Careless Whisper
Disclaimer- Once again...nope don't own. I also don't own the songs used in this fic. On to typing my fic.
.../...CHAPTER.6...
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
and I don't know what I'm diving into
just hanging by a moment here with you
there's nothing else to lose
there's nothing else to find
there's nothing in the world
that could change my mind
there is nothing else
HANGING.BY.A.MOMENT.- LIFEHOUSE.
Ch.6 A Surrendered Battle
RECAP.
"What are we doing?" Kagome asked curiously.
"Well first your going to change cause that can't be comfortable to wear this long and then we're going to..." She said then went back to the front and opened the screen to reach up into the glove compartment.
"Do you mind?" Koga asked when she crossed over him.
"Yes...just trying to get something." She said as she pulled out a notebook and pencils then went back to the back after closing the screen as Kagome searched through the suit case she was sharing with Inuyasha and pulled out a pair of jeans and a shirt. "Where are you planning on going? Just wear Inuyasha's clothes." Sango told her as she pulled out a pair of his shorts and his shirt.
"No it's ok, I'll..." Kagome started but Sango took the clothes from her and put it back in the suit case and got out a t-shirt and shorts and gave them to her. Sango rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Do I have to get someone to put them on you for you?" Sango asked her with a smirk. "I don't think Koga or Inuyasha would mind. Right Koga! Right Inuyasha!" Sango yelled over.
"What!" Koga yelled back.
"Nothing!" Kagome yelled quickly as she started changing into the clothes while glarring at Sango. Sango lied on her stomach on the mattress as she opened the notebook and put their names on two seperate sheets of paper. "What are you doing?" Kagome asked as she came over and sat beside her.
"We're going to do a little project. This is going to be fun." Sango smirked as she started thinking then told Kagome about the project she had in mind.
END.RECAP.
THE.NEXT.DAY.
"We'll be exiting Osaka soon and going into Nagasaki where we'll have to take a ferry to Seoul." Miroku explained as he looked at a map.
"See how much driving we got done since we didn't make those pit stops." Inuyasha told the girls.
"Ya that's nice." Sango said although she didn't really give a care as she continued her project with Kagome. "Wow Kagome this is good." Sango said as she wrote down as Kagome hummed.
"Well it's a good thing you can like read music and all that or we wouldn't get anywhere by this." Kagome giggled.
"I could teach you." Sango offered.
"Really?"
"Ya, look i'll show you as you give me the tune." Sango told her as Kagome sat closer to watch.
"What are they doing back there?" Miroku asked as he tried to look to the back but the screen was in the way and if he moved it they would here it.
"Don't know." Koga said simply with a sigh. "I don't see why whatever their doing they have to have so much space. I'm getting tired of staying up here with you two." Koga said.
"Ya well soon you guys are going to the back cause your starting to piss me off with your complaining. And I thought the girls were bad." Inuyasha told them.
"What was that?" Sango asked.
"Nothing! Just keep doing whatever your doing!" He called back.
"Ya that's what I thought." She said.
"Ok I was thinking that right here it should be 'why not just set her free', what do you think?" Kagome asked.
"Hey this is all you and so far it's awesome so i'm all for it. Have you ever done something like this before?" Sango asked curiously as she wrote it down.
"Not really." Kagome told her with a shrug.
"Wow. I used to always do it with Inuyasha. He's the one who taught me to play the guitar. He can't read music though. He plays by ear. If he hears something he can play it. I wish I could do that." Sango laughed.
"Oh wow, same here. So why are you having me do this then?" Kagome asked curiously.
"I just wanted to see what you'd come up with. It's said that most people write what they know and what they've been through. Although there are also some people who can just picture something happening and write that." Sango shrugged.
"Oh...that's cool." Kagome nodded.
"Want to hear one Inuyasha made?" Sango asked mischevously. "He trashed it and I got it and kept it. He dosn't know it though." Sango smirked as she looked through her journal and whispered it to her so Inuyasha wouldn't hear them with his sensitive hearing.
"Oh wow that is so good. Why did he throw it away?" Kagome asked.
"He made it when he first joined the gang when he still believed he could do so much more with his life but then he...gave up hope I guess." Sango explained with a sigh. "He threw it away months later after he wrote it."
Kagome sighed and started thinking about how she had been treating Inuyasha. 'It's not that he didn't want to quit...it's he couldn't. I guess he meant it when he said he got used to it...cause he had to. He had no other choice. And I was trying to get him to quit just like that. No wonder he hates me.' She thought with a sigh.
"Well i'm going to keep it till the day comes for it to come out again. He needs to hear it when the time comes." Sango smiled as she put it back in her journal. "We need money." She said.
"Oh...ya...well...that was random." Kagome laughed.
"Well it's true." Sango laughed along.
"Ya...Just if we knew how." Kagome sighed.
"We seriously need money or we won't make it back home." Sango told her.
"I didn't know we needed money that bad." Kagome said.
"Ya...Oh well let's finish this before the boys decide to come back here and interrupt." Sango told her as she picked her pen back up.
