4.15.06 – Hey, any new people who are reading this story, or anyone who's rereading this, I have made a few changes to the first few chapters of this story, and some others to repair some plotholes, and major spelling mistakes, okay? I hope you like the little changes I've made, and I also hope they make things a little clearer for you!
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If you remember, Kagome just pulled an insanely evil stunt on Inuyasha, and is about to celebrate, before facing the consequences...
I recommend you have the song that crops up later on playing to get you in the atmosphere, as most of you won't have heard it for a long, long while, and you need to hear it to make it work.
OH YEAH, I DON'T OWN INUYASHA! (I had totally forgotten about these disclaimer thingies)
Chapter 4: Barbie Girls and Apologies
Kagome quickly slipped out from behind the heavy red velvet curtain, into the dark strobe lighting, abandoning her prey to the vicious camera flashes in front of him. She kept ahold of his pants until she was safely around the corner, before dumping them out of the nearest window, giggling softly as she did it. Her plan had gone off without a hitch, and now, guilt-free, she could get down to some MAJOR PARTYING!
As soon as she was free of the huge crowd that thronged around a dumbstruck Inuyasha, who of course, still had his pants WIDE open, for all the world (literally, by tomorrow) to see, first! Slipping her curvy body through all the pretty people, she went to seek out Sango, to tell her how FABULOUSLY this had worked and how NOT sorry she was for Inuyasha. Ignoring the fact that she was, of course. Since when did THAT count for anything, considering the way he had treated her. She didn't care...no sirree bob...uh uh...Hey look there was Sango!
Ummm, or at least her body. Her face seemed, ahem, otherwise occupied. Kagome however, was simply too high to care and literally skipped up to the pair, in her four inch heels and all, and ripped Miroku off of her best friend's face. She completely ignored the quizzical and slightly embarrassed look the two were giving her, and regaled her entire tale of deception and plot to the both of them. Both were collapsed on the floor alongside Kagome with laughter by the time the whole thing was finished.
"Kagome, you think we should see how his lordship is handling this little, uh, scenario?" Miroku asked, waggling his eyebrows michievously, his purple eyes dancing with fun.
"Hmmm, you know what, I think he has enough people looking at him in strange places, we don't need to add to that. I say we go and get our groove on! It is the world-famous YouKingdom you know. The only place more famous is like, Nobu, in London. Let's party it up? Oooooh, are those Flatliners?" Kagome said really, really fast, due to her earlier daiquiri and all.
Sango, equally dizzy, due to making out with Miroku and her daiquiri, looped her arm happily through Kagome, and the two of them, with the widest grins on their faces skipped off to the VIP bar where Flatliners, the knockout cocktails were being sold. Miroku, being the only currently sane one, had to buy them, and they all clinked glasses to "Little Jeremy's coming out party!"
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Okay...coast was clear...maybe. Inuyasha crept out from behind the chest-sized beer keg he had at a far corner of the VIP section, usually reserved for making out and sometimes, sexual favors.
His silver hair was knotted and sweaty from running away from the sea of reporters. Despite his level of fitness, Inuyasha was heaving from the effort, and if he was correct, there were three of Kagome over by the VIP bar. Exhaustion was getting to him again, and this was bad. If a hanyou like him was tired, he really had to get out of this situation and go throttle Kagome for all he was worth. Then, he had to get on to his dad, and have him pay off all the tabloids, whether they'd seen Jeremy or not.
Of course, all of the above was a little more difficult without pants.
Sure there were his boxers, but they, ummm, had little pictures of Barbie on them...Hey, some chick, uhhh, Eiko maybe, had given them to him. Stupid laundry bitch wasn't goddamned fast enough, and these fucking panties were all he had left.
He'd lost his slacks to the hyena pack he had just managed to ditch, and who were now taking pictures of th bottom floor. No doubt, he thought bitterly, to add the the spread of which Jeremy would be the centerpiece in every newspaper!
