Last time: Kay got two 'light saber' handles from Sota, and the two girls went to school. Nothing special happened at school, so... Yeah.
Chapter 9: The Two Fire Swords /b
"OK, we got about 9,000 cases of instant ramen... What next, Kagome?"
"We have to get some snacks for the others and some first-aid items."
"Are we going to get any books?"
"Why do you want a book?"
"... To read. I'd like to read some modern Japanese literature. Or manga. Whichever I can get first."
"Oh."
Kay carried a bag of ramen, as did Kagome, and Michelle was keeping quiet with some nice bags of random things.
"Well, the book store is right there," Kagome said, pointing at a store near them. Kay looked up at the sign and it had some weird name that was hard for her to read. She walked inside, excited to see what kinds of different books they had, and she was followed by Kagome and Michelle.
"Well, this is fun. Being stuck in a book store filled with books I can't read," Michelle growled.
Kay ignored her and gave Michelle the bags that she was carrying. Michelle was stuck sitting in a chair, watching Kay enjoy herself as much as a kid in a candy store. She looked at the titles of each of the books, and also went over to the manga section to see what they had there too.
Kay walked over to Michelle with what looked like 1,000 books in her arms, which in reality was only 5 really big books, and she asked, "Where's Kagome?"
"I dunno. She went off to look at books too, but I lost track of her between all these bags of crap," Michelle said, looking into a bag of ramen.
"You can't blame Kagome for wanting to make InuYasha happy. And if she didn't bring ramen then InuYasha would become rabid and attack anything in sight. If he attacked you, it wouldn't be that big of a loss, but it would be terribly upsetting if it was myself he attacked," Kay said, picking up a cup of ramen and holding it like it was a delicacy.
"Shut up, moron," Michelle said.
"Aw, you know you like ramen almost as much as InuYasha," Kay said, nudging her friend. "Except the part where you have to eat it with chopsticks."
"Kagome spoils him too much."
Then Kagome walked towards them with a few books in her hands, much like Kay.
"Speak of the devil and he's sure to appear!" Kay said, her smile huge and scary.
"You were talking about me?" Kagome asked, looking at the books she picked out. "Oh, I picked out some books for you also. They are some of my favorites, but might be a little hard for you at first. I'm sure you'll get better at reading soon, though."
"I never would have thought to see you here, Kagome!" Kagome, Michelle and Kay turned to see Hojo standing behind them, looking happy and bright.
"Oh, hello Hojo..." Kagome said, putting on a fake smile.
"I saw you in school today, but I didn't have time to say hello. Who are your lovely friends?" Hojo asked, looking like a complete nerd to Kay and Michelle.
"Oh, this is Kay," Kagome said, pointing to Kay, "and Michelle. They're from America."
"Oh, well, it's nice to meet you!" Hojo said, bowing slightly.
"Yeah... Same here," Kay said, nodding her head.
"These jerks piled me with all this crap..." Michelle said, standing up and trying to avoid the bags on the floor.
"You're the only one strong enough to carry most of them!" Kay said, looking at the bags carefully. She turned towards Hojo and said, "Never mind her. She's just a typical American."
"I'm Native American!"
"Do you really think I care?" Kay asked, raising an eyebrow.
"You read Kanji?" Hojo asked.
"Uh... yeah," Kay answered to the question addressed to her.
"Quite impressive," Hojo complimented, looking at the books she held in her hand.
"Well, Hojo, we should be leaving... Bye!" Kay said, grabbing some bags and pushing Kagome to the counter, where they could pay for the books.
Michelle followed and they left the store quickly, and Michelle said, "Man, he is a nerd."
"Wow, you guys are one of the first people to think that! I haven't met anyone who wasn't in love with him when they met him!" Kagome said, looking at Kay and Michelle carefully.
"When you get kidnapped by a psycho demon, nice boys seem kind of bland..." Kay said, putting her finger on her chin.
"Since when have you been interested in boys?" Michelle asked.
"I've always been interested. You just don't ask me, so I never tell you. Or maybe it's the fact that all the boys in our school suck," Kay said, smirking.
"I guess I'll have to ask you more things then..."
- - -
After they finished shopping and brought their stuff back to Kagome's home, they went to that WacDonald's place, or whatever it was called. Kay didn't pay attention, and neither did Michelle.
They sat in a booth with a tray filled with three burgers, fries, pop and ketchup.
"Do you consider this American cuisine?" Kay asked, taking a bite of her plain cheese burger.
"Eh, sorta... I just think of it as food," Kagome said, sipping her pop.
Just then, Eri, Yuka and Ayumi sat down at their booth.
How did I know? They always hang out here, don't they? Kay asked Michelle using her mind.
Yup. Oh well. Now we can listen to their funny questions about InuYasha, Michelle answered, smirking and eating her burger.
"So, Kagome, can you tell us how that back-stabbing, two-timing boyfriend of yours is?" Eri asked.
Michelle started laughing and Kay hit her over the head with her fist.
"You make him sound like he's some sort of delinquent!" Kagome said, blushing. "Besides, we weren't ever really dating. We're just good friends..."
"Ha! You're in denial," Kay said, smirking.
"You know you like him," Michelle said, smirking also, making the two best friends look positively evil.
"Tell us about him!" Yuka said excitedly.
"Well, he is very protective--" Kagome started.
"--and that's a good thing!" Kay interrupted.
"--he can be jealous--"
"--especially around this other guy who has a crush on her!" Michelle interrupted this time.
