A/N: Egads! I forgot to put a disclaimer on my first three chapters! Eeeeeep! I hope I don't get sued. I just put it in the summary. Wait. You didn't hear that! You didn't-Puts on sunglasses and pulls out flashy-pen-thinger- You never heard it-Flashes pen- BWUAHAHAHAAAH!

Ahem. Anyhoooooo, I'm gonna try to make this chapter nice and long. And thanks for the reviews guys! I am soo sorry I didn't update in such a long time! I had writer's block! It really sucks, trust me on that. -Sigh- I probably won't be updating a lot after this chapter. School just started a while ago, and it's gotten in the way. I started the chappie about a week before school, and now it's the start of the third week of it. Evil homework!. Yeah, so I'm gonna make this chapter nice and long.

CHAPTER REVISED ON DECEMBER 28, 2005 (but done so on WordPad, so I apologize for the typos!)

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. No one on this site does! I think… Ooh! Lookie there! I put a disclaimer so ha! And ha again! I rememberrrrred! I'm growing up! Mahaaaah. Oh! The chapter. Right-o then… RR! Or else… (This was written before chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5 were updated disclaimer-wise.)

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Chapter Four: Shopping

"Alrighty then! Since you two don't have cars," Ayame started sticking out her tongue at her two jealous and hurt friends. "I'll pick you both up around 1?"

"Yeah, sounds good," nodded Kagome and Sango.

"Ok! I cannot WAIT til the prom!" squealed Ayame.

"Yep. I'm on the edge of my seat," mumbled Kagome sarcastically.

"Oh come on, Kags. You know your excited! Especially since your going with Inuyasha!" Sango said with a single nod of her head in Kagome's direction.

"Feh. Whatever," Kagome replied and blushed a little.

"See! You just did his little 'feh' just then! We know for a fact that you know that you know that we know you like him!"

Kagome just rolled her eyes and walked in front of her two friends, hands balled into fists. 'What do they know? I do NOT like that jerk!' Kagome's fingers loosened. 'Then why am I blushing?'

"Do we HAVE to go shopping?" Inuyasha groaned.

"Yes, Inuyasha. From my knowledge of women," Miroku started. He barely even noticed that Kouga and Inuyasha scoffed, "they would want to prepare for something like the prom as soon as they could. So they will most likely go to the mall this weekend. And how I look at it, we have to go shopping in case they try on some lingerie."

"Ugh, Miroku! You're such a pervert!" both Kouga and Inuyasha exclaimed.

"Perhaps somewhere such as Victoria's Secret. They have dressing rooms in there, right?" Miroku ignored Kouga and Inuyasha's statement.

"Ok, I'll go shopping," Inuyasha moaned.

Miroku cocked an eyebrow. "I've rubbed off on you, have I, Inuyasha?"

"You wish. That's not the reason I'm going. I just don't have anything to wear…" Inuyasha answered.

Kouga rolled his eyes. "Look, pervert, we're not going to stalk our dates, ok? Like mutt-face here, said. We really don't have anything to wear to this thing.

"Fine. But we should go with the ladies to match our outfits," Miroku put a finger to his chin. "Don't you think?"

"Keh. Whatever. How are we supposed to know when they're going, anyhow? Answer me that, baka."

"I will simply ask lady Sango," Miroku said.

"'I will simpwy ask wady Sango,'" Inuyasha said in a high-pitched mock voice.

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Saturday...

Kagome waited on the step to her front porch, waiting for Ayame to come and pick her up. She glanced at her watch. Just then, a lime green beetle stopped in front of her.

"Ayame! What took you? I was waiting forever!"

"I'm ten minutes early, Kags."

"Oh. Heh."

Ayame smiled. "Ok, well, we gotta go pick up Sango. Come on! Get in!" Kagome opened the door and hopped in the front seat. Ayame popped in a CD and started bobbing her head. Kagome joined in.

They stopped outside Sango's house to see a very common site.

"Ack! Get away from me, you hentai stalker! How'd you find where I lived anyhow!" Sango hit Miroku over the head with her purse.

"School directory. And what do you have in that thing, bricks?" Miroku said rubbing the back of his head.

"No!" Silence. "Rocks…" Sango replied. "Ooh! Ayame! Kagome! I'm so glad you're here!" Sango rushed over to the car. "The perv kept asking me when we're going to the mall! I think he's stalking me," she whispered to her friends as Kagome rolled down he window.

