Author's Note: so what's your opinion so far. Feel free to flame but please be gentle
Chapter 2: The Date, the fight, not right!
Souta strutted down the steps and into the kitchen with a puffed out chest "Back already Kagome?" he said proudly "I knew you couldn't last without my brute strength." He stood on tiptoe and breathed in deep to make his chest puff out more to prove his point.
"Yeah" Kagome said slowly, poking him in the stomach and causing him to lose his puffy chest and laugh hysterically "just don't hurt yourself."
"Heading off to school already you two?" Kagome's oka-san said, walking into the kitchen "you're always so punctual."
Kagome and Souta glanced at each other, and then at the clock, which read 8:55! They were already late!
Both scrambled to grab their bags and ran out the door.
"Kagome!" Yuka called as she, Eri, and Ayumi ran to catch up with their friend "Matte"
"Ohayo you three" Kagome said as she stopped to wait for her friends.
"You've been at school a lot lately" Eri said, straightening her yellow hair band.
"Yeah I've been feeling a lot better" Kagome replied with a nervous laugh I wonder how long it will be before Inu Yasha comes to get me? She thought.
"The math test is today" Ayumi said cheerfully "I had so much fun last night studying with my older brother."
Kagome, Yuka, and Eri zoomed back anime style at the weirdness of their tomodachi (friend) "I sure wish I had an older brother" Yuka said "I could just get all the answers from him."
"What do you mean?" Kagome wondered aloud.
"Most of the teachers just give the same tests over again every year because they don't want to get off their lazy asses and make new ones" Yuka explained.
"How do you know that?" Eri asked.
"One of the questions on a science test actually read 'with such scientific advances we may one day set foot on the moon.' And that was the last science test we had two days ago!" Yuka exclaimed.
"I know what you're talking about" Ayumi joined in "the English test we had a week ago actually said 'we now have many new poets such as Edgar Allen Poe!"
The whole group laughed, with the exception of Kagome, who had just realized something "I had no idea how many tests I was missing."
"Well it is exams week" Yuka said with a sigh "the worst few weeks ever!"
"Exams week?" Kagome said without thinking "Inu Yasha will never let me stay that long!"
"Inu who?" Eri asked.
"uh…did I say Inu Yasha?" Kagome stammered "I…uh…m-meant t-to say….um…do ya, yes that's what I meant, do ya know what time it is?"
Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi flashed Kagome queer looks but brushed it off "it's time to go inside before we get detention" Yuka exclaimed suddenly as she looked at her watch.
Thank God Kagome thought as rushed in after her friends.
Soon it was the end of school and the three friends were walking home together. "That test was a killer" Kagome sighed "I hardly knew anything"
"Tell me about it" Yuka agreed "Mr. Yamane never tells us what to study."
"Hey Higurashi!" called a voice from behind.
Cue suitor #1 Kagome thought as she stopped and turned around "hey Houjo" she said, not even looking up.
"You feeling better?" he asked, pressing the break on his bike "I'm seeing you a lot more at school."
"Oh yeah" Kagome smiled "way better."
"Good" Houjo said "then you feel up to a movie this Sunday?"
"Sunday?" Kagome asked.
"Well I would say Saturday but for some reason you always cancel on me if it's on that day" Houjo said with a laugh.
"Well Sunday's good" Kagome said it will give me a reason to stay longer.
"Excellent!" Houjo said "I'll see you then okay?"
"Bye!" Kagome waved as he raced off.
Meanwhile Souta was having troubles of his own.
"Look squirt, we're getting tired of you" a huge child with a burly chest scoffed.
"Then stop looking at me" Souta challenged.
"That's exactly what we mean" the other kid, slightly shorter but even more powerfully built said.
"Yeah we don't exactly like the fact that you keep standing up to us" the first kid said.
"Care to do something about it" Souta said, daring them to make a move.
"Excellent idea kid" the second muscled child said with a smirk.
"Tomorrow, 4:00, this very spot" the first kid said, smirking as well.
"Be there" said the second kid, poking Souta hard in the shoulder as the two of them stalked off.
"What did I just do!" Souta yelled after a few moments, realizing what he had done.
"You sure you don't want anything to eat?" Kagome's oka-san said to Inu Yasha, who was sulking in the living room.
