Nothing's Ever What It Seems Chapter 2: Act II, an inuyasha fanfic

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA OR RELATED CHARACTERS/SCENES.

Inuyasha was born to an upper middle class family. He was born before his mom started to make millions and his brother brought home enough money to feed a third world country. He was born before his father started directing big budget movies. He was born to act. And he was born when he was born because of meddlesome grandmothers.

Act II

Scene I "Willing the Anger Away"

Inuyasha sat on the end of a couch in his father's study. His arms were crossed on his chest and he was shooting daggers at the girl next to him. 'Fate hates me.'

A lawyer was standing at the front of the room reading from a long document. Inuyasha didn't pay any attention until he heard his name. "...and to my son Inuyasha I leave no money, for he owns more than I do," a few chuckles went through the room, "instead I leave this letter, which he is to open one year from today, and this necklace." The attorney held up a letter, handed the necklace to Inuyasha, and then continued, "To Kagome Higurashi, my best friend's daughter, I leave twenty thousand dollars for her eventual wedding, a letter, and a ring. The letter is to be opened one year from today. The money and the ring have special meanings. When your father died, Kagome, he asked me to make sure you married the right guy. If you are hearing this, then you obviously haven't married him yet. Don't marry for money. Don't marry for circumstances. If something happens and you need money my lawyer can set up this money, up to half of it, for your use. Marry for love. I did and I had a wonderful life. Your father married for love and look at what he had. Both of us wish for you to have a happy life and a beautiful wedding day. The ring belonged to my great-grandmother. She received it as an engagement ring and married her true love. She passed it down to my mother, who met my father the first day she wore it. Then my mother gave it to me for good luck on my first production. As you know, that is where I met my wife. Wear this ring and remember that money isn't worth anything if you don't have love."

The lawyer continued reading after he passed Kagome the said ring. She sat there fingering it until she heard something interesting. "... I have one final wish. Everyone whom my lawyer has called to this room may keep their inheritance if, and only if, they live in this house together for the next year. I will look down on you from above."

Inuyasha looked around the room. The wench, her mother, and her younger brother were all there. Sesshoumaru had been given his inheritance at a separate time, so he didn't have to live here. His mother and Miroku were the only other people who had gotten anything.

The lawyer said that they would have free use of their inheritances as long as they all lived in the same house, unless the inheritance had a specific time of use on it. If they went on vacation everyone had to go. If one of them got sick and had to live in a hospital they would all have to live near them. In other words, they would become a family.

'Fate hates me.'

What he didn't know was that fate was just getting started.

Act II

Scene II "Moving on Out"

Kagome stared at her house. For the past fifteen years she had lived here. Her entire life. Now she was moving in with the guy she had given her first kiss to, a guy who apparently hated her. She shoved the last of the boxes into her mom's car and waved goodbye to her grandpa. Sure, the old man was crazy, but she was going to miss him. He had moved in when her dad died in order to take care of them while her mother worked. Imagine an old guy trying to control a one year old and a seven year old.

It was only for a year, but it seemed like an eternity. A new house and three new housemates awaited her. Mrs. Higurashi was excited. A year of living in a huge house for free, plus at the end of the year she would get ten thousand dollars, plus free college for both of her children. And she would get to see her best friend, Mrs. Takahashi, everyday. The only thing that could have excited her more was a grandchild. 'Don't get ahead of yourself.

Souta didn't really care. The only thing that excited him was the prospect of maids to keep his room clean. The fact that at the age of twenty-one he would receive twenty thousand dollars didn't excite him. After all, he was only nine.

They had taken all of their things that they would need. Furniture, dishes, bath towels, and things like that were provided. Gramps was staying at the shrine because he wanted to. He had been invited but had declined the invitation saying, "Abandoned shrines attract spirits. Did I ever tell you about..." At which point whoever was listening would say yes or just walk away, leaving him to talk to himself. Kagome ran back up the steps and grabbed Buyo. She couldn't leave her cat behind, now could she?

