Too much Miroku in the last chapter don't you think? Oh well, He made it funny. Read, review, and enjoy. I got a question for you at the end. So no skipping bold print :D
Jakotsu wiped his brow after finishing up his last client for the day. He was becoming quite a well known hairstylist. He couldn't be more glad that his dream was coming true.
"What a busy day." He sighed happily feeling the roll of cash in his pocket. InuYasha shook his head with a smile while he cleaned up his station. Jakotsu removed his pin that held up his hair, revealing his natural hair.
"Never seen your hair down before." InuYasha pointed out.
Jakotsu ran his hands through his hair and laughed. "I think you would be the first."
"Lucky me..." InuYasha said sarcastically sweeping up the forgotten hair on the ground.
"So...Prom is Friday at your school right?"
"Yeah. How did you know?"
"Commercials have been advertising a variety of dresses. If only it was still like in the old days wear girls would wear huge ball gown dresses."
"I'm sure I'll see at least one girl trying to pull that off." InuYasha joked. "Did you go to prom when you were a senior?"
"I did actually."
"Did you go with anyone?"
"Yes, her name was Kraehe." He smiled as he daydreamed of that day.
InuYasha would have never guessed that Jakotsu would go to prom with a girl. Perhaps he had been mistaken this whole time and the dude was straight. Jakotsu was full of mysteries but that was what made him different from everyone else in the world. You were always left with questions and confusion.
"What ever happened to her?"
"Her and her family died in a terrible car accident."
"Oh..."
"I thought she had stolen my heart. She had been my first kiss anyways... I'm sorry. You probably don't want to hear all that mushy stuff."
"It's alright."
"You going to go with Kagome?"
"No. I'm going with Kikyo."
"I see. Well good luck with that."
"uh yeah..."
"Excuse me?" A petite woman called out, peeking her head behind the counter. "Are...are you still open? I'm in terrible need of a haircut."
"What's the occasion?" Jakotsu asked putting up his hair once again.
" Anniversary dinner. I uh...tend to wait last minute for things like this. If your closed I understand."
"Not a problem at all." Jakotsu smiled making his way to the counter.
'Figured he wouldn't turn a girl away.' InuYasha thought.
" InuYasha will take care of you." Jakotsu bubbled making InuYasha's jaw drop.
"Oh thank you so much!"
"But I'm supposed to be clocked out already!" He whined.
"Yeah well, I have to go to the tea station to meet my brother and the nice lady has a dinner to go to soon. Consider it as overtime." 'and punishment for going to prom with Kikyo instead of Kagome.' He mentally added.
"Fine." He mumbled under his breath. "What do you want done exactly?"
" Half up half down, with curls."
Jakotsu waved to them both and exited the salon. "don't forget to lock up InuYasha."
"yeah, yeah..."
()()()()()
"A job well done Kagome. You're a fast learner." Kagome's manager complimented. Kagome's first day had went nice and smooth. A co-worker helped train Kagome throughout the day; pointing out all the sales that were going on that she had to remember in order to let costumers be aware of. Kagome also had to know where everything in the store was located in case she needed to help a costumer. She just hoped her memorization skills were ready for this. "Now, at the end of everyday what your going to do is clock out. This tells me exactly how many hours you worked so I know how much to add to your paycheck, which you will get every two weeks okay? All you need to do is swipe your employee card I gave you here. You want to do this when you get here and when you leave. Can you handle that?"
"Sounds easy enough." Kagome's manager must of thought she was stupid. She was explaining every detail to her about work life that she already knew about!
"Excellent. I'll see you Monday then, right? Because of the school dance?"
" I really appreciate you being flexible with my hours but I'm still not sure if I'm even going. I haven't even gotten a dress."
"But you have to go!" She nearly cried. "You'll regret it forever if you don't go. I...didn't and it still haunts me til this day."
. She was getting really tired of everyone telling her to go. She was going to be disappointed if it wasn't as awesome as everyone said it was going to be.
