A/N: HI!
Oh My Gods! 23
Kagome was in pure awe. Not only was she finally on a date with her fiancé, he brought her to one of the most famous arcades in town, the same one she'd been dying to try out for ages! Oh, but the surprises didn't end there! He surely planned this before hand because the second they arrived, he had led her to a secluded, VIP section of the arcade's resturaunt.
And it was reserved only for them.
Their date wasn't overtly romantic, and it was fine with her because it was their first one. All she wanted to do was get to know him--so far, her idea was working out perfectly. Gods, she needed to find out who was his source of information! It was all too much for him to have figured out alone!
Inuyasha cocked his head at his fiancée in confusion. She had stars in her chocolate eyes as she stared unblinkingly at him--did she have a heart attack and tragically died? Her endless stare was beginning to creep him out...
"Hey, wench, you haven't touched your chicken fingers yet." He plopped three french fries in his mouth before continuing. Gods, those fries were delicious! "I'll eat them if you don't want 'em."
The miko snapped out of her daze and shook her head. This date was going to be the death of her. "Don't you dare touch my chicken fingers, Inuyasha, or I will kill you."
"Keh! Why the hell are they called chicken fingers? Are they made from--"
"No, they're not. Chickens don't have fingers."
"Well, what about chicken fee--"
"I don't know what you eat, but we mortals don't eat chicken feet as appetizers." At least she hoped not.
The hanyou finally gave it a rest and practically inhaled his large plate of french fries, his golden eyes glowing in euphoria. Kagome smiled at his regular antics and took the chance to glance around the secluded area. It had a retro theme to it--she was currently seated at a vibrantly colored booth with odd trinkets surrounding her and dim lighting that changed colors every few seconds.
All in all, she loved it.
"So," Inuyasha paused to order another plate of fries while Kagome wondered how many stomachs he had since they were still waiting for their entrées, "are we gonna get to know each other now?"
Ah, so he remembered what she wished to do. "If you want to."
"Keh!"
"...um..."
"...are we done getting to know each other?"
"Nope."
"Crap."
Apparently, neither of them knew what to do at this point. They had desired this, and they were hesitating to initiate their plans! And then Inuyasha's new plate of fries, larger than the previous one, arrived only to steal his attention and give him a means of distraction. Great.
"Ok, let's at least try--" Kagome cut herself off when she noticed her fiancé was not even listening to a word she was uttering. She sighed and grabbed his plate, earning a mouthful of protests. "Here's the deal. I get to ask a question and you have to answer it. After you do, you get a fry."
"What?!" Inuyasha gasped and clutched his chest, right above his heart. "Only one?!"
"Fine, two."
"Two?!" She rolled her eyes. "Whatever! But I'm returning the favor!" He held her basket of chicken fingers captive despite her envious glare. "Now we're even, ya sneaky wench."
"Alright, alright. However, if I think your answer isn't good enough to earn two fries, I'm not giving you anything. Deal?"
"Same goes for you."
"Sure. Then I'll go first." Kagome wracked her brain for a suitable question to ask him, but those straying from personal topics were scarce. The last thing she desired was to render him in a foul mood--she could live without a glimpse of his temper. "Umm..."
"Well?" Inuyasha was impatient for his fries, dammit!
"Can I ask you anything at all?"
"Whatever."
"You promise not to get mad?"
"Geez, just ask so that I can get my fries!"
"Fine! How did your mother die?" Way to go Kagome; you had to start off the game with a touchy subject. She watched the hanyou's eyes darken, though it wasn't in rage. He was reminiscing... Oh no, he wasn't supposed to get sad either! "You don't have to--"
"I...I'm really not sure. Someone just told me she passed on--she was attacked or some shit like that." He shrugged as though it hardly bothered him, but his fiancée saw through his act. It hurt him not knowing the true cause of his mother's death, as it would to anyone.
"I'm sorry to hear that, Inuyasha," Kagome whispered, her eyes revealing the sympathy she felt for him and his silent torment.