As he thought of that, and what this could do to the career he loved so dearly, the rage bubbled up inside him, threatening to take over his entire being. All he could think of was the demise of his photos, the disappointment for his father, the loss of his only purpose in life, and the letdown to his beloved mother. That was all he loved in the world. His photos and his mom. And now, one sneaky little sleaze of a wench had ruined all that. All he could think of now was getting to her, and punishing her. Punish her...punish her...and with that thought, Inuyasha the hanyou descended into his own body, locked away, and Inuyasha the full-blooded youkai came out to play...
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"Come...(hiccup) on Miroku-ku-kuuuuuuu!" Kagome cajoled with a slur to her words. A drooling Sango snoozed on her shoulder, hand wrapped around a shot glass.
"Let's go sing a song! OOOOOOH my favorite, how 'bout Barbie Girllllll?" Kagome squealed excitedly, grabbing hold of Miroku's arm.
Miroku coughed once or twice, and then, to the astonishment of the entire VIP area, got up onto the bar, knocking down everyone's drinks as he struggled to walk in a straight line down to the DJ. He bent down unsteadily, slung off his own black sport coat and violet shirt to reveal a toned, muscled chest underneath, hauled a very merry Kagome up with him, and whispered to the DJ. He got them both two microphones, and got confused as to how to switch them on, eventually getting a sober person to do it.
"AHEM! Ladies and gentlemen, in honor, of (hiccup) or wonderful club owner tonight, Inuyasha Mireshi's choice of underwear, (hiccup) me and Kagome have a ...song for you!" Miroku said loudly and proudly into the mike.
"It's an old classic," Kagome chimed in, her arm gripped around Miroku's waist, seking the stability neither of them really had right now. "You're gonna love it I promise!"
The familiar engine revving began, and they launched into the song, Miroku as Ken in a deep, gravelly voice, and Kagome hamming it up in a voice that sounded like a slutty mouse on helium.
Hi Barbie
Hi
Ken!
Do you wanna go for a ride?
Sure Ken!
Jump In...
The two burst apart now, and strutted up and down the bar, Kagome grinding her hips for all she was worth, and Miroku doing his little stripper dance, consisting of pelvic thrust and disco "moves".
Kagome began her verses, working the mike.
I'm a barbie girl,
in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can
brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your
creation
Miroku grunted out:
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
Miroku ran around to her, grabbing her waist and jamming her ass into him, creating gyrating movement all down the bar. This set all the guys whopping at the pair dancing to the obviously slutty song.
I'm a barbie
girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you
can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your
creation
I'm a blond bimbo girl, in the fantasy world
Dress
me up, make it tight, I'm your dolly
Miroku, gyrating, and really putting his hips into it, sang out:
You're my doll,
rock'n'roll, feel the glamour in pink,
kiss me here, touch
me there, hanky panky...
You can touch, you can play, if you say:
"I'm always yours"
The pair launched into the most famous section of the song with gusto, Kagome turning around and draping her arm around Miroku's neck, giggling insanely.
(uu-oooh-u)
I'm
a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's
fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me
everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Come on
Barbie, let's go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let's
go party!
(uu-oooh-u)
Come on Barbie, let's go
party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let's go
party!
(uu-oooh-u)
They were briefly interrupted by a huge crash, which was closely followed by a snore. On closer inspection however, it just turned out to be Sango crashing to the floor without Kagome as her support. The two continued!
Make me walk, make
me talk, do whatever you please
I can act like a star, I can beg
on my knees
Miroku pulled out his "sexy" Saturday Night Fever moves:
Come jump in, bimbo
friend, let us do it again,
hit the town, fool around, let's go
party
You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I'm always
yours"
You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I'm
always yours"
Come on Barbie, let's go
party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let's go
party!
(uu-oooh-u)
Come on Barbie, let's go
party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let's go
party!
(uu-oooh-u)
Kagome turned around
and waved her butt at the VERY appreciative crowd, strutting back
around to Miroku to finish their song.
I'm a barbie girl,
in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can
brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your
creation
I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in
plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me
everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Miroku grabbed onto Kagome's ass, and the two pulled a round the world with their hips in sync to round off the song. She was too hyper to even bother slapping him for groping her.
Come on Barbie,
let's go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let's go
party!