"I can't wait till we get back home. It's better then being in this van." Miroku said as he leaned against the door and looked out the window.
"Anything's better then being in this van." Inuyasha sighed.
"I've found it ok so far." Koga smirked.
"Ya that's cause you've been messing around and you just like being around Kagome." Miroku said since he was the only one who had noticed this. "By the way what's with you and Ayame?"
"She got pissed that I was leaving to help you guys." Koga shrugged.
"So you'd just replace her like that with Kagome?" Miroku asked.
"No, she's the one that ran out." Koga told him.
"Ya well forget about Kagome, I don't think she'd go out with you." Miroku smirked.
"Oh ya, and why is that?" Koga asked curiously. Miroku just shrugged with the same smirk still on his face.
"I know you know but it dosn't matter cause I wasn't going to even try. She likes Inuyasha over here." Koga sighed.
"What?" Inuyasha asked in surprise.
"You can't tell me you havn't noticed." Koga said a little shocked. "Wait was that the same reason you said she wouldn't?" He asked Miroku.
"Yup." Miroku nodded.
"You two are idiots." Inuyasha said simply. They both shrugged as they sat back and stayed quiet.
"It would be so awesome if you used this." Sango smiled as she read it over.
"That would be fun...only if you did it too." Kagome smirked.
"Wha-...maybe." Sango nodded. "Oh my god! I know how we can get money!" Sango grinned as she remembered something she read.
"How?" Kagome asked curiously.
"Hey guys!" Sango yelled to the boys.
"What?" Miroku asked.
"I know how we can make money! It's fast, easy, and we have everything for it." She explained.
"Uhh...darling...I don't think this is a great place to be doing that." Miroku smirked. Sango glarred at him and moved the screen and hit him with her journal.
"That's not what I was talking about." She told him through gritted teeth.
"Well what is your idea already?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well we can either go to the place I have in mind or send Kagome to work the corner's as Miroku's idea." Sango shook her head.
"Excuse me!" Kagome asked and threw a pillow at Sango.
"It was Miroku not me!" Sango yelled as she threw the pillow back at her.
"Well why me? Why not you?" Kagome asked sending her a narrowed look.
"ANYWAYS! We're going to this place that I found in the newspaper. There's an ad for it." She explained as she reached for the paper. "Right here." She pointed to the small ad.
"...Are you serious?" Kagome asked hesitantly.
"Yup. You said so yourself." Sango smirked.
"You had this planned didn't you!" Kagome asked.
"Uhh...yes...but before you get mad it's for a good cause." Sango said nervously.
"Well what is it? I'm sorry I can't see to the back while i'm driving." Inuyasha mumbled.
"First let's pull over." Sango told him.
"Why?" He asked.
"Just do it." Sango ordered. He stopped at the nearest rest stop and pulled over. "Thank you." Sango said as she grabbed Kagome's arm and pulled her out of the van as they ran to the bathrooms.
"Well I guess we're stopping for now." Inuyasha said as he got out of the van.
"Thank god." Miroku said as he opened the door and jumped out. Inuyasha sat on a bench and lied his head back. Koga and Miroku both sat at a picnic table. A few minutes later Sango ran over to the van then went over to Inuyasha.
"Shouldn't sit like that, you could be mistaken for a hobo." Sango smirked as she sat beside him.
"As long as I can get some rest. Drove non-stop last night." He yawned.
"You should go to sleep." Sango told him.
"Ya that's what i'm trying to do." He said as he crossed his arms.
"Ok well before you get comfortable I want you to look at something. I want your opinion on something." Sango grinned as she opened her journal to a certain page and showed Inuyasha.
"What's this?" He asked as he took it and looked it over.
"A song, read it." She said with a smile. She watched him as he read it and smiled when he seemed to approve.
"Wow Sango this is good. I bet you could sell something like this to like...the music industry. When did you get so good? Last time you wrote music it was never as good as this. I don't know how the tune is but the words are good." He told her as he read it over once again.
"Well i'm glad you liked my music before." She told him with a glare.
"What! I'm just saying it was good before but this is so much better. You've improved. Damn." He tried to tell her. She snatched it from his hands and looked it over.
"Thanks but I didn't write it." She told him.
"What? Then why are you showing it to me?" He asked her.
"Because I wanted your opinion." She shrugged.
"Do you even know who wrote it? Or are you showing me something you just found?" He asked out of irritation.
"Of course I know who wrote it. I was there when she wrote it." She smirked.
"Who wrote it...?" He asked carefully.
"Kagome wrote it. I wanted to see what she could do, if she could write you know? And this is what she came up with. She told me the tune and everything. She decided she'd like it for a piano. I wrote the notes though cause she can't read music. Hmm...just like you huh?" She teased. He glarred at her.
"Shut up." He growled. "Seriously...who wrote that?" He asked again. She gave him a questioning look before answering.
"I told you...Kagome did. You don't believe me?" She asked him.
"Kagome didn't write that...did she?" He asked when Sango just gave him a questioning look.
