ATTENTION: This chapter has been revised for plot purposes. Please reread it if you have read the previous 'Chapter 8' but not this one. Thank you.

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Author's Note: You won't BELIEVE how much I love you guys. Haha, I love you guys for A) Reviewing and B) Sticking up for me and C) Just reading the damn fic! Woo. -snuggles you all-

Quick things: I started a new fic, and if you all would be so KIND to read it. It's a humor one for a bunch of laughs. Peter, if you are still reading my fic for some obscure reason so you can flame me some more, I advise you take a look at that fic. If you want to CRITICIZE every single thing about a fic, you can go read that one.

Reviews: I love doing these. These are like the BEST PART of writing this fic. You guys keep me ALIVE.

Keeko - Ahh, another one of my FAITHFUL reviewers. I lurve you. 3 Thanks for sticking up for me. To tell you truth, I'm quite proud of that particular flame. I'm happy that someone is actually READING my fic and being honest about it. So, thanks for reviewing!

C4n4di4nG1r1535 - Yes, Kikyou. DUN DUN DUN. Evil lurks behind that name. xD Anyways, thanks for reviewing! -huggles you- Candian, eh? Woo, I like that place. I went there once for like half an hour because we crossed the bridge over Niagra Falls and we ate at the Hard Rock Cafe and we bought some ice-cream and it was luverly. x)

TiA aRiEl - I don't want my reviewers to die, sooo.. Here it is! The next chapter! =D Thanks for reviewing.

lilangelyuna - Woo! Here I am, updating.I think you're awesome. ;-D Hahaha, thanks for sticking up for me, and I will try to email SOON. Thanks for sticking up for me and everything! =D

Sam - Haha. Might be. Miroku does seem the type, doesn't he? Well, Yeah, I guess. Thanks for reviewing!

babystigmata - Wee! Thanks! =)

Neko-Yuff16 - Well, I'm updating! Just for you. Hehe, thanks for the flattery. It really boosts my ego. x)

Inuyasha520 - Aww, I know. I can be a little ish evil. =) OH WELL. I'm updating. And thanks!

remix69-er - Ahh, another one of my very faithful reviewers. You are loyal and you deserve a COOKIE. =D But Inuyasha was not exactly 'excited', as you might say. You will learn in this chapter. I mean, if YOU were dancing with this girl in a very INITIMATE position, and then suddenly your GIRLFRIEND comes up, that would be bad, right? Hehehe. Just to clarify things. ;

Strawberrii Bunny - Yesh. Evil. . Hehehe, thanks!

Jaganshi-Summoner - Lol, thanks! =)

Kaoru Mitsumi-Sama - Haha. xP You don't like my lurverly cliffhanger? -pets it- Lol, thanks for reviewing!

FantasyDreamer06 - Another one of my faithful reviewers. x) Lol, yes, I particularly liked the seventh chapter, one of my more ingenius ones. Fluff, humor, bitchiness, and topped off with a quite evil CLIFFHANGER at the end. Woo! Thanks for reviewing agian. =D

'Peter' - I hope you are still here. I'd like to clarify a few things with you.

