Disclaimer: I can't say I own Inuyasha...Can you? Didn't think so.
A/N *Throws confetti in the air and does a happy dance.* Over 100 reviews by my 10th chapter! Woohoo!! Congrats to gansta-girl for being my 100th reviewer! Yay! *Wipes a tear from eye* You guys make me feel so loved! I'm so glad you're all liking it so much and so here's a new chapter for you to enjoy!
Okay, Fiery Love, here's a few answers to your questions. Actually, I'd like to point out to everybody that this chapter starts in the morning of Wednesday. The girls were talking in the first chapter on Thursday, and they drove up in the second chapter on Friday (they either skipped school or had an N.I/P.A day that day, like we're having this year! ^_^). Saturday was spent on their first day skiing and talking to Myouga. Sunday was when Kagome got food poisoning and then was rescued by Inuyasha (aww...) later that night. Monday was their first day skiing together with the boys and ticking the snowboarders off. Then Tuesday was the last three chapters where they all got split up and chased by the snowboarders. Now we are onto Wednesday. Whew... that was long... Anyways, the tournament is happening the next week and I'll tell you why Miroku isn't a racer sometime in the next few chapters.
Lastly, Nazuna isn't from the movie; she appears in the thirteenth episode with the spiderheads; the one where Inuyasha first transforms into a full human under the new moon.
Okay, enough of my babbling; here's the next chapter!
"I'm not going over there!" Kagome protested loudly.
"It was your bet, remember?" Sango asked smugly.
"I don't care about the bet! He didn't even remember it himself yesterday! Besides, Kouga ended up cooking anyway..." Kagome muttered.
"Kagome, you have to go over. You can't just back down," Ayame said.
"I'm not backing down. I'm defying. There's a difference."
"If there is, I'm not seeing it," Sango said, scratching the back of her head in confusion. "Oh, well, c'mon, Ayame. We'll go over and tell the boys how Kagome's gonna be a no-show."
"You sure, Kagome?" Ayame pressed for one last time. "I mean, your refusing is sure to lead to another fight between you and Inuyasha. And, to think, you two were getting along so well together yesterday."
"Ayame, are you trying to imply something? 'Cause if you are, I can think of many ways of making you regret it," Kagome threatened. "And most of them involve a certain someone named Kouga."
"Ah, no, Kagome; I wasn't trying to imply anything. Ready to go, Sango?" Ayame responded hastily.
"See ya on the slopes, Kagome! And be prepared to face a certain something named Inuyasha's wrath!" Sango called as they shut the door on their way out.
Clipping themselves into their skis, Sango and Ayame skied over to the boys condo in record time. Climbing up the stairs to their condo, they knocked on the door. After only a brief moment, the door was opened by Inuyasha, fully dressed and ready for the day. He motioned them in and closed the door behind them. Distantly, they heard the shower running.
"Where's Kagome?" Inuyasha demanded as soon as they had sat down on the couch. "Isn't she supposed to cook my breakfast?"
"Ah, yes, well... see, about that..." Sango started off, trying to think of some way to tell him. Instead, she found a way to delay him. "Well, where's Miroku?"
Inuyasha smirked at her. "Just Miroku? You don't want to know where Kouga is as well?"
"Uh... heh, heh, heh... Where's Miroku AND Kouga?" Sango said, amending her previous question.
Inuyasha shoved his thumb in the direction of the washroom. "Kouga's in the shower and Miroku followed the room service girl after she delivered breakfast for him and Kouga."
Sango's curious expression immediately darkened and she crossed her arms and glared off in another direction. "Pervert..." she muttered.
"Now where's Kagome?" Inuyasha asked again.
"Her Ladyship declines and refuses to come serve His Majesty," Ayame said in a highly dignified voice.
"What?! Refuses?!" Inuyasha burst out. "I go teach her a thing or two... What's your condo number?"
"Uh, 214," Sango responded.
Grabbing his jacket and tightening his already applied ski boots, Inuyasha walked over to the bathroom door. "I'm going out for a minute, Kouga! I'll be right back!" he yelled over the shower's running water. With that, he grabbed his skis and stomped out of the condo slamming the door shut.
Sango and Ayame looked at each other on the couch. "Ummm..." Ayame started. "What are we supposed to do now?"
"I dunno," Sango answered. "Wait 'till he gets back, I suppose..." she trailed off and looked around the fairly spacious room.
After a few minutes of uncomfortable near-silence, the phone rang from the table beside the couch, startling them.
