Inuyasha POV:
I stood outside Kagome's house with my hands in my pockets, waiting for her. Even though she said she forgave me, I could tell she was still mad and mistrustful. I would make it up to her somehow.
She peered over the railing above and raced down the stairs to join me. Clothed in a white terry cloth knee-length cover up, she sported sunglasses and a striped tote-bag filled with things like sun screen and towels. When she skidded to a stop in front of me I quickly took the bag out of her arms. She skittered away, motioning with her hand for me to follow.
She led me around the corner to her mother's car. It was a dusty, dark gray, 1996 Nissan Sentra with matching interior and no air conditioner. (A/N: this is my car. Or rather, my dad's car. It sucks. :P) It did have a nice radio system though…
Kagome popped the trunk and I threw the stuff inside. We were on the road in no time flat.
"So, Kagome, we're gonna meet a couple of people at there, alright?" She glared at me sideways.
"How many is 'a couple'?" She asked pointedly. I looked askance at her.
"Miroku."
"Oh!" she giggled. "That's okay! You don't mind if I turn on the radio, do you?" I shook my head and she twisted the silver dial. Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' came on, and the most shocking thing I've ever seen happened.
Kagome started singing and dancing.
Just a second, it's my favorite song they gonna play,
And I cannot text you with a drink in my hand, eh?
Kagome sang all the words while swaying erratically in her seat. To be totally honest, it was pretty distracting. Especially for me, due to the fact that I have, like, border-line A.D.D. I let her have her fun, but as soon as the song ended, I turned off the radio. I seriously needed to keep my eyes on the road.
She pouted for a moment before turning away to look out the window. Sand dunes were already beginning to roll by in gentle, undulating waves of sparkling diamond dust in the sun. After a few moments we pulled up next to a cinder-block building that was the bathroom. I clambered out of the car with some difficulty; it was somewhat low to the ground, and that made it difficult for my six-foot frame to get in and out.
Ayame suddenly, and randomly popped her head around the corner of the building.
"Inuyasha!" she squealed. Her face suddenly darkened. "Long time no see." My response? Classical.
"AHHHHH!" Koga suddenly appeared next to Ayame. He was soaking wet and clad in a pale blue pair of swim shorts that went oddly well with Ayame's pink polka-dotted bikini.
"Yo mutt-face!" Once again.
"AHHHH!" Next big shocker: Sesshomaru came up beside Koga, along with Rin. His greeting wasn't very elaborate.
"Little brother." He said with a curt nod. And again.
"AHHHHHH! Why the hell are you here? MIROKU!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. My friend came slinking around the other side of the building while Kagome started chatting with Ayame and Rin.
"Yes, Inuyasha?" I gave him a slightly panicked look.
"What the heck man?" He glanced at me, confused for an instant.
"Ohhhh… WELL, after you told me about coming to the beach, I told Sango. Sango told Ayame, who told Koga, who told Sesshomaru, who told Rin, who told Shippo, who told, Sotan, who told Hiten, who told Manten, who told Koryou, who told…just about everyone else." I smacked myself in the forehead.
"So how many people that I know are actually here?" He blinked and started counting his fingers. After about five minutes he stopped and looked up at me.
"I'd estimate about a hundred."
My first thought? Damn. This is gonna suck.
Then Miroku handed me a Super-Soaker.
Sesshomaru POV:
"Come on Sesshomaru! Please? Will you come in the water if I get on my knees and beg?" Rin pleaded. I looked up at her from my seat on the beach towel.
"No." So she got on her knees and began to beg.
"Please! Please! Please!" I sighed and gave in.
"All right…." I stood up, and pulled my shirt off over my head. You could virtually hear every female on the beach gasp as I threw my T-shirt into the sand and shook out my hair. I sighed again.
And so it begins.
Kagome POV:
I giggled as the sand hissed between my toes with each wave. Shippo splashed beside me while Sango swam farther out. Despite the number of people, this was really fun!
Inuyasha and Koga were chasing Naraku around with water guns and spraying him repeatedly where ever they could reach.
In turn, Sesshomaru was being assaulted by every single female on the beach. He kept scrambling to different places to lose them, with Rin in tow.
