Aww, I'm sorry this update was so late you guyses. I planned to have it up two weeks ago but my old man got in the way. shakes fist at him so spam hate mail to him...for enforcing my groundedness :)

Well I made this chapter longer than I had anticipated as an apology :)

I dont own DDR(Dance Dance Revolution) or any of its series...nor do I own a moview theater...or smoothie thing...or a poseidon statue :).

Mouse or SillY

A Simple Request

Chapter 8- Sadly Happy Day

As fate would have it, Kagome finished the next large stack of papers and files the very next day. The following three weeks were a rush of boring events, but she was able to spend more time with Shippo because se finished work before her lunch break. Kagome sighed and sat down with Shippo in the food court. "InuYasha should be here soon, provided he doesn't get distracted by food."

"You think so little of me Kags." InuYasha stated sitting next to Shippo and across from Kagome. He watched as she removed her cell phone and began to text someone, more than likely Sango.

"Whatever Inu, Sango and Miroku are waiting for us at the Poseidon Fountain so let's go meet them there." Kagome gently took a hold of Shippo's hand and made their way through the crowd of early morning shoppers.

"Kagome, I want a peach smoothie." Shippo voiced as they passed a smoothie shop. Kagome paused, almost agreeing to his demand before she realized what time it was.

"Not now Shippo, it isn't even lunch time yet. You can have one later okay?" Shippo pouted but nodded all the same. The three got onto an escalator going down and soon a large fountain came into view as they stepped off the slow escalator and approached the very center of the mall. Kagome spotted Sango and Miroku on the opposite side of the fountain and crossed to them.

"Hello Lady Kagome, Shippo, and InuYasha." Miroku greeted with a flirtatious smile.

"Hey perv," Kagome and InuYasha greeted in return.

"Well, you guys know the drill. InuYasha and Miroku, take Shippo, and we'll go do our girlie things then meet back up at the food court in say…two hours." Sango drilled grabbing Kagome's arm and pulling her off. InuYasha watched as they disappeared into a clothing store.

"I don't get it," Shippo murmured, "Why did they invite us if they're gunna go shopping with each other anyway?"

"I don't even have the slightest answer Shippo…Not even the slightest." Miroku replied and they stood there awkwardly for a few moments.

"Well, time for the arcade." InuYasha prodded taking Shippo's hand.

"Does that mean now that Kagome is gone, I can have my smoothie?"

"You damned right brat, but you know the deal." InuYasha and Shippo shook hands and Shippo got his smoothie. What InuYasha didn't know was that little kids, particularly Shippo, tend to get hyper if they are fed sugar with an empty stomach. –

"Ooh Kagome, what do you think about this top?"

"It's pretty but it's too slutty." Kagome replied side glancing the garment Sango held to her chest. Sango frowned and pulled it away from her body.

"I was thinking the same, no wonder why Kikyo shops here." Sango replied putting the scanty shirt back on the rack. Kagome laughed and shook her head at her friend.

"What makes you say that?" She snorted, "It's not like she's here." Sango pointed Kagome to the register, where sure as hell, Kikyo was purchasing the exact same shirt.

"She has on a nose brace!" Sango exclaimed in a whispered laugh. Kagome rolled her eyes but gave a soft laugh as Sango clutched her stomach, weak with laughter. She shook her head, pretending to browse the rack. Her efforts were useless however when Kikyo turned around, her eyes blazing. Sango attempted to hold in her laughter, but failed miserably after her face turned beet red from holding her breath and burst out in outrageous laughter. Kagome covered her mouth with her hand, trying to hide her resistant snickering.

"Stop staring at my nose!" Kikyo exclaimed. She grabbed her bag and stormed from the store.

"Oh," Sango groaned trying to stand without leaning on anything, "My stomach and throat are killing me." She wiped away the tears that were streaming down her cheeks and Kagome laughed slightly. The two walked out of the store and into Victoria's Secret across the hall.