Again he shrugged. "Don't worry about it. Where the hell are my fries, wench?!" She giggled and handed over his promised reward, which he nearly tore from her hands. "Let's see...where's your old man at?"
Her father...was not someone she wanted to talk about. They were both touching upon sore topics, apparently. "He's dead. He died from a car accident when I was eight."
Inuyasha's ears drooped even though he tried to appear unaffected. "Well...here's your chicken crap."
"When you put it in those terms, I might as well not eat it." She smiled and ravenously plopped it into her mouth, nonetheless. "Have you and Sesshoumaru always hated each other?"
"I think at first it was sibling rivalry and then it grew to the point of loathing after our Dad died. Sesshoumaru never really accepted my half demon heritage anyway, so that's another thing."
"But you guys don't fight as much now a days. I think he's changing his views now that he's with Rin."
"Maybe." Inuyasha briefly mused if his father had foreseen his eldest son's acceptance of humans alongside of Rin--the old coot had been as clever as a dog could get.
Though, Kagome's words rung true; he found his brother becoming more and more open with him as the days progressed. Hell, they even hung out together when Kagome and Rin went studying! Sesshoumaru was gradually changing. Inuyasha could either thank or blame Rin.
Oh well, it was his turn to ask a question. "Uhh...what's your favorite color?"
Now that was very general. "It's green," Kagome replied and promptly received her reward. "Do you want to become a king?"
"I have to."
"But do you want to?"
Inuyasha didn't know how to respond. He wasn't greedy in that respect, and truthfully, he had no desire to govern a kingdom. The whole concept seemed relatively boring to him--he'd reather sit through a lecture than tend to economic problems and whatnot. Yet, it was a duty required of him because his mother had bore no other sons and his relatives on her side of the family made themselves scarce at his birth.
Keh, stupid human family. What a bunch of bastards!
If he had the chance, he would prefer to renounce the throne all together.
"-sigh- I don't need a kingdom, I don't need wealth, and I don't need power, so I guess I don't want to be a king, either." His answer surprised Kagome, but she didn't comment on it. "Let's see...um, what's your favorite shape?" A blush bloomed in his cheeks.
What was up with generic questions?! Was he incapable of inquiring on in depth, soul-searching subjects? "Well...uhh...I..." Did she even have a favorite shape? "I'm smitten with hearts, since in elementary school, I drew them better than circles." Oddly enough.
"Hmm..." The pensive expression on his face was a little too suspicious... "Ok, wench."
"Whatever. When is your birthday?" She was dying to know!
"...do I have to tell you?"
"If you want your fries..." What was so bad in telling her his birthday?
"Keh!" Inuyasha decided he might as well relent. Hunger was ravaging his stomach again, anyway... "It's five days from today."
"What?!?!" His birthday...was on her birthday?! They were born on the same day! Ok, he was born in the mortal realm...and there's a time difference...yeah, maybe that's it. Either way, she still had to buy him a present! "Wow, we really are the same age..."
"Yup. Me turn." He first took the chance to eat his fries in one gulp, probably without any chewing involved. "Do you like pups?"
"Pups? As in puppies?" She mused if he was going to get her a puppy...
"No, wench! As in...what's the human term? Kids...you know, little brats."
Oh, children! Whoah...are we talking about having kids already? "Sure, I like them." Kagome refrained from revealing anything else, though. At least it seemed to satisfy him. "Alrighty...um...Why do you and Sesshoumaru hate Meimori and Kizurei so much?"
Inuyasha sighed. He had been waiting for this question. "Hatred runs deep between Sesshou-bastard and Meimori for reasons you already know. Kizurei is probably the only one of the two we can both tolerate. Though, technically, we were born hating them."
"I don't understand...and these fries are mine until you clarify." Kagome found this topic interesting. Her fiancé's family was an enigma--if he had any other relatives, she wouldn't know, but she had at least met his twin cousins.
I wonder how his uncle looks like... He was another perplexing person...why he had strove to attain their blood was still a mystery to everyone...
