A/N: Chapter four already. Jeez, I think I'm a typing robot or something. I'm probably going to have major wrist problems when I get older.. Congrats to KittyMay, Eyes of Jade, animefreak-superfreak, RayneWolf, Sesshoumarugal, Theconfusedone for reviewing! I love you guys! Now when Eyes of Jade reviewed, I saw that she pointed out that Inuyasha changed his attitude pretty quickly after the make over. I realised that when I typed that part in the story. All I have to say is I did that on purpose, and there's more than what meets the eye with Inuyasha...
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters. Rumiko Takahashi does.
Chapter: News flash
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"Inuyasha? Are you okay!" Inuyasha turned to see his mother rushing up to him. He smiled, putting his bloodied hands behind his back. "Yeah, fine."
"What happened to you? You look.. look.." Izayoi was at a loss of words like Kagura had been.
"Amazing?"
Izayoi nodded. "Hai, amazing."
Inuyasha smiled and began leading his mother back to the shrine home. "It's a long story.. I'll explain later."
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"Well Inuyasha, I just hope this new look for you doesn't interfere with your grades and doing homework." Izayoi said after Inuyasha explained what had gone on in the past view hours.
Inuyasha shook his head. "It won't mama. I promise. I only did this so Kagome would work on the project. Once it's over, I'll be back to my old odd looking self before you know it."
"If that's what makes you happy dear." Izayoi sipped some tea. "You don't have to do anything if you don't want to Inuyasha. It's all up to you."
"I know, I know." Inuyasha yawned alittle then stretched. "Boy am I tired."
"Then go to sleep. You have a busy day tomorrow with school and all." Izayoi offered a smile to her son. Inuyasha put on a fake smile. Without thinking, Inuyasha had just lied to his mother. It seemed the new look was interefering with his school. If it wasn't, he really would be going to school tomorrow, and not shopping. Not wanting to lie more then he had to, Inuyasha excused himself saying he was going off to bed, and quickly raced to his room.
'This make over is more complicated then it looks.' Inuyasha yawned again as he closed the door to his room. Since he was nine or ten, his room had always looked, well, dorky as Kouga would say. He had pictures of famous mathmaticians, little air planes hanging off his roof, even race car bed sheets. Inuyasha wasn't the decorating type, that explained why his room looked excactly the same as it had so many years ago.
To tired for a shower, Inuyasha just stripped out of his clothes and into his new silk bowers, courtesy of Yura. Yura sure had done alot of things for Inuyasha, and it didn't cost him a thing. He felt like he should repay the genius somehow, but what could he give a girl who had everything in the world already?
'I hate when I over think things. It gives me a headache. Oh well, I can think about this tomorrow, when my head's on better.' As he rubbed his eyes, Inuyasha tripped over his feet and landed softly in his bed. Not needing to think twice, he closed his eyes and waited for sleep to over take him.
Dream Sequence
A little boy was smugly walking down a sidewalk. His knuckles were bloody, and his lip was slightly swollen, but his eye's glinted with danger. 'Humans are so easy to fight.' He thought to himself. 'One punch and their all down. Serves them right for thinking they could beat this Inuyasha.' Inuyasha chuckled to himself as he wiped the blood from his knuckles on a bush beside him.
His ears suddenly picked up on the sound of siren's from a few ambulances. He stopped and watched the red and white cars speed down the road and to the direction he was currently going to. 'Are they going to my home?' Inuyasha, using his demon speed, began chasing the ambulances down the road. Sure enough, the cars had been going to his house.
A yellow caution tape was wrapped around his home. Several neighbours were crowding his view of what ever was going on. "Let me through you idiots!" Inuyasha yelled as he tried to claw his way through the crowd. "I have to.."
"Inuyasha! Inuyasha! Let me see my boy!" Inuyasha stopped moving as his mother ran over to him and hugged him tightly. Like a stream of water, Izayoi's tears began to soak the half demon's black silk shirt. "Mama.. what's wrong? Why is everyone here?"
