Recap

Her friends laughed at her in typical guy fashion when she told them what her plan was. Firstly, they couldn't imagine her giving up sports for more than week. Then she told them about what happened on the field and their exact words were, "You gotta be shitting me!" then they realized that this was definitely something that she could do. They still laughed at the thought of her having actual girls for friends, so she naturally told them to fuck off and she was going to bed. Then they hung up and she went to bed.

Now she was ready to face the next day.

Chapter 5 Tomboy

She woke up early to most people, but both her of them were athletes and didn't play when it came to fitness. They both woke up at 5:30 every morning to go for a run and do some crutches and push ups. They ran 5 and ½ miles before they called it quits and took the bus home at about 6:30. Then they did pushups together, and did crutches. It was a normal day for them. It was now 7:45 in the morning and Kagome knew that none of the other girls were going to be up until 11am at least. So she determined it was safe for her to play outside with her brother for the time being.

He wanted to play football while she wanted to play soccer. It was a tough compromise. In the end, they finished their game of Dance Dance Revolution. Souta lost of course, but he should have known better. Besides, he was better at soccer than her so revenge would be quick.

They played for about 2 ½ hours before Kagome looked at her watch and realized that Sango would wake up soon. They lived right next door and if she saw Kagome outside at 10:30 in the morning looking dirty, sweaty and playing soccer then her whole plan was screwed. So they went inside and got cleaned up for the day.

After her shower Kagome looked at her phone and saw a new text message just waiting to be read. It was from Sango telling her to call her when she got up. Since she was already up she gave Sango a call.

"Finally, I texted you like 10 minutes ago. Didn't it wake you I set it to ring the loudest when I text because I wanted to wake you, but since you ruined it by sleeping like a log…" said Sango.

"Well, it's not my fault; some of us need our beauty rest." chuckled Kagome.

"Yeah, Yeah. But I don't know how you could sleep through all that racket some little kids were making playing outside. They've been out there since, well I don't know when they started, all I do know is I was trying to sleep and I woke up at like 9 cause of their foolishness. I was so close to going out their and scaring the little shits. That would've made them shut-up, but sadly they went in before I got the chance." said Sango.

Kagome held her breath. She was talking about Souta and her, she was lucky she left when she did.. She glanced out her window at Sango's house and knew that she's been getting lucky a lot. "Really, I didn't hear anything. Stop being such a grouch and let them have their fun." she said

"So you ready to meet our dumber, less appealing, half of our group?" questioned Sango.

"Well in my experience," she had plenty of experience dealing with boys, "you are never prepared to meet a bunch of crazy meat head boys." In one perspective, Kagome knew that she could get a long with these boys. From what she saw on the field yesterday and the way the girls described them, they were just like her friends back home. The only difference being that she had boys that were friends; she didn't need anymore. What she wanted was someone she could flirt with or whatever girls do these days. She would just have to take it as it goes.

"You know, your right. Thank you, I've been approaching them all them time with completely the wrong attitude. Did you have a lot of boyfriends back home? Hmm, got something to tell me?" smutted Sango.

Kagome was struck with a panic attack. How did she answer this question? If she said yes, then she would have to fabricate an ex-boyfriend and if she did get a real boyfriend here then she couldn't say she was completely innocent. On the other side, if she said that she didn't ever have a boyfriend…what would Sango think? Would she laugh and make jokes? Or call the others and then that would blow her whole make new friends plan. What should she do? Should she face embarrassment now or later? Great, now Sango probably thinks she retarded because it's been like 45 seconds. Maybe she should hang up really fast then call back and say the call dropped, but maybe Sango already looked to see if the call dropped and would know she was avoiding the question.

"Uhh, Kagome… are you okay? I know your still there I can here you breathing. If the question bothers you that much then we can just forget it." Reconciled Sango.

"No, no it's okay. When you first asked me that question I was trying to describe what the boys in my life are like. Which I decided that they are overly buff, meat head, sport fanatics, that prevent me from ever have a relationship," she said then she decided to just bite the bullet and tell the truth for once, "So no, I've never had a boyfriend. I've got plenty of boys that are friends, but no boyfriends. Then, I began to remember all of the times they embarrassed me when I was trying to talk to someone and realized that if I hadn't moved this summer I may have ended up single forever."

She went out on a limb with this one. It wasn't a complete lie' her friends had prevented some potential lovers of hers with over protection, but those were the bad eggs anyways and she was grateful later on. They mostly stayed out of her non-existent love life. Boys didn't approach her because why would they go for Kagome dressed in most likely basketball shorts and a baggy sleeveless shirt with a sports bra on underneath when then could have the highly developed woman in a tube top and mini skirt. Now all Kagome had to do was wait for the laughter.

Surprisingly, there was none. "Really, I've only had one boyfriend before I decided to go all independent woman and now most guys are afraid to approach me. Like just because I'm on the karate team and have no patience for little boys tryin' to be men I've been completely blacklisted."

"Wow, you make single sound so invigorating. I think that's what I'll call my loneliness too. The independent woman syndrome. Thanks, now I can tell my ass faced friends back at my old school that I'm single for a legitimate reason."

"Glad to be of service. Ayame and Rin just laugh at me and say it's just my excuse for not hooking up with Miroku, but you know I don't… I don't even like him." She said.