"Look, my uncle and my old man were basically at odd ends with each other. I don't know what happened, but Dad did something to piss Uncle off when they were teenagers, and even after Dad's death, Uncle still harbors rancor for him. As a result, Meimori and Kizurei were raised to detest their cousins and vice versa."
"That's horrible! Why should you guys be involved in your father and uncle's affairs?"
"Dunno. But like I said, it runs deeper with Sesshoumaru and Meimori, to an extent that not even I understand." Inuyasha also agreed on the cryptic notion that his family was very obscure. "Sooo... Would you mind becoming a queen?"
"Um..." The question caught her off guard and she seriously had to ponder it. Kagome never imagined becoming an actual ruler of an actual kingdom--maybe she had wished to be a princess as a little girl, but that was only for play!
Was she even leader material?
Though, Inuyasha seemed expectant and rather anxious to know her answer, and she couldn't delay it for much longer. As long as he's with me...then it won't be so bad. "Not really. Just don't die and leave me to rule alone, ok?" She sent him a wink, making him blush.
"I ain't dying anytime soon, wench!"
"Right. Anyway, how did you learn about dates?"
Inuyasha became increasingly uncomfortable, and the blush from earlier returned with vengeance. "I'll pass."
"Oh come on! I'll give you five fries if you answer!" She waved the tempting golden strips before him, allowing him to see their crispy goodness...inhale their inviting smell...
Fine! He couldn't bear it! "I asked your brother about it."
"What?! You talked to Souta?! When?" How didn't I know about it?
"One question at a time! Now..." He snatched the fries from her hand and gulped them like before, ignoring her penetrating glare. "Would you accept a hanyou as your mate or would you prefer a full demon or human? And this is hypothetical--the hanyou isn't me!"
Well, his blush gave it away, didn't it?
First he wants to know if I like children, then he asks if I mind becoming a queen, and now his 'curiosity' wanders to my accepting a hanyou--ahem, him--as my mate. Where is he going with all this? The miko had to wonder what her fiancé had up his sleeve... He's not planning to propose, is he? Nah, we're already engaged.
She didn't know what she would do in that situation in the first place...
Well, there was always the easy way out: faint or munch on a random Twix bar.
"If I truly love him, his race wouldn't matter to me." Kagome hid a grin at the conspicuous breath of relief Inuyasha let out. She couldn't fathom what he was planning in that little brain of his, but she would go along with it.
For now.
"It's my turn at long last! When did you talk to Souta?"
"Last week, while you and Rin were at the library."
"Dang, you're sneaky."
Inuyasha winked. "I learned it all from you, wench."
Kagome crossed her arms. "Keh!"
After they ate their three course meal and 'got to know each other', Inuyasha and Kagome proceeded to discover why the arcade was so famous. The two were currently in the gaming section, competing to see who could win the most number of tickets in an hour. Their time was almost up, and both had a huge wad of purple tickets stashed in a plastic bag for convienience.
And now, the only game left to win tickets from was it.
Resident Evil Four: Horrifying Virtual Reality.
"We should check it out, wench." Inuyasha watched the preivew of the virtual game on display outside a black-tinted door and was completely thrilled. He didn't understand how those undead zombies could go after people if they were just that--undead, but who cared!
Kagome, however, was less excited. She was staring at the television screen in horror. "You can go. I'll wait right here." Hmph, no way was she going in there...
"Oh no you don't! You're coming with me!" He grabbed her hand and hauled her through the tinted doors, ignoring her pleas and attempts to break free. His handsome face was accented by an ever present smirk as he thought, She's just gonna have to deal with it!
"Inuyasha! Please! It's terrifying! It's monstrous! It's the horror!"
"It's just a bunch of harmless zombies, wench! Get over it!"
"But--"
"We're gonna win as many tickets as the points we get, so suck it up!"
"Gah! You're worse than a tyrant!"
"Yeah yeah, bite me, why don't ya?"
"Maybe I will..."
"...damn frisky wench."
