Right, more importantly then anything else, THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY CHAPTER!!!! So all must review. As it is my birthday. YAY FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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WHAT HAVE I SAID ABOUT FLAMES, PEOPLE?!?!?! You wanna flame? Fine. But you leave a way for me to contact you, 'cause otherwise you're a coward. I've got no problem with you telling me your objections. None at all. But when I have objections to a story (and I've yet to ever flame, I like to think, I try to balance it out, though sometimes I can't do that to my satisfaction) I don't leave it anonymous. If an artist can't defend her opinion, her take, then you've got no right to comment. Maybe you don't feel that way? Too bad. It's MY opinion. So either deal, or don't flame.

A special thank you to…

NOBODY!!!! BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!!! Oh…Well…Except for these people…(I think I'm in a particularly bad mood or something, itchy feet maybe)…Erm…Okay, there's a lot of reviews, and it's really confusing…Erm…Okay, a special thank you to everyone who reviewed! You know who you are! I'll go back to me usual way next chapter, it's just I'm…well…LAZY!!!! BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!

(Birthday chapter! I can get away with anything!)

Disclaimer:

Pwale: In the town where I was born

There lived a man who sailed the seas

And he told us of his life

Hunting down

Evil fiends!

We all live in a purple submarine

A purple submarine

A purple submarine!

We all live in a-

Sesshomaru: What did we do to deserve this?

Kagome: My life is flashing before my eyes…

Pwale: And so we sailed out to the sun

Until we found Sengoku Jidai

And we kidnapped all the characters

But we still do not own them!

We all live in a purplish canteen

A purplish canteen

A purplish canteen!

We all live in a-

Lawyers #1 and #2: Hey! That didn't rhyme!

The Stamp of Gold

Shake Your Booty

By Pwalefriend

(Show 'em how it's done now! Show 'em how it's dooooooone!

Readers: Isn't it enough that you make us bear that cruel joke of a title! Must you really sing that wretched song

Pwale: You can, you can do it, very well! You're the, best in the world, I can tell!

Readers: SHUT UP!!!!!!!!)

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Kagome, dressed in a splendid evening gown of green satin that had mysteriously appeared in her trunk, calmly and coolly walked into her opera box. She had been most fortunate, she told herself, that the Elementals had thought to pack something so appropriate, as well as get her a private box, despite it being so expensive. Pointedly she ignored the voice that told her that was total rubbish and it had been Inuyasha who did all that, not the Elementals who could barely grasp the concept of identity, let alone propriety (you an I both know that voice was probably the ever-sarcastic left-foot). Kagome still just wasn't ready to deal with all the thoughts that were sure to follow any thought one had regarding Inuyasha. These thoughts included death, gore, blood, murder, fright, terror, really creepy red eyes and the occasional inside joke.

All in all, Kagome found the process of slowly coming out of a shock a rather uncomfortable one, and she hoped that the opera would distract her to the extent that she would be able to calm down enough to be able to come to a decision.

She had, of course, given up the hope of coming to an unbiased decision once she caught herself wondering what other people were going to say.

Wondering what other people were going to say wasn't actually something Kagome had ever really done before.

It was a great blow to her ego.

So she decided to go watch people make asses of themselves instead. Always a good decision in my book.

Kagome settled herself in her seat as elegantly as she was able (just for the heck of it) and was subjected to the most horrible rendition of Madame Butterfly that the Laws of Nature could possibly allow.

I don't believe this. Her right foot said.

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If the whole situation hadn't been so thrice-damned wretched, Inuyasha would have most certainly been laughing his head off at the opera. I won't go into details of it, as I don't want to be sued for broken floors and chairs and of "Deaths by Laughter". Let's just say, it would have had Inuyasha laughing.

Of course, the situation was so thrice-damned wretched, so instead of laughing the poor lad was actually fighting back tears.

And it was when Inuyasha was in the middle of a bout of particularly nasty self loathing and self pity and all together really annoying pathetic behavior as he stared into the Magic Mirror and muttered angrily at himself, that he saw something, or rather, someone coming up behind Kagome.

"What in the name of-"

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"Excuse me." Came a voice from behind Kagome. "I notice that this seat is empty."

Kagome, surprised a little bit, turned around and received as much of a shock as one can get when one has gone into shock, pardon my pun.

Kikyo was standing right there. Right there. The wench was holding out a bottle of wine (high quality), two glasses and was smiling as blissfully as one of those perfect little angelic children from storybooks who would always be really disturbing in real life.

A scarier sight you never did see.

Kikyo sat down, poured the wine, and handed Kagome one of the glasses. Then she raised her own.

"To us." Kikyo said, also raising an eyebrow. As if in a trance, Kagome lightly touched her own glass to Kikyo's, almost enjoying the pretty little clink it made. Some part (probably that loveable left-foot again) realized that if she was spacey enough to notice the pretty little clink then she should probably get her act together.

Even if it did have a nice dramatic effect.

As Kikyo sipped her wine, Kagome stared down at its dark red depths. 'I don't drink.' She realized. 'But if I did I'd definitely be drinking right about now. Ah well. Bottoms up.' And Kagome drowned the whole cup in one gulp. Kikyo, unfortunately, had a competitive streak and was forced to do the same.

Now, let's not get ahead of ourselves here, I know what you're thinking. But believe it or not, Kagome can actually hold her liquor. Kikyo, as it happened, could not. Kikyo's tongue was loosened, and Kagome (fearing that she was drunk and not able to tell if she was or wasn't) was being extra-extra careful about what she let slip.

Neither of the girls was aware that the upper hand had just switched. Life can be pretty annoying that way.

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Okay, I know that it was shockingly short, BUT IT'S MY BIRTHDAY CHAPTER!!!!!!!! So to get away with it all I had to update while still in the general vicinity of my birthday, so you get a chapter and I get a short chapter, EVERYBODY WINS!!! Well, except for the characters. They're losing a lot lately.

Ro-Roar, Roar roar, roar roar.

The Review Lion says that she's sorry, but you have to review because this is my birthday chapter, even if it is a pretty lame chapter.

Till next time!

Sincerely

Pwalefriend