Chapter 8

Kagome and Kikyo are getting ready for school when Kagome turns toward Kikyo.

"hey Kikyo I'm thinking about quitting this bet and going back to Inuyasha… I cant stand hurting him like this…"

"yeah I know how you feel… you want to call off the bet?"

"ok," and they both smiled at each other.

They ran out of the house to find Inuyasha and Sesshomaru. Kikyo ran to their house and rang they doorbell.

"they're going to be late if they don't hurry up.." said Kikyo

The door opened and it was their dad.

"oh good morning, uhm is Inuyasha Sesshomaru ready for school?"

"actually they already left, they said they needed to go and do something…"

"oh ok… thank you."

"mm hmm, no problem."

Kikyo ran back to Kagome and they started walking towards school.

"maybe we'll go and talk to them during recess time" said Kagome.

"yeah.. I guess…" said Kikyo quietly, " but don't you think it's weird?"

"huh? What do you mean?"

"I'm saying… that well… they were so desperate to try and get us back… don't you think that they would keep trying until the had no hope left? So did they give up on us already?

Kagome didn't say anything.

"well… we'll never know… till we talk to them… I mean for all we know, they probably had something to make up to the teacher."

"yeah! Inuyasha would never give up on me that quickly!"

The bell rang, and it was recess time, Kagome had to stay behind to make up a test (she got a D- Kikyo didn't need to because she barely passed by a point and got a C-) when Kagome was done she walked outside to find Inuyasha. She walked around for awhile without success.

"hey Ayame, do you know where Inuyasha is?"

"hmm, I just passed by him, he was near the bathrooms, but you don't want to go there…"

"why?"

"uhm.. I got to go… see ya around Kagome!"

And Ayame ran off. Kagome sighed and headed off for the bathrooms.

On the way she ran into Kikyo.

"oh hey Kikyo! I'm looking for Inuyasha, have you found Sesshomaru yet?"

"no, but Ayame told me that Sesshomaru was near the bathrooms, so that's where I'm headed…"

"oh really? Ayame told me the same thing too! Come one let's go."

And they started walking across the different courts

"oh! There they are!" said Kagome happily. She walked faster towards him, "hey Inu-" but Kikyo slapped her hand across her mouth and pulled her behind the handball wall.

"what is it Kikyo?" said Kagome frustrated.

"…look… Kagome"

Kagome peeped over the wall, and to her surprise, Kanata was clinging to Inuyasha's arm, and Sango's sister- Kokoro- was clinging to Sesshomaru's arm. Kagome looked back over at Kikyo. Then Kikyo peeped over the wall, then she said-

"ok be quiet…I'm going to try and listen to what they're saying."

They couldn't quite catch all of the words but this is what they made out:

"so Kanata… what do you want to do?"

"hmm, I don't know Inuyasha… what do you…" she got really close to Inuyasha, that their lips almost touched, "want to do?"

Inuyasha's eyes widened. "u-uhm…" his face turned red, "I-I-"

"it's okay Inuyasha… you don't have to say a thing… your eyes say it all," she giggled.

"ugh! That Inuyasha! The bet is back on Kikyo! I'm going to make Sesshomaru as jealous as jealous can get!"

"wait Kagome! Sesshomaru is walking away with Kokoro! Follow me!"

Kikyo pulled her through the double doors, down one hallway, left and right, and left and right, then left then left then another left down some stairs and turned right through a locked door, and down more stairs and through another locked door, and down more stairs and left and right, and right then right then right again, through another door down more stairs… then Kikyo pulled out a huge iron key and pulled off a rug from the floor, she unlocked it. Kikyo took her hand and pulled her down.

"K-Kikyo… do you know w-where you're go-going…?"

"of course now come on! There's no time to waste!"

She tugged on her hand and they ran down together. It was completely dark, Kagome heard some jingling, then she heard another door open- she saw another door open- light came pouring in through the door, they went in and shut it.

"welcome Kagome! To my secret hideout!"

Kagome looked all around, wishing that she had 8 pair of eyes to look every where at once. There were 5 computers, a television, a refrigerator, a safe, a couch, several desks, and tables, and so much more.

"what is this place?"

"I'll tell you later, let's see what Sesshomaru's doing, she pulled off a cloth from a table and there lay a table little screens on them.

"these are surveillance cameras, it took me a week to find out how these things worked…"

She flipped through different screens- Kagome couldn't help but to say "ew" when Kikyo flipped it to a screen of a guy picking his nose in a corner. Then she found Sesshomaru, she turned up the volume and zoomed in.