Ayame was waiting to ambush Kagura with a huge bucket of cold seawater from behind a sand-dune.
Sotan, Hiten, and Manten were making glass sculptures by heating the sand with their lightning while Koryou watched them and helped shape the glass.
Yura was squealing about sand getting in her hair while Hakudoshi poured still more sand into it.
Shiori was playing with coral bits and demonic energy by building them into bright ruby orbs.
Bankotsu and his older brother Renkotsu, who was a senior, were flirting with some random girls, and Jakotsu, a junior, flirted with some random guys.
Kohaku and Kanna were watching the waves come in and smash a sand-castle they had built earlier.
Nobunaga, Hojo, Akitoki, Tsuyu, Goshinki, and Hakaku played as a volley ball team against Abi, Byakuya, Ginta, Kageromaru, Juuromaru and Magatsuhi while Jinenji kept score. I'm fairly certain you will be able to tell who was winning just by looking at the roster…
And Miroku was checking out a demon girl on a beach towel.
"Shippo," I asked absently while examining the girl, "Who is that with Miroku?" The girl had short, electric blue hair and differently colored eyes, one ice-blue, the other a pale shade of mauve. Shippo smiled.
"That's Kensoku." He stated simply. I turned to him surprise.
"You know her?" Shippo's smile grew even wider.
"Not her, him. Kensoku is the head of my shape-shifting class. He's two years older than me. He's been tutoring me! Look what I learned!" the little fox chirped. I watched as he transformed into an orange, three-eyed python twice as long as my body. Despite the fact that Shippo had greatly improved, I couldn't tear my eyes away from Kensoku. I cleared my throat.
"Ehem… is Kensoku… gay?"
"Nope! I told him to embarrass Miroku like that because I heard Sango complaining about his womanizing. So I figured a good, healthy, shock…." The boy's smile had become positively evil by now.
Inuyasha POV:
Koga shifted next to me as we watched Naraku from behind a rock. The spider-scarred demon looked around nervously before shaking his dripping, matted hair out and sitting down on the sand. I looked at Koga and nodded as a wicked smile spread over his face.
"Kamikaze!" We yelled together as we leaped out and emptied our Super-soakers into Naraku's face. He started yelling too, but things more along the lines of 'Damn it, I'm going to kill you bastards, ect, ect.' I ran away laughing while Koga split off in the other direction.
I spotted Kagome chatting with Shippo, knee deep in water. I made my way over to her. She looked slightly sickened by something.
"What's up Kagome?"
"…Miroku…" she choked out. I followed her gaze only to see Miroku seriously checking out a girl. I'm pretty sure he was undressing her with his eyes or something…
"Kagome, in case you hadn't noticed, he does that all the time." Shippo suddenly sprang up.
"I've never seen him do that to a boy." He trilled. I choked too.
"WHAT?" Shippo started laughing.
"That's a shape-shifting boy from school!" I turned away.
"Well, with that disturbing image, I'm hitting the snack bar. You want anything Kagome?"
"No, I'm fine. I'm gonna go farther out with Sango." She said before swimming out into the sea. Unfortunately, in order to get food, I had to pass Miroku. I stopped to look at him. Shippo was right; the person Miroku was staring at was definitely a guy. I could tell by the scent.
"Miroku, what the hell are you doing?" He smiled up at me.
"Inuyasha, have you seen that goddess over there? She's beautiful!" He said dazedly. I glared at him.
"What about Sango? And… that's a dude, Miroku." There was a poofing sound accompanied by a puff of smoke, and standing where the girl had been a moment ago was a dude.
He had obviously had the growth-spurt that Shippo lacked, and was at least 5'11" with rust-red hair and jade green eyes, a paler shade than Shippo's. He was lean, if not particularly muscled, and moderately good –looking. Some of the girls Sesshomaru had rejected came to swarm around him.
Miroku could only mouth soundlessly, like a gold fish outside of his bowl.
"Sorry about that," Kensoku said apologetically, "Shippo asked me to prank you." And with that, he walked away arm in arm with a female fox demon with honey colored hair and sea-green eyes.
Miroku stared after him in utter shock. Serves him right I guess… With a shrug, I got in line for food.