1. First of all. Thanks for reading and reviewing.
2. I am very sorry. I did not know you were emotionally attached to the character Kikyou.
3. They did not have an extremely threatening fight. It was more of like a PLAYFUL fight. Please look at context clues to realize this. Therefore, it makes a lot of sense for them to go into somebody else's room. As you know our characters already, Inuyasha and Kagome are very STUBBORN people. They have FIGHTS a lot. Possibly this fight is a link of bondage between them?
4. No, we do not know if it will be an IxK pairing. It is more than likely that it will, but we still are unsure. But then again, you could apply that to any fanfiction, couldn't you? And to write a fanfiction you can make the characters do WHATEVER you want. If every fanfiction was JUST LIKE THE ANIME, then all the fanfictions would be the SAME and there would be no POINT. Use a little bit of imagination, my dear.
5. I don't hate Kikyou. I think she's a very nice person. I just made her what we would call the 'evil' character in the story. If all the characters were PERFECT, there would be no PLOT or STORY at all. We'd just have all them lovely people frolic around and do crap. And again, this story has no 'magic' in it. People cannot be reincarnated. I am basing this off the anime, but not ENTIRELY copying the ENTIRE ANIME. That would be plagarising Rumiko Takahashi.
6. And no. I am not some diarreah puked from a molester. By the way, molesters don't puke. It's the molested. And you don't puke diarreah. Diarreah is removed from the body from the other direction. =D
7. Haven't you EVER NOTICED that in the anime, the two girls don't look exactly alike? An by the way. Kikyou is very pretty. I never even SAID she was ugly. Please reread your accusations before you make them.
8. Just to let you know, a great many fics have about the same plot as mine, as much as I hate to admit it. So, you can just FLAME and BURN all the other fics as well while you're at it. And then again, if I suppose that you think we're all the whores and the sluts, maybe you should take a close look at YOURSELF.
=D

Okay, that's all the reviews. Sorry if I, um, took up a lot of space for Peter's review. I had to say something, though, right?

Disclaimer: I own a Sango plushie? Does that count?

Summary: High school is finally over. Summer's swept and gone, and Tokyo University is a bus ride away. College. It's time to start grown-up life, and throw away all the high school dilemmas. Ready for anything. I think. Wait. Who are you? Pairings: I/K, M/S, S/R.

Rating: PG13 for the time being. Wee.

And on with the story!


Can I Buy You a Drink?

Chapter Eight - Rainy Highways

By Blurreth

I hate everything about you
Why do I love you
I hate everything about you
Why do I love you

Only when I stop to think about you,
I know
Only when you stop to think about me,
Do you know

I hate everything about you
Why do I love you
You hate everything about me
Why do you love me

-(I Hate) Everything About You by Three Days Grace

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Kagome was astounded.

Being roughly pushed towards the ground by her dancing partner, she was at first, surprised, confused, and a little bit depressed. Then immediately furious at him and vowed to hate him for the rest of her life. How humuliating to be pushed down to the floor in the middle of public while dancing. She flushed an angry red.

She glared at him, only to find him staring at somebody else in the crowd, quickly jamming his hands in his pockets.

"Kikyou!" she heard him say.

Kikyou? Who the hell was that?

She turned her glare onto the girl, only to drop back and gasp in surprise. This girl - was gorgeous, and very, very familiar. She had thin, silky black locks that were fixed in a somewhat low yet elegant ponytail, loose strands over her ears, giving her a very traditional Japanese look. Her smokey-blue eyes trailed over Kagome, shaded with thick long lashes and emotion flickering through them as if they had escaped into her gaze. She was a bit pale, with red ruby lips forming a bit of frownish pout.

The girl was also wearing a dressy, tight white blouse and a short red skirt.

Kagome's eyes widended as she realized why the girl named Kikyou looked so familiar. She looked just like her.

Apparently, the girl Kikyou noticed this as well, and scanned her eyes up and down Kagome, making her feel very uncomfortable. "Well, Inuyasha, what is this? I know you missed me, but don't you think it's kind of low for a temporary replacement?"

Temporary replacement?

All thoughts of Kikyou being pretty vanished. She cried out, in a voice laced with anger, "Temperorary replacement? What the..."

"Shut up, Kagome," Inuyasha snapped. Taken back, Kagome silenced. She then erased all good terms on him again.

"What are you doing here?" his voice directed to Kikyou.

Kikyou's frown deepened. "Didn't you get my letters? I told you I was coming. I came yesterday, but they wouldn't let me get through to your files until Daddy made them..."

Kikyou continued chatting, while Kagome's mind boiled. What the fuck was I thinking? That little whore does not look like me.. She's not even close to pretty! Her outfit is totally slut, anyways, eyeing the shortness of the skirt. And her voice.. .It was a moderately deep, yet prissy voice. Kagome immediately loathed the girl.