Kagome climbed into the car with her mom and Souta. "Kagome, do I turn right or left at the fork in the road?"

"Right, Mom." She leaned back, closed her eyes, and thought about what the new house would be like. No one but Souta noticed the plastic fork in the middle of the road.

Destiny rules all.

Act II

Scene III "Moving into Mayhem"

Kagome woke up from her nap to find them parked in front of their new house. The other three people were sitting on the porch waiting for them. Inuyasha was perched on the railing and Miroku was sitting on the steps. When the car pulled up the two women ran and greeted each other like old friends.

Mrs. Higurashi gaped at the huge mansion before her. "I can't believe you live here. You are so rich. I had no idea."

"We try not to flaunt it," she said with a smile. "Besides, this is your house, too, now." She looked over at Kagome and Souta, who were getting out of the car. "Souta is so cute! And your daughter is beautiful. I wish I didn't have only sons," Mrs. Takahashi said with a sigh.

"Gee, thanks Mom. Want me to get a sex change?" Inuyasha grumbled.

"Would you?" His mother smiled at him.

He looked at her in terror. "NO WAY!"

She sighed, "Guess I'll just have to wait till you get married to get a daughter." At her words, she and Kagome's mother started to giggle like schoolgirls.

Inuyasha grunted and said, "Whatever. Isn't Kagura your daughter?"

Mrs. Takahashi smiled. "Oh, that's right. I never was that close to her, and she really has no relation to me, what with me just being Sesshoumaru's stepmother. I just know I'm going to love your wife, though." She and Kagome's mom started to giggle again.

Kagome meanwhile was trying to get her luggage out of the car and wondered why her mother was going insane.

She gave up and yelled at Inuyasha and Miroku, "Hey, you big brawny guys want to help a girl with her luggage?"

"Not really." Inuyasha continued to stare at the sky in the hopes it would fall on him and end this torture.

Kagome grinned as a thought occurred to her. She made sure she had a look of exasperation on her face when she said, "Come on, Inuyasha." Then she carefully made herself look indifferent. "Oh, never mind, I guess you're just too wimpy to lift up my luggage."

Inuyasha practically ran over and grabbed the luggage out of the car. "I'm not a wimp, got it?"

Kagome smiled broadly, laughing at him inside. "Why, I guess those muscles aren't just for looks."

He growled and pulled the rest of the stuff out of the car. The last thing he pulled out was a backpack. It weighed about fifty pounds and he almost dropped it.

"What the heck is in there?"

"My shoes and my school books." His jaw dropped open as she easily picked it up and swung it over her shoulder. At his astounded look she shrugged and said, "I have a hundred and seven pairs of shoes." She walked up the steps, kicking Miroku in the gut when he tried to look up her skirt, and realized she had no idea where she was going.

She turned around and smiled innocently at the young man who was trying to retrieve his jaw from the ground. "Inuyasha, would you be a dear and show me to my room?"

"Yeah, right, wench." He sat down on the trunk of the car and returned to staring at the sky.

She dropped her backpack on the porch, walked down the steps (kicking Miroku as she passed), and grabbed Inuyasha's ear, she started twisting it and said, "Let me rephrase the question: you will show me to my room, understood?" Inuyasha nodded, trying not to whimper. "I didn't hear you!"

"Yes, ma'am," he said, just loud enough for Miroku to hear and just funny enough to make him snicker.

"Good!" She promptly headed towards the stairs, yanking Inuyasha along with her.

Inuyasha's mom had just finished saying Inuyasha's wife would have to be strong to handle him, and Kagome's actions made both women burst out laughing.

Kagome kept a firm grip on his ear as they walked up the steps. Miroku kept his distance this time. He thought that the last kick might have broken a rib or two.

Kagome turned to Inuyasha with a sweet smile on her face. "Inuyasha, will you carry my backpack?"

"NO... of course!" Kagome stopped twisting his ear and let him bend over to pick up her backpack.

She grinned as she grabbed his ear again. "Lead the way!"

