Disclaimer: I do own it. I'm NOT insane…I think.
Story: Due to the jewel shards on their necks, the last four members of the Shichinintai were somehow able to travel to Kagome's time. Unfortunately for her, the well has sealed up. At least they don't have their weapons!
Set after Ginkotsu's death.
Spoilers: After Ginkotsu's death, no.
Warnings: Eh, maybe…this is anime after all…
Pairings: No telling! Secret, secret!
A/n: Sadly, there's nothing real important in here either. Just entertaining stuff. Which is good because that's important. And also, a scene I've been meaning and wanting to write for awhile; it being one of the original concepts to be in this story. I was really happy to get out the 'clothes' scene. What with this story evolving (actually supposed to be) from small, funny and light fic to complex drama with added humor. Eh. It's because I can't keep away from angst.

And I'm sorry for the late update! I was absent again from school, except forfive days this time, and I had to catch up and then get ready for the end of the third quarter. Yikes! And then again, I'm lazy. But I did try to upload this chapter really earlier. For some odd reason, it wouldn't do it. Sorry, sorry! Forgive me!

Kagome Higurashi! No Need for Shichinintai
Chapter Ten: Whistle While You Twerp

"Bright and early, sunshines! We've got work to do!"

Kagome chirped early in the morning and strangely, the Band of Seven weren't even fazed. Although, if they were as much as a non-morning person (exempting Suikotsu) as they were supposed to be then Kagome should've really annoyed them. Just the opposite. It's probably because it was Kagome.

They all took turns taking showers, getting used to it and other modern routines. And then they ate breakfast, waiting patiently afterwards for Kagome to come back from wherever she disappeared off to. It was nice to see her more happy than last night. Throughout the days, they were starting to see less of the fake happiness and more of real happiness.

On the other hand, Jakotsu groaned when he saw what work they had to do.

"This place is a mess! Time to clean up a little. Everyone gets to do their assigned chores again!"

Jakotsu pouted and whined. "No fair. Can't any of it wait until later?"

"Nope, because later is the big clean up for the New Year. After Christmas, New Year's is just around the corner."

The men groaned together this time.

"Up and at 'em!"

Kagome headed straight for the broom propped against a chair. "See you outside, right Suikotsu?"

He nodded at her and she left.

Jakotsu twitched.

"Alright, onward!"

The feminine man grabbed a bucket and a broom.

"Time to combat the machines of laundry!" Jakotsu took off without another word, holding tightly onto his makeshift 'armor'.

That left the other three to their chores. Bankotsu headed first towards the dishes, Suikotsu grabbed a broom and headed outside and Renkotsu sighed as he was left to dusting. He couldn't wait until the month was over. He was tired of sneezing and would rather do something else.

All five of them worked hard into the afternoon. Suikotsu and Kagome made small talk as they swept snow out of the walkway in vain. Because it was still a shrine and people still came to pray on Sundays. Technically, shrines are open all the time but this shrine had people living in it that weren't typical monks or priestesses or whatnot. Just an ordinary family with a time-traveling daughter who was now taking care of the shrine alone with four male killers.

On the other hand, Renkotsu was coughing and sneezing hard at every area he had to dust while Jakotsu was trying to keep things under control by sitting on the lid of the washer to keep it from opening and throwing things out. Kind of hard to do when the washer was going out of control and Jakotsu had to hold on tightly, as if he was riding a bull.

Bankotsu was the only one not having a hard time. In fact, he was humming that song Kagome had sung when they went to that little karaoke spot. He had gotten the hang of washing and drying dishes and was quite fine doing it while the others did their work.

After the whole thing, they rested a bit as Kagome cooked them lunch. They were so hungry that they scarfed it down. Then, Kagome announced something that made everyone's mind throb and their body ache.

"Now we're going to work on that room and my door that you never fixed but promised you would."

The men sighed and Kagome felt a bit exasperated herself. But she wanted to get everything done.

They started to work on the room first, with Kagome teaching them how to use the tools. Bankotsu almost hit his fingers with the hammer and freaked out for awhile until Kagome told him to just hit the nail slowly. Renkotsu was wary of the hot glue gun and Suikotsu stared at the sawat first. It was all very complicated but Kagome would've called it amusing in the end. Maybe not for them but for her.

Although it took awhile, it really wasn't so bad. Time past quickly and they all had gotten quite good with all the tools. Not perfect but close enough. Some very close calls, other mishaps and odd ends.

"Now if you all take another shower to smell nice and clean, we can go somewhere special to buy you clothes. Can't have you always wearing those shrine outfits all the time, now can we? Besides, those things aren't thick enough to protect you four from the cold."

"Does this mean we're going to have to wear skimpy skirts and weird tops?" Jakotsu asked.

Kagome clobbered his head. "No, that's ladies' clothing. And it's too cold for that!"