"Inuyasha," Izayoi cried. "There's been a accident."
Inuyasha lepted up from his sleeping position. He was gripping the sheet's of his bed to his chest, his heart beating like a wild animal. A thin sheet of sweat was covering his body. He was shaking alittle, but he seemed more shook then he really was. "A... a nightmare? Had to be." Inuyasha whispered to himself. Causing him to jump again, his alarm clock went off. It only felt like he had just fallen asleep.
Either way he decided he should get up anyway. Who knew how much strenth the boy would need for shopping. Shopping. Inuyasha wasn't one for shopping. He usually let his mother do that for him. Malls, shops, that wasn't the place for him. But with his new look, maybe he could learn to handle shopping.
Inuyasha pushed the blankets away from him, and began walking to his shower. Suddenly, he heard the curtains of his window's ruslting. That was funny, he hadn't left the window open. Inuyasha turned around sleepily only to see a head full of raven tresses sticking out of the curtains. Azure eyes looked into his amber ones, scaring him half to death. "Ka.. Kagome! What are you doing here!"
"Keep it down would you?" Kagome hissed in a whisper. "Do you want to wake up your mother and have her find me and you alone, with you pracically naked in your room! Jeez.." Inuyasha stared at Kagome, then looked down at his naked chest. He flushed a shade of light pink and quickly wrapped a blanket around himself. "Well can't you tell someone your going to break into their house before they wake up!" Inuyasha whispered.
"I'm not breaking in, the window was unlocked." Kagome let the rest of her body thump lightly on the floor in a mess. "What did you want me to do, knock on your front door? If you haven't forgotten, were skipping school to go shopping! And I know your mother must be the type to think her darling boy is a perfect angel."
"I am a angel." Inuyasha argued back.
"Correction, were an angel. You can't be an angel anymore with your new look. You're going to be the underworld prince when I'm finished. And because I'm your wife, that makes me the underworld princess!" Kagome smiled as she stood up.
Inuyasha sighed alitte. It wasn't every day a girl climbed a two story house to get into his room. Kind of flattering in a weird kind of sense. "Oh! And look what Yura gave me!" Kagome held out a duffle bag to Inuyasha. "Black pants, white shirts, air force one shoes, and new contact's for you to put in." Inuyasha stared at all the stuff Kagome put on his bed. It seemed Yura was going over board on him. "Oh and before I forget this," Kagome turned to face Inuyasha. "nice room."
Inuyasha blushed another shade of pink. He bet that Kagome's room was probably the size of his whole house. Full of new, nice things, while his room was stuck in the ninties. "Uh.. um.." He couldn't find the right words to redeem himself.
"Forget it. Take these, have a shower, put it on, and we'll leave." Kagome pushed all of his new things in one hand because the other hand was holding his blanket around himself. "And you do know how to put in your contatcs, don't you?" Inuyasha nodded. "Hai." Inuyasha sighed alittle and took all his things into his bathroom, turing the water on for his shower and hopping in.
Kagome stared around him room while Inuyasha was in the shower. It looked like her younger brother Souta's room. 'I think we'll have to make over his room next. I can't believe I'm doing all this just for some silly project we haven't even started yet. Well we will start in today, but that doesn't count.' Kagome sighed. 'I wouldn't do this for anyone else. What makes Inuyasha so special? And I wonder if Kouga know's what's going on. The look in his eyes yesterday were unreadable.' Kagome shook her head. 'I hate when I over think things. It makes my head hurt.'
Kagome turned her head when she heard the water to the shower turn off. After another ten minutes Inuyasha came out wearing everything Kagome had given him. It shocked Kagome once again, how hot Inuyasha could look. 'You'd never imagine.' Kagome told herself.
"Are you staring hard because something's wrong or...?" Inuyasha looked down at his shirt and began adjusting it.
Kagome shook her head. "No, your fine. Uh.. we should go before your mother wakes." Kagome picked up the duffle bag and threw it over her shoulder. Inuyasha nodded and began to walk out of his room, Kagome following behind.
