Disclaimer: Me no own Inuyasha. Me only dream about kissing the cute perrito's hermano grande.

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Chapter 5: Seeing in Red and White

"Alright, Inuyasha, what'll it be?" Kagome stepped back from the kitchen shelves and looked at him, waving some products in her hands. "I have some I can't believe it's not kibble, some fat-free dog chewies, one of those bones you like, and this thing that's been in here since forever that you've never even tasted. So, what are you going to eat for breakfast today, boy?"

Inuyasha had looked well at the objects while Kagome would point to them, but instead of answering her back, he turned his face to the right with a bark and eyes closed, seemingly uninterested in any of those things.

Kagome sighed. She knew she wouldn't win this one. Not when they were already late to go to the university and finish up on some things she needed to tend to. She'd have to give in, because hauling a hungry dog with you just isn't a good idea. She'd tried it before, and it had left her some strange looks from strangers whenever Inuyasha would whine and do his usual embarrassing stunts to get attention. Let's just say that somewhere a very deranged cat was not feeling too well, either.

Putting the things down she replied tiresome, "You wouldn't want more ramen now, would you?"

Inuyasha instantly jumped up, tongue out, and barked with joy. His cute little scruffy tail wagged like crazy.

Kagome sighed again. Honestly, he'd eaten all the ramen in the house. Besides, she still wasn't sure she should even give him things like that. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and heating the thing up would take just a few minutes.

Inuyasha walked to the living room that was just a few paw prints away, and just as Kagome was getting the food ready, Rin walked out to the kitchen with just a sleeveless, short, yellow shirt on and her pink underwear, her lord following her just a few feet away from behind.

"Kagome, it's too early! Come on, it's a Saturday! Let's go to the park or something." Fluffy recognized the word 'park' and secretly hoped they would go there. He just loved to walk. And walk. Then walk some more for no apparent reason whatsoever.

"Rin, you-know-who called me last night to say that a package had arrived for me at the office. You know how much I've been waiting for that thing I had ordered for, so there's no way I'm not going to go to the university to check it out. What if it's what I've been waiting for, huh? We could make history with those things!"

Rin sighed. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I know how much you've been waiting for some clothes to arrive from the mail, but seriously, we could be at the movies or something! Koga's still hitting on you, you know." Rin then made a smooching sound with her lips. "…And I just know he's dying for some action, Kags!" Once Inuyasha's hearing picked that up, he growled. Sesshomaru just ignored him.

Kagome kept heating the ramen. "Yeah. Hojo too. Can't they get the picture that I really don't want to go out with them for once? Sheesh."

"Oh, come on! I know Koga's a little…persistent…but Hojo's ok, right?"

Kagome didn't want to admit the real reason why she didn't want to go out with them. She was…confused. About what or why, though, she still didn't know. She felt like having a man in her life, but something inside her kept saying that the right one hadn't come along yet.

"Rin, just puts some pants on already, ok?"

Rin put a hand on her waist. "Uh-huh. Go ahead and change the subject. I'm not puttin' nothin' on until you answer me."

Kagome looked at her. "Then I guess you'll be leaving like this then, won't you?" She turned back to her ramen. "…Besides, Inuyasha's infected with Miroku's 'peeping Tom' disease. He's eyeing you right now."

Rin looked over at the hound, who hadn't taken his sight from her legs and behind for a while now. The face he had on would've meant I only wish that Kagome were dressed like that!

Sesshomaru, who looked toward the mutt, showed his teeth, reminding the other dog of his territory. Rin looked at them both from the corner of her eye. It was kinda funny.

Not long after there was a knock at the door. "I'll get it! Rin half jogged over and opened the door to find none other than her floor neighbor. "Oh, hi Sango! Good morning!"

Kagome chided back, "Hey! Haven't I told you to ask who it is before you open the door!"

"Hey Rin, hey Kagome, "chuckled Sango, her mysterious two-tailed cat following with a meow from between her feet.

"Well, don't just stand there, come in!" Rin gestured the two inside when…

"Hey there! What up, ladies!" A purple-shirted young man popped his head from the passage way, grinning from ear to ear.

Rin was startled. "Oh, uh…Miroku… what a pleasant surprise… heh heh."

That's when the man noticed that Rin was wearing practically nothing on and laughed a little and a drop of drool was starting to form under his bottom lip. Sango had noticed Rin but hadn't realized that her stupid boyfriend would appear in that same moment. She growled at his pervert ness, marched loudly towards the so-called munk-in-training, slapped him on the right cheek, and shut the door in his face with the strength and stature of a woman from the Amazons.

