Disclaimer: I don't own the characters. Sorry, I did have a different idea for this chapter but the race was longer then i though it would be so the next chapter will be called the first touch, Heh, Heh, Heh...sorry, please don't hurt me.

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THANK YOU! animeprinezz, is now my beta reader for this chapter, she started with this chapter, and yes my first language is English, good grief...oh well...

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"Come on Kagome, control yourself." Inuyasha had moved his ears to go almost flat, most likely to keep water out and make him more aerodynamic. 'Grab the ore, not my ears.'

Kagome almost had herself under control until a voice from another boat made Inuyasha's ears stand back up.

"Hey Mutt, surprised to see me?"

Inuyasha smirked, "I could smell you a mile away."

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Chapter 5

"Is that so dog face," Kouga said, quickly losing his cool. "Well I guess that's a good thing, seeing as how if you get lost on the lake you can just follow my scent all the way to the finish line."

"When I win this race, I'll make you eat your words, ya wimpy wolf!" Inuyasha gave Kouga one last growl before returning his attention back to the race at hand.

Kagome let out a small sigh. 'Can anyone say anger management? Hey…were did my ore go? …Oh shit'

"STAY IN YOUR OWN BOAT!" Kagome thoughts were interrupted by shouting coming from 3 boats to the left (Kouga's boat is on the right).

"PERVERT!"

"OUCH! Sango, there's no need to get violent!"

"Miroku! Get out, get out, GET OUT!" Sango gave Miroku a strong hit in the head with her paddle, which sent him flying into his own boat.

"Uh, hey, Miroku" Maryum bent down to whisper into his ear, "If you like, I can switch with Sango!"

Miroku grabbed Maryum's hand and bent down on one knee "You, Maryum, are truly an angel! Thank you so much for allowing me this perfect chance to spend valuable time with Sango."

Sango's left eye began to twitch when she heard what they had said. "Miroku..." Miroku turned to see a sweetly smiling Sango looking down on him with arms wide open.

Miroku returned her smile. 'I knew she would come around, it was only a matter of time befor...' Sango's fist came crashing down on Miroku's head.

"Stop trying to trade! …And wipe that twisted smile off your face!"

Miroku brushed himself off and smiled sweetly at Sango "I don't know why you fight it Sango."

Sango lunged at Miroku, but Zack grabbed her around the waist and was holding her off the ground as she kicked the air trying to get as close as possible to Miroku's face.

"Sango!" Kagome could see that Zack was having trouble holding on to the apparently very enraged girl. She stood up and began to get out of the boat. Unfortunately she tripped on her not-so-lost-anymore ore, 'crap!' She closed her eyes and braced herself, waiting for the impact, but it never came.

'What in the world...' Kagome looked behind her to see two golden eyes looking down on her.

Inuyasha had noticed the girl getting out of the boat, and he had seen the ore. He had been to enough of Kagome's gym classes to know that it spelled doom. He grabbed her waist when she was just about two feet from the ground.

"Uh...thanks." Kagome turned her face back to the ground; she didn't want Inuyasha to see her blushing, the very fact that his arms were around her waist was enough to make her redder by the second.

"You should be move careful, you know." Inuyasha straightened the girl back up."I need you."

Kagome's eyes shot wide open and she slowly turned around to face the half- demon. 'Did he just say he needed me?' "You…you need me?"

"Yeah stupid, I can't win this race with only one person, so stop being such a klutz."

Kagome was starting to turn red, not of embarrassment, but out of anger. 'I can't believe he is going on like this! He is so rude! He has NO manners whatsoever!'

"I knew you would trip over that ore seeing as how I've seen you enough in gym class to kno-HEY!"

Inuyasha's words were cut short by a large rock that landed on his head; he was now in a squatting position holding his head.

"THATS IT! What's wrong with you! Don't you have any manners or know at least one nice word in that thick skull of yours!"

Inuyasha just looked up at Kagome dumbfounded, no one had ever done that to him before! Well, maybe his brother, but no one from school, let alone a GIRL!

"And to think! Even though everyone told me you were a jerk! I thought that you would at least have one nice bone in your body!"

Inuyasha wanted to hear more, he was started to get interested in what the girl thought about him and about what other people have said. Sure, when he was around everyone was nice and friendly, but, he new that they were fake. That was why he kept himself away from other people; he wanted real friends. He glanced at Kikyo. 'She's fake too, they only see what they want to see in me, not who I really am; they want to change me.' He put his head back down. He knew that Kikyo wanted to go out with him, he just acted like he didn't understand what she was hinting at 'I want someone real, but would someone like that even exist?' He looked back at Kikyo and noticed that her face was in shock, when he turned to look at the boy in the boat with her, he was looking in the same direction as well. In fact, everyone was now looking in the same direction.

Inuyasha glanced up at what the others were looking at to find to fiery brown eyes about a foot from his own. Inuyasha jumped and crawled backwards until he hit the front of the boat. 'She's still going on!' Looking around, he realized that everyone was staring at Kagome, even Kouga had a shocked face.

"AND ANOTHER THING YO-" Inuyasha jumped up and covered her mouth with his hand.

"Uh, Kagome…"

'He said my name,' she thought, as she forgot the reason why his hand was covering her mouth.

Suddenly he leaned in to whisper something into her ear, "I think you made your point," and he removed his hand from her face.

