Chapter Four

At the House

As they walked up the long flight of steps, Inuyasha couldn't help but be impressed that a mere human could walk up and down so many every day. That would explain her nicely toned and almost muscular legs. Inu Yasha wondered why he noticed that, but cleared it off as that he was walking right behind her and all he could see were her calves. He bet if he wanted to, he could look right up that stupid fluency skirt of hers.

Walking up the stairs Kagome noticed that Inuyasha was being very quite. "You still alive there?" she asked worriedly and turned around to face the top of his silver head, dog ears flicking towards her.

"I dunno, I might be, but considering the company, its more likely I died and went to hell." he snorted.

"You're a jerk! You know that? I'm taking you to my house so you can heal from those wounds and you're making fun of me. What kind of person are you?"

"Sorry, you see I guess you could say that my manners and my blood are connected, they're both all over the ground." He replied dryly.

"You know, I think I might have rather been raped by the demons than be insulted by you." She joked dryly, though almost seriously considered exactly how false those words had been.

"That can be arranged. Two ran off before I could kill them, and if I can't find them there are always more like them out there." Inuyasha told her, no joke in his voice.

That shut her up very quickly. 'God of all the people to rescue me why did it have to be him. It could only be worse if Kouga or Hojo did. Kouga because he would lecture me on how 'his woman' should stay out of trouble, and Hojo because he would lecture me on the health risks of being raped.' ("Now Kagome, do you know what S … T … D's are?")

As they came to the front door Kagome opened it and called in "Mom I'm home and we have a visitor."

All of a sudden a woman appeared, as if by magic. It was so sudden that Inuyasha and Kagome nearly had heart attaches. Looking at Inuyasha's state she asked "Honey couldn't your parents afford some cleaner clothes?" at hearing this both teens sweat dropped.

Kagome began to explain "Its not that he can't afford them. See, Inu Yasha here, saved me." she said, and gleamed with evil pride.

"And how so?" she asked.

"Well, when I was walking home from school, a little group of muggers came and tried to hurt me and he came and beat em up. They had knives." she said and pointed to the ever growing blood stain on Inu Yasha's clothing. Then Kagome held her hand to her mouth and giggled. "He saved me." She giggled again. "He's my knight in shining armor." Then she held more high pitched chuckles inside her cupped hands. Inu Yasha's jaw dropped open and was twitching in a way that seemed unnatural.

The intention of Kagome's lies had become far too clear to Inu Yasha now. To try to save her mother from the pain and upset of knowing what actually happened, she told a more … toned down version of reality. And then she just added the last parts to make him turn red. And he was, indeed, reddening.

"Oh. I see. You really should get in less trouble Kagome. It's really not healthy." Kagome looked at her mother in shock and Inuyasha went into a fit of laughter. It was common knowledge around school that Kagome and her crowd never got in trouble. "I mean there won't always be nice young men to come save you. Look at him I bet he never gets in trouble."

Kagome looked like she was about to start twitching and yell at her mother but stopped when she heard an odd noise. Turning around her and her mother saw that Inuyasha had fallen over and was laughing so hard he could barely breathe. The reason for this was that he got in so much trouble that the district administrator, Kaede, had given him a trophy proclaiming that no one else in the district had ever gotten in half as much trouble as him she then had it displayed for the whole school to see.

"Oh dear." Her mother broke Kagome from her line of thought "It looks like he's having a seizure well when he's done bring him in."

Kagome shook her head. Some times her mother was just plain weird. Now was one of those times.

Five minutes later, Inuyasha, with some help, had peeled himself from the ground. As they entered the house, the first thing she noticed was that a drastic change had taken place, this morning there had been comfortable couches, nice chairs, and pretty rugs. Now their were comfortable couches, nice chairs, and pretty rugs; all covered in a layer of plastic.

"Ah mom? Are we redecorating?" asked a very confused Kagome.

"No dear I just don't want blood all over the floor it's such a hard stain to remove."

"Did you do this to the entire house?"

"Of course I did, can't have blood all over any thing."

"But how did you manage it's not a small house and were did all the plastic come from?"

"Oh you know, mothers speed, and besides, you never know when a bloodied young man who can barely stand will come to your house." Mrs. Higurashi told Kagome matter-of-factly. "By the way, dearie," she pointed to Inu Yasha, "could I have your number? I need to call your parents to tell them you're alright. Wouldn't want anyone worrying now."

"Sure." he said. Kagome's mother handed him a nearby pen and paper.

"You know, the next time some one at school tells me that I'm weird, I'm gonna send them here." Inuyasha told her. She was so preoccupied with her mother she had almost forgot he was there.

"And I'll tell them what you really are and then they'll be back to thinking your weird." She jokingly told him. Kagome's mom collected the sheet from Inu Yasha and went upstairs.

Looking over at Inuyasha, she saw that he had taken offense at her comment. Before she could make it right by apologizing, he sneeringly said "Why do you think they would? The pure blood demons can tell that I am half human. Why do you think so many people hate me? Here; let me quote some of the things they tell me when humans aren't around" clearing his thought he continued " 'No one likes a half breed,' some times with the phrase 'you piece of shit you', 'mutt', 'son of a bitch.' I wouldn't mind if my mom was the demon then it would be true. Females dogs are bitches but she was a human, trash it gets old after a while. Let it sit. After years and years of this, it does get old you know what I mean? No doubt that you can't understand. You're in the popular crowd, the crowd who's never in trouble and every one likes."

As Inuyasha finished telling her off him slumped onto a plastic coated chair. Meanwhile, Kagome felt terrible. It was true. People were nice to her and she had no idea what his life was like.

"I'm sorry." she said uncomfortably as she shifted her weight to her left foot.

"Don't be. Just be glad for what you got and pray that in your next life you're not a half-breed."

"Kagome, bring your friend, he's going to stay the night." Mrs. Higurashi called from upstairs.

Beta's Notes: Oh my, a sleepover? That's so dirty! Oh, I hope this doesn't turn limey. Now Billy, if you let them get anywhere near each other, you know that I'm just gonna have to kill you don't you?

Author's notes: Well that was an interesting chapter to write. I'd like to thank my beta Lil'Inu-Yahsa

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Next chapter I plan to bring in Hojo Kouga Jakotsu and Kikyo the name im thinking of is 'Enter the Suitors' their will be plenty of bashing and I all ready have a funny twist planned.