That was when Kagome decided that if he didn't like her, she wouldn't like him, even if she had secretly crushed on him for three years. Operation Kiss-Kiss had failed. And, boy, was fate happy.

Act II

Scene IV "Obedience School"

Kagome had set up all of her stuff in her room. It was twice the size of her old one with an attached bathroom, which had a Jacuzzi in it. It was decorated in green and blue and her bed was a queen size. It still smelled like new carpet, so Kagome sprayed some lilac perfume around it. A small ding, like a tiny crystalline bell, rang through the air.

Her mother had told her and Souta that that was the signal for meals so Kagome pulled her hair out of the ponytail and shook it out. Making sure she looked presentable, she glanced in the mirror and saw Inuyasha behind her.

"What do you want, LITTLE GIRL?" she demanded pouting. As soon as he took her to her room that morning he had run away, leaving her to carry all of her stuff upstairs.

He growled at her. "I just wanted to tell you it's dinner time, WENCH."

Kagome was irritated by his know-it-all attitude so she reached out and grabbed his ear. Before he could pull away she started rubbing it. When he started to growl in contentment she used her other hand to quickly separate his hair into three sections. She stopped rubbing his ear momentarily to start the braid. Once she had it going she braided with one hand, keeping the other on his ear. She had distracted him enough that he didn't notice she had been playing with his hair, but just to make sure he didn't ask questions she gave him an excuse.

"I just wanted to make up for getting angry and hurting your ear earlier. Does it feel better?"

Inuyasha looked at her like she was insane. "Yeah, sure, whatever. Let's just go eat."

Kagome followed him down the hall, almost giggling every time she saw his hair. Inuyasha walked into the dining room first and took a seat. He noticed everyone staring at him.

He turned to Kagome. "What did you do, wench?"

She smiled innocently. "My name's Kagome Higurashi. Why do you think that I did something?"

That was when Souta piped up. "Are you a girl?"

Inuyasha stared at him. "No, why?"

"Your hair's all braided." Then the young boy almost fell over he was laughing so hard.

Inuyasha hand reached up to his head. The kid was right. "Do you have a death wish, wench?" He got up and was about to grab her when the butler walked in.

"Dinner... is served," the man announced. Inuyasha sat back down and glared daggers at her all through dinner. Kagome was just glad she didn't have to sit by Miroku. He had been a hentai at age twelve and apparently he had only gotten worse.

After dinner Mrs. Takahashi asked that everyone move to the parlor where they had met for the reading of the will. Inuyasha sat on the couch and Kagome sat in a chair, slightly frightened by his glowering at her constantly. Miroku sat on the couch by Inuyasha, absentmindedly playing with the prayer beads he had received as part of his inheritance. The two mothers sat on another couch and Souta sat at their feet.

"I asked you to come here because I want to go over ground rules, since we are all living here together. The major rule is never entering someone else's room without permission." She said that with a glance at Inuyasha. The next one was directed at Miroku. "And don't invade other people's personal space. Other than that, just be nice!"

Everyone stared at her. All the formality for two rules?

"Well, shoo." She started waving her arms like you would to make a cat move.

They left the room quickly. It would probably be best to avoid the "interesting" lady for a little bit. Kagome was twenty feet from her door when Inuyasha put his hand on her neck. She ran and he started to chase her. Desperate she tried to slow him down.

"Stop, stay, sit!" She heard him crash into the ground and ran straight into her room. Locking the door behind her she decided that he must have tripped. She took a shower and walked back into her room in a robe to find him sitting on her bed. "Eek!" She backed up against the door when he started forward. "Stay... stop... SIT!" He crashed into the room's floor and she ran into the bathroom. She noticed that he had fallen to the ground both times when she said sit. Thinking it over she remembered his dog ears and decided that he must have dog blood in him that reacted, or something. She decided to test her hypotenuse. "Sit, sit, sit, and sit!" A large crash outside her door proved it. She smiled and opened the door to find Inuyasha unconscious on the other side. "Oops!"

She took pity on him and put a pillow under his head and then crawled into bed and fell asleep.

