. Thanks." Sango blushed out of still being embarrassed for her actions. "I'm really sorry about that!" she apologized "Can you stand up?"

"Yes, I'm fine." Miroku told the overly worried girl. "What did you mean with the whole 'no, you can't have her number'?"

Sango scratched the back of her head with a bit of embarrassment still surrounding her "Well, since Kagome is particularly 'famous', a lot of guys want to get with her and…..it's my job to make sure they don't." she explained.

Kagome put her arm around Sango's neck "Sango here is my own personal body guard!" She said happily.

Sango started to continue for her "Yep, a regular master in the martial arts and self defense class's A student." She said proudly.

"So I can tell." Miroku mentioned as he tried to rub the pain from his back.

Sango still felt bad for her actions of throwing Miroku on the hard ground like that. "I'm so sorry….uhh….Mr?" She never got his name.

"It's Miroku," he said with a light chuckle "Miroku Houshiki." He grabbed her hand and got down on one knee "And I would be honored if you, Sango, would bear my……. company through dinner." (A/N: You were expecting more awkward? )

She raised an eyebrow at him and said "Yea, sure….." she answered "You can get up now."

Miroku quickly got back up on both feet "Right! Lets go inside!" he said with a bit of excitement as he led the way.

'He seemed so serious a second ago, but now…… Oh Kami, he's a strange one.' Sango thought to herself as she followed him with Inuyasha and Kagome behind her.

"Does Sango realize what will happen if she gets with Miroku?" Inuyasha whispered to Kagome.

"I highly doubt Sango will." Kagome whispered back.

"What do you mean?"

"Sango's changed a lot, Inuyasha."

"I can tell."

"No-" Kagome grabbed his hand and she stopped walking "-she's really changed." She looked him in the eye seriously.

He was about to ask her more, but was cut off.

"Well, let's just go inside now!" she nervously said with a fake smile. He could tell that she was trying to change the subject, but he didn't say anything more about it. He then noticed Kagome taking his arm and pulling him.

"Let's go…" she whined as she pulled him. "Are you going to stand there all day?"

'Kagome still hasn't changed much….. still so impatient.' Inuyasha sighed as he still stood with the girl tugging at his arm "I'm coming."

"Doesn't look like it; you're still standing there!"

"Kagome, would you wait just a second!"

"No!" she whined as she still kept trying to pull, but she wasn't strong enough to make him budge even an inch.


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Miroku and Sango were the first ones to enter the bar/restaurant and took a seat at a booth. Kagome and Inuyasha came in a few seconds later.

They sat like this I across from K

M across from S

A waiter with a whitish mohawk soon came to their table with their menus "Hi, I'm Ginta, and I'll be your waiter for the night. How may I help you?" he asked as he took out his notebook in his back pocket ready to take their orders.

They all took their menus and looked through them, but Kagome hid her face behind hers.

Inuyasha was the first to order "A Budlight for me and…" he motioned for everyone else to place in an order.

"Kagome?" the waiter said as he recognized the girl behind the menu.

Kagome nervously put her head up from behind her menu.

"It is you!" he said in a cheery tone.

She smiled nervously "Hi, Ginta."

"Hey I heard what happened at the club last night; are you ok?"

Kagome nodded "Yea, I'm alright."

"That's good." Ginta said "Koga said that after he got through with him, he couldn't even walk to his car!" he laughed.

Inuyasha's eye started to twitch a little "What!"

'Inuyasha was the one who saved me, not Koga!' Kagome thought in anger.

"Yea, he sure knows how to take care of 'em!" he said being proud of his friend.

"Well, I'll have a Miller Light." Miroku said trying to get back to their order. Plus there was the fact that he could sense the tension was going on.

Kagome finally got back to her order as well "A strawberry daiquiri."

"And I'll have a bloody mary." Sango was last to order.

The waiter finished writing up their drinks. "Ok, you're drinks will be ready in a little bit. I'll be around a little while later to finish up the rest of your order." He said as he stuffed the notebook in his pocket, then walked away.

"Can't believe he changed the story like that!" Inuyasha said as soon as he was sure that Ginta was gone. "He knows very damn well that I saved your ass that night at the club!" he said in anger.

"I know." Kagome sighed "But why don't we just let it go, ok?"

"Let it go?" he repeated in frustration "I can't just let that bastard take credit for something he didn't do!"

"Like I said; let it go." Kagome said in cold tone.

There was a bit of silence between all of them when the scary Kagome came in gear.

"Ok…" was all Sango had to say. She then caught eye to Kagome's leather bracelet. "Where did you get that?" she changed the point of conversation.

Kagome's eyes went to where Sango's were, and she felt her heart go faster out of fright. 'Now you have to explain yourself. Wait, she only asked where I got it. Stay cool, Kagome, stay cool.' She then answered "I got it at Kagura's."

"Jeez, she didn't overprice it again, did she?" Sango asked.

"Afraid so." Kagome answered.

"So, can I try it on?" she asked.

"No!" she quickly told Sango as she defensively held her wrist.

"Chill, Angel, she only asked to try it on." Miroku explained smoothly "No big deal."

"Did you just call me 'Angel'?" Kagome asked, but in a sense, tried changing the subject.

Sango noticed this "I'm going to the restroom, Kagome, would you mind coming with me?" it wasn't a question. It was a command.

"Why does she need to-" Inuyasha was about to ask them, but got cut off by Miroku.

"Girl talk." He whispered.

"Oh." The half-demon understood.


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The two girls headed to the restroom that said "Ladies" in red spray paint on the door. Sango pushed the door open with much force that it banged against the wall before closing.

"Alright." Sango said calmly "Explain."

"Explain what?"

"This!" she yelled as she snapped the bracelet off. "I knew it." She whispered to herself as the colors of red and purple appeared.

"It-…I-….I fell." Kagome tried to lie, but she was horrible at it.

"Sure." Sango rolled her eyes.

"On some glass….at the club….that broke."

"Stop lying, Kaggie." Sango sighed.

Kagome lowered her head. "I'm sorry."

Sango's face was now calmer "Koga again?"

She only nodded her head.

Sango wrapped her arms around her best friend "Oh, Kagome." she sighed "Please," she asked "just quit your job."

"I can't do that." Kagome said "You know that." She pulled away from her friend.

"Screw the diploma if this is what you have to pay for it!" she scolded.

"Well what other choice do I have!" Kagome snapped at her.

"You could try going to college and earning certain things the proper way." Sango said in an obvious tone.

"I can't do that!" she argued.

"And why not?" Sango yelled at her.

"I just can't!"

"Tell me!"

"No!" Kagome refused.

"Kagome!" she said in irritation.

"Sango!"

"Mommy!" a child yelled in a scared tone.

Sango and Kagome stopped fighting and went to check where the child's voice came from.

They opened each empty stall to see where the child was hiding. Finally, when both got to the last stall, they spotted a little boy who looked no older than six years old with orange hair and cowering in the corner.


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(A/N: Tooooo looong since I updated! Again, sorry it took soooo looong. And you may have noticed 'changing the subject' being said a bit tooo much. Well, I'm going to change the subject right now to tell you to………Review!)