'What is he talking about?' Kagome suddenly had the feeling that she was being watched.

She turned her head and noticed that everyone in the area was staring at her, even Sango had stopped fighting to listen.

'This is not good.' "Heh, Heh, Heh, Heh, Heh..." Kagome rubbed the back of her neck, while her left eye twitched.

"That's enough fighting for one day!" Mr. Bans broke the silence. "Will everyone please report to the boats!" He glanced at Miroku, "Their OWN boats!"

Kagome grabbed her ore and sat in the back of the boat while Inuyasha picked up his too. (A.N.- In a boat, there is one person that sits in the back, facing the front, with their ore in the water. By moving the ore right or left, they can steer, where as the other person has their back to the front of the boat. That person paddles and trusts that the one steering doesn't go into a rock.)

Mr. Bans was in a boat out on the water with the female teacher, who was suspected to have come from Caledonia by the looks of her sweater. "All right kids! My name is Miss Summer, anyone who is not racing please stay on the grass so you don't get mowed down by the racers. Now the people that are racing, you must row out to me, turn around, then row back to the beach. The last four groups are on clean-up duty; however, the winning couple from each school is free for the entire time we're here!"

Miss Summer looked to each of the boats, making sure they were ready. "Alright, on the count of 3, 1...2...3!"

Kagome was almost knocked out of the boat because of the speed Inuyasha was going. She was also having trouble steering the boat because of the fast current they were creating. 'Come on Kagome, you can do this.' They were almost at the turn when she heard a voice coming up from beside her.

"Not bad for a mangy mutt!" Kouga was now right beside Inuyasha, matching him stroke for stroke.

"You ain't seen anything yet!" And with a grin, Inuyasha practically doubled his speed.

'No dog shows me up!' And Kouga sped up as well to match Inuyasha.

"That's it, enough of this!" With another burst of speed, Inuyasha left Kouga to eat his dust.

"AHHHHHHHH!" With a yell, Kouga caught up.

While the two males fought it out, Kagome looked behind her. "STOP!"

Inuyasha was caught off guard, which made Kouga gain a large lead. "What was that for! You scared me half to death, I thought something happened to you!"

"Look where we are! We passed the turning point!"

"Oh"

"OH! OH! Get your butt in gear and move it!" Inuyasha quickly rowed while Kagome turned the boat. They quickly headed full speed ahead and managed to come in first place.

Sango and Zack got second, and Miroku came in sixth: he would have gotten third, but he pretended to fall so he could get a touch. (It's hard to row a boat when you have a large headache from getting hit on the head with an ore.)

Kouga, to Inuyasha's great joy, came in fifteenth place. He would have come in last, but Kikyo had steered Hojo and herself into a rock.

After all of the teams were back on the beach and Hojo and Kikyo were rescued, a man around 50 went up to the flagpole and called out to all the students. "Good Job everyone, thank you to those of you that took place in the race, and to those that cheered on your school. I'm the PE teacher from Adam High, my name is Mr. Stevens."

Mr. Bans, Miss. Summer and the fourth teacher from Ian Foresight went up to join Mr. Stevens on the hill. Mr. Bans read out loud the results on the race.

"First place goes to Inuyasha and Kagome. They almost blew it though, didn't they?" Inuyasha glared at Mr. Bans, but his look was nothing compared to the one Kikyo was giving Kagome.

Mr. Bans then proceeded to read out the rest of the results:

2- Sango & Zack

3- Brad & Jenn - Caledonia

4- Jamie & Karen- Adam high

5- Tony & Lori- Adam high

6- Miroku & Maryum

7- Katie & Kurt- Ian Foresight

8- Sean & Rachelle- Ian Foresight

9- Steven & Mimi- Caledonia

10- Mark & Katlyn- Caledonia

11- Josh & Jessica- Adam High

12- Dustin & Shawntelle- Ian Foresight

13- Jack & Erin- Adam High

14- Joey & Terri- Ian Foresight

15- Kouga & Ayame- Caledonia

16- Hojo & Kikyo

"Remember the rules!" Mr. Bans waved for the top groups of every school to come forward to the center. "You will have no cleaning duty for the week, but as for the last four couples, head to the kitchen to get ready."

Inuyasha gave Kouga a half smile and a little wink. "You're not half bad," Inuyasha turned to Kagome, who was still standing next to him from the announcement.

'I guess this race wasn't that bad after all,' Kagome thought as she smiled to herself.

"For a wench, that is."

Kagome was about to go on another rampage, but Sango grabbed her arm and led her away. "Calm down Kagome, you don't want to make another scene, do you?"

The memories from the beginning of the race flashed in her mind. "You're right Sango. Thanks, I owe you one."

"No, now we're even." Sango and Kagome walked up the hill to the girl's cabin so they could change their clothes.

"You know Sango, it wouldn't kill him to say something nice or to show an emotion besides anger."

Sango just laughed at her friend "That's just how guys are, all they care about is their video games and looks, oh and not showing face."

Kagome stopped in her tracks as Sango kept going up to the cabin. 'Wait a min, when we were in the boat...'

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"What was that for! You scared me half to death! I though something happened to you!"

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'He was scared something happened to me...'

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hmmmmmmm, interesting will Kikyo take this well or does she have a plan? What's in store for Kagome? What's in store for the ears?

All this and more next time