"Ow! Geez, woman. I get the point! No need to get violent…"

"Shush. Now hurry it up!"

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"Shibuya? Harajuku? Shibuya or Harajuku?"

They watched as Kagome mumbled to herself on the bed something about a Shibuya and a Harajuku.

"What's up?" Yeah, Bankotsu could really get used to this slang.

Her head shot up and then her face colored. Her hands sped to cover her eyes.

"Ahhh! A little warning next time before you four barge into my room half naked! All of you only have towels on and you're dripping wet!"

Jakotsu laughed. "S'not like you haven't seen us half naked before. We're always barging into your room half naked. Besides, we're sharing the room now, remember? Been for awhile actually. And we sleep half naked all the time."

"Ahhh!"

Kagome scrambled onto the bed and, still covering her eyes,hid her face into the pillow.

"It doesn't mean I should get used to it! I'm the only female in this house, you know! Hurry up and put some clothes on!" they heard muffled from her.

Bankotsu grinned. "You heard her, men. Let's hurry and dress before she dies of a bishounen attack!"

"Hey! And –" Kagome stilled and she lifted her face from the pillow. She suddenly forgot about them wearing only a piece of cloth around their waist.

"Since when do you know about bishounens?"

Chikuso. They had forgotten about some of the things they learned from that fateful day in which they snuck out. There were all these terms those girls were using and they had decided to look up some of them on the computer, with the Internet. Something they were glad Kagome had taught them how to use. But now they had let something slipped.

"We…came across it on the Internet." Bankotsu half-lied blandly.

"Oh, okay."

Then she realized they had still not dressed and whipped her face back against the pillow.

"Hurry up!"

The four of them rolled their eyes and started to change into the shrine outfits. The rustle of the clothing unsettled Kagome, reminding her that they were still in the same room, undressing and dressing.

"Done yet?" Her voice squeaked out.

"Yup!" Jakotsu answered her.

"Alright, I was thinking of two popular shopping districts we could go to. Shibuya or Harajuku. What –"

"What about Ginza?" Renkotsu asked, finding the list of shopping districts that she had made, and finding all of them crossed out except for three.

Kagome blushed. "Well, you see, I don't think I have the money for that kind of place. It's really nice there but expensive. I was leaning more towards Shibuya because it's my favorite place to shop and it's nice there too. But whatever you guys want. If you want to go to Ginza, sure. We could go there."

"Nah! You know better than us so you can decide." Jakotsu said, plopping down next to her on the bed.

Renkotsu smiled at her. "Jakotsu's right. I guess that means we're going to Shibuya, right guys?"

"Shibuya it is!" Suikotsu said for all of them.

"If you're sure…" She made a mental note to save enough money to go to Ginza later on.

"Yeah, and you did pay for all that stuff when we went sightseeing."

Kagome's mouth twitched. "Ginza it is."

The men looked at each other. Jakotsu acted first, picking Kagome up and tossing her over his shoulder and then running to the car. The other three followed him.

"That's alright. Shibuya is quite fine, Miss Higurashi." Renkotsu said to her from the side. Her head was bouncing up and down as they ran. She moved her head jerkily to Bankotsu who was in front of her, in back of her, or –whatever. "We really want to go to Shibuya. Especially since it's your favorite place. Has to be special for it to be your favorite, right?"

"We're off to see Shibuya! The wonderful Shibuya of OZ!" Jakotsu sang.

"Shibuya is in Tokyo."

"The wonderful Shibuya of OZ!"

And so, Kagome was tossed into the car and ordered to go to Shibuya. She was so going to make them pay.

And as they arrived in the Shibuya district, Kagome dragged them all off to the huge mega mall there with the camera swinging around her neck.

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Kagome brought them to a huge store inside and right away, started picking out clothes. She practically bought them a new wardrobe, with casual clothing like t-shirts and jeans to dressy formal things like tuxes. She had completely ignored the four and went on a rampage for men's clothing.

"Jakotsu, you don't mind dark purple or burgundy, right? Yeah, those colors would look great on you. And dark green and brown on Suikotsu and blue on Bankotsu and red on Renkotsu." She started mumbling to herself, not really talking to them.

There were stacks of modern clothing piling up for them and they started to feel awkward at having her buy all of it for them.

"Model for me, babes!"

Babes? Where did that come from? Oh, they knew what it meant in modern times but why would Kagome say that to them? It made them all wound up and they could feel their faces heating up.

"What's up, sweethearts? Hurry it up and move onto the stage!"

Unable to comprehend what was going on or Kagome's mind-set, they were just going to do what they were told when Kagome announced she wanted them to go one by one and that Bankotsu was first.

Emphasis on the fact that 'That Sexy Body' by Sasha started playing just then.