"So how are you and Miroku doing?" Kagome questioned picking up some perfume and taking a slight whiff of it. She caught Sango's blush and smirked.

"We're fine." She replied simply.

"How was it when he swiped your V-Card and many times after that?" Kagome questioned with a wink.

"What makes you think we've gotten to that level?" Sango questioned with a furious blush.

"The fact that your face is redder than the lingerie you keep eyeing is one. Two, I'm your home girl and I sense things like this. Three, it's dead obvious in the way you walk now." If possible, Sango's face turned redder.

"I'm lookin at that purple one not the red one." Sango blurted and Kagome laughed.

"Isn't that his favorite color?" This caused Sango's blush to further.

"Kagome!" Sango protested rubbing her burning cheeks.

"Alright, I'll stop teasing you." Kagome replied with a wink. Sango only blushed a little more and tried to hide her face behind a manikin as it returned to its normal hue. They browsed clothes for a few moments before Sango checked the time.

"We still have about an hour left to go shoe shopping and drop the bags off in the cars." Kagome nodded, picking up a few perfumes and lotions to purchase. Sango ventured away briefly to buy the lingerie set she had her eyes on, and while she was away, Kagome snuck herself a similar baby blue set. The two were walking out of the store when Sango paused. "I wonder what the boys are up to." Kagome shrugged and gave Sango a slight smile.

"Hopefully they aren't causing too much mayhem in the arcade." Both girls snickered and ventured around for a shoe store.

"No Shippo! Get down!" Miroku exclaimed in a whisper as Shippo leapt on top of the game machine and began to dance. Luckily, InuYasha, Miroku, and the dancing fox youkai were the only people in the dimly lit arcade.

"Woo!" Shippo yelled pulling off his jacket, "I'm Shippo, the dancing, loopy fox youkai and I think I just busted a grumpy!" Miroku groaned and smacked his forehead in embarrassment. Shippo began encircling his jacket above his head as if he was a cowboy doing a rodeo.

"InuYasha!" Miroku called, turning to the moving hanyou.

"What now perv?" InuYasha answered a few moments later between light puffs of breath.

"Get off DDR and help me contain Shippo!"

"Gimmie a few 'Roku, I'm about to get a triple A on this song." Miroku released a long, drawn-out sigh and returned his attention back to Shippo, only to find him gone. Miroku paused, holding his breath as his eyes scanned the dim arcade. He spotted a reddish-orange puffy ponytail and immediately made chase. Miroku made a sound of frustration as the afternoon shoppers began to crowd the narrow hall. He politely pushed his way through the crowd, making little progress. Miroku had made it to the food court, high on Shippo's trail when a large bone-rush of what appeared to be middle-school kids interrupted him, thus losing sight of the kit. –

"Hey Kagome, isn't it like, twelve thirty? Where the hell are the boys?" Kagome shrugged and looked around. She finished off the chocolate ice cream cone then searched the crowd more thoroughly.

"To hell if I know…Inu is probably fiendin up DDR with his trainee Shippo. You know how the perv is about Mortal Combat."

"Yeah, probably…"

"Hell, Shippo and the guys better hurry or I'll be forced to drink the smoothie Shippo wanted." Kagome said taking a sip of said smoothie then a bite of the cinnamon pretzel that Sango had not wanted.

"Hey, wait…" Sango said taking Kagome's wrist "Isn't that Shippo there?" Kagome followed her finger to a small child like figure on top of the large Poseidon statue in the center of the mall. Kagome, who was taking another sip of Shippo's smooth, gasped and dropped said smoothie. It was then that both girls noticed Miroku waving his arms not too far from the statue, apparently trying to talk to the sugar rushed kitsune. Kagome narrowed her eyes, seeing the dancing kitsune clearly.

Sango turned her head, only to find Kagome gone. She returned her gaze to the statue, finding Kagome chewing out a very frightened pervert. Sango began to make her way towards them, more afraid for Miroku's life rather than the gathering crowd. "But Kagome, I only took my eyes off of him for one second, I swear!"