The god of mischief must have looked down that night and started laughing. He didn't have to do any work. Inuyasha did it himself.

Act II

Scene V "The Two Hentai and Black-locks meet Little Blue Jacket Hood"

Inuyasha woke up on the floor in the middle of the night with a terrible headache. He did what any sleepy guy would do, which meant get into the nearest bed.

"HEEEENTAAAAAAIIIIIII!"

Kagome had woken up to find her back against a bunch of warm pillows and something heavy draped across her waist. When she lifted up the weight she found it to be a male arm.

She jumped out of bed and started screaming, waking the bed's other occupant.

"Where's the fire?" Inuyasha jumped out of bed and headed right towards the wall. "Ouch!" He looked over at the screaming Kagome. "Why are you in my room?" Then he looked around. "Where is my room?"

Kagome's mother rushed into her room. "What happened?"

Kagome stopped yelling and took a deep breath. "I slept with him!"

Her mother stared at her. "But... you aren't married!"

Kagome's eyes opened wide as she realized what her mom meant. "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW! NO. I just slept in the same bed as him, nothing like that happened. EW, EW, EW, and EW!"

Inuyasha finally caught on. "You mean I was in the same bed as her? EW!"

Kagome stomped over to him and yanked him off of the ground by his ear. "Why were you in my bed?"

Inuyasha considered her question. "Oh, yeah! I woke up on the floor and thought I had fallen out of bed so I climbed up into it."

Mrs. Higurashi stared at him. "You didn't even notice the lump on the other side of the bed?"

"Nope."

Kagome turned to her mom. "That would have been my fault."

They both stared at her. "Huh?"

"Well, you see, if I say a certain word I discovered that Inuyasha crashes to the ground. I said it four times and I knocked him out. So it was my fault he thought he fell out of bed. Sorry!"

Inuyasha looked at her suspiciously. "And just what word would that be?"

"I really don't think you want me to say it," she warned him.

"Tell me already!"

"Sit." He crashed to the ground.

"OW! My back! You're gonna pay wench!" He shot up and stomped over to her.

It was time for parental intervention. "Inuyasha, stop right there. You told her to say 'sit'," he cringed but nothing happened, "so you have no reason to be angry."

He stared at Mrs. Higurashi. "How come you didn't make me fall down? And you," he angrily shouted at Kagome, "I've seen you before and you've said sit and I haven't gotten hurt. What did you do to me?"

Kagome shrugged. "I didn't do anything. Maybe it's punishment for you being mean to me." She stuck her tongue out at him.

"Whatever. I'm gonna go get breakfast. Later." He stomped out of the room.

Kagome called after him, "Maybe you'll already be SIT-" crash, "-ting in your chair when I get there." She heard him cussing as he walked away.

"Inuyasha, you better not be saying anything nasty. Really, children your age using such terrible words..."

Kagome's mother left the room to go get ready for breakfast too. Kagome sighed and shook her head. 'She has never been to my school, has she?'

Kagome pulled on a t-shirt instead of her tank top, but she left her pajama bottoms on. After quickly brushing her hair and her teeth, she slipped on her fuzzy blue slippers and headed down to breakfast.

When Inuyasha, Miroku, and Mrs. Takahashi all stared at her wrinkled and messed clothes she growled, "I'm not a morning person, especially when I wake up with a guy in my bed."

Mrs. Takahashi stared at Miroku. "WHAT? I didn't do anything!"

Inuyasha growled, "It was me." His mother turned to stare at him. That was the kind of behavior she expected from Miroku. Maybe he was rubbing of on Inuyasha! That would be terrible, two Mirokus in one house. "Stupid wench knocked me unconscious and I thought it was my bed." His mother simply continued to stare at him.

Kagome's mom sighed, "I'll explain later."

This morning Kagome was the last person to the table and when she saw where the last seat was... "I have to sit," crash, "by that hentai!"

Miroku looked at her innocently. "Whatever are you talking about?"

