Chapter Thirteen: I Hate Dares
A/N: Long awaited chapter. Here is it.
Kagome sprinted all the way to Sango's cozy hut. She banged upon the door and hollered at the top of her lungs. " Sango! Open the door at this instant. I'm free, I'm free! No more bitchy Ice Lords!"
The small animals scattered and scramped off into the distance of fright. A fusillade of bangs rang through the hut. A bed-wrangled Sango opened the door and stumbled mindlessly. It took her a few seconds to register the figure standing in front of her. She muttered lots of profanities underneath her breath.
Kagome ignored them and ducked under Sango's arm. The sight in front of her wasn't something she would have been like to see. Miroku, let me rephrase that... A naked Miroku on Sango's bed. Kagome did the only thing she could think of, she screamed. Miroku slipped on his clothing and blushed crimson. Who knew a pervert like him was capable of blushing?
Sango's dazed eyes cleared up and gasped. Kagome had just caught them. Doing the unthinkable. " It's not what it looks like, I swear!" Sango turned beet red and stuttered unclearly.
" You sure it isn't?" Kagome wiggled her perfectly sculpted eyebrows up and down. She peeled her eyes off of her best friend and looked around the cozy hut. " At least somethings didn't change." She always knew they'd end up together. But she didn't know it was so soon. ' Or maybe they were just waiting for the right time.' Perverted thoughts envaded her brain, she pushed them out and sat down on a soft chair.
" So... What's with this?" Kagome pointed at Sango, then Miroku then back at Sango. Just watching them both lose their ability of speech was pretty funny.
" Nothing, Sango, my dear friend was just letting me stay for the night because I got lost..." Trust Miroku to make pathetic excuses. Everyone knows you can't forget the way home, unless you were three and under.
" Enough about us, Kags. Don't tell me you were kicked out already."
Kagome didn't want to abandon the chance of teasing her best friend but she could alway do it later. Then she'll get all the details, except the you-know-what. " To set you straight, I wasn't kicked out of the contest. They didn't even get to the first cut yet. I did the impossible... I escaped and I can't believe I succeeded on my second try."
Sango threw a pillow at her. Surprisingly Kagome was hit squarely in the face. Miroku snickered and received a threatening glare. Sango continued, " I can't believe you'd pass up a chance like that. You could have gotten everything you wanted."
" Everything I wanted? I didn't want to be married to a Lord who holds no respect for you. I don't want to live in a house without being able to roam around freely without a bodyguard. I certainly don't remember wanting these things." Kagome shot back before speaking again. " Sango, you should have been there. It's a nightmare. Anyways I missed my friends, even if it was just a few days. I even missed Miroku." Kagome rolled her eyes.
" So does that mean you'll bear my child, lady Kagome." Miroku joked.
Too bad Sango didn't think it was a joke. Her fist made contact with Miroku's head. Within a second, the pervert collapsed onto the floor.
" And right after we did that, fucking bastard!" Sango mumbled. Kagome stiffled a laugh and waved her hand in the air to dismiss the situation. This is so typical. It always happens like this. Sango is always insecure about their relationship. Miroku on the other hand is just too stupid to learn from all of his other concussions. Instead he goes up to any pretty girl and asks them to bear his child.
" Oh, are you sure you just took off because you knew you wouldn't last through the contest. I bet I'm right." Sango questioned purposely. She knew a pride of a demon isn't something she should be messing around with. But logic only goes so far before curiousity kicks in.
" I'm surprised you'd think so low of me. As my best friend, you should encourage my decision. God knows I can last through the whole competition and win, if I wanted to." Kagome drawled her answer out from her clenched teeth.
" Well, how about a dare, Kagome?" Sango's face was so sinister looking that Kagome was quite scared for a few seconds. But Kagome has never passed on a chance to take up a dare before, and she wasn't going to stop anytime soon.
Kagome has that sinking feeling in her stomach. The kind that you have when something bad is about to happen. Sango is just so unpredictable. She desperately wanted to say no but what came out of her mouth was entirely different. " Sure, let's see what you've got."
Sango smirked. ' Oh. Crap. This is definitely not good. Not good at all.' Kagome fumbled with a loose thread on the hem of her kimono.
" Fine, I dare you to last as long as you possibly can in the contest." She said proudly, knowing Kagome would probably explode.
And that's exactly what she did. " You cannot be serious!" Kagome gasped for air like a fish out of water.
" Hold your horses, you haven't heard the rest of the deal yet. While you were gone, Inuyasha broke up with dead-clay-pot. He wants you back, badly. He'll do anything. He told Miroku the other day." Sango smirked.
" What are you saying?" Kagome was scared here, very.
" I'm saying that if you don't go back. I'll tell Inuyasha you made a mistake and that you want him back. You can't possibly run fast enough. I'm pretty sure you have seen him having one of fits where he turns into his demonic form."
" No fair. I'm not going back! Sssssaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnggggggggoooooo..." Kagome whined. Blackmailing was so not Sango's thing. But you have to admit, she is pretty good at it. Kagome did her best puppy face.
" I stand corrected." Sango stuck out her tongue at her friend. This is another fight she had in the bag.
" Do what you want, but you can expect me to talk to you after this." Kagome picked up her bags and stormed out of the hut. Now it was her time to mutter profanities under her breathe. ' How could she? I've known her since forever."
Kagome retraced her steps back to the castle. No way was she going to turn down the dare. Taking a blow to the pride can be painful. It's even worse when a crazy mutt is going to hunt you down. She sighed.
" Hello?" Kagome called as she pushed the slightly opened door to the dining room, after she made it past the barrier and the gate. She was safe. But where is everybody? Kagome circled the castle. The only scent she picked up was Sesshoumaru's. He seemed to be the only one here.
Kagome was confused, but that didn't stop her from venturing up the flight of stairs. Oh how she hated this cursed flight of stairs. It was so high. Her hands were shaking when she pushed open the door next to her room, Sesshoumaru's room. Kagome tiptoed around the room, no one was there.
' Weird,' she thought to herself. Opening the bathroom door, a fog of steam greeted her eyes. She blinked rapidly. She heard the water in the hot, not tub but pool. A fine figure emerged from the water. It grabbed its towel and seemed to be heading her way. The mist began to clear. Kagome gasped at what she saw. It was Sesshoumaru. He turned towards the sound and spotted Kagome.
Kagome was like a deer caught in headlights. Her eyes gazed over the lord's upper body. Water clung to his silvery hair. His abs were perfectly sculpted. Kagome wondered how it would feel to run her fingers across them. She shook her head and started blabbing. " I was just... I... um..." It was too embarrassing. Instead Kagome bolted out of the room and sat on Sesshoumaru's bed, waiting for him to get dressed.
A minute later, Sesshoumaru stepped out of the bathroom and took big strides toward the nervous girl. Kagome got up and started to back towards the wall. For the second time, Sesshoumaru trapped her against the wall.
" I got your note. According to you, I'm a sucker aren't I? Why did you come back?" He said in a quietly dangerous voice. Kagome shivered as the warm air hit her neck. Sesshoumaru smirked. He decided to have some fun with this. Seeing that Kagome hasn't answered yet, he spoke again. " I bet you liked what you saw back there."
Kagome gasped. ' He is sooooo perverted.'