'`Next Up`'

By: AnnaElle!

What's with the disclaimer stuff?

I'm so very sorry about the last chapter, I know it really sucked, but I was tired and I couldn't figure out a way to finish that scene thing. Plus this is only my first FanFic.

Anywho, Thank you soooooo very much to all my reviewers! I love you guys so much, and momma likes those good reviews so keep'm coming!! An' I'm going to try to make my chapters longer.

Chapter four –

Kagome sighed; she just finished tucking the twins in for the fifth time that night because they were convinced that the 'spookly man' was going to come back. She sat down on the couch, with a coffee and her book, 'Black' by Ted Dekker… when of course her cell rang, most likely Roko, from the studio, checking up on her. "Hello?"

"Kagome, Hey! It's Roko,"

"Hey Ro, What's up?"

"Ah, not a lot, I just thought I'd check up on you, heard it was a rough day…" Roko was Kagome's best friend, and her apprentice, Roko really Cared about her and always knew what to say to comfort her. "Mmm"

"Mmm? That's it?"

"Sorry, I'd just really rather not go through today all over again."

"It was that bad sweetie?"

Kagome snorted, "It was horrible Ro! My brother, whom I haven't seen since the show in o' three, showed up with his girlfriend and Inuyasha and his new girlfriend!"

"Your brother is a moron. Need a hug?"

"Yes…"

"Hows'a'bout we have a night to ourselves tomorrow, It's Friday, and I bet Kessho would be glad to have some pocket cash, Huh huh?"

Kagome giggled, "Okay Ro, I'll pick you up at…"

"Six"

"Alright, I need to sleep; I have a brand new class to teach tomorrow, so I'll see you at six!" Kagome shut her phone, ending the conversation. She was right, she did have a new class to teach, and how could she forget? It was a brand new semester at her studio and she still needed to think up a lesson for the newbies… aw shit… this was going to be a longer night then she thought.

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She still had about twenty minutes before the new class showed up, but she was still rushing around, cleaning the mirrors, and posting up schedules and 'welcome' posters. "Kagome" she was snapped out of her frenzy when she heard her friend's voice. "Kagome, you have five minutes, left, think you should get changed now?"

"Oh Shit!" She exclaimed, running off to get into her hot pink stretchy short shorts, sage green tube top, and matching hot pink half jacket. She tied her hair into a high pony tail, and clipped her bangs out of the way with a small green bow clip. When she appeared back out into the main stage in her studio, which had ceiling to floor windows on the east wall, and seven foot mirrors on the north wall, a blue-gray paint, and a shiny black wooden stage, Roko met her and handed her a list of her new students. The new class was twenty to thirty couples' classical dance class. She gave it a quick look over, not noticing the four names that she really wouldn't want to teach… Her first two couples showed up, Kouga Ookami and Ayame Urufu, Naraku and Kagura Onigumo, the class was exclusive to four couples, so she only had two more left…'I wonder who they are…' she thought, just as the silver plated glass door opened, revealing non other than Miroku, Sango, Kikyou, and Inuyasha. Miroku looked guilty when she glared at him. "I'm doing a class right now, so get out."

"Is that how you speak to all your students?" Kikyou asked smugly,

"What do you mean?"

"We, the four of us, signed up three weeks ago for this class. Here we are, now I suggest if you would like us to pay you, then do go on with the lesson." Kagome was dumbfounded. "U-uh…" She stuttered, at a loss for words. She turned around, Looking for Roko for support, but she was no where to be found. 'Where the hell is everybody when I need them?' "P-please go over to that corner, w-while I get… u-uh th-the, um, things?" she quickly walked away, leaving the four couples a little stunned, she hid in the hall beside the stage trying to catch her breath. Her mind kept racing, 'Why are they here? When the hell did Inuyasha get so damn stupid? Why does Kikyou look so familiar?' It clicked, she was the one… the one who was with Inuyasha that day that they broke up… she was the one who broke them up! Oh, Kagome was pissed now. She regained her composure, and walked into the room where doom had taken up residence. Everyone in the room had been talking and drinking some of the water that had been set out for them. Only the demons in the room noticed she was back, but only one head shot up when her scent re-entered. He looked guilty, and depressing, and frankly, pathetic. Kagome glared at him, blinking back the sting at the back of her eyes. "A-alright everyone, can I have your attention please." She said, catching her students' attention, "So, everyone here needs to get changed, hopefully you all brought sweatpants or stretchy shorts or something easy to move around in." she looked at them questioningly, and pointed to a certain door to the left of her, "There are four, no wait, six changing rooms back there, so go get changed and meet me back out here Ok?" everyone left to the back to change, save for Inuyasha, who lingered a little, giving her a pleading look. She shrugged it off and turned around, completely ignoring him.

