Summary: When Kagome's friends from America comes tostay with her and her family, what will happen to Inu and co.? What will be Inuyasha's wish when they defeat Naroku?
Disclaimer: Due to the fact that I am writing this story on and not making tons of money but a mere 1000$ a year, I do not own Inuyasha and co. But I do own any characters that may come into the story that you do not recognize.
Chapter 1: Meeting the girls
Kagome climbed out of the well and sighed, almost waiting for the bottom to glow blue and Inuyasha to come running up and grab her.
She hoisted her bag up and started to walk toward her house, hearing voices inside, but not really knowing who they belonged to. 'Probably more 'friends' from school' She thought, and continued inside, knowing the only way they would leave was if she were to come in assure them she was okay.
Dropping her bag quietly next to the door, she went through the hallway to the living room, bracing herself to see Hojo and a few girls.
Kagome stepped into the living room and was surprised at what she saw. Her pen pals from New Jersey were sitting on the couch together, talking with her mother.
Starling and Destiny were snacking on ramen and oden and had stopped eating when Kagome walked into the room. Three trunks were next to the furniture and Kagome was thinking when her mother shook her arm.
"Honey, sit down." She said, motioning for a chair nearby.
Starling was wearing tight camouflage pants with a black tank top and a black beret. Her hair was pulled back into two buns in the back of her head, and they were tied with black ribbons. She was wearing slippers that Kagome had never seen before, so she thought Starling must have brought them herself. She did say she had these slippers, simple black satin with a strap around her ankle.
Destiny was dressed the same way, with the tight camouflage pants and a black tank top, except she had a short black jacket on and wasn't wearing a hat but did have her hair pulled into a high ponytail. She also was wearing slippers Kagome had never seen before, but guessed that she had brought them from home. The simple satin with the single band was identical to Starling's, but hers were red.
Kagome looked away from her friends, remembering that she was still in her ripped uniform. No one asked what happened, but they knew because the two girls were the only ones in this time period besides her family who knew.
"Kagome, are you okay?"
Coming back to reality, Kagome realized that Starling had asked her a question.
"It's Inuyasha, isn't it?" Destiny said, and Kagome felt like she had read her mind.
"Yeah, oh guys, why is he so…difficult?" Kagome asked, but got a blank reaction in return. She sighed, then suddenly remembered that they were there in real life and not just talking on the phone or web-ing. "Um, sorry to be so blunt, but what are you doing here?"
Her mother visibly flushed and Kagome began to get suspicious, narrowing her eyes at all three women. Rolling her eyes, Kagome asked, "What? Tell me…"
"Well," Her mum started, "They called while you were away and said they had off and wanted to come see you. So I sent them tickets and here they are."
She finished talking and they could see Kagome feel confused. "So you're here for the break?" She asked, looking toward them and nodding.
"Yeah," Starling said to her friend, "Here for the break."
She seemed sad as she spoke and Kagome knew instantly what was wrong. She was about to say something when Starling spoke again.
"She's fine. Just doesn't want to have to go back home after a week." Destiny said to Kagome and Ms. Higurashi, "But I know what would make her feel better."
"What?" Kagome asked, wanting to see her friend happy.
"To meet Inuyasha and everyone." Starling told her, and they all smiled.
"Okay, okay…" Kagome said, thinking, "How about we go to the feudal era tomorrow? That way you can see Tokyo and I can take a break."
They all agreed and Ms. Higurashi turned to her daughter.
"Kagome, dear, their things and the cots wouldn't fit in your room, so instead I put them in the guest bedroom next to your bathroom. The one adjoining of." She said, waving to the three trunks.
Kagome nodded and told her friends to follow her to their room.
Starling & Starling's Room
"So are we going shopping or what?" Starling said, taking her purse out of a trunk.
Kagome looked around the large guest room. It was painted dark green with a black bedspread and most of the furniture was mahogany wood. Two trunks with the girls name's were on either side of the room and a smaller one was in front of the bed.
"You two have a lot of things." Kagome said to them, motioning to the trunks.
