Author's Note: Wow...so many reviews...I love you all! You're so awesome. :P

Now, unfortunately I don't have a lot of time to write, but I managed to get this chapter finished! There's quite a bit of fluff, so those of you that love fluff will be glad. :D

Disclaimer: I do not own Twister,or pretty much anything with a brand name listed in this fanfic.

On with the story!

Chapter 12: Party Time!

"Sango, if you call me one more time, I'm going to have to walk right over to your house and poke you!" Kagome said, exasperated, her ear sore from holding the phone against it for so long. Sango had called her every five minutes for the past hour or so, making sure that she had everything ready and wouldn't be late and what if she needed a ride and do you need any makeup or jewelry? In any case, Kagome had everything completely ready and was getting a little tired of her friend's constant badgering. She had been told that she was wearing a spaghetti strap lavender top with a purple-bead necklace and black jeans. Apparently she looked good in the outfit.

"Okay, Kagome, we're ready to go," her mother called from down the stairs. Kagome's heart skipped a beat as she found herself imagining herself, sitting in Sango's house beside Inuyasha, maybe playing some sort of game, or even just sitting there. To feel his warm presence beside her...

She mentally shook herself, told herself to wake up. Pull yourself together, she said. Heprobably doesn't like you. So just stop thinking about him that way.

She steeled herself and walked to her bedroom door, making her way down the stairs and along the route to the kitchen that she knew so well. She could hear her mother bustling about, looking for her car keys, and then hurrying over to Kagome and fixing some small imperfection in her hair. "You look wonderful, my dear," she said, and Kagome knew she was beaming. She smiled back.

"Thanks, mum, but can we just go?" she asked. Her mother laughed.

"Of course. I wouldn't keep you away from your friends for any longer than necessary," she said, a knowing tone in her voice. Kagome rolled her eyes.

"I don't have a crush on him," she said defiantly.

"Of course you don't. Come on, let's go," her mother said, wrapping her arm around her daughter's shoulders and directing her towards the car.

It didn't take very long for them to pull to a halt in front of Sango's house. Sango herself was waiting in the front door with Miroku hidden in a closet and Inuyasha behind a coat rack, temporarily forgetting that Kagome was blind anyways. Sango saw Kagome coming and signaled to the two boys, who had to stifle their snickers. "Almost here...approaching doorway..." Sango whispered, then smiled widely when the doorbell rang. She swung it open and exclaimed "Kagome!"

Kagome grinned and waved. "Anyone else here yet?" she asked.

"Nope. You're first. You're early!"

"Yeah, well, you just kept calling me!" Kagome exclaimed. "I swear, my ear hurts." Sango chuckled.

"Come on, let's go downstairs," Sango said, grabbing Kagome by the hand and beginning to lead her towards the basement. Kagome paused, looking around; in the direction of Inuyasha. "What's up?" Sango asked, noting where she was looking.

"I heard something," Kagome replied, letting go of Sango's hand and moving towards the coat rack. Inuyasha shrank down into the shadows, coiling up.

From Kagome's perspective, she was moving through nothingness towards a scuffling sound she had heard, and then all of the sudden something had been hurled against her stomach, throwing her backwards onto the floor; and it was laughing.

From Inuyasha's perspective, Kagome had come just within range and he had pushed off against the wall, toppling her over and knocking her to the floor, laughing at her utterly shocked expression as her hands immediately flew to his face.

"Inuyasha!" she said, sitting up and pushing Inuyasha off her. "What...Sango, you liar!" she accused, a grin on her face. Sango laughed maliciously.

"Sorry, Kags, but I just couldn't help it," she said. "Miroku's here too."

"I must say you made a wonderful entrance," Miroku said, majestically sweeping his arms in front of him. "Quite frankly, I'm surprised you didn't scream."

"When you're friends with four people as crazy as you guys are, you get used to things like this happening," Kagome said, taking the hand that Inuyasha held out to her and pulling herself up.

"Well, now that that's over and done with, what do we want to do first?" Sango asked. "There's games like Twister, maybe Truth or Dare, or Trunk; and then we have movies, and food, and party stuff...maybe hide and seek..." Sango's eyes glazed over somewhat as she thought of all the possible activities.