"You didn't tell him we're going now, did you?" Ayame whispered. Miroku overheard this, after all, Ayame's whisper is quite loud compared to anyone else's whisper.

Miroku grinned and pulled out a walkie talkie. "Mission successful. The ladies are headed to the mall right now. Swing by Sango's. I'll be there."

"Ayame! Do you always have to be so loud?" Sango snapped.

"Sorry! I can't help it!" Ayame shrugged and guiltily smiled.

"Shh!" Kagome jerked her head forwards and concentrated. Sango and Ayame too listened, and heard voices from Miroku's walkie talkie.

"Dude! What are you doing at Sango's?" They could hear Inuyasha's voice at the other end.

"I was only interrogating for information, which I received, by the way," replied Miroku with his back to the girls. They shot him death glares. It sounded like he was torturing Sango!

"Whatever. We'll be there in a minute. We're just around the corner of her neighborhood," Kouga said and then a car screeching noise was heard.

"Ahh! Kuso! They're gonna be here so soon! Ayame! Move, move, move!" Sango was already in the backseat, frantically shouting at Ayame to go.

Miroku watched the green vehicle zoom past. "Copy that." Then he snapped his phone shut.

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"Tell me again, Sango, why were you pushing me so hard to get outta there? It's just the guys," Ayame questioned.

"Dunno. Instinct I suppose." They all laughed.

"So why was Miroku at your house?" Kagome asked after the laughter stopped.

"Well…"

-FLASHBACK OF 10 MINUTES AGO-

Sango stepped out of her door and down the steps. "Bye Kohaku!" she shouted back in, "Take care! I left food in the fridge for lunch--

"Bah! What are you doing here!" Miroku had just popped out from behind a bush.

"I just came by to ask when you ladies are going shopping for the prom."

Sango eyed him suspiciously. "Why do you wanna know?"

"So we can match, dear Sango."

"Man, what is the matter with you? What is with the damn nicknames?"

"You don't like it? Then I'll stop. Soo. When are you going to the mall, lovely lady?"

"Ergh. I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU WOULD STOP WITH THE NAMES!" Sango jerked her fist in the air, ready to do some real beating. (But she didn't, of course. Just a threat, just a threat…) Then she lowered her arm.

Miroku pouted. Then he inched closer. And closer. And closer. And…

"Ack! Get away from me, you hentai stalker!"

-END OF FLASHBACK-

matter damn are

"He said he found my address from the school directory," Sango finished.

"Uh, Sango? There is no school directory," Kagome said.

"So he really IS a stalker…" Sango mumbled.

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A station wagon pulled up in front of the Taijiya house with Miroku standing in front.

Miroku opened the back seat and sat behind Kouga who was driving. "Nice ride, Kouga," he remarked sarcastically.

"Hey! Do you want us to go without you, 'cause I could dump you off on some highway if you don't watch the insults!" Kouga snapped back.

"Okay, okay," Miroku said leaning back in his seat. "So, Inuyasha. Where's your car?"

"It's getting fixed up," the hanyou replied.

"Let me guess, another crash?"

"It wasn't my fault! I didn't crash! That guy crashed into me!" Inuyasha said angrily.

"Sure it wasn't your fault," both Kouga and Miroku mocked.

Inuyasha growled and slumped into his seat.

"So did she beat you up before or after you 'interrogated' her?" Kouga asked as he accelerated down the street and out of the neighborhood.

"Who? Oh, you mean Sango? Well, uh, she didn't really beat me up." Miroku tried his best to sound truthful.

"Then that big lump on your head was from the food fight Monday?" Inuyasha commented sardonically.

"No. A few rocks fell on my head… that were in… Sango's… purse."

Kouga and Inuyasha laughed. When the laughter died down, Inuyasha asked, "Hey, how come you talk so military-ish on the 'talkie, Miroku?"

"That was the only time I did that!"

"Psht." The hanyou and wolf youkai rolled their eyes and shook their heads.

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"Ok, so where do you want to go first?" Ayame jumped up and down eagerly.

"I'm kind of hungry. I didn't have lunch yet," Sango said rubbing her growling stomache.

"Ok, we'll just head to the food court then!" Kagome said and nudged her head in the direction of where food was served.

