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In this chappie I'm going to go back to the comedy side of this story a bit. This chapter is so completely random…Words simply fail me, that's how random it is. Oh, and the title, please note that I say DAY, not NIGHT.

Disclaimer: To own…or not to own…that is the question. I OWN IT! I OWN IT ALL! Heh he heh.

Lawyer: You are lying.

Me: No I'm not.

Lawyer: Yes you are. Your brain waves say so.

Me: grumbletraitorsgrumble

Inuyasha: Ha ha!

Me: You know, I could always just keep you and Kagome separated…

Inuyasha & Kagome: Noooooooooooo!

Me: Then SHUT UP!

Inuyasha: You're mean.

Kagome: SIT!

Inuyasha: What was that for!

Kagome: For antagonizing the author.

Me: Yay! Save the little people! Say 'yes' to corn on the cob!

Lawyer, Inuyasha, & Kagome: sweat drop.

Oh yeah, and I don't own any of the songs in here either. And I'd like to attribute the cow idea to a very good friend of mine. If you ever read this, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! PWALE-POWER! YEAH!

Normal POV

Chapter 7

Dance Day, Dooms Day.

Or…

Preparations II

The morning of the dreaded day dawned bleak and grey, mirroring the emotions of the people who awoke early to see the darkish light finally break through the silver linings in the clouds to illuminate the earth. The silver linings of which I speak of, however, are not happy ones.

"And so it begins." Jenny muttered out loud to herself. She was staring out the kitchen window in the Higurashi Shrine. She wasn't looking at the sky or the city, instead she was looking at the lone girl who was sitting high in the branches of Goshinboku. How Kagome had gotten up there in the first place without Inuyasha there to carry her up was anyone's guess, but there she was all the same. Kagome was staring at the sky, but she wasn't really seeing it. Instead she was thinking.

'Am I ready?' Kagome asked herself, her brow furrowing in her frustration. 'Am I ready to go to the dance, am I ready to sing in front of all those people, am I ready to let those people judge me? Am I ready to say good bye to…' Kagome swallowed, hard. No matter what she would not allow herself to think or say his name today. 'I have to remain strong. Besides, HE doesn't even love you, he loves Kikyo, so get a grip on yourself!' As Kagome remembered Kikyo, she also remembered that complete feeling she had gotten in her sleep a while back. She had felt…whole, ever since then, and she couldn't shake the feeling that something had happened to Kikyo. Like she had died. 'Maybe HE went to hell with her…' Kagome wondered, then she realized that she was breaking her promise to herself, and tried to stop thinking about it. The dance proved to be a very distracting subject, so she focused all of her attention on that. 'Let's see...Since the theme of the dance is going to be Western past culture, the new curator said that we should do disco songs…so we're singing…well, I'm singing… Dancing Queen, Funkytown, I Will Survive, and then for a finale I'm singing Into The West.' Kagome nodded her head in confirmation. 'Now, lets see. The dance committee didn't think that that would be enough, so the boys are singing Oops Upside Your Head, Celebration, and the Hustle. Then Jenny is doing I Love The Nightlife, Flashback, Knock On Wood, I Need Your Lovin', and all of them are doing Car Wash. Speaking of Car Wash, I wonder why they forbid me to sing or even play an instrument in that one…And in Flashback. Sentimental reasons, they said…but what could be so sentimental about those songs. Flashback seems a tad bit special, sure. But Car Wash? It's about working at a car wash, for crying out loud! I just don't get them.' Kagome shook her head again. 'They just get into the craziest stunts! All of them! Like yesterday, when the police came because one of the neighbors was complaining about the noise…'

Flashback

They were all laughing as KK and Blake were playing around with the speakers and the drum sets when there was a heavy knocking on the door. Despite their previous experience, they had all agreed that it would probably be safer if Kagome opened the doors from then on. She opened it and found several surly looking hulking police officers standing at her front door and glaring heavily out from under their bushy eyebrows.

"Sorry to bother you, but we've got some complaints. Mind if we take a look around?" One of the officers had asked.

"Now, now!" Jenny came up behind Kagome. "We all know that that's no cause to—Why! If it isn't our good friends Suguru and Tadashi!" She pushed past Kagome and opened her arms wide as if to hug the two men. Suguru and Tadashi paled considerably and took off running in the opposite direction of the shrine, screaming something about Armageddon being close at hand.

"Man. Jenny…" Blake said, coming up behind the two girls who were staring after the police officers with odd expressions. Kagome's one of bemusement, Jenny's one of hurt. "Is there any country left where you haven't terrorized the police force?" Jenny seemed to consider the question and pondered for a moment before answering.

"Greenland?" She asked.

"…."

"…."

"Do they even have a police force?" KK asked, coming to the door to see what everyone was making such a fuss about.

"Do they even have a GOVERNMENT?" Blake asked in return. No one knew so they went back inside and kept messing around in the basement. And no matter how many times that neighbor called the police, they would not come.

End Flashback

Kagome sighed. 'They are really weird.' She thought. 'And I'm not sure if they're weird in a good way or weird in a bad way. But I doubt they could do anything weirder then what they already have done...'

How wrong she was…

Feudal Era

"Come on, Inu!" Mario caroled as he entered the clearing in the middle of Inuyasha's Forest where the Bone Eater's Well sat. Sure enough, there was Inuyasha himself, lounging on the corner of the well and peering into its murky depths.

