OVERJOYED at the response for Chapter 6, and giving you this on nice and on time for you guys. You get to find out who our mystery woman is! It's not Kikyou, jsut to dispel the worried of any of you guys I didn't tell already.
DISCLAIMER:
Oooh, look a flying cow on a pogo stick with yellow polka dots on it, just over there! Oh wait...in that universe, I own Inuyasha too...shoot.
I don't have a lot to say this week, so without further ado, Welcome to:
Chapter 7: New Faces
Kagome was the first to speak. Once she'd pried her jaw up off the floor, and had thought of something coherent to say, she whispered hoarsely,
"Ayame! So...so nice to see you! What a...pleasant surprise!" She jumped up from her sun lounger and shot up to hug the girl lightly. The young woman before her had bright green eyes, dark red hair down to her hips, a long, lean body and dark, twitchy black ears atop her head, just peeking out of her bouffant ponytail.
Shoot. Kagome thought to herself as she gritted her teeth in a fake smile over Ayame's shoulder. If Ayame was here, then so was Kouga, and if Kouga was here, things could get messy. As in Inuyasha-drop kicking-innocent-but-not-so-innocent-wolf-youkai-till-his-head-could-no-longer-come-up-off-the-floor messy.
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Ah, speak of the devil. It came sauntering around the corner, driving Kagome's knees weak again at his cocky smile. Even after this year and a half, he could still make her feel like a teenager again. The glossy, black hair, as long as Inuyasha's but the complete color opposite. Unlike Inuyasha however, he possessed deep cobalt blue eyes, and a physique that was all muscle and sinew. Lotsa beef. Inuyasha was lean and strong, athletic in a...beautiful way. God, Kagome thought, it really hurt your system to have two hot men on the brain at once. So, concentrate on the nearest one, she reasoned.
"Kouga!" Kagome said, even brighter than she had at Ayame, who now walked over to greet Sango. Also grimacing painfully, shooting terrified glances at Miroku in the pool, who completely ignored her, through looking at Kouga with shock.
"Ah Kagome, honey! How are you doing lately?" Kagouga asked in a friendly, deep voice. Then in a lower, more umm...seductive tone, Kagome guessed he was going for, he added, "All those curves still intact, I see..." Kagome went beetroot colored, (she did that a lot recently, she realized) and slapped him lightly on the chest.
"Kouga! Ayame's right there! We broke up a long time ago!" she exclaimed, turning away from here, and aiming her right index finger at her throat, making throw up actions at Rin, who giggled inanely, typically. Sweet little airhead.
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"Umm, no offence or anything," Inuyasha piped out in a small timid voice totally uncharacteristic of him. "But, umm...WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING ON MY FUCKING PROPERTY, WOLF!" He jumped out of the pool without even going near the sides, and landed perfectly, nose to nose with Kouga, sniffing wildly at him, and screwing up his face in disgust.
"Excuse me, Inuyasha, but calm your stinkin' ass down!" Kouga snapped, shoving Inuyasha in the shoulder.
"Okay. A: Touch me again, and when you next see your balls it'll be in pictures! And B: How in fuck's name did you get in, why in fuck's name are you here, and when in fuck's name are you leaving?" Inuyasha asked, narrowing his eyes accusingly, shaking with the anger coursing through his body.
"Umm, did you forget something? Your doorman is a crack addict, shitface. He was asleep and left the barrier up. I'm here to see Kagome, and I tracked her down by myself thank you very much, and I don't intend on leaving any time soon, cause it's still my house dogbreath!" Kouga snapped, standing back and smiling triumphantly.
All the people looked on with confused expressions from their places at Kouga's last point.
"Uh, last I checked, mortgage bills came to me, dumbass!" Inuyasha snapped back, crossing his arms guardedly.
"See, now, dogbreath, this is how Kikyou got around you. You don't pay attention to detail, you always have to do things in a rush,now matter what the hell you're doing." Kouga prodded Inuyasha's forehead, only to be fiercely slapped away and growled at.