Rin sweat dropped. Ouch. That was harsh.

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"Oh, come on now, guys, aren't you going to talk to me, please? We've left the house over an hour ago!" Miroku, who, by a miracle, was let in the same car as the three women, two dogs, a cat, and a hitch-hiking flea, was still pouting about nobody talking to him. The roommate's neighbors had been invited along for the ride.

"Oh, did I just hear something, or was it the radio, Kagome?"

Kagome answered from behind the staring wheel. "No, it's not the radio…actually, it's off. But I can turn it on if you want, Sango." Sango replied yes and Rin, in the passenger seat, found a tune they liked and kept it there.

Miroku, who sat in the back row with Inuyasha to his left and his brother to his right, sighed for the umpteenth time. Turning to look at the floor, he asked, "Why is it that I can never have good luck when it comes to women?" Inuyasha shrugged like a dog would while letting a small bark as if saying I don't know.

Kilala mewed from her owner's lap between the two roommates and Rin suddenly remembered something. "Oh! And one more thing…we're not supposed to bring animals inside with us to where Kagome's going, so we have to keep a low profile." Kilala mewed again and Rin turned to look at Sesshomaru, who was sitting behind her and looking out the window, since nothing else in the car was interesting. The fact that his brother was beside him could make him puke at any time, so he was in no rush at looking somewhere else, anyways.

"Hey Fluffy, you alright back there?"

Sesshomaru's eyes widened, but instead of looking at her as he always did, he turned his face even farther away from the front seats and almost looking to the back of the car. Inuyasha knew just how much his brother hated to be called that name and chuckled a bit, receiving a kick in the lower region from the demon-formerly-known-as-lord-fluffy-sama.

Inuyasha whined and started a fight between the lord, whereas Miroku tried to duck from them both, but soon after got caught in the dog fight. All three girls up front sighed and replied as if one mind, "Men," Kilala finishing up with a 'meow'.

In the streets, between all the normal, strait-lined traffic there could be seen Kagome's little car zig-zagging its way from lane to lane, a rather strange dusk cloud emanating from the back seats.

When she had had enough of the scratching, biting, and hollering (all coming mostly from Miroku's yelps for help), Kagome screamed while closing her eyes shut and a vein popping from her head. "Hey! You guys better stop that horse playin' back there, or I'm turning this car around!" Since the boy's racket never seemed to calm down, Kagome chimed in again, this time, in her really angry voice.

"Inuyasha! I said, sit boy!" Just as his name was called, the mutt had stopped wide-eyed and mid-way of scratching the seat cushion, his right leg still caught inside Sesshomaru's jaw and his tail choking Miroku to death. But after the sit command, his collar shown a bright light and before you knew it, the whacky car that every other driver was trying to avoid in the streets was no longer a menace; it stopped working.

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"Phew! We've finally made it!" Rin said, after what seemed like hours walking from their broken-down car towards Kagome's headquarters. The gang was walking almost in a single file line, all completely exhausted. They were too far away from home, and the university could be reached on foot from where their car had stopped working, but it was not as far as they had thought it would be.

"You don't have to keep rubbing it in!" screamed back Kagome, who's anger didn't mix too well with the mid-day sun. "How should I know that Inuyasha would trash the car!" She turned to look at him, who was way in the back of the group, hoping that that was a safe enough distance away from his lunatic owner. Seeking to calm down, Kagome tried her usual way of relaxing: "It's all you fault! Sit boy!"

Sadly enough, Inuyasha went down again. Miroku sweat dropped and silently praised the heavens above for making him a human male.

Rin butted in, "Kagome! Stop that! Don't you want to see if your package arrived yet!"

Kagome then remembered why all of them were there in the first place and a jolt of energy ran through her body, the girl leaving dead in her tracks a group of awe struck travelers, marveling at her speed. "Well, I guess that worked…better than I thought, actually…" The plan was to make Kagome leave Inuyasha alone, and she did. Rin started speeding up. "Hey, Kagome, wait for me!" while running, she looked back and screamed between breaths, "Come on, Sesshy! Hurry up!"

The dog obeyed and moved a little faster, Sango following tiredly after them, followed by Miroku with his arm stretched out at Sango, "Hey! Wait up!"

Inuyasha followed up a minute later, after finally being able to get up with the help of Myoga, who was biting his ear to make him move.

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"Whoa! That was refreshing!" Kagome whipped her mouth and passed the water bottle over to Rin.

The rest of the group had refreshed themselves as well once they had arrived at the University grounds, and were now inside Kagome's building. Kagome then started to fill in some papers before she could get permission to go in to the 'restricted' area of the facility, and later started leading her friends through a large hallway.

