You guys, I was totally out of my head screaming with joy when I got the response for last chappie! It's my fourth highest number of reviews for a chapter at 17 reviews. I know it's not a whole lot, but it mean a whole bunch to me, especially now that you've all helped me past 100 reviews! I aim for 200 by the end of Caught in the Flash, so keep it up guys, and thank you so much!
I'm aware I'm a little late this time, but I was taking time out from my schoolwork to reel out Chapter 9 for you extra fast, so karma has come back to bite me in the ass as usual, so I had a little catch up work to do! It's not toooo late though... Deep, deep conversation for Inuyasha and Kagome later this chappie, though I'm trying out a different chapter structure, just this once, I promise!
There is a huge vacation after this, which will be the scene of all good things happening!
FACTS TO CLARIFY:
All of the stars are in LA, California, not New York as previously mentioned.
All are aged 23, except for Inuyasha, Miroku and Kouga who are 26, and Sesshoumaru is 29.
Sess and Rin WILL RETURN
VVVVV IMPORTANT: Anyone wanting to know the TRANSVESTITE STORY, read this chapter! It's Miroku's way of cheering the gang up okay? Kagome won't know until it's of more use to her though...hehehehe (insert evil laughter)
Disclaimer: Dammit, I thought Inuyasha was mine...Guess all I own is the screensaver...
So okay then:
Chapter 10: The Aftermath II
Sango looked blearily around the corner, her spike heels tapping gently on the marble flooring.
"SStttttthhhhhh Miroku!" Sango snapped, lisping at her staggering companion.
The two were making their way down towards Inuyasha's room to visit Kagome, being worried, like the wonderful and devoted friends they were. Well, before the five apple martinis and three vodka shots...Now they were more like foggily concerned...
"Don't touch that!" Sango gasped lightly, swatting at Miroku's hand.
"Whhyyyyyyy? Ish so shoft and squishy Shango!" Miroku said, shooting Sango an inane grin.
"If you'd shtop toushing it, I'd shtop hitting you for toushing it!" Sango said quietly, swatting at Miroku's hand again.
"Doeshn't hurt..."Miroku mumbled out, continuing his actions.
"Don't push it in, Miroku!" Sango gasped, her face flushing.
"I'll pussssh as hard as I want, I'll have ya know, missy!" Miroku said indignantly, his slur still evident.
"Well what if I don't want you to push so hard?" Sango asked coquettishly.
"Shango, I will push in, and out, and in and out, as much as I can until I feel like shtopping, undershtand?" Miroku said, stroking with his hand now.
"Okay then, don't blame me if it comes out too early though..."Sango said, putting up her hands in defeat.
"YAY!" Miorku cheered like a five year old. And he continued fingering the Action Man action figure with the retractable sword he had found laying around in the hallway.
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"Kouga?" Ayame asked in the darkness, dumping her bag and light jacket on the stairs.
"What?" Kouga replied gruffly, panting heavily.
"I think we lost them again..."Ayame said sheepishly, tapping into her youkai night vision to catch sight of her boyfriend.
"Gee...you...think?" Kouga choked out, looking at her with a sarcastic glare, the twinkle in his cobalt eyes betraying his stern look.
"Well they're like babies! They get everywhere, have sticky little hands and can't talk right!" Ayame said in her defence.
"Well, you ever see a baby run that fast?" Kouga asked, standing up and walking over to dump his suit jacket.
"Oh come on, Miroku was threatening to put Sango over his knee and spank her! Wouldn't you run away if I said that to you?" Ayame asked, laughing lightly, crossing her arms and looking pointedly at Kouga.
"Not necessarily..." Kouga murmured sensually in her ear, placing his strong arms about her, pulling her close.
Ayame squirmed, feeling his hot breath glance across her chin. "Oh yeah?" she managed to reply breathlessly. "You want a spanking later?" Ayame asked coyly.
"Maybe, maybe not..."Kouga said, playing along. "Depends on who's spanking who..." Ayame giggled.
"Oh, believe me, I'll do the spanking..."Ayame whispered in his ear, before darting her tongue out and licking it gently, running away to find her lost friends.
"YOU TEASE!"Kouga yelled, jogging after her laughing back.
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"We founded them!" Sango cheered squeakily, peering around the door into Inuyasha's bedroom.
"I love Hide and Go Peek!" Miroku replied.
Two people lay, spooned together under warm wool blankets, breathing softly, each looking content and peaceful. The scene was truly touching, and looked like the Band-Aid for Inuyasha's wounds caused by his past.
