Disclaimer; Awe come on! Everyone knows who make Inu-yasha by now. Fine, Inu-yasha is not mine.

A Ride Called Kagome

Chapter 4

(Sorry for the huge delay. I wanted to finish Part 1 of my story "A Lifetime Loving You" really bad. Tonight, I just said, I've only gotten 3 reviews for the last new chapter and I'm really not up for writing another chapter yet in part 2...so I'll just do something I am in the mood for doing.)

The Exterminators Bar teamed with people from all over town, each one sitting down to talk about the Beach Chopper Rally coming in a few days, others to watch a baseball game, and those that drank their liquor mysteriously in the corner deep in thought.

"Here's your Budweiser, Sir!" Kagome said as she placed a cold glass and a tan bottle before him as he watched the game with his fingers crossed. Obviously he had made a bet on the home team or the visiting team and was planning on making some green that night. Truth was, he was on his third beer, so chances had it that the odds were not in his favor that night.

Sango cleaned the bar table free of peanut shells and spilt liquor went Kagome came through to untie her apron and grab her school bag. "Okay! I'm gonna take my break so I can look at some of my school work. These college courses I'm taking are gonna killers since this is technically my first semester."

Sango leaned against the bar with her elbows on the top as her brother Kohaku jumped up on one of the bar stools. "Okay, spill it, Kagome!" he said as he spun around in the chair. "Word has it you're helping that chopper mechanic at the shop down the block."

Kagome smiled as she set up her books by the last bar stool to start reading. Sango walked over, "It's that guy with the long black hair, right? The guy whose brother has no left arm?"

Kagome sighed, "Yeah, he's working on this bike that he wants to build for speed. I thought I might, you know, help him out. Do some things I like doing since Kouga won't do them with me anymore."

Sango smirked as she leaned over Kagome's book. "Something tells me you're not just going to see this guy for nothing. I know how attracted you are to mysterious dark haired guys who are obsessed with bikes. It's the one thing that makes me wonder why you're still with your creep boyfriend."

Kagome made a face and leaned over her book. "Hojo is a decent guy, and he makes time for me when he can."

Kohaku laughed. "Yeah, he makes time when he sees another guy flirting with you. The guy treats you like a racing trophy that he gives flowers and candy too when he thinks you're falling in love with another guy."

Kagome shook her head. "Well, I can tell you right now there's no other guy that I'm thinking of."

Sango snorted as she crossed her arms. "Yeah, except for that mechanic. Why don't you just give your self a chance, Kagome? I think that guy is more your type than you think. And the fact you like building bikes and he likes it too is a plus. Hojo never cares about your designing ideas, and Koga never has time for them anymore. I think this guy could be good for you."

Kagome looked back down at her books and a small hint of blush rose in her cheeks. "He does like my idea I had for his bike, but it's that speed bike I designed that needs to be driven with a second person riding in the back so the bike can make sharp turns when it's going full speed. It was the design Kouga thought was too out there for drag racing."

Suddenly, she closed her books. "Kouga and his stupid drag racing. I swear one of these days he's gonna get himself killed. I wish he wasn't in it for the money. I know he needs it to finish paying the bank for the shop, but he's made his whole life around those races know."

Sango sighed as she ran her hand through her hair. "I know how you feel. He never has time for the both of us, come to think of it."

Kagome looked down on her books and began to study. "Maybe that's why I offered to help him. I just get back to the way things were between me and my brother, and Inu-yasha might not be a bad place to start."

Kohaku grinned, "Oh naw! He's a perfect place to start. The question is what's gonna happen once the bike is done? Maybe...you'll do that thing you and Hojo have been meaning to do since your one year anniversary?"

Kagome looked up. "What thing?"

Sango grinned as she leaned toward her friend. "Remember how you had that dinner planned at your place and your brother was out for the week. You had everything planned from that one plate of spaghetti to that black lace nightgown, when he called you to say he had won a drag race and was going to go celebrate with the boys."

Kagome colored when Sango mentioned the lacy gown she had bought, but the emotion changed once she remembered Hojo's call to cancel when he was already two hours late. "Yeah," she said weakly as she flipped the pages of her book, suddenly discovering she had lost the mood to study.

