Sorry this took me long to update, I was lazy. So, for your reading enjoyment, I present the next chapter in my story. Wow, I sound so formal, it doesn't sound right on me. Let me change that. Now for those of you who are reading this, here it is...that sounds right.
Disclaimer: No, I don't own it...but possibly sometime in the near future I will.
Chapter 8-The Hyper Cereal Crunching Kid
Inuyasha walked over to Miroku's with Kagome to baby sit this cousin, Shippo. The whole walk was relatively silent, not too much talk. Inuyasha wondered what Kagome was thinking about. He finally decided to break the ice and say something.
"So, how are you?" He asked.
"Good."
"Good, um...what's up?" He asked.
"Just walking with you."
This wasn't working like how he planned it.
"Why are you being so quiet?" He asked.
"No reason," she said.
'She's probably still mad that I'm a guy and I lied to her. Geez, it's not that big of a deal!' Inuyasha thought. "No reason eh, yeah right! You're mad at me for something."
"I'm not mad at you," Kagome said unconvincingly.
"I know you are, just say it! It's because I'm...not what you thought I was, right?"
"I'm not saying anything."
They finally reached where Miroku, and where Inuyasha used to live. Inuyasha pounded on the door loudly. He heard someone running and then Miroku opened up the door.
"Great, glad you're here. I'm almost late," Miroku said running around looking for something.
"For your date?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yes."
"Hey Miroku, why is Sango going on a date with you? I mean, she thought you and Inuyasha went out," Kagome asked.
"Not anymore!" Miroku said picking up his wallet and putting it in the back pocket of his jeans.
"Not anymore, did you say we broke up?" Inuyasha asked.
"No, not quite," Miroku said.
"Well what did you say?" Inuyasha asked.
"I would love to talk about this Inuyasha, but I really have to go!" Miroku said nervously walking to the door.
"Oh no you don't!" Inuyasha said grabbing Miroku by the collar of his shirt. "What did you tell her?"
"Well...it's not what I told her, it's more like...what I showed her."
"What?" Inuyasha was confused.
"Well, I showed her a picture of you...not a girl."
"What? What did you show her?"
"Well, remember when I took those pictures before you first went to school?" Miroku asked.
"You took pictures?!"
"Yeah, I did."
"Oh, do you still have them?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah, they're in the kitchen!" Miroku said turning in the direction of the kitchen.
Inuyasha, who still held onto Miroku's collar, pulled him back. "You're not showing her any pictures!"
"So Sango knows that Inuyasha's a guy?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah, and I also told her that we were both straight, so she gave me a chance," Miroku said.
"I can't believe you took pictures of me," Inuyasha said.
Then Inuyasha heard some laughing coming from the kitchen. Turning around he realized that Kagome wasn't in the room with them.
"Oh crap!" Inuyasha said running into the kitchen.
Kagome was standing at a small dining table where pictures of Inuyasha in a skirt, after he got a waxing job, and him in full school uniform were spread out. Kagome was laughing so hard that she looked like she might fall over.
"You showed these to Sango?!" Inuyasha yelled at Miroku alarmed. He turned around and saw that Miroku had already left. "That ass."
"These are hilarious!" Kagome finally managed to say. "I wonder if he got doubles."
"He'd better not have," Inuyasha said gathering up all the photos.
"So where's that Shippo kid?" Kagome asked after she managed to stop laughing.
"You think I know? This apartment's not big, there's not many places he could be. He's probably in the bedroom or something."
"I'll go look," Kagome said.
Inuyasha started to rip up and throw away the pictures of him when he heard something moving around in the pantry.
"Shippo's not in this room," Kagome said coming out of the bedroom.
"I think we have a rat in the pantry," Inuyasha said.
"Ewe!" Kagome squeaked.
"Oh come on! It's just a little mouse," Inuyasha said walking over to where he heard the noise.
Then a crunching sound was heard.
"Ewe, it's eating something!" Kagome squeaked.
"Geez, girls."
Inuyasha opened up the pantry and saw a small little kid with brown hair sitting in it eating a box of Captain Crunch cereal.
"That's one big rat," Inuyasha said lifting up the kid by the back of his shirt. "Would you be Shippo?"
The kid stared at Inuyasha still holding onto the cereal and nodded. "Who're you?"
"We're your babysitters," Inuyasha said sitting Shippo on the counter.
"Where's Miroku?" Shippo asked.
"He's out on a date," Kagome said.
"That figures," Shippo said.
"It does? I never see him out on a date," Inuyasha said.
"Hey, you've got a really manly voice," Shippo said to Inuyasha.
"Oh really?"
"Well, she's not the most feminine person," Kagome said.
"I can kind of tell, she's very muscley," Shippo said.
"Yeah I know, I do try to workout," Inuyasha bragged.
"Yeah sure," Kagome said.
"I'm bored!" Shippo suddenly yelled out.
"Well what do you want to do?" Inuyasha asked.
"I want to watch TV...and eat ice cream...and popcorn at the same time!" Shippo said excitedly.
"Yeah sure," Inuyasha said walking over to the freezer.
"Inuyasha, I don't think that we should feed him that," Kagome said.
"What's the problem?" Inuyasha asked.
"Inuyasha? That's a funny name!" Shippo said jumping down from the counter.
"Well, that's her nickname. Her real name is Hikaru," Kagome said.
"That's funny, you know Miroku used to have a dog named Hikaru," Shippo said.
"I know," Inuyasha grunted.
Shippo scurried into the living room and onto a couch. Inuyasha started to pop some popcorn and scooped out the ice cream.
"Well, I'm going into the living room," Kagome said walking out.
"Oh yeah, don't help me, I'm ok!" Inuyasha yelled after Kagome.