"Yes." Sango repeated. He took the journal from her once again and read it over.
"She dosn't sound like someone to write music...she barely likes to sing." He muttered.
"Do you even listen to yourself talk?" Sango asked dully. "She loves to sing. Just not in public."
"Ya same thing." He told her to caught up in reading the music. Sango shook her head with a sigh. He smirked as he read it over again. Sango laughed a bit as she watched him. "What?" He asked.
"What's with the smile?" She asked him teasingly. "Has Yash taken a liking to Kagome's work?" She asked.
"Ya...this is good." He smirked. "Remember when we used to write music?" He asked her.
"Ya, apparently mine sucked." She rolled her eyes.
"I didn't say that!" He told her.
"Yes you did." She told him.
"I thought this was yours, I said this was better! I never said yours was bad." He explained.
"Ya whatever." She said and took her journal from him and started flipping the pages.
"Hey what's going on? Do we need to seperate you two?" Miroku called over with a chuckle.
"Ya come get your girlfriend, she won't leave me alone!" Inuyasha told him. Sango rolled her eyes and grabbed his arm and dragged him to the picnic table.
"I wasn't bothering him. He loves having me around." She rolled her eyes and pushed him down to sit.
"Ya...right...keep believeing that." He muttered. She glarred at him and looked at Kagome.
"So anyways." She said as she sat down. "We should go there and you will sing this." Sango said as she put the journal on the table opened to the project they worked on.
"What! No!" Kagome shook her head.
"Why not?" Sango asked as she looked down at the paper then back at her. "You made it, what's wrong with singing it?"
"Because! I don't know! Unless your singing too." Kagome smirked figuring she wouldn't.
"Damn...your so smart Kagome. You know me so well that I don't like to sing." Sango said. Kagome looked at her carefully. "Well to bad! I'll do it if you will." Sango smirked. Kagome glarred at her and crossed her arms.
"Dammit." She mumbled to herself. "I hate you."
"I know." Sango smiled.
"Let me see." Miroku said as he pulled the journal to him and looked at it. "Damn Kagome this is good." Miroku said as he read it over.
"If you had music like that for the club you would attract alot of customers." Inuyasha told her. He noticed she seemed to be ignoring him for whatever he said but he felt he would risk it anyways. Kagome looked at him and shook her head.
"First of all I don't have time to be writing dumb songs and second of all...no." Kagome explained.
"Kagome they are not dumb!" Sango yelled.
"No." Kagome repeated.
"Ok fine whatever! But your singing! So will I if I have to! And so is Inuyasha!" Sango told her.
"Wh-what! I never agreed to that!" He yelled.
"So? You will sing weather you like or not!" She yelled through gritted teeth. Inuyasha scooted away from her a bit and nodded.
"Ok...damn calm down Sango." Inuyasha told her.
"Well we have to go over there and sign up. It's a competition. You two better sing your hearts out cause we need the money." Sango explained.
"How much is it?" Koga asked curiously.
"Eight hundred dollars." Sango told him.
"What? That's it?" Inuyasha asked.
"It's money! We need anything we can get unless you don't want to go home after this. Pretty soon we're going to need to fill up on gas and that right there costs thirty dollars for that van." Sango told him.
"Fine." Kagome sighed.
"Ya whatever." Inuyasha mumbled.
"Ya we need original music so if you have something give it up." Sango told them.
"Like I would write music." Koga rolled his eyes.
"Sorry darling, never written." Miroku apologized.
"Fine. Miroku, Koga you two take turns driving. Inuyasha your helping us. If we want to be in this competition then we need more then just one song." Sango told them.
"I've never done this before. Why do I have to write? Can't you and Inuyasha do it by yourselves?" Kagome asked.
"Face it, your music is better then mine." Sango said and glarred at Inuyasha. "I can do music but you two have to write. Fair? We all have a part cause neither of you can read music." Sango sighed.
"Ya that's good." Inuyasha told her.
"Great." Sango smiled and looked at Kagome.
"What about it Kagome?" Inuyasha asked. She sighed.
"I won't have to be on stage alone will I?" She asked.
"Nope, either I will be there or Inuyasha." Sango smiled. She smiled back and nodded.
"Fine."
"Ok let's go." Sango told them.
"What? Now?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yes, this place is in like the further part of Nagasaki." Sango told them. "We have three days to write songs so we have to start now." She said as she pulled Miroku and Koga toward the van. "Which one of you are driving?" She asked them.
"Uhh...I will." Miroku offered.
"Good get up there." Sango said and pushed him toward the van.
"Let's go." Inuyasha said as he got up. Kagome nodded and followed.
"Maybe this will be fun." Kagome shrugged.
"Maybe..." Inuyasha said and got in the back of the van and grabbed his guitar. "Good thing I had to bring this." He said as he took another journal that was in the front of the van.
"Ok here Kagome. You write lyrics you like and then afterwards you can decide how you want the tune and i'll write notes." Sango explained to her.
"Umm...ok...but how do I write another one? I mean the first one was easy but I don't know what to write about." Kagome told her.
