Wow, ok. I was soooo going to start the a LONG time ago, but first I had writer's block, then I had a cross-country meet, and then it's now! And just so you know, it might be another 2 week update for the next chapter, because our cross-country team is going off to state, so sorry about that, but I really am very busy. Well thank you so much for the reviews, and for being patient!
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Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. But I do own the skittles I am eating right now…
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Chapter 5: You've Got To Be Kidding
Miroku had finally shaken off InuYasha between 5th and 6th period. He raced around the school looking furiously for any sign of Kagome when he spotted Sango over in a school courtyard, sitting on one of the benches. Miroku grinned, then sauntered over and slid onto the bench next to her. When Sango felt someone suddenly pop up very close to her, she gave a scream.
"HENTAI!" Smack. Miroku tumbled to the ground, as Sango spun around mumbling apologies. "I'm so sorry, it's just reflex! Are you oka-" Sango stopped and looked surprised when she saw Miroku's face. "Oh. It's you. That's all right then." She abruptly sat back down on the bench.
"Well thanks a lot," said Miroku, rubbing his smarting cheek. "I was just going to ask if you had seen Kagome anywhere." Sango looked wary, but scooted over to let him sit on the bench as well.
"Actually, I just got away from her. She is set on avoiding InuYasha, and nearly rips my arm off every time she sees a guy with black hair." Miroku sighed. That's what he had figured, and it was probably for the best, considering the mood InuYasha was in.
Miroku glanced over at Sango again. "We should probably try to keep those two as far away from each other as possible for the time being," Miroku said, "I mean, if InuYasha finds Kagome, he may or may not try to tear her up into little tiny pieces, although I'm sure Kagome would but up a hell of a fight, and if Kagome comes near InuYasha, she might decide to do something to even further aggravate him, and that would make it even worse." Sango nodded slowly, realizing that what Miroku said actually made some sense. "We at least have to keep them away from each other until InuYasha cools down, which could take some time, considering it's his pride that was injured."
Sango interrupted then. "How long do you think it will take, a couple of days?" Miroku coughed. Sango looked a bit alarmed. "More than a couple days? How long does he need?"
"Try a couple of weeks, and then we'll be good to go. But definitely, absolutely do NOT let them near each other until he his less…less…"
"Angry?" Sango suggested.
"I was thinking more along the lines of 'less likely to maim.'"
"Ah."
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"Kagooooooome…" Sango followed Miroku into Sesshoumaru's rental house, and looked around, trying to find Kagome. "Are you home?"
"I guess she's not here yet," said Miroku, walking into the kitchen and grabbing a couple of Dr. Peppers from the fridge. (A/N Dr. Peppers are the best sodas ever. Don't even try to deny it.) After deciding to keep InuYasha and Kagome as far away from each other as possible for a while, they had decided to go back to the rental house and try to dissuade Kagome from doing anything more drastic, like writing another article about InuYasha. Sango had gone with Miroku because she wasn't sure that Kagome would listen to him. And now, they came only to find that Kagome was not here. Sango tapped the counter as she sipped her Dr. Pepper, keeping one eye on Miroku as he sat at the opposite end of the table.
"So," she asked, "are we just going to sit here until Kagome comes home?" Miroku looked at her with a smile on his face that she definitely did not like.
"Well," he said slowly, "I could think of a couple things to do." His eyes glazed over for a few seconds before Sango hit him over the head.
"Baka," she muttered, "Can you think of anything that I might do willingly?"
That was how, approximately a half hour later, they found themselves to be watching a movie on the couch. Sango had let Miroku pick against her better judgement, and she was regretting it now.
"Don't go through into the fireplace!" Sango screamed at the TV, as she latched onto Miroku's arm. "Don't do it!" She yelped as the character's head got decapitated. Sango turned and glared at Miroku. "You picked this movie on purpose! You just wanted something that would scare me so that I would grab onto you." Sango punched the arm she had just been holding onto.
Miroku shifted around nervously. She had, of course, gotten it absolutely right. He hadn't even been paying attention to the movie at all. Of course, he couldn't let her know that.
"I would never do that Sango." He said, looking hurt. "I can't believe you would think that of me. Look, you just sit over there, and we'll finish watching the movie." Sango moved to the other side of the couch. Miroku, not as distracted by her presence anymore, started actually watching the movie.
In fifteen more minutes, the two were huddled in the middle of the couch, and had their eyes glued to the screen, and were both yelling at the screen.
"Don't go near the window!"
"He'll get you!"
"What do you think you're doing?"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Miroku gave a high-pitched scream and suddenly grabbed onto Sango in terror, as a face leaped out of the wall in the movie. She wasn't expecting it, so it sent them both tumbling onto the floor, with Miroku sprawling on top. Now both of them had stopped paying attention to the movie.
Miroku pulled himself up a little until his head was just above Sango's. He looked deeply into her eyes and said, "If you tell ANYONE I screamed like that, you are SO dead."
Sango stifled a giggle. "Oh yeah?" she said, "What are you gonna do to me?" Oops, she thought, a little too late, I probably shouldn't have said that to Miroku, although she found herself not minding as much as she really should have.
