Disclaimer: NO I do not own Inuyasha. That awesome privilege belongs to Romiko Takahashi. Thank you!

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Chapter 3: Oasis

"What's going on here?" Kagome asked following Inuyasha down the stairs. "How do they not hear that music?"

The rock music blared passing through the thin and damaged walls easily. The lights were on and people were passing her all wearing uniforms like hers.

"Well, in the 80's," Inuyasha said high fiving some one as he ran past without looking at him. "There was a demon who went here. They called him Smoke. He went through the outside walls, and I literally mean through, and soundproofed them. Since then we've been able to play music and stuff.

"Wow." Kagome said.

Shades over the windows, soundproofed walls. These kids were smart.

"This here," Inuyasha tapped on a doorfram on the first floor, "is the heart of the dorms."

He opened the door and Kagome gasped.

There was no way the principle and guards knew about this!

Along the left wall was a long table filled with food, mostly fast food, but it was food. On the right wall was a large DJ, radio, stereo thing that looked complex enough to contact space shuttles. Two boys were laughing behind it while looking through a selection of CD's.

Everywhere kids were talking, laughing, dancing.

There was a pool table, a foosball table, even a ping pong table.

"Where did you get all this stuff?" Kagome asked looking around in awe.

"Stereo has been building since the 80's but we got connections for the food." Inuyasha said walking inside with Kagome a step behind him. "Come here."

"Woh!" He grabbed her arm and she found herself being dragged across the floor to the front of the stereo system.

Inuyasha put his fingers in his mouth and let out an ear piercing whistle. "Hey guys! Shut up!"

People stopped talking and moving and the music was paused.

When silence had fallen Inuyasha spoke again. "Okay. It's that time of month again guys. We had to say good bye to three of our own today. Let us bow our heads in respect for Stretch, Ichigo, and Smelly-feet. May they find happiness beyond these walls."

There was a short pause as every one bowed their head once.

"Our friends escaped Hell, but we have a new Hell Mate to welcome." Inuyasha reached foreward and pulled Kagome next to him. "As her room mate, it is my job to introduce her. This is Kagome! One count of smoking pot."

The introduction seemed normal but when he said her charge people started muttering.

"Yeah, I know. Messed up right?" Inuyasha nodded. He looked at Kagome. "Look, I know they told you their rules, but here is ours. There is no guard, teacher, and definitly not Satan, AKA our beloved principle," people booed and Inuyasha nodded, "that doesn't hate our guts. We hate theirs. It's a very simple relationship. However, you are one of us." He put his hand on her shoulder and smiled reasuringly. "In Hell, the condemed stick together. We're your family and your ours. If you need some thing, we'll be here for you."

A loud cheer accompanied his speach and Kagome smiled. The first true smile on her face since she got arrested. "Thank you."

"Alright." Inuyasha rubbed his hands together. "Enough of this mushy shit. Let's get the party started!"

"Woo!" People screamed and the music continued.

"Inuyasha!"

A group of people walked up to him.

"Hey guys. Kagome this is the gang. Gang this is Kagome." he introduced them.

"Hi." Kagome waved awkwardly.

"Sorry about your sentence." A guy with long black hair said. It was no where near the length that Inuyasha's was but he did pull it back into a ponytail.

"Kagome, this is Miroku. 23 charges of sexual assault and harassment." Inuyasha said.

"23!?" Kagome exlaimed. "How in the...?"

Mirou lifted her hand and kissed it. "The female form is such a wonder to me. I truly cannot stop myself."

Kagome pulled back her hand and eyed his distrustfully making Inuyasha laugh. "That burnette on the end, that's Sango. 5 charges of assault and 2 os assault with a deadly weapon."

"Wow." Kagome said and Sango smiled at her. "What's with all the assault charges?"

"I have anger managament issues." Sango said. "Sometimes I just...poof...black out and the next thing I know..." she trailed off looking sheepish.

Kagome laughed with her.

"The girl with the red hair and pigtails? That's Ayame." Inuyasha continued. "1 charge of stalking and 2 of breaking a restraining order."

"I was not stalking him." Ayame said deffensively. "You can't stalk your fiance. Especially not when he's cheating on you."

"I told you: We're not getting married!" the boy next to her cried, his hair was longer than Miroku's but stil shorter than Inuyasha's.

"Their both wolf demons." Inuyasha. "Due to be married by the wolf demon council."

"How did they both end up here?" Kagome asked making everyone else snicker.

"The..." Inuyasha surpressed another snicker as a vien popped out on the guy's forhead. "The um...Wolf demon council said that since he was cheating on her at the time the restraining order charges happened he was to be punished to. They enrolled him here. Kouga. One count of mega-burn." he said solenmly.

"Yeah. And now, I'm stuck here with you!" he glared at te white wolf demon.

She glared back. "Maybe if you had followed the councils orders and married me in the first place we wouldn't have this problem!"

Kouga scoffed and crossed his arms. "Have you ever tried not doing what the council says and think for yourself?"

Ayame made some retort but Inuyasha was speaking again. From the looks on everyones faces, this was not an unusual argument.

"As my roomy, you can join the gang if you want," he smirked as if he was giving her a great privilage.

"You should join us." Sango smiled at her. "It would be nice to have another girl to even things out."

Kagome thought about it. "I don't know.." she bit her lip thinking of her last 'friends'.

"Hey. In high school you make connections that last forever." Sango said giggling. She said it in a way that made Kagome think it was a really corny speech she had heard before.

Kagome shook her head and laughed. "I know. It's just...my last 'friends' left me in an ally with the police coming at me."

All of them, even the wolf demons, flinched in sympathy.

"Aw. I'm sorry." Ayame said sadly.

Sango growled.

"Now dearest, calm down." Miroku said charmingly. "There's no point getting mad about it now."

"Hey, why so down?" Inuyasha asked. "We're having a party! So party!"

Sango laughed. "You say that like we don't have a party every night."

"Want to dance, Kouga?" Ayame asked sweetly.

"No." he said flatly and he turned and walked off.

"Wait! Kouga!" Ayame chased after him.

Inuyasha and Miroku lef to go dance and Sango grumbled darkly while performing breathing exercises

Kagome looked around and was suddenly reminded of an oasis. A point of life and beauty in the middle of a scorching, unforgiving desert.

She looked out and saw food being devoured like people hadn't eaten all day, people dancing like they were dead set to have fun, and everywhere she saw strained, sometimes too pale faces, with spirits that had been beaten just a little too often.

Tomorrow, her days in Hell would begin. But for now, in the middle of all this hurt and turmoil, she had found a small oasis.

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