Very embarrassed and feeling out of sorts, Bankotsu dressed in the black pants and the blue silk dress shirt and moved out onto the walkway. Walking very slowly and nervously, especially when Kagome started whistling, he took notice that others had joined in the cat calls and wolf whistles. She had her camera out and she started snapping pictures. His face flamed up even more and he tried to smile at her. He was glad that none of his comrades seemed to be laughing at him, instead they look wide-eyed and starting to feel like him; they were going to go after him, after all.

"Renkotsu, you're up!"

Renkotsu froze up and became stiff. He walked slowly to the back to change.

"Hurry!"

Renkotsu had an even harder time walking the catwalk and Kagome still persisted in taking pictures. The responses of the other shoppers and Kagome were also persistent. He wore khaki pants and a polo shirt.

Jakotsu was up next and he tried to act like it was nothing. He kept a proud face on, lips pressed together and his eyes looking straight ahead. He tried to ignore everything else. He was wearing a burgundy turtleneck with no sleeves and black baggy jeans.

"Jakotsu! Look down and smirk at me!"

Berating himself for letting a woman get to him, he did what he was told. The calls intensified and Kagome winked at him before a flash signified his picture being taken.

Last but not least, Suikotsu wore tight blue jeans and a dark green turtle. Figuring that he might as well try to do his best to look and act 'cool', as Yuka put it, he sauntered up the catwalk with a smirk on his face and a leather jacket hung over his shoulder.

He tried his best to suppress a blush when the calls practically blared out of the store and when a group of girls to the side commented, "Ouch, that's a heartbreaker right there." He particularly wanted to know what Kagome thought.

He looked at her and her face had lost its grin and was stony for a second, and she was clutching the camera as well, before it broke out into a smirk. Kagome took a couple more pictures of him before she unexpectedly handed her camera to a nearby shopper, who had just whispered into her ear, and then climbed onto the walkway next to him.

She started dancing next to him, circling and moving so close to him, so close that he finally let the nervous feeling overwhelm him and he dropped the jacket to the ground.

"Don't get nervous. Relax, Suikotsu. Have fun and dance with me. Try and just move to the beat and you've got modern dancing down." Kagome whispered into his ear, as she slipped behind him still swaying.

He closed his eyes and focused on Kagome and the beat and just swayed until he grabbed her hand from out of the blue and twirled her once and then bringing her right up close to his own body.

"I would like…to get

"To know you, baby.

"Like to get...a piece of that sexy body."

Kagome sang out to the crowd.

He tried to remember all the things he saw at Eri's party and how Kagome was dancing with all those people and he allowed himself to just loosen up and move to the beat while copying some moves. Kagome laughed and stepped up the dance. Soon, the both of them had danced out the rest of the song.

The song over, a grinning Kagome stepped back and then turned to bow to the crowd. Suikotsu followed her example.

"Fun, huh?" Kagome asked through the corner of her mouth, still bowed.

"Exhilarating." 'Arousing,' he wanted to add.

She jumped off the catwalk and he did the same, afterwards going to the changing rooms. When he got back, they were ready to leave.

"Hey, Suikotsu! I got tons of great photos. Or I think so. All of you had better not have wasted my film because you all were acting grumpy!"

"You take great photos; it'll come out great regardless."

"Feh, it was hard trying to take good ones with all of you being so rigid. Suikotsu here, I know will have excellent ones. But we'll just have to wait until I get these developed to know about you three."

She trotted out of the mall, excited, and they jogged after her, wondering why she was so unusually chipper but happy about it anyway. Her attitude really has been improving, with relapses from the Inuyasha clone and memory overloads and the sorts. That is to say, they were ignoring her little slip up, the usage of Inuyasha's 'feh'.

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Later, after the last night of the Night Festival, they all trudged up to her room feeling very satisfied.

"Wow, I'm still feeling a bit awake. Hmm, I'm still not sleepy." Kagome stated.

The others were feeling tired but they smiled at her enthusiasm. Her happy mood was a nice change from her miserable state.

"Suikotsu, do you mind staying up with me like you used to do?"

Immediately, the oldest could feel eyes on him. But he really missed their nightly tradition.

"Of course, Kagome. I don't mind at all," Suikotsu answered back, aware of the heated stares.

Kagome smiled brightly at him before she sat on the windowsill and he followed suit by sitting down underneath it. He avoided looking at the others. He already knew they were glaring.

As before, he laid his head against her leg and he held her hand. He had really longed for this.

However, even as the others went to lie in their beds in only their boxers, he could still feel their glares directed towards him. In fact, despite being quite sleepy and tired, they ignored those feelings and stubbornly stayed up watching the two. Even when Kagome had finally decided she was sleepy enough and went to her bed just as Suikotsu went to his, Suikotsu could still feel them watching his back unhappily.

Decidedly, he didn't care.

Started 11/18/05 –Completed 11/22/05