"Whatever perv, you were probably flirting with some broad." Kagome retorted glancing back at the hyperactive fox pup.

"Honest Kagome, I really wasn't…It was probably the ten packets of Splenda he put in that smoothie Inu gave him when Inu had already put ten packets of Sweet'n'Low in there." Kagome had just eaten the last of her pretzel when she caught what Miroku had said.

"INU DID WHAT?!" She shrieked angrily causing Miroku to visibly shrink and cover his ears.

"You don't understand-,"

"I don't understand?!" Kagome echoed loudly, "You do not under ANY circumstance, give a four year old YOUKAI or HUMAN child sugar filled with more sugar plus the sugar the two dimwits added in there before they've eaten!" Before Miroku could reply, some random guy suddenly yelled out.

"Look out! He's gunna fall!" Miroku watched as Kagome's pale face paled so badly, the moon would have envied.

"My God!" A fat woman with frizzy strawberry blonde hair yelled, "Someone catch him or he'll be like humpty dumpty. Sango shot the lady a glare as she brushed pass her. Her eyes returned to the Poseidon statue to see Shippo dancing on his thin Trident spokes. Her eyes returned to Kagome who was paler than porcelain, then back to Shippo. He lost his footing and slipped. Sango tried to turn away, but failed and watched horror stricken as he fell backwards. The entire crowd gasped dramatically with released fear and let out slightly relieved sighs when his shirt tail caught on one of the spokes of the trident. Sango released a breath she hadn't realized she was holding and placed a hand over her racing heart. She took her eyes off the statue and quickly finished her route to Miroku and Kagome.

"Where'd Kagome go?" Sango questioned with slight frustration. Miroku pointed to the statue and Sango nearly smacked her forehead.

"Kagome help!" Shippo's plea echoed the center. Sango clutched onto Miroku with hope, her worry and concern for them both heavily obvious.

"Wait, where the hell is InuYasha? Sango questioned as she watched Kagome carefully reach bowl part of trident.

"The last I saw of him, he was trying to get a Triple A on some song." Sango rolled her eyes and shook her head. Sango head a petrified scream as Shippo's shirt tore. She hadn't even seen Kagome leap forward and grab him before he fell, but now that she held him close to her chest, she was hanging upside down with her legs in a straddle grip on Poseidon's trident.

"Wow, I had never known Kagome was so flexible." Miroku stated goggling Kagome's twists as she tried to turn herself upright. Sango smacked the back of Miroku's head then rolled her eyes.

"Hang on Shippo, I have an idea." Kagome urged once they had stopped swaying.

"I'm sorry I got us into this predicament Kagome." Shippo muttered as tears formed in his eyes, "InuYasha said twenty packs of Splenda wouldn't hurt me and then gave me a cinnamon pretzel glazed with powdered sugar and told me to keep my mouth shut." He began to sob violently and Kagome shook her head and patted his back lightly.

"It's okay Shippo, crying about it now won't help our situation, so we can kick Inu's ass later, but for now, I need for you to try to change into something small and can fly. Remember you have to concentrate really hard. When you do it, fly down to Miroku and Sango, but don't you dare voluntarily move a muscle." Shippo nodded and sniffed away the tears, and then closed his eyes for concentration.

Kagome felt her grip on the round part of the trident slipping and silently urged the kitsune on. She felt her arms empty and was caught as a beautiful snow owl with green eyes and cream orange, puffy tail and glided uneasily towards Sango and Miroku. Kagome felt her grip slip and she refocused on her task. Now that Shippo was out of harm's way and worry zone, she could perform a more dangerous backbend swing. Kagome's footing slipped completely but she quickly recovered and replaced her feet with her hands.

Kagome dangled gently, her body swaying back and forth from her recent attempt. Looking down, Kagome released a soft sigh. If she fell the right way, she could survive. Her legs would be broken, ultimately, but she would be alive regardless. Kagome shrugged mentally and began to judge her fall. If she swung her body to the right a little more, then she'd fall in the water below that Poseidon was 'standing' in rather than the edge of the pond.