"This is your job! I'm just supervising," Kagome said sitting on the couch.
"Big help you are," Inuyasha mumbled to himself.
He brought the bowls of ice cream and popcorn out and handed it to Shippo, who started to devour both in seconds. Then he went back into the kitchen and brought out two more bowls of ice cream and handed one to Kagome.
"Thanks Inu-Hikaru," Kagome said.
"Yeah, you're lucky I'm nice," Inuyasha said sitting down on the couch on the other side of Shippo.
"You forgot to get me a spoon," Kagome said.
"Whoops, I guess I forgot," Inuyasha said more interested in the TV than her problems.
"Yeah, I bet you are," Kagome got up and walked over to the kitchen. When she came back she found that Inuyasha had changed the TV to Jerry Springer, and him and Shippo were starring at women without tops beating up guys on a stage. Kagome quickly found the remote and changed the TV to the discovery channel. "Are you crazy Inuyasha? Shippo's too young to watch Jerry Springer!"
"Oh, and I guess that the mating habbits of frogs is better for him?" Inuyasha said sarcastically pointing to the screen.
"I didn't know frogs could do that," Shippo said starring at the TV.
"Ack!" Kagome quickly turned off the TV. 'All there ever is on TV is half-naked people and sex,' Kagome thought.
"Well now what do we do?" Inuyasha asked.
"Um, well, who likes board games?" Kagome asked.
"I like em!" Shippo said excitedly running to the closet.
"Is that where Miroku keeps his games?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah, and I like this game!" Shippo said opening up the closet and pulling out the game of Life.
"Ok, we'll play life," Kagome said walking over to Shippo.
"Life? We're going to play Life?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yes, now sit over down," Kagome said.
He, he, he, it's a good thing Inuyasha doesn't have the prayer beads on in this story or his head would really be hurting now.
Inuyasha sat down and him, Kagome, and Shippo formed a small circle around the board game and played and played and played some more. Finally it got later and Shippo finally fell to sleep.
"Finally! I didn't think he was ever gonna sleep!" Inuyasha said happily.
"Shhh!" Kagome put a finger to her mouth, "do you want to wake him? It's a wonder he ever fell asleep with all the sugar you fed him."
Kagome put up the game and carried Shippo to Miroku's bed to sleep. Inuyasha flopped onto the couch and sighed. Kagome walked back into the room.
"What now?" Kagome asked.
"We wait until Miroku comes back," Inuyasha said. "Miroku's gotta have something good around here to watch," he said getting up and looking around.
The TV sat on top of a chest that contained a lot of videos. Inuyasha opened up the top drawer and just looked down at the mountains of porn movies. He shut that drawer and continued to the next one. Kagome came over and stood beside him.
"What?" Inuyasha asked.
"Nothing, I'm just going to help you pick out a movie. If I let you pick it out on your own we might end up watching something really bad."
"My taste in movies isn't that bad," Inuyasha said sifting through the movies.
"This one looks good," Kagome said pointing to a movie.
"No chick flicks," Inuyasha said.
"How about this?" Inuyasha asked pointing to a movie.
"No, I hate that movie," Kagome said.
This continued for a long time. Finally they both saw a movie they liked, and they both reached for it at the same time, causing them to touch each other's hand. They both recoiled and looked away.
Inuyasha looked at Kagome, "You like that movie?"
Kagome looked at Inuyasha, "You like it?"
They both nodded at each other and just sat there not moving.
"You guys gonna kiss or what?" Shippo said suddenly popping up behind them.
Inuyasha and Kagome both gave a startled jump and looked at Shippo.
"Weren't you asleep?" Inuyasha asked.
"For a minute or two," Shippo said. "So what are we watching?" Shippo asked sitting on the couch.
Inuyasha and Kagome sighed and put the videotape back in the chest and turned the TV on. They ended up watching Hamtaro on TV. After what seemed like forever, Miroku finally came back.
"Hi," He said shutting the door behind him.
"That took you long enough," Inuyasha said.
"Hi Miroku!" Shippo said starring at the TV.
"Shouldn't you be in bed?" Miroku asked.
"Nope! I'm watching TV!"
"Well, am I going to get paid for working so late?" Inuyasha asked.
"This was payback for making me your boyfriend," Miroku said, "remember?"
"Miroku, you went out with this girl?" Shippo asked.
"Well, not really," Miroku said.
"This was worse than that," Inuyasha said.
"Hey! It wasn't that bad hanging out with me!" Shippo protested.
"She didn't mean it like that," Kagome said, "she's just cranky."
"Who's cranky?" Inuyasha asked.
"See what I mean, we should probably get back and go to sleep," Kagome said.
"You owe me Miroku!" Inuyasha said as he was being pulled out the door by Kagome.
They walked down the stairs of the apartment complex and out the door. It was really late.
"That was so boring!" Inuyasha said.
"It wasn't so bad," Kagome said.
"We ended up watching that hamster show instead of a movie."
"You would have rather watched a movie with me then?" Kagome asked.
'Ah, is this some kind of trick question?' Inuyasha thought. 'How am I supposed to answer this?' "Um, well, I would have rather done anything else than watch that show."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Just what it sounds like."
"Oh really," Kagome sounded annoyed.
"What's wrong?"
"Oh, nothing! Nothing at all!" Kagome walked faster, and she stayed away from Inuyasha the rest of the way home.
"What did I say?!"
That's it for this chapter. You should be happy that this is a long chapter. It took up 8 pages! The last statement made was by Inuyasha just in case some of you didn't guess. Oh yeah, next chapter you'll find out Sango's side to why she went out with Miroku. Something to look forward to! Well here's your answers to reviews!
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