"Anyways, who is she?" Kikyou snapped, bringing Kagome out of her evil thoughts directed to Kikyou.

Kagome stiffened. "I'm..."

"Kagome, she's my roomate's friend, our neighbor," Inuyasha said quickly, failing to mention that she was HIS friend too.

Kikyou's eyes narrowed. "You were dancing with her."

Inuyasha shrugged. "She looked lonely," he shuffled on his two feet.

Something in Kagome snapped, being talked about like she wasn't even there for the past few minutes. "I looked lonely?" she hissed at Inuyasha. "LONELY?! You think I'm like some kind if damn CHARITY box? What the fu..."

Inuyasha grabbed her arm, hard, and in the process, dug his fingernails into her arm. Kagome flinched with pain.

"Goodness, control your temper," Kikyou said silkily. She turned to Inuyasha. "So, she's one of your neighbors, is she? She won't be much to miss when I move them out."

Kagome was outraged. "'Move them out'? What kind of slut are you?"

Slap.

Her eyes widened with shock at the slap, her fingers lifting up to touch the burning mark on her cheek, that Kagome had given her.

Kagome wheeled and disappeared into the crowd.

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The TV blared.

Kagome glared at it. Stupid American soap operas. Never anything good.

Outside, she could hear voices, one female and the other. The female one said something like, "Don't worry, I'll take care of it.." And the male one murmured something inaudible. They conversed for a few moments, before the door opened softly with a small click.

The pretty, ebony-haired girl stepped in. "Hey, Kagome," Sango called out not loudly.

Kagome uttered no sound as a response.

"Um, so..." Sango said uneasily, taking a brave stab at the silence again. "Are you okay?"

"No," Kagome replied sourly.

Sango let the silence linger expectantly, waiting for Kagome to continued. She did.

"That no good, fucking whore! She dare she act like that, like she's the QUEEN of everything and we're all just stupid little pricks in her bloody face. She doesn't give a shit about anything except her and her own little pretty face. If she could just wake up and realize that the whole world does not REVOLVE around her, take it from us who are orbiting around her... How can someone be so cruel and senseless? They acted like I wasn't even there... Inuyasha was so gay.. To just throw me off like that in front of everybody. How humuliating. That sonofabitch. She had no right to treat me like that. Pssh. Temporary replacement. Over-possesive bitch..."

Sango raised an eyebrow at this testimony. "Are you jealous?"

"Jealous?! No fucking way! That pretty asshole can have Inuyasha all she wants, no matter how good-looking he is..."

Sango stifled a grin inside, knowing that later when Kagome was in a more relaxed and joking mood, she could tease her about yelling at her about 'good-looking Inuyasha'. But now wasn't the time. She wasn't that insensitive, you know.

Sango slid onto the couch next to Kagome murmured a sound of comfort. She had seen the whole scene from a distance at the reception, and agreed with Kagome's outburst. This Kikyou girl or whatever had been a bitch, and Inuyasha was an ass for going along with the bitch.

Kagome felt a lump in her throat as she rubbed the scratches all long her arm where Inuyasha had grabbed her with his rather sharp nails, and she had tried to shake him off, resulting in huge etches in her skin, a bit bloody and raw.

"Oh, it was so fucking embaressing!" Kagome suddenly wailed and dropped onto Sango's shoulder, sobbing.

Sango wrapped her hands around Kagome in a sisterly embrace, whispering soothing words of comfort. In the back of her mind, she thought, I'll get Inuyasha for doing this to my friend.

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The door slammed open.

"Inuyasha, what the hell did you do that for?!"

Inuyasha looked up from the couch he was sitting on, only just in time to catch a glimpse of Sango as she tackled him to the floor and grasped a hand around his throat.

"Hello, bitch, it's nice to see you too," Inuyasha growled as a choke emitted from his throat.

"Kagome's in her room at our place, crying herself to sleep almost, because you are one ugly sonofabitch," Sango snapped. "I'm going to kill you!"