"Damn my butter fingers." Kagome thought to herself as she started to swing from left to right. "The things I do for love." Kagome muttered as she tried to switch hands, but lost her grip instead. She felt herself falling rapidly and she inwardly prayed she would land as planned. With a quick glance down, Kagome realized she was going to hit the ledge and closed her eyes in advance. The impact she expected to break several ribs and fracture her skull never came, and instead she felt a pair of sturdy muscular arms catch her petite body.

Kagome opened one eye, expecting to see a familiar face, but instead met unfamiliar bright brown eyes. She took a slight inhale, observing that the person holding her was human. "Um, wow, thank you for catching me…"

"Hojo, Dominare, no problem Miss…"the male with bowl cut brown hair that partially covered his brown eyes told her as he gently set her down. Kagome felt slightly uncomfortable as a few people surged forward to crowd around the savior. Kagome took this chance to escape, heading straight for the arcade, knowing Miroku, Sango, and Shippo were close behind her. She entered the arcade to see InuYasha shirtless in the middle of a heavy barrage of arrows. He finished the song with a Double A and Kagome gave him a round of applause then stepped on the platform next to him.

"Here's the deal," Kagome began as she put some money into the machine, "I beat you in the song you pick, and I get to kick your ass when we get back to Sango's place. You beat me and I'll treat you to oden (sp?) and ramen for a week.

"Deal," InuYasha agreed immediately, him being the one to never turn down food, "But watcha kickin my ass for?" Kagome smirked and pointed to the machine and he began to browse songs.

"You'll see soon enough." Kagome replied smirking.

"Well fine, but don't be pickin no beginner level-," InuYasha abruptly stopped talking when Kagome selected the Oni level on the song he was on, "Uh Kags, you do realize that Oni is the highest difficulty setting right?"

"What are you scared or something Inu?" InuYasha shook his head sputtering his response.

"Scared? No way, I just wanted to make sure it was fair…" Kagome grinned then InuYasha pressed the button to begin. He gave her a quick unsure glance before giving her a soft smile. "Don't hurt yourself too badly 'Gome. This beating will cause a whole lot of pain by itself." Kagome snorted at his smugness and stretched as the screen showed. InuYasha's difficulty setting was on heavy, and his steps were like tortoise moves compared to Kagome's. From the corner of his eye he could see she was moving like lightening, occasionally missing a step every time her combo got to thirty or so.

Sadly, InuYasha already knew he was a goner. He watched as Kagome began adding in some extras with her steps, and this pissed him off inwardly to no end. The song finished with Kagome's finishing jump move and both friends were panting heavily, InuYasha more so than Kagome. The crowd that had gathered unknowingly to the dancers clapped and InuYasha watched as her face lit on fire.

"Best two out of three?" Kagome questioned as the song selection menu came up again.

"Beginner's luck, this time we're doing Max 300. Gyruss is a baby song." InuYasha replied and Kagome merely smiled. (A/N: I know Gyruss & Tsugaru isn't available in Oni….least it isn't on my 360 version…)

"If you get tired, don't forget to use the bar."

"I know that wench, I been playin this since I was in diapers." InuYasha snapped irritably as he pressed the button to start the song. Kagome shrugged, leaning onto the bar as the song began. It started out hideously fast, and now on the heavy setting, all Kagome could rely on were her feet moving as fast as possible. There was a slight pause in the barrage of arrows and Kagome used the bar to do a twist handstand and land on the platform to continue the steps as if she hadn't moved.

She stopped and sat on the bar, allowing InuYasha to pass her score as the song ended. "What the hell Kagome!" InuYasha hissed grabbing her arm roughly. "I don't need your fucking sympathy or pity. If you're gunna beat me, do it fair and square." Kagome growled at him and snatched her arm from him.