Inuyasha and Kagome were dead silent as they walked down the halls, Inuyasha leading. He led her down the steps that creaked whenever Kagome walked on them. 'I think this is a sign that I'm getting fat.' Kagome thought angrly to herself. Inuyasha turned around and held a finger to his lips. Kagome mouthed 'I'm trying to.' The two continued down the steps.
Inuyasha walked into the kitchen and put some toast in the toaster. "What are you doing!" Kagome hissed quietly. She glanced around the medium sized kitchen for any sign of life other then them.
"If I leave the house without eating toast, my mom will know something's up." Inuyasha replied. He watched the toaster like watching it would help the toast fly out faster.
"Hey, do you hear that?" Kagome whispered, tugging on Inuyasha's shirt.
"Hear wha.." Inuyasha stopped to listen and heard the soft humming of his mother. It sounded like she was coming down the stairs. "Crap! My mom's up!" Inuyasha cursed, turning to Kagome.
"What? Oh god!" Kagome turned her head and heard the creaking of the stairs.
"Quick! In here!" Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's arms and pushed her hard into a wooden spice closet. Kagome yelped alittle as the door slammed in her face. Her back hit some spices, but she was determined to keep quiet.
"Inuyasha! You're up early!" Kagome heard Izayoi say as she entered the kitchen. Through the crack of the door, Kagome could see the shaky smile Inuyasha had on his face. "Hai, I.. know."
"Oh, where'd you get those clothes Inuyasha? I didn't see you with them yesterday." Izayoi walked past Inuyasha and next to the fridge that was right next to the closet Kagome was in. Kagome inhaled a sharp breath.
"Would you believe the tooth fairy got a bonus?" Izayoi laughed at her son. Inuyasha eyes shifted to the cloest then her mother. 'I have to get Kagome out of here.. But how?'
"Uh.. um.. Oh! Mom can you get my back pack from upstairs? Please?"
Izayoi closed the fridge and nodded. "Sure thing honey." Inuyasha let out a relieved sigh as his mother walked up the stairs to his room. "Kagome, come out!" He whispered.
Kagome practically jumped out of the closet. "I nearly got high from the spices!" Kagome coughed out.
"Go out the front door to the right and I'll meet you out, okay?" Kagome nodded and quickly opened the door, and closed it silently shut.
"It's not up here honey!" Izayoi called from upstairs.
"Oh, um, I left the bag at school. Sorry. I have to go or I'll be late! Bye mom." Inuyasha ran out of the kitchen and raced outside before he heard his mother answer. 'That was close.' He told himself. 'Hopefully fun at the malls wil be alot easier.'
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Now yesterday he had thought all of the houses were huge, now compared to the malls, they were nothing. Inuyasha had his face pressed to the glass of Kagome's BMW, eye's wide with excitment. He could see the water slides in the back of the malls, the large in a shape of a $ pool. Balloons were shooting from the roof. It felt like he was in an amusement park.
"I just want you to know, this place is like school." Kagome said while eying Inuyasha from the corner of her eye. "If people find out you're not from here, you'll be eaten alive. Trust me."
Inuyasha nodded, not paying complete attention to the words that were coming out of Kagome's mouth. "Mmmhmm." He muttered. Kagome rolled her eyes and found a parking spot in the one of the large mall's parking lot. Inuyasha ripped his seatbelt off and jumped out of the car faster then Kagome.
"Calm down would you?" Kagome put the keys in a purse she had in her car. She grabbed a different duffle bag and draped it over her shoulder's smiling. Inuyasha waited for Kagome at the front doors. "Ready?" She asked.
"Oh yeah!"
Mean while at school
"He didn't come to school today!" Ayame yelled at the poor old sectary. When she had went over to the Masaharu home, Izayoi told Ayame he had already left. But when she arrived to school, his scent was no where to be found. It was bad enough that he had made her get the text book for nothing yesterday, but now he had skipped today? What was happening to her best friend?