"Alright! So where do you wanna eat?" Ayame skipped up between her two friends. No matter the situation, Ayame was usually in a very jumpy mood.

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The trio of guys walked in the main entrance doors to the mall. It was jam-packed with a bunch of girls getting ready for their prom nights. Miroku drooled, and was headed over to a pretty blonde girl when Kouga pulled him by the arm and pointed at Inuyasha, who was also drooling, but not for the same reason as Miroku. The hanyou had a dazed off look in his eyes, and seemed to be sniffing the air.

"Helloo. Earth to Inuyasha. You okay?" Kouga waved his hand in front of Inuyasha's face, who had seemed to not care.

The two friends decided to follow the half demon out of curiosity to where he was headed. They found themselves standing in the half-circular food court, headed for the shop that had the had the words "RAMEN & SUSHI" at the top.

Miroku put his hand over his eyes and shook his head, while Kouga rolled his eyes.

"I'll take three bowls," Inuyasha said to the man at the Ramen stand, putting up three clawed fingers, and handed him the money. Inuyasha went to a table and sat down to stuff his face with noodles.

Miroku and Kouga sat down in the chairs that were placed at the same table where Inuyasha sat.

"Wha? Dese aren't fur 'ou. Get your own pood!" Inuyasha tried to say whilst finishing his first bowl of Ramen.

"Okaay…" Kouga said and motioned Miroku to get up also. Then the both walked away from the hungry, hungry hanyou. (Hungry, hungry hippos! Haha...)

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"Yeah, so seriously, what do you want to eat?" Ayame asked as she looked around at the many stalls and stands.

"I dunno. I kind of just want a cheeseburger." Kagome glanced over at Wacdonald's.

"Ooh, I could go for a bacon cheeseburger!" Sango told Kagome.

"Hey! I'm a vegiterrian, remember?" Ayame put her hands on her hips. "But since I already had lunch, I guess I could just get a smoothie or something… Oooh, strawberry-kiwi smoothies rock!"

Sango and Kagome exchanged amused grins, as Ayame grabbed their wrists and ran towards the line at Wacdonald's.

"Hey! Watch it punk!" Ayame shouted as she bumped into some guy at the line.

"You watch it lady!" She recognized that voice.

"Kouga?"

"Ayame?"

"Oooh! Hey! Sorry! Didn't mean to! Heh," Ayame said while she scratched the back of her head. "So what are you doing here?"

"Well, Miroku dragged me and mutt-face there," he started, and pointed to Inuyasha at a table, with two empty bowls on each side of the one he was slurping. "to go get stuff for the prom."

"Oh yeah! Right. You guys followed us here," Ayame said nodding.

"What? We d-din't follow you!"

"Hah!" Kouga looked down at his feet. "Well, at least you weren't at our heels or anything... I need to know again, why did you guys want to go at the exact time when we were?" She pointed with her thumb at Sango and Kagome that stood behind her.

"Miroku and his craziness." Kouga shook his head up at the ceiling. "He wants us all to 'match' "

"'Match' as in you and you date match, or you and the guys match?" Sango butted in.

"As in the couples match," Miroku said, overhearing the conversation from following behind Kouga. "Hello, prom date." He smiled at Sango.

"Ergh, we are NOT a couple, and I am not your DATE!" Sango screamed at Miroku, while blushing slightly, but not without whacking him on the head.

Miroku rubbed the second lump on his head. "What was that for?"

"Like I said! We are NOT a couple, and I am NOT your date!" Sango thumped her fist on the top of his head.

"Ow! And what was THAT for?"

"For being so dense!"

Thump.

Sango and Miroku argued some more, while Kouga, Ayame, and Kagome just stood there watching their friends.

"Uh, you guys just wanna go get lunch?" Kouga asked.

"Yeah. We better get something for the Mr. and Mrs. too," Ayame said.

The three backed away slowly to the counter, and ordered four cheeseburgers, one with bacon, and a strawberry-kiwi smoothie.

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They all walked to the table where Inuyasha had obviously gotten three more bowls of Ramen, as there were three empty bowls beside three full ones. They all stared at him.

"What? I was hungry!" Inuyasha defended.

Kouga put down the tray that had Miroku and his food on the table and sat down. Miroku plopped down in his chair, still rubbing the lumps on his head.

