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Prae: // Yeah, I do think this is the only fic I've ever seen where InuYasha has gone pro bowl. Though this is sort of just a hobby more than anything else at this point in time for InuYasha here. I don't know, maybe I will make him go pro-bowl and let him get mucho cash off of it .. I dunno .. Thanks for the idea though ^_^
EvilBunnies: // Okay kiddo, calm down!!! Haha I'm glad you like this so much, and because you and a couple of other people do like this fic, I think I'll continue it! Thanks for reading and reviewing!
SarahHinkle: // Haha, thanks, I do appreciate opinions wither they are rotten to the core or very appreciative! All are welcome! 'Heh, I don't think I intentionally wrote the second chapter to be funny but I guess it did come out a little humorous!
MarsMarmalade: // As long as you guys keep reading Mars, I'll keep writing! ^_^
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Passion In A Bowling Alley:
A Teen Love Fic
By ChibiKougaKun
DISCLAIMER: The characters involved in this story are not owned by myself. Don't bother complaining to me or try to sue me. They're owned by the wonderful, Rumiko Takahashi. Other objects are owned by their respected companies. Sue me and fear my wraith… or … not … -.-'
Chapter 3: "Everyone Must Repent, Sometime.."
"Right, so InuYasha, do you want me to pick up Kagome and bring her to the bowling alley with Sango or are you going to go get her ?"
Miroku had just woken up, around nine AM and apparently InuYasha had already left the Higurashi residence before Kagome's parents had gotten home, and after they had their little cozy scene. Miroku sat in his room by his desk near his bed, twirling a pencil in his right hand and holding the phone to his ear with his left, trying to get dressed for the game in exactly three hours. Miroku had just gotten out of the shower and pulled his hair back into a small dragon tail and put on a pair of jeans, a white wife beater and an emerald green button down shirt. Not to mention slipping on a pair of white sneakers from New Balance.
"Alright, so I'll go get Sango, and we'll be at the bowling alley a little early." Miroku said, just finishing to tie his shoes after placing the pencil down on his desk. On the other line, InuYasha had just gotten out of the shower after getting home. "Yeah, I'll go pick up Kagome and we'll grab something for breakfast before going to the alley."
"Great! Then we'll see you two there!"
"Ja!"
They both hung up, and InuYasha dropped his white towel to the floor and got into his black boxers, black wife beater, blue jeans and a navy blue button down and left it unbuttoned. He walked upstairs to his room and searched for a pair of black Izoc socks and his black steel toed boots and then walked back to the kitchen while tieing his beautiful white hair back into a decent pony tail, leaving it to hang half way down his back.
"Where're you going today Kiddo?" A taller man, with a strong resemblance to InuYasha, the obvious long and thick, yet unlike InuYasha, very well pampered white hair, tied back into a neatly kept pony tail roughly half way down his back as well, amber eyes also, sat at the kitchen table with a small cup of coffee in one hand, a newspaper in the other. He had his car keys in front of his right hand and wore black Armani. "Look brother, I won't be home until later this evening. So do not be surprised if you'll be eating supper alone tonight." He said.
InuYasha grabbed his car keys right off the table and stuck them in his pockets. He grabbed his bowling bag right from underneath the kitchen table and launched it over his back and held it over his shoulder with the over shoulder strap. "Ne, Sesshoumaru, As long as those annoying mutts that follow you home don't interrupt me, I don't mind one bit." InuYasha said, and took off through the front door. He jogged to his car in the driveway to the side of the large white estate and jumped in. He revved over to reverse after turning the ignition, and hit the main streets of town.
Within 5 minutes, he parked in front of the Higurashi property and left his car for a brief second to find his way to the main house. He knocked on the front door after minimum trouble and was greeted by Ms.Higurashi.
"Good Morning Ma'am, is Kagome ready to go to the bowling alley to see the tournament ?" InuYasha asked while silently gritting his teeth for needing to be so polite, remembering what would happen just out of speculation and assumptions. God this womans' crazy..
