Teacher's Pet
Chapter 36: Expect the Unexpected
"Kagome, you're an amazing swimmer!" Tsubasa complimented. "No one has ever beaten me before."
"Thank you. And I told you I used to swim competitively. And I've loved swimming since I was born." Kagome said, towel drying her hair.
They'd all raced around the pool, Kagome beating all of the girls and Tsubasa beating all of the guys, then the two went head to head and Kagome barely won. Everyone had taken a shower in the downstairs bathrooms to wash the chlorine off of them. Ayame still had a rather nasty attitude, but she seemed to know to keep her mouth shut.
"Anybody hungry?" Miroku asked.
"Yeah, but I'm not eating anything you cook." Koga teased. He knew that out of the guys, Inuyasha was probably the only one of them that could cook. And that was only because of Kagome.
"Let's just order a pizza. I'm done cooking for the weekend." Kagome said, flopping down on the couch. Sango sat next to her, then Kanna on the other side, putting Kagome in the middle.
"That's fine with me." Miroku said. "We can get four large pizzas."
"Four?" Kagome asked. "I can eat a large pizza by myself. And so can you guys. Seven large pizzas. And we'll have some for when we get hungry later."
"You're a fat ass Kags." Sango joked.
Kagome scrunched her face up and stuck her tongue out. "Just 'cause you eat like a pixie doesn't mean I have to."
"Whatever. Your thighs are gonna spread like butter one of these days."
"How dare you wish such a thing on me?" Kagome gasped, feigning hurt.
Koga was on the phone, placing the pizza order while the rest of the group figured out what they were going to do for the night.
"Let's play pool." Inuyasha suggested.
"Let's make it a little bit more interesting." Tsubasa said with a smirk. Everyone went to the game room and listened to Tsubasa explain the rules of her game. We're in two teams of two. We chug for the break. Whoever finishes first gets to break. If you make a ball, the other team drinks. If you miss a ball, your team drinks. For each ball made in a row, that's how many shots the other team takes. If anybody commits a foul, the other team gets to put the cue ball wherever they want and your team has to drink. Losing team has to chug the rest of their drink. Everybody get it?"
"I get that you're an alcoholic." Kagome said, laughing.
"I suck at pool." Kanna said honestly.
"Me too." Sango whined.
"Same teams as chicken." Tsubasa stated, before anyone had the chance to say otherwise.
"Well, I hope you're good at pool 'cause I suck royally." Kagome looked at Tsubasa.
"Finally, something that Queen Kagome is bad at and I'm good at." Ayame smirked.
Instead of responding, Kagome rolled her eyes. Then, Kagome smirked. "Tsubasa and I are playing Inuyasha and Kanna."
"Why would you do that?!" Ayame yelled.
"Because I wanted to. And because you're being a bitch. But you know what? I don't really care anymore. We'll play you. If you beat me, that doesn't mean a damn thing. If I beat you, it still doesn't mean anything." Kagome said with her hand on her hip.
Tsubasa watched the exchange without saying anything. Kagome had some serious attitude. He was sure that if it came down to it, Kagome would beat Ayame in a fight. Tsubasa liked a fierce girl. Whiny ones always annoyed him, but they seemed to flock to him.
"Alrighty then. I guess we'll go first." Tsubasa said and grabbed four strawberry Line-a-Ritas. "Chug em."
Kagome, Tsubasa, Ayame, and Koga all grabbed their cans and chugged them down. Tsubasa finished his first, followed shortly by Kagome, who let out a loud unceremonious belch right behind it. Her face turned red and she covered her mouth with her hand. "Excuse me." She giggled slightly.
"That was atrocious, Kags!" Inuyasha laughed.
Kagome stuck her tongue out at him.
"Ya know," Tsubasa mumbled in Kagome's ear, "I've got a better place for that tongue of yours."
Kagome blushed again and turned to the pool table. "So we break."
Tsubasa smiled. He racked up the balls and politely gave Kagome the shot. Kagome put chalk on her pool stick and bent over the table, which gave Tsubasa a rather nice view of her ass in the pajama shorts that she was wearing. "That's a pretty good hit. You sunk two balls."
"Cool!" Kagome smiled.
"Calm down Kagome. We haven't won yet." Tsubasa laughed, preparing to make his pool shot. He sank three and Kagome cheered. "Well damn. I've got my own personal cheerleader."