"Getting a bit touch and defensive are we?" Kagome retorted. She pulled her white t-shirt from over her head and placed it on the bar. InuYasha failed to meet her eyes as she revealed a very form hugging sports bra.

"What song do you want?" InuYasha questioned trying to swallow saliva down his suddenly dry throat after he managed to tear his eyes away.

"Don't matter to me. I don't know any of the songs."

"Well, Tsugaru then." InuYasha replied with a sigh. Kagome nodded at him curtly as he returned to the center of the platform. He glanced at Kagome as 'Ready?" flashed on their screens. With an annoyed growl, he returned his focus to the screen.

He watched as she removed her shirt and caught himself from dashing up to the platform and taking her exposed body some place private. From fifteen feet away, he could see her muscularly sculpted abdominal muscles. He could tell that she was, as the new generation called it, thick, but unlike many of this young generation, she was in shape. Her abdominal muscles were the epitome of a feminine six-pack and he found his 'friend' down below agreeing with him. He watched as the muscles in her back contracted then relaxed as she stretched then leaned against the platform bar as the hanyou she was competing against fiddled with the machine.

She smelled human, but any person in their right mind knew for a fact that she was otherwise. What she was exactly, no one knew, but him…so far. He was so caught up in his musings that he had not noticed the very unique blue eyes belonging to the exact person whom he was thinking about rest in his area. He felt something spark nearby and he jumped, acknowledging the eyes in his area. Crimson red met cyan and their eyes parted as the person who owned the crimson red eyes fled.

Sesshomaru held Rin's hand as she skipped beside him, licking a chocolate triple scoop ice cream waffle cone, and humming the theme song to her favorite television show. He was taking her to see said person starring in some ridiculous movie when he felt a familiar power strum. His eyebrow rose as he scented his half-brother in the same place with her as well. "What movie would you like to see today sir?"

"Four tickets for Li Long Visits China Town please." Sesshomaru responded passing a twenty into the booth. The woman handed him his change and four tickets, and as they walked away from the booth, Rin questioned his motives.

"Daddy, did you forget how to count? There's only you and Rin." Sesshomaru glanced down at Rin, missing the crimson eye fugitive that ran past him as he did so.

"Rin, do not doubt my intelligence. I purchased tickets for Ms. Higurashi and her kit." Rin gave Sesshomaru a toothy grin and resumed to finishing off her ice cream. Sesshomaru entered the arcade, trying to figure out what the crowd was for. Being a little over seven feet, he spotted his brother playing the mindless game his father had introduced him to years ago, but he had competition. A female competitor at that, and she seemed to be moving three times faster than the white-haired hanyou. He watched as her shoulder muscles moved in a quick movement to let her hair from its ponytail and allowed it to tumble down her muscular back.

Sesshomaru forced down the growl threatening to erupt from his throat at the scent of lesser demons and human male's arousal. The scent of another male's arousal alone disturbed him greatly and left him greatly disturbed. He watched promptly as she blasted the hanyou to the Netherlands with a unique finishing move that revealed him her face. Dark amber met cyan and they both lit up in a greeting. Sesshomaru's eyes traveled down to her well-toned body. She possessed the best and most defined six-pack on a woman he had ever seen. His beast began to create images in his minds as he took note of the light sheen of sweat layering her pale body.

She approached him causally with her white t-shirt slung over her shoulder. "Hey Sesshomaru, didn't see you as the type of guy to be in an arcade." Sesshomaru smirked coolly as she wiped the thin layer of sweat from her brow.

"Ergo, I didn't see you as the type of female to be exposing your semi-nude body to a majority crowd of human males." Kagome released a jolly laugh in response and crinkled her nose at him.

"I know what you mean. They stink horrendously. You were the best thing I smelled since InuYasha challenged me ten matches ago." Sesshomaru released a slight proud smirk then glance his brother's way.

"How many times did he wind fairly?" Kagome made a face like she was thinking very hard before replacing it with a bright smile.

"He won twice, but I let him win about four more times then that."