"Well don't you look presentable this fine morning young man, hold on, I'll go get her!" Ms.Higurashi said. And what's with that long white hair? Well, I guess he just matured earlier? She thought to herself while walking up the set of stairs from the kitchen, to the 2nd floor and to Kagome's room. She knocked on the door lightly and Kagome was just about ready to open it from her end of the door. Kagome wore the casual jeans, navy blue Boston Red Sox Shirt and white sneakers to comfortably take on her day head on. "Okay Okaasan!" Kagome kissed her mom on the cheek and her mother to her daughter. The hyper junior ran down the stairs to greet InuYasha. "Well, Good 'Morning' InuYasha-kun!" She giggled and InuYasha ran his hand through his hair trying to keep hush about him spending the night and leaving before her mother had gotten home. "Well, are we ready ? .. We've still got a few hours or so before we actually have to show up." InuYasha ran his fingers and thumb along the key ring of his keys and then cupped his keys in his hand. He stepped outside and Kagome followed after kissing her mother goodbye.
"Now you two behave and I don't want to hear that either of you have misbehaved!!" Kagome's mother warned.
"Ah don't worry about a think Ms.Higurashi. Kagome'll be fine with me." InuYasha managed to reassure Kagome's mother and the kids were out of there by the time Souta, Kagome's brother, and her grandfather woke up that Sunday.
"So, have you had breakfast?" InuYasha asked, cruising down one lane with the top down. The sun hitting them both and the wind blowing both of their hair all over the place. He looked at her with the corner of his eye and couldn't help but smirk. Wow, she's pretty alright… Kagome pouted and looked straight at him. "No, I took a shower right after you left and then sat around until mom got home. Everyone went to bed and then I got dressed and well, here I am now.." she explained. InuYasha laughed slightly and tightened his grip on the steering wheel and let go in rhythm to the alternative rock song on some random radio station. "Alright, tell you what, we'll go to a breakfast diner. Spend some time there and then we'll go straight to the bowling alley. After that, we can do something later if you aren't busy." InuYasha mumbled on about checking out another place that she, Miroku and Sango might be interested in if small local night clubs were what they liked to do. Kagome smiled and nodded at his plans, but she frowned again when he was suggesting plans for that night. "InuYasha-kun, finals are this week .. Ne, what about after finals are all over?" She asked, with sort of a regret for the need to study tonight, seeing as finals were Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of that week, now, according to their assistant principle, Thursday being the very last day though juniors and seniors were allowed that day off.
InuYasha pulled up into a parking lot in front of a small decent looking place with 'Green Diner' above the front door by the ramp. Kagome pulled herself out of her side of InuYasha's car, and InuYasha got out of his end and stuck his keys in his pockets. He walked around his car and started on the little path made by the railings, in front of Kagome and then held the door open for her. A waitress came by and InuYasha immediately broke a sweat. He elbowed Kagome softly and turned around towards outside. "Kagome, lets leave .. I'm not liking this place already.."
She gave him a questionable look. "InuYasha! This place looks… and smells good!! We can't just leave!"
The waitress pointed to the table they were offered and Kagome dragged InuYasha to the table, missing the wink the waitress gave InuYasha. They both sat down in their chairs and Kagome looked around a little, then rest her gaze on InuYasha.
"InuYasha-kun, what's wrong?" She asked, placing her folded arms on the edge of the round table in front of her.
"Nothing…nothing at all.." He mentioned while still glancing around the place. 'Please don't tell me she's working here…' He thought to himself. That same waitress came around the corner with a pen and notepad and walked around their table and leaned on the edge of the table in between InuYasha and Kagome. "Mornin' folks, what'll you two be having ?" She asked. Kagome looked through the maroon on the menu really quick and just ordered a two egg ham and cheese omelet with home fries on the side and then the young woman turned to InuYasha.