Kagome hit him on his arm. "Shutup."
Ayame rolled her eyes. "Lucky shots. Both of you."
Then it was Ayame and Koga's turn. As a gentleman, Koga let Ayame go first. She immediately sank two balls. "Yeah, bitch! That's how it's done."
Kagome and Tsubasa took their two shots like champs, not complaining about them.
Koga grabbed his pool stick and hit the ball he was aiming for, then sank one he wasn't, giving him a total of two balls.
"You ready to lose?" Ayame taunted.
Again, Kagome didn't say anything, but took her punishment alongside Tsubasa. Kagome got her pool stick again, but she missed the ball. She shrugged and smiled at Tsubasa, who was already smiling at her. He had been watching her face scrunch up as she concentrated on trying to sink the ball. Kagome was utterly adorable in everything she did.
Instead of kissing her like he wanted to, Tsubasa poured his and Kagome's shots and, much to Ayame's surprise, they toasted and laughed. Tsubasa shook his head as the bitter liquid slid down his throat. He got set up for his next shot. He sank one ball in and Kagome still cheered.
"You're still better than me." She laughed.
Ayame went next and sank one. Then Koga shot and sank one. Kagome and Tsubasa took their two shots each and Kagome giggled. "Yeah, I'm feeling it now."
"You're small as hell but you take your shots like a grown ass man three times your weight." Tsubasa said.
"Kags can probably drink you under the table." Sango said from the sidelines. Just because they weren't playing didn't mean they weren't drinking.
"I doubt that." Tsubasa said.
"Wanna bet?" Kagome smirked.
"Hey! We've got a game to play here!" Ayame interrupted.
"Oh yeah." Kagome looked at the table. "Well I guess the next one to get the ball in the pocket wins." Kagome shook her head, since it was spinning just slightly.
"Can you even see the ball well enough for you to hit it?" Tsubasa asked, smiling.
"Shutup, jerk." Kagome chalked her pool stick and aimed at what she thought would have been the right direction to sink the ball. She hit the cue ball and it bounced all over the table, not even touching the final ball. "Dangit!" Kagome said and shrugged. "You can get it Tsubasa!" She cheered drunkenly.
"Great. Now I've got a drunk cheerleader." Tsubasa joked, but prepared for his shot. He attempted to bank the cue ball so he could sink the ball in, but his plan failed. Instead of the cue ball banking on the side he'd planned on, it banked from the end and barely tapped the ball. Kagome watched as the final ball inched its way towards the pocket and she yelled happily when it finally tipped over.
"I told you that you could do it!" Kagome said with a huge smile on her face.
Ayame rolled her eyes and scoffed. "Whatever. We should've won."
Kagome pinned her eyes on Ayame and Koga stepped from beside his partner to beside the onlookers. "Look, I have no idea what the hell your problem is, but you need to get yourself together before I break you into pieces for real."
"You wanna know what my problem is?" Ayame asked.
"No, not really. I just said that I don't know, not that I wanted to know." Kagome grabbed a strawberry Lime-a-rita off the table, opened it, and began to walk away.
Tsubasa watched Kagome walk and take a huge gulp from the can of alcohol she was drinking. He looked at Sango, who was shaking her head. "Do they normally argue like that?"
"Kagome and Ayame fall out at least twice a school year. It's been happening since the 5th grade when Ayame thought the new American boy at our school liked her, but he really liked Kagome. Ever since then, Ayame has always craved the attention of any guy that wants Kags." Sango shrugged. "Kagome really doesn't give a shit. I don't know why she still puts up with Ayame."
"Because she's a nice people sometimes." Kagome came back and slurred.
"She's a nice people?" Tsubasa mocked her with a smile.
The doorbell rang before Kagome could retort. "Oh good! The pizza! I'm staah-ving!" Kagome turned to open the door.
"Um, Kagome, I don't really think you should be answering the door as drunk as you are." Tsubasa said, slightly stumbling to the door himself.
"Oh blah blah blah. Get the monies off the table." Kagome opened the door with her head still turned to Tsubasa. He stepped beside her and placed his hand on the small of her back to steady her swaying body. "Gimme the monies." She hissed at him, then took the money from his hand. Kagome turned to the door, and, to her shock, instead of a pizza delivery guy standing in front of her, it was the owner of the condo. "Sesshomaru." Kagome whispered, then passed out.