"If you'd paid attention when you and your father bought the house and you signed the contract, you'd have realized that you only pseudo-own this pad. In the event that you ever have other people under this roof living here for three days or more, I become the caretaker and official owner of the house. It's just so you don't get yourself into trouble, you know, like getting drunk and gambling away your women here, or your ears or somethin'. So yeah, puppy, I'm your babysitter for as long as everyone here stays here!" Kouga grinned, slapping Inuyasha chummily on the shoulder, and whistling for his chauffeur to bring the luggage.
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"Turn around Kouga!" Inuyasha yelled at his retreating back.
"What, you pickin' a fight now? Puppy." Kouga scoffed back at him, pushing his hands in his pockets.
"Bring it!" Inuyasha yelled, stalking up to him, and socking him, square in the jaw.
Kouga flew across the poolhouse, clear over the length of the pool and landed heavily on the other side.
Roaring in anger, he took a running leap into the air above the pool, flipped over midair as a blur, bringing both of his sneaker-clad feet down onto Inuyashas broad, damp shoulders, efficiently knocking him down, winding him and pinning him at once.
"Feelin' so hot now, punk?" Kouga challenged, heaving as he stood on Inuyasha's shoulders, bending over to speak to him upside down.
"Actually," Inuyasha grinned nonchalantly, grabbing a tight hold on Kouga's ankles. "Hotter than ever, wolf crap!" And with that he hauled on his ankles, using Kouga's weight to propel himself upwards. Sending Kouga's chin crashing on to the wet tiled floor and into the pool, Inuyasha stood up and dusted off his hands, retrieving his cellphone and shades from the potted palm he'd put them behind when they'd first come out.
Once he flipped open the cellphone, all hell broke loose around him.
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"FUCK!" Kagome screamed out, looking at Sango for reassurance, her face crumpled in disbelief and horror. Not only had Inuyasha, the photographer she was severely crushing on, jumped her equally hot ex-boyfriend and engaged him in a youkai testosterone fight, but he knew the man! Personally!
This really, really couldn't get any worse. Not even if Miroku suggested they all sit down with alcohol and talk about this reasonably. Which of course, being Miroku, he promptly did.
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Having all heaved out of the pool and put on real, but light summer clothing, everyone sat in Inuyasha's smaller, more intimate den on plushy sofas, chair and beanbags, complete with a jug of margaritas and glasses.
Kagome began the great discussion, ignoring the piercing eyes boring into the floor, and the bottom lip belonging to the owner of said piercing eyes poking out beneath his bangs, as he bowed his head in obstinacy. Three guesses who this child is...
"Okay, YOU, mister, have a tad bit of explaining to do!" Kagome started, holding her glass of the communal margaritas Ayame had made.
"Why does he get to go first? It's my house!" Inuyasha protested indignantly, sitting up from his slouch on his cushy armchair.
"Uh, excuse me, but it's not. Or were you not listening before you socked him?" Kgaome snapped icily. " Kouga, how do you know that over there?" she said kindly, swirling the ice in her glass with a plastic stirrer.
"Well, you know how his father is his publicist? Yeah, I'm on his books as well, and we always kinda got along. Yeah well, me and the dog breath over there (Inuyasha's forehead twitched and his fists clenched) fought from the onset. All like, I'm a better photographer than you, I have more money, I'm hotter, I have more women, the usual bullshit. I'm so sorry you have to be subjected to this behavior, my sweet. (Ayame's forehead twitched here) Like I said, Inuyasha signed this house over to me when there are people around, and I'm legally bound to come. Property's good for us SUCCESS STORIES lately..." Kouga finished, eyeing Inuyasha evilly out of the corner of his eye.
"Right, so generally, you hated him, he hated you, but you like this house, understandably, so you came anyway. How'd you know I was here?"Kagome asked, smiling.
"Yeah, well, let's just say, Mr Mireshi will say anything after a few Jack Daniels and Coke." Kouga chuckled, and so did Kagome, much to Inuyasha and Ayame's infuriation.
"Thanks Kouga. Now this is for all of you. How do you ALL seem to know him? And didn't tell me about it? Except Sango, who knew him when we dated." Kagome asked, sitting back against the plush cream cushions.
"HOLD UP." Inuyasha snapped out from his dark, bleak little corner of sulking.
"You DATED wolfass here? God, I think I'll go find the nearest bucket of ammonia and drown my head in it, I'm that sickened." Inuyasha said bitterly, shuddering with genuine disgust.