"Sure, look can I just come over and talk this is wastin my minutes, I only get 1000 and trust me, they go a lot faster than you think."

"Yeah, it's cool. I really just wanted to make sure you were dressed because our ride is coming in about 4 minutes."

"Thanks, ciao."

"Yeah, ciao."

Kagome looked down and realized that Sango had distracted her so much that she never changed into clothes. Sango said she had 4 minutes so she looked at her watch and set her goal for 2 since her clothes were already set out. She put on a black tank top with a yellow short sleeved hoody with an 80's print on it in black, red, and blue. She put on some black light weight cargo pants and black Nike's with a yellow check on the side. She put on a thin Mr. T style chain with gold hoops and looked at the clock. It had been 2 minutes and 11 seconds. She would have to work on her time tomorrow.

She grabbed her black Adidas bag and pulled her hair into a bun as she walked downstairs. Before she walked out the door she saw a not from her mother saying she was at work and to text if they decided to leave the house. So she called to Souta, but she only got a grunt in response. Cool with her; as long as he heard her. She texted her mom as she walked out the door and saw Sango waiting at the end at the end of her driveway and a familiar car rolling up and she felt déjà vu for some reason.

When they arrived at wherever the girls were taking her Kagome was in awe. The house was huge. This was a mansion. Rin noticed her staring and said, "Didn't Sango tell you we were going to go to Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's house. Sango you were supposed to tell her that they were loaded because their dad was some sports announcer/ business man thingy."

"No, I forgot. Well, now you know."

"Wait, don't Inyuasha and Sesshomaru have silver hair?"

"Yeah," said Ayame as is to question why it is relevant to the conversation.

"Oh My God! That means their father is Inutashio Takahashi. Only the greatest receiver to ever play for the Steelers. How could you forget something like that? I mean I remember when…" Kagome stopped when she looked around and saw that everyone was looking at her funny and she was almost hit with an anxiety attack. She blew her cover; she knew it, what does she do know? Then she had an idea. She could spin this into pity for her and make people completely forget that she just blurted out some sports stuff.

So she let a small pause and then continued, "… my father used to speak of him. Before he died at least. He was an enormous football fan and I can't be sure because he died when I was 12, but I think Inutashio Takahashi was his favorite player. I remember her used to talk about him all the time. "

Damn she was good. That was a complete load of bull shit. He father hated the way Takahashi played because he was always excessively arrogant after a good play and pissed off at everyone else when it was a bad play. She was the one that liked Takahashi and they often got into playful arguments about it.

He was probably turning over in his grave listening to this. "Sorry Pops," Kagome thought, "it's either you or me."

"That is so sad. I'm sorry; I didn't mean to bring it up. If I had known we wouldn't have met here at all, it's just this is the biggest space and the inside is awesome and I really thought you would want to see it, but we can leave if you like. We're not forcing anything on you or anything, I only want you to be happy. Oh My God, now I feel absolutely wretched about this whole ordeal. If only I had kept my big fat mouth shut, then maybe you wouldn't have had to think of any bad memories that your probably thinking of because of me and now I'm gonna cry I mean, it's just so sad that you lost your father at so young an age and..and… and.."

"Rin, stop talking. It's not that big of a deal. I stopped crying over his death a long time ago and now I can talk about it fine, so going here is really nothing at all. Calm down; Hakuna Matata." Now Kagome wished that she hadn't covered her mistake and let them know the truth. She got Rin all worked up over nothing and just how long is this driveway to the house anyway. It's taking too goddamn long. The car was getting real small, real quick.

It stayed quiet until Rin stopped and parked her car. Ayame was the one who broke the silence this time and thanks to her everything was soon forgotten.

"Hakuna Matata? I know you don't think your gonna get away with that corny line and have no one say anything. Come on Sango, the second I say anything, anything even suspiciously corny you jump right on it, but how can you let this one slide."

"Actually Ayame, hers was in the right context at the right time. Not corny at all." Replied Sango.

"What! You're just going easy on her because she's new. Not fair. "

Everyone looked at Ayame and started cracking up. That girl was a godsend in her own outrageous way. She single handedly broke the tension that Kagome had unnecessarily caused.

When they got inside they got inside, Kagome made a promise to herself to not do anything even athletic feeling and it worked. Sort of, it took much resistance. The house was amazing and it seemed that every room had a trophy or plaque or award of some kind. She was awestruck because she was in the home of her favorite old school football player. She prayed to God that he wasn't here right now because she would have lost her cool for sure.

They came to the last room the end of a hall and Rin said, "Well Kagome, are you ready to be imprisoned into a magnanimous void of perpetual annoyance?"

"Wow, someone was studying for their SATs before she picked us up, huh." Kagome replied. Kagome almost said no, but then she remembered her decision last night. She was here to 'do or die'.

"No, she got it from her boyfriend Sesshomaru, that's how he describes his relationship with his brother and he really talks like that so I hope you brought you're a-game vocab." Joked Sango. Wow, this is déjà vu of her thoughts last night. Maybe Sango was more like her than she realized.

She smirked and put on a show of confidence as the girls opened the door, but she lost her smirk as her eyes grew wide.