"Oh .. My god!!! InuYasha is that you!?!?" She asked, moving her head in such a fasion that her black curled hair about shoulder length moved out of her face. InuYasha growled slightly and threw an elbow on the table and dug his head in his hand. "Yeah, Kikyou it's me alright. The one and only.." He mumbled.
This Kikyou hugged InuYasha and kissed him on the cheek. "Honey it's been two years!! I didn't know you moved here with your brother Sesshomaru!!" She squealed outloud. InuYasha growled and snapped back. "And it's not like you have to yell about my personal life damnit!"
Kikyou laughed and wrote down Kagome's order with her black pen. "You haven't changed a bit you old grouch!" She said while gnawing on pink bubble gum. InuYasha sat straight in his chair and pushed himself in.
"Well you should learn from me Kikyou-sama, sometimes CHANGE is good!" he snapped again.
Kikyou raised her skirt a little and pretended to have an itch along her inner thigh by her knee. Kagome looked away in slight discuss and looked at InuYasha with the corners of her eyes. InuYasha mouthed a silent 'I Know…'.
"Well thanks for asking what I wanted, I'll take a small regular, two sugars extra light." He added. Kikyou looked at him slightly pissed and left, not bothering to write it down. "Who was that!?" Kagome asked.
InuYasha groaned slightly and looked down at the center of the table. "That was Kikyou."
Kagome turned around to look at her, and then back to face InuYasha. "She your girlfriend?"
InuYasha could have had a heart attack right then and there. He nearly choked and tried to yell out at the same time. "NO!!!!"
Kagome laughed slightly and pointed at his red face and then calmed down. InuYasha scratched the back of his head.
"When I used to live in the eastern part of here, I sorta of went out with her my freshman and sophomore year, and dumped her the summer after my sophomore year."
InuYasha's face turned a little pale, and the normal. Going over past events in his mind. Kagome raised her brows slightly interested. "Well, so what did you do… 'after' your sophomore year?"
"Well, I finished my junior year there. Things got rough and the principal suggested I move in with my brother here. So I did for my senior year and here I am." InuYasha winged it off and hopefully successfully, though not with this curious girl. "What happened in between?" She asked. InuYasha quickly wiped that curiosity from her face into despair with a rough "It's none of your business, just enjoy your breakfast."
Kikyou brought back Kagome's breakfast and left InuYasha to be with his coffee, and left. When they were alone again, Kagome looked up at him from her fork holding the omelet in place for her. InuYasha was staring down at the light brown pool in the black cup in front of him. Something isn't right. Something wrong must've happened last year…. Maybe it's a touchy subject for him..
Kagome finished her breakfast, InuYasha, his coffee, in silence. InuYasha dug his wallet from his jeans pocket and dropped a twenty dollar bill on the table. Kikyou came running. "You know, I haven't even given you the bill yet.."
InuYasha placed the coffee cup on the money. "I want to get out of here. The extra cash is worth leaving here if you work here." He said with a killer tone to his voice. Kikyou and Kagome looked at each other for a second and Kikyou gave Kagome a dirty look. Kagome looked back down at her feet after pushing slightly away from the table, ready to leave. Kikyou pocketed InuYasha's money and turned around. "You know, you're such a sissy... To leave us all alone like that." She slowly walked towards the back kitchen only to become furious when she caught InuYasha's "Bitch, I helped you.."
InuYasha got up and left not even realizing Kagome was there with him. He sat in his car once outside, and looked over to the passenger seat and no one was there. Shit…. He mentally scolded himself. He looked up and past the window shield and there Kagome was, walking back. He leaned over the stick shift and opened her door and turned the car on.
She put her seatbelt on and InuYasha backed out of the parking lot and in first gear, hit the streets of town and started going for a ride straight to the bowling alley.
"InuYasha, if you don't mind, .. Would you tell me who that woman was really and why you're all pissed off now?"