"What's Trunk?" Inuyasha asked. "I really don't like the sound of that one."

"I have a costume trunk," Sango explained. "You have to reach in a hat and pull out a number at random, and then put on the costume that corresponds to that number."

"That sounds stupid," Inuyasha snorted.

"It sounds funny," Kagome countered. "You guys would have to describe them to me."

"But of course," Miroku agreed. "We must keep that one in mind, but right now I'm in the mood for some Twister. And after that maybe some other games, and at the end a movie. With, of course, junk food throughout the whole affair."

"Sounds good to me," Sango said. "I recently got this Twister computer program that'll spin a wheel on its own and say "Player 1, left foot green," or whatever, so we can all play. Kagome, are you going to need help?"

"No, I have experience with Twister," she said. "So long as I'm on the end with the red on the left and the green on the right, I know where all the dots are."

"Sounds good, then," Sango said, winking at Miroku. "Off we go."

The four of them went down the carpeted stairs into the basement, which was a warm and brightly lit affair. There was a white carpet on the ground and the walls were painted a kind of off-white colour, and there was a white stucco ceiling. The walls were bare. Sango grabbed the Twister box and led Kagome into the middle of the room. The two girls spread out the Twister mat between them and Inuyasha powered up the computer in the corner. Miroku plugged in the speakers.

"All set on this end," Sango said, smiling at Miroku and Inuyasha.

"Ready for takeoff," Inuyasha announced, pressing a button on the program. "It's going to give us two minutes to get ready." Sango steered Kagome over to her place on the mat and then assumed her own position opposite her. Miroku and Inuyasha took the sides.

"I'm player one," Sango said. "Miroku, you're two: Kagome, three, Inuyasha four. Okay?"

"No problems here," Inuyasha said, rubbing his hands together. "Twister is a piece of cake."

"Player one, left foot green," the computer announced.

"Oh, that's easy," Sango said, placing her left foot on the leftmost dot. The computer allowed some time to pass before the next declaration.

"Player two, right hand yellow." Miroku followed the instructions.

"Player three, right hand green." Kagome did so, placing her hand in the exact centre of the circle.

"Player four, left hand green."

"Oh, you've got to be kidding me; that's on the other side of the bloody board!" Inuyasha exclaimed, reaching over all the other dots to put his left hand on a green one.

There were a couple more rounds before things started to get interesting.

"Player one, right foot yellow," the computer announced, and Sango had to put her foot underneath Miroku in order to get to a yellow dot. "Player two, left hand red," placed Miroku over Inuyasha's foot. "Player three, left foot blue," forced Kagome to stretch out pretty far, and then "Player four, right hand green," made Inuyasha reach over her stomach. They were all effectively tangled.

"What the hell is this?" Inuyasha grumbled. "Some stupid computer making us all look like idiots."

"It's the game, idiot," Miroku retorted. After a few more rounds Miroku found himself with most of his weight on one arm.

"Augh, I can't do this," he said, his arm shaking under the pressure. "Guys..."

"Don't do it!" Sango exclaimed. "You'll take us all down with you!"

"I...can't..." Miroku said, with a healthy heaping of melodramatics. "Ate...too many cookies..." And with that, he fell over, taking everybody else with him. Inuyasha was sprawled over Kagome's stomach and waist, with Miroku across his legs and Sango lying on her back with Miroku's shoulders under hers.

"You idiot," Sango joked, poking Miroku in the head. "Okay, get up."

"Can't," he replied. "You weigh too much."

SLAP.

"It's true," Miroku asserted. "Either that or I'm just a weakling," he quickly corrected, seeing Sang raise her hand again. "Of course, you'll probably take the latter."

"Of course," Sango said, picking herself up and smiling at the sight; Kagome, Inuyasha and Miroku were tangled almost beyond help. "Should I call a doctor or something?" she asked, grinning widely. Inuyasha glared at her but couldn't think of much aside from the fact that he was practically lying on Kagome.

She, too, was very focused on that fact, but for a slightly different reason; she could hardly breath. She tried to squirm out of it but failed.

"Inuyasha," she began. "Get off me, too heavy."