Inuyasha stood up and bared his claws. "Wench, if you do that one more time I will personally rip out your vocal cords so you can't say anything."

"Inuyasha, be nice. It was an accident. I am glad to see that your fathers necklace is working though." His mother smiled at him like she was absolutely ecstatic that he was getting knocked to the floor.

Kagome's mom grinned. "So that's why he falls down!" The three teenagers stared at her.

Inuyasha was the first to speak. "You knew that she would be able to do this?" he asked accusingly, as he tried to pull the necklace off.

His mother impishly smiled. "I didn't know it would be her personally, but I knew it would be some girl."

Kagome's mother jumped into the conversation, saying, "It must be fate." Both mothers burst out laughing.

Inuyasha slumped in his chair. 'Fate hates me.'

Kagome had taken her seat a while ago. A loud smack rang through the room, making everyone but Inuyasha jump.

He sighed and rolled his eyes. "You did it again, Miroku?"

He smiled. "Her bottom was just sitting there, practically begging to be touched."

Kagome smacked him again. "Mom, Mrs. Takahashi, this may seem like a weird request but can I please, please, please invite a friend to live here? It really isn't fair. You two are best friends, those two hentai are best friends, and Souta has his Gameboy. I'm all alone!" Souta barely looked up from said game when he heard his name.

Inuyasha's mom smiled kindly. "Why, dear, I never thought about that. Of course you can invite a friend!"

Kagome screamed and ran around the table to give her a hug. Her breakfast was forgotten as she ran up to her room to call her friends.

Souta finally glanced up at them. "What about me?"

Mrs. Takahashi smiled again. "Of course, you can invite someone too."

"Cool." Back to the game.

Later in the afternoon the doorbell rang and Kagome didn't even wait for the butler to get it. "AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" The two girls screamed simultaneously and just about burst the eardrums of the two boys standing there.

The boys rolled their eyes. "Sisters. Did you bring your games, Kohaku?"

"No, duh!" the young boy grinned and held up a bag the size of a television.

The other boy grinned. "Cool. Let's go to my room!"

Kagome and Sango pulled back from giving each other hugs. Kagome stared at Sango's outfit in surprise.

"Why are you wearing a blue parka in summer?"

Sango smiled. "You said Miroku lived here too. I met him when we were twelve, remember?"

Kagome sweat dropped. "Good idea. He has only gotten worse."

Speaking of the devil, Miroku had heard the two screams and of course went to meet the new arrival. "Hello. Will you bear my child?"

"Same as before." Kagome and Sango started giggling.

Miroku was confused. "Have I met you before?"

Her face grew red and her hands clenched into fists. "YOU DON'T REMEMBER ME?"

He slowly backed away, trembling. "Lady Sango! Of course I remember you!" 'And your fists of steel,' he thought to himself.

Inuyasha walked into the room while rubbing his ears. "What's the big deal with you screaming? I heard you all the way on the other side of the house."

Sango pulled out an extra-large boomerang and hit the guy behind her. "Don't ever touch me there again." Then she stuck out her hand for Inuyasha to shake. "You must be Inuyasha. I heard you starred in a movie."

He shook her hand, only because he didn't want to get hit like Miroku, and said, "I've starred in ten movies and had speaking roles in thirty others."

Kagome stared at him. "Wow. I thought you were just an extra. I've never seen you in a movie before."

Inuyasha's right eye twitched. An extra! He hadn't been an extra in ten years!

"How am I supposed to own all of this stuff if I'm an extra?"

Kagome grinned innocently. "I thought your mom made all the money."

He started to advance on her.

"Want me to hit him, Kagome?" Sango offered.

Kagome giggled, "Nah. Watch this. SIT!"

He fell to the ground and Kagome raced away, dragging Sango behind her and leaving the luggage for the butler. "That is so cool, Kagome!"

"I know!" she giggled. "Now, hurry before he kills us. What was with that huge box on the front porch?"

Sango sniggered as she ran. "It's a gift from my parents. They are getting rid of both Kohaku and me for a year. They consider Mrs. Takahashi to be a saint."