The two overexcited, totally drunk people, crept gently into the room, looking at Kagome's face intently (AN: You know, in that totally disrespectful, yet cute way little kids do it when you're asleep?).
"Does her lipsh look funny to you?" Sango asked Miroku, looking at him with wide eyes.
"I shink sho?" Miroku asked.
"They're all red and big, like she got a plunger shtuck on her face..." Sango observed.
"You think she got the vacuum on her mouf?" Miroku asked, beginning to giggle, yes giggle, uncontrollably.
"Shhtthhhhhh Miroku, you'll wake Beastie up!" Sango said urgently. She grabbed onto Miroku's hand and hauled him out of the room, waving at the still sleeping Kagome.
As the exited the room, Sango and Miroku came face to face with the people they had been avoiding all night...
"Uh oh." The two said simulataneously.
FLASHBACK
"I LUUUUUURVE ROCK N ROLL, SO PUT ANOTHA DIME IN THE JUKEBOX BABYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Sango sang out, a vodka shot in one hand and her tiara long since gone. Her hair hung in sumptuous curls down her back, highlighting her flushed face and maniacal grin.
Miroku had also long since lost something important, namely anything worn on his upper body, and lay flat out on the floor, cheering and whooping for Sango.
The after parties at awards ceremonies were wild, and Sango and Miroku were playing it for all it was worth.
Once they couldn't take the uncertainty and worry gnawing at their consciences over Inuyasha and Kagome, Sesshoumaru, (he later left for his wing of Inuyasha's house with Rin) sick of seeing the two so damned miserable over what was nothing, (Sesshoumaru knew what Inuyasha wanted to do), "suggested" (i.e. forced down their throats) a couple of apple martinis to calm them down.
Unfortunately, one apple martini turned into two, which turned into three, which turned into five. And then, it was Sango's bright idea to have a little shot contest with Miroku...It all went downhill from there.
See, what nobody knew before, was that when Sango and Miroku were drunk TOGETHER, things tended to go one of two ways. They either could not keep their hands off each other, or they tended to...regress, shall we say.
And this time, it was regression, hands down.
"I wanna peeeeee..." Sango said, climbing down from the table, landing unsteadily on Ayame. Little did SHE know, Ayame was good at dealing with the drunk and disorientated.
"Come on Sango, we'll go to the bathroom, and then me and Uncle Kouga will take you home, 'kay" Ayame said soothingly, leading Sango towards the ladies' room.
"Otay..." Sango said, plunging her thumb into her mouth.
"Miroku get your ass up, I ain't got the time to be messing with you!" Kouga snapped, holding out his hand to a comatose Miroku.
"UH OH, Kouga, you sayed a bad word. Ima tell Ayame!" Miroku gurgled out, giggling at Kouga.
Kouga knew as sure as Miroku had no weener that Ayame would kick his ass for destroying the "innocence" of a helpless Miroku like that.
"Shhh, just don't tell...Auntie...Ayame and I'll take you to the vroom vroom, got it?" Kouga replied, hoisting Miroku up, and dumping his arm over his shoulder.
Spotting Ayame on the other side of the room, across the red haze that was the only light, he nodded towards the door, grinning at his girlfriend.
Ayame nodded back, and continued with Sango to the bathroom.
The second Kouga got outside with Miroku, and Ayame came out holding up Sango, the two passed a weak glance between each other, winking mischievously. Miroku wriggled out from under Kouga's arm, Sango leapt from Ayame's grip out into the cool night air. The two turned to their captors, blew huge raspberries and ran away across the parking lot, Sango with her shoes in her hand.
"SHIT." Ayame and Kouga cursed simultaneously. Working together, the two whipped off anything that could slow them down against two adults who figured they were babies right now, and hurtled after the rogue growed ups.
WHILE THIS WAS HAPPENING, BACK AT THE MIRESHI MANSION...
"Boy, get back here!" Kagome yelled, stepping out of her shoes, hitching up her skirts and jogging after Inuyasha, watching her breathing carefully.
How on earth did he think he could kiss a girl like that and then just LEAVE with no explanation? Who the hell did he think he was?
"Hello? Romantic significance... Did you never read those anime fanfics as a kid?" Inuyasha said, nervously hiding his lower half behind the doorway of his living room.
"What do you take me for, of course I did!" Kagome scoffed, looking shorter and more delicate somehow, in her expensive dress but barefoot, with mussed up hair and makeup.