Ayame set down her tray, which had Kagome and Sango's burgers, and her smoothie. She was just sipping her smoothie, while Kagome – still wondering how anybody could finish three bowls of hot Ramen in less than ten minutes – ate, and Sango – still overly angry about Miroku's assumption, yet blushing – as well.

When they all finished eating, they decided to go shop together for Miroku's reason, although Inuyasha and Kagome were quite stubborn to agree on it.

They all settled on that they would go for the girls' dresses first, then they guys' tuxes.

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"Okay, girls, we'll all pick out a few dresses and meet in the dressing rooms in about 15 minutes, alright? Ready? Shop!" Sango said in one breath very, very rapidly.

While the guys went over to the chairs sitting near the fitting rooms, the girls headed in three different directions of the 'prom dress area.'

Ayame chose dresses of her favorite colors: bright green, orange, and yellow. They were all two-pieced and had lots of layers.

Sango picked out one-pieced, halter, deep colored dresses, like dark magenta, plum, and sapphire blue.

Kagome lifted a teal halter two-piece - with a several layers of sheer fabric from the waistline down, a strapless pale periwinkle with a slit at the bottom center, and a faded red-maroon one.

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Kagome took the longest to figure out what to choose, so Ayame and Sango came and found her, and waited until she was ready. When Kagome was, they all headed down to where the boys were waiting – or rather, sleeping?

"Don't they look kawaii when they're sleeping?" squealed Ayame.

"Yeah," sighed Sango and Kagome. Just then, Miroku's hand started to twitch. Sango looked disgusted, then angry.

"Stupid pervert," growled Sango as she bashed her fist on top of his head.

After they got the guys to awake, Miroku being the first, they each went through the door in front of their prom dates.

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"Hey guys?" Kagome shouted. She got three groans from the half-sleeping boys. "Not you guys."

"Huh?" Ayame and Sango said in unison.

"Have you picked a dress yet?"

"Yep! Let's come out!" Ayame said.

Three doors slammed open.

"Ready, girls? Pose!" Kagome joked.

The girls all posed in front of their opened doors - revealing the mirrors in the dressing room – so they looked Charlie's Angels –ish. Ayame with her strapless green dress with the ruffled trimming, and Sango with her plum halter with a sheer outer layer of fabric so long it almost covered her toes, and Kagome with her maroongown with ruffled sheer fabric from the knee down, fading from light pink at the top, to deep maroon where the ruffles began. It was strapless, almost like Ayame's except for a thin line of beaded diamond-looking gems that connected to the fabric at her collarbone, and looping around her neck.(A/N: Okay, don't make fun of me. I have to image in my head, I just can't explain it. Gah…)

The guys just gaped.

And gaped.

And –oh, yes- they gaped some more.

"Uh… You guys okay?" Ayame asked, returning poise from her "modeling" pose.

All the guys could do, was gape and think, 'Daaaaaamn…' Miroku tilted his head slightly.

"Ahem!" Sango coughed and whacked Miroku over the head, "And what the hell are you doing?"

The three sitting awakened from their daze and blinked, muttering 'uh's and 'um's like fools.

"Well?" Kagome crossed her arms and tapped her toe, hiding her amusement.

"W-we were just, uh," Inuyasha tried to look around for an explanation, "We were just looking at that no shop-lifting sign over there!" He pointed at a piece of paper taped to the dressing room door he was sitting in front of.

"Sure you were," Sango said derisively.

"Whatever, let's just change back. Hopefully they guys' jaws will be back to normal in two to three hours," said Ayame, jokingly.

Kouga and Inuyasha slumped back into their chairs and crossed their arms, embarrassed that they were caught staring. Miroku just continued to gawk. That hentai…

Sango was a bit scared, so she backed away slowly to her dressing room and closed the door. After several minutes, the girls stepped out of their rooms - Kagome with her dress hanging over her forearm, and Sango and Ayame with theirs over their shoulders – to see a human, a hanyou, and a wolf youkai back to sleep, most likely dreaming of the sight they saw earlier.

The girls rolled their eyes and whacked the boys with their purses over the heads, all in synchronization. (A/N: I like making everyone do everything in sync, okay? It's just funnier that way… -Sniff-)

"Hey! Whadya do that for?" shouted Kouga and Inuyasha.

"Time to go to shop for your tux, sweetie," baby-talked Ayame as she pinched Kouga's cheek. Kagome and Sango let out a small laugh, rolled their eyes, and dragged their 'dates' out to the cash register.