"Wait, wait, what the fuck, hold the tape," Inuyasha held up a hand. "She's crying?"

"Yes. Who wouldn't be? That was some shit-ugly scene you put on her. She's got red welts all up her arm from you, which hurts like hell, since you are a girl and has no decency to cut your nails. She's embaressed and humuliated. She's tired of being treated like crap, which you have a tendency to do so. And she's hurt, by the way you pushed her down during a dance!"

Inuyasha rubbed his eyes. "Well, it's not my fault she's a sensitive wench..."

"Inuyasha, you bastard, she's right."

Miroku appeared from the doorway, arms crossed. "I bumped into Kagome in the hallway, and she looked horrible. She said she was going to get take a walk. I have officially the biggest jerk as my roommate who's going out with a total slut. And that's pretty big for me," Miroku added with a perk of an eyebrow. "Usually the sluttier, the better for me. But she's way off the charts here."

"What kinda shit are you two pulling?" Inuyasha snapped. "And call my girlfriend a slut again, and I'll murder you." He added visciously to Miroku. This time, Miroku didn't back down.

"Inuyasha," Miroku said evenly. "Your girlfriend is a slut."

Inuyasha let loose a growl before pouncing on Miroku. Sango caught his leg and he dropped to the floor, muttering and cursing.

"Inuyasha, you know he's right," Sango demanded.

"Feh," Inuyasha snarled and crossed his arms. "What the fuck do you want from me anyways?"

Miroku and Sango exchanged glances.

"Apologize to her," Sango sated.

"To Kagome. Tell her you're sorry.." Miroku added.

"Or else," Sango finished visciously, glaring at Inuyasha.

Inuyasha glared back. For about five minutes, they stared evenly at each other. Finally Inuyasha looked away.

"Fine," he grumbled. "But only so Sango would kick my ass."

Sango smirked.

"Not like I couldn't kick your ass any day, I can, I mean, I would, if you weren't a girl," Inuyasha added quickly.

"Just go," Miroku pushed Inuyasha out the door. "She's probably off on her 'walk'. Go find her and say sorry."

Inuyasha grumbled, grabbed a jacket, and stepped out into the hallway, shuffling with his hands jammed in his pockets. Why the fuck should he apologize? What did he do wrong? It wasn't his problem that this little crybaby was upset because Kikyou was better than her... At least he thought she was. Is she?

He left the question unasnwered and pushed open the exit door from the building, silver moonlight streaming on his face. The view of the parking lot filled his amber eyes, filled with cheap second-hand cars beside his glorious one. Not a single person to be seen. Where was that girl?

Pausing for a moment, he whirled around in a sharp right and trotted a long easily, unaware of where he was going. He glanced around, swiveling his neck this way and that, shivering a bit from the cold gentle wind even though it was still summer. "Damn you, Kagome," he muttered under his berath.

Jamming his hands in his pockets, he had no clue what to do. The prospect of finding this girl crying her eyes out for being a wuss in the middle of the night pissed him off. Why did Sango have to be such a bitch anyways?!

Making rounds across the campus a few times, he jogged lightly to a nearby park. Kagome was a park-y kind of girl right?

She wasn't there.

He walked up 12th street and checked the coffeeshop.

She wasn't there.

He peered inside the ice-cream parlor's foggy windows.

She wasn't there.

Nearly an hour passed, and he still hadn't found her. Fuming, he crossed his arms. "I'm heading back," he declared to nobody. "I am not spending the whole freaking night out searching for some dumb girl. When she comes back, I'll say sorry and everybody will be happy," he decided, and began to head back campus.

He started by turning a sharp right and walking rather quickly, through the slow part of town to where the campus was, where the noises grew louder. Eager to get home, he broke into a run, wind streaming through his silver hair, flashing wildly in the night. Rumbles of tremendous noise and trembling and bright lights shining everywhere, casting long shadows everywhere.