"Oh shoot, Inuyasha, this Sesshoumaru isn't all that surprised you don't think Kagome would dare have said she ever dated someone else now she's met you! Charmer that you are." Sesshoumaru said sarcastically from his seat between Miroku and Sango, for the safety of Sango's booty.
"What's it to you?" Kagome asked, raising one eyebrow at him.
"Hello. Now who's no listening?" Inuyasha scoffed.
"Alrighty then!" Sango interrupted the silence. "Ummm, me and the girls have a spa...thingy...planned. Have done for weeks! You know us ladies. So while we go...prettify...you can...do whatever the hell it is you guys do when we aren't around to punish you for it!" Sango said quickly, ushering her three friends out of the room.
"Sango honey, feel free to punish me whenever you want, baby!" Miroku called out behine them. For the first time that day, laughter broke out between the four men in the room. Warmed the atmosphere right up.
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"Spa thingy? Imaginative, I have to say." Kagome said, putting on her shades as she hefted her purse over her shoulder in the bright sunshine as they walked across the bridge over Inuyasha's lake to the parking lot.
"What? Male tension's infectious. We don't need that right now! Not now we have our two favorite girls with us to take a trip to the spa!" Sango said merrily, draping her arms over Rin and Ayame, resting her head on Kagome's shoulder.
"Oh but come on, don't you think he'll hurt Kouga?" Kagome and Ayame asked in unison.
The two girls looked at each other in that moment. One with jealousy and protectiveness flashing in her eyes. The other with indignation and embarrassment gleaming in her own. They laughed nervously and continued walking across the grassy area of parkland.
Rin, sensing the new found tension between the two friends, decided to change the subject.
"Which car do we take guys? I could take Sesshy's Spider, or Sango, you can borrow Miroku's Porsche or we could take one of Inuyasha's!" Rin said in her trademark bright, sweet tone.
"I don't know how to get to Inuyasha's stash." Kagome quipped.
"Jeez, you make it sound like he's hiding pot or something!" Rin rolled her eyes at Kagome. "I know the code; I mean, his brother does know some valuable tricks!" Rin said, winking at the girls, and hurrying ahead to Inuyasha's personal underground parking lot.
"Not the important ones," Sango muttered under her breath with an evil grin.
Rin pushed the green button below a little speaker at the door. Which, Kagome thought wryly, had a huge, gold and red "INUYASHA" emblazoned over the front. "Egotistical show off..." she muttered, but was soon distracted by what Rin just said after the password request.
"Jeremy is knocking for a road trip!" Rin said into the speaker.
The door slid upwards, and the lights flooded on, showing the most extensive selection of cars Kagome had ever seen.
Convertibles, jeeps, low sports cars, saloons, estates, minivans...everything, in crystalline perfection, sunlight glinting off of every single shiny surface, nearly blinding Kagome. They all looked around in awe, stroking the car hoods, or peeking into the lush interiors. Suddenly, something occurred to Kagome.
"Who the hell's Jeremy?" she asked the girls.
They all looked at each other, and then burst into fits of laughter. Kagome stood, confused, amidst the merriment, not knowing the vital fact she'd been missing.
When Sango finally recovered enough to whisper in her ear, "It's Inuyasha's name for his weenie." Kagome, too, pissed herself laughing, and was soon formulating an evil plan to use this against him, despite the lesson she was supposed to have learnt about that. What could she say, she just couldn't resist!
Well, maybe if Ayame would stop glaring at her, she would be able to carry it out.
As the girls jumped into the nearest convertible, Sango took the wheel, with Rin riding shotgun. Leaving Kagome and Ayame at the back. Alone. With no airbags. And Kagome had PMS. And the sparks began to fly.
"So, I guess you and Kouga were pretty close before me, huh?" Ayame said, feigning a friendly smile, as Sango and Rin sang along happily to Mariah Carey's Shake It Off. All that womanly independence thing. Sango was waaaaay into it. Especially since Miroku. And Rin just liked Mariah Carey right now.
"Uh, yeah, we were. He helped me become a model." Kagome said nonchalantly, not making eye contact.
"Oh yeah?" Ayame asked, pretending to be interested, whilst tensing up against the white leather seat.