(uu-oooh-u)
Come on Barbie, let's go
party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let's go
party!
(uu-oooh-u)
Oh, I'm having so much fun!
Well
Barbie, we're just getting started
Oh, I love you Ken!
The applause for the collapsed pair was THUNDEROUS. This however, making the two friends laugh, attracted the attention of someone who was, right now, much more sinister.
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Kagome…Miroku…the bitch…needed her….get her down…make her pay…
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"Oooooohhhh….." Sango moaned, holding her head, and trying to blink away the stars dancing in front of her eyes. If she wasn't mistaken, she had been hearing Barbie Girl two seconds ago.
She hauled her stiff body up from the floor and peered, with squinty, bloodshot eyes around her. Kagome and Miroku were collapsed together on top of the bar. She felt a twang of jealousy go through her, until she saw the mikes and remembered that it was Kagome, her best friend who had a tendency to sing total crap when she was drunk.
Such as Barbie Girl. And she wouldn't put it past Miroku to join in wholeheartedly.
Sango stumbled to her feet, gripping the nearest bar stool for support. Silver four inch heels were SO not meant for being drunk in, she thought, as she wobbled.
Wait…Sango's taijiya senses prickled as she felt a full-blooded youkai's approach close by. And she was right, which even though she was drunk she always was. This wasn't good, not at all…
Sango's taijiya senses that she had been rearing since she was a child were so finely tuned that they had developed into a sixth sense, startlingly close to the sense of feeling a youkai had. All she had to do was focus, and she could feel small parts of what those closest to her was feeling.
That, and great big dangerous youkai, like the one getting closer and closer…
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Inuyasha crept stealthily along the floor, on the opposite side of the circular bar to his enemy: the taijiya. She was strong, that much he could sense. He would get his prey, no worries about that…
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Sango fumbled around for her little silver clutch, still dazed from her four Flatliners. She had to find the youkai shot. It was their only hope, as wild youkai on the prowl were nearly impossible to stop without it.
Lipstick, mascara, cell, money, money, keys,… YES! One youkai shot, at her service.
Sango took the hypodermic needle in her hand, taking off her ridiculous, yet HOT shoes to be just a SMIDGE quieter. She crept round the bar, locating the youkai's hiding place.
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The taijiya was homing in. She really was good. Inuyasha didn't know where to turn. His primal instinct told him to run, fast and far, but he didn't know what kind of weapon she had. That could get him into more trouble that he was prepared for. So he did something stupid. He stayed right where he was, prepared to lunge for her if what she had was for distance disarming. The taut muscles flexed and twitched. He was ready for her.
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She had him now. If Sango knew youkai, he would be waiting for her to make the first move. And she would. Just not all of her. Sango crouched behind the corner she knew the youkai was hidden. She stretched one long, lean arm with the plunger all set around, and jammed it into the nearest piece of flesh, shoving the orange liquid in the syringe home.
Score, she had him. When she heard the collapse she went round to observe who the hell this bastard was, who thought he could get past Sango. Pffft.
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Shiiiiiiit…needle, he should've guessed…Orange pupils dilated into crimson irises as Inuyasha's eyes slid shut, his limbs became heavy and he collapsed under the force of the sedative.
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Sango gasped in horror, placing trembling hands over her mouth. For in front of her, lay a comatose Inuyasha. Except, he looked…terrifying. Veins stood out proudly all over his face which seemed tense even in unconciousness. Jagged purple markings marred his chiseled cheeks and his very eyelashes had turned a vicious red. Dark claws had burst from his fingers, much longer and darker than his normal ones. Pearl-white fangs had now lengthened over his bottom lip, grazing his chin lightly. Down to the white fur on his ears had now turned to a black, leathery substance, with sharp points at the ends. Frankly, Inuyasha looked like a monster. But it wasn't his appearance Sango was worried about. Inuyasha had gone youkai on them, breaking his excellent levels of self control. He could've, and would've hurt someone, he hadn't done that though, not since that New Year's…Could it have been the harmless little prank they'd pulled on him?