"A girl called in sick for him." The sectary Ipo said.
"A girl? Did anyone else call in sick?" Ayame asked irrarated.
"Yes miss Kagome Higurashi. Funny how their both sick ne?" Ipo asked while shuffling some paper's.
"Yeah, funny indeed." Ayame said suspiciously. 'I bet Kagome has something to do with this, and I'm going to find why and how.'
Back at the mall
"How about these jeans?" Kagome held up the tenth pair of jeans in the last hour. The jeans she was holding up now were loose looking, even if a belt was put around it. The colour was navy blue but as it went down it became a lighter blue.
"If you like it, it's good enough for me." Inuyasha replied from his seat in a large black leather arm chair. "Whatever else you pick out will be fine with me."
"Anything?" Kagome asked while rumaging through some clothes.
"Anything." Inuyasha agreed. His head hurt from all the yes's and sure's he had said. Kagome had good taste when it came to clothes with him. Most she picked out were fine with him. The rest were great.
"How about this little number?" Kagome turned to face Inuyasha holding up a pink thong. It had laces sticking out the sides, with lips in a form of a kiss on the front. A little white doggy was on the inside.
"Maybe for someone looking for a good time." Inuyasha sharp tounge answered. "Not for me."
"Yeah your right. Kikyo would just love this." Kagome put the thing down and gestured for Inuyasha to follow her to the cash register.
"Kikyo? Is she another friend of your's?" Inuyasha asked innocently.
"No! Never!" Kagome yelled as she threw the clothes down on the counter.
Inuyasha winced at the high volume of her voice. "Ok, jeez. I was just asking." Kagome sighed alittle and nodded. "I know. It's just... never mind." Inuyasha dropped the subject immediately, not wanting to get yelled at again. The two waited for the casier to ring up the price. The ten jeans, eight tops, five hats, and six different pair of shoes added up to $1067.
Inuyasha's mouth dropped. '$1067? That's way too much for anyone to be paying for me!' "Kagome I.."
"Just let me pay and then we'll find something to eat, okay?" Kagome put her credit card through and pushed the numbers in. She grabbed all the bags for the clothes and began walking out of the store with Inuyasha following close behind. "Then atleast let me carry the bags for you would ya?" Kagome gladly handed the bags to Inuyasha. She felt like her wrists were going to break.
Kagome led Inuyasha over to a food court where they ordered burgers and sat down in a deserted table. Inuyasha watched Kagome unroll the wrapping on the burger. Kagome was about to take a bite of her cheese sandwich, but stopped when caught site of Inuyasha staring. "What!"
Inuyasha laughed alittle but shook his head. "Nothing. It's just.. you don't seem the type to eat a burger. More like some fancy food."
"For information Mr. I-judge-people-by-the-way-they-look, I wasn't always the rich kid you see before you." Kagome took a large bite out of her ordered food.
"You weren't?" Inuyasha asked as he dropped the bags of clothes and began to eat his own food.
"Nope. Up 'til I was eight, I was poor. Dead poor. Funny huh?" Kagome took another bite after shollowing her other bite.
"Well up 'til I was nine I was rich." Inuyasha wiped his mouth.
"You were?" Kagome nearly choked on her burger.
"Now who's Mrs. I-judge-people-by-the-way-they-look? And yes I was." Inuyasha took the last bite of his burger and took a sip of his 7up pop.
"Wow... How come? Was your mother rich or something." Kagome ate the last of her food. "Oh sorry. I don't mean to pry or anything."
"S'ok." Inuyasha leaned back in his seat. "No my mother wasn't the rich one. My father was."
"Your father?"
"Yeah he.."
"INUYASHA! THERE YOU ARE!" Inuyasha winced. He had known enough sense to not lie to his mother, but even more to not keep secrets from his best friend Ayame. Inuyasha looked past Kagome and saw the red head demon stomping her way up to him. "Oh no.." Kagome stare confused at Inuyasha, then turned around. "Hey, isn't that your friend Ayame?" Inuyasha nodded. "'Fraid so."