"I want to go but I don't have a date. If I decide to go I'll call you. See you Monday." She waved walking out of Victoria's Secret.
"Does that mean you're going sense you said you would see me Monday!"
Kagome just laughed. "I don't know..."
()()()()()
"So first day went pretty smooth I must say." Kagome concluded taking a long slurp of her smoothie . Her, Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi decided to meet at the mall to hang out. Ever since Kagome and InuYasha reunited, the girls hadn't had any time alone with her. "But-"
"But?" All the girls said in unison.
"I can honestly say I do not like work life."
"Don't tell us you're thinking of quitting already Kagome."
"Well...it's so boring just standing around all day."
"What if you just helped around at the Higurashi shrine?"
"I already do that sometimes when Gramps can't but I don't think I would get payed." Kagome sighed and rested her head on the table. "I should just drop out of school now and find a rich husband."
The girls shared a knowing look and giggled.
"What's so funny?" Kagome asked.
"Oh nothing." Eri said with a wave of dismissal.
" Hey dresses are half off in that store next to Mew's sock Industry!" Ayumi cried out in pure excitement.
"You still haven't bought a dress Ayumi? Don't you think your procrastinating a bit when the dance just so happens to be Friday?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah says the girl who hasn't thought about buying her own dress."
"Hey! I got my reasons."
"Who cares if you don't have a date; just hang out with us and we will keep you entertained!" Yuka encouraged.
"Don't you guys have dates though?"
" That reminds me. Hojo asked you to the prom, didn't he Eri?" Ayumi accused slurping on her smoothie in huge gulps.
Kagome and Yuka gasped as they watched Eri blush. The girl hardly ever blushed. She was the tough one out of the four of them.
"Yeah. What of it?"
"You said yes right?"
"I told him I would think about it!"
"Well aren't you cutting it close considering the dance is Friday? You got to give the guy at least time to find another date if you end up saying no." There went Kagome, talking more about people procrastinating about the dance.
"Quiet Kagome!" Eri snapped at her.
"So...Eri's got a date. What about you two?" Kagome asked.
"Yep!" Ayumi and Yuka smiled. "We've been planning for months on who our dates would be."
" Who are they?" Kagome nervously laughed. She had a feeling she knew what the answer would be.
"Well, Hojo has these cousins..."
' I totally called it...'
()()()()
InuYasha peered out of the bush he was currently hiding in and sighed. Gray clouds surrounded the blue skies that are what made the day perfect. His ears couldn't help but droop as rain drops splashed onto them with their icy touch. Swiftly he pulled out his tiny, notebook from his pocket and crossed out yet another name. 'Damn it all. I'm running out of time finding a stupid boy Kagome can go to the dance with.' With a quick scan of the park he took note of all the boys. They all just didn't fit the part in InuYasha's opinion. Either they weren't in high school or they were troublemakers and he wasn't about to deal with another Kouga.
"Hey InuYasha. Whatcha doing in a bush?"
InuYasha looked up at his girlfriend who was holding a baby and an ice cream cone in her hand.
"Please don't tell me that's mine." InuYasha whined as he stared at the drooling baby. Kikyo couldn't help but laugh.
"You would of saw my stomach swell at one point if she was yours InuYasha. You see me every day." Kikyo put the ice cream to the babies lips who gave a tiny lick and spit it back onto Kikyo not liking the taste. "Ew! Kikomi no!"
"Why do you have a random baby?" InuYasha asked getting out of the bush and removing the twigs that caught up in his hair.
"Answer my question first."
"Oh, I'm trying to look for someone that Kagome can go with to prom. She said she won't go alone."
"Isn't that a job for herself to do? Besides you'll be spending the whole night with me so who cares if she is there or not?" Kikyo pointed out wiping the rejected ice cream off her boob.
" I don't want her to be sad when she misses out on a fun event like this so I'm determined to at least try." InuYasha took a seat on one of the swings and was followed by Kikyo who sat on the neighboring swing. "Now who's baby is that?"