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Miroku hauled his face up from Kagome's stomach heavily, blinking blearily up at the bouncer who told them they had to leave, and now, as there'd been a medical emergency concerning the owner of YouKingdom.
At that, he sobered up and shook Kagome awake.
"Nnnnoooo Mom, just two minutes, peeeeezzzz. I like sheep…" Kagome murmured, swatting Miroku's hand away.
Dammit, if something had happened to Inuyasha, he didn't have time for hungover models. Lumping the limp Kagome over his shoulder, he scouted around, looking for Sango. On the floor, where she'd last been, he spotted a scrap of white lined paper with "Miroku" written on the front. Setting Kagome back on the bar, he picked it up and read quickly:
Miroku,
Inuyasha went youkai whilst you guys were asleep, and this sounds as bad as New Year 1996, Miroku.
It's awful. We're at the demon infirmary and you guys can meet us there. I left you Kagome's car keys so you can run yourselves over. I need you both.
By the way, give Kagome time before you wake her. When she's drunk, she has the sheep dream, and you have to let that play out, or she just gets steadily more violent with you. We'll talk more when you get here,
Love, Sango
P.S. I'm okay, by the way, I got him with the youkai shot.
All right, then, no time to waste obviously. He had to get to his best friend, and the woman he loved. Hauling his other best friend, who was dead to the world over his shoulder of course.
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Sango rocked on the uncomfortable hospital chair, her stomach wrought with worry. The second the ambulance got there, they had wheeled him out and into some treatment room. They said he had to be alone for this one, so she was stuck out here with no-one but equally upset people and trashy magazines for company. All she could hope was that Miroku and Kagome would be there soon.
Well, ask and ye shall receive, she thought, as a worried looking Miroku and Kagome rushed in. Kagome, looking a lot more sober now began talking at hyper speed.
"Sango, it's all my fault. I embarrassed him and I just made things two squillion times worse than they would have been. I read your note and I feel so bad, and I can't help but think it had something to do with the fact that I've been so horrible to him lately. I've offended and embarrassed him, and now this! The whole world is gonna know, and he'll be ruined, and I'll be ruined, and you'll be ruined and Miroku'll be ruined and it'll be all down to me. HELP ME SANGO!" Kagome gushed, in tears.
Sango held her shaking friend stoking her hair.
"Shh Kags, I promise, he'll be okay. And, fantastic publicist that I am, I have already called his father, and gotten him, and us onto the tabloids. We are paying them off from both of your bank accounts as we speak. You know some will run the Jeremy thing anyway, and possibly the song I'm guessing you two sang, but not the youkai thing, and at least EVERYONE won't know what Jeremy looks like."
"Yeah Kagome, think about it this way; we might get a recording deal!" Miroku grinned roguishly at Kagome, who flashed him a wet smile.
"YO MONK! How come everyone fucking knows who fucking Jeremy is!" A loud, gravelly voice yelled out from a nearby hospital room.
All three shot up from their seats and jogged into the room at the sound of their favorite hanyou's voice. All except Kagome.
"Fuck am I doing here?" Inuyasha asked rubbing his eyes with a hand that felt like lead.
"All I remember is a certain two bit whore pulling the nastiest of fucking dirty tricks on me, and then I draw a blank. Fill in monk." Inuyasha gruffly ordered, struggling to sit up.
At this, Kagome slid down the wall, in tears once again, outside the door. So she had caused it. Inuyasha was in the hospital now over a petty little prank. She KNEW he was hanyou as sure as she knew she was Kagome Higurashi, miko and model. And yet, she had deliberately incensed him, run the risk of causing him to hurt others, possibly herself. And the more she thought about it, the more she believed she had been his original target. Just Sango had caught him first. She didn't know how Sango wasn't dead, but sobbed harder at the fact that she could have been responsible for her death. She was a terrible person, and she didn't deserve all she had…
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"Hey Miroku. Uh, could…could you send the wench in?" Inuyasha asked Miroku, playing at being the sick invalid for all he was worth, in the hopes that Miroku would leave him alone with one of his best friends.
