Chapter 4 – Party
"I'm not so sure about this!" Kagome moaned, clutching onto the side of the car door.
Sango rolled her eyes. "Relax, Kagome. It'll be fine."
"I'm not talking about the party! Although I think that's still a bad idea!"
Sango frowned, puzzled. "What are you talking about then?"
"Letting you drive me!"
Sango rolled her eyes. Turning to her friend, she put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Relax, Kagome. I can drive, you know."
"Keep your eyes on the road! Both hands on the wheel!"
Sango shrieked, and jerked the steering wheel. "Stop distracting me!"
"What the hell are you talking about?! I was just commenting on your very doubtable driving skills!"
"Hey! I passed just fine, thank you!"
"How did you learn?! In an assault vehicle?!"
Sango became uncomfortable. "Something like that…"
"PULL OVER THIS SECOND!!!"
"No! This is my car!"
"YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL ME!"
"I AM NOT!"
"HELP!!!" Kagome pounded on the door. "LET ME OUT! I WANT TO LIVE!"
"YOU DIDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ME DRIVING THE OTHER AFTERNOON!"
"I WAS TOO BUSY BEING PISSED AT YOU TO NOTICE THE SPEEDOMETER!"
"SO GO BACK TO BEING PISSED! YOU ARE NOT GETTING OUT OF GOING TO THE PARTY!"
"I'M NOT THINKING ABOUT THE PARTY! IT HASN'T EVEN CROSSED MY MIND! BUT WHAT HAS CROSSED IT, RE-CROSSED, DONE A COUPLE OF BACKFLIPS AND DANCED AN IRISH JIG ACROSS IT IS YOUR MURDEROUS TENDENCIES!"
Sango just rolled her eyes, and waited for her friend to calm down.
Five minutes later…
"Err, called me old-fashioned, but isn't it traditional to stop for red lights?"
"Shit!" Sango yelled, slamming her foot on the breaks.
Kagome massaged her temples. "Are we nearly there yet?"
"Of course!" said Sango breezily. She glanced out of the window. "Err… where are we?"
"Somewhere in the country?"
"Anywhere in particular?"
"Err… oh God. Tell me we're not lost."
"Not… lost lost lost. Just… lost."
"You have been to Inuyasha's house before, right?"
"Yes… but…"
"But what?"
"Miroku normally drives me."
"SO WHY DIDN'T YOU LET HIM DRIVE TONIGHT??"
"ALRIGHT!! I WAS TRYING TO SNEAK YOU IN!! MIROKU WOULD HAVE TOLD INUYASHA!!"
"AS OPPOSED TO NOW, WHERE WE HAVE TO WANDER AROUND FOR THE NEXT MILLION YEARS TRYING TO FIND OUR WAY BACK!!"
"STOP BEING SO MELODRAMATIC!"
"NO!"
Sango took a deep breath and counted backwards from ten. "We're gonna have to ask them to come and get us."
Kagome groaned. "Great. Nice way of sneaking me in."
"Shut up and be quiet."
Kagome held her breath as Sango hit the speed dial. "Miroku. Hi. How's it going over there? Yeah, I know I'm late. Listen, I need a favour. Well, not exactly. NO, YOU PERVERT!!! I'm lost. I need you to come and get me."She bit her lip. "I don't know. There's no signs. I don't recognise it. No, no lake. Err… lots of trees. Just by a forest, I think? No, don't send Inuyasha. Send Koga. I can't tell you why. ESPECIALLY NOT IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO OFFER! SHUT UP AND SEND US SOME HELP!"
She slammed the phone shut, fuming. Kagome cleared her throat. "Er, Sango? You referred to us in the plural near the end there. But…" Kagome shrank back as Sango turned her devil eyes on her. "But that doesn't matter."
Ten minutes later…
"It's cold out here," Kagome moaned, rubbing her arms.
"So turn on the heating," Sango said, rolling her eyes.
"I'd love to, but the car's not on, ergo, the heating doesn't work."
"So turn the car on."
"You have the keys."
"That's right. And I'm not going to turn on the car because it wastes petrol, which costs a bloody fortune."
"So…"
"So concentrate on warming yourself up."
Kagome blew a raspberry and ruffled up Sango's hair.
Sango GASPED, and her hands flew to her head. "You DID NOT just do what I think you did!"
Kagome smirked. "So what if I did?"
"Oh, you are gonna PAY…"
"No!" Kagome shrieked as Sango started to tickle her. "No! No, don't you dare!"
"Beg for mercy!" Sango cried.
"NEVER! LET ME GO!"
"NEVER!"
"Hope I'm not interrupting anything," drawled a voice from the backseat. A voice which was most definitely not Koga's.
"Oh, crap…"
"Yeah, I figured the reason Sango asked for Koga was something to do with you." Inuyasha said rudely. "Sango, get in the back. I'll drive."
"No need, it's my car." Sango said breezily, starting the engine. She swerved out to the middle of the road.
"Err, Sango…"
"Yo?"
"You're going the wrong way."
"Hmm." She huffed, swerving. Kagome screamed.