"Just make up something. Uhh...like..." She tried to think how to word what she wanted to say.
"Act as if your writing a story or something. It'll come to you. It's easy." Inuyasha shrugged.
"Ya. Try it. Just like a...a daydream or something." Sango suggested.
"Hmm...daydreams...thanks Sango." Kagome smiled as she began writing.
"Uhh...no problem...whatever I said. You have to write fast though cause we have to get at least five songs I think. Just in case." Sango told them.
"Ok, sheesh. It's alot harder to write on command so calm down. It's been a long time since i've done this." Inuyasha sighed as he started at the blank sheet in front of him for a few minutes.
"Uhh...what's the first instrument that comes to mind for you?" Kagome asked.
"Uhh...piano? I don't know. I was just thinking of your other song." Sango shrugged.
"Ok thanks." Kagome said as she continued writing.
"Hey Sango do you have directions to this place?" Miroku asked.
"There's a small map on here but it dosn't say how to get there from where we are right now. Here." She said as she took the newspaper to him. "Can you get from where we are now to right here?" Sango asked pointing to the where the small map on the paper starts the directions.
"Ya I think so." Miroku nodded as he reached for the map and looked to see where they were exactly. Kagome looked up when Inuyasha was messing with his guitar. She smiled when he looked over at her then brought her attention back to what she was working on. He smirked and looked at her for a few minutes until he started writing as he knew what he was going to write.
"While ya'll do that i'll be over here working on my music that sucks trying to improve it." Sango said while sending a glare to Inuyasha.
"That's not what I said but ok. You do that." Inuyasha rolled his eyes with a sigh as he continued writing using his guitar to figure the tune.
"Seems like a dream." Kagome whispered to herself as she tried to think of the next line. She sighed and looked around and leaned back against the side of the van and looked up. She flipped pages and wrote a small paragraph before turning back to what she was working on and began writing again.
Sango wasn't to worried about what she was working on at the time so she stopped after a while and looked at old songs in her journal. She forgot she left that journal in the van. She sighed after an hour had passed and she had read all the songs. She looked around the van and sighed again. She looked at Inuyasha to see him looking over at Kagome every so often with a smirk on his face. 'What is he smiling about?' Sango wondered with a smile.
Kagome sighed and dropped her pencil as she sat back and looked over at Inuyasha. He looked down before she noticed he was looking at her.
"Finished?" Sango asked with a smirk.
"No...just...stuck. Give me a minute and i'll think of something to go next." Kagome assured her.
"Oh ok. Well i'm bored so hurry up." Sango laughed.
"Alright alright." Kagome giggled as she picked her pencil back up and began writing again.
"Does it really take more then an hour to write a song?" Sango asked them.
"Well...I've never really done this so i'm sorry. Remember that first one took from one day to the next." Kagome told her.
"Ya and I havn't done this in years." Inuyasha said with a sigh. He put the paper down and looked over at Sango. "Hey get your paper and come over here. You need to write down the notes." Inuyasha told her.
"Yay! It's about time." Sango said as she grabbed a pen and her journal and crawled over to Inuyasha. She watched him stroke the strings and listened as she wrote down the notes. Kagome continued her project as they worked on his notes.
"Of course it would sound better if I had an amp." Inuyasha shrugged.
"Hey whatever works." Sango told him.
"Hey i'm sorry but i'm hungry so we're pulling over to get some food!" Miroku yelled to them.
"Thank god!" Kagome said as she opened the side door to the van and got out. "Thought I was going to die of starvation." She said as she followed Miroku inside 'McDonalds'. Sango looked at Inuyasha and shrugged as she got up and got out of the van and walked inside with Inuyasha following behind. They all looked around inside, it had looked big on the outside but who knew what was actually inside.
"Holy shit." Inuyasha muttered as he looked around at the large playplaces inside.
"Don't cuss there are kids all around you." Kagome told him.
"Ya Inuyasha, are you trying to set a bad example?" Sango asked him as she crossed her arms. He rolled his eyes not saying anything since he was out numbered.
"What do you guys want?" Miroku asked as they came to the front.
"Number four with large fries and drink." Koga told the guy behind the counter.
"Number eight." Inuyasha told the cashier and looked over at Miroku.
"Number two small fries large drink." Miroku told the guy.
"I'll have number three." Sango told him.
"Umm...i'll have...number nine large fries and large drink." Kagome said as she looked over the menu trying to decide.
"That hard to decide?" Inuyasha asked.
"Hey I havn't eaten for almost a day now." Kagome said sticking her tongue out at him.
"Ya and who's fault is that? I didn't make you get sick." Inuyasha smirked.
"Ya I know. It was the stupid alcohol." Kagome said as she rubbed her stomach at the memory. Inuyasha chuckled and turned to walk to a table with the others as Kagome followed behind. They all sat down at the table as they waited for their food to come. Sango sighed and looked at the playplace.
"Man...only if I was maybe about thirteen years younger." Sango said with a sigh. Kagome smirked as she stood up and grabbed Sango's arm.