Meanwhile back by the front door the two young men were slowly regaining consciousness. "The wench will die!" Inuyasha said, jumping up and grabbing a sword off the wall.

He didn't even notice it transform.

Act II

Scene VI "Mothers Making Mischief"

"Yuma, can you believe it? My husband's necklace is working for Kagome! You know what this means!" The two women were sitting on the edge of a bed as the woman who had just spoken rifled through a drawer.

"Of course, Sakura!" The other woman grinned.

Yuma pulled out a stack of papers. "My husband's lifetime work was writing this script. I think that we ought to put it to good use."

Sakura giggled. "Is that the one I'm thinking of?"

"It sure is!" Yuma grinned deviously.

They simultaneously said, "Let's make a movie!"

If anyone had heard the crazed laughter that followed that sentence they would have called the men in white coats and told them to bring "candy."

Act II

Scene VII "Casting Calls"

Kagome woke up that morning to a bugle over the house intercom. Then a voice came on.

"Breakfast time! I need everybody to report to the dining room immediately. Don't worry about clothes unless you sleep in the nude. 'cough' Miroku 'cough' That will be all."

Kagome shuddered. Too much information. She brushed her teeth and swept her hair up into a ponytail. The voice had said to hurry, but no one was allowed to see her with morning breath and scary hair.

She stepped out of her door to find Sango waiting for her. "Hey. Do you know what that was all about?"

Sango shrugged. "No idea. That one comment was way T.M.I., though."

They both shuddered. "Really. Come on let's go."

They raced down to the dining room and quickly grabbed the seats farthest from Miroku. That meant Kagome had to sit next to Inuyasha, who just happened to not have a shirt on. 'He's hot!' She shook her head. 'Whoa, that announcement about Miroku must have fried my brain.'

That was when Yuma, a.k.a. Mrs. Takahashi, stood up. "I have discovered among my husband's things a script that he had been working on for thirty-four years. I have decided that I will produce this movie in his memory. I have read the script and there is a part in it for each of you. The interesting part is that my husband named and modeled his characters after real life people. Therefore you will be playing, in essence, yourselves!"

Souta and Kohaku looked up from fighting over who was better at Donkey Kong. "You mean Kohaku and me get parts too?"

She nodded. "Yes. The main parts go to Inuyasha and Kagome. The next most important parts belong to Sango and Miroku."

Inuyasha snarled, "I have to act with her?"

Kagome pouted, "I have to star in my first movie with him?"

Then from both of them came, "NO FAIR!"

Yuma smiled, "Don't worry, it'll be fun! Now, here is a script for everyone. I haven't included the ending because there were two in my husband's script. I will decide which one to use according to how the movie progresses."

She handed out the scripts and told everybody to turn to page ten. "There is the summary of the plot."

It read: 'Fifteen-year-old Kagome lives at a shrine with her mother, grandpa, and brother. One day she falls down an enchanted well and finds herself in feudal Japan. There, she finds out that she is the reincarnation of a famous priestess and the owner of the Shikon Jewel, which has the ability to give both youkai and humans immense powers. She frees the ancient hanyou Inuyasha from the sleep he has been in for fifty years after the ancient priestess sealed him to a tree. One night, while she sleeps, a crow youkai steals her sacred jewel. In the battle to retrieve it the jewel is split into many pieces. She and Inuyasha must travel all over Japan to retrieve the shards and make the jewel whole. They become friends with Miroku, a hentai and a monk who has a cursed hand, and Sango, a youkai exterminator whose whole family is dead except for her brother. They discover that a youkai named Naraku hates Inuyasha and must fight him to retrieve the entire jewel. When the ancient priestess is resurrected, they find out that the she and Inuyasha were in love. Inuyasha and Kagome fall in love as do Sango and Miroku amongst the fighting, treachery, and betrayal."

When the four teens read the last sentence almost all of them freaked out.

"I have to act like I'm in love with that wench?"

"I'm not gonna even pretend I'm in love with that hentai!"