Staring at it, Ayame spoke up, "Ummm... I don't think we should get that..."
As the phone rang a second time, they heard the shower abruptly turn off, followed by some hasty scrambling. A second later, a very wet Kouga, sporting nothing more than a towel around his waist, ran out of the bathroom and to the phone. "Uh, hel-ahhh!" Kouga screeched in the middle of his greeting, finally spotting the two girls sitting on the couch and staring at him wide-eyed. His surprise caused him to jump and almost lose his towel. With a yelp, he recovered it just in time.
Ayame blushed darkly at his wet, nude and muscular upper body and she looked away as if she had seen something she shouldn't have. Sango, on the other hand, saw how Kouga's cheeks were becoming equally red from embarrassment and decided to tease him a little.
"Whoo, you go, Kouga!" she yelled grinning evilly at him.
Desperately trying to ignore her, Kouga once again turned his attention to the phone he was still holding. "Um, uh, h-hello?"
After a brief pause, "M-mother?!"
At this Sango and Ayame both burst out laughing as Kouga tried desperately to silence them while holding the phone in one hand and his towel in the other.
"No, mother," Kouga continued the phone conversation. "That was nothing. I'm here alone. Inuyasha and Miroku are out for the moment.
"N-no! There are no girls in the condo. I'm here all by my lonesome self. It was just the TV."
Sango and Ayame giggled from their place on the couch.
"Mother!!" Kouga suddenly cried in a highly shocked and scandalized voice. "How could you think that?! I told you, there's no girls here! There was no giggling!" To Sango and Ayame, Kouga made a cutting motion across his neck.
This caused Sango and Ayame to laugh even harder and Kouga henceforth to become more frantic. "Um, I think I'll have to call you back, mom. See ya!" he said, shoving the phone down with a click. "What are you guys doing here?!" he burst out as soon as the phone had gone dead.
Between her giggles, Sango managed to get out, "We came to tell Inuyasha that Kagome refused to come cook for him, and he left us here to go 'teach her a thing or two'. Then the phone rang and you-you...you...!"
"That was hilarious!" Ayame gasped. "Absolutely classic!"
As Kouga blushed a darker red, Sango wolf-whistled just for effect. At the exact same moment, however, the door opened and Miroku entered. Seeing Sango cheer a half naked Kouga on, his face assumed a shocked expression.
"Kouga! Are you trying to steal my girl?!"
Sango abruptly stopped halfway through her laugh and turned to glare at the perverted skier. "YOUR girl?!" she demanded. "Where exactly did you get that idea?"
"Uh... eh, heh, heh..." Miroku laughed nervously at the death look she was shooting his way.
"And even if I WERE your girl," Sango continued on, "How do you think you have any right to say that about me after you supposedly ran off after the room service girl?!"
"Dude, is that were you went?" Kouga spoke up.
"As much as we're enjoying the view, Kouga, are you ever going to go put some pants on?" Ayame asked the boy who was still dripping wet in the middle of the room.
"Speak for yourself, Ayame," Miroku muttered. "I don't swing that way. My eyes are only for Sango."
Sango rolled her eyes and scoffed. "And any other pretty girl who happens to cross your path."
"No, no," Miroku said in a rushed voice. "My eyes are only for you, my dear Sango. My hands, on the other hand..."
"Okay, I'm going to go get dressed now," Kouga cut in. "I think I've had enough public embarrassment for one day so, please; no one walk in on me?"
"Don't worry," Sango said, her good mood returning instantly. "You only have to worry about Ayame anyway."
As Ayame smacked Sango upside the head, Kouga ran for his room, his expression indiscernible.
Kagome didn't look up as she heard the door of the condo open and close, assuming Sango and Ayame had returned before heading out on the slopes. Continuing to munch on her cereal, she called out to them.
"Hey, did you tell him? How'd he take it?"
"Let's just say he wasn't too pleased," came a familiar masculine voice, startling Kagome thoroughly.
Looking up, she spotted Inuyasha leaning in the doorway of the kitchen, his arms crossed and glaring at her.
"I-Inuy-yasha...! What're you doing here?" Kagome asked in a surprised voice.
He shrugged. "Fetching you."
"Fetching me?"
"Making you pay up to your end of the bet; the bet that I won, in case you've forgotten," Inuyasha reminded her.