"Well you can be thirteen years younger for a day." Kagome told her as she dragged her to the slide that ended into the large ball pit.
"Are you crazy? What if we get in trouble?" Sango asked.
"That never seemed to stop you before." Kagome smirked. Sango glarred at her and moved Kagome out of the way as she started to climb the ladder up to the very huge slide.
"What the hell..." Inuyasha chuckled as he watched both girls climb the ladder.
"Maybe no one will know we're with them." Koga told them. They heard both girls scream as they slid down the slide into the ball pit.
"Let's get the guys." Sango told Kagome as they both got out of the ball pit and ran over to the guys. All three looked at them oddly.
"Yes?" Inuyasha asked. Kagome grabbed his arm and pulled him out of his seat.
"Come on Koga." Kagome told him.
"Are you nuts? I'm not looking like an idiot. You go, take Inuyasha to play and i'll stay here." Koga told her. She shrugged as Sango pulled Miroku to the ladder.
"Come on Inuyasha." Kagome told him.
"Uh...that's ok, i'm good." He said and was about to sit down but Sango came over and dragged him too and pushed them into the ladder.
"Either climb it or i'll kick your ass and show how easily you can get beat up by a girl." Sango threatened them. Miroku was first to start climbing the ladder then Sango started climbing. Inuyasha stood beside the ladder with his arms crossed.
"Come on Inuyasha." Kagome said grabbing his hand so he wasn't crossing his arms anymore. He smirked and squeezed her hand and let her drag him up the ladder. She let go of his hand to climb the ladder and he went up after her. She went up first so he wouldn't see the blush that covered her cheeks from when he squeezed her hand. She slid down the slide before he reached the top and Inuyasha slid down right after her.
"What the fuck!" Inuyasha asked when he was being hit with the plastic balls.
"Don't cuss!" Kagome told him and threw a ball at him. Sango and Miroku slowly backed away and got out to go down the slide again. "Chickens." She said when she looked to the side to see Sango and Miroku getting out. "What the hell!" She asked when she was being hit with the balls now.
"Excuse you! Don't cuss!" Inuyasha told her. She glarred at him and threw a ball at him. "I'll warn you right now. Stop." He told her as he crossed his arms. She smirked and threw as many balls at him at once as she could. He shrugged and sighed. "I warned you." He said before trying to run after her but found out it was hard to run in the ball pit. "Dammit." He said when he had trouble trying to walk.
"Don't cuss!" Kagome told him with a smirk since he couldn't move. He glarred at her then smirked. Her smirk faded away as she became nervous why he was smirking. "Inuyasha..." She said carefully and tried to back away but just fell back. Inuyasha jumped up and pounced on her. "No that's not fair!" Kagome yelled not being able to help her laughter since she had lost that battle. She lied back on the ball pit and looked up at him when he was still standing over her. She looked straight at him feeling as though her stomach had butterflies. Suddenly he smirked and pulled out his hands from behind him and started throwing more balls at her. "Hey!" She yelled trying to put her arms in front of her to block the balls from hitting her in the face.
"Hey food!" Sango yelled as she slid down the slide one last time then got out to go back to the table.
"Come on, i'm hungry." Inuyasha said holding out a hand to Kagome. She took it and stood up.
"Your hungry? Now who was the one saying stuff about me being hungry?" She asked then blushed when he didn't let go of her hand.
"Ya that's what you get for getting drunk." He shrugged and finally let go of her hand to walk ahead.
"That's mean." Kagome told him as she followed him out. He got out of the ball pit and waited for her.
"Ya but you did it yourself." He shrugged he said leaning against the side of the enterance as she got out. She sighed and walked ahead of him to the table.
"Well that was fun." Kagome smirked as she sat down.
"Ya, i'm bringing you with me whenever I go places for now on." Sango laughed.
"Yes cause i'm just so awesome." She laughed along.
"Of course you are." Sango rolled her eyes playfully. Kagome laughed and threw a fry at her. Inuyasha smirked as he sat beside Sango. "You know...I was thinking. Maybe we don't have to rush so much to get to that place. We should make a stop somewhere...you know...for inspiration of course." Sango explained to Kagome.
"Oh of course. Wouldn't think any other reason." Kagome smirked. "What did you have in mind?"
"Hmm...well I did like the idea of the beach but we have no suits so how does ice skating sound to you?" Sango asked her.
"Oh that would be awesome! We should go do that!" Kagome said excitedly.
"Umm, excuse me but I thought we were trying to save money?" Koga asked the girls.
"Well ya...but when we win the money we can pay you guys back." Kagome told him.
"What makes you so sure you'll win?" He asked them.
"Come on, it's Inuyashs of all people and you havn't gotten the chance to hear Kagome. Trust me, we'll win." Sango smirked. "So anyways, before we were rudely interrupted." Sango said and turned back to Kagome.
"You know a place?" Kagome asked her.
"Ya actually. It's actually right down the street from here. I saw it." Sango smirked.