"Where did you learn to move so quickly?"

"InuYasha took me to one of those conventions for this game and I learn fast from watching. You're mighty inquisitive and nice today…what's up?"

"Daddy bought two extra tickets for Shippo and you to see Chibi Chibi Li Long Visits China Town with us." Rin replied causing Sesshomaru to glare down at her again.

"I've wanted to see that movie for a while now Kagome…Please say yes!" Shippo exclaimed bouncing up and down on her shoulder.

"I dunno," Kagome replied, "Weren't you just mad at Shippo and I and you were saying we were an endangerment to Rin, but now you're inviting us to a movie?" Kagome replied giving him a doubting look as she tried to understand him in her head. Sesshomaru paused, lost for words as he suddenly was unsure why exactly he had decided to invite her with him and Rin to begin with.

"Kagome!" Shippo groaned in an insistent voice that would lead to disappointment. Kagome sighed, glancing back at InuYasha who was putting his shirt back on. She shivered and pulled her shirt over her head as well.

"Alright, I suppose, just let me go tell the guys and we can go." Kagome turned on the ball of her heel and Shippo leapt off her shoulder and beside Rin. The two then engaged in friendly conversation as Sesshomaru watched Kagome talking to her friends. He watched as she ran back over to him with a light smile and nodded. As the four departed, the missed the heavy wave of sadness InuYasha released as he received a phone call.

InuYasha grinned as he put his shirt back on, half hearing Kagome telling them she was taking Shippo to go see some movie as he grabbed his cell phone from Miroku. "I'll go get tickets for us as well for that movie, that way we can all leave together."

"Alright, Ayame and Kouga said that they're here with Kohaku now for it and they'll meet us up in there as well." Sango replied before Miroku walked off. InuYasha snorted.

"Is it some little kiddy comedy movie or somethin?" He questioned glancing at the number on his caller id.

"Way worse, but we can manage. I'll buy some popcorn and we can throw it at people." InuYasha smiled at her as the exited the arcade and he answered his phone.

"Hello?"

"Ah, yes. This is Dr. Uinta speaking, and I would like to speak with InuYasha Tashio please."

"You talking to me doc, what's up? You don't sound like my doc though, I get switched or somethin?" The doctor on the other line chuckled heartily.

"No sir, but I am calling you because of your mother and her will that she left behind."

"Are you sayin my mother is dead?" InuYasha questioned his voice suddenly soft.

"Yes, she passed today at around noon in her sleep. I am sorry to be the one to report this to you, but you are the only person she states in her will that all her belongings go to. She sold her house in Sicily, Italy, but she also bought one two weeks before she died around the area where our records show you reside." InuYasha was grimly silent as the color pealed from his face. "Mr. Tashio, are you there?"

"Yes, I'm here." InuYasha replied lightly.

"Alright, well she left you everything, including the house she recently bought and furnished. Your mother also left you an estimate of roughly five million euros she earned in her clothing line for the elderly while here in Sicily. You will be expected to make flight to confirm this is your mother's body and will in a week. We have already expressed mailed you where you are supposed to go once you get here at your current residence. The will also stated for you to bury her in the graveyard near her old home."

"Alright." InuYasha replied.

"Have a nice day sir." InuYasha mumbled an okay and closed his phone, staring at it in disbelief.

"Inu, you okay?" Sango questioned looking at his deathly pale face with concern.

"Yeah, I'm fine wench here comes the monk, your brother, and the wolf lovers." InuYasha replied, purposely using them as a distraction. Sango glanced at him quickly before meeting eyes with the four people approaching them. She handed him the bag of popcorn she had went off to buy and his ticket after Miroku handed it to her. InuYasha sighed, hoping to watch the movie in silence as thoughts consumed his mind, but little did he know, going into the movie would do the exact opposite.

Well, hope you guys enjoyed this chapter :). I'll be working on the next on ASAP...but when it'll be posted is a question i dont even have the answer to.

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