She asked, sitting back in the seat, and looking straight ahead, rather quite hesitant to ask the question.
"Curiosity killed the cat you know." He answered. She folded her arms and gave a slight sigh and the rest of the ride was in complete silence. They got to the bowling alley minutes later, and InuYasha lugged his bowling bag to the alley without even bothering to wait for Kagome. Now something's bothering him. He isn't normally like this.. She thought to herself while getting out of his car and running after him. Oh, Sango and Miroku are already here! She ran faster with that thought in mind and once in the building, found Miroku and InuYasha already for the game. Sango sat along with a few other people Kagome didn't recognize at all behind the lanes. She sat down next to Sango.
"Kago-chan!!" Sango yelled. "Sango! I'm right in front of you!"
They giggled. "Gomen Kago-chan! My ears are ringing from all of these bowling games at once!"
Miroku entered the information in the digital box by the two main seats directly in front of the ball rack and in between the two lanes. Miroku, InuYasha, Hiten, Manten.
Minutes later yet again, another two young men came from the bathroom area and directed themselves for their lanes for the tournament games. One was a very tall and broad bodied young man in his mid twenties who shaved himself bald. He had nothing on but denim and a dark navy blue shirt that hugged his slightly chubby body under his denim vest and a silver hoop earring on his left ear. The other, had dark brown hair and it was either gelled or used mousse to keep it held back. He had all black on and had a gold stud on his right ear. They both reached about a full 6ft tall and sat down across from the girls. Miroku stretched out a bit, InuYasha flexed his hands. "Ready kids?" The bald one asked.
InuYasha cracked his hands purposely and smirked while extending his index finger, the knuckles making a snapping noise and then relaxing as if nothing happened. "Ready to kick your ass Manten."
The bowling tournament begun. Everyone had taken their seats, everyone cheering for someone else. Sango and Kagome cheering for Miroku and InuYasha. Miroku grabbed his ball, took his stance and threw with a less powerful arm and let his ball ride on the very edge of the lane against the gutter for the majority of time it was not in Miroku's grasp. 5 Inches in front of the 1 pin, Miroku's ball took a violent swurve and struck a strike. Not powerful but it got the job done. InuYasha however, did the same as Miroku. Stepped forward and let go of a speeding bullet slightly right of the 1 pin. With a small curve however, and with all the power behind that ball, each and every pin was sent flying and back crashing with intense force. So far for Miroku, and Inuyasha. Hiten went up, and grabbed his ball. He took his stance and let his ball go at the line.
His went straight down the line and as the ball hit the oiled lane, sparks flew from the underside of the ball and he had scored a nine pin shot. Hiten then was able to make the spare. Manten was able to do the same with the sparks trick, yet hit 7 pins, and then got the spare. Hiten and Manten sat down, pissed beyond belief already, and InuYasha and Miroku were back up. Between Miroku and InuYasha's constant strikes, by the end of the game, the team scores were at average, 290 verses Hiten and Manten's 237.
Each of the team members shook hands and the Thunder Brothers left with a very rough look on their faces. Both cursing on their way out. Sango and Kagome hugged Miroku and InuYasha, and congratulated them for they're awesome game. InuYasha and Miroku put back their bowling shoes in their bags, along side their balls and all four started to leave the bowling alley.
Outside however, upon walking past the stairs down to the parking lot in front of the door, InuYasha was knocked a good foot in front of him and onto the ground. Sango, Miroku and Kagome ran to him.