"Well, We didn't know what to bring and what not, so we brought our favorite clothes." They said in unison, and all three girls laughed.
Kagome shook her head, but grabbed her purse out of her bedroom and they walked down the stairs together, ready to go shopping. They walked past the living room but stopped when Mr. Higurashi called them.
"Where are you girls going?" She asked, pausing in her knitting.
Kagome answered. "Just out shopping. Is that okay?"
Ms. Hirgurashi nodded and got up, getting her purse from it's place on a bookshelf. Pulling out her wallet, she tugged a slim silver card out and handed it to Kagome.
"Thanks mum! See you later." Kagome replied, placing the credit card in her own wallet and leading her friends out the door.
The walked out of the shrine and headed toward the bus stop, not wanting to walk. The bus soon pulled up and the three girls got on it, and stood, finding no seats available.
"So Kagome, how much longer until we get to the mall?" Destiny asked a while later, swaying with the bus and trying to check her phone messages.
"Not to much longer," Kagome told her, "but you won't be finding any relief too soon. I think there's traffic."
"Whoa…maybe we should get off…" Destiny told her, "…Starling's got motion sickness and it can get bad."
Kagome glanced at Starling and sure enough she was looking sick and digging through her back, trying to find something but not succeeding.
"Um…Yeah…" Kagome said, and all three went up to the front of the bus, Starling still attempting to find whatever it was she was looking for, "'scuse me?"
The bus driver looked up at her, took in Starling's pale face and asked, "Is your friend okay?"
"No, and we need to get off, either now or very soon." Destiny interrupted, looking coldly at the driver.
"Y-yes ma'am." He said, and immediately turned to the side of the road.
They slid out of the bus and landed on the sidewalk, Starling still digging through her purse.
"Star, what are you looking for?" Kagome finally asked, as they walked down the sidewalk, people passing and giving strange looks toward Starling and Destiny.
"Um…" she said, finally pulling something free and showing them, "my cigarettes and lighter."
Kagome looked at her friend with a shake of her head. "I thought you said you gave it up!" She exclaimed, hitting Starling's shoulder, "You liar!"
Starling gave Kagome a guilty kind of look, then explained, "Well…I tried, I really did, but sometimes I just need it…"
Destiny decided to intervene, "Let's drop it, okay? Kag, I've tried to get her to quit but it's so hard. We can try later."
Starling lit a ciggerete and put the two items away, smoking as they walked.
They got to the mall after little while and went inside. The first store they came to was a Waldenbooks and Starling squealed, running in while Kagome and Destiny stood in front of the store watching their friend rush around the store to where the manga was.
"Haha! I win!" Whispered Starling, kneeling down next to the manga and quickly looking at the titles.
"Star, let's go…" Destiny coaxed, trying to get her twin away from the books and onto the other stores.
"Wait…please, five more minutes…" Starling pleaded, giving puppy eyes but not looking at Destiny.
"Come on, Des, let's leave her here, she can catch up." Kagome said, trying to convince her friend to get up.
"Okay, okay," sighed Starling, "I'm coming."
She stood up and walked to the opening of the store, following her friends with a sad look on her face.
They soon got to Hot Topic and went in.
"What'dya think of this one?" Kagome asked, holding up a short black and red skirt with three chains.
"Me like." Starling and Destiny said in unison.
They soon were in the dressing rooms with armfuls of clothes when a boy stepped out of a dressing room, dressed in baggy black jeans low on his butt, a black t-shirt, and a black bomber jacket. He had shoulder-length brown hair and hazel eyes.
He glanced at Kagome and Destiny, but stared at Starling, even as he passed her and turned his when he left the dressing room.
"Oh my god," She breathed after he left, and they were in the dressing stalls, "He was gorgeous!"
"We know, Star, we have eyes too." Destiny told her twin, rolling the blue eyes both girls shared. Kagome had agreed too, and was now giggling.
"Oh…I like this one…check it out."
Starling and Destiny heard Kagome's door open and they too stepped out.
