Hey guys! Sorry I keep taking so long to update! This chapter has more seriousness in it, and a bit of fluff. (that comes later. Mwhahahahah!) I have a life too ya know! (sobs) Plus I've been really busy! Algebra, homework, church, my friend visiting from far, far, away.

Inuyasha: Actually, she's just lazy. It's like this all the time.

Madame: Shhhh! No one asked you!

Inuyasha: I don't have to be asked!

Madame: Whaaaaa! I am lazy!

Inuyasha: H...hey, stop, ok? Please? You need to get this chapter out!

Madame: I…(whaaa) I'm t..trying (sniff) too, but I (snort) can't stop!

Inuyasha: (sigh)

Kagome began screeching hysterically. "What? Already?"

"Well, we only had fifteen minutes anyway, Kagome."

"I know, but, it was supposed to last longer! Noooooo-"

"Kagome, are you?"

"oooooooooooooo"

"Look, you need-"

"ooooooooooooooooooo"

"to-"

"oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

"Inhale."

"oooooooooooooo! (eep) Ahhhhhh," Kagome sucked in air rapidly and began hacking furiously as the doorbell continued ringing.

Eri and Yumi screeched happily when Kagome slowly opened the door. For a moment, everything was eerily quite. Finally, Eri took it upon herself to point out Inuyasha. "Who's he?"

"Uh, he's my...uh...cousin, Jeff!" The girl replied quickly hugging Inuyasha slightly, never taking her gaze off her friends in the door. (A/N: Jeff is one of my best friend's imaginary soap opera characters. Jim and Jeff)

"What! Kagome, what the he-" He stopped suddenly as Kagome squeezed his hand tightly, making him let out a yelp.

"Well, do you have to hold his hand?" Yumi inquired, cocking her head.

"He's retarded," Kagome said with a mock sympathetic expression on. Inside she was secretly hoping she could remember all her lies. "He can't go anywhere unless I lead him. If I let go, he runs off and hides and it takes hours on end to find him."

"What a shame, he was so cute, too," Eri whined. As the two walked in, they patted him on the shoulder muttering things like "Poor baby!" and "Always the cute ones."

"Hey, go on upstairs and I'll meet you up there in a minute!" Kagome said cheerfully. When they disappeared into her room, she threw here hands up, then slung the back down with clenched fists in the classic 'yesssss' mode, which is what she said.

After a few stupefied moments, Inuyasha recovered his self. "Kagome, what were you thinking!" he whispered savagely as he grabbed her collar. "What am I supposed to do, sit there and drool on myself!" He was literally fuming. Kagome sighed, then put a hand on her hip.

"Look Inu," she said slowly, " This is really important to me. I…I can't let them figure out about you!"

"Oh, so you are to ashamed to tell them I am not retarded? You could just tell them what happened, they'll understand if they're your friends, right?"

Kagome stared for a moment. Talk about hitting the nail on the head. What he lacked in useful knowledge, he made up for in sappy common sense. "Well, you're one to talk! What about Sango," she accused. She didn't know what else to say.

"Look, it wasn't my idea! I never said we were friends!"

"Kagome-chan!" two voiced cried in unison from upstairs. "We can't do three way hair braiding with only two people!"

"Coming," Kagome called, cupping her hand on her mouth. She took off upstairs, Inuyasah stumbling behind the girl. Dang stairs!

"Kagome, how are we supposed to braid when you won't let go of Jeff!"

"Jeff?" Odd stares. "Oh, Jeff!" Kagome stammered, smacking her head. "Sumimasen! I usually call him…uh…J?" how many was that, about five?

"OOOOOOKKKKKKKKK," the others said looking at her. And she said her cousin was retarded, they thought looking at the girl on the floor, who was laughing slightly.

Kagome felt Inuyahsa's eyes boring into her side, but she wouldn't meet his eyes.

It wasn't so much as the fact she was a liar to her friends, but more the fact that she was ashamed of him that was hurting Inuyasha. Was he really so bad? He didn't try to be, really. Was she really so stupid to not have noticed he would do anything she told him to?

Kagome felt him shift his gaze to his hands. He snapped his head up to see all the girls looking at him confused. "Are you really retarded?" Yumi asked. "If you can understand me, answer. I've seen retarded kids and I've seen them fascinated with their hand like you were just doing, but you had a serious sort of hurt look on. Most kids will have on a silly grin."

Kagome panicked in her head. She didn't know what to do! He could blow her cover and her friends would know! Why had she lied? "He's-" she started. She was going to tell the truth.

"No, don't answer for him, let him do it," Yumi shushed her friend quickly.

Inuyasha stared at Kagome for a few moments. She was uncomfortable, he could tell even with out his demon sense. So be it, if she was ashamed of who he rally was, he would be who she had made him. 'For you Kagome,' he thought as she shifted her muddy brown eyes to the floor.

Looking back at Yumi, he took a deep breath, 'here we go.' He threw up his hands and screeched hysterically. "MONKEY BUTTS!" Then he began laughing hysterically and fell back and the floor giggling like mad til he covered his face with his hands. Everyone stared, Kagome the hardest.

"Well, that's solved," Yumi said with a slight giggle from behind her hand as she placed it there.

"Inu…yasha…" the miko whispered. She saw him flick her off quickly and she frowned angrily. Wait, he was just telling her he was fine by that. He had done all that for her. And here she had told him he didn't ever think about her. She felt like dirt. No, lower than dirt. She felt like a big piece of old crap. Demon crap. Naraku crap.. Crap that Inuyasha had disgustedly stepped in. And the worst part about the whole deal was that she realized it wasn't Inuyasha who was selfish, it was her, and she felt like the biggest hypocrite in the world, and then some.

A/N: Thanks for coming back! I'll try to make longer chapters, but hey, I'm only 14! I still have important like things I need to do. Like eat. And once you forget how, boy is it hard to learn again. Lol! See ya next chapter. Contents include: silly party games including Inuyasha, falling out the upstairs window, Inuyasha throwing up on Kagome's pretty floor, and Someone moves in for a kiss on Inuyasha, but is it Kagome? (Evil laughter.)