Saturday came and Kagome kept to her promise of meeting Inu-yasha at his shop to work on "The Project". She came in a pair of long stained and ripped jeans with a white tank top that was in fact one of her brother's undershirts. When she had arrived, Inu-yasha couldn't help but look at her chest momentarily since the shirt was practically see through. Her white bra was clearly a lace one for he could see the patterns of the lace through the peaks of her breast that pressed to the shirt.

However, once it was time to get down to business, her breasts were almost forgotten when it came to working Saturday afternoon into the evening on the frame of the bike and putting the new shipment of parts in place.

"Inu-yasha, can you hand me the welder?" she asked as Inu-yasha picked up the one tool he loathed, the wrench. Kagome welded the frame into its new position and took a step back once she was finished and lifted her helmet and held up her thumb to make sure she was on target, bighting her tongue gently and she closed on eye. "Perfect! My brother always said welding needed to be done with a woman's hands because we're so bitchy about perfection."

Inu-yasha laughed as he walked to the back of the bike to put the temporary back wheel on. "You did a lot of this stuff with your brother, didn't you?"

Kagome smirked and shrugged her shoulders casually as she took off the welding mask. "Kouga and I used to make bikes all the time while I was in high school. I just love doing it."

Inu-yasha rotated a nut into place. "So, why did you stop?"

Kagome shook her head to free her hair from the mess the mask made before pulling it back again into a messy bun. "I guess you could say..."

Kagome's explanation was interrupted suddenly by the sound of Inu-yasha's loud grumbling stomach and he jumped as he put his greasy hand to his stomach. He smiled as he looked down. "Sorry, I didn't have lunch today."

Kagome giggled a little, only to hear her stomach make the same noise a second later. "I guess my lunch wasn't too satisfying."

Inu-yasha laughed a little and walked over to pick up his watch on his work bench. "Damn, it's ten already? Fuck, every place in town is closed by now. I hate Saturdays!"

Kagome took of her gloves and looked down at her hands for a moment to rub out a cramp in her palm. She looked at his back as he sighed and thrust a hand through his black hair. Kagome looked him over for a moment as he leaned over his work bench to think. Her eyes drifted over his back as his muscles began to push against the fabric. Thinking quickly she mentally smacked herself to jump back into reality.

Kagome looked down at her fingers as she felt her face get warm around her cheekbones. "Well, there is this one place I know that stays open until three o'clock in the morning?"

Inu-yasha turned around a little surprised at her offer. "What place?"

Kagome smiled a little and walked over to the work bench to grab her helmet. "Get your helmet!"

Inu-yasha arched an eyebrow and then shrugged as he grabbed his helmet off the top shelf above his bench. He strode out in his biking boots as Kagome put her helmet on. She glanced at her bike and then back at him. "You want to drive?"

Inu-yasha smirked and laughed. "If you're asking me to drive you'll be holding on for dear life."

Kagome smiled as Inu-yasha put on a silver domed helmet with a red visor that looked like one of those sporting helmets dirt bike riders wore, the same kind all drag racing bikers wore too. He mounted her bike and turned on the engine as Kagome hopped on in the front.

Inu-yasha snorted humorously. "You don't trust me?"

Kagome smiled behind her helmet. "Hold on!"

Inu-yasha gripped Kagome's sides as the wind blew in their faces and he had his face next to hers as his chest pressed into her back. The speed on her bike wasn't half bad, and Inu-yasha was used to it, but he wanted a reason to be closer to her body. A fact which she didn't protest as his arms circled around her waist and lower ribs.

Kagome finally slowed down and stopped at a burger place down the street. Inu-yasha waited until she brought the bike to a halt and turned off the engine before taking his helmet off. He looked at the restaurant and narrowed his brow in confusion. "Ah, Kagome, this place is closed."

Kagome smiled at him as she dismounted her bike. "It's only closed to certain people." She held out her hand to him and took his arm. "Come on!"

Taking his helmet with him, Inu-yasha tried to catch up with Kagome's pace as she dragged him around back and knocked on the door in some odd rhythm. A moment later the door was opened a crack and a short man with red hair stood before them. "Password?" he said in a young voice.

Kagome smiled and said, "Davison Sucks!"