At the caaaaash registerrrrrrr…

"Ugh, what's taking that guy so long?" growled Inuyasha, crossing his arms.

"Inuyasha, be patient. He was here first," snapped Kagome.

He recognized that voice. "Kagome?" He turned around to face her.

"AH! Hojo! I haven't seen you for years!" squealed Kagome.

Sango and Ayame exchanged confused glances.

"Uh, not to ruin this 'moment' or anything, but uh, Kagome? Who is this guy?" Sango tapped Kagome's shoulder.

"Oh! Sorry! Everyone, meet Hojo! He's from my old school before I transferred here!" Kagome started. "Hojo, that's Sango and Ayame. And that's Inuyasha, Miroku, and Kouga."

Everyone but Inuyasha waved a small wave. Inuyasha just let a "Keh."

"Yeah, so what have you been up to, Kagome?" Hojo smiled.

"Oh well uh, I'm gonna be a counselor for this camp," Kagome replied. Hearing this, Inuyasha widened his eyes and glanced over to Kouga - who just shrugged – then to Miroku – who was closing his eyes, mumbling something about bikinis... again.

"Really? Uh, which camp?"

"I think it's called Camp Shikon or something…?"

Inuyasha's eyes widened even more.

"Ooh! So am I!" replied Hojo, nodding. 'Or I will be...'

"Huh, small world…"

"Yuh huh, so uh, Kagome? Do you have a date to the prom yet? I mean, you might be going to your school's though..."

"Oh... Yeah, well, I," Kagome started nervously, "I kinda do already."

"Oh… Okay. Um, who might your date be?" Hojo asked scratching the back of his head, trying to hide his disappointment.

"Um, well – "

"She's going with me," Inuyasha cut in.

Inuyasha looked at Hojo, sizing him up and scoffed. Hojo never was the type to hold someone in contempt, but there might have been a small flash of mild dislike in his eyes just then...

"Eheheheh," Kagome let out, realizing how awkward the situation was.

"Sir? Here's your receipt," the lady at the register said to Hojo.

"Thanks," Hojo replied, "Well then, I'll see you this summer. Nice meeting all of you," He said to Kagome and the gang with a nod of his head.

After the girls paid for their things, they headed towards the men section for the guys' tuxes.

"Do we have to BUY them? Can't we just like, rent 'em?" Inuyasha grumbled.

"Sango, please tell Inuyasha the answer," Kagome told Sango, still mad at Inuyasha from butting into her conversation with her old friend - making it a bit uncomfortable.

"Okaay, and that would be…?" Sango asked.

Kagome lightly elbowed Sango whilst keeping her arms crossed.

Sango mouthed the word 'yah' to Inuyasha, jerking her head towards Kagome, indication that Kags was real mad. Inuyasha looked confused.

Miroku elbowed him in the ribs, pushing him towards Kagome, causing him to bump into her.

Kagome just glared a Inuyasha for a second, then to Miroku that was 'innocently' whistling, then she looked away.

Inuyasha gave Miroku a threatening look, making him hide behind Kouga.

"Kagome?" Inuyasha leaned forward, trying to look at her face, but her bangs covered her eyes.

"What?"

"Are you mad at me?"

She lifted her heads so that her eyes could be seen.

"What do you think! I was just trying to catch up with a friend I haven't seen in years! Why are you going and acting like you're jealous! Just because he asked if I had a date yet? You and I wouldn't even be going together if it hadn't been for your idiocy when it comes to Kikyo!" She stopped them all in their tracks to yell at Inuyasha.

"Well, sorry! You don't need to bite my head off!" Inuyasha responded guiltily.

"Oh, so is that what I do? Bite people's heads off?" Kagome's voice was back to its normal tone now. Well, almost normal.

"Exactly –"

Ayame stepped on his foot.

"- the opposite. Ow, ow, owwww…"

Kagome cocked an eyebrow.

"I said I was sorry!"

"Okay! Well--!" she started angrily, "--then, let's go then!" Kagome skipped happily past a water fountain, with five bewildered friends behind her.

'Damn, her mood can change fast…' Inuyasha thought.

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A/N: Okay! That's chapter four for ya! Much longer that my previous chapters, yes? Review! NOW! Lol… (It really wasn't that long, hm? Oh well...)