Chapter 5

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After Brody's walk, two hours of online video call with my friends on what to wear to the party, I was driving to pick up Gwen and Shina. I decided to wear a white tank top with a zig zag gold and silver sequin pattern across the chest and stomach with black skinny jeans, silver hoop earrings, and silver gladiator sandals. Comfortable yet attractive is what I was going for. I drove into Shina's driveway and beeped the horn to let her know I was here. Shina came out of her house, speed walking toward the car smiling.

She was wearing her coral colored mini skirt and electric blue laced top. Accompanied by black flats that had a small bow and diamond studs in her ears.

She opened the car door on my other side, "Hey I'm so excited for tonight," she squealed with joy. "What happened to your car?" she added sliding into the seat next to me then buckling her seat belt.

"The car engine was making a funny noise," I lied, "I figured I'd drive this one until I get my car looked at."

"Oh, gotcha."

We talked about who was attending the party when we pulled up to Gwen's house and honked the horn. A couple minutes later Gwen came walking out waving to someone and closing the front door behind her. Gwen was wearing black leather boots that came up right under her knee and black leggings. On top was bright red halter top that matched the lipstick she was wearing. Her hair was tied in a graceful bun with a few stray hairs loose.

Gwen walked over to the car door, opened it, and jumped in the back seat. "Hey ladies ready to part-a-y," she said smiling.

We smiled back, I backed out of the drive way, and the conversation about the party started back up again.

An half an hour later at the party Gwen and I were so shocked; Shina thought we were both in a coma for a while. There in front our very eyes stood Aoi, one of Sesshouamru's best friends, with his arm around Shina. My eyes kept flickering between her and him, while my brain tried to process what I was seeing. Gwen snapped out of her shock first.

"Well this is a big surprise. Hi I'm Gwen," she said sticking out her hand to him to shake.

"I've heard a lot about you two," Aoi said shaking Gwen's hand and looking between us.

I realized all three of them were staring at me now. "Oh, um, hi I'm Kagome," I said sticking out my hand to him, realizing I sounded like a moron.

He shook my hand and smiled, "Hi."

An awkward silence settled down upon us until Gwen and I made an excuse to go get drinks for all four of us from the kitchen. We walked through the thick crowd until we stopped in front of the fridge in the kitchen.

Why? Why did Aoi have to be Shina's new boyfriend? I thought to myself.

"Every time she gets a new boyfriend it surprises us. This shocked the hell out of me," said Gwen getting three beers and a soda for me from the fridge. She popped the tops off the beers, handed me my soda, and turned to go walk back to where Shina and Aoi were.

Suddenly frantic I grabbed Gwen's arm before she could take a step. "Gwen, wait!" I said in a rush. She turned around to face me with a confused look on her face. "I need to tell you something."

I told her everything that happened with Sesshoumaru that day. From the kid knocking his books down, to Midori's threats, and the prank on my car. When I finished telling my story Gwen was speechless. I almost thought she hadn't even heard what I'd said by the blank expression on her face.

"Gwen?" No response. "Gwen! Did you even hear anything I just told you?" I said raising my voice.

"Oh I heard you Kagome. I'm just having a hard time believing you did all that. You sure this actually happened and it's not just all in your head?" Gwen smiled tapping one finger on her temple.

I glared at her. "With the shape my car is in, I'm one-hundred percent sure it all actually happened. And this is not the time to be questioning my mental stability Gwen. What am I going to do about Shina and Aoi?"

"Okay, okay. Just act normal around them tonight and tomorrow we'll break the news to Shina. It's not like Aoi did anything or knew about it, so you don't have to worry about him right now."

"Act normal. I can do that," I said taking a deep breath and releasing it, "Alright let's get back before they think we ditched them."

We fought through the crowd back to where they were waiting. Shina looked concerned as we came back. I had to act normal so she could be happy tonight. I smiled when they saw us coming.

"Sorry we took so long," Gwen said handing both of them a beer and then taking a sip of hers. "It's like a jungle through there. We pretty much had to fight our way in and out of there. I almost lost Kagome in there," she said putting an arm around my shoulders and smiling at me.

"Yeah," I played along, "This drunken guy was trying to dance with me and I couldn't get past him. I thought I was a goner." I acted like I was going to faint. "Then Gwen came in and fought off the guy, pulling me out of the crowd, to safety. It was very traumatizing," I explained while Gwen nodded in agreement.

Shina relaxed when Aoi started laughing at our dramatized story. All she wanted was for us all to get along and that's what we would give her.

