First of all, Happy Halloween guys! (A little late, but whatever) Yeah, it's the coolest holiday ever.

Kogas-angel: Yeah, I thought about throwing in competition, but you'll see how Hojo, the stupid idiot, will play out in this story.

Demonspawn666: I totally agree with that, I should've thought harder before choosing The Notebook. It was just one of those inspirational moments after I finished watching it, you know?

ILOVEInuyasha07: You shall find out won't you…stay tuned.

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Crawling in the Dark

Chapter 16

"'Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do,
Nothing to lose.
And it's you and me and all of the people,
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you."

- You and Me by Lifehouse

Ayame, the hyper red head, giggled as she sat on the couch with a phone in her hand. She was talking to Kouga, which she met just two days ago. For Ayame however, it was like love at first sight. She couldn't stop talking about him!

"Oh Kouga, of course I want to see you again, after all, you live so close. I know! I can't believe you're going to be a dentist, I admire dentists."

She giggled some more.

"Well, okay, I have to go too, see you Kouga!"

She hung up the phone with a dreamy sigh.

"I can't believe it guys, he asked me out!" She then went into the bathroom to apply make up and brush her hair. She had another music rehearsal today. According to the instructor, they might even be recording it if it turns out good enough. Kouga got her in such a good mood.

Just then, the phone rang.

"Oh! Maybe it's Kouga!" Ayame immediately picked up the phone. Sango and Kagome were just sitting there watching television. "Oh, it's for you Kagome!"

"Wow, who could possibly call me?" Kagome said to herself, it was probably Nobunaga, or one of the actors who got confused of the schedule. "Hello?" She answered.

"Hey Kagome."

"Oh my God! Hojo!"

"Yes, it's me, how are you doing?"

"I'm doing great!" Kagome smiled, "About time you called."

"Yeah, I'm so sorry; I've been really busy lately."

"Yeah, so how's school. Anything I need to know about?" Kagome seriously needed some catching up to do.

There was a silence, then, "Oh, nothing really happened. Everything's the same."

"Oh, that's good. How's life?"

There was another silence. Kagome wished Hojo could be the talker type, but he wasn't. Every time they were together, Kagome usually did all the talking and asking, but it didn't seem too bad. She was getting used to it, and it was working pretty well. She enjoyed Hojo and Hojo probably enjoyed being around her.

"Well, life is not too good. I got a B in Biology." His voice was deep and low.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry Hojo!" Kagome gasped, both Hojo and she were straight A students, a B could not be afforded.

"Yeah, me too, but then it's my fault I guess. I got a 91.45 in that class, and you know how it is, they don't give out A-. A- goes directly to a B." He sighed, "It was my fault though, I could've studied more."

"You'll do better next semester, I swear, just keep on working, okay Hojo?" She tried comforting him, but it was kind of hard.

"Yeah, I guess so, well, I have to go. I've got class in half an hour, have three tests today."

"Oh, good luck Hojo! I miss you a lot!" Kagome frowned.

"Yeah, me too, bye Kagome, hope to see you soon!"

And they hung up.

"Who was that Kagome?" Ayame asked, getting out of the bathroom.

"Oh, just Hojo."

"He finally called!" With that, she and Sango went out the door to practice.

Kagome glanced at the clock; she had forty-five minutes left until today's shoots. It was her third day of shooting and it already seemed pretty familiar. All she did was memorize most of the lines, get the basic idea down, rehearse it many times, shoot it, and repeat. It wasn't too hard, but sometimes Nobunaga got on her nerves, he expected everything to be perfect, and sometimes it was impossible to do that. His standards were too high. But then of course, that's how you get a good movie, all directors were probably like this. Kagome wondered what other directors were like. If they were all like Nobunaga, she didn't know how many years of acting she could stand, that is, if she got to be in another movie.

She got to the scene. Today was going to be more peaceful, happy, and romantic ones. The shoot was at a lake, with a mansion. This was far later in the movie, but they had rented it for today, so they only had a day to shoot it.

"Hey everyone," she greeted them as she got out of her car and headed towards the crew, everybody was already there.

Nobunaga immediately started his lecture about their whole plan. After what seemed like hours, they were finally done and ready to rehearse.

They rehearsed until the afternoon, in a few hours the sun was going to set, they better start quickly.