"Kikomi is babysat by my mom every Wednesday and Thursday. Her mother is one of my mom's co-workers. I decided to take her to the park so my mom could shower without worrying about what Kikomi's doing."
"That's unexpectedly nice of you."
"Hey! I can be nice."
Kikomi reached out to InuYasha and grabbed the air.
"Aw...she likes you. Do you want to hold her?"
"Eh...I'll pass. She probably only wants me for my ears."
Kikomi screamed and started pounding on Kikyo's chest in frustration.
"Ugh, you're getting on my nerves now." Kikyo glared at the baby and lightly slapped her across the cheek.
"Do you slap everyone that gets on your nerves?"
"Ha..ha not that lecture again."
" Watch out!" Someone cried chasing after a flying basketball blazing towards InuYasha, Kikyo, and Kikomi.
InuYasha easily caught the basketball, trying his hardest to not accidentally deflate it with his sharp claws.
"Way to go Byakuya." One of the players joked. "You almost killed a happy family trying to enjoy their new baby."
"EH!" InuYasha said standing up to defend his pride. "I'm in high school moron! I would never-!"
"Chill out." He said with his voice dripping with attitude.
"Sorry about that; InuYasha right? Yeah I know you. Kagome texts you all the time in our history class." Byakuya went on about, retrieving his ball.
InuYasha thought for the longest time; analyzing the data that was put on a plate for him and being served. The dude had black long hair, full lips from what he could tell, definitely taller than Kagome, not an ass like his friends on the court, Kagome seemed to know him already, and he was friendly, hmm... This could very well be the one for Kagome.
'Kami was I just checking out another dude! The things I do for you Kagome...really...'
()()()()
"Bam!" Ayumi said coming out of the dressing room with her arms spread wide.
" 'kay you're beautiful in that dress too but Kagome still hasn't come out of the dressing room since we started. Kagome! Are you in there?" Eri yelled with a hand on her hip.
"She probably found InuYasha and pulled him in there with her against his will." Yuka whispered into Eri's ear making her giggle.
"You guys are so weird!"
"Ah look! The one and only Kagome finally decides to speak." Eri smirked. "Did you try on the dress we gave you?"
"Yeah but..."
"Ugh. I've had it with you." Eri swiftly opened the dressing room door revealing a startled Kagome who was on her phone. "Well at least she is in the dress."
Kagome was forcefully stood up and pushes towards the body-length mirror. The dress she had on was light blue and lilac. It fell just halfway down her thighs. It was in between the border of innocence and impurity. The heart shaped corset wrapped beautifully around Kagome's figure.
"Kawaii!" The girls squealed.
Kagome stared at herself a few moments in the dress and sighed heavily. "See this is why I didn't want to try anything on because I knew I was going to fall in love with a dress and want to buy it! Which really sucks because I'm all out of money!"
"Why don't you tell your boyfriend InuYasha you like the dress and in two seconds it will be yours?" Ayumi asked.
"He's not my boyfriend! But there's no doubt, he would buy the dress for me."
()()()()
"The least you could do is go on a date with her tomorrow. Then if you like her, ask her to the prom." InuYasha suggested after informing Byakuya of Kagome's tragic misfortune of not having a date to the prom.
"I suppose. Where should I take her?" Byakuya said willingly.
"She loves movies but she doesn't like when the man buys everything for her. So let her buy her snack or ticket."
"Okay...and how do you know all this about her...?"
" You tend to memorize a person's way of life when you've known them for years."
"One more question."
"alright."
"Shouldn't you be taking her? I kinda just get this vibe that you-"
"I have a girlfriend."
"Ah! Don't they just ruin all the fun."
"What are you getting at?"
"Nothing..."
"I'll tell her that you'll pick his up at six tomorrow night."
"How am I supposed to know where to pick her up?"
"What part of Kagome Higurashi don't you understand. Her family owns the Higurashi shrine."