"Not the point, however! Explanation, if you please?" Kagome said, tapping her foot in the doorway.
"Ummmm...you know what, you were there, and I'm horny. Simple as that." Inuyasha said, kicking himself inside. Why was it then whenever things got a little emotional with women he just turned into an asshole automatically?
That kicking just turned into a full out beating as he watched Kagome's face. The infuriated, fiery glare in her eyes melted, dissolved into something Inuyasha wasn't used to seeing in girls' eyes. This was different. This was pure, unadulterated, childish, hurt. He'd hurt her, and he could see it now. Kagome exhaled hoarsely and pushed her way into his room, slumping on the bed, her face a picture of misery. Inuyasha silently followed her, standing above her.
"You know, that is entirely typical of you. I just knew it. Knew it. For once, since Kouga, I picked myself up, dusted myself off and was prepared to put myself out there. And then I met you. And of course, once that happened EVERYTHING changed. I started feeling things, saying things I wouldn't normally do around a new guy. Just ask Kouga how long it took before I would actually go OUT with him! And you know what, I'm gonna shut up now, before this gets even more embarrassing." Kagome sniffed and prepared to walk out of the room, ignoring Inuyasha's confused face.
Wait, Inuyasha thought to himself. What was it he'd thought that first, magical time he'd kissed her. That he could never let her go. He was slowly, but surely beginning to get that. He wasn't sure if it was love, or just the connection, but he felt just like that now. Except they weren't joined at the lip, they were joined...at the heart. He could feel the tug between them as surely as he could hear her heart beat rapidly.
Somehow, someway, he knew that if he let Kagome walk out that door now, she'd never return to him. Their flower would have perished before it'd even had a chance to bloom.
"Stop." Inuyasha said in a strange, quiet, gentle voice, placing his hand on her arm.
To his relief, Kagome stopped dead, and turned to face him, pain etched all over her soft features.
"Why?" Kagome asked, staring at him accusingly.
"Because...because I can't leave it like this. I'm an ass, but not that much of an ass. We have to talk." Inuyasha said, forlornly, pushing her gently out of the door and down towards the nearest door out of the house. If he was going to tell her things, it should at least be somewhere where he wasn't liable to jump her.
So yeah, taking her to his private section of beach was definitely the smartest choice here.
Kagome plopped down in the sand, the black silk of her dress spreading out around her like a blanket, and stared out across the black ocean, lapping gently at her toes. Low tide was tonight, and it meant that Kagome could look out across the ocean for ever.
Inuyasha eased himself down next to her, and began to talk in a low pitched, quiet voice.
"Kagome, this hasn't been easy." Kagome snorted sarcastically, but he had her attention now. He continued, fingering the tiny shells embedded in the smooth, flowing white sand.
"We haven't gotten along, not from day one, and I don't think there's any point in saying we aren't attracted to each other. I mean, in a huge way, as in sexual tension whenever we're within ten feet of each other. I'm sure Sango's let you know. Girls..." Inuyasha mumbled.
"To the point, please." Kagome said curtly, although her heart was beating fit to burst adn it wasn't the night air making her sweaty.
"Getting there. Don't rush genius, thank you. Anyway, I think we have to come to some sort of deal. We can't keep going like this for the next three weeks, unless you and I don't see each other, which I do believe is impossible. Cause can I just say, I am THIS close to jumping you right here and now." Inuyasha finished eyeing Kagome with a lopsided, sheepish smile. Not grin, not smirk, not leer, but a smile.
"First off, that's disgusting. Secondly, a deal, you say?" Kagome said, getting into the idea, all of a sudden glad Inuyasha had brought her out here to discuss their "situation".
Inuyasha just got the biggest sense of deja vu, smack in the face.
"Hey, I don't like where you're taking this, bitch..."Inuyasha warned, his eyes narrowing at the grin on Kagome's face.
"Oh, you will!" Kagome laughed. "But first, we need to talk this through alll the way. No shortcuts. So you know what, I'll start now."
"Go ahead." Inuyasha said, somber once more.
"Yes, there's a whole lotta lust. And a whole lotta chemistry, I have to admit, but I also have to say that I'm not ready. I can't do this. All my life, I've been tossed around like a toy, like a doll. I searched all over for the right guy, and I got hurt each and every time. Kouga was the last and the messiest, but that's another story for another night. My heart is in NO shape to take the likes of you now, no offence, (Inuyasha scoffed at this point), and I have to leave this. Truth is, I'm scared right now, and I can't, just...can't let you break me again. I just put myself back together, and I'm gonna stay that way." Kagome finished decisively, her voice thick but her eyes steely.
