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TiffanyM- Don't worry it's understandable...I think you'll be very satisfied with Kagome in this chapter...
love-is-poison39- Yeah it's by far the craziest fucking scene in the movie...and even though it was so dark it was just too funny!
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CHAPTER CONTAINS FOUL AND EXPLICIT SEXUAL LANGUAGE
OK my lovely readers! I happily bring you the conclusion to CLERKS! Enjoy!
JUXTAPOSITION
Inuyasha was doing some more inventory work behind the counter when Kouga came into the store with Sango following after him. He went to the fridge and took out a few sick-packs of beer.
"Smoking weed, smoking weed! Doing coke! Drinking beers!" Kouga sang and then approached the counter. "I'll take this fine merchandise my good man. It's been a long, hard day at work, but now it's time to kick back, drink some beer and smoke some weed." Kouga declared happily.
"Done corrupting innocents for the day?" Inuyasha said.
"Hell yes! Not really sure what that means though…" Kouga looked up for a second, thinking about it and then continued. "We're gonna head out to a party down town and get drunk, high and hopefully laid.
"Ok, that'll be five hundred yen." Inuyasha said.
Kouga went through his pockets. "Pay the good man." He told Sango, who rolled her eyes and did so. Then Kouga looked to Inuyasha. "You closing soon?"
"About a half hour."
"So we end work around the same time. We should chill together. You get high?"
"I should start…" Inuyasha decided. Considering how awful the day was he could use some good relaxation.
"Wanna party tonight?"
"With you…" He looked Kouga up and down. "I don't think so."
"So you're prejudice against drug dealers then." Kouga said, insulted.
"Nothing personal." Inuyasha admitted.
"So what happened with that old guy?" Kouga asked, having seen the man taken away just an hour or so before.
"He died in the bathroom."
"That's fucked up. I heard he was jerking off."
"I don't know I wasn't there when it happened." Inuyasha said, not wanting to go into it further.
"Probably saw that Kikyo girl. I knew I was ready to beat off when I saw her…" He grinned.
"Don't talk about her like that. She used to be my girlfriend." Inuyasha said, getting protective.
"You went out with her." Kouga eyed Inuyasha in disbelief.
"Yeah and we may even be getting back together."
"Don't you already have a girl?" Kouga asked.
"Kagome."
"Kagome…mmm that girl is hot! And you're gonna dump that fine piece of ass for that Kikyo chick?"
"Maybe." He answered, still unsure of who to pick.
"I don't think it's a good idea man. That Kikyo chick's nice. But I see that Kagome girl doing shit for you all the time. She brings you food, she rubs your back...Didn't I see her change your tire one day?" He recalled.
"I jacked the car up. All she did was loosen the nuts and put the tire on." Inuyasha crossed his arms defensively.
"Oh that's all?" Kouga said sarcastically. "Damn, this girl really goes out of her for for you. You're an asshole."
"Well…she is my girlfriend…" Inuyasha supposed.
"So, all my girlfriends do is steal my weed." Kouga thought for a minute. "My granny used to say: 'what's a good looking plate with nothing on it.'"
"What the hell does that mean?" Inuyasha asked.
"I don't know…she was senile…used to piss herself all the time." Kouga sighed. "I'm out of here. You're pissing me off you fucking asswipe! Come on Silent Sango…let's blow this joint!" And with that Kouga let the store for the night.
Silent Sango stood there and to Inuyasha's surprise began to speak.
"You know, there's a lot of beautiful women in the world, but most of them wont bring you your favorite lunch. They usually just cheat on you. Trust me I do it all the time." She stood there for another minute, staring him straight in the eye and then left.
Inuyasha stood there for a moment, letting in all sink in and realized something.
"She's right. I'm in love with Kagome." Inuyasha smiled. "I love her."
"So that's it. He doesn't love you. He wants to go back to Kikyo." Miroku told Kagome in the video store after a long heart to heart with her.
Kagome looked down, processing it all.
"He told you all of this?" She asked.
"Basically, except for the whole Oedipus Rex Complex prt…that's just my own little theory..." Miroku explained.
"I'm not sure what to say here…" Kagome shook her head, dumbfounded.
"Look don't beat yourself up about this. This is all Inuyasha's fault…he's never been able to get Kikyo out of his system." Miroku sighed. "Look I don't really know how to act in this situation. You want me to leave so can cry or something?"
"I'm not sad." Kagome told him.
"You're not?"
"No I'm furious! I can't believe this! All this time he's been waiting to get the courage to dump me…he can't even do that! He fucking sent his friend to do it for him!"
"Wait…Kagome, Inuyasha never ask me to…" Miroku tried to explain, but Kagome cut him off.
"After all I've done for that asshole! And he wants to be with that slut Kikyo! Fine…I don't care anymore. He can have his slut!" She exclaimed.