Kagome gasped. "InuYasha!! Are you okay !?" The beaten down young man sat up and rubbed his back, and a dark tan bowling ball. It resembled Hiten's bowling ball. "Who the hell'd throw a freaking bowling ball at you!?" Miroku asked while picking it up. Hiten and Manten came around and made themselves visible from behind a bunch of rather large cars. "We lose, you die…" Manten had said while cracking his knuckles. Miroku stood in front of Sango with his arms folded and InuYasha finally managed to stand up, though a little sore. The Thunder Brothers made a run for Miroku and InuYasha. Sango and Kagome ran back to Miroku's car as Miroku and InuYasha easily dispatched the two furious brothers. Manten rushed towards Miroku with swinging fists and Miroku simple gave the beast a roundhouse kick to the neck which had Manten backing off. And despite InuYasha's slight wound, he managed to release a barrage of punches and kicks at a rather quick speed to the point where his volleyed fists couldn't be seen. Manten finally dragged Hiten off of the ground and pulled him back to their car somewhere in the back of the lot.
Miroku and InuYasha both returned to the car as Sango and Kagome rushed back to them.
"Are you okay!?", was what the girls asked. Miroku shrugged and turned to his partner and InuYasha just waved. He shrugged it off and dug for the keys in his pockets then retrieved his bowling bag and got into his car. He sat there for a second, turned on the engine. He got into reverse, backed out, and lured himself near Miroku and the girls.
"Kagome, if you'd like, I'll take you home so you can get some of your studies finished…" InuYasha said through a rolled down window. Miroku walked up to the car and leaned against InuYasha's door. "You going to be able to drive your way home Yash ?" Miroku asked. "I'll give you a ride if you need one."
InuYasha smirked and rubbed his back while leaning closer to the steering wheel. He winced at the sharp jolt of pain that was sent down his spine and then sat back and nodded. "I'll be fine.. don't worry…"
With this, Miroku got into his car, Sango hugged Kagome. "I'll call you later tonight Kago-chan!", and Sango got into Miroku's car through the passengers side and they took off. Kagome got into InuYasha's car, and he got out of the parking lot and onto the main streets, aiming for a ride around town before dropping her off.
"InuYasha, are you okay ?" She asked, leaving her hands on her thighs while looking straight at InuYasha, who tried to return the look and keep his eyes on the road at the same time. "I'm fine, really Kagome.." he said, with a slight pout. "It was only a bowling ball.." He mumbled. She giggled. "But bowling balls usually hurt when thrown you!"
He growled slightly and stared straight at the road and the cars in front of him. "BAKA!"
She gave a startled look on her face and then sat up straight with a smirk on her face. "Mo!"
"Baka!"
"Mo!"
"BAKA!!!"
"MO!!"
"BAKA!!!!!!!!"
"MO!!!!!!!!!"
Back and forth, they wailed on each other for the entire ride, laughing histerically in the process.
He parked in front of the shrine estate, and Kagome was just about ready to leave. But she turned around before shutting the door behind her. "Arigatou InuYasha-kun, I have a lot of fun today, hanging out with you, Sango and Miroku!"
"It was nothing, I'm glad you had fun." He said while his hands still rested on the steering wheel and standard shift-stick. "Inu..Yasha-kun .. Do you wanna just rest? You really look like you're uncomfortable.." She said.
He turned the keys to the ignition and ripped them out and stuck them in his pockets and got out of his car and walked to the trunk with a slight curve to his back now. "I'm alright but I'll stay a little while. I don't have much to do so I guess it wouldn't kill.." He said, and she walked In front of him, leading him to the house itself.
"Hmm… Mom's car isn't here. And Souta's bike isn't here either." Kagome said quietly. InuYasha picked it up though and walked a little faster to meet with her pace despite the slight discomfort.
"So where'd the folks go?" He asked.
They made it up the stairs to the back door. And a heavier familiar voice sliced through the wind from behind the trees. "…….Well, paybacks a bitch ne?"
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Well… Wonder who it is now ne!? .. Hai I ran out of ideas on how to finish, but strangely enough I know what'll happen later. So I finished it the fastest way I could and left a cheesey hang-over… wait .. Oh yeah .. Cliff-hanger… woops ^_^
Look out for Chapter 4, "Clash Of The Brothers, And A Family Dispute" next!!
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