"SANGO, PLEASE, I WILL BE YOUR SLAVE, JUST LET SOMEONE ELSE DRIVE!!!"
Fifteen minutes later…
"See, that wasn't so bad," said Sango cheerily, climbing out of the car.
Kagome got out, and staggered. "Note to self: blow up car." She started to walk forward, stopped, and gaped. "Oh… my… God."
"What?"
They were at a mansion. It towered five storeys high. The front was set forward, the east and west wing cast slightly back. The grounds stretched for as far as she could see behind the gargantuan building. Windows covered the entire surface, and there was a trellis (A/N: is that what it's called?) over the top of the mansion. Massive double door mounted the entrance, above a flight of stairs.
"Close your mouth. Something might fly into it," Inuyasha smirked.
"This… is your home?"
"Yep. My family have been around for thousands of years and when I say my family, I mean my dad and my half-brother."
"Thousands…"
"They're youkai – demons. Sesshomaru's mum died, I think, about 700 hundred years ago. Then, twenty years ago, my mum met dad and fell in love. The usual stuff happened, and I was the result."
"Wow."
"Yeah. Pretty much. Err… are we gonna follow Sango?"
Sango had torn into the building at breakneck speed, pegging it up the stairs towards the double doors.
"She wants to yell at Miroku for sending me, not Koga."
"Ah. I see."
"Come on then."
Kagome began to walk forward. She was halfway to the house when Inuyasha grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder.
"AHH! WHAT THE HELL?! LET ME GO!!"
"Keh. You walk too slowly, wench." He said, and he began to run.
Kagome screamed as the world became a blur. "PUT ME DOWN!! YOU'RE GONNA RUN INTO SOMETHING! YOU'RE GONNA DROP ME! MIND OUT ON THE STAIRS! YOU MADMAN! HELP! OH GOD, I MOVED TO A TOWN FULL OF CRAZZY PEOPLE!"
"Inuyasha, are you terrorizing your guests?" came an amused voice from the top of the stairs in the building.
"No, dad," Inuyasha grinned. "Just providing transport."
He set Kagome down. She tottered, dizzy, and put her hand on Inuyasha's shoulder to regain her balance.
"Never… do that… ever… again." She hissed.
"Hey, it was payback for what you did to me in Games."
"That was an accident."
"Oh," the voice said again. "Are you the young Miko?" kagome looked up.
Standing at the top of the stairs was an elderly, distinguished man. With long dark grey hair and a white suit. His face… it wasn't lined, as much as it was worn away by countless years.
"Err… yeah, that's me, I guess."
The man winked, holding out his hand. "You made quite an impression on my son. I'm Inutaisho."
"Pleased to meet you, sir," Kagome said awkwardly, shaking his hand. "I'm Kagome."
Inutaisho chuckled. "No need to be so formal, my dear. Inuyasha," he said over his shoulder, as he turned to walk away, "Rein in Miroku and Sango for me. They're screaming so loud, Sesshomaru's thinking of going in to sort them out. I love them dearly, and I wouldn't want that fate on anybody."
Inuyasha cursed. "Idiots." He turned, grabbed Kagome (PUT ME DOWN, YOU ARSEHOLE!) and sprinted up the stairs.
Fifteen minutes later…
"You do have your swimming costumes, ladies?" Miroku inquired.
Sango punched him without looking. "Pervert," she muttered.
"Err, Sango," Koga said politely, "Forgive me, but he didn't actually do anything wrong."
"He was thinking it," she muttered darkly.
Miroku rubbed the side of his head, looking absolutely terrified. "Oh dear God, she can read my thoughts! No shadow will be safe again!"
"Shut it, monk,"
Ayame reached over and grabbed Sango's upper arm. "You'll regret it if you do anything permanent to him."
"No I won't."
"You will later."
"Much, much later."
………………………………………………..
"Three… two…" Sango whispered from where the girls were crouching behind the potted plants. "One…"
SPLASH.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR??!!" Inuyasha bellowed from the centre of the deep end.
Kagome sniggered.
"Did you just laugh at me, wench?" He asked in a deadly voice.
"So what if I did?" she challenged.
"You… are… DEAD!"
She shrieked and ran down the path, but he swam too fast for her. In a second he had surfaced and grabbed her legs, sending her tumbling into the water with him (A/N: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!)
She surfaced, spluttering. "Hey, where'd he go?"
Her legs were grabbed from below as she was pulled under the water. She couldn't help it; her mouth opened and a soundless laugh emitted. She could see Inuyasha grinning as he circled her, the bubbles from her laughter floating to the surface.
He swam closer.
Hesitantly, in the greenish light of the water, he stroked his hand down her face.
She wasn't laughing now.
He raised his hand to the other side of her face, taking it in a serious grip.
She raised her hands to touch his body, to make sure… he was real.
His amber eyes never left her tawny orbs as he sluggishly moved closer under the water.
His lips barely touched hers…
And they broke the surface of the water.
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Hey guys! I'm sorry it's taken so long... school is EVIL!!! EVIL I tell you!
I hope you like it so far... please let me know!
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P.S This is the longest chapter I've EVER done, so please, constructive critiscism! But no flaming thanks x