Kagome was standing in front of her stall wearing a black minidress with two red hearts on the chest. There was a red strap for a belt and it tied at one side.
When she looked at her friends, she saw Destiny in a leather skirt with a hot pink belt and pink happy bunny shirt that read 'you suck' while Starling had a short black pleated skirt with a red tank top and a black studded belt.
"Wow…I like it…" All three said in unison, then laughed and giggled as they went to try another outfit.
"Hey, Star," Kagome asked loud enough for them to hear, "Can you go get me a size six jeans? Of the second pair we picked out."
Starling looked up from where she sat against the wall and agreed because she already had her two outfits and was waiting for the other two.
Putting her bag on a chair in Destiny's dressing room, Starling walked out of the dressing rooms and headed toward the rack they had gotten the jeans off of.
Starling gasped, next to a rack nearby was the boy she had glimpsed in the dressing room. Walking to the rack, she flipped through the jeans and glanced quickly at the sizes.
"2…5…4…7…2…1…8…0!…7…3….8…1….6…6!" She murmured, then pulled out the right ones, turning around to find herself face-to-face with the boy from the dressing rooms.
"Hey." He said, and starling looked at his eyes, smiling.
"Hey." She said, "Um…can I help you with anything?"
"Yeah, you can tell me your name." He said with a lopsided grin, almost making her blush.
"Starling," she said, "Starling Denger."
"Nice, I like it. Names Patsu Jinjurito." He told her, then motioned toward the jeans, "Those'll look good on you."
Now Starling blushed, "Thanks, but these are for my friend Kagome. Maybe you know her? Higurashi Kagome."
He thought for a moment, but shook his head. "Naw, doesn't sound familiar. Where are you from anyway? Starling doesn't sound like a Japanese name."
"It's not, it's Irish-American." Destiny said, coming up behind Patsu.
He whipped around, staring at Destiny with wide eyes.
"You're…" he said, confused.
"She's my twin, Destiny. Destiny, this is Patsu Jinjurito." Starling said, placing a hand on Patsu's arm.
"You look like…" Destiny started, then held out a hand, "…oh, never mind. Nice to meet you."
He smiled and grasped her hand, "Nice to meet you too. Both of you don't sound American, have you lived in Japan your whole life?"
Starling smiled, "No, actually, we aren't living in Japan at all. We're only here to visit with our penpal Kagome, who lives here. We're here for the break."
Destiny looked at her sister and said, "Kagome said we should start moving and get onto the other stores. Because we have to go home around eight or so."
She glanced at the jeans, "Okay, I'll take the jeans into the rooms while you two say good-bye." Grabbing the pants from Starling's arm she said, "Don't forget to give him your number, Star!"
Starling and Patsu blushed, then got our their cell phones and exchanged numbers, talking about family.
"I don't really have family. I live alone with just my friend, Shippou." He said, slipping the phone away.
"Shippou?" Starling said, remembering Kagome's friend who was like her child.
"Yeah, we've been friends forever." Patsu told her, then glanced at his watch, "Oh, man, I gotta get going…I have to pick up Shippou from his class. I'll talk to you, aiight?"
Starling gave him a smile well-known to the boys back home, then turned and hurried back into the dressing room.
She had been planning on talking with Kagome about Shippou, but when she was in the dressing room she gasped at the sight of her friend in a different outfit.
Kagome was wearing tight black leather pants with a dark green tank top and her hair was pulled into a high ponytail.
Biting her lip she asked, "Too much?"
Starling shook her head, "No, beautiful."
Kagome went back into the dressing room and changed, then all three went to the counter to pay for their things, where Kagome pulled the credit card out of her wallet.
"All of this on this," she told the cashier, and when her friends protested, "No, Mum's treating on this one."
They smiled and let her buy the clothes they had chosen.
"So what next?" Destiny asked the other two, picking up her bag and linking arms with Kagome.
Starling got the other arm of Kagome as she said, "Next store, of course."
"KAGOME!"
AN: Haha I gave you a cliffie. Enjoy and review!
