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Chapter 8: Getting Ready
The next day was Saturday, the day of the dance. Kagome spent the morning shopping, dragging along a certain unhappy half-demon. After looking for hours, she found a stunning rose colored dress.
She found Inuyasha in the mall outside the store, eyeing a sunglass stand suspiciously. When he noticed Kagome, he immediately jumped up and his gruff voice was almost whining when he said, "Are you done yet? You finally bought something."
"Yes, Inuyasha, we can go," Kagome agreed, exasperated. Shopping would have been more fun without him, but he insisted on coming along. She did enjoy his company, at least when he wasn't complaining. They had been getting along better since she dropped the dance issue.
Kagome was dressing for the dance, and Inuyasha was waiting impatiently for her outside her door. She had tried to convince him to return to the feudal era, with no success. He was still suspicious about this "dance" thing.
Kagome finally opened the door and Inuyasha's jaw dropped when he saw her. She had done her hair, and was wearing makeup and her new dress. Kagome spun around. "What do you think?" she asked hopefully.
Inuyasha had recovered, and was reluctant to voice his real opinion. "It's nice, I guess," he said offhandedly. But then he saw Kagome drawing in breath to "sit" him, and he quickly added, sheepishly, "You look beautiful."
"Thank you, Inuyasha," Kagome replied, her anger abated.
A car honked outside, and Kagome grabbed her purse and ran downstairs, followed by Inuyasha. He stopped at the top of the steps to the shrine, and Kagome called out goodbyes to him and her family.
Inuyasha was turning to go wait by the well when something caught his eye. Kagome had said that she was going to the dance with a friend, and Inuyasha had assumed that this friend was a girl. But from the glimpse he's gotten, it had looked like the person driving the car had been a boy! Reacting more by instinct than by conscious thought, Inuyasha took off after the car.
Author's Note: Sorry this is so short, but I wanted some filler before the dance started. That should be much longer! And then I have an interesting plot twist planned for the pair, dealing with the well and the lack of demons in the present.