Chapter 18

Inuyasha lifted his head. No. It did NOT happen. He refused to believe it. His pride refused to believe it. Inuyasha sucked in some air through his teeth and lifted his head tall – well as tall as it could be considering: one, he was eating breakfast, and two, he was eating breakfast with Kagome. She had woken up before him and made him breakfast – bacon and eggs (the foods he hated the most in the world.) He was just about to comment about it when he remembered what had happened last night.

Kagome rocked Inuyasha back and forth for a moment. Then it all came out. His father had left Izayoi, who had been disowned by her father. This left Izayoi and him all alone. He had no body. Kagome promised that he would now have somebody. Now he would have her.

He blushed and buried his head further in his food.

Kagome rocked Inuyasha back and forth for a moment.

He turned redder and buried his head further.

Kagome promised that he would now have somebody. He would have her.

He turned redder, and buried his head even further.

Kagome promised that he would now have somebody.

He turned redder, and yes, buried his head further into his food.

He would have her.

He turned redder, and buried his head even further. And that was when it happened.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome peered over her eggs at Inuyasha.

"I don't want to talk." Inuyasha replied.

Only it came out "I-dona-talw' since his head was buried in eggs.

"Inuyasha…do you know that your head is in eggs?"
"Waut?"

"You head is in your eggs."

Inuyasha's head snapped up. Kagome giggled. She couldn't help it. Inuyasha's hair had bits of eggs stuck to it, and his face had even more eggs stuck. Since Kagome hadn't been sure what eggs Inuyasha would like she had given him scrambled eggs, and eggs that were sunny side up…so…the sunny side ended up all over his face.

"Eggs are all over my…FACE?" Inuyasha scrambled for a mirror.

Inuyasha stood up.

"I'm going out for a walk."

"You might want to clean up your face first…"

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Kagome collapsed on the couch. FINALLY! Inuyasha was gone! Not that she disliked him or anything but a girl got to have girl time. Inuyasha…she remembered yesterdays events. She really did like him now. She understood why he was upset. He really wasn't that bad…not quite that spoilt. She felt a weird kind of feeling in her stomach; no she didn't want to think about Inuyasha at the current moment…girl time right? She picked up her baby blue cell phone. Brand spanking new. Cost a tiny fortune. Of course at that time it didn't quite matter to her. She sighed, but determined not to let anything drag her down…perhaps she shouldn't use that cell phone for now. The pay for its lines was extremely expensive. She picked up the phone instead. Now that she and Inuyasha were married he should help her pay her expenses.

"Hey Sango!"

"Who's this? Stop it Miroku! I'm warning you! NO! Don't do that! NO! Miroku! I'm going to kill you!"

"Uh Sango…?"

"Oh hi Kags…give me a moment…I got to go beat up Miroku!"

After a few thumps and a loud crash.

"Done?"

"Yeah! What's up?"

"I need girl time…how about the mall?"

"Sure…can you pick me up in your Porsche…I mean I'll pick you up in a couple of minutes!"

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Inuyasha took a sharp turn in his sports car – on of the 12 he owned, sports cars that is, not cars. Kagome. That girl was a piece of work. Interesting. After he had told her about his life she had said she understood.

Flashback

"I understand." Kagome said tucking a strand of her hair behind her ear.

"Yeah right!"

"I do! My mothers dead, so is my father, as for my brother…he's… well he's dead too."

Inuyasha sat there dumfounded.

"How?"

"Just…my mom died in a… car accident, and my dad was on a… plane that crashed."

Kagome looked down, a silent tear slid down her cheek.

End Flashback

She really was different. Less perfect then she would have thought. Not so bad. Less annoying, more attractive in a sense. Someone like him, someone who could understand pain. No that wasn't right. Kagome was pure, she was nice, and she handled things. She let them out. She was happy, bouncy, innocent, though how she remained to do so was a mystery to him. He saw her bright smile, her blushes, and felt a warm feeling going to his cheeks. That girl really was quite pretty, in her own sort of way… and… Suddenly he felt an urge. He swerved his car.

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"So Kagome…"

She and Sango had been walking around doing nothing for what seemed like forever. Suddenly Kagome saw the perfect dress. It was as red halter dress with red silk as the straps. On the back was a big gap with the same red silk forming a complicated pattern over the gap. It was beautiful. And it was expensive. Kagome knew in a million years that she would not be able to afford that dress. Back when she was rich sure…but now? Well…But she just had to try it on! She tugged on Sango's arm.

"Sango! Lets go into that store."

"Are you sure Kagome? I mean…the stuff looks pretty expensive and I don't know if we can afford any of those things?"

"I just want to try it on!"

"Kags…well…okay!

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Kagome fingered the dresses pattern silently. Sango was looking at some dresses over at the discount pile.

"Hey Kags! Look! Isn't this pretty?" Sango was holding up a elaborate magenta dress.

"I think I'm going to try it on!" Sango picked up the dress and headed over to the changing rooms. Kagome grabbed for the red dress to follow Sango into the changing rooms. But instead of grabbing the red dress Kagome found herself grabbing air. HUH? Where did the red dress go? She looked around, and down to the floor. The dress was just in front of her.

"LOOK KAGS!"

Sango spun around in the bright pink dress.

"You look great!"

"I think I'm going to buy it!" Sango hurried back into the changing rooms, and was out in a flash ready to purchase.

