Here's Chapter Five, people! Enjoy!
The next whole two hours at the karaoke bar was done happily by Jakotsu and Inuyasha, mainly Jakotsu's singing and crazy antics and poor Inuyasha being swung left and right 'in tune' with the music. . Jakotsu absolutely refused to allow anyone near his 'his preciousness'. Everyone agreed anonymously that he had ten too many.
After deciding to head to Kagome's place, Renkotsu kindly rejected the invitation saying he had important matters to attend to.
Kagome pulled out her keys and unlocked the front door. "There! Come on in everyone!"
Everyone walked into the Higurashi residence and took their shoes off at the door.
"Inuyasha, keep your boyfriend in check. Mrs. Higurashi'll kick your ass if you break anything," Sango snickered to him.
Inuyasha grumbled. "I told you! This thing attached to my shoulder is NOT my boyfriend. I don't roll that way!"
"Inu-chan, rolls dis way!" Jakotsu cooed, patting his black hair.
"Does anyone want anything? I can make some rice balls and Haru can go get the games in my room."
"On it!" Haru replied running up the stairs, happily escaping away from Jakotsu.
Jakotsu gave a slight pout seeing one of his toys escaping away. The pout left as quickly as it came when he saw Miroku lounging on the sofa.
Bankotsu looked around the room. It wasn't under furnished but it wasn't overly crowded either. It looked cozy. A perfect match to Kagome's normally cool persona he thought.
"Bankotsu, you can just take a seat on the couch. Make yourself at home. You can bug Sango if you don't know where the rooms are," Kagome told him.
Bankotsu nodded and sat on the couch. A large television stood at the other side of the room. It wasn't a super large screen but just enough to enjoy video games on and watch some horror flick on.
Bankotsu closed his eyes peacefully enjoying the rare moment of peace. Screaming broke him out of his split second slumber. He didn't open his eyes though; he already knew what happened. Jakotsu jumped one of the guys, and by the sound of it, it was that Miroku guy.
"Hey Kagome! Which game should we play?" Haru slid down the stair rail.
"Haru!" Kagome scolded.
Haru gave her an innocent smile. Which she countered with an 'I-know-you-better-than-that' scowl.
"We've got Dead or Alive beach volleyball! That's cool game," he said, changing the topic.
Miroku slid out of Jakotsu's grasp. "Yes! I love that game! It isa personal favorite!"
Inuyasha scowled since he couldn't escape Jakotsu as easily as Miroku did. "No way! I ain't gonna be jumping over hurdles and modeling bathing suits when I could see some nice ass gore spill from some guy's neck!"
"I agree, well, not about the gore but…" Sango dragged along, trying to find the right way to state her opinion. "I want to do combat to combat. I'm going to break Kagome's winning streak!"
"I want to play beach volleyball!" Jakotsu piped up.
"Sango love! How could you not agree with me? Women modeling tight skimpy bathing suits jumping up and down and-"
"Ergh! It's girls doing the modeling? Forget it!" Jakotsu hissed angrily, still constricting Inuyasha who was gasping desperately for breath.
"Player one versus player two game it is!" Haru popped in a video game disc in the game system.
"I want to go first! And so Inu-chan!" Jakotsu cried out, taking both controllers and forcefully shoving one in the boy's hand.
"Oooh! Aniki! Look! This character is hot!" Jakotsu grinned cheerily, lightly flicking the control stick with his thumb. "Oooooh! That's my kinda guy!"
Inuyasha looked like he was going to puke. His blue player two signal immediately went to the top of the list and selected a muscular male demon creature.
"I'm gonna kick your ass, Jakotsu!" Inuyasha cackled victoriously.
"Oh! Inu-chan! Not in front of the other men!" Jakotsu gave Inuyasha a light slap on his shoulder.
All the males in the room, with the exception of Bankotsu, looked horribly disgusted. Being already used to Jakotsu and his more than obsession of men, Bankotsu just chuckled.
"Ya know, Roku? Up until now I never met a gay guy. Now I think I have a new phobia," Haru commented to the boy next to him.