They arrived at the gear station, and Inuyasha wasted no time to grab a padded vest and virtual game helmet. He stared at it in confusion, but shrugged and put it on, anyway. Kagome hesitated, but another glower from her fiancé willed her nerves to go on a hike. She was doing this for the tickets...she needed those tickets in order to win the cocky asshole also known as her fiancé...
They stepped through a couple of doors and into what seemed like a maze cloaked in darkness. Kagome supposed the virtual reality game was contained in four floors of mazes...gods, she had to survive four floors! She tried to make a run for it while Inuyasha was too busy complaining about the terrible lighting--there was no lighting--but...
...it was too late.
"Cool! I got a shotgun! Hells yeah! Take that you piece of shit!" Inuyasha was having fun blasting away at...anything but a zombie. They had just begun the game and already he was wasting his bullets!
Kagome shook her head and stared down at the measily army knife she held in her hands. Wow, she was lucky... Hurray for the great video game simulations. "Save your ammo for when we actually encounter a zombie, ok? Remember that the objective of this game is to save the prime minister's daughter, not blow over innocent trees."
"Keh!"
She dragged the over-zealous hanyou away from the poor tree he was trying to blow up and continued down the path in what seemed like the middle of nowhere. They neared a bridge, and they suddenly heard a Spaniard shout, "Ahi estan! Matalo!"
"Oh crap! Kill them, kill them, kill them, kill them!!!" Kagome urged Inuyasha to blast away at the group of four 'not zombies'--they weren't exactly undead--heading their way, but he only stared at them curiously. "Why aren't you killing them?!" She merely had a knife, for goodness sake!
"There's supposed to be a guy with a chainsaw in here..." He surely noticed the absence of the powerful chainsaw man and was dismayed. "Damn, these assholes tricked me!"
"KILL THEM ALREADY!"
"Geez, you're scarier than those freaks, wench..." BANG! BANG! BANG! "There, all gone. Fuck yeah, we got four points!"
Kagome wiped her forehead and glared at the hanyou, who cocked his head in return. "Next time you decide to stall, make sure I don't have a knife on me." He gulped.
The bridge was now safe to cross and they didn't hesitate to walk towards the other side. Soon enough, the couple arrived at the village square...that was full of not zombies. Fortunately, not one of those demented villagers caught sight of them.
"Ok, we need a--" Kagome furrowed her eye brows when she noticed the absence of a certain hanyou beside her. She looked around only to discover him marching towards the center of the huge group. "Inuyasha! What are you doing?!"
"Keh! Get your ass over here, wench!" He called from over his shoulder, and not a second later, one of the diseased villagers glanced up and saw him.
"Ellos son! Agarralos!"
Kagome wanted to rip her hair out! "This is why you don't go into battle without a plan! Argh! Stupid arrogant--"
"Stop whining and help me out!" The hanyou was trying his best to fend off more than twenty hachet-throwing villagers all at once, but wasn't faring very well. "I can at least use you for bait!"
"Grr! Run out of the village square!" Kagome yelled, darted through an escape route her fiancé had unwittingly provided for them. "Hurry!"
"But--"
"Just RUN!"
Inuyasha grumbled a few choice words under his breath, yet he complied, and the next thing they knew, the villagers suddenly retreated at the sound of a church bell. Now they were left to roam the village on their own...
"It's all your fault!"
"Hell no! You're the one who hardly fought!"
"I had a freakin' knife! The only thing I could do was stab people to death, which I did do!"
"Well, you should be thanking me for having gotten us so far in the game!"
"You're right, but no one told you to waste your ammo!"
"But the chainsaw guy would've killed you!"
"That's no reason to keep shooting at his headless corpse!"
"He could've come back to life..."
"The villagers in the game aren't immortal, Inuyasha."
"Keh."
Kagome sighed and shook her head. At least they had received a whopping total of fifty tickets from killing fifty zombies, though they ended up splitting them in half. She justified her earnings of twenty-five tickets with the fact that she was the hanyou's supervisor...