"Oh! I know where that is. Alright it's a date." Byakuya said shaking InuYasha's hand. "-with her."
"This is awkward..."
"Little bit."
()()()()
Kagome's phone vibrated as the girls walked into yet another store for formal gowns.
"My phone has been vibrating for five minutes.."
"Then answer it stupid." Eri said with a roll of her eyes.
Kagome pulled out her phone and gasped at her ten missed calls. They were all from InuYasha.
" Oh god. I think something's wrong with InuYasha..." Kagome quickly dialed InuYasha's number and began to tremble.
" Hello?"
"InuYasha! Are you okay?"
"I'm fine...? Hey I'm glad you finally answered! I have good news!"
"Ten missed calls InuYasha...really! You had me panicking that something was wrong."
"I'm sorry for worrying you. Anyways, you have a date tomorrow at six. Don't blow it. I'm trying to get you to go to the Prom!"
"You're setting me up on a blind date! With who!"
"Byakuya. He said you have the same history class."
" I haven't been on a date in well...uh never." Kagome winced. "I won't know what to do!"
" You're just going to the movies. Relax."
" I don't know..."
"We can practice."
" Fine. My place this time. Souta's sleeping over at his friends house. Mama took Gramps to the hospital so the house is pretty much ours."
"Alright. Bye."
"Bye."
"Well?" Ayumi asked.
"I have a fake date with InuYasha tonight." Kagome blushed staring out into space.
"Fake?" The girls said together in confusion.
"He's just helping me practice for my real date tomorrow. He set me up because he really wants me to go to the dance."
"Awwww..."
()()()()
Later that day, night had crept up, shadowing the bright sky. Kagome lightly applied lip gloss to her lips and ran her fingers through her hair. 'This isn't a date.' She kept repeating in her head. 'I wish this was a date...'
The front door's bell rang causing Kagome to smile. She skipped all the way to the door; checking herself in the mirror before finally opening it. 'What does InuYasha care? This is the one boy you let see with your hair up in a messy bun.'
InuYasha was leaned up against her door with daisies in his hand. He had a blood red dress shirt on that almost made Kagome swoon right then and there. He looked up into her eyes and smiled. "Ready for your practice date miss Higurashi?"
"Yes!" She hoped she didn't sound too excited.
"Okay. If he brings flowers that's a plus." He said handing her the daisies. "Daisies are a perfect for a date night."
Kagome quickly walked into her house, tossing her mother's flowers that she had received for mother's day and replaced the vase with the daisies.
" 'kay now what?"
"When you're with him, try not to smile too much. It might scare him away." InuYasha joked lightly pushing her towards his car. Kagome's smile immediately dropped.
'Way to blow that Kagome...you showed too much happiness.'
InuYasha opened the car door for her which she thanked him for and got it.
"If he doesn't open the car door for you," InuYasha began as he started the engine. "Date's over."
Kagome laughed, clicking in her seat belt.
"Where too?" He asked pulling the car away from the shrine.
" Let's go eat somewhere. I'm starving." Kagome's stomach grumbled making him chuckle.
" This will be good practice if he decides to take you somewhere to eat before the movies."
"What if this won't be any help at all. I mean, I'm with you all the time InuYasha so it's easy for me to start a conversation with you."
"Consider it what you will; a practice session or an outing. We'll still have fun regardless."
'You forgot date...' Kagome thought.
"Oh yeah..I did what you said and I uh...got a dress."
"Cool. What kind?"
"It's a lilac and baby blue corset dress that stops mid thigh."
" Sounds...pretty?" InuYasha said more like a question causing Kagome to glare. "I'm sorry," He laughed. "What do you want me to say?"
Kagome shrugged and stared at her hands. "What's Kikyo wearing?"
"It's purple and a really light green one that's long on one side and slit on the other. It looks like a ball gown but it isn't. I think she said her mom made it for her."
"Oh. Sounds like it's a beautiful gown."