"--he likes ramen..."
"A little too much! God, that stuff is hard to eat with chopsticks." Kay growled and took a bite of her burger.
"And he is very strong."
"He is no match for me, though." Michelle grinned and received a glare from Kay.
"Sure he isn't, fathead," Kay said sarcastically. "And I'm the queen of England."
Michelle put a french fry in some ketchup and took a bite of it using her left hand. "You're eating with the wrong hand," Kay said, pointing to her hand. The other girls were wondering how you could eat with the wrong hand...
When Michelle brought the french fry up to her face, all full of ketchup, Kay pushed on her elbow, causing the ketchup to smear all over her face.
Their booth erupted in laughter, making everyone forget the conversation that just took place about InuYasha.
"You'd think that you would get wise after I did that to you twice last year!" Kay yelled, her laughter filling the room.
"Shut up," Michelle said, wiping the ketchup from her face.
Kay wiped the tears from her face and said, "Sorry... I had to do it."
- - -
"Hurry up, wench!" InuYasha yelled at Kagome. InuYasha, Kay and Michelle stood in front of the well, Kay and Michelle still holding the pieces of jewel that they had received from Kagome.
"I'm coming, InuYasha!" Kagome said, lugging the heaviest backpack on earth with her.
"Why are you bringing so much with you?" InuYasha asked, looking at Kagome's bag.
"For once, I have to side with InuYasha," Kay said, looking at her bag. "I mean, that's not nearly as huge as the one I brought with me."
"Can we just leave?" Michelle asked, putting her legs over the side of the well. She let herself drop and she disappeared, followed by Kay and InuYasha.
When Kagome got to the other side of the well, InuYasha was waiting for her at the bottom and lifted her up by the waist, making her squeal. Once on ground, Kagome growled at InuYasha and said, "Don't do that without warning me!"
"Hurry up love birds, let's go!" Kay said, waving towards them. Michelle and her were already to the forest and were heading to Kaede's Village.
InuYasha and Kagome blushed but followed obediently. Kay looked through a makeshift bag that she was carrying, having her books and kimonos inside.
She took out the metal handle things and handed one to Michelle.
"What is this? It looks like a light saber thing! And it looks really stupid," Michelle said, looking at the thing carefully.
"Yeah, I know. Sota gave me them. I didn't want two nerdy things, so I'm giving you one," Kay said, smirking.
"I wonder if they are of any importance?" Michelle said, waving her sword around and watching the metal shine this way and that.
"I dunno..." Kay looked up and then turned her head to the right. "I think something is there... something doesn't feel right," Kay said, glaring through the trees.
InuYasha and Kagome came up behind them and InuYasha looked through the trees and sniffed. "There's a demon there. Stand back, Kagome," InuYasha said, taking out his Tetsusaiga.
Just then a giant bear demon tore through the woods and stood in front of them. Kay inwardly cringed.
"I hate bear demons..." Kay muttered, remembering the time they were there last time.
"Well, I'll get rid of this one, then," InuYasha said, jumping up and swinging his Tetsusaiga down towards the bear's head. The bear growled and sent up his paw, blocking the sword.
"He blocked the Tetsusaiga!" Kagome yelled. "The demon is too powerful for InuYasha's sword!"
The bear pushed the sword back and sent InuYasha flying.
"INUYASHA! INUYASHA! INUUUUUUYAAAAASHAAAAAAA!"
"Will you just SHUT UP!" Kay yelled at Kagome. "Yes, we know you're worried about Inuyasha, but can you please only yell his name out once when he's knocked aside?"
"My friend here has a point," Michelle said.
"Oh, damn... Look out!" Kay said, pushing Michelle and then tackling Kagome. She held out the handle to the 'light saber' and the air around it started to glow and condense. It soon became a real sword... except blue and full of flames. Michelle's did the same thing at that moment, except purple.
A giant bear claw hit right where Kay, Kagome and Michelle were just standing. "Holy crap! Kay, look at your thing!" Michelle yelled as the bear claw retreated.
"Yeah, I see! Now, let's do some damage!" Kay said, smirking. The two girls ran towards the bear and went for the bear's legs, cutting them and making the bear roar in agony. InuYasha had by now recuperated and jumped up to meet the bear's head.
"Die! Tetsusaiga!" InuYasha yelled as he brought the sword down, cutting the demon in half.
Kay and Michelle were panting a little bit, mainly because they hadn't really fought like that before, and they smiled at InuYasha.
"Wow... I guess you two aren't bad fighters after all. That was pretty good," InuYasha said.
"Well, that's the best we'll get for a compliment from him, so let's celebrate the moment with karaoke!" Kay said, moving her arms dramatically.
"Or we can get drunk and have a party! Though, InuYasha would i never /i do that. He'd be too much of a poor sport," Michelle added, nudging Kay in the ribs.
"Naw... I heard that saké was really gross," Kay said. "I mean, who would want to have some rice wine?"
"... The people who made saké?" Michelle suggested.
Next time: Kay gets Michelle mad, and it somehow turns into a duel with InuYasha. Meanwhile, at Kay's house, her mother is watching 'Inuwooshi' episodes and seeing what happened last time.
Michelle: My sword is awesome!
Kay: Not as awesome as mine... Or me.
Michelle: Cocky bastard.
Kay: I know you are, but what am I?
Michelle:P Loser.
Kay: At least I'm not a freak.
Michelle: Shut up.
Kay: Forget it. Next time, Fights, Frights, and Family!