A/N: I forgot to do a disclaimer in the first chapter. Sorry. Sorry.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and any of its characters. I do however, own the original plot. That's all I can afford anyways because I'm flat broke.

Just a lie

Chapter 2

Dark blue eyes opened to the sound of a loud alarm. A clumsy hand swatted at the nearby alarm clock in the nightstand, but could not manage to turn off the alarm. The said hand instead, threw it halfway across the room and the ringing continued on the floor.

Groaning with annoyance she got up to retrieve the clock, while she stumbled over many things on the ground. After reaching the damned thing, she slammed the off button with a triumphant yet disoriented "Aha!", and proceeded to head back to her bed to sleep for a few more hours when the phone rang.

She took it as a sign from god that she was not to be back in the comfort of her bed. A loud irritable groan escaped her mouth. She deserved sleep dammit! Why couldn't she get it!

To stifle her yawn, her hand raised to clamp over her mouth, as the other hand went to get her cordless phone by her nightstand.

"Hello?"

The young woman glanced at the clock and read 8:40am. It was far too late for her to be waking up. She woke up usually around 5am. A lot of work would need to be caught up later on.

The almost too cheerful voice on the other line of her phone broke her out of her half awakened state.

"Morning, Kagome, did you just wake up?"

Kagome blinked her eyes several times to get the blurriness out of them. She focused her eyes on the wall and when she felt that she could see clearly, she stopped. She vaguely wondered what she had looked like while doing that.

"Yea, I did--" Her yawn interrupted her from finishing her sentence.

"Deciding to sleep in late for once, huh? So, tell me. How did your date with Inuyasha go?"

Deciding against rolling her eyes at her friend's high school girl question, for she'd fall from dizziness, Kagome stretched her limbs and sighed.

"For the last time, Sango, it was not a date. It was a casual getting together."

The voice on the other side didn't sound so convinced.

"Sure, it was."

"I'm serious, Sango."

Sango scoffed and began to explain why she thought that their mere getting together to hang out was more than just a mere getting together.

She needed a bath. Kagome saw her reflection in the mirror and grimaced at the beauty that stared back at her.

'More like the beast' Kagome thought wryly.

She turned her attention to her raven locks and studied them with distaste. Her hair needed some serious work. It was decent, not horribly hopeless, but needed work. Kagome had neglected caring for her hair, because she naturally had healthy hair. But the constant working and the late nights took a toll on her body as well as her once gorgeous hair.

Kagomehad to admit that she missed the shine and gloss her hair had before. She was reminded of how pretty her hair was back then and how it was not now by those darned shampoo commercials on TV.

How she secretly envied those girls, even if their hair were probably not as perfect in real life. For everyone knew that everything was just a trick of the camera and the professional lighting that the sets always had.

After a while, she completely zoned out from their conversation and replied incoherent and thoughtless replies back to her friend in intervals she saw fit.

Unfortunately for her, Sango was smart. Her intelligence was usually a good thing, but it was very bad when used against one, because Sango had a temper.

Sensing that her sleepy friend was not paying attention, Sango managed to yell a great big loud, "Are you even listening to me!" To which, Kagome responded with wide eyes and head tilting quickly to the left so as not to damage her ears.

"Yes Sango. I am. I am listening to you. No, I'm not lying. I said, I wasn't!"

Sango not believing her, and taking slight offense at her best friend's actions, said that Miroku was calling her and that she had to go. Kagome nodded and said she'd meet up with her for lunch and was reminded by Sango that she had better tell her the juicy details later on.

Kagome agreed to it, although she did not know what juicy details she would have for Sango to bask in. There were no juicy details. If you would count the steak that they had for dinner, maybe there was, but other than that there was nothing.

The small chemistry between Inuyasha and herself back in high school had disappeared, as it should have. This was mainly because he was partially in love with her friend, Kikyou. It wasn't meant to be. And she and Inuyasha would never see each other as intimate partners after that.

Apparently, the thought was blasphemy to Sango, who had watched her pining for Inuyasha in their younger years.

Sure, she had a crush on him. Or maybe a big crush. Or maybe, she liked him so much that she wanted to believe that even with him liking her friend that they could work it out somehow between them. But her pride wouldn't let her, and she broke off any romance that the two had in between them and let her friend and Inuyasha become a couple. But not even a month later, the two lovers broke up when Kikyou had been unfaithful. And it was found out later on that Inuyasha himself had also been unfaithful because he couldn't help but feel insecure of Kikyou's perfection. And that's what Kikyou was perfection.

'And I'm not.' A depressed voice said in the back of her head. Her hair, her workaholic tendencies, and her lack of a love life for one, reminded her of that constantly, day after day.

Now that she was fully awake and quite moody, Kagome thought that a hot shower was in store for her. She placed the phone back into its niche and head for the baby blue warmness of her bathroom.

Once inside, she stipped her nightgown off and stepped into the shower stall, fully ready to indulge herself with the hot water that were to be soon trickling down her body. As the water turned on, she sighed and closed her eyes.

Today would be another long, boring, meaningless, routine-like day for her.

Or so she thought.

A/N: Thank you to those who reviewed. You made mai day and as promised here is the second chapter. This was more of a This is Kagome kind of chapter. Nothing exciting is happening yet. This is officially my first fiction that I'm actually continuing with chapters, and I want to build it and make it perfect! Also, a reviewer said that Sesshoumaru was cold and mean. Haha… he's supposed to be that way. That's how he is in the manga and anime. However, he will not remain that way as the story progresses further into its somewhat complex plot. I don't like stories that just….make him be this cold ruthless person and then the next chapter he's all Mr. nice guy with Kagome. Those are too OOC for me. Although there are some great authors that can pull that off, I can't. TT.TT. Read, review, recommend, and return for more!