In the end, she won the competition with four-hundred and twenty-six tickets while Inuyasha merely had four-hundred and two. Oh well, he spent his game tokens on silly games like whack the weasal, stating that he was going to send the damn weasal to hell.
Never happened.
The couple now shifted to the none ticket-issuing games, the last section of the huge arcade. It was nearing ten in the evening, an hour before school curfew on a weekday, but before they left, Kagome wanted to try out one last game. She pulled her fiancé towards a karyoke booth appearing as a fascimile of regular recording studios, enclosed in a secluded room to boot.
People in school are raving about this...time to see what the commotion is all about. A smile graced her attractive face, and without a second thought, she stepped inside the booth, Inuyasha in tow.
The hanyou was bewildered when they entered a completely white room--the lack of color terrified him and caused him to second guess his mental health. "What the hell are we doing in here, wench?"
Kagome was too busy typing away at a touch-screen computer to listen to him. After she finished, she turned to him and placed a wireless microphone in his hands. He tentatively sniffed it, immediately recognizing it as one of those black objects Imei Academy's dean used to project his squeaky voice during assemblies.
Ugh, horrible memories.
"We're going to record a music video, Inuyasha." He stared at her dumbly, yet she refrained from elaborating. "You see this wall?" She pointed to the one in front of them. "Lyrics to a song are going to appear, and when they do, you're going to sing them."
"Wait--what?!" Inuyasha did not equate with singing! "You expect me to sing?"
The raven-haired teen grinned cheekily. "I expect you to sing and dance. It's simple, though--I'm sure you've heard this song over the radio." His mind blanked.
He didn't know what she was blabbering about...
"Don't worry, I'll be singing too, just that you'll have the major parts."
"...I ain't singing."
"If you do, my precious little hanyou," his eyes twitched at her sultry tone of voice--she just sounded like a creepy old witch who wanted to molest him while he slept, "I'll let you choose whatever you want the next time we go grocery shopping..."
"Whatever I want...?" His golden eyes glittered at the thought of filling three carts of ramen, candy, and meat without the annoying wench telling him it wasn't healthy. The offer was too good to pass up. "Fine. What song am I singing that you claim I know?"
Kagome smirked. "Barbie Girl, by Aqua."
He gaped. Damn wench... "Fuck." I'm definitely stacking up on ramen and candy after this...
"Remember, you have to sing and dance."
Dance? What the hell?! Inuyasha took a deep breath and nodded.
A few seconds later, after Kagome clapped her hands, the bright lights in the room dimmed and a disco ball popped out from the ceiling, enveloping the entire room in a variety of flashing lights. Inuyasha blinked, and was only slightly surprised when lyrics to the song he was supposed to sing appeared on the screen in front of him.
Shit. He actually had to sing...
And then...the background music began to play with Kagome starting off...
...as Ken.
And she sounded exactly like him, too! Her voice deepened! Was she secretly a man?!
"Hiya, Yashie!"
Ah, because there were no other singers in the background, she was able to exchange Barbie's name for his without distrupting the flow. Except, she had called him 'Yashie'. Damn.
His turn... "Hi, wench!"
Gah! His voice sounded like Barbie's! He swore his voice wasn't as high pitched! Oh well, he loved the way his fiancée glared daggers at him for calling her wench...again.
"Do you wanna go for a ride?"
"Sure wench!"
For the moment, Inuyasha decided to ignore his voice change. He was going to achieve his goal of a grocery shopping spree, dammit, no matter how much of a girl he currently sounded!
Ack, it was horrible!
"Jump in!"
Yet, Kagome seemed to be having fun playing the role of Ken...
If the wench could do it, then so could he! There was no way he was backing out of a challenge!
"I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation!"
Inuyasha tried to act as girly as possible, if only to prove to Kagome that he wasn't about to run away with his 'nonexistant' tail between his legs. He pretended to brush his hair, winked at his fiancée to come 'undress him everywhere', and even swayed his hips in tune with the beat.