"Oh, come on!" Kagome said, standing up and slightly irritated. "It's not like you remembered yesterday and even when I DID come over, Kouga ended up cooking anyway! What was the point?!"
"It's the principal of the matter," Inuyasha said, walking into the kitchen and sitting down at the kitchen table. "You owe me two breakfasts still; three technically, but I'll let it slide."
"How kind," Kagome said in a mocking tone. Then she sighed in resignation. "What do you want?"
Inuyasha leaned back and put his hands behind his head. "How 'bout some pancakes this morning?"
Kagome gaped at him. "That'll take, like, forever!"
"Then you'd best get to it, eh?" Inuyasha said, relaxing further into his chair.
Stomping and muttering under her breath, Kagome got up from the table and turned towards the stove. "You're so impossible!" she informed him.
After about ten minutes of preparing and starting to cook at a steady pace, Inuyasha cracked one eye open from when he had closed both to relax. "Gods, can you go any slower?!"
"Hey!" Kagome protested. "I never said I was the best cooker in world, okay?! You shoved this bet on me, so you have to deal with any way I choose to carry it out!"
Inuyasha opened up his other eye and stood up. "One," he said, pointing a finger at her, "I didn't shove anything on you. You accepted the bet fair and square. And two, it'll be noon by the time we eat at the rate you're going!"
"Think you could do better?!"
Inuyasha shrugged. "'Course." He went over and picked up the spatula she had placed in preparation of flipping. "Pour away," he said, indicating the pancake mix she held.
After Kagome had carefully poured some of the mix into nice, neat circles and they had sat cooking for a few moments, Inuyasha shoved the spatula underneath them and expertly flipped them so that they would proceed to cook on the other side as well.
Kagome watched him for a minute before narrowing her eyes at him. When Inuyasha felt her heated gaze, he looked up. "What?"
"Why the heck do you need me to cook your breakfasts if you are perfectly capable of doing it yourself, and then some?!"
Inuyasha shrugged for the third time that day. "A few reasons. I wanted to see how good a cook you are; it's nice having someone serve me; and, of course, there's always the laziness factor to consider."
Kagome fumed. "Rrrgh, you're such a jerk!" she yelled, flinging some pancake mix at him.
It hit him square in the forehead and proceeded to roll down his face until it reached his mouth. At this point, he licked some of it off with his tongue. "Hmmm, pretty good," he said slowly and thoughtfully. "Let's see how you like it," he continued, grinning and flinging a larger glob of the mixture at her.
Hitting her in the head and mixing into her hair, Kagome screeched, "Inuyasha!!" as she took a large spoon and scooped a large amount of pancake mix out to chuck at him.
Catching some of it and throwing it back at her, all mayhem broke loose. They soon set up blockades made of the table and chairs and launched the mix back and forth, not really caring if it hit the other or not.
By the time Kagome reached into her bowl for some more ammunition and discovered it empty, she was gasping from exertion and laughter. "Truce!" she called out. "I'm out of ammo."
"Truce," Inuyasha's voice came back to her, equally out of breath.
Both standing up, they walked to the center of the kitchen to shake hands and seal their deal. But as they both grasped each other's hand, they slipped on the pancake mix-lathered floor and fell. Kagome thought for a brief moment she saw a flash, but passed it off as the sun glaring through the window.
Laying on the floor for a moment, Kagome said finally, "I think I'm gonna need another shower."
"Ditto," Inuyasha agreed. Carefully standing up, he offered Kagome a hand which she gladly accepted.
Kagome was about to thank him when she caught sight of the rest of the messy kitchen and her jaw dropped. Inuyasha looked around as well before giving her a lopsided grin.
"Management's not going to like this..."
A/N Yay, 'nother chapter! Oh, I just want to mention that I going to be ridiculously busy this week with dumb school projects and then I'll be skiing straight for four days in a row starting Saturday, so if there's a slight delay in my updating, please don't be mad. I've got an all-day ski practice on Saturday, then the semi-finals race for my local ski team on Sunday. Sunday night, I go off with my school race team to the last level of competition; we'll be staying there until Tuesday night. Guess I'll be spending my birthday (next Monday) skiing on a wicked hill. Not too shabby... ^-^
So don't expect my next chapter right away, but when it does come out, it should be good. Ooooh, I'm so evil... ^_~ Don't worry, it shouldn't be too big of a delay; maybe next Friday, Saturday or Sunday.
Alrighty then, that's all, I hope to hear what you thought of this chapter, and I'll talk to ya later! ^_~