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"Side step, three steps front, back step, and oh no, Miroku! Dumbass, it's three front, BACK STEP." She yelled at her brother, obviously still pissed at him for his earlier "mistake" Kouga, who was standing beside Miroku, whispered to him, "Does she always yell like this?" Miroku snorted, "Only when she's pissed, and frankly, being her brother does not mean anything to her at the moment." "wow, what'd you do, man?" "Uh…"

"He brought her old boyfriend and his new girlfriend to 'meet' her." Sango interrupted.

"Du-hude" Kouga shook his head.

"Can we get back to learning how to dance please? This isn't grade nine you know." Kagome cut in. The rest of the class went smoothly, until she needed a volunteer because her 'main man' Houjo, didn't show up today and she needed to show the class how to do a certain move, but she couldn't do it alone. "Ah, I need someone to come up here and dance with me a second, any volunteers?" Kouga went to raise his hand, but Ayame seemed a little jealous and pulled his arm down. Miroku would've, but he knew that if he so much as touched Kagome right now, he wouldn't live to grope another woman again. "Anyone?" Naraku sneered at her, clearly not wanting to even be in the studio. Inuyasha saw the chance and jumped at it. He raised his hand a little and walked forward, with a small but noticeable smirk on his face. Her expression fell, "Any-" "Miss, please just take the guy to be your partner for the moment so that we can finish this class and leave!" Naraku sneered, in his usual creepy voice. Kagura glared at him, hitting him on the arm.

"I-Inuyasha, o-ok. Well, so, we… um" she took his large, warm hand in her small one, and placed his other hand on her hip. She stiffened a little. "O-ok. So it's step, step, step, twirl, step, twirl around, spin me, no, the other way, and hip spin. Inuyasha looked at her. "You grab my hips," he did. "lift me up," he did, "and spin, step step, step and finish!" she panted, and smiled slightly, but noticed that Kikyou was glaring at her. She then noticed that Inuyasha was still holding onto her, but at a much more intimate proximity. She pulled away quickly and looked at the big clock above the mirrors. "Ok! So, Class is over for today…We'll work on this next week ok? See you Wednesday!" she said and quickly exited the room. She could hear her class murmur and shuffle over to the change rooms so they could get ready to leave. Finally after she had made sure no one was still hanging around the stage, Kagome cleaned up the tables and the mirrors, and she took down the welcome posters. A few hours eventually went by, and she was ready to go home, with three hours to spare before she had to pick up her twins from school. What a suckish week this was turning out to be…

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"Kikyou! What the hell is wrong with you?"

"Nothing Inuyasha." She answered coldly. He ran to catch up with her, and blocked her way. "Move, Inuyasha." He grabbed her shoulder, gently but firmly, and stared into her eyes. "What is wrong, Kikyou?" he asked, his voice just about a whisper. "What's wrong with me? What is wrong with me? What's wrong with you? You were practically cheating on me in there! You're a worthless, bastard, Half Breed!" she struck a cord. He stopped walking. He looked angrily at the pavement, He was hurt, but he wouldn't show it. Kikyou always had hated the demon part of him, she thought that he was some sort of horrible impure creature, but he never thought she'd use it against him, and on a false accusation. "See, you can't even face me! Look at me!" He continued looking at the ground. "You did everything she told you to, but when I ask you to do one simple thing, you ignore me! When did she become more important than me?!"

"Kikyou, you're making a scene." She inhaled deeply, raised her hand, and smacked him. She left in a huff, driving away in her pink bug. It started to snow on him, until he could no longer see more than two feet ahead. He let a low growl emit from his throat before he stiffly strode back into the dance studio to look for Miroku. The studio was pretty large, and he didn't know his way around, so he got lost and wound up in an office type area. "Ahh, Dammit. Now where do I go?"

"It's that bad? Oi…" He heard a voice, which sounded like Kagome. "So the roads are completely out? Achaa. Uhuh. That's fine. Ok. So if it clears up you'll be running buses." Who was she talking to? "Ok. Be safe!" He heard the phone click back into its cradle, she was walking his way, damn, here comes another argument. She almost didn't notice him, but unfortunately, someone didn't want her to have a good day, and she caught a glimpse of silver and cringed. "You're still here." She asked, more like stated, as she stopped walking and closed her eyes. "Eh. Yeah… Look,"

"I don… I really don't want to talk to you right now,"

"I was going to apologize."

"Uhuh. Never in the thirteen years I knew you, had you apologized once, Inuyasha."

"Well I changed" she sighed, not being able to take anymore of his shit. "Inuyasha, you caused enough pain, can't you just go away?" she turned, not looking at him, her eyes glazed with salty water, not daring to leak out. He felt a pain in his heart, like something was squishing it continuously, "Kagome," he looked at her, "why didn't you tell me?" she bit her lip, "You don't think I tried? You don't think, that for every month I was pregnant, I called you at least three times? But nooo, you were too busy with some slut, that you couldn't even take the time to talk to me! You're just a selfish…selfish…"

"Go on, you know you want to call me a 'half breed'"

"No way. If I did that, I'd be insulting the loves of my life, so no, I will not call you a half breed, but I will tell you that you're an egotistical ass-hole of a pig-headed, emotionless, heartless, jerk." With that she walked away, not noticing that she had begun to cry. He smelled the salt in her tears, but couldn't make himself go after her. Yeah, that's the reason why he had stayed so long with her she didn't care that he was a hanyou, a stinking half breed…

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She dialed Miroku's number, yes she was pissed at him, yes she didn't want to speak to him for the time being, yes she was ready to rip his scrawny little perverted head off right now, but that didn't mean she wasn't concerned for his safety.