Miroku agreed anonymously.
Jakotsu turned his neck to look over to the two boys cuddled together. "Wish me luck, my wittle bishounen!"
Both boys shivered.
"Rice balls, anyone?" Kagome smiled cheekily as she walked into the room merrily.
All eyes were focused on the television where the battled dubbed "dog man versus gay man" was shown.
"Hey, Kagome," Bankotsu moved aside, making room for her to sit down.
Kagome nodded a quick 'thanks' and sat comfortably on the couch beside Bankotsu.
i I shouldn't act so awkward around him… Renkotsu did say he wasn't gay but still… Better safe than sorry! Naw, I should just relax and enjoy myself./i
"HOLY HELL! How the fuck did this ass fucker beat me?" Inuyasha roared, throwing the controller to Miroku.
"Inu-chan, time to fulfill our wager!" Jakotsu hummed.
"I didn't bet shit with you!" Inuyasha barked.
"I know, but wouldn't it have been so naughty?" Jakotsu bat his eyelashes.
"C'mon, my sexy Miroku! I know you want to play with me!"
"Oh, god! I swear I'll never use that pick up line again!" Miroku cried.
"Bankotsu, don't you want to play?" Kagome asked him.
"I'll fight the last winner," he shrugged.
"My, awfully confident, aren't we?" Sango laughed.
"Yes, in fact, very," he laughed out loud.
"Do you take some form of martial arts?" Kagome asked him.
Bankotsu choked. "What!"
Kagome cocked her head. "It's just that if you take some form of martial arts you probably have an easier time playing fighting games. I assume anyway. Sango was pretty confident too, when Haru introduced her to this game."
"Yeah, something like that," he mumbled under his breath but loud enough for Kagome to hear.
"That explains all your muscles," Kagome laughed. A light pink tinge hit her cheeks before she turned away rapidly, "Erm, rice ball?" she offered, holding out a large rice clump in the shape of a cat. It was wrapped up neatly in a Celtic designed cloth napkin.
He happily took it and took a bite out of what he assumed to bethe rice ball'sear.
"I win!" Jakotsu cried out. Miroku sat comfortably next to him, handing the control over to Haru.
"Why didn't you at least try to win? All you did was jump over him and evade one attack for every twenty he combo'd! And you picked a character with absolutely no range whatsoever!" Sango screamed at him. "You were a jumping target, Miroku!"
Miroku sighed. "I'm not taking this game seriously."
"No shit, dipstick," Sango snorted angrily.
"I simply wanted to fulfill my manly desires by picking the female with the most bodily appearance," he grinned. "And, my, did she do her job! Honestly Sango, it was not my intention of dodging his assaults; it was a mere coincidence."
As suspected, Sango lunged forward for a second and Miroku was black and blue the next second.
"Don't abuse my sexy monk!" Jakotsu cried squeezing the hell out of Miroku's lungs.
"Believe me, Miroku is no monk," Kagome laughed. She took a small bite into a rice ball.
"Shut up, pizza bitch!" Jakotsu hissed furiously at her.
Twitch.
"Oh shit…" Haru muttered under his breath.
"Don't call me a PIZZA BITCH!" Kagome stomped over to where Jakotsu sat on the floor.
"I can call you anything I fell like, wench!"
"Ooh! One more! Just one more!" Kagome seethed.
"Um, Jakotsu," Bankotsu began.
"No, Aniki! This wench has it coming!" Jakotsu stood up.
"Whaddya call me?"
"WENCH! BITCH! WRETCH! WHORE! SKANK! SLUT! ADULTERESS! JADE! FORNICATRESS! STRUMPET! TROLLOP! FLOOZIE! HOOKER! CYPRIAN! BAWD! COCOTTE! PIZZA BITCH!"
Kagome glared at him and snatched the control out of Haru's hands.
"PIZZA BITCH! Oh, you are SO on, you transvestite!" Kagome barked at him and sat down quickly.
"WHAT! How dare you even assume I would prefer being one of your kind!" Jakotsu spat out, taking a seat next to her.