"What do you like plan everything before you bring it up?" Kagome asked.
"Maybe. But we should go! I saw the sign and it's only four dollars per person." Sango told her.
"Hmm...ya sounds fun but one problem." Kagome pointed out.
"What?" Sango asked.
"I don't know...you know, we arn't the only ones at this table." Kagome rolled her eyes. "What if they don't want to do that?"
"Oh that's no problem, they'll go. Trust me." Sango nodded with a smirk.
"Excuse me?" Inuyasha asked.
"Ya what if we don't want to go ice skating?" Koga asked her.
"Uhh...sounds good." Miroku said nervously knowing what Sango would do. Inuyasha knew, he just didn't care.
"Oh come on, it's by time you guys learned how to ice skate. Me and Kagome will help you." Sango assured them.
"As great as that sounds, I think i'd rather pass." Koga told her.
"Oh your going." Sango told him.
"I don't want to." He told her. She glarred at him and then smirked.
"Fine. We'll see." Sango said before she continued to eat. "Inuyasha you going?"
"I don't..." He started.
"He'd love to." Miroku told her with a nod.
"What?" Inuyasha asked.
"If I have to go then one of you are going and your the most furthest away from me at the moment." Miroku told him as he ate. Inuyasha glarred at him then picked up his food and began to eat.
"Wow this is the first time since this trip started that we all actually ate together." Sango smiled.
"Ya...wierd." Kagome said before sticking a fry in her mouth.
"Ya...we should do this more often." Sango smirked.
"It's fun." Kagome giggled.
"Ya...when you guys havn't lost your minds." Inuyasha muttered.
"Ya really." Koga agreed.
"Note to self, let Inuyasha and Koga fall on the ice." Sango said. Kagome laughed at her comment but looked away when both guys looked over at her.
"Fine, just won't get on the ice." Inuyasha shrugged.
"Oh yes you will." Sango nodded as she finished her food and pushed Inuyasha out of the way to get up.
"Come on Kagome let's go change." Sango told her as she grabbed her arm.
"I'm still eating." Kagome said as she was pulled out of her seat with the bow of fries in her hand.
"Bring it with you." Sango told her as she pulled her outside.
"Sango's gone Miroku." Inuyasha smirked. Miroku smiled nervously and scooted away from Inuyasha and pushed Koga out of the way as he got up.
"So she is. Well i'll go make sure the girls don't need help." Miroku smirked as he stood up.
"I don't think so." Inuyasha said as he stood up and crossed his arms.
"Well just look at it this way, it gives you a chance to be with Kagome." Miroku pointed out.
"And that should change my mind why?" Inuyasha asked him.
"Hmm...now that you mention it, if Inuyasha won't go with Kagome then I will." Koga smirked.
"Ayame...try to remember that name Koga." Miroku told him with a sigh as he shook his head.
"Broken up." Koga said simply with a shrug.
"Ya but wait until you see her. You can't go back to her if she knows you were flirting with Kagome." Miroku told him.
"Let's go meet the girls outside." Inuyasha said as he threw away his trash. The other two shrugged before following. The van door opened as both girls got out in jeans and a sweater.
"Let's walk there." Kagome suggested.
"Ya, that sounds fun." Sango agreed as she closed the door and started walking down the sidewalk with Kagome. "You guys coming?"
"Do we have a choice?" Inuyasha asked.
"Hmm...no...not really." Sango answered as she kept walking.
"They can't even get in without us. They don't have any money." Miroku told them.
"Then I guess we should go." Koga sighed as he started walking.
"Great." Inuyasha sighed as he followed with Miroku.
"This should be fun." Sango smiled as they walked into the ice skating rink.
"Ya..." Kagome said.
"What?" Sango asked curiously.
"I don't know. Just a little confused." Kagome shrugged.
"About what?" Sango asked.
"Inuyasha actually...he's being...different lately." Kagome said as she thought about it.
"So he finally decided to surrender." Sango muttered to herself with a smirk.
"Huh?" Kagome asked when she didn't hear what she said.
"Oh uh...I don't know...maybe I was right and he likes you." Sango smirked.
"I don't k-..." Kagome started but stopped when Koga walked in. He looked at both girls when they were looking at him.
"What?" He asked carefully.
"Nothing, we're waiting for you guys to get here so you can pay." Sango told him.
"I'm not paying. Wait till the other two get here." Koga said as he crossed his arms. Miroku and Inuyasha walked inside and Inuyasha walked over to the front counter.
"Two passes." Inuyasha told the guy.
"Five passes." Sango corrected him.
"I'm paying." Inuyasha told her.
"So? Thank you for paying then. We want five passes." Sango said. She told the guy her's and Inuyasha and Miroku's sizes. Inuyasha growled as he took the skates. Koga and Kagome both told their sizes and took their skates. Kagome and Sango ran over to the rink and sat on a bench as they put their skates on. "We'll go a few rounds as you guys put your skates on." Sango said as her and Kagome went onto the ice. "Do you actually know how to skate good?" Sango asked Kagome curiously.