"We're here." He said parking the car. Kagome arched an eyebrow at his chosen destination.
"We're eating at Peter Piper Pizza?" Peter Piper Pizza was a kid friendly pizza place where you could buy tokens and play their arcade games. The more you won, the more tickets you got and the more variety of prizes you could get. Kagome hadn't been here since she was nine years old.
"Yeah you got a problem?" InuYasha playfully threatened opening her car door for her. "I love this pizza."
Kagome shot her hands up in defeat and giggled. "Sounds yummy."
()()()()
InuYasha stared up at the menu with his date by his side just resisting the urge to wrap her arms around his arm while they waited in line.
"How many tokens do you want?" InuYasha asked rubbing his chin.
"Tokens?"
"Don't tell me you'd rather sit and talk while we wait for our pizza."
"Okay...how about ten tokens?"
"Next in line please." The short female worker called out.
"Yeah. I'd like a medium sized pepperoni pizza. Pan not deep dish."
"Alright. Would you like any tokens?"
"Fifty."
"Okay."
"Fifty tokens!"
"Yeah?" InuYasha said looking behind him with a twitch of his ears. "Twenty-five for me, and twenty-five for you." InuYasha handed the money to the cashier and grabbed their cup of tokens.
"You're still a little kid deep inside aren't you?"
"Do you want to go somewhere else because I'm getting tired of all your questioning."
"No. Sorry I just..."
"Let's play some skeet ball!" InuYasha yelled charging toward the machine.
Kagome followed close behind and put two tokens in the machine.
"Let's make a bet." InuYasha said with a smirk.
"Okay. You gotta let me play with your ears if I beat you."
"And if I win...you gotta give me a huge hug."
" Oh no!" Kagome playfully cried. "I hope I don't loose." She said sarcastically.
InuYasha lifted his sleeves and picked up the first ball. This was going to be too easy. He gave out a signature fighting cry with determination and rolled the ball down the alley.
"Ooh...that's ten points for you." Kagome said leaned over in InuYasha's lane.
"That one was just practice. You know...I haven't played in a while and all.."
"Yeah. Whatever you say." Kagome said dunking her ball into the fifty pointer hole. "Woohoo!"
"Okay! I'm playing for reals this time."
()()()()
InuYasha groaned with his eyes shut tight as Kagome fumbled with his ears. She had beat him by a long shot. Kagome had said that it wasn't how hard you throw the ball that mattered. That was what got your ball in the lowest hole. It required swift tosses and focus. Ignoring that strategy had InuYasha on one knee with Kagome in front of him, invading his personal space.
"They're so cute!" Kagome cooed.
"Okay! You had your thirty seconds now we are racing." InuYasha said grabbing her hand and pushing her onto one of the seats for the screen car racing games. "Same bet applies!"
"No! If I win then this time I get forty seconds to molest your ears!"
"Aint gonna happen!" He said pushing in four tokens into the machine.
"How come there is only one girl driver!" Kagome whined, finally deciding to choose her.
"There's two see?"
"Yeah, but she's ugly." Kagome looked at InuYasha's screen and blew her bangs out of her face. "You think just because your on manual that you're all pro?"
"Yep. Automatic players always loose."
"We'll see."
()()()()
"Just kill me now." InuYasha whined as Kagome was once again tweaking away at InuYasha's ears. "Where did I go wrong?"
"It all started when you accidentally drove off the golden gate bridge."
InuYasha got up, wiping away his man tears and dragged Kagome to the Dance Dance Revolution.
"Alright! There is absolutely NO way you can beat me at this!"
"Course I can." Kagome stated. "I'm more Japanese than you are."
"We'll see who's master!"
"Same bet! Except then I get a whole minute with your ears."
"I won't allow it!"
"Miku Hatsune: Anger. On the hardest level."
()()()()
InuYasha collapsed after seeing the final results. He barely had enough time to hold onto the red bar handle before falling completely.
"Yay!" Kagome cheered jumping up and down.