"Okay." Inuyasha shrugged, as though she'd just told him the ocean was blue.
"Okay? I pour out all of that and all you ahve to say is Okay?" Kagome asked incredulously, sounding hurt.
"It's not that I don't care." Inuyasha said, just as nonchalantly. "It's that I do."
Kagome was stunned into silence
"Anyhoos," Inuyasha changed the subject quickly. "What's your plan for this deal? I'd just like to know so I can call my lawyer to fix it when it goes wrong."
"FYI, it has NOTHING to do with the law!" Kagome said, forgetting all about Inuyasha's last comment. "Besides, your father is your lawyer, and he likes me! What I did have planned was that seeing as you are me are so very sexually frustrated, we should go away somewhere with the gang, maybe Europe for the last two weeks of the month. Besides, that gives us time to go to the Grammys, and the Emmys are in Europe anyway, so we'd've had to go anyway."
"How does that cure horniness?" Inuyasha asked, puzzled.
"Well, we have to get laid before we go back." Kagome said matter-of-factly, hoping she didn't sound like too much of a slut. For a virgin, this was baaaad behavior.
"Huh?" Inuyasha sounded dumbstruck.
"You heard! No hookers though, that's cheating." Kagome went on strongly, going all the way.
"Oh damn it!" Inuyasha hissed sarcastically.
"I figure, if we both have sex, we won't want each other anymore! Problem fixed."
"Good luck." Inuyasha said spitefully, feeling strangely rejected.
"I'll do fine. It's YOU who will be leaving Jeremy high and dry on the abstinence plateau!" Kagome said, rising to the bait, and stalking off the peaceful beach, back towards the mansion.
Inuyasha watched her leave, scowling foully. Once she turned the corner though, it dissolved and was replaced by a look of confusion and anger.
Did he just do what he thought he'd done? Did he just make a HUGE mistake? Even huger than that night with Miroku and the transvestites? Yeah, bigger. Kagome now knew he cared about her. Dammit! He hadn't even made that mistake with Kikyo!
Ain't nothing he could do about it now...
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up. Where were this year's Emmys? Oh no...No...Milan,Italy. Italy was where...mean "ladies" had chased him through Milan. This COULD NOT BE HAPPENING!
Inuyasha let out a loud cry of anguish as he began the mourning ceremony for his balls.
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"Get your little fanny back here, Sango!" Ayame screamed
"NOOOOOOO!" Sango screamed for the nine zillionth time.
"Oh fuck this!" Ayame wheezed, her hands on her knees as she fought for breath. Jesus for a human, the bitch was fast. God, she was a crappy excuse for a wolf demon.
"I know. Just...give...up." Kouga heaved, collapsing on the floor next to her.
"Nu uh! If those little rugrats think they'll beat me, let them hold on to their damn diapers. Just breathe for a few minutes, and we're back after them." Ayame growled out, snarling a little as Sango and Miroku stuck out their toungues and ran away towards the steam room.
"Hey, Ayame?" Kouga asked after thirty seconds of heaving.
"What?" Ayame said shortly, her mind focused on the mission at hand.
"How come you'll talk dirty to Sango, but not me?" Kouga asked, playing the forlorn cub for all he was worth.
"You want dirty, puppy?" Ayame asked, flirtation flashing in her eyes.
"Sure." Kouga said, getting comfortable.
"GET YOU FUCKING LITTLE ASSHOLE AFTER THAT PINT SIZED FUCKING RUGRAT KNOWN AS MIROKU, WORLD CLASS FUCKING PERVERT AND DON'T FUCKING COME BACK HERE UNTIL YOU FUCKING HAVE HIM!" Ayame hollered loudly in his sensitive ears.
"Understand, sweetie?" Ayame smiled at him sweetly, cocking her head, before running off to find Sango again.
Once she was gone, Kouga muttered to himself, "Last time I ever ask for sexual favors..."
"Thank you, baby!" Ayame yelled from several storeys down.
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Having spent some time thinking on the beach, (mostly about Kagome, he was sorry to say), Inuyasha dragged himself up to his room, conveniently forgetting Kagome would be in there.
As he looked round the door, he noticed the sleeping figure in his bed, still in her dress, and for once, didn't flip out. He thought she looked cute...
