InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ I'm safe at home... aren't I? ❯ The Party, and A New Rival for Kagome! ( Chapter 8 )

Hello everyone!! To get straight to the point (which I'm bad at), here comes the party!

 

 

 

Chapter 8: The Party, and a Rival for Kagome!

 

Kagome took the bag with her clothes from Inuyasha and grinned at him. “The party's in an hour… we have to start getting ready, `k?” The hanyou nodded. “Now, I'm getting changed in my room, and you can use the bathroom. Jii-san will help you if you need it, all right?” Inuyasha nodded again.

 

“Okay!” Kagome chirped, then raced up to her room and dragged the dress out of the bag and laid it on her bed, admiring the gorgeous silk. She pulled it on and went over to the full-length mirror, grinning at herself. Chuckling at her own vanity, Kagome picked up a pair of shoes that matched and pulled them on, hopping on one foot over to the mirror again and pulling out her makeup. She brushed eyeshadow over her eyelids, and mascara over her eyelashes, adding light blush and lipgloss.

 

A thump, a crash, and a cry of “You damn old bastard!!” startled her into drawing a streak of lipgloss across her right cheek. “What in the…” she muttered, wiping off the smear and getting up. She peeked out of her door to get a glimpse of a white-haired hanyou chasing her grandfather around the living room, and rolled her eyes before retreating back into her room and closing the door. Kagome pulled a black purse from her closet and modeled it in front of her mirror, grinning at herself. Someone knocked at the door and she tucked the purse under her arm and went to answer it.

 

Inuyasha stood there, his hair slightly swept back from his chase and clad in his chosen suit. Kagome let her eyes roam over him; ah, he was definitely a treat for the eyes. She attempted to look elsewhere but failed.

 

Inuyasha, meanwhile, had troubles of his own. He gaped at Kagome. The hanyou had never seen her wear something like that!

 

A slinky black dress fitted her curves exactly, and faint glitter sparkled all over. A slit up to the middle of her thighs in the front showed off her slim legs, and her hair was swept up in a messy bun with tendrils falling onto her shoulders where they had escaped the hair twist. Very thin chain-like earrings shimmered at her ears, complemented nicely by the strands of hair in front of her ears. Silver eyeshadow was brushed lightly over her eyelids, and her lips glistened in the light.

 

He blinked and drew his gaze to her face again, after staring at high-heeled sandals that covered her feet, to see that she was blushing madly. “Well?” she asked softly, an odd look in her eyes. “Do you like it?”

 

He snorted and crossed his arms. “It's fine,” he muttered. He glanced at her apprehensively. Kagome's head was lowered, and her bangs shaded her eyes. Inuyasha gulped; this was not going to be good.

 

She raised her head slowly, and Inuyasha prepared himself for the worst. Tears shimmered in Kagome's eyes as she whispered, “You don't like it, do you?”

 

He scowled, pushing back a tremor at the sight of her tears. “Keh, I said it was fine,” he muttered. “No reason to cry about it.”

 

She wiped away the salty drops and laughed tentatively. “Yeah, I guess you're right.” Inside, her heart overflowed with happiness. He liked her dress! She grinned and tugged at his arm, picking up a black sheer shawl embroidered with tiny white roses, and told him, “Come on, we've got to hurry; the party starts in fifteen minutes!” She pulled him downstairs and to the door, calling, “Mama, we'll be back around 12! See you!” The door closed behind them, and Kagome climbed on his back as he ran off towards the house it was to be at.

 

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Inuyasha slowed as they neared a house that pulsed visibly with music and oozed laughter, high-pitched shrieks, and the smell of alcohol. He winced, not wanting to take Kagome in there, but the girl jumped nimbly off of his back, heading toward the house with a slightly anticipatory grin fixed on her face. She faltered a bit to wait for a huffy Inuyasha to catch up, and tucked her left arm under his right, drawing close and resting her head on his shoulder for an instant for reassurance that everything would be okay with him there. Emboldened, she walked happily with Inuyasha still sticking close.

 

A crash and several muffled words exploded from the open door as they walked up the steps, and Inuyasha immediately pulled Kagome behind him, right hand going reflexively to where Tetsuseiga's scabbard should be. He uttered a curse that burned Kagome's ears; she had not let him take his sword, having scolded him before they left that most people did not carry a sword to a high-school party. He muttered another few choice words under his breath and entered the mansion, ever conscious of Kagome's presence behind him. She smelled slightly of fear, and it only grew stronger as they walked further inside.