"No thanks" Inu Yasha said, remembering the last time Kagome's mother had offered him food, his tongue was on fire for a week "I won't be here long."
"Don't tell me you and Kagome had another argument" Kagome's oka-san said as she knelt down beside him.
Inu Yasha flashed her a look that seemed to say how did you know?
"Whenever you or Kagome have that look on your face it usually means that you're fighting" Kagome's mother explained.
"Do we fight that often?" Inu Yasha mumbled to himself.
Kagome's mother smiled "I can't wait until you two have kids" she said cheerfully "I wonder if they'll have inu ears like yours"
"K-KIDS?" Inu Yasha said, backing away.
"Well, I suppose the ring has to come first" Kagome's mother agreed "you know the jewellery store is having a sale in a few months you should check it out"
"R-RING?" Inu Yasha said just as exasperatedly.
"Oh you two make such a cute couple" Kagome's mom cooed.
"Whoa whoa" Inu Yasha interrupted "we're not a couple."
"You mean you still haven't admitted it yet?" Kagome's mom said, shocked.
"What's to admit?" Inu Yasha said "there is nothing to admit"
"Oh shy love" Kagome's mom pressed on "Kawaii!"
"How can you possibly think we're in love" Inu Yasha said, weirded out "we're always arguing."
"Well that's always the first step" Kagome's mother explained "but things will speed up soon enough."
"That's it" Inu Yasha said "I'm getting Kagome and we are so out of here."
"See?" Kagome's mother snickered.
Inu Yasha blushed "Shut up you" he said defensively.
"AAAAAAAAHHHH" Souta screamed running into the house.
"What's your problem?" Kagome said, walking in quietly after him.
"I must have a death wish" Souta rambled "I just stood up to the two biggest meanest bullies in my school and now they want to fight me!"
"So fight them" Inu Yasha said.
"What?" Kagome said in shock.
"He's got to learn to stick up for himself." Inu Yasha said.
"But not this way" Kagome argued.
"How else then" Inu Yasha said.
"A non-violent way!" Kagome shouted.
"Dinner time!" Kagome's mother interrupted cheerfully "everyone, come to the table."
Later on, Kagome decided to take one more bath before she and Inu Yasha left. When Kagome finished bathing and had towelled herself dry, she lay on her bed to think. After a few moments of lying in complete silence, she heard a noise. Then it grew louder and louder until it became distinct words. Kagome followed the sound all the way to its origin and found Souta and Inu Yasha talking about Souta's bully predicament.
"I'm so screwed" Souta said with sigh.
"No you're not" Inu Yasha said.
"I'll never be able to beat those bullies" Souta pointed out "they don't have very much in the brain department but someone ordered too many supplies in the brawn department."
"Then just fight them with words" Inu Yasha said "if their really as dumb as you say then a few really mind numbingly hard insults to come back at should do 'em in"
"But their not that dumb" Souta complained.
"Okay then fight them physically" Inu Yasha said simply.
"But Kagome said…" Souta started to argue.
"Who cares what Kagome said" Inu Yasha said "she's a girl, a weak one, and she never has been and never will be in that kind of a fight."
Oh, so now I'm a weak girl? Kagome thought angrily I'll remember that next time it's up to me and my arrows to save his ass.
"Even so" Souta was saying "I could never beat them physically, I'm just too weak"
After a few minutes, Inu Yasha had an idea "I admire you're courage."
"What courage?" Souta said sarcastically.
"Not every guy can admit that he's not the strongest in the world" Inu Yasha said, looking up at the moonlit sky "Heaven knows I have a hard time admitting my own weaknesses even to myself."
"Well that isn't going to defeat those bullies" Souta pointed out.
"Then I will" Inu Yasha said.
"You what?" Souta asked.
"He what?" Kagome asked from where she hid.
"I'll come to your fight tomorrow and help you okay?" Inu Yasha said.
"Really?" Souta said, his eyes lighting up with delight.
"Really" Inu Yasha replied.
"Excellent!" Souta exclaimed "tomorrow, 4:00!"
With that Souta left, smiling broadly and daydreaming of his, or rather Inu Yasha's, victory the following day.
"I cannot believe that little…" Kagome said with visibly growing rage.
Author's Note: thanks for the support guys, don't worry the fluff will be coming soon!