"So Aoi," I began after he'd stopped laughing, "You're one of Sesshoumaru's friends right?"

"Yep," he replied. "We all grew up together as kids. Our parents said we were inseparable and we were always causing trouble. Sesshoumaru's a little rough around the edges but he's not bad once you get to know him," he smiled.

Somehow I seriously doubt that, I thought but smiled instead. "Wow, that's pretty cool. Shina you should tell him how we all became friends," I smiled over at her.

"Oh yeah! Kagome and I have been friends since kindergarten. Then Gwen moved in with her aunt here around our first year in grade school when we all became friends because…" and on Shina went telling the story in her different drama voices and hand actions-she really was a good story teller.

The only reason I brought it up was so I could think about this whole situation. While I did my thinking I smiled and laughed when the parts in the story called for it. On the positive side, I thought, today couldn't get any worse.

I had to jinx myself.

Right at that moment it did get a lot worse. Do you ever get the feeling like the whole universe and god was planning against you?

"Hey guys!" yelled Hitoshi-the host of the party. "Look who came to my party," he said all proud and smug.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to see who Hitoshi was talking about. Coming in the front door was none other than Sesshoumaru, Jackobie, and Ryo. They most of seen Aoi because they made their way through the path the crowd had made where we were all standing. Sesshoumaru spotted me out of the crowd of people. We stared at each other as the group walked towards us. Jackobie yelled Aoi's name and had Aoi in a sleeper hold with one arm.

"Hey, you missed all the action at school today," Jackobie said messing up Aoi's hair. Aoi broke out of the hold and shook his hair back into place, glaring at his firend who pretended not to notice. "This chick came up to Sesshoumaru and-" he stopped as he spotted me and he reached over grabbing Ryo-who was talking to someone-by the shirt. Jackobie pointed me out to Ryo who said a little too loud:

"Holy shit! That's her!" and just like that the party attendants in the house got quiet and looked over at our group. Damn it, not again, I thought. All the while Sesshoumaru and I were having our starring contest. Both Shina and Aoi looked clueless to what was going on.

"So much for telling her tomorrow," Gwen whispered to me.

"No shit Gwen," I said back through clenched teeth, keeping my eyes on Sesshouamru who was now smirking.

"Did you enjoy your new and improved car pest?" he quoted the note he'd left with that smug smile on his face.

At this point I really wanted to slap that smile off his face or punch it-whichever one would get the job done. "Actually I didn't. It wasn't really to my taste," I said smiling.

"Your a stubborn fool. Really asking for more trouble."

"I'm asking for it?" There was a snapping sensation inside me, as if someone had just broken a twig. This was the same feeling that made me stand up to him in the first place and tell off Midori. I moved close enough to him that I could smell whatever expensive cologne he was wearing.

"You're the one who acts like you own the whole damn school and everybody inside it. You're the one who treats everybody besides your friends like insignificant bugs beneath your feet. You think you're so high and mighty but I can name a million people, rich or not, that are way better than you could ever be. You're the one who ruined my car!" I said poking him in the chest each time I sad you're or you.

He opened his mouth to say something but I cut him off. "I'm not done yet, so leave all comments and insults until the end," I said using a voice that sounded like a command and glared at him. "I'm," I pointed at myself, "the one person who stood up to you. I'm just the opposing side fighting in a war you started." I raised my voice for the next line. "So don't you dare say I asked for any of this Sesshoumaru Taisho!" I poked him in the chest one last time.

I turned around and faced my friends whose mouths were hanging wide open with about everyone else's in the room. "I'm leaving now. If you want to come with me, do so, if not call me when you want to go home. I refuse to stay in the same place as this jack ass any longer," I pointed to Sesshoumaru who was still speechless.

The only sound in the room was my car keys as I took them out of my pocket and walked towards the front door, even the music had been temporarily paused. As I opened the door I heard Sesshouamru finally reply.

"You're all talk. You don't know what your getting yourself into"

I mentally and physically laughed.

I turned in his directions and gave him one more challenging glare. "We'll see about that!" I yelled out before slamming the front door behind me.

Full of rage I walked down the driveway-which was pretty long-until I reached the spot where my car was parked. I pressed the button on the keys that unlocked the car when I saw it in sight. I opened the driver's door, got in, and slammed it. The cars headlight came on as I started the car and I saw my friends come running down the driveway. I waited for them to get in and buckle up before I pulled onto the street.

They were both breathing really heavily. "You guys didn't have to leave the party just because I did. My plan wasn't to ruin your night."