He had heard her sobbing outside, after she heard what had happened to him, and though he was pretty disturbed about it, he did have to SLEEP in his room with it (Kagome), so he couldn't have it all miserable.
"Are you SURE?" Miroku asked, one eyebrow raised. "After all this "trauma" are you sure you wanna be seeing the source right now?"
"Well goddammit, I have to sleep with it tonight, I can't have her all weepy and sappy. I'm not in the mood for back patting and girlie chitchats!" Inuyasha snapped, the tips of his ears going red at the thought of patting her back. He really did need to get some, or he was gonna go crazy…
It was totally unlike Inuyasha to be forgiving in the slightest, and Miroku knew it, despite the fun he and his best friend had. Sometimes. If you called being chased down the street by a horde of angry transvestite dudes fun.
"Sleep?" Miroku waggled his eyebrows suggestively.
"Shut up. Just send her in, then you and Sango can go find a cleaning cupboard and neck in it, okay?" Inuyasha snapped, though a smile was beginning to drag up one corner of his mouth.
"Fine. I warn you, she'll be distraught." Miroku warned. Before Sango could even protest, he groped her ass quick and repetitively, effectively chasing her out of the door and as Inuyasha said, into the nearest cleaning cupboard.
Just before he shut the door, and Sango could unwedge herself from the disinfectant bucket she'd fallen into, Miroku poked his head out and said "Inuyasha's calling. Beware!"
"I heard that, bozo!" Inuyasha yelled out.
Time to face the music, Kagome thought to herself, smoothing her skirt and wiping her eyes on her bare arm.
"What do you have to say?" Inuyasha asked, arms crossed, looking straight into her eyes. Never before had he been less mad at someone for something like this. Somehow, he just couldn't bring himself to yell at her. He should. That much he knew, but he couldn't do it. She just looked so forlorn and vulnerable and he couldn't bring her down further.
"I…I'm so sorry. I never knew." Kagome began tentatively.
"Never knew? How couldn't you? I can smell you're a miko, so you had to know this could happen!" Now this was more like it Inuyasha thought! He could smell the fear now.
"Well, don't get after me for being ignorant! It's not that I didn't know! It's that you couldn't be assed to get to know me properly, 'cause then you would now I've never been trained in the miko ways. I wouldn't know about the whole "If I get poor Inu-poo mad, he could turn into a big scary youkai beastie" thing!" The fire was building in Kagome now. In truth, she knew he could've gotten scarier if she got him mad, but nowhere NEAR this extent.
"Someone needs to teach selfish bitches like you a lesson. Here I am rotting in this godforsaken HOSPITAL because of your stupidity. And now, I hope you're happy, I think you've well ruined the both of us. The only thing I care about in this world is my work. And YOU took that from me. I had every RIGHT to go youkai on you guys. YOU'VE taken away my goddamn life, and I HATE YOU FOR IT!" Inuyasha screamed at her, standing, once again towering over her, regardless of his drip having crashed to the floor in the background.
Dammit, he thought. He'd shown weakness, and now she'd prey on that. All females were the same. Yet to his surprise she didn't.
"Inuyasha," Kagome began in a softer voice, her head bowed contritely. "I won't let that happen. I promise. I promise you. Sango and your father are fixing it as we speak, and I will take care of the rest. I'm sorry. I won't let you lose your career." Kagome said, looking up into his eyes with conviction.
Somehow, the determination flashing through those brown eyes made him feel safe, sane and something he knew had to be an effect of the youkai shot, loved. However, he could only be weak so many times in the one night.
"Bitch." Inuyasha turned around, climbed back into bed, drew the covers up under his chin and turned over, pulling the light rope.
Kagome's jaw set angrily, prepared with a comeback, but thought that she had already hurt him enough, so she could drop this. And she thought as she went out to go tear apart her best friends again, and steal Inuyasha's water bed for the night, at least until tomorrow. After all, couldn't let Inuyasha think he'd stamped out Kagome Higurashi's spirits!
AN: Whooo all in one night! I'm proud of this, and it's extra long for your reading pleasure. Remember to give me your verdict on the lemons and any EXTRA, not different pairings. Continue reviewing please, and I love you all!
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