InuYasha was running out of games they could play that he was good at. He was definitely going to get that hug from Kagome. No matter what it took!
"Okay...next we-"
" InuYasha..." Kagome laughed. "As much as I'd love to beat you in another game; our pizza is waiting for us to eat."
"Sure...blame the pizza." He joked getting off the ground and escorting them both to their table. Kagome sprinkled her slice of pizza with Parmesan cheese as soon as she settled in the booth. Greedily, taking a bite ,Kagome saw a flash of heaven.
"Mmm..."
InuYasha tapped one of his claws repeatedly on the table and glanced at all of the remaining arcade games they could compete in. He definitely wasn't good at The claw, and Whack a Mole was sure to be broken after he got frustrated and pounded the hell out of it. He had already wolfed down three slices of pizza in the amount of time it took Kagome to eat one. You could never get enough food when it came to being a half demon.
"You don't have to force yourself to eat anymore if you don't want to Kagome." InuYasha pointed out, noticing that she got full very quickly. "I'll just take the rest home. Or if Souta wants it..."
"It's really good It's just every time I drink soda it fills my stomach faster than the food does so I have no more room left for the food."
" Well, if you're done now.. Let's go play that shooting game!"
"It's getting late InuYasha." Kagome frowned looking at the time on her phone. "We could stay longer if it wasn't a school night.
"No!" He pouted making Kagome giggle at his cuteness.
"We can go trade our tickets for toys."
InuYasha tossed the ten non-very-impressive tickets on the table and scoffed. "Yeah there isn't much we can get with this besides a cheap plastic toy that breaks the second time you play with it."
"Well then if not that, there is some time for one more game." Kagome smirked. "You up for the challenge Taisho?"
"Bring it Higurashi."
"The shooting one? Right?" Kagome asked closing the pizza box and carrying it with her back into the arcade area. InuYasha nodded, placing eight tokens into the slots and picked up the red gun pointing it at the screen.
"You know there's a law with being good looking with a gun in your hand." Kagome joked.
" Why thank you." He winked.
"Alright...let's see, let's see...you get the biggest hug in the world if you win...or I gain ownership of your ears, besides your mother of course."
With wide eyes swirled with horror, InuYasha returned all his attention to the screen.
"You'll definitely be the first to hear the 'Game Over!' voice."
"Psh..."
()()()()
It was like someone saying they claimed your boobs. Miss Kagome Higurashi now owned InuYasha's ears. Free to tug and pull on them whenever she wanted to. Thankfully for InuYasha, Kagome was gentle when it came to his ears. There was more massaging than tugging...
"How could you let me beat you at a guys' game?" Kagome said for the thousandth time.
"Because all you did was hide behind the wall when you reloaded your gun instead of facing the enemy like me and taking more hits."
"Yeah, yeah. I still won..."
InuYasha parked the car in front of the Higurashi shrine and walked Kagome to the front door.
" So you think you'll be prepared for tomorrow?"
"Hopefully. I had a lot of fun Yash. Thanks."
"No prob-" Kagome was able to cut InuYasha off by wrapping her arms around his torso with a big smile on her face and surprised herself at her bravery of kissing him on the cheek.. "That's for allowing a girl to kick your butt in simple arcade games."
"I let you win."
"Keep telling yourself that."
"Goodnight Kagome." He chuckled making his way down the shrine steps. "Good luck on your date."
"Night InuYasha...Thank you."
InuYasha lazily waved without turning around and could practically feel the burn of where Kagome's lips had met with his cheek. This wasn't looking good for him. He shouldn't have enjoyed that when he had a girlfriend.
' Stupid hormones...'
I have no idea why this chapter ended up being nine pages when I was just trying to quickly push one more chapter before we got to the amazing prom scene. I'm sorry if it was boring xD Quick question for my readers!Would you like me to include Bykuya's and Kagome's date or dip straight into prom that starts the very next day in the next chapter? I'll leave it up to you! Don't forget to review. (^w^);