The make up crew came up and sat them in chairs to do their make up. The costume crew came up to make sure everything fit exactly right.

"Hey Kagome, good job back there," Inuyasha said as a girl put powder on his face.

"Yeah, you too, this is the easiest day yet." Kagome smiled.

"No kidding, I mean there's no drama today, I'm getting sick of that."

"Yeah, me too, but then that's what makes this movie good." Kagome winced a little as the make up crew started rushing a little on her make up.

"Well, hopefully it'll be good."

"Inuyasha, don't scare me!"

"Just a thought…"

Working with Kagome hadn't been as hard as he thought. Both of them made it really easy on themselves and they just became friends, nothing more nothing less. He liked it a lot that way, there was no tension between them, especially when acting some of drama and angst scenes. They had finished the breakup and fighting scenes just yesterday and he thought it turned out wonderfully. After shooting, they even laughed and joked about what went wrong with the scene.

"Okay, let's rehearse this two more times, just to make sure." Nobunaga clasped his hands together.

And so they did. Kagome, Allie, and Inuyasha, Noah, rowed a boat together and talked, they rode bicycles around the park, Kagome also jumped into a fake lake, and there were many scenes. Ayame and Sango's orchestra actually got to play for these scenes, it turned out great.

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"Alright, good job everyone, what a day! I'm very proud of all of you! You are dismissed!" Nobunaga finished his last lines.

Inuyasha and Kagome looked around, most of the cast and crew had left, for it was already dark and probably pretty late. The orchestra left a few hours ago also.

"Well, what do you wanna do?" Inuyasha came up to Kagome.

"What do you mean?" Kagome gave him a puzzled look.

"Well, it's only…" He looked at his watch, "midnight…"

"Yeah, only midnight," Kagome rolled her eyes.

"Well, let's go do something," he suggested. After acting out these scenes today, Inuyasha really wanted to hang on and just talk to Kagome more, just as friends. He felt relaxed around her, and even though some of her jokes were corny, but it made him relieved after a stressful day.

"Well, I don't know, wanna get ice cream?"

"Ice cream sounds great and I know just the place."

Both Kagome and Inuyasha drove their separate cars to Ice n' Cream, it opened 24 hours a day and seven days a week. They went inside, it looked deserted.

"Well, there are usually a lot more people in the day." He looked up at the list of different ice cream cones and flavors.

"Yeah, I would expect that." She also looked at the menu list. There were all different kinds of cones, some she hadn't even heard of, like a 'Chocolate Wrap Crisp' or a 'Toffee Coffee Twist'. Also, there were endless flavors of ice creams. "Wow, all these look delicious."

"Well, you better get a good one because this will probably be the last ice cream we have as a normal person. Next time we walk in here, there will be video cameras and news reporters surrounding us." He smirked then said, "I'll have the 'Rocky Road Cone' with double chocolate ice cream."

"And I'll have the 'Strawberry Banana Crisp' with cookie dough ice cream." She smiled, "Do you really think one movie is going to make us that famous?"

"Oh, you bet, I could see it now…"

"Oh, stop dreaming, we're not even half way done."

"To tell you the truth, we're not even one tenth done."

"Wow, good math."

"I know huh." Inuyasha got his cone and found a spot at the back of the restaurant. Kagome got hers and followed him.

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Kikyo sat on her couch and slouched down until her head touched the top of the couch, "Inuyasha has been so busy lately, and he hasn't called me or anything."

Naraku sat beside her and sighed, "Well, what can I say? He's working on a movie." He wanted her so bad.

"Yes, I know, I'll just try to think of it that way. When the movie is done, he'll be famous and so will I."

"Of course you will Kikyo; you are the most beautiful girl."

Kikyo giggled, "What else am I Naraku?"

Naraku scoot closer to her and wrapped his arms around her waist, "Well…" Kikyo leaned her head on his shoulder, "You are pretty much the whole world to me. You are everything you and I could dream of and well, you're beautiful, did I mention that already?"

"Thanks Naraku, I knew I could count on you, you always cheer me up." She smiled.

"That's why I love you."

"And I love you too, always." Kikyo replied.

"Do you want to see another way that I can cheer you up and show my love to you, babe?"

Kikyo giggled, this was the start of another night with Naraku.

Oh boy, stupid Kikyo, but what can I do? Nothing of course!

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