"You know Kagome; you've been waiting for this for so long. What if this isn't it?" Rin looked at her friend with doubt.

"Oh, this just has to be it! I told my colleagues to call me only on emergencies, and this was the only one I wrote on the list. For their sakes, Rin, this has to be what I'm looking for."

"Excuse me, but what exactly is it that you're so anxious about, Kagome?" asked Sango, while stroking Kilala's forehead gently.

Kagome stopped dead in her tracks, turned around with a swift movement of her feet, clasped her hands together, and came closer to Sango than anyone had ever been before- even Miroku. Sango almost fell back from the surprise and Kagome continued her over-excited motions with an inhuman laugh.

"Clothes!"

Sango sweat dropped. All of this for 'clothes'? "Kagome, I'm into shopping just as much as you are, but don't you think that this--"

"No! Not just any regular vestimenta…"

Rin rolled her eyes. Oh great. Now she practices her Spanish.

"…but the most precious pair of garment any history-lover could ever wish for! It's centuries old and miraculously still untouched since the day it was made!" Her friends sometimes forgot just how much of a history freak she was.

Miroku's mind ringed in a question. "But if it's been untouched since who knows when, How did it come to get inside the mailing system, I wonder…"

Kagome looked at him with fiery eyes, making a very purple-loving monk-in-training hide behind Inuyasha on the floor.

"Argh! You know what I mean! Besides, this is priceless stuff we're dealing with! You guys are about to witness 500-hundred year-old--"

Before she could finish her vivid speech, Sesshomaru suddenly barked, a rare feat for him to do so for no apparent reason, and was last seen running like the wind towards a door further down the hallway.

Not a second later something similar had happened to Inuyasha as well, for he too was running like mad after the lord.

The humans and kitty looked at them flabbergasted, until Kagome realized, "Wait! They can't run in here! There's a whole bunch of irreplaceable valuables in here!"

Rin put her hands on her hips. So now she understands what I mean by, 'don't bring the dogs in here'? But nooo; no one listens to Rin. Rin is wrong. Rin is too young. Rin is…

"Yikes! And they're headed towards my office!" Kagome flew down the hallway, followed closely by a still very tired couple.

Rin blinked. Rin is going to be left behind if she stays talking to herself like this.

Before she started to run as well, she slapped herself on the cheek. Why is Rin still talking to herself? And more importantly, why is Rin referring to herself in the third person!

Trying to shake off her unusual family heritage, she darted off.

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Kagome had finally arrived at her office door and found out that it had been forced opened, some claw marks and bite marks on the door a visible evidence of the culprits who had let themselves in. Fearing the worst, she made her way inside without further hesitation, and what she saw almost made her faint.

There were remains of what seemed to be a big, hard-wood box in the middle of the room, bits of straw scattered all over the floor. Kagome's eyes thinned with horror, but nothing could prepare her for what she saw next.

Each dog was prodding with his nose something colorful on the ground, their tails wagging like crazy.

"Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, no! Bad dogs, bad dogs!" Kagome's shrieks startled the canines, who had yet to notice her presence fully in the room. As they looked up from where they stood, Sesshomaru's eyes shown with such light, like something Kagome had ever seen in him. It was as if he was…happy…or something like that. Inuyasha, however, had gone from pure joy reflected in his face to an innocent looking one. The fact the a 'sit' command was in his near future had yet to dawn on him, but what he felt somewhat sorry for was the fact that Kagome was disappointed in him, and though it was rare, he knew he didn't like that feeling it gave him.

The eyes of the three stayed glued to each other's own pair, giving enough time for the rest of the gang to witness the massacre of Kagome's dreams, shattered on the floor like two hopeless bunnies that were mercilessly killed by these two, ferocious, mad dogs.

The couple gasped, Kilala meowed, and when it was Rin's turn to react, she was left speechless.

How could her fluffy-kins do such a thing! She then knew that her life as a dog owner was over. Kagome could forgive a lot of things, but this was her dream. Her work had been her life. The feudal era's history hadn't been one of her majors for nothing, and now…

Rin walked over to the mess to see how much damage had been done. Fearing the worst, and still not strong enough to look at Kagome who had been staring at the floor for some time now, bangs obscuring her eyes, she walked over to where her dog was, surrounded by many unusual objects and picked up what looked like the most odd-looking 500-year-old wearing accessory thing with her hand and stood up to examine it. Sesshomaru barked softly after she did so and followed her with his sight as she held a long, fluffy, and white fur-scarf-look-alike.