"Um…" Miroku started awkwardly. "You think you can give me a lift home tonight?"
Kagome ignored him. "I think I should have a little talk with that stupid asshole…"
She stormed out, slamming the door on the way out.
"Kagome wait!" He called after her, but she was already gone.
"I should be worried about this right? I mean Inuyasha would have done it anyway if he had the guts…I got the ball rolling. I'm just looking out for his best interests. That's what friends are for right? I just did him a huge favor. He'll be grateful wont he?" Miroku reassured himself and went about his own business.
Meanwhile Kagome was already at the store beating up Inuyasha.
"Ow! What was that for?" Inuyasha said holding his knee.
"If you didn't want to see me anymore why didn't you just tell me? Why did you lead me on and see that slut behind my back?" She yelled.
"What are you talking about?" He asked confused.
Kagome kicked him. "You've been talking to Kikyo on the phone for weeks!"
"Only a few times…" Inuyasha fibbed.
"And you're the asshole who starts freaking out because I've gone down on a couple of guys…"
"A couple?" Inuyasha scoffed.
"At least I wasn't talking to some slutty ex-girlfriend and sneaking behind your back! And if you think thirty-seven is a lot well your wrong mister because I'll be breaking that record soon enough with all the guys I'll be going down on now that I'm single again you cheating, lying bastard!" She seethed.
"Kagome…just let me explain." Inuyasha tried to interject, but couldn't.
"Explain what? How were waiting for the perfect time to dump be so you could go back to her?" She replied bitterly.
Inuyasha stood up and took her hands. "Look, you have to believe me, it's not like that. Not anymore…I realized something…"
Kagome angrily kicked him again in the knee sending Inuyasha to the floor, crying out in pain.
"You're damn right, but only because I won't let it be like that. You want your slut Kikyo? Fine! You have my blessing." She glared at him.
"I don't want Kikyo…I want you Kagome." Inuyasha pleaded.
"You don't know what you want! Inuyasha I can't just sit here and hold your hand while you finally decide. I've tried to hard, but I'm tired of it. All I've done was encourage you to get off your ass and go back to school and get a better life so you can take charge of your fucking pathetic life and find direction. I even transferred schools so maybe if you were interested I would at least be with you to help you out. Everyone told me it was a bad idea, that you were bad new, but I loved you and wanted to help you get out of this awful funk you fell into when that bitch dumped you oh so many years ago. And you really want to go back to her so you can get more of that?" Kagome asked him bluntly.
"I don't want to go back to her…" Inuyasha exclaimed.
"Of course not. Not now that you've been caught. You're just trying to get out of what you were really planning. Well I won't let you Inuyasha. I want to see you follow through on this and go back to that whore. And when she dumps you, no if, when because it's so obvious to everyone, but you I want to be there and when you see me you'll realize you made the worst fucking mistake of your life." She exhaled and grabbed her purse. "I guess I'm lucky that Miroku had the balls to tell me all about this. To think I was so fucking blind to all of this shit!"
"Miroku?" He said weakly.
"And having him break up with me for you…I never knew how low and spineless you were…now I finally know the truth!" She grabbed her purse and left the store.
"Kagome…I LOVE YOU!" He called out to her.
"FUCK YOU!" She called back.
And then she was gone.
CATHARSIS
After closing the video store Miroku went to go check on Inuyasha. He peeked inside the store and looked around.
"Inuyasha?" He asked, getting a strange feeling.
Suddenly two hands clasped around Miroku's throat and yanked him down to the floor. Miroku looked up and saw it was Inuyasha choking him to the ground. In self-defense Miroku threw his fists into Inuyasha's midriff, throwing him back into the magazine rack. Miroku then jumped to his feet as Inuyasha charged at him again. Miroku tumbled into the cakes as the products scattered beneath and around him. He grabbed a pound cake from the floor and hit Inuyasha in the head with it, using the opportunity to scurry down the middle aisle. Inuyasha leapt to his feet, and Miroku then grabbed the shelves, knocking aspirin over until he shrieked and sprayed something in Inuyasha's face. Inuyasha pawed at his eyes and then Miroku came at him with Italian bread and smacked it into Inuyasha's face as he rushed toward Miroku blindly.
The two continued to fight and proceeded to completely mess up the store.
A few minutes later the two men emerged out of breath. Miroku leaned against a candy rack and Inuyasha stayed down, lying on the floor. All around them was messes of food and damaged goods.
"How's your eye?" Miroku broke the silence.
"It's ok." Inuyasha told him reluctantly. "Just really red. It'll probably swell up too. Uh…how's your neck Miroku?"
"It's hard to swallow." He said weakly. "You didn't have to choke me…"
"Why the fuck did you tell Kagome about Kikyo?" Inuyasha shot back.
"I was helping you out."
"Thanks." Inuyasha said bitterly.
"You were telling me how difficult it was for you to change, so I decided to get the ball rolling for you…"
"Shit."