And suddenly, as though some lovesick beast had taken over his mind, Inuyasha crawled into the bed quietly, slipped beneath the blankets, placed a strong tan arm around her waist and pulled her to him, spooning her gently.
Inuyasha sighed with happiness when he was rewarded by Kagome squeaking gently and pressing her back into his chest, holding onto his arm with one of her hands. And Inuyasha left the foggy bliss that was his brain right now, and drifted off to sleep. And for the first time in seven years, Inuyasha slept all the way through the night.
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"Didn't think we'd find you, huh?" Ayame said merrily, glad she'd finally caught up with them.
"Noooo..." Miroku said sheepishly, looking at his feet.
"Hahahahahaha, well we did!" Ayame said gleefully, trying to march the two of them to bed.
Sango and Miroku squirmed and squealed, and Kouga prised Ayame's hands off them.
"They'll wake everyone, believe me. I figure we should just take them downstairs and give them some bread and water to help sober up." (AN: It works for me!)
"Fine, fine, fine." Ayame agreed.
Once they got down to Inuyasha's huge kitchen with glasses of water and slices of bread nearby, the four sat on the floor, making sure Sango stopped pouring her glass of water down Miroku's pants.
"I wanna tell you guys a story!" Miroku said merrily, just a tiny bit me sober.
"Sure Miroku..." Kouga said tiredly, sure it would be something about groping Sango in the sandbox.
"It was the time me and Inuyasha went to a transvestite bar!" Miroku squealed chirpily, leaning in to tell the story.
Kouga sat bolt upright at this and shook a sleeping Ayame roughly. "What the fuck...?" she asked groggily.
"Miroku...story...good...Inuyasha...listen!" Kouga said, too excited to speak in full sentences.
"Ooh when, where, how, why?" Ayame asked, interested as her green eyes lit up.
"Ooooh, Sango's sleeping now...Anyways, my story, yes... Well, I thought it'd be funny to kinda go to a transveshtite bar when we went on this clubbing vacation in Italy a year or so ago. Needless to shay, we where a little tipshy." Miroku started off.
"Uh huh, uh huh, what happened then, huh?" Kouga asked like an excited child.
"Well, we went, in and danced with some "chicks" (Miroku made air quotes in the sir) and I kinda didn't tell Inuyasha we were AT a transvestite bar. You know, it's amazing how convincing they are these days, the wonders of cosmetic surgery...Yeah, well, anyways, Inuyasha started making out with this one "girl" (air quotes again) and after a little groping, little touching, little feeling, he found the "girl"'s dick. To say the least, he was not pleased. At all. He was so not pleased in fact, that he stood up, on the bar, banged glasses for attention and told the entire bar they were all fruitcakes and should all learn to enjoy dick and pussy as one (AN: SORRY FOR MY CRUDE LANGUAGE, I WON'T USE IT IN THE LEMON, PROMISE)."
"Don't just leave it there!" Kouga said incredulously.
"I wasn't planning on it, my dear," Miroku siad, taking another gulp of water. "So, I know you all know how trannies generally take comments such as that, and the chase across downtown Milan with at least eighty angry "women" (air quotes) tearing after them brandishing spike heel shoes, bras and jockstraps in the air."
"That's it?" Kouga asked, a little disappointed.
"Oh noooooo! See, Inuyasha ran out of steam after an hour or two, and well, they kinda caught up with him, I hid in a tree, but they caught him and kinda made him crowd surf in the Italiano Plaza with...Jeremy on show...floppy, no doubt...in the bright and early morning of August 12th, with all those happy families being all touristy...More than a couple corrupted kids, let me tell you...That's when Jeremy was christened however, he figured that if he was ever abused like that again, he should at least have some kind of name."
"I LOVE YOU MIROKU!" Kouga cheered, thumping him on the back.
"I hope sho..." Miroku replied, crashing out on the ktichen floor next to Ayame and Sango.
Meanwhile, Kouga skipped upstairs to the office, booted up on of the laptops in there and began his Internet search for seven first-class tickets to Milan, Italy. After that search, he then searched for the names of all the transvestite clubs in Milan. Time for a little reunion, he figured...
AN: Hope you liked, and it wasn't too crappy a follow up from last chappie, which I'm so glad you all liked! 8000 hits people and 133 reviews! Over the damn moon! Sess you maybe this time next week okay? Be prepared for hot Italian boys and screwed up Italian ramen!
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