Recap

She did notice the wolf demon in the back she assumed to be Koga looking at her with a look she's never seen before. She had no idea what to do and prayed some one would answer Sango before she exploded.

Thank god, her prayers were answered, but this supposed blessing turned into a pending disaster…

Tomboy Chapter 7

"We were playin Mortal Combat, but seeing as some of us can't handle defeat like a man," Miroku gave Inuyasha a frustrated glance which did not go unnoticed by anyone, "I was gonna suggest we play something more loser, my bad user friendly like DDR."

"You got something to say pervert."

"No, I'm just making a suggestion. I mean, you've never lost DDR, so I guess you don't have anything to worry about." Miroku replied coyly.

This was a nightmare for Kagome. She could feel herself ready to challenge. DDR was her favorite video game. She just beat Souta the other day and was pumped up for a game against someone else, but she resisted at all costs. She had already been in two almost fights today and was not gonna risk making Sesshomaru anymore suspicious than she knew he was.

She held her mouth shut; unfortunately she didn't have to say anything because after a few words between Miroku and Inuyasha about how none of them had yet to beat him Sango opened her mouth and said, "Kagome, weren't you just saying you beat your brother the other day."

"Damn it," thought Kagome, "why couldn't she just shut her mouth and comfort Ayame. Wait a second… why did Ayame need comforting. She looks fine to me. I'll have to ask them when they're alone."

"Yeah, I guess I beat him, but we were just foolin around in our living room. It was nothing like what I'm sure you can do." She tried to appear to his ego so that he would gloat for a minute then let it go. Even if she knew nothing about relationships, she knew how boys operate, and boys can absolutely never refuse an ego boost. Maybe she could be an advice colonist in her new school paper for the desperate girls out there. She never did that before.

"Aww, come on Kagome. You could at least try. None of us, not even fluffy here, has beaten Inuyasha in DDR. Please…" begged Rin. She was a sly little being. She was very sneaky indeed. She was using Kagome's recent little tiff with Sesshomaru and escalating it to a higher level by putting in the fact that Inuyasha had even beat him.

This was not good. This meant that her friends were picking up on her love of competition. If she wasn't even more careful then they would know she was into sports then it would be just like at her would be just like her old school. She was determined to resist, but then he said something that couldn't go without punishing.

"She probably can't even play. Look at her; she's way too scrawny to be able to keep up for even 2 rounds." Inuyasha was playing with her. Damn it.

She lost it. She knew it. Everything that she worked so hard for was fading away. All the lies that she spread were in vain because there was no way in hell she could let this slide. Her inner tomboys was sayin challenge him, start yelling, and make a scene, but at least she had a little more sense than to react like that.

"Inuyasha, I'd hardly call her scra-" Sango didn't even get to finish. Kagome cut her off. She may be ready to risk them finding out her secret, but they were not going to be handed a clue as big a 4 pac stomach. All the guys would instantly know she worked out and she just met them. She was determined to hide herself at least until her junior year was over.

"Really, let's go then. If I'm way too scrawny to go 2 rounds let's play. It should be easy to beat me." Wow, Kagome just signed her death warrant and shockingly she felt calm.

Everything got quiet for a second. Sesshomaru observed. Something just was not right about her. First she goes out of her way to challenge him and pissed off his brother. Why did she resist this challenge now?

Koga spoke first. "Well, don't just stand there, let's set up the game pads. Come on push back the couches. Put your back into it," he stopped for a minute as he saw everyone go to do something. Then he said to Kagome, who looked like she was trying to stretch discretely, "I really hope you win. Someone needs to put that dog in his place. I mean, you'll still be my girl either way, but this would be the ultimate beginning to a beautiful relationship."

"What?" Kagome was honestly confused. When did she become his girl? Was that the same as girlfriend or was he just really friendly? If he did mean girlfriend, when did this happen and didn't he like Ayame? Koga just walked away without any response.

Kagome looked over at Ayame while she stretched. The girl had a frown on her face and her eyes looked heavy, like one more thing could make them burst. Kagome wondered if any of this was because of something that happened while she was in the hall talking on her phone.

Oh well, she had bigger fish to fry. She saw the massive TV that the boys were playing Mortal Combat on show the DDR challenger play screen. The 2 pads were set up and Inuyasha was waiting impatiently next to them in his socks.

She kicked off her shoes and rolled up her pants just a little until she was sure they wouldn't trip her.

"Come on wench, we don't have all day. Just hurry the fuck up you're gonna lose anyways."

"I told you, don't call me wench. Like I said, I'll embarrass you in front of all of your friends."

They set the game to start at beginner and get progressively faster and more complicated with each song. When they began, the first song was a joke. Neither of them missed a beat.

