Disclaimer: I don't own Inu-Yasha. I don't even own his roller skates.

CHAPTER 3 Roller-Skating with the Hottie

It was the next day, after I had gotten a severe beating from Kikyo and after the "sad" breakup between her and Hojo. And I must say that it was a fateful, interesting day—one that I won't soon forget. It even caught Kikyo's attention.

You see, that was the day the new kid showed up. And booooooy, was he a hottie! He caught the eyes of every kid in that whole school. The first time I saw him, I almost fainted from shock of how cute he was. His hair was silver, and his eyes were so fine and deep a golden color that I felt I could just melt into them. He also had these cute little dog ears poking out from his hair, which only added to his impressiveness. His name was one that I will never forget for as long as I live—Inu-Yasha.

And there's something else about him, too…he never seems to care about what others look like. He treated everybody the same. He definitely didn't seem to mind that Kikyo had braces like all of the other kids.

I was in a daydream about him for almost the entire day. But, as usual, Kikyo ruined it. At lunch time as I slurped my soup and glanced at Inu-Yasha every once in a while, Kikyo got the guts to approach him. I saw her talking to him, and my stomach lurched. I leaned closer to them so I could hear them better. I still couldn't hear what they were saying. I moved over to a table closer to them, and luckily they didn't notice. My heart went cold from what I heard.

"Hm, so tonight then?" Kikyo said sweetly, smiling a toothy grin as her metal braces reflected light from the fluorescent lights on the ceiling.

"Yup, at four o'clock," Inu-Yasha replied.

God, his voice is so sexy, I thought to myself. I could just melt…

"Are you sure you can find the park, though?" Kikyo asked. "I mean, you just moved it. You may not know your way around enough."

"I'll find it," Inu-Yasha nodded.

I was crushed. I hated Kikyo so much at that moment. How could she just take away my heart like that? The first guy I truly liked, and she confronted him before I had a chance and then took him away! I wanted to cry, knowing it wasn't fair. Instead, I ate my lunch alone at an empty table where I always sat.

Later that day, Kikyo was getting ready to leave. She grabbed her roller skates, so I knew she was planning on going roller-skating with Inu-Yasha. Drat. I thought. I wished there was some way I could stop her, but she didn't know I knew she was going. It's like one of those tongue twisters—she doesn't know that I know that she…never mind.

Anyway, after she left, I sat outside on our front porch and pitied myself. It occurred to me that I might never have a chance with Inu-Yasha again. Then it hit me—why was I sitting there like that! Why should I give into that witch Kikyo! I was sick of getting beat up, and I was tired of being bullied. I decided that I was going to stick up for myself for once. I stood up and began to follow Kikyo to the park, even though I knew she was all ready halfway there at least.

When I was finally halfway there myself, I saw Inu-Yasha on the other side of the street, waving to me. Oh, god! Oh, god! Breathe, I told myself. Inside, I searched frantically for something to say.

"Hey, Kikyo!" he cried.

I froze and cursed to myself. I hated being Kikyo's identical twin—HATED it! He thought that I was that son of a bitch sister of mine! It took a few moments to get the words to tell this to Inu-Yasha.

"No, I'm Kagome. My sister's name is Kikyo," I said plainly.

I couldn't look into Inu-Yasha's eyes.

"Oh," he said, cocking his head, "so you're identical twins? You must be her significant other! Kikyo never told me about a twin…"

I almost barfed just thinking that I was related to Kikyo. "Yeah," I said weakly.

I couldn't tell him the truth…that he was going on a roller-skating with a cruel bitch. He looked closely at me. I held my breath.

"You okay?" he asked me.

I nodded as I noticed his roller skates. They were black with green wheels. Pretty cool.

"Say, can I ask you a question?" Inu-Yasha asked after a moment's silence.

I nodded my head yes dumbly. I couldn't get any words out. Then again, you rarely can when your confronting someone who is a drop-dead cutie.

"I am going roller skating with your sister, Kikyo. I need…er…instructions to get to the park," he admitted.

Kagome pointed ahead. "Just follow this road up a ways. It's to the left."

"Thanks," Inu-Yasha smiled sighs dramatically and drools over the handsome-ness and then added. "Do you wanna go too? I don't think Kikyo would mi—"

"No!" I shouted.

Then I blushed. I knew I had said that a bit loudly and rudely. But if I went, Kikyo would kill me—maybe literally. No matter how much I wanted to go, I knew I couldn't. Or…wait a minute, could I?

I recalled the fact that I didn't want to be controlled by Kikyo. I was tired of being her puppet. I knew what I had to do and smiled.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Sorry, this one's sort of a cliffy. I dunno when I'll have a chance to update after this…hopefully soon. Anyway, how'd it go? Thanks for the reviews. -P I really enjoyed reading them. As a preview of Chapter 4 (wow! I'm all ready that far!), I'll tell you that Kagome will finally start to stick up for herself. (Thank goodness!) But Kikyo is, as always, one step ahead of her, making a daring move on Inu-Yasha. See for yourself:

CHAPTER 4 PREVIEW

As Inu-Yasha walked on to the park with his skates dangling in his left hand, I watched with anticipation. I hid behind trees, cars, and anything I saw as I followed him. The park entrance came into view. Kikyo was waiting impatiently by the "WELCOME TO CLIFFE PARK" sign. But when she saw Inu-Yasha, she put on a fake smile (this time without showing her braces), and she waved with a friendly, I'm-a-sweet-damsel-in-distress gesture. The sight of it disgusted me. It was as unKikyo-ish as you can get. I wished Inu-Yasha would see her true personality, even a glimpse, and come to me and say that he liked…

I shook those thoughts out of my head. I had to stay focused. As far as I knew, the only way Kikyo was going to show Inu-Yasha her nasty, true side was if I was present. And that was the point of my genuine GET-INU-YASHA-AWAY-FROM-KIKYO plan. Operation: commenced.

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Hope you like it! Also, I'm working on my second story, The Home Ec Disasters. I don't really personally like Home Ec class, but the story is hilarious. For one thing, Naroku is the new teacher! In this story, he virtually doesn't exist (for now!) Also, Kagome doesn't "SIT" Inuyasha; she "CRAPS" him. Please read that story, too -)