 

A huge room with a dance floor confronted them immediately, the source of the pulsing music and the shrieks. A dining room to their right boasted a long wooden table, surrounded by several broken chair bits. A china cabinet teetered menacingly in the corner, full of expensive-looking dishes that rattled with every crash.

 

An expansive kitchen on the left held a humongous refrigerator that harbored lots of food and was partially blocked by scavenging teenagers, dripping counters, and the source of all the evil: a half-empty keg of beer that had grinning kids with plastic cups crowded around it. Kagome winced; a lot of kids were going to have really bad hangovers the next morning…

 

The two headed into the dance room, Inuyasha wary, Kagome chipper. A song that she knew started playing, and she laughed and pulled Inuyasha onto the dance floor by one arm. She closed her eyes, getting a sense of the music, then began slowly swaying her hips. She moved her arms in sync in a loose arc and grinned. She began to move faster and, opening her eyes, she laughed and pulled Inuyasha into a dance step with her, where he stood like a tree while she danced happily.

 

Finally the song ended and, laughing and breathing hard, Kagome stepped away from the new music and sat down hard in an empty chair. Inuyasha came to sit beside her, raising an eyebrow. She giggled at his look. “What, you don't-“-pant- “-like the way I-” -pant- “-dance?”

 

He snorted. “That's not dancing.”

 

Kagome wrinkled her nose at him and settled back in her chair, wiping her brow. “Phew, I'm thirsty,” she sighed, looking at the table of drinks regretfully; she didn't want to get up, and anyway, she'd heard too much about people who put rohipnol in peoples' drinks at parties, and then the people got raped or hurt.

 

Inuyasha heard her quiet words and walked over to the table. A tall, buxom redhead clad in an auburn dress that could hardly be called more than lingerie watch him approach, and silently slipped a soft white powder into a drink.

 

As Inuyasha approached she sidled over to him, showing him a pearly white, wolflike smile as he picked up two cups, his left hand closing around the cup that she had carefully placed where his hand should go.

 

The hanyou walked quickly back to where he had left Kagome, shaking off a feeling of unease that had swept over him when that woman smiled at him. It was like the sardonic smile Sesshomaru had given when he tried to use Tetsuseiga. Anger flooded his mind, and he growled under his breath as he contemplated the memory.

 

The sight of Kagome's empty chair caused the anger to be swept back out, replaced by fear and a sudden rush of adrenaline. Inuyasha quickly scanned the room, and found the girl nearby, twirling and laughing with a group of girls. He sighed as the fear left him, replaced by shame at himself. The hanyou stretched out in his chair and took a gulp of his drink, still clutching Kagome's drink in his right hand.

 

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Kagome finally tired of dancing, and dragged herself, laughing, back to her chair and Inuyasha. She stopped suddenly; a strange, redheaded woman was cooing over Inuyasha and petting his hair! The girl advanced on them, a low growl issuing from her mouth. The woman looked up quickly from finger-combing the hanyou's silvery locks, and replied with a sneer.

 

Kagome narrowed her eyes. “What are you doing with my boyfriend?!” she demanded angrily.

 

The woman responded, ice threading her voice, “He doesn't really look like he's yours, especially with you off dancing without him and leaving all alone, defenseless…”

 

“He's not exactly defenseless.”

 

“He is now,” she purred, running one red-fingered nail through the hanyou's hair with a sly grin.

 

Kagome took in Inuyasha's appearance: his head was lolling on his neck, eyes were only half open, and every few minutes he uttered a soft puppy-whimper. “Oh, my god,” she whispered. “You drugged him. You put something in his drink!”

 

“So what if I did,” the woman replied, tossing her hair pridefully.

 

Kagome snarled a challenge and glared; the woman sneered in reply and rose slowly to face the girl menacingly. “Ready when you are,” she said with a soft laugh. Kagome snickered and tossed aside her purse. “Bring it, bitch!!”

 

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Bum bum bum!!! What will happen next? Will Kagome beat who is now known as “the red-haired bitch”? Will Inuyasha recover from DRD?! Oh, the humanity!!

 

Sumimasen.

 

~Kagome14