"Hullo?"

"Hey big brother"

"Kagome! you're talking to me?"

"I was jus wondering if you two were safe, I heard the roads were pretty bad."

"Yeah, we were like, five minutes away from the studio when the snow started to pick up so we turned around. We're in the lobby"

"Really? Ok, I'll be down in a second." She hung up her cell and pressed the elevator button, as I said, the studio was quite large, three floors, all three had a large stage, one for performances and two for classes, offices on each floor, a big kitchen, a fancy lobby, a recording room, dressing rooms, and a museum area for school tours, and it was all hers, KaiKii TaShou Studio. Luckily she had changed out of her little dance uniform, and into a pair of black boot cut jeans, white three-inch knee high lace up boots, vibrant blue top, and a three-loop white beaded necklace, and had let her hair out to cascade over her shoulders. She arrived in the lobby where her brother and Sango were waiting, and greeted the girl with a smile, completely ignoring her brother. "Hello! You're… Sango, right?"

"Uh, Yeah." Sango replied shyly, after all, Kagome was like a superstar, almost. "Well, It's really nice to meet you! I'm so sorry that our first encounter was so horrible."

"No, It's fine, really, I'm just glad I could meet you! I mean, when Miroku told me you were his younger twin, I nearly fainted. I'm such a fan…geek, whatever." Kagome giggled. "Thanks" she smiled, "Now, should we get the fire place going?"

"Oh, Yes please!" Miroku said, finally getting in on the conversation. "What do you need me to do?"

"Beat yourself with a hammer repeatedly on the head?" He gave her a look. "I'll just go get some firewood" Kagome nearly fell over laughing. "We aren't in the wilderness you know, it's all in there, we just need to light it."

"Matches then?"

"Are we lighting candles?" She rolled her eyes at him in mock frustration, and walked over to a little switch on the wall, "you just, flip," she flipped it, "the switch." Seconds later the gigantic fireplace was roaring with red and orange flames. The three sat on the big suede couch. Suddenly Kagome jumped up, her eyes wide, and her hand franticly searching through her purse trying to find her LG Rumor, She hurriedly dialed a number and waited for someone to pick up. "Roko! Oh thank god, you're ok. I was so worried, are you at home?.... Ok, good, I'm still at the studio, Makii and Kai are snowed in at their school, and I'm stuck with Inuyasha, Miroku and Sango… Miroku's girlfriend… yes… yes he's still a pervert… I don't know how… can we get off the topic of my brother's love life? Thank you. Ok, I'm getting some pretty nasty glares over here… Ok, talk to you later, bye." She sighed in relief and hung up the phone, and noticed Sango was blushing madly. She went to say something to them, but the power went off, just as the elevator doors opened. They all heard a big 'THUD' followed by a crash and a distinct "fuck!' their heads snapped over to where the sound came from, they noticed familiar little puppy ears. "Inuyasha?" Miroku said, "You're still here? I thought I saw Kikyou's car pass ours on the freeway!"

"Phh, she left, Ow, without, OW! Me."

"Can't demons see in the dark?"

"Shut up."

Miroku laughed, "Do you have your eyes closed or something?" He heard a growl coming from Inuyasha's crumpled silhouette. "Just feel your way over, moron." Sango noticed that Kagome had gotten awfully quiet, and decided to go sit with her. "Hey," she said, "are you alright?"

"Mmm, I'm fine, just worrying about my babies."

"Yeah, I know how you feel; my little brother is probably snowed in at his school too."

"I hope the power didn't go out there, because they don't have a fireplace like we do."

"Yeah, what school do your little guys go to?"

"Shikon no Tama Kanrin'in"

"Really? So does Kohaku! Maybe he knows them!" Sango smiled. Kagome smiled back. "You're a really nice person Sango," she blushed a little. The girls continued to giggle and chat about random things, while the men took turns insulting each other. It had gotten late, and they had all fallen asleep after Kagome and Sango ventured out into the darkness for some food, drinks, and blankets, which the study had plenty of. They had all hoped that the snow would stop soon, but it just kept piling up… Funny, Inuyasha had never called Kikyou to see if she was alright…

End

AE! Yay! I did a long…gish chapter! I hope you liked it! I got the snow thing from our own storm that's starting! Yay, hopefully no school on Monday! Wooo..

Anywhoo, Review Please! And pray for lots and lots of snow for me, that way I can update real soon! Woo!

Peace,

AE x.0