Rin examined it well and before she knew it, she was smiling. Quickly she looked all around the floor, which made her smile even broader. "Hey, Kagome, I don't think anything got ruined. Look!"

Kagome looked up slowly, Inuyasha's 'sit' not said because of her shock. What she saw made her gasp. "What?…but…but…I…" she walked slowly over to Rin, both dogs not moving an inch and just following her with their eyes.

Rin handed Kagome the weird object, and stood back to let her friend catch her breath.

After a few seconds of pure bewilderment, Kagome spoke up. "But this is…this is…"

"Lord Sesshomaru's boa! Yes! That's it! It's Lord Sesshomaru's pelt! Haha! By golly, I did it! I've finally found it! This is a dream come true!" Myoga started jumping up and down from between Inuyasha's fur, yelling loud enough to scream his little heart out in content, and yet, soft enough that no human heard him. Kilala and the boys did, but they were fine with the flea; the cat had found out about him weeks ago, and never seemed bugged by his presence. (Get it, bugged? Bugged? Aw pewee.)

"A woman's scarf of some kind?" Sango finally concluded, making Myoga fall down, anime style.

"Yes! That must be it!" cried Rin, excited that the dogs hadn't ruined Kagome's things. "And look at the rest of 'em, Kags!"

Kagome was baffled because she was told to expect male possessions, though how this thing that looked like it came from a movie star's neck come to be in there was a mystery to her. Looking down at the floor she gasped again; it seemed that the boys really hadn't ruined the garments after all!

Looking to her left she saw a bit of what seemed to be like black armor of some sort and a silken, white cloth with beautiful designs of red and white patterns of flowers on them; kneeling to her left was a beautiful red kimono, along with the white garment that goes underneath. Almost afraid to pick it up, for what was here was years of hard work, studying, and endless nights of no sleep to be able to find and acquire real, Feudal Era evidence,- and it was all here, just inches away from her grasp!

This was her dream, to find something that only legends could talk about, and she finally did it! She finally got a hold for her professional (but still on a personal level) dream of having real-life history pieces! The joy! The beautiful pattern and workmanships! The wonderful smell! The priceless material! The wet and sticky...hey!

Kagome made a disgusted face when she had touched a slick of slob on one of the sleeves of the red kimono. Looking at Inuyasha, the owner of the slob, she was just too happy to punish him for getting her things wet, especially with the look of shame in his eyes. Of course, sometimes he did it to escape a terrible chiding, but this time Kagome knew that he meant it.

Inuyasha was glad, too, to have found his long-lost wear, but was saddened at how his actions had made Kagome feel. Now that she was ok with it, he decided to get an opportunity at his belongings again when she wasn't looking. The same thing went for Sesshomaru. Even though the dog's recollection of why in fact they were so drawn to their cloths had yet to dawn on them, something inside them told them that it had something to do with their beings.

Myoga hit himself on the head. He couldn't believe how he could forget Kagome's history obsession! If he would have remembered that sooner, he could have gotten possession of the boy's clothes even faster probably. But no need for that now; Kagome had saved him the trouble of finding the last ingredient for the transformation spell to work, and he couldn't be happier. Now all he needed was to get his miniscule hands on them before the kimonos could escape his grasp again.

Rin laughed and was slowly joined by Kagome and a still confused Sango and Miroku. She was glad that Kagome had finally received the fruit of her work and that their dogs hadn't ruined them either.

Picking up the red Kimono Kagome had in her hands to see it herself, she then was caught in a sneezing frenzy and immediately dropped the fabric on the floor. Falling to the floor and gripping her sides with her now burning hands, Kagome tended to her friend in worry to see what was the matter.

It was then that Myoga put two and two together and realized that Inuyasha's kimono was made from the fur of the fire rat and that Rin was allergic to rats. Hoping the girls wouldn't do away with the kimonos, he prayed that neither of them would notice what was going on.

After a while, Rin reassured Kagome that she was fine, that maybe she had sneezed because of some dust from the boxes, and tried to calm her friend down, not wanting to ruin the day that she had been waiting to happen for so long. She hid her hands from everyone's view and figured she would deal with that later. But she couldn't fool Sesshomaru, who kept guard if anything else would happen to her.

The gang got a ride with one of Kagome's studying companions and brought the things from the boxes with them to her apartment, all the while Rin stayed clear of them just in case that they were the cause of her allergies.

To try and get on the girl's good side, Miroku stayed behind to make sure that Kagome's car would get towed and get fixed. Kilala offered him her company.

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And this one goes out to all those unlucky boyfriends like Miroku out there! Hope you guys liked it, and stay tuned for the next chappie! If you know what's good for you, you will!

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