"Of course. I love to skate." Kagome said as she skated ahead and did a twirl then when she stopped she stuck her tongue out at Sango.
"Damn." Sango said with surprise. "I guess you can." Sango laughed as she went to the side and grabbed Miroku's arm. "Come on."
"Uhh...I actually think it's safer...off the ice." Miroku said as he looked at the ice nervously.
"No you get to skate. Inuyasha put your skates on." Sango ordered.
"No." He said simply. Kagome skated over and stood beside Sango.
"You guys arn't skating?" Kagome asked them. They all looked at Koga when his cell phone rang.
"Hello?" He asked. "Oh hey Ayame...hold on." Koga said and pulled the phone away from his ear. "I'm going to take this outside. I don't have service in here." Koga said as he started walking toward the enterance of the building.
"Liar!" Miroku yelled. Koga just shrugged as he walked away from the rink into the gameroom. "If he dosn't skate then I don't think we should have to." Miroku told Sango.
"Aww it's ok Miroku. Inuyasha will skate with you. Apparently he won't go with Kagome so he'll get to hold your hand the whole time." Sango smirked.
"Uhh, on second though i'll go with you darling." Miroku smiled.
"Great...Inuyasha?" Sango asked as she looked over at him.
"Can I just go to the gameroom and use the phone?" He asked dully.
"No. Either put the skates on or i'll have to put them on you." Sango told him.
"Be my guest." He shrugged.
"Fine." She smirked and leaned in front of him and pulled his shoe off and threw it across the ice then picked up the skate.
"Bitch." He muttered as he looked at his shoe and noticed the only way for him to get it is to skate across.
"I know." Sango smiled as she put the skate on his foot and tied it tight.
"Hey! Ok! I got it." He said as he loosened the strings.
"Thought you'd say that. Come on Miroku." Sango said as she pulled him onto the ice.
"You don't have to skate you know." Kagome giggled as he put on the other skate.
"Ya, tell that to Sango. I don't think i'll risk it." He mumbled. She laughed as he stood up and tried to stand.
"Just balance." Kagome giggled.
"Right." He said as he stood. "I think i'll just stay right here." He said as he was able to stand without wobbling.
"Come on, this'll be fun." She said as she held her hand out to him.
"Right...for you, you get the chance to laugh when I fall on my ass." He muttered as he took her hand.
"Then I just wont let you fall." She shrugged.
"Let's hope not." He said as he looked at the ice then stepped down onto it as he held the side wall while trying to keep his balance as he held Kagome's hand.
"Relax." Kagome laughed as he tried to hold onto the wall.
"I am relaxed." He told her as he balanced himself off the wall.
"No your not. Give me your hand." She told him as she stood in front of him with her other hand out.
"You have my hand." He told her.
"Your other hand." She told him dully.
"Are you crazy?" He asked. She laughed as she pulled his hand away from the wall. "Shit." He said as he tried not to fall forward when she pulled him.
"Ok just relax." She told him again as she slowly skated backwards while holding both his hands.
"I'm starting to hate you." He told her with sigh.
"Oh ya and why's that?" She asked.
"Your trying to kill me." He told her.
"Oh ya, if you fall on the ice you'll die. I hate it when that happens, there have been some serious cases where people die the moment they hit the ice." Kagome said sarcastically as she watched her feet.
"Very funny." He said dully. She looked up at him and smiled.
"Glad you think so." She laughed. He smirked as he looked at her. She blushed and felt the return of those butterflies. She let go of one of his hands and skated beside him instead.
"I'm not going to have to do one of those spinny things am I?" He asked talking about the twirl she had done earlier.
"I don't think your quite ready for that." She laughed and looked around to see Miroku and Sango both sitting on the ice by the wall. "Come on." She said as she led him toward the two.
"Shit, slow down." Inuyasha said as he was pulled into the other direction.
"God your such a baby." She laughed and stopped when she got over to Sango. Inuyasha put his hand out to the wall to stop himself.
"Whatever." He argued.
"What happend?" Kagome asked.
"Fell...hard." Sango said with a sigh.
"Serves you right." Inuyasha told her. She glarred at him then smirked.
"Oh ya that reminds me." She said pushed his skate making him loose his balance.
"Bitch!" He yelled as he fell.
"Uhh...we better go." Sango said as she got up and pulled Miroku up as they skated away. Kagome tried not to laugh as she held out a hand to him.
"Are...you ok?" She asked. He could tell she was trying not to laugh.
"Yes...peachy." He said as he took her hand and tried to get up but slipped once again pulling her down with him. "Ow...that actually hurts alot more then I thought it would." Inuyasha said as he sat on the ice against the wall with Kagome against him.
"Ya...that's why I usually plan to not fall." She said as she tried to get up.
"Give me a few minutes." He told her before pulling her down.
"Ow. You didn't have to pull me down." She said as she sat up from the ice. He laughed as she glarred at him.
"Sorry." He apologized.
"If you were sorry then you wouldn't be laughing." She muttered and picked up shaved ice and threw it at him.