"Ha, I'm surprised you kept up, that was such hard steppin I thought fore sure you would fall."He thought this was hilarious, but she didn't let this distract her from her goal.

About 4 songs later, the pace had significantly increased to put it lightly. Both of them were sweating like pigs, but neither was giving up yet. Inuyasha was surprised when he saw that they were both still tied. How the hell could that girl even come up to par with him?

3 songs later and both were still going strong. It was now probably 2 or 3 in the afternoon. If all of them hadn't been so concentrated on the match they would have noticed the sky turn black and the demons would've smelled rain coming, but they didn't. So what happened next was a scare to everyone, especially Kagome.

Right in the middle of the 8th song, while they were both doing a ridiculous combination of steps at a ridiculous pace there was a huge crack of lightening followed by a roar of thunder.

That was not even the most surprising part of it, Kagome, who was right in the middle of her game jumped off the pad, ran to the couch, jumped over the couch, and ducked down behind it like no one could see her. All you could hear was boo, boo, boo, and you really suck from the game. If anyone had blinked during the lightening and thunder they would have missed Kagome and thought she had vanished. Inuyasha did his final steps and started cheering like he won something for real.

Kagome, who had come to her senses, peaked he head back over the couch and found every one looking at her. She jumped back over and sat on the couch in between Ayame and Rin.

"Wow, Inuyasha, you're really good. I guess I lose. Oh well." She tried to play it off when another crack of lightening made her grab Ayame with a death grip. Lucky, Ayame was a demon; if she had grabbed Rin she would have really bruised her.

Everyone was quiet as Kagome slowly eased her hands off a shaken Ayame; Sesshomaru spoke first.

"Kagome… are you scared of thunderstorms?" he questioned in simple terms, now was not the time to confuse people.

"No. No, of course not, that's ridiculous… I mean what kind of 17 year old is afraid of thunderstorms. I can't even believe you would ask tha- ahhhhhhhhh." She heard a huge bang from the thunder that rattled the mansion and mane the power flickered on and off.

Kagome had a grip on Ayame's forearm with one hand and on the other she had wrapped around her legs that she pulled up into her face.

Kagome barely raised her head up and whispered slowly, trying to think of the right word to use, "There is a definite possibility, that I may or may not, have undetermined and debatable, negative reactions towards the aforementioned topic."

Everyone was confused until Sesshomaru spoke again, "So for the rest of the group, in other words, Yes."

She just nodded her head. She should've watched the weather report this morning. If she had, she would've never left the house. Being afraid of something as childish as thunderstorms was not something she liked to advertise. She couldn't even admit to it unless forced and even now she could hardly say it so everyone knew what she was talking about.

"HA HA HA, looks like you're not such tough shit. And to think, people actually thought you could beat me in DDR. You can't even sit through a thunderstorm without pissing your pants." Inuyasha mocked, but Kagome had bigger problems than him making fun of her. She could take that, but right now she was concentrated on the massive wall of windows that displayed the storm all to well for her taste.

"Inuyasha, shut up." Commanded Sesshomaru, "Kagome, is there a reason your so scared?"

"Fluffy, how could you be so rude?!? You don't have to tell us if you don't want to. It's just that you're so scared and we're so curious as to why you're scared, but I don't want to intrude, but I want to make you feel better like the time I thought Fluffy left me in the mall and all I wanted to do was cry until I saw him again and it felt so much better to tell him how scared I was. I just thought you wanted to talk. Oh my God! I'm doing it again; I'm trying to make you talk when you clearly don't want to. I am such a bad person. You'll never want to be my friend. Stick a fork in me I'm dead. And look now you're probably thinking who is that crazy gir-"

"Rin, really it's not the drama situation that you're making it out to be. Jeeze, do you always get like this when-" Kagome started but everyone else finished.

"Yes." Came the mutual shout of the group as Rin blushed.

"Now really Kagome, is there anything that we could help you with?" said Miroku.

"No, she's my woman, I'll help her if there needs be helpin." Koga professed.

After that statement the whole group got quiet. Kagome could feel Ayame'e muscles tense the second Koga had started to speak. Kagome did not understand this. Who was he and what did he mean his woman? Even Inuyasha shut his mouth. He knew if he said anything that was his ass. Sesshomaru wouldn't be the only one ready to beat his ass if He made either Ayame or Kagome, or both for that matter, cry.

Kagome decided that since once again, she was responsible for the awkwardness she would tell them why she's scared to break the silence.