Basically, he was loosening up.
But the supermarket better have a huge stock of ramen or else!
"Come on Yashie, let's go party!"
Kagome returned his wink and waved her hand in a 'come hither' gesture.
"I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation!"
The hanyou heeded his fiancée and sashayed his way to her, only to flip his long locks of hair in her face--hey, she asked for it!
"I'm a blond bimbo girl, in the fantasy world
Dress me up, make your time, I'm your dolly..."
He wasn't blonde...and he didn't know what a bimbo was. And yet, here he was...losing all dignity and self-respect while singing and dancing to Barbie Girl. He wasn't a barbie doll in the first place!
Oh well! It didn't stop Inuyasha from doing things he would never ever do again in his entire life!
"You're my doll, rock 'n' roll," Kagome eyed the hanyou warily when he actually rolled on the floor... "...feel the glamour and pain... Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky..."
Just for the hell of it, she slapped the rear end he was flaunting in her face and grinned as his cheeks passed through different shades of red. Hmph, it was payback for giving her a mouthful of his hair!
"You can touch, you can play..." Inuyasha wagged his finger at his naughty fiancée. "If you say, I'm always yours...ooh oh ooh!"
He batted his eyelashes, and Kagome fleetingly wondered how mascara would look on him...
"I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation!"
Kagome pulled on his hair when he tried to flip it in her face again, sending him crashing to ground, microphone in hand. Hmph, and her foot on his chest prevented him from rising back up only to attempt the same annoying trick once more. It failed to stop him from singing his part, though...
"Come on Yashie, let's go party!"
"Ah ah ah, yeah!"
Inuyasha beamed up at her... What was he planning...? And why was he still dancing on the freakin' floor?!
"Come on Yashie, let's go party!"
"Ooh oh ooh, ooh oh ooh!"
The miko's foot was relentless...what a powerful appendage!
"Oh, I'm having so much fun!"
The hanyou was definitely having a lot of fun, especially when he hauled Kagome to the floor with him! Now they were a heap of limbs laying on the presently neon green floor...oh wait, it changed colors to purple. Grr, this was the effect of forcing Inuyasha to sing Barbie Girl!
"Well, Yashie, we're just getting started..."
"Oh, I love you wench!"
Since Kagome was ontop, she believed it facile to stand back up, but the arms wrapped tightly around her waist made it hopeless. Now that the song finished--he was so dead!
"That's it, Inuyasha! I'm gonna kick your ass so hard that--"
His lips on hers effectively halted her promise of pain, and she merely sighed in bliss, any and all thoughts of slowly torturing him to death fleeing from her mind. He dominated their kiss even from his submissive position beneath her, controlling his own passion in order to tease Kagome with gentle nibbles on her bottom lip. Eventually, he pulled away before the kiss became anything but chaste, leaving his fiancée breathless.
"So..." Inuyasha whispered huskily, smirking at the miko ontop of him with all the arrogance a teenager could possess. She briefly shut her chocolate eyes, relishing the way his warm breath caressed the sensitive hairs on her ear. "What was that about kicking my ass?"
"...huh?" Kagome was too dazed to even care. "Shut up and kiss me again."
"Only if you say I'm always yours, wench."
She responded with another heated kiss.
A/N: END! Dang, why is Kagome always ontop? Inu needs to get more aggressive with his woman like Sesshoumaru! LoL! So, Sessh and Rin fixed their trust issue--her feelings on the whole thing are unknown but it will stay like that! Until further notice. Inu and Kags went on their first date...and they're engaged.
Sooo...what could Inuyasha be planning with all his weird questions? Will Kagome make a good queen? Will Inuyasha truly not die and rule with Kagome? When are Sesshoumaru and Rin having kids? Where is my muffin? What's Yuka plotting behind everyone's backs as romance floats in the air?
Hmph, floats in the air...how corny...
Well, I shopped until I dropped! WOOT! I bought a bunch of clothes and two hoodies at PacSun! And I finally have my long awaited wool jacket! YAY!
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