"Did you think you could hide from me? Huh? Huh!" Ayame made her way next to Kagome. Her fists were clentched to her sides, and her teeth were gritted.
"I.. I wasn't trying to hide it from you! I just.."
"First you ditch me at school for a make over, then you go and skip school all together? What, are you becoming one of them!" All three of them new who she was directing her comment to. Kagome and her friends. But Kagome stayed silent, not saying a word. She wasn't even sure if Ayame could see her at the moment.
"Does Ms.Masaharu know you're here?" Ayame demanded.
"Well.. um.."
"No right? What is wrong with you! You've changed Inuyasha! I.. I don't think I like it." Inuyasha could see tear's starting to show in his best friend's eyes. Now he felt really bad. He hated when girls cried, especially because of him. "Ayame.."
"You know what? Forget it. I'm out of here!" Ayame turned around and began running away.
Kagome watched Ayame go, then turned to Inuyasha. "What are you waiting for! Go after her!" Kagome yelled in his face.
"But.."
"Go! Make over's, money, clothes, it all come's and goes. But best friend's stay forever." Inuyasha looked into Kagome's blue eyes and nodded. "Okay." He stood from his seat and dashed past Kagome calling out Ayame's name.
Inuyasha followed Ayame scent until the two were outside. "Ayame! Ayame wait!" Inuyasha waved toward the pissed girl. Ayame turned alittle but gave Inuyasha the silent treatment.
"Ayame, why are you so angry?" Inuyasha huffed as he stood infront of her.
"Why? Why! I'll tell you why Inuyasha! It's because of your lying!" Ayame yelled, her anger starting up again.
"I.. I only lied twice."
"Only! Inuyasha, this make over is.. changing you!" Ayame kept her hands to her side, afraid she would do something she would regret.
"Changing me? I lied twice, wow. Gods Ayame, call the police or something." Now Inuyasha was getting angry. "Anyone can lie. Hell, you lie! What's the difference if I lie too?"
"Because Inuyasha! You are a angel. Angel's don't lie, they don't swear, they don't ditch school. Inuyasha, you don't do those things." Ayame quieted her voice alittle.
"Correction Ayame, that was the old me. I'm happy for you about everything you do. When you get A's on a test, win first place in track. And now I get a make over, feel better about myself and you can't be happy for me for once? News flash Ayame, the whole fucking world doesn't revolve around you!" Inuyasha was glad to get that off his chest. He knew he shouldn't have used those excact words, but he did. And he was sort of happy about it.
Ayame's had sudden rose from it's place to her side and slapped Inuyasha across the face. Inuyasha was shocked. Never had Ayame done anything like this. What the hell was wrong with her Inuyasha wondered. "No Inuyasha, new's flash to you. You think you can go around and forget who you are with a change of clothes? You think you can change the way you think with contacts in? News flash Inuyasha, that's not how the human body works." Tears spilled over Ayame's cheeks as she spoke. "Inuyasha, I want you to take a look at reality and see how far you are from reaching where I stand."
Inuyasha took his hand and put it on his red cheek. The two stared at eachother in silence. Ayame's eyes were buring with fire, and over flowing with tears. Ayame shook her head violently, then turned around quickly and walked away. Down the road, and out of his view.
Inuyasha stared ahead. Was new clothes and a look worth losing a best friend? Or was losing a best friend worth new clothes and a look? "I don't need her." Inuyasha told himself. "I never needed her. I'll be fine the way I am, without her. If she can't be happy for me for just one little thing then to hell with her. It's not like she's my life line anyway."
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Inuyasha just got his new look and already he lost his best friend. Seems his personality has changed alot. But it will all make sense in later chapters, believe me. I hope you all enjoy this chapter, I did! School's tomorrow so I might be busy and not able to write the next chapter. But who knows. Please, please review because it makes me happy! Til then...
Yume-Chan!