Miroku looked a little surprised, then got a little mischievous look on his face. "Well…" he started, his body still pinning hers down, but he never got to finish his sentence, because at that moment they both heard footsteps outside. They both scrambled off each other, and sat down on opposite ends of the couch, and Miroku turned off the movie. It was Sango who first realized that the footsteps weren't going towards the front door. In fact, it sounded like they were in the house. Judging by the roundness of Miroku's eyes, Sango guessed that he had just come to the same conclusion. They latched onto each other again, and listened as the footsteps stopped for a second, and silence hung in the air, until they started again, and this time they were getting closer.
Miroku jumped up, and grabbed the nearest hard object to him: a poker from the fireplace. He wielded it like a baseball bat, and got near the door that the footsteps were advancing on. "Get behind me," he whispered to Sango.
"Hmm?" He glanced to the side and saw Sango looking questionably at him while holding a frying pan in her hands. She obviously hadn't heard what he said. The footsteps got closer and closer, then stopped just outside the door. Both Sango and Miroku raised their weapons, as the doorknob slowly turned.
"DIE EVIL MONSTER!" Miroku yelled as both he and Sango swung as hard as they could at whoever was behind the door as it was flung open, then both of them stopped in midswing and toppled over, gaping in shock as InuYasha stood glaring down at them.
"What the hell are you two doing?"
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Kagome trudged towards the rental house. It was close enough to the school to walk, although today she wouldn't have minded calling a cab. She was exhausted after a day of running from Inuyasha. Everywhere she went, she was utterly paranoid that he would be lurking in some dark corner waiting to pounce on her when she wasn't looking. After a day of that, Kagome's nerves were frazzled, so when a hand grabbed her shoulder, she screamed loud enough to wake the dead.
Kagome whipped around to find Rin staring at her, looking a little bit scared. "Oh," Kagome said, embarrassed, "I thought you were somebody else." Rin grinned at her and fell into step beside Kagome.
"Too many fangirls trying to attack you today?" Rin guessed.
"Close enough," Kagome muttered. "Do you live near me?" she asked.
"No," Rin smiled, "I just saw you walking home all alone, and I thought after a day like you had, you could probably use some cheering up. Kagome smiled, truly touched that someone she barely knew would want to help her out like this. They laughed and talked all the way home, and by the time the rental house was in sight, Kagome was feeling much more cheerful and like her old self.
"Thanks for taking me home!" Kagome said to Rin.
Rin smiled back at Kagome, "No problem, that's what friends do." Rin spun around to leave, but instead walked right into Sesshoumaru's chest, and dropped all of her books on the ground "Oh! I'm sorry sir!" Rin looked up at Sesshoumaru with wide eyes. She scrambled around nervously trying to pick up all of her books, but only managed to scatter them even more. Sesshoumaru looked on with quiet amusement, before speaking.
"Here, let me help." Kagome looked at Sesshoumaru with surprise. That was the first time she had seen him help someone out. She looked at the two as Sesshoumaru quietly handed the blushing Rin a book, then smiled to herself. I think I'll leave the two of them alone for a bit.
She made her way up the front steps and reached for the doorknob. "I'm HOOOOOME!" she yelled, as she pulled the door open and stepped inside.
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Sango and Miroku stared up at InuYasha, still getting over the fact that he wasn't a mass murderer or a monster, when the realized something even worse. If InuYasha was here…and Kagome lived here…
"Well! I think it's about time you go!" Said Miroku, shoving InuYasha towards the front door. "Um, let's go catch a movie or something."
"Wha-? But I just got here!" InuYasha looked a bit confused.
"Well, um, you have to leave!" Said Sango, chipping in. "You see, I'm um, making some soup, with my, um, secret recipe! And you can't stay or else you might steal it." InuYasha looked at her with disdain.
"I don't cook." He glanced at Miroku who was still trying to shove him out of the door. "Hey! Stop, I have to go unpack." Miroku turned a very white color.
"Did you say…unpack?"
"Yeah," said InuYasha, looking bored, "you see, I got kicked out of the school dorms..."
"What?" Sango asked disbelievingly, "What did you do?"
InuYasha smirked. "Snuck into the girl's dorms to visit Kikyo one too many times." Miroku rolled his eyes. Sango was looking more and more panicked by the second.
"So…you are staying here now?"
"Yeah," said InuYasha, scowling. "I don't want to stay with my brother, but it's free, and he has room."
"Um…I'm not sure that's such a good idea," said Miroku. "In fact, I think you should go right no-"
"I'm HOOOOOOOOME!"
"Damn," muttered Miroku as he heard Kagome's voice. It was too late now, all that they could do was blow the situation open and see what happened.
"Who's that?" asked InuYasha just as the door swung open.
"InuYasha, meet Kagome, my roommate the girl who crashed into you, and who wrote a humiliating story about you. Kagome meet InuYasha, the most popular guy in school, my best friend, Sesshoumaru's brother, and your future roommate." Kagome stood frozen in the doorway as she immediately recognized who InuYasha was.
It took InuYasha, however, a few seconds longer for it all to really sink in. "You…Kagome…wench…" he muttered, his face going to confused, to understanding, to rage. "You are SO dead, bitch."
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InuYasha and Kagome living under the same roof…this can't be good. And I added a little fluff with Miroku and Sango, just because I could. Well, review, and hope you liked it!