"HOMO!" Kagome shouted, picking her character.
"HUSSY!" Jakotsu selected the arena.
"GAY ROD!" Kagome growled, landing the first kick. "How dare you make fun of me!"
"PROSTITUTE! Keep your nasty comments to yourself!" Jakotsu smirked managing to dodge and land a blow himself.
"I have nothing against gays but with you; guess what buddy? It's personal! You need to dump the drag, man! Oh, my bad! WO-MAN!" Kagome jerked her arm to the side, trying to make her ninja move faster.
"Do not call me that, you WHORE! Trying to steal MY men! Get your own!" Jakotsu did a seven combo and knocked a good part of Kagome's life points out.
"Please! As if! You want any of those guys behind me, help yourself! I prefer not to eat the leftovers! But I dunno how YOU deal with that sort of thing! Ya know, being gay and all can't be easy!" Kagome's character flung some ninja stars at Jakotsu's man. "Don't have much variety, do you?"
Jakotsu growled and began pushing several buttons. "Up yours, woman!"
"Oops! My bad! I though it was only men that you were interested in!"
"FUCK OFF, PIZZA BITCH!"
Kagome's brown eyes glinted red for one half a second.
"Got you!" Jakotsu laughed as he cornered Kagome's girl. He pulled out a special attack.
Kagome didn't respond, but a faint smirk fell on her features. The ninja, trapped against the electrified barrier and Jakotsu's character, jumped up, evading the assault, and landed on the enemy's shoulders. She quickly wrapped her legs around his neck and squeezed the life points out of him. Being at only a few points like her, the male fell to the floor, virtual blood flowing from his body while the ninja did a few victorious flips in the air and landed gracefully on her long legs.
"Phbbbt!" Kagome stuck her tongue out at Jakotsu who growled with defeat sewn in his voice.
"HOLY FUCK, KAGOME!" Inuyasha shouted. "How the hell did you beat Jak?"
"One way or the other!" Kagome stated proudly.
"Yes, Gome. You managed to defeat even one I could not!" Miroku shouted dramatically, fisting his hand over his chest.
"Please! Roku! You didn't last five seconds!" Sango teased evilly. "You're so desperate that you're looking at a virtual character's breasts you fuckin' HENTAI!" Sango pounded Miroku's head.
Feeling the throbbing a minute later, Miroku's head tilted to the side from the impact. "You know, Sango. That punch really did hurt," he commented seriously.
"Hey, Aniki! That bitch killed my player!" Jakotsu cried, tugging on Bankotsu's shirt.
Bankotsu watched the average girl laugh with Sango at Miroku's growing head.
Hewas still in aweb at hervictory.She seems so normal but still…Bankotsu narrowed his eyes.
"Hay Sango! Still want that rematch?" Kagome nudged her friend.
"You bet your ass! This time! Watch out, Kag!" Sango cracked her knuckles and gripped the control tightly.
"Sango?"
The girl looked up. "Yeah, What's up, Ban?"
"Mind if I try?" he smiled sincerely.
Sango scowled. "Well, you didn't have a turn so, okay!" Sango handed Bankotsu the game system control and took his place on the couch.
"Wanna play me?" Bankotsu grinned.
Miroku chuckled and Inuyasha turned red. Kagome shot them an evil glare.
"If you want! But be careful! I'm good at this game!" Kagome warned him.
The background laughing continued. Kagome scowled and threw the television remote at Miroku's forehead. His head flew back due to the blow.
"You're trying to get killed today, aren't you, Roku?" Haru asked him, poking his forehead. "Seriously, anymore and we'll have to send you to the hospital."
Bankotsu examined all of the characters and decided on one with a large oohoko as a weapon.
"You know that will slow down his speed, right?" Kagome asked him.
He nodded. "True, but the strength gained will be much more useful in combat."
Kagome shrugged her shoulders and scanned the list of characters. "I should pick something different!" Kagome's red cursor was directed at a young woman whose hair was pulled into a ponytail with long strands of black hair falling about. She wore white and red priestess attire.
