It being a weekend, Kagome allowed Eri and Yumi to convince her to go out. Yes, she would feel horrible in the morning. Yes, InuYasha wouldn't care for the excuse. Was she going to tell her friends 'Ohhh, so sorry, I really wish I could go out with you guys, but the thing is, I have a grumpy hanyou waiting to drag me five hundred years into the past tomorrow morning.'?
No. I don't think so.
So, they dragged her to a club.
"It's insanely cool." Yumi said.
"Yeah," Eri agreed. "There's no one in there older then their late twenties."
When they got to the club, it was already packed. Eri, using a maneuver that would make a contortionist proud, managed to grab them seats at the bar. "Gimme a Zombie, please." she told the bartender.
"Sex on the Beach for me." Yumi said, with a flirtatious wink at the unfortunate man.
"Just a beer." Kagome ordered.
When the bartender went to go get their drinks, Kagome surveyed the club.
Eri had been right. The entire place was filled with teenagers and people in their twenties. The dance floor was absolutely impossible to get on to, even if you had Eri's magic contortionist powers. All the tables were full.
And then, Kagome felt that same chill she's had earlier that day. Her eyes were drawn to a table of people- young, perhaps sixteen through eighteen.
There was a tall girl, with reddish-brown hair pooled around the seat of her booth. She looked gentle, and she reminded Kagome of Jinenji, somehow.
A slender, slight boy, with a shaggy mane of honey-brown hair hanging into his black eyes.
Another girl, giving off a cat-like aura, her silvery-blonde hair in a braid, two strands left free to frame her icy blue eyes, had her boots propped up on the table.
And the one who had drawn Kagome's attention.
The girl looked just like Koga.
If Koga had been a woman, this is what he would look like.
"Who're they?" Kagome asked, just as the bartender brought their drinks.
"Oh. Them." Eri said.
"They're always there. I think they're in some sort of gang." Yumi sniffed disdainfully.
The bartender, overhearing, chuckled. "You mean the Wolf Pack?" he asked. "They are a gang, darling. Rilly, in the middle, is the leader. She knows the owner, so that's why they hang out here." He walked off to get someone else a drink.
And even though the music was blasting, even though they hadn't been talking all that loud, and even though she was on the far side of the club, Rilly was staring at them, almost as if she had heard.
She only looked away when a boy tapped her shoulder. He wore a black leather jacket, had three eyebrow piercing, and a lip ring. Whatever he had said to Rilly obviously made her angry. She spoke a few words out loud, and the braided, cat-like girl swung her feet off the table and stood. The braided female snapped her fingers as she walked out the door, and a handful of boys, dressed like the first, fell into place behind her.
Kagome turned to Eri and Yumi. "Uh, I don't feel too good." she told them. "I'm going to walk home."
"Do you want us to come with you?" Eri asked, concerned.
"Nah. It's not that far. I'll be fine." Kagome reassured her friend, as she shrugged into her jacket.
As she walked from the bar, to the door, she felt eyes on her. Glancing up, she saw Rilly scrutinizing her. The other girl at the table was looking at her, as well, and several people at different tables were darting glances at her.