"No way am I gonna act like I love that... that... idiot!"

Miroku was the only one who didn't. He had skipped to the real script and read about a certain scene.

Yuma stared at him, "Aren't you going to protest, too?"

"Oh, um, I don't want to act with her?" he tried in vain to come up with a good excuse.

Yuma quirked an eyebrow at him but continued to speak. "Anyway, this is an important film. It is to honor your father, Inuyasha, so you better do it. Sango, if you don't want to, you don't have to be in it. Kagome, it would please my husband to no end if you would be in it. He used you as a character on purpose. Miroku, I don't even know what to say to you."

In the end she got them to all grudgingly agree, though she had to threaten Inuyasha with changing his curfew from eleven to eight.

Inuyasha lay in bed that night thinking. The tryouts for the other characters would start tomorrow. He, luckily, would have some say in who was cast as the priestess. If he had to act alongside two girls he hated, his father could just go ahead and roll over in his grave, because Inuyasha wouldn't do it.

'Fate hates me.'That was starting to become his motto.

Act II

Scene VIII "The EVIL Priestess"

Inuyasha had been sitting in the casting room for five hours. He had seen hundreds of women, teenagers, and even a couple of preteens. His mother was there with him; she knew if he was left alone he would pick the prettiest girl even if she acted worse than a dead tree.

The door opened and a girl wandered in, "What are you doing here, wench?" Inuyasha snarled at the girl.

Yuma smiled pleasantly but was obviously confused, "Why are you here, Kagome? You already have a part."

The girl smiled, "I'm Kikyo. I think you might have me confused with someone else."

Inuyasha snorted, "Yeah, right, wench. You expect us to believe that?"

The girl grinned, "This might make you believe me." She leaned across the table and kissed Inuyasha. He was surprised, but responded anyway.

When the girl pulled back he grinned, "That is NOT Kagome."

His mother believed him. Kagome would never have kissed him.

"What was your name again?"

"Kikyo." The girl said it matter-of-factly.

She looked down at the script. It was fate. The characters name was Kikyo and she looked exactly like Kagome, which was just what the script called for.

"Let's see you act. Read this line." She pointed to the bottom of a sheet that was sitting on the table.

She stood back from the table with the script in her hand. She put a hard look in her eyes and removed the smile from her face. And then she started.

"The dead have but one wish, to walk amongst the living once again, a wish that will never be realized. However, this dead woman can wish for one thing. I wish for a heart. The heart of the man whom I shall never allow to forget me, that is my desire."

Yuma read the next line, Kagome's line, "You'll never allow him to forget about you? You mean Inuyasha?"

"It is clear that Inuyasha wishes for my death. That is a good thing. Because it means he feels remorse for our dispute. Let him feel remorseful." Her eyes glittered coldly. "I shall never allow him to forget about me. Time will not advance, thus allowing me to exist in a dimension in which time is frozen. I can live on inside his heart, here in my frozen recreation."

Inuyasha gaped at her. He could almost imagine her as a feudal age priestess with deep hatred towards her supposed murderer. He looked to his mom and nodded.

She stood up and shook Kikyo's hand. "Congratulations! You are our priestess! We will call you to arrange where and when the taping will start. I need to go check on the other auditions now. Goodbye!" She hurried out of the room, leaving Inuyasha and Kikyo alone.

Kikyo smiled, "Goodbye."

Inuyasha stood up and walked over to her, "Would you like to go out for dinner tonight?" he said with a grin.

"I'd love to. See you at seven. I'll meet you at your house." She kissed him again and sauntered out the door, showing off her attitude now that his mother was gone. She glanced over her shoulder. "Toodles." The door shut behind her leaving a bewildered Inuyasha behind.

'Maybe fate does like me a little bit.'

A/N: Thank you to Seraphina2, my beta reader, and Kawaii Youkai Miko, miki okuda, and INUS BABE!, my reviewers. THANK YOU!

"Never frown, you don't know who is falling in love with your smile. Besides smiling is contagious." ;)

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