"You're choosing to be a miko, eh?" Sango asked her friend.
Kagome nodded. "Yeah, the prayers might come in handy."
Bankotsu smiled. This was going to be VERY fun.
Deciding on the training grounds scenery, the battle began. At first it was mainly attacks missing and combos failing. The only attacks that seemed to get through the tough barriers of both combatants were quick speedy and little damage causing hits.
Flinging some sutras at the halberd wielding character, the miko quickly stepped back. Seeing this once in a lifetime advantage, the oohoko wielder sliced down a few sutras and attacked the miko. Falling on the dirt ground, she could not dodge as he pulled out a few combinations and quickly defeated the priestess.
Sango whistled when the 'Player Two Wins' screen came up.
"Wow, Bankotsu, you're really good," Kagome panted, releasing the control.She had gotten too into the game for a spilt moment. And now her thumbs were aching from all the button pressing.
Some snickering behind her was silenced when Sango approached them. Loud pounding was heard and yelps of pain but all was quiet afterwards.
"Good game!" Kagome smiled cheerfully, extending her hand out.
Bankotsu smiled and shook hers with his. "You're pretty good, yourself, Kagome."
Kagome turned her head to give Miroku a glare before he said anything he might not regret.
"I'm done!" Bankotsu stated approaching the plate full of delicious neko shaped rice balls. He took one and chomped on it.
"I lost so next player," Kagome said jumping on the couch.
"My turn! C'mon Haru love! It's OUR turn!"
Haru's eyes widened. "Please god! I'll say thirty long ass prayers tonight if I don't have to do this!"
Bankotsu heard a familiar ringing. He arched one eyebrow and dug into his back pocket. "Bankotsu here. What's up? Renkotsu? A new one? Alright, Jakotsu and I are gonna meet you there in twenty minutes!" Bankotsu hung up his phone.
"Sorry everyone. Jak and I have to go and meet up with Renkotsu. We'll catch ya all later! And feel free to stop by Ryuu," he saluted. "C'mon Jakotsu. Renkotsu wants us."
Jakotsu scowled and released Haru from a death grip who cried happily. "Oh god! I'm changing religions! Thank you!" Haru kissed the carpeted ground.
"Buh-bye, Inuyasha, Miroku, and Haru! I'll be seeing you!" Jakotsu blew each boy a kiss. Almost as if they felt it land against their bodies, all three shivered at the same time.
"Oh, leaving? Here, you can take off with three rice balls. One for Jakotsu, you, and give one to Renkotsu for me please?" Kagome handed him a cloth covered box. "Bye!"
Bankotsu smiled at her and left out the door followed by Jakotsu.
"I'd be going home but I feel like I'm gonna be jumped on the way over," Haru said.
"Haru! You only live a block away from me!" Kagome said.
"Well, yeah, being with Jakotsu kinda gives you that fear." Haru tried smiling.
"Fine! You guys can stay! Don't stay up too late and don't break anything! My mom will kill you if she comes back from Aunt Hami's and sees a giant mess! I'll go get you blankets."
Two boys walked into a dark alley, hiding away from wandering eyes.
When a black car pulled over and both men got in it and it drove off just as fast as it arrived.
This chapter seemed to focus on the game but with everyone's favorite female hating guy (and that says alot coming from a girl!) Jakotsu made even a video game seem so funny! Ah, crazy Jak.
Well I'm going to be publishing a new storysometime this week if any one wants to check it out. It's called "Soldier Boy". Yes, it is another Kagome Bankotsu pairing but this one is actually set in Feudal Japan. I mean, you can never get enough of Bankotsu and Kagome, can you? (:P)
Oh yeah, I forgot to add; the song Jakotsu was karaoke-ing was "Handsome" (though you probably realized that by the lyrics!) and is sung happily by Orikasa Ai, who plays asJakotsu's voice actress.
Chapter Six will be heading your way shortly and I will be introducing more characters to "Assassin Cafe"! Lucky you guys! Love triangles:P Yippee!