"You still didn't have to choke me." Miroku frowned.
"You're lucky I didn't succeed in killing you." Inuyasha said, peeling off a piece of pound cake from his cheek.
"Why would you say that?"
"Forget it." Inuyasha sighed.
"What? Was I really so wrong in what I did?" Miroku pushed.
"Yes. Miroku sometimes it seems like your job isn't working at that video store, but instead making my life miserable."
"How can you say that?" He exclaimed, taken aback.
"You came to work an hour late and then all you do is come over here…"
"To talk to you." Miroku excused himself.
"Which means the video store is always closed…" He countered.
"It's not like I'm miles away or anything…" He pouted.
"Unless you're at the other video store…"
"Chicks with dicks Inuyasha! I got it for us to watch together and have a laugh!" He replied innocently.
"You got me slapped with a fine, I have to fix everything when you start fighting with my customers, you got us kicked out of a funeral and to top it off you ruined my relationship with the perfect girl. What's next? Are you going to anally rape my mother while pouring sugar into my gas tank?" He seethed.
Miroku looked down.
"And the worst part?" Inuyasha continued. "I'm not even supposed to be here today…"
Miroku looked back up, suddenly outraged.
"Fuck you. Fuck you pal! Listen to you trying to pass the blame again. I'm the source of all your misery. Who closed the store to play hockey? Who closed the store to attend a wake? Who tried to win back an ex-girlfriend without even discussing how he felt with his present one? You wanna blame somebody, blame yourself."
Now it was Inuyasha's turn to look down. Miroku continued.
"I'm not even supposed to be here today…" Miroku mocked Inuyasha's words. You sound like an asshole. Whose choice was it to be here today? Nobody twisted your arm. You're here today of your own violation, my friend. But you'd like to believe that the weight of the world rests on your shoulders-that the store would crumble if Dante wasn't here. Well, I got news for you, jerk: This store would survive without you and without me too. All you do is overcompensate for having what's basically a monkey's job: You push fucking buttons. Any moron can waltz in here and do our jobs, but you're obsessed with making it seem so much more fucking important so much more epic than it really is. You work in a convenience store, Dante. And badly, I might add. And I work in a shitty video store. Badly, as well."
Inuyasha looked up at him, letting it sink in, but Miroku wasn't finished.
"You know, that guy Jay's got it right-he has no delusions about what he does. Us? We like to make ourselves seem so much better than the people that come in here, just looking to pick up a paper or-God forbid-cigarettes. We look down on them, as it we're so advanced. Well, if we're so fucking advanced, then what are we doing working here?" Miroku stood up, kicked over the candy rack and stormed out.
Inuyasha sat there for a while and contemplated Miroku's brutal, but true words.
DENOUEMENT
After their big fight Inuyasha and Miroku silently began fixing up the store. When they were finished Inuyasha walked Miroku to the door.
"Well the floor looks pretty clean." Miroku observed. "I hid some of the broken crap next door…"
"You need a ride?" Inuyasha asked.
"No I got one, I think she's here already." He said looking out the door.
"Ok, you'll be at work tomorrow?" Inuyasha asked.
"Same time." Miroku nodded and smiled. "What about you?"
"I'm gonna take a sick day. I'm gonna visit Kikyo in the hospital, just to check on her and let her know that I don't think it'll happen between us. Then I'm gonna go to Kagome and try to work it out with her, if she'll even speak to me…" Inuyasha lamented.
"Wanna go grab a ride to eat when you finish that and I get off from work?" Miroku asked hopefully.
"Yeah. Sounds good I'll give you a call tomorrow." Inuyasha smiled.
"Well I gotta go…you want me to talk to Kagome too? Maybe if I explain myself…" Miroku started, but Inuyasha interrupted him.
"No…I think it's best if I just talk to her. The two us have a lot of shit to work out."
"Well it's been a helluva day…" Miroku laughed solemnly.
"It really has." Inuyasha agreed.
"Why don't you do one of your little dances out of the door for me?" Inuyasha grinned.
"No…" Miroku shook his head.
"Come on." Inuyasha challenged and began singing a random tune he remembered Silent Sango's strange little brother singing. "Here goes Miroku, here he goes…he's a berserker…na na na…" Miroku grinned and snapped his fingers as he wrangled out the door.
Inuyasha shook his head and laughed again when Miroku threw his car keys to him.
"You closed." Miroku stated.
And feeling positive that his life may finally be back on track Inuyasha happily closed the store.
Yay! It's over! I hope you enjoyed!
Well to all of you readers I'm still finishing up my story, Wonder What Happened, but after that's done, hopefully by tomorrow I'm taking a year long break as I'm studying abroad. Don't worry though. I'm not gonna be too gone, I'll be lurking and reading. Maybe if I have a chance I'll write a random one shot. Anyway it's been swell!
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