"Yeah, he got me my first go-see, (model's interview) and he took my first ever portfolio pictures for free for me." Kagome said, remembering the time fondly. She'd only been young at the time. Struggling, more than she was now. Except, this deal should be the last sacrifice. Although, Kagome thought, it was feeling less and less like one every day she was there.
"Did he now? Kouga always did talk about how if it weren't for him you'd have had a much harder time getting as far as you have done. Saw your spread in Wedding magazine earlier this month by the way. Very classy." Ayame said, smiling self-satifiedly.
"Wedding, huh? You and Kouga thinking of...getting married then?" Kagome asked conversationally, trying to cover up the tightness in her voice at Ayame's implication with a smile in the other direction.
"Well, he hasn't asked yet, but it's only a matter of time," Ayame said. "Kouga would've any valuable girlfriend of his, he said. And apparently, I'm the first, and hopefully the last!" she finished with an air of immense, nauseating pride.
"Okay, you know what Ayame, I like you and all, but I've had enough of your bullshit!" Kagome exclaimed, whipping off her seatbelt and moving up closer to Ayame.
"What bullshit? Cause the only bullshitter I can see is you! All up and over Kouga like the whore I know you are!" Ayame flushed red and brought herself up close to Kagome.
Sango turned round, hearing the cursing, but couldn't look for long on account of the fact that she was the freeway, driving at aroundabout 90mph , (not the safest driver), and poked Rin into action instead. Hey, who said she couldn't have minions.
"Guys! Guys!" Rin piped out, poking the both of them from the front seat.
"SHUT UP!" Both turned to her and said simultaneously. Rin shrunk down behind the seat, and thought it'd be best if she just let it play out. See, now this was why she never got involved in any of Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha's many, many fights. Always either got yelled at or caught in the middle. Damned violence...
"It's not like I see YOU in any magazines! What, too old for the business already, or is that just the plastic surgery holding your boobs up?" Kagome bit out, shoving Ayame's shoulder roughly.
"You wanna talk plastic surgery? Honey, you had a wrinklier forehead when you were twelve! Botox much?" Ayame retorted.
"Bitch! You actually think I'd inject chemical crap into my head the way I can hear the silicone swishing in your chest, and that I still have feelings for that insensitive, arrogant asshole of a pretty boy who's now your wannabe fiance!" Kagome screamed, yanking a chunk of Ayame's lustrous, unusual red hair.
"Whore! How fucking dare you?" Ayame slapped Kagome, and soon the two were embroiled in a rolling, messy, fully physical chickfight. Things were getting bad now, and Sango could see it. She pulled off the exit to the spa, and shot into the nearest side road. The road was narrow, and the sides of it were steep banks rolling away down into dark woods Sango could barely see into.
Stopping with an incredible jolt, Sango and Rin were both catapulted forward, only to be seized sharply backwards by the force of their seatbelts. However, the two at the back, who had taken their own seatbelts off in their fury, weren't so lucky.
With a huge yell, Kagome's back landed on the door handle as she was tackled by Ayame's superior wolf youkai strength. Her shoulder blade painfully hit the trigger open, and the screams of indignation and fury quickly turned into screams of shock and terror, as the two clung to each other for dear life. Sango wrestled her way out of the car, after checking on an unconcious Rin, who'd fainted from the impact. Hurtling over the barrier Kagome and Ayame had rolled underneath, Sango clutched onto the nearest rock and crouched down, craning her head, watching the rolling pair in static, numb shock.
She could've sworn her heart stopped for a full five seconds when the two hit a huge boulder just before they reached the forest and the screams halted abruptly. Sango barely breathed when she saw them crumple apart from each other, and lie limply on the muddy ground. Then the world seemed to begin moving again, like it was in color again, and her world straightened out.
Her eyes began swimming with huge tears and she took great, agonising sobs, hiccuping miserably as she fumbled back to the car for her cellphone. She had to let people know. Someone had to save them. She couldn't let her best friend die. She just couldn't.
She dialed.
"I...Inuyasha...T..There's been a t..t...errible accident...It's bad..."
AN: That's it till next Sunday ppl! I hope you liked this one, and I think it went reasonably well. I hope you liked who our surprise guest was. Review! And I love you all to shreds. Fingers crossed, you aren't too mad at me!
Love Inukagchick11 xxx