"You sound like Miroku," Inuyasha grumbled, not noticing her shortness of breath.

"Can't breath," she said, her voice reduced to a half-whisper as she tried again to get out from under Inuyasha. This time Inuyasha looked at her and noticed that he was probably crushing her lungs. He quickly put his arms under him and lifted himself up from her, but couldn't actually stand because Miroku was refusing to; and with Miroku on his legs it was difficult to get his balance.

"Better?" he asked Kagome, whose face was now directly beneath him. Miroku was grinning, not moving from his position on Inuyasha, enjoying seeing the two of them so obviously embarrassed. Both of their faces were beet red.

"Yeah, thanks," she replied, smiling up at him and moving herself out of the way. When she had managed to free herself from her previous position, Inuyasha put his hands where she had been and violently pushed upwards, sending Miroku spinning away. He fell onto the ground, rubbing his shoulder where he had landed.

"Aww, that was unnecessary," Miroku said, looking gloomily up at Inuyasha, who snorted.

"Feh," he said, putting his hands on his hips. "You deserved it." Kagome grinned, looking over at Sango.

"I get the feeling that Inuyasha's not going to want to play any more Twister," she observed. Inuyasha nodded.

"Stupid game," he muttered under his breath.

"Point proven. So, what next?" Sango asked.

"I'm tired of physical activity," Miroku said, rubbing his shoulder for added emphasis. "Inuyasha is evil."

"That may be true, but -you're- the one that didn't get off me until I had to throw you off," Inuyasha said. "You're a horrible manipulator."

"How so?" Miroku asked, looking up at Inuyasha with mockingly innocent eyes. Inuyasha grumbled.

"You obviously knew I couldn't throw you off without moving."

"Oh, and if you moved you might have accidentally crushed Kagome, is that it?" Miroku summarized, grinning. Inuyasha's face went red again and he approached Miroku, looking as though he was ready to throttle the other boy. Sango cut in before the angry half-demon could do any real damage.

"Well, if Miroku doesn't want to do any physical activity, Truth or Dare sounds like a good alternative," she said. "Who'll go first?"

"Oooh, I will," Miroku said. "Kagome! Truth, dare, or double dare?"

"Aren't there usually more options, like promise to repeat, fire in the barn, cat in the hole, all that stuff?" Kagome asked.

"Yeah, but they suck," Sango explained. "We cut it down to the good stuff."

Kagome sighed. "All right," she said, defeated. "Umm...truth."

Miroku paused, thinking, rubbing his chin. "Did you enjoy the Twister game? The end of it included?"

Kagome hesitated, her face going a little red. "Yeah," she finally answered. Inuyasha flushed. "I like Twister," she said, as if saving face. "Sango. Truth, dare, double dare?"

Sango grinned evilly. "Double dare."

"Crap, I hate that..." Kagome said. "That means you and I both have to do the dare, right?" Sango nodded, then remembered that Kagome was blind and said 'yes' out loud. "Okay...um..." She suddenly wore a mischievous expression on her face. "Dance like a ballerina fairy."

Sango gasped. "What!" she exclaimed. "You can't possibly expect me to do that? And you have to do it too," she added.

"Yeah, but I don't really care and I know you'll hate it," Kagome explained, still grinning evilly as she stood up and did a little fairy dance. Miroku and Inuyasha clapped, then looked expectantly at Sango.

"Oh, fine," she said, standing up resentfully and doing a little jig on the spot. Inuyasha and Miroku cheered and Miroku hooted a bit, earning himself a hard slap from Sango. He didn't seem to notice it; both boys were virtually rolling on the floor with laughter.

"Shut up," Sango said. "Inuyasha. Truth, dare, double dare."

"Dare, always," he said, grinning widely. Sango's eyes flashed.

"Let Kagome rub your ears for five minutes," she said, without hesitation, as if she had been planning this for a long time. Inuyasha growled at her.

"That's evil," he said, but Sango was already leading Kagome over to Inuyasha, and she sat down and leaned against him, raising her hand to his head.

"Thankies, Sango," she said, almost laughing out loud as the low rumble of happiness came from Inuyasha's chest when she began to scratch at his abominably cute dog-ears.