"Hey!" He said and picked some up and threw it at her.
"You forget, I can leave you here and then you wouldn't be able to get over there cause you suck at skating." She smirked.
"That's not very nice." He smirked. "Besides, you wouldn't do that."
"Why wouldn't I?" She asked him as she stood up and held her hand out to him. "Your right...i'd feel sorry for you." She laughed. He got up and stood in front of her with her hands still in his.
"Cause you wouldn't treat people like that." He said quietly. She blushed as she looked up at him.
"Oh ya?...H-How would you know?" She asked nervously.
"Your to kind to do that." He told her and then realized what he was doing. "Anyways you just helped me up." He said as he pulled away from her.
"Ya...you just got lucky." She told him trying to cover her nervousness as she started to skate with him.
"Whatever." He said simply.
"Dammit. Inuyasha is so stupid. He had the perfect chance just now." Sango muttered as she began to skate with Miroku.
"Maybe he's still not ready." Miroku told her.
"That's not it. I think he's scared about having feelings for Kagome. He hasn't really acted on any feelings since...er...since Kikyo." Sango explained. "Besides, he's been looking at Kagome and I think he's realizing he really does like her. He's so caught up into trying to prove everyone wrong that he won't pay attention but I think Kagome's finally getting to him."
"Well maybe that's not what's holding him back." Miroku said as he pulled Sango to the side to sit on the benches.
"What else would it be?" She asked him.
"Kagome maybe. What if he's afraid to kiss her again after what happend the first time." Miroku told her.
"Well he needs to get over it." Sango sighed and watched as Kagome led Inuyasha across the skating rink. 'Inuyasha what's holding you back?' She thought. Inuyasha grabbed his shoe and threw it at Sango. She moved out of the way just as it was coming and saw it fly past her. "Asshole!" Sango yelled as she got up and got on the ice leaving Miroku behind as she began to skate after Inuyasha.
"Oh shit." He said and stood behind Kagome.
"Your going to hide?" Kagome asked him.
"Well I can't skate away now can I?" He asked.
"You shouldn't have thrown the shoe." Kagome told him as Sango skated over.
"Kagome, i'll take him skating for a while." Sango smirked.
"No...i'll stay with Kagome." Inuyasha said nervously as he held onto her arm.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I think we just need to talk." Sango smirked.
"Am I staying or going?" Kagome asked.
"Er...going." Inuyasha said as he let go of her and watched her skate to the side and sit next to Miroku.
"What is wrong with you?" Sango demanded.
"Hey your the one who threw it across the ice!" He told her. She gave him a questioning look then realized what he was talking about.
"That's not what i'm talking about." She told him as she crossed her arms.
"Then what the hell do you mean what is wrong with me!" Inuyasha asked. She skated closer so she was right in front of him and glarred at him.
"You had the perfect chance to kiss her Inuyasha. What's keeping you back now? Apparently you like her by the way you've been treating her." Sango whispered loudly.
"What the hell are you doing? Spying on me!" He asked as he glarred at her.
"I'm not fucking spying on you cause there's nothing to spy. Inuyasha remember what we talked about that day at the hotel!" Sango asked.
"Yes you told me all this crap about life being a game of love and war. What about it?" He asked her.
"Do you like Kagome or not?" She asked him simply.
"What the hell does it matter to you?" He demanded. She grabbed his arm and pushed him back into the wall.
"It matters to me cause you are my friend and I care about you but the thing is, I care about Kagome too. She's my friend too. I want to know because if you don't then i'm not going to let you keep messing with her." Sango explained. "So...do you surrender, or are you still fighting your own battle?"
"I-...I surrender...I surrendered already." Inuyasha said as he looked down at the ice.
"To which side though?" Sango asked. "...love or war?"
"What?" Inuyasha asked giving her a questioning look.
"You heard me. Do you want the chance to fall in love or do you want to fight this battle forever? Like I said...love or war Inuyasha?" Sango asked sympathetically. He sighed and looked behind her over at Kagome. He smirked when he saw her laughing with Miroku. He sighed before looking back at Sango.
"Do you even have to ask?" He asked her.
"I don't know. I want to hear it straight out from you so you don't turn it around and say I thought something different." Sango said with a smile from seeing him have a reason to smile. "So...you giving it another chance? And I can assure you if you give it another chance you won't be hurt in the end." Sango smirked.
"You think so huh?" He asked. She nodded. "Well if you say so then I guess it's worth a shot huh?" He smirked. She smiled and hugged him making him fall. "Agh, thanks alot." Inuyasha sighed as he sat on the ice.
"No problem hun." Sango smirked as she helped him up. "I'll just give you a tip. Could you try and be more affectionate to her!" She asked, pushing him on the chest making him fall once again.
...tbc...
AUTHORS.NOTE.
AN: HEY GUYS! I hope you liked this chapter! I'm so caught into typing this fic that i'm going to start typing the next chapter right now. lol. So here it is and i'll get started on the next chapter. Btw you will be able to hear the songs soon (none of which i own).
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