"That will be 50 dollars thank you."

Sango grabbed the bag and then grabbed Kagome and they hurried out of the store.

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"OMG! You look absolutely amazing in that dress."

"Yeah. I think I will buy it." A pale girl said in a monotone while fingering her red halter dress.

"You should totally wear it to the party tonight."

"I will."

The girl heard some one stomping out of the shop.

"Rude."

"Who-what? Oh…yeah…right." The girls personal assistant bubbled.

The girl wondered how she got such a stupid assistant…she made a note to fire her later.

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Kagome sat sipping her latte. Starbucks. She stirred her drink. Inuyasha…he was a nice person. He knew so much pain. Frankly she was very surprised. Inuyasha didn't have a fairy tale life. She never would have known. She noticed her latte melting and turning warm so she stirred it a bit more. Inuyasha…that name brought up that weird feeling in her stomach. She had only felt like this once before and that was a long time ago. That time had almost gotten her in a lot of trouble, in fact if it wasn't for Miroku she would be very messed up. Then she felt the weirdest thing. She felt guilty. She had lied to Inuyasha about her family, but she lied to everybody about her family. To keep them safe, she told herself. She lied to everybody, but why did she feel guilty? No. It couldn't be. It mustn't be. Could she actually like Inuyasha? As a friend of course. Yes. She was quite sure, the rich spoilt super star had charmed her and now…she wanted to be his friend!

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Kagome slammed the door to Sango's truck.

"See-you later!"

Kagome hopped up the stairs feeling slightly more happy since the dress incident. Kagome hopped up the stairs ready to change.

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Inuyasha carried in the package into the house. 8000. The label read. And everything in that store was in American dollars. Okay maybe it was a little expensive but she would look so beautiful in it. He smiled and fingered the red silk. Yep. She would definitely like it…hopefully.

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"There's this party…I don't know if you know about it…the New Year Bash?"

"THE NEW YEAR BASH?"

"So you have heard of it…?"

"YEAH! It's the one which every reporter tries to come to, the one where people like Madonna and Steven Spielberg fly in to Japan for!"

"Yeah, except I really don't know what's so special about Madonna and Steven."?

"Hey! I love Madonna and Steven Spielberg!"

"Anyway…um…would you like to go with me?" Inuyasha blushed.

"Are you asking me out?"

"Well sort of. BUT we HAVE to go to together because everyone thinks we're married, and its expected- and-and-and-um…well we just HAVE TO GO TOGETHER OKAY?"

Kagome giggled. "Okay."

"Good."

"But what am I supposed to wear?"

"There's a dress in your room."

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Kagome looked at the dress! It was amazing! It was a long red silk dress, with a side slit up to the thigh, but the classical top had made it classier then sluttish. There was only one dress more perfect in the whole wide world. The one she had saw today on the racks. She added some perfume and make-up and walked out. A limo was waiting!

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Kagome walked past a mirror. Seriously. This party was slightly weird. There were so many mirrors. This years theme was mirrors, and they were placed everywhere according to some weird religion of the owner. But the mirrors were too much! Everybody there had diamond and sliver watches, and the light kept on bouncing off the mirrors, and somehow always hit Kagome's eyes. Kagome rubbed her sore eyes. There was another mirror. And another. And another. Hey! This one was a nice mirror. It didn't shine in her eyes. Wait a minute. Did her dress really look like that? Not the other two thousand times she checked…was something wrong with her? Was she really wearing so much jewelry? And were her earrings really that dangly? What? No way. She would have never worn such a shade of lipstick! No. And her hair wasn't like that either. So it wasn't here…so why did it have her face? A clone? Omgosh! A clone! The clone moved on. WHAT? No. They didn't clone people. She certainly didn't remember being cloned. So she was being delusional right? Oh gosh! She liked it better with the clone theory.

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Inuyasha sighed, this was so boring! He and Kagome had already made a lap, and Kagome had went to the washroom, rubbing her eyes- with a very dazed look in her eyes. He would have followed of course, but Steven was just talking on and on about his new movie, and how many academy awards he's won for it – which was very nice and all but talk about dull! Suddenly someone tapped his shoulder. He spun around, and had a heart attack.

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Kagome wandered out of the bathroom.

"Where is he?" Then she saw him. Talking with her clone. WHAT? OMGOSH! She had a clone! They did clone her! Just like that movie! They probably conked her out in the middle of the night and cloned her. Or maybe her parents let them clone her. How could they? Or maybe she had a twin. Yeah, that sounded about right. Maybe her mother had two babies, and only kept one. Yeah. Maybe they were in a tight spot at that time. Yeah maybe. But then again, why did she get a horse when she was five? Well, maybe they had a quick come back! What ever. She must go and meet her long lost sister with a hug. Kagome walked near her so called 'husband' and her twin. She was just about to hug her, when her twin hugged Inuyasha!

What was going on?

"OMGOSH! I can't believe I saw you again! LIVE!"

Her sister was a fan girl.

"I watch all the reports about you!"

A big one.

"I can't believe I'd see you again!"

Yeah, real big…wait. Again?

"I've missed you!"

Her sister missed Inuyasha? Wait. That wasn't her sister talking…that was Inuyasha. Who was this?

"Erm…Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha turned to Kagome. Oh great. Introductions…this might be weird…

"Kagome, this is Kikyo…"