"Truth, dare, or double dare, Miss Ear-Scratcher," he grumbled, trying to sound upset but only achieving a slightly darkened cheery tone. Kagome laughed.

"Dare, then, since you seem to love them so much," she answered, still happily rubbing Inuyasha's ears. "Four more minutes of this."

"I dare you to stop scratching my ears," he said defiantly.

"You can't contradict previous dares," Sango interrupted, smiling. "You need something better than that."

"I need to go to the bathroom," Miroku announced, rather suddenly. "Sango, can you show me where it is?"

Sango looked at him skeptically, but shrugged and led him up the stairs into the main floor. Inuyasha listened as they walked away and then turned to face Kagome. She stopped rubbing his ears, smiling.

"Do you really hate it that much?" she asked, patting his head remorsefully. Inuyasha laughed, leaning a little closer to her.

"Nah, it's not that bad," he said and she grinned widely, quickly giving him a hug.

"I thought so," she said happily. "Now, are you going to give me a dare or what?" She turned her face so she was looking up into Inuyasha's eyes. The fact that she was staring straight at him without being able to see him unnerved Inuyasha a little bit, but only for a moment; he was distracted by how close he was to Kagome, his face maybe ten inches from hers. He smiled lightly; yeah, there was one dare that he'd love to give - but he couldn't. He still doubted the fact that she liked him; he was still trying to convince himself that he -didn't- want to kiss her.

"I dare you to tell me what you're thinking right now," Inuyasha said. Kagome shook her head.

"That's not a dare, that's a truth," she said.

"No it's not; a dare is something that you don't want to do but would amuse the people around you," Inuyasha retorted. "You obviously don't want to tell me what you're thinking, but I would like to know."

Kagome leaned against him, hesitating. "I was thinking of the decline of bravery and chivalry on the part of males," she answered, after a few moments of silence. "How times have changed."

"How so?" Inuyasha asked, intrigued by her answer.

"Well," Kagome began, "in the past, if an opportunity presented itself to someone, they would be brave enough to take a chance and do something." Something glinted in her eyes as she looked up at Inuyasha; he recognized the same look that she had given him that time when they were sitting outside in the storm; when she got a flash of sight and recognized him.

"Did you just see me?" Inuyasha asked, unnerved again, and the doubt about her feelings began to fade from his mind.

"Does it matter?" Kagome answered. "Whether or not I can see you, the chance is still there."

Inuyasha smiled, hearing hopeful tones in her voice. "What if the problem isn't a lack of bravery, but supreme chivalry in the form of not wanting to take a chance that could hurt someone else?"

Miroku and Sango, listening to the conversation at the top of the stairs, found themselves very confused. What on earth were those two talking about?

"Then the problem may not be a lack of bravery, but a lack of faith," Kagome answered.

"Is he going to kiss her or what?" Miroku whispered. Sango elbowed him in the side, silently telling him to shut up.

"But is that lack of faith misplaced?" Inuyasha asked, oblivious to the fact that Miroku and Sango were hanging on to his every word.

"Definitely," Kagome replied. The doubt in her own mind had all but faded away into nothingness. Her thoughts were running along the same lines as Miroku's were.

Inuyasha leaned in a bit closer to her, with Miroku and Sango silently cheering him on. His face was now mere inches from Kagome.

"Can you see me now?" he whispered. Kagome grinned.

"It doesn't matter very much, now does it?" she replied. "I mean, doesn't-"

Inuyasha cut her off by moving his face quickly closer to Kagome, bringing his lips in contact with hers. Miroku and Sango, watching from their own secluded place at the top of the stairs, both punched the air at the exact same time. Finally! They had been waiting for so long. As if in celebration, Miroku gave Sango a quick kiss of his own.

When Inuyasha and Kagome finally pulled away from Kagome, the girl was beaming. "Turns out that chivalry's not dead after all," she said. Inuyasha laughed.

Author's Note: Okay, okay. That chapter was nothing but pure fluff. I had to get it out of my system, though, and now I need your advice: should the next chapter have a ton of fluff in it as well, or should something plot-ful happen? Give me your ideas! I love hearing from you guys!