"Yeah but…we couldn't… leave…you alone..," said Gwen from the back seat, between gasps of air.

Shina regained her composure first and turned towards me. "Could you please explain to me the hell just happened back there?"

I checked the dashboard clock: only 10:48. "How about we go to Delilah's Café and I'll tell you everything there?"

"Fine," Shina replied folding her arms over her chest.

"Oh boy...I'm out of shape..." Gwen heaved from the back seat.

Sometime later we sat in Delilah's Café each of us with a glass of soda and a guava pastry. I'd already finished telling Shina what I'd told Gwen earlier. She looked just as shocked too. The only thing she'd said when I finished talking was: "Oh my god."

"Hey Kagome is that what I looked like when you told me?" asked Gwen pointing a finger at Shina's stunned facial expression.

I studied Shina and then took a bite of my pastry. I swallowed then answered Gwen. "Mmm… more or less."

She nodded in response.

The silence was getting more and more unsettling. "Look, I'm really sorry I didn't tell you about the Sesshoumaru thing. To be truthful Gwen didn't know until tonight either, sorry about that Gwen." Gwen nodded accepting my apology while Shina just waited for me to go on. "I didn't want to get my best friends involved in something I started." I looked at Shina. "Then your boyfriend turns out to be Aoi and there was no way I could tell you."

"You still should have told me though," she said sternly taking a sip of her drink.

"What was I going to say? 'Oh by the way Shina I'm stuck in a war against your boyfriend and his best friends. Hope you're okay with it.' You would have been upset, especially since you were so excited for Gwen and me to meet Aoi. I just wanted you to be happy for tonight then I was going to tell you in the morning. I swear."

Shina opened her mouth to say I was wrong then shut it. "Okay so I would have been upset, but in the future please inform Gwen and me about important things like this. Okay?"

"Deal," I said cheerfully.

"Now that we're all friends again, what's your plan for revenge Kagome?" asked Shina curiously.

"Wait what do you mean? You guys are not getting into this. I thought I made that clear," I replied.

"Pssh, as if. We're in this whether you like it or not. I was born to retaliate baby!" this from Gwen who through her fist in the air.

"It's not like we're targeting anybody but Sesshoumaru anyways. Plus this will even out the sides. You can't take on four scheming guys all by yourself."

"You guys really want to help me?"

"Yes," they said in union.

I sighed and realized I didn't have a choice. "Alright fine, you guys are in, but remember you can back out at any time. Okay?" I said confirming that they knew this.

"Yeah, yeah, ok we get it. Now what's your master plan to get back at Sesshoumaru?" Gwen asked with a twinkle of excitement in her eye and Shina stared at me in anticipation.

I studied the guava pastry as if it was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. "Truthfully, I don't have a plan yet," I told them.

Gwen and Shina threw their arms up in the air in frustration.

"Dude seriously?" Gwen said giving me a disapproving look. Shina glanced at Gwen like she'd just cussed in front of a bunch of first graders. Shina was against using words like dude, man, and bro. It was just the way Cam was raised. Gwen used those words a lot-but not as much as she used to since she came to live with her aunt. Gwen ignored Shina's look and ate the rest of her pastry instead.

"Well," Shina started looking away from Gwen, "at least we have the whole weekend to concoct some kind of plan up. So let's all meet at Kagome's house tomorrow to start getting ideas. Agreed?"

"Agreed."

"Now let's get you two home before one of you gets in trouble," I joked smiling at Gwen and Shina.

I paid the bill since it was my treat-leaving a generous tip-and then we filed back into my car. Later that night when I was in my bed trying to sleep-which was hard with Brody taking up most of the queen sized mattress- I was glad to have my best friends.

With them on my side I couldn't lose. I fell asleep dreaming about Sesshoumaru Taisho on his knees at my feet begging for my forgiveness and mercy after I'd beaten him at his own game.

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AN: For anyone that has read any of my other stories. I'm sure you've noticed this one is different. It's actually an adaption from a free hand story I made up 2 years ago. All created characters from my mind and such. The plot was really nice and I just had to share. So I switched out names, tweaked personalities and edited BUNCHES to make it into a SessKag fic. So it still reminds me of when I first started writing but keeping the same text right now is important to me.

So more than likely you will see names like "Cam", "Sam", "Mike", and so on. The only name I haven't changed is Gwen. Cuz it fits her so well :3

If you see a mistake like that let me know in a review and I'll change it :P Thanks!

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