"-course sesshy-weshy…" she giggled an unnatural giggle.

Ugh that wench… I cant believe he chose her of all people…

"well how about we go over to my house for a little while and you know…" Sesshomaru smiled, "so Kokoro… what… do you want to do at my place?" Sesshomaru asked quietly- so quietly Kikyo had to turn up the volume real loudly.

"I don't know sesshy-weshy… how about a game of… bad guy, good guy…?" she giggled her unnatural giggle again.

Sesshomaru looked into her eyes, "sure… and I'll be the bad guy," and he laughed quietly.

Kikyo couldn't take anymore of that, she shut off the cameras and slammed into the table!

"Ahhhh I swear! I'm going to kill that wench!"

"well… it is partly our fault.. You know…? I mean we did make the bet, and now we need to fix it…"

"or we can crush them…?"

"actually no thanks Kikyo…"

Then Kikyo turned on the camera and found Inuyasha.

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"-ood guy/ bad guy?" said Kanata.

"o-ok, how do you play that game?" Inuyasha said while blushing.

"I'll teach you on the way…" Kanata giggled

"o-ok," Inuyasha started to laugh awkwardly too."

Kikyo shut it off.

"ok… let's crush them!"

"that's my girl!"

They fell backward onto the couch, and sat there quietly.

"hey Kikyo…"

"yeah?"

"you still never told me how you found out about this place."

Kikyo sat up, and leaned back.

"well… one time, I got lost and I couldn't find my way around… I started panicking and I ran, when I slipped on that rug I pulled up. And I saw a door, so… well, I started thinking of what could be down there, I thought of ghosts and spirits.. And all that other stuff, so I kept running. The curiosity kept coming back to me for days after that. One day I brought yarn with me and after school, I tied the yard to the double doors, I ran around trying to find it, I drew every corridor and connected every thing, when I stumbled once again across the rug, but that time, the rug was flipped, and the door was open. I wanted to run away cause it was so dark but something told me to go down… so, I did. I felt my way around in the darkness and I stepped on something hard, and it jingled. I picked it up and they were keys."

Kikyo held up the keys in her hand.

"but just then, I heard some one groan, then say, 'who's there!' and I got scared, I ran away. But after I thought about it… I guess whoever the keys belonged to must have fallen down those stairs and dropped the keys. So I came back, and I found this place. But I think the keys belonged to the principal or somebody that works at the school."

"why?"

"well, you know those doors I unlocked on the way here?" Kagome nodded, "they weren't locked until after I found the keys and ran away."

"wow, that was a long story," and Kagome started laughing.

"well Kagome, let's get out of here, before it gets too late, I mean I think we already missed half of our class."

Kagome started laughing again.

"no seriously, the bell rang awhile ago, and were missing class!"

"oh man! Come on! Lets go!"

After running up and locking every door they needed to, and they finally got to class, they stopped to think up a plan.

"Kikyo… you have a plan? Cause I don't…"

Kikyo was silent for a while (which meant she was thinking)

"ok, I've got one… just play along with me if you have to, otherwise don't say a thing."

"ok."

They walked into class awkwardly.

"where have you been!" yelled Mrs. Yamagata.

"well…" Kikyo began, "uhm, our mom, and dad are out of town right…?"

Kagome was worried Kikyo's plan wasn't going very well.

"and they put some leftovers from a restaurant in the fridge the night before they left… which was about a week ago… well… they got food poisoning from it, well they stayed a day longer home so they could feel better, and we forgot to throw it out. Well anyways, we forgot about it, and this morning we rushed out of the house, and heated some of it up without realizing what we heated up… we ate it and, uhm during recess… uh let's just say that no one should go into the bathroom for a while… hehe?"

The whole class went, 'ew' before the teacher told them to take a seat. Luckily they were excused. Kagome sighed with relief and was glad for Kikyo's save. On the down side, no one wanted to sit near them for a while, but they felt it was worth it.

Kagome and Kikyo were walking home when Kikyo stopped dead in her tracks.

"whats wrong Kikyo?"

"remember what Kokoro said to Sesshomaru? And then what Kanata said to Inuyasha? They wanted to "play a game" with them…"

"so…?"

"the exact same game! What if they're setting them up for something…"

"like what…? What do you have in mind Kikyo?"

"I don't know… but I have a bad feeling about this…"

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