"What?" The hanyou snapped, not taking his eyes off the bone littered dirt floor of the well.

"C'mon! We gotta go kill us a cow!" Mario said happily. This got Inuyasha's attention.

"Huh? Why are you gonna kill a cow?" He asked suspiciously.

"Not me!" Mario protested, looking genuinely shocked. "Us! I wouldn't dream of doing such a ghastly thing on my own! Never ever! Not it a million years! Besides, if you don't do it, then there's no point. In fact, you've all got to help kill the poor beast. Because you're all going through the well—"

"Wait a minute!" Inuyasha jumped up, waving his hands in the air like he was a drowning man calling for help. "What do you mean, 'all of us?' All of us who? And the only people who can get through the well are me and Kag…" Inuyasha stopped himself before he could say her name and gulped hard.

"You, as in the whole gang! In Latin, some noun in that sentence would end in a 'tis'! Or, maybe a verb…Oh well!" Mario shouted cheerfully. "Now come on, none of you, not even Kagome will be able to get through the well if we don't get that blood sacrifice! And boy, is she a beauty! One of those Oreo cows, ya' know? Black on both ends and white in the middle." Mario sighed wistfully. "They always were my favorite kind of cow…"

Inuyasha followed Mario at a safe distance, thoroughly convinced that Mario was legally insane. Stark, raving mad. 'Figures. He thought. 'Jenny sends someone to help and he's every bit as crazy as she is…was…will be…oh, what the hell!'

Five Minutes Later

"Catch it! Catch it!" Miroku screamed, pointing with his staff. "It went that way! To the left! No Inuyasha, you idiot! Your other left! No not straight, the left! No, not right again! LEFT, YOU STUPID HANYOU, LEFT!" Inuyasha went backwards, glaring at Miroku who now cradled his head in his hands. "Oh, for the love of Kami!" He muttered to Sango, who shook her head and then whistled to Kirara. The neko-youkai transformed into her true self and bore Sango, massive boomerang and all, into the air high above the meadow where the cow had been let loose. She surveyed the damage with growing dismay. Inuyasha and Miroku were still shouting at each other about which way left really was, and Mario and Shippo were guarding the edges of the meadow to make sure that the cow didn't escape. Mario was practically in tears because his plan was failing so profoundly due to Inuyasha and Miroku's stupidity. Sesshomaru had stopped even guarding and he was staring at his younger brother and the hentai houshi with his mouth slightly open and his eyes wide as if he couldn't believe that anyone was really that stupid. Unfortunately, the one who this all depended on was just that stupid. In fact, Sango sometimes wondered if Inuyasha could get any stupider.

Sango pulled out the Boomerang Bone that was slung over her back. She tossed it so that it lodged itself directly in front of the fleeing and panicking bovine. It reeled around and did a 180 degree turn and headed straight at Sesshomaru who in turn took his chance and grabbed the white and black cow around it's neck. He flexed his hands and his claws glowed green. He struck, hard and clean. Sesshomaru took the poor animals life quickly, with so little pain that it barely had time to let out a frightened primal squeal before the blank numbness and nothingness of death overtook it, bearing it down the river of peace that is the true afterlife.

Mario rushed over, waving his hands desperately and screaming. "NO!" He yelled. "THE BLOOD! SAVE THE BLOOD! WE NEED THE BLOOD!"

"Look Inuyasha, I'm telling you! Left it towards the village, not the hot springs!"

"And I'M telling YOU, you annoying lecherous phony monk, that I know this forest better then you ever could!" On the other side of the clearing Inuyasha and Miroku were still bickering. Shippo cocked his head, watching them. He stood like that, with his eyebrows raised, his chin and bottom lip jutted out, his hands on his hips, and his hips shoved forwards, before joining Rin on the coarse horse hair blanket that she was sitting on under a tree. Rin was watching Inuyasha and Miroku with her fist stuck in her mouth as she tried not to laugh helplessly at the two.

"They sound like old fishwives, don't they, Shippo-kun?" Rin asked, letting a peal of giggles overtake her. Shippo stared at her. 'She…She reminds me so much of mama…' Shippo thought. 'I think that maybe it's time for me to get to know Rin a little bit better.' And so he smiled at her, and she smiled back. They sat like that for a while, not aware of their audience from across the meadow.

"I'm not sure if I approve or not…" Sesshomaru said thoughtfully, his arms still wrapped around the dead cows neck, holding it several inches above the ground. Sango nodded in agreement.

"The blood…" Mario whimpered. Sesshomaru and Sango looked at him, expressions of disbelief on their pretty faces.

"You're enjoying this, aren't you?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Yep!" Mario beamed at them for a moment. "NOW! For the blood ritual I was thinking that we should go Victorian Gothic, you know? Sango—" He led Sango off, away from the smiling children, the bickering friends, and the freaked out, dead cow bearing youkai.

Okay. Yes, I know that they don't have cows in Japan, heck, they don't even have milk in their diet, but this is MY story. And as I said before, they don't have magic swords either, do they? And, well, ya' know the whole deal by now. But I really would appreciate it if you would review. REVIEW! How's this. I get a review, you get a chapter. No review, no update. And you wouldn't want to keep Kagome and Inuyasha separated FOREVER, now would you? Personally, I think that Inuyasha deserves it…But we don't want to leave them hanging there, in miserable separation FOREVER, now do we? Ahh…I hate standardized testing. Random, I know. REVIEW!

Bye!