Highway Intersection 35, Tokyo Bridge.

And there the raven-haired beauty was perched, sitting on the railing of, feet dangling over the side, hanging over the water, and staring deep into the icy black depths so her dark locks of hair covered her face. It was a deep drop. The bridge trembled with fright every time a car drove wildly past from a late night's drinking, which happened about every, oh, fiteen seconds. The bridge was constantly moving. The railing looked flimsy and worn from age.

If anyone didn't know better, they would've thought Kagome was suicidal, ready to plunge off the side of the bridge into the dark, frigid river.

Inuyasha, a bit weary and tired from the late night, and a crabby too of his senseless hours searching Tokyo for her when she was just right here... Spoke up in his normal attitude and terrible personality - like usual.

"Oi! Wench! Get over here! Sango's kicking my ass unless I apologize to you, you wuss.. Hurry! I haven't got all night!"

Bad, bad, bad mistake.

Inuyasha instantly regretted his choice of phrasing.

Kagome shivered at the suddeness of the voice, breaking her thoughts. Realizing who it was, her eyes burned with anger, sparks flying off. She jumped off the ledge, whirled around with her hair in a black mess of tangles, brilliant eyes shining through wet, old tears. She clenched her fists, cheeks hot and flushed, nails digging into her palms.

"Inuyasha, you asshole."

Inuyasha opened his mouth in protest, as if to say sorry, but Kagome cut him off quickly and coldly.

"You know, I love Sango and Miroku and all, but I cannot just stand you."

Inuyasha's head tilted... as if he were a puppy recieving a harsh scolding.

"What is with it that you just have to ruin anything nice in my life for a change, hm? I thought college was going to be great, you know. A whole new thing. But noooo... You had to come along and bump into me and call me a bitch," Kagome yelled.

Inuyasha was on one side of the road, and she was on the other. The six-lane highway was in between them. A car raced by.

"And yes, I forgave you when you gave us that nice dinner and everything. That was nice. But you just had to do it all over again, didn't you? Keep me miserable for a week because I was worried that you didn't want to, want to be my friend.." she choked, tears coming back out, but mostly from anger.

Another car raced by.

She wanted to be my friend?

"And yet again, I forgave you.. Just because, you know. But tonight... You humuliated me, you hurt me, you gave me this damn bruise on my arm and scratchmarks all over... And this time, I swear, I truly hate you. Why are you doing this to me? Can you just get a life? Is this some hilarious scheme you are putting up? Oh, it's sooo funny to count how many times I can get Kagome mad at me. Well, I'm laughing!"

As if on cue, lightning flashed behind her and struck the river. A small drizzle began to fall. How classic.

"Well, guess what, you ass? I'm not going to forgive you this time," Kagome stated hotly, tears running down her cheeks more freely. "I don't give a shit about you. Or anything you do. I'm just going to stop trying. Is that what you want? Game's over, baka. Get out."

Yet another car swerved dangerously and skidded on the now wet road.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha suddenly burst out like a lost child, cutting through the surface of the insults laid on him. It terrified him to see girls cry... All that guilt. "I'm... I'm sorry!"

"No you aren't," Kagome snarled. The drizzle began to fall heavier, and her hair was damp and matted against her cheeks. Her tears were lost in the rain, but her eyes were outlined with a bright red as evidence. "I hate you. Go away."

"Kagome! I..."

A car banged straight into the sidewalk, spraying muddy water everywhere, right where Kagome was standing. The wall crumbled and the car fell off the side of the road. Kagome, who was standing there less than five seconds ago, was not there.

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Author's Note: There you have it! Chapter eighty. Hahaha. Sorry it's a bit short, and that I haven't been updating soon. I've had a bit of writer's block lately. Eh. Pray that I have an idea rush to my head soon, because I'm running out. I do have a bit of a plot going on though, however worn out and pathetic it might be. Hehehe. Well, you all know what to do! REVIEW!

Ja ne!
Blurreth