Miroku POV:
I kept thinking again and again how I had been checking out a man. I was many things, but gay was not one of them.
Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty….
I ran to the sea side and splashed water in my eyes, as if that could somehow clean my mind. At last satisfied, I flopped into the shallow and lay on back with the salty H2o swirling around me. I sighed. Maybe I shouldn't be so hasty next time…
A shadow blocked my view of the clouds. As my vision came into focus I bit back a cry. Black hair, blue stripes beneath dark eyes, an ever-smiling mouth…
"Helllloooooo Miroku!"
It was Jakotsu.
Kagome POV:
I swam up next to Sango, who was glaring at Miroku in the distance.
"Stupid womanizer!" she muttered. In an effort to cheer her up, I came up behind her and wrapped sea-weed around her neck. She elbowed me in the face, and I fell over backwards, dunking under the gentle waves.
"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry Kagome!" She cried. I came back up with a gasp.
"I'm fine!" I panted. Sango laughed.
"Glad to hear it!" she suddenly became serious. "Have you forgiven Inuyasha?" I made a face.
"Not entirely, no."
"Well, despite earlier misgivings," she said tentatively, "I think you should. He felt really bad about the thing with Kikyo." I gave her 'the look'. "Before Ayame and I beat him up, Kagome."
I was actually surprised to hear this. Sango continued talking while I digested this information.
"I followed him for a ways to see if he was going to apologize to you, but…" she trailed off and bit her lip.
"But what?"
"He was ambushed by Naraku. Let me tell you, they really laid it on him!" A sudden mental picture of Inuyasha's torso, covered in bruises, came to mind. I inwardly cringed. "I think you should let it go Kagome. I really do."
Sango was my best friend. She usually gave good advice and was an excellent judge of character. "Alright. Are you coming in?" I asked.
"Yeah," she sighed. "I'm in serious need of a tan."
We swam back together, and once we were on the beach we saw Miroku scrambling to get away from Jakotsu. Sango muttered under her breath and walked away. I spotted Inuyasha standing back a bit and watching Miroku's struggle. Now was as good a time as any to forgive him.
Inuyasha POV:
I took a nacho out of the cardboard container and licked off some of the melted cheese. Watching Miroku fight Jakotsu's affection was better than watching MMA!
Kagome came around the wrestling pair and lunged at me, wrapping cold arms around my middle. She stretched up and kissed me on the cheek before stealing a nacho out of my box.
"I take it this means you either forgive me, or you really wanted a nacho…" I said slowly. I was a bit dazed by her close proximity from the kiss. Her scent made me loopy at times.
"Both!" she trilled as she skipped away. I smiled dazedly after her. I suddenly noticed that there was a plastic knife sticking out of my nachos. Making good use if it, I speared a soft tortilla chip on the end of it and chewed as I walked. In doing so, I came across Shippo, who was having some difficulty making a successful sand-castle.
"Hi Shippo!" I said cheerfully. He narrowed his eyes in concentration as he tried yet again to pick up the bucket while leaving the castle intact.
"Shut up." He growled as he worked. I narrowed my eyes at him, keeping a totally straight face as I spoke, even though I wasn't serious.
"I'm gonna stab you!" He looked up.
"I'm gonna stab you!" he said flippantly. I raised my knife in a menacing fashion.
"I've got a plastic knife." He floundered for a moment before raising a small orange shovel.
"I've got… a shovel!" (A/N: This scene actually took place between one of my friends and a football-playing senior. He was kidding though… I think…) I laughed and pulled the bucket off the sand castle in one fluid motion. It remained upright. I took a bow. "Wow Inuyasha! You're in a good mood!" Shippo stated in an awed voice.
"Indeed I am Shippo. Indeed I am."
All in all it had been a successful day, culminating in the attempt to drown Naraku made by me and… who else, but Koga, the only other certified Naraku-hater.
Kagome gave me a farewell kiss as I left her on her door-step, her heady scent making the world spin a bit. I loved it.
No, I thought, I love her.
Whoa! Hold up! Did I just… I did! I bit my lip. I didn't say that out loud did I? No, Kagome was turning away now. She must not have noticed anything. That was good. Maybe I would tell her about that thought. Someday. When I was ready.