"It was when I was a child. The reason I'm so scared," everyone just looked at her waiting for her to continue, "My dad had taken my brother and I camping in summer when I was about 10. He told us to stay near camp because a storm was coming soon, but we wandered off anyways. When the storm hit we had no idea where we were going. It was all just a big blur. I wish that I just listened to my dad. It was pouring so hard we could barely see in front of us and it was pitch dark, no lights from anything but the huge cracks of lightening from the sky; and every time the lightening cracked we could see weird shapes and figures that looked like monsters, but cut us some slack we were only children. We were so scared both of us just cried until my dad found us huddled together and soaking wet. Not the best trip, I would say. It's no big deal now, I know none of the things that I may have imagined or believed at the time are real, but thunderstorms just remind me of them."

She finished her story and waited to hear everyone mock her for her foolishness. She waited to hear someone say something when her phone went off and she realized that she a forgotten all about her brother who was probably just a scared as her.

She answered her phone, "Hey Souta. Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm not alone so don't worry about coming home. I was just calling to see if you were okay."

Kagome knew that this meant that Souta had some friend over and didn't want her to embarrass him by mentioning his crazy fear of thunderstorms.

"Who are you with? I didn't know you had any friends here."

"Just some kid who saw me outside fooling around with my football and asked if he could play too. Kohaku, yeah that's his name I think."

"Kohaku?" Kagome repeated, "Oh well as long as your okay, I'm fine. Hey I got to go now."

"Yeah it's cool, bye" replied Souta before they both hung up.

Sango, who had been intrigued by the name of her brother mentioned in the conversation, spoke first, "Did you say Kohaku? As in my brother? What was he doing on your phone?"

There was another crash from outside and Kagome winced before responding, "I don't know. I was talking to my brother to see if he was alright, and he was because he wasn't alone. He said he was playin with his football when some kid named Kohaku asked to play with him. Then they went inside together when it started to rain. It probably was your brother."

"Oh," was her response.

"That reminds me Fluffy, we have to get Kagome's brother on the varsity football team. He's only a sophomore and he's new to the school, but please. Do it for me. Then we'll all have connections to the varsity football team. Please. Please. Please." Rin put on her biggest puppy dog eyes and was fully prepared to scream if he said no.

"Okay. I'll give him a try out and if he has potential we'll keep him around."

"Thanks Fluffy. Love ya."

"Hey! What are you askin him for? I'm the captain. I make the decisions. I decide who's on or off the team. I decide if the kid gets try out or not."

"Well then, can my brother have a tryout Mr. big bad captain?" Kagome half asked and half mocked. She was grateful for this. It was distracting her from the storm and she was feeling more comfortable by the minute.

Inuyasha was about to respond, but Koga beat him to it. "Don't waste your breath on that dumbshit over there. Even if he said no, Sesshomaru would go directly to the coach. I'll even speak myself. I'm not about to have my woman unhappy for something as stupid Inuyasha's pride"

Kagome was finally going to say something about that my woman shit, but Inuyasha beat her to it.

"Would you cut out that my 'my woman' shit out. She looks so confused. She doesn't even know you, you dumb ass wolf." Inuyasha was yelling and then Koga tackled him and they started wrestling. Everyone started laughing and the storm was soon forgotten except for the occasional wince from Kagome, but the girls helped her through it.

They all stayed until about 6 at night, then the girls tricked the boys into ordering like 10 pizzas before they left; and then when the pizza delivery boy they answered the door, grabbed 5 pizzas, ran to their car, and made the boys pay for all of the pizzas. It was hilarious. At least until the boys realized what they had done and promised revenge someday.

Kagome got home with almost a whole pizza and was stuffed so she gave it to her brother and his friend. Finally, she watched some TV and went to bed. The whole day had her tired. She caused so many awkward silences and lied more than she ever had to in one day. It was definitely a skill she never knew she had.

She had never been a person to write things down on anal lists and such, but right before she went to bed she made a half assed to do list to make sure her thoughts didn't get distorted in her dreams.

List of problems in my life to solve:

Keep sports talk and actions to a minimum when around new friends.

Be suspicious of Sesshomaru because he is too damn smart for his own good.

Find out what was wrong with Ayame.

What is with this 'my woman' shit from Koga.

Check weather every morning.

Don't get smart with Inuyasha because it will only lead to my secrets being revealed, but reserve the right to whop his ass if he tries you again.

Find out if the Kohaku that Souta was with is the same Kohaku that is Sango's brother.

Wear something pink tomorrow. The girls are starting to think I'm a little rough and I can't have that.

Wow. She had an interesting future coming up. Oh well, she liked interesting. Life is a continuous rush that heightens when unanticipated things commence. As long as she still had her dignity in the end it was cool with her no matter how she got there. For some reason she dreamt of the DDR competition she had with Inuyasha. The only difference was that no one else was in the room. It was really strange to her, but she didn't care because in her dream there was no storm and she whopped his sweaty ass back to the dog pound where he belonged.

Yep, it was a good dream.