The door was opened and the young teenager smiled. "Kagome, where have you been?"

She ruffled his hair with her hand as she walked in. "Up and around, Shippo! Where's Kaede? My friend and I are starving and I could really go for one of those old fashioned cheeseburgers of hers."

Inu-yasha took one step in and the teenager looked up at him and then back at Kagome. He smiled, "I knew Hojo wasn't going to last much longer," he said with a wink before scurrying off into the kitchen. "She's doing an inventory. I'll go get her and tell her you're here."

Kagome colored again and felt confused by the red head's previous statement. She stood up straight again and Inu-yasha looked around as he scratched the back of his head. "So, where do we go?"

Kagome turned to him and fixed a stray piece of hair in her face that her helmet had dislocated when she took it off. "You want to sit on the bar stools?"

Inu-yasha shrugged and followed her through the kitchen doors into the dimly lit dinning area as she turned on the lights near the bar. Kagome took a seat and put her helmet on the vacant seat next to her and Inu-yasha took the other seat beside her putting his helmet on the table and crossing his arms over it. He rested his chin in his hands and looked at the pictures on the wall behind the bar.

"Hey," he whispered once his eye caught something. "That's you up there isn't it? You and Kouga on that bike near this restaurant."

Kagome looked up at the picture and smiled. "Yeah, that was such a long time ago. It was my freshmen year of high school and I thought pigtails were cute back then. Jeez, I was such an airhead! I look like a dork in that picture."

They both laughed a little as Kagome blushed at her embarrassment. Inu- yasha looked at the bike in the picture. "Whose bike is that?"

Kagome sighed sadly and put her arms up on the table and rested her chin on them as she dazed off into the picture. "It was the first bike Kouga and I built together. I was fifteen and he was seventeen and loved his metal shop classes at the tech school near here. We didn't see each other a lot because I went to private school when our parents divorced. I lived with Mom and he went with Dad.

"When I graduated, I didn't want to live under my mom's new rules when her boyfriend moved in. When Kouga got his own place He said he had an extra bedroom and I took up the offer. I've been living with him most of the summer now."

Finally, the door to the kitchen opened and a large, old lady came out with two huge cheddar cheeseburgers hot off the grill in both hands. "I heard my little Kagome came down with a friend for a bite to eat, so I whipped up the best burgers I had for the both of you."

Kagome sat up with a bright smile and Inu-yasha did the same to be polite as the plates were placed before them. "How is your brother doing? I haven't seen him in months."

Kagome's smiled faded a little. "Oh, he's out of town for a few weeks to go and handle a part shipment he needs."

Kaede nodded as she cleaned her hands on her apron, and then took a glance at the young man who took a bite out of the cheeseburger. She smiled, "And who's this new comer?"

Inu-yasha quickly grabbed his napkin and wiped the mix of mayonnaise and mustard from the side of his mouth, feeling a little embarrassed to be eating like a pig in front of them. He was really hungry though!

Kagome giggled a little and put her hand on his shoulder. "This is Inu- yasha, he a motorcycle mechanic at that little garage down the block from the bar I work at."

Inu-yasha extended his hand. "It's nice to meet you!"

Kaede took it gently and they shook hands for a moment, before the old woman turned to Kagome and gave her a hidden wink and a smile. The young woman blushed and began to take a bite of her burger.

Inu-yasha drove the bike home that evening, but he went slower than he was used to since they had both just eaten those large cheeseburgers. When they got to the shop Inu-yasha dismounted and Kagome scooted forward. "What time should I get here on Tuesday?" she asked.

Inu-yasha removed his helmet. "How's about coming around closing time, again, umm, maybe 7 o'clock?"

Kagome smiled as she revved her motorcycle's engine. She smiled at him sweetly before pulling the tinted shield over her eyes. "I'll be there!"

With that Inu-yasha smiled and took a step back as she drove off. He watched her until she turned and waved for a moment before speeding down the road home.

Inu-yasha returned her wave good bye late and shook his head. He watched her as he suddenly found himself missing the feeling of having her legs around his hips as he drove her bike to the shop.

"What a ride!"

AN There you go! Chapter 4! Don't forget to review and tell me what you think!

SDR